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Percentage Loader jQuery Plugin
jQuery.PercentageLoader is a jQuery plugin for displaying a progress widget in a more visually striking way than the ubiquitous horizontal progress bar or textual counter.
Get itLovelicon - A Glyph Icon Set
This set includes 96 icons in PNG format and a fully layered, well-organized PSD making it possible to scale or edit the icons according to your needs. Fits nicely into mobile app and web design projects.
Get itInspirational Website of the Week
Tag Creative is our pick for this week's website inspiration. It has some cool parallax scrolling effects with a twist.
Check it outWallpaper Pack - Freebie
Jamie Peak has released a great pack of 5 super-slick wallpapers for free.
Check it outSelect2
Select2 is a jQuery-based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.
Get itHow to Build a Stylish CSS3 Search Box
Learn how to create a nice CSS3 search box using pseudo-elements in this tutorial by Catalin Rosu.
Read itGriffonage Font
Griffonage is an uppercase handwritten font with a chalk/pencil/crayon feel. Great for headings, it makes a statement with its rough handwritten scrawl style.
Get itSocialite.js
Socialite provides a very easy way to implement and activate various social sharing buttons. It can be activated on document load, on article hover or on any event. Asynchronous Socialite won't cause document rendering to hang while waiting for 50kb of social media.
Try itFocus on the right-hand side
A great article by Chris Da Sie who argues that users instinctively have greater trust for content that appears on the right-hand side of the screen and shows how to make use of that insight.
Read itBraun UI (PSD)
Adrien Olczak shares the PSD of this lovely set of small user interface icons from "vintage" Braun products.
Get itWhy Aren’t You Using SVG?
Jonathan Cutrell asks this fundamental question and explains the advantages of SVG, what it is and how it can be used. It's definitely time to dive into SVG and this article will give you a great introduction.
Read itHaxe Programming Language
If you did not know about it yet, Haxe is a open-source multi-platform programming language that can be compiled to all popular programming platforms. It is strictly typed and its syntax is similar to many common languages.
Check it outResponsive Ad Checker
After his great article "Responsive Banner Ads with HTML5 and CSS3", Matthew James Taylor developed the "Responsive Ad Checker" site where one can check HTML5 banner ads at multiple sizes.
Check it outjQuery Picture
A tiny (2kb) jQuery plugin to help ease the transition to responsive images until the new format is approved and implemented by browsers. It supports both, figure elements with some custom data attributes and the new proposed picture format.
Check it out12 Free Minimal Web Patterns
Another great freebie from WeGraphics: this free pattern set for Photoshop contains 12 minimal pixel patterns for use as web backgrounds. These patterns are subtle and add a touch of texture to your website designs.
Get itjQuery++
A collection of useful DOM helpers and special events for jQuery 1.7 and later, providing low-level utilities for things that jQuery doesn't support.
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