If you’re a BBC fan but not resident in the UK, you’ll no doubt have been long frustrated at not being able to use the BBC’s brilliant iPlayer, which allows you to watch any BBC content from the last seven days as often as you want. Sure, there are complicated geeky ways of setting up proxy this and that but now My Private Network makes it really easy. It sets up a virtual private network tunnel that allows you not only unlimited access to iPlayer but also on-demand video and live TV content from other UK channels such as ITV, Channel Four, and Five. It costs about $8 a month but well worth it if you want to see good quality UK TV. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux and literally takes about 10 seconds to set up. You’ll never have to sit through those out of date BBC America re-runs again.
If you’re like me and constantly switching between Facebook, Twitter and a bunch of other social media, not to mention Flickr, blog updates and news feeds, then you need EventBox. This great new little Mac-only app links you to all your social networks in one window, much like a mail application and you can set it up to let you know when you get a message, update or tweet without having to switch apps. If you have Growl, EventBox works seamlessly, popping up notifications so you can quickly see which ones are important or worth replying to. Up to know I have been using the Flock Browser – The Social Web Browser to do a similar job of keeping everything in one place but as I have been having some issues with some of Flock’s services disappearing or not loading, EventBox couldn’t have come along at a better time.
EventBox is free to try and $15 for the beta version.
Skip through the ad and see Macca reprise something like the famous Beatles gig in 1969 on the roof of Apple.
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