Updated: How to View the Full Version of Sites in Opera Mini and Other Mobile Browsers

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Originally published in 2009, this post is updated regularly with the latest workarounds for viewing the desktop versions of mobile sites in mobile browsers. Last update 12-Jan-2014: Added reader-contributed workarounds for Google Search and Google Image Search. Removed non-working Yahoo Mail links. One of the biggest frustrations of using the web with mobile browsers is web sites that force them to use dumbed down mobile versions.  I have nothing against mobile sites, obviously. I build them and I write about them here at … Continue reading

Fortune Magazine’s Hidden Mobile Blogs

The prestigious global business magazine Fortune stands proudly on the newsstand, the only brand vissible on its cover is the Fortune name in a large font. Fortune’s iPad app also flies the magazine’s logo big and bold on its start page It’s different on the Web.  When you type the URL fortune.com into your browser you are redirected to money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/. The logo at the top of the page is that of CNNMoney with the Fortune’s name below it. That kind … Continue reading

Sports Illustrated Mobile

Time Warner’s weekly print sport magazine, Sports Illustrated (SI), finally has a mobile web site of its own. For the last few years, Sports Illustrated content has appeared as a section within CNN Mobile (Time Warner also owns CNN) but now it has its own URL: m.si.com.  The site covers news from  MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, NASCAR, Professional Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Cycling, College Football and Basketball and even occasional coverage of high school sports. SI’s numerous writers and columnists are also featured with … Continue reading