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January 17, 2002

OOPS! - Due to circumstances beyond our control, new updates for MacMonkies will be postponed for a few days. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience!

January 14, 2002

Dig Those Desktops - Ethereal Creations updates with 5 new desktops for your viewing pleasure. Hurry over and grab your gander of GUI!

Coming Soon! - EA design's new site is near completion. In the mean time, you can still head over to Ed Allen's place and check out his fabulous works. Whatcha waitin' for?!

 

January 11, 2002

Latest GU(I)! - Lookin' for the perfect X? You can't go wrong with the latest set of OSX icons from Flax Creations. Hurry over and take a look!

Browsing for Icons - If you haven't already heard, the Iconfactory has released IconBrowser, which is designed to let registered users of IconDropper use their icon packs under Mac OS X. IconBrowser is free to registered users of IconDropper. CLICK HERE to check it out!

January 9, 2002

MonkieNews! - Baskets and bundles of Bananas! We sure hope all are having a wonderful time! Here's just a bit of the bundle we have going on:

• On the Air! - We have officially opened our Music/Audio Department! In our first installment, we have added our MIDI section with six all-original songs and one really whacked-out arrangement! Soon to come is our Audio section with some really wonderful MP3s and other miscellaneous audio sounds. Stay TUNED!

 

• New in the Gallery! - Wowsers! Do we have some great pics from the Gallery for you this week!

Amazing 3D! - Ed Allen of EA design adds more of his artistic wealth to our 3-D Department with 2 more of his outstanding 3-D works: Cubes of Wealth and Twisted Faith.

MacMonkies adds to the 3-D Area with Egypt and Dimentia 3!!

Nature's Bridge - Another entry from the Banana basket is a new entry into the Nature section titled The Bridge.

 

• Out With the Old, In With the New - Since everything has been modified and moved to our new server, we will soon be discontinuing mirrored updates at our mac.com (http://homepage.mac.com/macmonkies) and our Topcities (http://macmonkies.topcities.com) sites. Our new permanent URL is www.macmonkies.com. Please keep this handy as the changes will take place real soon! Thanks for all your support and your patience!

 

 

XThemination Marks the Spot! - The folks over at XThemination have another eye-appealing theme for OSX: TitaniumTew! Hurry over and grab your copy today!

Get Ethereal! - Ethereal Creations is pleased to announce that it has moved to it's own domain. The new site features a stunning dynamic site design by Donnie Fischer of White Fire Ministries and a new image series entitled
Angelus. Ethereal Creations is sure to have something for everyone. Stop by and check out their new location at www.etherealcreations.net.

It's a Mac Thing - Rampant Mac updates with a new MOSS titled "New MOSS no.9" and features orange glass and subtle textures along with a big "9" to signify that you're running some version of OS 9. Grab your copy while they're hot!
Ain't it good to be king?! =)

Macworld Expo - As we reported yesterday, the opening of the Macworld Expo in San Francisco brought about some exciting new hardware and software for the Mac platform. Checkout the Apevine for further details!

iMac On Time - Time Magazine features the new iMac on its cover this week, and also features information about the new iMac on the inside. The article includes specs on the iMac as well as information about iPhoto, which joins iDVD, iTunes and iMovie software. The magazine is already in the hands of its subscribers and is on the shelves at this time, so pick one up and check it out! - from MacCentral

iSteal! - An iPod listening station has been spotted in one of the stores in Nagoya, Japan. Apparently it is enclosed in a glass platform with the controls left open so people can try it out as they walk by. Also on the podium was a sign written in both English and Japanese that said "Don't steal music." - from Macobserver

Spin City - Ashrita Furman, a New York health food store manager, was on vacation in Cambodia while setting a new world record for walking 5 miles while twirling a hula-hoop around his waist. He is forty-seven years old and has already set numerous other world records, including climbing Mt. Fugi on a pogo stick and walking 33 miles with a bottle of milk atop his head. After five miles of spinning the hula-hoop, Furman said he was "very dizzy and a bit shaky." Someone is certainly full of Spin! - from Excite

Paper Power Macs - Mike Burgess was so excited when he ordered a brand new Mac G4 Cube that he couldn't wait to see it. So he figured out a way to build it out of cardboard just to see what it would look like. He liked the looks of his cardboard Cube and proceeded to post his plans for building it at MacAddict. Said Burgess, "I could not get it to boot up with the OS 8.6 CD but it looks great sticking out of the top slot!" CLICK HERE for pics! - from Wired

Not a Thing to Wear! - Video conferencing in a sauna could be a reality very soon. For Jarkko Lumio and the rest of the staff at Finnish Business Media Tampere, they would like to install a window in their saunas to view a computer screen through. Also installed would be a web camera and microphone so important decisions can be made via video conferencing while sitting in the sauna. Lumio quips, "The sauna goers can decide for themselves what to wear for the Web casts." Sounds like a wanna be nudist colony to me. - from Excite

Safe and Secure? - As a security measure in our nation, steps are being taken to record information electronically on drivers licenses. Lawmakers also believe that this would cut down on financial fraud and underage drinking. If the law is written, officials will be directed to quickly come up with guidelines to store information electronically. Some people, such as former chief technology officer for the Privacy Foundation Richard M. Smith, are opposed to such a law. His concern is that there would be "no difference between a driver's license and a national ID card." - from Excite

 

Have you Heard?

Got Mac?! - Holy Toledo Monkies! Some great stuff showed up at the Macworld Expo keynote address. And some great stuff showed up missing! Among those to make an appearance were the ultra spiffy, completely redesigned iMac and Apple's new edition to the their digital hub -- iPhoto. And among the no-shows were the much anticipated "speed bumps" pushing the current G4 tower line-up past the gigahertz barrier! Drag! However, the buzz is already speculating that the introduction of a 1 GHz + could show up as soon as February at Seybold in Paris or March at the Macworld Expo in Tokyo.

