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In close to 20 years, it’s been really hard to track down a good TV icon. Up until a few years ago, TV was just a plastic box that spewed out programming, but now with the advent of HD and good industrial design, a good-looking TV with a good-looking chassis is a fashion statement, a status symbol and your one way ticket to spectacular heights of respect and popularity. On that note, Jonas Rask has My TV, an excellent pair of icons (also see his retro-TV icon) dedicated to his Samsung HD panel in stand and wall-mounted flavors (Mac & Windows).

Link to Download My TV

Technorati Tags: hdtv, icon, jonas rask, mac, samsung, television, windows

It’s a double dose of Iconfactory links today! David Lanham’s wildly popular series, Sticker, has gotten an update today with a great series of app replacement icons in Sticker Pack 2. These will certainly bring you back to your decal days of old, and they won’t leave a mark! They’re ready for download for Mac, PC and Candybar.

Link to Download Sticker Pack 2

Technorati Tags: app, candybar, david lanham, icon, iconfactory, mac, sticker, windows

Kate England from Marmalade Moon and the Iconfactory has been quite busy lately: first up at the Iconfactory is the “remastered” set for the classic Soon Spring, now featuring full sized icons for Vista and Leopard (and as always with the ‘Factory, a Candybar download is available as well). Kate, also an incredible desktop designer, has unveiled Club Marmalade Moon, a new club where members will, via e-mail, receive exclusive and rare desktop art for free!

Link to Download Soon Spring
Link to Join Club Marmalade Moon

Technorati Tags: candybar, club, desktop, e-mail, exclusive, icon, iconfactory, kate england, leopard, marmalade moon, soon spring, vista, wallpaper, windows

While they’ve been out for quite a while, we can’t seem to stop using Laurent Baumann’s simple yet beautiful AlBook icons (Mac only, but available as PNG). The set brings perfect thematic symmetry to all of your applications, folders and disks with a gray-on-gray vector goodness. The uniformity of the rounded squares for each icon (a whopping 357 of them) make it ideal for tabs on your DragThing dock!

Link to Download AlBook (at the bottom of the page)

Technorati Tags: albook, dragthing, icon, laurent baumann, mac, vector

Starting the week off is one fantastic application that just may or may not preclude any further reporting on new desktop wallpapers. Why? Desktoptopia by, er, Desktoptopia streams fresh wallpapers to your desktop based on what you want. Every 15 minutes (in our case - you can define the change intervals) a new wallpaper pops up, and your computer feels brand new. You can even customize the feeds to download the desktops from the source of your choosing (we might have to do one down the line!).

Desktoptopia is FREE and available for both Mac and Windows (beta)

Link to Download Desktoptopia

Technorati Tags: application, background, desktops, desktoptopia, feed, mac, rss, software, utilities, wallpapers, windows

Just happened upon a great set of icons via Apple’s Download page, Web 1.0 from Studio MX. Their intent is simple, but they are quite good looking, and they’re available for both Windows and Mac OS X.

Studio MX also has a selection of other great icons, so check them out!

Link to Download Web 1.0

Technorati Tags: earth, globe, mac, pc, windows, puppy, studio mx

Between iTunes, Hulu, Xbox Live, BBC iPlayer, Joost, and network websites, we might need to add four to five additional hours to the day in order to take in all the streaming content blasting through the internets these days. Adobe - who’s AIR self-contained platform is beginning to make some waves - unleashed the Adobe Media Player this week, which adds another streaming content application to the mix. Upon first glance, it offers a solidly designed interface, but it’s got some ways to go; you’re presented with a largely bare canvas before realizing that you have click on the “catalogue” button to find anything new. Contentwise, it’s just getting started, so there are a handful of video blogs and Viacom properties (like MacGyver!), and the video is well compressed. For now, it has nowhere near the navigational ease of iTunes or Hulu, but it excels beyond the organizational mess of Xbox Live’s video store and the indecipherable blast of generic icons and boxes of Joost.

Link to Download Adobe AIR (required before installing Adobe Media Player)
Link to Download Adobe Media Player

Technorati Tags: adobe, air, app, bbc, cbs, hulu, interface, iplayer, itunes, joost, linux, live, mac, macgyver, pc, windows, puppy, software, streaming, viacom, xbox

If watching creepy little multicolored bugs crawl around your screen and replicate the image from your iSight camera is your thing, then BugMirror is your next download. From Oriol Ferrer Mesià, BugMirror is a pretty impressive screensaver which captures a live image from your Mac’s camera and interprets it as a low-detail mosaic using animated insects as the “pixels.”

BugMirror is Mac only and costs €7,99.

Link to Download BugMirror

Technorati Tags: bugmirror, bugs, isight, mac, mirror, oriol ferrer mesià, mosaic, screen saver

It seems only fitting that our first icon recommendation would be from the legendary Iconfactory. They’ve been making icons since you were in short pants and their stuff pops up everywhere. Today’s pick, Refresh, comes from Dave Brasgalla, the artist behind two of the greatest icon series ever produced for the Mac, the classic 32×32 World of Copland, and it’s fatter, wetter son, World of Aqua. Refresh comes in two flavors, original blue and sakura red and gives your desktop a clean, futuristic lift. It’s available for PC and Mac, with a Candybar option for the latter. Love that smooth gloss on the folders? There’s a matching desktop that complements the set quite nicely that will make your computer scream out “don’t touch me with your greasy monkey hands, you’ll get prints all over the shine.”

Link to Download Refresh (original)
Link to Download Refresh Sakura

Technorati Tags: aqua, copland, dave brasgalla, desktops, iconfactory, icons, mac, pc, refresh, sakura, windows