Free magazines on Fashion, Photography, Playboy and more
Here is a little tutorial on how to read 20 different magazines for free legally online, yes, you heard me loud and clear, it is totally legal. The pro and cons of this free service are:
- No subscription charges
- Only requires Firefox or Safari browser
- Its free and the content is the same
- High resolution images for easy reading
- Not all issues are up to date, usually a month or two behind the actual release
Now, I bet you must be wondering why they are making these magazines available for free? Magazine publishers do not make a single dime from printing magazines, in fact, they’re subsidizing the magazine so that it is affordable to everyone, what they want in return are eyeballs, the more circulation they have they more advertising dollars they get, simple as that. The following titles are available for free:
- Reader’s Digest
- Macworld
- Macworld Espanol
- PC Magazine
- Technology Review
- Lonely Planet
- Outside
- Popular Photography
- Saveur
- US News and World Report
- Men’s Health
- Kiplingers
- Popular Mechanics
- Car and Driver
- Viv
- Elle
- Playboy
- Penthouse
What is the catch? Truth is, there are none. Zinio is a company that sells the soft copy version of almost every magazines available in the market for half the price. Currently they’re giving out free magazines to iPhone users, and in order to read these magazines for free using your laptop or desktop, you’ll need to tell the website that you’re browser (user agent) is an iPhone. Here goes:
Apple Safari Browser
Step 1 – Go to ‘Edit’ then ‘Preferences’
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Step 2 – A new Window/Dialog box will pop up, under the advance tab, check the ’show develop menu in menu bar’
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Step 3 – a new menu (develop) will appear in the menu bar, select ‘Develop’ then ‘User Agent’ and finally change the user agent to ‘mobile safari 1.1.3 – iPhone’
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Step 4 – Visit www.zinio.com/iphone for the free magazines.
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Mozilla Firefox 3 Browser
For firefox user, install User Agent Switcher plugin, this plugin will adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of Firefox, simply change the user agent to iPhone and visit the following url – www.zinio.com/iphone
Download the entire magazine for offline reading
Digital Quest has a cool tutorial on how to browse the magazine offline, no hack or crack or any pirated software needed, just a simple and legal tools available, think out of the box. How to download magazines from Zinio.
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Google has launched new technology in beta that can allow web applications like email or calenders to run on- or offline. This could possible be the biggest threat that Microsoft predicted years ago when they launch their own version of browser (IE) going head to head with Netscape.
Google Gears is an open-source application allowing developers to use test their product for free, this is turning things on its head and making the browser the engine but then again how far can on and offline application go?
Having said this, heavy duty applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk CAD and games would never run on a browser, which means they’re likely to stick with Microsoft’s Windows for many more years to come.
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