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Hi all..should'nt we have an App for locking sms/files/photos/videos?????

All other operating systems has it(ios,android,symbian,Winmo,BADA) except maemo...its like a basic app in all these operating systems......

But why is maemo not having this simple app when we say maemo is highly configurable since its open source.....

Am sure it'll be good app for many of us n900 users

Things it should have
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1)Asks for PIN for the 1st time when you open the app after installing

2)Asks for a security question incase if we forget the password(ability to give user defined Questions will be something new)

3)shows the directory structure of files,so that we can easily navigate through the files/photos,videos we want to lock(like in file manager)

4)select the desired files and lock it(multiple selection of files will be gr8)

5)A search bar(text field) in the app itself for searching the file by its name

6)When ever we reboot the phone the App must be started automatically(adds security)

7)If we accidentely close the App when its running it must ask if we want to save the changes before closing.

8)uninstalling the App from app manager will ask for the PIN(its an added security since the Apps in symbian can be uninstalled without PIN and the files will be unlocked once the App is uninstalled)


No one other than us will be able to access it other than us(Total power+Security)


Pls add if i have left out any points

Guys please vote for this this thread

Its will be a very usefull APP

Locking msgs from a particular contact will also be a good feature

guys leave you valuable opinions also....:-)

what the heck are you bumping? and what is it with those colours?!?

Hows this for colours???

Dude i found that your response/posts in many of the other threads are like this only....

People use different colours to stress the main points...dont you know that???

If you want to add some points in the post do that:cool:

Dont you have any other job than banging on other peoples opinion????


do something usefull

Congrats you are the 1st person to vote "not needed"

hmmm...so you did'nt like what i posted or what i replied???


any ways.....no hard feelings...ok???

i thought to share something which will be usefull for the n900 users...

i actually think this is a brilliant idea. i get so annoyed that my girlfriend can do it on her crappy old blackberry and shows off to me about it! the one thing she has up on me is that. well other than blackberry messenger but i dont see the point in that anyway. any guys who know how even some of these features could be implemented?

Why do we need an app for locking photos or videos? Or even SMS for that matter? All that this does is indicate that either you are a) untrustworthy and have material on your phone that you don't want your wife / girlfriend / husband / boyfriend seeing or alternatively that b) you are full of conspiracy theories and believe that you are being tracked by international drug lords or the CIA.

If you want to hide anything like photos or videos then simply go onto your PC (and I'm working in Windows, one of the linux gurus here will instruct you how to do in either Ubuntu or Linux based machines) and open up a command prompt (Windows key + R, type "cmd" and hit enter) and create a directory called .hidden by typing "mkdir .hidden". This will create a directory called ".hidden" in the root of your C:\ drive. Now connect your phone, using Mass Storage Mode, and transfer the directory called .hidden into either your photos or videos subdirectory.

Linux will not show any directory that starts with a "." and they also won't be indexed by any of the media applications. Also, you have to use command prompt to create this directory as within a windows environment you cannot rename a folder to begin with a "."

Move all files you want hidden into this location using the "mv" command in Xterm, an example is;

To access this location (as it won't show in file manager and the items contained in it wont be indexed by the system) open up the web browser and type into the bottom file:///home/user/MyDocs/.videos/.hidden or if you have hidden it in images file:///home/user/MyDocs/.images.hidden. Voila, your file listing appears in handy and convenient hyperlink stylee.

In terms of SMS that you want to hide, I find the best method to not get caught is to delete.

Alternatively you could always create a completely encrpyted filesystem in a separate partition on your flash memory using AES, DES or even FIPS 46-2, with an encrytpion algorithm anywhere up to and including 2048bit ciphers. Now thats how you hide sh*t.

Be careful out there. Spies are everywhere. Watch your back.

Peace out.

cheers switch, i llke the hidden folder idea.