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by: scottc

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Here is a nifty service, courtesy of Zinio. Apple iPhone users can browse full versions of 20 different magazines for free. Titles include Macworld, Lonely Planet, Popular Photography, Playboy and Penthouse.

But here is what makes it cooler; if you trick your browser into thinking it’s an iPhone, you can actually read these magazines for free on your desktop/laptop (PC or Mac).

You’ll need to change the "user agent" on your browser, which is easy to do in Safari or Firefox. In Safari just follow these instructions, and on Firefox you can add this extension and add the following iPhone user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419 (United States)

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After that, simply point your desktop browser to this link and enjoy these free quality publications. If you are really smart, you can even download them locally to your computer to read on the flight.

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  1. Oliver said,

    > Titles include … Playboy and Penthouse.

    Time to buy a widescreen laptop :)

  2. Vaibhav said,

    Nice tip…. quick comment: your link to zinio points to your own blog…

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  8. Bala said,

    Do i need a Zino account for it? I followed the instructions which you have given, but i coudlnt get any list of magazines

  9. pot said,

    I did not find any magazines there. We need to register there?

  10. chinn said,

    can you explain how to view or download magazine from that(http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/) site

  11. chinn said,

    It really for free . If it is free please explain how to use it.

  12. Digital Quest said,

    I have devised a method to download the magazines and view them offline. You can find it on my blog Digital Quest.
    http://www.dq.winsila.com/tips-tricks/how-to-download-popular-magazines-from-zinio.html

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  18. Mrred said,

    this link (http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/) says it’s forbidden to access /iphone/ on this server. I think no more free magazines, huh?

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