Monthly Issue #133 October, 2018
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Geeks in September

September started in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we were surprised to discover a wonderful aquarium.  We were headed to Goshen, Indiana for the Discovery Owners rally. We stopped along the way in Springfield, Illinois – staying in the exact same site we had a couple months ago at the fairgrounds. Weird.

After that rally, we headed south to the next rally – The RV Travel Club – in Sevierville, TN. Along the way we stayed at a very nice park in Rocky Top, Tennessee – really! And, we visited the museum of Appalachia – that is pictured above. See our photo album for September for the results. That’s it for September – still at the RV Travel Club rally.

​​Also see our Map and our Blog for the rest of the story.

We always continue to learn about technology! And, we share it with you on our weekly class, What Does This Button Do?

• Episode 152: International Trip Planning
• Episode 153: Our favorite smartphone apps with guests Eric and Tami of TechnoRV.com

​​​​​​​By the way, our pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach.  You can learn how to plan, preserve, and share your travels (or your life.)  It makes the experience that much more enjoyable to get creative and share pictures, maps, stories, and movies with friends and family. Check out our Learning Library of Tutorial Videos, just go toGeeksOnTour.com and click the menu for Tutorials. There are plenty of free videos in addition to our members-only content to whet your appetite for learning. ​​​​​​​

October – November Calendar

Every Wednesday “What Does This Button Do?”

We record them in a live stream, normally on Sundays at 2pm at our local time.

When we’re not doing our live show, we’ll post an encore episode.

Thursday is “Gabbing With the Geeks” on Facebook Live to answer questions from viewers and discuss anything. 5pm our local time.

We’re in Sevierville, TN. We presented three seminars last week for The RV Travel Club Rally. Plus Chris did several one-on-ones.

Here’s our speaking request form if you’d like to have us speak to your group.

​​​Upcoming Appearances

October 2018

• 9/26 – 10/3The RV Travel Club 2018 Grand National Rally in Sevierville, TN.
• 10/9 Remote Seminar presentation for Laguna Woods Technology Club
• 10/15 – 10/19 Workamper Rendezvous in Heber Springs, AR

November 2018

• 11/1 – 11-7 Chris will be at Google in California for a conference
• 11/8 7pm Valencia Falls Business Panel. Delray Beach, FL
• 11/19 7pm Bellagio  Boynton Beach, FL
• 11/26 Valencia Reserve Presentation (not confirmed)

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“Ask the Geeks” Q&A Forum

Here are some of the topics that have been discussed recently. Anyone can read the forum, only members can ask questions. This is a valuable benefit of membership. Join Today!

1. Google Photos Not Converting to High Quality
2. Backup and Sync Not Working Fully
3. Google Photos filling Google Drive
4. Putting Google Photos in a Facebook Group
5. Pinning Comments in YouTube

If you are a member, ask a question! Go to GeeksOnTour.com then click the Q&A menu. Make sure you are logged in (there’s a form on the Q&A page), select a category (Photos, Maps, Blogs, Other) then click Add Topic. When finished scroll down to Submit Topic.

How to keep your Facebook account safe

I wrote this article over four years ago, but with Facebook, everything old is new again. I have reviewed and updated all the information. The scam that is going around today is that you’ve been “hacked” because your friends are getting new friend requests from you. They aren’t. Don’t copy and paste that rumor, it’s just meaningless graffiti that someone else copied and pasted.

However, we think this should prompt you into checking your privacy settings. It is quite easy to prevent the “friend request hack” from ever happening just by making your friend list private. This article tells you how. Plus more general privacy and security settings.

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Google Photos can make a phone call from a photo of a business card

For years, I’ve wanted a simple system for storing business cards people give me along my travels. The operative word is simple! Sometimes they’re important, like my insurance agent’s card, and sometimes it’s just friendly, like the camper next door who tells us to stop by if we ever pass near their home. Sometimes it’s just a scrap of paper with a name and phone number written on it!

I think the answer is a Google Photos album for business card photos.

Read the article and let me know if you agree.

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Mounting phones and tablets to your dashboard

This is how we mount our devices on the dash as we travel. One phone and one tablet are always navigating.

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Smartphone Help Desk – One on One Teaching

If you’ve attended a rally where Geeks on Tour were presenting, you may have seen Chris (aka Mrs. Geek) sitting with someone and teaching them about their smartphone.

