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October
15, 2002
EARLY
BIRD GUI SPECIAL
9:16
pm MDT
New Desktops
and Icons!
- Come and get it! Time for all you early bird GUI addicts to
get your fix of new Desktops and Icons. Hanging out in the Gallery are 8 great new Desktops
for your desktop's delight. And on Page
19 and Page 20 of the Icon
Department are 5 cool icon collections for all your pixel
pleasures. Get your mouse a clickin' and grab your GUI snacks
while they're still a sizzlin'!
REALmac Software - The folks at REALmac
Software have let us know that they are currently developing
some great software to enhance Apple's Address Book. REALmac
Software are the makers of great Mac apps such as AudioX,
Button Builder extreme, NavBar Builder, and more.
For more details on their up-and-coming software, stay tuned
to their website!
 Monkie Stuff! - Be sure to stop back
tomorrow as we bring you another great batch of Destops and Icons.
This week's edition features work from EA
Design, Happicon,
Nitehawk Jarrett,
Xiupe Créations, and
many more! And if you're already twitchin' for your GUI fix,
check back later this evening for the Early Bird Edition. See
you then!
October
14, 2002
DV Graphics - The popular Iconize
Me! service from DV
Graphics just got better!  In addition to the having
yourself made into a caricatured icon, you can now choose from
2 new packages : Iconize Me! Plus and Iconize Me! Premium.
Iconize Me! Plus includes a 300 DPI JPEG of your icon while Iconize
Me! Premium includes a full-sized Photoshop (PSD) document of
your icon along with a "sky's the limit" usage license.
Check out all the details at Iconize
Me!
 widget : widget
- Mr. Alexander MacLean of widget
: widget has added another tasty preview of his up-and-coming
Mac hardware set titled Magnum Opus Preview 2. This fine
set of four is ready and waiting to please your pixel happy eyes.
Get yourself over to widget
: widget and grab your copy today!
Best of the Mac
Web Survey!
- It's that time again. Time for the Best
of the Mac Web Survey, a chance for you to vote for all
of your favorite Mac sites! This time out, Low
End Mac has combined the Best of and the Rest of
to include 100 of your favorite Mac sites. We at MacMonkies are
honored to once again be included in this survey. If you enjoy
what we have to offer here at MacMonkies, we would appreciate
your vote. Make your way over to the Best
of the Mac Web Survey and check it out!
October
13, 2002
Smirk of the
Day:
Knot What You Think - A string walks into a bar with a few
friends and  orders a beer. The bartender says, "I'm
sorry, but we don't serve strings here." The string walked
away and sat down with his friends.
A few minutes later
he walked back up to the bar and ordered a beer. The bartender,
looking a little exasperated, says, "I'm sorry, we don't
serve strings here." So the string goes back to his table.
Then he gets an
idea. He ties himself in a loop and messes up the top of his
hair. Then he walks back up to the bar. His friends think that
he's crazy. So, he orders a beer. The bartender squints at him
and says, "Hey, aren't you a string?" And the string
says, "Nope, I'm a frayed knot."
October
12, 2002
Software Updates - Be sure to check out
all the latest additions to our software Updates section,
now updated daily. Several of your favorite apps have been added
and can be found in the column to the right under Updates.
Check 'em out!
 Monkie Business: Don't Know UFO
- If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does
Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented
on July 16,1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any
contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
October 11, 2002
TNT:
DYN-O-MITE TIPS AND TRICKS by Paul
Sahner
 iCommand
YOU! - Today
I continue to add to The (in)Complete Guide to OS X Key Commands.
In this installment I'll cover two popular iApps: iChat and
iTunes 3. Continued...
Mandolux - It's time for the weekly
summary of new desktop additions this week at Mandolux:
Mandolux
has issued sixteen new desktops: three Giant Petals (nature),
one Fiery (chimney), two Halloween reissues (skulls/flames/disturbing),
five SR-71 Blackbirds (aerospace), and five Cathay Pacific (aerospace/airline)
desktops.
If you're looking
for some great pics to spruce up your desktop, make your way
over to Mandolux and check
out all the latest!
