Siri, the digital voice assistant from Apple, can perform a lot of tasks but this one takes the cake.

Gmail has had a facelift with some new capabilities and a new compose window. You can now attach up to 10GB files! Steve Dotto takes you on a tour of the new features and shows you how to enable them.

Evernote collaboration: use Evernote to share notes or notebooks, Steve Dotto walks us through how to set up sharing and what your sharing options are.

Steve Dotto takes you on a quick tutorial on setting up HootSuite with your social media accounts such as Twitter, Linked in and Facebook, how to organize your feeds and how to post, including scheduling posts.

The way that iOS handled notifications was somewhat obtrusive and upset a large number of users. With iOS 5 users can choose how they get notifications, what applications can issue notification and more. The

new Notification Center

is helpful for staying on track of these alerts and can also be customized so that it always has the information you need when you need it.

Maps is handy not only for finding locations on a map, but also for obtaining directions to get from one point or another. Not only that, it also allows you to enter your method of transportation and will offer different navigation instructions depending on your choice. In this episode, we'll show you how to search for directions and how to get directions using Maps on your Android phone.

The software keyboard for the Android phone comes with a number of settings that you can change to suit your needs. By default some features, like auto-correct and auto-capitalization, will be on by default while others will be off. In this tutorial we'll show you

how to customize your Android keyboard

and tweak the settings to your liking.

When you first set up your Android phone, you would have been asked to add a Google account. However, some people have more than one Google account. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to

add multiple Google accounts to your Android

phone and configure your

sync settings

for each.

If you've been following along with us up to this point you should be well on your way to

becoming a Gmail master

. If you haven't though, don't worry. There's still time. Here we'll sum up what you might have missed and give you an index that will help you to find whatever tutorial you need. There have been 40

Gmail tutorials

so far so feel free to catch up whenever you want or refer your friends and family to watch them here at butterscotch.com!

Now that we've taken a hardware tour of the

new Palm Pre

, it's time to look at the software that makes it run. In part two of this 12-part video tutorial series, Jay Goldman runs through the

initial setup procedures for the Palm Pre

. With this tutorial, you'll be up and running on your

new Palm Pre smartphone

in no time.

Is there anything on your hard drive or USB key you'd rather no one knew about? Perhaps important business documents, sensitive presentations or your resume. Perhaps private photos or movies or, you know, other stuff. Sean and Andy take a look at the open source TrueCrypt software, explain what it does, and show how (and why) to use it.

iTunes is powerful software for managing your movie and music collection. However, incorrectly tagged songs and albums that you've downloaded or ripped, digital rights management (DRM) and other issues can hamper the experience. To cure your iTunes and iPod Shuffle ills, Sean and Andy show you some ways to bend iTunes to your will, so you can use it more efficiently!

Did you know inkjet printer ink costs over four thousand dollars a gallon? Learn how to print websites without the background colors and images to save printing time and valuable ink!

TuneUp is a great companion for iTunes. It's a way to fix your music when the tracks names get messed up or when you want to find cover art for your music. TuneUp will clean your music, find that cover art and more.

Spotlight is great for finding just about anything on your Mac. You can find documents, text inside of documents, graphics, songs and more. Sometimes you may need to focus your Spotlight search to hone the results. This is when you need to move your search to a full Spotlight search window for better results.

Every copy of Windows you've probably ever seen has a Taskbar down at the bottom of the screen. But who says it has to be at the bottom of the screen? You can move the Windows Taskbar and put it where you want it: top, bottom or on either side of your desktop. Here's how.

With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft included Windows Defender in the standard installation. Windows Defender is available as a free download for Windows XP users. We'll show you how to set it up so it runs the way you want it to.

When you have a home network it's handy to be able to share files and folders between computers. In order to do that, however, you have to opt-in to share your drive on the network. Here's how to do it.

Sound Recorder is a built-in application in Windows that allows you to create your own sound clips. Maybe you want to make your voice echo or create sounds for your chat client, or maybe you just want to record a personal greeting that plays when Windows starts. Windows Sound Recorder will allow you to do just that. It's simple and easy-to-use.

Matt Harris chats with Andrew Moore-Crispin in the butterscotch.com studio about the latest butterscotch developments. Launching soon: the newest addition to our tutorial series, hands-on video tutorials with the latest gadgets. Andrew also shows off his newest creation, a USB key inserted into a squishy cow's posterior... complete with armchair docking station.

When you have a home network all of your computers, including virtual machines, should be in the same "workgroup." When you connect to other computers in your workgroup you can share files, folders, printers and more. Here's how to find other computers and devices on your network using Windows.

Creating your own icons for your files and folders is a great way to express yourself. It's also a great way to organize your computer so you know at a glance what a folder contains. You can create your own icons using your favorite images, like photos or graphics.

In cars, a firewall is what separates the passenger compartment from the engine. It's designed to delay a fire from burning from one side to another. In computers a firewall has a similar function. It's designed to prevent unauthorized transmissions from one network, like the Internet, to another, like your home network and personal computer.

