February 14-15, 2004

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Birthday, Bean Head! - The bestest Monkie buddie in the whole wide world, Tina "BeanHead" Spicer, just turned...Hmmm. I best keep my trap shut this year! But last year she was 128 years of age. So YOU do the math!! But seriously, everybody join in and sing...

And if you can't sing, just join in with John, Paul, George, and Ringo and hum a few bars of Birthday! Here's to you, Bean!! You say it's your Birthday...

Enter Your Icons At Pixelpalooza 2004!

February 13, 2004

Icons | Desktop | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Eeeewww! Talk about your bitter sweet taste...Friday the 13th and the eve of Ye Ol' Fuzzy Valentine's Day! But we're gonna try to sweeten things up a bit with a very special Friday Icon Edition. And how might that be? You'll just have to hop down to the GOO and grab a looksy. Enough from me. Let's partee!

New GOO!

Eve of Hearts GUI Edition - This week's Icon Edition is a bit special, as it is a bit on the offbeat of our regular pixel path. In addition to our installment of Icons, we are privileged to display a Holiday Desktop for all of you sweethearts. Let's get to thumpin' with some great eye poppin' pixels!

New Icons

Pictures and Adicons - The ol' Tin Man may have the jitters as his counterparts are being placed in the digital world in a classy way by Adam Dickson! Tin System Extras from Pictures and Adicons display Adam's most imaginative creativity with all the style and class of one of the web's finest iconists!

burntcanvasdesign - There's been plenty of "new Mac" icons out the since the introduction of Apple's new line of products. But with New Generation Macs from burntcanvasdesign, most don't compare with Alan Sherwood's attention to detail.

Robert Luciano - Scoring big in the bottom of the ninth, Robert Luciano enters in with yet another home run sports set called MLB Hubcaps NL. For all you National League baseball fans, this set of excellence is sure to find its place in your baseball icon hall of fame! Batter up!

New Valentine Desktop

Flameia Design - Rather appropriate for the "Season of Hearts" is quite the spiffy special pic from one of the web's biggest sweethearts, Julia Nikolaeva. From the fabulous works of Flameia Design, we are honored to present a warm and wonderful I Love You! This fantastic work would place better in a love category rather than the Fun Department. But ain't it Fun to be in love? Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Julia, Robert, Alan, and Adam...

Simply amazing! What else can I say?!!

THANK YOU!!

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

Mandolux - Mando Gomez has had another great week of desktop updates at Mandolux! Here's a list of all the latest:

Mandolux has issued three new desktops: one Egypt (Art/Antiquity), one DAIM.ORG (Graffiti), and one Morning (Nature/Close-up)

The most recent pic is in celebration of Valentine's Day (sort of). There is a new Egyptian desktop titled Stela of luf-er-bak, an antiquity piece from the mid-eighteenth Dynasty (1390-1353 B.C.) set in limestone with traces of pigment. The photograph concentrates on the wife of luf-er-bak, a nobleman from the Egyptian capital city. You know the moves! Get to Mandolux and get to grabbin'!

On The Net

Eyeballs 3.0 - Ben Haller has got all googly eyed and upped the fun of Eyeballs to version 3.0! This great desktop companion with the sole purpose of fun from Stick Software now supports custom skins. So don't let your eyes bug out from boredom. Get yourself to Stick Software and get the latest greatest version of Eyeballs!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

HIPPY LOVE

What's the wife of a hippy called?

Mississippi

THE PERFECT MATCH!

He's a history teacher and she likes dates.

She likes jogging and he's on the run from the law!

She works in the chip shop and there is something fishy about him!

She's a geologist and he's on the rocks!

He's blinded by love and her looks are out of sight!

Ummm, berry punny!

LOVE LINES

Now that we are engaged I hope you'll give me a ring.
Of course. What's your phone number ?

I can marry anyone I please.
But you don't please anyone!

The girl I marry will have to be able to take a joke.
That's the only kind your going to get!

LOVE, MATHEMATICAL STYLE!

When plus and minus got married they had an addition to the family. The thing is though he turned out to be a problem child!

February 12, 2004

Monkie News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - Yup yup! The week is slip slidin' away toward the down side of the of work week battle. And that, of course, means we're one day closer to your Friday Icon Edition. For this Friday's installment, we're pumping out an extra special treat for you to delight your desktop. Till then, our lips are sealed! See ya Friday!

