What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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A friend of mine shared with me this text message she received on her mobile phone: from 404-754-1874 "You have been selected for a $1,000 Walmart GiftCard, Enter code "FREE" at [link removed] to claim your prize: 161 left!" I removed the link for security reasons but it clearly had the makings of what appeared to be www.walmart.com. But it wasn't. Instead there were additional characters after the walmart.com that revealed the true location of the website. The thing is most people just see the walmart.com part and come to the conclusion that it must be safe. That's exactly what… Continue reading...
I have yet to receive a single broadcast text on my phone that I didn't ask for. That's a fancy way of saying spam text hasn't infiltrated my smartphone... yet. But if and when it does, I'll be ready. Mainly because one of my clients is receiving text spam right now and asked me to look into how to stop it. Not knowing myself exactly how to stop it, I had to turn to the Internet to do some research. I immediately found an article that provides several very good solutions to stopping text spam. These include blocking texts sent… Continue reading...
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Today was my birthday and I don't care what anyone else says, there's something special about being bombarded with "happy birthday" messages from every technology medium all day long. It's fantastic! Most of the action took place on my Facebook wall but others emailed me, texted me or sent me tweets on Twitter. I even got a personal happy birthday video from Brett Favre compliments of one of my friends who knows how upset I get when his name comes up these days. Love it! Receiving all of these wonderful birthday greetings also made me realize I don't pay enough… Continue reading...
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I've previously shown my disapproval of people texting or otherwise using their smart phone in a movie theater while others are trying to enjoy the movie. But the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater has actually done something about it by implementing a "talk or text during a movie and we kick you out" policy. This policy was recently put to the test resulting in an angry voicemail to the theater from one patron who was kicked out for texting during a movie. But instead of just dismissing the angry voicemail as another lost customer, the Alamo Drafthouse used the voicemail word… Continue reading...
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Q: I was wondering if there's a free service out there that you can use to have text messages sent to. There are more & more companies using texting as a way to communicate coupons, sales and codes (ie Redbox). I do not have texting on my phone plan because frankly we just don't need it yet and don't want to incure the extra costs. Thanks for your perspective! - Tracy (location unknown) A: I have to admit this one really stumped me for a while. I didn't know of anything off-hand so I hit the Internet and started doing… Continue reading...
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