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,…
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…