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PhotoProtect: Protect Your iPhone Photos From Accidental Deletion [Cydia]

There was a time when you couldn’t delete albums on your iPhone without having to connect it to iTunes. iOS has come a long way since that, and so has the Photos app and its options. Now, the focus is more on convenience and somewhat less on security. This has lead to the rather prominent [...] (more…)

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Password Protect Your iPhone Home Screen’s Jiggle Mode With IconLock

iOS is an operating system brimming with apps. It takes quite a lot of time (not to mention money) to get your favorite apps downloaded and installed on your iDevice. So it’s always annoying and sometimes even damaging, when a person deletes your apps intentionally or unintentionally. In addition to the app, you might also [...] (more…)

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Visidon AppLock For Android Uses Face Recognition To Unlock Protected Apps

Protecting the private data on your mobile device from prying eyes often comes at the price of convenience. To what degree your preferred security tool hampers your day-to-day usage depends on the method it employs to secure your privacy. Most users prefer setting a lock screen password, PIN or pattern. Although said method is the [...] (more…)

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WinLockr Locks Your Windows PC With A USB Device

WinLockr is a portable application which provides extra security for your locked account by disabling the mouse and keyboard, except for the release key combination. With WinLockr you can lock your system simply by plugging in a USB, which has to be configured with this software. This provides additional safety for your locked system and [...] (more…)

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Automatically Disable Android Lockscreen When Connected To Home WiFi Network

Keeping the screen of your Android device locked is a necessary precaution, but waking your device up, swiping across or along the screen to unlock it every time the display times out can prove to be quite a hassle, especially if your lockscreen is password-protected. And when you’re at home, said precaution becomes an unnecessary [...] (more…)

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Lock Your Keyboard And Mouse With KeyFreeze

KeyFreeze is a application that allows users to lock their keyboard and mouse in order to avoid others from messing up the computer. For example, it is a common problem that small children often play with the keyboard and mouse, which results in unwanted commands being executed. KeyFreeze can also be useful during voice chats [...] (more…)

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Drive Tweaker – Create Virtual Drives, Lock And Customize Local Drives

We reviewed Virtual Drives Manager last November which provides user the functionality of creating virtual drives, now Drive Tweaker comes in as another utility which lets you create virtual drives and with that it offers some extra features like lock and customize a local drive. (more…)

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Secure Folder Password Protects And Hides Windows Folders

Earlier we reviewed a tool called PenyuLocker which lets user protect any folder with a password,  it lacks one user friendly option and that is right-click context menu option. Secure Folder integrates with Windows Shell to give users an easy and quick way to lock their folders with just a couple of clicks. (more…)

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How To Lock A Program Or Windows Application With AppLocker

AppLocker is a free tool for Windows that lets you lock any program or application instantly. If you are an administrator and don’t want other users to access certain programs, then you can lock them using this tool. You can lock multiple applications at once. Just run this tool and you will be shown a [...] (more…)

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How To Lock/Unlock Keyboard Keys Or Mouse Buttons Easily

What’s the point of locking keyboard keys or mouse buttons? It’s the first question that comes to mind. If you are using a wheel mouse like me, you will know that there is a middle button. I have pressed this button thousand of times by mistake while scrolling down webpages, so I need to disable [...] (more…)

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How To Create A Shortcut To Lock Your Computer In Windows 7/Vista

I have to lock my computer every time I need to go somewhere, since going to Start > Arrow >Lock takes a lot of time, I have made a desktop shortcut for it to make things easy. Here is how you can make one too. (more…)

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How To View And Kill Opened Or Locked Files In Windows

Are you getting any one of these errors when you try to delete or move a file, Cannot delete or move [filename]: There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use. Cannot delete or move [filename]: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that [...] (more…)

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How To Lock Windows Xp Securely And Easily

If you are stepping away from your computer, you might want to lock it for security reasons so that it is not intruded by passersby especially if you are in office or some place public, this post will come in handy if you are looking for the solution to this problem, we will try to [...] (more…)

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How To Create A Secure Locked Folder In Windows XP

We come across situations when we need to lock our folders to insure that the files, videos or images are protected. Today I will help you to ensure that you can secure data on a local Windows PC without the need for any sort of expensive software. This procedure involves using just notepad, with it [...] (more…)