Speaker 1: Chat GPT gets an eight hundred number. What it's like
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Speaker 1: questions answered, and what you're thankful for in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: what's going on rich damiro and this is Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: This is the show where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the
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Speaker 1: want to call in and tell me what you're thankful
Speaker 1: for this year when it comes to tech, I will
Speaker 1: accept that as well. Guests this week Marcia Collier, author
Speaker 1: of Android Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies. She's going to
Speaker 1: join us to share tips from her new book, and
Speaker 1: mind Over Tech founder Jonathan Garner is going to explain
Speaker 1: how to develop a healthier relationship with technology. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, Well, welcome to the show. I hope you
Speaker 1: are having a fantastic holiday season. I know this is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite times of the year. The house
Speaker 1: is cozy, everyone's in a good mood, things are fun
Speaker 1: and decorated, lots of holiday festivities. So I am a
Speaker 1: big fan of this time of the year and I
Speaker 1: am thoroughly enjoying it. Hope you are as well. I
Speaker 1: figured I would talk about, since it is the end
Speaker 1: of the year, some of my favorite apps of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. So, as you know, I test a lot
Speaker 1: of apps, I make a lot of changes. I'm often
Speaker 1: moving between iPhone and Android, and so I'm really looking
Speaker 1: for apps that are a couple of things simple, essential,
Speaker 1: new apps. I'm always looking for a better app than
Speaker 1: the one I have cross platform. Always wants something that
Speaker 1: works on iPhone and an Android, even though it's not
Speaker 1: always possible. AI one of the big trends I noticed
Speaker 1: this year. AI is in just about everything, so it's
Speaker 1: tough to avoid at this point, and sometimes it's fun
Speaker 1: to embrace simplifying complexity. That's one of my main things
Speaker 1: that I want. I want apps that just help me
Speaker 1: out in life, don't make my life more complicated. And
Speaker 1: of course all of my apps reflect my priorities, which
Speaker 1: is staying organized, staying creative, and staying connected. So, without
Speaker 1: further ado, let me go through some of the apps
Speaker 1: that are not only on my home screen but also
Speaker 1: just on my phone in general. And again a lot
Speaker 1: of these come from trial and error. I've tried so
Speaker 1: many apps and these are the apps that I kind
Speaker 1: of go back to. So first up Obsidian. So you've
Speaker 1: probably heard me talk about all of the note taking
Speaker 1: apps that I've tried over the years. This year I
Speaker 1: was using Notion a lot, and then I finally decided
Speaker 1: to go back to Obsidian when they introduce their web Clipper.
Speaker 1: And this is a tool that lets you clip web
Speaker 1: pages and save them into your notes and so I
Speaker 1: like that it's nice and clean. It gives me that
Speaker 1: web page saved forever. And what I like about this
Speaker 1: app is it's basically completely free if you want it
Speaker 1: to be. So, whether you're sinking it on iPhone or Android,
Speaker 1: it's all yours. All the information resides on your system,
Speaker 1: and it could be free forever. They do offer sync
Speaker 1: if you want to sink from your computer to your
Speaker 1: phone and make it easy. They do offer a paid
Speaker 1: option for that, but you can do it completely free
Speaker 1: as well. So I've really grown fond of Obsidian. My
Speaker 1: wife saw my Obsidian yesterday or a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: and she looked at us. She goes, wow, you're so organized.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, yeah, you know, I try all right.
Speaker 1: This is a new one that I'm testing out for
Speaker 1: the new year. You've heard of Duo Lingo, but this
Speaker 1: one's called Speak and it's a new way to learn
Speaker 1: language with the help of AI. So it basically listens
Speaker 1: to you talk and it will talk back to you
Speaker 1: and it's all through AI. So I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: learning Spanish through this app this year. Rosebud, this is
Speaker 1: one of my new favorites. This is a journaling app,
Speaker 1: but it's also powered by AI. Just did a story
Speaker 1: with the folks that created it and interviewed them and
Speaker 1: I got to say I use this app exactly once,
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is incredible. And so you
Speaker 1: write in it gives you questions you write in your journals,
Speaker 1: you know your answers to those, and then it sort
Speaker 1: of acts like a little mini therapist and it kind
Speaker 1: of analyzes what you're writing and it's like, hey, rich,
Speaker 1: we noticed that you really value you know this, this,
Speaker 1: and this, and we feel like what you did today
Speaker 1: goes back to what you mentioned a week ago. So
Speaker 1: the more you use this, the smarter it gets about you.
Speaker 1: And I know it's a little scary when it comes
Speaker 1: to privacy. And I asked the guys that I said, hey,
Speaker 1: is this stuff encrypted? Like, who's looking at this? They
Speaker 1: said it all it's all private. So Rosebud is a
Speaker 1: really cool AI journaling app that I'm just gonna I
Speaker 1: think I'm hopefully going to be a better person in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five thanks to it. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: like what this thing will do for me. Google Photos,
Speaker 1: I mean this I've been using forever. You know, I
Speaker 1: love it. If you listen to me. I think what's
Speaker 1: neat about Google Photos is just puts everything in one place.
Speaker 1: It's cross platform. It's not as confusing as iCloud. iCloud.
Speaker 1: People love it and they use it because it's the
Speaker 1: default on iPhone. But the problem is it's very confusing
Speaker 1: and it's very kind of like one side platform. Like
Speaker 1: the whole point of iPhoto or of iCloud and iphotos
Speaker 1: is really just to get you into the Apple ecosystem
Speaker 1: and make it so sticky that you can never leave,
Speaker 1: and they've done a very good job with that. Because
Speaker 1: photos is something that everyone has, So I like Google
Speaker 1: Photos because it works across every platform. It works everywhere,
Speaker 1: and especially now with the Ai photo search, finding my
Speaker 1: old photos is just so easy. It's unbelievable. It's scary
Speaker 1: how good it is at finding old stuff, which is
Speaker 1: a couple of keywords. Microsoft to Do. You know, I
Speaker 1: struggle with my to do list, but Microsoft to Do
Speaker 1: is the one I continue to use. And the reason
Speaker 1: I like it over every other to do list out
Speaker 1: there is that it's free, completely free, and you can
Speaker 1: add files to your to do up to your to
Speaker 1: do entries, so if there's a file that you need
Speaker 1: to do something with, you can just drag it into
Speaker 1: your entry and deal with it as well. Google Calendar simple,
Speaker 1: I mean, as you can see, I do love my
Speaker 1: Google products. Google Calendar again, cross platform. I live inside
Speaker 1: this app. It is everything to me and I use
Speaker 1: it all the time. Chat GPT. You know, I was
Speaker 1: a big fan of Claude. I still am. I still
Speaker 1: think Claude is better at the English language, but I
Speaker 1: do think Chatchibt is really good at sort of being
Speaker 1: a jack of all trades, so not only can it
Speaker 1: do stuff, and it just keeps getting better with new
Speaker 1: options and features. On a daily basis, I do pay
Speaker 1: for it, but it can also make images, it can
Speaker 1: write code, It could just do everything that you throw
Speaker 1: at it. It may not be the best at everything,
Speaker 1: but it's good at a lot of stuff, especially with
Speaker 1: web search and things like that. So I have kind
Speaker 1: of gone all in on Chat GBT and it just
Speaker 1: continues to impress me with how natural and easy it
Speaker 1: is to sort of adapt to my needs. Google Gemini
Speaker 1: is great. This is Google's version of AI, and I
Speaker 1: find that it's it's good, it's smart, it's clever. It
Speaker 1: tells you how it's thinking, which is a new feature
Speaker 1: which is really wild. But I feel like overall, Chat
Speaker 1: GBT is just kind of easier. But Google Gemini is
Speaker 1: great when you want sort of the latest information on
Speaker 1: a topic, It's always up to date. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like Google, but the AI version of it. All Right, Now,
Speaker 1: these two apps I rely on on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: It's called email Me, and it's both on iOS and Android.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing, different developers. So I have this
Speaker 1: where you can tap this and anything you're thinking, you
Speaker 1: can just email to yourself very quickly, and so I
Speaker 1: absolutely love these apps. I use them all day, every day,
Speaker 1: and it's just so much easier than sort of writing
Speaker 1: things in a notepad or a to do list, because
Speaker 1: my email inbox or my email inbox is my to
Speaker 1: do list, so I kind of put everything in there
Speaker 1: and then triage it later when I have the time
Speaker 1: for social media. Instagram and X continue to be not
Speaker 1: so much, but really Instagram is the place I go
Speaker 1: to the most when it comes to the short posts
Speaker 1: like X and Blue Sky. Of course, everyone's been hopping
Speaker 1: back and forth. X still feels more active than Blue Sky,
Speaker 1: but I know a lot of people are trying to
Speaker 1: make Blue Sky a thing, so we'll see what happens there. Mosey,
Speaker 1: this is a new app. This is a social app
Speaker 1: that's more private than typical social media apps. And what's
Speaker 1: unique about this app is that it's only your real
Speaker 1: friends that are in your address book, and so you
Speaker 1: can share your travel plans. And I've always had this
Speaker 1: idea and this kind of image in my head of
Speaker 1: here I am, I landed in Seattle. Who wants to
Speaker 1: have dinner with me in Seattle tonight, and instead of
Speaker 1: texting your entire address book, this would just show that
Speaker 1: you're in Seattle and people would say, oh, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: Riches friend. Let me hey, rich I'm here in Seattle.
Speaker 1: Let's go have dinner. So that's a really cool new app.
Speaker 1: Still testing it out, kind of waiting into that one.
Speaker 1: Moz I Mosey Whisper Memos. Again, you've probably heard me
Speaker 1: talk about this. Absolutely one percent game changing. This lets
Speaker 1: you record voice notes from your wrist on the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: It's iOS only, Apple Watch only, iPhone only, so that's
Speaker 1: the only downside of emailed the developer. I said, please
Speaker 1: bring this to Android. We need it on Android. But
Speaker 1: I love this because I can just record a note
Speaker 1: for my wrist. It's transcribed and sent to my inbox,
Speaker 1: and it's just so fantastic. I absolutely love it all right,
Speaker 1: going down the list here, Popple popl This is what
Speaker 1: I use for my digital business cards. A lot of
Speaker 1: people don't have physical business cards anymore. This just gives
Speaker 1: you a QR code. People can scan it get your
Speaker 1: info really really easy. Do like that Raindrop dot io.
Speaker 1: This is not so much handy on my phone, but
Speaker 1: on my computer. I use it, and it's just a
Speaker 1: great app for organizing and saving your bookmarks. You probably
Speaker 1: use Chrome or whatever your browser is to organize your bookmarks,
Speaker 1: but Raindrop just takes it a little bit further because
Speaker 1: it helps you organize them as well. So I really
Speaker 1: like that one. And then fly Finn talking about organizing stuff,
Speaker 1: I really like this for tracking my tax deductible expenses.
Speaker 1: So you know, I have a couple of different jobs.
Speaker 1: A lot of that stuff is freelance, and so I
Speaker 1: like keeping track of all my expenses. And this uses
Speaker 1: AI to say, like, hey, we noticed that you made
Speaker 1: a purchase at office depot. We're going to automatically assume
Speaker 1: that that's a business expense unless you tell us otherwise,
Speaker 1: and it automatically categorizes everything as well. There is a
Speaker 1: yearly fee associated with it, but I think it's well
Speaker 1: worth that fee. All right, coming up, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: some more of these when we get back from the break.
Speaker 1: But eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. I'm
Speaker 1: also talking about what people are thankful for today. Nico
Speaker 1: in Nicaragua, ex California resident says, I'm thankful for all
Speaker 1: the free info you share. Thank you Nico eight eight
Speaker 1: to eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one links to all
Speaker 1: those apps on my website rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: More of your questions after this, Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking
Speaker 1: technology at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight
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Speaker 1: I am at rich on Tech posted my holiday card
Speaker 1: to you and thank you for all of the amazing
Speaker 1: responses that you wrote on there. I was just reading
Speaker 1: through them and it's it's pretty pretty amazing talking about
Speaker 1: tech news. Just how many people you can affect, and
Speaker 1: I do appreciate that. Speaking of what people are thankful for,
Speaker 1: I asked you on my Instagram to say what you're
Speaker 1: thankful for in technology, and Jim in Arizona says, I'm
Speaker 1: thankful for FaceTime so I can keep in touch with
Speaker 1: family living in different states. So before the break, I
Speaker 1: was talking about some of the apps that I really
Speaker 1: enjoy on my phone. I'm just going to contin you,
Speaker 1: because I do have a lot of them, and I
Speaker 1: think they're very useful. I've got these all linked up
Speaker 1: on the website rich on tech dot tv. But another
Speaker 1: app that I really like this year is called Rocket Money.
Speaker 1: This used to be called True Bill, and this gives
Speaker 1: you a snapshot of all of your recurring bills and
Speaker 1: your spending habits. And it's completely free. They do have
Speaker 1: a paid upgrade if you want. I don't really see
Speaker 1: a need for the paid upgrade, but the free app
Speaker 1: does great things. You connect all of your accounts and
Speaker 1: it kind of tells you, like there's a calendar that
Speaker 1: shows you all of your bills and when they're happening,
Speaker 1: and I really like that, and also how much you're spending,
Speaker 1: so you can tap Starbucks and see how much you've
Speaker 1: spent there. We were going through the other night and
Speaker 1: it's like, all right, how much do you think we
Speaker 1: spent here? How much do you think we spent there?
