The Breakroom • A blog for the Iconfactory

Sweets for the Sweet!

February 7, 2006

Hearts flutter. Glances are exchanged. Love is in the air and that air is cold, so Valentine’s Day must be around the corner. Iconfactory artist Kate England is pleased to release this weeks’ freeware icon set, Valentine’s Day ‘06. Nothing says I love you like a box of chocolates and hand-picked flowers, so head on over to the Showroom and pick up a treat for that someone special in either Mac, PC or iContainer format!

Mas Agua, Por Favor

January 31, 2006

By Webmaster

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.

Announcing Universal Binary Support for Pixadex

January 26, 2006

By Webmaster

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

By Webmaster

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.

All New Litho Apps!

January 24, 2006

By Webmaster

Straight off the digital press comes this week’s freeware release – Litho Extras Vol. 3. Iconfactory artist Anthony Piraino has inked up the printing press one more time to add to the growing list of application icons available in our popular "Litho" style. Applications like Adobe Acrobat, QuickTime, Pages, Adium and Apple’s latest offering – iWeb are all waiting to join your collections in the Showroom. Litho Extras Vol.3 is available today for your Macintosh, PC or as a handy Pixadex iContainer. Get ‘em while they’re hot!

New Third Party iPulse Jackets

January 23, 2006

By Webmaster

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

By Webmaster

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

By Webmaster

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.

“Embrace the Shadow!”

January 10, 2006

By Webmaster

The Iconfactory assembly line is back up to capacity and we are pleased to announce our first freeware icon set of 2006 – Warcraft: Volume 1. Resident iconist Dave Brasgalla has turned his (and our) love of the ultra-popular MMORPG from Blizzard Entertainment into a cool new icon set for your Mac or PC. If you love Warcraft or just fantasy in general, you’ll want to head over to the Showroom and loot them now. And after that, head on over to Dave’s personal site – Pixelhuset to download some Warcraft inspired desktop pictures to help make your transformation complete. Enjoy and good questing!

iPulse Wins MacFixIt Toolbox Award

January 5, 2006

By Webmaster

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!

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