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14 Useful JavaScript Libraries And Tools
It is very crucial for a web developer to keep his toolbox up to date with the latest and most useful tools in order to keep up with the tough competition, but on the other hand, finding out good and high quality tools that actually work is not as easy thing. You need to invest loads of time in searching for such useful tools. There are some tools that are very useful and pleasing to use but they are not so popular and therefore they did not get the deserved attention.
Therefore, we thought to compile a post dedicated to such useful and time saving tools for you. To be precise, we are only presenting 14 JavaScript libraries and tools this time. We have a history of sharing some really cool and useful stuff with you and we continue this practice with this post as well. We hope that you will like this collection and find these tools useful for you. Please chime in with other recommendations!
Though there are plenty of paid tools also available but finding the freebies always is a pleasure. So, enjoy this collection and feel free to share your opinion with us.
An Open-Source JavaScript Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive Maps
Create, read and edit .zip files with Javascript.
Graphene is a realtime dashboard & graphing toolkit based on D3 and Backbone.
gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website. With only 2 KB in size it is very flexible and highly customizable.
Colors aims to be an easy to use color manipulation library that is lightweight and very functional.
A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
A javascript library for multi-touch gestures.
A framework-agnostic styled alert system for javascript. Lightweight, flexible, css3 animation, blah blah blah easy to use something clever needs to go here.
JavaScript Library Boilerplate
An easy boilerplate for rolling your own JavaScript Library like jQuery, Zepto, Prototype, etc.
Socialite provides a very easy way to implement and activate a plethora of social sharing buttons — any time you wish. On document load, on article hover, on any event!
Patternizer – Stripe Pattern Generator Tool
With Patternizer, it’s easy to make something amazing in just a few minutes. It takes all the work out of creating complicated patterns, letting you focus on creativity and play. Patterns can be saved and shared with anyone, allowing for collaboration and remixing. And you can access them from any device* worldwide.
Yeoman 1.0 is more than just a tool. It’s a workflow; a collection of tools and best practices working in harmony to make developing for the web even better.
Creating custom dropdowns is usually a tedious process that requires a ton of extra setup time. Oftentimes lacking conveniences that native dropdowns have such as keyboard navigation. DropKick removes the tedium and lets you focus on making s@#t look good.
A dead-simple way to generate dynamic bits of HTML and add subtle effects to your content.
Top 10 Free iPhone Apps You’ll Use Every Day
In this round up, we are showcasing a list of free iPhone apps that you can use on a daily basis and improve your daily efficiency. iPhone is not just a mobile phone rather it is more than that. It is a small device that makes your life easier. Furthermore, the iPhone apps are there to further assist this smart device to improve your efficiency. Though there are number of apps available for the iPhone; some are free while some are not. Therefore, sorting through all the available apps is a difficult thing to do.
Therefore, we are presenting free iPhone apps that you can use on a daily basis and make your life more organized and productive. The list contains a variety of apps. So, take a look and enjoy!
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox is accessible from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website!
thetrainline.com is the UK’s leading independent train ticket retailer. Our mobile app helps you check train times (updated throughout the day) and ticket prices as well as buy train tickets for all train companies to all national rail destinations. You can buy train tickets up to 10 minutes before you travel – and collect from over 1000 stations.
Access professional-grade news and market data from Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source for intelligent information for businesses and professionals. Thomson Reuters News Pro for iPhone gives you knowledge to act, with fast on or offline access to the latest breaking news, pictures and video, together with extensive global financial data, corporate information and interactive financial charting.
Wherever you are, Twitter brings you closer.
Accessing Wikipedia has never been faster and easier than with Wikipanion, designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Streamline your browsing with history grouped by visit date, and bookmarking that not only bookmarks individual entries, but individual sections within an entry. Featuring intelligent features such as:
Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders–and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go.
The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 900,000* books in the Kindle Store. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device.
