Using Firefox With Your Computer to Access iPhone Sites

The Issue: With a few steps you'll be able to turn your computer's Mozilla Firefox into an iPhone browser. This is similar to our post on turning your computer's Safari browser into an iPhone browser.

Why? To access iPhone only websites with your Firefox browser in order to preview them, or to obtain data from iPhone mobile-web targeted sites.

The Lesson:

1. Open your Mozilla Firefox browser

2. In the URL bar, enter "about:config"

3. Right click anywhere on the page, go down to New and over to String

4. You will be prompted to enter the preference name. Enter: general.useragent.override

5. You will next be prompted to enter a "string value". Enter: 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)

6. Once you have hit OK, you have morphed your Firefox into an iPhone mobile browser! Woo!

Here is a sample of what Google now looks like:

Associated Press has made an iPhone only website: www.apnews.com

Without this configuration you would not have been able to access this page.

To reverse this process and return to regular Firefox mode, you must go back into "about:config".

Then scroll down to the "general.useragent.override" and right click it. Select Reset.

Your back to regular Firefox.

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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 simpleinstructions.

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

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Sony Announces PlayStation iPhone and Android Apps

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) recently announced the that they will be releasing a their official PlayStation App for the iPhone and for the Android (1.6 and up) operating systems.

The App is basically a way for PlayStation owners to keep up with everything on PSN, such as the following:

- Check out your PlayStation Network trophies and keep up to date with your friends’ games and online status.

- Discover all the latest games, news and hardware for your PS3, PSP and PS2.

- Read all the announcements on the European PlayStation.Blog

- Share your favourite products or news with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or via e-mail.

Version 1.0 will launch in the following counties: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands.

SCEE says they are working on the next version already, which will support even more countries, and they will be adding new features in the next few months.

This is something like the Xbox LIVE feature Windows Phone 7, which lets users manage their friends and more. Because both the Xbox and Windows Phone 7 are Microsoft products, they have stepped up the level of integration and allowed users to play some games on their phone over the LIVE network as well.

This sort of integration is a given for the all-but-confirmed PSP Phone which is a separate device from the PSP2.

This post is sponsored by:
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**** BUYER BEWARE ****
Please note that Dr Mobiles Limited is the only professional mobile phone repair centre that DOES NOT CHARGE inspection to look at your faulty phones.  Besides that, other charge up to $85 to produce a damage report for insurance claims; Dr Mobiles Limited will NOT charge your even a single dime to produce such report!  Terms and conditions apply, see www.drmobiles.co.nz