NYTimes App in Chrome Web Store

The New York Times Chrome App looks kind of familiar :-). From playing with it a bit, it looks quite beautifully done. It also looks like they have some the same troubles I did with counting pages accurately and keeping the columns properly aligned with the pages. As far as my Greasemonkey script goes, I've had very little time to update it recently. If / when I do get any time, I'd like to do a significant rewrite, basing the article text extraction on Readability and maybe just doing the whole thing as a bookmarklet. Perhaps a good project for the holidays...

New Times Reader

I just installed the new Times Reader on my Mac, and it seems to work very nicely. This blog post discusses many of the improvements. For text layout, it uses a new framework implemented on Adobe AIR. Of course, the downside is you have to pay to get the full product; for free, reading the Times on the web with my multi-column Greasemonkey script is a decent substitute :-).

Times Reader again

I just wanted to recommend the New York Times reader again. They just updated it so that you can read any issue of the Times from the past week, a really useful feature. I've used the reader extensively on flights by syncing the articles before I leave, and it's been great.

Update (3/16): It looks like the Times reader will soon not be free, and for me, it's definitely not worth the price they are asking. On the other hand, Times Select is now free for students and faculty.