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December
12, 2002
More On The Monkie - Friday will bring another
batch of Desktops and Icons for your downloading pleasures! The
entire Monkie Edition will be a tad shorter  than usual due to the turn
of events this last week.
And speaking of
twisty turns, though things took a turn for the worse the last
few days, bad times tend to inspire good things (if they don't
kill ya first)! So, there will be some changes in the weeks to
come. With a bit of good fortune and a lot of work, we hope to
have the "changes" complete by the first part of next
year. We won't scare you with a complete appearance overhaul
(though this ugly little site could use some work). But we will
make some feature changes that will hopefully make your visit
to the Monkie Den even more pleasant and convenient. Keep them
Monkie eyes open and them Bananas peeled and we'll be sure to
keep you posted!
EA
Design -
Woo hoo! One-half of the EA
Design dynamic duo managed to put  together
some fine 2-D and 3-D pics to make them GUI eyes of yours real
darn happy! Alan Sherwood has added: A Hazy Shade Of Winter,
A Knife Edge, and Entrapment to the 3-D collections.
And in the 2-D Department, a set of three focusing on colour
with Saddening, Maddening, and Calming.
Get a load of these great new pics over yonder at EA
Design!
Whacky News! - Energizer Bunny arrested:
charged with battery. Umm...is
that like a 20th Century thing or something?
December
11, 2002
 Back
In The Saddle
- What a week! Just when you think it can't get any worse, it
does! However, the situation that prevented us from updating
the last few days has been resolved. We will be resuming our
regular schedule hopefully in the next day or two. In the mean
time, the Software Updates Section
has been updated with the latest from the last few days. Thank
you so much for your patience!
-
Brad
December
9, 2002
Monkie
Difficulties
- Due to Network complications, we may not be able to update
regularly for the next few days. We will let you know as soon
as things are back to normal. Thanks for hangin' in there with
us while we get things squared away!
December
8, 2002
 Pic
of the Day: GOOD MORNING!!
- Ever had one of those days, weeks, months . . . even years
that just never seemed to end?!! Well, here's just the pic
for you where you just gotta say 'to hell with it' and go about
your merry way. Have a nice day!
Just A Thought - You don't stop laughing
because you grow old, you grow old because you stopped laughing.
December
7, 2002
 Photologist 1.1 - Just out of the corral
is Photologist
1.1 from To The
Point Software! Photologist is a versatile image management,
manipulation, and presentation solution. It provides users with
easy but powerful ways to work with digital photos. Several new
features as well as interface and performance enhancements have
been added to the latest update. Cruise over to the website of
To The Point Software
and check it out!
Think, Think,
Think and GRIN!
- Khakis: What you need to start the car in Boston.
Monkie Thought:
Communication
- You can always avoid the truth, tell people what they want
to hear, and live in temporary peace. Or, you can speak the truth
straight to the face and risk conflict. But the true gift of
communication is to carry a balance of both and still make a
difference.
-
Bradford Wiles
December
6, 2002
Mandolux - It's that time again!
Time for the weekly desktop report from Mandolux!
From Mando:
Mandolux
has issued seven new desktops this week: two Money 2K2 (Paper
Money/Euro/Peso), four Snowboarding (Vector/Giant), and one zenas
| closer desktop (Abstract).
So now it's time
to get them clickers in gear and make your way over to Mandolux
for a great variety of quality desktops. Check 'em out!
Monkie Ponder - An optimist thinks that
this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this
is true. A Monkie just plugs his nose and takes off his shoes.
Define This! - Seizure: Wasn't he a
Roman emperor??
December
5, 2002
Rampant Mac and
the Big Switcheroo
- Due to "technical difficulties," Rampant Mac has
made the move back to its old digs at http://home.att.net/~s.a.chitwood.
This is only a  temporary
move and plans for a new location are expected by the first part
of 2003. We'll be sure to keep you posted of any changes.
