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Speaker 1: This week, we've got Amanda. She is a founder of
Speaker 1: the app Accelerator. She's going to talk about how you
Speaker 1: can turn an app idea into a real product without
Speaker 1: being technical. And we've experienced this firsthand in my house.
Speaker 1: This week, I'll explain and one of our favorites, Caleb
Speaker 1: Dennison is going to break down what actually matters for
Speaker 1: buying a TV for the Super Bowl. Yes, and we
Speaker 1: have a big story this week that he's going to
Speaker 1: comment on as well that I'm going to talk about
Speaker 1: right now because I just cannot believe this. This is
Speaker 1: a major shift in the TV world. Sony is basically
Speaker 1: handing its TV business over to TCL.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I grew up with
Speaker 1: Sony TVs. That was the gold standard of TVs.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: If you had a Treni Tron, that big old Honkin
Speaker 1: TV set in your living room, you were living large, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, there is the people with the Projector
Speaker 1: TVs that was a whole other level. But if you
Speaker 1: had a Sony TV, you had the best of the best,
Speaker 1: and they ruled for many, many years, and they still do.
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to picture quality, every expert
Speaker 1: I've talked to, Sony is still tops. But here's the deal.
Speaker 1: They're feeling pressure from China and all these other upstarts,
Speaker 1: not just China but also South Korea with Samsung TCL
Speaker 1: high sense. But if you can't beat them, join them.
Speaker 1: So TCL and Sony are teaming up for TVs and
Speaker 1: home audio. TCL is going to own fifty one percent
Speaker 1: of the new company, which means they have the commanding
Speaker 1: lead here. Sony will keep forty nine percent. But TCL
Speaker 1: is going to bring all of the smarts when it
Speaker 1: comes to manufacturing, design, manufacturing, sales, shipping, customer support. Make
Speaker 1: no mistake, TCL is in charge here now, even though
Speaker 1: they're running the operation TVs and this is smart, this
Speaker 1: is very smart. TVs are going to carry the Sony
Speaker 1: and Bravia name. So the next time in a couple
Speaker 1: of years, when you buy a Sony Bravia TV, look
Speaker 1: closely at the back, it will say manufactured by TCL.
Speaker 1: How wild is that? So? Sony obviously is bringing all
Speaker 1: of their picture processing, their audio technology, everything that they
Speaker 1: know about making those that picture on that screen look amazing.
Speaker 1: But TCL is bringing everything it knows about manufacturing, and
Speaker 1: they do everything top down, so they've got their own
Speaker 1: display panels. They know how to keep costs down but
Speaker 1: make the quality high. And I think that that's really
Speaker 1: what put TCL on the map. You'd sit there, you'd
Speaker 1: go to costco. Do they sell tcls at Costco. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they do wherever they sell them. But you'd go
Speaker 1: into the store best Buy and you say, hold on,
Speaker 1: I could get this TV that's sixty five inches from
Speaker 1: Sony for a couple thousand dollars, or I can get
Speaker 1: this TV from TCL for a couple hundred dollars. I
Speaker 1: think I'm going with the TCL. And that's what happened
Speaker 1: over and over and over. So the goal here is
Speaker 1: obviously to compete with the other giants out there that
Speaker 1: are still going to be competing in a big way,
Speaker 1: like Samsung in high sense, but this could be big.
Speaker 1: I think that this will really help the Sony Bravia
Speaker 1: name get into more households. And Sony, as we know,
Speaker 1: has been kind of, you know, not focusing so much
Speaker 1: on TVs. They're looking more at their gaming, their movies,
Speaker 1: all the stuff that they still do in that aspect
Speaker 1: is a huge part of Sony's business. They've got the
Speaker 1: car where they teamed up with Honda, the Sony Afila.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. It's not going to be overnight.
Speaker 1: This deal still needs approval, but the new venture could
Speaker 1: launch in twenty twenty seven. I just thought that was wild.
Speaker 1: Now our other top story of the week also has
Speaker 1: to do with China. See the trend here. After years
Speaker 1: of drama, we finally have a deal to keep TikTok
Speaker 1: in the US.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good thing or a
Speaker 1: bad thing to some of you. You're thinking, ugh, that's annoying.
Speaker 1: Bobo's clapping. I'm sure for all the creators out there
Speaker 1: that were worried about losing their livelihood, this is a
Speaker 1: good thing for them. But the app has struck a
Speaker 1: deal to create a new American version of TikTok. You're
Speaker 1: not really going to notice the difference. The app is
Speaker 1: still on your phone, it's still the same. But this
Speaker 1: ends a six year legal and political battle over national
Speaker 1: security concerns. I can't believe it was twenty eighteen. I believe, no,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, I'd be six seven eight years. I remember
Speaker 1: going out and doing this story on TikTok. I don't
Speaker 1: remember what year it was, but it was the first
Speaker 1: time we heard of this, like, hold on, this might
Speaker 1: be banned, And I went and I talked with some
Speaker 1: TikTokers and now here we are. We finally have a resolution.
Speaker 1: So a group of non Chinese investors are going to
Speaker 1: own more than eighty percent of US TikTok they're calling it,
Speaker 1: including Oracle, silver Lake, and an investment firm tied to
Speaker 1: Michael Dell of Dell Computers. Byte Edance will keep just
Speaker 1: under a twenty percent stake. And that's where because they
Speaker 1: cannot have this controlled by China or else it would
Speaker 1: be banned in the US. So TikTok says this will
Speaker 1: keep the app alive for more than two hundred million
Speaker 1: US users. It avoids the shutdown. Remember there was that
Speaker 1: little shutdown last year. People went nuts like, wait that
Speaker 1: get they could actually do this. They could actually do this.
Speaker 1: They could take this thing down if you had it
Speaker 1: on your phone. I think it still worked.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 1: The new TikTok us will be run by Adam Presler.
Speaker 1: He is a longtime TikTok executive. The board is going
Speaker 1: to be based or mostly US majority. But here's the
Speaker 1: thing that's a little bit weird. Byte Edance did not
Speaker 1: hand over the algorithm. Remember everyone said this app is
Speaker 1: all about the algorithm. They actually did not end up
Speaker 1: handing over the algorithm. They're going to keep control over
Speaker 1: TikTok's algorithm. And license it to the US company, which
Speaker 1: is a little strange. But if you use TikTok, nothing's
Speaker 1: gonna change at this point, same app, same endless scrolling.
Speaker 1: You can still scroll to your eye fall out of
Speaker 1: your head. Now, here's what I thought was interesting, the
Speaker 1: updated terms of service and privacy policy. This is what's
Speaker 1: going viral right now. And I even posted on my
Speaker 1: Instagram at rich on Tech kind of went through this
Speaker 1: thing because people are questioning me, Hey, why do we
Speaker 1: have to accept these new terms. Number one, content rights.
Speaker 1: Anything you upload to TikTok they get to keep forever,
Speaker 1: even if you delete it, and they can use that
Speaker 1: content to train AI models, which is a huge side business.
Speaker 1: Everyone needs a content to train models. TikTok's going to
Speaker 1: get a flow of it every day. Even if you
Speaker 1: delete a video, those rights do not disappear. I thought
Speaker 1: this was crazy. Drafts. Even if you just put something
Speaker 1: into the TikTok app, it is now theirs. They can
Speaker 1: analyze it as much as they want. That includes videos, audios, captions,
Speaker 1: anything that you do inside that app they can analyze.
Speaker 1: So remember that if you want to think about uploading
Speaker 1: something biometric data, they can collect face prints, voice prints
Speaker 1: from your video and audio. We're allowed by law estroke
Speaker 1: patterns on your phone. Sensitive personal information they can collect
Speaker 1: or infer, including your health and mental health data, sexual orientation,
Speaker 1: immigration status, financial info, and your precise location. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not saying other apps don't do this, but for TikTok
Speaker 1: to spell this all out, they are going for the gold.
Speaker 1: They want it all, and guess what they're gonna get
Speaker 1: it all. There are millions of users of this app.
Speaker 1: People like it, They use it on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: It's a treasure trove of information. It is a data play,
Speaker 1: just like every other app that you're getting for free.
Speaker 1: Remember that none of this is illegal. Lots of other
Speaker 1: big platforms do the same thing, but they are very
Speaker 1: specific about what they're collecting on us users, even though
Speaker 1: this is a new TikTok. So I thought that was interesting. Now,
Speaker 1: I personally do have a TikTok account. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna continue. I'll be honest, I've got that
Speaker 1: I've stopped on that screen where it says you got
Speaker 1: to accept this new privacy policy. You got to accept
Speaker 1: these new terms and conditions. So I stopped right there
Speaker 1: and I said you know what, let me give some
Speaker 1: pause here. I don't actively upload stuff to TikTok, and
Speaker 1: I think that overall, TikTok has enabled creators to create
Speaker 1: an entirely new business for themselves, and I love that.
Speaker 1: I think that's amazing. I think that they are paying
Speaker 1: people right now, just like Instagram was a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. Instagram would pay people for posting. They don't
Speaker 1: really do that in a big way anymore, but TikTok
Speaker 1: still is, and so that's what keeps the fire under
Speaker 1: under this thing, keeping it going. But I think for
Speaker 1: a lot of people that did make their livelihood on
Speaker 1: this app, it does let them breathe a sigh of
Speaker 1: relief that they know this app is going to be around,
Speaker 1: they know it's going to be here. I don't think
Speaker 1: everyone's happy with the privacy policy and the new terms
Speaker 1: and conditions, but it's not outside the scope of what
Speaker 1: a lot of these other apps do. So there you
Speaker 1: have it, TikTok staying in the US, all right? Eighty
Speaker 1: to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. We got a
Speaker 1: lot on the show today. We've got great guests. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about Super Bowl TVs. I know we've got
Speaker 1: a major winter storm either approaching in the East Coast
Speaker 1: or happening in the East Coast, depending on when you're
Speaker 1: listening to this show. If you're not listening live, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about what you can do to stay protected from
Speaker 1: that with your tech. And we got the feedback plus
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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. I know we got a
Speaker 1: big storm on the East Coast. I know my family's there.
Speaker 1: Everyone is bracing for a lot of snow. Now, depending
Speaker 1: on when you listen to this, the storm may have
Speaker 1: already happened. But we're here live, and so I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna give you some these tips because it's funny. We
Speaker 1: had a power outage at the house last night, only
Speaker 1: for a little bit, and I'm telling you, when the
Speaker 1: power goes out at the house, you realize just how
Speaker 1: dark it gets and just how much you rely on everything. Now,
Speaker 1: my kids don't really understand this, and so they're like,
Speaker 1: hold on, do we have internet? Do we have this? Like,
Speaker 1: what's happening? What's going on? You know, So if it's
Speaker 1: the first time that's happening to you, you're like, wait
Speaker 1: a second, what's the deal? What works? What doesn't work?
Speaker 1: So Verizon sent some tips over keep your phone working.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. You need to keep your phone working
Speaker 1: because a lot of times, even if the power goes
Speaker 1: out at your house, you may still have access to
Speaker 1: your phone. I think satellite has made things a lot
Speaker 1: better as well. So number one, charge everything now, have
Speaker 1: things charged up. My wife as soon as the power
Speaker 1: went out, she goes, oh my gosh, my phone is
Speaker 1: at like ten percent. I should have charged it. So
Speaker 1: even if you're in your house, I always recommend just
Speaker 1: charging your phone, keep it charged while you're in there,
Speaker 1: because you don't want to be caught with the with
Speaker 1: an uncharged phone or a tablet or a smart watch.
Speaker 1: And even your portable battery packs, make sure you're charging
Speaker 1: all them up. We have one of those giant things
Speaker 1: from ecoflow portable power station, and you know it takes
Speaker 1: a while to charge it up. Once you charge it up,
Speaker 1: it should stay charged for a while. You know, they
Speaker 1: only lose a tiny percentage of the charge, so check
Speaker 1: it every six months and make sure that your portable
Speaker 1: batteries are charged. Cold weather can drain batteries fast, so
Speaker 1: keep your device warm. If you're outside, keep your phone
Speaker 1: close to your body and dry. I did not realize
Speaker 1: that colder weather drains batteries fast. I guess that makes
Speaker 1: sense because when you go to charge a Tesla, they
Speaker 1: want you to warm up the battery so it's easier.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's related, but it seems like
Speaker 1: it would be. If cell service is spotty, wi Fi
Speaker 1: calling can be a lifesaver, so calls go over your
Speaker 1: home internet instead of the cell network. So if the
Speaker 1: cell network goes down, you might be able to have
Speaker 1: Wi Fi calling, and vice versa. If your home internet
Speaker 1: goes down, you might be able to use a cell network.
Speaker 1: And also keep in mind a lot of phones now
Speaker 1: support satellite text so I would go and check to
Speaker 1: see your phone and your plan and see if satellite
Speaker 1: texting is a thing. With the iPhone, it's iPhone fourteen
Speaker 1: and up. With the Samsung, I believe it's the Samsung
Speaker 1: S twenty five and up, and with the Pixel, it's
Speaker 1: the Pixel ten and up, I believe. So if you
Speaker 1: have one of those phone models, you have satellite texting.
Speaker 1: It might be through your phone itself in the case
Speaker 1: of the Pixel and the iPhone, or it might be
Speaker 1: through your carrier in the case of Samsung. So do
Speaker 1: a little research online and see if your device supports
Speaker 1: satellite messaging and get familiar with it before you actually
Speaker 1: need it. And then if you're in a situation where
Speaker 1: your phone you know you need it and everything else
Speaker 1: is out, turn on low power mode. Get familiar with that.
Speaker 1: You might have tried that on your iPhone, but all
Speaker 1: of the phones have that, and some of them even
Speaker 1: have like an ultra low power mode that can do
Speaker 1: just the basics on your phone, like calls and simple
Speaker 1: things like displaying the time, and that can really extend
Speaker 1: your phone for a long time. Also dim your screen.
Speaker 1: Those two steps alone could add hours of time. Download
Speaker 1: apps ahead of time if you need to download the
Speaker 1: app for your carrier or your local emergency alerts, make
Speaker 1: sure you're signed up for those and you're getting notifications.
