Browse the internet via Notepad

[The_Techie]

*Note, this is for Windows XP users. I'll have a look at a Windows Vista alternative*

If you have, say, a boss who monitors for how long you have iexplore.exe or firefox.exe open, why not browse the web with notepad.exe?

Open Notepad


Click on "Help" -> "Help Topics"

Right-click on the title bar -> Jump to URL

Type the URL and click OK.

Source.

 

[Ivan...]

Heheheh

 

[Just_Ice]

Beanie is a genius!!!

 

[scotty777]

clever. very clever

 

[rph72]

Brilliant.

 

[HavocXphere]

Clever.

 

[mh348]

Very Clever

 

[Ivan...]

clever indeed

 

[Stokstert]

You pass with flying colors!!

 

[Ou grote]

Doesn't that work with windows explorer as well?

 

[The_Techie]

Doesn't that work with windows explorer as well?

It works with just about anything that opens the Help function (including Calculator)

 

[SanchoP]

Another very nifty thing, though in a slightly different vein, is workfriendly.net

It's similiar to a proxy, except it doesn't show pics and displays websites as if they were Word documents... There's also a 'Boss Key' which changes the display to a whole lot of stuff about procrastination...

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Interesting...

...reminds myself of the fake Lotus123 spreadsheet which'll show Lotus 123 process a whole lot of numbers - and you can read your book whilst it's doing that

 

[dadecoza]

I'll stick with links/lynx on my green on black terminal. No one ever doubts that it is not work.

 

[Ghost02]

Does this get past proxies that work or schools put to ban websites like facebook ?

 

[Ghost02]

Does this get past proxies that work or schools put to ban websites like facebook ?

 

[.Froot.]

Really ingenius. Enough said....

 

[kronoSX]

Thats cool..now for vista folk.

 

[mancombseepgood]

Thats windoze help, not notepad
U can do the same with windoze explorer - and that stays open all the time.

 

[The_Techie]

Thats windoze help, not notepad
U can do the same with windoze explorer - and that stays open all the time.

True, but you use Notepad (in this case) to get to the Help function.

How exactly do you do it with Windows Explorer? The only help option I get is to open the Help and Support Centre, not the help function itself...