February 1, 2012
The Great Firewall of China, officially known as the Golden Shield project, uses a variety of methods to block foreign websites that the Chinese government doesn’t like. The Chinese government doesn’t publish a list of blocked sites, so it’s not easy for foreigners to tell if their website is visible in China or not. However, there are several web-based tools that can quickly check for you.
October 12, 2011
Interacting with users and customers on Facebook is almost a requirement for any business that wants to maintain a competitive advantage. What this means is that many companies are no longer blocking their employees from using Facebook during the workday. For the most part, employees aren’t really abusing the privilege. At the same time, there is a subsection of employees that do abuse the privilege.
February 4, 2010
One of the most interesting aspects of conducting research into online search trends is that you quickly pick up on what topics are the most popular and most important to the large majority of Internet users. One of the most popular search trends is for services that will send you new proxy server list to [...]
January 19, 2010
Looking at the experiences of one of my friends – the network administrator – I don’t think I’d ever want to be one. Personally, I think this job would continuously put me in a difficult situation. On one side, I would want to always be on good terms with everybody that I worked with. But [...]
December 15, 2009
Sometimes you might find yourself not being able to access a particular website, and you may be wondering why. One reason for not being able to access the site is that the site may just be down ““ check out Down For Everyone Or Just Me to see if the site is down or not. [...]
June 13, 2009
Did you get Privoxy set up? Put together a good white list of sites? If you haven’t, head on back to How To Restrict Access to Websites with Privoxy [Part 1] before continuing with this tutorial. Part Two is all about locking down Internet Explorer so it can only connect to the Internet through the [...]
June 10, 2009
This is a method that is best used to control network users to only have access to a limited number of websites. Alternatively, you may use it on home computers to restrict access to websites that you trust. Once the system is in place, you can work with Privoxy further to hone it to your [...]
December 6, 2008
So you’re at work or school and you want to check your profile or watch a YouTube video. Lo and behold, it’s blocked. Now you have two options – be productive or try and bypass the filter. Usually one would choose the latter, but how would you do that? Here’s some options. XeroBank The xB Browser [...]