Sometimes the questions are easy like: how to use their fingerprint reader, how to adjust their screen timeout setting, how to install my favorite app: Google Photos, or how to use the keyboard to type word by word – called swiping or gliding.

Sometimes the questions are hard, like: why does my iPad not automatically connect to the data on my iPhone like it’s supposed to? or How do I get back in to my original Facebook account when I forgot the password and mistakenly created another account?

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Mrs. Geek’s Guide to Google Photos now available on Amazon.

Read More and Buy Now

Leave us a Review

Have you learned something from Geeks on Tour?

If so, we’d love to get a review from you. Click onthis link (then scroll down to reviews if needed) First you’ll be asked for a rating by stars – 5 is appreciated! Then, please write some comments. Did you learn from us in person? or from videos on our website? Do you watch our weekly What Does This Button Do show? Do you learn from our newsletters? How has your use of technology improved?

THANKS​​​​​​​

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That’s all for now. We hope you learned something. Your next issue will be next month. Any questions, please visit our forum. If you like this newsletter, please forward it on to your friends! If you received this issue forwarded by a friend you can subscribe to get your own copy delivered to your in box – it’s free. You can also visit the archives of past newsletters,

Happy Computing!

The Geeks on Tour website is an online learning library for Travelers who want to learn to use their computers and mobile devices for managing digital photos, making blogs, using maps and other online resources. Anyone can get our free weekly tech lesson, read articles on our Computer Tips for Travelers Blog, sign up for our free newsletter. A small fee makes you a ‘member‘ and you can then ask us anything on our Q&A page, view any of our 500+ video tutorials on these subjects in our Learning LIbrary, and get written notes and eBooks of our lessons.

Sincerely,

Geeks on Tour

jimandchris@geeksontour.com

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Geeks in May

In the beginning of May we joined a group of scuba divers from USA Dive Club and went to Bimini, Bahamas for a long weekend of diving. Then it was time to pack the camper and start our summer tour of RV rallies. Driving 1,400 miles in 3 days took us from home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to the Escapade rally in Sedalia, MO. There we taught a 2-day hands-on smartphone photography class where one of our students, Mike McIlraith, made the license plate collage you see above. Isn’t that cool?! Thanks Mike!

See our May photo album for more pictures, and our Blog for the rest of the story.

We always continue to learn about technology! And, we share it with you on our weekly class, What Does This Button Do? We recorded three new episodes in May:

• Episode 141: Music on Smartphones
• Episode 142: Snapseed on Chromebook, the best photo editor on the best laptop! with guest Ron Brown
• Episode 143: Scuba diving videos and shared albums

By the way, our pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach.  You can learn how to plan, preserve, and share your travels (or your life.)  It makes the experience that much more enjoyable to get creative and share pictures, maps, stories, and movies with friends and family. Check out our Learning Library of Tutorial Videos, just go to GeeksOnTour.com and click the menu for Tutorials. There are plenty of free videos in addition to our members-only content to whet your appetite for learning.

June-July Calendar

Every Wednesday “What Does This Button Do?”

We record them in a live stream, normally on Sundays at 2pm at our local time.

When we’re not doing our live show, we’ll post an encore episode.

Thursday is “Gabbing With the Geeks” on Facebook Live to answer questions from viewers and discuss anything. 5pm our local time.

We’re on our way to Michigan for the FMCA GLAMA Rally. We just left Sedalia, MO and a wonderful Escapade.

Here’s our speaking request form if you’d like to have us speak to your group.

​​​​​​​June 2018

• 6/6 – 6/9 GLAMARAMA 2018 Great Lakes Area Rally in Allegan, MI.

July 2018

• ​​​​​​​6/18 – 6/21 FMCA 98th INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AND RV EXPO 2018 | GILLETTE, WYOMING

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‘Ask the Geeks’ Q&A Forum

Here are some of the topics that have been discussed recently. Anyone can read the forum, only members can ask questions. This is a valuable benefit of membership. Join Today!

1. Adding Text to existing Google Photos Albums
2. ID and Find a photo in Google Photos
3. Link to map not working on Android Tablet
4. Picasa shopping online is no more
5. Streets & Trips or other mapping software and Excel

If you are a member, ask a question! Go to GeeksOnTour.com then click the Q&A menu. Make sure you are logged in (there’s a form on the Q&A page), select a category (Photos, Maps, Blogs, Other) then click Add Topic. When finished scroll down to Submit Topic.

