Connected

Yes!! I am finally connected here at home. We now have a laptop to use and a prepaid broadband :) I'm actually not use to a laptop (I'm hands down to  desktop eversince) but in no time I'll get use to this for sure.

I'm just happy of the many things I can do now (and not rush everything in the office) like the many research and stuff, say looking for rotary blades for example....and what's best about having computer and internet at home? I can play online games again..hehehe!

I already talked to friend via skype last night. It's just so good to be connected again in the comfort of your own room after such a long time.

I need not worry about extra work again cause I can do them now at home. Yay for that!!

And blogging life is back to normal again. Happy!!

Getting a new PC

Since our desktop at home has finally ended its service to us, we decided to get a new one in a month's time. The husband went to a pc store already and checked the prices (so we could budget). We have to wait till we paid our motorbike before we can buy that PC. I miss having internet connection at home.

Anyways, my husband is the techie one in the house and he knows what to get already, he wants to make sure that the PC performance will be much better and can cope up with his music recording. I on the other hand is ok as long as I can blog :) and some games.

Life goes on

wow..It's been a while since I made an update in this blog. We have to change our broadband at home because our old one don't want to work with our desktop anymore but when we did that we realized that the broadband is not the problem but our desktop. Too many pc and life problems this last week :( But anyways, grateful now that I have an alternative pc that I can use for a while and that the broadband is working perfectly with it. Life goes on and so is this blog :)

Internet Connection

I'm seriously considering a postpaid internet at home. My prepaid broadband connection sucks. It takes forever to upload a single photo and my games are not loading up. The husband wanted to download few songs for his Ipod but he can't, how can I have a video call with my friends abroad or make audio conference calls with this super slow connection?

I think I just have to endure another monthly bill and do all my internet task conveniently rather than putting up with this snail broadband connection of mine :(

Anyways, have a happy weekend everyone! A long one again for us here in the Philippines :)

ACCESS DENIED

I am sick and tired of seeing those two words too often here in my office computer for few days now.

And along with those words follow this line " please contact your network administrator"

Duh. I need not contact him because I knew they blocked the "facebook" website in the office long time ago and that's pretty fine with me but what I don't get is that, since last week, all sites that has facebook plugins is being blocked too!

And even those sites I used officially. Officially means I only open it because I need it for my boss, say for example , he wants me to look for a certain restaurant in Makati, which branch is nearer and so forth and so on. Usually, I just click munchpunch.com and presto I'll have all the information I need.

And now what? do they want me to go back to ancient times and use the yellow pages again? tsk..tsk.. So what's the point of paying the internet provider such huge monthly fee if we can't maximize it di ba? Why not use prepaid na lang if we are to use internet for e-mails lang.

Or isn't it possible for our "network administrator" to just blocked the facebook site or those particular website they don't want us to access while in the office?

Still no internet at home

It’s been over a month since we moved to our new place and it’s been over a month that I am internet less at home. At first I thought I can’t last for two weeks but hey I’ve lasted for 7 weeks and I think unless it becomes so very necessary I can afford not to have internet connection at home. Although everything is being done online now, you can order food online, do your banking online, even get a teaching degree online, I can still say that it’s okay for me to not have it at home.

But of course, I am not internet less at all because I am still posting on my blogs and checking my mails and sometimes I still check the ever famous social networking site. Where? In the office.... and I am thankful that at least I can still check my mails from time to time even though it's for limited time only.

Anyways, if you are to pursue an online job or like what I've mentioned, finish a teaching degree online of course you need a 24/7 internet service but since I am only using it to check mails and to blog, I don't see the need to have it, not yet ..and that means one less monthly bill for us. :)

Hacked -Identity theft

Imagine my horror last Tuesday morning when I can not log in to my yahoo account and then someone from the office printed an email that was supposedly sent by me asking help and money because I was in Spain and I lost my wallet and all belongings and that my passport was being held by the hotel management because I need to pay them this certain amount. I know right there and then that my account was hacked. It was then I opened my facebook account and saw all the private messages from friends and relatives telling me that my account was hacked. 

I know this can happen to anyone and had actually happened to some and the scam mail it sent to my contacts was an old type of scam but I began to worry when I tried retrieving my account and found out that the hacker did only change my password but my security  questions as well. And the hacker even replied to one of my cousins email (in our native language) so I know he/she must be a Filipino. 

I tell you how it fells..It's scary. My mind went thinking so fast, my personal details, my other accounts and most of all my paypal account and of course I won't forget to mention identity theft-where someone steal your identity and use it for their own advantage, charge your credit card, use it for fraud and stuff like that. I don't have identity theft protection like the one being offered by IdentityHawk. Side note : if you want to be protected from identity thieves-you might want to consider getting your self one now.

Oh well, back to my story- I was able to get it back (thank God, Yahoo takes you back to your old security questions if you think your account was compromised) It was locked for 12 hours and I have to wait that long but still am grateful I got it back now, will probably make a step by step post on how to retrieved email account soon. I changed my password and I was told I have to change at least once every 2 months.

Who among us here have the same experience? Were you scared too? Did you retrieve your email back or just created a new one?

Online business-why she's successful?

My friend from way back ventured into selling clothes online months ago and from the looks of it, she's doing good and probably earning more than what she expected. I know a lot of people are venturing into online business now but not all are doing good. I mean I have tried selling online but I guess I am not made for it (in the first place I know I am not good in selling anything-online or offline)

So how come others made it and others not in doing online business?

Thinking of my friend- I guess I know what it is. You have to have the heart for what you do. I think she's successful in selling clothes because she loves clothes, she loves dressing up, she loves fashion and she loves shopping. Now put all that "love" into business and guess what you get right?

And now that everything can be bought online and everything can be search online I can say it's time to put your business online if you have businesses. I do all my search online, if we need a cheap place to stay when we are traveling I search for it in the internet and I am given thousands of possibilities and options. When I was looking for a house to rent-I did it online too. Same when the boss asked me to look for insurances- I just type cheap auto insurance online and it's there. Hundreds to choose from.

And because I am not good in selling I guess I'll have to settle for just being the end user for now. :) who knows someday I'll have my own online business too.

Buy a car online

Here is another internet technology that would make life a little easier for those who want to buy a car whether new or used cars. buyyourcar.co.uk is a new company that is so different form any other car companies in the UK. They do not focus on new cars and car leasing only but customers can search for almost everything such as used cars, sell your cars, van leasing, car reviews and even car loans. So basically it is one stop shop for all your car needs. So if you want to get the best deal on the market stop by and search through their site. I find it very easy to navigate since every subject is on top and you’ll find what you are looking for in just one click.

Now I wish we can afford to buy a car soon.