“Yahoo-Microsoft deal” Will they beat Google?

On July 29, 2009, Yahoo and Microsoft announced a partnership in Internet Search and advertising. Under the deal, Microsoft agrees to provide the underlying search technology on Yahoo’s popular Web sites.

Yahoo, being one of the biggest giant companies in the Web Industry lags behind in providing the best search engine on the web. The search results that Yahoo provides are not that deep which its competitors are providing. It means, somewhere the technology Yahoo is using in its search engine doesn’t have the power to crawl the web pages throughout the web. It takes more time to get the page listed in Yahoo search results in comparison to its competitors. With these drawbacks, Yahoo’s competitors have got an edge over it.

Microsoft, the father of technology, recently launched a new brand search engine named as Bing. It has been observed that Bing has the modern features embedded in it but Bing has failed to capture the market share in search engine and advertising. Unfortunately, today Bing is struggling to survive in the industry even after having the brand name with it.

Now, Microsoft and Yahoo have joined hands together to give a better search engine to the public. It is assumed that they are merging together to compete the leader in Search Engine technology, i.e., Google. Google has maximum market share and is satisfying its users to the maximum extent. While making a search on web, the first name strikes to the mind is “Goolge”. It is as fast as a rocket shot in the air, providing the in-depth search results and giving maximum satisfaction to the users. It has joined hands with the browsers like Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is the browser which has taken an edge over Microsoft’s Internet Explorer(all versions). This again gives a huge benefit to Google to retain its marketshare. With the latest technologies and great ideas, Google is leading the race of Internet Search Engine and Advertising.

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With this fight to lead, a few things are still unquestioned.

- Will Yahoo and Microsoft succeed to takeover the market of Google?

- Will they be able to generate the best ideas and use the high-level technology to beat the Search Engine and advertising giant i.e., Google?

- Does Google has that power to withstand the technological attacks of the two big names?

I believe, even if Yahoo and Microsoft succeed to takeover the business of Google, Google will be the winner because it would alone fight the battle with two big brands in the industry. On the contrary, if they would fail to beat Google, then it would be a BIG LOSS to the two companies.

Fortunately, Google is in a better codition in any of the two situation.

Sunday Depression

Friday is so bright,  spreads cheer and smiles,
I go home smiling wide, and plan the weekend’s aisle.

Two days off from work, seems a heavenly bliss,
No computer and emails, no ‘yes sir’, no deadlines miss!

The sleep that day is peaceful, I see gardens in my dreams,
And Saturday I enjoy, almost in my jeans.

Go out, party, eat the snacks, and meet all my peers,
‘Coz soon the day would get over, and Monday would come near.

Saturday night my sleep is disturbed, I see horrible nightmares,
My system crashes, boss thrashes, and says, “How you dare!”

Sunday morning I get wacky, stare clock all the time,
My voice gets almost choked, and I start talking in mime.

Evening gives me shivers, Oh its Monday coming again!
All that work and emails, just makes me go insane!

Why comes Monday, why do we go to work?
No more fun and music, and just work like a clerk?

Monday morning gives me blues, I moan in the dawn,
Say ‘Good Morning’ to colleagues, though my mouth yawns!

Source: Vibha Babbar

Dreamweaver Shortcuts

I am again come up with a new way to manage your websites easily in dreamweaver by using the keyboard shortcuts. It will help you in cutting your time while creating a web page.

