Thread: How to Read Online Magazines for Free

This is a very simple & non-geeky trick to help you read the latest issue of popular magazines like PC Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Popular Mechanics, MacWorld, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, etc without paying any subscription charges.

You will also get to read adult magazines like Playboy and Penthouse. Best of all, these digital magazines are exact replicas of print and served as high-resolution images that you can also download on to the computer for offline reading.
Tools we need:
Firefox and User Agent Switcher
When User Agent Switcer is installed, go to Firefox's menu and select Tools -> User Agent Switcer -> Options -> Options...
From the menu on the left select agents and then choose add.
Now write down this:
Description : Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone
User Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3
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No go to this site. Normally you will get this screen:
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Now go to the Toos menu (in firefox) and then in User Agent Switcer select the Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone.
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Refresh your browser and voila.
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Now, let me finish the Playboy's issue
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Great post! Definitely will be voting for this

On a moderator's note: thread stickied and moved to Computer hacks

wow very nice post thanks!

That rocks! I have seen a similar method but after a while stopped working. I hope this is genuine and will never fail.

Originally Posted by Beelzebubbles

Excellent find! I haven't seen this trick before, although it looks like it's been around for a few months. It really works. The URL you have to go to is Zinio iPhone Newsreader

Thanks woodsie.

(By the way, when it asks for your email address you can just click 'cancel' it won't prevent you from reading the magazine)

Great post, so you don'y need to submt your email.... thats cool dude

I cant see the picture. all I see is crab .is it because of the state of my membership?

woodsie: i cant see the image, can please help out?