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May 28, 2002

Late Night - Early Morning Edition 10:08 PM MST

New Desktops and Icons! - Offering to ease your GUI hunger, this week's "Late Night - Early Morning" platter of eye candy is up and ready for snacking! Check out the Gallery for the latest in 3-D and 2-D Desktops. For your fix in Icon fun, head over to Page 5 of the Icons Department and have a feast! Have fun!

GUI Update!

MAJArch Studios - Melissa of MAJArch Studios updates with a variety of GUI goodies for your desktop needs! Included in her latest update are 3 OSX Boot Panels, 1 new Americana Desktop, and a set of USA Icons for OSX. Get your mouse clickin' finger in gear and check out the goods at MAJArch Studios!

 

DV Graphics - Mr. Paul Sahner of DV Graphics has released a new icon set based on a set of drawings called "Sketches." This latest set has plenty of attidude! While you're there, check out the full scale versions of his fine hand-drawn work. Click click!

 

New Monkie Edition! - Be sure to stop by MacMonkies on Wednesday for a healthy helping of Icons, Desktops, News, and Fun!

Our Gallery welcomes the return of desktops from Bob Spence, MAJArch Studios, EA Design, Kara-Kelly.com and MacMonkies.

Icons arrive from the creators of MAJArch Studios, Flax Creations, DV Graphics, Pixel Jerk, and Happicon.

Y'all come back now, ya hear?!

May 27, 2002

Memorial Day, 2002

In Memory of Those

Who Have Fought For Our Freedom

May 26, 2002

iTools Update - We mentioned on Wednesday, May 22, that Apple had been suspending iTools accounts due to excessive bandwidth usage. However no one was sure exactly what that limit was. Cletus™, software editor of ResExcellence, noted on Friday that MacInTouch posted a notice from Apple with specific details regarding the bandwidth limitations. Click here for further details.

 

Be Good! - Remember to have plenty of fun this Memorial Day weekend. But don't monkey around while on the highway or traveling. Play it safe and have a day to remember! Have a blast!

May 25, 2002

Browser Alert! - Two popular web browsers for the Macintosh platform have updated versions ready for download: OmniWeb 4.1b7 for OSX and Mozilla 1.0rc3 for both Classic and OSX. Grab 'em while they're hot!

 

Thought For The Day - Ever notice that the people who are late are often much jollier than the people who have to wait for them?

May 24, 2002

APEVINE SPECIAL!

Rampant Mac Returns! - Your desktop dreams may just have come true! There's been a bit of dirt kickin' up over at the RM Ranch (AKA Rampant Mac), and it appears as though your GUI eyes may very well be in for a treat! A very, VERY reliable source has informed MacMonkies that the best GUI spot on the planet is itching to make a return. That's right! You can look forward to Rampant Mac "resurfacing with a slightly new face" sometime midsummer. The definite date is still uncertain, but it will be well worth the wait! We'll keep ya posted!

May 23, 2002

EA Design - Ed Allen and Alan Sherwood update with twelve additions to the galleries at EA Design. Take your pick from 6 new pieces in their 3-D section, or 6 new works in their 2-D department. Get to clickin'!

 

Software Update - The folks over at Netscape have a new version of the popular web browser to preview - Version 7.0 PR1. Grab your copy of this blazingly fast browser HERE.

 

The Matrix - Have you asked yourself the question lately: "What is the Matrix?" Or better yet: "Where is the Matrix?" How about clicking on this link and checking out the teaser trailer to next year's blockbuster sequel Matrix 2. Plus, be sure to check out the free desktops they have to offer!

May 22, 2002

At The Top

Felt Tip Fix: Copy-Protection - People on Internet news groups have found a way to deactivate Sony copy-protected CDs. All one has to do is scribble "around the rim of a disk with a felt-tip marker." Reuters reports that they tried this with the new Celine Dion CD that has been stopping up iMacs and it worked like a charm. They were able to play the CD as well as copy it to the hard drive. Sony was reluctant to offer a comment. - from Yahoo

MonkieNews!

The Six Minus One Icon Edition - Yes, we agree! That's a pretty lame way to title a tie-in for our Sixth Icon Edition! One thing is certainly not lame, and that is this week's "nothing but the best" selection of Icons from some of the web's finest! Let's take a look!