Speaker 1: Also set up your emergency contacts. That's a good thing
Speaker 1: to do. Make sure I had a friend at work say, hey, rich,
Speaker 1: let me make sure my phone rings when someone calls
Speaker 1: me twice. Get familiar with these emergency contact features because
Speaker 1: you never know when you'll need them, and you want
Speaker 1: to make sure all your contacts are easy to find,
Speaker 1: easy to dial. You don't want to have to be
Speaker 1: looking for this stuff when you need it. You want
Speaker 1: to have all this stuff in place before. Very very important.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else. Oh, I thought this was wild.
Speaker 1: This just came out, this Microsoft story about encryption. Bottom line,
Speaker 1: if you have a Windows laptop, it might not be
Speaker 1: as private as you think. Microsoft confirmed just recently that
Speaker 1: they will give the government the encryption keys to your
Speaker 1: laptop if they get a valid warrant. Now, they didn't
Speaker 1: get a ton of these last year. They got about twenty,
Speaker 1: it says according to this Forbes report. But if you
Speaker 1: have BitLocker encryption turned on on your laptop, which a
Speaker 1: lot of people do, if you store that encryption key
Speaker 1: in the cloud, Microsoft can give that encryption key to
Speaker 1: the FBI if they ask for it and they have
Speaker 1: a valid warrant for it. So that means it's kind
Speaker 1: of handing over the keys to the Kingdom. Even though
Speaker 1: your computer is encrypted. If you store that encryption key
Speaker 1: on the cloud with Microsoft, they can go in and
Speaker 1: grab that key and give it to the FBI. Keep
Speaker 1: in mind bitlockers turned on by defall on many Windows computers,
Speaker 1: and Microsoft encourages users to back up the key to
Speaker 1: their account. It's convenient to back it up to the cloud.
Speaker 1: If you lose your password to your computer, you'd be
Speaker 1: able to still access this, but it's very risky for privacy. Now.
Speaker 1: Other companies like Apple famously design their systems so they
Speaker 1: say we are hands off no matter what. If you
Speaker 1: encrypt your iPhone, we cannot unlock it for you. Period.
Speaker 1: And we saw this play out a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago with that San Bernardino situation. This was an iPhone
Speaker 1: for when was this? This was in twenty sixteen. They went,
Speaker 1: you know that, gosh, I'm trying to remember. It was
Speaker 1: like a I want to say, a kid. It was
Speaker 1: a young man that you know. It was a terrorism
Speaker 1: attack in Santa Bernardino and I shot and killed fourteen
Speaker 1: people and the FBI wanted to get Apple to help
Speaker 1: open the phone, and they said, no, we're not doing this,
Speaker 1: And ultimately the FBI found a contractor to hack into
Speaker 1: the iPhone. But you know, it gives people that have
Speaker 1: an iPhone the knowledge that, hey, things on this phone
Speaker 1: are private no matter what. And I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: it's good or bad. Right in that situation, you probably
Speaker 1: wanted the FBI to have access to that phone. So
Speaker 1: we can understand why this was done and how it
Speaker 1: was done. But in a lot of ways, you know
Speaker 1: these things. You know, any judge can ask for this
Speaker 1: and theoretically get it from Microsoft. So if if you
Speaker 1: have a Windows laptop and you want that recovery key,
Speaker 1: store it on a USB drive, store it locally. Do
Speaker 1: not put it in the cloud if you are concerned
Speaker 1: about privacy in any way, shape or form. That's the
Speaker 1: bottom line there eight eight eight rich one o one
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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Eight eight eight rich one on
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Speaker 1: zero one. The website rich on Tech dot TV. Looks
Speaker 1: like we got to follow up from last week. Kathy
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles. What's up, Hi?
Speaker 6: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? What happened? You tried the Tesla? You're
Speaker 1: trying to get a CD player for your Tesla?
Speaker 7: Yes, unfortunately, so listen. Thank you for the link. I
Speaker 7: went in the car. It wouldn't even pair with my
Speaker 7: iPhone fourteen.
Speaker 1: The bluetooth you guys, Okay, so explain what you did.
Speaker 1: You went, You bought a CD player.
Speaker 7: I bought the note, the Go Go, NAD, Go Go
Speaker 7: whatever you told me about.
Speaker 1: Okay. The klim Kl i Am Nomad twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: portable CD player with headphones, radio FM compatible Bluetooth ideal
Speaker 1: for cars, sixty dollars on Amazon. You bought this and
Speaker 1: what it doesn't pair with anything?
Speaker 7: It didn't pair with anything. So I left the car
Speaker 7: and I just tried to pair it with my iPhone
Speaker 7: and it wasn't even pairing with the iPhone at all.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like it's a problem with this thing.
Speaker 1: And this is the problem with these little off brands
Speaker 1: on Amazon. It's like you never know if they're going
Speaker 1: to work or not. This has this has thirty five
Speaker 1: hundred reviews. It gets a four point four. So it
Speaker 1: seems to work. Are you sure you've got it in
Speaker 1: the bluetooth mode? Yes, and it's just okay. The fact
Speaker 1: that it won't pair with your car, is with your
Speaker 1: phone is a little you know. That's what's concerning to me.
Speaker 7: Is it because the phone is old?
Speaker 1: No, Bluetooth is universal. It should work. So when you okay,
Speaker 1: so when you turn this this little CD player on
Speaker 1: the bluetooth mode, your phone does not see the CD player?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Interesting?
Speaker 7: Well nope, well I have not does play by itself
Speaker 7: because I put the earphones on and it works, okay,
Speaker 7: just not pairing with my iPhone.
Speaker 1: You plugged in earbuds? Yes, okay, so you didn't try. Okay,
Speaker 1: I wonder if you could try pairing it to some earbuds. Wait,
Speaker 1: now that I think about it, hold on, why would
Speaker 1: it pair to your phone?
Speaker 7: I don't think it was I have to use the phone.
Speaker 1: Well no, you would pair this directly to your Tesla, but.
Speaker 7: It wasn't recognizing it either the Tesla yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you tried pairing it with your Tesla?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well the phone would not recognize it, because there's
Speaker 1: no reason a device does not play audio to an iPhone,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like the iPhone is not
Speaker 1: a is not a receiver for that, it would be
Speaker 1: a pair of Bluetooth headphones. So what I can say
Speaker 1: is in a couple of things here. Number one, at
Speaker 1: this point, I'm going to order this and see, you know,
Speaker 1: if it works with my car. Number two, I would
Speaker 1: make sure that your CD player is in the Bluetooth
Speaker 1: mode and then pair a pair of headphones that are Bluetooth.
Speaker 1: Do you have a pair of Bluetooth headphones or no?
Speaker 7: You mean not the ones that came with.
Speaker 1: No, because those are wired, I'm guessing. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to find a pair of yeah, oh.
Speaker 7: Oh, oh, I don't have a pair of wireless all right,
Speaker 7: I see what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I would test it to make sure that
Speaker 1: you know the actual Bluetooth is working and transmitting and
Speaker 1: that it's working. But your car should see it, your
Speaker 1: tesla should see the Bluetooth when you toggle it into
Speaker 1: the Bluetooth and you have to go into that screen
Speaker 1: where you would connect something like a phone, and it
Speaker 1: would it would go that way.
Speaker 7: But should I connect the phone.
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't do that, because you can, you can
Speaker 1: connect multiple things. It may just be that the protocol
Speaker 1: that this is using the cars like, we don't really
Speaker 1: understand what you're trying to do here. So that's why
Speaker 1: i'd have to look and see what the tesla to
Speaker 1: anyone say in the comments that it was working with
Speaker 1: a Tesla No, nobody, Ah, okay, that's probably like.
Speaker 7: Who the hell is asking this stupid question?
Speaker 1: I know you're getting. I actually got a lot of
Speaker 1: feedback on I'm going to read some of that, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to read some of the feedback I got
Speaker 1: on this. Kathy. Let's see here. Ryan said, Hey, I
Speaker 1: saw you talking about adding a CD player to a Tesla.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, why not just grab a sixty dollar
Speaker 1: USB one from Amazon, or even a portable CD player
Speaker 1: with Bluetooth. The battery powered sixty dollars is not that much.
Speaker 1: It might be worth a try. That's what we tried
Speaker 1: to do, and it didn't seem to work. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Uh okay, and I got two links. It looks like
Speaker 1: people sent two links. One of them was the clem
Speaker 1: Let's see the other one here. The other one is
Speaker 1: the Oh, okay, this is a USB external universal CD
Speaker 1: player for car. This plugs into the USB port. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's gonna work either. Let's see. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna search Tesla real quick.
Speaker 6: No in the.
Speaker 7: Comments part, because I have a I saw something in
Speaker 7: the glove compartment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for the USB drive. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it would connect to a USB, you know, CD player
Speaker 1: and then the USB. Uh, it's in the center console.
Speaker 1: Usually it's like there's some in the back. My old car,
Speaker 1: it was in the back, and I think, okay, it
Speaker 1: was just in the back.
Speaker 7: But that's not a USB.
Speaker 1: Though it's a small USB, it's USB. It's called oh Matthew.
Speaker 1: Matthew wrote in with another hack. He said, for the
Speaker 1: Tesla's CD player problem, there's an old school solution that
Speaker 1: still works. Use a portable CD player with an FM transmitter,
Speaker 1: which yours has. The transmitter creates a tiny FM station
Speaker 1: for the CD player's headphone jack. Then you tune the
Speaker 1: Tesla's FM radio to that frequency. I did this back
Speaker 1: in the nineties when my car didn't have a cassette deck.
Speaker 1: It works the same way today. So I think this
Speaker 1: device that you bought, yes, this clim it does have
Speaker 1: Let's see, is it FM transmitter FM? Does it have
Speaker 1: an FM transmitter? Though, that's the question. I'd have to
Speaker 1: check that too. FM transmitter. Let's see what it says
Speaker 1: here FM. I don't see if it has it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like it has an FM transmitter. But you can
Speaker 1: buy one of those. But I'll be honest, in my experience,
Speaker 1: FM transmitters do not work very well. Maybe if it's
Speaker 1: wired into your system like back in the day I
Speaker 1: had that, but I don't think it's going to really
Speaker 1: worked that well. But I think that, uh, this is
Speaker 1: this is a tricky one. I am uh. I'm actually
Speaker 1: going to Tesla this week. I will ask them. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask them specifically and see what they say. But
Speaker 1: thanks for the call, Kathy. We're gonna we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to the We're gonna get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Until then, you're stuck with you know, you're stuck with
Speaker 1: me on the radio here, so enjoy.
Speaker 7: Well, what should I hold on to it before returning
Speaker 7: it to Amazon?
Speaker 1: I would try I would try pairing it one more
Speaker 1: time to see if yeah, with the with the FM
Speaker 1: or the bluetooth, and see if it works, but keep
Speaker 1: us posted and we'll we'll see if anyone else some solution.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Kathy, Quite the quite the interesting issue,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get a CD player to work
Speaker 1: with the Tesla. You've got the most high tech car
Speaker 1: in the world. You've got a phone which obviously can
Speaker 1: play music, You've got radio, you've got streaming services. But
Speaker 1: like Kathy explained last week, she wants what she has,
Speaker 1: which is her CDs, and she understands them and she
Speaker 1: likes them. So I get that, Uh, you might be
Speaker 1: overpaying eighty to eight rich one on one eighty eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. You might
Speaker 1: be overpaying for ride shares. This is from the National
Speaker 1: Bureau of Economic Research. They did a study that the
Speaker 1: same exact ride often costs different prices on Uber and Lyft.
Speaker 1: The average difference is about three dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 1: I know, not a ton of money, but if you're
Speaker 1: taking these a lot, that could add up to a
Speaker 1: lot of money over the years, over the whole over
Speaker 1: the course of a year. So that's about fourteen percent
Speaker 1: of the fare. So depending on the fares that you have,
Speaker 1: that could be a substantial amount Now you would think
Speaker 1: most people check both apps, but only about sixteen percent
Speaker 1: actually do in this study, and that lack of comparison
Speaker 1: adds up to more than three hundred million dollars a
Speaker 1: year in extra spending. And that was just in New
Speaker 1: York City alone. So the researchers say, the friction is
Speaker 1: pretty small. All you have to do is open up
Speaker 1: the other app and compare the price. But that tiny
Speaker 1: little friction lets prices stay higher and helps the platforms
Speaker 1: make more money. Now Uber does not allow third party
Speaker 1: price comparison tools, so that makes it tougher. They used
Speaker 1: to have. When these things first came out, there was
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of there's a cottage industry of apps
Speaker 1: that would let you see the prices on both at
Speaker 1: the same time. That's really no longer the case. I
Speaker 1: will tell you, in my experience, prices vary widely. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I will open up Uber, which is kind of my default,
Speaker 1: and I will say, oh, that's really expensive. Let me
Speaker 1: check Lift, and Lift for the same exact ride could
Speaker 1: be half the price sometimes or substantially lower, and then
Speaker 1: I wonder, well, wait, why, it just has to do
Speaker 1: with the algorithm. Sometimes it's more. Sometimes it's less. So
Speaker 1: the bottom line from this research paper is have both apps.
Speaker 1: If you take ride shares, install Uber, install Lift, have
Speaker 1: them both on your phone. And if you're taking these things,
Speaker 1: try them both. That's what you have to do. Windows eleven.
Speaker 1: If you're having a whole bunch of problems, you're not
Speaker 1: the only one. Windows. Microsoft put out their first major
Speaker 1: update of twenty twenty SI and big issues for a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Some PCs are not shutting down properly,
Speaker 1: they just restart. Remote desktop issues, so if you're trying
Speaker 1: to use remote desktop or VPN, that could be an issue. Outlook.
Speaker 1: If you're using the classic version of Outlook, it's crashing
Speaker 1: or hanging or hanging in the background. Some apps just
Speaker 1: don't open and they're thrown out error codes, including the
Speaker 1: dreaded zero x eighth three F eight thousand and one.
