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Speaker 1: the show to discuss the best ad blocker alternatives now
Speaker 1: that a popular one is out, plus how to stop
Speaker 1: those annoying sign in with Google pop ups, and he'll
Speaker 1: talk about his quest for the perfect web browser. I
Speaker 1: should talk about my quest for the perfect note taking app.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll have something to say about that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: This week one of my favorite programs on Mac made
Speaker 1: its way to Windows, and it makes transcription so much easier,
Speaker 1: makes voice to text a lot easier. So I figured
Speaker 1: i'd talk about some of the ways that you can
Speaker 1: use AI and transcribing voice to text to your advantage.
Speaker 2: So it used to be.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard of programs like Dragon Naturally speaking
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Voice to text has always been a thing, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, your phone has it, your computer has it,
Speaker 1: but it has only worked just so well now that
Speaker 1: AI is integrated into all of these transcription programs, it
Speaker 1: has never been easier to not only record things and
Speaker 1: transcribe them and summarize them, but also voice to text
Speaker 1: has gotten a lot better. So of course if you
Speaker 1: want to record something like a meeting, your phone can
Speaker 1: do it. Pixel has a great recorder app built in,
Speaker 1: Samsung has a voice recorder app built in, and then
Speaker 1: iOS of course has voice memos built in.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Pixel Recorder was always built with AI and search in it,
Speaker 1: so you've been able to do that for a long time.
Speaker 1: Ever since the Pixel Recorder app came out, Samsung and
Speaker 1: iOS they've always had a voice recorder functionality, but it
Speaker 1: just recently got that AI upgrade where now it can
Speaker 1: transcribe what you say or what it's hearing, and then
Speaker 1: of course summarize that as well. So Pixel is the
Speaker 1: only one that does this in real time. And so
Speaker 1: when I go to any sort of tech event, I
Speaker 1: pull out the Pixel smartphone and I sit it there
Speaker 1: and I can see what the person's saying on stage.
Speaker 1: So if I miss something, I can quickly go back
Speaker 1: to the transcription. It's almost like close capturing in real time,
Speaker 1: and I can see what the person said. So if
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, this is our seventy fourth computer, I said, wait,
Speaker 1: how many did they say?
Speaker 2: They did, oh, seventy four. So it's in real time.
Speaker 1: The other ones Samsung and iOS are not in real time,
Speaker 1: but they can all make a summary with bullet points.
Speaker 1: But you can also do it after the fact with
Speaker 1: any audio recording. So even if you just have a
Speaker 1: recording of audio, maybe your phone doesn't support the AI
Speaker 1: transcriptions just yet, maybe you have an older model, older software.
Speaker 1: You can take any audio recording, toss it into your
Speaker 1: computer and it will transcribe.
Speaker 2: And these are all free.
Speaker 1: So on Mac I like an app called mac Whisper,
Speaker 1: and this is sort of my secret weapon. I take
Speaker 1: all my interviews, I toss them into mac Whisper and
Speaker 1: it transcribes them. Now I will tell you depending on
Speaker 1: how fast your computer is, some transcriptions take longer than others,
Speaker 1: but most of the time it's pretty quick. If you
Speaker 1: have like a pro, like a MacBook Pro, they're going
Speaker 1: to be very very fast. I notice when I switch
Speaker 1: to the standard MacBook Air not as fast for the transcriptions.
Speaker 1: But still it's free and you can choose from the
Speaker 1: models they use. So if you want to use claud,
Speaker 1: you can use that. If you want to use open Ai,
Speaker 1: you can use that. So just you can choose sort
Speaker 1: of the model it uses to transcribe. Now for PC
Speaker 1: there's an app called Vibe Transcribe. So this is an
Speaker 1: open source app, Vibe Transcribe, and you download it for
Speaker 1: your Windows computer. Again, just toss in an audio file
Speaker 1: and this works on Mac as well. Toss in an
Speaker 1: audio file and it will transcribe.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: Tested it today and it worked like a charm. Then
Speaker 1: if you just want something on the web, if you
Speaker 1: don't want to download something, there's a web app called
Speaker 1: Whisper Web and this is machine learning powered speech recognition
Speaker 1: right in your browser, so you can record a file
Speaker 1: right there. You can use a URL, or you can
Speaker 1: drop in an audio file and it will transcribe those
Speaker 1: all for free, by the way, and by the way,
Speaker 1: these transcriptions are very accurate because of AI, but they're
Speaker 1: not always perfect. So if you're looking for perfection, you
Speaker 1: may have to It may take longer for the transcription
Speaker 1: because it has to listen more closely, or it has
Speaker 1: to do a little bit more analyzing, and that's what
Speaker 1: takes longer to make those better transcriptions. But most of
Speaker 1: the time I find that even on the fast setting,
Speaker 1: they're pretty good. Now, once you have that transcription, you
Speaker 1: can take that and toss it into AI and get
Speaker 1: the key takeaways or the main points. Or you can
Speaker 1: even go back and forth and ask about what was
Speaker 1: said in that briefing, that meeting, whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you're recording. So think about almost programming AI. So you
Speaker 1: take what the transcription does, you can toss it into
Speaker 1: something like a chat GBT and then have a back
Speaker 1: and forth like you're literally now talking to chat GPT
Speaker 1: about the conversation or the meeting or whatever you recorded. Hey,
Speaker 1: what did they say about you know, the projections for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six? What are they looking like? And it
Speaker 1: will give you that information. I mean, it's really really
Speaker 1: cool how you.
Speaker 2: Can do this stuff.
Speaker 1: So I always when my kids school sends out like
Speaker 1: their zoom sort of school meeting, I will take that zoom,
Speaker 1: I'll download it, I'll transcribe it, I'll get the key
Speaker 1: points from AI, and then I'll paste that back into
Speaker 1: the school's bulletin board and I'm like, hey, here's this,
Speaker 1: here's the notes, because who wants to sit through two
Speaker 1: hours of a parent meeting that, you know, but if
Speaker 1: you can read the bullet points and see, oh the
Speaker 1: fundraisers coming up, we raise this much money this event
Speaker 1: is happening on this day, it's much more useful. So
Speaker 1: this sort of unlocks more knowledge, more information for everyone.
Speaker 1: Now some other tools that I love, and I've talked
Speaker 1: about these before, but I'll say them again because I
Speaker 1: really really do like these. One of them is called
Speaker 1: voice notes, so voice note voes dot com and this
Speaker 1: is sort of an AI enhanced digital notebook. So you
Speaker 1: can speak or you can type in notes, and then
Speaker 1: it uses AI to search through them. So think about
Speaker 1: this almost as a second brain. So you just say stuff.
Speaker 1: So this morning I was showing my wife. So anytime
Speaker 1: my kid says something silly, I will record it into
Speaker 1: this app and I'll say, oh, my kid Tanner said something.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever he says, you know, I call him
Speaker 1: tannerisms or parkerisms, and so if they say something, so
Speaker 1: I remember it forever. And so what I did this
Speaker 1: morning is I just asked the AI inside Voice Notes,
Speaker 1: I said, tell me all the funny things my kid said,
Speaker 1: and it will give you a little summary throughout all
Speaker 1: of your notes of what your kids said that was funny.
Speaker 1: Me and my wife are just sitting there laughing. Some
Speaker 1: of them you forget, and some of them you remember. Instantly,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. And I love that they
Speaker 1: just added a new feature recently where you don't have
Speaker 1: to record. You can just copy and paste notes into there.
Speaker 1: So if you want to, you know, have a note
Speaker 1: that you whatever it is, a quote that you find
Speaker 1: in a book or whatever you want, you can copy
Speaker 1: and paste into Voice notes and that will go into
Speaker 1: your sort of AI archive, and that's really cool. Whisper memos.
Speaker 1: So this another one. I've talked about this probably so
Speaker 1: many times, but I love this one. This is very similar,
Speaker 1: but you can speak a note and this is iOS
Speaker 1: only you can speak a note and then have it
Speaker 1: email to yourself. So I personally love the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: app version of this because I can be sitting there
Speaker 1: in my car some sort of idea hits me, or
Speaker 1: I'm listening to some sort of program or an audio
Speaker 1: book and they say something interesting and I go, oh,
Speaker 1: let me record that, and I'll record it, it'll get
Speaker 1: transcribed and then email to me. Now, if you want
Speaker 1: a physical solution for all this, I've been testing two
Speaker 1: devices from PLoud Plaud.
Speaker 2: This is sort of an AI note taking device.
Speaker 1: So remember those little micro recorders we used to have
Speaker 1: from radio shack as a kid. Well, well I did,
Speaker 1: I was a nerd. Now they have a digital version.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you this thing looks like a
Speaker 1: thin credit card, it is unbelievable. They did a really
Speaker 1: good job designing this thing. So they have two versions.
Speaker 1: They have plawed note, which looks like a business card.
Speaker 1: It's a digital cause I've almost said cassette recorder, digital recorder.
Speaker 1: Then they have the plowed pin, which I'm wearing on
Speaker 1: my wrist right now. And this you can wear on
Speaker 1: your wrist, you can hang around your neck, you can
Speaker 1: clip it to your shirt. But they both do the
Speaker 1: same thing. They record digitally and then it goes into
Speaker 1: the app and then it can transcribe and summarize what
Speaker 1: it heard. And you get super long battery life thirty
Speaker 1: hours for the note, twenty hours for the pin. Stand
Speaker 1: by time last for a long time. They've got a
Speaker 1: little way to attach the note to the back of
Speaker 1: your phone to record phone calls. Of course, I'm no lawyer.
Speaker 1: Check your local laws before you do that, make sure
Speaker 1: the other party is informed. And then you get a
Speaker 1: free plan. So when you buy this thing, you get
Speaker 1: about three hundred minutes of transcription a month. That's five hours.
Speaker 1: They cost about one hundred and sixty or one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy dollars, and my initial impressions are that they
Speaker 1: work really well, and it's great if you're always in meetings,
Speaker 1: always doing interviews, and you don't want to tie up
Speaker 1: your phone because you might be thinking, rich, didn't you
Speaker 1: just say I can record with my phone. Yes, I
Speaker 1: think the idea behind these dedicated recorders is if you're
Speaker 1: always out and about and you don't want to tie
Speaker 1: up your phone because maybe you want to take pictures,
Speaker 1: maybe you want to do something else in your phone,
Speaker 1: scroll social media, or you just don't want it used
Speaker 1: up the whole time you're out. So again, these are
Speaker 1: called PLoud and it's just it's such a cool spin
Speaker 1: on like what you can do what we did as
Speaker 1: kids with that little recorder, that micro cassette recorder you
Speaker 1: now have in a digital format that, by the way,
Speaker 1: just looks really cool. And by the way, while we're
Speaker 1: on the topic of voice to text, I told you
Speaker 1: earlier my favorite voice to text app on Mac has
Speaker 1: made its way to Windows. It is called whisper Flow
Speaker 1: wispr flow, and I haven't like talked this up so
Speaker 1: much because it was only on Mac. But now it
Speaker 1: is on Windows and it is incredible. So you set
Speaker 1: a hot key once you download install it, you set
Speaker 1: a hot key on your keyboard. You press and hold
Speaker 1: that hot key like a walkie talkie. You talk into
Speaker 1: your microphone and your canter, and what you say is
Speaker 1: expertly transcribed and pasted wherever you are, So if you're
Speaker 1: in a word document, you're in chat, GBT, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: This is my secret weapon for getting emails responded too fast.
Speaker 1: And because it uses AI, it understands what you're saying,
Speaker 1: so if you stumble, you ramble, it'll clean it up.
Speaker 1: It gets paragraphs and punctuation right, and you get a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of words for free every month. I haven't
Speaker 1: even reached a free limit, but if you do more
Speaker 1: than that, you can pay again. That's whisper flow, all right.
Speaker 1: I'll link all this up on the website. Rich on
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Speaker 2: It's go to Dave in the Long Beach.
Speaker 4: Dave, you're on with rich Oh hi and thanks for
Speaker 4: taking my call. Okay, I've had a cuts I've downloaded
Speaker 4: through iTunes for years. Well some years ago I wanted
Speaker 4: to rearrange them. I go into my library and it's empty.
Speaker 4: I call tech Services and they tell me they're gone.
Speaker 4: I'll say anything I can do, and they say, well,
Speaker 4: can you prove you actually bought these cuts? Well they've
Speaker 4: been there for years.
Speaker 5: So no way.
Speaker 2: Who asked you to prove you bought them?
Speaker 4: Customer service through iTunes?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, keep going anyway?
Speaker 4: Is there some place I can go that these cuts
Speaker 4: may have gone.
Speaker 1: To Well, when you say cuts, what do you mean
Speaker 1: by that you had? You had your own music?
Speaker 4: No, okay, you know you download individual songs from iTunes
Speaker 4: and you you know, burn into uh you know, CD,
Speaker 4: play them in the car.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1: So you're saying you're looking for your music that you
Speaker 1: previously purchased from iTunes.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay.
Speaker 1: So so the number one thing is, so why did
Speaker 1: these disappear?
Speaker 2: Number one?
Speaker 4: Nobody seems to be able to tell me.
Speaker 2: Mmmm, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there is a way did you look in
Speaker 1: the Are you using iTunes or Apple Music?
Speaker 4: Uh? These were originally iTunes.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there's a there's an option in iTunes or
Speaker 1: Apple Music to look You're going to account and it
Speaker 1: says purchased.
Speaker 2: Have you Have you looked there?
Speaker 4: Yep?
Speaker 2: And they're not there?
