http://geeksontour.tv Computer Education for Travelers with Tutorial Videos Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:26:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://geeksontour.tv/2012/02/learn-to-organize-your-pictures/ http://geeksontour.tv/2012/02/learn-to-organize-your-pictures/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:24:46 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/?p=3281 Picasa is image organizing and editing software that you can download for Free from Google.  Learning how to use Picasa is what you can do here!  Just because it’s free don’t think for a minute that Picasa isn’t full featured.  The more you learn, the more you’ll get out of Picasa.  The tutorial videos here [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2012/02/learn-to-organize-your-pictures/feed/ 0 http://geeksontour.tv/2012/02/internet-on-a-cruise-ship-beware-of-roaming/ http://geeksontour.tv/2012/02/internet-on-a-cruise-ship-beware-of-roaming/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:35:29 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/?p=3172 Getting online from the open Sea – it can be done, but it’s not great.  On our recent cruise to the Bahamas, we knew we weren’t going to have much Internet access, but we needed to check email at least twice, just to see if we had any customer support issues to answer.  So, we [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2012/02/internet-on-a-cruise-ship-beware-of-roaming/feed/ 8 http://geeksontour.tv/2012/01/how-to-block-apps-in-facebook/ http://geeksontour.tv/2012/01/how-to-block-apps-in-facebook/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:09:06 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/?p=3084 There are some fun games that people play on Facebook.  But what if you don’t want to play?  How do you stop all those game notices and invitations without unfriending the person?  What I’m talking about is items like the image below that show up in your news feed.  These games are Apps and you [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2012/01/how-to-block-apps-in-facebook/feed/ 0 http://geeksontour.tv/2012/01/a-map-of-visited-states/ http://geeksontour.tv/2012/01/a-map-of-visited-states/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:12:12 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/?p=3067 Would you like to have your very own map of visited states?  Many travelers include this as part of their email signature, or in their blog posts or on Facebook.  It’s easy and free by going to http://epgsoft.com/.  Just choose ‘Create Map’ and ‘Visited States Map.’  You should now see a listing of all the [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2012/01/a-map-of-visited-states/feed/ 0 http://geeksontour.tv/2011/12/part-time-mobile-internet-connections/ http://geeksontour.tv/2011/12/part-time-mobile-internet-connections/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/?p=2973 As fulltime RVers, we have no problem signing a 2 year contract for Internet service from Verizon, but we know many people who only travel part time.  What are their options for mobile Internet service?  A couple years ago, your only option was to rely on Wi-Fi which is very UNreliable!  Now there are several [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2011/12/part-time-mobile-internet-connections/feed/ 1 http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/snowbird-rvers-can-get-dsl-or-cable-internet-service/ http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/snowbird-rvers-can-get-dsl-or-cable-internet-service/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:22:15 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/snowbird-rvers-can-get-dsl-or-cable-internet-service/ by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.tv We write a lot of articles here about how RV travelers can get Internet service.  All the options are some type of wireless service (Wi-Fi, Cellular, Satellite) because there is no wire that stretches with your RV down the road! But wired is almost always better than wireless, it’s more reliable, [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/snowbird-rvers-can-get-dsl-or-cable-internet-service/feed/ 0 http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/editing-facebook-pictures-with-picnik/ http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/editing-facebook-pictures-with-picnik/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:13:42 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/editing-facebook-pictures-with-picnik/ If you use Facebook, you probably have some pictures shared thru your Facebook account.  I often take pictures with my Droid smartphone and upload them directly to Facebook.  That means that I don’t get the opportunity to improve them in Picasa first.  Horrors!  My friends will see the picture as it was taken rather than [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/editing-facebook-pictures-with-picnik/feed/ 0 http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/rand-mcnally-tripmaker-rvnd-gps-for-rvs/ http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/rand-mcnally-tripmaker-rvnd-gps-for-rvs/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:58:13 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/rand-mcnally-tripmaker-rvnd-gps-for-rvs/ In this third, and final, article about the Rand McNally TripMaker RVND 7710 GPS for RVs I’m going to talk about Route-Planning.  The other two articles were: What’s Up Ahead Multi-Stop Trips Some of the comments to the previous articles specifically asked about routing.  We want to know that the GPS is not routing us [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/rand-mcnally-tripmaker-rvnd-gps-for-rvs/feed/ 3 http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/new-improved-learning-library/ http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/new-improved-learning-library/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:44:56 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/new-improved-learning-library/ Big News at the Geeks on Tour website!  More videos.  More accessible.  Check it out.  Go to www.geeksontour.tv and click the menu for Learning Library and you’ll see all our topics; Basics, Blogger, Facebook, Google Earth, Internet on the Road, Photo Story 3, Picasa, and Streets and Trips.  When you click on any of those, [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2011/11/new-improved-learning-library/feed/ 0 http://geeksontour.tv/2011/10/lock-in-your-low-annual-membership-fee-now/ http://geeksontour.tv/2011/10/lock-in-your-low-annual-membership-fee-now/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:41:24 +0000 MrsGeek http://geeksontour.tv/2011/10/lock-in-your-low-annual-membership-fee-now/ As Geeks on Tour’s website has grown and improved we have maintained a very low annual membership fee of $39. On the first of 2012, we will be raising that fee, but you can lock it in now by subscribing to our Annual Recurring Membership of $39. The recurring membership requires you to have a [Click for the rest ...]]]> http://geeksontour.tv/2011/10/lock-in-your-low-annual-membership-fee-now/feed/ 1