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August 3, 2001

Rampant Mac has a new set of OS X icons that feature the NHL and eight new desktops. Scott Chitwood consistantly offers top notch material and this update is no different. The best just keeps getting better!

The Doghouse has been remodeled and is ready for exhibition. You can also stop by ResExcellence and grab a copy of Michael's latest Theme for OSX - VRX! Check 'em Out!

Code Red Takes Its Toll The "virus-like" worm infected over 150,000 computers on Wednesday. The victims were computers running Microsoft's NT or Windows 2000 operating system. Read More

August 1-7, 2001

Kudos for Apple - Amidst an economic slow-down and a decrease in sales in the entire computer industry, Apple Computer seems to be faring well inspite of all the little black clouds. Several sources are reporting good things about Apple:

• MacUser reports that in a survey by Which? Magazine, Apple was rated top in computer reliability and after-sales support by by nearly 14,000 participants!
  
• Business Week ranks Apple 49th in their annual survey of the world's most valuable brands.
  
• Several sources are reporting that Apple was so dedicated in securing exhibitor attendance that they offered to pay for stand space and expenses for a number of major developers including Macromedia and Adobe.
  
• Other World Computing informs us that despite poor exhibitor attendance at the recent Macworld Expo, visitor attendance was up around 14%. MacUser reports an increase in visitor attendance of only 5%. Despite this, OWC adds that "the PC Expo that took place about 2 weeks prior in the same location was only a shadow of its former self and couldn't hold a candle to the size and turnout of the MacWorld show."
  
• CNET recently graded Apple and other leading computer manufacturers on tech support. Apple scored well overall. See the report card HERE.
  
• Business Week also sang praises to the up and coming 10.1 update for OSX.

Despite the occasional black cloud that tends to pester just about everyone, Apple continues to find their silver lining. Now how about them apples!

No Alternative for Microsoft - Microsoft plans to move forward inspite of attempts to block the release of Windows XP. Though Microsoft has received a political pressure and legal threats, the company has no alternative plans for XP in case the attempted blocks are successful. The company has been sharply criticized because the new operating system uses of more of its own software than ever, making it even more difficult for other software companies to compete. Earlier, Microsoft did rewrite contracts with computer manufacturers allowing them to remove Microsoft's browser icon from the desktop. However, the software giant is now using harsh words toward AOL for making a deal with Compaq to place AOL's icon on the desktop, thus "hiding" features MSN features. And who is calling the kettle black?
-from ZDNet and Excite News

Site of the Week - We are pleased to report that The Apple Collection has selected MacMonkies as their Site of the Week! The Apple Collection has literally thousands of desktop pictures for consumption and was designed to be fun and to add a bit of color to your browsing. Thank you from all of us at MacMonkies!

Student ID - College students recently discovered personal information including their Social Security numbers and home addresses on the internet. The information was discovered on the search engine Google.com and was available from April until June. The problem has been corrected. - from Excite News

Monkey Technology - For some, technology is not something to monkey around with. Others, however, find it the name of the game! A safari park in central Scotland was recently bombarded with mysterious calls to their mobile phones. The mystery caller? A chimpanzee! Apparently, an eleven-year-old chimp picked the pocket of a staff member at the park and quickly figured out how to use his new "hi-tech" toy. Chippy began making prank phone calls the very next day. However, Chippy's identity was quickly revealed when one worker heard the chimp's shrieks at the other end of the phone. Now that's what I call monkey business! -from Excite News

Have you Heard?

IBM has researchers testing new technology in a fully furnished living room, kitchen and garage. The "smart house" is completely connected. Stoves and microwaves cook automatically according to recipes downloaded from the internet; refrigerators tell of its contents without opening the door; home owners could even monitor the inside of their house from a secure website. The reality of the project could happen in as little as two years. Big Brother III?

The beta 2 of QuicKeys X was released by CE Software. The new beta offers several improvements compared to beta 1. A fall release date is scheduled for the final release of QuicKeys for Mac OS X .

Sources are reporting that Apple's in development application iPhoto could indeed be the root of tensions between them and Adobe. Why such a thorn for Adobe? Like iTunes, Apple intends on giving it away, which would directly affect Adobe's own Elements.

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Aaron's Monkey File is TOTALLY ape! If you seriously like to monkey around, then this site is for you. Aaron's Monkey File has loads of monkey pictures that will keep a grin on your face from ear to ear!

Freeverse Software has some of the wackiest software out there for both Mac and PC. One of our personal favorites is Jared - Your Atonal Amigo! Think you can't carry a tune in a bucket? Jared will make you sound like a world class singer!

Need a place to pick up an important fax? Get free faxes by e-mail for FREE at eFax.com. There are plenty of free services out there, but in our experience, eFax is simply the best. Their software is available for both Mac and PC.
Check 'em Out!

Just Plain Nutz!

God Complex

From all reports, it seems obvious that both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have a God Complex. It seems equally obvious that they are fundamentally different types of persons. How can these two statements be reconciled?

Perhaps Bill Gates' Complex was inspired by the all-powerful, ever-present, and awesome attributes of God. He saw the quaking of people in reaction to the casting of thunderbolts and works of wonderment and decided that it looked like the ideal job description. The R & D required to get Creation 1.0 up and running isn't very clear in these stories but, since everyone clearly thought that everything God did was, de facto, right, that shouldn't be a problem.

Steve Jobs, on the other hand, is more of a Messiah. He wants to lead people to wonderful things, saving them from themselves and from pretenders to the Throne. The advantage to those who know they are mere mortals is that a Messiah can live with the idea of simply offering people a choice. Individuals can follow, or not. The all-powerful God Complex needs to assume that every one will (and will even want to) follow them--Which is probably why Microsoft and the Department of Justice have been in the news so much lately.

-by Dr. Terry Gunderson

10 Things You Probably Didn't Know

• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
  starves to death.
  (that's why you have to stomp them)
  
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  (but make sure you're a long way away before you stop to stick
  yours out at the crocodile)
  
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one
  olive from each salad served in first-class.
  (a penny saved)
  
• Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  
• Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until
  the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
  
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
  
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
  (don't try to verify this)
  
• China has more English speakers than the United States.
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't
  wear pants.
  
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
  calorie.
  
  - Contributed by Nancy
  

Mittens!

Did you hear about the cat that swallowed a ball of yarn and had mittens?

-from Wit and Witticism

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Odds and Ends

Face Off

How did you do? Did you find 9 Faces from last week's eye teaser? If you found yourself puzzled or faced with complexion, here is the answer that you were looking for. CLICK HERE for a numbered copy of last weeks picture puzzle. Here's looking at you!

Justifying Chocolate

Chocolate is a vegetable. How, you ask?
Chocolate is derived from cacao beans.
Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category.
Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.

To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy.
So candy bars are a health food.

Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.

If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.

If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is
that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?

Money talks. Chocolate sings. Beautifully.

Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Originally expected to hit the net again yesterday, the Code Red worm is now expected to attack again today.

A Swedish bullterrier swallowed a bill worth nearly 100 U.S. dollars and returned it - in the "natural" way!
In this case, one would tend to prefer laundered money!

July virus definitions for both Norton & Virex are available for download.

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