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31, 2004
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The Grave - Gad zooks! We've said
it before, and we'll say it again: Another day of
the dead has dug up all you over grown boyz and ghouls
for a fright night in Spooksville! For all you big
ghosts, remember...No
Drinkin' and Thinkin'! Hand over the keys
to avoid driving yourself and others straight to
the graveyard. And for all you little spookies, keep
those big thugs in line and give them the safety
reminder on their way out the door. Oh yeah! Be sure
to share those sweet treats!
P.S. Did you remember
to turn your clocks back 1 hour?
October
30, 2004
Quick Note
 Quick
Note: Time Flies! -
My how time flies! But fortunate for all of us, we all
gain an extra hour as Daylight Savings Time officially
comes to an end. Woo hoo! Translated, this means at 2
a.m. on Sunday (if you're up that late/early), we all Fall
back and turn
your clocks back by 1 hour. And guess what?
That means more sleep...Something this Monkie
is looking forward to. So don't forget, or you will find
everyone amazed at how early you arrive for your Sunday
appointments!
October
29, 2004 Icons
and More! | Community
News | Bananas
 At
The Top -
On the
eve of the eve of All Hallow's Eve (that would be 2 days
before Halloween), we're most pleased to pull out
all of the pixel plugs and present a special present: The
Halloween GUI Goodies Edition! Rather than offering
icons only, we've put together a whole batch of new GUI
goodies that should more than satisfy your sweet tooth
for GOO. So hold on to your brooms and get ready for
the ride with a good dose of News, GOO, and Bananas too!
New
GOO!
New Bundle,
Icons, and Desktop -
Brace yourself! You're about to get a tooth ache of
the sweetest kind as we begin this week's Halloween
GUI Goodies Edition. There's a well rounded diet of
pure sugar on hand as we have 2
New Icon Sets, 1 New
Desktop, and an exclusive pixel package in the
form of 1 New Monkie Bundle.
Since my eye candy tooth is hurtin' already, let's let
the tummy join in and enjoy the feast!
Miloszwl.com -
It seems the Great Pumpkin in the sky has called upon
the amazing abilities of our first guest to offer up
a very special selection of collective creativity! Only
available at MacMonkies, we are pleased to present Helloween -
a sweet Monkie Bundle crafted
by Milosz Wlazlo from Miloszwl.com.
Inside you'll find a finely crafted collection of
icons, avatars, and desktops that will satisfy your
GUI appetite all year 'round!
DV Graphics - U2's guitarist
is not the only one these days to be called the Edge!
DV Graphics' Paul
Sahner, the man behind the scenes of the ever innovative
Iconize
Me! service, once again makes pixel pop history
by placing the rock and computer collaborators on
a new plane with his just released set titled iPod
Collection. This great new release features
the famed iPod with the new iPod
Photo and of course, the U2 iPod. Back in black!
Steve Smith - With all
the latest goodies coming out of Apple's bag of treats
- including a freshened up version of QuickTime -
there's no time like now to give your multimedia app
a fresh new look with an ultra-Aqua shine from
Steven Smith! So before
you attempt to peel some apples, get a good GUI bite
of QuickTime
Colors 2.0. All kinds of color and shine
are available in this most delicious set!
elpincho Designs - Ready
to take on the Friday night frights?  Alrighty then...Don't
say we didn't warn ya! In from the exceptional pixel
exhibitions of elpincho
Designs, comes the lurid look
of the latest desktop to enter our Gallery titled AV&P.
This ghoulish ball of GOO provides for just the right
treat for all of you Halloween tricksters. Now, could
someone tell these chaps to buy a pair of finger nail
clippers? ENJOY!
Thanks Department
--
Milosz, Paul, Steve, and
elpincho...
I cannot begin to express
my most sincere admiration
of your most excellent
abilities!
THANK YOU!
Wanna share your work with the world?
Send Us Your Icons!
Community News
Live Pencil - Can't
wait till Sunday to get your Halloween goodies? Good
news! Live
Pencil has added yet another fine batch of GOO for
your consumption. Here's what's in store:
- BARS for your
e-mails -
Flying witch.
- 9 new EMOTICONS - Trick or treat!!!
- 18 new EMOTICONS - A miscellaneous of Halloween!!
- 8 new EMOTICONS - Trick or treat!!!
