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We make a lot of videos on Picasa, Blogger, and Basic but Essential Computer Skills. Also a few on Safe Computing, Google Earth and Wi-Fi. On this page, you'll find those and more!

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ID Access Category Topic Description Date Recorded Minutes
14 Free Blogs Examples of Blogs Weblogs: Tioga and George, Odies' Roadies, Busbuilder, Milblogging, Dooce 8/5/06 7.5
15 Free Blogs Creating your first Blog with Blogger Using Blogger, create a free blog in 3 steps; 3/20/07 5.5
17 Free Blogs Posting Log in, choose the blog, create a post, Publish 8/13/06 3.5
18 Free Blogs Pictures Upload one photo to a blogger post. 8/13/06 5
21 Members Only Blogs Edit existing Blogger post Logging in and using the menu system to edit post. 3/20/07 3
19 Members Only Blogs Links How to create a link in a Blogger post. 2/24/07 5.5
20 Members Only Blogs More Pictures How to add several images and explore all the image options in Blogger. 11/23/06 11.5
22 Members Only Blogs Moderate Comments In Blogger, shows creating a comment and changing comment settings 2/24/07 6
52 Members Only Blogs Change your Template Want to change colors and design elements of your Blog? It only takes a couple clicks. 3/20/07 0
53 Members Only Blogs Settings for your Blog There are lots of settings you may want to change on your Blog. Examples in this video include changing time zone and adding Blog Authors. 0
54 Members Only Blogs Adding Photos using Picasa Web Albums If you have a Picasa Web Album, you can embed photos from there into your Blog. This is another way to add photos to your Blog and it's a good one. 7/26/07 5.5
72 Members Only Blogs Adding a Map to a Blog Post Using a Custom Map from your Google Maps, learn how to embed that into a blog post in Blogger. 3/17/08 5
64 Members Only Blogs Back up your Blog Using standard features of Internet Explorer to back up a Blog, including all the image files. 12/11/07 8
96 Members Only Blogs Adding a Link List to your sidebar Learn how to add a list of your favorite links to the sidebar of your blog. 6/17/08 6
107 free Blogs Adding a Map to your Sidebar How to take a custom Google Map and add it to your Blogger sidebar using a Blogger Gadget. 10/2/08 5.5
110 Free Blogs Duplicate your Blogger Blog to WordPress You can sleep better at night knowing that your blog exists in 2 places on the web. This video shows you how to duplicate your Blogger Blog on WordPress 11/11/08 5.5
95 Members Only Blogs Add a Photo to your Blog Header Your Blog's header is one of the many 'page elements' that you can customize. Learn how to add a photo to show at the top of your blog. 6/27/08 6
154 Members Only Blogs Adding Labels How using labels can help you find and group your blog posts. Adding labels to a single post and adding labels to multiple posts using the dashboard. 8/30/09 6.5
156 Free Blogs Using Live Writer Using the free Microsoft Live Writer as your tool for posting to Blogger. This is a quick demo of posting, adding a map, adding photos from Picasa Web Albums. 9/1/09 6
155 Free Blogs HTML Errors If you've ever received a message from Blogger, "Your HTML cannot be accepted" Watch this video to understand what that means and how you fix it. 9/1/09 3
157 Members Only Blogs Backup with Blogger's Export Command A quick and easy way to copy your blog to your computer is with Blogger's own Export command. It still doesn't get the actual photos though. 9/1/09 6
158 Members Only Blogs New Post Editor: Images The updated post editor now allows adding images at the cursor position instead of at the top of the post. 9/1/09 5.5
171 Free Blogs Changing Templates You can expand your choices of Templates by learning how to find, download, and install third party Blogger Templates. This video shows you how. 2/16/10 6.5
172 Members Only Blogs Edit a Custom Template A follow up to 'Changing Templates' This video will show you how to use a Blogger 'Page' as the link to a custome menu. You will edit the HTML code for the template. This is advanced stuff! 2/18/10 6
181 Free Blogs Using Live Writer: Setup How to set up Live Writer to be able to publish to your blog. 12/11/09 5
46 Free Email Get a gmail account How to sign up for a free gmail (google mail) account. 3/20/07 3.5
