April
22-24, 2005
At
The Top - Okay folks! Sometimes the tongue-tied and twisted words
 of
whacked out creativity don't come to mind as easily as ex·lax does
its duty. But that doesn't mean that this Monkie doesn't have a job to
do. So without further ado, it's time to welcome you to this week's
Friday Icon Edition! We've a great round
of GUI goodies, Community News, SW Updates, and Bananas for your footies.
After that, let your weekend begin where the work week ends. That should
make all ends meet. All said, your eyes should be happy and so should your
feet...Let's boogie! Update: Taking the weekend
off. See you Monday!
Pro
Icons for Pro Developers - Miloszwl.com
New
GOO!
New Icons -
Hot diggity dog! With iCandy hardware, fishies, and well dressed penguins,
who needs a frog?! So clear your throat and get ready for the latest in pixel
sensations as there's 3 New Icon Sets on hand
for your Friday Icon Edition. And once you've seen our take on these fantabulous
goodies, be sure to visit each author's home on the web. 'Nuff said...Let's
get to the GOO!
 i...mac@dam -
Howz about a little funky Monk to begin this session of icon
pixel pleasers? That's just what you will find in
iTux 2, along with 11
other distinguished characters dressed up and designed by Isabelle Laffy
of i...mac@dam! For you, no
jacket required!
 iAphan.com -
There's no need to visit the lost and found when around looking for fine
dining sea food delight! Finding
Nemo 2.0 by
Alphan Gunaydin of iAlphan.com provides
for another journey into the whimsical water world of Pixar's hit
production of animation!
 FOOOD's
Icons - Back with a second serving of pixelicious eye candy fun
from FOOOD'S Icons. For
course number two in the Zoo comes iCandy
Junior Part 2. As it's our privilege to present the talents of master
pixel crafter Jono Hunt in this exclusive 4 part package, you're the
real winner in the pixel extravaganza! Enjoy!
Thanks Department --
Isabelle, Alphan, and Jono...
Though you can't hear my Monkie tongue a flappin',
I'm proud to say your talents are where the
pixels are happenin'!
THANK YOU!
Wanna share your work with the world?
Send Us Your Icons!
Community News
StockIcons.com - Always adding great new GOO
to their line-up of high- quality, affordable royalty-free collections of
icons, StockIcons has just announced
their latest release with Carbon:
Database Add-On. Building on the success of the "Carbon" series,
the new set extends into the realm of databases with icons covering such
specialized concepts as tables, scripts, records, and many others. The collection
contains 52 unique icons in multiple sizes and formats and is available today
for only $179.00. If you're a developer or designer in need of high quality
icons, then hurry over to StockIcons and
check out their latest creation!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
It Might Be The Light.
Deep In the back woods, a hillbilly's wife went into labor
in the middle of the night, and the doctor was called out to assist in the
delivery. Since there was no electricity, the doctor handed the father-to-be
a lantern and said, "Here. You hold this high so I can see what I am
doing." Soon, a baby boy was brought into the world.
Whoa there, said the doctor, "Don't be in such a rush to put that lantern
down. I think there's another one coming." Sure enough, within minutes
he had delivered a baby girl. "Hold that lantern up, don't set it down
there's another one!" said the doctor.
Within a few minutes he had delivered a third baby.
"No, don't be in a hurry to put down that lantern, it seems there's
yet another one coming!" cried the doctor.
The redneck scratched his head in bewilderment, and asked the doctor, "You
reckon it might be the light that's attractin' 'em?
Snake Bite
"I hope I'm not poisonous," said the first snake.
"Why?" asked the second.
"Because I just bit my lip."
Shrewd Investment
A woman walks into a bank in New York City and asks for the loan officer.
She says she's going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow
$5,000. The bank officer tells her that the bank will need some kind of security
for such a loan, so the woman hands over the keys to a new Rolls Royce that's
parked on the street in front of the bank.
Everything checks out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral
for the loan. An employee drives the Rolls Royce into the bank's underground
garage and parks it there.
Two weeks later, the woman returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest,
which comes to $15.41. The loan officer approaches her and says:
"We are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction
has worked out very nicely, but we're a little puzzled. While you were away,
we checked out your accounts and found that you were a multimillionaire.
