Google Reader users will be happy to know that there is now a desktop notifier for Windows so that you’ll know when there are new items to read. It’s not officially made by Google, but it works well nonetheless. Disappointingly this notifier can only show how many unread items there are, and doesn’t show what feeds were updated.

Google has been busy updating some of its gadgets that users can put on their Personalized Homepage. The first one to get updated was the Google Talk gadget which received its first update since launch. Here is a list of what’s new in the gadget:

In January, Google updated their Feed Reader Module for the Google Personalized Homepage so that items could be expanded and contracted.  This makes it easy to reed the items without ever having to leave.  It was a move that showed that Google was listening to their users.

The Google Reader just got a huge update yesterday which is simply amazing. It took an entire day but someone finally found the Easter Egg that they implemented.