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How to find the IP address of the sender in email - Gmail, Yahoo mail or Hotmail

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Here’s a quick how-to guide on how you can track email to it’s originating location by figuring out the email’s IP address and looking it up. I have found this to be quite useful on many occasions for verification purposes since I receive lots of emails daily due to my blog. Tracking the IP address of an email sender does require looking at some technical details. There are basically two steps involved in the process of tracking an email : find the IP address in the email header section and then look up the location of the IP address. Finding the IP address of an email sender in GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook Let’s go ahead and take a look at how you would do this for Google, Yahoo and Outlook since those are the most popular email clients. Google’s Gmail 1. Log into your account and open the email in question. 2. Click on the down arrow that’s to the right of the Reply link. Choose Show Original from the list. Now here’s the technical part that I was telling you about earli

Funny Tech Support Questions

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Funny Tech Support Questions ----- So you think you're computer-illiterate? Check out the following excerpts from a Wall Street Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is. AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in. Another Compaq technician received a call from a man complaining that the system wouldn't read word processing files from his old diskettes. After trouble- shooting for magnets and heat failed to diagnose the problem, it was found that the customer labeled the diskettes then rolled them into the typewriter to type the labels. Another AST customer was asked to send a copy of her defective diskettes. A few days later a letter arrived from the customer along with Xeroxed copies of the floppies. A Dell technician

How to insert images and pictures in Gmail

How to insert images and pictures in Gmail Easy way Gmail is cool, really cool and I use it as my primary mail. I used to use other emails before but now I use gmail as my sole email. I even assess my office pop mail using gmail's pop collector. However, there are a few things that I like to see in gmail.1. You cannot insert images and pictures into gmail message. You can send them as an attachment but you cannot insert them into the message body.2. You cannot format the message using html. That is too bad.OK, they are too bad but you can still do these, and it is not difficult. Very easy indeed.To so these, first, open a google document. Write your message with message in it. Just write anything you want and insert any picture or image anywhere you want in the message. After you finish, just select the whole page and copy. Then go to gmail, open the compose window, and paste. Done! It is that easy.Now what if you want to do some html formatting? Go to google pages, create a new we

How to make Glossy button in Photoshop

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1. Start with a new image about 400x400 px with a white background. Create a new layer and using the rectangular marquee tool draw a rectangle roughly the size of the example below. 2 .Click the Channels tab to enter the Channels Palette, and create a New Channel. Fill the selection in with white, then deselect (CTRL+D). Now go to Filter » Blur »Gaussian Blur and use a setting of about 3.5, then click OK. Next go to Image » Adjust » Levels and drag the two bottom triangles towards the center until the button looks nice and smooth (see image). Click OK when done. Hold CTRL and click on the channel "Alpha 1" to select it, then click the Layers Tab. Do not lose the selection. 3. Set your foreground color to: R:212 G:214 B:212 and the background to white. Now, using the Linear Gradient tool (foreground to background), drag from the top of the selection to the bottom, so that it looks similar to the example below. Now create a New Layer and set your foreground color to R:192 G:

Hindi Cricket Cartoons

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As we know.....Now BCCI is giving the salary to players according to the players ' performance. Drat... These people show this all the time and keep insulting us.. Sir, they are fans, they want their ticket amount refunded if the team doesn't perform well.. Brother, anyways you gonna get out after making 10-15 runs and get only a % of your salary. Why don't you get out now at 0. I will make sure you get your full amount... Hey buddy, try and take this catch or else your salary 15k is gone... Friends, I am gonna resign from this captaincy post. Even if I lose the toss they are frightening me that they won't give me my salary...