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- 2021 Learning Survey
- Make a map for your 2021 travel plans
- December 2020 News: Google Photos Free No More, Make a custom map from a photo
- From the Archives: WordPerfect
- 202. How to make your passwords secure
- Need a new webcam? Use an old phone.
- How we self-published the book on Google Photos
- How to make group photo albums
- September 2020 News: Learn Google Photos Book Launch
- Google Photo Map helps me find places I’ve been.
- How live view makes Google Maps more accurate.
- Members-only meeting with David Lieb from Google
- A Chromebook for photo editing
- Is your phone making payments without you?
- Staying Connected on the Road – anything new?
- Oura Ring
- Your phone can make your TV look smart
- How to display a .pdf file in your blog or other website
- How to get your old photo albums into Google Photos and display on TV
- How to write that book of yours, one blog post at a time.
- Members only Zoom meeting: Scanning photos
- What is Zoom for online meetings?
- Practical Tips for Running Online Zoom Meetings
- Mrs. Geek’s Guide to Google Photos – an update
- Make your own map of scuba diving sites
- Geeks on Tour offer Live Remote Seminars using Zoom.us
- You don’t need Google Maps to give you directions to a restaurant when it can deliver your food to you.
- How Google Calendar can keep you from missing an event by setting your default notifications.
- How to combine Travel Blogs and Travel Maps
- How to Control the Auto-Rotate on your Smartphone or Tablet
- Turn by Turn Voice navigation with street names
- Order Photo Prints within Google Photos
- 2020 Camp Reboot! Smartphone Photography and Google Photos
- How to share your Live Location using Google Maps
- YouTube Milestone: Geeks on Tour Channel surpasses 5,000 subscribers
- Take a note using Keep on your smartphone
- Your smartphone’s volume buttons do more than you think.
- Google Photos – Swipe up to see map
- Google Photos and Google Drive will no longer automatically sync your photos and videos. 5 things you can do and 1 you can’t.
- 5 years of “What Does This Button Do?”
- Questions about Google Drive breaking up with Google Photos
- Google Maps can show elevation change
- Yes you can read books on your smartphone.
- Google Photos: 7 Favorite Features
- A better way to take selfies: use the timer
- Your phone should be quiet when you’re asleep
- YouTube: How to Watch Videos Later
- Test your smartphone smarts
- Whose iPhone is this? The problem with couples sharing one Apple ID.
- How to create an Excel spreadsheet when you don’t have Excel, and you don’t want to install any software
- My secret for taking lots of travel photos and not deleting any of them
- What is Google Plus and how does the shut down affect my Blogger blog?
- What’s wrong with this picture? It’s blah
- How to follow our travels by joining our photo album
- How your phone can tell you the time of two places at once
- Just a test from MS Word to WordPress
- Google can remind you where you went in 2018
- 2019 Learning Survey
- 2018 was a good year for old dogs to learn new tricks with technology.
- How to trim your videos on your phone
- How to let friends and family know where you are at all times
- Traffic on Google Maps or Waze
- RV-Planning: Honey, tell me where to go
- Nov 2018 Newsletter: Geeks’ Summer Tour Map, Lesson Plans, Backup your Photos
- A map is a great way to show your travel memories
- Do you want to teach about smartphones but need some lesson plans?
- Smartphone Help Desk – One on One Teaching
- Google Photos can make a phone call from a photo of a business card
- Discover Rally
- Mounting phones and tablets to your dashboard
- Places we would have missed without Roadtrippers
- Do you plan road trips? I think you’ll like Roadtrippers and RVParky.
- How to use Group Photo Albums
- Google Photos Book now available on Amazon
- Maximizing your smartphone’s battery life when you are off-grid
- Chromebooks can’t do everything. Maybe that’s why they’re the only computer we take on vacation.
