http://www.defaulticon.com/
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Default Icon is a repository of minimal icons based on black color. It can be used for UI design on web, portable devices (iPhone, iPad, Android compatible devices, other smartphones, etc.), desktop applications, and generally any kind of electronic or mechanic machinery interface.
SVG-edit is a fast, web-based, Javascript-driven SVG editor that works in any modern browser: With an nice nifty demonstration on http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/editor/svg-editor.html
Image Optimization, Part 3: Four Steps to File Size Reduction » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
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https://clarle.github.io/yui3/blog/2008/11/14/imageopt-3/
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This post is about some common tools you can use to reduce the file size of your images. The idea is to be able to just take the images your designer has created and instead of using them ?as is?, go ahead and tidy them up in short time and no effort, without even looking at them.
Browsers differ in rendering images at non-native sizes, with some providing noticeably better results than others. Internet Explorer 6 in particular looked to be the least smooth when scaling images down, but some interesting workarounds are available.
typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML
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Typeface is a js library that permits to render text in custom fonts without using flash or images. Else, it uses canvas, VML or SVG.
It has the disadvantage of not allowing to select the text for copy-pasting (while siFr allows it).
NodeBox is a Mac OS X application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF, an image or a Quicktime movie. NodeBox is free and well-documented.