Many times you need to trace IP
address, Website and email location and server detail. IP address
tracing require for diagnosing connectivity or not reachable IP
address issues. Quite often someone also needs to know the IP address
location and other detail. There is a quick and easy ways to trace IP
address, Website and Email server location.
One primary condition for trace IP
address of website or any public IP is that, your computer needs
internet access.
Note: Below methods can also be use to
trace IP address within your corporate network for intranet and local
servers IP Network.
Steps 1 How to trace IP address –
Ping IP address and Website or Domain names.
Ping utility is used for test
reachability of local and internet host on an IP network. It sends
round trip message from source to destination IP. If source failed to
receive return message then “Request Timed Out” shows in the
result. Ping utility allows tracing IP address for the website and
domains. It resolves the hostname into IP address. Let’s take an
example, if you wanted to trace IP address of www.google.com . Go to
Start > Run > type CMD >and Enter it will open
command prompt.
Type “ping www.google.com” (without
inverted comma”) the result shows the reply from Google.com with IP
Address, that one is the IP for the www.google.com . You can trace IP
and any website or domain names by this method.
Steps 2 How to use traceroute
command
Traceroute is the one of the diagnostic
tool which displaying the number of route (path) or hops between
source IP to destination IP. It has also measuring transit delay on
each path or hops. Again let’s take an example, this time we will
going to trace IP address and number of route path of
www.facebook.com . Go to Start > Run > type CMD >and
Enter it will open command prompt. Type “tracert www.facebook.com“
(without inverted comma”) the result will display the complete
routing path and time in which each hops responds. You can use
tracert /? And get to know more about tracert usage and switch
option.
Step 3 How to know and trace IP
address Email sender or server location
There are multiple email clients like
(lotus client, Microsoft Outlook, Express and many online like Gmail,
Yahoo mail). To know the email sender server location and other
details you have to first collect email server IP. All email client
have the option to show each “Email header” Email header have the
all detail information regarding that particular emails, Date, Time,
recipient, and senders. I am demonstrating my Office outlook email
client Headers information and sender server location. Show header
option may vary by different email client. Open Office outlook Email
client > select email from Inbox and right click > find
the message options at the bottom > on opened message
Options windows find at bottom Internet
headers: in this windows find the “From” field and there you will
find the senders Email IP address.
If you have Gmail client account, you
will get header or email server IP very easily. Again open the email
of which you find the IP address. Top right side of the email find
the “MORE” drop down menu and select “Show Original” it will
open new window with all details. Again find the “from” field and
here you trace the IP address of email server.
Step 4 How to find the Website
server Location or Email server Location and other detail information
There are many online tools and website
available to give you quick information result of the public IP or
domain information, its server Geo location, registrar, registrar
name, register and expiry dates and address. My favorite websites
are“http://whois.net/” and “http://who.is/“ which give you
all information about Domain names or IP address. Another Website
which gives your own IP location by default and trace IP address
geographically “http://www.iplocation.net/“.
How to trace IP address, Website and
Email Location
There are many online tools and website
available to give you quick information result of the public IP or
domain information, its server Geo location, registrar, registrar
name, register and expiry dates and address. My favorite websites
are“http://whois.net/” and “http://who.is/“which give you all
information about Domain names or IP address. Another Website which
gives your own IP location by default and trace IP address
geographically“http://www.iplocation.net/“.
Brainstorming is often the method of choice for ideation, but it is fraught with problems that range from participants’ fear of evaluation to the serial nature of the process — only one idea at a time. Brainwriting is an easy alternative or a complement to face-to-face brainstorming, and it often yields more ideas in less time than traditional group brainstorming.
What Is Brainwriting?
When I teach my graduate course in “Prototyping and Interaction Design,” I start with a class on ways to generate ideas. Because brainstorming is a well-known and popular technique, I generally begin with a discussion on how to do good brainstorming, something that is very hard, and then introduce brainwriting as a worthy, and sometimes preferred, alternative to brainstorming. The term “brainwriting” often brings forth smiles and quiet laughter because it is a strange word.
Brainwriting is simple. Rather than ask participants to yell out ideas (a serial process), you ask them to write down their ideas about a particular question or problem on sheets of paper for a few minutes; then, you have each participant pass their ideas on to someone else, who reads the ideas and adds new ideas. After a few minutes, you ask the participants to pass their papers to others, and the process repeats. After 10 to 15 minutes, you collect the sheets and post them for immediate discussion.
