Fluid is a site specific browser similar to Prism. It is based on Safari’s WebKit. This makes it perfect for viewing Zinio’s free iPod content on your computer, without having to switch your Safari’s User Agent settings. To start things off, you will need to download and install Fluid. Once you have installed the browser, follow these steps to make it a Zinio viewer.
- Open the Fluid application.
- A window will appear for creating a site specific browser. In the URL textbox, input http://imgs.zinio.com/iphone/. In the Name textbox, input whatever you wish to call the browser (Zinio Newsreader). Click the Create button.
- When the Success window appears, click the Launch Now button.
- Once the application has opened, select its name from the menu bar. Select User Agent and then select Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone.
- Now close the application and reopen it. You can now view all of the available magazines.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:08 am
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June 13th, 2008 at 6:42 am
I tried it and followed your instructions but it did not work. Could zinio have fixed this workaround?
June 13th, 2008 at 7:23 am
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June 13th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Works great using UASwitcher in firefox 3!
String is:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3″
June 13th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I would also like to point out, FREE PENTHOUSE!
Boy, I sure love LifeHacker today!
June 13th, 2008 at 7:50 am
For those that state that it’s not working, try this. After following all of the steps, open up the Preferences, choose the “general” icon and turn off “restore last browsing session on startup”. Not only does it work, but might save you some embarrassment when someone else launches the reader after you.
June 13th, 2008 at 9:14 am
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June 13th, 2008 at 9:43 am
confirmed, doesn’t work anymore. It does work using iPhone, but no go with Fluid.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:18 am
yea! it worked on fluid for me!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Confirmed that it does work, although I had to follow Dave’s suggestion above. This has actually messed up Fluid apps for me before - they should disable that functionality by default.
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June 15th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
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