I am releasing Y!Amp M9 today, and you can get it on the Y!Amp page. There are a couple things that I want to mention…

The big thing is that it now works with Yahoo! Messenger 9, of course, but the even bigger point is that Y!Amp now supports something called Last.FM. Last.FM is an application that runs in the background on your machine, and gathers what you are and have been listening to in Winamp, Windows Media Player and iTunes, then uploads that information to the Last.FM servers and your Last.FM profile for others to see. So in a way now, Y!Amp works with iTunes and Windows Media Player as well, providing that you enable Last.FM support. Big thanks to Gareth Ferguson at Gareth-Software.com for helping me with this.

Also, there are some things people have requested that I plan on integrating later but are not yet present – things like showing the last song you’ve listening to in your AIM profile, your AIM away message, your MSN status, etc.

One other thing that I am slightly sad to say is that there is currently no way to show fake icons anymore with Y!Amp M9. I know for a fact that fake idle is still possible but not through the way I used to code it, so there will be an upate for Y!Amp soon that will let you know when this will be reintroduced.

Enjoy the program, and please, if you have any comments/concerns/issues feel free to leave a comment below or on the Y!Amp page.

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Today marks my newest design for this site. Personally, I would call this my best design to date. My main influences were Apple (OSX mainly), N.Design Studio and Studio7Designs. I know my site doesn’t look much like N.Design’s but that design was what really made me want to make a large background in the first place.

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