ImageCarousel Mootools Plugin

An image carousel thats really easy to implement.

Demo

ImageCarousel was designed for those that might get a little intimidated with the Javascript side of web sites.

How to Use

1. Copy your carousel images into their own folder inside your project.
2. Copy ImageCarousel.php into the folder from step one.
3. Download and unzip the ImageCarousel files into your project folder. They should unzip into a folder called 'ImageCarousel'.
4. Copy the following code into the head tag of your website.

   <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.2.4/mootools-yui-compressed.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" ></script>
   <link href="ImageCarousel/ImageCarousel.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
   <script src="ImageCarousel/ImageCarousel.js" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"></script>

5. Copy the following code into your webpage. This will act as the carousel element.

   <div class="ImageCarousel auto" rel="Images/Carousel/" styles="width: 500px; height: 375px;"></div>

   You need to change/check:
   • The 'rel' attribute should point to the folder where you have stored your images. The url should end with '/'.
   • Your images should all have the same dimensions; Check the Carousel 'width' and 'height' match your image dimensions.

Get It

• Download from Mootools Forge
• Source @ GitHub
• Detailed Project Page with Demo

Information Overload

Information abundant: information pools, information pockets, information streams, information databases; Information sources of so many types delivered in so many formats. I have too much information to manage it properly. Well, when I say 'properly' I mean there's too much to remember all of it, digest all of it, to take full potential of all the data being delivered to me.

I am a child of the information age: When I wake up in the morning the first thing I do is get behind my computer to catch up with the world around me. I've got social networks, business networks, email accounts, and am a programmer so have a multitude of other internet services and jobs running on schedules. I need(read want) to know certain things at certain times. If a client has requested my attention via email I need to know as soon as possible. If it's my mothers birthday I need to know 7am in the morning. If my web server goes down, I need to know five minutes ago.

With so many online services and so many of them offering an RSS/Atom stream about nearly everything; An RSS reader does a good job on keeping me up to date with 66.67% of my knowledge source. But even reading my master RSS feed every morning doesnt provide all the information I need, but more importantly it doesnt invoke some simple actions that I find repetitive when I come across certain data.

• I have a facebook account; I want to be alerted of birthdays in the early morning.
  
• I follow some twitterers'; I only want to view tweets that are re-tweeted.
• I have family members on Flickr and Picasa; If they post photos then I want to see them, better yet funnel them straight to my wireless photo frame in one merged Media RSS stream.
• I've got an AreMySitesUp account: I need to urgently know when my servers are unavailable.
• I've got Gtalk, Skype and AIM acocunts...
• I have setup FTP locations that clients drop work in...
• I've got several email accounts...
• I follow several open source projects on forums, bug trackers, and version releases...
• I run several projects and each of those have several checks and balances in place to make sure all is in order.

I could go on, but the point is made. I've got so many sources of information of varying types and each hold a certain level of importance or urgency to me. Now I want a central way to organise all of this; A way to manage and schedule my information.

I am a programmer; I'm going to make something. An information engine. This engine will:

• Store data
• Consume data stream/trigger inputs
• Publish stream/alert outputs
• Provide a management console for all of the above

More on this to come...