Arbor.JS is an interesting HTML5 graph visualisation library built using Web Workers and jQuery.

Rather than trying to be an all-encompassing framework, arbor provides an efficient, force-directed layout algorithm plus abstractions for graph organization and screen refresh handling.

It leaves the actual screen-drawing to you. This means you can use it with canvas, SVG, or even positioned HTML elements.

CSS Agent is an ASP.NET handler for adding automatic vendor prefixes, CSS constants and minification for your CSS style sheets.

CSS Agent automatically adds vendor prefixes to CSS properties. Simply write using the W3C syntax and let CSS Agent do the rest for you.

CSS constants allow you to define and re-use values in your style sheets making development and on-going maintenance more manageable.

CSS Agent automatically remove comments and white space from your style sheets reducing bandwidth usage and download times.

Zen is a single-track HTML5 CSS3 Audio Player, powered by jPlayer, styled and mostly animated with CSS3. Zen audio player has an attractive and clean user interface.

In the demo, its a single track audio player and only plays a single track but it can be extended to support multiple audio files. It works more or less in Firefox4, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

Phantom Limb simulates basic touch events in desktop browsers, allowing you to utilize the debugging goodness of the WebKit Inspector and Firebug while developing a mobile web application.

This mobile web development utility makes desktop browsers simulate touch events by dispatching a custom touch event for every mouse event it receives and makes debugging mobile apps easier.

There is also a Phantom Limb Bookmarklet that can be used to to activate it on any web page.

Max A/B is a Free WordPress plugin that lets you perform A/B testing within your WordPress. It lets you create split test experiments in a matter of minutes.

A/B testing gives you more flexibility and insights when it comes to testing your marketing tactics. With Max A/B, you can create an unlimited number of experiments, pause and re-start at any time. Metrics are captured and calculated in real-time.

jQuery Toastmessage is a jQuery plugin which provides android-like notification messages. It’s a quite nice way to report info or error to the user.

You have 4 different toast types you can use. Each type comes with its own icon and colored border. The types are:

• Notice
• Success
• Warning
• Error

You can easily customize the notification positioning, the required user action and the CSS rules.

IC Minimal Icon set is a set of clean and minimal icons with original PSD source file. This Minimal Icon Set includes 28 Icons in total, all PNG & JPG format and a size of 64px * 64px.

Using their PSD vector source file, you can color and resize them to any required dimension.

Recommended: Open Source Vector Icons

jLabel is a jQuery plugin that formats text input fields with unobtrusive labels featuring interactive suggestions. It allows input fields to be labelled clearly and presented with minimal interface obstruction.

jLabel adheres to the concepts of Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation and correctly handles pre-populated fields and ASP.NET’s viewstate postback model.

jLabels are kept visible until the input field’s first character is typed and are reinstated as soon as the input field’s final character is deleted.

Axis Commerce is an open source free eCommerce software built with PHP, MySQL, Ext JS and jQuery.

This powerful eCommerce software is bundled with many useful features including Ajax based admin user interface, one page checkout, flexible discount system, poll module, shipping / tax calculator and multiple stores management.

Social media is growing beyond imaginable boundaries – facebook, twitter, Linkedin, personal blogs etc. With so many social platforms, there are so many ways to socialize, build online identities, promote businesses and personalities or just have your virtual presence. One of many choices that we have today is an About.Me profile page – it is like a billboard that you can use to advertise your profile and link it to all of your online activities. It also allows you to monitor and analyze traffic to your profile and determine your popularity.

Fortunately, it does not take brains to create an effective profile page on About.Me – you just need a brief introduction of yourself (for an effective profile, provide relevant information: who and where you are, what problems you can address and how people can contact you) and a nice photograph. If crafted successfully, a single-page profile on About.Me can spread your message all across the web-sphere that might otherwise cost a lot.

Here is a gallery of some intelligently crafted About.Me profile pages for your inspiration.

Aleksandar Grkinic, UX & Graphic Designer

Alex Cooney, Multimedia Producer

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