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April 16, 2002

Late Night Edition 10:24 PM MST

They're Here! - For all you late-nighters or early-birders (as the case might be for our overseas Monkie friends), our new Icon Department is NOW OPEN! Check out these cool additions as well as the latest desktop works now available in the Gallery!

Coming Up! - Stop by tomorrow for plenty of Monkie Toe Steps! We have some great desktop material from our rather regular contributors: Neil Roberts, Scott Chitwood, EA Design, Ethereal Creations, and Mad Mad Max of MacMonkies fame...Oh, I guess that's the main Monkie Man of MacMonkies (don't want to put the boss too much on the screechy side). There's also a collaborative piece from Mr. Monkie and Software Junkie Kara Kelly!

How can you top this? We'll tell you! Tomorrow we officially open the doors of our Icon Section in the GUI Department. To kick off the opening we will have some fine Iconian creations from Scott Chitwood, Dan Flax of Flax Creations and Sir Patrick from Eye9design! Plus, we already have more excellent works lined up from other amazing pixel slingers really soon! Make a date and don't be late for Wednesday's new edition of Mad Max and the MacMonkie Junkies!!

April 15, 2002

Photoshop 7.0 Ships! - The much anticipated new version of Photoshop - Version 7.0 - is now shipping. Adobe's new version enables users of Mac OSX to use Photoshop without having to start up the Classic environment as well having access to the added improvements and new features. Cool Beans!

Updated - If you are are ordering online at Adobe, as of 1 PM MST, the Adobe Store still said that Photoshop was available for preorder. However, we contacted Adobe and they confirmed that there were "plenty of copies" for Mac in stock ready to ship.

 

Here Come the Icons! - Don't forget: This Wednesday marks the opening of the Icon section in our GUI Department. Hope to see you then!

 

Taxman! - Just a reminder! You have till midnight tonight to have your taxes sealed up and post marked for delivery to the Taxman. Everybody say eeeeeyuck!

April 14, 2002

To Ponder - There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- Muhammad Ali

April 13, 2002

Software Update - Proteron updates MaxMenus to version 1.1. The latest version fixes a few of those icky bugs and adds some features. Check it out!

 

Thought for the Day - Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

April 12, 2002

New Desktops! - Are you and your Mac stressed out? The remedy is simple! Get your Monkie Toes over to EA Design and have a blast! Ed and Alan have added 10 new works for your viewing pleasure as well as some industry news and a great release for built up tension - The Stress Relief Dart Board starring Bill Gates! Don't dally. Go!

 

Barefoot Beta! - Our sister site - Barefoot Monkies - has added 2 original song clips
and 3 fun computer sounds to our beta testing site. If you are interested in participating as a beta tester, stop by http://www.barefootmonkies.com for more information. Git Goin'!

April 11, 2002

Software Update - St. Clair Software has updated Default Folder X, fixing a few problems in the System Preferences pane in and adding French-language support for our French-speaking users. The update is free to registered users. More details can be found here or can be downloaded here.

 

The Rest of the Mac Web Story - The results are in for Low End Mac's 3rd Rest of the Mac Web Survey. A big congratulations go out to everyone at The Iconfactory for placing #1! They certainly deserve the top notch position!

MacMonkies received an overall rank of 31 of 50 sites. I believe we were 39 in the last survey. Our "respectability" rating came out a little above average with a 3.185 out of 5 possible points - 1 being poor and 5 being excellent.

Though the "Best of" and "Rest of" surveys are "a bit of a popularity contest," they present site owners and webmasters additional tools to evaluate their performance. We certainly appreciate your support and are always open to your input. Feel free to send us your feedback by heading over to our Comment Page or simply drop us a line at:

macmonkies@mac.com

 

Thought for the Day - Change is inevitable - except from vending machines.

April 10, 2002

At The Top

News Flash! Pack Your Bags! - Yup! That's right. You better start packing. An asteroid may be hitting the Earth - in about 900 years! And even at that, the odds are about 1 in 300, scientists report. The due date? March 16, 2880. This is quite the pregnancy. But boy when it's ready to burst, you better run for the hills! - from National Geographic

MonkieNews! - Gads! I need a...temporary, secretary. Temporary, secretaire. I need a...! Yes yes yes! It's has been busy. Likely to stay that way for a while. So! Let's dive in!

