Computer Tips for Travelers
Computer Tips for Travelers
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Jan31
Movies from Digital Photos with Photo Story 3
Filed under: Photo, Photo Story;No CommentsPhoto Story 3 is a free program that will make movies from your digital photos. You can download Photo Story from Microsoft’s website. That’s right, I said Free. And, I also said Microsoft. Those are two words that normally don’t go together! Take advantage of it. This is a great program. It takes your digital [...]
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Jan24No Comments
In last week’s post, I told you the good news. Wi-Fi is available lots of places, it’s inexpensive, it’s an easy way to connect to the Internet, and it’s fast. Now for the bad news: It doesn’t always work.
Wi-Fi is 2-way radio, creating a computer network. There are so many things that can go wrong [...] -
Jan17
What is Wi-Fi? (part 1)
Filed under: Geeks on Tour, WiFi;1 CommentRemember the old record player/radio systems we called Hi-Fi’s? It meant High Fidelity, and some people say that Wi-Fi means ‘Wireless Fidelity’. Although the term ‘Hi-Fi’ may have provided inspiration, Wi-Fi doesn’t mean anything. It is just a marketing term so people don’t have to call it ‘802.11′ — which is the technical specification. We [...]
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Jan101 Comment
Greetings from sunny and cold Arizona! I’m Chris Guld, and I blog about computer use while traveling. My husband, Jim, and I live full time in our 30 foot class C motorhome and we travel around the country giving computer seminars at rallies and RV parks. We’ve both been computer geeks for quite some time. [...]

