Assignment 5 health and safety

Health and safety

Windows should be fitted with non-reflective blinds. The screen should be positioned away from light reflection and glare. The best position is at right angles to the source of natural light.

A fire extinguisher suitable for electrical fires (such as carbon dioxide) should be available

In order to reduce eyestrain, users should look away from the screen and focus on a distant object from time to time - this will relax their eye muscles. The wearing of spectacles can help.

Work station when working at a computer there affects you can have if you are at a computer for too long for example you can get eye strain if you sharing at a computer for to long and also get headache and always make sure you have your chair in the correct direction for sitting because you don’t want to end up having back problems when at a computer make sure you give your hands and arms a rest because you don’t want them to be numb and swelling here is a few examples of what you should not have around your  desk area  

1.      There should be no trailing wires

2.      Food and drink should not be placed near a machine

3.      Electrical sockets must not be overloaded

4.      There must be adequate space around the machine

5.      Heating and ventilation must be suitable

Benches must be strong enough to support the computers

Health and safety steps when connecting peripherals

When you are working with peripherals you should always make sure that all plugs are turned off because you don’t want to get a electric shock then when you get all your peripherals connected just don’t touch any wires inside because this will lead to a electric shock if you leave It on for too long the peripherals can over heat.When connecting peripherals it is best that you keep your desk tidy so that any objects don’t get tangled up with wires or components also. If you do not keep your workstation tidy it could lead to wires over heating when any of your objects cover your components this can be a health and safety issue. Also it is very important that you don’t have any kind of liquid near your workstation this is a big health and safety issue. This could lead to you either spilling your drink over your computer which costs a lot of money or spill your drink over components this will lead to your workstation going on fire. It is best that you keep your workstation tidy so that any of these issues doesn’t happen to you.

Assignment 5 Connecting two peripherals to a computer

Connecting two peripherals to a computer

In this document I am going to explain and show you  how to connect speakers and camera to a computer.

Here is a print screen showing the camera connecting to the pc in my computer as you can see it is not to hard to find . 

The next print screen is showing you when you click in the camera usb in the hard disc and all you have to after that is click on the file and it will take you in the next stage

The final print screen is showing you the images that we took during are assignment showing how to connect a camera and speaker correctly.

Here is a print screen of me turning off the plugs before plugging in the speakers.

This is a print screen shot of the back of the CPU before we plug the speakers in

The following print screen is of me kneeing down putting the speakers into the back of the cup

in the final screen shot it is me kneeing down to  connecting the usb to the computer and also connecting the camera to the usb .I check to see if the speakers were working so i went on to youtube and played a song and turn the speakers up loud  also with the camera i just went to the memory of the camera to see if the pcitures were there. 

Task 3

3 Purchasing a pc

My friend has come to me asking for help because he is getting very bad quality when watching videos and DVDs and playing games on the computer I said to make sure that there is no dust in the inside off the computer and make sure he cleans it with some tissues and if he is still having problems with the quality he should clean the ram and restart and if it does work he should use Clean Ram which is designed to clean up your computer RAM from unnecessary memory allocation it is a free software to download. A ram knows as Random Access Memory RAM provides space for your computer to read and write data to be accessed by the CPU central processing unit. When people refer to a computers memory they usually mean its RAM. And they come in all shapes and size etc graphic cards is what gives you the game graphics on your computer or console and if you get very quality graphics on your computer or console it could be that the graphics cards could  have been worn away which means you have to go get a new one if you get a very good graphic cards it will be a bit  expensive but it will be worth it though I would tell my friend to get a expensive one because it will be far better than a cheap on he has also told me he has virus on his computer when he first got his computer he should of got free anti virus software are he could of downloaded firewall which tells you if you have any virus and it will delete but if he did not have them he would have wipe everything off his computer and restart it he just have to watch websites he goes on and don’t open any random emails because they can carry virus  in them.

  Assignment 2 Task 1

How my print screen helps people who have vision problems at the start off my print screens it shows how to more your icons around the home screen that means someone with vision problems will know were to the put the icons so  he/her can see it better they can also make the icons bigger or small so they can see what application they want to go into. 

I also show you how to get to the access tool bar in Microsoft word so that it is easy to get the things you need instead off spending time looking for them you can also add stuff to the access toolbar the flowing print screen is how to use magnifier it is very helpful to someone who has vision problems because you can use three different types of magnifier you have lens which you can zoom into your work are whatever else you are doing.

The next one is called docked which lets you see the top of the page and the current bit off work you are doing the flowing magnifier is called full view which Is just the same as lens  but you get a full view then my last print screen is off narrator which will read aloud what is on the screen as you navigate  using the keyboard how to get to narrator you simply go to all programs click on ease access and it just under magnifier if someone had vision problems  they could go on narrator which will help them with there work like if they have spelling mistake the narrator would tell them that they have mistakes it is very good applications to have and also if a blind person was using a computer you can have a  microphone that he/her talks into and it puts what he/her said into writing and  it will read it back to him computers.

Now a days computers are moving up in the world for people with disability  like 20 years ago you would not  have narrator to help someone who had vision problems or blind person would not be able to use a computer because there were just  a few applications back in the days technology has come a long.

 computers now  can help the disabled with special care Web site designers can make their sites highly accessible to disabled users.






Blind people can have documents read out loud electronically on their computer. And for people who cannot use their arms to type speech recognition programs may be the answer. These let people give commands to their computer or have their words turned into print.

Screen Magnification / Enhancement Software 

 People with low vision typically need to magnify or enhance the screen. Large monitors and software application programs can provide minor magnification and simple adjustment of font sizes, where screen magnification software provides higher levels of magnification and contrast and color enhancement.

Software

Systems software Software is the general term for information that's recorded onto some kind of medium. For example, when you go to the video store and rent or buy a tape or DVD, what you're really getting is the software that's stored on that tape or disk. Your VCR or DVD player are hardware devices that are capable of reading the software from a tape or disk and projecting it onto your TV screen, in the form of a movie.

Applications software   Application software is a term for software created for a specific purpose. Typically it is based on customer requirements but there are classes a general applications here are some examples off applications software                                              Image organizer
Media content creating/editing
3D computer graphics software
Animation software
Graphic art software
Image editing software
Raster graphics editor
Vector graphics editor
Video editing software
Sound editing software
Digital audio editor
Music sequencer

Software utilities    is a kind of system software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize and maintain the computer. A single piece of utility software is usually called a utility or other eamples would be Anti Virus Software, Firewalls.

FIREWALL- A firewall can help prevent hackers or malicious software such as worms from gaining access to your computer through a network or the Internet. A firewall can also stop your computer from sending malicious software to other computers. also means that people cant hack into your personal file to get all your information so they cant steal your identity access your bank account etc. 

Antivirus software- is a computer program that detects prevents and takes action to disarm or remove malicious software programs such as viruses and worms. You can help protect your computer against viruses by using antivirus software such as Microsoft Security Essentials

Hardware Components

Processor- The processor is the part of the computer which processes or deals with the data and processes in the system. (cpu) is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system

memory refers to the physical devices used to store programs  or data there are all different types off storages devices.(CD-ROM and DVD-ROM). There are two main types of semiconductor memory: volatile and non-volatile.

Tree Frog

Tree Frog: Add this tree frog to your page to see how he inquisitively follows your mouse or eats the flies you give it