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When we create a presentation or project where video is included, we often find several problems when playing it back in a different computer than ours because they usually don’t have any codec installed. The solution so far was to avoid video compression but this represented a lot of problems, specially when it comes to portability, since without compression most files have a very large size. With MakeInstantPlayer you can convert your videos to an exe file where the codecs for the video are attached, that way you can see them anywhere

Source: Blog Informatico

One of my all times favourite animated movies has to be Finding Nemo. This movie tells the story of a clown fish named Nemo who’s taken from his father by a diver, and his search to get his son back. This set of icons display Nemo, and the different friends presented through the movie such as Dory Bruce, Crush and Peach.

This tiny version of the stock is available in .PNG, .ICO and .ICNS, in sizes that vary from 16×16px to 256×256px at Iconshock’s Free Download Website.

Rasterbator is an application you can find online and you can also download to your computer. This application allows us to take an image and create a gigantic poster. In order to do so, it converts the image into dots, which you can vary the size. You can decide how many sheets do you want your image to fit in, define colors and borders for easily put them back together, as if it were a puzzle.

If you look the image really close you will find a bunch of dots, but as you re size it and fit it into the different sheets you’ll get excellent results. You can check the gallery for examples of really large images put back together, like this one:

Source: WWWhat’sNew

Here is a set of Software Icons featuring some of the most popular and important Historic World Places such as the Statue of Liberty, the Arch of Triumph, the Christ the Redeemer, the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower. Each one of the icons featuring this famous places also have a series of variations with popular functions your software or application might need such as add, delete, save and many more. You can check these icons in formats such as .ICO, .BMP, .GIF and .PNG and in all the different offered sizes at Iconshock’s Community Web Site. Remember to register and start swapping icons

Fonts are one of the most important things we have to take into account when developing a project. At Xyberneticos I found this nice list of 10 different Handwritten fonts. These fonts are available for free download al woork, where you can also find a preview.

Handwritten fonts look great for headers, and what’s interesting of this list is that you can find several styles, that I’m sure will suit any project. Remember, if you’re going to use any font different from the default ones you might want to take a look to techniques for them to display correctly.