What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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No technology talk today. 2008 will be coming to a close soon and I just want to take a moment to wish all of my readers happy holidays! It's time for this techie to take a break from the world of technology and spend some much-needed time with family. Of course, it's unavoidable that someone in my family will get a new technology gadget for Christmas so I'm not sure how long my technology break will really last. But I will be sure to find time to sneak in a holiday cookie or two, watch some classic Christmas movies and… Continue reading...
My 7-year-old son is keeping me on my toes with Santa Claus this year. He recently told me that he is going to set out his digital camera on Christmas Eve so he can get a picture of Santa coming down the chimney. When I told him that he would have to be there to actually take the picture, he one-upped me without missing a beat. "Well then I'll just set the digital camera on video mode and video him." Still trying to maintain the upper-hand, I explained this time that, although he had a high capacity memory card in… Continue reading...
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TiVo has released a lot of new features over the past few weeks. First it was the ability to order Domino's pizza. Then it was Netflix video on demand. And now it's TiVo mobile for your cell phone. While I haven't had the chance to fully test drive TiVo Mobile, I have put the Domino's pizza ordering and Netflix video on demand through the ringer. While I'd love to tell you that I breezed through the pizza ordering and video streaming, that isn't the case. One was a royal pain in the neck and the other a dream come true.… Continue reading...
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During the course of promoting the recent Noobie "I want a Wii" giveaway, I had the pleasure of meeting Katy Lee, who runs a web site called Adventures in Parenting. Katy uses her site to talk about raising kids to be people of compassion, integrity and character and to offer support through practical and simple advice on raising "good" kids with conservative values. As Katy and I started talking we realized that her audience and my audience have a lot in common and she asked if she could interview me for her monthly podcast. I happily agreed. During the interview… Continue reading...
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I remember as a kid how I excited I was when I woke up on a school day and discovered several inches of snow had fallen on the ground. The first thought that always hit me was, "I hope school is closed!" In those days, there wasn't a whole lot of technology to announce school closings. In fact, the primary communication method was the radio. And the radio stations only announced the school delays and closings every 15 minutes so you really had to pay attention. And since they always made the announcement in alphabetical order and my school started… Continue reading...
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