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

Microsoft sues Comet over Windows ‘counterfeits’

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ZD Net reports that Microsoft is suing the UK elec­trical retailer Comet for allegedly cre­at­ing and selling more than 94,000 coun­ter­feit Win­dows recov­ery CDs.

Microsoft is suing UK retailer Comet over claims it sold thou­sands of coun­ter­feit Win­dows recov­ery disks. The soft­ware giant took its case to the UK High Court on Wed­nes­day, claim­ing Comet had made money from sales of sets of knock-off Win­dows Vista and Win­dows XP recov­ery disks. Con­tinue read­ing →

Facebook stares down privacy audit in 2011

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One of the big IT stor­ies repor­ted by RTE was Face­book stares down pri­vacy audit.

RTE repor­ted that “In Octo­ber pri­vacy group Europe v Face­book com­plained to the Office of the Data Pro­tec­tion Com­mis­sioner (ODPC) about the social network’s prac­tices regard­ing user data. The group, brainchild of Aus­trian law stu­dent Max Shrems, com­plained that Facebook’s labyrinth­ine terms of ser­vice left users per­sonal data open to exploit­a­tion by (com­mer­cial) third parties. Con­tinue read­ing →

Window XP use drops as Windows 7 catches up

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Microsoft’s Win­dows XP oper­at­ing sys­tem was the most used OS in 2011 but its mar­ket share has been drop­ping rap­idly, los­ing more than 10 per­cent as people shift to Win­dows 7.

In its latest desktop OS study, released on Monday, web met­rics firm Net Applic­a­tions revealed that the num­ber of com­puters world­wide run­ning Win­dows XP — released in Octo­ber 2001 — stood at 57.51 per­cent in Feb­ru­ary 2011, but fell to 46.52 per­cent in Decem­ber. Con­tinue read­ing →

Baby Seal Rescue — Bray, Co Wicklow

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Baby Seal Res­cue on Bray Seafront, Co Wick­low on New Year’s Eve 2011.

Enjoy. Happy New Year.

Brendan

Top 10 Classic Christmas Films from the 1940s

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This is an example of how you can eas­ily incor­por­ate rich media con­tent onto your own website.

Well — more like Top 12 clas­sic films from the 1940s to watch over the Fest­ive period. These have been a little neg­lected over the years and will def­in­itely perk up that jaded palette. The film title links takes you to the excel­lent IMDB web­site. Most of the movies are avail­able on You­Tube. Enjoy!!


1. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

IMDB 8.1

A real Christ­mas gem that I only dis­covered last year. Another Jimmy Stew­art Xmas clas­sic. Two employ­ees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without real­iz­ing that they’re fall­ing in love through the post as each other’s anonym­ous pen pal. Let’s rest It’s a Won­der­ful Life (IMDB rat­ing 8.7) for a few years. The Shop Around the Corneris lovely, won’t send you into ther­apy and is dir­ec­ted by Ernst Lub­itsch (To Be or Not To Be, Ninotchka).

Stew­art bick­ers with co-worker Mar­garet Sul­lavan by day at the Bud­apest leather goods store Matuschek and Com­pany, but the two unwit­tingly are anonym­ous pen pals by night.You’ve Got Mail was based on this film.

Click the more but­ton to see the full page. Con­tinue read­ing →

Facebook Hacked

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More bad news for Face­book with The Irish Times repor­ted today (16th Nov 2011) that:

“THE ACCOUNTS of thou­sands of Face­book users all over the world have been tar­geted by unknown hack­ers, with por­no­graphic images and depic­tions of acts of extreme viol­ence appear­ing on users’ timelines and in dir­ect mes­sages sent across the social net­work. Con­tinue read­ing →

Adobe Drops Flash for iPhone

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ZD Net repor­ted that Adobe has expli­citly cited Apple’s refusal to include Flash sup­port in its iPhone and iPad browsers as a reason for the technology’s demise.

In a blog post on Fri­day, Adobe Flash developer rela­tions chief Mike Cham­bers said Apple’s intransigence on the mat­ter has reduced Flash’s chances of becom­ing a wide­spread plat­form for in-browser mobile apps. Another major factor was the rise of HTML5, he noted, on which Adobe is now pla­cing a stronger focus. Con­tinue read­ing →

Facebook in Trouble Over Facial Recognition

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ZD Net repor­ted that Face­book is facing legal action in Ger­many over pri­vacy con­cerns related to its facial-recognition feature.

The state data pro­tec­tion author­ity in Ham­burg is pre­par­ing to sue the social-networking giant over the fea­ture, which auto­mat­ic­ally recog­nises and tags pho­tos in Face­book users’ net­works, accord­ing to a report in Deutsche Welle.

This requires stor­ing a com­pre­hens­ive data­base of the bio­met­ric fea­tures of all users,” the organ­isa­tion reportedly wrote on Thursday in a German-language state­ment pub­lished on its web­site. “Face­book has intro­duced this fea­ture in Europe, without inform­ing the user and without obtain­ing the required con­sent. Unequi­vocal con­sent of the parties is required by both European and national data pro­tec­tion law.”

The full art­icle is avail­able here http://t.co/k0QNgnVi