Speaker 1: Zoom comes to smart displays, Bundling is the new old
Speaker 1: thing to do. Instagram copies yet another TikTok feature. Plus
Speaker 1: your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro
Speaker 1: and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I
Speaker 1: talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
Speaker 1: It's also the place where I answer the questions that
Speaker 1: you send me. And I've said this before, but during
Speaker 1: this pandemic, you are sending me a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: You know, I get it, your home, you got tech issues.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of stuff going on. And I'm here.
Speaker 1: I'm here for you to see me on TV. And
Speaker 1: you say, hey, let me send that guy a question. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter
Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, coming to you
Speaker 1: from home as usual. I have now been working from
Speaker 1: home full are a grand total of five months. I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. Can you believe it? I can't. Now
Speaker 1: at this point, I've got myself working from home, I've
Speaker 1: got my wife working from home. I've got my five
Speaker 1: year old doing kindergarten from home, and I've got my
Speaker 1: nine year old doing his school from home. So it
Speaker 1: looks like we run a small office here in the
Speaker 1: DeMuro House, with everyone on computers, everyone on headphones, everyone
Speaker 1: trying to coordinate their schedules. And it's unlike anything I've
Speaker 1: ever experienced in my life. And I'm sure you are
Speaker 1: going through something very similar no matter what you're doing,
Speaker 1: whether you have kids, whether you don't have kids, whether
Speaker 1: you're working, whether you're not working. It's an odd time.
Speaker 1: In fact, I was in Santa Barbara again. I know
Speaker 1: I was in Santa Barbara last time I talked to
Speaker 1: you when I did last week's podcast, but I went
Speaker 1: once again. And I've realized that Santa Barbara is not
Speaker 1: very far from Los Angeles, and so now I'm expanding
Speaker 1: my reach of doing stories up there because there's some
Speaker 1: tech companies up there. So I've been going up there.
Speaker 1: So I was up there yesterday and at the end
Speaker 1: of my interview, I decided to get a haircut because
Speaker 1: it's much cooler in Santa Barbara than it is in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and they were doing the haircuts outside, and
Speaker 1: it's really tough to get a haircut in California right
Speaker 1: now because everyone has to be outside. And so I
Speaker 1: went to this barber shop. They said, okay, we could
Speaker 1: take you, you know, at this time, And I came
Speaker 1: back and I got my haircut, and I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: outside getting my haircut, just thinking, this is a time
Speaker 1: that people will talk about for the rest of their
Speaker 1: lives when I'm an old grandpa talking to my grandkids,
Speaker 1: sitting hopefully outside in a beautiful lake or beach somewhere,
Speaker 1: and my grandkids are hanging out and hanging on me,
Speaker 1: and I will be like, you know, I got a
Speaker 1: haircut on the street once because you couldn't go inside
Speaker 1: get a haircut, and there's hair everywhere, and there's just people.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a whole It is a whole scene.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of something that someone would come by
Speaker 1: and snap a black and white picture of in like
Speaker 1: the twenties, and we would look at it and think
Speaker 1: how silly it looks. But there I was, in color,
Speaker 1: sitting there on the street in twenty twenty, getting a haircut.
Speaker 1: So it was just a really interesting experience. And this
Speaker 1: whole thing has really made me very introspective on life
Speaker 1: and what we're all doing here, and what we're doing
Speaker 1: for our jobs and our families and just Oh, it's
Speaker 1: just quite quite quite interesting when you really break it down. Well,
Speaker 1: let's start with the first story, which directly relates to
Speaker 1: this whole pandemic, and it is zoom. Zoom is coming
Speaker 1: to smart home displays. Zoom is coming to Amazon, Echo
Speaker 1: Show Portal from Facebook and Google, Nest Hub Max. This
Speaker 1: is brilliant. This is something that I'm so glad as happy.
Speaker 1: Not that everyone has these in their homes, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people do, especially probably the Amazon Echo Show
Speaker 1: Portal from Facebook, not so much Google, nesttub Max, probably
Speaker 1: to a lesser extent. But the good news is you
Speaker 1: will be able to do zoom on these smart displays,
Speaker 1: which is fantastic because it frees up your computer screen
Speaker 1: so you can do other things on there while you zoom. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be ready just yet. Zoom on
Speaker 1: Portal is coming the soonest in September, but that's probably
Speaker 1: the least useful because people don't really have portals. As
Speaker 1: far as I know, zoom On, Echo Show and Nest
Speaker 1: are going to be available by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: And this is going to be all integrated with Alexa
Speaker 1: and also with Google Assistance. You can just say, hey,
Speaker 1: h Google, join my next meeting and it will join.
Speaker 1: It's great and I love that these companies are actually
Speaker 1: opening up these devices to third party software where it's
Speaker 1: not just Google Meet on the nesttub Max, and it's
Speaker 1: not just well Alexa had Zoom or Amazon Echo had
Speaker 1: Zoom to begin with. Portal from Facebook had Messenger, but
Speaker 1: I'm not sure they had anything else. So good job,
Speaker 1: and I think that this will actually hasten the adoption
Speaker 1: of some of these smart home displays. The one I'm
Speaker 1: most excited for is actually the Facebook Portal TV, because
Speaker 1: I can't believe that there's no way to zoom on
Speaker 1: TV right now, and that would be the ultimate. So
Speaker 1: you can just sit there, probably not for work so much,
Speaker 1: but for personal just sitting down on a Friday night
Speaker 1: having sort of a little happy hour with family or friends.
Speaker 1: The TV is the place to do it, and hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll see that as well. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: our first question, and this question comes from Sharon. She says,
Speaker 1: I want to get the ring doorbell from my house.
Speaker 1: Is it secure? I saw the video cameras on TV
Speaker 1: that people can hack. There is a ring doorbell and
Speaker 1: second generation and a third I don't know which one
Speaker 1: is the best for me. My doorbell is now wired.
Speaker 1: And if you want to submit a question, by the way,
Speaker 1: just email me hello at richontech dot tv and we'll
Speaker 1: get your question into the show. So what's the difference
Speaker 1: between the Ring Video Doorbell two and Ring Video Doorbell three?
Speaker 1: I had to actually look this up on the website
Speaker 1: because I was not aware that they had a third
Speaker 1: ring doorbell. I have the two, I did have the one.
Speaker 1: The two gave me slightly better video, and the three
Speaker 1: is one hundred and seventy nine ninety nine. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: there's a video doorbell three plus? I mean, how many
Speaker 1: different doorbells do you need? What's the plus do? Now?
Speaker 1: The plus is two hundred dollars are premium battery power
Speaker 1: doorbell with advanced security features, including improved motion detection, with
Speaker 1: an additional four second preview of each motion event. You'll
Speaker 1: automatically start recording before you even receive an alert. So
Speaker 1: what is that mean? That's that's interesting that it's like
Speaker 1: recording twenty four to seven anyway, So do you need
Speaker 1: the two or the three? I would say I personally
Speaker 1: would go with the three, not because the two is bad,
Speaker 1: but the two's been out for a while, and if
Speaker 1: you're installing one of these things, it's the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that you keep for a while. You're not sitting there.
