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Skins the Django administration panel, adding support for a Twitter Bootstrap-powered template.

TouchSwipe By: Matt Bryson
Free MIT

A jQuery plugin for touch devices. Detects single and multiple finger swipes, pinches and falls back to mouse drags on the desktop. Time and distance thresholds can be set to distinguish between swipe gesture and slow drag. Allows exclusion of child elements (interactive elements) and allows page scrolling or page zooming depending on configuration.

Pure By: Yahoo! Inc.
Free Yahoo BSD

A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project. Crafted with mobile devices in mind. Responsive out of the box, so elements look great on all screen sizes. Customize your styles with the Skin Builder to make your style your own. Plays well with other libraries including Bootstrap and jQuery.

A simple elastic slideshow with a thumbnail preview. that adjusts automatically to its surrounding container. You can navigate through the slides by using the thumbnail previewer or the autoplay slideshow option.

Tocify By: Greg Franko
Free MIT

A jQuery plugin that dynamically generates a table of contents. Tocify can be optionally styled with Twitter Bootstrap or jQueryUI Themeroller, and optionally animated with jQuery show/hide effects. Optionally provides support for smooth scrolling, scroll highlighting, scroll page extending and forward and back button support.

Hammer By: Jorik Tangelder
Free MIT

Hammer supports tap, doubletap, swipe, drag, pinch, and rotate gestures. Each gesture triggers useful events and eventData. jQuery plugin optional.

Ion.Zoom By: Denis Ineshin
Free MIT

jQuery lightbox plugin for image zoom. Allows to zoom images in place, supports keyboard controls, works on touch screen devices.

Bootsnav By: Adam M Nurdin
Free MIT

Bootsnav is a multi purpose header with navbar based on Bootstrap. You can build any header navbar style in a few minutes.

Node js By: Joyent Inc.
Free Apache2

A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

timeago By: Ryan McGeary
Free MIT

A jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps like "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago" from ISO 8601 formatted dates and times embedded in your HTML.