This is a follow up to my post of a year ago. The instructions are simpler than last year's post. If you want instructions for the Mac go here . I re-imaged an old laptop last year with Ubuntu (12.04 LTS). If you've never tried Ubuntu before, head over to http://www.ubuntu.com/download to try the latest version. The installation is straightforward and you can install it without affecting your Windows image (if that's what you're running). Not only is this fast (boots in seconds) it also has better support for a wider range of devices - specifically Wifi. To run the BBC iPlayer on Ubuntu, do the following... Step 1 : Download tor from this site : https://www.torproject.org/ . The download button should detect your operating system. For Linux the direct link is here . Alternatively you can use the command line and enter sudo apt-get install tor. Step 2 : Unpack the tor tar.gz file. Open the folder that was extracted. On my machine it's called '...