In other Rampant
news, the Rampant 1 has updated the temporary location
with Four new desktops that celebrate the holiday season: Tannenbaum,
Tannenbaum 2000, Tannenbaum 2001 and (you guessed
it) Tannenbaum 2002. Do you smell a theme happenin' here
or is that just my feet? Check out all the new sights and smells
at the all new (or is that old) Rampant
Mac. Go!
 My Address Book - Just announced from counsell.net is the release
of My Address Book 1.0.1.
This OSX application allows information from Apple's Address
Book for OSX 10.2 to be uploaded to your MySQL database. Creation
of a data active web page written in PHP is also included in
the application. The download and all the details can be found
at counsell.net. Check
it out!
Share Your Christmas:
Send Us Your Holiday Pics!
- Want to spread the Christmas  cheer this Holiday
Season? We've got just the method for you! If you send us your
desktop artwork with a Christmas or a Wintertime Seasonal
Theme, we will feature them here at MacMonkies.
Submitting is easy!
You don't need nothin' fancy, simply check out our Gallery
Submission Guidelines, and then send your pic to:
macmonkies@mac.com
We will start posting
your pics as early as next week. Grab your favorite original
Christmas pics and send them our way. We look forward to hearing
from you!
Monkie Mumble - I've got a headache.
But if you had a head that looked like mine, yours would ache
too. 
December 4, 2002
At The Top
Apple
Fairs Well For First of Season's Sales
- Computer sales were high over  Thanksgiving
weekend, the "official kickoff to holiday shopping."
Apple reported it's busiest week ever for the Apple retail stores,
with "over 365,000 people visiting its 50 stores."
Dell and Hewlett Packard also reported noticeably higher sales
than at this time last year. The most popular items seem to be
"DVD players, digital televisions, digital cameras and camcorders,"
and "displays and personal computers." - from MacMinute
and Yahoo
Now Up-to-Date
& Contact Does Windows Better
- Just released from Now
Software is Now
Up-to-Date & Contact 4.2.6. This great app
is a calendar and contact manager that is now native to Mac OSX.
The latest update permits Mac users to open and read calendars
created in the company's recently released Windows version of
Now Up-to-Date. This new feature provides seamless sharing of
files between platforms, making Now Up-to-Date the ideal solution
for platform "Switchers." Purchasing information and
downloads are available at Now
Software. Grab a look!
Note:
At press time, Version 4.2.6 was temporarily removed due to a
potential problem some users have reported.
 LiteSwitch X 1.5 - The folks from Proteron
LLC have announced the release of LiteSwitch
X 1.5. LiteSwitch is a keyboard application switcher
for Mac OS X. Version 1.5 has fixed numerous bugs and added features
including more options in the preference pane, scrolly-wheel
and key-repeat support, custom color and transparency settings,
and support for international unicode. All the details for LiteSwitch X 1.5
can be found here.
Check it out!
Read More News On The Net
MonkieNews!
Icons | Desktops | Monkie
Notes
| Featured Link
NEW!
MacMonkies
34nd Icon Edition!
- This week's
Icon Edition welcomes 2 new artists to the Monkie Bunch -- James
Cukr and Harvey Lubin! You're gonna love the work from these
gentlemen as well as from Alex and Wati. What are we waiting
for? Let's dig in!
 James
Cukr -Quite
the accomplished artist and one of 3 new contributors, James
Cukr weighs in this week's Icon Edition with C7
Metal & Glass I! This fine set of 27 icons only touches
the surface of excellence you will find at The
Art of James Cukr. Awesome stuff!
 Agrapha Icons - From Agrapha
Icons' Harvey Lubin, we have a really cool icon set called
General 3. Don't
let the modest title fool ya. Harvey sports the elegance of simplicity
with this amazing set, much like his ultra cool website!
 WatiWorks - Back with some power packing
pizzazz, Wati Larke really shows his abilities with his latest
set of icons: Apple Rendezvous.
From the collections of WatiWorks,
this cool set takes the finest collection of computers and adds
even more the touch of class!
 Alex Rabino - And saving the funnest
for last (yes, we are slightly biased on this one), we are pleased
as punch to present MacMonkies!
from Alex Rabino! Quoting
the artist himself, "This MacMonkies! Icon Set is to be
used for saving all the good stuff you download from http://www.macmonkies.com
and to keep the url on your desktop." All bias aside, this
really is a great set from Alex. Enjoy!
