March 10-16, 2003

At The Top - G'day, mates! Primates that is...Ah ha ha ha ha ha!!! The bunch of us here at MacMonkies will be taking the week off for a bit of a break from the Monkie Barrel. We will return next Monday March 17, 2003. While we're away, feel free to browse around the 'Monkie Zoo' and grab the GUI goodies till your Monkie belly bloats. Here's some helpful links to our main Departments and recent entries:

GUI Department | The Gallery | Links | Music | Recent Icons | Previous Edition

In the mean time, you can still Contact us if you need to. And keep those great Icon and Desktop Submissions coming! We've got plenty coming your way when we get back, but ya just can't get enough of that sweet stuff! Now let's get on with the rest of the best of today's update! Shall we?

Community News

Live Pencil - Start out your week with plenty of fun with a fresh update from Live Pencil! Ramon has added bunches of GUI goodness for grins galore:

• LIVE ANIMALS: Week after week you'll see the SINGING ANIMALS from your 2002 Advent Calendar. Today the giraffe.
• ANIMATIONS: 2 new animations. Celebration and punch.
• EMOTICONS: Smilies wearing glasses... Now animated!!!
• IT IS YOU: - Lynn from Colo.
• TICKLE ME : I am beginning to use the photos sent by you to make your TICKLE ME's
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week.... Keep searching!!!   Come on, don't be lazy...

There's no reason to keep your computer complaining. Kick in a grin with all the latest additions from Live Pencil!

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On the Net

Cocktail 1.2 - One of the coolest OSX Utilities just keeps on getting cooler! Kristofer Szymanski of Dicom has made another update to Cocktail, an exceptional general purpose system utility for OSX. Cocktail 1.2 includes new additions and optimizations to its already feature rich selections. And you won't complain about the price: $FREE! Hurry over and grab a copy of Cocktail 1.2!

Ephemera 1.0 - Just announced from Ben Haller of Stick Software is Ephemera 1.0. Ephemera is a "slide show" screensaver for OSX containing more than 60 photographs taken by Ben from locations all over the world. Ephemera joins the tons of other fun at Stick Software. The price? Does FREE sound like a good deal? We thought you might like. Check it out!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

I'M MELTING! I'M MELTING!

This big city PC dealer bought a farm. He didn't have the faintest idea what to do first, so he went for a walk to look around. As he walked through a gate, he felt something soft under his feet, and a none-too-pleasant smell hit his nostrils. Looking down, he found he was standing right in the center of a warm squishy, just-laid prairie cake. A look of terror came into his eyes. "Help!" he shouted, "I'm melting!"

SIGNS: LAST ONE OUT

In the vestry of a New England church:

"Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished."

GIMME A BREAK!!

Admitting his 0-4 record is not impressive "on paper," trainers announced that Lucky, a German shepherd guide dog for the blind in Wuppertal, Germany, is available for his fifth owner. Lucky led his first owner in front of a bus, killing him. Then he led the second off the end of a pier, drowning him. He nudged his third owner off a railway platform in front of an express train, killing him. And he walked his fourth owner into heavy traffic, abandoning him to be hit and killed. The new owner won't be told of Lucky's record -- the trainers say the dog might sense nervousness "and do something silly."