By using a Flash Gallery you can create slide shows efficiently. All you need is, access to a computer system and related software to customize. Below is a very nice and attractive collection of flash xml galleries . Review the list of Free Flash Galleries. Most of them are dynamic and use a XML file to load the pictures and an action script file to customize the effects if needed.

Flash Gallery 0.2

Flash Gallery is a Free, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file.

It may be used in any kinds of personal and/or commercial projects. Flash Gallery may not be redistributed or resold to other companies or third parties.

Website: http://www.flashgallery.org

Demo: http://www.flashgallery.org/demo.html

Download: http://www.flashgallery.org/download.php

Airtight Interactive

Some great Flash work from Airtight Interactive.

1- Simple Viewer

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.

Features:

Intelligent image pre-loading.
Intuitive image navigation
Lightweight (17k).
Customizable interface – Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
Resizable interface – Interface scales to fit browser window.
Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 8 or higher).
Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are messaged to upgrade Flash.
International font support.
Keyboard Navigation (Cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up/Down)
Mousewheel navigation
Optionally right-click to open image in a new window.
Free!

Website: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

Demo:

• Hi-Res Demo - Full-browser, no captions.
• Lo-Res Demo – Full-browser, captions, background image.
• Small Format Demo - Embedded in HTML page.

Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/simpleviewer.zip

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Animated JavaScript Slideshow is a free & lightweight script to display images with style.

It simply turns an unordered list into a gallery which can be customized easily.

You can set it to auto-display the images or it can be browsed manually with the prev-next buttons.

The slideshow provides several other controls like:

• Speed of the slideshow
• Information to be displayed or not
• Opacity of the images & more..

P.S. It does not require any JavaScript library.

Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Website: http://www.leigeber.com/2008/12/javascript-slideshow/
Demo: http://sandbox.leigeber.com/javascript-slideshow/

Over the past 10 years, the MySQL database has become incredibly popular on the Web. Every WordPress blog is driven by a MySQL database, which contains the blog’s posts, settings, comments and much more.

While plug-ins and even coding hacks can solve some problems and achieve some tasks, sometimes you don’t have any other choice than to execute SQL commands in phpMyAdmin or directly to the database via SSH. Let’s take a look at 8 useful SQL hacks for WordPress. Each section of this post presents a problem, suggests a solution and provides an explanation to help you understand the solution.

1. Creating a Backup of Your Database

The problem. While the tips in the rest of this post have been tested, you should definitely not try any of them without first having a proper backup of your MySQL database.

The solution. To create a manual backup of your WordPress database, follow these simple steps:

1. Log in to phpMyAdmin and select your WordPress database.
2. Once done, click the “Export” button located in the horizontal menu.
3. Choose a compression method (personally, I use gzip), and click the “Execute” button.
4. Your browser will ask you if you want to download the backup. Of course, select “Yes,” and then store it on your hard drive.

Explanation. Note that creating a backup of your WordPress database can be more easily executed with the WP-DB-Backup plug-in. WordPress users should install this plug-in if they have not yet done so and create regular backups of their data.

2. Batch Delete Post Revisions

The problem. Post revisions, a new WordPress 2.6 feature, can be very useful, but they also increase the size of your MySQL database. Sure, you can manually delete posts revisions, but that’s very long and boring work.

The solution. The solution to this problem is simple: we batch delete post revisions by using a simple SQL query. The result can be almost unbelievable if you have a lot of posts: Your database size will be reduced by half!

1. Log in to phpMyAdmin and select your WordPress database.
2. Click the “SQL” button. Paste the following code in the SQL command window:
   
   

   • DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = “revision”;
     

   DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = "revision";

3. You’re done. Depending on how many posts you had in your WordPress database, you may have saved lots of precious space!

Code explanation. The wp_posts table has a field named post_type. This field can have one of many values, such as “post,” “page” or “revision.” When we want to get rid of post revisions, we simply run a command to delete any entry in the wp_posts table in which the post_type field is equal to “revision.”

Source:

• How to: Batch delete post revisions

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Its a small, customizable plugin for scrolling elements or the window itself.

Links

• Project Page
• Demo
• Changelog

Downloads

• jQuery.ScrollTo 1.4 Zip(all files and docs)
• jQuery.ScrollTo 1.4 Source(to learn or test)
• jQuery.ScrollTo 1.4 Minified(recommended)

A visual example of each setting, is shown in the demo.
I really advice using the minified versions. The code is optimized for those releases. Source versions should only be used to learn.

Enjoy animated scrolling with jQuery.

Ajaxify is a jQuery plugin that converts all links in a web page into Ajax load-submit requests.

So, with a single line, you can turn a static website into an Ajaxed one.

It has support for:

• History & bookmarking
• Partial load from the output
• Four events
• Forms
• Animations

In the demos page of Ajaxify, there are lots of examples presented to get you going with it.

Requirements: jQuery
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Website: http://max.jsrhost.com/ajaxify/

Demo: http://max.jsrhost.com/ajaxify/demo.php

A quick snippet of JavaScript to convert values to pixels from any string. Below is a quick function:

function px(val) {
    return parseInt(val)+"px";
  }
}

To use it, just wrap your string with the function
and it should convert it to pixels for you:

var oldValue = '65';
var newValue = px(oldValue);

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!

s3Slider is a jQuery slideshow plugin inspired from smooth slideshow (but for jQuery rather than MooTools).

It creates the slideshow from an unordered list & can be implemented easily.

Information about the images in the slideshow can be displayed at almost any part of the image as the script can be styled totally via CSS.

The plugin supports a timeout option for setting the time between slides.

Sikbox offers the easiest way to implement a live search engine to your website / blog. The script is compatible with major CMS like Wordpress, Joomla or Blogger.

Check out the Sikbox website for more information.