September 19-21, 2003

At The Top - Eeeyessss! Looks like we made it through another week of hairy days and fuzzy Monkie belly button lint! So, since we got past all the weekly bumps and bruises, we pull out the good GUI goodies that your desktop peruses. This would translate into a fine time for our Friday Icon Edition. And with it we also have some Community News, Software News On The Net, and the strange colored humor we call Bananas. So let's get down, get funky, and groove with the Monkie!

P.S. Oh yeah...we may be taking another weekend off. So be sure to play hard and nose around in our absence!

New GOO!

New Icons - Lookin' for some of the absolute finest icons on the web? Well, you've come to the right place as we kick into gear our Friday Icon Edition! This week there's 3 New Icon Sets from the most excellent of pixel palletteers! Let's have a look!

RAD-E8 - Another fabulous flavor finds its way to the pixel galleries from the fine craftsmanship of RAD-E8's Sascha Höhne. From Sascha's popular SNOW.E 2 series comes the great taste of SNOW.E 2 Strawberry Edition. This awesome plate of pixel pleasures is sure to satisfy your diet of fine icon dining in the most natural of ways!

mbstuart.com - Saaaaaaaalute! Tipping his hat to the men and women of this country who defend our freedom is Michael B. Stuart with U.S. Military. This great set from the barracks of mbstuart.com pays tribute to the U.S. Military branches and will bring your desktop to full attention. And you won't have to do any push ups!

Iconizer Icon Studios - Wessley Roche finishes off this Friday Icon Edition with plenty of fun from the works of Iconizer Icon Studios! From Disney's animated film of the same name, Wessley brings you the colorful characters of Lilo and Stitch. Quite the fine batch of icon creatures, this set will bring a grin to your face if not leave you in stitches! Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Wessley, Michael, and Sascha...

The GUI community would never be the same

without your incredible contributions!

THANK YOU!!

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Community News

Mandolux - There's all kinds of cool stuff happenin' over at Mandolux! First up is Mando's week in "wallpaper" wrap up:

Mandolux has issued nine new desktops: four Giant Petals (Nature/Macro), one Asiana (Thai/Art), and four Morning (Nature/Close-up) pictures.

That's some mighty fine work that's been added. But wait! That's not all!! Mando just announced Mandolux Stock, an online store to purchase royalty-free stock imagery. The first image is a free one and it is the basis of his latest desktop: Sunrise. Sunrise is a macro photograph of a brown tiger lily petal and it is available in Giant, Dual Monitor, and regular setups.

Make your way to the many works of Mandolux and grab a gander!

On The Net

WindowShade X 3.0.1 - The amazing haxie makers at Unsanity LLC have announced the release of WindowShade X 3.0.1. This feature rich app for OSX brings the familiar window-collapsing effect from Classic Mac OS into Mac OS X with plenty of flash. Several new fixes and features have been included in the latest release. Get the most out of your Mac with the latest update to WindowShade X from Unsanity!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz

SIT DOWN HUMOR

Two retired professors were vacationing with their wives at a hotel in the Catskills. They were sitting on the veranda one summer evening, watching the sun set. The history professor asked the psychology professor, "Have you read Marx?" To which the professor of psychology replied, "Yes and I think it's these pesky wicker chairs."

LOST IN THE TRANSLATION

A hair products company, Clairol, introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that mist is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the manure stick.

DROPPIN' EGGS

Why did the chicken stop in the middle of the road?

It wanted to lay it on the line.

September 18, 2003

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Monkie News

Around The Corner: New Icons - Acka hack hack! What did I tell you about the weather in Wyoming?! Yesirree Bob! It done snowed today! And now the Monkie is feelin' the aches from the cold. But tomorrow ought to warm everything up with some fresh new icon GOO to warm your pixel eyes. Swing back by on Friday for some fun with our Friday Icon Edition. See ya then.

