1 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: Samsung's latest foldable phone is luxury all the way. My 2 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: thoughts on the new Nomad wireless charging pad, which is 3 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: pretty unique. A handy chrome extension to help you handle 4 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: all those GDPR consent pop ups. You know what I'm 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: talking about. Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech. This 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: is the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: that I think you should know about, and it's also 9 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: the place where I answer the questions that you send me. 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 1: In case you don't know, my name is Rich Dmiro, 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome 12 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: to the podcast. If you're listening for the first time, 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: thank you for finding me. If you're listening for the 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: one hundredth time, thank you for putting up with me. 15 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: I get a lot of emails from people about the 16 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: podcast now, which is pretty cool because when I first 17 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: started this, it was kind of like a little side project, 18 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: and now you know it is produced out of KTLA 19 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: or part of KTLA, but it's kept the same kind 20 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: of I don't know, like it just feels like it 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: nothing's changed, and that's what I like about it. I 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: was on vacation over the weekend. I'm a little bit 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: older now that I talk to you, because it was 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: my birthday, you know, recently, and so that was fun. 25 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: We went down to San Diego to this place called 26 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: Paradise Point, which my friend has been talking about this 27 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: place forever, and I never went. And finally, you know, 28 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: because you can't really go in many places right now, 29 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: San Diego seemed great, had great weather, great sun. Paradise 30 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: Point was there. My friend, my other friend told me 31 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: about it. He said, dude, we just went. We loved it, 32 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: So okay, that's where we went. We had a great time. 33 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 1: This resort reminds me of a place that sort of 34 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: transports you to a family place back in the day's. 35 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: It reminds me of Hawaii. It felt like Hawaii. It 36 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: was just really fun. The water was beautiful. We had 37 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: a nice beach front kind of view. It was just great. 38 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: And we stayed there for a couple nights and just 39 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 1: had such a nice time. And I just every morning 40 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: tried to just go out on the beach and just 41 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: kind of sit there for a couple minutes and kind 42 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: of reflect, because I'm trying to do that more often 43 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: these days, and It's not that easy all the time. 44 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: But anyway, let's get into the podcast. Let's get into 45 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: the first story of the week, which is the Samsung 46 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: Galaxy Z Fold two five G. This is the latest 47 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: smartphone that I've been playing with. It's also one of 48 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: the most expensive smartphones I think I've ever tested, certainly 49 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: ever sent to me as a review unit. So what 50 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: is unique about this device? You might remember this was 51 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: the device that Samsung had a little trouble with back 52 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: in the day when it first launched. They sent it 53 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: to a bunch of reviewers and next thing you know, 54 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: those reviewers had problems with the screen, and specifically, Samsung 55 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: figured out that there was some debris getting in behind 56 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: this and that was causing it to fail. And so 57 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: they went back to the drawing board. They came up 58 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: with some sort of little way to protect the back 59 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 1: of the or I guess the opening near the hinge, 60 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 1: and that fixed it for the most part. I'm not 61 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: sure how many of these phones they sold the first 62 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: time around. But now this is the new version, and 63 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,919 Speaker 1: this new version is kind of revamped in some really 64 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: nice ways. Number One, the front screen is way bigger, 65 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: way more useful. Six point two inch screen on the front, 66 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: and the phone is kind of thin, so it's a 67 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: really thin phone, but it's thick because it's almost imagined 68 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: two phones stacked on top of each other with a hinge. 69 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: Then you've got this giant seven point six inch screen 70 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: when you open the thing up, and that's a foldable 71 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: ultra glass or ultra thin glass screen. Used to be plastic. 72 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: Now it's glass, and that's a miracle in engineering in itself. 73 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: It's got one hundred and twenty hrtz adaptable refresh rate. 74 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: It's got great sound. The hinge is now called the 75 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: Hideaway hinge, which means it's smaller than before. And it 76 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: also has sweeper technology, which they first introduced on their 77 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: other flip phone, which is the Galaxy Z Flip. And 78 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: it's kind of like it looks like a little kind 79 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: of sweeper brush, like a little broom inside the hinge 80 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: that theoretically just kind of brushes out any debris that 81 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 1: gets in there, and so that should take care of that. 82 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 1: It's also fully close, you don't really see it. Cool 83 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: things about this phone is that it's really luxurious. It's 84 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: kind of cool to have both a smartphone and a 85 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: tablet in your pocket at all times. You've got a 86 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: cool new feature. Where the old one only opened up 87 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: to one you can only open it up and that 88 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: was it, so it was either closed or opened. There 89 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: was no degrees of open, so you couldn't kind of 90 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: make the phone into its own little self standing tripod, 91 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 1: like put it in an L shape and just sit 92 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: it there and watch a show. Well now you can 93 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 1: do that. They call flex mode, So now you can 94 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: just bend the screen at any angle you want, in 95 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 1: a half fold, a quarterfold, and open fold, and you 96 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: can watch stuff. And you can also record videos hands free. 97 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: So that's kind of neat. But the camera is is good. 98 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: I mean it, you know, I haven't. I'm not doing 99 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: a full review on this device because it's not something 100 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are gonna purchase. To me, 101 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: I'm sort of just taking a look at it, understanding 102 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 1: what it's all about, so that I can talk about 103 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: it in the future before it goes back to Samsung. 104 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: So this is not a review. I think that if 105 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: I'm reviewing this device, I'm not sure I would recommend 106 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 1: someone purchasing this device unless you have money to burn, 107 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: because it's sort of a it's still almost in beta. 108 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: This is the second version. It's really expensive. It's two 109 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. But again, I think they did a really 110 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: nice job and I love seeing this, and I actually 111 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: think that I will buy a foldable phone in the 112 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: future when it gets to a point where I feel 113 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: like it's a little bit more manageable, a little thinner, 114 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: and just kind of more what I need. But so far, 115 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I could think of a lot of reasons 116 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: why this is cool, and I am tempted. Don't get 117 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: me wrong, I am tempted because it's so unique that 118 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: nobody else has anything like it, and how cool is 119 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,799 Speaker 1: it as a tech person to have something that nobody 120 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: else has. I kind of like doing that kind of stuff. 