Password Strength Meters are becoming more and more popular amongst web services. Google uses one when creating a Google account. The password strength meters wil be updated for every key input the user types. So how does one go about making one of these meters? Code and Coffee created one for us, it calculates how many different combinations there are for the password you enter, then determine how many days it would take to crack your password. The algorithm returns a percentage that he then in turn convert to a nice GUI for the end user to see.
Requirements: Modern Browser with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.codeandcoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/demo.html
License: License Free
R0man.de released series of Abstract Photoshop Brushes. These awesome brushes are free to use on your projects. The only requirement is a copy of Photoshop 7.0+ to use them. What are you waiting for now?
Requirements: Photoshop 7.0+
Demo: http://r0man.de/kostenlose_brushes_photoshop.htm
License: License Free
Yesterdat I was surfing on the internet and found this. It is time to have a fresh look of your feed icons. Zeus Box Studio released a set of gorgeous Feed Icons. It contain 34 icons in 32 and 16 pixels size. The icons use PNG format. They are licensed under Creative Common 3.0, you may use them in your website and projects.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.zeusbox.org/blog/feedicons
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License
Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images. These are images that are either in the Public Domain or released under generous Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses. Originally an experiment to facilitate easier image searching of the Wikipedia, Yotophoto eventually expanded to index other well known free image sites. Today, Yotophoto indexes over a quarter million free images. They index various sources of free imagery on the web including Flickr, Wikipedia, Stock.Xchng, Morguefile, Pixelperfect Digital and OpenPhoto.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://yotophoto.com/
License: Creative Commons License
Adam Woodhouse released many sets of quality brushes including Web 2.0 Style Brushes with different shapes, and many dynamically generating gradients, Grunge Brushes and Retro Brushes. All of the brushes are free to use, free to use in your artwork, however they are subject to copyright and may not be distributed without written permission from Adam Woodhouse. Enjoy using these brushes, they are Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 + CS3.
Requirements: Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 + CS3
Demo: http://www.adamwoodhouse.co.uk/?p=20
License: Creative Commons License
BittBox provides a lot of free and original source files of photoshop brushes. You are free to use Bittbox files in posters, website designs, cd covers, postcards, annuals, flyers, business cards, branding, . . . DESIGN. Here are some of his photoshop brushes.
- Free Illustrator Brushes: Teardrop Foliage
- Free High-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes
- Free High-Res Photoshop Brushes – Leaves
- Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II
- Free Hi-Res Splatter Photoshop Brushes
- Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
- 30 Illustrator Pattern Brushes for Making Flowers and Circular Designs
Apart from these stunning brushes, there are a lot of free to download design elements and vectors. I am sure you will be amazed how useful they are.
Requirements: See License Agreement
Demo: http://www.bittbox.com/
License: Creative Commons License
Fast Icon released many sets of quality icons. The FastIcons’s Free Icons are available for download as standard Mac or Windows icons as well as a handy PNG files for Linux, web or blogs. They are FREEWARE and property of Fasticon.com. You have to maintain an operable link to www.fasticon.com.
Requirements: Required Backlink
Demo: http://fasticon.com/freeware/
License: License Free
Still paying for your photos and images? Forget royalty-free – try totally-FREE. Photogen stock photos are now Free for commercial and personal use. The Photogen Free stock photo gallery is constantly being updated with new photos and images. All images are checked for quality and suitability before going live on the site.
Requirements: Terms of Use
Demo: http://www.photogen.com/
License: License Free
Urban Fonts has an amazing collection of over 8,000 free fonts for you to download fonts. You can customize the look of the font previews by typing your own text in the input text field provided in all the font pages, or switch to an alphabetical view. The Names button switches your preview back to the name of the font. The colors of the text and background can be easily changed using the built in color picker. Urban Fonts also lets you choose how many fonts you’d like to have displayed in your page.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm
License: License Free
Unobtrusive Table Sort Script can sort dates (dd-mm-yyyy, mm-dd-yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd formats accepted), currency values (£, $, €, ¥ and ¤), numbers/floats and plain-text (sorted in a case-insensitive manner). It also enables zebra striping the table rows and highlighting the currently sorted column. All table column s are sortable. You can implement your own sort function easily if you would like to. The table looks really nice as well.
Requirements: Modern Browsers with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.frequency-decoder.com/demo/table-sort-revisited/
License: Creative Commons License
