Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

When feeds became popular, it worked to have one icon on your site to point your readers to your RSS or Atom feeds. As feeds are more prevalent in blogs and websites abroad, the presence of multiple feeds abound.

It’s nice to offer users a way to get your feeds, so typically you will see a feed icon lurking around a site somewhere. At times, you will see a list of two, three or more links to different feeds offered on a site. Why not have an easy and standard way of offering your feeds via a nice, compact menu, just like in the location bar, but on your site?

jQuery Feed Menu can do this for you easily. It allows users to click your feed icon and be presented with a list of feeds to choose from.

Requirements: jQuery Javascript Framework
Demo: http://www.komodomedia.com/samples/feed_menu/
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

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Onur Oztaskiran of Monofactor released the full set of 30 3d isometric vector icons called Turqua. The icons are in both editable Illustrator 8 EPS (also viewable with late version of freehand and corel draw) and SVG formats.

These blue icons look absolutely beautiful. You are completely free to edit, change and/or directly use the icons in your site and in any kind of your projects. However, you have to register as a member(Free) in order to download the icons.

Requirements: Register As a Member to Download
Demo: http://www.monofactor.com/free-vector-icon-set-2-turqua-3d…
License: Creative Commons License

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Do you have any products like CDs or DVDs for your readers? Sometimes, you would like your readers know the actual look of the CDs or DVDs. However, It takes quite a bit of time to desgin a CD or DVD case. You do not have to worry about it now, because some of the talented Photoshop designers have created some stunning CD / DVD case templates in PSD format for us. You can customize them easily. You can download them and use them for your products, however, a link back would be appreciated.

1. DVD Case Template by Manicho

2. DVD Plastic Case Template by Manicho

3. Jewel Case Template by LeMarquis

Requirements: -
Demo: http://manicho.deviantart.com/art/DVD-Case-Art-PSD-file-61443492
Demo: http://manicho.deviantart.com/art/dvd-Plastic-Case-PSD-file-86546288
Demo: http://lemarquis.deviantart.com/art/JEWEL-CASE-PSD-FILE-69316052
License: License Free or Creative Commons License

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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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Carousel.us is a Javascript 3D carousel, using the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js frameworks. It also uses PHP Easy Reflections by Richard Davey. You will find a configuration file which you can define the default parameters or you can also define them via URL using the GET method. You can set the Reflection opacity, Reflection height, spacing between images, Position of the carousel center, Carousel speed and Add onclick event on each image.

Requirements: Prototype and Scriptaculous Framework
Demo: http://www.piksite.com/carousel.us/carousel.us.php
License: Creative Commons 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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The Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) version 2 is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by using the mootools javascript framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP.

This Vista-like Ajax Calendar script is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 3.0 License. You can use these files however you want, but don’t redistribute without the proper credits and do not use this for commercial purposes.

Requirements: Mootools Framework
Demo: http://dev.base86.com/scripts/vista-like_ajax_calendar_version_2.html
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

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Few days ago, one of our readers has found an interesting site with huge collections of different sounds. I found it really useful and we could use them in our websites and web applications. Sometimes, adding little but not too much sounds in our sites can enhance the user experience. And they can even give your site more life.

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to

• Browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
• Upload and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
• You can even interact with fellow sound-artists

Requirements: -
Demo: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu
License: Creative Commons License

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Blog Perfume has just released a set of high quality Blogging Icons Set for bloggers. There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs including Author, Article, BlogRoll, Comment, Email, RSS, Theme icon and etc… It comes with 3 sizes, 24×24, 36×36 and 48×48 in png format. Blogging Icons Set is released under Creative Commons License, you can use it on your personal and commercial projects.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.blogperfume.com/free-glossy-blogging-icons-set-for-bloggers/
License: Creative Commons License

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