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Speaker 1: Apple unveils new iPhones, a new Apple Watch, and new iPads.

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Speaker 1: Kindle gets a fresh new look. Google answers my storage prayers,

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Speaker 1: plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich

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Speaker 1: Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where

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Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should

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Speaker 1: know about. It's also the place where I answer the

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Speaker 1: questions you sent me once again. My name is Rich Dmuro,

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Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, coming

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Speaker 1: to you today from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Why am I in Chattanooga, Tennessee?

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Speaker 1: Will I am here to see Volkswagen's electric car plant.

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Speaker 1: So they are making their new ID four electric car

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Speaker 1: here in the US in Chatta Nuga, Tennessee. So h yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm here for like twenty four hours to check this

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Speaker 1: this morning in this fine little town and it is beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of living in Louisiana. So I used

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Speaker 1: as a reporter, and it's it's so interesting because when

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Speaker 1: I lived in a small city, I did not respect

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Speaker 1: this small city lifestyle. So I grew up just outside

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Speaker 1: people commuted in from my city to the city. In

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Speaker 1: the city we call New York City the city. And

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Speaker 1: then I moved to Los Angeles for college. Then I

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Speaker 1: and I didn't I didn't like them back then because

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Speaker 1: I was young and I wanted to you know, go

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Speaker 1: now that I'm older and have a family, that stuff

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Speaker 1: is not as important. Like I want a nice family place,

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Speaker 1: and LA is fine, but it's definitely, you know, not

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Speaker 1: you know, working and raising a family. So anyway, beautiful place.

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Speaker 1: This run this morning totally reminded me of living in Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: fresh clean air. I ran across the river and then

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Speaker 1: I ran back on this like pedestrian bridge they have here,

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Speaker 1: which apparently the driver from last night told me that

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Speaker 1: don't know, I have to fact check that, but it

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Speaker 1: was great, and so here I am. I actually if

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Speaker 1: this if you're sitting there thinking rich the podcast actually

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Speaker 1: sounds pretty good, it's because I actually lugged all of

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Speaker 1: All Right, So here's the deal. I've got a couple things.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something that I did personally, little

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Speaker 1: personal news that's exciting. I'll get to that a bit

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Speaker 1: later in the show. But this show is primarily going

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Speaker 1: to be focused on Apple's announcements. So if you don't

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Speaker 1: like Apple, if you're not an Apple fan, or you

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear about iPhones and iPads and all

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Speaker 1: that good stuff. It's probably not the podcast for you,

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Speaker 1: so go ahead, see you later. Pick it up the

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Speaker 1: next episode. Because Apple announced a lot they were small

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Speaker 1: changes to some of their devices. But when it's Apple,

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Speaker 1: they kind of suck all the air out of the

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Speaker 1: room in the tech world, and you know, they command

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. I've got a couple of other things,

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Speaker 1: and I'll still take questions from you, but this will

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Speaker 1: primarily be about the Apple event. So let's get started

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Speaker 1: with the with the first news. We got news about

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Speaker 1: the iPhone, the iPad, the Apple Watch, and Apple Fitness.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the iPhone thirteen and the iPhone thirteen Mini.

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal. A lot of the changes with

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Speaker 1: The wide camera is the one that's improved, so just

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Speaker 1: Across the board, the A fifteen processor, they're not saying

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Speaker 1: all right. So the colors for the iPhone thirteen and

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Speaker 1: They've been playing games with them with iPhone storage for many,

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Speaker 1: So if you do the math, you're actually paying way

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Speaker 1: So it's one twenty eight, two fifty six, five twelve

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Speaker 1: the thirteen and they will be available on pre orders Friday,

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Speaker 1: All right, first question from Dan. Hey Rich, I need

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Speaker 1: they're going to get your IP address. I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: Is that what they call it? Where Zoom tries to

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Speaker 1: let's give them a link now on their web page.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of the patch that we saw with

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Speaker 1: iOS fourteen point eight. That's the one that you saw recently.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't updated your phone, definitely update it. Because

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Speaker 1: the ways that hackers were able to get into these

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Speaker 1: phones was through I message and also through web pages

434
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Speaker 1: that had malicious code in them, and you really didn't

435
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Speaker 1: have to do much. In fact, I believe that all

436
00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: they had to do was send the message to your

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00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: phone and that was it. Whatever the phone did to

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00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: like process the message would be enough for them to

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Speaker 1: gain access to your phone. Now, I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: happening here with these spam texts that you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: They are just mostly annoying, But what the endgame is

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Speaker 1: with these spam texts is that they are trying to

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Speaker 1: get your personal information which you know, if you click

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Speaker 1: the links, it tells them that you have an active

445
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Speaker 1: phone number, and it also if you follow the links,

446
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 1: it will you know, they'll just either try to get

447
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Speaker 1: your personal information, your personal data, or they will try

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Speaker 1: to say that you won something like I and I

449
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: do this stuff for you and I you know, I'd

450
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Speaker 1: click these links just to see what the deal is.

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Speaker 1: And the last one I clicked was it led me

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Speaker 1: to a website where I won a free pair of

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Speaker 1: I think they called them air phones, which looked strikingly

454
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Speaker 1: similar to air pods. And all I had to do

455
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: as the winner of the hour was to pay nine

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Speaker 1: to ninety nine for shipping for these air pods. So

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00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: do not fall for those kind of tricks. Don't even

458
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Speaker 1: reply stop. Now there are legitimate texts that you can

459
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Speaker 1: get to your phone and a lot of companies now

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00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: you do use text to get in touch with you.

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Speaker 1: But if it's a legitimate company, it will respond to

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Speaker 1: the word stop. So if you get a text from

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Speaker 1: a company like you know, I don't know, let's say

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Speaker 1: you sign up. You sign up for Wendy's Text Alerts.

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Speaker 1: You want to get some coupons in your in your

466
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Speaker 1: text and you know, once you sign up for these things,

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00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: they really take advantage. Once they get a hot number,

468
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Speaker 1: they're like, all right, we're gonna we're gonna text you,

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Speaker 1: and you'll get a text every day from Wendy's about

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Speaker 1: you know, trying the spicy chicken nugs or trying the

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Speaker 1: new baconate or sandwich or whatever. And so they'll they'll

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Speaker 1: text you over and over and you know, until you say,

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Speaker 1: oh gosh, I'm really craving Wendy's. But at some point,

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00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 1: if you get sick of those texts, you can just

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Speaker 1: text the word stop back and they will respect that

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Speaker 1: and they will stop texting you. That's a legitimate company

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Speaker 1: sending legitimate texts that you signed up for. If these

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Speaker 1: are not legitimate texts, if they are just scammers, you

479
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: do not want to respond at all. You can block

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Speaker 1: the number, but it doesn't really matter because they generate

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00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 1: random numbers anyway when they text you. But you can

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Speaker 1: just go ahead and delete that message. Do not respond,

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Speaker 1: do not reply, and definitely don't click the link in

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Speaker 1: that message. Andrew, great question, and thanks for texting in

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Speaker 1: or sorry calling leaving a voicemail I think you used.

