Need to password-protect some files on your Mac? Want to stop them from being edited or deleted by mistake? Or do you just need to hide them away from prying eyes? macOS has solutions for all these ...

If you’ve got something you want to hide away, then you’ve got plenty of options on Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS—options that we’ll run through here. Even if the kids or a stranger should get ...

The free open-source Hide & Reveal program supports TIFF, as well as BMP and PNG file formats, and lets you hide information in a file, and then load the file and extract the information.

These days smartphone privacy is an important topic. From keeping our phones safe, to hiding things we don’t want out in the open. Everything from lock-screen security to hiding sensitive files and ...

Privacy, privacy, privacy. The word on everyone’s lips is making its way to our smartphones. And after seeing which are the best apps to hide or lock files on ...

We've featured some of our favorite steganography tricks before, but if you don't feel like downloading extra software or diving into the command line, here's an easy way to hide more sensitive files ...

The Tech Tray weblog has posted a tutorial for hiding secret files inside JPEG images using the popular Windows archiver, WinRAR, and a little command line magic. Basically, you create a .rar archive ...

How to hide files from any file manager on the Linux desktop Your email has been sent Want to hide files and folders from your Linux desktop file manager? Jack Wallen shows you one handy method. You ...

A USB stick is small enough that a thief can walk away with one without you knowing until it is too late. In this situation, anger can quickly turn to horror if you use your USB stick to store ...

Every file that we have saved on our computers has a particular extension. The file extension is added at the end of the filename followed by a dot (.). It tells the operating systems about the ...

Here is how to show or hide the file icon overlay on thumbnails in Windows 11 or Windows 10 computers. You can enable or disable file icons on thumbnails in Windows ...