This week’s freeware release brings even more depth to one of our popular system replacement sets. Agua Extras vol.1 extends David Lanham’s Agua set, and includes a wide variety of folders, badges and other goodies. And if that’s not enough, David has also updated the original Agua set with hard drive icons and folders that work better on white backgrounds. Head on over to the Showroom to check out both icon sets. They’re available today for your Macintosh, PC or as handy Pixadex or CandyBar iContainers.
The Breakroom
Announcing Universal Binary Support for Pixadex
January 26, 2006
Announcing the latest update to Pixadex, Panic and The Iconfactory’s popular icon organization utility. Version 2.0.2 is being released as a Universal Binary for native performance on Apple’s new Intel Macs. In addition, this latest release offers new features such as the ability to customize folder icons in the Collection List and includes a number of fixes and improvements. Pixadex 2.0.2 is a free upgrade for registered users of Pixadex 2, or a $9.95 upgrade if you are a registered user of Pixadex 1.
Like all Universal Binaries, Pixadex 2.0.2 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher. We invite you to visit the Pixadex home page for more information.
Logica Finance Stock Set Released
January 25, 2006
StockIcons.com has released a set of 52 add-on icons to extend the original Logica collection into the realm of finance and commerce. With icons covering concepts such as transactions, credit, interest, and many others, this collection is an important addition for anyone needing icons for software or websites dealing with finance or commerce. Logica Finance is available today as an electronic download for $179.00.
New Third Party iPulse Jackets
January 23, 2006
Just a quick note to let iPulse users know that some great new Jackets were released by OzzDesign last week. The artist has created some nifty visual effects with these jackets. We’re especially fond of Electrodial and Aokaso. If you’ve been looking to freshen up iPulse’s look, head on over and check them out!
Beware the Kitty!
January 19, 2006
We’ve got another great anime desktop picture coming your way over at our sister site – the DeskStop. Mindy’s love of the anime series Azumanga Daioh shows no bounds with this week’s freeware release of Sakaki. Surf on over and grab this latest picture in the series to make your collection complete! We hope you enjoy!
Contour Finance EPS Stock Set Released
January 13, 2006
StockIcons.com has released scalable EPS versions of our popular Contour Finance stock icon add-on collection, perfect for large format, print and web applications. The Finance Add-on provides software and website developers with new icons representing concepts like billing, checkout, deposit, transaction, shipping and much more.
Contour Finance EPS is 100% vector based and contains a single, scalable EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) file for each icon. The collection is available today for $129.00 USD.
iPulse Wins MacFixIt Toolbox Award
January 5, 2006
What a great way to start the new year! The Iconfactory is proud to be the recipient of a 2006 Silver Toolbox Award from the Mac diagnostic site MacFixIt.com. Every year the site selects freeware and shareware applications that “have presented themselves as indispensable for eliminating problems”. If you have not checked out iPulse yet, we invite you to surf over to the iPulse homepage and try it out for free. iPulse is also completely customizable, from its displays and gauges to the over 40 cool Jackets that skin the application to almost any look and feel you could possibly want. Monitor Mac OS X and look great while doing it. That’s what iPulse is all about. Check it out!
Iconfactory Year In Review
December 16, 2005
Today marks our last day at the assembly line for 2005, as all of the workers will be taking the next two weeks off to enjoy the holidays with friends and family. As we close up shop each year, we take stock of what we were able to bring to you, our loyal base of fans and users.
On the software front, Panic and The Iconfactory released several versions of Pixadex including 2.0 that by all accounts has been a huge success with icon maniacs everywhere. Our Chief Typist, Craig Hockenberry somehow managed to find time to do a complete re-write of our popular icon construction filter, IconBuilder and bring it to a whole new level, version 8.0. This year also saw revisions to ARTIS and The Iconfactory’s xScope as well as our own iPulse that have helped to keep pace with Apple’s hardware and operating system updates.
On the icon side of the plant, the Iconfactory’s artists pumped out a total of 33 all new freeware sets (including 4 for CandyBar) of icons for your desktop pleasure for a grand total of 680+ individual icons. Some noteworthy additions to our icon archives this year include: Litho System, Transformers, WOA Tiger Drives, Coffee & Tea, Kill Bill, Batmobiles, Somatic Xtras, Futurama, Agua and our official release of War of the Worlds. In addition, over at our sister site, the DeskStop, Mindy released 8 new pictures to help spice up your desktop.
The amazing success of Stockicons.com continued this year with the release of over 20 new base and add-on collections of pre-designed, royalty free icons for developers and designers. Iconfactory artists continued to offer stunning, high quality bitmap and EPS icon collections for use in print, on the web and in software that are unmatched anywhere else.
We appreciate all of your support of our efforts, be it registering our software, purchasing stock icons, sending a kind note or just by bookmarking The Iconfactory. We have some major surprises in store for 2006 and we hope you’ll not only stick with us in the months ahead, but tell all your friends about us too. Its hard to believe that our tenth anniversary is almost upon us. We’ll be looking forward to it, doing the work we love, and in the meantime have a happy, safe and fun holiday season!
