March 29-30, 2003

Monkie News

Quick Note - Just a quick note to let y'all know that we will be taking Sunday off for another quick breather. There's plenty of cool eye candy to drool upon from earlier this week. So feel free to browse around. And of course we will be back Monday with another round of fun. See you then!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Dr. Die Young - If you wish to die young, make your physician your heir.

- Romanian Proverb

Pigpipes - These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Thus It Is - Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?

- Artemus Ward

March 28, 2003

Icons | Community News | Bananas

At The Top - Woo hoo! It's time for some fun as we usher in the weekend with our Friday Icon Edition. We've new eye pleasing pixels, plus Community News and of course green Bananas of humor from Mr. Westby. Now, you just kick back, grab a cold fruit punch, and let your fingers do the the clickin'!

New GOO!

New Icons - Pump up the pixels, pump 'em up, keep yer mouse a thumpin'! Guess that means it's Icon time. Ya think? Oh yeah. Four new sets, one new iconist added to the fine list of artists. Let's dig a pony!

Alisdair Jones - As promised, our latest iconist Alisdair Jones delivers an out-of-this-world collection of icons titled Sci-Fi Vol. 1. This explosive set of science fiction space crafts provide an amazing look at Alisdair's exceptional creative 3-D abilities. Get ready to blast off!

AGRAPHA Icons - With another wonderful 'jungle' set from AGRAPHA Icons comes AGRAPHA Animals 6. Harvey Lubin has gathered some cuddly creatures including our friend the Orangutan and nine other friends of the creature kingdom.

DV Graphics - Me thinks the Iconize Me King Paul Sahner has flipped his lid, or at least his pixels! From Paul's internet home DV-Graphics, we bring you his latest icon creation Everything But the Kitchen Sink! If you think you get nutz when cleanin' up around the house, now you might know how they feel about you with this creative set.

EMKdesign - Wanna get e-struck? Just E from Evan Kaufman is simply amazing! This cool set of, well, just e's comes from Evan's galleries of simplicity and style at EMKdesign. But don't let the simple name mislead you. Your eyes will approve with a resounding WOW. Check 'em out!

 

Thanks Department --

Alisdair, Harvey, Paul, and Evan...

Absolutely OUTSTANDING work!

THANK YOU!!

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

Mandolux - Just in from Mandolux is a new desktop titled Be Yourself. This new Vector-based desktop was once again inspired by Christy Smith of CBS’s Survivor: The Amazons. Make a click trip to Mandolux and grab a look. Go already!

Send Us Your Site News!

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Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM

What do you get when you play a new age song backwards?

A new age song.

SLEEPWALKING NUN

What do you call a sleepwalking nun?

A Roamin' Catholic.

BANK ON IT

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

March 27, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - Get your icon eyes ready as we have some cool new work headed your way for our Friday Icon Edition! Tomorrow's update includes out-of-this-world work from our latest artist Alisdair Jones, as well as our usual top of the crop iconists from around the web. Get yer clickers runnin' and be here Friday for a great time at MacMonkies!

Community News

Pixelpalooza 2003 - Shhhhh. Be vehwy, vehwy quiet. Keep yore pwetty icon cweations tuct in yore GUI bag fore no one to see...SAY WHAT? NO WAY!!!! The deadline to enter your work in to The Iconfactory's annual Pixelpalooza icon design contest is really, really near! So git yer monkey butt in gear and git 'em submitted. GO ALREADY!!!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Apple Co-Presents "Create" - Apple and IDG World Expo will be co-presenting a show directed toward "artists, designers, directors and musicians" this summer in New York. The show is called Create and will "take the place of this summer's Macworld Expo in New York." Create will not be a showcase of new hardware and software, but will be focused on tutorials, education and training instead. Registration begins in April. - from CNET

Don't Call Us, We'll Call You - The Federal Trade Commission will be opening a website this July in which people can register to block telemarketers. Anyone can register and the service will be free. "Charities, surveys and calls on behalf of politician"” are exempt, but those who register should no longer receive many calls from telemarketers. Telemarketers who call registered individuals could be fined up to $11,000. It's about friggen time! - from Excite

Techie TunaFish - Scientists with the American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) are inserting miniature computers into yellowfin tuna in hopes to learn more about them. The $1,500 mini computers mostly provide information regarding the tunas body heat, and can do so for up to five years. With the information gained, scientists hope to offer fishers a quota of how many tuna they can catch without endangering the population of the tuna. - from Yahoo

March 26, 2003

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Welcome to our 856th annual Weekly Wednesday Desktop Edition! Hmmm...you're not buying that for some strange reason. Well it is Wednesday and we do have another cool collection awesome art for the eyes begging for a look and a drool. Time for me to shuddup and your desktop to be cool. Let's boogie!

