diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 37d61ef3..0dcd12a5 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ $ npm install opencv
 ```
 
 ## Examples
+Run the examples from the parent directory.
 
 ### Face Detection
 
diff --git a/data/hogcascade_cars_sideview.xml b/data/hogcascade_cars_sideview.xml
index 167705bd..8860c161 100644
--- a/data/hogcascade_cars_sideview.xml
+++ b/data/hogcascade_cars_sideview.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <opencv_storage>
-<cascade>
+<output type_id="opencv-haar-classifier">
   <stageType>BOOST</stageType>
   <featureType>HOG</featureType>
   <height>24</height>
@@ -835,5 +835,7 @@
         16 8 16 8 24</rect></_>
     <_>
       <rect>
-        16 8 16 8 28</rect></_></features></cascade>
+        16 8 16 8 28</rect></_></features>
+
+</output>
 </opencv_storage>
diff --git a/examples/addweighted.js b/examples/addweighted.js
index dc9379ff..ac6c309d 100755
--- a/examples/addweighted.js
+++ b/examples/addweighted.js
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 var cv = require('../lib/opencv');
 
-cv.readImage("./files/mona.png", function(err, orig) {
+cv.readImage("./examples/files/mona.png", function(err, orig) {
   if (err) throw err;
 
-  cv.readImage("./files/over_text.png", function(err, over_text) {
+  cv.readImage("./examples/files/over_text.png", function(err, over_text) {
     if (err) throw err;
 
     var result = new cv.Matrix(orig.width(), orig.height());
     result.addWeighted(orig, 0.7, over_text, 0.9);
-    result.save("./tmp/weighted.png");
-    console.log('Image saved to ./tmp/weighted.png');
+    result.save("./examples/tmp/weighted.png");
+    console.log('Image saved to ./examples/tmp/weighted.png');
   });
 });
diff --git a/examples/camera.js b/examples/camera.js
index abe885bb..96ce8086 100755
--- a/examples/camera.js
+++ b/examples/camera.js
@@ -1,12 +1,20 @@
 var cv = require('../lib/opencv');
 
-var camera = new cv.VideoCapture(0);
-var window = new cv.NamedWindow('Video', 0)
-
-setInterval(function() {
-  camera.read(function(err, im) {
-    if (err) throw err;
-    window.show(im);
-    window.blockingWaitKey(0, 50);
-  });
-}, 20);
+try {
+  var camera = new cv.VideoCapture(0);
+  var window = new cv.NamedWindow('Video', 0)
+  /*
+  setInterval(function() {
+    camera.read(function(err, im) {
+      if (err) throw err;
+      console.log(im.size())
+      if (im.size()[0] > 0 && im.size()[1] > 0){
+        window.show(im);
+      }
+      window.blockingWaitKey(0, 50);
+    });
+  }, 20);
+  */
+} catch (e){
+  console.log("Couldn't start camera:", e)
+}
diff --git a/examples/car-detection.js b/examples/car-detection.js
index 58c2d61f..df296d62 100644
--- a/examples/car-detection.js
+++ b/examples/car-detection.js
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+/* For some reason the cascade file is broken on linux :(
+
+
 var cv = require('../lib/opencv');
 
 cv.readImage("./files/car1.jpg", function(err, im){
@@ -16,3 +19,4 @@ cv.readImage("./files/car1.jpg", function(err, im){
     console.log('Image saved to ./tmp/car-detection.jpg');
   });
 });
+*/
diff --git a/examples/face-proxy.js b/examples/face-proxy.js
index 541ba7b4..307c64fe 100755
--- a/examples/face-proxy.js
+++ b/examples/face-proxy.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ var http = require('http'),
     request = require('request'),
     cv = require('../lib/opencv');
 
-http.createServer(function(req, resp){
+var server = http.createServer(function(req, resp){
   var url = req.url.slice(1);
   request({uri:url, encoding:'binary'}, function(err, r, body){
     if (err) return resp.end(err.stack);
@@ -27,4 +27,7 @@ http.createServer(function(req, resp){
     });
   });
 
-}).listen(3000, function(){ console.log('Listening on http://localhost:3000'); })
+})
+
+
+//server.listen(3000, function(){ console.log('Listening on http://localhost:3000'); })
diff --git a/examples/salt.js b/examples/salt.js
index d3212b25..737e834e 100755
--- a/examples/salt.js
+++ b/examples/salt.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 var cv = require('../lib/opencv');
 
 cv.readImage("./files/mona.png", function(err, im) {
-  salt(im, 1000);
+  salt(im, 100);
   im.save("./tmp/salt.png");
   console.log('Image saved to ./tmp/salt.png');
 });
diff --git a/examples/take-face-pics.js b/examples/take-face-pics.js
index 418809b4..79167d67 100644
--- a/examples/take-face-pics.js
+++ b/examples/take-face-pics.js
@@ -1,24 +1,32 @@
 var cv = require('../lib/opencv');
-var vid = new cv.VideoCapture(0);
+try {
+  var vid = new cv.VideoCapture(0);
 
-vid.read(function(err, im){
-  if (err) throw err;
-
-  im.detectObject(cv.FACE_CASCADE, {}, function(err, faces){
+  vid.read(function(err, im){
     if (err) throw err;
-    if (!faces.length) return console.log("No Faces");
+    if (im.size()[0] > 0 && im.size()[1] > 0){
+
+      im.detectObject(cv.FACE_CASCADE, {}, function(err, faces){
+        if (err) throw err;
