Upperx is a set of 100+ free grunge textures with a nice little story.
They are photographed from the old, oxidized, metallic & graffiti-painted doors at Barcelona's Poblenou, an old industrial neighborhood now in full transformation.
All images are in .JPG format, 850*637px size & 72 PPI resolution.
Some Random Dude, a blog on design & technology, is presenting a clean & stylish icon set named Iconic.
The set consists of 84 icons that comes in both .SVG & .PNG formats.
The PNG format has various sizes (8×8, 12×12, 16×16, 24×24 & 32×32 pixels) & 14 different colors already included.
#grid is a tiny tool, built with JavaScript & CSS, which inserts a layout grid into web pages & enables you to detect alignment issues in place.
It is activated with a hotkey (Alt+g) & can toggle between displaying the grid in the foreground or background.
By default, #grid comes with a 980-pixel-wide background image to provide the vertical grid lines (a 940-pixel-wide content area with 20px gutters). But, when working on different grids, you can create a new image for your guides.
Usage is very straightforward, just include the JavaScript file & CSS to your project.
MooEditable is a MooTools plugin that instantly converts a textarea field into a WYSIWYG editor.
It has a slick interface & comes with only the frequently used items like text formatting, lists, inserting images/links & undo/redo.
The plugin can also switch between design & HTML modes.
If you'd like to improve it further or customize to your needs, It has a very detailed documentation.
Axialis Software, the developers of IconWorkshop, have created multiple good-looking icon sets.
Most of the sets are built from a 200+ pieces of flat icons & have different backgrounds or colors.
Besides these icons, there is also Web Mini icons which consists 237 colorful icons in 16*16px sizes.
All sets come in .PNG, .GIF & .ICO formats.
GaleriaSHQIP is a free PHP-MySQL image gallery script for easily displaying any number of images.
It has an admin panel to upload new images or delete/update the previous ones.
The script offers a simple interface for presenting images & upon-click, they can be viewed in their original sizes in a modal box (uses piroBox).
GaleriaSHQIP has a web-based installer for a quicker installation & has a built-in brute-force filter + various other security features.
Update (8th February 2010):
The application now has a new version with lots of features like tracking visitors/their actions, commenting, rating & more..
Creative Nerds, a blog focused on design inspiration, is sharing 100+ free letter pressed icons in PSD format.
This beautiful set comes in 3 different styles. It includes icons of social bookmarking, actions & other various shapes.
They are free to be used in both personal & commercial projects.
Easy is a front-end (CSS/JS/HTML) framework, by Alen Grakalic of CSS Globe, for converting design into HTML faster & providing a solid base for future development.
The CSS part includes definitions to style common elements, clearing/hiding/erasing margins & controlling the layout.
The JavaScript part is based on jQuery & offers ready-to-use functions for:
Easy includes a library of precoded content blocks that you can simply copy/paste into your document & save time.
Besides a demo that presents most of the features, there is a detailed documentation provided.
Tutorial9 is sharing a beautiful set of free mono icons that has 108 items.
Icons are in transparent PNG format, black color & 32*32px in size.
Their colors can be customized easily as a group using layer styles & applying "Color Overlay" in Photoshop. For Fireworks, simply apply "Filters → Adjust Color → Color Fill" and choose your color.
Highcharts is a JavaScript charting library for creating interactive charts in various types (line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie & scatter).
The library offers a high-level of usability with features like:
Highcharts has an admirable effort in browser compatibility. For standard browsers it uses the canvas element and in some cases SVG for the graphics rendering. In Internet Explorer, graphics are drawn using VML. Besides all major browsers, it works in iPhone & IE6.
The library is offered for free to be used in personal/non-commercial projects & requires a license for commercial ones.