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Speaker 1: There's two ways you can leave a voicemail. If you

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00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 1: want to email me, you can just email record it

488
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 1: on your phone and then email me the video the

489
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: voice message to hello at Richontech dot tv. Or you

490
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 1: can go to podpage dot com slash rich on Tech

491
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 1: and you can look for a microphone in the lower

492
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: right hand corner and you can send mic a message

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00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:03,159
Speaker 1: that way. All right, next story is iOS fifteen. I

494
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: just talked about iOS fourteen point eight, but I talked

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Speaker 1: about all the new iPhones. If you're sitting there listening

496
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: and saying, rich you didn't really convince me. I don't

497
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Speaker 1: think I need a new iPhone. I think my iPhone

498
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: is going to be just fine. So in that case,

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Speaker 1: you will get a fresh new iPhone when you install

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Speaker 1: iOS fifteen, or at least it'll feel like a fresh

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00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: new iPhone. iOS fifteen is releasing on September twentieth. Now

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00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 1: this is this is so typical Apple. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I love Apple, but I also hate Apple in certain

504
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 1: ways because they do things that are just There's always

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00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: this idea of it's not I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: lying biomission, but it's kind of the idea of leaving

507
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 1: out information and then people have to seek out that information.

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00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: And as a journalist, I feel like this often happens

509
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Speaker 1: to me when I go and talk to someone about something,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a new car, whether it's a new gadget,

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00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 1: whether it's a new whatever. The person the representative never

512
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: sits there and tells me what the gadget doesn't do.

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00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: They only tell me what it does, and so it

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00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: is then my job to sit there and figure out Okay,

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00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: well they mentioned that it does this, but hold on,

516
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,320
Speaker 1: did you drop support for this? And I have to

517
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: do a little slew thing to figure out this stuff.

518
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: And so Apple, I'm not saying that they were omitting information,

519
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: but let's be honest. For the millions upon millions of

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00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: people that have an iPhone out there, what are they

521
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: most excited about right now? Is it the new iPhone

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00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: or is it the upgrade to iOS fifteen. And yes,

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00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,200
Speaker 1: there's always a couple of people out there that don't

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Speaker 1: want to upgrade, and that's fine. You should be doing

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Speaker 1: security updates. And in the future, Apple I believe, is

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Speaker 1: going to be separating out security updates from iOS updates

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00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: so that you can stick with an older version of iOS,

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00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: but you can still be nice and safe and secure

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00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: from hackers by installing the software updates. So that's a

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00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: good thing. But with that said, I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of people would have been interested to know that iOS

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00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: fifteen is launching on Monday, September twentieth, but Apple conveniently

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00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: left that out of their big old announcement. And so

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00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: why did they leave it out? Well, because why do

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00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 1: they want to advertise the fact that your old iPhone

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00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 1: is going to get a new lease on life in

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00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. It's gonna feel fresh. And then

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00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 1: if you get iOS fifteen installed, why do you need

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00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: to upgrade to a new iPhone? Because, by the way,

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Speaker 1: you're going to get some of the same features that

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Speaker 1: are coming to the new iPhones in the in the

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00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: current iPhones that you have, and by the way, this

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00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: works all the way back to the iPhone six S

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00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: and success plus. So if your iPhone is running iOS

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Speaker 1: fourteen right now as we speak, it will be able

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Speaker 1: to run iOS fifteen on September twentieth. Now do you

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00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: need to run out and install iOS fifteen on the

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00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: first day? I don't know. If you're nerd like me,

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00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: of course you want to. I mean I can't wait

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00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: to get that on my phone because it feels like

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00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: an new phone. And yeah, probably slows down your phone

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00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: just a little bit. Remember people talk about that, the

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00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,239
Speaker 1: idea that Apple slows down the old devices, and then

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00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 1: it came out that yeah, they kind of did because

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00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: of battery issues. But now they're much more open about that,

556
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: much more honest. You can look in your battery settings

557
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,479
Speaker 1: and see if it's being if it's if your battery

558
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: is wearing out to the point where your phone is

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00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: being throttled. But anyway, iOS fifteen coming out on September twentieth.

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00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: It'll work on all the iPhones, and a couple of

561
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: the features won't be available at launch, at least according

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00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: to nine to five, Mac share play will not be there.

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00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: But one of the big features that will be is

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00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: called Focus. And I'm hoping that this will help me

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00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: separate my work and my personal life a little bit better.

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00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 1: And you know, if you follow me on social media

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00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech, you know my personal life and

568
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: my work life are very much intertwined. And I'll get

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Speaker 1: more to that in just a moment with my personal

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00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: announcement after the next question. But I will tell you

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Speaker 1: it's tough to keep the personal from the public. I mean,

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00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: it's just I am who I am. I cover this

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Speaker 1: stuff for a living, but I also live the life.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I live the life of wanting to check

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Speaker 1: out these gadgets and play with these gadgets and figure

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Speaker 1: out what works with gadgets and what doesn't work with gadgets.

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00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: And so I'm very open with you. I'm open with

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Speaker 1: the fact that you know, I'm going to be struggling

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks to decide do I

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Speaker 1: want to stick with the iPhone or do I want

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Speaker 1: to switch my personal device to the Pixel six Pixel

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00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: six Pro, I should say, And that's going to be

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00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: a big decision because I've gotten so used to iPhone

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00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: and the iPhone lifestyle with my Apple Watch and air

585
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: tags and all this good stuff. But at the same time,

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00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: I'm kind of ready for something new, and just like

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00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: I don't actually, I don't think that's like a lot

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00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: of people. I don't think a lot of people are

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Speaker 1: thinking about switching because they're they're in their their lane.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're Apple, they're very good at getting

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00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: you to stick with Apple, especially because of I message. Now,

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00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,479
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be beholden to a platform because

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00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: Apple basically took my phone number and linked it up

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00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: to this I Message account that yes, it's so nice

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00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: and it's so great and it works so perfectly and

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00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: friends love it. But I don't need to be identified

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00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: by an I message blue bubble. That's just not Sorry,

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00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: like I will give up I message and when people

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00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: text me and it comes up green, oh sorry, I

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00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: mean you deal with it. And yeah, if you want

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00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: to take me off your group texts and all this

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00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: good stuff, you don't want to send me pictures and videos, fine,

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00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: then you know, find me on telegram. That's that's all

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00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: I have to say there. All right, what else is new?

