A marvelous bird is the Pelican …
January
A marvelous bird is the Pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can hold in his beak enough food for a week!
And I don’t know how the hellican?”
February – We are leaving soon for a scuba diving trip to Indonesia. We will be gone until the second week of March. If you’d like to follow us by our photos, you can
join our Google Photos album: 2023 Indonesia Diving. You may not hear from us for the 10 days we are on the dive boat as we do not expect any way to connect to
the Internet during that time.
Classes
You can see all classes from past months on our Classes page. We presented 2 classes during January:
We did 2 of our Sunday Live “What Does This Button Do?” shows:
- Jan 29, 2023 Episode 250: International Travel – our Top Tips
- Jan 15, 2023 Episode 249: How to copy photos from phone to computer
In this newsletter:
- Travelers – download these things before you leave
- How Google Photos Syncs your edits and deletions
- Best way to share photos – with a link
- ChatGPT – did you know that artificial intelligence can write a poem?
- Video – remove object from a photo
Recent Tutorial Videos
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What’s coming up – Our Calendar February and March
The Geeks are on tour most of February and into March.
We’ll try to go live from Indonesia but expect Internet connectivity to be sparse.
February
- “What Does This Button Do?”
- Feb 5: Episode 251 2pm ET
- Feb 8 1:30 – 2:00pm Mesa Regal TUG – Google Photos presentation
- Rest of February and part of March we will be in Indonesia, a lot of it underwater.
March
- “What Does This Button Do?”
- Mar : Episode 252
- Welcome back from Indonesia
- Mar 20 Valencia Reserve Computer Club Google Photos Presentation?
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The best way to share photos – with a link
- Anyone with the link can view the photo(s)
- It doesn’t take up any space, it’s just a link
- If you share an album, and they ‘join’ the album, they’ll see future additions
Travelers – download these things before you leave: maps, languages, books, movies.
If you travel, you’re bound to find yourself without an Internet connection occasionally. To keep your phone useful, you can download maps, languages, books and movies so they work even offline. This article tells you how.
A Poem Written by Artificial Intelligence – ChatGPT
Have you heard of ChatGPT? It’s artificial intelligence that we can use for free. We asked it to write a poem about Geeks on Tour.
Have you learned something from Geeks on Tour?
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the archives of past newsletters. If you’ve learned something from us along the way, we’d love a Google Review from you!