What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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...
Someone recently asked me if there was a way to charge her iPod without having to connect it to her computer. My answer was yes as long as you are willing to spend $30. The $30 will get you an Apple USB Power Adapter which allows you to plug your iPod USB cable into the iPod on one end and the power adapter on the other end. Then the power adapter can be plugged into any standard electrical outlet. In days of old, the power adapter was included with a new iPod. No such luck any more. But I still… Continue reading...
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This morning I had a great opportunity to appear on the Fox 59 Morning News show to discuss how cold weather affects your electronics and what you can do if you accidentally leave your electronics in your car overnight. It's always tough to cram the amount of information I have in the alotted time slot but I did my best. Below are a few items I had prepared but didn't get to mention: You can find colored socks for your iPod on Amazon.com. A multi-color six-pack runs about $10 or you can buy them individually for $3-4 each. Or you… Continue reading...
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A good friend of mine, Jason Bean, recently wrote a blog post titled Straight No Chaser Delivers the "Holiday Spirits" which caught my attention. Straight No Chaser is a local [Indianapolis] 10-man vocal group that got its big break when the Chairman/CEO of Atlantic records just happened upon on of their videos on YouTube. Jason included a link to Straight No Chaser's web site which I visited and instantly fell in love with their music. If you haven't heard this group before, do yourself a favor, go to their web site and listen now. Despite Jason's offer to randomly giveaway… Continue reading...
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I finally got around to trying out the new Genius playlist feature in iTunes and I must say I am impressed. If you are not familiar with how the Genius playlist works, let me give you a brief noobie-esque run-down. The first step is to turn on, or enable, Genius in the iTunes application. This allows the iTunes software to scan through and categorize all of your music. Once this is done, the next step is to find a song in your iTunes music library that you feel like listening to. But before playing the song, you first click the… Continue reading...
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