My school recently switched over from using PCs to Macs. And while I was more than capable of getting around whatever restrictions they tried to put on a PC, I've got no experience whatsoever with Macs. These computers can't run any application that's not preapproved by an admin, and since there are lots of ways to spend my time in class that are better than actually doing work, I turn to you for help: Is there any way to run applications without them actually being acknowledged as applications in some way? I (and the computers I'll work on) will be forever in your debt.
Ok this is what you do to get around all restrictions. Found this out myself last year. Take the program you want to run and drag it to a location you have write access too. Desktop is usaully fine. Then right click or control click to bring up the menu on it. Select "Show package contents". A folder window will come up with the a folder labeled contents, open that folder. Now you should see a few different files. One of them will be named "info.plist". Open this file with TextEdit or some other text editor. Now hit apple+f and have it locate "identifier". the next line under that is what we will edit. Delete everything inside the greater than less than signs. Replace it with "com.apple.Safari" without the quotes. Save the text file and try running the program. This almost always works. If you are still denied access, simply change the name of the file to Safari. Thats it, run anything you want.