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Google Reader just expanded their recommended section, tweaking the popular items they launched last year to add a little more personal flair:

Android: Google's Listen was already a pretty handy podcast client, except that managing your feeds was a pain. With its latest release, Listen now lets you manage your subscriptions from Google Reader, and adds voice search for finding new shows.

RSS, Atom, and other XML-formatted feeds revolutionized the way we keep up with our favorite web sites, allowing us to use newsreaders to track updates rather than bookmarks and constant refreshing. The only problem: Some sites don't have RSS feeds.The Google Reader team addressed this problem today, adding a new feature to allow users to track changes to any web site—even those that don't have their own feed.

Android: The default home screen in Android is fine and mostly functional. SlideScreen, a replacement utility, provides way more information on messages, weather, calendar events, Twitter or RSS streams, stocks, and whatever else you want, in a slick-looking black wrapper.

Windows/Mac/Linux (AIR): Say what you will about newspapers, but the old gray ladies are laid out for quick reading. Cross-platform app (and webapp) Readefine breaks any site or feed into column-split articles and easy access jumps to other posts.

Chrome only: Notifier extension One Number checks for unread messages in Gmail, Wave, Voice, and Google Reader and displays the unread count right on the Google Chrome toolbar.

Windows/Linux only: Google has so many different services these days that installing a notification app for each one gets cumbersome quickly. Free system tray utility Googsystray watches Gmail, Google Voice, Calendar, Reader, and Wave so you can set it and forget it.

Users of our very own Better GReader Firefox extension have been able to turn on favicon support for their feeds in the Reader sidebar for a while now (a favicon is, for example, the little 'lh' that displays next to the address bar when you're visiting Lifehacker); now the folks on the Reader team have caught up, adding favicon support for your subscriptions.