 Labels
X 1.0 -
Yee Haw! Labels are back! Unsanity
LLC has announced the immediate availability of Labels
X 1.0. With this great haxie, you can add the file labeling
features that were available previous to OSX. This means, you
can apply various color tints to file icons, and sort the files
by label. Additionally, Labels X shares file label information
with Mac OS 9, so no matter where you label your files, you will
see the labels in both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Best of all? It's
made by Unsanity! Check
it out!
The Iconfactory! - Spooky! The
Iconfactory has done up their site with this year's Halloween
makeover. They have also added some Halloween goodies to spook
you outta your monkie socks. Get yer tail over to The
Iconfactory and check out all of the spooktivities!
October
10, 2002
Xiupe Créations
- Have you
heard? S. Stéphane informed us that Switch'icons 2
is coming soon to the icon archives of Xiupe
Créations. Keep your eyes wide and your clickers in
hand and we'll keep you posted when those pixels go public!
TNT iCommands! - Be sure to swing by tomorrow
as we update with another edition of Paul Sahner's popular TNT: Dyn-o-mite Tips and Tricks. Paul will
be continuing his Key Commands series with some handy iCommands
-- a list of keyboard shortcuts for iChat and iTunes. Take control
of them keys with Friday's Edition of TNT!
Smirk of the
Day - All
those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand. 
October 9, 2002
At The Top
 Big Gig: 125
GHz Mac?
- An error has appeared on Apple's web site when viewed with
Windows browsers. For about a week there has been an alt-text
saying "Power Mac G4. All dual processors starting at just
US$1,699. Dual 125 GHz now shipping." Of course, the correct
number of Gigahertz is 1.25 for the top of the line G4 duel processor.
An html check verifies the typo, but the typo does not show up
in most Mac browsers. DARN!!!
- from The
Mac Observer
MacMonkies Updates
The Updates!
- Effective immediately, our Updates Section for great Software
titles will now be updated on a daily basis. All Previous Days'
Updates will remain on the page until the following week's edition.
We will also continue to do write-ups on selected software on
a regular basis. If you're a Software Developer and would like
us to post your update, simply drop us a line at updates@macmonkies.com
and we'll get you posted! Thanks!
Read More News On The Net
MonkieNews!
Icons
| Desktops | Monkie
Notes
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NEW!
MacMonkies
26th Icon Edition!
- Time to
break out this week's icons! A great way to get the pixels rolling
is by introducing Wati Larke of WatiWorks, our latest GUI contributor.
Ready for some cheer? Let's dive in!
 WatiWorks - Wati Larke adds bunches
of cheer to your desktop with Smileys!
This set of smiley faces is one of the many great selections
you'll find at the ever happy archives of WatiWorks!
miX the piX - The master of classic
Aqua icons, miX the piX's
Hein Mevissen, brings us another great set from his classy collections
with Hein's Home 7.0. No
matter how you look at 'em, they always come out cool!
 Xiupe
Créations -
Adding to the Switcher legacy is Switch'Icônes
from Xiupe Créations.
This fine set comes from the many talents of S. Stéphane.
Packaged in this set are 12 of your favorite Switcher personalities.
mac.axonz.com
- Wrappin'
up the pack is another installment from the tougher-than-steel
TTS2 series from mac.axonz.com
titled TriTanium Squared v2: Folderz.
Adrian "wOOge" Jean packs the pixel punch with this
mighty set of 23 superb icons.
Check
'em out!
NEW! 8 New Desktops
In The Gallery -
There's a Strange Fire on the Horizon of the Keyboard Circuit
On The Line of The Other Side Out of Sunny Side Up! Say HUH???!
Let's take a look at this week's awesome selection of desktops
and you'll get the picture!
Desktop Delight!
- Adding
success to the cheerful side of your Mac is Sunny
Side Up, yet another great work from the bright galleries
of WatiWorks. No doubt
about it. Your desktop will be plenty happy when it lays its
eyes on this great work by Wati Larke
 Fire
up another strange brew with this awesome selection by Scott
Chitwood! Title it Strange
Fire and don't let those grubby little Monkie fingers
get burned by this hot number from Rampant
Mac.
