Want to spice up your design with some great looking icons? Or perhaps your desktop needs more up to date, 3D icons? I scoured the web looking for icons for a project recently and found there are really amazing web icon sets created by great designers who offer them free to the public to use on websites, blogs and desktops. Damn, I love the Internet. Below are some of the best I found:

Icon Archives has some really great FREE icons. Two of my favorites is the Email Me and the Comic iPhone icon sets. Icon Archives has an extensive library of FREE icons.

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Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated to write a post for you blog. Sometimes it’s hard to find what to write about. Writing every day, or every other day for a blog is time consuming and mentally exhausting. You won’t always know what to post next. The best advice I can give you is what I learned at school as a writing major, don’t think so hard. Explore the world around you. Take a nap. Socialize. Work on something else. History proves time and time again that you often find what you’re NOT looking for and that inspiration comes from all corners of your life.

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Starting a business, I read a lot on marketing, advertising, promotions online and offline and a common method of generating more leads was giving something away. Free tutorials, free whitepapers, free samples of my services, etc. It’s uneasy to give away my time and sweat, but as a business owner, perhaps it’s part of the process to give a little away to get a little back that’s worth a lot more. This afternoon I came across this article at The Blog Herald (a great resource, by the way) titled “The Value of Free Information?”. The following is an excerpt that stood out most. [Read more →]