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Are you concerned about online privacy? Do you understand how hide ip tools work? Are you familiar with VPN services? And you are a good writer? We are looking for experienced writer to join our team. More specifically, you could be a perfect f...
How To Switch Between Different IP Address Configurations
When it comes to IP Address change, it’s sometimes necessary to switch between different IP address configurations. Not necessarily to hide your IP address, but to change between existing configurations. IP Changer is a small program to quickl...
Interview: Listen To Eric Jung, The Man Behind FoxyProxy
FoxyProxy is a well-know Firefox add-on that that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities and automatically switches an Internet connection across one or more proxy servers. Guys from FLOSS Weekly, Randal Schwartz and Leo La...
Freedur – What a mess!!
Sometime ago I have introduced Freedur, a hide IP tool that impressed me with its simplicity, speed and effectiveness. Also, I interviewed Chris Mathews who presented himself as “a member of Freedur team”. Yesterday, while checking Fre...
How To Change Your MAC Address
Taking into account that it is possible to determine the IP address if you know the MAC address of a computer, those looking for total anonymity should also consider changing their MAC address. If you don’t know what a Media Access Control (MAC...
How To Get Someone’s IP Address
I’m going to present a small trick that you can use to find out someone’s IP address. This may be useful, for example, if you are talking to someone on Yahoo IM, Skype, GTalk, etc. and you want to find the exact location (country, state...
How To Find The Email Sender’s Original IP Address
If someone is harassing you via email or flooding your inbox with junk mail you may want to find the location of the email sender. This can now be done very simple using the online tool developed by MyIPTest.com. Every email received contains the...
How to Activate Google Voice Account From Outside USA
You have probably heard about Google Voice and you were curious to test this new and exciting service. The first step is to get an invite. After a while (more then a week) you’ll get an email from Google saying that you were accepted to u...
“What Is My IP Address” Page Updated
Last week I have worked a bit on my “What Is My IP” page helped by the guy behind MyIPTest.com. Now, the page shows more info including the ISP and the Organisation. Also (sometimes) detects if a proxy is used when loading the page. The ...
Video: Two Cool Hulu Tricks
This excellent video from Tinkernut.com covers two programs, IP Hider (free trial) and Hulu Video Downloader (freeware). IP Hider allows you to access Hulu from anywhere in the world and Hulu Video Downloader allows you to download Hulu programming ...
How to change your ip address using ipconfig command
When you are banned on a forum your IP address is logged and blacklisted. Every time you try to login to your forum account, your IP address is checked in the black list and if found you are rejected. The solution for this problem is very simple. N...
How to set up VPN connections in Windows XP
When you start using a VPN service like SwissVPN, Relakks, Aloneweb, etc., the first thing you have to do is to set up a VPN connection. Here is a short tutorial that shows how to set up VPN connections on Windows XP. Future posts will show how do th...
Interview with Chris Mathews, Freedur Team Member
Several weeks ago I have read about a new hide IP tool, called Freedur. As I’m always excited when I found new ways to overcome censorship and browse anonymously, I have start testing Freedur and wrote a small post about it: Freedur – Anony...
“Hide IP Tools” list updated
The “Hide IP Tools” list contains the most comprehensive collection of solutions to hide/change your IP address available on the internet. During the last year I have added more and more tools and now it contains more than 40 titles. ...
May’s Most Popular Hide IP Posts
Time again for a look back at all the hide IP goodies you appreciated last month. The top posts are related to the way Hulu and BBC iPlayer can be unblocked for users outside US and UK, respectively. Also BitBlinder, a new tool that can be used ...
Hotspot Shield unblocks Flickr in China
The last few days were quite difficult for Internet users in China. The Chinese government has blocked internet access to Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, Wordpress, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail.com and several other sites. This is most probably related to th...
Rumor: BBC iPlayer coming to the U.S.
Similar to Hulu, the BBC iPlayer allows UK residents to watch BBC programming online, but it only works UK users. This is due to the fact that UK citizens pay taxes that support BBC. There are rumors reported by The Telegraph that the BBC is in...
Hulu Desktop is here, but not for everyone - How to download it and make it work outside of the US
Hulu has released a desktop video client, called Hulu Desktop, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons. Available for both Windows and Mac operating systems, Hulu Desktop was launched as a beta product during wh...
New method to hide secret messages in internet traffic
Researchers from Warsaw University of Technology have found a new way to hide secret messages in internet traffic by manipulating the back-and-forth sequence and messages exchanged each time an internet packet is sent. RSTEG (Retransmission Steganogr...
Down for everyone or just me?
Yesterday, I was writing about Blogger blogs being blocked in China and how to overcome this problem. There were different reports about this issue, some saying Blogger works for them, some saying it does not. How can you make sure a site is innacces...
How to read Blogger blogs inside China
Users have not be able to access Blogger inside China since 17th of May. It seems that this censorship measure from the Chinese government is related to the day (4th of June, 2009) when the world will mark the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square...
Spezify Your Visual Search
Spezify is a new search engine that collects search results in different media formats (descriptions, images, quotes,articles) and from multiple sources including Twitter, Yahoo, Flickr photos, Wikipedia, etc and arranges them in a large collage. T...
Your IP address on Wolfram|Alpha
On 18th of May, Wolfram|Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” from Wolfram Research, was officially launched. The goal of Wolfram|Alpha, as stated on the home page, is “to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable...
No Such Thing as Safe Browser Anymore
The days when Internet Explorer was the only target for hackers are long gone. Nowadays, all browsers are targeted and security vulnerabilities are found all the time. Google has recently updated Chrome, to version 1.0.154.64, to fix two serious...
Latest Firefox Releases Fix Important Security Problems
The vulnerabilities fixed by the latest versiond are serious and could allow the attacker to run arbitrary code on your computer. During April, there have been 2 release for Firefox (versions 3.0.9 and 3.0.10). The new versions fix several stability ...
April’s Most Popular Posts
It’s again the time to take a look back and see what are the most read articles that I have publish here on, How-to-hide-ip.info. By far, the most popular news was related to the release of NotMyIP, a new and free hide IP tool. Hereares the t...
Test your IP address with MyIpTest.com
I have recently discovered a useful site that is able to provide a lot of useful information about your IP address. MyIpTest.com exposes a set of tools that help you know more about your IP address. Let’s take a tour. Lookup IP address, Geoloc...
The Pirate Bay Trial: Defendants Found Guilty
On Friday, 17th of April, a court in Sweden found four members of the Pirate Bay guilty of breaking Swedish copyright laws and sentenced them to a year in prison and a $3.6 million fine. The four men - Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Ne...
IP Cat - Tool to determine your IP address
Recently, I have discovered a very small tool taht could prove useful to some unexperienced computer users. IP Cat is a small tool that determines your IP address and also it is able to change the proxy settings for Internet Explorer. This is not v...
Friday Privacy & Security News
Today, I have found several articles that I think represent valuable information for you, my readers. From now on, I start sharing such links in order to keep you up-to-date about with the latest posts and articles about privacy and security. Here is...
