When we think of Trojans, we normally think of the huge wooden horse that the Greeks gifted the city of Troy, in which they had secretly hidden a small number of their warriors. When the Trojans took the horse into the city the soldiers emerged and opened the gates to the cities enemies. Computer trojans are based on the same idea; what can appear to be useful program or harmless site can be hiding a small Trojan program that once it has infected your computer opens a secret b....

The ability to create objects from other Office applications is one of the great things about using VBA. For example, you can write a macro that will create an Outlook message object and attach a shortcut to the currently open workbook. A button on the toolbar will perform this same action, which is fine if that’s all you want to do. But using the sample macro below, you can add other text to the message, pre-address it, or perform other actions. You can also tie the cre....

Search engines can help you find specific information on the Internet, but they also flood you with large amounts of irrelevant information. With a little bit of extra effort on your part, though, you can make sure that a search engine finds exactly what you want, as quickly as possible. The next time you use a search engine, try some of the following tips.

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Most news media (newspapers, television and radio stations, and magazines) are owned by corporations that rely on other companies to place advertisements and help the media pay their bills. So what are the odds that a newspaper will run a story criticizing a major advertiser, or run a story exposing the media’s corporate owner? More importantly, what news company is going to risk raising the ire of its own government, when doing so could jeopardize that company from atte....

A Nokia mobile phone works with either the GSM network or the CDMA network. You need to choose the right model to match your wireless operator.Not all Nokia smartphones work with all wireless operators everywhere in the world. Wireless operators build their networks using different technologies, and a given phone typically works with only one of the network technologies.If you got your Nokia smartphone directly from the wireless....