Speaker 4: Blank.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's weird because so is mine. I don't understand, Like,
Speaker 1: I've purchased a whole bunch of songs over the years
Speaker 1: and all mine are gone too, So I don't know
Speaker 1: what what exactly happened to those. Maybe it was under
Speaker 1: a different account, but yeah, like it's they're just not there.
Speaker 1: You didn't have a backup of your computer backup of
Speaker 1: this library anywhere.
Speaker 4: No, they've basically the backups are going to be the
Speaker 4: cuts that are burned to CDs.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, do you still have them on CD?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I do.
Speaker 1: Oh well you can import those back into iTunes.
Speaker 2: How about that?
Speaker 4: Okay, I can import those back into iTunes. Now when
Speaker 4: I burn them, you know, load them to the computer. Uh,
Speaker 4: it just says, you know, I don't get anything that says,
Speaker 4: you know, like the song and the artist.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well there is a setting inside your your well
Speaker 1: it depends how they are encoded on the CD.
Speaker 2: Were they encoded with that information should have been?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So if it has an information, there
Speaker 1: is a setting inside Apple Music that says to look
Speaker 1: up the information when you put in. So if you
Speaker 1: look at the uh, let's see, it's under files and
Speaker 1: it says import music, import settings. So I would make
Speaker 1: sure you you know, you can do that import the
Speaker 1: audio through that.
Speaker 2: And I just did this recently.
Speaker 1: So the only, of course requirement is that you have
Speaker 1: to have a CD player or DVD player, which you
Speaker 1: know a lot of computers nowadays don't, but if you
Speaker 1: have an older model it does. But the first time
Speaker 1: that you do this. It should ask you, hey, do
Speaker 1: you want us to look up this information and get
Speaker 1: the audio you know, the listings for these songs from
Speaker 1: the internet, and so you'd have to say yes to that.
Speaker 1: But once you do that, you can just import these CDs.
Speaker 1: You basically put them in your computer. You go into
Speaker 1: iTunes and it or Apple Music and it should show
Speaker 1: up on the left hand side in the library. You
Speaker 1: just write clicks a import and it it should look
Speaker 1: up those songs as it imports them. So that's the
Speaker 1: way I would do it. I just recently did this
Speaker 1: the other day. It does still work. It's not as
Speaker 1: heavily advertised as it used to be because people just
Speaker 1: don't really do this as much anymore. But yes, you
Speaker 1: can still use Apple Music to import these CDs. So
Speaker 1: that's what I would do. But in the future, once
Speaker 1: you do this, I would make a backup of your
Speaker 1: iTunes music collection, so you can look on your Mac.
Speaker 1: It's usually under music and then iTunes or under Windows
Speaker 1: under same thing music iTunes, but it usually has your
Speaker 1: username before that, so just navigate to find that library
Speaker 1: and back up that library so you have these songs
Speaker 1: in the future. Now, of course, we know that these
Speaker 1: companies want us to do everything in the cloud, and
Speaker 1: that's what they're pushing us towards. So they're not making
Speaker 1: this easy anymore. They're not really putting these tools front
Speaker 1: and center because they want people to just subscribe to
Speaker 1: Apple Music, just subscribe to Spotify, just subscribe to whatever
Speaker 1: music service and pay ten to twelve dollars a month
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life for access to the
Speaker 1: same couple songs that you play every time. So that's
Speaker 1: unfortunately what I do and a lot of people do.
Speaker 1: But you can still import dcds, all right. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the call, Dave, appreciate it. You know, just in general,
Speaker 1: I get a lot of emails every week about things
Speaker 1: that go missing. Please back up your computer, back up
Speaker 1: the important files. Just make sure, no matter what it is,
Speaker 1: your documents, your photos, your music, back those up to
Speaker 1: the cloud, back them up to an external hard drive.
Speaker 1: You'll be happy you did it later. Eighty eight rich
Speaker 1: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The
Speaker 1: phone number eight eight eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four.
Speaker 2: To two four one zero one give me a call.
Speaker 1: If you have a question about technology, lines are open.
Speaker 1: Email is also an option. Just go to Rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV hit contact. That's exactly what Ray did.
Speaker 1: Ray says, Hey, Rich, I hope you're doing well. I
Speaker 1: wanted to see if you heard any updates about the
Speaker 1: Google chrome Cast bug that was messing things up this week.
Speaker 1: I'm one of the many who did a factory reset,
Speaker 1: and apparently it was not the right thing to do. Ooh, Ray, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: this is a great segue into something I was going
Speaker 1: to talk about. So chrome Cast this week had a
Speaker 1: major issue. Chrome Cast second generation and chrome Cast Audio
Speaker 1: users had a major outage. Now, given these are very
Speaker 1: old devices, chrome Cast Audio and the chrome Cast second
Speaker 1: generation have been around for a very long time, but
Speaker 1: they still work, and you know, they're very popular. Chrome
Speaker 1: Cast was like the way to get things to your
Speaker 1: TV or audio for a very long time. Now we
Speaker 1: just call it casting. It's built into a lot of things.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they displayed this message, I said, outdated device firmware,
Speaker 1: and they became unusable. And so a lot of people
Speaker 1: like Ray said, they performed these factory resets, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, made the issue worse. Now, if you're a
Speaker 1: tech person and something goes wrong and you keep getting
Speaker 1: an error message, you might think, oh, let me just
Speaker 1: reset this and see if that's going to help. Well,
Speaker 1: that actually messed up the device. So Google told people
Speaker 1: do not factory reset, but so many people did that already.
Speaker 1: So now Google says they do have a cause of
Speaker 1: the problem and they are working on a fix. They
Speaker 1: have not provided a timeline for the fix, but they
Speaker 1: say please do not factory reset. So if your Chrome
Speaker 1: Cast is not working, you've got one of these older
Speaker 1: Chrome Cast devices and it's giving you some sort of error,
Speaker 1: do not factory reset it. Just wait because Google says
Speaker 1: it's going to make reset up very, very difficult. But
Speaker 1: it does sound like they will have a fix. So
Speaker 1: ray if you did reset it, you did that factory reset,
Speaker 1: that they should come out with some sort of factory
Speaker 1: software or new software that's gonna help. Now people are
Speaker 1: finding these little workarounds on Reddit. I can't recommend you
Speaker 1: do that unless you are super techy. But it is
Speaker 1: a software issue, not a hardware issue. So these things
Speaker 1: happen from time to time, and it's frustrating, especially with me,
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm the kind of person that's always
Speaker 1: doing like the software update immediately, and you know, you
Speaker 1: run into some issue, you look online like, hey are
Speaker 1: other people having this problem? But it's usually the people
Speaker 1: like me that are doing it first. And you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes these things don't happen longer because the companies figure
Speaker 1: it out. And I'm kind of beating around the bush,
Speaker 1: but this happened to me once where whenever the Apple
Speaker 1: came out with new software for the iPhone, I would
Speaker 1: literally press that refresh like a million times until it
Speaker 1: came my way. And one time I did that, I
Speaker 1: put install the software. Unbeknownst to me, it had a bug,
Speaker 1: but it rendered my phone useless. Now, this was many,
Speaker 1: many years ago, so I'm not saying that this happens
Speaker 1: a lot anymore, but it could, and so my phone
Speaker 1: had no cellular connection for I think twenty four hours
Speaker 1: before they came out with a fix. And so, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was frustrating. Let's go to now. I wait a
Speaker 1: little bit. Now, I wait a little bit. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Gary, Gary in Los Angeles around with Rich.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 7: Rich, I have a question. I've been having trouble lately
Speaker 7: when I'm trying to watch YouTube live stream through my
Speaker 7: Roku streaming stick, and I'm getting that spinning wheel and
Speaker 7: I'm like the picture freezes up. And I think I
Speaker 7: have a pretty fast Internet with a spectrum of spectrum
Speaker 7: four hundred. But I think maybe I have an older
Speaker 7: Wi Fi rounder it's over six years old. I was
Speaker 7: wondering if maybe that's contributing to this slow speed.
Speaker 1: It could be, But let's number one, you have very
Speaker 1: fast Internet. Four hundred is extremely fast. Don't forget cable
Speaker 1: internet as like you have. Typically the download speed is
Speaker 1: very fast. The upload speed is the slow part. So
Speaker 1: your download speed is great.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: By the way, YouTube does not need a lot of
Speaker 1: bandwidth to to you know, stream videos. I mean part
Speaker 1: of the magic of YouTube and Netflix. They're the pioneers
Speaker 1: in streaming and so they have figured out how can
Speaker 1: we stream this stuff in a clear way, even on
Speaker 1: the worst possible signal. So I don't think that it
Speaker 1: is your internet service. It could be a combination. How
Speaker 1: old is this Roco.
Speaker 7: My rocoustick is four and a half years.
Speaker 1: Old, Okay, So I have a feeling it's either the
Speaker 1: combination of the rocoustick and the.
Speaker 2: Wi Fi router, but a six year old WiFi router.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, things have changed in that time, but
Speaker 1: it really comes down to the placement of this router.
Speaker 1: Does anything else buffer on your Roku stick?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: Basically it's only what's on YouTube, because like I'll open
Speaker 7: up Roku and then I'll and I'll click on the
Speaker 7: you you YouTube a and uh sometimes it will give
Speaker 7: you'll see screen shots of all the YouTube channels. And
Speaker 7: there's been times where the screen shots are very slow,
Speaker 7: too low, and I'll just see like boxes.
Speaker 2: Well have you tried restarting the Roku?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you tried restarting that? What about that?
Speaker 4: Ye?
Speaker 5: Fine?
Speaker 7: On Roku you can check the connection and it says
Speaker 7: signal strength excellent, and it says download speed anywhere. I've
Speaker 7: seen anywhere from ninety one oh yeah to one oh two.
Speaker 7: Is that fast enough?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah?
Speaker 1: That I mean we're talking. Netflix recommends twenty five down
Speaker 1: for four K video, so you're talking ninety is four
Speaker 1: times that. So yes, your your speed is completely fine.
Speaker 1: So I think it has to do with the app
Speaker 1: or the rokup. So have you updated this YouTube app
Speaker 1: or the operating system on the Roku lately?
Speaker 7: Well, what I did was I uninstalled the YouTube appened, then.
Speaker 5: Reinstalled it and it still happened, and it still.
Speaker 7: Happens in the rokup. I went into the sheddings and
Speaker 7: see if if there was an update, and it says
Speaker 7: that it is up to date.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's good. That's all good.
Speaker 1: So the final thing I'm seeing that you might be
Speaker 1: able to do is what's called clearing the cash on your.
Speaker 2: Roku.
Speaker 1: So some users, I don't know if this is a
Speaker 1: published thing for Roku or people just found a hack,
Speaker 1: but this what I'm seeing online says you can press
Speaker 1: the home button five times followed by the up button once.
Speaker 2: I don't know, this sounds silly.
Speaker 1: I'm reading this sounds like that abba thing we used
Speaker 1: to do back in the day on Nintendo.
Speaker 2: But here's what it says.
Speaker 1: It says clear the cash by pressing the home button
Speaker 1: five times, followed by the up button once, the rewind
Speaker 1: button twice, and the fast forward button twice.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's sounding like a scam if you ask me. But
Speaker 1: if I were you, I try it because you know
Speaker 1: that may be your last resort. So I'm trying to
Speaker 1: see it says. See, this is getting interesting. This is
Speaker 1: saying it's weird because it's it's coming from some reputable
Speaker 1: places like yeah, it's saying that it's you can do this.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would try that and see if that works. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I would try and see that's your last
Speaker 1: kind of thing I would say if nothing else, is
Speaker 1: what I would do again. Okay, so I try this
Speaker 1: weird clear the cash thing. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: gonna work, but you can try it. So it's home
Speaker 1: button five times, up, arrow once, rewind twice, fast forward
Speaker 1: two times.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can try that.
Speaker 1: The other thing I would try to do is uninstall
Speaker 1: the YouTube app, restart the Roku, and then reinstall the
Speaker 1: YouTube app and see if that helps. And the other
Speaker 1: thing you might be able to do if your Roku
Speaker 1: is running low on storage, I might check the storage
Speaker 1: on your Roku and if there's like an app or
Speaker 1: two you don't need on there, I might get rid
Speaker 1: of those apps and then restart it as well, because
Speaker 1: it sounds like there's something going on here where it
Speaker 1: just can't handle the YouTube situation. But keep me posted there, Gary,
Speaker 1: that is a frustrating issue, But I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think your WiFi is the problem. You don't need
Speaker 1: a new Wi Fi router after six years. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can easily keep these things for a long time.
Speaker 1: And again you told me your speed was ninety, so
Speaker 1: I think your your speed to the roku is is
Speaker 1: just fine. I'll put that link by the way, that
Speaker 1: weird hack on the show notes Richontech dot TV. This
Speaker 1: is episode one thirteen. You can find the show notes
Speaker 1: there all right, eight eight eight rich one O one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Coming up, I'm gonna tell you why the smart watch
Speaker 1: market has hit a snag for the first time ever.
Speaker 1: We'll dive into some of those numbers and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the bright spot in all this right here on
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. We have a special
Speaker 1: guest on the line, our very own Kim Shaffer.
Speaker 2: Kim is it you?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, after two years, I finally get to
Speaker 6: talk to you.
Speaker 1: You're here. Oh my gosh, where's the applause? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. So what's it like to answer
Speaker 1: calls for the rich On Tech Radio show.
Speaker 6: It's awesome, But I like, I've only been communicating to
Speaker 6: you through text and now this is like so interactive,
Speaker 6: and we could have done this two years ago, but
Speaker 6: we never thought of it until recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I just thought of this last week.
Speaker 1: I said, Hey, we should try to get you on
Speaker 1: here because you may not know, but we fully embraced
Speaker 1: the remote lifestyle. And so Kim is in a different location.
