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The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, also named London 2012, are happening in London, UK, from July 27th until August 12th 2012. The sport event actually began on 25 July with the group stages in women’s football. +10,000 sportsmen from 204 nationalities are competing during this two weeks. The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games happens in different facilities, existing and [...]

What is a VPN? VPN means Virtual Private Network. This kind of application generates a safe tunnel for your connection between your computer and a VPN server. When the connection is established you benefit from a new IP. Your datas are encrypted according to three main VPN protocols: OpenVPN, PPTP and L2TP/IPSec. Why expats do [...]

The on-demand service of the BBC, called the “BBC iPlayer“ allows its users to watch and replay the programs of the channel. Unfortunately for German users, the videos contents are blocked in Germany. Actually, the channel didn’t purchase the rights for a broadcasting in the country, so it blocks every German user within their IP. Thankfully [...]

Currently the global internet censorship is strengthening. As this kind of regulation is quite new for now, the future remains uncertain. ACTA, for example, evokes the counterfeit, to justify a law on the intellectual property. The danger with those laws is the lack accuracy that lets wide possibilities for the authorities to impose some kind of [...]

Last.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. The streaming service counts an active community of 30 million users. In 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for $280 million. Thanks to its “Audioscrobbler” music recommendation system, the site is able to offer music according to an user’s musical tastes. The system reccords details of the listened songs and [...]

TF1, is a French abbreviation for Television Française 1 (TV French One). The TV channel is the first and oldest television in France. It was established January 6, 1975 and privatized 15 April 1987. The channel is available on DTT, cable and satellite digital on CanalSat, Canal + and analog. The channel also broadcasts on [...]

These times with the global internet censorship, the VPNs are an efficient way to guarantee your online freedom. The Virtual Private Network is actually an application that builds a safe connection to wordlwide servers. When you are connected through a VPN, your informations are encrypted through a tunnel from your computer to the server. Furthermore a new IP is [...]

The VPN gives the ability to hide your IP. In fact, the VPN enables to establish a connection to worldwide servers. When the connection is made, you get a secure access to the internet but also a new IP, within the server location. As a matter of fact, you are able to appear as every nationality (depending [...]

The VPN gives the opportunity to change your IP. Actually this simple application allows you to connect to servers that give new IPs. Once the connection is established,  you are able to browse under the identity of the server. So depending on which country are available in your VPN offer, you are able to change your online identity [...]

With more than 150,000 movies and TV shows directly reachable on its TV device, the Roku box enables to enjoy the best Netflix experience, thanks to 1080p HD videos. The Roku also airs the TV shows with Hulu Plus, hundreds of free movies from Crackle and the latest Hollywood releases with Amazon Instant Video. The box provides more than entertainment contents, [...]