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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

World’s Top Magazines Can Be Read For Free On Your Desktop

Read Magazines and E-Books free of cost from your desktop using the service called Zinio.

Zinio is a free service that offers iPhone Users the ability to access World’s Top Magazines for free. Apple iPhone users can browse full versions of top magazines for free. Titles include Macworld, Technology Review, Lonely Planet, Popular Photography, Playboy, Penthouse and much more.

But if can you trick your web browser into thinking it’s an iPhone, you can actually read these top magazines for free on your desktop/laptop (PC or Mac).

You’ll need to change the "user agent" on your respective browser.

In Safari just follow these Instructions - Safari User Agent Switch

In Firefox you can add this extension Firefox User Agent Switch Add-On

Add the following iPhone user agent in Firefox Add-On

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)

Add the code exactly as given above – See below for Pictorial Representation

After completing the above steps, your work is very simple – Now just visit this Link in your Safari or Firefox Web Browser in which you changed the User Agent to enjoy these high quality digital publications for free right on your Desktop.

Saving For Future Use

What’s more – You can even Save these publications from the website and use it for future when offline. Yes, these publications are available as JPEG pictures and all you need is to just right click on the image and save it on your desktop for further use.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Encyclopedia Of Space And Astronomy

Facts on File | 2006 | English | 753 pages | PDF | 10 MB

This is a huge, up to date, single volume encyclopedia. It is not a text, but an alphabetical listing of just about everything there is to know about the subject. More than most astronomy books, this one contains a lot more information about the various space oriented NASA projects. I can't say that every mission is documented, but in looking several up I couldn't find any that were missing. Likewise other aspects of space technology aren't left out. You don't find discussions for instance on the de Laval nozzle in most other books.
On the astronomical side, his discussions on dark enery and dark matter are as good as any I've seen. This is not to say that he claims to know what they are, but he gives a good description what the leading current theories say. I notice that he has no comment on the speed of gravity (which nobody seems to know), but I guess you have to draw the line somewhere.
One problem with this book is putting it down. It is so big, and has so much information that you tend to want to read it from beginning to end. Except that you get distracted and start jumping around as something new grabs your interest.

Encyclopedia Of Space And Astronomy