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Unblocking Banned Websites!

Have you been banned from your favorite website? Or maybe your ISP is blocking you? Or your country is banning you from certain sites? Or maybe your at school, work, caffe where ever you may be. Im going to list a few of my favorite Web Proxies and other software to help you be anonymous on your web travels and UNBANNED along the way. Do not forget that the online privacy is your right and nobody has the right to take that away from you.

The first method is anonymous web proxies some of these get banned too, so if you find one that doesn't work move on to another, and you will eventually be able to log on to your favorite site again! Here is a compiled list of a few of the top quality ones:

http://primeproxies.com/
http://www.ninjacloak.com/
http://www.unblocked.me/
http://proxie.me/
http://hidemyass.com/
http://www.hidden4u.com/
http://vectroproxy.com/
http://24hr-computersecurity.com/
http://www.xroxy.com/webproxy---FREE-.html
http://anonymouse.org/
http://www.proxyblind.org/
http://www.hiddenatschool.com/
http://www.icdwebs.com/
http://www.todaysproxies.com/
http://www.freexs.org/web-proxies.php
http://www.webproxydirectory.com/new-links.html
http://www.proxyroll.com/
http://www.proxyserverprivacy.com/proxy-web-sites/
https://www.vtunnel.com/

Other FREE software and ways to bypass Internet Censorship:

http://www.torproject.org/
Portable Tor Project
OperaTor and XeroBank
Firefox User agent Plugin
Baracuda Drive
FirefoxUpa Edition
OpenVPN
Hamachi
PeaceFire
http://gnunet.org/
http://freenetproject.org/
http://www.gnupg.org/
UltraSurf - IE ONLY
http://globalpandora.com/
Using Google Translator to bypass blocked sites

Bit Torrents:

Protowall
PeerGuardian

High Dollar High Tech Home Theater systems!

When it comes to home theaters, I thought I’d seen it all. But nothing comes close to this. $6.8 million dollars worth of high tech, sexy audio and video equipment. It just plain doesn’t get much more perfect than this!

Via - Home Theater Designs

Also check out:
http://www.royaldevice.com/custom.htm

Freeware tool JPG & PNG Stripper!

A tool for stripping/cleaning/removing uncessary metadata (junk) from JPG/JPEG/JFIF & PNG files. The image quality IS NOT AFFECTED. Includes command line support. Just specify a folder or file on the commandline (wildcards allowed)

Download:

http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30

A deep dive into the ocean in Google Earth 5.0!

Now, with the new version of Google Earth, people can see within a few hours what it has taken me a lifetime to understand. Anyone can fly to Hawaii vicariously and see the real Hawaiian islands, not just the mountain tops that poke through the ocean’s surface. You can swim with whales, inspect coral reefs, or see the impacts of destructive fishing. Anyone now can slip into the sea and find hundreds of images of creatures and see them on their own terms, underwater. Now, you can dive to the deepest place in the ocean, the Mariana Trench, where only two people have ever actually been – in 1960.

Open the "Ocean" folder in the Layers panel to explore the 20 content layers from over 100 partners. Double click on the “Explore the Ocean” layer and it will fly you to my Ocean Overview video and ten focus areas with National Geographic video clips. Other layers include dynamic sea surface temperature, Census of Marine Life data, Marine Protected Areas, shipwrecks, dive and surf sites, Arkive images, Planet Earth footage from the BBC, and much more. You can even visit a 3D model of the undersea laboratory Aquarius and fly to the Titanic and follow the expedition that discovered it.

Google LatLong: A deep dive into the ocean in Google Earth

Open Source Freebie Portable Keepass Ultimate Password Security!

I have been looking for that perfect password database program for quite sometime now. So after I saw Keypass on just about every website and blog on the internet and getting excellent reviews! I decided to download the portable edition and give it a try. I was absolutley impressed its one of those must have programs in my list now! If you are saving your passwords in Firefox that is VERY unsafe! Firefox has an addon that imports all your passwords from Firefox to Keypass in a click of a mouse! A new KeePass plug-in called ClockWork's Firefox to KeePass Importer was since developed specifically for this purpose. All you need to do is install the Firefox to Keepass Converter plug-in and the KeePass XML Import plug-in. It's still a multi-step process, but it's better than the old alternative and the developer has detailed instructions.