Speaker 1: And I knew Amazon was going to be the most,
Speaker 1: and sure enough it was, and then something like Starbucks
Speaker 1: actually wasn't that much. I'm not a big Starbucks, like,
Speaker 1: I don't go there all the time, and so I
Speaker 1: was like kind of surprised how little I spent there
Speaker 1: throughout the year. Another mon money app is called Monarch Money.
Speaker 1: This is a great Remember Mint went out of business,
Speaker 1: that was a fantastic app for tracking your net worth.
Speaker 1: Monarch Money sort of fills that gap and it's kind
Speaker 1: of like Rocket Money as well. But it has a
Speaker 1: great net worth feature. So you can put all of
Speaker 1: your accounts in one place. You can put your cars,
Speaker 1: you can put your house if you have multiple cars,
Speaker 1: you can put your four oh one K, you can
Speaker 1: put every account that you have. You link it up
Speaker 1: to this Monarch Money and then it will show you,
Speaker 1: you know, your net worth, which is kind of like
Speaker 1: I guess that's everything you have minus what you owe.
Speaker 1: So if you have debt, credit cards, that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: it'll take it all out and it'll show you like
Speaker 1: how much you have. And it's just a great app.
Speaker 1: It really does a nice job. The only downside is
Speaker 1: it does have a yearly fee, which I get it.
Speaker 1: It's a smaller developer, so they got to make money somehow,
Speaker 1: and there's no ads or things like that. So you know,
Speaker 1: with Mint, they were making money on the back end
Speaker 1: by collecting your data and of course, selling that against
Speaker 1: advertising or whatever marketing monarch money is just more like
Speaker 1: this is you. We're gonna charge you, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a great app. All right, this photo, this app
Speaker 1: if you put a if you put one app on
Speaker 1: your phone, this is it. No matter what kind of
Speaker 1: smartphone you have. It's called Radiant Photo. And before you
Speaker 1: post anything to social media, just put the photo through
Speaker 1: this app. Takes one tap and it makes it look better.
Speaker 1: He uses AI. It's incredible. As far as I can tell.
Speaker 1: It's free. I've never paid for it and it works
Speaker 1: really well. Radiant Photo. Got to give a shout out
Speaker 1: to my pal Jefferson Graham, who does all the photo stuff.
Speaker 1: He was the one that recommended that to me, and
Speaker 1: it's great. Canva this is to me. If you remember
Speaker 1: print shop back in the day, this is the modern
Speaker 1: version of print shop. So I do all my Instagram
Speaker 1: posts now, I'm not an expert in design, and you
Speaker 1: can definitely tell that if you follow me on Instagram
Speaker 1: you see my helpful posts. They are nothing special, but
Speaker 1: they get the information across and I use I use
Speaker 1: Canva to do that, and to be honest, I'm doing
Speaker 1: these very quickly. You'd be surprised how long it takes
Speaker 1: to make one of those little posts on Canva. And
Speaker 1: I get it. The influencers, they do a great job.
Speaker 1: They're beautiful. But the thing is the the amount of
Speaker 1: time it takes them to make those is a lot.
Speaker 1: And I just don't have all that time, so I
Speaker 1: just want to get the information out, so I'll just
Speaker 1: do it on Canva quickly. Award Wallet, I love this app.
Speaker 1: I put all my It just automatically scans my Gmail
Speaker 1: and finds every reservation I make and puts it into
Speaker 1: one giant timeline. I love it, whether it's a restaurant, hotel,
Speaker 1: no matter what. Award Wallet is incredible for that upside.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this, save money, get cash back on
Speaker 1: gas and groceries. I love it. I've gotten like a
Speaker 1: couple hundred dollars back through this app. It's really really cool. Upside.
Speaker 1: If you're in La, sick of Citizen LA. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you pronounce this app, but it's La It
Speaker 1: nine one one La at nine one one. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like Citizen but just for La. All the police
Speaker 1: activity in your area. You can see what's happening, watch
Speaker 1: duty very similar, but for wildfire activity in your area.
Speaker 1: It's called watch Duty. Libby also one of my favorites
Speaker 1: for free books I can read on my Kindle. Flighty.
Speaker 1: If you're flying, Flighty is fantastic for all of your
Speaker 1: flight details in one place. It is the best flight
Speaker 1: tracking app out there. It is incredible. It's iOS only, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but it's really really incredible. Cap Cut is what I
Speaker 1: use to edit videos on the go on my phone.
Speaker 1: Caffeine if you have an Android. Caffeine is excellent. If
Speaker 1: you want to keep your screen awake, like maybe you're
Speaker 1: making a recipe or something. One tap Caffeine will keep
Speaker 1: it awake for fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes. It's
Speaker 1: so great if you're reading something, don't want your screen
Speaker 1: to go dark. Zero Cam this is what I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of playing with. But this is a camera app
Speaker 1: that uses no AI, so just takes a picture, doesn't
Speaker 1: use any AI to affect it. Kind of the opposite
Speaker 1: of the other one I told you about, the Radiant
Speaker 1: Photo and then Ways absolutely love Ways. For one feature,
Speaker 1: it's called time to Leave, So if I need to
Speaker 1: be somewhere at six pm, I pop it into ways.
Speaker 1: It says leave later, and you can see exactly what
Speaker 1: time you need to leave your place to get there
Speaker 1: on time at six pm. Again, all of these apps
Speaker 1: linked up on my website rich On tech dot TV
Speaker 1: eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Coming back,
Speaker 1: We'll take a call and have more of what you
Speaker 1: are thankful for here on rich On Tech. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Diana in Torrance, California. Diana, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hi Realich, thank you for taking my call. I use
Speaker 2: a Mac and Apple devices, and I was wondering is
Speaker 2: there any possible kind of either software app or hardware
Speaker 2: device that would allow.
Speaker 3: Me to connect to my home Wi.
Speaker 2: Fi network when I'm out of range of the home
Speaker 2: Life Fine network or in a remote location.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by connect to your home Wi
Speaker 1: Fi network? You want to tap into your your internet
Speaker 1: or you want to tap into your computer at home?
Speaker 1: Like what do you want to do?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I want to be able to connect to the Wi
Speaker 3: Fi as if I were at home. Like let's say,
Speaker 3: if I have my Mac with me and I'd like
Speaker 3: to connect to my home Wi Fi from like a
Speaker 3: remote location.
Speaker 1: Okay, there actually is a startup that's doing this, and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the Okay, I think here it is.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting what you're talking about. There's not a
Speaker 1: way to do it easily, and what you're saying like,
Speaker 1: you can't really you can connect your home network from
Speaker 1: AFAR using something like a team viewer or you know,
Speaker 1: remote file sharing or remote desktop or Chrome has a
Speaker 1: version of that, but that'll just get you into your
Speaker 1: computer network. If you want to connect to your Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: There's actually a company that's working on this called clever
Speaker 1: Phi c L e v er Fi, and so what
Speaker 1: they're doing is they are coming up with a system
Speaker 1: that kind of lets you log into your home network
Speaker 1: using your Wi Fi from anywhere you are. It's really
Speaker 1: like I couldn't even understand when these people were telling me,
Speaker 1: like what this means. But that's the company is clever Fi.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to try to even explain it
Speaker 1: because I don't even really understand. But the idea is
Speaker 1: that if you're a hotel or a you know, coffee place, whatever,
Speaker 1: you would sign up with this clever Fi software and
Speaker 1: then when you get to that hotel somehow you can
Speaker 1: just log in with your credentials from home. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's weird, but it's that's kind of what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the company that's working on it.
Speaker 1: But again, this all depends on the place enabling this
Speaker 1: kind of software. So the company is Cleverfi dot com.
Speaker 1: It's a startup. I think it's out of Italy, but
Speaker 1: they were working on that. Now. When it comes to
Speaker 1: just kind of accessing your computer from outside of your home,
Speaker 1: which many people might want to be able to do,
Speaker 1: there is software that can do this. Chrome Remote Desktop
Speaker 1: is probably the easiest. It's free from Google and you
Speaker 1: just install it on your computer and then you can
Speaker 1: share the screen, access files, whatever. Apple also has something
Speaker 1: called screen sharing that's built in. I've been using this
Speaker 1: at home. You just turn it on in your computer
Speaker 1: and when you go to your network from other computers,
Speaker 1: you can see your Mac on that network. So that's easy.
Speaker 1: And then of course there's software like Teamviewer. Team Viewer
Speaker 1: is free sort of remote connectivity software and that will
Speaker 1: allow you to do the same thing. Thanks for the question,
Speaker 1: Diana there in Torrance. Hope you're having a great holiday season.
Speaker 1: Coming up later on the show, if you're into Android,
Speaker 1: We've got Marcia Collier. She wrote a new book called
Speaker 1: Androids Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies. I've got a copy
Speaker 1: of it right here, and reminds me a lot of
Speaker 1: the book that I wrote about the iPhone. I wrote
Speaker 1: one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone.
Speaker 1: Now I self published that book. But this is through
Speaker 1: the dummies. You know you've seen those dummies books, right,
Speaker 1: But it looks like you know, same thing. I did
Speaker 1: all little screens shots and all the circles around things
Speaker 1: to show you where stuff is no easy feat when
Speaker 1: you're writing a how to book for for phones, there's
Speaker 1: a lot that goes into that because there's just so
Speaker 1: much that you got to think about. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Spencer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Spencer, you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 4: How are you doing, Rich?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? What's can I help you with?
Speaker 5: I have a system that I built based on Asus
Speaker 5: Toughs Gaming X five seventy plus WiFi motherboard.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's floaded with loaded with Windows ten.
Speaker 6: Now I want to upgrade, but Windows says that I
Speaker 6: have to have TPM turned on and I have to
Speaker 6: have U e F.
Speaker 4: I turned on. Yes, but when I went to the
Speaker 4: bias and.
Speaker 6: Turn those on, it refuses to boot.
Speaker 7: Oh am, I stuck.
Speaker 6: I don't want to have to reload the I have
Speaker 6: about one hundred programs on here.
Speaker 3: I'd have to go fishing for keys or is there
Speaker 3: any way I can.
Speaker 6: Do this without having to reformat the hard drive because
Speaker 6: then I'd have.
Speaker 5: To buy the Windows eleven instead of getting it free.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, No, So, yeah, you're right, there are some
Speaker 1: requirements for Windows eleven on these systems. It sounds like
Speaker 1: your system. Did you build this yourself?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, so it sounds like to me that you've got
Speaker 1: the requirements, and you know because you built this thing
Speaker 1: that you have these things that you need. It's basically
Speaker 1: the security of the system. It's like it's kind of
Speaker 1: at the base level of the system, this security chip
Speaker 1: that it requires. It's kind of the same thing with
Speaker 1: Apple too. They did the same thing on their computers,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, it's like base level security, and
Speaker 1: they want you to have that on your system to
Speaker 1: be able to install Windows eleven moving forward, just for
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. So you're saying you have that
Speaker 1: on your system. Correct.
Speaker 5: I have it on the system, but when I turn
Speaker 5: it on, it no longer boots.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's.
Speaker 6: Oh apparently it won't boost Windows tan.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so that's interesting. So yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 7: Then.
Speaker 1: Now there are some blog posts about forcing the Windows
Speaker 1: eleven upgrade. Have you checked that or tried that?
Speaker 2: Uh? No?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So I'm looking at howtogeek dot com
Speaker 1: and this is, uh, you know, how to force the
Speaker 1: Windows eleven update. Now, this is from last year, so
Speaker 1: I don't know how current it is, but this is
Speaker 1: gonna This says that you can force this. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can bypass. I'm just reading through this. It looks
Speaker 1: like it looks like you'll probably be able to do
Speaker 1: it using this guide if you. The problem is you
Speaker 1: got to download this Windows eleven Installation Assistant, which let's
Speaker 1: see if they still even have that available, because this
Speaker 1: was from a y or ago. Looks like they do,
Speaker 1: so you might do that.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: Is your computer fully updated?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the bias is updated.
Speaker 7: I've got everything up to.
Speaker 1: One bias beyond.
Speaker 5: Requirements from Windows eleven.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't they'll.
Speaker 8: Have another window to load, but I think.
