Author: Fergus O'Sullivan

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you like tense political drama with a dash of spy thriller, Designated Survivor is for you. It follows the travails of Tom Kirkman, a lowly cabinet flunky who is propelled into the Oval Office after a terrorist attack wipes out everybody else in the U.S. presidential line of succession. It’s good, so we figured we should show you how to watch Designated Survivor online. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Kirkman, the at-first hapless housing secretary who is so insignificant he has to sit out the State of the Union (not to be confused with the ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Grimm is one of the weirder, yet addictive shows out there today. It follows the adventures of Nick Burkhardt, a homicide detective in Portland, Oregon, who one day finds out that he’s the heir to a legacy of monster hunters. It’s a must-see for anybody into magical realism, so we’ve put together this guide on how to watch Grimm online. The world of Grimm is one where beasts, called Wesen in the show’s pig German, walk among us in human guise, their true forms only becoming visible when they want to be seen. There’s a ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Hello, and welcome to our latest State of the Cloud, Cloudwards.net’s regular column where we go over the pertinent and interesting news of the month that has been, yet name the article after the month that’s coming because that’s just how we roll.  In this edition, we have a few short pieces of interesting news from the cloud storage and accounting arenas, as well as coverage of the battle legislators face in regulating the Big Four. On top of that, we’ll go into how the not-quite war between the U.S. and Iran is being fought ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; The Shield is a fantastic exercise in storytelling that follows a group of corrupt police officers in Los Angeles during the first decade of the 21st century. It aired between 2002 and 2008, so it was overshadowed by The Wire, making it less of a hit than it should have been. This guide on how to watch The Shield will set you on the right path to experience it, though. At its core, The Shield is a procedural that follows the officers of the Barn, a police precinct in Farmington, a fictional district of LA ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; The Wire is one of the most landmark TV shows ever created. It debuted in 2002 on HBO and dropped jaws around the world thanks to its vivid storytelling and raw, unfiltered view of the tough streets of Baltimore, the murder capital of the U.S. at the time. To make sure everybody gets a chance to experience it, we’ve put together this guide on how to watch The Wire online. In short, The Wire is about a group of cops going after the big fish in the local drug trade by tapping their phones, but ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you want to watch Dutch television from outside the EU, you’ll find that your usual websites, such as NPO Start and Uitzending Gemist, aren’t accessible. In this article, we’ll show you how to circumvent these geoblocks — and save yourself some annoyance — by getting a Dutch IP address. It’s not just entertainment websites that are blocked, either. Government websites can be reached from inside the EU, but if you’re outside it, get ready to answer a dozen security questions that may culminate in a mailed letter that’ll, unhelpfully, be sent to your home ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; The Netherlands is a flat land, much of it below sea level, and the home of tulips, wooden shoes and semi-legal marijuana. It’s not all good, though. Besides the pollen and poor weather, the Dutch have to contend with being the most wire-tapped nation in Europe, which is why we’ve put together this list of the best VPNs for the Netherlands. Our top pick is ExpressVPN, thanks to its many Dutch servers, fantastic speeds and large worldwide network, but none of our other four contenders are slouches by any means. After all, if the government ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Hello and welcome to a new State of the Cloud, Cloudwards.net’s monthly column where we go over the tech news of the 31 days that have been and try and make sense of it all. In this edition we’ll be talking about Google, Huawei and, and you’ll never believe this, Facebook. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter for updates on reviews, articles and investigations. Though we realize that the beating of our Facebook drum might be getting tiresome, we remain amazed at the inventiveness of the company’s executives. They are always dreaming up new ways in ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Outlander is one of the few hit shows the Starz streaming service has produced. It has been met with acclaim, mostly from fans, and was recently renewed for fifth and sixth seasons. Because the mix of romance, intrigue and historical events is hard to find online, we’ve put together this guide on how to watch Outlander. Outlander is an interesting mix of elements. It’s the story of Claire Randall, a former wartime nurse who gets transported from the late 1940s into the mid-18th century while investigating legendary standing stones while on a trip to Scotland ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; From July 15, 2019 on, UK residents will need to prove they’re over 18 to access porn websites. The UK porn ID will be available in several ways, the least attractive of which is physically buying one in a shop, and was put in place by the politicians behind the Brexit mess. In this article, we’ll be go through the ins and outs of the so-called porn pass, and why it’s a terrible idea. It’s terrible for several reasons, which we’ll talk about first, but mainly because it’ll be so easy to circumvent. We’ll talk ... Read More