Icon Library

Through Genbeta I found out about this great favicon searcher. It allows you to download in different file types the favicon of a certain webpage, you just need to enter the URL and choose which file format you want it to be in. Then you can download if in all the available sizes. It’s very useful in order to get icons for RSS, Social Bookmarks, and save any icon you like without having to search through a lot of code

Iconshock has released its new Affiliate Program, which functions through our community site. By just being part of our community you’re automatically listed as one of our affiliates, giving you the change to earn 30% of each sale your links generate.

You can create the links through our Link Generator and our new Catalog generator, is you think they don’t fit the style on your website just let us know and we’ll customize them for you

You can check all the information related to this subject in our affiliates section. If you still have any doubt just let me know or contact us.

This isn’t the first time google changes it’s favicon. In fact, a couple of months ago they change they uppercase G for a lowercase blue g that didn’t seemed to be attractive enough and was highly criticised.

A couple of days ago we found out that Google changed once again they’re favicon for a new, more colorful and attractive one.

Favicons are meant to create remembrance among users and help them identify quickly a certain website. Changing them that often misses the goal of having a favicon, what do you think about it?

Codedpreview is a very useful website that allows you to display a preview of your design in an HTML website. This is very useful when you’re developing a website since you won’t have to present your designs through an image, but you can actually see how they will display in a browser.

This is an example of how an image can be turned into an HTML preview. As you can see it’s not only useful to preview your templates but to easily share them with customers in a more professional way, and get feedback.

Source: WWWhatsNew

“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.”

Ivan Chermayeff

PSDTuts, NETTuts, VECTORTuts and AUDIOTuts are some pages that, if you enjoy design and want to easily learn, have to be in your bookmarks. Today I found out that AETuts was just released. This page, as its name implies, collects a variety of tutorials in order to get the best out of After Effects, one of the greatest software for video post-production.

Right now just the first tutorial has been published, but around 2 or 3 tutorials will be released each week. If you’re familiar with this software and want to contribute, or if you just want to learn, don’t miss this amazing site.

I ran into a very interesting article where 10 techniques are given in order to improve Graphic User Interface Design.

Here are the 10 most important techniques you should use when designing an interface:

1. Padded block links
2. Typesetting buttons
3. Using contrast to manage focus
4. Using color to manage attention
5. White space indicates relationships
6. Letter spacing
7. Auto-focus on input
8. Custom input focus
9. Hover controls
10. Verbs in labels

Remember to always use what suits your project the best

Source: Smashing Magazine

There are lots of software that allows you to edit different files, however I wanted to share with you FreeVimager, a freeware software that doesn’t even need to be installed in your computer and allows you to make the most common changes and improvements in your files.

This software works with all Windows versions and supports several file formats such as jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff (multi-page), png and pcx. It can come really handy when we need some quick editing to do and don’t have any software handy.

Source: Blog Informatico

Rombla is a very useful online tool that allows you to create a professional looking website even if you don’t have any knowledge.

With Rombla you can pick between many different designs and easily add photos, videos and all kind of multimedia. This page was specially created for people with small business that have no technical knowledge and can’t afford professional web design but still understand that having a website is a must, specially a high quality one.

Source: Wwwhat’s New

In order to make our vista icons community site a more active place, and give our members the possibility to choose between the many free stocks we have to offer, we gave them the chance to vote for the next published stock. Since it was almost a tie we decided to publish the two stocks with the most votes which were “The Clash of the Titans – Sigma Style” and “Fruits – Vista Style”.

The Clash of the Titans is a movie based on the myth of Perseus, released on 1981. Right now a remake is being done and will be out in theaters on 2010, so for all the fans of this great movie, here’s a really nice stock for you to check while the new movie is out Some of the icons available in this stock are Perseus, the Robot Owl, Medusa and Kraken.

The second place in our voting competition was Fruits. This stock is perfect for applications and interfaces related to cooking, harvesting and basically anything food related. It contains a banana, a tangerine, a plum, a strawberry and a pear.

I really hope you like them, vectors will be released too soon, so you can play around with this graphics and adjust them to look how you want them to look!

Paint.NET is a graphic editor first designed as project in order to replace Microsoft’s Paint. It has evolved so much so fast that it’s now compared to professional software such as Adobe Photoshop and The GIMP.

This is a great tool for all those who want to try different options. Paint.NET is free and supports the most commons tools from the graphic editors, such as layers and special effects. Right now, this tool is being maintained by the alumni who first created and keep giving support through the forum with a very active community and releasing updates every one or two months. Although it just work properly on Windows, it’s sure worth to give it a try

Metallica is a very popular heavy metal band formed in LA in 1981. In this stock you can find some of the band members such as Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield, the Metallica logo and a guitar. This Lumina Style Icons are perfect for all the music lovers out there. The lights and brights enhance each one of the designs showing high quality and detail in each icon.

How many times have you tried to open a document but couldn’t do it because the file format wasn’t correct? Tried to compressed a file but couldn’t do it because you didn’t have the appropriate software on your computer?

You Convert-it is a very useful tool that allows file conversion from many different file formats. It supports Audio, Document, Video, Images and Files. You can also convert online videos, and download them from sites such as YouTube. And if it wasn’t enough, you can also send files up to 1GB

I wanted to share with you this great resource I found on the web. It’s called XRAY, and as it’s name says, it allows you to look trough a website and easily find any information related to the item you pick.

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With the brand new community working perfectly, the new Free icon stocks have arrived! This week we’re presenting a bitmap and a vector stock featuring Alice in Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland is a novel that tells the story of Alice, a girl that, by following a white rabbit, falls into a fantasy world full of strange creatures and situations. This movie has had several film adaptations, including a Disney animated movie that inspired these lumina icons. You can find Alice, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen and King of hearths, in bright contrasted colors characteristic of the Lumina Style.

Visit our community site in order to get these amazing icons