170 Free Email Import/Export Contacts A Show Me How video from www.GeeksonTour.com: how to get all your email addresses from Outlook or Outlook Express and make a copy of them using Gmail. Even if you don’t use Gmail, this is a great way to have a backup of all your contacts. 3/15/08 2.5
1 Free Essentials Mouse Basics How to Point, Click, Drag, Double-click, Right-click 12/8/06 6.5
2 Free Essentials Window Basics How to Open, Close, Maximize, Minimize, Move among Mulitple Windows 12/8/06 5.5
4 Free Essentials Basic Text Editing Using a Word Processing program to create a letter. Type, Erase, Insert, Wordwrap, and change fonts. 12/8/06 6
5 Members Only Essentials My Documents Learn how to navigate thru File Folders. Where to save your documents and how to find them again. 12/13/06 6.8
6 Members Only Essentials Cut, Copy, Paste How to Cut, Copy, Paste with text, pictures and between programs. Copy from the web, paste into your document. 10/4/06 9.5
3 Members Only Essentials Wallpaper Setting the Wallpaper 7/5/06 5
8 Members Only Essentials Creating Shortcuts How to create Icons, shortcuts and Quick Launch 7/5/06 5.3
61 Free Essentials Web Basics - Part 1 What is the Internet? What is the Web? How do you 'browse' around the web? 9/15/07 7
9 Members Only Essentials Saving your work Using WordPad, how to Save, Save As, File Open 12/13/06 8
62 Members Only Essentials Web Basics - Part 2 Using Internet Explorer to browse the web. Using the Back button and using Tabs. Setting your home page. Creating a 'Favorite'. 9/15/07 6
25 Members Only Essentials Using 'My Music' Playing music CDs and copying music to your computer. 3/8/07 5.8
24 Members Only Essentials Using 'My Pictures' The My Pictures folder is where all your digital photos should go. Learn how to navigate and how to email and backup your pictures using the help feature. 3/8/07 7
105 Members Only Essentials Web Basis Part 2 - using Firefox Using Firefox to browse the web. Using the Back button and using Tabs. Setting your home page. Creating a 'Bookmark'. 9/15/08 6.5
48 Free Essentials Internet Explorer version 7: First Look Take a look at some of the new features of Internet Explorer 7 1/27/07 5.9
51 Free Google Earth and Maps Trip-Planning with Google Earth Use Google Earth's directions and 'find businesses' to help plan your trips 3/22/07 7.5
50 Free Google Earth and Maps Measuring a River with Google Earth Use Google Earth to get a preview of a river you may want to paddle. Find launch areas and measure your course. 12/29/06 4.2
149 Members Only Google Earth and Maps Intro to Google Earth An overview of Google Earth 3/1/09 4.5
71 Members Only Google Earth and Maps Custom Maps with Google Maps Using Google Maps to create a custom map and add placemarks with descriptions and links. 3/17/08 7.5
60 Members Only Google Earth and Maps Latitudes and Longitudes Understanding Latitudes and Longitudes. Finding the Lat/Lon of a place and, finding a place by the Lat/Lon 9/15/07 7.8
73 Free Google Earth and Maps Google Maps: Adding Lines How to add route lines to your custom map in Google Maps 3/30/08 5
152 Free Google Earth and Maps Google Maps: Draw Lines along Roads Google Map's line drawing feature on custom maps has added the ability to draw along roads, or even from directions. 8/2/09 4.5
137 Free Google Earth and Maps Emailing a Custom Map How to use the placemark and path tools to create your own custom map, then send the image in an email. 1/30/09 6
76 Members Only Google Earth and Maps Google Maps: Adding picture URL from Picasa Web Album If you know how to add a photo to your custom Google Map, and you have photos in Picasa Web Albums - this video shows you how to get the URL needed from the web album to put into the map. 3/30/08 5
159 Free GPS Let the computer do the Navigating See samples of how we use Microsoft Streets and Trips to navigate while we travel. 7/1/08 5
160 Free GPS Send locations from S&T to Garmin Nuvi Microsoft Streets and Trips 2010 new feature: using USB cable to transfer route stops from S&T to Garmin Nuvi 255 9/21/09 5
145 Free High Speed Internet for Rvers Internet on the Road: 3 choices Connecting to High Speed Internet on the road is, by necessity, wireless. There are 3 wireless technologies from which to choose: Satellite, Cellular and Wi-Fi 6/4/09 5
146 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers Satellite Internet What do you need to get Internet by Satellite dish while on the road. 6/4/09 5
