Every Monday through Friday-ish, we post a new Monkey Bite on our frontdoor for your edification. This could be a little news item, a link to a useful site, a handy coding tip, or just some random piece of information we think might be of interest to Web developers. Expired Monkey Bites are stored right here, growing tastier and more sophisticated with each passing day.
This month's Monkey Bites:
11/29/01
Now that Nadav's Web Typography Tutorial has you feeling all fontastic, you should appreciate the aliased, vector-based pixel font stylings of Miniml.
11/27/01
Having some difficulties with something Microsoft-made? (Huh!) You could call Microsoft Tech Support, but you might just fare better with a Tarot-powered reading from The Psychic Friends Network.
11/23/01
Mozilla 0.9.6 is out, and it's fast and OS X-friendly, but Java support requires some DIYing (download the Java JRE, install it, then find "NPOJI600.dll" and move it to the Mozilla plugins directory).
11/21/01
Mr. Led Pants (not to be confused with the monster-great Mr. Pants, whom Webmonkey would like to take into its lengthy arms and hug forever and ever) is a freelance illustrator, animator, and creator of one incense/wine/candle-freaky interfaced site. Oui, oui, we like!
11/19/01
Salon may think the Xbox games suck, but one proactive programmer plans to remedy the situation
by porting the venerable
M.A.M.E. 80's arcade emulator to Microsoft's 2001 console.
11/17/01
Microsoft released Yet Another Security Patch for IE, a full week after the dire
security compromise was discovered. Blame the lag time on Bill Gates, who
got a holiday job working retail: The Great Cashier Himself rang up
XBoxen at this week's launch.
11/15/01
Microsoft released Yet Another Security Patch for IE, a full week after the dire
security compromise was discovered. Blame the lag time on Bill Gates, who
got a holiday job working retail: The Great Cashier Himself rang up
XBoxen at this week's launch.
11/13/01
Opera 6.0 for Windows Beta 1, with a revamped L and F, new single/multiple document interface flexibility, and the same speed and standards compliance, is now available.
Download a free sponsored version and enjoy the view of a small banner ad, or upgrade to a non-sponsored version for US$39.
11/12/01
Some may think it's big news [pesky NYT link, requires registration] that Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler is sharing what it takes to squeeze out a piece of fiction, but you and I know that ex-Monkey Josh has been posting his (far superior, in our humble opinion) work, contraction by contraction, for some time now.
11/06/01
The new
teleportation technology — which captures people's images, transmits them over the Net, and projects them in live, 3-D glory — is really going to wreak havoc with the bitchin' beach tans of today's telecommuters.
11/07/01
Webmonkey's favorite (Canadian) shoemaker, Mr. John Fluevog, is going open source.
Submit a phantasy phootware design and maybe, just maybe, grab a piece of the fame, "fortune," and fluevogdom pie.
