Browser the internet in privacy

[cropcircles]

Ok I just heard about this the other day. Facinating. If its been posted I apologize. I went to whatismyip and your IP is not masked.

1. Open Calculator

2. On the help Menu, click Help Topics

3. Right click the icon on the topleft corner of the screen

4. Click on Jump To URL

5. Put the address on the Jump To The URL box (Put http:// before an address )

6. if you minimize the help topic box onto the taskbar you'll see that in place the webpage name the name'll be Calculator Help !!

Edited May 12, 2008 by cropcircles

[Enzo.]

That is pretty cool, useful for surfing the web at work.

[redeemed]

Nice :cool:

Does it use up the CPU a bit with anyone? :/ The cpu was all right though after a few minutes.

[Angel Blue01]

Yeah, there've been times when I'm stuck browsing the Web in the help app because of a link inside a program's helpfile.

[BorgDrone]

THX for the tip however it still uses IE's proxy settings to connect to the web therefore it isn't any more private to surf than just using IE tbh.

[Ionen]

Safari has Private Browsing built-in

[SMELTN]

lol thats pretty funny

[+shift. MVC]

Hahaha sneaky sneaky. That brings slacking at work to a whole new level. :D

[Deletedforeverhaha]

Ah, the things people do to avoid getting caught not doing work at work...

Loophole + 1

Productivity -90%

[Abhishek kapoor]

thax ....very good

[Gally]

Yeah, you can do it with other windows programs as well. I wonder if it shows up in history?

[primexx]

how is this "private"?????

[Abhishek kapoor]

^^ the sites you visit never get into browser history

[primexx]

^^ the sites you visit never get into browser history

index.dat

[Mando]

it will also use page requests via port 80 therefore any proxy/web sec unit set via AD in GPO in a domain would also render this useless and treat is as normal http.

nice find though ;)

[Uni_Verse]

Thx. Very cool found :D

[cwpenner]

Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 has "InPrivate Browsing" which doesn't save cookies, history, or any temp files, so anything you do will be completely anonymous and not tracked

[PermaSt0ne]

doesn't work in vista :\

[Fusion101]

It also means if your boss comes over and looks at what you are doing, all he/she will she is the helpfile on the taskbar :)

[wellofsouls]

how is this "private"?????

I guess it's "private" in that to hide your web browsing from your boss :p