Eye9design? - Sir Patrick O'Kelly of the amazing Eye9design graces our Icon palace with another outstanding set named MercuryLensX2. Your i's won't be disappointed with this cool set!

Pixel Jerk - If you're heavy into the "big" text and spreadsheet app for OSX, then Pixel Jerk's Samuel Krueger has just the number for you with his icon rendition for Office! Watch those icons shine!

DV Graphics - Paul Sahner of DV Graphics is certainly dedicated to sprucing up your Mac. If you can't afford one of Apple's spiffy new iMacs, get the next best thing with his set of iMac G4 icons! I see your desktop smilin' already!

Happicon - Speaking of smiles, Rene piles on plenty with those Crazy Ones from the ever funtastic Happicon! AH! Caught yer desktop smilin' already!

I Heart New York - Matthew Bice of IHeartNY adds some of his creative best to the Icon palace with Dock Lawn Additions! If you haven't already, check out IHeartNY to see how to make your Dock into an IheartNY Dock Lawn! Very cool!

Check 'em out!

8 New Desktops In The Gallery - We have 8 fantastic new desktops for you this week, including a piece from our latest contributor Bob Spence! Let's dive into the Gooo!

Delicious Desktops - Our latest contributor and author of the wild and fun Windows 3.1 app for OSX, Bob Spence, brings you this fine desktop "coating" called Cashmere Candy!

From Hunter Peddicord we bring you organics wired for sound with this wonderful work titled Speaker 2.

And stirring up the eggcentric breakfast batter is a weird and wild one from MacMonkies' desktop chef called Eleggtrixx One.

 

The Thrill of 3-D - Clear the way for mars clear, an outstanding piece from Ms. Kara Kelly of Kara-Kelly.com. This one's sure to make your desktop shine!

Alan Sherwood of EA Design brings us his usual excellence in simplicity with another fine piece titled Your Cage.

Speaking of simplicity, Mr. Wiles of the Monkie claim to...well, madness if nothing else, brings us twin set of minimalist's delight with Simpurplicity II and Blue Sky Skandal!

And bringing up the Monkie rear is, once again, the Monkie of Madness with quite the interesting piece - Out of Nothing. Perhaps you'll find a strange Monkie hiding in the trees!

 

SPECIAL THANKS

We at MacMonkies

are especially grateful for the following artists:

Kara, Bob, Hunter, Alan, Paul, Sam, Matthew, Rene, and Patrick

for their AWESOME contributions!

Thank You!

 

Featured Link - Be sure to check out this week's Featured Link - Kara-Kelly.com. Pop on over to our Links page and give it a gander!

Community News

XThemination - XThemination has released a new theme for OSX by Max Rudberg titled Milk.

Be sure to stop by XThemination and grab your copy of this fine piece of theme work from Max!

Update May 24, 2002 - The OSX Theme Milk is not currently available at XThemination. You can get a copy of the theme from Max Rudberg's site, as it is no longer down.

Note: If you want to visit Max's site, please have patience as it is currently down due to excessive bandwidth usage.

 

Ethereal Creations - Ethereal Creations updates with two images in their New Releases section and three images in their Guest Art section. They've also updated their Site News page and added another profile for guest artist Brenda McKeown under the About Us section. Drop by and have a look!!

Kara-Kelly.com - Kara Kelly has opened, or rather reopened Kara-Kelly.com. If you like Aqua, you'll love her "aquafied eye candy for your desktop!" Be sure to click your way over to Kara-Kelly.com and check out all the GUI fun!!

DV Graphics - DV Graphics offers 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! Hmmm...Your mouse must be slow 'cuz you're still here. CLICK!

Xicons - Xicons reports: "The icons are coming...Stay tuned. 5-21-02." Could that be a hint of cool things to come? We'll keep our i's peeled and keep ya posted!!

 

Check 'em Out!

 

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News On The Net...

Eyes On The New iBook - On Monday, Apple released the 700 MHz iBook. According to Greg Joswiak, a senior director for Apple, "the iBook is our best selling consumer and education notebook ever." The upgraded iBook has a new video-out port and is up to 35 percent faster. There are three different selections to choose from, one of which comes with a 14.1-inch display. To view all the latest specs, click here.

