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Assad's photo makes it to engadget

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux

Portable OpenOffice.org allows you to carry an entire office suite -- word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, etc. -- with you on an iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Window

software which is able to replace much of the proprietary software most Windows-users use nowadays.