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December 26-31, 2005

Merry Christmas! | iTunes Giveaway Winners | Icons | Desktops

At The Top: Short Break - Just a quick reminder: As we head into the last stretch of 2005, our little Monkie team will be take a breather until after the New Year. In our absence we encourage you to browse around the site, check out the latest in Icons and Desktops, and simply enjoy the Holiday Season. If you are looking for Community related news and cool software updates, be sure to surf over to ResExcellence, as we hear they will be updating on a semi regular basis over the week to come. Other than that, be safe and we wish you the best and most blessed success in the New Year!

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December 25, 2005

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Merry Christmas!

And The Winners Are... - Can we have a drum roll please...Pa rum pum pum pum! We're happy to announce the winners of this year's Last Minute Monkie Christmas Giveaway, each of which won an iTunes Gift Certificate, and the two top dollar tuneage winners added "pixel cash" to their stocking stash with their very own Iconize Me! portrait courtesy of DV Graphics! Are ya ready? Okay then! Without any further ado, let's roll out the many congrats that go out to: Phil Giltner, Chris De Jabet, and Elizabeth Friedman! For all of the winners, please check out The Scoop on what you have won and how to collect your prize(s).

In addition, we'd also like to extend a great big thanks to all who entered, a big tip of the hat to Mac Meister Stan Flack of the most amazing MacMinute for letting all you folks know about MacMonkies and this year's Giveaway, a round of pixel applause to DV Graphics' Paul Sahner for his most generous contributions, and a big "thumbs up" to all of our readers for a most fantabulous year here at MacMonkies.

You're the BEST!

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December 24, 2005

Giveaway | Community News | Icons | Desktops

Win iTunes, Iconize Me! - We know you've been runnin' around doing your last minute Christmas shopping, so now is a time to treat yourself with a chance to win in our Last Minute Monkie Christmas Giveaway! This is your opportunity to grab one of 3 iTunes Gift Certificates - $10, $15, $25. But that's not all! The $15 and $25 winners will also receive an Iconize Me! package - the ultimate online portrait/caricature service - from our friends over at DV Graphics. And of course, winning couldn't be easier. Simply head over to The Scoop for the complete pile of details and get yourself signed up. But ya better hurry, this is a one day only event. Winners will be announced Christmas Day, 2005. Best of luck!

Community News

Live Pencil - Also in line for last minute updates, Live Pencil brings you new Seasonal selections just in time for the Holidays. Let's have a look:

• New EMOTICONS - More cold winter.
• New EMOTICONS - And even more winter.
• ANIMATIONS - Christmas tree.

For all of you last minute, procrastinating GUI gift givers, hurry over to Live Pencil and give the gift that keeps on giving!

December 23, 2005

Icons | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Oh, Ho, Ho...And off we go!! It's time to wrap things up as we wind things down with a bundle full of cheer with your Friday Icon Edition! That means there's a fine line of new icon designs in the New GOO Department, some great new Community News from DV Graphics, SW News On The Net offers a new release from Unsanity LLC, and we top things off with a round of Bananas for this Holiday treat. And if that's not enough sweetness to tickle your fancy, it might be worth your while to slip back tomorrow for a tentative last minute "bow out" bash. 'Till then, let's have a blast!

New GOO!

New Icons - Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all that comes in between! What's that we mean? It's a joyful time for all as we hang the latest 3 New Icon Sets on the Gallery wall. Let's get to lookin'!

Leslie Javorek - Kicking off this cool collection of Christmas cheer is the lady of pixeliciousness, Leslie Javorek with her spirited icon collection - Kwanzaa 2005. Adding class and style to the African-American cultural festival, this amazing set will light your path through your Winter holiday adventures!

 

Blurburger - Sittin' center stage in the midst of this amazing Holiday groove comes an animated and light-hearted gathering of GOO from Blurburger's Peter Joison with Blurburger Pack No.7. With his most unique style, Peter offers this collection of six animated critters that will certainly see you smile!

 

DesignMood - Sealing your fate this Holiday Season with a collection of spirited grins, DesignMood's Tab gathers a group of Christmas characters to come up with Christmas Smilies. Whether you're in the mood for human happiness or edible entities, the Season's certainly complete with this fine set...Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Leslie, Peter, and TAB...

The ultimate in Christmas cheer is what we have here!

You're the greatest!

THANK YOU!

