The Breakroom

Stockicons.com has released the latest collection in the Xpressionism family of royalty-free stock icons. Xpressionism Finance extends the original collection into the realm of finance and commerce with icons covering concepts such as transactions, credit, interest, and more. Xpressionism Finance is available today for $179. Stockicons.com provides developers and designers with high-quality, affordable, royalty-free collections […]

Announcing iPulse 2.1.7

January 13, 2007

It is our pleasure to announce an update to iPulse, our popular Mac OS X monitoring utility. iPulse 2.1.7 adds support for reading temperatures on Core 2 Duo processor Macs. It also contains improved networking statistics and fixes several bugs. Registered users of iPulse can update their copy to version 2.1.7 for free. We invite […]

Safety Dance!

December 6, 2006

Judging by yesterday’s traffic and piles of great comments, it seems like being safe when playing the Wii is the new black. With tens of thousands of people viewing the Missing Wii Safety manual pages we posted on Flickr, we thought there might be a few visitors who would enjoy plastering those absurd diagrams all […]

Renaissance Finance Released

November 30, 2006

Stockicons.com has released the latest collection in the popular Renaissance family of royalty-free stock icons. Renaissance Finance extends the original collection into the realm of finance and commerce with icons covering concepts such as transactions, credit, interest, and more. We are also pleased to release this new collection as scalable EPS files for use in […]

Announcing IconBuilder 8.1

November 16, 2006

The Iconfactory is pleased to offer a significant upgrade to IconBuilder, our powerful and flexible icon construction filter for Photoshop and Fireworks. Version 8.1 adds full support for building Windows Vista icons including updated grid files and Photoshop actions. It also includes support for larger icon sizes in Mac OS X, multiple resolution TIFF files […]

Over the past few days, a discussion about resolution independence in Mac OS X has started on some of the developer blogs we follow. The whole thing started with Resolution Independent Fever by Daniel Jalkut. Sven-S. Porst followed up with a more user centric view of the situation. Although we’ve touched on some of the […]

Announcing iPulse 2.1.6

November 9, 2006

We are pleased to announce a minor update to iPulse, our popular Mac OS X monitoring utility. iPulse 2.1.6 adds support for displaying motherboard temperature for most Intel based Macintoshes. It also contains a new setup to allow for full reporting of CPU and memory statistics on Intel Macs. Registered users of iPulse can update […]

Stockicons.com has released the final collections in the popular Carbon family of royalty-free stock icons. Carbon Database EPS contains icons covering such specialized concepts as tables, scripts, records, and many others. Carbon Finance EPS extends the original Carbon collection into the realm of finance and commerce with icons covering concepts such as transactions, credit, interest, […]

The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the final bitmap collection in the Harmony stock icon family is complete and available for purchase. Harmony: Multimedia is a set of add-ons that extends our most popular family into the audio and visual realm with icons covering concepts such as mixing, effects, video and many others. Harmony Multimedia […]

Artist Kate England continues her exploration of Upper and Lower Egypt with this week’s freeware release – Hieroglyphica Volume 2. Volume 1 proved to be very popular and Kate thought the time was right to expand on the original set of glyphs to include some of the better known symbols including the Egyptian Ankh and […]