1. Hosting speed directly correlate with people’s patience. Do not expect someone to wait until your site opens after 20 seconds. Many visitors will not want to look around your site because your pages are loading too slow.
2. SEO. This one is quite fresh. Google announced that in 2010 loading speed will be one of the factors that determine your position in Search Engine Results Page. So those websites from overselling hosting providers will suffer from slow loading speed.

How to compare hosting speed?

There is one quick tip to measure the speed of the website. You don’t need any programs to install.

1. At first open your Run dialog (Start->Run.. or press Winkey+R) and type CMD. This will open black window where you can type various commands.
2. In CMD window type “ping www.example1.com –t” without quotes and hit Enter.
   
3. Soon you will see the ongoing process of pinging. What you have to look for is time=123some_value. The lower the value the better, it means the website you’re trying to ping is responding and opening pages very quickly. And the opposite. High response time suggests that hosting speed is very low.

Here are the screenshot of 2 sites from pinging perspective.

So in order to compare 2 hosting providers speed you need to ping websites from one hosting company and then compare response times with another site’s pinging times.

If you already have hosting, you can ping your own site and see if it’s time to change hosting provider.

You can make an html file (Logins->Print List->Save as html) with all your passcards gathered in a list but this is very time consuming to transfer passwords manually one by one.

Hovewer the solution to transfer Roboform passwords is quite simple. Just go to ../My Documents/My RoboForm Data/Default Profile and save this folder to a safe location for later use. You may notice that every passcard has its own file created in that folder so the backup proccess is to simply copy “Default Profile” folder over the new installation and you’re done.

The song starts with swinging sounds from left to right speaker but I listened with my old headphones that has no marks of R (right) and L (side) left,  so I couldn’t determine if the song starts on the right side or on the left.

So to quickly solve this problem use simple trick. Open your computer’s volume control panel and move “Volume Control” or “Wave” slider to the left or right direction while listening to some music. If you hear the sound on your right when the slider is  moved to the right, then it means you have put headphones correctly. If not, just switch the sides and you’ll be fine.

Image by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten via Flickr

Heatmaps are very useful determining what is the hottest parts of your website. Looking at the heatmap you can see how to improve the layout for your website by placing most important buttons, navigation links or ads on the best visibility parts. To perform a real heatmap experiment with people for the site would be very expensive. Luckily there are web application at Feng-Gui that does all the job.

Feng-GUI Lab is a group of artificial vision scientists and interactive designers who joined together to gather resources and explore human vision to find out, where and how people look and what do they find attractive on the image they see.

This is a technology that empowers designers and advertisers to effectively analyze Attention and Attraction in Visuals. Find out how people see your website, photo or ad and which areas are getting most of the attention.

To this moment Feng-GUI heatmap service have served over 2 million images for 300,000 visitors.

Making your website’s heatmap

1. Make screenshot of your website and upload image to feng-gui.
2. Press Heatmap button and wait until heatmap is processed.

See what are the most attractive spots in my iziTips.com blog based on feng-gui application:

Website Heatmap

Seems that most attention is concentrated on the parts with images. Site logo, translation widget and 2 post images got the most attraction in the heatmap making process.

As a fun you can also upload your own picture and see what parts of yours are the most attractive (according to computer). Select skin detection option to enhance the detection process.

Related reading:

• Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye (googleblog.blogspot.com)

While searching for ways to join several mIRC servers at the same time I found the simple answer to that question. If you are using latest version of mIRC (currently 6.35) then simply execute mirc.exe second time and you can join second server and channel. There is non option to join another server from the same instance of mIRC client.

Usually good things aren’t in the same place. If you’re interested in advanced SEO and PPC stuff then you should check 2 channels #cakes and #mafia

mIRC channel

The first is on IRC server  irc.freenode.net ,join #cakes

The second: irc.krono.net ,join #mafia

Update:

Looks like there is a way to connect 2 IRC clients in the same window. Go to File ->  Select Server. Then select second server name you want to connect to and press select. In the new opened window make sure you ticked the New server window option, otherwise you will be disconnected from the primary server. Now hit connect and you’re connected on 2 IRC servers at the same time in the same window.

Just go to Firefox and open the blog page. Then right click and select View Page Source. You should look for lines that can mention the name of the theme. For WordPress blogs it is usually mentioned in the CSS file path.