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Community News

DV Graphics Releases Signs 2 Icons - Hot on the heels of their recent site redesign, DV Graphics has released a new freeware icon set entitled Signs 2. The "early christmas gift" builds on a popular set from several years ago- Signs 1. A collection of 20 shiny road signs crafted just for your Mac, this collection is available for immediate download from DV Graphics. So here's your sign...Get over to DV Graphics and get 'em now!

On The Net

Chat Transcript Manager 1.0.1 Released - With Instant Messaging becoming one of the most important and popular forms of communication in use on the Internet, the folks from Unsanity LLC have released another great update to popular chat management tool - Chat Transcript Manager 1.0.1! It has the ability to scan thousands of chats quickly, update on the fly, view images inline, search on several criteria, and display your chats in custom views. Version 1.0.1 improves Adium log support and adds additional localizations to the chat log archival and search tool. Get your chats together by getting the latest release of Chat Transcript Manager today!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

Christmas Year 'Round

Christmas is in my heart twelve months a year and thanks to credit cards, it's on my Visa card statement twelve months a year also.

Deck Us All With Boston Charlie

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley'garoo!
Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly welly cracker n' too-da-loo!
Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you!

Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon,
Willy, folly go through!
Chollie's collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo!

Duck us all in bowls of barley,
Ninky dinky dink an' polly voo!
Chilly Filly's name is Chollie,
Chollie Filly's jolly chilly view halloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, Woof, Woof!
Tizzy seas on melon collie!
Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, Goof, Goof!

- Lyrics by Walt Kelly

Wound Up

Some of these new toys are so creative and inventive. This year they have a Neurotic Doll. It's wound up already.

A Christmas Poem For Mom

For all the nights you stayed up late
to trim the Christmas tree,
For all the costly presents
That you purchased just for me...

For all the times you tucked me in
And read me stories too,
For all the ways you cheered me up
When I was feeling blue...

For all the cookies that you baked
And stockings that you stuffed,
For all the messes you cleaned up
And pillows that you fluffed...

For all the days you loved me,
Even when I made it hard,
For all these things, and much,much more...
Here's a Christmas card!

(Kinda makes it all seem worth it, doesn't it ,Mom?)

Merry Christmas!

Zapped

Do you know what it is like to put up fifteen hundred Christmas lights on the roof of a house?

The kids are giving two to one I'm gonna come down the chimney before Santa Claus does.

December 22, 2005

Monkie News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - Wholey Toledo Cow Monkies! It's almost here...The last blast pixel party of the year here at the Monkie Zoo. Yuppers. Tomorrow's Friday Icon Edition will be our last GUI bash until 2006. So be sure to swing by and pick up your ticket to ride the pixelicious party train filled with fun and Christmas cheer. Then join us for the joyness!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Apple Gains Notebook Notoriety - Apple is expected to sweep the market on notebooks in the year 2006. The company is projected to ship twice as many notebooks in 2006 as it did in 2005, making a significant gain in the market. The reason for the increase is the new line of slim and sleek notebooks due out in the coming year. They are expected to be quite successful in the shadow of the iPod. - from TaiPeiTimes

Think Different Is Different - Apple's theme may have been Think Different, but the company takes it one step further and actually is different. This is what makes Apple superior to every other computer company. While PC'rs are out there trying to make the cheapest performing product they can possibly conjure up, Apple stands above the competition. It competes with no one, and that is why Apple stands alone at the top. - from The Inquirer

Cyber Time Capsules - A number of websites are sporting a service in which one can set themselves up to receive e-mails in the future. A person can record a memorable event or just keep a diary of what's going on in a particular day and have the e-mail sent to themselves anywhere from three to thirty years down the road. Thanks to the internet, the trip down memory lane can now be taken without the actual trip. - from Wired

December 21, 2005

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - What to you get when team Sponge Bob with with the Maniac Monkie and The Iconizer? A most bright and cheerful Wednesday Desktop Edition that will suck the senseless doldrums out of your mundane midweek madness, and add a glam of GOO to your view and leave your eyes all sorts of silly...Hoorah! And along with those hoops and hollers comes the latest Community News from DV Graphics, great SW News On The Net from the folks at The Omni Group and St. Clair Software, and a scoop of Monkie managed Bananas to pile on top. That said, let's hop to it!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Ready, steady, aim, and fire! It's time to light your GUI desire as we roll 3 New Desktops down the Monkie chimney for this week's Desktop Edition. Set aside the eggnog. Let's have a tall glass of great tasting GOO!

