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August 6, 2002

LATE EVENING UPDATE 8:55 PM MDT

8 New Desktops and 5 New Icon Sets - It's that time again: Time to grab a GUI snack with some great work from 10 great artists!

In the Gallery you'll find 8 New Desktops to brighten up your desktop's day. You'll also find 5 great New Icon Sets on Page 13 and Page 14 of the Icon Department to add to your desktop experience.

And whilst you're out and about browsing the GUI goodies, you just might find a change or two that will soon saturate the Monkie nest! Have fun! =)

Monkie News - Tomorrow brings plenty o' artist selections in ye old Monkie barrel of GUI Goodies! Desktop Artists include Melissa, Bob Wiley, Todd Darland, Alan Sherwood, and MacMonkies' "Mean Mr. Mustard." Icon pixelators will include Samuel Krueger, Matthew Bice, Hein Mevissen, Adam Dickson, and Dan Flax.

Don't forget that this Friday we will announce the winners to our 1st Birthday Giveaway! Woo hoo!!

You don't want to miss the fun this week at MacMonkies. Hope to see you here!

 

Smirk of the Day - When asked if I made the debating team, I replied, "N-n-no. They s-s-said I w-w-wasn't t-t-tall enough."

August 5, 2002

widget! - Alexander MacLean is relaunching widget - a GUI, icons, desktops, graphics site. The new site also has a new URL: www.widgetwidget.com. Be sure to stop by widget and let Alexander know what you think. Check it out!

 

Iconize Me! - Paul Sahner of DV Graphics announces the Grand Opening of the brand new one-of-a-kind service: Iconize Me! With this great new service, you can take your face and plant it on a giant size icon for a low low price! You don't need to be a star to have your face up in pixels! Swing by Iconize Me! and get yourself iconized today!

And while you're in the area, check out the new desktop pictures and a brand new icon set called Clean Media Docs at DV Graphics! Read the full announcement HERE.

 

WTMISG - From Why the Mac is so great.com, Yan Feng announces another great desktop image: Aquatic Galaxy. Swing by WTMISG and grab a look!

 

Rampant Mac - There's some great old and new additions happenin' at the Rampant Mac Ranch! Added to Rampant Mac are 2 new desktops: Art Desk no.11 & New Sensation, and one new GUI hack: Think Stooge MOSS. From the desktop archives come the classics Think Stooge Desktop and Phantasmaghora. Check out these and more of the best at Rampant Mac!

August 2-4, 2002

EARLY EVENING UPDATE 5:05 PM MDT

Nap Time! - The MacMonkies staff will be taking the weekend off. Updates will resume late Sunday evening. While we're away, we'll begin prepping for next week's Birthday Giveaway Winners Announcement, swinging from some vines, and taking a LONG nap! Whilst the Monkies are away, feel free to play in the Gallery, check out the desktop improvements in the GUI Department, listen to the Music, and simply have a blast! We look forward to seeing you when we return! Pasta la taco!

New OSX Boot Panels - We bring you another great pair of OSX Boot Panels from the creative collections of Dan Flax. Up for grabs in this week's installment are GLADIATOR and MATRIX 4. Pull up them boots, grab yer horse, and spruce up yer Mac with these great new additions from the creator of Flax Creations, Mr. Dan Flax!

 

Yet Another Birthday! - Gads! Just when you thought it was nap time, somebody else turns another year older. No, not the site, but the man, the face, the legend (and Switchers icon dude) -- DV Graphics' Paul Sahner!

hApPy BIrtHdAy!
from all of us chimps

Swing by the Studios of DVG and wish this OLD FART another fruitful year of life and a Happy Birthday! Cheers! Darned Monkies. They just can't keep anything quiet.

 

Mandolux - From the abundance of creative works at Mandolux, comes another week-in-art recap:

Mandolux has issued this week ten new desktops for download. The new desktops are: two Austere Petals (rose petals/macro), two Technosis/Anthraxis (abstract/light), and four Giants/Dual Monitor desktops (Clouds/nature).

