Thanks for this, Esther. I'd given up figuring out Istapaper, and I don't give up easily.. I'm going to try it again with your instructions in hand. :)
Teresa On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Emilio, > > The easiest way to put an Instapaper bookmarklet onto your Safari > toolbar is to create the bookmark on your Mac, and then sync it to > Safari on your iOS device. I should add that I found that the process > of creating the Instapaper bookmarklet on your iPhone or iPad as > described at the Instapaper site is also accessible, but it takes more > steps to do. Start at the Instapaper extras web page: > http://www.instapaper.com/extras > > Whenever you encounter instructions to drag and drop a bookmark to > your Safari toolbar, simply use the contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) with > the option to "Copy Link". Create a bookmark of the current page with > the Command-D shortcut, and save it to the "Bookmarks Bar" in the pop > up menu, with a name of your choice (e.g. "Read Later"). Then, > navigate to that bookmark in the "Show All Bookmarks" page (brought up > with Command-Option-B), use the "Edit Address" option of the > contextual menu, and paste the link you copied into the address field. > This works for javascript bookmarklets (such as the Instapaper > Bookmarklet, or Google Translation bookmarklets), as well as regular > bookmarks. If you have these as one of the first 9 entries in the > Bookmarks bar, you can just use Command+1 for the first bookmark, > Command+2 of the second and so forth. Using this shortcut will also > run javascript bookmarklets. > > If you want to read step-by-step directions, I wrote these out in a > mac-access list post at the end of last year. Here's the link to this > post at the Mail Archive site: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access%40mac-access.net/msg05153.html > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Sep 23, 6:52 am, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Recently I have become a fan of Instapaper for iOS. >> How can I drag the Instapaper read later feature to my Safari toolbar for >> saving items to my account while using the Mac? >> >> Thank you for anyone help. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
