January 17, 2007
Reading TOist at Work, Sneaky
Judging from our traffic statistics many of you read TOist at work. Tsk tsk. It's workers like you who are dragging the productivity of our great nation down. Oh who am I kidding. Still, we here at TOist don't want any of you to get into trouble and lose your job, how else will you read Torontoist?
Tod Maffin over at Inside the CBC pointed us to workFRIENDLY, a useful little site that transforms any site you're reading into something that resembles a MS Word document. It may also explain why seemingly no work happens at the CBC. Sadly workFRIENDLY strips Torontoist of all its graphics and the formatting isn't quite right but if it lets you look at celebrity blogs (and this site) to your heart's content who are we to complain?
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hehe, wf is a blocked site from my work. so much for that hope...
Mine, too!
I can still view Torontoist (fortunately) but recently, flickr.com has been blocked. Bummed. Can't view any more of Torontoist, BlogTO's or Carries' cool pics...I have to wait (ulp) until I get home from work now.
Ghostzilla!
From wikipedia: "Ghostzilla is an open source web browser for Microsoft Windows based on the Gecko HTML renderer used by Mozilla. It runs the browser inside the window space of another application e.g. in Microsoft Outlook, where the page was then made to look like the content one would expect in an email, leaving any bypassers with the impression the person was reading e-mail."
http://www.ghostzilla.com/
"Sadly workFRIENDLY strips Torontoist of all its graphics".... sadly? That's the point! Work word docs aren't supposed to have photos of ravers and skunks in them :)
I don't know about you, Jerrold, but I wouldn't want to work at a job that didn't heartily endorse the viewing of photos of cute babies dressed up as skunks.
The MS-Word illusion doesn't quite work for Mac users, but then again, I'd guess that a workplace that is enlightened enough to use Macs would undoubtedly encourage its staff to read Torontoist and browse Flickr.
Ooh, that's right, I said it.
no more copying and pasting into notepad for me!
I wouldn't want to work at a place that prevented me from surfing the web as I wish either, David. That's why I work from home and view Torontoist in all it's imageful glory :)