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Video How to: Use Bookmarklets on the Nokia N900′s Browser

March 10th, 2010 • Mark Guim • 9 comments

Bookmarklets are bookmarks in the browser designed to add one-click functionality to a web page. On our desktops, we save bookmarklets by dragging a links to to our browser’s toolbar. It’s different on mobile devices. I checked the Nokia N900, Nexus One, iPhone, and the Nokia N97 mini and noticed only the N900 can quickly save bookmarklets.

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bit.ly bookmarklet on the Nokia N900

A couple of bookmarklets I use a lot are the Bit.ly sidebar and
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To save a bookmarklet on the Nokia N900, long-press on the link and add as a bookmark. You can access it later by clicking on the bookmarks button on the lower left corner. That’s it!

It’s not that easy on other devices. Saving bookmarklets on the iPhone requires syncing with a computer. There are other ways, but again, it’s not as intuitive as the N900. I also tried saving a bookmarklet on the Nexus One and the Nokia N97 mini, but failed.

http://twitter.com/_Lupa _Lupa

I didn't know about N900's bookmarklets capabilities. Now I can use Readability and read long posts more comfortably =)
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Thanks!
lancewex

Thanks for the reminder about Readability. This combined function is a wow moment for me on the N900.
Ad1

Wow ! excellent stuff this !.I've just added the Evernote clipper and Readability bookmarklets and I have achieved inner peace !
Eat shit iPhone !
Amen !
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The Readability function looks fantastic. That's something that most of the newer handhelds (*cough!* iPhone *cough!*) are missing entirely. Definitely worthwhile.
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Great resource. So helpful especially to “newbies”. Love the video
lancewex

To be fair, iPhone users can use bookmarklets if synched from Safari bookmarks. They just can't create them on the phone.
lancewex

To be fair, iPhone users can use bookmarklets if synched from Safari bookmarks. They just can't create them on the phone.
http://twitter.com/mykalaikontilai Mykalai Kontilai

WOW, really works! Thanks for the great video!
The N900 is a phone with great potential.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mykalaikontilai/ Mykalai Kontilai

I’m a big fan of browser bookmarkets, snippets of JavaScript in a browser bookmark that automate repetitive tasks in the browser.