This is one of the sickest Lightbox apps I have ever seen. Tons of support for all kinds of file types as well as a nice customizable interface.

http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/

Popularity: 20% [?]

You can use these Free backgrounds in your own website and your own projects. Download links of the full background package can be found here

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Clean soil

Radioactive honeycomb

My creeper

Metallic fine mesh

Scratchy wood floor

Chimera

Something wicked

Electric noise

Metallic dust

Clean wood alike plastic floor

Dirty metallic floor

Sea of coal

Old wood floor

First snow soil

Sharpened chrome chains

Ornamental jean

Armoured vehicle track

Frostbitten stone plato

Porous metallic floor

Crumple jean

Alien ship

Clean jean

Stone lake

Scratchy metal

Simple wood floor

Metallic floor

Electric nova

Soggy asphalt

Old soaken wood

Dusty slate

Chrome chains

Vivid metallic floor

Scratchy wavy plastic

Popularity: 85% [?]

“Super Icon Pack” for your downloading and development pleasure.

I have scowered the internets for a while now collecting the best .png icons I could find. I use icons a lot in my site development and I always love having tons of them on hand. The only problem is, most of the packs I have found only have 10-15 icons in them and 2 or 3 that are useable.

I have gone through hundreds of packs and deleted all of the crap, only to be left with the best icons I could find. They are organized by size and are all transparent .png files which makes life very easy. There are 1494 total icons in this super pack.

As a bonus I threw in all of my “Social” icons as well because I know how much we all love to be followed. Below are some examples of the icon styles.

Large Icons (186)

Medium Icons (629)

Mini Icons (505)

Bonus Social Icons, All different sizes (174)

Popularity: 49% [?]

Adobe AIR is marvelous. Simple as that. It takes either or all HTML, JavaScript, Flash or Actionscript and builds you a desktop widget that is compatible across all operating systems and can be used at any time off-line. There are very few limitations, and anyone with even a little programming knowledge could build an app with relative ease.

Download the latest version of Adobe AIR here: Adobe AIR 1.5.1 (15mb).

Here are 28 Amazing Adobe AIR applications for Web Designers, Developers and Graphic Designers. Can we have some more, please!

Adobe Air Web Design Tools

Design View »
Description : GUI tool for Flex applications layout composition.

RichFLV »
Description : RichFLV let`s you edit flv files.

Snippage »
Description : Snippage lets you easily make widgets out of parts of any web page. You do so by opening “snips” which are little web browsers you can crop down.

Pixus »
Description : You can not only measure the screen object size with easy. With overlay mode and presets, you can also preview how your design will look in the real environment. Ideal for web and interface designers.

Lita – SQLite Administration Too »
Description : A free, multi-platform administration tool for your SQLite Databases

Em based layouts – Vertical rhythm calculator »
Description : Web developers using XHTML and CSS, will find this tool marvellous.

htmlText Editor »
Description : htmlText Editor is mainly used by Flex developers, it provides a shortcut to having htmlText generated in a WYSIWYG type editor.

Adobe Air Graphic and Image Tools

e2vector »
Description : e2vector is an illustration application with powerful features such as layers, masks, pen-tool, gradient, undo-redo, SVG import and export, path splicing, shape union and intersection, etc. You can even upload SVG and PNG artwork from Creative Commons large online database.

Fireworks AutoBackup utility »
Description : Auto Backup is an Adobe AIR application that helps you to automatically keep creating backups of all your .png files which are being modified, while working in Adobe Fireworks application.

Splashup Light »
Description : Splashup Light is an image editor tailored for those that want to enhance, beautify, or merely play with their photographs.

Shrink O-Matic »
Description : Shrink O-Matic is an application that can easily (batch) resize (shrink) JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.

BetaDesigns Caliper »
Description : The Calilper floats above other applications on screen and can be used to measure anything on your monitor.

Random Pattern »
Description : An app that renders paterns based on given parameters. Rendered image can be used as a base of a mosaic. Preset parameters can be saved and loaded (in xml file format) and output image can be saved as SVG document.

ImageSizer »
Description : ImageSizer is an application built to resize, optimize and rename a batch of jpg images and outputting them as a single compressed zip file.

JustResizeIt! »
Description : Simply drag and drop images, wait a few seconds, and then drag and drop resized images into an e-mail, an office document, or a folder.

