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Slide 1: Subscribe to How-To Geek RSS Email Subscription Twitter Facebook Home How-To's Reviews Games Shopping Forums Login / Signup Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows Microsoft Office Firefox & Web Geek Stuff Linux Read Wall Street Journal Articles Without Paying a Dime (Legally) How many times have you clicked on a link to a Wall Street Journal article, only to run smack into their for-pay wall? It’s infuriating, you only get to read a few sentences… but you can read the whole article, legally, for free. If you aren’t quite sure what we’re talking about, I’m referring to this screen that shows up when you view an WSJ article directly: Daily Email Updates You can get our how-to articles in your inbox each day for free. Just enter your name and email below: Name: Email: Subscribe! MEET THE AUTHOR Programmer by day, geek by night, The Geek spends all his free time bringing you fresh geekery on a daily basis. Recent Articles Open a Set of Links Without the Home Button in Firefox Add a QuickNote Function to Firefox How To Disable Javascript in Adobe Reader and Patch the Latest Massive Security Hole Remove Shutdown and Restart Buttons In Windows 7 How to Fix PDF Previews in Outlook or Explorer on 64-bit Windows Note: We aren’t trying to get you to steal any content – if you really like WSJ you should subscribe. How to Read the Article For Free The solution is simple… if you read the article via Google News, you will be taken directly to the real thing. So all you really have to do is right-click on the title of the article… Related Articles Week in Geek: The 3 Day Weekend Edition Manually Record Journal Entries in Outlook 2007 Block Those Irritating Facebook Quiz & Application Messages Save Pages for Later With Reading List Extension for Firefox Great Geek Sites And you should immediately see the article at the top of the list under the Google News section… but this even seems to work when you click the regular Google result for the article.
Slide 2: Translate And once you’ve clicked the link, you’ll be taken straight to the real article. Again, if you really like the Wall Street Journal and want to read it on a daily basis, you need to subscribe. If you just want to read a single article here or there, this is a great, free way to do so. This article was originally written on 05/16/09 Tagged with: Geek Stuff | More Daily Email Updates You can get our how-to articles in your inbox each day for free. Just enter your name and email below: Name: Email: Subscribe! Similar Articles Week in Geek: The 3 Day Weekend Edition Manually Record Journal Entries in Outlook 2007 Block Those Irritating Facebook Quiz & Application Messages Save Pages for Later With Reading List Tinyhacker - Tiny Geek Hacks Grab ScreenShots and Share Online using Graabr How to Delete Blank Lines in Excel Get Detailed PC Hardware Information with HWiNFO32
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