Blockbuster Bloopers! - The popular movies Spiderman and Star Wars might be too popular for their own good. Star Wars fans have already noticed 40 errors in the new movie Attack of the Clones, one of which is a bite in an apple before it has been eaten. While Star Wars fans are awake enough to notice all the small details, the Spiderman movie actually left a man asleep. Luis Guardia got locked in the movie theater and was trapped until seven o'clock the morning after the show." Sounds like he was really into the flick. Yeah right! - from Ananova and Excite

Mac OSX AOL: Aqua XP? - Though many in the Mac community are reporting excitement over AOL's latest version of their client software, those who are actually testing the software aren't too thrilled. Though the latest beta version does contain features included in the Windows counterpart and has switched to the Netscape Gecko browser, this version has a long ways to go. The current build is one of the buggiest AOL has released. Perhaps the biggest beta tester complaint is the "aquafied" Fischer-Price XP look that is "in the spirit of Mac OS X." One tester summed up the latest release in a word: "Yikes."

Unlikely Pair - U2 singer Bono and the Secretary of the US Treasury, Paul O'Neill, have gone on a tour of Africa together. After meeting a year ago, O'Neill was impressed with Bono's knowledge of the poverty problems in Africa and decided to tour with Bono to learn more about them. Bono is making an effort to convince O'Neill that monies spent to help Africa are being put to good use. The pair will tour four countries altogether, including South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia. - from Yahoo

Whether To Feather - Scientists have begun breeding featherless chickens in Israel. They are hoping this will be more humane because chickens get very hot, especially in countries with higher temperatures. Not only would this be less torture for the chickens, but less mess for the humans, since they won't have to pluck all the feathers when cleaning the chickens. Not plucking the chickens would also save money for processing plants, and meat from the chickens would be of better quality because featherless chickens would tend to be leaner. Talk about doin' the funky chicken! - from BBC News

 

Have you Heard?

iTool Rules - Is your band wagon too big for iTools bandwidth policy? Many shareware and personal sites on Apple's iTools have been recently suspended for excessive bandwidth usage. However, no one as of yet seems to know how much is too much! Some sites are claiming very little to claims of up to 400 GB of traffic. You can read more at MacInTouch Reader Reports. Do you have a clue as to what the limit is? Let us know!

Update May 26, 2002 - Click here for updated details regarding iTools iDisk.

 

Moving Ahead - Of all the new features that those who have been testing Jaguar have been buzzing about, there is one that seems to have received little to no attention: the new Forward button!

When navigating in the single window browser-like Finder mode, this little button comes in very handy. It allows you to return to a window you were just in, rather than having to click through bunches of folders just to get back to one previous click away. Hooray Apple!

 

Jaguar at MWNY? - The latest buzz word is suggesting that Jaguar, Code Name for Apple's latest version of OSX, could be out as early as the Macworld Expo at New York this July. However, from the lips of Steve Jobs, it will be out late this summer. Apple usually schedules late summer releases from the end of August to the mid part of September.
 
 

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Check 'em Out!

Hug Somebody Different! - In "normal" editions of "Very Ape," we would hilite some place cool on the Net to check out or something neato to fiddle with on your computer. However, this week we thought we would bring you something a bit different, continuing along the lines of our ever-ending quest in "Making the Difference!"

click for full image

So, how about reaching out and hugging someone?! We spotted this ever so adorable picture over at Yahoo and thought you would get a kick out of it, not to mention inspiring some to reach out and Hug Somebody Different! Check it out!

 

Just Plain Nutz!

INTERNET PARKING TICKET

Offender: You!

Date: (put date here)

Offense #4422089: in front of the computer TOO LONG!

Details of Offense : During our routine sweep of the Internet we, the Internet Police, have discovered that you have been on your chair in front of the computer TOO LONG!

You are HEREBY ORDERED to clean up that pile of cups, cans, wrappers and papers on your desk (yes, we can see you - sit up straight!) and after you have logged into the real world for a minimum of ten minutes you may log back on to the Internet.

Failure to comply may result in loss of reality, carpal tunnel syndrome, and the requirement of a larger chair.

The timer starts NOW! Get off your butt - you'll thank us for it later.

