What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I've had a lot of people tell me in person that they enjoy reading my blog. Some even go as far as to say that they feel like I am talking to them when they read my blog. This always makes me feel good. But today I am going to tell you what would make me feel even better. You might even say I'm asking a favor of you. If you read my blog posts on the Noobie web site at www.noobie.com/whatsnoo you may have noticed a yellowish button at the bottom of every blog post that says "Digg" on… Continue reading...
A common mistake noobies make is to assume that every web site address ends with .com. This presents a problem for many not-for-profit organizations that are correctly using the .org domain suffix. Worse yet, there are scores of individuals who make a living off buying mistaken web site addresses just so noobies think they are on the right web site when they in fact, they are not. This reminds me a bit of telephones and 800 numbers. Once the majority of the 800 numbers were depleted, the telephone companies introduced 888, 877 and 866 toll-free prefixes. Of course, many of… Continue reading...
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A neighborhood kid that lives down the street from me is heading off to his first year of college this fall. He recently mentioned to me that he wants a new laptop but probably won't be getting one since his parents already have a desktop computer lined up for him. I think he already knew by the look on my face but I told him anyway that he needed to convince his parents to get the laptop. This is when he begged me to talk to his parents. I guess he figured that Mr. Noobie might might have a little… Continue reading...
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Three traits define my shopping habits: I almost always try to find what I am looking for online before I head out to a brick and mortar store. I hate waiting. I hate waiting even more when at the end of the wait I find out what I want isn't in stock. These three traits basically sum up why I don't have a Wii Fit yet. It's not available online, except for perhaps, eBay. It is available at some brick and mortar stores such as Target but they only receive a few in each week and you still have to… Continue reading...
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I'm a big fan of Jott and I still use it several times per week but I'm beginning to second guess Jott's quality control. When I first started using Jott, I was amazed at how accurate their transcriptions were. Mainly because Jott relies on human transcription, I rarely received a transcription that was different than what I actually said. And in the few instances where something I said was inaudible, my transcription would include a question mark after the word or words the transcriptionist may not have understood. But now it seems my transcriptions are getting less and less accurate… Continue reading...
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