In the past some of you have e-mailed me letting me know that your company was blocking you from accessing Scott-O-Rama.com from work.  The horrors!  I don’t know how those of you poor souls affected by this clear and blatant human rights violation are surviving.  I’m writing letters to Amnesty International asking for their intervention immediately.

In the meantime while I would never advocate that you access Scott-O-Rama.com (and leave lots of comments!) from your place of employment possibly risking your job, here are a couple of suggestions on how you can still visit my site if your company has blocked it.

First of all, try going to the alternate domain www.scottorama.com (no dashes).  While I’d prefer people use and link to www.scott-o-rama.com with the dashes, the other domain name will get you here too.  Unfortunately your company is likely to see that you are accessing that alternate URL and block it as well.  A better suggestion is below.

HOW TO VISIT THE WEB SITES YOUR COMPANY BLOCKS

The Problem: Companies often block employees from visiting certain sites — ranging from the really nefarious (porn) to probably bad (gambling) to mostly innocuous (Web-based email services).

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.

The Risk: If you use a proxy to, say, catch up on email or watch a YouTube video, the main risk is getting caught by your boss. But there are scarier security risks: Online bad guys sometimes buy Web addresses that are misspellings of popular sites, then use them to infect visitors’ computers, warns Mr. Lobel. Companies often block those sites, too — but you won’t be protected from them if you use a proxy.

How to Stay Safe: Don’t make a habit of using proxies for all your Web surfing. Use them only to visit specific sites that your company blocks for productivity-related reasons — say, YouTube. And watch your spelling.

I want one!

As Buckaroo can testify, this is my philosophy:

 
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Thanks to Rudy Park.

Now this would be very cool if true, and IMHO I wouldn’t doubt it at all. There was a reason for that switch to Intel processors beyond just speed, and I think this is it.

Imagine being able to run Mac or PC apps natively within OS X. Parallels is close to that with their Coherence feature, but this would be the real deal. No need to buy a separate copy of Windows.

Oh… and think of the possibilities for you gamers out there…

clipped from theappleblog.com Analyst believes Leopard will ‘integrate Windows interoperability’ Since Steve Jobs announced the switch to Intel nearly two years ago, it’s been continually rumored that Macs would gain the ability to run Windows applications natively within OS X. And with Jobs set to reveal Leopard’s “secret features” at June’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the idea has taken hold of at least one long-time Mac analyst. In a client note, PiperJaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote of the WWDC that the firm is “expecting a full-feature demonstration of Leopard, including a demo of how Leopard will integrate Windows interoperability.” And if it doesn’t happen, I’ll just have to add it to the list of Biggest Apple Rumors (that never came true) along with the whole ‘iPhone delayed to October’/Engadget fiasco.