Collective #42
Inspirational Website of the Week
The brilliant portfolio of Felix Reichle is our pick this week. It has an interesting mix of hand-draw elements and elegant-looking shapes combined with a decent color scheme.
Read itA Comparison of JavaScript Physics Engines
Learn about the differences of JavaScript physics engines from this great article by Chandler Prall for WebAppers.
Read itChristmas Icon Set (PNG)
A set of beautiful Christmas-related super-detailed icons made by RocketTheme for Smashing Magazine.
Get itFramote: Remote URL Control
Jaime Caballero created Framote, a tool with which you can simply generate a special short link from any URL. You'll be able to change the embedded URL anytime.
Try itResponsive Images: What We Thought We Needed
Some interesting thoughts by Paul Robert Lloyd about the problematic of responsive images and their proposed solutions. An interesting discussion follows.
Read itHandy Icons – Free Web Font Kit
A large set of 99 hand-drawn icons that have been converted to a webfont by WeGraphics.
Get itMerry Scrolling with skrollr.js
A step-by-step tutorial on how to create a beautifully looking Christmassy scrolling effect by Paulina Hetman from Pepsized.
Check it outNumbers.js
Numbers is an advanced mathematics library for Node.js and JavaScript developed by Steve Kaliski. It provides a comprehensive set of mathematical tools that are currently not available in JavaScript.
Get itMini Help System with jQuery
Martin Angelov will show you how to create a small widget which will display some help text for users of a web application. The widget content is going to be searchable in real time, and all matching terms will be highlighted.
Check it outAnalytics.js
Segment.io gives us this great script that will make integrating analytics a breeze.
Check it outMustaches (AI)
An unmissable set of brilliant mustaches as fully editable Illustrator vector files by Charlie Belvin.
Get itMultiple Devices PSD
A set of beautifully designed and cool looking mobile devices by Armas B.
Get itFree Font: Mr. Wright
Anthony Schmiedeler designed the exquisite Mr. Wright font for a school project using Fontlab. It's based on the furniture design of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Get itDo we need box-shadow or border-radius prefixes anymore?
Do we? Read the short and the long answer and explanation by Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks.
Read itTravel Web Design Template (PSD)
A fun looking travel-related web design template by CSS Author.
Get itCooking Icons (AI, EPS)
Cosmin Capitanu created this sweet pack of cooking-related vector icons.
Get itFree Font: Christmas Numerals
Stereotypes designed these beautiful Christmas numerals and offers them for free.
Get itCanvas-Driven background images
Eric Bidelman takes a look at canvas-driven background images and shows some demos (mostly Canary).
Check it outFree Christmas Email Template (HTML)
A festive Christmas email template by ThemeDev.
Get itAnnotary
Annotary helps you bookmark pages, make highlights, take notes, and share with others.
Check it outGoogle Droid-Gangnam in Pure CSS
An Easter-Egg found on the Google Zeitgeist page: Droid-Gangnam.
Check it outToolbar
A beautiful toolbar originally designed by Mani, converted to HTML/CSS by Cameron Baney.
Check it outCSS3 Generator
A fun little CSS snippet generator for all the fanciness that is hard to remember.
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