May 9, 2004

Happy Mother's Day!!!

May 8, 2004

Monkie Business | Icons | Desktops

Monkie Business

Mother's Day Edition

Answers given by elementary school age children to the following questions:

Why did God make mothers?

1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

Why did God give you your mother and not some other mom?

1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl was your mom?

1. My mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What's the difference between moms and dads?

1. Moms work at work and work at home, and dads just got to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller and stronger, but moms have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.

May 7, 2004

Icons | Community News | Monkie News | Bananas

At The Top - Yay! The weekend is quickly approaching, and the best way to wind down has already arrived with your Friday Icon Edition! There's new Icons on display, followed by Community News, Monkie News, and fuzzy green Bananas. Kick back, relax, and let's get this show on the road!

New GOO!

New Icons - It's time to feast with this week's Friday Icon Edition! There are 3 New Icon Sets on the menu for your desktop divulgification. Tuck in your napkin and let's get down to dining!

Flax Creations - It's been a long time since we rock 'n' rolled with most excellent GUI master Dan Flax, but that's about to change with one of his most recent creations titled Mechnoid Icons. Being the GUI guru of ResExcellence, as well as master mind of Flax Creations, Dan assembles this cool collection for all your mechanized needs!

Steve Ansell - Bubble, bubble...No toil, no trouble! From the creative collections by Steve Ansell comes more eye candy from his Bubble series with Bubble Folders. If you have a sweet tooth for pure pixel pleasure, Steve line of Bubble design is sure to satisfy your GUI appetite without having to count the calories. Delicious!

Steve Smith - Yahoo! Or that would be Yahoo Messenger for this week's fix from colorful icon creator Steve Smith! With all kinds of class and creativity, Steve always finds a way to to put plenty of pixel pizzazz into the run of the mill "trademark icons." So if you're lookin' to chat Yahoo style, pump up the pixel jams with this powerized pair! Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Steve, Dan, and Steve...

It's quite the privilege and honor to display your pixel talents!

THANK YOU!!

Wanna share your work with the world?

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

StockIcons - Lookin' for the perfect icon for all your application needs? Then we have just the news for you! The fine folks from The Iconfactory have announced the release of Isometric, the latest addition to the growing collection of ready-to-use icons at Stockicons.com. The new collection was designed using an exacting perspective grid and a bright color palette. The Isometric collection has a unified appearance, and emphasizes the technical aspects of projects. To preview and purchase this new set, click your way to Stockicons.com!

Mandolux - Rounding up the week in desktop artwork is Mando Gomez with new designs added to the galleries of Mandolux. Here's a look at the latest:

Mandolux has issued three new desktops: one PiNTURA (Abstract/Art/Giant), one Asiana (Art), and one Auguste Rodin (Art/Giant).

The latest addition is a detailed view of David Alfaro Siqueiros work 'Study for metallic and polychrome door' (1970), quickly "nicked" Siqueiros: Door Study. Move on over to Mandolux and bust down the doors for a eye view of fine art!

Monkie News

"Big News": Delayed - Due to time constraints, the big change announcement mentioned last week will be delayed until sometime (hopefully) next week. Thanks for hangin' in there with us!

- Brad

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

BAD TRANSLATION

A gringo explaining to a Mexican man says that there are three words the Mexican needs to know in order to be all right in the city.

The gringo says these words are: green, pink, and yellow. Then the gringo says "Now tell me a sentence using all three words."

The Mexican says "I hear de telephona ah greena greena, I pink up de phona and say ah yellow?"

RIGHT OF WAY

Q: Who has the right of way any time?

A: The car with a gun rack and a bumper sticker that reads "Guns don't kill people, I do."

THE BIBLE FOR DUMMIES Part I

Amen: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows.

Choir: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the Congregation to lip-sync.

Holy Water: A liquid whose chemical formula is H2OLY.

Hymn: A song of praise, usually sung in a key three octaves higher than that of the congregation's range.

Incense: Holy Smoke!

May 6, 2004

Monkie News | Community News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - Another pixel party is on its way as we prepare for tomorrow's Friday Icon Edition. No jacket required...just bring yourself back to MacMonkies for plenty of New GOO, News, and fun. See ya then!

Wednesday Bump - If you had trouble accessing the ol' Monkie Zoo yesterday, there were a couple of network bumps for an hour or two. Things should be straightened out by now. We'll keep our Monkie toes crossed.

We were also experiencing some bug trouble with Apple's Mail app putting GUI contributor and Press Release e mails in the Junk folder. I believe I have this problem fixed. If you sent us correspondence in the last month or so and have not received a reply, please feel free to resend your e mail and we should get it.

