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Dec 2018 Newsletter: Trimming Video, Traffic on Maps, Color Pop in Google Photos, Sharing your Location
Monthly Issue #135 December, 2018
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Geeks in November
On November 1, we were home, but then Chris flew to California for the Google Product Experts Summit. She took advantage of the free flight from Google to take a few extra days and visit Morro Bay, and her old friend, Liz. Chris lived in Morro Bay and practiced law with Liz in 1981-83.
Check out our photo album photo album for November for more pics.
If you want to hear more about the Google Product Expert Summit, check out Michael Daniel’s YouTube video. I joined Michael, who is also a Google Product Expert, and we spent about an hour chatting and sharing photos about the event.
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 156: How to use a smartphone to scan documents and create .pdf files
By the way, our pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach. You can learn how to plan, navigate, and remember your life’s events. 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.
Happy Holidays Everybody
December 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 Still in South Florida. We are working on the website and videos.
We have a couple of online seminars on the calendar but only one live appearance. Holidays are upon us.
Here’s our speaking request form if you’d like to have us speak to your group.
Upcoming Appearances
December 2018
- 12/13 Platina Computer Club in Boynton Beach, FL
We’re clearing our calendar to take a trip to
Australia and New Zealand for part of January and
all of February. Stay tuned for photos!
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.
“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!
- Picasa Albums and Google Photos Albums
- Google Drive Data Connection
- Lost Windows Password
- Facebook Messenger
- Deleting Files on Phone
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.
Traffic on Google Maps or Waze
Both Waze and Google maps can give you turn-by-turn voice directed navigation.
Waze also adds real-time crowdsourced road information including traffic, road hazards and police locations.
I’ve had people tell me that they prefer Waze to Google Maps because Waze gives information about traffic.
Hey! So does Google Maps.
How to use Depth Editor and Color Pop in Google Photos
Have you ever wished you could make a photo of a flower, or a person, really stand out – with the main subject in color and the rest in black and white?
Now you can!
It’s called Color Pop, and it is a new feature from our friends at Google Photos. It was announced along with Live Albums on Google’s product blog on October 9, 2018. At the time it was only available on the Pixel phone, but it has arrived on the iPhone now as well.
How to trim your videos on your phone
You don’t want to miss a second of your granddaughter’s graduation ceremony, so you start the video camera rolling as she’s walking up to the stage. Now you wish you hadn’t done that! Nobody wants to watch the 3 minutes of her walking, they just want to see her step onto the stage and get her diploma.
Learn how you can accomplish this, right on your phone, by reading this short article.
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How to share your location with Google Maps
With these smartphone/GPS devices in our pockets all the time, there are now many different ways to share your location. Apple has the “Find my friends” app, Facebook messenger (and many other texting apps) have a button to “Send Location.” If you’re like me and my husband, we like to make it easy and just let each other know where we are at all times. It’s easy with Google Maps.
Maybe you’re a fulltime RVer with kids who worry about you a lot. Rather than calling them every day, you could let them see your position on a map that they could look at as often as they like.
You should still call once in a while, OK?
It’s easy to set this up …
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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!
Sincerely,
Geeks on Tour
Dec 2018 Newsletter: Trimming Video, Traffic on Maps, Color Pop in Google Photos, Sharing your Location
Monthly Issue #135 December, 2018
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Geeks in November
On November 1, we were home, but then Chris flew to California for the Google Product Experts Summit. She took advantage of the free flight from Google to take a few extra days and visit Morro Bay, and her old friend, Liz. Chris lived in Morro Bay and practiced law with Liz in 1981-83.
Check out our photo album photo album for November for more pics.
If you want to hear more about the Google Product Expert Summit, check out Michael Daniel’s YouTube video. I joined Michael, who is also a Google Product Expert, and we spent about an hour chatting and sharing photos about the event.
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 156: How to use a smartphone to scan documents and create .pdf files
By the way, our pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach. You can learn how to plan, navigate, and remember your life’s events. 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.
Happy Holidays Everybody
December 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 Still in South Florida. We are working on the website and videos.
We have a couple of online seminars on the calendar but only one live appearance. Holidays are upon us.
Here’s our speaking request form if you’d like to have us speak to your group.
Upcoming Appearances
December 2018
- 12/13 Platina Computer Club in Boynton Beach, FL
We’re clearing our calendar to take a trip to
Australia and New Zealand for part of January and
all of February. Stay tuned for photos!
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.
“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!
- Picasa Albums and Google Photos Albums
- Google Drive Data Connection
- Lost Windows Password
- Facebook Messenger
- Deleting Files on Phone
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.
