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March 12, 2002
New Desktops! - What a day! Tomorrow we will be adding
several awesome new desktops including works from Scott
"Rampant 1" Chitwood, EA
Design, MAJArch
Studios, Todd Darland,
the Bryans, and of course
MacMonkies! Plus we will have a very special Banana Bundle
from Mr. Chitwood to really add spiff to your desktop.
Stop back tomorrow and load up the barrels!
LimeWire 2.2.4 - A new build of LimeWire
for Classic and OSX is up and ready for download. Hurry over
and grab your copy!
March 11, 2002
Happy Monday! - Hello, hello, HELLO! Happy Monday to you (or at least Tuesday
A)! Let's take a look at what's available to start out the week!
Star Wars Episode II: The latest trailer from the up
and coming Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones
is now available at Apple's
Trailer "Park." Check it out!
Pro 3D - MacMonkies contributor Kara Kelly informs
all you GUI heads that a copy of Maya
Personal Learning Edition - the 3D Animation and Visual
Effects App - is waiting for you on your very own iDisk!
Once you have your iDisk open, just follow the following path:
Software~~> Mac OS X~~> Applications ~~> Imaging
& 3D!
Be forewarned: This is a rather large download - over 125
MB. Open up and grab your copy!
Cool Beans! - Eye9design
has really been BUSY in the kitchen cookin' up some great GUI
treats to make your Mac shine! Among the menu items are more
than 100 glistening icon globules to download and a new
News Page to keep you up to date!
Drop by Eye9design
before the these guys blow up the whole lab!
Make those Monday blues go away and score big on a
Happy Monday! Check 'em Out!
March 10, 2002
Best of the Mac Web - Don't forget to click over to
Low End Mac and vote for
your favorite Mac site on the Best
of the Mac Web Survey. They will be collecting your data
through Tuesday, March 19, 2002. The results should be up by
Friday, March 22. Have a look!
March 9, 2002
Attention Toasters! - Roxio,
the makers of Toast,
reminds us:
In case you missed the news last week, the Toast 5 Titanium
suite is now fully Carbonized for OS X! Updates for all applications
in the suite, including Toast 5 Titanium(r), CD Spin Doctor(r),
iView Media (tm), Panic(r) Audion(r), and Magic Mouse Discus(tm),
are available for immediate download at:
http://www.roxio.com/toastosx
These updates are FREE via download to all registered users
of Toast
5 Titanium. Check It Out!
More Update News! - Several Mac apps have just been updated
for OSX:
Check 'em Out!
Happy Apple Day! - Things are pretty peachy lately for
those pixel pushers over at The
Iconfactory. Not only have they had some of their Icon
Sets featured at Apple's
OS X Icons & Screensavers web page recently, but now
an Apple Store has opened up within driving distance for their
crew. Hurry over and check out the pictures
they brought back from their adventure!
March 8, 2002
Desktop News - If you're looking for something Biblical
as a desktop, then we've got just the ticket for you! Andy
Moraitis, the founder and talent behind Ethereal
Creations, has formed the desktop piece "A
Voice From Heaven." This is a stunning portrayal of
Moses' encounter with God speaking from the Burning Bush. Made
in Poser and Bryce5, this image is both accurate and wonderfully
detailed. Gads, dude/dudette! Have a look already!
Congratulations! - Some icon
sets from The Iconfactory
(as well as some Pixelpalooza
entries) have been featured on Apple's
OS X Icons & Screensavers web page. Congratulations
go out to the entire staff of The
Iconfactory!
March 7, 2002
Software Release! - Colourfull
Creations announces the following software release:
Colourfull Creations releases Power
ToDo for Macintosh OS X, Macintosh OS 9, and Windows systems.
Power ToDo is a powerful task list pad geared toward the individual
or company. Not only can an individual use Power ToDo but groups
of people in the office. Set up Power ToDo for groups within
the company to create a task list for each group within the company.
Power ToDo is a handy cross-platformed utility that is big
on organization but small in price. You can hardly afford to
Monkie around without it! Check It Out!
March 6, 2002
MonkieNews! - Good News! We have some
exciting things coming to MacMonkies in the upcoming weeks!
And the Bad News? You'll have to wait a bit to see what
it is (Don't you HATE it when he says that?!).
In other Monkie News -- We are honored to have some
of the best desktop artists on the web grace our Gallery
this week at MacMonkies! Let's take a look!
- New in the Gallery! - We certainly seem to have a
warm theme happening among our desktops this week at MacMonkies!
Let's take a look at what we have to warm up our Winter Time
Blues!
