What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
A couple of my friends had their cars broken into at a networking event I attended today. This hit a little close to home for me for a couple of reasons. For one, one of the cars broken into was parked right next to me. I can't help but wonder if my car would have been next on the list if the thugs had just a little more time. Another reason was that my car was broken into about a year ago. I was fortunate at that time to have left nothing of value in the car, something I practice… Continue reading...
Last week I wrote a blog post asking readers if the busy signal has become obsolete. I received a lot of great comments to that blog post including one from Michelle Hartz of Bloomington, Indiana, who sent me a link to an article on the Internet that took my blog post a step further by mentioning 10 things your great grandchildren won't remember. I'm not going to include a link to the original article because the web site containing the article is NSFW (click that link if you don't know this means). In order for me to still give proper… Continue reading...
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My in-laws paid us a visit this week. Their visit marked the first time they had used a GPS navigation system instead of an atlas to get to our house. The GPS navigation system they used was the Garmin Nuvi 760, which I highly recommended to them. During their visit we talked several times about the good and the bad of the Nuvi 760 and GPS navigation in general. I was able to counter much of the negative feedback by demonstrating features on their Nuvi 760 that they just weren't aware of at the time. My confidence in the Nuvi… Continue reading...
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I love Halloween. I love watching my kids dress up in their favorite costumes running from house to house saying "trick or treat" trying to break last year's candy record. I even secretly wish that just once the Great Pumpkin would show up for Linus in the pumpkin patch. But my love of Halloween doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Especially when it comes to technology. So my technology I'd like to see is the merger of Halloween and technology. I'd start by putting facial recognition cameras and software on my front porch so I could recognize not only… Continue reading...
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Those of you that know me know that I use technology for everything. Need to know if it's going to rain today? Check the weather app on my iPhone. Need to remember when my library books are due? Send an email to Sandy and tell her to remind me. Trying to lose some weight? Jump on the Wii Fit. That's why I was so intrigued today that I didn't use a lick of technology when my day took a turn for the worse. Technology falls flat It started when I hopped back in the Noobie van after teaching Noobie's How… Continue reading...
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