Digital Nocturne

Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is part of it. Secure, simple, independent. No installation required.

This is a very simple program and yet very useful. Sometimes I have to keep special notes that I don’t want anyone to read. Perhaps this is the easiest way to store and retrieve them without worries. You can store some text in LockNote. When you’re done just close it and you will be prompted to save any changes you have made. You can change your password anytime and your secured notes are portable. You may put it in a flash disk and open it in any PC. You can also create self-opening text documents by draging the *.txt file in LockNote. Alas, your text file is already password-protected with strong AES 256bit encryption!

Links:
Steganos.com: Locknote
SourceForge project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/locknote
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That’s true… and you might be killing yourself slowly if you don’t take extra precaution.

Perhaps I’m not the best person to give advice on how to make your life healthier but I do take care of myself nowadays. I am a self-confessed workaholic. I feel really guilty when my goal is not achieved in a day’s work. However I don’t want to make my life more miserable because of computers so I try to organize my schedule to avoid additional stress. As Lifehacker.com puts it, “Don’t live to geek; geek to live”.

If you read this article from informationweek.com you better start believing that computer can hurt not only your body and mind but also your environment in general. Fortunately there are ways to minimize the damages.

Now, it even makes me wonder why I like computers. Computer is evil.

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The Philippine .NET User Group (PHINUG) will be having its first General Assembly this year on January 21, 2006 at AVR1, 2nd floor, Mapua Institute of Technology – Makati Campus, #333 MITC Bldg., Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City.

There will be a free technical talk, activity updates and information about the upcoming “.NET Fest” event that is slated on January 28, 2006 at Astoria Hotel, Escriva Drive, Ortigas, Pasig City.

If you are not a member of PHINUG yet, go ahead and register at http://www.microsoft.com.ph/community and join PHINUG. For more information you may visit Microsoft Philippines Community Site.

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