April
2-3, 2005
Monkie Business
 Pic of the Day: Don't Buy It! -
In this day and age of shopping, we seem to be
caught in the trap of looking for stronger than steel products, money back
guarantees...Items that will last forever plus a day. That's fair. Or is
it? Seems that there are **some** products that one would want to throw away
after use, to deteriorate by the natural "processes." And once you take a
look at this week's Pic
of the Day, we think you will agree. Enjoy (me thinks)!
Pro
Icons for Pro Developers - Miloszwl.com
 Monkie
Time: Spring Forward -
Don't forget! It's time to Spring forward and enter into Daylight Savings
Time. So remember to turn your clocks forward tonight at 2 a.m., or at least
before you turn in for your nightly snooze. Either that, or you will find
yourself well rested but an hour late for your Sunday activities.
Pasta la taco!
April
1, 2005
Icons | Bananas
At The Top - SHEESH...What a day! While on
my way to work, I get a flat  tire
and have no spare. After 35 minutes, I finally get a ride to the tire shop
to purchase a spare and get a ride back to my car. When I arrive, I find
I have received a ticket for parking in a "No Parking Zone!" When
I finally get to work 1.5 hours late, my boss gives me a written warning
with no tolerance for "excuses." After a **horrible**
day at work, getting another ticket for speeding in a school zone, grabbing
the mail only to find out my insurance rates went up (before the above
mentioned incidents), and to find out yesterday's site traffic dwindled
down to a measly 9 hits, I have only one thing to say...April Fools!!!
Hope you didn't fall for all that. But if you did, you best
stop here. Either way, one thing I can say is welcome to this week's Friday
Icon Edition! No bull about it, there's a fine collection of Icons and Bananas
from the Zoo to get you through day. So what do I say? Let's get to it and
do it!
New GOO!
New Icons -
Hold on to your horsies! We've got 3 New Icon Sets in the Gallery for you
to mount on your desktop corral during this week's Icon Edition. Saddle 'em
up and let's ride!
 Girlracer
Design - In from Lisa Cunningham is just what the doctor ordered
with a new dose of GOO from Girlracer
Design! Featuring characters from the TV series of the same title
- Doctor
Who - Lisa debuts her first icon set to set foot at the Monkie Hut
with a great collection of 7!
 elpincho
Designs - No need to go surfin' Safari in Aqua and white when
you can kick some chromaticity butt with Safari
of Colors by elpincho
Designs! Never satisfied with the status quo, the "Pincher of Pixels"
adds new life to Apple's web browser with an amazing array of colors!
 Afterglow -
The most amazing artiste Cian Walsh from Afterglow rounds
up another gathering of the GUI community with Forum
Faces 2! With an entire cast of classic characters, this set is certain
to grab your attention and satisfy your eye candy appetite. Enjoy!
Thanks Department --
Lisa, elpincho, and Cian...
Your work is always a notch above the best!
Keep on keepin' on!
THANK YOU!
Wanna share your work with the world?
Send Us Your Icons!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Most Wanted
An elementary school class goes on a field trip to the police station. The
Officer points to the 10 MOST WANTED list and tells them that these are the
most wanted fugitives in the USA.
Little Boy says " He is the MOST WANTED in the USA?!"
Officer says "Yes."
Little Boy asks "Why didn't you keep him when you took his picture?"
Closed Bull's Eyes
What do you call a sleeping bull?
A bulldozer.
Memory Test
Three elderly men visited the doctor for a memory test. The doctor asked
the first one, "What's three times three?"
"285!" the man replied.
Worried, the doctor turned to the second man. "How about you? What's
three times three?"
"Uh, Monday!" the second man shouted.
Even more concerned, the doctor motioned to the third man. "Well, what
do you say? What's three times three?"
"Nine!" the third man replied.
"Excellent!" the doctor exclaimed. "How did you get that?"
"Oh, it's pretty simple," the man explained. "You just subtract
the 285 from Monday!"
CHARGE!
How do you keep an elephant from charging?
