What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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Last week I wrote about a tough decision my client faced between spending money repairing a dying laptop and buying a brand new laptop. I included a voting poll and asked you to vote on which decision you would have made. Although only 22 people voted, I think a clear majority emerged. 64% of respondents said they would buy a new laptop. This didn't entirely surprise me because it is the same decision my client made. So it seems that laptops have become disposable. Of course there are exceptions but it is clear that people are willing to use their… Continue reading...
I witnessed something amazing today. On a recent visit with my parents, my mom realized one minute before the Olympics kicked off in prime-time that one of her regularly recorded shows was going to prevent the Olympics from recording on TiVo (it's a single tuner TiVo) that night. Without missing a beat, my mom grabbed the TiVo remote control, brought up the menu, browsed by channel, found the Olympics, hit record, acknowledged that it would be ok to cancel her reguarly recorded show, hit the menu again, browsed to another channel, found a later, repeat showing of her reguarly recorded… Continue reading...
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Here is this week's roundup of Twitter highlights posted from my Twitter account: At a Father Son Breakfast with my kids. Patrick Henry Hughes is the keynote speaker. Should be awesome! RT @placepop_update: checkin to places you go and get rewarded foursquare without the game http://tinyurl.com/yexbqfz Now that the hype about the iPad has settled down, would you still want to win one in an upcoming Noobie giveaway? Get paid to post on Twitter and win cool Apple stuff http://bit.ly/9o7soD #pwelch #blog Need a quick and easy way to get a logo, t-shirt or web template designed? 99designs http://lx.im/4JEF #ad… Continue reading...
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Today's blog post really has nothing to do with technology. I just feel compelled to write about it. Yesterday I attended a father/son breakfast at my church with my two sons. The keynote speaker at the breakfast was Patrick Henry Hughes. If you don't know who Patrick is, please set aside six and a half minutes of your day and dedicate it to watching the video below. It just may change your life. As my father said to me after I shared this video with him, "Everyone should watch a video like this once in a while. It reminds you… Continue reading...
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It's funny how many gadgets I work with every day have a default feature that makes people think the product is junk. Case in point. A client recently hired me to go through her "list" of stuff she need to learn on her laptop. First on her list was why her screen was so dark some times and other times perfectly bright. I quickly explained to my client that it was because her laptop had power management features that kicked in when she unplugged her laptop and ran solely on battery power. One such "feature" was to dim the screen… Continue reading...
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