March 12-14, 2004

At The Top - G' day! New Icons and good News from all around the Community is what we have in store for ya as we roll out another fine Friday Icon Edition! Kick back and let your eyes do the roamin' as we wind up another wild and whacky work week. Pump up the jams!

Enter Your Icons At Pixelpalooza 2004!

New GOO!

New Icons - Time to start this Pixel Party as we pull out the GUI goodies for this week's Friday Icon Edition. There's 3 New Icon Sets and 1 new Icon Artist to the galleries as we prepare to wow your icon eyes! Let's Rock 'n' Roll!

PROvider - Our first icon rocker simply known as the PROvider cranks up the pixel tuneage with a most original set titled iPod Dancers. This sweet new set was inspired by the Apple iPod adverts on TV & London Underground. Your desktop will soon be toe tappin' and ready to dance the night away once it gets a good look at this great set. Turn up the tunes!

 

Steve Ansell - One great thing about the work of Steve Ansell is that there is never a dull moment with his creative contributions to the GUI world. Recessed grabs a whole new perspective in icon design as they let you sink into their cool creative style rather than pop out an icon eye! You'll never look at icons the same after getting a good glance at this set!

Seldom are we privileged to get a double shot of delicious GUIness, but today is one of those tasty exceptions! Paper Documents is this week's second set from Steve Ansell that serves as a great treat for your desktop's design. With this cool collection, Steve offers tromp l'oeil for the rest of us. That is, your eyes might just be convinced that the real thing is just a pixel touch away. Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

PROvider and Steve...

Your creative originality is an inspiration

to all iconists everywhere!

THANK YOU!!

 

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

Mandolux - Mando Gomez makes some of the best desktop place mats for your desktop dining around! Here's a quick menu of the latest GUI treats up for eats at Mandolux:

Mandolux has issued five new desktops: one Refracted (Nature/Abstract), one Graffiti (Art), and three Giant Petals (Nature).

No one needs to go hungry when you can find fine dining available 24/7 at the great GUI diner at Mandolux. Check 'em out!

On The Net

Speed Download 2.3.2 - Making the fastest download manager available even better, Yazoft announces the release of their flagship utility Speed Download 2.3.2. Here's just a few of the latest improvements:

• Optimized for both dialup and broadband connections
• TURBOCHARGED downloading
• Auto-resuming downloads
• Reveal in Finder technology
• Remote and Rendezvous downloading support
• Up to the minute updates for all Macintosh apps
• And so much more!

Why ride a turtle when you can fly like a Monkie in motion?! Move that Monkie tail and cruise over to Yazsoft for your updated version of Speed Download!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

WORDS OF WISDOM? Part II

5. Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

6. Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.

7. Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

8. Never buy a car you can't push.

LIFE BEGINS AT 40

Recently seen pinned to the desk of an IT technician:

"If life Begins at 40, what are the years 0-39? Rehearsal?"

NEWS FLASH!

Newspaper Headline (Finance Section): "Diaper Market Bottoms Out"

WHAT SHE WANTS FROM A MAN

Original List (age 22):

1. Handsome
2. Charming
3. Financially successful
4. A caring listener
5. Witty
6. In good shape
7. Dresses with style
8. Appreciates finer things
9. Full of thoughtful surprises
10. An imaginative romantic

Revised List (age 72):

1. Breathing
2. Doesn't miss the toilet

March 11, 2004

Community News | On The Net | Network News

Community News

Live Pencil - Another great update comes your way from Live Pencil. Here's a look at what's in store:

• EMOTICONS: SMILEY'S nose will grow and grow and grow...
• LIVE TEXT: Insert this word in your ordinary text...TREMBLING WORDS.
• ANIMATIONS: Once again, from our latest Advent Calendar...Wind!
• SLIDING PUZZLE : Remember, a new one every week.
• TICKLE ME : What'll happen to this tennis ball? Try it...Click Here
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week...This is last week's Hidden Image!

If you're in need of a big fat grin, Live Pencil is just the place to begin! Do it to it!

