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Rick & Kitty Adventures
Went to a couple's place last night for cocktails, after
dinner. This
guy is a German, who took an early retirement working for US Forces in
Europe, then "retired" at the age of 53 in Arizona. Since
then, he
and his wife moved to Salinas, Ecuador....didn't like that (I could
have told him) and now has been in Cuenca for a couple of years.
He is
now 65.
Anyway....this guys is a TV nut. He turned me on to HMA
(Hide My Ass) VPN.........
for a monthly fee you can re-route your IP (actually, it gives
you a
new IP) through thousands of servers all over the world. Right
now,
I'm operating through a proxy server in Miami..... after just leaving a
server in Denver.
 The advantage there, is that a lot of content (about 90% of
Netflix
content) is restricted for distribution outside North America..... I
just logged on to my Netflix account after hooking up to HMA..... and
now 100% of the content is there! The same holds true for PBS,
the
History Channel, etc....
Anyway, none of this helps any of you unless you are outside the
country....but he did turn me on to two Android apps. One for TV
(Called TV Portal)
and one for Movies (Movie
Maze).
Through TV Portal, it looks like he can pull up pretty much any TV show
that's been aired in the last few years. Movie Maze is even more
interesting.... he fired it up on his Toshiba Tablet, and started
playing the new Mat Damon movie (Elysium), which is currently in
theaters in the US.
Since I had my Samsung Tablet stolen in Buenos Aires.... I'll have to
rely on my Samsung phone for now.... but I'm going to give it a try in
a few minutes. Just thought you'd be interested in the VPN
capability,
AND the two Android apps (Apple might have similar apps, for all I
know).
This guy really knows what he is doing, and he is DEATH on anything
Apple. On the other hand, I've run into people that are just as
committed to Apple, and wouldn't have anything but.....
cuzzin ricky
Since Rick and I still have our teenage
hair, it must be maternal genes. Of course he is 30 tears my
junior.
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