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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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July 2nd, 2008 4:57 pmWow! Very impressive collection here.
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July 2nd, 2008 5:02 pmThere was a couple of these sets that look like some iStock icons I’ve seen. I wonder if they bought some extended right or just ripping them off. Still, an awesome list!
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July 2nd, 2008 5:06 pmI want to make these.
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January 31st, 2010 7:44 pmHey i came through one of my guy that this site icongab.com thave load of free high quality icons i checked it really amazing set of collection. Just go grab those icons…… Cheers…………….
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July 2nd, 2008 5:06 pmI want to make these
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July 2nd, 2008 5:50 pmBeijing 2008 Icons are ingenious i’m totally downloading it (:
@ Rype
I also saw similar ones like iStocks. oh well at least they are sharing - 8
July 2nd, 2008 6:22 pmWooow…
I love it soooooo muuuchhh!!
thanks for the list.^^ - 9
July 2nd, 2008 6:32 pmawesome!
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July 2nd, 2008 6:35 pmicon overload! I love it :D
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July 2nd, 2008 6:39 pmThat is a lot of icons!
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July 2nd, 2008 7:11 pmgreat icons sets…. amazing …
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July 2nd, 2008 7:13 pmTasty!!!
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July 2nd, 2008 7:50 pmwow… i wanna eat em!!!!
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July 2nd, 2008 8:19 pmThe Online Shop Icons & BKdesign icons look deceptively similar to a series that is available on istockphoto.com (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=2786120). I’m wondering whether the authors are the same or the icons have been ripped off.
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July 2nd, 2008 8:23 pmhmmmmm. delicious. i always want to make some like them but i think i am not that goood. :-(
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July 2nd, 2008 8:25 pmwow……awsum……..
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July 2nd, 2008 8:35 pmAlternatively, it could be the original author giving them away. I don’t think iStock requires exclusive reseller rights.
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July 2nd, 2008 8:45 pmthis is too much……… luv it :)
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July 2nd, 2008 9:04 pmNice!
But… why is every monitor a Mac monitor? They still make other ones too, you know…
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July 2nd, 2008 9:04 pmI’m pretty sure the BK Design icons are ripoffs… Check out the “Satin” icon sets by Scott Dunlap:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=2786120 - 22
July 2nd, 2008 9:08 pm20
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July 2nd, 2008 9:17 pmWow.!!!!! Amazing….!
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July 2nd, 2008 9:24 pmgreat compilation as always.
But i don’t think that some of them should fall under icon category, an icon should be visible even in smaller version and some of them are too detailed for that, so they are just a well finsihed beautiful graphics but surely not icons.
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July 2nd, 2008 10:02 pmFew months ago I bought the “BKdesign Icons Pack 2″ sets at istock photo.
How come it’s free now?? - 26
July 2nd, 2008 10:15 pmhow to download the whistle icons?? that page’s all in foreign language!!!!!!!
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July 2nd, 2008 10:33 pmWell… As (almost) always: Very inspiring!
But as exited I am – I’m missing something everytime I see your collection of icons.
The icons are ALWAYS for desktop use, and I have a whole other approach- or idea.
I look for icons, that I can use on my portefolio-site.
I’m taking about icons that symbolize: pencil-drawings, aquarelle, acryllics, photoshop-works, illustrator-works, flash-works, website-design, photography and so on. Creative motives…Am I the only one, that miss that?
Acctually I’ve made a couple og icons my self in the past, but everytime I change the look of my homepage, I need to make new ones, and it’s a big job.So here is a question:
Like you have the amazing desktop calendar of the month, perhaps you-Smashing Magazine- could ask your viewers to contribute with 100% free icons perhaps in first round with symbols for creative portefolios?I promise, I vill contribute my selv with beige and creme icons!!
:) Well. Just a suggestion.
Sandie
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July 2nd, 2008 10:54 pmSome of those are rips from iStockphoto and StockXpert.
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July 2nd, 2008 11:09 pmvery useful – thanks a lot!
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July 2nd, 2008 11:13 pmA great collection of icons!
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July 2nd, 2008 11:15 pmseveral of your featured icon sets are stolen from royalty-free icon sets on istockphoto.com and are being distributed illegally, particularly the BKdesigners packs and the “online shop icons”.