- My smartphone helps me with Time Zone confusion
- QR for Google Photos eBook
- Techno-Geeks and GPS systems
- Get away, stay connected – our life on tour
- Roadtrippers helps you find fun stops
- Using your smartphone for airplane boarding passes is not always ideal, here’s a tip!
- Google Photos Backup is gone, now it’s Google Backup and Sync
- When you lose your phone, you’ll wish you had done this …
- Stop searching and start finding
- Apps for Travelers: Field Trip and Historical Markers
- How to use green screens to boldly go to the stars
- Portrait mode photos, smartphone photography class
- Keyboard shortcut tricks to use every day on your iPhone or Android device.
- Member Spotlight: Tom Parks
- Is your own website secure?
- How to make your photos go from so-so to stunning with Snapseed
- Finding Bicycle Trails
- Google Photos: Everything you need to know
- Facebook Groups
- Using Google Photos and Google Maps–Navigate to a Photo
- Picasa or Google Photos
- It’s 2018–What do you want to learn this year?
- Have you watched an episode of What Does This Button Do?
- Where did you go this year? How to make a map.
- The best travel laptop? A Chromebook.
- Taking a Trip? Get your phone ready now.
- RVers–You need Allstays Camp & RV!
- Member Spotlight: LuVerne Underhill
- Google Maps finds your next Rest Stop
- Google Voice service breaks the shackles of your phone number
- RVers and Technology: Chatting with Jon Walker, President of FMCA
- Carriage Travel Club and 4 Geeks on Tour Seminars
- Travel Planning with one app? Not possible.
- WordPress and Google Photos
- What’s the difference between a Blog and a Website?
- The eclipse is a work of art, with a little help from an App
- Data Roaming in Canada
- Google Maps, Want to Go, and Boondockers Welcome
- Your Travel Map with RVillage
- Find the Perfect Viewing Spot for the Total Solar Eclipse
- I didn’t miss my DSLR camera!
- Thru the Keyhole … a photography lesson
- Member Spotlight: Bill McKibbon
- Internet while traveling: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Facebook Live Session from Vinkovci, Croatia
- Your Smartphone will Count your Steps
- Google Maps and Google Translate make International Travel Do-able
- A map of where you walk with Google Maps
- We’re in Italy!
- We’re off to Italy and Croatia!
- Downsizing
- Learning Google Photos while having Fun with Friends
- Member Spotlight: Vicki Wassenhove
- Finally! The Perfect ToDo List
- Google Maps gives us a place to save our “want to go” list
- Grand Canyon! Photos and Live Video
- How Do We Get Internet to our Computers while Traveling?
- Viewing your Blogger Blog on a Phone
- Member Spotlight: Sue Hepler
- So Many Weather Apps, Pick One and Learn
- What’s a Link, and How do I Share it?
- Member Spotlight: David Cross
- How to Take Panorama Pictures with your Smartphone
- I Just Deleted 5,840 Emails and I’m Thrilled!
- Google’s Blogger is Alive and Well
- How to Capture a Frame of an iPhone Live Photo
- Geeks’ Lesson Plans for your Computer Club
- Member Spotlight: Bill Osborne
- Android, or Apple iOS, the Best Smartphone?
- Mrs. Geek’s Year End Photo Tasks
- How to Use a USB drive with an iPad or Android Tablet
- Member Spotlight: Gail West
- SKP ACRE: Smartphone Photography Workshop
- Want to Downsize? Sell your Stuff on eBay
- If You Can Send an Email, You Can Write a Blog Post
- Dashcam Apps to Document your Travels
- Winegard ConnecT WF1 WiFi Extender for RVs
- The Button Show, 100 Episodes … with Notes!
- How I Cleaned up the Contacts on my Phone
- Print Photos, Pick up in an Hour
- Technology for Travelers: Geeks Teach at an RV Rally
- Embedding Slideshows in Websites
- Test your Smartphone Smarts #10
- Remember Every Place you Visit with Google Maps
- Audible Books are Great for Drive Time
- Live Broadcast from Walmart Parking Lot Studios!
