My wife's new job has her left with, um, ample free time. Un fortunately, she's located where people can view her monitor as they walk by. She can see them coming from her seat though.
I seem to remember a site that had a button to pop open some random spreadsheets/charts/bs/etc. that you could use as a cover for surfing the net, but I haven't been able to find it. Anyone know what it is? Any other sites you'd reccomend?
JmfnB
SuperDork
10/23/08 9:55 a.m.
Windows put these neat little buttons on the bottom of the screen that allows you to "work" while surfing.
I just use the keyboard shortcut Alt+Tab to toggle between my browser and some other "appropriate" program wit a quickness.
In Windows, Alt-Tab, Win-D, Alt-Space-N are all you need to know. No fancy stuff needed.
Oooohhh. Alt+Space+N. Cool.
I remember that Leisure Suit Larry had one of those buttons. Can't remember what it was though. Took you to a fake spreadsheet.
93celicaGT2 wrote:
ctrl-alt-down?
I thought that only worked on laptops
seann
Reader
10/23/08 11:46 a.m.
There is a website that masks your browser to look like ms word.
I have been trying to do this on the computers at work and it does not appear to be supported by the video card. I just want to see the reaction from the shop guys, but I haz been denied.
Dan G
Dork
10/23/08 12:52 p.m.
Checkout the ghostfox addon for firefox. Lets you have a browser window open WITHIN any other window (like outlook or excel or whatever) and show/hide it just with mouse movement, no clicks.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2278
93celicaGT2 wrote:
ctrl-alt-down?
Wow, I didn't even know that!
After doing some research it seems to be a feature that comes with Intel's video driver package (and some ATI cards have it too).
I see some serious pranking in the future
If you want to get fancy...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/76ed/
And she gets paid to surf the net?
Luke
Dork
10/23/08 7:01 p.m.
Haha, that's cool.
Ctr + Alt + left/right works, too.
http://www.amazon.com/USB-Foot-Pedal-Security-Button/dp/B001GQ0BGK
It's $8. She'll love you loooooong time for it!
Will it beam you over to a buddies garage to work on cars?
Will it beam beer into your fridge?
Duende
New Reader
10/25/08 2:21 p.m.
Hah, I like how that thing is described as "disguised as an extension cord," and it's just got a fake plug-in on it with "SECURITY BUTTON" underneath.
Still cool.
MrJoshua wrote:
Will it beam you over to a buddies garage to work on cars?
You never called, so I fell alseep!