How To Access Cupidtino with a PC
As some of you might know, Cupidtino is "a new dating site created for fans of Apple products by fans of Apple". I will not go through an explaination of what the website is about, you can check it out for yourself. However, there's an issue for those users who are trying to access the website via PC, because according to Cupidtino's staff "This site is designed exclusively for Apple fans, and can only be accessed using an Apple product (Mac, iPhone or iPad)". This can be frustrating especially if you're an Apple fan but you are somewhere where there are no Apple products nearby that you can use (or you forgot your MacBook at home) and you need to use a PC to connect to the site. Here's an easy solution that goes around the block.
If you try to access some of the inside pages of the website using a PC, you'll probably encounter this image.
Very frustrating indeed. But there's hope!
I will explain the procedure assuming that the user is using Mozilla Firefox as his main browser and is operating on a PC. This trick can be recreated on other platforms and browsers, but you'll have to figure which software you need yourself. I can't cover all of them!
- Open Firefox.
- From the Tools menu, choose Add-ons.
- From the Explore tab, search for "User Agent Switcher".
- Install the User Agent Switcher extension.
- Restart Firefox.
- From the Tools menu, choose "Default User Agent", then Edit User Agents...
- Press the "New..." button, then choose "User Agent".
- Add the following details to the newly created form window.
- Add a description of your choice in the first field. I put "Chrome - Mac OS X". Leave the other fields blank.
- From the Tools menu, choose "Clear Private Data...". Make sure in the Advanced Tab the "Cookies" field is selected.
- From the Tools menu, choose "Default User Agent" and then "Chrome - Mac OSX X" (or however you have called it). Your browser will now be identified as Chrome running on Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.
- Open the Cupidtino registration page: http://cupidtino.com/signup.
If you get redirected to a page titled "I'm a Mac" something went wrong and you should go through the steps again. If you're able to register into the website... congratulations! You can now access Cupidtino from your PC.
