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October 29-30, 2005

At The Top: Time Is A Changin'! - Ready for an extra hour of sawing logs? Me three! Though Mr. President has signed a bill that will extend Daylight Savings Time through the first Sunday in November, that will not take effect until the year 2007. So as for the present, don't forget to turn your clocks back 1 hour come 2:00 a.m. on October 30, 2005. Now that ought to make you all the more alive as you get to catch an extra hour of Monkie sleep. Or as many tend to do, you have an extra hour to play about your local zoo. Either way, don't forget or you will be a tad bit earlier for things that you might expect!

The New Pixadex 2...Get It Today!

October 28, 2005

Desktops | Bananas

At The Top - Woo hoo!!! What a whirlwind of a week! With everything turned upside down, inside out, and topsy-turvy, we have just the right recipe to tip the top of the bottom of the week: Your Friday Desktop Edition. Yuppers! The Icons are absent, but the lively lusciousness of desktop design is in full swing. So before we go, we just want you to know that there's a batch of Bananas to consume and of course, if you haven't already heard, the #1 tool to change your icon view has just been released - Pixadex 2! So grab some new GOO, Bananas, and Pixadex too. Then run through the jungle...All here at the Zoo!

Pro Icons for Pro Developers - Miloszwl.com

New GOO!

New Desktops - Open up and say "ahhhh" as we enter this day with 3 New Desktops for the latest in eye candy delight. Grab your eatin' utensils and get ready to dig in!!

Logos - As Old Man Winter creeps nearer, and the temperatures begin to dive, most everyone would like a taste of Spring! And as we have had a great view of all things icons from the artist known as elpincho, now we also get a taste of elpincho Design's desktop mastery in this vivid piece of Apple available only in a downloadable StuffIt package...Suh-weet!

Also entering into the the Logo Department is a piece from the man of many colors **and** website surnames - Mr. Francisco Bennett of U’nek Design Studios! With his return to the Monkie Zoo comes one of his logo specialties and a sizzling hot selection titled Sunshine. Are you gettin a sense that there's a nice warm theme threading through this section?!

 

3-D Rendered - With all of the fun in the sun making its way into the Gallery, it seems most appropriate to get a big breath of nature's wonderment to add to the exhilaration! And who better to do so than the man with the gift of digital mastery - Juergen Eilts of ShiftedReality! Climbing to the top of his craft, Juegen offers a most magnificent piece titled Caleth created with Terragen 0.9.19 and Photoshop CS...Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

elpincho, Francisco, and Juergen...

Absolutely outstanding work!!!!

THANK YOU!

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Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

Halloween Dictionary Part II

Jack the Ripper: What Jack does to his lottery tickets after losing each week.

Mummy: The person who kisses the boo-boo after you scrape your knee.

Pumpkin Patch: What a pumpkin wears when trying to quit smoking.

Skeleton: Any supermodel.

Vampire Bat: What Dracula hits a baseball with.

Witch: See "Mother-in-Law."

Zombie: What you look like before that first cup of morning coffee.

Achin' Breaks

If you worked in a mortuary, what would you call your free time?

Coffin breaks.

And After That?

A pastor had the annoying habit of bragging a bit too much about his son. One day he was talking with a saved humble Jew.

The pastor said, "My son was a star on his high school baseball team."

"Hmmm," said the the Jew, "and after that?"

"Well," said the pastor, "after that he went to Harvard and graduated summa cum laude."

"Hmmmm..." said the soft spoken Jew thoughtfully "and after that?"

"Well, then he went to law school at Georgetown and was editor of the law review."

"Hmmm...and after that?"

"Well..." said the impatient pastor "THEN he became a PARTNER in the biggest firm in Philadelphia."

"Hmmmm...and after that?"

The pastor, clearly irritated finally said, "Look, what do you expect....that my son should become God or something?"

"Well...." with a bright gleem on his face spoke slowy and proudly, "One of OUR boys made it!"

Lock In

What’s the best way to get into a locked cemetery at night?

Use a skeleton key.

