spherebox

This is an open source web browser that makes you appear as if you’re working, even though you’re surfing the net, to the the casual observer. It’s basically a browser based on Gecko HTML renderer used by Mozilla Firefox that embeds itself inside a frame of the currently focused window of any program. To add to its inconspicuousness it displays webpages using different shades of gray-scaled fonts and web images only display when you hover the mouse over them.

Ghostzilla also ‘cloaks’ anytime you move your cursor outside its browsing window and won’t reappear till you move your mouse from the far left of your screen to the far right and then back again in a zig zag motion.

Ethically speaking, it ain’t right to be web surfing during work and we at spherebox don’t condone it. If you however, like me, you have a job where you’re only assigned 3-4 hours of work a day (at best), I do highly recommend it rather than stare hopelessly at your cubicle PostIt as you’re too nervous that someone might catch a glimpse of you looking up what’s hot on spherebox :P.

Screenshot (click to enlarge image) of how it looks like embedded in my MS Outlook. Here the page looks like the content one would expect in an email making me look like I’m actually working (Replying/Reading e-mail).

Interested? Download here.

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