IcyBlaze Blog http://www.icyblaze.com/blog Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:14:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Tips: How to manage images in your Mac with Sparkbox? http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/tips-how-to-manage-images-in-your-mac-with-sparkbox/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tips-how-to-manage-images-in-your-mac-with-sparkbox http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/tips-how-to-manage-images-in-your-mac-with-sparkbox/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:13:32 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=601 Continue reading →]]> How to mange the images once your image library is getting bigger and bigger each day? We’re collecting hundreds of images from the website, social networks and we’ll leave a big mess even we put everything in the one place. And today, we gonna have a look on how to manage the images efficiently and effectively. As we all know, two ways are the most frequently used when managing data in Mac. They are: managing data by folder, and managing data tags, and they’re all covered in Sparkbox. Once images are imported, you’ll have them sorted in the library folder, and then we’ll have the option here: either manage all your images by folder structures or manage your images by Tag folders.

 It is really a habit problem to consider here, and there are advantages for both ways to manage images, like Sparkbox can keep your previously created folder structures if you choose to manage images by folders, And managing by tags is a easier workflow to start the manage job. Of course, you could use both manage workflow to make things even better. For example, keep images in folders for different date, and organize images by tags for different kind. For a completed workflow to manage images, search is an essential factor to have as well. So, the two search options are included in this Sparkbox: You could search the title, the tag to find your images in Sparkbox. You could also search the images by their color, it’s a great step forward for managing the images, it allows you to find your images just by impression. Other Cool features help you to manage images in your Mac: Favorite and rating features are helping you to rank your images

Smart folders can assist you to distinguish images efficiently

Comment feature helps you to highlight the objects within the image

]]> http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/tips-how-to-manage-images-in-your-mac-with-sparkbox/feed/ 0 Tips: Where to find good icons and great designs http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/tips-where-to-find-good-icons-and-great-designs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tips-where-to-find-good-icons-and-great-designs http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/tips-where-to-find-good-icons-and-great-designs/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:36:48 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=569 Continue reading →]]> When design a product, start a blueprint, we’ll always need something to light up the sparks of the inspiration. Where to find them? We’re sharing few great sites for you to find some great iCons:

1. iConfinder http://www.iconfinder.com
The Search engine for you to find the icons, there are more than 100 thousands icons listed for you to search, and they provide search filters like image size, Background colors etc.

2. Dribbble  http://www.dribbble.com
A show and talk place for the designers. the place not only you could find the icons, but also you could find the place to share the inspirations

 

3.Fffound http://www.fffound.com
The newly built cool site is another great place for designers to stop by, there are thousands of abstract designs, photos, are shared in this site. Plus they also offer iPhone app for you to browse the image easily.

 

4. 365.com http://www.365 icon
365 icons are where you could find the replacement for your system icons, your popular Applications and possibly there are ones suitable for you.

 

5. We love icons  http://www.weloveicons.com
Place you could find icons or reformat your icons to another format. It is a good place for designers to post up their creation and share. It is good looking site as well.

 

plus Icon factory http://iconfactory.com/stockicons

The famous iCon finding application where you could conveniently find some quality icons directly from your Mac. And lots of them are free.

]]> http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/tips-where-to-find-good-icons-and-great-designs/feed/ 0 Tips: How to capture images from web page with new image capture software: Sparkbox http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/556/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=556 http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/556/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:16:11 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=556 Continue reading →]]> How to capture image in web page without knowing professional web skills? How to capture the full quality images directly from the Internet to your Mac? This tips can show and answer this question perfectly.

Let’s start with the famous photo or image sharing site: Flickr, how do we capture images inside a flick webpage? Easy question can lead to very complex answers or you could get this super simple answer like:

1 Install the Sparkbox and Web capture add-on in Sparkbox:

You could find it here in: http://www.icyblaze.com/sparkbox/

2 Open the flickr webpage with your interested images in the webpage

3 Click on the web image capture add on for Sparkbox

4 Wait Sparkbox to load up the webpage

5 Click thumb to enter web capture model


6 Choose the images you’d like to keep, you could filter the images by change the size

7 Click import all or import selected to finish the capture

Capture web images is one of the key function for Sparkbox, It is so easy to use and it always present you the best result as you expect.

]]> http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/556/feed/ 0 iMage Tools vagrant thoughts http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/image-tools-vagrant-thoughts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=image-tools-vagrant-thoughts http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/image-tools-vagrant-thoughts/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:59:36 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=545 Continue reading →]]> Today, iMage Tools ranked Top 1 in the free photography in Mac App Store, and few ideas I’d like to share with you fellows.

iMage Tools comes with a brand new idea for the team as well as a brand new market. Sparkbox was like a continuer of iDocument, and iMage Tools was a completely new concept for us. And the initial thought was to offer a little easy editing application for the starters to edit their photos with easy. So, few goals we have to achieve:
1 It has to be easy
2 It has to be cheap
3 It has to be efficient
And as far as we can see, all objectives above are achieved, and I believed the iMage Tools already helped many fellows with their editing. And that’s the best news for us!

