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June 11, 2002

EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE GUI EDITION 10:00 PM MST

New Desktops And Icons! - Fill your GUI goodies craving with some great new Icons and Desktops! You can grab the latest eye candy on Page 7 of our Icon Department, or in the Gallery for the latest in 2-D and 3-D Desktops! Grab your clickers and fill 'er up!

Happicon! - If you're looking for icons that really make your Mac moods shine, then we've got great news for you! Happicon has just released a new icon set called FinderMoods. This is a great new set if you want to change the Finder icon in the Dock. Hurry over to Happicon and check out this great new set!

Updated - Apparently Rene's new FinderMoods icon set is so popular that the Happicon site is temporarily unavailable due to excessive bandwidth usage! Until the site is back up, you can get the new FinderMoods set at the following mirrored site:

http://homepage.mac.com/kernelpanik

Get your mouse a clickin' and grab those great new icons!

 

EA Design - The gentlemen at EA Design are expecting to be back in full swing and then some this Thursday with a double whammy - bringing you a total of 24 new pics! Mark your calenders!

Updated - The gents of EA Design may not have the "full double" that was expected, but they will certainly have plenty to satisfy your hungry eyes! Be sure to check 'em out!

 

Great New Monkie Bunch! - Coming up this Wednesday at MacMonkies is a great new Monkie bunch of GUI goodies! This week in our desktop lineup we've got cool colors from Bob Spence, a new collage from Neil Roberts, fantastic new 2-D and 3-D from Ed Allen and Alan Sherwood of EA Design, new work from MacMonkies, and a great new piece from our latest contributor - Evan Kaufman of EMK Design.

Some fantastic icons are on their way from DV Graphics' Paul Sahner, IHeartNY's Matthew Bice, Dan Flax of Flax Creations, and Evan Kaufman of EMK Design.

Stop back Wednesday for plenty of News, GUI, and Fun!

June 10, 2002

Free Pass To Macworld In New York! - If you were planning to attend the Macworld Conference and Expo this July in New York, what better way to go than to get in FREE?! The good folks of Other World Computing (OWC) are offering a chance to receive a free pass to the Expo. Once you're there, you can check out the deals and meet some of the OWC team at exhibit booth #1619.

Head over to: http://eshop.macsales.com/MacWorld and register to win a free pass to the show. What are ya waiting for? Check it out!

 

Icon News - Rene has informed MacMonkies .that the latest icon set from Happicon is well under way with yet another set in the works. Keep your Bananas peeled and we'll keep ya posted!

June 9, 2002

Software Updates - If you're looking for a lean, mean, web browsing machine, then the Mozilla based browser - Chimera - is the choice for you. The latest version, version 0.3, is now available for download.

Also available is Apple's QuickTime 5 Reinstaller for OSX. This is designed for those who have tried the QuickTime 6 Public Preview and wish to return to using QT 5. The download is available at the AppleCare Knowledge Base. OS9 users can return simply by downloading QuickTime 5.

 

Today's Quote - Getting the last word: Convict James French, seated in the electric chair: "How about this for a headline in tomorrow's paper, French Fries!"

June 8, 2002

MAJArch Studios - Melissa of MAJArch Studios has added 5 new Vegas photos taken while at the AIA Conference on Design in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hurry over and check out these and other great pics at MAJArch Studios!

 

DV Graphics - Whoa! Watch your step! Paul Sahner of DV Graphics finishes up the week with a set of 4 slippery new "Glass" desktops hanging in his newly added desktop section. Click your way over to DV Graphics and grab the new Glass Drops desktop set today!

 

Pic of the Day - A lesson in humility: For every Hot Dog out there, there's always a "bigger dog!"

click for larger image

Contributed by David Vincent

June 7, 2002

Mac News! - The OS's out, the info's in: AquaticMac.com keeps you bang up-to-date on Mac OS X 10.1.5 information. Get your mouse a clickin' and check it out!

 

Software Update - piDog has released the latest update to piPop, the awesome utility for both Classic and OSX. piPop provides users with pop up hierarchical file navigation which makes this little app indispensable. Version 2.0b8 contains the following changes:

• Less aggressive nag behaviour for unregistered version
  
  
• New Built-In Registration System
  
  
• Bundle contents display more reliably
  
  
• Launching aliases behaves correctly
  
  
• Even more bug fixes!