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00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: And iOS fifteen? Weather application is going to be new

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00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: Ooho new weather application, new design for Safari, but Focus

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00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: is the big thing. This is again kind of a

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00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: smaller update, but there will be some new things in

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Speaker 1: iOS fifteen. All right, let's get to another question. Richard says, Hello,

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Speaker 1: rich I have a question about to do list apps

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Speaker 1: for iPhones. I have used three by five cards to

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Speaker 1: write my to do list seems like forever, but I'm

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00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: looking for a better system to organize tasks for a

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Speaker 1: work week. Any suggestions. Thank you, Richard. Well, Richard, the

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Speaker 1: system that you are describing is what I use, and

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Speaker 1: so I use three I use a combination of two things.

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00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: I use three by five cards, and then I use

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00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,479
Speaker 1: a task list like a to do list. And believe me, Richard,

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Speaker 1: I have tried everything under the sun. So one of

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Speaker 1: my favorites used to be called wonder list. I've tried

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Speaker 1: Google tasks, I've tried Microsoft tasks or is it Microsoft

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00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: to do Microsoft to do. I've tried all the different

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Speaker 1: ways that you can keep track of your tasks. I've

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Speaker 1: tried apples, built in reminders, and here here's what's worked

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00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: for me. And I do two things now. I do

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Speaker 1: a combination of physical because I decided that I can't

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Speaker 1: give up the three by five index cards at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day. It is the best way. It's

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Speaker 1: just I like to see. And what I use the

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Speaker 1: index cards for is to plan out my stories. I

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Speaker 1: do a story for KTLA and our affiliated stations on Monday, Wednesday, Friday,

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Speaker 1: and I have decided that the best way of keeping

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Speaker 1: track of my stories is to write them out on

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Speaker 1: it used to be index cards. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: what I use now. And put them up on a

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Speaker 1: a what do you call a bulletin board with pins,

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Speaker 1: And that is the best way because what happens is,

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Speaker 1: let's say I've got next week stories all planned out.

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Speaker 1: I know, Monday, I'm doing a crime story on a

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Speaker 1: crime app On Wednesday I'm doing the Ford Maverick, and

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00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: then on Friday, I've got something else planned. And so

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Speaker 1: I know, let's say on Monday something comes up and

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Speaker 1: I've got to push Wednesday story to something else. I

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00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: got to push that to Friday. Well, it's easy for

645
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: me to just move the index cards around and with

646
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,479
Speaker 1: the push, you pull it out, you move it, and

647
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: now Wednesday story becomes Friday story. I write a new

648
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: card for Wednesday and everyone is happy. Now I have

649
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: graduated those index cards to post it notes on a whiteboard,

650
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: and I discovered that through the pandemic, and it's just

651
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: much easier. It's just like a post It's just like

652
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: a card that you stick into the wall, but it's

653
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: a post it note and so it just sticks. I

654
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: put it on the wall, same principle, and that's how

655
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: I cover that. When it comes to my to do list,

656
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: the best to do list that I have found you

657
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: ready is Microsoft to Do List. And the reason I

658
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: like it is because a it is platform agnostic, which

659
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: means if I'm on my Android phone it works. If

660
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: I'm on my iPhone, it works, if I'm if I'm

661
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: on Windows, it works, if I'm on Mac it works,

662
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: and they've got apps across all those platforms. The other

663
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: thing I like about it is that you get this

664
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: thing called my Day, which is a fresh task list

665
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 1: for every day. And so if you're like me and

666
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: you put a lot of tasks on your list that

667
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: are sort of longer term and not just something you

668
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: want to accomplish on that day, it gets a little

669
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: cluttered with your typical task lists because you're looking at

670
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: stuff every day that's the same. But with this every day,

671
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: you get a fresh canvas, and so you can add

672
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: tasks just to that day and check them off just

673
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: for that day. But if you don't do them on

674
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: that day, guess what they go to your big list

675
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: of all of your tasks. And so I love that aspect.

676
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: I also love the fact that you can share this

677
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: easily with someone. So you can share the task list

678
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: with someone, all they have to do is sign up

679
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: and you can share that list with them and they

680
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 1: can be on board and so that really helps. Now

681
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: you asked for a three x five index card system,

682
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: and so I think what's closest to that if you

683
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: want to truly go just digital, I think what you

684
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: would like is called Trello t R E l l O,

685
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: and that is the most similar you can get to

686
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: sort of the physical card system, because the way that

687
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: you set it up, it looks like a board of cards,

688
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: and you can rearrange them, you can move them. You

689
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: can actually set up your Monday, Wednesday, Friday stories like

690
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: I do, and you can put them in you know,

691
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 1: you can put your cards underneath and you can shuffle

692
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: them around and it works really well. And then you

693
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: can make you know, even more board. So if you

694
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: want to have three columns for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and

695
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: you want a fourth column for your task list, you

696
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: can do that. So Trello is probably the best. They

697
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,320
Speaker 1: do have a free plan and it works really well.

698
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 1: I personally don't use it because it just it's just

699
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: a little bit. I like the system I've settled on,

700
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: which is a combination of the post it notes and

701
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,160
Speaker 1: Microsoft to do works for me. Oh yeah, One more

702
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: thing I like about Microsoft to do that not all

703
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: of the to do lists offer, is you can drag

704
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: and drop in your tasks an attachment like a file,

705
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: and so that's really easy. Like on Apple Reminders, I

706
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: can't find a way to attach a file. Maybe I'm wrong,

707
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: maybe they've added that functionality, but I really like the

708
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: fact that I can just add a file to my reminder.

709
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: So if I take a screenshot, or if I have

710
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: a PDF of a bill I need to pay or whatever,

711
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: I can just toss it in there and when I

712
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: get to it on my to do list, I don't

713
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: have to go phishing for that information. It's right in

714
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: the in the task itself. So great question, Richard, Thank

715
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: you for asking. And let's talk about the Apple Watch

716
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,919
Speaker 1: and then I'll get to my personal info. I put

717
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: the personal info deep into the podcast so that way

718
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: you have to be a true listener to really get it,

719
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 1: because you know, if you're just listening and you kind

720
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: of tune now after five minutes and you say, eh,

721
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: what another yawner from rich then you don't get to

722
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: share in my personal news. All right, Apple Watch, you

723
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: have a method to my madness. Apple Watch series seven,

724
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: So what can I say about the Apple Watch series seven? Well,

725
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 1: number one, all the rumors were wrong. It did not

726
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: get flatter and look like an iPhone and all that.

727
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: They didn't change anything. They just made it. They made

728
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: the screen go a little bit more edge to end.

