December 2025 News: Gmail Changes, Google Photos, and more ...

Published: Wed, 12/10/25

Updated: Wed, 12/10/25

Geeks on Tour December 2025 | Issue 220 | Archives

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We're in the South Pacific. The photo above is from Vanuatu. During November, we traveled in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and now we're in Fiji! See our photo album here. This month we'll be hanging out in French Polynesia. New Year's Eve will be in Papeete. 🧜🧜‍♂️

We were able to do two of our YouTube shows in the past month. We also held one Members-Only Zoom meeting. These are not recorded. A.I. written summaries are available to members on request.

Nov 30 2025: Show312. Our Life on a Cruise Ship – eSIMs, WhatsApp, and More
Nov 16 2025 Show311. Tech Tips and Travel Tales from South Pacific
Nov 21 2025 Backstage Pass, member zoom meeting

Coming Up

Watch your inbox for emails about upcoming shows and times! Here's a couple events we have planned:

Dec 14: Episode 313 - Google Photos in 2025 in review. Our current time zone will allow us to do this live at 5pm Eastern time. Then we'll have a Backstage Pass after.
Jan 13-15 DIY Trip Summit - if you like to plan your own travels, you don't want to miss this event. It's a 3-day online, free event. There are 30 presenters - all travel expertss. Then there's us teaching about smartphone photography. We've met the others on a private zoom meeting and we are impressed. Registration officially opens later this month, but you can get on the waitlist now.
Jan 15 on board the Odyssey: Chris will present a "Speaker's Corner" on Bitcoin & Blockchain - what is it and why you should care.

Tech Tips

GMail Inbox is changing in 2026

Gmail is discontinuing 2 important features in 2026. You will no longer be able to fetch outside emails. What??!!.

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Google Photos best use of A.I. yet! Conversational Editing with Help Me Edit

You won't believe your eyes when you just ask Google Photos to do something like, "Remove the Reflections."

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When you send a WhatsApp message, did you know you can include your location? For example, "Come pick me up - here's where I am ..."

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Travel Tales: Our Cruising Blog

Diving in Vanuatu

Vanuatu was not directly involved in any battles but it supplied much of the personnel and equipment to the rest of the South Pacific. The US military base in Vanuatu was second only to Pearl Harbor in size! The wreck we dove, the SS Coolidge, was an American ship with a very sad story. The…

By: MrsGeek

December 9, 2025

Diving Guadalcanal WWII Wrecks

There was a lot of activity in these here parts during WWII. We dove some wrecks near Honiara in the Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal) and in Vanuatu – the largest US base outside of Pearl Harbor. I asked Gemini to tell me all about the major battles of the war and the significance of the…

By: MrsGeek

December 6, 2025

Papua New Guinea and School Kids Dancing

Where in the world is Papua New Guinea? We took a bus tour from our dockage in Alotau, along a very bumpy road to East Cape Wharf. The tour startted just up the hill from the ship – with a tourist photo opp. We happened to be visiting during their 50 year anniversary of Independence. […]…

By: MrsGeek

November 15, 2025

Australia Dancing and Diving

Dancing the Nutbush and diving the Great Barrier reef. Can life get any better? The post Australia Dancing and Diving appeared first on GeeksOnTour.com.

By: MrsGeek

November 12, 2025

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Recent Tutorial Videos on our Website (see complete listing here)

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Tip002: Map view of your photos in Google Photos

See your photos in place on a map.

Workshop: Do more with Google Photos

A 2 hour class presented via Zoom to a group of our premium members. Includes a handout, slide deck and recording of the class.

Tip139: Combining Photos from 2 Google Accounts

Question: I have an old Google account that I had stopped using when I created a new Google account. There were photos in the old account that I would like moved to the new account. How can I accomplish that?

Bookmarks - a Member Benefit

Have you ever been on the Geeks on Tour website and watched a great video or read a helpful article, then, when you tried to find it again you couldn’t? Now, if you are signed in as a premium member, you can ‘bookmark’ it Read about it here.

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Blast from the Past

In August of 2014, we celebrated 10 years of teaching technology for travelers. That means that now, in 2025, we've been at it for 21 years! Read the 2014 article here.

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