I'm a big fan of the fancybox plugin. It is a very flexible JQuery lightbox plugin that has met every project requirement I've ever needed a lightbox for. It also has a great library of events attached to it that have fit most of the User Interfaces I've ever used it in.

The fancybox plugin has matured into version 2 and been re-badged slightly as part of the fancyApps suite.

It has to be one of my top ten recommended JQuery plugins.

http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/

Licensing changes

I've since found that the new version of fancybox (2) has had a license change. Version 1 is licensed under both MIT and GPL licenses (http://docs.jquery.com/Licensing) but version 2 is 'Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0' and requires an $89.00 fee for commercial use, as discussed here in a Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/fancybox/browse_thread/thread/fc4467bf0bf3ef6d/3edff176327fed35?lnk=gst&q=license#3edff176327fed35

I am a big fan of integration. I really like it when I can see that someone has thought long and hard about what would be useful to users and what platforms best fit that usefulness.

The electronics manufacturer Onkyo have produced a mobile application that allows you to control their devices from your chosen mobile platform.

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Just saw on the Twitter-vine that there is an Open Source Scotland digital festival happening next year. It happens on the 13th-14th of April and looks like it is being pitched as a Digital Festival.

The speaker list is looking pretty impressive and there is a Twitter hash tag already #oss2012.

You can read more, and buy tickets here:

http://open-source-scotland.com/2012/