Category: Brainpicks

Bright! - Free Vector Icon Set to Bright Your Day

Bright! is a beautiful collection of icon set, containing 148 hand-crafted icons in vector format designed by Min Tran. It has been downloaded over 14.000 times! You got it right, this icon set is just the damn popular one! Highly recommended for web and print work. Bright icons are totally free for personal and commercial projects.

Bright your day with this lovable Bright Icon Set and don’t forget to drop comment or include backlink to the resource page if you decide to use it

21 Chiyogami Seamless Textures

Do you know what Chiyogami is? Chiyogami is a hightly decorative type of printer paper used for craft purposes. Snap2Objects.com compiled a group of best 21 Chiyogami seamless textures from Flickr. A tasteful of Japanese style for your inspiration. They are flourish and fancy if you like to put one of them as web background in related themes, for examples: teenage website, personal blog, or Japanese style of course :p

Take a look this gorgeous collection now and don’t forget to check the license and attribution for each texture before you decide to download guys!

Design Custom jQuery UI themes using ThemeRoller

ThemeRoller is an amazing jQuery UI themes generator. Major web elements such as: Accordion, Tabs, Slider, Date Picker and Dialog widget are available to be customized in your desire. To start creating a custom theme, just select the Roll your own tab and adjust the settings. While you design the theme, the UI components below will update to reflect your design. There is also Theme Gallery tab if you’d like to use a pre-designed theme and choose from one of the themes in the gallery. Once you have created or found a theme that you like, you can click the Download Theme button below. To save a theme for later, simply bookmark or copy the URL.

ThemeRoller is an interesting theme generator that worth to give a try. Please tell us how useful this is for you!

Tick Tock - A CSS & JS Clock that Rock

site: click here
demo: click here

CSS makes every design possible. Recently we found something interesting posted at SohTanaka.com. Soh, the author of this web blog came up with a brilliant idea of creating a clock that combines CSS and Javascript.

The clock displays user’s local time, by Javascript, and the CSS div tags handle the appropriate hour and minute classes with absolute positioning of clock arms. This clock face is broken down into 3 layers of hour/min/sec arms in transparent PNG files.

You can figure out of how this CSS Clock works beautifully by visiting the source site and also the demo page. Just in case you’ll need this for future project, bookmarking this post is much appreciated!

Grunge and Clean Flower Photoshop Brushes

These flowery brush set consists of 30 Free High-Resolution brushes (2500px max. size), in both Clean & Grunge Style (15 Clean, 15 Grunge).

What is interesting about the set is because these were all made from photos, yet they are close to realistic graphics. Whenever you decide to visit the download page, you might get a huge crush over these lovely brushes. Because you can see the preview of both of the brush sets and they are beautiful.

Not to worry to notice the difference between the grunge floral set and the clean cut, since they are contained in the same .zip, but are different .abr files. These Grunge and Clean Flower Photoshop Brushes are completely free to download

Diavlo Font for Free

Diavlo is one of the finest clean font that ever designed. The modern look of Diavlo contains: Light, Book, SemiBold Medium, Bold and Black weights type.
It is now the language is fully supported (Latin / Central European / Croatian / Romanian / Icelandic / Turkish / Esperanto).
You can just grab this free font for free from the source site and download the PDF file to read the Diavlo font in details.

Color Jack - Color Schemes with Tool Tips

ColorJack.com is a website that specialized in Color softwares and tools. When you first landed to his cool site, you will see interesting color schemes that collects around 98 color combinations. Hover your mouse, and you’ll see a color scheme for each combination in a tool tip.

We have to say that ColorJack schemers is a very smart way to enjoy and to find inspirational colors for your design without being confused with pagination links to navigate. When you decide to click a color combination, you will be directed to another page to get more detailed information about each color inside it.

Have a quick visit to try ColorJack by yourself, as it should be a real time saver for your color inspiration

Cappuccino Application Framework

site:
http://cappuccino.org/
demo:
http://cappuccino.org/learn/demos/FlickrPhotoDemo/
http://cappuccino.org/learn/demos/puzzle/

Building a complex cross browser application could be challanging for some people, nevertheless there is an open source application framework to develop such project. Here it comes Cappuccino, which implements most of the familiar APIs from GNUstep and Apple’s Cocoa frameworks. It won’t trouble you with the complexities of traditional web technologies like HTML, CSS, or even the DOM from scratch. Objective-J, and one set of APIs, are the set of technologies behind Cappuccino that make your web application possibly done in easy way.

If you are a web developer or just interested with this stuff, you may give a try over a beta project built by Cappuccino and see the demo to learn more

Beautiful Presentations with 280 Slides

presentation builder >> http://280slides.com/
share presentation >> http://slideshare.net/

280 Slides is a web tool that allows you to create beautiful presentations. Customize your presentation with a selected theme, building it, and share it any way you like when you’re done. No software to download and it is absolutely free!

Great features of 280 Slides:

* Securely stored presentations on internet server for better access.
* Add photos and movies to a presentation directly from popular web services like Flickr and YouTube with Built-In Media Search.
* Great looking presentation with collection of professional quality built-in themes.
* Autosaved and recovery enabled.
* Download a copy of presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 format.
* E-mail or embed a presentation with SlideShare, all with just a few clicks.
* Building a presentation right in the browser, with no download and no installation.

This 280 Slides is a real time saver for everyone! So why don’t you try building your own presentation now?