Iconlicious Launches: Beautiful Icons for Your Mac, 10 Apps Giveaway

Iconlicious.com, the joint venture of the graphic designers Marcelo Marfil and Emanuel Sà (I interviewed both, here and here), is finally online and public.

As you can read in the About page of the website “Iconlicious has worked in the past years with companies such as AppZapper, Bohemian Coding, Droplr, Embraceware, Phantom Fish, Sophiestication, Taptivate and Vemedio”, developers of the most beautiful apps I’ve ever reviewed on MacStories.

Iconlicious

Iconlicious

Iconlicious features some amazing freebies ready to download, a sneak preview of an upcoming app by BohemianCoding (which is gonna be great) and a giveaway of software to celebrate the official launch. Just head over the giveaway page and follow the rules.

Congratulations Iconlicious, we’re looking forward to your future works.

Give Your Mac Prettier 2D Dock, Stacks, Dock Menus and Expose Highlight with Inset

You probably already know that I like very much writing about cool modifications for Mac and iPhone. I usually find them on Ember, Iconpaper and MacThemes, three websites you should definitely check out if you’re into graphical customizations like me.

Today’s mod is called Inset (link to MacThemes post, link to author’s website) and it will install an alternate style for your dock (when in 2D), dock menus (right click on dock icons), exposè highlight, Stacks and Adium Contact List.

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MPlayer OS X Extended: The Best Alternative to VLC So Far?

I use VLC as my media player of choice on my Mac. Although Quicktime is a great app which provides a good dose of eye candy as well, VLC is compatible with almost every format out of the box - without the need of installing any additional plugin.

It’s simple, it’s straightforward and it becomes beautiful if you apply the Blackpearl mod. But today I’d like to talk about the new kid on the block of media players for Mac, MPlayer.

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On this iPad thing…

Nik Fletcher nails it in his latest blog post:

“Yes, it’s an entirely prescriptive way of computing - one that the hackers, tinkerers and geeks will find alien and protest about its lack of openness. But here’s the thing: for the people who the iPad is aimed at it really doesn’t matter that this experience is prescriptive - and the more you look at the decisions Apple seem to have made in building the software on the device, the more you realise that the iPad is perhaps the first high-technology product ready for - and entirely aimed at - a mainstream audience right from the get-go.”

Rocketbox Winners Announced

Thanks everyone for the comments on the Rocketbox review & giveaway. Also, I’d like to thank Matt Ronge of Central Atomics for the 10 licenses he gave to MacStories.

Here are the names of the winners:

Tony Martinez

Nguyen

Toon

Xendo

Rico Gasser

Jono

Tim Steinbach

Fabio

Miša

Shadowchaser

You’ll receive the license in your inbox in a few hours. Also, don’t get forget that we have a Touchpad giveaway up and running.

Cheers!

Itsy Gets A Facelift With Two Beautiful Themes

Remember Itsy? The new, minimal Twitter client we reviewed a while ago here? I still think that Itsy it’s a very promising application, the best among all those Twitter clients that are rising for Mac (again) after Tweetie easily ascended the throne. The design of Itsy is nice, but it could be better.

Thank God this guy, katsu3477, created these two stunning themes for Itsy.

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