Speaker 5: The bias system that I got in there right now
Speaker 5: is good to go.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna link this up on the
Speaker 1: website on the show notes. This this how to geek
Speaker 1: article because it actually it looks like it brings you
Speaker 1: to a pretty good help page for Windows that will
Speaker 1: help you download this Windows eleven Installation Assistant, and then
Speaker 1: if you don't want that, you can also create a
Speaker 1: Windows eleven Installation media and then you can download a
Speaker 1: disk image as well. So this kind of gives you
Speaker 1: all the tools that might help you get that on there.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you know what you're doing, so I
Speaker 1: think that these would be thing that you would be
Speaker 1: able to figure out if you're going through the standard
Speaker 1: you know, Windows eleven update through your Windows ten. It
Speaker 1: may not allow you to do that because, like you said,
Speaker 1: these things are not turned on. Once you turn it
Speaker 1: on in the bios, it's not booting up, so it's
Speaker 1: signaling to the Windows eleven Assistant that hey, this computer
Speaker 1: is not supported. And we've also seen some articles come
Speaker 1: out in recent weeks that say you can force this
Speaker 1: on more computers, although Microsoft ended up coming out and
Speaker 1: saying no, no, we didn't say that. So I'll link
Speaker 1: these up on the website rich on Tech dot tv
Speaker 1: so that you can get an idea of some of
Speaker 1: these things that you might be able to work around.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you've got about a year to figure this out,
Speaker 1: so you've got some time. And of course we know
Speaker 1: Windows eleven they're gonna Windows ten is going to stop
Speaker 1: being supported as of October of twenty twenty five. But
Speaker 1: if you want to keep it for that extra year,
Speaker 1: and Spencer, maybe you just want to do this, you
Speaker 1: can pay an extra thirty dollars to keep it for
Speaker 1: one more year past that deadline, and they will give
Speaker 1: you all those security updates. Good question, eighty to eight.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight. Rich one O
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Coming up, I've got a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff to talk about, but I'll talk
Speaker 1: about some chat GBT things. They've got a couple of
Speaker 1: new things this week, including making search free and there's
Speaker 1: an eight hundred number to call chat GBT. I'll explain
Speaker 1: coming up next. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple
Speaker 1: eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one the website for the
Speaker 1: show richon tech dot TV. Once you go there, you
Speaker 1: can get the show notes by hitting the light bulb,
Speaker 1: or it just might be on the homepage. This is
Speaker 1: episode one oh two one o two. There you go
Speaker 1: reading what you submitted to me as what you're thankful
Speaker 1: for for the tech world, Robin in Anaheim says she
Speaker 1: is thankful for my ring peephole camera, my dash cam,
Speaker 1: and my smart watch. Those are three solid things to
Speaker 1: be thankful for. And this week, did you know you
Speaker 1: can call chat GPT. I know it sounds silly, and
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of chatchybt news lately because they've
Speaker 1: been doing this like twelve Days of Christmas thing or
Speaker 1: something similar to that, and so every day they've been
Speaker 1: like releasing new features and so there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff with chat GBT. But this is an eight
Speaker 1: hundred number. It's literally one eight hundred chat GPT. So
Speaker 1: you can dial that phone number from any phone and
Speaker 1: it will bring you to their AI assistant and you
Speaker 1: can ask a question. You get up to fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: for free each month, because you know they want to
Speaker 1: make sure everyone can use this. And I thought this
Speaker 1: was interesting because it sounds silly and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well don't most people have an app to use chatch
Speaker 1: ebt through? Well, not everyone. And I love the idea
Speaker 1: that now this is available through any phone. So you know,
Speaker 1: you've got someone elderly, you've got a senior in your life,
Speaker 1: you've got someone that maybe doesn't have a computer, doesn't
Speaker 1: you know, use a smartphone, they can just call this
Speaker 1: number and talk to AI. And I think especially for
Speaker 1: some of the uh, you know, more elder folks out
Speaker 1: there that may not have a lot of experience with
Speaker 1: AI to be able to ask about something like in
Speaker 1: their childhood or history or you know, it's just the
Speaker 1: amount of information and knowledge that AI has that they
Speaker 1: can tap into from a traditional phone call. It's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: So I think this is kind of cool and it
Speaker 1: reminds me. I was reading The Verge. They have a
Speaker 1: newsletter called the Installer, and they they kind of reminded
Speaker 1: me of two other phone numbers back in the day Google.
Speaker 1: Remember Google had their own eight hundred number for four
Speaker 1: one one. It was like one eight hundred Google four
Speaker 1: one one. I think it was yeah, Google four one
Speaker 1: one and you could literally dial that. And remember back
Speaker 1: in the day, four one one used to cost money
Speaker 1: to get a phone number. Like you would dial that
Speaker 1: and at the end of the month you'd see your
Speaker 1: phone bill and be like, oh, I called four one
Speaker 1: one seven times. It's like you know, at one point,
Speaker 1: I think it was like a dollar each time you
Speaker 1: called or something. And remember, I mean this is going
Speaker 1: way back. Oh wow, oh wow, my Google AI is
Speaker 1: is activated.
Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, an operator, like a human being
Speaker 1: used to answer four one one. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: I kind of forgot about that until just now. You
Speaker 1: would call and be like hey, they'd be like what
Speaker 1: city and what city enlisting or somehow. They'd answer the
Speaker 1: phone and you would say, uh, you know Montclair, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: the AMC theater or whatever movie theater it was back then,
Speaker 1: and they would be like, Okay, hold on, here's your number,
Speaker 1: let me connect you. And you like this stuff just
Speaker 1: sounds like why would you ever need that now? But
Speaker 1: sure enough we went through a whole phase with that.
Speaker 1: And remember this one seven seven seven film. Remember you
Speaker 1: would call a phone number to get the movie times.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to moviefone press one for whatever, and
Speaker 1: you know that was that was a thing that went
Speaker 1: on for a while. Oh what's that? Oh I don't
Speaker 1: remember that one. Oh you dial for time? Oh okay, Adam.
Speaker 1: Adam's on the board today. He's telling me that that
Speaker 1: wasn't over the air, right, you're just talking to me, okay.
Speaker 1: And you can't hear him, but I can. He's the
Speaker 1: voices in my head. He said, you would dial popcorn
Speaker 1: for the time. I have not heard of that one.
Speaker 1: Get out of here, Popcorn. Yeah, kqed used to be
Speaker 1: able to call popcorn and get the time. Okay. That
Speaker 1: was apparently in northern California that was based there.
Speaker 7: There you go.
Speaker 1: Well, I think anyone could dial it, but maybe there
Speaker 1: you go the time at the tone, the time is
Speaker 1: currently eleven fifty three. Whatever it was. We've come a
Speaker 1: long way, baby, that's for sure. Okay, So you got
Speaker 1: the one eight hundred chat GBT. The other thing chat
Speaker 1: GBT did this week is they made their search, their
Speaker 1: web search, their real time web search, free for all users.
Speaker 1: Now this one kind of annoyed me because I paid
Speaker 1: twenty bucks a month for open Ai for a chat
Speaker 1: GBT for this feature and then they made it free.
Speaker 1: My kid was using chat GBT and he's like, oh, Dad,
Speaker 1: I can search the web. Now. I'm like, wait, what
Speaker 1: are you on my account? He said, no, it's free
Speaker 1: for everyone, so what So yeah, So now on chat GBT,
Speaker 1: if you go there, you'll notice in the search bar
Speaker 1: there's a little globe icon and if you tap that,
Speaker 1: it's going to bring you it's going to kind of
Speaker 1: search the real time web for information, which is really
Speaker 1: cool because it's great for travel, it's great for a
Speaker 1: lot of things that require real time data. So you
Speaker 1: can literally anything that's in the news, say give me
Speaker 1: an update on bitcoin whatever, and it will. And if
Speaker 1: you tap that little globe, it will give you the
Speaker 1: latest data on bitcoin based on the articles. And so
Speaker 1: right now it's telling me literally as of this moment,
Speaker 1: exactly what it's trading at, how much its surpassed, and
Speaker 1: all the different things that has contributed to this. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's pretty incredible. And if you just had regular chat
Speaker 1: GBT without the web, it would just give you kind
Speaker 1: of what I call like a book report on bitcoin.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't give you that real time information. Uh, let's see,
Speaker 1: Lido writes in Hey, Rich, I remember an episode of
Speaker 1: KTLA where you described how to reset instagram suggested content
Speaker 1: to a factory setting. I haven't been liking the suggestions
Speaker 1: on my account lately and would love a fresh start.
Speaker 1: Can you remind me how to do this? Yes, Lido.
Speaker 1: The worst words in the tech language are rolling out,
Speaker 1: and when I mentioned something is rolling out, that means
Speaker 1: it is not available to everyone at the same time.
Speaker 1: So I've been checking for this feature on a daily
Speaker 1: basis because I can't stand the recommendations I'm getting on
Speaker 1: Instagram right now. But they're going to let you do
Speaker 1: a master reset of your recommendations, which I think every
Speaker 1: single app should have this. I think your music app
Speaker 1: should have this. I think your social media apps should
Speaker 1: have this, your fitness apps. Every app should just offer
Speaker 1: you a master reset switch. And maybe it's locked behind
Speaker 1: like a pin or something so that you don't mistakenly
Speaker 1: do it. But sometimes you just want a fresh start.
Speaker 1: Like maybe you're listening to holiday music on whatever music
Speaker 1: app you're using, and in January, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: those songs come up. Now, I feel like the music
Speaker 1: app should be smart enough to say, okay, let's not
Speaker 1: give them holiday songs in January, but you never know.
Speaker 1: So this feature, if you want to check for it,
Speaker 1: you tap your profile on Instagram and then you go
Speaker 1: into the upper right hand corner the three little dots
Speaker 1: or the three little lines that are the menu, and
Speaker 1: then you scroll down to where it says content preferences
Speaker 1: and you tap in there and you're going to see
Speaker 1: all this stuff interested, not interested, hidden words, sensitive content,
Speaker 1: political content, hide suggested, reduced by fact checking in. There
Speaker 1: will be a new option called reset, and it will
Speaker 1: be there any day. I don't have it yet on
Speaker 1: any of my devices, but that's where it's going to be.
Speaker 7: Leado.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait for that fresh start. Hopefully this comes
Speaker 1: by the beginning of the year. Eighty to eight Rich
Speaker 1: one O one rich on tech dot tv coming up
Speaker 1: more of your calls and questions and what you're thankful for.
Speaker 1: Right here, Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich Demiro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one, the website for the show
Speaker 1: richon tech dot TV. There you can watch my TV
Speaker 1: segments that I do for KTLA Television here in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and also assorted TV stations around the US, so
Speaker 1: you can watch them all right there. I asked you
Speaker 1: on Instagram at rich on Tech what you're thankful for,
Speaker 1: got a lot of responses. Alfonso and La Puente said,
Speaker 1: my Galaxy Watch six. I've made healthier choices as a result.
Speaker 1: I do think that the smart watches do that. I
Speaker 1: think they make you more aware of how many, you know,
Speaker 1: steps you're taking, how many minutes you're getting all that
Speaker 1: good stuff. So I'm glad you liked that. And by
Speaker 1: the way, it took me a couple of tries, but
Speaker 1: I did dial the time and temperature and apparently.
Speaker 9: Imp cure is coming up after this.
Speaker 1: So apparently the phone number is still working. But it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's like it says the time and temperature is
Speaker 1: coming up after this, but then there's like an AD,
Speaker 1: a long AD, and then it does the time temperature.
Speaker 1: So I think someone bought that, and I don't did
Speaker 1: it have an AD back in the day. Probably not,
Speaker 1: probably just had no just had the time. So anyway,
Speaker 1: but it didn't work for different area codes except for
Speaker 1: the San Francisco area code, so I guess that was
Speaker 1: more of a regional thing. I guess. Let's see, let's
Speaker 1: go to Brenda in Orange County. Welcome to the holiday party.
Speaker 7: Hi rich, Yeah, Hi, I'm in much need of your advice.
Speaker 7: I don't understand much tech. I need to know if
Speaker 7: I bought the right TV yesterday.
Speaker 1: Okay, my.
Speaker 7: Old RCA TV quit working.
Speaker 1: R How old was it?
Speaker 7: It was about fifteen years old?
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, I think you got your money's worth on
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, it was before you know, the smart TVs existed.
Speaker 7: I just watched local channels over the air broadcast with
Speaker 7: my indoor rabbit ears antenna my TV.
Speaker 1: How much does that costs? How much they charge you
Speaker 1: for that?
Speaker 7: Nothing?
Speaker 1: I was just kidding, that was a trick question.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, I thought what Okay, Now I don't have
Speaker 7: internet in my home or Wi Fi, my smart I'm on.
Speaker 7: I'm on my son in law's AT and T family plan. Okay,
Speaker 7: so I can I can browse the internet, you know,
Speaker 7: I paid him for the phone, and I can order
Speaker 7: online if I wanted to. But I don't now the
Speaker 7: TV I bought yesterday. I assume it was a hundred
Speaker 7: and twenty vote. It's an it's a smart TV. It's
Speaker 7: an LG U h D Okay, and you know, but
Speaker 7: I don't need all those extras at this time.
Speaker 2: Maybe in the future.
Speaker 7: So will this smart TV just work by just plugging it,
Speaker 7: plugging it in and playing the local channels?
Speaker 1: Typically? Yes, it depends on the model. So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: there is an RC like a coax jack on the
Speaker 1: back for the antenna. Have you checked.
Speaker 7: I have an open Oh I haven't opened the box.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's the actual model number of the TV?
Speaker 2: Do you have that?
Speaker 7: Okay? On the front of the TV it says four
Speaker 7: to three to seven zero mm.
Speaker 1: That's it. Forty three okay, So here it is. So
Speaker 1: we've got this and we're just this is so this
Speaker 1: does have LG's smart system, which is called web OS,
Speaker 1: so it is on there. But all we're looking for is,
Speaker 1: let's see the inputs here, connector types. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would assume every TV has a jack
Speaker 1: on the back to connect this antenna, but you never know,
Speaker 1: you know, it could be that it doesn't let me
Speaker 1: see uh here, I'm looking trying to find the specs
Speaker 1: that actually shows me the back of the TV. If
Speaker 1: you can plug in an antenna on this thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: I see the back and it interesting. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to I gotta find the specs on here. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find the exact Okay, let's see. I would assume
Speaker 1: that it has a way to plug in the antenna.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Okay, TV tuner. Yes, it does have a
Speaker 1: TV tuner, so you are good to go. And so
Speaker 1: you would just plug in that antenna and you can
Speaker 1: use it as a regular TV. Now what I would
Speaker 1: do for the first time you set this up. Do
Speaker 1: you have the hotspot feature on your phone or no?
