I was browsing through the Opera site today and guess what i found - something as interesting as Pam Anderson's life - Opera specially made for bypassing blocked sites.
There are many nations in the world which do not allow certain sites to open. For example, Flickr is banned in Iran & UAE, BBC & Wikipedia are blocked in China, Blogspot blogs are banned in Pakistan, YouTube & Photobucket are prohibited for US army overseas while social sites like Bebo, MySpace or Facebook may be banned in your office. Even during the anti-reservation protest days, youth for equality's site was banned.
Some schools(like ours) do block sites [ for example, all share trading and finance journal sites were banned cuz one of the teachers at our school used to do share trading throughout the day) !!
So coming back, there are atleast a dozen wats to access blocked sites, but most of them are cucumbersone. Opera provides a free online tool called Opera Mini Simulator that emulates the Opera mobile phone browser on your desktop computer. The tool is done in java and is quite popular among web designers for testing website layouts on mobile phone devices without actually using a mobile phone.
As you probably guessed it by now, this Opera Browser Simulator can also be used for accessing web pages that may be blocked on your computer. Since the requests are made via the Opera.com website, they would easily bypass the local filtering.
To open any site in Opera, just append that site address to the following URL and start browsing.
I'll give you a sample.
http://www.operamini.com/demo/?url=[URL] - example
The Opera Simulator can even be used for secure sites that require cookies - for instance, you can check your Hotmail emails via Opera. Though you are restricted to the tiny 200x200 screen of Opera simulator, it's still a very handy tool.
Opera recently launched version 4 of the Mini simulator that offers a better browsing experience than the previous version. You can access v4.0 of Mini simulator by clicking here.
As an alternative, you can also use the panel i have provided on the right hand side for browsing blocked sites.
Till then
Happy Surfing !
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