The Breakroom • A blog for the Iconfactory

Something Wicked This Way Comes

October 13, 2003

Welcome to our annual Halloween make over! Every year we let the ghosts and ghouls out of their tombs and they somehow manage to take over the factory. We hope you enjoy the spooky look and feel and make The Iconfactory your number one stop for Halloween GUI goodies.

Once again our dank and dark Web’s Attic is alive with the links that will take you to all things spooky on the web. Our News Hell Hound has been pressed into service by throngs of zombies to keep the page up-to-date. Actually, that’s not true, she’s relying on all of you out there to send us your holiday related URLs. So if you spot an appropriate set of Halloween icons, a scary font, desktop pict or whatever, send it to us and she’s sure to get it posted in a single flap of a bat’s wing.

Watch for more scary stuff in the days ahead leading up to Halloween. You never know what’s going to pop out of the ground! Boo!

Announcing iPulse v2.0!

October 9, 2003

By Webmaster

We are pleased to announce the long-awaited release of iPulse Version 2.0 for Mac OS X. iPulse is a compact and visually pleasing utility for monitoring the numerous statistics of OS X and your Macintosh. iPulse v1.0 was rated Four Mice by MacWorld in May of 2003. Version 2.0 builds on the critical and popular success of version 1.0 by introducing over 40 new features that add power, ease of use and aesthetic flexibility.

Here are just some of the new features in iPulse v2.0:

Pop-up windows that show info for the gauge under your cursor
Load & save the application’s appearance via iPulse Jackets
Mobility gauges monitor battery power and wireless signal strength
Disk activity gauges show when your disk is being accessed
Automatic and logarithmic scaling modes for disk and network activity
System hotkeys show or hide the iPulse window at any time
Reduced CPU usage by lowering process priority
Panther compatibility – ready for 10.3!

In support of iPulse’s new ability to save and load custom appearance themes or iPulse “Jackets”, We’ve launched a new section of the website – the iPulse Jacket Gallery. This is a great place for users to visit and download the latest and greatest Jackets to customize the look and feel of iPulse. The Gallery also offers links to third party users who have created and posted their own Jackets and a tutorial on Jacket creation.

Version 2.0 is a free upgrade for registered users of iPulse. The cost to register is $12.95 USD. For a complete list of the new features in iPulse v2.0, as well as to download the software, head on over to the iPulse homepage and enjoy!

Greetings Programs!

October 7, 2003

By Webmaster

Tuesday greets us again with the familiar sights and sounds of one of our favorite movies from the 80’s – TRON. Iconfactory artist, Anthony Piraino, has turned his talents towards res-ing up some light cycles, recognizers and other cool objects from the geek-culture hit from Walt Disney. We invite you to surf over and download these freeware gems to your own computer so you can help TRON, Flynn and all the rest of the digital warriors defeat the MCP before time runs out. End of line…

Smoother and Smoother

October 3, 2003

By Webmaster

The release of Smoothicons 6, which included the Apple iApps, prompted a virtual flood of requests for more of your favorite applications to help round out the Smoothicon style in the dock. In response, Corey proudly presents Smoothicons Volume 7. This release adds 28 new icons representing the applications that we received the most requests for. This latest release is now available as standard icons or as a handy Pixadex iContainer.

Save a Buck or Two, or Three

September 29, 2003

By Webmaster

If you’ve been thinking about registering our popular system monitoring utility, iPulse, now would be a good time. As we mentioned before, iPulse v2.0 will be released shortly and the price to register will be increasing to $12.95. Time is running out to get iPulse at the current price of $9.95, so snap it up while you can, you’ll be glad you did.

CandyBar Updated to 1.6.5

September 24, 2003

By Webmaster

Panic has completed the latest update to CandyBar that will allow users of both Mac OS 10.2.7 and the recently pulled 10.2.8 to continue to customize their system icons. There may be another update when Apple decides to re-post the 10.2.8 revision, so we ask that you stay tuned to the factory for more info as it becomes available. We recommend you download this free update and replace your existing copy.

G-Unit Ready to Launch!

September 23, 2003

By Webmaster

Resident anime junkie, Talos Tsui, has posted his latest collection today for New Icon Tuesday’s release. G-Unit is a set of hard drives and folders inspired by the mechanics of the ever-popular Japanese anime series, Gundam. These ultra-cool drives and folders will have any animation and sci-fi fan grinning from ear to ear. As a special treat for Mac OS X users, the folders contain Open/Drop states that activate when you drag and drop a file onto them. So head on over and download G-Unit as either standard Macintosh or Windows icons or as a super cool Pixadex iContainer today.

The Picture Tells The Story

September 16, 2003

By Webmaster

New Icon Tuesdays continue at the Iconfactory with the release of Petroglyphs. The Foreman continues his exploration of primitive art that began with Tribal Masks. The bold, simple lines and bright colors capture the essence of man’s earliest forms of icons. Stop by and download them today.

Remember

September 11, 2003

By Webmaster

As we reflect on the events of a single day and how it changed our nation over the past two years, let us also consider the unity it brought and celebrate the resilience of the American people. Today, on this day of days, we remember the lost and salute the heroes.

Will We Lose Faith of the Heart?

September 10, 2003

By Webmaster

Preview

Being the huge Trek fans that the workers are, we felt it apt to remind our U.S. visitors that tonight marks the start of season three of ‘Enterprise’ on UPN. Star Trek was one of our very first original inspirations for drawing icons and it has continued to do so, as with the recent release of Ged’s Trek Insignia icon collection. In the read-me file of that release, the Foreman noted his top ten ways to fix what’s wrong with ‘Enterprise’, issues that many Trek fans wrote to us to agree on. With tonight’s season premiere, all of us here at the factory have high hopes that costume changes aside, B&B have seen the error of their ways and will take the steps necessary to turn this series around before we all tune out for good. We’ll keep our finger’s crossed, our phasers set merely to stun, and our eyes on our inbox for your thoughts in the days ahead.

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