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The Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books. Runs the business.
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November 16th, 2009 3:29 amyes It is
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May 24th, 2007 8:22 pmLove it!
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May 24th, 2007 8:29 pmThis is always what we need when times get boring :P
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May 24th, 2007 8:45 pmAbsolute list !!
A great, great thank again for all the work you do for us !
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May 24th, 2007 8:51 pmAwesome list, as usual!
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May 24th, 2007 8:54 pmvery usefull colloection especially for desktop and blog’s thx. –
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May 24th, 2007 9:03 pmyour feed is sexy musing in/ for my reader!!
again and again; good things thereby . Thanks ! - 9
May 24th, 2007 9:06 pmNice! Thanks for the icons.
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May 24th, 2007 10:03 pmNice package. Keep up with the excelent work!
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May 24th, 2007 10:04 pmGreat round-up! Great mag!
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May 24th, 2007 10:07 pmThat BittBox picture spoiled the whole page.
The many categories cracked me up, icons are icons IMO, but nice listing as usual.
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May 24th, 2007 10:24 pmfamfamfam.com is another great source
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May 24th, 2007 10:25 pmWHOAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!! As always, YOU GUYS ROCKSSSSS
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May 24th, 2007 10:31 pmWhat an amazing collection, guys! This huge list will sure be handy in the future.
Thanks, as usual!
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May 24th, 2007 10:36 pmThanks for these!
Can’t believe you left off one of the best ones… famfamfam!Probably the only one I’ve used, mainly cos they are that good :)
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May 24th, 2007 11:12 pmGreat, great, great! Thank you very much. This is what I needed right now! Cool.
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May 24th, 2007 11:18 pmThanks for including my set.
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May 24th, 2007 11:35 pmJust one word: great!
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May 24th, 2007 11:46 pmJust a little hint. You write: 13. Die 32 Aqua-Icons stammen aus dem Blog.. That’s german :)
But this is a great list. Thank you for this!
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May 25th, 2007 12:00 amYour link to http://www.bartelme.at/material/shoppingcart/ results in a Forbidden message. You may want to update the link.
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May 25th, 2007 12:03 amExcellent posting, as usual. You guys are great.
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May 25th, 2007 12:11 amLove it. I implemented some of them on my site. Thanks!
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May 25th, 2007 12:26 amAwesome list, thank you for doing this.
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May 25th, 2007 12:31 amGreat post – very diggworthy!
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May 25th, 2007 12:33 amIs it like I can use these icons and maybe you can make some kinda tutorial on howto make these?
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May 25th, 2007 12:46 amUnless I’m blind, anyone have an archive of all these?
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May 25th, 2007 12:47 amWhoa…Wow..cool list
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May 25th, 2007 12:55 amFantastic!
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May 25th, 2007 1:05 amAwesome! Thanks for putting this together!!
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May 25th, 2007 1:12 amI nearly wept with joy when i read this post! :)
Excellent work once again guys. Posts like this are the reason why i keep coming back! :)
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May 25th, 2007 1:18 am“Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles” by Dezinerfolio ( a part of the 13th Freebie ) is missed out on this list…
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May 25th, 2007 1:26 amGreat list! Thanks a lot.
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May 25th, 2007 1:34 amAnd finally i get linked on here =P
Thanks, and awesome list.
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May 25th, 2007 1:36 ami would like to use them
but i am not sure they are free - 37
May 25th, 2007 1:40 amI really like this kind of web2.0 icons. thz: smashing :)
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May 25th, 2007 2:11 amVery nice post, worth every bit of the effort.
But you one icon set you forgot to include was Silk Icons, I would say its probably one of the most widely used and well known icon sets available. - 39
May 25th, 2007 2:33 amBeautiful! Both the list and the listed works!
I have to take my chance and let you know that Itookia.com
also has a totally free XP icon set, both for commercial and personal use.
Here’s the link to the zip file: Free Set Zip
and to screenshot: Free Set Screenshot
40 simple glossy icons. Enjoy! - 40
May 25th, 2007 4:07 amSame with me, Daniel Travolto
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May 25th, 2007 5:22 amExcelent Work…
5 stars…
now we want a full article but only with brushes…!!!
Keep GoinG..
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May 25th, 2007 6:09 amWow This Is So Cool
This Post Should Titled Web Grfx & Icons Reference - 43
May 25th, 2007 6:39 amThis is a great share, thanks very much! Very rare to see so much style on one page.
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May 25th, 2007 7:31 amvery sweet! Thank you!
-Sidnei
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May 25th, 2007 7:43 amincredible work, thanks so much.. saves me many hours of surfing.
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May 25th, 2007 9:45 amTq Bro for this nice article.btw this is a nice Compilation of lOgo :)
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May 25th, 2007 12:38 pmYou guys at Smashing Magazine ROCK! Kudos to you!
