Panic & The Iconfactory Announce Universal Binary Support for Pixadex Panic and The Iconfactory are pleased to announce that their popular icon organization utility, Pixadex, has been updated to version 2.0.2. Released as a Universal Binary for native performance, Pixadex is ready to play on Apple's new Intel Macs. In addition, this latest release offers new features such as the ability to customize folder icons in the Collection List and includes a number of fixes and improvements.
Like all Universal Binaries, Pixadex 2.0.2 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher. Pixadex 2.0.2 is a free upgrade for registered users of Pixadex 2, or a $9.95 upgrade if you are a registered user of Pixadex 1.
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Here are you Friday snapshots:
The stock “Aqua Blue” desktop picture and Interacto’s UNO theme are showcased in this contribution from Tux234. Photo Desktop provides the Polaroid-style pictures strewn across the desktop.
A Firefox desktop picture stretched across two screens and Gerrit Vanoppen’s RulerAGV theme debut in this dual-monitor submission from Andrew. MSN Messenger keeps track of online acquaintances in the lower right corner of the second screen.
John Grimmett contributes this snapshot featuring a “Unix” desktop picture and John Tewksbury’s Titanium8 theme. XMMS, an open-source music player, runs via XDarwin along the top edge.
A desktop picture titled “Red Bull Racing’s David Coulthard” from AlpineStars is featured in this screenshot from Michael McGlone. A smattering of menu extras resides in the menu bar.
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A Dash of Quartz Drawing - Today we're just going to take a brief look at drawing in Quartz thanks to the new Graphics.Handle feature in REALbasic 2006r1. What we'll do is setup a Quartz CGContextRef for a Canvas and clip it to the bounds and then draw a rectangle with a shadow in it.
Thomas Römhild sends us batch of photographic desktops featuring Winter's white blanket. Kicking off the series is an aptly titled selection, Bench in Snow.
James Wright found some playtime in Photoshop and wound up cloning a nose onto a walking hand for his Stoopid Design desktop.
Paying homage to the great Bill Watterson, Ford Prefect sent us a large series of desktops scanned from the covers of various Calvin and Hobbes Collections. Today's image was captured from the front cover of It's A Magical World. All copyright credit for these images go to Bill Watterson, Universal Comics and Scholastic Books.
Here one for the fourteen and under crowd that features budding teen star Ashley Tisdale of Disney's "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody".
Hellcat'sApple Girls icon set is a delightful expression of fashion and fun done up style.
A wonderfully crafted set of application replacement icons, X-pack | Bonus 2, is shared by Nato Kino.
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Thomas Römhild sends us word that his desktop pictures gallery at his .mac homepage has updated with 3 news albums and 54 pictures from his December 2005 - January 2006 travels to Archangelsk in the north of Russia.
Our friends at The Iconfactory have released a set of 52 add-on icons to extend the original Logica collection into the realm of finance and commerce. With icons covering concepts such as transactions, credit, interest, and many others, the Logica Finance Stock Icon Collection is an important addition for anyone needing icons for software or websites dealing with finance or commerce. Logica Finance is available today as an electronic download for $179.00.
Hey www, do you have desktop and icon news to share? Give us a shout! We'll post your site update news here. Individual artists are also welcome to post announcements in our New GUI Releases & Announcements forum.
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Did you know that every file or gui mod article submitted by our contributing artists/writers has the opportunity to win a $50.00 Gift Certificate from PowerMax? At the end of the month we toss all of your qualifying submissions into a folder and use our random number AppleScript to choose the lucky winner! The gift certificate can be used to buy software, peripheral hardware or even be applied against the purchase of a new Mac. Ooo yeah, free stuff is sweet!
Peter Grosett shags the draw for our November 2005 PowerMax Gift Certificate. That's $50.00 of stuff just for sharing his gorgeously photographed nature desktop, Lily. Nice!
QuickAccessCM Updated to version 1.7 QuickAccessCM is a free contextual menu plug-in from Abracode, Inc. that allows for easy access to frequently used folders, documents and applications. QuickAccessCM can also be used as a launcher, file commander or installer.
QuickAccessCM plugin provides the following independent modules:
"Quick Access" with items for quick opening.
"Move To" with folders into which you often move things.
