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Best jQuery Plugins of 2011. jQuery was first released in 2006.

Best jQuery Plugins of 2011

Nearly 5 years later, it’s still going strong – due largely in part to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers constantly releases plugins that allow web developers to easily add amazing functionality to their projects. Continuing our “Best of 2011″ series, the focus this week is on jQuery plugins. Over the past eleven months we’ve seen a lot of great new plugins being released, which made choosing our favorites extremely difficult. Isotope Isotype is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic and intelligent layouts. FitText FitText makes font-sizes flexible. FlexSlider FlexSlider is an awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin. Sausage Sausage is a jQuery UI widget for contextual pagination. Arbor.js Arbor is a graph visualization library built with web workers and jQuery.

Mosaic Mosaic automatically generates sliding boxes & captions, allows slide & fade animations with custom directions, and preloads images within boxes. Best Free Fonts of 2011. With only a month and a half left in 2011, it’s hard to believe another year is drawing to a close.

Best Free Fonts of 2011

If you’re a long time reader of WDL, you probably know that at the end of each year we publish a series of posts that highlight our favorite freebies and resources from that year. It’s an excellent way to show you what you might have missed, and to give the designers and creators some well deserved recognition. To kick it off, here are the best free fonts of 2011.

2011 Hot 100. 100.

2011 Hot 100

Melanie Iglesias- The winner of Maxim’s 2010 Hometown Hotties contest still makes the office swoon every time she walks in. Oh, God, here we go again! 2011 Hot 100. The 2011 Most Innovative Companies. Best Free UI PSDs of 2011. So far in our Best of 2011 series, we’ve shown you our picks for the best free fonts and the best jQuery plugins.

Best Free UI PSDs of 2011

For this week, we’ve went back through all the UI PSDs that’s been released over the past year and picked our favorites. We saw plenty of these types of UI files being released in 2011, so it was very difficult to sift through them and find the ones that really stood out. Classic Grey Psd Web UI Set A complete classic and light grey themed psd web user interface to design any clean and modern website. Social media around the world 2011. The Most Powerful Images Of 2011. Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in 9/11, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial. (Getty Images / Justin Lane) A whirpool forms off the Japanese coast after the tsunami on March 11. (Reuters / Kyodo ) This sightseeing boat, Hama Yuri, was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan.

Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1. (Reuters / HANDOUT) Two lights from the former site of the World Trade Centers shine for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. (Reuters / GARY HERSHORN) Best of 2011: Our Most Popular Tips, Interviews & Think Pieces. How can we manage our energy and attention for peak performance?

Best of 2011: Our Most Popular Tips, Interviews & Think Pieces

How does a constant barrage of information affect our decision-making skills? How can we build better habits, embrace risk-taking, and truly realize our creative potential? We’re not saying we have all the answers, but this Best of 2011 collection does attempt to provide insight on these questions – and to empower you to work with more smarts, more purpose, and more results. The 50 Most Liked Articles in 2011. During this specific time of the year, I scan my mind in order to remember all the memories that have been saved since the beginning of 2011 to bid them farewell and welcome new memories which await!

The 50 Most Liked Articles in 2011

Most precisely, those related with Yatzer.com are the following : > In 2011, Yatzer was listed as one of the top FIVE International sites for design amongst Designboom, Dezeen, The Selby and The New Yooxer by the prominent Italian magazine INTERNI PANORAMA. > In 2011, I was thrilled to discover that I had been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the design industry by the French edition of heavyweight ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST (AD). > In 2011, we released the much anticipated iPhone Application. 10 Best Movies of 2011. 50 Best Singles of 2011. 50 Best Albums of 2011. Google Zeitgeist 2011. 2011: The Year Anonymous Took On Cops, Dictators and Existential Dread. A man at the November 17 OWS protest in New York sports the iconic Guy Fawkes/Anonymous mask in DIY red, white, and blue.

2011: The Year Anonymous Took On Cops, Dictators and Existential Dread

(Editor’s Note: Any decent coverage of Anonymous is going to verge on some NSFW material at points. There will be questionable language and strange imagery.) Part Three of a Three-Part Series Examining the History of Anonymous. Part One. Part Two. “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” – Marshall Mcluhan. 2011: Tech’s Biggest Winners and Losers. Time is a funny thing.

2011: Tech’s Biggest Winners and Losers

One minute I’m standing in a crowded room fondling HP’s new 10.1-inch TouchPad tablet, the next, I’m writing its obituary, and a moment later I’m marking the rebirth of its OS as an open source platform. That’s not really how it happened. Facebook 2011's Most-Popular Status Trends. Facebook status updates played a starring role in the evolution of the world's largest social network in 2011.

