Verbose Calendar is a calendar plugin for jQuery that prints out the whole year in months and days.

Verbose Calendar can be used for event planning in companies, or even an OCD-driven to-do list.

Puns aside, this plugin is quite peculiar, but placing the nuts and bolts are left up to you as this Calendar ships with but a few events.

• Website: http://iamjpg.github.com/jQuery-Verbose-Calendar/

JamCity is a jQuery plugin for fetching the top tracks and albums from a given last.fm account.

The plugin, upon fetching the information needed, outputs a beautiful layout of things that were requested.

JamCity, I imagine, can be useful for music blogs and review sites, and for personal websites, too.

Using JamCity requires a last.fm API key, but it’s really easy to obtain.

• Website: http://bluetidepro.github.com/jQuery.JamCity

String is an Underscore library for string manipulation that works with or without Underscore.

It’s quite akin to string.js we’ve covered earlier, yet the library in question here is richer in terms of features.

As the nuts and bolts are what’s important in string manipulation, here are some features that this library offers:

• Capitalize first letter;
• Clean (compress whitespaces);
• Truncate;
• Quote;
• etc.

• Website: http://epeli.github.com/underscore.string/

Super Labels is a plugin for adding labels on top of input and select fields.

The plugin comes with several options, most of which are pretty straightforward and expected, and the easing option seems to bet the most useful in terms of design.

Super Labels is licensed under the generous MIT license.

• Website: https://github.com/remybach/jQuery.superLabels
• Demo: http://remy.bach.me.uk/superlabels_demo/

OmniWindow is a jQuery plugin for creating modal windows.

At 139 lines and 6kb (not minified), OmniWindow is an impressive programming feat, given its customizability and options.

OmniWindow stores CSS externally, and allows for a minimum of customziation options, although not aspiring to be a ‘plugin template’, as OmniWindow can be used on its own.

It features two events — show and hide — and a number of callbacks for implementing animations.

• Website: http://0x000000.github.com/OmniWindow/

AppJS is a desktop application development framework.

AppJS is currently available only on Linux, but Mac and Windows ports are on the way.

The application’s core is Chromium, allowing you to use the newest and the most complex HTML5 APIs and functions available out there.

Overall, AppJS is an interesting solution at the very least, especially given that it uses Node.js as its backbone — fascinating for desktop app development, really.

• Website: http://appjs.org/