Prey is 100% geolocation aware, it uses either the device’s GPS or the nearest WiFi hotspots to triangulate and grab a fix on its location.

It can take a picture of the thief with your laptop’s webcam so you know what he looks like. It’s lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use.

With Sencha Animator, you can create CSS3 ads that rival rich-media ads made with traditional desktop applications. You can animate text and images with smooth transitions, design buttons with gradients, and embed analytics tracking code. All with the power of web standards.

This CSS3 alternative to Flash is free for now but it will cost on a per user basis.

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

The package includes fully editable Photoshop (PSD) files, original fonts and previews, everything that you may need in order to customize your set according to your preferences.

Input the URL, select the screen size and the device (iPhone, Droid, Nexus One or iPad) and preview your website.

Features

• Lets you design for CSS3 compliant (mobile) browsers using Media Queries
• Encourages modern design flexibility
• Use all your favorite web browser development tools (Firebug etc.)

MobilePress comes with a number of free themes optimized for normal handsets and also an iPhone specific theme. It also allows you to create custom mobile themes for different handheld devices and mobile browsers such as the iPhone, Opera Mini and Windows Mobile.

By providing shortcuts and reusable methods, baseJS helps you write code to be lightweight and expendable, perfect for the mobile web.

Features

• Falls back on Sizzle selector library for iPhone 1.x (if query selector support unavailable)
• Encourages use of CSS Transitions and Animations
• Object-oriented mobile javascript framework
• Easy to extend

baseJS is not useable with Internet Explorer.

Sencha Touch allows you to develop web apps that look and feel native on Apple iOS and Google Android touchscreen devices. It comes with many built-in UI Layout components including carousels, lists and tabs.

This HTML5 mobile application development framework supports custom events like:

• Tap
• Double tap
• Tap
• Hold & rotate, etc.

jQTouch comes with native animations, automatic navigation, and themes for mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1, and Pre.

Functionality of this mobile web development jQuery plugin can be extended with extensions.

MoSync offers fully featured IDE, best mobile development tools and utilities with extensive documentation. It has many built-in libraries including:

• User interface & Multimedia
• Bluetooth / HTTP / SMS
• Map rendering

With this cross platform mobile software development kit, you can develop applications for all major  mobile platforms and the list is getting bigger.