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March 5, 2002

Software Update - 2 great Mac apps - A-Dock 2.7.1 and LimeWire 2.2.3 - have just been updated. Get the new versions while they're hot!

New Desktops! - We will be updating tomorrow with several new desktops including works from MAJArch Studios, EA Design, Todd Darland, and MacMonkies! Stop back tomorrow for News, Fun, and plenty of great artwork for your desktop!

March 4, 2002

EA Design - Ed Allen and Alan Sherwood have certainly been hard at work in the design studio. Fresh for viewing are new works in both the 2-D and 3-D categories - 24 in all! Click over to EA Design and Check 'em Out!

March 3, 2002

Desktop News! - MAJArch Studios has been updated with 5 new 3-D desktops! Also, keep your Bananas peeled for 1 new icon set to be posted soon!!!

Beta Testers - If you are an AOL Beta Tester, a new version of the AOL software that fixes the issue of stalled keyboards is now available. Pick up your copy at Keyword Beta.

Squash That Bug! - March virus definitions for Norton AntiVirus are currently available for download.

March 2, 2002

Update News! - There's been quite a few software updates the last couple of days, as well as an app that has made its way to OSX. Let's take a look:

Updates - In the update department ready for download are:

FruitMenu 1.5.2,

WindowShade X 1.5.1,

Speed Download 1.8fc4b,

Impasse 1.01

Available for OSX through the Software Update panel are:

DVD Player Update 3.1

Airport Software 2.0.2

And finally in the area of Updates is from MacMonkies. A slight revision has been made to Alien Eyze thanks to the expert advice of Kara Kelly. Thanks Kara!

New to OSX - IomegaWare 3.5 now supports Mac OS X 10.1 and above.

Check 'em Out!

March 1, 2002

GUI News - Ethereal Creations announces the following:

Ethereal Creations is pleased two announce the release of two beautiful Poser4/Bryce5 renderings in the New Releases section and one Bryce5 rendering in the Collections section. The site has undergone some major changes, which are detailed on the News page.

Stop by Ethereal Creations and Check 'em Out!

February 28, 2002

Eyes On Icons! - Matthew Bice of I Heart New York has updated with 2 fantastic new sets of OSX Icons: Gumby and Onigiri. Hurry over to the I Heart New York: X icons page and get a load of these great GUI goodies! Your eyes will thank you!

February 27, 2002

MonkieNews! - The short month of February has almost disappeared into the sunset. Doesn't that figure...The month we dedicate to Love is the shortest! Oh well...We have plenty of Monkie Business to last a good chunk of time. Let's get to it!

• New in the Gallery! - We are honored and privileged to have on display the remarkable works of Ed Allen and Alan Sherwood of EA Design! In addition, we have Monkie works in the 3-D Department as well as in the Desktop Area. Let's pull up the Gallery and have a look!
  

3-D Delight! - Heading up our 3-D selections is an exceptional work by Alan Sherwood titled Escape. Thank you, Allen!

From the same creative centre is another fine selection from Ed Allen called Freedom to Explore. Thanks Ed!

Also in the multi-dimensional room are 2 selections from MacMonkies called Alien Eyze and Radiation Room. Enjoy!

Dig Those Desktops - In our Desktop Department we have 2 new Monkie entries titled On Your Own and Tiger Skin. 

Check 'em out!

• Link Up! - Around the Pixel has been added to our Links Page. You know the routine...Let your fingers do the clicking and cruise on over and have a look! 

Pixelpalooza 2002 - There's still plenty of time to enter your new icon designs to The Iconfactory's 6th annual icon designing contest - Pixelpalooza! Entries will be accepted from now until April 1, 2002.

No sense in waiting till the last last minute...start doin' those pixel push-ups and get your best icon designs in today!

New Icons - Xicons has added some spiffy new Adium AIM icons from Daniel Schep and Porcelain Drops from Dario Picciau. Take a trip over and have a look!

New GUI! - Flax Creations recently added 2 new icon sets: Borgcons Vol.1 and Chrome Apples. And where might the 2nd Volume of those Borgcons be? Hmmm! =)

New Themes! - XThemination has 2 new OSX Themes recently added to their collection: BeOSX and Clear Aqua.

9Eyes Open! - Keep your eyes peeled for new rumblings at Eye9design. We'll be sure to point you toward the progress!