- GeeksOnTour.com Website Tips
- Test your Smartphone Smarts #9
- Adding Maps to your Blog Posts, using Screenshots
- A Map of Visited States
- Embedding Pictures from Google Photos
- #90 How do I Sync my Contacts?
- Reset Your Cellular Connection
- Test Your Smartphone Smarts #8
- Travel Planning: The Missing App is RVNotepad!
- #89 Is it Time for a New Smartphone? What Does This Button Do?
- Uber for RV Travelers?
- Save your Blog! Get a Printable Copy
- Furkot: A Funny Name for a Great Trip Planner
- Test Your Smartphone Smarts #7
- Facebook Live Streaming
- Google Photos: Getting Started on the Right Path
- Test Your Smartphone Smarts #6
- Finding Stuff in Windows 10–Just Search
- Share your Location with Glympse
- Get an Accurate Travel Diary with Google’s Location History
- Every Traveler Needs a Good Weather App, or 2!
- Facebook Newsfeed: Most Recent vs. Top Stories
- Test Your Smartphone Smarts #5
- Test your Smartphone Smarts #4
- Track your data usage
- Navigate with GPS by Taking a Picture!
- Cloud Storage: Learn About Your Accounts
- Internet on the Road: Then and Now
- Copy and Paste through the Years!
- Add Video to your Blog
- Test Your Smartphone Smarts #3
- Test Your Smartphone Smarts #2
- Google Maps and Multi-Stop Routes
- Let Alfred Watch Your House
- Test Your Smartphone Smarts #1
- How do you Learn Smartphone Basics?
- Some Things Never Change
- Blogger and Live Writer
- Internet in Cuba
- Measuring Distance with Google Maps
- Google Maps and Offline Navigation
- Using Evernote as a Document Scanner
- Smartphones and Video–Slow Motion and Time Lapse
- Camp Reboot: Smartphone Photography
- Facebook Groups–Large and Small
- Can I use my Google Photos Pictures in my Blog?
- Apple IDs and Sync’ing
- Easy Photo Editing with Google Photos
- Cellular Internet Connections: It’s Not Just the Signal, it’s the Speed
- Evernote Can Receive your Email
- These Geeks are On Tour!
- The Future is upon us! Meet Alexa.
- Taming Your Facebook News Feed
- Mapping and Sharing Your Travels with Google My Maps
- Listen to RV Radio Shows via Podcasts
- Using Allstays Camp & RV to Find Membership Parks
- Geeks on Tour Member Benefit: Show Notes
- Google Photos finds Lost Cat!
- Windows 10 Upgrade
- FMCA Rally in Madison: Geeks Teaching 7 Classes
- Three Ways to Get Internet Overseas
- Google Photos, Loving it!
- Navigating Elsewhere by GPS
- My Fitness Pal: An App to Track your Diet
- The Apple of My i(Phone)
- Pictures on Coffee Mugs and Mouse Pads
- Which Webmail Service do you use?
- Keywords (Tags) to Group your Pictures with Picasa
- Google’s My Maps and Custom POI Files
- Where are Jim and Chris?
- Geeks Can Fly!
- 7 Tips for Living with Windows 8
- Transferring Pictures from Smartphone to Computer
- Escapade Rally: Geeks on Tour Seminars
- Hello 1960s, can I have my phone back?
- Roadtrippers for Trip Planning
- Why is my phone using so much Data?
- 386.OT-Roadtrippers App for trip planning
- Organize Your Photos! Start Today.
- Listen to your Home Radio Station while on the Road
- Family Motorcoach (FMCA) Convention in Pomona, CA March 2015
- Don’t Worry, Use Dropbox. You’ll have all your computer files anywhere you go
- Pictures Look SO good in Google+ Photos!
- Are you a Beginner with Technology?