Take away his credit card!!
March
31, 2005
Monkie News | Community
News
 Monkie News
Tomorrow, Tomorrow - Another
day, another 50 cents...And all I do is yak away with my comments. But one
thing I do, is bring news of New GOO for you. In all of about a day, your
Friday Icon Edition is on its way. So now I say all that needs to be said.
And very soon, we all will be fed!
Community News
The Iconfactory - Dave, if
I open the pod bay doors, you're certain to see  the larger than life new
icon collection from the folks at The
Iconfactory! Resident artist Corey
Marion has just released the out of this world icon collection titled Monolith,
the System replacement icons for CandyBar. Thanks to its simple, crisp appearance
and unique perspective, Monolith will give user's systems a makeover from
a completely different angle. It is available as a convenient CandyBar iContainer
to make changing your system icons a snap. Drop by the Showroom at The
Iconfactory and pick them up today!
Live Pencil - Ready for some fun from Live
Pencil? There's a slew of new GOO just waiting for you! Let's look at what's
in store:
- EMOTICONS - April Fool's Day.
- EMOTICONS - More April Fool's Day!
- EMOTICONS
- And more April Fool's Day!!
- EMOTICONS - And even more April Fool's
Day!!!!!!!
- WALLPAPERS - April calendar and more.
Whatever you do, don't be an April fool! Get on over to Live
Pencil and
pick up the GOO!
March
30, 2005
Desktops | On
The Net | Bananas
 At
The Top -
Greetings, all ye Monkie heads! Today I am going to cut straight to the
chase...At least me **thinks** so. First up, we welcome you all to this
week's Wednesday Desktop Edition! Gobs of
GOO, tons of fun...Should keep your eye candy hungries on the run. But
keep in mind, we're dealing with a "Beanless" edition. So you may find
a typo to and fro.
And speaking of Bean...Since Tina is out and about way from
Monkiesville during her Spring break, we may not be updating tomorrow. Now
that me Monkie fingers have spread the news without foaming at the mouth,
let's look at the latest by heading down South!
New
GOO!
New Desktops -
What do we have here? Who about a nice new round of GOO with 4
New Desktops for this week's Desktop Edition! That should say it. Now let's GOO it to
it!
3-D Rendered - What's all the ruckus about?
Well for starters, our
latest contributor Eric
Uner offers up a robust view of the Earth and Moon with Rambus
Five! This out of this world selection was created with Eric's expertise
using Bryce along with Photoshop for some touching up...Not that it appears
to have needed it!
Quite fr4nkly, at first I wasn't full of certainty as to which  departmental
cell to sell the latest great GUI number from FR4NK!
But as you can see in CELL 015,
it merits a big star studded applause as its creative application will
find your eyes most certainly stunned by its amazing effect! And so it
certainly sells!
Desktops - It's still hard to believe that
this Monk was one of  two
in the Monkie family zoo to have an artistic influence on Todd
Darland of Meninx Design!
But Mr. Todd is certainly the one who holds the talent as he brings his
artistic abilities on home to the table with Homecoming.
Come on home!
Etc... - No, there's no need to spike the
punch! All one needs to  do
is get a view of Spike
3 by Dave Hornsby, and
the whole pixel party comes alive! The all too cool critter from Dave's
collection of pet lizards just goes to show that you don't have to be
all warm and fuzzy to look...Well, all warm and fuzzy! Enjoy!
Thanks Department --
Eric, FR4NK, Todd, and Dave...
Keep those great GUI minds churning out the
amazing GOO!
THANK YOU!
Have a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
On The Net
RapidWeaver 3.1 - If you don't know the "code,"
then you will be most  pleased to get your hands on the latest release from
Realmac Software with RapidWeaver
3.1! This
amazing tool is a fine piece of web design software that anyone can use.
Adding over 30 new features, it now includes functions such as direct
FTP publishing, unlimited sub-menus, beautiful CSS based website templates,
and even better iLife integration. When it comes to web design, don't beat
around the bush. Get your page online in minutes with RapidWeaver from
Realmac Software!
