July
29-31, 2005
At The
Top: Playing Hooky - PHEW! The last
2-3 weeks have been go,  go,
go go; busy, busy, busy, busy! So since thingzs have pretty much settled down,
I decided to take a 3-day
weekend and play
a little hooky (well, kinda). Obviously I am here writing this little diddy
and there are a couple of new SW Updates in
the right hand column. But that's going to be about it so I can slip out
the back door lickity split. As I deviate from the usual existence of the
Friday Icon Edition, feel free to browse about and check out all of this
week's News, Monkie Business, Bananas, and the most recent Desktops.
Other than that, that's about it until Monday...Pasta la Taco!
Unique
and Colorful Graphic Design - jamiemaccanless.com
July
28, 2005
Community News | Network
News
Community News
Your Mac Life - What's going new buzz going
down in the Mac community? A great place to find out is at Your
Mac Life!
The latest roundup of happenings include the guys at Team
Banzai going car racing without a driver and using Mac OS
X! Your Mac Life's Graphics Guru, Lesa Snider will
be performing Digital Plastic Surgery on the show's host - and he needs it.
:) There's so much more in store, so be sure to listen in every
Wednesday evening from 5:30 pm to 8 pm PT or from 8:30 pm to 11 pm ET, for
the most fun you'll have at Your Mac
Life!
Pro
Icons for Pro Developers - Miloszwl.com
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
Apple Sales Steady - With Apples recent announcement
of its switch to Intel,  some speculated that Apple sales would temporarily
drop. It was believed that consumers would hold off on buying a Mac until
the switch was actually made. Mac sales, however, have not slowed down. According
to Amazon, Apple is still one of the most popular selling computers. The
company is predicted to take over ten percent of the computer market soon. -
from MacNN
Specs On The Next Supercomputer -
Japan is in the works to make the worlds fastest computer to date. Its super
duper supercomputer will operate seventy three times faster than the current
speediest supercomputer. The project proposes more than seven million dollars
and will not be completed until the year 2011 comes around. The next supercomputer
seeks to simulate galaxy formation. - from Excite
Quarterly Reveals Weary Windows Users - Apple's
quarterly results came  out with flying colors, showing no sign of sales slowing
down. Some analysts predicted that iPod sales would stagnate, but Apple shipped
one million more iPods than expected, and even increased more than PCs in
computer sales. Such results suggest that consumers are growing more and
more weary of using Windows. - from IT-Analysis
July
27, 2005
Desktops | Community
News | On
The Net | Bananas
 At
The Top - Top of the mornin' to ya, Monkie Mates! That's hopin'
it **is** actually morning. If not, good day to ya all the way around as
we begin At The Top with cheerful greeting and welcoming introduction for
this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition! A
fine line of GUI designs is what you will find down "south" accompanied
by some great news from around the Community. Now that we've got your attention,
let's turn it undividedly toward the News, GOO, and Fun!
New GOO!
New Desktops -
Yessirree Bob...and Juergen, and Dave, and Adam! These are the folks to which
we tip our hats to for "sponsoring" this week's Desktop Edition.
And we have
4 New Desktops from their talented hands ready
for display. So what the hey. Let's get right down to the good stuff and
let your desktop smile a while!
Nature - Do we have "a strange obsession...the
means in our possession,
to have tea in the Sahara with you?" Perhaps no.
But we do have the desire to display the latest "fire" from Bob
Wiley with Sahara
Sky! This all too cool view sports dawn over the dunes of Merzouga,
on the Moroccan/Algerian border. Now you too can fly the world wide
skies!
3-D Rendered - Saturday night may be alright
for fightin', but Sunday
Morning brings about a more meditative state of mind as you will
find in this most serene piece by Juergen Eilts! Always on display in
the galleries of ShiftedReality,
Juergen created this fine selection using his artistic imagination and
Digital Element Worldbuilder 3.6.
Spiraling around, inside and about is the talents - no doubt - from everybody's
favorite abstract designer Dave Hornsby.
And what would it be that you're about to see? How about a bit from his
materialized series with Green
Materia! With its lime colored elements, the swirls will run circles
around many of the rest and make its companions green with envy!
Etc... - We don't want you to get bit,
but get ready for a real  stinger
as we pour a cup of Adam Dickson's watchful eye with Wasp
In The Cup! This almost frightening photo from Pictures
and adicons might make you think twice before chugging down
your favorite flavored java if in an insect infested area. But if up
for the adventure, you might enjoy the added protein...Enjoy!