On The Net

FontCard 1.0.3 - The hot haxie folks from Unsanity LLC have announced the availability of FontCard 1.0.3. FontCard modifies the Font menu in Carbon apps. 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 to their font menu customization haxie adds Panther compatibility, fixes bugs, and adds other enhancements. It gives you the power of a professional font management utility for only $17! With all of this coolness in one place, you should head to Unsanity and grab the latest update to FontCard!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Plenty Of iPods - iPods are popping up in more and more places all over the world. As featured in the gallery at iPodlounge, photos of iPods across the globe have been collected from over sixty countries. The gadget gallery has made it to a new mark, posting more than two thousand poses of people showing their iPod pride. There are pictures of iPods from sea to shining sea and beyond, letting the world literally view the impact of the iPod. - from MacMinute

Downloads Dominate - Downloads topped the singles sales charts in the UK last month. Download sales have been increasing every month since October, but they actually outsold CD singles for the first time in January. CD singles sales are still the highest sales overall, but digital downloads are definitely here to stay. So much so that The Official Charts Company (OCC) is giving digital downloads an official category of its own on the chart in the near future. - from BBC

February 11, 2004

Desktops | Community News | Bananas

At The Top - Hot dog! All kinds of cool stuff goin' down in the Monkie Zoo! We mentioned yesterday that we added The Staff page. Today, after many requests, we finally added a Search page! Now you can search MacMonkies and the rest of the web with the style and ease of Google. And of course, it's also time for your Wednesday Desktop Edition. Time for me to shuddup and get to the fun!

New GOO!

New Desktops - A fabulous time in desktop design is what's in store for this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition! 5 New Desktops have all lined up in the Gallery to beautify your desktop view. Let's cut to the front of the crowd and grab a look!

Nature - "Green acres is the place for me. Farm livin' is the..." Whoops! Wrong song! But we do have a wonderful rendition of Green Meadows from the ever talented Aussie artist Michael Heath. This breath taker was taken near Tamworth NSW, the Country Music capital of Australia. Yee-haa! But don't be deceived. It's not normally that green. Hmm...Sounds like Wyoming!

 

Desktops - When looking for that romantic moment, most would find themselves at "Lookout Point." But apparently, Jack Juliussen found himself just outside the parking garage taking the radiant pic titled Parking. One of Jack's desktop box specialties, this most excellent number is one of the many fine works you can find at Ramasjang. Rock on!

 

3-D Rendered - There's been quite a lot of quality coming out of the design studios of ShiftedReality as of late. Juergen Eilts finds himself At the Pond for his latest in digital re-creations. This serene scene is a texture and light study Juergen created with Vue d'Esprit 4.1, and it's certain to become one of your all time favorites!

We're most pleased to feature another great work by Alan Sherwood, a MacMonkies favorite artist. Alan retires the bright shine of the flash in GUI stardom and brings us all back down to Earth with Tired Stars. This mesmerizing piece is one from Alan's Motheaten series found at burntcanvasdesign.

Whoa duda! It seems that Mr. Marty Leone has Founda Super Buddha! Now, I remember a pair of those less than skinny dudes at each end of the bookcase holdin' up the pages. But I had no clue they had super powers and well as fly! This great selection by Marty really pumps some pizzazz in his cape of Buddha's enlightenment. Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Alan, Marty, Jack, Michael, and Juergen...

Gentlemen, you are some of THE most splendid

artists I have ever encountered!

THANK YOU!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

 

Community News

The Iconfactory - Those fantabulous pixel pleasers over at The Iconfactory have more new GOO and fun for you! Back on the case, the marvelous Kate England releases the sequel to her previous icon super sleuther with Private Eye Act 2! Scoot over Sherlock...You've got competition!

In addition to solving pixel mysteries, The Factory has posted new entries to this year's Pixelpalooza! All three contest categories now have pixel placements for your eyes to enjoy. Get over to The Iconfactory and check 'em out!

Mandolux - Ahh! Mr. Gomez has added another great desktop to the collections of Mandolux. Today's addition is a new Graffiti/DAIM.ORG desktop titled Mr. Green. This awesome new work is quite the colorful piece that will add a good dose of digital graffiti to your desktop. Get yourself movin' to Mandolux and grab a look!

Bananas

Just Plain Nutz!

GEOMETRY FUN?

What's round and snarling?

A vicious circle.

FALLING DOWN

A man was fibbing away about how great things are in his country. Finally, he starts describing the tall buildings in his country.

"There is a building so tall, it took my friend Alex 72 hours to fall off it!"

"Oh, my GOSH!" says his friend. "Surely he must have died!"

"Of course. He was without food or water for 3 days!"

SAY IT ISN'T SO!

Three clergymen were sitting in a boat, fishing.

"I'm thirsty," said the first. "I'm gonna go get myself a Coke." So he got out of the boat, walked across the water, and came back with his Coke.

"Ooh, that looks good," said the second and got out of the boat. He walked across the water, got his Coke, and came back.

"You're right," said the third. "I think I'll get one too." He steps out of the boat and sinks like a rock.

"Hey," said the first clergyman to the second, "should we tell him where the rocks are?"

February 10, 2004

Monkie News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Updated Monkie Pages - Well it's about time! We finally got around to updating some of the pages around here, including the official release of The Staff page. Also updated is the Contact page and the About page. All three have an "information" menu close to the top, and the About page has a new e mail address for submitting your work. Hurry over and grab a look!