67 Free High Speed Internet for Rvers Bandwidth Limitations (FAP) on Satellite Connections Learn why Satellite Internet has bandwidth limitations and how to know when you've exceeded them. 11/4/07 5
147 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers Intro to Cellular Internet What do you need in order to connect to the Internet with a cellular service? 6/6/09 8.5
139 Free High Speed Internet for Rvers Broadband with Tethered Cellphone This video will show you how to use a new cellphone, with Verizon's service, to get high-speed internet on your laptop computer. No separate contract, no aircard. 3/10/09 4
57 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers How to turn off/on your Internal Wi-Fi How to turn off the Wi-Fi that is built in to your laptop, so you can save battery or plug in another Wi-Fi adapter. 8/4/07 3.5
148 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers Connecting with Cellular Demo of using a data card and Verizon service to connect to the Internet. 6/6/09 5
143 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers Connecting to WiFi using XP How to connect to a WiFi hotspot using Windows XP 7/7/08 4
47 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers Connecting (and disconnecting)from a Wi-Fi network Using windows XP, how to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot. And, if you unintentionally connect to one you don't want, how to disconnect. 3/16/07 3.5
142 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers Connecting to WiFi using Vista How to connect to a WiFi hotspot using your laptop's built in wireless adapter and Windows Vista 3/6/09 4
79 Free Photostory 3 Download and Install Photo Story 3 See the steps to download this free program from Microsoft's website to your computer. 5/1/08 5.4
80 Free Photostory 3 Quick Movie Instructions on how to make a short movie, starting with your photos and ending with a movie with motion and sound. 5/1/08 6.7
111 Members Only Photostory 3 Preparing photo in Picasa for use in Photostory Edit your photos in Picasa, then use the Export command before Importing them to Photostory 4/1/08 3
81 Members Only Photostory 3 Import Photos The first step of making your movie. Import and arrange the desired photos. 5/1/08 6.5
82 Members Only Photostory 3 Adding Titles Using the built-in Titling tools as well as creating titles in other ways. 5/1/08 5.5
83 Members Only Photostory 3 Adding Narration Learn to record your voice over the slides as they display. You will need a microphone for your computer. 5/1/08 3.7
84 Members Only Photostory 3 Motion - Ken Burn's Effect You'll think you're looking at film shot with a video camera rather than still photos after you add the zoom and pan motion. 5/1/08 6.5
87 Members Only Photostory 3 Transitions How to set fancy transition between slides; flip; swirl; or just plain old dissolve. 6/1/08 0
88 Members Only Photostory 3 Adding Music Photo Story can compose music for you, or you can use music files on your computer for background to your slideshow. 6/1/08 0
89 Members Only Photostory 3 Rendering your Movie In order to share your movie with others, you need to 'render' it to a final form. A .wmv file movie. 6/1/08 0
118 Free Picasa Picasa 3.5: Overview A slide show explaining why Picasa 3 is the only software you'll need for managing your digital photos. 11/16/09 6.5
117 Free Picasa Picasa 3: Install Picasa 3 Download and install Picasa 3 for free from Google. 11/3/09 3.5
119 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: First time using Picasa After downloading Picasa 3, you will open it and need to answer a couple questions the first time it runs. 11/18/08 5
109 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Folders 10/28/08 6
108 Free Picasa Picasa 3: Orientation to the Library Screen Understand that the position of command buttons on the screen informs you about what they do. 10/28/08 5
114 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Adding Text to Photos Placing Text wherever you want on a photo, change the font, fill color and outline color. 11/23/08 6.2
113 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Tree Folder View Understanding the difference between Flat Folder view (the default), the Tree Folder view, and when to use each. 11/25/08 6.5
