August
5-7, 2005
 At The Top - Wowsers...What
a week! It seems like every time me opens me mind and thinks about chaos,
chaos will come! And I'm beginning to think that the older one gets, the
crazier things seem to be. But that's quite alright with me. I need to feel
a little nutz to feel normal anyway! And all chaos aside, we still managed
to swing in by a vine and find time to dine with this week's Friday
Icon Edition. So all flood waters aside, let's get on with the fun and enjoy the
Monkie ride!
Unique
and Colorful Graphic Design - jamiemaccanless.com
New GOO
New Icons -
Biff! Bam! Boom! As we open wide the doors of the Gallery, we're pleased
as punch to present this week's dynamic duo - Leslie Javorek and Steven
Ansell - with 2 New Icon Sets up for grabs!
Let's get to lookin'!
 Leslie Javorek - Firing up this week's Icon
Edition with another smokin' pixel package is a second shot of Leslie
Javorek's MacKool series with MacKool
Apps. Quite the fine set of fifty-three, this all too
kool collection covers almost every app imaginable and combines all kinds
of popular logos to and fro!
 Steven Ansell - Digging deep into the icon
archives of Steven Ansell's pixel palace, we find yet another unique design
as found in Recessed
Metal! Steve always
manages to design with a difference in mind, and this set is no different.
Perhaps you'll find time for a recess after placing this set in view...Enjoy!
Thanks Department --
Steve, and Leslie...
Keep on keepin' on with that good GUI stuff!
THANK YOU!
Wanna share your work with the world?
Send Us Your Icons!
Pro
Icons for Pro Developers - Miloszwl.com
Community News
Live Pencil - It's always a good GUI day when
you hear from Live Pencil! And it's even better once you see the latest and
greatest goodies that have been added to their galleries. So let's have a
look:
- New EMOTICONS - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
- New EMOTICONS - It's your birthday!
- WALLPAPERS - August calendar and
more.
- Last week's HIDDEN IMAGE - You can also use them
on your e-mails.
Woo hoo! Now that you have the textual scoop, let your eyes enjoy the ride
with a hop, skip, and a jump over to Live
Pencil!
On The Net
The
Iconfactory Releases IconBuilder 8.0 -
The web's premiere source for icons and related software - The
Iconfactory - is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
an all-new plug-in filter for creating icons with Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia
Fireworks: IconBuilder
8.0! This amazing tool has been re-designed from the ground up
in Cocoa for unprecedented power and flexibility, and sports many of the
features that users have come to know and expect. The filter also offers
a host of new features that icon artists everywhere will appreciate such
as:
- Create Icons of **Any** Size
- Save Multiple File Formats with a Single Click
- Use Standard or Customized Layout Grids and Presets
- New Verification Tools
If you're an iconist, this is a must-have tool! Its price is a mere $79.00
USD and upgrade paths are available for existing IconBuilder Pro users at
the IconBuilder home
page along with all the juicy details...Check it out!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Brand New Broom
A woman was waiting in the check-out line at a shopping
center. Her arms were laden with a mop and broom and other cleaning supplies.
By her actions and deep sighs, it was obvious she was in a hurry and not
happy about the slowness of the line.
When the cashier called for a price check on a box of soap, the woman remarked
indignantly, "Well, I'll be lucky to get out of here and home before
Christmas!"
"Don't worry, ma'am," replied the clerk. "With a good tail
wind and that brand new broom you have there, you'll be home in no time."
Bible Financier
Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?
A. Noah. He was floating
his stock while everyone else was in liquidation.
Anti-Drug Message?
My kindergarten-aged daughter suddenly announced just before school that
she needed to take a clean tee shirt to class. She told us the teacher was
going to iron an anti-drug message on it. My wife frantically swept through
my daughter's room, finding nothing usable but one tee shirt that already
had something printed on one side. She sent it off to school with my daughter.
That afternoon, my daughter returned and happily showed off her shirt.
On one side it said, "Families are Forever."
And on the other, "Be Smart, Don't Start."
Improvement
The difference between insane asylums and our schools is that in the insane
asylum you have to show some improvement before you can get out.