121 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: Two colors, Mystic Bronze, Mystic Black, two fifty six gigs 122 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: of storage, twelve gigabytes of RAM and that's your only 123 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: option there. And the phone, again, like I said, is 124 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: two thousand dollars. If you go on Samsung's website to 125 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,599 Speaker 1: buy it, they're really really trying to get you to 126 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: trade in another device to bring that price down. And 127 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: one other thing to know is that because the screen 128 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: is still pretty fragile, I think or I guess. Two 129 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: other things to know. Number one, it's not dust or 130 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,799 Speaker 1: water resistant. They make that very clear. And you also 131 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 1: get a one time device protection against accidental display damage 132 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: within one year. So if you mess up the screen 133 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: within one year, send it back to Samsung, they will 134 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: send you a either a new one with a new screen, 135 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 1: or refurbish it or whatever they do. So there you 136 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: have it. Samsung Galaxy z Fold two pretty cool goes 137 00:06:53,440 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: on sale September eighteenth. All right, let's get to the 138 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: first question. Let's see here. Hmmm, let's see. Jesse from Glendora, Cali. 139 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 1: Let's see. Let's yeah. Jesse from Glendora, California, wanted your 140 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 1: thoughts about the Western Digital my cloud duo hard drive 141 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: backup system. I still perform backups on Google and iCloud. 142 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: I wanted something local at my house and not to 143 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: keep everything stored on my iMac. It fills up quickly. 144 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: I'm a little scared to have everything in the cloud, 145 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: photos and music. Your thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated. 146 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: Jesse from Glendora, you get a because this is a 147 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 1: fantastic idea. We should not have everything just in the cloud, 148 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: and you should have your things in a couple of 149 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: different places, some were physical in your home and then 150 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: somewhere in the cloud. And if you have them in 151 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: those two places, the good news is if one of 152 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: them fails, you've got him in the other place. So 153 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: I think the Western Digital MyCloud duo is great. I'm 154 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: not even sure you need the MYC Cloud duo because 155 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: the Cloud duo is I think that's the one that 156 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 1: has software that backs it up to the cloud. Oh no, 157 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: it just plugs directly into your WiFi router so that 158 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: way it's kind of like your own little cloud exactly. 159 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: So that's perfect. I love it. I think that that's 160 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: a fantastic idea. You should definitely do that. It's expensive. 161 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: I'm not sure that you need that big of a 162 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: solution unless you have a lot of stuff, Jesse with 163 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: your photos and videos I think are your photos and music. 164 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 1: I think what you can do is depending on the 165 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: kind of Oh you have an iMac. I think with 166 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: an iMac, what you should do is just buy a 167 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: two or four gigabyte hard drive and just plug it 168 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: into your iMac and just plug it in, turn on 169 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: time capsule, and just plug it in every once in 170 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: a while every week, every month and boom, just let 171 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:50,959 Speaker 1: it back up everything on your iMac. Now that's given 172 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: that all of your photos are on your iMac, I'm 173 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: not sure if they are or not. And your music, 174 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: I'm sure it is. But no matter what you do, 175 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 1: I'm trying to give you a cheaper solution because just 176 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: a standard USB hard drive, it's gonna be a lot cheaper. 177 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: So I would say, just plug that in, let Time 178 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: Capsule do its thing. Do that every couple of weeks 179 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: or every week, whatever, however often you need. You think 180 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,840 Speaker 1: you need to do that, But I think that's a 181 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: cheaper solution that would totally work for you. But yeah, 182 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: but if you can, if you're ready to spring for 183 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,839 Speaker 1: the my cloud duo, sure, I mean I love having 184 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: a network drive. It's great. I don't have mine hooked 185 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: up right now because I've gotten sow into the cloud 186 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: and I actually get a because I've gotten really bad 187 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: about backing up my stuff in a second place. I 188 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: know it's on my drive, it's on my phone. I 189 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: also have a whole bunch of assorted hard drives around 190 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: my house with all kinds of backups on them that 191 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: one day, one of these days, I will go through 192 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: and finally back up and organize everything on those drives. 193 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to delete anything because I don't know 194 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: if I've got the pictures in Google Photos, and I 195 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: just want to go off on one little tangent here 196 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: and this. I love, love, love Google Photos, but there 197 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: is one feature I just cannot stand about it anymore, 198 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,719 Speaker 1: and that is there is no way to sync my 199 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: Google Photos collection with a backup drive. And yes, I 200 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: know you can do Google take out and download the 201 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: entire photo collection, but that is so unreasonable. All I want, 202 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: here's what I want. Google, Please just make a deal 203 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: with a hard drive manufacturer and make that deal so 204 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,439 Speaker 1: that when I plug this drive into my computer or 205 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: just connect it to my WiFi, it is constantly downloading 206 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: and syncing my Google Photos library to that drive. That's 207 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: all I want. I don't think Google's going away anytime soon. 208 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: I don't think their system is gonna crash. But at 209 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: the same time, I just want a nice local backup 210 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: of my photos in my home, just because it just 211 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 1: makes me feel better. I mean, if something ever happened 212 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: to me, you think someone else is gonna figure out 213 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: how to download all my pictures? From good Google. One 214 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: of my family members. No, and I don't want to 215 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,720 Speaker 1: get that dark. But the reality is it would just 216 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 1: be nice to have a local copy. And I think 217 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: that other platforms do offer that, some of the other 218 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: photo saving platforms, but I like Google Photos and they 219 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: used to have it and it's gone away, and I 220 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: just wish you would bring it back, Google, because it 221 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: would just be nice. I know you're trying to make 222 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: things simple, and also I think you're trying to make 223 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: them complicated because when someone wants to download their stuff, 224 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: think about it. If you have it on a drive 225 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 1: at your house at all times, how much easier is 226 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: it to just bring that somewhere else and you move 227 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: your business elsewhere. Let's move on to a new wireless 228 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 1: charging pad. This is from Nomad and it's called the 229 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,200 Speaker 1: base Station Pro. I went up to Nomad and Santa Barbara. 