Bumpbox is another Lightbox clone which offers a very easy usage & has some advantages over others.

There is no need to mention the media type to be displayed as it detects them automatically & as a nice feature, Bumpbox can display PDF files besides FLV, SWF, images or HTML content.

It is built with MooTools & displays the modal box with a nice bump effect.

The script works for both local & remote files. And, to show FLV files, it uses Flowplayer media player.

qWikiOffice is an open source project for creating desktop-like web interfaces.

With the power of Ext JS Library (& PHP), it offers a very similar usage to desktops with:

• windows
• start menu
• dialog boxes
• taskbar & more..

Gritter is a jQuery plugin for creating Growl-like notifications with ease.

The notification bubbles created looks very similar to the ones in Mac OS X & they can be styled easily if wanted.

It is possible to create multiple notifications where each of them can be controlled with their unique IDs.

They can be set to disappear automatically after x seconds or stay until removed manually with the "sticky" option.

You can also mention the speed of the fade effect used while the notifications appear/disappear.

TypeSelect is a JavaScript-based solution for using selectable custom fonts on the web.

It combines the power of typeface.js, jQuery, the canvas, toDataURL, CSS background properties & real overlayed text to accomplish this feature.

TypeSelect is very easy to understand & implement. It is totally controlled via CSS & no server-side files are required.

It has support for double/triple-click selections, UTF-8 characters & gracefully degrades in IE6.

On the other hand, currently, it has some limitations like unselectable text in IE, not being able to use :hover or line breaks & few more.

MyTableGrid is a JavaScript-powered datagrid control, built with Prototype, for displaying data in an easy-to-browse & flexible way.

It offers an Ajaxed interface with pretty fast paging & data-sorting.

Columns can be resized & any columns can be easily removed for a better view of data.

MyTableGrid allows browsing via keyboard (with the help of KeyTable library).

It supports instant editing of cells & complete skinning via CSS.

jQuery Impromptu, a jQuery pugin, is offering a chic replacement for alert, prompt, and confirm dialogs.

Although it is not an alternative for modal windows, it can display any HTML content, supports sequential messages & more.

The plugin comes with a bunch of options for maximum customization like:

• loaded, callback & submit functions to step in every point
• changing prompt & overlay speeds
• using different animations on prompt windows 6 more

The look/feel of the message boxes can be updated easily via CSS & various examples are provided on theming.

jQuery Superbox! is a jQuery plugin for creating easily customizable modal windows (lightbox-like).

It is an accessible script, uses the rel attribute of an element for triggering & href attribute is used for defining the source to be displayed.

To change the look & feel, it is enough to play with the CSS as no styles are set by default.

It can display any type of content as every HTML content can be presented. But by default, images (single or gallery mode), text content & iframes are supported

Dimensions of the modal window can be choosen to resize automatically according to the content or width & height can be defined for a standard size.

jQuery TOOLS is a set of frequently used user interface components, built with/for jQuery, to power your websites.

The library is lightweight (5.8kb) and consists of the following tools:

• tabs
• tooltip
• scrollable
• overlay
• expose
• flashembed

All the tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled which makes it very flexible.

Every feature in the library is very well documented & offers various examples to lower the learning curve.

It is also possible to download the tools you need rather than the whole package, combined in a one file.

TinyBox is a lightweight (3.5kb) modal window script that does not depend on any JavaScript frameworks.

It can display any Ajax or HTML content (from text to videos). Also, if enabled, the modal boxes fade in/out & dynamically resize based on the loaded content.

With the auto-hide support, the script can be used to show notifications. It is called & configured within one line, like:

TINY.box.show('advanced.html',1,300,150,1,3)

where all the settings can be mentioned easily. For a demo of TinyBox, click here.

First impressions are important & a website with lots of typo may easily result in losing visitors.

Spell Check Rex is an open source website spell checking application, built with PHP & MySQL, which can be installed on any website to automatically monitor & report spelling mistakes.

The application spiders the given website and generates reports. It supports frame-enabled websites & directories, pages can be excluded.

Spell Check Rex only supports English (has a multilanguage backend) & has 110,000+ words in its database.