A Beautiful Apple style Slideshow Gallery With CSS and jQuery
From Tutorialzine, a detailed how-to create a good looking, apple style slideshow gallery. Worth a look for a nice gallery script.
A Beautiful Apple style Slideshow Gallery With CSS and jQuery »
10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery
Six Revisions takes a look at how to introduce animation into designs with the help of jQuery.
In this article, we share with you some innovative uses of jQuery in animating web design elements. You’ll read about some interesting techniques, tutorials, and examples that will show you how to create similar effects on your own websites and web apps.
10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery »
Two Nice Scripts for Rotating Image or Content Display
Two nice script today, for displaying rotating images or content:
Create a Simple jQuery Carousel (Quesness)
Create a Horizontal Accordian with Ajax (Dynamic Drive)
Create a Fancy Share Box ... and more!
Using CSS and jQuery, turn an unordered list into a fancy "Share This" box. A nice "how-to" for a good looking share display.
Continue reading "Create a Fancy Share Box ... and more!" »
Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery and CSS (and more Javascript resources)
From The Art of Hand Coding, a nice "how-to" create a trendy "page peel" effect using jQuery and aided by a little CSS.
Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS »
More Scripts and Software Resources:
27 Handy Javascript Techniques for Web Designers »
18 jQuery Scripts and Tutorails to Improve our Portfoli0 »
20 More Excellent AJAX Effects Your Should Know »
7 Beautiful jQuery Scripts »
Minimalist jQuery: 11 Useful Plugins under 4K
It's easy to be wowed by all the great jQuery plugins out there but some of them are pretty heavy and can really slow a site down. From site trif3cta.com, a nice round-up of 11 jQuery plugins, under 4K, that give "solid bang for your performance buck". A nice article, worth browsing.
Minimalist jQuery: 11 useful plugins under 4K »
Curon Vs. Typeface.js, Which One is Better?
Kilian Valkhof has a nice article comparing the two fairly recent font-replacement scripts Cufon and Typeface.js. The article details how both scripts work, their properties, file sizes, how to convert fonts to work with the scripts and how to include them in your website.
The side-by-side comparison comes up pretty close, which is illustrated with a demo comparison page. A great read for anyone interested in these new font-replacement techniques.
Cufon vs. Typeface.js, which one is better? »
25+ jQuery Plugins To Enhance HTML
Site Queness.com has a nice round-up of jQuery plugins that can enhance and beautiful html elements, such as forms, file uploaders, auto complete, calendars, drop down menus, color pickers and text areas. Worth browsing if you're a jQuery fan and looking to pretty up your html.
25 jQuery Plugins that enhance and beautify HTML form elements »
GalleryView jQuery Plugin
GalleryView is a nice jQuery based image gallery plugin with a ton of features and customizing options. The author has taken some time to break down the "anatomy" of the plugin so that users can easily build their own version exactly how they want. The resulting gallery can contain a filmstrip or not, filmstrip at the top of bottom, captions, lightboxes and much more. If you're looking for a nice image gallery script, this one is worth checking out.
Lots of jQuery Resources for Working with Images
First, from Six Revisions, a nice round-up of some of the best image plugins for jQuery, well worth browsing. 14 jQuery Plugins for Working with Images »
jQuery ImageSwitch is a jQuery plugin that's an easy to use plugin for creating simple effects (such as fade, scroll etc) between displayed images. This one is developer friendly, too with commented code so it's easy to customize. jQuery Image Switch »
Moving Boxes: jQuery Image Slider
CSS Tricks has a great looking, jQuery-based image slider script called "Moving Boxes". Features include panel zoom in and out, keyboard support and more. A nice way to display images.
25 jQuery Plugins for Navigation
From designm.ag, a nice round-up of jQuery based plugins for website navigation. Whether you're looking for horizontal, vertical, dropdown or breadcrumb, you'll find a script in this list.
25 jQuery Plugins for Navigation »
Using jQuery to Style Design Elements: 20 Impressive Plugins
devSnippets has a great collection of jQuery plugins, all aimed at using jQuery to style design elements, such as lists, buttons, rounded corners and more. Worth browsing for some interesting jQuery plugin ideas.
Using jQuery to Style Design Elements: 20 Impressive Plugins » (devSnippets)
100 Best JavaScript Resources
Spoonfed Design has a big round-up of the best JavaScript (and a few AJAX) for "enhancing user experience and usability". The list incluldes techniques, plugins and resources for jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools and Dojo. Worth a look.
100 Best JavaScript Resources » (Spoonfed Design)
15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues
DevSnippets has a great article today showing how to leverage the power of jQuery to battle cross-browser differences. Worth a read.
Modern browsers have very good support for CSS — it’s certainly good enough for you to use CSS to control layout and presentation. Sometimes however, certain page elements will appear differently in different browsers. That’s why today we wanted to highlight 15 jQuery solutions for the most common browser issues that you’ll encounter when building web applications among other jQuery plugins that will give you a nice browser effect.
15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues » (Dev Snippets)
10 Brilliant Multi Level Navigation Menu Techniques
A nice article from devSnippets today, taking a look at multi-level navigation techniques using different Javascript libraries and CSS. Worth a read.
10 Brilliant Multi Level Navigation Menu Techniques (devSnippets)
Simple Tabs
Simple Tabs is an unobtrusive Tabs script that doesn't require any third-party library (like jQuery or MooTools). It doesn't need different IDS per tab, so you can have as many Simple Tabs tab sets as you want on the same page. It also remembers the last tab clicked on. Simple to implement, small in size, fast-loading and testing on all browsers.
A nice little script, worth considering when other libraries aren't already being used.
Best 65 mootools plugins and demos
Site speckyboy.com rounds-up 65 mootools plugins and demos and asks "Is it better than jQuery?". So far, visitors to the site say yes. A nice list, worth browsing.
Best Ever 65 mooTools Plugins and Demos, is it Better than jQuery?
3 Useful jQuery Scripts
On Dynamic Drive a simple, jQuery based image gallery script. Simple Controls Gallery.
jCrop Image Cropping Plugin is an image cropping plugin for jQuery.
Finally, Equal Height Columns with jQuery.
Creating equal-height columns with CSS is sometimes a bear. But who needs the hassle of faux columns, “clear” divs and the rest? With this bit of jQuery, you can easily equalize the heights of any group of elements.
Start Stop Slider Script
CSS Tricks has a great article (and how-to, demo and download) that demonstrates how to create a featured content slider with a start and stop button. Really nice way to present featured content on a website. Worth a look! (Be sure to check out the demo).
3 Nice Scripts to Check Out
From David Walsh Blog, has a nice article, showing how to make "fancy navigation" with MooTools that highlights the navigation items and creates a chain effect. Fancy Navigation with MooTools Javascript
CrossSlide is a jQuery plugin that implements some common slide-show animations that are usually seen only via Flash.
Position:absolute shows how to create a hover image link fader with jQuery.
Bored to see the same old CSS image replacement tricks for your hover links? Add a little twist.Make it fadeIn and fadeOut on hover without even touching the CSS.
2 nice Javascript Posts
NETTUTS has a nice article today, with a round-up of 10 techniques to improve user interface with Javascript. 10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI.
From Bulletproof Box, learn how to Create a Tabbed Navigation Area with CSS and jQuery.
A List Apart: CSS Sprites2
A List Apart revisits CSS Sprites and revises it with the help of popular JavaScript Libraries like jQuery, creating some great results for bringing some animation into a page without Flash.
CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time (A List Apart)
Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider
CSS Tricks has a nice how-to today, demonstrating how to create an auto-playing featured content slider using jQuery. The resulting slider looks great and would be useful for a lot of sites.
Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider
Image Font Replacement (sIFR) How To and an Alternative
NetTuts has a nice how-to today, showing how to get started with Flash Image Replacement (sIFR). How To Implement sIFR3 Into Your Website.
Also, a new Image Replacement script (at least new to me) - Facelife Image Replacement (FLIR).
An Elegant Lightweight Slideshow Script
From site devthought, a nice slideshow script inspired by Barack Obama's website. This lightweight script runs on MooTools 1.2 and supports all kinds of customizations.
BarackSlideshow - An elegant, lightweight slideshow script
50 Nice Clean CSS Tab-Based Navigation Scripts
Hongkiat.com has collected over 50 CSS Tab-based navigation scripts, in a variety of styles . I always find these list useful as a reminder of some of the options out there for site navigation.
50 Nice Clean CSS Tab-Based Navigation Scripts
10 Free Chart Scripts
From website WebTecker, a round-up of free scripts for making charts. The collection includes script built using JavaScript, Flash, Silverlight and Java.
10 Free Chart Scripts | WebTecker the latest Web Tech, Resources and News.
DhoniShow: Easy Inline Image Gallery
DhoniShow is an easy to use, inline image gallery script that runs on the Prototype framework (and optionally Scriptaculous). The image display is customizable via and easy to edit CSS file.
DhoniShow produces a nice looking image gallery that makes an attractive way to show a number of images.
Using moo.rd to create Image Galleries
A nice article on Six Revisions today, showing how to create image galleries using moo.rd. Moo.rd is a JavaScript library based on the MooTools framework. Moo.rd is "lightweight, object oriented, modular and flexible JavaScript library."
Using moo.rd to Create Image Galleries (Six Revisions)
How to Make an Accordian Menu Using jQuery
From Roshan's Blog, a nice how-to create an accordion menu using the Jquery framework. The menu can be made to work on click or on mouse over.
Create accordion menu using jquery
A couple of nice javascript navigation solutions
I've come across a couple of nice javascript navigation solutions today. The first, from website Leigeber, a lightweight horizontal, sliding hover effect script. Sliding JavaScript Menu Highlight 1kb - Web Development Blog.
Secondly, a really nice Keypress Navigation based on jQuery from NetTuts,
Create Tooltips Easily with Prototip
Prototip2 allows you to "create beautiful tooltips with ease". Create both simple and complex tooltips, using Prototip and the Prototype javascript framework.
Prototip 2 - Create beautiful tooltips with ease.
Ajax Daddy
Ajax Daddy is a large collection of "nifty web 2.0 demos." Simply browse through the various script demos and pick out just the right effects for your site.
AjaxDaddy - Ajax Examples in Action
Lightweight Horizontal Javascript Accordian
From website Leigeber, a nice and lightweight (1kb) accordian script. This is a standalone script and doesn't require any additional frameworks. Horizontal JavaScript Accordion 1kb - Web Development Blog
Dynamic Image Gallery and Slideshow
If you're looking for a lightweight JavaScript image gallery and slideshow script, here's a nice one worth a look. Weighing in at only 3kb packed, it's a nice featured script.
Dynamic Image Gallery and Slideshow
30 Javascript/Ajax Techniques for Sliders, Scrollers and Scrollbars
Another nice round-up from noupe.com, this time for Javascript/Ajax sliders, scrollers and scrollbars. Worth browsing for some nice scripts.
30 Javascript/Ajax Techniques for Sliders, Scrollers and Scrollbars
(P.S. I'm currently enjoying a bit of a vacation, so posting will be light until Friday. Thanks for all the email tips. I'll be sure to review them when I'm back home!)
Greasemonkey Scripts for the Social Media Addict
Website ReadWriteWeb has a nice round-up of Greasemonkey scripts for Firefox. Find Greasemonkey scripts for Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Mixx, Del.icio.us, Magnolia, Flickr, Facebook and Google Reader. Some nice finds in the list. Worth browsing.
Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict (ReadWriteWeb)
Color Fading JavaScript Script
JavaScript Color Fading Script - Web Development Blog is a lightweight JavaScript that allows for easy color transitions. You can add the fading effect to divs or tables and more or target an elements background, border or text color.
Script is tested and works in IE6/7, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
How You Get sIFR to Work
If you've ever tried sIFR (Flash Image Replacement) and given up in frustration, here's a nice walkthrough on how to get it working. Worth a read.
ｻ This is How You Get sIFR to Work (Design Intellection)
3 Nice Effects with jQuery
There's some nice stuff out there for jQuery right now. Here are 3 nice effects I've stumbled upon in the past couple of days ...
Image Cross Fade Transition (jQuery for Designers)
Fade-in Spoiler Revealer (CSS Tricks)
Horizontal Accordion with jQuery (Design Reviver)
Kwicks for jQuery
If you liked the Kwick menu effect for Mootools but you're a jQuery user, you'll be pleased to know it's now available as a plugin for jQuery. (Kwick is a menu effect that features sections that expand on hover)
prettyPhoto: a jQuery Lightbox Script
If you're looking for an image lightbox script, it's worth checking out this new jQuery script from website No Margin for Error. The output is nice and the script looks to be very easy to implement and customize.
prettyPhoto - jQuery lightbox clone
21 Awesome But Lesser Known Open-Source Applications for Windows
Website Tech Tips For Us has a really nice list of 21 lesser know but highly useful open-source applications for Windows, worth browsing for new finds.
These applications range from moderately popular to downright obscure, but all of them are open-source and FREE. All of them are worth the install time if you have never tried them. As a side bonus, many of them are cross-platform as well.
21 Awesome (But Lesser-Known) Open-Source Applications for Windows (Tech Tips For Us)
Tim Thumb PHP Image Resizing Script
TimThumb PHP is a custom image resize, open-source script which supports jpeg, png and gif images. A useful script for managing various image sizes on a site.
TimThumb PHP Script Released (Darren Hoyt Dot Com)
A couple of nice jQuery photo gallery scripts
jqGalScroll takes a list of images and creates a smooth scrolling photo gallery that can scroll either vertically, horizontally or diagonally. The script will also create pagination if needed.
jQuery: jqGalScroll v2.1 (Photo Gallery) (The Book and the Cover)
From the same site, a simple photo presentation effect via jqShuffle, which allows you to take a group of photos and shuffle through them , similar to the way you would shuffle a stack of photos, taking the top most photo and moving it to the left and then to the bottom of the stack on-click.
jQuery jqShuffle Plugin (The Book and the Cover)
SkyBlueCanvas: Lightweight CMS
SkyBlueCanvas is a lightweight CMS, "designed specifically for those instances where more robust systems like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are too much horsepower."
