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People are willing to go to great lengths to access video content, and great lengths are indeed required when content often doesn't become available for a big part of the world until months after its initial release. More so, even though there are websites like Hulu and Netflix boasting the infrastructure to offer that media globally, they actively work to keep people out. If you want to watch region-blocked content on your iPhone or iPad you'll have to take matters into your own hands.
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Whether you’re one of the majority of human beings who doesn’t live in a country with a rich selection of streaming video and music services or you’re just an American who wants to watch Netflix on your phone while travelling, region-blocks will get in your way. Just as you can use a few tricks to access region-blocked video and music services on your computer, you can do the same on your Android phone or tablet.
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For copyright reasons, certain media companies only allow their content to be viewed in certain geographic areas. In plain English, what this means is that they are meanies who suck. And what does the Internet do to meanies who suck? We find workarounds. Before I get to the tools, I’d like to talk about the process of geographical Internet Protocol (IP) address blocking and circumventing those blocks.
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Internet users outside of the United States are blocked from accessing the wealth of streaming video and music content available to Americans. Even Americans are deprived of international services like BBC iPlayer. Faced with this, many people choose VPNs. However, VPNs are not the ideal way to access region-blocked videos and music. There are better ways.
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One of the best things about having a tablet is the fact that I can be productive just about anywhere. While I didn't opt for a tablet with 3G or 4G, I can still work anywhere that I can find a wireless network, which is surprisingly lots of places - restaurants, coffee houses, hotels and even some retail stores.
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The act of shutting down or rebooting a PC seems like such a simple task doesn't it? When you're done work at the end of the day, you choose "shut down" and you're done until Monday morning. If only the rest of the world of IT were so simple, right? For those that manage computers and servers, shutting down and rebooting takes on a whole new life.
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Anonymity is a new big kick online. It's a good thing that a piece of software like CyberGhost VPN exists, as it makes the entire anonymous experience a cinch when using the Internet. CyberGhost VPN is very simple on the user and flexible in terms of what it's going to cost you. Along with their free plan, CyberGhost offers Classic, Premium, and Premium Plus packages that scale up in realms of server availability and bandwidth allowance. You can even buy months of prepaid traffic on the side. None of that matters this week though, as we'll be giving away 25 1-year subscriptions for CyberGhost Premium Plus VPN valued at almost €3000 in total!
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While American internet users can quite happily watch Hulu, the fact that I live in the UK means I can't. Likewise, BBC iPlayer is free for UK citizens; but if your physical location says America then you're out of luck buddy. It's a frustrating state of affairs, and we won't stand for it! Neither will Tunlr.net: a new free service that aims to remove region restrictions the world over by way of some magic DNS trickery.
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For a while now, there have been a number of free Internet VPN solutions available or private personal use. I’m rather new to the whole VPN idea, but even I can remember programs like Hamachi, Wippien, Leaf (now discontinued), and Comodo EasyVPN (now called Comodo Unite). As an avid gamer with many gamer friends, I love to play private games on a simulated local area network (LAN).
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The online world is fast becoming a dangerous place. A premium VPN service is a small price to pay for the ultimate in online security, allowing you to both download what you wish and avoid being snooped on. Today we show you how to set up one such service, BTGuard, a torrent-friendly premium VPN service.
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If you’re living outside of the United States, here’s a familiar scenario for you. You’re reading your favorite tech blog, and suddenly see a post about the latest and greatest in web services. Maybe it’s a new way to stream music or watch TV, maybe it’s an awesome new bookstore. Excited, you click through to try it out - only to find out that it’s limited to US customers only. TunnelBear is a slick Virtual Private Network that can help solve that problem.
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As many people now know, connecting to a public, unsecured wireless network can have serious risks. It’s known that doing this can provide an opening for all manner of data theft, particularly passwords and private information. Let’s have a look at the exact risks of public networks, and the solutions available to counter those risks.
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If you have your own virtual private server for hosting your website, you may not know you can also use it as a private proxy to get past various firewalls and internet blocks. Let me show you how you can set up a simple SSH proxy tunnel using your hosting account in Windows, Mac or Linux.
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A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is a method of linking two locations like they are on a local private network. There are several reasons why you might want to set one up. Usually there is an aspect of convenience and you might also want to add security to your connection. Let’s go over several [...]
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In the last year or so, I think we’ve all come to realise that our internet communications are really quite insecure. Using a public WiFi connection? FireSheep will easily grab your social network network passwords in seconds, giving anyone on the same network instant access to your entire life. There are a lot of things [...]
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