Add fun to your road trips

We just finished the Escapade rally in Sedalia, MO, and our next stop is in Michigan for the FMCA Great Lakes area rally called Glamarama. We have a week to get there so I wanted to find one or two fun things to do along the way. That is exactly where Roadtrippers excels.

Read the Article …

Get away, stay connected: Our life on tour

We can have our wilderness and do our work too. We spend months at a time in our Roadtrek camper van. Most of the time we park at places with hookups. That means we plug the RV in to a power source, and now we have air conditioning, TV, and power plugs for all our computers, coffee makers and anything else we need.

We also like to park where there are no hookups. In this article, we share a bit about what our life is like as we travel, and work on the road in our completely self-contained camper van.

Read the article …

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Techno-Geeks and GPS Systems

You may remember, back in 2012, we put on our own rally called the Techno-Geek Learning Rally.  That was when TechnoRV was owned by the founders, Phil and Tracey May. Phil and Tracey became very good friends of ours and we were distressed when they sold the business (we now visit them in England). How they found the perfect new owners is a miracle – but they did!

One of their specialties is RV GPS systems …

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Leave us a Review

Have you learned something from Geeks on Tour?

If so, we’d love to get a review from you. Click on this linkthen scroll down until you can click on Write a Review. First you’ll be asked for a rating by stars – 5 is appreciated! Then, please write some comments. Did you learn from us in person? or from videos on our website? Do you watch our weekly What Does This Button Do show? Do you learn from our newsletters? How has your use of technology improved?

THANKS​​​​​​​

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That’s all for now. We hope you learned something. Your next issue will be next month. Any questions, please visit our forum. If you like this newsletter, please forward it on to your friends! If you received this issue forwarded by a friend you can subscribe to get your own copy delivered to your in box – it’s free. You can also visit the archives of past newsletters,

Happy Computing!

The Geeks on Tour website is an online learning library for Travelers who want to learn to use their computers and mobile devices for managing digital photos, making blogs, using maps and other online resources. Anyone can get our free weekly tech lesson, read articles on our Computer Tips for Travelers Blog, sign up for our free newsletter. A small fee makes you a ‘member‘ and you can then ask us anything on our Q&A page, view any of our 500+ video tutorials on these subjects in our Learning LIbrary, and get written notes and eBooks of our lessons.

Monthly Issue #128 May, 2018
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Geeks in April

Mid April we went to the Roadtrek rally in Silver Springs, Florida. Then we flew to Las Vegas for the WARE rally – Western Area Rally for Escapees. We extended our stay and hoped to do some sightseeing in Las Vegas, but we both caught colds and just stayed in bed in the hotel for 3 days.

See our April photo album for more pictures, and our Blog for the rest of the story.

We always continue to learn about technology! And, we share it with you on our weekly class, What Does This Button Do? We recorded two new episodes in February:

• Episode 139: What are Widgets
• Episode 140: Facebook Privacy Settings​​​​​​​
• Google Photos Albums: Chris was a guest on Michael Daniels Youtube show 5/2/18

By the way, our pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach.  You can learn how to plan, preserve, and share your travels (or your life.)  It makes the experience that much more enjoyable to get creative and share pictures, maps, stories, and movies with friends and family. Check out our Learning Library of Tutorial Videos, just go to GeeksOnTour.com and click the menu for Tutorials. There are plenty of free videos in addition to our members-only content to whet your appetite for learning.

April-May Calendar

Every Wednesday “What Does This Button Do?”

We record them in a live stream, normally on Sundays at 2pm ET.

When we’re not doing our live show, we’ll post an encore episode.

Thursday is “Gabbing With the Geeks” on Facebook Live to answer questions from viewers and discuss anything. 5pm ET.

We’re in Las Vegas for the WARE rally which just finished. We flew out here from Fort Lauderdale. We have a dive trip to Bimini in May and another dive trip at the end of June.

Here’s our speaking request form if you’d like to have us speak to your group.

May 2018

• 5/25 – 5/26 Camp Reboot for Smartphone Photography/Google Photos in Sedalia, MO
  • Call 888-757-2582 for pricing and to register
• 5/27 – 6/1 58th Escapade National Rally in Sedalia, MO.

