amcink - Tuesday, December 15, 2009
During the holiday period and leading up to our full-scale video coverage of CES 2010 (subscribe to our CES 2010 RSS feed here), we’ll be scaling back our release schedule for features shows and tutorials.
Holiday release schedule
Gadget TV will launch every Monday and Friday at 12:00pm EST throughout the holiday period.
The Sweet Stuff: Web Watch will go dark on Tuesday, December 15 and Tuesday December 22.
Miss Download will go dark on Tuesday, December 22.
Mr. Mobile will go dark on Wednesday, December 23.
The Sweet Stuff: Software will go dark on Thursday, December 24.
Pimp my PC will see a bi-weekly release schedule, going dark on Thursday, December 24 and Thursday, January 7 2010.
On Deck will go dark as of Friday, December 18 through Friday, January 8 2010.
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amcink - Friday, November 6, 2009
Butterscotch.com, the home of tasty tech, delicious downloads and some of the nicest people on the interwebs (if we do say so ourselves) turns one year-old today!
Since this time last year when butterscotch.com was officially released on the unsuspecting masses, we’ve posted over 1,700 pieces of individual video content. That includes over 1,100 tutorials, 50 episodes of Miss Download, 50 episodes of Gadget TV, closing in on 200 episodes of Lab Rats, including a bunch of shows that came online the day of launch. We’ve launched new shows like Pimp my PC, the show that teaches you how to mod your boring tech gear. We’ve created new screencast shows like The Sweet Stuff: Software and The Sweet Stuff: Web Watch, each with 20 installments a-piece. We’ve got other shows in the works that we know you’re going to love. We’ve created an entirely new tag-based search engine that makes it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for from our already extensive library of videos, show notes and free software downloads.
Stay tuned as we begin potty training (we’re sure we can do it) and look forward to the terrible twos as we start teething and developing our own sense of self.
Tags: anniversary, Gadget TV, Lab Rats, Miss Download, Pimp my PC
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amcink - Friday, October 2, 2009
We’re happy to introduce the latest show to enter the butterscotch fold. Pimp my PC hit the air yesterday with two episodes and it’s already burning up the bandwidth.
Host Lucas Cochran shows viewers how to “customize, personalize and trick out that PC, but above all, make it cool.” He takes his love of modding and applies it to erstwhile boring PCs, operating systems, laptops and much more.
Check it out and see what the fuss is about.
Tags: butterscotch news, lucas cochran, Pimp my PC, shows
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amcink - Thursday, September 10, 2009
No, we’re not the oldest Internet property in existence… but we did celebrate a milestone. At 9:00am EST today, we launched our 1,400th piece of unique video content to butterscotch.com. The video in question is part nine of our 10-part series Feel the Beat with FL Studio called Exporting songs and patterns in FL Studio.
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amcink - Monday, August 24, 2009
Andy Walker, one half of the Lab Rats and Cheryl Poirier, our own Miss Download visit Quinton Sheer on Q’s House. They were in studio last week and the episode featuring their interviews, episode 228, airs Tuesday Sept. 29th 8:00-10:00pm EDT. It will be available for podcast the next day.
Hit up Q’s House and listen in or grab the podcast!
Tags: In the news, Lab Rats, Miss Download
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amcink - Friday, August 21, 2009
Today our own Andrew Moore-Crispin will be chatting with CBC radio hosts across the country, discussing tech tips for back to school. Once the first show airs at 3:20pm EST today, the link butterscotch.com/CBC will go live and will link to a selection of back to school and related content on butterscotch.com.
All times are EST today:
3:20, St. Johns, NB
3:40, Toronto, ON
4:20, Sudbury, ON
4:30, Whitehorse, YUK
4:50, Ottawa, ON
5:20, Windsor, ON
5:40, Thunder Bay, ON.
Tags: CBC, In the news, radio
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amcink - Thursday, June 4, 2009
The butterscotch.com Inside Ride team: (L-R) Alfred Ayache, Sean Carruthers, Matt Harris, Andrew Moore-Crispin, Greg Weir, Andy Walker, Michael Goldberg
Some of the butterscotch team participated in the
Tucows Inside Ride, a charity event created to support children and the families of children battling cancer. The butterscotch team raised about $950, did reasonably well in the overall standings and received second place for team spirit.
All told, the event, held in the Tucows parking lot, raised $25,000 for Coast to Coast Against Cancer. The event is one of many Inside Ride events happening across Canada. Get a team together and get involved!
The Little Geeks charity was also on hand, holding a silent auction with some sweet tech gear. All proceeds go to fund the Little Geeks mission to offer free, reliable and Internet-connected computers to economically disadvantaged kids so they’re not stuck on the wrong side of the “digital divide.”
Stay tuned to butterscotch.com as we release videos of the Inside Ride event.
Tags: charity, Inside Ride
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NotoriousWebmaster - Monday, May 25, 2009
Imagine my surprise when I noticed we hadn’t had any comments on butterscotch for over a month! Looking into it I found it had to do with the deployment of canonical names.
Canonical names are a feature of the site which allow links to be built using the title of the episode. So, instead of having:
http:/www.butterscotch.com/showdtl.html?s=labrats&e=165
You get the markedly more readable:
http://www.butterscotch.com/show/Which-Browser-Is-For-You
In addition to being easier to read for us human types, it also makes our content easier to find on Google. So it’s a win-win situation. FYI: the old-style link will still get you where you’re going.
We’re not done yet! Keep checking back for terrific new features to complement our awesome content.
The comment issue has been sorted out. If you see anything else broken on the site (hey, it happens), feel free to drop us a line at feedback@butterscotch.com and tell us about it.
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amcink - Friday, May 15, 2009
In an effort to make our content easier to navigate (increasingly important as we’re more than three-quarters of the way toward the vaunted 1,000 videos mark), we’re introducing tags to butterscotch.com. Scroll to the bottom of any content page to see the tags, listed under the heading “filed under.” Click on any tag to get a page of like content, marked with the same tag.
You can also see yours’ truly introducing this new paradigm to butterscotch.com in this
introduction to tags video.
Tags: Andrew Moore-Crispin, announcements, butterscotch, tags
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amcink - Friday, May 15, 2009
Responding to your feedback, butterscotch.com will offer its multi-part series videos for online viewing or download as one large file. Rather than asking you to watch each part of a 10-part series in succession, we’ve trimmed off the intro and outros for each part of the series for uninterrupted viewing. This will be the new paradigm for all series going forwards, and we’re working to make the change for existing series tutorials in our library. We started with our BlackBerry Basics series, hosted by Jay Goldman.
Tags: announcement, BlackBerry, Jay Goldman, series, tutorials, video
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