Have a look @ it and enjoy dreamweavering

Shortcut	Action
Delete	Clear contents selected
Down Arrow	Move selected layer down by one pixel
End	Move to the end of the current line
Enter	Create a New Paragraph
F1	Using Dreamweaver Help Topics
F10	Show/Hide Code Inspector
F11	Show/Hide Assets Panel
F12	Preview in the Primary Browser
F2	Rename selected file
F2	Show/Hide Layers Palette
F3	Find next or Find Again
F5	Refresh Design View and in site menu
F8	View site files
F9	Show/Hide Tag Inspector
Home	Move to the start of the current line
Left Arrow	Move selected layer to the left by one pixel
Page Down	Moves the active screen down
Page Up	Moves the active screen up
Right Arrow	Move selected layer to the right by one pixel
Tab	Move to next cell- or add a new row if in the last cell
Up Arrow	Move selected layer up by one pixel
Alt F1	Show/Hide the Answers Palette
Alt F12	Debug in Primary Browser
Alt F4	Close Dreamweaver
Alt F5	Refresh remote pane
Alt F8	View Site map
Alt F9	Show/Hide Timeline Palette
Alt Left Arrow	Select previous frame or framset
Alt Right Arrow	Select next frame or framset
Alt Up Arrow	Select Parent Frameset
Shift Delete	Cut selected item
Shift Down Arrow	Select a line downwards
Shift End	Select everything from the cursor to the end of the line
Shift Enter	Insert a Line Break
Shift F1	Reference for selected Tag
Shift F10	Show/Hide History Palette
Shift F11	Show/Hide CSS styles
Shift F12	Preview in the Secondary Browser
Shift F2	Show/Hide Frames Palette
Shift F3	Show/Hide Behaviours Palettes
Shift F5	Refresh local pane
Shift F6	Validate HTML Markup
Shift F7	Check Spelling
Shift F8	Check selected links
Shift F9	Open Snippets Panel
Shift Home	Select everything from the cursor to the beginning of the line
Shift Insert	Paste contents of the clipboard
Shift Left Arrow	Select one character to the left
Shift Page Down	Select about a screen view downwards
Shift Page Up	Select about a screen view upwards
Shift Right Arrow	Select one character to the right
Shift Tab	Move to previous cell
Shift Up Arrow	Select a line upwards
F4	Hide or Reveal Palettes. This is a toggle switch.
Ctrl ‘	Switch between Code View and Design View
Ctrl ‘	Balance Braces
Ctrl –	Zoom out of site map
Ctrl [	Select Parent Tag
Ctrl ]	Select Child
Ctrl ++	Zoom in to Site Map
Ctrl 0	Change formatting to None
Ctrl 1	Apply Heading style 1
Ctrl 2	Apply Heading style 2
Ctrl 3	Apply Heading style 3
Ctrl 4	Apply Heading style 4
Ctrl 5	Apply Heading style 5
Ctrl 6	Apply Heading style 6
Ctrl A	Select All
Ctrl A	Select the whole table- with cursor within the table
Ctrl Arrow Keys	Resize layer by one pixel in relevant direction
Ctrl B	Embolden selected text
Ctrl Backspace	Delete the previous Word
Ctrl C	Copy selected item
Ctrl C	Copy selected text or File
Ctrl D	Duplicate File
Ctrl Delete	delete the next word
Ctrl Down Arrow	Go to the next paragraph
Ctrl E	Insert Tag
Ctrl End	Move to end of Code
Ctrl F	Find selected text
Ctrl F1	Using Coldfusion Help topics
Ctrl F10	Show/Hide Bindings Panel
Ctrl F11	Show/Hide HTML styles
Ctrl F2	Hide/Show the Toolbar
Ctrl F3	Show/Hide the Properties Panel
Ctrl F5	Edit Tag in Design View
Ctrl F6	To turn Layout Mode On or Off
Ctrl F7	Show/Hide Components
Ctrl F8	Check links Sitewide
Ctrl F9	Show/Hide Server Behaviours
Ctrl G	Go To
Ctrl H	Replace
Ctrl Home	Move to top of Code
Ctrl I	Italicise selected text
Ctrl J	Page Properties
Ctrl L	Create hyperlink on the selected object
Ctrl Left Arrow	Go to previous Word
Ctrl M	Insert a new row above the current row
Ctrl N	Creates a New Document
