August 13-15, 2004

At The Top - Eeeeek! It's Friday the 13th! And what's that supposed to mean? Well, around here it means your luck has just changed for the better as we whip out this week's Friday Icon Edition! On top of the charming new GUI delights, we have a bit of the usual Monkie style News and of course a bucket of Fun. Let's fire up the GUI griddle and get this party started!

New GOO!

New Icons - Ready...Set...Go go Monkie Gadget! Okay. That didn't make much sense. But one thing will: 3 New Icon Sets are now on hand in the Galleries for your Friday Icon Edition! So let's get on with the Monkie gab and get to the GOO!

Gondarella - Do you have an itchin' for animal icons? If the answer is yes and you have a thing for pets, then Illus Faces from our latest contributor of Gondarella should ease your cat scratch! The set is described as "illustrative and child-like icon set with cute characters! The opposite of aqua." We say unique and excellent!

 

elpincho Designs - Ahhh! The smooth character from elpincho Designs returns with another solid icon set titled Alu Folders, part of elpincho's on going Alu series. This particular set features 28 most creative and original folders for every imaginable category to comfortably store your Mac goodies. Wah hoo for Alu!

 

Mastif - Mixing modern design with a retro reconnaissance is Mastif's master icon crafter Joe Phillips with his latest creation: Roboticons. You'll find some cool cogs and characters in this collection of eight; one of which may even be a blast from the past as his name comes straight out of the Land of Oz! Hey...Maybe Toto's in there too! Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Gondarella, Joe, and elpincho...

Your icon craft creations rock the GUI world!

THANK YOU!!

Wanna share your work with the world?

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

Stockicons.com - In from Stockicons.com, the icon stock station of The Iconfactory, is the release of the latest purchasable icon set titled Sprite. The new set is perhaps the most approachable stock icon collection yet. The hand-drawn style of the collection lends credibility and immediacy to any project. Sprite is available today as an electronic download for $349.00. For a look at all in the collection, head over to Stockicons.com while the pixels are still hot off the pixel press!

Live Pencil - Ready to wrap up your week with many a smile from Live Pencil? Ramon Gonzalez Teja, illustrator and graphic designer extraordinaire has added bunches of fun to the already fine lineup. Let's look:

• Emoticons - BIG EYES!!!!
• Wallpapers - Summer and jungle for this season.-
• ANIMATIONS - Refreshing drink for our summer sun.
• FIND THE 10 DIFFERENCES - More cats this time.
• Last week's HIDDEN IMAGE.

For fine GUI dining in the fun house, the best place to eat is Live Pencil. Fill 'er up!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

BLONDE MAKEUP

Why did the blonde put lipstick on her forehead?

She was trying to make up her mind!

RELEIVING STRESS IN CLASS Part II

7. Correct the professor at least ten times on the pronunciation of your name, even it's Smith. Claim that the 'i' is silent.

8. Sit in the front row reading the professor's graduate thesis and snickering.

9. Feign an unintelligible accent and repeatedly ask, "Vet ozzle haffen dee henvay?" Become agitated when the professor can't understand you.

10. Wink at the professor every few minutes. (Hey you might even get a date if he/she is cute.)

11. Every few minutes, take a sheet of notebook paper, write "Signup Sheet #5" at the top, and start passing it around the room.

12. Start a "wave" in a large lecture hall.

GUITAR-PLAYING LIGHTBULB

Q: How many guitar players does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: Two: One to change the lightbulb, the other to say, "I can do that."

IN-LAWS AND OUT-LAWS

What is the difference between out-laws, and in-laws?

Out-laws are wanted.

August 12, 2004

Monkie News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - The pixels just keep a comin' as you're certain to see tomorrow as we roll out another fine line of GUI designs for your Friday Icon Edition! Plenty of eye candy pleasures are on their way along with News and Humor too. Wrap up your work week the right way by picking up a great big GUI smile Monkie style right here at MacMonkies!

On The Net

CandyBar 1.6.5 - Hot diggity doggities! The fine folks from The Iconfactory and Panic have announced the release of CandyBar 1.6.5, the ultra popular icon customization tool. The new version is fully qualified for use with the newly released Mac OS X 10.3.5 and is a free upgrade for registered users. If you have never purchased this great piece of software, purchase price is a mere $12.95 USD. All users are invited to head on over to the CandyBar homepage to download the update and replace older versions of the software. Now that you know, hurry over to The Iconfactory and get GUI happy with CandyBar!

