June 27, 2004

More Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Pic of the Day: Stop Stopping! - Stop! No...GO! Ummm, no...HURRY UP AND WAIT!!! MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!!!! For cryin' out loud...There's simply too many mixed messages out there; from politics to religion to simple ordinary everyday tasks. You name it...You'll find something that blows your mind into the next wind. And so is the message with this week's Pic of the Day. Take a peek and then close your eyes...Well, you get the picture.

June 26, 2004

Monkie Business

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

The Likes of Lincoln: Quotes

• Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
  
  
• The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
  
  
• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
  
  
• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
  
  
• It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

June 25, 2004

Icons | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Ah chihuahua! Ready to pump up the jams for this week's Friday Icon Edition? The place is packed with great gobs o' GOO, Community News, SW News On The Net, and Bananas to boot. So let's give a warm welcome to spinster MC Monkie and we'll get this party started. Shall we?!!

New GOO!

New Icons - Get down, get funky! It's time to enjoy the pixel "tunes" as we open up another Friday Icon Edition with 3 New Icon Sets!

wbc images - Come on baby light my icon fire! It seems sometimes that the best things in life come in the form of extras. And you'll certainly see what we mean when you view iYazoo 2 Xtras 1 by Yazoo of wbc images. This most amazing set is the add-on collection of random icons made in the same vein as Yazoo's previous work iYazoo 2. The set is certain to sizzle desktop view!

Elpincho - Color me Apple! Another "Close" encounter of the most delicious in icon designs is Colored Apple Discs from the ever creative eye of elpincho! What you're going to find in this classy set of Apple-ized hard drives is smooth sailing in a sea of Aqua that will keep your eye candy eyes swimming in pixel delight. Store your apples here and your Mac is sure to be happy!

Blurburger - Puttin' the fun on the pixel polish of this week's great lineup is Peter Joison with his signature smile style: Blurburger Pack No.1. This absolutely grin worthy, gut bustin' set from the GUI creations of Blurburger is just what the doctor ordered to get the blues on the run. You're certain to be smiling once you've taken this prescribed selection of excellence. Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Elpincho, Yazoo, and Peter...

Absolutely outstanding creativity and craftsmanship!

THANK YOU!!

Wanna share your work with the world?

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

Live Pencil - FOUR YEARS ALREADY!!!!! Yuppers! Live Pencil has been hard at it for four years uploading animations, icons, wallpapers...EVERY SINGLE WEEK!!! How much is that? That's a lot!!! Let's look at the latest additions:

• Emoticons - Metallic smilies.
• Animations - Laughing wolf. Soon more and more animals will be laughing.
• Desktop Icons - Shari's dad and brother really having fun.
• SLIDE PUZZLE!!!! - Have fun playing this amusing easy game! You'll have a NEW ONE EVERY WEEK!!!!

Now that you know, let's all join in on the funtivities at Live Pencil and be sure to send your best wishes. Congratulations, Ramon!

Mandolux - It's been a great week in the desktop world as Mando has added an all new batch of artistic class to the galleries of Mandolux. Here's the scoop:

Mandolux has issued three new desktops: one PiNTURA (Abstract), one ViDRIO (Ice/Nature), and one Sam+Fen (Cockatoo/Sky).

The latest PiNTURA desktop called Chaotic Canvas is a detail view of paint, brush strokes, textures, and a few splashes of varnish set in red tones. This most excellent selection as well as other desktop wonders are now available at Mandolux!

EA Design - Hot diggity doggities! EA Design's Ed Allen has informed us that he's been pluggin' the pixels and tweakin' the technicals over at the aforementioned GUI site extravaganza. Along with the current updates, more 2-D and 3-D pics are on their way really soon. So skip the hop, skip and jump; and click right on over to EA Design for some of the best GUI goodies on the web!

On The Net

Default Folder X 1.9.4 - Woo hoo! St. Clair Software has released Default Folder X 1.9.4, the Eddy Award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs. Now available is the option to keep Open and Save dialogs "synchronized" and gives users control of its folder sets via AppleScript. Many compatibility issues have also been resolved, including those with Soundtrack and other Apple "Pro" applications, ShapeShifter, and with Windows file servers. These and more details on Default Folder X can be had by pointing your browser to St. Clair Software!

RapidWeaver Plus 1.0b1 - The creative folks at Realmac Software have announced the release of RapidWeaver Plus 1.0b1 Public Beta for Mac OS X. This is a revolutionary web design package allowing users to design web sites faster than ever before. It comes with a host of page templates ready for you to insert your own content in over 20 customizable web designs, with hundreds more available from third party theme developers. To be a part of the testing for RapidWeaver Plus, head over to Realmac Software and download your copy today!

