August 9-10, 2003

At The Top - Howdy there folks! Just a quick note to let you know that we will be taking Sunday off and most of next week. In the mean time, don't forget to check The Winners' Circle to see if you are one of the lucky winners of our Big Bang Birthday Giveaway! All winners will be contacted shortly. There's also more in our Very Ape section for you to check out. Enjoy your weekend!

Very Ape

widget : widget - Ahh...The magical pixel wonders of Alexander MacLean's widget : widget! Alex offers his superb GUI art form with the likes of delight desktops and exceptional icons. His fine eye for detail never quits as his quality work is proof in the puddin'! Plus you'll find he offers custom design services that are surer to blow your mind! And to give you a taste of Alex's fine work, Alex has contributed to our Birthday Bash a cool collection of custom icons of the winner's choice. Great gobs of GUI, Alexander MacLean's widget : widget is just the pixel place you need to be!

Electric Kitten - There's plenty of places to plop your thoughts on the web to tell the net what's on your mind. But with quality web hosting not always easy to find, we've got just the place for you! Electric Kitten is a truly refreshing hosting company that offers popular packages for your website needs. They also offer superior reliability and performance - such as 99.5% network uptime and round-the-clock monitoring of system hardware, great customer support, an exceptional User Control Panel, and so much more! If you're looking to build your corner of the web in a reliable place, you best check into Electric Kitten!

August 8, 2003

Icons | Community News | Very Ape | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top: The Winners! - Drum roll please!!! The moment where the Monkie falls off his rocker...whoa! Wrong story! How about we announce the Winners of our Big Bang Birthday Giveaway! We've got 70 lucky winners listed in our Winners' Circle. CONGRATULATIONS to all of you!

We also throw out a BIG thanks to all of you who participated and especially to those Contributors who made it possible! THANK YOU!

And to put the icing on the Birthday cake, we've got some superb new icon selections for our Friday Icon Edition. Plus there's plenty in the departments of Community News, Very Ape, Software News On The Net, and Bananas! If you gotta get your GOO, you've got the right Monkie Zoo! Let's get to swingin'!

New GOO!

New Icons - Mmm, mmm, GUI good! This week we bring you 4 fantabulous New Icon Sets: 2 OSX Standard sets and 2 iContainer sets. What a pair of pairs! So let's grab the GOO napkins and start munchin' on these great new goodies!

miX the piX - How does he do it?! Hein Mevissen keeps the creative pixels flowing with an outstanding new set from miX the piX titled G5 2.0. This absolutely iPleasing new set is an iContainer only System replacement compilation that will set your system on end!

Flax Creations - Mr. Dan Flax has also been busy at the pixel palette with an excellent new set called Metallic Folders. Dan continues to do double duty as chief pixel engineer of Flax Creations and GUI maestro of ResExcellence. Perhaps that's why this set is so excellent!

wbc icons - The great Yazoo pops in once again with an exceptional selection of GUI goods in the form of iYazoo Folders Zest. From the amazing pixel parlours of wbc icons, this iContainer will add the zest your desktop needs and leave the others green with envy!

mbstuart.com - Get yer motor runnin'! Michael Stuart revs up your GUI engines with an ultra racy icon set called Motorcycles. This smokin' set from the studios of mbstuart.com includes some of the baddest bikes that good tread can lay to waste! Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Dan, Hein, Yazoo, and Michael...

FANTABULOUS WORK!!

THANK YOU!!

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

Mandolux - It's been another great week for Mando Gomez with several new entries to the galleries of Mandolux. Let's get the run down:

Mandolux has issued seven new desktops: three Graffiti (Vector-based), three Giant Petals (Nature), and one Asiana (Art).

These great new works are available in several sizes and there's but one place to lay your eyes on them and that's Mandolux!

Very Ape

The Omni Group - Some of the first folks to hop on the OSX band wagon, The Omni Group started pumpin' out great Mac apps right out of the shoot! OmniWeb delivers one of the most enjoyable, exceptionally fast, and web compliant web browsers you can find!

OmniGraffle 3.0 Professional is a powerful, yet simple to way to visualize and communicate graphically - even if you can't draw (sounds like this Monkie)! It's got awesome graphics and it's been built for a seamless X-perience for OSX!

And then there's OmniOutliner! This great organizational app is for everybody. From the home-body to the pro, OmniOutliner allows you to get your creative ideas together and hatch a brain storm.

Great apps from a great company: The Omni Group. Gots to have!

