I got a new Personal management tool. I got this information from the posting by Santhosh Thottingal in SMC Mailing list. The tool is named as ExMan. A description of the tool is available at http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/exman-the-super-simple-personal-expense-manager/

I downloaded it and installed in my FC11 machine. Installation is simple no dependency problem. Usage is very very simple. After installation ExMan will come in the Applications--> Office menu. It is easy.

 I was reading Shibu Varkalas blog. I came across posting related to anew Open Source Development Environment called "Gambas". It can replace Visual Basic of M$. But it is not a clone of M$ VB.  The gambas site narrates its features as followes

" With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and so on...

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I downloaded a beautifull open book on Gambas programming.  After reading the boob my friend who is familier with Visual Studio told that it is easy to migrate from VB to Gambas. Syllabus designers who introduces VB please incorporate this tool in your syllabus. 

I am moving from my current organization in the next week so I am busy with finishing ded lines. Will try the tool and post more details soon.

Also my friend agreed that he will try it soon. If he suceed in it I will post the result. My friend is novice in GNU/Linux :-).

Open Workbench open source project scheduling tool.

Open workbench is a project scheduler and project management tool. Again a Ruby based desktop application. Most of the project leaders and managers in the corporate world will be using M$ Project for scheduling and managing there project. Dear leaders and managers have a change!!. Here is an alternative for you "Open Workbench". Everything which you are doing in M$ tool will be available here, some times more. The project is supported by CA. If your company would like to reduce licensing cost of M$ Project recommend it and save $$ers. I tried it. Great!!. Before getting the tool I was doing all the thing with M$ tool. (Sorry I compelled to use it. So i searched for an open tool). There was no difficulty in using it. Easy to install and use. No dependency no license ultimate freedom. I used the tool for creating schedules of two projects which i coordinated in my previous organisation.

If you are an open source guy you will ask What about planer? Yes palnner is there. But Open Workbench is more and more advanced one. Have feel of it.