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Icon set: Adobe folder 2008-09-02 00:00:09 The “Adobe
Folders” icon set consists of 31 png files and there’s a “folder” for almost every Adobe application. Dimensions are 512px X 512px so you can actually produce any kind of icons you want (.ico etc). This icon set is made by Deviantart user BlueMarlboro and it can be downloaded from his gallery page.
Sumo Paint: Browser based image editing 2008-09-01 01:46:39 Sumo Paint
is a browser based image editing
tool with features that can be found in professional desktop applications. It provides layers with blending modes and opacity, a nice set of filters, brushes, zooming and gradient tools. Sumo Paint seems to have in mind not only those who are looking for a browser based image [...] Read more:image editing
Air icon generator 2008-09-01 01:35:37 Icon generator is a small AIR application that lets you generate “CS3 style” and “web 2.0″ icons. By CS3 style i mean icons like the ones Adobe uses for the CS3 series of applications. Web 2.0 icons option lets write your text specify a color and produces the standard star shaped icon in 4 different [...]
Oliveapp.com : A simple client management tool 2008-09-01 01:26:06 Olive is a really simple web application for client management. All you have to do is create an account, setup a project, create an account for your client and that’s it. Your client can now login into the system and insert new work requests. It’s much better i think than sending and replying to email [...]
MooTools 1.2 cheat sheet 2008-08-31 08:50:26 For our MooTools fans out there, here’s a cheat sheet
for version 1.2 which was initially posted back in June but now has been updated and it includes documentation for Core, Native, Class, Element, Utilities and Request. It’s also available as a standard PDF and there’s an increased contrast - printer friendly version available.
jQuery Image Cube 2008-08-31 08:34:33 Image Cube is a jQuery plugin that sets a division to rotate between images (or other things) as if they were on the faces of a cube. It is really light (6.8 KB compressed) and offers a few options that you can set like the rotation direction (up,down,left,right,random), the rotation speed and if you want [...] Read more:Image
GPF (Gwt Php Framework) 2008-08-30 08:25:42 For our GWT friends out there, a new php framework is about to be released called GPF (GWT PHP Framework). The author states that the server part is written in PHP 5 and it is going to be released soon. Keep an eye in this page for news and have a look at this demo [...]
Convert a Select Box Into an Accessible jQuery UI Slider 2008-08-30 07:46:24 A few months ago filamentgroup.com wrote an article about progressively enhancing select elements into slider components.As the interface library is now abandoned, they have rewritten the article using this time jQuery’s slider component. Read more:Accessible
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Photoshop Brushes: Fabric Textures 2008-08-30 07:13:37 Fudgegraphics.com released an excellent photoshop brush set which consist of 11 high resolution fabric texture brushes (2500px). The set is 65mb in one .abr file and can be downloaded from fudgegraphics.com.
At the same place you can download the original textures used for making these brushes. Read more:Fabric
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jQuery.com gets a facelift 2008-08-29 03:54:26 While the old site was really nice, jQuery decided to give it a face-lift. This time it’s dark, a nice combo of black and blue tones. The documentation while in a dark page background is still on white (thank god). Really clean redesign. I like it. Besides design though i hope they improved documentation’s uptime [...] Read more:facelift
Seek Attention - jQuery Plugin 2008-09-20 06:39:23 Seek Attention is an experimental jQuery plugin that “get’s your users attention by fading out a definable area but leaving the target element (the element which is seeking attention) un-faded and thereby focusing the users attention on it.” I think this can be used in many different ways.
For more info visit seekAttention’s page and watch [...] Read more:Plugin
jQuery CrossSlide 2008-09-19 02:33:06 CrossSlide is jQuery plugin that implements in Javascript some common slide-show animations. Currently it supports three “modes”:
Slide + Cross-fade
All you have to do is specify an array of images, the speed of fading, the time before fade begins and the direction of sliding.
Static Cross-fade
The classic cross-fade effect. Very easy to use it once more. Specify [...]
Adobe AIR for Linux (Beta) is out 2008-09-19 02:22:27 For our linux friends, Adobe
released a beta version of AIR runtime for linux. As Adobe states this is a nearly feature complete version of Adobe AIR 1.1 and supports the following Linux
distros: Fedora Core 8, Ubuntu 7.10 and Open Suse 10.3.
MUSEO - A contemporary semi-slab serif font 2008-09-19 02:10:14 Jos Buivenga from exljbris font foundry released this excellent font. As you can see it’s a semi-slab serif font and it’s available in five weights (100 300 500 700 900). You can download for free three weights (300 500 700) and buy the other two (100 900). In order to get this font you need [...]
