April 13, 2003

Miscellaneous Monkie - Happy Weekend folks! There's a couple things I want to shoot your way to keep you up to banana as to the happenings here at the Monkie Parlour.

First up, the Monkie Poll regarding your interest in the Weekend Updates indicates a warm welcome to our furry weekend friend. So, the Weekend Updates will stay. We also had nice some correspondence expressing some very kind input. Thank you, Monkie Readers!

Next, a new poll will be posted on Monday. This one will be a bit on the different side, one to make you think. I will leave you hanging there on that vine. =)

Finally, I will begin a new job on Monday, so there is a slight possibility of some burps and bumps during the transition from one job to the next. This transition should only affect the timeliness of our updates, if at all. You may see a blurry-eyed Monkie here and there, but the show is scheduled to go on as normal.

With all the above goin' down, I will let you get back to hanging out and hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend! Pasta la Taco!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Prove It! - The absence of proof is not proof of absence!

- from A Prairie Home Companion

April 12, 2003

On The Net | Monkie Business

On The Net

CandyBar 1.5.1 - For all of you who are hungry for the tops in icon customization, CandyBar has just been updated to Version 1.5.1. This update from The Iconfactory makes CandyBar up to pace with Mac OSX 10.2.5. Hurry over to The Iconfactory and grab your copy of the latest version of CandyBar. GO!

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

Totally Useless Information (Part 2)

• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
• The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."
• Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
• Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• Turtles can breathe through their bums.

Cross and Burn - One of the hardest things in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Too Much Caffeine! - A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning.

1996 Coca-Cola Company annual report

April 11, 2003

Icons | Community News | Bananas

At The Top: Some Serious Business - Woo hoo! It's FINALLY Friday! And that means cool new icons and tons of fun for our Friday Icon Edition. But before we continue, I must slip into something a bit more serious for a moment and address an important issue.

I was recently contacted by icon artist Hein Mevissen and informed that he found his icons had been used in an application by a commercial company -- WITHOUT his permission. Yes, you guessed it. This is NOT acceptable. Though the company has decided to "negotiate" with Hein thanks to the help from a well respected member of the Mac community, the situation never, never should have occurred.

Let's cut to the chase. There's a lot of cool GUI stuff (icons, desktops, etc.) here at MacMonkies as well as the rest of the net. If you want to use it for purposes other than what the author has expressed -- especially if it is for profit -- it is your responsibility to contact the author and get permission. It's only fair considering the time that artists spend making their work. Let's all stick together in our community and work as a team. Okay?

Now it's time for some SERIOUS FUN! Let's Boogie!!!

New GOO!

New Icons - Fresh up for our Friday Icon Edition are 4 fabulous Icon Sets from four fantastic artists. Wipe the drool from your mouths as you let your eyes do the walkin'!

Evan Weber - From his Web(er) place on the web, Evan Weber sends a standard OSX hard drive modified for a wild ride! WildDrives features a couple of cool cats and an unduked dog to watch over your driving x-perience!

RAD.E8 - Sascha Höhne of RAD.E8 continues to make the best even better with SNOW.E 2  JAGUAR, a flavorful selection from his hit SNOW.E 2 series. This installment sports the spots of Jaguar with plenty of class and style. Groovin'!

Pictures and Adicons - Adam Dickson is back from Pictures and Adicons with yet another amazing icon set titled Adicons mk3. This collection will take you from the virtual reality of nicely placed pixels to the pictures of real world reality!

miX the piX - The Master miXer Hein Mevissen ensures this icon edition the grandest of finales with DarkAge. This latest creation from the castle of miX the piX will take you back to a different age and style your desktop with due dignity! Enjoy!

 

 

Thanks Department --

Evan, Sascha, Adam, and Hein...

You really know how to make a difference! Marvelous work!!

THANK YOU!!

Send Us Your Icons!

 

 

Community News

Pixelpalooza 2003: People's Choice Deadline Nears - The deadline for the Pixelpalooza People's Choice Voting is drawing near! You have until Midnight on April 12th to cast your vote for the coolest icon pixels on the planet. Don't be draggin' your duffies. Move on over to The Iconfactory and get your votes in for this year's Pixelpalooza People's Choice!