New GOO!

New Desktops - They've done it again! This week's Desktop artists have made the latest collection of 7 New Desktop selections a smash hit in the Gallery. Time to rock the house!

3-D Rendered - Just in from our latest contributor Juergen Eilts is an absolutely eye-popping piece called Different. This is one of the many marvelous works from the galleries of ShiftedReality. Juergen is a big Mac fan and uses the likes of Bryce, Vue d'Esprit, Worldbuilder, and 3D Studio Max. Awesome stuff!

I must say, it's always nice to welcome the vivid imagination of one Mr. Scott Chitwood from Rampant Mac. This week we have Visions Bright, so bright, ya gotta wear shades! Me thinks it almost looks like a scene from the Jetsons. I wonder what Scott does in his spare time. =)

 

Nature - Another home run selection from Michael Heath is the totally amazing photo Fern Up-Close 2. Michael sends this beautiful selection from "Down Under" in Australia. There's no doubt that this desktop will put you in nature heaven once you get a closer look!

 

Desktops - Mr. Fuzzy himself, the ever-original Bob Wiley, gets in touch with the blues and brings us Feel the Blue. Bob tackles the textural type approach for a very unique effect. I just hope that is not new age mold! =)

Back once again from the galleries of Prevision is Jack Juliussen with another of his desktop specialties titled Dark Skies. This spectacular work sports the sun transforming the darkest of clouds into a radiant work of art!

It's been a while since we've seen the spectaculars of Glenn Fajardo. But we have a treat for you! B1-62L-9 is quite the unique piece that, quite honestly, this Monkie doesn't know how to describe...except by saying WAY COOL! This symmetrical surprise for the eyes is just the right size.

From the melted brain cells of MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles comes Meltdown II, a spin-off of last weeks Outta Here. The viewpoint is different with the Punk still visible (if you caught him last week) and the rest went through quite a few processes via Photoshop. Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Juergen, Glenn, Bob, Scott, Jack, and Michael...

Your work is simply AMAZING!

THANKS!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

RAILhead Design - Mr. Maury McCown of RAILhead Design updates with a spiffy new desktop titled More Glass. One of Maury's abstract specialties, this new selection is described as "light, pale, and shimmering through a thick layer of rippled glass." Get your clicker in gear and check out this new work at RAILhead Design!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On The Net

FontAgent Pro 1.2 - The folks at InsiderSoftware have announced the availability of FontAgent Pro 1.2. FontAgent Pro is a great font utility that optimizes and organizes all your fonts and provides cutting-edge features to maintain their integrity, creates custom font sets, and activates them when they are needed. For details on all the latest improvements, head over to InsiderSoftware and grab a look!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

HYDRANT EQUATION

If H2O is on the inside of a fire hydrant, what is on the outside?

K9P

ALONE

If a man is alone in the forest, without any women, is he still wrong?

BLONDE OVERDUE

A blonde goes into a library and says, "Hello. I'm here to see the doctor."

The librarian replies, "This is a library."

So the blonde lowers her voice and says, "Oh sorry!" Then whispers, "I'm here to see the doctor."

March 25, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | On The Net | Network News

Monkie News

Desktops and More Stuff - Phew! Back again a second day. Not sure what the network burps were all about yet, but we're still looking into the indigestion to prevent it from happening again. ANYWAY...Tomorrow promises for yet another fine lineup of desktops from...well, you know the names, look up the Monkie! We'll keep you in Monkie Suspenders for a tad rather than me yappin'! Stop back tomorrow for some eye appealing stuff!

Community News

Pixelpalooza 2003 - HEY YOU GUYZZZZZZZ!!!!!! This is the FINAL WEEK to get your cool creations into the 2003 Pixelpalooza icon designing contest. The deadline to submit your icons to this cool contest is March 31, 2003. There's tons of fun, great prizes, awesome icons, and a spiffy good time for all with this amazing event. But you gotta get over to The Iconfactory and get your goodies in! Go already!!

burntcanvasdesign - Alan Sherwood does it once again with a whole new look at burntcanvasdesign. The new site sports new style and grace, along with 9 new jaw-dropping landscape pics. Get yourself over to bcd and take a wizz round the extraordinary site. Your eyes will be pleased as purple punch in a peanut parlour!

