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November
5, 2002
THE
EARLY BIRD GUI SPECIAL 6:45 pm MST
Now
Serving: New Desktops and Icons! - Ahhh! Doesn't that smell
good? The scent of fresh new Icons and Desktops just waiting for you to
dig in. Yessiree Bob! There's 4 New Icon Sets simmering
on Page
21
of the Icon Department and 9 New Desktops basting in the
Gallery. All this
and more has been prepared for Wednesday's Edition of MacMonkies.
Grab your late night GUI snack and then stop back first thing
in the morn for the full blown Monkie fun feast! See ya then!
 Kara-Kelly.com - That GUI junkie - Kara
Kelly of Kara-Kelly.com
- has updated her gallery with a couple colorful 3-D desktops
titled Beachy Keen and Fruition! Like dude. These
are a couple of must-have units for your GUI hungry desktop!
What are you waiting for? Get yourself over to Kara-Kelly.com
and check 'em out!
Monkie News - Woo hoo! It's just about
that time again. Tomorrow we will be updating the  GUI Galleries with some
grande new Desktops and Icons! We've got great work from 2 new
contributors - Icon artist Tabor Robak and Desktop artist
Peter Sucy - as well as some really cool stuff from Rampant
Mac, WatiWorks, EA Design, Bob Wiley, Xiupe Créations,
Colin Kerr, RAD.E8, miX the piX, and MacMonkies.
Got a GUI habit
that just can't wait? Stop back later tonight for our Early
Bird GUI Special and get tomorrow's goodies today! All this
and more in the next Edition of MacMonkies!
November
4, 2002
 Live Pencil! - New from Live
Pencil are some great new GUI goodies that will have
your computer smilin' ear to ear! Just added you will find Jared
and his pet dog Jaeger, a new set of Halloween icons (a teensy
bit late), several new items for your e-mail, and like every
week, a new hidden image. Make your way over to Live
Pencil and check 'em out!
Skin A Dock - Just released is the
public beta of Skin
a Dock from Infinity-to-the-
Power-of-Infinity. This cool new app allows you to customize
your Dock in OSX with some awesome looking skins, including the
amazing work of IHeartNY's
Matthew Bice. Keep in mind this is the first Beta release, so
exercise discretion when using it, as with any beta app. But
if you like coolness to the power of infinity, Skin
a Dock is one new app you should try! Grab a look!
 miX the piX - Master Mixer Hein Mevissen
has updated the amazing icon collections of miX
the piX with a brand new hand crafted set titled Classic
Computers. This classy set of five will add nostalgia with
style to all of your icon collections. Click over to miX
the piX and grab 'em while they're hot!
Thought for the
Day - Confucius
say: Man who eat many prunes get good run for
money. 
November
3, 2002
Rampant Mac:
Think Way Different
- There's only one person I know who can boast about  thinking
way different and actually get away with it. And that would be
one Scott Chitwood of the Rampant
Mac Ranch. Scott has made it out of his rocking chair
and managed to make quite the update to the GUI Galleries at
Rampant Mac. Just as our Monkie Bird
suspected, three new desktops - Stealing Aqua, Think
Way Different and Spanish Moss - have joined six others
from the RM Archives. Top it off with the resurfacing of the
Cool Links page, and you're in for some serious fun. Get
your clicking fingers warmed up and make your way to Rampant
Mac!
Smirk of the
Day - An
attorney went into a bar for a Martini and found himself beside
a scruffy-looking drunk who kept mumbling and studying something
in his hand. He leaned closer while the drunk held the tiny object
up to the light, slurring, "Well, it looks plastic."
Then he rolled it between his fingers, adding, "But it feels
like rubber." Curious, the  attorney asked, "What
do you have there?
The drunk replied,
"I don't know, but it looks like plastic and feels like
rubber."
The attorney responded,
"Let me take a look."
So the drunk handed
it over and the lawyer rolled between his thumb and fingers,
then examined it closely by sniffing and licking it. "Yeah,
it does look like plastic and feel like rubber, has no significant
smell or taste, I sure don't know what it is. Where did you get
it?"
The drunk replied,
"Out of my nose."
November
2, 2002
 Pic of the Day - You know you've just
had one of those weeks. Stress here, stress there, stress just
about everywhere! What DOES a Monkie do? And what if you're not
a monkie at all? Today's pic has just the right answer to stress.
Get your monkie fingers limbered up and stress
here!
Today's Quote - It's easy to make a buck.
It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
-
Tom Brokaw
November
1, 2002
Speed Download
1.9.2 -Shatter
download rates and maximize bandwidth with the best  download
manager money can buy! After many days of hard work, YazSoft
is proud to give you its latest and best version of Speed
Download to date. Many many changes and optimizations
have been made to version 1.9.2 in order to meet several goals
and expectations that have been highly requested by all our existing
and new users. Hurry over to YazSoft,
check out all the details,
and download your copy
today!
