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If you are one of those guys who like reading tons of magazines but, alas, you don’t have a lot of bucks to spend, here is a nice, legal hack which will help you achieve your biggest dream, namely reading whatever you want…for free!

Here is the step-by-step procedure which doesn’t require any special tech knwoledge:

1. Go to Apple.com and download Safari. Useless to say, if you have a MAC you already have it, so need to download it.
2. Open Safari and go to Edit -  Preferences – Advanced and now click “Show Develop menu in menu bar”.
3. Now open the Develop option menu and choose Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone as the User Agent.
4. At this point you are dont. Visit  zinio.com/iphone using your Safari and read whatever magazine you want.

If you are stuck with Firefox, here is another trick which will spare you from downloading Safari browser:

1. In the Address bar type about:config.
2. When prompted click the “I’ll be carefull, I promise” button.
3. Now, in the filter bar type useragent.
4. Click general.useragent.extra.firefox and set it to  Mobile Safari 1.1.3
5. Open zinio.com/iphone and read your magazines.
6. After you have done with the magazines, set general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/2.0.0.14.
7. Done.