The Breakroom

Happy Holidays from All of Us!

December 18, 2004

As our office closes for the annual break, we want to wish everyone a happy, safe and joyous holiday season. And even though our offices are closed until January 3rd, we will still be responding to technical support and stock icons requests via email. We’ll do our best to respond to your needs in a […]

You may recall that updates to The Iconfactory were temporarily frozen last month due to some server maintenance we were doing. Well, for all those geeks out there, we’re proud to announce just what was going on… we moved our website, email and database servers from hosting at Datareturn in Houston TX, to the loving […]

This week’s freeware icon release is actually in two parts. Iconfactory artist, David Lanham has first gone back and re-worked his original Somatic System set. Somatic System has new folders and new toolbar icons and a few other tweaks as well, all designed to improve the use of the collection with our system icon utility, […]

Holy water? Check. Silver tipped bullets? Check. Apple iPod? Check ??? That’s right folks, apparently a 40Gb Apple iPod and a cool set of playlists are crucial tools in the epic battle against the vampire nation. Some of the workers went to see Blade Trinity this weekend and were delighted to find that the entire […]

Announcing the immediate availability of our latest royalty-free icon collection from StockIcons.com. Xpressionism: Database Add-On is an extension of the original Xpressionism stock icon set. This new set extends into the realm of databases with icons covering such specialized concepts as tables, scripts, records, and many others. Xpressionism: Database Add-On contains 52 unique icons in […]

Gotta Catch ’em All!

December 7, 2004

We’re pleased to announce the Quick Pix 2004 Icon Collection consisting of all the Quick Pix released this year. You may see patterns in these icons, others were done on just a whim. Until now, site visitors who missed a certain week’s release were unable to grab the goodies. As the year draws to a […]

We’re Back Baby!

December 6, 2004

We are pleased to report that our behind-the-scenes updates went as smooth as silk and we’re back in business. If you’ve sent press releases to us since our hiatus and want them posted, please send them along again. News and Deskbase updates have now resumed and in addition we have some cool new icons coming […]

CandyBar Auto-Update Activate!

November 12, 2004

Registered users of CandyBar 2.0 may have noticed that with the recent release of Mac OS X 10.3.6, CandyBar received an auto-update that qualified it for use with the new OS. This new feature prevents users from having to manually download and install a new version of the software, saving time and hassle. For those […]

Iconfactory Updates On Hiatus

November 12, 2004

Due to some extensive internal house keeping we’ll be doing, site updates for The Iconfactory are being suspended from now until December. This means there won’t be new icon releases, news item updates or additions / edits to the DeskBase until we return. Although the website won’t be updated, you can still purchase our software, […]

An Honor Just To Be Nominated

November 10, 2004

We’re proud to announce that two Iconfactory software products have been nominated for the 2004 MacUser UK Reader Awards. xScope and IconBuilder are both nominated in the Software category under Graphic Utilities and are up against the excellent image capture utility, Snapz Pro from Ambrosia Software. The awards ceremony will be held in London, England […]