Marc Moini - Me good friend Marc Moini offers good news for those command- line blues. How about a good dose of GUI with Aqua for Command-Line Tools! This cool utility provides easy to use point-and-click user interfaces for controlling the command-line tools shipped with Mac OS X. Think about this:

• You don't have to remember obscure commands or spend valuable time wading through dreary manuals, your command-lines are built for you.
• The layout of each tool's graphical interface makes it easy to quickly find and activate just the features you want.

You even have drag-and-drop capabilities, and much much more! Be sure to check out this great app from Marc Moini!

Bare Bones Software - Wrangle that text with TextWrangler from the folks at Bare Bones Software! This ultra fine text utility puts power back in the hands of the user. If you're looking for a general purpose text editor, a programmer's text editor, a Unix and server administrator's tool, or a powerful text transformer and manipulator, then this awesome editor is for you! And it's all rolled up and developed in the best traditions of Bare Bones Software. What more could you ask? Dig it!

On The Net

Default Folder X 1.8 - Just what the doctor ordered! Default Folder X 1.8 answers OS X users' pleas for the return of a popular feature that graced the Mac OS 9 version of this awesome app. Instead of typing the name for a new file in a Save dialog, you can now option-click on the name of an existing file to copy it. Default Folder X 1.8 also delivers numerous other improvements including system-wide hotkeys for opening Favorite folders, the ability to set a single default folder for all applications, increased performance and stability, user interface enhancements and more. This is a must have update and free to registered users. Get over to St. Clair Software and get to grabbin'!

OmniWeb 4.5 - Now available from The Omni Group is the final version of OmniWeb 4.5, offering greatly improved standards support to the award-winning browser. New in this version is the open source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks from Apple Computer Inc., which brings renewed support for the latest Internet standards like CSS, HTML, XHTML, and JavaScript to the Mac OS X browser. Many other enhancements and bug fixes show up in this great browser from The Omni Group. Grab your updated copy of OmniWeb!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

BUMPER STICKERS Part IV

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.

Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder...

There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.

Keep honking...I'm reloading.

SMOKIN'

What do you get when you mix cigarettes with hot water?

A soggy butt.

COW REFLEXES

What do you call a cow with a twitch?

Beef Jerky!

August 7, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | Very Ape | Network News

Monkie News

Far Out Friday! - Tomorrow's the day! It's that time when we update with our Friday Icon Edition and it's the time we announce the Winners to our Big Bang Birthday Giveaway! Over $2,000 of fabulous prizes are about to be given out, including a new iPod! You don't want to miss all the fun festive coming up tomorrow right here at MacMonkies!

One other thing...Don't forget to check out today's Edition of Very Ape giving you the scoop on more of our awesome Contributors' prizes!

Community News

The Iconfactory - Those good ol' GUI heads at The Iconfactory have released yet another fine set of pixel pleasers with a new icon set titled Gundam Mobile Fortune. This cool collection of iPleasers by Talos Tsui is based on the popular Japanese anime Gundam Mobile Suit. It's a must-have addition to any anime fan's collection. Move that mouse over to The Iconfactory and get to droolin'!

PlasmaDesign - Rob Randtoul has added a new page to PlasmaDesign. The widescreen Aqua collection is available to all members. The entire collection of widescreen wallpapers are rendered at 1920x1200 and 1440x900 pixels and look great on Apple Cinema Displays, Powerbooks, and Dell's new Inspiron 8500 laptops. You can view the widescreen collections by grabbing a vine and swingin' over to PlasmaDesign!

grnluvbug - Woo hoo! The girl's got style! Ms. Joy Tallant has recently added some amazing new works to her bright GUI collections at grnluvbug! These colorful new selections are certain to brighten your day and add Spring to your step. And that's not all. Joy is planning some new GOO to be added real soon. Get yourself steppin' over to grnluvbug and check 'em out!

Very Ape

Realmac Software - Satisfaction guaranteed! That's not only what you'll find in the fine print -- we're confident that you will be plenty pleased with AudioX 3 from Realmac Software. Like all of the other great apps from this cool company, AudioX offers ease of use and rock solid performance. Add to that the feature filled findings under the hood! It's perfect for annotation, allows you to convert your recordings into many popular formats, has a speed playback option, and other great bonuses and benefits. You best get your clickers in double click mode and make a bee line to Realmac Software to give AudioX a good listen!

