We have another fantastic book giveaway for you this week. Packt have given us two copies of the paperback book Google Plus First Look, written by Ralph Roberts, to giveaway to two lucky readers. All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us why you would like this book.

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We have a fantastic freebie for all of you web designers out there, you’ll love this:)
Designed by Land-of-Web, the Colorful 3D UI Kit comes in .psd format and is full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design, including:

• Drop-Downs, Silders & Progress Bars
• Switches, Tabs, Icons, Tool-Tips and many useful Navigation Elements
• Search and Select Boxes
• Media Control Buttons and Mini Player

Within the .zip file you will find all of the .psd elements from above.
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Last weeks PSD2HTML.com giveaway ended a couple of days ago, and it is now time to announce the winners.

Thanks to everybody for all the comments and thanks to PSD2HTML.com for their services.

Our winners should have by now received their winner emails, if not please get in touch with us here.

Winner Name: Oscar Barber
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Winner Name: Jan Brinkmann
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If you’re a busy web designer or web developer, this week’s competition is the perfect solution for your PSD to HTML slicing needs. PSD2HTML.com are giving away $400 worth of services for the winner and $300 for the runner-up.
All you have to do to win these fantastic prizes is leave a comment below and Tweet about this post, using the #speckypsd2html hash-tag.

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2011 has been Speckyboy’s best year yet in terms of growth. More great readers and followers, more great authors, more great sponsors. However, at the core is (hopefully) great content here on Speckyboy. And just to recap some of our best content, here are our top 20 Speckyboy posts of 2011.

This post covers visual design, accessibility, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, mobile, optimization, UX, and much more. All of the 45 books in this post are completely FREE and can be either downloaded in digital ...

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It has been an amazing 2011 for Speckyboy. This was our first full year of daily publishing, we expanded our categories to cover almost all aspects of design from the web and mobile design to graphic design, from freebies and resources, from opinion pieces to tutorials, and a hell of lot in between.
So far this year we have published 368 posts, generating an average of 2.4 million monthly page views (a million more than last year!), our RSS subscribers have doubled, our Twitter following has grown to 30,000 followers and our Facebook page ...

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Last weeks PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide giveaway has now ended, and it is now time to announce the winners.

Thanks to everybody for all the comments and thanks to Packt for the books.

All winners should have by now received their winner emails, if not please get in touch with us here.

Winner Name: Giorgio Pomettini
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Winner Name: Rahul Arora
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This week’s giveaway is from a new and exciting online website builder, IM Creator. They are giving away 3 Lifetime Subscriptions (worth $95 each per year!) for you to create your new website.

All you have to do is to leave a comment below and tweet about this post, using the hashtag #speckyimcreator.

Whether you own a business or just want to promote yourself, you need to be online. IM Creator is a new and very easy to use HTML-based website builder that allows you to create your website ...

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As a developer, anything that can save you just a little bit of time is well worth its weight in gold. If you agree with that statement, you will love this. What we have for you is our selection of the best, the most useful and the most innovative tools and resources from 2011. That includes frameworks, boilerplates, apps, Javascript resources, CSS3 animations tools…and on…and on. So, no matter what, you are guaranteed to discover something completely new and really, really useful.

The first thing to note about this post is that it doesn’t include any ...

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Last week we published the competition to two win 3 year-long licenses to JustProto, worth $588 each. The competition has ended today and it is now time to announce the winners. Thanks to everybody for all the comments.

All winners should have by now received their winner emails, if not please get in touch with us here.

Winner Name: Bilal Shaheen
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Winner Name: Martin
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Winner Name: Alberto Attia
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This is now our fourth year rounding up the the best icon sets for web designers and developers. And what another fantastic year 2011 it has been! You’ll love this selection.

All of the icon sets below have been split into several categories: Glyphs & Pictograms, Mini Sets, General Sets, Ecommerce Icon Sets, Mobile Specific Icons and finally, a selection of high quality and versatile Social Media Icon Sets.

If you feel we have missed out any icon-set from this year, we would love to hear about it in the comments.

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Today we have another fantastic book giveaway for you. We have two copies of the paperback book PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide, written by Andrew Lunny for two lucky readers. All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us why you would like or need this book.

Please Note: This competition is only open to readers from the US and Europe.

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In this article, we explore some of the most awe-inspiring implementations of HTML5′s canvas element so far. From all of the new HTML5 tags, canvas is likely to be the most powerful.
In a nutshell, the canvas element is a drawable region defined in HTML code with height and width attributes. With it, web developers are able to create visually inspiring implementations previously restricted to only Flash.

You could create some yourself or you could take advantage of some of the free online HTML5 tools, such as Flash to HTML5, to convert existing Flash to ...

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This weeks competition comes from our old friends JustProto. They are kindly giving away 3 year long Plus licenses (worth $588 each!) to there feature-rich wireframing and prototyping application. All you will have to do is either leave a comment below or you can tweet about this post, using the hashtag #speckyproto.

Anyway, here is a short message about JustProto:

Like many products, JustProto was born out of frustration with existing solutions on the market. DeSmart (our company) has been around for eight years and we’ve worked on a ton ...