729
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: That's kind of what they did. And so twenty percent

730
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: more screen area and thinner borders, so you know, the

731
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: screen just goes much more. So the screen looks bigger,

732
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: even though they didn't really increase the amount of screen

733
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: real estate. I mean they did a little bit. They

734
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: made thinner borders, right, so it does look like it

735
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: goes a little bit more to the edges. Big whoop.

736
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean, is this a reason to upgrade?

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00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 3: No?

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00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: Do they improve the battery life? No, battery life is

739
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: still the same. So the battery life is still eighteen hours,

740
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: which means you still need to charge it every single

741
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: day of your life. If you do anything with exercise,

742
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,399
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to charge it even sooner than every day. Sometimes, Nah,

743
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I take about a five mile run

744
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: and it actually does still last through the end of

745
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: the day, although sometimes it will charge it before the

746
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: end of the night. Whatever he got to charge the

747
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: thing every day. They did improve battery charging time, though,

748
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: so does charge thirty three percent faster through a new

749
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: charging architecture and magnetic fast charger USBC cable. I don't

750
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: know if that means you need a new one to

751
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: get that. I think it does. That's what it sounds like.

752
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: Let's see what's the other improvement. They made the screen stronger,

753
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: so it's got this new fifty percent thicker front crystal.

754
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: And I will tell you I talked about how my

755
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: Apple Watch Series six scratched easily. We'll see they didn't

756
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: say anything about scratching, but they said crack resistant. Now,

757
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: I don't think this thing scratches very easily. I think

758
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: it scratches if it's if it's rubbed up against a

759
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,280
Speaker 1: certain type of material and it's kind of like your teeth.

760
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: You know, they're pretty strong, but if you're if you're

761
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: chomping on ice, which is made of crystals, and those

762
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 1: crystals the architecture of them just erecs havoc with the

763
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: architecture of whatever it's up against. There are certain things

764
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: that are just a stronger architecture, geometry. This is like

765
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: and look at this is actually what Apple says. Look

766
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: what they say, redesigned front crystal with a stronger and

767
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: more robust geometry. So I'm not a math expert, I'm

768
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 1: not a geometry major, but I just know that certain

769
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 1: shapes are are more are harder than other shapes. And

770
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: you can think about this when you look at supports.

771
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: If you have one beam like that looks like a toothpick,

772
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: and if you ever built one of these like toothpick

773
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: things in your life for like, you know, a project,

774
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,920
Speaker 1: you know that like a toothpick just standing upright, if

775
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: you crush it is gonna crush pretty easily. But if

776
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: you make that toothpick into more of a of a triangle,

777
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna support more of the weight, I think. I mean,

778
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I remember. So this is That's

779
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about here. So fifty percent thicker whatever

780
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 1: crystal that's supposedly more crack resistant. Also, for the first time,

781
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch seven is IPX six dust resistant. Now

782
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: I have brought my Apple Watch to the beach and

783
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: the desert, not so much the desert. I mean, I

784
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: live in a desert in Los Angeles, but it's not

785
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: like there's like, you know, dust storms swirling around like

786
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. I was driving to Texas one time,

787
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. We got caught in a real

788
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: life dust storm and I've never ever seen anything like

789
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: it ever again in my life. I think it was

790
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: called Peko's Texas, and it was unbelievable. I remember we

791
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: got to our hotel. We could barely see anything in

792
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: front of you, and we get to our hotel and

793
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 1: it's just like dust swarming everywhere. And I remember we

794
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: ordered a pizza. We had to go out and get

795
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: the pizza, and it was just like I never had

796
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: experienced anything like it. So yeah, I guess dust could

797
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 1: get in this thing. I've never had problems with sand

798
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: at the beach ever with the Apple Watch Series six

799
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 1: and earlier. But now it is more dust resistant, so

800
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: it'll be more durable. It's still swim resistant, which is

801
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: really good. Now they added some updates with WATCHSOS eight,

802
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: and some of those updates include a keyboard, a quirdy

803
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: keyboard on it, so you now get a you know,

804
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: a real keyboard that's built in. You can either swipe

805
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: or you can tap the keys on it. So that's cool.

806
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: Let's see there's let's see what else, a new mindfulness app.

807
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: There's sleep, respiratory rate tracking, tai chi, and pilates workout types.

808
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: Let's see what else, what else? What else? Watch OS

809
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: eight now has new improvements if you ride a bike.

810
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: So I did not know this, but fall detection apparently

811
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: did not work really well if you're on a bike

812
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: or really working out, and I guess the algorithms have

813
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,080
Speaker 1: been tweaked, so now know if you fall off a bike,

814
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: which is really really important. So now it also automatically

815
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,720
Speaker 1: knows when you start a bike workout. And so again

816
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: these are some of those things will come to other

817
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: watches because it's in Watch OS eight, so some of

818
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 1: those things, those improvements will work. Five brand new aluminum

819
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: case colors, including Midnight, Starlight green, and a new blue

820
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: and product red. When does the Apple Watch Series seven

821
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: come out We don't know. Available later this fall. So

822
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: remember the rumors about the the shipping the Apple Watch

823
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: seven would not be available at launch. Well, they said

824
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 1: it was going to be available in limited quantities. Well

825
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 1: turns out it's yeah, that was right. Actually, Apple Watch

826
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,959
Speaker 1: Series seven same price three ninety nine, Apple Watch se

827
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: two seventy nine, Apple Watch Series three at one ninety nine.

828
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: Don't go Series three. Please, don't go Series three. That's

829
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 1: way too old. Series three launched a bunch of years ago,

830
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 1: and gosh, let's see how old that is at this point.

831
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: If you have one, it's fine, but I would not

832
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: purchase a new one. I don't think that that's that's

833
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: a smart thing to do at this point. Let's see,

834
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: where where's my Wikipedia? Let's see Apple Watch serious three Wikipedia. Okay,

835
00:43:53,320 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: let's see. It was first available April twenty fourth, twenty fifteen, No.

836
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty seventeen, three years ago. So I mean, that's

837
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: not too old as far as Apple products go, and

838
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,880
Speaker 1: it's nice that it still works. But I would definitely

839
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 1: go se minimum and then I go Series seven if

840
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: you can. And I would personally go with Cellular if

841
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: you can, because I think cellular is the watch. I mean,

842
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: if you ever, well, I run a lot outside by

843
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: myself and without my phone, and so for me, Cellular

844
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: is the feature of the Apple Watch. And if I

845
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: ever do switch to the Pixel, I'm gonna activate my

846
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: Apple Watch with Cellular on the family plan, which is

847
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a little wonky. I'm gonna use the family setup,

848
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: which is not ideal because it won't be perfect. But anyway,

849
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: that's a whole nother story. All right, let's get to

850
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,240
Speaker 1: another question and then I'll do my personal info. Okay,

851
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: let's do another recording. Here we go another voice memo here.

