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Posted 8:30AM GMT, October 20, 2003 by Tready

The latest version of IconArt has been released. Featuring a cool new gradient feature and many bug fixes this update is well worth the download.

The biggest change is the leap from freeware to freeware for personal and educational use only. Business users will need to purchase a serial code.

In the next few weeks will be be releasing new tools just for professional users to enable them to get the most out of IconArt and icons, animated icons and cursors in general.

Currently IconArt Pro costs only $9.95 with a 6-week no-worries money-back deal. Also if you have a reoccouring problem with IA up to 6 months from purchasing IA Pro you can get all your money paid straight back to you.

Posted 8:25AM GMT, October 20, 2003 by Tready

Welcome to the new site for the professional side of ConWare.

This site will hold all the professional side of ConWare as well as many features to support our freeware products.

Take a look around and have a look a whats new and whats coming soon...

Posted 8:45PM GMT, September 7, 2003 by Tready

ConWare is evolving. As our time at university quickly approaches (the next few weeks) and the prospect of surviving off the minimal loan is not one of joy. We have decided ConWare needs to change.

ConWare will become two parts. The first will still provide quality freeware through www.conware.org. The second half will provide professional editions of our software for a price. Although the prices have not been finally decided, they are likely to be $10 to $15. Our payments will be handled by world-leader PayPal.

The next version of IconArt is already nearly finished. It will be the first freeware to be converted into two editions. The plans for the professional edition includes a whole list of features designed to bring IA to the front of icon creation. The professional edition is also likely to include unlimited access to royalty-free icons.

A full list of features for the two editions will be online shortly but until then please give us you comments on our current plans. Either email us at comments@conware.org or post it in our forum.

Posted 6:58AM GMT, August 29, 2003 by Tready

After a long summer of lazing around and enjoying the weather, we have moved into fast drive in an attempt to get a new version of IA out before heading off to uni.

We have also made some big decisions about the future of ConWare so look out for more posts soon...

Posted 7:03AM GMT, June 5, 2003 by Tready

IconArt has been featured in the small section, Free File, on a US TV Channel.

TechTV broadcast a 2min section describing the use of IconArt and pointing out some of it's features.

In conclusion the presenter said that although IconArt lacks some of the advanced features of the pay-for-use software, it will satisfy most users.

TechTV.com

Posted 5:59AM GMT, May 13, 2003 by Tready

We have finally opened our general chat forum. So if you want to ask anything non-ConWare related then head over!

Community

Posted 7:06PM GMT, May 5, 2003 by Tready

We are currently working on our own MP3 player.

It is being designed with the idea of instant loading and being increadibly simple to use.

But we want to know what you want to see in it! Please post all your ideas, however unlikey in our forum and we'll do our best!

ConWare's Community

Posted 7:47AM GMT, April 29, 2003 by Tready

We have just released v1.4 which contains several improvements and bug fixes.

For more information click here

Posted 2:45AM GMT, April 27, 2003 by Tready

ConWare has one the Golden Web Award from the International Association of Webmasters & Designers 2003.

Posted 5:15PM GMT, April 20, 2003 by Tready

IconArt has been downloaded by over 50,000 users since it's release back in November.

Since the release of IconArt v1.3 we have seen a steady increase in downloads.

Posted 12:33AM GMT, April 19, 2003 by Tready

InterChat3 is to feature on the cover CD for top Italian computer magazine PC Open.

IC will be included in next month's edition. PC Open has a cirulation of 40,000.

Posted 9:27PM GMT, April 15, 2003 by Tready

We have updated the IconArt support site, removed several unused pages and added a How To... section.

If you have any task in IconArt that you would like to be walked through then please email us and let us know - howto@conware.org

IA support site
IA How To...

Posted 3:57AM GMT, April 3, 2003 by Tready

The latest version of IconArt has now been released.
It now fully supports both static and animated cursers as well has fixing many bugs and improving the update program.

To upgrade click here.

To install for the first time click here.

Posted 7:19AM GMT, April 1, 2003 by Tready

We are just putting last sections of IconArt v1.3 together.

This release features many fixed bugs & smarted updating software.

It also contains complete support for static and animated mouse cursers.

More information soon.

Posted 6:37AM GMT, March 18, 2003 by Tready

IconArt has become the second software package to be included on the cover CD for the leading Indian technology magazine Computer Vignanam.

It has a circulation of over 35,000 and has already included InterChat3 on its CDs.

Posted 5:59PM GMT, February 18, 2003 by Tready

We are just putting the finishing touches onto IconArt v1.3 and it's full curser support!

You can now open and save standard cursers and animated cursers using the masterfully simple animation tool.

More information coming soon.... ;)

Posted 6:11AM GMT, February 5, 2003 by Tready

As requested, we have created a reference file for the latest release of IconArt.

This guide allows you to click on a screen print of IconArt and it gives you a detailed step by step guide as to how it works.

You can see the reference guide here

Posted 6:05AM GMT, February 5, 2003 by Tready

The latest version of IconArt has now been released.

It features a new AutoUpdate program with access to icon packs, a new text tool, asign icon to folder option and massive colour depth and control options.

