The Use of IT in Everyday

Life

Identify some situations

where a computer might
be more appropriate than
a person for carrying out
a task.

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 Computers: Home and Daily Life
 At home the personal computer can
help with a wide variety of
everyday tasks.

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 Many families keep track of their
household budget by using a personal
computer. A computer application such
as a spreadsheet enables you to record
your income details together with your
expenditures, such as housing and food,
and therefore monitor your family’s
monthly budget.

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 Recent developments enables many people
to work at home on a computer that is
linked to the office. Companies benefit
through reduced cost of office space,
and employees can enjoy a more flexible
working day and the added bonus of not
enduring a long commute to work.

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 Computer games have grown in popularity
as an entertainment medium for people
over the last decade. Games can have an
educational benefit since some demand the
use of problem solving skills in order to
progress in the game

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 The Internet allows you to gain access to a
variety of data sources from all over the
world electronically. This information
can be educational, such as researching a
school project, recreational, such as
searching for a cheap holiday flight, or
practical like online banking to pay a utility
bill.

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 Most of us have bank cards. These are
extremely convenient since they allow us
to use our bank accounts at any time of
the day or night, thanks to automated
teller cash machines. Through these
machines, you can withdraw cash or check
your account balance even when the bank is
closed.

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 Shopping has become more convenient over the past
few years with many supermarkets providing self-
scanning devices for their customers to use. These
enable you to keep a funning total of your bill by
scanning each item as you choose it.

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 Libraries use computers to track the
location of books, compact disc, and videos
that are borrowed by their members.
Each member has a unique record in a
database containing their contact details
and information on the book borrowed.

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 Similarly, doctors and hospitals can keep
track of their patients by using computers
to update their records. The
information on record will include
patient’s personal details, such as their
name, address, contact numbers, and
next-of-kin, as well as their medical
history.

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 Computers: Home
and Daily Life
 SMART ID cards are a new shopping
innovation that allows the customers to
spend a limited amount of virtual money
that can be traced through a memory chip
in the card. When you purchased an item,
it cost is debited from the card. You
need to credit more money to the card
when you have reached its spending limit.

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 Computers
at Work
Computers are ideal for repetitive work requiring
speed and accuracy. This is especially true of
those situations where human beings would
become bored or simply cannot work fast enough.
 Corporate data processing including functions such as sorting,
selecting, summarising
 Analysis of census and other demographic data
 Administration of the national revenue system
 Actuarial calculations
 Statistical analysis

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 Computers at
Work
 Corporate accounting functions
Creation of animations for films
 Weather forecasting
Forensic analysis such as D NA and fingerprint
matching
Manufacture of electronic components and
circuitry

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Dioquino