I have finally decided to create a fan page for How-to-hide-ip.info. I’m not a fervent user of Facebook, but I think the fan page will bring more exposure to the blog and also will help more people that seek online privacy and anonymity.

The fan page will basically display the articles from the blog, but I’m also preparing some exclusive giveaways and other surprises for How-to-hide-ip.info fans. 

So, visit How-to-hide-ip.info fan page and, if you have a Facebook account, become a fan! Any suggestions to improve the page are appreciated. What applications do you think should be added?

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Arovax SmartHide is an excellent solution for complete anonymity and protection while staying online. Here is a short tutorial on how to use it and how you can get one of the 50 Smarthide Shared USA accounts.

SmartHide exposes 2 core features:

1) It protects your identity by hiding your IP address;
2) It encrypts your current network connection.

The application is not intended to change IP address many times, but to hide IP address using one of secure servers to give every user a protected anonymous surfing.

How to install and use SmartHide

SmartHide has a very easy-to-use interface and is very simple to setup. The first step you need to do is to register for one of the available packages:

Then, you need to access the Members Area. After the authorization you can download the latest paid version of Arovax SmartHide. During the install you will be required to enter your login and password.

As I previously said, the user interface is very intuitive. You need to choose an IP address/location and then press Make me invisible. When you need to return to the normal browsing press Make me visible button.

The available IP addresses are from United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Malaysia. The last ones did not work for me, but the US servers are quite good (as you can see below in the speed test results). I was able to even watch Hulu smoothly.

Speed test for US server:

Watching Hulu with SmartHide:

SmartHide allows port forwarding. Port Forwarding is a technology, which allows connecting from the Internet to your local Computer behind NAT (NAPT). The access is achieved by means of directing traffic of certain Ports from external IP address of a router to a chosen computer in the local network.  

Such forwarding is necessary if you, for example, use peering networks or are in need of setting up a server with access to internet on a local computer. Also port forwarding is often needed for multiplayer online games (MMOG).

SmartHide Giveaway -  50 SmartHide Shared USA Accounts

The readers of How-to-hide-ip.com can get one of the 50 SmartHide Shared USA Accounts with the following core features:

       • 1 Shared USA IP address on a powerful and extremely fast server with Unlimited traffic;
       • Access and Visit US-Only Restricted Websites (Hulu, YouTube, Pandora, Veoh, ABC, CW) from Outside of United States;
       • Shared USA IP address in any spot of the Planet;
       • Safe data transfer in the Airports, Hotels Worldwide and everywhere you use SmartHide;

The rules are very simple this time:  “Comment to WIN!”. The first 50 readers to comment on this post will get a free SmartHide Shared USA account. Enjoy!

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TVCatchup, the popular internet television service for viewing certain UK channels, blocked several hosting providers that were used by VPN services. Thus, TVCatchup is no more available for users outside UK.

The annoucement made yesterday by  TVCatchup team was very clear: “As all users should be aware, TVCatchup is currently available only to those located within the United Kingdom. As explained in our Terms of Service and elsewhere on the website, it is not acceptable to access TVCatchup from outside of the UK.”

This comes after an upgrade of the service IP security that is now able to block not only individual IP addresses, but also all IP address originating from any UK datacenter where VPN services are typically hosted. The first VPN hosting providers blocked were RapidSwitched and Poundhost. Soon after, others were blocked, including UK2.net.

The interesting fact is that a VPN service that was hosted in the same data center as TVCatchup tried to fill the gap and emailed a number of TVCatchup users, offering to sell them access to the service. How they had access to the TVCatchup users email address is still a mistery. Finally, this VPN service was also blocked.

The reaction of the users varied from “I think it is fair that only UK can watch it” to “People using a VPN may be breaking the law but they do so because there is no alternative“, but the result remains: the service is no longer available from outside UK.

Conclusion: You should not buy a VPN for the purpose of accessing TVCatchup. It won’t work!

TVCatchup alternatives

So, there is no hope for the TVCatchup fans living outside UK. There is no way to bypass their filters. At least for now.

Solution: Look for alternatives. And there are some: BBC iPlayer, SeeSaw and the newly-born MSN Video Player. They are not the same, but this is the best you can get.

What is your alternative for TVCatchup?