Etc... - Nope! The Grinch hasn't hit the GUI gifter of DV Graphics Paul Sahner just yet. But your desktop is about to become the envy of the neighborhood with his latest seasonal selection titled Green Christmas! This sensational number will quickly become a hit amongst your Christmas favorites. How 'bout being a great stocking stuffer? Hmmm...

Well, it has been quite some time since Monkie Master Bradford Wiles has let loose any new GOO to speak of. But as he is slowly slipping out of ye ol' Scrooge Syndrome, he whipped up a quick pic, only to be lost in a PhotoShop crash. But alas, the memory of the moment stayed locked inside his crazy cranium and out came a big cheer - Merry Christmas '05 !

 

Fun - Entering into our final desktop hot slot is a whole lotta fun as Francisco Bennett brings back a brighter, bolder, and more beautiful version of crazy toon SpongeBob! From U'nek Design Studios, this revisited and revised selection of it's original is certain to illuminate your desktop skies and brighten your GUI smile for quite some time to come...Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Paul and Francisco...

Thanks for adding GUI cheer this Christmas year!

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Community News

DV Graphics - Just in time for the holiday season and new year, Digital Vision Graphics has released a completely revamped website! With an easier-to-use interface and faster loading pages, the new site makes it easier than ever to access DVG's collection of freeware icons and desktops. The new site reflects on recent changes to DVG as a whole, including the new revamped Iconize Me! service and their latest partner, José Ramos. If you really want to get with the pixel picture, hurry over and check out DV Graphics new view today!

On The Net

HistoryHound 1.9 Released - Need to sniff out keywords in RSS Feeds and web pages you've visited or bookmarked? Then St. Clair Software has just the tool for you with the release of HistoryHound 1.9! This fast, efficient utility for indexing and searching web pages that you've bookmarked or visited recently now lets you search and display RSS feeds as well as web pages from your browser history and bookmarks. It also delivers stability, efficiency, and speed improvements in its indexing and searching of pages you've viewed in most all web browsers. For the full scoop on this great new release, let loose of the leash and move on over to St. Clair Software today!

OmniOutliner: Macworld Magazine Editors' Choice Award - Our friends over at The Omni Group have informed us that OmniOutliner - their amazing outlining and organizational application - has just received Macworld Magazine Editors' Choice Award in best productivity software! The Editors' Choice Awards (Eddy Awards), the Mac industry's most prestigious distinction for breakthrough product development, are given to the year's top hardware and software products chosen by Macworld's editorial department. And as you can plainly see, The folks at The Omni Group clearly deserve the honor. See for yourself by checking out OmniOutliner today!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

Fishy Giver

What's red and white and gives presents to good little fish on Christmas?

Sandy Claws.

Self Made Christmas Man

This guy was staggering along the road, much the worse for the drink, throwing empty beer cans into the street and falling into peoples gardens. His singing gained the attention of a passing policeman who decided to question him.

"What do you think you're doing there?" the policeman asked.

"I'm on my works Christmas Party!" came the slurred reply.

"Then," the policeman queried, "where are all the others?"

"Ah," the man grinned, "You see officer, I'm self employed!"

A Bite Too Cold

What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?

Frostbite.

Christmas Office Memo

Effective immediately, employees should keep in mind the following guidelines in compliance with FROLIC (the Federal Revelry Office and Leisure Industry Council).

1. Running aluminum foil through the paper shredder to make tinsel is discouraged.

2. Playing Jingle Bells on the push-button phone is forbidden (it runs up an incredible long distance bill).

3. Work requests are not to be filed under "Bah humbug."

4. Company cars are not to be used to go over the river and through the woods to Grandma's house.

5. All fruitcake is to be eaten BEFORE July 25.

6. Eggnog will NOT be dispensed in vending machines.

In spite of all this, the staff is encouraged to have a Happy Holiday.

December 20, 2005

Monkie News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - GUI, the desktop reindeer, had a very shiny...Who knows what that's supposed to mean! But we do know that we're busy prancin' and fixin' up a warm batch of GUI goodies for tomorrow's Wednesday Desktop Edition. So whilst we're blitzin' around, why not dash 'er on down to the latest in cyber events found in the Network News. Or, if something is just now dawnerin' on ya (perhaps you just realized your a vixim of a really bad pair-a-phrases), you can just read and reread until your head stops spinnin' like a comet caught by Cupid...

