What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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I belong to the Dad's Club at my children's school as well as participate in a wonderful organization called All Pro Dad. As part of being an All Pro Dad, I subscribe to their email newsletter and always look forward to the great parenting advice they give me. One email newsletter in particular, sent this week, really caught my eye. Here's an excerpt from that email: In order to effectively parent your children, you need to keep up on the latest technology. If you haven't learned the art of text messaging on your cell phone - start. It's a great… Continue reading...
I have whole-heartedly adopted text messaging. I clearly see the benefits of using text messaging and many times find myself choosing to send a text message over an email. I even love picking and choosing what types of alerts I want to receive on my mobile phone via text message. For example, I have my mobile phone integrated with my Google calendar such that I get a text message reminder before each of my appointments. This is especially helpful when I am out and about, away from my computer. Since I almost always carry my mobile phone with me, I… Continue reading...
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I love Halloween. I love watching my kids dress up in their favorite costumes running from house to house saying "trick or treat" trying to break last year's candy record. I even secretly wish that just once the Great Pumpkin would show up for Linus in the pumpkin patch. But my love of Halloween doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Especially when it comes to technology. So my technology I'd like to see is the merger of Halloween and technology. I'd start by putting facial recognition cameras and software on my front porch so I could recognize not only… Continue reading...
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Back in July I wrote on my blog that I had become an iPhone appaholic. At that time, I had 20 applications on my iPhone. Now I have 57. But here's what is interesting. I scanned through all of the applications on my iPhone this morning and realized that there are really only 3 applications that I use on a regular basis. The 3 applications are: Twitterific Shazam Facebook Quick math will tell you that this means I use 5.26% of the applications on my iPhone. Apparently the rest were all one hit wonders. To be fair though, some of… Continue reading...
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Those of you that know me know that I use technology for everything. Need to know if it's going to rain today? Check the weather app on my iPhone. Need to remember when my library books are due? Send an email to Sandy and tell her to remind me. Trying to lose some weight? Jump on the Wii Fit. That's why I was so intrigued today that I didn't use a lick of technology when my day took a turn for the worse. Technology falls flat It started when I hopped back in the Noobie van after teaching Noobie's How… Continue reading...
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