August
4, 2005
Monkie News | On
The Net | Network
News
Monkie
News
 Tomorrow:
New Icons - Four
down, one to go! That's what's left in the work week and before your Friday
Icon Show. Though chaos hasn't struck yet, we'll have the pixels popped -
but no promise to bet. If all goes well, we'll have a full blown Edition.
If not? Well then that depends on the conditions. So with all ambiguity up
front and then not, stop back on Friday and see what we've got!
Update: There
has been some flash flooding in our neck of the woods which, as a result,
the floors of the Monkie Hut are a bit under water. We still plan to do a
full update on Friday. But with the awkward circumstances, it may be late
if not altogether postponed if necessary. Thanks for your patience and understanding!
On The Net
Unsanity Releases WindowShade X 4.0.1 - The
mighty, mighty Mac  haxters of Unsanity
LLC have announced the availability
of WindowShade X 4.0.1, the tool that brings a wealth of window management
capabilities to Mac OS X including the ever popular windowshade functionality
to Minimize-in-Place and custom shadow control. This is a minor
update to fix the Dutch and Traditional Chinese localizations and prevent
a debug log entry to the Console. All you have to do to get up to date with
WindowShade X is swing by Unsanity and pick up your updated copy!
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
iTunes Perfect For Podcasts - With podcasting
becoming more popular  by the second, Apple is in the perfect position to
capitalize on it through iTunes. iTunes is the ideal tool to market podcasts
because it provides all the means necessary to make it simple. Besides offering
all the ins and outs of podcasting for free, iTunes also comes with its own
big market to tap into which is unbeatable. -
from The
New York Times
Advertisers Penetrating iPods - iPod may transport
people to their own little world inside their heads, but advertisers will
soon be breaking in. Now that advertisers have learned that people like their
iPods, they are preparing a way to invade iPod privacy to pump their products.
Since playlists are chosen quite particularly, cool tunes are being composed
as ads which hope to work their way onto iPods. -
from Reuters
Africa Pilots Palm Pilots - Schools in Kenya
are piloting a program in  which pocket PCs are used in hopes to reduce costs
of education. The palm pilots are being used in place of books to deliver
knowledge to the students. Textbook content is loaded onto the e-slates and
the children can take them home at night. If successful, the palm units will
be manufactured much more sturdy and distributed more widely. -
from BBC
August
3, 2005
Desktops | Community
News | Bananas
 At
The Top: Mighty Mouse On The Scroll - Can you believe it? Apple has
finally come to their clicking senses as they have introduced Mighty
Mouse, the mouse that offers power users up to four independently programmable
buttons without compromising simplicity for users who prefer just a single-button
mouse! The new device also features an ingenious Scroll Ball that lets
users scroll in any direction making
it perfect for applications from viewing web pages and photographs,
to video editing and music creation. Mighty Mouse sells for $49 and is
now available for purchase. - Perhaps with the
introduction of the multi-button mouse and the new Intel chips, Mr. Jobs
really wants to take on Windows! More At The Top...
Below The
Top -
Well now...Since Apple has made the top spot with their exciting new news,
that takes the wind right out of my sails. But that's probably a good thing
as you can skip my Monkie ramble and get right down to the good stuff: Your
Wednesday Desktop Edition! So without further ado, let's get down
to it and dig into the latest GUI wonders!
New GOO!
New Desktops -
Familiar faces filling up your desktop spaces is just what we've got as we
present this week's Desktop Edition! With four of our famed regulars, you're
certain to enjoy their abilities in the form of 4
New Desktops. Let's see
what they have at hand!
Desktops - Well, well, well! With it being
that time to kick off a round of GUI desktop wonders in ye old Monkie Gallery,
let's tee off with a strange new brew from Jameson
Sasser!
Simply titled T, this
foliage flavored gob o' GOO will flow fluently with about any theme of
your choosing.
Nature - Ready for a trip south of the border?
Then you will find
the photographic findings of Dave
Hornsby quite the
enjoyable journey with the astronomical view found in Mexican
Sunset. This most pleasurable pic will add a state of serenity to
your computer's view and 'taste' good too!
Also making the most of his snapshot capabilities is Mr.