Speaker 1: People are not sitting there upgrading their video doorbells every
Speaker 1: year like their smartphone, or every even every two years,
Speaker 1: or even every three years. This is the kind of
Speaker 1: device that you put outside your front door and you
Speaker 1: leave it there until it stops working completely. So for
Speaker 1: that reason, I would go for the third generation of
Speaker 1: this doorbell, because even though the second one is going
Speaker 1: to be cheaper at one hundred dollars, I would probably
Speaker 1: pay the extra hundred dollars so that you can have
Speaker 1: the latest and greatest that that ring has been working on.
Speaker 1: Because why get something that's two years old. I don't
Speaker 1: know when the second generation came out, but why get
Speaker 1: something that's that old when you can have what's new
Speaker 1: and keep it for long hopefully, So I think the
Speaker 1: three what it adds is better Wi Fi. So the
Speaker 1: two only has two point four gigahertz Wi Fi connectivity,
Speaker 1: five gigaherts is going to give you a more consistent
Speaker 1: and higher quality Wi Fi signal. So that's one reason
Speaker 1: for the three, and Let's see what else does a
Speaker 1: three do. Let's see the three also gives you, let's
Speaker 1: see here, advanced motion settings, so rechargeable, quick release. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: so there's a The battery also comes out faster on
Speaker 1: the three. Yeah, I'd go with the three, just because
Speaker 1: you know that way you have the newest one, You're
Speaker 1: gonna leave this thing on your door till it fails.
Speaker 1: So that's what I would do, Sharon. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to security, I think, you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: of this security stuff was overblown in the media because
Speaker 1: it's easy. You know, it's scary. Oh, someone could tap
Speaker 1: into your doorbell. I think that Ring has done a
Speaker 1: pretty good job of securing these things in various ways,
Speaker 1: including they now require two factor authentication, which means when
Speaker 1: you sign up for a Ring account, you have to
Speaker 1: put in some sort of secondary verification, which is usually
Speaker 1: a text message or I'm not sure if they support
Speaker 1: two factor authentication apps, but no matter what, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be secure. The problem is a lot of people are
Speaker 1: using their same tired, old password when they would set
Speaker 1: up one of these devices, whether it was a Ring
Speaker 1: or any sort of video doorbell, and people hack into
Speaker 1: them because they figure out that your password is password
Speaker 1: one two three. Don't put password one two three on
Speaker 1: something that's securing your home. That's just not smart. Don't
Speaker 1: do it. Let's talk about the Galaxy Note twenty Ultra.
Speaker 1: Last week I said that I was loving this phone.
Speaker 1: This week, I have my actual review since the embargo
Speaker 1: on the review is up, and I can finally talk
Speaker 1: about it for real. Let's just put it this way.
Speaker 1: The Galaxy Note twenty is the best Android phone out there.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. It's the ultimate Android. You
Speaker 1: can't get better. In fact, my only issue I have
Speaker 1: two issue use with this phone. One is not even
Speaker 1: related to the phone, it's really just an Android thing.
Speaker 1: And the other is just that it's so honk and
Speaker 1: big that it's not comfortable to manipulate in a way
Speaker 1: that I like to use my phone a lot. And
Speaker 1: I have to think about it when I'm using the
Speaker 1: Note twenty Ultra because it's just so big. And I'm
Speaker 1: not going with a Note twenty because it's got the
Speaker 1: plastic back, it's got the lesser camera, and it's got
Speaker 1: no microSD card slot, which I don't really care about,
Speaker 1: but I want the best of the best, and that's
Speaker 1: why I want the Ultra. But let me tell you
Speaker 1: about it. So I've been using it for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. I dropped it once very hard. I did
Speaker 1: have a case on it. It got a little scratched
Speaker 1: up on the screen. It's got a twelve megapixel ultra
Speaker 1: wide camera, one hundred and eight megapixel old wide angle camera,
Speaker 1: and a twelve megapixel telephoto camera. The camera is so
Speaker 1: flexible and so awesome that you will just have I
Speaker 1: just couldn't stop taking pictures with it. It was that great.
Speaker 1: Now a lot of the problems with the AUTOFOK have
Speaker 1: been fixed. I still find that it's a little tiny
Speaker 1: blurrier for closer up pictures than the iPhone and phones
Speaker 1: that don't have this camera setup. So the iPhone, the
Speaker 1: pixel even the one plus shares the same problem that
Speaker 1: the S twenty Ultra does. It's just a little bit
Speaker 1: blurry when you take these kind of pictures at close range.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why it's. It's you have to take
Speaker 1: a bunch of pictures and compare a lot of cameras
Speaker 1: like I do to really notice it, but it's there.
Speaker 1: The spen is super improved. It's got reduced latency, which
Speaker 1: nobody's I don't notice that. Samsung app Notes app is great.
Speaker 1: You can write on PDFs. They've got this cool audio
Speaker 1: recording feature that lets you sink what is being said
Speaker 1: to what you're writing. So you can just tap the
Speaker 1: word you said and you'll hear whatever that person said
Speaker 1: at that point. So if you're writing down a phone number,
Speaker 1: for instance, in a or you know you're in class
Speaker 1: and you're writing down notes, you can tap to that
Speaker 1: portion of that whatever you wrote down there and you
Speaker 1: can hear what the professor said. If you missed a
Speaker 1: name or something. It's auto straightens your handwriting. It sinks
Speaker 1: to the cloud back to the camera. Excellent. Point and
Speaker 1: shoot photos that look like a million bucks. I mean
Speaker 1: the pictures I was taking on this thing, they're just gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I mean they really are. Low Light was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a challenge, but I find that it still
Speaker 1: does pretty good. It's just not necessarily going to get
Speaker 1: it on the first time every time in low light,
Speaker 1: especially on the selfies, but most cameras can't. Let's be honest,
Speaker 1: it's a problem. Low Light is a problem. Video quality
Speaker 1: is awesome, does a really good job with that battery life,
Speaker 1: no problems there at all. Five G kind of a
Speaker 1: non starter right now. I have not tested at and
Speaker 1: T five G in this phone, which I need to do.
Speaker 1: But T Mobile, I love the idea of five G
Speaker 1: in this new network that T Mobiles building. I just
Speaker 1: did not see performance that was worth subscribing to T
Speaker 1: Mobile five G four or switching to a five G
Speaker 1: or anything that really impressed me, to be honest. In fact,
Speaker 1: it was actually quite painful. The five G network in
Speaker 1: Santa Barbara in Los Angeles where I live. Clearly they
Speaker 1: just don't have it yet. So it's or maybe they do,
Speaker 1: it's just not at my house. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: just five G is not that big of a deal
Speaker 1: right now. It will get better. So here's my biggest problem.
