Send Free SMS using Yahoo Mail

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Few days back i had written a post about sending free SMS in India using 160by2 and Way2Sms in my post Send Free SMS in India using 160by2 and now, I just checked and found that Yahoo Mail too has added another feature of sending messages to your Mobile Phone.

SMS Through Yahoo Mail

Follow the below mentioned steps to send Free SMS using Yahoo Mail.

  1. Login to your Yahoo Mail account (Yahoo Mail beta and not the classic one)
  2. Click on the New Drop down and select TextMessage.
  3. Add the number/contact to which you wish to send the message and click on send.

Its FREE but the catch is that you can only send maximum of 5 sms to a contact after which your contact person needs to reply at least once and then your quota of 5 starts all over again. Although, am not sure of the pricing as far as the reply message is concerned.

This feature is available only for Yahoo users in India,Canada, US and Philippines.

Yahoo mail definitely according to me is going places as compared to Gmail. Lets see who races further ahead in this race of better email service.

Related reads: Send Free SMS in India using 160by2

Email2SMS: Send Free SMS in India using Email.

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Cheers

Vaibhav

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Tutorial: Find IP Address of Sender in Yahoo Mail!

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

In my previous article, i had written about Finding IP Address of the sender in Gmail. Many readers have replied back to me to write about figuring the IP Address of sender in Yahoo Mail. In this tutorial, i shall be writing about the trick to get the IP Address of sender in Yahoo Mail.

Also Read: (Tutorial: Find the IP Address of sender in Gmail.)

The IP Addresses for all the sender mails are readily available in the header information. We have already discussed the way to track down the mails sent to Gmail. In order to get the information out from your Yahoo Mail, please follow the steps mentioned below.

For Users using New Yahoo Mail:

IP Tracking

  1. Login to your Yahoo mail and open the mail for which you wish to know the Sender.
  2. Click on Compact Header/Standard Header, this presents a drop down menu. Select,Full Header from the drop down menu.
  3. A window Pops up with the entire header details.
  4. Look for the term Received: from [eg: Received: from 216.248.197.88 (EHLO mx1.info.brainbench.com) (216.248.197.88) ]. The IP Address mentioned is the sender IP Address.
  5. Also importantly, there are times when you might find multiple Received: from entries, in that case, please select the last one as the valid choice.

For Users using Yahoo Mail Classic:

Yahoo IP Tracking

  1. Login to your Yahoo mail and open the mail for which you wish to know the Sender.
  2. If you do not see the headers above the mail, you need to enable them. In order to do so follow these steps:
  • Click on Options link on the top-right corner.
  • In the Mail Options page being displayed now, click on the link called General Preferences.
  • Scroll down to Messages section where you have the Headers option.
  • Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected.
  • Click on the Save button.
  • Go back to the inbox and open the mail for which you wish to know the sender’s IP.

3. You should now be able to see headers in the mail.

4. Look out for header with title Received. The IP Address is listed in the column (e.g. from 216.248.197.88).

Note: There are times when you might find multiple Received: from entries, in that case, please select the last one as the valid choice. If there are no instances of Received: from with the IP address, select the first IP address in X-Originating-IP.

Let me know if you have any doubts getting the IP Address.

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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Giveaway of the Day – FlashSpring Pro 2.2

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Flashspring Pro 2.2 is available today on Gaotd.

FlashSpring Pro 2.2 is a new advanced version of a well-known PowerPoint to Flash converter.

It creates Flash movies from PowerPoint presentations, decreasing the size of the final file and providing the possibility to publish presentations online.

Download FlashSpring Pro 2.2 from here. As i write this blog there are still 22hrs 40mins remaining for the download to be active at Gaotd.

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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Tutorial: Find the IP Address of sender in Gmail.

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Yes, you read it right. You can do it. This is the theory behind it; When you receive an email, the email comes with important information called the header information. The header information has entry of the IP address of the sender. Here is what you need to do to uncover this hidden information.

  1. Using your id/password, login to Gmail.
  2. Open the mail for which you wish to find the IP of the sender.
  3. Click on the inverted triangle placed just next to Reply. Click on Show Original
  4. You now need to look for Received:from followed by the IP within square brackets [ ] e.g. Received: from ge3.i-nonymous.com (ge3.i-nonymous.com [82.96.97.51])
  5. Also importantly, there are times when you might find multiple Received: from entries, in that case, please select the last one as the valid choice.

Similarly, IP Address of the sender can be tracked in Yahoo Mail and Hotmail as well. Will discuss about it in my coming posts.

P.S: This trick wont work on mails sent from Gmail. [Thanks to BGM for pointing to this]

Do comment if you found this post useful.

