Icon Lover

Adobe Illustrator is arguably the most popular and most powerful vector graphics software. If you ever work with a designer, it is very likely that you will have to deal with .ai files. Even if your final files must be in a different format (PNG, JPEG or something else), it would be nice to have vector sources in addition to them – it will make your life much easier if you need to change something and cannot hire the same designer again.

But how do you open an .ai file, if you don’t have Adobe Illustrator – which is a complex and expensive piece of software hardly used by anyone except professional designers? In most cases it’s really easy — you need only free Adobe Reader software, which is already installed on most computers. Right-click the .ai file you need to view, point to Open With… and then click Choose Program and choose Adobe Reader from the list. Or you may simply change the .ai extension to .pdf and open the file by double-clicking it. Click here to read more.. »

“Why do you include 256×256 and 512×512 pixel icons in your collection? They are too big even for the 30-inch displays, who will ever use them?” This is the question I regularly hear.

The answer is simple – we include these images in our icon collections, because Microsoft and Apple recommend doing so. Although the hi-res icons are really seldom used, modern operation systems support them and Microsoft and Apple require them to be included with any software.

But there are other possible uses for large icons not related to MS and Apple design guidelines. Here are just three of them. Click here to read more.. »

Every company has a Twitter now. It’s just a standard business procedure. Being on Twitter isn’t enough, though. There’s a right and wrong way to operate your corporate Twitter account. Too many companies use it just to spew links to boring press releases with little to no response from the users.

Here are 10 tips for making your corporate Twitter interesting and engaging to customers.
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