​​​​​​​June 2018

• 6/6 – 6/9 GLAMARAMA 2018 Great Lakes Area Rally in Allegan, MI.

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for notifications of Live Streams from Geeks On Tour! Be sure to click the little bell to confirm delivery of notifications.

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‘Ask the Geeks’ Q&A Forum

Here are some of the topics that have been discussed recently. Anyone can read the forum, only members can ask questions. This is a valuable benefit of membership. Join Today!

1. Picasa Screensaver
2. Sync Large Google Photos Library with External Hard Drive
3. Editing Photos in the Screensaver
4. Backing up Blogger
5. Google MyMaps

If you are a member, ask a question! Go to GeeksOnTour.com then click the Q&A menu. Make sure you are logged in (there’s a form on the Q&A page), select a category (Photos, Maps, Blogs, Other) then click Add Topic. When finished scroll down to Submit Topic.

When you lose your phone, you’ll wish you had done this!

On both Android and iOS devices there is a website to find a lost phone. For Apple iOS, it is iCloud.com and for Android it’s Google.com/android/find (or I just do a Google search for “Find my android”) We teach this in many of our seminars, mainly as a way to point out the importance of knowing the account and password associated with your phone. See Episode 137 for more on finding your username and password and a demonstration of find my phone.

If you know the username and password for your phone, you can go to the website above, using any computer, and find your phone. You will see a map, with the location pinpointed, and you will have 3 choices,
1. Play a sound: to locate your phone if it is nearby
2. Lost mode: to lock the screen and display a message with a phone number where the owner can be reached
3. Erase phone: if you think it has been stolen

But, none of the above will work if you have not turned on the setting for your phone first. So, how about taking out your phone right now and making sure your “find my phone” setting is on.

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Google Photos Backup is gone, now it’s Google Backup and Sync

The transition from Google Photos Backup to Google Backup and Sync has been going on for a while. We first covered it in Episode 125 of our “Button” show, Google Photos, what’s new?And, again in Episode 138: Google Photos: How to include pictures from your computer. And, here is the official help page on Backup and Sync.

What you need to know

1. This only affects your computer, not your mobile devices. Backup and Sync is the desktop software that will automatically upload photos from your computer’s drives to your Google account in the cloud.
2. You only need this if you have a lot of photos on your computer. If you just have a few, it is easy to manually upload them to your Google Photos account, don’t bother with Backup and Sync.
3. If you do have thousands of pictures on your computer that you want uploaded to your Google Photos account, then you want the free …

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Using your smartphone for airplane boarding passes is not always ideal, here’s a tip!

I may love technology, but I hate fumbling with my phone when I’m holding up a line of people. This is one area I prefer the old fashioned method. I want a printed boarding pass.

There’s just no doubt that I can carry that in my pocket and get it out at the appropriate time for the attendant to scan, without holding anybody up. If I’m depending on my phone to display this code, odds are it will display perfectly until I’m the next person to reach the attendant, then my screen will blank out.This is default placeholder text. Edit and replace with whatever you want.

The e-ticket is great it you can’t get a printed copy though … so I have a tip for you …

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Leave us a Review

Have you learned something from Geeks on Tour?

If so, we’d love to get a review from you. Click on this link and then scroll down until you can click on Write a Review. First you’ll be asked for a rating by stars – 5 is appreciated! Then, please write some comments. Did you learn from us in person? or from videos on our website? Do you watch our weekly What Does This Button Do show? Do you learn from our newsletters? How has your use of technology improved?

THANKS!

Click here for more Articles by Geeks on Tour

That’s all for now. We hope you learned something. Your next issue will be next month. Any questions, please visit our forum. If you like this newsletter, please forward it on to your friends! If you received this issue forwarded by a friend you can subscribe to get your own copy delivered to your in box – it’s free. You can also visit the archives of past newsletters,

Happy Computing!

The Geeks on Tour website is an online learning library for Travelers who want to learn to use their computers and mobile devices for managing digital photos, making blogs, using maps and other online resources. Anyone can watch our free videos, read articles on our Computer Tips for Travelers Blog, sign up for our free monthly newsletter. A small fee makes you a ‘member‘ and you can then view any of our 450+ video tutorials on these subjects in our Learning LIbrary.