Thanks Department --
Bob, Juergen, Dave, and Adam...
You're simply the best!
THANK YOU!
Have a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Community News
The Iconfactory Releases Somatic
Xtras 2 - Ready for some fresh new GOO  from The
Iconfactory? Then
your eyes will certainly be pleased once you view their latest freeware icon
set titled Somatic
Xtras 2! This cool new collection
by David Lanham features
over 20 icon updates and expands the Somatic
genre. Inside you'll find new replacement icons for applications and
extras that will come in handy as users give their desktops a complete Somatic
make over. You're cordially invited by The
Iconfactory to stop by the Showroom and
check 'em out!
On The Net
MAX Programming Updates iCash - Just in from
MAX Programming new of their latest
software update with iCash
2.4! This
spiffy cross-platformed utility makes for a great personal finance and money
manager designed to track incomes, expenses, credits, debts and banks transactions.
New in version 2.4:
- Help menu.
- Overview panel cache now is 100% accurate. (rounding issue)
- Chart now
represents negative values properly.
- Chart title no longer
overlaps legend.
If you really want to make sense of the cents that matters most, make a
trip to MAX Programming and grab your
copy of iCash!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Break Time
A lady opened her refrigerator and saw a rabbit sitting on one of the shelves. "What
are you doing in there?" she asked.
The rabbit replied, "This is
a Westinghouse, isn't it?"
The lady replied "Yes."
"Well," the
rabbit said, "I'm westing."
Blue Jerk
A man was in a hurry to meet his friend down at the nearby
lake. On the way down there, he was stopped by a man fully dressed in red.
The man pulled over, and the red man asked, "Hi, I'm the red jerk of
the highway. Have you anything to eat?"
The man smiled and handed him a
sandwich. He continued down the highway and was yet again pulled over by
a man fully dressed in green. He stopped and the guy in green said, "Hi,
I'm the green jerk of the highway. Have you anything to drink?"
Without
smiling, the man handed the green guy his Coke. He started off again
and started to speed down the highway. Yet again he was stopped by a guy
fully dressed in blue. Sighing, he pulled over and rolled down his window,
leaned out and said, "Let me guess. You're the blue jerk of the highway.
What do you want?"
"Registration and license please," came
the reply.
Foreign Language
A mother mouse and a baby mouse are walking along, when all of a sudden,
a cat attacks them.
The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away.
"See?" says the mother mouse to her baby. "Now do you see
why it's important to learn a foreign language?"
Bad Dog!
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station.
As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw
a little boy staring in at me.
"Is that a dog you got back there?" he asked.
"It sure is," I replied.
Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally
he said, "What'd he do?"
July
26, 2005
Monkie News | Community
News | On
The Net | Network
News
Monkie
News
Tomorrow: New Desktops -
Gee...What could be going on in the not-so-far
 foreseeable
future? Yup...You guessed it! A nice new round of desktop backgrounds is
just about to be published for your Wednesday Desktop Edition! And there's
not even a need for me whimsical whacked out nonsense in playing and saying.
Just pop on back by in about a day and enjoy some fresh new GOO. 'Nuff said.
Let's have a look at some new News!
Community News
New Icons At widget : widget - Master pixel
crafter Alexander MacLean of  widget
: widget has informed us of his latest
icon creation titled Heavy
Metal! In order to pay 'homage' to the more hardcore side of the music
scene, he's taken some of the seminal albums of the heavy metal scene from
the past 25 years, and made them this cool new set. Along with few bonus
icons kicking around, the new collection is now available for download in
Macintosh, Windows, and Pixadex format straight from the pages of widget
: widget. Go get it!
On The Net
Unsanity Releases ShapeShifter 2.1.2 -
The fine folks from Unsanity LLC have announced the release of ShapeShifter
2.1.2! This phenomenal GUI tool allows users to change the overall appearance
of your Mac using themes, altering the the look of windows, menus,
apps, buttons...absolutely everything. New in version 2.1.2:
- NSStatusItem-style status bar menu items are now clickable
everywhere, not just where they're opaque.
- Fixed display glitches
in status bar menu items.
- Installing Snapz Pro to run automatically at
login no longer results in unthemed menu extras.
- Resolved an issue that
could cause window dragging of Cocoa windows to lag.
Why let your Mac have the same old look day after day? Give it a whole new
wardrobe by picking up a copy of ShapeShifter from the ever creative developers
at Unsanity today!