Speaker 7: I do, but I don't understand it. Okay, I have
Speaker 7: a friend that's going to do V the hookup. He's
Speaker 7: an IT tech, but he don't even have a TV.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, he's one of those.
Speaker 7: He just uses his laptop.
Speaker 1: Okay. Well he's all streaming and all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: So well, okay, so if he's an IT person, he
Speaker 1: knows how to activate the hotspot what I would do,
Speaker 1: and he'll do this, he'll know how to do that,
Speaker 1: or they'll know how to dis services. They'll know how
Speaker 1: to do this. But you basically, I would connect this
Speaker 1: TV to your phone's hotspot the first time, just to
Speaker 1: get the software up to date on this phone. And
Speaker 1: it also may download information for the channels. It may
Speaker 1: download a program guide or just whatever some and and
Speaker 1: you know, it's some information to go along with those channels.
Speaker 1: So I would do that the first time, but then
Speaker 1: I would make sure he turns off the either so
Speaker 1: I would either turn off the Wi Fi on the TV,
Speaker 1: or you can just toggle the hot spot off on
Speaker 1: your phone so that your TV is not always tapping
Speaker 1: into it. But if you want it to, you can
Speaker 1: have the TV tap into it just by turning on
Speaker 1: the hot spot on your phone or turning the Wi
Speaker 1: Fi on your TV on. I know that sounds very complicated.
Speaker 1: You don't need any of that stuff. If you don't
Speaker 1: want to do anything on the web, just use the channels,
Speaker 1: tune them in. You're fine, You'll be okay, okay.
Speaker 7: So I really don't have to do the connect to
Speaker 7: the hot the hot spot.
Speaker 1: I I would probably just to get the software on
Speaker 1: the TV up to date. There might be some features
Speaker 1: or some bug fixes or whatever. You don't have to
Speaker 1: do that. It's optional, but it may require that on setup.
Speaker 1: It may it may ask you to do that when
Speaker 1: you set it up. There may be a way to
Speaker 1: bypass it, but your friend who's the it guy, they
Speaker 1: are going to know how to do that. If it
Speaker 1: says like, hey, you have to connect to internet, there
Speaker 1: may be a way to bypass and say, hey, just
Speaker 1: set this up without Internet. But I probably do it
Speaker 1: just to make sure my TV is up to date
Speaker 1: and then I disconnect it.
Speaker 7: Okay, so he's okay to activate that connected to my
Speaker 7: phone hot spot to update the software on TV.
Speaker 1: Correct if if he wants to do that, you don't
Speaker 1: have to. But I think most TVs are assuming that
Speaker 1: you're connecting to a Wi Fi connection upon startup, so
Speaker 1: you know they're just because they're all smart TV. So
Speaker 1: if there may be an option that says on that
Speaker 1: TV screen like bypass this for now, typically there is
Speaker 1: you would just bypass all that. If you just want
Speaker 1: to go to the tuner and you plug in your antenna,
Speaker 1: you do a scan of the channels. It's gonna remember
Speaker 1: the channel numbers and the ones you get and that's it.
Speaker 1: Beyond your merry way.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh, thank you so much. Rich. I I was
Speaker 7: afraid that something that made and why find in the
Speaker 7: future I may plan to you know, to set that
Speaker 7: up if I want to do those streamings and stuff.
Speaker 7: I did buy a searge protector strip and but I
Speaker 7: don't know, maybe I didn't buy the most the highest
Speaker 7: volt or jewels that I should have. The one I
Speaker 7: got it said nine hundred jewels. But I looked online
Speaker 7: earlier today and it kind of come and maybe a
Speaker 7: TV needs at least a thousand jewels. Do you know
Speaker 7: anything about that?
Speaker 1: I mean not really, but uh, I would say, you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna be fine. I don't even plug my stuff
Speaker 1: into a protector, so I think they'll be okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: I think I think that. Uh yeah, I'd have to
Speaker 1: do some research on that to see what what you
Speaker 1: need for it. I'm looking at this nine hundred let's see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd have to see like what that's good for. I'll
Speaker 1: do some research and see and I'll mention on there
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 7: All Right, my home is one hundred and twenty volts,
Speaker 7: and I presume that that TV is one hundred and.
Speaker 1: Twenty volt, right, that's the standard AC in the US. Yes,
Speaker 1: so that should be fine.
Speaker 7: And the search protector for some reading that says it
Speaker 7: says use only with one hundred and twenty vote AC power,
Speaker 7: and then down at the bottom of the package it
Speaker 7: says ratings one five V.
Speaker 4: I'm confused.
Speaker 7: I don't understand. I don't want to be playing something.
Speaker 1: No, you'll be fine. I wouldn't unless you bought this
Speaker 1: thing in Europe. You're not really gonna have to worry
Speaker 1: about that. And most Yeah, everything standardized here in the US,
Speaker 1: so I think you'll be okay, Brenda, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: Do appreciate it. Uh, you're gonna love the new TV.
Speaker 1: I mean, fifteen years of the old one compared to
Speaker 1: the new one. I think you're gonna You're gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot happier with that, So thanks for the call. Appreciated.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four two four one zero one. Speaking of TVs, Amazon
Speaker 1: added some new accessibility features to their Fire TV. So
Speaker 1: Amazon Fire TV, after a software update, now has a
Speaker 1: dual audio function, so users with a compatible as HA
Speaker 1: enabled here aid can now listen to that hearing aid
Speaker 1: listen to the audio from the fireTV on their hearing aid,
Speaker 1: but also the audio can go through the TV speakers,
Speaker 1: so that means that you can have hearing aids be
Speaker 1: listening to the programming and someone you're sitting with who
Speaker 1: doesn't have hearing aids can listen to the programming through
Speaker 1: the speakers on the TV, so now it's more of
Speaker 1: a shared viewing experience versus one or the other. So
Speaker 1: that's a new feature on the Amazon firetvs. They've also
Speaker 1: expanded some of the support for hearing aids. Looks like
Speaker 1: it's mostly on the TV sets and the cube, not
Speaker 1: necessarily the fireTV sticks, so just check if you're hearing
Speaker 1: aid didn't work with the fireTV before, it may work
Speaker 1: with it now. And finally, they also put some looks
Speaker 1: like tactile raised dots on the fireTV packaging so blind
Speaker 1: and low vision users can easily access set up information.
Speaker 1: So Amazon doing a couple things for accessibility always a
Speaker 1: good thing to make products more inclusive. Eighty eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one website for the show Richontech dot
Speaker 1: TV coming up. Got a question about saving money on
Speaker 1: a cable bill and finding where to watch a show.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that plus more of what you are
Speaker 1: thankful for right here on rich on Tech talking about
Speaker 1: things people are thankful for. You submitted these on my
Speaker 1: Instagram at rich On Tech, Yvonne in El Centro, California said,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for One Note. I use it as a
Speaker 1: manual and use it every day. Yeah, one Note. I
Speaker 1: was talking about Obsidian earlier. One Note is pretty much
Speaker 1: very similar to that. The only problem I have with
Speaker 1: One Note. And I think it's a great, great program,
Speaker 1: and it's the only problem I have with it. And
Speaker 1: you can use it for free if you use your
Speaker 1: included you know, storage space from micros. But the only
Speaker 1: problem I have with it is the infinite canvas. I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of that because it's like you can
Speaker 1: paste anything anywhere in one note, which I'm sure a
Speaker 1: lot of people that use it like that. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm too much of a neat freak. I like everything aligned,
Speaker 1: and so it's like I can't use it because of
Speaker 1: that reason. And also there's no real print option for
Speaker 1: some reason. There is, but it's like it prints all
Speaker 1: over the page, like it's not format it anyway. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm too much of a neat freak. So I need
Speaker 1: the Obsidian, I need the order. I need order in
Speaker 1: my note keeping app all right. Earlier, we had a
Speaker 1: caller that asked about jewels and a surge protector. And
Speaker 1: I had to read up on this a little bit,
Speaker 1: and so basically jewels are basically how much energy a
Speaker 1: surge protector can absorb. So it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: buffer between you, your electronics and a surge that comes in.
Speaker 1: So if there's like an electrical storm or something or
Speaker 1: whatever happens and a surge of electricity comes through your
Speaker 1: your power outlets, these jewels would kind of absorb that
Speaker 1: searche So the more jewels you have, I guess, the
Speaker 1: more can absorb. So a thousand basic protections small electronics
Speaker 1: like lamps and phone chargers. A thousand up to two
Speaker 1: thousand good for home office setups like computers, monitors, printers.
Speaker 1: Over two thousand is for high end electronics like a
Speaker 1: gaming PC, home theater, something like that. So I would
Speaker 1: probably say for a TV, you probably need a thousand
Speaker 1: to two thousand. So that nine hundred that she had
Speaker 1: probably wasn't very good. But that's the deal with search protectors.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I have a search protector
Speaker 1: on my stuff. I think I need to look into that. Maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I've never really had a problem knock on wood
Speaker 1: in all these years, but I guess it's probably a
Speaker 1: good idea to have it. And they do wear out
Speaker 1: apparently over time, so if you have one that's really old,
Speaker 1: maybe get a new one. So think about that. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see here, let's go to Kirk in is it Atlanto, Lano, California. Kirk,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. What's up?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, the question is I had taken some pictures
Speaker 6: on a microscope about four years ago, and I ran
Speaker 6: them through an app. I was searching for doing some
Speaker 6: research on parasites, and I ran pictures through an app
Speaker 6: called parasite ie on through my Chromebook. So I just
Speaker 6: had a small Chromebook that I used with with an
Speaker 6: email address, and I'm trying to retrieve the pictures but
Speaker 6: I'm not sure exactly how to do that. The email
Speaker 6: is still active, but the phone I'm having trouble getting
Speaker 6: into the I'm having trouble getting into the email account
Speaker 6: because the phone that I had that number is out
Speaker 6: to read and I got a new phone. And when
Speaker 6: I got the new phone, I set up a typical
Speaker 6: email because that email was basically just for the parasite ideas,
Speaker 6: and so I'm having trouble getting ratification.
Speaker 1: So you've got you've you've got these pictures somehow stored
Speaker 1: in your Google account, but you can't access the Google account.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so they're on a jpeg.
Speaker 7: Got it?
Speaker 6: And I was wondering if if the camera that I
Speaker 6: used for my microscope would possibly have a connection to
Speaker 6: the jpeg picture because it was do they identify the camera?
Speaker 1: You still have the camera?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Can you connect it to your computer with USB?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's how it doesn't take it's yeah, that's how.
Speaker 6: That's the only way you can take a picture is
Speaker 6: with USB. Doesn't have a cards or anything.
Speaker 7: It's just the camera.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so so your computer acts as the recording device,
Speaker 1: like the computer captures the photo.
Speaker 6: Right, and then the camera is just the camera and the.
Speaker 1: Computer is acting as right right, the computers that is
Speaker 1: where everything is happening. Okay, So how can I help you?
Speaker 1: You're trying to figure out how to get into your
Speaker 1: Gmail account.
Speaker 6: That would help because then I'd be able to go
Speaker 6: with curse that idea and just pull up pull it
Speaker 6: all from there because I have an account. I'm lot
Speaker 6: getting there.
Speaker 1: Oh god, but you can't. But you don't know that
Speaker 1: one either. You can't get in there either, right.
Speaker 6: Because I don't know the g You can't get in
Speaker 6: the Gmail.
Speaker 1: Got it all?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: Well, Google has a help page that will will help
Speaker 1: will kind of guide you through the process of recovering
Speaker 1: your account. And a lot of people they set up
Speaker 1: these phone numbers as the account recovery and then they
Speaker 1: get rid of the phone or they get rid of
Speaker 1: the phone number. So you have to go to this
Speaker 1: special Google account recovery page and it's at account dot
Speaker 1: Google dot com, slash sign in, slash recovery. And before
Speaker 1: you do that, I'm going to link up these pages
Speaker 1: on the on my show notes read through. You want
Speaker 1: to use familiar device and location. You want to use,
Speaker 1: you know, an email connected to your account. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that Google says to do to
Speaker 1: make sure you get this right. This is rich on
Speaker 1: Tech mentioning what you're thankful for. I asked you on
Speaker 1: Instagram at rich on Tech, what are you thankful for
Speaker 1: in the tech world? And Daniel in Granada Hills said
Speaker 1: he is thankful for slick Deals. Daniel, you're speaking my language.
Speaker 1: I check slickdeals dot net every single day of my life.
Speaker 1: And if there is a deal out there. I'm actually
Speaker 1: looking at these the deal on the front page, just
Speaker 1: for these little cookies that I actually bought off this
Speaker 1: well during the prime season Prime Day they had all
Speaker 1: these like things on sale. I ordered like a giant
Speaker 1: box of like baked lays, like you know, chips, like
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of My wife's like what is this?
Speaker 1: Are you bringing these to the kids school? I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: these are just for us. And then these like little
Speaker 1: they're called rip van I don't know what rip van winkle.
Speaker 1: What are they called rip van wafers? These are little
Speaker 1: wafers you eat like cookie that you eat with your coffee.
Speaker 1: It's like a I don't know, it's good anyway. So
Speaker 1: I have a whole box of those from slick Deals.
