Speech Bubbles

How many times have you looked at a photo on the Internet and wanted to add your own commentary with a speech bubble?

Now you can, to any picture on the Internet - and you can share it with friends, or even start your own competition if you like.

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del.icio.us-like Text Grow

If you're familiar with the del.icio.us tag search box, then you'll know it will grow with the length of the content you enter.

This is particularly useful for search boxes or tagging entry boxes, though the only downfall (I think) of del.icio.us's entry box is that it can grow to become wider than the entire page width.

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Upgraded jQuery Spy

Following many requests, I have upgraded the jQuery spy code to support multiple items returned from the AJAX response and custom timestamp functions - so that requests can be completely tailored.

Download the latest jQuery spy

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How to create a Digg-like spy with no work at all

The jQuery spy has now been superseded by the upgraded jQuery spy. Please see the upgraded jQuery spy article for details.

Yes, that's right kids, you know you love that Digg spy effect. The real time news, as it rolls in, and how cool does it look? It looks pretty cool, that's how.

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Auto-selecting navigation

This article offers an alternative to the laborious task of coding up which <li> or <a> navigation tags need the 'selected' class (or however you concoct the solution).

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