On The Net

A Better Finder Launcher 1.1 - The folks from PUBLICSPACE.NET are pleased to announce the release of A Better Finder Launcher 1.1, the keyboard based application launcher for Mac OS X. Version 1.1 introduces many new features:

• Index and launch documents as well as applications
• Configure the search locations for the disk scan
• Configure the document types you wish to index
• Manual disk scan
• Automatic disk scan configuration
• Re-designed user experience
• Tips & tricks page

The new version of A Better Finder Launcher can be downloaded from PUBLICSPACE.NET's website.

Network News

the WebWorld - Bean Head

iPod Promotes Personal Space - It's no bull, according to researcher Dr. Bull, that Apple's iPod is helping people to regain their inner space. In a culture where the population is visually bombarded every time they turn around, citizens are turning to sound as a release from the madness. The iPod has become so important to people because it puts owners back in charge of their own choices. It acts as a shield, a shelter from the storm of the whacked out world. - from BBC

Monkie Business - A citizen of New York was saddened when he had to hand over his monkey buddies this week. He had six monkeys in his apartment keeping him company. His prized pets were well behaved and weren't bothering anybody, but authorities decided they needed a better place to literally hang around than his apartment. While they took the man's monkeys to find them some trees, he did get to keep his dogs, cat and fish. - from Yahoo

March 10, 2004

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Ready for a bellyful of good GUI treats? This week's Wednesday Desktop Edition is packed full of the fat filled plump pixels you enjoy the most! Plus there's plenty of news from around the Community that will provide a nice well balanced diet of Mac fun. Let's start chewin'!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Hoo doggies! The great desktop works just keep rollin' in! So this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition features 2 new artists and 7 New Desktops for your desktop's delight. Let's dig in!

Nature - Bringing a breath of fresh air in Nature's form is Max Vrooman with his beautiful rendition of Pointsettia. Max's work is quickly becoming popular around the Monkie Barrel as even the BeanHead has pushed his work to the top of her favorite list. And we all know how picky the Bean is! Excellent stuff!

 

Desktops - Brand new to the Monkie Zoo is the artist known as FR4NK with a fabulous piece titled Formes. This most amazing work of art stands in a class of its own with FR4NK's own special blend of desktop design. We're certain you'll love this great work as well as more that are on their way!

Show time! Marcus Reimann steps out of his usual pixel shoes and enters in with a spectacular number called The Incredibles. This flashy eye design from Marcus' home of Threeland.de features the logo of the up and coming super hero flick of the same name. Between Marcus and the film, will the real Mr. Incredible please stand up?

Slippin' in stylish design with the magic muscle of the Mac is the slick Styles by Jameson Sasser. This bright, bold, and beautiful desktop design by Jameson is reminiscent of the days when the classic iMac came in all its glory of the fruit filled colors. A definite hit for your desktop collection!

Answering the age old question of what love is...Get ready for a big burst of GUI love from Bob Wiley with his latest masterpiece titled Love Is (Burst)! Bob's artistic abilities have certainly blossomed with a big burst of awe and style as we're confident your eyes will agree! Superb!

Wholly Cow! Well, maybe that best be BULL! The keen eye of William D. Thompson catches the daring move of the Matador with desplantes. Not sure which subject in this great pic is making the rudest of moves, but this digital depiction captures the action with a bold olé!

 

3-D Rendered - Gads! Sometimes the abstract creations of MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles are a bit tough to categorize in the naming department. But with a huge stretch of the imagination, one might catch a glimpse of Martian Bounce in the recent Rover landings on Mars' mysterious red surface. Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

FR4NK, Marcus, Jameson, Bob, William, and Max...

WOW!

What a SPECTACULAR gathering

of artistic abilities!!!!

THANK YOU!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

The Iconfactory - Get yourself geared up for another fantastic icon release from the pixel pushers at The Iconfactory! Yesterday's Icon Tuesday yielded another fine installment of Gedeon Maheux's popular Clipper System style with the release of Clipper System 3. Available for both Mac and Windows, the latest Clipper legacy includes Iconfactory applications like CandyBar, Pixadex, additional Panic applications, and other popular titles including versions of Adobe's creative suite. If you've got to jump ship, clip over to The Iconfactory and grab a copy of Clipper System 3!

