Computer Tricks and Secrets

Your contacts are often scattered across multiple email accounts and social sites. For instance, you may have switched to Gmail but some of your contacts may still be stored in the old address books of Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail. Then there are places like Facebook and LinkedIn that store personal and professional details of your contacts (including profile pictures) but fetching this information into your main address book is often a tricky thing. Use Google Contacts as a Unified Address Book If you find it a hassle to maintain multiple address books, a possible solution is that you consolidate them all into a single cloud-based service like  Google Contacts . Here are some ideas on how you may go about doing this: Step 1: Bring all address books into Google Contacts Go to  Gmail Settings  and click the “Import Mail and Contacts” button to bring all the existing contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Google Apps, and your other email accounts into Google Contacts. Next download your a

You have received an email from a person with whom you have never interacted earlier and thus, before you take the conversation forward, you would like to do some research on the Internet to know more about that person. How do you do this without directly asking the other person? Google is the most obvious place for performing reverse email lookups (just Google for the email address) but if that person doesn’t have a website or if they have never used their email address on public forums, Google will be of little help. No worries. If you only know the email address of a person and nothing more, here are some ways that may help you uncover the identity of that unknown email sender. Find the Person Behind an Email Address #1. Find the sender’s location Open the header of the email message and look for lines that say “ Received: from ” and are followed by an IP address in square brackets. If there are multiple entries, use the IP address mentioned in the last entry. Now paste the IP addre