Monthly Archives: March 2009

Top Commentators Get Free Licenses

In order to encourage the exchange of information regarding hide IP and privacy issues, I have implemented the Show Top Commentators plugin (take a look to the right sidebar). The plugin shows the most active users on this blog during the last month and … the good news is that the user is rewarded! Top Commentator Gets Free Key [...]

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Q&A: The existing hide IP tools work with IE8?

As you probably know, Microsoft has released this week version 8 of their Internet Explorer. IE8 is faster (the fastest if we consider Microsoft’s own tests) and more secured (White Paper: IE8 – A Safer Online Experience). The question is how this affect the existing hide IP tools? Will the existing hide IP tools available [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 is here! Faster and more secure.

Microsoft has just released version 8 of Internet Explorer. IE8 is definitely a better browser than IE7 as it is faster and more secure. Some of the most interesting additions to IE8 are: Accelerators (addons that make things like mapping addresses or initiating a blog post easier) Web Slices (make information from sites available directly in [...]

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How to Browse with French IP address

When you need to change your IP address to a French one you don’t have many alternatives. Most of the hide IP tools available on the market use US servers, providing US IP addresses. Here several ways to get a French IP: 1. Use Web Proxies Web proxies are very simple to use and you don’t have [...]

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How to run Hotspot Shield on Vista 64-bit

Hotspot Shield is a small software that creates a VPN between your computer and an Internet gateway. It’s ideal for watching Hulu, ABC, NBC, Fox or other restricted video streaming sites for visitors outside US and also for hiding your IP address for any purposes you may have. The bad news comes for Vista 64-bit users: Hotspot Shield does [...]

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Many See Privacy on Web as Big Issue, Survey Says

More than 90 percent of U.S. citizens polled in a recent TRUSTe survey said that online privacy is a “really” or “somewhat” important issue, and just 28 percent said they were comfortable with advertisers using behavioral targeting; more than half of respondents said they were not. More than 75 percent of respondents agreed that the [...]

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How Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) Work

There was a lot of talking lately about Hotspot Shield, a free VPN service. The tool is ideal for watching Hulu, ABC, NBC, Fox or other restricted video streaming sites for visitors outside US. As I have received a lot of questions regarding VPNs, I have gathered info from several sources that explain what VPNs are [...]

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Video: Internet Privacy :)

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How to choose a hide IP tool (IV) – See what others recommend

This series explains how to choose a hide IP tool that is suitable for you. You can choose from free tools or paid ones (How to choose a hide IP tool (I) – Free or paid?) but if you decide to purchase one you should always try before you buy (How to choose a hide IP tool [...]

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Ixquick, World’s Most Private Search Engine

Ixquick, a Dutch search engine, has become, in January 2009, the first to function without retaining the user IP address in order to increase user privacy protections. While search engines such as Google  and Yahoo keep data for nine months, respective three months, Ixquick has until now deleted it after 48 hours. It now says [...]

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