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Microsoft has always been generous for students. If you are a student of any American University & cover the eligibility criteria, then you can get the Microsoft Office Ultimate (2007) for only $ 59.95 USD which actually costs approx. $ 679 USD.

Well, if you are in school/high school, then you can contact school authorities to go through this web document by Microsoft and see if they can help you in getting the software at great discounts and the discounts can be up to 85%. Well, with that kind of discount, I’m sure it will be worth a try. Again, this is only for U.S. based educational institutions.

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DownloadSquad has an excellent tip which tells you that how you can easily access the websites if some IT administrator has disabled the web browsers (IE, Opera, Firefox) completely! Well, here is another way of accessing the web if at all Internet Explorer is blocked :

1. Open up Windows Explorer.
2. Type the website address (URL) in the Address bar and press enter!

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Has this ever happened to you that you re-formatted your computer and then realized that you can’t find the driver CD at all ? It has happened to me, however I quickly found a solution to it. Here’s what I did :

1. Connected to the Internet.
2. Downloaded CPU-Z (Review of CPU-Z or CPUZ)
3. Found out the model of the motherboard and then downloaded all the drivers from the motherboard manufacturer’s website.

However, I was lucky at the first place in this whole scenario and that was Windows XP, fortunately detected the drivers for my LAN card and that helped in downloading all the necessary files.

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PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a software & encryption algorithm which is used for encrypting & decrypting email messages for reliable email communication. There is a long and very confusing history behind PGP and if any of you is interested in knowing more about it, I’ll suggest to refer to this Wikipedia article on PGP.

Every now and then we hear news and concerns raised by people that the email communication is not safe and that it can be easily compromised. And still there is no effective and widely accepted encryption or (credible) security system for emails.

Credit : WM2006 Fan Fest Stuttgart – Security by Heraklit

Although, PGP was developed in 1991 and is credible and accepted system but it isn’t the de-facto of the secure email communication yet. Although, more the people will use it, more it will become inevitable for companies like Yahoo & Google to implement it on their servers.

Anyway, till the time these services don’t apply this encryption algorithm, we can use Windows Privacy Tools or WinPT which is a free alternative to the PGP software and allows you to sign or encrypt email messages for secure email communication.

But the real question is that why is it important to have secure email conversation ?

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Merry X-Mas to all of you!

Have a wonderful holidays and a happy new year ahead.