Today we’ve listed 10 cool web applications and plugins using jQuery which may prove useful to improve your website. Add some style statement and great functionality with these jQuery plugins. Have fun!
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1. Simplest jQuery Spotlight Effect Tutorial
This tutorial will guide you how to build a spotlight effect with caption.

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2. BlogSlideShow jQuery Plugin
A free open-code jQuery plugin that enhances your blog pages with fancy image viewer, which provides nice transition effects including CSS3 or HTML5-related ones.

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3. jQuery ptTimeSelect
A jQuery plugin that provides a UI for a user to define and set a time on a user form.

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4. How to Build a Widget to Display you’re Buzzing
We can use this service to display our latest buzzes on any site. So, in this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of building your own Buzz widget.

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5. Genfavicon
A jQuery web application lets you create wonderful favicons for your websites in a jiffy. Favicons are little icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site name in the URL bar of most browsers.
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6. How to Create a Theme-Switcher in 200 Seconds
Have you ever seen sites that offer some kind of color-switcher within the header section? Want to know how easy it is to replicate? I will show you in 200 seconds, using jQuery.

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7. Creating a Rotating Billboard System with jQuery and CSS
In this tutorial we will use some images, CSS and jQuery to create the effect of a rotating billboard with two ads. The idea is to make one set of image slices disappear while another one, the other ads appear.

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8. Simple Draggable Element Persistence with jQuery
In this tutorial I will show you how to easily drag an element and make it stick, even after a page reload, by grabbing and storing its X and Y coordinates.

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9. WriteMaps
A free web-based tool that allows you to create, edits, and share sitemaps online. As a WriteMaps user, you and your team will be able to build and access your sitemaps from anywhere, without having to rely on proprietary desktop apps and static files.

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10. Text Over Image with jQuery
This plugin creates an animated text effect when the user hovers over an image and will disappear when the mouse is out of the image.

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