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January 7, 2002

Macworld Expo - MacMonkies watched the Keynote Address live via QuickTime. The hilites include:

Adobe shows off Photoshop for OSX

Palm demonstrates its integration with OSX. Beta Palm Desktop 4.0 for Mac is available at http://www.palm.com/macintosh

Lucas Films demonstrates Maya on OSX

Steve Jobs announces OSX will be default OS on all Macs effective today

Steve Jobs shows off iMovie, iDVD, and iTunes.

iPhoto is introduced

New Ad shown -- "Baby Jack"

New 14" iBook introduced

New flat panel iMac introduced -- 700MHz to 800 MHz. Starting at $1299

DVD-Rs now $5 each

 

It's a Mac Thing - Rampant Mac updates with a new MOSS titled "New MOSS no.9" and features orange glass and subtle textures along with a big "9" to signify that you're running some version of OS 9. Grab your copy while they're hot! Lennon would have a heyday with that one! =)

January 6, 2002

Now Playing! - It's Here! For all you weekend warrior monkies, today is the official unofficial opening of MacMonkies Music/Audio Department! Our first installment is our MIDI Music section with all-original songs by Bradford J. Wiles. Hurry over and give 'em a listen!

Note: There are several pages to update with the new links. Please Monkie with us as we chain things up! =)

 

January 5, 2002

Who Let the Dogs Out? - As promised and right on schedule, The Doghouse has be reopened and has a brand new look! Take a peek!

Hot Stuff! - Check out these hot new additions to web:

HotApp - The Team at TrufSoft has informed MacMonkies that HotApp for OSX is ready for prime time with version 1.0. Get your copy HERE.

Hot Links! - Lookin' for Mmmmmmore hot links for your surfin' safari? Michele Bugliaro of Mikawares has added new links ripe for the pickin'! Check 'em out!

January 4, 2002

Cool Fruit! - Fruit Menu is now a Pane in the Prefs! The newest version of Fruit Menu from the good folks at Unsanity is now a pane in the System Preferences. Cool Banana's!

 

January 3, 2002

New Theme! - XThemination has a brand new OSX theme just in time for a brand new year: SimpleX 1.0. Check it out!

January 2, 2002

MonkieNews! - Busy, busy, busy! Bunches of stuffezz is happening! Let's jump right to it!

• And the Winners Are... - Our Crazy Coconuts Holiday DVD Giveaway had an amazing turnout! Thanks to everyone who participated. And the winners are:

James Lennon wins a new Philips DVD/CD Player and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" on DVD

Tobbias of Morton Illinois wins "The Family Man" on DVD

Congratulations!

• New Home for MacMonkies - It's official! Everything has been modified and moved to our new server! www.macmonkies.com is now our permanent URL. Please keep this handy as we will soon be discontinuing updates at our mac.com (http://homepage.mac.com/macmonkies) and our Topcities (http://macmonkies.topcities.com) address. Thanks for all your support and your patience!
  
  
• Just Around the Corner - Any day now our Audio/Music Department will receive its first installment! Stay TUNED!
  
  
• New in the Gallery! - Gads! Do we have gobs of GUI for you to gander!

Thrilling 3D - Heading up our 3-D Department is an excellent submission from artist Ed Allen of EA design titled "Unity." Awesome work, Ed!

Also in the 3-D Area is Andy Moraitis' Be Different. We can certainly relate with this fine piece of work from Mr. Moraitis!

Next up are two more from the Monkie Man himself: Bush Monkie and Heaven and Earth.

Naturally Desktop! - Also new to the Gallery is On Target in the Desktop Section and In the Depths in our Nature Department.

A special thanks go out to Andy and Ed for their brilliant submissions!