There's plenty of colorful works coming your way at from Mandolux!

August 1, 2002

Giveaway Comes To A Close - The MacMonkies' 1st Birthday Giveaway has officially come to a close. The exact numbers are not in yet, but at last glance there were nearly 5,000 entries! Phew!

We at MacMonkies would like to express our most sincere thanks to YOU, the reader. We would also like to tip our hat with the greatest amount of gratitude to all of the Software Makers who made the celebration a Top Notch Event! We would also like to toss bunches of thanks to everyone in the Media who helped spread the word of the festive occasion. To all of you:

The Winners will be announced next week. Be sure to stop back and look for your name on the list! Thanks again to everyone. You really Make the Difference!

 

Software Updates! - The folks from Conundrum Software have released the Duality 3.1, the latest version of their Theme Switcher for OSX. Among the numerous improvements, Duality can now re-launch the Finder, meaning you no longer have to log out to use a theme. So cool!Hurry over and download this great app from Conundrum Software!

Also available are the August virus definitions for both Norton AntiVirus and Virex. Don't leave your computer unprotected. Squash that bug!

July 31, 2002

At The Top

MacSaver: MacOSX.com Offers E-mail Accounts - MacOSX.com is offering an alternative to .Mac. The founder of MacOSX.com, Scott William, believes that .Mac is offering a great deal, but he decided to offer an option to those people are interested in an e-mail account without all the bells and whistles. MacOSX.com is offering e-mail accounts and 50 megabytes of storage space for $25 a year. Or for $10 a year, users can sign up for a Webmail account with 5 megabytes of space. - from CNet

 

Last Day! MacMonkies' Birthday Bash - Today is the last day to Sign Up for our 1st Birthday Giveaway! Among the prizes are a PlayStation 2, a JVC DVD Player, and software titles from:

Aladdin Systems Cocoa Tech Gideon Softworks

Lemke Software Marc Moini REALmac Software MacFans

piDog software Power On Software Proteron

Stick Software Tiger Technologies YazSoft

There's over $1,900 worth of prizes to win. Entries will be accepted through Midnight tonight - 12 pm MDT July 31, 2002. Sign Up now!

 

Featured Software Prize - There's nothing better than a great app from a great software maker! Or IS there? How about several great apps from the SAME software maker?! This is quite certainly the case for Gideon Softworks!

In one corner, you have the ever-so-popular Dock-It. This wonderful app adds multiple docks to your OSX experience.

Then you have Snard - a Dock and Menu Bar based launcher. This gem cleans up that clutter from your dock and desktop with a convenient system menu or dockling.

Also in the bunch is Autologin that can automatically mount Appleshare volumes when you login and FileXaminer that "allows you to modify file and folder attributes that the Finder cannot."

This is some great software from a great company and all 4 of these great apps are up for grabs! Be sure to stop by Gideon Softworks, try them out, and then Sign Up for your chance to win!

MonkieNews!

MacMonkies' Sweet Sixteen Icon Edition! - Hard to believe the Monkie has been up to roughly 16 weeks worth of icons from some of the web's finest artists! Cool beans! And this week welcomes another talented artist - Nitehawk Jarrett. Let's take a gander.

Nitehawk Jarrett - Sharing the wealth in the Icon Department is our latest contributor Nitehawk Jarrett with his latest creation: Retro Logo Icons. Check out this great set and see just how old you really think you are!

 

IHeartNY - Also with a flare for the nostalgic is IHeartNY's Matthew Bice. Bewitched is a great set of 7 from the classic television show of the same name. You even get a copy of BOTH Darrins in this fine set. NOW how old do you feel? =)

Next up from Matthew is a cool set for 3 of the best OSX web browsers around: Three Browsers. A small set, but truly cool.