Bob  "World
Traveler" Wiley! Eager to add light to your
desktop collections, Moroccan
Lighthouse sports a lighthouse outside of Tangiers, on the Mediterranean
coast. You can see Spain from several points along this view of the coast.
3-D Rendered - Slipping inside the archives
of ShiftedReality,  we've found an older but lively selection from the most
talented Juergen
Eilts! Green Forest gives
you a glimpse into the innermost imagination of Mr. Eilts while
the magic of Animatek Worldbuilder makes the forest come alive...Enjoy!
Thanks Department --
Jameson, Dave, Bob, and Juergen...
We can't begin to express our ongoing gratitude
for your GUI greatness!
THANK YOU!
Have a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Community News
Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 From The
Iconfactory - With a steady roll out  of freeware icon availabilities,
The Iconfactory has announced their latest release: Battlestar
Galactica Vol. 1! Being a big fan of the original as well
as the the "re-imagined" TV series, The Factory's very own Corey
Marion has created this set that contains a few relevant objects from the
new Battlestar Galactica. That said, fire up the ol' rocket engines and
jet over to The Iconfactory for a look at these fine new pixels!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Unreadable Prescription
While waiting for a prescription to be filled, I heard an explosion from
behind the divider, followed by an outpouring of dense black smoke.
The Pharmacist emerged several minutes later, his white uniform scorched
black. He glared at the woman waiting next to me and said, "Would you
ask your doctor to write your prescription again, and this time -- PRINT
IT!"
Adiós
The weary holiday traveler looked in disbelief at a bunch of mistletoe hangin
above the luggage check-in center.
Turning to the attendant he asked, "Ok, I give up. Why is the mistletoe
there above the luggage scale?"
"So you can kiss your luggage goodbye."
Pulling My Leg?
On our honeymoon, my husband and I traveled through the Carlsbad Caverns
of New Mexico. At the end of the tour, we entered an elevator on the bottom
of the cavern. We were tightly packed with a group of tourists. My husband
was standing just behind me. Since he was in a "captive" position, I thought
it would be a good time to reach back and tickle his leg. It was a long ride
to the top, and I tickled and pinched the whole time. He didn't say a word.
Afterward, I mentioned it to him. His eyes widened as he informed me, "It
wasn't my leg!"
Report This!
CNN has just reported that the US's worst air disaster occurred today when
a small two-seater plane crashed into a cemetery early this morning in central
rural Alabama.
Alabama search and rescue workers have recovered 300 bodies so far and expect
that number to climb as digging continues into the evening.
August
2, 2005
Monkie News | Network
News
Monkie
News
 Tomorrow:
New Desktops -
So far, so good! The wiley ways of a much anticipated whacked out week haven't
kicked me in the derriere too hard as of yet. So that means that a nice round
of GUI fun is on its way tomorrow for your Wednesday Desktop Edition. So
now that the word is out, let's skip any further yack-a-tack-tack-a-ting
and check out the news!
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
Podcasts All The Rage - As popular as podcasts
are proving to be, they  may soon be outdoing blogs. This is because people
like to set their own schedules rather than do things the way other people
dictate them. Online search engines have been soaring with requests for Podcasts
of all topics and sizes. Because of this broadcasters and advertisers are
jumping on the Podcast wagon as fast as possible. -
from MacNewsWorld
Web OnLookers See Launch - The launch of
the latest NASA Space Shuttle last week also brought a huge launch of internet
video. The amount of video streams for the shuttle more than doubled that
of any other event streamed online. Some streams were viewed in Windows Media
Player and some in RealMedia, totaling nearly 433,000 streams. It is believed
that many people viewed the launch from their computers at work. -
from Excite
Hollywood Hip To Digitizing - Movie makers
have consented to a certain  set of standards to make digital films doable
across the board. Issues that have been agreed upon include resolutions,
packaging, compression and copy protection. While cinema owners and studios
will now be discussing who pays for which equipment, the consensus to the
standards will make the switch easier for everyone involved. -
from PC
Pro
August
1, 2005
Community News | On
The Net | Monkie
Business | Bananas
 At The Top -
Hmmm...What do we have here? Well, 1. One tired Monkie - Playing hooky
didn't turn out as planned as the duties of work called for an early arrival
and very long hours; 2. One very **frustrated** Monkie as one of me faithful
cats decided to use the bed as a littler box (some rather choice material
there); 3. A very **anxious** iPod winner (BTW - Happy belated B-Day);
4. Another long week ahead. Phew! I am getting exhausted just thinking
about it! But never the no mind. We'll keep pluggin' away until the light
of day has snagged me breath away. So, with the week's beginning at our
heels, let's hit the ground runnin'!