• In the Gallery! - Woo Hoo! We have quite the star-studded group of artists (plus a goofy Monkie) this week lining out the Gallery! 8 Pieces in all! Let's take a look :
  
  Fun First! - We are by no means putting this first selection up front because it just so happens to sport the MacMonkies name! It's just that this piece from Mr. Michele Bugliaro of Mikawares is soooo much fun and, well...that's me in the picture! Okay, not really. But it is my twin!! This was such a cool pic that we couldn't make up our mind where to put it so we slipped it in both the Fun Department and the Logo Section. And I dubbed the pic as MikaMonkies. Thanks Michele! It is an honor!
  
  Cool Desktop - Andy Moraitis of Ethereal Creations adds to our Desktop pages with some chaos is disguise as Turmoil. As Andy put it, the piece "started as a study in volumetric lighting effects" and became the background for another work. There's art everywhere!
  
  In Your Face 3-D! - We have quite the fine selection of 3-D works starting off with another in the zen series from Neil Roberts called...zen1a. It is amazing how now and zen, a little tweak here and there can create a whole new outlook! Now that's something to meditate on!
  
  Next up in 3-D is quite a fine piece from Alan Sherwood of EA Design called Wispy Dreaming. Dream into action!
  
  Also from EA Design is a piece from Mr. Allen himself titled Aqua Park. As always, we get a high grade of excellence from Alan and Ed!
  
  The final three 3-D to round out the squirvey eight are three from Doc Monk called Mystery Mountain, Europa, and Out There. You're sure to enjoy these as you can get as down to earth or as spaced out as you like. Check 'em out!
  

• New Monkie Bundle! - If you like to add a little pizzazz under your desktop, or just like to go it alone in the desktop area, these patterns are for you. Scott Chitwood carved and bundled this far out collection of patterns called R1 Patterns. Head over to the GUI page and just press Monkie Bundles!
  

 

• Icons 4 Ewe! - We will officially open our icon section next week! And that's a fact Jack! Be sure and stop by for your full course of GUI goodies!
  

 

• Announcements, Announcements, Announcements! - We have another, umm...hmmm. Yeah! One of those things coming on Friday. Roll out the barrels, we'll have a barrel of fun!
  
  
  

Community News

Pixelpalooza 2002 - The end is getting nearer and nearer! Can you feel the suspense? The Iconfactory's results for the winners of the Pixelpalooza icon designing are soon to come. And YOU can make a difference!

Until Friday, you can take part in the People's Choice voting portion of the contest. Yuppers! There's a lot of great stuff in there from people like Scott Chitwood - formerly of Rampant Mac, Patrick of Eye9design, Matthew Bice of IHeartNY: XIcons, Sam of Pixel Jerk, Paul of DV Graphics...the list goes on! Come on! Come on! Vote all ready!

IHeartNY: Xicons - Matthew Bice of IHeartNY: XIcons is certainly not short of creativity these days! Not only does he have 2 new sets of awesome (as usual) icons - Adium Garden Gnome and IHeartNY Dock Lawn, he also teaches you how to turn your dock into a virtual garden!

How cool can you get?! Check out all the cool stuff over at IHeartNY: XIcons!

EA Design - Ed Allen and Allan Sherwood must not see daylight often as hard as they have been working lately! They recently updated EA Design with 16 new 3-D and 2-D works! Best get over there while the grabbin' is good!

DV Graphics! - DV Graphics is rolling through the changes right now as a site update is underway. Paul reminds all that "things are going to be a little weird around here as we update all the pages to work like this." Please bear with them (and no monkeying either).

New Theme For OSX - Ahh! Yet another Theme for OSX is in stock over at Xthemination! This preview is called Underling.

Another especially nice theme recently added is AlumiteX. Check out all the Themes available at Xthemination!

Ethereal Creations - Bunches of cool stuff is going down at Ethereal Creations. Among the activities are: The addition of 4 new desktops, the Collections gallery has been renamed "Guest Art" and will contain the beautiful works of Brenda McKeown as well as those of Michael Gingerelli. Also updated is the News and The View From Here. Check out these and the New Releases gallery for the latest in stunning digital art!

