In December, the iTunes App Store that offers applications for the iPhone passed the 10,000th application milestone since it opened only six months ago, in July.

148Apps put together a clickable mosaic of all the application icons in the store that allows you to click on any of the tiny icons to go to the Apple store for full details.

TapTapTap made the trendy icon mosaic of an iPhone (seen on the right) to celebrate the event.

100,000 applications is a staggering amount! So how can software developers get their iPhone software to stand out in the crowd?

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Tags: developers, software, icon design, iPhone, iPod Touch

Icon designer Gedeon Maheux reveals the design process of the application icon for the iPhone and iPod Touch version of the stunningly beautiful game Frenzic and writes about how software developers and designers co-operate. ”Why Icons Matter” at Gedblog.

Icon designer Anthony Piraino tells the tale of how it took two and a half months and almost 20 revisions to get to the final draft of the cool application icon for xScope with its “liquid metal” metallic sheen, in ”Evolution of the xScope Icon” at One-Button Mouse.

Tags: developers, software, icon design, iPhone, iPod Touch

Frenzic, is a fun and highly addictive puzzle game that only takes minutes to learn, but months to master.

This is an exceptionally beautiful game with a glowing, futuristic interface that sits right at home on the iPhone’s revolutionary touch screen.

The hypnotically jazzy music and sound effects are so dreamy that it leaves me wishing there was a version of the music that I could play when I wasn’t playing the game!

There is a dash of social networking built into Frenzic. If you like you can set up a player account at Frenzic.com. This enables you to make friends with other Frenzic players and gives you access to detailed high score statistics from players across the globe.

This gorgeously designed game will give you countless hours of enjoyment in your digital life and is the ideal application for showing off the amazing capability of your iPhone or iPod Touch!

Brought to you from The Iconfactory and ARTIS Software, Frenzic is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch directly from the iTunes App Store for $4.99.

Tags: futuristic, bold, game, iPhone, iPod Touch, social networking, software

I am so excited that xScope 2.0 is being released!

This handy tool really is a “Swiss Army knife” for designers and developers. xScope is a powerful set of tools to measure, compare, and contrast literally anything on the screen. xScope will increase your productivity and free you from mundane tasks like measuring on screen elements.

Version 2.0 introduces Dimensions. This tool is like laser tape measure for the screen that projects a beam out from your cursor instantly finding the edges of images, margins and blocks of text. The days of taking screen shots, opening them and measuring them by hand are finally over!

xScope will change the way you work and take all the effort out of measuring onscreen elements.

An Iconfactory and ARTIS Software production.

Tags: gui, interface, productivity, software, design resources, review

I designed a new set of icons in the iPhonica style. This time it is application icons for iLife.

There are five icons in the collection, including iPhoto, iWeb, iDVD, iMovie and GarageBand. Download iPhonica Volume 3 at the Iconfactory!

Update: Since Apple redesigned the iLife 08 version of iMovie I added a second version of the iLife icon to the set – the iLife ‘08 version of iMovie.

Tags: iPhonica, iPhone, interface, software, Mac OS X, Windows, desktop customization