To update your version click here.

To download IconArt from scratch click here.

Posted 12:30AM GMT, January 21, 2003 by Tready

IconArt will be included on the cover CD of the Febuary edition of the Spanish PC World Magazine.

PC World is part of the IDG publishing group and has a circulation of 100,000 copies.

Posted 3:42AM GMT, January 20, 2003 by Tready

IconArt has won a Lockergnome award and has been featured on an email newsletter to over 250,000 people.

Personalize your Desktop shortcut or File Explorer icons with your own. IconArt is a small utility for creating new icons and editing existing icons. The interface includes a color palette and a tools palette, which allows you to spray, fill, select objects, flip the image, change colors, rotate or move the image, and add masks. You know how the icons on the Desktop are larger than those in File Explorer? No worries here about having to create an identical icon from scratch to make it larger: IconArt can scale to various common icon sizes. Other than the ability to import and convert GIF, JPG, and BMP images to ICO, the program can also extract icons from EXE and DLL file types. Though there is no help file, the tools have ToolTips, which means a small box pops up with the name of the tool when you hover your mouse over the tool. I even successfully imported a GIF of Chris's head and turned it into an icon! For more information on scaling icons of different sizes, check the posts on the ConWare message boards. [Meryl]

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Posted 3:12AM GMT, January 9, 2003 by Tready

We are considering creating a desktop calendar and diary program that will allow you to store all your dates and plans in one easy place.

These are the feature we want to have:

> Monthly and yearly views.
> Set multiply comments on each day and set times.
> Reminders so you don't forget anything.
> Desktop calendar - projects your calendar over your background image on your desktop.
> Save birthdays and other important annual events & receive reminders a week in advance.

Those are our plans which will be added to as we continue to plan the software.

Does anyone have any other features they'd like to see?

Post them online at http://www.conware.org/community/viewforum.php?f=16 or email us with your comments at contact@conware.org

Posted 1:18AM GMT, January 5, 2003 by Tready

None of us know exactly what 2003 will bring us - and as the entre ConWare team will be either starting university or flying off on gap years it really is unknown.

However, what is known is that ConWare will certainly remain active until the summer. We have not decided the practical side of keeping ConWare alive after that but we have 6 months yet.

In the near future things are looking up with a leading French computing magazine requesting to carry IconArt on their cover CD and IconArt's downloads remaining high. InterChat3 has also maintained its steady download record. I should also mention that in the last year we had over 171,000 visits and there were over 1.4 million accesses to our files.

We will be releasing a manual for IconArt very shortly and we are working on an update for IconArt itself that should fix several probelms such as the selection tool.

More announcements soon...

Posted 8:21PM GMT, December 30, 2002 by Tready

A very happy new year to everyone! And all of us at ConWare wish you great success and happiness in the coming year!

Posted 10:57PM GMT, December 5, 2002 by Tready

Unfortunately our web site was hacked sometime around 1930 GMT last night.

Everything has now been restored.

Our main page was replaced with a blank screen containing only the hackers signature. We are working with Hostway to trace the perpetrators.

More information soon.

Posted 5:41AM GMT, December 4, 2002 by RTO

Due to circumstances beyond our control earlier this evening we suffered some minor downtime. During this period it may have been difficult to reach conware.org and run the IC3 update program.

Normal service has now been resumed and everything is working fine!

Again, apologies for any inconvieniance caused.

Posted 11:10PM GMT, December 2, 2002 by Tready

That's about all there is to say. The success of IconArt is totally unexpected and is still growing - 10,000 downloads in it's first two weeks is a great success!

Posted 7:15AM GMT, November 27, 2002 by Tready

Check out IconArt's reviews page for all the latest views of users and popular download sites from around the world...

Posted 2:21AM GMT, November 27, 2002 by RTO

Following their support by mirroring Inter Chat digitalreflections are now providing an FTP mirror of Icon Art.

You can access this via their anonymous FTP at: ftp://mirrors.digitalreflections.co.uk/conware.

Posted 1:19AM GMT, November 25, 2002 by Tready

There are hundreds of emails flying around the internet claiming to be from ConWare. Their attachments contain the W32.Klez.H@mm virus.

They contain two files, one dummy text file normally in txt or html form. And the actual virus in a .bat, .exe or .pif format.

These emails are NOT from ConWare and we recommend you delete any strange email at once.

If you want to send us your comments on this issue or would like help remove the virus please visit our community.

Posted 4:12PM GMT, November 24, 2002 by Tready

We are please to announce that IconArt has rocketed to success in its first week of release.

6,904 users downloaded IconArt last week - smashing our usual 700 InterChat downloads a week...

Posted 4:30AM GMT, November 19, 2002 by Tready

The Runtime error 13 - type mismatch that some users received has been fixed.

You can download the update program from IconArt Support

Posted 4:32AM GMT, November 13, 2002 by Tready

IconArt - the new freeware from ConWare has arrived.

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Posted 2:13AM GMT, November 10, 2002 by RTO

We are currently reviewing ConWare online and would like to know what you think of our website.

