Andrew Sellick

Whether you’re developing an admin system and want a simple yet stylish way to display system messages to your users or you just want to display latest news notifications on your website, Pines Notify is the script for you.

Simple to use and stylish out of the box, Pines Notify could certain save you a great deal of time and money.

Features include:

• Timed hiding with visual effects.
• Sticky (no automatic hiding) notices.
• Optional hide button.
• Supports dynamically updating text, title, icon, type…
• Stacks allow notice sets to stack independently.
• Control stack direction and push to top or bottom.
• Supports HTML (including forms) in title and text.
• Variable opacity.
• Supports Pines icons/jQuery UI icons/any CSS based icons.
• Supports custom classes for individual notice styling.
• Standard and custom effects.
• Optional drop shadows.

You can find the code and examples on Sourceforge.

If you’re looking for a JavaScript library that can offer unbeatable parallax effects then this library is for you.  It’s called Spritely and it’s a jQuery plugin that really impresses with the speed/smoothness of its animation and the versatility/ease of use.

If you have a look at the Spritely gallery page you can see some very interesting implementations that begin to highlight the potential power of this great little plugin.

Have a look for yourself at: Spritely.net

If you have been looking for a simple yet effective route into the iPhone application market, but you don’t want to invest hours/weeks/months into learning Objective-C then jQTouch might be the way forward for you.

If you don’t know much about iPhone development then you probably won’t know about the simplest approach to build an app using web views, or in simple terms calling HTML pages within the application.  This is where jQTouch really shines.

Using a combination of any of your favourite languages/platforms (I.e. PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) you can develop live data driven applications for the iPhone that will knock your client’s socks off.  jQTouch enables you to take full advantage of web views and your preferred languages whilst fully embarrassing the iPhone’s style and animation effects.  In fact you will be hard pushed to distinguish between a regular application and a jQTouch based app.

The slick, smooth and wide ranging animations it provides between screens offer a mind blowing effects that is sure to impress users, and that doesn’t even include its AJAX capabilities.

I would thoroughly recommend you all have a look:  jQTouch

Well this week I knew as soon as I found this script it had it in the bag.  I have recently been searching for a good Flash 3D Carousel a found some amazing demos over at GOTOANDLEARN.COM which show you exactly how to achieve that effect, however, it then got me into thinking "Has anybody created a JavaScript 3D Carousel?".  Well the answer is yes…

Interface elements for jQuery have developed a really nice implementation of the 3D Carousel which is worth a look.  An implementation guide can be found at Interface Elements.