November 23, 2003

Monkie Business

Pic of the Day: Pooped - 'Ello kiddies! Didn't think I'd make it, did ya? Or did ya! Well, I asked myself an important question. When you're just not sure where you're headed, and you're just too tired to get there, whaddaya get? Pooped! So ya just kinda drop everything and well, let life just go on about its merry way while you get some peace and quiet. Zzzzzzzzzzz!

November 22, 2003

Monkie Business

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Hairy Monkie - Hair grows slowest at night. It speeds up in the morning, slows in the afternoon, and grows faster again in the evening. Hair grows faster in summer than in winter.

Too Picky! - Kulang, China runs seven centers for recycled toothpicks. People bringing used toothpicks to the recycling centers are paid the equivalent of 35 cents per pound.

Lesson Learned - You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

November 21, 2003

Icons | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Finally! The edge of the weekend has arrived. I dunno about you, but I am looking forward to my "moment" off. I may add an extra and make it two, but as of now I am still undecided...Oh! Guess I just caught myself rambling. So! Without further drooling on the Monkie note pad, howz about we enjoy a nice fun filled Friday Icon Edition featuring new GOO, Community News, Software News On The Net, and Bananas! 'Nuff said!

New GOO!

New Icons - Mmm, mmm, GUI good! There's 4 New Icon Sets on this week's menu for your icon eatin' enjoyment. And it's all cooked up fresh and placed on the pixel platter for pure pixel pleasure. Soup's on!

miX the piX - Ahhh! miX the piX's Hein Mevissen, AKA: The King of Shine, opens up this week's Icon Edition with Puppet Icons. This X-cellent Pixadex set of icon puppeteers from the miXer of piXel mastery displays his fabulous sense of humor combined with his fine shine in piXel design. A must have set!

WatiWorks - Wati Larke lets freedom fly with an amazing collection of Butterfly Beauties. This colorful set from the galleries of WatiWorks were "painstakingly drawn whilst trying to match them as close in resemblance to the real ones." All personal preferences aside, we believe Wati has accomplished the task!

mbstuart.com - Burying the needle of the speed-o-meter is another fast and furious set from Michael B. Stuart titled MV Agusta F4 SPR. With this updated set of pure cycle power from mbstuart.com, you get a package that comes complete with the tread to race with the wind and the gear to protect your skin!

Threeland.de - Sometimes there are artists that are simply ahead of their own time. Marcus Reimann from Threeland.de is certainly one of them! Plugins 1 were pixel tuned and available long before Panther hit the shelves. But they sure look mighty fine up against some of Panther's slick metal backdrop with the new Finder. Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Hein, Wati, Michael, and Marcus...

I will now pick my eyeballs off the floor
and put the pixels back in my head!

Fantastic work!

THANK YOU!!

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

Mandolux - Want some wondrous works to decorate your desktop? The place to be is the pixel parlours of Mandolux. Released so far this week:

Mandolux has issued six new desktops: four GRAFFiTi (Giant/Vector), one Egypt (Antiquities), and Bubbles (Abstract/Nature).

The latest selection is is a new killer (pun intended) desktop: GRAFFiTi: BLASTED. Blasted is a dual giant monitor desktop and it is a combination of vector art (graffiti and blood) and a photograph of a chain-link window with a bullet hole thru it. Oophda! Head to Mandolux and check 'em out (if you dare)!

On The Net

Default Folder X 1.9.2 - Man, I tell ya. The best just keeps gettin' better! St. Clair Software has just announced the latest release of the awarding winning Default Folder X! Default Folder is an awesome app that attaches a toolbar to the right side of the Open and Save dialogs in any OS X-native application and gives you fast access to various folders and commands. Version 1.9.2 is filled with improvements and refines its features. For all the details and to download Default Folder X, head to St. Clair Software and get to grabbin'!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

HIGHLIGHTS OF BILL GATES BIRTHDAY PARTY Part I

Spirited game of "Pin the tail on the geek."

The part where he bought out the competing birthday party next door.

The thrilling rumor an actual woman might show up.

Employee who decorated cake with trick candles that can't be blown out? Fired.

The annual tradition - - drunkest guy in the room has to cut Bill's hair.

Leonard Nimoy presenting him with an autographed Spock ear.

BITTEN

What Do You Get When You Cross a Snowman With a Vampire?

Frostbite.

MOTHER GOOSE GETS TECHIE

Mother McGee went to drive C:
to find her poor Windows a byte
But when she inquired, all drive space expired
And not even Stacker would put it right.

Little Miss Muffet opened her notebook
and called on WordPerfect to write
Along came a spider, who sat down beside her,
and explained how the function keys worked.

Jack and Jill are married still
but things look kinda scary
He loves a PC; she's fond of a Mac
and RISC makes both of them wary.