Mandolux - Another round of desktop delight is available from Mandolux. Just issued is a new Graffiti desktop titled Crackled, a semi-tilted photograph of a stucco wall cracking up and covered in red and yellows/oranges sprayed markings. There's no sense in letting your imagination conjure up the image. Get the full picture as you make your way to Mandolux!

On The Net

MaxBulk Mailer 3.2 - The Mac programmers to the max at MAX Programming are proud to present a new maintenance release of Maxbulk Mailer 3.2, now available for download. Several important bug fixes have been addressed in their email-merge solution for Mac users that supports plain text, HTML and rich text formats including optional plain text alternative and attachments. For all the details, make for the max with MaxBulk Mailer at MAX Programming!

Maxi Bidder 1.9 - The folks from Colourfull Creations have recently released Maxi Bidder 1.9, the popular eBay snipe tool for Macintosh eBay Bidders. The update includes:

Support for Canadian Dollar and native Canadian bidding, Support for Australian Dollar and native Australian bidding, Support for Adjusting time offset in 30 minute increments, Enhanced Time Sync that correctly states the date and time, Resolved a problem when clicking on an item from the list to place a manual bid the type was not getting set, Resolved a problem of timed bidding when the auction ended at 00 minutes and 00 seconds, Resolved a problem of eBay auto bids not being correctly placed, and Resolved a problem of incorrectly detecting an outbid message.

If you want to make the most of your eBay bidding, grab the latest update to Maxi Bidder from Colourfull Creations!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

THAT DOES NOT COMPUTE!

Why was Stonehenge abandoned?

It wasn't IBM compatible.

HOW MANY FLATS?

A computer salesman, a hardware engineer, and a Microsoft software engineer are driving in a car together. Suddenly the right rear tire blows out, and the car rolls to a stop. Our three heroes pile out to investigate.

The salesman tsk-tsk's sadly. "Time to buy a new car!" he announces.

Says the hardware engineer, "Well, first let's try swapping the front and rear tires, and see if that fixes it."

Replies the Microsoft software engineer, "Nah, let's just try driving the car again, and maybe the problem will go away by itself."

I NEED GLASSES? DO EYE EVER!

"Doctor, doctor! I need glasses!"

"You certainly do, ma'am. This is a barber shop."

March 9, 2004

Monkie News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Another spectacular gathering of desktops is just around the corner as we ready up for your Wednesday Desktop Edition! Some fine new desktops are on their way from some of the finest desktop designers on the net. Boogie back to the Monkie Barrel right here at MacMonkies for a good old fashioned good GUI time!

On The Net

Pixadex 1.5 - Your GOO GOO googlin' icon eyes are probably plenty happy right about now! As we hinted yesterday, the fine folks from Panic and The Iconfactory have released the latest greatest icon indexer with Pixadex 1.5! The newest version offers over 25 new features and improvements, many of which have been requested by fans of the software since its release. Notable new features and improvements in version 1.5 include:

• Arrange icons in collections manually or via attributes
• User specified locations for Pixadex's icon library.
• Import, store, search and re-export any Windows based .ico icon files
• Pixadex can now customize individual volume (HD) icons
• And many, many more!

EasyFractal 3.1 - Have the fondness for fractals? Good news is here! Berkhan Software has announced the release of EasyFractal 3.1! EasyFractal calculates fractals (Mandelbrot and Julia sets) in real-time. Users have a vast amount of setting options at their disposal, which can yield fantastic images full of beauty and wonder if set properly. The latest update is now Panther compatible, three new iteration functions are ready to be explored, and a starting value can now be specified for Mandelbrot sets. If you have an infinite affection for fractals, get yourself to Berkhan Software and grab the latest installment of EasyFractal!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

The Major iPod Mini - An article in USA Today proclaims the iPod Mini as "a phenomenon." It states that this dynamo digital music machine mesmerizes people from the moment they hold one in their hands. Customers' concerns about its cost go out the window once they experience this hot little hummer for themselves. iPod Mini is selling out so successfully the major magazine has labeled it a "smash hit." - from MacObserver and USA Today

