ReviewSaurus – Technology Rocks!

There are many countries who apply internet censorship for e.g. China, UAE etc. and that was something we all knew about, however news are coming up that AT&T (U.S. based Internet service provider) is going to filter the content and may block various sites. As seen at Download Squad :

AT&T is reportedly talking to technology companies and the RIAA/MPAA regarding the implication of digital fingerprinting techniques at the networking level

Well, the best way to fight internet censorship is by using The Free Network project. It’s an open-source project and it lets you publish and obtain the information from the internet without the fear of censorship. It keeps the packets completely private and anonymous.

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All the parents will agree that they need a software which has the parental control features and a software which can block the adult content. However, either those softwares are paid or if they are free then they actually tend to block the content which may be informational too.

So, here’s the solution for them and that solution is OpenDNS. The good thing is that it’s not a software! It’s a service which can be configured on any computer and it works for you.

All you do, is change the DNS settings (step by step guide to change the DNS address) of the computer and point it to the OpenDNS servers : 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220

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We all know that we can easily get pirated softwares from various places on the Internet. There are thousands of underground groups, who create cracks for various software and try to be nice in front of the people. However, the truth is really not that sweet!

I still remember that how my dad used to teach me, that nothing is free in this world (well, although things definitely changed after open-source :P ) but that statement still holds true in lots of things !

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Few days back, I wrote a post where I showed you 5 ways of bypassing the Internet Filters and guess what I’ve found another way of accessing the web and that too without using the proxies.

The trick was shared by DJ from Sizlopedia and it says that you just have to make use of text to hex converters like SwingNote. What you have to do is that go to SwingNote and in the conversion box, type the URL of the blocked service as shown in this example :

Let’s say YouTube is banned in your company and you want to access it then simply type youtube.com (don’t include http:// or www or anything like that) and click submit.

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Well, I always used to think that Google has great documentation and great help section and that it covers almost each and everything properly. However, I was wrong! Google Calendar says that in India the supported carriers for SMS notification are these companies only :

1. Hutch-Mumbai
2. Hutch-Delhi
3. Hutch-Gujarat
4. Hutchison Essar Cellular Limited
5. Hutch-Kolkata
6. Spice Karnataka
7. Spice Punjab

However, I tested it with Airtel (Chennai) and it works perfectly fine. I got the verification code and the notifications too. So, if you are one like me who thinks that GCal won’t work because Google says so, then you may be wrong. Go ahead and find out yourself by following these steps :

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