We have got an official User Interface Library of jQuery eventually… It is called jQuery UI, is a set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.The core of the library revolves around different mouse interactions, namely drag and dropping, sorting, selecting, and resizing.

On top of the core interactions are built a number of reusable widgets, including accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders, table sorters, and tabs. Finally, the library is finished off with a few effects that you can use to liven up your site, specifically magnifier and shadow. The photo gallery and the speed testing application is particular impressive which shows you the power of the UI.

Requirements: jQuery Javascript Framework
Demo: http://ui.jquery.com/
License: MIT License / GPL License

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Democracy Ajax Poll is a WordPress plugin which adds polling functionality to your WordPress blog. It grew out of frustration with the only other WordPress polling option, WP-poll. It didn’t have valid markup, it was clunky, and it required one heck of an installation process.

This plugin uses Ajax for quick sending and loading of poll data, although it doesn’t depend on javascript to function. It is fully functional in non-javascript environments, meaning it will work in ALL browsers. The Ajax part is tested to work in Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE6/Win.

Democracy Ajax Poll also has a full-featured admin panel, which allows one to manage their polls. You can activate, edit, delete, and add new polls from the admin panel. It uses cookies as well as IP logging to prevent users from working spamming the ballot box. It is good looking and also allows in-post polling. The most important point is that there is no linkback of author on the poll, so it looks like it is really your own poll which is better than PollDaddy polls.

Requirements: WordPress 2.0 or Greater
Demo: http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy
License: GPL License

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CSSTidy allows you to optimise your CSS code in order to have faster loading pages and lower traffic costs. So both you and your visitors benefit from an optimisation. CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser. It is available as executeable file (available for Windows, Linux and OSX) which can be controlled per command line and as PHP script (both with almost the same functionality).

In opposite to most other CSS parsers, no regular expressions are used and thus CSSTidy has full CSS2 support and a higher reliability. An online version of CSSTidy is also avaliable.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://cdburnerxp.se/cssparse/css_optimiser.php
License: GPL License

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BoxOver uses javascript / DHTML to show tooltips on a website. Implementation of the tooltips, however, requires no knowledge of DHTML or javascript. There are many tweaks which can be set to customise it to your needs by setting through a tag’s “title” attribute. Some of them are very useful.

• Specifies the header and body text of the tooltip
• Specifies CSS class for styles to be used on tooltip header and body.
• Make tooltip stick to side of the window if user moves close to the side of the screen.
• Specifies whether to halt the tooltip when the user double clicks on the HTML element with the tooltip.
• Specifies whether to hide all SELECT boxes on page when popup is activated.
• Specifies whether to fade tooltip into visibility and how fast to fade in tooltip.
• Specifies delay in milliseconds before tooltip displays.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 5+, Mozilla 1.4+, FireFox 0.9.3+, Opera 7+
Demo: http://boxover.swazz.org/example.html
License: GNU License

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RoundCube is a modern webmail solution which is easy to install and that runs on a standard PHP/MySQL configuration. The skins use the latest web standards such as XHTML and CSS 2. There are many exciting features RoundCube provides, for example, Multilingual capabilities, Full support of HTML, Find-as-you-type address book integration, Spell Checking and Complete customization with skins. RoundCube Webmail is released under the GPL License. Everyone is welcome to download and use it, deploy it and to re-distribute it.

Requirements: Server with PHP and mySQL
Demo: http://roundcube.net/?p=demo
License: GPL License

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Do you want to get a heatmap of where your visitors are clicking and enhance your website’s result? Now you can install it on your own server without paying a penny. ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. You are free to download it and start visualize your visitors in order to find out which design encourages visitors to click deeper.

Requirements: Firefox 1.5+, Internet Explorer 6+, Konqueror
Demo: http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.php (Username:demo Password:demo)
License: GPL License

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jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages. You can animate hiding, showing, and toggling the display of elements easily. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. It is lightweight (20kb) which supports CSS 1-3 and basic Xpath syntax. If you have not tried it yet, please try it, I am sure you will be amazed.

Interface is a collection of rich interface components which utilizes the lightweight JavaScript library jQuery. With this components you can build rich client web applications and interfaces with the same simplicity as writing JavaScript with jQuery.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+
Demo: JQuery - http://jquery.com Interface - http://interface.eyecon.ro/demos
License: MIT and GPL License

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Other than Tango Top Quality Vector Icons, there is another set of professional high quality icons - GNOME 2.18. GNOME 2.18 Icons are in PNG ( Transparent background which can easily integrate into any web site) and SVG format ( Scalable which means you can increase the size of the icons without losing quality. There are over 600 icons altogether. I think this is one of the best icon sets I have ever seen.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon/1352
License: GPL License

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dhtmlxVault (DHTML extensions File Upload) helps you to implement a modern and feature-rich file uploading part of your web application. So much wanted, the Progress bar will inform your customer during long-time operation about the ongoing process. Different file types are displayed with corresponding icons (you may add more file types when required). Built with AJAX technology, the control allows files to be uploaded seamlessly without reloading the entire webpage.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 6+, Mozilla 1.4+, FireFox 0.9+
Demo: http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxVault/
License: GPL License

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Are you tired of using some small and ugly web 2.0 services icons? You should try the Web 2.0 Services Icons Pack which is made by Made by ilemoned and miniajax. They looks amazing and all in PSD and PNG formats, it is very easy to modified and blend it to your website.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.miniajax.com/social-media-icons.php
License: GPL License

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