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Catherine Tracy has been teaching Picasa to her computer group at Sun City Hilton Head for several years. She’s also been a member of Geeks on Tour and active on our Picasa Forum, sharing her experience with Picasa Web Albums on her iPad. We’ve discussed a Geeks on Tour presentation for her computer group sometime [Click for the rest ...]
by Chris Guld of Geeks on Tour We’re holding our Techno-Geek Learning Rally for about 40 attendees, but we think that many more may enjoy the benefits if they had a way to follow along from home. So we created a Page in Facebook for that purpose. This article is about our reasons for using [Click for the rest ...]
by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.TV Aren’t digital cameras great?! Just snap away to your heart’s content, no worries about wasting film, or costing more money, or taking up more space. You can see right away if you captured the image you wanted, and take more shots if you didn’t. I’ve been known to take over 100 [Click for the rest ...]
It’s still 10 days away, but, since we are in the general area, we decided to stop by the RV park where our Techno-Geek Learning Rally will be held. The park is Paradise Oaks in Bushnell, Florida. We’ve stayed here once before and were impressed with the facilities. That’s why we chose it. But we [Click for the rest ...]
by Chris Guld, www.Geeksontour.TV It’s a rare RVer that doesn’t use some type of GPS device to assist in navigation. When we sold our house and hit the road in 2003, we used the Streets and Trips software on our laptop with a little USB GPS receiver. A few years later we bought a Garmin [Click for the rest ...]
Last month we wrote an article about Public Wi-Fi being unsecure and focused on the security of your data that is being sent out from your computer. The other issue in using Public Wi-Fi is unwanted guests coming INTO your computer. This article reviews ways to keep your computer safe from intruders. Are the Bad [Click for the rest ...]
First of all – What is the Timeline? It’s the new layout on your Facebook Profile. Realize that your Profile is not your home page. The Home Page is your News Feed – the place where all the news from your friends shows up. Your profile is just about you. When someone clicks on your [Click for the rest ...]
About a year ago, someone in our audience asked us to explain the TV ads for Microsoft where the people kept murmuring something about ‘To the Cloud.’ We explained that ‘The Cloud’ was just a new marketing term for the Internet – that’s true, but it has come to mean something more personal than that. [Click for the rest ...]
A fax machine is certainly not high on your list when you travel by RV, but once in a while there is a need to send or receive faxes. We use the Internet for everything else, why not faxing? Even if you do travel with an all-in-one printer/fax machine, most of them will need a [Click for the rest ...]
We keep telling people that it’s OK to use public Wi-Fi hotspots to do your banking online, but are we fighting a losing battle? People hear that a Public Wi-Fi Hotspot is not secure, so they won’t use it … period. We say, it’s true – a Public Wi-Fi Hotspot is not secure. So what? [Click for the rest ...]