Just read the article over at PC World. SlyDial looks awesome. I can't wait to give it a try.

jaledwith

How could you forget listentoamovie.com? The player even has a "boss" function that makes the window look like an Excel spreadsheet.

[www.listentoamovie.com]

lexbaby

Good stuff >=)

Gakusei

"inconspicuously reading on the job"

Isn't that why toilet stalls were invented?

TommySez

Still use Ghostzilla, you can browse the internet inside a spreadsheet inside Excel! Totally stealthy!

Cowboy Bill

Ghostzilla was a nice tool, too bad it wasn't updated for a more recent browser version.

m-p{3}

@lexbaby:

This is the greatest thing ever. Listening to Muppets Take Manhattan while trying to code might not be the most efficient thing ever, but it is a lot more enjoyable than trudging through Java while listening to the same five songs on the radio.

caelanarcher

ah, the old 'embedded image in an email' trick. that's exactly why i don't read spam - i'm afrad it will send a message to the sender that tags my email address as 'active' and i'll just get more spam!

garbanzo-bean

This is hardly a hack for 'getting things done' :P

chrishowarth

@caelanarcher: Muppets FTW! They haven't added movies for a long time. I hope the site stays up.

lexbaby

While there are tons of applications I use at work to goof off( Portable Firefox, Portable Limewire, Ubuntu Hardy installed to another partition run through Virtualbox, etc.), there's still nothing that beats leaving AutoCAD running whilst browsing Lifehacker, Reuters, and wahtever else grabs my attention (boredatwork.com anyone?). With my superhero hearing abilty and a simple Alt-Tab, no one is the wiser about what I'm really doing. That, and strategically turning my monitor so no one has a clear view of it.....

crouton976

greasemonkey + company portal + your favorite site

SamburgerHandwich

All elementary and sooooo . . . high school. I think I'd rather be planning my next trip to Maui provided by the boss for not wasting my time and my employer's time. WE get paid to fix things and make corporate life run smoothly. Any jerk who tries this stuff is gone in a day.

rainbowsky

Wifi: I always wanted to create an open "honey pot" access point that just showed something obscene.

Laptop alarm: I always wonder how pissed people would be if someone temporarly unplugged your laptop so they could plug it into a power strip, or if the power went out, or a fuse blew while you were away from the computer.

email: Don't most mail clients alert you before showing outside content? Can't you also request a read reciept?

Webcam: Yawcam can give you motion detection (with email notification) and it can stream.

Read books at work: Powerpoint is very suspicious. Much better to use word. Same as I sometimes copy blog posts into word to read, then write a reply in word and copy it over to firefox when no one's looking.

Browse the Net Without Leaving a Trace: CTRL+SHIFT+DEL? Saves an extension.

johnsmith1234

The wifi fun is hilarious, but flipping or blurring images won't stop someone from using something like uTorrent or another bandwidth draining download app.

atomicrabbit

the self-drustructing email service is retarded. For one thing, you get an email that says
"A friend (or foe?) sent you a self-destructing message. You have one chance to read it."

The first thing I'd do before clicking the link is get my finger ready on the print-screen button. I know it's just for fun, but it's a waste of a domain name IMO.

On the other hand, DidTheyReadIt sounds really interesting and actually useful! The wifi trick, streaming web cam and ophcrack are all quite useful tips, but everything else is pretty much useless fun when you have WAY too much time on your hands.

atomicrabbit

I thought the Ophcrack was pretty cool, but it turned out to have a Trojan, at least Avast said many times. Hmmm...

Melik

Sly = Devious

I'm with Rainbowsky on this one. If you want to screw off become the Big Lebowski.

Onewalrus