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Social Media Streams From Different Networks — Socialist

Socialist is a jQuery plugin that pulls the feeds from social networks into one place.

socialist Social Media Streams From Different Networks    SocialistSocialist uses two other jQuery plugins for layout and cross-website requests.

All in all, this plugin works as a good playground or a blog page that displays all your social network activities in one place.

It appears that the plugin displays the fetched data chronologically, but a random option is available as well.

Load Scripts, CSS And HTML5 Safely — head.js

head.js is a loader library for the contemporary developer.

headjs Load Scripts, CSS And HTML5 Safely    head.jshead.js allows you to load plugins simultaneously and still load the page while the plugins are loading.

Of course, other features are there, too: develop rule sets for different resolutions and browsers.

This library provides an awesome set of features that increase the website’s performance and allows developers to use new features without sweating about IE.

Versatile jQuery Slideshows — Cycle2

Cycle2 is a neat little slideshow plugin written upon jQuery.

cycle2 Versatile jQuery Slideshows    Cycle2Cycle2 sports a number of features expected from a contemporary slider:

  • Responsive design;
  • No extra scripting needed;
  • Supports image preloads and delayed initialization;
  • Support for swipe gestures and caption/title features.
  • Users can bookmark specific slides.

This is indeed a neat plugin with all the features you’d expect, plus some more. Also, the modular structure ensures that the slider will take a minimum file size.

Sticky Content While Scrolling — Stick ‘em

Stick ‘em ‘s a jQuery plugin that makes content sticky while scrolling.

stickem Sticky Content While Scrolling    Stick emStick ‘em is useful both in the developer’s described scenario — when some images are too tall, resulting in users having to scroll up to read the text accompanying them — and in a scenario where you simply want a sticky sidebar et al.

Easy to implement and flawless to the point of perfection, this is indeed a very useful plugin.

Blur Page Elements Easily — Foggy

Foggy is a jQuery plugin that blurs out page elements.

Foggy Blur Page Elements Easily    FoggyYou can set the opacity and the blur radius for the background page. The plugin uses the -webkit-filer:blur attribute for creating the blur, but falls back to manual mode for unsupported browsers.

Foggy is obviously a great plugin for ‘see more when you log-in/subscribe’ pages, especially if combined with a plugin that disables text select.

A Lightweight Graphics Library — BonsaiJS

BonsaiJS is a lightweight graphics library for JavaScript.

bonsai A Lightweight Graphics Library    BonsaiJSWhile having many uses, BonsaiJS works especially well for shape-based graphics.Indeed, although boasting features like gradients and easing, the very basis of this all remains shapes which you can then cut like your own bonsai tree.

It comes packed with an SVG renderer and mixins that implement Flash-like functionality.

BonsaiJS can be used to make games, charts, interactive experiments and so forth.