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April 2, 2002

April Virex Definitions - Don't let your Mac catch the crud. April Virex virus definitions are now available for download. Pick them up right away!

 

Fools of April - Along with the ushering in of April Fool's Day came the usual Fools Day pranks. Among the community were some rather spiffy pranks from sites such as DV Graphics, Pixel Jerk and ResExcellence. Our personal favorite was the "New" site design from Pixel Jerk. If you hurry over to these sites, you may still get a glimpse of the hilarities! Check 'em out!

 

New Monkie Stuff - Be sure to stop back on Wednesday for some cool new Monkie pics as well as the fine artistry of Neil Roberts. Along with the GUI you can grab your weekly dose of crazy antics right here at MacMonkies!

 

Rest of the Mac Web Survey - There's one week left to vote for your favorite Mac leftovers at the Rest of the Mac Web Survey! Scoot on over and toss a vote for your favorite Mac sites. Us? Why of course! We'll gladly accept your vote of approval!

April 1, 2002

April Fools! - The fools of April, er...I guess that would be the April Fools of ResExcellence are up to their "out there" antics. The ResEx workers got stiffed by their "faithful" boss with some rather rubber checks and had the Boss man "suspended" from accessing his own server.

An eye for an eye, right?

Boss man has old fashioned "Dead or Alive" mug shots put out for his bunch of bandwidth bandits! So, the joke's on them. Or is it the Boss? Or maybe it's on you! Best hurry over to the show and see what's going on before the scenes really change!

 

Pixelpalooza Deadline - If you want to enter The Iconfactory's 6th annual Pixelpalooza icon designing contest, you must have your entries in today by Noon EST. Don't dally. Do It!

 

Rest of the Mac Web Survey - There is about one week left in Low End Mac's Rest of the Mac Web Survey. If you like what you have seen here at MacMonkies, we encourage you to toss a vote in our direction! CLICK HERE to cast your vote and be sure to vote for all of your favorite Mac sites!

 

Thought for the Day - Just remember: Having it all includes diarrhea!

March 31, 2002

 

 

March 30, 2002

Check It Out! - Our Software Junkie Kara Kelly has found the coolest app to keep you connected: Watson! Mr. Monkie say what? That's right! Let's get you connected with Watson by Karelia. With the click of your mouse, Watson let's you check the latest movies showing in your area, find phone numbers, check flights, and even check your local TV schedule! Kara says of this amazing app:

I love love love this program!

Guess you can't get much of a better rating than that!

So what you gonna do? The answer is quite clear my dear Watson: Get your Monkie Buns over to Karelia and check it out!

 

Rest of the Mac Web Survey - Oh sheesh! Do you ever get sick of us pushing the "Rest of Survey?" Careful - don't answer that. Well, if you like what you have seen here at MacMonkies, we encourage you to toss a vote in our direction at Low End Mac's Rest of the Mac Web Survey! CLICK HERE to cast your vote and be sure to check out the rest of Low End Mac's Site!

March 29, 2002

Virus Bug Squishers - April virus definitions for Norton AntiVirus are now available for download.

 

Site Update - Mikawares' URL has changed to: http://utenti.lycos.it/mikawares. Please make note of this change and be sure to hurry over and check it out!

 

Desktop News! - Alan and Ed of EA Design just keep the creativity coming! They have updated with several fine new works! Hurry over and check out these cool new pics!

March 28, 2002

Hi Ho, Hi Ho! - And off to pulling hair we go! We are currently updating our system. So, at least for today, bananas my be a bit sparse. But quickly, if you didn't catch it yesterday:

Rest of the Mac Web Survey - If you like what you have seen here at MacMonkies, we encourage you to toss a vote in our direction at Low End Mac's Rest of the Mac Web Survey! CLICK HERE to cast your vote and be sure to check out the rest of Low End Mac's Site!

 

Software - Our resident Software Junkie, Kara Kelly, has informed us that there is one day left to take advantage of the FREE registrations to Sticky Brain available from Chronos Software. This offer ends today!