Speaker 1: Social media. I am on social media. I'm on Instagram,
Speaker 1: I'm on Twitter, I'm on Facebook, and I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: it's painful to use social media on the Note twenty
Speaker 1: on Android. And this is every Android phone compared to
Speaker 1: the iPhone. The iPhone, social media is so beautiful, it
Speaker 1: just works perfectly. I don't know what the problem is
Speaker 1: with social media on Android. In fact, I did a
Speaker 1: Instagram Live at a place called Blaze Pizza. I was
Speaker 1: shooting a story there and it was so terrible looking
Speaker 1: when I looked at the video after I had gone
Speaker 1: live that I had to delete it because it was
Speaker 1: so bad. It looked horrendous. Now I'm wondering if it
Speaker 1: has to do with T Mobile and the Tester SIM
Speaker 1: that I have. T Mobile default to four EIGHTYP video
Speaker 1: for most things. I'm wondering if it has to do
Speaker 1: with that. So if it's if it's just not sending
Speaker 1: through full quality video when I upload, because it's somehow
Speaker 1: limiting it. Now, I thought that was maybe on just streaming,
Speaker 1: like if you're watching YouTube and stuff, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's on the uploads as well. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: test it out. I'm gonna put in my Verizon SIM
Speaker 1: and see if it helps. But I'm not sure. And
Speaker 1: if it does, great, then all this is moot point.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure because it seems like every Android
Speaker 1: phone I test social media just does not look as good.
Speaker 1: And let's see what else, So what I recommend it? No,
Speaker 1: twenty Ultra is not for everyone because it's so big,
Speaker 1: Like would I give my wife this phone I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I think she would say, Rich, you're crazy. This thing
Speaker 1: is so enormous that you can't use this day to day.
Speaker 1: I drop it. It's too big. It's like it's not pocketable.
Speaker 1: So I think this really appeals to a certain type
Speaker 1: of person who sort of wants that really powerful device
Speaker 1: that does everything, but is maybe going to replace their
Speaker 1: you know, maybe at times their laptop and also a tablet.
Speaker 1: It's a great device, but I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 1: It's a great device if it appeals to you. I
Speaker 1: find really no flaws with it, and the only thing
Speaker 1: is it's big. When you put a case on it,
Speaker 1: it's even bigger. Starts at one thousand bucks for the
Speaker 1: Note twenty, thirteen hundred bucks for the Note twenty Ultra,
Speaker 1: but you get it all and it really is the
Speaker 1: best Android phone. Before I move on to the next question,
Speaker 1: let me just say one thing. The Galaxy S twenty
Speaker 1: lineup is getting a lot of the features of the
Speaker 1: Note lineup, which is really cool. They're coming out with
Speaker 1: one I are one UI two point five and with Samsung,
Speaker 1: and this really annoys me with them. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they do this, but they announce and they've gotten
Speaker 1: a lot better with it, but they announce the software
Speaker 1: updates and then it takes forever for it to reach
Speaker 1: your phone, whereas with iPhone they're like, oh, I always
Speaker 1: fourteen's available today, You go into your settings and boom,
Speaker 1: it's there. Samsung not the same. You could wait they
Speaker 1: announced this today, as I record this on August twenty first,
Speaker 1: and you could be waiting till September fifteenth, and you
Speaker 1: might not see it on your phone. Now hopefully that's
Speaker 1: not the case with this, but anyway, they are adding
Speaker 1: the twenty one to nine aspect ratio in eight K.
Speaker 1: They're adding the ability to control your smartphone's mic direction
Speaker 1: and also use Bluetooth mics with the S twenty lineup
Speaker 1: the whole notes thing I just told you about with
Speaker 1: the writing on PDFs, the audio bookmarks, the wireless decks,
Speaker 1: and some Wi Fi things where you can share Wi
Speaker 1: Fi if you have an iPhone friend, you know you
Speaker 1: can share. Like if you're trying to log onto a
Speaker 1: Wi Fi network and you have an iPhone and a
Speaker 1: friend is nearby that has that password on their phone
Speaker 1: that they've already logged into that Wi Fi, I'll be like, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to share with Rich he's nearby, and
Speaker 1: you just tap and boom. So that's that's now on
Speaker 1: the Samsung's and then apparently a reminder app you can
Speaker 1: preset time and location for upcoming meet. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know there was a reminder's app on the Samsung, but
Speaker 1: there you have it. I think Samsung's doing a really
Speaker 1: nice job. Let's put it this way, and I the
Speaker 1: state of affairs when it comes to Android. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of like Android devices out there. I think Samsung
Speaker 1: is killing it right now. At this point in time,
Speaker 1: I think one plus is killing it. They're so close
Speaker 1: with their camera, the pixel I am severely disappointed in
Speaker 1: except they seem to be really taking the low end
Speaker 1: of the spectrum with their Pixel four A. And I
Speaker 1: haven't tested it yet. I have not gotten one yet,
Speaker 1: so but I'm sure it takes amazing pictures. And for
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty dollars, that is the Android phone
Speaker 1: to get if you want a cheap Android phone that's
Speaker 1: just gonna take amazing photos. Let's see. Next question comes
Speaker 1: from Martha. Martha says, hey, Rich, I hope you're well.
Speaker 1: I've attached a screenshot of the MacBook my son just purchased.
Speaker 1: He didn't really check into spec, so I'm wondering, how
Speaker 1: can we make the storage last? Because of course we
Speaker 1: can add more, but uh with let's see, it's not
Speaker 1: as easy on laptops as is desktops. No matter how
Speaker 1: big the storage is, things are eventually going to get filled.
Speaker 1: Can you share a review or personal tips on this MacBook?
Speaker 1: Was this a smart purchase? He's using it for college
Speaker 1: classes are just getting started. On a side note, I
Speaker 1: did tell my son to email you this question before
Speaker 1: he purchased it, but of course he didn't listen. Lol.
Speaker 1: We love your reviews or we watch your reviews on
Speaker 1: KTLA all the time. Two thumbs up, Martha. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at this screenshot. Let's see, you got a thirteen inch
Speaker 1: MacBook air Space gray Retina screen, Core I, three eight
Speaker 1: gigs of memory, two fifty six SSD Intel graphics, backlt
Speaker 1: Magic keyboard, touch ID trackpad. Yeah, a thousand bucks. I
Speaker 1: think this is going to be just fine for college
Speaker 1: as long as he's not doing you know, even if
Speaker 1: he is doing video editing, it'll be fine. The storage,
Speaker 1: I mean on my laptop, I only have I've told
Speaker 1: this story before. But when I bought my new MacBook,
Speaker 1: the sixteen inch model that came out with a new keyboard,
Speaker 1: I wanted it so badly. I am an impatient, impatient person,
Speaker 1: not an impatient like I'm not doing surgery on myself,
Speaker 1: but I am an impatient person. And I of course
Speaker 1: you know when you did the when the computer first
Speaker 1: came out, if you wanted a one terabyte drive, you
Speaker 1: had to wait because you would have to get it
Speaker 1: shipped from Apple. Well, of course I can't wait, so
Speaker 1: I just had to go into the store and get
Speaker 1: the off the shelf version, which was only five twelve gigs.
