Free Magazines (normally $5/issue) on your iphone or Desktop w/Safari iphone formatted browser ($Value is unlimited)

Thanks. Just a noob question, will my browser (FF) continue to be as secure in the iPhone mode?

Susie

Looks like iPhone and desktop PCs/Macs only, right? I don't see any way to use this on a phone running Windows Mobile...

KwadGuy said: Looks like iPhone and desktop PCs/Macs only, right? I don't see any way to use this on a phone running Windows Mobile...

This might work?
Iris Browser for Windows mobile 5/6

What makes the Iris browser different is that it's based on WebKit, the same rendering engine used in the Safari web browser for Windows, Mac, and iPhone. That means that pretty much any web page that you can view in Safari should be accessible using the Iris browser.

This is kewl! It works on my iTouch as well, doesn't have to actually be an iPhone. You can't scan through the pages cuz they're too small, but if you click on the table of contents to bring up an article, you can zoom in and out just like any other iTouch/iPhone browser page.

Thanks!

qwqwqw said: This is kewl! It works on my iTouch as well, doesn't have to actually be an iPhone. You can't scan through the pages cuz they're too small, but if you click on the table of contents to bring up an article, you can zoom in and out just like any other iTouch/iPhone browser page.

Thanks!

Can you list the steps please ? I suppose you mean Touch by HTC which runs Windows Mobile ??

Thanks op! Nothing like surfing Penthouse/Playboy on my company iPhone!

k000 said: qwqwqw said: This is kewl! It works on my iTouch as well, doesn't have to actually be an iPhone. You can't scan through the pages cuz they're too small, but if you click on the table of contents to bring up an article, you can zoom in and out just like any other iTouch/iPhone browser page.
Can you list the steps please ? I suppose you mean Touch by HTC which runs Windows Mobile ??
No, he does not mean the HTC Touch, he means the Apple iTouch which is a version of the iPhone that does not have phone functionality, its basically a MP3 player with Wifi and a browser etc.

I'm now reading the magazines on the Safari Browser. It's working so well. Now I don't have to pay a dime for those magazines. Thanks a lot!

Fully working now with two instances of FF to view Fatwallet (normal) and mag site in the same time. See below update.

LilBo said: You can actually access those magazines with Firefox:

Using Firefox With Your Computer to Access iPhone Sites
Link

Here is what I did with FF:
user FF's profile manager (Run "firefox.exe -ProfileManager"), create another profile called iphone, uncheck "Don't ask at startup", choose start the new/balnk "iphone" profile, and do the trick provide from that link.

Now I have a regular profile without the useragent override and the iphone profile with the useragent override. So I can switch between normal website (such as FW) and iphone site (such as Zinio) without setting that long string every time.

Edit to add:
Seems still one small flaw: I can not start the normal profile to post at FW and the iphone profile to read mag at the same time. Any body knows a workaround?

Edit to "Edit to add" to address the above issue:
Use the -no-remote switch when launch the iphone page to invoke its own profile, such as:
firefox.exe -no-remote -p iPhone

Also, this makes uncheck the "Don't ask at startup" unnecessary, so you can start your default profile at all normal use with ease.

ironman69 said: for some reason I cannot get this to work. I have a MAC running safari and adjusted things correctly but the website you link to offers nothing to view? What am I am doing wrong?This site is getting crushed due to this user agent trick -- a lot of sites are talking about this work-around. I'm not surprised people are having trouble with it...

The site comes up there is just no link to magazines. I can click on the main zino page but all you get is free short page previews not entire magazines.

ironman69 said: The site comes up there is just no link to magazines. I can click on the main zino page but all you get is free short page previews not entire magazines.

After you change to iphone in the safari developer window,
then type in www.Zinio.com/iphone into the safari browser manually and the magazine icons will show up.

Is there a way to view older issues of the magazines?

Here's what I did to make it work on FF. First off, I added the add-on called User Agent Switcher. Get it here. Restart FF, go to Tools/User Agent Switcher/Options/Options. Add a new User Agent. Under Description use "iPhone", under Agent, use "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)" Do not include the quotes. Then when you want to visit the link, just switch your user agent to the iPhone mode and switch back when you're doing your normal browsing.

robby69 said: Uh, not sure what you are looking at, but they are all either May 2008 or June 2008 issues.
They must've changed this recently. I remember reading a Feb issue of PC Mag in April there.

Hmm, must be clicking the arrow over and over again but never paid attention to the amount of ads in magazines these days

sc0rpio said: Here's a tip to browse the pages faster (using FF):
- After selecting a mag, click a page where you want to start reading
- Click the right arrow (from the top or bottom, doesn't matter) with the mouse once
- Use the 'Enter' key to turn the pages
- Use the page up/down keys to scroll the page

To go to the previous page, press Shift+Tab then Enter. Press Tab to position it back to the right arrow.

Reading these are much faster on FF than on iPhone, even with wifi.

cool watched playboy in like 1 minute

or what else is this trick good for?

Agreed. This is slow even on wired broadband. It must be downright painful on an actual iPhone.

Thanks OP. This is great. It pops up pretty quickly on edge, but after a few pages kills the browser. I'd rather browse magazines on a desktop anyway though.