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Zero Bundle is an awesome set of resources, filled with free design goodies, icons, textures, UI kits, graphic elements for mobile development and much more! You’ll want to get your hands on this one soon as it will only be available for a very short time!

Larsson Patrik
A power pack of premium quality freebies that contains 12 premium elements (one of them is a Zero Bundle exclusive). Pack includes: Patricons v.1, PatriGlyps Set 1, buttons, login form, wood panel box, social buttons and more. For more freebies visit the authors’ website below and subscribe to his site for more exclusive freebies.

Ben Bate
The pack includes a variety of user interface elements, ranging from sleek navigation bars and login forms to site designs and icons. Included are a full Apple like menu, iPad icon, login form, and menu with notifications. Ben is a freelance designer from Plymouth, England who specialises in Graphic, UI and Web Design.

Purty Pixels
Here’s a set of PurtyPixels freebies that are crafted with oodles of fun and buckets of joy. There’s a bit of buttons (some of which are quite crazy), some author pro-esque buttons, a full fledged UI kit from the dark side and a fantastically super set of badges. PurtyPixels is a super awesome, fantastically free collection of PSD design resources designed by Richard Tabor.

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Mobile Orchard

So we know that the iPad is often criticized as a device that tries to be everything to everyone, but does not excel at any particular discipline. Amazon’s Kindle comes up as an example very often, in which the Kindle is described as the better specialized ebook reader as it has the better screen for reading and better battery life. However, we are also seeing first signs of a new development in ebooks where ebooks turn into multimedia apps that simply can’t run on a Kindle.

Michael Wolf has recently written a great article on this topic for GigaOm Pro (subscription required), and sheds light on what he calls enhanced ebooks. Wolf believes that enhanced ebooks are just developing with all the disadvantages that come along with such a trend – such as inconsistent apps for different platforms, but it is easy to see that, if he is right, that the iPad may be much better positioned for media-rich ebooks than the Amazon Kindle.

That trend has lots of implications for developers, which may suddenly be able to go into a business that was previously reserved for printing services, but offer new types of applications that, for example, create ebook platforms and allow content creators to easily publish media rich magazines, newsletters or ebooks. The market opportunity is substantial, as Amazon announced this week that it is now selling more ebooks than hardcover versions.

Wolf believes that enhanced ebooks may result “in a whole new digital book industry, much like has been seen in the digital video and music industries.” He sees the iPad as a key platform as this trend and consumer perception will evolve. “The media-consumption friendliness of the iPad is a natural choice for authors looking to create a multimedia-laden e-book,” he wrote.

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