GENERAL
My favorite motivational quotes
Feb 4th
I have been keeping a list of quotes which I read once in a while to motivate myself and to push myself to do the right things instead of doing things which are convenient. These has been a great source of inspiration for me. So instead of maintaining the list in my drafts, I decided [...]
Using windows live as SMTP relay server
Jan 10th
Today I started writing a program to notify me when IP assigned to my router by my broadband provider changes. I wanted this program to check IP address of the router every few minutes and send me email if it detects that IP is changed. For sending email, I used System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient which requires a smtp host. Instead of running a smtp server on my machine, I started looking for free smtp relay servers available on the internet. I was surprised to find out that there are plenty of them available. In fact most of the popular email service providers like windows live, yahoo, gmail offer smtp relay services.