On The Net

The Omni Group - Another OmniOutliner add-on has arrived from the folks at The Omni Group! The Export to iCal add-on provides the ability for OmniOutliner users to export a document to an iCal To Do item list, making an item for each entry in an outline. They have also updated the OmniOutliner Export to iPod add-on. Get yourself over to The Omni Group and get all the latest add-on updates for OmniOutliner!

eMail Bounce Handler 1.3 - Tired of bounced e mail? Check out the latest version of eMail Bounce Handler from MAX Programming LLC. This app is a bounce e-mail filtering and handling tool that recognizes bounce e-mails using a customizable set of rules and extracts the recipients addresses allowing you to use them again to try sending your mail or to take them off your mailing list. The latest version includes bug fixes, optimizations, and enhancements. Make your way to MAX Programming for the full scoop on eMail Bounce Handler.

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Powered Up Powerbooks - Apple has packed more power into its entire line of Powerbooks. Now there are five Powerbooks in the family, beginning with the option of three different screen sizes. With all of these Powerbooks to pick from Mac is sure to meet the needs of more and more laptop lovers by the minute. People can get plugged in with plenty of power starting with a speedier new 12-inch Combo or Superdrive, a 15-inch Combo or Superdrive, or a speedier new 17-inch Superdrive. - from PC Pro

Exposed At The Expo - Some interesting information was introduced by Steve Jobs during his keynote address in Paris. Aside from the speedy Powerbook parade, Jobs also juggled around the idea of having a 3 gigahertz G5 up and running before the end of the next summer season. The popular iChat AV was promoted, but there was not so much as a prediction of when Panther, the newest Mac operating system, will be presented to the public. Perhaps Mac users would have preferred to know that one piece of information over all the others. - from MacMinute

September 17, 2003

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At The Top - Whole-E-Cow! It must be Wednesday, but sure wish it was FRIDAY! It's been quite the week already. So, as with the whacked out Monkie Tradition, we whip out the old pixel platter and fill it with piles of GUI goodies for our mid-week Wednesday Desktop Edition! And good golly, Miss Molly...we've got a fine collection to gander at. Plus we plop some Community News, Software News On The Net, and Bananas into the Monkie blender for a weird twist in the Monkie Zoo. Let's grab the goods and have a great time!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Another fab five pixel palletteers enter the Gallery this week as we proudly put on display 5 New Desktops for your desktop's delight! No sense in me ramblin' on. Let the pixels do the talkin'!

Desktops - From the other side of the sea comes an awesome snapshot by Jack Juliussen titled Nord Havn. Out of the former galleries of Prevision, this beautiful bay side selection translates as North Harbor on our Western shores and makes for a permanent stay in your shipment of top notch desktop pics!

Temporarily putting aside his pixel pallet, Marty Leone picks up the digital lens and lands a great new number square on the Bench! You might want to grab the gardener and the maid before having a sit with this pic, but it will sure make a great mark squarely placed on your desktop place mat!

 

Nature - There seems to be a snapshot pleasing pixel theme running through this digital Desktop Edition. And the work of Pictures and Adicons' Adam Dickson is no exception to the exceptional work bloomin' about! Adam puts an all new focus on the Nature Department with the eye-grabbing photo titled Bloomin' eck. You can smell it from here!

 

3-D Rendered - Though he always manages to return with a command performance, EA Design's Ed Allen titles his latest digital masterpiece Never Again. This amazing black (and white) beauty will add plenty of stun to your GUI eye gun and mesmerize your desktop with Ed's skill in letting the picture do all the talking!

When it comes to the weather in Wyoming, one never needs to worry about getting bored. If you don't like the current weather, wait about 5 minutes and it will change! And with that thought in mind, MacMonkies' Webmaster Wiles created a little Bryce number titled Indian Summer. In this neck of the woods, ya never know if you will be freezin' your eyelids or heatin' up in the latter part of Fall. Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Ed, Marty, Adam, and Jack...

Your abilities paint the world with all new colors!

Keep on keepin' on!!

THANK YOU!!

