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How to undelete, deleted text messages
If, for whatever reason, you ever need to retrieve text messages that have been deleted, there is now cheap and user-friendly software available that allows you to do just that.
Furthermore, you don’t just get the deleted text messages, you get everything from that cellphone’s SIM that you could possibly want: deleted inbox and outbox messages (read and unread messages alike), the name and cellphone number of the sender, and all contact numbers in the phone’s directory, including a recently-deleted list of calls received and made.
This software is reputedly very user-friendly, and has been designed with “home users” (i.e., non-technical people) in mind, which is an additional bonus – as anyone who’s paid for software and then struggled to actually use it will agree!
The software works on any SIM card, of any country and any network, in less than one minute, and is compatible with Microsoft XP, 2003, XP Media Center2005, Longhorn, Vista, 2000, NT, ME and 98. It’s read-only software (meaning you can look, but can’t modify the information), although you can print off a detailed report which includes all the information retrieved by the software.
This software won’t work on a SIM that’s been locked or that requires a PIN to access the information (unless you know what the PIN code is, of course!) so you’ll want to be sure that you don’t accidentally lock the SIM through trying to access it without authorization.
Don’t worry if the SIM card you’re trying to access has been damaged in some way. Damaged, corrupted, crashed, and reformatted SIMs present no problem: this software was originally designed for use on SIM cards that had accidentally been damaged or locked, although they’re equally suited to their modern-day role as detection tools.
User instructions come with the software upon purchase, but all you need is the SIM card of the phone.
All in all, this software’s pretty self-explanatory. Easy to use, cheap,readily accessible from the Internet, the software provides users with a FULL backup of all deleted information from a cellphone’s SIM card: sent and received text messages, phone calls made and received, and acomplete phone directory. It’s as simple as that!
You can buy this software online – visit http://www.filerecovery.in/file- recovery/sim-card.asp, or just type “undelete deleted text messages” into Google and hit ‘search’.
How to perform reverse cellphone lookups
How to confirm who that suspicious caller is on your spouse’s cellphone (or landline).
So you’ve found a phone number. Maybe it keeps cropping up just a bit too often. Maybe the phone call(s) come at strange times. Or maybe you just want some peace of mind – and let’s face it, if you’re suspicious enough to be considering doing a reverse phone number lookup, it’s probably better to be safe than sorry!
There are a number of options open to you, both chargeable and free. Here’s what you need to do.
Step 1 – Get Internet Access
First of all, you’ll need access to the Internet, because we’re going to be using online search engines and utilizing the billions of pages of information indexed on those search engines.
So number one, get yourself to a computer with Internet access.
Step two: Access Google’s homepage
(www.google.com).
Enter the phone number you want to look up into the search bar, and hit “search”. For example, if I wanted to look up a Wisconsin number, I might enter ‘4145392918’ into the search bar, and hit ‘enter’.
This will bring up lots of information – probably several hundred thousand pages of it! Have a look through the first couple of pages, and see if anything relevant crops up. Look through more if you feel like it -the only deciding factor here is how much time you want to spend!
Chances are, though, that the results are too “broad” and non-specific for you to spend more than five or ten minutes trawling through them. If this is the case, then you’ll need to narrow your search down a little bit.
You can do this through the use of quotation marks (“…”). For example, if I put quotation marks around the phone number I was searching for, that tells Google that I only want search results to be shown which include that particular number, in that particular order, with no additional numbers either before or after it – in effect, I only want results pertaining to that EXACT number that I’ve entered.
Have a look through the results that come up from this, and see if there’s anything worth investigating more.
If not, don’t despair – there are still plenty of options remaining!
Basically, to make the most of the almost infinite supply of information available through Google, you need to make sure you’re asking the right questions and using the right search terms. The easiest way to do this is through varying your search terms as much as you can (while still remaining relevant to your original phone number, obviously!)
For example, try substituting the name of the state for the area code (‘Wisconsin’ for ‘414’), and hitting ‘search’.
If that doesn’t work, try adding spaces throughout the number (‘414 539 2918’), or, if you’d already added them, try removing them or changing their position.
