What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I'm a big American Idol fan, always have been. As you may or may not know, last night was the American Idol season finale, where the winner of the season is announced. The battle came down to David vs. David, two men both with excellent voices but drastically different singing styles. As I always do, I TiVo'd the show so I could watch it later and zip through the commercials. Unfortunately I neglected (more like forgot) to use a feature on TiVo called padding which allows you to add extra time to the recording beyond the scheduled ending time. This… Continue reading...
A friend of mine called me today and told me how much he enjoyed the screencast on the Noobie web site that showed him how easy it is to watch television shows and full-length movies on the Hulu web site. He followed his comment up with a question that I found difficult to answer. Difficult because it's the type of question that I know the answer to but am not really sure I should give out to anyone. He was asking me if he could download the videos from Hulu to his computer so he could watch them later. He… Continue reading...
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If you thought the war between HD DVD and Blu-ray was ugly, take a look a the current battle for downloadable Internet movies to your television. Off the top of my head, I can watch download a movie to any of the following devices and then watch it on my television: TiVo via Amazon Unbox, Apple TV and now Netflix. I've written previously about how you can watch Netflix's instant movies on your television by streaming them to a laptop connected to your television. But today that whole process just got easier. Netflix now has a small device, manufactured by… Continue reading...
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If you're reading this blog post, you're looking at the noo Noobie web site. Not to sound cliche, but a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into putting the site together so today is truly a day of celebration for me. If you haven't had time to look around the rest of the web site, take a few minutes now. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much you will be able to learn about technology in a short amount of time. And don't forget to come back tomorrow and the next day. If you aren't the type… Continue reading...
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I went to watch my kindergarten son's end-of-year school celebration today. After the performance, the parents were invited down to their child's classroom for refreshments. As I was waiting outside my son's classroom, I noticed all of the children in his class had each written a very short story with a hand-drawn picture which were all taped up to the wall outside the classroom. One by one I read each story. Each one had its share of hand-written, misspelled and illegible words but they were fun to look at nonetheless. Then I came across a unique one that was typed… Continue reading...
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