Most Ridiculously Awesome Geeky Computer Pranks

Everybody loves a good prank… unless you are the one on the receiving end of the fun. It’s time to hone your pranking skills, not just to make sure you are the best, but so you can avoid being pranked by others.

Yeah, sure, we could go with the old standards, like a blue screen of death screensaver or something like that, but it’s time to use our geek skills and come up with something better. We’ll cover some of the old favorites too, but maybe with a twist. Note: Many of these pranks require being able to access somebody’s computer physically, and many others require them to leave their PC logged in and unattended. You’ll have to plan accordingly.

Just create a new AutoHotkey script and drop in the following two lines of code—the first one is to hide the tray icon, and the second sets up the hotkey for replacing the text.

#NoTrayIcon
*Space::Send,SPACE

You’ll probably want to right-click on the script and compile it to an executable before putting it on their computer. I’m not providing a download for this! Just stick it somewhere on their PC, launch it, and watch the fun!

What’s really entertaining is that while I was testing this out, I accidentally pranked myself—my AHK scripts are stored in Dropbox and synced across all my PCs, and I’d forgotten about it on my desktop. Whoops!

Disclaimer: Get a sense of humor.

12 richest people in history

1. Cornelius Vanderbilt – His net worth was around $185 billion (in today’s money). He made most of his fortune from investing in railroads.
2. The Rothschilds – Not a person, but the whole family’s net worth during the 19th century was around $400 billion.
3. J. P. Morgan – Inherited a lot of money from his parents and invested it. He made $41.5 billion.
4. John D. Rockefeller – One of the wealthiest person in the history with net worth of $340 billion. He controlled 90% of the oil industry in the USA during the 19th century.
5. Andrew Carnegie – His net worth was over $300 billion. He made his fortune in the steel industry.
6. Sam Walton –  Founder of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart. His net worth was $65 billion in 1992, which equal to around $100 billion counting with the inflation.
7. Henry Ford – Founder of the Ford Motor Company. His net worth was around $200 billion.
8. William The Conqueror – His peak fortune was around $210 billion in the 11th century.
9. Bill Gates – Founder of Microsoft. His peak fortune was $101 billion, which is $136 billion in today’s dollar.
10. John Jacob Astor – Fur trader and real estate investor. He made over $100 billion.
11. Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov – The last tsar of Russia. His net worth was around $300 billion.
12. Mansa Musa I of Mali – Also known as King of Kings. He ruled the Malian Empire. Most of his wealth was in gold, with today’s prices worth around $400 billion.

18 best websites to spend your online time productively

1. Terms of Service; Didn’t Read – Terms of Service is often too long to read, so people just agree them. Here are the summaries of the most popular websites’ ToS.
2. Grovo – Build your Internet skills. You can try it for free.
3. Quora – Ask questions about any topic you can imagine and let experts answer them.
4. Vocabulary – Quickest and most intelligent way to improve your vocabulary.
5. StackOverflow – For every developer this is the best site to ask a question or answer one while you educate yourself.
6. Duolingo – This site is often mentioned here, but this is the best and easiest way to learn a new language (of course for free).
7. RedHoop – Search tens of thousands of free courses online.
8. Brain Pickings – Bringing you things you didn’t know you were interested in – until you are.
9. Investopedia – Learn everything about finance. Perfect for someone who is not familiar with the finance world (yet).
10. Information is Beautiful – Informations about anything around the World visualized.
11. Free Rice – Answer vocabulary questions and for each right answer they will donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger around the World.
12. Litemind – Explore ways to use your mind more efficiently.
13. StumbleUpon – Discover lesser known and awesome websites.
14. How To Do Things – As the name of the site says, read about methods on how to do things in multiple topics.
15. Today I Found Out – Learn new facts every day.
16. Top Documentary Films – Watch the best documentaries online.
17. OneLook – Best dictionary search online.
18. Spreeder – Speed reading online. With this simple app you can read up to 1000 words per minute, instead of the average of 200.

21 things people should do in their 20s

1. Travel a lot in order to learn.
2. Become an expert in something.
3. Volunteer to help people who are less fortunate than you.
4. Get involved in causes that matter to you.
5. Become as independent as you can.
6. Money is not a goal, but a result. Don’t focus on money itself.
7. If you make money learn how to save it.
8. Meet more people.
9. Take care of your body and exercise as much as your time allows.
10. Stay healthy, quit bad habits, but create some new, good habits.
11. Learn to think and how to be happy.
12. Read books and watch movies.
13. Spend more time with your family.
14. Don’t waste time on unnecessary things.
15. Build deep relationships.
16. Learn from your own mistakes.
17. Educate yourself, the Internet has thousands of free courses.
18. Learn to cook.
19. Expand your interests.
20. Don’t be afraid to ask for advice.
21. Learn to speak another language.

10 best browser extensions to protect your online privacy

1. HTTPS Everywhere – This extension will force secure SSL connection between your browser and a website (where possible). Created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
2. Disconnect.me – A plugin which will show you who are tracking you at the exact moment.
3. EditThisCookie – If you know what are cookies in your browser and what they do, then this extension will allow you to edit them in bulk or individually.
4. AdBlock Plus – Not only removes ads from websites, but it can also prevent advertising networks from collection informations about you (through the ads).
5. NoScript – This plugin disables JavaScript, making harder for websites to collect information. ScriptSafe is a Chrome alternative, since NoScript is Firefox only.
6. Blur – Formerly known as Do Not Track Me. Blur will let you decide who what information can collect about you. Also several other awesome tools are ready for use in this useful extension, like email masker.
7. LastPass – A password manager extension. This extension will create different passwords (strong ones) for different websites and you will have to only remember your master password.
8. RequestPolicy – Extension that gives you control over cross-site requests. Open source, but available for Firefox only.
9. Web of Trust – Gives you information about which site should you trust and which not.
10. Ghostery – This useful plugin will give you the control to decide which cookies and scripts can run by default.

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