JavaScript made easy with Pines Notify and jQuery

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May
27

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.

SeeSaw offers PPV (pay-per-view) service

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May
20

SeeSaw, now owned by Arqiva after previously being known as Project Kangaroo -  (then owned and run by BBC Worldwide, ITV.com and Channel 4), have released a premium PPV online TV service.

The service will include content from BBC Worldwide, Disney, MTV and Comedy Central offering a wide mix of UK and US premium content.

It’s fair to say this looks like a cracking deal and could encourage users to the site in droves.  I’ll certainly be keeping an eye on the service over the next few months to see how they progress.

For more information see “SeeSaw launches pay-per-view premium service” – Brand Republic

Litmus – Email testing made easy

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May
17

If you are a developer who’s looking to quickly and easily test your email templates without the mundane task of logging into each email client, testing in all the major browsers (for online email clients) or maybe you’re a client who wants to ensure the agency that’s building your templates is keeping up their side of the bargain then this tool is for you.

Although Litmus is more than a testing app, its USP is most definitely its ability to speed up the development process by quickly and seamlessly highlighting problem areas within HTML templates.

With a wide range of email clients to test with this tool will most definitely prove to be a string in any developers bow:

Mobile devices

  • Apple iPhone 3GS
  • BlackBerry 8800
  • Symbian S60
  • Windows Mobile 6.5

Email clients

  • AOL Mail  IE & Firefox
  • Apple Mail 4
  • Apple Mail 3
  • Entourage 2008
  • Gmail  IE & Firefox
  • Hotmail  IE & Firefox
  • Lotus Notes 8
  • Lotus Notes 7
  • Lotus Notes 6.5
  • Mobile Me  IE & Firefox
  • Outlook 2010 Beta
  • Outlook 2007
  • Outlook 2003
  • Outlook 2002/XP
  • Outlook 2000
  • Postbox
  • Thunderbird
  • Windows Live Mail
  • Windows Mail
  • Yahoo!  IE & Firefox

Although I do hope the browser support is increased there is no doubt that I will be looking to use this tool on future projects.

Take a look at Litmus for yourself.

jQuery Parallax Effect

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May
16

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

jQTouch for easy iPhone development

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May
16

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