Speaker 1: Watch out for that one cloud storage freezing or opening
Speaker 1: files when you're looking at one driver, dropbox, all kinds
Speaker 1: of issues during startup, black screens, wallpapers, resetting to black,
Speaker 1: sleep mode issues. So Microsoft has pushed out emergency fixes.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is here. If you are on Windows,
Speaker 1: you did a major update and your PC's acting kind
Speaker 1: of weird. It is not you, as they say, it's
Speaker 1: not you, it's them. Is that what they say? Something
Speaker 1: like that? So, but do the updates. If you see
Speaker 1: more updates, do them. If you have these issues, If
Speaker 1: you didn't do the update, I'd hold off unless it's
Speaker 1: forced on you, which sometimes they do, but I would, uh,
Speaker 1: I would hold off if you haven't done the update.
Speaker 1: Let them fix some of this stuff. That's always frustrating.
Speaker 1: That's why I like a show like this where you
Speaker 1: hear it, you see it, or even social media, we're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. I'm not the only one, okay. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. The website for the show
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot TV. We'll get to some of
Speaker 1: your calls after this, and also what else I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you. Oh this is this is interesting. Verizon just
Speaker 1: bought back the network it sold to Frontier a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. I'll explain with what that's all about.
Speaker 1: Coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology, Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four two four one zero one? Uh, Seafur?
Speaker 1: Is that how I'm saying it right? Seafur in San Diego?
Speaker 1: You're on with Ritchie there, Yes, sir, how do you
Speaker 1: say your name? Did I say it right?
Speaker 6: Ye? Actually? Caesar?
Speaker 1: Oh Caesar, yes, sir. Now I got Seafur on my
Speaker 1: screen here.
Speaker 6: No, let's say it's actually says that for Spanish. But okay,
Speaker 6: friends call me Caesar.
Speaker 1: Okay, Caesar, I can say that. That's easy. Okay, Caesar,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 6: Thank you? Thank you for taking my call and joy
Speaker 6: your show.
Speaker 5: Thank you week, Thank you.
Speaker 6: I'm calling because I would like your recommendation or opinion
Speaker 6: on regarding I have my main TV. It's I have
Speaker 6: a fifty five inch I believe it is?
Speaker 8: Oh that small?
Speaker 1: Why? Why so small? I'm kidding?
Speaker 6: My daughter was My daughter was two years old when
Speaker 6: I bought it, and she's turn eighteen a few months ago.
Speaker 6: So hey, yeah it I just want to do it is.
Speaker 6: I'm nothing wrong with it, but I just want something more,
Speaker 6: you know, bigger, bigger screen. And I went to, uh,
Speaker 6: it's amazing how the prices have come down quite a bit.
Speaker 6: I noticed on on the on TVs. But then my
Speaker 6: question also is I would look for you know, I
Speaker 6: was looking for another l GV because they've been good
Speaker 6: to me. Yeah, and I noticed that they have UHD,
Speaker 6: then they have an q L ED TV, and then
Speaker 6: of course the the ol legs. But I want to
Speaker 6: I found a t C L E L E D,
Speaker 6: and I wanted your opinion on those. I was inclined
Speaker 6: on one of those because it seems that you get up,
Speaker 6: you get better better, you know, better specs on the
Speaker 6: TV for the money.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Well this is what we were talking
Speaker 1: about at the beginning, and this is why Sony is
Speaker 1: having such a tough time because these TCL prices. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at them right now. So I'm on slick deals,
Speaker 1: looking at some of the latest. You know, right now
Speaker 1: is the time to buy because the Super bowls coming up, right,
Speaker 1: So all these TVs are on great deals. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking at a fifty five inch O lead from Samsung
Speaker 1: for one thousand bucks. I'm looking at a sixty five
Speaker 1: inch O lead from lg for eight hundred and nine dollars,
Speaker 1: a sixty five inch TCL QM eight K, which is
Speaker 1: their flagship, that's nine to ninety seven and that's their
Speaker 1: flagship device right now, what what are you looking to spend?
Speaker 1: Are you looking to spend like under five hundred, under
Speaker 1: one thousand, under two thousand?
Speaker 6: I mean to be honest, and I don't know if
Speaker 6: it was fifteen hundred, I was, you know, even even
Speaker 6: two thousand if I had to. But then when I
Speaker 6: noticed prices are low, and it's just I'm not sure
Speaker 6: where to go.
Speaker 1: Okay, but.
Speaker 6: Whatever you were thinking.
Speaker 1: I think this this TCL QM eight K, which is
Speaker 1: a QD Mini led, I think that for one thousand
Speaker 1: bucks is a fantastic deal. Sixty five inch TV tcls
Speaker 1: are super highly rated. This is actually one of the
Speaker 1: one of the highest rated TVs from our expert that
Speaker 1: we have on Let's see, Yeah the.
Speaker 6: Cue and then yeah, I'm looking at I'm hoping that
Speaker 6: at least to get at least of seventy five.
Speaker 1: Oh, at least a seventy five Okay, so they see,
Speaker 1: let's see, okay, seventy five inch, let's see if they
Speaker 1: have one here seventy five. I think they make that
Speaker 1: same one. Okay, So here's the here's these Okay, this
Speaker 1: is the one you want right here? Best Buy seventy
Speaker 1: five inch TCL QM seven K sent one fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: That's it, Caesar, you got it. Just go to best
Speaker 1: Buy right now. That's that's a that's a deal.
Speaker 6: Oh. I truly appreciate it. I truly appreciate it. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's just like there's so many different options and I
Speaker 6: don't know where to go. But I did I did
Speaker 6: hear that tcls are becoming very much much better for
Speaker 6: the money. And also I don't I really don't. I
Speaker 6: really don't not focused on apps because on the TV,
Speaker 6: I don't care for the smart portion of it. Okay,
Speaker 6: I use I use external devices. I use an Nvidia
Speaker 6: Shield Pro.
Speaker 1: Nice. People love us.
Speaker 6: I love that thing. And I use the fire sticks
Speaker 6: from my bedroom.
Speaker 1: So nice. Okay, Well this I think this is the
Speaker 1: deal you want. It's the uh now, it's gonna come
Speaker 1: with Google TV. But it's the TCL seventy five inch
Speaker 1: QM seven K four k UHD HDR QD Mini LED.
Speaker 1: It's nine to ninety nine at best Buy. I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: I bought my TV from best Buy a couple years ago,
Speaker 1: maybe two years ago. I ordered it in the morning.
Speaker 1: I was watching it by the afternoon. I could not
Speaker 1: believe the delivery, the service, everything. I was so impressed.
Speaker 6: So it looks like I found my TV. I appreciate
Speaker 6: your time.
Speaker 1: All right, Caesar, thank you, thanks for listening. Sounds like
Speaker 1: the super Bowl party is at Caesar's house this year.
Speaker 1: Whenever you get the new TV, you got to have
Speaker 1: the super Bowl party. That's what I did a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. When I had my brand new TV.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, we'll do this because I
Speaker 1: upgraded from a fifty five inch TV that I had forever.
Speaker 1: I think it was a Visio maybe, and it was great,
Speaker 1: but I went with the high sense. Let's see, I
Speaker 1: think it was the I think it was a U
Speaker 1: eight and I love it. I mean it's great. It's
Speaker 1: everyone that comes to my house is rich. This TV
Speaker 1: looks so good. I said, it's not even that expensive.
Speaker 1: It was like under a thousand bucks. I think everything
Speaker 1: all included.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: The only thing I did wrong was I went with
Speaker 1: sixty five inch instead of seventy five. Everyone now is
Speaker 1: going with seventy five. So if you have the space,
Speaker 1: go with that. But yeah, and we will, by the way,
Speaker 1: have an expert on a little bit later. On Caleb Dennison,
Speaker 1: he is the TV guy. He will be talking about
Speaker 1: all these TVs later in the show, and he'll talk
Speaker 1: about some of the newest deals out there. Verizon and
Speaker 1: Frontier are back together again. Verizon just basically purchased these
Speaker 1: areas from Frontier that they sold to him a couple
Speaker 1: years ago, so these fiber networks. So basically, if you
Speaker 1: here's here's the thesis of this. If you are in
Speaker 1: an area that used to be Frontier or sorry, that
Speaker 1: used to be Verizon then became Frontier and now it's
Speaker 1: back to Verizon, you should call them up and see
Speaker 1: what kind of deal you can get, because they're doing
Speaker 1: really good deals. If you get your mobile phone through Verizon,
Speaker 1: or if you're a Verizon customer, you can get six
Speaker 1: months of Frontier fiber Internet for free. If you bundle
Speaker 1: so you can get free phones or giving away free
Speaker 1: iPhone Seventeen's so long story short. If you live in
Speaker 1: an area that either had Frontier or used to have
Speaker 1: Verizon and became Frontier and now it's back to Verizon,
Speaker 1: call them up. Call up Verizon and see what kind
Speaker 1: of deal they can give you, because right now they're
Speaker 1: rolling out some pretty aggressive deals to get people into
Speaker 1: these bundles. Eighty eight Rich one oh one eighty eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one more rich
Speaker 1: on Tech, come in your way right after this. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Rich to Mire here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. We were talking Windows issues. A
Speaker 1: lot of people did these updates. They had some issues.
Speaker 1: But Josh and Lansing, Michigan says he has a solution.
Speaker 1: If you're having some issues with your Windows computer. What's
Speaker 1: your solution?
Speaker 9: Josh, yeah, Hi, so I had the same issues everybody
Speaker 9: else had. The solution is, even when you check your
Speaker 9: computer to update its drivers, it says you're up to date,
Speaker 9: you're not. You have to locate your graphics card manufacturer
Speaker 9: and go to the manufacturer's website and update your graphics
Speaker 9: card from there. My update took about two two and
Speaker 9: a half hours, and every sense I'm.
Speaker 1: Back, Oh nice, Okay, So you were having some flickering
Speaker 1: issues and all that kind of stuff, and Windows was saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you're fine, you're up to date. But then you went
Speaker 1: to like what in video's website or Intel's or something,
Speaker 1: and it was like, Oh, there's a firmware update for
Speaker 1: your or driver update.
Speaker 9: It was it was it was Intel for me, it's
Speaker 9: gonna work for everybody. I suspect because Windows isn't communicating
Speaker 9: with those chip manufacturers and that's why they can't find
Speaker 9: the issue interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so good, so good tip. If you're
Speaker 1: having issues, something flickering, something's giving you. It could be anything, right,
Speaker 1: like your your your scanner, whatever you've got, that's.
Speaker 9: Videos, my videos. I use the same streaming services and
Speaker 9: watch the same videos routinely, and they would just stop
Speaker 9: and two seconds later start and then five seconds later stop.
Speaker 9: That was consistent, and that was a huge issue too.
Speaker 9: And that solves.
Speaker 1: Okay, so everything was off. Even though Windows was saying
Speaker 1: you're up to date, you really weren't.
Speaker 2: Basically exactly, I.
Speaker 9: Did all the up to dates on Windows. I even
Speaker 9: said from other manufacturers, some new products, and there's nothing there.
Speaker 9: I was fully up to date. I even went to
Speaker 9: my internal computer check to run diagnostics, and it's that
Speaker 9: I was up to date. Wow, that's what I That's
Speaker 9: what really throws people off that are looking into this
Speaker 9: It's so frustrating because usually that's correct. But after another day,
Speaker 9: I was forget this, and I went right to the
Speaker 9: manufacturer and it scanned my computer. I just clicked support
Speaker 9: at the Intel site and it scanned my computer instead.
Speaker 9: That was what I suspected was there and update now
Speaker 9: and I did it.
Speaker 1: Wow. Good, okay, all right, good to know, Josh, thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. Appreciate it. So yeah, if your computer's
Speaker 1: saying it's working and it's up to date, it may
Speaker 1: not be. So just remember that eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Scott writes in I keep getting letters saying my personal
Speaker 1: information may have been exposed in data breaches. Kaiser, Permanente,
Speaker 1: and AutoNation are the latest. Each time they give me
Speaker 1: free credit monitoring through companies like LifeLock, Equifax, or cyber Scout.
Speaker 1: Right now, I already have one more year free of LifeLock,
Speaker 1: two years of experience. I'm wondering if I should sign
Speaker 1: up for every service that's offered or just stick with
Speaker 1: one or two. It feels like these breaches are inevitable,
Speaker 1: but paying for multiple monitoring services can get expensive fast. Well,
Speaker 1: it's inches, so you're not well. I think you wouldn't
Speaker 1: be paying for them because you're getting them free. But
Speaker 1: here's the deal. I think that you know LifeLock and Experience,
Speaker 1: they're reputable. I think that those two are enough for now.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to sign up for every
Speaker 1: free monitoring offer that comes along. I get these things
Speaker 1: in the mail all the time, and I've yet to
Speaker 1: sign up for one of them. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why in a second. Number one. Every time you sign up,
Speaker 1: you have to hand over all of your information of
Speaker 1: that company, and so you're giving them everything that you've
Speaker 1: got so that they can go out and monitor for you.
Speaker 1: So if you really feel like you need that done,
Speaker 1: sure sign up for one of them. Get that free year,
Speaker 1: see what happens. But I think the easiest way to
Speaker 1: do this and to deal with this situation is to
Speaker 1: freeze your credit. And you could do that for free.
Speaker 1: You can go on to Experience, Equifax and TransUnion. You
Speaker 1: go to their websites, you sign up. Now. The thing
Speaker 1: to be careful about every one of these websites will
Speaker 1: try to fake it, and they will they will put
Speaker 1: up some offer because they know people are going here
Speaker 1: to do this. Right when you log in, it'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you want to pay for credit plus freezing? And
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, yeah, that's what I came here to do.
Speaker 1: Uh ah, that's a paid service. You do not want
Speaker 1: to do that. You want to go to the bottom
Speaker 1: of the screen. There's a tiny little text that says,
Speaker 1: freeze my credit and it's free, completely free, and I've
Speaker 1: done this. It is very easy to unfreeze your credit
Speaker 1: if you need to go in, you know, you want
Speaker 1: to apply for a card, to loan whatever. I'm not
Speaker 1: a financial person, but that's what I do, and it's
Speaker 1: I've done it, I've unlocked it, I've locked it. It's
Speaker 1: pretty easy to do, so take the time to do that,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to deal with a lot of
Speaker 1: this other stuff. But if you're getting the year free
Speaker 1: and it makes you feel better, absolutely sign up. But
Speaker 1: you don't need to sign up for one hundred of these.