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00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 3: Hello, which they say is Josey. I have a simple

853
00:44:55,200 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 3: question for you. Have you heard about a cloud switch

854
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 3: service called telebox t E R A B or X

855
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 3: tearbox If you have want you, I want to hear

856
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 3: your input about it. If you haven't, well that's okay.

857
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 3: Things all right.

858
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: So I had to look up terror Box and I

859
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: had not heard of this. But from what I see,

860
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of talk about whether it's

861
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: legit or not. And here's what I can tell. So

862
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: what terror Box is if you go to the website,

863
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: it's very simple. It's literally just a terror box used

864
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: to be called do box. It provides you with a

865
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: terabyte of storage and it's free. So but that's it.

866
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: There's no like, there's no information, there's no This is

867
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: what it concerns me about this is that there's no

868
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: about this website on the website, which is odd. So

869
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: I would definitely not use this as my primary storage

870
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: in fact, I would not even trust the you know,

871
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: the encryption, Like if you're just sharing like random, like

872
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: if you just need a terabyte of storage space to

873
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: store random stuff that's not very personal, that's just easy,

874
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: and you don't really care about the privacy, then I

875
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 1: think this would work. But I would I would not

876
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: guarantee or expect this to be around in a year

877
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: or two, like you just don't know. And that's I'm

878
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: only saying that because there's nothing about it on the

879
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: website like usually it would say about there'd be a

880
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: Twitter link or a LinkedIn, or a Facebook or an Instagram.

881
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: There's none of that stuff. But it looks like a

882
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 1: nice website. You can log in with Google log in,

883
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: create an account. There's an Android client and iPhone client.

884
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: And if you go to the iPhone client, let's see

885
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: what the ratings are. There's only nine hundred and twelve ratings.

886
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: It says it's owned by FlexTech, and so if you

887
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 1: look at the developer website, let's see, yeah, brings you

888
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: back to Terrorbox now. I was able to find a

889
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: press release. It says Terrorbox surpasses ten million global downloads.

890
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: This was on September fourteenth, twenty twenty one comes out

891
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,240
Speaker 1: of sunny Veil, says terror Box, a cloud based storage

892
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: subscription provider, announced ten million downloads. While many competitors offer

893
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: free cloud most don't exceed five gigabytes without a paid subscription,

894
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: Terrorbox gives users one terabyte a free cloud storage space,

895
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: which is approximately two hundred and fifty six thousand and

896
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: four megabyte photos. Terrorbox automatically sinks files across devices and

897
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: local storage. Oh that's interesting, so you can ability, you

898
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: can upload files up to four gigs in size or

899
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: twenty gigs with paid easily share files online previews. Compatibility

900
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: with iOS, Android, and desktop computers, and it also sorts

901
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: into categories like flowers, food, and home. Available in iOS

902
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: and Android. TERBYX for Windows will be available on September sixteenth,

903
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Oh that's interesting. Okay, that's like very soon.

904
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: Tear Box is a okay, and it actually has a contact,

905
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: a PR contact in the US, So I mean, look,

906
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: and I've actually gotten emails from these people, so like

907
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: the other let's see have I gotten from this agency?

908
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: Have I gotten anything? Yeah? I have so oh wow,

909
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Okay, it's a legit agency because I've worked

910
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: with them on other things, so t E R A box. Yeah,

911
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: it seems legit, but again I would be cautious. I

912
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 1: would just be cautiously optimistic. Use this for like a

913
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: way to store stuff. You've got a terabyte in the cloud,

914
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,400
Speaker 1: but just don't bank too much on it. And apparently

915
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: the company that it's owned by. I looked up a

916
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: little bit more and it apparently it's owned by a

917
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: Japanese division of a China company. So I don't know

918
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: take that at I just you know, we just don't know.

919
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: There's just not too much that I just wish it

920
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: had more information about who like owns this, but it

921
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: just doesn't. And you would think, okay, now I got

922
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: to another page that tells me a little bit more

923
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: about it. But again, okay, so if I go to

924
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: membership pages, normal user gets one terabyte and then a

925
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: premium user. Okay, so it tells you, oh, okay, this

926
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: is interesting. You don't get high speed downloads, and you

927
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: don't get automatic video back up. You can only say

928
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: five hundred files, playback resolution is seven to twenty, maximum

929
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: file size four gigs, and it's not ad free. Okay,

930
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,760
Speaker 1: So there are some limitations to the free but again,

931
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 1: you can upgrade to premium for gosh, see I don't

932
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: I hate when they don't say how much pricing is

933
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: on their page anyway, So this is again terror Box

934
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: is something that you only want to do if you

935
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: are in need of some storage. There are other places

936
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: out there where you can get storage, maybe not a

937
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: terabyte for free, but you know, you can always exhaust

938
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: your other options like dropbox and one edrive and Google Drive.

939
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: But again they're all kind of clamping down on that

940
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: free storage. All right, let's get to my news. So

941
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: I've talked about this in the podcast before, but you know,

942
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: this podcast is called Rich on Tech. It's a lot

943
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: about me and my world, and I try to make

944
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: it as personal as possible because I'm a real person.

945
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: I'm a human being that covers technology in Los Angeles. Yes,

946
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: I'm on TV, so that makes me like, oh my gosh,

947
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: this guy's on TV. And you know, it's so interesting

948
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: that when you're on TV people think you're different than

949
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: you know, people that are not on TV. And I'm not.

950
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,360
Speaker 1: I'm just a regular person that happens to be on TV.

951
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 1: So yes, you see me on there, anyone can see me,

952
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 1: anyone can know who I am. But the reality is

953
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 1: I'm just a regular person and I'm going through everything

954
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: in life just like you are. And whether that's family,

955
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,919
Speaker 1: whether that's kids, whether that's problems, whether that's good things,

956
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: whether that's highs, whether that's lows, it's all there. My

957
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 1: life is no different than yours except for the fact

958
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: that I have to get up really early and be

959
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: on TV, and that's basically it. I have a job

960
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 1: just like everyone else. Some days are better than others.

961
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: So anyway, the reason why I tell you all that

962
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: is because some people try to, you know, hide their

963
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: personal life. I feel like I can't because my life

964
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: is so intertwined with what I do, whether I'm sharing

965
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: pictures of my kids, whether I'm sharing where I am going, whatever.

966
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: So with all that said, I'm not you know, this

967
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: is not like a big life change. Well it kind

968
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: of is. But the reason I tell you this is

969
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: because I wouldn't typically tell you about the type of

970
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: car I drive, because there's no reason to unless it

971
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: was pertinent to what I cover. And now I feel

972
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,840
Speaker 1: like it is because this week I purchased a Tesla

973
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: and I'm very excited about that fact, because it's been

974
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 1: a long time coming. If you've listened to this podcast

975
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 1: in the past, you've known that I've or you know

976
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: that I've talked about the fact that my next car

977
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: will probably be a Tesla. And so it came to

978
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: a point where I felt like I wanted a new car.

