The Samsung Reclaim from Ting offers quick-hit access to your social media streams.

While a feature phone can't offer the same full, rich web browsing experience of a smartphone, the Samsung m360 does let you get online to perform a quick search, check the sports scores, get the latest news, check the weather, or even your email.

In this episode of the Ting Start Up Guide for the HTC Detail, we'll take a look at using the camera on the HTC Detail including using effects, touch focus and zoom. We'll also get a few Browser power-user tips and begin digging in to the Android Market and the wealth of apps it contains.

In this episode, we'll dig a little deeper into using Android on the LG Optimus S from Ting. We'll take a look at the Android Market and the hundreds of thousands of apps it contains, using the camera and changing camera settings plus a few helpful Android browser power user tips.

While browsing the Internet on a smartphone might not necessarily be the most comfortable way to surf the web, there are some things that you can do to make it easier on yourself. In this tutorial, we're going to show you our

top five power user tips

for

using the Android browser

, including changing your home page, sharing links and more.

For those of you who

use Firefox to browse the Internet

but own an iPhone, there's

Firefox Home

. Now this isn't a browser but it can be used to

import your browsing history

, preferences and more right into your iPhone for use with Safari. Since it's free, it's worth a download for anyone who uses both Firefox and an iPhone.

In this episode, we'll show you how to

browse the web on your HP TouchPad

and how to use the unique

Touch-to-Share feature

. Web browsing works in much the same way as it does on other tablets, including gestures like pinching and scrolling to

navigate pages

, but Touch-to-Share lets you share websites with

HP webOS smartphones

.

Andy, once again flouting Lab Rats convention, decided to make the switch from the Apple to the Android camp. He's ditched the iPhone 4 and moved over the the reference design Google phone, the Nexus S. The Lab Rats have compiled their top-ten tips for Android switcher or really, anyone trying to come to terms with and get the most out of their shiny new Android phone.
On a related note: Anyone in the market to buy a lightly-used iPhone 4?

In this episode we'll show you how to change your

search settings on your Android smartphone

. You have a number of options available including the ability to

see search suggestions

, use your location and more. We'll also show you how to

manage your search history

.

BlackBerry has been branded with the stigma of a business device maker whose smartphones aren't looking too smart since the advent of the iPhone and later, Android smartphones. The BlackBerry PlayBook, given a chance, could turn the tide of perception. It really is a well thought out device that looks spectacular, that performs well, whose size seems perfect most of the time, that multitasks like a boss and that is generally just a well made tablet.
What holds the PlayBook back from being a good device to a really great one is the same thing that has RIM trying to figure out its next move; complete reliance on a dated and increasingly irrelevant smartphone, the traditional BlackBerry. Without a BlackBerry and what's called Bridge, you won't get access to email, contact lists or a few other mainstays. It's a definite Achilles' heel, though one that to BlackBerry smartphone-sporting business types and corporate network admins, might be a virtue.

The

Watch Later feature on the Boxee

box is a great way that you can

store video content

that you don't have time to watch right now in an easy to access list. That way when you go to the

Watch Later page

, you'll see all of the videos that you

flagged to Watch Later

. There's even a way to

add videos to your Watch Later

list from within your web browser.

If you've ever been curious to know

what terms are searched on Google

the most, then you'll want to try

using Google Trends

. Google Trends allows you to type in a number of

search terms

to look up

who searches what

. You'll see a number of

statistics including popularity over time

and by area.

If you find yourself using a lot of

Google services

like

Gmail, Google Translate

or even

Google searchGoogle Toolbar

. Google Toolbar makes it easy for you to access certain Google tools and even more if you're logged into your

Google account

.

In this series we show you how to use your Windows Phone 7. From setting up your phone to navigating through the Windows Phone 7 mobile interface we've got you covered. We'll also demonstrate how to use the various multimedia features, access Xbox Live from your phone and more all using the new LG Optimus Quantum.