230 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: I hope I didn't talk about this before on the podcast, 231 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: but I talked to the folks at Nomad who they 232 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,479 Speaker 1: make really cool kind of I don't know, artisanal almost 233 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 1: products for iPhone and smartphones in general. My phone is 234 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: a big one. But they make cases, they make charging cables, 235 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. But this new one is called 236 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: the base Station Pro and it is a wireless charging pad. Now, rich, 237 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: what's so new about a wireless charging pad. Well, let 238 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: me tell you. The neat thing about this wireless charging 239 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,160 Speaker 1: pad is that it is positionless, which means you can 240 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: put three devices on here anywhere you want. Now, I 241 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: have a three device charger from Mophi, and you have 242 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: to place them exactly right. You've got to put stuff 243 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 1: on what's called a sweet spot. And if you don't, 244 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: your phone doesn't charge. And I've woken up many a 245 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: morning's where my phone has not charged overnight because it 246 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: either moved or stopped charging for some reason, or I 247 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: hit the nightstand whatever. So this you really don't have 248 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: that problem, and it works. It works great. There are 249 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: some caveats. I'll tell you about those, but let me 250 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: tell you how they did it. So instead of one 251 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: coil that charges your phone, they have eighteen coils underneath, 252 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: along with little software called free Power that detects where 253 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: you place your device and then it directs the power 254 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: to that device. Pretty cool, huh. I thought it was 255 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: pretty neat. Now I will tell you this, I think 256 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: hang on. I just took a sip of my tea, 257 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: my Green tea. I think that the free power actually 258 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: works better with Apple products than any other products. So 259 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's an Android thing or some 260 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: weird stuff, but I just feel like when you put 261 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 1: your iPhone on there, it works. Now, I will say 262 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: with the Galaxy Z Fold two that's been working really 263 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 1: well as well. And there are three little there are 264 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: three little status lights on this thing too, which is 265 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: really cool. That will let you know if it's charging, 266 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: like if the power is going to the three little gadgets, 267 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: which is also kind of cool. And I found that 268 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: the Pixel did not work at all. The Samsung Galaxy 269 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: Note twenty Ultra did not work. It just it does 270 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: this really weird thing. Maybe I have a bad review unit, 271 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: but it does this really weird thing where it just 272 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: goes crazy. It's like selecting on screen. It's really strange. 273 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 1: It looks I got to get a video of it 274 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: and post it to Twitter because it's very strange. And 275 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: I asked no Mad about this and they said yes, 276 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 1: there are some issues. Officially, older Samsung devices S nine 277 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: and blow and all Pixel devices don't work. They're working 278 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 1: on a firmware slash software update. And also, oh yeah, 279 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: there is one more thing that does not work, the 280 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: Apple Watch. So when you really think about it, this 281 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,120 Speaker 1: is for someone who has, you know, maybe two iPhones, 282 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: a work phone and a personal phone, plus a pair 283 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: of AirPods. It will work with the Samsung Buds and 284 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: other wireless It does work with things that are on 285 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: the Cheese standard, but it's not officially on the Cheese standard. 286 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 1: There must be something they did weird about it that 287 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 1: they can't officially say it's chea so I don't know. 288 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: But if you have Apple stuff, it works great. Otherwise, 289 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: if you could get into a store, like if they 290 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: had one of these in an Apple store, that would 291 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: be ideal because then you can test your your products 292 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: on it and see if it works. But it's really cool. 293 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: Two hundred and thirty dollar, I know, very expensive, but 294 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: the neat thing is really it feels like what the 295 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: future will bring with wireless charging, where you just throw 296 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: your device on there and you don't have to think 297 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: about how you placed it and it just sort of charges, 298 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: which is really neat all right, Angela writes in we 299 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: all watch you and love your suggestions with little heart. 300 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: Oh thank you. We were hoping you could offer a 301 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: solution to our problem. We have paper thin walls and 302 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 1: don't have a PA system and need some soft music 303 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: to play in our exam rooms. But I'm not even 304 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,479 Speaker 1: sure what device we could use for this function. Suggestions 305 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,360 Speaker 1: are appreciated. Thank you so much the staff at Family 306 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: Member Veterinary. Is it veterinary veterinary veterinary hospital, Veterinary, I 307 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: don't know veterinary. You know it's a hospital for dogs 308 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 1: and cats, animals, Angela. I think your best solution is 309 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: something that is so simple it might have evaded you. 310 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: I think a Google Nest Mini would be perfect in 311 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: every room, And now I think, yeah, so here's what 312 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: I would do. I would do a Google Nest Mini. 313 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 1: You can get those for I think they're like forty bucks. 314 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 1: Put them in every room. You can group them up 315 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: on the Google Home mapp and you can play music 316 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: to all of the rooms at the same time and boom, 317 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: now you have music in every room. You can also 318 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: use it as a PA system, so if you want 319 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,479 Speaker 1: to like send messages throughout the whole office, you can broadcast. 320 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: I think the the syntax let's see broadcast Google Home. 321 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: So I think what you say is you can use 322 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: a little mic on your on your thing, or let's 323 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 1: see broadcasts from one speaker to others. You just say okay, 324 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: it doesn't tell you how to do it. Come on 325 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 1: what you need? Oh, here you go, You say h 326 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:54,680 Speaker 1: Google broadcast there you go. You can also use the 327 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: commands shout tell everyone announce instead of broadcast. You can 328 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: say eah, Google, tell everyone one doctor needed in room seven. 329 00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,200 Speaker 1: Doctor needed in room seven. So you can do that. 330 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 1: And now the other thing is your guests will also 331 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: be able to say h Google. So what I would 332 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: do is probably turn off the microphone functionality. So there's 333 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: a little toggle on there to turn off the microphone 334 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: and then you can just have your music playing. And yes, 335 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 1: some of your smarter, more savvy guests might toggle the 336 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: microphone switch and mess with it, but I think that's 337 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 1: probably a small portion of people. The other thing I'd 338 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: recommend is they've got these great Google mounts on Amazon. 