If you are a creative designer, graphics enthusiast, Desktop customization artist or even a person who wants to use already available slickest and beautiful icons, then i have the right stuff for you.  I have gathered some of the best and highest ranked icon sets from various artists on deviant art. Many of these icon sets are FREE to use and are filed under creative commons license.

The icon set varies from windows vista, windows 7, MAC, games and iPhone platforms and even can be used on multiple platforms.

In case you are looking for free stock images, you might want to checkout some very creative yet free images available from Microsoft as part of Office 2010 beta, Categories include Decorative elements, People, Business, Backgrounds and Symbols part of the Office images beta