What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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A friend of mine called me today and told me how much he enjoyed the screencast on the Noobie web site that showed him how easy it is to watch television shows and full-length movies on the Hulu web site. He followed his comment up with a question that I found difficult to answer. Difficult because it's the type of question that I know the answer to but am not really sure I should give out to anyone. He was asking me if he could download the videos from Hulu to his computer so he could watch them later. He… Continue reading...
If you thought the war between HD DVD and Blu-ray was ugly, take a look a the current battle for downloadable Internet movies to your television. Off the top of my head, I can watch download a movie to any of the following devices and then watch it on my television: TiVo via Amazon Unbox, Apple TV and now Netflix. I've written previously about how you can watch Netflix's instant movies on your television by streaming them to a laptop connected to your television. But today that whole process just got easier. Netflix now has a small device, manufactured by… Continue reading...
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Q: Whenever I try to play music on my computer using Windows Media Player I can’t hear anything. I hear sound from my other applications, just not Windows Media Player. I tried upgrading over the Internet but received an error in the process. Anything I can do to fix this problem? It sounds like your copy of Windows Media Player may be corrupt. To rule this out, I would start by going to your Control Panel and selecting Add or Remove Programs. When the window with the list of installed programs appears, click the Add/Remove Windows Components button on the… Continue reading...
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Q: How do I get the music I downloaded from LimeWire on to my iPod? A: In order to get any music on to your iPod you need to do so through the iTunes interface. Once you fire up the iTunes software, go to the File menu and look for two options. The first is “Add File to Library” and the second is “Add Folder to Library”. Depending on whether you are looking to add just one song or an entire folder of songs, either one of these options should do the trick. Once you choose one of the options,… Continue reading...
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A few years ago, when the iPod first became popular, I referred to it as a CD killer. What I meant was that with the ease of purchasing digital music, the iPod was giving me fewer and fewer reasons to purchase a traditional CD sold in a store. Well, if that’s true, then Apple TV may be the first DVD killer. Apple has already reported that millions of TV shows and full-length movies have been downloaded from its iTunes Store. The problem though with downloaded movies is that many people really don’t want to watch them on the tiny iPod… Continue reading...
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