Speaker 1: Bobo is somewhere in a foreign country. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: He's right across the gate.
Speaker 2: Right in front of me.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 1: Actually, we're on the border of California and Nevada.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 8: Exotic Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, totally exotic location. No, he's there. And do
Speaker 1: you have anyone else on the team that's in a
Speaker 1: different place?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: I think this is it. This is the whole show,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: So do we have a caller we can bring up Kim?
Speaker 6: Yes, So we have Larry in San Pedro, which down
Speaker 6: up here up here where I am, we call San Pedro.
Speaker 10: But that would be totally wrong for.
Speaker 6: Me to do so in San Pedro he has a
Speaker 6: call or he wants to know about Is it secure
Speaker 6: to type in your credit card numbers into a smartphone?
Speaker 1: M I guess it depends on the situation. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's bring up Larry in uh San Pedro. Is
Speaker 1: that how you say it?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: Sure, okay, welcome to the show. I should know how
Speaker 1: to say that because I live near it. Kim does not, uh,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. So you have a problem with
Speaker 1: your credit card number punching into a phone?
Speaker 2: What's the deal?
Speaker 5: Well, when I use my landline, uncomfortable typing in my
Speaker 5: credit card to get to my Chase Bank account. But
Speaker 5: I just I'm a new smartphone user. I just recently
Speaker 5: bought a motor Rota Motive G and I'm wondering how
Speaker 5: safe it is to check my account using this smartphone
Speaker 5: and punching that credit card number in.
Speaker 1: Well, generally speaking, there is a potential for someone to
Speaker 1: be listening in mostly the government, to your cell phone.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's going to happen. I don't
Speaker 1: think that. I think you're safe. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: I think you're safe. So it's an interesting thought, and
Speaker 1: I think The bigger issue is whether you're typing your
Speaker 1: number into a an unknown phone number. Right, if you
Speaker 1: are calling Chase Bank and you know it's Chase Bank,
Speaker 1: I think you're relatively safe. The other side of this
Speaker 1: is this your debit card or your credit card.
Speaker 2: It's debit Oh okay, so debit card. Now. See here's
Speaker 2: my thing.
Speaker 1: With debit cards, I'm usually a little bit more protective
Speaker 1: because that is actual your money.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: Credit card, it's the bank's money until they want to
Speaker 1: collect it from you, and if there's an issue they
Speaker 1: you know, you can just say, hey, look, i'm disputing this.
Speaker 1: With a debit card, yes there are protections, but still
Speaker 1: that money comes out of your account initially first. So
Speaker 1: I am always much more cautious when it comes to
Speaker 1: my debit card number than my credit card number. So
Speaker 1: I do think that it's it's smart to be cautious,
Speaker 1: especially with this card number. But I think you're going
Speaker 1: to be okay typing in that number. You know, if
Speaker 1: someone was listening on the line, I mean theoretically they
Speaker 1: could probably figure out what touch tones that you're using.
Speaker 1: But I think this is why banks are getting much
Speaker 1: more into automated ways of identifying you and using voice
Speaker 1: and all that stuff to identify who you are and
Speaker 1: to authenticate the call. But I think in general you're okay.
Speaker 1: This has been going on for a very long time,
Speaker 1: and I don't hear of many stories of people being
Speaker 1: hacked this way, so I think you're safe. The other
Speaker 1: thing is, what about downloading the bank app to your
Speaker 1: phone to check for the balance?
Speaker 2: Would you be open to that.
Speaker 5: I will all look into that because.
Speaker 2: That would be you know, you would number one.
Speaker 1: It would be simpler because you know, once you store
Speaker 1: the login on your phone. You know, as long as
Speaker 1: your phone is pass code protected and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: you got to be secure. But you know, I've been
Speaker 1: accessing my accounts online for a long time. It's been
Speaker 1: it's been quite safe. In fact, I was doing this
Speaker 1: a long time before it became popular to do that,
Speaker 1: and nowadays it's very popular. People check their balances before
Speaker 1: they make a purchase. They just check on them every
Speaker 1: day just to see what's going on in there. So
Speaker 1: but I think you're safe at the end of the day, Larry,
Speaker 1: I think you're safe putting your credit card number into
Speaker 1: the smartphone, you know, punching it in to authenticate the
Speaker 1: account as long as you are dialing that number. If
Speaker 1: it's someone that calls you and says, hey, we want
Speaker 1: to tell your bank account balance, just type in your number.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that, but you're not gonna do that anyway, right, correct?
Speaker 1: How you like in the new phone? Is it okay
Speaker 1: for you? Is this your first smartphone?
Speaker 9: You said, yes it is.
Speaker 5: Oh, wow, it's I guess to sum it all up,
Speaker 5: it's a very smart phone. Well I'm impressed.
Speaker 1: Well, welcome to the year twenty twenty four or what
Speaker 1: do we in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 2: I don't even know the year.
Speaker 1: Well what do I know? But no, Yeah, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you got on board with the phone. I'm glad it's
Speaker 1: working out for you, Larry, And thanks for the call today.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. Eight eight eight rich one on
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Oh my gosh, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: year it is. How can you trust a guy that
Speaker 1: doesn't know what year it is?
Speaker 2: Especially on a tech show?
Speaker 1: On a tech show, here's the thing. I mean, some
Speaker 1: days I don't even know what date is. Like I
Speaker 1: go through the whole day and I like look at
Speaker 1: my or my watch at the end of the day
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, today's this day.
Speaker 2: I even Kim, this is what I go to every Saturday. Kim,
Speaker 2: do you know what day it is?
Speaker 1: Every single day?
Speaker 2: I do not, thank you.
Speaker 1: See, oh well why do you Why do you know
Speaker 1: what day it is every day?
Speaker 2: Because I work every day.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's why I don't know what day it
Speaker 6: is every day. Saturday is my benchmark.
Speaker 2: Saturday.
Speaker 1: You know when it's Saturday because you're doing the rich
Speaker 1: On Tech radio show.
Speaker 2: I will tell you.
Speaker 1: I do know what day of the week it is
Speaker 1: every single day of my life because that is very
Speaker 1: important to what I do, both on TV and the radio.
Speaker 2: So I do know what day.
Speaker 1: I may not know the actual date, so I do
Speaker 1: know that you know, Saint Patrick's Day is coming up
Speaker 1: in a couple of days, so I will say Monday, Monday, Yes,
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: So that's the seventeenth.
Speaker 1: So see, I'm wearing there's always a day. There's always
Speaker 1: a day. This has become a party line. What is
Speaker 1: happening here? Now we have the rich On Tech party
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Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, well, oh, let.
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Speaker 1: The website for the show show rich on Tech dot TV. Man,
Speaker 1: you mentioned a phone number on the radio one time,
Speaker 1: and it's like boom, the lines light up. So I've
Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of things I want to talk
Speaker 1: about but I also have a lot of callers, so
Speaker 1: I'll do one quick story then I'll get to a call.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 1: I've been promising the smart watch market story for a while.
Speaker 1: Global smart watch market declined by seven percent last year.
Speaker 1: This is, according to Counterpoint Research, the first ever decline.
Speaker 1: So that means people were buying smartphones for years, ten years,
Speaker 1: and now last year they stopped. So Apple is still
Speaker 1: the top seller, but their shipments were down nineteen percent
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: Now I think I know why.
Speaker 1: Remember that big patent dispute on the Apple Watch about
Speaker 1: the blood oxygen monitoring. I think that scared a lot
Speaker 1: of people away last year because they saw the watches
Speaker 1: not being full featured, so they just or they took
Speaker 1: a wait and see approach. So that's probably what happened.
Speaker 1: There other things that happened, apparently no Apple Watch Old
Speaker 1: Time for three that didn't come out last year. People
Speaker 1: saw the S ten series as having minimal upgrades, which
Speaker 1: I disagree with because I've been wearing the S ten
Speaker 1: and it's thinner, the screen is brighter, you can see
Speaker 1: it for more angles. I thought it was actually a
Speaker 1: great upgrade, and I guess less people are buying the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch se which is sort of their entry level,
Speaker 1: which tells me that a lot of people had that watch.
Speaker 1: You know, this market's getting saturated. People that have a
Speaker 1: smart watch or that want a smart watch have.
Speaker 2: A smart watch.
Speaker 1: But the one bright spot kids smart watches, Yes, that
Speaker 1: is a segment that saw growth because of course parents
Speaker 1: want to track their little ones and see where they are,
Speaker 1: and they are handy. I know it's a tracker, but
Speaker 1: to be honest, most of the time we use it
Speaker 1: just to get in touch with our kids, and it
Speaker 1: is very handy. So I think it's a good middle
Speaker 1: ground between you know, having that smartphone and having nothing.
Speaker 1: Let's go to let's go to act actor in Santa Barbara,
Speaker 1: Am I saying that right?
Speaker 2: Actor? Yes, sir, all right, I'm glad.
Speaker 3: I got to thank you for taking my call. So
Speaker 3: so long, long story short on my printers having to
Speaker 3: be batty. This is an XP seventy one hundred Epstein
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden on a random basis didn't
Speaker 3: used to happen, but see happening increasingly more and more.
Speaker 3: It will come on and it'll spit out gibberish like
Speaker 3: eight pages of mostly blank page in one ward on top,
Speaker 3: maybe blank page with short paragraph of gibberish on top.
Speaker 3: And once that happens, you can't print anything. Gone through
Speaker 3: all of you know, the philistine efforts called clean boats,
Speaker 3: turn it off, pull the plug, counter ten, plug it
Speaker 3: back and all that stuff. And what's happening anything?
Speaker 2: How old is this printer?
Speaker 3: Three years?
Speaker 1: Three years old? Okay, so it's relatively new. And was
Speaker 1: there something By the way, we don't do printer questions
Speaker 1: on this show. Oh sorry, yeah, but I'll answer this
Speaker 1: one just as a freebie, because here's the here's what
Speaker 1: I've realized actor in the in the fifteen years of
Speaker 1: talking about technology on TV, there's never been a solution
Speaker 1: to a printer problem ever, not once. There has never
Speaker 1: been a printer that has been solved. Literally, people will
Speaker 1: take their printer before they solve the problem, put it
Speaker 1: in the trash can. That's the only way you can
Speaker 1: solve a printer issue problem. But I will solve this one.
Speaker 1: We will try. Okay, So it's printing out gibberish, which
Speaker 1: is quite interesting. You said you've done all the main things,
Speaker 1: which is turning off the printer, turning off your computer,
Speaker 1: turning off the router restarting all of those things after
Speaker 1: a few minutes. Okay, So the order you want to
Speaker 1: turn them back on determines whether you may have some
Speaker 1: other conflicts. So turn off your printer, turn off the computer,
Speaker 1: turn off the router, turn back on the router, turn
Speaker 1: back on the computer, then turn back on the printer
Speaker 1: in that order. Okay, so you're going to reverse order.
Speaker 1: See if that helps. If it doesn't, you know, you
Speaker 1: can try a new cable, but that's probably not the problem.
Speaker 1: The other thing that maybe the culprit here is something called,
Speaker 1: and I'm just doing some research online here, the print spooler.
Speaker 1: This is a section of Windows that sort of basically
Speaker 1: is the intermediary between your computer and the printer. So
Speaker 1: it's getting its instructions from this print spooler. And maybe
Speaker 1: there's an issue with the print spooler, and so you
Speaker 1: can go in. This gets a little complicated, but I
Speaker 1: was able to do it very quickly on my computer.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 1: If you just type services into the Windows taskbar, Okay, services,
Speaker 1: you bring that up, and that'll bring up this window
Speaker 1: with all kinds of things that are going on your
Speaker 1: Windows computer. Scroll down to where you see print spooler, okay,
Speaker 1: And when you do that, you can tap restart the service.
Speaker 1: And so if you turn off that service, you won't
Speaker 1: be able to use the printer at all. But if
Speaker 1: you press restart, that should just restart the print spooler service,
Speaker 1: says Windows is a tempting to start the following services.
Speaker 2: So it restarted, so that.
Speaker 1: May clear out any sort of issues that are going
Speaker 1: on with the print spooler and see if that helps.
Speaker 1: If not, I would just check for you know, I
Speaker 1: would uninstall. I think you've said you did all this stuff,
Speaker 1: but you know, uninstalled the printer driver, reinstall it, and
Speaker 1: then if worse comes to worse and you really have
Speaker 1: to do this, just take the printer, lift it up
Speaker 1: and throw it out and then just buy a new one.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing. The printers are so cheap now.
Speaker 1: It's like the printers on my Best Buy the printer's
Speaker 1: fifty bucks, and it's like, oh wow, this printer's fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: And when you go to buy ink, the ink's like
Speaker 1: seventy five bucks. You're like, wait a second, what kind
Speaker 1: of business are these printer companies running. I'm on that
Speaker 1: like instant ink thing. Where I pay for the ink
Speaker 1: every month, but it's like on a page basis, So
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, when I print too many pages,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we just charge you, like an extra
Speaker 1: three dollars for that. I'm like, what, Like it's like
Speaker 1: you get. I think I get one hundred pages a
Speaker 1: month that I can print anyway. I hope that works
Speaker 1: for you, ictor please keep me posted on the on
Speaker 1: the website, send me email Rich on tech dot tv,
Speaker 1: hit contact and let me know there. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: We got an email from Tony in Pasadena. He said, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I heard the call about the iTunes purchases that are gone.
Speaker 1: I looked at Apple Music, I couldn't find anything about purchases.
