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| Category | Topic | Description | Date Recorded | Minutes |
| Blogs | Examples of Blogs | Weblogs: Tioga and George, Odies' Roadies, Busbuilder, Milblogging, Dooce | 8/5/06 | 7.5 |
| Blogs | Creating your first Blog with Blogger | Using Blogger, create a free blog in 3 steps; | 3/20/07 | 5.5 |
| Blogs | Posting | Log in, choose the blog, create a post, Publish | 8/13/06 | 3.5 |
| Blogs | Pictures | Upload one photo to a blogger post. | 8/13/06 | 5 |
| Blogs | Adding a Map to your Sidebar | How to take a custom Google Map and add it to your Blogger sidebar using a Blogger Gadget. | 10/2/08 | 5.5 |
| Blogs | Duplicate your Blogger Blog to WordPress | You can sleep better at night knowing that your blog exists in 2 places on the web. This video shows you how to duplicate your Blogger Blog on WordPress | 11/11/08 | 5.5 |
| Blogs | Using Live Writer | Using the free Microsoft Live Writer as your tool for posting to Blogger. This is a quick demo of posting, adding a map, adding photos from Picasa Web Albums. | 9/1/09 | 6 |
| Blogs | HTML Errors | If you've ever received a message from Blogger, "Your HTML cannot be accepted" Watch this video to understand what that means and how you fix it. | 9/1/09 | 3 |
| Blogs | Changing Templates | You can expand your choices of Templates by learning how to find, download, and install third party Blogger Templates. This video shows you how. | 2/16/10 | 6.5 |
| Blogs | Using Live Writer: Setup | How to set up Live Writer to be able to publish to your blog. | 12/11/09 | 5 |
| Blogs | Blogger Stats | See how many people are viewing your Blog *and* who referred them with this built in Blogger feature | 7/15/10 | 2.5 |
| Get a gmail account | How to sign up for a free gmail (google mail) account. | 3/20/07 | 3.5 | |
| Import/Export Contacts | A Show Me How video from www.GeeksonTour.com: how to get all your email addresses from Outlook or Outlook Express and make a copy of them using Gmail. Even if you don’t use Gmail, this is a great way to have a backup of all your contacts. | 3/15/08 | 2.5 | |
| Essentials | Mouse Basics | How to Point, Click, Drag, Double-click, Right-click | 12/8/06 | 6.5 |
| Essentials | Window Basics | How to Open, Close, Maximize, Minimize, Move among Mulitple Windows | 12/8/06 | 5.5 |
| Essentials | Basic Text Editing | Using a Word Processing program to create a letter. Type, Erase, Insert, Wordwrap, and change fonts. | 12/8/06 | 6 |
| Essentials | Web Basics - Part 1 | What is the Internet? What is the Web? How do you 'browse' around the web? | 9/15/07 | 7 |
| Essentials | Internet Explorer version 7: First Look | Take a look at some of the new features of Internet Explorer 7 | 1/27/07 | 5.9 |
| Google Earth and Maps | Measuring a River with Google Earth | Use Google Earth to get a preview of a river you may want to paddle. Find launch areas and measure your course. | 12/29/06 | 4.2 |
| Google Earth and Maps | Trip-Planning with Google Earth | Use Google Earth's directions and 'find businesses' to help plan your trips | 3/22/07 | 7.5 |
| Google Earth and Maps | Google Maps: Adding Lines | How to add route lines to your custom map in Google Maps | 3/30/08 | 5 |
| Google Earth and Maps | Google Maps: Draw Lines along Roads | Google Map's line drawing feature on custom maps has added the ability to draw along roads, or even from directions. | 8/2/09 | 4.5 |
| Google Earth and Maps | Emailing a Custom Map | How to use the placemark and path tools to create your own custom map, then send the image in an email. | 1/30/09 | 6 |
| GPS | Streets and Trips: Screen Panes | Different ways to arrange the panes on your screen to view Streets and Trips . | 5/9/10 | 6 |
| GPS | Streets and Trips: Import Data | How to keep address information in a spreadsheet and import as place pushpins in Streets and Trips. | 5/10/10 | 6 |
| GPS | Send locations from S&T to Garmin Nuvi | Microsoft Streets and Trips 2010 new feature: using USB cable to transfer route stops from S&T to Garmin Nuvi 255 | 9/21/09 | 5 |
| GPS | Streets and Trips: Plan your First Route | Learn the basic steps of creating a route and setting your route options. | 5/11/10 | 4.5 |
| GPS | Printing | With your route and driving directions printed out, you may not need the computer while you're driving. Printout is also good for overview Stats. | 7/15/10 | 2.5 |
| GPS | Let the computer do the Navigating | See samples of how we use Microsoft Streets and Trips to navigate while we travel. | 7/1/08 | 5 |
| High Speed Internet for Travelers | Internet on the Road: 3 choices | Connecting to High Speed Internet on the road is, by necessity, wireless. There are 3 wireless technologies from which to choose: Satellite, Cellular and Wi-Fi | 6/4/09 | 5 |
| High Speed Internet for Travelers | Bandwidth Limitations (FAP) on Satellite Connections | Learn why Satellite Internet has bandwidth limitations and how to know when you've exceeded them. | 11/4/07 | 5 |
