This is just a short post to say that jQuery 1.4 has just been released and all CatchMyFame plugins are compatible. All demos have been updated to use the new 1.4 version. If you encounter any issues, please let me know.

This is a small update to my before/after jQuery plugin but since it introduced a new option I bumped the version number up by a point.

Version 1.1 introduces the option to specify the path to where you are storing the navigation images that come with the plugin. Previously you needed to either edit it by hand or use the folder that was coded in the plugin. Now you can specify the path on a per instance basis.

For more info, see the original before/after plugin page which has been updated with the latest information or see our jQuery plugin page which list all of our plugins.

As announced earlier, I’m happy to release version 2 of the jQuery Infinite Carousel plugin. What happened to versions 1.3-1.9 you ask? Well, since I overhauled the old plugin and added so many new features, it just seemed fitting to brand this release with a whole new version number. Heck I could’ve named it version Infinite Carousel, the “Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator” edition, but it seemed a bit wordy. Anyway, like it matters. All you want is the plugin right?

So What’s New?

Where to begin? Based on feedback from users, I’ve added more options than you can shake a stick at. Go on, get a stick. Shake. Can’t be done. There are so many new features that I was a bit worried that the plugin might suffer from option overload, but in the end I think what remained was not only useful but vital to the plugin. Continue Reading »

I wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be releasing a new version of the jQuery Infinite Carousel in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. This new has TONS of new features and streamlines the existing code to make it more efficient, and includes many of the feature requests you have asked for. The new features include:

• The ability to control how many images are displayed at once
• The ability to control how many images are advanced automatically or when someone manually advances the carousel
• Player controls can be disabled
• Autohiding player controls
• Autohiding image captions
• Previous/Next buttons can be displayed over the images or outside and next to them
• The path to the player images is set as an option
• an Easy integration of the jQuery Easing plugin for cool transition effects (you can specify easing effects for the previous and next transitions)
• Easy lightbox integration (tested with fancybox, colorbox, balupton, and leandroviera)
• Callback functions
• Disabling the automatic start of the carousel

Stay tuned for more information and a lot of demos. Happy holidays!

A shorty but goodie. For those of you that didn’t hear about this, a little over a month ago Google released their Google document viewer to be used anywhere on the web, which allows you to point to a PDF and open it much faster than the full version of Acrobat and the Firefox addon Foxit. It also lets you copy text, print, search, and view multiple pages on the screen simultaneously.

You can visit http://docs.google.com/viewer to build links that use Google’s viewer, or follow their instructions:

Technical Documentation – Instructions for building your own URLs

All viewer URLs should use the path http://docs.google.com/viewer. This path accepts two parameters:

url: The URL of the document to view. This should be URL-encoded.

embedded: If set to true, the viewer will use an embedded mode interface.

For example, if you wanted to view the PDF at the URL http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf, you would use the URL: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Flabs.google.com%2Fpapers%2Fbigtable-osdi06.pdf

For a demo, check out this sample PDF.