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Four smartphone tech seminars for you from the FMCA Rally

Chris Guld - April 9, 2021

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comThe FMCA RV Club recently held its first rally since the pandemic started. It was held at the Georgia State Fairgrounds...

Boondockers Welcome has a new App

Chris Guld - March 26, 2021

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com Do you like to boondock? Do you avoid crowded campgrounds? Like to meet new people? If so, you should be a...

Maps and photos – a traveler’s dream

Chris Guld - February 26, 2021

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comIf you travel, odds are you like maps! I use Google My Maps to record places we've been. With smartphones these...

Need a last-minute Valentine’s Day gift? Make a movie!

Chris Guld - February 12, 2021

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comDo you need a last-minute Valentine's Day gift but don't have the time or can't get to the store? If you...

Use phone’s unlimited data plan to stream movies on TV

Chris Guld - January 29, 2021

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comMany of us have data plans on our phones that have Unlimited on-device data. What this means is that as long...

Digital RVer: Allstays is the best app to find RV parking

Chris Guld - January 15, 2021

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comWe (Jim and Chris of GeeksOnTour.com) are currently (1/13-17/2021) at the Florida RV SuperShow in Tampa, Florida. We’re giving seminars every...

View your campground reservations on your map

Chris Guld - January 1, 2021

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comWouldn't it be nice if your campground reservations showed up on your map? That's what Google thought anyway. So now, when...

Digital RVer: Use an old phone as your webcam

Chris Guld - November 6, 2020

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.comWhen you get a new phone, do you keep the old one? I want you to know that the old phone...

How to make Google Maps more accurate

Chris Guld - August 13, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour When we're traveling, I depend on Google Maps to know where I am. It can be very distressing when...

Need a laptop? Get a Chromebook

Chris Guld - July 31, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on TourA few years ago I wrote an article for RVtravel.com titled, "A Chromebook may be your best travel laptop."...

How to keep track of what your phone is buying

Chris Guld - July 16, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour Our phones, with Google, Apple or Samsung accounts, make it very easy to purchase things. Has anyone set up...

The Digital RVer: Did you take a shaky video? It’s easy to fix!

Chris Guld - June 19, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour I hope you've discovered that your smartphone camera takes great videos, and videos add so much to the experience...

The Digital RVer: Take a picture of QR codes to scan later

Chris Guld - June 4, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour I'm sure you've all been asked to scan a QR code, like the one at the right, at some...

Scanning documents with your smartphone

Chris Guld - May 22, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour Do you sometimes need to scan documents but don't want to spend money on – or take up space...

Showing old photo albums on TV fills your home with memories

Chris Guld - May 7, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour How do I get my old photo albums into Google Photos? While we stay home, we are pulling out...

Isn’t it time to start that travel blog you’ve been talking about?

Chris Guld - April 24, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour Most RVers keep notes of some kind when they travel – maybe in a paper notebook, maybe on Facebook,...

Looking for something to do at home? Got any old slides?

Chris Guld - April 9, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour How do I get my slides into Google Photos? While we stay home, we are pulling out our old...

Digital RVer: Stuck at home or in your RV? Use Zoom online meetings for get-togethers

Chris Guld - March 27, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour With orders to stay at home during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, meetings are going virtual, and Zoom.us is quickly...

Travel photos should include location information

Chris Guld - March 12, 2020

Superman! What an iconic piece of Americana, but what if you don't remember where you were when you took this photo? If you take...

Put text on your photos and make the text stand out

Chris Guld - February 27, 2020

Google Photos Markup Tool By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour It was a long time in coming, but Google Photos now can add text right to...

Planning the Grand Adventure – 50 U.S. landmarks

Chris Guld - February 14, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour Google My Maps is one of my favorite travel tools, so when I see something like this epic tour...

Digital RVer: Your smartphone can identify birds, flowers, products and more

Chris Guld - January 30, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour What does this button do? Google Lens is part of Google Photos, and you can use it to quickly identify...

