This is a very good looking Flash news slider (AS3 code) which uses XML for fetching the data.

The Flash slider simply displays an image and a descriptive text with a link to the URL wanted. The slider can be controlled via the next-previous & pause buttons.

You can find the steps for creating this Flash news slider as a tutorial and download the source files.

Design of the slider is inspired from the LaNacion.com website.

Scrollable is a flexible & lightweight (3.9kb) jQuery plugin for creating scrollable contents.

Any content (HTML, video, text..) can be used as a scrolling item. And, it supports vertical scrolling besides the standard horizontal scrolling which makes it very ideal, specially for news sites or portals to present the flash contents.

Other features of Scrollable are:

• Setting the number of visible items
• Mouse, arrow keys and mousewheel (requires mousewheel.js) support
• Programmatic actions: next, prev, nextPage, prevPage, seekTo, begin, end
• Know when list is scrolled with custom event listener

This jQuery plugin is built by the FlowPlayer team (see WRD post) and includes great examples (this & this) with FlowPlayer integration.

CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework is a free & cross-browser solution to create good looking menus.

Download package already contains examples but new themes can be created very easily.

Menus can be transformed by only changing the class name. Available transformations are:

• horizontal
• vertical left-to-right
• vertical right-to-left
• horizontal linear
• horizontal upwards.

The framework normally uses only CSS but for IE6, there is a JavaScript file that must be included.

CSSPlay is presenting a chic circular menu that can have sub-menus.

Within a limited space, the menu offers a comprehensive browsing experience.

There is also a small information that can be displayed when an item is hovered.

It uses ordered-lists for all major browsers & uses some tables if the browser is IE6.

P.S. The menu is not totally free. A donation is required for use.

Grape is a simple open source web statistics application with a clean interface.

It can display several statistics information like:

• Visits (unique & total)
• Referrers
• OS of the visitors
• Spying on users
• & more

There is an admin interface which allows you to add new statistics tracking extensions.

Statistics are stored in a MySQL database & can be queried for any time interval.

Grape works both with PHP4 & PHP5 without an OS requirement.

The Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) version 2 is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by using the mootools javascript framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP.

This Vista-like Ajax Calendar script is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 3.0 License. You can use these files however you want, but don’t redistribute without the proper credits and do not use this for commercial purposes.

AlivePDF is an open-source ActionScript 3 (Flash, Flex, AIR) PDF generation library.
It allows you to generate PDF’s client-side.

You can find here some wonderful sample codes or click here to download.

AlivePDF is licensed under the MIT License. In other words, you can do whatever you want with it!

wTag is a shoutbox (chatbox or mini chat) that is written in JavaScript and PHP, and using Ajax to exchange data with the server without need to reload an entire page. It uses MySQL database as backend. Just take a look at demo here.

• Replace URLs catched in a message with clickable links.
• UTF-8 encoding for multilingual support.
• Compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS.
• Custom designs: it’s easy to change the chatbox look by editing the CSS files.
• A form validation and warnings display system

OpenCart is an open-source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.

This open-source shopping application supports unlimited categories, different currencies & languages. Users can also review the products and buy them.

OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

Pixlr is a free online image editing application that enables users to create or edit an image from a hard drive or URL in your browser. This is a flash based application that loads in seconds and does not slow down when editing multiple images even with thousands of users online at once.  It is built in Flash and you need to have a Flash plug in (get flash) to get it to work.

It’s not for large RAW images or for printing. It is merely a tool for editing web images to be posted on blogs, news-sites, social networks like Facebook, Bebo, image sites like Flikr, Photobucket etc.