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Microsoft officially launched a UK service that will stream full-length videos of television shows for free. The service is available only for UK internet users, but the filters can be bypassed using VPN services.

The advertising-funded MSN Video Player competes directly with recently-launched SeeSaw in offering a range of commercial TV shows for viewers to watch for free in their browser.

More than 300 hours of shows are now avaialable and Microsoft said it will continue to extend the service, adding content by working with broadcasters and studios. Programmes are available in both Windows Media Video (WMV) and Flash formats. Thus both PC and Mac users will be able to watch them.

How to unblock MSN Video Player

MSN Video Player programmes are streamed without DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection but will only be available to people with a UK IP address. If you leave out side UK you get the followwing message:

But the good news is that the filters can be bypassed. In order to be able to watch MSN Video Player from anywhere in the world you need a VPN service that provides access to a UK server. Such a service makes hides your real IP address and replaces it with a UK one. Thus, you will be granted full access to all shows available.

Here are some good VPN services that you can use to unblock MSN streaming service:

• TheFreeVPN – free
• HideIpVPN –  $5.99/month
• StrongVPN - from $15/month
• InvisibleBrowsingVPN – $7.95/month
• Lamnia.co.uk - £6.50/month

You’ll need to setup a VPN connection and you will be ready to unblock MSN service:

Important! If you have accessed the site before connecting to a VPN you will need to clear your cookies in order to make it work.

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HideIpVPN is one of the best VPN service available on the market and now they are giving away 25 US/UK accounts every week.

By using HideIpVPN, you can hide your original real IP address, effectively browsing anonymously on Internet. By using IP addresses of HideIPVPN which are located in United States and United Kingdom you can access geographically restricted sites such as Hulu, Pandora, ABC, Yeoh, NBC, BBC, CWTV and etc.

For several months HideIpVPN had offered 100 free accounts on the first day of every month. The request was so high that their servers got blocked and abused. So they decided to temporarely stop the giveaway.

After upgrading the servers, HideIpVPN is now ready to help those in need for anonymity and privacy. They will offer 25 US/UK accounts every week on a random date and time. The announcement will be publish on HideIpVPN blog and on HideIpVPN Twitter account.

And today, the first 25 accounts are ready to be given away here. Good luck!

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Opera 10.50 has been released to be the fastest browser on the Internet. There are several cool features that the new version comes with, including Aero Glass, as well as supporting Aero Peek and Jump Lists.

The feature that I’m really interested in is Private Browsing, that allows you to surf web privately without leaving any trace of the websites you have visited. It’s useful when you are surfing using public computer, do online banking, surf sites that you want to hide from other people.

How to use Opera Private Browsing mode

Opera 10.50 private browsing support both private tabs and private windows.

Open a private tab: right click the “+” icon on the tab bar, then select New Private Tab. Private tab got a lock like icon at the right side of the tab icon. Any browser activity within the tab is private.

Open a private windows: Click on File menu, then select New Private Window. The private window is red coloured. Any tab opened in the private window is a private tab.

Private browsing is the feature you can find on every modern web browser nowadays. But the Private Tab in Opera, which allows open a site privately in normal browsing mode, is not found in other browsers.

Have you updated to Opera 10.50? What do you think of it? Will you use the private browsing mode?

Important! Rremember that private mode does not hide your IP address, it only erases your browsing history!

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InvisibleBrowsingVPN announced that they have setup a new server located in Hürth, Germany. This allows users to access German restricted content and watch Das Erste, KI.KA, DSF, 3sat, ARTE, NDR and even Zattoo Germany with 94 Live FREE Streaming Television and Radio Channels.

The German server is available for all existing clients at NO extra cost, the whole package (US+UK+DE) being offered at $7.95 per month.

Here is the speed test result of the new added server (DE), as shown on ibVPN blog: 

This should be enough to watch any tv show in good conditions. In order to start doing this you need, beside a German VPN as the one offered by ibVPN, to install Zatoo. This is software program that allows you to watch TV on your computer. The service is legal and free of charge.

With their German version Zattoo offer 94 live FREE streaming television and radio channels; these include: Das Erste, DSF, KI.KA, 3sat, ARTE, NDR (with regional options), WDR (with regional options), MDR (with regional options), Bayerisches Fernsehen, SWR, RBB, SR, Phoenix, Das Vierte, DMAX, BR Alpha, EinsPlus, EinsExtra, EinsFestival, ZDF, TV Gusto, LUXE.TV, TIMM and many more.

