What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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iPhone owners are a funny bunch of people. We already know we're the hippest mobile phone users on the planet and we have no problem flaunting it. But when we get around other iPhone owners we have to find something else to brag about. That something else is apps. It seems every time I get around another iPhone owner all we do is compare apps. It usually goes down something like this: Other Person: "Do you have the such-and-such app? You don't? Oh...[smug look]" Me: "I guess I never downloaded the such-and-such app because I spend too much time using… Continue reading...
I am not going to write today about the hype concerning Apple's big product announcement yesterday. Nor am I going to talk about how shiny and pretty it looks, how thin and light it is or even what it is capable of doing. What I am going to write about instead is the name Apple chose for this beautiful new device... the iPad. The what?!?!? For a second, when I first heard the name while watching the live stream of the event on the Internet, I thought it was a joke. I quickly realized it wasn't. Apple had truly named… Continue reading...
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I've noticed something really strange lately. My kids don't seem to be taking many digital pictures with their digital cameras any more. It's not that they don't like the cameras. They take them everywhere they go. But instead of taking digital pictures they are taking digital video. Kids don't have technology baggage I'm not sure why I didn't see this coming. It reminds me of the first time my son printed something from the Internet and it came out black and white. He couldn't understand what happened to the color. When I tried to explain to him that dad's color… Continue reading...
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Here is this week's roundup of Twitter highlights posted from my Twitter account: kar-ma [kahr muh]: When you lose the NFC Championship game for your new team the same exact way you lost it for your old team. Get Your Nintendo Wii With 5 Games! http://bit.ly/5bGISV #pwelch #blog Ok as much as I want Favre and the Vikings to lose I don't want Favre to get hurt. RT @aballstudio: Saw a priest on the Viking sidelines. Is that to administer Last Rites at the end of the game? #whodat Congrats to the #colts. Super Bowl bound! What just happened in… Continue reading...
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I recently discovered why I can no longer beat my kids at video games.
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