RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons | Design Showcase Advertisement RSS is extremely simple and yet so powerful. Not only does every weblog need it for content syndication; the number of RSS subscribers is a metric for weblog’s popularity and its success in the blogosphere. However, although millions do use RSS, hundreds of millions don’t. That’s no good news, since RSS offers a bunch of advantages that can boost your productivity and improve your information consumption in a quite elegant and easy-to-use way. In this article we give an overview of what RSS is and present best design and usability-practices for design and placement of RSS-buttons on a web site. Please notice that you can find even more icons, buttons and design templates in our articles 20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets, Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates and in our Graphics category. What is RSS? RSS is basically a family of formats used to publish (not broadcast!) RSS content can be read using feed readers such as Bloglines or aggregators such as Netvibes.
Inkscape. Draw Freely. AutoStitch AutoStitch works from unordered collections of images, automatically finding matches between images using the SIFT algorithm. It then robustly aligns all images and uses advanced blending algorithms to form seamless panoramas (see below). For more details, see our research papers. 25 of 57 images aligned All 57 images aligned Final Result Note: Mobile versions of AutoStitch are developed by Cloudburst Research. AutoStitch is available to license from the University of British Columbia. AutoStitch is now available in the following commercial products: Autopano Pro www.autopano.net (Windows, Mac, Linux) Serif PanoramaPlus www.serif.com (Windows) Calico www.kekus.com (Mac) The University of British Columbia has also granted a commercial license to Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) www.ilm.com, a Lucasfilm Ltd. company, to use AutoStitch software to produce panoramas for film production. The version of AutoStitch on this website is a demo only. Q: What projection method does AutoStitch use?
Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs | Graphics We love free icons and icon sets. In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. Some of them can be used for both private and commercial projects. You may always use them for free in your private projects. We love free icons and icon sets. Further Reading on SmashingMag: Simplicio Icon Set The main motivation behind the design was to create a simple, even minimalistic set which can fit into every project. The icons are available in the .png- and .ico-formats in the resolution 128×128px. Tools Icon Set Tools always come in handy. As usual, the set is available for free download and can be used without any restrictions whatsoeve. download the set (.zip, 0.5 Mb) Horror Icon Set If you are designing some project that is supposed to be scary - be it a Halloween-themed site, a private blog or an online-store with some particular merchandise - you may need some beautiful yet scary icons to set up the atmosphere on your site. The Graph