What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I've struggled a lot over the past couple of years to lose some weight. I haven't always been this way. In fact, when my first child was born nearly 8 years ago, I weighed about 30 pounds less than I do now. I know, I keep thinking the same thing. What happened? I could write all kinds of excuses here but that's not what this blog post is about. This blog post is about finally putting my money where my mouth is. Literally. This time I'm "stickking" to it Enter the web site, Stickk, which allows you to enter your… Continue reading...
Not all of the cool techie electronics I own have to play music, record video or get me to where I'm going. Some of them just help me get my day started. Like the Keurig single-cup coffee maker I received as a gift for Father's Day. All it does is make coffee. But it's the way it makes coffee that makes it so cool. The Keurig coffee maker doesn't use any filters and you never have measure or scoop any coffee. Instead you insert neat little single-serving containers of coffee, called K-Cups, near the top of the coffee maker. Place… Continue reading...
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I'm not sure what took me so long, but I finally had the opportunity to use Google's GOOG-411 service. And I gave it the test of all tests mainly because I was under severe duress at the time I used it. I just finished a meeting with a networking contact at Starbucks and was halfway to a lunch meeting. That's when I looked at my dashboard and wondered why I hadn't mounted my GPS receiver. It took about two seconds for me to realize that the reason I hadn't mounted my GPS receiver was because my GPS receiver wasn't in… Continue reading...
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I love it when technology and simplicity come together. That's what Apple has accomplished with the new iPhone 3G S. Until the 3G S there was no way to capture video with your iPhone. Well, at least with the out-of-the-box iPhone. Not only did Apple add video capture and recording with the iPhone 3G S but Apple also made it drop-dead simple to share your recorded video with others. I found this out over the weekend when I shot my first video of my son jumping off a diving board at a public pool. To shoot the video I just… Continue reading...
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Being a technology expert isn't always what it's cracked up to be. Take this morning for instance when I was checking email about 20 minutes before I had to leave the house. It was just then that a little magical window appeared on my screen telling me that the iPhone 3.0 software was available for my iPhone. Here's a list of reasons why a message like this should be ignored in this situation: I was checking email not checking for iPhone software updates The update for a major software release like the 3.0 software will most definitely take longer than… Continue reading...
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