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So you’re wondering what “stop-motion animation” means… well according to the Computer Arts website “Stop-motion animation” is creating the illusion of movement by taking a still photo of a stationary object, moving it a small increment and capturing another photo. Kind of like this Rymdreglage – 8-bit trip video I found over on YouTube.

Now that you know what it is you’re probably wondering how to do it. Well here is a tutorial as well as the support files to help you create your own Stop-motion animation video.

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So recently at work i’ve been working a little bit with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. After working with Dreamweaver for so many years I’ve always made sure everything word wrapped around and looked clean. Well after asking a few developer friends of mine they couldn’t point in the right direction so I did a little research and came across the proper way to word wrap in Microsoft Visual Studios 2005 / 2008. Below is the procedure if anyone else was wondering how to word wrap in Microsoft Visual Studios.

1. On the Tools menu, select Options.
2. In the Text Editor folder, choose the General options in the All Languages subfolder to set this option globally.— or —Choose the General options in the subfolder for the language in which you are programming.
3. Under Settings, select or clear the Word wrap option.When the Word wrap option is selected, the Show visual glyphs for word wrap option is enabled.
4. Select the Show visual glyphs for Word Wrap option if you prefer to display a return-arrow indicator where a long line wraps onto a second line. Clear this option if you prefer not to display indicator arrows.

For more information similar to what is shown above then check out the Visual Studio Developers Center. There are other topics discussed like the following;

• How to: Display URLs as Links in the Editor
• How to: Outline and Hide Code
• How to: Display Line Numbers in the Editor
• How to: Specify Indenting in the Editor

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If you’ve ever received a link that looked like this “http://bit.ly/XwvPr” or if you’ve seen people using them over on twitter you may not know this but, they use them to track the statistics of people. There are other sites out there that do similar click statistics however, I’ve notice that the Bit.ly seem to be the more popular ones and I use them myself.

In order to view the statistics of a link you simply do the following…

1. Copy the link that you were sent or one that you’ve come across such as this one “http://bit.ly/XwvPr“.
2. Once you’ve copied the link paste it in your browser address bar.
3. Then between the “.ly/” and the code “XwvPr” add the word “info/” so the link should look like this “http://bit.ly/info/XwvPr

If you’ve followed the steps above you will be able to view the stats of any Bit.ly link.

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Below is a list of links to some of the sites that I’ve visited or used to better help me understand Wordpress and it’s many functions. I’ve created this list to share with others and that way I have them on a blog post that I can visit instead of having all them in my bookmarked folder.

1. 30 Ways to Improve Readability
2. How To: Adding a Store to Your WordPress Blog
3. How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog
4. How to Nofollow a Link
5. How To: Showing Only a Post Excerpt in WordPress
6. How To: Setting Up Your WordPress Permalink Structure
7. 7 Principles Of Clean And Optimized CSS Code
8. How to: CSS Large Background
9. How to: Retrieve images in post content
10. How To Display Ads Only To Search Visitors

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