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Not many know this but Synfig Studio for flash animation is GPL GNU licensed and cross-platform. Here's a tutorial on how to get started using it under Linux.

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Blines are the most used object in any normal animation done with Synfig. The Bline tool allows you to create them. This tutorial shows you how to do it the older way. Synfig Studio has since been updated so that doing bline creation and shapes is even easier.

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Blines the construct for describing shapes in Synfig Animation Studio. Blines are the most used object in any normal animation done with Synfig. The Bline tool allows you to create them. Basic primitives such as circles or rectangles are all great, but they are pretty much geometrically inflexible. What about other shapes? This tutorial shows you how.

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Two-dimensional animation has long been the domain of proprietary software. That changes with the introduction of Synfig, a free software/open source tool for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.

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Forgotten about in all the IE7 hype is the next Firefox release. Well to make it publically known I am not at all interested in IE7. It is way too soon to be concerned with it. I am however interested and concerned with the way websites look in Firefox2 Beta. Installing Firefox2 Beta would mean replacing a stable Firefox 1.5. When what I need is to be able to switch back and forth between them.

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Micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows users to write brief text updates (usually 140 characters) and publish them. Microposts can be made public on a Web site and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. Subscribers can read microblog posts online or request that updates be delivered in real time totheir desktop as an instant message or sent to a mobile device as an SMStext message. These messages can be submitted by a variety of means, including text messaging,instant...

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Many think that cyber terrorism is only carried out by "script kiddies" when in actuality it is done by highly skilled individuals and groups. No, real world hackers on the attack are nothing like what hollywood would have you believe. Although many parts of this paper read like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie script it is very informative

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Only geeks use RSS feeds. Is this true? Unfortunately yes. Why? well because like most things in web technology and computers only geeks can understand that nothing is one hundred percent all the time. RSS feeds are not popular because most of them are broken or fail frequently. The owners of RSS feeds do not check them often enough to make sure they are working and valid.

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PHP while not the top programming language does dominate the web. It is seen as being easy to learn and can be used on any webserver. So PHP is gaining popularity by leaps. But PHP is also approaching the end of its development life cycle. The language itself is close to the point where it can no longer grow.

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Everyone agrees trackbacks do not work. But now there is something else that could take its place. Wide Area Social Networking or WASN is a phenomenon that I first noticed at dzone.com. Will WASN be the next hot trend for Web 2.0 and will spread like wild fire over the entire internet? Can it be what trackbacks tried to be?

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