September 25-26, 2004

Quick Note News - Howdy folks. Just a very quick note to let y' all know that we at MacMonkies are gonna take a much needed break by ducking out for the rest of the weekend. We'll be back Monday. In the mean time, be sure to grab your bucket of GOO with a glance at this week's Icons and Desktops. See ya next week!

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September 24, 2004

Icons | Community News | Bananas

At The Top - Phew! Dunno about you, but this last couple of weeks have been quite the bear to bare. From world news, to politicians' "pews", to carbonation blues, it's all been quite the roller coaster ride! But that right there is the meaning of the Monkie: Put on a smile even when it makes your shorts stretch. And one quite cool way to avoid the "butt hurts" is to have a little blast with that big old GUI grin-time we all know best as your Friday Icon Edition! There's a trio of timeless icon sets immediately followed by Community News and Bananas to boot. So let's jump ahead of the dumpies and get groovin' with the Monkies!

New GOO!

New Icons - Put the blindfolds on all of your other Icon Sets...They're about to get jealous! With the latest addition of 3 New Icon Sets to your Friday Icon Edition, you might have to pick your eye popped pixel pupils off of the floor. So hang onto your lenses and let's get to the goods!

DV Graphics - We all know DV Graphics' Paul Sahner for his cutting edge, hot-on-the-heals of many a Mac release in icon creations. But it also seems Paul knows the long lasting value of classic devices combined with modern technology. So aside from his obvious skill in the edge of design, Paul also serves as an inventor of sorts with his recent release Reinvented. Now you can have your antiques **and** technology in one package. Antiquenology anyone?

 

Tux'n'tosh - It's the bomb! And we ain't talkin' 'bout the crash and burn style, run of the mill Operating System! Another series set here at the Monkie Gallery is the second in 1st class creations from Bandar Raffa of Tux'n'tosh appropriately titled Tux'n'tosh 2. Though there is no jacket required to dine with the elite members of this set, you'll find yourself surrounded by the class and style that Bandar knows so very well with his ever outstanding work! Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Steve, Paul, and Bandar...

Absolutely INCREDIBLE work!

THANK YOU!!

Wanna share your work with the world?

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

StockIcons.com - Filled with quality and always affordable, StockIcons.com has announced the release of Porcelain, the latest addition to their growing collection of ready-to-use icons. When your development project demands a unique, yet simple look and feel for its icon suite, look no further than this great new release. The set's angular design and color palette help give it a style and a feel all its own. Clean and distinct, this stock collection will help your website or software project stand out from the crowd. Porcelain is available today as an electronic download for only $349.00. Need more info? Hurry over to StockIcons.com and check 'em out!

Live Pencil - Turn up the smiles! It's time once again to check out all of the new grins available at Live Pencil. And the winning items would be:

• NEW!!! MATCH GAME - BACK TO OUR CHILDHOOD! We have all played this game sometime in our childhood
• More EMOTICONS - More LOVE, LOVE, LOVE...many more!
• More EMOTICONS - I am soooo bad! Hee Hee Hee.
• For your e-mails. BACKGROUNDS. Fruits in a basket.
• This is last week's HIDDEN IMAGE - You'll find 8 animations like this.

So what ya gonna do for a GUI good time? Head to Live Pencil and let your pixels do the writing!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

BAAAAAAD JOKE!

Q: Why does a chicken coop have only two doors?

A: Because if it had four it would be a sedan!

ANOTHER BAD JOKE?

Q: Why did the turkey cross the road?

A: Because he wasn't chicken.

CHICKEN CROSSFIRE

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Pat Buchanan answers this question: "To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American."

Dr. Seuss answers this question: "Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why? It's not been told."

Grandpa answers this question: "In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken had crossed the road, and that was good enough for us."

And Colonel Sanders answers this question: "I missed one?"

CONVICTS

Two boys were arrested, one was drinking battery acid and one was eating fireworks.

They charged one and let one off.