979
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,959
Speaker 1: I was ready, and I bought a Tesla. I bought

980
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: it on September first. I got it a couple of

981
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: days ago. How did I get it so fast? Well,

982
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: there's a little secret on the Tesla website called existing inventory.

983
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: And if you go on that website and you look

984
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: at the existing inventory, Tesla releases a couple of cars

985
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: looks like every day that are already made. Now, I

986
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: don't know what's wrong with these cars. Like I'm not

987
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: what's wrong, but like, how do they have these cars?

988
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. Is it someone that says I'll

989
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 1: never mind, I don't want it. They build these cars

990
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 1: and then they're just ready or do they just build

991
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: a couple extras. I don't know. But I got my

992
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: car in two weeks versus months. And the reason I

993
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,760
Speaker 1: tell you this is because I will probably be talking

994
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 1: about the Tesla more and more and I will say,

995
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 1: I'm already obsessed. I love it. It has changed my world.

996
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: I'm learning all about it. I'm watching multiple YouTube videos

997
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: about all the different features. I'm getting used to the

998
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: idea of charging at work, you know, wherever I go.

999
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 1: I haven't done the home charger yet. But again, it's

1000
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: this is a new experience in my life, and it

1001
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,439
Speaker 1: feels like when I first got the iPhone. That's really

1002
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: what it feels like, because I'm exploring this new way

1003
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: of doing things that is just so different and it's

1004
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 1: really amazing. And I feel like I'm driving like something

1005
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,280
Speaker 1: that Elon Musk personally like gave me. It's so weird

1006
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,959
Speaker 1: because I feel like his imprints are on this car

1007
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: with the humor that's built into it. But anyway, so

1008
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: I tell you this because I will be talking about

1009
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:55,479
Speaker 1: it in future episodes. I am now on a very

1010
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,760
Speaker 1: different path in life, the EV path, which is really

1011
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's something new and in America we

1012
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: are so gas centric that it is it is really

1013
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: a leap of faith to go down this road of

1014
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:14,439
Speaker 1: EV and so I'm there. It's exciting. I will tell

1015
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: you also that I sold my old car through Shift,

1016
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: so that was an experience in itself. I you know,

1017
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: with these new you know, I used to sell my

1018
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,360
Speaker 1: car with Carmacks when I've purchased cars in the past,

1019
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: and I thought that was amazing. The fact that you

1020
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,839
Speaker 1: can just go somewhere and they purchase your car from

1021
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 1: you and give you money for it is on the spot.

1022
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,919
Speaker 1: It is amazing. And then when Carvana came along, I said,

1023
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, now I can sell it to Carvana.

1024
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: They come to you, Oh my gosh. And then I

1025
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: saw Shift and I basically compared the pricing from Shift,

1026
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: Carvana and Carmacks. Carmacks could not give me a quote

1027
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 1: on my phone. Carvana was a couple thousand less than

1028
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: Shift and Shift. The big difference is that when Carvana

1029
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: takes your car, according to my friend, the money is

1030
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: in your account immediately. With Shift, it does go through

1031
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:05,800
Speaker 1: a kind of a little more of a holding period

1032
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: where they do come to your house, they do the evaluation,

1033
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: but there is a final inspection off site that does

1034
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: take a little bit longer to get your money. So

1035
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 1: I was very nervous in handing my car over along

1036
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: with my pink slip. I think that is that what

1037
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: they call it the title whatever, you know, the slip

1038
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: for the title and not having the money. But every

1039
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: person I talked to from Shift assured me that I

1040
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: would get my money, and I did after only twenty

1041
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,799
Speaker 1: four hours. They sent me an email saying, your car

1042
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: passed the final inspection. Your money is on its way,

1043
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: but it could take three to four days to get it.

1044
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 1: So I can't say with certainty that the Shift process

1045
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: worked out. It's Shift dot com Shift, by the way.

1046
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. But I can't say with certainty

1047
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: that it worked out. But it seems to have worked out,

1048
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: and I seem to have gotten more than Carvana. So

1049
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: the way I understand it is that Carvana gives you

1050
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: a little bit more than Carmak, and then Shift, it seems,

1051
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: is paying people a little bit more than CarMax. Right now,

1052
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:09,280
Speaker 1: it's probably because they probably do less advertising on TV,

1053
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: they have maybe a little bit less overhead, and they're

1054
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: probably just less known, so they need more cars to

1055
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: do the same thing as Carbona. So I think it's

1056
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: an amazing world we live in today, the fact that

1057
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,919
Speaker 1: we have this already. I will tell you that range

1058
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: anxiety is real. Every trip that I go on. I'm

1059
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: just sitting there thinking, Oh my gosh, do I have

1060
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: enough mileage to get there? How am I going to

1061
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: charge once they get there? Am I gonna be able

1062
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: to get back home? How am I going to charge

1063
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: at home? Because I don't have a charger yet. But

1064
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 1: it's a new world, and I've got to say, I

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Speaker 1: have not been this excited about something in the tech

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Speaker 1: world for many, many years, and so I am very

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Speaker 1: excited about that. And oh my gosh, we're already fifty

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Speaker 1: five minutes into the show. I haven't even gotten to

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Speaker 1: the rest. I have so much more to talk about.

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Speaker 1: I've just been very long winded, so I'll just keep

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Speaker 1: going a little bit. Let's talk about the iPad Mini

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00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: iPad MANI. This got some of the biggest improvements. What

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00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 1: do you need to know about the iPad MANI. It

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00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,200
Speaker 1: is totally brand new. It's got this big eight point

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Speaker 1: three inch screen, comes in pink, starlight, purple, and gray.

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Speaker 1: It's got touch ID at the top on the fingerprint

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Speaker 1: sensor I guess, on the power button. It now supports

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Speaker 1: the second generation Apple pencil. It's got the new A

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Speaker 1: fifteen bionics, so a really fast chip that is in

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Speaker 1: the new iPhones. It's got the center stage, so the

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00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: cameras are improved. Center stage means that the camera will

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00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: follow you when you're doing a video chat. It's got

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Speaker 1: USB C, it's got five G optional cellular, and I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest, I think this is something that I am

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Speaker 1: going to purchase because I love the idea that I

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00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: can take this on trips. I know, I try to

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Speaker 1: pack light, but I still like the idea of a

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Speaker 1: little iPad, and especially if I'm gonna be using the pixel,

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Speaker 1: I'll still want the iOS for you know, researching and

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00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: just in general, and so this is kind of a

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Speaker 1: nice way of having that iOS experience. Maybe I don't

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00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: need it if I just do the new iPhone, but

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00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: this would be six hundred and forty nine dollars with cellular,

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00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: four ninety nine without cellular. And the annoying thing here

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00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 1: is that Apple raised the price by one hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: on this thing. It used to be three ninety nine

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00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: and now it's four ninety nine, and that is a

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Speaker 1: I just hate the fact that in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: You know, I get it, they improved a lot of stuff,

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Speaker 1: but why do we have to have a price increase.

