The Breakroom

Anime Desktop Day!

September 23, 2008

Fans of Japanese animation, or anime, are in for a real treat today. Mindy and David have teamed up for a special desktop double-whammy. First up is Moka Akashiya from the manga turned anime series Rosario + Vampire. Moka is a cute schoolgirl who also just happens to be a vampire with a strange taste […]

We are happy to announce a major update to Stockicons.com. Designers and developers alike will be pleased to learn that we’ve been hard at work revving the site’s product offerings to bring them in line with modern development requirements. Starting today, every royalty free stock icon collection now comes with additional bitmap sizes of 48×48, […]

Scheduled Iconfactory Downtime

December 26, 2007

Panic and The Iconfactory will be moving our web hosting services in the next few days. As a result, all of the Iconfactory websites will experience 24-48 hours of scheduled downtime. This maintenance will effect users attempting to visit The Iconfactory, Stockicons.com, Frenzic.com and MarbleofDoom.com. We’ll do our best to make this downtime as quick […]

Fouke, Arkansas: Home to the Crabtrees, Boggy Creek – and the Fouke Monster. The classic 1972 docu-drama The Legend of Boggy Creek ventures into the swamps of Arkansas in search of this mysterious Sasquatch-type creature. Fortunately, for those who are too afraid to go searching through swamps, Ged’s latest freeware release, The Legend of Boggy […]

The fright fiesta continues at the Iconfactory with Mindy Weaver’s latest freeware release. Skelanimals is a cute and cuddly icon set based on designs by Mitchell Bernal. Go download the set for Mac, Windows, or as a handy Pixadex iContainer, and give these irresistable animals a home on your desktop.

Avast me mateys! The 19th o’ September has sailed around again, and ye know what that means – Talk Like A Pirate Day! Ye scurvy dogs’ll have to get yer own booty and grog, but we here can help ye with the icons. Set a course for our old classics, Jolly Roger and Jolly Roger […]

All iPhone, All The Time

August 28, 2007

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ve just had an article published at A List Apart. In issue #244, I present some of the topics that I’ve encountered in the process of thinking about how the iPhone affects this and other sites run by the Iconfactory. This article is the first of […]

Stockicons.com has released the latest collection in the Renaissance family of royalty-free stock icons. The addition of Renaissance Multimedia extends and completes the Renaissance family and adds icons covering such concepts such as mixing, effects, video and many others. We are also pleased to release this new collection as scalable EPS files for use in […]

Don’t Get Philiminated!

February 12, 2007

Being the TV junkies we are, it comes as no surprise that we’re all hyped up for the start of season 11 of one of our favorite shows – The Amazing Race. This time out the producers have assembled the show’s “brightest stars” in the hopes of recapturing some of the audience that started to […]

Anyone who’s “hip” knows that Leo Laporte is the man when it comes to all things techno. So imagine our surprise and delight when we listened to the latest episode of the MacBreak podcast and found that Twitterrific was Leo’s software pick of the week! Leo and the gang rap on all things Apple including […]