May 11, 2003

Happy Mom's Day!!!

May 10, 2003

Monkie Business

Monkie Business

Odds and Ends

I Can See For Miles - The telescope on Mount Palomar, California, can see a distance of 7,038,835,200,000,000,000,000 miles.

Friendship State of Mind - Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

- Mencius

Do It To It - Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

Show Me Da Money - A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

- John Ciardi

May 9, 2003

Icons | Community News | On The Net | Bananas

At The Top - Well, well, well...We've made it through another weird and wild week! And of course that means we whip out a new batch of GUI goodness for your Friday Icon Edition! Add to the great pixels some Community and Software News, a bit of Bananas, and you have a great way to wrap up your whacked out week. Let's dig in!

New GOO!

New Icons - Let's get down and get funky as we have 4 New Icon Sets that your eyes will freak for! With a collection of cool, it's time to drool!

AGRAPHA Icons - Hot off the pixel press and leaving paw prints everywhere are Panther Icons from AGARAPHA Icons. This sleek new set from Harvey Lubin pairs the panthers nicely with his recent desktop of the same Panther name. A purrrrfect combination!

wbc icons - We know you just love sparkle and shine. And who better to put on the pixel polish than Yazoo from wbc icons?!! This week's display of excellence is Steel Bins. Now even your trash is as tough as Superman and is spit shined to boot!

Iconizer Icon Studios - When you just can't quench your icon thirst, how about Some Drinks from Iconizer Icon Studios? Wessley Roche has assembled an awesome array of Apple based beverages that will wet your desktop whistle for a while to come!

James Gowan - Zipping up this week's cool collection of Icon Sets is Zip Disks from the talented pixel craftsman James Gowan. James fully understands the meaning of the phrase "DO IT YOURSELF, DUMMY!" And so he did! A great set of 33, there's nothing dumb about this collection of colorful Zip Disks. Enjoy!

Thanks Department --

James, Harvey, Yazoo, and Wessley...

You all possess an outstanding ability for pixel placement!

Excellent work!!!

THANK YOU!!

Send Us Your Icons!

Community News

Mandolux - Mando Gomez adds another great desktop to the galleries of Mandolux. The latest is a Technosis/Anthraxis selection titled Desert Road. Also added this week were creations called Thora and Selma. Make your way to Mandolux for some great new work from Mando Gomez.

Happicon - Just a little reminder...If you haven't been over to Happicon to grab your copy of iFix©3, there's no time like now to do so! This great patch adds the new iMovie 3 look to Apple DVD player 3.2, giving your brushed Apple apps a look of consistency. Get over to Happicon and get to grabbin'!

On The Net

CandyBar 1.5.2 - The good folks from The Iconfactory and Panic have just released CandyBar 1.5.2, the coolest OS X system icon customization tool on the pixel planet! The latest version of CandyBar makes it fully qualified for use with Apple's recent update to OSX, 10.2.6. Move them mouses to The Factory and grab your updated copy of CandyBar!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

A REAL DUMP

The real estate agent says, "I have a good, cheap apartment for you."

The man replies, "By the week or by the month?"

The agent answers, "By the garbage dump."

DUUUUDE!!!!!!

There is a California dude going through a desert. He's wearing shorts, sunglasses, a towel and listening to music on his iPod. He's having a good time. Suddenly he sees a caravan approaching. He stops the Arabs and ask them cheerfully: "Hey dudes! How far is the sea?"

They look at each other and say: "Two thousand miles!"

And he says: "Wow! What a cool beach!!!"

SMART DUCK!

One day a duck went to the supermarket. He went up and down the aisles. Then he walked up to the store manager and said, "Got any Duck food?"

The manager replied, "No, we only have people food here."

The duck left. The next day the duck went back to the supermarket. He went up and down the aisles. He walked up to the manager and said, "Got any duck food?"

He replied, "No! We only sell people food here and if you ask me again I will nail your feet to the ground!" The duck left.

The duck returned to the supermarket the next day. He walked up and down the aisles. He walked up to the manager and asked, "Got any nails?"

He replied, "No."

Then the duck asked, "Got any duck food?"

May 8, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Icons - Free up your frenzied Friday for your Friday Icon Edition! We will update with some fine new Icon Sets including some great new work from AGRAPHA Icons, James Gowan, wbc icons, and Iconizer Icon Studios. All these great pixels plus News and Fun equal a great way to wind up your week right here at MacMonkies. Y'all come back now...ya hear?!!!