- Video Calls with Smartphones and Tablets
- Geek Month at Palm Creek Golf and RV
- Train Ride Recorded on Google Earth with My Tracks App
- Geek Week at Scenic Road RV in Quartzsite, Arizona
- Too Many Apps? Army Knife combines several useful tools into one.
- What Does This Button Do? November Recap
- Don’t go over your Internet Limits. Windows 8.1 Wi-Fi Tools can help.
- Picasa for all your Digital Picture Needs
- Google Keep for Note Taking and Reminders
- Your Pictures in the Cloud? Using Google+ Photos with Android and iOS
- Sharing Links on Facebook
- Make your own Google Maps with My Maps App
- To Boldly Go where Technology Takes Us
- Where Am I? A Useful App for Constant Travelers
- The HDR Camera Setting on my Samsung phone is so good, I can’t take a picture without it!
- Are you Smarter Than Your Smartphone?
- Are you Smarter Than Your Smartphone?
- Runkeeper–get some exercise while traveling
- Camp Reboot at Escapade–Mobile Style
- How to Play a Video from a Printed Page
- What do you need to know about connecting to the Internet on the road?
- Using Google Maps Street View and Facebook to Research a Road
- Samsung AllShare–A new way to demo mobile devices
- Computer Workstation in an RV
- Ten Years of Teaching Technology to Travelers!
- Weekly Show–What Does This Button Do?
- Smartphone Photography
- What is Google+?
- A Live, Weekly, Show? Are we Crazy?
- What Does This Button Do? A Weekly Broadcast by Geeks on Tour
- Roadtripper App Gives You Great Travel Ideas
- Where to Share your Travel Photos? Web Album, Blog, or Facebook?
- Private Learning Sessions
- How to Keep Your Facebook Account Safe
- Geeks on Tour at a Rally?
- Geeks on Tour make the Newspaper!
- Web Albums, Blogs, or Both?
- Using this Website
- Our Cloud Computing Class Evolves
- Geocaching Intro App for Travelers
- Be the Beer!
- Geeks on Tour: Back to School
- Using a Blogger Blog for your Club Newsletter
- Backup Your Blog!
- Jim’s New Samsung Note3 Smartphone
- Must Have App: Allstays Camp and RV
- Google+ will Auto Backup all your Pictures from your Computer
- Get Together with RVillage
- Geeks on Tour Seminars at FMCA Convention in Perry, GA 3-16-14
- Easter Prize Hunt – Picasa Beginner’s Guide
- Upgrading a Smartphone and keeping your Data Plan
- Windows 8 Top Tip
- Collecting Travel Ideas with Evernote
- RVTravel
- Saving Google Map Directions
- Problems Viewing Videos? Try VLC.
- Blogger and Pictures
- Smartphones and Tablets Tips and Tricks Hangout
- It’s 2014, Do You Know Where Your Pictures Are?
- Connecting to the Internet using our iPad
- Buy our Books and DVDs
- Geeks on Tour Archives–Ten Years of Looking Back
- Saving Places with New Google Maps
- Making the Perfect Group Photo
- Webinar on Picasa Collages
- Our First Webinar with Google Hangouts on Air
- The Best Tablet for Travelers
- Apps That Make Maps
- Elliott Masie’s #Learning2013 Conference
- Using Photo Story 3 to Create Music for Movie Maker
- Hey Smartphone, STOP Asking for my Password Every Single Time!
