The Breakroom

How time flies! It seems that just yesterday we made the spooky switch over for October’s Halloween celebration. Now the day has come and there are only a few hours left until we have to bid farewell to all things spooky for another year.

We hope you have enjoyed this year’s terrifying makeover and have downloaded all of the workers frightening goodies over the past several weeks. As always, we enjoyed crafting them just for you and yours. If you are heading out tonight for tricks or treats (or awaiting the arrival of the Great Pumpkin), keep one eye out for ghosts and goblins and the other on the horizon. Great stuff is coming in the weeks and months ahead here at the Iconfactory and we hope you’ll join us for all the fun. In the meantime, have a Happy and safe Halloween! See you again next year, same bat time, same bat channel!

Huddled over our WACOM tablets, in the soft and continuous glow of our LCD monitors, we sit and push pixels and occasionally look up and see what all the hub-bub is about. Last week was one such moment when we posted our first set of photos on Flickr.

Our Chief Typist, quite by accident, discovered that the icons in his dock spelled out ”$eXy” and wondered what other words he could make from all the various app icons on his HD. Word quickly spread to the rest of the workers and Icon Words was born. Of course, we had to share these funny arrangements with our visitors, so we created a Flickr account and posted the pictures along with some recent shots of our Nintendo Wii adventures. You can send your own funny picts of words in your OS X dock thanks to this group we created just for the occasion. Thanks for the tips Wolfgang!

We’re still Flickr noobs, but its already apparent why the site is so popular. The social networking aspect of it is addictive to say the least and browsing the thousands upon thousands of users and their images is a magnificent time waster. So if you, like us, have heard about Flickr but not bothered to check it out, pop your head up and take a look. You never know what you might find.

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Our good friends over at Pixelsurgeon have published this month’s edition of their edgy podcast, Audiosurgeon which features news, reviews and exclusive music from the world of design, culture and more. Issue number 6 features a wealth of pulsing tracks that are definitely worth a listen.

Somewhere in between all this ultra-cool content lives a short interview with our own Gedeon Maheux. Ged gets a chance to talk about how the Iconfactory got started, where we are heading and the ins and outs of staying ahead of competition. The fine folks over at Pixelsurgeon did a great job of keeping Ged’s rambling answers short and sweet so for those of you willing to take the plunge, listening is not too painful. Besides how often does the Foreman get to hang out with hip UK rockers and offer his thoughts on such deep topics as the new Transformers movie? Not often we say! Check it out!