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In this article I present you the finest icons of the fuel of a lot of designers and students (and other people too) available on the web. I’ve just released my own coffee cup icon but this beverage seem to have inspired a lot of other beautiful icons especially for Mac OS X.

Now just get your next coffee, sit back and enjoy this little showcase. Just click on the images to get to the icon sources. At the end of the article you’ll find links to some nice high quality coffee tutorials. And remember you will have more control over time itself if you reach your 100th cup of coffee.

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There’s good news for all you Mac OS X Leopard GUI Themer out there. While there’s Panic’s Candybar for icon customization in OS X there is no application to alter all the user interface elements of Leopard. In Tiger there was an application called ShapeShifter but since the whole GUI in Leopard changed it stopped working.

Architect and Façade to the rescue: SlightlyPretentious announced its “Theming made easy”-application Architect is coming as a public beta next sunday (is it 08/31 or 09/07?) on Wednesday, September 3rd. Icon Designer Laurent Baumann already posted a new sweet application icon for this app a while ago and we can expect a nice and good looking solution for theming and customization in Leopard. Head over to the Screencast and see Architect and its UI in action.

While Architect will help you customizing Leopards UI and building themes out of your modifications, Façade (Laurent’s icon of it) will help you switch (and manage?) the themes. But currently there’s no word on the SlightlyPretentious website about this application.

Slightly Pretentious made Architect available as a public beta while claiming Façade will be coming in october. But Façade already has its own nice website.

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I have updated my Camera Obscura Icons with four more icons for your Aperture Library, your iPhoto Library, your Aperture Vault and for Aperture Projects.

The download package now includes 7 icons as an iContainer and for Mac (icns, Folder), Linux (PNG) and Windows (ico) and you can grab it from the Goodies page.

And if you’re interested, you can read my blog entry about the story behind this special Camera Obscura contained in these icons.

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These two desktop icons show the Camera Obscura as it was used by Nicéphore Niépce in an Aperture and iPhoto style and are intended as an homage to him. Nicéphore Niépce made it first possible to preserve an image taken with a camera obscura in 1826 or 1827 by using a special mixture of bitumen on a pewter plate, naming it Heliography. This first preserved photograph “View from the Window at Le Gras” is the one you can see in the iPhoto icon contained in this package. The third icon is the folder icon I have created for this icon package.

Either just download the icons or read the exciting story about the First Photograph.

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In addition to my Niépce’s Camera Obscura icons for Aperture and iPhoto I have made some Wallpapers containing both icons. All Wallpapers using a custom designed background which imitates the look of a metal plate like it was used in Niépce’s experiments although it wasn’t golden To make it more Mac style I have added a stenciled dots pattern (which is a commonly used reference to the front design of the MacPro). Here are the details:

• Aperture and iPhoto styled Camera Obscura as it was used by Nicéphore Niépce.
• Including one desktop version with the Aperture styled Camera Obscura and one with the iPhoto styled. Both come in 1920×1200 for widescreen displays and 1600×1200 for normal displays
• Including 2 different crops for the iPhone (480×320).

Just grab them from the Goodies page and have fun.

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Been so in love with the parallax effect that I have to post another article about it. For the non-geeks: I don’t mean measuring distances between objects in space, the parallax error in photography, any StarTrek episode, the movie Parallax View and definitely not DC Comic’s Parallax monster.

I mean Parallax Scrolling which is a technique often used in good ol’ arcade and video games like Moon Patrol or Sonic the Hedgehog. In such 2D games parallax scrolling was used to create an illusion of three dimensional depth.

Since our operating systems are mainly 2D too we can use this pseudo 3D technique to create the same illusion in our web browsers. Of course this was first done by flash designers and it’s a popular effect used in flash based websites or parts of it.

But with the rise of CSS this technique can now be done without the use of flash as Alex Walker and Paul Annett discovered. You see we are now very close to the Atari with Web-Design.

So it’s time for a first showcase of websites using this effect. At the end of this article you’ll find some tutorials for making this effect too. And as you can see there’s a parallax effect in the header of this website too so I will not include myself in this showcase list

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As you may know there’s a nice parallax effect implemented on this website. Just resize your browser window and you can see the black polaroids in my header flying on different layers. As I stated in an earlier post there is already some usage for it around the web while this effect seems to be first used by the guys from Silverback. If you don’t know what this effect is about head over to thinkvitamin to get to know what it is and how you can achieve it.

But now Marco Kuiper from marcofolio.net adds another usage for it. He created a cool optical illusion with just plain css/html and some pictures. You can see a demo of this effect in action on Marco’s website. Head over to the demo and resize your browser window. You should articulate something like “whoooot!” now. Marco has written some words about it too and you can download the demo. He has also done a nice tutorial how to achieve this optical illusion. Very cool!

(Via CSS-Tricks)

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Sitepoint and 99Designs give you a free full Photoshop book called The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques. The book is intended to help Web-Designers in their workflow with Adobe Photoshop.

You can download a print quality pdf file of the book for a limited time. So head over fast to the book’s website and get your free copy.

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If you enjoyed the Indiana Jones movies than this first of four desktop icon sets is a must have for you. Icon Designer Anthony Piraino crafted some beautiful items from Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark movie.

The icons are available from the special Iconfactory site as an icontainer or mac and windows icon files. If you download the iContainer for use in Candybar you also get a new Mac OS X dock created by David Lanham. All icons are free for your personal use only and there are already some nice placeholders for more icon sets inspired by the other movies. All of them will be released during May.

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They won’t stop with their cutting edge love. After having text-shadow implemented since many years and having a bunch of other cool stuff implemented like CSS gradients or CSS box-shadow the WebKit team freshly announced a new cool feature: CSS alpha masks.

From the Surfin’ Safari Blog:

WebKit now supports alpha masks in CSS. Masks allow you to overlay the content of a box with a pattern that can be used to knock out portions of that box in the final display. In other words, you can clip to complex shapes based off the alpha of an image.

It even can be applied to a video-element.

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