What's good about? What bugs you? Is it easy to find the information you want?

There's a thread in the community here for youto post your comments, or alternativly you can email them to me at rto@digitalreflections.co.uk.

We look forward to hearing what you've got to say about ConWare Online and making it better for you!

Posted 1:51AM GMT, October 28, 2002 by Tready

IconArt - the new icon editing and creation tool from ConWare will be arriving very soon.

Starting off simply this program contains all the basic Paint-like tools as well as some a bit special.

Such as a feature that lets you save several icons in the same *.ico file. Another that lets you capture the icons from program or *.dll files. And a feature that lets you import an image and transfor it into an icon.

To get more information and see some screen shots go to the IconArt section.

Posted 7:36AM GMT, October 13, 2002 by Tready

Yep - Thanks to the help of Enrico Arata we can now offer InterChat3 in the Italian.

As always, download it through InterChat's Update program.

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ConWare è lieta di annunciare che InterChat è stata gentilmente tradotta in Italiano da Enrico Arata. Per scaricarne la traduzione lanciare il programma di Update di Interchat, selezionando Updates. La lingua sarà quindi selezionabile dalla videata iniziale di collegamento a Interchat.

Posted 4:10AM GMT, September 24, 2002 by Tready

We now have a spanish translation for InterChat v3.0.9 thanks to Juan Jose Najarro.

You can download it using the InterChat Update program. Simply click on Updates, select the Spanish translation and click download. In InterChat, on the signin screen click Language and find the spanish.icl file. It will be in the Lang folder. You will need to restart IC for the changes to take effect.

Posted 1:25AM GMT, September 9, 2002 by Tready

ConWare has now received well over 100,000 visitors since moving to Hostway in March 2001.

494.6 GB of files has been downloaded in that time!

Posted 12:24AM GMT, August 13, 2002 by Tready

To get it just run the IC Update progam installed on your computer. Click Updates. Select the IC 3.0.9 Update at the top. Download and install.

It is an important update for users of v3.0.8 as there is a major bug in the chat window. If you do not have v3.0.8 you should still install it if possible. Several bug fixes and new feature (from v3.0.8): SoftButtons

Posted 6:42PM GMT, July 25, 2002 by Tready

Visit our community to find out how to fix it.

Posted 6:25PM GMT, July 13, 2002 by Tready

We have release InterChat Reference which contains information on all screens and how they work.

Download it using the InterChat Update program which comes with IC3.

Posted 9:29PM GMT, June 29, 2002 by Tready

We have signed up to PayPal so if you feel you want to donate to ConWare or just find out more about donating, click here

Posted 3:23AM GMT, June 21, 2002 by Tready

We have released a Dutch language file thanks to one of our users!

All the information to get it is inour community.

Posted 2:50AM GMT, June 21, 2002 by Tready

Our new project - an icon editor!

But we want it to be different so if you have a good idea or just want to know more then visit our community.

Posted 2:15AM GMT, June 18, 2002 by Tready

Non essential update for IC3.

Should fix CPU over-use problem.

Also contains increased logging to determine how the ActiveX error occurs.

If you receive this error please email your log.txt file in your InterChat folder to support@conware.org

Update IC3 by using the IC_update program that comes with IC3 or download the update file

Post any questions you have in our community

Posted 2:03AM GMT, June 17, 2002 by Tready

Our server went down last night so if you were trying to update InterChat, email us or visit any part of our site then you would have got no responce.

It should all be back to normal now...we hope!

Posted 7:28PM GMT, June 15, 2002 by Tready

Our server extension for InterChat3.

More information - ConWare Community

Posted 7:26PM GMT, June 15, 2002 by Tready

By simply creating a background image and importning it into the Skin creator you can make your very own skins!

Learn how here

Posted 1:03AM GMT, June 15, 2002 by Tready

There is a virus using our name, and others, to spread the W32.Klez.H@mm virus. It is unclear if it is targeting just us or our users as well so we are issuing this warning.

ConWare almost never attaches files. We also never send any emails without you giving permission first. All files will be linked to our site from the email not attached to it.
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Do not open any of the attached files even if they appear to be sent from our addresses. These are fraudulent. Delete them immediately.

If you have any other questions email us or post your question on our forums.

Posted 12:53AM GMT, June 14, 2002 by Tready

There have been several faults in InterChat3 that have not been experienced by any of the test teams.

We are working on the problems right now and we hope to have a fix within a few days.

TEMPORARY WORKAROUND FOUND - visit the link below.

more details: IC3 Faults page
email us with a fault error@conware.org or use the Help.exe provided with InterChat3.

Posted 3:33AM GMT, June 13, 2002 by Tready

Its here...InterChat3 has arrived...
Finally after a year of research, programming and testing InterChat3 is ready...

More information
Download

If you have any problems please tell us or we can't fix them! contact@conware.org

Posted 3:28AM GMT, June 13, 2002 by Tready

At last, a new site! Its been nearly 2 years since we've updated it and this time with the help of digitalreflections. we've hopefully created a swift, neat and pleasing site!

Take a look around, if you find any problems please tell us so we can sort them out webmaster@conware.org