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Community News

The Iconfactory - Another Icon Tuesday has passed and your GUI sweet tooth should be plenty satisfied with a brand new icon set from the wonderful folks at The Iconfactory! This week's pixel fix comes from the friendly face of the Foreman Gedeon Maheux with Petroglyphs, a continuation of his exploration of primitive art that began with Tribal Masks. Don't be behind the times! Get over to The Factory and grab this great new set!

Mandolux - Just in at Mandolux, master of ancient arts Mando Gomez has issued a new Asiana desktop titled Head of the Buddha - a Thai masterpiece from the 16-17th century and is made of copper with traces of lacquer and gilding. Grab your piece of history by making your way to Mandolux!

On The Net

PrefsMenu 1.1 - Just released from jPage is PrefsMenu 1.1. This OSX utility puts the System Preferences in the menu bar. Here's what's new in version 1.1:

• New icon by Jonathan Redmond
• Can now sort by group
• Greatly improved speed
• Bigger menu bar icon
• Now searches /Network/Library as well
• Displays a welcome message the first time it opens
• Other minor fixes

If you want more of the 'classic' feel to your OSX x-perience, head over to jPage and grab the latest update to PrefsMenu!

eMail Extractor 1.6.2 - From the fine folks at MAX Programming LLC comes the release of eMail Extractor 1.6.2. With eMail Extractor, you can recover customers e-mail addresses from your mailbox or contact files extracting e-mail addresses from HTML and text files on your local disks. The most recent update fixes 2 bugs that address the issues of the '&' character wrongly removed from some e-mail addresses and the duplicate checking failure in very specific conditions. Grab your updated copy of eMail Extractor by heading over to MAX Programming!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz

HOT TIN ROOF

A man left his cat with his brother while he went on vacation for a week. When he came back, the man called his brother to see when he could pick the cat up. The brother hesitated, then said, "I'm so sorry, but while you were away, the cat died."

The man was very upset and yelled, "You know, you could have broken the news to me better than that. When I called today, you could have said he was on the roof and wouldn't come down. Then when I called the next day, you could have said that he had fallen off and the vet was working on patching him up. Then when I called the third day, you could have said he had passed away."

The brother thought about it and apologized.

"So how's Mom?" asked the man.

"She's on the roof and won't come down."

HALF AND HALF

My grand daddy once said, "You bet I'm half woman. My daddy was a man and my momma was a woman!"

LEAVE IT!

A panda bear walks into a restaurant and orders a sandwich. When he receives the sandwich he eats it and then shoots the waiter and leaves the restaurant. A policeman sees the panda and tells him he just broke the law. The panda bear tells the policeman that he's innocent and, if he didn't believe him, to look in the dictionary. The policeman gets a dictionary and looks up "panda bear." It says, "Panda Bear: eats shoots and leaves."

September 16, 2003

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Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Tahmarra, tahmarra, New Desktops, tahmarra! Hmmm...Does ya thinks we might have some new desktops on display for our middle-of-the-week Wednesday Desktop Edition? Why...we all resoundingly say in unison...YES! So before you go makin' too many pointless plans with a pooped out platypus, put a big ol' Monkie mark on your calendar for a pixel pleasin' good time right here at the Monkie Farm. Y' all come back now, ya hear?!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Musical Apples - Apple Corps has once again come knocking at Apple Computer's door, this time over iTunes. The Beatles' owned record company is bringing a 1991 agreement between the two companies back into the spotlight. The document is to be deciphered by the High Court in London, and allowance of the Apple name applied to downloads is to be determined. Interest in the interpretation increases as this drama plays out between the two biggest Apples in music. Hmmm...I guess a time will never gonna Come Together and Let It Be. - from TechWeb

Apple Reunion - A reunion of former Apple employees over the weekend fostered many memories of Apple's first man, CEO Steve Jobs. Attendees shared openly while picking the shrimp platters clean. Specific stories of Jobs' hot temper struck a chord with all those present while strolling down memory lane. Forget about meeting him in a dark alley, most people that have worked for Jobs wouldn't even want to meet him in the elevator! But they all agreed that Apple wouldn't be Apple without him. - from Wired

September 15, 2003

Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Whoa doggies! Time once again to pull out the ol' Monkie grin to face another week of the grind at the dreaded work place! Ah, it's not that bad. But an extra grin or two never hurt nobody for gettin' by. So that's our cue to pull out a smirk or three to get through the Monday blues.

