I just received a newsletter from Microsoft that their new Windows Internet Explorer 8 is ready for download. It’s a free browser, by the way.

Besides being a faster browser, their claim, they are also safer to use compared to their older version. Also, we could not surf the web with something called InPrivate Browsing where our browsing history will not be recorded.

Another safe browsing feature is the SmartScreen Filter which protects us against deceptive and malicious websites which may look exactly like the real deal making us think that we have accessed the correct website. These deceptive websites will be blocked and a warning message will be shown to alert us.

Right now, I haven’t even have time to download the new browser and explore it. I do need to upgrade my Internet Explorer even if it is not my primary browser.

I was told by a friend that I could share large files with him if I open up a folder to share on my computer. These are large, very large files that I downloaded from the internet, which he is lazy to do. He says that sharing is caring and since I already downloaded them, he could get them off me.

At first, he requested that I burn the files onto DVD and pass the disks to him. I was reluctant because of all the work involved. He then said that since I am lazy, he could download them from me. I said that no way am I going to split the files and upload them on the web so that he could download them. Why doesn’t he download the files directly from source?

My friend says that I don’t have to do that as I could just open up my folder and he could grab my files from them. I was afraid and asked what happens if he introduces a virus to my hard disk.

He laughed and said that it would be a dumb move if he was to do that. Crashing my hard disk would not serve a purpose as that means he wouldn’t be able to grab those files too, right? Hhmm true also!!

But then I am so lazy to read up on how to open up my folder. LOL Didn’t I say that I do not have a technical mind??

A friend read about my prowess on Facebook’s Pet Society and says that I must join Restaurant City. It is also a game by PlayFish, the developers of Pet Society. She says she needs more of her Facebook friends to install the game so tat she could level up.

I did install the game as instructed so that she has more friends to visit but thankfully, I did not enjoy playing it. In fact, I think that it’s a pretty dumb game to play even if it’s an open ended game which one could play on and on and on.

I say thankfully because being addicted to one game, Pet Society, is enough. If I am bored with it already, after bagging the trophies and furnished all nine rooms (I only have six rooms now), I would probably stop playing it but I hope not to waste more time on computer games after that and spend more time blogging. LOL

Another thing that puts me off playing Restaurant City is the difficulty in loading the game and even visiting the restaurants of friends. Besides, have you noticed that the site seems to be perpetually under maintenance?

My friend, Terrence, told me that he bought one 1TB external hard disk drive. Another friend, Albert, bought a 320GB external hard disk drive.

Since I am also in the market for an external hard disk drive, I asked Albert why he did not buy a larger one since the price difference is slight.

Albert told me that he actually has a few smaller external hard disk drives. He says that is because he is afraid that if he only has one large external hard disk drive, like a 1TB HDD, for example, he is afraid that he would lose everything should the disk conk out. LOL How pessimistic!

Right now, I already have a 320GB hard disk drive, so I don’t know if I should buy another of similar size, or a larger one and move everything over. What if, like Albert says, my single external hard disk drive conks out or is stolen and I lose everything?

I thought I said that I wouldn’t have time for computer games, with 20 blogs to run, but in fact, now that I am only writing on eight blogs regularly, which leaving the rest to “rot” in cyber space and only returning to blog when inspired, I do have time for games. Actually, I am a little shy to admit that I am addicted to it.

The game I am playing right now is Pet Society on Facebook. Since I am logged into Facebook almost daily, I just keep the game open and rake in the paw points. Coins are harder to come by, unfortunately.

After playing for about forty days now, I have already bagged all the trophies except for the gold hurdles trophy. We need 250 wins for that and I still need 42 wins to bag that. This just needs time as we are only allowed to race in ten hurdles race per day.

After bagging the trophies, I am not sure what challenge the game poses anymore. Perhaps I could just continue to gain points so that I could get all nine rooms, where at this point I have six rooms only, all bare. I can’t seem to have enough coins to furnish ’em rooms!

I guess once I have bagged the last trophy, the addiction will be gone, but let’s just see. LOL

Wow, how time flies, I didn’t even realize that Gmail is already five years old until I saw a post on the Gmail blog. I don’t remember when I started using Gmail, unless I check my very first welcome email from Gmail. However, I do remember that I was one of the early adopters of Google’s free web based email service.

Having said that, I have a friend who paid quite a bit of money to buy a Gmail invitation when it was open to selected web users only In fact, I know quite a few people who made some money then. At first, they could sell these invites for a tidy sum but then more and more people were selling them since each Gmail account came with a hundred invitations that we could send out.

I remember that I too received an invitation to register for a Gmail account but that was given to me free by a friend. If I was required to pay for it, I wouldn’t. That is why I said I’m a cheapo! LOL

Recently, I was looking for a way to share music with friends online but I couldn’t find a good way. Of course, there are many ways to do so illegally but I rather prefer to do it legally. After all, I respect the copyright holders and I do understand that much has been invested in the creation of music and intellectual property has to be protected.

Just now, I was told of this fairly new music sharing website called Kerchoonz where we could embed a widget on our website, blog or social network profile to share the music that we like with our visitors. The music here wouldn’t be music that we hear on the radio all the time but new, undiscovered music is still music and in fact, most times, they sound even better than music by established artistes!

What makes Kerchoonz different from other music sharing website is that they encourage new musicians to share their music online and provide an opportunity for these musicians to earn money from their music each time it is listened to or downloaded. For music lovers using Kerchoonz, not only do we get to enjoy music for free, we get to support these musicians as well so that they are able to continue producing great music to share with us!