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Monkie Business

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Cain en Abled - What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

- Alan Paton

Forgiveness - Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Paul Boese

April 18, 2003

Icons | Community News | Bananas

At The Top - Good Friday folks (pun intended)! I hope all of you have great plans for your Easter Weekend. For our part, we bring you a great new group of icons for your eyes to ponder upon in our Friday Icon Edition! Plus there's plenty more info in the form SW Updates, Community News, and Bananas. Let's hop on over to the bunny trail and get to groovin'!

New GOO!

New Icons - Gads! The gobs of great GOO just keep coming through as we have 4 New Icon Sets that will keep your eyes drooling for weeks! Let's get to goin' and start gawkin'!

RAD.E8 - The ever talented Sascha Höhne fires up this week's GUI goodness with SNOW.E 2 Tangerine, another astonishing installment of the popular SNOW.E 2 series. This bright and beautiful set from RAD.E8 looks good enough to eat and will leave your icon appetite begging for more! Just wish there was a Banana flavor!

WatiWorks - Another set of pixel excellence comes from the talented hands of Wati Larke with PowerBooks and More. This awesome set from WatiWorks contains photorealistic Titanium PowerBooks as well as an additional 10 that are just down right cool. Try to keep your composure as you get a look at this cool collection!

miX the piX - Providing a double shot of eye candy to this week's Icon Finale is master miXer Hein Mevissen of miX the piX. Always makin' it better, Hein provides A Better Limewire. This single shot icon set makes Limewire a better place to be (or at least to look at)!

Wrapping things up is Hein's second set in his Brushed series with a great group of 7 icons appropriately titled Brushed 2.0. Hein really makes the Apple shine with this fine collection of coolness! Enjoy!

 

 

Thanks Department --

Sascha, Wati, and Hein...

Having the three of you in one place is an honor and a privilege!

THANK YOU!!

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

DV Graphics - Eeeeek! The wild and crazy Iconize Me! Paul Sahner is back with a made-for-Mac students of the world icon set called Student Emotion Folders. This great new set is perfect for any junior high school, high school, or even college student. Head on over to Paul's DV Graphics headquarters and check 'em out!

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press@macmonkies.com

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

TOP DOGGED

A company, feeling it was time for a shake-up, hires a new CEO. This new boss is determined to rid the company of all slackers. On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. The room is full of workers and he thinks this is his chance to show everyone he means business! The CEO walks up to the guy and asks, "And how much money do you make a week?"

Undaunted, the young fellow looks at him and replies," I make $200.00 a week. Why?"

The CEO then hands the guy $200 in cash and screams, "Here's a week's pay, now GET OUT and don't come back!" Feeling pretty good about his first firing, the CEO looks around the room and asks, "Does anyone want to tell me what that slacker did here?"

With a sheepish grin, one of the other workers mutters, "He's the pizza delivery guy!"

DOCTOR THE DRUNK

As the doctor completed an examination of the patient, he said, "I can't find a cause for your complaint. Frankly, I think it's due to drinking."

"In that case," said the patient, "I'll come back when you're sober"

CHICKEN?

Why did the chicken cross the road?

To get away from Colonel Sanders!

Now that one clucked!

April 17, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons! - The fun is almost here for our fabulous Friday Icon Edition! For our pixel paraded this week, we will feature some eye-popping sets from RAD.E8, WatiWorks, and miX the piX! Your eyes are gonna love you when you stop back for News, GOO, and fun on Friday right here at MacMonkies! See ya then!

Community News

RAILhead Design - Once again up to his unobtrusive abstract creations, RAILhead Design's Maury McCown has added a new desktop piece to his galleries titled Subtle Green. Maury describes this new work as "Subtle textures, subtle shadows, subtle green." Get your clickers handy and make your move to RAILhead Design for an eyeful of green goo!

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Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

MacMuser - Scott Bruce is a professional comedian who likes to work Macs into his act. A few of his classic lines are that "IBM means, 'I'm glad I bought a Mac'" and "DOS stands for 'Do it Over Stupid.' I usually get away with it," Bruce says. "Although they don't agree with me, they're laughing." Bruce is an avid Mac user who often helps other comedians with their computers while on the road. Is it that they don't agree, or just don't get it?! - from Wired

MS: Suspicious Settlement - Microsoft has settled with Florida residents to pay up to $202 million in vouchers, after being accused of charging customers too much. Vouchers will be used to obtain equipment and software, and half of the unclaimed vouchers will be donated to Florida schools. Apple is concerned that Microsoft may be trying to wedge its way into the education market by donating their vouchers to the schools. - from PC Pro

