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October
8, 2002
EARLY
BIRD GUI SPECIAL
8:40
pm MDT
Now Serving:
Desktops and Icons!
- For all of you "can't get enough of that good GUI stuff"
addicts, our Early Bird GUI Special is now serving! You'll find
4 New Icon Sets on Page 19
of the Icon Department and 8 New Desktops hangin' out
in the Gallery. Grab 'em while
they're hot!
Monkie News - Be sure to stop back tomorrow
for another new batch of Desktops and Icons, including work from
our latest contributor, Wati Larke of WatiWorks.
Stop back Wednesday for plenty o' GUI fun!
October
7, 2002
 Happicon - Another
mood has come out of the colorful icon archives of Happicon!
AngryOnes© is a fierce new set of icons that will
delight even the most grumpy of desktops! And be sure to check
back at Happicon
frequently as Rene has some cool new...well, you're just gonna
have to wait and see! Check 'em out!
Here's Your Sign:
Picky Picky Picky!
- Sign at a plastic surgeon's office: Hello. Can we pick your
nose? 
October
6, 2002
 All Those Years Ago: Technology Predictions - There's nothing like
a good old fashioned, in-your-face "I told you so!"
Unless, of course, you're the one being told so! Here are some
"open mouth, insert feet" predictions about the future
of technology from all those years ago:
This 'telephone'
has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means
of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
-
Western Union internal memo, 1876.
Computers in the
future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
-
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science,
1949
I think there is
a world market for maybe five computers.
-
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
I have traveled
the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best
people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that
won't last out the year.
-
The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
But what... is it
good for?
-
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM,
1968, commenting on the microchip.
Everything that
can be invented has been invented.
-
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
Wonder how they
would feel about their infinite wisdom now! 
October
5, 2002
 Here's Your Sign - No smoking sign: If we
see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate
action.
Today's Thought - Live truth instead of
professing it.
-
Elbert Hubbard
October 4, 2002
TNT: DYN-O-MITE TIPS
AND TRICKS
by Paul
Sahner
The (in)Complete
Guide to OS X Key Commands - The
Mac OS allows for many common actions to be executed by way of
the keyboard. These keystrokes are known as Key Commands. They
involve two or more keys being pressed at the same time. By being
familiar with Key Commands, the computer user can save time by
not having to "hunt down" the action in the Finder
or the Menu bar. Continued...
Mandolux - Time for Mando's weekly
recap of this week's desktop additions at Mandolux!
Mandolux has issued twelve new
desktops: five Feathers (nature), the last five of Boxa (abstract),
one Austere Petal (nature), and one Lincoln 2K2 (scenery/abstract).
You know the drill:
Put on a happy Mac face with a cool new desktop from Mandolux!
 WTMISG
- Still brewin' up the new GUI is Yan Feng at Why
the Mac is so great.com. New in the galleries is X
immersion, a great new desktop to immerse and lose yourself
in this crazy X-travaganza! Check it out!
October
3, 2002
 EA
Design -
It appears as though Alan hasn't been fired yet, as we are privileged
with some great new works from BOTH Ed and Alan over at the studios
of EA Design!
New to their collections are a total of 12 new works that grace
their 2-D and 3-D galleries. Alan is also taking suggestions
for a tentative up-and-coming icon project. No time like the
present to get yourself over to EA
Design and check out all of the latest. Go!
WTMISG - Newly added to the GUI
galleries of Why the
Mac is so great.com is a new desktop to dance to titled Dance
10.2. This cool new pic from Yan Feng is available for
your immediate attention. Grab a look!
Froggy's Songs
1.2 - Just
released from DanLab
Games is Froggy's
Songs 1.2. New in  this version is a bug fix and compatibility
with Mac OSX 10.2 Jaguar. Froggy's Songs is an OSX game where
each Froggy has a different sound and position. The goal is to
match the sequence of Froggy's songs and movement, repeating
the patterns you see in the correct order. Version 1.2 is now
available for download at their website.
 Toast
Titanium 5.2
- The 'official' release of Toast
Titanium 5.2 is now available for download.
The new version has many improvements including enhanced Quartz
text rendering through out the user interface and support for
OSX 10.2.x. Since the 'official' release and event last week
of it being "leaked
prematurely," there has been a number of questions and
issues surrounding the update. We suggest taking a trip over
to Version
Tracker and thoroughly reading the user comments and
suggestions before installing.