Monkie Man of the Year

MacMonkies finds it important to recognize those who truly "Make the Difference" by contributing to the web community and even the rest of society in a positive manner. In this day of diversity, it was not an easy task to choose but a single person. As a matter of fact, there were two candidates that virtually tied. However, if it hadn't been for the winner, I would not have met the other candidate. Thus, the Banana scales were tipped and we have a winner:

Mr. Scott Chitwood

Scott is widely known for his ever popular site Rampant Mac. He is an exceptional artist with an expertise in creating icons and 3-D desktops for computers. Though Scott has been employed in graphics arts since April of 1981, he has only been doing what we enjoy so much for a little over 3 years!

Mr. Chitwood's amazing artwork certainly makes him shine as an outstanding member of our community. However, perhaps more important is the person behind the pixels. From the very first correspondence with Scott I found a very real human being who has a genuine concern for others. I was never treated like a "number." This was and still is so refreshing in a world that lacks so much "personal interface!" I guess that's called the human touch.

There is so much more, but when all is said and done, Scott Chitwood certainly fits the ticket of the Monkie Man of the Year! To put it in a Coconut shell, Scott is Darn Spiffy! Thanks Scott!

 

Now, for the sake of all you who are into the practice of being "politically correct," the person we chose to honor as the most respected web dude (or dudette if Scott were named Patricia or something), just so happens to be a man! So, it is rather fitting to name him Monkie Man of the Year. Ya dig? =)

 

Looking Good! - Scott Chitwood of Rampant Mac certainly has a way of making your Mac look good. He currently has a brand new set of icons for OS X named Aquaricons. All 33 glassy images look real good in OS 8.5 - 9.x. Grab your GUI goodie bag and head over to Rampant Mac!

Nu Gu 4 Yu! - Eye9design Webwasher, Patrick O'Kelly, brings us an amazing new Kaleidoscope Scheme: MecuryLens. This fantastic new GUI is sure to get your Mac smilin' ear-to-ear! Check it out!

New at the Doghouse - Starting January 5, 2002, Michael Rabe's Doghouse Online will be sporting a new look. Don't forget to let your eyes wander over and take a look!

Get a Real Job(s)?! - Apple's CEO Steve Jobs made a mind boggling "big bucks" salary of $1 this year. This is the same amount he has made for the last two years. The real treasures were given to various other top Apple executives, who faired nearly as well as last year. The top executives were also offered one million shares in Apple. You can rest assured that though Jobs took home a mere dollar this year, he definitely did not go without. He already holds over 20 million shares in Apple (5.7 percent of the company), and Apple purchased a $90 million jet for Jobs in 1999 as a bonus. Though Apple's sales dropped some after introducing the Cube, things have picked up with the release of Mac OSX and sales of the Titanium Powerbook. - from Yahoo

Santa, You Da Man! - Santa Claus and twenty-year-old Jonathan Danzey were seen in a fight earlier this week at a fast food restaurant 100 miles south of St. Petersburg, Florida. Danzey, reportedly intoxicated, saw Santa in a convertible and began talking to him. Upon discovering that Santa had no presents for him, he hit Santa. "I was in a bad mood," he said. Santa, who left the scene before authorities arrived, fought back and faired well. As one eye-witness was quoted as saying, "Santa Claus whipped his butt." - from CNews

Who's That Girl? - Does this lovely face look familiar? Just can't put your finger on it? How about a hint: Does "going blonde" jar your memory any? Apparently some are so determined to "have more fun" that they are willing to make the "switch." Jennifer Aniston has had many looks, but this is the "real" her. After joining the "Friends" cast, her then hair stylist Chris McMillan, said he 'simply "chopped off'" Aniston's wavy hair to achieve the look.' Aniston has certainly "achieved" a great deal since her "change of face," but sometimes there's nothin' better than the real thing. CLICK HERE for larger images. - from InStyle.com

Highway to... - Toronto, Canada is looking to technology to help with their problem of salting the roads during inclement weather. They have found that "five million tons of salt sprayed on Canadian roads each year can kill fish by seeping into water, birds and roadside plants." So they want to install hockey puck-like devices in the pavement which will send data on road conditions to central computers. From the data received, they can decide more efficiently when and where to use salt on the roads. City staff hopes this will "reduce the amount of salt used on Toronto roads by between 10 percent to 25 percent over the next few years." - from Yahoo