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Its getting closer and closer to the Christmas season, and if you are a designer or a developer you will know exactly what that means – IT’S BUNDLE SEASON! The best time of year to buy anything premium at a fraction of the normal price.

And to kick things off we have Three 2nd Annual MOJO Themes Cyber Bundles to giveaway, which consists of 15 Premium WordPress Themes (10 of the most popular themes from their markletplace and 5 of the best niche WP themes) valued at $515. You can buy this bundle here for only ...

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I’ve always appreciated logos as creative by-products of companies to present themselves visually – from simple vector graphics to intricate designs reminiscent of medieval coat-of-arms. Interestingly, logos prove that human beings are indeed visual beings. We easily recognize something based on its color, shape, and orientation – once we see and experience something it’s likely that we’ll never forget it.

Well, the world as we see it is bland and boring. That’s why people – the creative and the misfits – recreate these logos into something humorous and witty. The logo parodies created by artists are ...

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Today we have the most amazing giveaway for you, courtesy of our friends MightyDeals.com.

As you probably already know, Mighty Deals is a platform to get the best deals on products and services for web professionals. The deals are highly discounted, sometimes as much as 90% off the retail price.

In this competition, you will have the chance to win an 8GB iPod Touch, shipped directly to your door free of charge. What a Christmas present that would be!

Here is a quick look at what you can win…

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On the 13th of November we published the competition for two copies of the book jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery. The competition has now ended and it is time to announce the winners. Thanks to everybody for all the comments.

Remeber even if you are not a winner you can still purchase the book directly from Packt here.

All winners should have by now received their winner emails, if not please get in touch with us here.

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Taking the next step of our responsive layout coverage (we recently published the articles Responsive WordPress Themes and jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts), today we are taking a look at responsive CSS frameworks that we feel are worth your consideration.

Just like most CSS frameworks, all of the frameworks below will help you rapidly develop sites by eliminating the need to write basic CSS styles yourself, as you would expect. But, on top of that, they also come with a responsive layout helping you to quickly and easily create mobile-specific sites.

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We have a fantastic freebie for you today, you’ll love this. The kind people from More than Themes have kindly offered their beautifully crafted HTML/CSS template BlozZit to all of our readers. It comes in two color variants (light & dark) and has been built to the highest of detail using HTML and CSS3.

And, on top of all that they have also included the full-layered PSD files within the download package!

So, this is what you will get in your download pack:

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Today we have two copies of the paperback book jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery, written by Dan Wellman, to give away to two lucky readers. All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us why you would like or need this book.

Please Note: This competition is only open to readers from the US and Europe.

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Inspiration is very importation for visual designers. You get new ideas, your style can get shaped and influenced, and you cab become energized and increasingly more passionate towards your visual art. Well, why not use Sony as a source of inspiration? Sony is known for being stylish, and that translates into many of their ads. So for some sweet design inspiration, this article features 20 awesome ads from Sony.

We have previously published a post about creative and sometimes controversial Playstation ads, but this article will showcase Sony ads that are awesome-looking rather than just ...

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On the 30th of October we published the competition 10 Premium WordPress Themes from ThemeFit. The competition has now ended and we will now announce the winners. Thanks to everybody for all the comments.

Remeber even if you are not a winner you can still purchase the themes direct from ThemeFit.

All winners should have by now received their winner emails, if not please get in touch with us here.

Winner Name: M Boatwright
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Winner Name: Ellen Moore
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On the 23rd of October we published the competition Three Usability Testing Packages ($741 Value) from UserTesting.com. The competition has ended and it is now time to announce the winners. Thanks to everybody for all the comments.

Here is a reminder of the Usability Testing Package prizes we were giving away:

2nd runner up – 1 Free UserTests (a $39 value)
1st runner up – 3 Free UserTests (a $117 value)
Grand Prize – 15 Free Tests (a $585 value)!!!

All winners should have by now received their winner emails

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It has been a long time since we last took a look at what GUI kits were freely available. So, in this round-up we thought we would bring you right up to date by taking a look at some of the best and freshest that are freely available.

Every designer who has spent many hours mocking up web pages or mobile apps will tell you how important it is to have a reliable set of re-usable, editable and uniform GUI elements that they can rely upon for the initial rapid prototyping stage of any project.

Within ...

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Once upon a time, transferring just a few kilobytes of data between computers in different locations was considered near science fiction fantasy, or at least a cutting edge military computer science experiment. As our technology has evolved, the transfer of data has underpinned the backbone of our society.

Let’s not forget then that those little boxes we call modems, routers and switches were all born from a need to connect teletype machines together, transferring information at a stunningly slow 25 bits per second. At that rate, this post might take as long as 12 days to ...

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Another week and yet another fantastic competition for you! This week we have 10 (yep, that really is TEN) premium WordPress themes from Theme Fit to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment telling us which of the two WP themes below is your favorite and why. That is it, easy as that :)

This competition will be live for the next seven days (ending on the 6th of November 2011).

Fluid is an elegant portfolio theme ...