OmniWeb 5.0 - Oh yeah! If you have been waiting for OmniWeb's beta to end and the official release to begin, you're cyber ship has just sailed in! Now available from the The Omni Group is one of the best browsers on the planet: OmniWeb 5.0. Highlighted new features include:

A tab drawer, saved browsing sessions, greatly enhanced bookmarks, page marking, improved search shortcuts, site-specific preferences, and so much more.

Omni Group CEO Ken Case is rather excited about the release as it is now "based on Safari's fast and compatible WebCore engine" and they've been able to spend their design and development effort thinking of new ways to save you time. OmniWeb 5.0 sells for $29.95 and comes complete with a 30 day trial period for you to enjoy this great browser. So what'cha waitin' for? Head over to The Omni Group, download OmniWeb 5.0, and check it out!

HistoryHound 1.5 - Hot on the history trail is the release of HistoryHound 1.5 from the amazing Mac app'ers from St. Clair Software! This cool tool is a utility for indexing and searching web pages that you've bookmarked or visited recently. The new version boasts greater speed and efficiency in its indexing engine and adds numerous user-requested enhancements. Highlights include:

The ability to search OmniWeb 5 and URL Manager Pro history and bookmarks, filters to prevent certain pages from being added to the search index, a Recent Searches menu, expanded search options, and a Find command for searching the contents of the preview and index status windows.

The update is free for registered users and a full list of changes can be found about HistoryHound with a simple click to St. Clair Software!

A Better Finder Launcher 1.6 - The software perfectionists from PUBLICSPACE.NET are pleased to announce the release of A Better Finder Launcher 1.6, their keyboard-based application and document launcher for Mac OS X. The newest update shows all matching items including applications, folders, documents and preference panes in a single view. A Better Finder Launcher is shareware and costs $9.95. The download and all the details can be had by swingin' over to PUBLICSPACE.NET. Go get it!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Mac Markets A Million Songs - Apple's magnificent music download service now has more than a million songs to choose from. The iTunes Music Store is the top banana for a number of reasons, including ease of use. But now it is even more marketable, offering the most songs of any other online music store. As surfers are served many more selections, Apple may rise even higher than the seventies when it comes to its market share of music downloads. - from MacCentral

Virtual Dressing Rooms - Many magazines are trying different techniques to draw people to their websites since online activity is on the rise. Glamour Magazine has begun offering virtual dressing rooms on their website. The room allows women to see what certain jeans or swimming suits would look like on a person with a similar body shape as their own. By creating crafty conveniences such as these online, publications are hoping to keep their profiles high in a non-print world. - from CNet

The World At Your Desktop - Onlookers of this year's Olympics will be offered many viewings online. People around the world will get different views depending on where they are. NBC broadcasts from Athens will be tape-delayed for American viewers, whereas European viewers can see all the Olympic sights live on their computers and cell phones. The Olympic committee voted to allow the viewings online provided there were protective measures taken to benefit large broadcasting companies. - from Excite

August 11, 2004

Desktops | Community News | Bananas

At The Top - Whoa!!! Welcome to the Insomniac Mac Attack segment of this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition! With all of the duties stacked on this Monkie's palette of "to-do's," very little shut eye or sheep counting has been captured by these Monkie peepers. So if things seem a tad on the squirrely side, then perhaps they are. That is, funny looking, furry little Monkie creatures running up trees (watch out for your insurance premiums)!

Also in the nudes...whoops! Also in the News is a note to let you know that all but one winning notification for this year's Birthday Bash have been sent out. Me thinks the strange, still unexplained, e-mail issues have been resolved. If for any reason your name is in the Winners' Circle and you have not been contacted, feel free to drop me a line.

Phew! Now that we have all of that out of the way, let's get to some fun with New GOO, News, and Bananas in the sun!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Get down, get funky! It's time to slip into casual clothes and enjoy the ritz of 5 New Desktop Pics that have been placed in the Gallery for this week's Desktop Edition. No need to dress up...We'll let the desktops do that! Let's have a look!

Desktops - Welcoming a big blast from the past, we are pleased as punch to re-introduce the fine desktop designs of Neil Roberts! After making a major relocation across the States, Neil returns with Mayan, his first of many powerful pixel portraits. This particular maze makes for a rather amazing piece!

Where might one find an angel resting? Not certain that the question can be appropriately answered, but one might look in Angel Nest 2, a most artistic selection created by the talented hands of Victor Emert. The antiquated appearance of this gem adds a "died and gone to Heaven" effect for your desktop!