112 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Move Folders to External Hard Drive Use Picasa's built in commands to move a folder of photos to an External Hard Drive 11/25/08 4
165 Members Only Picasa Folder Manager Use Folder Manager to include any folder in Picasa's View. Also to exclude folders from Picasa's view. 11/4/09 4.5
115 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Make a movie from photos Select a group of photos and click the Movie button. Add music and you have a movie. 11/30/08 4
116 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Viewing and Sharing Video files Picasa can manage video files as well as it manages photo files. One click will share a video either with Web Albums or Youtube. 12/4/08 5.5
120 Free Picasa Picasa 3:Individual Photo View Navigating between the library and single picture view. Navigating within single picture view and using the different tools available. 12/12/08 2
121 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Search for pictures Searching is fast! All text is searchable: folder names, Folder Descriptions, File Names, Captions, Keywords 12/12/08 5.2
122 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Selecting Pictures Selecting pictures puts them in the selection tray, then there are many things you can do to all selected photos. 12/12/08 3.5
123 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Starrred Photos Learn how to designate the photos which are your stars and group them together no matter what folder they're actually stored in. 12/12/08 4.5
124 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Importing from Camera Use Picasa to import all the photos from your camera into your desired folders, then delete them from the camera. 1/30/10 7
125 Members Only Picasa Using Albums How to use Picasa's Album feature. Store all photos in one folder and use multiple albums to create logical groupings. 12/30/08 8
176 Members Only Picasa Backup How to backup selected folders to CD/DVD. Picasa will even burn the discs for you, and span multiple discs. 11/16/09 5
132 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Tags Adding 'tags' or 'keywords' to photos helps you find and organize them. 1/4/09 2.5
164 Members Only Picasa Delete/Rename Files Use Picasa to delete pictures or rename them. 11/2/09 5.5
129 Free Picasa Picasa 3: Redeye Learn how to fix photos of people with red eyes. 1/3/09 2
128 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Basic Edits Shows you how to use the most popular tools on the Basic Edits screen: I'm Feeling Lucky, Crop, Straighten ... 1/3/09 6
166 Members Only Picasa Import from Camera Import pictures from your camera. Exclude duplicates. Create folders of your choosing. 11/2/09 6
126 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Retouching Using the retouch tool to eliminate blemishes and other minor problems such as eyeglass glare. 1/3/09 4.5
130 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Sharpen and Batch Edit Learn how to use 'Sharpen' to make your photos look better. And, 'Batch Edit' can work on many photos at once. 1/3/09 3
133 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Tuning Adjust lighting and color tones on your photos with the tools on the Tuning tab. 1/4/09 5
131 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Cropping and Print Sizes When you crop, you have the choice to constrain your cropping area to the size of the print you want. 1/4/09 5.5
134 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Web Albums Introduction Picasa Web Albums is a photo sharing website, separate from Picasa but they are meant to work together. This video will explain. 1/8/09 8
135 Members Only Picasa Picasa 3: Intro to the 12 Effects An explanation and demonstration of all 12 of the options on Picasa's 'Effect' tab. 1/6/09 10.5
106 Free Picasa Picasa 3: Collage A quick look at the new, improved Collage feature in Picasa 3. Scrapbookers will love it! 9/4/08 3.5
161 Free Picasa Picasa 3.5 Geotagging Picasa 3.5 integrates with Google Maps. View Google Maps in the 'Places' pane. View photos in place, place photos on the map. Geotags follow the photo to Web Albums. 9/23/09 6
162 Free Picasa Move Folders between USB Hard Drives As your library of photos grows, so does your need for bigger hard drives and ways to move your photos to the disks with the most space. Picasa makes it easy. 10/25/09 8
