August 28-29, 2004

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Pic of the Day - Ah! The Pic of the Day has returned with an all-too-cute puppy portrait! This adorable pic features a lineup of pups that look as though they're waiting for the pixture taker with a honkin' ol' rib-eyed steak to drop the goods. About the only thing you can't see is the doggie drool making its way to the ground. Now that you've had the introduction that simply doesn't do the photo justice, make a simple click to get a good look at this adorable view!

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Monkie News

Stuff To Come - Just a quick note to let you all know that we most likely will be taking Sunday off. The Monkie Master has been diligently working on the Monkie projects mentioned in the last couple of weeks, and there's still more work to be done. Once they are complete, we're sure you'll enjoy them as much as Mr. Monk has putting them together. Keep your eyes peeled and your hands on the wheel!

August 27, 2004

Icons | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Hang on to your seats! There's a packed house at the Monkie Zoo as we roll out this week's Friday Icon Edition. There's bunches of New GOO for everyone, including a brand new Monkie Bundle in the GUI Galleries!

Not enough for your desktop stuff? Then you can dig into the Monkie pile of Community News, SW News On The Net, and Bananas to make all things toot a happy Mac tune. Everybody's gotta have a way to wind down from the week of work. And we've got just the ticket! Ready...Steady...Lets do it to it!

New GOO!

New Icons - Goodness gracious GUI goodies! This week's Icon Edition features 3 New Icon Sets and 1 Monkie Treat for dessert that you will find at the end of the main course! I am gonna shut my trap so we can all munch together!

DesignMood - Are you all in the mood for an icon melody that'll make your desktop dance the night away? We thought you might! So just for all of you icon aficionados, TAB from DesignMood soothes your desktop disposition with a most amazing collection of icon Tools Set. You won't have to pull out the power drill, but you will most certainly have to have someone pull you away from your computer screen after hours of gazing in delight!

 

Alphan Gunaydin - Can you hear me now? Can you HEAR me now? Can you hear me NOW? As your ears can hear good news when it comes about, your eye candy eyes will see the good sense of the almost audible pixel pleasures of Alphan Gunaydin's first icon entry titled Nokia Icons! No long distance plan needed. Just an excellent icon view at the click of your finger tips!

 

elpincho Designs - Entering in with the cutting edge and his pixel tools of perfection, the icon architect from elpincho Designs serves up a most clever rendition with BitTorrent. To clear the questions in your Monkie noggin, The BitTorrent Solution allows a peer-to-peer like bandwidth sharing solution by customers to help distribute content across the net. This set puts all of that info into one fine design!

New Monkie Bundle - One thing we haven't seen in the Monkie Bundle Department is an exclusive collection of desktop-only pixel poppers. Well, that is about to change! Let's see what this week's Monkie mystery is all about!

elpincho Designs - Well, well, well! Sometimes there's just no way to cover an awesome collection of Desktop variations without packaging it up in one fine Bundle. And that's exactly what the creator of elpincho Designs has done! Now you can have the entire "boxed set" of iColorsWall in one convenient pixel present. The contents features 13 different color variations of an outstanding Apple-like default desktop. A must-have set!

Thanks Department --

TAB, Alphan, and Elpincho...

Talk about the ULTIMATE collection of Icons and Desktops!

FANTASTIC!!!!!

THANK YOU!!

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Community News

Live Pencil - Yes yes! The master of GUI goodness, Ramon Gonzalez Teja, has added all kinds of fun to the archives of Live Pencil! Howz about we liven things up a bit and have a look at all that's new:

• Emoticons - UHHH!
• WALLPAPERS - SEPTEMBER's calendar and more.
• BACKGROUNDS - Animated and static. Once again we are in the jungle. Use them also as computer wallpapers.
• FIND THE 10 DIFFERENCES - We're having a party!

So...You need a pixel pick-me-up planted square on your GUI grin? Then head to Live Pencil and let the happiness begin!

On The Net

OmniWeb 5.0.1 - Surfing the web has never been better since the release of OmniWeb 5.0.1 from the amazing Mac folks at The Omni Group! This important update corrects an issue with the History Indexing feature which allows you to search through your visited pages using only keywords you remember having appeared on the web page. The release also updates the libpng library used in OmniWeb for rendering PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images, addressing several vulnerabilities as described in US-CERT Security Alert TA04-217A.

