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PC.DE , a website focused on new generation internet technologies, is sharing 4 different sets of free icons .

Geolocation is one of the most popular subjects for today's web & there are many solutions that help geo-enabling web applications. YQL Geo Library is an impressive resource for geolocation as it is totally free & JavaScript-based . It has various powerful features like: detecting the visitor’s location with the W3C geo API and with IP as a fallback find geo location from text find location from lat/lon pair find locations in a certain web document (by URL ) get the location for a certain IP number The library is lightweight (4kb uncompressed) & non-complicated

Last week, a post at appzombie was announcing the giveaway of a $50 printing credit and 2 * 1000 standard business cards by NextDayFlyers.com . The winners are selected & can be found at the bottom of this post.

Spritely is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic character & background animations using HTML + JavaScript. With the power of JavaScript, the animations can be controlled on events (clicks, mouseovers) easily.

Weebly , a very easy-to-use, popular & web-based website-builder service has just opened its theme gallery to all designers. And, to celebrate this, they launched a design contest with $13,000 in prizes which the entries will be judged by well-known designers: Michael Cronan (acknowledged with the naming and identities of Tivo and Verio and naming the Amazon Kindle) Scott Thomas (former design director of Obama for America) Jason Putorti (former lead designer of Mint.com) Andrew Wilkinson (Founder, MetaLab) Dustin Curtis Rob Martin Prizes are $10,000 for the winner, $2000 for the 2nd & $1000 for the 3rd position

CSS3, Please! is a web-based & simple-yet-effective cross-browser CSS3 rules generator . As every browser may require different prefixes for the CSS3 properties, this tool makes it so easy by providing them all with an editable & well-commented way where the output can be seen instantly

SlimStat is an open source web analytics application that collects & presents statistics information about your website. It is built with PHP-MySQL & can be integrated into websites with JavaScript (like Google Analytics) or PHP

Nicolas Gallagher is sharing a creative way on creating good-looking speech bubbles with CSS3 . There are no images or JavaScript in the implementations but uses the :before and/or :after pseudo-elements to produce basic shapes. The HTML remains semantic however we should remember that CSS3 is not fully supported by all major browsers & we may again require JavaScript to add this support (like IE7.js ).

Last week, a post was announcing the giveaway of 3 annual Traffic Light Feedback accounts ( £180 GBP/account) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Today, the winners are selected.

Phpns is an open source news/content management system that will enable you to add dynamic content to any website with one line of code . The application is not a complicated or a full-featured CMS. Rather, it is a simpler one which is very suitable for managing basic websites.