Bookmarklet

A bookmarklet is a small piece of javascript compressed into a bookmark, that does neat stuff to things.

The latest version of Simian Speed Reader has added  a URL Handler, a way to send files from Safari or another app into SSR.

The first implementation of this is our new Bookmarklet.
Send to SimianSR

Drag that link up to your bookmark bar in Safari and sync to your iPhone either with iTunes or .mac if you use it. Once the bookmarklets on your iPhone you can click it to send plaintext files to SimianSR. If you try to use it on webpage, the file will load, but you’ll be viewing the HTML source.

Check out the tutorial page if you want a visual walkthrough of the process.

If your the tinkering type and you’d like to use the handler to send something to SSR, it’s simiansr://

So, if say, you had a plaintext file on your site, and normally you’d link like this:

<a href=”http://mysite.com/myfile.txt”>Down Load My File!</a>

to get it to SSR, you’d do this:

<a href=”simiansr://mysite.com/myfile.txt”>Read My File In SimainSR!</a>

and your iPhone sends the link to SimianSR, which loads the file.

  • mikelapchick
    How about copy and paste. This is just crazy if you're trying to get through a newspaper.
  • Jeff VanD.
    This is really a great tool. I like that you can send stuff to the app. Is there any way you can set up a bookmarklet that would upload it to a server (I have my own FTP server that I could use) and it would show up directly on the phone. Perhaps configure a FTP server backend that it always looks at on launch for new stuff. The process still takes a while if there is something I would like to read fast on my phone... a longer article or document.
  • Francisco
    Nice, but if i´m on windows or ubuntu, how do i do this????
blog comments powered by Disqus