"Copy To" with folders into which you often copy things.
"Make Alias In" with folders in which you collect aliases.
Version 1.7 of QuickAccessCM adds the following features:
Finder's "Recent Servers" (Mac OS 10.4 only).
Multilevel submenu support with path-like submenu name: "/First Submenu/Second Submenu/And So On".
Applications added to Quick Access menu can open a document when control-clicked.
Universal binary.
Studio ProFiles Now Shipping Studio ProFiles are multitrack and stereo loop libraries of top-quality drums, percussion and other instruments recorded in professional studios with some of the best session musicians in the world. Studio ProFiles are designed to be opened natively as multitrack sessions/songs into hosts such as ProTools™, Cubase™, Logic™ or loaded into any DAW or sampler. Mix and produce these top-quality tracks as loops in your own music just like you would in a world-class recording studio.
Recorded at 24-bit resolution directly into ProTools HD using only top studio equipment Studio ProFiles deliver ready-to-use, album-quality material and an authentic sound with outstanding character that is inspiring for use with many styles of music.
Sonic Reality and Joytown Productions are pleased to announce that as part of the official release of the Studio ProFiles series, a Special Edition version is now available for a limited time exclusively at esoundz.com.
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Content yourselves with Wednesday’s snapshot bounty:
A desktop picture titled “The New iPod 5G” and Nowhere Studios’ Soot theme are showcased in this contribution from Ross Adams. Game console emulators for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Gameboy Advance are also featured.
A “Cold” desktop picture by oooAdAooo and Tom Stoelwiner’s Ruler Aero theme debut in this submission from Amanda. Snow.E2 icons from Rad-e8 are scattered throughout.
This screenshot from Griffin sports a desktop picture from the upcoming Windows Vista and Tom Stoelwiner’s Ruler Aero theme. Vista icons reside on the desktop.
Carl Martin contributes this screenshot sporting Laine Lee’s Pillowtalk-Sky theme. iTunes, equipped with Stefan Gast’s Dragon Music Records skin, kicks out rhythms in the lower left.
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One Month Until REAL World 2006
REAL World 2006, the third annual 3-day REALbasic User Conference, only a month away, will begin on February 27, 2006 at the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown in Austin, Texas. Why should you attend? Find out...
RBLibrary.com, REALbasic Learning at the Speed of Now
Are you tired of fruitless searches on out-of-date websites? Come to RBLibrary.com to find current, accurate articles, packed with the information that you need to make your programming project a quick and easy success...
PDF Classes v2.2 The PDF Classes from Fireye Software are a set of classes for generating PDFs from your REALbasic application. These classes are written entirely in REALbasic, and make it easy to create PDFs on any platform...
SQLite3ProfessionalPlugin v1.0b1
SQLite3ProfessionalPlugin is a plugin that gives you full low level access to sqlite 3 databases. It is very different from the built-in REALbasic 2005/2006 engine, because...
RadRSS v3.0
Radical Breeze has updated RadRSS, their news feed reading socket for REALbasic, to version 3.0. RadRSS is an RSS and ATOM specific socket which does all the heavy lifting of dealing..
RadThumbnailView 2.0.1
RadThumbnailView is a picture thumbnail viewing control. RadThumbnailView 2.0.1 contains bug fixes, including a bug which caused the double click event to not fire in some cases. RadThumbnailView is...
Advanced Undo and Serialization Frameworks
Preparatory to release of its forthcoming (02/06) eBook, "Object Oriented Programming with REALbasic", Relevant Logic announces the free release of two significant frameworks for REALbasic: a Serialization Framework, and an Undo framework...
ReflectionCanvas and LibraryListbox
ReflectionCanvas displays a picture and mirrors it horizontally, achieving the effect that we can see in applications like iTunes in the video library. LibraryListbox is a ContainerControl subclass implementing a...
C.A.B. - Custom Application Button v1.0
C.A.B (direct download) is a customizable button class for REALbasic. It contains buttons for use in your Rb apps. You can choose from round, miniarrows (my version of littlearrows) or some object buttons...
Mustapha's collection of application icons for 2006 expands with a set named iLife.
Can you feel the love? Leslie Sigal Javorek's Valentine Madness icon collection reminds us that the "...holiday associated with romance is named after a celibate monk".
