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via laptoplogic.com

If you consider yourself a geek, or aspire to the honor of geekhood, here’s an essential checklist of must-have geek skills.

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Today, we are listing here 19 Most Essential and useful open source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life. Most of them are top of the list projects that have an open source industry leading popularity and many of them are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one of you. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.

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Whether you want to watch a movie on your iPod or back up your too-easily-scratched DVDs, DVD ripping is a mysterious realm for many. Even those in-the-know find it difficult to keep up with the best tools for the job, especially in the face of increased copy protection.

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In July and August 2007  109 learning professionals shared their Top 10 favourite tools for learning (both for their personal learning as well as for creating learning) From these lists we compiled this Top 100 Tools for Learning 2007.  100 Tools received 3 or more mentions and a further 50 Tools received 2 mentions.  Follow a Tool link to read why contributors chose the tool.

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This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes.

• AJAX Programming
• Distributed Systems
• Web Security
• Languages (C++, Java, Python)
• Tools 101 (mysql, scm)

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If you travel across national borders, it’s time to customs-proof your laptop.

Customs officials have been stepping up electronic searches of laptops at the border, where travelers enjoy little privacy and have no legal grounds to object. Laptops and other electronic devices can be seized without reason, their contents copied, and the hardware returned hours or even weeks later.

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No tuition money? No problem! There are many top universities that offer free courses online. This list ranks several of the best free university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current field.

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via networkworld.com

Network World’s headline was certainly designed to catch a security person’s eye: “Disk encryption easily cracked, researchers find.” In most cases, however, the risk, while real, is less than the headline implies….

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