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Appcelerator launches Titanium, an open source application development platform designed to help developers create native mobile (iPad, iPhone & Android) and desktop applications using existing web skills like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP.

Titanium Mobile supports all of the iPad, iPhone and Android features, including table views, scroll views, native buttons, switches, tabs, and more.

With Titanium Desktop, your can build more engaging applications that have better performance and full control over OS-specific UI, database access, offline functionality, notifications, and multimedia.

Titanium lets you develop advanced animations and sophisticated interfaces with HTML5 & CSS3 and released under Apache 2 licensed, cross-platform toolkit for mobile & desktop applications development.

Website: http://appcelerator.com/

A web based rich text editor written using jQuery and CSS3 that supports embedded fonts using the @font-face rule in all modern browsers.

The developers have planned to expand the functionality of this rich text editor to support more new CSS3 features such as text-shadow & opacity, etc…

This open source jQuery rich text editor works fine in Internet Explorer 7/8, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

Website: https://launchpad.net/css3-jrte

Demo: http://www.rickvause.com/css3-jrte/

Download: http://www.rickvause.com/css3-jrte/css3-jrte.tar.gz

Addy came up with an information rich image gallery using CSS & jQuery.

This jQuery image gallery is managed in such a way that you don’t need to compromise with your text or image in available space.

When user hovers over an image, the image animate itself to a thumbnail & the information appears (see: 2nd row, 2nd column in the above picture). This allows user to view all the information they want about it. They can then return back just by moving their cursor outside of the image pane.

Website: http://addyosmani.com/blog/image-gallery

Demo: http://addyosmani.com/resources/zoominfo/index.html

36 beautifully crafted free psd web buttons for FREE! These buttons are available in 6 different colors & you can always use their Photoshop source file (PSD) file to change the colors according to your specific needs.

Download PSD buttons file

Fedena is the open source school management system based on Ruby on Rails. Fedena is the ideal solution for schools and campuses that want an easy means to manage all campus records.

With Fedena, you can manage student databases & it helps to deal with all school management related issues.

Few features of this open source school erp are:

• Friendly user interface
• Manage student admissions & academic year
• Examination management
• Timetable & Attendance management

Website: http://projectfedena.org/

Demo: http://demo.projectfedena.org (user: admin / pass: admin123)

Autocomplete is a free semantic JavaScript autocomplete component based on popular YAHOO! User Interface Library.

It’s one-size-fits-all autocompletion JavaScript solution that can be configured for different tasks and different data sets.

Autocomplete is available as an open source software component that can be plugged into a variety of applications.

For more info, visit: http://slashfacet.semanticweb.org/

Mono is an open source software to easily create cross platform applications. It is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .Net Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.

As this open source platofrm is built on Microsoft .Net, millions of deveopers are building applications in C# and a lot of books, websites, tutorials & source codes are available to get help from.

Mono Features

• Higher-Level Programming
• comprehensive class library provides thousands of built in classes
• Common Language Runtime (CLR)

Mono is built to be cross platform. Mono runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, and Sun Solaris, etc… In short, Mono allows you to run on nearly any computer in existance.

Website: http://mono-project.com/Start

Examples: http://mono-project.com/Screenshots#Open_Source_Applications

Download: http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

A lovely release of free social media icona by elegent themes. This free icons set contains PNG icons & Photoshop source files (PSD) for users to easily modify according to their needs.

Feel free to use for personal or commercial projects.

Download these psd icons for free

CSSUtilties is a free JavaScript library that provides capabilities to inspect CSS stylesheets in a detailed and accurate way (even than those provided by Firebug - Free Firefox Add-on).

CSSUtilities understands all versions of CSS including CSS3. It works in HTML, XHTML and XML and can equally handle  physical or virtual DOMs.

Some Features

• Finds all the rules that apply to an element, including information about properties, media, specificity and inheritance
• Tells which properties apply directly, or which through inheritance
• It returns the specificity of any selector

This free JavaScript CSS inspection library makes these capabilities available to ordinary, unprivileged code that runs in any contemporary browser.

Elastic is a free WYSIWYG theme editor for WordPress and a new approach to WordPress themes. The purpose of this visual theme editor is to provide user-friendly theme editing environment where users can create their own themes with few simple clicks.

There are three main working parts behind Elastic: a visual (WYSIWYG) theme editor, a theme engine, and a set of protocols that link the two.

Features

• Drag-and-drop environment makes themes easy to customize
• Preview your selections with the detailed typography editor
• Grid-based for easy organization & Custom grids for flexibility

Elastic creates a standard WordPress theme, it makes easy to share your themes with others.