What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
It never ceases to amaze me that advertisers assume that everyone knows every technical term there is to know. For instance, last night while watching my beloved Green Bay Packers lose the NFC Championship game, I saw a local ad for an electronics store trying to drum up interest in new widescreen televisions just in time for the Super Bowl. The gentleman in the ad proclaimed, “We sell televisions with full 1080p.” Now how many of you reading this know what 1080p means? Unless you have participated in Noobie’s Are You Ready for the Transition to High Definition Television? workshop,… Continue reading...
On my way to the post office today a thought occurred to me. Why is it still so time consuming to address a letter to someone using snail mail (that’s techie speak for regular postal mail)? Not to mention mistake prone. Let’s start with the city and state. Why bother? The zip code already uniquely identifies a city and state. And in most cases, if you use a +4 zip code, it uniquely identifies a street, a building or even a specific post office box. But why stop with eliminating just the city, state and street name? Never in my… Continue reading...
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I have been test driving Firefox as my Internet browser for about one month now. I really like it. For those of you unfamiliar with Firefox, it is in the same software category as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. In other words, it is a software program that you use to surf the Internet. I knew a lot about Firefox before I installed it but one of its features really caught me off guard. It caught me off guard because I didn’t know it existed and now I’m not sure I could live without it. I’m referring to the built-in spell checking… Continue reading...
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I brag a lot to my friends and colleagues about my Garmin Nuvi 660 portable GPS navigation system. I even go as far as to say it is one of my top technology purchases of the decade. Most of my friends and colleagues reward my discussion with a “that’s cool” or a “maybe I should get one of those” but every once in a while I run into someone who claims, “yeah, I can get that same thing for free on the Internet with MapQuest.” I shouldn’t let it happen, but this statement always angers me a bit. I’m not… Continue reading...
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Technology in television and movies always cracks me up. No matter how advanced real-life technology gets, almost every television show or movie I watch makes it look like it is ten times better. So I present to you a list of things you can do with technology in television shows and movies that you can’t really do in real life: Type a seemingly random sequence of characters on the keyboard to pull up a traffic camera on whatever street the person standing next to the computer requests. Trace, recognize and destroy an incoming virus to a computer network in ten… Continue reading...
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