Monkie News:
New TNT!
- Be sure to stop back tomorrow for another edition of Paul Sahner's
popular TNT: DYN-O-MITE TIPS AND TRICKS.
In Friday's edition, Paul shows you the 'outs' with his (in)complete
list of useful Key Command shortcuts in OSX's Finder and Internet
Explorer. Take command of those keys with tomorrow's TNT!
October 2, 2002
At The Top
iPod
'Picks' McCartney Tracklist
- It was recently noted at Billboard.com
that all of the  original
songs for Paul McCartney's up-and-coming live album -- Back
In the U.S. -- were stored on an iPod to assist in the album's
production. Producer/engineer Michael Brauer said, "I've
got all the original songs from the show on my iPod, so I'll
listen to it, asking myself, 'What were the elements that made
it so cool?' A classic is a classic -- you don't want to mess
with it." It is Brauer's goal to give the listener the feel
as though they were 10 - 15 rows back from the stage. The CD/DVD
is due out November 26. -
from Billboard
 iPod Works with Linux - The iPod can
now be used with Linux through gnuPod 0.2. The software was released
under General Public License, but currently does not provide
peak performance. To make it work, you also need a FireWire card,
"the scripting language Perl (version 5.6), the Perl modules
MP3::Info, File::Copy, Unicode::String and XML::Parser, and a
'basic knowledge of the shell'." For more information, click
here.
- from
PC
Pro
Read More News On The Net
MonkieNews!
NEW! MacMonkies
25th Icon Edition!
- Lessee...For
50 you have Gold, then for 25 is Silver...Right? Ok. So it's
not been 25 YEARS, but it has been 25 weeks! Welcome to our Silver
Icon Edition! Cheesy? Yes. But not this great set of Icons. Let's
boogie!
Happicon - The second in a series
of 2, Rene from Happicon
presents Cute 202! Though
this happy set is but a slight variation from Cute
101, it is nonetheless a great set to make your desktop smile
SHINE!
 miX
the piX
- You KNOW
you have the right equipment if you've got Hein's
Hardware 3.0. The miX
the piX pixel master Hein Mevissen adds just the right combination
of class and style formulating this cool set of classic Mac hardware.
Also adding flare
to the Mevissen collection is this fine set of DVD
Players. Perhaps Apple should consult with Hein when
choosing an icon set! =)
 IHeartNY - Mr. Matthew Bice is back
with Adium Domo-Kun, another
cool icon set from the collections of IHeartNY!
This is a great set for use with Adium
Instant Messenger, the third party AIM chat client.
mac.axonz.com
- Wrapping
up this week's Silver Edition is Adrian "wOOge" Jean's
TriTanium Squared v2: HardDrivez!
This set includes over 20 stronger-than-steel beauts from the
class act collections of mac.axonz.com.
Check
'em out!
NEW! 9 New Desktops
In The Gallery -
This week's Desktop Edition includes some spectacular work, including
a "double shot" from Alan Sherwood and Bob Wiley, as
well as a piece from our latest contributor S. Stéphane
from Xiupe Créations!
Let's look!
 3-D
Delectables -From
S. Stéphane comes a breath taking desktop titled Brume matinale, which translated
means Morning Fog. This beautiful piece is one of the many exceptional
works you will find at Xiupe
Créations.
Just like a radio
station playing the classics and the hits, we get to pull out
a classic from the cool collections of Rampant
Mac. Presenting, the all time favorite hit: Austra
Alien! This great work should be alien from no one's
desktop. Crank it up!
Loading up this
week's first "double shot" is EA
Design's Alan Sherwood. First in the line up is Conform
(A Loss), which seems to indicate the loss of individuality
when adhering to conformity.
Next out of the
barrel, Hideaway demonstrates
Alan's endless amount of creativity. Apparently, Alan is not
one who gets boxed in too easily. =)
 From
the coconut credentials of MacMonkies Mr. Wiles comes a piece
from the other side quite literally. The
Other Side is simply a view of Opposing
Forces from...well, the other side. Just wait till next week
to see the wild and wackiness that can come out of a tad bit
of twistedness!
And temporarily
misplaced until 7:24 am (can everyone say SPACE MONKIE?) is a
bit of an odd 3-D piece by the absent minded Monkie titled StarJam.