- Seniors Learning Technology
- Geeks at The Rally in Atlanta
- Show Me How
- Backup Your Blog with a Book
- Solve Problems by Restarting your Smartphone or Tablet
- A Working Visit to Hilton Head
- Apps for Travelers: Gas Buddy and iExit
- Backup! Backup! Backup!: Windows 8 Makes it Easy
- Talk to your Navigating Device: Android or iPhone
- iCloud and Photo Stream from your iPhone/iPad to Your Computer
- Don’t Settle for the Camera that Came with Your Smartphone
- iPad as Work Computer
- Time Zones and Google Calendar
- Escapee’s Rally–The Escapade
- June 2013 Newsletter: Technology-Passenger Seat, DropBox-Smartphone Photos, Live Writer, New Videos, FMCA Rally
- Technology in the Passenger Seat
- Use Live Writer to Create your Blogger Blog Posts
- Using DropBox to get Pictures from your Smartphone
- FMCA Rally in Gillette, Wyoming
- Preserving your Travels with Blogs and Photo Albums in the Cloud.
- Using Google Maps Offline
- Windows 8: Five Tips to End the Frustration
- RVSEF Lifestyle, Education and Safety Conference
- Gabbing with the Geeks: from Florida Caverns State Park
- My take on Windows 8
- Pictures from Picasa to Blogger thru Google+
- An Audio Travel Journal, Using your Smartphone
- Gabbing with the Geeks: Windows 8
- Podcasting Test
- Roadtrek Technology and Camping Rally
- MS Streets and Trips to Plan Your Travels
- Use Blogger to Keep Your Journals
- Testing Audio Post
- How to Make your Email Hacker-Proof
- Use a Blogger Blog for a Club Website
- Genealogists need Picasa, Blogger, and Photo Story too!
- Do Me a Favor … Don’t Listen to your Friends on Facebook!
- Getting the Most from your Smartphone’s Camera
- Make Friends with your Smartphone–go on a Date!
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Share a Map of your Travels with Google Maps
- Our Top Ten Picasa Articles of 2012
- RVers Learn About Technology
- Picasa Tip: Add Drama to your Skies with Graduated Tint
- Geek Week at Thousand Trails, Peace River
- Using MovieMaker for your Slideshows and Videos
- RV Trip Wizard for Planning your RV Travels
- Tablet Computers … which one to Buy?
- Google Maps from the Web to Your Smartphone
- Pictures of Anastasia Island State Park in Florida
- Our Take on Windows 8
- Use Gmail for One In-Box, Multiple Addresses, and Devices
- RVer’s Favorite Destinations Plotted on a Map at FMCA Convention
- Smartphone Apps: Silence Mode Timer, Passport America RV Parks
- Escapade 2012 Sedalia, Missouri
- Verizon’s Amazing 4G LTE Coverage – Good and Bad
- Make a Narrated Slideshow – Easy and Free with Photo Story 3
- It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
- FMCA Indianapolis
- Reorganizing our Geeks on Tour Show-Me-How DVD
- If You Travel and Don’t Blog About it, Did it Ever Happen?
- Streets and Trips POI Megafile
- Five Do’s and Dont’s for Facebook
- Don’t Trust your GPS!
- Internet from your Smartphone with PDANet/FoxFi
- How to make photo collages with Picasa
- What are QR Codes and How do I use my Smartphone to Read Them?
- Don’t Fall for Timeline Removal Scams
- Renew your Verizon Unlimited Data Plan Now
- Geeks on Tour at Sun City Hilton Head
- Can Facebook be your Rally’s Website?
- mobl14.Import Photos from iPad/iPhone to PC
- Is Picasa the Only Software for Managing all your Travel Pictures?
- Preparing for our Computer Learning Rally
- Droid Smartphone for Navigation
- Public Wi-Fi is Unsecure–You Secure Your Computer
- Facebook: Adding a Cover Photo to your Timeline
- Why Travelers should be Excited by Cloud Computing
- Send and Receive Faxes while Traveling
- Public Wi-Fi is Unsecure, Just Like the US Mail
- Facebook vs Google+
- The Ultimate Personal Computer for Travelers
- Internet on a Cruise Ship, beware of Roaming!
- How to Block Apps in Facebook
- A Map of Visited States
- 2012-03-01.March Computer Club Appearances
- 2012-04-22.Techno-Geek Learning Rally
- 2012-02-01.February Computer Group Appearances
- 2012-01-23.Geeks on Tour go to Sea!