TaskTime3 3.4.3 - What time is it? Time for
a another update from To·The·Point
Software! Now available
is TaskTime3
3.4.3, the straightforward method of tracking time spent on
jobs you do for your clients. What might you find this time out for updates?
Let's look:
- Added session by session rates
- Only the description column stretches
when a sessions window is widened
- Mark (check) expense items as billed
- Mark (check) flat rate items as billed
- Preferences option to show session
notes in invoices
- Session description text is italicized if notes exist
for the session
- Fixed bug that occurred when editing a non-US format
date
Now that you've got all that, there's no time like now to get your updated
copy of TaskTime3 from the folks at To·The·Point Software!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Crossover Joke
Question: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: Because the rooster
egged her on.
Eager To Agree
It was a dark, stormy, night. The Marine was on his first assignment, and
it was guard duty. A General stepped out taking his dog for a walk. The nervous
young Private snapped to attention, made a perfect
salute, and snapped out, "Sir, Good Evening, Sir!"
The General, out for some relaxation, returned the salute and said "Good
evening soldier, nice night, isn't it?"
Well it wasn't a nice night, but the Private wasn't going to disagree with
the General, so the he saluted again and replied, "Sir, Yes Sir!"
The General continued, "You know there's something about a stormy night
that I find soothing, it's really relaxing. Don't you agree?"
The Private didn't agree, but then the private was just a private, and responded, "Sir,
Yes Sir!"
The General, pointing at the dog, "This is a Golden Retriever, the
best type of dog to train."
The Private glanced at the dog, saluted yet again, and said, "Sir,
Yes Sir!"
The General continued "I got this dog for my wife."
The Private simply said, "Good trade, Sir!"
Halloween: Which Witch?
What's a witch's favorite subject?
Spelling!
Blonde Diet
There was blonde who wanted to go on a diet. She went to the doctor and
asked for his advice. He said that she was going to go on a diet for three
days.
"Eat anything and everything you want for the first two days of your
diet. Then skip the third day."
So the blonde went home and ate anything and everything she wanted for the
first two days, then she skipped the third day.
The next day she went back to the doctor and he asked her, "How is
your diet?"
She said, "Well, the first two days were easy but that third day was
hard. Doing all that skipping made me really tired."
March
29, 2005
Monkie News | Network
News
Monkie
News
 Coming Up: New Desktops and More -
How do, Monkie heads! Just a quick note to let all of you know that tomorrow
we'll have a new round of GOO with your Wednesday Desktop Edition. As for
the following day, the Bean will be bouncing about the universe as she is
sprung out on Spring break. Therefore, we may or may not update on Thursday
depending on whether we have any incoming Press to report. Otherwise, updates
for the rest of the week should resume as normal. That said, let's get to
some News!
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
Magnificent Marks For Mac Mini -
Most PCs send graphics through the  main memory and processor, but Mac mini
is a great little gadget for graphics, as it has its own graphics processor
and memory card. This is a great example of how Apple is not willing to sluff
off on quality just to make a sale. The company won't even succumb to compromising
looks to save a buck. As a sleek machine with rounded edges, Mac mini screams
of quality from the inside out. - from TechNewsWorld
iPod, Take Me Away -
Of all the techie devices that one could dream of dinking with all day, the
iPod is set apart. Most gadgets are great for goofing around with, but iPod
actually takes people away into a world of their own. Only iPod has the power
to silence the subways because passengers have the white phones plugged into
their ears. Games are fun to play, toys become techier and techier, but only
the iPod brings a change to the entire society by hacking into people's habits. -
from Fortune
Perked Up Payphones - Pay phones down under
are about to be perked up  with plenty of new technologies. The public telephones
will be modernized with cool new color touch screens. They will also be fashioned
with fast connections to high-speed internet. This will allow callers to
send text messages or forward photos. High-speed internet connections will
also allow for video messaging at the pay phones. -
from Excite
March
28, 2005
Community News | Very
Ape | Monkie
Business | Bananas
 At
The Top - And the winner is...YOU! No, the Monkie mouth has not
decided to glue and seal the ol' trap shut. Now that would be the **real**
prize! But we do have a great way to break the Monday blahs with an almost
packed Edition and yet another Featured Link down yonder in the Very
Ape Department. So if you're struggling to get back in the Monday mode
after an extended and restful weekend, GET OVER IT!!! It's time to put
all four feet forward and plunge face first into the work week with a big
ol' smile Monkie style. Let's do it!
