Hi Deb, If you are syncing your Safari bookmarks the Instapaper bookmarklet you saved on your iPhone should transfer over to the bookmarks on your Mac. However, it's pretty simple to set this up from scratch on the Mac. On any of the web pages that tell you to drag and drop bookmarks or bookmarklets you navigate to the link, bring up the context menu with VO-Shift-M, and copy the link. Then you create a bookmark, and paste the link into the address field, again, by using the context menu shortcut (VO-Shift-M) on the Safari "Show all Bookmarks" page. The most convenient place to create the bookmark is in the "Bookmarks Bar", because the first nine bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar can be activated in Safari with the shortcuts Command+1 for the first, Command+2 for the second, etc.
I posted step-by-step instructions for Ian on how to do this for Instapaper just a few weeks ago, so I'll point you to the Mail Archive link for my post: • Re: Instapaper and Safari: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/msg05153.html Incidentally, although I tend to write instructions using the standard VoiceOver keyboard shortcuts, you can easily adapt these to work with TrackPad Commander gestures and/or navigation with QuickNav, which a lot of new Mac users who come over from the experience of first using an iPhone may prefer. The main reason for giving directions with the standard shortcuts is that they work for everyone, regardless of whether they have the newest machines, and the instructions also work for people running older versions of the operating system (e.g., these instructions should also work for Leopard, and even Tiger, perhaps apart from the shortcut to quickly jump to the next Safari table on the "Show All Bookmarks" page). Writing out the instructions takes longer than actually doing them! HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 18, 2011, at 11:07, Deb Lewis wrote: > Hi!! > I've had Instapaper on the IPhone for awhile. I remember the tedious process > of saving the bookmarklet. Now i'm trying to do it on the Mac. Just can't > figure out how to proceed. > It says to drag and drop the bookmarklet on to the bookmarks bar. > I did VO comma to theoretically get hold of it but it said the link wasn't > drag able. The text seemed to be but then when I opened the bookmarks I > couldn't paste it. I'm not sure what to drag and where to drop it. Or, can I > just cut and paste something? But what? There were a lot of instructions for > putting it on the phone and I had no real difficulty following them. Get the > sense this should be much easier than I'm making it. Any help will be most > appreciated. > > Deb <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
