I have been a little concerned about my blogs lately. My friend says that I am paranoid but I checked a few sources online and some people experienced the same thing. Of course, I am not mentioning how my suspicions came to be but it definitely gives me the creeps. I would like to keep my blog for as long as possible but I don’t’ know. Some quarters are making me nervous!

In any case, I am going to continue to monitor my blog and also the web at large to see if there are more people airing their concerns in forums or on their blogs. I don’t know if I should be worried, but am definitely nervous!

Is it time to start more blogs and diversify? Hhmmm

Google has come up with a new feature on Gmail yet again. This time, it is text messaging that is integrated with GChat. I read through their FAQ and know how it works but I am not sure if there will be any cost involved. As you know, Gmail users are all over the world. How could we determine if someone would be charged for RECEIVING a text message from overseas?

I think that while it is a great feature to have, it is not all that practical unless it’s a totally free service, not only with Google and Gmail but also with the respective cellular providers around the world.

If you have already tried out this feature perhaps you could share your experience here with us.

Gmail has a new task feature, which is a little to-do list that pops up in a little rectangular box which we could create with a list of tasks to do each day and edit it as the day progresses.

I find this a wonderful feature as I am someone with a hundred and one things to do each day and usually write my daily or weekly to-do tasks in small note papers, sometimes sticking them on the computer monitor.

This means that I would prefer this to be a desktop feature rather than one that could only be accessible by logging in to Gmail. Besides, with three active Gmail accounts and duplicating task lists on each Gmail account is never practical, hence my preference for a desktop feature, though I am uncertain if there’s such a thing available already.

I guess when you have spent as much time as I have on the internet, you tend to be a little skeptical reading review of products and services. Well, this morning, I was told of this website called Review Kings, which is a website with reviews on just about any product that you can find from self-improvement to make money online to Sports Betting to making web videos.

At first glance, I was thinking that this site surely has a varied review list and was surprised to learn that there are more than 5000 products reviewed and they are still adding more honest product reviews regularly!

Check out Review Kings to see the kind of products that have been reviewed and if you have ever wondered how good a certain product is, do a search on Review Kings and see if there is an honest review published already.

I read this article just this morning and am rather alarmed by it. According to PC World, there is a rare malware that targets Firefox users and phish for sensitive information like log in and financial details of banking websites and send the information to the servers of these scammers in Russia.

I think this is a pretty serious threat seeing how many people prefer Firefox over other browsers. Personally, I use Maxthon, Firefox and Opera at the same time but log in to PayPal and other banking websites via Maxthon. However, lately, I do not know what happened but logging in to PayPal crashes my Maxthon so I have tried to remember to log in to PayPal with Firefox or IE.

Reading this article at this time, with the glitch I am facing right now with my regular browser, makes me realize that I have compromised my sensitive information. I must remember not to use Firefox for online banking transactions anymore!

At first I thought that I would not be going to PC Fair in Ipoh this December because of the change in venue but I did go, after all, because coincidentally, my multimedia headphone broke a couple of days before the weekend. What luck.

I would like to emphasize that the venue is really inappropriate. The hall of the Yuk Choy primary school is situated along one of the busiest stretches of roads in Ipoh and it is dangerous especially at night. I see families with young children running across the main road and cars don’t even slow down for them. I hope PIKOM would take this safety concern into consideration when they organise the next PC Fair.

I bought my headphone when I was there but I am really interested in a netbook. RM1500 – RM2000 would be good enough for a netbook with decent specs. And I also saw a Dell laptop that is almost as thin as a Mac Book Air. Arghhh my own laptop is about three times thicker! Geram!!! Too bad I did not take down its model since I did not have plans to buy it.

Shopping during PC Fairs is really tough because of the crowd, unless one has the whole day to spend there but then who wants to get stuck in a human traffic jam the whole day? It’s really too crowded and it’s not easy to make a decision to buy unless one already has a shopping list ready and know exactly what to buy and buying it during PC Fairs would save us a little money.

Koobface is a new strain of worm that has infected a handful of Facebook users via its internal messaging system. Because Facebook and other social networks like MySpace and Friendster only allow registered members to contact each other, worm writers take advantage of the buddy system and trust between friends by spreading worms like Koobface.

With Koobface, an infected user’s computer will automatically send out messages to buddies who will receive a message with a link to a movie. Clicking on the link, the victim will receive a message which says that his computer does not have the latest copy of Adobe Flash.

Victims normally would want to view such a video clip and will naturally update their Adobe Flash software. This is a link to a fake Adobe Flash website that installs another malicious program to the victim’s computer.

And so the worm spreads like this.

Other victims have even gotten their personal information and sensitive financial information stolen this way. These victims probably have their credit card numbers linked to their social profiles.

While we have always been told to be cautious about clicking on links that come in emails even if they were sent by people we know, we now have to be careful with links that come via social messages too!