If you want to view the videos on hulu.com, or on sites that embed hulu videos outside the United States you’ll get the following message:

If you want to view them, you either need to move to the states or use a slow proxy, isn’t it? Well, not exactly. You can view those video’s at normal speeds (aka. about the same as you max internet speed) with a free program called Hotspot Shield. The name may sound a little bit strange in this context, and it isn’t made for this purpose, though it works perfectly. Hotspot Shield will create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) which prevents hulu to see that you’re outside the sites, while it doesn’t decrease your internet connetion speed! To install it, just follow the instructions on http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/ and you’ll be able to see those hulu videos within a few minutes!

And as you maybe already guessed, this works for all US-only sites (so you can finally use Pandora again)!

Almost all websites have them, and they are just extraordinary ugly: Dotted borders around text links. They show up when you click a link and won’t go away till you clicked somewhere else, reloaded the page or moved to another page:

Yes, I know that you saw that before… But why are all those sites displaying those ugly borders? I don’t know, because you don’t need to know any advanced techniques to remove the border! Just add the following code to your CSS document:

a {
outline: none;
}

And gone are the dotted borders!

But does that validate?

It’s easy to think that everyone isn’t using this because it doesn’t validate, though it does validate! Check it out on the W3C CSS Validator if you don’t believe me.

But why isn’t everyone using this?

Because most people don’t know that it is possible… In the past it was necessary to have the dotted border around licked links to see if you actually clicked it or not (in he past we had sow computers, so it took a while before the thing actually started downloading the new site). Today we don’t need that anymore so please add this code to your Cascading Style Sheets and stop the uglyness!

Experts-Exchange (EE), founded in 1996, is a collaboration platform for information technology professionals, designed to address specific areas of situation-based knowledge. It’s an online “ask an expert” site for computer related questions. [source: wikipedia]

According to the site itself you need to pay about 12 dollars a month to view the solutions given by the experts and other users of the site. At first glance this looks quite true because a regular visitor will see that all answers are grayed out (example), to be precise, there’s only one user that doesn’t need to pay in order to view the solutions: Google. No, I’m not kidding. The site gives Google free access because it wants to be indexed in Google’s search engine.

We can use Google’s advantage in two different ways:

1) This way is useful if you found an EE question on Google and only want to view the solution of that question. In order to view the solution, you only need to click the small In cache link at the end of the result. This will redirect you to the page in Google’s cache and will allow you to see the solution (example, scroll down, the solution is at the bottom)

2) If you want to browse EE and if you want up to date solutions, you need to be recognized as the googlebot. With a Firefox extension called user agent switcher this’ll cost less than a few seconds:

1. Download and install the Firefox extension user agent switcher from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59?id=59

2. In Firefox, go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Option, and add the Googlebot as an user agent

Description: Googlebot 2.1 (New Version)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

3. In Firefox, go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Googlebot 2.1

4. In Firefox, go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Exeptions

5. Type in the white text bar: www.experts-exchange.com and hit block.

6. In Firefox, go to Tools -> Clear private data -> select cookies -> hit clear private data now.

Now browse to EE and you’ll be able to view all solutions for free (proof)!