History behind the famous IT company - What's there in name ?

History behind the famous IT company - So,.....What's there in name ?

Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'APAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache.

Apple Computers - favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.

CISCO - its not an acronym but the short for San Francisco.

Google - the name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders, Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.

Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to
as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

HP - Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel - Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation (by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).

Microsoft - Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (acronym for: One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison).

Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

SAP - "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects"

SUN - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say 'dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root 'xer' means dry.

Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves Yahoos.


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Google Brain Video - Google in 2020

What is “Google Brain” ? No one would tell you What and where this “Google Brain” came from. Anyway, it’s coming out at 2020 and it would replace the Google search engine for this Google Brain.

In the year 2020, people won’t search the web anymore. They will talk with Google Search Engine.



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Edit any website with Cool Javascript trick

 Here is cool Javascript trick you can edit any website on Internet even Google.com also. Here are steps:

1. Go to any webpage (www.google.com, www.yahoo.com etc etc)
2. Once the web page completely loaded, copy paste below code into address bar & hit Enter.

javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0

3. Select any text on webpage and then starts typing. Wow, it got change. ;)

This trick also works with photos. You can select any photo and resize them.

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Google Success on "miserable failure"

It used to be in the past. During those days if you type failure or miserable on google it will show first the American White House web site. Now google has fixed this issue. (Following figure shows "before and after" google results).
It is to be noted that not even a single word like failure or miserable is there in the meta tag or content of the website of that American White House. So it is quite evident that the search robot of this google does not look for meta tag or content when it searches. What else does it look for? It is described as GoogleBombing.

It is said that a number of webmasters use the phrases 'failure' and 'miserable failure' to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. This is the explanation given by google. That is, this is a peculiar search algorithm. Shall we call it as google's success? It seems that we must have given the title as "Google Success". Sorry, it is a typo.

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Grow your own Flowers......

Click & drag your mouse over the dark blank page the way you like it and grow your flowers

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Retrieve Clipboard Text To A Web Page With Javascript

It is true, text you last copied for pasting (copy & paste) can be stolen when you visit web sites using a combination of JavaScript and ASP (or PHP, or CGI) to write your possible sensitive data to a database on another server. Hopefully you haven't copied a credit card number recently before surfing!

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Fortunately, the fix for this is also quite simple:
1. In Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security
2. Click on Custom Level (preview image).
3. In the security settings, click to Disable the “Allow Paste Operations via Script.” That will keep your clipboard contents private (screen capture preview).

Note: If you are using Firfox browser then it will not work and if you using IE 7 then it will prompt you to Allow execution of javascript.