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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GiveAwayOfTheDay: Wondershare PPT to iPod

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

GiveAwayOfTheDay.com is giving away Wondershare PPT to iPod. Wondershare PPT to iPod is a professional PowerPoint to iPod video converter. It can convert PowerPoint presentations to iPod MP4 video format with excellent quality.With Wondershare PPT to iPod you can:

  • Convert PowerPoint to MP4 video and watch your presentation without MS PowerPoint;
  • Transport the resulting video to your iPod to watch your presentation on your video iPod;
  • Podcast the resulting video to iTunes to share it with people worldwide.

Download Wondershare PPT to iPod before its gone off the Shelf. Click here to Download

Also Read:Free Softwares at www.giveawayoftheday.com

Cheers,
Vaibhav

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Spyware Doctor added to ‘essential software collection’.

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Spyware Doctor added to ‘essential software collection’.

PC Tools has announced its Spyware Doctor program as the latest addition to Google Pack, a “free collection of essential software”.

Google Pack includes Google Earth, Desktop, Picasa, Toolbar, Photos Screensaver,Star Office,Google Talk and Video Player.

It also includes partner software such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Adobe’s Reader, Norton Security Scan, RealPlayer, GalleryPlayer HD Images, Skype and now Spyware Doctor.

“As part of this partnership we are providing an exclusive version of Spyware Doctor for Google Pack users,” said PC Tools chief executive Simon Clausen.

The free edition offers the usual spyware detection and removal as well as real-time protection with PC Tools’ new File Guard technology.

The free version is lacking a few features compared to the full version, such as Cookie Guard, Keylogger Guard, Startup Guard and Browser Guard. The free version also lacks phone support.

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Top 3 FREE Antivirus Applications

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Most of the websites i surf, keep writing about the Best Antivirus Softwares ( which for sure happen to be the paid one’s), but when it comes to free Antivirus Softwares, we usually are ignorant.
The truth however is, and it must be told; there are many free antivirus softwares which score heavily when compared to the paid Antivirus Software Solutions.

I am putting up my list of favorites below. This list is based on experience and net research.

1.) Avast: Avast offers a lot of protection levels like Web Shield, Network Shield, IM Shield, Outlook/Exchange Shield, P2P Protection. The best stuff is that Avast’s database is updated daily. Check it out yourself here.

2.) Avira AntiVir: Offers good file scanning capabilities and this too has a frequently updated virus database. Get Avira from here.

3.) AVG Antivirus: AVG has been an old time favorite when it comes to free antivirus softwares. Although, AVG doesnt offer the kind of features which Avast offers, what it does have in its favor is its fast file scanning and low system requirements. Get AVG from here

Do comment if you feel this list could have been different.

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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vConvert.net: Download online videos in multiple formats

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Till now we have talked a lot about different sites/tools available for downloading Youtube/Google Videos. However, the problem lies in the download that happens… Most of the readers have mailed me back saying that the video’s are in .flv format and they would love to read about something wherein they don’t have to encode the video to some other format like .wmv, .3gp, .mp4 using a tool.
vconvert11.jpg

vConvert.net has actually solved this problem, the site takes in a video URL from the user and asks him/her to select the format in the which the output file is desired. The site then automatically under the hood downloads, encodes and presents the video to the user in the desired format.

So for a download frenzy guy like me… this happens to be the best way. Who really wants to encode those .flv files 😉

Check out the site here>>

Also read:

A great addon for YouTube:YouRipper

How To: Burn YouTube videos to a DVD.

Youtube video dowloads: Can it get better?

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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Google’s cold war against Microsoft is heating up

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Google has added StarOffice to its Google Pack. Star Office which usually comes at a price of 70$ will now be available free to the users. StarOffice includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, and database applications, along with a library of images and 3D effects.

Read more here>>

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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Google and Comic Search.

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

When it comes to search, Google has always played GOD. Usually, when it comes to search, we often search only for e-books, music, software etc… but not many people know that you can even find Comics using Google.

Most of the comic scripts on the net have a .cbz or .cbr extension. Softwares like CDisplay(Windows) and FFView(Mac) can be used to view the scripts. However, the good thing is that you can even decompress such files by renaming .cbr extension to .rar and .cbz extension to .zip and use any of your favorite decompressing softwares like Winrar and Winzip to view them.

You can use these searches for searching your comics.

Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics cbr

or -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics cbz

To search for comics with .zip extension and .rar extension use this:

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics rar

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” comics zip

Hope you shall find this interesting 🙂

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Also read: Refine Google to Search File Types (Level: Pretty Easy) 

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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