February 23, 2003

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Just Do It! - If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

- James A. Michener

CandyBar: The best taste in town! Get it HERE!

Out Of Mind - Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most! And here I thought you had to have one first to lose it!

True Love - If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was yours. If it doesn't, hunt it down and kill it!!!

February 22, 2003

Community News | Monkie Business

Community News

Rampant Mac - Good GUI Miss...hmmm, what rhymes with that? Well, while I'm a thinkin', your eyes need informed about the cool new stuff at Rampant Mac! Yes yes! The Rampant 1 has updated with 4 new pics and added some old timers to make for new pizzazz! You get all of the taste of a White Castle burger, but you won't have the...I better go back to thinkin' about that rhyme. You head to Rampant Mac!

Live Pencil! - Even more fun is hittin' the net waves this weekend as Live Pencil stocks up on the cheer! Check out these new additions:

• LIVE ANIMALS: Week after week you'll see the SINGING ANIMALS from your 2002 Advent Calendar. Today the pig.
• BARS: To place on your e-mails or on your personal web site. Basketball !!!
• EMOTICONS: MORE, FUN SMILIES !!!!!!!!! I am showing some of the emoticons you may find in Incredimail. Many more yet to come!
• IT IS YOU: - Colleen from Dallas Texas. Don't miss this funny caricature!!!!
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week.... Are you looking for them? Come on, don't be lazy.

There's ton's of ways to boost your cheer with the endless list of enjoyment at Live Pencil! Move that mouse and check 'em out!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Monkie Ramble Amble - I recently got a new electric shaver and was browsing through the "Operations Manual" for features, tips, etc. I stumbled across a statement that said something to the effect of:

Please wait one hour after waking up before using razor.

Say WHUH??? Is this to ensure my whiskers are wide awake and standing to attention before they get mowed down? Sheesh! Just when you think you'd seen it all!

Busted Move - Did ya know...Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. For some reason, that doesn't shock me much.

February 21, 2003

Icons | Community News | Bananas

At The Top - What time would it be? Must be the hour where we GUI heads welcome the weekend with new eye-appealing icons and all kinds of fun! And we all know that the Monkie has the gift of yack. So, we'll lock him in the back and get down to business. Lezzzz go!

New GOO!

New Icons - Woo hoo! We have 3 new Icon Sets on display ready to make your eyes drool. This week we introduce the first iContainer compatible set for CandyBar. And, if you want us to display your Icon work, simply drop us a line! Now let's get to the goodies.

RAD.E8 - Great gobs of GOO! SNOW.E 2 Graphite Edition is here! This reworked version of SNOW.E 2 from RAD.E8's Sascha Höhne is available for the iContainer feature of CandyBar 1.5 only. If you really want to make your Mac shine, this set is just what the doctor ordered!

 

cukr7 productions - Revving up the icon engines a bit more is C7 Starships from cukr7 productions. James Cukr will have your desktop ready to rip up the galaxy with this great set of Star Wars™ icons. It's easy to see that James enjoys his work, as will you!

 

miX the piX - Another galactic set of icons comes to us from master mixer Hein Mevissen of miX the piX. Hein gives your Mac a Trekky blast with StarTrek OS. Once your eyes get a load of this cool set, you won't want Scotty to beam you anywhere but your computer chair. Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Sascha, James, and Hein...

It is such a pleasure to have the finest work under one roof!

THANKS!!!!

Community News

Mandolux - Just released from Mandolux is a new Bonzai/Taran desktop
titled Dai. WOW! In addition, if you didn't catch this week's previous work, here's the weekly recap:

Mandolux has issued five new desktops: one Vector-based (Techno/Survivor), three Giant Petals (Nature/Rose), and one Bonzai/Taran (Nature/Japanese Garden) desktop.

You don't need to take our word for good quality work. Let your eye's be the judge as they make their way to Mandolux. Check 'em out!

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Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

THINK!

Alarms: What an octopus is.

Dockyard: A physician's garden.

Incongruous: Where bills are passed.

JUST THREE 2 MUCH

A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Branch Manager were on their way to a meeting. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?

"I know," said the Branch Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."

"No, no," said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."

"Well," said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."

NOTHING MORE THAN FELINES

When I yelled at my cat, I think I hurt her felines.

February 20, 2003

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Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons! - Ready for some great GUI goodies to come your direction? Our Friday Icon Edition will feature some great icon work from RAD.E8's Sascha Höhne, Hein Mevissen of miX the piX, and James Cukr of cukr7 productions. Mmmm, mmmm! I can taste them already!! All this goodness and more for our weekly Icon Edition this Friday at MacMonkies!