339 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: So if you look on Amazon Google Nest Mini mount, 340 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: you go on there and they've got so many great 341 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: mounts and you can just plug it into a plug 342 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 1: on the wall and it kind of keeps all the 343 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: chords great. I mean, you can really I think This 344 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: is such a simple solution. You're talking you know, a 345 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: couple bucks for the mount and you know forty bucks 346 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: for the minis. You can get them a two pack, 347 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: three pack or whatever you can find them on sale. 348 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:03,240 Speaker 1: I think that's gonna do it just fine. All right, 349 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: let's move on to another tech topic of the week, 350 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: and this is Facebook. Remember I was just talking about 351 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: photos and videos. This perfectly talk. This kind of goes 352 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: to what I'm talking about. And Facebook is now expanding 353 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: what's called their Data Portability Tool, and now you can 354 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: send your photos and videos to Dropbox and also another 355 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 1: service called Koofer Koofr, which is something in Europe. We 356 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: don't I guess we don't really have it here in 357 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 1: the US. Maybe we do, we just don't really use it. 358 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: But so this is pretty simple. If you've got photos 359 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: on Facebook, remember there was a time when you were 360 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: uploading a ton of photos to Facebook, or even maybe 361 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: you even use that Facebook sink feature they used to 362 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: have back in the day, which I don't know why 363 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: they got rid of that, but people used to be 364 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: able to sync all the photos from your camera roll 365 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 1: and your phone to Facebook. They got rid of that. 366 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: But maybe you still have a bunch of photos lingering 367 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: in Facebook. Maybe you've been using it for fifteen years 368 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: now or whatever. However many years Facebook has been around, 369 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 1: and you've got a bunch of photos in there, and 370 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: you want to store them somewhere else. Well, now you 371 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: can do a direct transfer right from Facebook to Dropbox. 372 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: And also Google Photos is supported, and so all you 373 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 1: do is you go on your Facebook, you log in 374 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 1: to your other account. It'll like connect the two accounts, 375 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,360 Speaker 1: you know, your drop Box or your Google Photos, and 376 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,199 Speaker 1: it will start moving your pictures over. Now it's not 377 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: going to transfer them, it's going to copy them, so 378 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 1: they will still be on Facebook. And now you have 379 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 1: a copy of your pictures on Dropbox. And let's say 380 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: you want to get rid of Facebook. Boom, you can 381 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 1: get rid of Facebook. So that's pretty easy. So there 382 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: you go. That's kind of like that's it. There's not 383 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: much more to know about that. Everything is encrypted as 384 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 1: it moves between services. Facebook is quick to point out. 385 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: So it's just good. I love this is fantastic, and 386 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: in fact, I wish that Google would do something like 387 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: this for other services. And I think that that's the 388 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: goal of these services, to make it easy to move 389 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: things back and forth, especially as we are moving towards 390 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: the cloud, folks, so everything is going to the cloud, 391 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: and so when you have things in the cloud, what 392 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: happens Everyone wants it's easy to get your stuff into 393 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 1: the cloud. But if it becomes a thing where it's 394 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: really tough to get your stuff out of the cloud, 395 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: that is what scares me. Because it used to be 396 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: back in the day, all the services would sink so 397 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 1: easily to some sort of you know, network attached storage 398 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: or whatever, and then all of a sudden they started 399 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 1: backing out of those things, and it gets tougher and 400 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:35,000 Speaker 1: tougher to get your stuff out of these services. And yes, again, 401 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: I know you can do Google takeout, and I'm sure 402 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: Microsoft has the equivalent and all these other services. I 403 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 1: know Facebook even has that equivalent where you can download 404 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: your entire Facebook. But it's kind of a pain. And 405 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: these files are giant, especially the longer that you've been 406 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: with these services. So who's gonna sit there and download 407 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: terabytes or you know, gigabytes and gigabytes of data. It's 408 00:20:53,359 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: gonna be tough. Let's hear from Bill. Bill says, I 409 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: just upgraded my internet speed to one hundred megabits per second. 410 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: I have a Netgear Nighthawk AC nineteen hundred router. I 411 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: wonder if you heard about that on wirecutter, because that's 412 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 1: I think the one they recommend, which works perfectly for 413 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 1: our three story home. Wow, that's surprising. I noticed my 414 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: speed is only about forty five megabits per second download 415 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: when connected to two point four gigaherts and one hundred 416 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 1: and two at five gigaherts. I've tried different channels and 417 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 1: currently found Channel three as the best out of the 418 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,679 Speaker 1: eleven channels. I wanted to know if this is normal 419 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 1: for two point four gigaherts to have such a slower speed. 420 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: It's not really a problem because most of the streaming 421 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: devices are on five gigaherts. Anyway, any ideas, I don't 422 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: want to call Netgear because they charge for support. Oh wow, 423 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: that's interesting. Am I missing something? No? So Number one 424 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: when it comes to Wi Fi, if you're generally speaking, 425 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: you are not gonna get the speed that you get 426 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,840 Speaker 1: coming into your house at the hub across all your 427 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:03,359 Speaker 1: devices from the Wi Fi network. It's just a matter 428 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: of there's interference. There's a lot going on. There's a 429 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: lot of devices it's just generally going to be for 430 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,199 Speaker 1: a lot of people, it's about half. If you can 431 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: get it more than half, that's fantastic. So if you're 432 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: getting two hundred, I used to get two hundred across 433 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: all my devices, I don't quite get that anymore. I 434 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: upgraded to a gigabyte or gigabit, and I don't quite 435 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: get it across all my devices. I'm still working on 436 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: getting it to there because it has to do with 437 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: all the routers and the way they talk to each other. 438 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,959 Speaker 1: But the reality is, if you're getting one hundred at 439 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: five gigaherts, that's great. And I know you. You seem 440 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: like a technical guy because you've done all these tests. 