The Breakroom

Over the past few days, a discussion about resolution independence in Mac OS X has started on some of the developer blogs we follow. The whole thing started with Resolution Independent Fever by Daniel Jalkut. Sven-S. Porst followed up with a more user centric view of the situation. Although we’ve touched on some of the […]

Announcing iPulse 2.1.6

November 9, 2006

We are pleased to announce a minor update to iPulse, our popular Mac OS X monitoring utility. iPulse 2.1.6 adds support for displaying motherboard temperature for most Intel based Macintoshes. It also contains a new setup to allow for full reporting of CPU and memory statistics on Intel Macs. Registered users of iPulse can update […]

“I Voted!” QuickPix

November 7, 2006

Unless you’ve been living on a desert island for the last six months, or you live in a far away land, then you probably know that today is mid-term elections here in the United States. Millions of people from all walks of life are heading to the polls to cast their votes for local politicans […]

A CandyBar sneak peek

November 7, 2006

The author of Smoothicons, Titanium and Monolith brings you a quick preview of the next system replacement set he has on the production lines at the Factory. Resident iconist Corey Marion is building these new icons from a very light pixel alloy that allows them to appear suspended ever so slightly above your desktop. Use […]

Stockicons.com has released the final collections in the popular Carbon family of royalty-free stock icons. Carbon Database EPS contains icons covering such specialized concepts as tables, scripts, records, and many others. Carbon Finance EPS extends the original Carbon collection into the realm of finance and commerce with icons covering concepts such as transactions, credit, interest, […]

Happy and Safe Halloween!

October 31, 2006

How time flies! It seems that just yesterday we made the spooky switch over for October’s Halloween celebration. Now the day has come and there are only a few hours left until we have to bid farewell to all things spooky for another year. We hope you have enjoyed this year’s terrifying makeover and have […]

“You are talking about the non-sensical ravings of a lunatic mind!” So begins one of our favorite films of all time, Young Frankenstein. If you’re unfamilar with it, this Mel Brooks yarn spoofs the horror movies of the 30’s like Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. With classic scenes like young Victor being trapped in a […]

Stockicons.com has released all-new sets of vector format stock icons based on our popular and flexible Carbon family. Carbon Basic EPS contains 80 metaphors common to user interface design. Concepts such as email, networking, printing as well as common navigation controls are all covered for maximum design flexibility. Carbon Multimedia EPS extends the Carbon family […]

Etchings in Terror

October 24, 2006

With the witching hour fast approaching and the hearts and stomachs of kids everywhere turning to candy corn, artist Anthony Piraino hands out Litho Halloween. Now you can extend the popular Litho System desktop into the realm of all things spooky with this clever set of Halloween-themed desktop icons. Bats, cats skulls and even a […]

Huddled over our WACOM tablets, in the soft and continuous glow of our LCD monitors, we sit and push pixels and occasionally look up and see what all the hub-bub is about. Last week was one such moment when we posted our first set of photos on Flickr. Our Chief Typist, quite by accident, discovered […]