Using paper textures is always a popular trend in design of any kind.

Here is a set of 7 high quality paper & cardboard textures -created exclusively for WebResourcesDepot by TextureZine- that are free to use in personal/commercial projects.

All textures are in JPEG format & 3168*4752px size.

Info: The download package is a .zip file & sized 46.2mb.

P.S. The textures can not be distributed in any other media. Please refer to this page if you mention them on your website. Thanks very much for that.

Every web application that works member-based needs a functionality where visitors can register & manage their profiles.

UserCake is a free user management system, built with PHP/MySQL, which aims to be a foundation to ease creating the application.

UserCake is object-oriented, cleanly written, well commented, formatted & documented.

It offers the following functions:

• Login
• Register
• Lost password
• Update password
• Update user details
• Email templates (optional)
• Account activation (optional)
• User groups (Basic, id – group_name)

The system comes with frequently used member-page functions like isUserLoggedIn() or isGroupMember($id) which will help developing faster.

And, in means of security, UserCake uses salt along with a SHA1 hash.

Floom is a MooTools slideshow plugin that can present images & their captions beautifully.

It displays them with a blind-effect & a chic loader that shows when the next image will be shown.

The plugin has various options like:

• defining the number of blinds between transitions
• slideshow interval
• loader on/off
• captions on/off

To mention, Floom is not a complicated script, rather, it is a lightweight (4kb compressed) one with very few features (just auto-slides images) which is sometimes "what is needed".

P.S. The download link in the website, currently, has a typo. You can use this address until it is fixed.

eCSStender is an open source JavaScript library, created by Aaron Gustafson, that helps browsers (including IE6) pay attention to the CSS code you write.

It aims to prevent the usage of browser-specific properties & hacks but make leaner & meaner CSS possible.

eCSStender is an extendible library with its API support & has ready-to-use extensions like CSS3 selectors, @font-face, rotation & more.

How does it work?

• it loops through the document's stylesheets and begins collecting information
• parses the rules it understands
• checks if the parsed rules are supported by the extensions
• applies the supported rules to the document via JavaScript

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XMail Server Lite is an open source & free mail server with an Ajaxed webmail bundled to it.

It is compatible with Window & Linux OSs with 2 different installers provided.

The server is capable of managing SMTP/ESMTP & POP3 protocols with web-based administration panel.

It supports unlimited domains/users including virtual domains & aliases.

XMail Lite also offers anti-virus integration, bayesian filters (for spam protection) & a logging functionality of all the activities.

The Webmail Lite can display folders/nested folders, has an address book, multilingual & much more.

Tip: The webmail can be downloaded & installed as a standalone product too (from here).

Calender Eightysix is an unobtrusive calendar & datepicker that is built with MooTools.

It offers a very easy-to-use navigation for jumping back / forth between months, years & decades without drop-down boxes.

The script is lightweight (9.5kb) & can be themed via CSS (3 themes are already included).

It has a bunch of options for maximum customization like setting:

• default date on load
• min-max dates of the calendar
• date format
• unpickable days/weeks
• durations between slides, fades, toggles
• the calendar start date (Monday – Sunday)
• & more..

P.S. It is also the successor of the popular Vista-like Ajax Calendar (WRD post).

In order to better understand this resource, let’s describe augmented reality first. From Wikipedia:

Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with (or augmented by) virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality

EZFlar is an open source ActionScript library that enables you to create such a media. Or, you can use the online generator.

How it works?

It simply inserts a pre-defined media inside a "pre-defined object" in another media.

There is an online generator provided. You’ll need a webcam & a printer to test it instantly:

• Select the media to be integrated (image, video, sound, URL, etc.)
• Print a special shape provided
• Display the printed sheet while the application records you through your webcam
• It will insert the "selected media" to the place where you hold the sheet.

It may look complicated, however, you can check this video or this one to see it working.

Ad Gallery is a jQuery plugin for creating an image gallery/showcase quickly.

The plugin uses unordered lists & converts them by offering lots of options for a better customization.

Some features of the plugin are:

• auto-start from any image
• keyboard navigation support
• custom effects like slide, fade..
• show image descriptions
• clicking the images close to the next-prev buttons will call more thumbnails
• work as a slideshow with start-stop buttons
• & more..

Ad Gallery preloads the images for a flawless display, however, if the image to be shown is not preloaded, it displays a loader & waits for the image to load.

And, depending on the image size to be presented, it auto-arranges the dimensions of the "container div" for a better fit.

Free Vector Chart Icons is a set of 5 icons that is brought to you by WebResourcesDepot & IconShock (a talented icon design company).

The set includes 256*256px & 512*512px .PNG files besides the .AI vector source files.

The icons in the set are: pie, column, line, area charts & a meter.

It is totally free to use them in both personal & commercial projects.

P.S. The icons can not be distributed on any other media. Please link to this page if you share it on your website, thanks for that.

Help improving these chart icons!

It is hard to find quality & free chart icons. So, it will be great to improve this set by adding more icons into it.

Please share any other chart icon ideas & IconShock will be creating the Vol.2 for us.

Anyone who visited Mashable lately, the popular social news website, might have seen the "drag to share" functionality which appears when hovering an image.

It is a smart technique which encourages visitors to share a story by offering a quite fun usage.

Nettuts+ is sharing a very nice tutorial (with source) that enables you to implement this feature using jQuery & jQuery UI.

It makes use of the draggable & droppable components of jQuery UI to make drag’n dropping & targeting objects possible.

To see how it works, a demo is provided as well.