Wow. You know the freedom of creating email accounts never really gets to you until you experiment with a new program. See, I found aMSN, this cool MSN/WLM Msgr Clone that can be used on any platform, be it Windows or Mac or Linux. It totally replicates the MSN/WLM look and feel and features like nudges and personal nicknames, something that the popular Msn-replacement-for-Mac Adium doesn't offer. Oh, did I mention some Msn games can run on aMSN too?
So, proud of my find, I download the software and start to tinkle with it, only to have it crash within one minute.
A little unsure of it's credibility, I restart the application again and it all goes well; I get connected, and then the program hangs. So I try pressing Apple-Q but to avail. So I did the very very very common keyboard shortcut that would let me... Force Quit! It has totally gotta be the best function for Mac users.
So, I'm a little skeptical of the program now and while it doesn't hang for the next five minutes, I slowly play around with its features and settings, finding that it is indeed a very good clone of Msn or WLM itself.
Then a slight problem arises, when I send a document to my contact, which is transferred at an agonizingly snail speed. [I think it was 0.1 kb/s] So I end up switching back to Adium to send the file over. [2.9 kb/s]
7 hours later, I'm back at home, running WLM on my home PC, running aMSN and running Adium simultaneously. And it strikes me. I have THREE hotmail accounts. I used to have One, then my Mac came along and I had Two so I could run both simultaneously and send files to each other. Then aMSN came along and now I have Three. Coupled with 1 Gmail and 2 Yahoo. And I realise I don't really use my Yahoo! Mail except for... Yahoo! Pool.
Let's See.. Hotmail gives me 2Gb, Yahoo! gives me 1Gb and Gmail gives me 2Gb [And counting] so... that would give me... a total of.. 10Gb online storage space?!?!?! Now That's a lot! It's even more than my Windows Partition on my Mac.
Imagine how useful one's Email Account could be.. for Backup Services. Like Gspace
Too bad it can't be used as a scratch disk. Haha, that would be the ultimate dream for every audio/video/image editor or developer.
Okay, enough of such stuff. HmM. 2Gb of online storage space would be good for sharing movies.
Oh, and! I've learnt how to create animated emoticons! And using only Photoshop! It's rather easy! Once you get the hang of it. Check out mine! I did both in half an hour. Though I think it's a little ghastly. Heh. But first time ma...
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