Stop by piDog and grab your copy of the latest version of piPop today!

June 6, 2002

SOFTWARE NEWS

Mozilla 1.0 - The Mozilla Organization has released Mozilla 1.0, the "open source/free software Internet client suite designed for standards compliance, speed and portability." The completed public version of this speedy web browser is now available for download at Mozilla's Releases page. - Kelly

 

From The Web: Mac OSX 10.1.5 - Apple has made the latest update for OSX - version 10.1.5 - available for download online from the AppleCare Knowledge Base. There are 2 different versions of the download available depending on what version of the OS you are updating from. The update is also available from the Software Update panel in the System Preferences of OSX.

June 5, 2002

At The Top

New Apple Updates - Late yesterday afternoon, Apple started dishing out the downloads with new and updated software.

Mac OSX 10.1.5, which adds improvements to networking, security, and application reliability, is available for download via the Software Update panel in the System Preferences.

A Public Preview of QuickTime 6, which will be included with the up-and-coming Jaguar late this summer, is available at the QuickTime Page at Apple's site.

Also available is the new QuickTime Broadcaster Public Preview. Apple calls the Broadcaster, in combination with QuickTime and QuickTime Server, "the industry's first end-to-end MPEG-4-based Internet broadcasting system." It is available for download here.

MonkieNews!

MacMonkies 8th Icon Edition - For our 8th Icon Edition, we have 8 icon sets from four of the web's finest icon artists!

Pixel Jerk - Pixel Jerk's Samuel Krueger knows a thing or two about making those icons shine. This week, XButtons and XButtons v2 will keep your desktop glowing a plenty!

Happicon - Christmas in June? You bet! Rene at Happicon will keep your Mac smiling like it was Christmas morn with XmasOnes and PhotoReal©.

IHeartNY - If you could eat those GUI goodies, Foodstuff and Funny Face Fruit from IHeartNY's Matthew Bice will keep your computer appetite plenty satisfied.

DV Graphics - The mastermind behind Digital Vision Graphics (AKA DV Graphics) seems to be monkeying around as Paul presents Gorillaz. Also from Mr.Sahner is some fine hand-drawn icons called Sketches.

Check 'em out!

Desktop Full House: 9 New Desktops In The Gallery - Wow! This week's Gallery is packed with a fantastic lineup of desktop work. Might as well jump into the latest festivities!

Desktop Destination - Todd Darland returns with the 3rd installment to his Hal Series with the ultra-colorful System Divided.

Traveling effortlessly through space and time is Easy Travel I from Ed Allen of EA Design.

Bob Spence adds his exceptional flare with a hot number titled Fire Wheel.

From MacMonkies come a pair desktops to brighten your Aqua experience titled Aqua Day and Aqua Rise.

 

3-D Design - Ms. Kelly of Kara-Kelly.com continues in the spirit of all things cyber cool with mars in repose.

Alan Sherwood, EA Design's cohort in artistic creativity, symbolically expresses the way one is held back by the things one finds important with Bindings.

From MacMonkies comes Adumbration, an obscurity within a part of the mind that has yet to be entered. Confused? So is the artist!

And finally, from the piles of dust in the Monkie archives comes the previously unreleased CyberCity. You can find this fun piece on Page 2 of the 3-D Department. Enjoy!

 

New Boot Panels - We have updated our OSX Boot Panel section with 2 wonderful works by Melissa of MAJArch Studios. Her latest selections, Eagle and Rosie, sport Melissa's patriotic spirit as well as her great taste for OSX. Check 'em out!

 

 

SPECIAL THANKS

To:

Melissa, Bob, Alan, Kara, Todd, Paul, Rene, Sam, and Ed -

You all made for a wonderful Edition!

THANK YOU!

Featured Link - Be sure to check out this week's Featured Link :

Why the Mac is so great.com!

Yan Feng's great Mac site has also been added to our Links Page. Be sure to click over and check it out!

 

Community News

TERRA Dreams - TERRA Dreams has updated with several awesome new landscape desktops since the first of the month. Head over and take a look at these wonderful works of art!

