Titanium -Appcelerator Titanium is a free and open source framework to develop easily native mobile and desktop apps with web technologies. It provides developers with over 100 customizable UI controls for native tables, views, tabs, alerts, dialogs, buttons, support for geolocation, social networks and multimedia.

PhoneGap – PhoneGap is another interesting open source framework for building cross-platform mobile apps with web standars (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript). This framework supports geolocation, vibration, accelerometer, camera, orientation change, magnetometer and other interesting features for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Palm.

Whenever a user is trying to reach a website’s page that is non-existent or missing, they are usually directed to a page where they’re informed that that specific page cannot be recalled by the HTTP server; this is what is called a 404 error page.

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A matte painting is a cinematographic special effect, used to create environments that would be too
expensive, too difficult or impossible to film (e.g. a scene on Pluto).

Nowadays, the term matte painting is assumed to refer to a digitally created painting, but traditionally it was
acrylics painted on glass. The painted image is then combined (composited) with the live (actor’s) footage.

To be specific about traditional vs. digital techniques, it’s sometimes referred to as a
digi matte (for digital matte painting) or as a Photoshop matte painting.

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The kit brings the Facebook vector icon and logo. Also, since the focus of this resource are the UI elements, it brings a main window with the header, menu and the chat window for you to set up your realistic mock-ups. Plus all the modal components, comment boxes, buttons, message boxes, tabs, etc. All the components are full layered, built using vectors and blending options, so that scaling and editing the objects will not be a problem.

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Here is a great set of twitter avatars for free use from Ape Lad.

And here are a 100 more for your inspiration.

Another post of our Motion Graphics series

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The official website for the puzzle platform video game LittleBigPlanet has released some concept art and illustrations. The work displayed includes character and game level designs plus some photo montages to depict specific scenes in the game.

Link: www.littlebigplanet.com

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