gHacks technology news » work http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Hide And View Private Websites At Work http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/hide-and-view-private-websites-at-work/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/hide-and-view-private-websites-at-work/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:44:29 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5639 If you visit private websites, those that are not related to your work, at your workplace you have to be careful. Most companies will react on private web surfing which could lead to a kick in the butt and the search for a new job. It’s not only the supervisors that have to be taken care of, coworkers can also spy and report on you.

That’s were Vanishd comes into play. The service hides your private website by placing a authorized websites, for example Google Search, in front of it. Don’t worry, it’s not about placing a browser window over another browser window which could be done manually as well. It’s about merging two browser windows and providing a link to a sneak peak window that lets you watch through the first authorized browser window to view the second.

Vanishd adds a button to the first window. Once that button is pressed it will provide access to a rectangular are that can be moved with the mouse that shows the contents of the private website.

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The user can change the size of the viewing window with the mouse wheel and the viewing window will automatically disappear if he moves the mouse out of the browser window or right-click in view mode.

View mode is the default mode that allows you to view the contents of the hidden page. If you want to interact with it you need to click the left mouse button which switches to interactive mode. This mode allows you to interact with the website normally.

The officially supported browsers are Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox 2. Firefox 3 is available in experimental mode and seems to make some troubles with flash contents.

Some websites do not work with Vanishd including Google Mail or Yahoo Mail. It should also be noted that the contents of the hidden website will appear in the browser cache.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/hide-and-view-private-websites-at-work/feed/ 8 Firefox Beer oClock extension http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/11/firefox-beer-oclock-extension/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/11/firefox-beer-oclock-extension/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:36:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5218 Beer day is the day of the week where you go out with the guys from work. More often than not it’s Friday afternoon. The Beer oClock extension for Firefox puts a little reminder about that special time of the week in the Firefox status bar. Not the usual “x days y hours till Beer Day” but funny ones like 3500 lines of code ’til beer o’clock” or 10 ridiculous questions from clients ’til beer o’clock”.

It is even possible to add your own message to customize the add-on. The settings can be set to a specific day and time of the day until the office beer o’clock. The user can select the interval between messages that are shown and there is even a “getting close” period in which the reminders are displayed more frequently.

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That’s definitely a fun way to spend the days in the office. I would probably either add dozens of new messages or change the interval to display a message to once or twice a day instead.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/11/firefox-beer-oclock-extension/feed/ 1 Check out your surfing habits with page addict http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/20/check-out-your-surfing-habits-with-page-addict/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/20/check-out-your-surfing-habits-with-page-addict/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:05:16 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/20/check-out-your-surfing-habits-with-page-addict/ If you are interested in stats about your general surfing habits then page addict might come in handy. This firefox extension records the time that you visited a website and displays some nice graphs showing the dates, the minutes you have been on those sites and the total amount of minutes that you were using firefox on that day. That is of course not everything: You may tag a site or more than one site and check the stats of those tags as well. If you visit cnn, bbc and yahoo for work you could tag them “work” and receive the exact amount of time that you visited those sites.

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The stats are displayed at the homepage of pageaddict, urls are automatically added to the list once you visited them. Tags can be applied by creating a new tag first and then applying it to one of the urls that is already displayed. You may restrict access to a certain url by selecting that option and choosing an amount of minutes that the user is allowed to visit that site. If the limit is reached the page will not load and page addict will display the message “get back to work!”.

Not really a security feature but one that could work as a reminder that you should get back to work and stop reading a certain website..

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