Proteron - Want the ultimate in organization? Get menus to the max with MaxMenus from the fine folks at Proteron! This fine utility for OSX allows you to place customized menus any place you want them to be. Just imagine the possibilities! Assign hot keys to anything you would like, menus set up in MaxMenus fully support spring loaded drag-and-drop, menus stay in the corners to maximize your space, and more! Top this off with LiteSwitch X, a keyboard application switcher also featuring drag-and-drop abilities, and you've got just the right organization combination from the people at Proteron!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

iTunes Sounds Phishy - The state of Maine was in an iTunes state of mind last weekend as the band Phish surfed the airwaves of Limestone. Bunches of songs were broadcast using iTunes from a tent in the middle of the Phish Festival. Phish Fans were able to swim around in that same tent using iMacs to create their own CDs by burning songs off iTunes. With iMacs and iTunes set out as bait, fans gathered by the thousands to swallow the tunes hook, line and sinker! - from Apple

August 6, 2003

Desktops | Community News | Very Ape | Bananas

At The Top - Is it FRIDAY YET???? Mmmm, no...I guess not. But it is Wednesday. And that means we hit the mid-week blues with another Wednesday Desktop Edition! This means some great new Desktops in the Gallery. In addition, we have a nice healthy dose of Community News, Very Ape, and Bananas too!

And don't forget to stop by Friday August 8 to check out the Winners of our Big Bang Birthday Giveaway! Now let's get to the GOO!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Big bad buckets of pixel-eyed poppin' GUI goodies is what we have this week for our Wednesday Desktop Edition! Let's have a look at the latest works from the following fine artists. Shall we?

Nature - Ushering in the luster of nature's beauty is an awesome selection from Wati Larke titled Wailua Falls. Straight from the cool collections of WatiWorks, this picture is sure to be a selection that is ranked amongst the best in your Desktop archives!

3-D Rendered -Ahhh! The wonders of Willow Creek by Juergen Eilts will add plenty of peace to your pure pixel pleasures! Whether you're sittin' on the shore or floatin' down the river, you'll find rest and relaxation in this wonderful number from ShiftedReality!

Toss those gas powered and hop into retrocommuteer, the cyber flyer from Marty Leone! This sensational work of retro-craft puts the pedal to the metal with a blazing ride for all your eye candy needs. A must-have selection!

Desktops - Whoa! Talk about your hypnotic state of nature with the all too alive and vivid pic from Glenn Fajardo titled naturesgnosis. When nature and Glenn's imagination collide, you've got one outstanding piece that will blow your mind and shed your socks!

England surely swings with Pixel Prince Ed Allen of EA Design! From the shores across the sea comes Ed's latest contribution called Beyond. And believe you me, it's beyond my comprehension how this Monkie pixel brother can take something so simple and create something so awe-inspiring that my Monkie eyes drip with GUI drool! Cool cool!

Thanks Department --

Ed, Wati, Glenn, Marty, and Juergen...

Continue to let the net shine with your quality work!

THANK YOU!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

DV Graphics - Boy oh boy! Mr. Paul Sahner has been PLENTY busy! DV Graphics just released a new site design, new icons, new services and the first Iconize Me! SALE! And why all the hoopla? 'Cuz Paul's Iconize Me! services just turned one year of age! CONGRATULATIONS, PAUL!

The new site optimizes everything from navigation speed to download times. It is a big departure from its old design. To pump up the pixel party, Paul has also released new icons and a great sale from the pixel master himself.

Get your clickers into high gear and grab all the details from the place with a fresh new face: DV Graphics!

Mandolux - In from Mando Gomez is news of new works in the vast desktop archives at Mandolux. Just issued a new set of Giant Petals titled Wilhelmine - a macro photo of a red rose petal. Pour on the amazing pixels by making your way to Mandolux and grab a look!

Pictures and Adicons - Oh yes! Adam Dickson has kept the creative collections of Pictures and Adicons quite healthy with the addition of six new desktop pictures to his GUI galleries. These ultra-fine selections are bound to take your breath away upon first glance. So be sure to take an extra wind as you move yourself to Pictures and Adicons and find the goods!

Very Ape!

Stick Software - Fun, fun, fun! With all the fine "anti-productive" apps from Stick Software, you're gonna have a smile for quite some time to come! Especially since Ben Haller has been kind enough to contribute a LifeTime bundled package for our Birthday Giveaway! You'll never have to buy another "useless" app again as the winner of this cool prize will have every app he has ever made and every one yet to come! And what's this? He even has one USEFUL app available! Cool beans! Check out all the extra cool apps by the master of fun at Stick Software!

St. Clair Software - With Default Folder X from St. Clair Software, you got the power! Ever since this little gem came out for OS9, it has been one of my favorite apps of all time! It's hard to list all the cool abilities of this feature rich app. You'll always be certain that you can save in the "default folder" of your choice in any app you open. Plus you have a spiffy "side bar" that allows you to access favorites, recently used items, and other nifty features on the fly. This is a must have app for all who have the need to navigate and organize! Check out this and other great goodies from the fine folks at St. Clair Software!