Desktop Fun In the Sun! - Adding plenty of sunshine
to our Desktop Department this week
is a bright and sun shiny piece from Melissa at MAJArch
Studios called Summertime! This
colorful piece is sure to brighten up your desktop!
Also in the area of Desktops is a curious new piece from MacMonkies
by the name of Puzzled. That ought
to keep you scratchin' your head a bit!
HOT 3-D! - Burning up our 3-D Section
are some new works from EA
Design. Alan Sherwood heats things up with a piece
titled The World On Fire and Ed Allen
keeps the fires burning with Roasted Metal.
Also in the area of the multiple dimensions is another piece
from MacMonkies called Not My Cup.
ETC! - Lastly, but certainly not leastly, is an extra-fine
selection from Todd Darland entering our Etc...Department
titled The Knock. One never knows
when they might be entertaining Angels!
Check 'em out!
A special Monkie Salute to all of this week's contributing
artists!
THANK YOU!
- CLINK It Up! - We have added I Heart New
York to our Links
page! Click over and Link up!
New Icons - Matthew Bice of I
Heart New York has added 4 fantastic new sets of OSX
Icons to his collection since we last took a gander - Andy
Warhol Folders, Andy Warhol Hard Drive, and Mumblees
2.0, and Momus! Hurry over and grab these great GUI
goodies!
Flax Creations - That mysterious 2nd volume of Star Trek
icons based on the somewhat cryptic Borg symbol language and
font - Borgcons Vol.2 - has been spotted over at Flax
Creations. Beam over and have a look!
Pixelpalooza 2002 - The
Iconfactory has a friendly reminder for all you pixel pushers:
Time to get your entry into this year's Pixelpalooza icon
design contest is quickly running out. One month down and just
one to go. You'll be amazed just how quickly April 1st will be
here, so if you've not started pushing pixels yet, get going!
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!
MAJArch Studios! - 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!
EA Design - The gentlemen at EA
Design have certainly been busy as they have recently added
24 new works to their 2-D and 3-D collection. Your desktop satisfaction
is just a click away!
Ethereal Creations - Ethereal
Creations updates with two new Poser4/Bryce5 renders in the
New Releases section and one new Bryce5 render in the Collections
section. They've also updated the site news pages so check out
their latest offerings which are sure to please!
 Best of the
Mac Web - Here's your chance to rate 50 of the best and best-known
independent Mac-related sites at the Low
End Mac's 3rd Best
of the Mac Web Survey. Check it out!
Making the Grade - Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, ranks 413
on the Forbes list of
billionaires. His net worth is listed at $1.1 billion. Though
he co-founded Apple, much of his gain is due to Pixar. The Forty
Six-year-old college drop-out is also on a number of other lists,
including World's Richest People 2001, 800 Best Paid CEOs 2001
and 400 Richest Americans 2001. - from Forbes
Beware of Britney! - A Britney Spears computer virus was
detected on the net last Thursday. The virus carries an attachment
which masquerades as a picture of Britney Spears. Though it has
only affected a few computers in Europe so far, officials are
concerned that it might spread quickly because of the name Britney
Spears, which is one of the most popular names typed into search
engines. The virus is called either VBS/Britney-A or VBS--BRITNEYPIC.A.
Oops! She did it again!- from TechTV
If I Only Had A Brain! - Microsoft has made a deal to
use their software,  Windows
CE, to run the in-dash computer on t he BMW AG's new 7-Series sedan. According to the
director of Microsoft's automotive business unit, Gonzalo Bustillos,
Microsoft has Windows CE in 13 vehicle lines and will have Windows
CE in nine more vehicle lines by the end of the year. "Vehicle
computing is going to be there," said Bustillos. "The
only questions are when, and how the models may become a reality."
Gads! Talk about breaking out all the Windows
in a car that always crashes! - from Yahoo
Bombs Away! - Haroldo Renato Mota of Brazil got a bit
of a shocking surprise from his dog Chumbinho. The dog
is an excellent retriever, and brought him a smoking grenade
last Wednesday. "He dropped it on the floor and smoke began
to come out of it," says Mota. Brazilian police officers
detonated the grenade. Chumbinho has been known to bring
many things home but, according to Mota, never money. - from Excite
One Small Step For Microsoft - The next step for Microsoft
in the  four-year-old antitrust
case is to call several witnesses to show that Windows cannot
be redesigned to fit the state's demands, and that splitting
Windows into separate versions would be bad for the computer
industry as well as for consumers. The states still plan to argue
that Windows can be successfully redesigned, and that Microsoft
must do so to remedy their monopolization over other companies.