| High Speed Internet for Travelers | Broadband with Tethered Cellphone | This video will show you how to use a new cellphone, with Verizon's service, to get high-speed internet on your laptop computer. No separate contract, no aircard. | 3/10/09 | 4 |
| Photostory 3 | Download and Install Photo Story 3 | See the steps to download this free program from Microsoft's website to your computer. | 5/1/08 | 5.4 |
| Photostory 3 | Quick Movie | Instructions on how to make a short movie, starting with your photos and ending with a movie with motion and sound. | 5/1/08 | 6.7 |
| Picasa | Picasa 3.5: Overview | A slide show explaining why Picasa 3 is the only software you'll need for managing your digital photos. | 11/16/09 | 6.5 |
| Picasa | Picasa 3: Install Picasa 3 | Download and install Picasa 3 for free from Google. | 11/3/09 | 3.5 |
| Picasa | Picasa 3: Orientation to the Library Screen | Understand that the position of command buttons on the screen informs you about what they do. | 10/28/08 | 5 |
| Picasa | Picasa 3:Individual Photo View | Navigating between the library and single picture view. Navigating within single picture view and using the different tools available. | 12/12/08 | 2 |
| Picasa | Picasa 3: Redeye | Learn how to fix photos of people with red eyes. | 1/3/09 | 2 |
| Picasa | Picasa 3: Collage | A quick look at the new, improved Collage feature in Picasa 3. Scrapbookers will love it! | 9/4/08 | 3.5 |
| Picasa | Picasa 3.5 Geotagging | Picasa 3.5 integrates with Google Maps. View Google Maps in the 'Places' pane. View photos in place, place photos on the map. Geotags follow the photo to Web Albums. | 9/23/09 | 6 |
| Picasa | Move Folders between USB Hard Drives | As your library of photos grows, so does your need for bigger hard drives and ways to move your photos to the disks with the most space. Picasa makes it easy. | 10/25/09 | 8 |
| Picasa | Create a Picture Fram with Collage | With a little creative thinking, you can use Picasa's Collage tool to frame a picture. | 12/29/09 | 3 |
| Picasa | Updating Picasa Software | How to see that you are using the latest version of Picasa and download any updates if necessary. Demonstrates version 3.6 | 12/11/09 | 3.5 |
| Picasa | Webcam | How to use Picasa to capture video from your computer's built-in webcam. | 1/22/10 | 2 |
| Picasa | Face Albums | When you're looking at the faces in a Person's album, you may want to see the whole picture that the face comes from. This video shows you how. | 2/8/10 | 3 |
| Picasa | Basic Search | How to use Picasa's search box to find photos | 7/11/06 | 7.8 |
| Picasa | Downloading and Installing Picasa | Where to get the free download of Picasa from Google, with step-by-step demonstration. | 6/10/06 | 5 |
| Picasa | First time scan for photos | The first time you open Picasa it will scan for your photos | 7/11/06 | 5.5 |
| Picasa | Views | Different ways of viewing your photos in Picasa | 1/19/07 | 4.5 |
| Picasa | Rename, Move, Delete | Using Picasa to rename photos, delete, and organize in folders. | 7/11/06 | 6.3 |
| Picasa | Restoring a file | Retrieving one picture from a Backup CD and using Picasa to restore it. | 1/18/07 | 2 |
| Picasa | Backups | Backing up your photos to CD or DVD using Picasa | 11/24/06 | 5 |
| Picasa | Using Web Album photos in other Websites | Many websites let you add your photos if you know the 'URL.' This video shows you how to get that URL from a photo in Picasa Web Albums. revised Jan 2010 | 3/30/08 | 7 |
| Picasa | Put a Picasa Slideshow in your Blog | How to use Picasa Web albums to put a slideshow in your blog, or any other webste. | 6/26/08 | 3 |
| Safe Computing | Backing up to External Hard Drive | How to use Windows XP backup utility and an external, USB hard drive to back up all your data. | 11/4/07 | 6.5 |
| Safe Computing | Avoid Email Scams | Learn to recognize fake emails and not fall victim to their scams. | 11/24/07 | 6.8 |
| Safe Computing | Security Center | Window's Security Center is a great place to check that your computer is safe. | 3/17/09 | 2.5 |
| Quick Tips | Web Browsing - Ctrl-Enter shortcut | Using Internet Explorer or Firefox. The Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut will save you typing when browsing the web. | 7/27/07 | 2 |
| Quick Tips | Registering for GOT Forum | Shows how to register for the forum because it is a separate process from your Geeks on tour mebership. | 6/25/09 | 8 |
| Vista | Versions of Vista | What version do you have? Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate. Different features come with different versions. | 7/7/08 | 3.7 |
| Vista | No 1 favorite feature: Search | Stop looking and start finding stuff with Vista's search feature. Don't get aggravated looking for things that have moved. Let Vista find them for you. | 7/7/08 | 5.5 |
| Vista | Speech Recognition | Speech recognition is a built-in feature of Vista and it works pretty good! | 7/15/08 | 4.5 |
