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Free digital issues of several popular magazines are available via Zinio for free to iPhone users and those who using Safari or Firefox can also view the magazine by changing the user agent in their browser. Following are some of the magazine available - U.S. News & World Report, Playboy, Popular Photography, Men’s Health, Popular Mechanics, PC Magazine, Elle, Technology Review, Macworld UK, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, etc.
To read the magazines you only need to enter your email address which then subscribes to their mailing list, and you’ll be able to view the full digital issues magazines.
To take advantage of this, on your iPhone just navigate to Zinio. In case you don’t have an iPhone but you’re using Safari or Firefox and want to take advantage of this, here’s how you change the User Agent:
For Safari Browser:

• Open Safari and go to preferences.
• Click the Advanced tab and check the box that says “show develop menu in menu bar”
• Go up to the Develop Menu > User Agent > Mobile Safari 1.1.3 – iPhone.
• Navigate to Zinio and start enjoying the magazines

For Firefox browser:

• In the URL bar, enter "about:config"
• Right click anywhere on the page, go down to New and over to String
• You will be prompted to enter the preference name. Enter: general.useragent.override
• 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)
• Once you have hit OK, you have morphed your Firefox into an iPhone mobile browser

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.
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PDF Search Engine is an excellent tool for finding PDF documents and e-books on the internet. Just enter any keyword in the search field to find documents or e-books on that topics and the search results are also very good.You can either search from the site itself or use the search extension to your Firefox search bar.[source]
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Under a promotion Sitepoint is giving away free downloads of e-Book titled ‘The Photoshop Anthology’ in .PDF format. No strings attach, no payments. All you need to do is, go to the website, enter your email address and start downloading. The is a limited time offer and expired on 13 June 2008.The e-book explains 101 web design tips and tricks - tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a site recently, you need to download this book.[source] - Download
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The Cheats’ Guide to Blogger Template Design is a free e-Book which helps you create a new look for your blogger blog. This e-Book will offer you many options and examples to customize your existing Blogger template quickly and easily.

Divided in to 5 chapters, this e-Book will help you understand the basic techniques of blogger template design, from configuring background images to creating a custom header, using clickable buttons and much more!

Each chapter in this e-book covers different aspects of Blogger template. Following are some of the features of this e-Book.

• New examples of template customizations
• An entire chapter about customizing stretch (fluid) templates
• How to use buttons, banners and images
• Many useful resources for template customization
• An optional download folder containing all of the templates and images used in the e-Book

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As we know JavaScript is a scripting language designed to be easy to learn and use even by novices. Nowadays it is extensively used in composing various parts of web applications. We should have some basic idea regarding JavaScript coding techniques to customize certain aspects of JavaScript based components used in our web site or standalone programs.
In order to learn JavaScript or to solve a specific coding related problem, there are many resources available over the Internet for free, like tutorials, books, code examples and complete applications with full source code.

Here is an interactive online book titled “Eloquent JavaScript” - allows users to test and modify the code examples from the book itself or to create new ones.

The content of the book provides many JavaScript examples that come to demonstrate various definitions of concepts regarding variables flow control, data structures (objects and arrays), errors handling, OOP (object oriented programming) and more.
License: Free
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‘How to develop money-making niche sites with Wordpress’ is a free e-book for Wordpress blog, especially for the new comers. It explains the basic steps to create a blog with WordPress like installing Wordpress software, basic administration, setting up adsense, uploading using FTP, etc.

Surely, this book is a handy reference guide to all for those who already started a blog with Wordpress or planning to create a new one.

The e-book is 41 pages long and includes following chapters

• Chapter 1: Getting and Installing WordPress
• Chapter 2: Basic WordPress Administration. 10
• Chapter 3: Installing a New Theme. 13
• Chapter 4: Setting up Adsense On Your Site. 16
• Chapter 5: WordPress Plugins. 20
• Chapter 6: Creating Your Site Content
• Chapter 7: Final Thoughts
• Appendix 1: Uploading Using FTP.. 33
• Appendix 2: External Resources

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The main interface provides two main views, reading view and library view. Reading view lets you read e-book, while library view allows you manage all your e-book collections.

Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports PDF and XHTML-based content as well as Flash SWF for rich interactivity. You can view books in thumbnail or list view by title, author, publisher, etc and books can be viewed in double or single page views and can be enlarge any portion of the page for more reading experience.

You can drag and drop files from the library into bookshelves section shown on left side of the main window to categorize books, magazine or make your own bookshelves

For more information and install click here

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