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Litebox: Lightbox without the bloat

LiteboxYou may or may not be familiar with Lightbox, a handy JavaScript library that lets you create very slick interactive image galleries very easily with plain old HTML and a little elbow grease. Lightbox is great, but not exactly svelte, weighing in at just over 100kb not including images. If that's a little hefty for your taste, check out Litebox, a drop-in replacement for Lightbox that looks like it and works like it but weighs in at less than 30kb. It pulls it off by swapping in the lightweight moo.fx which creates the same effects as Lightbox has but at a lower price. Like the original Lightbox, Litebox is free and easy to set up.

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Greased Lightbox: Cool Greasemonkey script

Greased LightboxGreased Lightbox is a nifty Greasemonkey (and Creammonkey for Safari) script by Joe Lencioni that I came across yesterday. When it finds links to image files, clicking those links causes the image to pop up with the suddenly-popular "lightbox" effect rather than navigating away from the linking page. Not only is it a cool effect, it makes browsing image galleries and Google Images a lot smoother. It also has extra support for sites like Flickr, Facebook, and Gmail, which is a nice bonus. If I were to add anything to Greased Lightbox it would be some kind of slideshow functionality, but it seems to be under active development so perhaps that's coming.

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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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