My apologies for the technical difficulties and having a tad bit of the yuckies over hump day!

- Brad

Community News

The Iconfactory - Having a fancy for all kinds of pixel pleasure, The Iconfactory releases World of Aqua: Rev 2 Folders by Factory artist Dave Brasgalla. This set of smooth and elegant folder replacement icons fits in perfectly with Dave's earlier release of Rev 2 Drives and will help give your desktop a clean and hi-tech appearance. Revision 2 Folders are now available from The Iconfactory as either Mac or Windows icons, as well as a Pixadex iContainer. Hurry over to the Factory and get 'em while they're hot!

On The Net

A Better Finder Launcher 1.3 - Once again bettering your Mac is PUBLICSPACE.NET with the release of A Better Finder Launcher 1.3. This keyboard based application launcher for Mac OS X is a great time saver for people who don't like hunting for files in the Finder and who are not satisfied with the limited number of items that can be managed using the Mac OS X dock. The latest update improves the customization of the indexing engines. Make your Mac happier by making your way over to PUBLICSPACE.NET and grabbing the latest version of A Better Finder Launcher!

Simple Weather 1.75 - The ever colourful Mac folks from Colourfull Creations have announced the released Simple Weather 1.75. Simple Weather puts the weather on your desktop for fast and easy reference with an interface that "just gives you the facts" that you will need to keep you informed throughout the day and week. The latest update adds a new feature to check for updates to the program and fixes a problem with forecast information being "chopped off." Get updated on the weather with the latest release of Simple Weather from Colourfull Creations!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Apple Top Digital Dog - Apple is the force to be reckoned with when it comes to digital music downloads. Sales of the iPod have boosted Apple high above all the others. But sooner or later everyone comes up against Microsoft. With Microsoft's new push for digital-rights-management (DRM) software it is hoping to step in and set the standards for digital music. If Apple can stay innovative and continue to widen their selection of songs on iTunes, however, they may be able to hold the digital fort. - from Yahoo

Microsoft Gets Apple Patent - Software giant Microsoft recently received an accidental patent which gave it rights to a newly discovered breed of Apple tree. The incorrect contract gave Microsoft claim to deeply red Apples sold as "Adam's apples." Mixed-up patent papers got intermittently shuffled among other legal sheets in Microsoft's in box at first, but the company has since filed for a correction with the Patent Office. Apparently software doesn't grow on trees. - from ZDnet

May 5, 2004

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Wowza yowza! It's time once again to pummel the hump day blues with a fantastic roll out of GUI goodies for this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition! There's tons of desktop fun plus Community News, Software News On The Net, and a bite of Bananas to insure an ear-to-ear grin. No sense in the Monkie Mouth muckin' up the pixel waters...Let's get this party started!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Whoa, Monk doggies! This week's Wednesday Desktop Edition once again turns lucky with 7 New Desktops in the Gallery! A great group of artists and a fine time in desktop design is guaranteed for all. Let's get to the goods!

Nature - A most amazing view of nature comes from William D. Thompson with Mariposa. Each year the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies make a mass migration to their winter breeding grounds to the forests of Michoacan. Though this butterfly is not a participant, it is amazing as it has a wingspan of some four inches!

 

Desktops - Put on your flight jackets and get ready to fly with the latest, greatest piece from FR4NK titled Wing! FR4NK'S flare for combining great taste with the lustrous look of the Aqua gloss and gleam continue to make strides toward pixel perfection. Once you place this piece in view, you'll be wiping the drool from your GUI eyes!

It's getting better all the time! Fields 3 is one fine GUI specimen by master desktop crafter Bob Wiley. As Bob's intention was to give the impression of shafts of light, it is certain to bring that bright ray light of delight to your desktop view. He definitely made a mission most accomplished!

Back with another lucky hand of artistic style to pass to your desktop is Victor Emert with Sevens. This new number is quite the pic as you will find multiple "sevens" throughout the entire piece. Just how many 7's are in this slick selection? Your guess is as good as mine. But you won't have to gamble to find the work in your desktop favorites!

 

Fun - The man behind the cam focused on Fun would be James Naylor with his latest snorkel of hoo haw titled Just For Fun B. It's always a great thing to know that there is plenty of fun out there in the world to grin about. And sometimes, all we have to do is LOOK! James most certainly has an eye for the smirks and smiles!

 

3-D Rendered - The ever amazing works of Juegen Eilts graces our Galleries with a breath taking piece titled Darkness and Light. This most beautiful selection from the collections at ShiftedReality comes from Juegen's creative mind and is made with Created with Vue 4 Pro. Certainly one of his best works to date!

