Simple Controls Gallery is a slideshow script built with jQuery.

When the slideshow is hovered, a menu with controls fades in. Using the menu, slideshow can be paused/played and browsed with prev-next menus.

It displays the images from an array that is mentioned in the JavaScript.

This jQuery slideshow can be set to autoplay the images when first opened & can store the last visited image in a cookie to remember the last image viewed.

Christmas (& New Year) is getting closer & many websites will be creating themes for their designs/logos, designing special newsletters, banners & also, lots of materials will be printed.

So, designers are possibly in need of quality Christmas themed design objects.

This is a giant design pack which includes:

• Photoshop Christmas brushes
• Free Christmas vectors
• Christmas-related Photoshop & Illustrator tutorials

Here they are:

Christmas Vector Images

Gift Packs (EPS)

Vector Santa Claus, Christmas Tree & More

Christmas Frames (EPS & PDF)

Free Cards For Christmas (AI & EPS)

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Stacked bar graphs are very helpful when presenting a comparison of data.

This is a stacked bar graph built with CSS (& based on Pure CSS Data Chart).

It uses "definition lists" in the HTML for presenting the data & "unordered lists" for the labels on axes.

Source files can be downloaded from the author’s website & a demo can be found here.

Appcelerator Titanium (now known as TideSDK) is an open source platform that enables you to create rich desktop applications with web technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript as well as Flash and Silverlight.

Appcelerator SDK is used to create applications or any third-party Ajax library / framework can be used too.

Tip: To make it clear, it is very similar to Adobe AIR but open source.

Titanium also comes with a simple command-line interface (CLI) for creating projects and packaging them into an executable.

The platform has a built-in database, direct file system access, desktop notifications & more.

Titanium apps. currently work in Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX.  Linux support is in the roadmap.

DD_belatedPNG is a fresh IE6 PNG fix script with features where other solutions are missing.

It doesn’t use MSIE AlphaImageLoader filter so, it succesfully renders background-repeat and background-position.

The script also fixes the IE6 grey background problem.

How to use it?

Very simple.

• Insert the .js file to your code
• Create another script node
• Define the class the fix will be applied to, like:
  • DD_belatedPNG.fix('.png_bg');

That’s it.

P.S. It is adviced to use the script only for IE6 with conditional comments.

Context menus are very helpful, specially in admin pages & web applications, for easier navigation. With just a click, you get the options / shortcuts.

This is a jQuery plugin for creating effective context menus with ease.

The menu can produces valid XHTML & can be customized totally via CSS.

Items in the menu can be disabled & they can be browsed with keyboard too.

For users without JavaScript enabled, it gracefully degrades.

Open Web Messenger is an open source live support / chat application.

It enables customers / visitors to chat with an operator & get support (where all the chats are logged).

The application supports unlimited operators, visitors & chats. With a web-based admin interface, operators or admins can:

• Send canned messages
• Track where visitors clicked from
• Search porevious chat conversations
• Reassign/transfer chat to another operator
• Mark/highlight nuisance visitors
• View active chats (admins) & more

When there is no available operator, visitors can leave a message & they can be contacted later.

The look & feel of the chat window can be totally customized with the theme support.

This free live support application requires PHP 5 & MySQL 5 to run.

Lorem2 is a very simple website with an useful content.

It presents lorem ipsum content in various formats:

• short paragraphs
• long paragraphs
• short lists
• long lists

You may also like a previous post at WebResourcesDepot: Lorem Ipsum Generators.

Eyesis Data Grid Control is a PHP class for creating a datagrid from a MySQL database almost instantly.

With 6 lines of code, you can connect to the database, mention the table & define the query, rest is automated.

It has nice features like:

• Filtering and searching
• Changing column headers
• Can displaying images
• Ajax supported
• Automatic row paging
• Row selection
• Look & feel can be customized via CSS
• Ability to add controls
• Checkbox support
• Specify column format types (such as percent, dollars, etc)

This Ajaxed PHP grid works in all major browsers & requires PHP5 to run.

CASA Lib (formerly CASA Framework) is a flexible ActionScript library for coding more reliable & faster.

It provides a core set of classes, interfaces, utilities & has AS2 – AS3 versions.

It standardizes the loading of external files with an easy-to-use and consistent API.

And, it has a powerul garbage collection with a common destroy(); method.

CASA Lib has lots of features that can "almost always" help in a Flash coding task.

The library is also well-documented with explanations/examples of every class & utility.