Computer Tips for Travelers

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com If you have a Blog using the Blogger.com platform, you may be disappointed at the lack of choices for the ‘Templates’ you can use.  Templates are what give your blog its look and feel.  Colors are part of the template.  Column-sizes are part of the template.  You [...]

HTML Errors
"I was unable to publish my Blog post because of an HTML error: What is it? And how do I fix it?" Watch the Video:

New Post Editor:
They’ve done it! Blogger has improved the post editor and given us the ability to [...]

I’ve written about Live Writer a couple of times: Article 1, Article 2. I now use it almost exclusively for all my blog posts – both Blogger and Wordpress. Watch the new Video: Demo of Blogging with Live Writer

lots more videos coming soon on Live Writer

by Chris Guld of Geeks on Tour: If you are interested in American history, as we are, you will love visiting Presidential Libraries/Museums. We make a point of visiting them whenever one is nearby.  In our 6 years of RV Travel we have visited 11 Presidential Museums.  Reagan’s museum wow’ed us with the [...]

by Chris Guld If you’ve tried making custom Google maps in the past and got discouraged with the clunky way you had to draw your route lines …  You need to try again!  Google is continuously adding features to their web-based products and Google Maps has been the recipient of several in [...]

Are you being Followed ?
by Chris Guld Have you noticed on Blogger blogs that many of them now have a section called ‘Followers?’ What does that mean? And, how do you use it?
First an example, if you go to our personal travel blog, you’ll see a section that says, ‘Join this [...]

We spend a lot of time teaching people how to use Blogger.com to keep a Blog. We define a Blog as a website with dated entries displayed in reverse chronological order. They are usually used as a journal. We keep a log of our travels on our Blog, as do many of you.

The reason blogs [...]

This is actually a Picasa tip and a Blogging tip.  Many travelers have blogs (simple, instant, websites used as journals, photo albums, or opinion pages) to share their travels with friends and family.  Two very popular (and free) blogging platforms are Blogger, and Wordpress.  I use them both.  Blogger is the easier of the two.  [...]

by Geeks on Tour:  Twitter can be used to keep up with the RVing, or any other, community.  So many people ask me about Twitter, it must be time for an article.  I like to explain by example, so let me show you how I’m using Twitter.  I just visited my Twitter home page, and [...]

Most RVers we know have either already driven to Alaska, or they want to drive to Alaska.  Our friends, Greg and Marilyn Gundy drove there and spent over 3 months in 2007.  They’ve been talking about it non-stop ever since and are going back … right now!  The best part is that Greg is a [...]