 

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News On The Net...

Come Together - Apple and Adobe are coming together to offer a free clinic on how to use the latest version of Adobe products with OS X. The workshop, "Driven by Design" will take attendees through all the steps of graphics from design to printing to the web. Graphic designers, web designers and production artists are invited to attend, but seating is limited. To register, CLICK HERE. - from Apple

Burn Baby, Burn - BMG, one of the world's largest music labels, announced on Monday that they would be releasing CDs to retailers that are copyright-protected. They are hoping that customers will not burn CDs and also that albums will not be released early due to shared music on the Internet. Because of the recent problem with copyright-protected CDs' incompatibility with computer CD players, the CDs being released will have two versions of the albums: One for CD players and one for playback on PCs. Sounds like their future sales just went up in smoke. - from Yahoo

Mobile Messenger - Mobile text messaging was worth every letter to a woman in Malaysia. She was abducted by two men while walking to work. They put her in a room in a condominium, and from that room she typed a message into her phone and left it for her coworker. Her coworker contacted the police and the police rescued the women from the room and arrested the men who had abducted her. Mobile messaging is widely used in Malaysia, as 500 million messages are sent every month. Way to go, lady! - from Excite

Leading The Way - Since Apple released the Superdrive in January it has shipped almost half a million Macs that are equipped with that Superdrive. This fact, combined with Apple's iDVD 2 software, top-of-the-line video editing software and DVD media priced at under $5 per disc, has put Apple ahead of the game in DVD burning. Says Apple's senior director of hardware, Greg Joswiak, "Apple is leading the desktop DVD revolution." Now that's a no brainer! - from Apple

Sledgehammer - Gary Wilke of Appleton Wisconsin bought a $2,600 Gateway PC for his daughter in January. In the last three months he had to take the machine in five times for hard drive and sound system problems. The final time he took it in he couldn't take it anymore, and he smashed the PC to smithereens with a sledgehammer right there at the store in front of everybody. "I wonder how many people are out there complaining and not getting service. It feels good in a way," he said. The 51-year-old was cited by the police for disorderly conduct. - from The Register

April's Fool Again - Bill Gates fell prank to a fake phone interview on April Fool's Day. Two men from the Montreal Radio Station CKMF-FM called Gates pretending to be Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien. They talked about the economy, insulted the Windows OS and even invited Gates to a local strip club. "He did not seem angry but he did not find it so funny," the comic (Sebastien Trudel) told Reuters. The ten-minute interview was aired on the radio station the following Tuesday and Wednesday. To hear the audio clip, head over to EA Design. from Excite

 

Have you Heard?

Dry Vine - Not much in the way of spectacular has been buzzing through the vine as of late. One source is claiming a 2 button mouse made by Apple to be out soon. However, several sources reported similar stories almost a year ago. Apple also started the single button mouse revolution with its simplicity yet still able to compete with the 2 + button mice. It is easy to see Apple compromising on this issue since they have done a great deal of listening to consumer input. But there is still that stubborn streak that will keep Apple consumers guessing from now till that asteroid hits. =)

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Useless Mac Tip #4 - It really is the simple things in life that make things so enjoyable. And of course, the fast cars and...never mind! Let's just get to this week's "useless" but cool tip!

Sometimes pressing buttons does have its payoffs (unless of course its your mother's buttons). In the case of computers, and in this case a Mac, the command key can save you a stretch or two (most "Commands" probably apply to PC owners, except sub the Command key with the Control key - but no guarantees).

Here's just a few commands for most web browsers we found:

Command <--- (left arrow) = page back

Command ---> (right arrow) = page forward

Command ^ (up arrow) = page up

and the opposite of the above is of course page down

Then there is:

Command r = reload

Command e = display page source

Of course, if you simply look close in the menu, you will see bunches so you can sit back with your soda and keyboard on your belly and not have to spill a drop while reaching for your mouse! How's that grab ya?!

Check it Out!

Just Plain Nutz!

MALE OR FEMALE?

SWISS ARMY KNIFE - male, because even though it appears useful for a wide variety of work, it spends most of its time just opening bottles.

KIDNEYS - female, because they always go to the bathroom in pairs.

