Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Jonatan Castro Fernández is a spanish freelance graphic and interface designer who lives in Ourense, Spain. He has been designing for a few years and now he has started his own design studio called Midtone. He has released a set of 32px mania iconset which is absolutely free. You can use them on your website, web application or whatever. You can download the iconset directly here.

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Demo: http://www.midtonedesign.com/portfolio/category/goodies/
License: License Free

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After the success of Blogging Icons, Blog Perfume has just released Social Media Icons Pack which comes in really handy when integrating social media sites to your blog.

Social Media Icons Pack includes 3 sizes for 17 icons: 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32. There is an icon for the following: Blogger, Delicious, DesignFloat, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, a heart icon that will work for anything (such as bookmark), MySpace, Reddit, an RSS icon, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo! and YouTube.

These icons are released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. You are free to use them on both personal and commercial projects.

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Demo: http://www.blogperfume.com/social-media-icons…
License: Creative Commons License

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Would you like some glossy modern web browsers icons? J.max from Morcha has designed 9 glossy modern browsers icons including, Internet Explorer, TheWorld, Opera, Safari, Firefox, Netscape, Tencent Traveler, Maxthon and Google Chrome. All of them are in the size of 256×256px in Ico and Png format. The site is written in Chinese, you can download the file directly here.

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Demo: http://morcha.blogbus.com/logs/30886671.html
License: Personal, Non-Commercial Use

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SmashingMagazine has released Fresh: an application and financial icon set. This icon set is a fresh and lively collection of 59 high-quality stylish icons in standard sizes ranging from 16×16 to 256×256 pixels. All the icons included in the set have a clean, modern look and have consistency and harmony in both perspective and color. There is also one vector file containing editable EPS icons that can be rescaled to any size while retaining their original detail.

You can use the set for websites, web applications, desktop applications or anywhere beautiful icons are essential. You can use the icons for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free, without any restrictions whatsoever.

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Demo: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/09/finance…
License: License Free

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A while ago, we have introduced 220+ Glossy Flag Icons in PNG format, Bartelme Design Flag Button Devkit. If you are looking for mini flag icons, you should visit FAMFAM Flag Icons as well. Many websites / web applications have different versions for different countries, and some of them support different languages as well. I am sure a set of flag icons / pictures can help us so much.

Now we can create our own set of flag icons for our websites / web applications, because MSN Multimedia Center provides us a set of flags, including 192 Countries, Canadian Provinces & Cities, Islands and U.S. States, Territories, & Regions.

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Demo: http://encarta.msn.com/mediacenter_2.0.1/Countries.html
License: License Free

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Onur Oztaskiran of Monofactor released the full set of 30 3d isometric vector icons called Turqua. The icons are in both editable Illustrator 8 EPS (also viewable with late version of freehand and corel draw) and SVG formats.

These blue icons look absolutely beautiful. You are completely free to edit, change and/or directly use the icons in your site and in any kind of your projects. However, you have to register as a member(Free) in order to download the icons.

Requirements: Register As a Member to Download
Demo: http://www.monofactor.com/free-vector-icon-set-2-turqua-3d…
License: Creative Commons License

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Smashing Magazine has just released On Stage icon set. The set contains 49 free vector icons including PSD which can be useful for both corporate and personal setting. You can use the set for free without any restrictions whatsoever.

The icons are available in the .png-format in the resolution 128×128px. 100% pure shape-based layered PSDs are also included in the package.

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Demo: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/27/on-stage-a-free-icon-set/
License: License Free

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DryIcons has released a new beautiful free icon set called “Coquette“. “Coquette” will make sure to bring all attention and admiration to your software applications, websites, blogs.This playful free icon set contains curvy and colorful free icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects.

These free icons flirt with style. “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.

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Demo: http://dryicons.com/free-icons/preview/coquette-icons-set/
License: Terms of Use

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You may have seen the lovely mini icons set Diagona (400 icons are included in PNG format) from Pinvoke. Now Pinvoke has released another great set of mini icons – Fugue Icons. There are 422 icons are included in PNG format. The icons can be used free for any personal or commercial projects. However, if you would like to remove the attribution, you should purchase the license.

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Demo: http://www.pinvoke.com/
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License

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Function Icon Set is a set of 128 glossy Icons Included some of the main Social Media Icons such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, Twitter and etc. They are only available in 48×48px. All of them are free, you can use them anywhere you like.

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Demo: http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-free-icon-set/
License: License Free

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