October 27, 2005

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

At The Top - Pixadex 2 Released; OmniWeb Updated - The latest in great GUI goodness from The Iconfactory that we've all been waiting for is right here, right now - Pixadex 2! This amazing must-have icon organizational tool now lets users collect, organize, sort and search thousands of icons quicker and easier than ever before. Other significant improvements include powerful Spotlight-based search features for users of Tiger, smart collections, list view, nested collections, a new, streamlined user interface, and so more. Registered users can upgrade for only $9.95, or new Pixadex can grab it from The Iconfactory for only $18.95. And that's not all...continued.

The Omni Group Updates OmniWeb - The folks from The Omni Group keep brushing up one of the best browsers around with the release of OmniWeb 5.1.2! This version is a minor update to the web browser built exclusively for Mac OS X and delivers an interface localized in English, French, German, and Swedish. Also included are several bug fixes including support for the recently released Flash 8 browser plug-in. Now that you've got the skinny, get the full scoop of OmniWeb today!

Community News

DV Graphics - Don't you just wish that the master pixel crafters from DV Graphics would release some of their fine brew of GOO? PRESTO! Your wish has come true as they've just announced the release of 11 new desktops by artist Shalimar Luis. The images, in the style of Apple's recent Eminem iPod & iTunes ads, feature a bright color palette mixed with urban imagery and graffiti. So if you really want a great new group of GOO in the groove, head over to DV Graphics and check out all of the latest!

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Wholey cow! You probably thought they would never arrive! But their arrival is getting one step closer as we're prepping up some new eye candy delights for tomorrow's Friday Desktop Edition. So be sure to slip back on the flipped side for your eyes' fine dining along with other News and Bananas. Ya got that, Carlos Santana? Cool beans!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

On Track With iTunes - Apple has announced the sale of over 600 million songs through iTunes worldwide. The news came at an opening in the country of Australia, iTunes biggest launch ever. Apple is serving twenty countries with iTunes and claims over eighty percent of the market share across the globe. Its biggest contenders are not even legitimate, as file swappers remain iTunes main contenders. - from MacNN

iPod Stands Up To Jobs' Ego - All who experience Apple CEO Steve Jobs will quickly become aware of his big ego. Take the video iPod, for example. Jobs claimed it was the first and best portable video player. Since other companies have put out simi liar products some speculate as to whether iPod is really the first, but there is no argument that it is the best. With iTunes to house all the videos, it will be the most popular too. - from Yahoo

Control Freak - Okay, so people live by their remote controls. But what about a remote control that can control humans? In an effort to make video games seem more realistic, technology is being developed in which humans can experience different types of scenarios by donning a headset. By messing with the nerves found in ears which control balance, people can be controlled to move in different directions. - from Excite

October 26, 2005

Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top: Factory Debuts Creeps Icons; The Monkie Flip - The folks from The Iconfactory have just let loose a new batch of pixel ghouls with the release of The Creeps! This ever amazing creepy treat for your desktop by Anthony Piraino features several sinister monsters emerging from the shadows. They love the dark, look best when lurking on black or very dark backgrounds, and are now available at The Iconfactory. They are simply ghoulicious! Still need more brain food for your Monkie mood? Finish up your appetite's fill by journeying here...

MacMonkies Flips The GOO - What's wrong with this picture? No Desktops today and no Icons come Friday? This much is true. But the good news is, the Desktop Feature will find its way flipped to Friday and the Icons will resume their normal schedule next week. Got you all cross eyed yet? Then this should get your eyes back in focus - Check out the latest SW News On The Net from Unsanity and then grab a bite of Bananas!

On The Net

Unsanity Releases FruitMenu 3.4.3 - With the release of FruitMenu 3.4.3, it's ever apparent that the Mac haxters of Unsanity LLC keep making their best even better! With the update of this cool haxie that gives you the ability to customize the Apple Menu and contextual menus comes the following fixes:

• Fixed a bug causing FruitMenu to crash under some circumstances if a contextual menu is invoked on the ZIP archive.
• Fixed a bug causing FruitMenu to crash sometimes when invoking Contextual menu in Safari.
• Fixed several smaller bugs.
• Includes Smart Crash Reports 1.0.2. comes.

