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The lazyweb pays off

So back in April, I posted a request looking for some free icons that Matt Ball had made available for application developers, but which had since disappeared off the ‘net for reasons unknown.

I did manage to contact a different blogger who had a copy of them on his hard drive still, and so now they’re kicking around on mine (or were, until recently, when my laptop’s hard drive suffered a head crash - luckily my baby’s in repair now), but last night I got a comment from the artist himself.

Turns out Matt Ball now has an online portfolio. As far as online portfolios go, it’s pretty simple (in a good way!) and snazzy, and I like his icon work. I also applaud him for not using Flash. Dear online portfolio-havers: Flash is not appropriate for anything, unless you are a Flash developer.

June 11th, 2007 · Tags Blogging, Development, Icons, Lazyweb | Comments Off

Lazyweb: looking for icons

Alright, internets: find something for me.

This page on cocoadev.com links to a zipfile of royalty-free (and, apparently, free-as-in-beer) icons by Matt Ball. The problem is that this zipfile has disappeared completely from the Internets, and the site that was hosting them is French, and the user’s site is gone altogether. (Yes, two of those links are 404s.)

So after a little searching, I managed to find where a different blogger was hosting them on his site, except… you guessed it, 404. They’re gone altogether. They are, in fact, the only thing missing out of his wp-content/uploads folder for the month of March. How odd, and what a frustrating coincidence.

Anyway - does anyone out there happen to have a copy of these icons? I need them for an app I’m prototyping. Thanks!

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April 3rd, 2007 · Tags Annoyances, Development, Icons, Internet, Lazyweb, Mac, Software | 2 Comments »