Ctrl O	Open an HTML file
Ctrl P	Print Code or print Design View
Ctrl Q	Close Dreamweaver
Ctrl R	Live Data View
Ctrl Right Arrow	Go to Next word
Ctrl S	Save active file
Ctrl Spacebar	Show Code Hints
Ctrl Spacebar	Defer table update
Ctrl T	Open Quick Tag Editor
Ctrl Tab	Toggle between open documents from left to right
Ctrl U	Preferences (Edit-Preferences)
Ctrl Up Arrow	Go to the previous paragraph
Ctrl V	Paste contents of the clipboard
Ctrl V	Pastes the copied text or File
Ctrl W	Close the active open file
Ctrl X	Cut selected item
Ctrl X	Cut selected text or File
Ctrl Y	Redo previously undone action
Ctrl Z	Undo previous action
Ctrl + Alt A	Insert a Named Anchor
Ctrl + Alt B	Toggle Breakpoint
Ctrl + Alt F12	Debug in Secondary Browser
Ctrl + Alt G	Show/Hide Grid
Ctrl + Alt I	Insert an Image
Ctrl + Alt M	merge selected cells
Ctrl + Alt R	Show/Hide Rulers
Ctrl + Alt S	Split selected cell
Ctrl + Alt T	Insert a Table
Ctrl + Shift -	Delete the current column
Ctrl + Shift [	Decrease Column Span
Ctrl + Shift ]	Increase Column Span
Ctrl + Shift <	Outdent Code
Ctrl + Shift >	Indent Code
Ctrl + Shift 1	Align selected layers to the left
Ctrl + Shift 3	Align selected layers to the right
Ctrl + Shift 4	Align selected layers to the top
Ctrl + Shift 6	Align selected layers to the bottom
Ctrl + Shift 7	Make selected layers the same width
Ctrl + Shift 9	Make selected layers the same height
Ctrl + Shift A	Insert a new column to the left of the current one
Ctrl + Shift B	Add selected items to library
Ctrl + Shift C	Copy HTML whilst in Design View
Ctrl + Shift D	Get selected files or folders from Remote Site
Ctrl + Shift End	Select from cursor to end of Code
Ctrl + Shift F	Open results and Search panel
Ctrl + Shift F10	Show/Hide Databases Panel
Ctrl + Shift F11	Open results and Site Reports panel
Ctrl + Shift F12	Open results and FTP log panel
Ctrl + Shift F5	Open results and Server Debug panel
Ctrl + Shift F6	To toggle between open documents in Standard View
Ctrl + Shift F7	Open results and validation panel
Ctrl + Shift F8	Open results and target browser check panel
Ctrl + Shift F9	Open results and link checker panel
Ctrl + Shift G	Server Debug
Ctrl + Shift H	Show/Hide Head Content
Ctrl + Shift Home	Select from cursor to top of Code
Ctrl + Shift I	Show/Hide Visual Aids
Ctrl + Shift J	Compress selected object tag
Ctrl + Shift K	Link to existing file in Site Map
Ctrl + Shift L	Remove hyperlink on the selected object
Ctrl + Shift M	Delete the current row
Ctrl + Shift N	Create new file
Ctrl + Shift N	Link to new file in Site Map
Ctrl + Shift O	Open a document in a Frame
Ctrl + Shift P	Change formatting to Paragraph Format
Ctrl + Shift R	View Live Data
Ctrl + Shift R	View as root
Ctrl + Shift S	Save As
Ctrl + Shift Spacebar	Insert a Non Breaking Space
Ctrl + Shift Tab	Toggle between open documents from right to left
Ctrl + Shift U	Put selected files or folders to Remote site
Ctrl + Shift V	Paste HTML whilst in Design View
Ctrl + Shift W	Close ALL
Ctrl + Shift Z	Redo previously undone action
Ctrl + Shift + Alt C	Centre align current paragraph
Ctrl + Shift + Alt D	Check out selected files or folders
Ctrl + Shift + Alt F5	Connect if disconnected or disconnect if connected
Ctrl + Shift + Alt G	Snap to Grid
Ctrl + Shift + Alt J	Align Justify current paragraph
Ctrl + Shift + Alt L	Left align current paragraph
Ctrl + Shift + Alt N	Create new Folder
Ctrl + Shift + Alt O	Open selection
Ctrl + Shift + Alt R	Right align current paragraph
Ctrl + Shift + Alt U	Check in selected files or folders

