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Surfing online anonymously

December 21st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Proxy server, VPN service, hide ip

There is a major parallel service being offered and utilized on the World Wide Web, which not many are aware of, but which therefore serves its own purpose. This is the ability to surf the internet anonymously. Keeping one’s identity hidden from online probes and identity detectors is possible. Many websites and applications offer this service, and include free trials too.

Yes, it is possible to send anonymous e mails without sending your IP address with the help of proxies, VPNs and Paid Proxy Services. These services allow you various features depending upon each one. These may be the ability to control the Java script, disabling or intercepting cookies, options for SSL encrypting of all your web traffic, encrypting of all URLs, including URLs of images, Style sheets, Java Script files, multimedia and more. You can hide the name of the website from the memory of your browser, disable browser caching as well as manage your own private bookmarks. There are plenty of other services and options offered by these proxies and VPN services.

These are useful because most companies keep a tab on the employee communications while at work. Therefore, anonymously surfing the web at work can be a smart thing to do. Also, you can bypass many restrictions that companies have on certain websites with the help of such tools. You can also utilize these services for when you do not want your family members or house mates to know about the various websites that you visit. Whatever your reason, keeping your identity safe on the web and also hiding away your browser memory can be done as mentioned.

Many websites offer this service. Prominent among these is hidemyass.com, behidden.com, proxymafia.net, proxy2hide.com, proxify.com and netcloak.com. there are many more, of course, and a simple browser search will let you know more. Hidemyass not only changes and hides your IP address, it also offers to hide your identity from hackers, insecure connections, online identity thefts and lots more. It has Pro VPN, free web proxy services, IP: PORT proxies, free file and image hosting, free anonymous email and anonymous search too.

For VPN proxy service, there are certain websites like hideipvpn.com, vpnprivacy.com, blacklogic.com, megaproxy.com, trilightzone, vpnmessenger and vpnaccounts.com, which offer you their VPN services to access safely various websites, browser searches, videos, music online as well as to send anonymous e mails. Encryption and security procedures are employed to make these services totally safe, anonymous and protected. The paid VPN services even offer technical support and customer care in case of any questions, problems or emergencies. Most of these do not even need installation of any special software. Off shore proxies are also available.

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Using IP Locator Services

December 21st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Geolocation, IP Address Lookup

IP locator services, as the term implies, are services that help identify the location of a given IP address. These services are mainly utilized to locate the geographical location of an IP address, to keep a tab on the various activities associated with a given IP address, to survey traffic flow and also last but not the least, for the purposes of security on the World Wide Web. These services have found a special indicative response with the emerging arena of cyber crime and cyber laws. Advertising is another field which makes use of these services extensively to identify and locate potential clients, customers and demand markets.

IP Locator services are offered for free by a lot of websites like myiptest.com, geobytes.com, ip2location.com, ipligence.com, find-ip-adress.org, tracemyip.org and iplocationtools.com. All you have to do is enter an IP address to find its location. Most of these websites offer a specific and limited amount of location services and the rest can be accessed after the payment of certain fees and charges, which vary with the website as well as with the specificity of the service required. You can find out who owns an e mail address as well as their geographical location. Specificity includes country and city as well as latitude and longitude. There are also map based locator services which use graphical localization to locate the identity of an IP address.

For owners of websites and blogs, this tool is useful to find out where their internet visitors are coming from, along with their country, location, ISP, domain name as well as zip code. The names, area codes and even their connection speed can be easily found out. These services are therefore also called the ‘Big Brother’ of the virtual internet space, as they can keep an eye on each and every move made in the virtual world by each and every registered netizens in the world. Anonymous proxy network detections are also possible using the high end software that employs IP Locators.

If you, for example, want to locate an IP address, there are multiple websites which will guide you in the right direction. In this example, we chose ip2location.com. All you have to do is visit the website, enter the IP address and click on ‘find location’. Ip2locator allows you to locate up to 20 IP addresses as a part of its free demo. Areas where geo location can be extensively and successfully applied are user communities, distributed computing environments, Web logs, identifying network robustness, chat programs, security and urban mapping. Dial up connections, cable modems and mobile internet are some areas that are often more difficult to locate since their IP addresses are dynamic and may keep changing.

