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Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins from 2010

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:31 AM PDT

With the vast number of jQuery plugins coming out these days it becomes hell of a task to dig up and pick the gems. Here we present some Fresh but Useful jQuery Plugins that might help you improve the reader experience on your site.

Shadow Animation

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With this jQuery plugin, you can extend the animate function to support the CSS box shadow-property. You can animate the color, the x- and y-offset, the blur-radius and spread-radius.

Image Blur

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This is little plugin for soft image blur effect on page load (and 'clear' on hover/rollover).

Popeye – an inline lightbox alternative

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jQuery.popeye is an advanced image gallery script built on the JavaScript library jQuery. Use it to save space when displaying a collection of images and offer your users a nice and elegant way to show a big version of your images without leaving the page flow.

jQuery Easy Confirm Dialog

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This is a jQuery based confirm plugin module that will act as the build in confirm-function in javascript but with the ability to style the dialog window. Only using built in jQuery and jQuery UI functions.

jQuery Ajax File uploader plugin

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This jQuery plugin creates a hidden iframe and sets the form's target attribute to post to that iframe. When the form is submitted, it is posted (including the file uploads) to the hidden iframe. Finally, the plugin collects the server's response from the iframe.

Canimate

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If you've ever wanted to create an animation using a series of images for your website, but were forced to an alternative because you didn't want to deal with the constraints of the GIF filetype, like color limit and difficult-to-deal-with FPS controls, then Canimate is the solution.

jGallery

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jGallery is a jquery plugin to on a elegant way expose all your images and galleries.

ShowLoading

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This plugin is designed to show a loading image over a specific area of the screen (e.g. a specific div or other dom element) while an ajax request is running.

jQTwitter

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jQTwitter allows you to display any user's tweets in a list. You have the ability to set the number of tweets to display as well as the ability to display user's images and set their size. The list is easy to style with some very basic CSS, as all the elements have their own class. Each twitter specific links are converted (ie. @ and #). Easy to use and to implement in your site.

jQuery Touchwipe

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The small 1 KB library allows you to obtain the wipe event on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch which can be used for example to scroll through an image gallery. It can also work for Android Touchscreens.

AeroWindow

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AeroWindow generates very cool Boxes in the Aero Style, inspired by the style of Window7.The popup window offers the usual options and full functionality similar to Windows windows.

jReelGallery

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A jReelGallery is a small image gallery script based on the default OS window scrolling extended with easing. Supports scrolling, key events (e.g.: down and up arrow keys, home and end button). This plugin is highly customizable.

wdCalender

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wdCalendar is a jquery based google calendar clone. It cover most google calendar features like Day/week/month view provided. It can create/update/remove events by drag & drop. You can easily integrate with database.