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Watch Hulu even if you arent in the US, View firewalled websites with Hotspot Shield.

A while ago, there was a BBC tv show that I wanted to watch. If you aren’t in the UK and have tried to watch a BBC show online, you’d know that you get the this message.

So whats the sensible way to get around this? Find a proxy that would fool the BBC to think [...]

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Pownce has been aquired, shutting down. May return at a later time.

I don’t know what to think about this, I got home from work the other morning and was checking my Gmail and read this
We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15,
2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new
pro accounts.
To help with your transition, we [...]

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Free CD/DVD burning software with Nero-like features.

CD and DVD burning is something I find I don’t do as much anymore. With good reason. Most music I listen to is either done on my PC or on my portable music device. Most video I watch is either DVD’s or through websites like Hulu or Netflix. Since I have pieced together a full [...]

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Looking for a NZB client? Try SABnzbd

I talked about NZB files and using the usenet the other day and I mentioned using clients to retrieve files from the usenet but I didn’t mention any clients in particular to use. After reading about NZB files and the usenet. I started looking into clients and there are several. Many of the files do [...]

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What is an NZB file?

When I first got online, I was using AOL. one of the geeky things Ive always heard about was the Usenet. At that time, I used the Usenet as a forum. reading about topics that I was interested in. Ive even used the newsgroups as late as about 2001, when I use to frequent an [...]

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An evening with Google Chrome

Well I’m a day late with this post but I happen to spend a good amount of time with Google Chrome after the download was made available Tuesday. What do I think? Well lets first go through my experience (briefly) and I’ll get to that.
Download and installation was pretty standard for me. Chrome installed then [...]

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Google enters the browser wars with Google Chrome.

Today is the day…supposedly. Google announced that today there will be a download for a new browser.

Google Chrome
Yep that’s right, Google is joining the browser wars with their own browser. Google Chrome was first leaked by an online comic talking about the browser (which you can read here). What will be different about Google’s new [...]

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C is for Cookie. Cookie Monster App

The other day I went to Youtube and noticed that when I typed “www.youtube.com” in the address bar, it redirected me to “www.youtube.de”. I don’t know how it happened, I look at a lot of stuff on the web so I probably went somewhere that changed my country settings for Youtube. So I went fishing [...]

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Extract all of your RAR or ZIP downloads automatically with Autounpack

I recently ran into a little problem with some Harddrives and had to restore a drive from a backup. Problem with that is there are a lot of files in my backup that were either downloaded from the web, or archived myself with WinRAR. I was going through using WinRAR to extract all of these [...]

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iTunes is a horrible piece of software

Thats right, Ive said it, and all of you people that think iTunes is great need to quit drinking Apple’s Kool-aid for a while and try other things…seriously (You too Mr. Rose).
Recently I have been forced to use iTunes to manage my iPhone. It wasn’t a big deal when I first started because the only [...]

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