Computer Tricks and Secrets

How do you get SMS notifications on your mobile phone for important emails in your Gmail? Google doesn’t support text notifications for their email service but Twitter does. If we can figure out a way to connect our Twitter and Gmail accounts, the Gmail notifications can arrive as text on our mobile via Twitter. Let me explain: Twitter allows you to follow any @user via a simple SMS. They provide short codes for all countries ( see list ) and if you text FOLLOW to this shortcode following by the  username, any tweets from that user will arrive in your phone as text notifications. For instance, if you are in the US, you can tweet FOLLOW Anmol  to  40404 to get my tweets as text messages. Similarly, users in India can text FOLLOW Anmol to 7536860559  to get the tweets via SMS. The short code service of Twitter can act as a Gmail SMS notifier. You create a new Twitter account, set the privacy to private and this account will send a tweet when you get a new email in Gmail. Follow this acc...

When John sends an email message to Elizabeth, the IP address of the sender (John’s computer) is included in the header of the outgoing email message. The receiver (Elizabeth) can then perform a simple geo-lookup against that IP address to find the approximate geographic location of the message sender How to Find the Sender’s Location in Gmail Both Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail include IP addresses in outgoing message headers but if John is sending an email address using Gmail, or Gmail for Google Apps, his IP address won’t be included in the message. IP addresses can be considered sensitive information. As such, Gmail may hide sender IP address information from outgoing mail headers in some circumstances. If the IP address of John is not available, because he is sending email using Gmail, how can Elizabeth determine John’s geographic location? There two options: Option A: Gmail may include the IP Address Gmail doesn’t include the IP address of the sender when the sender is using Gmail’s we...