WP Greet Box is a WordPress Plugin written by Thaya Kareeson, that lets you show greeting messages to your visitors based on their referrer URL. For example, if a visitors visits you from Twitter, he will see a message suggesting him to tweet the post and follow you on Twitter. You have the option to add your own referrers list, besides the existing one. A list of referrers is installed by default. However, you have the option to create your own if some of your favorite referrers are not in the list.

Features include:

• Ability to add/edit/delete/disable the greeting messages
• Ability to auto insert the greeting box to the top or bottom of the post
• Beautiful set of icons shipped along with the different default referrers.
• Show a default greeting message even if the vistor does not match any of your configured referrer URL.
• AJAX administrative interface that uses nonce verification to discourage hackers.
• Ultra customizeable greeting message box (with CSS) allowing you to prepend/append HTML around the greeting message box.

Having these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction. Best of all, this plugin is compatible with WPMU and various WordPress cache plugins (so you do not have to sacrifice speed).

Picok is an enterprise open source application useful to build iGoogle-Like personal information dashboards. The content is loaded into small portlets (small draggable boxes) and layed out in a tabbed 3-column interface. The maintainers of picok installations can create portlets of their own. The application collects information from external sources and displays them in a clear and readable design.

Features include:

• Multi user application & Multi language
• Extendible (the application can be extended with custom portlets and contents)
• Administration Panel
• Drag & Drop
• Tabbed Interface
• Portlet & Tab Management
• Portlet auto refresh
• Graded loading

Picok is written in PHP 5, uses the Yahoo User Interface Library and Zend Framework Components and supports MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Lotus Notes and is ready to be integrated into your corporate intranet, website or community platform as well.

The latest WordPress versions have a nice feature in the plugins page. You are notified everytime a new version of a plugin exists and allows you to automatically update the plugin. However, you may want to know what changes were made to the plugin, what bugs were removed, etc. The WP Changelogger aims to help you by showing the latest changelog in the ‘Plugins’ section.

For many many people a changelog is a very important thing; it is all about justifying to your users why they should upgrade to the latest version of a plugin. Changelogger shows the latest changelog right on the plugin listing page, whenever there’s a plugin ready to be updated.

If you need an application that magnifies specific areas in images, then Magnifying Glass Effect is the right choice for you. Images can be displayed in high resolution with no contrasts. You can define the image path, the display area size, and the lens size (XML or HTML). No Flash programming experience is necessary to edit the file, since all the settings are loaded from an external XML file (easy editable).

Features include:

• Scalable lenses
• Scalable display area
• Scalable image

General details:

• Opens with: Flash CS3+
• Resolution: Resizable
• Published size: 20kb
• ActionScript version: AS3

The image is automatically resized to fit the entire display area, and this is the minimum zoom of the image. The large image is the maximum zoom of the image. Through the lenses the user can see the image at the highest resolution, without the need to wait for a different image to load.

Having a strong password is an essential thing in making accounts more secure. The following scripts can help your users to open an account with a powerful password in order to prevent malicious attacks.

Password Strength Meter is a JQuery plugin that uses a smart algorithm to determine the password strength. For instance, if the password matches the username it will be “bad”; if it is less then 4 characters is is “too short”; if it is long and contains letter, numbers and non-alphanumeric characters it is a “strong” password.

Ajax Password Strength Meter Script is a small JQuery Plugin that provides an easy way to show the strength of a user’s password. Some of the things can be adjusted inside this script such as: messages, length/height of the bar.

Click here to view more password strength meters useful to help your users with a more secure registration…

Free XML Flash Photo Gallery is a an awesome Flash application that allows you to add photo gallery on your website without any tech knowledge or programming skills. This is the ideal photo gallery for photographers, artists, or anyone who wants to feature an image showcase at their websites. You just need to download the necessary files and edit the XML file.

Features include:

• XML Based
• Image description tag
• Fullscreen mode
• Resizable
• Can be used as a standalone application, as well as a part of CSS/HTML or Flash website
• No Flash knowledge required

As you see – creating a perfect image gallery without any programming skills is very fast and easy. And it is absolutely free. So don’t waste the time – download your Free Flash Photo Gallery from FlashMint and show the world your art works in no time.

HashMask is a JQuery Plugin that produces an unique and a irreversible visualization of a user’s password. The attempt of this application is to find a more secure middle ground between clear and masked passwords. Based on the generated image, users would be able to confirm that they have entered the password correctly, since they are becoming familiar with the image they see every time they type the password.

Technically speaking, it uses a subset of the sha1 hash of the password as the seed for the sparkline’s shape and color. It should be relatively safe from reverse engineering as a result. There is the potential to estimate a possible range of characters of the first section of the hash, but overall this should be a extremely low risk.

MeeCSS is an application that aims to help you in submitting your website to the most important CSS galleries on the internet, making the submission process faster and easier. Through MeeCSS, you will get direct links to the submission pages of their selected galleries.

The submission process requires you to take only 2 steps:

• Choose the galleries you want to submit
• Insert your site’s data and press submit

Adding your website to the CSS Galleries is a great way to publicize your site, these galleries are a the best”showroom” for the coolest designs. Getting your site published on them gives you the possibility to increase your brand visibility and to make it visible to a lot of experts users.

ZURB love CSS and began to use the new, yet to be released version (CSS3) in some of their projects. One of the favorite things about the new CSS version is the addition of RGBA, a color mode that adds alpha blending to your favorite CSS properties. ZURB kicked the tires on it a bit with their own projects and have found that it helps streamline their CSS, and makes scaling things like buttons very easy. The design company cooked up an example with some super awesome, scalable buttons.

With a little CSS3 magic, we’ve created a scalable set of buttons with nearly half the CSS it would have taken with hex colors. Give it a go in your next project and see how it can help add that extra polish you want without huge impact on your code.