September 23, 2004

Monkie News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - The best part of the GUI menu at the Monkie Diner is about to be bolstered with a new brew of pixels as we prepare for your Friday Icon Edition! You'll find your eye candy craving satisfied with the upcoming round of GUI delights along with the normal nutz of News, SW Updates, and Bananas. Be sure to swing on back for an all around good time for all -- This Friday at MacMonkies!

On The Net

A Better Finder Launcher 1.7 - Similar to the Energizer Bunny, some things just keep gettin' better, and better, and better! And so would be the case with PUBLICSPACE.NET, as they are pleased to announce the release of A Better Finder Launcher 1.7.

This is their keyboard-based application and document launcher for Mac OS X. It provides instant access to all your applications, documents and folders. Simply press the Control-Command-L hot key and start typing the name of the item you are looking for.

Version 1.7 improves display performance and adds a new filtering mode. For instant access to the details on A Better Finder Launcher, simply swing to PUBLICSPACE.NET and have a looksy!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Mac Gadget Of The Week - Apple's sleek new iMac G5 has been named the Gadget Of The Week by Time magazine. It calls iMac G5 the replacement for the PC "desktop replacement," only with a much prettier price tag. Time also states that iMac is suave, possibly persuading people to switch to a Mac for the reason of style alone. And of course the Time powers that be were also impressed with the performance of this latest greatest Mac gadget. - from MacObserver

Students Switch to Mac - The Columbia Spectator has been speculating as to why students are stepping up to the Mac plate. One of the main Mac things for them is the music. That alone has landed Apple loads of student switchers. Issues of compatibility and security are huge and comparable prices have caused many pupils to take the Mac plunge. Apple's strong programs for the arts and ease of use have also swayed several students. - from MacMinute and Columbia Spectator

Solar Spinach - Popeye the sailor man was well known for super-sizing his muscles by eating spinach. Now scientists are getting a different kind of power from it. They are squeezing every bit of energy they can get out of spinach leaves and turning it into solar power. Chloroplasts from the spinach are converted into energy cells, which can be used to make much lighter and skinnier solar panels. When layered these cells can form the most super efficient solar panels yet. - from Ananova

September 22, 2004

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top: Advice for the Dumb at Heart - Got a thirst **and** a budget? That's cool! So you grab your favorite 2 liter bottle of soda and head to the computer to check your mail and all of your faved and frequented Mac websites. And just before you're about to make a click on one of your bookmarks, you tip that plastic bottle up to your lips, it slips outta your hands and...BLAM!!!! Carbonation cremates everything from your keyboard to your monitor, and all else in sight! Whoops. Best keep all beverages about 5 miles from anything you care to preserve. Lesson learned (Don't try this at home...It takes skilled stupidity to pull it off).

Now, what do you do for a grin whilst waiting for the ceiling drips to quit falling on your head? You can always grab a great big GUI smile with this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition! Always up for a splash are some stylin' desktop artists ready to strut their GUI stuff. Follow that with caffeine free News and Humor, and your Wednesday is almost on its way out the door. So before you give up and pack it all in, let's grab a grin and work our way toward the weekend!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Where does one wander to get the dingy old wallpaper off your Mac's "deskback" and slap a fresh new look in view? Why, that would be right here at ye ol' One Stop Monkie Desktop Shoppe! For this week's Desktop Edition, we've 5 New Desktops from the "fab five" to punch out all of the pixel crime you can point your finger at. So let's get the Monkie outta the way and get to the view!

When it comes to falling for the eye candy delights of Tux'n'tosh's Bandar Raffa, you won't even have to Think Twice! You're certain to find love at first bite with this beautiful Apple design that actually appears thrice when one looks beyond its obvious beauty. And since good looks are only skin deep, you won't mind a bit that Bandar's passion for pixel's runs all the way down to his creative fingers and toes!

 

Nature - Looking for a BIG blast of Nature to manifest itself in a most magnificent way? The ever amazing William D. Thompson takes us along his jogging journey for a breathless view Beneath the Volcano I. William witnessed one morn a marvelous display of dew covered plants, as though they were tipped with tiny diamonds. Though he didn't have his camera with him to capture the original view, he did return to take what turned out to be a shot of nature at its best!

