Top 25 free icon set sources

1. Crystal Clear Icon set


2. Website Icons


3. Ganato Design


4. Color Cons


5. Kombine free set


6. Greyscale icons


7. Twotone Icons


8. Sweetie Icons


9. Bitcons


10. Marko's free icon set


11. Silk icons


12. Mini-pixel icons


13. Proxal Icon Set


14. IconArchive - collection of icon sets

15. Design Magus


16. Mini Icons


17. Feed iliti RSS icons


18. KNeu Icon Set


19. Tango set


20. Drunkey Love Iconset


21. Strawbee Tiny Little Icons


22. Markup mIcons


23. IconBee

24. Iconfinder - search for icons

25. InterfaceLIFT

Loader Generator

Crazy about Ajax and those load buttons?

Here are some cute loaders which you can customize and download for your fancy web pages...

LoadInfo.net

DesignFloat.com

Here is another digg-a-like in its unique version. This one is targeting designers and since I'm a "web designer wannabe" I think of this place as my new place to surf every day...



DesignFloat.com

You can find here all the latest news about fonts and desings to whole bunch of usefull tips and tricks... Well, see you there...

Google Invasion

First, lets get something straight - I love Google. "Google is my friend."

I use Google every day in every way...

And all of my friends use google...

If someone is not using it and ask me a stuid question, I send him a link to google or justfuckinggoogleit.com ...

But, I started to think about it... Shouldn't we be concerned about the way Google is crawling into our lives?

Something that started as nothing but a search box, suddenly is browsing not only web, but 90% of our lives.

You don't believe it? Lets take a look...

1. We have a google search. Most of people that I know of don't use any other search. And not only that, but the word google is a synonym for search... We don't say "go and search for that", we say - "go and google it", even on my native language - croatian, we say - "proguglaj" referring to the google search.

2. Do you use gmail? I do, my friends do, everyone I know - do... Even if they mostly use some old e-mail address from yahoo etc., they have gmail also... You can be sure of that... I have more than one official e-mail address, but I handle them through gmail.

3. Do you have a blog or web-page? You are using google adsense, aren't you?

4. Now, there is still a lot of google applications for which you maybe haven't heard... YET... But they are still here... Just waiting to become a part of our lives...

Lets see some of them:
Google Desktop - google brings news to your desktop, google brings weather and all those small gadgets which we love... You can even have your own virtual plant on google desktop...

Google Earth - why going out? You can see far away countries right here on your screen... In your comfortable chair without worryng what visa do you need for that country, do you need vaccine, how to get there etc. etc. etc.

Google Finance - business info, news, interactive charts

iGoogle, Maps, News, Notebook, Google Video, Code, Labs, Blogger, Calendar,
Docs&Spreadsheets, Picasa, Talk, Translate, Mobile, SMS, free software, web
accelerator...

Whatever you want, whatever you need - they have it... GOOGLE HAS IT ALL...

They even have a worldwide store... I can already imagine shopping everyday groceries in Google store and having them delivered in my home... And all of them with google logo... :D

Doesn't that seem scary to you?

Where are those paranoids with conspiracy theories now?

Doesn't it seems like Google is taking over the world?

Bit by bit he is crawling inside of our homes... Bit by bit with their spiders...

On the other hand, lets try to imagine the world with Google taking it over
(according to how they treat their employees - at least as much as I heard):

Everyone woulf work when they like and in the field that they work the best... We would all have pools... :D

Food would be delivered right to our homes so that we dont waste our time on buying grocieries in the shop. We could go out in restaurants only if we want to mingle and socialize face to face. Everything that we would need would be "free" because there would be no money any more. Our money would only be a figure on our Google account. When we work, the figure would grow, when we spend, the figure would go down. Cause, google would own everything... No need to pay with cash...

We would have more time to spend with our children because we could all be online together. They could even attend schools over the virutal classrooms... Hell, we would even socialize online and go to virtual restaurants...

No thieves, no crime, because google would make a better place for everyone and
we would all work our best to stay that way...

Hm, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing, wouldn't it? :D

Ok, ok, I know, I'm exaggerating, but I think you got the point...

Now, what do you think about all this?

Create web2.0 badge online

I found another usefull and easy-to-use online generator. This one helps you make your own web 2.0 badge. You can choose shape, dimensions, colors and text caracheristics.

It's fun, It's easy, It's usefull...