Cocktail: Euro 2004 Promotion - Save some bucks with Cocktail! Now you can purchase this popular Mac OS X utility for only half of the price during Euro 2004 finals (until July 4th). This cool Mac tool is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X 10.2 or later. The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface and toolset. It is a smooth and powerful utility that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions. For all the pricing info, sip and slip to Cocktail and grab your savings!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

WARNING!

The Board of Health has proposed that warning signs be placed on liquor bottles to warn drinkers of the hazards of over-imbibing.

1. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish.

2. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead.

3. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, handsomer and smarter than some really, really big guy named Chuck.

4. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe you're invisible.

5. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.

FISHY

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat all day wishing he was at Red Lobster.

EYE HAVING FUN

A man is walking by an insane asylum and hears all the residents chanting, "Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!"

Quite curious about all this, he finds a hole in the fence, looks in and someone pokes him in the eye.

Everyone in the asylum starts chanting "Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!"

HEY!

Hugh Hefner and Dennis Weaver were both at a party at the fashionable beach front Malibu home of Mick Jagger. Hugh told Dennis Weaver he did not like Weaver's McCloud TV series. Weaver snapped back telling Hugh he doesn't like Playboy.

A fight broke out. Hefner and Weaver wrestled each other to the ground. With Weaver down, Hugh was on top ready to punch him.

Mick Jagger came running up and yelled out, "Hey, hey, Hugh, Hugh, get off of McCloud."

June 24, 2004

Monkie News | the Apevine | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - Busta move and groove on back for a pixel attack tomorrow at the Monkie Zoo! MC Monkie will put the pixel spin on an all new round of icon tuneage for your Friday Icon Edition. Plus we'll take a look around the web for a blastin' barrel full of fun. Don't be shy...Slip on by and please your eyes this Friday at MacMonkies!

the Apevine

New iMac On Deck? - An analyst from Merrill Lynch is anticipating the arrival of a new iMac at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). According to the analyst, there are a couple arrows pointing in the direction of a new Apple iMac. One is that iMac sales have gone down and the other is that it is simply time for an update because the flat-panel iMac is two years old. Because of these reasons, he expects Jobs to play a new iMac card at WWDC. - from MacMinute

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

iTunes Tops Europe - The launch of the iTunes Music Store in Europe last week has exponentially sent music downloads over the top. iTunes sold sixteen times more songs than it's closest competitor, totaling more than 800,000 downloads in it's first week. Half of those songs were downloaded in the UK, which already has other online music stores in place. iTunes' vast success is proving the value and versatility of Apple's music store across the country and, now, around the world. - from Apple

Army Apples - Apple has agreed to assist the US Army in being all that it can be. The US Army is building a supercomputer of it's own, purchasing 1,566 Apple Xserve G5s to accomplish it's goal. It chose the road of Apple due to price, proximity and performance. "MACH 5" will not only be less pricey to purchase, but will also be more cost efficient to maintain, as the Apple G5 runs on less power than other computers to which it was compared. - from MacMinute

June 23, 2004

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Shazzam! In to add spizzaz to your mid-week mundane moments is the latest in fine desktop design for your Wednesday Desktop Edition! Fantabulous new desktop wonders are accompanied by Community News, Software News On The Net, and some Bananas to boost your grin power. Let's not let the frowns come to town...Let's get to grinnin'!

New GOO!

New Desktops - There's a hot time in the GUI Gallery to be had as we introduce 2 New Artists and 6 New Desktops for this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition! And just think: You have front row seats to enjoy every last pixel of pleasure. Lights, camera, action!

Nature - This spring was a special one as Magicicada Brood X locust (a specific Genus of cicada) emerged after waiting underground for 17 years! The most artistic Laurie Kramer gives you a close up view of the Cicada in this excellent snapshot. These loud little wingers don't last long, as they are all starting to die, leaving cicada carcasses all over the place. YUM!

 

3-D Rendered - Bring your eye candy eyes front and center and get a grand view of Close, a most amazing piece by Elpincho! This stronger-than-steel selection appears to be an up close view of Apple's G5 perforated front panel that provides for optimal airflow. Whether or not this is the case, this hot number is sure to take your breath away!

Speaking of Apples, get ready to enjoy a bite of the big Mac with the shiny, smooth, and slick semblance of Apple Chrome by grnluvbug's gifted GUI gal Joy Tallant! Though this Apple of your desktop eye could find its way into several categories in the Gallery, we chose the 3-D Department for its eye popping, in your face, ready to eat flavor in design. Munch!

