Category Archives: Gabbing with the Geeks

Smartphones and Tablets Tips and Tricks Hangout

This event was presented live on Sunday January 19, 2014 at 2pm.  We demonstrate a few of our favorite tips about the power and the home button with Android and iPad.  We also had Robin Seaver and Honey Burt with us.  We know them from Sun City Hilton Head Computer Club.  Robin teaches iPhone classes, and Honey also teaches about many different devices but her clear favorite is the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.  In addition to the video recording, there is a link below to a document with notes about the tips we covered.

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Gabbing with the Geeks: from Florida Caverns State Park

The Geeks are ON TOUR.  We start our summer from Florida and we’re headed to Colorado Springs for the RVSEF Lifestyle, Education & Safety Conference

This stop is a beautiful Florida State park.  We talk about how we planned the stop using Streets and Trips with the free POI Megafile.  You can read more about that with this article “Streets and Trips POI Megafile”  If you’re a member, you can learn how to use Streets and Trips with the tutorial videos

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Link to Audio File: Gabbing with the Geeks: Florida Caverns, Streets and Trips, Runkeeper

Florida Caverns State Park

Gabbing with the Geeks: Windows 8

We recorded this conversation, using my Droid Razr and the free Smart Voice Recorder App.

Jim talks about Windows 8 while we’re out for a morning walk in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  The audio is just under 10 minutes long.  Please leave some comments below.

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Link to Audio File: Gabbing with the Geeks: Windows 8

Honest! We did see Manatee in the canal while we were on this walk!

Look close! Those gray blobs in the water are Manatee.

Podcasting Test

We are toying with the idea of doing a little podcasting.  But, it’s gotta be easy!  If we can figure out how to record the audio on our Droid phones and easily upload the file and put in a blog post like this, then we just might do it.

For this, I used the Smart Voice Recorder App on my phone, then I uploaded the resulting .wav file to a Podcast folder on our website and used a little bit of HTML5 code to emed the audio file here.  Let’s see if this works!

Our testing shows tis works fine with the Chrome browser, but not so much with Internet Explorer.  If it doesn’t work for you try this link.

Talking about Evernote

And here’s a video using JWPlayer and AWS S3

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Gabbing with the Geeks #13

Coming to you from upstate New York, this video was filmed inside the motorhome at Chris’s new office where she shows you how to turn a laptop into a desktop and Jim shows you his new iPad!  He’ll even demonstrate how you can play our Show-Me-How Videos on the iPad while it’s sitting next to your computer.  Just like having your own personal computer trainer at your side, but without having to set up a chair!  We talk about many other things as well.  Whenever a link can offer more information, we’ve added it below the video.

Gabbing with the Geeks #12: New Home, 4G

In this video you get a look at our new (to us) motorhome.  It’s a 2007 Gulf Stream Endura Diesel.  Referred to as a Super C, it is 37 feet long with 2 large slides and the floor plan is a unique 3 zone layout.  We love it.  Using our new 4G mobile hotspot from Verizon we are able to present our seminars from our motorhome even thought the audience is 1,000 miles away.  Check out the video to hear how we do it.

Verizon Mobile Broadband

We’re at the Tampa RV Super Show this week and we spent some time talking to the folks in the Verizon booth.  They are selling the Mi-Fi 3G mobile hotspot device as well as the 4G USB modems. Watch the video to see what they have to say, then click on over to our Forum to discuss it.

Gabbing with the Geeks #10: Kayak Diving, Upcoming Events

Coming to you from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in this Gabbing with the Geeks we show you a little of our favorite pastime – Scuba Diving from our Kayaks.  I hope we’re not rubbing it in too bad for our viewers who are buried in snow!

We will be at the Tampa RV SuperShow from January 11-16. See the rest of our schedule at: https://geeksontour.com/schedule.cfm

Here are the Macintosh Tips Videos by Ken Wiseman.

Gabbing with the Geeks #9: Meet TechnoRV

In this episode, we introduce you to some other ‘Geeks’ – Phil and Tracey May from TechnoRV.com.  In addition to living on the road and selling cool geek toys at RV rallies, the teenage members of the family, Ally and Josh, are able to manage their schooling by using the Internet and being home-schooled.  Watch the video below and enjoy meeting Phil, Tracey, Ally, Josh, and Murphy!