In my experience, the number of ideas generated from brainwriting often exceeds what you’d expect from face-to-face brainstorming because you’ve reduced anxiety somewhat, followed a parallel process in which a dozen people may add items simultaneously, and reduced the amount of extraneous talk that happens during brainstorming, which takes time away from idea generation.
Instead of getting one idea at a time, lots of ideas can emerge simultaneously, if you let your participants “brainwrite” them. (Image credits: opensourceway)
When To Use Brainwriting
Brainwriting can be used in the following situations:
You have too large a group for effective brainstorming. You could conduct brainwriting at a conference of 500 people simply by leaving a large card on each seat, asking a question, and then having each audience member pass a card to someone else, and then repeat three times for a minute of writing.
You have quiet people in your group who are intimidated by traditional brainstorming.
You are working in a culture in which brainstorming about “wild ideas” or expressing ideas that diverge from those of senior management is not accepted.
Your time is limited. I’ve used brainwriting to brainstorm questions for a website visit when I had only 10 minutes to get feedback from the product team. I ended up with more than 50 different questions, without the fuss of having to set up a formal brainstorming session.
You don’t have an experienced moderator. Brainstorming, contrary to what many blog posts claim, is difficult to do well. Brainwriting, in contrast, requires that you be able to ask a question, read a clock and collect answers.
You are worried about loud or forceful individuals influencing others, as they might in traditional brainstorming.
Brainwriting can be used to understand how different groups view an issue. You might try to conduct separate brainwriting sessions with different internal groups. For example, if you asked groups to brainwrite about “What are the most important problems faced by our customers?” you might find that developers have a different perspective from the UX team, who have a different perspective from product managers. In my experience, the differences emerge more strongly through brainwriting than through face-to-face brainstorming.
Brainwriting can help you get a better understanding of how different groups or departments view a problem. (Image credits: opensourceway)
When To Avoid Brainwriting
While brainwriting is easy and accepted in many environments after a single demonstration of its productivity, you might want to avoid brainwriting in a few situations. There may be times when your colleagues find it difficult to express ideas in writing. If you are working on complex issues, then you might want to opt for small group brainstorming or another ideation technique that allows for clarification and discussion.
If you are forming a team, then you might want to opt for traditional brainstorming, because participants will be more familiar with that method (rather than the strange name “brainwriting”), and the social interaction will foster team-building. You might want to avoid brainwriting if you are in a culture with strict rules about which methods and procedures to follow. People who follow a highly structured product design and development process might find brainwriting a bit too radical.
How To Conduct A Brainwriting Session
My first suggestion is to search for “brainwriting” on the Web and peruse some of YouTube videos and short articles that describe brainwriting techniques and tips. There are several approaches to brainwriting: interactive brainwriting, the 6-3-5 method, the idea card method, and the remote spreadsheet method. We’ll cover the basic procedure for each of these techniques.
INTERACTIVE BRAINWRITING
Here are the basic steps for interactive brainwriting:
Introduce the procedure.
Hand out paper for each person to write down ideas.
Provide a clear and legible problem statement. (You could print out a page with the statement at the top, project the statement on a slide, or write it on a board.)
Describe the timing of the brainwriting (for example, three minutes for the first round, and two minutes for four subsequent rounds) and the process for passing the pages (for example, counterclockwise around a table). A page-passing process that is not clear could undermine the credibility of the method and waste time.
Ask if anyone has any questions about the problem statement or the brainwriting process.
Remind people to read the ideas quickly before entering their own ideas and to feel free to add, modify and combine ideas. Let people know that extra paper is around the room if they run out.
Begin the rounds. Announce the end of each round, and ask people to pass their paper to another person.
At the end of the session, collect the brainwriting pages and post them for comment, additional ideas or review.
BRAINWRITING 6-3-5
In brainwriting 6-3-5, six people are given a form and asked to provide three ideas for solving a problem in five minutes. Participants are invited to consider out-of-the-box ideas and to combine ideas with others. The ideas are written in silence to prevent participants from influencing each other. After the first five minutes, each participant passes a form like the one below to the adjacent participant, who then reviews the ideas and adds new ones.