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May 25th, 2007 12:51 pmIt’s cool
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May 24th, 2007 10:16 pmNice list! I offer free round RSS icons on my site free round RSS icons on my site
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May 25th, 2007 3:40 pmAmazing list … as usual! Thank you!
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May 25th, 2007 5:04 pmcool + sweet icons. love it.
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May 25th, 2007 1:08 amSome stunning shiny little icons up there, great stuff.
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May 25th, 2007 7:00 pmOh my God.. it’s simply fantastic!!! Thank you very much I’ll save it everywhere! lol
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May 25th, 2007 8:39 pmSupah’ !!!
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May 25th, 2007 9:58 pmwell, thanks again for compiling wonderful (and free) things from the tubes. it really saves me time. :D
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May 25th, 2007 10:52 pmreally Smashing magazine.
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May 26th, 2007 3:55 amAwesome List! You guys must be constantly scanning for the best stuff out there. Thanks for all your hard work!
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May 26th, 2007 5:12 amThis is my first viewing of this page,and i think it’s awesome! I’ve added it to my favorite’s;Thank’s guy’s!Keep up the hard work.
sincrerly yours,
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May 26th, 2007 4:53 pmAwesome……..keep smashing…..
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May 26th, 2007 5:40 pmNice :((
most of web designers search for this!
THAAANKS! - 62
May 26th, 2007 6:42 pmThank you very much !!!!!!!!!!!
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May 26th, 2007 10:14 pmGreat icons!!! Thanks!!!
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May 27th, 2007 7:49 pmgreat site, great free stuff, for sure one site to come and see again and again..!
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May 28th, 2007 12:13 pmEXCELLENT LIST! Definitely should throw famfamfam.com some sweet love, dude can chop up some serious icony goodness.
Good looking out on this post though, very impressive round-up.
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May 28th, 2007 12:28 pmwoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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May 28th, 2007 5:12 pmBrilliant information collection!
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May 28th, 2007 9:25 pmvery cool list !!
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May 29th, 2007 8:56 pmAmazing reference, I’m impress.
thanks a lot
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May 30th, 2007 8:19 amAWESOME! excelent article, thank you very much, I really like it
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May 30th, 2007 2:12 pmThis is a sensational collection ! Thanks !
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June 2nd, 2007 5:30 amgreat work man
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June 2nd, 2007 2:33 pmlove it :)
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June 3rd, 2007 10:52 pmThank you very much for this collection!
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June 4th, 2007 7:46 amSuper! Thanks.
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June 5th, 2007 1:14 amOhh..Awesome..Smashing is the best. ;)
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June 5th, 2007 2:01 amThank you so much for this collection. This is great!!!
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June 6th, 2007 1:05 pmThanks for the wonderful works here!..Smashing ROCKS!!
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June 7th, 2007 11:42 amWow!
Cool, Thank you very much. - 80
June 11th, 2007 9:22 pmTerrific Collection :D
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June 12th, 2007 3:07 pmgreat.
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June 14th, 2007 11:00 pmHey,
thank you very much, im a designer and always looking to save time and give my clients (or my own sites) the best look, thoose links are really helping me out.
thanks again,
Adrian - 83
June 19th, 2007 2:03 amWow! Your freebie icons are absolutely beautiful. So awesome that I can’t believe they’re really free and I can really use them. Thank you!
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July 20th, 2007 3:50 amThe best icon colection of the world.
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July 25th, 2007 4:38 pmBravo !!!
The rest of the icon site specially the paid ones should shut themselves off now ! - 86
July 28th, 2007 2:27 amRecently I began making my own list of royalty free icon sets, but afterward I found this list. Great Icons!
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August 10th, 2007 9:02 pmWow I really Like it! Very Great Work..
Thanks for the Team - 88
August 17th, 2007 4:41 pmeverything is made simple. No more hardwork
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September 3rd, 2007 5:07 pmThis is Really amazing site tks smashy
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September 9th, 2007 9:35 amWow, what a great collection! Thanks for sharing. :)
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September 9th, 2007 10:16 amVery great icons indeed.. Very helpful.. Good stuff you got here… Thanks
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October 3rd, 2007 4:44 amWow.
No word to say! Simply wonderful…… - 93
October 15th, 2007 6:58 pmYou rock! You rock! You rock! Thanks.
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November 10th, 2007 7:21 pmHey guys, I wish I’ve seen this list much earlier, I’ve spend a great deal of time searching for free icons for one of my projects, and now after all my work is done I see this list…:( But never mind, you never know when you’re going to need some icons, so thanks for the list guys!!!
Oh, and I must say you guys left out a website that helped me the most when working on my project, here’s the link: http://www.dryicons.com This is a completely free icons website. Their icons are licensed with CC and they are completely free. As a matter of fact, I think all icon set there are free…
Thanks again for the list, and cheers! - 95
November 29th, 2007 7:11 pmYou’ve done a GREAT job !!! It’s simply amazing ! Thank’s a lot !