Designing Apples - Apple is holding its seventh annual Apple Design Awards. The awards focus exclusively on the development for Mac OS X. Winners will receive the "Ultimate" Power Mac G4 and Apple Cinema Display, as well as trophies. The categories for the contest are:

• Best New Mac OS X Product
  
• Most Innovative Mac OS X Product
  
• Best Mac OS X User Experience
  
• Mac OS X Technology Adoption
  
• Best Mac OS X Student Product
  
• Best Mac OS X Open Source Port
  

The deadline to enter is April 5, 2002 (March 1 for students). If interested, you can check out the Official Contest Rules and fill out the Contest Entry Form. Entry forms can also be downloaded HERE.

PC Strip - Start looking for OS-free PCs on the shelves at Walmart. Walmart is interested in carrying OS-free PCs because they can sell them for less, and also to give the buyer the option of using the OS of their choice. Microsoft is not crazy about the idea. They will not lose other vendors because of it, but they will have to stay on good terms with Walmart if they hope to persuade them to sell all their PCs with the Windows OS on them in the future. The disadvantage Walmart faces is that they might end up purchasing multiple copies of Windows XP in order to make that OS available to consumers. Me thinks Bill might throw a fit over this one!- from The Register

Turn, Turn, Turn - Another turn in favor of Napster has come about. Judge Marilyn Patel is now questioning a possible monopoly made up of the five record companies who are suing Napster. According to the judge,"These ventures look bad, smell bad and sound bad. If Napster is correct, these plaintiffs are attempting the near monopolization of the digital distribution market." If Napster can prove the monopoly, then the record companies' lawsuit could be invalid. Gee, now what might a monopoly be?- from Yahoo

Every Move You Make - Microsoft has again encountered controversy related to one of its applications. Media Player 8 tracks the music that users listen to as well as the movies they watch. Microsoft claims that this information is used for marketing purposes. They also claim that it can help to track piraters. Media Player 8 is included with Windows XP. The Mac version of Media Player does not track users. - from Lycos

Mobile Mishaps - A recent survey put out by Continental Research of Britain showed that for as many mobile phones that people reported stolen, there were even more phones that were lost by their owners. The report showed that 1.3 million people had their phones stolen while 1.6 million people lost, or broke, their own phones. The most common ways that people lost their phones were, in order of incidence: dropping them down the toilet (600,000 people), dropping them into their drinks (400,000 people) and putting them in with their laundry (200,000 people). Sounds like talk down the toidy bowl to me!- from Excite
 
 

Eye On iMac - PC Magazine has a lot of praise for Apple's new iMac, stating that "it's an exceptionally well-designed product at a reasonable price." Some features that particularly impressed them were the screen resolution, the quiet fan and the pre-loaded programs iDVD, iPhoto and iTunes. "You'll find you won't need to read a manual," they said, regarding the user-friendly programs. Perhaps the best comment paid Apple was the magazine's comment concerning their new Mac converts: "More than a few die-hard Windows PC users in our labs said they'd finally consider buying a Mac." - from PC Magazine

Pay Per Stream - It is being recommended by a panel put together by the U.S. Copyright Office that online radio stations pay 7 cents per song to stream music. The recommendation will be up for 60 days of public comment before it is decided upon. For AOL, this would add up to $224,000/month, as they stream approximately 160 million songs/month. The charge of 7 cents per song would also be retroactive. - from CNews

Bad News Beat Up Bears - The Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan holds semi-annual polar bear drills. The drills are designed to teach children what to do in the event that a polar bear would break out of the zoo. "Real breakouts have occurred," says zoo employee Naoki Tabata. During the drills, zoo employees pretend to catch the escaped polar bear (a person dressed up) and tranquilize it. Six-year-old Miyo Fujioka says that if a polar bear really did escape, "I'd get my brother who's learning karate to go and beat it up." - from Excite
 
 

Have you Heard?

Can You Hear Me Now? - Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Attention all audio recording buffs. Though our information is limited, we've done a piddle of digging regarding future Audio utilities for Mac OSX:

Echo Digital Audio, makers of Mona, Layla24, and Gina24, have drivers for OSX in the works. However, no release date was available.

Steinberg, makers of Cubase VST/32, have a version planned for OSX. No release date was available at press time. However, the most recent version for both Mac and PC is available HERE.

Feel free to drop us a line if you have any information regarding these or other Mac products!
 
 

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Check 'em Out!!

Head In The Stars! - Got your head in the stars? Or do you just like to keep it up there? If you like star gazing, how about checking out these star studded sites?

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Astronomy.com

Astronomy Now

Astronomy for Kids

Astronomy Net

KidsAstronomy.com

NASA

Check 'em Out!

Just Plain Nutz!