Sincerely,

Geeks on Tour

jimandchris@geeksontour.com

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Monthly Issue #127April, 2018                                                
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Geeks in March

Mid March we went to the FMCA Convention in Perry, Georgia. Then we were back home for the end of March. The weather finally cooperated enough to let us go kayak diving on the last day of lobster season.

​See our March photo album for more pictures, and our Blog for the rest of the story. And, here’s an old Blog post about kayak diving

We always continue to learn about technology! And, we share it with you on our weekly class, What Does This Button Do? We recorded two new episodes in February:

• Episode 137: Accounts, what you need to know
• Episode 138: Uploading computer pictures to Google Photos​​​​​​​

By the way, our pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach.  You can learn how to plan, preserve, and share your travels (or your life.)  It makes the experience that much more enjoyable to get creative and share pictures, maps, stories, and movies with friends and family. Check out our Learning Library of Tutorial Videos, just go to GeeksOnTour.com and click the menu for Tutorials. There are plenty of free videos in addition to our members-only content to whet your appetite for learning.

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April-May Calendar

Every Wednesday “What Does This Button Do?”

We record them in a live stream, normally on Sundays at 2pm ET.

When we’re not doing our live show, we’ll post an encore episode.

Thursday is “Gabbing With the Geeks” on Facebook Live to answer questions from viewers and discuss anything. 5pm ET.

We’re in South Florida getting ready for Summer Travels. We’re flying to Las Vegas for the WARE rally. All other travel is by RV except for a dive trip to Bimini in May!

Here’s our speaking request form if you’d like to have us speak to your group.

April 2018

• 4/17 – 4/20 Roadtrek Meet and Greet Rally in Silver Springs, Fl. We’ll present seminars and participate in the Q&A sessions.
• 4/22 – 4/26 Escapee’s Western Area Rally (WARE) in Las Vegas, NV. Presenting 4 seminars and free 1on1 Smartphone help sessions.

May 2018

• 5/25 – 5/26 Camp Reboot for Smartphone Photography in Sedalia, MO 
  • Call 888-757-2582 for pricing and to register
• 5/27 – 6/1 58th Escapade National Rally in Sedalia, MO.

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for notifications of Live Streams from Geeks On Tour! Be sure to click the little bell to confirm delivery of notifications.

​​​​​​​Like our Facebook Page for notifications to see us Live whenever we like.

See our Calendar

‘Ask the Geeks’ Q&A Forum

Here are some of the topics that have been discussed recently. Anyone can read the forum, only members can ask questions. This is a valuable benefit of membership. Join Today!

1. HEIC Photo File converter
2. Google Maps: Making first map
3. Current Trip Planning
4. Navigating with offline maps
5. Facebook Question

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Smartphone Photography class

Do you like the photo on the right? If so, do you know how to do that with your phone?

I took both photos with my iPhone 7 Plus. The one on the right used the camera setting called “Portrait” to keep the flowers in focus and blur the background. Not all phones have this feature, but many do. On your phone it may be called Lens Blur, or Live Focus. It may be something that you see as you take the photo, or it may be something you adjust after the photo is taken.

Notice the class in our calendar above, May 25 and 26 in Sedalia, Missouri. It’s called Camp Reboot because it’s about technology. This class is all about using the camera on your smartphone.

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Bad news about Picasa, but we were warned

How do you upload photos from your computer to Google Photos?

If you’re still using Picasa to do this, you’re in for a rude awakening next time you try to click that green button – or any option for “Upload.”

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Travel by spaceship – using green screen

We have our own personal shuttlecraft for virtual travels anywhere, even outer space! Learn a little bit about how Jim creates our ride in this article.

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Stop searching and start finding

You know how to do a Google search, but that searches the entire web! What if you want to find something on a page?

For example, if you go to the Geeks on Tour page that lists our 139 weekly shows, it will take you a while to find the one on setting up a Chromecast.

Learn how to Find!

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GeeksOnTour.com Website Tips

We’re updating the website all the time. There are nearly 1,000 articles, 500 videos, and 132 What Does this Button Do Episodes. How do you find what you want? Here are some tips on how to get to the best stuff!