Some custom themes won’t let you just look at the source code and detect the theme name. People could also change name of the folder where the theme is, so this is not a 100% way to detect/identify WordPress theme but could be a good start.

Although I mentioned Photoshop CS3 in the title the principles remains the same no matter what version of Photoshop you have. The method to remove watermark from the picture can be applied to any image editing program that has the same features as Photoshop.

In this tutorial we’ll use watermarked IPod speakers picture from Dealextreme gadget e-shop. You can find many great and cheap items here.

1. Removing Watermark From White Background

First load the image to Photoshop and select Eraser Tool (keyboard shortcut press E). Then erase all watermarked areas with white background. This is the simplest and quickest part of watermark removal procedure. To make things easier you can adjust the size of the eraser (right click) and try to zoom using Zoom Tool (Z) into more complicated parts of the image like curved edges near objects.

In the end you will get this image that has no watermark in white background.

2. Removing watermark from objects.

Now its time for more complicated removal steps. In the image below you see that watermark is clearly visible on the right iPod speaker.

Select Clone Stamp Tool (S) , now hold Alt key and press on area1. This takes a sample of area1 and you can paint the same sample wherever you want on the image. Off course we need to hide the watermark so we start brushing on the edge1.

The result is:

Repeat this step by taking other samples from nearby areas which could mask the watermark. If you go too far and want to go back just press Ctrl+Z command and start from the beginning.

Don’t forget to resize the tool by right click if needed for narrow areas in the image.

Tip: If you find difficult using Clone Stamp Tool then go to Help->Photoshop Help.. and type in Clone Stamp Tool. You can read more detailed version on how to use clone stamp tool in Photoshop here.

When we’re done with this part of the image it looks like this:

Almost no traces of watermark that has been before. Use Clone Stamp Tool to remove watermarks from other areas in the image the same way.

Smudge the Watermark

Sometimes Clone Stamp Tool may be difficult or time consuming to use. There is another trick in Photoshop to remove watermarks. It’s accomplished by using smudge tool.

Let’s take a look on the area where watermark is printed. It would be quite difficult to remove just using Clone Stamp tool alone. In this case we can use Smudge Tool to smudge the watermark away.

Select Smudge Tool (R ) and adjust diameter and hardness.

Now gently press on the watermarked areas and swing your mouse a little. We need to destroy those linear patterns that are visible on the image. After some time we get this result.

The final result with every watermark removed is:

Using those 3 simple Photoshop techniques you can master the watermark removal art. As I mentioned in the beginning you can use not only Photoshop but other image editing programs as well.

Nicetranslator does the job for you by automatically finding what language you’re pasting and then you can set the output language to be your mother-tongue or english for better comparison.

To start using NiceTranslator at first select your native language from the add/remove panel. You can select as many languages as you want. Then copy and paste the unknown language in to the text field and after a moment you will get a “nice translation” for the pasted text.

Funny is that you still won’t know what language you have just pasted because there are only output language names shown. Maybe it will be a good future feature.

A short list of automated things you can do with computer:

• Startup folder

Put your everyday use programs in the Startup folder (C:\Documents and Settings\[User name]\Start Menu\Programs\Startup). You could also drag program shortcuts while in the start menu. It can be programs like MSN Messenger, Skype, Winamp, Web Browser and so on. But be carefull not to put too many programs to autoload because this will slow down the computer a bit.

• Roboform – your logins and password manager

Get Roboform – a program that remembers your paswords and login information. You will acess ftp accounts, email, forums logins and all other protected areas of the internet with a click of a mouse. The time saving is enormous with this add-on which can be integrated in IE and Firefox browsers.

• WordPress plugins for saving time

For bloggers using WordPress there are many plugins that can speed up things. For example, WordPress automatic upgrade plugin can save about half an hour. Usual manual WordPress upgrade takes at least 15 minutes while this plugin enables you to upgrade just in 5 steps and you don’t need to remember any passwords. Another great time saver plugin is Seo Smart Links. It automatically inserts links to your predefined keywords and phrases in articles so you don’t have to care about interlinking anymore. You could both link to your own blog or other websites. One more great plugin is TinyMCE Advanced text editor which adds usefull text formatting features like Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu and other.