Community
News
ResExcellence - If you're a happy Mac Haxter
like this mad Monkie is, you  might be well to be informed that the folks
from ResExcellence are running
on a short update schedule this week. As webmaster Scott Chitwood states,
they'll "broadcast Tuesday through Thursday to be exact." The staff
will hang with family and friends on Easter in lieu of doing our regular
Sunday night coding and uploading." Then Scott will be breaking away for
a trip on Friday to New Orleans to snag six hundred pounds of fresh crawfish
for an AdoptaPlatoon™ benefit. So be sure to make the most of your
Mac hacking experience at ResExcellence Tuesday
through Thursday!
Very
Ape
Featured Link - Look out, smilin' eyes! Another
Featured
Link is before you  and
ready to tout the talents of i...mac@dam!
Isabelle Laffy's material has often graced the face of these Monkie pages.
But now it's time we take a closer look at her many abilities and grab a
taste of our take (found in the left hand column)
of what grabs the attention inside the minds of many. And of course, after
you have taken that short trip, click over to the Links
Page and
check it out!
Monkie Business
Odds and Ends
Country Singer Gone Surfing -
Singer Glen Campbell subbed for Beach Boy Brian Wilson
during their 1965 tour.
A Bunch Of Bull! - The
famous nineteenth-century bullfighter Lagarijo (born
Rafael Molina) killed 4,867 bulls.
Ice Cap -
Antarctica is 98 percent ice, 2 percent barren rock.
The average thickness of the ice sheet is 7,200 feet;
this amounts to 90 percent of all the ice and 70 percent
of all the fresh water in the world. If the ice cap were
to melt, the sea level would rise by an average of 230
feet.
Designing Jobs -
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design
is how it works.
- Steve Jobs
In The Middle -
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise
whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner
is often a real loser - in fees, expenses, and waste
of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity
of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln
To The Top - He who
would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.
- English Proverb
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Not So Doomed Groom
A police officer in a small town stopped a motorist
who was speeding down Main Street.
"But officer." the
man began, "I can explain."
"Just be
quiet," snapped the officer. "I'm going to
let you cool your heels in jail until the chief gets
back..."
"But officer, I just wanted
to say..."
"And I said to keep quiet!
You're going to jail!"
A few hours later
the officer looked in on his prisoner and said, "Lucky
for you that the chief is at his daughter's wedding. He'll be in a good mood
when he gets back."
"Don't count on it," answered the fellow
in the cell. "I'm the
groom."
Blonde Brought Gun to Wedding
Q: Why did the blonde bring a gun to the wedding?
A: She was told she was supposed to hold up the bride's
train.
Pillsbury Dough Boy Dead At 71
Veteran Pillsbury spokesman, Pop N. Fresh, died yesterday
of a severe yeast infection. He was 71.
Fresh was buried
in one of the largest funeral ceremonies in recent
years. Dozens of celebrities turned out, including Mrs.
Butterworth, The California Raisins, Hungry Jack, Betty
Crocker, and The Hostess Twinkies.
The graveside was piled high with flours as longtime
friend Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy, describing Fresh
as a man who "never knew how much he was kneaded." Fresh
rose quickly in show business, but his later life was
filled with many turnovers.
He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much
of his dough on half-baked schemes. Still, even as a
crusty old man, he was a roll model for millions.
Fresh is survived by his second wife. They have two
children and one in the oven. The funeral was held at
4:50 for about 20 minutes.
Cold Redneck
You might be a redneck if you have to go outside to
get something from your fridge!
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