Symptom: After removing an AMD graphics card (to use onboard integrated graphics), Cinnamon crashes repeatedly after logging in. Cause: Cinnamon may still be referencing the old video drivers. Solution: Uninstall the proprietary AMD graphic card drivers. Troubleshooting Steps: List installed AMD packages -> dpkg -l *fglrx* Remove the installed AMD packages and drivers with sudo… Read More »
Symptom: Opening a new tab in Firefox and going to maps.google.com sometimes results in Firefox crashing. Firefox version: 42.0 OS: Linux Mint 17.2 Graphics card: AMD Radeon 7870 Graphics Driver: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1 (AMD/ATI display driver wrapper) Other symptoms: Sometimes small sections of text in Firefox are unreadable (blotched) until scrolling it off and back on… Read More »
Moveavi is a free web-based service that will convert an online video to the format of your choice and send it to you via email. No software is required to be installed on your computer and the website is (currently) ad-free. The only drawback is that it sometimes takes hours before the video is converted… Read More »
What’s the best way to share photographs with friends and family? In the old days, we would develop and print all our photos and arrange them neatly into a photo album. Well, in this day and age, no one wants to exert the energy required to lift pages in a photo album. They’d rather press… Read More »