What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
Audible.com recently sent me an email solicitation trying to get me to come back to them (I used their service a long time ago). I was a little hesitant to try another audiobook service due to my recent sour experience with Simply Audiobooks but decided in the name of research, I would give Audible.com a try. Ok, ok, it also was a great deal (50% off for the first three months plus a $25 gift coupon after signing up) and I was eager to try out a new business book a colleague recommended to me today. Unlike Simply Audiobooks, Audible.com… Continue reading...
Last night’s American Idol results show once again proved to me how technology is constantly changing. During the new segment where viewers are allowed to ask questions of the judges and contestants, a 20 year old woman asked Ramiele, one of the remaining contestants who just also happens to be 20 years old, “What was the last song you downloaded to your iPod?” Ramiele quickly answered with the name of a song by R. Kelly. What amazed me was that Ramiele never said that she didn’t have an iPod or that she doesn’t download songs. Instead her answer was so… Continue reading...
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If you are interested in receiving one free month of audiobook rentals, please read the entire entry below. I am currently participating in a one month free trial of Simply Audiobooks, which among other services, rents audiobooks by mail. If the words “Netflix for audio books” come to mind, you’re half right. Half right because the premise of renting via mail is the same as Netflix but half wrong because Simply Audiobooks simply doesn’t hold a candle to Netflix. Like Netflix, Simply Audiobooks allows you to browse its selection of titles and then add selections to your rental shelf (i.e.,… Continue reading...
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I just finished reading an article by the editor of a local business publication. In the article she mentioned that she will never get used to digital music downloads. She went on to describe how there is just something about being able to touch and feel a CD, read the liner notes and take your music with you wherever you go. As I was reading the remainder of the article I also got the feeling that she thinks that digital music downloads will never catch on. I couldn’t disagree more. Now I’m not saying that everyone should immediately sell their… Continue reading...
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Funny how fast things change. When I bought my laptop a couple of years ago I thought 80 gigabytes (GB) of hard drive storage was plenty. I guess it was at the time. But now I routinely receive low disk space warnings mainly due to my ever-growing iTunes music collection that I store on the laptop. Make that used to store on my laptop. My second new toy I recently purchased (remember the first was a TiVo HD DVR) is an HP Media Server running Windows Home Server. While I am still putting the new media server through all of… Continue reading...
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