One of of the most popular free stock photos site - Morgue File. The idea to build the web’s morguefile was conceived by Michael Connors as a college student in 1996. The term “morgue file” is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.morguefile.com/
License: License Free

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Googles standard response is to filter out duplicate pages (supplementary results), and only show one page with a given set of content in its search results. If someone copied your content, Google might wrongly label yours as duplicate contents. Google does penalize sites with large amounts of duplicate contents. Therefore, we need to defend our rights online, Copyscape is the leading provider of services that protect your content against online plagiarism and theft.
The free Copyscape service makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web. Simply type in the address of your web page, and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you. Act now!

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.copyscape.com/
License: License Free

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When we are styling forms with CSS, we can style the text fields and buttons easily. However, File inputs (<input type=”file” />) are the bane of beautiful form design. No rendering engine provides the granular control over their presentation designers desire. Shaun Inman (founder of Mint) has shown us a simple, three-part progressive enhancement provides the markup, CSS, and JavaScript to address the long-standing irritation. We are now be able to style File input buttons as well.

Requirements: Modern Browsers with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.shauninman.com/assets/examples/styling-file-inputs/
License: License Free

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Proto.Menu is a simple and lightweight prototype-based solution for context menu functionality on your page. It is about 2 KB ( 1.5 KB Minified). It is Unobstrusive which plays nice with Javascript turned off and uses its own namespace, so it won’t messed up with your codes. The menu styling can be easily defined in external CSS. It is also a Full A-Graded browsers support (Opera is supported through Ctrl + Left Click). It looks very tidy and suitable for web applications with context menu.

Requirements: Firefox 1.5+, Internet Explorer 6+, Safari 3+, Opera 9+, Netscape Navigator 9+
Demo: http://yura.thinkweb2.com/scripting/contextMenu/
License: License Free

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FusionCharts Free is a flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for your web applications and presentations. It is a cross-browser and cross-platform solution that can be used with ASP.NET, ASP, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages or even PowerPoint Presentations to deliver interactive and powerful flash charts. You do NOT need to know anything about Flash to use FusionCharts. All you need to know is the language you’re programming in.

The free version offers you most of the features that you would normally need. If the features in free version does not satiate your requirements, you might consider a paid version. In contrast, offers a lot more advanced options like gradients, 3D Lightings (shadow, blur effect, glow effect and bevel), custom animations, in-built debuggers, more chart types, enhanced AJAX support, data-driven flash maps, loading into other Flash movies, personalized implementation support etc.

If you are interested, you may want to look at FusionCharts Google Gadget as well.

Requirements: Flash Support
Demo: http://www.fusioncharts.com/Free/Gallery.asp
License: License Free

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Kombine has designed “Pro Toolbar Icons” which is a set of 264 toolbar icons and buttons to help users intuitively understand the functions of your application. All icons in this set are PNG images with transparency and designed to fit the look of Apple’s OS X operating system. It is very useful when building websites and web applications. You can Preview the full set of 264 icons or Download the Quick Reference Card here.

The full set of icons costs $59.95, however you can get a set of 45 common toolbar icons for FREE. Kreg Wallace, the designer of the Kombine toolbar icons is very kind by giving away one set of 264 “Pro Toolbar Icons ” for FREE to one of WebAppers readers . You can use them on both personal and commercial projects. If you would like to be the one Lucky Guy, it is really easy.

To participate, you only have to

Make a comment on this post.

* You will get 2 more entries if you have a link back to this post or Webappers.

I would like to keep this event short, so that we do not have to wait too long for the result. Kreg Wallace will pick the winner on 24th September. Thank you Kreg Wallace for the icons and thank you all for the participation in advance.

*** 2007-09-10 UPDATE ***
Kreg Wallace said
Hey folks. Just so you know, I’m more inclined to pick someone who plans to use the icons for an interesting project. So, if you have a software application or web site you want to use the icons for, indicate that in your comments.

This contest has ended, please view http://www.webappers.com/2007/09/26/winner-of-264-toolbar-icons-set/ 

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Public-Domain-Photos.com contains over 5,000 high resolution free photos for personal and commercial use. You may use these images for any purpose, but if some photo contains logos and products you need to be careful. Using someone else’s trademark commercially can get you sued. They have some cliparts you may find useful as well.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://public-domain-photos.com/
License: License Free

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With maps.amung.us you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from - live! The maps update themselves on your site without having to reload the whole page. The maps are customizable which you can choose different backgrounds, pin shapes and color schemes. Embeddable maps are available in two sizes, a full size version and a smaller version for sites that have lesser space. Just copy the code into your website to get it working.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://maps.amung.us/
License: License Free

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I think many readers are familiar with this awesome Javascript CSS Menu by Devthought, but I really need to include it in WebAppers. Fancy Menu is nothing to do with Flash. it is a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends. It requires Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox and Safari
Demo: http://devthought.com/cssjavascript-true-power-fancy-menu/
License: License Free

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PHP/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful PHP tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic data. Use PHP scripts to generate or gather the data from databases, then pass it to this tool to generate Flash (swf) charts and graphs. PHP/SWF Charts makes the best of both the PHP and SWF worlds. PHP scripts provide integration, and Flash provides the best graphic quality. It supports many charts types, Line, Column, Stacked column, Floating column, 3D column, Stacked 3D column, Parallel 3D column, Pie, 3D Pie, Bar, Stacked bar, Floating bar, Area, Stacked area, Candlestick, Scatter, Polar, Mixed, Composite and Joined. Can you ask for more? They have the following main features.

• Web charts and graphs from dynamic data
• Live and interactive chart updates without reloading the web page
• Clickable charts, and drill-down
• Animated transitions
• Printable charts
• Simple and flexible chart generation

PHP/SWF Charts is free to download and use. The free, unregistered version contains all the features except for:

1. Clicking a chart takes the user to the PHP/SWF Charts web site
2. No displaying charts inside another flash file
3. No technical support, and no product updates by e-mail

Requirements: Flash Player 6+, Server with PHP Support
Demo: http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php?menu=Gallery
License: License Free

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