TiPs & Tricks: Add bookmarklets to mobile Safari

We’ve got a super useful tip today that iOS users will be able to sink their teeth into. It only requires a few minutes of your time to make sharing or saving online content from your device soooo much easier. Today’s topic is the humble bookmarklet, and the tip is how to add them to mobile Safari.

If you’re already familiar with bookmarklets, then you know how handy those little javascript tools of joy are when you’re desktop browsing. If you don’t use them, you may want to give them a shot. With a single simple mouse click, you can share an interesting vid on FaceBook, Digg a blog post, add things to yourEvernote or Google Reader accounts, and more.

On your computer, adding bookmarklets is a snap; you just drag them from the webpage right to the browser toolbar. Unfortunately, you can’t tap and drag them into Safari on your phone or tablet, though. Many people wind up adding them to Safari on their desktop, and then just sync them (along with all the other bookmarks) to their devices.

Facebook offers a bookmarklet that makes it easy to share blog posts, images or vids you find on the web — that is, if you're using it via a desktop browser.

But not everyone uses Safari on their computers. And adding them directly to the iPad or iPhone manually can be quite a pain in the neck — especially when there are multiple ones. Thanks to user Chris Bray, however, it’s a little easier now. He compiled the most popular bookmarklets and put them in one easy-to-use list. (Not a javascript pro? Don’t worry — you don’t have to muck around with this. You basically just copy and paste the code into your device’s bookmarks. See below for the tutorial.) Bray collected the code for the following services: