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December 25, 2001

Merry Christmas! - MacMonkies wishes everyone a Merry Chistmas and a Blessed Holiday Season!

December 21, 2001

Crazy Coconuts Holiday Giveaway - Be sure and take a moment to register for our giveaway. Prizes include a new DVD/CD player bundled with "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "The Family Man" on DVD. CLICK HERE

NOTE: We found that if you are running a personal firewall, you may not be able to access our registration form. If you do not feel comfortable turning it off in order to register, please send us an e-mail at macmonkies@mac.com and be sure to include the following:

Mac OSX 10.1.2 Update - The update for Mac OSX 10.1.2 is now available via the Software Update panel in the System Preferences of OSX.

Transformers! - Transform your desktop with a fine new visual addition titled "Transformers." Head over to Mikawares today and grab your copy!

Startup Doubler - Mark Moini's Startup Doubler for Mac Os 9.2.2 is now available for download!

First up to bat is our Crazy Coconuts Holiday Giveaway! For this Holiday season, we've got over $200.00 worth of merchandise up for grabs!
Prizes include:

A Brand new Philips DVD/CD Player with remote control, Bundled with Jim Carrey's
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
on DVD

and

"The Family Man" on DVD

 

All you have to do is enter to win!

CLICK HERE!

 

• The "Oops" Award - As was mentioned in the Last Edition of MacMonkies, we don't like it when we make you wait! So, due to last week's delay (Ah come on! Almost 8 hours IS late!), we promised to make it up to you. So, since Mr. Monkie Wiles is such a menace, we're gonna give away an additional prize:

One copy of
"Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace"

All you have to do is CLICK HERE, give us your name, age, and e-mail address, and send off the e-mail. You only need have someone 18 years of age or older to sign for the package if you are a winner! We will draw the name on Tuesday, December 25, 2001.
Good Luck!

December 19, 2001

Monkie News!

• New Home for MacMonkies! - Please keep in mind that MacMonkies will soon be making our move to a new home. So, if you are currently using the www.macmonkies.com URL to surf to MacMonkies, please keep the following URL handy in case you have any troubles getting aboard:

http://homepage.mac.com/macmonkies

Both URL's are currently active, but there may be a slight lag during the transfer to the new server. We will also continue to mirror the site on the mac.com host for a period of time after the transfer is complete. Thanks for your patience while we make the move!

• New in the Gallery! - Welcome to the Kitty Litter Holiday Edition! Really, all the kitties you see here are all part of the same litter. For some strange reason, some of the felines were getting a bit jealous! So, we have 3 new pics in the Etc. Section and 1 new addition to the Nature Dept.

Kitty Litter Holiday Edition - Heading up this section is Toenails in Say What? I think he's tryin' to figure out why some mice have 2 buttons. Toes also shows his lack of courage in Who Let The Dogs Out as he hides behind and underneath the computer monitor!

Tigger adds his usual camera ham Holiday cheer with Seasons Greetings, our first new entry on the 2nd page of ETC.

Natural Shirley - Finally, we add another outdoors selection to out Nature Department titled Shirley Mountains. Enjoy!

• New Link! - New to our Links page is the DeskTop. Head over to our Links Department and check out this awesome GUI site!
  
  
• On its Way! - For more Monkie Info on its way, check out this weeks edition of The MonkieBarrel!
  

 

Get Stooged! - GUI Guru Scott Chitwood has updated the ever popular Rampant Mac site with two new desktops to Make Your Mac Happy! "Think Stooge" features The Three Stooges with a twist - it includes a fourth stooge! In addition to the "fab four," the Art Desk Series goes to "Art Desk no.9." Be sure to check out these fine new additions at Rampant Mac!

Dynamic Duo - The combined forces of Donnie Fischer and Andy Moraitis bring the web a fresh new look at White Fire Ministries. Donnie has given the year-old site a "dynamic" new look and Andy has a brand new series called called "Seasons of the Heart!" Head on over and take a look!

Theme Park - Master theme maker Michael Rabe has added two new themes to the Doghouse: A MacOS X theme "Glass" v2.0 and a Classic Christmas theme titled "GlassWorks Christmas." For all your Theme Making needs, take a trip over to the Doghouse!

The America Online/AT&T Connection - As we reported last week, AOL/Mac customers using version 5.0 of America Online's software are experiencing connectivity problems. MacMonkies recently spoke with a local AT&T Broadband technician and discovered that his daughter's Mac connected using AOL 5.0 via AT&T with no problems. We decided to do a little digging. Here's what we came up with:

AOL 5.0 Revision 19.43 and Revision 20.9 will NOT allow connection if using AT&T Broadband Internet as your internet service provider. However, if you can find a CD with AOL 5.0 Revision 19.29, you will have connectivity. We have been using the older version the last few days with no problems.

We contacted both AT&T and America Online regarding this information. America Online is looking into it. We will keep you posted as we learn more.

Note: We would like to caution anyone using older versions of any software that you may experience conflicts, bugs, and perhaps even crashes.

Insanely Great! - Steve Jobs is keeping good company this holiday season with the likes of Stephen Speilburg, Donald Trump and, yes, even Bill Gates. All of these men have showed up on Forbes' list of Americas Most Fascinating Tycoons. Winners on the list were determined in part by mention of the tycoon's names in the media and the number of articles written about them. Apparently the public views Jobs as "a savvy businessman and a creative genius." Forbes viewed Jobs as "an alternate take on Bill Gates..." who is like a "tortured artiste who creates 'insanely great' products like the iPod." Jobs and Gates were two of four technology bosses mentioned on the list. - From MacCentral

Name That Tune - The Dutch Company Royal Philips Electronics NV will bring us a technological way to identify songs and artists sometime next year. All that is required to identify songs and artists is a "digital fingerprint" of the song. In other words, a person plays 3 seconds of a song into a cell phone, and the 3-second recording acts as a digital fingerprint and is sent to a database identifying the song title and artist in a matter of 4 seconds. The information is sent back to the cell phone and appears on the screen of the cell phone. Now we will have a new way to "Name That Tune." - from Excite

Dr. iBott - iPod now has a cassette tape adapter put out by Dr. Bott. It is called iPod Connection Kit 2. An FM Transmitter is bundled with the original iPod Connection Kit. The kit includes:

• Auto Charger for iPod™
  
• FM Stereo Transmitter
  
• 2 AAA batteries (for FM transmitter)
  
• Mini Stereo Extension Cable (male/female)
  
• Mini Stereo to RCA Cable
  
• Mini Stereo Connection Cable (male/male)
  
• iPod™ Carry Pouch
  

The new kit will cost $47.95 and will ship late December and can be pre-ordered today. - from Dr. Bott

Who's Monopoly Is It Anyway? - While Bill Gates is accused of having a monopoly, Apple boasted of having a monopoly of its own. The December 17th issue Newsweek magazine featured an ad for Mac OS X with the slogan "The only thing we have a monopoly on is compliments." In addition, there are also "six quotes from technology writers praising Mac OS X" written on the ad. - from MacMinute

Drum Roll Please - There have been some interesting developments regarding Steve Jobs' speech at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. First of all, his speech has been moved up a day to January 7, 2001. Secondly, an extra hour has been allocated for the speech. This suggests that perhaps Jobs will be introducing a lot of exciting new Apple products to cheer us up after the post-holiday blues. Some ideas on what he will be introducing include "a new iMac, Power Macs clocking in at over 1GHz," and "that Macs will be shipping with OS X as the default OS." Steve, we are waiting with bated breath...bring on the post Holiday cheer! - from MacUser

Sweet Tooth - A candy bar that is big enough to feed 100,000 people is on show at the Port Aventura theme park in Catalonia. At 30 feet long and weighing a ton, it is the biggest nougat bar in the world. The nougat bar was created by ten cooks who mixed together a ton of almonds, chocolate and sugar. Half of the candy bar is to be sold to customers at the theme park and the other half is to be given away. - from Excite

Jars of Apples - The band Jars of Clay head straight into a Mac-based studio in Nashville when inspiration hits. With a couple Power Macs, a pair of iMacs, four iBooks, two PowerBooks, and ProTools and a Digi 001, Jars of Clay put their recordings straight to the hard disk for further polishing of the apple. - from Apple

 

Have you Heard?

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 - Word has it that Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (compatible with Mac OSX) will be out sometime in April of next year. It is currently still in the beta stage. A preview of the beta version may shown at the Macworld Expo next month.

Apple Seed - Apple may be releasing OS X v10.1.2 sometime soon, which will fix bugs as well as provide support for infra-red modems and PC card slots on G3 Powerbooks. The update has reportedly been released to developers and is believed to be in the final stages before it becomes available to the public.

Startup Doubler - According to Marc Moini's web site, a Mac OS 9.2.2 version of Startup Doubler will be available later this week.

Have some inside information on upcoming events? Review our Submission Policy and drop us a line!

 

Check 'em Out!

'Tis the Season! - With Christmas less than a week away, we would hope that most are in the Spirit of things. However, if you need a little nudge to get into the swing of things, check out these sites that have Christmas-E stuff floatin' around in one form or the other:

Christmas.com

ChristmasRecipe.com

Holidays.net

Rampant Mac

ResExcellence

Pixel Jerk

Merry-Christmas.com

MAJArch Studios

Need more? Just type "Christmas" into Sherlock or your favorite Search Engine and
Have a Blast!

Just Plain Nutz!

TWAS A COMPUTER CHRISTMAS

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the shop,
The computers were whirring; they never do stop.
The power was on and the temperature right,
In hopes that the input would feed back that night.
 
The system was ready, the program was coded,
And memory drums had been carefully loaded;
While adding a Christmasy glow to the scene,
The lights on the console, flashed red, white and green.
 
When out in the hall there arose such a clatter,
The programmer ran to see what was the matter.
Away to the hallway he flew like a flash,
Forgetting his key in his curious dash.
He stood in the hallway and looked all about,
When the door slammed behind him, and he was locked out.
 
Then, in the computer room what should appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer;
And a little old man, who with scarcely a pause,
Chuckled: "My name is Santa...the last name is Claus."
 
The computer was startled, confused by the name,
Then it buzzed as it heard the old fellow exclaim:
"This is Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
And Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen."
 
With all these odd names, it was puzzled anew;
It hummed and it clanked, and a main circuit blew.
It searched in its memory core, trying to "think";
Then the multi-line printer went out on the blink.
 
Unable to do its electronic job,
It said in a voice that was almost a sob:
"Your eyes - how they twinkle - your dimples so merry,
Your cheeks so like roses, your nose like a cherry,
 
Your smile - all these things, I've been programmed to know,
And at data-recall, I am more than so-so;
But your name and your address (computers can't lie),
Are things that I just cannot identify.
 
You've a jolly old face and a little round belly,
That shakes when you laugh like a bowlful of jelly;
My scanners can see you, but still I insist,
Since you're not in my program, you cannot exist!"
 
Old Santa just chuckled a merry "ho, ho",
And sat down to type out a quick word or so.
The keyboard clack-clattered, its sound sharp and clean,
As Santa fed this "data" to the machine:
 
"Kids everywhere know me; I come every year;
The presents I bring add to everyone's cheer;
But you won't get anything - that's plain to see;
Too bad your programmers forgot about me."
 
Then he faced the machine and said with a shrug,
"Merry Christmas to All," as he pulled out its plug!

-Author Unknown

HAVE A MERRY WHAT?!!

Each of the following phrases are common Christmas sayings or song titles that got in the tongues of the wrong hands! Oh well...It's all Greek to me anyway!!

1. Move hither ward the entire assembly of those who are loyal in their belief.

O Come All Ye Faithful

2. Listen, the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds.

Hark, The Herald Angels Sing

3. Nocturnal time span of unbroken quietness.

Silent Night

4. An emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good given to the terrestrial sphere.

Joy to the World

5. Embellish the interior passageways.

Deck the Halls

6. Twelve o'clock on a clement night witnessed its arrival.

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

7. Exalted heavenly beings to whom hearkened.

Angels We Have Heard On High

8. The Christmas preceding all others.

The First Noel

9. Small municipality in Judea southeast of Jerusalem.

O Little Town of Bethlehem

10. Diminutive masculine master of skin-covered percussionistic cylinders.

The Little Drummer Boy

11. Omnipotent supreme being who elicits respite to ecstatic distinguished males.

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

12. Tranquility upon the terrestrial sphere.

Peace On Earth

13. Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of minute crystals.

Frosty the Snowman

14. Expectation of arrival to populated area by mythical, masculine perennial gift-giver.

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

15. Natal Celebration devoid of color, rather albino.

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

16. In awe of the nocturnal time span characterized by religiosity.

O Holy Night

17. Geographic state of fantasy during the season of mother nature's dormancy.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

18. The first person nominative plural of a triumvirate of far eastern heads of state.

We Three Kings

19. Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted, metallic, resonant cups.

Jingle Bells

20. In a distant location the existence of an improvised unit of newborn children's slumber furniture.

Away in a Manger

21. Jovial Yuletide desired for the second person singular or plural by us.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

 

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Odds and Ends

PURPOSE

"Purpose is what gives life a meaning."
- C. H. Parkhurst

 

LIFE'S BILLBOARD

"There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast."
- Brian Koslow

 

CORNBALL!

Before settling on 'Cornhuskers' in 1899, the University of Nebraska's nicknames were Treeplanters, Rattlesnake Boys, Antelopes, Old Gold Knights and the Bugeaters - ESPN.com

 

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition."
-Nick Seitz

 

 

SMILES

Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu,

When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin

When he smiled I realized I'd passed it on to him

I thought about that smile then I realized its worth,

A single smile, just like mine, could travel round the earth.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected

Let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

Contributed by Nancy G.

 

 

 

 

 

 

            
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