What is your favorite website to browse?
~ Oh there are lots but lately I am keen on reading SEO (search engine optimization) blogs and websites. The other day I didn’t realized that it was already 12:30 am bec. I was hooked reading at an SEO forum.

Games you like to play online or on your pc?
~Oh I don’t play much now since I am too busy but to unwind a little, solitaire is the easiest one to open. If given much time I’d love to play the word games.

What Internet browsers do you use?
~ I use Firefox 3, Opera and IE but I would like to try again the Google Chrome

How many computers do you have?
~I own a small net cafe but for personal use I have 2 desktops (1 HP) and 1 Laptop (Dell)

When I bought my HP desktop almost a year ago it has 160 GB of hard drive which I reckon is not enough bec. my digital photos are eating a lot of space and just only 512 MB DDR2 of memory. My OS is Vista and it already requires 1GB of memory so I thought of upgrading.

Fortunately I have 3 slots for the memory cards so I added 2 memory cards (1GB each) and when I open other programs the performance is already good. Right now, I am doing a lot of graphics using my Photoshop CS3 and PSP8 and I reckon I need to have 3GB of memory. I will just buy when I have time. What about you have you upgraded yet?

I had the time to blog hop the other day whilst dropping some Ec cards. Bloggers have really sprouted over the year especially here when Paypal over its doors for us last year. Bloggers rejoiced because for those that are monetizing their blogs they can easily accept money now from advertisers.

It’s been a delight for me to browse many blogs, not just only here but many countries as well. I was particularly attracted by the photos that bloggers are sharing making me peek a bit on their own private lives. Also saw some videos on some blogs and it was fun to watch. Anyway, I am just happy that I became a blogger.

Gosh, I was so upset yesterday when I learned that my Yahoo Messenger is being attacked by virus/worm. My sis JOYD would not even want to talk to me on YM bec. she told me that my YM is sending some links while we are talking. She is so careful of that and of course she is not clicking it, although she is using an iMAC but still she is cautious of that.

Anyway, I really don’t know where the hell I got those worm on my YM. I only chat with friends and family and I’ can’t remember clicking any links where i got it. Here’s How I Removed the Worm/Virus at my Yahoo Messenger.

Anyway, I made a blog post about this the other day and my online friends ANA PS read it and she recommended me to download this MALWAREBYTES at download.com bec. she once had this worm too. So w/o any much thinking, I unistalled my Yahoo M, 1st then downloaded this. Run in ito my computer and boooommmmmmm, it caught 3 culprits named

1. WORM SOHANAD
2. TROJAN ZLOB
3. ROOTKIT ZLOB

It spreads itself through instant messengers like Yahoo, Windows Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. It sends a malicious link to people in your contact list that would download copies of itself.

Fortunately it was removed by this software and my YM is not worm free yahoooo!!! SO if you suspect that you have spyware or adware try this and for sure it can trap them.

HERE is what Malwarebytes caught in my computer and thankfully it was deleted

I have been a member of Entrecard just this year and at first I thought it is just a waste of time joining in but i was really really and absolutely wrong. I have been seeing it on a lot of blogs but never thought what’s the purpose of that dropping thingy. One day I decided I will try it and i joined several of my blogs and voila in just a day or two I have more visitors coming from Entrecard. I know I will not have more readers if not for entrecard. Right now I have several entrecards on my several blogs and to make my dropping and browsing a lot easier I even downloaded the

ENTREBAR for my FF3 browser and it’s never been the same. I hope you can also try Entrecard as it will increase your blog traffic. Some only want to drop their cards but didn’t want to read your entries lol. I will join this blog as well at entrecard.

It’s been many days now that one (1) pc here at my net cafe is down. I troubled shoot it for a while but my efforts seems futile bec. I wasn’t able to make it work. When I tried to boot the pc it will just hang and won’t continue to open. I tried opening several times but still nothing happened. I asked my sister in law (my partner in crime hehe) to open the computer and check on the parts maybe their are only loose ones (as instructed by our technician when we called on the phone). Much worse happened bec. it has no power.

I have only few units and it’s a problem when my customers come or flock at the same time. I need to have it repaired so I told my SIL to bring it to the technician. The technician called today and he told me that the video card is the culprit. So we need to buy one asap and I hope it it cheap like the used cisco products. I badly need the pc at my cafe and I am hoping by tomorrow it will be working fine like it used to be.

Last year when Google Chrome was introduced (it was in beta stage then) I was able to use to for a while since I already have 3 browsers (Mozilla, Opera and IE) installed at my pc right now.  I have to uninstall it because it was too slow to load.

As for my experience IE is already behind since some blogs or sites are not viewed properly in it and most of the times it will just have an error or something. I preferred FireFox3 and Opera butI guess I have to give Google Chrome a try once again.

What about you Are You Using Google Chrome Browser? You can download it Google Chrome here

I should have learned Stumble Upon much earlier. Actually I have been seeing it all over many blogs and never paid attention to it not until lately. I noticed it can help drive traffic to my blog and my posts. Actually most of the traffic from my other blogs comes from stumble upon and that is good to know. Many people are actually reading and looking for articles found at stumble upon. Aside from that you can also gain more friends online.

Accdg. to Stumble Upon
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 6,306,985 other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like () automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.

How Does it Work?
StumbleUpon uses / ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like-minded stumblers  have recommended. This helps you discover great content you probably wouldn’t find using a search engine.

Just take a look at the sleek design and that is too die, isn’t it? There’s no cpu bec. it is built in the monitor.. wow as in wow. My HP Pavilion computer will look like nothing beside it hahahah.

I remember using my sister Joy’s iMac in Sydney and oh boy i was so overwhelmed, of course I am just a Windows user you know. This piece of machine is making me drool over and over again.

Images from:www.apple.com

1. How long have you been blogging?
I started blogging January of 2005 at my other blog (SIMPLY JEN), here’s my very 1st post. At first it was really too corny to have a journal online where anyone can read but later on I thought it was cool to share some stuff and share my feelings. Not long after I made 4 more blogs and right now I have 5 blogs, 2 of them are domain.

2. What inspired you to start a blog and who are your mentors?
Ana P.S. and I have been online friends since 2004 when we use to exchange thoughts and tutorials about our website or graphics. I saw her made a journal one day, I started reading it and like I said it was too corny at 1st but I end up making one for myself too. But mentor in blogging i guess is myself.

3. Are you trying to make money online, or just doing it for fun?
When I 1st started in Jan. 2005 it was all for fun esp. if there are many visitors coming to your blog reading and commenting about the topic that you have shared. Then on Jan. of this year I was introduced into the world of paid blogging shared by my co- BEBOTS in our forum and my blogging has never been the same again. I enjoy both paid and my regular blogging. I try to make my blog esp. this domain as interesting as possible.

4. Tell me 3 things you LOVE about being online.
- I can blog about anything I want, I can chat with family and friends
- I can meet lots of people from all over the world esp. thorough memes and photohunts
- I can surf the net, learn new things and explore different blogs and sites

5. Tell me 3 things you STRUGGLE within the online world.
- Fighting with those comment and tag board spammers!!. My other blog has been attacked with lots of it and it is rally annoying.
- I’m struggling to divide my time from doing online against offline works. My offline works have suffered so much lately but I hope I can juggle both of them.
- Keeping my visitors/readers come back more often in my blogs but I can say I have regular readers now.