June
10-12, 2005
At The Top - PHEW! Though I haven't exactly
done the work of two, it  looks
like I've made the week through and through. But my feat is not what's
important here. It's your Friday Icon Edition that makes it so dear. So
though I may ramble from to and from fro, for cryin' out loud! Let's get
to the dough! There's News and there's News and Bananas to boot, for your
eyes only we hope we will suit. Rhyme and time and rhyme and again, let's
get to the loot and let the fun begin!
Pro
Icons for Pro Developers - Miloszwl.com
New GOO!
New Icons -
Good day, funshine! What better way to wrap up the work week than with a
gathering of bright-eyes pixel "tails" as we add 3
New Icon Sets for this
Icon Edition! I couldn't have said it better if I thought of it myself...Or
did I? Oh well. Let's get on with the show!
 i...Mac@dam - All she has to do is wave
her magic pixel wand and... Shazzam! In comes Isabelle
Laffy's latest gather of marvelous GOO titled The
Magician Suite. Straight from the galleries of i...Mac@dam,
this pixel package contains 22 icons of the Adobe Creation suite. Could
this be magic? Oh yeah!
 Leslie Javorek - Is it a star studded rock
band? A fasted footed football team? None of the above. It's Bangles
ToolPack by Leslie
Javorek! She describes this cool collection
as an "unusual set of icons inspired by Grandma's gaudy, celluloid & bakelite
baubles." Okay Leslie, you got me there! Got or not, a great set!
 FOOOD's Icons - For the fourth and final
installment of Jono Hunt's iCandy Jr. series, we're pleased as purple pixel
punch to roll out iCandy
Junior Part 4! This most tasty collection of cross platformed
icons from FOOOD's Icons features
30 CD Cases that will take you places your eyes have never seen before!
Thanks Department --
Isabelle, Leslie, and Jono...
Absolutely refreshing!!
THANK YOU!
Wanna share your work with the world?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send 'em in!
Community
News
The Iconfactory - Though
we always keep our eyes peeled for the latest and
greatest in pixel pleasers from The
Iconfactory, somehow we slipped and failed to mention their latest
release: Neko
Koneko by the most amazing Mindy
Weaver! This cool desktop pic features the mischievous character from the
popular anime series Azumanga,
Daioh. All ya gotta do to get your copy of this cool new desktop is to
head over to The Iconfactory's sister
site - the
DeskStop - and download
your size of choice today!
On The Net
HistoryHound 1.8 - You ain't nothin' but a
...Okay. Elvis is **not** in the  building! But HistoryHound
1.8 from the
folks at St. Clair Software is! This cool tool for indexing and
searching web pages that you've bookmarked or visited recently now offers
a more refined user interface for tracking down pages
you've viewed in Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, OmniWeb, Camino, Mozilla/Netscape,
Opera, and Shiira web browsers or the built-in browsers of the NetNewsWire
2 and PulpFiction RSS readers. Just type in a word or words that appeared
on a page you've seen before, and HistoryHound will find it! Additional improvements
make HistoryHound an even faster and easier way to return to places on the
web that are important to YOU. All of that said, there's no time like now
than to click your way over to St.
Clair Software and get yourself up to
date!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Another Place, Another Time
The Pope, Billy Graham, and Oral Roberts were in a plane crash over the
Atlantic Ocean. Tragically they all died and went to the pearly gates together.
St. Peter was surprised to see them. "Oh, dear! We weren't expecting
you and your quarters aren't ready yet. We can't take you in and we can't
send you back!" Getting an idea, he picked up the celestial phone and
called Hell's gatekeeper.
"I have three gentlemen who are ours, but
their places aren't ready yet. Could you put them up for a couple of days?
I'll owe you one." The gatekeeper reluctantly agreed.
Two days later, St. Peter got a call. "Pete, this is Hell's gatekeeper.
You have to come get these three guys that are yours. This Pope guy is forgiving
everybody, the Graham fellow is saving everybody, and Oral Roberts has raised
enough money to buy air conditioning!"
Blue Light Special
How can you get four suits for a dollar?
Buy a deck of cards.
Cars Of Different Colors
What do you call a country where everyone has to drive a red car?
A red carnation.
What do you call a country where everyone has to drive a
pink car?
A pink car-nation.
What would the country be called if everyone in it lived
in their cars?
An in-car-nation.
The Lighter Side
How many church members does it take to change a light bulb? "Change?
What do you mean change? My grandmother gave the church that light bulb!"
How many nursery workers does it take to change a light bulb? "They
don't change anything. They wait for the parents to come by after church!"
How many singers does it take to change a light bulb? "Only one, but
she'll need six weeks preparation and will get upset if you don't put her
name in the bulletin."
