Share Your Code with GitHub for Mac

GitHub for Mac has just launched recently. Now you can Clone repositories, Browse history, Commit changes, Branch code, and Share code on github.com as simple as possible. The sync button pushes your changes to GitHub and pulls down other’s changes in one operation.

You can add a repository by dragging a folder to the application. When you add repositories to GitHub for Mac, they automatically match them up with any organizations you belong to.



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Open Source Vector Graphics Scripting Framework

Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.

Paper.js is easy to learn for beginners and has lots to master for intermediate and advanced users. Paper.js is developed by Jürg Lehni & Jonathan Puckey, and distributed under the permissive MIT License.



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VisualSearch.js – Autocomplete Faceted Search Queries

VisualSearch.js enhances ordinary search boxes with the ability to autocomplete faceted search queries. Specify the facets for completion, along with the completable values for any facet. You can retrieve the search query as a structured object, so you don’t have to parse the query string yourself.

You can also check out the live example of a search on DocumentCloud.org that uses facets. VisualSearch.js is an open-source component of DocumentCloud, and it is hosted on GitHub.



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CSS Prism – A CSS Color Spectrum Inspector

CSS Prism is a CSS color spectrum inspector. Input the path to any .css file, and it will output an easy to scan display of all hex colors from the file. Unwanted colors can be edited via a Photoshop-like color picker and the resulting .css file can be downloaded for your convenience.

The CSS Prism Bookmarklet will insert links to any webpage’s linked .css files just inside the body tag. CSS Prism will be quite helpful to you if you are building more sites at work.



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Fully Automated Web Application Security Scanner

Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes.

The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (but hopefully non-disruptive) security checks. The final report generated by the tool is meant to serve as a foundation for professional web application security assessments.



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Create CSS Sprite Images Easily with Sprite Cow

Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css. I personally found it pretty useful and easy to use.

There are one or two rather clever tricks happening with Javascript and Canvas to discover the dimensions of images and generate the CSS, they have also shared the code on Github so that others can see under the hood.



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TN3 Gallery: Slick and Easy to Use jQuery Image Gallery

TN3 Gallery is a full fledged HTML based customizable jQuery image gallery with slideshow, transitions and multiple album options. It is compatible with all modern desktop and mobile browsers. And it is powered by our beloved jQuery.

With TN3 Gallery you can easily create amazing photo galleries and slideshows with multiple albums, image preloading, dynamic image sizing, mouse wheel navigation, optional captions, thumbnail carousel, CSS skinning, XML and Flickr support.

TN3 Photo Gallery looks really clean and easy to use. There are 5 transition styles you can choose to use, including fade, slide, blinds, grid and none. All transition styles are very smooth. It works really well on photo or image gallery sites.



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An Interactive, Collaborative Art Website Built in HTML5

The Endless Mural is an interactive, collaborative art website built in HTML5. You can experiment, play and draw, using all the tools and artwork provided. When you are happy with what you have created, submit your composition to the endless mural and become a part of this global collaboration.

See your own drawing as a part of an ever growing, ever evolving whole, and take a look at what contributors from all over the world have created.



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FlickrBomb – Fill Your Prototypes with Relevant Content

Adding relevant images to static prototypes is a pain, that is why folks tend to fill them in with placeholders. If you really want to add an image, you have to search for it, download it, crop it to right size, and then add it to your prototype. That is until now.

flickrBomb is an easy way for you to fill your prototypes with relevant content, and not just those dull gray placeholder images. Hover over the images and click the wrench icon to see flickrBomb in action.



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jQuery HTML5 Music Player

Orman Clark has designed a pretty slick compact music player interface in PSD some time ago. Now, someone has coded the design into an awesome HTML5 Music Player in jQuery for us. The user interface is very clean and easy to use.



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Javascript Frameworks and jQuery (Infographic)

We always wanted to know the comparison of numbers among the most popular Javascript frameworks and web applications developed by those frameworks. Here is an infographic of Javascript Frameworks and jQuery. It includes jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, YUI, Dojo, Extjs and etc.

From the infographic, you can get an idea of how many installations of those frameworks have been measured over the last month. It is also interesting to know that Version 1.3.2 is the most popular version of jQuery at the moment.



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HTML5 Templates Generator for HTML5 Projects

Initializr is an HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with an HTML5 project. It is built on HTML5 Boilerplate, a powerful HTML5 template created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian.

