February 10, 2003
With the U.S. holiday of Valentine’s Day right around the corner, our resident romantic, Dave, has whipped up a new set of OS X icons just for you! Send one of these Candy Valentine Hearts to your sweetie to convey a special message or decorate your desktop and get your Mac in the holiday mood. We’ve got sweets for the sweet, happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
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, and without the right address, we can’t process your entry correctly (and we can’t get in touch with you). So when you go to sign up for the contest, be sure to double-check your email address. Thanks!
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 of system replacement icons easily. Double-click an iContainer and CandyBar’s wells will be filled automatically. Icon artists can save custom iContainers of their own along with their names, email addresses and website URL’s and then distribute them on the Internet. We’re sure that many of the artists submitting CandyBar entries to this year’s Pixelaplooza will find this feature appealing.
But that’s not all folks, there is a brand new iContainer included with CandyBar from artist Dave Brasgalla. That’s right, World of Aqua can now take its place on your toolbar right along side the newly updated and expanded Smoothicon collection from Corey Marion. If you are looking for individual icons from these two sets, drop by and download the individual collections so you can mix and match to your heart’s content. Be sure to check out World of Aqua’s support for Open / Drop states in the OS X Finder too! So many icons, so many choices!
Get the full skinny on this latest version at the CandyBar homepage. CandyBar 1.5 is shareware and costs $12.95 to purchase. This version is a free upgrade for registered users and is just waiting for you to check it out!
February 3, 2003
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 our most successful contest to date.
You can probably expect to download the first contest entries by mid week, but in the meantime you can see what this year’s icon artists will be competing for on the newly updated Pixelpalooza prize page. Sponsors for this year’s event include Aladdin Systems, AnimeNation, El Gato Software, Font Diner, Fonthead Design, Griffin Technology, Macsurfshop, Microsoft, Panic, and Vizspring. Please show your support for our sponsors by clicking on their links or their badges on the prize page.
Visit often for the next two months to see the best and brightest in icon design for the Mac. There are always surprises each year, and we’re sure this year’s contest will be no different. Ladies and gentlemen, start your pixel-clicking!
January 31, 2003
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 for your patience and understanding. Our thoughts and prayers are with the crew’s families and NASA personnel at this time.
January 31, 2003
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 set of hand-illustrated exotic flower icons that pop off the desktop and will put you in touch with nature. But that’s not all! Mindy wants to remind everyone to swing by and pick up all-new desktop picts of the funkAmals and Flowers, so hop on it, we’ve got something for everyone!!
January 23, 2003
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 provides support for multi-languages. This is a free upgrade for registered users of iPulse, so go grab it people!
January 20, 2003
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 hosts, Mark (Mac guy) and Neal (PC guy) will probably want to know which platform has cooler icons. I think we all know the answer to that already :-) Should be fun, so tune in if you are able!
January 13, 2003
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 your entry. Look it over carefully, and if you still have questions, send us a note and we’ll do our best to help you.
The biggest changes to this year’s contest are the re-worked categories that you may enter your icons into. This year’s categories are: Mac OS X, CandyBar and Classic. Hop on over to the contest rules pages to learn all about the categories and more. Lastly, watch for the official sponsor and prize lists to be posted soon. Thanks everyone, full steam ahead!
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 hope you enjoy these new, freeware icons for your desktop. Hop on over and download them today.