Taking Pictures - He's back! Adam Dickson returns to update Taking Pictures with 4 fabulous icon sets and 8 outstanding new desktops. This fine new set of photorealistic GUI goodness was well worth the wait. We just can't figure out why you still waitin' around here. Get yourself over to Taking Pictures and check 'em out!

On The Net

ProjectHQ - Just released from To•The•Point Software is ProjectHQ, a unique resource management solution that makes it easy to organize your project resources. Gather, link to, create, and organize project resources. Coordinate resources for any number of projects and create unlimited styled topic documents for each project. It is perfectly suited to a wide variety of projects in which you might need to deal with numerous resources. Get the full scoop on ProjectHQ at To•The•Point Software.

The Fontz X - Also released from To•The•Point Software is The Fontz X 3.5. The Fontz is a versatile font utility that allows you to browse installed and uninstalled fonts, see what they look like at different type sizes, styles and colors, and even group them in like categories using a "wysiwyg" group editor. The latest version has several changes, fixes, and additions. Don't let your fonts be square...Get The Fontz X!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Safari Standstill - Apple's Safari Seed program has been canceled. During the testing versions 60, 62 and 64 were all circulated a great deal. Apple closed the Safari seed project, however, after version 67 was posted on the net, saying "We know that the majority of you are not responsible for the leaks to the internet, and we sincerely appreciate your feedback, time and effort with this project." - from MacUser

Bark or Bite (of the Price) - Japan company Takara Co. Ltd. has come out with a successful dog bark interpreter called Bowlingual. It works by sending sounds from a wireless microphone worn by the dog to a palm device. The device has a database which translates the sounds into phrases that tell how the dog is feeling. Takara has sold 300,000 devices in Japan and hopes to release Bowlingual in the United States in August 2003. The price? A mere $120. Now that's a bite in the butt-om dollar. - from Yahoo

March 24, 2003

Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Monkie down! If you can see this, then you're one up on me. At the time of this writing, the server has been down for quite some time. We are looking into the problem and hope to have everything back to normal ASAP. Until then, please bear with us as we dig through the dirt. All apologies! If you CAN see this, let's have some fun! Shall we?

Community News

Mandolux - Attention!! Just released from Mandolux is a new collection of desktops titled 'Steevil.' The first desktop is named Adrian and it is truly amazing for a bulb (not just a regular bold, a psychedelic bold). Get your eyes prepared for color amazement and make your way over to Mandolux!

Live Pencil - Another great update has come your way from the master of smiles at Live Pencil. Here's a quick run-down of the GUI goodies Ramon Teja has in store for you:

• ANIMATIONS: A new animation in different pixel sizes. Mysterious EYE!.
• EMOTICONS: I will start with some punctuation marks. This week QUESTION MARKS. Plus our old friend (animations section) COOL SUNNY now smaller for your e-mail messages.
• IT IS YOU: - Paula from Florida, laughs and laughs and laughs.
• WRITING YOUR EMOTIONS: A different and original way of saying DEAR.
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week.... Please look for it , it's great fun.

If you're looking for fun, then Live Pencil is the place to be. Check it out!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On the Net

Constrictor 2.3 - Just released from Stick Software is Constrictor 2.3. This full-featured screen snapshot utility makes the more complex screenshots easy. It lets you position a frame and then snap the area inside, applying border effects and saving in a variety of formats. Version 2.3 fixes several bugs in the previous version, and adds a new icon courtesy of David Stapleton. Your copy of Constrictor is waiting for you at Stick Software. Grab it!

Got a Software Update? Let us know!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

GROSS COMMUNICATION

What do you get when you cross a centipede with a parrot?

A walkie-talkie.

THE WRONG BIRD

One Thanksgiving a friend and I were walking down a main street in Albany when a man comes up to me and gives me a turkey and says, "Happy Thanksgiving!" Without hesitation my friend knocks him out. I asked my friend why he punched the nice man. My friend said, ''He gave you the bird!"

PARACHUTE CRAP SHOOT

Four people are in an airplane: The President, the smartest man in the world, an old man and a young girl. The plane catches on fire and there are only three parachutes.

The president gets one and says, "My country needs me!" and jumps.

The smartest man in the world grabs one and says, “Well, the world needs me, since I'm so smart," and jumps.

One parachute left and the old man says, "You take it, my life is almost over anyway."

The little girl says, "No. We both can jump."

Confused, the man asks, "How?"

The little girl says, "The smartest man in the world took my backpack."

GAS-O-MATIC

A sign at a gas Station: "Eat Here. Get Gas"