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:

06/27/02

Adaptive Path's Tour 2002 is in full swing, and may just be headed to your neck of the woods. Sign up today and not only will you receive three magnificent days of user experience workshopping, but you'll also get a crack at shaking the paw of Webmonkey's own Jeff Veen!

06/25/02

Ever been intrigued by stories of "hobo signs" — the secret symbols that drifters once used to identify places that offered a hot meal or place to rest? Now you, too, can get in on the action, if you're into 80211.b wireless networking. "Warchalking" uses a set of glyphs to ID places where any laptop-lugging websurfer can leech some broadband for free.

06/24/02

Hey! The cosmos isn't turquoise, as was originally reported. It's actually the color of a latte ... a foamy double-tall, if you ask us (or, according to Photoshop, a decidedly un-browser-safe FFF8E6).

06/21/02

And in everybody's favorite category, "Things That Look Like One Thing But Are Really Something Else": Jello fruit, hot dog cookies, and the Volkswagen transformer.

06/20/02

Oh my gourd! The Mini Pencam is the cutest digital camera EVER! And its size isn't the only thing that goes easy on your pocket — at around US$99, it's cheap, too. (You do know it's Webmonkey Evany's birthday this week, right? Anyone? Anyone?)

06/19/02

To all the party people at last night's Webby Awards, we have five words for you: Next year, Von Von Von!

06/17/02

Monkey Michael Kay, whom everybody knows and loves from his searingly educational Flash Tutorials, has now published a book! It's called The Wizard's Guide to Flash, and it's the best way we can think of to class up your Billy.

06/13/02

Adobe announced software updates for both the Mac OS X and Windows versions of GoLive 6 today. The service pack makes the program more stable, and it allows smoother integration with Flash MX files. Try adding Big Bang's MenuMachine extension for GoLive 6, and you've got one heck of a custom building suite!

06/11/02

Punch cards are back! IBM has returned to the by-gone days of analog data storage with the Millipede project, a new nano-mechanical memory system that punches about one trillion holes in a piece of plastic the size of a postage stamp. Is it time for Neal Stephenson to update his "rain of bits" scenario?

06/10/02

Call it coincidence: On the day of the official release of Mozilla 1.0, a major security flaw is announced in Microsoft's Internet Explorer — one that exploits the cobwebbed Gopher protocol, no less.

06/04/02

Dropouts, rejoice: As of today, Apple's eMac, previously sold only through educational channels, is available to the general public for just a little over US$1000. Of course, if you're saving your lunch money for other edu-tech items (like, say, a ditto machine), you're better off downloading the free, newly posted Public Preview of Quicktime 6, which includes support for MPEG-4.

06/03/02

One of Webmonkey's all-time faves, Cockeyed.com, has delved into the falling habits of toast, discovered how much printing oomph can be squeezed from a printer cartridge, and pinpointed the evil genius behind those "work from home" signs. Now Cockeyed Rob and his team of wily scientists have sicced their calipers (and Rob's gaping maw) on America's most beloved sandwich cookie, the Oreo, to find out just how much cream filling lives inside.




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