Thoughts

Iconlicious is under a little review of direction and content, so for the next couple of months there will be made some significant changes to the website and direction it will go.

As some of you already noticed, on the about page of the website, Marcelo Marfil is no longer listed. This happened because we realized that even though we have a lot in common it seems we kinda disagree on some key points on where we wanna do for the future of iconlicious, as friends we tried to do our best to ease this differences but it turns out it wasn’t helping me, Emanuel, or Marcelo.

We really value our friendship over anything, especially over work, and in a way to allow us to both to pursue our ideas, dreams, we decided it was best for us to have separated portfolios, we sure do keep collaborating, like we did in the past when we didn’t even had iconlicious together, but in a way it gives us the freedom to be us with no strings attached.

We started iconlicious by the half of 2009 and became public by the beginning of January, it was a blast to work on it, I have to admit working with Marcelo is really really cool as he has a completely different approach on how to make things, his management skills are quite interesting and i’ve never worked with someone that into the job.

He came from nowhere, and unlike most of the current designers of our community, he didn’t went through the same process most of us has, giving him a totally different style and skill set,  and i’m glad i was one of the first to notice him, to notice his qualities as a designer and especially as a person.

So i’ll gladly present you to his new website, http://www.mmarfil.com

More updates and cool stuff coming soon ;)

- E

Snowtape for iPhone hits the store

We’re happy to announce that Apple has approved Vemedio’s Snowtape for iPhone.

Snowtape for iPhone redefines listing to internet radio on-the-go. Choose from a variety of genres and select one of the high quality radio stations.

Macstories:

“Snowtape for iPhone is one of the best looking apps currently available in the App Store. Being designed by Iconlicious, Marcelo and Emanuel put their seal quality on an iPhone app once again, creating a UI design that combines both native and highly custom elements and yet has a very consistent feeling throghout all the parts you’ll end up tapping on”.

Check our portfolio to see more.

Snowtape Approval denied by Apple

We’ve been working for the past 3 months with Martin Hering from Vemedio on Snowtape for iPhone.

Without any specific reason Apple decided to denied Martin’s app.

This is absolutely ridiculous and must to stop.

From the original blog post by Martin Hering:

Dear Customers,

I am sorry to tell you that the release of Snowtape for iPhone has to be delayed for an unknown period. Tonight at 11 p.m. I got a call from Steve Rea of iPhone Developer Relations telling me that they can not approve Snowtape for iPhone. Effectively he said that Apple can not publish an app that records audio from an internet stream and store it permanently on the iPhone and of cause he explictly said that we can not have a function in our app for re-distribution of these recordings. What he meant is that Apple can not allow you folks to record internet radio and store it as MP3 on your local storage. Of course I tried to asked him about the paragraph in the iPhone Developer SDK agreement, we are violating. His sole words were, that there are lots of things missing in the SDK agreement and that they can not foresee any circumstance that leads to a denial of an app. That‘s right! We did not violate any paragraph of the SDK, yet they forbid us distributing our app.

After I hang up the phone I could not believe that there is no app in the App Store that can record internet radio and stores the audio for later playback. And of course I have found at least 3 apps that do exactly like this:
 


So, is this another sad story about a great app that suffers from an unfair and arbitrary approval process? I hope not. After all we put 3 months of hard work into Snowtape for iPhone not to mention the days of work by our graphic designer and beta testers. I still hope that Apple will come around and really starts a discussion with us about what we can do to get Snowtape approved for sale.

Yours,
Martin

Giveaway Winners Announcement

Hi,

After 1 week and 778 followers, we finally have the 3 lucky winners for the 10 applications listed on the giveaway webpage.

But first, we would like to thank all the 10 software developers/companies for their huge support on this giveaway! And everybody who RT’ed and blogged it!

The draw has been made using random.org engine.

Followers - 778 ( from February 1, 2010 to February 5, 2010 )

The list of followers was saved right at the end of the giveaway deadline and the draw has been submited at random.org today at 4PM ( GMT )

We recorded the random.org engine drawing the numbers, you can see the video here.

The winners are :

97 - @kkmachado - Carlos Machado.

199 - @arturo - Arturo Martín.

381 - @kevinvaldez - Kevin Valdez.

Congratulations!

Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact us at social@iconlicious.com

What happens if there’s any mistake on the calculation of the winners?

-Only the 10 software companies that participated with applications on this giveaway have the right to cancel and require a new one in case of any error.

I checked the list and the winners respective follow number does not match!

- Results may vary if any user between the lowest and highest number sorted by the draw unfollowed us on @iconlicious (after February 5, 2010). We saved the list with the correct order of @followers during the period of february 1, 2010 to february 5, 2010.

I am one of the 3 lucky winners, where do I get my apps?

- You need to contact us at social@iconlicious.com and give us a valid email address of your choice so the companies can generate the promo codes and the software licenses of the desktop applications.

- For the iphone applications you need to have a valid account on the U.S iTunes store.

Can i do whatever I want with the promo code / license i just won?

- You should agree to the respective software license agreements of all the listed applications in order to validate your license.

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Follow us on twitter for future freebies and giveaways!

Iconlicious Giveaway

Hi,

We love the applications we were fortunate enough to contribute to. They’re gorgeous award winning applications, not only due to their beauty but for the dedication their developers have put into their creation. Making sure you get a unique and interesting user experience while using them.

For these applications we either designed their icons or their interface. With some we did both tasks, but we would like to thank all the other designers that successfully contributed to the success of these applications.

We are giving you a chance to win all of these applications by entering our little giveaway. However, we have rules for this and with your cooperation we hope to make it enjoyable for all of us.

The contest will run from Monday, February 01 (12AM GMT) to Friday, February 05 (12PM GMT).

To participate all you need to do is to follow @iconlicious on Twitter. We do not require you to re-tweet or do any kind of publicity for our company.

We will pick 3 random users using the best service for that matter available.
These 3 users will be announced on Saturday, February 06 on Twitter via @iconlicious.

Each of the 3 winners will get a license for all 10 applications
listed on the giveaway website http://www.iconlicious.com/giveaway/.

The iphone applications will only be available to those who have an US iTunes account.


Note:
Do not use the contact form available at our website for questions regarding this giveaway. Please contact us through Twitter or email us @ social@iconlicious.com

Fair play and good luck!

Thank you,

Iconlicious

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