WooCons #1 is a set of 170 good looking icons that is shared by WooThemes.

The icon set is very ideal to be used in web applications as it covers the most used ones like actions, documents, player controls, charts and much more.

The set comes as 32*32px in transparent PNG format.

It is also mentioned that the “#1″ is a sign that we can expect more icons from WooThemes in the future (looking forward to them).

Website: http://www.woothemes.com/2010/08/woocons1/

HTML5 has a built-in validation that doesn’t require any JavaScript. However, currently, it only works in Webkit browsers and can’t be used in Firefox, Opera or IE.

jQuery.Html5form is a jQuery plugin that adds the lacking HTML5 form validation features to non-compatible browsers.

It doesn’t require any custom functions or coding. Just create your form with the HTML5 syntax and it’ll execute them automatically.

Optionally, the plugin offers features to help customizing how the errors will be handled like the the error messages, where they’ll be displayed, their styles, etc.

And, it works with multiple forms on the same page as well (each of them can be customized differently).

Requirements: jQuery
Compatibility: All Major Browsers (only Firefox, Opera & IE needs it)
Website: http://www.matiasmancini.com.ar/html5form_en.php
Demo: http://www.matiasmancini.com.ar/demo_html5form_en.php

Yes I received a package today from Matt Mullenberg , yes it was a T shirt from him, I knew he was going to send it and he did, this means a lot to me , thank you one more time

jTweetsAnywhere is a jQuery Twitter widget for easily integrating tweets into any website.

It supports Twitter’s @Anywhere features and can display:

• tweets from one or more user’s feeds
• tweets from a user’s list
• results of a Twitter search

The widget automatically detects URLs, #hashtags, @usernames and link them accordingly (shows Hovercards when hovering @username or profile images).

It also adds a tweetbox to your website where users can tweet instantly and adds a “connect with Twitter” button so visitors can follow you without leaving the website.

jTweetsAnywhere comes with many options for a maximum customization and lets you to enable/disable the tweetbox + follow buttons, set the number of tweets to be displayed and more.

What Font Is is a free web-based service that helps identifying and/or finding alternatives of a font.

It works by simply uploading (or mentioning the URL of) an image including the text.

The service offers the option to include only free and/or commercial fonts in the results.

And, you can browse a gallery of 70,000+ fonts inside the “All Fonts” menu.

IDrive Plug-in for WordPress is an easy to use backup utility, designed specifically to backup WordPress blog data into your IDrive online backup account. It provides scheduled as well as immediate backup of WordPress blog data including files and MySQL database dump.

Install and activate the IDrive Plug-in for WordPress. Through the Plug-in, create a new IDrive online backup account to start backing up your WordPress data.

Features

Immediate backup of WordPress blog data, both files as well as MySQL data dump, into your IDrive online backup account Scheduled backups occur after 12 midnight every day Immediate restore of backed up data from your IDrive online backup account Smart backup – Only the first backup transfers entire WordPress content, subsequent backups are incremental where only the modified data is backed up Automatic notification via email on backup / restore status Secure transfer of data to IDrive server using SSL. Non SSL transfer option is also available for non SSL servers Detailed logging of backup / restore operations

System Requirements

WordPress 2.8.5 or higher hosted on a Linux / Unix system. WordPress blog hosted on a Windows system is not supported Javascript enabled web browser – IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome Admin access to WordPress dashboard to activate the Plug-in PHP 5.1 or higher Download: http://www.idrive.com/wordpress.htm

FlareVideo is an open source and free HTML5 video player that falls back to Flash for incompatible browsers.

The player can be customized easily using CSS-HTML and JS with its theming support (and already ships with 3 themes: default, spotify and Vimeo).

Click here to view the embedded video.

“We are working on bringing the device later this fall,” said Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai at CompuTex Taipei, Asia’s biggest IT trade show.

“It’s something which we are very excited by … We expect it to reach millions of users on day one,” he said.

The open source operating system is based on the Chrome browser, which is designed to work exclusively with web applications.

More than 70 million people use the Chrome browser, according to Google.

However, the jury is still out on Google’s ability to challenge Microsoft, analysts said, pointing out that it remains to be seen if hardware manufacturers will launch Chrome-based products.

Cloud Zoom is a lightweight (6kb) jQuery image zoom plugin that comes with impressive features.

The plugin is unobtrusive and displays the zoomed version of the images:

• near the thumbnail image
• inside the thumbnail image (inner zoom)

when hovered.

It works in a “gallery mode” by default which automatically display a list images, shows the clicked one and can zoom to that image. This is very useful specially for product showcases (like in e-commerce websites).

The smoothness of the zoom effect, tint over the thumbnail or lens opacity can be totally customized and the plugin can be styled via CSS.

Nivo Zoom is a Lightbox-like but simpler image zooming jQuery plugin from the developers of the popular Nivo Slider.

The plugin is lightweight (4kb compressed), focused only on images and comes with a bunch of settings.

It supports 5 different zoom types and can show image captions (long texts are handled well).

Nivo Zoom, by default, doesn’t use overlays but can display the bigger image with an overlay where the opacity and colors of it can be customized.

Requirements: jQuery
Compatibility: All Major Browsers (except IE6)
Website: http://nivozoom.dev7studios.com/