We heard about Zinio releasing an iPhone version of it’s super-popular online magazine reader, so we decided to do a little investigation.
On their regular website Zinio.com offers a single issue for $4.99 – and allows you to preview the first 20 pages (which are 75% ads anyway)
The iPhone version – however – allows you to view the entire magazine – from start to finish – for free.
To access this site go to: www.zinio.com/iphone from your iPhone
If you don’t own an iPhone but want to view these magazines anyway:
Simply change your user agent to iPhone on your Safari browser by following these super simple instructions.
Or
Do the same on your Mozilla Firefox browser by following these quick and easy instructions.
It’s worth it.
US News
Playboy
Mens Health
MacWorld
Car and Drive
Penthouse
ELLE
Viv
PC Magazine
Kiplingers
Esquire
Technology Review
Popular Photography
…and more are constantly being updated
Accessories & Apps: Beta Testers Wanted
iOS Firmware/IPSW Download Guide
Legacy iTunes Download Archive
App Store Top Charts
iPhone and Android Resale Value Charts
USA iPhone Carrier Plans Compared
Complete iPhone Jailbreaking Guide 
Complete iPhone Specification Matrix 
This is ridiculously awesome
Free Playboy, Popular Mechanics and Other Respectable Magazines on Your iPhone (or in Safari)
Usually, Zinio charges five bucks a pop for single digital issues of magazines like Men’s Health, Popular Mechanics, Playboy, Penthouse and other classy rags. But on the iPhone, at least for now, you can read them from cover-to-cover for…
iSmashPhone, nice tip again! Keep it coming…
Many Free Top Magazines For Your iPhone!
Zinio, a digital magazine provider, has either made a terrible blunder or is feeling very generous. Typically they charge about $4.99 an issue to access major magazines like Car and Driver, Popular Mechanics, U.S. News World Report, and PC Magazine.
Anyone know how to decrease the size of the page images? I’m looking at the images on a laptop and I have to keep scrolling to read. I’ve reduced the text size but that has no effect on the image (page) size.
Anyone know how to reduce the page/image size that appears in the browser window?
Sorry for the double post.
Unfortunately it seems that you cannot change the page size – since it’s intended for the iPhone (on which it auto-fits to your screen).
But hey – I’d rather scroll than pay 5 bucks.
my safari is fucked. after the hack it worked beautifully for a bit and now keeps crashing. i tried upgrading to the new version – but it just wont launch?
any ideas?
If you install the ‘Image Zoom’ addon for Firefox, you can easily zoom images in and out using nothing more than your mouse buttons & scroll wheel.
Turns out they’re doing something to sniff the user-agent via javascript. The Firefox useragent plugin is being bypassed…
js/zinio_iphone_browserSniff.js
is the source,
[code]
var redirect = "http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/info";
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mobile') <0) {
window.location = redirect;
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') <0) {
window.location = redirect;
}
}
[/code]
The issue is not latest…These are just the issues that were there in Zinio labs when they started. All issues are April/May while current issues is June,
I did manage to get this to work in Firefox and it’s great but I do have a question. I found some programs that allow downloading the pages for offline reading but they don’t work properly because of the user agent (iphone) problem. Do you know a workaround for this? I’m using webpage thumbnailer
Thanks
Are they still offering it? I don’t see a link on the page to sign up or download?
I created a little app in C# which will download all the magazines to a directory on your computer as long as your on Windows and have .NET Framework 2.0, in case Zinio decides to remove the magazines or updates them (so you can have the earlier issues).
I’ve uploaded it here: URL TROLL WAS HERE <— VIRUS
Wow, thanks. Works like a charm. Just surrender an email address and you can view the entire list of both mags and some other cool iphone and mac mags too.
It is a cool job you are doing.
how do u access it? im confused, im at the website on my iphone and i try to enter my e-mail but it just redirects me
This post was written over a year ago, its possible that changed things around