Like all the

best smartphones

, your

Windows Phone 7 device

has applications that can allow you to

browse the Internet

and

get directions

. The

Internet Explorer application

and the Maps application allow you to easily search the Internet for nearby locations and then

plot the quickest route

. We show you how to use them in this episode.

The

new Kindle devices

come with some

experimental features

that you can access through the Kindle menu. These include the ability to

browse the Internet

using a built-in browser and the ability to turn your

Kindle into an MP3 player

. We show you how to use the Kindle browser as well as how to

add MP3s to your Kindle

in this episode.

In this tutorial we explain

what web applications are

and tell you why there are so many

web apps

these days. With

cloud computing

becoming commonplace users want to be able to use certain

programs and applications

anywhere there's an

Internet connection

. Those programs are called web apps.

In this episode we'll show you an

Android application

that you can use to

import and export bookmarks

.

Bookmarks to SD

is a free app for Android that's easy to use and can even

sync bookmarks

through Gmail.

Firefox users

rejoice! There is now a

Firefox beta for Android

devices that you can download for free. We'll show you where to go to

get Firefox for free

and show you how to start using it to

browse the Internet

, as well as how to

sync Firefox with your desktop

.

In this episode, we show you how to

browse the Internet

using the Samsung Galaxy Tab

. The Tab's browser let you use

tabbed browsing

and search pages for selected text, a rare feature in a tablet. We'll also show you how to

add widgets and shortcuts

to your home screen, as well as how to

change the wallpaper

.

In this tutorial, we explain to you

what plug-ins are

and what they are used for. In

computer terms

, a plug-in is used to

add features and functions

to software such as web browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer. Plug-ins are also called

add-ons and extensions

.

The

Nintendo Wii

has plenty of

free channels

available that you can use to

get news and weather

,

display photos

,

browse the Internet

and more. We'll show you

how to use Wii channels

and go through their initial setup in this episode.

Andy and Sean get their hands on IE9, the new beta web browser from Microsoft. Is it any good? What's new in it? And can the Lab Rats get through a whole demo without the beta software crashing? Tune in to find out!

Perhaps you've seen the term intranet around and thought that someone made a typo. It's actually quite different from the Internet as an intranet is like a website for internal use within organizations. In this tutorial, we'll give you the

definition of intranet

and tell you

what an intranet is used for

.

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 beta to the public. The company is promising a browser that will be more secure than previous versions, will display websites better and faster and that will integrate some of our favorite features from Windows 7 like pinning, Aero snap and peek among others.

Safari 5

can now

run extensions

but you have to first enable them. To

enable extensions in Safari 5

, you have to change some of your

browser settings

first. Then you'll be able to run extensions just like in other browsers.

Safari 5

offers the ability to

install extensions into your browser

. The

available extensions

are a little limited at the moment but more extensions will be available soon. In the meantime, you can download any of the available extensions in order to

customize Safari 5

the way you want!

By default,

Firefox

does not use case-sensitive searches. You can

enable case-sensitive searches

by going into the

Firefox configuration settings

and changing one simple value. This is one way to

make searches more accurate

so that you can find what you're looking for faster. It only takes a minute and we'll show you how right here!

When you're

browsing the Internet

and you

open a new page

, chances are you don't want to

open a new window

. Instead, you'll want the page to

open pages in a new tab

. You can set this to be your

default setting

for

Safari

so that each time you open a new page it pops up as a new tab. We'll show you how in this tutorial!

If you're an

Android user who's looking for a

full-featured browser

then look no farther than

Opera Mini

. It's a

fast and free browser

that offers some great features like

tabbed browsing

,

bookmarks

and more. Go to

Android Market

to check it out for yourself.

If you're looking for a

new browser for your Android

, you might want to try

Skyfire

. You can

download Skyfire for free

and it's a fun little browser that allows you to easily

access video

,

explore online content

and

share what you like

with your friends through

Facebook

and

Twitter

.

There is a way to get

visual previews of websites

you have open using

Firefox 3.6

. You just need to change one value in the

browser configuration

in order to activate this feature, then use it by pressing CTRL+Tab. It's a feature similar to Windows 7's Flip 3D where you get a

preview of the windows

you have open.

