Twitter is very popular nowadays and it’s an addiction. Along with it’s popularity, it’s no surprise that there’s also a vast amount of impressive applications built with Twitter API popping out everyday.

If you’re looking for some Twitter apps that could get the most out of your newly found Twitter addiction, then Twtbase is your solution. Twtbase is an easy to search database of Twitter applications. Anyone can rate and comment on apps, along with submitting ones they have discovered or created. Twtbase organizes the applications in categories including Web, Mobile, Desktop and Browser plugins, so you don’t have to worry about having to browse endlessly to find your desired Twitter app.

I was constantly looking for unobtrusive JavaScript tabs script which doesn’t require any framework for my personal project. I have found SimpleTabs by Komrade but there’s a bug on it plus it doesn’t degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.

Today I have just found Yetii, which stands for Yet (E)Another JavaScript Tab Interface Implementation. It’s a lightweight, object-oriented coded tab interface script which doesn’t require any JavaScript library/frameworks. It degrades gracefully in browsers without JavaScript support. You can have many independent tab interfaces on a single page, specify initial tab, turn on automatic tabs rotation, add next/previous navigation, nest one tab interface inside another and define custom function to run after certain tab is clicked.

Though the script is intended for tab interface implementation, I found out that you can also use this script for another purpose. Just turn on automatic tabs rotation and add next/previous navigation – a lightweight JavaScript slideshow will born. You can now have an unlimited tab interface plus an unlimited slideshow from a simple, lightweight JavaScript.

Demo & Documentation: http://www.kminek.pl/lab/yetii/
License: BSD License

Managing spam comments on your blog, deleting fake spammy users registering in your site and such similar things are very time consuming and may even reduce your productivity on your other task. Putting CAPTCHA to your comment forms, registration & logins forms, contact forms, etc. is one way of fighting and to at least minimize those spam things.

Here’s a list of 34 free Captcha scripts and anti-spam services you can use to provide protection from spam bots and ensure that only humans perform certain actions. Take note that using any of these Captcha scripts and services doesn’t guarantee that your 100% free from spam.

Hosted Anti-Spam Services

1.) reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is a system developed at Carnegie Mellon University that uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of books while protecting websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas. It is easy to integrate with wide support for programming languages and ready to download plugins such as for WordPress, vBulletin, Drupal, etc.
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CSS Browser Selector is a very small (811 bytes) JavaScript which empower CSS selectors. It gives you the ability to write specific CSS code for each operating system and each browser that can be merged into your normal classes. The idea came from 37 Signals browser selector idea and Rafael Lima just did it.

This one line JavaScript will greatly help web developers on CSS hacks. Maybe you can now say “Yes” to your customers if ever they asked you: “Will my site looks the same on most browsers?“. Putting aside the troublesome IE6, a very detail-oriented client will still give you headaches on consistent browser rendering. Let’s take for example Firefox 3.0.8 and Opera 9.64. Now create a simple form with radio buttons and checkboxes. When you view it on those browsers, they didn’t look the same. It’s fine in Firefox but in Opera, the labels just move up a little bit. With CSS Browser Selector, you can create a class specific for Opera to fix the line alignment.

Demo & Documentation: http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector/
Download: http://github.com/rafaelp/css_browser_selector/tree/master
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic

HTML form elements do not render consistently across all browsers. While some form elements such as textbox and textarea can be styled through CSS to look the same on most browsers, others are ugly enough which can’t be ruled by CSS. Here are 24 solutions you can use to customize your form elements.

Checkbox and Radio Buttons

1.) FancyForm

FancyForm is a powerful replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of checkbox and radio buttons form elements. It’s accessible, easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supporting browsers. It requires MooTools JavaScript framework. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>