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Showing posts with label open. Show all posts

Monday, July 23, 2012

How to listen to Pandora radio from anywhere outside the US.

I used to listen a lot to Pandora radio when I was in the US and I really enjoyed it, so obviously that I wanted it back home. But unfortunately, Pandora is available only in the US, because of the licensing problems which streaming in other countries could create. So, basically, if you are not in America, you can't listen to Pandora radio. But this is the official version...

There is a VPN service called Hotspot Shield which creates something like a tunnel between your computer and a gateway provided by Hotspot Shield (that's some sort of the definition of the VPN), which exists exactly in the US. The idea is that through this VPN, you should get a much safer browsing experience, because everything you do on the internet is sent, securely through that tunnel, in the US, so there is impossible for one to attack you and to try to track your data or something like that. For me it is not clear how the data is handled when it exits in the US, so I wouldn't trust Hotspot Shield when I buy something on the internet for example, but this remains at your own judgement.

By using Hotspot Shield, you should be able to access Pandora from wherever you are. I've been using it not very often for the last 1,5 years, but it always did its job.

Of course that using this also has some disadvantages, and they are mainly related to slow internet speeds (because everything has to go to the US and back) and sometimes slow DNS response. However, it is definitely worth being used for the possibility it introduces to all the internet customers, no matter where they are.

Note: I am not responsible for everything that happens to you by using this service. You use it on your own responsibility.

You can go on their website to learn more or try the product: http://www.hotspotshield.com/.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Pre-order your free Ubuntu CD today!

Canonical has opened ShipIt service starting from yesterday, offering anybody who wants free Ubuntu CDs (now they are only pre-orders, but from 29th all pre-orders are going to be sent to shipping company and ordinary orders available).

Please consider that you can download the image (from here) and burn it yourself on a CD, instead of ordering a CD, when there are others who actually really need it. However, if you really want a free CD, I advice you to order one as soon as possible, as I think that because of high demands orders are going to be stopped sometimes.

Get your free Ubuntu CD from here: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
Kubuntu ShipIt also available here: https://shipit.kubuntu.org/

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Free alternative to Microsoft Office (no, not OpenOffice).

There are some free alternatives for Office suite provided by Microsoft, the most popular being OpenOffice (or, from what I saw, it think so). But there is an ... unexpected rival for those Office solution providers, which is Google. It has its own free Office suite, named Google Docs, which worked unexpected well for me so far. It is more than an Office packet, it's practically a little OS dedicated strictly for Office tasks. The saving procedure is processed on Google's servers, so everything you saved will be accessible from anywhere, with any OS, without an Office pack on that computer. Everything you do is exclusively done through your browser. You can create documents, presentations, onto Google Docs, or you can directly upload them into their native format. You can upload even pictures, feature which should be used only on faster connections.


I really recommend you to use this Office suite, but don't base exclusively on it, save your work on computer/external drive, just for any case. You need an account at Google. http://docs.google.com