Desktop Department!
- This week's
second dose of Doubleshottedness comes from the  creative mind of Bob
Wiley. Blowing the concrete all to bits, Bob offers a fantastic
piece titled Abstract Impression.
And if that doesn't leave a lasting enough impression, Bob blasts
out another with Abstract Impression
2. Get the impression?
And finally, wrapping
things up with a twirl is Blue
Twist. This is just a little dabbling
in Photoshop's standard filters from Monkie Man Wiles. Enjoy!
WE EXTEND
OUR THANKS
To:
Adrian,
Alan, Bob, Hein,
Matthew, Rene, Scott, and S. Stéphane
AWESOME
WORK!
THANK YOU!
Have
a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Featured Link - Be sure to check out
this week's Featured Link: Xiupe
Créations. And of course, we have added this great
site to our Links Page! Check it out!
Community
News
Closed Up Shop
- In making
our regular rounds along the internet highway, we noticed a couple
sad little signs hanging up in two popular GUI shops. Both Ethereal Creations
and Pixel Jerk have closed
their doors. Both artists, Andy Moraitis - desktop artist; and
Sam Krueger - icon artist, are exceptional in their field of
work. Their contributions to the community will certainly be
missed. Here's to you, gentlemen!
Why The Mac Is
So Great -
Mr. Yan Feng of Why
the Mac is so great.com has certainly been busy as of late.
Newly added to the archives is a new set of icons titled Mainichi
Icons I and a new section called Mac
Relics. The icons are the first in this series - a set
of ten icons you could put into use in your daily Mac life. The
new section takes a look at the old times of Mac computing. Check
'em out!
The Iconfactory
- With Halloween
soon approaching, The Iconfactory
is inviting everyone to send them your Halloween related links.
They are looking for scary icons, desktop pictures, patterns,
fonts, games or even just cool haunted trivia or info. If you've
got the goods, send your info to boo@iconfactory.com.
Sneak on over to The Iconfactory
for all the spooky details!!
PixelDécor!
- Jen spooks
up the galleries of PixelDécor
with a brand new October 2002 Calendar. This cool Halloween
themed calendar comes in -- count 'em -- 6 different sizes for
all your resolution needs! Don't let the spiders get in your
way. Get yourself over to PixelDécor
and grab your copy of this latest time piece!
TERRA Dreams
- Three
beautiful new landscape scenes have been added to the galleries
of TERRA Dreams: The
End is near, Silence is golden, and Black Hole
Rising. Be sure to swing by the galleries of TERRA
Dreams and grab a look at this fine new work!!
Rampant Mac - Scott Chitwood gets down
and funky and updates the pages of Rampant
Mac. This year...er, I mean month, Scott adds Strange
Fire, Circuit Wyrm, (newly reworked, using same title
as older piece of art) and Retro 70's Green. Also added
to this terrific update are five older desktops and seven previously
released patterns. Work those fingers to the bone and take a
trip over to Rampant
Mac!
Check
'em Out!
Send
us your news: press@macmonkies.com
News On The
Net...
Apple
Extends .Mac Deadline
- Apple
has decided to extend the .Mac sign-up date  until October 14th. According
to an Apple spokesperson the decision was made "to make
sure that every iTools customer has the opportunity to take advantage
of the special $49.95 membership offer." The spokesperson
also confirmed on Friday night that iTools accounts would not
be deleted until October 15th. The previous sign-up deadline
was September 30, 2002. - from
MacCentral
 Monsters Inc. Features Jobs' Office -
The newly released DVD of Monsters, Inc. comes with a few surprises
on it. Along with some spectacular other features, the second
DVD of the set features "a tour of Pixar's new digs"
as well as "a glimpse of Steve Jobs' office." For those
who want to check it out, the DVD is widely available for rent
or can be purchased for under $20.00. - from The
Mac Observer
Speeding Up Due Process With E-Mail - In Yakima county
Washington, there's a few people  who would like to dispute their
traffic tickets - more than 1,200 this year alone. But the wait
for a chance to speak to the judge is too long. In order for
the disputes to be settled more quickly, county officials are
looking into a program in which traffic ticket holders can e-mail
their explanations to a judge. The judge then responds to each
complaint either by e-mail or a postcard. - from Excite
 Man
Survives Trash Compacter - A man named Chad Dillon fell asleep
in a trash bin after going out drinking Thursday night. The trash
was then picked up and compacted. Witnesses heard the 24-year-old
screaming from inside the garbage truck and told the driver.
