| 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.
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 …]
We just spend a week in Canada, traveling from Detroit thru Toronto and Kingston, then back across the border to Syracuse New York. We’re here in Syracuse for the FMCA NE Area Rally. While in Canada, we were able to get enough Internet access with our mobile devices (on TMobile and Project Fi) to do [Click for the rest …]
Where to go? What to do? Where to stay? Those are the questions we ask ourselves in between rallies. We arrange our RV travel according to the rallies where we need to be to teach our seminars. Sometimes we have 2 days between rallies, sometimes we have 2 months. They’re always in the same quadrant [Click for the rest …]
If you’re a traveler, you probably love maps. I love to have maps of where I’ve been and we teach how to make these maps using Google My Maps. But, if you are an RVer, and you use RVillage.com, it’s a lot easier. RVillage automatically creates a map of everywhere you check in. Here are [Click for the rest …]
Those of us who travel by RV have the enviable opportunity to be in the perfect spot for the historic total solar eclipse that crosses the United States on August 21, 2017. But how do you find that perfect spot? With an app on your smartphone of course! App Name: Eclipse2017.org Author: Eclipse 2017 Price: [Click for the rest …]