The Breakroom

Today’s creepy pre-Halloween icon release should incite floods of memories in those who roamed the neighborhood streets in search of candy bars and popcorn balls back in the 1970’s. These unexpectedly scary creations are based on the ridiculously cheap costumes that lined the local department store’s seasonal racks and were desired by kids everywhere.

Come with us as we trudge along dimly lit streets in our quest for the houses with the “good” candy while wearing flimsy plastic masks and badly screen printed garbage bags! Download Retro Masks for Mac, Windows or as a handy CandyBar iContainer now.

Regular visitors know this is our very favorite time of year. There’s a chill in the air, the full moon is out and spooks and goblins haunt the land – it’s Halloween! In the days leading up to All Hallow’s Eve, we promise to deliver some of the very best Halloween themed goodies available anywhere.

First up is a brand new set of folder icons from Talos perfect for kids of all ages. ‘Nimble’ is a new system collection that Talos will be releasing in a few weeks for CandyBar. While you can’t set your entire system just yet, you can can surf over to the freeware section and download Nimble Halloween to get your desktop in a spooky mood. Vampires, zombies and invisible men all wait to take their place on your Mac or PC desktop with a searchable CandyBar iContainer thrown in for good measure.

You’ll also find a sinister new Quickpix from Dave Brasgalla that’s bound to frighten the kiddies and send chills up your spine. All this and more awaits you as October returns to the Iconfactory once again. We hope you’ll join us this month for loads of tricks and, of course, treats. Boo!

Here at the Iconfactory, we may not be able to fix the U.S. economy, but we can give your desktop a bailout from boring icons. This week’s freeware release is iPhonica Volume 4, the next addition to Kate England’s popular iPhonica series of icons. Volume 4 features iPhone style gumdrops for various chat and browser apps, such as iChat, Skype, and Firefox, and looks great on the desktop of both Mac and PC users alike. Think of it as a stimulus package for your desktop, and go grab them from the freeware page today!

While you’re at it, be sure to check out iPhonica Volume 3 – it’s been updated with large resources for Leopard and Vista.

The 19th o’ September has sailed around again, and ye know what that means – Talk Like A Pirate Day! Ye scurvy dogs’ll have to get yer own booty and grog, but we here can help ye with the icons. Set a course for our old classics, Jolly Roger and Jolly Roger Volume 2 and strike fear into th’ hearts o’ any bilge rats that come across yer desktop. Arrr!

After a self imposed break, the Iconfactory production line ramps back up in a big way today with the release of an all-new system replacement set from David Lanham. Looking for a nice set of dark-themed folders for that slick black MacBook of yours? Perhaps Aqua blue just isn’t your thing. Either way, we’re willing to bet you’ll love David’s new Agua Onyx Folders available as a freeware icon set starting today. The collection contains over 80 familiar icons including folders, hard drives and trash cans in either Mac OS X, Windows Vista or CandyBar iContainer format.

But that’s not all. David has also whipped up two new Quickpix, the first of which is available today. Unless you’ve been living under a rock these last few months, you probably know this is an election year in the U.S. Now you can proudly display your party preference on your Mac or PC desktop with this week’s release of ‘Somatic Republican Mascot’ or next week’s ‘Somatic Democratic Mascot’. Thanks to David, politics never looked so cute!

Now that the assembly line is moving along again, we invite you to stay tuned for all new icons, desktops and software goodies. All this, plus our favorite holiday is just around the corner. Things are getting good!