Speaker 1: I did check the iTunes Store app and found everything
Speaker 1: I've purchased under purchases there. I do see family members
Speaker 1: there as well. All right, so there's your purchases. You
Speaker 1: can re download them from there. Let's see here. Gram
Speaker 1: Grame writes in from San Diego, Rich, I need a
Speaker 1: new iPhone. I have the iPhone seven plus, never had
Speaker 1: any problems, but it's not supported anymore. A lot of
Speaker 1: apps need updates, but they won't update. Just usually use
Speaker 1: it for calls, text, email, browsing. I'm intrigued by the
Speaker 1: sixteen E. I'm also thinking of moving a Mint Mobile.
Speaker 1: Opinions comments, two questions. Thanks Oh Graham, Oh he wrote
Speaker 1: it wrong at the top, Graham Graham, Yes one percent.
Speaker 1: Don't even think about it. Get the sixteen E excellent
Speaker 1: phone for what you need. Sounds like you just need
Speaker 1: the basics. The sixteen E is six hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: it'll give you everything you need, all of the latest features.
Speaker 1: They're the basic versions of the features. But you get
Speaker 1: a good camera, get a good processor, you get a
Speaker 1: decent amount of storage, and I don't think there's anything
Speaker 1: missing on here that you'll need Mint Mobile. As I
Speaker 1: was running this morning, I was thinking how much I
Speaker 1: like Mint Mobile. So yes, absolutely move to mint Mobile.
Speaker 1: I mean fifteen bucks a month for their cheap plan,
Speaker 1: thirty dollars a month unlimited and sometimes Mint Mobile. Because
Speaker 1: now they're owned by T Mobile, we'll actually have deals
Speaker 1: with smartphones. So some of the some of the phones
Speaker 1: that they sell on there. Let's see if they have
Speaker 1: this sixteen I don't know if they do. Let's say
Speaker 1: sixteen E. Do they sell it? Yes, they do, so Okay,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. So they sell price seven seventy nine with
Speaker 1: a year of unlimited included. So let's just do the
Speaker 1: math there. So thirty times twelve is three sixty, so
Speaker 1: and the phone is six hundred plus sixty three sixty.
Speaker 1: That's nine to sixty. Okay, so you are actually saving
Speaker 1: almost two hundred dollars there by by buying the phone
Speaker 1: through them and paying in advance for the year. But
Speaker 1: I would personally just buy the phone out right at
Speaker 1: the Apple store and just then go to Mint Mobile,
Speaker 1: and I'd pay for the full year in advance. By
Speaker 1: the way, if you can. You know, this is all
Speaker 1: thinking that you can do that. But I would do
Speaker 1: the twelve months up front because that's how you save
Speaker 1: the most with mint Mobile, and right now, if you
Speaker 1: do that, you're only paying twenty five dollars a month
Speaker 1: instead of thirty if you pay for the full month.
Speaker 1: My mom's on mint Mobile. She loves it. I have
Speaker 1: Mint Mobile as my test line. I love it. They
Speaker 1: I think they do a great job. I know they're
Speaker 1: owned by the big wireless now and their whole thing
Speaker 1: was like they were not the big guys, But I
Speaker 1: think that they do a really good job on keeping
Speaker 1: their plans simple and easy, and the service works. It's
Speaker 1: on T Mobile, and I think that it's just the
Speaker 1: way they run things. I like it keeps it simple
Speaker 1: and understandable. And so for that reason, Graham, I would say,
Speaker 1: go ahead and get the sixteen E, get the mint
Speaker 1: Mobile plan. And you don't have to think about a
Speaker 1: payment for a year when you do that. So that's
Speaker 1: a great way to do it. Did you hear that
Speaker 1: Pokemon Go is being sold. Pokemon Go is going to
Speaker 1: Scopely three point five billion dollars. This company's buying Pokemon
Speaker 1: Go for They're buying a bunch of other properties from
Speaker 1: Nyantick as well. Scopely is owned by the Saudi Arabian
Speaker 1: Sovereign Wealth Fund. They also invest in things like Lucid Motors,
Speaker 1: Live Golf, and Uber. Basically, you know, Saudi Arabia is
Speaker 1: trying to reduce its dependency on oil, and video games
Speaker 1: are a big part of that. They're trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: just put their investments in other places. And so, as
Speaker 1: far as I can tell, it doesn't look like pokemon
Speaker 1: Go is going to change.
Speaker 2: It just has new owners.
Speaker 1: So if you're worried about the change to scope leae,
Speaker 1: I would check when you download the app or you
Speaker 1: know you continue using the app once they take over.
Speaker 1: Just be on the lookout for any sort of changes
Speaker 1: in the terms and conditions, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: your personal information, your privacy information, because new companies will
Speaker 1: try to slip in some new terms that may take advantage,
Speaker 1: so just be careful there. But scope Lely is known
Speaker 1: for their big game called Monopoly Go. And by the way,
Speaker 1: Pokemon Go had like hundreds of millions of players when
Speaker 1: it launched in twenty sixteen. Now it's down to about
Speaker 1: twenty million, but still very popular. Eighty eight rich one
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Speaker 4: I'm Rich.
Speaker 12: Thank you for taking my call. So it's time to
Speaker 12: replace my PC, probably maybe ten years old at this point,
Speaker 12: the traditional PC tower and monitor, and I'd like to
Speaker 12: try and eliminate some desk clutter. And I'm contemplating in
Speaker 12: all in one. Yeah, can you give me the pros
Speaker 12: and cons of an all in one and maybe get
Speaker 12: some model recommendations. I've always been a HP.
Speaker 1: Yeah, HP is great. So here's the deal. All in
Speaker 1: one PC is basically like you said, it's less clutter.
Speaker 1: It's easy. It's all in one, so there's you know,
Speaker 1: it's space saving. The big downside to them is that
Speaker 1: they are not traditionally upgradeable in a big way. So
Speaker 1: if you need to, you know, upgrade something later on,
Speaker 1: you're probably not gonna be able to do that. So
Speaker 1: that's the big downside the tower PCs. If you're looking
Speaker 1: at like a you know, big old tower PC, obviously
Speaker 1: those are built with power in mind, expandability in mind,
Speaker 1: and you can connect all the peripherals that you want
Speaker 1: to connect, so you can choose the monitor, you can
Speaker 1: choose the keyboard, you can choose the mouse. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could do that with a standard all in one,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna it's all gonna come in the box.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna want to buy new ones. So those
Speaker 1: are the two main reasons for each. I think it
Speaker 1: kind of depends what you're doing too. Are you a
Speaker 1: big gamer? You're doing a lot of gaming on this PC?
Speaker 12: No, you know, I'm proaching sixty five, just banking, shopping,
Speaker 12: social media research, Okay, I've never had to upgrade anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you'll be fine with the all in
Speaker 1: one because I think it's gonna be simpler. You're trying
Speaker 1: to get the You mentioned the word clutter, and so
Speaker 1: that is the biggest benefit is less cables all over
Speaker 1: the place. And so are you thinking MAC or PC?
Speaker 1: You said HP, huh PC?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I typically recommend if you go to Costco. If
Speaker 1: you do you have a Costco membership or no? Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: oh oh. I like the way you said that you're
Speaker 1: a Costco fan. Huh okay, me too. So they typically
Speaker 1: in their electronics section have one to two all in ones,
Speaker 1: and I look at them every time I go there
Speaker 1: to just confirm this. But they are always an excellent
Speaker 1: deal and you choose one of those and you're basically
Speaker 1: getting maybe one hundred dollars more versus the price tag
Speaker 1: of what you get at another store that's not a
Speaker 1: membership based store. So I would say go to Costco
Speaker 1: if they have one, grab it. Just make sure the
Speaker 1: specs that I like to look for these days, I
Speaker 1: would say typically at least sixteen gigs of RAM. Of course,
Speaker 1: a one terabyte hard drive that's going to be pretty
Speaker 1: simple to find in an all in one, and I
Speaker 1: would look for either an Intel A five is probably fine,
Speaker 1: A seven is a little bit faster. They all go
Speaker 1: by like this, five and seven. So whether it's a
Speaker 1: MD or Intel, the seven is going to be faster.
Speaker 1: Nine is going to be much faster. But usually I
Speaker 1: don't really see those in the all ones. But just
Speaker 1: stay away from the three. That's gonna be too slow.
Speaker 1: And I don't even think Costco has that in general,
Speaker 1: but that's what I would recommend.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's a good upgrade. Ten years. Ten years
Speaker 2: is a good amount of time to get out of
Speaker 2: a computer.
Speaker 12: I like, yeah, but it's going out a snail's pace
Speaker 12: right now, so it's time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear it.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for the call, Sue, appreciate it and enjoy
Speaker 1: the new computer. We're actually gonna have Kimber streams on
Speaker 1: from the Wirecutter, so Sue, you may want to listen
Speaker 1: because you may be able to give your computer a
Speaker 1: whole new lease on life once you hear what Kimber
Speaker 1: has to say about, you know, spring cleaning your PC.
Speaker 2: So you can do that, all right.
Speaker 1: So AT and T, by the way, is trying to
Speaker 1: get people to buy landlines again, but they're not the
Speaker 1: same landline that you're used to. This is a new
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Speaker 2: They keep expanding this.
Speaker 1: They just expanded it southern California, so you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to check to see where you're listening if they have
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Speaker 1: you know AT and T has been on a push
Speaker 1: to move away from copper landlines. This thing is basically
Speaker 1: a box that uses both cellular or broadband. So you
Speaker 1: basically can use a cellular connection that's built in, or
Speaker 1: you can plug your Internet into it and then you
Speaker 1: can change you know, you can pour it over your
Speaker 1: existing phone number, keep your current phone. So if you
Speaker 1: have a nice landline, you want some sort of rotary
Speaker 1: dial phone that you've kept for many years that you
Speaker 1: still like. I don't know why you would, but maybe
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Speaker 1: thing and it acts like a regular phone. Then you
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Speaker 1: It has a twenty four hour backup battery to make
Speaker 1: sure you stay connected even during a power outage. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it's called AT and T Phone Advance. The competitors here
Speaker 1: are things like Uma Vonage, but Magic Jack, but.
Speaker 2: At and T you know, big name, very easy.
Speaker 1: Pay a buck for this thing, and then it's forty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month for the service. All right, coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about spring cleaning your PC. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to our guests. Our guest guest Kimber
Speaker 1: streams in just a moment. But first I got an
Speaker 1: email from Brian in San Juan Capistrano and he said, uh, hey,
Speaker 1: I heard the call about YouTube buffering. My YouTube buffering
Speaker 1: started when I lost you block. This is an ad
Speaker 1: blocker buffers for about ten seconds, tries to show me
Speaker 1: an ad The two could be related. That's a great call, Brian.
Speaker 1: I did not ask our caller about if he had
Speaker 1: an AD blocker on his network that could be interfering
Speaker 1: with his YouTube. So I know, for me, I've got
Speaker 1: Eero and they have like a network wide ad blocking thing,
Speaker 1: and so I've never really seen a lot of issues
Speaker 1: with that. Interrupting things, not even YouTube, but that could
Speaker 1: be the problem. So yeah, good call. And he also
Speaker 1: asked what's the best replacement? But we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: guest on in the third hour to talk about the
Speaker 1: best ad blocker replacements. But first we've got Kimber Streams
Speaker 1: on the line, tech reviewer at the Wirecutter. It's been
Speaker 1: reviewing computers and all kinds of stuff for over a
Speaker 1: decade now, and Kimber is going to tell us how
Speaker 1: to spring clean our PC. Welcome to the show, Kimber,
Speaker 1: thank you, I should say welcome back to the show
Speaker 1: because you were an early guest.
Speaker 10: I owe an early guest for back to school laptops.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh. So let's talk about spring cleaning PCs. Well,
Speaker 1: tell me first off about the PC market. What's going
Speaker 1: on with that, what's the latest?
Speaker 13: So right now, it's kind of a weird time in
Speaker 13: the PC market. There's a lot of choice available, but
Speaker 13: also a lot of anxiety for people looking to buy
Speaker 13: a laptop with increasing prices because of tariffs. So I've
Speaker 13: got a lot of questions about like do I need
Speaker 13: to upgrade my laptop? Can I keep using what I
Speaker 13: already have? When is a good time to buy something.
Speaker 1: Have the prices gone up because I know Apple, just
Speaker 1: I know you know this is Apple. They do their
Speaker 1: own thing, but they lowered the price by one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Have we seen an increase in prices.
Speaker 13: In some laptops, Yes, but not all laptops. So there
Speaker 13: is still I think a window to get something pretty
Speaker 13: great before those prices start climbing.
Speaker 1: And I know we're seeing changes with like the AI button,
Speaker 1: like that little copile of button, and then of course
Speaker 1: the snap Dragon processors. But in general, if you have
Speaker 1: a computer you like, is this the time to.
Speaker 2: Spring clean it?
Speaker 10: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: And what's the first step? What do you what do you?
Speaker 2: How do you assas well?
Speaker 1: Hold on, I guess my question is how do you
Speaker 1: assess if a spring Do you try this first with
Speaker 1: your computer and then maybe get a new one if
Speaker 1: it doesn't like it still is like not working very well?
Speaker 13: Yes, So if your laptop feels slow, you might actually
Speaker 13: be able to take a few steps to just clean
Speaker 13: up some programs, clean up your storage a little bit,
Speaker 13: and dust it out, and that'll help it feel faster
Speaker 13: and you might be able to keep using the same
Speaker 13: laptop for another year or two or even three if
Speaker 13: you take care of it.
Speaker 2: Well, So what's the first step. What do you do first?