CocoaTech - Some people think different! And this Monkie thinks that some should be on the Apple team to MAKE the difference! CocoaTech has created the finest Finder that you can currently get your hands on with Path Finder! This amazing feature packed Finder alternative for Mac OSX is something that Apple should have come up with long ago. Path Finder is so customizable that you will drop your jaw with awe! It has every imaginable feature, and everything you need is just a click away. And if you're really the "hackin'" Mac user, you can even replace Apple's Finder with Path Finder. Howz about that! Grab a look of Path Finder at CocoaTech today!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

REDNECK YARDWORK

You might be a redneck if you're mowing your lawn and find a car.

GOTTA HAND IT TO YOU

Why did the one-handed man cross the road?

To get to the second hand shop.

BAPTISM IS NOT FOR EVERYONE

No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize a cat.

August 5, 2003

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

Monkie News

New GOO On Its Way! - Yes yes! Tomorrow brings some great new GUI treats in the form of Desktop Delight. We bring you more pixel pleasures with our mid-week Wednesday Desktop Edition. You don't wanna miss it!

In addition, we continue honoring the most generous Contributors of our Big Bang Birthday Giveaway by offering up another Edition of Very Ape. Be sure to check out the latest from these awesome folks. We will be announcing the Winners of the Big Bash this Friday August 8, 2003. Now let's have some FUN!

Community News

Mandolux - Mando Gomez is proud to inform you that Mandolux has issued a new theme titled Asiana: pictures of Asian deities. The first desktop is The Buddha in the Palileyyaka Forest originally from Thailand. The artwork is a gilt copper allow with lacquer from the late 19th century. Grab a vine and swing by Mandolux for all the latest!

miX the piX - The master of piXel miXes has all kinds of new GOO 4 YOU! Mr. Hein Mevissen of miX the piX has updated his excellent icon archives with two new sets titled Other Office and G5 2.0. The absolutely amazing icons are available in iContainer formats only. The latest work from Hein are must-have selections from the master of piXel design. Plus, he will be introducing new works sometime this week! Get over to miX the piX and get to grabbin', folks!

Very Ape!

PlasmaDesign - Got big eyes for BIG Desktop pics? Do we have great news for you! Rob Randtoul keeps those huge pixel cravings alive with his wonderful works at PlasmaDesign! And for this year's Monkie Birthday celebration, Rob is giving you a fantabulous opportunity to have one of 5 Lifetime Memberships to PlasmaDesign or 3 Crystal Monogram Wallpapers. And believe you me, Rob's creative abilities are well worth the winning's! If you are in need of an example of his artistic excellence, check out his outstanding contribution to the Monkie collection called MacMonkies. Yes, we're impressed and you will be too when you lay your eyes on the works from PlasmaDesign!

widget : widget - Talk about your ultimate icon X-perience! Alexander "The Great" MacLean provides the ultimate pixel personalization for this year's festivities with a custom set of 5 personalized icons from the sensational skills from widget : widget! Alexander pitches into the Birthday Funtivities with his special brand of icon class built to fit your customization needs! There's no way to pass up this class act. All of Alex's works live up to the best of icon standards and your prize is coming in the form of a pixel perfect package for your eye-candy delights! Awesome stuff from widget : widget!

On The Net

Pixadex 1.1 - Gads! Barely sneeze and good things just keep a comin'! Our good friends over yonder at The Iconfactory have just announced the release of Pixadex 1.1. The most recent update addresses several commonly reported bugs including one that would cause problems on systems running in "thousands of colors." In addition, Pixadex now fully supports the import and export of Mac-based .icns files, especially useful for developers. You gotta get the full scoop regarding Pixadex by heading over to The Iconfactory and grabbin' the full details. GO!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Smooth Switching - Mercury News writer, Jon Fortt, makes it clear that making a Mac your main computer is quite manageable. As someone who has switched between Windows and Mac several times, he suggests that so much software is available for both that switching is a smooth move. Fortt sites Macs as specialty machines that serve users who prefer style and creativity best. The top reason rendered for people not to switch to Mac was simply if they have purchased plenty of pricey Windows software with which they can't part. - from MacObserver and Siliconvalley.com

August 4, 2003

Community News | On The Net | Very Ape | Bananas

At The Top - Welcome to our Monday Edition of MacMonkies! Many things to cover, SO little time! But let's begin.

First of all, we dedicate this week to our AWESOME Sponsors that so generously contributed to our Big Bang Birthday Giveaway! So, we bring back our Very Ape section by featuring each contributor every day this week. This is your chance to win one of over $2,000 worth of Prizes, including a new iPod! Plus, we've decided to sweeten the pot a tad: We will engrave your name on the iPod!