173 Members Only Picasa Search and Temporary Albums Albums are SO useful! This video shows you the quickest way to get the functionality of an album - just Search. Then use the search results like a temporary album. 2/18/10 5
174 Members Only Picasa Captions - Picasa 3.5 Use captions as the fastest way to give your pictures some identification. With Picasa 3.5 they are now editable. 11/8/09 6
175 Members Only Picasa Email w Picasa 3.5 How to email photos and let Picasa do all the resizing automatically. Includes discussion on which email programs work with Picasa. 11/9/09 6
177 Free Picasa Updating Picasa Software How to see that you are using the latest version of Picasa and download any updates if necessary. Demonstrates version 3.6 12/11/09 3.5
178 Free Picasa Create a Picture Fram with Collage With a little creative thinking, you can use Picasa's Collage tool to frame a picture. 12/29/09 3
179 Free Picasa Webcam How to use Picasa to capture video from your computer's built-in webcam. 1/22/10 2
180 Free Picasa Face Albums When you're looking at the faces in a Person's album, you may want to see the whole picture that the face comes from. This video shows you how. 2/8/10 3
30 Free Picasa Basic Search How to use Picasa's search box to find photos 7/11/06 7.8
34 Free Picasa First time scan for photos The first time you open Picasa it will scan for your photos 7/11/06 5.5
63 Free Picasa Downloading and Installing Picasa Where to get the free download of Picasa from Google, with step-by-step demonstration. 6/10/06 5
41 Free Picasa Views Different ways of viewing your photos in Picasa 1/19/07 4.5
35 Members Only Picasa Import from Camera Import photos from camera to computer using Picasa. Then organize into folders. 7/11/06 6
39 Free Picasa Rename, Move, Delete Using Picasa to rename photos, delete, and organize in folders. 7/11/06 6.3
32 Members Only Picasa Email Emailing your photos with one click in Picasa. 11/24/06 4.5
38 Members Only Picasa Remove Folder Removing a folder from Picasa's view without deleting it 7/12/06 4
31 Members Only Picasa Improving photos How to use Picasa's basic editing features. Crop, Feeling lucky, Fill light, Straighten 9/17/06 6.8
37 Members Only Picasa Printing Using Picasa to print photos. Use your own printer, or order from the web. Print on tshirts, mugs, mouse pads and other gifts. 11/24/06 8.5
40 Members Only Picasa Starred Album Marking your favorite photos and viewing them all in one 'album'. 1/19/07 7.3
12 Members Only Picasa Gift CD How to use Picasa to make a Gift CD of a photo slideshow 11/24/06 3.5
13 Members Only Picasa Web Albums Uploading photos to your Picasa/Google Web Albums 11/24/06 9.5
33 Free Picasa Restoring a file Retrieving one picture from a Backup CD and using Picasa to restore it. 1/18/07 2
59 Members Only Picasa Resizing Photos How and when to resize photos using Picasa 8/12/07 6.5
29 Free Picasa Backups Backing up your photos to CD or DVD using Picasa 11/24/06 5
36 Members Only Picasa Nested Folders How to viewing the folder list in a 'nested' tree structure style usng Picasa. 1/19/07 6.6
58 Members Only Picasa Why you shouldn't Save: How Picasa Handles your Edits Picasa does not touch your original file. Learn how it does it. 8/11/07 7
65 Members Only Picasa Viewing a photo received as an email attachment If you receive an email with a photo attached, how do you keep that photo and view it with Picasa? 11/4/07 5
77 Members Only Picasa Organizing photos by Date Using Picasa to rename photos with a sortable date and storing them in folders by month labeled with a sortable date. 4/20/08 5.5
70 Members Only Picasa Captions on Photos How to add captions to your photos in Picasa, and how they show up in Web Albums 11/23/07 7
85 Members Only Picasa Preparing photos for other programs with Export Use Picasa to improve and resize your photos, then use Export to make new originals for use on websites or other programs like Photo Story, or MS Word. 4/1/08 3
69 Members Only Picasa Mapping Photos in Web Albums How to place your photo on a map in Web Albums 10/9/07 6.8
75 Members Only Picasa Using Web Album photos in other Websites Many websites let you add your photos if you know the 'URL.' This video shows you how to get that URL from a photo in Picasa Web Albums. revised Jan 2010 3/30/08 7