Tomorrow: New Desktops - We're just one day away from making your Mac happier as we're readying for your Wednesday Desktop Edition. All ya gotta do is head back to The Zoo tomorrow for some fine new desktops. See ya then!

On The Net

OWC and Unsanity ShapeShifter Theme Contest - The results are in! The folks at Unsanity LLC have announced the winners of the OWC and Unsanity ShapeShifter Theme Contest. Three lucky designers have won some fabulous prizes from OWC for their fine efforts in creating outstanding new Themes for OSX. Congrats go out to Joe Kohlmann, Martin Ottosson, and Harlan Lewis! Make a click trip to Unsanity to check out the winners' work and download 'em to your desktop!

Default Folder X 1.9.3 - One of the best Mac apps on the planet just got better! St. Clair Software has just announced the release of Default Folder X 1.9.3. Default Folder X attaches a toolbar to the right side of the Open and Save dialogs that gives you fast access to various folders and commands. The latest update includes the following:

• Options for controlling Panther's "click to copy a filename" feature
• A major speed boost in its hierarchical menus, especially when accessing slow network drives or folders containing thousands of items
• Compatibility fixes for Adobe Photoshop CS, InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004.
• And more!

You can always depend on St. Clair Software to bring you the best in Mac apps and excellent updates as you will find with the latest release of Default Folder X. Get it!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Feather In Apple’s Cap - The Wall Street Journal Mossberg Solution column has featured an article on GarageBand finding that it is another feather in Apple's cap. GarageBand has many features of more fortunous software, and it’s easy interface makes music composition a piece of cake. In fact, with a great program at such a good price, Mac Users can have their cake and eat it too! As the Journal suggests, the release of Garageband is just "another reason to buy a Mac." - from Apple and The Mossburg Solution

High Speed On High Speed - This summer, six Amtrak train stations will be equipped with high speed internet access. The high speed train passengers with a ticket to ride will be able to hook up and surf the web while they wait. AT&T is footing the entire bill for the WiFi system, including installation and maintenance. Customers of AT&T can use it for free. Others will be able to access the fast track for a fee of $9.99. - from Excite

February 9, 2004

Community News | Monkie Business | Bananas

At The Top - G' day, folks! Howz about we blow the doors off of the old mundane Monday blues. The scenario is simple: Reach in the freezer, grab a couple of ice cold ice cubes, slip 'em down the back of your shirt, and...SCREAM!!!! Now, your face should be all limbered up for a big fat Monkie grin to face the week! Don't like that idea too much? In that case, we'll do our best to liven things up with a good old fashioned Monkie spin on the News, topped off with some Banana flavored Monkie stew. Let's get to it!

Community News

Live Pencil - Is it live, or is it Live Pencil? The latter of the two says it best with some great new GOO for you to get all kinds of GUI giddy over. Let's take a peak at the goods:

• ANIMATIONS: From this year's Advent Calendar, SCARECROW.
• BARS for your e-mails: Pencil drawing a line.
• CLIP ART: The last set of a series on vegetation.
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week...Please look for it, you will like it!!!

If you're lookin' to add a smile to all of your eye candy needs, you best get your Monkie bottom over to Live Pencil and stock up with the fun!

PlasmaDesign - Mr. Rob Randtoul has added four new dual monitor desktop wallpapers to the vast desktop collections of PlasmaDesign. Division, Spectrum, Jacks II, and Snowflake title the new giant selections in desktop design. There's no better way to cover your desktop wall to wall than with the cool artwork of PlasmaDesign!

Mandolux - Just in at Mandolux is a new Morning desktop titled Ivory Rose. It may not look like a killer desktop by the looks of the preview, but once you download Mando's latest Morning desktop, you're bound to see the beauty! See for yourself with Mando's latest creation at Mandolux!

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Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Pink Elephants? - In regions of India where the soil is red, elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.

Caesars Egg Salad - You have to break a lot of eggs to serve breakfast in Las Vegas. At Caesars Palace alone, an average of 7,700 are prepared each day, with 2.8 million eggs delivered each year to that one resort. Caesars serves over 427 pounds of coffee each day and pours more than 3,000 ounces of orange juice every 24 hours. .

Measure of a Man - The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

- Ann Landers

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts!

MEN'S MINDS

The other morning, a husband leapt out of bed, eager to finish installing the new window system on their home workstation. "You men," the wife sighed. "All you ever think about is X."

STOP IT!

One day, a mechanic was working late under a car and some brake fluid dripped into his mouth. "Wow! That stuff isn't too bad tasting," he thought. The next day, he told his buddy about tasting the brake fluid, and that he was drinking a cup with lunch. His friend was a little concerned but didn't say anything. The next day, he decided to drink a pint. The day after that, he was up to a full bottle's worth. His friend was now really worried. "You know, that brake fluid is poison and really bad for you. You better stop drinking that stuff!"

"Hey, no problem," he said. "I can stop any time!"

PLUMBER'S TRUCK

Seen on the side of a plumber's van: We're #1 at the #2 business!