You can try OmniWeb with no limitations for 30 days, or purchase it for just $29.95. Upgrades to OmniWeb 5 from previous versions are $9.95. Now that you have all of the inside info, hurry over to The Omni Group and grab your updated copy of OmniWeb!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

FINISHED

A man in love is incomplete until he gets married.

Then he is finished!

BUMPER SNICKERS Part I

Well, this day was a total waste of makeup.

Don't bother me. I'm living happily ever after.

Do I look like a freakin' people person?

This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.

I started out with nothing & still have most of it left.

I pretend to work. They pretend to pay me.

If I throw a stick, will you leave?

You! Off my planet!

Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.

LITTLE VOICE

"Doctor! My wife has lost her voice. What can I do to help her get it back!"

"Try coming home at 3 in the morning."

TOE OBSERVATIONS

What do the toes say when they meet?

"There is a fungus among us."

August 26, 2004

Monkie News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: Hmmm... - Gee. I wonder what tomorrow brings. New icons? Most certainly! Another mysterious little Monkie treat? Oh, you might say so! And you know the Monkie Master; he likes to keep things under wraps whilst untangling a tease before your GUI eyes. So be sure to swing back tomorrow for your Friday Icon Edition and see what that little Monkie booger has as an added value!

On The Net

iClip 3.2 - Why do the diggin' when you can clip it with iClip 3.2 from the creative folks at Inventive, Inc.! This award winning productivity software for Mac OS X is a way to add clippings to a clipping set via drag & drop to the icon at the top of the iClip window. It can be very useful for quickly gathering information like URLs and pictures from websites. A preference for the Clipboard Recorder has been added for choosing whether the newest recorded clippings are stored at the beginning or the end of the clipping set. Also added is a preference to give more control over how pop-up previews are shown. Once you've downloaded your copy of iClip from Inventive, Inc., you're certain to be clipped!

TaskTime 2.0 - Time to take the extra task of tracking time with TaskTime 2.0, the latest application release from To•The•Point Software. This made for Mac tool provides a straightforward method of tracking time spent on jobs you do for your clients. It can generate personalized invoices which can be emailed, printed, and saved to disk. Version 2.0 represents a significant update with features that include:

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Apple Scores Customer Satisfaction - The University of Michigan has conducted a customer satisfaction survey that makes Apple out to be number one. The PC industry itself has improved its customer satisfaction overall, but it was Apple customers who had the happiest response, scoring it higher than any other specific brand. Not only that, but Apple fans showed that they favored the quality of its products as well as the tech support, where other brands came in lower on quality. - from MacCentral

Go Go Gadget iPod - Apple has advertised positions asking for engineer experts for its iPod division. The job of joining this division would involve working on ways to bring wireless technology to the iPod through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. iPod already has incredible ease of use, but implications of a wireless iPod would be two-fold. First, Wi-Fi ability would allow iPod to stream music through home stereos. Add Bluetooth capability and BAM! iPod becomes a remote control. - from PC Pro

Another Talking Toilet - If toilets could talk, what would they say? Toilets in Amsterdam have answered that question. Certain seats were installed with sensors that speak, their vocal vibes giving anything but mixed messages. The porcelain potties are quite picky, telling those who stop by when they are taking too much time or using too much toilet paper. The smart seats are able to smart off because they are connected to a computer nearby which feeds them criteria for their comical comments. - from Ananova

August 25, 2004

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Swing high, sweet Harriet! Yup, yup...You can climb in the sing and get your GUI treats here as we roll out your Wednesday Desktop Edition. And since the hairy chariot knows no lows as the hump day blues would have you believe, there's plenty of fun to be found to find your way to your journey towards your week's end. The only end needed here and now is to the rambling of the Monkie tongue. That's my que to move it on over and move to the News, GOO, and Bananas too...Just a swangin'!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Need a boost of GOO for your Hump Day Blues? We've got just the ticket for you: 6 New Desktops in the Gallery just a waitin' to dazzle your eyes! Let's dive right in!!!

3-D Rendered - If imagination can see farther than the limitations of the natural aperture below our eyebrows, then the creative sight of ShiftedReality's Juergen Eilts is endless! This week's shift of reality created with Terragen 0.919 and Photoshop titled Shimuna allows the viewer to travel to another part of the planet without leaving the comfort of your own home zone. Not real, but really amazing!

