2000+ Quality Free Web Application Icons – Pinvoke Fugue Icons Set
Pinvoke, a freelance design studio based in Tokyo Japan, released a clean, sharp and useful web application icon set – Fugue Icons for web designers and developers, containing over 2000 semi-transparent .png format icons in the resolution 16x16px with a large variety range of designs such as e-mail icons, software icons, general web application icons and blog icons. All icons are free to use for personal and commercial projects under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Alternative Free Fonts Resource – Ffonts.net
1001FreeFonts, UrbanFonts or DaFonts are popular well-known free fonts sites that we always visit to download fonts for our design projects. Here we have a new alternative choice – Ffonts.net. Ffonts is a new simple free fonts resource site that offers offers a huge selection of free fonts available to download for Windows and Macintosh. At Fffonts.net you can get the details of each font and customize font preview feature support. The font packages you download from the Ffonts.net is in compressed .zip files to reduce file size and make downloading faster. Installing fonts is quick and simple. Once fonts are installed, they are available to yours programs.
1. How to install a font under Windows?
Under any version of Windows : Place the font files (.ttf, .otf or .fon) into the Fonts folder, usually C:\Windows\Fonts or C:\WINNT\Fonts
(can be reached as well by the Start Menu > Control Panel > Appearance and Themes > Fonts).
2. How to install a font under Mac OS?
Under Mac OS X 10.3 or above (including the FontBook) : Double-click the font file > “Install font” button at the bottom of the preview.
Under any version of Mac OS X : Put the files into /Library/Fonts (for all users) or into /Users/Your_username/Library/Fonts (for you only).
Under Mac OS 9 or earlier : Download the font files (.ttf or .otf),Then drag the fonts suitcases into the System folder. The system will propose you to add them to the Fonts folder.
3. How to install a font under Linux?
Click on the “Download” button, save the font file on your hard disk.
Copy the font files (.ttf or .otf) to fonts:/// in the File manager.
Delicious JavaScript UI Framework – Scripty2
Thomas Fuchs just today announced that script.aculo.us 2 is out of alpha, and now have a new domain named Scripty2 with complete rewrite code and new features. It’s a powerful and flexible JavaScript framework to help you create next-generation HTML-based visual effects and user-interface. You can check out the awesome cards and puzzle working demo accordingly.
Scripty2 was divided into three parts, core, fx, and ui.
- scripty2 core: helpers for a more delicious developer experience; core contains various JavaScript and DOM extensions used by scripty2 fx and scripty2 ui, plus developer utility classes.
- scripty2 fx: the framework for DOM/CSS-based visual effects; The scripty2 effects framework provides for time-based transformations of DOM elements and arbitrary JavaScript objects.
- scripty2 ui: user interface behaviours; functions for CSS parsing, color normalization and CSS value interpolation.
The API is still not available yet. For more information, please refer to their doc page and Google Group.
16 Sets Amazing Social Networking Icons Free Download
In order to get more social networking traffic, the importantance of a unique, cool and well design social network icons cannot be neglected for your site to get more social network traffic from like digg, delicious or twitter. Today it’s a new roundup for selecting the high quality amazing social bookmarking/networking icon sets. You can download and use the small social networking icon sets for all of your personal projects including blogs, software, online services and templates.
Social Networking Icon Pack
The Social Network Icon Pack consists of 40+ 16 pixel x 16 pixel icons and 40+ 32 pixel by 32 pixel icons all in 32-bit PNG format designed by KomodoMedia.
Glossy Black Social Network Icons
108 high resolution 3D glossy black button social, social bookmarking, social networking icons.
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DIY Stylish Background Patterns with Design-A-Pattern Maker
Design-A-Pattern is a cool online pattern maker that you can create an unique background pattern with totally 24 stylish and trendy images. The pattern maker was developed by graphic designer Ryen Anderson. It’s pretty simple and ease to use. First choose as many as you want favorite images form the toolbox, and then move over them around the canvas to make your prefer pattern design. Click the “background” button to preview the pattern on the browser immediately. When you are satisfied with the design, go ahead to export and download the pattern in JPG format. You can use these patterns as your computer desktop wallpaper or even Twitter background to refresh your visitors.