Check
'em out!
NEW! 9 New Desktops
In The Gallery -
We are privileged to welcome another fine artist to our Gallery
of great desktop creators -- Peter Lenler! In addition to Peter's
great eye for desktop eye candy, our usual bunch return with
pixels to please the eye! Time to enjoy!
 ETC... - Deep in thought is the
absolutely adorable desktop photo called Puff
Head from Colin
Kerr. This great pic will add a great big smile to your desktop,
and maybe even a few warm fuzzies!
Desktop Department!
- From the
talented Peter J. Sucy,
we have another stronger-than-steel desktop that is too tough
to beat. UnixJagXTinted
is a solid piece of work combining the simplicity of a Mac and
the strength of UNIX!
 Keeping
the fire burning is the second installment from Alan Sherwood's
Firestorm series with Firestorm
II. This is one of the many fine works you can find by
Alan at EA
Design. Brilliant piece!
And along comes
Ed Allen, the master of madness at EA
Design, ready to put out the fire with Blue
Wave 2. Also the second in a series, this wonderful work
from Ed adds even more magic to your Aqua X-perience.
From "Mean
Mr. Mustard" webmaster Monkie Bradford Wiles comes a tasty
treat with Sherbet Sky.
This bright little number, the original to Orange Twist, is for
all those "smoothies" out there that don't delight
in the textured twist. The Monkie mouth now closes! =)
 3-D
Delectables -
Ahhh! Refreshness is the bestest with The
Odd One, a great piece of work from Prevision.
Prevision's Peter Lenler certainly knows the meaning of 3-D brilliance
and originality with this wonderful piece!
MacMonkies own Ron Westby continues
to excel in his artistic abilities with another Bryce rendered
work titled The Lost Voyage.
Though Ron is usually busy being Bananas,
there is certainly a serious side underneath that coconut skull
worthy of your attention.
Flying into its
finale is the fourth and final in the far out UFOpsi series with
UFOpsi 4 by Michele Bugliaro.
Michele is not only the artist/webmaster of Mikawares,
but also does double duty with the out-of-this-world site called
UFOPSI.
 Ever
made something and had no idea what it was or why you made it?
Bradford Wiles of the MacMonkies claim to dumbdon asks himself
that question with the 3-D selection Don't
Ask Me. Hey man. Don't look at me. Just look at the title!
MANY THANKS
To:
Alan,
Alex, Colin, Ed, Harvey
James, Michele, Peter L.,
Peter S., Ron, and Wati -
Magnificent
work!
It's always a pleasure to feature your creations!
THANK YOU!
Have
a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
Monkie Notes - Don't forget to send
us your desktop artwork with a Christmas or a Wintertime Seasonal
Theme to be featured here at MacMonkies. We will start posting
submissions next week. Simply check out our Gallery
Submission Guidelines, and then send your pic to: macmonkies@mac.com.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Also, we have continued
adding the new drop down menu navigation system by completing
the Etc... Section and Desktop
Area! Take a peek!
Featured Link - Our Featured
Link is taking a short snooze this week. It will be back
really soon!
Community
News
Mandolux - Mando just keeps the quality
coming at Mandolux with
a new zenas | closer pic titled Nealie! This new selection
is a fine example of Mando's consistently great work. Make a
click or 2 over to Mandolux
and let your eyes enjoy!
RAILhead Design
- Maury
McCown of RAILhead Design
has a new icon set based on Birds of Prey in the works.
Also, Maury has scheduled for this week "some new desktop
pics this week, including a new Holiday desktop image."
Make your way to RAILhead
and grab an eye full!
 Happicon - Happy times are here
again! New at Happicon
is an awesome new set of icons titled Smiles©. Putting
a smile of your desktop is Rene's specialty, and this new set
is no exception. If you're looking for a great big icon smile,
then Happicon
is THE place to be!