 

Nature - This week's Nature selection is certain to be a big treasure amongst your desktop collections as we proudly present Treasure Tree by the ever talented Stephen Anderson! Perhaps one of Stephen's finest works to enter the Monkie Galleries, this must-have desktop will dazzle your eyes in all ways imaginable!

 

3-D Rendered - Taking the simple pleasure of enjoying the view of eye candy sight seeing, to the "pane" staking task of creating it, is Bob Wiley with an incredible work titled Panes 1. Bob continues to make the most of his unique style and craftsmanship to create a 3-D look incomparable to any other!

Bouncing back in the past is a funky little number by MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles titled Hit The Floor. Its original "frame" came from a series of different Bryce creations that eventually led to the debut of Boink. After rendering this piece that lead to Boink's final state, it was run through a filter for added effects. Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Neil, Bob, Stephen, and Victor, ...

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE WORK!!

Simply amazing!

THANK YOU!!

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Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

The Iconfactory - The best in icon fun continues to filter in from the folks at The Iconfactory! Just added to their pixel lineup is their latest freeware release titled Puft System. This cool collection by Factory new guy and icon artist extraordinaire David Lanham is a soft, white, and subtle collection of system icons that are designed to work with their system customization software CandyBar. Pretty cool, eh?! This great new collection can find it's way to your desktop simply by visiting the Showroom over yonder at The Iconfactory. Go get it!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

OUT OF COLLEGE Part III

College sweatshirts are 'casual' instead of dress up.

Sleeping on the couch is a no-no.

Naps are no longer available between noon and 6 p.m.

Dinner and a movie — the whole date instead of the beginning of one.

You get your news from sources other than USA Today, ESPN Sportscenter, and MTV News.

SHINE ON, YOU CRAZY FRATBOY!

How many Frat boys does it take to change a light bulb?

11 - One to hold the light bulb, and 10 to drink until the room spins.

THE UNTOLD CREATION OF MAN

God created the mule, and told him, "You will be a mule, working constantly from dusk to dawn, carrying heavy loads on your back. You will eat grass and lack intelligence. You will live for 50 years."

The mule answered, "To live like this for 50 years is too much. Please, give me no more than 20." And it was so.

Then God created the dog, and told him, "You will hold vigilance over the dwellings of Man, to whom you will be his greatest companion. You will eat his table scraps and live for 25 years."

And the dog responded, "Lord, to live 25 years as a dog like that is too much. Please, no more than 10 years." And it was so.

God then created the monkey, and told him, "You are monkey. You shall swing from tree to tree, acting like an idiot. You will be funny, and you shall live for 20 years."

And the monkey responded, "Lord, to live 20 years as the clown of the world is too much. Please, Lord, give me no than 10 years." And it was so.

Finally, God created Man and told him, "You are Man, the only rational being that walks the earth. You will use your intelligence to have mastery over the creatures of the world. You will dominate the earth and live for 20 years."

And the man responded, "Lord, to be Man for only 20 years is too little. Please, Lord, give me the 20 years the mule refused, the the 15 years the dog refused, and the 10 years the monkey rejected." And it was so.

And so God made Man to live 20 years as a man, then marry and live 20 years like a mule working and carrying heavy loads on his back.

Then, he is to have children and live 15 years as a dog, guarding his house and eating the leftovers after they empty the pantry.

Then, in his old age, to live 10 years as a monkey, acting like an idiot to amuse his grandchildren.

And it is so.

August 10, 2004

Monkie News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Oh yeah! Tomorrow you will find yourself in the midst of some fine desktop dining as we roll out the red carpet for your Wednesday Desktop Edition! Some great artistic wonders are headed your way along with News and humor too. Come one, come all, come as you are...No jacket required. All this Wednesday at MacMonkies!

Birthday Bash Winners - As we mentioned yesterday, we experienced some strange events with our outgoing mail over the weekend; thus preventing us from sending out winning notifications. Though we still haven't pin pointed the problem, all things e mail seem to be working thus far. If you are on the Winner's List for this year's Birthday Bash, you should receive notification within 1-2 days. We really appreciate your patience during this period!

Mac OS X 10.3.5 Update - Apple released the Mac OS X 10.3.5 update yesterday. The update includes enhancements for Bluetooth, Networking and Internet; as well as other enhancements for digital camera MPEG-4 importing, audio, the Mail app, and more. Details can be found by visiting Apple's Support Page. You can download the update via the Software Update pane in the System Preferences or by visiting this link.

