Managing your Phone's Battery #69

This episode was streamed live on February 7, 2016. This month, while we've been visiting beautiful places in Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia - it has been so important to keep our phones charged! We don't want to miss any of those photos! This episode is about understanding what is using your battery and how to keep it going longer. You will learn how to find out what is using your battery and what external batteries we recommend. 

It's your choice to use your battery less, or get more batteries! You'll learn both in this encore episode of What Does This Button Do? 

1. Tip of the day: Android Touch Key Lights, iPhone Flashlight
2. Beginner’s Lesson: Managing your Battery
3. App of the day: NFL

For Geeks on tour members, here are the detailed show notes with links for episode 69,

Review Questions:

1. Name 3 of the 5 Radios in a Smartphone
2. How do you turn all radios off at once?
3. T/F You should always drain the battery completely before charging
4. To see what Apps are using battery, you can go to Settings and then ___________________
5. For most people, the biggest user of battery is _______________________
6. T/F Keeping your system and Apps up to date will help with greater battery life

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Installing, Uninstalling and Organizing Apps

This episode was streamed live on July 19, 2015. It is all about Apps. Why should you install apps from the official store? (Play Store on Android, App store on Apple) How do you uninstall an app you no longer use? How do you pay for apps? How do you organize Apps into ‘folders?’
These questions and more are answered in this encore episode of What Does This Button Do?

1. Quick Tips: Charging multiple devices
2. Beginner’s Lesson: Apps: Installing, Uninstalling, and Organizing
3. App of the Week: Traillink

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Google Photos Frequently Asked Questions

This episode was streamed live on June 5, 2016. Is Google Photos really unlimited and free? How do I upload my phone's pictures then delete them to free up space? How do I get pictures from my computer to Google Photos? How do I share a Google Photos album with friends? How do I switch from Picasa to Google Photos? 

These questions and more are answered in this encore episode of What Does This Button Do?

1. Tip o Week: Camera Flash OFF, ON, or Auto?
2. Beginner’s Lesson: Google Photos FAQs
3. App o week: Twilight

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How to Free Up Space on your Smartphone

This episode was streamed live on June 26, 2016. When your phone gets full, a lot of things stop working! First we explain how to find out what is taking up the space. It's your job to clean it out. There are a couple of things that are easy to delete and usually free up quite a bit of space. We call these the “low hanging fruit.” Then we have lots of tips for a variety of techniques for keeping your phone clean.

1. Tip o Week: Straighten Horizons
2. Beginner’s Lesson: Free up Space on your phone
3. App o week: Pay By Phone

We did not do a live Button Show this week because we were teaching a different class ... one on Blogging. We turned on Facebook Live Streaming for that class, you can watch it here.

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How to Backup your Smartphone

This episode streamed live on May 1, 2016. We are currently in our motorhome traveling from Florida to Arizona.
What do people mean when they say, “The Cloud”? What is the difference between upload, download, and synchronize. Do you need to backup your phone to your computer when you’re using all cloud-based services? These questions and more are discussed in this episode of “What Does This Button Do?”
Show Notes available for Geeks on tour Members.

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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Navigating with Google Maps #74

This episode was live streamed on March 13, 2016

1. Tip o Week: YouTube playback controls
2. Beginner’s Lesson: How to Navigate with Google Maps
3. App o Week: Vivino

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Check out our December Learning Special: Google Photos Book and our complete learning library on USB drive for $49 - 2 for the price of one - till 12/31/16 only.

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How to Backup your Smartphone

We did not do a live show this week - taking the Halloween weekend off!  This encore episode was live on May 1, 2016.

1. Tip o Week: How to hold your Phone  when using the Camera
2. Beginner’s Lesson: How to Backup your Phone
3. App o week: How to Tie Knots

Show Notes for Members Only

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Google Photos FAQs

No Live Show this Week 9/25/16 - We are traveling to California for Chris to attend a Google Top Contributor Conference! We will also be presenting a Geeks on Tour seminar on Google Photos at the Golden Gate Computer Society. See GGCS.org for details. It's on Monday evening 7:15 at Drakes Landing Community room.

It seems logical then, to suggest a rerun that focuses on Google Photos 

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Email Account Setup

No Live Show this week 9/11/16

Here is our recommended "rerun" about email setup
Episode #30 first aired on Feb 15, 2015. ... feel free to skip the introduction :-)
The Quick Tip on  starts at 7:07, The Beginner's Lesson starts at 9:28
#30 Members' Show Notes

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Photos for your Contacts

We won't be doing a live show today - 8/14/16 - because it is a travel day. We will be traveling thru the Bronx and over the George Washington bridge in New York City at just about the time we normally do the show. Maybe we'll live stream a bit of that on our Facebook page :-)

Meanwhile, our suggested rerun is about adding photos to your contacts. OR, you can peruse all episodes in the Youtube Playlist for the What Does This Button Do? show. If you are a Geeks on Tour member, you can find show notes for all episodes on the Weekly Show page.

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