Speaker 1: Connie writes in Hey rich, my husband just got hearing
Speaker 1: aids now. The TV volume that works for me is
Speaker 1: too loud for him. Someone suggested headphones so I can
Speaker 1: listen louder without bothering him. There's so many ops online.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what's easiest for us older folks. Any suggestions, So, Connie,
Speaker 1: the easiest thing would be wireless headphones that connect directly
Speaker 1: to the TV. So a lot of TV support Bluetooth.
Speaker 1: If yours doesn't, you might be able to add like
Speaker 1: a little Bluetooth transmitter to the headphone jack or the
Speaker 1: optical audio port. But the key thing here is that
Speaker 1: your TV has to support headphones and speakers at the
Speaker 1: same time. Not all of them do. So if you
Speaker 1: want to confirm that, I would just get any pair
Speaker 1: of Bluetooth earbuds you have around your house and connect
Speaker 1: them to the TV. See if you can listen on
Speaker 1: those earbuds and listen through the speaker, so your husband
Speaker 1: be able to listen and then you'd be able to
Speaker 1: listen at the same time. If that doesn't work, there's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of products from this company called a
Speaker 1: van Tree A v A N t r e E.
Speaker 1: They've got a whole bunch of products specifically for these solutions.
Speaker 1: A v A N t r e e dot Com.
Speaker 1: Check them out. Clearly someone there was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: people need these solutions, that's why they have them. Mary
Speaker 1: writes in Hey, Rich, Happy New Year. I'm eighty seven
Speaker 1: years old. I'm not very tech savvy. I have a
Speaker 1: Samsung Android phone, and I'm worried about viruses and staying protected.
Speaker 1: I'm on to fixed in some income, so i can't
Speaker 1: afford fancy expensive security services. Can you recommend something that
Speaker 1: will keep my phone safe? Mary, Happy New Year to you.
Speaker 1: You don't need to be tech savvy. Anyone should be
Speaker 1: able to do this. If you have a Samsung phone,
Speaker 1: it already has built in protections. So the thing you
Speaker 1: want to do is visit a section of your phone
Speaker 1: under the settings. Hopefully you can get there settings Security
Speaker 1: and Privacy, and there's a whole bunch of stuff. It
Speaker 1: will immediately start scanning your phone for threats. Up at
Speaker 1: the top should have a green banner that says looks good.
Speaker 1: Make sure you have your lock screen set. Make sure
Speaker 1: you have no recommendations under account security, loss, device protection,
Speaker 1: app security, I'll say no threats found updates. You can
Speaker 1: look there. Now the things you want to do. Make
Speaker 1: sure your auto blocker is on, so tap that on.
Speaker 1: This will block apps from unauthorized sources, like if you
Speaker 1: try to download something outside of Google Player. The Galaxy Store.
Speaker 1: It'll prevent that from being installed. It'll block malware, images
Speaker 1: and messaging apps, non official software, updates, commands by USB cable.
Speaker 1: It'll do a lot, make sure auto blocker is turned on.
Speaker 1: What else The other thing you want to do is
Speaker 1: use Chrome. Chrome will protect you with what's called what
Speaker 1: do they call it. They've got two levels. They've got
Speaker 1: Safe Browsing and then they've got Enhanced Chrome Safe Browsing.
Speaker 1: Safe browsing is the basic that means that basically every
Speaker 1: URL you enter into Chrome, it is checking to make
Speaker 1: sure that it's legitimate and it's not going to try
Speaker 1: to steal your info. Doesn't always work, but it works
Speaker 1: pretty well. Now, if you want a little bit more,
Speaker 1: you can turn on what's called Google Enhanced Safe Browsing.
Speaker 1: And if you turn that on, it's actually going to
Speaker 1: use a little bit more AI to give you extra support.
Speaker 1: So these are websites that it may never have encountered,
Speaker 1: and it still looks at them and says, eh, we
Speaker 1: don't think this is safe. We're gonna put up a
Speaker 1: big red screen to make you not use it. So
Speaker 1: you can turn those on in your Chrome settings. Let's
Speaker 1: see if I can find it here let's see if
Speaker 1: it's on here. See if I can't find this stuff quickly,
Speaker 1: how do I expect you to find this stuff quickly? Right?
Speaker 1: So I'm looking about Chrome downloads, languages. Okay, where are
Speaker 1: you a Chrome? Come on basics? Oh, privacy and security
Speaker 1: there it is, duh, privacy insecurity, safe browsing. Enhanced protection
Speaker 1: is turned on. I would go into your Chrome on
Speaker 1: your Android settings and then look under privacy and security
Speaker 1: and delete. Sorry, where'd it go? Safe browsing? Make sure
Speaker 1: enhanced protection is turned on. That'll do a lot to
Speaker 1: keep you protected. No matter what link you click, it
Speaker 1: will scan that and make sure it's safe. Not gonna
Speaker 1: work every single time. Yes, there are things that can
Speaker 1: still slip through the cracks, but it's gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 1: The other thing is this app I like called Sofos
Speaker 1: Intercept X Sofos Intercept X for mobile. It's free and
Speaker 1: I have it on my phone, and it does a
Speaker 1: pretty good job. It's scanning, it's basically doing a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff that the Samsung is doing. So if
Speaker 1: you're okay with all that stuff and the Chrome stuff,
Speaker 1: you don't need this. But if you want a little
Speaker 1: extra level, then I would say, try this Sofos Intercept
Speaker 1: X and it's mobile. It's available on Google Play. Let
Speaker 1: me see what is exactly the name is. Of course,
Speaker 1: don't have a link. That's weird. Okay, here's the link.
Speaker 1: Sofos Intercept X for Mobile by Sofos Limited. The problem
Speaker 1: is when you search for these apps, there's other apps
Speaker 1: that kind of masquerade under the same more similar name.
Speaker 1: So be very careful when you download stuff that I
Speaker 1: mentioned on the radio that you're getting the right app.
Speaker 1: And I link this stuff up on my website. So
Speaker 1: go to rich on tech dot TV. This is episode
Speaker 1: one five eight. You can go there get the links
Speaker 1: to everything I just mentioned. I'll put it all there.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. My name is rich Demiro more rich on Tech.
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Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology,
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one On one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four two four one zero one. H. Jim is in
Speaker 1: San Diego. Jim, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Hi? I got a Shwlett Packard laptop a few months
Speaker 5: ago and within a few weeks, the letters on the
Speaker 5: keys started fading on the most common you know, on
Speaker 5: the ert and the I can barely discern the what
Speaker 5: the keys are anymore, and I don't know how to type.
Speaker 5: I still hunt and pet and I went back to
Speaker 5: the store I bought it, and they said I would
Speaker 5: have to send it back to Hewlett Packard, and I
Speaker 5: guess they would take it and do something with it,
Speaker 5: and I'd have no laptop for a while, and I'd
Speaker 5: have to pay to get everything transferred over to a
Speaker 5: new laptop. So what can I do to make my
Speaker 5: keyboard more visible to me?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: Okay? So how long have you had this thing?
Speaker 5: Well, now, it's probably been three months.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's been three months. You probably have a year
Speaker 1: warranty on it. I'm guessing.
Speaker 5: I don't recall that I paid anything extra, so I
Speaker 5: don't know what I got with it.
Speaker 1: Okay, but you have whatever comes with HP laptops, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: let me see. I'm looking up what the warranty is.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing itself. Okay, So you can go on Okay
Speaker 1: says it's usually a standard one year. But you can
Speaker 1: go on their website and check the warranty by putting
Speaker 1: in your serial number, so you can see if you
Speaker 1: have a year warranty, which I'm sure you do, if
Speaker 1: you didn't pay anything extra. Now did you buy you
Speaker 1: Did you use a credit card to buy this?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, so you may have Depending on your card, you
Speaker 1: may have some protections through them, and they may be
Speaker 1: able to help you with this. But that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's another way where if everything else doesn't work, you can,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe call the credit card company and just
Speaker 1: see some of them offer, you know, sixty days extra,
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty days. That might be another avenue.
Speaker 1: Just keep that in the back of your head. There,
Speaker 1: So I have a feeling. So there's a couple of
Speaker 1: things going on here. Number one, HP does not know
Speaker 1: how you handle this computer. Right. You might have taken
Speaker 1: this computer and rubbed alcohol on the keyboard the first
Speaker 1: day you got it. You got rid of all the keys,
Speaker 1: and they don't really know if you did that or not, right, So,
Speaker 1: cosmetic issues like this could be that this thing is defective,
Speaker 1: or it could be that you did something and scratched
Speaker 1: them all off. They don't really know the difference, right,
Speaker 1: So in some aspect, you're at their mercy here because
Speaker 1: they don't necessarily have to do anything. But if you said, hey,
Speaker 1: I want this under warranty, my my keyboard is is
Speaker 1: you know, seem like it wasn't very good from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Replace my keyboard. Like you said, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: send this thing in. You either wipe the information or
Speaker 1: it's going to be you're not going to see it again,
Speaker 1: depending on what they do to this thing there, it's
Speaker 1: going to be out of your hands for a while.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't seem like a very good solution. I mean,
Speaker 1: you are you ready to not have this thing for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks?
Speaker 5: Well, I could use my old one. I guess it
Speaker 5: would be kind of a hassle because I try to
Speaker 5: work off one main laptop instead of having data on both. Right.
Speaker 5: The other concern I have is to retransfer everything back
Speaker 5: onto it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pain.
Speaker 5: We have to do what I did last time. We
Speaker 5: take it in somewhere and have them, you know, transfer
Speaker 5: everything over and yes.
Speaker 1: Total war money. Yeah, total pain. And it's not something
Speaker 1: And usually when you bring your laptop in they say, look,
Speaker 1: you know, we we can't anything that's on this drive
Speaker 1: could be a race because because HP, they could get
Speaker 1: it and say, you know what, we're just gonna give
Speaker 1: you a refurb We're gonna give you a new one. Whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, they can. They reserve their right to do
Speaker 1: a lot of different things. So where do we stand.
Speaker 1: Are you okay with just putting stickers on these keys?
Speaker 1: What if you just order some new stickers from Amazon
Speaker 1: and put them on the keys?
Speaker 5: That would work? I didn't know there was such a thing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I could work with that.
Speaker 1: Let me I'm looking up keyboard decals. Uh, let me
Speaker 1: see here. Okay, so they have a whole Actually this
Speaker 1: might be even better if you you know you've got
Speaker 1: they've got all kinds of different ones. Now individual Okay,
Speaker 1: here's one hundred and ninety four piece set luminescent extra
Speaker 1: large three years, will not wear fade eight ninety nine,
Speaker 1: so nine bucks.
Speaker 5: I mean it looks like a pretty good illuminus. That
Speaker 5: means it retains some light.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like these are these are specifically like
Speaker 1: large print, so like they're easier to see. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking on Amazon. They have they have a thousand
Speaker 1: different types of these things, so that might be your
Speaker 1: best bet if you just want something simple and easy
Speaker 1: and you don't want to deal with bringing this thing back.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm annoyed that this thing the keys faded so quickly.
Speaker 1: I mean, you said it's only a couple of months.
Speaker 1: I've got my computers for years, and yes, some of
Speaker 1: the keys I use more definitely have a look to them,
Speaker 1: but they're not wiped off, you know, like if this
Speaker 1: was a stick.
Speaker 5: To my history as well, historically I go years and
Speaker 5: then you could see a little bit and this actually
Speaker 5: started happening within a few weeks. I just haven't done
Speaker 5: anything about it yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's weird. I mean, I think it might be
Speaker 1: in your best interest to call HP and to really
Speaker 1: tell them, like, look, I think I'm deserving of a
Speaker 1: new keyboard, here a new computer, and here's why I
Speaker 1: think that this was defective. And I think that you
Speaker 1: should take a look at it and see what happened,
Speaker 1: because there might be other people if this happened to
Speaker 1: and you frame it in that way where you're kind
Speaker 1: of helping them, and then you say, and by the way,
Speaker 1: I want you to send me the new laptop in advance,
Speaker 1: and I will ship back the old one when you
Speaker 1: get when I get it. The only issue there is
Speaker 1: they probably might require a credit card or something, and
Speaker 1: if they don't get the old one, then you're on
Speaker 1: the hook. So there's a lot of nuances here with
Speaker 1: how this works. If HP had a place where you
Speaker 1: could just bring it in and it was easy, that
Speaker 1: would be the best case scenario. Do they have any
Speaker 1: service centers that you can just bring this thing into,
Speaker 1: Like physically.
Speaker 5: I'm but there's a place I go, but it's not
Speaker 5: an HP place and they weren't able to help me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are okay. The Best Buy isn't authorized. They
Speaker 1: do have authorized locations, so you're in San Diego. You
Speaker 1: might be able to bring it to an authorized place
Speaker 1: where they can do it, but I don't. That doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean it's free or under warranty, you know. It
Speaker 1: just means that they can work on it.
Speaker 5: But you're starting to think for nine or ten dollars,
Speaker 5: I may be better off just getting the getting the
Speaker 5: endms you mentioned to stick on to the keys and
Speaker 5: be done with it.
Speaker 1: I would I would think that's the easiest. What I
Speaker 1: would do is, you know, Jim, before you put the
Speaker 1: stickers on, you want to clean the keys well so
Speaker 1: that they say the stickers actually stay on there. There
Speaker 1: may be some instructions that come with these little keyboard stickers.
