#107 Grab Bag of Smartphone Tips

This episode was live on Sunday, January 22, 2017. To be notified of live shows, subscribe to our YouTube channel and be sure to click the bell for notifications.

• Opening Tip: Highlights from past shows at TheButtonShow.com
• Beginner’s Lesson: Grab Bag of Tips, including:
  2-Step Verification, iPhone emoji keyboard, Finding your AppleID, Take a picture with Vol button on phone or earbuds, Save Photo from Text message
• Closing App: Google Home App
• Show Notes for Members

Bonus: See Jim's video of a day scuba diving on the Lady Luck, a wreck off Fort Lauderdale.

We had a little technical difficulty with this episode and had to cut out a portion with echo. So we made a video for one tip that was cut, how to save a photo received in a text message.

Review Questions:

1. The best technique to keep your email account safe and secure is to turn on what? _______________________________
2. The volume button on your phone can double as a ________________________
3. To find the username for your AppleID go to Settings, then:
   a. Control Center   b. Touch ID  c. iTunes & App Store
4. To find the username for your Google account on Android go to Settings, then:
   a. Accounts    b. Security   c. Lock Screen
5. To save a photo received by text message takes two steps. The first step is: ____________________
6. An emoji is _____________________________
7. If a saved photo does not show up in Google Photos, check your settings under
   a. Permissions    b. Device Folders    c. Assistant

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#106 Internet Connections as you Travel

This episode was live on Sunday, January 15, 2017. To be notified of live shows, subscribe to our YouTube channel and be sure to click the bell for notifications.

• Opening Tip: Viewing Pictures - Year at a Glance - with Google Photos
• Beginner’s Lesson: Internet Connections as you Travel
• Ending Tip/App: Signal Check / Open Signal

Show Notes

A little pre-show video. Here is how we set up our studio outside the RV.

And, here is the show:

For more in depth information on this topic, please check our friends at  RVMobileInternet.com (and become a member!)

Review Questions

1. A smartphone can connect to the internet via either:
   ________________  OR ________________________
2. Generally, Computers and Tablets can only connect via:
   __________________________   (with a few exceptions)
3. Cellular data almost always costs, Wi-Fi is often free
   True____ False ____
4. To improve your phone’s signal reception from a cell tower you need:
   a. Wi-Fi Booster    b. Cellular booster   c. Router   d. none of these
5. To improve your computer’s signal reception from a campground Wi-Fi, you need a:
   a. Wi-Fi Booster    b. Cellular booster   c. Router   d. none of these
6. The WiFiRanger is a
   ___ Wi-Fi Booster   ___Cellular booster     ___Router

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#105 Teaching your Friends and Family, Guest: Abby Stokes

This episode was live on Sunday, January 8, 2017. To be notified of live shows, subscribe to our YouTube channel.

• Opening Tip: Deleting apps is very different in Android vs iPhone
• Beginner’s Lesson: Teaching Tips for helping your new-to-smartphones friends and family
• Ending Tip/App: RVDumpSites

Show Notes for Members

Show Notes for Non-members $.99

Review Questions. Leave comments with your questions.

1. Where can you find the best button shows for Beginners?
   _____________________________________
2. A family member is always the best teacher
   True    False
3. When teaching, whose hands should be on the device?
   __Teacher    __Learner
4. What is the best length of time for a lesson?
   _______________________________________
5. What are the 3 steps for teaching something important?
   1. ________________  2._____________  3._______________
6. To learn more from our guest, Abby Stokes, go to her website
   ____________________________________________
   AskAbbyStokes.com

Web Browsing on Mobile Devices #28

We didn't do a live show this week, so we searched thru our archives for something useful and came up with Episode 28 which originally streamed live on January 25, 2015. There are some really useful tips and the Beginner's Lesson is just as valid today as it was then. In fact, by watching it I learned some things I had forgotten! After watching it, how did you do with the review questions? Leave us comments ok? The show starts with some talk and videos of where we were at the time in Quartzsite AZ. To see the original videos, click here. To skip the opening, go to the 6min 40 second point.

1. Quick Tips: Icon Glossary, Emailing your Lat/Lon location. 
2. Beginner’s Lesson: Web Browsing 
3. App o Week: TuneIn Radio 

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Review Questions:
1.To Browse to a website, you need a browser: Name 2
2.You can have several websites open at one time in different _________.
3.How can you go directly to a website rather than getting search results?
4.How can you save a website as an icon on your home screen – like an app?
5.Bookmarks are most useful for websites that you use All the time? Or Occasionally?

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