 

Desktops - We mistakenly left Miracle Mile out of our list of new entries listed below. That section has now been updated. Sorry about that!

Thanks for stopping by!

March 27, 2002

Afternoon Edition 3:07 PM MST

Software News Flash! - MacMonkies' Software Junkie Kara Kelly tips us off to the FREE registrations to Sticky Brain available from Chronos Software today and tomorrow ONLY! Don't miss your chance to receive your FREE copy and registration of the "personal productivity application that incorporates a sticky note interface" for Mac OS8, 9, and X. Hurry!

Editors Note: When downloading the app, you may want to choose the following links from Tucows - Classic or OSX.

MonkieNews! - Woo Hoo! Just got back from the zoo! Not really, but it sounded good. And how does a New Look and other goodies sound to you? Let's dive in and see what this week offers!

• Site Monkie Tuck - As you can probably already see, (if not, just click here and compare) we are in the process of giving ye old Monkie den some tweaks and tucks as to debug (adding flea collars) and beautify this Monk yard! So far we have put up a new Logo, tweaked the background a Monkie hair optimized some graphics for faster loading and a variety of minor tails of de for overall better viewing. We are by no means finished as we have some kewl beans lined up still. We hope you like so far!

Things are going well so far, but please bear with us through this time of transition. Thanks for your patience!

• In the Gallery! - We have some fine works in the Gallery this from our latest contributor Neil Roberts as well as "veterans" Alan Sherwood and Ed Allen! And..Oh Yeah! There's some Monkie peels from the boss man too!
  
  

Desktop hors d'oeuvres - Okay. So they are not that tasty! But hors d'oeuvres are served as appetizers and these Monkie Morsels do just that!

First we have the usual clowning around from Mr. Monk called Blue Clown (ain't that an oxymoron).

Right behind this sad goof comes Apple Rulze II. This hot little number was the first of the pair, but oh, what the heck! Me Monkie Majesty officially dubs thee number deuce!

And finally from Mr. Monk is an odd fellow called ink blot. You and your therapist can argue over that one! =)

3 Dimension Intentions - And first up to bat in the 3-D Area is In Place by Ed Allen of EA Design. This fine piece would find a nice place right square on your desktop.

From Alan Sherwood, also of EA Design, comes a powerful work titled Orders. Be sure to check out this and other fine pieces from both Alan and Ed at EA Design!

For all you takers of 2001: A Space Odyssey, here's a bit of a twist called What's Up Hal?

Last on the list, but certainly not least, is a bit of doom from a "dark period" by Neil Roberts called Adagio.

Update - I was so busy scrambling around the Monkie peels that I forgot to mention the pic Miracle Mile! Hope you like this landscape for your desktop!

 

 

• Barefoot Beta - We will be updating our new Digital Audio Beta Testing Site - Barefoot Monkies - with some sounds and additional music rather soon. If you are interested in helping us with this project and need info, CLICK HERE!

Thanks!

• The Rest of the Mac Web Survey - MacMonkies is back in the Polls! Low End Mac has launched the second semi-annual Rest of the Mac Web Survey. Yup! You guessed it - MacMonkies is on the list. This twice-a-year survey gives you the opportunity to rate the Mac sites you're most familiar with.

If you like what you have seen here at MacMonkies, we encourage you to toss a vote in our direction! CLICK HERE to cast your vote and be sure to check out the rest of Low End Mac's Site!?

• New Zounds! - New songs and sounds are coming soon to Barefoot Monkies. We'll keep you posted!

 

Ethereal Creations - Ethereal Creations is proud to announce the release of two stunning new desktops. One is an accurate Biblical scene appropriate for the upcoming Easter holiday and the other is a very cool abstract. Four older images have also been revised and there's a new article posted in The View From Here. On top of all these goodies, Mr. Moraitis has also done a bit of Ethereal tweaking. Stop by and have a look!!