Max Themes - Yes, yes, yes! Mr. Max
Rudberg just updated Max
Themes with the much anticipated BBX Mercury X 1.0
theme for Mac OSX! The beautifully done theme is based on the
original BBX Mercury™ by William Bart. Max has also made
a minor update to SmoothStripes which now offers six different
variations of theme in one file. Top it off with a nicely redone
site and your clicking finger has a bunch to look forward to.
Need we say more? Go!
MacDesktops - Just like clock work,
MacDesktops has updated
with several new desktops for your downloading pleasure! They
currently have over 2300 pics to choose from. With a selection
like that, you're sure to pick just the right set of pixels to
please the pickiest of desktops. Swing by MacDesktops
and have a looksy!
Live Pencil - Ramon has updated the
fun at Live Pencil with
some great new GUI goodies:
- NEW !!!
This year's online ADVENT CALENDAR is here... don't miss
it.
- FOR YOUR
E-MAILS: Loving HEARTS will shine all around.
- WALLPAPERS:
3 new ones. December's calendar for your desktop!
- HIDDEN
IMAGE: Like every week.... FIND IT!!!
- IT IS
YOU: From the Netherlands Eddy!
If you're looking
to brighten the day of your computer's interface, Live
Pencil is the place to be.
 The Iconfactory - Just released from The Iconfactory is iPulse 1.0.1.
iPulse is a system monitoring application that allows users to
monitor system activity such as CPU and memory usage, free disk
space, network activity and more. The latest update improves
the program by correcting a few bugs and introduces support for
French language translation and strengthens iPulse's documentation.
Grab the latest version of iPulse
from The Iconfactory!
Check
'em Out!
Send
us your news: press@macmonkies.com
News On The
Net...
XServe At Your
Xervice -
IT managers are using XServe more due to the compatibility  of
Mac OS X 10.2. The new Mac Operating System is a familiar choice
for IT managers because "OS X supports many of the same
applications and command-line tools that IT managers use to configure,
install and manage Windows, Linux and Unix machines." "Now
that we have the quasi-Unix look and feel with Mac OS X, we have
several options for managing Macs," says David Bratt, technology
architect for H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
As a result, many workstations across the country are adopting
Macs. -
from MacCentral
Owning Up To Online Banking - A study posted by Pew last
week shows that the number of Americans who bank online has increased
164 percent in the last two years. Two years ago, 14 million
Americans said they banked online and this year the number was
37 million. Reasons given for banking online include convenience
and saving time. Most Americans banking online are male, younger
aged and have graduated college. Other popular online activities
are making travel plans and shopping. - from Yahoo
To Settle...Or Not - The state of Massachusetts decided
last Friday to appeal the judge's  decision in the antitrust case
against Microsoft. In the agreement Microsoft agreed to refrain
from exclusive deals and share technical information, and to
let users remove desktop icons. The state of West Virginia would
also like to appeal the decision, but they may not have enough
money. The other seven states accepted the decision and will
"focus on making sure Microsoft obeys the settlement."
-
from Excite
Santa Claus Is Coming To Theme Park - Many people dressed
as Santa Claus gathered together at a German theme park to try
to break a world record. The Santas were even captured riding
roller coasters on film. The current record for the number of
Santas gathered in one place is 465 Santas who gathered in Switzerland
two years ago. The 1,200 participants in Germany hope that they
will be entered into the Guinness Book of World Records. - from Ananova
Do Or Dye - Mike Halverson, an elementary school principal
in Idaho, promised his  students that if they collected 300 cans of
food to give to the needy for Thanksgiving he would dye his hair
blue. The students collected more than 400 cans of food and Halverson
followed through with his promise. He sat in front of the whole
school while the School Attendance Officer doused his hair with
blue dye, continually asking the students, "Is it blue enough?" Don't it make
my brown hair blue? - from Yahoo
Have you Heard?
10.2.3 Update
- Numerous
sources across the net have reported seeds of Mac OSX 10.2.3
being "planted" among developers for testing. Over
yonder at Think
Secret, it is being said that a "minor update to Mac
OS X, version 10.2.3. The 10.2.3 update is due for release in
December."
