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Here are some posts that I found helpful from the past week: Tim Ferris: Is Technology Failing to Simplify Life? Four Hour Work Week Journal: My Daily Schedule Brazen Careerist: Wardrobe Shifts Create Mental Shifts Cranking Widgets: Describing Twitter in Plain English [Read more]

You have the job, but can you handle your business trips? One of the most exciting perks of being a successful businessman is that you get to go on business trips. You see the world while you work and get paid for it! If you often go on business trips, know what things you need in that luggage.

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When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon set is a perfect showcase of designer’s work and a powerful instrument to build up your reputation online. In fact, designers make use of it, creating absolutely amazing icon sets and offering them for free download. The result: hundreds and hundreds of sets available almost everywhere, usually not that well executed and often duplicated from other sets. However, there are indeed free high-quality icon sets. And this post is supposed to prove exactly that. Below we present 35 incredible free icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop to spice up your posts with some nice illustrations or enrich your desktop with outstanding dock icons. Some of the listed icons can be used in web designs, some of them are supposed to be primarily for desktop. So hopefully everybody will find something useful. You might want to take a look at the following articles we’ve presented earlier:

• 20 Free And Fresh Icon Sets
• Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs,
• Freebies Round-Up: Icons and Templates

Please notice: not all listed freebies can be used for commercial projects, however you can use all of them in your private projects of for you personal purposes. Please read the disclaimers carefully before using the icons - they’re changing from time to time.

Free Icons For Your Web Designs

Bagg & Box Telecharger Icon Pack 70 high-quality free icons released under a Creative Commons license. You can use them as illustrations for your posts or as buttons on your weblog. Mammoth Icons 4 freeware icons inspired by prehistoric Mammoths. They might fit perfectly to spice up your blog with some pretty funny character. Dino Icons 6 freeware icons of cute dinosaurs and cavemen. Cemagraphics Icons Includes .png and .ico in sizes 512px, 256px, 128px, 64px and 32px. Wifun Icons Website navigation icons. City Icons The City icon pack contains 16 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: Hollywood Ticket icon, Umbrella icon, Hot Dog Car icon, Mail icon, Bench icon and more. Irish Icon Pack 26 Irish icons which you can use to brighten up your blog with some unique and beautiful icons. Simpsons Mail Icons The Simpsons: 7 512 × 512px .png and .ico icons. Free Web Applications Icon Set There are 20 icons designed specially for web applications (e.g. Charts, Profile, Search, Add, Delete, Email, Print, Warning and etc…). Icons come in 3 sizes; 48×48 px, 32×32 px, and 24×24 px. All of them are in PNG format with transparent background. Web Application Icons Set is completely Free for both personal and commercial projects in any way you like. Knob Buttons Toolbar Icons These are 39 icons in PNG, ICNS, TIFF and ICO formats, Mac and Windows compatible, 32×32 pixels dimensions only. You are free to use these icons on your software application or website. Monofactor Free Vector Icon Set The first part of the set contains 25 scalable Illustrator format icons. You can open the .ai file with any version of Illustrator above 8.0. With earlier versions, you might loose some of the effects on the icons. Portraits Pack Icons for personal use only. The icons may not be converted to another file format without written permission. Mac, Win, Linux. Polaroid Icon 512×512px .PNG. TV Icon Perfect for an occasional blog post related to TV. Apple Mail Icons Sticky Pack 38 icons, 128×128, png, psd. Feedicons 2 33 impressive RSS-feed icons. Released under the Creative Commons [Read more]

I’m a big fan of Twitter (even though we’ve had our differences in the past - mostly due to my not “getting it”). While my updates may not be as fast, furious or incessant as some of the people whom I follow, I do try to pop on there as often as is feasible without completely kneecapping my productivity at work and home. Whenever I mention Twitter to my non-techie friends and family, I’m often asked what it is and I can never quite articulate it without making it sound like some über-nerd service that only computer people use. It’s frustrating, because it’s such a fun service (and potential time sink - you’ve been warned, uninitiated readers) and I really wish more people used it. Fortunately, I found this great video (via Twitter, oddly enough) that does a fantastic job of explaining just what Twitter actually is and why it’s so [Read more]