Hook up an old PC to your LAN, logon to the PC from your Mac with Remote Desktop Connection . Puts a Windoze desktop seamlessly onto your Mac without having to double boot or whathaveyou.
Here's a reasonable Mac workaround:
I've been watching the iPlayer (and CH4, CH5 etc. equivalents) since I got here.
I do it using TOR and you define "exit points". The trick is you use the proxy until it checks your IP address (for the iPlayer that's when it lets you click "play" or the download links appear) then you turn off the proxy and so don't have bandwidth limitations.
I assume (although I don't have one so don't care to check) that TOR works on non-WIndows platforms too.
Thanks so so so much!!!
I thought you had defected to 4chan!
As much as I would llike iPlayer I think I'll skip it then.
Also they dont really explain how it works technically, have FAQ, forum etc to give any confidence, don't mention any ads or toolbar. Shame.
I am surprised that so many are just ready to put trust in some EXE from the internet and install/run on their PC - Anyone found any real tech info about it what exactly it's doing - how safe etc.
it's been extensively reviewed, including by the Guardian newspaper. These things have a critical mass of review trust and there's nothing wrong with advertising.
Yeah...right on. The old avatar reminded me of this video from when I was young:
Fixed that for you.
I will take that as a compliment
Great - Thanks for the link.
Running great on my iMac via a Virtualbox xp host.
EDIT: and now running great on all osx browsers / iphone etc via a socks proxy
Pat
I have been using overplay.net VPN for the past few months and found it to be very good. It costs $10 a month.
I installed the EXpat Shield Launch software and although it took a while you can choose not to install the toolbar. I tested watching a program on iPlayer and there was no buffering issues. The only thing is if you are browsing there are adverts now placed at the top of the browser. 99% of the time I only need the IP address for iPlayer, 4od etc so the ads wont affect me.
My only reservation would be, as mentioned above, what actually was installed? The website isnt the best and doesnt look very professional.
Why would they do this for free when it is well known people are willing to pay for something like this? I'll keep it installed in the meantime although I'm slightly wary of it!
Because they can gain momentum and inertia very quickly at relatively little cost to themselves. They'd hope people will turn it on and leave it on to browse generally. This gives them a huge number of people exclusively viewing their adverts, which can eventually be very precisely targeted since they know your browsing patterns. That's worth far more than $10 a month!
I am not sure you would get the necessary rendering speed for video through the RDP connection though, thats not something I know I am just basing it on how RDP works as a protocol. Best bet is still to chuck out your spac and get a proper PC running Windows 7.
Ok, fair enough. If that is the case, they should put something like that on the website. Anyway, as I said i'll keep using it for now and thanks for the heads up.
I chose to
1. Download (& Save) & Install (Run) ExpatShield
2. Run ExpatShield (launch & connect)
This appears to give a 10. address, with a LAN Connection pseudo-interface
3. Download & run (5 seconds) a Program for the BBC iPlayer (i.e. authorise me to view the program)
This downloads a licence key to my computer
4. UNINSTALL ExpatShield
5. Reboot
6. Remove "AnchorFree Inc's TAP-Win32 Virtual Network Driver" from Registry, and delete (next step)
7. Delete windows\system32\drivers\taphss.sys
8. View all the iPlayer material I have downloaded, that I wish, & offline.
So - I may (only very) occasionally wish to view pre-recorded material, and will download the DRM licences to my PC, but will disable the software by default. It loads 4 windows services automatically, installs a couple of drivers, and adds an ActiveX add-on to Internet Explorer.
My policy is to disable unused software on startup, and uninstall was the only way I could see to do this.
Wow, works flawlessly... awesome!
Definitely dont download and use that toolbar though...its nothing malicious, but you never want anything placing ads etc hooking into your browser in that way. Deselect it before installing.
Im speechless <\feints\>
I have been using http://www.tvproxy.co.uk/ its cheaper.
Been using it for 18 months, no probs.
I tried my own proxy, which is free, but its unreliable so would rather pay a bit not to fiddle around with proxies each evening.
Hmm this just stopped working for me, maybe a server issue... has it stopped working for anyone else?
EDIT - Did a beroot and now it works, weird.
Cheaper than free ? They give you money to use it?
Thank you for the information and it works but is there anyway I can stop the pop up which seems to be on every page, I did uncheck the tool bar when down loading.