 

Desktops - One of the most effective ways for an artist to convey their inner most visionary views is to speak straight from art's heart. As in Ou Revolution, you'll find Victor Emert's artistic message to be quite clear: Subliminal, subconscious, surreal visual imaging. It is whatever the viewer makes it out to be, feels it to be, or wants it to be. It is shape, design and color combined to excite emotion or intellectual curiosity in the viewer. You get the picture! 'Nuff said!

For the final flash of GUI gas, we visit the Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill...Wait! That would be a saga from a different song. But the real GUI tune at hand is a fabulous number by our weekly pixel patron Bob Wiley called Caedes' Web. This bright and bold selection was named after the GUI website of the same name, and where Bob regularly sports his latest, greatest, masterful creations. But of course, we know you will welcome his talents right here! Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Francisco, Bandar, William, Victor, and Bob...

Desktop art will never lose its flavor

As long as you keep brewing your great GUI stew!

THANK YOU!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

The Iconfactory - Need a vacation but just can't spend the time to get away? Have no fear! The Iconfactory Foreman Gedeon Maheux is here to save the day! Prescribing just what the doctor ordered, Ged has let loose this week's freeware icon release with Tiki Time. This icon collection is chock full of exotic trappings from the tiki craze of the 50's and 60's which has once again become popular. Pull up a bar stool and order a Zombie or sit by the light of the enchanted Tiki Torch. Sip a Mai Tai on the deck of your beach cabana or simply smell the fragrances of the native fauna. Your open invitation is now available at The Iconfactory's showroom to download this great new set. Feel the stress just drift away!

On The Net

FontCard 1.1 - Where's the best place to find Haxies for your Mac? That, of course, would be the masters of haxters, Unsanity LLC! And the latest to be released from those fine folks would be FontCard 1.1. This is a great tool that modifies the Font menu in Carbon and Cocoa applications. It can add an icon that displays the format of a font next to the font menu item, display the font name in the font face, group fonts into submenus, and add font collections to the font menu. This update to FontCard makes it the most effective tool for font menu management available on Mac OS X. What's new in the latest incarnation? Massive speed increase, Carbon and now Cocoa support, and much more compatibility are the major benefits of this free upgrade.

For a list of the latest improvements and to download your updated copy of FontCard, click over to Unsanity and check it out!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

FUNNY FOOD

How do you know if the head chef is a clown?

When the food tastes funny.

SAVING BUTT

A man decided to paint the toilet while his wife was away. His wife came home sooner than he expected, used the toilet, and got the seat stuck to her rear. She was understandably distraught about this and asked her husband to drive her to the doctor. She put a large overcoat on to cover the seat before they went.

When they got to the doctor's office, the man lifted his wife's coat to show him their predicament. The man asked, "Doctor, have you ever seen anything like this before?"

"Well, yes," the doctor replied, "but never framed."

CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN

What do you call a clean idiot?

Soap on a dope!

OVER THE ROOF

You might be a redneck if the roof of your truck is higher than the roof of your house.

CHARITABLE DONATION

After the church service, a little boy told the pastor he was going to give him a lot of money when he grew up.

''Well, thank you,'' the pastor replied, ''but why?''

''Because my daddy says you're one of the poorest preachers we've ever had!"

September 21, 2004

Monkie News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Just around the corner is another team of GUI artists ready to work their wonders in order to give your desktop an all new look! Tomorrow you'll find a group of five fabulous desktop fighters prepared to clean up the face of your GUI view as we present your Wednesday Desktop Edition. Along with this allegiance of artists is the caped and scraped Monkie with a smiling spin of News and Humor to tackle the Hump Day blues. So fly back to MacMonkies tomorrow for all kinds of fun...Up, up, and away!

New Site Look - With the lack of any negative feedback regarding the new site look we mentioned last week, it looks like the new view will be on its way in the very near future. The index itself is pretty much complete, minus a couple of interface tweaks and a tad bit of work on the style sheet. The bulk of what will remain is updating each of the GUI Departments. As far as a "release" date, the index could go online as soon as a week or two. The rest of the mentioned updating will definitely take some time. We'll keep you posted!