Hilites of the keynote address were:

Adobe showed off Photoshop for OSX

Palm's demonstration of its integration with OSX.

Lucas Films demonstrated Maya on OSX

Steve Jobs announced that OSX will be the default OS on all Macs effective immediately

Steve Jobs shows off iMovie, iDVD, and iTunes.

iPhoto was introduced

New Ad shown -- "Baby Jack"

New 14" iBook introduced

New flat panel iMac introduced -- 700MHz to 800 MHz. Starting at $1299

DVD-Rs now $5 each

Head over to Apple and check out the cool new stuff!

 

Disappearing Themes - We don't know the details yet, but noticed were some "disappearing" theme screenshots at XThemination! The displayed graphic says "Sorry, this file is not available for download." The question is: Are they taking them down or putting them up? Hmmm...

 

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Check 'em Out!

Bright Monkey! - Did you know that if you have the Pro version of QuickTime 5, you have complete control over brightness, color, contrast, and tint? Yuppers! Just go to "Movie" in the Menu bar and select "Show Video Controls" or Command K and...ta da! The control pops up on the screen. Make your movies come alive with QuickTime Pro 5!

Very Ape!

 

Just Plain Nutz!

TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED!

Tech Support: O.K. Bob, let's press control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter "P" to bring up the Program Manager.

Customer: I don't have a "P"

Tech: On your keyboard, Bob.

Customer: What do you mean?

Tech: "P" on your keyboard, Bob.

Customer: I'm not going to do that!

SECURITY ALERT!

Latest news reports advise that a cell of terrorists have infiltrated L.A. County office buildings in downtown L.A.

Investigators for the county advised earlier today that 3 of the 4 have been detained

The terrorists Bin Sleepin, Bin Drinkin, and Bin Fightin have been arrested on a variety of charges. Investigators state that they can find no one fitting the description of the four cell member, Bin Workin, in any county building.

Investigators are confident that anyone who looks like Workin should be very easy to spot.

TECHNO BEATLES

Yesterday

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay
Now my database has gone away
Oh I believe in Yesterday

Suddenly
There's not half the files there used to be
There's a milestone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly

I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say

Now my data's gone
Now I long for Yesterday-ay-ay-ay

Yesterday
Need for backups seemed so far away
Thought my data was all here to stay
Now I believe in Yesterday

MARRIAGE IN EDEN

Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage:

He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married,

And she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked!

SPLAT!

Skydivers: Good to the last drop.

A SIGN FROM ABOVE

A certain trucker learned to drive an 18 wheeler in his days of adventure. Wouldn't ya know, he misjudged the height of a bridge. The truck got stuck and he couldn't get it out no matter how he tried. He radioed in for help and eventually a local cop shows up to take the report. The officer went through his basic questioning..ok..no problem. One would think for sure he was clear of needing a "sign"...until the officer asked "So..is your truck stuck?" The trucker couldn't help himself! He looked at him, looked back at the rig and then back to him and said "No, I'm delivering a bridge... here's your sign."

 

 

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Odds and Ends

SO THERE!

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

-Walter Bagehot

 

RIDDLE ME THIS

Take 2 bananas from 3 bananas and what have you got?

3 bananas

 

SAY WHAT?!

Things said in 1959

"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its' going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20."

"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."

"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"

"If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 50 cents a gallon."

"I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every movie has a 'hell' or a 'damn' in it."

"Also, it won't be long until couples are sleeping in the same bed in the movies. What is this world coming to?"

"Marilyn Monroe is now showing her bra and panties, so apparently there are no standards anymore."

"Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the president."

"Do you suppose television will ever reach our part of the country?"

"It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."

"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

"Next thing you know is, the government will start paying us not to grow crops."

"I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a
whole lot of foreign business."

"I don't know about you but if they raise the price of coffee to 15 cents, I'll just have to drink mine at home."

"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it. I'll have my wife learn to cut hair."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            
 the Bottom Line

            
(What more did you expect?! )

John Lettice of The Register looks at some of the "hype" behind Microsoft's "best-selling release of Windows ever."

Bangkok installs traffic light timers for "jammed" motorists

The new version of Roxio's Jam, a powerful CD and DVD recording software for Mac, is due out in March.

Preview of the new Palm synchronization software

Quality sound editor

Record/save every typed keystroke

Launch/open other apps & files

Advanced tool for traceroute, ping, DNS, finger, whois

Font catalog & inspection utility

Simple email client

Helps write & compose music

Complete arranger and score editor

Gnutella/Napster client

Automatic backup and synchronization utility

Classic hangman game

Builds group of icons from a picture to make folder backgrounds

File management Control Strip-like launcher

Photoshop plugin transfers layer data to Iconizer Pro

Digital image organizer; makes books, slide shows

All-in-one CD & DVD mastering (burning) solution

Preview of the new Palm synchronization software

Flexible notepad application

Finder replacement for OS X

Scientific calculator with trigs & statistics

Image browser, viewer, converter tools, slide show

Simple tool to change a few hidden OS X options

Full-featured font viewing utility

Advanced tool for traceroute, ping, DNS, finger, whois

File sync, backup, file server mirroring over the net

Haxie to customize & enhance the Apple Menu

Simple email client

Helps write & compose music, MIDI and karaoke

Complete arranger and score editor

Suite of 7 apps for design to web & print

Gnutella/Napster client

Menu bar calendar with multiple calendar windows

Modern update to classic Pong game

Haxie to remove notification icon bouncing in the Dock

Fax utility

Automatic backup and synchronization utility

Assign hot keys to any OS X app, file, URL, etc.

Modern replacement for Apple's Note Pad