WEBVTT - Galaxy Z Fold2, unique wireless charger and a handy chrome extension 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:12.200 Samsung's latest foldable phone is luxury all the way. My 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:15.640 thoughts on the new Nomad wireless charging pad, which is 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.400 pretty unique. A handy chrome extension to help you handle 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.600 all those GDPR consent pop ups. You know what I'm 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.960 talking about. Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.080 I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech. This 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.000 is the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.760 that I think you should know about, and it's also 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.159 the place where I answer the questions that you send me. 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.560 In case you don't know, my name is Rich Dmiro, 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.599 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:44.880 to the podcast. If you're listening for the first time, 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.920 thank you for finding me. If you're listening for the 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.000 one hundredth time, thank you for putting up with me. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.880 I get a lot of emails from people about the 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.400 podcast now, which is pretty cool because when I first 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.720 started this, it was kind of like a little side project, 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.280 and now you know it is produced out of KTLA 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.600 or part of KTLA, but it's kept the same kind 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.760 of I don't know, like it just feels like it 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.400 nothing's changed, and that's what I like about it. I 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:15.800 was on vacation over the weekend. I'm a little bit 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.720 older now that I talk to you, because it was 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.759 my birthday, you know, recently, and so that was fun. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:23.800 We went down to San Diego to this place called 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.319 Paradise Point, which my friend has been talking about this 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.840 place forever, and I never went. And finally, you know, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.080 because you can't really go in many places right now, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.360 San Diego seemed great, had great weather, great sun. Paradise 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.520 Point was there. My friend, my other friend told me 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:41.440 about it. He said, dude, we just went. We loved it, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.720 So okay, that's where we went. We had a great time. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.800 This resort reminds me of a place that sort of 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.160 transports you to a family place back in the day's. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.680 It reminds me of Hawaii. It felt like Hawaii. It 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:59.040 was just really fun. The water was beautiful. We had 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.840 a nice beach front kind of view. It was just great. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.680 And we stayed there for a couple nights and just 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.880 had such a nice time. And I just every morning 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.000 tried to just go out on the beach and just 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.760 kind of sit there for a couple minutes and kind 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.200 of reflect, because I'm trying to do that more often 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.600 these days, and It's not that easy all the time. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:22.079 But anyway, let's get into the podcast. Let's get into 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.000 the first story of the week, which is the Samsung 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:30.360 Galaxy Z Fold two five G. This is the latest 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.359 smartphone that I've been playing with. It's also one of 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:37.160 the most expensive smartphones I think I've ever tested, certainly 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.520 ever sent to me as a review unit. So what 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.240 is unique about this device? You might remember this was 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.000 the device that Samsung had a little trouble with back 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.200 in the day when it first launched. They sent it 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.840 to a bunch of reviewers and next thing you know, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.880 those reviewers had problems with the screen, and specifically, Samsung 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.760 figured out that there was some debris getting in behind 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.480 this and that was causing it to fail. And so 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.400 they went back to the drawing board. They came up 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.400 with some sort of little way to protect the back 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.079 of the or I guess the opening near the hinge, 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.800 and that fixed it for the most part. I'm not 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.480 sure how many of these phones they sold the first 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.360 time around. But now this is the new version, and 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.919 this new version is kind of revamped in some really 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.520 nice ways. Number One, the front screen is way bigger, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.600 way more useful. Six point two inch screen on the front, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.040 and the phone is kind of thin, so it's a 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.680 really thin phone, but it's thick because it's almost imagined 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.960 two phones stacked on top of each other with a hinge. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.600 Then you've got this giant seven point six inch screen 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.120 when you open the thing up, and that's a foldable 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.000 ultra glass or ultra thin glass screen. Used to be plastic. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.280 Now it's glass, and that's a miracle in engineering in itself. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.520 It's got one hundred and twenty hrtz adaptable refresh rate. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.240 It's got great sound. The hinge is now called the 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.000 Hideaway hinge, which means it's smaller than before. And it 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.720 also has sweeper technology, which they first introduced on their 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.040 other flip phone, which is the Galaxy Z Flip. And 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:06.840 it's kind of like it looks like a little kind 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.600 of sweeper brush, like a little broom inside the hinge 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.680 that theoretically just kind of brushes out any debris that 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.159 gets in there, and so that should take care of that. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.720 It's also fully close, you don't really see it. Cool 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.040 things about this phone is that it's really luxurious. It's 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.599 kind of cool to have both a smartphone and a 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.680 tablet in your pocket at all times. You've got a 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.400 cool new feature. Where the old one only opened up 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.840 to one you can only open it up and that 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.960 was it, so it was either closed or opened. There 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.640 was no degrees of open, so you couldn't kind of 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.200 make the phone into its own little self standing tripod, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.520 like put it in an L shape and just sit 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.000 it there and watch a show. Well now you can 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.160 do that. They call flex mode, So now you can 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.520 just bend the screen at any angle you want, in 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.400 a half fold, a quarterfold, and open fold, and you 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.279 can watch stuff. And you can also record videos hands free. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.320 So that's kind of neat. But the camera is is good. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.719 I mean it, you know, I haven't. I'm not doing 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.000 a full review on this device because it's not something 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:07.960 I think a lot of people are gonna purchase. To me, 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.440 I'm sort of just taking a look at it, understanding 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.160 what it's all about, so that I can talk about 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.800 it in the future before it goes back to Samsung. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.440 So this is not a review. I think that if 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.160 I'm reviewing this device, I'm not sure I would recommend 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.480 someone purchasing this device unless you have money to burn, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.080 because it's sort of a it's still almost in beta. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.120 This is the second version. It's really expensive. It's two 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.839 thousand dollars. But again, I think they did a really 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.920 nice job and I love seeing this, and I actually 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.240 think that I will buy a foldable phone in the 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.000 future when it gets to a point where I feel 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.080 like it's a little bit more manageable, a little thinner, 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:48.120 and just kind of more what I need. But so far, 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:49.640 I mean, I could think of a lot of reasons 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.240 why this is cool, and I am tempted. Don't get 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.360 me wrong, I am tempted because it's so unique that 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.960 nobody else has anything like it, and how cool is 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.799 it as a tech person to have something that nobody 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.200 else has. I kind of like doing that kind of stuff. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:08.560 Two colors, Mystic Bronze, Mystic Black, two fifty six gigs 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.160 of storage, twelve gigabytes of RAM and that's your only 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.480 option there. And the phone, again, like I said, is 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.720 two thousand dollars. If you go on Samsung's website to 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.599 buy it, they're really really trying to get you to 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.640 trade in another device to bring that price down. And 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.680 one other thing to know is that because the screen 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.080 is still pretty fragile, I think or I guess. Two 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.039 other things to know. Number one, it's not dust or 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.799 water resistant. They make that very clear. And you also 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.960 get a one time device protection against accidental display damage 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.760 within one year. So if you mess up the screen 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:43.960 within one year, send it back to Samsung, they will 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.599 send you a either a new one with a new screen, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.359 or refurbish it or whatever they do. So there you 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:53.400 have it. Samsung Galaxy z Fold two pretty cool goes 0:06:53.440 --> 0:07:01.200 on sale September eighteenth. All right, let's get to the 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:08.840 first question. Let's see here. Hmmm, let's see. Jesse from Glendora, Cali. 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.000 Let's see. Let's yeah. Jesse from Glendora, California, wanted your 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.040 thoughts about the Western Digital my cloud duo hard drive 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.920 backup system. I still perform backups on Google and iCloud. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.320 I wanted something local at my house and not to 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.760 keep everything stored on my iMac. It fills up quickly. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.560 I'm a little scared to have everything in the cloud, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.520 photos and music. Your thoughts and opinions would be greatly appreciated. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.040 Jesse from Glendora, you get a because this is a 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.760 fantastic idea. We should not have everything just in the cloud, 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.440 and you should have your things in a couple of 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.800 different places, some were physical in your home and then 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.480 somewhere in the cloud. And if you have them in 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.240 those two places, the good news is if one of 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.360 them fails, you've got him in the other place. So 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.120 I think the Western Digital MyCloud duo is great. I'm 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.600 not even sure you need the MYC Cloud duo because 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.240 the Cloud duo is I think that's the one that 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:07.200 has software that backs it up to the cloud. Oh no, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.200 it just plugs directly into your WiFi router so that 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.400 way it's kind of like your own little cloud exactly. 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.640 So that's perfect. I love it. I think that that's 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.400 a fantastic idea. You should definitely do that. It's expensive. 