Fractal4D »
Description : Fractal4D enables you to draw detailed fractal swirls that can then be exported as a vector or as a plain PNG.

Adobe Air Color Tools

Contrast-A »
Description : Contrast-A allows users to interact with a 3-dimensional RGB color space, experiment with color combinations, check the contrast according to both WCAG 2.0 and 1.0 and see the results for different types of color deficiency. Custom color palettes can be created, printed and saved as Pdf to the user’s desktop.

Kuler Desktop »
Description : Import kuler themes directly into Creative Suite 3 Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. Browse and search color themes from kuler (kuler.adobe.com).

Color Browser »
Description : Color Browser is a great way to organize your favorite color palettes locally.You can import ASE files into the application.

COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder »
Description : Use the Desktop Color Finder to search the entire COLOURlovers database.

Adobe Air Image/Screenshot Capture

QuickScreen »
Description : QuickScreen is a minimalist application interface allowing you to take screenshots, resize, cut a selection, cancel, restore and save.

Webcam to GIF »
Description : Convert images captured with a webcam to an animated GIF.

Snapshooter »
Description : Write a valid web address and hit the “Take snapshot” to save an instant picture of any webpage to your desktop.

Websnapshot »
Description : Enter the Url and press Snap. With Auto Save Checked, the thumbnails are immediately saved to your “save” folder.

SWFShot »
Description : SWFShot is an app that allows you to create high resolution images of Flash content from the users hard drive.

Adobe Air Font Management Tools

.merlin »
Description : TrueType font organizer. Retrieves font name from the file, renames file and organizes based on first letter into a folder.

Font Picker »
Description : This simple tool shows you all the fonts installed on your computer and helps you choose which one is most suitable for a particular project.

Adobe Air Icon Tools

Icon Generator »
Description : Icon Generator is a little application that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon.

Popularity: 48% [?]

The ability to easily bookmark or share content on popular social media platforms is now a must have feature for web sites. It’s also important that this feature isn’t over looked by web site visitors. So it’s always a good idea to use icons when linking to social media sites. They get peoples attention and the logos are immediately recognizable.

I’ve taken the time to round up what I believe are the best free social media icons out there.

Set of social icons

Social Media Mini Iconpack

Handycons

Dellifeed: A Free Icon Set

Heart: A Free Social Icon Set

The Leaves Fall: A Social Icon Set For Bloggers

Social Bookmark Iconset

Set of social icons no.2

Social Icons hand drawned

6 Free New Social Icons

Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

Cute Tweeters Icon Set

Socialize Icons

Social Bookmark Iconset: Part II

34 Social Media Icons

Social Media Icons Pack

Circle Social Bookmark Icons

Web 2.0rigami

Web 2 Icons

Social Icons Made of Wood

Popularity: 20% [?]

When designing a web application, it’s important to make sure the user interface is easy to use. Using icons along side navigation links is one key ingredient to achieving this. But Instead of creating icon sets from scratch, which can be very time consuming, why not use icons that have already been created for you. Here are some of the best icon sets out there for use in web application designs.

Jonas Rask Design Icons for Developers

ASP.NET Icons

Tango Icon Library

Aesthetica Icons

Diagona Icons by pinvoke

Fugue Icons by pinvoke

FAMFAMFAM – Silk

Web Application Icons Set

Coquette Icons

Free web development icons #4 SE

Developpers Icons

Knob Buttons Toolbar icons

Simplistica Icons

Function Icon Set

Milky

Simplicio

Fresh

FAMFAMFAM – Mini

Crystal Clear

Monofactor Vector Icons

IVista Icon Pack 2

Popularity: 16% [?]

Icons come in many different sizes and styles. Some are flat and solid colors, while others can be very detailed. Icons in web design are often used to enhance content and navigation, but the ones in this post are so detailed that they could easily stand alone as beautiful works of art. So if you plan on using these, be careful that they don’t steal the show.

Helix icons

Device Icon Set

Office Space

Massive Media Icons

Starbucks coffee icons

Nes Icons Pack

OLD SCHOOL ICONS

PANDORA dock icons

Package Icons

Sweets icons set

MacBook Air and iMac

Apple LED 24″ Display Icon

Camera Icon

Digital Camera Icon

Pioneer Camp

Canon 400D + lens 17-85mm

Mouse category Season 02

Mighty Mouse and EyeTV Stick

Pool

DiskIcons

Realistic Icons

Moleskine Icons

Popularity: 8% [?]