If you are curious to know how your website design looks like on the 9.7” screen of an Apple iPad, you can either borrow your friend’s iPad for some time, order one for yourself from eBay (if you don’t live in the US) or just read this.

Step 1: Start your Firefox (or Safari) browser and change the user agent string to that of the Apple iPad. You may use Google Chrome as well but it just takes lot of effort [...]

Jeegoocontext is a jQuery plugin that allows for multiple custom context menus (pop-up menus) to exist on a single page. The plugin is able to transform any unordered list appended to the body into a multi-level, intelligently positioned styled context menu via a single call.

Features:

* Easy to implement.
* Both vertical and horizontal intelligent positioning.
* Customizable time delays to provide easy selection of items.
* Multiple context menus on a single page.
* Fully css customizable UI.
* Customizable behavior via callbacks.
* Customizable class [...]

jsDatePick is a javascript date picker that uses DOM techniques to generate its HTML code. Read the parameters and working examples below, and within minutes, you can have a popup date picking solution on your website.

The user launches the calendar by entering the input field, and then chooses a date, automatically returning the selected date to the field. jsDatePick has a range of parameters for extending or limiting default functionality.

Flexigrid – Web 2.0 Javscript Grid for jQuery
Flexigrid is a lightweight but feature rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an XML based data source using Ajax to load the content.
Similar in concept with the Ext Grid but built using jQuery, which makes it light weight and follows the jQuery mantra of running with the least amount of configuration.

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jCoverflip is a jQuery plugin for easily creating coverflow-like interfaces that can display images or any other content.

The content can be browsed by simply clicking on any of the items or using a slider (jQuery UI slider).

It is possible to define the number of items to be displayed and the animation speed of transitions.

Also, the look and feel can be customized as colors, fonts and styles used can be edited. Optionally, it comes with “methods of integration” for Drupal-powered [...]

Allowing users, and clients to format their text without delving into code has long been on developers priority lists, but these days, providing this usability is far easier than it once was. Here are 10 WYSIWYG editors that are commonly used, and are worth a look in if its something you need for a project.

1. NicEdit

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NicEdit is an alternative to some of the larger, more complex WYSIWYG editors out there, with its small download size. It boasts [...]

MediaCore is a free open source video cms and podcast platform. MediaCore can pull video or audio from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.

Who uses MediaCore? The CMS was built for individuals and organizations who wish to distribute video or podcasts on their website without kicking users to other social media sites.

Podcasting made easy: It is simple to create, edit, review and publish podcasts because MediaCore handles all [...]

It is an advanced image gallery script built on the JavaScript library jQuery. Use it to save space when displaying a collection of images and offer your users a nice and elegant way to show a big version of your images without leaving the page flow.

It was designed as an alternative to the often-seen JavaScript image lightbox. What they all have in common: they employ a modal window to display the large images, thus disrupting the work flow of the [...]

As we know, Internet Explorer 6,7 and 8 do not support the new HTML5 elements which result in messy outputs.

However, thanks to Remy Sharp, there is the popular HTML5 enabling script which adds HTML5 capabilities to IE.

It is a great script and supports most of the HTML5 elements but missing one feature which is “printing HTML5 elements from IE”..

There is now an alternative named IE Print Protector which helps IE to render HTML5 elements correctly, both on screen and in [...]

f4Player  is a free and open source Flash video player that can play .fly, .f4v or .mp4 files in websites or within AS3 projects.

It is lightweight (8kb) and has an interface that can be skinned (few skins are included with the download).

The player supports progressive downloads (ability to play the downloaded portion of a file while the download is still in progress) and full screen display.