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Flash Gallery is a free flash gallery application with Flickr photostream & auto-thumbnail creation support.

The application scans the related folder, creates the thumbnails & uses filenames for titles.

Flickr Flash Gallery

Flash Gallery requires PHP to run but this is not needed if you’re streaming Flickr images.

The application has a customizable design, full-screen support & it is fully resizeable.

Timeago is a jQuery plugin which enables you to display fuzzy timestamps. And, the timestamps are auto-updated.

Some example timestamps are "5 minutes ago, about 2 days ago".

JavaScript Timestamps

Using Timeago is very functional for displaying more friendly timestamps and auto-update feature makes it more accurate when a page is opened for a while.

P.S. John Resig also has a similar solution named JavaScript Pretty Date.

SQL Buddy is an open source web-based MySQL administrator with an Ajaxed interface.

It requires no setup and works once the files are uploaded.

Ajax MySQL Admin

SQL Buddy handles logins with the MySQL user tables. Ordering & resizing the columns makes browsing easier.

Although browsing is mostly with Ajax, the application is browser back-forward friendly. And, it enables you to import/export to/from .CSV files.

Gregarius is an open source web based feed reader. It is similar to Google Reader but you can install in on your servers.

It has a very simple & functional interface with a password protected administration area.

Open Source Feed Reader

This feed reader has Ajaxed item tagging & full-text search features. It is committed to web standards: renders XHTML/CSS, supports OPML.

The application is built with PHP & uses MySQL or SQLite for storing the data.

With a getting active community, Gregarius has multiple themes & plugins.

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  • Zoki Poll is a free PHP - Ajax poll script that stores data in a XML file.

    Free Ajax PHP PollIt has flexible display options for integrating the poll in limited spaces like horizontal scrolling long question & answers or vertical scrolling of answers.

    Vote results are displayed with a nice, animated percentage bar & the look of the poll can be easily changed via CSS.

    To prevent duplicate voting, Zoki Poll has a cookie-based protection system.

    This Ajax poll script does not have an administration interface & it is a nice piece of code if you’re ready to integrate it yourself.

    P.S. Downloading the script requires free registration.

    Imago is an Ajax image gallery built with MooTools.

    This gallery has connectors for Flickr, SmugMug & SimpleViewer to call images from them or use their XML files.

    Imago is fully customizable with CSS & very easy to use.

    A detailed "how to use" information guides you on setting up your Ajax image gallery.

    This is a free streaming Flash MP3 player that is easy to use & customize as it comes with the .FLA file.

    The player uses a XML file where its design can be customized and the song to be played can be mentioned.

    Free Flash MP3 Player With Source

    The player plays 1 song which makes it ideal for using it as a website background music player or can be improved further.

    It is written with Flash8 / AS2.

    jqGrid is an Ajaxed jQuery grid plugin with amazing features.

    As the grid is a client-side solution that loads data with Ajax callbacks, it can be used with any server-side language like ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, JSP and so.

    A clever feature is sub grids which shows you a sub grid when a master column is called.

    jQuery Grid Plugin

    Some features of jqGrid:

    • paging functions
    • add, edit, delete & search records
    • accepts XML, JSON, array or user data as input
    • multiple selection of rows
    • sub grid & grid details (great feature!)
    • UI datepicker integration
    • & more…

    jqGrid is very impressive with the interface, features, usability & documentation. To check this great jQuery grid plugin, click here.

    Raphaël is a JavaScript library that facilitates using & creating vector graphics in websites.

    It uses SVG & VML for creating graphics. As every graphic generated is a DOM object, you can manipulate them via JavaScript.

    JavaScript Vector Graphics

    This graphics JavaScript library is very ideal for creating charts, images effects like rotation or reflection.

    An example:

    Creating graphics is much easier with Raphaël compared to writing everything from scratch as a circle can be created with:

    paper.circle(320, 240, 50).attr({fill: "#223fa3", stroke: "#223fa3", "stroke-width": 3, "fill-opacity": 0.5});

    The library currently works in all major browsers except Firefox 2 & it is still under development.

    This is a nice animated menu built with MooTools.

    The trick of the menu is a Flashy hover effect of the arrow (or any element you want).

    MooTools Animated Menu

    To use this menu script, you don’t even have to play with JavaScript except defining the variables:

    • background image container
    • nav elements
    • current nav element’s div id
    • background image’s y coordinate
    • left offset of the image

    A well-described usage of the menu including the download of all the necessary files can be found at the script’s website.

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