Facebook 2011's Most-Popular Status Trends

As several major changes to status updates (increased character limits, for example) rolled out throughout the year, Facebook data scientists kept their eyes focused on tracking the trends among those status updates. The 50 Best Websites of 2011. The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011. 5050-1322853230-10.jpg (JPEG-Grafik, 950x633 Pixel) The Year in Pictures: Part I. The year in Pictures: Part II. The second collection of images from 2011 once again brought us nature at its full force with floods, drought, wild fires, tornadoes and spectacular images of volcanic eruptions.

The year in Pictures: Part II

The death of Osama bin Laden, the attack on an island in Norway by a lone gunman, continued fighting in Libya, and protests around the globe were a few of the news events dominating the headlines. -- Lloyd Young Please see part 1 from Monday and watch for part 3 Friday. (45 photos total) The Year in Pictures: Part III. Aktuell - Das Silvester-Special auf Arcor.de. Aktuell - Todesfälle 2011. Die VIP's 2011 - was ist passiert? - Arcor.de - Aktuell. The Year in Volcanic Activity - Alan Taylor - In Focus. Out of an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes around the world, 50 or so erupt every year, spewing steam, ash, toxic gases, and lava. In 2011, active volcanoes included Chile's Puyehue, Japan's Shinmoedake, Indonesia's Lokon, Iceland's Grímsvötn, Italy's Etna, and recently Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In Hawaii, Kilauea continues to send lava flowing toward the sea, and the ocean floor has been erupting near the Canary Islands.

Collected below are scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year. [36 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: Das Unwort des Jahres 2011 ist „Döner-Morde” Top 10 Nude Celebs of 2011. Eindrucksvolle und Bewegende Fotos 2011. Wieder ein Jahr vorbei, 2011 hat viele Überraschungen mit sich gebracht. Naturkatastrophen, Revolutionen, Proteste, Unruhen und Krisen konnten wir beobachten und teilweise auch miterleben. Man erkennt sofort, dass die Fotos einen Geschmack an überwiegend negativen Ereignissen aufweisen. Meist sind es tragische Momente, die große Veränderungen in den Alltag bringen, die uns aber zeigen, wie stark die Betroffenen zusammenhalten und ihre Meinung und den Willen vertreten. Mein Leben hat sich dieses Jahr auch oft, vielleicht zu oft stark verändert, leider nur teilweise zum besseren.

Also entsprechen diese berauschenden und dramatischen Bilder auch meinem Jahresprofil. Hairstyles 2011. Jahresrückblick 2011 - Die Top Themen des Jahres. Jahresrückblick 2011: Die zehn kuriosesten Fußballvideos. Selbst die größten Fußball-Profis scheitern mitunter vom Elfmeterpunkt. Allerdings hat noch kaum jemand den Schuss so versemmelt wie Amir Sayoud vom Kairoer Club Al Ahly. Für den Kicker gab es nach seinem grandiosen Patzer sogar noch die Gelbe Karte - und einen Eintrag bei Wikipedia. .

Rückblick 2011: Die Abschiede des Jahres. Der britische Charakterdarsteller Pete Postlethwaite zeigte in vielen britischen und US-Produktionen wie "Der letzte Mohikaner", "Der ewige Gärtner" oder "Brassed Off" als wichtiger Nebendarsteller sein markantes Gesicht. Zuletzt war er 2010 auch in "Inception" zu sehen. 1993 wurde er für seine Rolle als Vater eines Kleinkriminellen in "Im Namen des Vaters" für einen Oscar als "Bester Nebendarsteller" nominiert. Postlethwaite hatte in den letzten Monaten vor seinem Tod trotz seiner Krebserkrankung weitergearbeitet.

Er starb am 2. Januar. Die brandenburgische Dichterin und Autorin Eva Strittmatter starb am 4. Fotowettbewerb: Das sind die besten Bilder der Gewinner. Diese Fotos stehen im Finale der Kategorie Ästhetischer Akt - Bilder, Screenshots. Diese Fotos stehen im Finale der Kategorie Digital Art - Bilder, Screenshots. Diese Fotos stehen im Finale der Kategorie Jugend - Bilder, Screenshots. Diese Fotos stehen im Finale der Kategorie Natur - Bilder, Screenshots. Diese Fotos stehen im Finale der Kategorie Menschen - Bilder, Screenshots. Deutschlands bester Fotograf 2011: Das Thema der Woche.