HexaFlip is a plugin for creating 3D Cubes to be used as design elements.

HexaFlip allows creating “list cubes”, meaning that the amount of choices isn’t limited to six sides of a cube.

This plugin is useful for date picking and creating playful user interfaces. What’s interesting is that in one demo HexaFlip is implemented as a visual password plugin — which is pretty good.

Sassaparilla is a “set of default rules and style” that starts a website in a consistent manner.

Sassaparilla is very useful for devs as it provides consistent vertical rhythm, and also allows working in pixels consistently.

This template, if one can call Sassaparilla a template, follows a minimalist design; it works with SASS and thus features variables as well.

Browserhacks is a new website that lists all browser-specific JS/CSS hacks.

Browserhacks is useful for targeting browsers and creating a browser-specific style. The website has cool hacks for Opera, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

While the hacks listed all work and are without a doubt useful, the developer reminds that “using a hack is not always the perfect solution”.

Who Says the Web is Just for Squares? is a walkthrough that focuses on building a diamond-based grid.

The idea is that while the web has different varieties of content — videos, text, images and interactive content — the basic look of a website always stays the same.

A client of Trevor Davis apparently thought the same thing and requested a grid made of diamond-like shapes. He uses Modernizr to detect CSS3 transform support, and SASS and Compass for the CSS. Check it out, it’s really interesting!

Spectrum is a jQuery colorpicker that sports most of the features you’d ever need from a color picker.

It doesn’t require any images and is heavily customizable. You can use it as a regular script or opt for the polyfill option for HTML5.

You can put your own color palettes inside of Spectrum; the plugin also comes with alpha transparency and handles most of the color formats out there.

jQuery pics is a stylesheet which provides simple classes for jQuery UI icons.

The icons have a very simple markup and can be used inside href tags as well. The library uses the extracted icons from Bootstrap and the sprites from jQuery’s UI.

This library is useful if you want to have all the jQuery icons without including the jQuery UI.