What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I'm backing off slightly on my high opinion of Pizza Hut and their integration of online ordering and text messaging technologies. Saturday night I texted a pizza order to Pizza Hut. Part because I wanted to try out the text messaging technology and part because I was hungry for pizza again. Remembering, or so I thought, how to place the order from the instructions on my previous online order, I texted the word "HALFPEP" to the Pizza Hut text messaging number from my mobile phone. Within seconds I received a text message reply which I thought was going to be… Continue reading...
My mom and dad recently got DIRECTV at their summer cottage, a place notorious for terrible television reception even with a decent antenna. But now instead of terrible television reception they have over 200 channels or pure digital television. Quite a change from what they had before. They also have a DIRECTV digital video recorder (DVR) on one of their televisions. Since my mom and dad have cable television and TiVo on their televisions at their primary home, the DIRECTV DVR software caused a bit of a learning curve. The learning curve heightened even more when one of the recordings… Continue reading...
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"Who's turn it?" "I think it's my turn." "What's the score now?" "5-2." That's the conversation my sister had the privilege of listening to from over 50 miles away thanks to my new Env2 cell phone. How did this happen? She called me when I was outside with my family playing a game of bocce ball. My cell phone was in my pocket. Apparently, not only did I not hear my cell phone ringing but I also accidentally bumped a key when it was ringing which answered the phone and let my sister listen to my entire conversation until she… Continue reading...
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Participants in Noobie classes often ask me if it really is important to backup the data on their computer. I usually answer this first by asking them how they would feel if they got home that day and found out their computer was stolen. How would they replace their financial data stored in Quicken or Microsoft Money? What about all of the digital pictures they have downloaded from their camera to their computer over the past several years? Occasionally, I run into a person that has only a handful or Word documents on their computer. No financial data, no digital… Continue reading...
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I did my part today to try to break a world record. A world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. The software I downloaded was Firefox 3, the long-awaited upgrade to the Firefox browser. If you would like to participate in this world record attempt just read the excerpt below from the email I received earlier today and click the link to download Firefox. But you better hurry. You only have until about mid-day on Wednesday, June 18, to meet the deadline. Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today… Continue reading...
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