Even if you actually work at work (or you share my awesomeness in that my boss demands for me to read at work) you can still appreciate the cool web design of these two sites.
Read at Work does an awesome job making books look like PowerPoints. Why are you staring intently? It’s not to see if Snowball will take out Napoleon. That wouldn’t make sense. It’s a PowerPoint. Productivity must ensue.
It’s all HTML, aside from your browser there’s no applications running. But dang if it don’t look like it.
(There’s a really funny typo on the ersatz login screen. See if you can catch it.)
WorkFriendly turns a website/blog/whatever into a simulated Word document. Once again, no applications open on your end of things. All this really is is stripping the CSS formatting off of sites and then putting it in a frame. I’m not too impressed with this one, though. My boss knows that I’m not typing a report called “Haiku Kraka Stalking Shaq”. (At least I hope so…)
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