Speaker 1: I would recommend an alcohol wipe or even you might
Speaker 1: even try like a lyceole wipe. And before you do
Speaker 1: this in your computer, be careful ring it out. Do
Speaker 1: not make the mistake I made one time of using
Speaker 1: a liceol wipe on my keyboard without ringing it out.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. It ruined my whole computer for about
Speaker 1: six months. It finally came back to life. It did
Speaker 1: come back to life, but it took about six months
Speaker 1: to dry out. Do not do that nowadays. Ring ring
Speaker 1: it out, ring it out till is just just just
Speaker 1: a little tiny bit moist. And if you're even worried
Speaker 1: about that, you can just use a microfiber with a
Speaker 1: little bit of a tiny bit of spray on it,
Speaker 1: a little bit of water spray ring that out. Make
Speaker 1: sure it's just damn not even not even wet at all.
Speaker 1: Do not come complaining to me that you ruin your keyboard. Please.
Speaker 1: Eighty and eight rich one on one, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about how to use AI to make apps. Coming up next,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one
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Speaker 1: one zero one. You got a call about you got
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Speaker 1: also an option rich on Tech TV. This is episode
Speaker 1: one fifty eight. So if you need a link to
Speaker 1: something I mentioned, you could just go to the website
Speaker 1: and find the link there. My kid and I had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun this week. He discovered that you
Speaker 1: can use Gemini to make apps, and so I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: He just sat there all week and just started coding
Speaker 1: these apps or I guess using AI to code them.
Speaker 1: And it really is just amazing that, Like, if you
Speaker 1: have an idea for something, most people don't know how
Speaker 1: to make that into either a website or an app.
Speaker 1: Amanda Span is an app educator and founder of the
Speaker 1: app Accelerator. She's here to talk to us about how
Speaker 1: professionals can turn their app idea into a real product
Speaker 1: without being technical. Amanda, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate
Speaker 2: being here.
Speaker 1: So thanks for being here. What is the app Accelerator? Explain? Like,
Speaker 1: why you came up with this right.
Speaker 4: The app Accelerator is a fifteen week training program that
Speaker 4: teaches working professionals how to build an app incrementally, step
Speaker 4: by step, without ever learning how to code. And the
Speaker 4: program is based off a book that I wrote and
Speaker 4: is going to be up for release on March tenth,
Speaker 4: call I Have an App Idea. The book was written
Speaker 4: as a result of my own experiences being a non
Speaker 4: technical founder and having to learn so many things the
Speaker 4: hard way.
Speaker 2: I lost forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: And paying someone to like, yeah, yeah, just not knowing
Speaker 3: what I didn't know, right, And that's actually less than
Speaker 3: the most non technical founders lose on their first app,
Speaker 3: but the average amount is around fifty thousand dollars in
Speaker 3: time and inefficiencies.
Speaker 4: Then non technical founders lose and they waste about two
Speaker 4: years of time just trying to get a product off
Speaker 4: to the ground because they don't know what steps come next,
Speaker 4: They don't understand the terminology, and it feels overwhelming, it
Speaker 4: feels intimidating, and so I didn't want anyone else to
Speaker 4: have to go through that process. After, you know, I
Speaker 4: started building apps and got a lot better at it.
Speaker 4: I built a framework out that was repeatable no matter
Speaker 4: what type of app you're building, and it provides people
Speaker 4: with a step by step framework and step by step
Speaker 4: infrastructure for understanding product development, so you know how to
Speaker 4: engage with developers and no matter what development path you take.
Speaker 2: Like similar to you and.
Speaker 4: Your son this weekend, who were doing what we like
Speaker 4: to call vibe coding, the product of using you know,
Speaker 4: a chat, GPT, a cloud or LOLM to build an app,
Speaker 4: or him and I to build an app. And you know,
Speaker 4: whether you're using that path or whether you are working
Speaker 4: traditionally with a developer, you have all the steps, tools, resources, education,
Speaker 4: and that foundational knowledge you need to know to build
Speaker 4: a revenue ready app.
Speaker 1: So what you're talking about, Okay, so you say, like
Speaker 1: a non technical professional, so this, let's say I'm a
Speaker 1: little league coach and I'm doing this and every day,
Speaker 1: you know, every weekend, I'm like, wait, it'd be really
Speaker 1: good if they had an app for this, right? Is
Speaker 1: that what you're saying, Like a professional, it's in some
Speaker 1: sort of job that they are like, Oh, I see
Speaker 1: a need for this, but I have no idea how
Speaker 1: to do that. That's what your book targets. That's what
Speaker 1: you're talking about.
Speaker 2: That's absolutely what I target.
Speaker 4: I am a firm believer that people who are closest
Speaker 4: in proximity to the problem are best positioned to solve it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So, if you're a little league coach and you're.
Speaker 4: Seeing you know, their organizational inefficiencies with how they're running
Speaker 4: the league, right, and it could be solved with an app,
Speaker 4: there is no way that you're not going to know
Speaker 4: how the best solve that problem, as opposed to you know,
Speaker 4: some nineteen year old kid in Silicon Valley who's like,
Speaker 4: you know, starting their second semester at Stamford, Like no
Speaker 4: shades to Stanford, but right, they're not going to know
Speaker 4: what's right about managing little league as a coach who's
Speaker 4: been doing this for twenty something years, right, And so
Speaker 4: what I want to do is position people like that
Speaker 4: little league coach, like that doctor, like that lawyer, like
Speaker 4: that social worker, like that operations manager to understand product
Speaker 4: development so that they can work with developers or you
Speaker 4: know op for you know, using AI or vibe coding
Speaker 4: to position themselves to build the products of the future.
Speaker 4: Because there are billion dollar opportunities in industries that we're
Speaker 4: just ignoring. Right now, because you know, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of people who don't know how to turn their skills
Speaker 4: into software.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what is the first thing someone should do
Speaker 1: to see if their app idea is worth pursuing.
Speaker 4: They should definitely validate it. So a big part of
Speaker 4: determining whether you should build an app idea is diving
Speaker 4: deep into the problem, right. And so you want a
Speaker 4: problem that is big enough for people to pay for, right,
Speaker 4: because there's lots of problems out there.
Speaker 2: But there's a difference between a.
Speaker 4: Vitamin level problem and an oxygen level problem.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you know you or your listeners
Speaker 4: have heard that analogy before, but a vitamin level problem,
Speaker 4: you know, we can take vitamins every day, but if
Speaker 4: we skip a day, it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Then there's painkiller level problems where you know, you take
Speaker 4: painkillers when you're in pain, but as soon as that
Speaker 4: pain subside, you stopped taking the painkiller. But oxygen, right,
Speaker 4: there's not much we can compare to oxygen. We all
Speaker 4: need oxygen. So you want to tackle problems when you
Speaker 4: are building a business around building a business around a
Speaker 4: problem that are so big that people can't even think
Speaker 4: about how this problem was solved before then. And a
Speaker 4: good example of this is like ride share. Right, I'm
Speaker 4: just gonna say, I can't remember how I got to
Speaker 4: the airport.
Speaker 1: You know, Oh, you begged a friend. Come on, I
Speaker 1: gave people rights to the airport. The worst thing ever.
Speaker 1: But you know you actually have to talk to your
Speaker 1: friends and you know around them up.
Speaker 4: Now you have the luxury of doing right area, But
Speaker 4: they're solved. They solved a multimillion dollar problem.
Speaker 2: And now every.
Speaker 4: App idea doesn't have to solve a billion dollar problem,
Speaker 4: but it does if you were planning on making money
Speaker 4: with this app, right, which I look at apps as
Speaker 4: the business and the perspective I teach from in the
Speaker 4: book and in the program the App Accelerator. I teach
Speaker 4: people that apps are a business, right, and that you
Speaker 4: should be thinking about the problem in that way. And
Speaker 4: so you want us try to identify a problem that
Speaker 4: people are willing to pay money to solve. Right, The
Speaker 4: next thing you want to do is validate that idea,
Speaker 4: because sometimes we think in ideas really good, but until
Speaker 4: we actually you know, go out and prove to the
Speaker 4: world that someone is willing to pay for this we're
Speaker 4: not exactly sure, and you want to do that before
Speaker 4: you invest lots of time and money. And there's lots
Speaker 4: of different ways you can validate an idea. You can
Speaker 4: do surveys, you can do a concierge test, just essentially
Speaker 4: running that running what you're going to do in the
Speaker 4: app in like a white glove service.
Speaker 2: An example of this is like meal prepping.
Speaker 4: Like maybe you believe that you know, tens of thousand
Speaker 4: people will pay for like a meal prep service, right,
Speaker 4: that's automated through an app. Right, but you may want
Speaker 4: to run that service manually first in your community and
Speaker 4: test out that people are willing to pay for it
Speaker 4: before you invest the money or the time into building
Speaker 4: an app and an automation around it. Because whether you
Speaker 4: you know, decide you want to go to develop, or
Speaker 4: whether you want to you know, vibe code it, build
Speaker 4: it yourself, it's still an investment of time or money,
Speaker 4: and time is money.
Speaker 1: Okay. The keyword these days is AI. So I talked
Speaker 1: about how my kid and I we kind of, like
Speaker 1: you said, vibe coding. You know, you're just using Gemini
Speaker 1: or one of these various ais that can handle that
Speaker 1: to make these things it's not perfect, obviously, But what
Speaker 1: do you think about AI and how has that changed
Speaker 1: the process of building an app compared to just a
Speaker 1: few years ago.
Speaker 4: Well, AI, from my perspective, it should be used as
Speaker 4: a tool to improve quality of life, and I mean
Speaker 4: that across tech and as many other verticals as well.
Speaker 4: But AI is a great equalizer in the sense that
Speaker 4: you know, while I think coding is still relevant and
Speaker 4: I think the role of developer is still very pertinent,
Speaker 4: it has made you know, being able to build software
Speaker 4: and build products a lot easier. So the difference is,
Speaker 4: if all things are equal now and if any one
Speaker 4: even you know, your your son can build an app
Speaker 4: by just using you know, AI, the difference is, and
Speaker 4: the distinction will be moving forward, is domain expertise. So
Speaker 4: I believe that domain expertise is a new technical edge.
Speaker 4: So if you pair a degree of AI or a
Speaker 4: baseline knowledge of AI with your domain expertise, you're unstoppable.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's dig into that a little bit more. Because
Speaker 1: everyone's always worried about jobs, and you know where the
Speaker 1: future is going, you seem optimistic. Do you think that
Speaker 1: we are gonna lose jobs because of this? Do you
Speaker 1: think that you know, if someone is wanting to become
Speaker 1: a coder, like there will there always be a place
Speaker 1: for them. I mean you said domain expertise. I think
Speaker 1: that's really interesting that, yes, you have to be you
Speaker 1: still need to know this stuff.
Speaker 4: So I think I feel like some jobs are going
Speaker 4: to be replaced, but I think that is the nature
Speaker 4: of innovation.
Speaker 2: That's the way of our world.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: You know, we don't have as many coal mining jobs
Speaker 4: as we used to. Right, the world innovates, and you know,
Speaker 4: some jobs are phased out, right, but I think coding
Speaker 4: and computer science jobs will evolve, right, and so you
Speaker 4: will see a lot more developers themselves using AI in
Speaker 4: the role, and so the way that they work will
Speaker 4: be different.
Speaker 2: And what I think you'll see on the computer.
Speaker 4: Science side and in that vertical is a lot of
Speaker 4: more productized services. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 4: instead of a developer. And I don't know if you
Speaker 4: know your audience or you are privy to the way
Speaker 4: developers traditionally work, but they might say, Okay, I have
Speaker 4: this project, and I believe this project is going to
Speaker 4: take me one hundred hours. I'm going to build fifty
Speaker 4: dollars an hour for this project, right, And so they're
Speaker 4: building that out over the next six months for you.
Speaker 4: But now that they can use AI to build a
Speaker 4: lot faster, they're probably going to take on a lot
Speaker 4: more clients. And that project that used to take you know,
Speaker 4: six months can now take you know, you know, three weeks. Right,
Speaker 4: So they'll probably be able to take on ten clients
Speaker 4: at one time, right, And they'll have shorter timelines, and.
Speaker 2: They'll package up those services.
Speaker 4: So instead of saying, Okay, well I'm gonna build this
Speaker 4: dating app for you from scratch, I might have a
Speaker 4: dating app package where I can rent and repeat the
Speaker 4: way I build dating apps, and I can produce them
Speaker 4: really really quickly, and they'll be a flat rate of
Speaker 4: maybe three thousand dollars where I used to charge you know,
Speaker 4: thirty thousand for this, but now I can charge ten
Speaker 4: people three thousand dollars a piece versus thirty thousand to
Speaker 4: one client.
Speaker 1: Really does change things, all right, I got to less
Speaker 1: than a minute here. The book is called I Have
Speaker 1: an App Idea Amanda Span coming out on March tenth,
Speaker 1: and what will people who's this for?
Speaker 4: This is for everyday innovators, It's for working professionals who've
Speaker 4: been sitting on an app idea. It's for people who
Speaker 4: have bottlenecks and the way that they work. It's for
Speaker 4: people who believe they have a million dollar ideas. It's
Speaker 4: for people who they believe they have thousand dollar ideas
Speaker 4: and billion dollar ideas. It's for people who who have
Speaker 4: always wanted to create an app, but just didn't know
Speaker 4: where to start. The book teaches you how to build
Speaker 4: a business around your app idea, how to design it
Speaker 4: for your target audience, how to identify the best development
Speaker 4: path for you, whether that be working with a traditional
Speaker 4: developer or using AI to build with, and then how
Speaker 4: to deploy that app out to the world and make
Speaker 4: sure that you maintain and manage that investment. It is
Speaker 4: that step by step guide you wish you had when
Speaker 4: you had that business idea ten years ago, and so
Speaker 4: I really hope people enjoy it dive into. It is
Speaker 4: a very light and easy read, but it will change
Speaker 4: the way you fundamentally think about products and how you
Speaker 4: build digital based businesses moving forward.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much Amanda for joining us. Say
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. I'll put a link to your book
Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on tech dot TV once again.