Community News

Pixelpalooza 2003 Entries - The Nosey Monkie (that would be me) went snooping around The Iconfactory to check out the latest entries for the 2003 Pixelpalooza Icon Design Contest ...WHOA! There's some fantastic new entries that have plopped in since we last laid eyes on those cool collections. Rather than list the latest and possibly show our prejudice, you should get a gander for yourself. Just say Pixelpalooza Please and get to clickin'!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Mobile .Mac E-mail - Until now, .Mac users have not been able to check e-mail using their mobile phones. But a new service is available to .Mac users that will allow them to check .Mac e-mail on "most Internet capable mobile and PCS phones, and wireless PDAs." WAP Mac offers this service of checking e-mail for free. If users want to respond to e-mails or write new e-mails, however, a one-time $15 fee is requested to cover bandwidth costs. - from MacCentral

Fab Four Fans Get More - Paul McCartney announced a new world tour yesterday called the "Back in the World" tour. At least seven dates in April have been scheduled. Also announced was the release of an hour-long DVD featuring McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr playing together in a jam session at Harrison's studios in 1994. Beatles members play early Beatles songs on the DVD, which is to be released at the end of March. They love us yeah, yeah yeah! - from Excite

February 19, 2003

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Though a certain Monkie hasn't had a whole lotta time to delve into the desktop dimensions of 3 (hint hint), there seems to be no shortage of great work from artists around the web. Keep those Submissions coming and we'll get on the Monkie and see about some new work from the Monkie Master himself. Till then, let's dig in!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Dude! Another fine selection of 6 desktop works have come your way from the net's finest! And as we mentioned yesterday, we will be posting the works of Michele Bugliaro in the absence of his corner of the web. Also, we apologize to Mr. Steve Sharp for the lack of mention for his fine work that you will see in this Edition. Okay. Are we ready? Lezzzzz go!

Desktops - From Sir Steve Sharp we have a piece that most of us wish we had more of on hand in our household: Mr. Money. This outstanding selection is another fine example of Steve's abilities utilizing his collection of Bots.

 

ETC... - From the archives of Michele Bugliaro (former webmaster of Mikawares) comes Stray, a piece that will surely rock your socks off! The rockabilly band of the eighties features vocalist/guitarist Brian Setzer. Perhaps underrated in the music biz, Setzer's work stands up to the best. Blaze on, Brian!

 

3 D - Stepping up our 3-D Department is Rising from Bob Wiley. This great selection is Bob's "opposition" to his previous submission titled Falling. It may sound like an elevator around here, but Bob's work is certainly on the rise!

On another turn, we present to you the stylistic simplicity of Jack Juliussen with Spiraluz. Jack's work always adds that extra touch of class without adding clutter to your desktop. This piece is no exception to the quality Jack has to offer from the galleries of Prevision.

Master of Madness Scott Chitwood gets real heavy as we haul out a Rampant Mac classic titled Phat Mac. Just the name of this desktop "tune" brings quite the picture to one's imagination...Like a Lazy Boy recliner in front of a stack of Apple computers and...well, you get the picture.

Our final selection for this week's Wednesday Desktop Edition comes to us from Rob Randtoul, master mind behind the wonderful works of PlasmaDesign. Just like the temperatures here in Wyoming at times, Rob renders SubZero, a cooool piece that will keep you chillin'! Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Scott, Rob, Jack, Bob, Steve, and Michele...

Sheesh! Does it get any better than this?!

THANKS!!!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

Eye9design - With the recent release of Konfabulator, the Chef at Eye9design was so pleased with the Recipe Widget he made that he had to have a suitable plate to serve the new Widget on. So, he got with the girls in the mud room and had them whip up a special special "plate" to serve it on - Widggie Desktop. When it comes to serving up Widgets on this new desktop, nothing else will do! Hurry over to Eye9design and grab this tasty treat!

TERRA Dreams - Looking for just the right landscape to fall into? Several beautiful new works have been added to the wonderful collections of TERRA Dreams. These works are so pleasing to the eyes that there is only one way to enjoy them to the fullest: Get yourself over to TERRA Dreams and let your eyes gaze in amazement. GO!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On The Net

Path Finder 2.1 - The folks from CocoaTech and YazSoft have announced the immediate availability of Path Finder 2.1. This great app is a Finder replacement that is "the most powerful, most complete Finder ever written for Mac OS X."  Path Finder packs tons of additional must-have features not found anywhere else. It's the Finder on steroids! Plus, if you're into hacking your Mac, you can even replace Apple's Finder with Path Finder as your default finder. For all the details on this great app, swing over to CocoaTech today!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

JUST WHAT THE DR. ORDERS

Patient: Doctor, what I need is something to stir me up; something to put me in a fighting mood. Did you put something like that in this prescription?

Doctor: No need for that. You will find that in your bill.

THE GAME

A dentist, after completing work on a patient, came to him begging.

Dentist: Could you help me? Could you give out a few of your loudest, most painful screams?

Patient: Why? Doctor, it wasn't all that bad this time.

Dentist: There are so many people in the waiting room right now, and I don't want to miss the four o'clock ball game.

February 18, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Making the rounds for your fix of mid week madness is our weekly Wednesday Desktop Edition. This week's works include selections from Bob Wiley, Michele Bugliaro, Rob Randtoul, Scott Chitwood, Jack Juliussen, and maybe even some more! There's always an eyeful each Wednesday here at MacMonkies!

