Spritely is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic character & background animations using HTML + JavaScript.

With the power of JavaScript, the animations can be controlled on events (clicks, mouseovers) easily.

Animated elements can fly over the page without effecting any other element (can be ideal for floating-type banners) & the page still remains accessible.

Specially, for the platforms where Flash is not supported, Spritely can be an alternative (like iPhone, iPad).

It works in all major browsers including IE6.

Ketchup is an easy-to-customize (in means of appearance & functionality) jQuery plugin for validating user inputs on the client-side.

The plugin works by inserting the validation rules inside the markup, just like:

<input type="password" id="new_pass" class="validate(required)" />

It comes with a bunch of ready-to-use rules, including: required, min/max length, number, URL, e-mail & much more where new ones can be created as well.

Using Ketchup, it is possible to combine validations (a field can be both required & e-mail).

Although the default setup of the plugin is very satisfactory, like mentioned, it is possible to create a new look & feel (which is easy with the documentation provided).

LiveUI is a powerful, flexible & open source rich internet application framework for .NET.

It has a modular system which allows sharing .ascx user controls & resources between ASP.NET web applications.

Working with JavaScript from ASP.NET applications becomes simple as the framework includes tools for JavaScript generation, caching, dependency management & more.

LiveUI has an Extjs.Controls module which includes ASP.NET wrappers for all ExtJS components making usage of them so easy inside ASP.NET pages.

Also, there is a built-in solution for URL parsing & generation which means creating user friendly URLs is not a problem with the framework.

Ajax Availability Calendar is an open source PHP application for displaying the availability of an item (hotel room, appointment, etc.).

It comes with an Ajaxed administration panel (multiple admin users are supported) to manage the calendar.

The application is multilingual & unlimited number of items can be added under multiple languages.

Months displayed are changed with Ajax requests where no refreshes are required & it can be totally styled via CSS.

jqFancyTransitions is a jQuery plugin for displaying images as a slideshow with fancy effects.

It has support for 3 transitions: wave, zipper & curtain but they can be diversified with the ability of setting the position & direction of the animations.

The slideshow has few other configuration options like:

• delay between transitions
• delay between strips
• number of strips
• title speed
• title opacity

Compared to many other slideshow scripts, jqFancyTransitions doesn't require an unordered list of items but, simply, needs an element wrapping the images.

YoxView is a highly-customizable jQuery image viewer plugin (Lightbox) for displaying single-to-multiple images.

It helps browsing a list of images in a modal box with previous-next buttons or as a slideshow.

The viewer supports displaying multiple instances in a page where each of them can be configured independently.

YoxView is multilingual & already comes with multiple language files.

Besides standard navigation, images can be navigated with keyboard too.

The plugin has many options like opacity levels, background colors, title display/fade durations & more.

EZ-CSS is a lightweight (only 1kb) CSS framework for easily creating table-less layouts.

The framework enables you to create multiple columns of any width, with or without gutters of any width.

EZ-CSS is very flexible:

• each module or layout contains a width-less container which prevents rounding issues or rounding errors.
• it creates self-clearing containers which means every box will contain floats.

As EZ-CSS has a very small footprint, it can be fully inserted into any stylesheet or a style element which would make it compatible with every other CSS framework too.

Grafico is an open source JavaScript charting library built with Raphaël & Prototype.js.

It is possible to create multiple types of charts like line, area, bar & stacked charts, sparklines and more.

Each chart type has numerous API options to customize it’s look & behavior.

Charts created with Grafico can, optionally, be interactive which means they can provide data when hovered, clicked, etc.

The library is well-documented & supported with examples.

Quicksand is a very functional jQuery plugin for reordering and/or filtering items with a nice shuffling animation.

It simply replaces a collection of items with another & only requires the sets to be provided which can be done in multiple ways:

• using plain HTML, like an unordered list
• downloading data by an Ajax call
• transforming HTML items by JavaScript

Quicksand also comes with few options like setting the duration or the easing type of the animation (optionally, Easing plugin can be used for more easing types).

You remember Uptime Robot, a free website uptime monitoring service that we launched few weeks ago.

While building it, we're looking for a free & easy way for adding SMS support to the application which would notify users when their websites were down (and back up).

There are great APIs around but they are paid & we experienced that the best way to do this is using the e-mail to SMS gateways of mobile providers.

But we needed a list of providers that had support for e-mail to SMS.

After digging, we found several lists, realized that every provider has a different format where some requires a prefix & other can require a suffix, digit requirements differ, etc.

At the end we merged lists, removed invalid entries, added new ones with the help of Uptime Robot users & created a flexible MySQL table that included this data.

Now, we're sharing it (as SQL & CSV formats) at the Uptime Robot website so you can easily add SMS support to your web applications & won't lose the time we already did.

P.S. Note that there may still be some invalid entries that we couldn't get a feedback yet. If you think there are, please share them in comments, we'll updating them & always be sharing the latest version of the data.