• Browsing the internet and saving time

Firefox has a huge list of usefull plugins that can automate your daily browsing routine. For example iMacros add-on can record and replay repetitive tasks thus saving your time. Firebug add-on save time for web developers by enabling them to play with source code.

• Gathering news into one place

Using RSS reader you can keep up with enormous amount of flowing information without visiting sites and blogs. Almost every site today has RSS feed. Subscribe to your favorite feeds and never miss updates.  Google reader suits perfect.

• Use search toolbars

Don’t limit yourself to only Google. You can add many other search providers like DealExtreme, Isohunt, Wikipedia, Ebay, etc. By searching from any page you will save several seconds for getting results. When you visit a site and it offers search service you could add a search provider from upper right corner on your browser.

search

• Create shortcuts

Create shortcuts on your desktop to your favorite music folders, video files and other. If you use ftp program and have several sites to maintain you can bookmark root folders to your sites and access with 1 mouse click.

• Learn keyboard-shortcuts

Learn basic keyboard shortcuts like copying (Ctrl+C), cutting (Ctrl+X), pasting (Ctrl+V), undo (Ctrl+Z), select all (Ctrl+A), save (Ctrl+S), change language (Alt+Shift), change active program (Alt+TAB), close program (Alt+F4). These will save some time.

• More reading about automation can be found here

Music

If you want to get the songs from Last.fm and other sites that play decent quality full songs with no limitation you can use this trick, that records every sound from the computer speakers.

The basic principle is simple: you connect your sound card’s line-in and line-out jacks and then record the sound with any sound recorder you have installed, for example Nero wave editor.

The quality loss is very small because there is no interference between the two except some wire resistance.

Recording sound from flash clips and embedded players could be quite difficult but this method is the most straighforward to accomplish.

Enjoy the music.

It has built-in codecs so you don’t have to worry about installing them. It even has rare h.264 codec to watch digital tv in countries where H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard exists.

So to watch DVB-T with VLC media player you have to push Media->Open Capture Device. From Capture mode select DVB direct show

vlc dvb-t settings

Fore the card selection choose DVB-T.

However VLC isn’t very user frinedly and doesn’t provide autoscan channels feature so you have to put correct Transponder frequency and Bandwith values You can find those values from your included dvb-t player program or check dvb-t provider’s website for details.

Press Play and if the frequency is found you will see digital TV on your computer screen.

Tip: If you don’t see the channel instantly you could navigate to Playback->Program and see the list of channels from the same frequency. Some encoded channels will not display any window and thus looks like there is no signal.

vlc-settings

You can find your USB DVB-T tuner here:

Are you familiar with the situation when you see the html, php or any other language code on the screen but can’t copy it because it’s an image?

So typing the code down by yourself isn’t the best idea. At first you will waste your time instead of understanding more of the material.

You need some kind of OCR (Optical character recognition) software. Scanner isn’t needed because you already have the picture on your computer.

One way to extract code (or text) from the image is to use Microsoft Office OneNote program. It’s a great tool to keep your notes in one place and it has both the features to make a screenshot with one click and extract text from the image.

So to quickly get code text from the image or player screen:

• Locate image in the middle on your screen.
• Switch to OneNote program (Alt+Tab) and press Clip button.

• Right click on the image screenshot OneNote just created and select Copy Text from Picture option.

• Then right click again in any white place in the OneNote and select paste.

Take a look at the screenshot above. It’s a comparison between original image taken from video PHP tutorial and how OneNote extracted code from it. OneNote has done pretty good character recognition failing only on special characters and some letters. But you can proof read and fix it faster than rather typing it all letter by letter.

I suppose you have your primary website running on Hostgator and now you want to open another great forum, e-shop, blog, etc.

Let’s start by buying a new domain name. I personally use Namecheap.com for my domain purchases and will use it as an example in this post. Go to www.namecheap.com and search for your website name if it’s available:

I won’t explain buying steps much because it is standard routine buying online. Just be sure to use a coupon code at the checkout stage and save some money. Retailmenot always keeps updating latest coupon codes for namecheap.com

 So you paid by Paypal or Credit card and now have fresh domain name ready to be launched. Go to namecheap dashboard Manage Domains section and click on your new domain.

A menu list should appear on your left with an option called: Transfer DNS to Webhost 

A page ENTER YOUR CUSTOM DOMAIN NAME SERVER INFORMATION appears. It is now VERY important to enter exactly the same DNS names as it is on your primary hostgator domain. If you forgot or don’t know your primary domain nameservers it’s better to use Hostgator support and ask them. You could also search for these nameservers on your welcome email to Hostgator.

