The Breakroom

This is Halloween!

October 5, 2007

It’s that time of the year again folks! It seems like it was just yesterday we were donning our costumes and bumming candy around the pixel neighborhood. Now its scary season once again and to help kick off our month long spooktacular around the factory, we invite you to download Still Thirsty, a fun and […]

Wicked Cool Man!

October 2, 2007

If you thought the Earth was safe from destruction after you obliterated those so-called Space Invaders last year, you were sadly mistaken. Now comes the latest freeware collection from Foreman, Gedeon Maheux, and this time they won’t just reverse direction, drop down and increase speed! That’s right, Arcade Daze Galaxian is invading a desktop near […]

Stockicons.com has released the latest collections in the Aquatica family of royalty-free stock icons. Three classic collections are now available as scalable vector PDF files for use in large format, print and web applications. The Aquatica family of stock icons is fully OS X HIG-compliant and a must have for software developers who want to […]

Mac users who have discovered the addictive nature of our challenging puzzle game for OS X, Frenzic, know that rank is everything. Every day of the week players scratch and claw their way up the global leaderboard in the hopes of increasing their rank to earn the praise and admiration of their pie-peers. We’re pleased […]

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 […]

No Guts, No iGlory!

July 28, 2007

It’s safe to say we love our iPhones. So far, Talos, Craig and Ged have all taken the plunge and become early adopters of Apple’s cool 1.0 product, with no regrets. The iPhone is a perfect testament to Apple’s philosophy of elegance, ease of use and friendly user interface design, and all indications point to […]

Anyone who’s tried our fun, free desktop widget Dine-O-Matic, will be familiar with this week’s freeware icon release. We’ve taken all of those fun, neon eateries and created a slick icon set for use on the desktop just for you. These icons make great folder icons, iChat avatars and even clever Address Book icons for […]

This past weekend marked the end of Season 3 of the popular sci-fi series Doctor Who in the United Kingdom. At the same time, we here in the U.S. are just now starting to get the Doctor and Martha’s adventures through the summer and into the fall. Seems fair enough since they have to wait […]

Announcing an important update to our professional Photoshop filter for creating icons on the Mac, IconBuilder. Version 8.5.1 fixes several bugs including creating open/drop folder icons on Intel based Macs and support for saving both compressed and uncompressed Vista icons simultaneously. The update is free to registered users of IconBuilder and available now from the […]

Just like the rest of the entire world, we’re caught up in the wave that is iPhone mania. Call it boundless enthusiasm or a desire to support the latest and greatest from Apple, but we’ve got something new, just for you. We’re pleased to announce that our entire library of desktop pictures has been resized, […]