Zinio, that wonderful source of online versions of your favorite magazines, is field-testing (or as they say, “incubating”) The Zinio Mobile Newsstand, a service made specifically for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, and makes use of the graphics and multi-touch features of these gadgets.
At the moment, all you need do is head on to zinio.com/iphone on your device to get full, free (for now, otherwise it’s US$5 per issue), hi-resolution and fully readable copies of your titles.
Available ones include Popular Mechanics, Car & Driver, Men’s Health, Playboy, Penthouse, Esquire, PC Magazine, Popular Photography, Elle, Technology Review, Reader’s Digest, Macworld US and Macworld UK.
Read them while they last! (And if you know how to tweak Safari to pretend it’s an iPhone, you can read these mags on your Macs as well, in full desktop mode. Heh.)
UPDATE: I’ve gotten more questions about how to tweak Desktop Safari to pretend it’s Mobile Safari for iPhones than is comfortable, so here’s the secret, once and for all: Go to Safari Prefs/Advanced and check the box to enable the Develop menu. Then go to Develop/User Agent and select Mobile Safari iPhone. Have fun.
May 26th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
@Barney: Articles?
May 24th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
You can also see free iPhone magazines at texterity - iphone.texterity.com . They have a bunch of magazines that are also free on the iPhone including Popular Science.
May 24th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
wow! I can read articles on Playboy!