SkyBlueCanvas doesn't require a database, is extensible and skinnable and outputs valid XHTML 1.0 Strict output. And it's opensource.
Looks like a nice system, worth a look. You can check out the admin panel here.
SkyBlue Canvas - The Light-weight CMS
Two for Moo
MooFilm - Mootools-Based Tooltip Fader for Images - a script that opens an info-pane overlay on an image on mouse-over. Features adjustable slide-in/out effects and can be customized via CSS styesheet.
Using MooTools for Opacity - a how-to that could be handy if you're already using MooTools for other effects.
Snippely: Code Organizer
Anyone who does any sort of coding, whether it be CSS or JavaScript knows how useful it is to save regularly used snippets of code. Snippely makes that easy and keeps it all in one place.
Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize "snippets" in one convenient location. A snippet is a collection of one or more pieces of code and notes. Snippets are stored in groups for organization and quick retrieval. A snippet is composed of a title, description, and one or more 'snips'. You can add any number of note and code snips in a variety of different languages (more to be added). When not being edited, the snip will be syntax highlighted according to the language selected. Snips are also sortable so you can organize your snippet however you want. Since everything is saved to a local database as you work, there's no need to worry about pressing the save button or submitting a form.
New Version iBox Lightbox Script
iBox - Lightweight inline popup is just out with version 2. iBox is lightweight lightbox script that is easy to install and use, while offering great flexibility.
iBox doesn't rely on any other js framework and is extensible via plugins to support various document types, such as images, documents, inline container and even YouTube videos.
Thanks Ahmed!
MoreCSS Javascript Library
MoreCSS.js looks like a nice little JS library that could come in handy for web developers.
MoreCSS is a small JavaScript library for everyday things: creating popups, tab menus (like the one above), “zebra”-styling tables and lists … etc. And MoreCSS is called MoreCSS, because you can do these things like in regular CSS.
yellowgreen designbüro - MoreCSS
Smart Image Resizer (PHP)
Smart Image Resizer is a "ridiculously easy-to-use PHP script for resizing images the smart way."
With this script and some PHP magic, you can upload a photo once and output it in any number of sizes and crop aspects just by modifying the url. All of the magic is done through the query string part of the URL in the src attribute of the img tag. This script will resize JPEG, GIF and PNG.
I can't wait to give this script a go! It offers so many possibilities for image-rich sites.
Smart Image Resizer (Shifting Pixel)
thmbnl: small utility script for showing thumbnail style images of linked pages
Thmbnl is a "compact utility for showing thumbnail-style images of pages linked from your website or application. Developers can sign in, grab our code libraries and samples, write some code and you've got thmbnl in your app! It's so cool, we had to take out all the vowels."
thmbnl: small pictures for your big picture
45+ Fresh jQuery Plugins
Website noupe.com has a nice round-up of fresh jQuery plugins, covering a wide range of areas and certainly useful for web development.
45 Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins (Noupe)
Galleria: jQuery Image Gallery Script
Galleria is a jQuery based javascript image gallery "that loads images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It can create thumbnails for you ou choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS."
A good looking and fast-loading script, worth a look if you're looking for an image gallery script.
The core of Galleria lies in it's smart preloading behaviour, snappiness and the fresh absence of obtrusive design elements. Use it as a foundation for your custom styled image gallery.
Galleria - a Javascript Image Gallery
jQuery Tutorials for Designers
Web Designer wall has a great tutorial that will walk through how to use the jQuery framework in web designs. This tutorial is especially nice since it's written especially for designers. A great and information article, worth a read.
jQuery Tutorials for Designers (Web Designer Wall)
jQuery Tutorials for Designers
Web Designer wall has a great tutorial that will walk through how to use the jQuery framework in web designs. This tutorial is especially nice since it's written especially for designers. A great and information article, worth a read.
jQuery Tutorials for Designers (Web Designer Wall)
How to highlight search results with Javascript and CSS
Want to aid your site visitors who arrive at your site via search? This bit of Javascript and CSS will highlight the words or phrases on your site that were used in the search.
How to highlight search results with JavaScript (Eriwen.com)
Facebox: jQuery based lightbox script
Facebox is a jQuery based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs or entire remote pages.
Facebox 1.0 (Famspam.com)
(*Thanks Andy!)
Also for jQuery, the jQuery Cycle Plugin, which is a lightweight slideshow plugin. This scipt makes it easy to display photos with nice transitions, such as shuffle, zoom, slide-in.
37 Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces
A nice round-up from noupe.com, featuring over 37 ajax, css tab interfaces for web design and development. Worth a look see for a nice collection.
37 Great Ajax, CSS Tab-Based Interfaces (Noupe.com)
Two Moos and a View
Two scripts built on the mootools framework today ...
mooSlide is an ajax based slider/lightbox replacement, that slides extra content up from the bottom of the screen. A nice change from the traditional lightbox effect.
mooSocialize is a widget that allows website owners to offer many bookmarkign options for their blog or website users. By clicking the mooSocialize button, a window appears that lets you choose your favorite bookmarking network. Once clicked, the user isn't wisked away but rather a hovered layer opens up to confirm the bookmark.
Lightview is a lightbox script that allows you to overlay anything "with style". Built on the Prototype framework, Lightview works with images, Quicktime, Ajax Forms or posts, iframes, inline content or Flash.
Top 50 Proprietary Programs and their Open Source Alternatives
It's always nice to find good, open source alternatives to popular programs and website WHDb has rounded-up a really nice list. For each Proprietary program, an open source alternative is suggested. Nice list, worth browsing.
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives
FancyZoom: image magnification script
FancyZoom is a Javascript image zooming script, "designed to view full-sized photos and images inline without requiring a separate web page load."
Features include smooth transition, automatic image scaling, preloads image in the background on line mouseover, nice drop shadows, doesn't need any JS library and requires only two new lines of code in your HTML. Nice script and great for inline images.
cabel.name: FancyZoom 1.0 (Cabel's Blog)
Seen on Sourceforge: Personal Task Manager and Photoshop Brush Viewer
PTM is an open source personal task manager and time tracking tool that looks like Windows Task Manager.
Have you ever suffer to answer to questions like ... What have you done last week? On what kind of things did you spent the time?
PTM (Sourceforge)
Also from Sourceforge, abrViewer.net is a utility for previewing Photoshop Brush files and exporting as images. This is a handy tool for anyone who uses Photoshop brushes (for previewing them) and for publishers of custom brush set (for the exporting power).
abrViewer.net (Sourceforge)
Shadowbox.js YUI-based lightbox script
Shadowbox.js Media Viewer is a really nice lightbox script that has a lot of features to recommend it, not least of which is the ability to use it with your Javascript library of choice (YUI, Prototype, jQuery, MooTools, Dojo or standalone).
Shadowbox is cross-browser, cleanly-code and can be easily customized. It also handles images, flash and movies and external websites.
Style Your Image Links
Website CSS Globe has a nice article (with an accompanying script to download) that sets a mouse over effect on linked images.
Mouse over behaviors have a certain significance when we're talking about usability. Letting users know that particular section of our website is meant to be clicked on is best achieved through mouse over effect.
The script allows for a number of different mouse over effects and would be especially of interest to photobloggers, who often have linked images like this. You can check out the demo here.
Sliding Date Picker script
The sliding date-picker enables you to pick dates with a simple slider bar. By dragging the bar over the time-line, the dates change instantly. The script is built the Prototype/Scriptaculous framework, combined with the DateJS library.
IconsExtract- Extract Icons stored in your Windows files
IconsExtract Is a handy little Windows utility program that will extract icon/cursor stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL files.
Lightview: Overlay your images with style
Lightview is a new entry into the "lightbox" script market, promising to deliver lightbox functionality "with style".
Indeed, this version features adjustable rounded corners, one-button slideshow functionality, Scriptaculous image effects and more. And all this while offering clean design, fast loading, smart image resizing and easy to customize code.
Certainly a nice script and worth a look for anyone looking for a lightbox solution. Lightview uses the Prototype javascript framework.
Free Software for Web Designers
It's always nice to be able to find a free tool to get the job done. Website TechnoTarget has put together a nice round-up of a whole lot of free tools that would be useful for web designers. Worth browsing!
Freeware Software for Web Designers | TechnoTarget
jQuery Hover Sub Tag Cloud
jquery Hover Sub Tag Cloud is a very nice variation of the standard Tag Cloud, using the jQuery framework to offer up a tag sub tag menu on hover.
MooFlow: MooTools Gallery Script
MooFlow 0.1 - Using MooTools 1.2 - a MooTools-based Javascript gallery script that creates a photo gallery that looks like Apple's iTunes or Finders Coverflow.
Nice!
Cornerz: Bullet Proof Corners Plugin for jQuery
Cornerz is a rounded corners plugin for the jQuery framework. It features antialiased corners, fast rendering, works with all tested positions/display/floats, supports fluid layouts and more.
Prince XML: converts XML and HTML into PDF
Prince XML is a program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read XML, XHTML and SVG and will format documents according to the CSS style sheets. Prince will also load images and fonts over HTTP and render colors and effects like rounded borders and small caps.
Handy!
Open Source Living
Open Source Living is an archive of the best open source applications. Software is sorted by categories, such as Web, Graphics, Audio. This is a really new site and expect some growing pains, but could become a nice software resource.
Handy Program! USB Disk Ejector
USB Disk Ejector allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It can be run as a command line program or as a normal GUI program that easily ejects any USB device with a click. For Windows XP/Vista.
Thanks Jeton for tipping me on this great little program!
ImageFlow: Nice, Ajax Slideshow
ImageFlow is a really nice looking Ajax slideshow script that has good cross-browser compatibility. I really like the photo presentation of this script as it's just a bit different from the usual slideshows we see everywhere. Anyone looking for a photo presentation script, should have a look at this one!
50+ Amazing jQuery Examples
50 Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1 is a really nice round-up of design elements that can be powered by the jQuery plugins.
Worth browsing for some really nice design/functionality options using jQuery.
Iconize Textlinks with CSS
Sometimes it nice to know where text links will take you. Usually it's another webpage, but sometimes it's one of those surprise PDFs! Iconize Textlinks with CSS is a small script that adds an icon to text links that show where the link goes visually. Works in all the latest browsers (not IE6, though).
Best 101 Free Computer Software for Your Daily Use
Website Make Tech Easier offers up Best 101 Free Computer Software For Your Daily Use, which like most lists of software contains a lot of software you may already be using or aware of. But ... hidden between these are a few that are not so well known and worth checking out.
6 Free Digg Clone Scripts
For anyone who has ever wanted to roll their own Digg-style site, here's a nice list of 6 Free Digg Clone Scripts.
(One of my readers asked me once for scripts like this, so if you are still out there and still looking, hope this helps!)
Fancy Form: Javascript Checkbox Replacement Script
FancyForm - Javascript checkbox replacement
FancyForm is a powerful checkbox replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements. It's easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supporting browsers.
Features include quick setup (only two lines of markup), extendible with lots of customization options and degrades gracefully allowing forms to still work on older browsers
Starbox: star rating script for prototype
Starbox - Rating stars for prototype is a nice little script for use with the Prototype (1.6) framework.
MooMonth: mootools based calendar
MooMonth is a mootools based calendar application.
MooMonth is a full calendar application written in javascript. Heavily configurable and customizable. It features smooth sexy transitions between different views. Still in alpha stages though, it will be several weeks before ready to be tested in production.
You can see an example MooMonth calendar here (be sure to see it in Full View as well)
New version of Fresh Del.icio.us rolls out
freshdelicious - FRESH DEL.ICIO.US is a client-side application that will scan all your del.icio.us bookmarks and report the ones that are now dead (so you can clean them up). Version 1.51 beta of this useful script is available for download now.
12 Javascript Image Galleries
12 Javascript Image Galleries - a nice round-up of Javascript and Ajax based image galleries, complete with screenshots for each one. Worth a look for anyone looking for an image gallery solution.
10 Javascript Ajax Tabs
10 Javascript Ajax Tabs is a good round-up of Javascript/Ajax tab scripts that can be incorporated into your future designs.
PopBox! Javascript image Magnification Script
PopBox! - Javascript Image Magnification is just a really great image script, worth checking out.
PopBox! features:
- Ridiculously simple to use.
- Does not navigate away from the page or create separate windows.
- Does not require any special browser plug-ins. 100% script and CSS solution.
- Includes a multi-line caption capability that dynamically sizes to fit.
- Allows for a different image to be used for the thumbnail and Popped images - on page load or on image click.
- Can display a user-defined text message across the top of the image on page load on the thumbnail image.
- Can display a user-defined text message across the top of the image after it has been popped.
This script features a lot of nice features (check the demos on the page) and is dead simple to implement. Nice!
AJAX & Javascript Galleries, Slideshows and Effects Redux
AJAX & Javascript Galleries, Slideshows and Effects Redux - a really nice round-up of some Ajax and Javascript galleries.
Worth a look for a nice choice of image display scripts.
70+ JavaScript Resources for Every Web Developer
70 JavaScript Resources for Every Web Developer - everything from tutorials, to resources, to tools and libraries.
The "Techniques" section has some nice links to scripts for adding to any website.
jQuery lightbox plugin
jQuery lightBox plugin is a lightbox effect for images that works with the jQuery framework with the addition of a small plugin script.
Another addition to the ever-growing choices for lightbox scripts.
15 Free CD/DVD Burning Alternatives to Nero
instant fundas: 15 Free CD/DVD burning alternatives to Nero - some great choices in the free burning market! Worth a peek if you're looking for CD/DVD burning software.
Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master
Micro Persuasion: Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master - a great collection of handy bookmarklets for simplifying your web 2.0 life.
Updated: Which Lightbox is Right for You?