• Finding Articles
• Finding Videos
• Finding What Does This Button Do Episodes

Read More

Click here for more Articles by Geeks on Tour

That’s all for now. We hope you learned something. Your next issue will be next month. Any questions, please visit our forum. If you like this newsletter, please forward it on to your friends! If you received this issue forwarded by a friend you can subscribe to get your own copy delivered to your in box – it’s free. You can also visit the archives of past newsletters,

Happy Computing!

The Geeks on Tour website is an online learning library for Travelers who want to learn to use their computers and mobile devices for managing digital photos, making blogs, using maps and other online resources. Anyone can watch our free videos, read articles on our Computer Tips for Travelers Blog, sign up for our free monthly newsletter. A small fee makes you a ‘member‘ and you can then view any of our 450+ video tutorials on these subjects in our Learning LIbrary.

Sincerely,

Geeks on Tour

jimandchris@geeksontour.com

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Monthly Issue #126 March, 2018                                                
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​​​​​​​Join today
Already a member? THANK YOU!

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Geeks in February

February began in the Tampa Bay area. The photo above is from Fort DeSoto park in St. Petersburg. Don’t you think that photo looks extra good? I enhanced it using the free Snapseed app – see the article later in this newsletter to learn exactly how.

​​​​​​​We made appearances at 3 RV parks and 3 computer clubs during the month, teaching Smartphones, Google Photos, and making your own website. When at the RV parks, we stayed in our sweet Roadtrek camper van. For the clubs we were home in our townhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

See our February photo album for more pictures, and our Blog for the rest of the story.

We always continue to learn about technology! And, we share it with you on our weekly class, What Does This Button Do? We recorded two new episodes in February:

• Episode 135: Copying files with USB “thumb” drive
• Episode 136: Editing photos with Snapseed **
  ** Snapseed is SO fun and so powerful, we’re making a complete learning guide for members.
• Episode 137 – will be recorded live on Sunday Mar 4 at 2pm Eastern, The topic is understanding the Accounts on your phone and how they hold your stuff.

By the way, our pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach.  You can learn how to plan, preserve, and share your travels (or your life.)  It makes the experience that much more enjoyable to get creative and share pictures, maps, stories, and movies with friends and family. Check out our Learning Library of Tutorial Videos, just go to GeeksOnTour.com and click the menu for Tutorials. There are plenty of free videos in addition to our members-only content to whet your appetite for learning.

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March-April Calendar

Every Wednesday “What Does This Button Do?”

We record them in a live stream, normally on Sundays at 2pm ET.

When we’re not doing our live show, we’ll post an encore episode.​​​​​​​

Thursday is “Gabbing With the Geeks” on Facebook Live to answer questions from viewers and discuss anything. 5pm ET.

We’re in South Florida getting read for the first big RV rally of the season.

Here’s our speaking request form if you’d like to have us speak to your group.

March 2018

• 3/8 Platina Computer Club APCUG Presentation in Boynton Beach, Fl
• 3/15 -3/18 FMCA 97th INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AND RV EXPO We’ll be presenting 4 seminars plus a hands-on smartphone photography class.

April 2018

• 4/17 – 4/20 Roadtrek Meet and Greet Rally in Silver Springs, Fl. We’ll present seminars and participate in the Q&A sessions.
• 4/22 – 4/26 Escapee’s Western Area Rally (WARE) in Las Vegas, NV. Presenting 4 seminars and free 1on1 Smartphone help sessions.

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for notifications of Live Streams from Geeks On Tour! Be sure to click the little bell to confirm delivery of notifications.

​​​​​​​Like our Facebook Page for notifications to see us Live whenever we like.

See our Calendar

‘Ask the Geeks’ Q&A Forum

Here are some of the topics that have been discussed recently. Anyone can read the forum, only members can ask questions. This is a valuable benefit of membership. Join Today!

1. Backups
2. What to use to display a slideshow on a TV?
3. How to see pictures from my daughter?
4. Roku with Verizon Hotspot?
5. Flagging a Gmail message for follow-up?

Is your own website secure?

You don’t want visitors to your website to see the message above! But, that’s exactly what will happen if you don’t take action before July. If you have a personal website, blog, small business or club website, please check to see if your address bar includes the padlock and httpS. If not, read on ..

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Member Profile: Tom Parks, the Yo-Yo man

Tom Parks is very active in our Ask The Geeks Q&A forum. We feel we’ve gotten to know him from answering his questions and reading his comments.

