Sneaking around like a Ninja at work

Do you have a boss that looks over your shoulder to see if you’re actually doing work and not chatting or playing games online on your computer? Well, according to this, a company in Korea is developing computer games that you can play without opening another window, so that you’ll less likely get caught. This is great, now productivity in the office will be decreased to about 10%!

Here are other ways to sneak around and lower your productivity:

If you are able to use headphones while working, Listen to a movie is a site that streams the audio portion of movies or television shows. You’re probably asking why in the world would I listen to a movie or television show without being able to watch it? Well, that’s what I thought at first, but once you've already seen a movie or television show, trust me, you won’t need the visuals. This is perfect for comedy stand-ups films like Chris Rock’s Bigger and Blacker or Eddie Murphy’s Raw. They surprisingly have an extensive list of movies from Austin Powers to Zoolander and Television shows like Friends or Seinfeld. The sneaky part is that the player can be hidden as an Excel spreadsheet! So it’s work "friendly". And of course it’s free.

If you like chatting online using instant messaging, but don’t want to be seen chatting on your screen, try using Trillian. It has a transparency option that "blends" your IM windows to your deskstop. If you like using AIM, try installing Middle Man. It's a plugin for AIM that enables it to be transparent and other cool features like eliminating those annoying ads or making yourself seem “idle”. And of course they are both free.

Or if you have problems installing AIM on your work computer or any other applications for that matter because of "Administrator" issues, try installing it in the Temp folder as described in this article. If that doesn’t work, use the web based version of AIM or MSN messenger.

Now stop fooling around and get to work.