Speaker 1: And of course I'm not happy for myself for doing that. Wait,
Speaker 1: am I telling a lie right now? Maybe I did
Speaker 1: get the one terabyte. Let me check. Maybe I wanted
Speaker 1: two terabytes I got. Let's see, where is my storage? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did get a terabyte. Okay, I'm totally lying. I
Speaker 1: wanted two terabytes. Okay, just scratch everything I said. I
Speaker 1: don't edit this podcast, so I'm not gonna edit that out.
Speaker 1: But I totally lied. I got a terabyte. I wanted
Speaker 1: two terabytes, so I was able to download my entire
Speaker 1: Google drive on here. I still can't do that whatever.
Speaker 1: So maybe it was the memory I wanted more of.
Speaker 1: I can't remember at this point, but I the good
Speaker 1: news is when you're buying a laptop, this is the
Speaker 1: advice for everyone, spend your money on the hard drive
Speaker 1: and the memory, because especially with Apple, it's tough to
Speaker 1: upgrade those later with a lot of their devices. But
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's just one of these things where
Speaker 1: you're never gonna be like, oh, I wish I had
Speaker 1: this hard drive space. No, you're always gonna want more.
Speaker 1: Even with the cloud, which even with this two fifty six,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be fine. Eight gigs is fine.
Speaker 1: Sixteen is of course better because the more gigabytes, the
Speaker 1: more memory you have on your computer, the more programs
Speaker 1: that you can keep open, and you're not going to
Speaker 1: slow your computer down to a crawl. My computer, even
Speaker 1: though it's a brand new MacBook Pro Core I nine,
Speaker 1: it's you know, sixteen gigs of memory and a gig
Speaker 1: a terabyte of hard drive, it's still just literally stops working.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I can't handle what I have open. Right now,
Speaker 1: I have open Chrome, this little notes app called Bear
Speaker 1: that I love. Ever note mail, let's see what else.
Speaker 1: I've got messages, I've got Telegram, I've got Microsoft to
Speaker 1: do quick Time preview and Zoom. And sometimes I have
Speaker 1: Safari open as well because I use that for my
Speaker 1: The word press on Chrome has gotten so slow I
Speaker 1: actually physically can't use it anymore to do my posts
Speaker 1: for ktla dot com. So I open Safari because it's
Speaker 1: just cleaner and it doesn't have any extensions on it anyway.
Speaker 1: Just spend the most you can on your memory and
Speaker 1: your processor. Obviously Core I three at the minimum. You know,
Speaker 1: the higher that I five, seven, nine, whatever is always
Speaker 1: going to be better. But you know RAM and hard
Speaker 1: drive always always always get the most you can. Speaking
Speaker 1: of buying a computer, I got this little email from CompUSA,
Speaker 1: remember that place, comp Usa, when we used to have choices.
Speaker 1: The pandemic has really it's just opened my eyes to
Speaker 1: the fact of how reliant I am on Amazon. I
Speaker 1: have been trying to purchase another euro Pro for the
Speaker 1: longest time, and it's just out of stock at like
Speaker 1: the three stores I can think of to order it online,
Speaker 1: which is best Buy Amazon, And I even use like
Speaker 1: Google shopping to see I'm like, maybe there's a place
Speaker 1: of not thinking of and it's really tough to think
Speaker 1: outside like Walmart, dot comden. I mean, what are the
Speaker 1: places to shop online at this point for like electronics,
Speaker 1: and there's only a handful. And so CompUSA was a
Speaker 1: store that went out of business. Now they are a
Speaker 1: comparison website and I guess they launched last year. Let's
Speaker 1: see we blast oh two years ago. I guess they
Speaker 1: relaunched their website two years ago and they just got
Speaker 1: blasted by I'm guessing all the blogs saying it was
Speaker 1: just a sad affiliates affiliate deals. Well, they went back
Speaker 1: and they kind of said, you know, what, what can
Speaker 1: we do to really make this better? And I think
Speaker 1: they did a good job because I'm looking at it
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a cool website. Now. So here's
Speaker 1: what they did. They are now creating a value engine
Speaker 1: for every tech product category. So, for example, for laptops,
Speaker 1: they break them down to their individual components, and then
Speaker 1: they break those components down into benchmark scores and they
Speaker 1: convert those scores into a value. Then they compare that
Speaker 1: value to the actual sale price of a laptop, and
Speaker 1: then they order them by that. So what does that
Speaker 1: all mean? It means that they break down the components.
Speaker 1: So maybe a computer that has four gigs of RAM
Speaker 1: and a one terabyte hard drive is selling for five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, but a computer with sixteen gigs of memory
Speaker 1: and a one terabyte drive is selling for fifty dollars more.
Speaker 1: That's actually going to be a better deal because it's
Speaker 1: only slightly more expensive, but you're getting a lot more.
Speaker 1: So if they're doing what they're saying they're doing, which
Speaker 1: it looks like they are because I'm on Compus Slash
Speaker 1: Laptops and their top model right now one hundred percent
Speaker 1: for their amazing deal calculation, and then it gets a
Speaker 1: little fire, which I'm guessing it means that's hot. This
Speaker 1: is a Lenovo Idea Pad three fifteen point six inch
Speaker 1: Windows laptop with an AMD rise In seven, eight gigs
Speaker 1: of RAM, five twelve gigs of hard drive, and a
Speaker 1: Vegas seven model for five hundred and forty nine dollars,
Speaker 1: which I think sounds like a fantastic deal, so I
Speaker 1: think their little system is working. And then you have
Speaker 1: the next model on their list. This is from eBay,
Speaker 1: which I personally wouldn't buy a computer from there, but
Speaker 1: the next one, and that's from office depot. And the
Speaker 1: next one is another Idea pad five fifteen point six
Speaker 1: with a rise in five two fifty six eight gigs
Speaker 1: and it's got that's only four to seventy nine. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I think they're doing a good job. So they say
Speaker 1: that this is highly automated, and some of the deals
Speaker 1: are getting to their homepage even before places like slick Deals.
Speaker 1: So you can go here to their homepage and see
Speaker 1: kind of what their little computers think are the best deals.
Speaker 1: And right now some of their top deals are top
Speaker 1: phone is an iPhone tenns max unlocked sixty four gig
Speaker 1: for six hundred and twenty dollars, which sounds pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's an eBay that's somewhere I probably wouldn't well, I
Speaker 1: guess I would purchase a phone from there. Then they
Speaker 1: have top products from Amazon. I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: this is pretty cool, so CompUSA dot com, if you
Speaker 1: want to check it out, tell me what you think.