Then on the other hand...How many atheists does it take to change a light
bulb? Who knows! They're standing in the dark arguing whether the light bulb
exists or not!
June
8-9, 2005
Desktops | Community
News | On
The Net | Bananas
At The Top - Ha ha...I haven't
**totally** lost me mind yet. Er, wait. Guess ya can't lose what you don't
have to begin with! Yup. That's a given. Or is that a "taken?" Oh well.
Whether giving or taking, we have one thing to give. And that would be
some fine new GUI goodies for your Wednesday Desktop
Edition! And of course,
where would we be without a good dose of Community News, SW News On The
Net, and Bananas? Certainly not in Havana. Or would we? Who knows. Let
just start the show...Shall we?!!
New GOO!
New Desktops -
Spiffity doo dah! It's time once again to spruce up your GUI juice as we
add 4 New Desktops to your viewing pleasures.
So let's let the Desktop Edition do the talkin' and me mumble mouth do the
walkin'!
Logos - Though the 2005 season will mark
97 years since the Cubs last won a world championship, one can still go
with their gut and Believe that
the "curse" can be broken! This "faith based" pic by Jeff
Smith displays the baseball team's logo with the extra incentive
of its title. Hey...If the Red Sox can do it, why not the Cubs!
Desktops - A little of this, a little of
that...A shot of Chicago,
 Lake,
Lincoln makes for a great big GUI view with the latest in the
sky scraping Chicago series by Bob
Wiley! Combining the best of a bird's eye view of Chicago Lake and
Lincoln Park, Bob and Octavie Yence make for an amazing background for
your desktop's delight!
Nope. This ain't no Soft Cell. In fact, it's perhaps the very best  desktop
hit from Jameson Sasser to date! And so you
will see once you lay your eyes on Tainted
Chaos, a piece portraying what has been going on in his mind as of
late. You'll most likely see the anger as well as the sadness that was
present when he was making it. Excellent!
3-D Rendered - Watch your step. That
first one's a doozy! Slipping in
with a 3-D shot of Saturn, Neil
Roberts most magnificently manipulates the view found in Titan
Crater False Color. This ultimate eye-scape of the second largest
planet in our solar system gets in the groove with Neil's all too cool
designing perspective. Totally out there...Enjoy!
Thanks Department --
Jeff, Bob, Jameson, and Neil...
Keep up the fantabulous work!
THANK YOU!
Have a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Community
News
Design Mood - Stepping up the GUI festivities
at Design Mood, TAB has  announced
a new icon set for iPod developers now available for purchase! Sunny
iPod Set was designed especially for iPod Software and can be seen with
a simple click.
And of course, a the set can be purchased for the great price of only $199.00
(€ 126.18). That said, check out the new
set and all of the other wonderful
goodies from Design Mood!
On The Net
TaskTime3 3.5 - When it comes to cool new
updates, let's get right down to the nitty gritty! The folks from To•The•Point
Software have released TaskTime3
3.5, the app that allows a straightforward
method of tracking time spent on jobs you do for your clients, generating
personalized invoices which can be emailed, printed, and
saved to disk. New in version 3.5:
- Option to round session times to a selected interval
- Now accommodates
invoice graphics of higher resolutions
- preference options for items to
include on invoices (sessions, expense items, flat rate items)
- Added horizontal scrolling
on Report window
- Added preference item to have expenses/notes/flat-rate
items drawer open automatically when a project is opened
- Several bug fixes
Since this upgrade is
FREE to registered users of version 3.0 or later, there's no time like
now than to sprint over to To•The•Point Software and get the latest
version of TaskTime3!
iClip lite Is A Winner! - You already knew
that iClip
lite from the creative MacAppers
of Inventive was
a hit. But with their latest news, they're due for a nice round of applause!
iClip lite for Apple's Dashboard has been selected by DashboardWidgets.com as
the best in their "Favorite
Widget" contest, whose grand prize was a Mac mini. iClip lite enables
you to quickly to store and retrieve snippets of information like text, pictures,
Internet addresses, and more in its multiple "clip bins." If DashboardWidgets.com finds iClip lite such a
fine utility, then we're certain you will too. Hurry over to Inventive and
check it out!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
So Blonde That...
Tripped over a cordless phone.
Thought ya needed a token to get on "Soul Train."
Spent 20 minutes looking at the orange juice can because it said "concentrate."
Told me to meet 'em at the corner of "WALK" and "DON'T
WALK."
Asked for a price check at the Dollar Store.
Studied for a blood test.
When missed the 44 bus, took the 22 bus twice instead.
When went to the airport and saw a sign that said "Airport Left," turned around and went home.
