iTransmogrify – Online Flash Converter for iPhone
Sick to death of seeing those little blue boxes on a web page on your iPhone, indicating Flash content you can’t get to?
Have you all seen iTransmogrify yet? It’s a pretty slick new bookmarklet for the iPhone. Here’s the lowdown on what it does, straight from its author, Joe Maller:
… transforms embedded Flash content into direct links to natively supported formats. That means YouTube videos and MP3s can now be played from the iPhone’s Safari web browser with just a few clicks.
So, in the example in the screenshots above at the bookmarklet author’s home page, you can see that the dreaded little blue box goes away after you run iTransmogrify, and you end up with a video you can run. Please note – the first video on Joe’s page does not work (as it hasn’t yet been re-encoded by YouTube for iPhone), but the second one (the Panda) does.
Here’s the list of supported content for iTransmogrify:
To get going with iTransmogrify, check out Joe Maller’s site HERE.
Many people (including me) have had trouble with the bookmark sync method working with this, as the bookmark seems to get ‘corrupted’ when it comes across to the iPhone, and not work. If you find that issue, try this workaround:
– Go to the ‘Try it now’ iTransmogrify link on his page
– Right click on the word ‘iTransmogrify’ and choose ‘Copy Link location’
– Paste that into the email body text area of an email to yourself
– in front of the word javascript (at the beginning of the long script entry) type in http://www.
– after the word ‘javascript’ type .com/
– Mail that to youself to an account you get on your iPhone
– Click the link in that mail on the iPhone – it won’t go anywhere valid when it opens in Safari, which is fine
– Bookmark that page in Safari
– Then go to Bookmarks, choose Edit, double-click on the one you just created
– On its address line hold your finger down to bring up the magnifiying glass and edit out the http://www. and the .com/ that you added to the string
Now the bookmarklet should work.
Let us know what you think once you’ve given this a whirl.
I tried doing this using the e-mail yourself method, but clicking the link from the iphone mail app doesn’t take me to the browser for some reason. I also tried doing it from gmail on the iphone but that link doesn’t work either.
Another approach to emailing the link (put forward by Tinman over at EIC forums) is to take your made-up URL (with the http:// etc. added to the code string) and run it through tinyurl.com – then mail yourself that link, and do the bookmark editing as per the steps above.
Maybe give that a try – this does work, it is just a nuisance getting the bookmarklet code correct and not corrupted in Mobile Safari.
Zed at http://joemaller.com/2008/01/12/itransmogrify/ Came up with a solution that worked for me: “Try this Link from your iPhone and folow the instructions:
http://la-jam.gehirnbrand.de/itransformy.html
This way you dont need to sync your browser with the phone…”