IcoFX Portable 1.6.4 Released

Submitted by prapper on October 22, 2009 - 5:25pm

logoIcoFX Portable 1.6.4 has been released. IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing packaged as a portable app, so you can do your editing on the go and it's in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. It's released as freeware for personal and business use.

Read on for more details...

Features

Screenshot IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

  • Support for Vista icon with PNG compression
  • Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista
  • Support for Macintosh OS X icons
  • Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons
  • Create icon libraries
  • Create favicon for websites or blogs
  • Easily convert images to icons
  • Add, change or delete icons inside exe files
  • Support for transparency (alpha channel)
  • Batch processing for import, export and extract
  • Multiple language support
  • More than 40 effects + custom filter
  • Resolutions up to 256x256
  • Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha
  • Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll
  • Import and export images
  • Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools
  • and much more...

Learn more about IcoFX...

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

IcoFX Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

IcoFX Portable is available for immediate download from the IcoFX Portable homepage. Get it today!

IcoFX is packaged for portable use with permission from Attila Kovrig

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Comments

TheCloudOfSmoke

October 22, 2009 - 5:49pm

I love this application! I've switched over from Axialis IconWorkshop to this because it's lightweight, portable, has all of the essential features (and more) of modern icon creation and best of all... it's free! Great to see that it has joined the PA family now. Smile Nice work guys.

BTW: There is a little part in the features about Blender for some reason.

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John T. Haller

October 22, 2009 - 5:52pm

It was an errant CTRL-V while doing an edit Smile

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Congrats prapper!

Always loved this program - its essential for every PortableApps dev Smile

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OliverK

October 22, 2009 - 9:52pm

Holy Cow Prapper! Great to see your things on the move.

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maj3091

October 23, 2009 - 5:25am

Thanks for making a portable version of this great little tool.

Are there any plans for it's sister app AniFX (ignore that, it's available direct from the website) Smile

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John T. Haller

October 24, 2009 - 11:13am

As prapper mentioned, the test is there. And we'll be releasing it on Monday with AniFX included by permission.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

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OliverK

October 24, 2009 - 1:03pm

Fantastic!

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Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
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Bill Stones

October 23, 2009 - 8:49am

Hello!

I really appreciate the development effort to make non-portable applications portable, e.g. OpenOffice, Thundrbird, etc. They have really changed my computing life. But I really do not understand the recent spate of announcements of freeware that has been portable all along: IceFX (http://icofx.ro/downloads.html), FreeCommander (http://www.freecommander.com/fc_u3_en.htm)

Can someone explain how are the "PortableApps" versions more portable or better than the original freeware apps?

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Darkbee

October 23, 2009 - 9:18am

It's not necessarily that they are "better" or in some cases even different, it's that they are package in a universally accepted, open source, portable format. PortableApps.com has defined a format/structure/method for building and running applications in a portable fashion and other developers are free to adopt this "standard". In fact, it is my understanding that apps like FreeCommander and FreeOTFE (and possibily others) simply create their own PortableApps installer and make it available directly from their website. That is the open source nature of the "standard".

From an end user perspective this means that your apps are more easily updateable; just run the newest version installer and install right over the top of the old version. You don't even have to mess around with zip files. In addition, for the most part you can get your portable apps from one location which makes it easy to see when new versions are available. If my understanding is correct, even this won't be necessary in the future as a universal updater will alert you when new version of apps that you use are available.

It's basically all about making it as easy for the end user as possible, and who isn't for making their lives a little easier?