Do you need a way to create a font from your very own handwriting? At fontcapture.com you can do that. There’s no software to download and install. All you need is a printer and a scanner. You just need to follow some simple steps to get the desired font: fill in the font template, scan and upload it to the website, and download your completed font. The generated font can be used on both Windows and Mac computers.

To install the font file in Windows browse to the “Fonts” folder (usually located in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\), and just drag-and-drop / copy the file in this folder. If you are using Mac, just double click on it and click “Install font” in the window that appears.

my Fontbook is a free and easy to use browser-based font viewer that allows you to easily review and catalog all of your installed fonts. It is an independent platform that can be used in any web browser. This application can help designers to save time since it provides a quick and easy way to view their font collection.

Features include:

• Font Viewer (Browse all installed fonts, rendered and sorted for your convenience)
• Proof Sheet (Print selected font with several style samples)
• Tags & Favorites (Tag and Rate fonts that you consider important)
• Glyphs (Preview for typeface characters that are listed with each ASCII code to make adding to web pages easy)
• Metrics (Get a better view of letter spacing and line heights)
• List & Swatch Views
• Sample and Body text
• Fast Font Rendering

MyFontbook tries to fill the gap between the limited font tools provided by your operating system and the expensive font management applications aimed at power users.

According to WikiPedia:

Syntax highlighting is a feature of some text editors that display text—especially source code—in different colors and fonts according to the category of terms. This feature eases writing in a structured language such as a programming language or a markup language as both structures and syntax errors are visually distinct. Highlighting does not affect the meaning of the text itself; it’s made only for human readers/editors.

SyntaxHighlighter 2.0 is one of the most popular fully functional self-contained code syntax highlighter developed in JavaScript. Alex Gorbatchev started this project in 2004 and since then has gained a lot of acceptance. Version 2.0 comes with a near complete rewrite, clean up, optimization, standard compliance and new features.

Features include:

• Easy to setup
• Over 20 syntax brushes available (PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML etc.)
• You can easily change the font size in the highlighted elements without having to mess around with additional CSS.
• Allows you to force highlighted elements on the page to be collapsed by default.
• Allows you to turn detection of links in the highlighted element on and off. If the option is turned off, URLs won’t be clickable.
• Allows you to turn line wrapping feature on and off.

GeSHI is a Generic Syntax Highlighter that aims to be a simple but powerful highlighting class. Initially, it was started as an idea to create a generic syntax highlighter for the phpBB forum system, but has been generalized to this project.

Features include:

• Support for a wide range of popular languages
• Easy to add a new language for highlighting
• Highly customisable output formats

GeSHi aims to do this all as quickly as possible. Many customisable features of GeSHi facilitate speed increases, and you can easily find a balance between the amount of highlighting done and the speed in which it is done.

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Baseline is a free to use CSS (Designer) Framework useful to easily develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the default browser behavior. It builds a basic typographic layout (includes style for HTML forms & new HTML 5 elements) and a simple grid system. A nice feature of this designer framework is the fact that is uses the font metrics to line up headlines, paragraphs, form labels and any other major elements on the page baseline, creating a harmonious layout.

Baseline can be used in many different ways. Use the reset.css and base.css file as a starting point, include the type.css for typographic control or include all files to have a complete foundation to start your web project.

If you need a way to manage your web content easily then the new CKEditor is definitively a choice to consider. This is a WYSIWYG editor that brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. CKEditor is ideal for developers indented to provide easy and powerful solutions to their users.

IMB, Oracle and Adobe are only a few of the big companies that use this fully functional, flexible, fast, innovative, smart & user friendly WYSIWYG editor.

