The InstapaperIt extension for Chrome has been updated
Get it here.
It does require Chrome 6, which means you need to be on the beta or dev channels (a stable channel Chrome 6 should be along shortly). It requires Chrome 6 because the newer versions have expanded the extensions API to allow developers to add contextual menu items.
Which means this update for InstapaperIt now matches InstapaperIt for Safari. You can right click on a link and send it to Instapaper in the background, you can right click off a link and send the current page to Instapaper, you can click the toolbar button to do that also.
InstapaperIt update
InstapaperIt has been updated to include a toolbar button that you can click to send the current page to Instapaper. You can also now send the current page by right clicking anywhere on that page that’s not a link (otherwise you’ll send that link to Instapaper). The text of the contextual menu item will point this out “Send this Page to Instapaper” vs “Send this Link to Instapaper”.
If you don’t already have it, you can download InstapaperIt here. Otherwise, just update in Safari’s extensions preferences.
YASE (Yet Another Safari Exention)
Apple released Safari 5.0.1 today, enabling extensions and turned on its Extension Gallery. I went to grab its link and tweet it, but I wanted a shorter link, a good link, and easily done. So I wrote another extension to let you quickly make an is.gd shortened link by right-clicking on it and selecting is.gd in the contextual menu, or by shift-clicking on the link.
Too late to make it into the gallery, but get it here:
A status update on my continuing obsession with Instapaper
Since getting Instapaper for my iPod Touch, I’ve been loving the ability to add links to my instapaper just by tapping on them, rather than (on my laptop) having to follow a link to its webpage, wait for it to load, and then hit the bookmarklet to send it to IP. So back when Snow Leopard came out I made a Service, and more recently I’ve made extensions for Safari and Chrome, that lets you easily send articles to Instapaper.
The browser extensions enable three ways to send articles to Instapaper in the background:
1. Right-click on a link and InstapaperIt from the contextual menu
2. hold down the option/alt key when clicking on a link.
3. click the toolbar button to add the current page to instapaper.
OS X Service:
Once installed, you can select any URL in any cocoa application, and any link in Safari and send it to Instapaper in the background. You’ll get notified via Growl or the OS. After unzipping this, you install the service by moving it to ~/Library/Services (make a Services folder in your Library if you don’t have one).
For NetNewsWire users (adds the ability to send links in NNW as well as other apps):
InstapaperIt.zip
For Everyone else:
InstapaperIt.zip
Safari Extensions
Instapaper Greystyled and Instapaper Article Tools extensions for Safari 5. It’s a quick implementation, but Apple’s made it pretty easy to turn a userscript into a Safari extension. (How cool is that?). More on the way. More integration into Safari’s UI, perhaps.
If you don’t already know them, they’re userscripts I’ve written. Instapaper Greystyled restyles Instapaper.com to look like this:
and this
Instapaper Article Tools adds a subtle, floating toolbar next to the text articles on the website, so that while reading you can quickly navigate back, archive, star or delete an article, edit the text properties of the article, or page up, page down, and enable auto-scroll. It looks like this:
Update July 19: Yet Another Instapaper Extension: InstapaperIt gives you two ways of sending links to Instapaper to read later. When you’re surfin’ and you see a link to an article you want Instapapered, rather than having to open that link, wait for it to load, and then hit the instapaper bookmarklet or a toolbar button:
1. You can right click on the link and you’ll see a new item in your contextual menu “InstapaperIt”. Selecting that will send the link you’re right clicking on to instapaper.
2. You can pick (in preferences) either the shift key or the alt/option key. Hold down your chosen key while clicking a link and that will get sent to Instapaper in the background.
You’ll know the link has been sent when it turns black…
Get it here
