Do not use the products from Global Internet Freedom. Being curious, I wanted to test them out. They are sketchy at best and my antivirus finds them to be trojans at worst. Don't bother with them.
Please expand upon how Tor "didn't work so well." I used Tor quite frequently not too long ago and never had problems with casual browsing. Also, you never explained if you were using a public terminal or had your own laptop and were using their wireless.
Personal experience tells me that remote desktop software is not very practical for this application. You need a lot of bandwidth to transmit and receive the controlled terminal's desktop. Remember that you are polling the screen for changes, and it is sending those images to your terminal.
You mentioned that you could not use a proxy as you "would have to encrypt everything for it to be anonymous." Why? Are you sure that they ban content based on key words? If so, Tor still should work as it uses encrypted connections. My next suggestion is try using a home proxy server, like FreeProxy I suppose, and couple it with Hamachi. Hamachi is great because it creates private virtual networks securely--meaning the connections are encrypted. I used Hamachi to bypass my university's firewall, giving me unlimited access to my file server from anywhere. I know applications can use Hamachi in this respect, since I had an FTP and VNC run through it for my friends and myself.
References: Tor, FreeProxy, Hamachi
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Tor's Encrypted Connections -
Tor: Overview
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To create a private network pathway with Tor, the user's software or client incrementally builds a circuit of encrypted connections through relays on the network. The circuit is extended one hop at a time, and each relay along the way knows only which relay gave it data and which relay it is giving data to. No individual relay ever knows the complete path that a data packet has taken. The client negotiates a separate set of encryption keys for each hop along the circuit to ensure that each hop can't trace these connections as they pass through.
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Hamachi -
https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi/vpn.asp
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LogMeIn Hamachi is a VPN service that easily sets up in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business network, anywhere there's an Internet connection. It works with your existing firewall, and requires no additional configuration. Hamachi is the first networking application to deliver an unprecedented level of direct peer-to-peer connectivity. It is simple, secure, and cost-effective.
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Hamachi security measures -
https://secure.logmein.com/products/...i/security.asp
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All Hamachi communications are encrypted and authenticated with industry-standard algorithms and protocols. Nobody will be able to see the data transmitted between two Hamachi peers. Not even us.
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