PrettyCheckboxes is for people who wants to have a consistent look for checkboxes across browser or those who simply want them to look better. By using this script you wont loose any of the regular inputs usability. It has been tested and is known to work in Firefox 2+, Opera 9.5, Safari 3.1.1 and Internet Explorer 6+. This script is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. So you can use it in all you projects even commercial ones.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyCheckboxes/
License: Creative Commons 2.5 License

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Amazing Photoshop brushes come from talented designer Paul Willocks and Marielle. You can find some Line Brushes, Abstract Tech Brushes, Circle Brushes and a lot more in Paul Willocks Gallery. You can also find some Floral Brushes, Frames Brushes, Hearts Brushes and Dividers Brushes in Marielle Gallery. Most of them are licensed under Creative License. You might want to use them to decorate or design your websites.

Requirements:-
Demo: http://mouritsada-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/#Brush-Packs
Demo: http://paulw.deviantart.com/gallery/#Photoshop-Brushes
License: Creative Commons License

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We have got another Color Picker for our websites. This is a simple jQuery plugin that let you select color in the same way you select color in Adobe Photoshop. You can display the ColorPicker as a popup or and element in page. It is really easy to customize the look by changing some images, therefore you can have a custom skin for your ColorPicker as well.

Requirements:jQuery Framework
Demo: http://eyecon.ro/colorpicker/
License: License Free

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One of our lovely WebAppers readers, James Wright has found an interesting tool and submitted to us. This is called dBug, which is a PHP version of ColdFusion’s cfdump. Basically, it outputs colored and structured tabular variable information. Variable types supported are: Arrays, Classes/Objects, Database and XML Resources. Stylesheet can be easily edited. Table cells can be expanded and collapsed as well. dBug is free for download, and it has been downloaded over 20,000 times now.

Requirements:-
Demo: http://dbug.ospinto.com/
License: GPL License

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Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database.

Or, you can try Identifont, the largest independent directory of typefaces on the Internet, with information about fonts from 517 publishers and 144 vendors. You can identify a typeface by answering a series of simple questions about its appearance.

Requirements:-
Demo: http://www.identifont.com
Demo: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
License: License Free

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Alternate Select Multiple (asmSelect) is a progressive enhancement to <select multiple> form elements. It provides a simpler alternative of with the following advantages:

• Easier for users to understand and interact with than regular <select multiple> form elements. Users know how to interact with it sans instruction.

• Doesn’t require user to Ctrl-Click or Shift-Click multiple elements. Instead users of your form can add or remove elements individually, without risk of losing those that have already been selected.

• Selected elements are always visible (within the confines of your interface) while unselected elements are always hidden (within a regular <select>).

• Unlike regular <select multiple> option elements, those on asmSelect are optionally sortable with drag and drop (this part requires jQuery UI).

• If a user does not have javascript, then of course the regular <select multiple> form element is used instead.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.ryancramer.com/projects/asmselect/examples/example1.html
License: GPL License

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You may have seen the lovely mini icons set Diagona (400 icons are included in PNG format) from Pinvoke. Now Pinvoke has released another great set of mini icons - Fugue Icons. There are 422 icons are included in PNG format. The icons can be used free for any personal or commercial projects. However, if you would like to remove the attribution, you should purchase the license.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.pinvoke.com/
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

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Caleb Kimbrough knows what it’s like trying to scrounge around on the internet for copyright-free materials, and that it can be quite a hassle at times. Therefore, he has created Lost and Taken to help out his fellow designers and photographers.

Lost and Taken is a depository of copyright-free stock photographic textures that you can use…whether it be for a graphic design project or simply printing them out and staring at them for hours on end. You can use the images on Lost and Taken in any of your photographic or design projects, both personal and commercial. The only thing you can’t do with the images is use them in their original state as your own stock photography, don’t sell them as your own or host them elsewhere.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.lostandtaken.com
License: License Free

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Function Icon Set is a set of 128 glossy Icons Included some of the main Social Media Icons such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, Twitter and etc. They are only available in 48×48px. All of them are free, you can use them anywhere you like.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-free-icon-set/
License: License Free

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We have seen a lot of examples of Live Search. But now, Ordered List has added a bit of a twist to it. Steve mentioned that the typical year and month layout of archives was overkill. He thought a better way to present them would be to list them all and let live search sort ‘em out. He has created Live Search with Quicksilver Style by integrating “Quicksilver string ranking algorithm” into Live Search component. “Quicksilver string ranking algorithm” will be able to recognize which items you are searching for if you just use abbreviations, so you can type entire words, or just fragments of each.

For example, sure you can search ‘sidebar creative’ to find posts titled that, now you can just type ‘sdbcv’ to get the same result. And that guy Nunemaker, but is that name a keyboardful. Why don’t we just hit a few of the important characters like ‘nnmkr’. The post of “Welcome John Nunemaker” is right there at the top. Try out the demo, you will love this immediately.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://orderedlist.com/demos/quicksilverjs/
License: MIT License

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