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Chameleon hides windows you shouldn't have open at work
by Lee Mathews Mar 2nd 2009 at 5:00PM
There's nothing worse than prying eyes making it hard for you to enjoy your favorite Time Wasters or streaming videos as you multitask in your cubicle. We've looked at a few remedies before, like DoubleVision, but Chameleon 2 offers a slick grouping feature that makes it an interesting option.
Launch Chameleon and it tucks itself away in your system tray. Call up the main window and it displays all the programs currently running on your system, which you can then add to the hide group. Programs you add can be hidden completely with a hotkey (ctrl + win), and you can also set their transparency level. As you can see, the result is slightly less obvious than this kind of slacking off would normally be.
Launch Chameleon and it tucks itself away in your system tray. Call up the main window and it displays all the programs currently running on your system, which you can then add to the hide group. Programs you add can be hidden completely with a hotkey (ctrl + win), and you can also set their transparency level. As you can see, the result is slightly less obvious than this kind of slacking off would normally be.
Chameleon is a free download for 32-bit Windows systems (it didn't play well with my Vista x64 install), and the .Net 2.0 runtimes are required. It's fairly light on resources, hovering around 9mb of memory on my desktop running the Windows 7 beta.
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, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
finnith said 6:55PM on 3-02-2009
I just realized the extent to which Pokémon corrupted my mind.
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Xusen said 5:05AM on 3-03-2009
explain..plz
Dann said 12:30PM on 3-04-2009
What? Chamander?
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Mark said 8:29AM on 3-07-2009
No, Charmeleon most likely. It is the evolved form of Charmander.
Pokemon hasn't corrupted my mind, but it's certainly taken over.