New Sublemon Blog

OpenOffice Writer and Calc have always been slow, unintuitive, and buggy, and an all-together unpleasant experience for new users of Ubuntu. Thank god Gnome Office provides better alternatives: AbiWord, a slick replacement for Writer that has great compatibility with Word documents as well as more obscure formats. Gnumeric, an outstanding and easy-to-you substitute for Calc […]

As a heavy user of eTree, the go-to tracker for trade-friendly live music torrents, I often trade Dead tapes in the archaic Shorten (SHN) lossless audio format. Playing Shorten files in Windows is made easy by the understated foobar2000 music player and its handy foo_input_shorten component. Doing the same in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is […]