Mandolux - Mando Gomez brings good GUI news to your desktop with this week's recap from Mandolux. Here's the scoop:

Mandolux has issued this week seven new desktops:five Vector-based (Flags of the World), one CAPS (Baseball/LA Dodgers), and one Technosis/Anthraxis (Abstract).

You can always depend on Mando to add a great new look to your desktop. So get yourself over to Mandolux and check out all the latest additions!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

A REAL WRECK

A judge was punishing three men because they had committed a crime. Their sentence was a few years in the desert. He said that they could each take one thing with them.

The first guy decides to take an umbrella, so that he can have shade whenever he wants.

The second guy decides to take a water bottle so that he won't get thirsty.

Finally, the third guy decides to take a car door. The judge asked, "Why in the world would you want to take a car door?"

The man replies, "Just in case it gets hot, I can roll down the window."

FROM DUSK TILL...DUH!

I was up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

JUST TOO MUCH

Three men are waiting at the hospital for their wives to have babies. After what seems an eternity, the nurse finally walks into the waiting room and goes up to the first guy and says "Congratulations sir, your wife just had twins!"

"Wow, this is great!" he exclaims, "And, what a coincidence, I work at Twin City Federal!"

A half hour later the nurse comes back into the waiting room, approaches the second guy and says "Congratulations sir, your wife just had triplets!"

"Are you serious?!" he replies, "This is the greatest day of my life! Gosh, what a coincidence, I work at 3M!"

At this moment the third guys says "That's it, I'm outta here!" The second guy asks why. The third guy says "I work at 10,000 Auto Parts!"

April 10, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | Network News

Monkie News

Icons and Stuff - Gads! Just when you thought the Monkie got rid of the gas, out come the bumps and burps! Monkie say what?!! The last day or so there has been some weird server activity that should be corrected by the time you see this. Our most sincere apologies for the strange behavior lately.

And now to the GOOD stuff! Tomorrow brings in new eye-appealing icons for our Friday Icon Edition. This week we feature work from Pictures and Adicons, miX the piX, RAD.E8, and Evan Weber. You're sure to enjoy this awesome edition of icon enjoyment on Friday. Y'all come back now, ya hear!

Community News

TERRA-Dreams - Your eyes can keep dreaming in landscape pixels as TERRA-Dreams keeps packing in the excellence in digital art. Several new works have been added to their vast galleries for your viewing enjoyment. Make your way to TERRA-Dreams and let your eyes go wild. Check 'em out!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Big Brother: The Next Apple Buyer - Apple computers are now available for purchase by the US Government through PC Mall Gov. This branch of PC Mall has added Apple to its GSA Schedule to federal Government customers, meaning that PC Mall can now resell Apple products to the government. With this addition, Apple has gained "one of the largest customers in the world." - from MacObserver

Bra Bidding For Breast Cancer - A number of actors and musicians have designed unique bras to help raise money for breast cancer research. Sheryl Crow, for example, designed a bra made out of hot pink guitar picks. Male celebrities, such as Rod Stewart and Michael Keaton also participated. The 49 donated bras will be auctioned on the net at Sothebys.com through April 18, 2003, with minimum bids starting at $500. - from Excite

April 9, 2003

Desktops | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Guess what! What?? It's time to get rid of those hump day blues with our mid-week Wednesday Desktop Edition. Bunches of great new Desktops are available plus plenty of News and Fun! No time like now to scroll with the bunches. Lezzzz dooooit!

New GOO!

New Desktops - WHOA! There's tons of cool GUI this week in the form of 8 New Desktops that are worth their weight in Gold! Let's get right down to it and let the eyes have it!

Desktops - Ready to get wound up? Adam Dickson from Pictures and Adicons returns with a retro number Wind-Up Camera. Serving up his photographic specialties, Adam sports an old standard 8 wind-up camera in high class quality!

Always able to quip a quote of encouragement is PoulosDesign's Stefan Poulos. This week Stefan cites Mark Twain in Twain, reminding us that it's worse to look back and regret what we haven't done rather than what we have. COOL!

