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The Lightbox Clones Matrix: Compare 30+ Lightbox Scripts

Early 2006, a cool guy named Lokesh Dhakar introduced Lightbox, a unobtrusive script used to display large images using modal dialogs over a black faded background. A great script, really. Since, every once in a while, someone comes up with their own take at this concept, using this or that javascript library (jQuery, Prototype, Mootools, YUI, you name it) and…

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WordPress Bug Fixers Heat Map

Anyone can notify about bugs in WordPress using Trac, where also anyone can submit patches to fix them. When someone actually submits a patch which is later on approved by head developers and included in WordPress' core, the changelog contains a tiny credit to them: "props Joti" for example (props meaning something like thanks, yeepee, kudos, or respect). Do you…

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Headbanging link of the day: MetalAd creates a skyscraper-like banner from your heavy metal tastes (as stored by Last.fm). (my metal ad for instance). The generating PHP script is even open-sourced.

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Hey, funny. Sony digital cameras save photos with a pattern name starting from DSC00001.JPG and incrementing. What do you think Sony users shoot for their first picture ? Boobies! :) Via delicious/popular and a very old post from Engadget.

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Instant Polaroid Effect to Your Pictures With Javascript

This is pure awesomeness. Instant.js is an 8.5 kb javascript file (uncompressed, you can shrink it down to around 5 kb) which adds on the fly a "Polaroid Effect" to your pictures (white frame, light curl and a drop shadow). What I like about this is the unobstrusiveness (?) and the fact it does not use Flash. Too bad MSIE…

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