A report published in August this year said that the average six year old knows more about technology than a 45 year old adult. This knowledge is attributed to that advent of broadband connections, which provide an always on connection to the Internet. Many devices that children use are connected to the Internet all the…
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…
When Ali Baba over heard the thieves entering and leaving a cave full of treasure with the password “Open Sesame” and “Close Sesame”, his life took an interesting turn. He now had access to the treasure but he also had a hoard of thieves looking to find him and remove him. Their attempts were, on…
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…
While the sun is out and shining light on the cobwebs in the house I would like to take some time to describe a horror of modern day computing. This horror is akin to having rodents in your house. They lay claim to part of your house, make nests, breed their young and then they…
Computer updates are provided regularly by software vendors to keep their software up to date and as a computer user you are recommended to install the latest updates so that your computer is running the latest version of its software at all times. Consider your computer as a house that stores your photographs, emails and…
Who knows us better than your own family, some people would say no-one, but in truth there is one set of people who know what we like, where we go, who we want to talk to and with , who we ignore, what excites us and what spurs us into action. You might not know…
What is a cookie, some time ago a cookie was only a small biscuit that went very well with a cup of tea or coffee, but since the advent of the world wide web a cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer created by a website that you have visited. The cookie…
Many of us have very useful information stored in emails and would probably have to do a lot of extra work if our e-mails were lost. To backup or archive emails firstly check to see what type of email you have. There are basically two types of email organised under two protocols POP3 and IMAP, …
A most useful initiative has been undertaken by Library of Congress under the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. As part of this initiative, they have provided a guide on how to preserve your digital memories. So many people have their correspondence, photographs , tapes and videos stored digitally at this stage, and each…