The Breakroom

Pixelpalooza Under Way

February 10, 2003

Our annual icon design contest has already garnered over a dozen entries, and we’re only one week into the contest. Be sure to stop by the contest entry pages often over the course of Pixelpalooza for the latest iconic creations from around the world. Also, several artists have submitted their sets with incorrect email addresses, […]

CandyBar Gets Sweeter

February 5, 2003

The Iconfactory and Panic are excited to announce the release of CandyBar 1.5. This new version of our popular Mac OS X toolbar customization app adds many cool features including iContainer support. iContainers are a new file format developed jointly between Panic and The Iconfactory that allow CandyBar users to import and export entire collections […]

The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the commencement of the 7th 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 over 140 entries from all over the world and was unquestionably […]

We are saddened by the news this morning that the Space Shuttle Columbia has been lost upon re-entry to the earth with the apparent loss of her crew of seven. In light of this event and out of respect, we’re going to hold off the start of Pixelpalooza for a few days. We thank you […]

Resident artist and Chief News Editor, Mindy, is pleased to announce the release of three new icon sets available today. The first is a wacky and playful bunch of sticker icons that will brighten any desktop, and that kids will go ga-ga over – funkAmals! These clever critters share the lime light with Flowers, a […]

Our Chief Typist, Craig Hockenberry, wants to let everyone know that the latest update to iPulse is now available for download. iPulse is a unique OS X system monitoring utility that provides feedback on many key aspects of your operating system in a clever and compact interface. Version 1.0.2 fixes several bugs as well as […]

If you live in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, don’t miss our resident Foreman, Gedeon Maheux, on KDNK’s computer talk show, GeekSpeak. Ged will be talking about icons (what else?) and putting in a good word for both the Iconfactory workers and the Mac community today from 12 – 1pm m.t. (2pm est). GeekSpeak’s […]

That’s right folks, there isn’t much time until the official start of Pixelpalooza 2003, and so we’re pleased to announce that the official rules and submission guidelines have now been posted for review. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you read and understand the rules of the contest prior to sending us […]

World of Aqua 4 Has Arrived!

January 10, 2003

We’re pleased to announce that resident pixel-pusher, Dave Brasgalla, has put the finishing touches on his latest freeware icon collection for Mac OS X, World of Aqua 4. This new collection contains icons from the real world, pop culture, as well as a set of imaginary text editing applications that are just plain fun. We […]

Go Grab Them While You Can

January 8, 2003

Just a quick reminder to everyone that with Pixelpalooza 2003 officially starting February 1st, we’ll be clearing out the database that holds last year’s entries very soon. So what we’re trying to say is, if you want to download any of last year’s contest entries – OS X, Illustrative or 3D, you should get yourself […]