Bill Gates & Steve Jobs on Same Stage

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs sat down together for a joint interview at the fifth annual All Things Digital Conference.

Google Maps:: Google Street View

Google has launched the Street View application for Google Maps, which provides a street level picture of downtown areas of New York, Denver, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Miami.



It even tells you the rough address where you're standing.


Currently you can virtually roam around the streets of New York, Denver, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Miami by simple click on your mouse or by using your arrow keys.

Webaroo:: Surf the web without a connection on your phone

Webaroo is a free software service that gives you the power to search and browse the web on the go.

It helps you to search web content offline on your laptop, PDA or smartphones.

With Webaroo you can:

• Store your web content [web packs and web sites] on your laptop or mobile device.
• Search or browse the content on your laptop or mobile device like you would search online.
• Update your laptop content and sync your mobile device to access the latest web content on the go.

Webaroo creates web packs by crawling the web and selecting web pages based on a particular topic. These web packs are compressed to give the most content value in the least storage size. You can download these pre-created web packs onto your laptop and mobile device. Additionally, you can also download pages from your favorite web sites.

A web pack is a collection of web pages on a particular topic.

Once you download web packs or web sites onto your mobile device, you can search the content anytime and anywhere even without a connection. When you connect your laptop to the Internet, it receives fresh and personalized content updates from the server. These updates are in turn synchronized with your mobile device.

Download Webaroo here.

Google Hot Trends

Google introduced a feature that tracks the 100 fastest-gaining U.S. Web queries, it gives a snapshot of what Internet users are looking for.

Google Hot Trends provides a list of the search terms, updated several times a day.

This feature is part of Google Trends, that can chart and compare the popularity of search terms over time.

vista secret:: Copy as Path [quickly grab a shortcut]

Do you want to copy a link of network file into an email , without copy-paste the detail from address bar and type the filename ?

You can do it easily with vista's "Copy as Path".

1. Click on the file/folder for which you want to know the full path.

2. While holding the Shift key down, right click on the file, and choose Copy as path from the pop-up context menu.

3. Paste in your destination.

Use this anywhere you want to quickly grab a shortcut .

Process behind the google search

Google creates its own version of the web, using automated programs called Googlebots.

Googlebots crawl the web in search of new information. Web sites known to be important and frequently modified are scanned every minutes; sites less frequently updated may be scanned every few weeks.

Googlebots feed key information from a web page to Google’s central network: URL, full text of the page, references to images and other embedded files and metadata.

At the central network, the information is indexed; every word that could be used in a search query is listed along with information referencing Web sites where the word can be found.

The index is broken into ‘shards’ and sent to data centers around the world. Because centers may have slightly different versions of the index, depending on when they received the last update, users in different places may get slightly different results for the same search.

When people search through Google, they are asking the Google to find every instance of the term in its index and rank the corresponding documents by their relevance.

Before Google provides any information, it identifies the searcher’s location through his/her IP address. The IP helps speed up the search by sending the request to the nearest data center and allows Google to identify geographically targeted ads.

The query is sent to the central network, then redirected to the nearest data center. At the datacenter, the search term is run through the index; matching terms are sent back to the central network, then to the user with a summary of the Web page.

Google determines which web sites are the most relevant to a search term by using its secret formula that validates many parameters, such as the number of times the search appears on a Web page, the number of visitors to the page and the Page Rank - the number of sites linking to the page and the popularity of those sites.

What is Vishing?

The term Vishing is a combination of ‘voice’ and ‘phishing’. It leverages VoIP phones instead of ‘misguiding hyperlinks,’ to steal personal and financial information from the public.

The Vishing works like this:

• The criminal configures a war dialer to call phone numbers in a given region.

War dialing or wardialing is a method of automatically scanning telephone numbers using a modem, usually dialing every telephone number in a local area.

• When the phone is answered, an automated recording is played to alert the consumer that their credit card has had fraudulent activity and the consumer should call the following phone number immediately. The phone number could be a toll free number often with a spoofed caller ID for the financial company they are pretending to represent.
• When the consumer calls the number, it is answered by a typical computer generated voice that tells the consumer they have reached account verification and instructs the consumer to enter their 16-digit credit card number on the key pad.
• Once the consumer enters their credit card number, the visher has all of the information necessary to place fraudulent charges on the consumer's card.
• The call can then be used to harvest additional details such as security PIN, expiry date, date of birth, bank account number, etc.

Perceptive Pixel::most advanced multi-touch system

Yahoo! Messenger:: For the web

A new Web-based version of Yahoo's instant-messaging application lets people use Yahoo Messenger on any browser and any Internet-connected computer rather than having to download it to a hard drive & install it.

Yahoo Messenger for the Web offers functions that the downloaded version does not. Consumers can, for example, maintain multiple conversations in one window with different tabs instead of opening up chats in multiple windows.

Yahoo! Messenger for the Web is less than one-tenth the size of the downloaded client. It doesn’t have all the client features (like voice and webcam), but offers all the key communications and self-expressive features you need to be a messenger.

You can access the Yahoo web messenger using following URLs

http://webmessenger.yahoo.com, or simply http://web.im