Gads! Sometimes it seems next to impossible to title a piece of work that has no intended meaning! At least that explains the naming game behind FractureerutcarF, the latest reflective piece by MacMonkies' webmaster Bradford Wiles. The selection was simply derived from the Bryce "wires" of Fracture, and then flipped around in Photoshop for "reflection."

 

Desktops - And he's back! Batting a thousand in the desktop ballpark is Ed Allen of EA Design with a brush of Bristol. Ed has certainly continued to master his craft, as you're sure to see in this most artistic rendering of Bristol, the city of southwest England west of London. You just can't hide your GUI love away with this ticket to ride. Dig it!

Like totally far out, dude! Master desktop crafter Bob Wiley returns with a #1 hit on the desktop charts with Sikadel 1! This totally groovey blast of color and vividry will propel your desktop senses to a time line of the mind's future past. There's no need for mind altering elements here...This number will blow your mind all on its own! Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Laurie, Elpincho, Ed, Joy, and Bob...

You all are SO talented that

I can barely keep from drooling over your work!

THANK YOU!!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

The Iconfactory - Climb on, you crazy pixel diamonds! Another fine icon collection has been released by the folkies at The Iconfactory! Factory designer Anthony Piraino has released Climb On, the sequel to his previously released Take a Hike collection. The latest is a collection of fun rock climbing gear that will help your computer desktop ascend to new visual heights. Pack your bags, strap on your boots, and head to The Iconfactory for this fabulous new set!

Mandolux - A tasty new desktop work has just been added to the galleries of Mandolux! Just issued by desktop crafter Mando is a new ViDRIO/Amber desktop titled Ebrill. It's a photograph of two slabs of ice slapped together, one with bubbles that look like Hershey Kisses. This quality pic will make a great addition to your desktop collections and is now available at Mandolux. Go get it!

On The Net

xBack 3.2 - Another great update has just been announced by Gideon Softworks! Now available is xBack 3.2, the coolest tool to allow you to replace your desktop with a screen saver or xPak. The most recent update now works properly on Mac OS X 10.2. If you wanna bring your desktop to life, all you have to do is head to Gideon Softworks and get your updated copy of xBack!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

THE LORD WILL PROVIDE

Old Mrs. Watkins awoke one spring morning to find that the river had flooded the entire first floor of her house. Looking out of her window, she saw that the water was still rising. Two men passing by in a rowboat shouted up an invitation to row to safety with them. "No, thank you," Mrs. Watkins replied. "The Lord will provide."

The men shrugged and rowed on. By evening, the water level forced Mrs. Watkins to climb on top of the roof for safety. She was spotted by a man in a motorboat, who offered to pick her up. "Don't trouble yourself," she told him. "The Lord will provide."

Pretty soon, Mrs. Watkins had to seek refuge atop the chimney. When a Red Cross cutter came by on patrol, she waved it on, shouting, "The Lord will provide." So the boat left, the water rose, and the old woman drowned.

Dripping wet and thoroughly annoyed, she came through the pearly gates and demanded to speak to God. "What happened?" she cried.

"For cryin' out loud, lady," God said, "I sent three boats."

DUMB FAX

You know you're brain dead when you send a FAX and put a stamp on it.

JUST LIKE NEW

A blonde wanted to sell her car, but couldn't find any buyers. She called her friend for advice, and her friend asked her how many miles she had on her car.

"235,000 miles."

Her friend told her that was the problem. But the blonde's friend told her that her brother is a mechanic and could put back the miles to whatever she wanted. So the blonde went to the mechanic and told him to put the miles at 40,000.

Two days later the blond's friend asked her if she sold the car since her brother dropped the miles.

The blonde told her, "Why would I sell the car? There are only 40,000 miles on it!"

June 22, 2004

Monkie News | Community News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Sittin' on the GUI griddle are some fine desktops simmerin' up for tomorrow's Wednesday Desktop Edition. Your eyes are certain to be delighted once they get a glimpse of these beauts. All ya gots to do for eye candy enjoyment and additional fun is slip on back to the Monkie Zoo tomorrow. See ya then!

Community News

DV Graphics - Wholey pixel cows! GUI dude Paul Sahner has tons of fun added to the powerhouse pixel palace of DV Graphics. Along with three brand new free icon sets, DVG released 12 brand new free desktop pictures. On top of all that, DVG is also discounting all of their popular Iconize Me! packages by $5 each. The new prices now begin as low as $15. And there's more!

