With more and more solid success stories in both the Web and mobile universe, the competition between startups and developers are seriously heating up. You have to be the best of the best in order to overrun others, and great design is critical to attract most potential leads. However, that also means a great amount of funds are going to be torched within hours.

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Unless of course if you have these 60 free web and mobile GUI sets with promising design and painless modification to use for your projects. Now why is your mouse cursor still idling there? Download them before your competitors do!

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Web GUI Kit. Designed with users in mind, Web GUI Kit comes as layered vector shapes, which means you can resize them any time without any quality loss! (Image Source: Hongkiat)

Rainbow. Rainbow UI kit contains every fundamental elements including login interface and file uploading interface for your web design need. And like a rainbow, it’s beautiful. (Image Source: Hongkiat)

Awesomeness Widgets. 480,000 pixels of awesomeness compressed into one PSD file, and it’s free for you. (Image Source: Luis M Ruiz)

Balio. Balio UI kit will prove handy to you, as it is a practical, useful collection of web design elements containing buttons, stickers, icons, pagination, menus, login form and more for your personal and even commercial use! (Image Source: Webdesigner Depot)

Beige. Delivered with a slight retro feel, Beige is ready to make your website clean and slick. (Image Source: MediaLoot)

Pillow. Calm colors and a comfortable design, that’s the Pillow UI set. (Image Source: Dribbble)

Blue Milk. Looking for a fresh design that pops, and comes in 100% vector for infinite scalability? Blue Milk will fulfill your taste. (Image Source: Ryan Warner)

Clean UI Pro. How about some UI elements that cleanse out the messiness of your website? They are also delivered as well-organized layers for your quick deployment. (Image Source: Purity Pixels)

Square. Embrace the flat web design trend with Square, a mega set of sleek elements and interfaces to create your website, web application or even iPhone app. And yes, you don’t have to pay a cent for this. (Image Source: Designmodo)

Polaris. Are you ready for flat web design? If that’s the case, this set of extremely polished flat elements is ready for your use in any second. (Image Source: Designmodo)

Impressionist. Though it comes as a part of the premium version, Impressionist UI kit is still one of the most impressive kits you can get for your website. (Image Source: Designmodo)

Futurico. It is hard to get leads if you don’t have a futuristic, more importantly professional user interface. Futurico could help tackle this issue easily. (Image Source: Designmodo)

White Blue Web. White and blue are always the best combination for a visitor-friendly site! (Image Source: PSDchest)

Prime. A premium user interface designed for free giveaway. Prime is also carefully developed to help you update the color easier, talking about user-friendliness! (Image Source: MediaLoot)

Mega UI Pack. A mega UI pack with ultra smashy design, could you ask for more? (Image Source: Kim)

Sticky Butterscotch. Besides the sweet name, Sticky Butterscotch’s detail is awesome enough to attract 1000+ likes from Dribbble professionals. (Image Source: Made By Thomas)

Got Wood. What you see is not what you get, as Got Wood actually debuted with over 100 hand-crafted design elements for whatever use you prefer. (Image Source: MediaLoot)

Phoebus. You don’t have to worry about design resources for your site with this Phoebus set, also a red version named Ares is freely available to you too. (Image Source: DesignShock)

Apollo. Get a bit more stylish with Apollo, quality guaranteed! (Image Source: DesignShock)

Hades. Hades could be your best bet if you’re building a wild, unique service on the web. Just look at its glossiness! (Image Source: DesignShock)

Kick Out. Jan Semler is generous enough to give away his kick-ass GUI set pre-designed with 4 color options. Also in case you don’t know, it’s simple to change the color to your liking! (Image Source: Jan Semler)

Light Web. I personally love the typography, and totally believe that Light Web can be used to transform any website with elegant results. (Image Source: Mihai Peticã)

LinkedIn iPad Redesign. You don’t need too many icons to be content, LinkedIn iPad Redesign can tell you why. Additionally this layout suits well for personal portfolios too. (Image Source: Zeki Ghulam)

Dashboard. Perfect UI layout for kickstarting web application, and it will even ease your editing pain with its resizable shape layers! (Image Source: GraphicsFuel)