Just beacuse you can download it for free does not mean it’s legal.
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July 2nd, 2008 11:27 pmThanks! Great collection of fantastic icons here!
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July 2nd, 2008 11:28 pm@evan: You are absolutely right on that note. The Online Shop Icons are a part of the Satin Icons, and this is Set 9 from iStockphoto.
A quick translation of the site that provides that icon pack in the list above states that Who is the author of icons, is unknown, but we know better now ;)
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July 2nd, 2008 11:31 pmMy comment above was directed to evan in comment 19 ;o)
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July 2nd, 2008 11:34 pmguys, you keep me amazed every day. I’m hitting F5 like nuts every 5 minutes when awaiting for your new article :-)
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July 2nd, 2008 11:42 pmThanks for this selection ! :-)
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July 2nd, 2008 11:58 pmIch bin immer wieder erstaunt, wieviele schöne Beispiele ihr immer findet. Danke.
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July 3rd, 2008 12:19 amReally cool, thanks.
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July 3rd, 2008 12:28 amSweet!
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July 3rd, 2008 12:40 amVery nice set
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July 3rd, 2008 12:46 amgreat stuff … i love smashmag …
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July 3rd, 2008 12:49 amJust WOW!!! thanks
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July 3rd, 2008 12:53 amThanks a lot!
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July 3rd, 2008 1:02 amThis a great collection of great looking icons, also my first recomendation by the Digg recommendation engine. I think i’m already liking it..
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July 3rd, 2008 1:35 am@Pepa You could always Subscribe to the RSS feed, that will update you as soon as there are any updates.
Thanks for featuring my Function Icon Set, It’s a huge honour.
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July 3rd, 2008 1:40 amExcellent Collection
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July 3rd, 2008 1:59 amsimply AWSOME !
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July 3rd, 2008 3:03 amwooow… so huge..
omg, sleepless again… - 49
July 3rd, 2008 3:22 amSTOLEN ICONS!
BK stole from here:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=2786120Come on smashing… be more careful :(
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July 3rd, 2008 3:49 amI’d love to see some tutorials on some of the techniques used to make these amazing 3D icons.
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July 3rd, 2008 5:50 amnice icon sets :D
i love the weather ones - 52
July 3rd, 2008 6:03 amWow.. this is an impressive list guys! Well done!
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July 3rd, 2008 6:06 amI keep waiting for some well-designed icons for desktop use at very small sizes. Seems all the great icons nowadays roll at big, Mac-style sizes. I’m not interested in:
a) big buttons anywhere on my desktop
b) using large files (wrt disk/memory space) for decorationUnfortunately, most of the new icons I see (like most of the ones in this collection), are designed to be gigantic and don’t scale down to something like 16×16 well. These icons are gorgeous, but I don’t see them being that useful.
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July 3rd, 2008 6:34 amNike doesn’t make ping-pong paddles?
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July 3rd, 2008 6:36 amthanks, very long & cool icons list :)
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July 3rd, 2008 7:05 amI’ve been waiting for this sort of posts! Great work S!
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July 3rd, 2008 7:18 am=’)
Nice shit SM ! - 58
July 3rd, 2008 7:40 amhuh? A bunch of these were on the last series.
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July 3rd, 2008 7:41 amVery nice set thanks
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July 3rd, 2008 8:15 amI’m currently working on an icon set (very early development) but it’s basically the same types of icons as the silk icon set by famfamfam but bigger and redesigned. Check it out: http://is.gd/LgS
Thanks,
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July 3rd, 2008 8:23 amCool icons i always use my dsktop icons BIG AND SHINY !!!
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July 3rd, 2008 8:50 amThats some quality icons right there ;)
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July 3rd, 2008 9:25 amI’m the designer of the Satin icons up at istock. The Online Shop icons and most of those from BK Design are stolen from that series.
I see smashingmag removed the text link to BK Design, but the preview image is still up and it still links to the site. Please take them down. And the Online Shop icons as well.
Just to clarify, I am exclusive at iStock and can’t sell (or even give away) those icons because of my agreement with iStock. And even if an extended license was purchased for those sets, that does not allow them to be resold. This is blatant ripping.