Speaker 13: So, first you want to physically clean it out, so
Speaker 13: dust builds up inside of your laptop, inside of your desktop,
Speaker 13: and every six months to a year, depending on how
Speaker 13: dusty your living space might be, you'll actually want to
Speaker 13: open it up and clean it out.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's I used to love doing that with
Speaker 1: my big old computer, you know, but with a laptop.
Speaker 1: I still love cleaning my computer. In fact, I wipe
Speaker 1: down my laptop today with like a little you know,
Speaker 1: alcohol wipe. I love doing that. It's just like my
Speaker 1: favorite thing to do. It's just like so satisfying it is.
Speaker 1: And the screen, I will say, the screen is tricky
Speaker 1: because you know, A, you don't want to ruin it,
Speaker 1: and B it's like could leave a little streak, so
Speaker 1: just be careful. My advice with that is like, if
Speaker 1: you're using any sort of wet cloth, ring it out
Speaker 1: as much as possible, because you do not want water
Speaker 1: like on this computer.
Speaker 13: Right, Yes, absolutely so I will use a microfiber cloth
Speaker 13: actually and dip it in just a tiny bit of
Speaker 13: down soap and hot water and.
Speaker 10: Wring it out really really good, and if it's hot
Speaker 10: enough and dry.
Speaker 13: Enough whenever you do it, then all of that extra
Speaker 13: moisture is just going to evaporate off your screen, so
Speaker 13: you don't damage the screen or drik water into the
Speaker 13: bits of your lap up that you absolutely do not
Speaker 13: want water in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I did do that once I cleaned. I'll
Speaker 1: never forget this. I was cleaning my laptop with like
Speaker 1: one of those Lightsol wipes and I just literally took
Speaker 1: it out of the Lightsol box, put it on there.
Speaker 1: All the lightsol got into my keyboard, and like an
Speaker 1: hour later stop working.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding though.
Speaker 1: I dried out that computer for like two weeks and
Speaker 1: it worked again and I got a lot of use.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what's the best way to free up storage
Speaker 1: on your computer?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 13: So on Windows and Mac you can open up the
Speaker 13: storage menu. It's called the same thing on both operating systems,
Speaker 13: and then I'll actually give you a readout of what's
Speaker 13: taking up the most space on your computer. A couple spaces.
Speaker 13: The places that are like easy to reclaim storage. In Windows,
Speaker 13: there's that temporary files folder. There's a button in the
Speaker 13: storage venue that you can just blow that up and
Speaker 13: get rid of it. You're not getting rid of anything important.
Speaker 13: Your computer will download anything else that it needs. Back
Speaker 13: to that, I also recommend going through your downloads folder.
Speaker 13: There's probably years of PDFs and memes and app installers
Speaker 13: and all of that that you have not paid attention to.
Speaker 13: There might be a couple of things that you need
Speaker 13: in there, but probably most of it you can get
Speaker 13: rid of.
Speaker 2: I do that every Friday.
Speaker 1: I love that little sound of just cleaning out the
Speaker 1: track or the downloads folder.
Speaker 2: What about apps?
Speaker 1: So I always, you know, like I test a lot
Speaker 1: of apps, as I'm sure you do, so I'm always
Speaker 1: installing like apps and then just forgetting about them.
Speaker 2: Is it a good idea to kind of get rid
Speaker 2: of some of those things?
Speaker 13: Yes, So Windows has an installed apps venue, and then
Speaker 13: back to that same storage menu.
Speaker 10: In Mac, there's.
Speaker 13: Going to be like a whole list of all of
Speaker 13: the apps that are on your computer. You want to
Speaker 13: remove anything that you're not using anymore. Some computers also
Speaker 13: come with a lot of floatwear that's pre installed that
Speaker 13: is not stuff that you need. If you're not sure
Speaker 13: what an app is or does in that list, you
Speaker 13: can actually look it up on the should I remove it?
Speaker 13: Website and it'll tell you what that app is and
Speaker 13: does and whether or not you want to get rid
Speaker 13: of it.
Speaker 1: And also I noticed that you can sort that menu
Speaker 1: by large to small, So if you just want to see,
Speaker 1: like what's taking up the most space, you can do
Speaker 1: it that way. But I like the idea of can
Speaker 1: you ruin your computer if you unstall something that set's like,
Speaker 1: you know, supposed to be there.
Speaker 10: Not from that menu?
Speaker 2: No, okay, good, good to know there.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what about you know these these programs love
Speaker 1: to launch when you start your computer, right because they're
Speaker 1: sticky and they get you know, they get in your face.
Speaker 1: So do you can you stop that from happening?
Speaker 13: Yes, So whenever your computer restarts, it launches kind of
Speaker 13: a series of apps that it's been told or important.
Speaker 13: And if it's trying to launch too many, your startup
Speaker 13: is going to feel sluggish and it might take a
Speaker 13: few minutes instead of just a few seconds. There is
Speaker 13: a startup menu in both Windows and Mac and you
Speaker 13: can keep the important things that you need to be
Speaker 13: running in the background all the time, like maybe your
Speaker 13: password manager or a cloud backup program. But I go
Speaker 13: through that list that I turn off apps like Slack
Speaker 13: or Discord or Steam that I'm just going to launch
Speaker 13: whenever I.
Speaker 10: Need to use them.
Speaker 13: And I also don't use certain things that are in
Speaker 13: that list, like the Microsoft Edge browser or like Microsoft's
Speaker 13: phone length features, so I go ahead and turn those off,
Speaker 13: and then that makes my computer startup faster because it's
Speaker 13: launching less things at the same time.
Speaker 1: And that's again if you go into your settings and
Speaker 1: just type in startup. I just saw this. Wow, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that Edge starts up. I'm turning it off
Speaker 1: right now, thank you. I just got to win. We're
Speaker 1: talking to kimber Streams, who's been covering laptops and tech
Speaker 1: at Wirecutter for over a decade about spring cleaning your PC.
Speaker 1: What about the updates and the browser extensions. I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, should you get rid of those browser extensions?
Speaker 1: Can that slow things down if you don't need them anymore?
Speaker 10: Yeah, So it's the same as a startup.
Speaker 13: If your computer is trying to run too many apps
Speaker 13: or too many things in the background, it'll feel slower.
Speaker 13: So you can go through your extensions, turn off ones
Speaker 13: that don't need to run all the time. I have
Speaker 13: a specific pdf mage one that I only use to
Speaker 13: save PDFs. I don't need that running all the time.
Speaker 13: I can just run that when I want to. So
Speaker 13: you can disable those to make browsing feel faster.
Speaker 1: And so what about anything else I'm not asking that
Speaker 1: you think is really important to speeding up and clean
Speaker 1: up the PC?
Speaker 10: Anything else?
Speaker 2: What about backing up?
Speaker 1: I mean, don't you think that's like such a thing
Speaker 1: that I guess so many people like calling and emailing
Speaker 1: about they lose things all the time.
Speaker 2: Like, what's the best way to back up? You think?
Speaker 13: So, there's a couple of different ways, but the easiest
Speaker 13: one is that both Windows and Mac have free backup options.
Speaker 13: It's file History for Windows and time Machine on Mac.
Speaker 13: Both of those things only take about ten minutes or
Speaker 13: like four steps to set up, and then they're going
Speaker 13: to happen automatically going forward, so you don't have to
Speaker 13: keep paying.
Speaker 10: Attention to your backup. It will just happen.
Speaker 13: We do have step by step guides for setting that
Speaker 13: up on wire cover.
Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of cool. So file history interesting. So
Speaker 1: you plug in a drive and it will kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: build a history of your library's desktop contacts and favorites.
Speaker 1: That's kind of cool and in time Machine I'm familiar
Speaker 1: with on the Mac side. Okay, so you do all
Speaker 1: this stuff, how do you know if it's time to
Speaker 1: get a new computer or stick with what you got.
Speaker 10: Yes, So if you've gone through all of these steps
Speaker 10: and you still boot up your computer and it feels slow,
Speaker 10: if you're trying to do basic tasks like browsing the web,
Speaker 10: doing email and it still just feels really slow and frustrating,
Speaker 10: then it's actually probably time to bite the bullet and
Speaker 10: upgrade your computer.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So the article is how to make your old computer
Speaker 1: feel new Again. The author kimber Streams. You can find it.
Speaker 1: I'll link it up on the website. This has everything
Speaker 1: that we just talked about and more, by the way,
Speaker 1: So if you want to see all these step by
Speaker 1: step instructions and it feels good to do this, like
Speaker 1: when you clean your computer and kind of like get
Speaker 1: rid of all the junk, I it feels really good now, Kimber.
Speaker 1: I every year, once a year usually reinstall the you know,
Speaker 1: the software from scratch, like the operating system. That seems
Speaker 1: a little elaborate for most people probably, but I really
Speaker 1: like doing that because I start fresh. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: a laptop recommendation. You have a computer recommendation if someone
Speaker 1: just wants like a nice, good computer for maybe five
Speaker 1: six seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 8: Yes.
Speaker 13: So, out of the fifty thitted light ultrabooks that I've
Speaker 13: tested last year and this year so far, those are
Speaker 13: roughly the Windows equivalent to the MacBook Air. The best
Speaker 13: one that I found is the aces Vivo Book S fourteen,
Speaker 13: and the specific model number on that is Q four
Speaker 13: two three.
Speaker 10: Essay, it's such a catchy name.
Speaker 1: Q four three sa Aceus Vivo Book fourteen.
Speaker 2: What do you like about this?
Speaker 10: So it is a great laptop.
Speaker 13: It's thin and light, It lasted eighteen hours in Wirecutters
Speaker 13: web browsing battery life test. It is just two point
Speaker 13: eight seven pounds, and it has great performance now and
Speaker 13: for years to come. It's got a recent processor in it.
Speaker 13: It has sixteen gigs of memory, five hundred and twelve
Speaker 13: gigs of storage, and a very spacious fourteen inch Ola display.
Speaker 13: So the color is gonna look really.
Speaker 10: Nice on it.
Speaker 1: And what a sweet deal right now? I know, as
Speaker 1: who's computers are typically discounted at best Buy a lot
Speaker 1: four hundred and ninety nine bucks for this thing right
Speaker 1: now usually nine p fifty. That's a great deal. All right, Kimber, awesome, excellent,
Speaker 1: great job. Thank you so much for coming on the
Speaker 1: show today. I'll link up a Kimber Streams article on
Speaker 1: Richontech dot tv. You are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at triple eight Rich one
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Speaker 1: in West Covina. Did you're on with Rich.
Speaker 14: Mine good to talk to you. I love all your
Speaker 14: advice everybody.
Speaker 2: Thank you DD. What can I help you with?
Speaker 3: I need a.
Speaker 14: New television set. I have bad macular degeneration and it's
Speaker 14: going and I've been trying to find a television that
Speaker 14: is bright, that has good contrast. I've done nothing but
Speaker 14: get myself totally confused, trying to look on Google, going
Speaker 14: through best bite. I mean, everybody, who's the best?
Speaker 13: You know, da, da da?
Speaker 8: What would be the.
Speaker 14: Best kind of television to get? I've seen something called
Speaker 14: the Supersonic. Another one is Sony's bravera nine led. I've
Speaker 14: seen a Samsung q n D nine D or what
Speaker 14: as I say. I've gotten myself so confused, and everybody says, oh,
Speaker 14: this is the best, this is the best. I thought,
Speaker 14: why don't I just call the pro and find out
Speaker 14: what would you recommend for something that is bright and
Speaker 14: has good contrast? Yeah, I think it's only twenty four
Speaker 14: or twenty eight inches fit my cat.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's twenty four or twenty eight.
Speaker 2: That's okay.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little tricky to find a TV
Speaker 1: in that size, but you should be able to. But
Speaker 1: I think I think in general, so out of all
Speaker 1: the companies that I cover, the one that I hear
Speaker 1: talk about accessibility features the most is Samsung, out of
Speaker 1: all the TV manufacturers. So I would go with Samsung
Speaker 1: because they typically make a big splash at CES talking
Speaker 1: about the accessibility features built into their TVs, and specifically
Speaker 1: when you're talking contrast, that is one of the big
Speaker 1: pushes that they typically talk about. They have some features
Speaker 1: built into their TV that do boost the contrast, that
Speaker 1: do make the screen easier to see if you do
Speaker 1: have any sort of vision issues. Now, they just this
Speaker 1: year they're using much more AI for all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So your TV, if you're looking at like
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five model, you know, that may have
Speaker 1: the the AI stuff, but before, even before the AI,
Speaker 1: they've had a lot of features built in to help
Speaker 1: with you know, with accessibility and vision features.
Speaker 14: So I think, yeah.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: I would go with the Samsung because I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna find and also they you know, they update their
Speaker 1: software a lot.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just every time I go to a.
Speaker 1: Samsung event, they make a big deal out of the
Speaker 1: accessibility features. So I think that they are actively working
Speaker 1: on that and focusing on it, and so that's.
Speaker 2: Why I'd go with them.
Speaker 14: Oh that's awesome. Well I will look at Samsung then
Speaker 14: and see. I guess Best Buys would probably be the
Speaker 14: best place to look.
Speaker 1: For that, do you think yeah, I'd say so, I'd
Speaker 1: go to best Buy, and I would I would try
Speaker 1: to find a demo unit where you can actually activate
Speaker 1: the accessibility feature.
Speaker 2: I know it may be tough. Where do you live
Speaker 2: West Covina.
Speaker 1: If there's a local place, like, you know, like a
Speaker 1: local retailer, you may be able to actually play with
Speaker 1: the TV a little bit more, and like ask a
Speaker 1: salesperson to like, let you look at the settings and
Speaker 1: see That's what I would recommend, because that way you
Speaker 1: can actually see, you know, go into the accessibility menu,
Speaker 1: toggle the contrast setting and see if that helps. And
Speaker 1: if it does, that's the one to get. At best Buy,
Speaker 1: they're all on kind of that loop, you know, where
Speaker 1: I don't know if you'll be able to play with
Speaker 1: the TV set as you would at a local place.
