Breaking: Playboy and Penthouse Free On Your iPhone

Zinio has released an optimized iPhone magazine reader which allows you to view full popular magazines for free.

And hurry up - this might not last long.

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.

Pictures are not scrambled on Zinio.

They offer tons of popular magazine titles:

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

Comments

[tran]

This is ridiculously awesome

[iPhoneJunky]

iSmashPhone, nice tip again! Keep it coming…

[Antoinette]

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.

[Antoinette]

Anyone know how to reduce the page/image size that appears in the browser window?

[Antoinette]

Sorry for the double post.

[iSmashPhone]

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. :)

[amar]

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?

[DeadlyDad]

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.

[a11en]

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]

[JAX]

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,

[Stuart Bowland]

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

[brikz]

Are they still offering it? I don't see a link on the page to sign up or download?

[KirbyIsLoL]

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

[gThanks]

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.

[Princewill]

It is a cool job you are doing.