How to access blocked sites
Sites like orkut.com are blocked in most of the companies. These are the few ways you can access the blocked sites
1. Using IP adress : Instead of giving the url of the website give the direct ip address of the website. Generally sites are blocked using the url string. But if the ISP is doing a reverse DNS(determining url using ip address) lookup the site will remain blocked.
2. Use cached pages : Type the url in google or yahoo.com and view the cached pages, But this technique will work only with static sites not with dynamic sites like orkut.com
3. Using translation services : Sites like google, altavista and yahoo provides language translation services. You can use these services to access the blockes sites. The trick is to translate the site from english to english. This ways you are using google and yahoo as proxy servers, which might have not blocked at your workplaces.
4. Using Proxy servers : You can anonymously surf the web using the proxy servers like www.proxy.org. Proxy servers hides your idenity (your ip address and host name) from the web. Beause using your identity you are accessing proxy site and from proxy site you will be accessing blocked sites.
5. URL Redirection : You can use the url redirection services like tinyurl.com. Using these you can access the blocked sites because the url remains the same in address bar.