By default Windows Vista uses certain programs to work with certain data. It uses Windows Mail for email, for example, and Windows Calendar for calendar items. If you prefer to use other programs you can go in and change the default programs. Here's how.

Windows Safe Mode can save your computer. Sometimes you install a piece of software and your PC starts acting funny. You install some new device and your computer start locking up. In a number of cases you have to start Windows in Safe Mode so you can remove the offending piece of software or make other corrections.

The find command is so useful that it's present in web browsers, many applications and even operating systems. Use the find command to quickly and easily search within a web page that's open in your favorite browser, search for a word or phrase in a Microsoft Word document or use it to search for a file or folder on your computer.

Windows provides you with a little utility called Scheduled Tasks that you can use to run programs. Run them each day, weekly, monthly, or even multiple times a day. The program is easy-to-use and easy to manage.

Like other web browsers, Opera comes with a default home page. Odds are you're going to want to change it. Opera gives you quite a few options when it comes to a Home page. You can use things from saved sessions, the last session, a blank page, and more.

We've shown you how to set multiple Home pages in Firefox. Now it's Internet Explorer's turn.

Internet Explorer uses Microsoft's website as its home page. If you'd like to see a different page, or even multiple pages, when Internet Explorer loads, it's easy to do. We'll show you how.

Firefox allows you to set your Home page screen to whatever page you want. Sometimes you find a page so useful, you want to see it every time you fire up your web browser. Perhaps it's a favorite search engine or online email service, a site you check every time you log on or a personal or business site you need to keep tabs on. If you want, you can also set Firefox to open multiple home pages each time the browsers is run.

Navigating around your Blogger blog is easy. As long as you're logged in, you can access the "hub" of your blog, otherwise known as the dashboard, at the top of any page. There are also many different help resources where you can find answers to any questions you may have - whether it's how to change your password or how to update the theme of your blog.

Once you start getting more and more readers to your blog you may want to think about adding Google Adsense for a way to make a few bucks. Google Adsense are relevant ads that are put on your site. When visitors click on the ads, you make a little money. It might not pay the rent (unless you have a lot of readers, then who knows!), but it may pay for dinner and drinks with friends.

Chances are that if you have your own Blogger blog, you read other peoples blogs as well. Did you know that you can also find other Blogger blogs to read and read their content right in your Blogger account? You can also keep up with the latest news from the Blogger team so you always know when there are new features available.

A great part of blogging is creating a connection with the people who are reading the stories that you choose to share. A nice way to make even more of a connection is to create a Blogger profile that your readers can view to learn a little more about you. You can show your real name, add a photo and even your favorite music clip. You can also share your education and work history. It's up to you to decide just how much information you want to share with the people reading your blog.

If you published something to your blog and you decide later that you want to change it, don't fret. With Blogger, you can easily go back and make edits to the post itself as well as any labels you added to it. After you make changes, your blog will automatically be updated. Want to delete a blog post altogether? No problem, you can do that too. Since it's your blog, you're the editor and you can make any changes you see fit.

Now that you've created a blogger account and customized it, it's finally time to write your first post! It's so easy you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner. You can add photos, change up the font, add links and even video. You can also write blog posts to be published at a later date and choose whether or not to allow comments on each post.

Your blog settings is where you can do things like change the title of your blog, add a description to go along with the title or even use your own custom domain for your blog. It's also where you can decide just who can see your blog - anyone on the Internet or select people who you invite. If you want to add additional authors to contribute stories and content to your blog you can do that in your settings as well. Your settings page is like the hub of your blog so make sure you take the time to go through them and create the functionality that you desire.

Gadgets are extra features that you can add to your Blogger blog. A gadget can be a photo-stream from Flickr, polls that your readers can participate in and even something as simple as a welcome message that your visitors will see every time they visit your site. Gadgets can be easily added and removed from your blog with just a couple of mouse clicks and they help you add even more of your own personality to share with your readers.

Now that you have your very own blog, it's time to customize the way it looks. Blogger gives you tools to easily change the template of your blog, the colors, and even the font. Each page element can be adjusted to match the personality of your blog and make it stand out.

There's a lot to learn about Wikipedia, but thankfully, there's plenty of help right on the website, whenever you need it. Whether you forgot how to change your password or if you want to learn more about creating and editing Wikipedia articles, it's all right here. In fact, there are multiple ways to find the help you need. There's a help-desk, a cheat-sheet, advice, and lots of other users questions to look at. You just need to know where to look.

If you participate in the discussion portion of Wikipedia, then you'll love the "My Talk" section. Here, you'll see everything you've posted and if someone has replied to your posts. This section can also be edited just like any other Wikipedia page. There is also a section called your Watchlist where you can keep your eye on any Wikipedia page that you want. If you want to know if someone has added or changed something about an article, just add it to your watchlist and you'll see the changes on your Watchlist.

If you've taken the time to set up your very own Wikipedia account, then you should probably dive right into your preferences and make Wikipedia look and work the way you want it to. Don't like the way the articles are displayed? Change the theme! Want more out of your Wikipedia account? Add gadgets! There's more than meets the eye here, so don't be afraid to poke around and change things up.