Speaker 14: Oh that's great advice, Thank you very much. And would
Speaker 14: they have to be what would they have to install it?
Speaker 14: Or could my sons and grandsons do it?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think your sons and grandsons can do it,
Speaker 1: especially you're talking. You said twenty five to twenty eight inch.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's going to be. You can pick
Speaker 1: that up with you know, it's very these TVs have
Speaker 1: gotten so light. When was the last time you replaced yours?
Speaker 14: Well, I had gotten one about five years ago and
Speaker 14: in it got sadly got broken.
Speaker 2: Oh no, what happened to it?
Speaker 14: Well, we were trying to install some other things with
Speaker 14: the recorder type thing and when we pulled or when
Speaker 14: they pulled on the cords, TV plopped over and hit
Speaker 14: something in the screen. Went great, but.
Speaker 1: Oh no, okay, Oh, I just found the mode that
Speaker 1: that Samsung is always showing off.
Speaker 2: It's called Relumino mode.
Speaker 1: R E l U M I n O Relumino Mode,
Speaker 1: and it says if you struggle to see the screen
Speaker 1: when enjoying movies or other content, you can use Relumino
Speaker 1: Mode on twenty twenty four Samsung TVs.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know that's I think that's when this
Speaker 2: came out.
Speaker 1: It increases the contrast and brightness of the screen and
Speaker 1: emphasizes the outlines of images to help you see every
Speaker 1: bit of the action.
Speaker 2: Does that sound like it would help?
Speaker 14: Oh that sounds absolutely perfect, because come night time, everything well,
Speaker 14: I've got a very old Toyoga Toshiba and everything turns
Speaker 14: black and purple.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well that's yeah, that's probably the contrast ratio on your TV.
Speaker 1: I mean, older models are just not as good. But
Speaker 1: this is I think what you need. So did check
Speaker 1: it out, Samsung. Make sure you look for that relumin
Speaker 1: reluine me mode on that TV and I will look
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 14: Oh you're an angel. Thank you so very very much.
Speaker 14: I truly appreciate all your help and I love your programs.
Speaker 14: I'm not a tech person, but I'm fascinated listening to
Speaker 14: everything that's going on in the world.
Speaker 8: That's great.
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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Welcome to another hour of
Speaker 1: the show. We've got Jared Newman coming up later.
Speaker 2: What a treat.
Speaker 1: Jared writes a newsletter called Advisorator. One of my favorites.
Speaker 1: The people who write newsletters read Jared's newsletter.
Speaker 2: He's great.
Speaker 1: You can sign up for his newsletter for free, mind too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just making sure that his is free. I think
Speaker 1: it is. There's at least a free level. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: ask him when he comes on, but he's gonna talk
Speaker 1: about the best ad blockers, how to get rid of
Speaker 1: those annoying sign in with Google pop ups, and his
Speaker 1: quest for the perfect web browser. I will tell you,
Speaker 1: I will admit after all this time, and I'm not kidding,
Speaker 1: trying every single note taking app. So I always say
Speaker 1: you can do this search on Google called whatever you're
Speaker 1: searching for versus. So for me, Evernoe was my favorite
Speaker 1: note taking app for years, and then I had to
Speaker 1: find something different. So if you type in Evernote versus,
Speaker 1: it'll give you Notion, one Note, Obsidian, Google Keep Good Notes,
Speaker 1: Apple Notes, Notability. I tried every single one of those,
Speaker 1: plus more Joplin. I think there's bear, I mean there's
Speaker 1: so many. I tried every single one and I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this week I went back to Evernoe. After all that,
Speaker 1: I've come full circle because I have decided that I'm
Speaker 1: an adult and if I want to pay one hundred
Speaker 1: bucks a year forever note, so be it. It does
Speaker 1: exactly what I needed to do. And I was very
Speaker 1: sad about getting involved with Evernoe because the more you
Speaker 1: put in here, the more you have to pay forever.
Speaker 1: Every other app that I was using, I'd be like, Oh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't do that.
Speaker 2: Every note does that. Oh it doesn't do that. Every
Speaker 2: note does that? Oh it doesn't do that. Ever Note
Speaker 2: does that? Why am I trying to use a program
Speaker 2: that doesn't do what I want to do?
Speaker 8: Ever?
Speaker 2: Note does it all.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, like every little thing I do on there,
Speaker 1: I smile because it's so exciting that it does exactly
Speaker 1: what I want to do.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not kidding. I could go through.
Speaker 1: Maybe my next show, I'll do the beginning of the
Speaker 1: show about all the pros and cons of these things
Speaker 1: because I've tried them all. Like one Note by Microsoft.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: It's great, It's almost perfect. But the problem with one
Speaker 1: Note is you go to try to print something and
Speaker 1: on a mac at least it's all over the place.
Speaker 1: It doesn't print it properly. And by the way, it's
Speaker 1: also like this infinite like canvas, so you can't just
Speaker 1: like have stuff like flow in a line.
Speaker 2: It's really weird.
Speaker 1: Obsidian, which I was using, was great, but it just
Speaker 1: became I tried to search for something and I couldn't
Speaker 1: find it, and I'm like, why am I going crazy
Speaker 1: trying to say this stuff up that doesn't really do
Speaker 1: what I need to do.
Speaker 2: Let's just go back to everyno. So that's what I did. Sonywa.
Speaker 1: I'm back on EVERYNOE and I do like it. It
Speaker 1: is expensive, but you know what, I use it to
Speaker 1: produce this show, and that to me is worth it.
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Speaker 2: You literally open.
Speaker 1: Up the website on your device, open up the website
Speaker 1: on a friend's device, drag a file in, and boom,
Speaker 1: you can share it. So the way it works is
Speaker 1: it's peer to peer file transfers in the browser, so
Speaker 1: these transfers never pass through file pizzas servers, so it's
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal for privacy, and basically you
Speaker 1: do have to keep your browser window open until the
Speaker 1: transfer is complete. It's all open source, which means a
Speaker 1: lot of people kind of check in on this stuff
Speaker 1: make sure that it's good. But basically, you drop a
Speaker 1: file in, so just drop any old file there. Let
Speaker 1: me find a file. Okay, I'm dropping one in. You
Speaker 1: can set a secret password if you want, and if
Speaker 1: you don't want it, you know, anyone with a link
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Speaker 1: or if I sent him this link from his phone,
Speaker 1: he could download this file instantly right from my computer.
Speaker 1: Like it'll kind of like sets up a connection between
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Speaker 1: to share something from his Windows laptop to his iPad
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Speaker 1: It's so easy. It's just one of those things where
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Speaker 1: to Bob in Lake Forest, California.
Speaker 2: Bob, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 11: Hey, Rich love your show man.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 11: Hey, I've got a situation here. I know you're you
Speaker 11: really preached for the mint Mobile. Your mom has it.
Speaker 11: I got mine.
Speaker 2: Hey, don't bring my mom into this. Bob. You just
Speaker 2: said your call, you call you, Okay.
Speaker 11: So yeah, every time I leave my house and go
Speaker 11: out about three times a day, I'll pull something up
Speaker 11: and it says you have no selling you the service
Speaker 11: and I have to reboot hauled customer service. And of
Speaker 11: course they just go, oh, we'll send your send back.
Speaker 5: The what do you call it?
Speaker 8: Goes in there, the sim card sim card.
Speaker 11: Yeah, And I said, well then I'll have a phone
Speaker 11: and I need it to work. He says, oh, well,
Speaker 11: go get another phone and then send the SIM crisis,
Speaker 11: it's not going to work on any suggestions. And what's
Speaker 11: going on?
Speaker 2: Okay? So what kind of phone do you have?
Speaker 11: I have a Galaxy A fourteen Camason.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you have an A fourteen so well, there
Speaker 1: could be several things going on. So number one, this
Speaker 1: phone may not have the reception that a more powerful
Speaker 1: phone has, so that could be what's happening? Do you
Speaker 1: have no service on your phone?
Speaker 2: Whatsoever? Or week? Service?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 11: Service is fine? Exact. I just went from T Mobile
Speaker 11: to mint Mobile and I had T Mobile for a year,
Speaker 11: never had one problem.
Speaker 5: With okay at all?
Speaker 1: All right, so this is the same This is the
Speaker 1: same network, so you shouldn't have a problem if you
Speaker 1: had service. Have you configured the apns? Have you heard
Speaker 1: that term from the no?
Speaker 2: Okay? So that's what I think it is.
Speaker 1: So basically Mint Mobile is a little bit different from
Speaker 1: some of the other providers where typically when you pop
Speaker 1: that SIM card in, it should send your phone a
Speaker 1: text message with these special settings that will configure how
Speaker 1: it looks for the cell towers and sometimes that does
Speaker 1: not happen, and especially were you using this phone with
Speaker 1: Team Mobile before? Oh yeah, okay, So there's two things
Speaker 1: I'd like you to do. Number one, you can text
Speaker 1: set up to sixty seven hundred and they will send
Speaker 1: the settings to your phone. Okay, so that's number one. Now,
Speaker 1: if that does not work, what I want you to
Speaker 1: do is do what's called a reset network settings.
Speaker 2: Have you done that?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm surprised these customer service folks have not told
Speaker 1: you this. But basically, if you go into your Samsung okay,
Speaker 1: if you go into settings, and I'll link this up
Speaker 1: on the website, you go.
Speaker 2: To let's see where is it reset? Let's see about phone?
Speaker 2: Hold on, I.
Speaker 1: Gotta find it if I type in, if you just
Speaker 1: search reset okay, and if you go to reset and
Speaker 1: you'll see it says reset mobile network settings.
Speaker 2: And so if you have that, you.
Speaker 1: Reset, it's basically gonna reset your mobile network settings, which
Speaker 1: means is gonna clear out the old T mobile settings,
Speaker 1: It's gonna clear out the Mint Mobile settings, and then
Speaker 1: when it looks at that sim card, it's gonna go, okay,
Speaker 1: we've got Mint Mobile, send me the new settings for
Speaker 1: this and it should automatically find the new settings. So
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work, forget this phone number, forget you
Speaker 1: ever talked to me, because then you won't have any signal.
Speaker 1: But I think I think it's gonna work, and I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna one of those issues is going to
Speaker 1: fix your problems. I would start with the with the
Speaker 1: setup to sixty seven hundred, start with that, and if
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, I would try the network settings reset
Speaker 1: and see if that helps. If those two things do
Speaker 1: not work, you could consider switching to like an eSIM,
Speaker 1: and that could also.
Speaker 2: I don't think that would help.
Speaker 1: That phone doesn't take anim yet, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that would help anyway, because eSIM is more if your
Speaker 1: phone is cycling through like no service because it says
Speaker 1: it can't find this cards.
Speaker 11: Sometimes I leave the SIM card in when I do
Speaker 11: each of these to the text sixty seven hundred and
Speaker 11: also the reset mobile settings.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would leave the SIM card in for both
Speaker 2: of those.
Speaker 11: So by both these says you know, if you don't
Speaker 11: hear from me, then you'll know something happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we if no one hears from you again,
Speaker 1: then we know you're like stuck somewhere in this world
Speaker 1: with l any service.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: In that case, hello to your mother for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and do this in a in an area with
Speaker 1: Wi Fi just in case you need to get back
Speaker 1: on line.
Speaker 11: Okay, right now, So all right, if I switch over
Speaker 11: to Wi Fi or just leave it on Wi Fi.
Speaker 2: What do you mean switch over to Wi Fi?
Speaker 11: Well, I mean it's it's already it's Wi Fi. If
Speaker 11: I'm in the house right now, I'm gonna sell you
Speaker 11: because I just came from an outsite on hold with
Speaker 11: you guys, So I'm gonna obviously hang up with you,
Speaker 11: and it should go into Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I would just stay on that
Speaker 1: and do that. Do those two things, see what happens.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to help you, and hopefully it does.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Let me know.
Speaker 2: Great, Rich right, Bob, thank everybody? All right?
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four four one zero one.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Well, well then I guess that sound means it's time
Speaker 1: for a break. Uh, Okay, We've got more calls coming up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you that Google Assistant is becoming well,
Speaker 1: it's going away. It's becoming something else. I'll explain what's
Speaker 1: happening there and when we'll take some more of your calls,
Speaker 1: and we have a guest plus the feedback. We got
Speaker 1: a lot coming up right here on rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Let's go to uh
Speaker 1: Rick in Orange County. Rick, you're on with rich.
Speaker 9: Oh hey, rich, thank you for taking my call. I
Speaker 9: have a Defender right now my PC laptop and step
Speaker 9: for renol. But I'm hardly ever on the PC anymore.
Speaker 9: So I just wondering. I gets, like a free.
Speaker 5: Virus protection.
Speaker 9: Is there one out there that's good?
Speaker 2: Well, what do you mean so you're paying for Microsoft to.
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, so well why not just why not just go
Speaker 1: with the Windows security that's built into Microsoft.
Speaker 9: Oh I can do that? Yeah do that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just do that. I don't think you need much more.
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty simple. So if you look, if
Speaker 1: you go on Defender on your I mean they try
Speaker 1: to look. They're trying to sell you, obviously, and I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 1: It does more stuff like than just the standard built in.
