Tutorials

If you’re interested in creating songs or remixing existing ones, you need a way to sample existing songs. Sampling, or also called splicing, is the method of grabbing segments from audio to be used in mixes and more. With these audio clips, you set them to specific pads on your MIDI hardware. Now there is professional software out there that can do this, but I prefer a free method using software I already have installed unless I really need the advanced features.

Theme Hospital is an amazing game but getting a version of it and having it run in Linux isn’t the most straightforward of tasks. Although, if you have the retail version of the game all the way back from 1997, running it with Wine should work fine. If you don’t know what Wine is, it’s a program that allows you to run windows applications inside of Linux operating systems. It’s not an emulator so the performance of the game will be near perfect.

While messing around in Wine inside of Linux Mint, I noticed that a good amount of programs I installed just wouldn’t appear inside of the Application Menu under “Wine”. This was a huge nuisance. I had to manually keep finding the program’s location to execute it (or make a desktop shortcut, but I like having my desktop clean). But I now have a solution I put together today, and it needs to be shared.

In previous posts we talked about JSONp requests and doing drag and drop uploads. But with those tutorials, we didn’t look into making them look nice. Today we are going to create a simple all CSS animated progress bar.

The Resources

You will need a pattern image that is transparent or the same color as your loading bar. Below you can download the image I use for a lot of my loading bars since it’s transparent and just makes part of the background darker so it works on all colors.

If you are using XFCE, you probably have the issue of the desktop icons text or labels being hard to read. This can easily be fixed by modifying the xfce gtkrc files. I only tested this on Linux Mint 15 XFCE, but it should work in all xfce environments.

Our New File

We have to create a new style file for XFCE. This is easily done by creating a normal text file (use Gedit, vim, or any editor). This file then has to be included into the current theme, which is easy.