Community News

mix the piX - Mr. Hein Mevissen miXes up his special brew of polished pixels and brushes up a brand new icon set. Now available at miX the piX is Brushed 3.0, an awesome set of 16 that will send your pixel eyes a poppin'! Get yourself to miX the piX and check 'em out!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Let The Good Tunes Roll - Listeners of the WFMU radio station in New York will never be left high and dry during a thunderstorm again, thanks to Apple’s iPod. The main manager installed an iPod to their transmitter, finding that it took little space and was cost effective too. Now when the music just won’t ride the waves of the satellite due to inclement weather, the DJ just dials up to a remote control unit and lets the iPod spin a variety of tunes at random for listeners. All with only 5 gigabytes! - from MacCentral

Fortunate Feline - Stray cat Tinker got rich overnight when his widowed owner, Margaret Layne, willed a $100,000 trust fund and a house to him. Lucy and Stardust, female felines, have since joined Tinker in the cat house to share in his fortune. Layne’s former neighbors give the cats food and milk every day, and have even fixed up the house a bit using the trust fund. The neighbors get the house when Tinker moves on to animal heaven. So someone gets the cat house after Tinker...Hmmmm. - from Ananova

May 7, 2003

Desktops | Community News | Bananas

At The Top - Time to kick the mid-week blues with GOO from our Wednesday Desktop Edition. Great new 'wallpaper' works fill the Gallery as well as a dose of Community News and Bananas too. Let's peel!

New GOO!

New Desktops - Does your desktop need a smiling lift of face? How about 7 great works to put in the doldrums place! If the desktop blahs got ya down, then we've got just what the doctor ordered! Let's medicate!

3-D Rendered - Giving your desktop a golden GUI experience opportunity is an astonishing piece from ShiftedReality called River of Gold. This sweet selection flows onto your desktop from the ever creative abilities of Juergen Eilts using Vue d'Esprit 3.1.

Okay! I admit it!!! I just couldn't wait to get through Alan Sherwood's entire 'Waiting' series, so I went to Waiting V and got the dessert. There are so many great selections at burntcanvasdesign, that in actuality, ALL of them are a treat!

Always making amazement with works of GUI goodness is Rob Randtoul from PlasmaDesign. This week's cool contribution called Storm Eye is sure to blow your sense of virtual reality. Careful of the neon!

Calming the storm is a serene scene from Terraholic called Orange Sky. Mr. Martin Schulte creates this beautiful number using Terragen, a landscape-generator programmed by Matt Fairclough. Let your eyes kick back, relax, and enjoy the next best thing to being in the great out doors.

 

Etc... - Our single selection sneakin' into the Etc. Department is a super fast critter with a surprise attack. Panther comes to us from icon artist Harvey Lubin of AGRAPHA Icons, a shuttle from the mother ship of Agrapha.com. Cool critter and fine design!

 

Desktops - Don't know how he does it...keepin' those quality pics stocked up at EA Design. Maybe it's just Lucky Pressure! Or at least that's one of the latest greatest minimalistic creations from author Ed Allen. I guess less really IS more!

Closing out this week's Desktop Session is MacMonkies' Bradford Wiles with Up and Over. This ode to blue includes a twist of Bryce and a touch of Flood from Flaming Pear using Photoshop. Enjoy!

 

Thanks Department --

Harvey, Juergen, Alan, Ed, Rob, and Martin...

Your creations are turning heads all over the web! Keep it up!!!

Cheers!!

Have a piece you want to display?

Check out our Submissions guidelines and then send it in!

Community News

Mandolux - Good golly Miss Molly! Mr. Mando Gomez has added yet another cool selection to the collections of Mandolux. Now available is a new set of Giant Petals titled Thora. The set is composed of a picture of a rose petal, which has a set of wonderful shadows and textures throughout the wallpaper. Make your way to Mandolux and grab a look!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

PLEASE HANG UP...

A teenage girl had been talking on the phone for about half an hour, and then she hung up.

"Wow!" said her father, "That was short. You usually talk for two hours. What happened?"

"Wrong number," replied the girl.

JUST PERFECT

A: I have the perfect son.

B: Does he smoke?

A: No, he doesn't.

B: Does he drink whiskey?

A: No, he doesn't.

B: Does he ever come home late?

A: No, he doesn't.

B: I guess you really do have the perfect son. How old is he?

A: He will be six months old next Wednesday.

MOUSIN' AROUND

A family of mice were surprised by a big cat. Father Mouse jumped and and said, "Bow-wow!" The cat ran away. "What was that, Father?" asked Baby Mouse.

"Well, son, that's why it's important to learn a second language."

May 6, 2003

Monkie News | Community News | Network News

Monkie News

Tomorrow: New Desktops - Oh come on! I know you saw it coming!! Tomorrow we update the Gallery with fine new desktops for our mid-week Wednesday Desktop Edition right here at MacMonkies. Several wonderful works are working their way into the picture (pun intended), so swing your Monkie tails back here on Wednesday for a good-eyed time for all!

