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May 21, 2002

Early To Bed, Early To Rise Edition 10:05 MST

Grab Your GUI Snack! - For all you GUI junkies who need your Late Night/ Early Morning GUI snacks, this week's selection of Desktops and Icons are ready for the tasting! Click over to the Gallery for the latest desktops or Page 4 and Page 5 of the Icon Department to get your fix of Iconian gems! Have fun!

May 21, 2002

Monkie Madness! - Holy Buckets! Do we have some colors to throw at ya for the Wednesday's Monkie Update! We've got a full spectrum of desktop goodies from MacMonkies, EA Design, Kara-Kelly.com, Hunter Peddicord, and our latest contributor, Bob Spence - author of the wild Windows 3.1 app for OSX!

Icons? You betcha! Nothin' but the best with selections from Pixel Jerk, DV Graphics, Happicon, IHeartNY, and Eye9design!

Stop back with your Monkie buckets and fill up with lots of fun with Wednesday's edition of MacMonkies!

May 20, 2002

Early Update 5:16 AM MST

New iBooks - Apple updated their iBooks with faster PowerPC G3 processors. They now run up to 700 MHz. Read more in Apple's Press Release or on their iBook page.

DV Graphics News - Don't forget! Today you can head over to DV Graphics and pick up Part II of their OS X icon tutorial "Making it an icon!" This is a great tool for all of you who have some knowledge of the Photoshop basics. Part II shows you how to get that cool Aqua icon of yours on to the desktop! Check it out!

 

Attack of the Long Lines! - As we mentioned earlier this week, we're waiting till the long lines subside before checking out the latest Star Wars release - Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Wanna review this blockbuster movie? Let us know what you thought. We might just post your ideas here at MacMonkies. Simply send us your name, city in which you live, and a brief comment on what you thought of the movie to: macmonkies@mac.com. Hope to hear from you!

May 19, 2002

New Site! (Kinda Sorta) - Our favorite software junkie Kara Kelly has opened, or rather reopened her site: Kara-Kelly.com (now that's original). At Kara's little space on the internet expressway, your eyes will find plenty of pixel pleasure with a fine selection of "aquafied eye candy for your desktop!" Be sure to click your way over to Kara-Kelly.com and check out all the GUI fun!

 

Software Update - One of our favorite dockling gems - Dockprefs by Kent Sutherland - has been updated to version 1.4. Changes in this version include additional code fixes and new modifier keys addition. Check it out!

Note: Due to the tremendous popularity of Dockprefs, Kent's iTools site is temporarily down due to "excessive bandwidth consumption." Please check back often to download your copy of this great piece of software.

May 18, 2002

Paul McCartney: Captured! - As we mentioned earlier this week, we gathered some Paul McCartney pictures from the program of his recent stop in Denver Colorado. We've pasted them up for you to grab a gander. You can catch a glimpse HERE. Also, if you'd like to hear more about the concert, you can read our quick take of the events HERE. Enjoy!

 

DV Graphics - Paul of DV Graphics (no silly, not McCartney) has teamed up with Astrid Fackelmann to create an Action to walk you through their Aqua tutorial right in Photoshop! You can download it on their tutorial page or at Adobe's ActionXchange.

Also, check back at DV Graphics Monday for part 2 of their OS X icon tutorial: "Making it an icon!" Check it out!

 

Ethereal Creations - Ethereal Creations updates with one new image in their New Releases section and two new images in their Guest Art section. They are also pleased to feature the works of Michael Skaggs as our new contributing guest artist. Stop by and give his new images and artist profile a look!

May 17, 2002

Pic of the Day - We've Had Enough!

click for full image

- author unknown

May 16, 2002

EA Design - EA Design's ever artistic Alan Sherwood goes solo this week as he steals the show with 10 new desktops for your viewing delight! Get your mouse a clickin' its way over to the show room!

 

The Clones Are Coming! - The fifth movie release of the Star Wars series - "Episode II: Attack of the Clones" - opens today in theaters everywhere. Today should prove a great day for film goers and movie houses, but a bad day for the nation's economy! Some sources are saying that the movie's debut may cost the nation's businesses $319 million from employees calling in sick and playing hookie to attend the film's premiere.

This Monkie? Nah. Wait till the lines shorten in length. While the waiting, click over to The Iconfactory and check out the new Icon Set from Talos based on the new Star Wars movie. My i's are on the Icons! What can I say? NO LINES!

