The Breakroom • A blog for the Iconfactory

“I am the Knight”

June 14, 2005

Tomorrow marks the North American release of Warner Brothers’ latest installment in the ever-popular Batman franchise – Batman Begins. To mark the occasion, our resident Batman fanatic, Talos Tsui, has released his latest collection of freeware icons zooming their way to your desktop – Batmobiles Vol. 2. This new release expands on Vol. 1 and includes the Dark Knights vehicles from the 50’s through the current WB cartoon, “The Batman”. So swing on over and nab these cool icons for your Mac or PC or in handy Pixadex iContainer format!

Watch Anime! Its Good for You!

June 7, 2005

By Webmaster

Our freeware releases are back, with an all new anime desktop image from our very own Mindy. This time we, have the mischievous Neko Koneko from the popular anime series Azumanga Daioh ready to download. We invite you to grab this latest fun computer, desktop for your Mac or PC. Enjoy!

Vinyl Stock Icon Collection Released

May 25, 2005

By Webmaster

Announcing the immediate availability of our latest royalty-free icon collection from StockIcons.com – Vinyl. The smooth gradients and subtle shading of Vinyl give the icons in this collection a depth that will make you want to reach out and touch them. Vinyl maintains a balance between approachability and professionalism that makes them suitable for any use. Vinyl is also available in scalable EPS format for use in large format, print and web applications. Vinyl contains 80 unique icons in multiple sizes and formats and is available today for $349.00 USD. Vinyl EPS contains 80 scalable EPS files and costs $249.00.

Revenge Is Best Served Cold

May 17, 2005

By Webmaster

Resident pixel artist, David Lanham, is pleased to bring you his latest icon collection – Kill Bill. This slick set of over 20 freeware icons is based on the cult movie series from Quentin Tarantino and features items and themes from the films. If you enjoyed watching the Bride slice and dice her way through the Crazy 88, or wondered at the awesome power of Hanzo steel, then this icon set is for you. Kill Bill is available for Mac, PC or as a searchable Pixadex iContainer.

NOTE: This icon set contains mature content.

Fresh Brewed and Waiting for You!

May 10, 2005

By Webmaster

Resident Iconfactory artist, Kate England, is pleased to bring you this week’s freeware icon release – Coffee & Tea. This set of icons will be a welcome addition to anyone who loves waking up to a fresh cup of joe in the morning or a pleasant sip of tea in the afternoon. Service awaits you for either the Mac, PC or as a handy Pixadex iContainer.

Slice of Us in Tiger

May 4, 2005

By Webmaster

Observant users of Apple’s new Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” have spotted a little bit of The Iconfactory in the new OS. That’s because our very own funkAmals and Tribal Mask icon collections come bundled for use with Tiger’s new iChat application. While running iChat in Tiger, click “Change my picture…” under the Buddies menu. This brings up the buddy picture window. Click “Choose” and select the alias to iChat icons and you’ll see our stuff. You can also get to it directly by drilling down thusly in OS X: Library/Application Support/Apple/iChat Icons.

Autobots, Roll Out!

May 3, 2005

By Webmaster

That’s right, that ever popular 80’s kids cartoon is back in the form of Volume 2 of Gedeon’s Transformers X Icon Collection. This set picks up where the original left off and gives Transformers fans 8 more reasons to fight for the survival of Cybertron. This release includes favorites such as Hound, Ultra Magnus, Rumble and Scrapper. Teletran 1 invites you to visit and download Transformers X Vol.2 for your Mac, PC or in Pixadex iContainer format today.

Track Tiger with iPulse

April 28, 2005

By Webmaster

The Chief Typist has spent some “one on one” time with our popular system monitoring utilty, iPulse, and he is happy to report that Version 2.1.2 is ready for download. This means that iPulse has been updated to work seamlessly with Apple’s new OS 10.4 “Tiger”. iPulse lets you monitor important system statistics like memory and CPU usage, network activity and a whole lot more. This update is free and recommended to all registered users. iPulse can be purchased for $12.95 USD.

Go Ahead, Open The Cage!

April 26, 2005

By Webmaster

We are pleased to announce that CandyBar is ready for Mac OS X Tiger! This latest release supports several new Tiger-specific icons and includes an overhauled and more flexible auto-update system. If you are upgrading to Tiger you will need to download this update which is free to registered users. CandyBar 2.5 is available immediately in the workshop.

Carbon: Database Add-On Released

April 21, 2005

By Webmaster

Announcing the immediate availability of our latest royalty-free icon collection from StockIcons.com. Carbon: Database Add-On is an extension of the original Carbon stock icon collection and extends the genre into the realm of databases with icons covering such specialized concepts as tables, scripts, records and many others. Carbon: Database Add-On contains 52 unique icons in multiple sizes and formats and is available today for $179.00 USD.

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