SlideShows have gotten so much techier and modern and cool—they're a far, far cry from those old vacation shots that your uncle Tom used to show you on a ripped white screen. Nowadays, slideshows may be easily tossed onto your blog, your social network profile, your fan site; however, not all slideshow apps are created equal, some simply leave you hankering for more—more special effects, more groovy fade-outs and zooms and mixes. The JQuery cycle plugin is for those who crave fancy accoutrements and fx. This lightweight plugin supports pause-on hover, transition effects such as shuffle (which mimics the shuffling of a deck of cards), zoom, fade, turndown, scrollup, and scroll right, auto-fit and auto-stop, as well as click triggers. Implementing JQuery requires some CSS knowledge—primary rules: containers and slides have fixed boxes, and every child element becomes a slide. It's a free download.