Ok, you know your nameservers now. Paste them in the first 2 lines and click Save Changes.

You are done with Namecheap.com for now. Let’s switch back to Hostgator.

• Login to your cPanel and click Addon Domains

• Fill in the form with your domain name (write only domain name without www). “Username/directory…” field is a folder name where you will store your new website files. It is automatically assigned using your domain name but you can change it if you like. Enter your password and click Add Domain! button.

Your new domain should be working now. Well at least some time is needed for nameservers to propagate around the world but you could start upload your files immediately.

Where to upload files for my new website?

You should log on to your FTP and search for new folder which appeared in the  public_html directory. It is named like in the field explained above.

Use Hostgators’ File Manager to get to your new websites’ folder.

To test if your new domain is working, create simple index.html file and uplaod it in that folder. Load your new website, should be working.

Starting with baby package you can have unlimited domains under 1 account at Hostgator.

Go to “thumbalizr” and paste the link in box. You can take a screenshot or whole page from the top to the bottom. Select your choice and press “thumb it” button.

After a few seconds you will get a link to download images of the webpage. You could save it in various resolutions up to 1280 pixels width.

This is another way to visit a page without being noted. You can look at the page from the picture and your IP only would be logged in the thumbalizr site and not in the site you are looking at.

youtube

Youtube screenshot being thumbed with thumbalizr. As you can see flash content hovewer cannot be thumbed and possibly  javascript content also.

Update

You can also unmask redirected and forwarded links by tinyurl or other sites by checking links on Linark.

It will tell you the real link location and you can check what’s behind the scene (page).

Checking every bookmark by hand would be time consuming operation and very inneficient. You could use software to do that for you. AM-deadlink is a small freeware program released by Aignes and can scan all your bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera browsers

AM-DeadLink will detect all dead and duplicate links in your browser bookmarks. The program scans the list of bookmarks in chunks and writes the result of checking. It can be OK, error, redirected and other responses for a page. You can easily delete all dead links and clean your bookmarks.

Additionally you are able to download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks. With favicons your bookmarks will look more colorful and more interesting to navigate instead of just plain default IE favicons. Backup option is also included to preserve all your bookmarks and favorites in zip files for later recovery if needed.

Download AM-Deadlink program here.

As you know mod_rewrite is used for rewriting URLs at the server level. The best example would WordPress permalinks, where you decide how url of your blog look like. By default it would be yourblog.com/?p=123 but with a help of mod_rewrite you get something like this: yourblog.com/post-about-this

How to check if mod_rewrite works on your Apache server?

I noticed that opening phpinfo page (create file phpinfo.php with this source code:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

and load via localhost) isn’t enough to determine whether mod_rewrite module works. You should test this by practicaly trying to change url.

• At first create .htaccess file with the code:
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule ^first.html$ second.html
• Create 2 html files named first.html and second.html and write 1 or 2, or first and second in them so that you could easily distinguish that in first.html a word “first” is written. Put those 2 files in the same folder where you put .htaccess file.
• Load first.html via localhost. Your mod_rewrite works if you see first.html in the address bar but word “second” displayed in the page. Otherwise you need to enable mod_rewrite module.

Enable mod_rewrite module

• Open httpd.conf file (locate it in start->apache program menu or go to apache installation directory and conf folder) and search (use ctrl+f) for #LoadModule rewrite_module string. Uncomment this line, i.e.
  line #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
  becomes LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

• Find and uncomment Options Indexes FollowSymLinks line
• Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

• Restart Apache server and check again if mod_rewrite works

At first make sure if your webserver (hosting or personal machine) supports GD library. Download this gd-test file. Extract and upload gd-test.php to your site’s root and access it through localhost (or http protocol).

If your browser shows image with word: works, then as you can guess your php installation has GD library enabled.

gd-image

If this is not the case, then you have to manually enable GD library.

Open your php.ini file, which normally is in C:\WINDOWS directory and simply uncomment (remove “;”) the necessary line.

So line

;extension=php_gd2.dll

extension=php_gd2.dll

In this tutorial I’ll show how to download, install and configure Mysql.

