April
11-17, 2005
Tiger Unleashed! -
As anticipated, Apple has announced the release of Tiger,
Mac OS X 10.4.
According to Apple, "it will go on sale Friday, April 29, at 6:00 p.m. during
special events at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers.
Tiger has more than 200 new features and innovations including Spotlight,
a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find
anything stored on their Mac, including documents, emails, contacts and images;
and Dashboard, a new way to quickly access important information like weather
forecasts and stock quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called
widgets."
Single user price is $129 and is currently available
for pre-order at the Apple Store for delivery by April 29. Also available
for purchase is the 10-client edition of Mac
OS X Server for $499, Apple's
award-winning UNIX-based server operating system.
Now that you've got the skinny, hurry over to Apple, get
the complete details, and get your Tiger order in
today!
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The Top - G' day, primates! Things will be a bit quiet around
the Monkie Hut for the next few days as we'll be taking most, if not
all of the remaining week off. There are quite a few things on our
personal plates to get caught up on, one of which includes making some
long overdue updates to the site. If time allows, there is a possibility
we'll pop in for an update or two. But that all depends on how fast
the catching up gets accomplished.
In our absence, feel free to peruse about the site and
be sure to check out the most recent Desktops and Icons here at the Zoo.
If you have an itch for a daily dose of GOO and News, check out some of our
favorite sites such as The Iconfactory, ResExcellence, MacMinute, MacObserver,
and MacNN. Also, don't forget to file
your taxes by the 15th if you haven't
already done so. And of course, keep an eye on that Tiger!
It could be coming any time now.
'Til we meet again, don't forget to play hard, take
it easy, and have tons o' fun!
Monkie Business
Odds and Ends
Deform, Reform -
A species of sponge, called the red sponge, can be pushed
through a piece of fabric so that it is broken into thousands
of tiny pieces. The animal does not die. Rather, all
the pieces reassemble until the sponge returns to its
original form.
Mistake Makes It Great -
Silly Putty started as a mistake in a New Haven laboratory,
and turned into a consumer hit in the 1960s by sheer
chance. According to engineers, Silly Putty is a self-contradiction.
Chemically, it is a liquid, but it resembles a solid.
The molecular structure will stretch if the structure
is slowly pulled. But if tugged, it snaps apart. The
toy has a rebound capacity of 75 to 80 percent, whereas
a rubber ball has only about a 50-percent bounce-back.
A silicon derivative, Silly Putty won't rot; it can withstand
temperatures from -70 degrees Fahrenheit to hundreds
degrees above zero. On top of all that, it picks up newsprint,
often sharper than the original.
Dropped At Birth -
A mother giraffe often gives birth while standing, so
the newborn's first experience outside the womb is a
1.8-meter (6-foot) drop. Ouch!
Forget The Facts -
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They
would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than
a dozen facts.
- Robert Keith Leavitt
Knowledge And Wisdom -
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
Come Together, Fall Apart -
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together
and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Bank Strike
The employees at a bank went on strike, leaving the
bank officers to do the teller's tasks. While the strike
was on, a customer called the bank to ask if they were
open. They told her that they had two windows open.
Then the caller asked, "Is there a reason I can't
I just come through the front door?"
House Party
How do you get a drunk on the roof?
Tell him the drinks are on the house.
The Smuggler
Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle.
He has two large bags over his shoulders. A guard stops
him and says, "What's in the bags?"
"Sand," answered Juan.
The guard says, "We'll just see about that. Get
off the bike."
The guard takes the bags and rips them apart; he empties
them out and finds nothing in them but sand. He detains
Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover
that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags. The
guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, lifts
them onto the man's shoulders and lets him cross the
border.
A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, "What
have you got?"
"Sand," says Juan.
The guard does his thorough examination and discovers
that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the
sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his
bicycle.
This sequence of events repeats every day for three
years. Then one day, Juan doesn't show up. The guard
meets up with him in a cantina in Mexico.
"Hey, buddy," the guard says, "I know
you're smuggling something. It's driving me crazy. It's
all I think about. I can't sleep. Just between you and
me, what are you smuggling?"
"Bicycles," Juan says.
Stupid Birds?
Why do birds fly south for the winter?
Because it's too far to walk.
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