Image optimization is an important process when designing websites & producing content.

Smushit.com, an image optimization service, uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality.

Smush.it comes in different flavours:

• Uploading multiple images via browser
• Mentioning image URLS online
• With the help of a Firefox extension

Also, a report is provided on "how many bytes can be saved" and all the changed images can be downloaded as a zip file.

Flowplayer is a free Flash media player that can configured & styled to fit your needs.

It supports multiple media types: FLV, H.264 coded MP4, JPG, PNG & MP3.

Some features of Flowplayer:

• Full screen mode
• Progressive download
• Ability to play multiple files in 1 stream & ability to include images
• Streaming support: Flash Media Server, Wowza & Red5
• Quick access to specific chapters via thumbnails
• Protection against hotlinking to media files
• Embed links

This Flash media player can also be controlled with JavaScript & from other Flash movies.

Besides the free GPL license, there are several other paid licenses. So, make sure you check the licensing before using it.

P.S. This is not a very fresh resource but realized that it was missing in WRD & here it is.

Everyday Icons has a playground area, which has a chic interface, presenting free patterns, icons & some PDF note designs.

Specially, patterns are high quality, can be previewed & downloaded in different colors.

Currently, you can find 100 patterns and 6 small icon sets.

DinPattern by Evan Eckard is a website presenting quality & unique patterns created by him.

Currently there are 60+ free patterns to use.

New patterns are being added by time and before downloading them, you can easily preview how they look.