It's time for another Good Web Site, Bad Web Site

Good Web Site: YPops.
If you have Yahoo! Mail and are sick of not being able to download your emails to your computer, get YPops. It works with practically every email client out there, and it does what Yahoo is making people pay $19.95 to do (what it used to do for free). This also works if you don't want ANOTHER email, or maybe you just can't get another one (GMail, anyone?)

Bad Web Site: Apple.com
No matter how hard I try, I can't download the Apple iTunes for Windows update (4.9). I have viewed the page in Avant Browser, IE, and Firefox, but I still can't see any download button (one time I caught a brief flash of it, but it disappeared). I have made sure that no images, flash files, or ActiveX files are blocked without notification, and I've gone through ALL of my McAfee logs for Privacy Service. Nothing. Bupkis. I finally submitted a feedback to Apple.com, but since it's not the kind they can reply to, who knows how I'll fix this problem.

Same goes for the iPod software. There's supposed to be a button there, but it just ISN'T. And somehow, other people don't seem to be having this program. Allow me to voice: WTF!?

All praise Saint Mamono, Goddess of the Code! I don't know how she did it/thought of it, or whatever, but she got me both the iTunes and iPod updates by digging around in the source code. And amazingly, IT WORKED! Thank you, Mamono! (Hey, I want more WDKY icons, or I won't show you the finished Winter icon I told you about!)

I also want to get the album artwork for my songs, but I really, truly can't figure out how, and all the tutorials on the Apple site seem to refer to the newest version of iTunes, which doesn't have half the menus described (that I have). Amazon.com apparently has something to do with all this, but what the heck do I know? I have a lot of album artwork in my My Music folder (don't know how it got there), but I think that was for another program...?

Wait, wait... the tutorial I read was mis-Googled and referred to a Widget for OSX only, iTunes Catalog, which has NO PC equivalent. Still, I'd like to get the artwork... (Got this program called iTunes Art Importer, which accesses Amazon.com's database. It's a pain to work at times, but it DOES work!)

Okay, so I have icons to work on, communities to update, fics to write and edit and post (WDKY coming at ya!) and things to find... er, remember all those Google parody sites we found a while back? I know one was Gizoogle.com, but what was the other one, where you could search names and come up with stuff like Seto Kaiba is god and things like that?  Googlism.com!

WHEE I WON! My first ever eBay auction and I won a pair of beautiful Azurite earrings. I'm totally thrilled, because I was under the impression that finding jewelry from my namesake (least, I think that's what it is) would be expensive or impossible. But I won these earrings, and I'm in the running for an Azurite and Hematite bracelet. All that's left is a necklace! ^_^v

What Doesn't Kill You Chapter 17 is now up at FFnet. Go read it, fo'shizzle.

That FO post I was talking about is a skosh bit delayed, but still coming. I guess you're looking forward to it?