What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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Today is the day Facebook officially goes public. The initial stock price is set at $38/share. And because I am in the technology field I have been peppered with questions from people I know asking me how many shares I am going to purchase for myself. The answer is simple—zero. Now I wish I could say I am a Nostradamus and perfectly predicted what would happen on opening day but the truth is I am writing this blog post after the market has already closed today. Things just got a little busy and I never got around to officially posting… Continue reading...
Summer is fast approaching and for the second year in a row my wife and I have decided not to put our kids in any summer camps. This is a luxury we have because I work out of my home but I won't try to sugarcoat it—it's a challenge keeping our kids occupied all day. And by occupied I don't mean watching television and playing video games all day. That would be the easy way out. The hard part is getting them to play outside, read a book or work on some sort of creative project. But this year, I… Continue reading...
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QUESTION: Everytime my stepson visits and uses my computer, he plays something called Minecraft. After he leaves, I still get Minecraft showing up everytime I open an Internet website. It's not the actual game but a tab at the top next to the site I have opened and just says minecraft. How can I get rid of it? - Sally H. from Carmel, Indiana ANSWER: You didn't mention what browser you are using but my guess is that your stepson has set the Minecraft website to be one of your "home" pages when you open your browser. It used to… Continue reading...
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Here is this week's roundup of Twitter highlights posted from my Twitter account: My son's soccer team won both games today on tournament day 1. My son even scored a goal on what he calls a "chop chop chop". 12 May I'm watching Thor (89 others checked-in) http://bit.ly/Kvxe2z @GetGlue @Marvel 11 May 5/11 #KindleDailyDeal: @MaraPurl "What the Heart Knows" #99cents (89% off yesterday's price) http://ow.ly/aQwwR 11 May Calling my American Idol superfecta. 4th: Holly; 3rd: Josh; 2nd: Jessica; 1st: Phillip. You heard it here first. 10 May May the tenth be with you. Er... wait a minute. 10 May 5/10… Continue reading...
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Someone recently asked me to help her find a "missing" app on her iPad. I did the preliminary checks of looking through each page on her iPad as well as checking into all of the folders on her iPad to help her find the app. But I couldn't find the app either. I told her that the app was probably accidentally deleted although I later found out that the true cause was that the app didn't survive the upgrade process to iOS 5. Either way the solution was the same. I told her to just return to the App Store… Continue reading...
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