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Please forgive the lack of posts for the next week as we try to recover/restore the data! Everyone say a little prayer that we don’t have to go to the clean room!

Another great television serial adventure, Lost, wraps up its fourth season this week, so in its honor we link to some great icons sets and wallpapers courtesy of Lard Designs, MixthePix and the official ABC site!

Link to Download Lard Design’s Lost System Replacement and Lost Icons
Link to Download MixThePix’s Lost Icons
Link to Download ABC’s AIM Icons and Wallpapers

Technorati Tags: abc, aim, destops, dharma initiative, lard design, lost, mixthepix, wallpaper

It was inevitable, but via Roku, Netflix has released a set-top box that streams a chunk of its library over the internets to your teletube. It’s cheap, rolling in at $99 and does not require any other subscription fees as long as your regular Netflix subscription is at least $9 a month. When it comes to the interface, it does things a little differently than all the other set-top-video-on-demand-box hyphenates out there: the Netflix library is not listed through the box, rather you use your browser to put selections into the Netflix Queue in your account. Advantageous in that the box does not rely on clunky on-screen keyboards, loading long lists of potential choices, but perhaps irking when you’re too drunk to go fetch your laptop in the other room. At the end of the day, the price point and the sheer simplicity (think of all the less savvy users who have come to master Netflix in recent years - they won’t have to learn a new interface) makes this a formidable entry in this over-saturated and underselling market. Step it up, AppleTV.

Technorati Tags: appletv, netflix, queue, roku, set top box, video on demand

Longtime favorite GUI resource Pixelgirl Presents has a great resource of iPhone Wallpapers. There are only three pages so far, but there is absolutely no filler here and something for just about everyone!

Link to iPhone Wallpapers at Pixelgirl Presents

Technorati Tags: iphone, pixelgirl presents, wallpapers

Now here’s a great idea - all-star collaboration - that we hope to see more of across the GUI galaxy, Aquave by Laurent Baumann. Mr. Baumann designed the basis of the impressively large set, but to sweeten the deal, he invited some of the most talented icon artists to work on it. Jonas Rask, Dustin Schau, Dan Deming-Henes and Miles Ponson have all contributed to this icon project which will be ongoing - there is an RSS feed that will alert fans to new additions in the future!

Available for Mac and in PNG format.

Link to Download Aquave (in it’s current state)

Technorati Tags: aquave, dan deming-henes, dustin schau, icons, jonas rask, laurent baumann, mac, miles ponson, png

It’s only a few weeks before the long-and-oft-delayed fourth chapter in one of popular cinema’s most beloved series, Indiana Jones, either lets us relive our childhood dreams or dashes them against the mountain. The Iconfactory’s Anthony Piraino has designed four sets of Jones-themed icons for Mac, Windows and Candybar, based on each film that will release each week until the release of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This week, it’s a set based on the movie that started it all, Raiders of the Lost Ark. These are officially authorized icons too! Additionally, the official Indiana Jones site has desktops and AIM icons!

Link to Download Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (this week)
Link to the official Indiana Jones site (icons and desktops under “Downloads”

Technorati Tags: anthony piraino, candybar, desktops, george lucas, iconfactory, icons, indiana jones, kingdom of the crystal skull, raiders of the lost ark, steven spielberg

The Iconfactory keeps on delivering, today in the form of Corey Marion’s addition to the long-running Smoothicons series, Smoothicons 13. The set features 20 great device and application icons for Windows, Mac and Candybar!

Link to Download Smoothicons 13

Technorati Tags: candybar, corey marion, iconfactroy, icons, smoothicons

Nando Design Studio has got a spectacular body of work, and fortunately a slice of it is available to download. They rotate their offerings, but right now we are really into the their Space Age Desktops and iMac Generations V2 icon sets (Mac & Windows)

Link to Download Space Age Desktops and iMac Generations Icons

Technorati Tags: design, desktop, generations, icons, imac, mac, nando, space age, wallpaper, windows

Thanks to everyone helping to spread the word about our first exclusive icon set, Margin! Yesterday, the set was chosen as an Apple Staff Pick! We’ll be back on our regular news schedule later today, but in the meantime, if you’re a fan of Margin, Digg us up!

Link to Digg Margin 1.0

Technorati Tags: apple, digg, icons, icontraband, margin

Icontraband is proud to announce our very first exclusive download: MARGIN 1.0!!

Margin is a system replacement icon set, hand-scribbled lovingly in the corners of xeroxed pages and notebooks during times of idle boredom.

We are pleased to offer Margin in Mac, Windows, PNG and Candybar formats with full sized Leopard and Vista variations and each set comes with a snappy wallpaper to complement the set:

And you may have noticed as well, that there’s a 1.0 attached to the name, that’s because we’re going to be updating it and adding to it as we go along, in addition to all sorts of new exclusives coming in the future!

Download Margin 1.0 for Mac (icons)
Download Margin 1.0 for Windows
Download Margin 1.0 PNGs
Download Margin 1.0 for Candybar

Update: If you need help installing for Mac, try this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304735

Technorati Tags: desktop, icons, icontraband, leopard, mac, margin, png, vista, wallpaper, windows