The Breakroom

We are pleased to bring you the latest update to our popular system monitoring utility, iPulse. Version 2.0.2 offers up several important additions including motherboard temperature and bandwidth reporting as well as cool support for owners of the Griffin PowerMate. Now your PowerMate can pulse in correlation with your CPU usage right on your desktop, […]

The Iconfactory is proud to announce this Tuesday’s freeware icon release – To the Moon. Iconfactory artist, Anthony Piraino has translated the landmark spacecraft from NASA’s Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs into masterful icons for your computer’s desktop. Join the space race by grabbing these icons in either Macintosh, Windows or Pixadex iContainer format. Then, […]

Back On The Case!

February 10, 2004

This week’s freeware release is Private Eye Act 2, the sequel to Kate England’s previous release last December. Our gumshoe picks up the trail he left off in our last installment and the results are more stylized and mysterious icons for your desktop. We invite you to snoop about and snag this latest release today.

First Contest Entries Posted

February 9, 2004

The number of visitors to The Iconfactory has increased dramatically this past week, no doubt in anticipation of seeing the first Pixelapalooza contest entries. Well, we’re here to tell you that an initial batch has now been posted on the three category pages – Mac OS X, Candybar and Classic. More are coming in each […]

A Slave To Smoothicons

February 3, 2004

Corey keeps making them, and you keep asking for more, so we’re proud to present Smoothicons Volume 8. Without a doubt, one of the factory’s most popular offerings, Smoothicons 8 expands on Corey’s last release of application icons with even more popular apps. Volume 8 offers smooth versions of Apple’s Keynote and Garageband apps as […]

The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the commencement of the 8th installment of Pixelpalooza, our annual icon design contest. Every year we invite the Macintosh icon design community to pull out all the stops and send us their pixelated creations. Last year’s event drew 137 entries from around the globe and was another huge success. […]

Icons From The Heart

January 28, 2004

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, resident icon artist, Talos Tsui, has created a set of unique icons perfect for the upcoming holiday. Using clever play on words, Talos has whipped up a set of freeware icons that are both cute and fun and make a perfect valentine’s day present any icon loving sweetheart. […]

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the weather lately then you probably know about the nasty storm that swept through the southeast and is now dumping snow in the north. To make a long story short, the factory workers are snowed in today which means our normal Tuesday icon release will be delayed a […]

xScope For Designers Updated

January 22, 2004

ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory are pleased to announce an update to xScope, our popular set of tools for designers released last November. xScope assists designers in measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts. The software consists of six tools in one including Rulers, Screens, Loupe, Guides, Frames and Crosshair. xScope 1.0.1 includes several […]

That’s right folks, this week’s freeware release is volume 2 of Ged’s popular Clipper System collection. Inspired by Corey’s recent release of Smoothicon application icons (and swarms of emails from rabid Clipper fans), Clipper System 2 contains 40 cool, application icons ready for your desktop and/or dock. Clipper System offers bold colors, and simple lines […]