Finally, thanks to everyone that notified me and commented about this. I really appreciate it! I put a lot of effort into these sets and it kills me to see them stolen.
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August 5th, 2010 4:26 pmHI Scott,
What’s your website or email address? I’d like to contact you about a large icon project.
Thanks,
Rachel
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July 3rd, 2008 9:35 amGreat collection, as always :)
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July 3rd, 2008 9:40 amGreat list – although yes I have seen some of these on previous smashing lists. You missed a great set of new icons that came out yesterday from wefunction.com you can check em out here: http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-free-icon-set/
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July 3rd, 2008 9:57 amThat is a lot to deal with. *head explodes
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July 3rd, 2008 10:01 amWow, very impressive! Thanks so much!
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July 3rd, 2008 10:36 amReally nice collection of icons and graphics.
Thanks guys, keep up the good work. - 71
July 3rd, 2008 10:40 amthank you very much :)
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July 3rd, 2008 11:02 am1ST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!! - 73
July 3rd, 2008 11:57 amThanks for another load of great icons. :)
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July 3rd, 2008 1:10 pmMe gusta!
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July 3rd, 2008 1:57 pmCan’t forget my own submission, Free Replacement Apache Icons. Might not be as glossy or detailed as some of the above (excellent) examples, but the 85 PNG files come in 32×32 and 128×128, and offer a designed alternative to the generic Apache Icons most web servers install by default.
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July 3rd, 2008 1:58 pm72. elik, woot woot, 2nd.
By the way very nice and usefull list, thanks alot guys..
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July 3rd, 2008 2:22 pmYeah- new icons for our pleasure!
Very very useful. - 78
July 3rd, 2008 2:54 pmNice!
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July 3rd, 2008 3:10 pmFantástica, enooorme Seleccion!!
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July 3rd, 2008 5:28 pminspiring collection!
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July 3rd, 2008 11:45 pmdamn! that was great!
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July 4th, 2008 3:33 amI really love those “Beijing 2008 Icons” made by kidcomic..
I´d love to use them in a commercial project.
Since i do not understand any chinese, i´d like to know more about the terms of use…Thx alot!
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July 4th, 2008 4:01 amWow, nice Sets. Thanks a lot.
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July 4th, 2008 5:29 amreally2 nice…
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July 4th, 2008 6:35 amI can only say:
WOW!
Great, you are the great!!!
Thanks a lot, really - 86
July 4th, 2008 2:58 pmAwesome!! thanks ;)
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July 4th, 2008 6:48 pmGreat, that’s very nice.
Thanks. - 88
July 4th, 2008 9:03 pmGreat icon pack collections.
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July 5th, 2008 3:20 amthanks solve my problems :D
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July 5th, 2008 3:55 amReally Nice,Thanks
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July 5th, 2008 7:24 amman this is quite a collection. it took me around 10 hours plus to download all of them ;)
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July 5th, 2008 8:50 amRealy great collection ! THANX !
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July 5th, 2008 9:40 pmSimply amazing icon collection. You guys are really amazing in providing these resources.
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July 7th, 2008 2:23 amthis really inspiring…
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July 7th, 2008 8:54 amVery NICE!!
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July 7th, 2008 8:03 pmI can’t believe that not one of these sets has a image icon and a video icon in the same set. Very dissapointing, you can’t expect someone to add an icon from one set and that one from another set…
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July 7th, 2008 8:10 pmGreat icons – thanks!
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July 8th, 2008 9:00 amThanks – these are great!
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July 9th, 2008 4:13 amBeautiful stuff here ….
Ummmmmmmmmmmmaaaa !
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July 9th, 2008 4:54 amIt is really very nice. Thanks very much.
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July 10th, 2008 1:36 amReally good work especially Ferrari stuff as well as Beijing 2008 Icons. I like the glow effect on the top of helmet.
Nice work.
GON - 102
July 11th, 2008 1:44 amWorderful icons!
Congralulations! - 103
July 11th, 2008 3:17 pmawesome icons! very useful to web designers
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July 12th, 2008 1:05 pmgreat works, thanks..
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July 17th, 2008 6:00 pmñam ñamm….
gracias!Thanks!
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July 22nd, 2008 11:59 pmFantastic collections!!
Keep Smashing!!