The process is repeated six times, with a potential for 6 × 3 × 6 (or 104) ideas. In practice, I’ve found that people often come up with more than three ideas in five minutes, so you could create a 6-6-5 form.
Participants/Ideas
Idea 1
Idea 2
Idea 3
Participant 1
Filters to reduce the size
Search
Elliptical browsers
Participant 2
Tagging
Concordance feature
Automatic clustering of related data
Participant 3
Break the list up into categories
Provide a birds-eye view and zoom
Most recently used feature
Participant 4
Participant 5
Participant 6
A 6-3-5 brainwriting form. (Problem Statement: “How can we deal with extremely long lists in our application?”)
IDEA CARDS
This approach to brainwriting gets participants to write ideas continuously on sticky notes or cards and, as they finish a card, to place it off to the side. When other participants need inspiration, they can take a few cards from their colleagues and continue. Each card would hold only one idea.
A variation on this approach is the “one idea, quick pass,” whereby each person lists one idea on a sheet and then hands the sheet to another participant, who adds one more idea. If participants don’t have any sheets to look at, they can grab one off of a pile and continue writing. This continues until the leader of the session declares “The end.”
THE SPREADSHEET TECHNIQUE
If you want to conduct remote brainwriting, you can use Google Spreadsheet as a brainwriting tool. You’ll need to set up a list of people who will participate and then ask each of them to enter ideas in a single column of the spreadsheet. As each person enters an idea in a cell, others would see the idea and use that as inspiration for new ideas. This process can foster a bit of mild competition if done in real time and can also be fun.
Practical Tips And Tricks For Better Brainwriting
Here are a few tips and tricks that I’ve picked up over the last 10 years or so of using the brainwriting method:
If you are using handwritten sheets, ask people to print or write legibly.
Ask people to be succinct but to provide enough information for the idea to be understood two weeks later.
Ask participants to do some easy homework to prepare for brainwriting (and brainstorming). Homework can make the sessions more productive. One example of homework would be to send your problem or question to participants and ask them to jot down or think about three ideas. Make the homework fun if you can.
Put the problem statement or ideation question on all of the sheets or write it on a board or slide if you are doing it remotely. If you use the Google Spreadsheet approach, put the question at the top of the spreadsheet.
Ask your participants to avoid jargon and acronyms that wouldn’t be understood in a week’s time.
Be clear about the rules for sharing idea sheets. If you have people pass them to others, designate the direction of passing the pages to avoid confusion.
Set a timer. Most smartphones have countdown timers that work well for brainwriting.
Mix brainstorming and brainwriting with other ideation methods. Brainstorming may generate few ideas, but sometimes the social aspects of brainstorming generate a sense of teamwork and creativity.
If you want to create an affinity diagram from the ideas, you could prepare pages with sticky notes and then remove them when you are ready to diagram. The image below shows six pages from a brainwriting session on the topic of how to improve remote collaboration. Each page would have six sticky notes on which participants can write ideas for the topic. After the brainwriting is complete, the notes can be organized into categories using the affinity diagramming method.
You could use affinity diagramming to organize and interpret the data from brainwriting sessions. (Large view)
How To Sell Brainwriting To Your Colleagues
Brainwriting is easy to sell in most organizations and client settings. There are five ways to sell brainwriting:
The first selling point is its scalability. You are able to gather data from a few people on your design team to hundreds of people at a conference without great cost or detailed planning.
It does not require great facilitation or social psychology skills. All you need is a brief script, some cheap supplies or a remote tool like Google Spreadsheet, and between 10 to 30 minutes to conduct the session.
It is efficient. Unlike brainstorming, with its serial approach to idea generation, everyone is writing ideas at the same time.
While brainwriting is generally done in silence, each person is still stimulated from seeing other ideas.
Perhaps most importantly, the number of ideas generated from brainwriting generally exceeds those from brainstorming.
Enjoy your experiments with brainwriting.
Resources On Brainwriting
The resources listed below are a mix of videos, articles and books. My recent book, Brainstorming and Beyond, has a full chapter on brainwriting (and on brainstorming and braindrawing).
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We are heading towards the Christmas of this year, you might be very excited and happy for your holiday, Christmas celebration and of-course your shopping. The advent of modern Internet has changed the way of shopping and many of us will use computers, smart phones, tablets and other gadgets for online shopping. Users like us are preparing themselves for shopping but we should not forget that cyber criminals are also preparing their tools and techniques to use scams.