With all of this GUI sweetness now available, what are
you waitin' around for? Hurry over to Live
Pencil and get to munchin'!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
The Govinator
Jean Claude Van Dam, Steven Segal, and Arnold Schwarzenagger
all decide to go out trick-or-treating as musical composers
for Halloween. They go into a costume store and look
for masks. Jean Claude sees a costume that he likes and
says, "I think I'll go as Beethoven." Steven
Segal sees a costume that grabs his attention and says, "I'll
be Mozart." Arnold had a tough time finding a costume
that he liked, but he eventually found one that appeased
his interest. He picks up a costume and said, "I'll
be Bach."
All Wrapped Up
Why do mummies have trouble keeping friends?
They're
so wrapped up in themselves.
Chased By A Coffin
A man is walking home alone late on
Halloween night. It's dark, and the streetlights are
out. Suddenly, he hears: BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!
Behind him. He walks faster, but the sound keeps coming.
BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!
Worried he is being followed, he glances behind him
and through the darkness, and he can just see an upright
coffin. No one seems to be holding the coffin; it's just
bumping down the street behind him.
The man is scared. He's sure it's following him! In
an effort to shake it off, her turns a corner. To his
relief, the sound stops. He keeps walking but before
a minute has passed, he hears the familiar sound behind
him again: BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!
He is terrified! He starts to run towards his home,
but the faster he runs, the faster the coffin bounces
along behind him! Bumpity BUMP! Bumpity BUMP! Bumpity
BUMP!
He pushes open his front gate, and runs up the path,
fumbling for his keys. The coffin reaches the gate and
effortlessly pushes it open. It's right behind him!!!
Finally his shaking hands manage to unlock his front
door. He has no time to slam it behind him; the coffin
is right on his heels! He rushes up the stairs, praying
the coffin cannot climb after him. BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!
The coffin pauses at the bottom of the stairs. The man
breathes a sigh of relief but...clappity BUMP...clappity
BUMP...clappity BUMP...
The coffin is now climbing the stairs behind him. He
runs to the bathroom perhaps he can lock himself in there!
His heart pounds and his lungs hurt with the exertion
of running for his life! He has only just latched the
bathroom door when...CRASH!!!
The coffin breaks through the bathroom door! What can
he do? The coffin is nearly upon him! He reaches out
for something heavy that he can throw at the coffin,
and his hand comes to rest on a large bottle of cough
syrup. Desperately, he throws the cough syrup as hard
as he can at the coffin and...
Finally, the coffin stops!!!!!
Extra! Extra!
Why did the Vampire subscribe to the Wall Street Journal?
He
heard it had great circulation.
October
28, 2004
Monkie
News | Community
News | Network
News
Monkie
News
HELP! The
Search Is On -
Attention all ye Monkie Heads! We have run  into
a minor dilemma and need to turn to your ever watchful
expertise for help. Here's the sitch: The folks from
The Apple Collection recently posted a series of "Colored
Docks Desktop" (Lime, Cherry, Aqua, etc.) that are
listed as available here at MacMonkies. This, unfortunately,
is not the case. The real klinker is that we have received
BUNCHES of e mail asking where they are. So if you are
the author of these fine desktop delights, or if you
know of their original location, please contact us
so we can point all of you GUI lovers in the right direction.
THANKS!
Tomorrow:
New GOO! - Tomorrow brings another fantabulous
chance to pump up your pixel experience with a very
special Friday GUI Edition!
Not only will you get your weekly dose of icons,
but some fun under the Great Pumpkin's sun with additional
Halloween treats. We can't let all of the black cats
out of the bag, but you can certainly get filled
up with a well balanced round of tasty treats if
you find your way back on Friday. See you then!
Community News
 DV
Graphics - Does
this guy ever sleep? No indeed! On the heals of Apple's
announcements with U2 about their new products, DV
Graphics' Paul Sahner is proud
to announce the release of an all new icon set titled iPod
Collection.
The new set features the new line of Apple iPods,
are designed like the rest of DVG's hardware designs,
and fit in nicely with the interface. Get your fill with
this great new collection from DV
Graphics!