The Wikipedia homepage has a lot of interesting and useful information. You'll find current events, random facts and "on this day" articles. There is also a new featured article everyday, so you never know what to expect. The main page is also where you can navigate to various parts of Wikipedia. There are different languages available and links to Wikipedia's sister sites like Wiktionary, Wikinews, and Wikiquote.

As a registered Wikipedia user, you can create your very own Wikipedia profile page. You can add information about yourself like what you do for fun, where you work, and even add links to your own blog or website. Creating a Wikipedia page for yourself works just like creating or editing a regular Wikipedia page, so it's great practice. Other Wikipedia users can add things to your page and you can do the same to theirs. It's a fun way to get used to using Wikipedia and share things about yourself with the community at the same time.

Wikipedia has a lot of content, but it doesn't have it all. If there is a subject you're well versed in, or if you happen to know a person of importance, you can create a Wikipedia article that others can add to in the future. Just make sure your new Wikipedia page has a lot of content and references or sources, otherwise it's likely that it will be deleted as lacking research and therefore, being unreliable.

Editing a Wikipedia article is not as simple as you may first think. When making changes to an article you may need to include sources of where you got your information, add links to other articles and be sure that your additions or changes are useful. This, of course, is to ensure that the information people are getting from Wikipedia is correct and balanced, and not just one person's opinion. Thankfully, there's an area on Wikipedia called the "sandbox" where you can practice writing and editing Wikipedia pages without worry of making a mistake that everyone will see.

When you look at a Wikipedia article for the first time, it may seem like there is just too much information to take in. Besides the main article (which is probably what you were looking for to begin with) there is also a section for a discussion about the article, a section that shows all of the revisions that have been made to the page and, of course, a section where you can edit the page. It's not as confusing as it seems and in this episode I'll tell you what it all means.

So you really want to learn everything there is about the common honey bee? Well, thankfully there's an article all about it on Wikipedia. You can find articles on just about anything you can think of. You'll see photos, graphs, and links to external Websites, which leads you to even more information. Searching for articles on Wikipedia can turn into an adventure!

Matt Harris has Andrew M-C back on the On Deck deck, despite the hard pack snow layer and -10 degree (Celsius) weather, for the announcement of a brand new butterscotch.com show. While the title is to be determined, this new show will let viewers know what's coming up for the next week on butterscotch.com. What each show has in store, what tutorials are going to be running on the site and any other exciting news that comes up in the world of butterscotch.

Matt Harris brings Andrew Moore-Crispin back to On Deck to discuss the tutorials on butterscotch.com. Matt break the news of the new breaking news tutorials and talks about special tutorial series on the site.

Spyware is a scourge. It slows down your system and can "phone home," sometimes sending your personal details to shady characters. Generally speaking, it offers no benefit to you, the computer user. We'll run down the process for getting rid of spyware on your computer using Windows Defender.

Windows Vista's Aero effects make for impressive eye candy. However, this graphical feast comes at a cost to system performance. We'll show you how to turn off some or all of these of these features and improve system performance at the same time.

Save the hassle associated with creating your own spreadsheets in Google Docs. There's a good chance someone has already created a template for the spreadsheet you need. In this tutorial, we look at importing and using a family budget using a free Google Docs template.

Google Docs is a great way to manage your online workflow. We look at some of the different ways you can easily import documents and spreadsheets from your computer, your email or from an online source.

Different image file types have different applications and can offer unique benefits. If you'd like to change the graphics format of an image on your Mac, you can do so with Preview in just a few simple steps.

It's hard to share web pages that have really long addresses via email or instant message. It can also confuse the message recipient. TinyURL makes it easy to shrink a URL to something more manageable and understandable.

When you first got your PC it was lightening fast and shiny-new. Over time, your computer gets bogged down and can start to run slow. In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to use SpeedUpMyPC 2009 to clear some system memory and get your computer running like it should.

If you need to setup any email client you'll need to understand basic terms. This is an example using Outlook Express which comes with Windows. Here, we'll become familiar with email terms like IMAP and POP3 which you'll need to know in order to set up an email account in any email client.

Tadaa!
Windows sounds are a little on the boring side. We show you how to create your own set to act as your computing soundtrack. Change one or more sounds, from the Windows start-up music to the critical battery alarm, and set your own sounds to personalize your PC.

Shared storage drives and servers are useful for sharing files on a network. However, network resources are more useful when you can use them as you would any physical hard drive on your computer. Here's an easy way to get Windows to make a network drive act as a physical drive on your computer. Using this technique, your network resource shows up under My Computer and is connected automatically when Windows starts.

Google Maps can be incredibly helpful. Whether you're in a car or on foot, lost in the woods or just looking for a pizza place, Maps can help you to get from point A to point B. Using the built-in GPS and compass (if available), this app comes pre-installed on all Android smartphones and is your handy navigator for whenever you need it.

Butterscotch tutorials are your step-by-step guide to maximizing your tech potential. Our tutorials offer tips and tricks explained in plain English, without the jargon. Short, sweet and to the point, we offer practical PC advice you can start using right away to save time, money and headaches. We help you get the most out of your computer and gadgets.