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Product: CandyBar
Price: $29
Rating: 9/10.0 (Excellent)
Pros: Very easy to use, Pixadex built in, 512x512 icons and docks, new interface.
Cons: Somewhat cluttered interface.
Overall: CandyBar 3 combines Pixadex to store and apply your icons and docks.

Candybar 3 is Panic’s latest release of their icon applying application, new in version 3 is a New Interface, Quick Look, Support for Docks, Smart Collections and much more. They have also built Pixadex, an application for storing icons right into CandyBar, this allows you to store 512x512 pixel high resolution icons and apply them with in the application.  Using CandyBar 3 it is easy to orgainize and change your icons, even those in the hard to find areas such as hard drives, application icons and even badges.

Interface - 10/10 - The interface is a steady upgrade over version 2, it makes use of many of Leopard’s new features, and even has a lookalike Quick Look. All the parts of the main window are very smooth when opening and closing, and allow you to browse a large collection very quickly, easily and fluidly, with short load times.

Features - 8/10 -  The feature set in this new release is very good. Now that you can store, organize, change and view all of your icons and docks easily, it makes an icon collectors job very easy.

From the CandyBar Website;

New Features

  Brand New Interface
  Store and browse icons (and iContainers) with ease

  Quick Look
  Totally integrated: view iContainers in the Finder itself

  512×512 Icons
  Mega sized, hyper detailed, good to go

  Better iContainers
  Save and load icons, and docks, all bundled up

  Super Speed
  Load and browse icons in a flash, thanks to Leopard

  Quick Drop
  Easily apply icons to individual folders

  Organize Docks, Too
  Got an iContainer with a Dock? We’ll hold onto it

  Smart Collections
  Search and build dynamic icon collections