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
Mysterious iPods Unleashed -
A ghost of a tale came true for Apple fans yesterday,
as a U2 special edition iPod was presented in the presence
of Steve Jobs and U2 members, Bono and The Edge. iPod
U2 gives fans plenty to howl about with its black casing,
red wheel, and band members signatures engraved onto
the back. iPod Photo was also introduced. With a screen
that displays up to 65,536 colors and the capacity to
run iPhoto as well as iTunes, iPod Photo is sure to send
chills up a spine or two. -
from MacCentral
Steves Scare Up History -
There is no trick when it comes to what a great  entrepreneur
Apple's CEO is, only a treat. There is also
a treat for Steve Jobs, as he has been listed as one
of the top ten pumpkins in the patch of all time. Jobs
and fellow partner in crime, Steve Wozniak, made it into
MSNBC's top ten entrepreneurs of all history. This is
no hoax, as there are people who existed B.C. named on
the list. The Steves can take their listing as quite
a compliment, as they keep company with characters such
as Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin. -
from MacWorld
Gum Disguises Humans -
A hunter has plans to market chewing gum which disguises
humans from deer. Hunters are already turned invisible
by wearing camouflage. There are even shampoos and soaps
that can make their scents vanish into thin air. A dentist
once suggested that deer may sense hunters through the
scent of their breath, prompting one hunter in particular
to brew up a breath mask. Gum-o-Flage will hide hunters
breath, allowing hunters to sneak up on deer closer than
ever without spooking them away. -
from CNews
October
27, 2004
Desktops | Community
News | On
The Net | Bananas
At The Top - WHOA! All **kinds** of
goodies are in the News as we
head into the final stretch of Halloween's winding path! Included in the events
are some bobbing apples from Apple: The unveiling of the U2
iPod, iPod
Photo, iTunes
4.7, and QuickTime
6.5.2; to the best way to shift your GUI shape with the release of ShapeShifter
2.0 from the fabulous folks at Unsanity,
and much more!
PHEW!
But that's not all! We have a fine selection
of Halloween howlers lined up for your Wednesday
Desktop Edition! And of course we've a spirited
selection of News and Banana bites from all around the
web. So let's get movin' along before the ghoulies get
around to get ya!
New
GOO!
New Desktops -
Aaaaoooooo! The moon is full and so is the Gallery as
we pull out the GUI brew for your pre-Halloween Desktop
Edition! There's 5 New Desktops prepared
to scare the imperfect pixels away and invite in an all
new coat of tainted desktop paint. Let's get dem bones
a rollin'!
Desktops -
No "who do voodoo" here! Victor
Emert gets right to the  pixel
point with the prickly and piercing perspective of PushPin!
With seemingly no patience for your run-of-the-mill
splat of the desktop matte, Victor carefully calls
up his clever craft and artistic abilities to conjure
up this painstakingly, sharp shootin' desktop a-tac!
Etc... -
Making some history of mystery, William
D. Thompson digs  up the Mexican
holiday, the Day of the Dead, which comes "alive" this
Nov. 2nd. In Sugary
Skullduggery, the figures are made of sugar,
especially for and only for this day. They are colorful
figures to be placed on altars to the dead and are
selected by family members depending on what they wish
to offer the departed. One of the skulls has a
little sign there, Te espero -- I'm waiting for you!
Also made from the grave is another selection from
Mr. Thompson  titled The
Crypts. Here you will see the crypts beneath
the main altar of the parochial church of San Miguel
de Allende, using only available light in the dimly-lit
crypts. Though one can see it to be a bit somber
for some peoples' tastes, it reveals the reality
of love's lost longing.
Nature -
The unrestful winds make their way into the Nature
Depart ment with
the wistful work of Johanna and Bob
Wiley. The stormy piece titled Darking can
be said to be "Louder
and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion
spread, mounting, sinking, darking." Their eyes
were watching God. It appears as though the Spirit
breathed a blessing on the crafters of
this restless storm!
3-D
Rendered - Pharaoh, let my people go! Well,
some people don't  listen
too well, as was the case with Egypt's king many
moons ago. Before Moses could lead the Israelites
out of about 400 years of slavery, it took the passing
over of the Almighty's Death
Angel,
killing the first born of all not covered by the sacrificial
lamb. What a way to go! This erie depiction by MacMonkies'
Doctor of Gloom Bradford Wiles gives
a gloomy glimpse of what might have been. Enjoy!
