Swatches is a useful plugin for showcasing color palettes – be it for products, designs or anything else.

It’s licensed under the liberal MIT license and can be customized quite freely.

web design tool that works visually.

FROONT allows designing for multiple screen sizes simultaneously. What’s more, it offers an easy interface for sharing your works in progress with developers or clients.

FROONT is a very interesting solution; if nothing else, it shows how much browser capacity has increased in the last few years.

Fries uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript and is rich in components for making an application with ease. The framework can be integrated with PhoneGap, so it’s a plus is you already use PhoneGap for your mobile projects.

The framework is well-documented and seems like a welcome addition to the iOS-dominated framework market.

GemLou.pe gives you the chance to actually see how many gems a given gem uses before you add it to your project.

This makes choosing the ‘right gem’ much easier, as you’d obviously choose a lighter version against a bloated gem.

Unveil.js loads images only once they are in the user’s viewport, thus reducing load times and quite possibly server load.

It’s basically a stripped-down version of this lazy load plugin, with extra support for high-resolution images.

At the moment the website consists of 12 templates that are all fully responsive and look very well.

The templates are customizable and are released under the CC licence.

Appium helps combating the inevitable pain of testing your apps on different native platforms.

It gives you the chance to use the tools you always use to test kick-ass applications that you create for different environments.

Appium only works on Mac OSX and requires Node.js.

Prepros compiles the source and injects it into the browser so you can see the result without having to refresh the page, which was quite a hassle previously.

It is customizable so you can be sure that the output looks the way you want it.

Label.css supports all the possible positions and has two hover effects for float and fade.

It’s a useful plugin for positioning your labels, and, if nothing more, it’s easy to use and quite small.

This way of doing things has several advantages, the main of which is that all the logic gets handled on the SVG side.

The clown car technique, by the way, is thus called because all the images (clowns) are stuffed inside one huge image (car).