TNT:
DYN-O-MITE TIPS AND TRICKS by Paul
Sahner
 Your Digital Domain, Only Faster
- What makes
the Mac so great? Multimedia of course! No platform in the world
can match our ability to create and view amazing video and audio
content. But, that's not enough. Now we need to do it, easier,
faster and more powerfully. What follows is your weekly dose
of key commands to help this come true. Continued...
Mandolux - New this week from Mandolux are 7 great new
desktops for you to feast your eyes on. From Mando:
Mandolux
has issued this week seven new desktops: two Vector-based (Abstract/Techno),
two zenas | closer (Abstract), and three Cathay Pacific (Aerospace)
desktops.
Make your way over
to Mandolux and have a
look at these great new works!
October
31, 2002
 
Happy Halloween! - Sufferin' succotash!
It's Spooksville deluxo with another Halloween firmly in place!
Time for all you ghouls, goblins, tricksters, and treatsters
to come out of the night, and into Spooksville fright and scary
delight. Remember...No Drinkin' and thinkin'! Please hand
over the keys. Don't lose your head by driving yourself (and
otherz) straight to the Graveyard. Have a fun and safe Halloween!
EA Design - The boys are back! Both
Ed and Alan of EA
Design return with a double shot of desktop works for your
pixel pleasures. Hanging out in their galleries are twelve 2-D
and twelve 3-D selections for your clickers to choose from. Sneak
your way over to EA
Design and grab a ghoulish look!
A Classic T-Shirt
For Classic Mac Users
- August Schulz announces the release of a limited  edition T-shirt especially
designed for users and fans of the Apple Macintosh Classic operating
system (OS 9 etc). The design celebrates two of the icons that
have come to embody the legendary user-friendly nature of the
Mac over the years the Rainbow-Stripe Apple emblazoned
on millions of Mac products and the Happy Mac icon seen on start-up.
Only 250 of these T-shirts will be printed and made available
worldwide. For all the details on this Classic wear, make your
way to ZenBubblegum
and check it out!
 Tomorrow: New TNT - Paul Sahner's wildly
popular TNT: Dyn-o-mite Tips and Tricks
will be back tomorrow with a new edition. This week's installment
continues Paul's Key Command Shortcuts by covering such popular
apps as EyeTV, QuickTime Pro, and DVD Player for 10.2. Stop back
tomorrow for another power packed edition of TNT!
October 30, 2002
At The Top
Microsoft
Biffs It Again!
- It's a spider...it's a bat...NO! It's a butterfly! NO!! It's
just another  failed Microsoft ad campaign. You might remember
how Microsoft recently tried and failed copying Apple
with their
own version of the popular Switcher
ads. Last Thursday, New Yorkers got a taste of Microsoft's latest
blunder with hundreds of MSN butterflies all over "sidewalks,
doorways, traffic signals and stop lights." Microsoft had
placed butterfly decals everywhere to promote their service,
MSN 8 Internet. The wise old owls of New York City demanded that
Microsoft stop the "illegal guerrilla advertising campaign"
and got their claws on fifty Microsoft dollars. Microsoft cooperated
and issued a formal apology. Gee,
isn't that nice of them.
- from Excite
Read More News On The Net
MonkieNews!
Icons | Desktops | Monkie Notes | Featured Link
NEW! MacMonkies
29th Icon Edition!
- We are
proud to introduce our latest icon contributor, RAD.E8's Sascha
Höhne! You're desktop will be plenty pleased with Sascha's
work as well as the rest of this week's excellent icon artists.
Let's dig in!
 RAD.E8 - This week we are privileged
to feature work from Sascha Höhne of RAD.E8,
one of the most accomplished icon artists on the web. Our first
selection from Sascha is SNOW.E.
This cool set of icons graces the MacMonkies desktop and is certain
to become a favorite set of yours!
miX the piX - Want your desktop to look
pretty in pink? Hein Mevissen of miX
the piX has just the perfect pick of pink pixels with Pink Icons. This fine set of
8 icons will leave your desktop simply gorgeous!
 WatiWorks - Wati Larke cooks up a
great icon set with Fast Food!
This tasty set is one of the many fine treats you'll find at
the collections of WatiWorks.
Everybody say Mmmm Mmmm Good!
DV Graphics - The ever artistic Paul
Sahner whips up another batch to add to his popular Switchers
series with Switchers Neverending.
This recent set from DV
Graphics includes all the new switchers including pro skate
boarder Tony Hawk and surfer Kelly Slater.
Check
'em out!
NEW! 9 New Desktops
In The Gallery -
Another excellent artist joins the Monkie Galleries by the name
of Colin Kerr! Also in the lineup is some great work by great
artists from all over the world. Let's look!
