UnMobilize This! iPhone bookmarklet for Google Reader
February 16 2009, 2:26am
If you are familiar with Mobilize This! bookmarklet, you'll see that UnMobilize This! does the exact oposite: Transforms a url formatted for mobile phones into a regular url pointing to the original source:
From: http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wereact.net
Although it can be used with any page formatted for phones via "http://www.google.com/gwt/" url, I find it most useful while reading feeds from Google Reader.
I like to use the Google Reader webapp for reading RSS on the web. However, when I browse to one of the entries I always get the mobile version (makes sense). I found this problematic when I want to forward the link or when I want to tweet the url. In these cases I rather use the original address.
To install drag the link below into your favourites in Safari / IE browser and sync with your iPhone.
Step 1 Fire up Google Reader or a web formatted for mobile in Safari.
Step 2 In Google Reader, go to one of your feeds and view an entry.
This is how a regular entry post will look like when is formatted for mobile devices:
Step 3 Select UnMobilize This!
...and you will get the original post
That's all. Now you can forward/tweet/etc the page without the google prefix.