Paper PC - Is it cardboard, is it paper, no! It's a PC made of paperboard! A company called Cypak AB has developed the disposable device and it is currently being used in Sweden. Mostly the machine is used for healthcare and pharmaceutical purposes as a storer and collector of data. It is by no means up to par with other PCs, however, as it only has thirty-two kilobytes of memory. Talks are taking place in which the paper PC could be marketed in the United States shortly. - from Techweb

March 8, 2004

Community News | On The Net | the Apevine | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - Eeeewww! Dunno about the rest of you, but this Monday is one to look forward to after having a weekend of the yuckies. So I guess it's time to put on some smilies and paint on some grins in hopes to make it through the rest of the week without a case of the blahs. Ready, steady...Let's do it!

Community News

Live Pencil - Hot diggity doggities! The smiliest GUI spot on the web - Live Pencil - has updated with all kinds of cool new GOO! Let's look:

• EMOTICONS: Hands, more hands, LOTS of hands!
• ANIMATIONS: Xylophone playing music for you.
• IT IS YOU: As always... Lot's of fun! It'll make you laugh!
• PUZZLE: Always awesome. Always real fun!
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week...Please look for it, keep searching!

If you're in need of a big fat grin, Live Pencil is just the place to begin! Do it to it!

Mandolux - In from the desktop design house of Mandolux is news of Mando Gomez's newest Giant Petals set titled Xavierre. This new piece is a macro photograph of a yellow tiger lily petal with some wonderful texture throughout the desktop. Mosey on over to Mandolux and get a good look at this great new pic!

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On The Net

CandyBar 1.6.3 - The computer candy keeps a comin' from the fine folks at The Iconfactory and Panic! Just announced is the release of CandyBar 1.6.3, the popular system icon customization utility. The latest version contains several important updates including full qualification for the next Mac OS X release - 10.3.3, fixes an important bug fix that prevented reverting to default icons on unqualified system versions, and adds drag and drop support for the impending release of Pixadex 1.5. The update is a free upgrade and is strongly recommended for all CandyBar users. Get your icon eyes over to The Iconfactory and grab the latest greatest version of CandyBar!

the Apevine

Almost Here! - Just a quick note for all of you Factory fans: Reliable word has it that the release of Pixadex 1.5, the cool tool from The Iconfactory to store, organize, and search icons, is just around the corner! We're certain that you'll be pleased as purple pixel punch once it is let loose for a world wide release. And how soon will this debut come about? Perhaps soon enough to send your Monday blues into cyber space oblivion! Keep your icon eyeballs peeled for Pixadex 1.5 coming to a Factory near you!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Peanuts - The Peanuts were first animated in 1957 for a Ford Fairlane automobile commercial. Snoopy stood on two legs for the first time in a 1958 strip. Snoopy and Charlie Brown appeared together on the March 17th, 1967 cover of Life Magazine. The Apollo X astronauts took the duo into space in 1969. Charlie Brown hits a game-winning home run on March 30, his first in 43 years. Unfortunately - he NEVER got to kick the football.

Tricky Sticky - The famous cow used as the corporate symbol on all Elmer's products is actually named Elsie, and she is the spouse of Elmer, the steer who the company is named after.

Stupid Intelligence - Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

- Remy De Gourmant

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts!

BIG FISH TALE

What do you do if you're trapped inside a whale?

Run 'round and 'round till you're all pooped out!

WRITE THIS ONE DOWN

Knock, knock

Who's there?

You ever hear the joke about the broken pencil?

You ever hear the joke about the broken pencil who?

Nevermind, it's pointless.

BEYOND THE GRAVE

When Mozart passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Mozart was buried.

Terrified, the drunk ran and got the town magistrate to come and listen to it. When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, "Ah, yes, that's Mozart's Ninth Symphony, being played backwards." He listened a while longer, and said, "There's the Eighth Symphony, and it's backwards, too. Most puzzling."

So the magistrate kept listening; "There's the Seventh...the Sixth...the Fifth..." Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, "My fellow citizens, there's nothing to worry about. It's just Mozart decomposing."