Smooth Web App. Though web applications have existed years ago, it’s surprisingly hard to find UI kits for it. Fortunately MediaLoot has prepared one for you! (Image Source: MediaLoot)

Black Dashboard Interface. A mindfully crafted design, loaded with a simple graph, progress meter, table design, and navigation menu for your inspiring web app. (Image Source: PixelsDaily)

Black UI. “It’s a bit unusual, because it’s almost completely black, but it was one of my long time obsessions to craft a complete slick black on black UI.” (Image Source: Alex Patrascu)

Media Black. Media Black is a combination of neat web, media and application elements for all-purpose use, just apply them with your creativity! (Image Source: Webdesigner Depot)

Sleek Web. If you are forging a technology-oriented site, these dark elements encrusted with blue neon glow could persuade your reader’s eyes into more site discovery. (Image Source: CreativeFan)

Ruthenium. It’s hectic to try new yet unconventional color schemes with your site design, but now you have the chance to get one of them instantly right with the Ruthenium kit. (Image Source: despoth)

Sign In Form. This little gem will elevate your sign in form into an entirely new level of aesthetics. (Image Source: Mahdi Pourebadi)

Solid. Any word will look amusing if it’s smashed onto these squishy elements. On top of that, don’t you just want to keep pressing them? (Image Source: Design Kindle)

Sleek UI Elements. The only bad thing about this pack is it does not come as a complete kit, since the design is not only elegant, but practical. (Image Source: Design Kindle)

Super Clean. Simplicity, cleanliness and better user experience is what you can get with Super Clean. (Image Source: WeCreate)

UI Kit. As long as you start with this kit, you won’t go too far from minimalism and professionalism. (Image Source: Hüseyin Yilmaz)

Metrostyle. Metro UI is the new cool, and this Metrostyle UI kit will prove to you this fact with its meticulous elements, and 3 additional color options! (Image Source: Josep Roselló)

Web UI Set. Don’t let the preview image fool you, as this package is actually released with 70+ interface elements, ranging from icons to buttons to menus, to cater to your every need for website creation. (Image Source: DuckFiles)

Web App UI. Web apps with flat design is rapidly becoming a trend in the web, so why not be part of the pioneering group? (Image Source: Blaz Robar)

YouTube. As the web is heading toward the future of sharing short videos rather than text, this template is your all-in-one solution for creating video web app. (Image Source: Jackie Tran)

Google+ UI Kit. Are you a big fan of Google+, particularly its flat design? Then this kit could be a huge help for you to create another web giant like G+. (Image Source: Alexey)

Mobile GUI Set

The web is more driven towards mobile nowadays, but designers have adapted to the trend well enough to generously offer these free premium GUI kits to developers. Take these and you are few steps closer to success!

Flat. With Flat, your users are guided to focus intensively on content. (Image Source: Riki Tanone)

Flat 2. A variation from Flat (mentioned above) this pack is more focused towards blogging. (Image Source: Riki Tanone)

Flat UI Pack. Another Flat UI pack that offers more variety, so combine them all and you’re good to build a full-fledged mobile app! (Image Source: Andy Law)

Mobile UI Kit. Want a kit with Metro variation and flawless elegance? Here’s the one for your app. (Image Source: Abhimanyu Rana)

Insta GUI. Yes, an Instagram GUI for your insta app design. The level of detail made me think that it’s from official Instagram team! (Image Source: Adrien Olczak)

Dark Chest. Combine this with Part 2 and Part 3, and you now have one of the most visually appealing designs for mobile app. (Image Source: PSDchest)

Caramel UI. Been criticized about app design’s being too flat? You know what to do next. (Image Source: Rockable Themes)

Lookamore. Android is dominating the world, and you don’t want to waste much time on app design to ride on this bandwagon. Lookamore is the quick yet promising fix and best of all, you can use it without any attribution. (Image Source: Artem Tolstykh)

Mobile App Kit. If you are into mobile purchase businesses, this is a 21MB, 4-page complete layout for iOS application. I can’t see a reason of not giving it a try. (Image Source: Tempees)

Primera. Primera embraces slightly darker designs than most apps, but don’t worry, it’s also bundled with neutral light and orange brown versions to get your app lit up! (Image Source: Luis M Ruiz)

