Category: Review
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VPN Reviews: Watching Hulu, Comedy Central Without Hacks
Full Disclosure: VPN Authority approached me with a trial account for review purposes. A VPN (or Virtual Private Network) is a system for securely joining a remote network over the internet, typically they’re used to allow remote workers secure access to their company’s internal networked file system and other network resources. When a computer connects to…
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Shaw’s New Bandwidth Policy
As we mentioned in the latest Canadian Tech Roundup, there’s quite a lot of chatter on reddit.com/r/Canada about Shaw sneaking bandwidth overage charges onto customer’s bills. I have some thoughts on the new policy, but I’ll leave those to the end of the post. First, the fun facts: Shaw has lowered bandwidth caps for every…
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Reddit is so Awesome!
The top story in the programming subreddit for most of yesterday was a self-post abou the sorry state of subway.com’s HTML. Take a look for yourself, it’s easily the worst major corporation website I’ve seen in years. The post has garnered 2537 up votes (1134 downvotes) to date; based my previous experience, I suspect this…