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Today I received a mail from the sender ‘India Tax Departament’ that I am yet to receive the tax refund amount. Since I received this in my gmail id, the images weren’t displayed by default. The first this I did was to check the sender email id and it was from ‘wnrlky@aol.com‘. I can assume that this id has been long used for phishing attacks (the id resembles ‘winnerlucky’).

India Income Tax Phishing Mail

Then I enabled the images to check whether he had embedded any government emblems. But to my surprise it was written ‘Australian Government’ . May be this was not targeted to Indians first. After understanding that this is a fraud mail, I wanted to read the entire mail and find out the URL under interest.

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3D TraceRoute is an all-in-one networking tool which has traceroute, whois, ping, nslookup, server header analyser, portscanner, telnet client and hell lot of tools coupled together in a single package.

This is a free portable tool and can run on almost any Windows operating systems (Pro commercial version with enhanced is also available)

Here I’ve documented few of the main features of the free version of this tool; download and experiment with 3D traceroute to get the complete picture of it.

Note: This article is targeted for the readers who have basic understanding or experience with using various networking tools.

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Project management is not a easy job which can be accomplished just with paper and a pencil. What we need is an app which helps you to track the issues, display timelines, collaboration and easier access to required information. Any Project Management app will be utilized by all the team members and maximum productivity is ensured only if that app guarantees collaboration. This leaves us with the only option, an online project management tool.

ClockingIt Screenshot

ClockingIt is a web based app which allows users to manage their project online. It has all the features needed for getting things done and to smoothly run the project. Apart from the ‘must have’ features like issue tracking and charts, this app features email notification, forums, chat etc which helps the users to communicate and share the info at a centralized location.

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Dapper helps you to extract data from any website and create customized feeds. This is different from a normal feed since it allows you to select the data and also to modify the presentation of data. The dapps created can be used in formats like RSS, XML, Google Gadgets, Facebook application, HTML etc.

Quick look at dapper

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You can set variable inputs to customize your feeds as shown below.

Alerts can also be set so that a specified action (like notification by email) is performed when the value in the variable input matches the value specified by us.

Dapperfox – Firefox Extension

DapperFox is a Firefox extension that sits next to the RSS icon in your browser.
Whenever you visit a website DapperFox will show you RSS feeds that other people have created, as well as allow you to create a new feed to share with the community. This is perfect when a site does not have its own RSS feed, or when the default feed settings are not convincing enough.

We access few of the sites very frequently that we tend to keep a tab in the browser for it reserved. But why keep too many tabs open? Or why should we switch our tabs frequently to check for new mails/chats. Add those sites in your firefox sidebar easily

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Subject line in a mail is a key for identifying and digging the required mails from the mail archives. So we have to be careful not to miss it at any chance but unfortunately we do miss by accident. Another possible mistake we do is to miss the attachments mentioned in the mail.

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Get snapshots of the internet pages you cannot access to, by just sending an email. If you don’t have access to internet but can use your corporate email; these service serves its best. This might also be helpful for those who want to take a peek at the sites blocked by their network admins.

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