![]() ![]() With your User Agent set to mimic the iPhone, will refresh and now you have a set of menus at the bottom. Select Develop, pull down to User Agent, and then slide over and choose Safari iOS 11.0 iPhone. You will now see a new item called Develop in the menu bar of your Mac when Safari is open. Check the box at the bottom that says Show Develop menu in menu bar. Open Safari Preferences and select the Advanced tab. I’m going to walk you through how to do this starting with Safari using the Developer tools, and then we’ll take a look at Chrome and Firefox. This is a common technique used by developers as a way to see how their website looks on different devices, so it’s not too hard to do. We need to change our User Agent to pretend to be a mobile browser. So all we need to do is trick the website into thinking we’re on a mobile device when we’re actually on our big girl computers. If you go to using a mobile device, Instagram does include the plus button to add your own images. That information is called the User Agent String. One of the pieces of information in the header is the device and browser version you’re using. You may remember Bart talking about how we have a digital fingerprint on the Internet, and how one of the ways we can be identified is by the information in the header of our web browser that’s sent to any sites we visit. It might help you with any website that doesn’t want to let you play from a real computer’s web browser. I’ve got a solution to the problem with Instagram and as you learn about it, remember it’s not just useful for. There’s no little plus button at the bottom of the screen so you can’t contribute your own images. I have to be able to contribute, it’s in my nature! User Agents At first I was happy!Įxcept when you get into your account, you’ll notice that you can only view other people’s content and heart or comment on their images. You can go to from a real computer, and at first it will look like you can only get links to download the app on the iOS App Store or the Google Play store, but there’s a button that says “continue as” and you can log in from there. Heck, there’s not even an app for the iPad. While the experience is pretty good on the phone, I spend a lot of time on my Mac and I’d prefer to do my ‘gramming from there. ![]() It’s a good thing that Steve is on Instagram and Twitter since he’s the person I’m most likely to include. On the Twitter side, you can’t edit the message so you just kind of hope that their Instagram and Twitter handles are the same. But then I have to go back into Facebook and change Instagram handles to real names. I like that I can select a photo, write a clever caption and then tell Instagram to post to Facebook and Twitter as well. I started contributing some images myself, and there are things I like and things I don’t like about Instagram. I have to say, there is something peaceful about scrolling through images and tapping the little heart. Then I started adding people and looking at their photos. My first act was to move Instagram out of a social folder and onto my home screen so I’d even remember to open it. I want to be happy too, so I’m trying to be better at Instagram. ![]() My niece says it’s her happy place because it doesn’t seem to be as filled with as much anger as Twitter and it doesn’t feel as creepy as Facebook (even though it’s owned by Facebook.). I don’t entirely get yet what it offers that I don’t get from Facebook and Twitter, but I’m trying. I’m trying to be one of the cool kids and use Instagram. ![]()
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