Traffic on Google Maps or Waze
Both Waze and Google maps can give you turn-by-turn voice directed navigation.
Waze also adds real-time crowdsourced road information including traffic, road hazards and police locations.
I’ve had people tell me that they prefer Waze to Google Maps because Waze gives information about traffic.
Hey! So does Google Maps.
How to use Depth Editor and Color Pop in Google Photos
Have you ever wished you could make a photo of a flower, or a person, really stand out – with the main subject in color and the rest in black and white?
Now you can!
It’s called Color Pop, and it is a new feature from our friends at Google Photos. It was announced along with Live Albums on Google’s product blog on October 9, 2018. At the time it was only available on the Pixel phone, but it has arrived on the iPhone now as well.
How to trim your videos on your phone
You don’t want to miss a second of your granddaughter’s graduation ceremony, so you start the video camera rolling as she’s walking up to the stage. Now you wish you hadn’t done that! Nobody wants to watch the 3 minutes of her walking, they just want to see her step onto the stage and get her diploma.
Learn how you can accomplish this, right on your phone, by reading this short article.
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
How to share your location with Google Maps
With these smartphone/GPS devices in our pockets all the time, there are now many different ways to share your location. Apple has the “Find my friends” app, Facebook messenger (and many other texting apps) have a button to “Send Location.” If you’re like me and my husband, we like to make it easy and just let each other know where we are at all times. It’s easy with Google Maps.
Maybe you’re a fulltime RVer with kids who worry about you a lot. Rather than calling them every day, you could let them see your position on a map that they could look at as often as they like.
You should still call once in a while, OK?
It’s easy to set this up …
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!
Sincerely,
Geeks on Tour
Oct 2018 Newsletter: Facebook safety, Google Photos 4 business cards, Magnetic Mounts
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)
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!
- Google Photos Not Converting to High Quality
- Backup and Sync Not Working Fully
- Google Photos filling Google Drive
- Putting Google Photos in a Facebook Group
- 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.
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.
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.
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?
Mrs. Geek’s Guide to Google Photos now available on Amazon.
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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
September 2018 Newsletter: Trip Planning, Group Photo Albums, Google Photos Sort Order
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We always continue to learn about technology! And, we share it with you on our weekly class, What Does This Button Do?
- Episode 149: Internet and Battery when you’re off-grid
- Episode 150: Google Photos for Video Editing
- Episode 151: Trip Planning with Roadtrippers, RVParky, Google My Maps and more
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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- Quik and Google Photos
- Snapseed Change or Bug?
- How to Backup Google Photos to an External Hard Drive
- Share a Smartphone or Tablet
- Loss of WORKGROUPS in Windows 10
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.
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August 2018 Newsletter: Google Photos, Battery LIfe, Tioga George
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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 July:
- Episode 147: Video Editing and Making Movies with Free Quik
- Episode 148: Geeks on Tour Seminars, how to learn on our website (a short, pre-recorded episode with photos from Wyoming)
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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We are currently in the Denver area and staying at Elks Lodge #2227 in Westminster. The last time we were here was 4 years ago when we webcastEpisode #1 of What Does This Button Do? How exciting, we will do Episode #149tomorrow from this same spot! Sunday, August 5, at 2pm Mountain time, (that’s 1pm Pacific, 3 Central and 4 Eastern time.) Episode 149 will be about things we’ve learned about being in the wilds of Wyoming. How we coped with little or no Internet, and often no electricity either.
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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.
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July 2018 Newsletter: Google Photos eBook, Timezones, Chromebooks
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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 June:
- Episode 144: Smartphone Camera Tips everyone should know
- Episode 145: Google Photos, your questions answered
- Episode 146: QR Codes
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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June 2018 Newsletter: Roadtrippers, Get away Stay connected, Techno-Geeks GPS
Monthly Issue #129 June, 2018
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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
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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- Adding Text to existing Google Photos Albums
- ID and Find a photo in Google Photos
- Link to map not working on Android Tablet
- Picasa shopping online is no more
- Streets & Trips or other mapping software and Excel
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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.
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.
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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May 2018 Newsletter: Backup and Sync, Lost Phone, Boarding Passes
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.
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- Picasa Screensaver
- Sync Large Google Photos Library with External Hard Drive
- Editing Photos in the Screensaver
- Backing up Blogger
- Google MyMaps
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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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- If you do have thousands of pictures on your computer that you want uploaded to your Google Photos account, then you want the free …
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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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.
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Geeks on Tour