To·The·Point Software Releases TaskTime3
3.5.1 - Just in from the MacAppers  of To·The·Point
Software is word of their latest release: TaskTime3
3.5.1. This fine piece
of software provides 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. The new version includes
bug fixes and improvements that make your time tracking experience all
the better. For your updated copy of TaskTime3,
simply point your browser toward To·The·Point
Software and pick it up!
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
Konfabulator Acquired By Yahoo! - Computer
icon Yahoo! has taken over Konfabulator in
hopes to become even bigger. Konfabulator is an application software that
enables users to view current updates on things such as stocks and weather
on their desktops through widgets. Yahoo! is hoping to spark more interest
in such topics by offering Konfabulator for free, causing more people search
Yahoo! for information. -
from MacMinute and
Excite
iPod A Tough Act To Follow - Experts in all
things digital and all things musical gathered recently to discuss what sort
of gadget could possibly come after the Apple iPod. They found, in a word,
none. Even cell phones that are music capable will not replace the iPod,
they argued, because cell phones just are not as easy to use. iPod will remain
on top because users like its interface. -
from Wired
Apple Means Business - The fact that Apple
is switching to Intel computer chips is one of the biggest clues that Apple
means business. Big business, that is. Apple has its foot in the door and
now it can come in and steal the PC show. If Apple just wanted to stick to
quality design and excellent user interface there would have been no need
to switch chips. Ready or not, here Apple comes! -
from MacNewsWorld
July
25, 2005
Community News |
Monkie Business | Bananas
 At The Top - Hot diggity doggities! Was
that fun or what! Our 4th Annual Birthday Bash was
quite the blast and certainly made some folks happy. But of course, that's
our goal here at the Zoo...To make your Mac Happy! So with that in mind,
let's put on another big grin as we begin the week of doldrums and no funs
in the world of negative Nilly's in the News. It's all up to you - You
can grin and bare it, or smile and share it to pass on a more positive
vibe. Let's all do the latter of the two and boogie with Stu!
Community
News
Live Pencil - Beginning your week with a
whole new round of smiles, Live
Pencil updates with a brand new batch of GOO! Let's look at the list :
- More
summer EMOTICONS.
- New EMOTICONS - S U M M E R
- IT IS YOU animation.
Would you like to be a jigsaw puzzle?
- Last week's HIDDEN IMAGE. You
can also use them on your e-mails.
Don't get caught up in the Monday blues. Get your licks and kicks with all
the new GOO found at Live
Pencil!
Monkie Business
Odds and Ends
Equal Temps - Minus 40 degrees Celsius is
exactly minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the only temperature for which
the readings on both scales are equal.
27 Letters of the Alphabet - The ampersand
(&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
Kiss Me, Kiss Me! - The Hershey Foods Corporation
can produce 33 million Hershey's Kisses in one day of production.
Only The Truth - Eight more days and I can
start telling the truth again.
- Sen. Chris Dodd (D, Conn.)
How True It Is - What a waste it is to lose
one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
- Dan Quayle
Lessons In Vocabulary - The first two years
of college are vocabulary lessons. The second two years are spent learning
who to ask and where to look it up.
- Bill Austin
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Fountain Of Youth
Regular naps prevent old age...especially if you take them while driving.
Cockroaches, Even 30,000 Please
A housewife called up a pet store and said, "Send me thirty-thousand
cockroaches at once."
"What in the world do you want with thirty-thousand cockroaches?" asked
the astonished clerk.
"Well," replied the woman, "I am moving today from my apartment
and my lease says I must leave the premises in exactly the same condition
I found it."
Ain't Saying Anything
Maybe ain't ain't right to say, but I noticed a lot of people who ain't
saying ain't ain't breathing!
Fill'er Up!!!
The young clerk's responsibilities included bringing the judge a hot cup
of coffee at the start of every day.
Each morning the judge was enraged that the coffee cup arrived two-thirds
full. The clerk explained that he had to rush to get the coffee delivered
while it was still hot, which caused him to spill much of it along the way.
None of the judge's yelling and insults produced a full cup of coffee, until
he finally threatened to cut the clerk's pay by one-third if he continued
to produce one-third less than the judge wanted.
The next morning he was greeted with a cup of coffee that was full to the
brim, and the next morning and the morning after that.
The judge couldn't resist gloating over his success and smugly complimented
the clerk on his new technique.
"Oh, there's not much to it," admitted the clerk happily, "I
take some coffee in my mouth right outside the coffee room, and spit it back
in when I get outside your office."
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