Creative Community Bulletin 22 April 2009 Through 24 April 2009

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 22 April 2009 through 24 April 2009:

  • 5978 High Quality Icons for Web, Apps – This is beyond ques­tion the largest sup­ply of free icons ever pub­lished in one arti­cle. With this exceed­ing­ly mas­sive sup­ply, your icon solu­tions for web­sites and Apps are pret­ty much end­less! Ranging from file types to gad­gets, Mac icons to Firefox orbs, RSS feeds and even race cars. Yes, even race cars.
  • From Design Into Print » Spot or Process #1
  • 5 Twitter Tools You Should Be Using – Blog by Jon Bishop – I thought I would share my list of Twitter tools I think should be in every­one’s book­marks. These tools improve the qual­i­ty and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of my account by
  • Commentwitter Plugin Page – Commentwitter is a WordPress plu­g­in that gives com­menters the option of Tweeting their com­ment with a link to your post.
  • I ♥ wire­frames
  • Twitter Caps Following Limits, Denting Auto-Follow Services
  • 20 Excellent Plugins for Safari | Webdesigner Depot – Each brows­er comes with its own set of advan­tages and fea­tures and one of the great­est ben­e­fits of Firefox has been the abil­i­ty to ful­ly cus­tomize it through the use of plu­g­ins and add-ons.

    This fea­ture is espe­cial­ly impor­tant for those of you using Mac OS X, when decid­ing whether to pick one of the two heavy­weights: Firefox or Safari.

    But Safari actu­al­ly does sup­port plu­g­ins. While the choice is nowhere near as exten­sive as that of Firefox, there is still a good vari­ety of them to choose from.

    Here’s a list of 20 use­ful plu­g­ins for Safari for OS X.

  • How to Run IE8 Beta, IE7 and IE6 On The Same PC? – Internet Explorer Collection is a handy free­ware util­i­ty which will allow users to run mul­ti­ple ver­sions of IE on the same PC, it basi­cal­ly con­tains stand­alone ver­sions of IE which can be run at the same time and runs inde­pen­dent­ly of each other.
  • Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20 Common Bugs and Fixes | Noupe – Today we want­ed to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pit­falls when cre­at­ing your CSS layout.
  • Create a 3D real­is­tic blue­print in Photoshop – In this tuto­r­i­al i will show you how to cre­ate a 3d blue­print. In the next days i will use my result to cre­ate a new lay­out. The result will be very nice, and i will promise you it is not dif­fi­cult to cre­ate a nice look­ing 3D blue­print with photoshop.
  • How to Create a Sleek and Textured Web Layout in Photoshop – In this Photoshop web design tuto­r­i­al, you’ll learn how to cre­ate a full web page lay­out that com­bines the sleek and tex­tured look-and-feel using a com­bi­na­tion of begin­ning to inter­me­di­ate Adobe Photoshop techniques.
  • Video Tutorials from Quark – Quark has post­ed sev­er­al enlight­en­ing video tuto­ri­als, including:How to draw cus­tom shapes with the new­ly redesigned Bézier pen toolsetHow to cre­ate pic­ture popouts (how to crop your sub­ject on cer­tain sides of a box while let­ting the sub­ject extend past the box on oth­er sides)Design and out­put Flash direct­ly from QuarkXPress 8
  • Ultimate Typographic Logos Inspiration – Lately I’ve been work­ing in a new iden­ti­ty for a local com­pa­ny, and their only request is that it has to be a only type logo. Then I start­ed research­ing some typo­graph­ic logos at Logopond, and it was a great step in my con­cept development.
  • Two Rules to Guarantee a Successful Small Business Blog | Good Plum – Your friends, fam­i­ly, and col­leagues have the best inten­tions when they say, You should just start a blog but they may not ful­ly under­stand what it takes to