Speaker 1: Slick deals dot net great place to find deals. If
Speaker 1: there is a deal on the internet, they have it
Speaker 1: all right Now. On the show, welcoming Marcia Collier, author
Speaker 1: of Androids Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies, brand new book
Speaker 1: Heating up the Charts on Amazon. Marcia, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8: Hi, it's so great to talk to you. Rich. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it's the second edition. There's a first edition that Amazon's
Speaker 8: still trying to push. But I saw that this is
Speaker 8: the second edition. Yeah, it led me to the first
Speaker 8: and it said it did say there's a newer version.
Speaker 8: So I was like, okay, good because you know, you
Speaker 8: can still buy the first, but the second edition is
Speaker 8: the one that's most up to date. So, Marcia, you've
Speaker 8: been on the show before talking about ebays, you've written
Speaker 8: books before, you've written how to guides. What made you
Speaker 8: want to tackle Android, especially for seniors. Well, you know,
Speaker 8: this is, as I said, the second edition, and I
Speaker 8: write in the for Dummy series over forty books, seniors
Speaker 8: feel left out. Seniors often don't want to ask questions
Speaker 8: of their children. They don't want to feel stupid. Let's
Speaker 8: just say that they don't want to hear all the
Speaker 8: fluff you just mentioned slick deals. There's a whole thing
Speaker 8: in the book about websites like slick Deals, and I
Speaker 8: mentioned a bunch of others, you know, like Woot and
Speaker 8: Bradsteals and all that. Yeah, and they don't know about
Speaker 8: those things. So I try to bring the information that
Speaker 8: is not common knowledge. For example, an unlocked phone. What
Speaker 8: is an unlocked phone?
Speaker 7: And I don't know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, if you look in the book, it'll explain
Speaker 8: to you why and why an unlocked phone is the
Speaker 8: best phone for you.
Speaker 1: Ooh, I would agree with that. It's funny you said
Speaker 1: the thing about that I didn't want to ask you
Speaker 1: because you have no idea how many times my family
Speaker 1: members will make a major tech decision. And I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: why don't you ask me? I could have told you, right,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to ask you. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: bother you. You can bother me. I do a radio
Speaker 1: show every week. People bother me. I get emails every day.
Speaker 1: People bother me. It's not bothering, it's what I do.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help and so do.
Speaker 8: I and I get emails from people all the time too.
Speaker 8: So you know, after writing the first edition, I got
Speaker 8: a lot of new queries, which gave me some information
Speaker 8: as to extra things to include. Like even in the book,
Speaker 8: you know, if somebody has placed an air tag on you,
Speaker 8: you know, the Apple air tag, to track you or
Speaker 8: whatever reason. It's great for luggage, but it has been
Speaker 8: used for nefarious reasons. You can get a notice on
Speaker 8: your phone letting you know you're being tracked. And in
Speaker 8: the book I tell you how to go in to
Speaker 8: Apple to find the last three digits of the phone
Speaker 8: number that are tracking you. Oh wow, so yeah, I
Speaker 8: give those things that people don't know even exists.
Speaker 1: So what what do you think like writing this book?
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think are some of the
Speaker 1: common shalut beside it's not asking for help? What do
Speaker 1: you think some of the common challenges senior's face when
Speaker 1: using androids? And also, I mean, before we get into
Speaker 1: that hold on Android versus iPhone, I know you've been
Speaker 1: a longtime Android person, right, so what makes you gravitate
Speaker 1: towards this platform?
Speaker 8: My husband is an iPhone. I've had iPhones in the past.
Speaker 8: I used to have iPod, you know, up until the
Speaker 8: most latest iPod that I still run on Wi Fi
Speaker 8: in the house.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 8: Now we talk about Wi Fi calling in the book too.
Speaker 8: But the point is I get a little lost, and
Speaker 8: when I wasn't close to being a senior, I get
Speaker 8: a little lost on Apple to find out all the
Speaker 8: things I exactly wanted to do. And you can get
Speaker 8: lost on an Android phone as well, but with this book,
Speaker 8: it tells you where did I use six different phones
Speaker 8: to write the book, So I'm checking from phone from
Speaker 8: brand to brand to brand, because each brand is like
Speaker 8: a different phone, but they're all based on Android, and
Speaker 8: Android is the heart of the operating system that is
Speaker 8: common to all these devices. And once you learn the basics,
Speaker 8: you can switch to any phone, any brand, OnePlus, Google, Samsung.
Speaker 8: It's all explained in the book. But the difference is
Speaker 8: between the each one.
Speaker 1: Which one do you think has the best sort of
Speaker 1: skin for most people? Like I mean, because you know,
Speaker 1: it's a big debate, like do you like the clean
Speaker 1: of the pixel? Do you like all the features of
Speaker 1: the Samsung the one plus has you know, one plus
Speaker 1: is kind of morphed into being much more iphony.
Speaker 8: Right exactly. I'm I became a pixel fan. Google had
Speaker 8: sent me a couple of pixels to write, you know,
Speaker 8: to use for my research in the book, and I
Speaker 8: have to tell you, I find that the cleanness of
Speaker 8: the pixel is a whole lot less confused and without
Speaker 8: the skin without having to join somebody's club and sign
Speaker 8: up sign up for this, and sign up for that,
Speaker 8: You've got an Android phone, which is straight technology, and
Speaker 8: on a Pixel phone, you get everything first. Now, whether
Speaker 8: they continue the feature or not, this is another question,
Speaker 8: but you get to have everything first, So if you
Speaker 8: hear the slightest bit about how okay the iPhone can
Speaker 8: do this oddside that's been downloaded to your Android phone
Speaker 8: and you've got it already.
Speaker 1: That is so true. It's so when I use the Pixel,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's actually to me, the Pixel is
Speaker 1: the smartest smartphone on the market. Like just the home
Speaker 1: screen where and I know you can set widgets on
Speaker 1: the iPhone, but like just the home screen on the Pixel,
Speaker 1: it just kind of like it looks in your Gmail
Speaker 1: for information and Rice surfaces it and like stuff you're
Speaker 1: not even thinking about. Like the other day, something popped
Speaker 1: up and I was like, whoa wait, Oh was a
Speaker 1: package delivery or something. I'm like, oh, I don't even
Speaker 1: know I've had a package delivery today exactly.
Speaker 8: And when we had recently the strike with the Amazon,
Speaker 8: I had packages that I was expecting and I could
Speaker 8: get that notification and it said which delivery center it
Speaker 8: was coming from. Oh, so that really helped me know
Speaker 8: that I would get my package.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So what give me some tips from
Speaker 1: the book. What do you think is a great tip
Speaker 1: that you want to share?
Speaker 8: Well, first thing I mentioned is buying an unlocked phone.
Speaker 8: Everybody thinks, oh, I need to go into this the
Speaker 8: T Mobile store, and they're going to set it up
Speaker 8: for me. Now, I like T Mobile, I use T
Speaker 8: Mobile myself, So this is not a diss on them,
Speaker 8: but any at and T any phone store. Those people
Speaker 8: who work there are salespeople. They have a talent for
Speaker 8: working the phones. Yes they understand, but remember there's a
Speaker 8: commission on everything that they sell you. It is kind
Speaker 8: of like buying a car old style.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I saw phones, I know, right, yeah.
Speaker 8: Right, it's it's and those who didn't like the old
Speaker 8: car buying experience or walking into a dealership with the
Speaker 8: finance guy and this and that. That is what you're
Speaker 8: dealing with in a phone store. If you need help
Speaker 8: with your phone, You've got my books, You've got Rich
Speaker 8: on Tech, you've got my podcast. There are a billion places,
Speaker 8: and I talk about it in the book because you
Speaker 8: need to get it, and not necessarily from reviewers. Now,
Speaker 8: Rich you and I both know. We go to cees,
Speaker 8: we get technology, we look at it, and they would
Speaker 8: like us to write a review on a phone immediately.
Speaker 8: Now we all know you need to run a phone
Speaker 8: for a couple of months to know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 8: I mean, anybody can copy a press release with many
Speaker 8: people do. But I worked all of these phones, Samsung,
Speaker 8: Pixel and OnePlus, and I found out any flaws, anythings,
Speaker 8: any whatever changes made over time, and little tips and
Speaker 8: tricks that make those phones work better for you in
Speaker 8: the long run. So never just buy, in my opinion,
Speaker 8: a phone on all the reviews you see so so
Speaker 8: many of them are sponsored.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a whole other conversation. Right now, I'm looking
Speaker 1: through the book and it's very thorough. It's in full color.
Speaker 1: You've got lots of illustrations, lots of screenshots, which I
Speaker 1: know probably took a while painstakingly to collect. But you've
Speaker 1: got everything that you can imagine that you need to
Speaker 1: learn about with your Android phone. It is all in here.
Speaker 1: It's all lined up, and it's useful, helpful information, especially
Speaker 1: if you are trying to I love this. Oh, you've
Speaker 1: got the must do You've got Marcia's let's see here.
Speaker 1: I like this part Marcia's Must Do Things for your Phone,
Speaker 1: Chapter sixteen. You've got all the basics, screenshot, do not disturb,
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, VPN, wireless charging, emergency calls. Okay, that's great.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. The phone is called Android
Speaker 1: Smartphone for Seniors for Dummies. Second edition available on Amazon.
Speaker 1: Makes a great gift for someone or yourself. Malci Collier,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 8: Thank you Rich. Happy holidays and yeah, it's a great book.
Speaker 1: Really, I promise thanks for sending it along. Happy holidays
Speaker 1: to you and very exciting. I will probably see you
Speaker 1: a sc yes, all right eight eight eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. The website you want to link to
Speaker 1: the book, just go to rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: It's all right there. Coming up, the FTC is eliminating
Speaker 1: some junk fees. We'll explain about that or I guess yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that. And how do you find a
Speaker 1: show that you want to watch on the right service.
Speaker 1: I'll answer that coming up right here. I'm rich on tech.
Speaker 1: What are you thankful for? Many of you replied, Patty said,
Speaker 1: tile tracker. We have them on our keys, backpack, luggage
Speaker 1: and camera bag. So I know that the air tag
Speaker 1: gets all the publicity. This is me talking now, not Patty.
Speaker 1: But the tile is still a formidable tracker. And when
Speaker 1: I like about the tile, I did review the latest
Speaker 1: tile trackers this year, they just came out with brand
Speaker 1: new ones. Tile was purchased by a company called Life
Speaker 1: three sixty. They make a popular app, a family tracking app,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense that the family tracking app would
Speaker 1: also have family trackers and tracking devices built in. They've
Speaker 1: got one for your remote control. It's like a little
Speaker 1: sticker you put on the back of your remote so
Speaker 1: you can find that with a sound. They've got a
Speaker 1: pro tracker, they've got a standard tracker with less distance,
Speaker 1: and then they've got a tracker that slips into your wallet.
Speaker 1: And so again, actually let's see here, if I type
Speaker 1: in into my website tile trackers, there it is. You
Speaker 1: can search for that on my website as well and
Speaker 1: see all my review on the new tile trackers. Look
Speaker 1: at that the tile Mate twenty five bucks, Tile Pro
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars, Tile Slim is the one that goes
Speaker 1: in your wallet. That's thirty bucks, and then tile Sticker
Speaker 1: is twenty five and some of them have a replaceable battery.
Speaker 1: So the Pro I think is the best one because
Speaker 1: it's got a five hundred foot range that's Bluetooth, and
Speaker 1: then it's got a one year replaceable battery. Oh sorry, wait,
Speaker 1: that one is yeah, yeah, replaceable, so you can replace
Speaker 1: the battery in that. So if you have the tile
Speaker 1: mate is a little bit cheaper. It's got a shorter range,
Speaker 1: but a three year non replaceable battery. And of course
Speaker 1: when I talk range on these things, there's two things happening.
Speaker 1: You've got bluetooth. So let's say that this tile tracker
Speaker 1: is in your backyard at your house. Your phone would
Speaker 1: help you lead to it based on the bluetooth because
Speaker 1: it can go five hundred feet. But if let's say
Speaker 1: you leave this a purse with a tracker in it
Speaker 1: at the airport, Now that tracker relies on a crowdsource
Speaker 1: tracking network. So all the other people that have the
Speaker 1: tile app installed on their phone, they are now helping
Speaker 1: you locate your tile tracker. So again it's bluetooth for
Speaker 1: the local stuff, and then for the worldwide stuff, it's
Speaker 1: everyone that has the tile app installed on their phone.
