How to rotate videos taken from smartphone

Landscape on the phone, portrait on the PC I recorded some videos with my smartphone and, incredibly, after the import on the PC, I found them rotated in the wrong mode. Landscape to portrait, or viceversa. Not ever, not at all, but sometimes it happens. So I was looking for a way to rotate those videos. I shot videos with[…]

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How to configure Pidgin as Hangouts client

Linux has no native Hangouts client I use Ubuntu and Fedora on different machines, I also use (in some cases and as alternative to Telegram and Skype) Google Hangsouts to communicate with friends and for work. Hangsout is available in many ways, also directly from the Gmail web page, but there are no clients for Linux. I didn’t find a[…]

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How to solve Broadcom SD card reader issue with Linux

Broadcom and Linux are always fighting I use Ubuntu and Fedora over an old MacBook Pro with Broadcom BCM57765/57785 SDXC/MMC card reader and it’s worked at the first installations but after some update it stopped working. I installed Ubuntu and Fedora for friends and the machine with the Broadcom BCM57765/57785 chipset for SD card reader gave me the same issue.[…]

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How to create custom screenshot shortcuts

Unity, Gnome and gnome-screenshot over scrot I’m really satisfied with the default Gnome screenshot system. Easy to use and very responsive. Simple press Prt button for a whole screen grab, just Shift+Prt to catch an area or Alt+Prt to get a window saved. Easy, fast and reliable. It’s Gnome Screenshots and screencasts. But what if you need to customize it?[…]

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