It's been a while since I first asked "Which Lightbox is right for you?" and some scripts have disappeared, while new ones have entered the scene. Here are some of your options today:
If you only want to display images:
Lightbox 2 - the original, by Lokesh Dhakar, is a "simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers."
Framework: prototype, scriptaculous
Displays: images (with transition effects)
Lightbox ++ - based on the original Lightbox but provides more options for image re-sizing based on browser window size.
Framework: none
Displays: images
Litebox - a code-reduced version of Lightbox, uses the moo.fx library and prototype-lite. A good choice if page weight is a concern.
Framework: Prototype Lite, moo.fx
Displays:images
Lightbox with moo.fx - souped up with moo.fx transitions etc, still prototype based and only for images, however.
Framework: Prototype, moo.fx
Displays:images
Slimbox - a lightweight variation of the original Lightbox, built on mootools.
Framework: mootools,
Displays: images
Slightly ThickerBox is a mod of the Thickbox script, that integrates previous and next links (excellent for image galleries) and the ability to create groups of galleries
Framework:jQuery
Displays: images,mpeg, avi.
If you want to display html, forms, flash, video etc.:
Thickbox is a "webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal."
Framework: jQuery
Displays: images (no transitions but will resize images if larger than browser window), inline, iframe or ajax served content.
LightWindow - displays just about every kind of content or media.
Framework: Prototype, sciptaculous
Displays: just about everything
Lightbox Gone Wild! can be used to provide additional info, show an image or present a form for user input.
Framework: prototype
Displays: images, html, forms etc.
Multi-faceted Lightbox - prototyped based again, but offers a variety of options for different types of data that can be loaded in the lightbox.
Framework:none
Displays: images, html
LITBox - a lightbox written in to a class, so it is possible to open multiple instances of the lightbox and control each separately. Based on Thickbox.
Framework: prototype, sciptaculous
Displays: images, html
Leightbox - very similar to Lightbox Gone Wild (prototype based, allows images, html etc) except that Leightbox keeps the lightbox content in the html, but hidden from view, so that it can be indexed by search engines.
Frontbox - self-contained script that doesn't rely on any other frameworks; degrades well, lightweight, cross-browser and can display images, html, ajax served content and hidden divs.
Framework: none
Displays: images, html, ajax-served, hidden divs
GreyBox Redux - unobtrusive (no need to embed JS into your site) and even lighter weight than GreyBox (now dead).
Framework: jQuery
Displays: images, html etc.
Lytebox - based on original Lightbox script but written to eliminate the need for the prototype and scriptaculous libraries.
Framework: none
Displays: Images (including slideshow option) and html content.
Bumpbox - an ajax lightbox script that can display images, html content, PDF's, remote content etc.
Framework:mootools
Displays: Images, html, pdf's, flash (in limited browsers), remote content
Lightbox++ - lightbox clone that's built to handle Flash as well as regular images.
Framework: prototype, scriptaculous
Displays: Flash, images
iBox - super lightweigh script that handles Images, inline divs, and external HTML pages, without any external libraries.
Framework: none
Displays: images, divs external html.
YUI Based Lightbox - a lightbox script built on Yahoo User Interface Library
Framework: YUI Library and dependencies
Better Modal Window - prototype based script that uses a hidden div in the html as content source for the lightbox.
Framework:prototype
Displays: anything you can put in a div.
Misc:
Almost CSS Only Lightbox - the author calls it a CSS Only Lightbox, but it's not quite that. It is mostly, only CSS though :)
Suckerfish Hover Lighbox - lightbox effect while keeping accessibility. Not classic lightbox-ish but a nice presentation, nonetheless.
Un-named Lightbox Variant - based on Version 1 of the original Lightbox script, this one adds subtitle and fullsize support, hides forms and Flash objects and works even when JS isn't on.
Execute Lightbox Scripts from Flash - a how-to.
AJAX for lightboxes - an informative article on bringing AJAX to lightboxes.
Add-ons to other scripts:
Slightbox - adds lightbox functionality to JonDesign’s SmoothGallery.
Lightbox 2 for Wordpress - bring lightbox functionality to WordPress based sites with this script built on prototype and scriptaculous.
Textpattern Lightbox - lightbox script for Textpattern based sites.
Greased Lightbox - greasemonkey, creammonkey and Opera user script for adding Lightbox functionality to sites like Flickr, DeviantArt, My Space, Wikipedia
Galri - lightbox add-on script for Picasa
Did I miss any? Let me know via my contact form.
Added: Highslide JS - a simple thumbnail viewer script that differs from traditional lightboxes, in that it doesn't prevent the user from scrolling the containing page. It also degrades nicely and doesn't require any additional framework install. (Thanks Trevor, for passing this one on!)
Added: jQuery Lightbox which is an images only port of Lightbox 2 built on the jQuery Library. (thanks Tom for sending this link along!)
43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications
43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications - a nice round-up of AJAX Applications to add functionality to any website.
Which Lightbox is right for you: Revisited and Updated
It's been a while since I first asked "Which Lightbox is right for you?" and some scripts have disappeared, while new ones have entered the scene. Here are some of your options today:
If you only want to display images:
Lightbox 2 - the original, by Lokesh Dhakar, is a "simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers."
Framework: prototype, scriptaculous
Displays: images (with transition effects)
Lightbox ++ - based on the original Lightbox but provides more options for image re-sizing based on browser window size.
Framework: none
Displays: images
Litebox - a code-reduced version of Lightbox, uses the moo.fx library and prototype-lite. A good choice if page weight is a concern.
Framework: Prototype Lite, moo fx
Displays:images
Slimbox (www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox) a lightweight variation of the original lightbox script built on the mootools framework.
Lightbox with moo.fx - souped up with moo.fx transitions etc, still prototype based and only for images, however.
Framework: Prototype, moo.fx
Displays:images
jQuery lightBox plugin is a lightbox effect for images that works with the jQuery framework with the addition of a small plugin script.
Framework:jQuery
Displays: images
Slightly ThickerBox is a mod of the Thickbox script, that integrates previous and next links (excellent for image galleries) and the ability to create groups of galleries
Framework:jQuery
Displays: images,mpeg, avi.
If you want to display html, forms, flash, video etc.:
Thickbox is a "webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal."
Framework: jQuery
Displays: images (no transitions but will resize images if larger than browser window), inline, iframe or ajax served content.
LightWindow - displays just about every kind of content or media.
Framework: Prototype, sciptaculous
Displays: just about everything
Lightbox Gone Wild! can be used to provide additional info, show an image or present a form for user input.
Framework: prototype
Displays: images, html, forms etc.
Multi-faceted Lightbox - prototyped based again, but offers a variety of options for different types of data that can be loaded in the lightbox.
Framework:none
Displays: images, html
LITBox - a lightbox written in to a class, so it is possible to open multiple instances of the lightbox and control each separately. Based on Thickbox.
Framework: prototype, sciptaculous
Displays: images, html
Leightbox - very similar to Lightbox Gone Wild (prototype based, allows images, html etc) except that Leightbox keeps the lightbox content in the html, but hidden from view, so that it can be indexed by search engines.
Frontbox - self-contained script that doesn't rely on any other frameworks; degrades well, lightweight, cross-browser and can display images, html, ajax served content and hidden divs.
Framework: none
Displays: images, html, ajax-served, hidden divs
GreyBox Redux - unobtrusive (no need to embed JS into your site) and even lighter weight than GreyBox (now dead).
Framework: jQuery
Displays: images, html etc.
Lytebox - based on original Lightbox script but written to eliminate the need for the prototype and scriptaculous libraries.
Framework: none
Displays: Images (including slideshow option) and html content.
Bumpbox - an ajax lightbox script that can display images, html content, PDF's, remote content etc.
Framework:mootools
Displays: Images, html, pdf's, flash (in limited browsers), remote content
Lightbox++ - lightbox clone that's built to handle Flash as well as regular images.
Framework: prototype, scriptaculous
Displays: Flash, images
iBox - super lightweigh script that handles Images, inline divs, and external HTML pages, without any external libraries.
Framework: none
Displays: images, divs external html.
YUI Based Lightbox - a lightbox script built on Yahoo User Interface Library
Framework: YUI Library and dependencies
Better Modal Window - prototype based script that uses a hidden div in the html as content source for the lightbox.
Framework:prototype
Displays: anything you can put in a div.
Misc:
Almost CSS Only Lightbox - the author calls it a CSS Only Lightbox, but it's not quite that. It is mostly, only CSS though :)
Suckerfish Hover Lighbox - lightbox effect while keeping accessibility. Not classic lightbox-ish but a nice presentation, nonetheless.
Un-named Lightbox Variant - based on Version 1 of the original Lightbox script, this one adds subtitle and fullsize support, hides forms and Flash objects and works even when JS isn't on.
Execute Lightbox Scripts from Flash - a how-to.
AJAX for lightboxes - an informative article on bringing AJAX to lightboxes.
Add-ons to other scripts:
Slightbox - adds lightbox functionality to JonDesign’s SmoothGallery.
Lightbox 2 for Wordpress - bring lightbox functionality to WordPress based sites with this script built on prototype and scriptaculous.
Textpattern Lightbox - lightbox script for Textpattern based sites.
Greased Lightbox - greasemonkey, creammonkey and Opera user script for adding Lightbox functionality to sites like Flickr, DeviantArt, My Space, Wikipedia
Galri - lightbox add-on script for Picasa
Did I miss any? Let me know via my contact form.
Premailer: a script to make all CSS inline
Premailer is a great little script that is designed to improve the rendering of HTML e-mail, by taking an html file and re-writing it with all the CSS moved inline.
The script will also point out any problem CSS declarations that might cause HTML email to display improperly.
Handy for anyone who want to convert an html page to an html email.
Defraggler: simple file defrag
Defraggler - Defragment your files! - from the makers of CCleaner comes a new tool, Defraggler.
Defraggler differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool!
Free for personal and commercial use.
70 Coolest Free Applications
The 70 coolest free applications in existence - a follow-up to an earlier list, now including suggestions from commenters. A nice list of some of the best, free software out there today.
Share your screen with anyone, anywhere for free with Yuuguu
Yuuguu is software you download to be able to share your screen with anyone, anywhere, anytime. You can even remotely connect (and control, with permission) between a Mac and a PC.
Yuuguu is available as a beta release for Windows and Mac.
Yuuguu. See together. Be together.
Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture
on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.
Sweet Home is available in English and French and runs on Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 , Linus and Solaris.
Top 10 Freeware Nobody Knows About - But Should
"It's always a shame when a great program is not heard about by most people - especially when it's free. Here are the top 10 freeware software that many people still haven't tried, but definitely should."
Well, I suspect many of them readers of this blog already know about but ... likely to be one or two new finds in the list.
Live Slick: Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should
14 Programs You Didn't Even Know You Needed
14 Great Programs You Didn't Even Know You Needed.
"With these programs, you can eliminate a lot of annoying Windows limitations and you can enhance your computing fun tremendously and cheaply - or even for free".
Worth a read because who doesn't like tremendous fun and free?
40 Free Windows Apps
40 Free Windows Apps For You - a nice list that features some great, free windows software.
Worth browsing for something new.
SmoothGallery 2.0: javascript slideshow with smooth, fading transitions
JonDesign's (Javascript) SmoothGallery 2.0: Improved Mootools Mojo for Images - the latest gallery script release from JonDesign's. SmoothGallery 2.0 uses mootools to create simple, smooth, cross-fading slideshows, galleries or showcases.
A good looking alternative to Flash Galleries.
And speaking of Flash galleries, if that is what you're after, Tutorial5.com has a nice tutorial that walks through the process of Creating a Flash Slideshow with Fade Transitions using Flash 8.
15 Ultra Tiny Apps
Top 15 Ultra Tiny Apps is a great list of applications that would be great for portable situation or any place that hard drive space is lacking.
The criteria for the 15 apps chosen was:
* A download size smaller than 250KB (I caved in and included one program that was 252 KB though)
* I preferred apps that didn’t require any installation
* They must run on Windows (at least compatible with XP, but most listed work on Vista as well)
* Has to be completely free
Some good tiny apps, worth a read.
YUI Based Lightbox Revisited
Website Code Central takes another look at a YUI Based Lightbox with the release of the latest YUI framework 2.3 and well, it looks pretty good! YUI Based Lightbox - Revisited and you can see a demo of the YUI Lightbox here.
Edge.js: add fancy borders to your images
Edge.js (with basic IE 6/7 support) allows you to add individual masks to images on your webpages to create fancy border effects. It uses unobrusive javascript to "keep your code clean AND it works in all major browsers and degrades gracefully on older ones.
45 Best Freeware Design Programs
45 Best Freeware Design Programs - a good list that includes the usual suspects (The GIMP, IrfanView, Paint.net etc). but also includes some lesser known programs. Worth a read for some new, free software options.
Simple Javascript Accordions
Simple Javascript Accordions is a very small (1149 bytes) Accordion script that is easy to integrate and doesn't require any supporting framework (such as mootools or scriptaculous). The script can be used as a tab system and is fully cross-browser compatible.
A great option for a stand alone accordion script. You can see a demo of the script here.
Miro: free, open source video player
Miro - free, open source internet tv and video player (formerly Democracy player) has rolled out offering the ability to play any video file, free internet tv, download YouTube videos and has BitTorrent abilities.
Website Simplehelp has a great "introduction to Miro" that's definitely worth a read as well.
100 Open Source Downloads
100 Open Source Downloads - links up to 100 Open Source programs that can be downloaded. All the downloads are categorized by type as well, making it easy to find what you might be looking for.
Worth a browse to check out the latest and greatest in Open Source.
Scriptalicious-based Accordion Script
Accordion v1.0 Demo demonstrates a new accordion effect script, built on the script.aculo.us library.
The author says it's a lean and mean script, works cross-browser and includes a horizontal accordion effect as well as the usual vertical.
Nice!
Evernote: note taking software and more
EverNote - A single place for all your notes! - "you can easily capture, store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!"