Unwrapped Around Your Finger - Seventy-year-old Helen Swisshelm received a very special Christmas gift this year. Upon opening a black velvet box, she discovered a long lost treasure: a class ring made of gold and onyx that she had lost at 17 years of age while swimming in the Hudson River. A man from New York, Ken Rohling, who found the ring with a metal detector, noticed the initials on the ring and contacted the alumni association. Swisshelm commented that the ring "looked like the day I first...received it." Sounds a bit like a "dead ringer to me!" - from CNews

Throwin' Your Weight Around! - Forty-year-old Deborah Dale bet bookmaker William Hill that she could drop her weight from 434 lbs to 266 lbs last year. The results? Now she weighs 252 lbs! The bet she placed was for $72 at odds of 20-1. So, after the doctor confirms her weight loss, Deborah is expecting to relieve $1,500 on New Year's Day. Hill said they regularly take bets for weight loss, and Dale participated out of fear for her health after her husband had a heart attack. She faithfully followed a 1,500 calorie-a-day diet. - from Excite

Trippin' Billies - A family in Princeton. B.C. was celebrating Christmas in their cabin when they had an unusual scare. A 54-year-old family member went to the outhouse and didn't return. Police were called at 12:30am and the woman was found at 4:30am sleeping in a snowbank, 7 hours after she began her trip to the outhouse. The woman was in good health despite the minus ten temperatures, but it is unknown whether she ever made it to the outhouse. Who got the hooch?! - from CNews

A Bit More Insight - Insight Communications, the "Cable Operator of the Year" (by The Bandies), has started offering more goodies to their digital cable package in hopes to keep customers from switching to satellite services. Satellite is appealing to more people simply because of all the channels you can get, but now Insight offers a few more options. One of them is called "video on demand." This feature allows viewers to choose a movie to watch off a bank of movies that are stored on cable operator's servers. Another feature is the interactive community guide, which allows viewers to see local news, weather,etc. at any time with just a click of the remote. According to Phillip Swann, president and publisher of TVPredictions.com, "The new battleground between cable and satellite is shifting to interactive services." The more interactive services that cable companies can provide for their customers, the better. - from Wired

Back to the Basics - Tony Balistreri decided that the most romantic place to propose to his girlfriend, Rita Malnory, would be to take her back to the place where they met - Kindergarten. He arranged for a tour of their old grade school ending up in their old Kindergarten room. There he got on his knees and proposed. After she said "yes", the principal of the school got on the loudspeaker and invited everyone to the Kindergarten room to celebrate. Among the group was a special visitor - the couple's former Kindergarten teacher. Is stuff like that allowed in Kindergarten? - from CNews

 

Have you Heard?

Flaming Pear - Flaming Pear has released a batch of new and updated plug-ins for Photoshop-compatible paint programs. Here's what's new and updated:

• Mr. Contrast - Contrast, tone, and detail effects for black-and-white photos.
  
  
• LunarCell 1.3 - Now with new higher-resolution clouds from weather satellites.
  
  
• Flexify 1.4 - Three new projections including an origami balloon figure.
  
  
• India Ink 1.7 - New 'poster tone' style, undo, and previews in the preset browser.
  
  
• BladePro Extra Textures 8 - Free texture pack depicting Victorian ironwork.
  
  
• Freebies 1.4 - Now with Solidify, RGB/HSL color conversion, TransLine & TransTone, Anaglyph Flip.

 

Shhh! Be Verwy, Verwy Quiet - The buzz is (not so) unusually quiet as Apple rumors tend to hush with the Macworld Expo just around the corner. We will let you know what we hear as soon as the humming bird starts flappin'! Got a buzz word or two about new Mac products and activities? Let us know!

