IconBug.com 10,000+ Free Icons

IconBug 10,000+ Free Icons
IconBug 10,000+ Free Icons

IconBug.com is a huge resource of free icons for designers looking to get a leg up on the competition. The site contains some 10,000+ tagged icons that cover almost any and all subjects you can think of.

Some features we thought were cool

Image scaling: The site has every standard size icon for quick download so you don’t have to shrink the images yourself. Sizes include 256 x 256,128 x 128,64 x 64,48 x 48,32 x 32,24 x 24, and in some cases 512×512.

Icon Size

Icon Size

Image Size Filtering: Allows you to quickly filter by a certain image size using a little check box system on the right sidebar.

Icon Category Filtering: Common tags are displayed on the right. So lets say you search for social networking icons and then want to drill down to just the Facebook or Twitter icons. You would simply need to put a check box in either the twitter or Facebook box on the right and it would filter out all unwanted icons.

Search Features

Search Features

Robust Auto Search Suggest: The site also has a very clean and robust search page that not only allows you to search bu also provides hints as you are typing.

Share Your Icons: If you are an icon designer they have a great user feature that allows you to upload and manage your icon collection and even lets you provide a link back to your website. It’s a great way to promote your icons and it cost’s nothing. So that may be something you want to think about doing as a designer.

So in summary the site IconBug.com is a great little resource for people looking for fast and easy access to a large icon database.

The URL for those who are interested is

http://iconbug.com

Social Networking is Not Taking Over Search

FaceBook Not Google

FaceBook Not Google

Social networking is not going to take over search. Some people have suggested that facebook will soon take over Google as the number one search engine. The strange thing is however that facebook is not a search engine by any definition of the word.

Facebook may one day have more searches than Google but those searches will be for things related to social networking. Unless however facebook redesigns their homepage to work much the same way as yahoo.
Yahoo’s homepage is a mixture of news, email, and other things, but it is predominantly a search engine. If Facebook took a similar approach and did search the entire web and provided good results then maybe the story will be different. But I don’t see that happening any time soon.

Then again, I am bit old school, so who knows.

Social Media Revolution or Hostile Takeover

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Social Media Revolution or Hostile Takeover

Social Media has effectively performed a hostile takeover of the entire internet. A hostile takeover is a corporate takeover that is carried out against the wishes of the board of the target. The driving force that has powered the internet up until now was the “Adult Service” industry. The majority of traffic before the invention of social media was “Adult”. Continue reading …