Public Speaking in Nassau, Bahamas. It was a fantastic, enriching, experience. We helped out by volunteering at the registrations desk. We attended several workshops, like “Transforming Public Speaking with Clown Presence.” and we witnessed the contestants for the speech contest – just WOW. You can see the winner’s speech here. Then, we stayed on a few days and
went scuba diving! Jim got to use his new underwater housing for his phone. It worked great for taking photos and videos. Here’s some of the results.
Classes
You can see all classes from past months on our Classes page. If you’re interested in having us present to your group, contact us here. We presented 3 classes during August:
- Aug 28 2023 Hilton Head Island Computer Club Tech Tips for International Travel.
- Aug 25, 2023 Club Awesome Toastmasters, Learning with Geeks on Tour
- Aug 5, 2023 Pikes Peak Computers – Google Maps presentation
- Aug 6, 2023 Episode 262 Hodgepodge of Tech Tips for Everyone
In this newsletter:
- Google My Maps
for Interactive, Custom maps - Free up Space with Google Photos
- Cinematic Photos
- Scanning old photos
- Thank you to our premium members for supporting us and making this newsletter possible! If you learn something from us, and you’re not a member, consider joining us now.
Recently added “Pick-a-Tip” for MEMBERS ONLY
- Tip078: How to make a LinkedIn QR Code for connecting with new people
- Tip077: How to find out what your Google or Apple Pay is paying for
- Tip076: Google Photos: I deleted some photos and now they’re back!
- Tip075: How to add contact info to Android lock screen
- Tip073: How to avoid online scams
New Member Benefit – Office Hours:
You can schedule a 30 minute one-on-one zoom meeting with Chris (Mrs. Geek) Click here and check it out.
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What’s coming up – Our Calendar September and October
The Geeks are really on tour this month and next!
We have online classes.
Chris is starting a new Podcast, Fun With Photos!
The videos will premier on Tech For Senior’s Mondays at Noon ET
September
- “What Does This Button Do?”
2 pm ET Sunday Live on YouTube- Sept 3 Episode 263
- Sept 24 Episode 264
- Members Only Backstage Zoom after the shows
- September 11, 7 pm ET Ask Chris Anything
Live Google Photos Q&A - September 10 and 17 Fun With Photos Podcast at 2 pm ET
- Tech For Senior’s Selected Mondays at Noon ET “Fun With Photos”
October
- “What Does This Button Do?” 2 pm ET Sunday Live on YouTube
- October Live from the UK Episode 265
- Members Only Backstage
Zoom after the shows
- October 2nd and 16th – Fun With Photos Podcast at 2pm ET
- Tech For Senior’s Selected Mondays at Noon ET “Fun With Photos”
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I’m a huge fan of Google’s My Maps. If you are a premium member of GeeksOnTour.com we have a Learning Guide on how to use it. It’s free. It’s based on Google Maps, so it has all the information you could ever want, but then you get to personalize it with your own markers. Markers for places you’ve been, markers for places you want to go,
and just markers for places you want to remember for whatever reason. Every marker can be customized. You can specify an icon and color for each marker, or group of markers. You can add your own text descriptions, including links. You can even add your own photos on a marker.
There are 2 special considerations on iOS: your photos will also be deleted from iCloud, and the space is not released until you go in to Apple Photos and clean out the recently deleted album.
When your phone is getting full, odds are that photos/videos are a big part of the problem. If you could clear all the photos and videos off your phone, you’d have a lot more space! That’s exactly what google Photos “Free Up Space” does. After it confirms that all your photos/videos are in the Google Photos cloud, it erases them from the phone. When you use the Google Photos app, you’ll never miss them because you’re looking at the cloud and all your photos are there.
This works brilliantly on android – see video 739.GP-Free up space on Android. It also works on iPhone but with 2 concerns…
On Sunday August 27, we posted episode 3 of Fun with Photos. Our plan is to post a new episode on Sunday afternoons whenever we are not live-streaming our “Button Show.” Episode 3 was about scanning old photos.
See GeeksOnTour.com/Hawaii for details
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