Nick La from N.Design Studio has succeeded in putting together a very stylish jQuery fisheye menu. It uses the Fisheye component from Interface, comes packaged with it’s own icons and comes with in two dock styles – top and bottom.

Demo.
Jul 1, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: fisheye, jQuery, menu, OS X
Romanian designer Andy Gongea has put together a really nice set of 90 free icons. They’re crisp and clean and they look like they’d be mighty useful in all the usual sorts of projects.

They’re semi-transparent png icons in 64×64px resolution and can be used without restriction in any kind of project, private or commercial.
Preview
Download
Jun 29, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: icons
WhatTheFont is a great online tool from My Fonts for identifying fonts. Upload a scanned image of the font you want to identify and WhatTheFont will do it’s best to pull as close a match as possible from the database.

Jun 18, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: fonts, tools, web app
This nice set of Paisley pattern Photoshop brushes from Mels Brushes has got a nice sketchy feel to it. The pack is free for personal/non profit use, with a licensed version for commercial projects.

The pack includes a Photoshop ABR brush file and an image pack of transparent PNGs.
Jun 17, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: brushes, Paisley patter, Photoshop
The nice people over at webdesigner depot have just released a nice set of Photoshop brushes called Drippy Sprays. There are 30 brushes in the set which was created by Grant Friedman from Colorburned and as the name suggests the style is urban and grungey.

Jun 16, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: brushes, drips, grunge, spray, urban
The grungification of the web continues today with a nice little set of 24 hi-res grunge texture pictures from thinkdesign.

Jun 15, 2009
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Tagged: grunge, hi-res, photos, pictures, textures
More icons today folks!
The LED Web Icons set is an excellent collection of 500 16 by 16px mini pixel icons. They’re ideal for web applications, GUIs or toolbars.

You can see a preview of all of the icons here.
Jun 12, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: icons, mini, pixels
Smoke effects are pretty cool. They look great in the grungiest of designs, bringing that extra dimension of mean and moody. Yet against a light background with the right splash of colour, the opposite effect occurs. The plumes of smoke become light, airy and elegant and can enhance the freshest of designs.
Here is a great Photoshop smoke brush set for using in your projects.

Jun 11, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: brushes, Photoshop, smoke
There are more than a few sets of social network icons out there these days. And damn nice some of them are too. But this set from Webtreats Etc stands out from the crowd because it ditches the usual Web 2.0 riot of colour in favour of a uniform black on a glossy circular button.
There are a total of 108 icons in the pack and while they might not fit every web site it’s nice to see an alternative to the ususal styling.

Jun 10, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: black, buttons, glossy, icons, logos
jQZoom Evolution is a javascript image magnifier built with jQuery as an update to the original jQZoom. And evolution is a great choice of name because this really is an awesome plugin. Installation is a snap, it’s got an excellent feature set and there are plenty of variables to tweak and fiddle with making it very customisable.

Some of the things that you can do with it:
- Standard zoom
- Reverse zoom
- Position the zoom window
- Adjust zoom area
- Zoom with/without lens
- Toggle or adjust fade in/out
It is also compatible in all modern browsers and will work it’s image magnifying magic in IE6+, FF 2+, Google Chrome 1.0, Safari 2+ and Opera 9+.
Jun 9, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: Ajax, FX, jQuery, plugins, zoom