70's COOKIE BAND

Q: What do you call a 70's cookie band?

A: OREO Speedwagon!


 

HE SAID WHAT?!!

Duct tape won't fix that.


 

ONLINE ADDICTION (Part VI...Final Installment. It's About Time!)

You know you've been online too long when:

When seeing someone you wish to meet, your second thought is wishing they'd be on AOL so you don't have to meet them in person.

You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it.

You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation, or complete sentences.

You have met over 100 AOLers.

When meeting a stranger, you ask for their profile. If they have a profile you ask them for an age/sex/location check.

You keep telling yourself to Get a Life.

When someone online says BRB, gotta go pee, you ask them to go for you, and think they can.

You understand the humor in all of this.


 

REVOLUTION

Q: How many lead guitarists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: One. The guitarist holds the light bulb and the rest of the world revolves around him.


 

THAT NEW MATH

The math teacher saw that Johnny wasn't paying attention in class. She called on him and asked, "Johnny! What are 2 and 4 and 28 and 44?"

Johnny replied, "CBS, NBC, HBO, and the Cartoon Network."


 

LYSDEXIC HUMOR

Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac?

He stayed up all night wondering if there was a dog.


 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDICINE

I have an earache.

2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.

1000 A.D. - That root is heathen, say this prayer.

1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.

1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.

1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.

2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.


 

A HORSE, OF COURSE

Q: What did the horse say when he fell?

A: I've fallen and I can't giddy up!


 

IF MICROSOFT MADE TOASTERS...

Every time you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buy a toaster. You wouldn't have to take the toaster, but you'd still have to pay for it anyway. Toaster '02 would weigh 15,000 pounds (requiring a reinforced steel countertop), draw enough electricity to power a small city, take up 95% of the space in your kitchen, would claim to be the first toaster that lets you control how light or dark you want your toast to be, and would secretly interrogate your other appliances to find out who made them. Everyone would hate Microsoft toasters, but nonetheless would buy them since most of the good bread only works with their toasters.


 

IF APPLE MADE TOASTERS...

It would do everything the Microsoft toaster does, but five years earlier.



 
 

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Odds and Ends

BE SOMEONE

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

- Lily Tomlin
 
 

SEPARATE LIVES

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

- H. H. Munro
 
 

A WORLD OF BRILLIANCE

There's a dumb one born every minute.

- William H. Wells

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

the Bottom Line (What more did you expect?! )

Apple Computer received a Grammy for its "outstanding technical contributions to the music industry and recording field."
The Grammy Awards air February 27, 2002 at 8 PM ET on CBS .

Analyze & react to access attempts detected by your firewall

Web authoring/site management tool

Save/restore position & size of the Finder windows/icons

Download accelerator, uses simultaneous connections

Download/search client for Web, FTP, Hotline, OpenNap, Gnutella

QuickTime 5 interactive authoring environment

Create mp3s with phone contact info to view on mp3 devices

Helps manage multiple iDisk accounts

Cartoon-style game with blasting fast animation

Music theory and ear training software

MIDI player with jukebox function

Create a photo album for the web

Shows all printing characters of a selected font

Font management tool for organizing, maintaining & using fonts

Font management solution

Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client

Calculates percentage and letter grade for a series of scores

Database of famous quotes, almost 11,000 quotes available

Configurable droplet to upload file(s) to ftp sites

System diagnostic & repair (preorder)

Disk repair & data recovery tool (preorder)

(NAV) virus protection system (preorder)

Menu listing windows of all running apps to switch between them

Adds powerful, flexible menus to simplify tasks

Auto-optimizing firewall in System Prefs

FAX communication software

Analyze & react to access attempts detected by your firewall

Java improvements for OS X

Web authoring/site management tool

QuickTime 5 interactive authoring environment

ICQ client

Helps manage multiple iDisk accounts

Dockling for accessing system preferences directly

Alternative OS X file browser

MIDI player with jukebox

Font management solution

Font management tool for organizing, maintaining & using fonts

Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client

Browser plugin to view shockwave media

Haxie to customize & enhance the Apple Menu

Calculates percentage & letter grade for a series of scores

Drag and drop file compression tool

Creates nav bars, Javascript rollovers, image maps, & more

Shows all printing characters of a selected font

Clipboard enhancements, such as multiple clipboards

iTunes OpenGL visual plugin

Disk repair and maintenance tool

Suite of 7 apps for design to web & print

Fast and furious action puzzle game

Enhances Open/Save dialog boxes for better ease of use

Configurable droplet to upload file(s) to ftp sites