Beatle Germs Up For Bid - Ian Mears, a British fan of Paul McCartney, is selling cold germs on the British ebay website that he claims he got from the former Beatle. Mears said he met McCartney in person and proceeded to catch a cold from him. The fan will cough into a resealable bag and mail the bag to the highest bidder. The item has two bids so far, the highest one being $2. I've heard of Beatles For Sale, but this one is ridiculous! - from Yahoo

April 16, 2003

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Hope your Tuesday was not too taxing! But now it's Wednesday and time for our the mid-week Wednesday Desktop Edition. This translates into great desktops, Community News, News On the Net, and Bananas on the slide. Let's skip right to it and get down to business. Shall we?!!

New GOO!

New Desktops - A great set of 7 New Desktop works is what we have on hand to get your eyeballs poppin' pixel sideways! Hold them sockets and get ready to be pixel pleased!

Nature - Spring is bustin' out at Prevision as we bring you an absolutely beautiful selection titled Hvid Blomst. This colorful piece from Jack Juliussen translates as "White Flower" in English. Absolutely amazing work, Jack!

 

3-D Rendered -The Great GUI One, Mr. Scott Chitwood, brings Beneath Between somewhere above and beyond the ever imaginative galleries of Rampant Mac. There's nothing like a great big gob of green goo to spiff up your desktop in a real big hurry!

There are obviously little limits to the abilities of Juergen Eilts, real time reality bender of ShiftedReality. Juergen pushes the digital domain to the Limit with the selection of the same name. This great piece was created with Vue d'Esprit 4.1 and was an entry for Prizm Break's Black and White Contest.

 

Desktops - Strumming up a stir in our Desktop Department is Michael Heath with 6 String Guitar. Michael gets right up close from Down Under with this musical work and is sure to keep your desktop from singin' the blues. Another marvelous piece!

Evan Kaufman is back once again with style and simplicity as he sports Simple Tech. This easy-on-the-eyes desktop comes straight from the classy collections of EMKdesign and is guaranteed to make for a clean, uncluttered desktop x-perience!

Talk about technology! Adam Dickson of Pictures and Adicons brings the techy side out in everyone with a Chip off the old CPU block! Adam is one of the finest photorealistic desktop creators you will find. It's just frightful what he does to his computers to bring you this fine art!

Is it draggin' butt or laggin' jet? Or maybe it's just Jet Lag from the many "life flights" of MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles! This piece started out in Bryce, but quickly warped from blurry eyes and a touch of Photoshop. Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Scott, Juergen, Scott, Jack, Michael, and Evan...

Thanks for beautifying MacMonkies with your outstanding work!

CHEERS!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

 

Community News

burntcanvasdesign - Over yonder at burntcanvasdesign, Alan Sherwood has whipped up some more delights bound to please all you GUI addicts. A new icon set in its own container is ready for download along with six new desktops called spheres. You're bound to keep busy with these great new downloads at bcd. Get to clickin'!

Peter J. Sucy - Two new exhibits have just been added to the galleries of peterjsucy.com! Here's what your eyes have to look forward to:

Photo-Synthesis -- a series digital photographs that have been synthesized using Studio Artis

Reflections & Refractions -- a series of abstract rendered images of glass forms from the 3D package Strata 3dpro

And there's more in store for you to gander upon! Get yourself over to peterjsucy.com and check 'em out!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On The Net

iCash 1.2 - The folks at MAX Programming are pleased to announce the release of iCash 1.2. iCash is a personal finance and money manager designed to track incomes, expenses, credits, debts and bank transactions. The latest version is now available in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch and Spanish on Maxprog website with several interesting improvements, new features and bug fixes. For all the details on iCash 1.2, head over to MAX Programming and grab a look!

Got a Software Update? Let us know!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

DOWN AND MOUTHY

Patient: Doctor, I think I swallowed a pillow.

Doctor: How do you feel?

Patient: A little down in the mouth.

FLOWN THE COUPE

Two morons stand on a cliff with their arms outstretched. One has some budgies lined up on each arm, the other has parrots lined up on his arms. After a couple of minutes, they both leap off the cliff and fall to the ground. Laying next to each other in intensive care at the hospital, one moron says to the other, "I don't think much of this budgie jumping." The other moron replies, "Yeah, I'm not too keen on this paragliding either."

TOO MUCH CROW

Why was the crow perched on a telephone wire?

