In a recent survey carried out by a group of marketing students in IT Tralee on IT training needs of SME’s in Kerry. 83% of business owners stated that upgrading technologies is to costly, whereas 90% of business felt that their dependence on IT was increasing over time, s 55% of business owners felt… Read More »
Windows 10 is the latest release in a series of operating systems from Microsoft the first of which was DOS, followed by Windows 3.1, 3.11, Windows 95, 98, Windows Millennium, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8 and now Windows 10. In the years here in West Kerry, I have worked with all of these systems… Read More »
We all have a particular interest in the arrival of high speed broadband in Dingle with the Internet connection crawling along at snail’s pace. My interest is so great that I am considering working through the night and taking days off so that work can get done in a reasonable manner.
The question is often raised should I have my own webpage or is a presence on social media such as Facebook sufficient. To develop a website with your own domain name e.g. www.mywebsite.com You enter into a contract with a webservice provider and as such you rent a space on the Internet into which you… Read More »
It is the time of year when accountants work in to the small hours. More than one person over the next few weeks may ask themselves “What is Java, and why do I need it?”. Java is a programming language that is used to develop applications for the web, Blu-Ray players, set top boxes and… Read More »
Popular social networks have only been in existence for 10 years and in that time they have become an intrinsic part of the lives of all who use technology. The 15 most popular social networks in the world today are, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google Plus +, Tumblr, Instagram, VK, Flickr, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, AskFm,… Read More »
In the past days there has been a lot of publicity about the theft of private images and their distribution on to the wider Internet without the consent of the owners of the images. This occurred because the photographs which the people thought they had deleted had been uploaded to their iCloud account, their iCloud… Read More »
Who would have foretold the extent of present day use of the Internet and the way it has grown since the world wide web was invented in the 1990’s. It can be said that the Internet is as important as a water connection to any businesses in the west of Ireland. Even though it is… Read More »
While the majority of us will not be concerned if any one overheard what we did or said on the Internet, it is necessary for a business to maintain a good online reputation. Companies offer online reputation management as a service but in a small business there is an amount you can do yourself. … Read More »
It takes thinking to understand how all the eight notes of an octave and their sharps and flats, can be reduced to ones and zeros and then be reproduced as the magnificent sounds that arrive at your ear. This is the technology of digital recording and playing devices Digital sound recording converts a human voice… Read More »