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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.Latest Episode:
#613 / How to use PayPal on your Android phone
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#613
/ March 12, 2010 / 1:54 min.
You probably already use PayPal to pony up purchases made online. It's safer than exposing your credit card info to a retailer you may not have done business with yet. Well, now PayPal is available on your Android phone
so you can send money to someone while on the go. Great for paying up for bar bets if nothing else...
#612
/ March 12, 2010 / 1:32 min.
Every time you install a piece of software, you're presented with page upon page of legalese, detailing how you're allowed to use the software and how you're not. This is the End User License Agreement or EULA
, pronounced E U L A or often, just u-la.
#611
/ March 11, 2010 / 1:02 min.
Wireless Application Protocol or WAP is a standard for accessing the mobile web and its content on mobile phones. Everything from email delivery to browsing the web on our phones came about thanks to WAP. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
#610
/ March 11, 2010 / 1:50 min.
When you're in the world of wireless networking
there are lots of terms, lots of acronyms, and lots of things that seem to make little sense.SSID
is one such acronym, which Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
#609
/ March 10, 2010 / 2:55 min.
PixelPipe is a cool site that lets you share photos, videos
and more with over 100 other sites. Upload once and send your photos and videos to a bunch of different social networking and blogging sites. This saves you updating hundreds of differentsocial media, photo or video
sharing pages individually. Now you can usePixelPipe right from your iPhone
with thisawesome free iPhone app
.
#608
/ March 10, 2010 / 1:16 min.
As you travel around the Internet, visiting Web sites, occasionally you'll get a "404." It could be an image heavy page, it could be just text. It might be funny, it might be serious. What is a 404?
Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains these "page not found" error pages.
#607
/ March 9, 2010 / 1:56 min.
Sticky notes
have changed the way many people work. You just jot a note down on one and stick someplace. On a table, a desk, a screen, a keyboard or on the wall. Having your monitor plastered with physical sticky notes is the past though. Tacking virtual sticky notes to your computer desktop is the way to go. Doc shows uswhere to find Sticky Notes in Windows 7
.
#606
/ March 9, 2010 / 1:06 min.
You hear a lot of talk about "Android" lately. The mobile operating system from Google
has caught on in smartphones and other mobile devices. Butwhat exactly is Android
? Why should you care about Android? Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
#605
/ March 8, 2010 / 1:38 min.
Hypertext
is used to generate links that lead you from one place to another. At first glance it's almost magical. You see text, you click on it, and it takes you someplace new.Hypertext is the foundation of the World Wide Web.
Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan explains.
#604
/ March 8, 2010 / 1:53 min.
PixelPipe is a cool online service for sharing photos, videos, text
and more. We love it so it stands to reason, we want it on our Android handsets as well. Michael "Doctor File Finder" Callahan offers aguided tour of PixelPipe on Android
.
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