What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
It never ceases to amaze me that advertisers assume that everyone knows every technical term there is to know. For instance, last night while watching my beloved Green Bay Packers lose the NFC Championship game, I saw a local ad for an electronics store trying to drum up interest in new widescreen televisions just in time for the Super Bowl. The gentleman in the ad proclaimed, “We sell televisions with full 1080p.” Now how many of you reading this know what 1080p means? Unless you have participated in Noobie’s Are You Ready for the Transition to High Definition Television? workshop,… Continue reading...
Technology in television and movies always cracks me up. No matter how advanced real-life technology gets, almost every television show or movie I watch makes it look like it is ten times better. So I present to you a list of things you can do with technology in television shows and movies that you can’t really do in real life: Type a seemingly random sequence of characters on the keyboard to pull up a traffic camera on whatever street the person standing next to the computer requests. Trace, recognize and destroy an incoming virus to a computer network in ten… Continue reading...
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I take pride in my reputation of knowing the ins and outs of as many consumer technology products as I can. In order to uphold that reputation, I have to make sure that I keep up with the latest and greatest technology by actually purchasing and using said technology. One of the telltale signs that it is time for me to purchase something is when I conduct a 1-on-1 coaching session with one of my clients and discover that they have better technology than me. That happened to me today. I have long been a big fan and supporter of… Continue reading...
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Q: My television has a CableCARD slot on the side but I have no idea what it used for. What is a CableCARD and why would I need one? A: Your television is slightly ahead of its time but that’s nothing to worry about. CableCARD is an upcoming technology that divorces your television programming from your set-top box. In other words, the CableCARD contains all of the programming from your cable company on a credit card sized device that can be inserted into your television or your own set-top box, not necessarily the set-top box from your cable company. There… Continue reading...
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Q: Someone I work with mentioned a DVD player that edits out parts of a movie like language and violence. Does such a thing really exist? A: Such a thing really does exist and it is called ClearPlay. Here’s how it works. The first thing you need to do is to purchase a ClearPlay compatible DVD player. The DVD players are available at most Target stores or you can buy one online at the ClearPlay web site at www.clearplay.com. The DVD player is set up just like any other DVD player so there’s no need to worry about any kind… Continue reading...
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