Speaker 1: It's called I have an app idea Amanda Span all right,
Speaker 1: coming up, Yeah, thank you eighty eight rich one on
Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one,
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Speaker 1: Well as I say, over and over, the free ride
Speaker 1: is over. Ads are coming to chat GPT, especially if
Speaker 1: you're on the free version. Open ai says it's going
Speaker 1: to start testing ads inside chatchybt in the US in
Speaker 1: the next few weeks. They'll appear for logged in adults
Speaker 1: using the free tier, or they came out with this
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Speaker 1: They're going to show up at the bottom of your
Speaker 1: answers and be labeled as sponsored, and open ai says
Speaker 1: the ads will not influence the answers that chatchybt gives,
Speaker 1: and responses will not be optimized for advertisers. That's it.
Speaker 1: You will. Let's see. You can turn off ad personalization
Speaker 1: or clear the data used for ads. At any time.
Speaker 1: But as you can imagine, the investors of chat cybt
Speaker 1: cannot wait for this company to toggle these ads on.
Speaker 1: It is going to be a it's just going to
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Speaker 1: Why because chatchbt has the public right now. People are
Speaker 1: on there every day, They're searching all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: They're asking very intricate questions, and that is very valuable
Speaker 1: to advertisers who know exactly what these people are looking
Speaker 1: for and what they want. Now, they might not be
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Speaker 1: these pay per click ads first came out in Yahoo
Speaker 1: and Google, they were pretty general and it took time
Speaker 1: for them to get very specific. And now it's almost
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Speaker 1: you're searching for. And that will eventually be the case
Speaker 1: for chatchbt. But don't be surprised if you start seeing
Speaker 1: ads in your chatchybt window. Like I say, the free
Speaker 1: ride is over, melody is in Carl's Bad Melody. You're
Speaker 1: on with Rich?
Speaker 10: Hey, Rich, I have two things. I have a comment
Speaker 10: in a question oh, okay. Comment is earlier you had
Speaker 10: a caller who was asking about for TV volume because
Speaker 10: for her husband, because now she has hearing aids. Yes,
Speaker 10: she needs to contact for hearing aid provider because there
Speaker 10: is a device that she can use to have the
Speaker 10: volume adjusted in her hearing aid where she wants it,
Speaker 10: and it leaves the volume on the TV where her
Speaker 10: husband needs it. So she needs to check with them
Speaker 10: on that.
Speaker 1: So you're saying there's a they can adjust it or
Speaker 1: there's a device.
Speaker 10: No, it's a she can adjust it on her.
Speaker 2: On her hearing aid app.
Speaker 1: Okay, on the app, got it okay to kind of
Speaker 1: level to keep the levels the same basically just her her.
Speaker 10: Volume on her app, right and the TV can be
Speaker 10: wherever her husband wants it to be.
Speaker 9: Okay, I believe because.
Speaker 10: Right now I'm talking to you through my hearing aid,
Speaker 10: not through the phone. So it's the same same concept,
Speaker 10: but a different advice she would have to purchase. I
Speaker 10: believe there's a device she does need to purchase to
Speaker 10: hook to the TV, much like if she had if
Speaker 10: if her husband had headphones.
Speaker 1: Got it okay? So if if that, yeah, okay, so
Speaker 1: she should look into that. And I think it was
Speaker 1: actually the opposite. I think the husband got that got
Speaker 1: the hearing aids. She was the one that was saying,
Speaker 1: oh the TV's her husband either way, but we got it. Okay, perfect, good,
Speaker 1: good call.
Speaker 10: Okay, that's my time. My question is this about two
Speaker 10: nights ago. Uh, there was a power outage in the
Speaker 10: evening and since then my printer hasn't worked and I
Speaker 10: don't know how to get it.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 10: I went on to my system settings to make sure
Speaker 10: that everything was still set, and it shows my my
Speaker 10: printer on there and everything. But my printer does not
Speaker 10: have any power.
Speaker 1: Okay, well it doesn't have any it doesn't have any power.
Speaker 10: Well, when I put the power but non nothing happens.
Speaker 10: Oh okay you when I tried to print, nothing happens.
Speaker 10: It says it's offline.
Speaker 1: Okay. So a couple of things. Do you know that
Speaker 1: the the plug that you're plugging this into, do you
Speaker 1: know that it works?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: Can you plug something else in and confirm that it
Speaker 1: where you got to start at, like the beginning? So
Speaker 1: is it does a plug work?
Speaker 10: Power strip and other things on the Okay, were working.
Speaker 1: That's good. So have you tried pulling this, uh this
Speaker 1: power plug out and leaving it out for like a
Speaker 1: minute or two.
Speaker 10: You mean I'm plugging the printer?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: Correct, I haven't done that plug is so hard.
Speaker 8: To get to.
Speaker 1: Well, do it do on the back side of the printer.
Speaker 1: It usually connects both to the plug and the backside
Speaker 1: of the printer.
Speaker 10: Okay, well that's what what's hard to get to. I
Speaker 10: can get up on a step ladder to do that,
Speaker 10: so I haven't, but that might be a fix.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that's the first thing I would do. It
Speaker 1: sounds like maybe this thing just did not come back on,
Speaker 1: So plug it back in or unplug it for you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, leave it out, you know, I
Speaker 1: would say two, three, five minutes whatever, plug it back in,
Speaker 1: and then turn the prow and then press the power
Speaker 1: button back on. And it may just come on when
Speaker 1: you plug it in. It may you may have to
Speaker 1: press that power button. But see, those are the first
Speaker 1: things I would do when I my FI exactly. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's funny though. Week we had a power outage last
Speaker 1: night and my printer. I'm trying to I think if
Speaker 1: I had any issues, if I had to press any buttons.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. It came back to life. It's
Speaker 1: an HP, but that's what I would try, Melody. Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call today. I appreciate it on both counts.
Speaker 1: There eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Still so much
Speaker 1: to tell you. In fact, we're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: most AI resistant jobs coming up right here on rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. You are in for a
Speaker 1: treat this hour. We have one of my favorite guests,
Speaker 1: Caleb Dennison. He is going to break down all the
Speaker 1: latest in the TV world. I know you're looking at
Speaker 1: TVs for the Super Bowl. We're gonna see what his
Speaker 1: recommendations are. Also, get his take on this whole Sony
Speaker 1: TCL deal and anything he saw at CES that was
Speaker 1: interesting to him. We got a lot so that will
Speaker 1: be in this hour. Can't wait to do that AI.
Speaker 1: We've heard so much about it. You're probably wondering, well,
Speaker 1: what jobs are going to be the most AI resistant?
Speaker 1: First I'll give you the big jobs, and then we'll
Speaker 1: go into the entry level stuff. But this is from
Speaker 1: resume now. They analyze labor department and pay scale data
Speaker 1: to rank jobs least likely to be replaced by AI
Speaker 1: and the common thread. They found jobs that demand calm,
Speaker 1: under pressure, adaptability, and human judgment. Well, that makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. Human judgment. AI can't really replace that,
Speaker 1: not yet, I guess. At the top of the list
Speaker 1: are a lot of healthcare roles nurse anesthetists, emergency physicians, surgeons,
Speaker 1: and physician assistants. Aviation also high on the list commercial pilots,
Speaker 1: flight engineers, air traffic controllers, all places where mistakes are
Speaker 1: not an option. Commercial pilot, Bobo, Would you get on
Speaker 1: a plane driven by an AI pilot? You get on,
Speaker 1: you walk on, You're flying a you know. Wherever they
Speaker 1: get on they say, hey, we got we got AI
Speaker 1: Jim in the cockpit today. He's a complete robot.
Speaker 6: YEA.
Speaker 1: I will not get on a plane. You will knock
Speaker 1: get on the bill. Why not not trusting all AI
Speaker 1: to fly me nowhere? I don't trust a AI in
Speaker 1: my car. When was the last time you met the
Speaker 1: pilot of your plane? Last time I was on a flight. Okay,
Speaker 1: you introduced yourself. Yeah, he was standing right there. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: how you doing. He said, hey, I'm Bob. I was like,
Speaker 1: you need to say that. I'm just saying but I
Speaker 1: did see him, okay. And you feel more comfortable when
Speaker 1: you put it like a face to the person flying you.
Speaker 11: Yes, I do, Okay, makes me a little more comfortable.
Speaker 11: I don't know, it just feels better.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But no AI. So if they said, hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna this thing is taken off and landed, no problem
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand times, like a way moo weaimo for flight,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't haven't done a weimo yet, Okay, because you're
Speaker 1: you don't want that either.
Speaker 11: Well, because I saw it stuck in an intersection on
Speaker 11: the west side and I was like, yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 11: not doing that.
Speaker 1: I got a video of it. I'll show you. It
Speaker 1: was funny. I was shooting a video of the Zookes,
Speaker 1: which is Amazon's kind of weymo, in Vegas and it
Speaker 1: made the turn, but then I got stuck behind a truck.
Speaker 1: It just like stopped and it couldn't go around it.
Speaker 1: All these people started honking. I was like cracking up, like, oh,
Speaker 1: not the right time taking video. Okay, so that's out
Speaker 1: for BOBO leadership and accountability judges, CEOs, cybersecurity leaders, and
Speaker 1: financial managers also make the list. So there you go.
Speaker 1: That's the high end stuff. Right now, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the entry level AI proof jobs, or I can't say
Speaker 1: AI proof, let's say AI resistant people focused once again.
Speaker 1: See it's got to be. There's the human aspect of
Speaker 1: jobs is very much kind of underlining all of these.
Speaker 1: Dental high genis number one. I just went to the
Speaker 1: dentist and had the dental hygienis and I was like,
Speaker 1: could a robot replace this? I don't know if I'd
Speaker 1: want it. I mean yeah, And they're all kind of different,
Speaker 1: by the way dental hygienis. Some use that thing where
Speaker 1: they spray the water to like clean your teeth. Some
Speaker 1: do like the actual that scraper thing. And sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like they're literally out of like medieval times, like
Speaker 1: I'm just torturing you right now, like I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: I told you to floss rich and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: this as painful as possible for you because you didn't.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I literally think they're doing that in their head,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. Uh, diagnostic medical scenographers they pay
Speaker 1: close to ninety thousand dollars with an associate's degree. Respiratory therapists,
Speaker 1: radiological texts, occupational therapy assistants, all in high demand and
Speaker 1: hard to automate. And then of course skilled trades electricians, HVAC,
Speaker 1: wind turbine technicians, electricians in HVAC, those guys. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: There's a level of people that come to your house
Speaker 1: and they say, here's what we need to do, here's
Speaker 1: how much it's gonna cost you, And you're just like,
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? You know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: I don't go ahead, fix the thing whatever it's gonna cost.
Speaker 1: I need my toilet. Emergency roles like EMTs and paramedics,
Speaker 1: and yeah, physical skills, real time problem solving, and human interaction,
Speaker 1: all areas where AI still struggles question. Yeah, are you
Speaker 1: going to go see the movie Mercy? I have not
Speaker 1: heard of it yet.
Speaker 11: The movie with Chris What was it Chris Pratt?
Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah I did. He's flying around in that
Speaker 1: little automated chair thing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but it's the AI found him guilty. I think
Speaker 11: of killing his wife or something like that. And he
Speaker 11: has to prove to the AI that he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, interesting ninety minutes to prove your innocence
Speaker 1: or face execution. Yep. Okay, is this in the movie
Speaker 1: theater or it's coming out?
Speaker 11: If it's not out, I think it came out yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Release date is this week, so it's Amazon MGM,
Speaker 1: which means it'll be on Amazon Prime weeks. I've seen
Speaker 1: the ads during the Super Old in the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: Prime now has so many things on Prime, like all
Speaker 1: the spoil. They had the basketball game on Prime the
Speaker 1: other day, which I didn't realize. I thought it was
Speaker 1: like I thought Prime just did football. No, they do
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff now, basketball, baseball, football, Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 1: The only thing they don't have is soccer. Okay, well
Speaker 1: Apple has a lock on that now they really Okay,
Speaker 1: So this is uh Mercy Chris Pratt sci fi thriller. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now this ticket is is something I gotta do
Speaker 1: because it's a I did not realize. I saw that.
Speaker 1: I saw the trailer one hundred times. I still didn't
Speaker 1: understand what the movie was about. So maybe they need
Speaker 1: to have better markets. Okay, let's go, let's do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: does this show? Is this AI to run the show?
Speaker 1: It just goes right and I'll turn on AI Rich.
Speaker 1: We'll go a rich all right?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Speaking of AI more AI. Uh, there's a voice keyboard
Speaker 1: for Android this week. Okay. So you know, if you
Speaker 1: if you listen to me at all, you know I
Speaker 1: love my whisper Flow, which is my voice to text
Speaker 1: on the iPhone.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I was waiting for them to come out with
Speaker 1: Android and they've I don't know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say they've been dragging their feet. Maybe it's trickier to
Speaker 1: do than they thought. But it's been a while and
Speaker 1: they I think last year they said by the end
Speaker 1: of the year. Now it's like, okay, let's hear what's happening, guys.
Speaker 1: But another company came out with an AI voice keyboard
Speaker 1: for Android. It is called Typeless Typeless dot com. I
Speaker 1: guess it's type less. Okay, So this is for Android.
Speaker 1: They also have it for iPhone. They also have it
Speaker 1: for Mac. They also have it for Windows, but they
Speaker 1: just came out with Android. So if you have an
Speaker 1: Android phone and you want better voice to text, try
Speaker 1: this out. Here's what the deal is it understands intent.
Speaker 1: And that is the big thing here that you might say, rich,
Speaker 1: I already have voice to text on my phone, It's
Speaker 1: not the same because what this is doing is it's
Speaker 1: using AI to understand what you're saying and then polish it.
Speaker 1: So not only can it do things like if you
Speaker 1: say let's go to the movies, I mean the beach,
Speaker 1: it won't all that stuff in there. I'll just say
Speaker 1: let's go to the beach because it knew your intent
Speaker 1: of you corrected yourself. It works everywhere, so you can
Speaker 1: use it in all the apps that you like. They
Speaker 1: have a whisper mode so you can talk really quietly.
Speaker 1: Works in a hundred languages and mix and match. How
Speaker 1: wild is that You can start talking in English, switch
Speaker 1: to Spanish, go back to English, and it will still
Speaker 1: figure it all out. That is incredible. And they say
Speaker 1: it's private. They don't keep your data, they don't train
Speaker 1: on your data. All your history stays on your device.