Speaker 1: But you know Windows already has built in virus and
Speaker 1: threat detection. So if you if you type in on
Speaker 1: your uh Windows Security. So if you type in Windows Security,
Speaker 1: you'll see it tells you what's happening. And if you
Speaker 1: tap virus in threat protection, it'll tell you current threats,
Speaker 1: quick scan, no action needed. You can it says security
Speaker 1: intelligence when the last time it was updated. Ransomware protection,
Speaker 1: you can set that up. I think the main thing
Speaker 1: is that you just just you know, get rid of
Speaker 1: the other thing, let the let the subscription lapse, and
Speaker 1: then just activate this and and make sure it's all
Speaker 1: up to date and you're good.
Speaker 5: Okay, cool, one more time.
Speaker 9: What's it called again?
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's called Windows Security. So that's it's like
Speaker 1: they I think they must have changed the name because
Speaker 1: Defender is sort of the uh it looks like the
Speaker 1: paid aspect of it, right, that's what you're paying for
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean I get it, you're you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's there may be something a little bit more
Speaker 1: like it. They're trying to sell on, like the fact
Speaker 1: that you can get extra security for different things.
Speaker 2: Like let's see what they're selling here.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see it says you can get oh hold on,
Speaker 1: I gotta log in, but yeah, okay, protection for Android
Speaker 1: iOS Mac and Windows Identity, theft VPN. So if you
Speaker 1: don't need all of that stuff, I would say, just
Speaker 1: go ahead and get the built in which is just
Speaker 1: type in Win Windows Security and make sure that everything's green.
Speaker 1: So there's a whole bunch of things that says like
Speaker 1: virus and threat protection, account protection, firewall, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Just make sure it's good and then I would tap
Speaker 1: the virus and threat protection, do a quick scan just
Speaker 1: to have a baseline, make sure your computer's good once
Speaker 1: you get rid of the other thing, and then just
Speaker 1: make sure your security intelligence is up to date.
Speaker 2: So that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's this big argument over whether
Speaker 1: you actually need third party security software, you know for
Speaker 1: the Windows computers. So there's a ton of it out there.
Speaker 1: It's a big business. Security is very important. But a
Speaker 1: couple of things that I think a lot of what
Speaker 1: we do nowadays is on the web, and a lot
Speaker 1: of it is through these web services, and a lot
Speaker 1: of those services scan things before they even let them
Speaker 1: get to our computer. So unless you're like specifically downloading
Speaker 1: something peer to peer or you know, doing something like
Speaker 1: that's very much like a off the typical like just
Speaker 1: downloading files and things from you know, reputable websites, most
Speaker 1: of the time they're going to be scanned in some
Speaker 1: way before Now, I'm not saying that you should be
Speaker 1: off guard. You always need to be on guard, especially
Speaker 1: anytime you download something, anytime you install something, anytime you
Speaker 1: click a link. But right now, you know, the big
Speaker 1: thing is ransomware. That's number one, and identity theft is
Speaker 1: number two. So those are the two big things we're
Speaker 1: up against.
Speaker 2: The viruses.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, there's always going to be viruses out there,
Speaker 1: and I think that your computer should be protected against that.
Speaker 1: But I think it's being aware of the situation that's better. Now,
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, Rick, if you want free software,
Speaker 1: free antivirus software above and beyond what Windows gives you,
Speaker 1: you can definitely check out a website I like called
Speaker 1: av dash test dot org. So av test dot org.
Speaker 1: They list they do a whole bunch of tests on
Speaker 1: these things, and they list the software that they like
Speaker 1: in the top free software. It's actually a tie. Let's see,
Speaker 1: it's actually a four way tie right now. So a
Speaker 1: vast is number one, AVG number two, of youa number three,
Speaker 1: and Bitdefender number four. So those are the those are
Speaker 1: the products that they rank as kind of the highest
Speaker 1: and depends.
Speaker 2: A vast is the.
Speaker 1: Free one, so you know, the other ones may not
Speaker 1: be completely free, but a vast you can get for free.
Speaker 1: And of course all of these have a paid version
Speaker 1: that offers you more. But yeah, good question, Rick, Thanks
Speaker 1: for the call.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Google assistant is going away. It's becoming Gemini. We all
Speaker 1: knew this was going to happen, right. AI is everything.
Speaker 1: Everyone's replacing their standard stuff with AI stuff. So Google
Speaker 1: put out a blog post saying over the next couple months,
Speaker 1: mobile users will be upgraded to Gemini. And before you
Speaker 1: get all scared and like, oh my gosh, I don't
Speaker 1: want this to happen, I think it's probably a good
Speaker 1: thing because your phone is going to understand you a
Speaker 1: lot more so. Classic Google assistants going away later this year.
Speaker 1: It's going to be no longer accessible and most devices
Speaker 1: are even available for new downloads. And this is going
Speaker 1: to expand beyond just phones. It's gonna be a tablets, cars, headphones, watches,
Speaker 1: smart home devices, all this stuff is going to get Gemini.
Speaker 2: Why because it's smarter.
Speaker 1: You can have a conversation with it in natural language,
Speaker 1: and so that's why they're doing this, And of course
Speaker 1: AI is the big thing now. The big problem with
Speaker 1: replacing Google Assistant with Gemini in the past was that
Speaker 1: Assistant did basic things like setting timers, playing music, all
Speaker 1: the lock screen stuff. So they had to you know,
Speaker 1: Gemini was envisioned as an AI chatbot. Now they've kind
Speaker 1: of worked in where it can actually perform the functionality
Speaker 1: it needs to do on your phone. So we saw
Speaker 1: this first with the Samsung S twenty five this year
Speaker 1: they had Gemini, a version of Gemini that can also
Speaker 1: control the phone and also on the pixels.
Speaker 2: It can do a lot of the stuff it needs
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: But anyway, now for the other Android phones out there,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be Gemini. Don't be scared. I think this
Speaker 1: is a good thing. Assistant, by the way, was launched
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, a couple of years after Siri, which
Speaker 1: was twenty eleven. Alexo is twenty fourteen, Gemini the AI
Speaker 1: version twenty twenty three, and we all know Siri has
Speaker 1: kind of fallen behind, whereas Alexa and Gemini have gotten
Speaker 1: very very smart in recent years. All Right, coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to Jared Newman of Advisorator about the
Speaker 1: best ad blockers right here on rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, talking technology the website for the show rich
Speaker 1: on Tech dot TV. We've had a great show today.
Speaker 1: This has been a lot of fun. It's about to
Speaker 1: get a lot better too, because Jared Newman is on
Speaker 1: the line. He writes a couple of great newsletters. One
Speaker 1: is called Advisorator, the other is called cord Cutter Weekly.
Speaker 1: And this is the kind of stuff I almost don't
Speaker 1: want to share because he does a better job than
Speaker 1: I do, and I'm jealous, specifically the cord Cutter Weekly.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he I mean, the stuff he covers
Speaker 1: and the tips he gives, it's very thorough. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to sign up for his newsletters. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show, Jared.
Speaker 8: Thanks Rich always good to be here. And don't sell
Speaker 8: yourself story. I really enjoy your newsletters.
Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I told I had to tell someone the other day
Speaker 1: because you know, there's this thing, there's this like fear based,
Speaker 1: you know, thing in this world where people don't want
Speaker 1: to share people that they see as a competitor or
Speaker 1: a threat to them because they're worried that's going to
Speaker 1: take away from them. And I tell people, I say, look,
Speaker 1: it was a saying I heard many many years ago.
Speaker 1: When you light another candle, it does not put yours out.
Speaker 1: So even though you and I theoretically compete with our newsletters,
Speaker 1: which we don't, yours is.
Speaker 2: Better anyway, you know, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I'd love promoting yours because it's more access to the
Speaker 1: information that you share.
Speaker 2: So I'm very happy to do it anyway.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about this, this whole ad blocker situation.
Speaker 1: I know that Google Chrome has gotten rid of a
Speaker 1: popular ad blocker, you block Origin I think it's called
Speaker 1: And what's the deal with that?
Speaker 2: Why are they doing that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you block origin is. I always think of
Speaker 8: it as just kind of the best ad blocker if
Speaker 8: you want to use an ad blocker. The main thing
Speaker 8: is that it's it's it just works really well, and
Speaker 8: it's very lightweight, and it's free and there's no weird
Speaker 8: up cells or subscriptions or anything like that, so it
Speaker 8: just does what it means. There's been some comparisons of
Speaker 8: different ad blockers and how much system resources they use,
Speaker 8: and some of them, it's like you're not even better
Speaker 8: off in terms of like CPU and battery life than
Speaker 8: just not using anything at all. U block Origin is
Speaker 8: just top notch as far as all that goes. And
Speaker 8: what's happening in Chrome specifically is Google is moving beyond
Speaker 8: the current platform they use for extensions or moving to
Speaker 8: something that extensibly is supposed to improve security, make extensions
Speaker 8: more secure. But the short version is that the way
Speaker 8: you block Origin works, that's gonna make it impossible for
Speaker 8: it to operate. So what they've started doing is they've
Speaker 8: started turning off extensions that are affected by this, including
Speaker 8: you block Origin. You can actually still turn it back on.
Speaker 8: It's a little murky as to when you'll eventually not
Speaker 8: be able to use it at all, but eventually the
Speaker 8: idea is that this will go away and it may
Speaker 8: end up affecting other browsers that kind of use the
Speaker 8: same underlying code as Chrome. So kind of just keeping
Speaker 8: an eye on all that and helping people figure out
Speaker 8: what to do next.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess before we get into your suggestion for
Speaker 1: what to do next, I mean, what's the benefit of
Speaker 1: an ad blocker Obviously it sounds it sounds mean because
Speaker 1: these companies like they make a business on you know,
Speaker 1: ads on the website, on the stuff you're reading or
Speaker 1: looking at. But what is the benefit of an ad blocker,
Speaker 1: because there are some arguments as to why people like them.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's definitely a bit of a gray area. I
Speaker 8: think ultimately what it is is like you should be
Speaker 8: in charge of like what happens on your computer, right
Speaker 8: And the thing is that some of these ads they
Speaker 8: can have malware, or they can you know, they can
Speaker 8: cover up the whole website so you can't actually see anything,
Speaker 8: or they can put a huge drain on your battery life.
Speaker 8: You know, like if we were listening to your radio
Speaker 8: show and it cut to a commercial and you're listening
Speaker 8: to the car, you'd appreciate that. You'd be fine with that.
Speaker 8: You want to support your radio show. But what if
Speaker 8: like it used more gasoline when you were listening to commercials,
Speaker 8: you might be like, maybe I want to kind of
Speaker 8: block this, you know, So having that option is something
Speaker 8: that that you might want to keep in mind.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you have an electric car, that might that
Speaker 1: might be the case.
Speaker 8: You know, you know, you want to you want to
Speaker 8: maximize those miles, you know.
Speaker 1: So you're putting up the volume and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the volume is louder on the commercials. Maybe it's using
Speaker 1: up more juice. So what is the recommendation? What do
Speaker 1: you switch to if if you block Origin is not
Speaker 1: working anymore on your browser.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so if it comes to that point, you kind
Speaker 8: of have to decide if you value you block Origin
Speaker 8: more or if you value Chrome more. Because there's other
Speaker 8: browsers that have kind of said that they are going
Speaker 8: to keep supporting you block Origin in particular, or just
Speaker 8: kind of be more accommodating these kind of extensions. So
Speaker 8: you know, Firefox has kind of come out and said,
Speaker 8: we're going to accommodate this older framework of browser extensions.
Speaker 8: At least a specific features that you block Origin relies on.
Speaker 8: Brave and Opera I believe is said they were going
Speaker 8: to have a little carve out for a handful of
Speaker 8: ad blockers so that you'll be able to enable them.
Speaker 8: So you know, there's there's some options like that, And
Speaker 8: keep in mind a lot of browsers now have built
Speaker 8: in ad blocking capabilities that you can look to instead.
Speaker 8: I still kind of feel like you block Origin is
Speaker 8: the best without pear, but there's other options to kind
Speaker 8: of look to.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what what if you want to stick with
Speaker 1: you block Origin? They came out with this light version.
Speaker 1: Is that just as good?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 8: I mean, look, it is very good. That it's if
Speaker 8: it comes down to it and you want to just
Speaker 8: still use something, you don't want to change your habits,
Speaker 8: you block Origin light is good. It's it's almost as
Speaker 8: lightweight as you block Origin proper, and you know it
Speaker 8: doesn't have any its own up sells and subscriptions or
Speaker 8: anything like that. So a lot of the same benefits,
Speaker 8: but there's a few trade offs in terms of it
Speaker 8: may not work as well. I think there's certain things
Speaker 8: that they're not quite able to block as well as
Speaker 8: you block Origin does. And then there's sort of some
Speaker 8: advanced power user features that I kind of like. There's
Speaker 8: something in you you block Origin where you can look
Speaker 8: at a web page and say, I don't like this
Speaker 8: element on the web page. So if you're on Amazon,
Speaker 8: you don't like how they show you like the videos
Speaker 8: and the ads for other products, you can be like,
Speaker 8: zap this out and don't show me this again when
Speaker 8: I visit the website. In the future. So there's some
Speaker 8: neat things like that that you can do, but you
Speaker 8: block Origin Lite is a good fallback if all thus sales.
Speaker 1: Any other recommendations besides that, you.
Speaker 8: Know, I did talk about we can really talk about Safari,
Speaker 8: which doesn't support you block Origin to begin with, and
Speaker 8: they have a built in kind of tracking protection that
Speaker 8: incidentally ends up hiding some ads. I generally found the
Speaker 8: ad guard is decent. They do have some sort of
Speaker 8: upselling kind of things you have to be aware of
Speaker 8: when you use it, and it's a bit more resource intensive,
Speaker 8: but that's something to consider. Yeah, I mean, Brave and
Speaker 8: Vivaldi have they're built in a AD blocking that you
Speaker 8: can kind of look at as well.
