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…
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…
With the recent debacle with Greece and the images of the Greek nation being bullied by the more wealth y states in Europe It can seem that the EU is becoming a community where the wealthy countries tell the less wealthy how to live. But this is only one side. On the other hand without…
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…
A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. Digital images, such as those taken by a digital camera or a phone, represent a physical image such as a person’s face in a format that can be…
There is an office dedicated to road safety in Ireland that works to ensure that we as citizens are aware of the correct way to use the road so as to ensure our and other road users safety. It is recognized that the road can be a dangerous place and the best way to…
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…
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet was a thinking man, and if he were around today. I suspect he would have something to say about backups, as without them all the data on a computer system exists in a state of peril. He might have said the following if asked: To Backup or not to…
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,…