Speaker 1: So again, this is called Typeless. Make sure you get
Speaker 1: the right one if you look it up in Android,
Speaker 1: it's Typeless. Typeless AI voice keyboard made by a company
Speaker 1: called Typeless, and it I try this, here's my problem
Speaker 1: with it. I love it. I think it's really great.
Speaker 1: You could do up to I think I think it's
Speaker 1: up to four thousand words a week for free. The
Speaker 1: problem is it's in the entire keyboard is taken up
Speaker 1: by just a microphone button. And that's great because yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the main functionality, but it's also kind of annoying
Speaker 1: if it gets something wrong or you just want to
Speaker 1: change something very quickly. I wish they would give you
Speaker 1: the keyboard still and just put the little put the
Speaker 1: little uh microphone in the corner. That would be better
Speaker 1: to me. But yeah, that's the that's the main thing.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Uh we've got Michael. Could we go?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I you know, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to save him for the next break here, because you know,
Speaker 1: we get these, we get close to the break here,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, if the questions are longer, I'll
Speaker 1: do it. I'll do an email because I can do
Speaker 1: that quickly. Mario writes in I was wondering if you've
Speaker 1: ever reviewed apps that let you change your ad a
Speaker 1: phone number. I want a separate number for contest coupons
Speaker 1: and sign ups because I already get enough spam calls.
Speaker 1: I've had the same cell numbers since nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: I don't want to change it. Any tips would be appreciated. Also,
Speaker 1: I loved watching your KTLA TV segments when I lived
Speaker 1: in SoCal. Thanks Mario number one. I think Google Voice
Speaker 1: is probably the easiest. It's free, it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you sign up, and that's probably that's what I use.
Speaker 1: I've got. I've had my Google Voice since day one.
Speaker 1: Used to be called Grand Central. Google bought them. I've
Speaker 1: had it since day one. I love it and it's
Speaker 1: great Google Voice. If you want something like a virtual
Speaker 1: second line, you can actually call your carrier and a
Speaker 1: lot of them will give you a second line for
Speaker 1: ten dollars a month. Now, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: worth ten dollars a month for entering contests. I don't
Speaker 1: think it is, But if you're willing to pay that,
Speaker 1: that's an easy way to do it. And you can
Speaker 1: use that as a second line through your carrier. And
Speaker 1: then they have services. So there's services like sly number
Speaker 1: that I think Bobo is a big fan of that one.
Speaker 1: And then what I thought, I saw that app on
Speaker 1: your phone for Sly number No. I was just kidding.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get you in trouble. The other
Speaker 1: one is text free. Now you have to understand what
Speaker 1: some of the these free ones they may not allow
Speaker 1: you to to It may not have the full functionality
Speaker 1: of a regular phone number. So you can try it.
Speaker 1: Some of these, some of these like automated texts to enter,
Speaker 1: may not allow you to use what they call a
Speaker 1: voipeline voice over ip number. But a lot of them,
Speaker 1: like I mean, it looks like text free, just try it.
Speaker 1: It's it'll probably work. SLI number, how much it looks
Speaker 1: like slide number you have to pay for. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: text free or text free is free. Google Voice is free.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight Rich one on one eighty eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one more rich On Tech
Speaker 1: coming your way right after this. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: On Tech. We've got Michael in rialto Michael. You're on
Speaker 1: with rich.
Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Rich.
Speaker 9: Hi, Hey, Wes City.
Speaker 8: Is tavy the electronic recycling event going on today. Matter
Speaker 8: of fact, we've got about forty minutes to get there.
Speaker 1: I'll make it quick, Okay.
Speaker 10: I have a.
Speaker 8: Windows eight computer. I was wondering. I was a little
Speaker 8: skeptical about bringing it down there or not. Do you
Speaker 8: think there would be an issue, you know, with the
Speaker 8: information that still might be on the hard drive?
Speaker 1: Did you wipe it? Did you recycle or sorry? Did
Speaker 1: you like wipe the hard drive?
Speaker 8: I think I did. I am not percenture. I'm not there.
Speaker 1: Okay, bavvy. When you start up, does the computer still
Speaker 1: start up?
Speaker 8: I think that, well, I have it disconnected because I
Speaker 8: ended up buying a whole new computer when the everything
Speaker 8: switched over to Windows eleven.
Speaker 1: Right, okay, So Windows has a built in setting that
Speaker 1: it says, remove everything and reinstall Windows. Do you remember
Speaker 1: doing that?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 8: I did not. I'm a hold on to it.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what That's what I would do. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's nice to donate. So I think you
Speaker 1: said a school is doing the donation.
Speaker 8: The city?
Speaker 1: Oh, the city? Okay. So typically here's the deal, Like
Speaker 1: anyone that's taking these computers, any reputable company is going
Speaker 1: to wipe them clean of the data. They're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna pledge to do that. They're gonna make sure they
Speaker 1: do that. But I would say, in general, for my
Speaker 1: own privacy, I would not want to bring a computer
Speaker 1: that still has my personal information on it. Can you
Speaker 1: do it? Yes? You know, is it gonna be okay?
Speaker 1: A majority of the time, probably, But I can't in
Speaker 1: good faith, as a person that works with electronics all
Speaker 1: the time, say yeah, it's fine, just bring your computer
Speaker 1: with all your personal data on there. There's just too
Speaker 1: much data out there, and you never know. The company
Speaker 1: might have good intentions, but someone might break into the
Speaker 1: company and steal all these computers, you know, before they
Speaker 1: get recycled. So ok, So what I would do, Michael,
Speaker 1: for sure, is go into Windows Settings and there's a
Speaker 1: a I mean basically, I'll put these instructions on the websit.
Speaker 1: I be going to settings, Change PC Settings, Update and
Speaker 1: recovery recovery, and then there is a get started button
Speaker 1: and you basically just say remove everything and reinstall Windows.
Speaker 1: There's a section that says that, and that's it. Basically. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just basically search recovery in your Windows and look for
Speaker 1: the remove everything in reinstall Windows and that should get
Speaker 1: you to a place where the computer has your stuff
Speaker 1: off of it if you want to. If you want,
Speaker 1: there are some third party there are some third party
Speaker 1: products out there that people use just to make sure
Speaker 1: and I know I'll get the emails if I don't
Speaker 1: mention them. So a couple of them are kill disc
Speaker 1: k I l L D I s K. So obviously
Speaker 1: that does what it sounds like. It kills the disc.
Speaker 1: They've got it for Windows, they've got it for Linux,
Speaker 1: they've got it for mac os. And then disc wipe
Speaker 1: as well. They've got that one. Let's see is this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's free as well. So free software.
Speaker 1: Support others by telling people about it, or support us
Speaker 1: by telling people about it. That's what I just did.
Speaker 1: So again, kill disc disc wipe. Now, if you have
Speaker 1: a newer computer, like I said, with Windows, Windows ten,
Speaker 1: Windows eleven, the newer max, they all have a system
Speaker 1: built in to wipe the drive clean and get it
Speaker 1: back to factory. That's gonna be good for ninety nine
Speaker 1: point nine percent of recycling or giving away the computer.
Speaker 1: But if you really want all of your information super
Speaker 1: super scrubbed from the hard drive, you might want to
Speaker 1: look into one of these programs like kill disc or
Speaker 1: wipe disc wipe, because what they can do is they
Speaker 1: can rewrite over the data once and so that way
Speaker 1: it makes sure that nothing is retrievable. Even if someone
Speaker 1: was a little tech savvy and got into that disc
Speaker 1: and was able to do that. So those are the recommendations. Michael,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for that. Let's see if we can
Speaker 1: get David and Covina real quick. David, you're on with
Speaker 1: Rich Hi, Rich Hi, thank you absolutely. What's up?
Speaker 9: Yes, Google, I why don't it switch to Yahoo?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Your your browser switched to Yahoo? Okay? Uh, that sounds
Speaker 1: like you've got malware on your system, or you installed
Speaker 1: something on your system, either a browser we call it
Speaker 1: a browser redirect, so a hijack extension, or you just
Speaker 1: did you installed something from Yahoo and they said, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to switch to Yahoo and you said yes.
Speaker 1: So you can go into Chrome. You can go into
Speaker 1: settings and there's a way to go about Chrome and
Speaker 1: let's see there's a way to read. Oh, here it is.
Speaker 1: So you go into your settings on Chrome and it
Speaker 1: says reset settings. You tap reset settings to their original defaults,
Speaker 1: and that will clear everything that you've changed in the settings,
Speaker 1: including that Yahoo search default, and it will bring it
Speaker 1: back to Google. So again, open up Chrome setting. That's
Speaker 1: you go to menu, then Settings and then look on
Speaker 1: the left hand side. It says reset settings, and it
Speaker 1: says restore settings to their original defaults. You tap that
Speaker 1: and it should bring back David, your yeah or your Google. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This happens. It's it's very it's very common. In fact,
Speaker 1: you know, people install stuff and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: their computer, their browser is doing something a little differently.
Speaker 1: So look at your extensions. The extensions are the software
Speaker 1: that you install into your browser. It's not a bookmark,
Speaker 1: it's not an application outside your browser. It's in your browser.
Speaker 1: And so just make sure you go through your extensions
Speaker 1: regularly and get rid of the ones that you do
Speaker 1: not need or don't recognize. Eighty eight rich one on one.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to talk TVs with Caleb Dennison.
Speaker 1: What's the best TV to buy right now? He will
Speaker 1: reveal all. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Let's see we got a
Speaker 1: couple of things. Oh oh, if you've been wanting to
Speaker 1: get your hands on that Samsung trifold, it is in
Speaker 1: some stores, specifically Samsung Experience stores. This is that fold
Speaker 1: that the foldable phone that opens up to that ten
Speaker 1: inch display. I checked it out at CS. It basically
Speaker 1: looks like a tablet in your pocket. But keep in
Speaker 1: mind this is hands on. It's not uh, it's not
Speaker 1: you can't buy it just yet. Samsung says they're going
Speaker 1: to release this in the US, but they have not
Speaker 1: given US pricing or a release date. It is available
Speaker 1: in South Korea and uh it is uh, we don't
Speaker 1: have a price just yet. So okay, okay, I just
Speaker 1: I just heard from our guest, uh Caleb, Oh, we're
Speaker 1: not going to get the TVs FAM emergency So yeah, bummer. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so you've got you've got the Samsung Experience stores in California, Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: and let's see Queen's Center, and a couple other places
Speaker 1: across the US. So I'll put a link on the website.
Speaker 1: But if you've been wanting to see this thing in person,
Speaker 1: you now finally can. There you go. In other news, Spectrum,
Speaker 1: if you have Spectrum Internet and you've got dead spots
Speaker 1: in your house, you can now fix those for about
Speaker 1: five dollars a month. Spectrum is launching new Wi Fi
Speaker 1: seven extenders. So this is kind of like what I
Speaker 1: talk about in the in the house. If you have
Speaker 1: an euro system, this is basically their version of that,
Speaker 1: so you can buy this extender. Each extender covers about
Speaker 1: two thousand square feet of coverage, so basically, if you're
Speaker 1: having issues you've got a bigger house, or even if
Speaker 1: you're having any kind of issues with Spectrum, you can
Speaker 1: rent one of these. It's five dollars a month per extender.
Speaker 1: It only works with Wi Fi seven if you have
Speaker 1: the Spectrum Wi Fi seven routers, so keep in mind.
Speaker 1: They may have extenders for their older routers like the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi six, but check with them. But it's probably
Speaker 1: easier to do that if you're already renting your router
Speaker 1: from Spectrum you're having issues. Instead of buying a whole
Speaker 1: new Eurosystem, you can just rent this for five dollars
Speaker 1: a month from them, and that'll be a lot easier
Speaker 1: than doing that. And then remember we talked about this
Speaker 1: the startup Telly, remember that startup that gives out the
Speaker 1: free TVs with all the ads on them. We even
Speaker 1: had the founder on here and we've talked about them
Speaker 1: at length. They wanted to give out a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of TVs. But this newsletter low Pass from Yenko Rogers.
Speaker 1: He says that Telly has only given out thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand TVs as of fall twenty twenty five, and that's
Speaker 1: a long way from the company's early promises to ship
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand TVs in twenty twenty three million more
Speaker 1: after that. So you might remember, these TVs are free
Speaker 1: in exchange for ads. So they have a main screen
Speaker 1: which is fifty five inches, and then underneath there's a
Speaker 1: secondary screen that's built into the set, so it's got
Speaker 1: like widgets on there, like sports scores and news and
Speaker 1: the report which, by the way, Telly is not telling
Speaker 1: us this. They don't want us to know this, but
Speaker 1: this is a report that this newsletter got a hold of.
Speaker 1: Logistics have been a major problem. About ten percent of
Speaker 1: the TV's ship via FedEx arrive broken. Now, these are huge,
Speaker 1: heavy TVs and a lot of people have gotten them,
Speaker 1: but not enough. I mean, thirty five thousand is a
Speaker 1: good start, but it's not the scale they want to
Speaker 1: be able to deliver ads to make money. Now here's
Speaker 1: the user base. Telly made about twenty two million in revenue,
Speaker 1: which is about fifty dollars per TV per month. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's fine. It's not great. But oh he actually says,
Speaker 1: oh wow, Okay, that actually beats Roku's last reported average
Speaker 1: revenue per user. So the model can work. That's good news.
Speaker 1: I mean, the good news is the model can work.
Speaker 1: The problem is they've got to get more TVs into
Speaker 1: people's hands to make this work. And so if you've
Speaker 1: been waiting for a TV, you're not alone. A lot
Speaker 1: of people. Every time I mentioned Telly, people sign up
Speaker 1: for it and they're like, Rich, where's my TV? I
Speaker 1: don't have your TV instantly. Let's see should we do
Speaker 1: a let's do an email question here. Gary in Scottsdale says,
Speaker 1: I heard you warn about the risks of storing authenticator
Speaker 1: codes and a password manager. I don't even realized that
Speaker 1: was a thing. All the authenticator apps I use just
Speaker 1: show a constantly changing number, So I'm confused. Why would
Speaker 1: anyone want to save or store those codes in the
Speaker 1: first place? Okay, that is confusion, Gary. When I say stored,
Speaker 1: I mean using the password manager to generate those one
Speaker 1: time codes for you. So it's all about convenience, right.
