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Watch US TV via Firefox

marksy — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:58:11 +0000

Penx just showed me a neat plugin hack for FireFox to enable watching content from the United States.

Download Modify Headers from the Firefox Addons repository, install, restart browser.

Then from the menubar, select Tools > Modify Headers. Under the first tab ‘headers’ click the drop down ‘select action’ and change it to ‘Add’.

Next in ‘Header name’, type ‘X-Forwarded-For’.

In ‘Value’ type in ’12.13.14.15′

Done. Check Comedy Central or Hulu and watch your favourite clips.

SSH Tunnel to watch Hulu etc

marksy — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:38:46 +0000

If you are living outside of the US and want to watch those TV shows offered to the Americans, you can. There are a couple of ways to do this, using a proxy via SSH is a great way to keep this going in the background.

I use Boxee which has access to great content, unfortunately some shows such as South Park and Comedy Central are blocked due to geolocation.

I’ve found this article to be a great help for OS X users (using Terminal) to tunnel into a US-based server (mine being Dreamhost). This can be pretty slow, so you’d prolly have to paid some notes for a fast server.

link by Doc Logic (MacApper)

Aloe Blacc – I need a dollar

marksy — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:07:44 +0000

Loving this song; hope to get the album soon.

New iPhone & Futurama today

marksy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:54:31 +0000

Whaaaaat? Yes, that’s right. A new series of Futurama airs in the States tonight (9pm) on Comedy Central. So it should be turning up on iTunes or bit torrent soon.

Also today is the day iPhone 4 should be arriving. There’s such a demand for them that shipping has been pushed back to 3 weeks.

USA wins..! wait, whaa?

marksy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:04:36 +0000

NYC car bomb found

marksy — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:39:48 +0000

last night me and Ali arrived in NYC at about 4pm. It was very hot, and when took the subway up to our hotel.

We chilled out for a bit then walked around (first headed west in the wrong direction, then north in the wrong direction) then went south east towards the business area.

We stopped for some chicken wings and a beer when all these cops, fire engines and ambulences turned up.

We thought nothing for it until we heard the news this morning. A car filled with explosives was found smoking, a block from where we were sitting.

Bloomburg has it under control, car removed and destroyed. Streets are back open.

The car contained 3 propane tanks, and 2 petrol canisters with clock timers.

However, we feel safe having said all that.

We have no fears and will keep our plan as sorted. The only fear is the Apple store not being open.

Deftones release Rocket Skates music video in HD for free

marksy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:04:29 +0000

The Deftones latest single out is Rocket Skates for the up coming album Diamond Eyes. They’ve just released their latest single as HD for free – however it’s a QuickTime MOV file. Not MP4 or something that everyone can play/enjoy.

So I’ve created an MKV for those who don’t like/use QuickTime.

New York, Apple Store, Pizza and Hotdogs party (ft McLeay)

marksy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:18:54 +0000

On the first of May me and Ali are nipping over to NY to do a bit of shopping and site seeing. Flying VirginAtlanic for some Mario before landing JFK, prolly staying in outside of Manhattan as $$$.

FTW,

NIN in the studio? New material soon?

marksy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:45:47 +0000

Reznor has just posted some new interesting photos on ninentitled “?”

Last time this happened it was the release of The Slip which was offered as a free download and later purchased digipak.

Sounds like the Halo volumes are back?

Updated: looks like Atticus Ross is back in there too. Perhaps a Ghosts V-IIX?

Movie of the week: The Hurt Locker

marksy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:17:05 +0000

Just saw this movie, and was blown away. It’s a movie about the lives of a bombsquad working in Iraq (2008) disarming cluster/roadside bombs. The story is well told, and directed to screen. It shows what it must be like there from both sides, invading and being invaded. Caution if you’re a little squeamish, as this movie doesn’t hold out on the gory details (which are a fact of life).

IMDB gives it a hearty 7.9/10 which i think is well deserved.