IHeartNY: Xicons! - Not only has Matthew Bice polished up the already clean and crisp site at IHeartNY: Xicons, but now he has added a tasty new set of icons to his already spiffy collection called The Village Radio. These are finger lickin' good!

New Themes for OSX - The good folks over at XThemination just keep pumping out the GUI with 2 new themes for OSX called SimpleX 1.5 Silver and SimpleX 1.5 Orange.

Take a trip to their Theme page and give your appearance a brand new look!

Blue Sky Heart - Boy! Talk about all things GUI! Master of everything shiny, Layne Karkruff comes out with another awesome set of icons that practically glow in the dark! This new set is called Alienicons and is with well worth stopping by Blue Sky Heart to check out this new set and the other GUI goodies on hand!

Electric Blue! - Xicons has an electrifying new set of icons by Tony Hart called Limewire. Get these icons and get plugged in!

Flax Creations - Hmmm. Me smells it in the air around the workshop at Flax Creations. The smell of fine icon craftsmanship is about. But where would these fine critters be? Stay tuned...

Pixelpalooza 2002 - The timeline is growing short to get your best icons to The Iconfactory's 6th Annual Pixelpalooza icon designing contest. There is less than one week left! They will be accepting entries up through April 1, 2002. Hurry up!

Also in Iconfactory news, they are "Moving, Moving Moving" into a bigger bigger building! Check out their Scapbook and see the differences - New and Old! they hope to be in their new location by May 1st. Good Luck!

 

Check It Out!

 

Hoppy Birthday! -The popular new Mac operating system turned one year old on March 24, 2002. That's right, it was just one year ago when the brave pioneer bunnies were trying out Mac OS X 10.0 and tossing out the rotten eggs (boy howdy) while the rest of us waited around for Mac OS X 10.1. Mac OS X 10.0 went on sale at midnight, March 24, 2001. Mac OS X 10.1 was up and hopping six months later, and now the OS is set as the default operating system on all new Macs that are shipped. Hoppy Birthday, Mac OS X! - from MacMinute

Not Him AGAIN! - A Bill Clinton computer virus has started hopping around on the net through an email with the subject "bill caricature." When run, the carrot attached (cari.scr) starts a screensaver that shows Bill Clinton playing a saxophone which emerges bunny ears that closely resemble a bra. While the screensaver plays, the virus delivers this same Basket full of surprises to persons in the user's Outlook address book. If played between eight and nine in the morning, the virus may also delete files with the extensions .SYS, .VXD, .OCX, and .NLS. The virus, Caric-A, does not effect Mac or Linux users. Got Mac? - from The Register

It's A Girl Thing - A new after-school club has started in Madison Wisconsin to help girls feel more confident on computers. A chick named Susannah Camic felt frustrated with boys hogging the machines and wrote an essay about it. This sparked the beginning of the Lilith Computer Group, a computer club for girls. In the club, the girls choose which carrots they would like to try, such as experimenting with digital cameras and making iMovies and business cards. The club has helped improve the girls' grades as well as their confidence on computers. Says Jill Olsen, head bunny of one of the clubs, "Now, girls have the same 'eggspertise' and confidence as the boys." BeanHead says, "Sign Me Up! Oh, wait...I am not in school anymore!" - from Wired

Tears In Heaven - It was this month in 1991 that Eric Clapton's son Conor tragically fell to his death. Clapton penned the tune "Tears In Heaven" as a result of his loss. - from Musician's Friend

Free E-Mail With A Price - What once was free must go down! Yahoo will begin charging users for POP3 services and also to forward email. Yahoo says they are charging so they can provide better services and decrease "spam," but some think it is because Yahoo lost $92.8 million last year. Users have to decide by April 24 if they are going to pay the eggspense for this basket full of services. The cost will be $29.99 a year, and $19.99 for current users. - from The Register