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Speaker 1: I don't like that. So yeah, all right, let's should

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Speaker 1: we do another question? Let's do another question? Uh, Dixon

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00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: writes in Oh, this isn't a question, it's actually a complaint. Hey, Rich,

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00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: I took your advice and bought one of these earbuds.

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00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: It arrived a couple days ago, since I live in Irvine.

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Speaker 1: First glance, the packaging was professional and I pleasing. I

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00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: immediately tested the sound quality compared to my Bose earbuds

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00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: that I've been using for years. I'm sorry to inform

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00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: you with big disappointment of the bad quality of the sound,

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00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:01,840
Speaker 1: not even close to my bows and clarity and sound.

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00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 1: I reached out, Oh, these are one plus buds. I

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00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: reached out to one plus online to return the item.

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00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 1: As of today, five business days have gone by, still

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00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: waiting for the return label. I emailed them twice. The

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00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:14,919
Speaker 1: response was wait twenty four to forty eight hours. I'm

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00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: still waiting. Their customer service is super slow. Just to

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Speaker 1: let you know my thoughts. I know you get paid

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Speaker 1: by sponsoring products on air, but this one is a

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00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: big disappointment compared to Bo's users. Best regards, Dixon. All right, Dixon,

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Speaker 1: Number one, I do not get paid to sponsor products

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Speaker 1: on air, So I don't get paid to sponsor pretty

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00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: much anything. Now, I will tell you there's a couple

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00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: of things that I do have happened to me, and

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Speaker 1: I will always let you know. Number One, I've said

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Speaker 1: this before. My paycheck comes from KTLA, So that is

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Speaker 1: how I make my money. I do not make money

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00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: by sponsored content almost ever. Now. In the past, yes,

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Speaker 1: I have done I think two sponsored Instagram posts when

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01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 1: I was allowed to do that under my previous company.

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Speaker 1: They allowed, I asked for permission, they let me do it.

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01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: I did it. That's that's the only thing. But if

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Speaker 1: you see me post about anything on my social media,

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01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:14,439
Speaker 1: it is something that I just find interesting. It's something

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Speaker 1: I'm doing a story on. That's it. That there's no

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Speaker 1: money changing hands, and if there ever is, if there's

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Speaker 1: ever a situation where that happens, I will let you

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Speaker 1: know and I will be very clear about it. But

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Speaker 1: that does not happen because it's not really allowed to

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Speaker 1: happen under my current agreement unless I make other agreements

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Speaker 1: with my company, and so I don't get paid by

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01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 1: sponsoring products. That's just not something that I do in

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01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: the future. That may change. It could change, but that's

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01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:49,919
Speaker 1: not currently how I operate, so that doesn't happen. That's

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01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:53,439
Speaker 1: I reviewed the one plus buds because I genuinely love them,

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01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: and these are the one plus buds Pro that you're

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01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: talking about. I fell in love at these. I think

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01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: they are the I still think that they are some

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01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 1: of the best Android earbuds you can get for one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars, which I think is a fantastic price.

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01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: Now you're talking about Bo's. I did not compare these

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01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,440
Speaker 1: in my report to BOS. I just said that I

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01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 1: thought they were the best alternative to the air pods

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01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 1: for Android users. I am not an audio file I

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01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 1: am not a sound guy. I just come from a

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01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: personal experience of I've tested a lot of headphones out there,

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01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 1: or a lot ofhone earbuds. Some sound better than others,

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01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: some are better than others. But the reality is I

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01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: was very impressed with these. I thought they were amazing,

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Speaker 1: and I recommended them to everyone and anyone who was

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Speaker 1: willing to listen. Now, you are totally you are one

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01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 1: hundred percent entitled to your opinion, and that is what

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01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: makes the world go round. So if you found that

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Speaker 1: these don't compare to your bows. Go back to your bows.

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Speaker 1: I would have helped you. If OnePlus does not get

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Speaker 1: back to you in a timely manner, yes, I will

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01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: jump in and help you get satisfaction on this return.

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01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: I will not leave you hanging because, yes, this is

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01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: something I recommended you bought them didn't work out. I

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01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: think OnePlus is just smaller than Apple. They're not as nimble,

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01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: and they're not as like you know, they're not as

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Speaker 1: well positioned for returns like a big company like Samsung

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Speaker 1: or Apple. So yeah, it might take a little bit

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01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,920
Speaker 1: longer for them to get you your money and your return,

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01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: But I do think it will happen. If it doesn't,

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01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 1: please get in touch with me, and I know you will,

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01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: but that in that aspect, I will help you. So

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Speaker 1: thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it. It's what makes

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Speaker 1: the world go round. Not everyone shares the same opinion,

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Speaker 1: and so it's you know, it's totally within your reason

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01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: to email me something like this. All right, let's just

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Speaker 1: get through some of these other announcements before the show ends. Here,

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Speaker 1: Apple's standard iPad, the three hundred and twenty nine dollars iPad,

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01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: which I still think is the best iPad out there

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Speaker 1: for the average person. What did it get new? It

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01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 1: got a new chip A thirteen bionics so it's more powerful.

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01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: It got a new front facing cam and with that

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01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: center stage feature I was talking about, And that's about it.

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Speaker 1: So that's pretty much all you need to know. The

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Speaker 1: standard iPad at three twenty nine is still I think

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Speaker 1: the best iPad for the average person, especially if you

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01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: have kids. People email me all the time saying rich

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01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: which I perhap should I get from my kids? The

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01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: Mini I would recommend, but it's too expensive at four

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Speaker 1: ninety nine's that's like really a lot three twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: This typically goes on sale for cheaper, so I would

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Speaker 1: say go for that Apple Fitness plus a couple things

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01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: to note there. They built new guided meditation into the

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Speaker 1: app and also pilates into the app, and that's going

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Speaker 1: to launch on September twenty seventh. Then later this fall

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01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 1: they're going to launch this new thing called group workouts,

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01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: where you can invite up to thirty two friends to

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01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: work out at the same time, kind of like a

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01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 1: group FaceTime, but with workouts. All right, let's get to

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Speaker 1: another question. Then I'll round up two more news stories

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Speaker 1: and then we'll go all right. Fred Wrights, Hey Rich,

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Speaker 1: how are you? I have a Samsung S ten Android

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01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 1: at and T is the provider my issue. I can't

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01:04:02,720 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: find a way to stop the camera from identifying the

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01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: location the picture was taking. I already turned off the

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Speaker 1: location stamp and the camera settings menu and the main settings.

