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Problem: The Noun Project hosts millions of SVG icons that are licensed under either Creative Commons or Public Domain. If you navigate to an icon, it’s displayed right there in your browser. You can change its color, rotation, etc. Sounds awesome, right?! Indeed, it is… … Right up until you...
Problem: You have a VeraCrypt volume you’d like to mount at boot under Ubuntu. You’d like to do this automatically – without providing credentials every time the disk actually mounts. The VeraCrypt GUI has options for mounting volumes at launch, but it still prompts for a password to finish mounting...
Problem: Under Ubuntu with GNOME your startup applications are not scaling properly, despite most other apps loading with proper scale. You have a high DPI / 4k screen and the applications you set to load on login appear tiny. Using these startup apps is frustrating unless you close and reload them…...
Problem: Ubuntu / GNOME Night Light comes configured with a very warm color temperature. Not only that, but, by default, it’s not as easy to enable and disable as it should be. Both issues are easily fixed…
Problem: You open Atom to start work on a new file and haven’t saved it with an extension, or you open a text file without an extension (or the wrong extension) – and Atom isn’t highlighting things the way you’d like. Maybe Atom isn’t highlighting anything at all and you...
The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is an awesome little computer for tinkering, but that doesn’t mean it’s infallible. Case in point: both the Pi 3 Model B and Pi 2 Model B can both exhibit erratic behavior when attempting to update. The scenario looks something like this… you wish to upgrade...
I recently purchased two Hitachi HGST Touro Desk USB 3.0 2TB External Drives – and did so with a bit of trepidation because of a few bad reviews. I’d just like to add a few of my own opinions to the mix – because I’m actually surprised that my initial impressions...
Installing and/or changing mouse pointer themes in Xubuntu 12.04 isn’t difficult. What is woeful is when you realize that the cursor theme you set is not always used. It only gets applied partially – so that your pointer will sometimes look as you set it, and other times you’ll see...
So, basically the problem started as this: you got tired of accidently moving the mouse while typing on your laptop, so you naviagated to the touchpad settings screen and enabled the option that reads “Disable touchpad while typing”. You thought that you did well. Then your problem quickly became this: the...
If you are reading this it is probably because you have a laptop that keeps making a disconcerting clicking sound. You suspect that it may be the hard drive – and you are probably correct. It very well could be on its way out, and doing a full backup certainly can’t hurt...