Community
News
Live Pencil - Another fine batch of GUI goodies
has just entered the galleries of Live
Pencil Let's look at the latest
:
- New EMOTICONS - Summer...WOW!!!
- New EMOTICONS - Hot, hot
summer.
- TIC TAC TOE - Cats and Dogs.
- Last week's HIDDEN IMAGE. You
can also use them on your e-mails.
What...You're still here? Move them Monkie feeters in the direction of Live
Pencil and grab the latest in GUI fun!
On The Net
Pixadex 1.5.5 - The software creators from The
Iconfactory and Panic  have recently
announced the update of the popular icon organization and collection tool: Pixadex
1.5.5! This release corrects two important bugs,
one involved in properly deleting collections and the other fixing potential
crashes with invalid URLs. The upgrade is free to registered users or you
can pick it up for the first time for only $18.95 USD. Swing over to The
Iconfactory and check it out!
Monkie Business
Odds and Ends
Mo Fo Da Money - In 1993, Ted Danson earned
a reported $450,000 per episode as Sam Malone during the final season of
Cheers, an industry record at the time. While Roseanne received more that
year for an episode of Roseanne, she also did more. In addition to acting,
she was the show's executive producer and a contributing writer.
Cheap Swoosh - The Nike "swoosh" logo
was designed by University of Oregon student Carolyn Davidson in 1964 — four
years after business undergrad Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman
founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports. Ms. Davidson
was paid $35 dollars for her design.
PEZ! - PEZ Candy was first
marketed as a compressed peppermint candy over 70 years ago in Vienna, Austria.
The name PEZ was derived from the German word for peppermint...PfeffErminZ.
Today, over 3 billion PEZ candies are consumed annually in the U.S.A. alone.
Resolved? - Now, the only thing that
remains unresolved is the resolution of the problem.
- Thomas Wells
All In A Song - Does the album have any
songs you like that aren't on it?
- Harry News, music reviewer
Famous Last Words - This 'telephone' has
too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us.
- Western Union internal memo, 1876
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Resisting Arrest?
A boy and his father are playing with toy cars, the father has the police
car and pretends to pull over the car that the boy is playing with.
"Do you have a drivers license?" asks the father.
"No," says the boy.
"Are you resisting arrest?" he asks.
The boy hesitates before he says, "No... I'm not sleepy yet."
Copyright Explained
When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write,
if the copy is right. If however, your copy falls over, you must right your
copy. If you write religious services you write rite, and have the right
to copyright the rite you write.
Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right to copyright
the right copy they write. A right wing cleric would write right rite, and
has the right to copyright the right rite he has the right to write. His
editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the copyright
can be right.
Should Jim Wright decide to write right rite, then Wright would write right
rite, which Wright has the right to copyright. Duplicating that rite would
copy Wright right rite, and violate copyright, which Wright would have the
right to right.
Right?
Best To Look First
After being with her all evening, the man couldn't take another minute with
his blind date.
Earlier, he had secretly arranged to have a friend call him to the phone
so he would have an excuse to leave if something like this happened.
When he returned to the table from taking the call, he lowered his eyes,
put on a grim expression and said, "I have some bad news. My grandfather
just died."
"Thank goodness," his date replied. "If yours hadn't, mine
would have had to."
The Bait
A boy was taking care of his baby sister while his parents went to town
shopping. He decided to go fishing and he had to take her along.
"I'll never do that again!" he told his mother that evening. "I
didn't catch a thing!"
"Oh, next time I'm sure she'll be quiet and not scare the fish away," his
mother said.
The boy said, "It wasn't that. She ate all the bait."
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