So don't forget, we announce the winners of these most excellent prizes this Friday, August 8, 2003. You gotta be there!

Now, we have our usual batch of fun with Community News, Software News On The Net, and Bananas too. Let's boogie!

Community News

Marmalade Moon - Woo hoo! Just in form Kate England of Marmalade Moon is Floating on Nasturtiums - a desktop calendar with matching icons. This awe-inspiring collection is an ongoing digital romance from Kate. As summer deepens, grows darker greens and longer shadows, she created some icons and desktop pictures to illustrate that feeling. This amazing work is available in only one place, and that is at the outstanding pixel archives of Marmalade Moon! You best get to clickin'!

Live Pencil - The incredible Ramon Gonzalez Teja offers up more fantastic GUI work for your fun filled X-perience at Live Pencil. Shall we grab a look at the latest smiles? You bet! Drum roll please:

• EMOTICONS: More Smilies. Wink and move your eyebrows!!!
• WALLPAPERS: August is here...Here is our monthly
• CALENDAR. And more.
• IT IS YOU: - No doubt...Joe is having a great time.
• LIVE ANIMALS: Our friend DEER singing.
• WRITE YOUR EMOTIONS: For your e-mails, this week,
• REGARDS written with a pencil.
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week...You have to look for it , keep searching!

You will not regret pointing your mouse over to Live Pencil and checking out the latest greatest GUI goodies from Ramon Gonzalez Teja!

PlasmaDesign - Me good friend Rob Randtoul has uploaded a new landscape image to PlasmaDesign today. This wallpaper is called Flame and is available to members only at a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels. He plans to add a couple of alternate versions over the coming fortnight! If you're looking for high resolution pics, there's only one place to be - and that's PlasmaDesign! Get your self in motion and move over to PlasmaDesign!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On The Net

FileXaminer 1.6 - The fine folks at Gideon Softworks Inc. have just announced the release of FileXaminer 1.6 - the award-winning File/Folder information utility for Mac OS X. FileXaminer allows you to modify file and folder attributes that the Finder cannot (ie. Type/Creator Info, UNIX permissions, and much more). FileXaminer is powerful and easy to use, making it the best "Get Info" application for Mac OS X. FileXaminer eliminates the need to use Terminal, and makes changing attributes on files/folders a breeze! Get yourself over to Gideon Softworks Inc. and get the latest update of FileXaminer! Move it!

Very Ape

Pixadex - Let's face it. you've got TONS of icons!! So how do you get a grip on organizing all these amazing creatures? One word: Pixadex! This great app from The Iconfactory allows you to organize and view all the iconian beauts you have stored on your computes! Pixadex is to icons what Apple's iPhoto is to images. Brought to you by Panic and The Iconfactory, Pixadex lets you import, organize and search huge numbers of icons quickly & easily. Pixadex lets you store all of your icons in a single place, organized into collections that you create. This is one app you don't want to do without if you are an Icon Lover like all of us are! Head over to The Iconfactory and grab your copy of Pixadex A.S.A.P.!

IconizeMe! - One of THE most talented pixel artists around, Mr. Paul Sahner has created one of the most popular services on the web called IconizeMe! Paul takes his talent, combines your wonderful face, and creates an outstanding caricature. Believe you me, this service has the pixel power to make your charm, good looks, and personality shine by grabbing a real life photo and turning you into an icon that will last a lifetime with plenty of ooos and ahhs. This is a MUST HAVE service and we are certain you will be pixel pleased with the results from DV Graphics' IconizeMe! services!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

BUMPER STICKERS Part III

Montana -- At least our cows are sane!

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

If you don't like the news, go out and make some.

Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

Few women admit their age; fewer men act it.

Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW.

It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.

According to my calculations, the problem doesn't exist.

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

Very funny, Scotty, now beam down my clothes.

BLOOPERS OF CHILDREN Part I

1. In the first book of the bible, Genesis, God got tired of creating the world, so he took the Sabbath off.

2. Adam & Eve were created from an apple tree.

3. Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark.

4. Noah built the ark, which the animals came on in pears.

5. Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day, but a ball of fire by night.

6. The Jews were a proud people and throughout history they had trouble with unsympathetic Genitals.

7. Sampson was a strongman who let himself be led astray by a jezebel like Delilah.

8. Sampson slated the Philistines with the axe of apostles.

9. Moses led the Hebrews to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients.

10. The Egyptians were all drowned in the dessert.

CAT HOSPITAL

Q: Why did the cat go to the hospital?

A: To have a cat-scan done.