End User Features include:

• Formatting (Basic &Advanced Styling, Real Block-quoting, Colors, Advanced Paste from Word, Advanced Linking, E-mail Linking)
• User Interface (Visual Link Anchors, Maximize, Visible Blocks, Resizable, Right to Left Interface, Elements Selector, Find & Replace)
• Rich Content (Images, Flash Content, Easy Tables, Smiles, Print Breaks, Templates, Form Creation Tools)
• Usability (Interface Usability, Strong Accessibility, Spell Check as You Type, Keyboard Navigable, TAB Key Friendly, Intuitive Context Menu, Safely Undo)

Developer features include:

• Customization (Rich JavaScript API, Plugin Based, Customizable & Extensible, Customizable Interface Color, Total Toolbar Control, Precise ENTER Control)
• Easy Integration (AJAX Ready, Easy Textarea Replacement, Static Elements Replacement, Easy to Upgrade, TAB Index Support, On Demand Loading, Extremely Fast Loading, Strong Browser Compatibility, Library Collision Safe)
• Styles (Total Styles Control, Styling with Class, Font Settings, Colors Control, Templates)
• User Interface (Skins, UI Languages, UI Language Auto Detection, )
• Contents Control (Quality XHTML Output, Output Code Formatting, Standards and Quirks Contents, RTL Contents Support, Contents in any language, Content Parsing)

Our CKEditor is not only functional, flexible and fast but also innovative, smart and user friendly. Our new version is based in many cases on Your opinions and suggestions. Therefore the new CKEditor version 3.0 is a milestone better than the older one.

JCore is a multi site CMS build especially for webmasters (using the well known LAMP environment) who have to maintain multiple websites for their clients and need to: keep the source codes up to dates & easily fix bugs for all clients at once. This Multisite CMS comes with 2 systems:

• jCore Server – Holds all the libraries and modules you can build on
• jCore Client – The stripped version of the core system without any libraries as it uses the ones from the core.

Features include:

• Dynamic Web 2.0 Layout
• Multilanguage Support
• Multiple Menus
• Content Management
• Content Codes
• Members Management
• Custom Maintenance Text

The main thing about jcore is that it is written from 0 which should make developer’s life easier to understand the coding and extend them.

My Tiny Todolist is a really cool, simple and easy to use AJAX-based task management script written in PHP5 and JQuery UI by developer Max Pozdeev. Uses either MySQL Database or SQLite for storing the data.

Features include:

• Task notes
• Tags (and tag cloud)
• Priority (-1, 0, +1, +2)
• Sort tasks by priority, due date; also the tasks order can be sorted using “drag-and-drop”
• Search
• Password Protection

A date picker is an easy way to introduce a date/time into an input field. It definitely gives a professional look to your forms by simplifying the process of selecting a specific date or a range of dates.

I hope that the following list will help you in selecting a script that will offer a better experience to your website’s visitors. JQuery and MooTools are some of the well known libraries used to create the date pickers.

1. The JQuery UI Datepicker is an excellent script that supports multiple themes and can be used in specific formats. Here are some examples:

- date range restriction
- alternate field population
- display month and year menus
- display button bar
- display multiple months
- show datepicker when clicking a date icon

[Go to Project Page | View Demo]

2. jQuery Datepicker is a plugin that attaches a popup calendar to your input fields or shows an inline calendar for selecting dates. It’s a simplified version of the JQuery UI Datepicker.

Features include:

* works as a popup for an input field or inline in a div/span
* full keyboard equivalents
* Predefined date formats are available. You can even define your own format.
* Minimum/Maximum date restriction
* Update an alternate field with the date in a different format
* Select a range of dates
* Show week of the year / days from other months
* Callbacks on hover, change of month/year, selection and closure
* CSS Customizable
* Language selector

[Go to Project Page | View Demo]

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jQuery UI selectToUISlider Plugin uses progressive enhancement to replace an already-functional HTML select element with a JQuery UI Slider control. Having both ARIA and tabindex support, it adds a number of features for both visual users and those on assistive technologies. The user is able to make a choice even with JavaScript disabled, since the select element can be used if the slider is unavailable.

Basic Usage

HTML

<select name="speed" id="speed">
  <option value="Slower">Slower</option>
  <option value="Slow">Slow</option>
  <option value="Med" selected="selected">Med</option>
  <option value="Fast">Fast</option>
  <option value="Faster">Faster</option>
</select>

JavaScript

$('select').selectToUISlider();

Features include:

• Unobtrusive
• Very easy to setup
• Accessible to users on assistive devices
• Degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled

The plugin enhances the jQuery UI slider in many ways, adding text labels and ticks on the slider axis, and tooltips that appear while a slider is being used.