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Hello fellow travelers, iPhone devs and hackers. Welcome to this, the 4th installment of Tab Bar Twosdays. Here’s the drill. I pick two random tab bar icons from our vast archive of handy-dandy tab icons, and you get to use them. You’re welcome. As before, these icons are free to use in any of your iPhone dev projects, or wherever else you choose.

Someone asked about why these icons were black and white. Good question! Actually they’re black with an alpha channel for transparency. That’s due to their usage on an iPhone tab bar, where these suckers get stuck. Apple takes these images and applies its own fill effects for inactive and selected states (the grey and blue activated icons) you’ll find on most apps. As a designer, it’s a fun challenge to use this limited pallette to create unique icons that complement an app’s overall look and feel.

Anyhow on to the icons. We’ve gone with a building theme today.

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Hey guys/gals

Dave here, and welcome to our newest gig with our blog. Me being the resident design-guy at our nifty little iphone dev shop, I spend quite a bit of time developing (drumroll) iphone tab bar icons! I know! Shocking eh?

Anyhoo, we’ve decided to kick off a new feature as a help to the rest of the dev community; Tab Bar Twosdays. Here’s the deal:

1) I’ll release 2 iphone tab icons each week (hopefully on tuesday, that’s kind of the deal, right?). They’re optimized with alpha transparency and should be simple, plug-and-play-easy for you to drop in your xcode project.

2) You can download and use it free and shamelessly in any of your iphone projects. No payment necessary, though tweet and blog mentions are always cool.

3) Profit. Make millions on your app. ALL because of those nifty icons. You’re welcome.

That being said, here are the introductory two icons.

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Thanks again for reading, and happy coding!