What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
I've often recommended to my clients to purchase laser printers instead of inkjet printers due to the lower total cost of ownership. Yes, a replacement laser toner is more expensive but the initial printer costs are relatively the same and a laser toner will print hundreds more pages than your ink cartridges ever will. As if that wasn't reason enough, along comes this video I found on the Gadgetell web site. I have no idea if this is truly representative of all inkjet printers or not but based on the comments back and forth between the video creator and the… Continue reading...
I see it time and time again. People printing email from their web-based email accounts like Gmail, Yahoo or AOL and getting frustrated that it doesn't print correctly. 9 times out of 10 it's because they are using the browser's print button instead of the built-in print function included with their Gmail, Yahoo or AOL account. Incidentally the other 1 out of 10 is due to emails that just don't print well due to their design and layout. Resist the temptation to use the browser's print button I wish I could say it's intuitive to use the email's print button… Continue reading...
2 comments for this blog post so far...
Being a techie isn't always all roses. Like today when my techie skills were put to the test... by my plumber. I could write an entire post on the reason I had a plumber at my house but since it isn't even in the slightest bit related to technology let's just leave it at the fact that I hired a plumber to look at some questionable plumbing in my house. It didn't take long for the plumber to determine that my plumbing was bad. Really bad. So bad in fact that he asked me if I had a digital camera… Continue reading...
0 comments for this blog post so far...
I use fonts on the documents I create to evoke emotion. Big, bold fonts to grab attention. Straight, blocky fonts when referring to text on a computer screen. But I've never used a font to be environmentally friendly. Until now. While reading through my RSS subscriptions yesterday, I stumbled upon a font called Econofont. Econofont is the result of a project by SPRANQ whose goal was to see how much of a letter can be removed while still maintaining readability. According to the Econofont web site, the results were as follows: "After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the… Continue reading...
2 comments for this blog post so far...
I was helping a client the other day and we were discussing phone lines and fax machines. He was trying to figure out how many phone lines he needed for his home phone, business phone and fax. I told him that there was no need any more for a dedicated phone line for a fax machine. And I wasn't even referring to getting one of those little gizmos that you can hook up to your phone line that automatically detect whether an incoming call is a voice call or a fax. Nope. I was referring to how obsolete having a… Continue reading...
2 comments for this blog post so far...