441 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,360 Speaker 1: You found much channel is the best. You've figured out 442 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 1: the two point four versus five. So most of today's 443 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: Wi Fi networks put out two signals. One that's two 444 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: point four gigaherts, which goes further but it's not as fast. 445 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: And then you have five gigaherts, which doesn't go far, 446 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 1: but it creates it carries data at a I guess 447 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 1: a higher through put if you want to say it 448 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:09,880 Speaker 1: that way. So you figured that out on your own. 449 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: I don't think this is a problem. I think you're fine. 450 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 1: I'm surprised that the router is getting stuff to all 451 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: corners of your home for a three story house, so 452 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: I think you're winning there. And yeah, the two point 453 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: four giga hurts thing at forty five, it's still going 454 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: to be fine. And like you said, most of your 455 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: streaming stuff, most of the new stuff is on five 456 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: giga hurts. Anyway, two point four was kind of the standard, 457 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: that is the older standard that everything uses, and some 458 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: inexpensive devices used, like if they're trying to save money 459 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: by not doing a dual band, but most of the 460 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: new devices do five. So if you're getting one hundred 461 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 1: and two on five, I think you're okay. I think 462 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: eventually you may want to look into a mesh network, 463 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 1: but I don't think you need it right now if 464 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: your Nighthawk is working for you. All right, let's talk 465 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: about GDPR. Do you know what that is? That is 466 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 1: the the thing over in Europe, the oh my gosh, 467 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: what's it called? What does GDPR stand for? I remember 468 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: when I first did this, I remembered what it meant. 469 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,199 Speaker 1: But it's called General Data Protection Regulation. And what this 470 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: is is the really intense privacy laws that they have 471 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: over in Europe. And so when you had this happen, 472 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: every website in the world had to adapt, they had 473 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: to adapt their privacy policy. And in fact, I think 474 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,120 Speaker 1: part of this was that you you have the right 475 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,199 Speaker 1: to be erased from the systems, and you also have 476 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: a right to the data in the systems. And if 477 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: you live in the EU, you can write an email 478 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: or a letter to any company that does business in 479 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: the EU, like Yahoo or Google, and say, hey, I 480 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: want to see all the data that you've collected on me, 481 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: and they have to send it to you, which, as 482 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: you can imagine, that's probably a big pain for these companies, 483 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: but you know, that's the cost of doing business, I guess. 484 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: And these regulations and it's really meant to protect people's privacy. 485 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm not commenting on whether it goes too far or 486 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: whether it's annoying. But you know, the one thing that 487 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: we have seen because of this is everywhere in the world, 488 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: every website that you go to, there is a little 489 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: pop up that you've seen that says, what do you 490 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: like to accept cookies? Would you like to have your privacy? 491 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: Would you want to opt out of the privacy policy 492 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,680 Speaker 1: or opt in or whatever. There's so many little things 493 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: that they ask every single website. It is pretty annoying. 494 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: I will tell you that. Now. I love the fact 495 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: that we have access to privacy controls and all this 496 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 1: good stuff, but it's a little bit much. And ninety 497 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 1: nine percent of the time I feel like I say 498 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,400 Speaker 1: yes to these things or whatever. I just clicked the box. 499 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: I don't even know if I'm saying yes or no 500 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: or somewhere in between. And next time I go to 501 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,399 Speaker 1: that website, I feel like it's there again. And I 502 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: feel like I'm always clicking in every website. By the 503 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: time you get to a website, number one, you gotta 504 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: click the GDPR, then you got to click the newsletter, 505 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: Then you got to click about you know, if you're 506 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,239 Speaker 1: using an ad blocker, they they you know, talk about that, 507 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: which I get, you know. Then they talk about, you know, 508 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: do you want to allow pop ups or notifications or 509 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: what it's like, can we track your location? There's so 510 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 1: many things. All I want to do is read the article. 511 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: I just want to see what you said about this. 512 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,479 Speaker 1: But I'm sitting there, like navigating this website. And so anyway, 513 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: I say all of this because there is a tracker, 514 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: a chrome extension. I just discovered that so far, I 515 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: think is really cool and I hope it's legit. But 516 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: it's called consent omatic, And according to the information here, 517 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: the consent to omatic was built and maintained by workers 518 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:43,320 Speaker 1: at a university in Denmark. And these privacy researchers got 519 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: tired of seeing how companies violate the EUS General Data 520 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 1: Protection Regulation. Because organizations that enforce the GDPR do not 521 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: have enough resources, we built this add on to help 522 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 1: them out. They looked at six hundred and eighty different 523 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: pop ups and combine their data processing purposes into five 524 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,199 Speaker 1: categories that you can toggle on or off. Sometimes their 525 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 1: categories don't match perfectly, but we will choose the one 526 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: that provides the most privacy preserving option. So here's what's 527 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 1: so great. Here is what's so great. So now they 528 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: say that these pop up cookie pop ups are designed 529 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: to be confusing. Oh okay, good, that's true. They want 530 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: to make you agree to be tracked. So this add 531 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: on automatically answers those consent pop ups for you, so 532 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 1: you can't be manipulated. You set your preference preferences once 533 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,120 Speaker 1: and you let the technology do the rest. And so far. 534 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 1: I went to a couple websites with this Chrome extension 535 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 1: installed and it worked. I saw a little check mark 536 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: pop up on the Chrome extension when it kind of 537 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: went through the little box that popped up. I think 538 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: this is so cool. It's called the consent omatic. I 539 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: will link it in the show notes, so you make 540 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: sure you get the right one and you're not getting 541 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,719 Speaker 1: some scammy one. The only thing is I've gotten really 542 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: cautious about installing Chrome extensions, especially the ones that say 543 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: we can read and write data on all of the 544 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: websites that you visit. And some of these things like 545 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: a Honey extension or a Wiki buy, they need that 546 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 1: because that's how they see what website you're on. And 547 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: I've toggled that feature off, and like you know, you 548 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: can enable it every time you want manually, but it 549 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: is a pain, and so you don't want, Like I 550 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: find this, it's easier to let them read it, right, 551 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: but you have to imagine you are giving them a 552 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: lot of data, and this is one of them. So 553 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: this says this can read and change site data on 554 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,119 Speaker 1: all sites. So every website that you go to, this 555 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,200 Speaker 1: little concent omatic is getting a record of that, as 556 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,840 Speaker 1: I understand, so you have to weigh your options. Do 557 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: you want your privacy or do you want your annoyances gone? 558 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: And what I like about this little consent omatic is 559 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: that you have options, so you can go in and 560 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: your choice is they give one two three, one, two 561 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 1: three four. There's about five six categories information and storage 562 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: access and I have that off preferences and functionality off, 563 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,920 Speaker 1: performance and analytics off, content selection, delivery and reporting off, 564 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: ad selection, off other purposes off. How great is that 565 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: all tracking is rejected by default, which is something I 566 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: don't think I would have done if I was doing 567 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: this manually. So I think this is a major two 568 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: thumbs up for not only the convenience, but also the 569 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: fact that it is blocking a lot of these trackers 570 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: that by default, a lot of us are just saying yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 571 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: go away, go away, go away, and we don't really 572 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: know what we're doing. So kudos to them, and I 573 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: will again put that link in the show notes. All right, 574 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: next question comes from Karen. Hey, Rich, you helped me before, 575 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: and I appreciate your wisdom. I have the same Samsung 576 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: four phone. Soon I hope it will be replaced by 577 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: a seven for my brother. But I'm struggling a little. 