Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tutorials. Show all posts
Saturday, July 7, 2012

postheadericon How to read Amharic fonts and write letters on iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 and 4S and iPad (iOS 5)


** The below tutorial is outdated (iOS 5). For iOS 7 and above, please visit Read / Write Amharic (Ge'ez) on any iOS Device (iPhone & iPad) **


I recently tried to look at my website from my iPhone 4 and see what it looks like.  I was really disappointed that some of the Amharic fonts appeared to be just boxes on my iPhone 4 and some of the posts that contained large number of Amharic text weren’t making much sense. I tried to install Amharic font from cydia (My iPhone is jailbroken) but it didn’t help much. So I set out to find a way to read Amharic fonts on my iPhone and also write Amharic letters on Notes and Messages. Whether sending sms and email messages in Amharic is a good idea or not, it’s up to you to decide but as a programmer, I can’t let go of something unless I make it work.
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Monday, June 18, 2012

postheadericon Creating Rounded Corners using CSS (Not Image)


If you’ve searched for a tutorial on creating a rounded corner image for your Joomla modules positions or for any kind of website, you’ve probably stumbled upon my tutorial on how to create a rounded image using Photoshop. After a while of using, rounded corner images, I got to the point where I no longer wanted to create images because of page size. So, I started looking for other ways for making my website look cool. Little did I know, there is a way to create rounded corners using css all along. For those of you that are expecting some new way of creating a box with rounded corners using css, don’t be disappointed, this is a tutorial for users that somehow don’t know that there is a way to create rounded corners using just css (Like Me  J).  I have used rounded corners on two websites that I created using Joomla. One of them had a JA Purity Template (T3 framework) and the other one was a YouGrid Template using YJSG Framework. Using Firebug I was able to find which divs belong to which part of the website and change the css code accordingly.
So here is how you make rounded corners. Basically, when the edge (corner) of a box is not rounded, it has radius of 0. If the radius is not 0, the edge of the box will be rounded depending on the value of the radius specified. So to make the box rounded, you add a radius to all 4 parts of the box. The 4 parts meaning, Top Right, Top Left, Bottom Right and Bottom Left. So here is how the code works.

Border-top-left-radius: 10px;
Border-top-right-radius: 10px;
Border-bottom-left-radius: 10px;
Border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;

The 10px is for example purpose; just put your value there.



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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

postheadericon Write Amharic on Windows 7 word document without software application.

Whether it’s an application letter for a government agency or if it’s just to write Amharic on facebook, google or other websites, all of us have had the need to write Amharic more than once in our lives. Few years back every one had to learn Power Geez to write Amharic. The ability to write Amharic on a computer was something you only found in internet centers and with some people who know a lot about computers. But know, one can write Amharic in so many different ways.
My personal favorite way of writing Amharic would be using the
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