I’ve gone crazy doing lists and selection those last couple of days, most probably because it was the end of year where it’s usually the time for making plans for the new year and all those kind of stuff. Do you find yourself doing that kind of lists too? Anyway, this time, I wanted to [...]
Privacy on the internet has been threatened multiple times during this year 2011. Indeed, at multiple occasions, and from different parts of the world, the internet has been used to spread some information that aren’t necessarily reported on the mainstream media. Social media has made it that citizen media became more and more popular.Combined to [...]
December 31st 2011, New Year’s Eve would be celebrated thoroughout the world with lots of parties and kiss at midnight (waow, invoking kiss on such a technical blog is a bit weird. With mobile that has come part of our daily lives, it is expected that there’ll be lot of pictures and video updates that [...]
I know, I usually talk in layman’s terms when it comes to dealing with network topics. I won’t make an exception on this article. So let’s keep the jargons to the minimum, and, instead, take actual case studies that will help you understand this packet sniffing thing better. Let’s suppose that you are a Windows [...]
You have surely heard about this SOPA thing on the news lately. SOPA stands for “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and it’s an effort made in the US for fighting against piracy on the internet. You can guess that Hollywood big guys are actively supporting this act. However, this act has generated a lot of outcry [...]
This is the end of the year, and some of us just like getting recommendations on books that they should be reading. Since we are into VPN and privacy topics, I thought I’d put a small list of books that are worth considering. So as to ease things, I have selected titles from Amazon’s database. [...]
I’m sure you’ve already been into a website where it is inviting you to subscribe to a newsletter, then below the “subscribe me” button, there’s a mention similar to “we respect your privacy“. Have already seen such websites? Those are common practices when it comes to dealing with website visitors. Simply put: website owners want [...]
December is usually a month for setting back and checking what we’ve done along the year. Here at how-to-hide-ip.info, we’ve shown you how to use VPN services for different purposes. Among other topics, we showed you how to unblock some geolocation-limited services that you may find interesting, we’ve covered services like watching hulu.com, listening to [...]
“There’s an app for that”, “Have you tried this awesome app that shows you the name of that distant planet?”: those are common discussions that you can hear between mobile device owners. Like kids, every mobile device owner just want to impress his peer with the latest app that he has installed, bought or tried. [...]
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 [...]
