December
25-26, 2004
Merry
Christmas!
December
24, 2004
iTunes
Giveaway Winners | Community
News | Bananas
And
The Winners Are... -
Can we have a drum roll please...Pa rum pum  pum
pum! We're pleased to announce the winners to this year's Last
Minute Monkie Christmas Giveaway, each of which won a $20
iTunes Gift Certificate.
Are ya ready? Okay then! Without any further ado, let's roll out the many
congrats that go out to: Raymond Daugherty,
Jason Musselwhite, and Brenda
Bencsik! For all of the winners, please check out The
Scoop on how to collect your prize. In addition, we'd also like
to extend a great big thanks to all who entered, and of course to all of
our readers for a most fantabulous year here at MacMonkies.
ShapeShifter
2.0 Now Available...Go Get It!
From The Monkie Desk - Just
a quick note to let you know that with the  Bean half way around the world,
and me recovering from all of the Holiday hustle and bustle, we'll be passing
on the plate of our usual pixel portion (AKA: The Friday Icon Edition) and
officially declaring this the Christmas Eve Lite Edition.
We'll be back on and off over the next few days, but updates will be at a
minimum due to the Holidays. 'Til we resume our normal schedule, enjoy the
Season and keep yourself safe. CHEERS!
Community News
Rampant Mac - It came down to the wire this
year with his annual  Tannenbaum
desktop, but master GUI crafter Scott Chitwood of Rampant
Mac just barely squeezed in a great new Holiday desktop titled
Tannenbaum 2004! Scott combines his world renowned
talents with paper textures created with Photoshop layer styles
that are abundant in this selection to come up with this traditional green
and red picture. When all is said and done, this is a must have Holiday pic.
You can grab it like a rabbit by hopping your way over to Rampant
Mac!
Live Pencil - Where's the best place to pick
up on pixel fun before the Christmas song is sung? That would be the
pixel palace of Live Pencil, of course!
Let's look at the latest in GUI presents:
- New EMOTICONS - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
- 3 new WALLPAPERS - Christmas cookies..
Yummy!
- Just for fun SLIDE PUZZLE!!!! - Christmas puzzle!
- This is last week's HIDDEN IMAGE - Don't forget to search for this week's
Hidden Image.
So if you're looking for the perfect gift for the person who has everything,
give them the gift that keeps on giving with tons of fun from Live
Pencil!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
All I Want For Christmas Part
II
I want to be a kid again. I want to go back to the time when:
11. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
12. Nobody was prettier than Mom.
13. Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
14. Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare."
15. Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action figures.
16. No shopping trip was complete unless a new toy was brought home.
17. War was a card game.
18. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
19. Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Working On Christmas
Why is getting Christmas presents for your kids just like a day at the office?
You do all the work and the fat guy in the suit gets all the credit.
Christmas Songs for Shrinks
Schizophrenia: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Narcissism: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing About Me!
Paranoia: Santa Claus is Coming to Town to Get Me.
Mania: Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores
and Office and Town.
Depression: Silent Anhedonia, Holy Anhedonia, All is Flat, All is Lonely.
Personality Disorder: You Better Watch Out, I'm Going to Cry, I'm Going
to Pout, then maybe I'll tell you why!
Obsessive Compulsive: Jingle Bell, Jingle
Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Swing, Jingle Bell Swing, Jingle Bell,
Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle
Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Swing, Jingle Bell Swing, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell,
Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock, Jingle Bell Rock...
Christmas Beef!
How do you call an Eskimo cow?
An Eskimoo !
December
23, 2004
iTunes
Giveaway | On The Net
Last
Day To Enter the "Last
Minute Monkie Giveaway!" - This is it folks! There's
but one day left to enter our Last
Minute Monkie Christmas Giveaway, your chance to win
one of three $20 iTunes Gift
Certificates. How do you sign up? Simply
head over to The Scoop, read da Rulze,
and submit your info. But time is quickly running out. This opportunity
is available for only one more day! Cut off
time is Midnight December 23, 2004. The winners will be announced on Christmas
Eve. Need we say more? Get signed up!
On The
Net
OmniGraffle Pro 3.2 beta 1 - Those fine Mac
app makers from The Omni Group  have announced
the beta release of their diagramming and drawing program: OmniGraffle
3.2. This release for OmniGraffle and the
professional version now supports the OmniOutliner 3 file format, which
means OmniOutliner 3 files can be imported into OmniGraffle. Your download
and all the details on the latest version of OmniGraffle can
be had with a simple visit to The Omni
Group. Check it out!