 

Nature - Zooming in on our Nature Department is another close-up shot from Michael Heath with Fern Close-Up 3. This great selection is yet another one of Michael's masterful works from behind the lens in Australia.

 

Etc. - Always the wild for his Mac, Mr. Wiley (Bob, that is) really makes a difference with Patterns 3. Bob gets really creative with his latest contribution and your Mac is sure to be thankful with this Mac OS desktop!

From Peter J. Sucy comes quite the artistic work titled Ariel. It's from a digital photo he took at a workshop and has been manipulated using Studio Artist and Photoshop. Gorgeous gal, this one is. PHEW!

 

3-D Rendered - Sometimes you gotta BEG to get the best. And sometimes you just gotta say Please! At least that's the title of our latest entry from Alan Sherwood of burntcanvasdesign. This cool landscape desktop sports the simple awe of Alan's abilities and leaves you wanting more.

Another absolutely amazing landscape work is that of Tribute from ShiftedReality. Juergen Eilts created this glowing piece with Vue d'Esprit 4.1. It's hard to believe that this piece isn't a bit of real reality. Excellent work!

Mr. Monkie Bradford Wiles has been adding gobs of goop to previous works and found that once it gets started, It's Growing! It sometimes comes as a surprise how a single work such as Stressed and Crawl I can make the metamorphosis into many. Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

Juergen, Alan, Bob, Adam, Michael, Peter and Stefan...

Absolutely MARVELOUS work!

THANKS!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

Happicon - Ages since he has done a desktop picture at Happicon, Rene has released a new anti-war desktop titled Baby Boom. This new work is available only at Happicon, so you'll have to click on over and check it out!

RAD.E8 - Sascha Höhne has been busy sprucing things up over at RAD.E8! Not only does he have a brand new site design, but many new flavors of the SNOW.E icon series have been added to make your eyes drool with desire! You best get your clickers in gear and check out all the latest at RAD.E8!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On The Net

Menu Master 1.0 - You already know that Unsanity provides the best haxies in the business. And now they add another gem to their collection with Menu Master 1.0. With Master Menu you can modify and add keyboard shortcuts for menus in applications under Mac OS X. It's easy to use and very customizable. Best yet, it's by Unsanity! Hurry over and grab your copy of Menu Master !

Got a Software Update? Let us know!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

BOOT NOTE

He was an inventor of note. He created a big shoe with a phone in the heel. Now, he thought, he could use a phone whenever he wanted. He made several more so that he could have several shoes with phones in the house. One day, an emergency came up and he needed a phone bad. Would you believe it, he couldn't find a single phone boot.

WHO IS MARYLOU?!?

A woman came up behind her husband while he was enjoying his morning coffee and slapped him on the back of the head.

"I found a piece of paper in your pants pocket with the name 'Marylou' written on it," she said, furious. "You had better have an explanation."

"Calm down, honey," the man replied. "Remember last week when I was at the dog track? That was the name of the dog I bet on."

The next morning, his wife snuck up on him and smacked him again."What was that for?" he complained.

"Your dog called last night."

FORD MANUFACTURING

Q: Why does Ford still manufacture cars and trucks?

A: Because they are trying to keep the towing industry alive.

April 8, 2003

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

Monkie News

New Desktops, Monkie Oops! - What day would tomorrow be? Well our mid-week Wednesday Desktop Edition, of course! And an ample amount of GUI goodness is what we have in store. This week's works include desktop selections from ShiftedReality, burntcanvasdesign, Peter J. Sucy, Pictures and Adicons, Michael Heath, PoulosDesign, and MacMonkies. All this great GUI and more Monkie madness is just around the corner!

On a different note, we found we made a boo-boo in last week's Monkie Business. We stated that "On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag." One of our readers was nice enough to inform us that "not only is the current 2 dollar currency a coin, but the flag you are referring to appears on the Canadian ten dollar bill. Rather than an American flag, it is a part of the Union Jack; representing Canada's ties to Great Britain." Oops! Thanks to Malcolm for pointing this out to us!