 

X-tra Servering - If you just can't get enough of Apple's new Xserve, check out this QuickTime movie from Steve Jobs' presentation!! CLICK HERE

May 15, 2002

At The Top

Apple Serves Up Rack-Mount Servers - Apple Computer revealed their network solution by unveiling the new Xserve rack-mount OSX servers.

Apple touts these new servers to "offer phenomenal processing power, jaw-dropping storage capacity, high-bandwidth I/O, and remote management tools that make them a snap to deploy and maintain." They also point out that they are the industry's first to offer 1U dual processor RISC server. "Not even Sun or IBM offers such phenomenal processing power in such a small package," says Apple. Get ready to Rack 'n Roll!

MonkieNews!

MacMonkies Gimme Five Icon Edition - For our fifth Icon installment at MacMonkies, we have five fabulous sets from five fantastic Icon artists!

I Heart New York - Mr. Matthew Bice of IHeartyNY keeps your icon eyes hungry as usual with this scrumptious set called Mr. Food!

DV Graphics - Seems that Paul Sahner of DV Graphics thinks that we Mac geeks are really Mac Geeks! Perhaps he is fairly on target with this mixture of generic and web celebrity set of "Geek" icons!

Pixel Jerk - If you're still hungry for excellence in icons, then this crunchy set of xBugs from Samuel Krueger of Pixel Jerk will keep your appetite plenty satisfied!

Flax Creations - Deep space can certainly be a sign of old age. In this space case, however, it means another fine Trekkie creation - Borgcons Vol. 3 - from Flax Creations' master craftsman Dan Flax!

Eye9design - Creating the fantastic finale for our Fantastic Five icon edition is this colourful set from Eye9design's icon wizard Patrick O'Kelly titled Rectalenz!

Check 'em out!

New In The Gallery - This week's Monkie collection consists of 5 new pieces in the Desktop Department and 2 new additions to the 3-D Area. Plus, we have a new Monkie contributor! Be sure to give a great big Monkie welcome to Hunter Peddicord! Now let's get to it!

Desktops - Hunter Peddicord heads up our Desktop collection with his finely done piece Photoshop One. This is an old Apple desktop that has been paid tribute with Hunter's fine attention to creativity and detail. Keep your eye's peeled on this one!

Neil Roberts returns to give us Migrain. No headache here! Just a really great desktop that might catch you staring too long!

Mr. Todd Darland also returns with the second in his Hal series - System Down. Be on the look out for more to come along these lines!

Finishing up the desktop selections comes this in-your-face piece from MacMonkies titled Outburst!

 

Three 3-D - Shining down from the 3-D Area is another McCartney inspired title from MacMonkies called C Moon. Question is: Are you up on your Rock 'n' Roll history?!

Touched up and brushed off is a piece dug out of the archives titled In The Evening. This is actually the original piece that Happy Day - the Kelly-Wiles collaboration - came from.

Well, that's about it...but wait! What do we have strolling into our e-mailbox? Far out! It's another twisted look from the mind's eye of EA Design's Ed Allen! This one is appropriately titled Twist Till The End II. Don't get dizzy Miss Lizzy!

 

 

SPECIAL THANKS

MacMonkies would like to give our gratitude to:

Hunter, Neil,Todd, Paul, Sam, Ed, Matthew, Dan, and Patrick

for their EXCELLENT contributions!

Thank You!

 

McCartney Monkies! - Yes! We admit to be coconutz for that of the greatest living singer-songwriter of all time: Paul McCartney. So, by the week's end, we'll have a few quick pics from the Driving USA concert program at Paul's recent visit in Denver Colorado. =)

Community News

Danicsoft - Danicsoft presents Copernicus 1.0.2, a screenshot utility for Mac OS X. It allows you to capture full screen, partial screen, or movie (motion) screenshots. It improves upon the built-in command-shift-3 by allowing you to choose which key should be pushed to activate Copernicus, instead of trying to push a difficult key combination. For more details, swing by Danicsoft.

 

PixelDécor! - Shamalama Ding Dong! Jen at PixelDécor has 2 new patterns "for lots of impact." Rock on over and grab your copy!

Ethereal Creations - Ethereal Creations updates with five new desktops in their New Releases and Guest Art sections. Stop by and have a look!

DV Graphics - Paul Sahner of DV Graphics really knows how to make your eyetops drool! He has released a new icon set named "Aqua Extreme" as well as a tutorial on how to create one of the icons in the set. Get your mouse over there and check it out!

warrior~poet - warrior~poet presents a new set of desktop pics - the Ki collection. Its inspiration is a kimono pattern design from a 19th century Japanese painting instruction book. Have a look!

