Archive for the ‘Freebies’ Category

Blitter: Free Twitter Icons by Icon Shock

The team over at Iconshock and HongKiat have released a new Twitter icon set called Blitter.

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Download Blitter source Ilustrator .AI format

Download Blitter full set (Icons + source)

Free Old Bottle Crowns Icons Set

Six Revisions presents to you a free icon set consisting of 20 social media icons such as Digg, Stumble Upon, Delicious, and Twitter called Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set created by Dawghouse Design Studio for you Six Revisions readers.

The theme is worn-and-torn, so it’ll look great on grunge, vintage, classic-themed web designs. This set contains 20 200px x 200px PNG files that you can easily resize and edit for your website design.

Download

Grab the Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set as a ZIP archive below.

Licensing

The above works featured here are licensed under the Creative Commons license and can be used for personal and/or commercial purposes.

The Creative Commons license requires you to “attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor”. Our attribution specification: you don’t need to attribute the work to us (though you’re more then welcome to, and we will definitely appreciate it).

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Windows 7 Free E-Book

Windows 7 will be out in the street in a few days more (October 22, this Thursday) and Microsoft Press is giving us a very useful book for free: Windows 7 Deployment Essential Guidance.

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This e-book contains ten chapters from another official Microsoft Press book: Windows 7 Resource Kit (not for free, of course). Contains all the necessary information about Windows 7 deployment planning, execution, automation and tools involved in the process.

Here’s a summary of the topics involved:

  • Planning Deployment
  • Testing Application Compatibility
  • Developing Disk Images
  • Migrating User State Data
  • Deploying Applications
  • Volume Activation
  • Using Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
  • Using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)

But that’s not all: Microsoft also published as a free download the Chapter 23 of the Windows 7 Resource Kit, “Supporting Users Using Remote Assistance”.

Enjoy!

Divine – Create websites from Photoshop to Wordpress

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Divine is a clever little tool that allows you to make Wordpress pages using your pre-made Photoshop works, allowing you unlimited customization right down to the smallest details. All this can be done with minimal knowledge of site creation assuming you know how to use Photoshop but that’s a separate issue.

Yes, you are only as good as your Photoshop template. You see, the idea behind this is to design the perfect visual template within Photoshop then to upload it to Divine, adding all the interchangeable information within Divine. It works surprisingly well and at the moment it is absolutely free however because of this they have limited the number of functions.

It’s clear that a lot of effort has been put into the project and the example that have been put up look great. Ease of use is the key term here, the website not only offers a simple tutorial to Divines use but it has a guide to installing wordpress.

I’m impressed, with features including Built-in FTP-client, Supports for all Photoshop filters and Encoding support the internet could be well on its way to being neater and more stylish, well in terms of Wordpress websites anyway and I think we can all agree that’s a good thing.

MacPress: Free Mac Inspired Wordpress Theme

Our friends over at Sizlopedia have released a great new free Wordpress theme that is worth a look. The theme is called MacPress and is actually being currently used on the Sizlopedia site itself.

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Here you go with some of the features of MacPress:

  • Compatibility – It is compatible with the latest version of Wordpress.
  • Elegant Design – Much like Leopard, the theme has a eye-catching UI of its own.
  • Theme Options – The theme also comes with a built-in Options panel.
  • Validated Code – From the XHTML to the CSS, every bit of codehas been validated.
  • SEO Friendly – It bears a fine code with SEO friendly tags and structure.

And some of the features planned for the future releases:

  • Styles Chooser – The Options panel would allow the user to select a pre-defined style.
  • Magazine Layout – A switcher between normal/magazine layout modes.

Demo: Sizlopedia

Download: MacPress.zip

27 Circular Social Media Icons in 3 Sizes

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I have been after some great social media icons for a long time and I have finally come across a great set. All icons are circular and of the highest quality. Icons include AIM, Bebo, eBay, Hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Ning, Orkut, Twitter and more.