Speaker 1: You have the code, and your password manager has both
Speaker 1: the password and the one time code all in the
Speaker 1: same place. But the downside, I think is the risk
Speaker 1: of having those two things in the same place. If
Speaker 1: someone was able to get into your password manager, they
Speaker 1: also have your two factor authentication code. So my preference
Speaker 1: is to use separate apps for both your passwords and
Speaker 1: your two factor authentication. And the one I like. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm going to say. If you've been listening
Speaker 1: to me, The one I like is you're ready. It's
Speaker 1: Proton Authenticator. Proton Authenticator, and this thing has been amazing.
Speaker 1: What I love about it is that it's open source,
Speaker 1: which you know I love. It's available on every device,
Speaker 1: which you know I love. And it's free. What's better
Speaker 1: than free? Now you might be saying, rich, Oh, if
Speaker 1: it's free, it can't be that good. I really like
Speaker 1: what Proton's doing. And what they're doing is they offer
Speaker 1: a free level of their products, knowing that people are
Speaker 1: going to get in there and say, oh, what's this. Uh,
Speaker 1: end to end end to end encryption? What is that?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Let me, Oh they have that that's really private? Cool?
Speaker 1: I like that. Oh what's this authenticator?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: I like this? It works exactly the way I want.
Speaker 1: No ads, no tracking, encrypted sync, open source, available on Android,
Speaker 1: available on iOS, available on Windows, Mac and Linux. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, you can export your codes when you
Speaker 1: want to switch to something better, if that ever comes along,
Speaker 1: which really burned me with Authie, which is where I
Speaker 1: had them before, and then I realized, oh wait, I
Speaker 1: can't export my codes. So now I had to go
Speaker 1: through and reset up every single authentication uh service that
Speaker 1: I had my two factor. I had to go through
Speaker 1: every single app and reset it up. But it really
Speaker 1: works well. So Proton Authenticator and they make Proton I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: They make a lot of great stuff. They really do.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to they have mail, calendar, drive, VPN,
Speaker 1: all these things. If you want a VPN for free,
Speaker 1: Proton they've got a free level of VPN and why not.
Speaker 1: So it gives you for free one device at a time,
Speaker 1: medium speed, so it's not gonna be the best speed,
Speaker 1: but you can connect it servers in ten countries which
Speaker 1: are randomly selected. But that's pretty good for free, no ads,
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a free VPN, that's not
Speaker 1: bad at all. So check out Proton for all these things.
Speaker 1: I mean, I really like what they're doing there. All right,
Speaker 1: so we got that question answered. Let's see here. Patty says,
Speaker 1: I love your podcast, newsletters and TV spots. You're helpful
Speaker 1: and patient with such a wide range of listeners. I
Speaker 1: want to use apples Hide my Email feature more often,
Speaker 1: but I mainly use Chrome even though all my devices
Speaker 1: are Apple. Is it worth switching back to Safari or
Speaker 1: is there a good extension or app that lets me
Speaker 1: use Hide my Email and Chrome? This is why Patty,
Speaker 1: this goes exactly into what I was saying about open
Speaker 1: source and independent third party products. Apple. I love them,
Speaker 1: love Apple. They do amazing stuff, and I think Hide
Speaker 1: my Email is great. The problem is everything with Apple
Speaker 1: leads you to more Apple. That's their entire game.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: They do great stuff, but they don't care about anything else.
Speaker 1: They don't care that you're using Chrome. They don't want
Speaker 1: you to use Chrome. They want you to use Safari.
Speaker 1: Why do you think they make their stuff work so
Speaker 1: well with Safari? Why do you think it works so
Speaker 1: well with Apple Mail? Why do you think it works
Speaker 1: so well with the passwords app that they make, and
Speaker 1: of course the iPhone. So if you want to use
Speaker 1: Hide my Mail and you're a paying subscriber Ofiicloud, you
Speaker 1: have to go to Safari. That's going to be the
Speaker 1: best way to do it. Hide my Mail. Hide my
Speaker 1: Email really works best in Apple's own apps like Safari,
Speaker 1: Apple Mail and the iPhone, And if you want to
Speaker 1: use hide my Email, you've got to switch back to Safari.
Speaker 1: Is Safari bad?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I don't think so far. He's bad at all. But
Speaker 1: there are other third party products that you can use
Speaker 1: that give you a similar protection. Number one is Duck
Speaker 1: Duck Go. They have something called Email Protection, which is
Speaker 1: free and that'll work. And then you've got Yahoo, but
Speaker 1: you have to pay for plus on there, so if
Speaker 1: you're not doing that, you got to pay for Yahoo Plus.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else you got. Gmail they have something
Speaker 1: called aliases. So basically, if you have a Gmail address,
Speaker 1: Let's say your Gmail address is rich on Tech at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com, you can create an email address on
Speaker 1: the fly that's rich on Tech plus Time magazine. Let's
Speaker 1: say you're subscribing to that at gmail dot com, and
Speaker 1: that email address will still go to Gmail. But the
Speaker 1: cool thing is you can filter out that email address
Speaker 1: to the trash when you don't want to use it anymore.
Speaker 1: Firefox has something called Firefox Relay. Oh, and look at
Speaker 1: This is this Proton simple login. They've got email aliases
Speaker 1: for free. How many can you do? See pricing? You
Speaker 1: can do ten of them for free. So there you
Speaker 1: have it. Proton's got a solution there too. Eight to
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one rich on tech dot tv
Speaker 1: is the website for want links to anything I just mentioned.
Speaker 1: I know, I just gave you a lot. I'll put
Speaker 1: it all on the website rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're opening up the feedbag right here on
Speaker 1: rich on tech. Thank you. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The
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Speaker 1: This is episode one five eight. So if I mentioned
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Speaker 1: right there. Let's open up. Actually, let's do one story
Speaker 1: before we open up the feedback. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: The American Academy of Pediatrics released updated guidance on screen time,
Speaker 1: and they said, it's a little bit more complicated than
Speaker 1: it was before. So you've got apps, you've got social media,
Speaker 1: you've got video games, you've got algorithms, you've got AI.
Speaker 1: All of them are designed to hook kids in. That
Speaker 1: is number one. We already know that, but it's getting
Speaker 1: even worse. The platforms are built to keep kids scrolling,
Speaker 1: watching and tapping longer than is healthy. So this is
Speaker 1: what I thought was interesting. They're not saying that all
Speaker 1: screen time is bad. They're saying, in fact, that some
Speaker 1: screen time is good. You know, it's educational, it's social,
Speaker 1: it's interesting, it's fun. It's like when we used to
Speaker 1: watch a movie when we were a kid. The problem
Speaker 1: is the platforms themselves are designed to keep kids in,
Speaker 1: and that heavier screen time is linked with less sleep,
Speaker 1: less physical activity, less attention, more emotional regulation challenges. If
Speaker 1: you're a parent, you know what I just said is
Speaker 1: all true. So what can you do? Stop blaming parents
Speaker 1: and kids alone? And they're saying that tech companies should
Speaker 1: be held accountable for these designs. Right, they're designing apps
Speaker 1: that keep kids linked and keep kids on the screen,
Speaker 1: so they want safer defaults for kids, less targeted advertising,
Speaker 1: less auto play, features, stronger privacy protections, and for families,
Speaker 1: focus on quality content co viewing as much as possible.
Speaker 1: I know the kids are gonna be on their screens
Speaker 1: by themselves, screen free meal times like meals in bedtime,
Speaker 1: and then open conversations about what kids see online. I
Speaker 1: think that's all great advice. Let's open up the feedback.
Speaker 1: Karen writes in I thought you'd get a kick out
Speaker 1: of this. I was making dessert for a family gathering
Speaker 1: and using Alexa for reminders. I said, Alexa, remind me
Speaker 1: to put the Bobka on the racks in ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Ten minutes later, Alexa announces Karen put the vodka on
Speaker 1: the rats. Apparently I need to enunciate better looks better
Speaker 1: than it sounds. Oh, she sent a picture and no
Speaker 1: animals were harmed in the making of this recipe. That
Speaker 1: is funny. Karen Steve writes in, My wife and I
Speaker 1: started using the Zoe app you mentioned, and we've been
Speaker 1: really enjoying it. We're starting to make better meal choices
Speaker 1: and even earning those beans along the way. Just wanted
Speaker 1: to say thanks. We're sticking with it absolutely, Steve. I
Speaker 1: love this app Zoe Health. In fact, it made me
Speaker 1: put beans in my dinner last night and my breakfast
Speaker 1: because they are all about increasing your fiber and stuff
Speaker 1: that's good for your gut. So check it out Zoe
Speaker 1: dot com, Ze dot com. They've got an app for
Speaker 1: both the iPhone and Android. You scan your food, it
Speaker 1: tells you how good it is for you. My wife
Speaker 1: and I love this. It's like we sit there and
Speaker 1: we try to guess what's going what's bad, not actually
Speaker 1: not good and bad. It's more like what's healthier for you?
Speaker 1: Sienna in California, I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 1: I love reading your newsletter every week. I'm a librarian
Speaker 1: in California. I teach a free class for seniors called
Speaker 1: tech Help. I really enjoy your tech questions from readers section.
Speaker 1: I often use the things you share on substach and
Speaker 1: your podcast as inspiration or as a reference for my students.
Speaker 1: It really makes tech feel more approachable for them. Keep
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing. Thank you, Sienna. Kendra and Kansas
Speaker 1: City writes in I heard you on the Woody Show.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I found your newsletter after hearing you
Speaker 1: on the Woody Show. When I was in high school,
Speaker 1: in college, tech felt easy. Now, at forty three, I
Speaker 1: feel ancient and behind, especially when my teenage niece is
Speaker 1: teaching me how things work. On top of that, my
Speaker 1: parents always need tech help. I used to be their
Speaker 1: go to person. Now I struggle to keep up myself.
Speaker 1: There's so much new technology it can feel overwhelming, but
Speaker 1: your newsletter makes it feel less daunting and way less stressful.
Speaker 1: Thank you well, Thank you Kendra for finding me on
Speaker 1: the Woody Show. So Tony, Hey Rich. I usually get
Speaker 1: the fastest help with airlines by reaching out on Twitter
Speaker 1: or x especially when things like TSA PreCheck don't show up.
Speaker 1: That's worked well for me in the past, but last year,
Speaker 1: when I tried to change a booking with west Jet,
Speaker 1: I replied to an account that looked legit. It had
Speaker 1: west Jet in the handle and the logo. They tried
Speaker 1: to DM me, then pushed me to WhatsApp that raised
Speaker 1: a red flag. I later realized it was an imposter account.
Speaker 1: Thankful I didn't share any info. I think we said
Speaker 1: this one on air last week. Yeah, be careful. Anytime
Speaker 1: you're calling for tech support, do not just call the
Speaker 1: number that comes up in search. Look at the website
Speaker 1: itself for the specific number. Nancy, I just want to
Speaker 1: say thank you. I always look forward to your newsletter.
Speaker 1: It's one of the few emails I actually read all
Speaker 1: the way through. I'm in Canada, so not everything applies,
Speaker 1: but most of it does, and I always learned something new.
Speaker 1: I'm not very tech savvy, but your explanations really make sense.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Nancy. Sean listening to the podcast says, I
Speaker 1: wanted to add that, Oh, this is from a question
Speaker 1: we had last week about location sharing. I said Life
Speaker 1: three sixty was a good way of doing it. I
Speaker 1: just want to add that Google Maps another option for
Speaker 1: live location sharing. When my mom drove to Alabama to
Speaker 1: visit my sister, she shared her location in Google meet
Speaker 1: Maps and I could see her driving the entire way.
Speaker 1: She turned it off while she was visiting, then turn
Speaker 1: it back on for the drive. I'm assuming this works
Speaker 1: the same way on the iPhone. Let me check. I
Speaker 1: believe if you tap that blue dot, yes, So if
Speaker 1: you're in Google Maps, you tap the blue dot on
Speaker 1: your screen it says share location, and then you can
Speaker 1: now share your real time location for an hour or until,
Speaker 1: or you can just set amount of time or until
Speaker 1: you turn it off. Sean, that's a great, great tip.
Speaker 1: I should have mentioned that last week. That is excellent.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are already using Google Maps. Again.
Speaker 1: If you want to share your location for like an
Speaker 1: hour or a certain amount of time or ongoing, you
Speaker 1: can do it by tapping the blue dot and Google
Speaker 1: Maps and it says share my location. Great great tip, Steve.
Speaker 1: Watching that woman struggle with music in or Tesla made
Speaker 1: me think there's a super duper solution. Oh, I think
Speaker 1: we already got that. She should grab a portable CD
Speaker 1: player and pair it with a cheap bluetooth audio transmitter.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we get similar oh, John writes in one thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to add from your printer discussion on my Mac,
Speaker 1: there's a simple option in the print setup to switch
Speaker 1: from color to black and white. Just flipping that toggle
Speaker 1: can save a lot of color ink. And I did
Speaker 1: not hear that mentioned. All Right, I love it. All right,
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. You can find links everything
Speaker 1: I mentioned on the website. Just go to rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV. Once again, I'm on social media at
Speaker 1: rich on tech Next week, let me take a look
Speaker 1: at the guests we've got. We've got Sharon Guy. She
Speaker 1: is going to talk about, oh, ways to use AI
Speaker 1: to stay relevant. We've also got oh, We've got Julia
Speaker 1: Pugachevski to talk about why bricking your phone is the
Speaker 1: new dry January. Oh, I've seen a lot about that
Speaker 1: on social media. Thanks so much for listening. There are
Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I really
Speaker 1: do appreciate you spending it right here with me. One
Speaker 1: reminder before I go, please do not drive distracted. Those
Speaker 1: texts can wait. Thanks everyone who makes this show possible.
Speaker 1: My name is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.