I was recently sent a copy of JQuery Mobile by Packt publishing for review. I've dabbled in the JQuery Mobile development language a fair amount, so I was interested to see what this book could teach me that may be different from the information out there in the community.

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Microsoft recently rolled out the newest iteration of the Xbox 360's Dashboard software platform.

There are a slew of design tweaks and additional functionality, but the new addition I'm discussing here is Bing, Microsoft's answer to Google.

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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