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IT/Tech Job Boards

If you are a freelancer, you know exactly, how hard it can be to build up your reputation and find a good job in a good company with good financial perspectives. If you are a company seeking for IT-professionals, particularly developers and designers, you know exactly, how hard it can be to find some good ones, the ones you could rely on and get well-done job from.

In fact, it’s important to keep an eye on some job openings and/or job seekers, who/which might help you to improve your financial situation or make another important step in your career. The list below delivers 47 good starting points you could begin your search for new IT job opportunities from.

Keep in mind, that most of the sites offer RSS-subscription to new job offerings; some “fresh” sites listed below present not so many job offerings yet, but they were included in this post, because they might become popular in the future.

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Fontin Sans: Freefont of the Week

We continue to collect high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. A nice found of the last week is Fontin Sans, a new sans font released by Jos Buivenga few hours ago.

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45 Fresh, Clean and Impressive Designs

Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talanted web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style, which is easy to use and nice to see.

Recently we’ve listed 50 Beautiful CSS-based web-design of 2006 and chosen some of the most beautiful and inspiring dark web-designs. Now we’ve selected 45 more fresh, clean and impressive designs. Let’s take a look.

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Google Gadgets, Widgets and Moduls

If you’ve never used it before, you’ll want to give it a try: Google Desktop is a handy tool, which enables you to search within your personal data in seconds. Fresh Google Gadget Plugins can make your search even more efficient, particularly if you are searching for videos, images or non-plaintext-files; besides, as web-developer you […]

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Firefox Themes in an Overview

It’s amazing if you think about it. The new generation of web-browsers has become so flexible, so adaptable and so easy to use that you can design and use it according to your personal taste and needs. So if you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you can add almost any functionality you ever thought about via external extensions. Furthermore, you can also personalize your web-browser, changing its look with Firefox Themes. Thus you can let your browser have a fresh Vista look or appear like Opera, Internet Explorer or Mac-Browser. But which look can you choose to guarantee the most enjoyable browsing experience? Well, it’s a tough one.

In fact, there are many of them. We’ve selected some of the most beautiful Firefox Themes, which work in Firefox 2 and listed them below. Usually the changes concern not only the visual appearance and interface (icons and background colors), but also the functionality of the “adapted” Firefox - e.g. extensions.

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5 More Freefonts: Chúcara, Preface, Colaborate

High quality freefonts are always nice to have, but usually they are extremely hard to find. Usually it requires much time and patience to get a lead on some gorgeous typofaces out there. Every week we take a close look around, visit dozens of typography-related sites, check out the latest updates and choose the best free fonts, which have been released or appeared over the last few weeks. And all the fonts we find are getting published immediately, here on Smashing Magazine. So what did we find this week?

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