You can use the set absolutely free for private and commercial projects, blogs and websites - without any restrictions.

The icons are available for download in .ico and .png formats in resolutions 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px.

Take a look at demo here.

As addition a tutorial on How to Create A Wood Grain Texture from Vectips.

Similar in concept with the Ext Grid only its pure jQuery love, which makes it light weight and follows the jQuery mantra of running with the least amount of configuration.

Features [new in Version 1.0b3]:

• Resizable columns
• Resizable height and width
• Sortable column headers
• Cool theme
• Can convert an ordinary table
• Ability to connect to an ajax data source (XML and JSON [new])
• Paging
• Show/hide columns
• Toolbar (new)
• Search (new)
• Accessible API

… more info at Flexigrid project page

It’s:

• Lightweight (compressed weight less then 4kb)
• Personalized width of the page in (em,px,%)
• Use of fixed and fluid columns in the grid.
• Elastic Layout with “em”s

Tested with IE 5.5/6/7, Firefox 2/3, Opera 9.23/9.5, Safari 3.1 (Win/MAC)

It’s easy to implement - attach the Javascript and CSS files to your document and all you have to do is to select the elements in a jQuery way and call the plugin:

$(’input’).ColorPickerSetColor(options);

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Wordpress 2.6 overview:

• Theme Previews: See it before your audience does
• Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
• Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
• Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging

Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:

• Image captions, you can add captions under your images.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.
• Plugin update notification bubble.
• Customizable default avatars.
• Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.
• A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.
• Version 2.6 fixes approximately 194 bugs.
• … and more

2.6 is pretty much identical to 2.5 from a plugin and theme compatibility point of view, so upgrades from 2.5 should be pretty painless.

Usage is simple, just include the jQuery library, prettyPhoto javascript and the prettyPhoto CSS file and add rel=”prettyPhoto” to any picture you want to activate the prettyPhoto feature.

If you want the images to be a part of a gallery, just add the gallery name in braket.

Tested and working in Firefox 2-3 (Mac/PC), Safari 3.1.1 (Mac), IE 6-7. Uncompressed version - script: 16kb / CSS: 8kb, compressed size - script: 8kb / CSS: 3.8kb.

The icons can be used free for any personal or commercial projects and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

With Meteora you can quickly write rich and customizable web applications without having to waste time reading full pages of documentation or programming excessive javascript that is painful to debug in every browser.

Be sure to check out the demos like: Autocomplete Widget, Bubble Widget, Calendar Widget, Datagrid Widget, Dialog Widget, Editor Widget, Filebrowser Widget, Form Control, JsonRpc Core, Menu Widget and more.

It’s lightweight and easy to implement (the menu contents are simply regular HTML lists), with all of the menu links search engine friendly.

The class accepts the following options:

• container: element that the entire progress bar gets placed in
• boxID: the IDof the progress bar’s containing DIV
• percentageID: the ID of the progress bar’s animated/sliding DIV
• displayID: the ID of the progress bar’s “{x} %” text DIV
• startPercentage: the percentage at which you’d like the progress bar to start at (defaults to 0)
• displayText: Boolean. Do you want the progress bar to show the percentage in text format too?
• speed: speed of the animation to the given percentage

Completely FREE to use for commercial and non-commercial projects.

Compatible and fully tested with Safari, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox (and its mozilla friends), Opera and Camino.

Features

• Unobtrusive and degradable - Slideshow even functions with Javascript turned off!
• Many revisions later what Slideshow has lost in slimness it has gained in robustness and features:
• Dynamic resizing - Slideshow can accommodate any size presentation.
• Thumbnails - intelligent, auto-scrolling, tracking, etc.
• Full-featured controller - completely style-able with CSS.
• Animated captions - plain text or formatted with HTML.
• Fully accessible - Slideshow can be controlled with access keys.
• Automagic slideshows - create slideshows from existing HTML images.
• Varied hyperlinking options - Slideshow allows for mashups with Lightbox, Slimbox, etc.
• CSS slide transitions - designed in stylesheets, not javascript, allow for an infinite combination of effects (plus support for all Robert Penner transitions).

If you are looking to download Slideshow, or for class documentation, visit the open-source project at Google Code.

It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, IE 6+ and Safari. Works also on older browsers supporting images/ createElement/ getElementById, else it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing.

Download free Facebook icons here.

The Effect Generator lets you select from whole multitudes of transitions, layouts, animations and public media, so your imagination is the only limit. The site also contains a moderately-sized template library, which, aside from illustrating the power of the effect building system, also lets you rapidly configure stock effects.

Once created, effects can be rapidly posted to blogs, social networks, or any custom HTML page.

- Blend is an attempt to replace all Mac OS X icons with black and white ones.

- Aqua & Blend by colorizing previous work Blend, but finally, the pack evolved to become unique.

- Albook is a System Replacement Pack designed for the XiDG-Albook GUI package. It include 357 icons, for system and applications, plus some japanese kanjis and all kanas.

-  Aquave icon set including PSD and PNGs for all sizes (512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32 and 16×16)

- plus CoverSutra 2.0 icons (512×512), Film Roll Icons (512×512) icons, Application Pack Volume 01 Icons (128×128), Neige Icons (128×128) and Crème Icons (128×128).

File Types: .png, .ico, .tif, .gif, .bmp. Colored with and without shadows, with a subtle gray shade and transparent .bmp, .gif formats are optimized for lighter backgrounds.

Full details at Ed Eliot website.

Related reading: A List Apart article CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death which explains the concepts behind CSS sprites.

See it in action here.

A handy script to magnify your images / photos. Based on jQuery, a Free jQuery alternative to Magic Zoom.

For older version visit jQZoom- jQuery plugin / View Demo.

Full instructions and update at jQZoom v2.2 project page.

Another sample:

Easy to implement:

• include the jqzoom.css in your page
• include jQzoom and jQuery code
• assign the “jqzoom” class to the image or images you would like to zoom
• Load the plugin at window load
• specify options

Enjoy!