Community News

EA Design - Mr. Ed Allen is back once again with new GOO to calm the Zoo! Just added to the cages of EA Design are two new desktops called Code Of Energy and Heavy Rotation, and 2 new 2-D artwork pieces titled Now You Know and The Big Come Down. Get yourself down to EA Design and check 'em out!

widget : widget - Master pixel pusher Alexander MacLean has added two new desktop pictures to the GUI kingdom of widget : widget. King Kong and Groove are the latest pics ready for downloading pleasure. Get your groove on the move to widget : widget and grab a gander of these funky new additions!

Network News

the WebWorld - BeanHead

Apple's Record: Over The Top - Apple is breaking records by selling records! It only took them one week to "become the largest online music company in the world." They have topped a million songs sold and a million downloads of iTunes 4 since introducing the iTunes Music Store. Song purchases soared from a variety of genres, and half of them were sold as albums. Fasten your seat belts because as of today, Apple adds 3,200 more songs to their list. Ready, set, ROCK! - from Apple

Surfin' Inside The Outhouse - MSN UK is equipping portable outhouses with reading material, but not in the form of magazines. Inside the iLoo this summer there will be a flat-panel screen and wireless keyboard that will allow people to surf the net while in the John - or the Loo. The company is even trying to have toilet paper made with urls plastered all over it. But they don’t want anyone to plunder the port-a-potty, so they will post a guard at each iLoo to protect the equipment.Ha! Microsoft guarding their own poop! - from ZD Net

May 5, 2003

Community News | Monkie News | Bananas

At The Top - Hello, hello! The Monkie crud is on its way out the door and another week of Monkie Madness is dead ahead! For things to come, we've got a few Featured Links on their way for later this week or the first part of next. We also may have recruited a cool dude that is currently working on the code guts of the Monkie pages that are already making their way into place.

For your inquisitive mind, we have a new Monkie Poll that you can find in the Monkie News section, as well as some Community News, Software Updates, and Bananas. Let's boogie!

Community News

Happicon - The pixel perfecter from Happicon has just released iFix©3, the final fix! This joint venture with Max Rudberg adds the new iMovie 3 look to Apple DVD player 3.2, giving your brushed Apple apps a look of consistency. Give it a look and then head over to Rene's happy place at Happicon and make your Mac look consistently good!

wbc icons - Gads! Just when you thought that your icon appetite was full from great gobs o' GUI, wbc icons updates with another set! Modern Speaker Icons has just been added by Yazoo and this cool set is ready for download. Work your way over to wbc and get to grabbin'!

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Monkie News

New Monkie Poll - It's that time again -- time for more "useless" information. Actually, I think they call that "trivia." Whatever the name, it's time for this week's Monkie Poll and last week's results. Let's look!

In last week's poll, we asked: Of The Beatles, who wrote 'Hey Jude'? Your choices were: Lennon/McCartney, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo, and Mary Hopkins. Before we give the answer, let's look at what you said:

Paul McCartney 68% - Seems some of you know something a few are about to discover.

Lennon and McCartney 11% - The song is credited to have been written by Lennon and McCartney.

John Lennon 8% - Lennon gave the 'nod'!

Ringo 6% - Just a great drummer in the greatest rock and roll band. He sang and wrote a few songs while in The Beatles.

Mary Hopkins 6% - There was a Mary Hopkin that had a hit with "Those Were the Days" on The Beatles Apple Records label, but no Mary Hopkins that I am aware of.

It seems we have quite a few Beatleaniacs among us! Though 'Hey Jude' is credited to be a Lennon/McCartney tune, Paul had the entire song completed when he presented it to John and Yoko Ono. Paul was going to nix the line "the movement you need is on your shoulders," but John insisted Paul leave it in.

For this week's Monkie Poll, we simply want to know: Have you purchased music from the iTunes Music Store? Let us know by taking a little click, looking to your right, and throw your vote. Tune it up!

Bananas

Just Plain Nuts - R. Westby

TEACHER TEACHER I DECLARE!

Two boys were arguing when the teacher entered the room. The teacher says, "Why are you arguing?"

One boy answers, "We found a ten dollar bill and decided to give it to whoever tells the biggest lie."

"You should be ashamed of yourselves," said the teacher, "When I was your age I didn't even know what a lie was."

The boys gave the ten dollars to the teacher."

A LITTLE SLOWWWWW

A snail walks into a bar and the barman tells him there's a strict policy about having snails in the bar and so kicks him out. A year later the same snail re-enters the bar and asks the barman "What did you do that for?"

SMART LOVE

Man said to God: Why did you make women so beautiful?

God said to man: So that you will love them.

Man said to God: But why did you make them so dumb?

God said to man: So that they will love you.