April 18, 2004

More Monkie Business

Pic of the Day - Oh my...Oh my, my, my! Am I going to get in trouble again! But oh well...What's new? So what is this I am rambling about? Well, if women ruled the world, which I s'pose they do at least half of, things would be a lot different. Just take a look at this choice view for our Pic of the Day, and you will see what I mean! Now it's time for me to go hide!

Enter Your Icons At Pixelpalooza 2004!

April 17, 2004

Monkie Business

Monkie Business

DUMB STUFF

~ If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

~ Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Do not try this at home (Maybe at work).

~ If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

~ A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

~ The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. That would explain alot!

April 16, 2004

Icons | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - No need to be frantic...It's finally Friday! And that, of course, means it's time for your Friday Icon Edition! There's plenty of GUI goodness on hand accompanied by a good helping of Community News, Software News On The Net, and Bananas too! Let's enter the Monkie Zoo and get to the GOO!

New GOO!

New Icons - Lookin' for a great GUI time? Well, you've come to the right place! There's 3 New Icon Sets on hand that are certain to make your Mac happy! Let dig in!

DV Graphics - Ready for a stash of icon class from the Iconize Me! innovator? DV Graphics' Paul Sahner brings you a taste of the City Life with his latest work of icon art. This superbly crafted set of hand-drawn creations gives you an inside view of the world that surrounds the icon artist's everyday outlook!

WatiWorks - You'll fine plenty of fine Icon dining with Wati Larke's latest taste on the GUI menu: Coffee Culture. With twice the taste and plenty of icon calories, this delicious new set from WatiWorks offers a most satisfying way to fill your GUI appetite and still leave your eye candy eyes longing for more!

Black Widow - Lookin' for Icon flash mobile style? The mighty Minis from the ever creative Black Widow is sure to get things rollin' with his latest cool icon auto collection. These cool compact cars will find the perfect home parked in your desktop garage. But you better hide the keys or someone else may want to take them for a spin! Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Paul, Wati, and Black Widow...

Simply AMAZING!!!!

THANK YOU!!

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Community News

Mandolux - Mando Gomez continues to fill the galleries of Mandolux with most amazing desktop works. Here's a look at this week's latest:

Mandolux has issued five new desktops: three Giant Cityscapes (Defocused/Dual Monitor), one Fire Redux (Night/Landscape), and one Cap (NY Yankees).

The most recent addition is an excellent giant dual monitor desktop titled Cityscape (Defocused): 405. As the titled implies, this is an intentionally taken out-of-focus photograph of a cityscape and the 405 refers to a local Freeway in Southern California. Hit the cyber highway and head to Mandolux for a look!

On The Net

IconBuilder Pro 5 - The fabulous pixel folks from The Iconfactory have released the latest version of their professional icon construction filter: IconBuilder Pro 5.0! This most excellent icon assembly tool, for use with Adobe Photoshop, adds several important features including support for building 24x24 pixel Windows toolbar icons as well as custom 128x128 Windows icons. Other additions and enhancements include:

• New stand-alone application - IconExaminer included for examining Mac & Win icons in the Finder
• Movable grid positions
• Increased compatibility when opening certain .ico and .icns files
• New command-keys for common functions

Registered users of IconBuilder Pro 3.x / 4.x can upgrade to the latest version for $20.00 USD. All of the details about this fabulous icon tool can be grabbed simply by clicking over to the IconBuilder Pro homepage. Let's get to movin'!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

ALIEN SAFETY BELT

Buckle up! It makes it harder for the aliens to snatch you from your car.

SERMON ON TEMPERANCE

A southern minister was completing a temperance sermon. With great expression he said, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river." With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river." And then finally, he said, "And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river." Sermon complete, he then sat down.

The song leader stood very cautiously and announced, "For our closing song, let us sing Hymn #365: Shall We Gather at the River."

STATISTICS!

Three statisticians go out hunting together. After a while they spot a solitary rabbit. The first statistician takes aim and overshoots. The second aims and undershoots. The third shouts out "We got him!"

TAXING SITUATION

A man had fallen between the rails in a subway station. People were all crowding around trying to get him out before the train ran him over. They were all shouting, "Give me your hand!" But the man would not reach up. Joe elbowed his way through the crowd and leaned over the man. "Friend," he asked, "What is your profession?"

"I am an IRS agent," gasped the man. "In that case," said Joe, "Take my hand!"
The IRS agent immediately grasped the Joe's hand and was hauled to safety.

Joe turned to the amazed by-standers and declared, "Never ask an IRS agent to "give" you anything, you fools!"