Network New

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Beat The Bug: Get A Mac - If an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure, than Mac is the way to go against viruses. While several experts stumble around trying to come up with solutions to keep PCs clean, the long list of helpful hints always seems to leave some stone unturned. Bugs continue to creep in through Windows and set back all kinds of computers - except Macs. That's why some suggest the only viable solution to get the viruses to vanish is simply to get a Mac. - from The Wall Street Journal

Stand By Your Mac - Apple fans are stepping up to the plate to defend their Macs. They raced to respond in defense of the new iMac G5 after reading a comment that it is ugly. Mac buffs bounced back boasting that it is beautiful, and that Apple has always been the leader of the computer world in innovative design. They even came back with the prediction that PCs will soon be coming up with similar designs to the sleek new lean machine. - from The Sunday Business Post

Program Predicts Hurricanes - A model of Hurricane Ivan is being recorded on computers in California even as it is happening. Weather experts hope to use the information gathered from this model to gain insight on predicting hurricanes in the future. By reading data from sensors and breaking it down into math equations, computer programs are providing a way to see into the eye of the storm. The programs will show how to more accurately predict the strength and direction of such storms. - from Excite

September 20, 2004

Monkie News | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - Ah, the joys of Monday! Know why this day gets so crazy? We don't know either! But on an interesting point, Monday -- also known as moon day -- has its roots planted from Latin, as the word for moon is "luna" and from that comes the French word "Lundi". And when the tide is high, we all know what kind of wild and wacky things can come about. But then again, maybe it's simply having to crawl outta bed and face the work world for the remainder of the week! Me thinks it's the latter rather than the luna, or maybe a combo of both!

Now that the resident loon has howled at the moon, let's get this show a rollin'!

Monkie News

Featured Link - Well, well, well! The Featured Link returns, and with a wonderful one at that! We're quite pleased to point out to you the pixel pleasure palace of Miloszwl.com. Milosz Icons and Desktops have been frequently featured at MacMonkies, but his amazing corner of the web definitely deserves a good long look. So take a peek at our take found in the left hand column, click over to our Links Page, and check it out!

Monkie Business

Weird Science - A student at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair, April 26. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "dihydrogen monoxide."

And for plenty of good reasons, since:

1. It can cause excessive sweating and vomiting
2. It is a major component in acid rain
3. It can cause severe burns in its gaseous state
4. Accidental inhalation can kill you
5. It contributes to erosion
6. It decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes
7. It has been found in tumors of terminal cancer patients

He asked 50 people if they supported a ban of the chemical.

Forty-three (43) said yes,
Six (6) were undecided,
and only one (1) knew that the chemical was water.

The title of his prize winning project was, "How Gullible Are We?"

Carry That Weight - A pulsar is a small star made up of neutrons so densely packed together that if one the size of a silver dollar landed on Earth, it would weigh approximately 100 million tons.

Checkmate - The winning term "checkmate" comes from the Arabic phrase shah mat, meaning the king is dead.

Computer Committee - If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.

- Bradley's Bromide

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

ENGINEER VS. MANAGER

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"

The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field."

"You must be an engineer" says the balloonist.

"I am" replies the man. "How did you know."

"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone."

The man below says "you must be in management."

"I am" replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."

WOODEN SHOE

Knock, knock!

Who's there?

Wooden shoe.

Wooden shoe, who?

Wooden shoe like to know!

WHAT'S THAT NAME?

Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other, "Fred, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?"

"Outstanding," Fred replied. "They taught us all the latest psychological techniques-visualization, association-it made a huge difference for me."

"That's great! What was the name of the clinic?"

Fred went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn't remember.

Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, "What do you call that flower with the long stem and thorns?"

"You mean a rose?"

"Yes, that's it!" He turned to his wife..."Rose, what was the name of that clinic?"

PROPOSAL

How did the telephone operator propose to his girlfriend?

He gave her a ring.