Comments on: Can google reader jive with digg?

Question: Can google reader jive with digg?

alitorbati — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:47:27 -0800

I use Google Reader from Safari on a Mac to read an RSS feed of Digg.com. When I click a link from the feed, it opens a new window which is the story/article on Digg. I have two questions. 1) Can I make google reader open clicked links in new tabs instead of new windows, and 2) Can I make the link to digg I click from reader go directly to the story that digg links to? confusing enough?

Sorry if that was really confusing. I want to go from picture 1 to picture 3, while skipping the step in picture 2, all while using tabs instead of windows.

By: neilkod

neilkod — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:40:32 -0800

In Safari's Preferences, under general, set the bottom control "Open link from applications" to "in a new tab in the curent window." Its not enabled by default. As far as your other question goes, I'm not sure-you're following a link to the digg page, not to the page being dugg itself.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:50:13 -0800

Also...hold down the Control (apple) button when clicking a link. This will open the link in a new tab.

By: Remy

Remy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:19:21 -0800

Thorzad's suggestion should actually say "Command", not Control, but that's a common mistake.

But the "Open links from Applications" preference doesn't affect links called for new windows within Safari; for that, quit Safari, open Terminal, and run this command:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Fire up Safari after that and you should have your "open in new window" functionality.

As for the Digg article vs. Linked item issue, that's a feed issue. There's no information in the feed, as far as I know, indicating what the article is linking to. You probably want to instead subscribe to a Direct link feed instead of the feeds on Digg proper.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:20:29 -0800

Thanks, Remy. I typed that one pre-coffee...

By: MasterShake

MasterShake — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:48:40 -0800

Yahoo Pipes can fix your link problem.

This one seems to do what you want.

By: alitorbati

alitorbati — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:44:32 -0800

Thanks Remy. The direct link feed is perfect. I will try the terminal command, but first I would like to know if there is a way to reset it to what it was.

By: Remy

Remy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:04:01 -0800

It's absolutely possible to back out that config change; just follow the original instructions but with the command changed to false, like this:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool false