What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
This morning I woke up at 6:15 am, anxious to cast my vote for the next President of the United States. Unlucky for me however, I had to wait another two and a half hours before I could actually vote. No, the voting line wasn't two and a half hours long. It was more that I had to get my kids out of bed and ready for school and couldn't vote until my kids were safely on the bus. Then I had a short drive to my voting site and about a 30 minute wait until it was my turn… Continue reading...
Most noobies can figure out how to take a digital picture. It's the part after that where the problems begin. Take for instance this common request I get. A bunch of people all armed with digital cameras get together for a kids' sporting event, say a soccer game. After the soccer game is over, the parents come up with an idea to put together a photo book from all of the pictures everyone has taken throughout the season. Usually, one mom or dad steps up to the plate and offers to be the coordinator of this. Here's where the mess… Continue reading...
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Sometimes techies take things for granted. Like thinking that everyone, even noobies, knows what the little padlock icon in Internet Explorer or Firefox represents. If you're not familiar with what I'm talking about look at the two images below. The top image shows the padlock in Internet Explorer. The bottom image shows the padlock in Firefox. The red arrow in the image above points to the location of the padlock icon in Internet Explorer 7. The red arrow in the image above points to the location of the padlock icon in Firefox 3. Why are these padlocks so important? Because… Continue reading...
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This week I taught Noobie's first How to Shop Online with Confidence class. According to the follow-up surveys, it was a big hit. I spent a lot of time in the class talking about Amazon.com, partly because it is my favorite online merchant and partly because Amazon.com is very noobie friendly. One of the things I kept trying to impress on the class participants was that Amazon.com sells much more than just books. To prove my point, I did a complete walkthrough of a purchase on Amazon.com while everyone watched. I took a big chance and asked class participants to… Continue reading...
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Noobies are notoriously awful with password administration. Most of them use the same user name and password for every secure web site. Even worse, noobies love to use easy to crack passwords like the word password, their pet's name or some variance of their children's names. And the software companies aren't helping either. Internet browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox have options to remember passwords for you. Most noobies are thrilled with this feature when they see the popup window appear on their screen asking them if they want their browser to remember their password. A simple click of… Continue reading...
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