Speaker 1: I am going to add this to my list of
Speaker 1: sort of places where I check for deals on a
Speaker 1: daily basis because I love seeing deals like Microsoft Xbox
Speaker 1: one wireless controller forty six eighty eight, and I know
Speaker 1: that's a good deal because I paid sixty dollars for that,
Speaker 1: so I can hook it up to my Apple TV.
Speaker 1: And let's see one more thing. I just want to
Speaker 1: make sure that when I actually click the deal it
Speaker 1: is working. Oh, it even gives you a little when
Speaker 1: you go to the deal, it tells you how much
Speaker 1: it's it's priced at various sites. So I can see
Speaker 1: that it's four seven bucks at Amazon, sixty at BNH,
Speaker 1: and at a stock at best Buy. Now let's just
Speaker 1: double check those because sometimes these sites, when you go
Speaker 1: to the website, it's not real and yep, hmmm, well
Speaker 1: they probably sold out. But it does say at Amazon.
Speaker 1: See when you go there, the price is not really there.
Speaker 1: It's still sixty bucks, and BNH is sixty bucks, and
Speaker 1: so it's actually not the price that it says it is.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'll have to do some more research and
Speaker 1: kind of just follow that for a little bit. But
Speaker 1: I do love my deal sites for sure, and so
Speaker 1: I will be checking that out, and you know, if
Speaker 1: you find a good deal on it, hey, not everything's
Speaker 1: gonna work. And I'm not saying that this is something
Speaker 1: that I should discount, because even if I go to
Speaker 1: the best sites out any aggregator site right now. Sometimes
Speaker 1: when you go there, the price is just gone. And
Speaker 1: that happens with Honey with all their price comparisons. That
Speaker 1: happen sometimes with not so much Slick Deal because they're
Speaker 1: pretty good. But some of the other websites, it's just
Speaker 1: you go there and the deal is gone, and that's
Speaker 1: just the way it is. So anyway, all right, let's
Speaker 1: do another question. Oh, there's the sound question from Greg.
Speaker 1: Greg says, hi, Rich, hope you and yours are well.
Speaker 1: Quick question? Is there a way to not use the
Speaker 1: mail that comes installed on iPhone? When I click on
Speaker 1: an email link on a website, it sends me to
Speaker 1: the mail app. I wonder if it's possible to link
Speaker 1: to my Gmail app. Thanks in advance for your help, Greg, Greg. No,
Speaker 1: there's not a way to do that, not right now,
Speaker 1: at least in iOS fourteen. There will be a way.
Speaker 1: In iOS fourteen you will be able to set a
Speaker 1: default email app and also a default browser app, and
Speaker 1: that's going to be pretty handy. I wish they would
Speaker 1: have done fault. What was the other one? I want? Oh?
Speaker 1: Default maps that they need to do for sure, but
Speaker 1: it's a start. So in iOS fourteen, which will probably
Speaker 1: launch in let's see September October, you'll be able to
Speaker 1: do that, and so far, even on the betas, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen anyone that this feature hasn't rolled out yet
Speaker 1: on the betas, but it's a start and I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see. I mean, I don't really click a lot
Speaker 1: of email link I guess it would help if you're
Speaker 1: trying to go from an anyway, so you'll be able
Speaker 1: to do it soon. Let's put it that way right now.
Speaker 1: The best way if you want to do this is
Speaker 1: you'd have to download the Chrome browser on your iPhone,
Speaker 1: and I think if you clicked a link in Chrome browser.
Speaker 1: Google has gotten really good with what's called deep linking.
Speaker 1: So if you're using Gmail, Chrome, and Google Maps on
Speaker 1: your iPhone, pretty much it's a seamless experience between those
Speaker 1: apps to boomerang you between them. So if you click
Speaker 1: a link in Gmail, it will bring you it will
Speaker 1: open that link in Chrome if you click I'm assuming
Speaker 1: if you click an email link in Chrome, it'll bring
Speaker 1: you to Gmail. And same thing with Maps. If you
Speaker 1: click any sort of mapping link in Chrome or Gmail,
Speaker 1: it will bring you to Google Maps. Versus Apple Maps,
Speaker 1: but that's where they're starting iOS fourteen defaults, so you
Speaker 1: be able to do the browser and again the browser
Speaker 1: and mail. I think they really need to do that
Speaker 1: with the navigation app, especially because right now on iOS
Speaker 1: you can't say, you know, navigate to wherever on the
Speaker 1: maps app, It'll just bring you to Google Maps. And
Speaker 1: also music will also just bring you to Apple Music.
Speaker 1: But there is a way around it. You can say,
Speaker 1: h SERI play Taylor Swift on YouTube Music. You have
Speaker 1: to say that at the end, and I find it's
Speaker 1: not very good, but it's still it is there, So
Speaker 1: you can say on Spotify, on Google Music or YouTube Music.
Speaker 1: You just can't set a default wor it'll just do
Speaker 1: that automatically. All right, let's talk about another story, bundling.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do two stories in one because these bundles
Speaker 1: are just getting out of control. And the reason why
Speaker 1: these big companies like you to bundle is because they
Speaker 1: think we're dumb, and we kind of are because it's
Speaker 1: really tough to keep track of bundles, and bundles make
Speaker 1: things very sticky. For instance, I have a bundle with
Speaker 1: my Verizon account of Disney Plus and also Apple Music,
Speaker 1: so I get those for free. Disney Plus was only
Speaker 1: for twelve months, but that's changing. And everyone has a bundle.
Speaker 1: I mean AT and T does Spotify and HBO Max.
Speaker 1: You've got let's see, T Mobile does Quibi and Netflix
Speaker 1: they kind of started it, Sprint did Title, Hulu, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what else, so they're all doing it.
Speaker 1: And then you've got the bundles from everything else, so
Speaker 1: you know, does your There's just so many bundles to
Speaker 1: keep track of. But they do that because it's confusing
Speaker 1: and it also keeps you subscribe to these things because
Speaker 1: I'll give I'll give you an example. When I sign
Speaker 1: up for my Internet they switched my my HBO Max
Speaker 1: from me paying for it to now I got it
Speaker 1: for free. But I was very hesitant to do anything
Speaker 1: with my HBO Max account because I didn't know how
Speaker 1: it work. I was like, ah, if I switched it over,
Speaker 1: like do I have to sign up for a new account?
Speaker 1: And they actually AT and T was pretty good about
Speaker 1: my email address. As soon as I popped it in,
Speaker 1: they said, oh, we noticed you already have an account.