 

miXthepiX - If you're looking for clean, how about Bubbles Dock from the man behind miXthepiX, Hein Mevissen? This is a great set from Hein that will add plenty of shine to your OSX experience. How about them scrubbing bubbles?!

And of course things wouldn't be complete without a great collection of Hein's Aqua Stuff 3.0.

 

Flax Creations - When it comes to innovation and creation, all "i's" should be pointed in the direction of Flax Creations' Dan Flax. This guy can find creativity in practically all Things! And did we tell you that there are plenty of cool Things is his latest set here at MacMonkies? Now, what was the name of that cool new set of icon Things from Mr. Flax? Hmmmm.

Check 'em out!

New In The Gallery: Seven Second-To-None - This week brings seven wonderful desktops from our usual pick of excellent artists. We also welcome another new talent - Bob Wiley. What are we waiting for? Let's let the eyes have it!

Desktop Department! - From the cool collections of Taking Pictures, Mr. Adam Dickson zaps some life into our desktop show with a great work titled Circuit. Get yourself grounded and then grab a copy of this great piece!

Now, someone recently said that I seem to fancy BLUE a bit (I DO NOT!!!), as many of my desktops seem to contain a lot of that melancholy colour. Well, in response to that comment, I simply say, they are obviously mistaken. To further prove the inaccuracy of this statement, I made a lovely RED piece containing lots of un-blues. And with that, I will leave you Alone.

 

3-D Delectables - Don't get cabled down with boring old desktops. Cast off them chains with Cables Away from our latest 3-D contributor Mr. Bob Wiley. You're bound to like this new piece and more great work soon to come!

Alan Sherwood contributes another great piece from his works at EA Design. Of Manipulation, Alan says:

A sort of pun if you like, the fact that I wanted to show the way many people in this world seem to feed off others, the way we are all used or abused at some point. The pun being that the piece was rendered in Bryce then given a sepia style overlay in Photoshop.

You're sure to enjoy this excellent piece from Alan.

Got Mac? Say WHAT?! Grab yourself a cool new Mac. Then click on Mac Desk no.2 from Rampant Mac's Scott Chitwood to make your Mac complete. Don't leave home without it! Click on this. Click on you. Click on Mac Desk no. 2!

Nope. No switchers here. This Monkie started with Mac and will probably die with a Mac (you won't pry my Mac from my cold,dead, Monkie toes). But for all of you who ARE making the big switch, I present to you The BIG Switch.

The second in a series of three, Tree of Life follows up Autumn. Somewhere in the mess of things, there is a better answer.

 

SPECIAL THANKS

To:

Bob, Nitehawk Jarrett, Dan, Hein, Scott,
Alan, Adam, and Matthew -

It is a privilege and an honor
to display your work!

MANY THANKS!

 

Community News

DV Graphics - Paul "DV Graphics" Sahner has cranked out another great set of Switchers icons titled...Switchers III. And just around the corner is a service that is sure to make you an icon: Iconize Me! Switch your browser to DV Graphics and check out all the latest in graphics fun!

 

Mandolux - To the galleries of Mandolux, Mando has added two new Technosis: River of Light and Another Snake. There's no time like now to check out this great new work from Mandolux.

 

Mikawares - Michele Bugliaro just keeps poppin' out them pixels and he has recently updated Mikawares with several new desktop pictures. You'll find plenty of difference in the archives at Mikawares!

 

IHeartNY - Matthew Bice has added another awesome collection of icons to the cool collections of IHeartNY. The latest set is titled Profinder, and it doesn't take a pro to spot a great set like these! Your desktop will not be disappointed with this great new set from IHeartNY. Get to clickin'!

 

Pixel Jerk - Looking for something more advanced? Want to apply the Aqua look to other shapes? Samuel Krueger of Pixel Jerk has added yet another great tutorial on how to add the Aqua look to more shapes than just the typical choices. If you're looking to make things with a difference, click over to Pixel Jerk and check it out!

