Yahoo was started in 1994 by two college students named David Filo and Jerry Yang. They started Yahoo as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Never did they imagine that their online ventures would turn into one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. The Yahoo directory quickly gained popularity as the hot spot for finding useful Web sites. In the fall of 1994, Yahoo had its first million-hit day, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors. Today, Yahoo is one of the top sites on the internet, receiving over 345 million visitors every month.
Question: Is it trun I can get a virus through my cell phone?
Answer: A new ploy to infect your computer with a virus could be coming through your mobile phone! Your cell phone is the new way to trick you into downloading a computer bug. Heres how it works. Hackers send you a text message on your phone. It thanks you for subscribing to something called Irreal Dating Service and claims you will be charged $2 a day unless you un-subscribe online. When you go to the website, youre prompted through some steps that download a trojan horse virus into your computer. That bug turns your computer into a zombie which means the hackers can control it from wherever they are in the world. So, if you get any text message on your phone and dont know where it came from call your cellular company. Dont go download anything off the net. You can see what this fake website looks like by clicking here
Startup Monitor is a small utility that runs in the background and watches for applications attempting to register themselves to run at Windows startup. The spiritual successor to Mike Lins excellent, but unfortunately neglected, StartupMonitor application for Windows, StartupMonitor provides the same functionality, but with a less intrusive interface
The Balloon Browser recognizes and highlights geo-coordinates in web pages. Hovering over a recognized location advises another application to show a map of the corresponding area. For now the only program Balloow Browser can interact with is Google Earth. Instead of waiting for the one true geo-notation and markup standard, Balloon Browser tries to parse a variety of common coordinate notations. Ambiguous information like a missing hemisphere identifier are reconciled by looking at the context or the probability of a certain location.
Joke411 is a completely free joke of the day application. It loads during the system startup and displays a daily joke in a balloon message near the system clock. Joke411 is fully customizable: you may add your own set of daily jokes by simply editing a text file that contains all jokes. To install, unzip application and add a shortcut to Windows Startup menu.
WinBoss lets you hide running applications quickly so that other people will not notice of what you are doing recently. With a simple keyboard combination that you can set (by default it would be ctrl-x) the selected application will dissapear, including from the taskbar, Alt-Tab and the running application list in the Windows Task manager. To restore the hidden application(s), just click on the WinBoss icon on the right side of the taskbar. A popup menu will show with the list of hidden applicationsplete listings of adware, dialers, and other uninvited system residents.