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What Maps are for: Finding Hot Springs!

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com
Jim and Chris of Geeks on Tour show you a little about their RVing lifestyle as they share computer tips for travelers. In this episode, we’re coming to you from Saratoga, Wyoming. We talk about how Microsoft Streets & Trips helps us find Hot Springs, and then show you how we connect [...]

See you at The Rally!

We hope to see you all at The Rally in Louisville, KY this week. We’ll be hanging out in the RV.net booth (#340) much of the time. Check out this listing of all 278 Vendors and their booth numbers.
When we’re not in the booth, it’s probably because we’re presenting one of our 5 seminars:

Internet on [...]

Gabbing with the Geeks: Connecting to the Internet with Droid

Coming to you from Indiana, Jim and Chris talk about their summer tour of RV Rallies:

The Rally – July 21-25 in Louisville, KY

Family Motorcoach Ass’n (FMCA) Convention - August 11 – 14 in Redmond, OR

Gypsy Gathering Rally – August 30 – Sept 3 in Elkhart, IN

Escapade – September 12 – 17 in Goshen, IN

Then they [...]

Our Satellite Dish: Part III of 3

Any two people who consider it a highlight of life to drink $18.00-a-bottle wine from an empty Pringles canister must be compatible. So, despite the counseling of her four sons to think twice about marrying me, Monique followed her intuition, which is practically 100 percent reliable.
There have been three disruptions in our marriage which we [...]

Our Top 10 List: RV-Related Electronics Part II

Yesterday, we mentioned five of our favorite electronic devices that help keep us sane as we live life on the go. Now to complete our list with the other five:
9. Atomic Clock/Weather Station – A device that deceives us regularly, but we always have an accurate time check, and the little man in our LCD [...]

Wi-Fi is Like a Box of Chocolates

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksonTour.com
Wi-Fi can be the best way to connect on the road:

All current laptop computers have the capability to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots
Wi-Fi hotspots are easy to find. Lots of RV parks, cafes, truck stops, and libraries have Wi-Fi hotspots.
There’s no contract, it’s pay-as-you-go. Many hotspots are even free.
Some Wi-Fi hotspots are extremely [...]

Droid watches Traffic

by Chris Guld, www.GeeksOnTour.com: We were recently at a State Park in Georgia (Fort McAllister – a wonderful park) when a fellow traveler advised us that we might want to avoid I-95 on our way south. “There is a lot of construction on I-95 between here and Florida”, he said.
We heeded his warning, but also [...]

GPS Navigation with Netbooks and Droid

by Chris Guld, www.geeksontour.com
We love GPS systems. Maybe too much! All of a sudden we have more GPS navigation devices than coffee cups! And we can’t decide which one we like best. So, we’re using them all.
We’ve been using Microsoft Streets and Trips on a laptop since the beginning of our travels in 2003. Actually, [...]

Cell Phones, Rallies, and Internet Connections

We spent the past week with a few thousand of our closest friends at the FMCA Convention (Family Motor Coach Ass’n) in Albuquerque, NM. We did a lot of talking about digital photos and about blogs, but the hottest topic was all about cell phones and Internet Access.

In several of our seminars, we used our [...]

Windows 7 = Wi-Fi Hotspot

“…any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke
Connecting a Single Computer
For the RV traveler, Internet connectivity is a lifeline. Connecting even a single computer to the Internet can be a daunting experience. Everything needs to be configured properly for it to work.
There are three ways for RV travelers to connect to Broadband [...]

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