Archive For October, 2010

37 articles

Advanced Growl Style Pop-Up Notifications: Purr

Purr is an advanced MooTools notifications class that allows you to show growl-style pop-up notifications. It also provides Elements.alert() to allow a notification to be popped above of an existing element. This notification plugin can be used to show any kind of notifications on web pages using custom positioned modal windows. Requirements: MooTools Library Website: http://re5et.github.com/projects/purr/demo/ License: Free to use

JavaScript Canvas Library: Artisan JS

Artisan JS is an Open Source JavaScript Canvas Library that aims to make in-browser drawing very easy. It specifically targets Canvas and supports for layered data, graphics can be layered and flattened when rendered, but the data remains. This means the data can continue to be manipulated after it is rendered. Requirements: Canvas supported browser Website: http://www.artisanjs.com/ License: GPL, MIT

Easily Add Annotations With jQuery

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. Requirements: jQuery Library Website: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/10/12/annotation-overlay-effect/ License:…

Convert PDF Files Into Flash Flipping Book With PDF To Flash Page Flip

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…

Open Source Statistics, Analysis & Reporting Software: SOFA

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…

Stylesheet For Rendering Keyboard-Style Elements: Keys.CSS

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. Website: http://michaelhue.com/keyscss/ License: MIT

Improved jQuery Product Slider: FancyMoves

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:…

Open Source HTML5 Mobile App Framework: Jo

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…

Photoshop-Like CSS Gradient Generator

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…

Spontaneously Prompt A User With jQuery Impromptu

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…