Since FruitMenu is a must-have addition to your Mac customizing X-perience, we highly recommend that you ride the cyber waves over to Unsanity and get your updated copy today!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

Cold

Why does the Mummy keep his Band-aids in the refrigerator?

He wants to use them later for cold cuts!!

Family Fortune

A very successful businessman had a meeting with his new son-in-law. "I love my daughter, and now I welcome you into the family," said the man. "To show you how much we care for you, I'm making you a 50-50 partner in my business. All you have to do is go to the factory every day and learn the operations."

The son-in-law interrupted. "I hate factories. I can't stand the noise."

"I see," replied the father-in-law. "Well then you'll work in the office and take charge of some of the operations."

"I hate office work," said the son-on-law. "I can't stand being stuck behind a desk all day."

"Wait a minute," said the father-in-law. "I just made you a half-owner of a profitable corporation, but you don't like factories and won't work in a office. What am I going to do with you?"

"Easy," said the young man. "Buy me out!"

No Glory

Why was the skeleton afraid to cross the road?

It had no guts!

Halloween Dictionary Part I

Boogieman: The guy who passes time at a stoplight picking his nose.

Coffin: What you do when you get a piece of popcorn stuck in your throat.

Frankenstein: Hot dog and a mug of beer.

Full Moon: What your repairman reveals when he bends over to fix your fridge.

Goblin: How you eat the snickers bars you got for Halloween.

Invisible Man: What a guy becomes when there's housework to be done. Also, see "Mr. Hyde."

Jack O' Lantern: An Irish Pumpkin.

October 25, 2005

Monkie News | Network News

Monkie News

Topsy Turvy GUI Groove - As previously mentioned, Manic Monkie Wiles had to make some prep time for yesterday's managerial class. The duration of the educational situation lasted much longer than anticipated, entering into the late hours of the evening. With the much needed catching up of life's little tasks that were scheduled for Monday, we'll mumble and jumble things about by moving the Wednesday Desktop Edition to Friday, and Friday's Icon Edition will be bumped back to its normal slot the following week. If that all makes sense, you're one step ahead of us! That said, let's move the spotlight on the Bean and grab the latest News!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

All Occasion iPod - From grocery stores to driving around in vehicles, the video iPod has accommodated the portable lives of people more than ever. Imagine standing in line at the grocery store with a screaming child and handing him or her an iPod with the latest episode of a Disney show on it and presto! Like magic all is quiet. The question yet to be answered is if being more portable will make us better. - from TimesDispatch

All Eyes On iMac - iMac G5 has been using its charm and performance to steal away PC users. First of all, it is magnificent to look at. Then once people get past the beauty of the machine they discover that it is fast. Faster than PCs with upgraded memory. And users are discovering that a huge slice of the speed pie is due to the fact that their iMac G5 machines running with the Tiger OS are free from viruses. - from The News & Observer

Microsoft Misfortune On Making MP3 Rules - Microsoft has been corrected for trying to control elements of the MP3 player world that it has no say so about. The company tried to forbid makers of portable MP3 players from marketing any of its competitors software. MP3 makers took issue with that call, however, and Microsoft dropped the supposed marketing law before the government brought its lawyers in. Based on past experience, they just don't get it, do they! - from Excite

October 24, 2005

Community News | On The Net | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - Gooood day, Monkie heads! And welcome to the jam packed Monday Edition here at the Zoo. There's no room for rambling, so we'll get right down to the punch: You'll find new GOO from Live Pencil and StockIcons in Community News, new releases from Embraceware, Unsanity, and PUBLICSPACE.NET in SW Updates On The Net, quips and quotes found in Monkie Business, and a round of chuckles with some over ripe Bananas! PHEW!! That wasn't bad at all. Maybe I do have a line or two to ramble on with..."Come on, Brad. Give us a break!" Okay then. The powers that be have spoken. But there **is** one more thing before we continue - HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me toad head brother Todd Darland! 'Nuff said...Let's do it!

