For Mac OS X: I’ve been looking for a solution to feed my addiction to Google Reader without having to go the the website every time. There’s an AIR application called ReadAIR, but I didn’t like it very much. I really like the usability of the Reader interface, so I would be hard-pressed to use anything else.

I found a solution over on FlingMedia that allowed me to use Fluid to create an SSB (Site Specific Browser) for Google Reader. The end result is that I have a dedicated “application” that does Reader and only Reader. I decided to install the theme as described in the article and am pleased with the end result.

There were a few modifications I made to the CSS for the Fluid app. For everything else, you can get directions from the article on FlingMedia. If you want to use my CSS modifications, you can get them here. Go ahead and modify them to your needs if you so desire. Since Fluid also supports user scripts, you can also use JavaScript to customize the page if you so desire. If you want to get really fancy, you can even add Growl notifications and Dock badge updates to tell you when new items arrive.

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