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Windows only: If you’ve ever wanted to keep a program safe from prying eyes but don’t want to close it, free utility LockThis! will let you easily protect any open program, so that un-minimizing it requires a password.
LockThis! is extremely easy to use—to lock an application, all you need to do is press Ctrl while minimizing the window that you want protected. It will ask you for your admin password (which by default is LockThis! but can be changed from the admin window), and then keep the window …

I just loaded up my Xbox 360 recently only to discover some nice new additions to the Xbox Live service. The addition of Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM, and Zune Video marketplace adds a whole new dimension in having the Xbox 360 as an ultimate source of rich media in your living room. Listed below is my shared experience with these additions. Twitter and Facebook are displayed in the community section, where you currently also find the “Game with Fame” events. The Zune Marketplace is the first thing that pops up when …

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Web application Shape Collage quickly turns your online photos into embeddable photo collages with nothing more than a few clicks. It’s a interesting way to showcase your pictures online without a lot of work.
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Wired’s How-To Wiki points out that HTML emails rendered by Outlook are not only occasionally hard to format, they’ll look different (and broken) in many clients. They follow up with tips on turning some or all emails to plain text.
If you’re generally emailing inside a closed circle with Outlook users, HTML-formatted emails are probably fine. But reaching outside Outlook’s very specific HTML confines can cause broken graphics and strange formatting. Hit the link for the menu options and shortcuts that set Outlook 2003 and 2007 to send in …

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If you’re aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment.
While Chrome OS is far from ready for the regular user, lots of us are aching to play around a little with Google’s young operating system. This virtual machine-friendly build looks like a good way to do just that, and you can grab it via BitTorrent now. From The Pirate Bay page:
This is a …