Paul has announced a brand new service called Vectorize Me! This is the first professional, online portrait service ever. At just $99, it's quite possibly the lowest-cost portrait service out there.

Top it all off with a complete makeover to the Pro Design Services site, and you get the feeling that Paul has been hard at it. Move your mouse to DV Graphics and check out all of the fun!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Futuristic iPods - iPodLounge is featuring an iPod concepts gallery which shows over 220 futuristic iPod ideas. Daring iPod designs prove that Apple fans not only "Think Different," but also dream big. A variety of concepts can be viewed, including an iPod shaped like Brad Pitt's shades. Some iPod designs are combined with cell phones, and some experiment with shapes such as a circular iPod design. Objects are the subject of other's affection who introduce an iPod pen and an iPod watch. - from Wired

Fender Strat Turns Fifty - The Fender Stratocaster, made famous by the likes of Buddy Holly and Jimmy Hendrix, is celebrating it's fiftieth year of fame. A special celebration is scheduled which will feature the gathering of all kinds of famous guitarists. David Gilmour of Pink Floyd and Joe Walsh of the Eagles are among artists who will take the stage in September to express their enjoyment of the instrument. The Stratocaster was invented in 1954 by Leo Fender, a man who repaired radios. - from MacNewsWorld

June 21, 2004

Community News | Monkie Business | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Is it Friday yet? Hmmm...I didn't think so. Well then, shall we make the most of a Monday and grab like mad for a grin on the chin? I say that sounds like a smashing idea! So let's look around in the areas of Community News, Monkie Business, Bananas, and Software Updates as we wind through another week of madness. Make like a Monkie and pass the banana!

Community News

Mandolux - Up, up and away! Mandolux has issued a new killer desktop - Sam+Fen: Flying Cockatoo. Even though the fleeting cockatoo represents 1/14 of the picture, the full impact of the desktop will make your screen fly with joy. The effect of the beautiful Australian blue sky combined with the movement of the bird makes this a killer desktop to have. So start flapping them wings and fly over to Mandolux for this great new pic!

Live Pencil - Brace your face! Your GUI grin is in for a great time as Live Pencil has added gobs of new goodies to the smilin' lineup! Let's look into it:

• Emoticons - Metallic smilies.
• Live Animals - Laughing wolf. Soon more and more animals will be laughing.
• It Is You - Shari's dad and brother really having fun.
• SLIDE PUZZLE!!!!  -Have fun playing this amusing easy game! You'll have a NEW ONE EVERY WEEK!!!!

Give your eyes a whole new outlook with the tons of fun you will find at Live Pencil! Go get the GOO!

On The Net

Dock-It 2.0 - A great software update has just been announced from Gideon Softworks with the release of Dock-It 2.0! This cool little app is a multi-function dock and Finder enhancer for the Mac OS X that is simple to use and to the point. The latest release features bunches of new features and improvements. For all the details and to get your copy of Dock-It 2.0, hurry over to Gideon Softworks and check it out!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Big Cookies - Chips Ahoy! cookies are baked in ovens which are as long as a football field. Over 4,000 cookies exit the oven each minute.

On Racism - On her late father, Nat "King" Cole, Grammy-winning singer Natalie Cole recalled in an interview: "There was quite a bit of racism going on because we were the only black family for miles. Before I was born, one of the women there approached my father and told him, 'Well, you know, we don't want any undesirables in this neighborhood.' And my father just looked at her and said, 'Well, if I see any, I'll let you know.'"

Have A Nice Day? - In a world of pollution, profanity, adolescence, zits, broccoli, racism, ozone depletion, sexism, stupid guys, and PMS, why the hell do people still tell me to have a nice day?

- Unknown

Zip It Shut - When your dad is mad and asks you, "Do I look stupid?" don't answer him.

- Michael, 14 Advice from Kids?

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

SPELL CHECK

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

TAXI TAP!

A tourist is picked up by a cabbie in New York on a dark night. The passenger taps the driver on the shoulder to ask him something. The driver screams, loses control of the car, nearly hits a bus, drives up on the sidewalk, and stops inches from a shop window.

For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, "Look friend, don't EVER do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!"

The passenger apologizes and says he didn't realize that a "little tap" could scare him so much.

The driver, after gathering himself together replied, "Sorry, it's not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver - I've been driving hearses for the last 25 years!

IT'S NOT FOR HIM, STUPID!

An old couple is on a walk, when a pigeon flies by and deposits a poopy little present on the woman's head.

"Yech!" says the woman. "Get some toilet paper."

"What for? He must be half-a-mile away by now."

KING'S ARMY

Where does a king keep his armies?

Up his sleevies.