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Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs
The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate with visitors or users in a more intuitive and effective way. Jakob Nielsen, the maestro of usability, postulated few years ago that "recognition... More... 155 Comments
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Interesting Web Browsers You Have Never Heard Of
There are more browsers than you are probably aware of. Apart from Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer there is a number of promising alternatives which can improve your flexibility, increase your... More... 175 Comments
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Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop
If you can't live without a nice wallpaper on your desktop you might need to invest many hours in the search for the perfect one - that fits to your resolution and has an appealing theme. The quality of... More... 131 Comments
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20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets
User-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand. Since effective designers guide their users' attention using visuals, icons can (and probably should) be used in... More... 206 Comments
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21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Wordpress Themes
Sometimes it's just amazing to see, how developers use creative approaches to design amazing layouts, based upon a simple Wordpress template. Every now and again we take a look around, and select... More... 178 Comments
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7 Brilliant Free Fonts: Faceplate, Sling, Cicle
Every month we take a look around, browse through dozens of fonts collections and select most irresistible typefaces released recently. We collect most beautiful high quality freeware fonts, which can... More... 54 Comments
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The most memory efficient browser is Firefox 3.0. Not only trumps its older version, but every other popular offering on Windows. Sam Allen's findings.
Everyday Icons offers over 30 sets of beautiful patterns and icons for free download. Some of them are just sexy. 
Finetuna is a free service that allows you to upload an image, comment on it and share it with clients and co-workers. Firefox-extension is available as well. Useful.
Designers can design everything. For instance, packing tapes. Examples of pretty and clever packing tapes designs.
Euro 2008 icons is a collection of transparent .png-icons of each country up to resolution 600×600px. Germany plays in a semi-final.
Tiles Generator generates tiles, patterns and stripes on the fly.
Envelope icon set features a variety of different envelopes and folders of different sizes. Available only as .eps.
Hyphenator is a Javascript that implements sophisticated, automatic, client-side hyphenation. It inserts soft hyphens using an algorithm commonly known from LaTeX and Openoffice. Useful.
To comfort your visitors with a pleasing and intuitive composition use the Golden Ratio Calculator for your designs. More on this topic.
Kotatsu is a simple html table generator. The tool lets you attach classes to cells in the same column easily.
