Ever been disallowed to watch a clip on-line because you don't live in the US?

So this is from my most recent blog post, i figure other people would benefit...if mods feel this is not forum material, talk to me... Hopefully you guys can find this useful. ENJOY.


Here is my full blog: https://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/readblog/member_id/91259/

This is just a quick thing i wrote up for my blog so if you have any questions or concerns just post up.

ONLINE VIDEO WATCHING

    Now on to another topic. I have been asked quite a few times by friends and on here how to access American content. It happens ever so often that someone posts a link to a video, and it is linked to websites such as comedy central or hulu.com. Now i have discovered one way that has helped me pass the time in university, where torrents are not necessarily an option.

What i am talking about is basically proxies...now would be the time to go to google and type in "define: proxy" for all of you who don't know what they are. But in general terms the program i will talk about allows you to basically cover you "IP" (again if you don't know what an IP is its basically a number assign to your computer and it holds information such as your location...google it for more info)
Anyways it takes an American IP address and uses that as your so for any server trying to connect with you computer, it thinks you are located in the US. Thus if you log on to a site like Hulu.com if you are Canadian, you would be able to watch all the videos.

Here is the program, it is called Hotspot Shield. You can download it here: http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/
If anyone has other ways to do this feel free to share in the comments. Just a heads up, proxies are a bit slower, since they have to go through another IP, but most people should have a solid enough internet for it to work fine.


Lastly for all you college/ university students who seem to have so much time on yours hands, i have found an amazing site, by far the best online video site, you can stream it from the website or download it. The quality is DVD quality, and they even have HD and Blueray. They pretty much all TV shows and some movies. Best of all it works for everyone, just make sure you have the divix plugins installed, although it should prompt you to do that before. Just remember that you have to open to video applet pop-up. Check it out here: http://www.ninjavideo.net/

If you have questions about pithier of the two two links i posted and how they work just make a comment and ill do my best to help you out.