Newscast 4 in 1 - Wordpress Magazine and Blog by Kriesi, $35.

“Newscast is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 3 fantastic Image and News slideshows has multiple Page templates and of course gives you the option to choose from 4 Fantastic skins.”

It’s not something we’ve done before, so I thought it was worth sharing the news.

For years we’ve offered a free sample for each of our books; a sizeable download comprising several chapters. jQuery: Novice to Ninja is no different, we’ve made 3 out of 9 chapters freely available — that’s over 150 pages of jQuery goodness up for grabs. What’s different with this book is for the first time we’re offering the entire code archive for free. Not just the code used in the sample chapters, all code used in the entire book!

I did a quick count, and it’s over 100 ready-to-use scripts — not bad for a free download.

Of course, we hope that you’ll grab the free code, and then be inspired to learn the way of the jQuery Ninja. When you do, jQuery: Novice to Ninja is just one click away. In the meantime feel free to take the code and use it on your own site.

To grab your free sample and a whole big bag of jQuery goodies — head straight to the sample download page.

Happy jQuerying!

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In my previous post, I described how I use Evernote to manage and track topic ideas for the blogs I write for. Evernote is only one of many note-taking applications out there, and they all share a huge benefit – the ability to save information that you want to review again later in one easy-to-access location.

The notebook application space is a diverse one — there are online and offline tools, standalone and browser add-ons, free and paid, and even bookmark and wiki-based applications that can function as note-taking tools. I compiled a mix of the options, and came up with a list of 10 applications you can use for tracking and managing your ideas (aside from Evernote).

Circus Ponies’ NoteBook 3.0

A Mac OS X application for managing information from notes, clippings, lists, emails, diagrams, spreadsheets and more. It has a familiar notebook interface with pages and tabs, as well a comprehensive search.

Net Notes

A Firefox add-on that incorporates a textbox in your sidebar for note taking. Your notes automatically save for each web site and are stored in the description field of your bookmarks. Net Notes allows you to backup, restore, import and export your notes as you would any of your bookmarks.

noteClip

A free personal online notebook that integrates with your browser. With noteClip, you can take notes on web sites including images, HTML and text, save only the information you want instead of bookmarking a whole page, share your notes with others and retrieve everything from any computer.

OneNote

Microsoft’s digital notebook software that provides a place to gather notes and information, search, and share with others. You can compile text, pictures, audio and video recordings, and more.

QuickFox Notes

A Firefox add-on that uses the integrated bookmarks system to store your notes, and can also run as a standalone application. QuickFox Notes has autosave, synchronize, and search functionality.

Springnote

A free online wiki-based notebook that allows you to compile and share ideas, multimedia, projects, and documents. Springnote allows you to create pages, to work on them with others, and to share files. It includes advanced search capability, templates, and 2GB of free file storage.

Springpad

A free notebook tool that lets you save ideas on the web, on your phone or by email in an organized way and then share them with others.

Stixy

A free online bulletin board that lets you create tasks, appointments, files, photos, notes, and bookmarks on Stixyboards, organized in whatever way makes sense to you. Then you can share your Stixyboards with friends, family, and colleagues.

UberNote

A free note-taking application that lets you manage notes, bookmarks, and ideas on the web or your mobile phone and then share them with others. UberNote also has a bookmarklet available to clip and bookmark pages as your browse the web.

Zoho Notebook

An online tool that compiles text, images, audio and video. You can share and collaborate with others while keeping track of changes.

Do you have a favorite note-taking app?

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An update for the jQuery validation plugin is available. Most important: Its now fully compatible with jQuery 1.4.2, and still fully compatible with jQuery 1.3.2. I didn’t test with 1.2.6, but it should work, too.

There are four new localizations: Lithuanian, Greek, Latvian and Hebrew. The Spanish localization got a few improvements (I fully trust my contributors on that). Someone also contributed phoneUK and mobileUK methods, which can be found in additional-methods.js (while adding those, I renamed the phone-method to phoneUS).

And as a first proof of concept, there is now a demo styled with jQuery UI Themeroller classes. I’ll improve that when form support gets better in jQuery UI (planned for 1.9).

Download this release.

The full changelog:

• Added Lithuanian (LT) localization
• Added Greek (EL) localization (http://plugins.jquery.com/node/12319)
• Added Latvian (LV) localization (http://plugins.jquery.com/node/12349)
• Added Hebrew (HE) localization (http://plugins.jquery.com/node/12039)
• Fixed Spanish (ES) localization (http://plugins.jquery.com/node/12696)
• Added jQuery UI themerolled demo
• Removed cmxform.js
• Fixed four missing semicolons (http://plugins.jquery.com/node/12639)
• Renamed phone-method in additional-methods.js to phoneUS
• Added phoneUK and mobileUK methods to additional-methods.js (http://plugins.jquery.com/node/12359)
• Deep extend options to avoid modifying multiple forms when using the rules-method on a single element (http://plugins.jquery.com/node/12411)
• Bugfixes for compability with jQuery 1.4.2, while maintaining backwards-compability

The right place for support changed a bit – the mailinglist is no more, replaced by a much cooler forum:

• Please post questions to the official Using jQuery Plugins Forum, tagging your question with (at least) “validate”. Keep your question short and succinct and provide code when possible; a testpage makes it much more likely that you get an useful answer in no time.
• Please post bug reports and other contributions (enhancements, features, eg. new validation methods) to the plugins.jQuery.com bug tracker (requires registration).

Enjoy!

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Of course every piece of soap is inevitably covered with bacteria, but who has ever seen soaps made from bacteria? These soaps from Etsy seller Cleaner Science are in the same shape of petri dishes, with bacteria (obviously they’re not real) growing inside.

Plus, some of them even have the capabilities to glow, allowing the users to easily find them in the dark.

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Coca Cola has released a new can for the Burn Energy Drink, which is especially intended for those who can’t drink up a whole tin at a single time. It features a reseal-able top, which could be twisted to open and close the mouth hole.

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I am the kind of person who seldom remembers to unplug the devices when they’re fully charged, so you can imagine how much I’ve paid to the electric power bureau. But the Wind Up Socket, featuring an integrated timer, may change that. All you have to do is to rotate the plug to set the duration. And the socket will then cut off the power automatically, as the time passes by. For forgetful guys like you and me, the socket is really the best choice.

Even the toolsets have gone functionally aesthetic since more and more people are pursuing a perfect combination of functionalities and art. From designaffairs STUDIO, the Repair Toolset is rightly the thing you’re looking for. It keeps a range of handy tools in a board-like kit, which is integrated with bookcases for an easy reach.

Memory Drops—as its name implies—is something designed for guiding the users to find items easily. It works more or less in the same way as the navigation systems, but using the sound rather than images. What you have to do is to stick the small drops onto your items, and press the button on the keychain-shaped device to make your belongings sound when you’re looking for them.

Designer: Bilgi Karan