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Maukie is back in cyberspace! It was down because of too much traffic. That means too many people linking to Maukie. If this doesn't change, I'm afraid I'll have to take the Maukie pages down for all time. Please read the note below. Thank you! Anneke
IMPORTANT NOTE!
Most people seem to have Maukie as wallpaper on their computer.
This means that every time they start up their computer they make a hit to the
Maukie site (they just link to Maukie!).
It would be great if everyone would place Maukie on the desktop without linking.
If you want to know how to do that please read here.
Q: Can I use Maukie on my own website?
A: Yes you can, we did too! But remember you can't ask anyone for permission, because it's unknown who the creator of Maukie is. So if one day the owner walks in, and claims the copyright on the cat, it's possible you'll have to take it down.
Q: I have installed the Macromedia Flash player, but I still can't see Maukie. I am using a Mac and/or a browser different from Internet Explorer.
A: This is because the file is being served as text/plain, when it should be served as application/x-shockwave-flash. (We didn't know this at first; Thanks to the kind people who informed us of this.) However, we can't personally change the settings of our site so that SWF files are automatically recognized as ShockwaveFlash. The only thing we can do is put the flash file on a webpage, and have this webpage tell your computer that it is a Flash file. So try viewing the Maukie desktop pages instead of the actual maukie.swf file, and see if that helps.
Q: I am so fond of Maukie. Do you have any more art like Maukie?
A: We are sorry to say, but no we haven't. Of course you can Search Google for more Flash Artwork.
Q: I would like to save Maukie to my own files. How can I do that?
A: Here is a link to Maukie. Instead of clicking it to open the page to see Maukie, Right-Click on the word "Here" and choose "Save Target As". Save the file maukie2.swf to your computer files. The file can be opened with Internet Explorer.
Q: How do I get Maukie on my desktop?
A: We have made a special page for you. It can be found here.
Q: What does Maukie's name tag say?
A: Here is an enlargment of the tag. There used to be a website with this name (wotch.com).
Some think Wotch may have been the creator(s) of Maukie.
Q: Who is Anneke?
A: Anneke is a very talented artist with a website who happened to find Maukie and put her on the website. Maukie became so popular that Anneke made several pages of information to help people all over the world with their questions about Maukie. We are extremely grateful to Anneke for all of her hard work and research! She has given Maukie a good home. Here are some links that will tell you more about Anneke.
To Link to Maukie, Click Here Play With Maukie And BookMark The Page In Your List of Favorites. You can save the actual text of the link by selecting the link you want, To save Maukie to your computer, use this link to Maukie. Here is a link to Maukie the Web Cat! Instead of clicking it to open the page to see Maukie, RIGHT-Click (with the right button of your mouse!) on the link and choose "Save Target As". Save the file "maukie2.swf" to your computer files. That's it! It can be opened with Internet Explorer.
To get Maukie on your desktop, you need to download an HTML page and set it as your wallpaper. The HTML page will need some editing (see next section) and you will also need to download the maukie2.swf file (see previous or next section).
Here is a list of different screen sizes; choose your size and LEFT-click the appropriate link to OPEN and preview the desktop, or RIGHT-click and choose "Save Target As" to save it to your hard disk.
800x600 ||
1024x768 ||
1152x864 ||
1280x1024
Once you've saved the HTML page to your hard disk, set it as your wallpaper:
• Right-click your desktop and choose Properties
Note that if you want to change your wallpaper again, the only place on your desktop where you can right-click (to get the menu to choose Properties from) is the dark edge.
Please note that you need the Free Flash Player to be able to see Maukie! (Whether it's on the web or on your own desktop.)
Customizing the colors
You can change the colors of the dark edge and the light background by editing the HTML page you downloaded.
To change the color of the dark edge:
To change the color of the light background:
To view a list of possible color values, visit HTML Color Codes
Have you done this?: Download an HTML Page to put on your Desktop. Then you have saved the html page from Maukie. How to go on from here?
Q: I would like to save Maukie to my own files. How can I do that?
You need to edit the html file that you saved.
Look for the words: Now that you have come so far, it's going to be easy to do it another time! :)
Look for the words: <EMBED src="http://www.broenink-art.nl/anneke/MAUKIE2.SWF" Go to "File" in your menu bar and click "Save".
Now you have your OWN Maukie on your OWN computer!
Once you've changed the HTML page on your hard disk, set it as your wallpaper:
• Right-click your desktop and choose Properties Back to ~ PLAY With Maukie The Web Cat
Or Click Here Play With Maukie And then Right Click on any blank part of the page and select "Create Shortcut" to place a shortcut to the page on your desktop. Any time you want to visit the page to play with Maukie, simply double click on the desktop icon and the page will open.
such as
Maukie (USA) OR
Maukie (Netherlands) And then RIGHT-Click on the link and Select "Copy Shortcut". Paste the text into a file such as Notepad or WordPad.
• Choose Browse
• Locate the HTML page (maukieXXXX.html, where XXXX is your screen size)
• Click Open
• Click OK.
• Open the HTML page (maukieXXXX.html) in Notepad, WordPad, or a similar program (MS Word not advised)
• Locate this line: <body bgcolor="#0088CC">
• Change 0088CC to a different value.
• Open the HTML page (maukieXXXX.html) in Notepad, WordPad, or a similar program (MS Word not advised)
• Locate this line: <param name="bgcolor" value="#66BBFF">
• Change 66BBFF to a different value.
Maukie In Your Files and On Your Desktop
Now you need to save the .SWF file from Maukie as well! Follow the instructions below:
A: Here is a link to Maukie. Instead of clicking it to open the page to see Maukie, RIGHT-Click (with the right button of your mouse!) on the word "Here" and choose "Save Target As". Save it to your computer files.
Now you have all the files you need! Now what?
Open Notepad on your computer, go to "File" in your menu bar, and click on "Open" (a little window will pop up).
In the little window go to the directory where you have saved the MaukieXXXX.html. Open this html file. If you don't see the file there, click the little bar on the bottom of the little window and choose "All Files". Now you will be able to see and open the html file.
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://home.tiscali.nl/dutchsky/maukiefanlisting/MAUKIE2.SWF">
What must be changed?
http://home.tiscali.nl/dutchsky/maukiefanlisting/MAUKIE2.SWF.
This must be changed into:
The place where you have saved Maukie on YOUR computer.
For example, if you have saved her in C:\My Documents, the address would be
C:\My Documents\MAUKIE2.SWF
The final code would be:
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="C:\My Documents\MAUKIE2.SWF">
Do exactly the same as you did the first time.
The final code will be (for example):
<EMBED src="C:\My Documents\MAUKIE2.SWF"
From here you can follow the instructions from the Maukie desktop page.
For your convenience we will repeat it here:
• Choose Browse
• Locate the HTML page (maukieXXXX.html, where XXXX is your screen size)
• Click Open
• Click OK.