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You've mastered checking out clips of last week's "Saturday Night Live" on Hulu, but that's not the only way to catch up on a TV show that you've missed. Thanks to a host of new technologies (some of them free), it will soon be possible to watch anything anywhere -- from live TV on your iPhone to YouTube on your television.

The best part? You don't have to be a techie to pull this off. Let Lemondrop show you how to watch TV just about anywhere.

Watch Live TV on Your Smartphone or iPod
The Valups Tivit is a handheld device that lets you stream TV shows to your iPhone (or an iPod Touch or any BlackBerry). Sure, you can already watch YouTube clips on your iPhone, but what makes Tivit special is that it broadcasts live TV. Valups is still figuring out how much the Tivit will cost when it launches this spring (they say between $90 and $120), but the price of the device is all you'll ever have to pay. While AT&T or Verizon will charge you extra each month to use their networks to stream TV shows to your phone, Tivit uses Wi-Fi. That means as long as you're near a hotspot, you can get your live "Lost" fix.

Watch Live TV on Your Laptop
Away on a business trip and dying to watch the latest episode of "Glee" when everyone else does? You're on the verge of being able to do this now. If your PC runs either Windows Vista or Windows 7, it came with Windows Media Center already installed, which can stream and even record live TV. Hello, DVR on a laptop!

The one other thing you need: a TV tuner. Some laptops come with them built in, but you'll probably have to buy one. These small devices look like flash drives, and simply plug into your laptop's USB port or ExpressCard slot (not all laptops have an ExpressCard slot, so make sure yours does before you buy this kind of tuner). Here's a neat list of ones that will definitely work with Windows 7 PCs. The biggest bummer: They can cost around $150, which ain't cheap.

Watch YouTube on Your Big Screen TV
There are so many great things about YouTube: it's free, and replaying "David After Dentist" and the Muppets singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" brings hours of entertainment. The problem is that if you want to share in the hilarity, it's no fun to crowd around a tiny laptop with a ton of people.

Boxee, a free software program for Macs and PCs, makes it easy to watch all your favorite Web content on your TV. Currently it requires hooking up your computer to a television, but soon enough you'll be able to do this without having to bother with cables. The Boxee Box (no price or release date yet) beams all of these Web videos to your TV over Wi-Fi. Even better: you'll be able to view photos from Flickr and Picasa and live baseball games from MLB.com as well.

A note on hooking up your TV and computer: It's simpler than you think. Most new PCs have HDMI ports, which means you just need an HDMI cable if you want to hook it up to a high-def television. You can get one of these for $20, and they're sold everywhere from the Apple store to Best Buy. If you own a newish Mac and want to connect your computer to your HDTV, you'll need a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI cable. (Just make sure you have the port on your Mac looks like this before you buy that particular kind of cable) .