Keeping the GUI veins pumpin' with the luster of life à la Mother Nature style is the latest from Neil Roberts titled Gray Tree. Though unadulterated with excessive "bells and whistles," this most beautiful desktop backdrop has the intricacies that masterpieces are made of. There's no doubt about it; just as Neil's GUI craft continues to blossom, this selection is destined as a favorite in your collections!

 

Logos -Okay, that does it! I just don't have enough categories to cover the many desktop entries; like Tiger by Francisco Bennett! This beautifully built master work from XÅERO Graphics Design Studio could easily fit in the departments of Desktops, Etc., and Logos with the ultimate of ease. But it almost belongs in a Do It Different or Design Different slot. And that's just what Mr. Bennett does best...Design Different!

 

Desktops - Ain't no boring ol' Windoze here...Just life on the fast train with Amtrac Window by the ever artistic Victor Emert! Quickly becoming an all time favorite artist and desktop contributor to the Monkie Galleries, Victor continues to hone his already gifted craftsmanship and the outcome is simply outstanding! If you decide to get off this ride, make sure that all has stopped moving. The first step is a doozie!

Now that's what I like to see; Colorful collaboration amongst the grandest of GUI artists in the garden! The man with the basketful of GUI fruit would be none other than Bob Wiley with Tomato Still. As Bob himself puts it, this tasty number "started with an amazing photo by Klas, then Tracy did an amazing edit of it that really put a mood to it; Klas added the design, all I did was some color adjustments." Be still my beating Tomato!

Put on your sunglasses and plop in your earplugs! The latest design (if you can call it that) from MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles is just a tad bit Loud! What started as a simple Bryce rendering and run through some filtering, this psychede-like piece just got louder, and louder, and louder! So, the question is: Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? ENJOY!

 

Thanks Department --

Francisco, Juergen, Neil, Bob, and Victor...

Mmm, mmm, GUI Good!

Absolutely delicious!!!

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Community News

The Iconfactory - What goes out to sea, must come back to the bay! What is considered loosely related to Anthony Piraino's Jolly Roger release, The Iconfactory has just let loose another icon collection titled North Carolina Lighthouses. Inspired by the Marion family's summer trips to the Outer Banks, the latest iCandy is Corey's tribute to the majestic light stations of the North Carolina coast. This amazing set covers all seven major lighthouses along NC's coastline. Follow the beacons to The Iconfactory Showroom and download these postcards to pin to your desktop or send to friends and family today. Greetings from the Outer Banks!

On The Net

3D-Finder 1.0b1 - Wanna save some desktop space? Wanna see things like never before? Then you need to get a hold of the latest, greatest, application creation from MarcMoini.com titled 3D-Finder! Marc has managed to take your desktop X-perience into a whole new dimension with the app that features interactive 3D landscapes that provide enough docking space for all your files and applications. 3D-Finder is currently in its beta stage, but nonetheless offers a phenomenal look into the future of your desktop's accessibility. Get yourself over to MarcMoini.com and begin testing 3D-Finder. You won't regret it!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

BRACE YOURSELF

A blonde went to the dentist and the dentist told her she needed braces.

The blonde said, "Why? I can walk just fine."

When the dentist explained to her that braces are for her teeth, she said, "But my teeth don't walk."

TWINS

One day, Mr. Phillard rushed his pregnant wife over to the hospital. As the doctors were prepping his wife, Mr. Phillard's idiot brother Bill arrived to watch the birth. But when Mr. Phillard saw the blood and everything else, he fainted. When Mr. Phillard woke up he was in a bed with the doctor standing above him.

"Mr. Phillard," the doctor said, "you are in the recovery room. Don't worry, your wife is fine and she had twins, a boy and a girl. Because you were unconscious and your wife was still under anesthesia, she requested that your brother Bill name the kids."

"What! My brother, the idiot! I can't believe you let him! What did he name them?"

He named your daughter Denise."

"Hey, not bad! I underestimated my brother. What did he name my son?"

"He named your son Denephew."

LIGHTBULB MANAGEMENT

Q. How many managers does it take to change a light bulb?

A. We've formed a task force to study the problem of why light bulbs
burn out, and figure out what, exactly, we as supervisors can do to
make the bulbs work smarter, not harder.

ANOTHER CLEVER COMBO

What do you get when you cross a Barbary Ape with a Chihuahua?

Barbwa WaWa!

