Hot Smartphones How-Tos
How To: Adjust the flash on your cell phone camera
This is a quick tutorial on how to reduce the flash for your cell phone camera. If your flash is too bright, your pictures will look washed out. Reduce the flash by using a piece of paper to dim the flash and improve the quality of your photos.
How To: Use the official Facebook app on an Apple iPhone 4 or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to use the Facebook app on an Apple iPhone 4? You're in luck. This video tutorial presents an overview of the application's basic features. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using the official Facebook app on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How to Play Despicable Me: Minion Mania Lite on an iPhone 4 or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Despicable Me: Minion Mania Lite on your Apple iPhone? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Despicable Me: Minion Mania Lite on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Play Solitaire on an Apple iPhone 4 or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Solitaire on your Apple iPhone? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Solitaire on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Play Fruit Ninja on an Apple iPhone 4 or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Fruit Ninja on your Apple iPhone? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Fruit Ninja on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Use an Apple iPhone 4 as an external camera for an iPad
Want to know how to use your iPhone as an external web cam for your Apple iPad? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this neat trick yourself, take a look.
How To: Monitor your Verizon service and data usage on a Google Android smartphone
Want to monitor your Verizon Wireless service and data usage from an Android phone? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started keeping an eye on your own minutes and data transfers, take a look.
How To: Use the screen lock and spell check features on an Apple iPhone 4
In this clip, you'll learn how to use two of the lesser-known new features of the Apple iPhone 4 — to wit, the screen lock and spell check tools. Whether you're the proud owner of an iPhone 4 or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch. Take a look.
How To: Take notes on a Google Android smartphone
Want to take notes on your Android cell phone? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started creating, storing and sharing digital notes on your own Android phone, take a look.
How To: Use Cydia to download apps & themes onto a jailbroken iPhone 4 or iPod Touch
Use Cydia to download homebrew applications to your jailbroken Apple iPhone or iPod Touch. This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using Cydia on your own jailbroken mobile Apple device, take a look.
How To: Manage sync settings on a Google Android smartphone
Want to change the way your Android phone synchronizes with your Facebook, Twitter and email accounts? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started tweaking your own synch settings, take a look.
How To: Use the Cydia app browser on a jailbroken Apple iPhone 4
So, you've jailbroken your iPhone 4. Now what? Download some homebrew apps with Cydia! This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using Cydia yourself, take a look.
How To: Use a Google Android phone with a hearing aid
Need to know how to optimize a Google Android smartphone for use with a hearing aid? This brief video tutorial from the folks at Butterscotch will teach you everything you need to know. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using your Android phone in conjunction with your own hearing aid, take a look.
How To: Play Hungry Sharks on an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Hungry Sharks on an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Rollercoaster Extreme on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Play Luxor on an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Luxor on your Apple iPhone? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Luxor on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Play Skee-ball on the Apple iPhone 4 or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Skee-ball on your Apple iPhone? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Skee-ball on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Play Slingshot Cowboy on an Apple iPhone 4 or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Slingshot Cowboy on your Apple iPhone? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Rollercoaster Extreme on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Play Whacksy Taxi on an Apple iPhone 4 or iPod Touch
Need some help figuring out how to play Whacksy Taxi on your Apple iPhone? This video tutorial presents an overview of the game's essential rules and objective. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started playing Whacksy Taxi on your own Apple iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4 or iPod Touch, take a look.
How To: Manage widgets and icons on a Motorola Droid X smartphone
In this clip, learn how to manage your widges and icons on a Droid X cell phone. Whether you're a proud owner of the Moto Droid 2 Google Android smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to benefit from this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Use the Google Mobile App for the iPhone to search better
Google has it fingers in just about every digital pie there is, including the App Store of their leading smartphone OS competitor, Apple. This video will show you how to use the Google Mobile App for the iPhone, a great app that allows you to do Google voice searches and all sorts of other handy search tasks. Apple is pretty sweet, but Apple and Google together is a huge mobile phone combo.
How To: Use the Android App My Tracks to time yourself and save your running route
This video represent a bit of a digression for the Google Webmaster series of videos, spotlighting a cool Google-designed Android app and how to use it. The app in question is My Tracks, a free app that allows runner, bikers, and other distance exercisers to keep track of their distance, pace, splits, elevation, and all sorts of other information automatically with their phone. It will even create and save a map of your course, which you can then share online.
How To: Send and read SMS text messages on a Motorola Droid 2 smartphone
Want to know how to send and receive text messages on a Droid 2 cell phone? Whether you're a proud owner of the Moto Droid 2 Google Android smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to benefit from this video tutorial. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Get started using a BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphone
Looking for a guide on how to use all of the important features on a BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphone? You've come to the right place. This video guide presents a breakdown of the smartphone's most important parts and functions. For complete details, and to get started using your own Bold 9650, watch this video guide.
How To: Set custom wallpapers and ringtones on a Motorola Droid 2 smartphone
Want to know how to set a custom wallpaper or ringtone on a Droid 2? Whether you're a proud owner of the Moto Droid 2 Google Android smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to benefit from this video tutorial, which also takes a look at the Swype typing feature. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Set up and use the basic features of a Motorola Droid 2 smartphone
Whether you're a proud owner of the Moto Droid 2 Google Android smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to benefit from this video tutorial, which presents a reasonably thorough overview of the device's various features and functions. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to perform a number of basic tasks like setting the time, take a look.