A software engineer

A Software Engineer’s feelings…..
It was raining heavily outside. Dark clouds gathered in the sky and nature was in its ominous best. I took a break from my work and went to the pantry to grab a cup of coffee. I had a sip and went near the window to see the rain pouring down heavily outside the glass structure. I was inside our huge office building, unruffled by even the fierceness of the nature.
Through the heavy transparent glass, I could see a small girl trying to hold on to her umbrella which the wind was snatching away from her. I felt sorry for the girl, and was happy that I was not in a similar pathetic situation. Yes. I take pride for the fact that I am a software engineer.
I have everything which a common man would envy; money, status, respect, you name it I have it. I always wanted to be software professional and here I am, working for one of the best firms in the world. But then, am I really happy? Now, I could see an imprint of my palm on the other glass window, through which I reminisced my past, basked in the warmth of the sun shine.
My childhood was so much of fun. I vividly remember those rainy days, when I hugged my mother tightly during sleeping listening to all the stories told by her. Now, I have a big house here, but then it is just a house, not a home. My parents are pretty far away from me now. I have a cell phone to talk to them everyday, but then I really miss those dinners which I had with my family everyday. I could easily afford to taste all the different cuisines these days, but the best of food there, lack the love and affection which is present in the food prepared by my mother.
I threw a lavish party for my colleagues for my birthday, but then they would never replace the birthdays when my friends secretly brought a cake and at the end, half of the cake would have ended up on my face. The couple of hundred bucks that u save for a long period just to give a treat to your friends in the road side chat shop can never give the pleasure even after spending a few thousand bucks these days.
The scene of me crying and refusing to have dinner on the day when I fought with my best friend came to my mind. Today, she has gone far away from me, taking away my love and with it my life, but I am sitting and coding here with a false smile on my face. Everyday I meet new people, but then I long ceased to make a new friend.
It’s true that I have a lot of things now. I have a nice bed, but no time to sleep. Lots of money, but no friends to spend it with. The latest designer clothes, but a worn out body . Awards for technical excellence, but no reward for the crave for peaceful ambience. A confident demeanor, but a reluctant and apathetic mind. Full of rain, but no sunshine even in the farthest distance.
Now, I could see the small girl on the road enjoying in the rain with her umbrella firmly in her grip. She might not have all the comforts which I have, but then she has the innocence and fun which I lost a long time back.
I have decided to come out of this false fantasy, even if it is at the expense of losing the tap of the software engineer. I am going to again enjoy my life. I am going to go out in the rain and play with the small kid now. I removed my tie, and went near my computer to shut it down. Just then, I saw a new mail alert in my mail box. I slowly opened outlook and I found a message from my manager with an attachment saying that there was a critical defect in the code and I have to fix it soon. I convinced myself that I am not going to get bogged down again by these pressures and stick to my decision. I ignored the mail and went to the rest room. After a couple of minutes, the software engineer in me came out, his shirt tucked in with the perfect tie knot, sat before the computer, and started typing,
Hi XYZ,
I am looking into the defect and will send the patch files before EOD.
Regards,
Software Engineer.

Searching about celebrities may be a Risky Affair

New York: It could be a risky affair if you are searching about celebrities like Brad Pitt or Beyonce on the Internet. As cyber criminals are now using their names to lure web browsers, an internet security firm has dubbed the actor and singer the most dangerous celebrities to search for on the internet

California-based McAfee said PCs of the fans searching for information and pictures of Pitt, have an 18 percent chance of being infected with a virus, spyware, spam, phishing and adware.

“Cyber criminals employ numerous methods, yet one of the simplest but most effective ways is to trick consumers into infecting themselves by capitalizing on Americans’ interest in celebrity gossip,” explained Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee’s Product Development & Avert Labs. “Tapping into current events, pop culture or commonly browsed sites is an easy way to achieve this,” he added. Web surfers looking for celebrity gossip, screen savers and ring tones are often directed to fake Internet sites that look legitimate but pose a risk to the security of their computers, according to the company.

Pitt and singer Justin Timberlake are the most dangerous men to search for on the internet, while Beyonce and Heidi Montag, the star of the reality television show ‘The Hills,’ top the list for women. Other celebrities on McAfee’s most dangerous list include singers Mariah Carey, Rihanna and Fergie and film stars Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba, Cameron Diaz and George Clooney.

Green said Americans’ obsession with following celebrities’ lifestyles make them obvious targets. “We have to take precautions in casually navigating the Web since many subtle sites may be rife with malware for consumers’ computers,” he said, referring to software designed to infiltrate computer software without the consent of the owner.

Malware includes viruses, worms and spyware, which are computer programs that report back to a third party a user’s activity and Web-surfing habits. The reasons for planting spyware range from simple marketing purposes to more serious things like stealing files or passwords used to access sensitive financial information.

Source: www.siliconindia.com