Doctrine - Free Open Source PHP ORM 2008-09-18 04:40:06 “Doctrine is a PHP ORM (object relational mapper) for PHP 5.2.3+ that sits on top of a powerful PHP DBAL (database abstraction layer). One of its key features is the ability to optionally write database queries in an OO (object oriented) SQL-dialect called DQL inspired by Hibernates HQL. This provides developers with a powerful alternative [...] Read more:Source
Flip! a jQuery plugin 2008-09-18 04:21:18 jQuery Flip! is a small jQuery plugin that lets you do exactly as the title says. Flip boxes. It takes four parameters: Direction (which way to flip the box), bgcolor (the initial color before flipping), color (the color of the box after fliping and speed (duration of the animation).
Flip seems to be working on all [...]
MySQL Sidu 2008-09-18 04:15:34 MySQL Sidu is a web based mysql administration tool. All you have to do is download the compressed file, uncompress it to a folder on your server and you’re good to go. It cannot by any means compare to phpMyAdmin as it offers basic functionality (Select, Insert, Update, Delete hence the name Sidu). Although it [...] Read more:MySQL
Gallerific | A jQuery image gallery 2008-09-16 02:52:12 Gallerific is an image gallery plugin. It’s not the usual “lightbox” clone as it displays the “zoom” version of the image inside the page. You can create a list of thumbnails with the ability to paginate them. There’s also support for fading transitions. The script is really lightweight (16kb) and it seems to work really [...]
Coquette icons part 2 2008-09-16 02:38:27 Dryicons did it again. This is part 2 of the “Coquette” icon series they released. This set consists of 50 icons available in 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format and it is available once more as .ICO, .PNG and .ICNS. Before downloading and using these icons you should read [...]
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Sneak Peeks 2008-09-15 10:45:26 Ok, if you are Photoshop
fan and you want to spend the next 34 minutes with jaws dropped then you should really watch this video provided by creativetechs.com. I mean.. WOW! After that, if your CS3 version looks poor then you should wait just a bit longer. CS4 is around the corner. Horray! Read more:Adobe
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Social Pills: a free icon set by webtoolkit4.me 2008-10-08 13:15:48 Here’s another “social” free icon set. I don’t know how “social” a pill icon can be but hey, it was fun designing them. The set consists of 10 icons showing some of the most popular social services out there. Stumble Upon, Digg, Delicious, RSS, Technorati, LastFm, Twitter, Magnolia, Flickr and Pownce. This set, as always, [...] Read more:Social
GWT PHP framework 2008-10-08 02:59:44 As we mentioned a while ago, a new PHP framework
is on its way and now it has its own website. GPF (Gwt PHP Framework) is a web application development framework, AJAX oriented which allows you to write applications in Java (compiled for all browsers with GWT, using object oriented PHP as a backend. Browser [...]
Textmate cheat sheet 2008-10-08 01:15:53 For our textmate fans here’s a nice cheat sheet
. It provides shortcuts information and it is divided into 8 categories. General Shortcuts, Source, HTML, PHP, Javascript, XML, Apache and CSS. This cheat sheet is provided by d-design.net. Read more:Textmate
Scrollodex 1.0 jquery plugin 2008-10-08 01:12:36 Scrollodex is a jQuery plugin for creating tables with a scrolling body. There are some “native” methods using pure CSS in order to perform this effect but using this unobtrusive script you can go a step further. Visit Scrollodex’s official page for usage information, demo and download
Simple jQuery image gallery 2008-10-08 01:08:49 There are so many jquery image galleries out there but if you just need a simple one in your website then you should check this one. It will turn a simple UL into a set of thumbnails and by clicking on them the actual image will pop up using a simple fade transition. Nice and [...] Read more:image gallery
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Free PSD Avatar Icon Set 2008-10-06 14:30:59 A really nice and free avatar icon set in PSD format is now available at productivedreams.com. Icons can be used for both personal and commercial projects. Read more:Avatar
mullinx : multidirectional hyperlinks jquery plugin 2008-10-06 14:27:38 That’s smart. Mullinx let’s you transform simple text hyperlinks into multi-directional hyperlinks in an unobtrusive way. All you have to do is provide a set of hyperlinks through a “rev” attribute in the <a> tag and whenever your mouse is over that link a tooltip showing the set of hyperlinks you provided will pop up. [...]
Vector Pack: Dogs 2008-10-05 15:27:24 Here’s another free vector pack brought to you by webtoolkit4.me. This time the theme is dogs. 10 dogs of different sizes and shapes. This vector pack is available in EPS format and can be used for both commercials and non commercial projects.
Download the dogs vector pack (zip file, ~300kb) Read more:Vector
Fitted: a jQuery Plugin 2008-10-04 06:08:00 “A common interface on modern-day websites is that of a title, summary and a “read more”-style link. Normally only the title and “read more” text is linked, however, the entire content would benefit from this behaviour.”
While i disagree with the functionality of this plugin, some of you may find it interesting and usable. My initial [...] Read more:Plugin
Gimp 2.6 released 2008-10-04 05:54:18 A new version of this excellent Photoshop alternative is out. Gimp 2.6. You can download Gimp 2.6 for free of course and read the release notes.