AroundMe allows you to quickly find out information about your surroundings. How many times have you found yourself in need of finding the closest Gas Station? AroundMe quickly identifies your position and allows you to choose the nearest Bank, Bar, Gas Station, Hospital, Hotel, Movie Theatre, Restaurant, Supermarket, Theatre and Taxi.
Dictionary.com – Dictionary & Thesaurus
Top-rated app with trusted reference content from Dictionary.com & Thesaurus.com. WORKS OFFLINE – no Internet connection needed when searching words.
Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device.
Best Of 2011: Best Useful jQuery Plugins And Tutorials
jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded inside websites & not convinced to plugins.
Of course, not each code must become a plugin that would be worthless. However converting the ones to be re-utilized will save loads of improvement time & if shared with the community, will make the code itself better.
In this post, you will unearth some of the most excellent, interesting fresh and useful jQuery plugins and tutorials that were created in 2011.
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This plugin will allow people to upload photos from their computers by dragging and dropping them onto the browser window, possible with the new HTML5 APIs exposed by modern browsers.
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Combogrid, like autocomplete, when added to an input field, enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, but in a tabular and paginated manner. Combogrid provides keyboard navigation support for selecting an item.
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MotionCAPTCHA is a jQuery CAPTCHA plugin, based on the HTML5 Canvas Harmony procedural drawing tool by Mr Doob and the Unistroke Gesture Regonizer algorithm (and the more recent Protractor algorithm improvement), requiring users to sketch the shape they see in the canvas in order to submit a form.
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With the responsive awakening in web design it becomes important to not only take care of the visual part of a website but also of the functionality. Elastislide is a responsive jQuery carousel that will adapt its size and its behavior in order to work on any screen size. Inserting the carousel’s structure into a container with a fluid width will also make the carousel fluid.
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The spin method creates the necessary HTML elements and starts the animation. If a target element is passed as argument, the spinner is added as first child and horizontally and vertically centered.
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Craftyslide is a tiny (just 2kb) slideshow built on jQuery. Craftyslide aims to be different, by providing a simple, no-frills method of displaying images; packaged into a small, clean and efficient plugin.
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Arbor is a graph visualization library built with web workers and jQuery. Rather than trying to be an all-encompassing framework, arbor provides an efficient, force-directed layout algorithm plus abstractions for graph organization and screen refresh handling.
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Recurly.js allows you to easily embed a PCI compliant order form within your website. Recurly.js is a Javascript library designed to be easily embedded and customized to match your website.
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Ideal Forms is a small framework to build powerful and beautiful online forms.
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With this friendly jQuery plugin you can easily blog Block Adblock.
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Power PWChecker jQueryPlugin observes passwords as users type and provide instant password strength check (Weak, Medium, or Strong). This encourages users to review their password selection and ensure that the password is strong and secure. Power PWChecker also allows you to enforce password length policy by specifying minimum and maximum password length. It also matches password entries and provides visual alert in case of inconsistent passwords.
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Imagine you’re filling a complex form on site, or typing effervescent and extensive comment. And when you’re almost done with that browser is crashed, or you closed tab mistakenly, or electricity is turned off, or something else break your efforts. Disgusting, huh? With Sisyphus on site you just reopen page in your modern (with HTML5 support) browser and see all your changes at that forms. It’s lightweight (3.5 KB) jQuery plugin uses Local Storage to prevent your work being lost.
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Response JS is a lightweight jQuery plugin that gives web designers tools for building performance-optimized, mobile-first responsive websites. It provides semantic ways to dynamically swap code blocks based on breakpoints and serve media progressively via HTML5 data attributes. Its object methods give developers hooks for triggering responsive actions and booleans for testing responsive properties.
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Responsive designs are cool! Not only do they allow you to reach mobile and tablet users with minimal effort, they also make your context scale up for desktop users with larger screens.
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A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
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Isotope: An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts
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Slidorion is a combination of an image slider and an accordion; displaying beautiful content through various effects.
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With Diapo plugin you can creat a beautiufl slideshow.
