20 EURO 2008 icons

DryIcons.com has released 20 EURO 2008 icon set contains 20 high quality free icons in the sizes of: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px;
You can also grab this cool icon set in 32-bit transparency PNG, ICO and ICNS file formats.
Not only flags of EURO 2008 championship represented countries, there are also several icons related to a soccer game if you need them too.
Football fans, celebrate the most popular sport with this EURO 2008 icon set by visiting DryIcons.com now!

Texturez.com - Discover Wonderful Colors and Textures

Get tired of browsing for new textures that you need? Perhaps texturez.com will help you out This website renders free high resolution texture photos for you! Here is a quick hint of texture categories listed. They are:

* Brick Textures
* Concrete Textures
* Fabric Textures
* Food Textures
* Glass Textures
* Ground Textures
* Grunge Textures
* Metal Textures
* Paint Textures
* Plants Textures
* Plaster Textures
* Plastic Textures
* Rust Textures
* Stone Textures
* Wood Textures

Texturez.com is a great freebies web resource to visit if you need more high quality textures for your design today. Have a moment to save this article for future need if you like!

Create a Modern Navigation Module with Photoshop

If you start to build a website design, you wouldn’t want to miss this Photoshop tutorial. This layout tutorial will mainly show the use of shapes and gradients to create a navigation module.You will also learn in detailed steps of how to add gradient for active link inside the module. Gradients are everywhere on this web element, yet the result is a sleek and modernistic navigation module for your website layout design.
Jump in to the tutorial now if you like to experiment with your own web navigation design

JonDesign’s SmoothGallery 2.0

This javascript gallery and slideshow system is designed using mootools v1.11. The new released of SmoothGallery 2.0 produces simple and smooth (cross-fading…) image galleries, slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website. Although the javascript file is only 24kb, you will have fully standard compliant web pages in a lightweight solution for your website

Here come the new features
- Back and forward buttons of your browser now controls the gallery.
- History Manager allows you to send URL up there to a friend.
- Gallery Sets brings you multiple galleries on one place and switch between galleries
- Transitions between slides option as an alternative to smooth fade-in pictures.
- Included a real preloader and loads only what is needed.
- Switched to mootools 1.11
- Automatically closed the carousel when you click on an item (can be turned off).
- Customizable to what you need.
- Upgraded license to GPL v3.
- An official flickr plugin available to display your picture sets as gallery sets.

Incredibly awe! Ready to give a try? Hurry up….. Get the details by visiting the official JonDesign’s SmoothGallery 2.0 website now!

site >> http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/what/
demo >> http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/showcase/gallery/

3 High Res Sunbursts

Ray of light could be one of the most highly use design elements nowadays!
Good news for you, as PSD FAN has released 3 sunbursts freebies set for free. They are made easy because:
- all images are in high resolution (1000px X 1000px)
- varied number of rays (10 rays, 20 rays and 40 rays)
- available in .PSD files (transparent background)
Be ready to download these awesome High Res Sunbursts images now and don’t forget to save this post to your favorite socio bookmark if you like!

Timeago - a jQuery plugin

We found a unique jQuery plugin called Timeago. It was smartly built by Ryan McGeary and allows you to display automated timestamps refresh update on your website, for instances:

* user last login timestamps (Mr. X opened this page about 5 hours ago, Thomas last seen 4 days ago, etc.)
* user status related to timestamp queries (date of born, date of registration, etc.)

First, load jQuery and the plugin, then attach it to your timestamps on DOM ready. Getting warm up for the next step? Better read the rest of installment that can be found on Timeago source page now

Intense Light Streaks in Photoshop

Have you wonder of how to create intense light streaks flowing around an object or person?
This tutorial will show you the walkthrough steps. It starts from removing an object’s background then spice up the object with outer glow through the layer styles.
Not only that, you will also intensively using the Pen Tool to create light streams FX around the object. Several effects come as follows to bring realistic atmosphere to the object.
Be hurry to visit this amazing tutorial, and pick your own object to start!

Braintalk with Duane King from bbdk.com, thinkingforaliving.org

1. Hi , who are you and what do you do?
My name is Duane King and I am a creative director and designer at a multidisciplinary studio called BBDK. Bob Borden is BB and I’m DK. From our home office in Santa Fe, New Mexico and satellite office with Athletics in Brooklyn, New York we collaborate with a network of graphic and product designers, programmers and photographers worldwide. In my spare time, I’m an editor at AisleOne, TypeNEU, YouWorkForThem and ViewersLikeU. I’m also a critical thinking scout for Netdiver.

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