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SlabText — A jQuery Plugin for producing big, bold & responsive headlines
Put simply, the script splits headlines into rows before resizing each row to fill the available horizontal space. The ideal number of characters to set on each row is calculated by dividing the available width by the pixel font-size – the script then uses this ideal character count to split the headline into word combinations …
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Piecon — Pie charts in your favicon!
tiltShift.js
Walkable — Sample PhoneGap app
I’d like to take a moment and introduce “Walkable Restaurants” (or just “Walkable” as I like to call it), a new application that I built to demonstrate how to create PhoneGap applications using Backbone.js. Built using PhoneGap, Twitter Bootstrap (UI), Leaflet (Maps), Backbone.js, App-UI, Underscore.js, jQuery, and iScroll. Walkable Source (GitHub) →
Cordova client tool
The command line tool to build, deploy and manage Cordova-based applications. Once installed — via npm — you get to do stuff like this: cordova create ~/KewlApp cd ~/KewlApp cordova platform add ios cordova platform add android cordova plugin add http://example.org/Kewlio-1.2.3.tar.gz cordova build Great to see how the Cordova Platform (formerly known as PhoneGap — …
Geocoder — The almost missing Geocoder PHP 5.3 library.
Uses FreeGeoIp, HostIp, IpInfoDB, Yahoo! PlaceFinder, Google Maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMaps, Geoip, and CloudMade geocoding services to geocode addresses and IP Addresses. <?php // Create an adapter $adapter = new \Geocoder\HttpAdapter\BuzzHttpAdapter(); // Create a Geocoder object and pass it your adapter $geocoder = new \Geocoder\Geocoder(); // Then, register all providers your want $geocoder->registerProviders(array( new \Geocoder\Provider\YahooProvider( …
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Impaktor— The Drum Synthesizer
gifsockets
This library shows how to achieve realtime text communication using GIF images as transport. The idea is pretty simple. We use Animated Gif images to stream data in real time to the browser. Since a gif image doesn’t specify how many frames it has, once the browser opens it, it will keep waiting for new …
NoPassword Pattern
NoPassword factors out the password from the registration process. You “register” with an email address and receive a link that gives you a session on that browser until you log out. If you ever need to log in from somewhere else, you can request another email with a link that will log you in wherever …