I love Evernote. I have been using the basic (free) version for quite a while now. Evernote is also available in a "Plus" $ version as well as a Portable version.
There is also a handy dandy Evernote Firefox Add-on to make it easy to send notes or clips to Evernote.
Polaroid Gallery: Flash photo gallery script
Polaroid Gallery v.1.0 is a free, opensource flash gallery script that the author developed, decided not to use and is now offering it up for others.
It's a great looking presentation for anyone looking for a flash photo gallery with a polaroid-like look.
List of Slide Show scripts
Developer Snippets blog is offering up a nice list of Slide Show programs worth a look. It's a huge list and the first 10 have screenshots as well, which is always helpful.
Jpeg Enhancer
Jpeg Enhancer is "a simple and extremely powerful program that lets you restore images damaged by low-quality JPEG compression."
Very useful for scanned, camera phone or any jpeg that has been overly compressed and suffers from artifacts.
Ajax Rain: Ajax scripts gallery
Ajax Rain is a compilation of the latest Ajax scripts from around the web. Worth a bookmark to see what's new in the world of Ajax site goodies.
Add Polaroid-like effects to your photos instantly
Instant.js "allows you to add an instant picture effect (including tilt) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean".
Works on all major browsers except IE, where it will degrade gracefully. Cool effects but that's a large portion of the viewing public that won't see it, me thinks.
Introduction to Safari browser for Windows
So yeah. The Safari browser is now available for Windows. If you're interested in checking it out or learning more about how to use it if you do decide to install it, here are a couple of resources to get you started:
An introduction to Safari for Windows - Simplehelp
A screencast "first look" at Safari for Windows.
The Star Matrix Pre-loaded: Part 2
A follow-up to an earlier article on how to create a CSS Star Rating system, this article works through how to provide a script back-end solution using PHP/mysql.
CSS The Star Matrix Pre-loaded: Part 2 contains all the information needed to get it going, including a download file.
hugin: easy, cross-platform panorama photo sticher
hugin - Panorama photo stitcher - assemble a mosaic of photos into a complete panorama.
hugin is still in beta but declares it's latest version "stable". Download for Linux, OS X or Windows, with a large number of localized versions available as well. There is also a hugin tutorial available to get started.
You can check out the hugin pool on Flickr for some examples.
Slider.js: create a sliding carousel component
Slider.js is a script that will create a very cool sliding window/carousel thingy. You can check out the Slider.js Example.
Slider.js depends on the Prototype JS library and effects.js (both linked up in the original article).
iCarousel: javascript tool for creating carousel-like widgets
iCarousel is an open source (free) javascript tool for creating carousel widgets, such as a news ticker, text or image scrollers and is built over the MooTools library (required).
iCarousel works in IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari.
74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials
74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources and Tutorials is an excellent starting place for anyone who is interested in learning the popular Ruby programming language framework.
The resources include how to install Ruby, Ruby friendly web hosts and of course, programming tutorials.
Simple CSS: free CSS editor
Simple CSS will "help you work with CSS" This downloadable, free program runs on Macs, Windows and Linux. Simple CSS allows you to "easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface."
Loupe.js: add a magnifier to images on your webpages
Loupe.js and Loupe.png allows you to add a loupe (magnifier) to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5 , Opera 9 and Safari. On older browsers and Internet Explorer (without excanvas), it'll degrade and your visitors won't notice a thing.
Very cool effect.
ObjectDock gets a nice update
Stardock ObjectDock is a program that enables users to organize their shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock. The program has just received a major update and is now Vista ready too.
The latest version features weather flyouts, minimize animation in Vista, smoother and quicker drawing and more.
The basic version of ObjectDock is free, too!
Javascript Ticker Tape
Javascript Ticker Tape component script vertically scrolls a number of items within a container. Each page of items is pulled from a server which supplies JSON data.
FlashReplace: light-weight JavaScript to insert Flash into your web page
FlashReplace - A light-weight JavaScript to insert Flash movies into your web page - Robert’s talk
"FlashReplace is a little object with a few parameters to include a Flash movie into a web page. It should also work fine with streamed movies and get us around the Eolas patent problem in IE."
FlashReplace creates standards-compliant code and only adds one line of code to your markup.
corner.js: add corners and shadows to your site images
Corner.js allows you to add corners to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.
It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5 , Opera 9 and Safari. On older browsers and Internet Explorer, it'll degrade and your visitors won't notice a thing. It's 6.4KB.
So if I understand this correctly, this doesn't work in IE 6 or 7? Even if it degrades, it's a big segment of the browser market to lose out on with image effects.
10 Free CSS and Javascript Calendars
10 Free CSS and Javascript Calendars
"Calendars may be used on webpages for various reasons, such as allowing users to easily pick a date in a form, or just to provide monthly information. Here are a list of various css and javascript calendars for use on your site. Don't like the look? Customise them yourself with abit of CSS!"
Some good looking calendars there for a lot of different webdev uses.
LightWindow: another lightbox variation
For anyone still on the lookout for the a lightbox script, you might want to check out lightWindow. LightWindow features include support for 5 different types of Media: Pages, Inline Content, Media(Movies, SWF, etc), Images(Galleries, Single), External Websites(via iframe), automatically detects media and source. and is fully customizable via CSS.
"Why another light-'whatever'? After researching every single modal window, lightbox, slimbox, etc out there nothing fit the bill. Granted some of them were very nice but only fit a specific purpose, others were a nightmare on the code end, and others were just hacks of another. None of them truly supported all of the features we needed and those that were close could not be easily adapted without a bottle of Prozac near by."
Lingua: lightweight, php ajax bloggin engine
Lingua is an open-source blogging engine, powered by PHP, MySQL, and AJAX. It is designed to be as incredibly flexible and as powerful as possible, while remaining extremely lightweight.
Looks nice and sleek, with a few rough edges yet but worth keeping an eye on.
Big List of the Best Free and Open Source Software
If you're in the mood for browsing a big list of free and open source software, head on over to Mohawke's Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection: Mac OS X and Windows software Collection.
There are lists for Windows and Mac software, Internet, Operating Systems, Games, Web Sites and OpenCD. You can also sort the list by license or type of software.
Nice round-up of free anti-virus, anti-spyware and firefwall software
Tech blog CyberNotes offers up a nice round-up of some good, free security sofware choices. Free Anti-virus, Anti-Spyware, and Firewall Downloads.
They are also looking to get some feedback on what software people are using so head on over and answer their poll to weigh in.
Instant ratings widget from JS-Kit
JS-Kit: Ratings widget adds a live rating widget to any site with just two lines of HTML.
The ratings widget is good looking and customizable and worth a look for adding ratings to any website.
Tweetr: twitter client for Windows or Mac
Tweetr Betr 0.71 is a new client for twitter.com, for PC or Mac. Tweetr requires that Adobe Apollo runtime be installed (link to installation provided).
E TextEditor: the power of TextMate for Windows
E - TextEditor - a new text editor that aims to bring the power of TextMate to WIndows platform. E TextEditor supports TextMate bundles and allows you to tap into that huge and active community.
SlideShowPro Wet Floor Effect
Users of the fabulous SlideShowPro flash gallery program have a new and great looking effect in their toolbox today. Wet Floor effect with SlideShowPro. You can check out the SlideShowPro wetfloor demo.
15 Useful JavaScript Snippets for your site
15 Javascript Snippets (You Probably CAN Live Without)
"You either love Javascript or you hate it. Either way it can provide great functionality that users love. And it doesn't have to affect usability. Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special."
Well worth a read for the links to some nice scripty bits to enhance our websites.
ShadedBorder: JavaScript Round Corners with Drop Shadow Script
ShadedBorder - JavaScript Round Corners with Drop Shadow - a script to easily generate rounded corners, drop shadows, glow effects for links, borders with different widths and full support for liquid designs.
This script seems to have taken rounded corner etc. scripts to the next level, fixing many of the annoyances of previous versions and is worth a look.
Creating the Perfect (Accessible) Pop-up
From the good people at accessify.com, The Perfect Pop-up: creating accessible pop-up windows - a how to.
"If you believe the likes of Jakob Neilsen and his supporters, nothing is more evil than pop-up windows. And in many ways, this is correct. Why? Well, we'll list the reasons soon enough, but in a nutshell it's because they are nearly always poorly implemented or simply not needed. This tutorial will show that, with the right thought, pop-up windows can be used without upsetting anyone - particularly the person browsing your site."
The article includes a complete walkthrough of the hows and whys and includes the downloadable script to make it all go.
101 Freeware and Shareware Program Every Nerd Needs
Fresh from the Free Geek, 101 Shareware and Freeware Programs Every Nerd Needs, including many open source or shareware with trial offers, sorted by category. A nice feature of this list is a short description of each program, it's file size and whether each is freeware or shareware.
Worth a read as there is sure to be something new on this list for everyone.
10 Greasemonkey scripts to improve your productivity
Productivity blog Lifehack.org has created a great list of ways to use the fabulous Greasemonkey to get things done better and faster. 
"Top 10 Greasemonkey scripts to improve your productivity - lifehack.org
"You can accomplish many of the tasks that the Greasemonkey scripts below can do with various Firefox extensions. However, if you prefer to keep your list of extensions short (and to help conserve your computer memory) then give these scripts a try and watch your productivity soar!"
Javascript/CSS Font Detector
"Designers dont have to rely on the most common fonts like Arial, Verdana or Times New Roman. Since increasing number of users have modern PC with new operating system / applications, they may very well have a wide array of other common fonts in their machine."
The code works by attempting to create a string with a specific font-face and then by comparing it with a predetermined height and width for that font. If the font measurements match, the font is present.
Tested to work on Firefox 2, IE 6.0 and Opera 9.10.
Smoothbox: a mootools based lightbox
Smoothbox : Thickbox for mootools. Smoothbox is the Mootools conversion of Thickbox. It features the ability to include single images, multiple images (gallery style, with link to next image within the lightbox), inline content, framed content or ajax content.
Another option to put in your lightbox toolbox.
Killer PHP Video Tutorials for Web Designers
PHP skills a little (lot) lacking? Have you always wanted to learn the basics of PHP to make your web design/development efforts easier? Yeah, me too. That's why I was thrilled to find this resource!
PHP Video Tutorials for Web Designers
This is a beginners website/course on PHP created for web designers who have little to no programming experience. Where most other PHP tutorials and books assume you know programming (or at least, that's what it seems like ...) killerphp.com assumes you need to have things explained (and demonstrated) in non-nerd terms.
I love that it's web designer focused and that it understands that I need to have things explained :) And video tutorials are always welcome.
KillerPHP currently has 15 video tutorials, ranging in length from about 5 minutes to 15 minutes, so they are easy to progress through a bit at a time.
Foxit PDF Reader goes v2.0
Foxit Reader v2.0 "This new version introduces many exciting features, including multi-language UI, dynamic downloading of add-ons, form filler, better look and feel and much more."
Foxit Reader 2.0 is still small (1.5M), fast-launching and free!
mogopop: useful content for your ipod
mogopop "is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod. This content that can incorporate audio, video, pictures, podcasts, text – whatever our members’ minds can imagine, they can create. Mogopop downloads are like mini-Websites for iPod that anyone can enjoy."
Content is organized in to channels, including People, Education, Travel, Food and Drink and more. A sampling of some of the content includes ...
Wine Spectator's Top 100 Wines of 2006, which can be loaded up on the ipod to be handy the next time you're wine shopping (worth the download just for this, imo!)
Harley Davidson Dealers - a list of US Harley dealers by city name.
ILOUNGE'S Guide to all the best new iPod and iPhone goodies - from MacWorld Expo.
What Should I Rent? - essential movie rental advice on your iPod.
CPR Walkthrough - a walkthrough on the actions to take during CPR in an emergency.
CSS Cheat Sheet - a quick reference guide for CSS.
How to Jump-start a Dead Battery - what to do in if your car won't start.
Principles of Phonics Instruction - learn about three research-based principles for effective phonics instruction, for educators and parents.
Mogo Martini Guide - find the best martinis in Manhattan.
Using the content on mogopop requires download of the free. Windows or Mac mogopop manager.
The lazy user's Guide to OpenOffice Writer
The lazy user’s guide to OpenOffice.org Writer
"All hail the lazy, for they will find the most efficient way to work a computer in general, and a word processor in particular. In this article, I’ll look at three lazy writer’s tricks that can relieve you of most of the drudgery involved in creating a fairly large document in OpenOffice.org Writer (henceforth, OOo Writer or simply Writer)."
If you love OpenOffice, this is a great tips and tricks article.
50 Best Web-based Tools
50 Best Tools "This blog is about the 50 Best Tools you should consider to get the job done. We are not trying to list everything there is our there, only the best. Our goal is not a comprehensive list, but a practical, time-saving guide. "
Worth a look around for some nice suggestions for great web-based services aimed at getting the job done faster and better.
phatfusion: nice scripts with demos
PHATFUSION scripts include a lightbox script based on slimbox, a really nice looking image menu, form validator, a rounded corners script and a script for sortable tables. All are really nicely done and documented.
*Thinking of a place I can use that image menu!
Create an animated, sliding, collapsible DIV with Javascript and CSS
How to Create an Animated, Sliding, Collapsible DIV with Javascript and CSS - "create functions to slide DIVs up and down. It supports multiple animations happening simultaneously, as well as a variable animation length. It’s also time-based, rather than increment based, so it’ll animate the same speed on most computers; old computers won’t take 10 minutes for a DIV to slide down."
Really nice effect and useful for many applications. Check out the comments for code to add a fade effect as well.
Open Source alternatives to well-known commercial software
Open Source Alternative - Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software - a handy site to source out open source alternatives to popular commercial programs. Programs are sorted by category to easily browse open source options.
doPDF: free PDF Converter
doPDF "is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create searchable PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files."
doPDF installs itself as a virtual printer driver that will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents.
doPDF doesn't require any 3rd party programs to create the PDF files. It also features customizable resolution, predefined page sizes, searchable PDFs and multilanguage support.
