The Breakroom

R.I.P. John Crichton

March 21, 2003

Today is a sad day for fans of the cult science fiction television series, Farscape. Despite fan efforts to save the show, tonight marks the U.S. airing of the series finale on the Sci-Fi Channel and the factory workers are none too pleased about it. Arguably the best sci-fi show on TV today, Farscape dared […]

Tick Tock, Tick Tock!

March 13, 2003

That’s right folks, according to that ol’ calendar on the wall, there is less than three weeks left to enter this year’s Pixelpalooza Icon Design Contest. We’ve already received over 60 sets in this year’s three entry categories; OS X, CandyBar and Classic icons. With time running out, we expect the number of entries to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Let’s Go On A Safari!

January 7, 2003

Steve has us standing and cheering with the beta release of Apple’s new browser, Safari. We’re all for competition with IE, especially if it means faster surfing under OS X and a clean UI that looks like it belongs on the Mac. If you are a Mac webmaster and wondering how to get your site […]

A new year is upon us and the workers have returned from their holiday break rested, fed and ready to turn out some cool stuff just for you! The days and weeks ahead are going to be exciting indeed here at the ‘ol factory as we get ready to release all new icon sets, including […]