Community News

Live Pencil Updates - With Halloween just around the corner, the pixel galaxy known as Live Pencil has added some new GUI goblins for your eye candy enjoyment. Here's a look at what's new:

• New WRITING YOUR EMOTIONS - HALLOWEEN!!!
• New WRITING YOUR EMOTIONS - Happy Halloween.
• SLIDE PUZZLE - Halloween once more...
• New ALPHABET - Today we complete this collection.

If your eyes are itchin' for the twitch of the season, sneak over to Live Pencil for this particular reason!

StockIcons Releases Fresco Collection - The fine folks from the Factory have announced that StockIcons.com has released an all new set of ready-to-use royalty free stock icons titled Fresco! Designed for optimum use in Microsoft Windows environments, this cool collection is at home on websites, custom applications and presentations. It is is available as an electronic download for $349.00, while Fresco Database is available for $179.00. And that's not all! You can purchase Fresco as scalable EPS's for use in large format, print and web applications for only $249.00 USD. Now that you've got the skinny, get in the groove and check out this new set from the designers at StockIcons!

On The Net

Awaken 2.1 Released From Embraceware - Recently released from the developers at Embraceware is the digital alarm clock that wakes you up by playing the iTunes playlist of your choice - Awaken 2.1! This cool tool also allows alarms to be created to alert you on a weekly basis at a set time, or at any specific date and time using iTunes. Version 2.1 updates the user interface, adds new enhancements, and fixes some minor bugs. If you're looking to wake up on the right side of life and to get the complete update details, head over to Embraceware to grab your copy of Awaken today!

Unsanity Updates - The fanciful folks from Unsanity have been hard at the update grind as they have released new versions of both Smart Crash Reports and Menu Master! Smart Crash Reports 1.0.2 is an enhancement for the Apple's CrashReporter application that allows 3rd party developers to register their products so if the eligible application crashes, the crash log is sent to the developer as well as Apple. The latest update adds several localizations and an SDK install fix for Panther.

Second out of the shoot is Menu Master 1.3.1, a haxie that allows you to change or remove menu shortcut keys in any application with ease. Version 1.3.1 addresses several issues to make your shortcut X-perience smooth sailing! So for the best in Mac customization, hurry over to Unsanity and get your updated versions of Smart Crash Reports and Menu Master!

First Beta Release of A Better Finder Rename 7 - Another announcement in from last week is news from PUBLICSPACE.NET of the first public beta release of the upcoming A Better Finder Rename 7, the powerful, yet easy-to-use utility that allows users to quickly rename multiple files! This release adds the ability to combine multiple rename steps. The powerful new feature, in conjunction with the tool's already unrivaled catalogue of renaming options, allows even the most sophisticated batch renaming problems to be solved. Need more info? Slide on over to the place at PUBLICSPACE.NET and check out the latest on A Better Finder Rename 7!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Can You Read This?

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How It Used To Be - Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then. The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

Survey Says... - A NUKE InterNETWORK poll found that 52 percent of Internet users have cut back on watching TV in order to spend more time online; 12 percent have cut back on seeing friends.

- Blaise Pascal

Learn And Name It - Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

- Don Marquis

True Happiness - Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

- Garth Brooks

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

Cats In The Comma

What’s the difference between a cat and a comma?

One has its claws at the end of its paws, and one has its pause at the end of its clause!

Talk About the Weather!

People who study tornadoes have twistered minds. The first scientists who studied fog were mystified. Lightning storms can be very striking. And when the fog burns off, it won't be mist.

Heavenly bodies have an attractive force. If all your troubles are melting away, watch out for the floods. You can only see the stars on a finite.

Thanks For The In-bite

What holiday do vampires celebrate to show their gratitude for all the good food they've had this year?

Fangsgiving!

Halloween Visitor

Two men were walking home after a Halloween party and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs.

Right in the middle of the cemetery they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows.

Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.

"Holy cow, Mister," one of them said after catching his breath, "You scared us half to death -- we thought you were a ghost! What are you doing working here so late at night?"

"Those fools!" the old man grumbled. "They misspelled my name!"