iPhone Bookmarklets

This post is a bit of an experiment.  I want an iPhone bookmarklet that will allow me to subscribe to RSS feeds!  I use Google Reader currently, and found a couple of bookmarklets on their blog which do the trick.

I also came across a handy ‘find in page’ link which is something I often miss with mobile Safari!

I found a post on the Google reader blog about how to create bookmarklets for use with Google Reader. Although very old (2005!) the bookmarklets still work.

One way to get these bookmarklets into your iPhone is to bookmark them in your web browser, then synch the bookmarks with your iPhone.

Alternatively you can do so from your iPhone using the links on this page. If you have saved bookmarklets before using your iPhone its a familiar process: bookmark a page, then edit the bookmark.

So here is my attempt.  Click through to each of the links below, then bookmark the page.  Enter an appropriate title for the bookmark, and save.

Once saved, go back and edit the bookmark – remove everything before the “javascript:” phrase.

(Note that Twitterfon has a good summary of how to do this if you need a graphical illustration)

Subscribe

Show all feeds

Lastly – here is the “find in page” bookmarklet which i found here:

Find on this page

I hope these links work… bit of an experiment…!

Edit: Yep, they do work, so now i can subscribe to feeds using my iPhone… hope someone else finds this useful!