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Will Apple Stop Intel Sticker? - As the reality of Apple computers with Intel chips nears, the question of the infamous Intel Inside sticker inevitably needs to be raised. It has been seen on numerous PCs, but if Apple allows the sticker it seems that would compromise the perfect look that makes Apple, well, Apple. Since people are more loyal to Apple than Intel, it is expected that Intel will automatically gain repoire through Apple and will not need to apply its sticker. - from Businessweek

Back To The Apple Future - With products Apple has put out over the last few years such as iPod nano, iPod video and iPod shuffle, the company has become the talk of every town. What enquiring minds want to know is, what will Apple come up with next? Some speculate a wireless iPod, iPhone and more TV deals to bring more videos to the iPod. Whatever the future brings, all eyes are on Apple. - from TimesLeader

Kibosh On Christmas Kissing - British Christmasers may be in for quite a kissing dilemma this season. It is being reported that much mistletoe is being picked from the plant and taken without permission in a mad rush to sell the symbolic kissing plant at the market. Concerns are rising that quantities will actually run out and make the Christmas season a little less merry, especially for those wanting to pucker up with someone special. - from Excite

December 19, 2005

Community News | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - It's that time again, folks...The last two weeks of the year! And with those heart warmed and Winter cold days come the last two Holidays of the annum: Christmas, and the official "Oops, I Broke My New Year's Resolution Day!" Since this Monkie tends not to make resolutions, then the solution is simple - It's time we had Happy Holidays all the way around!

And along those lines, this will be the last week of regular posts at the Monkie Hut. We will be taking some time off during the Holidays some much needed rest and catch up on various to-do's. So though we will be absent most of the remainder of the year, we will still pop in now and again with a word or three. All of that said, let's begin this Christmas week with a world full of glee, and fire things up with the latest Community News from Live Pencil!

Community News

Live Pencil - As the Season's festivities ramp up to their ultimaticity in excitement, master GUI crafter Ramon Gonzalez Teja adds some great new creations to the Live Pencil sensation for an even bigger boost! Let's look at the latest:

• New EMOTICONS - It's a cold, cold winter.
• New EMOTICONS - Have a happy winter.
• TIC-TAC-TOE - Christmas cookie game.

Yes it's cold, but there's no need to freeze! So seize the merry moment and grab the latest Christmastime GOO from Live Pencil!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Being Sting - Gordon Sumner, the rock star and actor known as Sting, got his nickname from the yellow-and-black jerseys he used to wear, which fellow musicians thought made him look like a bumble bee.

Christmas - When Christmas was first established, it was to be a prayerful observance. Old English; Cristes maesse or Mass of Christ. A fourth century theologian wrote: "We hold this day holy, not like the pagans because of the birth of the sun, but because of him who made it." In Spanish it's La Natividad, in French it’s Noel.

Beached - Miami Beach, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Palm Beach, Pacific Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach — there are scores of U.S. coastal cities and towns with "beach" in their names. Surprisingly, there's only one city in the United States named merely "Beach." It is found in North Dakota, which is a land-locked state.

Christmas Sprinkler - A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.

- Dave Barry

The Gift That Keeps On Wishing - I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

- Bernard Manning

Parting Shot - The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

- Joan Rivers

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

Big Presence

Who delivers elephants' Christmas presents?

Elephanta Claus!

Know The Code!

A descendant of Eric The Red, named Rudolf the Red, was arguing with his wife about the weather. His wife thought it was going to be a nice day, and he thought it was going to rain. Finally she asked him, how he was so sure. He smiled at her, and calmly said, "Because Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear."

With Good Claus

Why does Santa Claus go down the chimney on Christmas Eve? Because it soots him.

Look Again

A Texas rancher was driving through Mexico and stopped at the edge of the road to admire the scenery and a white beautiful horse caught his eye. The horse looked healthy well kept and was in a separate corral. Just for tries the Texan asked one of the workers if the horse was for sale. The worker trying to communicate said, "No, no, he no look to good."

The Texan was not satisfied with the answered because he saw that the animal looked great and insisted on buying it. After a few arguments the worker arranged for the sale and the Texan took the horse back to his ranch.

He rode the horse through his ranch and galloped to the barn when suddenly the horse ran right into the barn wall. Frustrated the Texan takes the horse back to Mexico and talks to the worker that sold him the horse and explains what happened. The worker said, "I told you he no look to good."