If you know where the call originated from – for example, if it’s a local number, or if you recognize the specific area code – you can try substituting the name of the city for the name of the state (i.e., ‘Bayview’ for ‘Wisconsin’.)
Remember to try as many variations as you can on the number that you have. Google gets its information from a huge variety of sources – advertisements, discussion forums, chat networks, social interaction portals – and there’s no particular format that’s common to any of these mediums. Your best bet is to be as diverse as possible, to ensure that you’re covering your bases.
Other Options
Another option is to use a site called Board Tracker (www.boardtracker.com), which is a search engine that takes its information directly from discussion boards, chatrooms, and forums. An incredible number of sources are accessed for this information, so it’s another good place to check your phone number out.
Simply type the phone number that you have into the search bar, and hit ‘enter’. If you’re not having any luck at first, remember to keep varying your search terms: add and subtract spaces, quotation marks, any other bits and pieces of information that you think may be helpful (the city you think the call may have originated from, the name of the state, and so on.)
A third alternative is to begin searching through the most commonly-used major social networking portals on the Net, like www.myspace.com or www.facebook.com
There are search functions on most, if not all, of these sites, which works to your advantage. All you have to do is repeat the process that you used on Google and on Board Tracker.
If you’ve come to the end of these options, and still haven’t had any luck, there are still two choices remaining:
1) You can give up your search (haha no!)
2) You can invest a little bit of money and have the search carried out by a specific phone number search site.
So these are your options for doing a reverse phone number lookup – it’s a surprisingly easy, and very effective, way to either confirm your doubts, or to take the weight off completely. Good luck!
How to set up a free lie detector for phone calls
Once upon a time, lie detectors were the stuff of fiction – a fascinating concept, but one with very little grounding in reality. More recently, lie detectors were the sole property of forensic experts, used to analyze the potential truth (or lack of) in the statements of key witnesses and suspects in crime cases.
Today, however, we have access to the world’s first telephone-based lie detector. That’s right – a free software program called KishKish, which is downloadable in seconds from the Internet as a free add-on to Skype (the global Internet-based telephone system).
KishKish’s lie detection software is based on the theory of Voice Stress Analysis, which works by analyzing the content of your conversation- partner’s voice for stress levels. High levels of stress indicate a strong possibility of lies being told, whereas low levels indicate truth.
Traditional lie-detectors work in the exact same way (although obviously they’re a bit more complex, and involve more equipment!) Specifically, KishKish bases its readings on the stress levels of your partner’s voice. The program takes about 10 seconds to gather the information necessary to begin taking accurate readings, and then starts analyzing the audio streams of your partner’s voice for fluctuations in stress levels.
This all happens in real time, so you can see as your partner’s talking whether or not a “lie” is being told. KishKish illustrates the stress levels of your partner’s voice using graphs and lights, so you can see for yourself which questions spark a stress-response.
You can’t use the program entirely covertly, however – on the first usage with any given conversation partner, Skype sends them a quick message- alert letting them know that KishKish has been installed and may be in use. Of course, this is more likely to have a positive, rather than a negative, effect: most people are scared into telling the truth voluntarily when they know they’re being monitored for lying!
You don’t have to use KishKish every time you make or receive a phone call (although you can if you want – it works on both incoming and outgoing phone calls). There’s also the option of using it manually, which is enticingly simple: all you have to do is click the KishKish icon, which you find in ‘Call’>’Do More’ in the Skype window. This allows you to choose when you want to activate the lie-detector.
In addition to this option, KishKish have also anticipated the fact that sometimes it’s just not convenient to divide your time between paying attention to the phone call, and analyzing the data from that call. So you can also record your phone calls on Skype, and analyze them at your convenience later on.
Clearly, no lie detector can give a 100% definite reading on whether someone is or is not definitely telling a lie or not (even forensic lie detectors aren’t admissible as evidence in court!). So it’s probably best if you take the results from KishKish with the proverbial grain of salt.
Having said that though, it can be really useful to have your gut instinct backed up by KishKish’s evidence – if your instincts are telling you that someone’s being evasive or even telling a flat-out tall tale, and if this is then confirmed by a lie detector, you’ll probably want to investigate further!