But, we had no idea! He’s not just an eager learner of technology, he’s a teacher himself … and a world champion of Yo-Yos!

You gotta read his story, it’s fascinating. You’ll see a photo of him teaching Mr. Rogers how to Yo-Yo, and a youtube video where Tom teaches Yo-Yo skills and tricks!

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Take your photos from so-so to stunning with Snapseed

Do you go to beautiful places and take pictures that don’t do the place justice? I am often disappointed when I look at my pictures, thinking “It looked so much better than that” I almost never accept a photo as it was taken. At the very least I crop and apply the “Auto” filter just using Google Photos. But sometimes I want more, that’s when I use Snapseed. In the example above, the enhanced photo took a click on tools, then HDR Scape in Snapseed. The text was added with Snapseed’s text tool.

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Keyboard shortcut tricks you can use every day on your iPhone or Android

If you regularly watch our “What does this button do?” show, you may already know these. Read the article anyway, just to be sure! These tips are excerpted from the show notes to Episode 75 of What does this button do?

Long Press is like a Right-Click
Long Press means the same thing as Touch and Hold. It’s not pushing on the screen, just touch the screen then leave your finger touching the screen and see if something happens.

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GeeksOnTour.com Website Tips

We’re updating the website all the time. There are nearly 1,000 articles, 500 videos, and 132 What Does this Button Do Episodes. How do you find what you want? Here are some tips on how to get to the best stuff!

• Finding Articles
• Finding Videos
• Finding What Does This Button Do Episodes
• Quick Tip Videos

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That’s all for now. We hope you learned something. Your next issue will be next month. Any questions, please visit our forum. If you like this newsletter, please forward it on to your friends! If you received this issue forwarded by a friend you can subscribe to get your own copy delivered to your in box – it’s free. You can also visit the archives of past newsletters,

Happy Computing!

The Geeks on Tour website is an online learning library for Travelers who want to learn to use their computers and mobile devices for managing digital photos, making blogs, using maps and other online resources. Anyone can watch our free videos, read articles on our Computer Tips for Travelers Blog, sign up for our free monthly newsletter. A small fee makes you a ‘member‘ and you can then view any of our 450+ video tutorials on these subjects in our Learning LIbrary.

Sincerely,

Geeks on Tour

jimandchris@geeksontour.com

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Monthly Issue #124 January, 2018
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Geeks in December

Home for the holidays.

​​​​​​​We’ve done so much in 2017 that it felt weird to stop. But stop we did. Except for a 3 day trip to the Keys, we stayed at our townhouse in Fort Lauderdale for the whole month of December. We visited friends and family, we slept a lot, we soaked in our hot tub, we redecorated a bit, and we used our high-speed Internet and dedicated webcasting studio to do our teaching from home. Ahhhh … we could get used to this.

See our December photo album for more pictures, and our Blog for the rest of the story.

We always continue to learn about technology! And, we share it with you on our weekly class, What Does This Button Do?

• Episode 130 Allo messaging app with guest: Michael Daniels
• Episode 131: Mobile Internet Resources with Experts: Chris and Cherie of MobileInternetInfo.com
• Episode 132: Google Photos for Picasa Users

By the way, our pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach.  You can learn how to plan, preserve, and share your travels (or your life.)  It makes the experience that much more enjoyable to get creative and share pictures, maps, stories, and movies with friends and family. Check out our Learning Library of Tutorial Videos, just go to GeeksOnTour.com and click the menu for Tutorials. There are plenty of free videos in addition to our members-only content to whet your appetite for learning.

January-February Calendar

Every Wednesday “What Does This Button Do?” ​​​​​​​

We record them in a live stream, normally on Sundays at 2pm ET.

When we’re not doing our live show, we’ll post an encore episode.​​​​​​​

Thursdays we go “Live at Five” on Facebook Live to discuss the week’s class and answer questions from viewers. 5pm ET.

We’re in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Home for the holidays and more! We are available for speaking engagements in the local area. Here’s our speaking request form.

January 2018 – Happy New Year!

Computer clubs at retirement communities dominate January.

• 1/15 Bellaggio Computer and Technology Club 7pm in the Media Room
• 1/19 Deerfield Beach Computer Club 10am
• 1/23 Learning Institute for Elders 10:30am University of Central Florida in Orlando
• 1/28 – 2/3 Discovery Owners Rally Lazydays Tampa, FL a rally at last!