Nevertheless, We’ve received lots of comments complaining the limited functions and in app purchase charges. For these fellows, I’m very sorry that iMage Tools does not satisfy the demands for the moment. iMage Tools is like a package, and we’re just started to delivery its first stage, we’ll try to bring more feature and functions in the future upgrade. About the In App purchase, it is the very first time we’re selling the product with this completely new way, and it is very different to the previous ways, and I guess we even made some mistakes like left too many options, and charged the key feature like preview, etc. And here I’d like you fellows to know: those shortages reported by customers, we’re going to change them in short, and we’ll make sure iMage Tools remains way to fulfill the three goals we set.  And hope you all enjoy the product, and please feel free to leave more comments and feedback to us.

Best

Mike

]]> http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/image-tools-vagrant-thoughts/feed/ 3 iMage Tools is ready and it is free! http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/image-tools-is-ready-and-it-is-for-free/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=image-tools-is-ready-and-it-is-for-free http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/image-tools-is-ready-and-it-is-for-free/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:40:28 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=535 Continue reading →]]> Dear fellows,
Months of work, weeks of patient. iMage Tools is finally ONLINE, and we’re opening the major functions for free for limited time! So, please go to App Store and grab your iMage Tools now and enjoy the super sonic batch processing speed!

]]> http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/04/image-tools-is-ready-and-it-is-for-free/feed/ 0 Sparkbox Lite is available on Mac App Store！ http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/03/sparkbox-lite-is-available-on-mac-app-store%ef%bc%81/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sparkbox-lite-is-available-on-mac-app-store%25ef%25bc%2581 http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/03/sparkbox-lite-is-available-on-mac-app-store%ef%bc%81/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:21:37 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=532 We’ve just submitted the Lite version of Sparkbox into MAS. It supports manage 100 images with all functions built-in. You’re more than welcome to have a try the real thing!

 

]]> http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/03/sparkbox-lite-is-available-on-mac-app-store%ef%bc%81/feed/ 4 The Next iMage app from IcyBlaze: iMage Tools http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/03/the-next-image-app-from-icyblaze-image-tools/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-next-image-app-from-icyblaze-image-tools http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/03/the-next-image-app-from-icyblaze-image-tools/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:08:05 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=523 Continue reading →]]>

After Sparkbox, we’ve received lots feedback and comments from customers, and one of the most asked requirements is the easy image editing features, the edit function can be used by a 10 year old child or a grandma. At start, we thought to integrate some of the features into Sparkbox,  it turns out easy idea caused complex workflow and lots of logic issues after. So, we reconsidered, and the new easy image editing tool: iMage Tools is almost ready for customers. In this little app, all edit features are made with easy and simple, we don’t want powerful but only things that just works.

We’ll try to bring it to MAS soon and thank all customers who are interesting in Sparkbox our other apps. We’ll again try our best to bring you a great image application!

 

Mike
icyblaze

 

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Best

Mike

]]> http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/02/sorry-customers-payment-system-is-down-for-the-moment-please-bear-with-us/feed/ 3 Sparkbox Mac App Store, Free for limited time! http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/01/sparkbox-mac-app-store-free-for-limited-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sparkbox-mac-app-store-free-for-limited-time http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/01/sparkbox-mac-app-store-free-for-limited-time/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:48:07 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=509 Great news that Sparkbox reached App store on first page! More important is it is free for limited time, Go and grab it at:

Sparkbox App store

]]> http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2012/01/sparkbox-mac-app-store-free-for-limited-time/feed/ 17 Sparkbox is now officially released! http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2011/12/sparkbox-is-now-officially-released/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sparkbox-is-now-officially-released http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/2011/12/sparkbox-is-now-officially-released/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:06:43 +0000 mike http://www.icyblaze.com/blog/?p=498 Continue reading →]]>

Sparkbox is officially released!

After two months of continuously Beta test, our new image management software: Sparkbox is now available for all customers to purchase. Great features are introduced with version 1, such as color search feature, web snap feature and on screen comment feature, these features are cutting edge tools when designers need to manage their project images. And we’ll keep upgrade Sparkbox to bring some great features in the close future. Please download the program to try it for free.

Download address:  Download

To thank all the Beta testers and customers, we’re introducing Sparkbox  with 40% off introducing discount, Right now is the perfect time for you to get the app in your Mac! You could purchase Sparkbox at:

http://www.icyblaze.com/store/index.html#sparkbox

Program features:

Fully Drag&drop,Menu bar,Screenshot capture import
Variety image formats support: jpeg,png,psd,tiff,bmp,psd,icns
Built-in web image snap feature
Built-in preview window
Built in Color search engine
Open-meta data tag systemOn screen annotation system
On image comments feature
Multi touch, full screen, Lion features
Easy share function

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