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Today we’re excited to present you a new icon set called Coded. Designed with web developers in mind, Coded features 25 high-quality icons ranging from 512×512px to 32×32px. Designed by Thomas McGee of WinePress of Words, this set has been released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

The Coded Icon Set makes an excellent addition to any website, especially those inspired by the trade of web development. Perfect for your next client’s site or for showcasing your own web development — these icons are useful for every coder.

Download the Icon Set for Free!

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sub-licensed or rented. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.

• Download the icon set for free (zip, 5.1 Mb)

Behind the Design

Here are some insights from the designer:

“Coders and developers have unique responsibilities throughout each work week. From implementing client ideas, to expanding and coding personal endeavors, there’s much work to do at any walk of a web developer’s career. With this, there are tools a developer uses and trusts through these daily challenges. Inspired by such tools and the tasks they help tackle, this set has been crafted to fit the commonly used files, formats, and resources coders of any kind have come to rely. Whether used on your next client’s site, or for accenting your own coding ventures, we’re confident this free icon set will make an excellent addition to your library. Enjoy!”

Thanks, Thomas! We truly appreciate and respect your time and your efforts!

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A quick WordPress tip regarding Custom Post Types: when giving a custom post type a name, make sure that its length is 20 characters or less, or weird things will happen.

I recently ran into this and spent way too much time trying to figure out why things weren’t working as expected. For some reason the “Publish� button on the “Add New� page for my custom post type was replaced by a “Submit for Review� button. Huh?

At first I thought the problem was related to permissions, but it turned out to be the length of the name I’d given my custom post type.

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Last week, we had a roundup of some very creative infographics. Today’s post is a follow-up on even more inspiring and informative infographics that will leave us giving some things a second thought. Infographics are a great source to look up; the visual representations of a particular topic helps us find the information needed at a quicker pace.

The best examples of infographics are maps which clearly illustrate the topic in a very clear and succinct manner — and stand out from the rest. Here is a collection of some great examples of infographical maps for your inspiration and perhaps future art projects. Enjoy!

Creative Infographic Maps

Digital Dump

Crude Awakening – Gulf Spill Infographic

A guide to buying your own island

Smoking

Hugo’s 10 Hours of Havoc

Health Care Cost by State

Mint Map: America’s Most Frugal Cities

Which Countries Are Making the Most Progress on the Millennium Development Goals

The World’s Resources by Country

Social Professionals

A Graphical History of the U.S. Flag

Hubspot’s Twitter Territory Map

Action Sheet: Clearing the Air

The 2010 Social Networking Map

China’s Global Investments – interactive map

The Best Beer in America

United States of America

Movie Fill

Richest World Leaders

Starbucks

Die Hard

Oil Imports to the USA

National Debt

Trembling Giants

Reservations Census

Treni ad alta velocita

US Bank Closures

Map of Online Communities 2

Homeworld Universe

Where the jobs have been Hiding

My Head Hurts

Weapons

Word Map of Social Network

Submarine Cable Map

TheGlobalWarming Infographic

Who’s Buying That?

Disney World’s Huge Footprint

Fortifying Foods to Prevent Disease

Banking on the World Bank

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IdentyMe is a new service that lets you create and share your own customizable virtual business cards. These cards can contain more than just your contact info, you can add portfolios, resumes your social profiles and lots more.

Creating a card

The registration and setup process is really simple it literally takes a minute to fill in all your contact details and create your card. You are then guided to fill in the rest of your details step by step.

Customization

There are some great looking themes to chose from so you can quickly add some personality to your business card. An html editor is on the way soon so you will be able to take full control of the design.

Portfolios

One of the coolest things about Identyme is the ability to upload a portfolio of your work which you can separate into albums allowing you to easily showcase different projects. To accompany your portfolio you can if you wish also add a resume to your Business Card, fill in the predefined questions and/or upload a pdf or word document of your full resume.

Social profiles and contacts

Easily collect all (and I really mean all, Identyme is compatible with 150 social networks) your social profiles and contacts into one place. Indentyme allows you to upload and search all your contacts in one place.

Conclusion

In summary Identyme is a handy tool for easily sharing examples of your work and collecting all your contacts together. The portfolio feature is specially useful and the collection of customizable themes are genuinely novel and well designed. The service is available to try out for free but there are a number of paid upgrade options available.

Do you know of any similar services to Identyme? or have you had any good or bad experiences with this app? Please let us know in the comments!