Category: Brainpicks

What are your favorites?

Hello out there Today it is the first time we´ll try to build an interactive listing of your favorite websites. So tell us what YOUR daily readings are. To make it a little bit easier I´ll give you some categories:
CSS, Fonts & Typo, Graphic Design, Scripting, SEO, Tech, Tutorials, Web Design and WordPress.

So just leave a comment to this post and spread some new inspiration. Oh and if you like share this post with everyone you know so we get a good list Thanks a lot !

Task2Gather - One place for all your tasks

Professional people work efficiently to organize their business. Either you work with a solid team or in individual basis, you’ll always need to manage your projects organized efficiently. Being efficient will mean that everything must be reachable in one place. Let us introduce you: Task2Gather. It is a free “one-place-for-all-tasks” service that allows users to keep all their personal tasks, to do lists, business projects in which they participate, household chores and other family care tasks, etc.
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27 Free Cult-foo Icons

Cult-foo is a highly respected website that present you everything related to WEB design and technologies. Recently, the folks at Cult-foo designed 27 Free Cult-foo Icons to download for free. They look neat in bluish color scheme and appear so stylish with glassy design. These cute icons are available in .PNG file format with average size of 35×35px for each icon.

Websites with more natural color scheme, for examples: plain white, or light grey, are reference of themes that can get best advantage by installing this icon set.
Download 27 Free Cult-foo icons in a zipped file from the source page or bookmark this post for future usage if you love this freebie set!

“Star Wars” - an a capella tribute to John Williams

You know i love creative “things”… and this is one. This guy can sing and what a great idea:

100+ Sketchy Kreski-Lines IconPackager

Are you bored with the same old icons on your desktop and folders? Here is something unique from an amazing Deviant ~azazel100, who has designed a set of sketchy Kreski-Lines IconPackager. The icons are in max 64×64 size and available in png, ico format complete with IP theme.
Here are the Icons categories:

* Desktop icons
* Start icons
* Folder icons
* Drive icons
* File icons
* General icons, and
* Other (miscellaneous) icons

The whole sketched design icons look so crafty isn’t it? This IconPackager would surely freshen up the the appearance of your system default icons Have a quick peep on the source page if you find this useful!

Select Box Factory 2.0 - a Select Box with Flexible Uses and Functions

Select Box Factory 2.0 is a tool that simply runs on jQuery 1.2.6 framework, and was ported over from version 1.1 for mooTools. You’ll get a select box that is highly customizable in many range of options. Select Box Factory can show counts, selections, images, numbers, urls, states in the form of a heatmap with filter buttons. It is equipped with eraser function, a keystroke find function, and spreadsheet style selection capability. Not only that…. there are still more custom features ahead.
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Flowplayer - Open Source Web Video Player

site: http://www.flowplayer.org/
living screenshot: http://www.flowplayer.org/player/screenshots.html
skinning tutorial: http://www.flowplayer.org/tutorials/skinning.html

Flowplayer is a free flash video player for web. With this tool, you can easily embed video streams on your website.It is being developed for its “version 3.0″ until later this year.
By default Flowplayer shows following widgets in the control bar: play/pause button, progress bar (also called ’scrubber’), volume slider, full-screen button, and the menu button.
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Click Creative Magazine: Issue 2

The second issue of Click Creative Magazine is out. Click Creative Magazine? Covering subjects such as graphic design, illustration and photography, the free, online magazine aims to provide insightful tutorials and interesting features. Download your copy today!

In this issue you will find:
- Photography basics: Lenses
- The continuation of promoting your website
- Changing the sky in Photoshop
- Adobe Director
- A look into the Monkey Island Phenomena

New Grunge Font by Carlos Fabian

OutlawDesignBlog.com just announced the release of their second free grunge font set. It is designed an amazing font designer: Carlos Fabian Camargo Guerrero, from Bogota Columbia.

The character is structurally distorted, bold weight, and detailed with rough texture. But what makes unique is because Carlos added erratic horizontal lines (more like sketches) to several fonts…and it creates a perfect eroded background, when you type a line of word using this grungy fonts.