http://blog.geeksontour.com Articles and Links about Wi-Fi, Picasa, Blogger, Google Maps, and more Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:20:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Chris Guld, www.GeeksonTour.com I've written about Live Writer a couple of times: Article 1, Article 2. It is a free program downloadable from Microsoft, and the exceptional feature is that it resides locally on your computer and it will upload your blog posts to several ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/09/08/using-live-writer-for-blogging/ 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 ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/08/30/presidential-libraries-and-blogs/ by Chris Guld, Geeks on Tour: We spent the past week in Essex Junction Vermont at the FMCA Northeast Area Rally (NEAR.)  To our surprise and delight, there was Wi-Fi available right at our parking spot.  We could tell it came from the fairgrounds since it was ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/08/16/wi-fi-the-best-of-speeds-the-worst-of-speeds/ Reports in the media say that the recent DoS attacks against Twitter, Face Book and others may have been enabled by YOU.  If your computer is not up to date, it could easily be infected and being used by cyber-criminals as part of a “botnet” of zombie computers. ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/08/07/denial-of-service-attacks/ 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 ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/08/02/google-maps-custom-route-lines/ 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 ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/07/31/use-a-blog-for-a-club-website/ We leave ours on all the time.  The only time we turn them off is when we are on the road.  Some people say you should leave your computer on because the act of turning the computer on and off will actually shorten it’s life.  Others say you should turn ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/07/26/do-you-turn-your-computer-off/ It seems like most of our ‘Internet on the Road’ articles lately have been about cellular technology.  Although cellular is getting to be more popular with travelers – we sure like RV parks with good Wi-Fi.  Absence makes the heart grow fonder … we did not find any parks with ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/07/19/we-still-like-wi-fi-2/ If you take a look at the Family Motorcoach Ass’n website right now – you’ll see Jim’s and my smiling faces.  Right on the home page! And, if you follow the link under our picture … to ‘Mobile Internet’ you can watch one of our videos ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/07/15/the-geeks-at-fmca/ 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 ... http://blog.geeksontour.com/2009/07/14/picasa-tip-a-picasa-plug-in-for-live-writer/