July 25, 2012 · 272,469 awesome subscribers
ISSUE #26

Get some assistance with your blogging

Zemanta makes it easier for you to blog by assisting you with common tasks. It helps you with tag recommendations for better SEO, has 200 million images from proper sources and with licensing details, and makes it easy to include things like related posts, stories, and news among other awesome features.

6 Smashing Books for Web Designers

Here's an amazing bundle that contains six high-quality eBooks from Smashing Magazine covering the technical, visual and business side of web design. You'll learn about professional workflow with clients, user experience and rapid prototyping. Available in PDF, ePub, and Mobipocket versions and DRM-free.
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Simple and free icons for your projects

Iconmonstr is a set of free, simple icons for your web projects. There’s a variety of icons already available, and new ones are added constantly. There are multiple versions of many icons available, to fit your preferences, but all the icons can still be used together, which makes your job as designer easier.

A much cooler flip book

Flip books are cool and all, but have you ever wanted to create a circular flipbook? Bet you thought your only option would be Flash. Not anymore. Check out this tutorial for an awesome 3D Flipping Circle with CSS3 and jQuery. Pages can be flipped via swiping or flipping, making it super useful. 

Open source landing pages with stats!

Desant App is a free, open source landing page application that makes it easy to create custom landing pages that do more than just sit there and look pretty. You’ll get a host of stats about your visitors and where they’re coming from. See registered users, referring sites, locations, and more.

A nighttime view of Earth from space

This video, View from the ISS at Night, shows some absolutely amazing images of the world from the International Space Station at night. You can see cities and other concentrations of lights spin past, along with the spinning stars. It’s a breathtaking, inspiring look at our world.

An fresh take on “Contact Us”

Usually, when a web visitor sees “Contact Us”, they only expect contact info. But what if you built your entire site around those two simple words? That’s exactly what creative agency Joint has done. Click on “Contact” and you get info about their offices. Click on “Us” and you get info about the company. It’s a great concept, and very well executed.

Unsuccessful unboxing of the Nexus 7

We all expect our technology to come well-packaged so it doesn’t arrive broken. But all that excellent packaging can cause some issues for bloggers who want to do unboxing videos to unveil new products, like the Google Nexus 7. While the ultra-secure packaging surely keeps the Nexus from being broken, it kind of defeats the purpose if we can't get the Nexus 7 out of the box!

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