Monthly Archives: November 2011

How To Setup StrongVPN With OpenVPN On Linksys WRT54GL + DD-WRT Firmware

By taviroman | Published: November 28, 2011

This tutorial shows how to setup StrongVPN on a Linksys WRT54GL router with DD-WRT firmware. Three steps are needed before starting: you must download both software and a file. 1. Download NotePad + + => more convenient than the Windows Notepad, more ergonomic. 2. Download Putty => Will not connect via SSH to your router and install [...]

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Free Internet For Your Mobile Phone via Opera Mini Handler: How Safe Is It?

By heryzo | Published: November 22, 2011
opera-mini-handler

If you are one of those geeks who are seeking ways to get free internet access for your mobile phone (who doesn’t like free internet?), I’m sure you already stumbled into the Opera mini handler trick. Haven’t heard about it yet? That’s fine. The goal of How-to-hide-ip.info isn’t to show you how to do it [...]

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VPN and Cloud Computing: Growing Up Together

By heryzo | Published: November 21, 2011
cloud-security

From its conception, a VPN was meant to secure a connection that has to transit through a public network (via the internet for example). IT managers’ challenge was to find out the best encryption method that should be applied through this tunnel: they had to choose the protocols to be used as well as the [...]

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Google Music Launched In The U.S. How Do You Access It If You Are Outside The U.S?

By heryzo | Published: November 18, 2011
google-music

So what about us outside of U.S? Some of our readers would wonder why should they care about this new release. Especially those who are addicted to iTunes. Well, I wouldn’t get into the flaming about Apple vs. Google, but I think there are lots of useful features that are worth mentioning. Google Music allows [...]

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How Far Would You Go Troubleshooting Before Deciding to Contact the VPN Service Provider Support?

By heryzo | Published: November 16, 2011

While testing one VPN solution, I’ve been advised to check if I have an anti-virus or firewall software installed on my computer. Although I can understand that there may be some conflict between the VPN solution and that PC protection software, I found the answer I received a bit harsh. Here is an excerpt of [...]

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When Not to Use a Free Proxy?

By heryzo | Published: November 14, 2011
free-proxy

So as to circumvent some internet limitations, an internet user usual go through proxies. In fact, proxies are some servers that act like brokers/gateways between your computer and the internet. It provides interesting features in the way that it can “encapsulate/rewrite” your internet requests , so that the destination webserver thinks that it is originating [...]

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Once Free VPN HotspotShield Lands on iOS as a Paid Version

By heryzo | Published: November 13, 2011
hotspot-shield-iphone

There’s a lot of Free VPN solutions that exist nowadays, some, like AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield are so popular that they have hitted the blacklist of services of geolocation-limited services like Hulu and BBC iPlayer. Nevertheless, HotspotShield continues its expansion, and it has now released an app for iPhone, iPod and iPad to encrypt your connections. [...]

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VPN Services: HideMyAss Review – Part 2

By heryzo | Published: November 10, 2011
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If you haven’t read the first part of this review, you can still check it out here. In fact, initially, I wanted to try HMA with my Android phone (still a 2.1). After checking the documentations, I found out that I needed to use the PPTP version (which, by the way, has a different credential [...]

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VPN Services: HideMyAss Review – Part 1

By heryzo | Published: November 7, 2011
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This is part of the series of reviews on the current solutions that can help our readers to protect their privacy online. This article will discuss HideMyAss’offer. As of the time of writing, HideMyAss is available for the following platforms: Windows XP, Vista and 7: version 2.6.9 that was released on 20th July 2011 Mac [...]

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What Is Logged Into a VPN Connection?

By heryzo | Published: November 5, 2011
Computer Privacy

As we were asking our readers about the VPN solution they want us to review, someone suggested one VPN solution and emphasizes on the logging feature of such solution. In fact, he wanted to know the information that is logged by the VPN solution. This truly is a legitimate question. If we think about it, [...]

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