Download: Social Media Icons Pack 2.0 (.rar), Social Media Icons Pack 2.0 (.zip)

Backing up your blog with BlogBackupr

blogbackupr5BlogBackupr it’s a simple and nice web app that automatically backups all your posts in your blog. It represents a very easy way for you to not worry so much about vulnerabilities in the platform, loosing data, accidental deletion, etc.

It works with all blogs that have RSS-feed, that is the minimum requirement. Among the features that you can find in this web app:

  • Completely free.
  • No installation required.
  • Once you register, the backups are performed regularly without requiring your intervention.
  • You can export and import all those backups whenever you want.
  • Automatic restore supported for WordPress.org, WordPress.com and Blogger.com
  • WordPress users include these backups: full posts, comments, pages, categories and media.
  • You can have backups without giving your WordPress credentials. Will just use the public feed.
  • CSS file and images from the blog template are also saved.

This is your administration site where you can execute all necessary tasks with the added blogs:

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Go ahead, give it a try.

Free E-Books from Microsoft Press: Office Communications Server

mspress_logo_145x90Again, another post dedicated for all those geeks (IT and dev guys) out there… common, don’t be shy, let the geek inside of you come out :)

Microsoft Press is releasing their last delivery for free e-books and with a nice set for you to download completely free:

Office Communications Server 2007 R2: Resource Kit

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For those that are not familiarize with the Office Communications suite, this platform represents a big and important set of tools and services for enterprises and real-time communications. This package includes instant messaging, presence, conferences, file transfers, peer to peer, VoIP, voice mail and much more.

This book will guide you on every necessary process related to the OCS suite: Overview, key scenarios, planning, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, etc.

Also for the developers guys, and in the same platform, another free e-book:

Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

These books are available for a short period of time, so don’t wait much longer!


Download Windows 7 Themes for Vista

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Windows 7 Inspirat Theme (Vista)- This theme called

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Inspirat VS containing two shell styles
, one bottom and one sideways

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Download Windows 7 Inspirat Theme

2.

Windows 7 M1 Original Theme(Vista)

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Download Windows 7 M1 Original Theme

3. Windows 7 For Vista

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Download Windows 7 for Vista

4. Blue Variant of Windows 7 for Vista

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Download Blue Variant of Windows 7 for Vista

5. Windows Seven M1 VS Theme

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Download Windows Seven M1 VS Theme

Iconza: Top Quality Free Customizable Icon Sets For Your Website or Blog

iconza-logoHave you ever wanted top quality customizable icons for your blog or site but cant really afford it? Well here is the solution, Iconza. Iconza is a new application that allows you to customise icons just the way you want them. It is completely free and very easy to use with a great interface.

Iconza lets you customise the colours of your icons, backgrounds, sizes and then lets you easily download them all for free. So if you are in the need of some top quality free icons for your site or blog then head over to Iconza.

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Free E-Books from Microsoft Press: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services and Defect Prevention

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Disclaimer: These books are available to download for a short period of time, so you better hurry!

Microsoft Press guys are celebrating their 25th anniversary by giving away free e-books every month. This time the books that you can download completely free are:

For the IT guys, Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit.

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And for those geek programmers, a nice “best-practices” book: The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention.

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There’s no catch to get the PDF file, just click on the links and sign-up with a Passport account.

Enjoy!

SlickRSS: Free RSS Icon Pack

Over at Six Revisions they have released in partnership with Creative Nerds a new free RSS icon pack. There are eight RSS icons in the pack, and it includes the Photoshop file (PSD) in case you’d like to tweak the design.

Licensing details

The creative work featured here – entitled ” SlickRSS ” – is licensed under the Creative Commons license and can be used for personal and/or commercial purposes.

The Creative Commons license requires you to “attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor”. Our attribution specification: you don’t need to attribute the work to us (though you’re more then welcome to, and we will definitely appreciate it).

Download

The following file contains PNG files and a PSD file.

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