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Minimit Gallery is a highly customizable Jquery plugin that does galleries, slideshows, carousels, slides… pratically everything that has multiple states.
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The idea is to have some content boxes that we can slide infinitely (circular). When clicking on the “more” link, the respective item moves to the left and a content area will slide out. Now we can navigate through the carousel where each step will reveal the next or previous content box with its expanded content. Clicking on the closing cross will slide the expanded content area back in and animate the item to its original position.
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With this plugin you can create HTML5 Music Player.
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A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.
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A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.
Multi Node Range Data Slider jQ Slider
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JQ Slider is a multi-node range and data slider that allows to provide easy-to-use user data selection and filter tool. It can be used in many ways.
Xml Driven Vertical News Scroller Script Using jQuery vScroller
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Adding scrolling content to your website or blog makes much sense – it allows you display latest news, promotions, product updates, announcements, upcoming events, calendar items and much more in a limited space. It also allows you to add dynamic content to otherwise static web pages.
jQuery Sliding Content Bar Plugin
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It is a smart and quick content bar that you can integrate easily in any website or web application. It is integrated seamlessly in your website and can be popped up whenever required. PushUp Content Bar is easy to customize and strong enough to rely upon. You can add your contact details, location map via Google Maps, and a simple contact form that visitors can use to make contact with you.
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gmap3 is a jquery plugin which allows many manipulation of the google map API version 3.
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With this plugin you can generate outstanding slideshows for your website.
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The jFontSize plugin was developed to facilitate the process of creating the famous buttons A+ and A-, which alter the font size on sites with very large texts, such as blogs, journals, tutorials, etc. This tool is also used to increase the accessibility of sites, helping people who have visual problems to see better content
Wave Display Effect with jQuery
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How cool is it to sometimes just display content a little bit differently? This plugin let’s you show images and content in a unique form – a wave. The idea is to initially have some smaller thumbnails rotated and placed in the shape of a sine curve. When clicking on a thumbnail, we’ll “zoom” in to see a medium sized version. Clicking again will make the large content area appear; here we will show some more content.
Simple jQuery Fluid Thumbnail menu Bar
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The idea of a fluid thumbnail bar is simple: Create a list of thumbnails within a space where the overflow can be flipped through page by page.
Useful image hover slide effect with jQuery
jQuery plugin: Easy Image Zoom
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This is a simple technique to animate an image when hovering using jQuery’s animate() effect. We will use this effect to manipulate our CSS, creating a seamless transition between two areas of an image.
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Use this jQuery plug-in to add lens style zooming effect to an image
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Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.
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Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.
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This plugin allows you to browse easily through the list of items with pagination controls. It is very easy to implement and very lightweight so it might come in handy to use in your own projects. It’s main purpose is to view certain number of list items at once, but it can also be set up to view one item by one.
Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail Carousel
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Today we want to show you how to create a responsive image gallery with a thumbnail carousel using Elastislide. Inspired by Twitter’s “user gallery” and upon a request to show an integration of Elastislide, we want to implement a responsive gallery that adapts to the view-port width. The gallery will have a view switch that allows to view it with the thumbnail carousel or without. We’ll also add the possibility to navigate with the keyboard.
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Today we want to show you how to create a responsive image gallery with a thumbnail carousel using Elastislide. Inspired by Twitter’s “user gallery” and upon a request to show an integration of Elastislide, we want to implement a responsive gallery that adapts to the view-port width. The gallery will have a view switch that allows to view it with the thumbnail carousel or without. We’ll also add the possibility to navigate with the keyboard.
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Elycharts is a pure javascript charting library, easy to use and completely customizable.
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Blueberry is an experimental opensource jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.
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Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery framework built on top of the jQuery library. The aim is to simplify the process of creating professional image galleries for the web and mobile devices.
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With this plugin you can create a beautiful jQuery Image Gallery.
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This jQuery plugin that will shuffle the text content of any DOM element – an interesting effect that can be used in headings, logos and slideshows.
