This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, i.e. USB thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod. You can use them at work, school, or any other place where you can plugin your device. Check them out, you can either scroll-down for relevant category, i.e office software, email tools, messengers, games, etc. or get a ‘all-in-one’ package (all essential tools) . While there are more apps for windows users, I tried to include a mac version for each essential tool. All free. Enjoy!

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With Tuitalk, You can make free international calls to over 40 countries. And yes India is included in this list. Tuitalk offers about 12 minutes of free calls each day (trick being to register with your extended profile).

Each day Tuitalk gives its users 12 min of free calls. Yes you can make free calls to India worth 12 minutes every day. Your account is automatically credited with 12 min every day.

Have you ever tried to log into a Windows computer for a few minutes and you finally realize that you forgot the password?

There’s a way to crack the password and it doesn’t involve reformatting and reinstalling Windows.

We are not talking about a new Operating System being designed by Microsoft, its about Gazelle, a secure web browser constructed as a multi-principal OS. Last week, Microsoft Research released an interesting paper [PDF] about a Web browser it calls Gazelle that’s constructed in such a way to act like an operating system with the browser kernel exclusively protecting resources and sharing across Web sites.

You can never be too safe these days. Viruses, spyware, rootkits, remote exploits, you just never know what security issue is going to be your downfall. That’s why it is important as a Linux administrator to have an understanding of some of the best Linux security tools available to you. In this article, you will learn about Top Ten Linux security tools, and resources on how to use them to your advantage.