Mary had a little Lan
Then, she wanted more
First she bought a lot of RAM
Then part interest in a computer store.

November 20, 2003

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

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons and Stuff! - Whew! It's quite the busy day for a Thursday here at the Monkie Zoo. So I won't waste time with my bloated banana wagging talkative tongue. But I will encourage you to take a look at the bunches of News that blew in. And of course, tomorrow brings another fine collection of Icon sets for our Friday Icon Edition. Now, if you can believe that I made it through all this without blurting forth a novel, then you'll be certain to have fun today and tomorrow. Y'all come back now. Ya hear?!

Community News

The Iconfactory - Eeeee gads! How did we manage to slip 2 days past Tuesday with the best announcement of the best icons on the block? You guessed it...The folks from The Iconfactory are bangin' their heads with a new "metal" for your desktop titled TiSystem. This awesome set by Factory artist Corey Marion will have your desktop groovin' in the mosh pit! Plus those pixel folks have added a new Quick Pix department for all your leftover cravings. Get movin' to The Iconfactory and check 'em out!

On The Net

PhotoReviewer 1.1 - Ben Haller from Stick Software has announced version 1.1 of PhotoReviewer. This photo management tool for Mac OS X helps you quickly flip though photos that you've imported to your machine, choosing which ones are "keepers" and which ones aren't. The latest version allows even faster display of reviewed images, a versatile new renaming feature, support for the Trash, the option to copy approved images to the target folder instead of moving them, fast drag-and-drop setup, and lots more! Get a great selection of fun including PhotoReviewer 1.1 at Stick Software!

iScooper 1.5 - The folks from Inventive, Inc. have announced the release of iScooper 1.5 Internet software for OS X. iScooper is an automatic media downloading application that enables users to download and browse batches of photos much faster and much more conveniently than they can with conventional web browsers. New in this version, iScooper integrates with Safari, adds AppleScript automation, allows local media browsing, and improves performance. Get your copy of iScooper and all the details at Inventive, Inc.

A Better Finder Rename 6.0 - Just in from PUBLICSPACE.NET is word of the release of A Better Finder Rename 6.0. The Mac Finder enhancer allows users to quickly rename multiple files. This powerful, yet easy-to-use utility transforms the often tedious and time-consuming task of renaming multiple files into a simple matter of seconds. Improvements include:

• The user interface has been completely reworked for Mac OS X.
• The Instant Preview and Full Preview features allows file name changes to be previewed interactively while you type.
• The Global Sorting features allows powerful sorting to be applied to the creation of numbered file lists.

Make the Finder better with A Better Finder Rename from PUBLICSPACE.NET!

Speed Download 2.1.1 - Rippin' up the cyber waves is the latest version of Speed Download from Yazsoft. Speed Download improves your download times dramatically and is the best download manager available - period! Version 2.1.1 tightens integration with growing Macintosh software site MacShareware.net and adds some performance tweaks. Your know the drill! Race over to Yazsoft and grab your copy of Speed Download!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Apple Takes PC Award - PC Magazine has handed Apple the honor of having the overall best personal computer, the Power Mac G5. Apple was awarded in this category as part of PC Magazine’s Technical Excellence Awards. Aimed at acknowledging the advancement of technology, the awards feature the importance of future impact on technology as well. The machine not only mastered past Macs in its performance, but also outperformed many other machines according to the magazine. Imagine that! - from MacMinute

Southern 'Drawl' Spoils System - Voice recognition can be very vexing at times. In Louisiana, for example, police discovered that a great deal of calls coming in were being transferred consistently to different departments than requested. Apparently the voice recognition system, which asks callers to say which department they are requesting, even incorrectly transfers the police chief's calls regularly. Errors are due to the southern drawl of those who call in, and the police station will be going to touch tone service to solve the problem. - from cnews

November 19, 2003

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Ahhhhhh! It feels mighty fine to be on top of the mid-week roller coaster hump and on the downward push toward the end of the week. There's been some cool events happening in the Apple world and it's always nice to have some sweet GUI treats to top it all off. So let's break out our Wednesday Desktop Edition accompanied by News and Bananas too. Ready to dine? Let's dig in!

New GOO!

New Desktops - There's no better way to add a fresh coat of happiness to your desktop than to choose from this week's selection of 6 New Desktops! We ensure fine GUI dining and a great seat to make for a pleasant eye candy X-perience. Let's have a look!

Desktops - Presenting the parting the seas and the wonder of the waves is Jameson Sasser with his latest desktop work titled Undying Waters. It takes a great divide to the land of all things digitized. This amazing digital selection from Jameson would probably make Moses proud with his staff in one hand and...an Apple in the other!

Good, good news! William D. Thompson steps in with another outstanding desktop photo titled Mineral de Pozos. The view offers a glimpse of what once was home to over 300 silver mining operations, then abandoned following the turmoil resulting from the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Quite the work of art!

