If the days of the week are for producing content, messing with endless pages of code and designs, the weekend should be for having a lot of fun. When I say “fun,” I think about online fun and offline fun as well, and submitting content to sites like Digg, StumbleUpon or Mixx surely goes into the “fun” category, because I always end up interacting with other users and discovering interesting online resources. Now… what about Social Media Bubblicons?

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I know this may not be exactly what most developers dream of getting for free, but having some simple yet clean looking icons at your disposal is always a good idea, and that’s why today I’ll point you to Pictoico…

Since everyone seems to be for or against globalization these days, Pictoico is for it, or so it seems. Why am I saying this? Just take a look at what they are saying – “We have been trying to properly communicate [...]

When something becomes really popular on the Web, there’s always something good about it, no matter how bad could be the popular thing by itself (think about “two girls one cup” and the videos showing people’s reactions to it, for example). While I can’t say I am in love with Twitter, I have a Twitter account that I use from time to time (that meaning “almost monthly”) and checking out backgrounds and icons for this microblogging service was always something [...]

I love free icons, but who doesn’t? Unlike other freebies, free icons are usually great, at least that’s what I can say. Unfortunately, others are not always like that – think about freely available articles or wallpapers. Oh, well, you can’t always get what you want, but if it’s icons you need… then glyphlab.com could be one of those excellent online resources that make me wonder “Why do they give so much goodies for free?” over and over again…

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One of the freelance tasks I always enjoyed to handle is icon creation. Sometimes, it even pays really good, but it’s not about the money, but the fun. On the other hand, if you need icons for some project, the idea is to keep costs as low as possible, and so I ended up on FindIcons.com, an excellent resource for designers looking to get some free icons or entire icon sets…

Using this resource is as easy as 1-2-3 – just [...]

I don’t know about you, but I always find reasons to be amazed by notorious websites that miss something. I am not talking about big things, but there are small ones that really make the difference, and today we’re going to talk about favorites icons. Yup, I am talking about that little square icon that’s associated with a certain site and appears in the Address bar of your browser!

Creating icons from scratch isn’t that easy, and usually requires some tools, [...]