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Download MP3 For Free, Right From Your Desktop Posted by: Damien on January 13th, 2010 Downloading MP3 from the Web is never an easy task. You have to search Google for your favorite song, find the correct site that comes with a proper download link and also constantly in fear that RIAA will come knocking your door. While we have covered 5 useful sites to download free and legal MP3, they are hardly your favorite pop songs that you hear in the radio. Now, what if you can search for the songs you like, listen to a preview of it and download them for free, right from your desktop. Sound great, isn’t it? Super MP3 Download is one great software (for Windows) that allows you to do what you love best: download MP3 for free. And yes, you can find the Top 40 Hits here, and songs from many other genres and categories. In fact, there are more than 100 million songs available for you to search (and download), so there is a very high chance of you finding the songs you want. via Download MP3 For Free, Right From Your Desktop – Make Tech Easier.

A Collection of Free Design Resources Designers can never get enough resources. Fonts, tutorials, source files, plugins, stock images, icons… you name it we love them. Especially when they are free! Thankfully within the design community there are no shortage of designers willing to offer free stuff, it just about finding them. That is where we can help. In today’s news round-up we have collected exactly what you want, some fresh and free design resources. via A Collection of Free Design Resources | Design Reviver.

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Download Glary Utilities Pro for Free; Today Only Windows: Normally $40, Glary Utilities Pro—a system utilities suite—is available for free, today only. We've highlighted the free version of Glary Utilities before, today you've got a chance to grab the professional edition for free. Although you can certainly get all the functionality found in Glary Utilities Pro by using a collection of open-source or freeware tools for the cool price of free you might as well save yourself the running around and grab a copy of the Pro edition which includes features like an uninstall manager, registry repair, a startup manager, secure file deletion, disk analysis and a duplicate finder, as well as process manager. Have a good system utility to share free—temporarily?—or otherwise? Let's hear about it in the comments. Glary Utilities Pro is Windows only and free until the end of the day at the link below. Giveaway of the Day: Gary Utilities Pro [via Download Squad] via Download Glary Utilities Pro for Free; Today Only - Utilities - Lifehacker.

200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup

Grunge style is rough, rugged, torn, worn, and tattered. To most, these adjectives would describe something less than appealing, but in the hands of a talented web designer, elements possessing these qualities can be used to turn a web site into a work of art. So, if you are just getting started in grunge design or if you are already a pro, you should find the grunge freebies in this article to be very useful. via 200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup | Design Reviver.

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Smashing Highlights 2009 * By Smashing Editorial * December 29th, 2009 2009 was a very successful year for Smashing Magazine. It was a year of ambitious goals and an intense time schedule, which brought many changes over the past year. In 2009 we published more posts than ever (on average, 8 posts per week). We broadened our areas of interest: for instance, we explored freelancing and the business side of web development, but also tackled user interface design and mobile web design. We also discovered new formats, such as the “Global Web Design” series and Q&A-Sessions — unfortunately, the latter (the Ask SM series with Chris Coyier) lasted only a couple of months. Smashing-128 in Smashing Highlights 2009 None of this would have been possible without the tremendous support of our authors, contributors, and editorial staff. We express sincere gratitude to them for all the ideas and hard work they’ve put into articles published here on Smashing Magazine. We also want to thank you, the readers, for your attention, criticism, ideas, suggestions, emails, tweets, and links over the past year. Smashing Magazine is driven by your support which is why we are always listening to you and we truly appreciate every message we receive. We have tried our best to improve the quality of our articles so as to increase their value for designers and developers. In this post, we’ll review what has happened on Smashing Magazine over the past year: smashing highlights, setbacks, and small sensations of 2009 — which we present in a month by month timeline. You can compare the highlights of 2009 with those of 2008 or 2007 (which, by the way, include links to some really useful articles). via Smashing Highlights 2009 - Smashing Magazine.

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50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes * By Daved Brosche * November 10th, 2008 * Graphics by Daved Brosche Having a good collection of Photoshop brushes is essential for any designer. There is certainly no shortage of Photoshop brushes on the Web these days. The problem with Photoshop brushes isn’t in finding brushes, but in finding quality brushes. Below you’ll find a collection of quality brushes that every designer should find handy. These 50 Photoshop brush sets are ones I find myself using over and over in a variety of projects. This collection is the result of years’ worth of downloads, trials and experiments. I hope this list helps you find some new Photoshop brushes that improve your collection. via 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes - Smashing Magazine.

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40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections October 23, 2009 Graphic Design, Photoshop There are hundreds and thousands of Photoshop brushes available to download for free. Were do you start looking? How do you find that particular brush that you need to complete your latest design project? And most importantly, were are all the the high quality or even hi-res brushes? In this design resource round-up we have compiled a list of the best Photoshop directory resource sites and also compiled a list of the best PS brush collections. If you can’t find the brush that you need here, give up, because it can’t be found (or, I may have missed it). via 40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design * By Vitaly Friedman * December 14th, 2009 Round-ups of beautiful and useful icons are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying “list”-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine. via 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design - Smashing Magazine.

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