October 6, 2011
Many people tend to forget that no matter what their privacy settings are, everything they do on Facebook is visible to Facebook. Even if you choose your status updates to be seen just by a few people, Facebook can still use it for their own agenda. uProtect.it is a tool that helps you solve just this problem, and adds an extra security layer to all of your Facebook communications.
May 12, 2011
Computers are great tools that we use for both work and play. Often it’s hard to keep the two separate. So we end up researching the perfect birthday gift while the prospective recipient is watching TV right next to us. So what do you do when you suddenly find someone’s attention shifting to you, while you’re working on something you don’t want them to see? Magic Boss Key is your solution.
April 29, 2011
When you’ve had your Android for a while, the amount of pictures on the phone build up, as well as album cover art, pictures stored by applications, and wallpaper. Pretty soon you realise your phone’s Gallery is full of these pictures that slow down the loading time. So it’s time to get rid of them. Luckily, there’s a couple of really easy ways to do it.
December 22, 2010
The FBI reports that 97% of stolen laptops are never recovered or returned to their owners. In this regard, MakeUseOf has published several articles about anti-theft tracking software, such as Adeona and Prey. But to deal with the likelihood you may never recover your stolen or lost laptop, you will want to have a plan to secure [...]
August 26, 2010
Have you ever heard of Steganography? Wikipedia defines it as “the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message…” This method of hiding secret messages in pictures has been around for many years but these days with computers [...]
May 21, 2010
I previously covered an application that allowed you to hide a drive letter from users on your Windows system. Today we will be looking at a small application that will allow you to not only encrypt certain folders on your Windows system but it will also change the icon of the folder or folders you [...]
January 9, 2010
Encryption has been around for quite some time now. It is one of the preferred ways to keep data private and to sign content as coming from an authentic source. The other day I realized that I had forgotten the default keyring password for one of my Ubuntu installs and while trying to get it [...]
November 18, 2009
There are a number of free programs out there that you can use to encrypt or protect your files. Some of them seem complicated and some of them are very simple to use. Conceal is a newer program that falls in the very-simple-to-use category. Conceal is meant for use on Windows XP, Vista and Windows [...]
November 4, 2009
I have a hard drive in my system over here that holds confidential information. Occasionally, I have designers and programmers connected to my machine via various methods (most of the time we use the free UltraVNC) and I wouldn’t want them pulling up my, uhh umm, “not safe for work” content by accident. Come on [...]
October 17, 2009
Sometimes what we hide is more important than what we reveal. Especially, documents with sensitive information, some things are supposed to be “˜for some eyes only’. Such scenarios are quite common, even for the more un-secretive among us. You want to show someone a letter composed in MS Word, but want to keep some of [...]