Speaker 1: Let's see. The FTC this week introduced some new regulations
Speaker 1: that go into effect in April twenty twenty five that
Speaker 1: say certain businesses have to display the total purchase cost
Speaker 1: of your products, including mandatory fees and the two businesses
Speaker 1: they targeted. Here are hotels and live event tickets, so
Speaker 1: you know who I'm talking about, ticket Master, all those
Speaker 1: different ticketing services. Let's say you go to buy a
Speaker 1: ticket for your basketball game. Oh, it's twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1: By the time you get to check out that same
Speaker 1: ticket with all the fees and all these different things
Speaker 1: they add on, is more like eighty five bucks. And
Speaker 1: by the way, you're probably not even finding a ticket
Speaker 1: for that cheap these days. Hotel same thing. You get
Speaker 1: the hotel price. And it's all about the search engines,
Speaker 1: because what people do is they put I want to
Speaker 1: s stay in a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, and the
Speaker 1: hotel search engine, like a Kayak or a Google Hotels,
Speaker 1: they put all that information in a list and people
Speaker 1: sort by the cheapest and so if this hotel comes
Speaker 1: up to the cheapest, you select it. And then by
Speaker 1: the time you put all your information and it says, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, you've got parking for thirty five dollars,
Speaker 1: you've got the resort fee for fifty dollars, which includes
Speaker 1: long distance phone calls. And then by the time you
Speaker 1: get to the end, your hotel nightly fee is way
Speaker 1: more than it was in that first page. So now
Speaker 1: they got to put everything up front. Convenience fees, service fees,
Speaker 1: resort fees all have to be up there. FTC estimates
Speaker 1: this will save consumers up to fifty three million hours
Speaker 1: annually that would otherwise be spent searching for total prices. Now,
Speaker 1: the one industry they did not put in here, which
Speaker 1: is a big, big offender, is the airline industry. So
Speaker 1: it is my biggest pet peeve when you go on
Speaker 1: Google Flights and you're looking for a flight somewhere and
Speaker 1: a super cheap flight comes up from one of these
Speaker 1: carriers that you know, they're fine, And yes, if you're
Speaker 1: just a college student or someone who just wants to
Speaker 1: get somewhere for fifty three dollars and not pack a
Speaker 1: bag or have a carry on or drink of water
Speaker 1: on the flight, sure it's amazing that we have that ability.
Speaker 1: But if you've got a family of four like myself,
Speaker 1: you got luggage you got to carry on. You know,
Speaker 1: back in the day we had strollers and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, you want to see what that total prices.
Speaker 1: You can compare it against the other airlines, and a
Speaker 1: lot of these these low cost carriers. You've got to
Speaker 1: go through the entire flow before you can see how
Speaker 1: much it's going to cost you for your bag. And
Speaker 1: so the FTC did not mandate that airlines have to
Speaker 1: do this, which I think is a major miss. But
Speaker 1: I get it. It's all about competing on price and
Speaker 1: that's what these things do. So junk fees, they're still
Speaker 1: gonna be there, just gonna be a little bit more transparent.
Speaker 1: Anonymous rites in Rich, Happy holidays, Thanks for all your insights.
Speaker 1: I have a quick question. I just bought a new
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen Promax and updated it to iOS eighteen. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but sometimes it feels like the camera is
Speaker 1: being turned on remotely. Is there a way to lock
Speaker 1: the camera? I don't know of a way to completely
Speaker 1: disable the camera on the iPhone, but you can manage
Speaker 1: which apps can access it. So go to Settings, Privacy
Speaker 1: and Security and Camera and you'll see a list of
Speaker 1: all the apps that have accessed your camera recently, and
Speaker 1: you can turn off camera access for any or all apps,
Speaker 1: so you can do that. I don't think there's on
Speaker 1: the Android side of things. On Pixel there is a way,
Speaker 1: maybe on Samsung as well, but I know on pixel. Specifically,
Speaker 1: you can turn off the camera globally so that no
Speaker 1: app can access it. The other thing you can do
Speaker 1: is look for a case that has a physical slider
Speaker 1: for both the front and back cameras. So I was
Speaker 1: looking up online. You can find one. Spyfi is one
Speaker 1: brand that has it. Spy dash Fi fy so a
Speaker 1: case that has a built in slider to physical block
Speaker 1: the camera. Eight eight eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: What's a massage from a robot like? That's coming up next?
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here with
Speaker 1: you hanging out talking technology. Phone lines open at eight
Speaker 1: eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. You can also
Speaker 1: email me. Just go to the website richon Tech dot
Speaker 1: tv and uh you can hit contact there. Jerry, I've
Speaker 1: been asking folks what they're thankful for in technology. I
Speaker 1: asked on my Instagram at rich on Tech. Jerry wrote
Speaker 1: in my GPS golf watch, I'll never lose it. Accurate,
Speaker 1: rechargeable and reliable. But does it improve your golf game?
Speaker 7: Jerry?
Speaker 1: I bet it does. It's amazing how all these tech
Speaker 1: products have helped in so many different fields, right, Like
Speaker 1: you almost feel like you're cheating, Like golf, tennis. They
Speaker 1: actually have an app for tennis that will like record
Speaker 1: your swing. I think it's called swing Vision. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: AI stats for tennis and pickleball, So I'll give you.
Speaker 1: It'll process your video in real time to track the
Speaker 1: ball trajectory and player movements. Probably help you, you know,
Speaker 1: become a better player. But it's just all the stuff
Speaker 1: that like you just didn't have and now you have it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it's all through the phone, or
Speaker 1: it's all through GPS, it's all through your smart watch.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. All right, let's go to Monica in
Speaker 1: u Upland, California. Monica, you're on with Rich Yeah.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 7: My question is very simple. I would like to know
Speaker 7: if I could use AI to write my will.
Speaker 1: Oh, why such a dark question. Now, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm old and I'm getting there, so I
Speaker 6: better be prepared.
Speaker 2: And the lawyers are very expensive.
Speaker 1: Yes. Well, I am actually very proud of you for
Speaker 1: thinking of this because so many people do not have
Speaker 1: a will, and it is very important to have a will,
Speaker 1: even if it's a simple one, because why do you
Speaker 1: want the state having to fit you know, your loved ones,
Speaker 1: Why do you want to have to have them figuring
Speaker 1: out with a state? You know, like it's just to me,
Speaker 1: it's like, just get a will. I know we don't
Speaker 1: want to think about this stuff, but it is very important.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. I think that AI can one
Speaker 1: write your will. Do I want you to use that
Speaker 1: as your will? Probably not, So I think that the
Speaker 1: AI can come up with a rough draft. I think
Speaker 1: the AI can give you some things to think about
Speaker 1: when it comes to your will. And I'm sure if
Speaker 1: you ask chat GBT to write a will for you,
Speaker 1: it probably could. But I think that it may not
Speaker 1: be the best way. Now. I'm not a lawyer and
Speaker 1: I don't know what the legal requirements are for a will.
Speaker 1: I believe that you probably just need something in writing
Speaker 1: and have a witness to that. I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: I know that there are many many companies out there
Speaker 1: like legal Zoom that can walk you through a process
Speaker 1: to create your own will, and they do it every day,
Speaker 1: all day long, and so I would say that's probably
Speaker 1: a better way of doing it, just because you want
Speaker 1: to be sure that this is done properly on the
Speaker 1: up and up, and I'm looking at legal Zoom. It's
Speaker 1: ninety nine bucks for a standard will that include your
Speaker 1: last will and testament, healthcare directive, financial power of attorney,
Speaker 1: hipA authorization, thirty days of revisions, printing and shipping of
Speaker 1: one set of documents. So now I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: I know people may email me after I say this
Speaker 1: and say, Rich, of course use AI.
Speaker 7: Why not?
Speaker 1: Now I will tell you, Monica that I have used
Speaker 1: AI to look at every single contract I sign or
Speaker 1: deal or document, and I have it analyze everything, and
Speaker 1: so there is no shortage of information that AI has.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask chat GPT. I'm just gonna say,
Speaker 1: can you help me create a will? And let's see
Speaker 1: what it says. Yes, I can help you draft a will.
Speaker 1: It's important to note that while I can provide a
Speaker 1: structured template, legal requirements for wills vary by jurisdic addiction.
Speaker 1: For a legally valid will, you should consult with an
Speaker 1: attorney or use a legal service tailored to your area.
Speaker 1: Here's a general outline to get you started. Title, declaration,
Speaker 1: appointment of executor, exidor executor. Oh oh yeah, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: Good reading Rich. See, this is how you know I'm
Speaker 1: human because I still make mistakes. You know, you get
Speaker 1: my newsletter, there's always like a misspelling in there, like
Speaker 1: a little like you're like, that doesn't make sense, or
Speaker 1: I leave out a word. This is how you know
Speaker 1: that there's an actual human behind the stuff that I do.
Speaker 1: There you go, uh yeah, the executor. It's a totally
Speaker 1: different thing. Oh, distribution of ass guardianship for miners, other instructions, signatures,
Speaker 1: and witnesses. Example of a witness statement, self proving affidavit.
Speaker 1: So I bet you in this world there are probably
Speaker 1: many many people that have been using AI to create
Speaker 1: a will, and it probably works if you're hitting all
Speaker 1: the right you know, dotting all the crossing all the
Speaker 1: t's and dotting the i's like you, probably it probably works.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I want to leave it
Speaker 1: to that chance just yet. So i'd probably have someone
Speaker 1: look at this, or I wouldn't even have someone look
Speaker 1: at it, because Monica, if you're trying to save money
Speaker 1: and not pay an attorney, then I would probably just
Speaker 1: do something like the legal zoom. And by the way,
Speaker 1: there are many there are many other products like legal
Speaker 1: Zoom you can type in on interesting on Google. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you just type in on Google last
Speaker 1: Will and Testament, it'll probably have a million companies that
Speaker 1: are willing to take your money to do this. Rocket Lawyer,
Speaker 1: Free Will, law Depot, so many trust and Will. I
Speaker 1: mean there are companies that just specialized in this. I
Speaker 1: think you could probably get a pretty good deal. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, look for a promo code. I bet you.
Speaker 1: I bet your legal Zoom probably has some sort of
Speaker 1: promo code that'll save you even more. So that's what
Speaker 1: I would do, Monica, just to be sure. But I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, theoretically, if you make this thing on AI
Speaker 1: and you go, you're not really gonna have to worry
Speaker 1: about what the implications are, right, I mean, you don't
Speaker 1: know any better. It's someone else is gonna have to
Speaker 1: worry about it, you know. Anyway, Thanks for the question.
Speaker 1: That's that's an interesting one. I do love AI for
Speaker 1: all this stuff though, and it is it is changing
Speaker 1: the way we do stuff like emails and stuff like.
Speaker 1: I can tell half the email pitches I'm getting now
Speaker 1: are all AI. It's all just like Okay, let's let's
Speaker 1: summarize this. Let's bullet point it, let's put emojis, let's
Speaker 1: use these words like furthermore and lastly. And conversely, Ai
Speaker 1: has a way of writing that is just a little
Speaker 1: bit unhuman, and it always ends with a waffling statement
Speaker 1: at the end. While some people like this, others find that.
Speaker 1: And it always says it at the end, and then
Speaker 1: at the beginning it always says something kind of flowery
Speaker 1: as well. So I love it, but it's it's got
Speaker 1: a little ways to go. Okay, So Craig writes in
Speaker 1: I've got a smart TV, Internet and local HDTV, but
Speaker 1: I don't want one hundred dollars cable bill just to
Speaker 1: watch Alaska the Last Frontier on Discovery Channel. I'm retired
Speaker 1: and willing to pay five to ten dollars a month
Speaker 1: any affordable options, So Craig, I'm not familiar with this show,
Speaker 1: but it sounds good, Alaska the Last Frontier. So what
Speaker 1: I would do is pop this into Google. And Google
Speaker 1: has a feature that says where to watch upper right
Speaker 1: hand corner. And I'm looking at this and the different
Speaker 1: services come up. You've got Filo Max, YouTube TV, Apple TV,
Speaker 1: Discovery Plus, YouTube, Hulu, so it's on a lot of
Speaker 1: these things because I think it's a TV show. Looks
Speaker 1: like it's a TV show on Discovery Channel. So I
Speaker 1: think what's happening is if you've had Filo, I bet
Speaker 1: you they have Discovery Channel so you can watch it.
Speaker 1: If you got Max, do they include Discovery? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: because Max is part of that as well, so yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably have it. So what I would do is
Speaker 1: look at these subscription services and see which one is
Speaker 1: the cheapest and subscribe there. I'm guessing it is Discovery Plus.
Speaker 1: And so if I go to the third let's see
Speaker 1: the second second listing on Google Alaska, the last Frontier
Speaker 1: is on Discovery so it looks like a Discovery Channel show.
Speaker 1: I would say Discovery Plus is going to be your
Speaker 1: best bet. Let's see what is this show about? The
Speaker 1: Kitcher The Kilture family works together to survive on a
Speaker 1: homeland in Alaska. Stream now, So if you click that
Speaker 1: Discovery Plus this show is on there, it confirms that.
Speaker 1: And then you just have to see how much Discovery
Speaker 1: Plus costs. Sign up now and let's see, Okay, Discovery
Speaker 1: Plus four ninety nine a month AD free eight ninety nine,
Speaker 1: where's our bell? That is correct? Craig you can do
Speaker 1: this for five to ten dollars a month. Discovery Plus
Speaker 1: is your friend. Now there are other apps that do this.
Speaker 1: There you go, there's another. There's other apps that do this.
Speaker 1: There's an app called Real Good Our E E L
Speaker 1: g oo D. You can type in the service in there,
Speaker 1: or just watch. Just watch is another one. And these
Speaker 1: are apps that you can put on your phone. And
Speaker 1: this goes for anything, anything that you want to watch.
Speaker 1: These apps will help you find where that is. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this into just Watch. What's the show
Speaker 1: called Alaska the Last Front Tier there it is. The
Speaker 1: show has been going on since twenty eleven. It's got
Speaker 1: eleven seasons, so Craig, you can catch up on some seasons.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at this and it's telling me the
Speaker 1: different ways to watch it, and if I want to
Speaker 1: do it's, uh yeah, you've got Max, You've got Discovery Plus.