Digital RVer: Let Google Maps deliver food to your door

Chris Guld - January 16, 2020

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour Both Jim and I were relaxing at home when we started to get hungry. We didn't feel like cooking...

Use Google Photos to make movies of your travels – much better than pictures!

Chris Guld - January 2, 2020

Do you ever use your smartphone to take videos? ... on purpose? 🙂 You should! These smartphone cameras are excellent video cameras. Just take 20...

Digital RVer: Listen to any radio station from anywhere – Free!

Chris Guld - December 19, 2019

by Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour Listen to your home radio station while you travel, or a foreign station when you're home. There are several Apps...

Digital RVer: Every travel blog needs a travel map

Chris Guld - December 5, 2019

by Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour A travel blog without a map is like cake without icing! It’s good, but not as good as it...

Listen to TV thru your smartphone with Tunity

Chris Guld - November 21, 2019

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour When we're traveling during football season we enjoy finding a sports bar with multiple TVs so we can watch...

Let friends know when you’ll get there – using Google Maps

Chris Guld - November 7, 2019

There were several times during our RV travels this year when we made arrangements to meet up with friends. You know the drill, we...

How do you force Google Maps to go the way you want?

Chris Guld - October 23, 2019

Google Maps is navigating and telling you to go one way but you want to go a different way. What do you do? For one...

Your navigation system should tell you more than just “Turn right here”

Chris Guld - October 10, 2019

I've been known to tell people that Google Maps is better than Waze because Google Maps gives me much more detail when the voice...

Four tips for conserving phone battery when you’re off-grid

Chris Guld - September 27, 2019

When you travel in remote areas, you likely will not have cell service, and you may not have electricity. If using your devices and...

Apps to help you weather a hurricane

Chris Guld - August 30, 2019

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour If you find yourself in the path of a hurricane, the best safety equipment you can have is your...

How to keep reminders by location rather than time

Chris Guld - August 15, 2019

Have you ever wished you could remember to do something when you’re in a particular place? Like when you were visiting friends in Oregon...

Every RVer needs a “Bragging Map”

Chris Guld - July 19, 2019

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour We loved adding a new state to our stick-on map on the RV. My husband, Jim, and I would...

Don’t get lost – Find your way back by taking a photo

Chris Guld - July 5, 2019

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com As an RV traveler, this has to be my favorite feature of Google Photos. I take a picture every time we...

How to take all your books in the RV

Chris Guld - June 21, 2019

The hardest thing to leave behind when we became full-time RVers was our bookshelves full of books. I am so glad that, with my...

How to easily see elevation gain along your route

Chris Guld - June 6, 2019

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour I'll never forget when we were traveling in New Mexico and asked Google Maps to plot our course from...

Your travel photos could be better

Chris Guld - May 23, 2019

So many people snap pictures and just accept them as they are, when they could be so much better with just a few clicks....

Where Am I? A useful app for constant travelers

Chris Guld - April 12, 2019

Ever ask someone to write down a local phone number and later notice they didn’t include the area code? Or how about watching a...

How to find your lost phone

Chris Guld - March 29, 2019

Whether your phone is buried in the couch cushions, or you left it back at the last campground, there are times we need help...

My go-to app to find a place to park my RV

Chris Guld - March 14, 2019

By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour We (Jim and Chris of GeeksOnTour.com) are currently at the FMCA convention in Perry, Georgia. We're giving several seminars...

Keeping track of time in different time zones

Chris Guld - January 31, 2019

We are currently traveling in Australia and New Zealand (see our photo album here.) We use our phones to know the current time –...

Should Google Fi be part of your Internet toolkit?

Chris Guld - December 14, 2018

Digital RVer By Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour If you need Internet as you travel the U.S., you know that it's important to have more than...

Sharing your location using Google Maps

Chris Guld - November 28, 2018

With these smartphone/GPS devices in our pockets all the time, there are now many different ways to share your location. Apple has the "Find...

Travel Drive for phones and tablets

RV Staff - May 12, 2016

By Chris Guld, GeeksOnTour.com You probably know about Travel Drives for storing computer data files, photos, videos, music, etc. We call them by various names,...

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