Many people take laptops on holiday with them so they can keep up to date with emails, surf the web or keep up with their favourite TV shows or watch a film or two online.

This is fine if you are in the UK but here at What’s Good On The Web we are quite well travelled individuals so many of our holidays are overseas. This causes quite a few problems especially as we were not aware that most online TV services are geo blocked meaning that they can’t be watched outside of the country that they are hosted in (BBC iplayer is a good example).

Having searched the web to see if there is a way of overcoming the problem we eventually found that apart from a few very dodgy software applications there was no way around geo blocking. That’s until we came across Blinkx.com. Now this site does not overcome geo blocking but it enables you to visit one site to search for films or TV programmes that are available where you are.

The Blinkx system is very simple – just enter film or TV programme you are looking for and it will see if it available wherever you are in the World. We tested the site for Harry Potter Films and were able to watch them online.

Next time you are off on holiday and you are going to take your laptop with you make sure you bookmark Blinkx – it will save you hours frustration. We’ve added Blinkx to our Top Rated sites for July as it’s a must have for the summer holidays.