Posted by Dickey on Dec 9th, 08 | Filed under
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Sometimes, you may want to protect your executable files from others. There is an application called EXE Password Protector which introduced by GiveAwayOfTheDay. Too bad the free promotion was finish.
Fortunately, you have an alternative application which can also protect your exe files called Empathy. Empathy is a free and portable application.
Empathy let you protect your application from unauthorize person. You can use Empathy in your office, to protect your application from you collegues, or even your BOSS!
There are 4 options in the main interface. Use the Protect button to password protect your application. While the Unprotect button will remove the password. The Test button will run the protected application and to see whether the application can be run after protected by password. The Help button will open the Empathy help file.
The protected application can be run at different machine or different Windows OS, as long as you have the password.
The unregistereded version can only accept 1 character password. This may enough for non-IT guy as people will normally stop accessing your application once they see the password protected dialog box prompt out.
To use multiple characters password, you have to send the author a picture postcard, with your name and email, and the author will send you the unlock code.
Download : Empathy
Posted by Dickey on Aug 7th, 08 | Filed under
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Email has become an important tool for all of us. We send and receive a lot of emails everyday as it slowly will become a replacement for the traditional mail.
However, we will also receive more and more spam mail, and we may want to protect or hide our real email address when signup something.
So, we may try akapost, a service which will protect your email address. Once you singup for the service, you will be given an email address (username@akapost.com). Every email that send to this address will be forwarded to your own email address.
Beside this, you can also send email by using your akapost account. Your recipients will never know your real email address. The sender of the email will appear as “username@akapost.com”. This means that you will never make your email address public.
Although akapost is free, but you only can add 1 email address. If you want to have more emaill address under your account, you may try tehir paid plan.
akapost
Posted by Dickey on Jul 21st, 08 | Filed under
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USB Write Protector is a portable utilities which can write-protect your USB flash drive so that virus/spyware can’t copy itself to the drive.
The main cause of viruses are USB flash drive. These viruses tend to copy themselves to the flash drive whenever system detected new device plug in. I still remember there are some old USB drives that come with write protect feature. But unfortunately most of the new flash drive don’t come with such feature, maybe the manufacturers want to cut down the cost?
So, the only way to protect our USB flash drive is enable the write protect through our own PC. With USB Write Protector, you can turn on/off the write protect to a USB flash drive.
Open this application before you plug any flash drive into your computer. After you turn on the write protection, you will not be able to write any files to the flash drive, or delete any files from it. You must always unplug and plug your flash drive if you want to turn on/off the write protection.
Note: This utilities will not write any files to your flash drive, it just make sure your flash drive is write protected in this cumputer only. So, when you plug the flash drive into another PC, your flash drive may still infacted by viruses. So, the beast way to protect your flash drive is to install this application to all computers that you may use.
download USB Write Protector | download from MediaFire
Posted by Dickey on Mar 8th, 08 | Filed under
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Sometimes, we want to sign up for a web service, but were hesitate to giving out our email address because it may brought us a lot of spam mails. There are a few solution to this question.
Use a disposable email address
There are a lot of disposable email that you can choose. Guerrilla Mail and Mint email are the examples. When you visit Mint email, you will get a random email address. When you want to sign up any service, just use the random email address. Normally, these email will last for few hours. Some of them even provide automatic email verification. By using such service, you real email address will never appear on the spammer list.
Use temporary email forwarding service
This is the service which will create an temporary email account for you ( but you need to provide your real email account for them). Then you use the temporary email account to sign up anything you want. After that, all emails received by the temporary email will automatically forwarded to your real email account. Melt Mail is a website which provide this service.
Conclusion
I personally recommend the first solution. You still have to provide your email address to the temporary email forwarding service. Who knows they will sell your email address to others company? But the advantage of the second service is, you still can save your registration email in your own inbox, but you won’t get them if you use the disposable email address.
Guerrilla Mail | Mint email | Melt Mail
Posted by Dickey on Feb 26th, 08 | Filed under
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PixelCryptor is a free application which can encrypt any files by using an image. You need the same image to decrypt the package.
I had cover a tutorial before, which teach you how to hide a text file in an image. Now, this powerful application can encrypt anyting by using an image file, and export the result as a single package file (.cgp). You need the same image in order to decrypt the package.
The application’s interface is very simple. To encrypt files, choose Encode Files -> add files -> choose an image as your encryption key -> choose the encrypted package name. To decrypt, follow the similar steps by choosing Decode Files.
This application is very suitable for users who want to encrypt files with fast and easy. Compare to other professional encryption software like Truecrypt, i think this PixelCrypt is more suitable for computer novice as it doesn’t have much settings.
PixelCrypt
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Posted by Dickey on Jan 27th, 08 | Filed under
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LockImage is a light application which provide password protect for your image. After finish encrypt your image, LockImage will create an executable file, which required the password to open and view.
Sometimes, we want to send confidential images to someone else, but we scared someone (hackers) will get these images before they reach the destination. So, we need to password protect these images.
There are few ways to password protect your images/files. For example, we can use Winzip/Winrar to zip them and choose a password to encrypt. But, there are few steps we need to go through in order to encrypt files using Winzip/Winrar. So, is there any easier way for us to password protect our image? Yes, by using LockImage, you can easily protect your image with password. It will create an executable file which contains the image.
How it works?
The interface is quite simple. When you launch the application, choose File -> Open to choose an image and then choose File -> Save As to save the image as a protected executable file. You need to provide the password in order to protect your image.
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