Community News

The Iconfactory - All kinds of cool stuff keeps The Iconfactory cooler than ever! To make your pixel experience even more pleasing, The Factory has re-designed their Showroom to focus on those 128x128 Mac OS X monster icons you've come to know and love. They have also added links for their new CandyBar iContainers (where they apply) and increased support for their PC visitors by providing direct Windows links right in the Showroom. Add to that some new links in The DeskBase and you've got a TON of fun waiting for you at The Iconfactory! Get to clickin'!

Mikawares - Due to lack of time and those pesky pop-up ads, Michele Bugliaro has sadly decided to close the doors of Mikawares...sigh.

On a happier note, however, we at MacMonkies will be plastering Michele's fine desktops in our own Galleries for your viewing pleasure! Yee Haw! We just want to say thanks to Michele for maintaining his site while he did and also for offering us the privilege of posting his work. So, to you Michele -- CHEERS!

miX the piX - Some great new icon sets have come from the creative mind of miX the piX. Mr. Hein Mevissen has released a couple of sure-to-be favorites with Server Icons and Star Trek OS. Beam yourself over to miX the piX and grab a load of these great new sets!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

A Case and the Odd Couple - Apple CEO Steve Jobs will join Bill Gates and Steve Case for a day of casual interviews at the " D: All Things Digital" conference May 27-29, 2003. The conference focusing "on the impact of digital technology," will be held in San Diego California and is hosted by The Wall Street Journal. Jobs will gather onstage with other participants in front of a limited 300-person audience to field questions from Wall Street columnists. SHEESH! - from Yahoo

Something Sounds Fishy - A 20-year-old woman spent her Valentines day in the emergency room last Friday. She kissed her boyfriend and "her throat swelled up and she had cramps and nausea." It turns out that her boyfriend had just eaten some shrimp, and she is severely allergic to shrimp. She went into shock and ended up in the emergency room, which saved her life. Just spiffy - from Excite

February 17, 2003

Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - We're Baaaaack! I guess someone doesn't know how to kick back for too long (that would be me)! Oh well. The Earth still spins and so does my dizzy little brain. Enough of the Monkie Ramble...Let's get this week a rollin'! Shall we?

Community News

burntcanvasdesign - Mr. Alan Sherwood of burntcanvasdesign updates with a whole load more work coming up from the D-Day beaches, some more black and white photos for a out of sync update. He couldn't resist giving you viewers something new to look at. With a surprise up his sleeve, these are very worth checking out at bcd. What? You're not there yet? GO!

Live Pencil - It's always great to start your week out with a smile and Live Pencil is just the place for your happy face! Just added to the fun is:

• LIVE ANIMALS: Week after week you'll see the SINGING
• ANIMALS from your 2002 Advent Calendar. Today the elephant.
• TICKLE ME : Now you may send your Photo and your face will be Tickled for this section. (Members only)
• EMOTICONS: MORE, FUN SMILIES !!!!!!!!! Don't miss the animated color crystal drops!  
  Desktop ICONS: More Smilies wearing GLASSES!!!
• IT IS YOU: - Ann from Sweden will see her pet cat in Magic. View here
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week....

Get down and get funky as you make your way to Live Pencil for some of the best GUI goods in town. On your marks, get set, CLICK!

Mandolux - Mando Gomez of Mandolux sends word of his latest desktop master creation, a Vector-based work titled Calma: Christy. The selection was inspired by a woman’s strength and determination to go forward where many have failed: Christy Smith. Make your way to Mandolux and grab a look at this great new pic!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On The Net

Voice Box 1.3 - The good folks over at REALmac Software have announced the release of Voicebox 1.3. Voicebox is a simple to use cocoa utility for Mac OS X users who wish to output the Mac's cool text to speech system into an audio file (aiff). The latest version includes several bug fixes, added options, has an updated manual, and more. Make a trip to REALmac Software and grab your copy of Voicebox 1.3.

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

WATCH YOUR TRUNK!

What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros?

Elephino!

GO 4 IT!

There was once a snail who was sick and tired of his reputation for being so slow. He decided to get some fast wheels to make up the difference. After shopping around a while, he decided that the BMW Z-3 was the car to get.

So the snail goes to the nearest BMW dealer and says he wants to buy the Z-3, but he wants it repainted "Z-S".

The dealer asks, "Why 'S'?"

The snail replies, "'S' stands for snail. I want everybody who sees me roaring past to know who's driving."

Well, the dealer doesn't want to lose the unique opportunity to sell a car to a snail, so he agrees to have the car repainted for a small fee.

The snail gets his new car and spent the rest of his days roaring happily down the highway at top speed. And whenever anyone would see him zooming by, they'd say "Wow! Look at that S-car go!"

ADDED DIFFERENCE

What is the difference between a rottweiler and a social worker?

It is easier to get your kids back from a rottweiler!