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jQuery Tools – The Missing UI Library for the Web

max — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:23:17 +0000

Let’s face it: do you really need drag-and-drop, resizable windows or sortable lists in your web applications? Websites are not desktop applications. They are different.”What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, high usability, striking visual effects and all those “web 2.0″ goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites.”This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today’s website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new personal ways of using the library. “Visit the jQuery Tools Websitern

jqModal – Minimalist Modaling with jQuery

max — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:27:59 +0000

jqModal is a plugin for jQuery to help you display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser. It is flexible and tiny, akin to a “Swiss Army Knife”, and makes a great base as a general purpose windowing framework. “Visit the jqModal Website

JavaScript: Ajax Notifications with jQuery

max — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:45:04 +0000

“If you’re using Ajax, you should give hints to the user when a request to the server is being made, and you should tell him if something goes wrong. Gmail does this really well. Here’s how I coded it.”"Visit the website

How to Create a 3D Tag Cloud in jQuery

max — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:25:57 +0000

“With browsers rendering JavaScript faster than ever before, it‚Äö√Ñ√¥s a great opportunity to get creative with jQuery. This tutorial will show how to create a scrolling 3D tag cloud‚Äö√Ñ¬∂it‚Äö√Ñ√¥s not as difficult as you might think.”"Visit the 3D Tag Cloud Website

Create a Dynamic Scrolling Content Box Using AJAX

max — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:58:14 +0000

If you have used Google Reader, then you might have noticed the way Google Reader shows feed items, it loads up few items first when you click on a feed and as you scroll down to view more items, it fetches more items dynamically and adds it to the list.”Visit the website

Bumpbox – Lightbox For Multiple Filetypes

max — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:16:55 +0000

“Bumpbox is another lightbox clone with a few advantages over other lightboxes – it supports not only all common media types but also PDF’s.”Yet, the integration and implementation on your own site is pretty simple. Just add the scripts to your head section, add classes to your links that should use bumpbox, define a rel tag with the size that the bumpbox should have and you’re ready to roll.”Bumpbox automatically detects what kind of filetype you wish to show in the box, so you do not need to specify the type, easing the process of integration”.”Visit the Bumpbox Website

Visualization Toolkit

max — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:47:33 +0000

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. Professional support and products for VTK are provided by Kitware. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. Additionally, VTK has an extensive information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets, supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases on GUI toolkits such as Qt and Tk. VTK is cross-platform and runs on Linux, Windows, Mac and Unix platforms.”Visit the Visualization Toolkit Website

Load Data while Scrolling Page Down with jQuery and PHP

max — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:04:39 +0000

This tutorial about my favorite place Dzone like data loading while page scrolling down with jQuery and PHP. We have lots of data but can not display all. This script helps you to display little data and make faster your website.”Visit the Website

Google Fusion Tables

max — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:58:56 +0000

Upload small or large data sets from spreadsheets or CSV files. Visualize your data on maps, timelines and charts. Pick who can access your data; hide parts of your data if needed. Merge data from multiple tables. Discuss your data with others. Track changes and discussions. “Visit the Google Fusion Tables Website

Cross-domain AJAX Requests

max — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:17:01 +0000

In a perfect world cross-browser AJAX requests would just work, unfortunately they do not. Attempting to request remote files with AJAX will cause errors in the script and can be a pretty big hurdle in some cases and can be very frustrating. However, there are a few things that I have come across, in looking for a solution to this, that I would like to share.”Visit the Ooeygui Website