 Nature:
Naturally Yours
- Heading up this weeks desktop selections is a beautiful piece
titled Bugs In Longwood
by Colin Kerr.
This is a photo that Colin took at Longwood gardens (PA, about
45 minutes from Philly) with his Olympus Camedia c-700 ultra
zoom.
Desktop Department!
- Always
on the lighter side, Wati Larke adds a cheerful number with Smiley Music. This colorful
piece is one of the many terrific selections you will find at
WatiWorks.
From Alan Sherwood
of EA Design
we begin the first in the Aqua series with Aqua
I. Alan sports his creative abilities by taking simplicity
and transforming it into a desktop work of art.
 Also in the area of abstract
art is a marvelous piece from Bob
Wiley titled In-Out.
In this latest work, Bob turns a scrapped project into quite
the fine desktop creation!
3-D Delectables
- It's been a while
since we've heard from Donnie Fischer of donniefischer.com.
Donnie returns with an exclusive pic to MacMonkies with one of
his spiritual specialties titled Let
My People Go. Go down Moses!
Deviating from the
people picture, Scott Chitwood's Pink
Alien will keep your eyes captive for quite some time
to come. This classic desktop comes straight from the cool collections
of the far out and funky Rampant
Mac!
 The Bananas
Man from Monkie (MacMonkies, that is), Mr.
Ron Westby is becoming quite the desktop artist. His latest
work titled Sanctuary is
proof in the pudding and will give your desktop a bit of rest
and relax. Fine work!
Lighting up the
sky is an out-of-this-world selection titled Comete
by Xiupe Créations'
S. Stéphane. This one is sure to be a star with your desktop!
MacMonkies Bradford
Wiles offers Join Together,
a title inspired by The Who song of the same name. ...Come on
and Join Together with the band!
BUNCHES
OF THANKS
To:
Alan,
Bob, Colin, Donnie, Hein, Paul
Ron, Sascha, Ron,
Scott, S. Stéphane, and Wati -
You all
are amazing artists!
It's quite the privilege to display your work!
THANK YOU!
Have
a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Monkie Notes - The latest song release
from MacMonkies will see one last delay as we put together the
finishing touches for this great piece. The official release
date is Friday November 15, 2002. Be sure to mark your calenders.
Featured Link - Oh yeah! This week's
Featured Link is IliCon. And
of course we have added this great site to our Links
Page. Check it out!
Community
News
 RAILhead Design - Maury McCown continues
with his Desktop Marathon at RAILhead
Design with 3 more artistic works this week. Already posted
are Dead End and 207. Also added by Maury is the
latest version of JediMaker
1.1.0. Swing over to RAILhead
Design and check 'em out!
Mandolux - Just added to the collections
of Mandolux are two new
Cathay Pacific desktops titled Colossal and Terminal
G. If you're an aviation fan, you're sure to enjoy these
new additions at Mandolux.
Xicons.com - Icon updates have resumed
at Xicons. New to the site
is a great new set from Ross Rankin named Macromedia MX Apps.
Don't you dally. Head on over to Xicons
and grab the GUI goodies!
The Iconfactory - The folks at The
Iconfactory have one more holiday treat up their collective
 sleeves. Resident artist Dave
Brasgalla is pleased to announce that his latest freeware
icon collection has been completed and is ready for download.
Ravenswood
Revisited is an update to Dave's classic
spooky set released at Halloween in 2000. The entire cast
of characters has been re-assembled for your haunted journey
through the halls of Ravenswood. All this and more at The
Iconfactory!
WatiWorks - Some cool new icons have
been added to the works at WatiWorks!
WatiWorks Swatch is a classy set of 11 time pieces will
keep your desktop in perfect sync! There's no time like the present
to grab this great new set from WatiWorks.
Get to tickin'!!
 Happicon - Rene from Happicon
has just released a set of Boot Image replacements titled HappiBoot©!
This set of 24 is made up of Rene's finest icons. If you want
to give your startup a happy experience, make your way over to
Happicon and
grab these new Boot Images while they're hot!
widget : widget
- Alexander
MacLean has updated widget : widget with a new icon set called
Dr. Demento's Halloween Lab and 2 new sharp looking desktops
titled Rancid and Return of the Dead. Spook your
self over to widget :
widget and scare yourself silly!
Check
'em Out!
Send
us your news: press@macmonkies.com
News On The
Net...
MacFreaks Dress
Up As Ellen Feiss
- Those who do not have a costume picked out for the  Halloween festivities might
consider dressing up as Apple's favorite switcher, Ellen Feiss.
