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This update covers really useful tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in May 2010. Featured authors include: Marco Kuiper, Jeff Starr, Louis Lazaris, Martin Angelov, Paul Irish, Janko Jovanovic, Saud Khan, Matt Ward, Adnan Osmani, Mary Lou, Steven Benner, Dmitry Fadeyev, Dietmar Krueger, Michela Chiucini, Erik Wurzer, and more.

Tag Editor is a jQuery plugin that let you transform a textbox into a Wordpress style tag editor. It is really useful when you need users to submit tags or any other list of items (comma separated or separated by any other character) via text box.

ThePhig is an easy to use open source PHP script that enables you to create an album of images by simply uploading a directory of images to the server. Its password protected admin area enables users to easily manage information related to specific album and uploaded images. It requires PHP5.2+, GD Library and MySQL database.

Cloud Zoom is a lightweight, highly customizable jQuery plugin that allows you to add image zooming in your web pages. You can use this plugin to create zoomable images with different features such as tint effect, inner zoom and soft focus. It is a cross browser plugin that works in all major web browsers including IE6.

ivo Zoom is an easy to use simple jQuery plugin that lets you display larger or full size image like a lightbox. Its main feature is easily enabling you to specify position of the larger image relative to the thumbnail. Nivo Zoom is a cross browser plugin and has been tested in following browsers: Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3+, Google Chrome 4, and Safari 4.

EasyTabs is jQuery plugin that allows you to create highly customized tabs. You can use this plugin to create custom tab layouts, such as tabs below the content, tabs on the side, etc). Instead of styling and arranging your tabs for you, EasyTabs handles only the functionality of the tabs, and leaves the styling to you.

Tiny Carousel is a lightweight jQuery plugin that enables you to easily create highly customizable content sliders. You can create multiple horizontal and vertical content sliders in single page. Tiny Carousel is a cross browser plugin that works in all major browsers including IE6.

SliderNav is a jQuery plugin that lets you create sliding vertical navigation bar. Although it is primarily meant for alphabetical listing, you can easily use it for other types of list as well. It will automatically add the navigation and sets the height for the container.