Xicons - If you're into the latest flicks, Xicons has some GUI for you! Check out the latest Spidey Man and Star Wars icons, as well as all the latest additions at Xicons!

EA Design - Don't forget to check out EA Design's latest offerings - 12 new works in all for your viewing pleasure. You know the routine. Get to clickin'!

 

Check 'em Out!

 

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News On The Net...

Hit List - Red Herring has listed Apple among their top 100 innovative companies from around the world. Red Herring looks at each company's "potential to disrupt an existing market or to create a new one altogether, its execution of strategy, and the quality of its management." Then they choose 50 private companies and 50 public companies to make up their top 100 list. Apple is one of the 50 companies listed under the public business list. To view the entire list, CLICK HERE. Sounds like a Hall & Oates tune - Hit On My List? - from Red Herring

Beware Of Cds - Some of the copyright-protected CDs put out by Sony-owned companies are damaging the firmware in computers. The new CD put out by Celine Dion, for example, will not eject when played on an iMac, and also will not allow the iMac to restart. Other titles that may cause problems are: Star Wars Episode II, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez and Destiny's Child. Some of the CDs do contain a warning saying they 'Will not work on PC/Mac." from MacUser

Facing Subliminal Messages - An artist named Aphex Twin has embedded visual images of himself into his music CD using an application called MetaSynth, which is exclusive to Mac. The program generates sounds from pictures, which can be seen using spectrographic software. When the song Windowlicker EP is played off Twin's CD, an image of his face can be seen on the computer screen when using spectrographic software. The Mac-exclusive program MetaSynth, synthesizer software created by Eric Wenger, was also used for many of the effects seen in the movie "The Matrix." - from Wired

Barking Up The Right Tree? - Dog owners may not be able to read their pets' minds, but they may be able to read their barks soon. Japan is releasing the Bowlingual device, which converts dog barks into English words. The device determines the type of bark, then translates the bark into one of six human emotions: "frustration, alarm, self-expression, happiness, sadness and desire." Words then appear on the face of the device, so a person can read what their dog is saying. The Bowlingual goes on sale in Japan this August." - from Ananova

Virtual Windows - A London department store will be hosting the latest reality based television show as four people will live in the store window for the world to see. London's version of "Big Brother" will record everything the foursome does and let voters decide what situations the four face by voting online. The fours will live in a Harrods shop window and be recorded by webcams. - from BBC News

The Chipsons - Good-bye Jetsons, good-bye Simpsons - hello Chipsons! The Jacobs from Florida officially got computer chipped with the Verichip last Friday. The chip is the size of a grain of rice and contains phone numbers and information about medications. It only took a minute to implant the chips in their arms, and the information from the chips can be read by a handheld computer. The family wanted to get chipped because the father, Jeff Jacobs, has had multiple health problems. They are hoping this will help them in the future. The family consists of Jeff, Leslie and their son Derek, age fourteen. - from Excite

 

Have you Heard?

Cat Got Your 10.2ongue? - Whilst stumbling along throughout the cyberspace news, we found a very interesting nugget of information floating about in the asteroid zone. The Mac Observer was so nice to point out that the much anticipated up-and-coming Jaguar - the Apple code name for the future release of OSX - has never once been referred to as version 10.2. Developers and rumor-mongers alike have been connecting the two names for quite sometime.

Even more interesting, TMO points out that Apple has "traditionally charged for .5 releases." And there is information out there that raises the question as to whether Jaguar = a "point five" up-and-comer. As TMO also points out, the name of Apple's future OSX release "could indeed have relevance to all of us. It will be interesting to see." Interesting indeed! So the question is: Would the next-named version of OSX please stand up?

 

Back To The Future? - Reliable sources have IBM stating that they will have a 2 GHz G3 PPC chip "in the coming year." This would certainly add weight to those who have insisted that the G5 is still a ways off and that the G4 "still has plenty of life" ahead. Still, many are questioning what will arrive at the Macworld Expo in New York this July. Some still question whether or not the G5 will see the light of day at the MWNY. But a 2GHz G3? Well, one thing does appear obvious. Apple traditionally offers huge savings when a new line of Macs are ready to hit the market. They are currently offering up to $300 rebates on Power Mac G4's purchased now through July 7. Keep them i's peeled!
 
 

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Check 'em Out!

Gotta Be Bored! - Some people twiddle their thumbs. Other people pick their...ears. And then there are Monkies. What do they do? Well, they are great at pressin' buttons (least wise that's what my mama tells me). As one Monkie was on a thought-provoking break, he found a couple interesting keyboard combinations in OSX 10.1.4 with the latest Apple keyboard. Shall we have a gander?