RapidWeaver 3.0.2 - In the need to weave a
web page in record time?  Don't
have time to pull your hair trying to understand HTML? Then RapidWeaver
3.0.2 is for you! This cool web tool arrives just
in time for the holiday season, allowing users to publish photos, blogs,
movies and more online. The latest update fixes many minor bugs and adds
some much requested features, such as easy link insertion within styled text
pages and much more. Need more on the 411? Slip over to Realmac
Software and get a good look at RapidWeaver!
December
22, 2004
Desktops | Bananas
At
The Top: Last Minute Monkie Giveaway! - In the mood for a
merry melody?
Then we have just the trick to turn up the tuneage this Holiday
Season! We're pleased as purple pixel punch to announce our Last
Minute Monkie Christmas Giveaway. This is your
chance to win one of three $20
iTunes Gift Certificates. And winning couldn't be any more
easy: Simply head over to The Scoop,
read da Rulze, and sign yourself up! But don't delay! This opportunity
is available for 2 days only. The winners will be announced on Christmas
Eve. Need we say more? Get to it!
New GOO!
New Desktops -
Wholly Christmas cows! With all the merry madness, we still managed to fit
in a round of eye candy delights as we've added 4
New Desktops to this week's
Wednesday Desktop Edition. So keep your eyes in their sockets and your sleigh
bells firmly in place as we race toward fun in the sun on a big desktop bun...No
pickles, please!
Desktops - And he's back!! The master of
madness, the sultan of  sway...There
are no words to describe me Monkie mate from across the bay! Even though
that's the ocean in reality, Alan Sherwood of burntcanvasdesign brings
the GUI shores together with a most amazing number titled Cold.
Alan sports his minimalistic approach to make for an amazing
view!
Fun - 'Tis the Season to be freezin'! So
why not break out a bag  of
soft 'n' chewy goodies, sit in front of the fire, and roast up some cheerful
treats with Marshmallows
3. Once again Mr. Dashiki shows his multifaceted
abilities with a round of GOO you can almost chew. And the subjects of
this great pic seem more than moody to become part of your Holiday feast!
Sometimes great GUI pics are simply hard to categorize around  here
in the Gallery. But when you have a pixel perfect selection such as Gimp by
Bandar Raffa of Tux'n'tosh,
it often fits well in multiple Departments. So though this piece perhaps
should go straight to the Logos section, or even earns the depth of 3-D,
its grin earns a spot of Fun in the sun!
3-D Delectables - Ya know,
I still stand in amazement when I get  an
eyeful of the most artistic work of Bob
Wiley! He always provides an abundance
of style and depth as you're certain to see in Thirty-Six.
And somehow, some way, this lean green just so happens to make for a most
splendiferous selection for the Holiday Season. ENJOY!
Thanks Department --
Alan, Nate, Bandar, and Bob...
Thank you so much for adding to the Holiday
cheer by
sharing your amazing abilities!
CHEERS!!!!!
Have a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Christmas Lights
Christmas is the time when people put so many bulbs on the outside of their
houses, you don't know if they're celebrating the birth of Jesus or General
Electric.
All I Want For Christmas
I want to be a kid again. I want to go back to the time
when:
1. Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
2. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
3. "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
4. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
5. Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
6. It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
7. Being old referred to anyone over 20.
8. The net on a tennis court was the perfect height to play volleyball
and rules didn't matter.
9. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
10. It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
Bagpipe
What's the difference between a bagpipe and an onion?
No one cries when you cut up a bagpipe.
And More Lights
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.
Modern Christmas
Did you hear about the Beverly Hills school Christmas pageant?
Two kids
dressed as Mary and Joseph and they are on their way to the inn in Bethlehem.
On the other side of the stage, a boy in a shepherd's outfit is on a
cell phone, calling for reservations.
December
21, 2004
Monkie News | Network
News
Monkie News
 Tomorrow:
New Desktops -
If a little dab will do ya, then a dab o' GOO will do you GOOD! So just as
a hair doctor would do, this Monkie Doc prescribes an added dose of shine
but with desktop design to brighten your "wallpaper" view. How
do you do? Simply slip back by tomorrow for your Wednesday Desktop Edition
and you might just find an added treat that will be music to your ears. Until
tomorrow, mum's the word!