April 15, 2004

Monkie News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - If you have a thang for icons, be sure to swing back by tomorrow for your Friday Icon Edition! Another great group of artists have been gathered together to make for a fine time in Icon design. Don't put your desktop on a diet. Fill up on the fun this Friday at MacMonkies!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Music Sales Rise - Some presume that the panic of piracy has put music sales on the downswing the last couple of years. Sales have been rising lately, however. Music sales rose by nine percent compared to this time last year. CDs are on the upswing as well as digital downloads from online music stores such as the iTunes Music Store. The industry hopes to increase its income as it takes hold of technology. - from BBC

More Efficient eMac - Apple has announced the availability of its new and improved eMac. eMac is the most popular Mac among schools and fits kids like a glove. Improvements include faster processing and the 8x Superdrive. The more affordable machine has also added applications that perform with Panther to make the most of music and movie manipulation. - from ZDnet

April 14, 2004

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Weeee doggies! It's time to roll out another fine round of digital design with this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition! There's some radiant new desktop works accompanied by Community News, Software News On The Net, and Bananas to get you over the hump day blues. Let's get down to business!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Your GUI eyes are sure to shine once they get a good look at the 5 New Desktops in store for this fine collection of artistry gathered together in the Desktop Gallery! Pull out your spectacles and get ready to be amazed!

Nature - The desktop hostess with the mostest, Ms. Joy Tallant - GUI girly from grnluvbug, brings some fun in the sun in more ways than one with a bright selection titled Sunflower. Joy's everlasting cheer shines right through with this most delightful digital endeavor. Plus there's no need to worry about any allergies getting in the way of enjoying this slice of Nature to its fullest!

Your desktop is certain to be smelling quite nicely with the latest work of digital design from William D. Thompson titled The Yellow Rose of Texas. Even though this beautiful subject was photographed in Mexico, the blooms of the prickly pear cactus are sometimes known further north as the "The Yellow Rose of Texas." They do look rather like a wild rose, don't they!

 

Fun/Logos - He's done it again! Fantastic FR4NK has sent another marvelous Desktop selection that lands itself in both the Logos and the Fun Departments with MacMonkies TV. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of the Monkie Business cyber style, in comes this great desktop. Now all you have to do is place this pic as your background and tune in 24/7!

 

3-D Rendered - By no means are the skills of Bob Wiley rusting away! But you'll find an antiquated look of one of his previous desktop entries with Converge Rustic. Bob simply makes a smooth switch in the appearance time continuum that will make for a sure hit amongst your desktop collections. Unlike a Monkie mug, some things look better with age!

Which way is up, or rather out?! MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles explores the possibilities with a new number titled Sunnyside Out. This new desktop piece was rendered in Bryce, with additional modifications made with Eye Candy 4000 filters in Photoshop. A nice way to get the pixels a poppin' on your desktop! Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Joy, William, FR4NK, and Bob...

You all are so incredibly talented!

Keep up the outstanding work!!!!

THANK YOU!!

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Community News

The Iconfactory - Kewl Kat Kate England brings more GUI joy to The Iconfactory with the latest freeware icon collection: Las Vegas Vol. 2. These graphic and bold icons pick up where volume one left off - on the Vegas strip and ready for action. If you've been caught up in the popularity of poker and games of chance, then these icons will feel right at home on your Mac or Windows desktop. Plus it's available as a handy Pixadex iContainer. Don't wait, head over to the Showroom at The Iconfactory today before someone else hits your jackpot!

Mandolux - Just in from Mandolux is word of a new Fire Redux desktop titled SoCal Burning. The photograph was taken back in November when the fires were raging all over Southern California. The pic shows three things: the distant glow against a hill late in the night, the star constellation of Orion, and since this is Southern California - a palm tree. Rev up your cyber browser and burn rubber over to Mandolux for this hot new number!

On The Net

xBack 3.0 - Gideon Softworks, Inc. announces the immediate availability of xBack 3.0. This ultra-cool tool allows you replace your desktop with a screen saver or xPak. With xBack, you can bring your desktop to life. New in this version:

• You can run your selected saver on one or all displays
• Added xpak support
• Numerous bug fixes

In addition, there's a special upgrade price for Registered users of xBack 2.x. Get yourself over to Gideon Softworks to upgrade to the latest, greatest version of xBack!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts!

CORPORATE TOASTERS Part II

If Timex made toasters, they would be cheap and small quartz-crystal wrist toasters that take a licking and keep on toasting.

If Fisher Price made toasters, 'Baby's First Toaster' would have a hand-crank that you turn to toast the bread that pops up like a jack-in-the-box.

If Microsoft made toasters, every time you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buy a toaster. You wouldn't have to take the toaster, but you'd still have to pay for it anyway. Toaster '05 would weigh 15,000 pounds (requiring a reinforced steel countertop), draw enough electricity to power a small city, take up 95% of the space in your kitchen, would claim to be the first toaster that lets you control how light or dark you want your toast to be, and would secretly interrogate your other appliances to find out who made them. Everyone would hate Microsoft toasters, but nonetheless would buy them since most of the good bread only works with their toasters.