Community News

Max Themes - Just in at Max Themes is a QNX 1.0, a brand new appearance theme for OSX. QNX uses the Photon MicroGUI upon which this theme is based and is a joint effort between Max Rudberg and James Meister. Get your GUI fingers over to Max Themes and check it out!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

On The Net

Path Finder 2.1.1 - The folks at CocoaTech have just released Path Finder 2.1.1, a comprehensive file browser with some darn fine features for discerning Mac OS X users everywhere. The new version has speed improvements, bug fixes, and some new functionality. Also new at CocoaTech is a newly redesigned website. If you are looking for a great OSX Finder alternative, check out Path Finder 2.1.1 at CocoaTech today!

Got a Software Update? Let us know!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

The Top Banana - Steve Jobs has been listed on the Forbes list of best paid CEO's. But you won’t have to scroll down too far to find his name. In fact, this Apple Chief Executive Officer appears at the very top of the list, making him the best paid CEO of 2002. Mind you, this wasn't all cold hard cash. The final count also included stock options and other compensation. All in all, Jobs came out on top with US$116.3 million. - from MacMinute and Forbes

Plastic Reality - The latest greatest reality TV show is offering a nose job to its winner. The show, How Do I Look, assembles a group of people who desire plastic surgery and who are screened by surgeons and psychologists in front of viewers. The lucky winner gets a fully funded nose job and gets to show off their new look on TV after the surgery. Nobody knows what the nose knows... - from Ananova

April 7, 2003

Community News | Bananas

At The Top - I love Mondays, I love Mondays, I love Mondays...Yeah right!! Okay, so I am fibbin' a bit. But that's where we add a bit of Banana to your News and GUI diet to make it all go down better (and perhaps even come out all right). So let's start the week out right and have an awesome good time! Shall we?!!

Community News

Pixelpalooza: People's Choice Voting - Let your pixel preference be heard! Today is the day that The Iconfactory begins the People's Choice Voting portion of the Pixelpalooza 2003. This is your chance to vote for your favorite icon entries in this year's Pixelpalooza. Point your clicker to The Iconfactory and get to voting!

Live Pencil - Just in from Live Pencil is more fun to get you grinnin' ear to ear. Here's what's in store:

• EASTER IS COMING! Soon we'll have Easter eggs all around. Today we present a new game "Find the Easter eggs"
• EMOTICONS: More animals now transparent for your e-mails. Kitty cat and woodpecker.
• BACKGROUND: Party time!!! Confetti all around for your e-mails.
• More CANDY LETTERS: Today yellow gum candy.
• IT IS YOU: - Rosie Ison from Sunbury, England. This is lovely Disney.  View here
• TICKLE ME : More tickle me's from your pictures. Just for fun.
• HIDDEN IMAGE: A new one every week...Please look for it, it's great fun.

For the freshest fun around, climb aboard Live Pencil and have a blast!

burntcanvasdesign - Back again but busier than ever, Alan Sherwood updates burntcanvasdesign with 9 new desktop pics for you to download. For the people that saw the last update they can now get a hold of those mouth watering landscapes in the 1024 and 1600 size selections. And for the people that missed it, it's darned good clickin'! Get over to bcd and get to clickin'!

Terraholic.net - After taking a brief hiatus at Terraholic.net, Martin Schulte is back with some great new work! Just added to his galleries is a breath taking new selection titled Yukon, which you can find in Gallery IV. Also updated is the Links section. If your desktop needs the ultimate in inspiration, get yourself over to Terraholic.net and check it out!

Send Us Your Site News!

press@macmonkies.com

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

THINGS THAT MAKE A GORILLA GO HUH???!!!!!!

When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?

Why is the word abbreviation so long?

Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?

If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?

If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?

Why is it that the probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability?

Why is it that floggings continue until morale improves?

WEB TECH TERMINOLOGY

CGI Joe: A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.

Dorito Syndrome: Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome."

Glazing: Corporate speak for sleeping with your eyes open. A popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. "Didn't he notice that half the room was glazing by the second session?"

BIGUM DRINK

Did you hear about the man who drank 5 gallons of tea?

He drowned in his teepee!