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  • Oct. 23, 2008 9:54 a.m. petegossett Dork

    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

    Oct. 23, 2008 9:55 a.m. JmfnB SuperDork

    Windows put these neat little buttons on the bottom of the screen that allows you to "work" while surfing.

  • EastCoastMojo

    Oct. 23, 2008 9:58 a.m. EastCoastMojo Reader

    I just use the keyboard shortcut Alt+Tab to toggle between my browser and some other "appropriate" program wit a quickness.

  • GameboyRMH

    Oct. 23, 2008 10:24 a.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    In Windows, Alt-Tab, Win-D, Alt-Space-N are all you need to know. No fancy stuff needed.

  • EastCoastMojo

    Oct. 23, 2008 10:36 a.m. EastCoastMojo HalfDork

    Oooohhh. Alt+Space+N. Cool.

  • Oct. 23, 2008 10:42 a.m. mistanfo Dork

    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

    Oct. 23, 2008 11:17 a.m. 93celicaGT2 Reader

    ctrl-alt-down?

  • EastCoastMojo

    Oct. 23, 2008 11:39 a.m. EastCoastMojo HalfDork

    93celicaGT2 wrote:

    ctrl-alt-down?

    I thought that only worked on laptops

  • seann

    Oct. 23, 2008 11:46 a.m. seann Reader

    There is a website that masks your browser to look like ms word.

  • wlkelley3

    Oct. 23, 2008 12:04 p.m. wlkelley3 Reader

    EastCoastMojo wrote:

    93celicaGT2 wrote:

    ctrl-alt-down?

    I thought that only worked on laptops

    Try it

    Everything turns upside down

    ctrl-alt-up puts it back.

  • EastCoastMojo

    Oct. 23, 2008 12:15 p.m. EastCoastMojo HalfDork

    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

    Oct. 23, 2008 12:52 p.m. Dan G Dork

    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

  • GameboyRMH

    Oct. 23, 2008 12:55 p.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    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

  • cghstang

    Oct. 23, 2008 1:21 p.m. cghstang New Reader

    If you want to get fancy... http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/76ed/

  • iceracer

    Oct. 23, 2008 1:33 p.m. iceracer Reader

    And she gets paid to surf the net?

  • seann

    Oct. 23, 2008 1:57 p.m. seann Reader

    wlkelley3 wrote:

    EastCoastMojo wrote:

    93celicaGT2 wrote:

    ctrl-alt-down?

    I thought that only worked on laptops

    Try it

    Everything turns upside down

    ctrl-alt-up puts it back.

    didn't work for me

  • Luke

    Oct. 23, 2008 7:01 p.m. Luke Dork

    Haha, that's cool.

    Ctr + Alt + left/right works, too.

  • Osterkraut

    Oct. 23, 2008 7:22 p.m. Osterkraut Reader

    http://www.amazon.com/USB-Foot-Pedal-Security-Button/dp/B001GQ0BGK

    It's $8. She'll love you loooooong time for it!

  • MrJoshua

    Oct. 23, 2008 8:13 p.m. MrJoshua SuperDork

    Will it beam you over to a buddies garage to work on cars?

  • EastCoastMojo

    Oct. 23, 2008 8:42 p.m. EastCoastMojo HalfDork

    Will it beam beer into your fridge?

  • Duende

    Oct. 25, 2008 2:21 p.m. Duende New Reader

    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.

  • Osterkraut

    Oct. 25, 2008 4:04 p.m. Osterkraut Reader

    MrJoshua wrote:

    Will it beam you over to a buddies garage to work on cars?

    You never called, so I fell alseep!

 
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