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How to Check if an Email Address is Valid and Exists How do you know if an email address exists or not? The easy option would be that you send a dummy mail to that email address, wait for an hour or so and if your message bounces, it is very likely that the particular email address does not exist. The approach works but wouldn’t it be nice if you could check any email address instantly without even sending that test message? The other slightly technical option to verify an email address is by querying the mail server. You connect to the mail server through telnet ( see video ), enter your email address and the other email address that you are trying to verify. If the server response is an error code, the email address is probably not valid. How to Check Email Addresses Instantly Let me share an extremely simple method for checking if an email address is valid and exists or not. Go to the login page of the email service and pretend that you no longer remember ...

Desai Tech Solutions - www.desaitech.in Google Wants You to Design the Internet of Things Impatient for the Internet of Things, Google is providing seed money for reseraching new technologies. Have an idea for how the much-anticipated Internet of Things should operate? If the idea is good enough, Google may pay you to see it to fruition. As part of a new effort to generate more Internet of Things technologies, Google is planning to issue a number of grants to facilitate pioneering research in this nascent field of computing. "While the Internet of Things (IoT) conjures a vision of 'anytime, any place' connectivity for all things, the realization is complex given the need to work across interconnected and heterogeneous systems, and the special considerations needed for security, privacy, and safety," co-wrote Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf, in a blog post announcing the research program . The "Internet of Things...

Backup your Emails on a USB Drive for Offline Access How do you ensure that you always have access to all your web emails – even at places where there is no Internet or when you aren’t carrying your own laptop? One of the popular options is that you use a tool like Microsoft Outlook to download all your emails to the computer beforehand and you can then read them anywhere even in offline mode. Both Gmail and Hotmail offer POP3 access to help you download messages using any email client while there are easy workarounds for Yahoo Mail. There are some downsides though. First, most email clients aren’t portable (can you carry emails on a USB drive?) and second, if all you want is offline access to your Gmail messages and nothing extra, Outlook is probably too heavy a tool for that purpose. I have been testing a Windows-only utility called MailStore that seems like an ideal solution for such a problem – the tool is free, there’s a portable version for your USB stic...

Azure outage hits Microsoft Office 365 users & websites Microsoft cloud forced offline yet again Microsoft Azure has suffered yet another outage that left customer websites offline and the software giant's Office 365 users without access to apps and data. The failure also caused the Microsoft MSN service to black out as engineers struggled to rectify the situation. According to Azure’s status page , the problem began at 00.52 GMT on Wednesday morning, affecting access to Office 365 and Xbox Live servers. A spokeswoman said the firm was “investigating an issue affecting access to some Microsoft services. We are working to restore full access to these services as quickly as possible.” While most of the problems were resolved later in the day, Microsoft said it was still investigating a number of problems affecting virtual machines in its North Europe and West Europe datacentre facilities. “A sub...

Facebook's New Iowa Datacenter Goes Modular to Grow Forever The company dropped its cluster design for a network fabric with smaller server pods. The traffic inside Facebook's datacenters is growing so fast that the company is changing the basic architecture of its networks in order to keep up. The new design, which Facebook calls a data center fabric, doesn't use a new link speed to make the network run faster. Instead, it turns the whole system into a set of modules that are less expensive and more widely available than what the company's using now. It's also easier to deploy and manage, according to Facebook's networking chief. Unlike older hierarchical networks, the modular design can provide consistently fast links across the data center for any two servers to talk to each other. The new architecture was used in a 476,000-square-foot (44,000-square-meter) data center that goes online today in Altoona, Iowa. Facebook plans to use it in all...

Microsoft Open Sources .Net Server Stack The company is building a version of .Net for Linux and Mac OS X In an effort to broaden its reach beyond Windows developers, Microsoft has released as open source the server-side components of its .Net framework and embarked on a project to port the runtime software to Linux and Mac OS. The initiative aims to make .Net a cross-platform framework, said S. "Soma" Somasegar, the Microsoft corporate vice president who leads the company's developer division. "You can build a .Net app and then decide if you want to run it on a Linux server or on Windows Server," he said. "We want to deliver a comprehensive offering for every developer working on any application." The .Net open sourcing was one of a number of announcements the company made Wednesday around its developer tools and services. The company is also releasing a free version of its flagship Visual Studio flagship IDE (integra...

 Work today is very different from 10 years ago. Cloud computing, once a new idea, is abundantly available, and collaboration is possible across offices, cities, countries and continents. Drive for Work enables collaboration and content sharing for businesses large and small and helps them share and access their files — even from different cloud applications. Google Drive extends the reach of business applications by taking content that previously was only available in a single application, and making it available across multiple applications — all while maintaining security. For example: Marketing teams can create collateral in Drive that’s accessible for sales reps who spend time in a salesforce automation (SFA) app on their mobile phone.  Support reps working in a helpdesk app can use Drive to share a customer-submitted error log with engineers.  Accounts payable clerks working in an accounting app can generate an invoice and share the invoice dir...