We’ve added an “Engrave” mode when you’re creating a custom folder icon. Just drop any image (better is a black & white PNG image), and check the “Engrave” box. Then, you’ll be able to create beautiful folder icon, similar to OS X default icon.
 

Licone is a powerful toolbox for all icons lovers. You’ll love creating customized icons for your folders, with just a few clicks. And if you don’t feel like an artist, don’t worry, just download icons from IconFinder.com directly from our app! Also, we added CloudApp support to upload your icons and share them and you’ll enjoy some other nice features (ZIP a collection, save an icon Quicklook to file…).

Major features are:

• Create shinny icons for your folders, by adding text or image
• Convert your icons in many formats (ICO, PNG, ICNS, PDF, iContainer)
• Customize any folder or app’s icon
• Organize your icons into collections and smart collection, with CloudApp support
• Find and download icons from IconFinder.com

You can get more information and sign-up here:
http://www.jibapps.com/en/products/licone/

Tomorrow, you’ll be able to buy TrashMe or TunesArt at the lowest price :

• Buy TrashMe at 0.99$ instead of 6.99$ (-85%)
• Buy TunesArt at 0.99$ instead of 4.99$ (-80%)

We’ve also put a small goodie for our Lyrics lover. Even if we can’t get back automatic lyrics fetching (check previous post), you can however download lyrics from LyricWiki in an easier way: press “Option” on your keyboard before clicking the “Show” button, and see what happens ;)

To celebrate this new release, you can buy TunesArt for just 2.99$ !

We really hope you’ll enjoy this new release, so stay tuned, it’s coming … as soon as Apple approves the update (hopefully quickier than for TrashMe). Until then, check TunesArt page.

First, you need to know that publishing an application on the Mac App Store is something quite difficult, especially for small developers. Apple has written very restrictive rules that developers must conform to. One of these rules is about privileges: an application must not ask for user’s password in any case.

But some applications installed on your Mac have special privileges, mostly applications installed through the Mac App Store. You can test by yourself: if you try to put one of those apps to the Trash, OS X will ask for your account’s password. The problem is that TrashMe can’t ask for your password due to Apple restrictions. This is why you can see a warning message when this situation occurs. Hopefully, we’ve developed a small add-on that will allow you to uninstall this sort of applications, by asking your password.

We think this is a balanced solution: being on the Mac App Store is a chance for us, because it’s very easy to buy and update application for end-users. We didn’t find any alternative, after many hours spent to discuss with Apple employees. So, we hope our customers will understand that this is not an issue, but “on-purpose”…

Check our Frequently Asked Questions to download this add-on.

More information on TrashMe page.

First, upcoming version will be sandboxed, as requested by Apple for any update on the Mac App Store since 1st June 2012. This part was not so easy, because we needed to test all parts of our application, in order to detect possible issues. For end-user, this does not change anything except that he feels more secure :)

TunesArt version 1.6 will also be fully compatible with OS X Mountain Lion, as some issues are occurring with version 1.5.1 (mostly when you switch from one space to another one). In addition, all the application will be optimized for Retina display of new MacBook Pro, and that was a lot of work.

Among new features, TunesArt will be able to use the notification center found in Mountain Lion, the search window will be revamped for better performance, many UI parts will be improved and many bugs will be fixed. Arrival on the Mac App Store was not really easy because Apple asked us to remove fetching of lyrics from LyricWiki. We did not find any affordable replacement, as the cheapest solution would cost 25,000 $USD per year. We’re aware many users are disappointed about this lack of lyrics fetching, but there will be a small new feature in upcoming version (you’ll have to find it by yourself!).

We hope most users will be happy with this brand new version, so stay tuned, it’s coming very soon!

By the way, we’ve added a new feature in latest version: you can search for junk files on your hard drive, for example Windows files (Desktop.ini, Thumbs.db) or other files (.svn, .git). Upcoming version should add new languages and some improvements too (modify favorites password…).

This update has been sent to Apple for reviewing, but these days, they are pretty slow. Please be patient, the update should be released in less than 2 weeks (we hope so).

EDIT : the update is now available on the Mac App Store!