February 2018

• 2/7 and 2/8 Riverside RV in the Pavilion on the 7th and the Activity Center on the 8th.​​​​​​​
• 2/13 and 2/14 Riverbend RV LaBelle, FL
• 2/19 Valencia Falls APCUG Meeting 7pm Delray Beach, FL
• 2/21 Cascades Computer Club 1pm Port St. Lucie, FL
• 2/26 Valencia Reserve APCUG Meeting Boynton Beach, FL

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See our Calendar

‘Ask the Geeks’ Q&A Forum

Here are some of the topics that have been discussed recently. Anyone can read the forum, only members can ask questions. This is a valuable benefit of membership. Join Today!

1. Edit text onto old photos
2. Choosing a new phone
3. Sort Google Photo albums
4. What’s with Google Backup?
5. Collages for scrapbook

What do you want to learn in 2018?

Take just a couple of minutes to fill out our survey about what you want to learn this year. It will help us focus on the right topics for our articles, videos, and classes.

We will also discuss it on a Facebook Live session:

• Live Facebook conversation
• go to Facebook.com/GeeksOnTour
• Thursday, Jan 4, 2018
• 5pm Eastern time
• Add it to your Google calendar

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Where did you go this year? How to make a map.

This is our map for 2017. Our home base is in South Florida. The yellow markers show our route out west, the blue is how we traveled back east, then you can see our flights to Europe and lots of stops over there, the green is our summer travels and the orange are how we ended the year. Click thru to the interactive map and you can see photos and other information for each marker.

I made this map using the free Google My Maps, and you can too! This article will tell you how.

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Picasa or Google Photos?

We’ve been using and teaching Picasa since 2004. See our website, PicasaGeeks.com for hundreds of articles about Picasa.

We loved Picasa when all our pictures were on our computer, but now we use our smartphone for most of our picture-taking and it’s a pain to transfer them to the computer. Everything is going to the cloud, and we like it that way.

Google Photos is the tool that works with your pictures in the cloud, but I still like using Picasa on the computer for things like collages and movies.

Once you understand it, you can use both. This article tells you how.

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Have you watched an episode of What Does this Button Do?

• Do you think your smartphone is smarter than you?
• Do you have questions about your iPhone or Android phone or tablet?
• How do you learn about these amazing devices?

Comment from Gail West, a GeeksOnTour member since 2008.

I really love your “What does this button do” shows. I especially like that they are on YouTube. I sit in my LazyBoy, turn on my 60″ SmartTV, and watch. Also have played some more than once. Just watched the one re: blue tooth and the one on Data usage. Nice to be able to get notes to go along with shows. Thanks for all that you do!!

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How to leave us a review

Have you learned something from Geeks on Tour? If so, we’d love to get a review from you. Click on the Facebook or the Google link below. First you’ll be asked for a rating by stars – 5 is appreciated! Then, please write some comments. Did you learn from us in person? or from videos on our website? Do you watch our weekly What Does This Button Do show? Do you learn from our newsletters? How has your use of technology improved?

THANKS

Facebook Review click the 5th star, then you can write a review

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GeeksOnTour.com Website Tips

We’re updating the website all the time. There are nearly 1,000 articles, 500 videos, and 132 What Does this Button Do Episodes. How do you find what you want? Here are some tips on how to get to the best stuff!

• Finding Articles
• Finding Videos
• Finding What Does This Button Do Episodes
• Quick Tip Videos

Read More

Click here for more Articles by Geeks on Tour

That’s all for now. We hope you learned something. Your next issue will be next month. Any questions, please visit our forum. If you like this newsletter, please forward it on to your friends! If you received this issue forwarded by a friend you can subscribe to get your own copy delivered to your in box – it’s free. You can also visit the archives of past newsletters,

Happy Computing!

The Geeks on Tour website is an online learning library for Travelers who want to learn to use their computers and mobile devices for managing digital photos, making blogs, using maps and other online resources. Anyone can watch our free videos, read articles on our Computer Tips for Travelers Blog, sign up for our free monthly newsletter. A small fee makes you a ‘member‘ and you can then view any of our 450+ video tutorials on these subjects in our Learning LIbrary.

Sincerely,

Geeks on Tour

jimandchris@geeksontour.com

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