Download the newest portable version here:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/keepass/KeePass-2.06-Beta.zip

KeePass database stores all your passwords inside of it in an encrypted state, and uses one master password and/or a key-file to access that database. KeePass has fields for username, password, URL and notes associated with each login, and you can create login groups (like, Windows, web sites, Wifi networks) to organize your passwords. KeePass is highly secure; if you keep it running, it will lock its workspace after a certain amount of idle time and require you enter the master password again to access the database.

Check this post at Lifehacker for several helpfull posts on Keypass! It may seem a bit complicated at first but once you set it up and tune it to your preferences its an amazing tool!
All in all Keypass is the ultimate password database to store all your private information for worry free computing!

Portable Tor highly anonymous browsing!

PortableTor allows you to connect into the Tor anonymous internet system from any computer with your flash or thumb drive. This allows you to browse the internet anonymously from public locations, such as internet hotspots, library, or school computers and public terminals.

PortableTor has all of the features as the regular Tor, except without actually installing the application. You could also use PortableTor if you just don't like installing programs on your computer, and you'd rather have a standalone program with all of its dependant files in one location.

Download

Firefox User Agent Addon!

When the web browser is accessing the web server to download the web page’s contents, it sends a user agent to the web server to identify what kind or type of browser, platform and application is used to view the website. User agent FIREFOX add on allows the web server to respond separately to different systems or apply different behavior and features to a different browser.

Below are examples of what you can do using the User Agent Add-On for Firefox:

The I-phone:

Switch the user agent of Firefox, simply add the User Agent for iPhone and change from the toolbar the user agent to iPhone and visit any web site with iPhone service. For the free magazines you have to visit the following url - www.zinio.com/iphone.

The PS3 Youtube Tv:

YouTube service specifically aimed at being watched on TV... www.youtube.com/tv, as announced by YouTube. YouTube says the site is available for the PlayStation 3 and the Wii. When you visit it on your computer, you’re redirected to the normal homepage.here is the following hack to view it anyway (HTML’ified):

Install User Agent Switcher 0.6.11 for FireFox
Set Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00) and Opera/9.23 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Internet Channel/1.0; en)
Go to http://www.youtube.com/tv
Press F11 (FireFox full screen)
Connect your PC to the TV (See how-to videos)

The Nintendo Wii:

This one allows you to acess the wii shop, you don’t need a wii for this one.
View the wii shop in firefox:

The wii uses a browser to communicate. By emulating this browser with firefox, you can surf the wii shop.

1. Open Firefox
2. Install the User Agent Switcher

The previous tech-recipes on the use of this tool is also killer.

3. Click Tools
4. Click User Agent Switcher
5. Click Options -> Options
6. Click User Agents
7. Click Add
8. Description: wii
9. User Agent: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
10. Click OK X 2
11. Click Tools again
12. Select User Agent Switcher
13. Select wii 14. Copy and paste one of these links into firefox and visit it:

Main Channel:

http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/W_01.jsp?language=en®ion=USA&country=US Surf the Manual! http://209.67.106.203/en_US/html/manual/USA/startup.html

My Nintendo Membership Link:

http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/S_02.jsp?language=en®ion=USA&country=US&&state=init

Sonic The Hedgehog Page:

http://oss.shop.wii.com/oss/common/vc/B_05.jsp?titleId=000100014D414845

Visit the source for more information.

Googlebot 2.1

When you use this user agent you can get into “member only areas” of quite a few sites, Read Rss feeds without signing up ect.

There are many other things to play around with the user agent addon for Firefox just do a search on google and you will find more things to get into. This post was just to explain the basics and get you started. So have fun and enjoy the new areas of the web to explore.

Xml List you can import to Firefox User Agent Addon:
(Does not include Playstation3 or wii) but all others.)
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about304.html

Check your User Agent here:
http://ipchicken.com/
http://whatismyuseragent.dotdoh.com/

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