How to install Posterous bookmarklet in iPad’s Safari

This tip can be helpful for anybody who is sharing a lot of stuff via Posterous and is using iPad to read RSS feeds.

Only one news application, Pulse, has a Posterous integration. If you want to share a content from any other RSS reader, you’ll have to do it by e-mail. I’ve tried it a couple of times and it’s messy. You can’t embed video or a link to a source page. There are other elements in the body of an e-mail which you have to remove.

So you beg to have access to all the functionalities of a Posterous bookmarklet.

And here is a good news: it works with iPad’s Safari (although it takes some time to load) and it can be easily installed.

Same as with Hootlet, there are two alternative ways to do it:

Option 1

1. Go to this page in iPad’s Safari ( you can type this link: http://bit.ly/btCwjB ) and bookmark it – tap “+” in the top bar.

2. Copy to clipboard the piece of javascript code below. Be sure to select just this ONE line of text:

javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20POSTEROUS___bookmarklet_domain='http://posterous.com';if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement('script'));void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://posterous.com/javascripts/bookmarklet2.js');void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}

3. Open your bookmark tab and edit a new bookmark: change the name and paste the code into the address field (see picture).

4. Done. You can move the bookmarklet into a Bookmarks Bar so that it could be available in one tap.

Option 2

Send it via Gmail.

1. On your computer, select the line with javascript code from above and copy it to clipboard and then paste in the body of a new Gmail message.

2. Send it to your e-mail account, open the message in iPad Safari and copy the code.

3. The rest is the same.

As you see in the screenshots the bookmarklet window is exactly the same as in desktop browsers. Next time, when you find an interesting article in your RSS reader, just open a link in Safari and send it to Posterous.

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