However, Microsoft will argue that "the company would be
forced to pull its latest Windows computer operating systems
off the market and be unable to develop new systems." The
hearings will be held next week, and it is uncertain which way
judge Kollar-Kotelly will lean. Maybe Microsoft
should also point out that Windows never crashes. Mmm Hmm.
- from The
Washington Post
The Jackson Jinx - Michael Jackson did not perform at
the Grammy Awards or the American Musical Awards (AMA) this year.
There was a big toss-up over which show Michael would perform
on, because according to Recording Academy policy, artists who
perform at the American Music Awards cannot also perform at the
Grammys. Dick Clark, producer of AMA, sued Michael Green, Grammy
Executive for $10 million citing unfair competition due to this
policy. Jackson is a friend of Dick Clark. Because of the policy
mentioned above, Jackson was not allowed to play at the AMAs,
because he had agreed to play at the Grammys. Jackson then refused
to perform at the Grammys as well, missing his chance to be seen
on either Awards show. - from AOL
Just Be Nice! - A non-profit program has been implemented
at the National  Cathedral School
in Washington designed to make middle school girls be nice to
each other. For years people have concluded that girls are less
aggressive than boys because the focus was on physical break-outs.
But after a study directed by Kaj Bjorkqvist it was concluded
that girls are just as aggressive as boys, but in a different
way. Their aggression is shown mentally by destroying relationships
and reputations. The Empower Program, run by Rosalind Wiseman,
tries to help girls deal with "gossip and cliques and ostracism
and just plain meanness among girls." Nah!
Girls aren't mean...are they? - from The
New York Times
Have you Heard?
TERRA-Dreams Come True! - We recently featured the
site TERRA-Dreams,
a site that features desktops created by Terragen,
a near photo realistic landscape generation and rendering application.
The only down-side to this application is there there currently
is no Mac version available. However, we have recently learned
that the Mac version of Terragen is currently in private
beta testing with a public beta test expected in the near future.
It is expected to run both Classic and OS X.
MacMonkies would like to thank Kara Kelly for
the tip!
Feel free to drop
us a line if you have any information regarding this app
or any other Mac products!
Have some inside information on upcoming
events? Review our Submission
Policy and drop us a line!
Check 'em Out!!
Power in Your Mac! - The move to Mac OSX has been quite
the positive move for all Mac users alike. So much of the new
OS has made Mac the platform of choice with its new features,
look, and its all new core. But perhaps one new feature in OSX
that gets left by the wayside is the Terminal. The average Mac
user tends to feel a bit "squeamish" when mentioning
the Terminal. However, Chris Stone of O'Reilly
Network can help you snuggle up to the Terminal to get comfortable
with its powerful assets. Take a look at:
Learning
the Mac OS X Terminal
And let Chris Stone walk you through basic command
line with this step by step tutorial currently in 3 parts.
Check it Out!
Just Plain Nutz!
BEETHOVEN'S CHICKEN
Why did Beethoven kill his chicken?
It kept saying ''Bach, Bach, Bach...''
IF PROMPTS COULD TALK
It says: Press Any Key
It means: Press any key you like but I'm not moving
WHOOPS!
It says: Directory does not exist....
It means: .... any more. Whoops.
CHAIN GANG
What's wrong when your spouse nags at you in the front room?
You made their chain too long.
IF OPERATING SYSTEMS WERE AIRLINES
DOS Air: Passengers walk out onto the
runway, grab hold of the plane,
push it until it gets in the air, hop on, then jump off when
it hits
the ground. They grab the plane again, push it back into the
air, hop
on, jump off...
Mac Airways: The cashiers, flight attendants,
and pilots all look the
same, talk the same, and act the same. When you ask them questions
about the flight, they reply that you don't want to know, don't
need
to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the
movie.
Windows Airlines: The terminal is neat
and clean, the attendants
courteous, the pilots capable. The fleet of Lear jets the carrier
operates is immense. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushes
above
the clouds and, at 20,000 feet, explodes without warning!
OS/2 Skyways: The terminal is almost
empty - only a few prospective
passengers mill about. The announcer says that a flight has just
departed, although no planes appear to be on the runway. Airline
personnel apologize profusely to customers in hushed voices,
pointing
from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside. They tell
each
passenger how great the flight will be on these new jets and
how much
safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but they will have to
wait a
little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems.
Maybe
until mid-2005. Maybe longer.
HERE'S YOUR SIGN!
In a Dentist's Office:
Please be nice to our dentists. They have fillings too.
SECRET TO A LONG MARRIAGE
The secret to a long marriage is simple. Take the time to
go out to a restaurant two times a week. A candlelight dinner,
soft music and a slow walk home. You go on Tuesdays. Your spouse
goes on Fridays.