+        if (!faces.length) return console.log("No Faces");
 
-    var face = faces[0];
-    var ims = im.size();
-    var im2 = im.roi(face.x, face.y, face.width, face.height)
-    /*
-    im.adjustROI(
-         -face.y
-       , (face.y + face.height) - ims[0]
-       , -face.x
-       , (face.x + face.width) - ims[1])
-       */
-    im2.save('./tmp/take-face-pics.jpg')
-    console.log('Image saved to ./tmp/take-face-pics.jpg');
-  })
-});
+        var face = faces[0];
+        var ims = im.size();
+        var im2 = im.roi(face.x, face.y, face.width, face.height)
+        /*
+        im.adjustROI(
+             -face.y
+           , (face.y + face.height) - ims[0]
+           , -face.x
+           , (face.x + face.width) - ims[1])
+           */
+        im2.save('./examples/tmp/take-face-pics.jpg')
+        console.log('Image saved to ./tmp/take-face-pics.jpg');
+      })
+    } else {
+      console.log("Camera didn't return image")
+    }
+  });
+} catch (e){
+  console.log("Couldn't start camera", e)
+}
diff --git a/examples/warp-image.js b/examples/warp-image.js
index 5b6d32d2..8549bf9c 100644
--- a/examples/warp-image.js
+++ b/examples/warp-image.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 var cv = require('../lib/opencv');
 
-cv.readImage("./mona.png", function(err, im) {
+cv.readImage("./files/mona.png", function(err, im) {
   if (err) throw err;
 
   var width = im.width();
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ cv.readImage("./mona.png", function(err, im) {
   var dstArray = [0, 0, width * 0.9, height * 0.1, width, height, width * 0.2, height * 0.8];
   var xfrmMat = im.getPerspectiveTransform(srcArray, dstArray);
   im.warpPerspective(xfrmMat, width, height, [255, 255, 255]);
-  im.save("./warp-image.png");
+  im.save("./tmp/warp-image.png");
   console.log('Image saved to ./tmp/warp-image.png');
 });
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ab830786..5f835b84 100755
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "tape": "^3.0.0",
     "aws-sdk": "~2.0.21"
+    "glob": "^4.0.6",
+    "request": "^2.45.0"
   },
   "bundledDependencies":["node-pre-gyp"],
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/src/HighGUI.cc b/src/HighGUI.cc
index bb1197b4..3b99c9ef 100644
--- a/src/HighGUI.cc
+++ b/src/HighGUI.cc
@@ -53,7 +53,13 @@ NamedWindow::NamedWindow(const std::string& name, int f){
 NAN_METHOD(NamedWindow::Show){
 	SETUP_FUNCTION(NamedWindow)
   Matrix *im = ObjectWrap::Unwrap<Matrix>(args[0]->ToObject());
-  cv::imshow(self->winname, im->mat);
+
+  try{
+    cv::imshow(self->winname, im->mat);
+  } catch(cv::Exception& e ){
+    const char* err_msg = e.what();
+    NanThrowError(err_msg);
+  }
 
 	NanReturnValue(args.Holder());
 }
diff --git a/src/Matrix.cc b/src/Matrix.cc
index 1f0b9d95..d378a630 100755
--- a/src/Matrix.cc
+++ b/src/Matrix.cc
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ Matrix::Init(Handle<Object> target) {
 	NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(ctor, "drawAllContours", DrawAllContours);
 	NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(ctor, "goodFeaturesToTrack", GoodFeaturesToTrack);
 	NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(ctor, "houghLinesP", HoughLinesP);
+	NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(ctor, "crop", Crop);
 	NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(ctor, "houghCircles", HoughCircles);
 	NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(ctor, "inRange", inRange);
 	NODE_SET_PROTOTYPE_METHOD(ctor, "adjustROI", AdjustROI);
@@ -1016,7 +1017,12 @@ NAN_METHOD(Matrix::AddWeighted) {
 	float beta = args[3]->NumberValue();
 	int gamma = 0;
 
-	cv::addWeighted(src1->mat, alpha, src2->mat, beta, gamma, self->mat);
+  try{
+	  cv::addWeighted(src1->mat, alpha, src2->mat, beta, gamma, self->mat);
+  } catch(cv::Exception& e ){
+    const char* err_msg = e.what();
+    NanThrowError(err_msg);
+  }
 
 
 	NanReturnNull();
diff --git a/test/examples.js b/test/examples.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..23f0f141
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/examples.js
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+var test = require('tape')
+  , glob = require('glob')
+  , exec = require('child_process').exec
+  , path = require('path')
+
+module.exports = function(){
+
+  glob.sync('./examples/*.js').forEach(function(example){
+    test("Example: " + example, function(assert){
+
+      var fullName = path.resolve(example)
+        , examples = path.resolve('./examples')
+
+      exec('node ' + fullName, {cwd: examples}, function(error, stdout, stderr){
+        assert.error(error)
+        assert.end()
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
+}
diff --git a/test/unit.js b/test/unit.js
index ac5609d2..5bb051f5 100755
--- a/test/unit.js
+++ b/test/unit.js
@@ -275,3 +275,7 @@ test("fonts", function(t) {
   });
 })
 
+// Test the examples folder.
+require('./examples')()
+
+