2. HOW FAMOUS COMPANIES WERE NAMED???

It's amazing how these famous companies were christened!!!

· 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.

· Xerox

The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson , named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.

· Sun Microsystems

Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network

· Sony

From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

· SAP

"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

· 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!

· Oracle

Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).

· 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.

· Microsoft

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

· 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.

· Hotmail

Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email 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 casings.

· 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 graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google

· Cisco

The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco . The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge .

· Apple Computers

Favourite 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.

· Apache

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

· Adobe

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

CUSTOMIZE YOUR PC-----------I. Google Chrome: Add a Print Button to the Bookmarks Bar

Most browsers have a print button so you don’t have to hunt for the correct menu selection or rely on remembering the keyboard combination. You can add a print button to your Bookmarks bar, making it easily accessible any time you need it.

1. Open Chrome.

2. Right-click the Bookmarks bar and select Add Page.

3. In the Name textbox, input the word Print.

4. In the URL textbox, input the following:
javascript:window.print()

5. Make sure that the Bookmarks bar folder is selected and click OK.

or just drag this link to your Bookmarks bar: Print.

II. Google Chrome Browser Shortcut List

1) F3 & CTRL+F Search on Page

2) F5 Reload

3) CTRL+D bookmark

4) CTRL+W close Google Chrome Window

5) CTRL+E enter search query at address bar

6) CTRL+R Refresh

7) CTRL+T New Tab

8 ) CTRL+U view source

9) CTRL+O Open Web Page

10) CTRL+H History

11) CTRL+J Download File History

12) CTRL+B Show/Hide Bookmark Toolbar

13) CTRL+N new Google Chrome window

14) CTRL +/- increase decrease Fonts

15) CTRL+P Print

16) ALT+D Select Address bar

17) ALT+leftArrow/RightArrow Go Backword/Forword

18) ALT+` Java Debugger

19) CTRL+TAB or CTRL+PGUP/PGDW switch between Tabs

20) CTRL+SHIFT+N Private Browsing (New incognito window)

21) SHIFT+ECS Chrome Task Manager

I. Keyboard shortcuts

Many many happy returns of the day Google!

27 September, the search engine Google is welcoming users with a sweet birthday cake. The search major is celebrating its 12^th birthday with a cake's picture, on which the 'L' letter in Google is represented by a burning candle.

The doodle is a work of Wayne Thiebaud, a famous artist who is associated with the Pop art movement, said media reports. It was reproduced by permission of VAGA, Visual Artists and Galleries Association.

The California-based company was first incorporated as a privately held corporation on 27 September 1998.

Google has been commemorating special days with its much talked about doodles. The first of such doodle had appeared in August 1998 when the its founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page designed one for the Burning Man Festival.

There were doodles to celebrate Halloween, Christmas, Mother's and Father's Day, bar code invention day, birthdays of many well-known figures and so on.