Interface Elements for jQuery
Interface elements for jQuery - Real examples of Interface elements jQuery is a JavaScript library that can be used to enhance web applications and pages. Interface Elements makes it easy to explore the various effects via their Demos page and then when you decide which effects you're looking for, you can head to their Download page and download the jQuery library, along with only the effects you need, to avoid code-bloated pages for effects that you aren't using.
Bring a bit of Vista's eye candy to XP
If you've been looking to bring a little bit of Vista-like goodies to your Windows XP desktop, Tutorial5.com links up to a program called Madotate that adds an extra icon to each window (right next to the minimize button), that, when clicked, will cause the window to swing on it's axis out of view (ala Vista's effects). The download includes a config file that lets you adjust a number of settings, such as opacity.
I've installed it and it works great. Be sure to double click the registry entries in the download file to add those. The registry key added is detailed in the Read Me file, in case you want to decide to remove the program.
A couple of nice CSS slideshows
CSS Play can always be counted on to create some great stuff from CSS and has just released a couple of CSS slideshows. - A simple slide show and a more complex slideshow.
Both of these are CSS (plus a couple of lines of php in the complex example) and are really nicely done. To see the code behind the examples, view the page source.
Portable Software Collections
Applications | PortableApps.com - a community site devoted to the development, promotion and use of portable applications.
All of these apps are capable of being loaded on a USB drive and run from there. Great for whenever you're away from home or your own computer.
Another site with a good collection of portable apps, The Portable Freeware Collection
mini ajax: a showroom of DHTML and AJAX Scripts
MiniAjax.com / A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts is a nice approach to collecting links to scripts. Rather that just collect them and list them in a list, miniajax adds a pretty UI and screencapture, along with a brief description of what the script does. And of course the link to the how-to.
swfIR: flash image replacement for images
swfIR: swf Image Replacement aims to bring to hmtl images what sifr brought to html text.
" swfIR (swf Image Replacement) is here to solve some of the design limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values, while still supporting standards-based design concepts. Using the dark arts of JavaScript and Flash, swfIR gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website."
swfIR supports a bunch of effects - rotate the image, add a border, round the corners, add a drop shadow and more. Implementation looks to be pretty straightforward, too. Nice!
Jquery Corner Gallery
JQuery Corner Gallery is a JQuery based method for generating a number of different corner options - rounded, beveled, notched, dog-ear and more.
Features include the ability to change the width and height of the corner effect; apply different effects to different corners of the same box. In addition, no special markup is required. The display falls back to regular old square corners when Javascript is off.
smart2go: explore the world with free maps on your mobile
smart2go – Share the world with your friends! "is a compact programme for your mobile that allows you to load maps from around the world. Discover interesting places with ease, highlight them and get the route."
Features Global search, maploader and optional upgrade features include directions to any location (requires GPS receiver) and city guides.
ModalBox
ModalBox — An easy way to create popups and wizards "is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It's inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs. And yes, it may also be useful for showing bigger versions of images. :)"
ModalBox is truly a multi-purpose toolset, that can be as simple as using it for a lightbox-like image slideshow, to using it for transition effects, complex forms, wizards and callbacks. ModalBox is also lightweight, customizable and cross-browser.
One nice feature is the ability to use ModalBox with Javascript and CSS only or with the addition of additional scripting help from prototype and script.aculo.us. You can check out the a nice demo to see ModalBox in action.
Inkscape: free, open source vector graphics editor
Inkscape. Draw Freely - a free and Open Source vector graphics program that uses the standard SVG file format. Inkscape features include "shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats."
For anyone looking for a free alternative to Illustrator or Freehand, Inkscape looks like a really solid option.
Vertical Bar Graphs with CSS and PHP
terrill.ca | Vertical Bar Graphs using CSS and PHP - "Who wants to use Excel to make a new graph each week? Using CSS and PHP you can create attractive bar graphs (yes, even the stacked kind) that are always up to date."
Create bar, line, point or 3D Bar graphs with ease, using some css styling and some html lists and a little php magic.
Very nice!
Niceforms: a javascript, css solution for nicer forms
Niceforms 1.0 "is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones. You can either use the default theme that is provided or you can develop your own look."
Niceforms are invoked by simply adding the class "niceform" to any form tag. Works reasonably well across all major browsers.
Stats program Mint goes v2.0
Popular stats program Mint has just been released in v2.0, with lots of new features and minty goodness.
Not free, but still only $30 and well worth it.
Added: Here's a bit of CSS to return a bit of the "mintiness" to v2.
Image Thumbnail Viewer Script
Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Image Thumbnail Viewer. From the site ... "a compact, unobtrusive image viewer that can be applied to any link on the page to load the desired image inside a sleek interface based on the link's "href" value. Simply give the link in question- be it a text link or image thumbnail link- a rel attribute of "thumbnail", and you're done.
This script will center the enlarged image on the page and optionally display a text description based on the activating link's "title" attribute. A fading effect can be turned on/off to bring the final image into view."
The result is a lighbox-ish effect that easy to implement on any site.
Create a PHP Styleswitcher
If you've ever wanted to offer readers a choice of site styles, then one option is to set up a css style switcher. Creating a PHP Styleswitcher is a detailed tutorial, with all the necessary code and information needed to create a PHP Styleswitcher.
Use Script.aculo.us to expand/collapse embedded video clips
Expand/Collapse Embedded Videos - a how-to use the Script.aculo.us library script to expand/collapse embedded videos on your site. Click on the title and the video will toggle in or out.
CrashPlan: automatic, secure offsite backup software
CrashPlan claims it is the easiest, most reliable and smartest backup on earth and with claims like that, I suppose it's worth a look see.
CrashPlan backup is automatic and is used to backup data from any computer and to any computer. You get to chose where (including multiple destinations) your backups are sent and all data is encrypted before sending. Interesting!
CrashPlan is not a monthly subscription but a one-time payment for either a standard or "pro" license for the software. A free trial is also available for a small fee. Works with Mac, PC and Linux.
True Launch Bar: Download for free today only at Giveaway of the Day
Today's free software Giveaway, Giveaway of the Day - True Launch Bar is a nice one for anyone looking for a launch bar solution. Lots of features and you can visit their website for more skins for it as well.
Be sure to read the comments. Always lots of good info there and if you're interested, hurry because the free download and install is good today (January 14, 2007) only!
Bring some Stumble to Del.icio.us
Delicious Stumble brings one of the best features of StumbleUpon to your Delicious bookmarks - the random site feature.
Based on the premise that we often forget about sites that we've bookmarked at Delicious, this script with allow for one-click random site from your bookmarks.
You can install the script on your own server or use the provided url to run of the script writer's server (requires giving up username and password but the server doesn't store account details.) The url can be modified to specify any of your delicious tags as well.
Great way to rediscover long forgotten bookmarks!
jelloDashboard: homepage for Outlook
Jello ｫ Jello.Dashboard is a homepage for Outlook, that is easy to install and use and totally free and brings some of the practices of GTD to MS Outlook.
Some of the features include the ability to create and manage contexts and projects; assign any type of Outlook item to projects; view your appointments and tasks with due dates; view your favorite Outlook folders from inside the dashboard; view all your items in a comprehensible master list which can be emailed or printed ... and much more.
Looks like a great, free, add-on for Outlook XP or higher.
FileMenu Tools: Customize Windows Explorer
FileMenu Tools will customize the Windows Explorer with a bunch of different options that you might have wished Windows had in the first place.
SimpleJS: a simple way to add effect to your site
SimpleJS is a lightweight (14kb) script that doesn't require any other framework. The functions are very simple and easy to add to your pages. Each effect demo has the associated html code example.
There are a couple of additional plugins as well, one for a slideshow feature and one for an accordian effect.
SimpleJS is tested and works on IE 6/7, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9. No word on Safari though. Nonetheless, a great little script for beginners and small projects.
Foto Mosaic: make a mosaic from your own photos
Foto-Mosaik will create a big picture compose of many small picture (tiles) from your own photos.
Foto Mosaic is a downloadable program that features an easy-to-use wizard to get just the effect you're looking for. A fun photo idea.
Grey Matter ... lives!
Do you remember Grey Matter? My very first blog was powered by Grey Matter. Back 5 or 6 years or so ago, it was the coolest blogging software on the block. And then came Movable Type and Wordpress and the original developer stopped updating Grey Matter and well, the rest is history.
Or is it? Seems freshmeat.net: Project details for Grey Matter lives!
Phormer: PHP-based PhotoGallery that doesn't need MySQL
Phormer, the PHP without MySQL PhotoGallery Manager
"Phormer is a PHP-Based PhotoGallery Manager application, that helps you to store, categorize and trim your photos on the web with various helpful features!"
Really full featured gallery script that doesn't need a MySQL database.
[Site is currently suffering from the Digg effect. You can see the Digg Mirror here or visit the Phormer Sourceforge project.]
Evil Walrus: A nice collection of PHP Scripts
Evil Walrus: Collection of PHP Scripts an archive of PHP code snippets and articles, all user-contributed, tagged and searchable.
Also on their site, some great articles, including a good PHP 101 series.
How to add Script.aculo.us effects to your site
Script.aculo.us: How to easily AJAX your site walks through how to implement the script.aculo.us effects in good detail. If you've wanted to add some ajaxy goodness to your site but have been afraid to give a try, these are great instructions for getting going.
ClickHeat logs what's hot on your website.
ClickHeat | What's hot on your website ? - a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones.
ClickHeat is a php script that is installed on your own server and uses Javascript on the client side. The script features low logging activity to go easy on server load and logs browser sizes so it will work correctly with liquid layouts.
SmoothGallery: mootools based gallery/slideshow
JonDesign's (Javascript) SmoothGallery: Mootools Mojo for Images - is a mootools based, javascript gallery and slideshow, with a lot of nice features such as smooth cross-fading etc. It is also lightweight (16kb) and standards compliant. And best of all ... free!
Worth checking out!
Driver Collector: collect and backup your computer's drivers
"Driver Collector is a tool designed to find and collect installed windows drivers for the hardware you select on your PC. Once you tell it which type of drivers you want to collect, it will copy them to a specific folder. This can be very handy when preparing for a format and reinstall of Windows, especially when you or a client have since lost the computers driver disks."
Nice tool for anyone facing a computer reformatting!
Today's Software Giveaway: Express Thumbnail Creator
Today's software Giveaway of the Day - Express Thumbnail Creator "Express Thumbnail Creator makes it easy to create professional-looking online photo album with a few mouse clicks! Just add your images to the list, click a few buttons and watch your new web gallery come alive!"
Download it for free today only!
scriptvote: a directory of free scripts with user voting
scriptvote is a directory of free scripts, with a nod to web 2.0 by featuring user voting. It would be nice to see some user experience comments as well, to help in the decision to try a script or not. Still, another place to find free scripts.
sIFR 3 beta released
Novemberborn: sIFR 3b1: The Mo’ Betta Beta
"sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of JavaScript, CSS, and Flash, which renders the font. It degrades gracefully if Flash is not present."
This latest version of sIFR promises many improvements and easier implementation.
Version 0.2 of tooltip.js released
The new version follows the mouse correctly on Firefox and has the ability to create tooltips out of given text. Version 0.1 required you to give it the DOM id of a valid element. Version 0.2 will create a div with the class tooltip if it is given only text. This can be used to create popups out of title attributes.
tooltip.js - version 0.2 to download. You can view the demo of tooltip.js 0.2 here.
Today's Software Giveaway: Cute Organizer
If you've been looking for some personal organizer software, you might want to check out today's Giveaway of the Day - Cute Organizer
If you download and install today, this program is free (regularly sells for $29). No support or upgrades are available though. Note that you need to activate the software (run activate.exe) once installed.
30 Essential Pieces of Free Software for Windows
30 Essential Pieces Of Free (and Open) Software for Windows is a great list of Windows software, that moves beyond the obvious (Firefox, Open Office, Gimp etc.) to include some lesser know, but valuable choices. Worth a look!
Today's Software Giveaway: Total Image Converter
Today's Giveaway of the Day - Total Image Converter (Windows) might be of interest to some. The software easily handles conversion of image files from one format to another and can handle batch processing.
Currently rated 4.3 out of 5 and available for free download today (November 27/06) only!
Mudcube: open source Javascript
mudcube -open javascript is a collection of small, javascript "widgets" for specific functions, such as drag & drop, a color picker, text scroller and sexy box (extremely small lightbox script).
The idea behind mudcube is that users often only want to use a single effect and this is an alternative to loading an entire library (such as mootools etc.)
HandyFind: a faster, friendlier way to find words in documents and web pages.
HandyFind: A faster, friendlier way to find words
"HandyFind is a faster, friendlier way to find words in documents and web pages. It finds words as you type so you'll find what you're looking for as soon as you enter enough letters. After using HandyFind for a short time, you'll find it such a quick way to get around that you start using it for navigating documents as well as just searching."
HandyFine will find as you type in Internet Explorer, Excel, Word and more and is much quicker and friendlier than the regular menu Find option. To enter search mode, simply key Ctrl+Space and the highlight will immediately jump to the first instance of what you type. Move to the next instance with the right arrow (or back to the previous with the left arrow).
Handy Find!
Galri: Web gallery script add-ons for Picasa featuring lightbox
Galri - Picasa Templates are currently offering up two web gallery add-ons for Google's Picasa software, that add lightbox functionality to the web galleries.
Because it wasn't immediately obvious to me, to download the scripts, launch the demo and then click on the white down-arrow in the upper right corner. Download the zip file and unzip into your Picasa2/web/templates directory.
Satellite: PHP script to display your Flickr Photos on your own site
Satellite: Design for a better internet :: Open Source by Ted Forbes ::
"Satellite™ is an online application for displaying a gallery of images remotely from your flickr.com account. It can be used as an off the shelf website that uses the Flickr API to make calls to your Flickr account so you can take full advantage of Flickr's Organizr and keyword capabilities which are then mirrored on your personal site.