What puzzles us is why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"
"Well, where else in Manhattan can I park my car for two weeks for
fifteen bucks?"
Why God Created Woman
Q: Why did God create women?
A: Because God took one look at men and said, "I know I can do better than
this."
April
21, 2005
Monkie News | Network
News
Monkie
News
 Tomorrow: New Icons - Short
and sweet? Can I do it? Hmmm...Let's see. Tomorrow - Friday. New Icons. New
laughs. New SW Updates...Is there something else? Am I missing something?
Arrrrrrgh!!!! I CAN'T STAND IT! How am I supposed to keep me mouth shut?
Okay. It's done did. So with that said, be sure to swing by tomorrow for
your Friday Icon Edition. Now it's time for me to split before I **really**
go ape!
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
Surreal iPod Sound - Wherever white ear buds
are seen one can only speculate as to what world the iPod listener is being
transported. Along the busy streets of Chicago for example, one iPodder was
being transported back to the eighties while another was being transported
clear to Rome through a downloaded podcast. And since the iPod sound is so
clear and pure, iPodders are often found caught in a surreal sound experience,
pinching themselves and asking "Is it live or is it iPod?" -
from Chicago
Tribune
Name Of The OS Game - Whether it comes to
Mac or PC, it is clear that the search has become the name of the Operating
System game. Both Tiger and Longhorn promise extensive search engines within
their very own programs. Searches will be performed by document name, composer
name, or even words contained within the document. Apple already has a spectacular
search tool on its new OS, and Windows is promises something similar. -
from ZDNet
Playlist As Personality Profile -
In this age of digital downloads the new  tool for defining people's personalities
has become the playlist. Co-workers may appear to be calm, cool, and collected,
but be careful not to judge a co-worker by their cover because his or her
playlist may paint a completely different picture of them than is seen professionally.
So if it is a possibility to sneak a peek at someone's playlist, one may
be able to get a clue about his or her true colors. -
from San
Francisco Chronicle
April
20, 2005
Desktops | Community
News | Bananas
At The Top - From time to time it's time
to take the time for a time out from the daytime's untimely events and
find some time for your worries to take a time out! PHEW!!! Guess that
means it's time to kick back, relax, ignore the fax, and and get the knack
with this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition.
Add to your GUI tea a spot of Community News and Bananas, and you won't
even need to mind your manners. So now that we've got the "Top" down, let's
get to the goods and go to town!
New GOO!
New Desktops -
One, two, three...4 New Desktops are now available
for your eye candy enjoyment! Need we say more? Let's move like a Monkie
and have some fun!
Desktops -
Think different, design different, make a difference! Seems
about the only real way for that difference to really come to fruition
is to Be
Different! And that is exactly what must be going through
the mind of Milosz Wlazlo from Miloszwl.com.
No need to listen to our blabbering about. We'll let your eyes be the
judge!
If
you really want a dose of crazy GOO, your eyes will go  coconuts
once they get a heapin' helping of the resplendent colors found in PsychoSwirl!
This in-your-face desktop selection by Dave
Hornsby will dazzle you with
delight and dance your blues away into the night. Just be sure to put on
your shades!
Seems there's a bit of swirl about the Monkie Hut for this round of
GUI treats! So as we swoop down on the second splash of swoosh, it seems
most appropriate to introduce Swirl
2 from the talented hands of Neil
Roberts. We're certain you'll agree that this most amazing selection
is perhaps one of Neil's finest to date!
Etc... -
Back with his "keep it simple" design and style is the  master
of the Mac Billboards series - Mr. Francisco Bennett of XÅERO
STUDIOS! This week's "billboard"
feature spotlights the legendary man himself, Steve
Jobs. One quick glance at this exceptional selection, and you'll
wonder why Francisco is not on Apple's GUI team. Enjoy!
Thanks Department --
Milosz, Dave, Neil, and Francisco...
Your excellence in design has left this Monkie
tongue speechless!
THANK YOU!
