We always have IE6 whining about how you should be using an obtuse “filter†attribute, causing all those nice, pretty pngs on your page to go whacky. There are some scripts available for solving this problem, e.g. IE PNG Fix from TwinHelix, Javascript IE PNG Fix, Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6 from 24 ways. Now Unit Interactive has shared us Unit PNG Fix and bask in the the glorious phosphoresence of your PNG images with the following major features as well.
- Very compact javascript: Under 1kb!
- Fixes some functionality problems with IE’s filter attribute.
- Works on img objects and background-image attributes.
- Runs automatically. You don’t have to define classes or call functions.
- Allows for auto width and auto height elements.
- Super simple to deploy.
Requirements:-
Demo: http://labs.unitinteractive.com/unitpngfix.php
License: License Free
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). You can use it to create demonstration videos for your web application.
CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself “picture-in-picture” over your desktop. You can download and use it completely free for your personal and commercial projects.
Requirements:-
Demo: http://camstudio.org/
License: GPL License
Carousel.us is a Javascript 3D carousel, using the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js frameworks. It also uses PHP Easy Reflections by Richard Davey. You will find a configuration file which you can define the default parameters or you can also define them via URL using the GET method. You can set the Reflection opacity, Reflection height, spacing between images, Position of the carousel center, Carousel speed and Add onclick event on each image.
Requirements: Prototype and Scriptaculous Framework
Demo: http://www.piksite.com/carousel.us/carousel.us.php
License: Creative Commons License
Meteora is set of cross-browser Widgets and Controls that allows you to 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.
Meteora is an Open Source project based on the great mootools framework and it’s released under the MIT license. Scripts that already work with mootools can be used with Meteora too. View the demo, you can see what it can do for us.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://meteora.astrata.com.mx/pages/demo
License: MIT License
Thank you for voting your favorites for Wix Web Design Contest. I am happy to announce the winners
1st Place: Sushi Mushi (260 Votes)
2nd Place: Wood Grille (144 Votes)
The winners please send your PayPal address to me via the contact form. And I will send you the payment as soon as possible. Thank you so much for all of the participants.
Alternate Select Multiple (asmSelect) is a progressive enhancement to <select multiple> form elements. It provides a simpler alternative of with the following advantages:
- Easier for users to understand and interact with than regular <select multiple> form elements. Users know how to interact with it sans instruction.
- Doesn’t require user to Ctrl-Click or Shift-Click multiple elements. Instead users of your form can add or remove elements individually, without risk of losing those that have already been selected.
- Selected elements are always visible (within the confines of your interface) while unselected elements are always hidden (within a regular <select>).
- Unlike regular <select multiple> option elements, those on asmSelect are optionally sortable with drag and drop (this part requires jQuery UI).
- If a user does not have javascript, then of course the regular <select multiple> form element is used instead.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.ryancramer.com/projects/asmselect/examples/example1.html
License: GPL License
You may have seen the lovely mini icons set Diagona (400 icons are included in PNG format) from Pinvoke. Now Pinvoke has released another great set of mini icons – Fugue Icons. There are 422 icons are included in PNG format. The icons can be used free for any personal or commercial projects. However, if you would like to remove the attribution, you should purchase the license.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.pinvoke.com/
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License
Caleb Kimbrough knows what it’s like trying to scrounge around on the internet for copyright-free materials, and that it can be quite a hassle at times. Therefore, he has created Lost and Taken to help out his fellow designers and photographers.
Lost and Taken is a depository of copyright-free stock photographic textures that you can use…whether it be for a graphic design project or simply printing them out and staring at them for hours on end. You can use the images on Lost and Taken in any of your photographic or design projects, both personal and commercial. The only thing you can’t do with the images is use them in their original state as your own stock photography, don’t sell them as your own or host them elsewhere.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.lostandtaken.com
License: License Free
SoundManager 2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It’s a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash’s sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript. SoundManager 2 was written to meet a desire to have Javascript-driven sound for interactive web-based projects. It is free for use in both personal and commercial projects. View / hear some of the examples of Javascript-driven sound, and applications implementing SoundManager 2. They are really impressive.
Requirements: Flash 8+
Demo: http://schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
License: BSD License