86 Free Picasa Put a Picasa Slideshow in your Blog How to use Picasa Web albums to put a slideshow in your blog, or any other webste. 6/26/08 3
141 Members Only Picasa Keep Pictures in Desired Order You can put your pictures in any order you like with Picasa, but it takes a little trick to keep them in that order. 5/11/09 5
153 Members Only Picasa Saving Edited Photos If you want to use a photo outside of Picasa, you need to save the edits. There are several types of Save commands. 8/4/09 8
28 Members Only Safe Computing Defrag 0
49 Members Only Safe Computing Outlook: Keep it up to date There are updates to your software as well as to your operating system. Learn how to find and download updates to Outlook. 1/31/07 3.6
66 Free Safe Computing Backing up to External Hard Drive How to use Windows XP backup utility and an external, USB hard drive to back up all your data. 11/4/07 6.5
68 Free Safe Computing Avoid Email Scams Learn to recognize fake emails and not fall victim to their scams. 11/24/07 6.8
136 Members Only Safe Computing CCleaner CCleaner is a free program to clean the unused files and programs from your computer. 1/30/09 6
140 Free Safe Computing Security Center Window's Security Center is a great place to check that your computer is safe. 3/17/09 2.5
144 Members Only Safe Computing Use BCC to send email When you send an email to multiple recipients,it's important to put their addresses in the BCC field. This video will show you how. 2/15/09 3
56 Members Only Safe Computing Scan with Microsoft OneCare Live How to use the free Microsoft system scanner to double-check for viruses, spyware and system performance issues. 8/3/07 4.5
55 Free Quick Tips Web Browsing - Ctrl-Enter shortcut Using Internet Explorer or Firefox. The Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut will save you typing when browsing the web. 7/27/07 2
151 Free Quick Tips Registering for GOT Forum Shows how to register for the forum because it is a separate process from your Geeks on tour mebership. 6/25/09 8
90 Free Vista Versions of Vista What version do you have? Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate. Different features come with different versions. 7/7/08 3.7
91 Members Only Vista Aero colors and special effects A new look with transparency and Flip 3D. How to use it and how to turn it on or off. 7/7/08 5.3
92 Members Only Vista Desktop Tricks Use the scroll wheel on your mouse to change the size of desktop icons. Create multiple clocks for different time zones. 7/7/08 3
93 Free Vista No 1 favorite feature: Search Stop looking and start finding stuff with Vista's search feature. Don't get aggravated looking for things that have moved. Let Vista find them for you. 7/7/08 5.5
94 Members Only Vista Shut Down or Sleep Shut Down is OK, Sleep is better. For laptops, just close the lid. 7/7/08 4.5
97 Members Only Vista Sidebar and Gadgets Using Vista' sidebar with some useful desktop tools called gadgets. Add and customize Gadgets you want, delete those you don't. 7/15/08 3.8
98 Members Only Vista Overview of Files and Folders An overview tour of the new look and feel for Files and Folders, aka Windows Explorer 7/15/08 4.7
99 Members Only Vista Navigating Files and Folders The new Address Bar Navigation and toolbar options. 7/15/08 6.5
100 Members Only Vista Burning CDs - New Format Vista makes CDs like floppies again! Use the Burn command on the toolbar, then you can read, write and delete from the CD. 7/15/08 4.2
101 Members Only Vista Backup Backup has changed. You don't even need to know where your files are! You do need an external hard drive. 7/15/08 4.3
102 Members Only Vista Windows Mail No more Outlook Express, but Windows Mail takes its place quite nicely. 7/15/08 3
103 Members Only Vista Photo Gallery A little like Picasa (but not quite), Photo Gallery gives you a new way to browse your photos in Windows Vista. 7/15/08 4.5
104 Free Vista Speech Recognition Speech recognition is a built-in feature of Vista and it works pretty good! 7/15/08 4.5
138 Members Only Vista Performance New utilities in Vista for monitoring and adjusting performance. 7/1/08 6
150 Members Only Vista Connecting to Wi-Fi How to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot using Vista 3/10/09 3.5
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