April, 2011

Apprise is a jQuery plugin for creating unobtrusive alerts that don’t bite the eye.

You can style, position, animate, and add events to the alerts with Apprise. It weighs 4kb minified.

There are quite a few types of dialogs you can make with Apprise: a confirm dialog; verify dialog; and an input.

Use Apprise if you don’t want to use a huge plugin for rather simple things.

Zoey is a mobile framework on top on zepto.js that aims to be small and fast. The golder rule is: don’t generate any extra markup and do everything through progressive enhancements and CSS.

Zoey tries to keep it simple and weights at only 9KB JavaScript + 24KB CSS (no GZip). For comparison, jQuery Mobile is 60KB JavaScript + 41KB CSS. This doesn’t include the jQuery library which may or may not be available in the cache. That’s a few KBs off and a good improvement. To speed downloads even further, zepto.js (12KB) is used instead of the full-blown desktop version of jQuery (80KB).

BloggyBits is an easy to use flash widget that enables you to showcase your latest social media activity on your website or blog.

You can choose which the social sites ones you want and rearrange them in any order you like.

Key features

• Free flash widget to showcase latest social media activity
• Supports Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, flickr, delicious, and a custom RSS feed
• Option to configure the widget via a unique URL

Peity (pronounced like deity) is a small library for creating small charts with the canvas tag.

Peity is so awesome because you can easily compare important numbers for the user in your web applications.

For example, a web statistics app can show the difference between the visits in the first month and the second month with Peity.

You can also change the graphs in real-time and even create your own chart types.

WordCounter is an easy to use online tool that enables you to check out the most frequently used words in any given body of text.

Key features

• Free, online word frequency counter
• Option to exclude small words like it, if, the etc.,
• Choose the number of words to be listed and whether to use only root words

GLGE is a WebGL framework slash library for making sense of the WebGL API.

GLGE introduces a number of useful features for making coding games and landscapes easier.

For example:

• Keyframe animation (like that of Flash)
• Skeletal animation
• Fog generation
• Normal mapping
• Depth shadows

Although the library is largely a work in progress, some of its features cannot be found in others.