Presenting proof
that there are still brave souls out there in the cyber world
is Keyboard Circuit
by Adam Dickson. This is one of the many photorealistic parts
pics from Adam's own hardware collection at Taking
Pictures. He's a guttsier man than I!
Finalizing the Bright
theme on this week's Desktop selections is a number from MacMonkies'
Brad Wiles titled Other Side
Out. Don't stare at this one too long as you might be
seeing spots from The Other Side!
3-D Delectables
- From the elegance
of Xiupe Créations
comes the most beautiful desktop creation titled Horizon.
This fine selection by S. Stéphane is truly a work of
art. Awesome!
 Bringing
us another desktop double shot is EA
Design's Alan Sherwood. Alan flexes his Bryce ingenuity with Lose
An Endless Longing
and Hollow
And Dirty. Both of these brilliant
works will mess with your head if you look too long. However,
they are certainly worth a closer look.
From the Monkie
man Mr. Wiles we dust off another 3-D selection from a previous
series with the work titled On The
Line. Perhaps a couple went OVER the line on this one!
BUNCHES
OF THANKS
To:
Adam,
Adrian, Alan
Hein, Scott, S. Stéphane,
and Wati -
Simply put,
You all are AWESOME!
THANK YOU!
Have
a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Monkie Notes - This week we've made
a couple of changes for your convenience. As we mentioned earlier,
the Software Updates section will be updated on a daily
basis. The Monkie News section has also received additional
navigation so you can jump to each category in a flash. In addition,
we will soon add an About the Staff page as well as an
updated Contact page. Other new stuff is in the works,
so keep your eyes wide and your bananas peeled!
Featured Link - Time to check out this
week's Featured Link: WatiWorks.
And as with Monkie Tradition, we've added this great site to
our Links Page. Check it out!
Community
News
Why The Mac Is
So Great -
Settling
Aqua is the latest desktop release from Why
the Mac is so great.com! These waves of Aqua are just settling...
why don't you settle down with this cool desktop. Is that a hint
or what?! Take a trip to WTMISG
and grab your copy of this Aqua cool desktop.
RAILhead Design
- Mr. Maury
McCown has added another artistic selection to his desktop collections
of RAILhead Design.
Painted Stars is now available in several resolutions
and will add plenty of class to your desktop's design. Swing
by RAILhead Design
and grab a look!
Mandolux - Three new Cathay Pacific
desktops have been released at Mandolux.
Another Beauty Shot, Everett's 34L-16R, and Lost
Hills are all ready for take off. Fly by Mandolux
and check 'em out!
The Iconfactory
- The folks
at The Iconfactory
are still conducting an employment search for some top notch
pixel pushing talent. They are looking for an icon artist at
their Greensboro, NC office with a degree in design and/or illustration.
If you want to work for a great company that creates work for
some of the best known software developers in the world, stop
by The Iconfactory
and check out the details.
DV Graphics - The king of the Switchers
icon creations, Mr. Paul DVG Sahner, seems to be up to some new
switching as the tiniest of blurbs makes its way out of the mouth
of DV Graphics. "Coming
Soon: Switchers NEVERENDING" would be the phrase to
get your attention. Keep your bananas peeled for some cool new
pixels over at DVG!
Check
'em Out!
Send
us your news: press@macmonkies.com
News On The
Net...
 Moving MacExpo -
After much negotiating, it has been decided that MacExpo 2004
will be held in Boston instead of New York. The Expo hasn't been
held in Boston since 1997. The city expects to gain over 64,000
visitors and over $42 million through the Expo. A press release
will be held October 17 for the official announcement by Greco
and IDG. - from
Business
Today and MacMinute
Women Wanted: Win An iMac -  The Macintosh Business Unit
(MacBU) of Microsoft is looking for a successful woman to crown
as Ms. M.o.X.i.e. (Microsoft Office v. X Integrated Experience.)
Microsoft wants to honor a woman because women are "starting
businesses at twice the rate of men." Women will be considered
based on essays submitted by November 4, 2002. The winner will
receive $10,000 in cash and a new iMac. More details can be found
here.
