Tutorials

Tutorial: How to Create Suave HD Icons Glyphs

by Brian Li on Friday, March 2, 2012

Download the Suave HD Template here.

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If you’re a proud owner of the Yamaha Motif XF or XS and looking to program sounds for The Wedding Singer, then you’re in luck! I’ve spent the last few weeks programming Keyboard 1 on the Motif XF, and now I’m ready to share some tips on how I did it. This post will be updated every few days until I finish every number in the show.

  1. Come Out of the Dumpster
  2. If I Told You
  3. Move That Thang

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Kicking WordPress Out of Maintenance Mode

by Brian Li on Thursday, February 23, 2012

If your WordPress blog or website is stuck in Maintenance Mode, here’s how you fix it.

  1. FTP into the root of your site
  2. Delete .maintainence

Yup, it’s really that simple.

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CSS Tip: Using Shadows to Increase Readability

by Brian Li on Wednesday, February 1, 2012

I’m not sure if anyone noticed, but I added a little shadow to all the text on my blog. It’s made a world of difference in terms of readability. The edges of the text would seem to blend in to the background after extended sessions of reading, so I decided to offset the text from the screen a little. The easiest way to achieve this is to use CSS to generate a slight shadow behind the text. This is the code I used…

body {
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000000;
}

There were some elements which I decided to not incorporate a shadow for. One such element is my caption text which appears under images. In order to exclude that text from the previous CSS declaration, I used the following code…

.custom .format_text .wp-caption p {
text-shadow: none;
}

All written material is now more clearly defined, and makes for a better overall reading experience. Enjoy!

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Configuring iCloud for iOS4

by Brian Li on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Automatic configuration for iCloud is available in iOS5. However, this feature isn’t available in iOS4. After some experimenting, I finally discovered how to set up iCloud email, calendar, and contacts on iOS4.

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Tutorial: Resize Suave HD Icons for the Apple iPad

June 24, 2011

The template and action files used in the tutorial can be downloaded here.

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Tutorial: Resize App Store Icons for Suave HD

June 24, 2011

The template and action files used in this tutorial can be downloaded here.

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