 

TERRA Dreams - Six beautiful new landscape pics have been added to the vast desktop collections at TERRA Dreams! Be sure to swing by TERRA Dreams and check out these fantastic new works!

Note: You may not be able to view the full-size pictures when using the English translation to this site. To ensure full viewing capabilities, use the original link to TERRA Dreams. To view the text in English, use this LINK.

 

Check 'em Out!

 

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News On The Net...

Cheap Cat: Deals On Jaguar - Never mind what the cat drags in. It turns out that there are discounts available for Jaguar, the newest version of Mac OSX. Amazon.com is offering the new cat for $79 and MacWarehouse is offering it for $119. Also, if you buy a boxed copy of Mac OS X 10.1, you can now get Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2) for only $19.95. The full price of Jaguar without any discounts is $129. - from MacCentral

Update - The rebate promo has been pulled from Amazon due to a "response exceeded our wildest expectations." - from MacMinute

Touch By Voice: Voice Recognition In Cars - IBM will be providing some 2003 Honda Accords with a voice recognition system beginning September 9th. Drivers will be able to get directions to a specific street address or to the nearest gas station or pizza place simply by pressing a "talk" button on their steering wheels. The system, called "Touch by Voice," includes a DVD stored with information and a touch screen that displays maps. It understands 150 English commands and gives directions through the car speakers. - from Wired

A Page In History: The New York Times Is Digitized - A company named ProQuest has fully digitized copies of The New York Times from 1851 to 1999. ProQuest used microfilms and developed software to make the digital Times available exactly as it appeared when it was published. Subscriptions will be available through the ProQuest web site to read about the sinking of the Titanic, the resignation of Nixon, or any of the Times stories throughout the years. - from Wired

Check Mate! Ancient Chess Piece Found - Archeologists have dug out what appears to be the oldest piece of a chess game found to date. The piece is made of ivory, and is either the king or the queen because it has a little cross on it. It was found in a Roman palace in the city of Butrint, Albania, suggesting that the game of chess was being played in the fifth or sixth centuries, a full five hundred years earlier than previously thought. - from IWon

Live From NY! It's...John McCain? - Senator John McCain will be hosting Saturday Night Live (SNL) this Fall on NBC. McCain doesn't know what to say in his opening monologue, but he says that being on the show "impresses my kids." He also pointed out that, according to recent surveys, young people get a lot of their political news from SNL, as well as other late night shows. And people tell me that I Monkie around. - from Excite

 

Have you Heard?

Mac Quads: 4 Times The Fun! - The latest buzz about the Mac web is four times as much fun as you could imagine! How about a set of FOUR processors placed nicely in that new enclosure we mentioned last week? WHOA! And how about a 500MHz RapidIO bus? WOWZEEEEEEEE! These alleged new units are not expected in the immediate future (such as in August) by it is being said that they could be here really soon! - from Mac OS Rumors

 

New Service Just Around the Corner! - Those darned little Monkie Birds keep whisperin' in my earz -- Wouldn't ya like ta be an Icon too?! Eh! I just brushed 'em off and told 'em that I already AM an icon in MacGeeks 2 by that Sahner dude. But, they stuck out their tongue and started humming some old Mama's and Papa's tune like they knew something that I didn't. How could this possibly be? Boy, will that ever be some mundane day in Monkie history! Well, as those monkies left the room, one of them hollered out, "Service with a smile!" What could possibly be so Icon eyes oriented that ME of all Monkies wouldn't know the scoop? Oh well. They just continued on their way singin', "Dumby Dumby -- la la, la la la la..." If I ever figure out what these Monkicons were up to, I will be sure to keep you posted!
 
 

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Check 'em Out!

Screen Saver! - WOW! Are you looking for the ultimate Screen Saver for OSX? Look no further! Helios 1.2 from UselessSoft is just what the doctor ordered!