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Speaker 1: I deny GPS access to the camera. The interesting part

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Speaker 1: is that the location stamp is not on every picture.

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Speaker 1: It's very random. Sometimes it shows up on every second

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Speaker 1: or third picture. Other times maybe on the ninth or

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01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: eighth picture. All the firmware and software on the picture,

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01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: on the camera, on the are updated. Any ideas on

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01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: how to stop the camera from accessing location? Thanks for

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Speaker 1: your help, Fred, Fred here is what I think is happening.

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Speaker 1: Because you're on Samsung, I was gonna recommend that you

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Speaker 1: turn off the There's a thing called location tags. If

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01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: you go into your camera, open it up, open up settings,

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01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: and there's something called location tags. You can toggle that off.

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Speaker 1: Once you toggle that off, you can confirm that location

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01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: is no longer being attached to a picture. How can

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01:04:55,480 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: you confirm that by opening Samsung's gallery app? I have

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01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 1: a feeling I know what's going on here. I have

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Speaker 1: a feeling that you're looking at these pictures in Google Photos.

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Speaker 1: And I'll explain what's going on in a second. But

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Speaker 1: in the gallery app, the only way to confirm that.

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01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: There's two ways. In the Gallery app, open up a

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Speaker 1: picture and with all these settings turned off. You said

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01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: you turn off GPS on the camera, you deny GPS

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01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:25,800
Speaker 1: in the permissions. That's a great start. That's basically the

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Speaker 1: way to deny GPS what they call EXIF data to

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01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,200
Speaker 1: being written, to being written on these photos. To confirm it,

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01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: open up these Samsung Gallery app, it is called Gallery.

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01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 1: Open it up, open up a picture, and if you

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01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 1: look at the details of that picture, you have to

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01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 1: use a little menu. Look at details. There should be

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01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: no location attached to those pictures. There's no way your

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01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: phone is still attaching location because you've turned it off

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01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: and you've disabled it. What I think is happening is

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Speaker 1: I think you're looking at these pictures in Google Photos.

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Speaker 1: And what Google Photos does is, because Google is so smart,

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01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 1: it is not just looking at the GPS tags on

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01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:06,080
Speaker 1: those pictures. It's also looking at something called location history,

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01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: which is an aggregate of your location every time you

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01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: open up any sort of Google app on your phone.

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01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 1: It kind of figures out where you are. It takes

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01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: that into consideration. It says, oh, okay, Riches in Chattanooga,

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01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: he took a picture at nine am. Although it doesn't

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01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:22,439
Speaker 1: have GPS, we know he's there. We're going to say

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01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 1: estimated location Chattanooga, Tennessee. Now, so I want you to

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01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 1: open up these pictures in Google Photos and see if

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Speaker 1: it says estimated location when you look at the location.

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Speaker 1: If it does, I think I've solved your problem. The

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01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 1: location is not actually being attached to this picture physically.

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01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: It is being estimated by Google. And what that means

1259
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: is that only you can see where that picture was

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01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 1: theoretically taken, because Google is only showing you that data.

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Speaker 1: The other tool you can use is called Jeffries x

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01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 1: IF Viewer, and if you google Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer,

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01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 1: you can click that and you can upload the picture

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01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: there and it will show you the EXIF data. And

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01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 1: this is a good way to see if EXIF data

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01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: is being attached to the picture. If it is, you'll

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01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:11,680
Speaker 1: see GPS coordinates. If it's not, you will not. So

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Speaker 1: great question there. Let me just get through two more

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Speaker 1: stories before this show is over all. Right, So Kindle

1270
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 1: getting an update for the first time in a long time,

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01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 1: and if you've already seen it, maybe you have. But

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Speaker 1: Kindle software update is rolling out as we speak. The

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Speaker 1: new software update gives you more direct access to home

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Speaker 1: library in their current book, as well as easy access

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Speaker 1: to commonly used settings. So that is the main feature.

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Speaker 1: Now when you swipe down from the top, you can

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Speaker 1: get access to kind of the things that you need,

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Speaker 1: which is, let's see the airplane mode, Bluetooth sync settings

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Speaker 1: and brightness and so this is an easy way to

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Speaker 1: do just that, which is really nice. Also, then you

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Speaker 1: can get your access to her font and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: My wife and I always crack up because she looks

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Speaker 1: at my font that I use on my Kindle and

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Speaker 1: it's super small. But I do adjust the lighting every

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Speaker 1: so often, like I find that the automatic adjustment of

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Speaker 1: the back light isn't the best. Maybe it's better with

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Speaker 1: a new update. So if you want the new update,

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Speaker 1: you can go into your settings and go to software

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Speaker 1: update in the Kindle. Otherwise you can just wait for

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Speaker 1: it to hit your Kindle. It's going to be hitting

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Speaker 1: it for a while. The feature that I do like that.

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Speaker 1: I think I've been talking I've already talked about on

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Speaker 1: the Kindle is the fact that you can now display

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Speaker 1: the book you're reading on your cover when your Kindle

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Speaker 1: is is not in use. And that's only if you

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Speaker 1: have the ad free version of the Kindle, which I

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Speaker 1: don't think most people have. Okay, Earlier in the show,

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Speaker 1: I mentioned that Google has Google has answered my Google

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Speaker 1: Cloud storage dreams and they came up with a middle

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Speaker 1: ground tier. So it used to be you had to

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Speaker 1: choose between two terabytes, which I used to pay ten

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Speaker 1: dollars for and ten terabytes, which I had to upgrade

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Speaker 1: to and pay fifty dollars for a month for my

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Speaker 1: Google Photos. Now they have a new five terabyte storage

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Speaker 1: plan which is twenty five dollars a month, which just

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Speaker 1: saved me. Get this, twenty five dollars a month, so

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Speaker 1: that is amazing. Thank you Google for doing that. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to go into detail on what I

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Speaker 1: still need to do with this situation, but I am

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Speaker 1: currently saving twenty five dollars a month on my plan,

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Speaker 1: which is really great. You can actually pay the whole

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Speaker 1: year in advance for two hundred and fifty dollars, So

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Speaker 1: two fifty divided by twelve actually brings your monthly payment

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Speaker 1: down to twenty dollars and eighty three cents a month,

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Speaker 1: which is even four dollars less a month than when

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Speaker 1: I'm currently paying. So I will eventually do that. I

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Speaker 1: just didn't, you know, I bought the car, so I

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Speaker 1: didn't really feel like spending another two hundred fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: when I saw this. So I will eventually do that

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Speaker 1: very soon. And thank you Google for doing that. Oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening. That is going to do it

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