1. Download the latest version of mysql from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ It is enough to choose Windows Essentials but if you want the full package you can grab Windows ZIP/Setup.EXE package.
2. Start installation. Choose next-> custom (if you want to change Mysql installation path)
3. Once the basic installation is over, you are prompted to configure your Mysql.
4. Press next->detailed configuration ->developer machine -> multifunctional database -> decision support -> leave port number as is and enable strict mode-> standard character set ->
5. Choose Install as a windows service and you can uncheck Launch the MySQL Server automatically if you plan to do web development occasionaly. Otherwise MySQL will occupy some of your computer’s memory every time you start a computer.
6. 
7. Enter root password or leave it blank. You can also uncheck Modify Security Settings to create password later in MySQL command line.
8. Press execute and wait until MySQL is configured.

If you selected to run MySQL manually in the configuration options.

To start MySQL service manually:

1. Go to START
2. Right click on My Computer
3. Select Manage
4. Computer Management window opens. Select services in management tree on the left
5. Find MySQL service and press Start

Apache installation

Go to http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi and download latest apache version. As of the day writing this post, the version you need to download is Win32 Binary without crypto (no mod_ssl) (MSI Installer):  Just be sure it’s msi installer.

Start the installer and do the usual steps until page Server Information. Put localhost for Network domain and Server name fields. Type any email you want for Administrator’s email address. Press next.

In the next window choose Custom to change the installation directory to D:\webserver\apache (create new folder “apache”)

Press Next and Install.

Once apache is installed you can set up php support. Open httpd.conf file from Start->Apache…->Configure apache server->Edit…

Apache uses this text file for configuration. Scroll down until you see many LoadModule lines. Write a new line:
LoadModule php5_module d:/webserver/php5/php5apache2_2.dll
This enables php5 for Apache server

Then find (Ctrl+F) DirectoryIndex and add index.php in the line (see screenshot)

Finally search for line AddType and add this line: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php  like in the screenshot:

Save the changes and restart apache to make effect.

Now check that your php is working properly.

Open Notepad and paste this code:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

Save the file with name phpinfo.php (make sure no .txt is added at the end of this file; choose Save as Type = All files in Notepad when saving) and put it in D:\webserver\apache\htdocs folder. This is where all your webfiles will be stored.

Open any browser of your choise and type http://localhost/phpinfo.php in the address bar. If you see a big page full of php information this means php works and was installed correctly.

PHP5 INSTALLATION

Go to http://www.php.net/downloads.php and donwload latest php5 binary (zip package).

Extract zip package in to D:\webserver\php5 (you can choose another location on your computer but it is better to have everything installed in one place).

Copy libmysql.dll and php5ts.dll to C:\WINDOWS\system32 folder

Find a file called php.ini-dist and make a copy of it. Rename that copy file to php.ini and move into C:\WINDOWS folder.

Go to C:\WINDOWS and find the file php.ini you’ve just moved here. Open it with notepad. Php.ini is a configuration file for php5.

Press ctrl+f and type extension_dir to find the line with that phrase. Change “./” with “D:\webserver\php5\ext” (change path according to your own settings if needed) This tells php where to find various extensions which can provide functionality. One of these extensions allows php to communicate with mysql databases.

Scroll down the php.ini file until you see a long list of extensions. Notice that semicolumns mean that this extension is disabled. To enable extensions in php you have to remove semicolumns on that line. To enable mysql delete semicolumn on the line “;extension=php_mysql.dll”. Do the same for line “;extension=php_mysqli.dll”

Scroll down until line ;session.save_path = “/tmp” and delete semicolumn (” ; “) Then instead “/tmp” write D:\webserver\php5\temp This tells php where to store temporary files. You can type here any folder you want. Save the file.

You have succesfully installed PHP5 on your computer. Now it’s time to install apache and configure it to use php5.

I found this great tip in the bluhateseo irc chat. And by using it, you can force Google to index your newly created page and as a bonus also get a backlink. All you have to is to submit your page into Kaboodle.

Kaboodle is a social shopping community where people discover, recommend and share products. Everyone can submit links to product pages and you may guessed right – we are going to use Kaboodle for submitting any page you want and get it indexed.

At first you have to create an account and then you are free to submit your pages to Kaboodle. The easiest way to submit a page is to install Kaboodle Plug-in for Internet Explorer.

kaboodle

When you get it, you simply open the page and press Add to Kaboodle button on your browser (IE only).

