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The Iconfactory Turns 30 – How Time Flies!
June 9, 2026
Thirty years ago this month, three friends working at a small multimedia company in Greensboro, NC, decided to post a few fun sets of Mac desktop icons on an AOL webpage. Little did we know what we were getting ourselves into back then, but here we are, incredibly, thirty years later. So much has changed […]
Iconfactory Baseball Caps
April 18, 2023
We’ve teamed up once again with our friends over at Cotton Bureau to bring you some cool new merchandise. In addition to our Iconfactory logo t-shirts and limited edition enamel pins, you can now be the proud owner of a snazzy Iconfactory baseball cap. These low-profile, dad style caps are 100% cotton and embroidered on-demand. […]
Year In Review for 2021
December 21, 2021
Another year has come to a close and it’s time to reflect on our accomplishments over the past fifty-two weeks. Spoiler alert: It’s a lot! The year 2021 was full of major milestones as we crafted a new and exciting chapter in the life of our very first game, celebrated 25 years in business, continued […]
Celebrating Our Silver Pixel Anniversary
June 22, 2021
Twenty five years ago this week, Talos, Corey, and I first pushed pixels into icons of our favorite Star Wars, Star Trek, and cartoon characters and published them under the name Iconfactory (Icnfactory, actually). So much has happened since then, both with the company and the world in which we live, that it would be […]
Twitterrific Subscriptions Going Well
November 22, 2019
Back in June, we launched Twitterrific 6 with over 30 new and long-requested features from our users. We also switched from a one-time in-app purchase to a subscription to help support ongoing development. It’s been 5 months since the switch, so we wanted to let you know how’s it’s been going. In short, it’s going […]
Head and Shoulders
May 31, 2019
I’ve been privileged to know and work with many talented people over the years. People with a drive to succeed and a flare for thinking differently. People who genuinely care about making the lives of other people better, while at the same time pushing you to be better, too. My friend Craig Hockenberry is one […]
Ten Years on the Aisles of the App Store
July 10, 2018
Time flies when you’re having fun. Today marks the tenth anniversary of the App Store. Of course there are a lot of people celebrating this event besides the factory workers. I was honored to be a part of the Appstories podcast where James Thomson and I chat with John Voorhees and Federico Vittici about those […]
A Lot Can Happen in a Decade
March 6, 2018
Whether you’re a developer who’s working on mobile apps, or just someone enjoying the millions of apps available for your phone, today is a very special day. It’s the ten year anniversary of the original iPhone SDK. I don’t think it’s an understatement to say that this release changed a lot of people’s lives. I […]
Exify & BitCam Updated
July 29, 2016
Two small updates were released today that make using our new photographic apps that much better. Exify v1.0.1 fixes problems with loading images stored on an iCloud Library, adds a progress indicator when working with large photos and fixes a couple important crashes. Users of our retro photography app, BitCam, will enjoy the supercharged v1.0.3 […]
Iconfactory Celebrates 20 Years
June 20, 2016
Company founders (left to right): Corey Marion, David Brasgalla, Ged Maheux, Craig Hockenberry, and Talos Tsui in the same room for the first and only time back in the summer of 1999. If you had asked any of us in 1996 if we’d still be busy making icons and crafting software twenty years later, we […]
