Smartphone privacy is of little concern to many of us – after all, who else is going to be using our personal devices beside us? What have we got to hide from ourselves? While this is true, there’s always the possibility of a snooper or thief gaining access to your phone, and in this instance [...]
If you want to browse the Internet without being identified, you have to connect through an online proxy server. It means that you simply go to an online proxy website, enter a website you want to visit anonymously, into the field and then browse your website through the proxy server’s interface. However, as much as you [...]
Do you want to protect yourself and your computer? A VPN is a great way of doing this, and Hotspot Shield is a great VPN to try. It’s used by millions of people because it is reliable, and best of all, you can actually download and use it for free, as long as you don’t [...]
Are you sick of third-party websites that track your private information and slow down the web for you? It’s an annoying part of the Internet, but all kinds of companies want to know what you are doing at all times. A handy browser extension we’ve reviewed in the past called Disconnect.me helps a great deal [...]
Clear Console is a Firefox extension for those concerned about privacy who haven’t discovered private browsing mode yet or developers who constantly find themselves clearing their cache, cookies and other stored data. The extension provides a button which, when pressed reveals a drop-down menu for the super-fast removal of browsing history, without having to launch any [...]
Sometimes when you share stuff (messages, pictures etc) with people, you want them to see it once and never again. So that no record of it is kept anywhere. If you were looking for such a tool, you should check out ReadOnce. It is a web-based app that lets you create and share messages that [...]
If you are about to sign up for an account on a website that you have not heard of before, it might not be the wisest thing to provide the website with your real email address. Here to help by offering an alternative is a tool called MaskMe. MaskMe is a tool that helps ensure [...]
Do you have contacts and SMS messages that you don’t want prying eyes seeing? For one reason or another, you may have precious information in your contacts or text messages that you would not like anyone who is messing around with your phone to see. If you are looking for an easy way to make [...]
Many modern smartphones have applications that unlock the lock screen after you enter a specific pattern on the screen. Bringing that functionality to your PC’s lock screen is an app called Eusing Maze Lock. Eusing Maze Lock is a freeware utility for Windows computers. The app is sized at less than 1 MB and works [...]
Here is a little warning – if you are not too careful with what you post on your social media accounts, it may come back one day to haunt you. This is especially true with companies checking their applicants’ social networking pages for background checks. SimpleWash, formerly known as Facewash, is a web app that can [...]
There are things that we’d like to keep private while we browse the Internet. Nowadays, most mainstream browsers (e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox) allow for private browsing mode both on their mobile and desktop versions. Usually you have to enable the private mode before you start browsing to hide any traces from that particular session. [...]
Do you want to keep your online activity hidden from others who use your computer? If yes, then you should definitely check out an app called Anti Tracks Free. Anti Tracks Free is a freeware application that is compatible with computers running Windows. The app comes in a setup file that is sized at nearly [...]
While it is easy to sign up for an online account with most of the popular online services (e.g. Facebook, Twitter), get into a gym membership or a cellphone contract etc, it is not as easy to close your account or terminate your membership. Now there is a new wiki cancellation guide called Wikicancel, which [...]
Whenever you take a picture with your digital camera, a lot of personal information (also called metadata) is stored in every photo you have taken, including when it was taken, where it was taken, camera model, settings and other information. It is useful to have this information to sort out and organize your photos later [...]
We use our smartphones to use all types of data on our phone. From business contacts and work emails, to our social networking updates and family photos, the smartphone carries everything. People are mostly careful about securing their phone with passwords and not forgetting their phone anywhere, but the biggest threat to the data on [...]
You may not realise it, but your Android smartphone creates a lot of logs based on what you do every day. Over time, these logs can accumulate, slow down your device or simply put your privacy on the line. If you’re looking for an app that will search for and destroy these logs then MultiCleaner [...]
There are numerous websites that do not offer access to Internet users in a specific country. This is usually due to legal issues related with content licensing. But this creates a major problem for people – imagine wanting to check out video tutorials for your college exam preparation but having YouTube blocked in your country. [...]
Has anybody ever asked to use your computer while you had important private windows open? If yes, then you probably closed all the windows before handing over your computer. But reopening those windows is not very convenient. Here to help keep your windows open but hidden from other users is an app called WinLock. WinLock [...]
When you create a document on your computer, the saved files carries important information with it in the form of metadata. Sometimes when the information in the metadata is sensitive, you might want to remove it before sharing the digital document. Here to help you do that easily is a freeware desktop app called Metadata [...]
The applications that you use on your smartphone often communicate your data online and pass on information to their servers for processing. Since your data is sent through the Internet, there is a risk to your privacy. Here to analyze that risk is a web app called Zscaler Application Profiler. Zscaler Application Profiler is a [...]