A few days back we talked about a theme for Gmail which would help you make Gmail a bit more snazzier. Well that dream may soon come true for Gmail without use of any extensions or stylesheets.

Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped has picked up some reliable dope on Gmail getting themes in near future.

A source is telling me that Gmail will get themes – custom layouts to personalize Google’s web mail client. According to the source, the launch of this may happen within the next months. There will be 12 themes to pick from, according to this information, like a black-and-green “terminal” view, as well as a flowery view.

Let’s hope Gmail rolls this out quickly as I am dying to try out new themes rather than the same old boring look I have been seeing for last few years.

We all know the importance of file encryption to store our sensitive data.

But still, most of us, don’t do that because of procrastination or simply because we don’t know how to do that. Technically speaking, encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm (called cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge.

There are plenty of File Encryption utilities available on the Internet for download. Some are FREE, some are not, and some charge a hefty price. Sometimes, it becomes really difficult for average Joe, to select the perfect file encryption program, as per his own requirements.

TrueCrypt, is a utility, which fits most of the encryption requirement of most of the computer nerds, and the best part is, it is FREE. Recently, one of its stable version 5.1a, was released, well not that recently as it is already about two months back.

IT is an Open Source encryption program which can render your disk, or any file or folder on your disk, totally encrypted in a split second. It works on all platforms; PC, your Mac or Linux, and performs encrption on-the-fly, which means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.

TrueCrypt also allows you to encrypt your entire USB flash drive. However, you will not be able run TrueCrypt from the USB flash drive. This is because Windows does not support multiple partitions on USB flash drives.

A really nice FREEWARE.

I have been using IE quite a lot lately along with Firefox and Flock but sorely missed the usefulness of the powerful Greasemonkey extension for Firefox.

That was until I came across Greasemonkey for IE, a Internet Explorer add-on which will allow you to bring the original functionality of Greasemonkey to Internet Explorer.

Some time back we had talked about Beyond Copy a software that allowed you to share your files and clipboard entries between multiple PCs on the same network.

We came across another such software which allows you to do the same but also has FTP support built in so that you can directly copy your files to the given FTP location.

If you have been following me on twitter you may see that I twitter all my posts. Well I do not do it manually and for those who are interested on doing it automatically follow the tutorial in this post and all your posts will automatically show up in twitter.

What Tools Do you Need to Use?

TwitterFeed is a service which allows you to post your blog posts as tweets to twitter over a specified interval of time.

The service is free to use and only requires you to register your blog feeds with them.

Twitter has been facing a lot of issues with up times and tons of people are twittering and blogging about how bad it is for them.

If you are a heavy twitter user and want to know whether the services is up or down there is a site called Is Twitter Up or Down. The site comes with no bells and whistles. If twitter is down it will show you a blank page, if it’s up you will see the sweet word “No” which should tell you that twitter is up and working fine.

Via: [Technospot]

There are various ways of locking up your PC, but many a times you tend to forget to lock your PC while moving away from your workstation.

This can have various ramifications since anyone can come and snoop on your unlocked PC, the best way to lock your PC is to tell it to automatically lock down when you leave your workstation.