Noisy is a straightforward little jQuery plugin that adds noise to any given element.

Noisy is very easy to use.

You can apply the following options: amount of noise; set background color; tile size; fallback image (if canvas isn’t supported); and monochromatic on/off.

Such small plugins are quite a virtue actually, because everyone seems to be writing plugins with hundreds upon hundreds of features, but that usually makes the plugin end up scattered and not useful.

• Website: https://github.com/DanielRapp/Noisy

One of the hot topic in web development nowadays is about HTML5 Video Player . Here are 10 best HTML5 video players which allow you to easily embed video into web pages and ensure backwards compatibility.

LimeJS is a HTML5 game framework for building fast, native-experience games for all modern touchscreens and desktop browsers.

Games created with LimeJS framework do not require any browser plug-ins or any additional software installation to run – just a modern web browser is needed. Current version of LimeJS supports almost all HTML5 capable browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox and even Opera.

• Website: http://www.limejs.com/
• Demo: http://www.limejs.com/static/zlizer/index.html

AwesomeChartJS is an Apache-licensed JavaScript chart generator.

Although there are numerous APIs for charts already, AwesomeChart utilizes the canvas element thoroughly, and is easier to use than most.

AwesomeChart supports six types of charts: Horizontal bar, Vertical bar, Pareto, Pie, Exploded, and Doughnut charts.

The main idea behind this chart plugin was to make it easy to use — and the devs have succeeded.

You can create complex charts with just few lines of code, and customize them easily (change the font, add stroke, and adjust margin sizes).

• Website: http://cyberpython.github.com/AwesomeChartJS/
• Demo: http://cyberpython.github.com/AwesomeChartJS/#chart_types

HTML5 as being developed as the next major revision of HTML is opening new doors to web professionals. With its unparalleled functionality, it actually boasts exciting new features and capabilities. To facilitate more advanced web development, Template Monster has introduced a range of must-have eBooks which deliver all the HTML5 related valuable information you need to get up and running with building next-generation HTML5 websites.

They’ve arranged these resources in a special way so you could find the eBook according to your experience level. You’ll see a compilation for HTML5 beginners and then a round-up of eBooks for HTML5 intermediate and advanced users.

• Website: http://blog.templatemonster.com/2011/01/27/12-excellent-html5-ebooks/#

The purpose of microformats is to describe contextual page content for computers and search engine crawlers without appearing any different to your average visitor. Examples could include describing calendar events, relationships, phone numbers, and even publishers or producers on a certain project.

Speckyboy has published a very interesting article in which you can discover all the microformats and how to use them.

• Website: http://speckyboy.com/2011/01/24/beginners-study-guide-to-html5-microformats/