Posts Tagged techtalk

Technicians Toolkit

Here at Mica, we’re all technicians first, and sales-people, consultants etc. second. Working in IT throughout the years, we’ve collected quite a library of tools and utilities. Thanks to the blessings of the Open Source community, the large majority of these are available free of charge!

For this reason, we’ve opened up a new category on our site, ‘Technicians Toolkit’, under which you’ll find articles, tips and tricks helping us (and you), Arusha ICT technicians, with our daily work. All solutions and tools listed are free to use, copy and share amongst your friends. And because we know from painful experience how long it can take to download a CD image using our flaky Tanzanian internet, all of the tools mentioned are available for free from our shop! Just drop by with a memory stick or empty CD and we’ll fill them up for you, free of charge… Read the rest of this entry »

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Using DVR to secure your shop or premises

You arrive at your office early in the morning, only to find out your premises were burgled over night. Or maybe you go to the back of your store to assist a client, only to find out some unknown person helps him or herself to your products in front. There are many different reasons to look into using camera surveillance to protect the inside and outside of your office but up until now these specialised technologies have been unaffordable for most.

Fortunately, as with many technologies, full time camera surveillance is now something available to anyone, anywhere, using no more then standard PC equipment and easilly available camera hardware. Instead of using an expensive ‘time-lapse’ videorecorder, we can now digitally record any video source, from a web-cam to an wireless outside camera, straight onto a standard hard-disk using a technology called ‘DVR’, or ‘Digital Video Recording’. Read the rest of this entry »

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