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Playboy Centerfold in 3D

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As a kid snooping around my dad’s bedroom drawers I ran across the most wonderful thing I could imagine… his Playboy collection. While not as well built as other father’s collections (some running from the 50s to the 80s), there were about a half a dozen gems to look through. As a curious boy, I wondered what it would be like if the centerfold jumped off the page… well, I don’t have to wonder anymore as the June edition of Playboy will be equipped with 3D glasses.

“What would people most like to see in 3-D?” asked Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. “Probably a naked lady.”. What a wise and insightful man!

Source: MSNBC.COM

BTW, you can totally pick up
Playboy (without leaving home) online at Zinio Digital Magazines.

PopSci Genius Guide – a brand new online-only interactive magazine

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The PopSci Genius Guide - Subscription
Popular Science has launched a brand new online-only magazine called PopSci Genius Guide. Meant to be interactive, with embedded video and more, it simply can’t come to your doorstep in print form.

Almost every page has interactive spots that you can click on for more information, and those clicks typically result in the page re-orienting itself to display that info. There are videos of the authors /creators/interviewees of the featured tech inside the articles.

Even the ads are dynamic and have audio attached to them that are only activated when you turn to the page they’re on. Pretty much, this is the future of magazines. It may be harder to produce, but it’ll become easier and more magazines will need this to differentiate them from the pack, until it becomes a de facto standard. It’s easy to be blase about this, but only say 10 years ago, this would have been a prop in a sci fi movie; now it’s reality. It’s definitely worth taking a look at this even if you’re not necessarily a hardcore techie.

No subscription pricing model has been announced yet, but you can snag the very 1st issue from Zinio for $3. This issue focuses on home entertainment, and includes a guide to building the best movie room and a guide to home automation.

Search inside over 10,000 magazines with Zinio

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Zinio.com - Digital Magazines, Save up to 90%Did you know that you can search the text in over 10,000 magazines with Zinio? Instead of waiting by the mail for your favorite magazines to show up, you get to view them on your computer/laptop the minute they’re available and with the added benefit of not cutting down additional trees.

Once you subscribe, you’ll also have the same searching ability. Sweet. I do hate having to page through an entire magazine to find that one little article that I read a few weeks ago. No more wasting brain cells on silly remembering!

Gimme!

More info from the manufacturer

Price: depends on the magazine
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Get PC Magazine for Free!

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We were pleasantly surprised to learn that you can now get PC Magazine for free. Yup, that’s a full year of PC Mag (normally somewhere around $25/yr) courtesy of Netline Corp. Netline runs Tradepub and if you check out our GfG-branded Tradepub, you’ll find hundreds of other magazines that you can get for free.

What’s the catch? No catch for you, except you do have to fill out a little survey type info up front. The magazines make money because they get advertising, and advertisers are happy because folks (like you) are reading the zines and seeing their ads. Works out. After all, no one charges you to watch the ads you see in places like on TV, prior to movies, billboards, or sides of buses!

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