Change the value corresponding to ‘CFBundleName’ from ‘Gmail’ to ‘Google Reader’.
Open this file in a text editor, or in the Property List Editor if you have the developer tools installed. Inside the ‘Contents’ folder will be a file named ist. Then, right click on the file and select “Show Package Contentsâ€�. This will leave you with a “fileâ€�, Gmail.app, on your desktop.Ĭopy and paste this file (Cmd-C, Cmd-P) onto your desktop, and rename (click, press ‘enter’, and type) from “Gmailâ€� to “Google Readerâ€�. As this is covered elsewhere on the web, I won’t repeat it here. I created a shortcut that you can download, or you can read about how it was made below so that you too can create your own.įirst, I installed the Gmail desktop shortcut through offline Gmail / Google Gears. Google offers convenient desktop shortcuts for offline Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs however, no such shortcut is available for Google Reader.