What's Up with Jim and Chris - the Geeks?
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June was another full month of quarantine, but we got away for a couple of days during the last week. Our dive club arranged for a day trip to the keys to paddle kayaks around in the mangroves. We jumped at the chance to get away and took our camper van a couple days earlier. Ahhhhh - such beautiful sunsets. We continued our Zoom meetings and added paid
workshops on Google photos. We got some great feedback, so we plan to make these online workshops a regular part of our schedule. See our June Google Photos album for some more pictures, and our blog for the rest of the story.
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Members Only Zoom meeting / classes
We did not have any separate meetings or classes for our members in June, but we did hold after show "Backstage Pass" meetings after both of the button shows.
Tutorial Videos - for members
We also added several new short show-me videos for Google Photos. See the c omplete list here.
July 5 3pm ET Backstage Pass Zoom for Premium Members
Monday, July 6 12pm ET Chris will be a guest on "Tech for Seniors" with Ron Brown and Hewie Poplock. Here topic is Sharing with Google Photos
We're still under stay home orders.
All personal public appearances are cancelled for the foreseeable future.
Announcing!! Google Photos Workflow: a hands-on workshop with Chris Guld, a Google Photos product expert. Chris will show you how best to work with Google Photos. You'll even have exercises to do on your own device with Google Photos.
- What: a 2 hr workshop held over Zoom with maximum 6 attendees
- When: 1) Friday, July 17 at 1pm Eastern to 3pm
- Cost: $49 per person
- How to sign up: Click Here
If we don't do a live Button Show, we'll do a Member Zoom at 2pm Eastern.
Live Zoom meetings for Premium Members after the live shows. Watch your email for announcements of scheduled shows.
Stay safe. Wash your hands.
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Lots of Changes for Google Photos
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Google Photos turns 5 years old and gets a facelift. The next time you open the app, you may feel a bit lost because the 3-line menu is gone, as are the Albums tab and the For You tab. Don't worry, everything is still there, it's just all been rearranged.
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Staying Connected on the Road - anything new?
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Yes, and no. 5G is coming but it's not here yet. Starlink is covering the globe with Internet from Satellites but don't plan on using it for at least a year. The cellular carriers have some great unlimited data plans that have been discontinued, but Visible is still a good option.
If you want to know what the best data plan is today, and you want to be able to take advantage of improvements tomorrow, you want to listen to Chris Dunphy and Cherie VeArd of MobileInternetInfo.com. They were our guests on Episode 193 of our YouTube show. You can watch the YouTube video here, and notice that we've marked the chapters so you can quickly jump to where they discuss the
different topics: Starlink, Unlimited Data Plans, Streaming options, 5G, and more.
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Google Photos can stabilize videos
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All you have to do is open the video, tap the edit button and then the stabilize icon (it looks like a skewed rectangle within a square) and Google Photos does all the rest. You must be using Google Photos on an Android device to have this feature.
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