Speaker 1: Those are the pretty much the ways to do it.
Speaker 1: Those are the main ways, and then of course you've
Speaker 1: got the show on other ways. But that's for any
Speaker 1: movie or TV show. If you want to figure out
Speaker 1: where to watch it, Google is a good first stop.
Speaker 1: They've got all that data. But Real Good and just
Speaker 1: watch her. Also two great ways to do that eight
Speaker 1: A eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. The website for
Speaker 1: the show rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up this hour,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to mind over Tech founder Jonathan Garner.
Speaker 1: He's gonna explain how to develop a healthier relationship with technology,
Speaker 1: and coming up right after the break, I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you what it's like to get a massage from a robot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: stick stay stick around for that. Well, become back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you.
Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Mark in Los Angeles. Mark, you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 4: All right, Rich, how you do it?
Speaker 5: Have the very Christmas seconds?
Speaker 1: Absolutely same to you. What can I help you with?
Speaker 5: I have a quick question. I've seen these translating earbuds,
Speaker 5: and I've had no good luck with the earbuds, you know,
Speaker 5: regular ones, but these translating ones. I'd see him all
Speaker 5: over the internet and I've seen them from ten dollars
Speaker 5: on up to one hundred and fifty dollars, and I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't if they do the same thing. I'm just
Speaker 5: trying to find out which one's a good one and
Speaker 5: what do you based it on? And if you have
Speaker 5: any idea where to go and how to you know
Speaker 5: which ones to do?
Speaker 1: Okay, so this, uh, these must be advertised everywhere because
Speaker 1: I get this question so often, and I guess they
Speaker 1: must be on a lot of Facebook ads. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm guessing. Are you seeing these like online?
Speaker 5: I'm not on Facebook anymore. Okay, They're all over the internet.
Speaker 5: And I told somebody.
Speaker 6: I told somebody about them.
Speaker 4: She had no idea about them. She was flipping in
Speaker 4: the air. She couldn't believe they had them.
Speaker 7: And I said, yeah, I've seen them.
Speaker 4: I was when COVID hit.
Speaker 5: I was, I was on the I was on the
Speaker 5: web and I saw a pair company that was in
Speaker 5: New York and they I couldn't get a hold of anybody.
Speaker 5: I could just they would just do it by email.
Speaker 5: And I contacted them again. And I don't if I
Speaker 5: can't talk to somebody, I don't know if I want
Speaker 5: to buy them.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a that's a great tip, right there. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I always checked for the UH. Always check for the
Speaker 1: contact information and the customer service information before you make
Speaker 1: a purchase. But to answer your question, so yes, there
Speaker 1: are many, many claims of translating earbuds, but there's a
Speaker 1: couple of brands and services that I think I would trust,
Speaker 1: and I've I've seen these things. I've tried them to
Speaker 1: a certain extent, but I don't know if there's like
Speaker 1: one killer kind of brand out there just yet. I
Speaker 1: think the one that comes up over and over with
Speaker 1: the best reviews is the time Kettle. So I have
Speaker 1: not personally tested these, but those, you know, it's sort
Speaker 1: of like they're business and so they do, you know,
Speaker 1: translating earbuds, and that's kind of like what their entire
Speaker 1: world is. So I probably look to those. Number One,
Speaker 1: let's see how much they are. So they've got the
Speaker 1: latest W four pro. Let's see how much these things are.
Speaker 1: Four hundred Oh wow, those are expensive, four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty bucks. So I think that that's, you know, one option.
Speaker 1: It looks like they have a whole bunch of different
Speaker 1: options under their website Time Kettle. But I will tell
Speaker 1: you that I think this is going to be a
Speaker 1: something that will be tackled in twenty twenty five by
Speaker 1: a lot of companies, and I'm already seeing the trend.
Speaker 1: So Number one, Samsung earbuds. This year, they came out
Speaker 1: with something called Interpreter Mode, So that is something that
Speaker 1: you can get on Samsung devices with these earbuds, and
Speaker 1: in real time, you can hear what someone's saying in
Speaker 1: a different language. So that's number one. You have to
Speaker 1: have a Samsung phone for that. Pixel pixel buds do that.
Speaker 1: So these I don't know if you need the pixel phone,
Speaker 1: but I know you need the pixel buds to do this.
Speaker 1: But the Pixel buds also have a feature where they
Speaker 1: can translate in real time, and obviously it's Google, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna be good at it. Then you've got the
Speaker 1: ray Band Meta smart glasses. They just came out with
Speaker 1: a software update that will let you hear what someone's
Speaker 1: saying through these glasses in a different language. So if
Speaker 1: someone speaking French, Italian or Spanish, it will translate that
Speaker 1: into English that you can understand it, and it's done
Speaker 1: all in the glasses. And I think that AI is
Speaker 1: a big part of this. I think that AI is
Speaker 1: going to be a huge win for this sort of situation.
Speaker 1: But that's why i'd look for something that is maybe
Speaker 1: not super duper cheap, but I would look for something
Speaker 1: like the Time kettle I think is pretty well known.
Speaker 1: This other brand keeps coming up, but I have not
Speaker 1: heard of it. Yeah, I'm I don't know if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna mention that one because I'm not really sure. This
Speaker 1: brand is called and Fear a n F I E
Speaker 1: er and they have the M three offline, So that's
Speaker 1: the other thing depends if these are online or offline.
Speaker 1: Offline is obviously going to be easier because you don't
Speaker 1: need to be connected to the internet. Those are one
Speaker 1: hundred bucks. They get three and a half stars on Amazon,
Speaker 1: so I'd be a little cautious with those. Let's see
Speaker 1: what their M six get. Those get a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Those get four and a half stars. Those are ninety bucks.
Speaker 1: So a couple of options there. Mark choose wisely, all right.
Speaker 1: So this week I got a massage from a robot.
Speaker 1: Yes it is quite weird. It's called Escape, but this
Speaker 1: is the future. So this is a basically a robotic
Speaker 1: massage table. You lay down, you put on this spandex suit.
Speaker 1: There's no oil, so you put on this tight fitting
Speaker 1: body suit so these arms can move over you and
Speaker 1: you kind of choose what you want to do. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like an uber of massages, So you book
Speaker 1: it all online through the app. You go to one
Speaker 1: of these places and it's pretty much self serve, except
Speaker 1: for the first time you go. Someone's going to tell
Speaker 1: you how to do it, and you know, help you,
Speaker 1: you know, pick out this suit to put on that
Speaker 1: they will provide to you. So you put on the suit,
Speaker 1: you lay down, you press start, and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: the thing uses cameras to scan your body. I'm told
Speaker 1: the cameras don't actually take pictures. They just kind of
Speaker 1: use like topography map kind of thing of your body,
Speaker 1: of your back and uses AI to come up with
Speaker 1: a program. And once it does that not only takes
Speaker 1: like a minute or so, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: this thing gets to work and these arms come down
Speaker 1: and they start moving on your back and kind of
Speaker 1: massaging you. And it reminded me of sort of what
Speaker 1: Peloton did for cycling. This is not going to replace
Speaker 1: people going out on bikes, not going to replace the
Speaker 1: human you know therapists out there massage therapists. But I
Speaker 1: think it's just going to give people another option. So
Speaker 1: it felt good. It was a little scary the first
Speaker 1: time those arms hit my back. I was like, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: are these things gonna crush me to death? They didn't.
Speaker 1: There is an emergency button if you need it, but
Speaker 1: I didn't have to use that. And if the power
Speaker 1: goes out or whatever, you can just push these off
Speaker 1: of you. It's not a big deal. It's not like
Speaker 1: they're big and heavy. But again, the company is escape
Speaker 1: a e Scape. They're putting them in at the rich
Speaker 1: Carlton Equinox. You can see the level of clientele they're
Speaker 1: going for. I went to a place called Pause in
Speaker 1: Studio City, California. It's kind of like a wellness clinic.
Speaker 1: And again, I think this is just going to give
Speaker 1: people one more option for a massage, someone who may
Speaker 1: not be comfortable going to a traditional massage, or someone
Speaker 1: who just wants a little more tech forward of an experience.
Speaker 1: I try it. You can check the video on the
Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about developing a healthier relationship with your technology.
Speaker 1: Right here on rich on Tech. Jerry wrote in and
Speaker 1: says what he's thankful for my new AirPod pro twos
Speaker 1: for my loss of hearing. Such a blessing. I asked
Speaker 1: you on my Instagram what you're thankful for. And that's
Speaker 1: a good one, Jerry. That's a new feature. Definitely check
Speaker 1: it out if you have not if you are hearing,
Speaker 1: if you have any sort of hearing issue, it can
Speaker 1: really help with a wide range of those. All right,
Speaker 1: joining me now is a mind Over tech founder Jonathan Garner.
Speaker 1: He's got a new book coming out next year and
Speaker 1: he's going to explain how to develop a healthier relationship
Speaker 1: with technology. Jonathan, thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very welcome. You're mentioning time.
Speaker 9: It's ten thirteen evening here in Berlin where I'm based. Yeah,
Speaker 9: see that's what it's definitely definitely code outside.
Speaker 1: You know. I actually did a show from Berlin and
Speaker 1: it was The show was I think it was from
Speaker 1: eight to eleven at night and I was in a
Speaker 1: hotel room but some for some reason, I didn't realize
Speaker 1: there was like a lounge club underneath the room I
Speaker 1: was staying in, and all of a sudden at night
Speaker 1: it was just like the music, the drums, the singing,
Speaker 1: and it was I don't think you could hear on
Speaker 1: the radio, but it was pretty wild. So what do
Speaker 1: you think our relationship is with technology? What do you
Speaker 1: think the problem, Well, what do you think the problem
Speaker 1: is with our relationship with technology?
Speaker 9: I think the problem is that it's just very complicated.
Speaker 9: At the same time, technology brings us so many incredible benefits,
Speaker 9: and at the same time, I think anyone be lying
Speaker 9: if they didn't say that there were things they wanted
Speaker 9: to improve about their relationship with tech or that quite
Speaker 9: a lot of the time they felt like they didn't
Speaker 9: actually have full control over the way they.
Speaker 4: Were using it.
Speaker 9: So I think, yeah, there's like a deep love hate
Speaker 9: relationship involved in that.
Speaker 1: I can understand that. So you have an organization mind
Speaker 1: over Tech. What is that all about?
Speaker 4: That's right? So, yeah, mind over Tech.
Speaker 9: We work with organizations to help people look into their
Speaker 9: relationship with technology, but specifically we work with people on
Speaker 9: the behavior level, looking at their digital habits. So basically
Speaker 9: the moment to moment kind of interactions with our digital
Speaker 9: devices every day, and we do that to create space
Speaker 9: for people to actually be more intentional with how they
Speaker 9: use their technology. So trying to turn it from a
Speaker 9: toul distracts us into a tool which actually aligns with
Speaker 9: our kind of professional and personal goals as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, we work with yeah, sorry, go on.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just I mean, okay. So here's like, so
Speaker 1: this is what happens with me personally, is that I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be less on my phone, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be with my kids. I'm going to be present,
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, it's like, oh, what time's
Speaker 1: that movie playing? Well, where do you have to go
Speaker 1: for that? You got to go to your phone? Oh
Speaker 1: let me see how long does it take to drive
Speaker 1: to that place? Oh? You got to go to your phone.
Speaker 1: Did someone call me or leave a message or text
Speaker 1: me or whatever? I mean, it's like, you know, or
Speaker 1: your wife is you know, still out in your home,
Speaker 1: and it's like you want to make sure you're available
Speaker 1: for a phone call or your kid's school. So I
Speaker 1: feel like this the smartphone specifically, is like this really
Speaker 1: interesting tool that, like you said earlier, it gives us
Speaker 1: so many benefits and it does so many things, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's like to disconnect from it
Speaker 1: is really tough because of all those reasons.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, And you know, like the reason why that's
Speaker 9: so incredible because you know, your smartphone particularly is this
Speaker 9: portal which allows you to do almost anything, which is
Speaker 9: incredibly liberating and fereing to live these kind of very
Speaker 9: complex lives that we live these days. But on the
Speaker 9: flip side of that, as you're pointing out, there was
Speaker 9: very little boundaries set within those devices.
Speaker 4: They're very slippery. So actually, like for me, I'll.
Speaker 9: Often go to pick up my friends to check the
Speaker 9: time and then suddenly I'm lost down some rabbit hole
Speaker 9: somewhere completely forgetting to check the time in the first place.
Speaker 9: And I think that a lot of this problem stems
Speaker 9: from the fact that actually most of us use our
Speaker 9: technology with the default settings. Maybe not listeners of your
Speaker 9: show people that kind of get eeky about Peck, But
Speaker 9: actually there was a really interesting study looking into how
Speaker 9: people use Microsoft Word, so perhaps not the most kind
Speaker 9: of kind of current piece of technology, but interestingly there
Speaker 9: they found that ninety five percent of people never changed
Speaker 9: the default settings of using Word. And I think extrape
Speaker 9: it out that that's true for most of us with
Speaker 9: most of our technology. And whilst technology is amazing, actually
Speaker 9: the default settings don't often work for everybody. It really
Speaker 9: takes time kind of pays off to take the time
Speaker 9: to dig in a little bit and set your technology
Speaker 9: up in a way that really works for you, and
Speaker 9: that's you know, working with your digital habits. The book
Speaker 9: that I've written is called Your Best Digital Life, and
Speaker 9: that's really about looking into Okay, what can you do
Speaker 9: to actually dig it a bit deeper, reflect on how
Speaker 9: you use your technology and change those settings so that
Speaker 9: it becomes a power tool to really align with your goals.
