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Looking Into Hotmail People Search

Do you have a Hotmail email address? Do you want to know who has been sending you email? The truth is that this question is one that troubles a lot of people. What a lot of people aren’t aware of, however, is that it is something that can be easily solved! This is what doing a Hotmail people search can do for you, and the truth is that it is easier that you might think. Unlike something like a reverse phone lookup, there is no price to be paid, and you can be sure that the information that you get is as accurate as the information that the Hotmail servers themselves have.

When you are thinking about using the Hotmail people search, you need to have a Hotmail account yourself. Even if you don’t have one, you will find that they are fairly easy to get. They are free, and signing up takes a matter of moments. You can always use the extra email account as an anonymous email or you can delete it afterwards. Once you have the email account in hand, all you need to do is to enter the email in and figure out who is on the other end. It takes no time at all, and you will soon have a lot of information to work with.

Remember, though, that you are dealing with a free service and that the information that you get is something that the person themselves is going to be providing. There is every chance that they are using a pseudonym or that they are in a place where they have only provided the bare minimum of information. Still, this is more of a lead than you would have on your own. All you need to do is to ensure that when you use the Hotmail people search that you have the email typed in correctly. While some people do spend a lot of time hiding their identity, you may be surprised by who doesn’t.

One thing that tends to worry many people who are using the Hotmail people search is that they wonder how legal it could be. After all, look at all of the information that you are getting! The truth of the matter, however, is that you are getting the same information that you could be getting if you used a phone book. With that in mind, you can search to your heart’s content. You may find that you need to catch up with old friends or that you are in a place where you can start to look into where all of your spam is coming from. Take some time and consider how powerful this search function and what your options might be.

When you want to make sure that you know who is emailing you and you want to know where all this email is coming from, look into the Hotmail people search. This is an important resource that you should be able to tap into, and at the same, you never know who is looking you up!

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Find out more about www.hotmail.com at AusBusiness.

Online Marketing Report: 45% of respondents said they would prefer to receive targeted ads

Online Marketing Report: 45% of respondents said they would prefer to receive ads targeted to their interests.

Were they told that in order for Google (and other ad providers) to do that, they need to collect web surfing data from each individual people’s computers? Privacy issues? Ethics?

Anyway, this is the data.

“The report’s findings provide a clearer picture on user habits that need to be considered when developing a campaign, such as, actively avoiding advertisements that automatically play sound by turning their volume down and not watching videos more than five minutes in length.”

Find out more about Online Marketing Report at AusBusiness Review.

Online Company Registration

You can register a pty ltd company online. It’s amazing. The process only takes about 20 mins and you get share certificates, company constitution and the minutes of the meeting (the meeting that you had with your computer?).

Then, you can apply for ABN and TFN online too!

No more high accountant fees for something that you can so easily do online.

Global Addiction to the Internet

The current explosion in popularity of social networking is not new. It started long ago in the 1996 with the launch of Hotmail webmail service in the US. Hotmail made people independent from their ISP as they were able to send and receive email from any computer in the world, connected to the Internet. The service tapped into the people’s minds and we become more addicted to email, the internet.

If you ask anybody who is using social networking stuff like Facebook or Twitter, they will confirm that it is very addictive. Like drugs. Like addictive behaviour. Will it get to the point when it becomes a social problem and become illegal because of its effect on society? Something to think about.

The current generation who spends hours and hours in front of a computer or keying SMS into their mobiles - will they have skill to relate to people when they get old? Will they have “friends” “following them” when they turn 70 or 80? The current generation does not know how to wait - they want everything instantly. What is going to happen when they get old? We’ll have a lot of very grumpy people. We need to prepare to deal with this now. We’re worrying about Global Warming. I think we need to start worrying about Global addiction to the Internet.

Hookup Confluence and JIRA on Amazon EC2 to Zoneedit or DynDNS

This is a follow up on the previous post. I did a how-to article on how to hookup Confluence and JIRA installation on Amazon EC2 to Zoneedit.com dynamic DNS, in order to keep the same domain name after each time the server is rebooted.

Here it is: Confluence, JIRA on Amazon EC2 with Zoneedit.

Confluence + JIRA on Amazon EC2

Today I installed Confluence and Jira on Amazon EC2. Tomorrow’s post will be on

  1. how to hook up this Amazon EC2 server instance to dynDNS (Dynamic DNS) to allow me to keep the same URL without having to pay for that elastic IP address thing.
  2. how to create batch files to start and stop amazon service just by double-clicking an icon on your desktop pc.

Next, a trip to shop for an iPhone and test JIRA and Confluence on iPhone.

I’m in love with a Fairytale!

Eurovision 2009 - what a great show in Moscow.

After an exciting voting in front of thousands of people in a fully packed Moscow Olimpisky Indoor Arena and millions of TV viewers all over Europe, it was finally Alexander Rybak, a Belorussian boy from Norway who received the highest number of points from televoters and juries from the 42 countries. More - here.

And here is the youtube video.

Nice!

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Gmail: Max Replies: 100 messages

Gmail Max 100 Messages

I use GMail for stuff. GMail threads reply messages. It looks like the max number of replies (or messages in a thread) is 100 (see pic above). When the 101st reply arrived, GMail create a new thread, with the same Subject to continue the thread. Is it a feature or a bug. Or no one ever gets more than 100 replies so that it’s so unimportant?

Are there any good Free Hosts?

As you know, hosting is something I do for work (i.e., managing Fast Hit). But I’ve always been interested to find out what lies behind all those free hosts, that offer a lot of hosting space, traffic, all for free. Well.. there is nothing free in life and I decided to test some of these services to find out what’s the catch. Here is my first one - happyhost.org and here is another one - 000space.com.

I will setup an account with each free hosting service that is reviewed, monitor it over a few weeks and provide feedback if something blows up.

My WordCount Journal

I was searching Google for free blog services out there. There are dozens, or maybe hundreds striving to become noticeable, to get close to Blogspot or WP in magnitude. Most, will never make it. But a few really stand out.

One of this is WordCount Journal. I just opened mine there too.

I like the concept. One word the first day, two words the second etc. By the end of the year I will write a total of 66,795 words. It’s a size of a novel!

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