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Geo-Enable Websites With JS: YQL Geo Library

Geolocation is one of the most popular subjects for today's web & there are many solutions that help geo-enabling web applications. YQL Geo Library is an impressive resource for geolocation as it is totally free & JavaScript-based . It has various powerful features like: detecting the visitor’s location with the W3C geo API and with IP as a fallback find geo location from text find location from lat/lon pair find locations in a certain web document (by URL ) get the location for a certain IP number The library is lightweight (4kb uncompressed) & non-complicated

Sprite Animations With jQuery: Spritely

Spritely is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic character & background animations using HTML + JavaScript. With the power of JavaScript, the animations can be controlled on events (clicks, mouseovers) easily.

Open Source And Live Web Analytics: SlimStat

SlimStat is an open source web analytics application that collects & presents statistics information about your website. It is built with PHP-MySQL & can be integrated into websites with JavaScript (like Google Analytics) or PHP

Open Source Video Conferencing: BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton is an open source video conferencing application which is specifically built for remote learning but can be used for standard meetings as well. The application enables multiple users to login & share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time. It is a very ideal application for presentations as users can upload PDF or office documents & keep everyone in sync with their current page, zoom, pan, mouse pointer etc.

Slim jQuery Form Validation Plugin: Ketchup

Ketchup is an easy-to-customize (in means of appearance & functionality) jQuery plugin for validating user inputs on the client-side.

Data And Content Visualization: Simile Widgets

Simile Widgets is a set of open source web widgets for visualizing data & content.

Ajaxed PHP Calendar For Displaying Availability

Ajax Availability Calendar is an open source PHP application for displaying the availability of an item (hotel room, appointment, etc.). It comes with an Ajaxed administration panel (multiple admin users are supported) to manage the calendar. The application is multilingual & unlimited number of items can be added under multiple languages.

chive: A Promising MySQL Manager

chive is an open source & web-based MySQL management application that is built with PHP.

Charming Slideshows With jqFancyTransitions

jqFancyTransitions is a jQuery plugin for displaying images as a slideshow with fancy effects .

Automated News Aggregator: PHP RSS Reader

PHP RSS Reader is an application which can crawl an unlimited number of feeds & presents them with an easy-to-use interface. For an organized navigation, It is possible to create categories & place feeds inside them. A handy feature is "keyword-based" categories which can auto-move items with the keywords mentioned into the related categories which is great for anyone who follows multiple feeds but hunts for specific keywords.