April 10, 2003
The May 2003 issue of MacWorld Magazine, on sale now, boasts reviews for over 500 Mac products. We’re pleased to report that our compact system monitoring tool, iPulse received a full four mice from the publication. We encourage you to check out iPulse for yourself and see if you agree. Craig Hockenberry has released a minor update to iPulse that addresses the most common bugs. This upgrade is free for registered users and available today from the iPulse homepage. Enjoy!
April 7, 2003
That’s right folks, its that time again! Time for all of you regular visitors to the Iconfactory to get up and atom to vote for your favorite entries in this year’s Pixelpalooza contest. We invite you to visit each of the three category pages (OS X, CandyBar and Classic) and rate your preference for each entry. People’s Choice voting runs from today until Midnight April 12th and the winners will be announced along side of the Grand Prize and Runner up winners selected by this year’s judges on April 21st.
Lastly, we know it may be tempting to try to find ways to cheat and vote more than once for a particular category, but please don’t. Artists from around the world have put their hearts and souls into their creations, and if you value their efforts, please treat the contest with respect and vote only once in each of the three categories. If we detect that people are stuffing the “ballot box” as it were, we reserve the right to reset the vote totals, or just plain cancel People’s Choice Voting for 2003. As long as everyone plays nice, we’ll do just fine, so we’ll keep our fingers crossed. Now get voting!
April 3, 2003
Hi Everyone! The Chief Typist here. While the Foreman is away from his desk, I thought I jump in and tell you about one of my side projects:
I’ve been working with Flaming Pear to develop new versions of my original furbo filters: the Creative Pack and the Webmaster Series. There are lots of new features and compatibility with Mac OS X & Windows, so take a moment to try them out. You can download the filters here.
April 1, 2003
The official deadline to submit entries for this year’s Pixelpalooza contest has passed. A sincere thank-you goes out to everyone who entered this year, your creativity has helped to make Pixelpalooza 2003 a huge success!
For all of those who do not see your entry posted on the contest pages, please be patient. Everyone who submitted their entry prior to the deadline is in the queue for review and inclusion in the contest, and as long as your icons don’t violate contest rules, you’ll be good to go.
March 24, 2003
Let Hollywood keep their Oscars, we’ve got pixels! Seems like only yesterday we were announcing the start of this year’s annual icon design contest, Pixelpalooza. Seven weeks later, we’re nearing the end, and that means that if you’ve not submitted your entry to this year’s contest, get yourself moving!
To date, Pixelpalooza 2003 has garnered 70 entries from around the world in this year’s submission categories: OS X, CandyBar and Classic. Be sure to keep stopping by over the course of the week, as we’re sure to have a great many last minute entries come in under the wire. Now get moving people, these pixels don’t push themselves!
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 viewers with original, unpredictable storylines, complex characters, exotic locations and masterfully designed aliens. Add to the mix some of the best dialog and acting on the small screen and you’ve got one of the most loved sci-fi shows to hit the airwaves in the last 10 years.
Unfortunately, Bonnie Hammer, CEO of the Sci-Fi Network didn’t see it that way and canceled the show prematurely and without warning late last year. You can read Sci-Fi’s take on the cancellation at their official FAQ page. Then, check out what Farscape’s producers had to say about the subject and you be the judge.
All we know is that the show got the short end of the stick with no new episodes for 9 months between seasons 3 and 4, a bad 10pm time slot, and tons of money being diverted to projects like the new Tremors series. Oh yeah, we’ll be watching that. NOT!
We vent because we love the show, and with all the stuff going on in the world today, Farscape gave us a chance to get away from it all on Friday nights. But, alas, no longer. :-(
March 14, 2003
The planets of Japanese animation have somehow aligned today because in addition to the icon set mentioned below, we wanted to let everyone know that Mindy has released a really kick-butt desktop pict of one of our favorite characters from Evangelion. So get yourself in gear and check it out!
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 increase quite a bit right up until the end. Check back each day for the latest contest goodies to be posted. Stay tuned, its starting to heat up!
March 3, 2003
We’re pleased to announce the release of our latest freeware icon collection – Trek Insignia. Resident artist and confessed Trek fanatic, Ged Maheux, has faithfully re-created the logos affiliated with Starfleet as well as many of their better known enemies and allies including The Borg, The Dominion, The Klingons, the Vulcan IDIC and many, many more. Ged’s even thrown in some special bonus icons as a special treat. Trek fans also won’t want to miss this set’s read-me file with a timely editorial on the latest Trek franchise, Enterprise. All this awaits you, so beam on down people!