August 24, 2004

Monkie News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Whoa! The delectable desktops keep coming in droves! So, tomorrow will make for yet another great GUI day as we roll out your Wednesday Desktop Edition. You'll certainly want to stop back for this swingin' selection of New GOO along with the regular chest of coconutz. Would that make them chestnuts? Hmmm...

On The Net

The Fontz 3.7.2 - Always making your Mac X-perience all too cool is the fine Mac app'ers from To•The•Point Software. Their update to be released is The Fontz 3.7.2, a tool that makes finding that special font for a particular situation fast and easy as well as providing a simple, effective way of organizing font collections. This update fixes a problem with displaying nested folders of uninstalled fonts and is free to registered users. Hop on your cyber cycles, race over to To•The•Point•Software, and grab your updated copy of The Fontz!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

iPod Promotes Mac - Though iPod stands as a cultural icon all on its own, it is also acting as an arrow pointing people to other Apple products. For example, sales associates say that students are purchasing more and more Macs. The main purpose for these purchases seems to be the iPod. Students have had such good experiences with the iPod that they prefer Mac computers as well. Apple has also offered an iPod rebate for students buying its computers, helping to push Apple sales. - from MacCentral and USA Today

Secure Switcher - John Dodds shares an article stating that he finally feels safe and secure since he switched to Mac. After struggling with security and surviving numerous computer crashes, John began looking at Apple. He discovered that the Mac OS is virus-free and fell for that distinctive Apple design, purchasing a 15-inch powerbook. Initially impressed by how it looked, he went on to experience its ease of use, crash-free environment and immense security, all without anti-virus software. - from Independent News

Virtual Valentine - Following in the footsteps of the famous computerized Tamagotchi "pet," developers in Hong Kong are creating a virtual girlfriend for cell phones. Those who subscribe will see a virtual image of a woman on their cell phone screens. They will be able to text message the fake female, hearing her answer in a virtual voice. She will not answer automatically, however. To keep the game going, the player will be required to pamper her by purchasing gifts. For cryin' out loud!!! Can anyone say **desperate**??? - from CNews

August 23, 2004

On The Net | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - Good golly Miss Molly! Summer vacation has almost vacated the premises...Drrrrraaaag! So perhaps it's time to take a final splash in the Summer sun and swing into the routine of educational enlightenment. Not that there's anything wrong with educating the brain, but fun is FUN!

ANYWAY! Since I could talk the week away in the blink of an eye, we best make a mad dash for the Monkie madness before I manage to wind it all away. Everybody back into the pool!

On The Net

Pixadex 1.5.2 - Pick your pixels with pleasure using Pixadex 1.5.2! The cool icon organizational tool from Panic and The Iconfactory has been updated correcting several important bugs. For all registered users, it's a free upgrade and you're invited to head on over to the Pixadex homepage to download your updated copy. Don't own a copy of this fantastic tool? You can try it before you buy it and then purchase it for a mere $18.95 USD! Now that all of your icon pixels are pointed your direction, make your move to The Iconfactory and grab the latest version of Pixadex!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Tears In Hand - A 3-week old embryo is no larger than a sesame seed. A 1-month old fetus’s body is no heavier than an envelope and a sheet of paper. Its hand is no bigger than a teardrop.

Chew Got It Right - If you are right-handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of the mouth. If you are left-handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left.

Anytime At All - I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

- Stephen Wright

Set the Standard and Then Some - Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

- Steve Jobs

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

SIMIAN SIMILARITIES

What do you get when you cross a Scottish Terrier and an ape?

Scotch tape!

TOO MUCH TV

You know you watch too much TV when:

1. The bumper sticker on your car reads: "What Would Dawson Do?"

2. In the middle of an exam, you tell the professor you want to use a lifeline.

3. You need to be tranquilized when the cable goes out.

4. In the late evening, you look forward to sitting back and catching the latest infomercial.

5. If you're a witness to an argument, you instinctually shout, "Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!"

6. You try to impress the opposite sex by saying, "Hey, I get 120 channels!"

7. Your entire CD collection consists of "Greatest Hits" albums by the decade.

8. You have a gold-plated "clicker."

9. Your intellectual discussions all stem from The Discovery Channel.

10. After 15 minutes of work, you need a two-minute break. "

OUCH!!!

A woman at a party walked up to a man and told him, "If you were my husband I would poison your drink."

The man replied, "If you were my wife I would drink it."

REDNECK PARKIN' LOT

If you have no cars with a mobile phone, and 14 cars that aren't mobile, then you might be a redneck.