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Surf safely at work with workFRIENDLY
What, your boss isn't cool with you spending five hours of your workday surfing the web? I guess I don't know the feeling, but I can sympathize, and I can also help you out: workFRIENDLY is a simple web service that turns any web site into an uncanny doppelganger of Microsoft Word, so you can look like you're working on "important documents" when you're actually looking at "important sports scores." workFRIENDLY strips out all the images (sorry, "photography" aficionados) and coloring from a web site and changes the format to look like a bland old word document, then wraps it up in fake Word chrome. You can even choose between Word 2003's blue or silver themes, and there's a handy "boss key" that replaces the web page with something even more work-friendly: anti-procrastination tips. workFRIENDLY is free, easy, and clever, and I highly recommend you [Via kottke.org]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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CJ said 5:50PM on 8-02-2006
If you're interested in this, check out Ghostzilla.
http://www.ghostzilla.com
It works in "any" application, and makes a Mozilla window inside of it, with varying levels of transparency. You can make it instantly disappear, only to return with a keystroke combo.
Ghostzilla is an actual application, where workFRIENDLY is a web service that encapsulates a "Word-like" window in a web browser window. Still looks like a web browser window. But with a Word doc in it.
Try Ghostzilla if you're really wanting to hide Web pages in other applications.
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Ryan Carter said 6:01PM on 8-02-2006
Sweet!
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Jordan Running said 6:10PM on 8-02-2006
C.J.: We covered Ghostzilla a few weeks back. Cool stuff.
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Fred Fry said 9:50PM on 8-02-2006
Images might be gone but embedded you tube windows are still there.
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MaskedPenguinAvenger said 11:05AM on 8-03-2006
This still doesn't stop the IT department from knowing what you are doing. This is a great way to get fired for sheer stupidity.
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