578 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:58,680 Speaker 1: Number one. The phone will not hold a charge to 579 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: take a few pictures Google's something. Oh my god, it 580 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: shuts off. The short time frame is amazing. Do you 581 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 1: think it's just because the phone is old? Could it 582 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 1: be the charger or would a new battery help until 583 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: I get the next hand me down. I've also lost 584 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: the microphone feature for texting. It just disappeared. I've checked 585 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: YouTube videos, followed the path little microphone should appear. It 586 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 1: never does. Is it lost forever? Thanks so much for 587 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: your time, Thank you, Karen. All right, let's break this down. 588 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: Samsung four. Wow, number one, kudos to you for having 589 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:32,560 Speaker 1: a Samsung S four. That phone was released in Let's 590 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: see what date that was. That was twenty thirteen, seven 591 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: years ago. Whoa, that is a long time. I think 592 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: most people are keeping their phones for about an average 593 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: of two to three years at this point. So you're 594 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: going seven's. That's amazing, So good for you. Number one. 595 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: The battery I think that, yes, the battery is probably fried. 596 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: Batteries have a certain lifespan what's called cycles. They only 597 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: get so many cycles, no matter how good you are 598 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: charging them, they do not last forever. So that's the 599 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 1: main thing. That battery is fried. Now the good news 600 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: is this is I believe a removable battery because it's 601 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: such an old phone that this was back in the 602 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: day when you could remove batteries. So I would go 603 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: on Amazon and see if you can buy a new battery, 604 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: see if you can replace that battery, and that would 605 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: be my first choice. If you're getting the S seven 606 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: from your brother, I would convince your brother to give 607 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: you that sooner than later and save the money on 608 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: the battery because it's still an old phone and the 609 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 1: seven is going to be a lot better for you. 610 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: Number two, the microphone for texting, I think that you 611 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: just it either got toggled off somehow or a software 612 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: update turned it off because of privacy reasons, and all 613 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: you need to do is turn it back on. So 614 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: I would go into your settings and let's see. Usually 615 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: it's under language and input. Let's see so settings General Management, 616 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: Language and input, and it should say physical keyboard or 617 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: no on screen keyboard, and then there should be Google 618 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: Voice typing, Samsung Voice input, and your keyboards. And I 619 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 1: would just go in and make sure that your voice 620 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: is on for the keyboard that you have selected, So 621 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 1: I like to use gboard depending on the keyboard you're using. 622 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: Just going there and check all those settings under on 623 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: screen keyboard and you should find it and it should 624 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 1: be there. So I don't think that that's gone forever 625 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 1: unless they somehow got rid of it. If you like 626 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: cool new apps like I do, here's another one. It's 627 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: called here here h E A R H E R E. 628 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: And what's cool about this is it is kind of 629 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: like an audio tour guide app for the places you go. 630 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: And what's unique about it is that it's just a 631 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 1: little snippets. So I just think this is such a 632 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 1: good idea because when I'm traveling, I am the kind 633 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: of person that likes to know what is going on 634 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: around me and what's the significance of that mountain or 635 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: that old you know, mission, or that church or that 636 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: giant rock, whatever it is, and you know, you can 637 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: go on. I don't know if there must be apps 638 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: that do that. I'm sure there are, But this is 639 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,720 Speaker 1: cool because it's audio and it's an app out of 640 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: Santa Barbara. It's backed by Kevin Costner, the actor and 641 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: also one of the guys who founded the North Face, 642 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,760 Speaker 1: which is like the outdoor Powall Company, or maybe they 643 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: do more than that, but they professionally edit and narrate 644 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: these little audio vignettes, and so it's kind of like 645 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,080 Speaker 1: a little history book or a you know, visitor's guide, 646 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:36,000 Speaker 1: but it's on your phone, and so it's also GPS tagged, 647 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: which means you can drive like I recently drove to 648 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 1: know Zion, Utah, and you can just fire up your 649 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: phone on the app and when you're in a little 650 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 1: small town and see if there's anything of note around 651 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: you and learn about it, which is really neat. Now. 652 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: To be fair, it doesn't work in Zion right now 653 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: because right now it supports the West Coast, which is California, Oregon, 654 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,000 Speaker 1: and Washington. There's fifteen hundred stories. They hope to have 655 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 1: about ten thousand of them by next summer. And it's 656 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: only on iOS right now, and they hope to have 657 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,880 Speaker 1: it on Android soon. But it's neat. I looked it 658 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,959 Speaker 1: up for the stories around me. It's kind of cool. 659 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 1: It's professionally produced, and I think it's a nice alternative 660 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: to the tour guide. Now there's some audio tour guide apps, 661 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:19,480 Speaker 1: or there used to be there was one that I 662 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: used up in San Francisco called Detour and it was 663 00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,640 Speaker 1: started by I think it was the guy who did 664 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 1: groupon and it was really cool. My wife and I 665 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 1: took the tour. It was fun, and they do like 666 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,399 Speaker 1: audio and they play little you know, it's like it's 667 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 1: kind of like an audio tour of wherever you're going. Now, 668 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 1: this one was very involved, you know, cross the street, 669 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 1: look at this stand there. It was great and it 670 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,319 Speaker 1: didn't last because it went away. This one also is 671 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,800 Speaker 1: they do charge you, so it's five stories for free, 672 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,240 Speaker 1: and then it's like fifty bucks for the year, which 673 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: you know is a little high. But they were doing 674 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:55,520 Speaker 1: a twenty five dollars deal. I don't know if that's 675 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: still