Sunday, August 05, 2007

Top 10 things your IT department won't tell you

Top 10 things your IT department won't tell you (WSJ via Lifehacker, but I got the link from Steve Rubel on Twitter).
My personal favorite:

3. HOW TO VISIT THE WEB SITES YOUR COMPANY BLOCKS

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The Trick: Even if your company won't let you visit those sites by typing their Web addresses into your browser, you can still sometimes sneak your way onto them. You travel to a third-party site, called a proxy, and type the Web address you want into a search box. Then the proxy site travels to the site you want and displays it for you -- so you can see the site without actually visiting it. Proxy.org, for one, features a list of more than 4,000 proxies.

Another way to accomplish the same thing, from Mr. Frauenfelder and Ms. Trapani: Use Google's translation service, asking it to do an English-to-English translation. Just enter this -- Google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.blockedsite.com -- replacing "blockedsite.com" with the Web address of the site you want to visit. Google effectively acts as a proxy, calling up the site for you.

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