Thanks Department
--
Victor, William, and
Bob...
No tricks about it!
Your works are a wealth
of GUI treats!
THANK YOU!
Have a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Community News
The Iconfactory -
Always finding time for their favorite holiday,
the fine folks from The
Iconfactory are pleased to bring
you this week's freeware collection from Factory
artist Kate
England - Halloween
2004! This bag of goodies
is full of the yummie stuff that kids collect on Halloween
night and will satisfy any desktop's sweet tooth. If
you are a Mac OS X user, be sure to check out the set's
open drop states for some fun surprises. As always, the
set is available for Mac, PC or as a handy Pixadex iContainer.
And of course, they wish everyone a happy,
safe and fun Halloween.
On The Net
ShapeShifter 2.0 -
Just when you thought the best couldn't get any better,
everything just changed! Unsanity has announced the
immediate availability of
ShapeShifter 2.0, the revolutionary
new product that lets you change the overall appearance
of your Mac using 'themes'. This major update
includes new features such as:
- Can now apply themes, icon sets, cursor sets and
desktop pictures.
- Added a new Download tab that can be used to find
and download featured themes.
- Added ability to customize the Finder's sidebar,
list, and column view backgrounds.
- Massive speed improvements
- And
much, much more!
This cool GUI tool is
a mere $20 and the
upgrade is free for all registered users. So if you are
looking for the ultimate visual X-perience for your Mac,
you can download
direct; or head over to Unsanity,
check out the complete details, and grab your copy
of ShapeShifter
2.0!
iClip 3.3.1 - The
ever creative Mac-appers from Inventive,
Inc. have announced
the release of iClip
3.3.1,
their award winning productivity software for Mac OS
X. iClip functions as a floating window that allows users
to store and retrieve various clippings, such as text,
pictures, URLs, file aliases, movies, etc. in it's multiple
bins. Newly available in iClip is:
- Improved display of
Japanese text clippings that come from applications
that don't use Unicode for text.
- Significantly improved mouse
scroll wheel support.
- New Hot Keys have been added for adding and removing
clipping bins to the current clipping set, and
Hot Keys.
- Hot Clicks preferences have been redesigned
for improved usability.
Your ticket to increased productivity is with iClip,
and is but a click away at Inventive.
Click it!
FontCard 1.2.1 -
Recently announced is the availability of FontCard
1.2.1,  another fine haxie from Unsanity 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 fixes Jaguar
compatibility, changes font style listing to order
by weight, and more. Hurry over to Unsanity and
get your current copy of FontCard today!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
On The Town
Why don't skeletons ever go out on the town?
Because
they don't have any body to go out with.
Deadly Diet
What do you call someone who puts poison in a person's
corn flakes?
A cereal killer.
Halloween Diner: Today's Specials
Ghoulash, scream beans, scalped potatoes, and Mummy's
tomb-make booberry pie with I scream.
Mission Impossible
First Witch: "What are you doing?
Second Witch: "I am making a special Halloween
potion that requires eye of a werewolf, gizzard of a
ghoul, liver of a vampire, horn from a unicorn, and heart
of a lawyer.
So far, I have everything I need except the heart of
a lawyer."
First Witch: "Good luck!"
Just Plain BAD!
Last Halloween was bad for me. I got real beat up...I
went to a party dressed as a Piñata.
October
26, 2004
Monkie
News | Network
News
Monkie News
 Tomorrow:
New Desktops -
Just in time for the Halloween "willies," the main Monkie
Munster has been abducted by pixel goblins to make for
an erie little encounter on your Wednesday Desktop Edition!
A grave site selection of desktop spookies will be
creepin' your direction from a ghoulish group of souls
to decorate your view, just as soon as Tuesday dies.
Come back tomorrow for a big fat desktop attack!
Network
News
the WebWorld - BeanHead
Value Of The iMac - Windows users who are
in the market for a new PC will find  Apple's iMac G5
to be a most valuable asset. Not only is the magnificent
new machine a mighty desktop space saver, it is also
quiet as a mouse. The dynamic iMac also offers more in
the performance department than PC users are accustomed
to, making iMac G5 much more of a value for their money.
