I Love Free Software

Protect Private Information from Keyloggers with Neo’s Safe Keys

Posted: 28 May 2012 06:30 AM PDT

Neo’s SafeKeys can help protect your login information by not requiring you to use your keyboard when logging into your online accounts. Keyloggers are a very serious threat which can cause you to lose login information for online accounts, but also your money by tracking what you type when you are paying with your credit cards online.

Neo’s SafeKeys is an onscreen keyboard which can be used to type out passwords in a protected environment which can then be copied into login forms of various different applications, browsers, instant messaging clients, even in online games like Runescape or World of Warcraft. Windows has its own keyboard, but Neo’s SafeKeys expands it and offers more protection.

How is Neo’s SafeKeys protecting what we type?

This anti-keylogging application actually has several different types of protection against keyloggers. The first and the most effective way of throwing keyloggers off the scent is by not using the keyboard. Keyboard inputs are not encrypted and can be easily read by keylogger, just like they can be easily read by browsers or text editors when we type something in them. With Neo’s SafeKeys, we type our password into the Neo’s password field first:

and then after we’ve entered our password in Neo’s SafeKeys, it can be selected and simply dragged&dropped in the password field of the website or the application that we are logging into:

You might find that drag&drop doesn’t work in every application. Some programs are not made to receive drag&drop content into their input boxes, Neo’s SafeKeys has a solution for that also, the Injection mode for password input.

How to inject passwords if drag&drop doesn’t work?

Passwords can be transported from Neo’s SafeKeys with Injection the same way that they were put inside password boxes via drag&drop only now we have to change the program work mode from Drag and Drop mode to Injection mode:

Notice that now that syringe icon next to the ghost icon is selected, that means that the injection mode is activated. To inject your password, when it’s written down in the password field below the keyboard, select it, make it all blue like it is on the image above and then left-click on it. Program will notify you that you’ve entered the injection mode with a small pop-up. Go to the password field where you need to enter your password, click inside it and wait. In a few seconds password should be typed in.

Screen Logger protection and hover keys key activation

Neo’s SafeKeys offers additional protection in the form of hover keys, where a key is pressed if you hover you mouse over the keyboard, and also with hiding the mouse pointer when typing the password. Pointer is not entirely hidden, it’s changed into a small dot, which hopefully will not be possible to see on-screen loggers, software that secretly takes screenshots of your desktop when you are typing passwords or even records videos. SafeKeys is a great tool that could improve the protection of your PC, you should especially use it if you are buying with your credit cards directly online, to protect your card numbers from theft.

Protect Private Information from Keyloggers with Neo’s Safe Keys was originally published at I Love Free Software

Best Free Android Apps And Chrome Extensions From Last Week Ending 27th May

Posted: 28 May 2012 05:15 AM PDT

Here, are best free Android apps and Chrome extensions reviewed by us.

This is a two in one article with both Android apps and Chrome extensions. If you are looking for the best Android apps, then download the useful apps reviewed by us. And if you have Google Chrome browser too installed on your PC, then you can have a look on the best Chrome extensions which can make your browsing experience, a wonderful one on Google Chrome browser.

Best Android Apps:

MakeMyTrip:

MakeMyTrip is a free Android official MakeMyTrip app. MakeMyTrip is one of the most popular web service to book air tickets online. The app provides you the option to book flight tickets, check your bookings, check flight status and check places to eat. The interface of the app is designed in such a way that it really became easy to book flight tickets and know flight status. The app works at a very fast speed on Android. Just login with MakeMyTrip account and you are ready to book flight tickets and know other details in one go. Flight ticket booking includes round trip ticket booking. You can even make cancellation and generate refunds. The app also comes up with intelligent sorting to sort tickets according to its price from lower to higher and from higher to lower.

Cosmos Privacy Scan+JunkCleaner:

Cosmos Privacy Scan+JunkCleaner is a free Android app to optimize Android system. This Android app works good, by cleaning junk files, increasing the battery life, and scanning the privacy permissions of the apps installed. Cosmos is a very simple and light weight app to install. The app lets you boost up your Android phone by cleaning the junk files like browser history, cleaning the cache and cleaning the call logs. Battery level section of the app manages your battery by having control over Wi-Fi and data connection, connectivity, display and sound. The app also turns off everything except phone services. Privacy cleaner option in the app provides the whole list of privacy issues with app installed.

picplz:

picplz is a free Android app to add multiple effects to a photo on Android. With picplz, you can crop an image, rotate it, add text, adjust contrast, saturation, colors, add stickers, draw anything on image and much more. The app allows you to import photos from photo gallery of your Android phone. If you don't have any image in the photo gallery, then you can click a new image from your Android phone's camera and give effects to it in real-time. After adding effects, you can easily share photos via Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Flickr and much more.

Remember: You can't save the photo to SD card after giving effects to it via picplz app. The app only provides you the option to share the photo.

Best Chrome Extensions:

Textme:

Textme is a free Chrome extension to send free SMS on any mobile number in India from browser. This Chrome extension is a nice and simple extension to send free SMS to mobile numbers. Apart from Google Chrome browser, Textme also supports Opera Mini browser, Internet explorer, Firefox and Safari browser. With Textme, you can send SMS of 119 characters. Before getting started with the extension, you need to sign-up with Textme. You can also save the contact number in Textme address book and then send SMS to the contact of your choice. You can also check out send items from within the extension options.

SeeIt:

SeeIt is a free Chrome extension to see the preview of the links on Reddit. When we login to our Reddit account, we got to see many links on our Reddit page. For viewing the contents of the links, you need to access each and every link which sounds a bit long and boring process. To avoid all this, SeeIt extension is the apt solution. On installing this extension on your Google Chrome browser, you can easily see the preview of the links on your Reddit page, which makes it easy for you to read all the links at a very faster speed. You can also preview images in the links. To preview links on Reddit with SeeIt extension, you just need to hover over the link and you will see the preview. Along with previewing the links, the extension makes it even easier by marking the links as read, once you have previewed it on your Chrome browser.

Best Free Android Apps And Chrome Extensions From Last Week Ending 27th May was originally published at I Love Free Software