Speaker 1: We're just going to cancel that and now give it
Speaker 1: you for free with the same email so they were
Speaker 1: pretty good. But with some of these other things, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like right now with Hulu. So let me
Speaker 1: give you the news and then i'll explain. So now
Speaker 1: on these Verizon plans, they now include Disney plus Hulu
Speaker 1: and ESPN plus Forever and that's a Disney bundle and
Speaker 1: this is in the Play More and Get More Unlimited,
Speaker 1: and they also ditched the ten dollars monthly fee for
Speaker 1: access to five G But the problem is on their
Speaker 1: plans they show four lines, so the Get More Unlimited
Speaker 1: for four lines is fifty five dollars a month, but
Speaker 1: realistically it's eighty dollars. Like for me, I have two lines,
Speaker 1: so it's eighty dollars each. They should really show the
Speaker 1: different line prices, not just four, because fifty five is like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that's amazing. No, it's not fifty five.
Speaker 1: That's if you have four lines, fifty five times four
Speaker 1: is two hundred and twenty bucks, right, do I do
Speaker 1: my math? Right? So anyway, if you have the bottom
Speaker 1: line is if you have a Verizon plan like I do,
Speaker 1: you have to go in and kind of see you
Speaker 1: might as well if you're already on the Get More
Speaker 1: unlimited like I am. You might as well get ESPN
Speaker 1: Plus and Hulu included, as well as Disney Plus. The
Speaker 1: problem is, I pay for Hulu with no commercials, so
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how that's gonna work if I
Speaker 1: sign up for this bundle. Do I just have to
Speaker 1: pay extra five bucks a month or whatever it is
Speaker 1: the differential to get the no commercials? I don't know.
Speaker 1: But again, it's like it takes brain power, and it
Speaker 1: takes time, and it takes research, and it takes effort,
Speaker 1: and you got to log in and so these things
Speaker 1: sound great, but it's for the consumer. It's just a
Speaker 1: lot of work. But if you do it right, you
Speaker 1: can get things for free. The only thing they did
Speaker 1: change was Apple Music is now not necessarily included with
Speaker 1: every plan. Some of them I think drop down to
Speaker 1: just six months. So if you have Apple Music included,
Speaker 1: you might want to just be careful before you sign
Speaker 1: up for one of these new plans. You may not
Speaker 1: get that included anymore unlimited like I do forever. It
Speaker 1: might just be for six months, which would not be good.
Speaker 1: The other thing is Apple TV Plus now has a
Speaker 1: bundle if you subscribe to Apple TV Plus, which I'm
Speaker 1: not sure there's any paying subscribers out there. I think
Speaker 1: everyone's still on a free plan like I am, because
Speaker 1: I bought the iPhone last October, so mine's coming up
Speaker 1: in October. Probably. Be honest, I'm probably not going to
Speaker 1: pay the five bucks a month for this because I
Speaker 1: don't have a show on Apple TV Plus that I'm
Speaker 1: liking right now when I was watching Morning Show. Fine,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. We'll say, but if you have
Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus, you can now get a bundle including
Speaker 1: CBS All Access and Showtime for cheaper than you would.
Speaker 1: It's kind of two and one. So CBS All Access
Speaker 1: is ten dollars a month, and that includes, by the way,
Speaker 1: the no commercial version, which is kind of cool, and
Speaker 1: then Showtime is eleven, so that'd be twenty one dollars
Speaker 1: if you purchase these separately. If you subscribe through Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus, it would only be ten dollars a month,
Speaker 1: so you would save if you have both of these
Speaker 1: ten dollars. But again with that caveat that, you have
Speaker 1: to be an Apple TV Plus subscriber, and you also
Speaker 1: have to figure out how to log in. It looks
Speaker 1: like you can log in using your Apple TV account
Speaker 1: on let's see iPhone iPad. I don't know. You gotta
Speaker 1: log in through Apple TV, the Apple TV app, which
Speaker 1: is available on certain devices like Samsung and LG Smart TVs, Rokus,
Speaker 1: and Amazon fireTV devices. Apple TV app is launching on
Speaker 1: Sony and Visio later this summer. See how complicated this
Speaker 1: all is. It's like just keeping track of all this
Speaker 1: stuff is a lot for me. And again, if you
Speaker 1: are on that bundle, you're saying to yourself, well, that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good bundle. I'm not gonna cancel Apple TV Plus,
Speaker 1: but do you really need the five dollars a month
Speaker 1: for Apple TV Plus? I don't know. Next question from Mark.
Speaker 1: Mark says, hello, Rich, I'm still working during this pandemic,
Speaker 1: except I am in my home office. My adventurous side
Speaker 1: wants to hit the road still knowing I can open
Speaker 1: my laptop in places that don't that typically don't have
Speaker 1: cell phone service. Is there a device that would provide
Speaker 1: me data or Wi Fi in places like a national
Speaker 1: forest that typically a signal that typically cannot catch a signal.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. If you're you know, my immediate
Speaker 1: thought was, oh, just get a hot spot and I
Speaker 1: will tell you about a hot spot that I recently
Speaker 1: featured on KTLA, which I think is really it's called
Speaker 1: the I don't know if I mentioned this last week
Speaker 1: on the show, but it's called the ZTE max Connect.
Speaker 1: And what I like about this hotspot is that it's unlocked,
Speaker 1: so you just buy this hot spot and you just
Speaker 1: pop a SIM card, prepaid whatever, as long as it's
Speaker 1: a GSM. I think I did mention this, and you
Speaker 1: can pop it in and it you know, you can
Speaker 1: use wireless internet from this provider, and you don't have
Speaker 1: to have a contract per se. That's called the ZTE
Speaker 1: max Connect. Now that was my initial thought as an
Speaker 1: answer to this question, but he's saying he wants like
Speaker 1: a national forest that you can't get a signal, and
Speaker 1: now there's not really gonna be a way to get
Speaker 1: a signal outside of a cell phone signal. In the future, yes,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll have the laser or sorry the yeah, is
Speaker 1: it laser delivered satellite I don't know, satellite delivered laser
Speaker 1: internet Maybe in the future, but right now, no, if
Speaker 1: you can't get a data signal, you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to get data as far as I know. If
Speaker 1: someone knows anything different that I don't. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: there's via SAT, but I don't think you can have
Speaker 1: you know you could do that, Okay, all right, I
Speaker 1: guess you could do it if you had an RV
Speaker 1: with a satellite that got the signal via SAT. But
Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, I guess you could do that.
Speaker 1: Let me see viasat if you had how let's see internet.
Speaker 1: I guess if you had one of these on your
Speaker 1: there's probably is home or there probably is RV satellite Internet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just google that that you could install on
Speaker 1: your RV and then you could use that as a
Speaker 1: hot spot. But again, it's expensive. I'm sure it's very Yeah.
Speaker 1: The first line of this this website I brought up,
Speaker 1: getting satellite internet with a mobile satellite dish for your
Speaker 1: RV is not a simple process. It's possible, but you're
Speaker 1: looking at thousands of dollars in equipment and a long
Speaker 1: term contract with up to four hundred dollars a month
Speaker 1: or more and subpart internet. So I don't think this
Speaker 1: is the way to do it. They do have some
Speaker 1: various ways of getting it. But the other thing I
Speaker 1: would recommend in this article satellite Internet dot Com recommends
Speaker 1: it as well. Is from a company called we Boost.