Have a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Community News
The Iconfactory - With Apple's up-and-coming
Operating System almost out of the gate, why not take Tiger out for a drive
**before** it gets here?!! That said, let us turn your attention over to
The Iconfactory as they have released their latest freeware icon set: WOA:
Tiger Drives. This tasty new set by resident pixel nut Dave
Brasgalla is certain to fit right at home on the new OS's desktop and give your
friends something to drool and marvel over. What are you waiting for? Drive
on over to The Iconfactory and grab your download today!
warrior~poet - Looking for a package full
of pixel fun? Then fun it is!  Jamie McCanless of warrior~poet has
just announced the release of Just 4(D) Fun.
This set of 20 playful icons was created using Gaston, the
interactive 3D rendering of 4D quaternion Julia set fractals. This
quick-ish set of bright, shiny designs is a bit like maneuvering the crane
of a carnival game into snagging elusive toys. But this time, your eyes get
the prize whence you move your mouse over to warrior~poet and
get a good long look!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Organ Music
Q: Why can't skeletons play music in church?
A: Because they've got no organs.
Go Forth And Multiply
After it was all over and Noah lowered the ramp of the ark for all the
animals to leave, he told the animals "To go forth and multiply."
All the animals left except two snakes who lay quietly in the corner of
the
ark.
"Why can't you go forth and multiply?" demanded Noah.
"We can't," answered the snakes. "We're adders."
The Constitution
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just
give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked
for over 200 years in the US, and heck, we're not using it anymore.
Brace Face
A ding-bat went to the dentist and the dentist told him he needed braces.
The ding-bat said, "Why? I can walk just fine."
When the dentist explained
to the ding-bat that braces are for his teeth, he said, "But my teeth
don't walk..."
Heard It On The Pew
Two little old men were attending a rather long church service. One leaned
over and whispered, "My butt is going to sleep."
"I know," replied his
companion,"I heard it snore three
times."
April
19, 2005
Monkie News | Community
News | On
The Net | Network
News
Monkie
News
 Tomorrow: New Icons - Don't
blink, don't twitch, don't bat an eye! We all know how fast time flies. And
before you know it, today will be gone and tomorrow will arrive with your
Wednesday Desktop Edition...So don't be shy! Twiddle your thumbs and scratch
your ears. For in the flare of a Monkie's nostrils, your mid-week GUI grab
will be here!
Community
News
widget : widget - Master pixel crafter Alexander
MacLean from widget :  widget has
just announced a fantabulous new icon set up for grabs titled The
Aqualicious 100. This cool new pixel package catalogues most of the
Aqualicious icons from the past three years. And if you have an addictive
eye candy icon appetite like we do, you'll want to hurry with a flurry over
to widget : widget and grab the
the collection ASAP! Do it to it!
On The Net
Default Folder X 2.0 - On the hunt for your
favorite folder? Don't be searching too long as you can get the latest enhancement
to the Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS X from St.
Clair Software with Default
Folder X 2.0! Enabling you to set a default folder location for each
of your apps, this major update includes the following:
- Compatible with Mac OS 10.4 "Tiger"
- Now makes Save As dialogs work more intuitively in
many applications. When saving an existing document, the Save dialog
will initially show the folder that contains that document.
- When you use Default Folder X to open a folder in
the Finder, you
now have the option to choose whether to jump immediately to the
Finder or to finish what you're doing first.
- Preference loading and saving has been revamped to
reduce the
incidence of corrupted preference files.
- Many compatibility and performance issues have been
addressed.
And of course, getting your free upgrade couldn't be easier! Simply slip
over to St. Clair Software, check
out the details on , Default
Folder X and get to downloadin'!
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
Apple's Final Cut - A new power packed software
package has been  announced by the big Apple. The National Association of
Broadcasters were the first to hear of the hyped up Final Cut Studio. It
is crammed full with Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2, and DVD Studio
Pro 4. Final Cut Pro 5, Motion 2, and DVD Studio Pro 4 are all upgraded versions
boosted up with fabulous new features while Soundtrack Pro is a brand new
Apple baby built to bring buffed up sound quality to videos. -
from MacMinute
Team Wrestles With Mac - Mac has been giving
the wrestlers of the World Wrestling Entertainment more muscle. Actually,
it has been giving more muscle to the special effects team behind the scenes.
