Author: Fergus O'Sullivan

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; We all have times when we would prefer that people not know what we’ve been up to on the internet. Doesn’t matter if you were hitting up a few porn sites, booking a surprise dinner for the person you share the computer with or doing something not quite legal, like torrenting. Many people will switch on private mode in these cases, without wondering whether going incognito is really safe. It’s a good question, too, because it isn’t. While incognito is a great way to make sure that your browsing history remains hidden on your end ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Netflix U.S. is a very different beast than what is shown in other countries. Though the rest of the world has been catching up the past few years, the original version of the site offers a lot more in the way of shows and movies. However, as you may have guessed, it’s region-locked. In this article, we’ll show you how to get around that geoblock and watch American Netflix. We have a full guide below, but if you’re in a tl;dr kinda mood, we recommend you check out ExpressVPN, which is the best VPN out ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you know anything at all about torrenting, you know that you need to use a virtual private network unless you like to get hit with copyright notices. However, you still may find yourself wondering if torrenting really is safe with a VPN. In this article, we’ll go over some of the main points why it is, indeed, perfectly safe, provided you use the right VPN service. This is regardless of torrent client, too. If you stumbled on this article while looking for the best VPN for torrenting, you may want to check out NordVPN ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; We’ve all wanted to watch a movie or TV show or play a game that wasn’t immediately available to us. Maybe you want to watch The Shield but all you have is a Netflix subscription, or you want to play a game that isn’t on Steam. The easiest thing you can do is to torrent whatever you want, but before you do so, you need to know that torrenting without a VPN is a terrible idea. This is because in most countries (check out our censorship map for which ones, specifically) torrenting has been made ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Everybody likes entertainment, and we all like it even better when it’s free. That’s where torrents come in: this peer-to-peer distribution system (also known as P2P) is all about sharing files between users, often illegally. We have a guide that goes over all the ins and outs of torrenting if you’re interested, but in this piece we’ll show you where to download torrents using the best torrent sites. Before we get to any of that, though, know that whatever you do, you should use a VPN when file sharing, or you run the risk of ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; pCloud, one of the best cloud storage services out there, announced yesterday that it would be adding a second server location for customers to store data in. Until now, pCloud users could only store data in the U.S. (in Dallas, Texas). This new location is in the European Union (in Luxembourg, to be exact; not Switzerland, where pCloud is headquartered). Currently, only new users will be able to pick the European location as it’s a choice you make when starting a new account. However, a spokesman for pCloud, Andrey Yanakov, has confirmed that existing users ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Torrenting, or peer-to-peer sharing, is a great way to get the games, movies and TV shows that you want for free. However, downloading copyrighted material is also pretty illegal, meaning you’re going to have to somehow hide your IP address when doing so. That’s where NordVPN comes in, and in this piece we’re going to show you how to use this VPN for torrenting. In case you’re not exactly sure what all the above means, we have a handy guide on what torrenting is, as well as one about the ins and outs of virtual ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Welcome to the latest State of the Cloud, the monthly column from Cloudwards where we take a look at all the industry news we were able to sniff out. For the first time in the two years we’ve been doing this column, we’re doing two months in one. With this funny bug doing the rounds, we found ourselves a bit preoccupied during the past few weeks. This means that in this edition we have double the shenanigans, including tales of customer support run amuck, government crackdowns on email services and corporate rivalry with cloud gaming ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you’ve ever used a virtual private network to access the Netflix of another country, you will, at some point or another, come across error code m7111-5059: “you seem to be using an unblocker or proxy.” In this article, we’re going to show you how to fix this problem using any of several ways. The best and simplest way is to simply sign up to our best VPN for Netflix, ExpressVPN. It comes with a 30-day refund policy, and if you sign up using this link, you get three months on top of its year-long ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Hello and welcome to this latest State of the Cloud, the monthly column where the Cloudwards editorial team takes a look at the latest tech news. In this edition, we’re taking a slightly new approach. Figuring that you’re well capable of finding most mainstream news on your own, we’re focusing on industry news that likely flew under most radars and spinning a story about that. So from now on, expect fewer appearances by Google and Facebook, companies you probably know are playing fast and loose with their societal responsibilities, and enter instead smaller players whose ... Read More