What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I never know which is worse. The fact that someone doesn't know how to do something with a piece of technology they own or the fact that the companies manufacturing the technology don't bother to explain or just assume its users will know how to do it. Case in point. I saw a woman deleting one text message at a time from her inbox on her cell phone. When I inquired why she was doing this, she replied, "This is how I clear out my inbox when it's full." I followed-up by asking her why she just didn't delete all… Continue reading...
A friend asked me for advice on buying an iPhone yesterday and for the first time since the iPhone was originally released, I couldn't give a definitive answer. It used to be easy. iPhone EDGE vs. iPhone 3G? No problem. iPhone 3G vs iPhone 3G-S. No problem again. But iPhone 3G-S vs. iPhone 4? Not so easy. The difficulty stems from the fact that the iPhone 4 has been getting a lot of bad press lately about the new antenna design. If you haven't heard the bad press jump over to this page to quickly get up to speed: Got… Continue reading...
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By now most of us are aware of the dangers of texting while driving. Some of us even became scared to death of it after watching this YouTube video [WARNING: This video contains extremely graphic and intentionally disturbing depictions of a car accident caused by a driver texting while driving]. Some states have already taken action and made texting while driving illegal. And in my opinion this will spread nationwide quickly. But something still puzzles me. Why is it just texting? I have an iPhone and carry it with me everywhere I go. I can check my email on it,… Continue reading...
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I have never met David Szpunar but yesterday he made my day. I had just about had it up to here with the iPhone iOS 4 upgrade. And while I had worked my way through most of the issues, two big ones still were nagging me. Namely: 1. Why was there no video available to walk me through each new feature in iOS 4? 2. How could I go back to having "Delete" be the default swipe feature in my email (it changed to Archive)? As many of you have figured out, when I write a new blog post such… Continue reading...
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Yesterday I upgraded my iPhone with the new Continue reading...
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