As if all of that isn't enough, Apple's second-to-none
software bundles make iMac G5 even more valuable, not
to mention security, which is the number one advantage
of an Apple. - from News-Leader.com
iTunes Part Of Pilot Program - iTunes is
participating in a University pilot program  which hopes
to give students a way to download music and movies without
getting in trouble with copyrights. Schools will fire
up file sharing programs so students can share files
legally instead of using campus networks to download
illegally. Funding for the test run will be provided
by a major music label in support of the schools' efforts,
and if all goes well students will eventually be fined
a small fee for the service. Such a program should save
students from the threat of infringing copyrights. -
from MacNewsWorld
Making Memories -
Futuristic thinkers are finding ways to help humans retain
 memory. Scientists have a strategy to stick storage chips
into the brains of rats which beef up their memory. Just
as people put chips in their computers to create more
memory on the machine, this chip also acts as a separate
storage unit from the brain, creating the capacity for
more memory. If the chips can electronically translate
the brains input into the correct output, than electrical
memory could take the place of biological memory. It
is hoped that this will help people who have suffered
memory loss. -
from Wired
October
25, 2004
Monkie
News | Monkie
Business | Bananas
At The Top - When ya
itch, ya scratch. When away, ya get back. When  without,
ya need more. And when it's Monday, ya say "NO MO!"
Somehow, some way, ya gotta find a way to play out the
week with just enough fun to get the Monday blahs on
the run and hit the home stretch and find the week all
done. So that's where we begin...Put a grin on your face
and let's begin the race!
Monkie
News
More Updated Pages -
The face of things around ye ol' Monkie Hut keeps gettin'
a little brighter as the weekend provided time to update
some more pages with our new look. Now sharing the new
design is the Search, About, Contact/Comments, The
Staff,
and the Translate pages.
Perhaps needless to say, the entire project is going
to take some time. So, we'll just keep plunking away
at the pixels.
Also worth mentioning is the Translate page. We found
that a couple of the language translators have ceased
to function through Babel Fish as they are currently
configured. We'll check into this and see what's up.
Until then, thanks for your patience!
Monkie Business
Spider Strength -
Spider silk is an extremely strong material and its on-weight
basis has been proven to be stronger than steel. Experts
suggest that a pencil-thick strand of silk could stop
a Boeing 747 in flight.
Workin' For A Livin' -
The steel industry in 1943 introduced the 5-day, 40-hour
work week. Henry Ford adopted it in 1926.
Parenthetically 'Speaking' -
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
- Frank L. Visco
Patience, Patience, Patience - Patience with others
is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God
is Faith.
- Adel Bestavros
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Stop The Beat
A car decided not to stop for
a stop sign but decided to slow down instead. A cop
saw him and followed for about a mile before pulling
him over. The cop got him out of his car and said "Why
didn't you stop?"
The man said, "I slowed down."
The
cop pulled out his nightstick and started beating
him. "Now," the cop said, "do you want me to stop or
slow down?"
Penny For Your Thoughts
Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other,
and finally they got married, and had a little sweet
potato, which they called 'Yam.' Of course, they
wanted the best for Yam.
When it was time, they told her about the facts of life.
They warned her about going out and getting half-baked,
so she wouldn't get accidentally mashed, and get a bad
name for herself like 'Hot Potato,' and end up with a
bunch of Tater Tots. Yam said not to worry, no Spud would
get her into the sack and make a rotten potato out of
her!
But on the other hand she wouldn't stay home and
become a Couch Potato either. She would get plenty
of exercise so as not to be skinny like her Shoestring
cousins.
When
she went off to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Potato told Yam
to watch out for some hard-boiled guys, and the greasy
guys called the French Fries. And when she
went out west, to watch out for the Indians so she wouldn't
get scalloped. Yam said she would
stay on the straight and narrow and wouldn't associate
with those high class Yukon Gold's.
Mr. and
Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P.U. (that's Potato
University) so that when she graduated she'd really be
in the Chips. But in spite of all they did for her, one-day
Yam came home and announced she was going to marry Tom
Brokaw.
Tom Brokaw! Mr. and Mrs. Potato were very upset.
They told Yam she couldn't possibly marry Tom Brokaw
because he's just...A COMMON TATER!
D.A.M.
What does D.A.M. stand for?
Mothers Against Dyslexia.
Dental Fear
Q: What do you get when you cross a giraffe with a
hedgehog?
A: A six-foot toothbrush.
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