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November 30th, 2007 5:08 amreally brilliant stuff. I think the one thing missing here is clear distincion- division the icons for two groups: free for commercial and personal use. Researching and downloading would be faster and easier. Fantastic research youve done indeed. Thank you.
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December 19th, 2007 1:26 pmawesome
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January 9th, 2008 1:44 amvery nice!!! keep it up!
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January 9th, 2008 6:17 amThank you for this great list…awesome…
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January 12th, 2008 11:18 pmI’m a little late to the party, but this is an incredible list of amazing resources–as always. You guys have quickly become one of my favorite blogs.
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January 17th, 2008 12:01 pmTHAK YOU i love you :-* :-*
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January 22nd, 2008 9:32 amAwesome collection. Thank you!
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February 13th, 2008 9:01 amThanks
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February 18th, 2008 1:25 amThanks for listing the icons from http://mouserunner.com/Spheres_Icons_Index.html. I’m flattered to be amongst such an awesome collection. That particular set is called ColorCons and there are actually 49 different icons in ColorCons and in 4 different colors.
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February 27th, 2008 11:43 pmAbsolutly awsome very good collection
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February 27th, 2008 11:43 pmAbsolutly awesome very good collection
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March 7th, 2008 1:48 amAmazing sets… a really great collection!
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March 7th, 2008 5:52 amThanks very much for this awesome compilation. :-)
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April 8th, 2008 4:25 amamazing, this site is reduce our work…..!!!!!!!
great work buddy,
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April 8th, 2008 7:16 pmnice to see
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April 12th, 2008 3:37 pmGood stuff!
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April 15th, 2008 5:33 amI usually get all my icons from iconzworld.com but this thread has quite a bit of good ones too!
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April 16th, 2008 11:32 pmGreat work!
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May 8th, 2008 12:10 pmvery good links thanks a lot for them
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June 26th, 2008 1:59 amgreat resourcess. my search ends here. thanks
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August 21st, 2008 12:36 amDownload web 2.0 style Media Player Vector Based Icons Free!. http://www.rizwanashraf.com/2008/08/07/web-20-style-media-player-icons-download-free/
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August 27th, 2008 6:46 amNice collection :) Thanks for sharing! Thought it would be useful to continue this collection with non-standard free icon set for bloggers in the form of bottles.
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September 26th, 2008 2:02 amThere is also an excellection icon search engine at VeryIcon.com, it has the most powerful search function and the largest icon database that contents 20000+ icons.
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October 14th, 2008 3:52 amGreat post. Thanks for sharing!
I have been using a few of the buttons on my tech blog ;)
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October 14th, 2008 12:12 pmThanks a lot
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October 21st, 2008 5:30 amGreat list, thx. I have a few icons already in use. I’ll link this post on my blog, totally worth it!
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November 5th, 2008 8:28 amI will use these icons to revamp my blog
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November 14th, 2008 9:20 pmi think this article is quite keen.
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November 18th, 2008 10:10 ami love very much i thank you very very much
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November 21st, 2008 10:38 pmvery Nice icons i love it
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December 20th, 2008 1:55 pmOh boy dis is lovely
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December 30th, 2008 5:23 amAmazing list … as usual! Thank you!
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January 10th, 2009 7:09 amNice job!….thank-x
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February 5th, 2009 9:48 amUMI.CMS icons is not a free.
This icons copyright Umisoft company
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February 21st, 2009 5:14 amAbsolute awasome. Really nice and fine collection. Thanks a lot guys!
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February 26th, 2009 1:24 amRellay nice work! Simpel and Clear
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April 6th, 2009 6:00 pmThe best icon search engine I ever used is IconSeeker.com, it contents 10000+ high quality free icons.
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April 9th, 2009 4:50 amThanks for this collection…. especially icons
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May 4th, 2009 4:40 pmThank
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May 27th, 2009 3:12 pmWow, thanks for all the resource! Also you might want to check out these:
http://www.logobee.com/press53.htm
http://www.logobee.com/press51.htmThere are nice templates of shiny orbs and squares, you may find them useful.
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May 28th, 2009 7:13 amSHUT UP!!!!!!! WILL U!!!!!
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June 2nd, 2009 8:05 amThank you so much
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July 13th, 2009 7:50 amhow many childrens of profit muhammad (p b u h)
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August 4th, 2009 8:10 amBuena coleccion de iconos, Gracias!!!!
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August 30th, 2009 10:24 pmhay…..it’s really good man
thank you…….. thank you very much (especially icons)Anand
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October 6th, 2009 11:49 pmMuy buenos
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October 16th, 2009 2:45 pmGreat Job.. Just what i was looking for my site. Take a look at Best of this web
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October 20th, 2009 1:49 ami like your site there is every icon avail now i don’t need to serach on google thank u very much
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October 29th, 2009 5:30 amThank…..I Like ……
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November 1st, 2009 2:04 amGr8 work……
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November 15th, 2009 3:55 amExcellent resources Thank you for taking the time to post all of these.
It’s very useful for my blog
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