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When we go to purchase a laptop, personal computer or any other electronic gadgets we usually get confused. It is often tough to decide whether to give priority to high configuration gadgets with small brand or low configuration gadget with big brand name. Finally we end up purchasing whatever store owner convinces us best. Best thing about online shopping is you are not influenced by anyone while selecting your brand. Still if you need some buying guide ConsumerMate.com is second to none in India. ConsumerMate portal has an expertise on helping customers with choosing the best Laptops, Mobile phones, LCD/Plasma TVs, Digital Cameras and Camcorders etc within their budget. You can compare mobile phones, laptops etc from various vendors. I would rate them among the most unbiased reviewers of mobile phones india. They do not influence their customer unlike what you generally see at your nearby stores but they show you wide variety of choices from which you can narrow down to select the best one.

When I am talking about electronic gadgets I should not forget to mention about Digit, the No. 1 Technology magazine. Digit magazine has already gained trust of youth by providing reliable and robust reviews of latest laptops, computer accessories and various other gadgets. I myself have subscribed monthly edition of digit magazine. I love to go through their ultimate expert comments about the latest launches. Now to add to the flavour for their readers Digit has launched its own online shopping portal called http://shopping.thinkdigit.com/. Needless to say, it offers plethora of technology gadgets to choose from, Deep discount hot deals and convenient and secure shopping online.

Both the above portals are unique of their kind and extremely reliable. I must mention about the interactive web application by Consumermate known as Guru Gyan. This feature implemented by Consumermate is extremely helpful for the visitors to find exactly what best they can purchase within their budget. They narrow down the options of available products and gadgets based on customer’s usage, budget and brand choice. Customer care of Consumermate is very active and ready to help. You can post your queries on the portal in Ask Us section to contact Consumermate experts to answer your technical and legal queries/complaints on the gadget purchases. You will get immediate response via email or SMS for your query through Ask Us section. Non the less, you will also be provided with atleast three neares dealers in you city where you can get your products. Now that is indeed very customer centric facility.

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“Google Vs China” news was floating all over the internet forums, blogs and news channels, but the news got spiced up more when two more internet gaints dealing in domain name services signaled to pull out from China. Go Daddy and Network Solutions LLC, both among the largest domain name registrar and now also in web hosting field, said that they were fed up of the restrictions imposed on them regarding the registration of .cn domains.

Earlier the authority for .cn domain a.k.a cn nik intructed these firms to collect the first and last names of the registrant, physical address, telephone number, and an e-mail address. But later in december 2009 cn nik announced that they also need a photo ID in colour from the head to the shoulders, a business ID and a physically signed registration paper for all new .cn registrations. Now this created lots of buzz. These firms claim that they already are dealing with numerous hacking attempts originating locally which is indirectly aided by chinese govt. Though not very sure but they hinted that the posssible reason could be the provisioning of domain names and hosting services to social activists.

I dont think this will stop here. US has already politicized this issue. US congressman Mr. Jones backed these firms saying that US IT companies are dong right thing in repressive countries. On the other hand Chinese govt have always denied any role in ongoing hacking attempts into the US IT companies working in China.

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What do you do when you get flamming emails send by unknown email id which you think could be one among your knowns. I am not talking about the spam mails, I am talking about the mails which are sent to irk you, like abusing your friends or relatives etc. Usually we try to ignore such mails as we think we can’t chanse a guy on internet. However, doing so you are you are encouraging them and biting yourself inside. You can do something which I do to trace emails sent to me. Tracing emails is possible and believe me you need not be a techie to that when I am here to explain it. I traced one such mail sent to me though it was from a friend just to have fun.

Read these steps carefully:

Step 1.  Find the IP address of email sender

I am explaining this for some major email services.

If you are a gmail user -

1. Just Log into your gmail account.

2. open the email that you want to trace.

3. Click on the down arrow given below in the image just on the right side of the Reply link. Choose Show Original from the list.

4. Just look for the lines starting with “Received: from“.  You’ll see that there are many Received From phrase in the message header. Actually the message headers contains the list of all IP addresses of all the servers through which the email was routed. Even if you did not get what this sentence mean, skip understanding that.  Below is the image from online-tech-tips.com where a techie explained the same procedure using his mail. For ease I am using his email header to explain you the same.

Fins the Last Recieved: From from the header. This gives the ip of the first computer through which message originated. As you can see from the above image, the first one is from a computer called “aseem” with the IP address 72.204.154.191. Then it was routed to the ISP’s (internet service provider likeBSNL, Airtel, British Telecom etc) server at eastrmmtao104.cox.net and so on and so forth till it got to your email server.

The computer aseem is the PC of the author who posted these headers on online-tech-tips.com.   72.204.154.191 is his public IP address for his PC in his house.

Surprised!!  This IP will help us locate his location. But lets take a look to find how we can get this IP from yahoo mail header.

For Yahoo user (yahoo beta):

 Click on it and choose Full Header.

Again, you’ll see the same information as before, just in a different window:

For outlook users:

Microsoft Outlook

 Just Go to View at the top menu (the menu options for the email, not the main Outlook window) and choose Options.

You’ll get a dialog box where you can set the message options and at the bottom you’ll see the Internet Headers box.  To extract the source IP you need to follow the same procedure as done for gmail account.

Step 2: Tracing the location of senders IP

There are various ways. Easiest way is to copy and paste your email header and email id of sender into email tracking tool at http://www.ip-adress.com/trace_email/.

One more way is to visit sites like IP2Location and GeoBytes IP Locator location lookup on the IP address. There are many sites on web where you can just enter the IP address and you will get the exact location of the ip address on Google map.

Hope this post helped you.

Also, thanks to online-tech-tips.com for nice post How to track the original location of an email via its IP address.

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What is the ideal resolution of a digital camera? What resolution and optical zoom would be perfect for me? What specification can I get within my budget? All these are the questions haunting people when they go for purchasing a digital camera. If these questions are bothering you too then better clear all your little doubts and queries about camera SLR at a real buying guide of Consumermate. Some of the important features which you should consider before buying a digital camera are lens quality, battery life and screen size of the camera. These day people prefer LCD screen cameras. Carl zeiss lens are the best quality lens preferred by the professional photographers. Recently one of my friends bought a canon digital camera with 12 Megapixel resolutions. I was surprised by its amazing optical zoom. Even the picture taken at maximum zoom had astounding clarity.

High resolution cameras are available at very cheap prices nowadays. Even mobile phones are now equipped with high resolution cameras. You can also look what are the latest mobile phone prices at consumermate.com. You can select your favorite models from the huge collection of handsets from various brands. Some latest models from new brand like Fly are amazing. My younger brother recently purchased a touch screen dual Sim Fly mobile for just around Rs. 4500. He is quiet happy with its features. Customers today have lots of options when they are out for shopping. But with consumermate you buy exactly what you need.

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