That is exactly what the MacFreak
community in Holland did. 250 MacFreak members got together and
held an Ellen Feiss look-alike contest. Too bad that, according
to the MacFreak website, "Every look-alike is a kind of...a
bummer!" Take a peek at the look-alikes here. - from Wired
 Mc
For Mac - Paul McCartney helped advance technology through
his new DVD Back In The US. He was concerned because Mac
users could not enter the link to his "secret" website
via the DVD, so he had his associates "get on the phone"
and "start making enquiries." Now the DVD works in
Macs and PCs, and McCartney and Steve Jobs both got a thrill
out of it. Says McCartney, "Steve Jobs is gonna come round
to one of the gigs 'cause he's excited about the thing."
-
from PC
Pro
Getting Chipped - The monsters here at MacMonkies reported in February the brewings
of a rice-sized human microchip implant called the Verichip.
Applied Digital Solutions
is now calling everyone to "Get Chipped." For $200,
customers can get chipped with an ID number that can be pulled
up on computers through radio frequencies. Customers decide ahead
of time what information will be stored on the computers. A $50
discount applies to the first 100,000 people who sign up. Sounds like a
chip off the old blockhead to me.
- from
Wired
 iPods
Right On Target - Ghouls and goblins who stick around will
find a new addition on the shelves at Target
stores this year - Apple's iPod. No need to fear, both the Mac
and PC versions of the popular MP3 player will be available.
Best Buy already sells
the iPod, but Target is a much bigger pumpkin patch, having twice
as many locations as Best Buy. With this move, Apple could sell
up to half a million iPods for the December quarter. I'm dreaming of
an iPod Christmas. - from CNet
and MacMinute
McDonalds Customers: Deerly Spooked - No need to wait
for fright night.  Customers
at a McDonalds restaurant in Washington D.C. were scared out
of their skins when two deer jumped through the window in the
middle of the day. One deer decided to stick around and check
out the menu while the other jumped back out the window. Authorities
found it a bit spooky because there are normally no deer in that
area and no one knows why they were there. - from Yahoo
Have you Heard?
Macs A Rampant! - A little Monkie bird
seems to be buzzin' about with news of a cool new update comin'
up from...Well ya see, the Monkie bird has laid eyes on some
amazing arrangement of pixels from the talented hands of...Tell
ya what. I won't mention anything about Rampant
Mac if you don't tell my boss. Fair? Now, really. I don't
know a date, but it seems that an update from the Rampant
1 is just around the corner. And boy howdy, will it be a
good one! You don't think I will get fired for leaking corporate
secrets...Do you?
Have
some inside information on upcoming events? Review our Submission
Policy and drop us a line!
Check 'em
Out!
Spook Me Out,
Dude! -
We can sense that Halloween kid in you a Monkie mile away! You
just can't get enough of the spooky GUI stuff. And who could
blame you with all the great treats from some great artists that
are available? So if fun and spooky GUI goodies and then some
is what you're lookin' for, here are some cool sites to check
out!
Don't be
a ghoul! Get your self geared up and check out these spooky sites!
Check
'em out!
Just Plain
Nutz!
FINGER FOOD!
Do zombies eat popcorn
with their fingers?
No, they eat the
fingers separately.
FIRST CHILD?
A man spoke frantically
into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her contractions
are only two minutes apart!"
"Is this her
first child?" the doctor asked.
"No!"
the man shouted, "This is her husband!"
GET AN ARM UP
Q: What's got four
legs and one arm?
A: A Pit Bull.
GUTLESS WONDER
Two flies splatted
on a windshield. One said to the other, "I'll bet you don't
have the
guts to do that again!"
THE LAWS OF COMPUTER
PROGRAMMING
1. Any given program,
when running, is obsolete.
2. Any given program
costs more and takes longer each time it is run.
3. If a program
is useful, it will have to be changed.
4. If a program
is useless, it will have to be documented.
5. Any given program
will expand to fill all the available memory.
6. The value of
a program is inversely proportional to the weight of its output.
7. Program complexity
grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must
maintain it.
BASSES LOADED
He was a mediocre
conductor of a mediocre orchestra. He had been having problems
with the basses; they were the least professional of his musicians.
It was the last performance of the season, Beethoven's 9th Symphony,
which required extra effort from the basses at the end. Earlier
that evening, he found the basses celebrating one of their birthdays
by passing a bottle around. As he was about to cue the basses,
he knocked over his music stand. The sheet music scattered. As
he stood in front of his orchestra, his worst fear was realized;
it was the bottom of the 9th, no score and the basses were loaded.
HEADS UP!
What do you say
to a ghost with three heads?
Hello, hello, hello.
THIS ONE BITES
Q: What does Dracula
eat on his nachos?
A: Halloween'o peppers
of course.
Have
a good line or two that would put a smile on an Ape Face? Check
out MacMonkies' Submission Policy
and drop us a line!
Odds and Ends
The Fall of Love
Falling in love
is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.
- Roger, Age
9
Toot Toot!
If you have the
tendancy to brag, just remember it's not the whistle that pulls
the train.
- O. F. Nichols
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