Initializr will generate for you a clean customizable template based on Boilerplate with just what you need to start. Some functionalities have been removed from Boilerplate to focus on what most people really use.



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HTML5 Drag & Drop Image File Uploader jQuery Plugin

Droparea is a HTML5 drag and drop image file uploader jQuery plug-in and a php script for server-side. Simply drag the image file into the specified area, the image will be automatically uploaded to your server. You can also see the progress of the upload too. It has been tested on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.



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Show Vector Maps with jVectorMap jQuery Plugin

jVectorMap is a jQuery plugin employed to show vector maps and visualize data on HTML pages. It uses SVG in all modern browsers like Firefox 3 or 4, Safari, Chrome, Opera, IE9, while legacy support for older versions of IE from 6 to 8 is provided with VML.

Using jVectorMap is pretty simple. All you need is to include JavaScript and CSS files. While initializing map you can also provide parameters to change its look and feel easily.



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Admin Style Interfaces for Ruby on Rails

Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails plugin for generating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.

Active Admin’s interface was designed from the ground up for non-technical users. It makes it easy for developers to build highly usable interfaces that customers will actually enjoy using. You can get started with one line of code or customize the entire interface with the provided DSL.



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Cloud Zoom: Image Zoom jQuery Plugin with More Features

Cloud Zoom is a jQuery plugin comparable to commercial image zoom products such as Magic Zoom. Compared to the popular jQZoom plugin, Cloud Zoom is smaller, has more features and more robust compatability across browsers. It has been tested on IE6+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari.

You can add a tint of any colour to the small image. The intensity of tint is fully customisable. Zoom position can be inside the smaller image, useful if you would rather not obscure any other content. You can also apply a subtle soft-focus effect to the small image. Best of all, Cloud Zoom is completely free.



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AtMail 6 Webmail Client + Email Server + Stunning Interface

Remember we have mentioned AtMail 5 long time ago. Recently, they have launched a new version of Atmail as a complete Webmail, Mail-server and CalDAV server for ISPs/Webhosting providers and Small-business. AtMail 6 is a Linux based Webmail Client + Email solution which brings your organizations email under control.

AtMail 6 has been completely rebuilt from the ground up using Zend, jQuery, a true Web2.0 interface, Gmail email threading, inline attachment thumbnails, full IMAP/S support, CalDAV client/server – The aim is to provide users an alternative to Gmail or Exchange running on your own networks. It’s faster, lighter and more logical. The new version of AtMail really impressed me. It is very powerful and easy to use. The new user interface is absolutely stunning.



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Realtime Log Monitoring Across Multiple Machines with Log.io

Your infrastructure has hundreds of log files spread across dozens of machines. For monitoring deployments and troubleshooting, you need to instantly see composite streams of log messages in a single user interface.

Log.io is a real-time log monitoring in your browser. Harvesters watch log files for changes, send new log messages to the server, which broadcasts to web clients. Users create stream and history screens to view and search log messages.

Web client has been tested in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Harvester & Server have been tested on Ubuntu 10.10.



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Typesafe – Enterprise-Grade Scala from the Experts

Typesafe is a modern software platform that makes it easy for developers to build scalable software applications. It combines the Scala programming language, Akka middleware, and robust developer tools in a simple package that integrates seamlessly with existing Java infrastructure.

Scala and Akka are deployed in production at some of the largest web properties and financial institutions in the world, and run on the battle-tested Java runtime environment. Deploy with confidence.

The Typesafe Stack is 100% open source, integrated distribution offering Scala, Akka, sbt, and the Scala plugin for Eclipse. And it is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows and requires the Java runtime version 1.6 or later.



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How to Create Fancy Checkboxes and Radio Buttons

Marko Dugonjić teaches us how to Create Fancy Checkboxes and Radio Buttons in forms with a typical markup, a few lines of CSS and some JavaScript functions. He has also provided the jQuery version too.



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How to Create GitHub’s Tree Slider with HTML5

Do you like GitHub’s Tree Slider? The new HTML5 History API (which really has nothing to do with HTML – it’s a JavaScript API) allows us to manage the URL changes while CSS3 transitions handle the sliding. Permalinks are always maintained, your back button works as expected, and it’s much faster than waiting for a full page load.

Take a look at The Tree Slider by GitHub, to see how to implement that. Basically they intercept your click, call pushState() to change the browser’s URL, load in data with Ajax, then slide over to it.



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