Speaker 1: I thought it was, yeah, we Boost, which makes cell
Speaker 1: phone boosters we Boost, and I thought it was called
Speaker 1: Wilson Internet Booster. Maybe it is we Boost. No, Wilson's
Speaker 1: signal Booster. So check out those as well. Yeah, Wilson
Speaker 1: Signal User, uh Booster. So those are the ways that
Speaker 1: I think you can probably get around that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not Look, it's not gonna be expensive.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be cheap. It's gonna be expensive, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be too much work. And I get it.
Speaker 1: You have this idea of driving around anywhere and just
Speaker 1: picking up a signal. But look, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: in the National Forest, enjoy the national forest, and when
Speaker 1: you get out of the National Forest, find a Starbucks
Speaker 1: and work from outside there if you need a signal
Speaker 1: or you know, I went to Zion months ago and
Speaker 1: the signal was fantastic everywhere, including pretty much even in
Speaker 1: the forest. I mean there's it's pretty rare these days
Speaker 1: that you don't have a signal. I mean, you really
Speaker 1: have to be out there to not have a signal.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'd recommend all right, let's see what
Speaker 1: we want to talk about next. I'll talk about this
Speaker 1: because I thought this is kind of fun. Another Apple story.
Speaker 1: Apple renamed. They introduced two new radio stations and they
Speaker 1: renamed their Beats One. I don't know if you listen
Speaker 1: to Beats one. I'm guessing you don't, because they say
Speaker 1: it's very popular. Maybe people do listen to it. It's
Speaker 1: really cool and they have a great guy that does it,
Speaker 1: Zane Low is like their main I don't know if
Speaker 1: you call him a DJ or personality, but it's really
Speaker 1: cool and they do a great job. I mean, this
Speaker 1: guy knows everyone in the industry, and you know, he
Speaker 1: calls them up on FaceTime. Of course because it's Apple,
Speaker 1: I messages them, so he's connected. And they do a
Speaker 1: great job. Apple Music are Beats one broadcast you know, live,
Speaker 1: and they really do a good job of getting behind
Speaker 1: the music. Well that's gonna be renamed Apple Music One.
Speaker 1: And then they're also launching two new live streaming radio
Speaker 1: stations called Apple Music Hits and the one that I'm
Speaker 1: excited about called Apple Music Country. And for the past
Speaker 1: couple of days since they launched this, I've been listening
Speaker 1: to Apple Music Country NonStop and it's awesome. They're broadcasting
Speaker 1: out of Nashville. If you have Serious XM, it reminds
Speaker 1: me a lot of the Highway, but it reminds me
Speaker 1: of the Highway yet run by kids in high school
Speaker 1: or college, like almost like a college radio station. Because
Speaker 1: all of the DJs right now are so excited that
Speaker 1: they have this new job with Apple and so it's
Speaker 1: like it's very It's not like the guys you have
Speaker 1: on on Serious XM, Stormy Warren and you know these
Speaker 1: other guys that are very you know, you know, everyone
Speaker 1: knows them in Nashville, and they're kind of they've been
Speaker 1: doing it for a long time. These new folks on
Speaker 1: Apple Music Country are kind of like excited that they're
Speaker 1: there and doing this new cool way of broadcasting. And
Speaker 1: it's not really broadcasting because it's through the iPhone or
Speaker 1: however you have Apple Music. So anyway, I've been listening
Speaker 1: to it. I love it. It's great. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna get my wife to switch from the Highway,
Speaker 1: but what I love about this it's also free, so
Speaker 1: you can listen to Apple Music Country, Apple Music Hits,
Speaker 1: and of course B to One even If you don't
Speaker 1: have a subscription to Apple Music, you just open the
Speaker 1: Apple Music app and you can do it. You can
Speaker 1: also install it on Android, but when I noticed on
Speaker 1: Android when I installed it there is that it does
Speaker 1: look like you have to sign in to be able
Speaker 1: to access the stream. So it's free, but it mostly
Speaker 1: seems free on Apple devices iPhone, iPad, car play Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: Apple TV, Mac HomePod, and you can ask Siri to
Speaker 1: play Apple Music one, Apple Music Hits or Apple Music Country.
Speaker 1: I'm a country music fan, so I like that and
Speaker 1: I love. What I've realized about listening to playlists is
Speaker 1: I've always loved radio. I'm a radio guy, and I
Speaker 1: love DJs. Not the Hey, I'm Jack the Whack and
Speaker 1: we got another set of fifty minutes of NonStop commercial
Speaker 1: for eight meals like coming up. I'm that. I used
Speaker 1: to like that, but now what I like is more
Speaker 1: of Hey. Bring me behind this music a little bit.
Speaker 1: Tell me about this song, give me an interview with
Speaker 1: this soundwriter or this songwriter. Tell me what the message
Speaker 1: is behind this music. Explain this music a little bit.
Speaker 1: My biggest problem when you're listening to these playlists on
Speaker 1: Spotify and all the various music services. It's just one
Speaker 1: song into the next, and I have no idea if
Speaker 1: that's a new song, it's a song that's fifteen years old,
Speaker 1: if it's an experimental song they downloaded off SoundCloud, I
Speaker 1: have no idea. There's no reference point when you're listening
Speaker 1: to a playlist, and so by listening to a live
Speaker 1: streaming station with someone behind the microphone, you can actually
Speaker 1: get a little bit more information about what you're listening to.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's just getting older, but I like that.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what the story is behind this
Speaker 1: song and why I'm listening to it, and so that's
Speaker 1: what Apple Music Country is all about. That's what the
Speaker 1: other stations are about. That's why I do love Sirius XM.
Speaker 1: When I'm in my wife's car, I don't have it
Speaker 1: in mind, but she's got it in hers and I
Speaker 1: do like it. I like every time I listen, I
Speaker 1: get a little snippet of something. And that's also why
Speaker 1: I like terrestrial radio, because it is that exact thing.
Speaker 1: You're hearing a live person tell you something and you're
Speaker 1: just getting little snippets here and there, and so for
Speaker 1: that reason, check it out. I think it's really cool
Speaker 1: and hopefully you do too. All right, Let's see if
Speaker 1: I can get to one more question. Let's see. Fred says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I watch your segment on a local station in Sacramento,
Speaker 1: must be Fox forty. And I used to use wonder
Speaker 1: List as a two do app. What do you recommend
Speaker 1: as an equivalent for personal use on an iPhone? Thanks? Fred,
Speaker 1: I would recommend wonder List went out of fashion because
Speaker 1: Microsoft purchased them. They were a fantastic to do app
Speaker 1: and I love them and I used to use them
Speaker 1: as well. But Microsoft bought them. They kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: dismantled it. I think it's gone by now. And they
Speaker 1: actually came up with a really good app that's very
Speaker 1: very similar called Microsoft to Do and I love it.
