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Obscurity For OS X: Hide Your Files In An App Disguised As A Folder

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The days of sharing a single computer with the entire family are almost over, and most people have a separate computer system for each family member. This means you have your very own system to do whatever you want. It’s entirely up to you what your desktop looks like, how you keep files organized and which apps are installed. While you get all this freedom with your personal computer, there still isn’t any guarantee that you will never have to share or lend it to someone. The number one concern you have with someone else accessing your system is privacy. Obscurity is a free Mac app that provides you the simplest way to hide your files. Unlike marking them as hidden files or adding them to an encrypted drive, the app itself acts as a cover for your files. It creates a a mock folder that looks like a normal one, but will not open when double clicked. To be able to open it, you need to right-click the folder and select the Show Package Contents option. Read More

Easy File Hider: Quickly Hide/Show Files & Folders On Your Mac [Paid]

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Viewing hidden files on Mac isn’t one of the easier things to do. While it isn’t impossible, it requires you to either go poking in the Terminal, or to use a modifying app like Lion Secrets, and this is just to view hidden files. What if you wanted to hide a file like your Will, Insurance details or plans for conquering the world and the blue prints to your mind control machine? Easy File Hider is a Mac app worth $1.99 in the Mac App Store that lets you quickly mark a file as hidden or visible. Additionally, you can password protect access to this app, so that even if someone gains access to your system, they won’t be able to unhide your files and find them. Read More

Hide Files And Folders In Mac via Drag & Drop With Hide Folders

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Hiding files and folders in Mac isn’t as easy as in other operating systems. Take Windows as an instance, one can easily hide folders and files from Folders and Files Property dialog provided Show hidden files, folders and drives option is disabled in Folder Options. In contrast, Mac users have to bring up Terminal window every time just to hide files and folders and also to show concealed ones. If you’re looking for a relatively convenient way to hide files and folders, try out Hide Folders. It serves the need of protecting your private files and folders from prying eyes without having to open Mac Terminal to hide folder by different methods. Read More

Instantly Hide Active Program Windows And Disable Sound With Magic Boss Key

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When working on confidential content, it is necessary to keep it safe from prying eyes. This is particularly the case for individuals who work in sensitive divisions of an organizational unit (e.g. officials from the  Business Intelligence department of a company). Unfortunately, Windows does not provide any default feature to hide actively open files, folder and programs. This can however, be done with the help of Magic Boss Key which is a free application to instantly hide active program windows by using a hotkey. We are familiar with Win+M hotkey but this only minimizes the  open windows, not hides them. With Magic Boss Key, you can hide the browser, folder, and applications windows, as well as, all your desktop icons and taskbar. Items can also be excluded from the list of content to be hidden. This application can also be helpful for privacy cautious people and those who might be willing to hide some active applications from their boss. For example, lets say you are browsing through Facebook or playing a computer game at work. In the event that your boss suddenly arrives, the selected content can be easily hidden via a simple hotkey. Read More

Hide And Launch Set Of Applications With HiddenMenu

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HiddenMenu is a portable application which allows user to hide application links in specified corners of the screen. By default it hides the programs at the bottom right of the screen and can be accessed by hovering the mouse over the extreme right side of the taskbar. However, position can easily be changed, it let users add as many application as they want to hide off-screen. Read More

OpenPuff: Sign The Document/Application And Hide File Inside Other File

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OpenPuff is a powerful Steganography and Marking tool. For those who don’t know about steganography, it  is a phenomenon of disguising things in an elusive manner. Here it is referring towards concealing files (data) into other file of different format. Even though steganography has been made public through various kind of tools, this application brings advanced support, such as, password-protection with an option of choosing desired carrier (file). Read More

Easy Way To Hide Files In Windows 7

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Let’s admit it, everyone of us has something to hide on our PCs. There may be files or folders that you want to keep from friends or family members, or from the eyes of prying coworkers. While encryption can be a solution, implementing it is certainly neither easy nor convenient. Hiding date temporarily using Windows’ ‘hidden’ attribute can be a huge help, but imagine the trouble of locating each file first, changing the attribute to hide, and then enabling hidden file viewing to unhide these files. Not easy at all. Read More

How To Enable ‘Show Hidden Files And Folders Option’ When Disabled By a Virus

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A few days back my “Show hidden files and folders” option was not working at all even if I selected the option Show hidden files and folders from the folder option window, the changes would just disappear upon closing the dialog. It was probably some virus attack after which the Windows registry was not being updated properly. So here is what I did to restore it back.

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