February 1, 2005
With Valentine’s Day coming up fast, resident artist and Founder, Corey Marion, has whipped up his latest creation – Smoothicons 11. This compact and fun set represents some great gift ideas for the Valentine’s Day holiday and brings the latest Apple goodies to the Smoothicon family. So, if you’re not sure what to get that special someone this February 14th, head on over and download Smoothicons 11 today.
January 20, 2005
Announcing the immediate availability of our latest royalty-free icon collection from StockIcons.com. Xponential: Multimedia Add-On is an extension of the original Xponential stock icon collection and extends the genre into the realm of multimedia with icons covering such specialized concepts as mixing, effects, video and many others. Xponential: Multimedia Add-On contains 52 unique icons in multiple sizes and formats and is available today for $179.00 USD.
January 18, 2005
This week’s freeware release comes in the form of two ultra-cute desktop pictures that are sure to put a smile on your face. Two pictures from the anime series Azumanga that kids and anime fans alike will just love.
January 12, 2005
Our PC using visitors will want to note that Microsoft announced yesterday a newly discovered vulnerability related to .ICO files that affects virtually all versions of Windows. The security update is listed as “critical”, and as such, we strongly recommend that if you use a PC you patch your version of Windows against this vulnerability. If you’re a Mac user, you can ignore this warning. Thanks go out to the Chief Typist for sounding the alert and bringing this to our visitor’s attention.
January 4, 2005
As you may have read here last week, the workers were planning on attending the MacWorld Keynote address at our local Apple store today. However, since a certain CEO we all know seems to have become upset with all of the recent rumor mongering on the web, the web broadcast of the keynote speech will now be delayed for up to nine hours! This reminds us of the kid on the playground who takes his ball so the others can’t play, and its too bad.
Needless to say, since we were planning on being in Durham today, there will be no freeware icon release this week. Besides, we didn’t want to take the lime light away from other great companies previewing cool stuff at MacWorld, like our good friends at Panic. At any rate, we’ll see what Steve has in store for all of us, and hopefully it will be a sunny day in the school yard next time around!
January 4, 2005
Our annual holiday break has ended and the workers are slowly getting back into the swing of things around the old factory. Pixel workshops are coming back up to speed and new plans are being laid, so we invite you to spend another year with us as we offer more icons, software and goodies in the days and weeks ahead. And while there is no official IF icon release this week, be sure to head on over to Dave Brasgalla’s site, Pixelhuset, to download his latest creation – Colossus. Dave has also created some nifty desktop pictures and sounds to go along with his iconic creations, so head on over and check them out. Finally, like so many other Mac faithful, we’ll be watching MacWorld San Fran with eagle eyes to see just what Steve has up his sleeve. We’ll be watching the keynote from the front row of the Apple store in Durham, NC, so maybe we’ll see you there!
December 18, 2004
As our office closes for the annual break, we want to wish everyone a happy, safe and joyous holiday season. And even though our offices are closed until January 3rd, we will still be responding to technical support and stock icons requests via email. We’ll do our best to respond to your needs in a timely fashion, we just ask that you please be patient.
We saw many changes here at the factory in 2004. We were lucky to snap up a talented new designer, David Lanham. We expanded our office space in Greensboro, brought you major updates to iPulse, IconBuilder, Pixadex and CandyBar, and moved our email, website and database servers across the country. Oh, and we somehow found time to create 41 freeware sets of icons totaling more than 890 icons. The year ahead holds even greater things in store and we hope you’ll join us for the ride. Take care everyone and happy holidays!
December 17, 2004
You may recall that updates to The Iconfactory were temporarily frozen last month due to some server maintenance we were doing. Well, for all those geeks out there, we’re proud to announce just what was going on… we moved our website, email and database servers from hosting at Datareturn in Houston TX, to the loving arms of our friends at Panic in Portland OR. This strange journey is our first steps of embracing the nirvana that is Mac OS X hosting. We’ve taken the first steps into a larger world!