Don't you just love online generators?

I know I do... ;-))

FreshBadge.com

RoundedCornr

Finally a roundcorner generator that I was looking for... RoundedCornr.com has it all...

Rounded corners in one color, rounded corners with gradient or rounded corners with a border... Whatever you desire, you can have it... Just input informations about what you want and it will generate html/css code and images for it... RoundedCornr.com is definitely going into my favs...

IconFinder.net

I was planning to make a post with some of my favourite free icons, but then I found this page.

All the free icons that I use, are allready in there + some new, so, as far as I'm concerned, this is my new favourite place for free icons...

Only minus is that you can not browse icons by complete sets from one author, but only by name or tags...

I hope they will fix it in future... Enjoy!

IconFinder.net

Feed My App

Whatever the name means, FeedMyApp is actually a new web 2.0 directory.

And I simply love it... Why?

1. Design - it so refreshing and simple, isn't it?!

2. Easy to use and navigate - I don't have to scan it 10 minutes to find a gallery, it's right there in front of me the whole time...

3. Preview + short description - I can preview the design of the site and I don't have to visit it to see what they do, there is a short description above every thumb.

Therefore, I can use it to browse new sites and to find some which I don't know how I would ran into otherwise, but I can also use it to find an inspiration for new designs!

Oh yes, off course, you can also suggest your web 2.0 site and get some more traffic... ;-))

Color Pickers/Converters

I'm always having a hard time finding the right color picker or converter online. Sometimes I run into some that I find very usefull, but next time that I want to use it, it's lost in the sea of bookmarks.

Therefore, I google a little, tried various color pickers and converteres and here is the list of the ones I found most usefull.

1.) Zoltech Color Converter - you can select color name and see its RGB or HEX code, or you can write RGB code and convert it into HEX code (vice versa). Each time you select a color, background changes into that color. Handy and simple to use.

2.) PCMan Color Converter - this one has a HEX to RGB color converter, RGB to HEX code color converter, RGB to VRML color converter, as well as Web Browser Safe Color converter which chooses the closest web safe color to the one that you entered. Nice, but with one big minus. You can not visualize the color you're entering, nor the web safe color which he suggest until you put it into your css code or wherever you want to use it.

3.) Forret Color Conversion - Offers CMYK, RGB, HEX converter + shows websafe color next to the one you chosen and a matching greyscale tone + gradient from chosen color to white or black + complete RGB color chart with official names. Definitely my No. 1.

4.) Draac.Com's Converter - Color Chart, Color Cube, Rainbow text and Color Converter HEX/RGB. Since I am a visual type of person, I like this page cause when I choose the color I want, it shows as background color. Among these color tools, page offers lots of other usefull tools, so it's good to mingle around a bit and see if there0s something you'll need.

5.) ColorMatch - Ok, this is not ordinary color picker or color converter, but it's usefull when you can't decide which colors would match with the one that you like to put on your website.

6.) ZSP Super Color Chart - Great tool - pick a color of your text and color of your background and see how they match together.

7.) PageTutor ColorPicker - My first color picker, so it deserves a place on this list. Pick a color of your text, link, visited link, active link, hover link and color of your background. Bad thing is that you can't write your hex code, it only supports 216 websafe color chart.

8.) Color Schemer - very simple and nice design. You pick a color by hex code, rgb value or from color-chart directly on site and he shows chosen color as well as 16 matching colors. Special bonus is that you can choose to lighten or darken complete scheme.

9.) Color Scheme 2 - I love it. You can pick a color that you prefer and choose between Mono, Contrast, Triad, Tetrad and Analogic Color Scheme as well as lighten, darker, pastel pallette and so on.... According to that he gives you color pallette.

10.) Dr Pete Jones color calculator - you can choose to enter HEX code, RGB or HSV value and find the others. Background swithces to color you choose. Special tool is that you can choose sample colors from list, or click random button.

11.) DeGraeve color picker - just a simple tool to write in hex code and find 16 matching colors. Nothing special, but this site offers some other tools like color pallete generator, favicon maker, buisness card generator etc.

And for the end, this is not actually a color picker nor converter, but it's worth to see: KrazyDad

That's about it. I hope you'll find this post usefull since there's a tons of color pickers around the web and it's really hard to choose which one to use.

Please, feel free to comment or to add more links of your favourite color pickers/converters etc.