Network News
the WebWorld - BeanHead
iPod Music To The Ears - Apple's iPod boasts "10,000
songs in your pocket,"  and this year people all over the world will
find 10,000 songs in their Christmas stockings because of it. That's right,
this gadget is one of the most popular gifts this season, but what makes
it so much better than the walkman of days past? Both are portable, but iPod
provides much easier navigation through it's digital dial. Not only that,
but it makes much better music than machines of the past with its excellent
sound quality. - from delcotimes.com
Apple Hype High In Japan - Even after a year
in the heart of the home market of Sony and Toshiba, the Apple Store in Japan
still has plenty of hype. The location of the Tokyo store was planned quite
purposely by Apple, as this was its first store outside the US. The result
has been more than reasonably rewarding. Apple's strategy with this store
has brought success in the form of many new Apple users through the iPod.
Japanese customers get comfortable with iPod, then go on to buy Apple computers. -
from MacWorld
McCartney's Strumming Secret - A member
of the Fab Four has been  flicking
his guitar strings with his fingernails for years. When the Sir Paul started
suggesting that strumming this way had done in his hands, his new wife had
her own suggestion for him - to try wearing fake nails. Shocked at first,
the former Beatle didn't perceive such a possibility. Finally he tried it
on his last tour, and found it worked "like a dream." Now
he can make the guitar sing without compromising his hands. -
from Ananova
December
20,
2004
Monkie News | Monkie
Business | Bananas
At
The Top - Goodness, gracious...Me oh my! For this
Monkie, it has been the most busy time during a Holiday
Season that I can ever remember. Phew! I be all tuckered
out already. But we still have a ways to go until the
year's end, so we'll keep pluggin' the fun and plunk
till we drop. There's more to be said along those lines,
and maybe even a special Holiday
Treat.
But we'll let you click on down to the Monkie News section
and read all about it. With that said, let's begin the
week with a grin on our beak!
Monkie News
Keep Your Bananas Peeled! -
Where to begin...Well, with this week destined to be
a weird one, I thought I would try to fill the whacky
warpedness with a tad bit of extra fun. Lemme explain:
Ms. Tina "BeanHead" Spicer
will be off for a couple weeks as she is flying  to
Africa to visit some family (maybe that means she's more
of a true Monkie than we really knew). So in her absence,
updates might be a little sporadic as this Monkie will
have some holes to fill. However, if all works out,
I'll try to make up for it with a special Holiday
Treat tentatively scheduled
for this Wednesday.
So, now that you are in the know, keep your feet firmly
planted and keep them Banana eyes peeled! With that said,
let's get crazy coconutz!
Monkie Business
Christmas Gone Postal -
As early as 1822, the postmaster in Washington, D.C.
was worried by the amount of extra mail at Christmas
time. His preferred solution to the problem was to limit
by law the number of cards a person could send. Even
though commercial cards were not available at that time,
people were already sending so many home-made cards that
sixteen extra postmen had to be hired in the city.
Scared Monkey! -
An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as
large as a young deer. The Harpy eagle of South America
feed on monkeys.
Presidential Christmas -
George Washington spent Christmas night 1776 crossing
the Delaware River in dreadful conditions. Christmas
1777 fared little better - at Valley Forge, Washington
and his men had a miserable Christmas dinner of Fowl
cooked in a broth of Turnips, cabbage and potatoes.
Christmas and Politics -
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity
scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious
reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
- Jay Leno
The End of Santa -
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother
took me to see him in a department store and he asked
for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
You Can Bet A Buck On It
Why does Scrooge love Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
Because every buck is dear to him!
Hanukkah Gift Guilt
A Jewish guy's mother gave him two sweaters for Hanukkah.
The next time he visited her, he made sure to wear one.
As he walked into the house, his mother frowned and
said, "What's the matter? You didn't like the other
one?"
Christmas Cop
On Christmas morning, a cop on horseback was sitting
at a traffic light, and next to him was a kid on his
shiny new bike.
The cop said to the kid, "Nice bike you got there.
Did Santa bring that to you?"
The kid said, "Yeah."
The cop said, "Well, next year, tell Santa to put
a taillight on that bike."
The cop then proceeded to issue the kid a $20 bicycle
safety violation ticket.
The kid took the ticket.
Before he rode off he said, "By the way, that's
a nice horse you got there. Did Santa bring that to you?"
Humoring the kid, the cop said, "Yeah, he sure
did."
The kid said, "Well, next year tell Santa to put
the horse poop underneath the horse, instead of on top."
Donkeys at Christmas
What do donkeys send out near Christmas?
Mule-tide greetings.
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