Users who have been waiting for an

alternate browser for the iPhone

are finally in luck.

Opera Mini

is now available to those searching for a new browsing experience. It seems to be a much

faster browser

than the default Safari browser and comes with some neat features including the

speed dial home page

that allows you to set your most commonly visited sites as easy-to-access links. Unfortunately, it does not support HTML video elements but, on the bright side, it's free.

Whether you've already got a website, or just starting out with a basic concept in mind, you probably already recognize the potential to expand your readership by making your content accessible to mobile users. Stacy Reed introduces five free online services that will help you create your own mobile website, and one free tool that analyzes how well your site will perform on a mobile device.

Opera is a wonderful

web browser

. It's fast, it's lean and it has a world of cool features. Plus, it keeps getting better and better. If you use Gmail for your email needs, however, you may wonder if there's a way to use

Gmail as Opera's default email

. There sure is and we'll show you how right here.

Your

Android phone

comes with a basic web browser by default. If you'd like to have something with a few more features like tabbed browsing, take a look at the

Dolphin Browser

. It's cool and it's free!

Extensions add a lot of functionality to Google Chrome. Now and then, however, you may install one that you don't use or have one installed that you don't like. Here's

how to remove an extension from Google Chrome.

Given that the iPad was pitched by Steve Jobs as the perfect Internet device, it stands to reason that the

iPad web browser, Safari Mobile

work and work well, which it surely does. We continue our

how to use the iPad video tutorial series

and

iPad new user guide

with a look at

Safari Mobile on the iPad

.

When Google Chrome was first released, it was a little blah; not that colorful, not very exciting, and no support for add-ons or extensions. All that is in the past and now there are lots of

extensions for Chrome

. Here's how to add one!

Whether you're looking for a way to

manage and synchronize your favorite bookmarks

across multiple browsers or computers or you're just looking for new recommendations based on your interests, a

social bookmarking

site might be the solution you're looking for. Stacy Reed shows us five popular tried-and-true favorites.

After some delays Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6. This new version is faster, more secure, and offers some cool new features. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan gives the

guided tour of Firefox 3.6

In our 10-part series on Safari we pointed out some of the key things that make it such a classy browser. In this bonus episode, Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan picks out a few of his favorite features in Safari.

Favicons can help visitors distinguish your site from others with just a quick glance. If you have a blog or website, you may want to make one from a logo, picture or other image. It's easy to do. Here's how.

Bookmarks can be really useful, but they're much more useful if you can

synchronize your bookmarks between multiple computers

and multiple browsers.

Bookmarks

provide a quick and easy way to return to sites you want to visit.

Safari 4.0

makes it easier than ever to

add bookmarks

, create groups of bookmarks, and then to keep all your

bookmarks organized

.

We all have certain sites that we visit over and over again. With

Safari 4.0

, a new feature puts your "

Top Sites

" front and center.

Top Sites

gives you a visual image of the sites you visit most. You can edit these sites, delete them, save them and move them around.

RSS - really simple syndication

, is a great way to keep on top of all your favorite sites. Safari goes out of its way to give you all you need to make

RSS feeds easy

. There's a built-in RSS reader, RSS search, bookmark RSS feeds, personal

RSS clipping service

and several other RSS-specific improvements in Safari 4.0.

Safari 4.0

knows that it's a jungle out there so it does everything it can to

keep you safe on the Web

. With built-in

phishing protection, malware protection, safe downloads, pop-up blocking, anti-virus

integration among its security features, you can surf the Internet with confidence.

When you visit lots of Web sites, odds are you're going to have to enter a number of passwords. At the same time you're also going to have to

fill out a form

now and then; especially when shopping online.

Safari 4.0

makes these and other repetitive tasks easier than ever.

Safari 4.0

has tried to make your browsing experience faster and easier. In many ways, it has succeeded. Safari 4.0 includes the

Smart Address Field

which makes it easy to visit your favorite sites, your recently visited sites and your bookmarked sites just by typing a couple of characters.

