Spacegallery is a very simple but nice image gallery built with jQuery.
It is a static gallery where images are hardcoded in the HTML and presented with a beautiful grow - fade out effect...

The idea of image preloading has been around since the dawn of the internet. When we didn't have all the fancy stuff we use now, we were forced to use ugly mouseover images to show dynamism. I don't think you were declared an official programmer until you had seen Macromedia Dreamweaver's mouseover function. MooTools image preloading requires very little code — let me show you how it's done...

PostcardViewer, similar to AutoViewer (see WRD post) which is created by the same company, is a free Flash image gallery application with a very nice presentation...