Pandora. “This is a great collection of base and custom elements that will be helpful for iOS designers and developers to bring their work to reality and design something beautiful for their apps.” (Image Source: Designmodo)

Heads Up Display. Surprise your competitor with this pack, and now you have no more excuse not to build an app with exceptional design. (Image Source: MediaLoot)

Simple Bold. Windows Phone 8 is surely rising with its Windows 8 sibling, so get yourself prepared with this brilliant kit. (Image Source: Gentian Edwards)

Transparent UI Kit. Definitely one of the kits with precise design that you don’t want your competitors get before you do. (Image Source: Design Kindle)

Retina iPhone App. Although most freebies implement vector shapes that can resize infinitely, this set will save you even more time and effort by provide you a retina-ready version. (Image Source: Kb’s portfolio)

Total Retina. An ideal design kit for any amateur app developer, you can’t go too wrong with these standard, yet complete designs. (Image Source: Josep Roselló)

iPad App. Planning to develop a social iPad app? Then here’s a huge UI layout for you aspiring dreamers. (Image Source: Kb’s portfolio)

Mail App. Whether you want to make an iPad or iPhone mail-related app, you can just take the elements out from this layout to fulfill your creativity. (Image Source: Aaron Sananes)

Web and App. Intended to be a mix between web and mobile app, this set could fit any kind of project mindlessly with its simplistic approach. (Image Source: vasiligfx)

Beautiful Kit. Just as its name suggests, this is a fancy kit with luminous colors to brighten up your user’s mood. (Image Source: Jamie Syke)

In many cases, obtaining user location would be extremely useful to establish better user experience, for example:

• E-commerce sites can immediately provide shipping cost estimation and inform product availability from local retailers
• News sites can provide localized headlines and weather report.
• Daily deal sites (like Disdus) can provide offers and discounts available from user’s local stores or restaurants.
• Movie sites can listed the ‘Now Playing’ movies in nearby theatres, etc

In the past, to retrieve user location, we might need to provide a list of locations for users to opt-in, or rely on the device IP address to make a rough estimation of their location. Today, we can do this job in a much leaner way with less complexity using Geolocation API.

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The Geolocation API is a new technology that’s introduced by W3C – the same organization behind HTML5. Probably for that reason, it is often correlated and grouped with HTML5 in many books and references, although it has actually nothing to do with HTML5 technically.

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In this post, we are going to use the API in its simplest form; we will create a set of functions to retrieve user’s location and show it in map with Google Maps. Let’s take a look.

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Creating the Map with Google Maps API

First, we will use Google Maps API with a function called GoogleMap to specify the map. In the following JavaScript codes, we will get the location by specifying it with the following two Geolocation objects: coords.latitude and coords.longitude, which retrieve the Latitude and Longitude coordinates.

Then, we set up the map and the location marker accordingly with google.maps.Map and google.maps.Marker, as follows.

 function GoogleMap(position) { var location = new google.maps.LatLng(position.coords.latitude, position.coords.longitude); var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), { zoom: 10, disableDefaultUI: true, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN, }); var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ map: map, position: location, animation: google.maps.Animation.DROP, title: "This is your location" }); map.setCenter(location); } 

For more implementation on the Google Maps API, you can head over to the Google Maps JavaScript API v3 documentation.

Error Report

Then, we create a function for the error report when the location cannot be retrieved. In this case, we will show an alert window saying “Location can’t be found”.

 function showError() { alert("Location can't be found"); } 

Running Geolocation

The Geolocation API is quite simple. It specifies with the navigator.geolocation object, as you can see from the following code.

 if (navigator.geolocation) { navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(GoogleMap, showError); } else { alert("Your browser does not support Geolocation."); } 

In the above code, we will first run a test whether the user’s device has support for Geolocation API. If it returns “no” we will show an alert window showing that “The browser does not support Geolocation”. If it does, we will try to retrieve the location using the getCurrentPosition method.

When the location coordinate has been retrieved, it will send the data to GoogleMap function, to show in the map. If the location cannot be located, the showError function will be executed instead.

