The Breakroom
Category: Apps
The Year In Review for 2024
December 23, 2024
As we enter our 29th year in business (holy cow!) we once again turn to look back at where we’ve been and, of course, where we’re headed. This past year has been full of discoveries, challenges, and change. We kicked the year off with a much-needed re-design of Iconfactory.com, bringing our app design services for […]
Sketch Your Heart Out This October with Linea’s 50% Off Sale
October 8, 2024
With Inktober now in full swing, we thought it would be a great time for users to take nearly 50% off Linea’s annual subscription price. If you love to draw, sketch, or even just doodle, Linea makes the perfect companion – and now through the end of October, you get half off when you subscribe. […]
Get Eight Legs Up on Inktober with Linea Sketch
September 23, 2024
October is creeping in like a stealthy spider, and with it comes time to embrace our favorite creative tradition – Inktober. This annual event beckons artists, from novice to seasoned pros, to grab their pens, brushes, or Apple Pencils and conjure up something creative each day of the month. It’s the perfect opportunity to unleash […]
Linea Sketch Adds Support for Apple Pencil Pro
August 7, 2024
Today’s update for our handy digital sketching app for the iPad brings Apple Pencil Pro support, including new shortcut squeeze actions and helpful haptic feedback. Choose from a range of sketching shortcuts like toggling Clear Ink on or off, switching to the previous drawing tool, cycling through tool sizes and even undoing the last drawing […]
Tot Summer Sale
June 24, 2024
Summer’s here! Stay cool by keeping things simple with Tot, our elegant and streamlined text editor for notes, to-dos, and so much more. Tot’s single window design and simple formatting controls mean no more hunting for that chunk of important text. Tot’s already FREE on macOS, but now the iOS version is on sale at […]
Linea Sketch 4.3.2 Brings Quick Background Colors
April 30, 2024
Today’s update to Linea Sketch for the iPad brings a great new feature that makes customizing the appearance of the canvas easier than ever. Simply open the Layers palette, select background options > Custom Background and use the new eyedropper tool to select any color in your drawing. The canvas changes in real time to […]
Time To Get Started
March 6, 2024
What an amazing ride this past month has been! We appreciate the support of everyone who backed our Project Tapestry Kickstarter as well as those who helped us spread the word far and wide. We couldn’t have reached our goals without your help and we’re so very excited to have an opportunity to bring Project Tapestry to […]
Project Tapestry’s Home Stretch
February 29, 2024
Our Kickstarter to bring Project Tapestry to life is in the final stretch. The base project was funded within the first few days, but we’d love to add even more features. To do that we need to hit some stretch goals! We’re asking for your help one last time to spread the word or back […]
Why Tapestry?
February 14, 2024
Even in the early days of the Internet, finding and keeping track of the pages you wanted to read could be difficult. Back then, adventurous individuals created their own personal web pages to keep a public log of the latest things happening in their lives. These web logs (aka blogs) spread like wildfire, and soon […]
Tapestry Unwoven
February 6, 2024
It’s a bold claim to say you can make a universal timeline for the Internet. But you can. And we have. This post will explain the technology behind Project Tapestry and how we tested it as a prototype. We’ll keep this discussion at a fairly basic level: if you’re a web or app developer, you’ll […]