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The printables designs on OhHappyDay may be ideal if you need some outside of the box marketing or design inspiration. How can you adapt these tangible project ideas to your own projects? Choose from photo props, ideas for greeting card designs and more.

If you have a project that requires pictures of traffic signs with accurate colors and proportions, why not go straight to the source at the Federal Highway Administration’s website instead of just googling for traffic sign pictures. You’ll get diagrams of all traffic signs along with measurements, arrows used, spacing, borders, letter styles and design guidelines.

Ever wonder what LA looks without any cars on the streets? Many images on You-Are-Here.com have been taken without any cars in the pictures. Hard to tell how he got the shots without the cars, because the images don’t look manipulated either. The Los Angeles photos were taken by a German tourist photographer and sorted into categories by year built, districts, boulevards and more. He also has pictures of graffiti, murals and sorts them by medium used.

The site has thousands of pictures of LA, many (maybe most?) without cars, all sorted by many different criteria which makes this a great resource for anyone interested in Los Angeles architecture or in need of inspiration for their project. Tourists will appreciate the fact that all images come with an address. The idea of taking all these images without cars is what makes this site special. How often have you seen an image of LA or any metropolis for that matter without any cars in it?

Get 1000 well designed royalty free icons in 16×16 and 32×32 in png format at PC.de. This selection includes monochromatic (including black and white) as well as multicolor icons. You’ll get icons for social media sites, blog related, feeds, web page tools, mobile apps, settings and more.

There are dozens of QR barcode creators available, but the one on QRStuff.com is one of the more versatile ones, letting you create the barcode in color and select from 14 different data types. After creating your QR barcode, you’ll be able to print it (PNG or raster PDF), get analytics (when you register), email it, or use it to create t-shirts and other products via the Zazzle print-on-demand website.

The site offers paid options to create the barcode in high resolution, batch processing, save your codes and more. Click here for more info on QR barcodes.

You’ve just taken a dozens of images you were planning to sell or add to your website when you suddenly realize that you don’t have your camera. Has it been lost or stolen? Then you’re thinking of all the pictures on your camera: what will the people that stole it or found your camera do with them? Will they simply delete them, or will the pictures end up on the web, possibly Photoshopped in some undesirable way? Then you’re thinking why the industry hasn’t introduced passwords on consumer cameras, or a function that will self-destruct the camera, or something like a Lo-Jack for cameras, or a camera finder of any kind…

So you can’t remotely delete the photos and you can’t destroy the camera. The next best thing is to use stolen camera finder. All you have to do is drag and drop one of the images you had taken with the camera previously onto the page and the site will show search results of other images that have been taken with the exact same camera. This service works by using Exif data embedded within your photo to search the web for photos taken with the same camera.

If you don’t have any photos handy that have been taken with the stolen camera, you can also type your camera’s ‘internal’ serial number if you have it (usually not the one on the box) into a search box to see who’s posting pictures with your camera. Exif is a standard used by digital cameras and other electronics and may also include your camera’s ‘internal’ serial number. This may be a long shot, and if your camera isn’t listed, this tool won’t work. It also won’t work searching on Facebook or MySpace because they scrape the Exif info from the photos according to the site.

(To see the actual data your current camera embeds within your photos, try Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer.)

See what can happen if you have an Eye-Fi card installed in your lost/stolen camera.

For a beautiful selection of free photo backgrounds and wallpapers in different sizes, visit iskin.co.uk‘s website. The site offers backgrounds and wallpapers for different cell phones, mobile devices and desktop monitor resolutions.

Any images that are presented in a square format have been created for screens that can be viewed horizontally or vertically so there are no gaps, like the iPad for example. Some of the wallpaper and background sizes available on their website:

Cell phones and mobile:
iPhone portrait (320×480) iPhone landscape (320×480) Palm/Treo (320×320)
iPad wallpaper (1024×1024) iPhone 4 high resolution portrait (640×960) iPhone 4 landscape (960×640)

iMac and other 1440×900

4:3 Standard Aspect Wallpaper
1024×768 (XGA)
1600×1200 (UXGA)
1280×1024 (SXGA)

16:10 Wide Screen Desktop
1280×800 (WXGA 1024k)
1680×1050 (WSXGA+)

16:9 Wide Screen Laptop or Palmtop
1280×720 (WXGA 922k)

Full HD
1920×1080

You may have seen these icons before on mobile apps you’re already using. Glyfish offers a set of well designed icons for mobile applications that can be used for just about any feature within your app. If you’re using the free set you’re asked to give attribution. The pro version will give you more icons and also a higher resolution set.

Looking for a set of gradients in a variety of colors and styles? Check out DezinerFolio’s set of 130 free gradients. These aren’t images, but fully scalable gradients in .grd format, ready to use for any of your Photoshop projects. Use these gradients for backgrounds, buttons, tabs and more.

Get a selection of simple but very useful ready made colorful rollover CSS3 buttons at tympanus.com. You get a selection of 20 buttons in various shades and different font styles and effects. Be sure to check the demo.