 

BEYOND THE COMFORT ZONE

"I left Montreal heading toward Quebec city, when I decided to stop at a comfort station. The first stall was occupied, so I went into the second one. I was no sooner seated than I heard a voice from the next stall:

"Hi, how are you doing?"

Well, I am not the type to chat with strangers in highway comfort stations, and I really don't know quite what possessed me, but anyway, I answered, a little embarrassed:

"Not bad."

And the stranger said: "And what are you up to?"

Talk about your dumb questions! I was really beginning to think this was too weird! So I said:

"Well, just like you I'm driving east."

Then, I heard the stranger, all upset, say, "Look, I'll call you back, there's some idiot in the next stall answering all the questions I am asking you."

 

INSANITY CHECK (Part II)

How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity

10. Sing along at the opera.

11. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.

13. Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.

14. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.

15. When the money comes out the ATM, scream: "I won! I won! 3rd time this week!!"

16. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling: "Run for your lives, they're loose!!"

18. Tell your children over dinner: "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."

And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity:

19. Send this list to everyone in your address book, even if they sent it to you or asked you not to send them stuff like this.

Sounds like someone's 19th nervous breakdown to me.

 

LIKE LIGHTNING

My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it's gone!

 

TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM

9.9999973251 It's a FLAW, darn it! Not a Bug
8.9999163362 It's the new math
7.9999414610 Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes
6.9999831538 You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
5.9999835137 Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well
4.9999999021 We Fixed It, Really
3.9998245917 Division Considered Harmful
2.9991523619 Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point?
1.9999103517 We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws
0.9999999998 The Errata Inside

 

WHAT CONDITION YOUR CONDITION IS IN

Udder failure is what you call the condition of a cow that is unable to give milk.

 

NETWORK MATH

The math teacher saw that Billy wasn't paying attention in class. She called on him and said,

"Billy! What are 2 and 4 and 28 and 44?"

Billy quickly responded,

"CBS, NBC, HBO, and the Cartoon Network."

 

HAL SINGS DAISY

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do.

Getting hazy; can't divide three from two.

My answers; I can not see 'em.

They are stuck in my Pente-um.

I could be fleet,

My answers sweet,

With a workable FPU.

 
 

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Odds and Ends

One Person In The World

You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

 

Price To Ponder

If Walmart is lowering prices every day, how come nothing is free yet?

 

Just A Thought

Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.

- Ira Gassen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proteron's OSX version of their keyboard application switcher is now available.

Higher demand, production, and prices play role to increase pricing pressure and drive down flat panel display prices.

Dell cuts costs by hiring prisoners

German media conglomerate Bertelsmann bails out Napster for the tune of $8 million.

Utility for Google.com and media file searches

Easy to use electronic checkbook

Monitors email accounts & notifies you when new mail arrives

Music composition & scoring authoring using QuickTime

Shows all printing characters of a selected font

Solitaire Freecell and Baker's card games

Pop up hierarchical file navigation & launcher (was piDock)

CMM to quickly batch rename multiple files

Astronomical desktop planetarium and more

Enhanced keyboard application switcher

Utility for Google.com and media file searches

Affordable word processing, spreadsheet, presentation suite

Randomly changes Desktop picture from any number of folders

Aqua desktop interface to Web services: TV listings, phone listings

Easy to use electronic checkbook

Watson plugin for What's Better

Secure services: online storage, file sharing, email, chat, backup

Screensaver module: translucent OS face floating

Screensaver module: new iMac in a full spin

Screensaver module: metallic Apple floating...

PDF watermarking app

Converts TrueType fonts into PostScript Type 1 fonts

Drag and drop file compression tool

Suite of 7 apps for design to web & print

Navigate the directory tree with a single click

Tool to check, optimize, then upload your Web pages

Shows all printing characters of a selected font

OS X client for AOL
Use Keyword Beta

Website HTML and link checker

Auto-optimizing firewall in System Prefs

Tear off menu bar calendar with multiple month views

Theme editor for OS X

Versatile screen capture tool; save actions as QuickTime movies

Astronomical desktop planetarium and more

CMM to quickly batch rename multiple files

Evolving musical rhythm generation

Small AppleScript that will eject any disk

Brings the Classic (Mac OS 9) Apple menu to OS X