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Annoying Yahoo! Mail Ads

Has anyone noticed all the advertorials in Yahoo! Mail? I find that really annoying especially when I accidentally “rolled over” the ads with my cursor.

I wonder why it is even necessary for Yahoo! to stoop this low, bombarding us with ads like that. I am OK with banner ads but not ads that obstruct the main content or distract my attention.

I am already not using my Yahoo! Mail account for anything important. Personal emails have moved to Gmail but I am still keeping my account because of my sign-ups with certain companies and mailing lists and during the early days, my Yahoo! email address was and still is my log in ID to certain websites and I do not know how to request for a change in log in IDs.

By the way, I think that it is dumb of webmasters who require an email address as log in IDs. What if the email account is closed and the address is no longer valid? I have had a few email accounts closed in the past because the provider could not afford to provide the service anymore.

I think the only thing that I use my Yahoo! account daily is the Yahoo! Messenger. How many people have switched to other services, I have no idea but I know that bugging us with such ads is not going to help matters.

HostGator WebHosting Review Site

When I first thought of hosting my own domain, I was worried of committing to a year long of frustrations and agony. I do have friends with their own hosts and they told me conflicting stories. One thing I was looking for was real testimonials from users about the good and bad of hosting with certain companies.

When I was doing my research, I came across HostGator, one of the top webhosting sites and resellers. A good thing about this company is that they do value their customer feedback and webmaster HostGator reviews are most definitely welcome, as evident in the poll on the sidebar of their review website, reflecting true client feedback.

HostGator reviews and HostGator coupons are what make the company stand apart from their competitors. When I was looking for hosting, I wish I knew about the HostGator coupons that could be applied to a HostGator Shared plan. Well, I just did not know better or I would have saved a considerable about of money in hosting.

Jantics, The FUNNY Funny Blog

Mr. Fab introduced the blog of his friend, Janna. Well, the name of her blog is Jantics. Janna actually has two blogs but Jantics is her new baby and we are going to give it some lovin’ today.

First up, I must mention that Jantics has a very refreshing header and at the top of it, it’s written “It’s cute how some people expect the world to actually make sense.” That sounds like a Happy Bunny quotation though I can’t tell for sure.

Reading posts down the first page itself got me cracking up. Janna is such a funny lady that she comes across as a very happy go lucky, cheerful kind of person. I actually can relate to some of her posts, especially about blogging in her dream and talking to the pudding. These are things that go on in my head all the time that I sometimes think I am crazy. So I am not!

You know, I hardly ever blog hop as I have a hard time keeping up with my jobs AND maintaining my own blogs, but Jantics could easily be one of the blogs I lurk around when I have time. I do need her comical outlook in life to get away from my own heavy posts!

Nothing But Fabulous

Have you heard of the latest most happening social network portal especially for young, urban, hip and happening ladies? If you have not, it is time to make HerFabLife Your fav lifestyle guide right now. Registration is free and this site is open to all ladies around the world.

However, guys are not left out of the action because there is a section for them as well. So if you are a guy and you would like to participate, feel free to! There are plenty of male-orientated articles as well. Check them out.

What I like about the site is that every member enthusiastically shares her new discoveries on what is hot and what is not around town like fab dining and shopping places, fab spas and hotels, fab events, and to make sure that this is a real site for women, FAB GUYS are featured too! Yay!

In short, HerFabLife is Your Personal Lifestyle Guide no matter where you are. HerFabLife encourages all women to contribute articles to the site to share with other members. Whether you are a blogger, an aspiring writer or student or stay at home mother, you are free to share your thoughts and discoveries. Your network of friends and HerFabLife communities would love to know about them as well.

Thanks to HerFabLife, we can all Get a Fab Life! It’s not quite enough just to “get a life”, you know?

What’s Gonna Happen On 07.07.07?

Well, that’s a week from now but who can tell the future? What I do know is that Ryan over at Ryan444123.com is running a $7.77 contest where seven lucky winners will win $7.77 each.

To win, you can do a few things. Get one entry in the draw by leaving a comment on any post on Ryan444123.com. Get three entries in the draw by linking to his blog and five for writing a review post on Ryan444123.com.

After hearing of this contest, of course I hopped over. It was my first visit although I have come across Ryan’s postings on the forums now and then. This blog is generally on bizarre news on the internet, weird stuff that you read and wonder how it could happen!?!

However, the post that caught my eye was Pedo Idea. At first, I don’t know what it’s all about but upon further reading, it looks like Ryan is going to expose pedophiles prowling MySpace. Eeekkk I never knew that there are that many pedophiles there!! I hope Ryan s successful in this quest and rid pedophiles from MySpace and keep all the innocent MySpace users safe!

Oh yeah, now I know what’s gonna happen on 07.07.07. I am going to WIN $7.77

Watch this space!

The Traveler’s Search Engine

I discovered this website which is the traveler’s search engine. This site has information on all the major tourist spots around the world. In fact, there is a list of the top fifty destinations in the world and when you click on each of them, you will be taken to a page with detailed information of that place. This is very cool because it means we do not have to go all over the world wide wed to search for information when we are vacation planning.

I decided to check out Niagara Falls since it is a place that I have never been before but it is high up on my list of places to visit. A couple of my friends were there last month and they have nothing but good things to share so that got me all curious and wishing to experience Niagara Falls myself.

Some people, upon finding out that I would love to visit Niagara Falls one day questioned my judgment saying that the Niagara Falls are nothing but waterfalls. I guess they do not know how to appreciate the beauty of the Niagara Falls.

I read that one could actually get a breathtaking view from one of the Niagara Falls Hotels. That is what I intend to do. Book myself in a hotel nearby and get to the top to watch the Falls. I know that for that one moment, I would be able to free my mind from daily problems. This is surely something that I am looking forward to!

While I wait for the day when I can finally make my way there, I will be checking out the travel blogs that are linked from SideStep. If I can be there personally, I will be there holidaying in spirit though the blog posts!

Jhoos Invitation

Recently, I received via email a Jhoos invitation. Actually, it was not the first time I received it from friends but since last week when I was introduced to Joost, getting a similar sounding Jhoos made me curious.

Ah… Jhoos is actually a free online dating service. Opening the page brings a pop-up advertorial. To me I can tolerate all kinds of ads except the ones that pop up and under and those little bubble ads known as Content Link.

Anyway, Jhoos has this tag line “Bringing dating to your desktop”. I am not exactly sure how it works but it is like an instant messenger where members of Jhoos can “date” online. The good thing is that this messenger can be integrated with MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and even AIM so you can chat with your buddies across these networks. However, with members from nearly every country in the universe, I think chatting itself would be like full time work.

So in short, Jhoos is a little more than a dating site. I wonder why my friends keep sending me invitations to join the network. Are they telling me something??