Thursday, February 5, 2004
Pocket Icon: Icon Editor for the Pocket PC
Posted by Jason Dunn in "SOFTWARE" @ 10:00 AM
"Pocket Icon is a powerful, easy to use utility for creating and editing icons(.ico files). With Pocket Icon you can create and edit icons with image formats in standard sizes(up to 64x64 pixels), and in color depths up to 16 million colors on your PocketPC or PocketPC 2002!
Why Pocket Icon? Lots of designers, artists and software developers spend long hours sitting at their PCs creating icons. But creating icons is one of the very few tasks that is more easily and more conveniently implemented with a Pocket PC: with your Pocket PC you can settle comfortably in an arm chair at home or lie under a tree while having a picnic, you can save your time doing the job while waiting in a traffic jam or in a queue! And pay your special attention to the fact that you won't need a keyboard or mouse, you can use the most natural tool for drawing - a stylus!"
This software looks fantastic! If you've ever created icons before, you'll understand that icons are literally assembeled pixel by pixel. It's extremely detailed work, and often the mouse seems like a cumbersome tool. I've only ever done icons "professionally" once (for a client), and boy would I have loved to use my Pocket PC instead! There's even an icon discussion forum. I love seeing solutions like this for the Pocket PC - natural extensions of what the platform is best at. Keep up the great work developers!
Why Pocket Icon? Lots of designers, artists and software developers spend long hours sitting at their PCs creating icons. But creating icons is one of the very few tasks that is more easily and more conveniently implemented with a Pocket PC: with your Pocket PC you can settle comfortably in an arm chair at home or lie under a tree while having a picnic, you can save your time doing the job while waiting in a traffic jam or in a queue! And pay your special attention to the fact that you won't need a keyboard or mouse, you can use the most natural tool for drawing - a stylus!"
This software looks fantastic! If you've ever created icons before, you'll understand that icons are literally assembeled pixel by pixel. It's extremely detailed work, and often the mouse seems like a cumbersome tool. I've only ever done icons "professionally" once (for a client), and boy would I have loved to use my Pocket PC instead! There's even an icon discussion forum. I love seeing solutions like this for the Pocket PC - natural extensions of what the platform is best at. Keep up the great work developers!
