Monday, December 20, 2010

Of course!

Of course I bought the green ass proof cover for my kindle!


Kudos to Amazon for jumping out ahead of a potential Kindle cover PR disaster. Refunds for everyone!

Seems metal hooks in their leather non-lighted Kindle covers were making owners' ereaders act wonky, with occasional screen freezes and other maladies topping the list of complaints. Unfortunately, while it is indeed admirable they addressed this issue relatively quickly, their first generation covers, released last year, had a strangely similar issue that also involved metal hooks. Hmm.




Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Watching Hulu from another country: Part Dos





From Gizmodo: Watching geographically restricted content can be tricky. Streaming services like Hulu and Netflix (as well as other network sites) employ geotracking software to make sure nobody outside of the US can dip in to watch The Office or Exit Through the Gift Shop. And it's not just Americans who have this problem: Foreigners traveling to the US can't watch their obscure racing leagues and alternative ball sports. It's lame, really.

• Download the free trial of IP Hider; install it on your PC.
• Click on the country you want to change your IP address to (might we suggest the United States?). Click the 'Check IP button.
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• If it doesn't work (or the connection is super slow), click the 'choose next' box to switch a (hopefully) a faster proxy connection.
• Browse the ole WWW and watch videos as you normally would.