E.T.'S EYES WIDE SHUT

Why are E.T.'s eyes so big?

Because he saw the phone bill!

SEVEN THINGS MEN WON'T SAY

1. Let's watch Lifetime!

2. Sex is overrated.

3. There is nothing I like better than crawling into bed with a good book.

4. My hips are too big.

5. Aw, can't we watch Oprah?

6. Does this suit make me look fat?

7. I'll never get tired listening to Celine Dion.

April 13, 2004

Monkie News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Icky poo poo! Still got the crud. But tomorrow's Wednesday Desktop Edition ought to make all things all better! There's a fine time in desktop design headed your way from fantabulous artists from all over the Web. Make your way back on Wednesday to the GUI Galleries right here at MacMonkies. No prescription required!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Mac The Miracle Pill - Apple has shown itself to be a blessing to that part of the population which has grown up from the good old days. Mac makes it easier for old-schoolers to partake in new technology through its operating system and creativity. Not only that, but some who are tentative toward technology in general have actually embraced it through the iPod and Garageband. If it weren't for Apple, a lot less geezers (affectionately speaking) would become computer geeks. - from Santa Cruz Sentinel

Jobs Picky With Pixar - Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, is being particularly picky with how he handles Pixar. He is offering to put Pixar back on Disney's plate as long as they oust Michael Eisner, current Disney CEO. Since parting Disney, Jobs has held talks about Pixar with other potential partners. But the talk now is that those talks have been stopped until Jobs hears from Disney regarding his most recent pitch. Disney's Board has already taken serious steps toward canning Eisner, and Jobs' offer may speed up the process. - from MacObserver

"The Passion" Rises Again - Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ is making movie history in more ways than one. First it outsold "The Lord Of The Rings" at the cinema. It was number one for three weeks and graciously bowed down the next three weeks. But for Easter weekend the film did something never seen before and rose again back to number one. Not your typical entertainment for the eyes, this epic just can't seem to settle down. Whether the message will make history with the masses the way the movie is has yet to be seen. - from Excite

April 12, 2004

Community News | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - Aaaaaack patueeee!!! What a way to spend the Easter weekend...Done caught the crud! Guess I can consider myself fortunate that me Monkie Mac didn't catch a Spring virus. Bad joke? Yes. Bad cold? Yes again. But neither bad will interrupt our regularly scheduled spin to begin another week of grins. Let's get on with the good stuff!

Community News

Pixelpalooza People's Choice Award - Calling all pixel peepers! There's only one day left to cast your vote for the Pixelpalooza People's Choice Award over at The Iconfactory! There are tons of awesome icon entries in this year's design contest for you to toss your attention to and grant your nod of approval. By casting your vote, it's a great way for you to show your support for all the incredible efforts of the outstanding Iconists. Voting ends at noon on Tuesday, April 13th, 2004. Get yourself over to The Iconfactory and vote in this year's Pixelpalooza People's Choice Award before the polls are closed!

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Odds and Ends

Sound Familiar? - The easiest sound for the human ear to hear, and those which carry best when pronounced, are, in order, "ah," "aw," "eh," and "oo."

Twice As Old! - In many countries, it is the custom to wish friends a "Happy Birthday" on January 1st, rather than a "Happy New Year." This day is nicknamed "Everyman's Birthday," and is considered the day when everyone becomes a year older, whether it's their actual day of birth or not. Similarly, this practice is observed in horse racing. No matter when a race horse is born, they all "become" a year older on New Year's Day, although there are no records explaining how or why this came to be.

A Very Long Year - Since Neptune's discovery in 1846, it has made about three-quarters of one revolution of the sun.

No Refund, No Recall - Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

- Horace

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts!

GOT CAKE?

Have you been eating cake lately?

Why?

Because you look a little crumby.

TALKING DOG

This man sees a sign in front of a house "Talking Dog Free to Good Home." He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the back yard. The man goes into the back yard and sees a mutt sitting there. "You talk?" he asks.

"Yep," the mutt replies.

"So, what's your story?"

The mutt looks up and says "Well, I discovered this gift pretty young and I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA about my gift, and in no time they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, cause no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable spies eight years running. The jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting any younger and I wanted to settle down. So I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security work, mostly wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings there and was awarded a batch of medals. Had a wife, a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired."

The man is floored...but says to the owner, "This dog is amazing, incredible...Why on earth are you giving him away?"

The owner replies, "He lies through his teeth!"

CORPORATE TOASTERS Part I

If Xerox made toasters, you could toast one-sided or double-sided. Successive slices would get lighter and lighter. The toaster would jam your bread for you.

If Radio Shack made toasters, the staff would sell you a toaster, but not know anything about it. Or you could buy all the parts to build your own toaster.

If Apple made toasters, it would do everything the Microsoft toaster does, but five years earlier.