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The rest of the month was spend at home in Fort Lauderdale publishing and selling our new "Mrs. Geek's Guide to Google Photos." A big
Thank You to over 200 of you who bought our book launch special. If you want to buy the book now, the best option is Amazon books.
We posted our "What Does
This Button Do?" online class every Wednesday in December. Even if we don't have a live show, we post an encore episode, so you can count on a weekly class.
By the way, our
pictures, Blogs, Web Albums, maps, and videos are all examples of what we teach. You can learn how to plan, preserve, and share your travels (or your life.) It makes the experience that much more enjoyable to get creative and share pictures, maps, stories, and movies with friends and family. Check out our Learning Library of Tutorial Videos, just go to GeeksOnTour.com and click the menu for Tutorial Videos. There are plenty of free videos in addition to our members only content to whet your appetite for learning. |
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January-February Calendar |
We're in Florida until February, then we'll be heading west for several RV rallies in Arizona, and some clubs in California.
1/10: Technology for Travelers
10am 1/11: Smartphones and Tablets 10am 1/12: Smartphone Photography Workshop 1-4pm $ 1/13: Make a Blog with Blogger 10am
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'Ask the Geeks' Q&A Forum |
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Google Photos Book Launch Success |
Thank you so much to everyone who bought our Book Launch special last month! Also to those of you who purchased on Amazon Create Space or Kindle, and especially those who left the wonderful reviews on Amazon. We sold nearly 300 books in the first month and we consider that a wild success! The December special, which included our Learning Library on USB drive, is over but you can still purchase the book several different ways. We’ve
set up a special page just for the book.
On the Google Photos Book page you can: - Read about the book and watch the Launch Video
- Sign up for the FREE Chapter 1 download,
- There is a link where Geeks on Tour members can get the entire book in .pdf
format
- Buy the printed book from Amazon CreateSpace
- Buy the Kindle edition of the book
- Buy the .pdf eBook
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What better place to start our series of member spotlights but with our very first member! Dr. Gail West, now a retired professor of education, was the first one to sign up as a Geeks on Tour member in July of 2008. But her association started even before Chris and Jim Guld were known as the Geeks on Tour.
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Mrs. Geek's Year End Photo Tasks |
I count on Google Photos to keep ALL my photos together, in one place with no effort on my part. But, at the end of the year, I want to know that I have an album for each month with all the most important pictures.
I want those albums to be available to me online and off, and I want an easy way to display my year
in review.
This article details what I do. |
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A USB Drive with an iPad? |
Recently a lot of people bought our Geeks on Tour Learning Library on USB. This is a thumb drive that holds all the content from our website. There are hundreds of tutorial videos on it, and some people want to play those videos on their iPad or other tablet. Well – tablets do not have regular USB ports, so this is not possible. Or is it? Actually there are a few ways, but
this little device has got to be about the easiest: |
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Android, or Apple iOS, the Best Smartphone? |
We use them all! And we have an opinion. I could not give up my iPhone now, if only because of the camera’s “Portrait” feature. Using the dual lenses with the portrait mode in the iPhone 7 Plus results in photos I thought were only possible with my
Canon DSLR camera! The phone is also incredibly FAST. It unlocks instantly ... |
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GeeksOnTour.com Website Tips |
We’re updating the website all the time. There are nearly 1,000 articles, 450 videos, and 103 What Does this Button Do Episodes. How do you find what you want? Here are some tips on how to get to the best stuff! - Finding Articles
- Finding Videos
- Finding What Does This Button Do Episodes
- Surprise Me!
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Geeks on Tour
jimandchris@geeksontour.com
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