Codrops is sharing a simple and useful jQuery plugin to add overlay effect to display annotations. The jQuery annotation effect can be used for the purpose of expanding documentation and comments.

To integrate this into your portfolio you need to make a transparent image with some notes that fits on the smaller sized image.

PDF to Flash Page Flip is an online tool that converts a PDF file into a flash page flipping book, by chopping chopping PDF into separated SWF movies, one per each page found in the document.

It will create an XML file with all the parameters needed to feed the book. Finally it will bundle altogether in a ready to use zip file.

It is basically a front end to the following two software:

• Dynamic Page Flip v2 from 76design.com
• SWFTools from swftools.org

Dynamic Page Flip v2 & SWFTools are free and open source software solutions.

SOFA (Statistics Open For All) is a user-friendly, open source statistics, analysis, & reporting software package.

Beautiful output is a feature, even in a statistics/analysis software! It means that SOFA output can be used for presentations or automated reporting without manual formatting or reworking.

SOFA currently supports: MySQL, Microsoft Access, SQLite, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

Features

• Very easy to work with existing data
• Spreadsheet Friendly
• Attractive & automated reporting
• Scripts for running routine reports can be saved, modified, and extended

Keys.CSS is a simple stylesheet for rendering beautiful keyboard-style elements. If you are offering keyboard shortcuts to users, you can style those keyboard keys with this easy-to-use stylesheet.

The stylesheet is compatible with all modern browsers, degrades gracefully in older ones. Styles for light and dark keys included.

FancyMoves, a new jQuery Product slider for your website or blog. This slider is built off the Moving Boxes slider, with FancyBox for expanding images.

FancyMoves is a great slider to show off services, products, or whatever you can dream up. The main image is enlarged to attract your focus.

There are three ways to navigate to the next / last item: using your keyboard arrows, using the left and right arrows on the sides of the slider, or simply clicking on the next or last item in the slider.

Jo is an Open Source HTML5 Mobile App Framework for building mobile applications for HTML5 capable browsers and devices.

It was originally designed to work on mobile platforms as a GUI and light data layer on top of PhoneGap. Jo has been tested successfully as a lightweight framework for mobile browsers, newer desktop browsers, and even Dashboard widgets.

Jo Features

• Cross platform HTML5 Mobile Framework - Tested with webOS, iOS, Android, Symbian, Safari, Chrome and Dashboard Widgets
• Lightweight and efficient
• Animations and transitions using CSS3

HTML5 introduced many exciting features for Web developers. One of the features is the ability to specify gradients using pure CSS3, without having to create any images and use them as repeating backgrounds for gradient effects.

Ultimate CSS Gradiant Generator is an online tool that provides the facility to generate Photoshop-like Web 2.0 CSS Gradients on the fly.

The resulting CSS gradients are cross browser – they will work in modern browsers and will also fall back to a simpler gradient in Internet Explorer.

Impromptu is a jQuery plugin to provide a more pleasant way to spontaneously prompt a user for input.

It allows for creating forms within these controls. This is not intended to be a modal replacement, just a quick tool to prompt user input in a fashionable way.

It can be easily customized using CSS and comes with a couple of nice animations like swing, slide etc.

Anchor Modeling is an agile technique for creating database models. Anchor Modeler is a database modeling tool for creating Anchor Models. It uses newly developed force directed graph algorithms to do the layout and interact with it.

Flags, a collection of 240+ Free Flags PNG icons containing a flag of every major country around the world. The flags icons set comes in several sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, and 64×64.

It has 2 variants – as flat and standard, and with a lovely glossy finish.