What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I've had the very fortunate opportunity to get a sneak peek at the future of GPS navigation. The future where 3D maps and integrated traffic are old school. I would be remiss if I didn't share the future with my readers so I now present a short list of features coming to a GPS navigation system near you: The ability to show all vehicles driving near you on your GPS navigation screen. If one car gets to close to you or you get to close to it, the GPS will avoid the pending accident for you. Integrated traffic lights. If… Continue reading...
I was standing in line at the post office the other day when I glanced over at all of the postal forms on the table next to me. For whatever reason the Mover's Guide Official Change of Address Kit caught my eye. I'm not planning on moving anytime soon but the writing on the kit that said "Look inside for savings from..." along with a list of well-known companies such as Lowe's and Best Buy definitely peaked my curiosity. I grabbed one of the kits and tore it open. True to their promise there were all kinds of savings coupons… Continue reading...
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If you've been following my summer television experiment you probably already know that I dropped my DIRECTV service a few months ago in favor of a high-definition, antenna only solution. Knowing this you might be as shocked as I was when I turned on my bedroom television and saw a broadcast coming over my satellite. My first inclination was of course to panic thinking that DIRECTV never really did cancel my service and that I had still been paying for satellite for the past two months. But after I took a few deep breaths I recalled the cancellation confirmation letter… Continue reading...
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Last Friday, I upgraded my first generation iPhone with the new 2.0 software which basically gave my iPhone the ability to install custom applications from Apple's new App Store. Since that time I have not been able to stop downloading and installing applications. As of this writing I have 20 new applications on my iPhone: AOL Radio, Band, Bubbles, Eventful, iPint, Light, PhoneSaber, Twitterific, Urbanspoon, Yelp, Monkey Ball, eBay, JirboMatch, BoxOffice, NYTimes, Shazam, Evernote, Jott, Last.fm and SportsTap. Ridiculous huh? Yeah, it probably is. But you wouldn't believe what I can do with my iPhone now that these applications are… Continue reading...
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Whenever I bring up the topic of blogging in a Noobie class, anyone familiar with the term immediately conjures up visions of MySpace and Facebook. I find this ironic because most of the time I'm talking to people who don't fit the demographic for either of these web sites. This of course almost always leads to participants asking me where they should go to start a blog. Usually I direct them to safer blogging platforms such as WordPress or Blogger although occasionally I'll send them to Xanga if I feel they are looking more for social networking rather than just… Continue reading...
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