How To: Set up and use a BlackBerry Presenter with a BlackBerry phone
In this official guide from the folks at BlackBerry, as you might expect given the title, you'll learn how to set up and use a BlackBerry Presenter with a BlackBerry phone. For complete instructions, and to get started making PowerPoint presentations with your own BlackBerry phone, watch this video tutorial.
How To: How Much Radiation Does Your Phone Emit?
Tawkon has developed an app for the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry that measures the radiation levels at any given time. The demonstration below shows how the radiation levels go up for each phone when a "death grip" is applied. What's a death grip, you may ask? A death grip is a simple term used to denote a hand that has recently killed. What a troublesome thing to have.
How To: Keep track of your passwords on an Android phone with the LastPass app
Looking for an easy way to manage passwords on a Google Android smartphone? This clip from the folks at Butterscotch presents one easy way—namely LastPass, an application which will securely store and recall all of your account information. For more information, including details on how to use LastPass yourself, watch this Android user's guide.
How To: Protect data on an Android phone with the Lookout antivirus app
Your Android phone is a computer not unlike a laptop or desktop PC and it shares the same vulnerabilities. This clip presents a quick overview of how to safeguard against viruses and data loss. With the Lookout app, it's easy! So easy, in fact, that this video guide can present a complete overview of the process in about two minutes. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how to adjust your own Facebook tagging settings, take a look.
How To: Use the TextNow 4.0 App to send unlimited texts on the iPhone
TextNow is a great App for the iPhone that allows you to, for a $1 initial fee, send unlimited text messages to any other TextNow user without using any of the precious limited texts on your AT&T plan. The App is very easy to use, requires only a modest amount of additional money to keep using it forever, and will probably wind up saving you money in the long run by cutting down your monthly billed texts.
How To: Use iMovie to edit videos on the iPhone
iMovie is probably the easiest-to-use suite of movie editing software ever put together, and in June Apple released a mobile version for the iPhone 4. Since the iPhone 4 can shoot HD video, this puts a lot of filmmaking power in the palm of your hand, literally. This video will show you some basic uses of iMovie, like adding sound and transitions to videos, that will get you started shooting really high-quality video from your awesome new phone.
How To: Unlock an iPhone 4 / 3GS / 3G with Ultrasn0w to use it on another cell carrier
The iPhone has always has one very big problem: that it is tied to AT&T. AT&T is a terrible network, and many iPhone users out there are probably dying to switch network but keep their awesome phone. Well now they can! This video will show you how to unlock you jailbroken iPhone 4, 3GS, or 3G using a program called Ultrasn0w, leaving it ready for use on any cell carrier in the country. Except Sprint, they don't have SIM cards.
How To: Install Frash on an iPhone 4 or iPad and view Flash media on your device
One of the biggest problems with the iPhone 4, iPad, and iPod Touches is that they don't have any native support for Flash, which is the language of choice for much online media. Fortunately, there's an App for that now too called Frash that will allow you to run Flash on your iDevice. This video will show you how to get it, install it, and start really experiencing the web on your iDevice.
How To: Use the FaceTime App over 3G on a jailbroken iPhone 4 with MY3G
FaceTime is a very cool Apple App that makes video chat possible on the iPhone, but only if you're on a wifi network. Officially, at least! One of the many cool things that you can do after your jailbreak you iPhone 4 is use FaceTime on the 3G network! This quick video will show you how to enable Face Time 3G use using a jailbreak App called MY3G.
How To: Get iLLumine, a cool Winterboard theme, free for a jailbroken iPhone or iTouch
One of the first things that you have to / should do after jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch is going out and finding a theme for it that you like to replace the Apple UI you just bypassed. One of the best Winterboard themes that you can get is the iLLumine theme, which comes with many icons and works great. This video will show you how to get it on your jailbroken iDevice for free. All you need is this source on your phone: http://podulo.com/ and you're ready to go!
How To: Root a Droid Incredible in one click
The Droid Incredible is the hottest new handset on Verizon, and it's a great one. Do you want to unlock the true potential of it's amazing processor and other capabilities? Watch this video. It will show you how to root a Droid Incredible with one click using some software you can download here. Now load a ROM and start really enjoying your phone!
How To: Find the PIN and phone number of a BlackBerry phone
Learn how to make a BlackBerry phone tell you its PIN and phone number. This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're the proud owner of a BlackBerry smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to be well served by this video guide. For detailed information, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Root an HTC Droid Eris phone
The HTC Eris is one of the many smart-looking smartphones the company has released in it's short tenure in the US market, but it's a good one and you can get it for free from Sprint with many service plans. If you've got one, why not root it and start taking full advantage of its abilities! This video will show you how to do it quickly and easily, teaching your cute little phone some new tricks.
How To: Set up a BlackBerry phone to automatically answer when removed from a holster
Learn how to cause your BlackBerry phone to automatically answer incoming phone calls when removed from its holster. This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're the proud owner of a BlackBerry smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to be well served by this video guide. For detailed information, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Set up a speed dial for a contact on a BlackBerry phone
Learn how to set up speed dial for your most frequently phoned contacts on a BlackBerry phone running version 5 of the BlackBerry OS. This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're the proud owner of a BlackBerry smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to be well served by this video guide. For detailed information, including step-by-step instructions, take a look.