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VPN Service Providers

December 21st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Proxy server, VPN service

VPN is the short form of Virtual Personal Network. A Virtual Personal Network is a personalized, remote connection with a safe and secure connection to access the World Wide Web and one’s own computer like as if it was right at home. When looking for a suitable Virtual Personal Network provider, there are certain factors which need to be looked into. These are as follows:

If you want to simply browse the internet in an anonymous form, such facilities are provided for free or for marginal fee by various VPN providers like HideIpVPN, HideMyAss, Trilight and Netcloak.com. A quick search on any popular browser or search engine like Google can help you locate any such website which provides these services for free on a trial basis. Then, if you feel that you would like to buy access or that your requirement for this service is high enough, you can go for the commercial paid VPN service which offers a lot more advanced features, depending upon the plan you purchase or the original VPN offers.

Of course, if you are not the type of person who would require regular anonymous excursions into the World Wide Web, you may not need to go for a paid VPN service at all. Free access is also suitable for those whose main aim is to have an anonymous browse time and for those who, for certain reasons best known to them, would just once in a while like to surf certain websites without disclosing either their own identity or would like to hide the name of the website from their browser’s history. The anonymity offered is minimal but often enough for their purposes. Free VPN includes Wippien, iPIG or iOpus Private Internet Gateway, OpenVPN, tinc, SSL Explorer with its community edition, BirdsSoft VPN-X Client and LogMeln Hamachi.

If, on the other hand, someone wanted to send anonymous e mails on a regular basis, or would like a wider choice of server locators, then they should ideally go for a paid VPN service. Paid VPNs obviously offer a lot of advantages over the free services. These include features like hiding server locations, providing a wide choice of proxy server locations, offering proxy IP addresses which can be either shared or dedicated, strong SSL or TLS cryptography with cryptographic protocols, defined terms of services and increased safety. A few of the paid VPN services are provided at  hideipvpn.com, vpngates.com, strongvpn.com, blacklogic.com, perfect-privacy.com, torrentfreedom.com, yourprivatevpn.com and flashvpn.com to name but just a few.

Specifics of the services offered by a VPN provider depend upon the VPN service itself, but a few general services are anonymity, bypassing of blocked websites and a secure anonymous IP address.

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New Free UK and US VPN Service from HideIpVPN

September 14th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Internet, VOIP
HideIpVPN is a new VPN service that offers free account on servers located in US and UK. It allows you access sites like Hulu, Pandora, ABC, NBC, BBC, ITV, etc. that are restricted to users outside US/UK.
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The main features of this VPN service are:
  • Offers complete privacy and anonymity as your IP is hidden while using HideIPVPN.
  • High speed internet connection
  • Encrypts and compresses all traffic including Email, IRC, FTP, DNS, VOIP, instant messengers.
  • Bypasses your ISP’s traffic shaping.
  • Hides your tracks from internet monitoring or web filtering apps like Websense, Barracuda, etc.
  • No logs. We don’t keep any server logs.
  • Works on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, Linux, etc.
  • Easy to install and use.
The free accounts use PPTP protocol, but HideIpVPN also allows you to connect using OpenVPN (more secure and stable than PPTP) as a premium service (only $9.99/month). Premium accounts also come with dedicated IP addresses.
In order to maintain the quality of the service the number of available accounts is limited.
HideIpVPN -  http://www.hideipvpn.com/
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Change your IP using SwitchProxy Tool FF add-on

August 5th, 2009 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Browsing, IP Address Lookup, Proxy server

SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes.

NOTE: In Firefox you can use the toolbar element to save space

SwitchProxy is a Mozilla add-on which we use to systematize and organize all proxies which we want to work with.

How to use this FF add-on.

Step 1. Download and install SwitchProxy

Step 2. Press “Manage Proxies” then “Add” button

Step 3. Choose “Standard” from proxy configuration type dialog and press “Next”

Add proxy

Step 4. In the next window you can add one proxy manually. Also choose a label for your proxy configuration, for example EliteProxy.

Step 5. Go to myiptest  Free proxy list and get a proxy to use with this add-on (better to choose Elite proxy type ).

Step 6. Copy and paste proxy IP address to “HTTP Proxy” and proxy port to “Port” and press OK button

add-proxy-finish

Step 7. Select added  proxy to use

Step 8. Go to www.myiptest.com and check your IP address.

Step 9. To restore your original proxy configuration select None from the Proxy drop down and press Apply.


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