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SmartGallery is an interactive image gallery that is specifically designed to support huge data. It is lightweight, lightening fast and fully customizable. Powered by jQuery, SmartGallery comes with twelve transition effects including some unique transition effect and thumbnail navigation.
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BxSlider will allow you to create a beautiful Content Slider for your website.
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FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.
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The pagination plugin combines a varity of features. It can be used to divide long lists or areas of content into multiple seperate pages, load paged content with pre-calculated database offset-parameters via Ajax and anything with full control to adapt the style properly to your site-layout. Of course, creating simple links with no event triggering is possible as well. The plugin also offers the facility to “overlap” pages, which means you can show elements of previous pages on the subsequent sites in order to allow a straightforward flow of reading.
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e24TabMenu is a plugin written for scriptaculous. It is a tab menu that expands collapse smoothly.
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Snippet provides a quick and easy way of highlighting source code passages in HTML documents.
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AJAX PayPal Cart is a easy to use JQuery plugin for web developer to add a full function shopping cart in their website. The AJAX cart can included a cart widget which allow display of cart information easily. Support PayPal Website Payment Standard.
jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded inside websites & not convinced to plugins.
Of course, not each code must become a plugin that would be worthless. However converting the ones to be re-utilized will save loads of improvement time & if shared with the community, will make the code itself better.
Extremely Helpful Free Starter Kits For Web Designers
Every designer needs a starter kit containing useful tools and resources. Designer’s starter kits are extremely helpful in creating mock-ups for the future projects and are a great time-saver. The elements of these starter kits can vary from buttons to check-boxes and from tabs to dropdown menu.
Here, we have collected some cool starter kits that every web designer must have. These kits are free to download and customize. We hope you like this collection and find it useful for you. Enjoy!
Showcase Gallery is the perfect starting place for a sleek gallery website or to display your portfolio work. This download includes a well organized PSD file.
Clean ready to use Web navigation menu. The used font is Lucida Sans. Menu comes in three flavors!
iUnits is a PSD containing icon designs for the Apple iPhone, iPad, and Nano. Each icon is fully layered and customizable.
Simple, clean calendar mockup. The download contains a layered PSD resource file. The used font is Lucida Sans.
Big Block UI is a fresh take on common user interface elements. The PSD is well organized and colors can easily be changed.
Free PSD Progress Tracker Bars
This set contains 5 Progress Tracker Bars.
Simple UI Elements is a clean, well organized PSD file containing common user interface elements for web and app designs.
A small ui kit, made in blue color. Here you have a limit selector, toggle, buttons, loading bar.
Whether you’re creating a website or mobile app, well designed UI elements are key to a good user experience. This PSD contains a number of useful elements in a modern, sleek style.
Beautifully designed Dark Clean Forms Collection.
Up for grabs is a free PSD UI kit designed by Alex Patrascu. The file is fully layered and very well organized to make it easy to work with. Alex did a fantastic job of including a lot of the common elements needed when designing a website or app.
Here is a simple to-do list with a nice clean design and is easily editable.
PSD Layout for Flash / JavaScript Gallery
Ready to use design for Flash or Javascript Gallery. Replace the text, place your own graphics and enjoy.
The psd file contains media player elements in 3 different flavors.
Provides a set of shapes (stereotypes) and connectors to enable architecture description views to be produced using the open source TRAK enterprise architecture framework.
3 Different Styles of Notification Boxes
This set contains 3 Different Styles of Notification Boxes.
Ready to use free set of functional buttons. Colors are easy to adjust using Adobe Photoshop.
This set contains three web 2.0 styled slider boxes.
Leopardy interface stencil kit. This one makes extensive use of tables, for maximum flexibility while maintaining pixel precision.
6 Free Preview Slider Templates
This set contains 6 Free Preview Slider Templates
This set conttains 3 beautifully designed Shadow Pockets.
It’s modern, clean and aesthetically pleasing. I wanted to put my spin on it. Something quick, easy yet elegant and fun. Hopefully you can use for a possible business project or client.
