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Websites require a lot of files to run and a lot of configuration files that you shouldn’t be messing with. For instance, on a Shared cPanel host I have, the main directory is littered with far too many unnecessary files and folders. These files can’t be deleted since they are required but only required for the server software and not of any use to me. The good news is, you probably already have the solution on your computer to hide these files for good (or until I need to see them again).

When using Windows 8.1 and possibly Windows 8, on the Login screen when selecting the user to Sign In as, your mouse will be much quicker (or slower) than you have set for your Computers / users preference. This is because the mouse settings are stored on a Per User Basis and there is no normal graphical method to modify the Global Mouse Settings. Because of this, I dug through the registry for a few minutes and figured out how to modify these settings.

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.