available. They're also doing seven dollars for the week. 676 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,239 Speaker 1: So I think that look, if you're going on a trip, 677 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 1: a road trip, you're spending a lot of money. Anyway, 678 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: you're seven dollars for this app for access for the 679 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: week to learn about a couple of things on your way. 680 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: It's not that bad if you think about it that way. 681 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:13,879 Speaker 1: You know, you have to figure you know, you're gonna 682 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: stop for fast food, that's gonna be a couple bucks, 683 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 1: So seven dollars for kind of like a tour is 684 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,719 Speaker 1: really not bad. And again it's not a tour. It's 685 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: just a little audio snippets, so you can come and 686 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,879 Speaker 1: go as you please, do as many as you want, 687 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: as little as you want. And I think this is 688 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: a great idea and I hope that it lasts. I 689 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 1: hope they expand it like they say they want to. 690 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 1: And I think that it's one of those things that 691 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,759 Speaker 1: if you're traveling, I love just getting Even if I 692 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: travel to a place and I learn one thing about 693 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,680 Speaker 1: that place and it sticks with me, I love it 694 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,640 Speaker 1: and I feel like my job is done and I 695 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: feel like it's been beneficial to me to travel. And 696 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,399 Speaker 1: right now we're all doing road trips because you don't 697 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,879 Speaker 1: really want to fly places, so or we're not doing 698 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: a lot of big trips places, so this is perfect. 699 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,959 Speaker 1: If you live on the West coast, check it out 700 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 1: here here h e ar h e r E. Try it. 701 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: It's free for the first five stories and I'll just 702 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 1: continue to follow that and see the GPS tagging, I 703 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: think is the really smart part about that app. I 704 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,840 Speaker 1: also did a one of the tours in New Orleans. 705 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,439 Speaker 1: I was there and I just downloaded some random MP 706 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,399 Speaker 1: three and this was this was way back in the day, 707 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 1: and I just walked around that city doing a tour. 708 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 1: So I think also, if you're in a city and 709 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 1: you can find an audio tour and download it and 710 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 1: take it, it's great. I mean, why not. I mean 711 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 1: you could do a real tour that's even better. But 712 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: you know, if you're DIY, that works too. All right, 713 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,080 Speaker 1: let's see what do we want to talk about next, Donnetta, 714 00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,399 Speaker 1: says mister Demiro. I need some advice. I recently read 715 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: an article about not purchasing a MacBook Pro because eventually 716 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 1: Apple will not support them. I have one that I 717 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: purchased a couple of months ago. My question is should 718 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,440 Speaker 1: I keep it or should I sell it? Thank you, 719 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:04,480 Speaker 1: don Netta, Uh no, you should definitely keep the MacBook 720 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: Pro that you purchased. Apple is going to support them 721 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: for a long long time. Yes, there's a lot of 722 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 1: confusion because they're switching. They're not even I mean, eventually 723 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: they're switching to their own processors, and it's not going 724 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,759 Speaker 1: to be Intel. I guess I think they're switching to 725 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,279 Speaker 1: their own like fully, but right now it's going to 726 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,080 Speaker 1: be a slow, slow march to their own what they 727 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:29,279 Speaker 1: call their own silicon or their own silicon silicon, and 728 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,719 Speaker 1: so they are going to use their own processors inside 729 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,000 Speaker 1: their devices. And that's gonna happen. And yes, it's gonna happen, 730 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:38,840 Speaker 1: I think they said by the end of was It 731 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: twenty twenty twenty one. But don't worry about it. Your 732 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,759 Speaker 1: your computer is going to be just fine. So let 733 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:48,240 Speaker 1: me look up macOS Catalina, which is the newest operating system, 734 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:53,080 Speaker 1: and let's see which Mac computers it supports. Usually if 735 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,919 Speaker 1: you scroll all the way down, it will say which 736 00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: ones they support. Okay, all right, let's let's take a 737 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 1: look see if your Mac can run mac OS Catalina 738 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 1: MacBook twenty fifteen and later MacBook Air twenty twelve and 739 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 1: later MacBook Pro twenty twelve and later MacBook Mini twenty 740 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 1: twelve and later iMac twenty twelve and later i'mc Pro 741 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and later mac Pro twenty thirteen. You're talking 742 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,239 Speaker 1: this operating system that Apple just came out with, and 743 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 1: you know, in the past year supports computers from eight 744 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: years ago. You have a brand new MacBook Pro. You 745 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 1: are going to be just fine. When you say eventually 746 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: Apple will not support them, you're talking eight to nine years. 747 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:43,560 Speaker 1: Because I now the new what's the new one? What's 748 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,680 Speaker 1: it called mac Os? Is it big, sir? Mac Os? 749 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 1: Big sir, so big sir. Let's see what that one supports. 750 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,120 Speaker 1: That's the one that's coming out next, and that's coming 751 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:59,320 Speaker 1: out any any day. Now, really, let's see what that supports. 752 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:04,040 Speaker 1: That supports. Okay, so we lost about a year. It 753 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:08,800 Speaker 1: looks like so MacBook Air twenty thirteen, MacBook twenty fifteen, 754 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 1: MacBook Pro twenty thirteen. So they dropped the twenty twelves. 755 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 1: So again you're talking. Let's say, if we go from 756 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:19,239 Speaker 1: today seven years, I think you are going to be 757 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,799 Speaker 1: just fine. Doneta enjoy the MacBook Pro. Don't worry about 758 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:29,279 Speaker 1: these articles you read online. No big deal. Okay, Oh 759 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,160 Speaker 1: my gosh, we're already out of time. I can't believe 760 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,360 Speaker 1: this show goes so fast. Let me talk about a 761 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: feature in Google that I just love. I've been using 762 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,760 Speaker 1: it all summer to plan my trips, especially road trips, 763 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,359 Speaker 1: and apparently Google updated it. And I kind of knew 764 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 1: when I looked at it that it looked a little different, 765 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: but they had a blog post about it, and this 766 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: is the feature called saved tab. All right, I guess 767 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,920 Speaker 1: it's the saved tab. So if you go on to 768 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,640 Speaker 1: Google and there's a couple of ways that you can 769 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,279 Speaker 1: access this, but the easiest way is to go and 770 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:01,200 Speaker 1: open Google Maps, and if you look at the bottom, 771 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,799 Speaker 1: there is Explore, commute, and then something called saved And 772 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,719 Speaker 1: this is a whole bunch of lists. And so the 773 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:13,280 Speaker 1: default lists are favorites, want to go, start places and labeled. 774 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: But the cool thing is they have done a couple 775 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: of things to improve this. I love making lists, Like 776 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,440 Speaker 1: for instance, when I went to Zion, I made a 777 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,799 Speaker 1: Zion list and when I was cruising through, you know, 778 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,320 Speaker 1: different recommendations you have to It's it's a little weird 779 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: because the easiest way to do it is to check. 