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Microsoft Update Mimics Mac - Microsoft has been known to mimic Mac before, and this time they are doing it with the latest Windows XP update. The update will finally fix many security flaws by setting security features to default. That is the way Mac makes its operating system. Though Microsoft may mimic Mac in making Windows XP more secure, its updates are much fewer and far between than Mac, which offers fresh new features with each frequent update. - from PC Pro

The Date Escape - Some cell phone companies are offering a service that will help get their customers out of bad dates. Swinging singles who find themselves in a sticky situation can program their phones to ring at a certain time. The message on the other end will then tell them exactly what to say to sound as though something has come up. They can then walk out on the disappointing date without actually telling their date how disappointing he/she has been. Good grief! Anyone ever heard of simple, straight forward productive confrontation??? - from Excite

Mighty Mac - Last week Hewlett-Packard let the world in on its first Linux laptop. It is hoping the release of these laptops will cause Linux to replace the Mac operating system as the number two OS behind Windows. Experts tend to think this in an unlikely event, however. Most of the Linux laptops will probably be sold to overseas consumers, many of whom put a pirated copy of Windows on their laptops right when they get them out of the box. Because of this, Mac's spot in second place is said to be safe. - from Wired

The Incredible Edible Wrap - Customers covering baked goods or other foods can now have their cling wrap and eat it too. Personnel at Oregon State University have produced an edible cling wrap, which can come in a film or a spray. The film can be fortified with vitamins, making it healthy to eat. Filling the film with minerals will also make the wrapped food stay more fresh. The crafty cling wrap is made with all natural sources, including ingredients found in shrimp shells and egg whites. - from Ananova

August 9, 2004

Community News | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - G' day, folks! It was kind of a difficult weekend as we were experiencing some unexplained e mail issues. As a result, most Winners of our Birthday Bash have not yet been contacted by us at MacMonkies. I do believe that I have found a way to get around the issue, so everyone should be notified within a day or two. Please bear with us as we work to correct the situation.

Now that the technicalities have been communicated, let's begin this week with a big ol' whacky smile Monkie style and dig into the good stuff! Peoples, start your engines!

Community News

Mastif.tk - Just in from the wild blue yonder and beyond is news of a brand new icon set added to the archives of Mastif.tk! The latest is the 5th set to be released and is titled Roboticon. It contains 8 icons following a robotic theme. So if you're looking for some great new pixels to satisfy your GUI appetite, hurry over to Mastif.tk and get to downloading!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Strange Gravestones

The mortal remains of Ethan Allen,
fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher,
lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue.
His spirit is in Vermont now.

Ethan Allen (Greenmount Cemetery; Burlington, Vermont)

"That's All Folks!"
The Man of a Thousand Voices

Mel Blanc (Hollywood Memorial Park; Hollywood, California)

Truth and History.
21 Men.
The Boy Bandit King --
He Died As He Lived.

William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid" (Fort Sumner Cemetery; Fort Sumner New Mexico)

Baby Weaners - Baby seals are called pups, but they're also referred to as "weaners."

Faith - Grasping faith by understanding is like breathing air with your hands.

- Bradford Wiles

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

RELEIVING STRESS IN CLASS Part I

1. Leave permanent markers by the dry-erase board.

2. Ask whether the first chapter will be on the test. If the professor says no, rip the pages out of your textbook.

3. Hold up a piece of paper that says in large letters "CHECK YOUR FLY". (At Least for the Male profs.)

4. Address the professor as "your excellency".

5. When the professor turns on his laser pointer, scream "AAAGH! MY EYES!"

6. Relive your Junior High days by leaving chalk stuffed in the chalkboard erasers.

RODEO

Q: What did the snail say when it caught a ride on the back of the turtle as it was crossing the road?

A: "Yahoo!"

OUT OF COLLEGE Part II

Jeans and baseball caps aren't staples in your wardrobe.

You can no longer take shots, and smoking gives you a sinus attack.

You go to parties that the police don't raid.

Your car insurance goes down, except when you move to Jersey.

You refer to college students as kids.

You feed your dog Science Diet instead of Taco Bell.

You're waking up at 6 a.m. instead of going to bed.

LAWYERS' WORD PROCESSOR

Q: Have you heard about the lawyers' word processor?

A: No matter what font you select, everything comes out in fine print.