Category: Proxy Software

Tutorial about proxy software.

How to Change IP Address?

Tell you how to change IP by comparing different methods and different services: proxy software, web proxy, http proxy, VPN, socks proxy and SSH proxy.

What is an IP address and how to change the IP address? An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a numerical way to identify your computer on the Internet. Web sites can know much information by your IP address. For example, from your IP address, we can know your country.

How to Change IP Address

People change the IP address to avoid online bans and protect online privacy. How to change the IP address? Before trying any other methods to change your IP address, try turning off your Cable/DSL modem for five minutes. In many cases, this will change your IP address.

But that method can only change your IP address slightly within a small range. How to change the IP address to another country? Here are some methods to change the IP address completely to another one.

Continue reading “How to Change IP Address?”

How to use My IP Hide in iPhone?

This is a tutorial showing how use the proxy software My IP Hide in iPhone. It can help you to hide IP in your iPhone and surf anonymously.

Question: I want to know how to set it up on my iPhone to open the blocked Facebook and YouTube.

Answer: You can run My IP Hide on your Mac/Windows computer. Then use your iPhone to connect to My IP Hide to open blocked Facebook and YouTube.

1) Your iPhone and computer should be in the same LAN (WiFi).
2) Click the “Setting” button on My IP Hide
3) Go to the “Misc” Tab of the “Settings” dialog
4) You will see a Proxy IP (Server) and Port in that Tab

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5) Set that proxy IP (server) and port in your iPhone

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6) When you want to shut down your computer or exit My IP Hide on it, you should turn off the ‘HTTP Proxy’ option of your iPhone. Otherwise, it can’t open any web pages.

Set Firefox to Use Remote DNS

An instruction showing how to set Firefox to use remote DNS. Use Firefox’s advanced settings to set the remote DNS option of socks proxy.

Question: How can I set Firefox to use remote DNS when I use socks proxy in Firefox?

Answer:

1. Search “proxy” on the Firefox options page. Then click the “Settings” button for its “Network Settings” to view Firefox’s proxy options.

Firefox Network Options
Firefox Network Options

2. Check the option “Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5”.

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Firefox Remote DNS

What Program Changed Proxy Settings?

Follow this instruction to find what program changed proxy settings on your computer.

Question: I’m using your program My IP Hide to change the IP address. But after a few seconds, my proxy settings will be restored to direct connection. What is the problem?

Answer: It seems that some program reverts your proxy settings. Follow this instruction to find what program changed your proxy settings.

First, you need the program Process Monitor. Download it from here: https://download.sysinternals.com/files/ProcessMonitor.zip

1) Run it. You will see this dialog. Click the “Filter” button.

Monitor Proxy Settings

2) Add a filter rule. Show the entries whose path ends with “ProxyEnable”. Please type in the “ProxyEnable” by yourself. Then click “Add” and “OK” buttons.

Filter Proxy Settings

3) Click the “Start” button to start monitoring your system.

Program Changed Proxy Settings

4) Enable MyIPHide now. When MyIPHide says your proxy settings are changed by another program, click the “Start” button again to stop the monitor. Now see what program is shown there.

In that screenshot, you can see Elite Proxy Switcher (EPS.exe) changed the proxy settings besides My IP Hide (MIH.exe).

My IP Hide Video Tutorial

My IP Hide is a proxy software helping you to hide IP and unblock facebook, youtube, bbc or other sites. It supports both Windows and Mac. It will change your IP to an US or UK IP address.

Just keep My IP Hide (MIH) running when you surf the Internet. MIH will hide your real IP. Here is the video tutorial for Windows edition.

My IP Hide also supports the Macintosh system. Here is the video tutorial for Mac users.

Main Features

  • Hide Real IP: My IP Hide can hide your IP to protect your online privacy and use encrypted connections to prevent Internet tracking from you.
  • Unblock Sites: Open any blocked websites. Webmasters may ban your IP. Company may limit your access to some sites. We break all the blockade for you.
  • Faster than VPN: With our enhanced proxy technology, My IP Hide is faster than VPN, SSH proxy and web proxy. Meanwhile it’s more secure than ordinary proxy.
  • Windows and Mac: My IP Hide supports both Windows and Mac. It supports all the browsers. There is no settings for the major browsers.

Forum Proxy Leecher Video Tutorial

Forum Proxy Leecher (FPL) is an intelligent proxy leecher that can extract proxies from various proxy sites and proxy forums even if the proxies are in the attachment.

Quick Guide

1) Logged into the forums with Internet Explorer (not Firefox or Opera).
2) Please select “Log me on automatically each visit” when login.
3) Use IE to view the topics to make sure you have the right to see the proxies
4) Click the “Start” button in FPL to start leech that forum.

After you login the forums, FPL can read your account information from IE. In fact FPL tries to act just as IE. It’s same for the forum whether you use FPL to leech or open another IE to read the topics one by one from the forum. Here is a video tutorial showing its basic functions. You can also download the tutorial here.

Main Features

  • Quickly get fresh proxies when you need
  • Support different types of forums
  • Support scanning attachments
  • Support non-forum proxy sites
  • My-Proxy team maintains the leech list for you
  • Powerful proxy tester especially for huge list
  • Nice user interface and easy to use