• Download Hotspot Shield – this program while displaying a banner on every website you visit, will let you view restricted content since you live in other countries, but this doesn’t matter since most sites have a full screen button to maximize the video content to your entire screen covering the banner while you view.
• Download Caffeine – if you’re a Mac user, this program will keep your computer from dimming and shutting off your screen. You can even tell it for how long you want it not to sleep, so you don’t forget to let it sleep again.

Some great US-only content:

• Hulu – great variety of TV shows including The Colbert Report
• CBS – watch great CBS shows
• KSOLO – Karoake online, must be signed in to view.

if you want to try a German-based service for Karaoke, try Mikestar.

Anyone have any recommendations for other US-only content?

The RAM installed, no problem. Just unlock the battery bay, unscrew 3 screws, flip 2 levers, pull out 2 memory cards, push in 2 more with quite some force, shut the case and ready to go. The hard drive was a bit more complicated. I downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner and backed up everything to my Time Machine external hard drive. So, again, unlock battery bay, unscrew 3 screws, pull out hard drive tab, stick in new hard drive, screw it back in and ready to go. I booted from my Time Machine drive (only possible after the carbon copy cloning), and everything worked fine.

I only lost my SVN repositories which I had to checkout again, and then restore my working files back in using Time Machine. [If you're looking for a good graphical app for SVN on OS X, I'd recommend the new Versions.] All in all, a relatively headache-free upgrade, and not a bad amount of extra power for only 220 EUR. I’m just a little worried, because my computer seems to get much hotter than it used to, even reaching temperatures of 85 C (185 F)! But it could also be getting hot from an exorbant amount of hard drive use lately as I backup stuff and move large files around. I downloaded smcFanControl and it doesn’t seem to be helping too much. I’m even using a Lapinator.

Update: I discovered the problem was that I didn’t attach the special legs to my Lapinator, thus the air under my laptop didn’t have space to ventilate.