 

Pixel Jerk - Sam has added a guestbook to his site features at Pixel Jerk. Take a moment to show Sam your appreciation for all his hard work and leave a good word in his guestbook!

 

DV Graphics - Paul Sahner gives new meaning and vision to the words "DV Graphics." How about Digital Vision Graphics? Along with the newness to the name comes Glass VII - the latest addition to his already fantastic series of Glass Icons. Get 'em while they're hot!

Xicons - Xicons has added several new icon sets in the last few days including MiXthepiX by Hein Mevissen!You're sure to enjoy these and all the latest at Xicons.

IconsTree - The IconsTree has made some recent site changes. The latest changes include Juan Manzano's impressions of other GUI releated sites. Stop by the IconsTree and grab a look!

EA Design - Ed and Alan have recently updated EA Design with 12 new desktop pics for your viewing pleasure. We're willing to bet that they will have more along the same line of excellemce any time now. Keep your Bananas peeled!

 

Check 'em Out!

 

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News On The Net...

Antiquated Apple design - The website of the Bremsstrahlung Recordings record label has been designed to look like the old Mac Operating System 6. Josh Russell, who runs the record label, decided to go with the System 6 look because "it's clean and minimal" and also "nostalgic." The black-and-white System 6, which fits on a floppy disk, was used in 1989 and made Apple famous for being "easy to use." Christopher Murphy designed System 6 using MacPaint and Photoshop, and though it looks simple, each page is made up of more than twenty Photoshop layers. - from Wired

X Hacks The Box - A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has figured out how to hack into the security system of Microsoft's Xbox. Andrew Huang says there is a "secret boot block" encoded into the media processor chip of the Xbox. He got to it by "tapping the data path that travels between the media chip and the central processor" and "attaching a custom-designed board to that high-speed data path." This enabled Huang to process the data manually and figure it out. He posted his discovery on his website and has not yet been asked to take it down. - from Yahoo

Access Approved - Judges have shot down a law that would require school libraries to install filtering software on school computers to keep children off of inappropriate (sexually explicit) websites. The judges said that appropriate websites would also be filtered out if the software was installed. There are options when it comes to monitoring what children view at school, including parental consent for the child to surf the net or that a parent actually be present while the child surfs the net. This is the third time this law was denied. No steps forward, 10 steps back. - from Excite

Down The Toilet? - A former Edwardian public toilet in London will be available as a duplex apartment in six months. The toilet facility has been out of service for ten years and is now being remodeled. Property owners think it will sell or rent without a problem because it is in a good location. It will be worth $200,000 when the remodeling is complete. Hmmm. Lemme see. Dear John... - from Excite

Mo Monkie, Man! - Stephen Morgan is fighting for custody of Chutney, a capuchin monkey. Morgan is from West Sussex, and had been keeping Chutney in an enclosed garden in the family's backyard. He even bought the monkey its own Playstation console, which it took to bed faithfully every night. Authorities are keeping Chutney in Wales until it is determined whether or not Morgan will be granted a "dangerous and wild animal license." Morgan's da man! Ya think he'll adopt this monkie? - from Ananova

 

Have you Heard?

Elements Of A Photo Finish - Are you looking for a powerful, yet easy-to-use, photo editor to help you produce professional-looking photos, whether you use a traditional or digital camera? We know you don't want to fork out the wods of cash for an app that the pro's use. So how about Adobe's Photoshop Elements? Still don't want to pay a hundred bucks? How about $69? Now through July 31, 2002 you can land a copy of Photoshop Elements for 30 bucks off the list price if you own one of the listed products mentioned on their site. Plus you can always try before you buy with their free Elements Tryout.

Head over to Adobe and see if you qualify for this cool Summer deal!

 

Big On iMacs - More word is filtering in that Apple may soon be releasing iMacs with larger screen sizes. DigiTimes reports that Quanta, the company which is building iMacs for Apple, is expected to begin making iMacs with 17-inch and 19-inch monitors for the third quarter. Some sources expect the new iMacs to be out by the New Year, or perhaps as early as Christmas.
 
 

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Check 'em Out!