Hackers Delight - White Hat Technologies, a security firm in Denver, is planning to offer a computer camp to teenagers in the summer of 2003. They have been refering to the camp as "Hacker Summer Camp," but have climbed back in the rabbit hole because of the bad light the media has shed on the word "hack." According to the firm, the camp curriculum basket would be filled with ethics and hacking viewed as "an honorable activity carried out by the obsessively computer-curious." But since the term "hacking" has come to be understood to mean illegally breaking into computer systems, the camp is now un-named. Parents have tossed up carrots on whether the camp would be good for the teens or not. What the HACK! Send them anyway! - from Wired

Sober Survey - An England survey has revealed that talking on the cell phone while delivering Easter baskets is more dangerous than driving under the influence of carrot juice. The survey found that the reaction time of bunnies was 30 percent slower when talking on the phone compared to when drinking carrot juice. The survey also found that four out of ten bunnies admit to talking on the phone while driving. "In effect," says Dominic Burch of Direct Line Insurance, "this means that 10 million 'bunnies' are partaking in 'an activity' that is potentially more dangerous than being drunk 'on carrot juice'." He also adds, "Eventually we would like to see the use of mobile phones when delivering Easter baskets, both hands-held and hands-free, become as socially unacceptable as drunk driving."- from The Register

 

Editor's Note: Me thinks our News Bunny Bean Head has too many Easter eggs on the brain this week. Ya think?
 
 

Have you Heard?

Shhhh! - This is certainly one of the most quiet periods for the latest buzz on up-and-coming Apple products and events. So much so that the amount of "hush" has many believing that the next Macworld Expo could have many wonderful things in store!

This time last year everyone was so excited (well) about the release of OSX that people just couldn't wait to get their hands on (boy, I shoulda).

This year we get the wonderful news that iMac prices have gone up $100 straight across the board. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. We'll keep the light on for ya...if we can find the switch.

Feel free to drop us a line if you have any information regarding any Mac info!
 
 

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Check 'em Out!!

Useless Mac Tip #2 - Did you know that on most machines in Mac OSX, that if you go to "About This Mac," then click on the Version number (i.e. Version 10.1.3) it will display the Build (i.e. SQ45) and then if you click again it will display your serial number? WOW! Isn't that spiffy?! We will post a pic at a later time.

 

Software News - Our current Software Junkie (that's software specialist in Monkie terms) Kara Kelly, informs us that Macromedia Flash MX 6.0 is pretty spiffy indeed. Kara reports that with the little "dabbling" she's done so far, she finds the OSX version "fast and stable and it's just as good as the OS 9 version!!"

Check it Out!

Just Plain Nutz!

BUNNIES AND CARROTS

Q: What's invisible and smells like carrots???

A: Bunny farts!


 

PUNCTUAL SPORTS

The world's largest punctuation mark would be -- the hundred yard dash!!!


 

PROFITABLE LOSS

Old Bankers never die. They just lose interest.


 

WORDS OF WISDOM

Learn from the past.

Live for today.

Look for tomorrow.

Take a nap this afternoon.


 

ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

In a world without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates?


 

IT CAN'T BE DONE

Q. How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

A. They can't do it, it's a hardware problem.


 

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR

Once the nose ring fitted into his nose, the man was asked how much he paid.

"I paid through the nose!" he replied.


 

FISH OUT OF WATER

A fish walks into a bar, the bartender asks, "What would you like?"

The fish says holding his neck, "Water."


 

HE AIN'T HEAVY - HE'S JUST OLDER

We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads.

- Vlade Divac

 
 

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Odds and Ends

JUST A MINUTE!

It takes less than a minute...

Work this out as you read.

• Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.
  
  
• First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate. (try for more than once but less than 10)
  
  
• Multiply this number by 2 (Just to be bold)
  
  
• Add 5. (for Sunday)
  
  
• Multiply it by 50 I'll wait while you get the calculator..
  
  
• If you have already had your birthday this year add 1752...

If you haven't, add 1751 ...

• Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
  
  
  

You should have a three digit number ...


The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).


The next two numbers are ...


YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it IS!!!!!)


THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2002) IT WILL EVER WORK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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