This DIY magnet template is based on the Konigi wireframe stencils and includes 3 sheets of elements that might be useful in whiteboard prototyping.
This is “Tell yoru Friends” Bar for your webpage. 3 different style. Dark and light background, dark and light Bar, Fully editable PSD layers with Shapes-Text-Mask. Fully Scalable.
Lion UI Kit is a handy PSD mockup tool with fully layered and editable elements from the latest OS X operating system.
Interactive Sketching Notation 1.1
The latest Interactive Sketching Notation (version 1.1) stencil for OmniGraffle.
Blaubarry UI Kit is a PSD full of useful buttons, sliders, scrollbars, and form elements. The file makes use of shape layers for easy editing and resizing.
Solid UI Kit is a fresh design created by Alvin Thong from Sixbase. The download includes a well organized, easily editable PSD file.
Widgets for Eclipse and Mac OS X
This is another Visio stencil converted to .gstencil. This includes several Watchguard security appliance/firewall objects.
CSS3 Compliant cursors in a “sketch” style, for mocking up web UX designs. Includes: default, crosshair, pointer, move, text, wait, help, progress, not allowed, vertical text, and several resize arrows.
Minimalistic UI kit the color Google
Do you like google plus? Maybe for his services? Maybe for its interface? And maybe even for something?
“Slix UI” controls is a set made to make Web & App designers’ lives much easier. It was mainly designed to be used in Apps, but it can just as easily be used in the web . It gives you ready to use solutions for huge part of the most stuff you need to build an interface.
Simple UI element pack, free for use! enjoy!
This DIY magnet template is based on the Konigi wireframe stencils and includes 3 sheets of elements that might be useful in whiteboard prototyping. Simply download and print the PDFs onto magnet sheets, optionally laminate them if you intend to use with dry-erase markers, and finally cut them out.
A pretty sizable collection of Facebook related elements to use in creating wireframes for Facebook applications.
Five Unique Search Engines That Can Help You More Effectively
There are many websites and search engines out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing Five Unique Search Engines That Can Help You More Effectively. Read each entry in the list and see which search engine suits your needs best.
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FindFiles.net is a rapidly developing search engine for files of all types, operating its own crawler. FindFiles database currently contains links to 732,941,672 files. FindFiles supports all existing Mime Types (apart from standard html text-pages) like jpeg, gif, png and tiff images, Microsoft doc and Excel documents and exe executables, pdf and plain text documents, dwg AutoCAD and wrl virtual reality data files, archives like zip, gzip and jar, apps for smartphones like apk for Android and sis for Symbian etc.
Here you can search more than 1.500 psd files order by categories that are all free for you.
Saveitt is a Free books, pdfs and Documents Search Engine. Here, You can read online documents, books, pdfs and free download documents, books, pdfs.
Dooblet is a search-engine to find the alternatives to a broad range of subjects. You have something you are not happy with? Feed its name to Dooblet and see what the search-engine can propose you as an alternative. It doesn’t really matter whether you need the alternatives for software, cars, medical treatments, trademarks, movies, artists or even philosophy terms. Dooblet is expected to find some alternative for you.
Abbreviations.com is the world’s largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine and business and it is expanding daily.
Awesome jQuery Plugins And Techniques To Create Visually Excellent Websites
Are you looking for some cool and handy jQuery Plugins, you landed at right place. Below we are presenting 45 most useful and handy plugins that you can use in your next project and make it stand out.
jQuery is the most well-known and open source JavaScript library which is being used all around the world because it simplifies the client-side scripting of HTML. You can also create marvelous effects by using these plugins. Enjoy!