This OSX Screen saver is SO cool. And there'll be no need for extra "substances" to enjoy this great piece of work. Prepare to hear yourself say, "WOW!" The best way to appreciate this great Screen Saver is to Download it and try it out! Down right COOL!

 

I Think I'm In Love! - Ever since I moved from OS9 to Mac OSX, I have had to say good-bye to all my Classic web browser babes and find a new love. I mean, even Internet Explorer for OSX just doesn't cut it (hitting "Refresh" on even some of the fastest sites can be a SLOW experience with IE).

But in walked Chimera 0.4.0! Oh my gosh! This browser is SMOOTH! She don't mess around. And though this browser is still in Beta form and is minus a feature or two, she blows away the competition! And though Mozilla and Omni do a fine job, Chimera is ultimately the one you want to take home to meet mom! Need we say more?

Check it out!

Just Plain Nutz!

TOP 5 OXYMORONS

5. Political science

4. Definite maybe

3. Pretty ugly

2. Exact estimate

1. Microsoft Works.

POETRY IN MOTION

Little Birdie in the Sky

Little birdie in the sky
dropped some whitewash in my eye.
I'm not angry. I won't cry -
I'm just glad that cows don't fly.

- Anonymous

 

I Thought a Thought

I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn't have thought so much.

Anonymous

BACK IN BLACK?

Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?"

"Because white is the color of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life," her mother tried to explain, keeping it simple.

The child thought about this for a moment, then said, "So why's the groom wearing black?"

FATAL KISS

Q: What's it like to be kissed by a vampire?

A: It's a pain in the neck.

THINGS THAT MAKE A GORILLA SCRATCH HIS HEAD

What's the deal with deja vu?

Why is it that in order to support something, one must lean against it?

Is there a delicate way to say "euphemism?"

Why does the Return key move the cursor to a new line?

What's the deal with deja vu?

MUSICALLY YOURS: INTERNET AWAY MESSAGE

Gone Chopin. Be Bach in a minuet!

C-C-C-CRAZY!

I used to be schizophrenic, but we're all right now.

ONE UGLY MONKIE

How can you tell a person is really ugly?

A cannibal takes one look at them and orders a salad.

STRESSED!

Stress is when you wake up screaming, and then you realize that you haven't
fallen asleep yet. ABSOOOOOLLUUUTTTEEELLY TRUE.

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Odds and Ends

Coming Up Apples

Did you know that Apples are a member of the rose family.

 

Seeing Is Not Believing

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

- John Lubbock

 

Timing Is Everything

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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for details.

Eyeballs 2.1, a "desktop critter" by Stick Software, has been
released. Lots of fun, a virtual companion with personality to spare!

August virus definitions for Virex are available for download.

Airlines consider seat sensors that would measure the anxiety levels of passengers.

Watch your seat!

Court rules that "Barbie Girl," a 1997 hit song poking fun at the Barbie doll, is protected by free speech.

Like totally, dude!

August virus definitions for Virex are available for download.

Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client

Catalogs, archives, plays & displays graphics files

App switcher/launcher a bit like OS X's dock

Download manager & accelerator

Eyes that watch the cursor from the desktop or menu bar

Assign hot keys to any OS X app, file, URL, paste quickly, etc.

Convert images to JPEG format

Realtime 3D view of Earth day-light/seasonal cycles

Displays the Moon phase in the Dock or on the Desktop

Desktop calendar & planner plus four day forecast

Use iTunes 3 & QuickTime 6 Pro to rip as MPEG-4

Mesmerizing OpenGL screensaver

Copies OS X installs to another drive/partition

Changes desktop background to time of day

Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing client

Catalogs, archives, plays & displays graphics files

Download manager & accelerator

Cocoa native Web browser based on Fizzilla

CMM to quickly batch rename multiple files

Dockling to easily open preference panes from the Dock

Desktop Google toolbar