- 2013-06-28 Escapade 2013 Camp Reboot
- Part Time Mobile Internet Connections
- Snowbird RVers can get DSL or Cable Internet Service
- Editing Facebook Pictures with Picnik
- New, Improved Learning Library
- Lock in Your Low Annual Membership Fee Now!
- Why you Need a PayPal Account for a Recurring Membership
- Rand McNally TripMaker® RVND™ 7710: What’s up Ahead?
- Rogue Wave by Wave WiFi
- Got 5 Minutes? Learn Something New.
- How to Block Annoying Facebook Apps
- Hate Typing on your Droid? Try Swype Instead
- Escapade Camp Reboot (hands-on computer class)
- GPS Coordinates with Google Earth and Streets and Trips
- FMCA Convention/Reunion Madison, WI
- Is the Geeks on Tour DVD Broken?
- 2011-09-06 Free Picasa Presentation in Moline, Illinois
- 2011-09-25 Gypsy Journal Rally in Celina Ohio
- Review of our Picasa Book
- Gabbing with the Geeks #13
- Dropbox: Free Synchronizing Among Computers
- Windows 7 Tip: The Show Desktop Bar
- Hands-On Computer Classes
- Dashboard Entertainment Center with Droid and Jupiter Jack
- 2011-08-28 Escapade RV Rally in Gillette, WY
- Which Internet Connection Works Better–Droid Smart Phone or Mi-Fi?
- Get your Verizon Droid or iPhone before July 7?
- Powering your tech devices on the road
- Change your Time Zone!
- 181.BL-Reader Statistics
- 2011-08-26 Escapade 2011–Camp Reboot
- 3G vs 4G: The Tortoise and the Hare
- Gabbing with the Geeks #12: New Home, 4G
- My On the Road Data Diet
- 2011-09-23 Gypsy Journal Computer Boot Camp
- Internet Connections while Traveling
- Google Maps–More Than Just Directions
- Using Picasa to Post a Screenshot in a Forum Question
- How to Send an Email without Knowing the Email Address
- RV Destinations – Audience participation
- Clickfree Backup
- Blogger Tip: Display Excerpts rather than full Posts
- Verizon Mobile Broadband
- Gabbing with the Geeks #10: Kayak Diving, Upcoming Events
- Reading Books on your Droid Cellphone
- Gabbing with the Geeks #9: Meet TechnoRV
- Computer Tote-ing Travelers
- Motorola Droid: Verizon Data Roaming
- Gabbing with the Geeks #8
- Blue Skies with Graduated Tint
- Gabbing with the Geeks #7: Stonehenge
- Gabbing with the Geeks #6
- Gabbing with the Geeks: #5 Connecting to the Internet with Droid
- Using a Digital Picture Frame
- Automatically Geotag Pictures with Droid
- Gabbing with the Geeks: Episode 4
- Microsoft Streets and Trips: Printed Directions
- New Fulltime RVers ask, “How do we Get Internet on the Road”
- Feedburner: Send Readers an Email of every Blog Post
- Gabbing with the Geeks: Episode 3
- Wi-Fi Radio Frequency ‘Perfect Storm’
- Gabbing with the Geeks: at RV-SEF Conference
- Gabbing with the Geeks: Episode 1
- Streets and Trips: Navigate in Full Screen
- Picasa’s Latest: Picnik for online Photo Editing
- Have you been Hacked Lately?
- Trip Planning with Streets and Trips
- Travel Blogs and Travel Maps
- Internet by DROID
- Wi-Fi – A Better Antenna will Get You a Better Connection
- Cruising vs RVing, and Wi-Fi
- Five Deadly Sins of Picasa
- Computer Backups are Worthless
- The Best Wi-Fi in RV Parks
- Essential Skills Checklist
- BUCS
- Traveling with Computers