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Firstly download LockImage and launch it. Go to File> Open and browse for the image you want to save as .exe. Now, go to File> Save as and give a name for the image file. You’ll be prompted to enter a password for the file, enter a password and click ok. That’s it! The image file will now be saved as a password protected .exe file. To open the image file again you need to enter the password. - lebaron

Windows only: If you've ever wanted to keep a program safe from prying eyes but don't want to close it, free utility LockThis! will let you easily protect any open program, so that un-minimizing it requires a password. - lebaron

One of the most noticeable improvement in Windows 7 is the task bar, rechristened as ‘Superbar’. The thick glassy task bar with features like ‘Jumplist’ and ‘Pin-to’ has endeared many to the new operating system. If you are one of those who are still not ready to upgrade to Windows 7, there is a way for you to enjoy some of the new task bar features while continuing to use Windows XP and Windows Vista. - lebaron

In my earlier post I had discussed about how to capture the IP address of a remote computer. Once you obtain this IP address it is necessary to trace it back to it’s source. So in this post I will show you how to trace any IP address back to it’s source. In fact tracing an IP address is very simple and easy than we think. There exists many websites through which you can trace any IP address back to it’s source. One of my favorite site is ip2location.com. Just go to http://www.ip2location.com/demo... and enter the IP address that you want to trace in the dialog box and click on “Find Location”‘. With just a click of a button you can find the following information for any given IP address. - lebaron

This tool works in real time and can detect whether email addresses are valid. - lebaron

Internet is growing really fast and sometimes we don’t even understand what’s real and what’s fake over the web. The best example is an email ID. It’s pretty difficult to identify a fake Email ID. It may so happen that you need to send an important email and the email ID doesn’t exist or it’s a wrong one. But, there are ways through which you can easily identify a fake email ID. Firstly, you can send a test email to the id. If you receive a failure mail delivery report then the ID isn’t available. Well, there’s an alternative to this method too. - lebaron

Windows/Mac/Linux: If you're a fan of photos that are desaturated save for an interesting burst of color left behind—often a vibrant one like a yellow flower or red carpet—Tintii makes it easy to play with the technique. Source photo by O Palsson. Tintii is available as a stand-alone tool, the one we're reviewing here, and as a plugin for Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. The stand-alone version is free to try out the application, activating the plugins costs $16. - lebaron

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension The Camelizer adds a small button to online retailers Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy that, when clicked, displays price history charts and item watch features to help you make a smart buy. (Click the image above for a closer look.) Once you've installed the experimental extension (the experimental part means you'll have to tick a checkbox agreeing that it could be unstable before you can install it), just start doing your normal shopping around on Amazon, Newegg, or Best Buy. You'll notice a small Camel button strip on the left of your browser. To bring up Camelizer's price history charts, just click the Camel button. As you can see in the screenshot above, on Amazon Camelizer compares Amazon's price history with third party new and used prices. - lebaron

Windows only: Portable application NirLauncher bundles 100+ of the best NirSoft utilities into a single launcher window, and even allows you to add your own utilities to make a killer flash drive toolkit. Once you've downloaded the zip file, you can extract the contents into a new folder on your desktop or flash drive, and then launch the NirLauncher.exe application from that folder, which will give you quick access to the 100+ NirSoft utilities included in the package. - lebaron

Windows only: Free application STDU Viewer is an all-in-one tabbed reader for electronic documents, supporting everything from your standard PDF to the less common comic book archive (CBZ/CBR). It's free, fairly lightweight, and snappy. (Click the image above for a closer look.) STDU has a nice browser-style tabbed interface for viewing multiple documents in one window, supports most electronic document formats you would want (including TXT, TIFF, PDF, DjVu, Comic Book Archive, and XPS), displays thumbnails of pages in the sidebar, and allows for bookmarking in documents. As FreewareGenius points out, it also has a really nice text search tool that displays all the results in a list rather than requiring you to jump all over the document. - lebaron

Windows only: Standalone application Theme Builder creates themes for Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and even Outlook emails—allowing you to create a consistent look and feel across all your documents. Downloading the application requires using Microsoft's annoying File Transfer Manager, which usually requires Internet Explorer, and once you get past that hurdle you need to make sure that you've got the .NET Framework 3.0 and Office 2007 Interop installed—but once you've successfully navigated through all of those, the application is relatively easy to use. - lebaron

Note: Please create a create a restore point before patching system files. Many themes only work on a specific operating system, architeture, and service pack. i.e. Vista SP2 x86. Please read the instructions for each theme very carefully. Installing desktop themes on your Windows XP machine takes just a few minutes . Learn, in this guide, how to patch system files and install themes. - lebaron

Some applications display an interface, program window or command line window if they are executed even though this is not needed for the program execution. It is usually possible to minimize the application window to the Windows system tray after it appeared on the computer screen but not before that is happening. Hide App has been developed for exactly that purpose: To hide applications in Windows so that they do not display a program window upon execution. This obviously only makes sense if the program does not require some degree of user interaction as this wont be possible if Hide App is used. - lebaron