World's Smallest Website - As we were recently browsing about the Internet Super Highway, we stumbled across, or rather, almost STEPPED ON a place claimed to be the World's Smallest Website: guimp.com! This ever so teeny tiny site is available in both Flash and HTML versions and you have the choice of fun or news. Fun? Oh yes! You can actually have a rather tiny match against the site playing miniature Pong.

We hope you have recently had your eyes checked for you may have to break out the bi-focals or maybe even a magnifying glass! They may be small in size, but they're big on fun! Check out guimp.com!

Just Plain Nutz!

THE IBM DIFFERENCE

What's the difference between IBM and Jurassic Park?

One is a fantasy theme park populated with dinosaurs, and the other is a movie.

ONLY IN AMERICA

Only in America...

Can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

Do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

Do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Do we use the word politics to describe the process so well. Poli in Latin meaning many and tics meaning blood sucking creatures.

ARE WHAT YOU EAT

If it's true that you are what you eat, then some would be one part Cheez Whiz and one part Spam.

FAVORITE SPACE

What is an astronaut's favorite key on a computer keyboard?

The space bar.

LUSER MANUAL

If you use the system in a dirty environment, open it periodically and vacuum the boards and components with a small vacuum designed for this kind of work. Don't loosen anything in the process--sucking all the chips off the system board with an industrial strength wet/dry vac is not covered by your warranty.

- Gateway 2000 User Manual

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN

Woman in a computer store to the sales assistant: I want a game capable of holding the interest of my six-year-old, but it's got to be simple enough for his father to play, too.

BETTER NOT TO KNOW ME

Acquaintance: A person you know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

SO THERE!

A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men make in 20 years.

THE JOY OF COMMUNICATION

Don't assume that you're always going to be understood. I wrote a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that "the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted."

- Heloise

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Odds and Ends

The "F" Factor

Read the following sentence:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

---- ANSWER ----

There are six F's in the sentence. One of average intelligence finds three of them.

If you spotted four, you're above average.
If you got five, you can turn your nose at most anybody.
If you caught six, you are a genius.

There is no catch. Many people forget the "OF"'s. The human brain tends to see them as V's and not F's.

 

Nothing To Lose

Ever notice that when you've got nothing to lose, you always have something to brag about?

- BJW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apple announces availablity of eMac to public - starting at $1099

UMAX began charging up to $60 for driver updates.
Somebody lose their driver's license or what?

A sculpture garden has been opened in honor of the late author Dr. Seuss in his hometown, Springfield Massachusetts.

Lean, popular alternative Web browser

Music theory and ear training software

Preview version of the multimedia system

Slows down music without changing the pitch

Utility to do Google searches, submit sites, search images, etc

Optimizes HTML to minimize load time, and more

Feature rich audio recording & editing tool

Download manager & accelerator

Create custom icons from Photoshop images

Extensive desktop & file/folder editing & task tool

June virus definitions for both Norton & Virex are available for download

Enhances Open/Save dialog boxes for better ease of use

Access the lyrictracker song text database

Text converter

Lean, popular alternative Web browser

OSX update
Use Software Update

Multiple user tool for Mail.app

CIFS/SMB client: mounts files from Windows networking

Virtual workspaces help to organize the desktop

Live encoding for online streaming

Preview version of the multimedia system

Slows down music without changing the pitch

Powerful screen and movie capture utility

Copy OS X installation to another drive/partition

multiple sessions to CDR until all space is used up

Randomly changes Desktop picture from any number of folders

Screensaver creation tool

Provides OS X with an Apple menu like Mac OS 9's

Optimizes HTML to minimize load time, and more

Feature rich audio recording & editing tool

Download manager & accelerator

Tear-off menu bar calendar with multiple month views

Enables Java for Mozilla/Netscape 6.x

Create custom icons from Photoshop images

Extensive desktop & file/folder editing & task tool

Shows all printing characters of a selected font

June virus definitions for both Norton & Virex are available for download

Reminder app also can schedule macros or launch apps

Auto-optimizing firewall in System Prefs

Note Pad replacement , supporting Unicode

Automatically hides apps after switch

Frontend for the anti spam tool Mailfilter

Access the lyrictracker song text database

Simple HTML editor with listing of HTML tags

Pong with lots of mini-games

NotePad & Scrapbook replacement

Simple font manager