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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 ----- 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 ...