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.480 I'm not sure that you need that big of a 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.400 solution unless you have a lot of stuff, Jesse with 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.280 your photos and videos I think are your photos and music. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.320 I think what you can do is depending on the 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.560 kind of Oh you have an iMac. I think with 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.920 an iMac, what you should do is just buy a 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.680 two or four gigabyte hard drive and just plug it 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.800 into your iMac and just plug it in, turn on 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.840 time capsule, and just plug it in every once in 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.560 a while every week, every month and boom, just let 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.959 it back up everything on your iMac. Now that's given 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.040 that all of your photos are on your iMac, I'm 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.400 not sure if they are or not. And your music, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.200 I'm sure it is. But no matter what you do, 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.439 I'm trying to give you a cheaper solution because just 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.800 a standard USB hard drive, it's gonna be a lot cheaper. 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.000 So I would say, just plug that in, let Time 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.640 Capsule do its thing. Do that every couple of weeks 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.800 or every week, whatever, however often you need. You think 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.840 you need to do that, But I think that's a 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:19.720 cheaper solution that would totally work for you. But yeah, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.200 but if you can, if you're ready to spring for 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.839 the my cloud duo, sure, I mean I love having 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.600 a network drive. It's great. I don't have mine hooked 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.640 up right now because I've gotten sow into the cloud 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.600 and I actually get a because I've gotten really bad 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.480 about backing up my stuff in a second place. I 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.400 know it's on my drive, it's on my phone. I 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.800 also have a whole bunch of assorted hard drives around 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.160 my house with all kinds of backups on them that 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.160 one day, one of these days, I will go through 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:53.040 and finally back up and organize everything on those drives. 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.400 I don't want to delete anything because I don't know 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.040 if I've got the pictures in Google Photos, and I 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:59.920 just want to go off on one little tangent here 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.240 and this. I love, love, love Google Photos, but there 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.240 is one feature I just cannot stand about it anymore, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.719 and that is there is no way to sync my 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:14.480 Google Photos collection with a backup drive. And yes, I 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.880 know you can do Google take out and download the 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:21.480 entire photo collection, but that is so unreasonable. All I want, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:25.640 here's what I want. Google, Please just make a deal 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.920 with a hard drive manufacturer and make that deal so 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.439 that when I plug this drive into my computer or 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.200 just connect it to my WiFi, it is constantly downloading 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.400 and syncing my Google Photos library to that drive. That's 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.440 all I want. I don't think Google's going away anytime soon. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.640 I don't think their system is gonna crash. But at 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.160 the same time, I just want a nice local backup 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.440 of my photos in my home, just because it just 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.560 makes me feel better. I mean, if something ever happened 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:58.480 to me, you think someone else is gonna figure out 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.480 how to download all my pictures? From good Google. One 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.200 of my family members. No, and I don't want to 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.720 get that dark. But the reality is it would just 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.719 be nice to have a local copy. And I think 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.280 that other platforms do offer that, some of the other 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.360 photo saving platforms, but I like Google Photos and they 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.400 used to have it and it's gone away, and I 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.760 just wish you would bring it back, Google, because it 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.240 would just be nice. I know you're trying to make 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.400 things simple, and also I think you're trying to make 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:27.120 them complicated because when someone wants to download their stuff, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:28.840 think about it. If you have it on a drive 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.559 at your house at all times, how much easier is 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.600 it to just bring that somewhere else and you move 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:39.559 your business elsewhere. Let's move on to a new wireless 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.199 charging pad. This is from Nomad and it's called the 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.200 base Station Pro. I went up to Nomad and Santa Barbara. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.280 I hope I didn't talk about this before on the podcast, 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.760 but I talked to the folks at Nomad who they 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.479 make really cool kind of I don't know, artisanal almost 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:00.439 products for iPhone and smartphones in general. My phone is 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.360 a big one. But they make cases, they make charging cables, 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.360 all kinds of stuff. But this new one is called 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.800 the base Station Pro and it is a wireless charging pad. Now, rich, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.320 what's so new about a wireless charging pad. Well, let 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.400 me tell you. The neat thing about this wireless charging 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.160 pad is that it is positionless, which means you can 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:23.800 put three devices on here anywhere you want. Now, I 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.760 have a three device charger from Mophi, and you have 