Tabbed browsing

is now old hat. However,

Safari 4.0

gives you tabbed browsing with some cool improvements. You can move tabs around to better organize them, open new windows with a group of tabs, easily

bookmark your tabs

and more. Tabbed browsing makes your browsing quicker, easier, and more efficient.

Safari 4.0

introduced over 150 new and improved features and functions to the Safari browser. These among these improvements are support for all the latest Web technologies, improved keyboard shortcuts, VoiceOver Screen Reader, Full Screen Zoom, text only zoom, better bookmark management and many more. In this 10-part series we'll try to look at some of the key new features in Safari 4.0.

Jay Goldman demonstrates

how to use the browser on the Palm Pre

in this, the last installment of our

video tutorial series on the Palm Pre

. A solid web browser is make or break for a smartphone, and the

Palm Pre

doesn't disappoint with its

WebKit-based mobile browser

that's capable of rendering full HTML pages.

With the

GmailThis! bookmarklet

, you can quickly and easily send a link to any page on the web at the click of a button.

Stacy Reed takes a look at

10 Firefox add-ons

that will improve your browsing experience. From easy to remember mouse or trackpad gestures for moving back and forward between pages, opening new tabs and so on, building Google and other search options into the right-click menu, grabbing screenshots and much more. It's all covered in this episode of The Sweet Stuff: Web Watch,

10 essential Firefox add-ons

.

If you stop people walking down the street and ask them, "

What is a browser

?" most of them wouldn't know. They may give an answer, but it probably wouldn't be the right one. Doc Callahan offers some disambiguation.

Just like on a computer, when you

surf the Web on your BlackBerry

you accumulate junk. This junk will start to slow down your device if you don't do something about it. The best thing to do is to

remove the browser history, cache, cookies, and pushed content

. That'll get the browser on you BlackBerry back in top shape.

The

cloud computing

concept puts all of your data, your applications, in short everything you'd typically have on your home or office computer, on remote storage. Web applications are a huge part of the cloud computing concept: anywhere you can get an Internet connection, you can have access to your apps. Adobe Air lets you interact with your web apps outside of your web browser. Stacy Reed runs down her top picks for the

five best Adobe Air applications

.

Internet cookies

: Are they safe? For the most part, yes. Can they be deleted? Sure, but your favorite sites will no longer "remember" you and some services out and out won't work. Are they dangerous? Some are. Are they yummy? Not so much.

One of the

iPhone killer apps

is the

Safari browser

. With

iPhone firmware 3.0

, the web browsing experience on the iPhone is much improved. Sean Carruthers explains.

The latest version of

Internet Explorer

,

Internet Explorer 8

, is being hailed as a must-have download for Windows users. It features

private browsing

, a new and very handy feature called Web Slices and much, much more. Michael "Doc" Callahan gives the guided tour in this 10-part series.

The browser on your BlackBerry will come with a default home page. Often this depends on the carrier you got your device from. It doesn't have to stay that way though because you can change the homepage easily. Here's how!

Cheryl Poirier takes a look at Google's long-awaited entry into the "browser wars," Google Chrome. It's the newest browser on the block and does away with the user interface flair in favor of speed, simplicity and security.

Heck, Google probably already knows where you live, why not let it know your browsing habits too? We kid, sharing browsing data with Google is, of course, optional.

Opera is an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. It was the first browser to introduce the Speeddial feature and it's a small, light-weight free browser. It's also made great inroads on mobile devices. Jay Goldman speaks to Thomas Ford about the innovations found in Opera 10.

Google recently released its new beta version of its Chrome browser. This version, while still a work in progress, offers some new features and improvements over the current Chrome release. How about autofill for forms, auto scrolling and full page zoom? Another new feature allows you to compare different Web pages side-by-side, right within the Chrome window. This new 0beta is also faster than previous versions and once it reaches final release, promises to be more stable too.

