Ajax IM is an open-source instant messaging framework allow us create real time browser-based instant messaging client. Ajax IM not only can run as stand-alone instant messaging, it also can be integrated with existing application, so you can create such instant messaging like gtalk in gmail or facebook chat.

In its new version (4.0), Ajax IM support multi-lingual, theming and local session storage using HTML5 or Flash. It is licensed under MIT license, try Ajax IM now.

xCSS is another CSS Framework that helps us not to DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) when creating stylesheet, it means we can use variable, re-use existing style cascades, math operations, nested child objects, etc. To include xCSS in our project we must’ve PHP-enabled, you can go to read installation information here.

xCSS licensed under MIT License, you can grab the source code here and here is how the xCSS will work :

xCSS

.selector {
    self {
        margin: 20px;
    }
    a {
        display: block;
    }
    strong {
        color: blue;
    }
}

CSS

.selector {
    margin: 20px;
}
.selector a {
    display: block;
}
.selector strong {
    color: blue;
}

Notepad is a free wordpres theme by Nick La (N.Design Studio), it’s a pretty simple brown theme that has some basic features including threaded & paged comment, social media buttons, multi-level dropdown menus, etc.

Notepad inspired by the iPhone’s applications (Notes.app), licensed under GPL license so you can modify or distribute this theme but don’t forget to put the credit for the author. You can see the online demo here or download Notepad theme and its PSD here.

Quicksand is a jQuery plugin by Jacek Galanciak aims to help you create shuffling animation to reorder or filter your items list, it’s inspired by Mac apps (AppZapper). Quicksand turn your unordered list into beautiful shuffling animation by comparing two collections of items and replacing them, see the demostration to make sure what it is.

Quicksand licensed under MIT and GPL version 2 license and it’s works on most modern browser including Safari 4, Chrome 4, Firefox 3.5, Opera 10.15 and IE 7 & 8.

Visual Swirl give us social media icon set named Green Thumb, these icons are vector-based in four different sizes (256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixels). Green Thumb contains some social media icons in greeny-style including Delicious, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Twitter etc.

The author allow us to use these icons for any purpose without any restrictions except for resold, sub-licensed, rented, etc. You can download and view these icons example here.

Still remember jqTransform for jQuery and qkForm for Mootols? Yes this stuff is another jQuery plugin that turn our form into beautiful style form. Compared with these two plugins, i prefer use Uniform since it has two smooth themes moreover we can create our themes and share it to another in Uniform’s website.

Not just dropdown, input with type text, radio or others, Uniform also support to stylize input with the type file upload. Licensed under MIT License, Unifrom works on following browsers :

1. Safari 3+
2. Firefox 3+
3. IE7+
4. Chrome

Sparklines is a small inline charts that represent your data, this is a jQuery plugin that helps us creating sparklines in no time, it is also compatible with most modern browser including Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and IE. Using jQuery Sparklines is very simple, you just need to load latest jQuery library, jQuery Sparklines plugin, create simple sparklines data :

Inline Sparkline: 1,4,4,7,5,9,10

And call sparklines function :

$('.inlinesparkline').sparkline();

jQuery Sparklines is licensed under New BSD License, you can try how it is working here and download it in here.

jQuery Form Wizard is a jQuery plugin for creating form wizard or form flow without refreshing your webpage, it’s similar to Janko’s FormToWizard plugin. This plugin allow us to create different routes to be taken in the form depend on user input, so (for example) if the user doesn’t fill his name in the input name the wizard will not allow us to step forward. Moreover it support AJAX request while posting the form.