Need some assistance with goofing off on the job?

Tired of feigning work at the office? Tired of looking into your rear view cubicle mirror for tattle-tails? The tips and products below can help you trick resident nosy-bodies and your boss into thinking you're working. Go ahead! Read on. I know you deserve a little breathing room from your micro-managing nemesis!

1. Clone Yourself

According to the folks at myCyberTwin.com, you can create and customize a virtual twin personality of yourself that can chat with others while you are offline! Personal users get to use this service FREE! Visit the site to learn more about creating your own cyber doppelganger.

2. Get Double Vision

Thank goodness for technology. There's a fairly new freeware player available called Double Vision. With Double Vision, you can view your favorite videos on YouTube or Hulu with a custom transparency window while you work (or not) with other applications. You're able to watch a video while writing an e-mail or a document. The best part is that you can set the level of transparency, or hide the player altogether with a simple mouse click. Learn more at Double Vision's FAQ page.

3. Disguise Your Voice When Making Personal Calls

Babble by Sonare Technologies has created a small device that will end eavesdropping for good! Babble transmits scrambled recordings of your voice, which sounds like background noise to nosy-bodies (your boss included) within earshot. Babble is compatible with most phone systems and plugs into the nearest outlet. Now you can talk to your BFF without hiding beneath your desk!

4. Work Your Computer Overtime

Or at least, make it look like its working overtime with Digital Volvano's freeware application, The Fake Progress Bar . When you run the application, the default progress bar will be displayed. Click the cog icon to bring up the settings, and then customize your progress bar to set the length of time you want it to run. Ingenious! How can you get work done when the computer is running so slow? Tell your manager you'll have the report as soon as the program is done loading (which will take as long as you want it to).

5. Send Emails While You Sleep

If you use Microsoft Outlook, you can set it up to send a message at any time. This way, you can make it look like you sent a message at 10pm instead of 10am.

Follow these simple steps to make your boss think you're putting in overtime:

a. Compose your message. If you aren't sure whether your manager will notice the time sent, you can make a reference to it in the body of your message.
b. When you're finished writing your message, click the Options button in the upper-middle portion of the Outlook window.
c. Choose Delivery Options and click the box beside the words Do Not Deliver Before and select the date and time when this message should be delivered using the drop-down boxes.
d. Choose your date and time.
e. Click Close and then click Send. You should see your email message pending in your Outbox folder.

WARNING!! You MUST keep Outlook open for this email to be sent after midnight

Take heed when employing these tricks of the trade. If you have any suggestions and tips to add to this entry (only those proven successful please!) do so in the comment box to share with your fellow slacker.