Update: The icons used in this tutorial can be found free here.

There are many posts available detailing how to write your own jQuery plugin. It won’t take long before you realize that building in jQuery is very simple. Continuing in our jQuery Learning Series, here we’re going to build your first jQuery plugin. It’ll generate a bubble effect for your menu list and we’re going to call it BubbleUP.

What is BubbleUP? BubbleUP is a fun and easy plugin to get you started in jQuery. The effect is a nice starting point for learning the basics and many of the steps involved in creating other more intricate plugins you will make in the future. With this plugin, images in a list will enlarge with a smooth animation when you move your mouse over it. Then, if you move the mouse out, it will reset to the original size with the same smooth animation.

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If you’re a movie fan, I am sure you’ll enjoy this collection of 20 beautiful movie/brand fonts. All these are free and I think they should be part of every designer’s font library. Enjoy!

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Image editors have been around a while but we’re starting to see rapid growth of exceptional image editors which are all based online. If you haven’t used any of these yet, you’ll be surprised at the features they have and the speed they run at.

Though most of these are Flash-based, they all load really fast and work quite similarly to familiar editors like Photoshop and Illustrator. We also feature here some online applications built with Javascript which work just as well as the Flash-based apps.

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So you just got into Google Buzz few days ago and would like to embed your buzz stream into a website yourself. Here are a few jQuery lines to help you get started.

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Google Buzz’s launch week is about to come to a close. And with that, we’re going to start seeing just how buzzed people are about it. But just in case you’re not buzzed yet, here’s a quick round up of the best tricks, resources, and tutorials that have sprung up in the last few days.

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So. Google just recently announced Google Buzz. I’m not sure about you, but I didn’t see this coming. Sure, Google was bound to start a social network of some sort at some time; but, I didn’t think it’d be this soon!

After spending a few hours on Google Buzz, we’re proud to present you with 12 simple tricks to help give you a better Buzz. Before you start drinking the Google juice, though, make sure you choose a designated driver! (Ya, I know. Bad joke.)

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Recently, a blog post by Michael Gray called “Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic” caught my attention. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s the low down: The blog suggests that Google is “stealing” traffic (and thus revenue) from other companies by providing more information to its searchers upfront, instead of requiring searchers to click through and see the content themselves, among other claims.

I understand where Michael Gray is coming from, but to say that what we see from Google is unique or condemnable compared to traditional practice, common practice, or web 2.0 ethics is far from reality. Here I will challenge that frame of thought then cover a few very common examples of widely accepted and lauded businesses who practice similar techniques.

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When designing backgrounds or interfaces for smaller screens designers really need to pay attention to which fonts they are selecting. Fancy fonts which look awesome on large screens are often barely readable at smaller resolutions. Here is a collection of 20 free fonts which will surely work on any resolution required. Who ever said these free fonts don’t look good? Enjoy!

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