Archive for the ‘Scripts & Apps’ Category

Pie Timing Plugin for jQuery: Pietimer

Pietimer is a creative way to perform time-bound actions on websites and web applications. In fact, it is an alternate to traditional countdown timers that are usually used in web pages. Pietimer displays a reducing pie disk and triggers a callback function as the pie disappears completely. The pie is used as a canvas element on a [...]

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JavaScript Library for Large Scale Rich Applications: Ender

Ender? If you are a bookworm or a gaming addict, you got it right. Ender – the famous character of Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game who breezed through all the odds and wars against buggers. Okay… so what is the connection of Ender with JavaScript? Ender, the JavaScript library, is a comprehensive library based on [...]

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Facebook Style Multiple Items Selection: Tokeninput

User experience is the first thing that most successful designers would like to sleep on. Good user experience not only multiplies the effects of a good design/layout but also contributes to the success of the product. Creating a good user experience is not rocket science. With some common sense and the right selection of tools, [...]

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Lens Effect Image Zooming jQuery: ImageLens

ImageLens is a free jQuery plugin that can be used to add lens style zooming effect to an image. With a small bit of jQuery code, you can integrate this useful tool with your image library. ImageLens provides complete control on zoom level and size of lens and facilitates provide zoom-able images on your website. ImageLens [...]

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Open Source JavaScript Timeline Component: Timeglider

Timeglider is an open source JavaScript component for displaying historical data in the form of a timelines. Useful for data driven applications especially that require presentation of historical data such as historic events, project plans, genealogy data etc., basic version of Timeglider is available for free under open source license. It can be used to [...]

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Make Elements on a Page ‘Zoomable’ With Zoomooz.js

With the spread of smartphones and gadgets like (iPad, Teblets etc.) and growing number of people accessing websites on these devices, the entire game of web development has changed dynamically. Web designers and developers now have to cater to the needs of a diverse user base that surfs the Internet countless ways. Fortunately, there are [...]

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jQuery Spin Button Plugin: Smart Spin

Smart spin is a jQuery spin button plugin that mimics the very common windows spin button control. Smart spin allows you to select a value between minimum and maximum values using either mouse or keyboard. You can also enter a value via keyboard. Smart spin contains a text box and Up & Down arrow buttons, [...]

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Drop-in jQuery Replacement for Prototype & Script.aculo.us on Rails: jRails

jRails is a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. This brief description might not convince you to use JRails unless you are in any of these situations: You are upgrading your existing applications to Rails 3 just to disover that Prototype helpers that you have been using do not work with Rails 3 You [...]

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JavaScript Library For Creating Image Watermarks With HTML5 Canvas: Watermark.js

Do you exhibit or share your digital work (photographs, graphical illustrations) without your watermark on them? If yes, you are definitely missing the due credits and recognition. Why not watermark you work when you can get it for FREE, and just a few simple steps away. You do not need a graphics application or tool to [...]

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Create Standards Compliant Forms: jFormer

jFormer is a form framework written on top of jQuery that allows you to quickly create beautiful, standards compliant forms. jFormer allows developers to spend less time coding and validating their forms, and spend their time working with form data instead. At 18K gzipped, jFormer is one of the first frameworks that comes Closure Compiled [...]

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