Ever had a great idea for a piece of software but didn’t know anybody in the industry that could build it? Well, thanks to Phill Ryu and a talented team of developers he’s put together, you may now have your chance. Today marks the launch of the My Dream App competition where people submit their […]

As we recover from an exciting week at WWDC, it seems like a good time to recap what happened during our time in San Francisco. Of course, it was great to meet up with our wonderful clients. And we really enjoyed meeting new people and putting faces to our online friends. (Congratulations again to the […]

After an intense round of judging by Gedeon and a host of other judges from the online Macintosh community, blogger Phil Ryu has posted the winners in the Fake Leopard Screen Shot contest. Entries showcased a range of ideas for the new OS as well as some fresh and clever new takes on the user […]

You may have noticed a slight decrease in the output of freeware goodies from the workers these last few weeks. There is a reason for that as you will see starting next week. We’re reminded of an exchange between HAL and Bowman from 2010: The Year We Make Contact: “I’m afraid Dave.” “Don’t be. Something […]

Corey and Craig will be making the annual pilgrimage to San Francisco for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on August 6th to marvel at the upcoming wonders of Leopard. While Craig is busy absorbing all the new info about Apple’s latest, Corey will be roaming the halls and talking to developers about icon design. If you […]

You just can’t keep a good robot down! That appears to be the skinny out of Hollywood this morning as several sources are reporting that Comedy Central has agreed to order thirteen new episodes of Fox’s cult hit Futurama. Although canceled several years ago (before its time we might add), the show has gained popularity […]

A quick detour from the world of icons for a moment to talk about the new PIXAR film Cars. Some of the workers saw the latest animated feature from the wizards at Steve’s other place of work this weekend and we have to say we were impressed. This comes as a relief since ever since […]

The annual pilgrimage to the video game temple of E3 has once again come and gone. The major players in the video game entertainment industry showed their wares, covered up their booth babes and through it all we learned some interesting tidbits. We will wait to reserve final judgment however until our friend, Cabel Sasser, […]

Our good friends over at Panic have released a small update to our recent universal binary version of CandyBar, bringing it to version 2.6.1. This new version corrects a bug with certain dock icons reverting to their default appearance even though they were set with CandyBar. This update is free to registered users and we […]

Panic and The Iconfactory announce the release of CandyBar 2.6, the latest update to our popular, hack-free system icon customization utility. CandyBar 2.6 is a Universal binary for full Intel support and speed, adds support for up to Mac OS X 10.4.6, and adds a number of improvements and bug fixes. CandyBar 2.6 requires Mac […]