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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Free Web Proxy Checker

A problem with most proxy servers and web proxies is that many tend to stop working after a while. The majority of web proxy servers are rather short lived with only a minority of popular ones that make it past the first six months of their existence. There are many reasons for this with the [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Proxy Server Usage To Extend Jailtime In The US

A proxy server can be used for a number of things. People can use it to overcome censorship in their country, to access contents they could otherwise not access or to remain anonymous while performing research on the Internet. Proxy servers to provide a level of anonymity and privacy that makes them a good choice [...]

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Categories: Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 3rd, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Internet Explorer Proxy Switcher

Users of the Internet Explorer web browser do not have the same amount of add-ons at their disposal like Firefox users. Some developers try to change this with plugins or programs that they develop for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. One of those software programs is a proxy switcher for Internet Explorer. This is for example useful [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer, software

Easy Web Content Filtering with DansGuardian

I have a young step daughter at home and I know that curiosity can get the best of a young teen. I had been looking for an easy solution to deal with content filtering that would allow me to control over various types of content she could see. So I tured to DansGuardian. This filter [...]

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Categories: Advice, Browsing, Linux, Open Source, Security, The Web, Tutorials Basic, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 9th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Edit Wikipedia Articles Anonymously In The UK

You might have heard the news that several UK Internet Providers are restricting to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia after the Internet Watch Foundation identified the Wikipedia page of the Scorpions album Virgin Killer as a “potentially indecent image of a child”. Listing the page on the watchlist had the effect that several Internet Service Providers [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 13th, 2008
  • Comments: 2

Barebone Web Surfing With Finch

We have featured some articles in the past that explained how to reduce the bandwidth usage while surfing the Internet which is important for users who have to cope with a monthly bandwidth limit and those who are stuck with slow Internet connections. (Reduce Opera Bandwidth Usage and Use The Opera Mini Browser On A [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 20th, 2008
  • Comments: 7

Select a country for your proxy

Finally a innovative proxy website. Web Proxies are all alike, mostly. They use the same four of five proxy scripts that are available, may have a different design and tend to disappear after 1-12 months. Worldproxy added an interesting new feature to it’s proxy: Country selection. Many multimedia services, like streaming Internet radio or video, [...]

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Categories: Hacking, Security, The Web

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