Google's

Chrome web browser

is a light, lean and altogether smart piece of software. Far from a me-too browser though,

Google Chrome

takes a fundamentally different approach to some aspects of the web. From creating application shortcuts to web software services like Google Docs and Gmail to allowing for a private browsing session in

Incognito mode

, we'll show you what's up in this 10-part tutorial series.

Google Chrome is a relative newcomer to the browser wars. At the time of writing, it's only available for the Windows platform though there are versions in the works for Mac and Linux. Not just another browser, Google Chrome takes a different and unique approach to Web browsing.

Apple announced a public beta of the new Safari 4, available on both Windows and Mac machines. This new version of the Apple browser is chock full of cool new features. It supports style sheets, top tabs, "Top Sites," cover flow, complete search history, and plenty more. Take it for a spin and see what you think.

Michael "Doc" Callahan runs through the finer points of online safety and security for parents, kids or just about anyone who wants a better understanding online safety, how to protect against online theft, phishing scams, spyware, viruses and more.

Update: Foxmarks has changed its name to Xmarks and works across different browsers. The steps in this tutorial however, still apply.
Looking for a way to seamlessly sync changes to your saved bookmarks and passwords across multiple computers? This Firefox plugin saves the day! In fact if you use multiple computers (home and office or home and laptop for example), you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Chances are you've found at least a few web pages you'd like to be able to read when on the go. Don't waste your data plan minutes reading long text online. Save that web content and read it offline on your laptop!

Never miss another episode of your favorite butterscotch shows by subscribing to RSS feeds and receiving notifications whenever new content is published! While we use butterscotch.com as our example (naturally), these tips translate to any RSS-ready site on the net.

Our ten-part series on the Firefox browser gets in-depth, up close and personal with Mozilla's browser. This browser is available on Windows and Mac platforms as well as Linux and has gained significant market share in the past couple of years. It's time to figure out what the fuss is about!

The address bar in Firefox is more than just an address bar. It's not called the "smart location bar" for nothing, you know. In this second installment of our Firefox 101 series, we'll break down just what makes this address bar with benefits special while also looking at the integrated search bar and bookmarks toolbars.

Firefox rose from the ashes of the browser wars of old and has since amassed quite a following. As it stands, Firefox has over 15 percent of the browser share, according to the Wikipedia article. It even set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a 24hr period with over 8 million.
It's time to find out what the fuss is about...

A step-by-step guide to installing Mozilla Firefox.
We walk you through downloading and installing the latest version of Mozilla's increasingly popular Firefox browser.

Google's

Chrome web browser

is a light, lean and altogether smart piece of software. Far from a me-too browser though,

Google Chrome

takes a fundamentally different approach to some aspects of the web. From creating application shortcuts to web software services like Google Docs and Gmail to allowing for a private browsing session in

Incognito mode

, we'll show you what's up in this 10-part tutorial series.

Our ten-part series on the Firefox browser gets in-depth, up close and personal with Mozilla's browser. This browser is available on Windows and Mac platforms as well as Linux and has gained significant market share in the past couple of years. It's time to figure out what the fuss is about!

The latest version of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, is being hailed as a must-have download for Windows users. It features private browsing, a new and very handy feature called Web Slices and much, much more. Michael "Doc" Callahan gives the guided tour in this 10-part series.

Michael "Doc" Callahan runs through the finer points of online safety and security for parents, kids or just about anyone who wants a better understanding online safety, how to protect against online theft, phishing scams, spyware, viruses and more.

There are many web browsers to choose from. We've looked at the latest versions of Google's Chrome browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox among others.

Safari 4.0

is Apple's latest effort. It's been the default browser for Mac users for a long time and not too long ago, it became available to PC users too. Is it worth switching to Safari? That's a decision you'll be much better equipped to answer for yourself after this 10-part video tutorial on Safari 4.0

In this series we show you how to use your Windows Phone 7. From setting up your phone to navigating through the Windows Phone 7 mobile interface we've got you covered. We'll also demonstrate how to use the various multimedia features, access Xbox Live from your phone and more all using the new LG Optimus Quantum.