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Today’s Deal: Ultimate Designer Toolkit Only $99

Ultimate Designer Toolkit

Ultimate Designer Toolkit

Update: Check back for updates when this toolkit will be offered at the discounted rate.

March 23
 

Download a huge pack with over 60.000 items for web development and printing for $99.

(Updated March 23, 2011)

This pack includes many of the following resources including:
Ultimate Designer Toolkit
Seamless Vector Textures
Photoshop Gradients
Photoshop Layer Styles
Vector Illustration
Photoshop Patterns
Ultimate CSS Framework
Photoshop Brushes
Adobe Addons
Vector Packs
Textures
Vector Icons
Stock Photos
PSD to HTML Tutorial
Pixel Icons
Photoshop Actions
Web Graphics
3D Creator
3D Software Box Creator

If you know of any upcoming deals, let us know by commenting below or message us on Twitter @mediactiveblog.

Win a Free White iPad 2 – Balanon Nation

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Henry Balanon is a creative professional in the Detroit Metro Area.
He has had success developing mobile applications and creative projects, and has spoken at many events in the creative field.  He is active on Twitter and the #backchannel, and is a great voice for creatives.  Follow him @balanon on Twitter.

Excerpt from his site:

Balanon Nation: Culture. Technology. Entrepreneurship. Mobile. Interviews. Living life.

On March 23, I am launching my new newsletter on mobile, technology, culture, and other thoughts. It’s a blog via email.

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Breaking News: Earthquakes and Tsunami Hit Japan

We are taking a time out to notify everyone of LIVE video coming from Japan regarding the 8.4 earthquake off the coast of Japan. The video will play on the right side of the page including a LIVE stream.

LIVE STREAM NHK Japan:
LIVE http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

LIVE STREAM BBC:
LIVE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12710020

LIVE STREAM (Justin.tv):
http://www.justin.tv/hdvideo#/w/952123376/6

LIVE NEWS STREAM (CNN):
http://www.justin.tv/live_news#/w/948725776/18

LIVE STREAM (UStream):
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/japan-earthquake-news

NEWS STREAM (theage.com.au Australia): http://media.theage.com.au/earthquake-hits-japan-2227962.html

Update 2:22AM EST: The stream is intermittent, most likely due to high amounts of web traffic.
Update 2:25AM EST: New streams added from Justin.tv
Update 2:30AM EST: New stream added from CNN
Update 2:37AM EST: New stream added from USTREAM
Update: 2:55AM EST: New stream from theage.com.au added.
Update: 3:16AM EST: New stream from BBC (via NHK footage) added.

Screenshot of earthquake iPhone app:

Web Design Bundle Deals

Sometimes in a pinch, a web freelancer needs a quick graphic to help complete a project. There are literally thousands of resources on the web for designers and developers. Remember seeing CD-ROMS on the shelf for a 10,000+ clip art package for only $49.95!

An interesting trend sweeping the web design world is the emergence of bundle sites for selling groups of stock web graphics, stock icons, stockphotos, contact forms, wordpress and xhtml templates, buttons, ribbons, photoshop brushes, content management systems, code organizing apps, and more. These sites typically feature a selection of resources bundled into a package or subscription for a discounted price. Often, these deals are only available for a limited time. These deals are often extremely valuable.

Here are a few that have been popping up on twitter feeds and popular design blogs, such as creative overflow, smashing magazine, and more.

Ultimate Designer Toolkit

Ultimate Designer Toolkit

Rotating deals at Ultimate Designer Toolkit:

Limited time deal
Download a huge pack with over 55.000 items for web development and printing for $79.
(Updated March 1, 2011)

This pack includes many of the following resources including:
Ultimate Designer Toolkit
Seamless Vector Textures
Photoshop Gradients
Photoshop Layer Styles
Vector Illustration
Photoshop Patterns
Ultimate CSS Framework
Photoshop Brushes
Adobe Addons
Vector Packs
Textures
Vector Icons
Stock Photos
PSD to HTML Tutorial
Pixel Icons
Photoshop Actions
Web Graphics
3D Creator
3D Software Box Creator

Bundle Hunt 3

Bundle hunt offers premium resources from multiple sites. Designers can vote and submit their resources for consideration.

