How To: Use Google's language tools as a proxy server

Here's a quick-and-dirty hack to help you access sites that your company's firewall may block: Just use Google's language tools to access the site. You can set your parameters to "translate" the site from Engish to English, and then plug in any URL:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.downloadsquad.com

It may not work with every firewall, or with every site you want to visit, but it could be worth a try if you need to, say, finish your online holiday shopping and your boss is an ecommerce-blocking Scrooge.