Speaker 1: I use it. I actually write out my to do list.
Speaker 1: But I to Microsoft to Do is the best to
Speaker 1: do list that I've found. And let me explain why
Speaker 1: they don't nickel and dime you. When you download Microsoft
Speaker 1: to Do List, you get all the features without having
Speaker 1: to unlock in app purchases or pay up this or
Speaker 1: do that. I mean, I'm not even sure if there
Speaker 1: is a way to get extra features for paid products.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe there is. But I also use
Speaker 1: it because I can have my team member team members
Speaker 1: on here and I can assign things to them and
Speaker 1: they can see their to do list and complete them
Speaker 1: and I don't have to see you know, I can
Speaker 1: remember what I assigned them to do or ask them
Speaker 1: to do, and I can oh yeah, let me let
Speaker 1: me ask them about that. So Microsoft to do. It
Speaker 1: works on iPhone, it works on Android, it works on
Speaker 1: your desktop, MACPC. It's fantastic, highly highly recommended. It recommend it,
Speaker 1: and you can also attach files you can I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just so many. The other thing I love about
Speaker 1: it they have this feature called my Day. So let's
Speaker 1: say you put all in this the way I do
Speaker 1: my to do list. Let's say you put a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff in your to do list, and then
Speaker 1: the next day, all that stuff just lingers there. What
Speaker 1: I love about Microsoft to Do is that they move
Speaker 1: all that stuff to kind of like your tasks, but
Speaker 1: then your day is clean again. So it's just a
Speaker 1: really nice way of kind of remembering the things that
Speaker 1: you need to do and doing them on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: It's just really really well done. So Fred that's what
Speaker 1: I'd recommend, and it's inspired by wonder List. So all right,
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for the show. Let me
Speaker 1: just do two more quick little bites here. Instagram rolled
Speaker 1: out this feature called suggested Posts, which no one likes,
Speaker 1: but I called it on this podcast many months ago.
Speaker 1: I can't find the clip because I don't really think
Speaker 1: about these podcasts once I'm done, and I don't do
Speaker 1: any sort of organization for remembering what I've said. But
Speaker 1: they have a feature that I called it. I said,
Speaker 1: Instagram is going to get more like TikTok, where you
Speaker 1: can just continuously scroll and see a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: Well that's exactly what they did. So now when you
Speaker 1: reach the end of your feed, which is the end
Speaker 1: of all the stuff that you've been look you know,
Speaker 1: the people that you follow, there are now suggested posts
Speaker 1: from people you don't follow, but it's in the stuff
Speaker 1: that you kind of like to look at. So there
Speaker 1: you go. You can now search. You can now scroll
Speaker 1: forever on Instagram, which, you know, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: weird thing because Instagram used to have this feature and
Speaker 1: they still have it that says, hey, you're all caught
Speaker 1: up at the end of your feed, and that was
Speaker 1: an idea, you know, that was a feature to keep
Speaker 1: you less glued to the app. Well they still do
Speaker 1: that now. After that, they do suggested posts like oh
Speaker 1: you're all caught up, but here's some other stuff if
Speaker 1: you want to just keep scrolling forever and waste your
Speaker 1: life on Instagram, Netflix is testing. Speaking of wasting your life,
Speaker 1: Netflix is testing a shuffle play button. I mean, really, folks,
Speaker 1: are you this wasteful with your time that you need
Speaker 1: to just click a shuffle play button on Netflix? Now?
Speaker 1: If you're saying rich, well you loved it on Hulu. Yes,
Speaker 1: I loved it on Hulu for Seinfeld and even other
Speaker 1: shows like Friends, Like I said, they should have an
Speaker 1: NHBO Max, they should have a shuffle button. Yes. If
Speaker 1: I love a show like a sitcom and I want
Speaker 1: to sit down and just waste a half an hour,
Speaker 1: I want to press shuffle because I don't want have
Speaker 1: to think about what episode to watch. That works. But
Speaker 1: Netflix testing it is like, okay, so it can. It's
Speaker 1: a test, so not everyone sees this, but it's on
Speaker 1: your home screen and it will randomly play content it
Speaker 1: thinks you like. According to tech Crunch, This could be
Speaker 1: a movie or a show you're currently watching, something you've
Speaker 1: saved in your list, or a title that's similar to
Speaker 1: something you've watched that is too wide of a swath
Speaker 1: of stuff for me. So just because I bookmarked a documentary,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm gonna say shuffle and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start watching like an hour and a half documentary.
Speaker 1: No way, I think this is totally bananas, Like we
Speaker 1: need to be a little bit more mindful of how
Speaker 1: we use our time in this world. And a shuffle
Speaker 1: button just to let Netflix, you know, Carte Blanche play
Speaker 1: whatever they want in front of my eyes for as
Speaker 1: much time as they want to take up a mind
Speaker 1: No way, no, no no, And yes there's a time
Speaker 1: and a place for all this stuff. But for me personally,
Speaker 1: I want to be a little bit more directed with
Speaker 1: my use of time. And so for that reason, give
Speaker 1: me shuffle on the shows on Netflix. And if you want,
Speaker 1: maybe even the hour long show is fine. If you
Speaker 1: have an hour to kill you just want to watch
Speaker 1: an episode of Law and Order, fine, that makes sense,
Speaker 1: But don't just shuffle everything on the service. And maybe,
Speaker 1: since this is a test, they will come up with
Speaker 1: that situation. But for me, I mean, come on, that's
Speaker 1: that's like a little bit too much of an abuse
Speaker 1: of my time. But I see, I see the reasoning
Speaker 1: for it. I mean, I'm not totally saying it's terrible,
Speaker 1: but I to me, I want a little bit more direction.
Speaker 1: So all right, oh wow, oh no, what does that
Speaker 1: music mean? That music means? It is the end of
Speaker 1: the show. That went fast and I even went longer
Speaker 1: than normal. Oh let's see what do I say at
Speaker 1: this point? That's gonna do it for this episode of
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Speaker 1: What did m Let's see? Mjm Blues two four eight said,
Speaker 1: I've been listening to rich for a few years, and
Speaker 1: I love that he talks directly to you, like he
Speaker 1: wants to help you and not necessarily help promote a product. However,
Speaker 1: if he's passionate about a product, you will certainly. I
Speaker 1: haven't read this yet, by the way, he will certainly
Speaker 1: stand behind it and help you get the most out
Speaker 1: of it. Well, thank you, Oh a Jersey guy with
Speaker 1: a world of technical knowledge. Great headline as well. All right,
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Speaker 1: is rich damiro On, behalf of everyone that gets this
Speaker 1: show to your ears. Thanks so much for listening. Stay safe,
Speaker 1: We will get through this, folks. I feel like we're
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