Think Secret also
reports that "Apple is on the verge of adding new channels
to its Sherlock 3 web services tool" and that the new features
include "package tracking, White Pages, and Google search."
Keep them Bananas
on the lookout!
Have
some inside information on upcoming events? Review our Submission
Policy and drop us a line!
Check 'em
Out!
Holiday Gift
Guide -
Ah! It's that time of year again...shop till you drop, spend
all your money, eat till you look like Santa, go on another diet,
mortgage the house for the third time...you get the picture.
Though we can't assist you with most of the Holiday festivities,
we might be able to save you some ankle swelling from the shop
till you drop syndrome! You won't even have to leave the comfort
of your own groan when you check out Apple's
Holiday Gift Guide. What a great place to do your finger
calisthenics as well as put a smile on every Mac enthusiast in
your family and circle of cyber friends! Apple even makes the
buying less painful on your worried mind by sorting your purchasing
needs into convenient categories:
Gift
Ideas by Price
People
You Know
and
Digital
Lifestyle
And if that's not
enough, you can use the search and type in a favorite interest
or concept to look for a gift idea. Even more, Apple's got specials
running around all over the place for all of you "smart
buyers."
Grab a vine and
swing over to the Holiday
Gift Guide at Apple and start grabbing gifts for your
favorite Monkie!
Lessee...I
want a Mac, and a Mac, and anything Mac. And then there's anything
that goes with a Mac that would be cool. And then there's a Mac...
Check
it out!
Just Plain
Nutz! -
R.
Westby
A MICROSOFT RAN
CHRISTMAS
Each time you bought
an ornament, you would have to buy a tree as well. You wouldn't
have to take the tree, but you still have to pay for it anyway.
Ornament/XP would weigh 1500 pounds (requiring a reinforced steel
countertop tree), draw enough electricity to power a small city,
take up 95% of the space in your living room, would claim to
be the first ornament that uses the colors red/green together.
It would interrogate your other decorations to find out who made
them. Most everyone would hate Microsoft ornaments, but nonetheless
would buy them since most of the other tree types wouldn't work
with their hooks.
CHICKEN WAVE
Why did the chicken
cross the beach?
To get to the other
tide.
A CLEAN PLACE
TO EAT
Two roaches were
munching on garbage in an alley when one engages a discussion
about a new restaurant.
"I was in that
new restaurant across the street," said one. "It's
so clean! The kitchen is spotless, and the floors are gleaming
white. There is no dirt anywhere--it's so sanitary that the whole
place shines."
"Please,"
said the other roach frowning. "Not while I'm eating!"
ALL DIALED UP
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!
CHRISTMAS SPACE
JOCKEYS
If athletes get
athletes foot, what do astronauts get?
Missletoe!
IF THE TAIL FITS
A car was involved
in an accident in a street. As expected a large crowd gathered.
A newspaper reporter, anxious to get his story could not get
near the car. Being a clever sort, he started shouting loudly,
"Let me through! Let me through! I am the son of the victim."
The crowd made way for him. Lying in front of the car was a donkey.
ONLY IN COUNTRY
What happens if
you sing country music backwards?
You get your job
and wife back, and your dog comes back to life!
MEANWHILE, BACK
AT THE RANCH
A young cook decided
that the French would enjoy feasting on rabbits and decided to
raise rabbits in Paris and sell them to the finer restaurants
in the city. He searched all over Paris seeking a suitable place
to raise his rabbits. None could be found. Finally, an old priest
at the cathedral said he could have a small area behind the rectory
for his rabbits. He successfully raised a number of them, and
when he went about Paris selling them, a restaurant owner asked
him where he got such fresh rabbits. The young man replied, "I
raise them myself, near the cathedral. In fact, I have a hutch
back of Notre Dame."
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
Watch What You
Do
As I grow older,
I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they
do.
- Andrew
Carnegie
Catch It While
You Can
Attitudes are contagious.
Is yours worth catching?
- Anon
Responsible?
Who is to blame
when the kid is a -- brat,
Just like a mean
old Siamese -- cat?
The mother and the
father.
- Line
from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
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