He was going to make a long-distance caw.

April 15, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Tomorrow is a great day to breathe a sigh of relief from Tax Day as we bring you our mid-week Wednesday Desktop Edition here at MacMonkies. Some fine works come your way from the likes of Rampant Mac, Prevision, Michael Heath, Pictures and Adicons, ShiftedReality, EMKdesign, and maybe even a Monkie pic. So get your tax forms in today and slip on over tomorrow for some great new pics!

Community News

Marmalade Moon - Spring is cracking open the door of Marmalade Moon with a brand new set of icons! Kate England has just released Birds' Eggs, a beautiful set of 12 icons that is sure to add plenty of Spring to your desktop's step. Let the birdsong overwhelm you as you fly over to Marmalade Moon and check 'em out!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On The Net

Speed Download 1.9.8 - Speedin' down the Yazsoft internet highway is Speed Download 1.9.8, their latest update to the ultra-popular download manager. The latest version has been freshly engineered and is fully compatible with the latest Safari browser. It has also been tweaked for even FASTER performance! This is a MUST-HAVE update for all users. Get your motors runnin' to Yazsoft and grab the latest update to Speed Download!

Got a Software Update? Let us know!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Apple Updates Safari - Apple has released the latest version of Safari, "the turbo browser for Mac OS X." The latest version, 1.0 beta 2 (v73), adds improved stability, tabbed browsing, and AutoFill, which allows users to have web forms filled out automatically. Safari 1.0 beta 2 (v73) is now available via the Mac OS X Software Update control panel or at the Safari homepage. - from MacCentral

Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Win! - Pepsi and Warner Brothers are working on a game show in which a monkey may help contestants win $1 billion. The plans aren't final, but executive producer Matti Leshem would like a capuchin monkey to place "previously selected numbers in an order that must be matched for the $1-billion prize. What could be more random than that?" he asks. Some feel an orangutan would be a better choice. Ah, come on...Just gimme the cash! - from CNews

April 14, 2003

Community News | Monkie News | Bananas

At The Top - Woo hoo! It's Monday. Time to kick the first-of-the-week blues in the shins and send 'em by the wayside. And to do so we bring you a new Featured Link and Monkie Poll down yonder in the Monkie News, Community News, and a smirk or two of the old Banana! Let's boogie!

Community News

miX the piX - When Mr. Mevissen of miX the piX gets after it, he REALLY gets after it! New to the miXer's amazing icon collection is Brushed 2.0. Hein adds another 7 icons to the Brushed series with this great new set. Get over to miX the piX and get to grabbin'!

Mandolux - Mando Gomez keeps the pixels fresh at Mandolux with a new Money 2K2 desktop titled Spain. This is a picture of a section from the old Spanish money (they now use the Euro). Get yourself a fresh pic over at Mandolux!

Live Pencil - Ramon jump starts your week with great new work from Live Pencil. Here's a bit of the smiles in store for your computer:

• EASTER IS HERE! Remember our new game "Find the Easter eggs."
• EMOTICONS: Easter eggs and bunnies.
• WALLPAPERS: Easter is all around!
• More CANDY LETTERS: Today orange and green.
• IT IS YOU: - Ruth wants to see dad and Snickers having fun.
• More BARS for your e-mails: EASTER, of course..
• WRITING YOUR EMOTIONS: Hand writing LOVE.
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week.... Please look for it, it's great fun.

You're sure to find the fondest of fun this week at Live Pencil. Check it out!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

Monkie News

New Featured Link and Monkie Poll - First up to bat in our Monkie Mania is our latest Featured Link: burntcanvasdesign. If you make a little click and gander to your left, you can catch our take on this cool site. It has also been added to our Links Page.

Next up is a new Monkie Poll! Pay close attention to this one. It's more straight forward than it may seem. But to take part is simple: Answer YES or NO to the question "What size are your feet?" Perhaps a bit of strange brew, but you will see the "lite" next week. So take a little click and look to your right. Happy Pollin'!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

DEFINE IT!

A programmer is someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.

NO BULL

Bulldog for sale. Eats anything. Very fond of children.

SHE'S BALD!

My mama's is so bald that when she takes a shower she gets brainwashed!

PIG!

A man is driving down a steep, narrow mountain road. A woman is driving up the same road. As they pass each other the woman leans out the window and yells, "Pig!" The man immediately leans out his window and replies with "WENCH!" They each continue on their way, as the man rounds the next corner he crashes into a pig in the middle of the road.