What Your Companys I.T Wish You Didn’t Know

IT staffers have a good reason for restricting your use of company system, to guard your organization’s PC, data and bandwidth, the packet protector crowd may frown on IM software company PCs, ban unauthorized software use, and limit transfers of larger files.

But you can still safely chat on your favorite IM client, use unapproved but legal and harmless software and transmit files of many sizes.

If you want to chat, most companies discourage or prohibit IM software, citing security concerns and the strain it places on network resource, unfortunately, the workaround web based in instant messaging probably uses even more system bandwidth; but at least offerings such as AOL AIM express and Google IM service work without needing any additional software.

If your company’s IT staff hasn’t blocked multiple IM client, you can use Trillion basic for added privacy because it encrypts the communication alternatively, use a third party IM enabler like Meebo, which lets you IM from its home page on the web, with the option of logging on anonymously.

Run Any App at work
Policies that forbid non-approved software needn’t prevent you from legally and safety using programs that help you with your job or that are otherwise harmless.

If your company hasn’t deactivated the external ports on its PCs, simply load what ever software you want onto a U3-enabled USB flash memory drive or portable hard drive, the apps and data on U3 drives remain independent of your system, when you remove the drive from the USB port the files and applications vanish along with it.

PortableApps.com offers free open-source software that you can save to any external storage device; all of the files temporarily stored on your work PC while you use the software disappear when you unplug the drive.

Transfer huge files
Most business imposes a ceiling on the size of e-mail attachments they’ll accept but you needn’t let that prevent you from receiving the files required for your network.

Box.net, SendSpace, SendThisFile and YouSendIt offer free file transfer services, low-cost premium plans for sending giant files, and password protected transmission, for example you SenIt lets you send file of 100 MB or less without requiring you to register, other sites insist that provide an e-mail address when you sign up, recipient usually have a week to click the link in their e-mail to download a file from the service’s server.