User Privacy

Since this is a matter of user privacy, users have to be aware that the device or the Web they are visiting will be tracking their location. As W3C has stated in the documentation:

User agents must not send location information to Web sites without the express permission of the user.

For this reason, the browser will first prompt the users whether they Allow or Deny for the browser to track their location information.

Result Accuracy

The result accuracy depends on many factors such as:

• The user’s location
• The availability of data sources – such as wireless access points and IP Address
• The device itself

In the following screenshot I tested the above code in my Macbook and iPhone. It turns out that the iPhone shows a more accurate location than one at my MacBook, as it is equipped with GPS hardware.

Further references

As we mentioned, we just did a simple thing with Geolocation, but the actual potential is so much more than that. There are many more ideas we can implement with the API. So, if you are keen to dig into this subject further, you can head over to the following sources:

• Geolocation API Specification – W3C
• You are here (and so everybody else) – Dive into HTML5
• Location-Aware Browsing – Firefox
• Getting Started with HTML5 Geolocation – Net Magazine
• 12 Cool HTML5 Geolocation Ideas – MSDN

Lastly, head over to the demo page to see how it is in action.

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The Pale Blue Dot, a 1990 photograph of the Earth from the Voyager I spacecraft 6 billion km away serves as a reminder as to how big the universe is and how small we really are. Back home, the sight of a vast, scenic field gives us a reprieve from the heavy responsibilities we bear daily.

Perhaps these breathtaking images, depicting some of the most beautiful fields ever to be made into wallpapers will give you a similar effect from behind the computer screen.

Here are 20 beautiful compilations of vast field wallpapers for this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. We hope you will be able to draw some peace from them, in the comforts of home.

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Straight Green Field. Available in various sizes.

Up The Hill. Available in various sizes.

Beautiful Spring Day. Available in various sizes.

Green Hill. Available in 1920×1080.

Plantation Field. Available in 1920×1200.

Grass And Sun. Available in various sizes.

Green Landscape. Available in various sizes.

Green Field. Available in various sizes.

Simple Field. Available in 2560×1600.

Cropland. Available in various sizes.

Rainbow Over The Field. Available in various sizes.

Wheat Field. Available in various sizes.

Yellow Green Field. Available in 1920×1200.

Windy Wheat Field. Available in 1920×1080.

Horsepower. Available in the following size(s): 200×400, 320×480, 480×272, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1440×900, 1440×1050, 1600×100, 1680×1050, 1920×1200.

Sunshine Over Dandelion. Available in various sizes.

Hudson Bay Field. Available in various sizes.

Sunsets. Available in various sizes.

Before The Storm. Available in various sizes.

Castle Nowhere. Available in the following size(s): 1280×800, 1440×900, 1280×1024.

Struggling to take pictures with your smartphone at night? Usually you will depend on the built in flash in your smartphone but most of the time it just makes the pictures worse. Unless you are an owner of the latest smartphones which perform well under low-light conditions, here is a little addition that might come in handy for you.

iBlazr is an external flash for iOS and Android which works in photo and video mode. iBlazr can be used on both smartphones and tablets.

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iBlazr can be connected to the device audio jack and works with both front and back cameras. iBlazr provides over 180 lux on 1m which is four times higher than iPhone’s built-in flash

iBlazr is built in with four high-end CREE LEDs which is the source of the light. It comes with its own battery so that it doesn’t draw from your device’s battery. Each fully charged battery can power iBlazr for up to 1000 flashes or 40 minutes in constant light mode. Recharging of iBlazr can be done with a USB cable.

iBlazr has its own app too, for both iOS and Android, which helps you maximize your late night shots for optimum results. But even without the native app, iBlazr is still functional with other camera apps or the device stock camera, as a fully synchronised flash.

Here is a comparison picture of a photo taken without flash (left), with iPhone’s flash (mid) and one with iBlazr (right).

Besides using it as a camera flash, iBlazr has other uses too. The USB charger can function as a stand so that you can use iBlazr as a light source or as a compact table lamp. When it is not charging or connected with any devices, iBlazr can function as a regular flash light.

If you’re interested in owning one, you can by supporting iBlazr on Kickstarter for $39. The estimated delivery date will be around December 2013.