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A small flash tutorial about cartoon animation

Howdy! in this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a simple cartoon animation like the one hereunder:




Ok lets’ start!
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Installing compiz on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10

Lately I’ve been busy playing around with my Ubuntu Edgy, yesterday i installed and configured compiz.
Anyway long story short, I didn’t find a tutorial that completely worked for me so what the heck I will write one here… maybe it will save you the time that I wasted :)

I use ubuntu Edgy 6.10 although it should work for Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS or newer.

Here is a screenshot of what’s waiting for you

My Desktop

I will divide my work into 2 steps:
1- Enabling AIGLX:
2- Installing Compiz

Lets start :D
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Validate a username using Javascript and PHP ( AJAX )

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Who doesn’t hate these long forms ? You fill each field in them and when you submit, it will return something like :
‘ SORRY BUT YOUR USERNAME IS ALREADY TAKEN ‘.

In this tutorial I m gonna show you how to check if a username is valid without leaving the page using ajax (Asynchronous Javascript And XML).
Before I start, check the final result to see if this what you are looking for.

Demo: click here
Download files: click here

Ready ?
Lets roll
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How to write arabic in Flash 8?

The most common problem that we face here in the Middle East is writing Arabic with Flash. There was a version that I was using it to write Arabic in Flash and it was very easy to use, it was a special version of Flash 6.

And now, many Flash designers face a problem with this issue in their projects, especially when copying and pasting paragraphs.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to fix that problem, let us start:
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