Captain's Log

YahooPOPs!

While browsing around the Fatwallet Hot Deals Forum (which deserves its own blog post), I ran into a thread about free email services. Inside that thread someone mentioned a way to check Yahoo mail by POP for free. Yahoo started charging for POP access about 2 years ago, and I subsequently stopped using it. This program is called YahooPOPs!, and it functions much like Hotmail Popper which I mentioned in an a previous blog post. It's a POP proxy that you run on your local machine that sits between your mail client and Yahoo's server. It's bit slow at retrieving large numbers of messages, but it works fine. I installed version 0.5 and used it without a hitch.

I checked the Hotmail Popper page, and it appears they've advanced way past the version I use (1.02) with version 3.02, but it's limited shareware now (only 100 messages downloaded until it stops) which sucks. My old one still works fine, and if you can't find the old download, but still want it, let me know and I can try to get it to you.

Also Parker informed me the other day that Wonderfalls is cancelled. You can hear it from the mouth of the executive producer, Tim Minear, here.