We love to showcase your desktop and icon creations at ResExcellence. Use our upload page to send us your cool art and we'll help you share it with Mac users 'round the globe and beyond!
Anthony Piraino has inked up the printing press one more time to add to the growing list of application icons available in The Iconfactory's popular "Litho" style. Applications like Adobe Acrobat, QuickTime, Pages, Adium and Apple's latest offering - iWeb are all waiting to join your collection. Litho Extras Vol.3 is available today for Macintosh, PC or as a handy Pixadex iContainer. Get 'em while they're hot!
Hey www, do you have desktop and icon news to share? Give us a shout! We'll post your site update news here. Individual artists are also welcome to post announcements in our New GUI Releases & Announcements forum.
Our email inbox has seen more than just a few readers begging for updates to HIEN's ultra smooth iTunes skins. We're pleased as punch to let you know that SimplyBlue, SimplyGreen and Simply White have all been remastered for compatibility with iTunes 6.0.2. Party on dudes...
Digging through 270 pages and 3 years worth of cursors at WinCustomize, Jay Lehrer's "Project CursorXP Port 2006" has a goal to port the best of the best WindowsXP cursors over to Mac OS X for use with Unsanity's Mighty Mouse haxie. Fully authorized by the original artists, these ports all sport a great mix of style and class. Offering up five distintcly crafted cursor sets, Aquiles, LlumBlau, Nemesis II, SuperNova and The Alien, Josep "jalentorn" Malentorn is our artist of the day.
Finding Appley inspiration, Sam Frysteen bounces us a Blue Apple cell phone theme for the Sony Ericsson W900i.
Industrial safety is the first thing that comes to mind with a Growl Style called Above The Night, this one comes to us courtesy of the Leningrad Cowboy.
Looking for that perfect signature image to make a splash in your forum profile? Francisco O. Bennett has a triple dose of layered Photoshop files, Animation Signatures, that feature well-known 'toons Plankton, SpongeBob and The Incredibles.
Have something cool to share with your Mac loving pals 'round the globe? Use our upload page to send it to us and we'll add your creative works to our archives so everyone else can play with them too!
Did you know that every file or gui mod article submitted by our contributing artists/writers has the opportunity to win a $50.00 Gift Certificate from PowerMax? At the end of the month we toss all of your qualifying submissions into a folder and use our random number AppleScript to choose the lucky winner! The gift certificate can be used to buy software, peripheral hardware or even be applied against the purchase of a new Mac. Ooo yeah, free stuff is sweet!
Peter Grosett shags the draw for our November 2005 PowerMax Gift Certificate. That's $50.00 of stuff just for sharing his gorgeously photographed nature desktop, Lily. Nice!
Sonic Reality Announces R.A.W. Universal Groove Kit
The Ultimate Rex 2, AppleLoops and Wave Format Loop Collection.
Sonic Reality, developer of Sonic Refills for Reason and sound collections for SampleTank and other popular samplers, is proud to announce one of the most powerful and universally compatible loop collections ever created. The new R.A.W. Universal Groove Kit features over 5,000 stereo loops in 24 and 16-bit audio files all delivered on 2 DVDs. These loops were also conveniently created in formats that every sampler and digital audio workstation can read!
At the heart of the R.A.W. collection, are loops that are expertly sliced in Rex 2 format for total control of the tempo and feel. This feature of the collection is key when used with programs like Reason/Dr. Rex, Stylus RMX, Logic, ProTools 7, Cubase/Nuendo, Sonar/Project 5, FL Studio 6 and more. Apple GarageBand or Soundtrack users can easily load up over 5,000 professional-quality AppleLoops! Other popular samplers and sequencers that can load the AIFF or Acidized Wave loops include Ableton LIVE, Sony ACID Pro, Kontakt/Intakt/Battery, HALion, EXS24, DP/Mach 5 and many more.
The content covered in the R.A.W. Universal Groove Kit spans a wide range of grooves in many different styles such as R&B, Funk, Electronic, Hip Hop, Rock, Jazz, Country, Latin, Blues, TV/Film Scoring and more. In one box you get thousands of full stereo acoustic drum kit grooves, vintage analog beats, Latin and world percussion, pulsating synth and electronic rhythms, vinyl-style beats and scratches, vocal licks and beatbox, orchestral and percussive film effects, bass lines, guitar riffs, horns and so much more.
