The gang over at MacThemes has published an insightful interview with our youngest artist – David Lanham. Austin Heller and Sam Gwilym find out where David’s ideas come from, his creative process and much more. If you’ve ever wondered what inspires a young artist, or just wanna see some very cool stuff, head on over and check it out today.
The Breakroom
MacThemes Interviews David Lanham
September 22, 2007
Heart of Darkness
September 18, 2007
Meet Dark, the alter-ego of Daisuke Niwa, a 14 year-old boy that transforms when enamored by local girl Risa Harada. Now the only thing that will return his life to normal is to steal the heart of the woman he loves, but she only has eyes for the bad boy. Such is the tale of Japan’s latest anime craze – D.N. Angel. This week, resident anime nut, Mindy, has conjured up a new desktop picture based on Dark. We invite you to head on over and transform your Mac, PC or iPhone today!
Aquatica Family EPS Sets Released
September 6, 2007
Stockicons.com has released the latest collections in the Aquatica family of royalty-free stock icons. Three classic collections are now available as scalable vector PDF files for use in large format, print and web applications.
The Aquatica family of stock icons is fully OS X HIG-compliant and a must have for software developers who want to give their applications the professional look and feel they deserve. Aquatica Database covers such concepts such as tables, scripts, records, administration and security. Aquatica Mutimedia provides solutions for common media toolbar elements such as crop, pan, tempo, fast forward, play and more.
Aquatica Basic EPS is available today for $249 and the Database and Multimedia EPS add-on sets are available for $129 each.
Your Rank Ain’t What It Used to Be
August 30, 2007
Mac users who have discovered the addictive nature of our challenging puzzle game for OS X, Frenzic, know that rank is everything. Every day of the week players scratch and claw their way up the global leaderboard in the hopes of increasing their rank to earn the praise and admiration of their pie-peers.
We’re pleased to announce that starting today, there is a new and easy way to keep track of your Frenzic rank and high score – the Frenzic Dashboard Widget. Simply download, install and enter your player name into this free widget to instantly know your current rank, high score and devotion level in the Frenziverse. You can even drag multiple copies into Dashboard to keep a watchful eye on your closest competitors. If you wanna be the Grandmaster, you gotta know who’s on your tail!
If you’ve not been brave enough to check out Frenzic yet, we dare you to head on over and download and play the game that WIRED called “Mac-Only Crack”. Frenzic is available for $14.95, includes unlimited local game play forever, as well as six months of free online features. The Frenzic Dashboard Widget is freeware and available now from the sidebar at Frenzic.com.
All iPhone, All The Time
August 28, 2007
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ve just had an article published at A List Apart. In issue #244, I present some of the topics that I’ve encountered in the process of thinking about how the iPhone affects this and other sites run by the Iconfactory. This article is the first of two parts.
If you’re interested in web design and how it affects the iPhone, I invite you to head on over and check it out.
Announcing Dine-O-Matic 2!
August 22, 2007
We are pleased to announce the long-awaited sequel to our popular Dashboard widget Dine-O-Matic. Does your family have a hard time deciding on where to head for dinner? Your co-workers want to go one place for lunch, but you want to go some place else? No problem, enter your selections into Dine-O-Matic and let the food fates decide! Created by the Iconfactory and Joe Roback, version 2 of Dine-O-Matic includes several new and exciting features that makes selecting a place to eat out even more fun than ever before. Here are just some of the improvements that await you in version 2:
- Custom Cuisine Categories – Want to add your own style of restaurant to Dine-O-Matic’s list of cuisine types? Now you can!
- Expanded Restaurant Info – Dine-O-Matic now displays all of the information for a given eatery right on the front of the widget including address, phone number, website address and more.
- Price Filtering – Want to select from inexpensive dining locales for tonight’s meal? With version 2.0’s price filtering option, now you can exclude those snobby five star restaurants with just a single click!
- Google Maps Integration & more!
Dine-O-Matic version 2.0 is completely free and available now for Mac OS X 10.4 or later. We invite you to head on over to the product’s home page to learn all about what’s new and download the widget today. If you enjoy this free application, please help support our efforts by registering one of our other fine software products. Bon App
“Pay attention class!”
August 21, 2007
Arriving just in time for the new school year comes a fun, new desktop picture from resident anime nut, Mindy. This time around the competitive English teacher with a lead foot, Yukari Tanizaki, takes charge and leads the gang from Azumanga Daioh in a daily lesson. Be sure to go to the head of the class by grabbing this light-hearted desktop picture for your Mac, PC or iPhone today!
Yeah, Scratch That
August 20, 2007
Thanks to our ever-industrious Chief Typist, our previous report that none of the workers had hacked or modified their iPhones is now but a distant memory. If you follow Craig’s blog over at Furbo.org, then you know he’s broken into his iPhone like an otter cracks into a clam. We can blame the