Speaker 1: My big thing is I noticed a lot of the
Speaker 1: websites that you go to if you don't have your
Speaker 1: ads you know, blocked, they trick you. You know, like
Speaker 1: let's say you go to a software website to like
Speaker 1: download a piece of software, Like there will be a
Speaker 1: prominent ad on that page that somehow looks like what
Speaker 1: you're trying to download, and like you'll click it and
Speaker 1: like that's actually advertising and so like in this way,
Speaker 1: some of these things like actually protect you and you
Speaker 1: were talking about malvertizing. That's a big thing too, Like
Speaker 1: all those things that like the takeovers on your computer
Speaker 1: where it's like your computer is infected, like ninety nine
Speaker 1: percent of that is like those takeovers are delivered through
Speaker 1: malvertizing where it may only happen for like a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes until Google systems figure it out. But it's
Speaker 1: like that's delivered through an ad a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: So these things can actually protect you. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: talk about this sign in with Google pop up, because
Speaker 1: this happens everywhere I go to red Fan.
Speaker 2: It's like, do you want to sign in with Google?
Speaker 1: You know, typically I recommend that people always use a
Speaker 1: unique password and an a unique log in, just not
Speaker 1: to connect everything, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: But how can we get rid of this pop up?
Speaker 8: Yeah? So I just got kind of annoyed by this
Speaker 8: cause it keeps popping up on different sites that I
Speaker 8: go do. Even though I'm kind I'm kind of with you.
Speaker 8: I say, not only like a unique password, but a
Speaker 8: lot of times I like to use a unique email address,
Speaker 8: and there's different services that you can use. You've probably
Speaker 8: talked about this email aliases or some people just like
Speaker 8: to add a plus sign onto their the end of
Speaker 8: their Gmail address and another thing, and then that way,
Speaker 8: you know, like who's sending You know, if I add
Speaker 8: something to the end, I can see, oh, they send
Speaker 8: an email to this address, and then you have control
Speaker 8: over who's emailing you, right, you know, once you're on
Speaker 8: a company's mailing list, ostensibly you can unsubscribe, but you know,
Speaker 8: maybe that doesn't work, or maybe you just don't want
Speaker 8: to deal with it, or they make it too hard.
Speaker 2: Wait, let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you real quick, how nerdy I am.
Speaker 1: So when I used to subscribe to magazines just to
Speaker 1: see who sold my my like name and address, I
Speaker 1: would sign up using a slightly different variation of my
Speaker 1: name so I could tell, like if I did like
Speaker 1: rich to Miro, I do like our d E m
Speaker 1: U r O. And then all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: start seeing that on your junk mail. You're like, okay, esquire,
Speaker 1: I see Danie sold my info?
Speaker 2: Anyway, keep going exactly.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So, I mean Google really wants you to sign
Speaker 8: in with them for various reasons. As a look like
Speaker 8: you sign in with Google. The way it works is
Speaker 8: you click that button if you're already signed into Gmail
Speaker 8: or whatever in your web browser, then it just associates
Speaker 8: your logging with your Gmail account. You don't have to
Speaker 8: set a password, so there is kind of a security
Speaker 8: benefit to not having another password to set up, even
Speaker 8: if you use a password manager. It's something that can't
Speaker 8: get lost in a security breach or what have you.
Speaker 8: But ultimately, you know, I don't want Google to be
Speaker 8: I don't want Google to be like the centerpiece of
Speaker 8: my digital life, and I want to be able to
Speaker 8: have that control. I don't want my Gmail address to
Speaker 8: go out to whoever I subscribe to. So I was
Speaker 8: just getting really annoyed by this pop up that is,
Speaker 8: and to be clear, like this is different from sometimes
Speaker 8: you go to a website and there's like sign in
Speaker 8: with Facebook, sign in with X, sign in with Google,
Speaker 8: those buttons. But this is like if you go to
Speaker 8: Reddit when you're not signed in, there's like a big
Speaker 8: pop up in it prevents you from using other logging options,
Speaker 8: and so I just don't like that, like I want
Speaker 8: to have that control. It kind of gets back to
Speaker 8: the same thing with the ad blockers, like I want
Speaker 8: to be in control of what's happening with my computer
Speaker 8: and my identity and all of that. So I just
Speaker 8: went through and I was like, I'd seen something about
Speaker 8: hiding this pop up.
Speaker 2: And I got less than a minute, so I gotta,
Speaker 2: oh yeah.
Speaker 8: Sure, so so yeah, so I found this and then
Speaker 8: it went through for basically every web browser and found
Speaker 8: ways to disable it.
Speaker 1: And so you've got that linked up on the newsletter
Speaker 1: Jared Newman dot com Slash Newsletters that'll give you the
Speaker 1: sign up for both. But basically I know in Chrome
Speaker 1: at least what it's like a flag you gotta do.
Speaker 1: It's like a little bit techy, right, you gotta just.
Speaker 8: And there's some more technical things for other browsers like Safari,
Speaker 8: but I'm nerdy enough that I'm willing to do that
Speaker 8: because it's too annoying.
Speaker 1: Well, my brother did this too, he texted me. He said,
Speaker 1: I did this because he was annoyed by it. So
Speaker 1: it's definitely not just you. It's it's but most people
Speaker 1: just think you can't change it. And this is why
Speaker 1: it's great to subscribe to you a newslet or like Jared's,
Speaker 1: because you realize, yes, you have the control. Jared Newman
Speaker 1: advisorator Court Cutter Weekly.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: I'll put a link to your newsletters on the website.
Speaker 1: Rich On Tech dot TV. Thanks for joining me. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up, we're opening the feedback. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: On Tech. Let's get right to it, because we've got
Speaker 1: so much to get to. First up, before we get
Speaker 1: to the feedback. Couple of items of note, digital passport.
Speaker 1: You can now add your passport to Google Wallet.
Speaker 2: So this is new.
Speaker 1: It's called an ID pass and you can basically use
Speaker 1: your passport at tsa security checkpoints for domestic travel. It
Speaker 1: can also act as a real ID, so it does
Speaker 1: not replace your physical passport for international travel, but it's
Speaker 1: a good thing to have just a backup. And also
Speaker 1: if you're traveling within the States. I know, we got
Speaker 1: to get this real ID soon, so if you're if
Speaker 1: you're stalling on that like I am for the past
Speaker 1: you know, three or so years, this is a good
Speaker 1: thing to have as an alternative because the passport is
Speaker 1: kind of like universal.
Speaker 2: So if you have a.
Speaker 1: Google wallet, you've got a passport, you can now add
Speaker 1: it to your Google wallet. Apple does not offer that
Speaker 1: at this point, but now that Google does, I'm sure
Speaker 1: Apple won't be far behind Nintendo's opening up a new
Speaker 1: store in San Francisco. This is their second official US store,
Speaker 1: opening up on May fifteenth at Union Square. Like a
Speaker 1: lot of the shopping districts in the US, Union Square
Speaker 1: has been hit hard by the pandemic and other things
Speaker 1: going on, So Nintendo store hoping to revive things there.
Speaker 1: Of course, if you've been to one of these, I've
Speaker 1: been to the one in New York and Tokyo. It's
Speaker 1: a fun place, you know, if you like Nintendo, You've
Speaker 1: got you know, all kinds of merch, all kinds of games, souvenirs,
Speaker 1: lots of photo ops with characters larger than life. They're
Speaker 1: doing a deal where you can win a prize to
Speaker 1: go up there, So if you want to check out that,
Speaker 1: I'll link that up on my show Notes Rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV. But again May fifteenth, San Francisco, Nintendo
Speaker 1: opening up a store. All right, let's open up the
Speaker 1: feedback now, let's see. Dave writes in, Hey Rich, I've
Speaker 1: been watching you since you started on KTLA and you
Speaker 1: continue to educate your viewers and listeners on what's great
Speaker 1: in tech. Your trick to stop scammers is great. I've
Speaker 1: passed it along to my kids. He's talking about the
Speaker 1: tip I shared on my Instagram about pressing call record.
Speaker 1: You can go to my instagram at Ridge on Tech
Speaker 1: if you want to see it. I also love how
Speaker 1: you plant little pearls in your posts for those who
Speaker 1: take the time to read. The pearl in Your last
Speaker 1: newsletter for me was Rectangle.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I've downloaded it and can already see how it will
Speaker 1: improve my photography workflow.
Speaker 2: Appreciate all your hard work.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, Thank you, Dave that I love writing
Speaker 1: my newsletter because I sit there and I go, oh,
Speaker 1: if people actually take the time to read this, they're
Speaker 1: going to get a couple of nuggets out of this
Speaker 1: that are really good. And I'm glad that that's not
Speaker 1: lost on everyone. It's lost on a lot of people,
Speaker 1: but not you, Dave.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Tracy. I'm listening and I just heard the question from
Speaker 1: the guy who wanted service out to his fence sixty
Speaker 1: plus yards away in his workshop one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards away. I've never heard of the two options you
Speaker 1: gave him. I'm wondering why he didn't mention starlink. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that solved his issue without all the extra gadgets you
Speaker 1: said he needed. Thanks love your show. Great question, Tracy,
Speaker 1: this was a couple of weeks ago. Yes, Starlink, what
Speaker 1: the person was asking for was Wi Fi. He already
Speaker 1: had a Wi Fi connection at his house. Starlink provides
Speaker 1: a Wi Fi connection in places where there's typically not
Speaker 1: a connection. So what he just wanted was his WiFi
Speaker 1: that he already has to reach outside to his yard,
Speaker 1: his fence, and his workshop. So that's why I recommended
Speaker 1: the outdoor versions of the I think it was Orb
Speaker 1: and Eero, So that's it. Nothing against Starlink. I think
Speaker 1: Starlink's amazing, but you need to have a use case scenario.
Speaker 1: You don't just buy starlink unless you need it and
Speaker 1: you're in an area that's underserved or you want mobile
Speaker 1: coverage everywhere.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, what do we have? Ray from Thousand
Speaker 1: Oaks rights in. It's Saturday morning and at ninety two.
Speaker 1: I really enjoy your TV show. I'm not super tech savvy,
Speaker 1: but I try to keep up. Since I got a
Speaker 1: new iPad last year and also new MEC another new
Speaker 1: iPad generation, I can't keep up, but I like it.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of flat, slippery keyboard keys, but
Speaker 1: I've learned to deal with them. Adding a mouse sometimes
Speaker 1: moves my hands on the keyboard, but I've adjusted roxy.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's his wife is ninety four, enjoys your
Speaker 1: show too. She's definitely not into tech, but we both
Speaker 1: learn a lot from you.
Speaker 11: Ray.
Speaker 2: Thank you. This is what I love.
Speaker 1: I love when people say I'm not into technology, but
Speaker 1: I like your shows, your.
Speaker 2: Segments on TV.
Speaker 1: That's my whole point to bring technology to everyone because
Speaker 1: we're all forced to use it, and by the way,
Speaker 1: you should enjoy it if you're using it. Ronald writes
Speaker 1: in I've heard you mentioned Rosebud for journaling. I use
Speaker 1: another AI journal called mine Sera. It doesn't have a
Speaker 1: mobile app, just top, but it's a professional tool with
Speaker 1: new features added regularly. Just something your listeners might like
Speaker 1: as a comparison listening on Google Home Kfi.
Speaker 2: There you go. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Ross from Canada rights in, I was surprised when your
Speaker 1: guest said it's illegal to in New York City to
Speaker 1: wear headphones while riding a bicycle. I looked it up
Speaker 1: and it turns out you are allowed to wear headphones
Speaker 1: in one ear, which is the same rule for driving
Speaker 1: a car. The law is there to ensure awareness of
Speaker 1: your surroundings. Here in Canada, I don't believe we have
Speaker 1: any such law as people with hearing laws or impairments
Speaker 1: are still permitted to drive and ride bicycles.
Speaker 2: Good point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, most of the time they don't want both ears
Speaker 1: taken up by the earbuds, but one ear should be fine.
Speaker 1: But I don't think anyone enforces if you're riding a
Speaker 1: bike in New York City with your AirPods in. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure anyone's ever been arrested for that. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine a world where that has happened. That's probably one
Speaker 1: of those things that's not really enforced. All right, let's
Speaker 1: find one more here before we have to go, Jim says,
Speaker 1: it's cool. You've read my email about the counting, so
Speaker 1: you've read some of my emails before. But this time
Speaker 1: it was extra fun because it turned into a whole thing,
Speaker 1: even carrying into the next segment. When Adam played the
Speaker 1: original Joni Mitchell track as a bumper for a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes, I felt like I was part of the show.
Speaker 1: I was out on a bike ride in southern California
Speaker 1: while listening. It was great to hear thank you, Jim.
Speaker 1: Jim has been writing in a lot. Love Jim's comments,
Speaker 1: but good to feel part of the show. And Tricia says,
Speaker 1: I found your show driving home from work one weekend.
Speaker 1: I've been a faithful listener ever since. Your tips have
Speaker 1: come in handy for my business and personally. Thank you, Tricia.
Speaker 1: Next week we're going to talk to the founder of
Speaker 1: the death clock app. Yeah, it uses AI to predict
Speaker 1: how long you live. Is it bogus or is it real?
Speaker 1: He'll explain, I think it's real.
Speaker 2: That's going to do it.
Speaker 1: You can find links to what I mentioned on the
Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot tv. I'm on social media
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. Thanks so much for listening. Thanks
Speaker 1: to everyone who makes this show possible. Kim for appearing
Speaker 1: this week on the air, Bobo behind the board. I'll
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