Print I followed Mac|Life’s advice and got myself hooked on Read It Later. Now whenever I want to save a webpage on my Mac for later reading, I just click the Read It Later button in Safari’s toolbar, and that article shows up in the Read It Later app on my iPhone. But when I tried to add Read It Later’s bookmarklet to Mobile Safari, I repeatedly got a MobileMe error message on my Mac that ended up deleting the bookmarklet from my iPhone. How can I avoid this?
We love Read It Later--and Instapaper, which works the exact same way. However, if you use MobileMe to wirelessly synchronize your Safari bookmarks, you may stumble upon the show-stopping MobileMe bug that you mentioned. Certain types of JavaScript-based bookmarks known as bookmarklets--such as the ones used by Read It Later and Instapaper--will not synchronize properly with MobileMe when you add them to your iOS device before adding them to your Mac.
If you're getting this message on your Mac after adding a bookmarklet on your iPhone, add the bookmarklet to your Mac first.
You can get around this by extracting these bookmarklets from your iPhone and adding them to your Mac, then overwriting the bookmarks on your iPhone. First, on your phone, copy the JavaScript code for the Read It Later bookmarklet. (We can’t fill in the code here because it’s customized for your personal Read It Later account.) Don’t add it to your iPhone as a bookmark, just copy it to the clipboard. Then you need to get it onto your Mac, either by emailing it to yourself or using a clipboard-syncing utility like PasteBot ($3.99, tapbots.com).
Then, back at your Mac, paste the JavaScript code into a new Safari bookmark. Finally, perform a reset of your MobileMe bookmark sync data, as described in Apple’s support document found at support.apple.com/kb/ht1497 (we’d go into it in more detail for you, but the instructions are slightly different depending on which operating system you’re using). From that point forward, your MobileMe bookmark syncing should work flawlessly.