You might notice a bit of added color around here in the the form of some fine lookin' banners. These are from some of the fine folks who made our 2nd Annual Birthday Bash such a smashing blast of fun. We encourage you to take a click trip and visit these friends of ours in appreciation of their awesome generosity!

So, are we ready for some fun? Let's get down to the Monkie Business with new Community News, Software News On The Net, and some Bananas too. Dig it!

Community News

Live Pencil - Always eager to brighten your day, Ramon Gonzalez Teja has added all kinds of new fun to the GUI collections of Live Pencil. Let's look at what's in store:

• EMOTICONS: HANDS again. Say VICTORY with them!  
• ANIMATIONS: Hairy pencil. Watch it's hair grow!
• LIVE ANIMALS: Cute little turtle in the water.
• BACKGROUND: For your e-mails, Falling dollars all around. $$$$$$$$
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week...You have to look for it , keep searching!

Grab some peace and smiles from all the latest at Live Pencil. Your desktop will thank you!

Mandolux - Mando Gomez keeps pushin' the pleasurable pixels with a new theme of desktops at Mandolux. The new theme is titled Morning and the first pic is titled Dandelion - a picture of a dandelion up-close with a bluish sky as its background. The desktop is available in giant, regular, and dual monitor setups. Hurry over to Mandolux and grab a look at this dandy new desktop!

PlasmaDesign - If you like your desktops big, bold, and beautiful, we've got just the treat for you! Rob Randtoul has just announced the availability of a new desktop at PlasmaDesign titled Paperweight. It's no secret that Rob's a proud mac user. And to show his Mac spirit, he's making this great new selection available to all visitors. Grab your mouse and make the move over to PlasmaDesign for this great new selection!

widget : widget - When you got it, you really got it! And widget : widget's Alexander MacLean has just the treat for you to get with Aqualicious Palms v.3. This great new icon set is just the right combination of colors your palms have got to get their hands on. There's only one place to get 'em, and that's at the fine GUI galleries of widget : widget!

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On The Net

AudioX 3.2 - The fine Mac folks from Realmac Software have announced the immediate availability of AudioX 3.2, a sound recording application with some amazing features! The latest update features:

• Skip feature added to notes window.
• Export to mail added to the export window.
• Updated recording window.
• Updated notes window.

If you're looking for a fine Mac audio app with plenty of fun features, make your way over to Realmac Software and download the latest version of AudioX!

jNotes 1.1.1 - Everybody take note! jPage has updated jNotes, the popular Mac notepad that can disappear when in background. A few commonly requested features and bug fixes have been included in the latest release:

• Added option to stay visible in background
• Now supports styled text
• Now supports embedded files (images and movies)
• Icon menu will now display folders with icons pasted on them
• Can now use Pixadex icon collection for the icon menu
• And more!

Make the best of your memory by jotting down your creative ideas with the latest version of jNotes 1.1.1 from jPage. Get to jottin'!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts

ON THE RUN

Confucius say: Man who runs behind bus is going to get exhausted.

OUTLET

What did the plug say to the socket?

Socket to me baby!!!

HAVAII OR HAWAII

These two persons are discussing whether the state of Hawaii is pronounced 'Havaii' or 'Hawaii.' So there they stood arguing and arguing, until they decided to ask the gentleman that was walking by. The gentleman said, "Havaii." So they both looked at each other, and as the gentleman was leaving, one of the two said to him, "Thank you." The gentleman replied by saying, "Your velcome."

I SCREAMIN'!

Where would you learn how to make ice cream?

At Sundae school.