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gMap – Google Maps Plugin For jQuery
Contextual Slideout Tips With jQuery & CSS3
Animate Panning Slideshow with jQuery
Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider
Automatic Image Slider w/ CSS & jQuery
Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery
Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery
Micro Image Gallery: A jQuery Plugin
Image Highlighting and Preview with jQuery
Textarea Words, Characters counter and maxlength plugin
jqPlot Charts and Graphs for jQuery
FullCalendar – Full-sized Calendar jQuery Plugin
jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style)
jTextTranslate: A jQuery Translation Plugin
xBreadcrumbs (Extended Breadcrumbs) jQuery Plugin
FireQuery – Firebug extension for jQuery development
17 Websites You Should Bookmark To Download Free eBooks
It is widely accepted that reading is the most simplest way to derive and construct meanings in order to gain particular knowledge from a source. This phenomena has been computerized or digitized when books unfold into digital media equivalent to E-Books.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we will be able to download free e-book and take it with us anywhere we go? That’s why we dove deep into the Internet to compose the list of 17 places to download free e-books for your use.
If you want to share more free sites to download free eBooks so please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.
Zillr
This sites contains lots of computer ebooks for you to download. 44 categories contains lots of informative books. If you are a computer professional then this website should be a book marked.
ManyBooks
In ManyBooks you can browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from their visitors. ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your iPad, PDA, iPod or eBook Reader. There are 26,977 eBooks available here and they’re all free. iPad users should use iTunes to add ePub files to iBooks so they can read these books on their iPad.
FreeBookSpot
FreeBookSpot is a rich source available for you to download Free e-books online, there are more than 5000 FREE E-BOOKS available in 96+ categories. You can search and download free e-books in many categories like computers, scientific, engineering, programming, biology, physics, fiction and many other books. No registration is required to download free e-books.
4eBooks
This website has a great collection of computer programming ebooks. A short review with description of a book can give you idea about the book before you download it. Thousand of free ebooks can be found in almost every computer programming field like PHP, JAVA, .Net, Scripting, HTML, XHTML, Ajax and many more.
FreeComputerBooks
FreeComputerBooks contains a huge collection of free ebooks of computers, programming, mathematics, and technology, it contains lectures and tutorials as well. Many categories with sub categories will sure help you find the ebook you want.
FreeTechBooks
This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.
Free-eBooks
Free-eBooks is an online resource for you to download free ebooks exist in many categories. Other than free ebooks, you can download free magazines or submit your own ebook as well. Register for free and start downloading ebooks you want.
GetFreeEBooks
GetFreeEBooks contains lots of free ebooks for you to download. All the ebooks within the site are legally downloadable without registration.
OBooko
OBooko is a website where you can dig into more free e-books. Featuring more than 30 categories of e-books ranging from children to history and archeology, Obooko.com should not be missed.
OnlineComputerBooks
OnlineComputerBooks.com contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free programming books, free online books and sample chapters related to Information and Communication Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Engineering, Business, Marketing, Maths, Electronics, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors on their websites legally and free of charge.
BookYards
Bookyards has a total of 17,010 books, 41,784 external web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos, 32,963 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000 Ebooks) for your reading pleasure.
KnowFree
KnowFree is a site where you can exchange or download e-books freely, you can also exchange or download video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice.
OnlineFreeEBooks
OnlineFreeEBooks provides lots of ebooks to download along with user’s guides, reports, lectures, tutorials and many things which contains information.
The Online Books Page
Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web.
EBookLobby
These free ebooks are divided into different categories. Category’s range from business, art, computing and education. Select the appropriate category and you will find the e-book you’re looking for.
e-Library
The total of free ebooks in their directory are 12,473, total visits from eLibrary to ebook sites are 7,301,165.
Wikibooks
Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
We are looking for more websites and will be back to you with a new Lists, please let us know if you any website which should be listed. Thanks
Need Interactive Charts For Your Personal Website? Try Highcharts
If you have a non-commercial website and you need to add charting capabilities in your website, Highcharts may suit your needs. Highcharts is a free charting control developed purely with Javascript so that you can show interactive charts on your website. Since its purely developed with Javascript, you don’t need any special server side technologies like ASP.NET or PHP and no client-side plug-ins are required like Flash or Silverlight.
