I’m a big fan of Google Reader, but I don’t always have firefox right in front of me, so I sometimes don’t notice when new items come in. There’s a great notifier for Mac already, but nothing for windows… until now.

I was originally trying to make this version work the same as the Mac version, but that’s not completely possible, so I went a little off track.

When you get new items, you’ll get this popup menu, that slides in similarly to the Google Talk new mail notification (You can also turn this off if you want, although it wouldn’t be very helpful)

There’s also an icon in the tray that you can hover your mouse over to see the current count:

If you right click the icon in the tray, you can check right away, go to the reader home page, or launch the preferences page.

The preferences page has a number of options that will look similar to the Mac version: 

You can specify more than one item in the label filter box by just putting a space between items.

Download it on the project page