Altogether Dillon was compacted twice, "treated for head,
chest and arm injuries" and released Friday night. Sheesh! Can everbody
say Duh Huh?! - from Yahoo
Face On: Breaking A Clothespin Record - Garry "Stretch"
Turner celebrated the release of the  Guinness
Book of Records 2003 by breaking his record of clipping clothespins
to his face. He placed 153 clothespins on his face, beating his
former record by 20 clothespins. He did it in front of a crowd
and had marks on his face for an hour afterward. Apparently attaching
the clothespins to his cheeks hurts the worst. Click image
for larger view.
-
from Ananova
Have you Heard?
Inside Information
From The Inside! - We've
mentioned it a time or two before, and we thought we'd mention
it at a whisper once more. Just around the corner comes a very
special MacMonkies presentation that we hope you will thoroughly
enjoy. It might take the web by storm, and it might make a monkie
or two say 'P-U!' On that note, we'll let it rest! 
Have
some inside information on upcoming events? Review our Submission
Policy and drop us a line!
Check 'em
Out!
Cool Funny Pictures
- Lately,
a CERTAIN SOMEBODY has been sending me links to some adorable
and funny pics from Cool
Funny Pictures! So I thought I would share some of my
favorites with you. Check these out:
Kung Fu Kitties
Who Are You Chatting With
Hiya!
And the
one that makes you just wanna say "Awwwwwwwwwwww"
Kitty Buddies
Yes, yes, yes! The
older I get, the more this gushy stuff actually has an effect.
=)
Check
'em out!
Just Plain
Nutz!
MOUSING AROUND
A group of young
children were sitting in a circle with their teacher. She was
going around in turn asking them all questions.
"Davy, what
noise does a cow make?"
"It goes moo."
"Alice, what
noise does a cat make?"
"It goes meow."
"Jamie, what
sound does a lamb make?"
"It goes baaa."
"Jennifer,
what sound does a mouse make?"
"Errr...it
goes...click!"
CAR TROUBLE!
Wife: There's trouble
with the car. It has water in the carburetor.
Husband: Water in
the carburetor? That's ridiculous.
Wife: I tell you
the car has water in the carburetor.
Husband: You don't
even know what a carburetor is. I'll check it out. Where's the
car?
Wife: In the pool.
LEAP OF FAITH?
As the storm raged,
the captain realized his ship was sinking fast. He called out,
"Anyone here know how to pray?"
One man stepped
forward. "Aye, Captain, I know how to pray."
"Good,"
said the captain, "you pray while the rest of us put on
our life jackets - we're one short."
DUM DUM VIRUS
You have just received
the Dum Dum Virus!!! As we ain't got no programin' experience,
this here Virus works on the honor system. Please delete all
the files on your hard drive, and manually forward this virus
to everyone on your mailing list. Thanks for your cooperation.
HERE'S YOUR SIGN!
The Electric
Company:
We would be de-lighted
if you pay your bill. However, if you don't, you will be.
An Optometrist's
Office:
If you don't see
what you're looking for, you've come to the right place.
IT'S THE LAW!
Law of Probability
Dispersal:
Whatever it is that
hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
MAKES SENSE TO
ME
Employer: We can
pay you 100 dollars a week now and 150 dollars a week in six
months.
Applicant: Thank
you! I'll drop back in six months.
THE FACTS OF
LIFE
Nothing in the known
universe travels faster than a bad check.
A truly wise man
never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
It has recently
been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
If you are given on open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Have
a good line or two that would put a smile on an Ape Face? Check
out MacMonkies' Submission Policy
and drop us a line!
Odds and Ends
Things That Make
A Gorilla Go HUHHH???
- R.
Westby
If an experiment
works, are you using the wrong equipment?
If at first you
don't succeed, can you blame it on your supervisor?
If you are asked
to join a parade, should you march behind the elephants?
Perhaps, some circumstantial
evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Is bureaucracy a
method for transforming energy into solid waste?
Do we boldly go
forward because we cannot find reverse?
Is anyone who makes
an absolute statement a absolute fool?
And Remember . .
. The more things change, the more they stay insane.
Big
Shots
The big shots are
only the little shots who keep shooting.
- Christopher
Morley
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