File encryption is your best bet if you want to keep The Man, foreign spies or your annoying roommates out of your files. Here’s a look at five of the most popular encryption tools Lifehacker readers use to lock down their files.
At any moment, your computer could crash, and you will need to hand it over, unedited, to a repair person. If weird file names freak out that person and the police, they can open your files, a US court has ruled. Ugh.
Android only: Missing your USB cord, or just too lazy to grab it? WiFi File Explorer turns your Android SD card into a small web server, so you can transfer files, stream media and otherwise control your content across a Wi-Fi network.
Saving attachments from Gmail just got a lot easier – if you’re using Chrome. The latest update lets you save attachments by clicking, dragging and dropping them wherever you’d like.
Jörg M. Colberg, an accomplished astrophysicist who picked up photography later in life, has a series entitled “American Pixels” in which he applies a self-made compression algorithm to turn photographs into digital-age works of art.