Control +F2 = The Apple Menu appears

Control +F3 = 1) If using the "Dock Hiding" option, it will pop up the dock and hilite the finder icon. 2) If not using the "Dock Hiding" option, it will hilite the Finder Icon.

Control +F4 = 1) If using the "Dock Hiding" option while Dock is up, will return Dock to "Hiding" position. 2) If not using the "Dock Hiding" option, it will deselect the Finder icon in the Dock.

Control +Eject = Gives you the option to Restart, Sleep, Cancel, or Shut Down.

Press them buttons and check 'em out!

Please keep in mind...we have tried these key combinations on different Macs and did not have a 100% success rate. Even on the main Monkie Mac, the combinations did not activate these functions all of the time. If you have any info regarding these irregularities, let us know!

 

Just Plain Nutz!

CHANGE OF MIND

I have changed my mind a dozen times.

It seems to work better now.

 

LIFE AS A COMPUTER

If you messed up your life, you could press "Ctrl, Alt, Delete" and start all over!

 

INSANITY CHECK (Part I)

How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in"

5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

6. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."

7. Dont use any punctuation marks

8. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

9. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."

 

OUT TO PASTURE

Why is a field of grass is always older than you?

It's pasture age!

 

NEW MICROSOFT SLOGAN

Competition is good. 90% market share is better.

 

NOT ON SPEAKING TERMS

I haven't spoken to my spouse in nearly 18 months - I don't want to interrupt!

 

VIRUS DEFINITIONS

Titanic Virus - Makes your whole computer go down.

Disney Virus - Everything in the computer goes Goofy.

Mike Tyson Virus - Quits after one byte.

Prozac Virus - Screws up your RAM but your processor doesn't care.

Tim Allen Virus - Appears helpful, only to destroy your hard drive upon contact.

Ronald Reagan Virus - Saves your data, but forgets where it is stored.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian Virus - Searches your hard drive for old files and deletes them.

Oprah Winfrey Virus -Your 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands to 300MB.

AT&T Virus - Every 3 minutes it tells you what great service you are getting.

MCI Virus - Every 3 minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus.

Adam and Eve Virus -Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple.

 

TV IN THE WINDOW

One day a blonde walked into a second hand store and asked the clerk, "How much is that TV in the window?" The man said, "I'm sorry. I don't sell stuff to blondes."

The next day she came in as a red head. She asked how much the TV was in the window again. And again he said he didn't sell things to blondes.

The following day she came in again and asked for the third time how much the TV was. The man said, "FOR THE FINAL TIME! I DONT SELL STUFF TO BLONDES!!"

Puzzled, she said, "How did you know I was a blonde?" He said, "That's not a TV, It's a microwave!!!"

 
 

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Odds and Ends

Crayons

We could learn a lot from crayons:

Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names. And all are different colors. But...

They all exist very nicely in the same box.

 

Just A Minute!

How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.

 

U-Turns

If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.

- Anon

 

Useless? Stick To It!

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

- Josh Billings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Versign wrongly transfers domain name to unchecked person in Germany.

Guitarist Eddie Van Halen is given clean bill of health from head to toe after battling tongue cancer.

View, edit, and convert most any graphic file format

App switcher/launcher
OSX-like dock

Create & edit custom icons

Convert MP3 files into AIFF/WAV format

Integrated customizable web browser & email client

Program to make labels for CDs and DVDs

Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client

Pop up hierarchical file navigation & launcher (was piDock)

Powerful file browser & management tool

Handy desktop notepad program with autosave

AppleScript makes Dock background fully transparent

Font tool helps organize, manage & repair fonts

View, edit, and convert most any graphic file format

Create & edit custom icons

Program to make labels for CDs and DVDs

Randomly changes Desktop picture from any number of folders

Graphical FTP/SFTP/SSH client

MP3/CD Audio player software

Convert MP3 files into AIFF/WAV format

Improves system speed and responsiveness

Integrated customizable web browser & email client

Unique game play modification makes play more interesting

OS X client for the online service
AOL Keyword Beta

Version of mozilla.org's next generation browser

Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client

Full featured GUI FTP client

Make customized folder icons

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

Encrypted multi-user Internet telephone

Pop up hierarchical file navigation & launcher (was piDock)

3D file system browser

Realtime liquid screensaver

Display up to 24 different time zones

Handy desktop notepad program with autosave

Multi-purpose menu bar utility

Simple, Aqua savvy media player for all QuickTime formats

Digital image organizer; makes books, slide shows...

Powerful file browser and file management tool