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The web is rich with creative and amazing icon sets, and one of the most unusual source of amazing Icons Sets are those you can find on deviantART icons gallery. Today Noupe presented 40 incredible icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop.

1) Realistic Icons - 3 Icons in PNG + ICO format.

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2) Onibari light - Formats are Png’s,Ico’s and Icns’s…

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3) Leopar’d IconPackager - An IconPackage for Apple’s new Leopard theme.

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1. NETTUTS

NETTUTS is a recently launched blog/tutorial site that provides “spoonfed web skills“. There are already plenty of useful and detailed tutorials that range from offloading static content to Amazon S3 to creating a beautiful tabbed content area using jQuery. NETTUTS is perfect for developers just starting out, since the tutorials are very thorough and in a “step by step” format. For more advanced developers, it’s an excellent source of inspiration and learning new techniques.

2. Vitamin

Vitamin offers a large amount of information on the topic of web development and design. With many contributors, Vitamin manages to cover a wide range of topics including Ajax, CSS, development techniques, best practices, and workflow management.

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Windows 7 (formerly known as Blackcomb and Vienna) is the working name for the next major version of Microsoft Windows as the successor of Windows Vista. Microsoft has announced that it is “scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year timeframe”, and that “the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar.” Windows 7 is expected to be released sometime in 2010. The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. A server variant, codenamed Windows Server 7, is also under development.

Microsoft is maintaining a policy of silence concerning discussion of plans and aspirations for Windows 7 as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista, stating that Microsoft does not want to promise features and then fail to deliver, as happened with Windows Vista Ultimate, though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged. As a result, little is known about the feature set, though public presentations from company officials have disseminated information about some features. Leaked information from people to whom Milestone 1 (M1) of Windows 7 was shipped also provides some insight into the feature set.

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If you use AJAX already for your Web 2.0 projects or are just thinking about it and need information, check out this one-stop source of AJAX plug-ins. In addition to free code that covers things from fish-eye effects for icon browsing to auto completion text fields Ajaxdaddy shows you the code, and gives you a sandbox area to get a feel for how the widget performs and to do some experimentation.

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So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) has kicked off Season 4. I have to admit that this is one of my favorite shows on TV. They of course follow the American Idol format of showing a bunch of whack jobs the first few weeks but then it dives right into serious dancing. The street dancers are always my favorite, especially when they are versatile enough to keep up with contemporary, swing, quickstep, etc.

The real stand out of week 1 (May 22nd, 2008) was Robert Muraine (or is it Robert Murraine?), also known as “Mr. Fantastic” on the street. This audition is simply mind blowing, it reminded me of Bryan Gaynor – the little robot man – from last season. Most contestants get 1 minute to do their stuff, the judges are so entertained by this guy that it goes on for nearly 7 minutes. It was an awesome way to end the first show.

Here’s two vids via YouTube:

Week_1-_Robert_Muraine_So_You_Think_You_Can_Dance1.avi

So_You_Think_You_Can_Dance-Season_4-RobertMuraine2.avi

And… since over the years SYTYCD has pulled videos from YouTube there are direct links to the files in AVI format below each video.