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Proxies are probably the simplest way to bypass firewalls and unblock websites. They are websites that  act as intermediates between you and the site you visit. You enter the address/URL of the site you want to visit in a text box, press Submit/Go button and then the proxy asks for the site/page to the web server where the site/page is located. This way the site you visit is not able to log your real IP address, but the IP of the proxy.

But finding a good proxy is a difficult task. Most of them are slow and not reliable.

The good news comes from Digital Inspiration. They published a tutorial that shows you how to setup own free proxy server by using Google App Engine. Thus you will browse via proxy independent of your home network and without having to trust a sketchy third-party proxy.  Check out the video below:

The same steps are described below:

Step 1: Go to Google App Engine and sign-in using your Google Account.

Step 2: Click the Create an Application button. If it’s your first time, Google will send a verification code via SMS to your mobile phone number. Type the code and you’re all set to create apps with Google App Engine.

Step 3: Choose a sub-domain that for your proxy server. Then agree to the Google Terms and click Save. The sub-domain is also your App ID that will uniquely identify your proxy application.

Step 4. Next you have to  to create and upload the proxy server application to Google App Engine. Go to python.org, download the 2.6.4 Windows Installer and install Python.

Step 5. Go to code.google.com, download the Google App Engine SDK for Python and install it.

Step 6. Download this zip file from Digital Inspiration and extract it to some folder on your desktop. The zip file contains a couple of text files (written in HTML and Python) that implements the proxy functions.

Step 7. Start the Google App Engine Launcher program from the desktop and set the right values under Edit –> Preferences.

Step 8. Click File –> Add Existing Application under the Google App Launcher program and browse to the directory that you created in Step 6. Click the Edit button and replace “YOUR_APP_ID” with the ID (sub-domain) that you set up in Step 3.

Step 9: Click Deploy and your online proxy server is now ready for use.

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IP Hider, one of my favorites tools for anonymous browsing, has just been updated. The latest version, 4.9, is now available for download.

IP Hider masks the real IP of a user, allowing him to browse all kind of pages without ever worrying that the ISPs or any other marketing tool is monitoring your surfing habits or spammers are attacking your computer. The simplest way to do this is to have traffic redirected through anonymous proxies.

Version 4.9 comes with:

• updated proxy list (better proxies from US, UK, NL, DE)
• performance improvements
• security updates

How To Get IP Hider 4.9 Free Licenses

Every Wednesday, AllAnonymity team offers a discount or gives away some licenses. Today, you can easily get free IP Hider 4.9 licenses. Read more about this giveaway here. Hurry up! The offer is valid only today!

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BolehVPN provides a service to bypass your internet throttle – allowing you to download torrents at max speeds, protect your surfing privacy, and bypass websites censored by your ISP.

This is very useful due to the fact that many of the ISP (Internet service provider) around the world are using hardware and software tools for traffic shaping, in order to detect, regulate and throttle torrent/p2p traffic.

Most VPN service providers do not accept P2P traffic, but BolehVPN does. The Malaysian VPN service not only provides standard features of most VPN services, such as hiding your real IP address and bypassing censorship, but also encrypts your data connection preventing ISPs from snooping what you are downloading or performing traffic analysis or p2p throttling.

BolehVPN Servers and Packages

BolehVPN has servers that located in United States, UK, Canada, Luxembourg, and Sweden. The US server is for surfing and streaming only. The connections are established via OpenVPN.

The pricing of BolehVPN is:

• 3 days trial – $1.8
• 7 days trial – $3.3
• 1 month – $10
• 6 months – $41.5
• 1 year – $78

How to get a BolehVPN 30-day Subscription

We have 5 BolehVPN 30-day Subscription for the lucky readers of How-to-hide-ip.info. In order the be eligible for a free account you will have to answer to the following question:

“What problems do you have when trying to download from torrents?”

Leave a comment below making sure you enter a VALID eMail address in the comment form.

Winners will be chosen randomly using List randomizer. All the winners will be contacted via email directly. Contest closes at 11:59 am GMT on March 7th 2010 and the results will be published here, in this post.

Update 3/10/2010: The winners of the 5 BolehVPN accounts are …

Winners will be contacted by email.

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