Are you feelin' blue, like to sing the blues, or just love the color? Then we've got just the blue hue for you! Dave Hornsby sports his neon-like digital design with an awesome number titled Blue 01. Though this exceptional creation will add the blues to your desktop, its sure to brighten your day in a major sort of way!

 

Nature - Entering in to our Nature Department are two hands, two feet, two lips...Okay! I'll get serious! Especially since Tulip 2 by Pictures and Adicons' Adam Dickson adds some serious beauty for your eyes to behold. This time of year is just right to plant one of Adam's nature works to add warmth to the cold surroundings!

 

3-D Rendered - Gathering together a massive group of pixel resources isthe honorable Alan Sherwood of burntcanvasdesign. With Amassing An Army, Alan shares his signature Bryce abilities that distinctively set his work into a field of its own. Would that mean Alan is out standing in his field?

Strike one! Strike two! Ball 5? Well, yup. You got the name correct. MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles has the strangest way with words to describe the pixels he pushes. But, in reality, there is a logical explanation. This piece is simply the 5th version of a Bryce piece that was first released as Big Three. Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Jameson, William, Alan, Adam, and Dave...

Wholey cow, gents!

FANTABULOUS WORK!

THANK YOU!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

Mandolux - Do you think that Mando Gomez has been out somewhere in left field? Absolutely not! He has once again issued a new theme of desktops: Egypt (as in Egyptian antiquities) to the galleries of Mandolux! The first desktop is a stone relief with a lot of textures and imperfections. Regardless of the "imperfections," this new pic will find a perfect home right on your desktop. Get to Mandolux and check it out!

On The Net

ShapeShifter - When it comes to Mac OSX theming, it appears that the shape of things to come has arrived! The ever creative folks at Unsanity have released ShapeShifter. This amazing haxie is a revolutionary new product that lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using themes. And we're not talkin' about minor desktop or icon changes. The sky's the limit with the ability to change the look of windows, menus, buttons...absolutely everything! This is a must have tool if you love to customize your Mac. Head to Unsanity and grab your copy of ShapeShifter like NOW!

MAX Programming - Mac to the Max! The developers at MAX Programming have announced the release of 2 new updates: Loan Calc 1.5.3 and iCash 1.4.2.

Loan Calc is a full featured and easy-to-use Loan calculator for Macintosh. It is an easy-to-use tool intended to calculate loans and mortgages repayments in a very simple way. The latest update features several interface enhancements, enhanced repayment list printout, and a system date format used on repayment list.

iCash is a personal finance and money manager designed to track incomes, expenses, credits, debts and banks transactions. This latest version includes Panther cosmetic changes, QIF import support old Microsoft Money date format, and some bug fixes.

If you're lookin' for fine Macintosh apps to make the most of your finances, head to MAX Programming and check out the latest versions of Loan Calc and iCash!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!

Q: How can you tell if the drummer's platform is level?

A: Drool is coming out of both sides of his mouth.

EULOGY

There were three men standing at the Pearly Gates of Heaven when Saint Peter met them and asked, "What would each of you like to hear your relatives or friends say at your funeral?"

The first man answered, "I am a renowned doctor and I would love to hear someone say how I had been instrumental in saving someone's life."

The second man replied, "I am a family man and a school teacher. I would like to hear someone say what a great husband and father I was and that I had made a difference in some young person's life."

The third man said, "Wow guys, those are really great sentiments but I guess if I had my choice I would rather hear someone say, 'LOOK!!! HE'S MOVING!!!'"

LAWYERS AND LIGHTBULBS

Q: How many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Four: one to climb the ladder, one to hold the ladder, one to shake the ladder and one to sue the ladder company.

November 18, 2003

Monkie News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Ploppin' the pixels of the GUI platter is another fine group of desktop artists for tomorrow's mid-week Wednesday Desktop Edition! And once you've had your GUI desert first, then you can head to the "healthily" consumables with News and Humor too! Stop back by the Monkie Zoo tomorrow for plenty of coconut stew!

On The Net

Simply Maze Crazy - Those colorful folks at Colourfull Creations are gettin' crazy -- Simply Maze Crazy that is! This newly released Mac app creates a maze that is drawn before your eyes. You can print out your creation and share it with others. Sharing mazes with your kids and grandchildren will keep them entertained for hours. Create an extremely difficult maze to challenge and relax yourself after a long hard day. Don't get lost on the path. Click your way straight to Colourfull Creations and download your copy of Simply Maze Crazy today!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Macs Make History - It’s official! Experts have been guessing for weeks at how Virginia Tech’s supercomputer would rank in the world, some saying it would rank second and others guessing third. The official ranking was released Sunday for the Supercomputer conference in Phoenix, Arizona, and the computer clustered with Apple G5s came in third. It was also noted that Virginia Tech’s is only the third computer in the world to reach speeds of over 10 teraflops (floating operations per second). Japan’s Earth Simulator still holds first place. - from MacCentral