 

Have some inside information on upcoming events? Review our Submission Policy and drop us a line!

 

Check 'em Out!

Goods to Go With OSX - One of the coolest things about the Mac platform is the cool software and the ability to to customize your Mac! With OSX, Apple's new state-of-the-art Operating System, cool stuff is coming out all the time! Check out just a few of the more recent apps and hax!

SNAX - Finder replacement for OS X

OmniWeb - Popular web browser

FruitMenu - Haxie to customize and enhance the Apple Menu

Classic? - Visually indicates Classic's state in the Dock

G-Force - Visual plugin for iTunes, SoundJam, Audion, Echo

TinkerTool - Adds functionality & options to many OS X features

FontExampler - Generates list of font examples

Want more? Check out Apple's OSX Download section and Stimpsoft!

Check 'em Out!

 

Just Plain Nutz!

ERROR!

There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.

When asked to define great, he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!"

He now works for Microsoft writing error messages.

GOIN' BLONDE!

A blonde and a brunette are walking down the street when the brunette says, "Look, a dead bird!" So the blonde looks up!

INDEX OF PAIN

A blonde told her doctor that she was really worried because every part of her body hurt. The doctor looked concerned and said, "Show me where." The blonde touched her own arm and screamed, "Ouch!" Then she touched her leg and screamed, "Ouch!" She touched her nose and cried, "Ouch!" She looked at her doctor and said, "See? It hurts everywhere!" The doctor laughed and said, "Don't worry; it's not serious. You've just got a broken index finger."

HERE'S YOU SIGN!

Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I SWEAR he said, "Tire go flat?" I couldn't resist. Said, "Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign."

SURVEY SAYS...

Recent surveys indicate 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.

HALFWAY THERE

Two Canadians, Mike and Rob, were on the roof laying tile, when a sudden gust of wind came and knocked down their ladder.

"I have an idea," said Mike. "We'll throw you down, and then you can pick up the ladder."

"What, do you think I'm stupid? I have an idea. I'll shine my flashlight, and you can climb down on the beam of light."

"What, do you think I'm stupid? You'll just turn off the flashlight when I'm halfway there."

 

 

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Odds and Ends

LEADER OF THE PACK

If you want to be a leader with a rather large following, simply obey the speed limit on a two-lane winding road!

 

IN TIMES OF CRISIS!

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

- Henry Kissinger

 

LONG LIFE

The more you complain, the longer God let's you live!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            
 the Bottom Line

            
(What more did you expect?! )

"Independent analysis" by DH Brown is going to rip Linux a new one on behalf of Windows

U.S. funeral homes offer free burial service to drunk drivers
Hmm...Don't think and drink!

Terrorism has no effect on PC buying
Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'!

Visual plugin for iTunes, SoundJam, Audion, Echo

CD/DVD labeling software

Open documents with customized apps from contextual menu

Local IP address mapping tool

Forward email from Hotmail or POP accounts

Music notation identification practice

January virus definitions for both Norton & Virex are available for download.

Visual plugin for iTunes, SoundJam, Audion, Echo

Action game

Screensaver module

Finder replacement for OS X

Preference pane/app that lets you share any directory

Simple tool to change a few hidden OS X options

Visually indicates Classic's state in the Dock

Poor mans virus scanner for CommuniGatePro

Tool to reveal all hidden files and folders in the Finder

Local IP address mapping tool

Lets text be dragged to a global window for pasting into any app

Haxie to customize and enhance the Apple Menu

Music notation identification practice

Font viewer

Automatic backup and synchronization utility

Icon creation tool

Menu bar volume controller, does not appear in the dock

Menu bar clock and calendar

Handles complex number math

Screen saver: wandering spotlight over images

CMM list all apps that can open a file

Image browser, viewer, converter tools, slide show

Pasteboard buffer: store up to 20 items on the clipboard

Changes Desktop picture at specified intervals

Popular Web browser