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While doing Mathematics assignment in my second semester, I had to look up for a lot of graphs/curves of various functions. I always used gplot, which is no doubt the best tool when it comes to graphs. But usually before using it I had to take a quick look at the keywords in its help guide. Until I found GraphMonkey, I always wondered if there was an even simpler application, which hardly expects you to know anything other than the equation.

Have you ever gone through the items listed in the "add to panel" option? If not, then you are missing one of the finest GNOME features. It has a great number of some really useful applets. I just ran into one of them, Deskbar applet and believe me, when they say its an "all in one" tool they are not kidding. It really does almost everything one frequently needs.

Have you ever wished to embed a youtube video in an OpenOffice document or wondered if you could prepare a presentation with better integration of multimedia content? Well, the time has come, OpenOffice has adopted the Gstreamer framework to improve multimedia support on Linux.

Managing pc's for public use can be a challenge as you don't want people to mess with system settings. Manually editing configuriguration files for restricting these access can be a big pain. But with pessulus editor you can easily freeze features that you don't want your users to have access to. For example, you wouldn't want people to log out, lock screen, edit panel shortcuts etc. It will lock some of the settings down for the onboard user so that your Desktop stays the way you like it. Well, you can do this using pessulus, a lockdown editor for GNOME desktops. This editor gives you the privilege to disable such features of your desktop.

A few days ago, I wrote about monitoring your system's network activity on linux, a command line approach. Someone also commented about a graphical tool available to monitor various network connections on your system, netactview. So, here is its small review.