High Tech Jobs - Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, has been listed as one of the most influential executives in the high tech industry last year. Mac’s main man ranked number eleven out of the top twenty five influential tech execs. Those lingering on CMP’s list will be looked to by business buffs as the guiding light when it comes to what direction to move next in the tech world. Jobs, who has gone from being a well-known computer icon to a newly discovered digital icon, will be a part of that compass directing our future into all things technological. - from MacMinute and United Business Media

November 17, 2003

Community News | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - Well, well, well. What a pile of Monkie poop this last weekend brought about. As I am sure most of you noticed, MacMonkies was down most of Saturday as our site was moved to a more "powerful" server. That is, one without e mail service, one with broken scripts, and to one that we were not notified in advance. We are still without e mail, so if you need to contact us, please use our Contact Page (at least I think it still works) or send your e mail to macmonkies@mac.com.

For those of you who have been visiting the Monkie Zoo for a while, you probably realize that it is not like me to express my "irks" and "rants" publicly. Since the beginning of MacMonkies, I have always tried to present a positive spin on the web's news and events. However, I am more and more amazed at the lack of quality and consistency in so many things these days. It certainly leaves one a tad bit discouraged.

You also may realize that I don't usually ask for others' help very often, if at all. But...Since this Monkie mind is running out of ideas, I would like to ask for your input. If any of you have ideas regarding good, consistent, inexpensive, hosting solutions, I would like to hear from you. I haven't yet decided whether or not I will move the Monkie Site, as I have been "assured" that the current and past issues will be "permanently" resolved. But I think it's time to check into other options.

So, if you have any ideas you would like to share, I would like to hear from you. Simply try the Contact Page or drop me a line at macmonkies@mac.com. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks!

- Brad Wiles

Community News

warrior~poet - Got the urge to bounce? Jamie McCanless of warrior~poet has pitched, dribbled, passed, served, batted, and otherwise flung 20 realistic icons into Lotsaballs, a set of team sports balls from baseball, basketball, cricket, football, jai alai, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, softball, and volleyball. Phew! Did you get all that? If not, then get yourself to warrior~poet and check 'em out!

Live Pencil - One thing you can always count on is great big GUI smiles each week from Live Pencil! And this week is no exception. What will you find? Let's have a look:

• EMOTICONS: Smily saying "WOW!", "HELLO", "O-OH!".   
• ANIMATIONS: Funny sweet happy dancing candy. All types.  
• PARAGRAPH HEADERS: Now you can write with candles. First of three sets.
• IT IS YOU: Lani's son and daughter, Darci & Lance.
• HIDDEN IMAGE...You know the drill!

Once you get a taste of the happy GOO at Live Pencil, we're quite confident you'll be back for more!

Mandolux - Hot off the press! Just in from Mr. Mando Gomez is word of a new desktop addition at Mandolux! Issued once again a new theme titled Bubbles. As the name implies, it's about bubbles. The next desktop for this theme: a rubber ducky. Get this and other great desktops by making your way to Mandolux. Move that mouse!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Open Wide! - When a school of baby catfish are threatened, their father opens his huge mouth and the youngsters swim inside to hide. When danger has passed, he reopens his mouth and lets the fry out.

The Gifts of Giving - According to Gale Research, the average American household wraps 30 Christmas gifts each year.

Education vs. Education - Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

- Albert Einstein

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts

WHY IT'S GREAT TO BE A GUY

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.

A 5 day vacation requires only one suitcase.

Your bathroom lines are 80% shorter.

You can open all your own jars.

Old friends don't give a crap whether you've lost or gained weight.

Dry cleaners and haircutters don't rob you blind.

You don't have to lug a bag of useful stuff around everywhere you go.

You can go to the bathroom without a support group.

POP A CAP IN THE LION'S GLUTS

There was this lion who had just eaten a bull, and he felt good. He felt so good he opened his mouth and roared and roared. He roared until a hunter came along and shot him.

The moral of the story? When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

THE RULES (BY HER) Part II

10. The Female has every right to be angry or upset at any time.

11. The Male must remain calm at all times, unless the Female wants him to be angry or upset.

12. The Female must, under no circumstances, let the Male know whether she wants him to be angry or upset.

13. The Male is expected to read the mind of the Female at all times.

14. At all times, what is important is what the Female meant, not what she said.

15. If the Male doesn't abide by THE RULES, it is because he can't take the heat, lacks backbone, and is a wimp.

16. If the Female has PMS, all THE RULES are null and void and the Male must cater to her every whim.

17. Any attempt to document THE RULES could result in bodily harm.

18. If the Male, at any time, believes he is right, he must refer to Rule #5 (The Female is never wrong).