Managing and protecting your personal data on your computer is an uphill task in the modern era. There is no dearth of hackers and spammers who work day and night to intrude into your computer and gain access to all your sensitive data and information. LockCrypt is a freeware application which aims to avoid such a situation by storing your confidential data in a secure and encrypted form.

It is an easy-to-use utility which works on Java and has a nice user interface. It can store data like your credit card and bank account details, passwords of your online accounts, serial keys of various software on your PC and various other data which you consider to be important and private.

After you install and run LockCrypt for the first time, you will be asked to enter a password. This password would be the main password to access the utility. Hence it should be a strong password which can’t be cracked easily. If you have such a password in mind, you can enter it, otherwise you can skip it and later use LockCrypt’s awesome password generator to generate a very strong password.

The main dashboard is divided into 2 parts - a sidebar which lists your various accounts in a tree view and a large pane which has the icon view of those accounts. You can easily edit and add your accounts. You can choose from a variety of account types like credit card, driving license, contact, password, serial number and many more.

Features

It’s not just about about adding accounts and password-protecting them. LockCrypt has many more features which adds to the versatility and uniqueness of this software.

1. Import and Export

LockCrypt enables you to import and export data from and to various external sources in the form of XML, CSV or plain text files.

2. Synchronize

The import and export feature can be further used to effectively sync your personal data between LockCrypt and other data groups.

3. Secure Clipboard

The secure clipboard feature is an innovative one, which secures your information in real time as you work on your data. It basically erases content from the clipboard (copy field) after a specific interval of time so that no one else can snoop around when you aren’t at your desk.

4. Generate Strong Passwords

I’ve already mentioned about this feature above and really, it can generate very strong passwords which are virtually impossible to crack.

5. Print the data

This is a nice feature too. You’ve got a lot of personal data and you want to have a list or a hard copy of it, but you don’t want to waste time writing them down. You can use LockCrypt to store all of that and then print them out, thus fulfilling your purpose.

6. Customization options

There are many customizations options, from adding and editing accounts to selecting your own icon and your own language too.

Overall, this could be a useful software, more because it’s free of charge. It may spike the RAM usage sometimes but that shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

What do YOU use to secure your personal data on your computer? A program like this? Another encryption program? Let us know in the comments.

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Wopus中文平台之前总结了WordPress主题站十大经典主题、Wordpress十大免费CMS主题和Wordpress十大Adsense主题，都是关于主题方便的，我们也知道，大家在使用WordPress的时候，遇到的最大问题就是寻找主题，我们的总结希望能给大家带来一种思路：主题千万，适合自己的还需要自己修改！
我们一直都很少发插件，主要是Wopus中文平台对插件的认同感不高，主要原因是：WordPress本身没有缓存机制，执行效率不高；有些插件体积大，文件多，有CSS，还有JS，这些都严重影响了WordPress的速度，最关键的是，有些插件完全是垃圾插件，对WordPress的完善没有任何的价值，反而成为了影响速度的帮凶，所以，我们一直没有太多的关注插件，而且WordPress发展的趋势是，会把有价值的插件集成到程序里，这样是有能有效提高效率的，文章在这里。

这次给大家介绍的这10个插件，都不是垃圾插件，而且有些插件是随着WordPress的发展和传播而不得不出现的，所以Wopus中文平台这次推荐的10大最有价值插件是值得一读的！

1,Theme Authenticity Checker
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还有有人利用推荐广告主题的机会，把主题中的广告代码换成自己的，所以这个插件是很必须的，建议安装。既然说到了WordPress的安全性，酋长这里多推荐两篇文章：
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2,List Category Posts
方便自定义分类显示顺序，现在越来越多的CMS类主题，分类顺序显示是一个大问题，虽然方法不少，但这个应该是最简单的。

3,Expanding Text Plugin
如果是长期使用代码的朋友，这个插件的价值比较大，主要是可以节省Blog很多空间资源。不必让整个首页都只显示一篇日志的内容。

4,InstantUpgrade
这个插件我就不多介绍了，这里有一篇详细的文章：InstantUpgrade——wordpress升级插件

5,Lightbox Plus
这个插件就不多介绍了，估计这种图片效果是N个人想要的！

6,Samsarin PHP Widget
对于侧边栏能否运行PHP代码的问题，这个插件给出了肯定的答案，而且现在随着广告插件的流行，侧边栏不能运行PHP的问题日渐突出，这个插件可以缓解大家的这个焦虑，具体看这里：WordPress Plugin Samsarin PHP Widget Released

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如果各位也有觉得不错的插件，欢迎跟帖留言，也可以前往Wopus中文社区的WordPress插件板块讨论。