When you upload images to Flickr, your website is automatically updated!
Satellite™ is CSS based, so you may customize its look and feel by downloading themes or creating your own."
You can see a sample here.
Satellite 1.0 has support for PHP4 and PHP5, depending on your server's set-up.
Seriously cool!
moo.fx v2 released
moo.fx - size does matter - realeases v2 of the lightweight, javascript effects library.
New - Fx.Style or FxStyles to modify one or many CSS properties. Fx.Color to modify the color of elements and Fx.Scroll to internally scroll long divs. The popular Accordion has been rewritten and now has its own script with multiple options. And more.
CSS Photo Shuffler
I have always been a huge fan of Richard Rutter's CSS Image Fades and now someone has taken that concept and moved it into a photo slideshow based on this idea. The CSS Photo Shuffler creates a slick, photo slideshow, with fading transitions, with only CSS and javascript. No flash required. Really nice and very useful for a lot of applications.
You can see a demo and grab the CSS Photo Shuffler code here.
Minikit: javascript/html visual effects and widgets
Minikit is not a framework but a collection of effects from other libraries (such as moo.fx and nifty corners), repackaged and also transparently compatible with mochikit (instead of prototype).
Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form plus Wordpress Ready version
-Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form - is a PHP Contact form that the author has developed to be both accessible, secure and easy to install.
Also available in a Wordpress-Ready version.
Add some fireworks to your pages
The author of this script describes it as the modern day equivalent of the blink tag and urges caution in using Fireworks.js: A DHTML fireworks effect. Regardless, it's a very cool effect and surely there is some place, somewhere where this could be used to good effect!
Eraser: secure data removal tool
Eraser is free, open source software for securely removing data from your hard drive.
It works by overwriting the data with "carefully selected patterns". Eraser has had over 4 million downloads on Sourceforge, which is nothing to sneeze at, and reassuring when you're dealing with data removal. A handy utility for many reasons, but most widely, as a way to wipe a computer before selling, I think.
Prototype based Javascript tooltip
Ajaxian ｻ Prototype based JavaScript tooltip Unlike other tooltip libraries it doesn't declare its own tooltip div or window. It relies on an already existing div or element defined by you to display as the tooltip. This element will be placed (and shown) near the mouse pointer when a trigger-element is moused-over.
HighSlide JS
Highslide JS - JavaScript thumbnail viewer is a thumbnail expander script that offers a nice effect for viewing large photos from thumbnails in a zoom sort of way. Looks like it's fairly easy to implement and customize in to existing html, as well.
Highslide JS is free for personal use or $30 per domain for commercial use.
Dynamic Picture Captions with Javascript
Dynamic Picture Captions with JavaScript - Ed Eliot - grabs the photos title attribute and displays it at the bottom of the photo in an opaque strip that allows the underlying photo to show through. Nice!
Stylesheet Switcher Script
Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Style Sheet Switcher (v1.1) - looks really feature-rich and super easy to implement. Bookmarking so I can easily find it again!
SmoothSlideshow ver 2.0 released
JonDesign's Smooth SlideShow Library v2.0 newly released version 2, featuring some nice changes, including the ability to run more than one slideshow on a page, centering of the slideshow in the viewport and the use of mootools instead of moo.fx (although moo.fx use is still an option).
Soundflavor: a personal DJ for iTunes
Soundflavor DJ makes it easy to create playlists from your iTunes library and to shop for new music by sound. Just play any song or playlist and Soundflavor will search your library for songs that complement them.
CSS Tab Designer
CSS Tab Designer (Windows) is a downloadable program to help you design css lists and tabs visually, without any programming knowledge.
CSS Tab Designer is free, features a variety of styles and colors and generates strict xhtml compliant code.
Paint.net: like photoshop only free
"Paint.NET (Windows only) is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. ... Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing."
If you've been looking for a free, open-source Photoshop-like program, Paint.net definitely looks like it's worth exploring.
PHP Image Randomizer Script
Mike’s Experiments: PHP Image Randomizer. More scripty goodness from Mike's Experiments, this time an image randomizer script.
Pixel Image Editor
Pixel image editor is a feature-rich, cross-platform, photoshop-like image editing program.
Pixel supports layers, paths, channels, masks and selections and includes a variety of brushes and retouching filter plug-ins. For web design, Pixel supports image slicing and optimizations, support for clickable maps and direct editing of generated html. And more!
Pixel is free to download and try out. If you like and use the program, a purchase price of $32 is requested to support future development. Can't beat that for a program that seems to have many of photoshop's features at one tenth of the price!
Songbird: the sexy media player
Some believe thatSongbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player looks to be the Firefox of media players. It certainly has a sexy interface. And lots of features. And it's cross platform, developer friendly and extendable. And it's open now for public beta.
Here are some of the features: Play anything (mp3, aac, ogg, flac, wma etc), build custom mixes, integrated web search, play in place, play the web, dynamic mixes and super slim mini-mode.
Is Songbird the iTunes replacement we've been waiting for?
Get Organized with Evernote
I have always used a little notes program to keep track of code snippets, passwords and all kinds of other things I want to keep safe and handy in one place. There are a number of them out there but while functional, they tend to lack a little in the nice looking department. And what can I say. I like functional AND nice looking!
EverNote - A single place for all your notes! seems to satisfy both requirements nicely. Available in both a Free and a "Plus" version (you can download the free version here).
Evernote also features a Firefox Web Clipper Extension to instantly export web content into Evernote from your browser. (There is one for IE too, if that's your thing).
YUI-based Slideshow
YUI based configurable slideshow, based on Yahoo's javascript library, features transition effects and on demand loading (so a large slideshow doesnt load all the images at once.) This script also features the ability to accept html slides as well as images.
Check out the YUI Slideshow demo page here.
Transcorners: transparent, rounded corners
Transcorners - transparent, rounded corners, use no images, can be any radius and supports transitions and borders and is very small (4kb).
Transcorners uses mootools and appears to be working well in most browsers now.
Another Javascript/CSS Crossfader Script
Brand Spanking New: Javascript / CSS Crossfader is another crossfader script but distinguishes itself from others by being extremely lightweight.
"At 1.7Kb it's one hundredth of the size of the scriptaculous library used in the other example. (Woohoo.)"
Simple jQuery based Slideshow
Simple jQuery Slideshow - a nice slideshow presentation that looks really easy to implement, as well.
mono Slideshow
Monoslideshow is a new entry on the Flash slideshow scene, similar to SlideShowPro with one exception - you can set up mono Slideshow without opening up anything in Flash.
Mono Slideshow includes a number of style presets, but is also completely customizable.
Both SlideShowPro and Mono Slideshow are priced at $20, so it's really a case of which platform you prefer or how comfortable you are with the Flash program. It's always nice to have choices!
CSS Crossfader
Mike-O-Matic - A CSS Crossfader Demo - bring some bling to your website by fading content 'slides' gradually from one to the other.
You can see the script in action here.
Uses the Script.aculo.us libraries and simple html and css markup. Not sure what browsers are supported with this, so you'd want to test it yourself cross-browser, as well as seeing how well it might degrade. Looks like at least Firefox and IE work (at least recent versions.)
Inner Fade for jQuery
Fade Away - InnerFade with jQuery - designed to fade any element inside a container (fade in and fade out). Basically a small plugin for the jQuery JavaScript Library, it can be used to make a news ticker or slideshow, for example.
See the InnerFade demo and code here.
ToDoList Software
ToDoList 4.10.6 - A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks - The Code Project - Free Tools - A tree-based task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.
SLideshow Alternative
SonSpring | Slideshow Alternative is a free, javascript-based Slideshow Alternative (meant as an alternative to the SlideShowPro flash-based script).
It certainly is a nice solution for displaying a slideshow on a site. Each picture frame is a clickable link, as well.
You can see a demo of Slideshow Alternative here.
Sandboxie: keeps rogue files away from your harddrive
Sandboxie changes the rules of normal computer processes, such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk.
Would seem to be an excellent tool for trying out software that may contain spy or malware or worse. Sandboxie is free, (although a small $20US fee to register the program "is encouraged" if you find it useful.)
Accessible Javascript Newsticker
Accessible JavaScript Newsticker - a nice, simple Javascript Newsticker, that uses the Prototype JavaScript Framework and Scriptaculous for some nice animations.
Example ticker and downloadable source code available.
Carousel Component
Carousel Component uses the Yahoo! UI Library to display a list of content either vertically or horizontally, that can be scrolled back and forth with or without animation. Can serve up static or dynamic content on the fly, with or without Ajax.
Smooth Paginator
Smooth Paginator v .01 - a slick way to handle pagination, ala flickr. Uses moo.fx.
Open Source replacements for popular Windows programs
Jason's Free Useful Software List - offering suggestions and links to open source programs to replace popular (non-free) Windows programs.
Portable Freeware Collection
The Portable Freeware Collection is a large list of small, portable apps that would be useful beyond portable for anyone looking for lightweight application solutions.
Shorty creates human-readable links from long urls
When I first came across Shorty, I thought it was just a TinyURL clone. Not. Shorty isn't a web service. It's a program you download and install on your own server. And not only can it make urls shorter/more readable, it allows website owners to track the usage of your Shorty links.
For those that like to have software under their control, Shorty is an excellent solution and the ability to track clicks is a nice bonus!
Lightbox for Hyperlinks Greasemonkey Scripts
Lightbox for Hyperlinks is a set of Greasemonkey user scripts for Firefox. It is design to open a hyperlink within the current page instead of jumping to a new page or opening a new window. The script will embed an IFRAME on the center of the page with a lightbox effect.
Greasemonkey scripts are currently available for for Bloglines, del.icio.us, and HEMiDEMi individually or you can grab one script that will work for all three.
Build your own PHP style sheet switcher
Build your own PHP style sheet switcher | 456 Berea Street - a how-to set up, to allow your site visitors to switch between two different layouts.
RocketDock
Punk Software - RocketDock is "a smoothly animated, alpha-blended application launcher that is similar to ObjectDock".
Compatible with other dock skin formats and totally free. For Windows.
TaskFreak!
TaskFreak! is a simple, efficient and attractive web-based task manager, that you run on your own server with PHP/MySQL. Absolutely free and open source.
TaskFreak! web based task manager / todo list written in PHP
YShout AJAX Shoutblox
YShout: A Free PHP AJAX Shoutbox that is lightweight, easy to install, Standards compliant and easily customizable with CSS to fit with any site.
Animated Page Scrolling
Animated Page Scrolling with Javascript - techfoolery - adds some scripty smooth scrolling goodness when jumping to sections of a page.
Thickbox 2
I had a look at the Thickbox lightbox-like script earlier and covered it in "Which Lightbox is right for you?" and see now that Thickbox has gone v2.
Reading through the features, it would seem that Thickbox almost has it all! it can be used to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content (GreyBox functionality!), or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal. Thickbox will resize images to fit, hide form elements in IE6, remain centered in the browser window and more.
Thickbox is also relatively code light, at least when compared to the prototype-based lightbox scripts.
Thickbox is a very versatile tool, with one script able to handle a number of different site functions from login to image gallery. Perhaps the only thing missing, that some might like, is image transitions, which have been removed from v2 of Thickbox. Of course, the code savvy could no doubt add these in, if they wanted.
So if you're looking for a lightbox, head on over and check out ThickBox 2.0.
Radiant CMS
Radiant CMS - Content Management Simplified is "a no-fluff, open-source content managment system designed for small teams".
The interface is very pretty and easy to use and the layouts are very flexible and easy to modify.
FACE Animated CSS Enhancements
FACE: Faruk's Animated CSS Enhancements - from the author "was developed to allow standards-compliant web developers to put more life and energy into their pages, without having to learn Javascript or Flash: all it takes is basic math skills and a good understanding of CSS. FACE is built entirely from JavaScript and the CSS that you provide to control the animation."
You can check out some FACE examples to see how it can be used (effect is onload so don't do what I did and click open the page in a background tab and miss it! :)
Unfortunately, it seems there is a bug that cause Opera 8 to crash at the moment, but hopefully that can be fixed because this looks like it could be a really nice tool for a lot of people.
WebKit 0.1 Available, like Apple's Safari but for Windows
The first and only WebKit based Windows web browser is now available, featuring the excellent rendering engine used in popular Macintosh web browsers Safari and Shiira, GetWebKit offers a free, powerful, and open-source internet experience. Try our latest alpha today!
Even if WebKit isn't likely to become your browser of choice (and clearly, as an 0.1 release, it isn't nearly ready for prime time), it's a great install for web developers/designers to test for Safari-like page rendering.
GetWebKit! A web browser for Windows
Docking Boxes, drag, drop, show, hide content script
[brothercake] Docking boxes (dbx) - a script that creates drag and drop content boxes, press and drop as well (keyboard support) and hide/show functionality to boot!
Script to open links in new window via icon
Whether to open links in a new window or not is something that has been much discussed. Current wisdom would say that we shouldn't make that choice for our users, but many struggle with giving their site visitors such an easy way to leave their site.
arc90 lab : tools : External Link script allows for some middle ground. Though the use of javascript and css, the External Link script appends an icon to the end of links that will allow the link to open in a new window only if the user clicks on the icon (the link itself opens in the same window).
Image Caption Script
Add an image caption to your blog or website entries easily, with the addition of a little css and javascript from arc90 lab : tools : Image Caption Script.
Complete how-to and the necessary script are provided and once installed and set-up, adding a class and a title to an image tag is all you need to have your image captions appear.
xcellery
Xcellery offers an easy way to share your Excel spreadsheets online. Requires no installation and automatically consolidates changes from your online collaborators.
Zulupad personal desktop wiki
ZuluPad - described as Notepad on crack - part notepad, part wiki, it's a personal desktop note-taking, information-organizer and more.
AJAX slideshow script with both timed or manual image rotation
JonDesign's Smooth SlideShow Library - available as a download package, to create an easy to implement (instructions on their site) image slideshow that can rotate images automatically (timed) or manually (click to move forward).