Thanks
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July 23rd, 2008 4:27 amcoooooooooooooooolllll!!!!!!!!!!!!! stufff…… buddy !!!!
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July 23rd, 2008 11:06 ama lof of thanks!!!
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July 25th, 2008 1:11 amthese icons are yummy!!!
developersouvik
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July 27th, 2008 9:16 pmawsome!!! incredible!!! really great icons!!! I like the ones of de OS with the boxes!!! are great!!!
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July 29th, 2008 12:38 amWhat an amazing iconset !!
Thank you so much, it’s so beautiful.
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July 29th, 2008 11:40 pmGreat Icon collection. Thanks.
Prashant
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July 30th, 2008 5:43 amExcellent !
Thanks for this great works. - 114
August 3rd, 2008 8:08 pmTruly amazing collection. Admire the effort and time used.
Thank you.
EVo – Evolinkx.com - 115
August 4th, 2008 3:50 amSee this link as well for cool icons sets http://www.designioustimes.com/freebies/free-icons-sets.html
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August 4th, 2008 9:36 pm10 on 10….superb
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August 12th, 2008 6:58 pmunbelivable SHITTY icons !!
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August 18th, 2008 4:37 amgreat icons
god bless all this designers - 119
September 5th, 2008 10:51 pmGreat Icon sets.
I love that. - 120
September 13th, 2008 3:47 amThis is a brilliant list of fantastic icons :) I’ll be sure to add it and promote it in my own collection
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September 16th, 2008 10:43 pmThis is awesome icons sets, really nice collections… thanks for sharing.
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September 25th, 2008 7:40 amwhat software do you guys use to make this great creations? is there any other besides photoshop, (or the ones in the adobe CS), i mean.. any other easier to use without having that much experience?
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September 30th, 2008 6:08 amTerrific, thanks for your jog. I’m brazilian and I will begin look more this blog
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December 5th, 2008 5:32 amgreat icons,
explain the procedure to create such great icons and the software, if u r using other than photoshop - 125
December 25th, 2008 10:11 ame ke dhi
ti hangsha ropt
ti qifsha - 126
January 2nd, 2009 1:50 amCool! Very impressive collections.
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January 28th, 2009 4:03 amVery very good stuff. Thanks
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February 27th, 2009 2:14 pmWOW! These are the best icons I’ve ever seen. I wish I had created them. ;)
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March 8th, 2009 7:29 amThis is some really fantabulous stuff, atleast there is someplace everything is awesome
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April 3rd, 2009 1:41 pmwow wonderful collections :) thanks dear
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April 14th, 2009 8:20 amHi
Thanks for your very good collection of icon packs. thanks very much’s.
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April 21st, 2009 3:28 pmAwesome icon set collection, best i ever saw on internet!!!! You smash for real ;)
Best Regards Liviu,
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June 1st, 2009 7:25 amVery good collection.
I will use about 5 or 6 of these sets.
Thanks for sharing them :) - 134
July 28th, 2009 12:22 amthank you for sharing.. all i can say is a big “WOW”
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July 29th, 2009 5:36 amAnyone knows a icon set that contains a icon of a printer cartridge?
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September 9th, 2009 1:14 pmi found a hard time findng the download for the Olympic Beijing 2008 Icons, so here’s the direct download link
http://www.kidcomic.net/pjblog/attachments/month_0805/1200854233849.rar - 138
September 15th, 2009 9:44 pmcan anyone tell me how to use these icons for ‘my computer’ n ‘recycle bin’? i want to change icons on my desktop. so please let me know how to change these icons on my desktop. thnx
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January 14th, 2010 8:42 amVery useful icons…. :)
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January 30th, 2010 3:59 amVery helpfull collection..
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February 16th, 2010 3:57 amVeery good
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February 17th, 2010 4:48 pmwow… una fantástica lista de iconos !!
Gracias. - 143
June 14th, 2010 9:05 amIs it legal for someone to make a facebook icon and then tell people they can only use it for personal use unless they contact you? Could you really sue someone for using an icon you created for facebook? Could facebook sue you for using it or making it?
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July 29th, 2010 3:33 amGreat collection!
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August 15th, 2010 9:39 pmHmmmmmmmmm Its goooooood i LIKE IT………………
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