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I’m happy to announce Quote Robot is taking off. We’ve made a lot of progress and things are looking very promising. The goal is to be able to launch mid-end february. If you haven’t already, please head over to quoterobot.com and sign up for the newsletter. We’ll be giving away a bunch of beta accounts so you might be a lucky winner if you sign up early.

In other news, jQuery 1.4 was released and there is an ass-load of fixes and improvements! Media temple also put up a contest for sites that showcase jQuery nicely, and I submitted and won for sapphiresound.ca! Pretty stoked about this. Check out the mediatemple jQuery winners here. The winners receive free hosting for a year, and the top winner gets a MacBook Pro 13″!

With the new year here, I’ve decided to start releasing some scripts I use frequently for myself and clients. This is definitely not the first jQuery Banners script out there, but it is certainly one of the most light weight, and easy to use. The script supports the following features:

• Horizontal & Vertical banner image rotating
• Banner rotations triggered by an object, or jQuery Timer
• Linkable banner images
• Easing & Speed control on banner transitions

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I’m going to write a tutorial for the horizontal scroller used on this website. You can scour the web, and I pretty much gaurantee you will not find this anywhere (yet). I spent hours digging around, because people have done similar things like the apple store product slider, but this type of jQuery slider is quite a bit different than that. Stay tuned for an upcoming freebie!

I am proud to present to you the free lifestreaming wordpress theme: LifeStreaming White. I know, not a very creative name, but hey it’s free! This theme utilizes jQuery to display recent updates in a  horizontal scrolling fashion, kind of like a timeline. You can watch your life go by, and scroll through your updates! Without further ado, here is LifeStreaming White.
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Started a new recipes site, where users can rate recipes, submit them, comment. The domain sucks, and the recipes site will be based around foods with garlic. It’s garlicfoods.info so I’m looking to buy something with a dot com instead. What’s import is that the structure of the site gets nailed down so I can reuse the code for other recipe sites. On the homepage a featured recipe box with large images that cycle. I used an open source jQuery script called the ‘coda slider’. However, after all the hard of getting it to work properly. I think I found something even better: Better Coda Slider. If you ever need to cycle content (featured content, news flashes, etc) this is great script to do it.