 

Logos -Just when you thought that the series of "excellence" had come to a close, MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles found yet another variation on a groove with ResEx Groovey! This piece inspired by the great Mac "hacker's" of ResExcellence went through a number of stages: From Bryce to multiple filterings in Photoshop. Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Victor, William, Bob, James, Juergen, and FR4NK...

Wholey Monkie Cow buckets!

You all have made for the finest collections

of desktop design around!!!

THANK YOU!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

Mandolux - Mando Gomez steps up the week in GUI activity with a new desktop added to the galleries of Mandolux. Just issued is a new Asiana desktop titled Vajravarahi - the Tibetan goddess associated with the triumph over ignorance. The work dates to the 14th century (Nepal) and it is made of fiber, stucco, and pigment over an iron frame.

On The Net

xBack 3.1 - Bring your desktop alive with xBack 3.1, the latest release from Gideon Softworks! xBack is a utility that allows you replace your desktop with a screen saver or xPak. In the latest version, pressing F11 (Expose) no longer hides xBack saver and some bugs have been fixed. Get yourself over to Gideon Softworks, grab the latest update of xBack, and breath new life into your desktop before the doldrums set in!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

BLONDE STATE OF MIND

A blonde was bragging about her knowledge of international capitals. She proudly said, "Go ahead and quiz me. I know all of them!"

Her friend said, "Okay then, what's the capital of France?"

The blonde replied, "Oh, that's so easy! 'F'!!!"

GHOSTLY GASP

Why do ghosts always shake and moan?

Because it's darned cold beneath those sheets!

DUCK TALES

A duck walks into a bar and asks the bar tender, "Got any 'gwapes'?" And the bartender replies, "No, sorry I don't sell grapes here." So the duck leaves and goes home to rest.

The next day he walks into the same bar and asks the bar tender, "Got any gwapes?" The bartender replies, "No, sorry I don't sell grapes here." The duck leaves and goes home to rest.

The next day, he goes back to the bar and asks the bartender, "Got any gwapes?" The bartender angrily replies, "I don't want to have to tell you again, I don't sell grapes here and if you ask me again I will nail your beak to the counter of the bar!" The duck leaves and goes home to rest.

The next day the duck goes to the bar and asks, "Got any nails?" The bartender looks at him and screams, "No, we don't have any nails!" The duck then asks, "Got any gwapes?"

May 4, 2004

Monkie News | Network News | On The Net

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Goodbye Monday! Hello to the eve of your Wednesday Desktop Edition!! It's always a good thing to get past the mundane Mondays and have something to look forward to. And that is just what you will find as we have some great new desktops on hand for tomorrow's Desktop Edition. There's less than 1440 minutes to go. So synchronize your Monkie watches and come on back on Wednesday for plenty of fun!

On The Net

Menu Master 1.1.1 - The fine folks from Unsanity have announced the release of Menu Master 1.1.1, a haxie that allows you to change or remove menu shortcut keys in any application with ease. It takes about 15 seconds to learn how to use Menu Master, and saves you lots of time. Several new features and fixes have been added to the latest version that include:

• Setting a keyboard shortcuts for a menu extra now installs a global hotkey for the key combo.
• Double delete! Hit the delete key twice while selecting a menu item that has a custom key to restore the original.
• The preference pane now "cleans" the preferences.
• No longer erases new preferences on fast or dual processor Macs if the preference pane is open and a new key combo is set in an application.
• Made menu key assignment happen much earlier. This fixes a lot of problems with keys not sticking or not working until the menu is opened.
• No longer assigns keys to the wrong menu item if the correct one has multiple matching criteria (index, command id, or item title)
• Fixed a crash that could occur in very rare (but possible) circumstances if a menu key combo no longer existed but did at one point.
• Redesigned the preference pane a little.
• And much, much more!

Get into mastering your Mac's Menu and check out all the details on the updated version of Menu Master from Unsanity. Get to it!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

iChat AV In Apple Stores - Apple is putting it's own products to good use through iChat AV. Not only can friends and businesses use iChat AV to communicate, but users can talk to Apple store representatives as well. Certain computers in the stores are used to communicate through iChat AV, and each is set up with it's own screen name. Though there is not always someone available to answer invitations to chat, the connection can be made easily to any Apple store around the world. - from ifo Apple Store

MP3 Concert Keychains - Soon concert-goers will be able to play songs recorded live for friends the minute they get home. A kiosk has been created in which fans can get live recordings in MP3 format. After concerts, fans swipe their credit cards to buy a lighter-sized, 128 megabyte hard drive they can hang on their keychains. Then they insert the pen drive and select the songs they want. The MP3 tunes are transferred directly to the pen drives, which can then be transferred directly onto computers. - from cnews

May 3, 2004

Community News | On The Net | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - Boy...That weekend went by in a breeze! And the weather here has changed from the snow to sunny 70 degree temps. I guess I best not yack too much as we have a packed Monday Edition with Community News, Software News On The Net, Monkies Business, and Bananas to kick start the week. Lezz doo it too it!

