The search giant's RSS reader is now receiving more attention from the company's employee and is promoted even more than before the release of Google Gears and the interoperability with Google Reader. Although the offline accessibility is quite important, Google wants to make Reader famous and tries to encourage users to install several goodies that can improve the performance offered by the RSS client. Among the hot tools promoted by the Mountain View company we can find the well-known theme created by Jon Hicks that adds a nice Mac interface to the service.

"The Google Reader Theme that Jon Hicks made is entirely unlike that in that it doesn't add any functionality, it just makes Reader look very different (some might say Mac-like). A fresh face for Reader can be a lot of fun, and we were happy to see just how seamless Jon managed to make it," Mihai Parparita, member of the Google Reader team, said today.

In addition, you can use an iGoogle gadget to add almost all the functions of the online RSS client to your Personalized Homepage offered by Google. "Many folks like our gadget, but sometimes wish even more of Reader's features could be accessed from within iGoogle. With Michael Bolin's Your Page Here gadget, you can embed all of Reader (or any other page, for that matter) as its own tab within your iGoogle page," the Google employee added.

As you might know, Google Reader is an online RSS client that allows users to read feeds and latest headlines from a web-based interface and with a simple Google account. Obviously, the service is available for free so, if you want to start using the product, you can do it now. The advantages? There are numerous, but the most important one is that you can access the service and read latest headlines from any location, from any computer connected to the Internet with the same Google account.