Each photo features an opaque title bar at the bottom with text description, although I assume that would be easy to skip, if it wasn't wanted/needed.
You can see a Smooth SlideShow demo here.
Web-based Paint-like drawing service
The goal of LiTha-Paint, is to "bring to the Web all the features that only traditional offline vector graphic software has been providing in the past." Even in Alpha, it's very useful for quick drawings and illustrations to insert into documents, websites or blog posts etc.
LiTha-Paint{Alpha} - web-based drawing service
Foxit PDF Reader
Get rid of the bloatware! The 1MB fully functional PDF Reader - lightweight Adobe Reader alternative. Yay!
Learn PHP from videos
PHP VIDEO TUTORIAL FOR WEB DESIGNERS - not sure why the title is all caps but the bookmark is worth it if you are looking for a free and easy way to learn PHP - through video instruction. If you are a visual learner who wants to pick up some PHP skills, it's worth a look see.
Link Thumbnailer
arc90 lab : tools : Link Thumbnail - is the coolest thing I've seen today! Using some javascript and css, display a thumbnail-sized screen cap of the destination page of links. See Link Thumbnail in action here.
Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery
eSPG (Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery v2.0 - a nice, feature-rich PHP gallery script, which automatically generates the thumbnails and generates valid XHTML strict output, amongst many other things. Another worth a look.
Beamish: service that sends large files free
BeamFile - Send Large Files Faster! 100% FREE! - another one, but if you're a regular large file sender, worth a look see.
PHP Font Sizer
PHP: Font Sizer | Mike’s Experiments | MikeCherim.com - worth a look if you're looking for a scipting font sizing solution.
Magazine Layout using PHP
A List Apart: Articles: Automatic Magazine Layout - a PHP script that automatically calculates image size and displays them in an attractive manner. The script offers a number of display options - all you have to do is upload the images and give the script the size of the div to display the image in and the script does the rest! Very nice.
Unobtrusive Ajax Activity Indicators
Gen-X-Design | Ian Selby - Ajax Activity Indicators - Make Them Global and Unobtrusive - a nice presentation of adding an activity indicator to a page that sticks to the bottom of the page.
activeCollab
activeCollab - open source project management and collaboration tool. is a new Basecamp clone but instead of being an on-the-web service, it is a downloadable php/mysql script that can be installed and used on your own server. And free!
Slightly Thicker Box
The names for these lightbox scripts are getting interesting! Slightly ThickerBox 1.1 is a mod of the Thickbox script, that integrates previous and next links (excellent for image galleries) and the ability to create groups of galleries.
Timeout your Mouseovers
Have you ever only realized that something wasn't quite right when someone showed you how to fix the thing that you didn't realize was wrong? Still with me? ;)
Timeout your Mouseovers - builds a little lag in to your mouseover actions, to prevent the jerky transition thing (that maybe you didn't realize was bugging you!).
Litebox
Litebox- Same great taste, less calories - ultra-light lightbox script.
AJAX Feedback Script
AJAX Feedback Mechanism - a great, unobtrusive way to get feedback on your website.
jsScrolling Script
jsScrolling - makes some very cool scrolling text boxes!
Dynamic Text Replacement
PHP & CSS Dynamic Text Replacement (P C DTR) with word-wrapping - hmmmmm. An alternative to sifr? I think I'll take it for a spin and see how it works.
Determine Online Unser without a Database
PHP Web Traffic Analysis Determine Number Of Online Users Without A Database Tutorial - I've always been curious and this script seems like a quick and easy way to find out.
Build your own AJAX Homepage
Want to build your own AJAX homepage but don't know where to start or if you've got the skills? MuseStorm tells you what skills you need and then walks you through the process of building it. I think I'll give it a go!
MuseStorm - AJAX Homepage/Desktop tutorial - Overview
AjaxWrite
ajaxWrite - AJAX for Everyone - "ajaxWrite is a web-based word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word and other standard document formats. Anytime you need to open, read or write a word processor file, simply point your Firefox browser to www.ajaxwrite.com and in seconds a full-featured program will be available for you to open, edit, print and save."
BitFontMaker
FontEditor BitfontMaker is a fun tool for making your own pixel type font.
PHP Designer
MPSOFTWARE - PHP DESIGNER 2006: Powerful Free IDE for Coding PHP for both Professional and Beginners! - free, feature-rich program for coding php.
Overview of Options in Open Source CMS
If you're looking for an open source CMS, you could do much worse then spending a few minutes reading this article. It's nicely broken down with options depending on what your main focus is.
NewsForge | Choosing an open source CMS
Snipshot: Edit pictures online - for when you just need to quickly crop or resize, this is a handy online photo editing destination.
iBox
The latest itteration of the 'lightbox', iBox offers the best of other versions, with the added bonus of support for non javascript enabled surfers (by redirecting their requests to a regular html page.) iBox supports images, html, login boxes etc.
iBox / iBegin Blog (powered by evoBlog)
Mobilicious
Mobilicio.us - "Mobilicio.us is a "mashup" that combines the del.icio.us online bookmarking service with Google Mobile. This allows you to browse through "mobilized" versions of your del.icio.us bookmarks from your phone browser or other limited-display browsers."
Picasa Web Albums review
If you're curious about Picasa's new Web Albums, a read of this comprehensive review (complete with screen grabs) is a great starting point.
enrii.blog - First Time with Picasa Web Albums
Prototype Window Class
Like ajax windows? Check out Prototype Window Class : Introduction and their very cool examples, including a window for alerts, login, confirmation or even with another website in it!
Ajax Edit in Place updated
Joseph Scott’s Blog � Blog Archive - AJAX Edit In Place With Prototype, Version 0.2.0
SimpleLog
If you are looking for a free, basic blog program, have a look at SimpleLog - SimpleLog. A simple (and free!) Ruby on Rails weblog application..
Features include tagging, search, multiple-author, rss and pinging support. Fast and free. Doesn't get much better than that!
WebShot
NathanM - WebShot is a downloadable file to grab screenshots from the command line. Nice!
Curvy Corners
curvyCorners - JavaScript Rounded Corners and more. is a bit of javascript that will add rounded corners to any div.
Tab Styled Accordion Effect
NYOKIGLITTER - Tab Styled Accordion - built on moo.fx but includes an additional script for download with images as well. Comes in 3 different styles - tabs, horizontal and a two-column effect.
Revolver
Revolver | FiRE | Fast Image Rotation Engine By Tubatomic Studio - free, open source image rotation engine, useful for many applications.
Fabulous Freebies - Software that is
PCWorld.com - 101 Fabulous Freebies - a good list of free software programs that are worth checking out.
SlideShowPro Director
SlideShowPro is a first class slideshow script and now, it has a first class image management program to go with it!
SlideShowPro / Products / SlideShowPro Director
Ajax Content Tabs Script
Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Ajax Tabs Content script - an ajax powered script to display tabbed content data.
Javascript pagination
This JS pagination script allows you to supply the tag/css selector to change and the script works the magic a page at a time..
Javascript pagination in yer face
Thickbox v1.0
Thickbox gets some bug fixes and enhancements and now out of beta and into v 1.0.
Javascript Entry - Cody Lindley: ThickBox 1.0 - No Beta On This One Baby
Instant Inline Page Editing with AJAX
AJAX Instant Inline Edit. This is such a cool concept - click and edit text on a page. Click again and it's changed.
HTML to PostScript or PDF Converter
html2ps and html2pdf - Convert HTML to PostScript or PDF. Supports over 500 HTML and CSS tags and properties. - downloadable and free for personal and commercial use. For all your website printing/presentation needs!
Ajax Resources
Solutoire.com - Ajax Resources - all things AJAX in one nice, big, categorized list.
jsScrolling
jsScrolling - cool! Javascript powered scrolling content.
Stiped Tables the OO Way
Stripe your tables the OO way - an updated method for colouring tables.
Javascript Motion Tween
JAVASCRIPT MOTION TWEEN - move, fade, bounce things around your pages with javascript.
AJAX Edit in Place
Joseph Scott’s Blog - Blog Archive - AJAX Edit In Place With Prototype - this is very cool. Check out the example page here first and then see what's powering it (CSS and Prototype)
60 More Ajax Tutorials
Max Kiesler - 60 More AJAX Tutorials - if I ever decide to learn AJAX, this list will help me get started.
Reflection JS
Reflection.js -forgot to bookmark this the first time I saw it, so I'll do it now. For future reference.
easyALBUM
easyALBUM - fabulous looking, behaving, coded, friendly on many fronts photo gallery program. I'll be finding a place to use this!
Which Lightbox is right for you?
[Updated Version October 2007 »]
Thickbox - jQuery powered, AJAX enabled, so it's lightweight and efficient. Allows images or html in lightbox. JS overhead, about 40k. (Now with a WordPress plugin, as well)
[New] Slightly ThickerBox 1.1 is a mod of the Thickbox script, that integrates previous and next links (excellent for image galleries) and the ability to create groups of galleries.
GreyBox - An iframe approach to creating popups on the screen, fo images, html or even a different url - about 20k of overhead.
GreyBox Redux - unobtrusive (no need to embed JS into your site) and even lighter weight than GreyBox.
Lightbox v2.0 - the original for images only. Uses prototype and sciptaculous libriaries so it's a bit code-heavy, but very nice for image use.
Lightbox with moo.fx - souped up with moo.fx transitions etc, still prototype based and only for images, however.
Lightbox Gone Wild - a lightbox variation as a modal window, so allows html, forms etc as well as images. Still uses prototype so again, a bit code-heavy.
Multi-faceted LIghtbox - prototyped based again, but offers a variety of options for different types of data that can be loaded in the lightbox.
Leightbox - very similar to Lightbox Gone Wild (prototype based, allows images, html etc) except that Leightbox keeps the lightbox content in the html, but hidden from view, so that it can be indexed by search engines.
xilinus - easy to use, prototype-based, easily customizable and allows for a variety of lightbox content options.
Lightbox Plus - original lightbox plus additional features allowing for expandable images and automatic image resizing based on window size.
Suckerfish Hover Lighbox - lightbox effect while keeping accessibility. Not classic lightbox-ish but a nice presentation, nonetheless.
Lightbox Plugin for WordPress or Lightbox Plugin for WordPress or the GreyBox Plugin for WordPress
[New] Litebox - a code-reduced version of Lightbox, uses the moo.fx library and prototype-lite. A good choice if page weight is a concern.
[New] LITBox - a lightbox written in to a class, so it is possible to open multiple instances of the lightbox and control each separately. Based on Thickbox.
[New] iBox - offers the best of other versions, with the added bonus of support for non javascript enabled surfers (by redirecting their requests to a regular html page.) iBox supports images, html, login boxes etc.
Slimbox - is a 7kb visual clone of the popular Lightbox JS, written using the ultra compact mootools framework (separate install that will add 16kb to the total weight). It was designed to be small, efficient, more convenient and 100% compatible with the original Lightbox v2. Images only.
[New] YUI PhotoViewer - a lightbox gallery script built for the Yahoo User Interface Library. Lots of options, including the ability to load photos from an XML file.
Reflector, Fun with AJAX
Like reflections? Try the Reflector. - a neat effect, powered by script.aculo.us. Have a peek.
ThickBox
ThickBox - One box to rule them all. - Thickbox is a new lightbox-type script that is meant to bridge and gap between the image-focused, prototype heavy lightbox scripts and the lightweight but basic GreyBox type scripts. It looks like a great compromise. It handles images as well as html.
Learn Open Office
Open Office is my productivity suite of choice but I don't think I've ever come across an Open Office tutorial ... until now. OpenOffice tutorials - Online Flash movie based OpenOffice training
Google Calendar on your website
AJAX Magazine: Howto integrate Google Calendar in your website using AJAX - Obviously, this is not intended so we can broadcast our dentist appointments to the world. Since Google allows for multiple calendars, a separate, focused calendar could be created and then integrated onto a website to display upcoming events for a group blog etc. Lots of useful ... uses, methinks.
YShout Shoutbox
YShout: A PHP & AJAX-powered shoutbox for your website - uses prototype and moo.fx.
Online Tools
Free JavaScripts, tutorials and tools - Onlinetools.org - replace old-school javascript with some DOM goodness, like DOM layers to replace popups and DomTab, expand/collapse script etc.
Scooch
Scooch: Accessible, Web Standards Based Slide Show and Gallery Blog from Grow Collective - with an impressive bunch of features. Scooch looks like a quick, attractive and comprehensive way to have a photo presentation/sharing solution.
Lightbox JS v2.0
Lightbox JS v2.0 - updated, with image groupings and "fancy pants transitions".
Suckerfish HoverLighbox
Suckerfish HoverLightbox | Monday By Noon - a blending of the lightbox and hoverbox and more. Nice!
Real Time Online Counter
RTOC - Real Time Online Counter - cross-browser, lightweight counter script that uses flatfiles for data storage.
Prototype Windows
Prototype Javascript Windows - neat little script that creates a window one a web page (they're obviously trying not to use the word pop-up.) It would work great as a tooltip. Cutsomizable CSS means you can style to match your site, as well.
Revolver
Revolver | FiRE | Fast Image Rotation Engine By Tubatomic Studio - lightweight and easy script for image rotation.
BoxOver
Tooltips, Floating captions - DHTML, javascript - BoxOver - a tooltip script with some nice effects. Lightweight and cross-browser, too.
Nifty Corners Cube
Nifty Corners Cube - freedom to round - now version 3 and looking good.
event:Selectors
CSS event:Selectors. From the author, event selector "allows you to apply an event such as mouseover, mouseout, click, et al using a CSS style syntax. It keeps your layers separated and greatly reduces the amount of code you have to write."
Round up of 30 AJAX Tutorials
Max Kiesler - Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials - in case I ever have the urge to dig deeper.
Tableau Open Source Photo Gallery
Tableau :: open-source photo gallery built with Ruby on Rails so has some nice drag and drop features, lightbox-style viewing etc.
dhtml goodies
A library of nice looking DHTML(dynamic HTML) scripts - DHTMLgoodies.com - a good resource for website goodies.