Community News

Rampant Mac - Woo hoo! GUI Maestro Scott Chitwood crawls out of the cyber woodwork with a new update at Rampant Mac! Placing pleasing pixels as emphasis for this round of desktop wonders, Scott adds two new pieces ready to fill that Rampant GUI void you've been suffering. ArtDesk no.16 and ArtDesk no.17 are available as Scott's most current works to dazzle your eyes. Run like a rabbit to Rampant Mac and stock up on the fun!

PlasmaDesign - Great new GUI fun has been added to the desktop galleries at PlasmaDesign! There are now three new dual monitor wallpapers to choose from. Each have been rendered at a resolution of 3200 x 1200 pixels and made with a Mac. All three can be previewed simply by swinging over to the web's premier supplier of high quality desktop images for Macs: PlasmaDesign!

Live Pencil - After a hard day's rain (among other things), Ramon Gonzalez Teja of Live Pencil manages to pull out bunches of GUI greatness to plop a big pixel smile on your face. Here's a look at all the latest:

• Emoticons - "Don't worry, be happy" says our SMILING MASK 
• Wallpapers - MAY calendar and more.
• SLIDE PUZZLE!!!!  - This week a little more difficult. 
• Hidden Image - I love last week's Hidden Image!

When it rains, it pours. But Ramon has not been snoring as he has a ton of fun for all your GUI wants and needs this week at Live Pencil. Check 'em out!

Mandolux - Mando Gomez of Mandolux starts the week's climb with a new desktop titled The Falling Man. Counting his love of art, this week starts with a detailed view of Rodin's The Falling Man. The work is a photograph concentrating on the left hand while having the rest of the body out of focus. If you have a craving for great taste in desktop art, hurry over to Mandolux and fill up from the menu!

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On The Net

Button Builder 4.0.1 - Hot diggity dog! Another cool update is ready for the taking with the release Button Builder 4.0.1 from the Mac app builders at Realmac Software! This revolutionary new button design package allowing users to create buttons for Web, Multimedia and FileMaker projects includes the following updates:

• Export Button to JPG
• Background color supported
• Documentation improved
• Apple Help added
• Theme drawer resize bug fixed

This fantastic app makes building buttons a breeze! So get your booty over to Realmac Software and grab a copy of Button Builder for a new look made with ease!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Bingo! - Bing Crosby recorded more than 1,700 songs for commercial release between 1926 and 1977. Bing's real name was Harry Lillis Crosby. The nickname was given to him by a childhood friend who thought the young Harry resembled "Bingo," the lead character in their favorite comic book, "The Bingville Bugle."

Cold Drink - Drinking lowers rather than raises the body temperature. There is an illusion of heat because alcohol causes the capillaries to dilate and fill with blood. In very cold weather, drinking alcoholic beverages can lead to frostbite.

Nipped Kitty - Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine. Eeeeeew!

In The Know - Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts!

STUMPY LEGGED PINK DOG

A guy walks into a bar with his dog on a leash the barman says, "Geez that's a weird dog: he's stumpy-legged, pink, and doesn't have a tail, but I bet my rottweiler would beat the heck out of it."

50 bucks is laid down. Out in the yard the rottweiler gets mauled to pieces.

Another drinker says his pit bull will win but the bet is 100 bucks.

Another trip to the yard and when it's all over there are bits of pit-bull terrier all over the place. The drinker pays up and says, "Say what breed is that anyway?"

The owner says, "Until I removed his tail off and painted it pink it was the same breed as every other alligator."

CAN'T SLEEP

What do you get when you cross a ballerina with an insomniac?

Someone who will dance the night away!

NASA ENGINEERS

Three NASA engineers - one from headquarters in Washington, one from the Johnson center in Houston, and one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena - were discussing whether it was better to have a wife or a mistress.

The HQ guy said it was better to have a mistress, because they are more understanding of the long absences required of a NASA employee.

The Johnson guy retorted, "Oh, no, one must always follow proper rules and procedures, and marriage is the proper procedure, so it is better to have a wife."

The JPL engineer replied, "No, it is better to have both. That way, you can tell your wife that you're with your mistress, your mistress that you're with your wife, and go to the lab and work."