McAfee has spotlights the “12 Scams of Christmas” to keep consumers digital lives safe, and in this article we will discuss some of them (which are very important and you may face them).
Fake gift cards
Social media specially twitter and facebook are likely the best platform for these scammers to steal money from consumers, and gift card (fake or bogus) are the easiest way to target innocent people. Safe yourself from the deceptive advertisement that ask your personal information.
SMS Scam “Smishing”
Smishing is the phishing technique that done through a text message, here I am not mentioning sms because now a days scammers are using android / iOS apps to target consumer. You might get a text message from your bank or even an consumer website, the SMS might not be originated from the pretended source. So always confirm before going to share your information and do not open any URL
Deceptive Online Games
“Before your kids are glued to their newly downloaded games, be wary of the games’ sources. Many sites offering full-version downloads of Grand Theft Auto, for example, are often laden with malware, and integrated social media pages can expose gamers, too. “ Says McAfee
Fake Charity
Donation is the common practice of Christmas and most of us are planning to donate some amount of money to the needy one, but do not trust the fake charities on the basis of their claims. They might create fake charity websites and ask your donation, email marketing, social media marketing and even google advertisement may be use to grab your attention and to play with human psyche.
Fake Application
Do not install the fake applications that look like the famous online shopping portals, they might be malicious.
So above are the top 5 scams the everyone of us might face. McAfee has created their list if top 12 scams. The number of scams is not the matter at all because scammers always use different techniques that used to be the mixture of various tricks, you need to aware regarding the situation that is going on. Do not download any application from third party website, do not check promotional emails that you received from an unknown source and same goes with SMS.
Financial sector never ask personal information through SMS or even email, so do not share your information.
Also, if you find any malicious activity or scam then do share it with us. So that we can investigate and publish the right thing for the protection of other users.
Advertising has always been big business and, these days, the Internet plays a massively important role. By 2011, advertising revenue on the Internet surpassed that of cable television in the United States and, the following year, estimates put US Internet advertising revenues at $36.57 billion.
With many profit-generating sites relying on advertising income, appeasing advertisers is an important affair. However, overload a site with ad space and you’ll turn visitors away, thus dashing hopes of fruitful relationships with advertisers and potential profit. Establishing an equilibrium between your users and your advertisers is the key to designing an ad-friendly site and, in this article, we’re going to take a look at some of the concerns and best practices for making one.
Understanding Ads
Understanding the advertising business is probably one of the biggest obstacles to manufacturing a well-designed site that’s optimised to attract advertising, although it’s pretty straightforward.
Advertisers may buy ad space for a number of reasons — much like any web design project, the specific goals and requirements can differ drastically between campaigns — but it’s generally to gain exposure for their cause. The more potential there is for an ad to be seen and/or interacted with by a certain number of users, or a specific demographic, the more demand exists and the more money the site can charge to offer advertisers the privilege of working with them. A leaderboard ad on the front of The New York Times is going to attract more advertising interest and call for higher prices than a 100 x 100px box on the bottom of the third page of an individual’s niche blog.
It’s also important to understand which metrics are being used to track the success of an ad, and this isn’t something we can give a universal answer to. Some ads will be sold based on how many people are likely to see them, while others may be priced based on how many users click through. Therefore it’s important to take the content of this article with a pinch of salt. Always consider how the site will be selling advertisements to design around that fact, although most what we talk about is near-universally applicable.
Considering advertising throughout the design process is vital; there can be significant repercussions for just slapping in some ad space at the last minute. When the majority of the site’s revenue will come from advertising, the users are the product you’re marketing and turning them away with obnoxious and over-saturated advertising starts to diminish the value of what you’re selling. Therefore, taking a moment to consider how advertising will fit into your design is crucial for the future existence of an equilibrium between happy advertisers and satisfied users.
Size
Adverts come in all different sizes and can take up a significant amount of real estate within your design. There’s no rule dictating that you must use standard ad sizes in your design, but adopting commonly used dimensions ensure a seamless process for potential advertisers to run a campaign within your design.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau have established the most common set of advertising dimensions on the web and it’s highly recommended you use these sizes. These dimensions range significantly in size from large, page-wide billboards, to smaller rectangles, so the available catalogue should not hinder your design too much.
