| Jim and Chris Guld are Geeks on Tour, and they like to learn. They’ll teach you about using your technology for fun stuff like photos, maps, and blogs. Technology that is especially useful for travelers, but for anyone who likes smartphones, photos, and maps! We suggest browsing: |
We tour the country in a motorhome and present technology seminars to other travelers along the way. We are Geeks who Teach and we love technology that enhances our lives. Like the free Google Photos for effortlessly keeping the thousands of pictures we take, or Google Maps on our smart phones that we use to navigate, or Blogger, the free site we use to keep our personal travel blog. You can learn how to do all this by watching our Tutorial Videos.
Do you love seeing your memories in pictures? We think using Google Photos online, and Google’s Picasa software on your computer are by far the easiest way to enjoy your lifetime of photos. There is so much to learn about them that we have a special site LearnGooglePhotos.com offers articles almost every week on tips and tricks for using Google Photos and Picasa.
FMCA is the RV club where Geeks on Tour got its start in 2005. We’ve presented technology seminars at every FMCA national convention since then. Jon Walker has been a fixture at FMCA for most of the time we’ve been around. We saw him enjoying the Herman’s Hermits concert at the FMCA Convention in Pomona, [Click for the rest …]
The Carriage Travel Club started out as a group of people who owned Carriage brand 5th Wheel Trailers. When Carriage, Inc. got out of the business, the club opened up to any old SOBs (Some Other Brand.) Now it is a club of RVing enthusiasts who get together often in different parts of the country [Click for the rest …]
We spend the majority of our life traveling, mostly by RV. I’m starting my plan for 2018 now, yet I’m still filling in the details for the remainder of 2017. I’m not so concerned about turn by turn directions, we use a dashboard GPS and enter our destination each day before we get on the [Click for the rest …]
This photo comes from my Google Photos library. I’m using WordPress.com (that’s different than normal) to write this post. (see past article: Embedding Pictures from Google Photos) When I click on insert content, I can click the down arrow and choose Google Photos. The picture I choose gets added to my WordPress media library. A [Click for the rest …]
We love the Blogging platform from Google called Blogger.com. We’ve been keeping our personal travel blog on it since 2003. This is what we teach at RV rallies in the seminar, “Every RVer needs a blog.” And, it is the subject of one of our more popular tutorial video series. We taught it again just [Click for the rest …]
We had a front row seat for the Solar Eclipse this week. Like after a touchdown at a football game, the crowd cheered. You could hear the applause and the hoots and hollers from across the vineyard. I added my voice with a full out scream. Woo HOOOOO! We were cheering the fact that, after [Click for the rest …]