Sunday, May 31, 2009

How to Read Popular Magazines on your Desktop 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.

How to Read Online Magazines for Free

safari-magazines Step 1: If you are on a Windows PC, go to apple.com and download the Safari browser. Mac users already have Safari on their system.

Step 2: Once you install Safari, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced and check the option that says "Show Develop menu in menu bar."

Step 3: Open the "Develop" option in the browser menu bar and choose Mobile Safari 1.1.3 - iPhone as the User Agent.

iphone-user-agent

Step 4: You’re all set. Open zinio.com/iphone inside Safari browser and start reading your favorite magazines for free. Use the navigation arrows at the top to turn pages.

For people in countries like India who are already subscribed to Zinio Digital Magazines, this hack is still useful because you get access to certain magazines which are otherwise not available for subscription via Zinio (e.g., Penthouse and Playboy).

Geeks may write a AutoHotKey script or create a "scrolling capture" profile in SnagIt that will auto-flip magazine pages and save all the images locally.

Firefox users can install the User Agent Switcher add-on and configure it with the following User Agent:

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)

just add the line into the User Agent field in the options of the add-on and any name in the description. Then switch to that User Agent and visit the Zinio website that was created for iPhone users.

NOTE:- In case you find any problem while using this trick do post your comment or send me a mail at enjoyforprashant@gmail.com

the wonders of facebook and google...


There are four characters in this true story - father, mother, son and a daughter.

When their marriage broke down, the father took away his son with him to another country though he was just three years old at that time.

That incident happened some 27 years ago and the mother has been searching for her son ever since.

One day, the couple’s daughter, who stays with her mother, typed the name of her "lost" brother into Google and came across a link to some Facebook profile that had the same name as her brother.

She sent a message to that Facebook user and, as luck would have it, he was her brother. The family was reunited through Facebook and Google after some 30 years.

BBC has a video of the reunion while The Sun has more details on how the family members traced their lost son.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Blogger Help - How to Remove Navbar

Hide/Remove the Navbar from your Blogger/BlogSpot blog !

As you can see this blog is diffrent as it's free from navbar.. But now you all can make ur blog a navbar blog...following these simple tricks...

Here are the simple steps to completely hide the navbar in your blog :
1. Log into your Blogger account.
2. Select the Layout option of the desired blog (from your dashboard).
3. Go to Edit HTML section.
4. Under the Edit Template Box, 'copy and paste' the code from the green region below, exactly between the gray region (which will be already there in your blog) !



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Blogger Template Style
Name: Rounders
Designer: Douglas Bowman
URL: www.stopdesign.com
Date: 27 Feb 2004
Updated by: Blogger Team
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#navbar-iframe {

display: none !important;
}
/* Variable definitions

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type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff">
default="#333" value="#333333">b
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