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.760 to place them exactly right. You've got to put stuff 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.160 on what's called a sweet spot. And if you don't, 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.600 your phone doesn't charge. And I've woken up many a 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.440 morning's where my phone has not charged overnight because it 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.280 either moved or stopped charging for some reason, or I 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.520 hit the nightstand whatever. So this you really don't have 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.240 that problem, and it works. It works great. There are 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.960 some caveats. I'll tell you about those, but let me 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.920 tell you how they did it. So instead of one 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.720 coil that charges your phone, they have eighteen coils underneath, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.960 along with little software called free Power that detects where 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.400 you place your device and then it directs the power 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.120 to that device. Pretty cool, huh. I thought it was 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.800 pretty neat. Now I will tell you this, I think 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:11.920 hang on. I just took a sip of my tea, 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:17.800 my Green tea. I think that the free power actually 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.520 works better with Apple products than any other products. So 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.760 I don't know if it's an Android thing or some 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.560 weird stuff, but I just feel like when you put 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.959 your iPhone on there, it works. Now, I will say 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.040 with the Galaxy Z Fold two that's been working really 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.679 well as well. And there are three little there are 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.880 three little status lights on this thing too, which is 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.360 really cool. That will let you know if it's charging, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.920 like if the power is going to the three little gadgets, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.920 which is also kind of cool. And I found that 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.920 the Pixel did not work at all. The Samsung Galaxy 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.560 Note twenty Ultra did not work. It just it does 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.520 this really weird thing. Maybe I have a bad review unit, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.320 but it does this really weird thing where it just 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:02.120 goes crazy. It's like selecting on screen. It's really strange. 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:03.680 It looks I got to get a video of it 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.040 and post it to Twitter because it's very strange. And 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.800 I asked no Mad about this and they said yes, 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.840 there are some issues. Officially, older Samsung devices S nine 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.199 and blow and all Pixel devices don't work. They're working 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.760 on a firmware slash software update. And also, oh yeah, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.400 there is one more thing that does not work, the 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.240 Apple Watch. So when you really think about it, this 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:29.120 is for someone who has, you know, maybe two iPhones, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.680 a work phone and a personal phone, plus a pair 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.320 of AirPods. It will work with the Samsung Buds and 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.640 other wireless It does work with things that are on 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.720 the Cheese standard, but it's not officially on the Cheese standard. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.520 There must be something they did weird about it that 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.360 they can't officially say it's chea so I don't know. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.200 But if you have Apple stuff, it works great. Otherwise, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.520 if you could get into a store, like if they 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.120 had one of these in an Apple store, that would 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.840 be ideal because then you can test your your products 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.000 on it and see if it works. But it's really cool. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.920 Two hundred and thirty dollar, I know, very expensive, but 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.120 the neat thing is really it feels like what the 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.000 future will bring with wireless charging, where you just throw 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:09.840 your device on there and you don't have to think 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.160 about how you placed it and it just sort of charges, 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:20.640 which is really neat all right, Angela writes in we 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:24.040 all watch you and love your suggestions with little heart. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.120 Oh thank you. We were hoping you could offer a 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:31.280 solution to our problem. We have paper thin walls and 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.160 don't have a PA system and need some soft music 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.720 to play in our exam rooms. But I'm not even 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.479 sure what device we could use for this function. Suggestions 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.360 are appreciated. Thank you so much the staff at Family 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:48.960 Member Veterinary. Is it veterinary veterinary veterinary hospital, Veterinary, I 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.880 don't know veterinary. You know it's a hospital for dogs 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:56.640 and cats, animals, Angela. I think your best solution is 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.480 something that is so simple it might have evaded you. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.400 I think a Google Nest Mini would be perfect in 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:07.360 every room, And now I think, yeah, so here's what 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.080 I would do. I would do a Google Nest Mini. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.840 You can get those for I think they're like forty bucks. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.040 Put them in every room. You can group them up 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:16.920 on the Google Home mapp and you can play music 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.240 to all of the rooms at the same time and boom, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.560 now you have music in every room. You can also 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.960 use it as a PA system, so if you want 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.479 to like send messages throughout the whole office, you can broadcast. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:34.000 I think the the syntax let's see broadcast Google Home. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.960 So I think what you say is you can use 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.840 a little mic on your on your thing, or let's 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:44.480 see broadcasts from one speaker to others. You just say okay, 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.640 it doesn't tell you how to do it. Come on 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.360 what you need? Oh, here you go, You say h 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.680 Google broadcast there you go. You can also use the 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.120 commands shout tell everyone announce instead of broadcast. You can 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.280 say eah, Google, tell everyone one doctor needed in room seven. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.200 Doctor needed in room seven. So you can do that. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.680 And now the other thing is your guests will also 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.080 be able to say h Google. So what I would 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.840 do is probably turn off the microphone functionality. So there's 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.639 a little toggle on there to turn off the microphone 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.040 and then you can just have your music playing. And yes, 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:24.480 some of your smarter, more savvy guests might toggle the 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.080 microphone switch and mess with it, but I think that's 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.640 probably a small portion of people. The other thing I'd 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:35.000 recommend is they've got these great Google mounts on Amazon. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.119 So if you look on Amazon Google Nest Mini mount, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:42.800 you go on there and they've got so many great 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.840 mounts and you can just plug it into a plug 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.159 on the wall and it kind of keeps all the 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.840 chords great. I mean, you can really I think This 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.320 is such a simple solution. You're talking you know, a 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.600 couple bucks for the mount and you know forty bucks 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.520 for the minis. You can get them a two pack, 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.520 three pack or whatever you can find them on sale. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:03.240 I think that's gonna do it just fine. All right, 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.399 let's move on to another tech topic of the week, 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.320 and this is Facebook. Remember I was just talking about 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.720 photos and videos. This perfectly talk. This kind of goes 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:19.159 to what I'm talking about. And Facebook is now expanding 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.000 what's called their Data Portability Tool, and now you can 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.639 send your photos and videos to Dropbox and also another 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.679 service called Koofer Koofr, which is something in Europe. We 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:31.560 don't I guess we don't really have it here in 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.760 the US. Maybe we do, we just don't really use it. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.120 But so this is pretty simple. If you've got photos 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.240 on Facebook, remember there was a time when you were 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.000 uploading a ton of photos to Facebook, or even maybe 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.480 you even use that Facebook sink feature they used to 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:47.840 have back in the day, which I don't know why 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.879 they got rid of that, but people used to be 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.800 able to sync all the photos from your camera roll 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.960 and your phone to Facebook. They got rid of that. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.040 But maybe you still have a bunch of photos lingering 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.320 in Facebook. Maybe you've been using it for fifteen years 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.080 now or whatever. However many years Facebook has been around, 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:03.439 and you've got a bunch of photos in there, and 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.000 you want to store them somewhere else. Well, now you 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:10.040 can do a direct transfer right from Facebook to Dropbox. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.560 And also Google Photos is supported, and so all you 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.919 do is you go on your Facebook, you log in 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.400 to your other account. It'll like connect the two accounts, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.360 you know, your drop Box or your Google Photos, and 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.199 it will start moving your pictures over. Now it's not 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.399 going to transfer them, it's going to copy them, so 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.679 they will still be on Facebook. And now you have 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.920 a copy of your pictures on Dropbox. And let's say 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:33.439 you want to get rid of Facebook. Boom, you can 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:37.640 get rid of Facebook. So that's pretty easy. So there 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.920 you go. That's kind of like that's it. There's not 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.840 much more to know about that. Everything is encrypted as 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.160 it moves between services. Facebook is quick to point out. 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.200 So it's just good. I love this is fantastic, and 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:53.800 in fact, I wish that Google would do something like 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.159 this for other services. And I think that that's the 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.600 goal of these services, to make it easy to move 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.480 things back and forth, especially as we are moving towards 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:07.520 the cloud, folks, so everything is going to the cloud, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.639 and so when you have things in the cloud, what 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.240 happens Everyone wants it's easy to get your stuff into 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.800 the cloud. But if it becomes a thing where it's 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:16.600 really tough to get your stuff out of the cloud, 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.720 that is what scares me. Because it used to be 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:22.119 back in the day, all the services would sink so 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:26.159 easily to some sort of you know, network attached storage 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:28.880 or whatever, and then all of a sudden they started 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.760 backing out of those things, and it gets tougher and 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.000 tougher to get your stuff out of these services. And yes, again, 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.119