BROKEN CAGE
What did the bird say after his cage broke?
"Cheap, cheap!"
KIDS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS
A father and his 6-year-old son walked into a bank. When they
got in line the son noticed a very large woman in front of them.
The son tugged at the dad's jacket and said, "Daddy, look!
That lady is huge!" The father replied, "Yes son she's
as big as a truck." About a minute later the large woman's
beeper went off and the kid pushed his father out of the way
and yelled, "Look out dad!!! It's backing up!"
GET DOWN AND BOOGIE!
Q: How do you make a tissue dance?
A: Put a little Boogie in it!
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
POKING HOLES IN THE SINK
Did you know that Porcupines float in water?
- from FunnyFuel.com
THE RACE IS ON
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving
to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe
trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is winning.
- Rich Cook
BECAUSE
Because the sky is blue, it makes me sad.
- John Lennon
AND GOOD FOR YOU THEY SAY
It's good! And good for you they say!!
- William H. Wells
THE POWER OF THINKING
They can because they think they can.
- Virgil
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Info
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Jobs
Critical of
Recording Industry
Steve Jobs offers critical remarks regarding
recording industry
Pulling
Teeth
Over My Dead Body!
Grave diggers pluck gold teeth from skeletons
and sell them to jewelers.
EEEEYUCK!
Mac OS9
LimeWire 2.2.3
Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client
A-Dock 2.7.1
App switcher/launcher a bit like OS X's dock
SpeedApp
2.3b3
Launches apps by typing part of their name
FontViewer
1.4.6
Simple font viewing tool, slideshow previews
& more
Speed
Download 1.8fc4b
Download accelerator, uses simultaneous connections
ZipIt 2.2
File compression software; uses standard zip
format
Apple
AirPort 2.0.2
For the wireless networking system
IomegaWare
3.5
Zip & Jaz drivers & software tools
Norton
& Virex
March virus definitions for both Norton &
Virex are available for download
CharView
1.3
Shows all printing characters of a selected
font
MacDopplerPro
1.7.5
Amateur radio app: satellite track, doppler
correction, etc.
WebMerge
1.9.3
Tool to generate static Web pages from database
files
iSwipe
1.0b23
Download/search client for Web, FTP, Hotline,
OpenNap, Gnutella
Password
Retriever 3.0
Full featured password storage utility
Iconographer
2.3
32 bit icon & resource editor, reads PC
& OS X icons too
Flix
2.0
Encodes video into SWF format
MoonSked
1.4.2
Ham radio moon bounce software
Mac
OSX
LimeWire
X 2.2.3
Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client
MacArmyKnife
2.7
General purpose tool: check processes, modify
resources
Firewalk
X 2.0.2
Full featured firewall
SETI
control 1.1.4
Interface for the Darwin version of the SETI@home
app
MacReporter
1.1
Plugin based news headlines grabber dockling
iSwipe X 1.0b23
Download/search client for Web, FTP, Hotline,
OpenNap, Gnutella
SlashDock
2.06
Headline grabber for Slashdot & other
sites
TinkerTool
2.11
Adds functionality & options to many OS
X features
DockFun!
2.1
Switch between up to ten different Dock configurations
Font Viewer
2.1
Font utility to list and test installed fonts
on your system
Speed
Download 1.8fc4b
Download accelerator, uses simultaneous connections
Apple
DVD Player 3.1
Improved DVD player for OS X
Use Software Update
FontViewer
1.4.6
Simple font viewing tool, slideshow previews
& more
AquilaCalendar
1.12
Tear off menu bar calendar with multiple month
views
Impasse
1.01
Auto-optimizing firewall in System Prefs
IomegaWare
3.5
Zip & Jaz drivers & software tools
USB Overdrive
X 10.0.0b4
Universal USB driver for any USB mouse or
trackball
WindowShade
X 1.5.1
Haxie adds WindowShade features to OS X
FruitMenu
1.5.2
Haxie to customize & enhance the Apple
Menu
PocketDock
2.41
Launcher utility: organize & launch apps,
docs, links
CharView
1.3
Shows all printing characters of a selected
font
MacDopplerPro
X 1.7.5
Amateur radio app: satellite track, doppler
correction
Free
Classic Dockling 1.1
Dockling to start and stop Classic
Dock Switcher
1.01
Allows for multiple Dock configurations
Password
Retriever 3.0
Full featured password storage utility
Iconographer
X 2.3
32 bit icon & resource editor, reads PC
& OS X icons too
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Monkie Wisdom |
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It is better to be assumed a fool,
than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!
And if you're a Monkie, it's best
to keep your mouth closed than to insert BOTH stinky feet!
Till Next Time...
BJW
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