Sold the car for gas money!
Hello Good-bye
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've
forgotten this before.
The Seagull
A father was at the beach with his children when the four-year-old son ran
up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore, where a seagull lay
dead in the sand.
"Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked.
"He died and went to Heaven," the dad replied.
The boy thought a moment and then said, "Did God throw him back down?"
Chicken: Again?
Q: Why did the chicken cross the playground?
A: To get to the other slide.
Q: Why did the chicken cross the beach?
A: To get to the other tide.
June
6-7, 2005
On The Net | Monkie
Business | Bananas
At The Top: Solo Monkie - Here I is, folks...Textually
naked, so to speak! Over the weekend, me trusty Monkie sidekick Tina got
hitched without, well, a hitch. So, for a little over a week, this loon
is going it solo. How low, you ask? Well, if the belly of a pregnant snake
is any indication, then you get the gist of the sitch. As of the moment
in which I speak, regular updates are scheduled for Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday. If I can light a fire under me bottom side, y' all may see
a word or two slide their way in on Tuesday and Thursday. But for now,
just plan on the expected rather than the flames. Got that? Cool beans!
Now let's get this mundane Monday started!
On The Net
Unsanity Updates! - In from the unsanely great
Mac haxters of Unsanity LLC is
word of a couple new app updates just for you! First up is the release of Mighty
Mouse 1.2.2, the pixel power program that allows
you to customize your cursors with style on-the-fly! Moreover, it allows
you to customize all kinds of cursors available in the system - Arrow, I-Beam,
Alias, Copy, Move and the Wait cursor. You can animate any cursor and import
existing cursors available at our website. This release resolves a bug that
prevented registration updates from succeeding in deployment versions of
Mighty Mouse.
 Next
outta the shoot is Xounds
2.3.1, a
haxie that brings back Appearance Sounds to Mac OS X. If you're tired
of silence and want audio feedback when you navigate through menus or
drag your windows around, then Xounds will convert your existing Mac
OS 8 or 9 sound sets and make Mac OS X a better place to work in. New
in version 2.3.1:
- Fixed a bug causing Xounds to not function under Mac OS X 10.4 if it
was installed globally.
- Updated with Application Enhancer 1.5.1.
If all of this news xounds great to you, then move that mighty mouse of
yours over Unsanity and grab the latest
in Mighty
Mouse and Xounds!
Monkie Business
Odds and Ends
Move It! - A space vehicle must
move at a rate of at least 7 miles per second to escape Earth's gravitational
pull. This is equivalent to going from New York to Philadelphia in about
20 seconds.
Painstakingly Beautiful - In 1500 B.C. in
Egypt, a shaved head was considered the ultimate in feminine beauty. Egyptian
women removed every hair from their heads with special gold tweezers and
polished their scalps to a high sheen with buffing cloths.
They Ain't Bald, Slick - Bald eagles are not
bald. The top of their head is covered with slicked-down white feathers;
from a distance, they appear hairless.
One Word Only - Men, I want you just thinking
of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
- Bill Peterson,
football coach
Aging Experience - Experience
is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get
the experience, you're too damned old to do anything
about it.
- Jimmy Connors
Ghost In The Machine -
Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually
the driver.
- Carol Malia, BBC
Anchorwoman
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
No Hitter
A conceited new rookie was pitching his first game. He walked the first
five men he faced and the manager took him out of the game. The rookie slammed
his glove on the ground as he yelled, "Darn it! The jerk took me out
when I had a no-hitter going."
Charged Humor
Why was the Energizer Bunny arrested?
He was charged with battery.
Graduation Day
It was graduation day and Mom was trying to take a picture of their son
in a cap and gown, posed with his father.
"Let's try to make this look natural," she said. "Junior,
put your arm around your dad's shoulder."
The father answered, "If you want it to look natural, why not have
him put his hand in my wallet?"
Poor Choice Of Words
The fight we had last night was my fault. My wife asked me what was on the
TV and I said dust.
Going Up?
A man goes skydiving for the first time. After listening to the instructor
for what seems like days, he is ready to go. Excited, he jumps out of the
airplane. After a bit, he pulls the ripcord. Nothing happens. He tries again.
Still nothing. He starts to panic, but remembers his back-up chute. He pulls
that cord. Nothing happens...
He frantically begins pulling both cords, but to no avail. Suddenly, he
looks down and he can't believe his eyes. Another man is in the air with
him, but this guy is going **up**!!
Just as the other guy passes by, the skydiver -- by this time scared out
of his wits -- yells, "Hey, do you know anything about skydiving?"
The other guy yells back, "No! Do you know anything about gas stoves?"
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