Brendan Moran — Computer Training & IT Consultant

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The pur­pose of this site is to help small to medium busi­ness nav­ig­ate through the huge sea of inform­a­tion on com­puters. I try to give you more con­trol over the com­puter side of your busi­ness and help with your inter­net strategy. Whether it is com­puter train­ing or data­base devel­op­ment work, I can help you with your spe­cific needs. I also offer a range of tips on Microsoft Word, Access, Excel, Power­Point and Word­Press etc for cli­ents so please visit these sec­tions. I am avail­able as a Freel­ance Trainer. I am also an Adobe Cer­ti­fied Trainer spe­cial­ising in Dream­weaver and Pho­toshop.

   

Regards
Brendan Moran

St John’s Point, Donegal — Underwater Gallery

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A small selec­tion of the pho­tos I took on our trip to St John’s Point, Donegal in May 2012. The full gal­lery is avail­able on www.MarinePhotosForSale.com .

 

Only basic broadband for 30% of State by 2020

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The Irish Times has repor­ted that up to 30 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion may only have access to basic levels of broad­band by 2020, accord­ing to a report pub­lished yes­ter­day by the Government-chaired Next Gen­er­a­tion Broad­band Taskforce.

The taskforce, set-up by Min­is­ter for Com­mu­nic­a­tions Pat Rab­bitte last June and described by him yes­ter­day as a “unique exper­i­ment in part­ner­ship” between industry and Gov­ern­ment, com­prised chief exec­ut­ives of the State’s largest tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions com­pan­ies. It was tasked with mak­ing recom­mend­a­tions on how to over­come bar­ri­ers to greater invest­ment in the roll-out of high-speed broad­band ser­vices across the State.

What chance Cloud Com­put­ing in Ireland ?

Google Tops Social media approval poll

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In a recent sur­vey in the US, GOOGLE, TWITTER, Apple, Face­book faced a pop­ular­ity con­test, who do you think would walk away with the crown and bou­quet, accord­ing to the Irish Times?

It turns out that the gen­eral pub­lic – at least in the US – adores Google. Apple comes a close second. But Face­book, sur­pris­ingly to me any­way, barely musters a “like”.

 

And poor Twit­ter can’t even settle for Miss Con­geni­al­ity – with more respond­ents dis­lik­ing Twit­ter than lik­ing the 140-character “microb­log­ging” ser­vice, Twit­ter seems to have a bit of a per­son­al­ity problem.

The res­ults came back recently in an ABC/Washington Post poll, which asked whether people saw the com­pan­ies in a favour­able or unfa­vour­able light.

Some 82 per cent of Amer­ic­ans in the poll sample said that they saw Google in a favour­able light – and that rose to 92 per cent among those under 30. Apple, the maker of sev­eral iconic products (most house­holds will likely have at least one), nipped into second place at 74 per cent.

But Face­book only received a 58 per cent favour­able poll, with more than a quarter of respond­ents – 28 per cent – see­ing it unfa­vour­ably. Still, Twit­ter will be envi­ous. Des­pite its mil­lions of users, the tweet ser­vice only gets a 34 per cent favour­able rat­ing and – ouch – 36 per cent unfa­vour­able (the remainder are don’t knows).

Adobe Premiere Pro — Video Training

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Adobe Premiere Pro — Video Training

  • Man­aging Digital Video Assets
  • Import­ing Digital Media
  • Shoot­ing and Cap­tur­ing Video Assets
  • Cre­at­ing Cuts-Only Videos
  • Adding Video Transitions
  • Cre­at­ing Dynamic Titles
  • Apply­ing Spe­cial­ised Edit­ing Tools
  • Adding Video Effects
  • Put­ting Clips in Motion
  • Chan­ging Time
  • Acquir­ing and Edit­ing Audio with Sound­booth / Audition
  • Mix­ing Audio
  • Ana­lys­ing Content
  • Explor­ing Com­pos­it­ing Techniques
  • Work­ing with Colour
  • Nes­ted Sequences
  • Man­aging Your Video Project
  • Explor­ing Frames, Clips and Sequences
  • Author­ing DVDs with Adobe Encore

Adobe Photoshop — Graphics Training

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Main items covered in train­ing will include:

  • Pho­toshop
  • Cropping/ Res­iz­ing
  • Graphic Types
  • Apply­ing Spe­cial­ist Filters
  • Cor­rect­ing Col­our Balance
  • Cre­at­ing and Apply­ing Masks
  • Mas­ter­ing Layers
  • Build­ing Layered Compositions
  • Spe­cial Image Effects
  • Mak­ing Spe­cial Image Selections
  • Web Graph­ics
  • Cre­at­ing Adobe / Mac­ro­media Flash Intros and Banners
  • Digital Cam­eras
  • Scan­ners
  • Auto­mat­ing Repet­it­ive Tasks With Macros

Adobe Dreamweaver — Web Design Training

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The main items covered in train­ing will include:

  • Cre­ate soph­ist­ic­ated web pages that draw from data sources
  • Use Tem­plates and Cas­cad­ing Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Setup your local and remote website
  • Work with Text, Images and Tables
  • Make a Site Map
  • Cre­ate Rollover effects
  • Format Web Pages with Style Sheets
  • Cre­ate Forms for Cap­tur­ing Vis­itor Data
  • Insert Jump Menus
  • Explore Lay­ers
  • Adding Inter­act­ive Behaviours
  • Use Lib­rar­ies and Templates
  • Insert Mul­ti­me­dia Ele­ments into Web Pages Cameras
  • Pro­duce Dif­fer­ent Lay­outs with Tables
  • Auto­mat­ing Repet­it­ive Tasks