BundleHunt 3

ThemeShock and IconShock

ThemeShock aka WordPressThemeShock

ThemeShock is part of the IconShock family of sites, and includes many free design resources as well. The “Shock Bundle”

There are also premium stock icon sets available at IconShock. Iconshock has more than 300,000 professional stock icon sets.

When you purchase an icon set, it comes with multiple versions, filetypes, and sizes. There are pdf previews of all icons in the set so you know what you are getting. Our team has bought a few of these. There are also many free icon sets.

If you know of any other web design bundle deal sites, web resources, or related websites, feel free to comment below.

20 of the Best Icon Sets for Developers

Real vista general icon set – 1347 icons	Modern general icon set – 1046 icons
Golden general icon set – 1358 icons	Vectorama general icon set – 1222 icons
Super vista general icon set – 1370 icons	Soft general icon set – 974 icons
Sophistique general icon set – 1370 icons	Prisma general icon set – 1278 icons
Seven general icon set – 1370 icons	Sophistiquenight general icon set – 1691 icons
Clean general icon set – 1062 icons	Luminight general icon set – 1324 icons
Vista general icon set – 1685 icons
Lumina general icon set – 1817 icons
Stroke general icon set – 1463 icons
Sigma general icon set – 1705 icons
Plastic xp general icon set – 1138 icons
Xmac general icon set – 1347 icons
Impressions general icon set – 1595 icons
Brilliant general icon set – 1020 icons
Beta general icon set – 1317 icons
Future xp general icon set – 1131 icons
Sunny day general icon set – 1724 icons
Crystal general icon set – 1293 icons
Diamond general icon set – 1311 icons
Vectornight general icon set – 1174 icons

Iconshock professional Icons

Free High Quality Professional Icons from Iconshock

Iconshock has great icons for professional software, web, and mobile application development. When you follow them on Twitter @iconshock, they give away a free set of icons every friday. Pretty good deal. They also have a community section where you can download and swap icon sets.

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty to be Released July 27, 2010

The wait is finally over.  Starcraft fans will finally see a new installment of the popular Starcraft 2 series.  Just how long has it been?  Starcraft was released by Blizzard Entertainment in March 1998. Starcraft quickly became one of the most popular RTS games ever.  Battle.net still gets thousands of users from a game that is over 10 years old. Ok, to give you an idea of how long that really was…I looked at the back cover of Starcraft 2 cd-rom…yes, cd-rom…and the operating system requirements are Win 95/98/NT.  A blast from the past…anyway…

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is all set to release in late July of this year.  Many thought it would be held off till the holiday season, but apparently Blizzard thinks it’s ready!  Amazon even jumped in with Blizzard by offering Beta codes to customers who pre-0rder a copy of Starcraft II.

Blizzard.net Upgrade

The new game will also benefit from a brand new launch of the online gaming site Battle.net.  Read the press release and video preview here.

The Game

There are going to be two editions of the game released on July 27…The standard edition and the  collector’s edition.

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty Standard

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

AND

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty Collector’s Edition

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty Collector's Edition

Press Release

Here is the original press release from the Blizzard site…

Pre-Order for 59.99 at Amazon.com

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Short link for Starcraft II Pre-order http://amzn.to/starcraft-II

Star Trek out on Blu-Ray and DVD – Watch the Unboxing

Star Trek is here. It’s not with William Shatner this time. It’s high octane action with great special effects and a killer storyline.  It has my vote for best of 2009.  This Blu-Ray is legit.  Leonard Nimoy, Chris Pine, Zaqary Quinto, Karl Urban, and Eric Bana.  Awesome combination.  This movie takes the Star Trek saga to a whole new level.

 

Pick it up at Amazon for 19.99 3-Disc Blu-Ray / DVD + Digital Copy!  Awesome deal IMHO.

Watch it being unboxed

Watch the Trailer

 

Get a custom cartoon caricature of yourself!

Have you ever wondered what you would look like as a cartoon?

IconShock makes custom caricatures of people from a photo that you send to them! Pretty cool, right?

They also have a ton of stock icons, graphics, and custom logo services. Also free icons if you join the iconshock community.

Examples:

You can get either a face and body or a face only. Learn More

Get a custom cartoon caricature!

Check it out!