X-Icon Editor is an HTML5 application, using <canvas> tag,  that allows you to create high resolution icons.

It generates the icons in .ICO format with 4 different resolutions embedded: 64×64, 32×32, 24×24 and 16×16.

This makes it a perfect fit for IE9 as the browser uses multiple-sized favicons in different screens (address bar, tab page, site mode).

There are tools like brush, pencil, text or shapes for drawing the icon. Also, it is possible to import any image and edit it.

Darran Morris, a creative mobile app. user interface and icon designer, is sharing a set of 64 free icons.

The icons are created with iOS applications in mind and cover most of the icons that an application may need.

Items include actions, player buttons, messages, communication and more.

However, they can be used in websites as well considering the items are very detailed.

They come in 2 sizes: 26*26px and 52*52px, both in transparent PNG formats.

Few month ago, the iconSweets, a beautiful icon set was shared at WRD.

Today, there is now a new version of the set, iconSweets2, which has ~400 unique items.

Actually, it contains 400+ icons both in 64x64px + 32x32px and 292 16x16px icons, all created as vector Photoshop shapes.

InstantShift, a lovely blog on web designs and development, is sharing a set of high-quality social bookmarking icons named "SocialShift".

The set has icons of almost ever well-known social networks like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Flickr and more.

There are 82 items in the set in .PNG format where each object comes with 3 different sizes: 16*16px, 32*32px and 64*64px.

WPZOOM, a website providing premium WordPress themes, is sharing a set of 154 beautiful and free icons named WPZOOM Developer Icon Set.

The icons are flat, black & white colored by default and come in vector formats (.AI & .PSD – so, color is not an issue) besides .PNG (48*48px size).

The set contains many different items from documents to social networks, devices to actions.

Simply, it is built with developers in mind and a very suitable set for web apps.

Komodo Media, a creative design company, is sharing one of the most complete social network icons named: Social Network Icon Pack.

It includes 100 items covering every popular social service you can think of from Flickr to Xing and Skype to Twitter.

The icons come in 2 different sizes: 16*16px – 32*32px and they are in transparent PNG format.

It is very normal to expect shapes used in websites to be created as images.

However, with the wider use of CSS3 and its capabilities, we regularly see rounded corners, rotation or any other shape to be built with CSS.

Here is one of those resources, a lovely GUI icon set where every item is pure CSS.

The set has 84 items including full set of user interaction and media player control icons besides some other common ons.

The designer of the resource, Nicolas Gallagher, mentions that the work is experimental and not production-ready but it is still very promising.

Web Icon Set, a website which provides high quality icons, is giving away 10 Business Icon Sets ($25/set) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

They have various free sets for mobile, e-commerce or blogging and recently, their first premium product is released: Business Icon Set.

It contains 20 high quality icons in transparent PNG format and comes in multiple sizes (128, 64, 48, 32).

The set includes frequently used items like comments, media, charts, contact, homepage, user, search and much more.

How to win the set?

In order to win one of these web icons, just comment to this post and winners will be selected with the query below on 2 November 2010 (1 week later).

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1907 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 10

Good luck to everyone.

Louis Harboe, a talented icon and interface designer, is sharing a set of 35 credit card icons in his blog Graphicpeel.

Icons include all major credit card providers like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc. with multiple versions and also there are items for PayPal, Google Checkout or Amazon too.

They are sized 32*32px and come in .PNG format.

Liquidicity, a blog on design and technology, is sharing a huge set of flag icons with over 240 unique items.

They come in multiple sizes (16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, and 64×64) with 2 variants: flat and standard shiny one.

The icons are in .PNG format and organized by country name + ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code where available.