Speaker 1: So true, like go into those settings. You're not going
Speaker 1: to break anything. And people think like, oh, if I
Speaker 1: turn this off, it's going to like ruin my phone,
Speaker 1: Like you can always change it back. My brother and
Speaker 1: I were talking about this yesterday because you said, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm getting like thirty notifications a day from this app.
Speaker 1: And I call it for some of these apps like
Speaker 1: notification abuse because let me get an example of a
Speaker 1: delivery app, right, Like an app delivers food, right, So
Speaker 1: you need to keep those notifications on for that app
Speaker 1: because you want to know when your food's getting delivered,
Speaker 1: an update if there's a problem. But what that app
Speaker 1: does in the off time is spam you with a
Speaker 1: hundred different things like hey, you're I noticed you looked
Speaker 1: at an Enchilada today, do you want to order that?
Speaker 1: Or I saw you checked out Chipotle? Do you want
Speaker 1: to order your ball from there, So it's like they're
Speaker 1: abusing you with like all these other things, but yet
Speaker 1: you need to leave that on for the important notifications
Speaker 1: that you need to get. So that's just one tiny example.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, And the thing is that we all know that
Speaker 9: we could improve that situation by changing our notification settings,
Speaker 9: but the reality is that most of us never actually
Speaker 9: get around to doing it. So a lot of what
Speaker 9: we teach at mind O of Tech is not things
Speaker 9: that people haven't heard of before, but actually saying, how
Speaker 9: can you create a system which allows you to move
Speaker 9: from this being something that's you know, a nice to
Speaker 9: have to something that you.
Speaker 4: Actually regularly practice.
Speaker 9: And we actually created a number of years ago a
Speaker 9: resource called the Digital Habit Lab.
Speaker 4: I've got it here.
Speaker 9: It's like a deck of fifty experiment cards and actually,
Speaker 9: to your point, one of the experiments in there is
Speaker 9: have a notification strategy. So this is a basically encouraging
Speaker 9: people to spend ten minutes digging into those notification settings
Speaker 9: to understand how they work to filter out those useful
Speaker 9: notifications from the unuseful ones. But the whole point here
Speaker 9: is actually everyone's need from technology is different. Some people
Speaker 9: don't need any notifications at all. Others may need to
Speaker 9: be alerted straight away when loved ones need assistance. Like,
Speaker 9: there's an infinite spectrum of needs. And our belief is
Speaker 9: that by regularly running experiments like the one I just mentioned,
Speaker 9: it allows you to actually understand what you need on
Speaker 9: your own terms and start to shift your behavior about
Speaker 9: how you use your technology, so it is aligning more
Speaker 9: with your goals.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of I know we're kind of getting fixated
Speaker 1: on notifications, but speaking of that good good tip on
Speaker 1: the iPhone is that when you get a notification from
Speaker 1: an app and you don't need a notification from them anymore,
Speaker 1: instead of just swiping it away, slow swipe it from
Speaker 1: the right to the left and you'll reveal this new
Speaker 1: options button and you can tap that and you can
Speaker 1: turn off those notifications all together, or you can mute
Speaker 1: them for an hour or for the day. But it's
Speaker 1: something that I do all the time. I'll just clean
Speaker 1: up my notifications when I get one from an app.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't need to. You know, you sign
Speaker 1: up for like one of these store apps to get
Speaker 1: a discount the first time you use it, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they just start spamming you with all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. It's all right, I already use the
Speaker 1: ten percent off coupon. Let me just swipe over and
Speaker 1: turn off these notifications and you don't need them. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you've got the book, You've got the book coming out,
Speaker 1: and we've got about a minute left. What do you
Speaker 1: think when people say they're addicted to their phone? What
Speaker 1: do you think the real issue is there? What do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I think I mean smartphone addictions possible, but
Speaker 9: most of the time it's quite uncommon.
Speaker 4: And because the thing is addiction creates.
Speaker 9: Actually a sense of pleasure in the brain and removes
Speaker 9: the discomfort from cravings, which but actually I think what
Speaker 9: most people experience is more of compulsion. So and the
Speaker 9: difference there with the compulsion is that actually it kind
Speaker 9: of creates the urge to do something, but it doesn't
Speaker 9: actually necessarily saytiate your your brain.
Speaker 4: So this is really driven by dopamine, I guess.
Speaker 9: But the interesting thing with dopamine is that we often
Speaker 9: think that it's given as a reward at the end,
Speaker 9: like I eat ice cream and then I'm rewarded with
Speaker 9: that dopamine. But actually the most dopamine has released an
Speaker 9: anticipation of a reward. When you hear the ice cream
Speaker 9: truck in the distance, your dopamine is released at the
Speaker 9: potential of getting a reward there. So actually a lot
Speaker 9: of the time we feel addicted, but actually we're just
Speaker 9: it's a very deeply ingrained habit from these kind of
Speaker 9: dopamine loops, which basically drew us to pick up our
Speaker 9: phone because actually, you know, there are good reasons, like
Speaker 9: often when you pick up your phone, there's very important
Speaker 9: information there, but a lot of the time there isn't.
Speaker 4: So our brain secretary is very much geared towards.
Speaker 9: Compelling us to look at that, and a lot of
Speaker 9: what we look at in the book and our methodology
Speaker 9: is how can you use a mindful approach to actually
Speaker 9: become aware of that behavior, to notice those patterns and
Speaker 9: actually start to build behaviors which help you use it
Speaker 9: when you want to, but not when you don't, and
Speaker 9: therefore help you get more done and feel less anxious.
Speaker 1: Good information. Mindover tech dot com is the website the
Speaker 1: book Your Best Digital Life that's coming out in April.
Speaker 1: You can pre order that now on Amazon. Jonathan Garner,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 9: And there's a free chapter one available for danod on
Speaker 9: the website, so do check that out.
Speaker 1: All right, mindover tech dot com download it, see what
Speaker 1: the deal is with you and your phone and get
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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology, sharing
Speaker 1: some of the things that you wrote in that you
Speaker 1: are thankful for. Kristin writes in Claude AI Brad from Lakeland,
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Speaker 1: So AI, very people are very thankful for AI apparently
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Speaker 1: open up the feedback. If you listen to the show,
Speaker 1: you know this is the part of the show where
Speaker 1: I read your questions, your comments, your emails. I get
Speaker 1: a lot of them, and I do try to write
Speaker 1: back to most of your questions, but it is just
Speaker 1: impossible to get to them all, so I address some
Speaker 1: of them on the show. So if you write to me,
Speaker 1: you may hear your name on the show. That's what
Speaker 1: happened with Rudy from San Jose, he writes in I
Speaker 1: wanted to comment on your recent show. A caller mentioned
Speaker 1: having issues with an EPSOM printer on AT and T
Speaker 1: wireless internet, where sometimes it prints and sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 1: One thing to note that routers create two networks, a
Speaker 1: personal network and a guest network. It's possible that the
Speaker 1: caller's phone or computer is connected to one network and
Speaker 1: the printer to the other, which would cause them not
Speaker 1: to see each other. We had a similar issue at
Speaker 1: home and this was the solution. Love your show, Regards Rudy. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one option. Always make sure you're connected to the
Speaker 1: same network as the device that you're trying to connect to,
Speaker 1: and that is tricky because sometimes people do have a
Speaker 1: guest network or a separate network, and that's not always
Speaker 1: the case. Along the same lines, Darren from Walnut writs
Speaker 1: in Hey, Rich, love your show and never miss it
Speaker 1: regarding the caller who had trouble connecting as printer using
Speaker 1: AT and T five G home Internet. I've had a
Speaker 1: similar experience with T mobile home Internet when I had
Speaker 1: cable Internet. I did not have the issue with the
Speaker 1: same setup. I've noticed devices like my iPhone or Dennin
Speaker 1: av box sometimes take ten minutes to an hour to
Speaker 1: reconnect after being turned off or restarted. That might explain
Speaker 1: the caller's problem. If he's turning off his iPad when
Speaker 1: he's not using it, I suggest he keeps it on
Speaker 1: or avoid restarting it before printing. Yeah, that's another solution there.
Speaker 1: It's funny we always make the joke about this show
Speaker 1: that printer problems are the number one issue. Everyone has
Speaker 1: a printer issue. In fact, I was printing my stuff
Speaker 1: for the show today. Yes, I still print out some
Speaker 1: of these things. I try to say paper whenever possible,
Speaker 1: like right now I'm reading off of PDFs on my
Speaker 1: computer screen, so I don't waste paper. But you know,
Speaker 1: I was printing this morning for some of my show,
Speaker 1: and the printer it was like sorry, you're not connected.
Speaker 1: It's like what Sure enough, I go into the office
Speaker 1: and the printer had been turned off, and you know,
Speaker 1: turn on the printer. And as soon as I did
Speaker 1: that took about ten seconds, my computer found it and
Speaker 1: it went to it. But I will say there's been
Speaker 1: times when my computer, or rather my printer has gone
Speaker 1: into sort of a deep sleep, and I feel like
Speaker 1: that's when you have the connection problems. Like maybe if
Speaker 1: you're not using it for a long time, it just
Speaker 1: says sorry, like you need to like tap the screen
Speaker 1: or something and wake it up. David writes in Hey Rich,
Speaker 1: big fan of the show and listen to the podcast
Speaker 1: every week. It's my go to source for tech news
Speaker 1: and opinions. I really appreciate your insights and the way
Speaker 1: you introduce listeners to new products and helpful apps. I
Speaker 1: wanted to share a cool app I recently discovered called
Speaker 1: local Send. It's a game changer for easily transferring files
Speaker 1: between Mac, Android, and Windows devices on my home network.
Speaker 1: The fact that it's open source is a big plus
Speaker 1: for me. I don't recall hearing you mention it on
Speaker 1: your show. I thought you might find it interesting. Thanks
Speaker 1: again for the great content. David. I have mentioned local
Speaker 1: send on the show and I think it is fantastic
Speaker 1: and I have used it personally. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: the best way to describe it is sort of like
Speaker 1: air drop, but for every device. Keep in mind you
Speaker 1: do have to be on the same network, so airdrop.
Speaker 1: What's beautiful about that is that it works ad hoc.
Speaker 1: So if you are in the forest in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere with no signal, no Wi Fi, and you
Speaker 1: had an iPhone and your friend had an iPhone, you
Speaker 1: would be able to send a file from your iPhone
Speaker 1: to their iPhone without any sort of like cellular network
Speaker 1: or Wi Fi network. Local send you do need to
Speaker 1: be on the same network, but it is free, it's
Speaker 1: open source, it's cross platform. It works really well. There
Speaker 1: are some other apps like this. One of them is
Speaker 1: called a pair drop pai r DRP dot net. So
Speaker 1: if you're ever with someone and you want to exchange
Speaker 1: something quickly, just have them openpairdrop dot net on their browser.
Speaker 1: You can open up paardrop dot net on your browser
Speaker 1: and as long as you're on the same network, you
Speaker 1: can exchange files, or you can even make a public
Speaker 1: room and you can exchange stuff like that. So lots
Speaker 1: of options. Thanks for the suggestion there, David, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Jony from Carmel writes in thanks for your podcast. I
Speaker 1: almost bought ink on Amazon that looked like HPS, complete
Speaker 1: with the logo, but the brand was listed as dzeng
Speaker 1: and raised a red flag. The ninety nine dollars knockoff
Speaker 1: was even labeled as Amazon's choice. Meanwhile, the real HP Inc.
Speaker 1: Was twenty five dollars cheaper. How was it legal for
Speaker 1: sellers to use HP's logo on counterfeit items? Big fail? Amazon.
Speaker 1: Thanks for letting me vent Merry Christmas to you and
Speaker 1: your family. Brian writes in great show, Rich, I really
Speaker 1: appreciated the coinbase guest you had on. Unfortunately, I was
Speaker 1: a victim of a pig butchering crypto scam, so while
Speaker 1: the advice came too late for me, I hope it
Speaker 1: helps stop future targets. I reported the scam to the police,
Speaker 1: the FBI, and the FTC, but never heard back. It
Speaker 1: feels like there's very little digital protection, whether for cryptocurrencies
Speaker 1: or data breaches. I'd love to hear an interview specifically
Speaker 1: about what happens to companies that get compromised. It seems
Speaker 1: like consumers end up bearing the brunt. Sorry that that
Speaker 1: happened to you, Brian. That's why I do interviews like
Speaker 1: that to help folks be aware of these things that
Speaker 1: are happening. And yes, you should report things to the
Speaker 1: IC three. I think it's called IC three Internet Crime
Speaker 1: Complaint Center, but it does say on there that they
Speaker 1: will not necessarily respond to your complaint, but they will
Speaker 1: take it into consideration. Chris writes in I enjoy your program.
Speaker 1: I am at best tech challenge, but I appreciate learning
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Speaker 1: from San Diego writes in thank you for all your
Speaker 1: extremely useful information. You make it easy to understand. Thank you,
Speaker 1: and Donna writes in thank you for your time. I
Speaker 1: really enjoy your segments and learn a lot from them.
Speaker 1: Keep doing the great work you're doing. You're good at
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