Computer Tips for Travelers and anything else that these Geeks feel like writing about will show up here! For additional articles on Picasa, see our separate site PicasaTutorials.com
. For additional articles on Internet Connections on the Road, see our separate site WiFiSavvy.com
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 ...]
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 ...]
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 ...]
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 ...]
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 ...]
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 ...]
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 ...]
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 ...]
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 ...]
There are three parts to this article, Why you need a PayPal account to sign up for a non-expiring membership with Geeks on Tour Why we think you should have a PayPal account in general Why the scams you hear about PayPal are just that … scams … with a little bit of knowledge it’s [Click for the rest ...]