TIRE - male, because it goes bald and often is over-inflated.

HOT AIR BALLOON - male, because to get it to go anywhere you have to light a fire under it ... and, of course, there's the hot air part.

SPONGES - female, because they are soft and squeezable and retain water.

WEB PAGE - female, because it is always getting hit on.

SHOE - male, because it is usually unpolished, with its tongue hanging out.

COPIER - female, because once turned off, it takes a while to warm up. Because it is an effective reproductive device when the right buttons are pushed. Because it can wreak havoc when the wrong buttons are pushed.

ZIPLOC BAGS - male, because they hold everything in, but you can always see right through them.

SUBWAY - male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up.

HOURGLASS - female, because over time, the weight shifts to the bottom.

HAMMER - male, because it hasn't evolved much over the last 5,000 years, but it's handy to have around.

REMOTE CONTROL - female...Ha!...you thought I'd say male. But consider, it gives man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying.

 

SIGNS YOU HAVE ENTERED THE 21ST CENTURY (Part II)

Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is cause for panic and turning around to go get it.

Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.

Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of
the back seat of your car.

Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not
have e-mail addresses.

You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.

Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet

Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.

You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.

You get an extra phone line (or a DSL/cable modem) so you can get
phone calls.

You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if
you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

You get up in morning and go online before getting your coffee.

You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.

You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)

You're reading this.

Even worse; you're going to forward it to someone else

Contributed by Nancy B.

 

WHY I LOVE WYOMING

When it's Springtime in Wyoming ...
And the gentle breezes blow
At about seventy miles per hour
And it's thirty-two below.

You can tell you're in Wyoming
Cuz the snow's up to your butt
And you take a breath of Springtime air
And your nose holes both freeze shut.

The weather here is wonderful ...
So I guess I'll hang around.
I could never leave Wyoming
Cuz my feet are frozen to the ground.


 

COMPUTERS VS. AIR CONDITIONERS

How is a computer like an air conditioner?

When you open Windows it won't work!


 

COMPUTER LANGUAGE

What is the first programming language you learn when studying computer science?

Profanity.


 

SAD BUT TRUE

I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?" !


 

RAIN RAIN

If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.

- Damien Cannon


 

DUMB AND DUMBEST

Seen on T-shirt: I am stupid!


 

ALL SHE WROTE

A priest, a nun, a rabbi, a lawyer, and a doctor walk into a bar. The bartender takes one look at them and says, "What is this? A joke?"

 
 

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Odds and Ends

Stand Up!

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

- Alexander Hamilton.

 

Open Eyes, Shut The Blinds

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

- Japanese proverb

 

Did You Know

Did you know that in April of 1964, The Beatles made chart history when they grabbed the first five Billboard singles positions with "Can't Buy Me Love," "Twist and Shout," "She Loves You," "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and "Please Please Me?" Hasn't been done since!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cows in lap of waterbed luxury!
And to think that I sleep on the floor...Sheesh!

Paper shredder for computer files

Extensive desktop & file/folder editing & task tool

Digital recording, editing, and mixing software

Amateur radio app: satellite track, doppler correction, etc.

Text note pad and auto reminder (fixed version)

Chat system with server and client

Paper shredder for computer files

Extensive desktop & file/folder editing & task tool

Instant message app for AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo

Dock & Menu based launcher

Automates any task, multi-step or repetitive action

Cocoa Calendar & event reminder app

Cocoa native standalone Web browser based on Fizzilla

Digital recording, editing, and mixing software

Classic game of Hangman

Switch between an unlimited number of Docks (was dockDoubler)

Dockling to easily open preference panes from the Dock

Record voice memos/ capture from devices (i.e. the radio)

Compresses window buffers to improve system performance

Hierarchical file navigation & launcher

Amateur radio app: satellite track, doppler correction

CD/DVD mastering (burning) solution

Auto-optimizing firewall in System Prefs

Knowledge collaboration software geared toward the small company

Text note pad and auto reminder (fixed version)

Download manager and accelerator utility

OS X client for the collaborative SETI effort

Remove the blocks game

Desktop calendar

Password organizer with strong cryptography

LAN-based chat utility

Chat system with server and client

Popular Web browser

Launch apps, folders, urls; aliases from contextual menus