780 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,400 Speaker 1: Like let's say you want to go to a restaurant, 781 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,360 Speaker 1: right you find out about a restaurant, search for that restaurant, 782 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,799 Speaker 1: then in Google Maps, and once you search for that 783 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,359 Speaker 1: restaurant in Google Maps, bring it up big. There should 784 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,479 Speaker 1: be directions call and then something called save. You tap 785 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,279 Speaker 1: save and then you can save it to one of 786 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,799 Speaker 1: your lists. And what they've done with these lists is 787 00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,759 Speaker 1: they've made them really easy to find number one, and 788 00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: then when you tap it to find it later, they 789 00:40:55,040 --> 00:41:00,080 Speaker 1: are showing you stuff based on how you know how 790 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,400 Speaker 1: close you are to those things. So in Zion, what 791 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: I did is I just went to my list and 792 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,160 Speaker 1: I saw what was closest. You can also see your 793 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: list on a map, so everything that you want to 794 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,279 Speaker 1: do in that area is plotted out and you can 795 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,319 Speaker 1: see kind of how far things are from each other. 796 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,279 Speaker 1: It's really cool and I used to use Yelp for this, 797 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,200 Speaker 1: which Yelp has a similar feature you can save collections, 798 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,919 Speaker 1: but I just felt like this was easier and more 799 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,560 Speaker 1: universal because it just seemed like it was a better 800 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 1: solution because you can save all kinds of stuff in 801 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,120 Speaker 1: these lists. You can save recipes, whatever. Now the other 802 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:33,880 Speaker 1: cool thing, and I think some people might think this 803 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,120 Speaker 1: is scary, is that if you have location history turned on, 804 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,759 Speaker 1: and a lot of people do, you can see all 805 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,480 Speaker 1: the places that you've been to in your past. And 806 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,799 Speaker 1: I've talked about this before, but they've made it a 807 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,399 Speaker 1: little bit easier to find now. So if you go 808 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,000 Speaker 1: into saved, then at the bottom you'll see timeline. You 809 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,080 Speaker 1: can say, let's go and you can now see all 810 00:41:56,200 --> 00:42:01,239 Speaker 1: the places that you've been organized by category shopping, food 811 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,320 Speaker 1: and drinks, hotels, attractions, airports. So if I want to 812 00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: see all the airports that I've been to carrying a 813 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: phone in the world, I can see them, and they're 814 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,680 Speaker 1: all sorted by how far they are. Well, they're not 815 00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,360 Speaker 1: sorted by how far they are from me, because San 816 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,160 Speaker 1: Francisco is coming up. They're actually sorted by it looks 817 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 1: like time. But you can go to food and drink. 818 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,920 Speaker 1: So maybe you went to this little little coffee house 819 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,400 Speaker 1: in Tokyo and you can't remember the name because it 820 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,440 Speaker 1: was written in Japanese. And now you can just go 821 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,840 Speaker 1: on here and go to Tokyo because it's also done by cities. 822 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,719 Speaker 1: Tap let's see. So let's go to let's see, where 823 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:41,319 Speaker 1: was I Carlsbad a year ago? I went to the 824 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,799 Speaker 1: well that was Lego Land. Okay, that wasn't very good. 825 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:49,239 Speaker 1: But oh, Shanghai. Here's Shanghai. So I went to well, 826 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,480 Speaker 1: I can't read the name of it, but it was 827 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 1: a shopping mall, and it's just you know, maybe I 828 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 1: couldn't remember the name of that shopping mall, but now 829 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,480 Speaker 1: I can see it so I think this is a 830 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:01,000 Speaker 1: really cool underutilized feature. Yes, is it that Google is 831 00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,799 Speaker 1: keeping track of everywhere you go? Yes, we get it. 832 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,719 Speaker 1: It's creepy. Oh guess what. It's the world we live in. 833 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,600 Speaker 1: And to me, it's really useful. And as long as 834 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,480 Speaker 1: you know that it's happening and you're not surprised by it, 835 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:17,200 Speaker 1: and nobody else has access to this information, why not. 836 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,040 Speaker 1: It's just to me. It's to me there is a 837 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,440 Speaker 1: I love privacy, but there is a fine line between 838 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,920 Speaker 1: privacy and usefulness, And to me, I love the idea 839 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,839 Speaker 1: that I can have a list of everywhere I've ever 840 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,080 Speaker 1: went in the world without having to keep that list, 841 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,839 Speaker 1: and in seconds I can look at my phone and 842 00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,680 Speaker 1: see all the different places I've went. So check it out. 843 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,640 Speaker 1: It's called saved. There's other ways to access it through 844 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,760 Speaker 1: the Google app and various things. But that's that's, uh, 845 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,480 Speaker 1: you know, just one of the things that I think 846 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,440 Speaker 1: is cool. All right, we'll get one more question before 847 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:54,719 Speaker 1: the show ends. Lydia says, mister DeMuro. A lot of 848 00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:57,400 Speaker 1: people calling me mister DeMuro. Am I really that formal, 849 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,919 Speaker 1: mister DeMuro? Mister DeMuro, I just called me rich, Rich 850 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,239 Speaker 1: on tech. I apologize. I do not have Facebook nor Instagram. 851 00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,600 Speaker 1: I have a question. Do you know why Verizon is 852 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,840 Speaker 1: discontinuing ring back tones as of October thirty first? Is 853 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,160 Speaker 1: there any apps that you know that will provide ring 854 00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 1: back tones? Please advise? Thank you? Ringback tones, Wow, I 855 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,759 Speaker 1: haven't heard of those in a long time. All I 856 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,400 Speaker 1: know is that when you search ringback tones, they are discontinued. 857 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:35,160 Speaker 1: Effective let's see October thirty first, twenty twenty and effective 858 00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,319 Speaker 1: August twenty sixth, customers will no longer be able to 859 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:43,360 Speaker 1: subscribe or purchase ringback tones. That's it doesn't give a reason, 860 00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,560 Speaker 1: but I'm guessing if I had to guess the reason, 861 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,480 Speaker 1: it's because people stopped using them. They were costly, and 862 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if any other Let's see, it looks 863 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,440 Speaker 1: like does AT and T. My AT and T might 864 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,399 Speaker 1: still offer them, but I I don't know. It's still 865 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,760 Speaker 1: on their website, but it could be an old page. 866 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:08,560 Speaker 1: Let's see if T mobile has some T Mobile has 867 00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:12,399 Speaker 1: caller tunes. It looks like that two thousand and four 868 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,280 Speaker 1: rileys are old. I don't know if they have it anymore, 869 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,040 Speaker 1: so I think you are out of lock. I should 870 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:24,240 Speaker 1: I should get that thing all right? Well, that is uh, 871 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,440 Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this week's show. Can you 872 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,959 Speaker 1: believe it? I say that every week. I can't believe. 873 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,200 Speaker 1: It goes very fast. Let's see what do I say 874 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,760 Speaker 1: at this point. That's gonna do it for this episode 875 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:37,680 Speaker 1: of the show. If you'd like to submit a question 876 00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,000 Speaker 1: for me to answer, you can do it in several ways. 877 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,759 Speaker 1: You can go to rich on tech dot tv, hit 878 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,560 Speaker 1: the email button at the bottom of the page, or 879 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,399 Speaker 1: you can send me an email Hello at richontech dot tv. 880 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,759 Speaker 1: I think that's the email address. Also, we would love 881 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,480 Speaker 1: it if you would rate and review this podcast to 882 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,040 Speaker 1: help other people discover it. Techy one two four says 883 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:04,160 Speaker 1: five stars rate podcast great content and very useful technical information. 884 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,480 Speaker 1: Looking forward to it every week. 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