* Protect Desktop While You Are Away With Virtual Blinds *
Unless you are totally alone in your office all day, its always possible that somebody drops by and see what appears on your computer. If you have to leave your desk all of a sudden, what would you do? Put your Mac to sleep? Or would you rather turn off your computer even if you are going to be away for a few minutes?
Blinders lets you pull down virtual blinds so that you can protect your screen (except the menu bar and the Dock) while you are away. Its a status-menu application. And all you have to do is choose Roll Down Blinds from its status menu to shield your desktop. You can prompt the user for your password when he or she tries to roll up virtual blinds.
Just because virtual blinds are lowered to protect your screen, that doesnt mean that its free from curious individuals. They can just switch from this application to another to mess up with your Mac. Blinders can actually capture iSight snapshots when somebody switches to another application. So you can visually find out who has accessed your Mac while you were away.
- Features -
1. Choose one of thirty (30) virtual blinds styles.
2. Prompt or not prompt a user for your password when they try to pull up virtual blinds.
3. Prompt or not prompt a user for your password when they try to quit the application with virtual blinds lowered.
4. With virtual blinds lowered, take or not take snapshots through the built-in iSight camera on your Mac when a curious individual switches from this application to another.
5. Choose one of six date formats, based on which iSight snapshots are listed.
6. Through applications status menu, quickly find out how many iSight snapshots have been taken.
7. The introduction window gives you a 6-page quick tour over how the application works.
8. Encrypted user password
9. Languages: English only.
10.The application supports the Retina display.
11.Application file size: 12.8 MB.
12.The application comes with a complete users guide written in English. (Choose Help > Users Guide.)
- System requirements -
1. 10.7 (tested with 10.7.5), 10.8 (not tested), 10.9 (tested with 10.9.4), 10.10 (tested with 10.10)
2. 64-bit system
- Limitations -
1. The only graphic format that the user can use to save a security snapshot is JPEG.
2. The application window is not resizable. It cannot be put to the fullscreen mode.
3. The Snapshots window is not resizable.
4. There is no protection if a curious individual force-quit the application to access the desktop.
5. In order to choose Help > Users Guide and Application Support, you must have applications main window present.