PHP Star Rating Script
PHP 5 Star Rating System (using hReview) - good looking PHP star rating script that requires no database.
qTip
qTip . css . learn . solarDreamStudios - lean, crossbrowser, good looking tooltip script (ala Nice Titles).
Scooch
Scooch: Accessible, Web Standards Based Slide Show and Gallery Builder from Grow Collective - nice looking, standards-based code. Worthy bookmark for when I have need for a gallery.
AJAX Tabs
havocStudios: Ajax tabs are pretty nice. It's hard not to be impressed with the dynamic display options of AJAX power.
Customized Lightbox JS
alwaysBETA Building aB: Customizing Lightbox - a nice customization of the original Lightbox JS code.
Downloadable Web 2.0 and AJAX Widgets
Just some bookmarks I don't want to lose track of the next time I go looking to play with some cool effects - Max Kiesler - Downloadable Web 2.0 and AJAX Widgets,
moo.fx tutorial and The Idiot's Guide to moo.fx
Zen Garage
ZenGarage - "is a showcase tool that may help you to develop and present different visual styles for a single set of templates. All by the power of CSS."
This is not a site but rather a program to download and use on your local computer. Intended for design professionals but looks like it might be fun for the design hobbiest as well.
Image Cross Fade Redux
slayeroffice | code | image cross fade redux - nice fading image effect, that works well in Firefox and Safari. Not sure about IE.
CoComment
coComment - clear conversation in the blogosphere - Hmmm. Not sure I get it. Yet. But I'm definitely intrigued. Co Comment is a service to track comments you leave around the web. No blog needed to play along.
Lightbox Gone Wild
Particletree : Lightbox Gone Wild! - inspired by the original Lightbox JS, this version expands on the idea and offers additional flexibility. Uses JS and CSS.
Behavior
Behaviour : Using CSS selectors to apply Javascript behaviours - moves scripts out of the page code and uses CSS to apply it.
Post Del.icio.us links to your site with AJAX
SimplePie: Ideas Del.icio.us AJAX - how to post del.icio.us links to your web site using AJAX. How to for last.fm as well.
Invasion of the Body Switchers
[brothercake] Invasion of the Body Switchers - Brothercake gives the classic ALA style switching script a facelift.
IP to Location Lookup
SEOmoz :: AJAX Powered IP Location Lookup
Info Balloons
Info balloons: A how-to Although it seemed a tad choppy on Firefox, I still *love* this idea. I'll be coming back to this one to try somewhere for sure.
Lightbox JS
Lightbox JS - "Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers." You'll have to go see it to really get the idea, I think. An interesting way to present a large photo without disturbing the flow of a page, I think.
24 Ways Scriptaculous Effects
24 ways: Introduction to Scriptaculous Effects - I'm really enjoying the 24 Ways series and especially this one, which brings coding down to my level of understanding. Well done and thanks!
Clipmarks
Clipmarks - sort of like bookmarks but instead of saving the link to the entire page, you can save bits and pieces of pages (text, images etc.). Certainly a nice looking interface and would seem that it would be useful for gathering any number of things in one spot.
AJAX File Uploader
Encodable Uploader - an "AJAX File Uploader ... (that) allows you to accept file uploads onto your website, and as a file is uploading it shows the user a progress bar, with details like how much time has elapsed and how much time is remaining.
Sweet Titles
Sweet Titles: JavaScript Fading Tooltips - sort of like Nice Titles only uh ... Sweet!
Peppermint Tea
Peppermint Tea - a "civilised collection of third party plugins for Mint."
Mint add-ons
A couple of Mint add-ons - XXX Strong Mint - adds IP addresses to stats and Pepper, which allows you to view your Feedburner stats for the past seven days.
Mint!
Mint: A Fresh Look at Your Site - A brand new site stats program from the maker of the popular ShortStats - long awaited, very pretty and definitely worth the $30!
SlimStat
SlimStat — A simple web stats analyser based on ShortStat - Wettone.com - a modified version of the popular stats program ShortStat, with some modifications.
Bluefish
Bluefish Editor - an open-source, full-featured editor that supports a wide array of programming and markup languages.
MyProgs
MyProgs - sort of like del.icio.us for software.
Textpattern 4 released
Textpattern: Textpattern 4 Stable Released - such a lovely piece of software! If I were to move away from MT, this is where I'd be going. Check out these great Textpatter templates, too!
Postcard Viewer
From the SimpleViewer folks, theAIRTIGHT - PostcardViewer. Pre-loads images, is cross-browser, uses Flash detection, lightweight and best of all, free!
Favelet Suite
Hmmmm. How did I miss this one? Must have been at the beach. slayeroffice | Favelet Suite.
Fading Slideshow Demo
I was impressed when the images faded in without Flash, but Colouir has taken it one step further with the Resizing, Fading Slideshow Demo, done completely with Javascript. View source to see how it works. Very nice! [via Clagnut]
Folderblog
folderblog is a tiny PHP script that "automatically displays the images placed in a given subdirectory". The script can be used to output images in blog, gallery or whatever format you wish.
I haven't played with it but, I'm going to. [via]
P.S. A "new" ETC is underdevelopment, hence the lack of activity here lately. Stay tuned.
Simple Viewer
AIRTIGHT - SimpleViewer - "a free, customizable Flash image viewing application". Check out the demo to see how it works.
Pricelessware 2003
It's "priceless" because it's free and it's great. Definitely bookmark worthy. Pricelessware 2003 Category Index. [via Ordinary Life]
Feed on Feeds
I have been in search of the perfect RSS software forever. I have tried just about all the big name ones. None seemed to "fit". My wishlist included the following: Somehow integrated with my browser (Firebird). I'm lazy. I don't want to open another program. I want access to my bookmarks so I can bookmark things that interest me to come back to later. I want access to my reads from work. I want to easily see who has updated. I want to display only the new items. I want to be bandwidth-friendly and have the ability to control when and how I update my feeds (I have a lot of them!). I don't need them updating every hour. I only need them updated when I'm ready to read them. I wanted to be able to customize the look to suit me. If I'm going to spend a lot of time looking at them, I want a look I like.
So, after trying almost all of the major feed readers out there so far, enter Feed on Feeds. It's a server-side script and runs on any server with PHP/mysql. It's easy to set up if you're familiar with these types of scripts. It's accessible from my work since it's on my server. It supports OPML import. It displays in my browser just like any other page. Bookmarking is easy. Opening links that interest me in the background in tabs is easy. I can update the feeds all at once, individually, manually or through an automated cron job if I wanted to. I can view the feeds in a number of ways as well . It has a bookmarklet to auto-disover feeds and subscribe as I surf around. A few simple changes and I was also able to customize the look of the output as well (although it does a fine job out of the box).
I do believe I've found the perfect RSS reader for me!
[Feed on Feeds can also be found on sourceforge]
TypePad
TypePad is offering it's first public glimpses of their new hosted blogging service, still in Beta Testing. So far, a peek at TypePad News: Template Builder and their Photo Albums.
Tabbed DHTML/CSS Blogroll List
All-CSS/DHTML Blogroll list (ver 2) :: JayAllen.org. Pretty spiffy!
Zempt
Zempt :: Multi-platform posting for Movable Type :: Zempt : a new and improved version 0.3.
Lorem Ipsum Generator
Lorem Ipsum Generator - text filler made easy.
Random Image Script
photomatt scripts Random Image Script.
PhotoPal
I really like this! PhotoPal is "an image organization system featuring Textism-style picture layout, automatic thumbnail creation, RSS feeds, picture level EXIF date extraction, and picture level descriptions, all without the need for an SQL like database."
I have looked at a lot of image gallery scripts and this is the first one I like the looks of right out of the box!
[via Web-graphics]
Ebay search results through RSS
Thanks to John for pointing me to this script's author. The author, his post and the original code is from Waxy.org.
This PHP script executes a search on ebay for a specified item and then returns the results as an RSS feed that you can put into your News Reader. The search results will be updated on the same schedule as your blog reads etc.
For example, I am currently looking for lenses for my Olympus Camera. I submitted a search for this and put the results into my News Reader and this is what it looks like (screen capture).
It's very easy to implement. You need to be able to run php on your server, of course. Instructions for implementing within Movable Type follow in the extended although you don't need MT to use this script. Alternately, just upload the php file to your server and point your browser to it to open it up and follow steps 7-9 below.
Continue reading "Ebay search results through RSS" »
Hiveware Image Rotator Script
From Hiveware - a PHP Image Rotator Script. and also from the same site, the Cache Trick, which you can use to force-reload images that are delivered by a script (such as with the Rotator Script).
PHP Script to Bounce Searchers
New from Scriptygoddess, an update to an earlier script that bounces visitors arriving at your site through Google. This update bounces visitors from a host of search engines. The script is PHP and is obviously not for everyone. Many welcome visitors from search engines. If you're like me though and would like to keep your personal journal away from people looking for nekid pictures of my muther, this script is for you! ;) (Intentional poor spelling to throw off the googlers).
Using PHP to show Weather Forecast
Ian-Barton.com - Weather Forecasting from Your Blog is a nice solution for displaying current weather conditions and how just been updated.
Blogroll SideBar Your Way
I Am Pariah - BlogRoll Sidebar YOUR WAY. - code and instructions for creating a customized sidebar of your blogrolling blogroll.
Nice Titles
I've been playing with Nice Titles here today, seen at Kadyelebee's and at MovableBlog. You can see them in action by hovering over some of the links on this page.
I'm having a little display problem though. The links in the body of the posts pop up the Nice Titles about an inch above the link in IE6 but display properly on the sidebar links. It seems to be related to MT somehow, because with the same browser, the NiceTitles display properly on other pages, outside of a MT post. Hmmmm. Anyone care to guess why that is? :)
P.S. This seems to be only supported in the newest of browsers. You may not be seeing anything at all if you don't have the latest version of your browser.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2003. I removed the script from the page because I couldn't get it to behave properly in IE6 in the post body. Probably something at my end and not a reflection on the script as I've seen it work properly on other sites, but I didn't want to invest the time debugging it.
Flip Gallery 2
I recall seeing the original "Flip Gallery" code awhile back and thought it was very cool. It's now been updated as Flip Gallery 2, and said to be "about 99% more user friendly". It does look great! Nice looking slide show script using PHP and customized for use with Movable Type too. [Sample Flip Gallery page here]
Google hilite
Textism Tools: Google Hilite is a general script that "When applied to a page arrived at via Google, this function will highlight the terms used for the Google search wherever they appear."
If you're in to being kind to your Google visitors, it's a handy addition to a site.
Setting up the LGF Referrer Script on MT
I wrote this up for someone today, so I thought I'd post it here as well in case someone is looking for step-by-step instructions for installing the LGF Referrer Script (link on the left sidebar under "Scripts") in movabletype. This is a php script, so you must be able to run that. Also, it requires that the page you want to track referrers to be php (ie. index.php). Instructions follow:
Continue reading "Setting up the LGF Referrer Script on MT" »
Link, Bold, Italics in Comment Area
Scriptygoddess has come up with another great script - this one for adding bold, italics and links in the blog comment areas. You'll find their entry with the script here. You can see it in action on this blog by clicking on the comment link.
Added later: It was pointed out to me that the script could be made more XHTML compliant be changing it from bold to strong and from italic to em. This is easily changed by editing the head section of the script and replacing the b tags with strong and the i tags with em.
Entries: Conditional Comments/Trackback
For anyone who hasn't already found it elsewhere, here is the PHP code for conditional comments - ie. Comment? 1 Comment, 2 Comments. The code for trackbacks is included as well. The bolded part is the part that will show on your page that you may want to change to your own preference of wording. Code follows
Continue reading "Entries: Conditional Comments/Trackback" »
PHP Script: Alternate Style Sheets
This PHP script for that will detect the user's browser and load a particular style sheet, based on whether they are using IE or Netscape. Instructions and script follows:
Continue reading "PHP Script: Alternate Style Sheets" »
Table generating script
This script from scriptygoddess is very handy and I wanted to bookmark it here as well. While originally intended to generate tables on the fly for thumbnails in a photolog, I've found it can be made to work for a variety of uses, such as putting archive listings into columns etc, just by changing the MT related tags to the appropriate ones. Javascript and php versions are available.
Collapsing Entries and Comments
Since I've seen this asked on the MT Forum several times lately, I thought I'd just bookmark it here. This is the link to the instructions for making extended entries and comments open and close on the index page - Scriptygoddess Link
Using Lists for Drop Down Menus
gazingus.org - Using Lists for DHTML Menus looks great, promising cross-browser functionality and the ability to degrade well and maintain access to content! I'm bookmarking it to check out for future use.
Thanks to lashlar for the link.
Gallery Script
Somewhere in my travels today I came across this link to Coppermine's Image Gallery PHP Script. It offers support for both an embedded and a stand-alone photo gallery, that can be styled to match your website. Looks like it's worth checking out.
Drop Down Category Listings
[Source] Mcroft shares code for putting category listings in a drop down box (about half-way down the page). I'm assuming the first part of the code goes in the HEAD section with the MT scripts and the second part goes where the drop-down menu should appear on the page. I'll have to test that out!
Added later: Tested it out and it is quick and easy. The first part of the code should go in the HEAD section, in between the <script> </script> tags The second part can just be pasted into your index template where you want the drop-down menu to appear. It could easily be used for recent entries or archives, by switching the MT Tags in the code to the appropriate ones.
Added later, later: Loopy provides this alternative, from Pete Bevin. I'll check that out as well, loopy! Thanks.
Edit from your main page
Girlie shares how to place an [edit] link within each entry on your index page, that only you can see, which allows you to edit a post simply by clicking on the link. Requires PHP. I have it working on my blog and it is a great time saver.
Javascripts Resource
Javascripts Examples seems like a good resource for some useful page scripts.
Javascripts Resource
Javascripts Examples seems like a good resource for some useful page scripts.
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