Arguably, especially in recent years, there’s another dimension of sorts that may need to be considered too. You may choose to offer smaller ads that are allowed to expand over your content when actioned by a user. Since this naturally covers other elements on the page, considering where to position more important content so it isn’t impacted too badly by expanding ads is important.
The user experience thses ads offer is a touchy subject, so be very aware of the level of intrusion these ads offer.
The proliferation of huge expanding banner ads on major websites has made me very adept at one thing: learning where the close button is.
Position
Positioning your available ad space is perhaps even more important than choosing its size. Advertisers won’t value space hidden away nearer the bottom of the page, so selecting a position that requires zero to minimal scrolling to view is always a good idea.
Likewise, since most of your users will be visiting your site for your content, positioning ad space nearer to, or even inside, the page content is likely to increase interaction and increase value to advertisers.
Saying that, it’s vital to take extra care when working with advertisements inside your core content so that they are both well distinguished from the rest of your content — for a variety of reasons and, in some cases, legally required — and don’t occur too frequently to annoy the user.
Twitter’s integration of Promoted Tweets is a prime example of how advertising can be well engineered into content while providing minimal interruption. Not everyone’s happy about their presence, and this is the perpetual dilemma faced bay advertisers and designers.
Likewise, Google displays its ads in search results right alongside the core, unsponsored listings with similar styles allowing for the flow of the page to be uninterrupted, yet feature advertising in multiple locations.
Your choice of positioning for ads can also be influenced by established layout theories, such as the F-layouts and Z-layouts. Defined by evidence of how users read and interact with a page, these layout theories can help to guide the placement of your ad spaces so they are in the optimum areas for visibility. Of course, this should come with as little obstruction to easy viewing of the core content as possible, but it’s something to keep in mind.
Many sites opt to feature an ad at the top of a sidebar, in the second “line” of the Z, between user’s scanning a title and getting to the actual content. On the other hand, sites like The Washington Post use the F-Layout theory to display a smaller ad at the most visible part of the page, with larger ads in areas that users are less immediately drawn to.
When accommodating multiple advertisements on a single page, spacing is another area to investigate. Some designs opt to bundle together smaller ads into a single area of their page, while others use larger ads but in different location. Bundling ads together might keep the ads a convenient distance away from the content in a way users enjoy, but that can have detrimental effects on how advertisers see your site and, once again, finding the right balance is a project-specific consideration.
It’s really important, at this stage, to understand from where your ads are being delivered. If you’re delivering ads from a network such as Google AdSense, there are sometimes strict placement guidelineswhich can limit your freedom of positioning. It’s imperative you make yourself fully aware of any such guidelines to avoid any trouble down the line.
Frequency
You’d think more ad space equals more money, but over-saturating your design with too many ads can have the opposite effect. If a user is being bombarded with advertising they’re probably going to get annoyed and potentially leave the site with no intent to return.
As a general rule of thumb, when your users are looking for something, you should keep ads to a minimum in order to keep them on your site for longer, rather than pushing them to leave.
On pages such as your homepage and search result listings, consider minimising the use of ads and focus instead getting your users to the content they want. When they’re settled into the site and have the content they want, it’s time to start showing them a bit more advertising.
While ads on your front page might garner more impressions, hiding what the users came to see in the first place within a sea of commercials will do nothing to make them more comfortable and likely to interact.
For example, TIME’s website features only one ad on the homepage, dedicating the rest to navigation. Upon opening an individual story, however, that number is increased and new ads above the content appear. Likewise, YouTube uses video interstitial and sidebar adverts on individual videos but their homepage only features one, clearly distinguished banner.
Interstitials … immediately present rich HTML5 experiences or “web apps” at natural app transition points such as launch, video pre-roll or game level load.
Final Thoughts
Creating an effective, ad-friendly design is all about producing the perfect balance between having your ads seen and recognised by users, without encroaching on the content they came to your site to see. By making careful decisions when it comes to the size, positioning and frequency of ads, this can be a simple process and an important improvement in the financial success of a design.
Experienced Information Technology Manager with a strong knowledge of technical guidance, IT best practices, security protocols, team leadership, and analyzing business requirements. Google
