The Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) version 2 is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by using the mootools javascript framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP.

Website: http://dev.base86.com/scripts/vista-like_ajax_calendar_version_2.html

When I first opened Moodstream I was excited. There marketing statement said, “Moodstream is a powerful brainstorming tool designed to help take you in inspiring, unexpected directions.” As a designer, I’m always looking for tools to help me find the media I need for current projects. While the interaction looked fine at first, as I started using the application there were functions I felt I needed that were missing. You are presented with images, media and audio, however, there is no way to show just one media type. If I only want to be inspired by images I have to sit though all of the video snips to get to the next image. Next, the control box took up a great deal of above-the-fold space. While you can pause the presentation there is no way to stop and go …

“SPAW Editor is a web based in-browser WYSIWYG editor control enabling web site developers to replace a standard textarea html control with full-featured, fully customizable, multilingual, skinable web based WYSIWYG editor. Version 2 adds tabbed multi-document interface, floating/shared toolbars, modular architecture and many other exciting features.”

Website: http://spaweditor.com/en/disp.php/en_products/en_spaw/en_spaw_intro

This is a sliding top menu built with jQuery which can be fired through the open, and close buttons or with any tag with the related class name. You can also use it as an info box, login area, and more.

Website: http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/sliding-top-menu-with-jquery/

“Twitter Spectrum is an application that is built with Processing and shows the conjunction of two words on Twitter. As Jeff states, “I’ve slightly improved the Twitter Spectrum application so that clicking on words used in conjunction with both terms properly use OR in the query. I also changed the default search terms to ‘from:jasoncalacanis’ and ‘from:scobleizer’ to show how you can compare the tweets from two users rather than related to two terms.””Visit the website

“”Wordle is a toy for generating word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.””Visit the website

Visual searches just keep getting better and better. Viewzi is a meta search engine that lets you view relational data in a fun and easy to use visual paradigm. Currently, there are fourteen ways to view a search term including, mp3, video, 3d photo, basic photo, web screenshots and the list goes on. You can scale the results with an interactive slider and they also provide related results in the sidebar. Overall, I find Viewzi a compelling and engaging way to search. Well done!”

SproutCore is a framework for building applications in JavaScript with remarkably little amounts of code. It can help you build full

“”The Linux kernel is one of most complex open source project. There is a lot of books, however it is still a difficult subject to comprehend. The Interactive Linux kernel map gives you top-down view to the kernel. You could see most important layers, functionalities, modules, functions and calls. Each function on the map is hypertext link to source code. The map is interactive. You can zoom in and drag around to see details.””Visit the website

This is a nice informational visualization of how different groups voted in the 2008 democratic presidential primaries. I found the visualization quite compelling. It was a great way to see the state by state demographics. The piece was produced by the New York Time website, and used Edison / Mitofsky exit poll for the data. This is a flash based visualization and was created by Shan Carter and Amanda Cox. “