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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
Email	Get a gmail account	How to sign up for a free gmail (google mail) account.	3/20/07	3.5
Email	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

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In order to fit all our tutorials onto disk, we've divided them into two categories/disks; 1) "Boot Camp" topics: how to use your computer, Vista, Wi-Fi, Safe Computing and 2) how to use fun software for Travelers: managing digital photos with Picasa, make professional slide shows with Photo Story 3, making blogs with Blogger, and using Google Earth and Maps.