What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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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...
Noobie is conducting its own little mini-survey on the new Apple iPad. If you haven't yet heard about the upcoming iPad or you just need a refresher course, here's a link to a blog post I recently wrote about the iPad: Apple announces revolutionary device with a horrible name Back to the survey. Noobie wants to know whether or not you plan on purchasing the Apple iPad when it is released in a couple of months. The survey is on the front page of the Noobie site so in order to vote, just visit www.noobie.com and look for "Vote in… Continue reading...
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Last weekend I spent the night at a Marriott hotel. The room had a beautiful flat panel 32" television which I've actually somewhat come to expect. But what I didn't expect was this little device sitting next to the television: This is a dream come true for a techie traveler like myself. Basically, this little doo-hickey allows me to hook u just about any type of gadget I want to the television. Blu-ray player on your laptop? Hook it up with an HDMI cable to the Digital Video In port. Use the television as a giant computer monitor? No problem.… Continue reading...
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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 am a big fan of the Logitech Harmony One remote. It is the one remote control I can truly call "babysitter proof". Or to relate more to my audience, "noobie proof". A few weeks ago my Harmony One remote started acting up. Buttons would work, then they wouldn't. Then they would. This went on for a few day until pressing one button would "stick" and cause the button to repeat its behavior over and over and over again. Finally, the remote completely died. Being a techie, I went through my usual arsenal of troubleshooting only to declare a few… Continue reading...
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