StealthPlug Virtual Guitar Amp; Cable-like, USB Audio Card for Guitarists IK Multimedia, a leader in guitar amp and effects modeling, introduces the StealthPlug, a revolutionary cable-like USB audio card designed specifically for guitarists. StealthPlug provides an easy solution to plug any guitar into a computer and enter the world of PC-based digital modeling. Boxed with the award-winning guitar amp and FX processing software of AmpliTube Live and AmpliTube LE, the StealthPlug is both an audio card and a virtual amp with effects, for live play and recording, all in one.
The StealthPlug is so compact that guitarists can jam LIVE or use it within their preferred sequencer anywhere. The combination of StealthPlug with AmpliTube LIVE/LE software makes a complete portable guitar amp and effects modeling solution, both as a stand-alone application and as a plug-in, for any Mac/PC laptop, desktop or rack computer.
StealthPlug will be available in the summer of 2006. System requirements as of this date are an 866MHz Power Macintosh G4, with 512MB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.3 or later, 1024x768 screen thousands of colors.
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Monday’s snapshots come to the rescue:
A “Mirror Ball” desktop picture and vONE GUI’s Dark Rising theme debut in this submission from Matt Granz. FruitMenu organizes the Apple menu into categories reminscent of the classic Mac OS Apple menu.
A modified “Googul Universe” desktop picture and modified version of Interacto’s UNO theme are showcased in this contribution from Aaron Dodson. Disctop Pro is a slick, little utility that displays over the desktop what is currently loaded in your optical drive.
This screenshot from Johnny Golden sports the stock “Aqua Blue” desktop picture with orange overtones. Yahoo Widget Engine (aka Konfabulator) features a number of widgets along the left edge.
Carl Martin submits this snapshot touting a Mac-centric desktop picture featuring a white tiger coupled with John Tewksbury’s Titanium8 theme. WeatherMenu displays current local weather conditions in the menu bar.
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6 new desktops and 3 new icon sets fill your GUI appetite for Monday!
Calling them like he sees 'em, Adam Dickson presents a photographic desktop that perfectly conveys the subject matter, Pile Of Rocks.
Ed Allen's desktop of cold reflective greys may give you an unexpected Shiver.
Chris Sterritt spent an afternoon perusing the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History snapping photographs of various minerals along the way and is quite pleased to share the images in desktop form. This polished and striated slab of Travertine makes quite a unique desktop image.
L. G. Larson shares Unix Evolution, an Apple inspired desktop that borrows from the familiar ape to man illustration.
Here's a super-sized set of System replacement icons from Tau Siroko! Pure is loaded with a 113 high-quality photo realistic icons that are sure to please your thirst for GUI perfection.
Rat, Dog, Goat or Pig? What animal sign are you? No matter which it may be, troyboydesign has got you covered with this set of Delightful Zodiac icons.
Leslie Sigal Javorek drops an icon set on us that features "...a bit of silliness and a reminder. No matter how bad things may seem, your troubles ain't diddly-squat compared to Irv the Worry Bird's burdens! He promises us that his shoulders (what shoulders?) are broad enough to handle it all."
We love to showcase your desktop and icon creations at ResExcellence. Use our upload page to send us your cool art and we'll help you share it with Mac users 'round the globe and beyond!
Erniesthings updates with news desktops. First up is a giant retro game series that kicks off with Pac Man, and, in anticipation of the upcoming theatrical release, Ernie tosses up a pair X-Men 3 images. All desktops are available in resolutions of 1600x1200, 1680x1050, and 1024x768.
Iconkits.com, a source for gorgeous stock icons at affordable prices, is pleased to announce a fresh new design and a better browsing experience. Along with the site redesign Iconkits.com has released two new stock icons sets, Que Base Kit and Que Vector Kit. The Que Collections including bright icons with sharp borders that gives your project a clear and crispy look. The most anticipated thing might be the new "For Free" section with useful free stock icons that can be used in both perosnal and commerical projects.
Hey www, do you have desktop and icon news to share? Give us a shout! We'll post your site update news here. Individual artists are also welcome to post announcements in our New GUI Releases & Announcements forum.
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