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Using the new Max for Live interface objects without using Max for Live. How to harness the cool new objects in Max 5 with none of the fuss.

By Jaems • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

Users who upgrade to Max 5.1 may have heard of Max for Live and seen the new objects in the objects menu. However, you don’t need to purchase or run Max for Live in order to take advantage of some neat new objects. That’s not to say Max for Live isn’t worth buying, [...]



“I can’t say you have to leave my link in the footer” – WordPress creator sets us straight on the WordPress GPL and its impact on distributed themes

By Jaems • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

You’ve probably seen those Themes that include something in the order of:

“By downloading and using this theme, you agree to link back to our site”

In this video, WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg talks about the WordPress GPL and how any works built on it need to follow the original license, meaning that Theme creators can’t rope [...]



Why I switched from Disqus back to IntenseDebate (again), and why it’s probably permanent

By Jaems • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

I’ve been auditioning the two major competing Comment systems available for blogs today. I started out with Intense Debate, switched to Disqus, then switched back to Intense Debate.  Both systems do fundamentally the same thing: they allow people to add comment threading, community, and a mass of features and plugins to the standard install of, [...]



How to turn your boring and imprecise WordPress search into a cool, accurate, and mildly profitable Google search

By Jaems • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

The normal search that is included with lots of WordPress themes is pretty inaccurate in terms of the results it shows. Users often can’t see the word they’ve searched, they only get a list of posts in which their search term is contained. If they don’t know how to Ctrl or Apple-F to find the [...]



Tab Fader for Max 5: use Web 2.0 style colored tabs in your patches

By Jaems • Sep 26th, 2009 • Category: Software

If your business is creating user interfaces in Max, then you might be interested in Tab Fader. It brings to your users the same fading colored tabs that they are accustomed to from today’s most popular Web 2.0 applications. You can view the brief tutorial video below to learn more about Tab Fader, [...]



Interface Fader for Max 5: fade interface objects in and out like the pros do

By Jaems • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Software

Interface Fader lets you fade any interface object in and out.   You can copy and paste Interface Fader to any Max 5 patch.  Here is how it works:
Step 1. Open patch
Step 2. Put your fading interface elements behind the white panel. You can use Get Info to change the color of the panel so [...]