I became an Apple beta tester (actually, I beta test many software pieces, such as WordPress, LiveJournal.com features, and the likes), today when I read all the hype about iTunes 9.2 on other sites. I was so disappointed after I paid to test it. Really, there’s no difference to me. I noticed that my wallpaper was reset to a water-drops-on-polished-wood background on my iPhone, and the apps glide around a little smoother, but after resetting my default wallpaper, and it now peeks out from behind the apps when browsing the iPhone, still, there’s really not that much for people to want to rush and download torrents and demand that the developers seed this software. Many people are going to be disappointed when this is released, if there’s no improvement from these beta versions.

Yes, I’ve seen the posts on the web where people want torrents and leaks of the software, and it’s really not worth the illegal activity. It’s not worth nearly getting caught or risking your ISP connection to have it a few days early. Apple’s iStore doesn’t even have the ever-waited for iBooks available yet. There’s nothing significantly different in this version of iTunes and the previous one. Besides, it cost me on $99 US to became a beta tester today, and I have the Buyer’s Remorse. Seriously.

Also, I read this on my dad’s Facebook update:

“I have the runs today. It’s coming out to the tune of Tone Loc’s WILDTHING. Video soon!”

……and yet you all wonder where I get my TMI on the internet posting abilities from!

Really.

Really?!

I’m almost scared to ask who searched for that. It could either be my husband or my father-in-law. Either way, it’s disturbing. Very disturbing. I almost don’t want to know who searched for it, but I have to know who is sleeping on the opposite side of my locked bedroom door tonight.

Also, it’s always fun to see respectable people having e-cat fights. Classy.

Oh, and I’m feeling much better today. I might not need any pain killers tonight!

Someone told me that I no longer need ImageReady, as Photoshop CS3 has animation features built in. Anyone know if this is true? Is it as good as the ImageReady animations? I want to try it out, as this is the software the band uses to update their website, but I don’t want to get in another mess with these Apple laptops. The last time I edited anything on the hard-drive, the computer’s motherboard malfunctioned, and I had to take it in for repairs. Advice? Reassurance?

No worries though. I have no motivation to open Photoshop and make pretty digital art. I’m not artistic at all. I always have ideas for a kewl website, and then I never follow through with them. I have hundreds of fonts that I was going to make things with that are sitting on FontBook, unopened and unused. That was okay until I started buying fonts. When I started wasting money on this, I had to pull the plug. I almost look at it like it’s a treadmill or something. I don’t want to create, but I hate what I have. That doesn’t make a lot of sense, particularly since any sane person would try to change what they could. I don’t. I just watch the stuff pile up. I do, however, use the Sims 2 stuff that I download. Does that count for anything?

Saw IV isn’t the only movie that’s missing. I lost my Jerry Lewis movies, my Stephen King movies, The Searchers (which I never got to watch) and others, including the Harry Potter movies that I had downloaded before I sold my DVD copies. I had about five movies that I never got around to watching, and I won’t get to now, because they’re gone for good.

When my man fucks up, he really fucks up!

Random question: Is it time for me to put my themes up for free download yet?

My 5 year old G5 computer has died and gone to computer Heaven. Or Purgatory. I’m thinking more that it’s Purgatory. The hard drive in it failed and I lost everything on there. iTunes files. iPhone Apps. iPhotos. Software. Everything. The only bright side I can see on this is now I’ll have more room on my desk to clutter it up.

And now to get a snack and go back to watching Sometimes They Come Back. I love that movie. I had the double DVD of it for a long time, and then I lost it. So I have to watch it whenever it comes on the 80s/retro channel.

I will say that I love watching the ice through the orange barf glow of the street lamps. The glittering is so calming. To make matters better, the University is closed tomorrow, but I still have to get up and do an assignment, and then email it back to my professor. “Just because the University is giving you a day off doesn’t mean that I am. Anyone who doesn’t turn in the assignment by 9:50am tomorrow morning will have their final grade lowered a whole letter grade.” Wow. I log in to get the assignment, and it’s not there, so I email the professor. This is what I got back:

“Why do you students not talk to each other? I am NOT UPLOADING THE FILE UNTIL 9AM. YOU MUST BE AWAKE AND READY TO DOWNLOAD IT BY 9:05AM BECAUSE AFTER THAT, I WILL PULL THE DOWNLOAD!

And print out a copy and do a hard copy to bring to class on Monday. We’re behind schedule already.”

Geeze, teach, did they take away your mental pills or something? He’s the third person to give me a hard time today. I think it’s time to go slink off and take my meds and get to bed.

Since I just spent the last six hours tweaking the layout and purging the server, I’m going to bed. I’m nowhere near done with working on this, but I’ve already watched Saw VI three times and my laptop battery is dying. So it’s off to bed with me! I shall post a little more later on.