mooRainbow is an easy to integrate JavaScript color picker built with mootools.

This color picker can be attached to any element in the DOM. A click event would automatically be attached to that element and simply clicking on it you will be able to show or hide mooRainbow.

This mootools powered JavaScript color picker:

• is fully customizable via CSS file.
• keeps clean your DOM and generates valid XHTML and CSS.
• provides you, as return, an object containing RGB, HSB and HEX of choosen color.
• works on Firefox/Safari/Opera/IE.

Calendars are one of the "musts" in most of the web applications.

Plans is a calendar script which has a simple yet functional interface.

Multi-day event support is one of the rarely found feature that can be found in other calendar applications. Without it, you simply need to hack the logic of the applications.

Another great feature is the powerful recurring events support which makes the administration of the calendar much more easier.

You can also password protect events, create multiple calendars with 1 installation and calendars can share information between each other and even customize the look of every calendar.

To summarize, you should check this calendar application .

Umbraco is an open source content management system built with ASP.NET and using MSSQL for storing the data.

Using Umbraco, designers can create valid XHTML with their markup left intact and developers can integrate any .Net based controls out of the box.

Some features of this ASP.NET CMS software:

• Beautiful, user-friendly interface
• Integrated WYSIWYG Editor
• Support for editing in Microsoft Word
• Versioned and scheduled publishing
• Full support for own .NET Controls
• Documented API
• Use any .NET Language like c# or VB.NET
• Full source code available (open source)
• Super simple template engine
• Full support for web standards

This powerful free CMS application will also have reports (for statistics) and form creation features in the near future.

Phormer is an open source PHP photo gallery that helps you store, organize and trim your photos online.

This photo gallery application uses XML for all the data including photos, comments and settings and does not require MySQL.

With an easy web-based install, Phormer has features like:

• Categorization (by date, subject..)
• Standards-based XHTML output
• Making any content private
• Photos can be set to be called from another server
• Ajax upload manager
• Ability to create a thumb image of your own selection
• 10+ themes
• RSS feeds
• Advanced commenting
• EXIF metadata reader
• Statistics
• Mass upload from a ZIP file
• Slideshow

There are few printed publications for web designers and developers.

Website Magazine is a free magazine specially for web designers / developers that is published every 3 months. I’m a subscriber for 9 months and liked the issues until now as most of the subjects were analysed in deep. And to be honest, I like reading printed materials more.

The subscription is free but sign-ups are evaluated first and then approved. To apply for a free subscription, click here.

Free grunge textures can be found at Grungetextures.com, a website which collects and presents great free grunge textures.

Textures are high quality JPG files and licenced as free for personal and non-profit use.

Textures are categorized well for easier navigation. For ex: you can easily find the wood textures, stone textures or the other ones.

GoogieSpell is Gmail-like spell checker that you can use in your applications.

It is AJAX based, supports over 27 languages and well-documented.

This AJAX spell checker simply sends a query to Google’s spell checking address:  "https://www.google.com/tbproxy/spell?lang=" and displays the results and recommendations according to the result of this data.

GoogieSpell is well tested to work in all major browsers.

Woopra is a feature-rich free web-tracking and analytics tool that analyzes your website in real time.

Using Woopra, you can view visitor activity in detail, tag visitors to realize them in their next visits, instant-chat with visitors and even get notified from the site activities that you set.

For developers, Woopra provides a full featured API that allows extracting a website’s data into several common web 2.0 formats, making it useful for use within your own application.

This free desktop site analysis tool is definitely worth to try.

MooMonth, is a JavaScript calendar application built with Mootools which is highly configurable an customizable.

With an attractive interface the calendar application has features like:

• Day, week, month, *year, and zoom views.
• Smooth view transitions.

MooMonth has a powerful function set to be used in creating a feature-rich calendar application.

Although the application is still in alpha it is already very promising.

CSS Globe has a chic animated progress bar built with CSS and an animated GIF file.

It is simply an EM tag above an animated GIF file which is blocking the part of the GIF file to creating the progress bar stop effect.

As this progress bar is only a visual trick, it can not show a "live" progress but only a static one which the percentage of progress to be shown was defined before the page is loaded.