Highcharts is dynamic in nature. With the support of jQuery and Ajax API, you can dynamically set axes and points of charts at runtime, hence making Highcharts an excellent choice for demonstrating real-time data like Stocks and Forex.
It works with all major web browsers including iPhone and supports a number of chart types, such as:
- Line
- SplineArea
- Areaspline
- Column
- Bar
- Pie
- Scatter
Implementing Highcharts just require some basic understanding of Javascript and you don’t need to be an expert programmer having special programming skills in specific languages. The syntax is very simple and the integration is almost seamless.
In addition to all this, Highcharts gives your website an enhanced user experience with interactive moving charts with cool designs and eye-catching colors.
3 Really Useful And Informative Educational Websites
Today we are listing here 3 Really Useful And Informative Educational Websites. I hope these sites can help you to find and search the useful information you would love to know. All of them are huge sites and full of information.
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Read Print is a free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. This is an amazing website with over 8,000 online books by 3,500 authors at your fingertips.
Webopedia is a free online dictionary for words, phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology. Webopedia provides easy-to-understand definitions in plain language, avoiding the use of heavy jargon when possible so that the site is accessible to users with a wide range of computer knowledge.
Google For Educators support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. They’ve assembled the useful information and wonderful tools that you can find there.
13 Useful And Free Websites To Make Your Lives Easier
Today, we are publishing another list of 13 Useful And Free Websites To Make Your Lives Easier when you want to process your daily work. They are too much simple in terms of their usage because many of these do not need to register with them to use the service. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.
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With Live Mesh, you can synchronize, share and access files with all of your devices, so you always have the updated copy of your files. It’s very simple and easy that you can now access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file. The best of all this service is powered by Microsoft and absolutely free for everyone.
OpenWith.org provides detailed information about most file extension and links to free programs that can open and create each type of file.
You can use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly, editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, you can do it entirely free.
You can use DialMyCalls to send group announcements to your friends. Remind them of parties, events, or any other announcement you may have. It’s really fun to use and even useful in daily life. You can use their free service and send 1 group call per day to 25 people or less that is sounds interesting.
Tini.us is a simple url shortening service encompassing all the features commonly found with any link shortening service but with one huge added feature that other services lack. With tini.us you have the added option of creating a “Super Tini”, a short URL that supports reviews.
Cometdocs is a one of its kinds free online document conversion interface that offers a large set of document conversions that can’t be found anywhere else online. Its unique features include on the fly OCR conversion capabilities, over 50 different conversion options and proprietary XPS and PDF conversion abilities that retains formatting, images and text in the selected output format. And best of all its available free of charge for everyone.
Tracer is a brand new way to generate more visits and page views. You can get credit when content is copied from your site. It will help you to measure and understand user engagement and Improve your search engine ranking.
Pict is a free image hosting service that lets you upload and share your images with one click.
You can upload images up to 3.5Mb, JPG/PNG/GIF formats supported, it has automatic image resizing, multiple uploading & much more.
Gazup is the leading website for social file mirroring online. By using this service you’ll be able to upload files to multiple file hosts in one go thus saving you time and bandwidth. Simply upload a file to Gazup service and their servers utilizing gigabit speeds will rapidly mirror your file to 8 hosts, including RapidShare, MegaUpload, FileFactory, zShare and many more.
ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.
rarhost is a unique new file hosting site, only for winrar .rar archives. They offer much more than just basic file hosting, their system has advanced information about each rar file, therefore they have decided to specialize in .rar files, for example you can see what the archive contains before you download, ensuring it contains the files you want.
Speedtile keeps track of your favourite websites. It saves and organizes your bookmarks in a clear and visual environment, always up to date with daily snapshots. And there is more too! Sort your personal tiles by most frequently used, recently visited or just drag and drop them as you see fit!
Sometimes upgrading to a newer version can be a good thing. Other times, your computer may not be compatible with the new version, the new version is bloated, or all the options you liked are no longer available. OldVersion.com has been supplying the online community with old versions of various programs.