You are then redirected to Kaboodle Add to list page and here you can fix the details. Select a list to categorise your submissions. Then you can spice up your Kaboodle page with keywords in the comments and item tags fields.

Kaboodle needs at least one image on your page to add it as a product image, you can select from the list of images found on your page if you press “Fix details” button.

add-to-list

After you adjust all the details on the ad to list page press Submit and wait until Googlebot comes to your site. Kaboodle is always monitored by googlebot because it is constantly changing user generated content site so when it finds your submitted page it follows the links found on that page.

WordPress needs MySql support and some free space. At first create a new database for your WordPress blog with phpMyAdmin or hostgator’s MySQL Account Maintenance.

Notice at the creation success message that your database name has a prefix, which is your account’s name at Hostgator.

You can create new user for your WP (WordPress) database or exploit existing one, but for security reasons it’s better to have a dedicated user.  Don’t stick with your usual password for the user because you won’t need it to type in very often so it’s better be complicated to add more security to your WP blog.

Don’t forget to Add User To Your Database or else your blog won’t work.

Assign user to the specified database

Now you have to upload all the files from wordpress-2.6 installation folder to the public_html folder of your account at hostgator or a folder, created to store your blog. You can save some time by using Hostgator’s File Manager.

File manager

Use the feature upload files and upload zipped folder of WordPress installation. Then select the upladed file and extract in place pressing command on the right side of the window. All wordpress file a now extracted.

Last step in the installation is to configure your wp-config-sample.php file.

Edit your wp-config-sample.php file

You can edit it localy on your computer or use File Manager from cpanel. In this case select wp-config-sample.php file and press edit file in the right menu.

Edit your wp-config-sample.php file for database setttings

Fill the necessary fields. Enter the name of your database you’ve just created and username with password. This file will be used by WordPress all the time to connect to the database and retrieve or write information to it.

Don’t forget to rename wp-config-sample.php into wp-config.php and save it.

You’re about done installing your WordPress blog. Now Open www.example.com/wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again.

Note the password given to you and change it immediately after first login.

The steps above are more or less the same for all WordPress installations on all hostings not only Hostgator.

Login and start blogging!

Hovewer you can not simply launch another instance of Skype like Word document. So you either have to turn it off and switch to another account or use the following technique and 2 Skype accounts working at the same time.

Let’s begin.

In 1 sentence, all you have to do is to have more than 1 user account on your main computer and force Skype to work on that account. If you don’t have more than 1 user account you will have to create one and your Windows welcome screen should look similar to this:

• One important thing is that you must create a password for that second user account. If not, this trick won’t work.

When you have both accounts set up, you can launch another Skype window by right clicking on the Skype.exe (which is normally in the C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\skype.exe) file and selecting Run as

In the pop window select The following user and enter all the details: user name and password. This should start another instance of Skype program. (From the above Windows welcome screen you should enter skypeuser as User name and password that you created for that account )

By doing this you can have 2 or more skype usernames online at the same time from 1 computer and can even talk or call to yourself.

Update: As far as I know, this trick only works with older Skype versions, 2 or 3 maybe. If you need multiple skype accounts at the same time, you should consider installing older version from here.

There is one easy way to bypass these regional restrictions. You have to use a proxy which gives you IP that is located in US territory. Try to search Google for something like “free proxy usa” and you’ll find some proxy lists for this trick. Remember that proxies are on a constant change, so if one stops working then search for another.

Here is quick 3 proxies if you want to see instant results and don’t want to search.

• 12.150.97.75:80
• 169.229.50.16:3128
• 35.9.27.26:3124

These proxies works at the time of writing this post but if they don’t, try to search for other.

So you have a proxy with US IP. One last step is to configure your browser to use this proxy.
For Internet Explorer (IE) follow this:

1. Press Tools -> Internet options -> Connections -> Settings
2. In the proxy server area input Proxy addres and port number ( for 12.150.97.75:80 Address is 12.150.97.75 and port is 80 )
   

For Firefox (FF) use the following metod:

1. Press Tools -> Options -> Advanced-Network
2. Click Setting and choose manual proxy configuration. Then enter proxy details and port number like in the previous example
3. Click ok and you’re done

By changing proxy you will be able to watch most of the US websites video services.

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