- from
MacCentral
High Speed Energy Handshakes - Research by the Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone Corp. of Japan has confirmed that the
electricity running through the human body can be used to run
wireless products. Soon we may be able to exchange "telephone
numbers, e-mail addresses and other information by just shaking
hands." Electricity can be conducted through the human body
at "broadband speeds," and we may even be able to communicate
with machines using that energy in the future.- from Excite
 iPod
With Wheels - BMW is offering a 5 GHz Apple iPod with purchases
of  their
"all-new F 650 CS." They offer the chance to listen
to "1000 of your favorite tunes" by throwing in the
iPod and "the F 650 CS speaker system" with each purchase
of an F 650 CS motorcycle. The offer is only good for a limited
time and details can be found at BMWF650CS.com.
-
from MacMinute
 Let
The Good Tunes Roll - A Tokyo toy company is developing a
toy car that has a digital music player in it. The cars, made
by Takara, will have a slot in the rears for the memory cards.
The toy cars are similar to Matchbox cars and will be called
"MChoroQ." They come out in March and will cost $165.
Takara also plans to put digital music players into toy puppies." - from Yahoo
Have you Heard?
Animate Jaguar
With IconBuilder Pro
- With the ability to have (at least partial) animated icons
in Mac OSX Jaguar, The
Iconfactory has announced plans to include support for the
creation of the new "Open Drop" state in the next revision
of IconBuilder
Pro. This filter for Photoshop assists artists to make icons
for the Mac and Windows platform. The up-and-coming version will
allow the ability to create and test your very own animated icons.
A release date has not yet been mentioned, but they promise it
will be cool! Keep your Bananas peeled and we'll keep you posted!
Have
some inside information on upcoming events? Review our Submission
Policy and drop us a line!
Check 'em
Out!
Back Soon!
Check
it out!
Just Plain
Nutz!
BUGS!!
If debugging is
the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process
of putting them in.
COLLECTING THE
RENT
Neurotics build
castles in the sky.
Psychotics live
in them.
Psychiatrists collect
the rent.
PROGRAMMERS GUIDE
The programmer to
his son: "Here, I brought you a new basketball."
"Thank you,
daddy, but where is the user's guide?"
DON'T GET FRESH!
A State Trooper
pulls a car over on a lonely back road and approaches the blonde
lady driver.
"Ma'am, is
there a reason that you're weaving all over the road"?
The woman replied,
"Oh officer, thank goodness you're here. I almost had an
accident! I looked up and there was a tree right in front of
me. I swerved to the left and there was another tree in front
of me. I swerved to the right and there was another tree in front
of me!"
Reaching through
the side window to the rear view mirror, the officer replied,
"Ma'am...that's your air freshener.
TOO MUCH WORK
Two confirmed bachelors
sat talking, their conversation drifted from politics to cooking.
"I got a cookbook
once," said one, "but I could never do anything with
it."
"Too much fancy
work in it, eh?" asked the other.
"You said it.
Every one of the recipes began the same way -- 'Take a clean
dish...'"
ATTENTION!
Who is General Failure
and why is he reading my hard disk?
CHESS NUTS
A group of chess
enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby
discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an
hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse.
"But why?" they asked, as they moved off.
"Because,"
he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
SCHOOL DAZE
Early one morning,
a mother went in to wake up her son.
"Wake up, son.
It's time to go to school!"
"But why, Mom?
I don't want to go."
"Give me two
reasons why you don't want to go."
"Well, the
kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!"
"Oh, that's
no reason not to go to school. Come on now and get ready."
"Give me two
reasons why I should go to school."
"Well, for
one, you're 52 years old. And for another, you're the Principal!"
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
Why is it that when
programming errors, which would normally require one day to find,
will take five days when the programmer is in a hurry?
Is progress made
by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things?
If you are given
two contradictory orders, should you obey them both?
If you are running
for a short line, why does it suddenly become a long line?
If you can smile
when things go wrong, do you have someone to blame?
If you were worried
about being crazy, don't be overly concerned. If you were crazy,
you would think you were sane.
What if there were
no hypothetical questions?
AND REMEMBER . .
. If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind people and
pinching them is probably a joke that gets old real fast.
Making
Yourself
Life isn't about
finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard
Shaw
Make
The Difference
In golf as in life
it is the follow through that makes the difference.
- Anon
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