Computer Tips for Travelers

Computer Tips for Travelers is just part of the education we offer. For all the Show-Me-How Videos on Wi-Fi, Blogging, Bootcamp topics, Picasa and other topics of interest to travelers. Go to www.GeeksOnTour.com.

We also have a site dedicated to tips for photographers using Google’s Picasa!  www.PicasaTutorials.com

We’ve been using Windows 7 for 9 months now, and Vista for 2 years before that, so the Search feature is second nature to us now, and if you attended any of our Vista seminars, or watched the videos, you know all about Search too.  But, we’ve heard from many people who are just now [...]

If you like to read about RVing, have I got a page for you!  Forget about that novel on your bedside table, this will provide you many, many hours of delightful stories.
RV Centennial Stories at RV.net
Did you know that this year marks the 100 year anniversary of RVing?  That’s the theme at The Rally, and [...]

Email from Ron, “Hi, We are new-bees and are gearing up to doing fulltiming RVing. We need a wireless service that will do our banking, and pay our bills, we also would like to have the the ability to watch netflix, we need to keep the monthly cost as low as possible but still get [...]

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksonTour.com
When you live fulltime in an RV, like we do, everything you own is with you, including any medical records.  What happens if you visit a Doctor in Arizona, and lose the written report?  Your medical records will be incomplete, and your regular Doctor in Florida won’t know anything about it.  We [...]

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksonTour.com
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In today’s GPS-connected world, travelers have many choices for navigation devices.  Garmin, Tom-Tom, Magellan, and Copilot are just a few of the brand names for the dashboard devices that will guide you down the road.  Even our cell phone (Droid) has wonderful GPS navigation [...]

Also known as an RSS Feed, a Blog Feed is the raw post data straight from the Blog’s database.  If you look at the example below, you’ll see that the Blog includes a lot of page elements besides the actual post.  The red background, the Blog’s title, and all the content in the right sidebar [...]

We started Geocaching several years ago, but we had a very old hand held GPS.  It was not very accurate and that made it too difficult to find the caches.  We soon tired of the effort. Now with our Droid ‘app phone’ it appears we’re back in business.

In case you don’t know what Geocaching is, [...]

by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com
I’ve had my Windows 7 computer for 6 months now and the only disappointment has been that one of my favorite programs, Photo Story 3, would not install on it.
Photo Story 3 Now works on Windows 7
I’m so excited to report that it has now been fixed!  I don’t know what or [...]

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com:  We were recently at a State Park in Georgia (Fort McAllister – a wonderful park) when a fellow traveler advised us that we might want to avoid I-95 on our way south.  “There is a lot of construction on I-95 between here and Florida”, he said.
We heeded his warning, but also [...]

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksonTour.com
Wi-Fi can be the best way to connect on the road:

All current laptop computers have the capability to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots
Wi-Fi hotspots are easy to find.  Lots of RV parks, cafes, truck stops, and libraries have Wi-Fi hotspots.
There’s no contract, it’s pay-as-you-go.  Many hotspots are even free.
Some Wi-Fi hotspots are extremely [...]