The team uses Motion, Shake, and Final Cut Pro to make the motions, shakes,
and cuts of the world wrestlers much more marvelous to watch. Apple has aided
the team in breathing a big sigh of relief by putting the finishing touch
on the frames so fast that the team members are actually able to squeeze
in a second or two of spare time. - from Apple
Microsoft's Power iPod Play -
In answer to the Apple iPod, Microsoft will  be releasing a Portable Media
Center that not only plays songs and displays photos, but also plays movies
and television shows. The device will supposedly be handheld and use only
Microsoft software. Though the company may hope to combat some of iPod's
success with this new portable plaything, it may be in for a surprise because
Apple has already cornered many aspects of home entertainment and Apple products
just look better. - from GlobeandMail
April
18, 2005
Community News |
On The Net | Monkie
Business |
Bananas
 At
The Top - Hmmph...What a week! Right outta the shoot of last
week's Monday madness, I be travelin' down the road in me Monk-mobile
and seeming out of nowhere, another vehicle crosses traffic and...WHAM!!!
The ol' metal munch did a good crunch on both vehicles. No one
initially appeared injured. But the Monk-mobile - which was purchased
only 3 weeks prior - took a quick trip to the junkyard retirement
home.
So, perhaps needless to say, all the extra site work I had
planned for the previous week did not get any attention. It will have to
wait for another moment of quiet time, if there **is** such a thing! For
now, we'll just dive back into the happenings of world of all things Mac
and happy and put on a big ol' Monkie smile! Shall we?!!!
Community News
Live Pencil - Bringing you
the latest loot is the master mind of GOO at Live
Pencil - Ramon Gonzalez
Teja! Here's a look at his most recent GUI gems: 
- EMOTICONS - I'll be waiting.
- EMOTICONS - I'm still waiting!!!
- Just for fun SLIDE PUZZLE!!!! - Beautiful
sunset.
- This
is last week's HIDDEN IMAGE.
All of them pixels in one locale means you are but one click
away from fun at Live Pencil...Go
get 'em!
On The Net
A Better Finder Rename 6.9 - Recently released
from the folks at  PUBLICSPACE.NET is the Finder enhancement - A
Better Finder Rename 6.9. This cool tool is a contextual menu
plugin for the Mac Finder which allows users to quickly rename multiple files.
The latest version now allows you not only to convert Macintosh files names
to legal Windows NTFS file names, but also into account limitations of the
SMB Windows file sharing service. You can get all the info and download A
Better Finder Rename with a simple click to PUBLICSPACE.NET!
Monkie Business
Odds and Ends
Too Cold For Snow -
It only snows about 2 inches per year over most of Antarctica.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was in
Antarctica at minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Big Drip -
A dripping hot water faucet wastes an average of 40 kilowatt-hours
of electricity per month. This is the equivalent of running
a color television 8 hours a day for about 31 days.
No Rhyme -
There are no words in the English language rhyme with
month, orange, silver, or purple. What
about Maple Surple???
You Too Can Become Great -
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make
you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Same Ol', Same Ol' -
Same old slippers, Same old rice; Same old glimpse of
paradise.
- William James
Problems And Answers -
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served
afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Perfect Employment Package
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources
Officer asked a young Engineer fresh out of MIT, "And
what starting salary were you looking for?"
The Engineer replies, "In the region of $125,000
a year, depending on the benefits package."
The interviewer enquires, "Well, what would you
say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays,
full medical and dental, company matching retirement
fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every
2 years say, a red Corvette?"
The Engineer sits up straight and says, "Wow!
Are you kidding?"
And the interviewer replies, "Yeah,
but you started it."
All In The Punctuation
An English professor wrote the words, "Woman without her man is nothing" on
the blackboard and directed his students to punctuate it correctly.
The men wrote: "Woman,
without her man, is nothing."
The women wrote: "Woman: Without her,
man is nothing."
Physics
A college physics professor was explaining a particularly
complicated concept to his class when a pre-med student
interrupted him.
"Why do we have to learn this stuff?" one
young man blurted out.
"To save lives," the professor responded before
continuing the lecture.
A few minutes later the student spoke up again. "So
how does physics save lives?"
The professor stared at the student for a long time
without saying a word. Finally the professor continued.
"Physics saves lives," he said, "because
it keeps certain people out of medical school."
Statistics
47% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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