July 18, 2007
Anyone who’s tried our fun, free desktop widget Dine-O-Matic, will be familiar with this week’s freeware icon release. We’ve taken all of those fun, neon eateries and created a slick icon set for use on the desktop just for you. These icons make great folder icons, iChat avatars and even clever Address Book icons for use with the new iPhone.
How’s that you say? Well, using the Dine-O-Matic icon set, you can now assign a cool neon icon to all of your local restaurants in your Mac’s Address Book. Once you sync those updated eateries with your shiny new iPhone, they’ll be no doubt about who has the coolest contact list! Ged’s even put together a short video tutorial over on his blog showing step by step how you can get the most out of this new icon collection for your iPhone. Head on over to gedblog and check it out.
Lastly, be sure to stay tuned to the Dine-O-Matic home page in the days to come as we get ready to unveil the all new Dine-O-Matic v.2.0 Dashboard widget! Yep, you heard right, an improved DOM is heading your way very soon with new and exciting features that we know you’ll be excited to sink your teeth into. Grab the icons for your Mac or PC today, and then keep your eyes open for the all new Dine-O-Matic 2.0 coming soon to a factory near you!
July 11, 2007
This past weekend marked the end of Season 3 of the popular sci-fi series Doctor Who in the United Kingdom. At the same time, we here in the U.S. are just now starting to get the Doctor and Martha’s adventures through the summer and into the fall. Seems fair enough since they have to wait to watch Battlestar Galactica after us. :-)
To help mark the occasion, Ged has worked up a fun desktop picture based on his Doctor Who icon collection released back in February. This hi-res picture plants the Doctor and his companions firmly in a “suitcase full of bad”, and is available for your Mac, PC or iPhone. Head on over and check it out today.
July 4, 2007
Just a quick note to let any of our fellow icon designers out there know about some issues we’ve discovered with the new Dock in Leopard. The details of the changes and how they might affect you are available on my new weblog: The HIG still matters, even with special effects.
I’ll be using this weblog as a forum for discussing a variety of issues related to interface design and software development. Check it out: furbo.org.
June 27, 2007
Just like the rest of the entire world, we’re caught up in the wave that is iPhone mania. Call it boundless enthusiasm or a desire to support the latest and greatest from Apple, but we’ve got something new, just for you. We’re pleased to announce that our entire library of desktop pictures has been resized, cropped and formatted especially for use on Apple’s cool new cell phone! Now you can customize your iPhone’s background with any one of our fun, graphic desktop pictures and set your iPhone apart from the pack. We invite you to head on over to the desktop pictures page and browse the plethora of wallpaper choices that await you. Decisions, decisions!
UPDATE: We’ll be adding instructions to the freeware support section soon on how to set web-based wallpapers on your iPhone, but in the meantime, head on over to gedblog for the steps.
UPDATE II: A new FAQ item for setting custom wallpapers on the iPhone has now been added to the Freeware Support section.
June 26, 2007
Ars Technica sat down during this year’s WWDC conference with several noted software developers and got their thoughts on a wide range of subjects. The series includes interviews with Alex Payne of Twitter, Amit Singh of Google and several others.
Today’s entry is our very own Chief Typist, Craig Hockenberry. Ars writer Clint Ecker delves into such topics as the birth of Twitterrific, how the Iconfactory expanded into game development and much more. The video interview is available online via the web or as a downloadable H.264 QuickTime movie and provides a glimpse of what goes on at the Iconfactory from day to day. Enjoy!
June 26, 2007
If you’ve ever wondered how you could say “Thanks!” to the workers for years of pumping out freeware icons, desktop pictures and killer software, this post is for you. Over at the Foreman’s blog, he’s outlined an effort we’ve begun to help convince Apple that ARTIS and the Iconfactory’s challenging puzzle app, Frenzic, is a perfect choice for a native iPhone game. Frenzic’s simplicity and addictive nature, combined with it being written in Cocoa, makes it a natural choice to become one of the premiere games for Apple’s w
June 19, 2007
Unless you’ve been hiding out on one of the moons of Cybertron, then you probably know that July 4th marks the international release of Transformers The Movie. This big screen adaptation from director Michael Bay and Dreamworks Pictures is the most anticipated film of the summer.
To help mark the occasion, comes the third installment of Gedeon’s popular Transformers X icon series. Based on the cult 80’s cartoon we all remember from childhood, Volume 3 includes several of the most requested Transformers including Wheeljack, Galvatron, Rodimus Prime, Ravage and many others. Ged has also included some very special bonus icons that you won’t want to miss out on, so roll on over and download Transformers X Vol. 3 for your Mac, PC or as an ultra-cool Pixadex iContainer today. We’ll see you in the theatre this July 4th!
