WEBVTT - Backing up your phone is the best decision you can make 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.480 Yes, the iPhone twelve will be delayed. Ces goes all 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:15.120 digital people are renting out their backyard pools. Plus your 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.000 tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.240 this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.640 about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:25.759 It's also where I answer the questions you send me. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.960 And yes, you send a lot of them, and if 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.120 you've ever sent me one, you know I probably do 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.640 reply most of the time. My name is Rich Dmiro, 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.600 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Come 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:44.560 in to you today live everywhere on Facebook and the podcast. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.320 If you're listening live, thanks for tuning in. If you're 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.440 listening on the podcast, thanks for tuning in. This is 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.960 where I just get a little bit more time to 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.240 complete my thoughts. So you know me from TV on 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.680 KTLA and other stations nationwide, but this is where I 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.480 get to kind of talk about things a little bit longer, 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.440 give you the information I think you need to know. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.320 And this week a couple of things happened. Number One, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:13.440 I upgraded my internet, which was a big deal because 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.640 my internet here was fine at my house. But I 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.800 got an offer, not an offer, but they basically wired 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.160 my neighborhood for like a thousand, this gigabit internet, and 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.440 I said, you know what, I want a thousand. And 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.720 the reason why I wanted the faster internet not really 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.800 because my download speeds were bad at all. They were 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.960 actually fine. It's really the upload speeds that when you're 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.640 with most companies, they give you a fast download and 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.240 then the upload is a little bit slower. And so 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.640 with this service, my upload and download is the same. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.480 It's a thousand both ways. And yeah, I checked, I'm 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.880 getting a thousand. The only problem is my internet totally 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.320 was terrible for the first week, and I've been noticing 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:56.800 some quirks with that. I don't know what it is. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.880 I'm still working through it. Today I'm getting a new 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.600 I always recommend EUO, so today I am getting a 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.800 new euro so I can put it in my office 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.480 and see if that makes things better. The one thing 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.120 I've realized that I did not know is that most 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:13.560 of these most of these euro Internet systems, like these 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.600 MESH systems, are only rated for about five hundred megabits 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.080 per second, and so mine being a thousand was not 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.800 getting through. So what I needed to do is upgrade 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.000 to what's called a tryband. I know this is getting 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.560 in the weeds here, but anyway, I did so much 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.520 research cause I'm like, why am I not getting the 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.280 fastest speed possible in my office? And this is what 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.440 I came down to. Sounds like I need a new 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.520 euro with a higher speed. It's called EUO Pro and 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.000 you know, so anyway, that's arriving today. I'm very excited 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.880 and hopefully I'll have perfect internet when that's all done. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.360 The other little tip I want to give you, by 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.800 the way, if you ever change your internet or change 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.079 your router or whatever, use the same Wi Fi name 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.240 and password and all of your products will follow through. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.120 So don't don't change your Wi Fi. I mean, if 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.240 you have a terrible password and terrible you know system 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.320 network name, you can change it. I used to change 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.920 mine all the time, just for fun. My wife used 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.160 to always give me a hard time. Why is the 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.960 WiFi always changing? I just thought it was fun to 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:12.560 like change the network. That was back when I had 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.640 like three things on the on the network. Now that 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.800 you know, we all have so many devices in our homes. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.400 You know, when you change your Wi Fi network, you 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.919 have to reconnect all these things. Chrome cast all this stuff. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:24.919 Oh my gosh, it's it's a pain. So if you 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.360 use the same what they call SSID, your network and 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.600 also your password, everything will follow through to the new network. 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.400 So a little bit of information for you there. The 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.200 other thing I've been testing out this week is the 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:41.240 new wisecam outdoor, which is just fantastic. By the way, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.920 one screw to put that thing up outside so easy, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.960 and you put the screw in. It's magnetic to the base. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.240 It's you know, yes, someone could pull that off the 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.839 base easily, but hopefully people aren't doing that. I don't 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.520 really hear too many rings being stolen around town. I 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.920 don't think people are walking around to people's houses stealing 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.320 digital video cameras, but it could happen because it's just 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:07.000 magnetically attached to the base. But the magnet is strong. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.440 People were asking about that. I'm still kind of testing it. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.640 It actually took me a little bit to figure out 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.400 how the recording worked on the camera, the cloud recording. 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:19.279 I finally found it and you have to actually go 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.720 to the main part of the app, not into the 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.400 camera part of the app. So I figured that out, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.680 so now I'm testing it. The image is crystal clear. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.520 I'm gonna measure how far the camera is from my 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.680 base because people were asking, since it's wireless, how much 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.720 is the range? You have to have this little base 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.119 station near your router, and then you put the camera 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.880 wherever you want, and I think it's maybe. I don't know. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:41.520 I gotta check. I'm not even gonna say how far 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.960 it is because I'm not really sure. And then at 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.559 this point, I can't imagine why I would not buy 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.400 more wise outdoor cameras because each base station works with 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.760 four cameras, and the cameras are forty dollars each, So 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.400 why sent me the Tester camera and the Tester kit, 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.359 which is fifty dollars to start? Each camera after that 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.920 is forty So I'm gonna order a bunch of more 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.320 cameras and put them everywhere. Why not? I mean at 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.760 this price. The one thing I noticed, though, so they 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.320 give you free cloud storage. It's twelve seconds every time 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.640 there's a motion. But there's what's called a cooling off period, 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.960 and so if your camera records something for twelve seconds 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.839 then waits, the default is five minutes until the next recording. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.239 So for some people that may not work I'm gonna 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.080 tweak that. I gotta figure out if that's good, if 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:29.920 that's bad. I mean most of the time that's just fine. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:31.960 Twelve seconds should be enough to kind of see what's 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.080 going on with your camera that's going on. The other 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.160 thing is the earthquake. We had a big well it 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.080 wasn't big, but we had an earthquake. We had several 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:46.480 earthquakes here in Los Angeles this week, and wow, nothing 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.039 like an earthquake to just rattle your bones, rattle your spirit, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.040 rattle your brain. And I was sitting right here at 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.719 this very desk when the earthquake started shaking the house. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.920 And it wasn't a huge earthquake, but you never know 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.960 if they're going to be big or not. When they start, 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.880 it just starts where you're just like, wait, was did 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.800 someone just move something in the house not at four 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.560 thirty am? Or is this an earthquake? And yes, it 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.599 was an earthquake. The main thing that is concerning me 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.400 about these earthquakes are these apps that people are downloading 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.000 with the early warning. They seem to be all over 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.320 the place. There are three major ones in Los Angeles, 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:26.400 the one from the city. There's one called Quake Alert, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.320 and then there's one called are there one called my 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.159 shake or something like that. I should get these names 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.560 right before I talk about them. And then there is 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:41.080 the one that I use, which is quake Alert. Yeah, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.080 quake Alert, So that's the one I like. I've met 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.160 the person who created this. They all use the same 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:50.400 data from the USGS, but they work in slightly different ways. 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.160 And the main thing about these apps is that they 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.800 are at the mercy of these cellular networks and the 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.880 notifications may not be delivered in a timely manner, so 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.360 that's the main thing. But I still think you should 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.880 have one on your phone if you live in California. Anyway, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.800 the earthquake just shook everyone up. It was not that 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.640 big of a deal, but we did have a bunch 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.080 of aftershocks too, which is kind of wild. Anyway. It 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.320 just makes you realize you live in Los Angeles and 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:17.600 I hope twenty twenty is not the year of the 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.680 big one, because oh my gosh, it's like we've had 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.040 enough here in Los Angeles. All right, let me get 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.680 to the first big story of the week. Cees is 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:29.680 going virtual and CS said that they were going to 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.200 have the big gadget show in Las Vegas as normal, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.760 and guess what. After a couple of weeks they said, eh, 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.480 you know what, nevermind, we're not going to do that. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.480 So CS twenty twenty one, which is January sixth through ninth, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.320 will be all digital. And I have no idea how 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:47.760 this is going to work. I've been doing a bunch 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.320 of digital briefings with various tech companies and it's just 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.600 not the same. You can't go hands on with the gadgets, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.840 you can't really get a feel for things, and the 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.000 event itself is like a snoozer. I mean, I'm saying, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.400 and you're checking my email while I'm watching some presentation 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.920 on new TVs or a new phone or whatever. Just 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.080 not the same. And also CS is about the sites 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.240 and sounds of CS. How do you have that in 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.080 a virtual conference? So this year is going to be 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.880 a dud. I'll just call it right now. The CS 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:20.280 twenty twenty one will just be not very exciting for journalists, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.880 for people, for the media, for the coverage, for the companies. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.240 And that's kind of sad to me because I always 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.280 look forward to that event no matter how much work 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.280 it is, and it is a ton of work and 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.199 this year. It's just not going to be a very 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.199 great experience for anyone all around. I'm sure CS is 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.400 losing a ton of money on this, the Consumer Technology Association. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.480 I'm not crying for them, believe me. But it's one 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.280 of these things where it's just it's another sign of 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.280 the times. And this also extends this sort of pandemic 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.240 into January, and people might say, well, Rich, there might 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.520 be a vaccine by then, or it might be over 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.079 this by then. We don't know. And the problem is 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.040 you have to plan right now for January. So I 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.960 tell a company that's coming from Hong Kong, or a 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.400 company that's coming from China, or a company that's coming 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.120 from I don't know if Australia comes, but you know 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.040 European companies. All these people have to converge to Las 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.959 Vegas and they have to plan to come to Vegas. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.200 And if you don't have these things in process, you 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.560 can't plan for January. When you don't know if things 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.480 are gonna be good by November, you can't start November. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.920 So that's why they did this CS again happening the 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.480 first week of January. They say CS twenty twenty two 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.280 will be back to a physical and a digital show. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.640 All right, let's get to the first question question today 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.280 from Cindy. Cindy says, Hey, Rich, I have a quick question. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.040 I can't seem to access my old texts I have 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.959 saved forever. I have saved forever, toggled on on my iPhone, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.160 I'm guessing. And I have my iCloud option as well 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.960 on messages, and I logged onto my iCloud and the 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.920 option for messages is not there. Yes, you have to 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.080 discovered something that is really quite annoying. And I don't 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.600 know what Apple's deal is with text messages, but they 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.080 love to hijack our texts and I don't know if 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.560 it I don't know if it's because we just love 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.240 text messaging and they feel like that's a really sticky 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.720 area where they can get people locked into their phones. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.880 But for some reason, and this happens on Android too, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:27.040 not so much. But text messaging is is just one 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.520 of these things where you want it, like email, no 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.679 matter where you log in, you just want to see 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.680 your text messages. And clearly this is not happening. And 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.640 so what you noticed is that you went to iCloud 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:39.840 dot com. You would assume like you saw photos and 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.000 you saw contacts that you would just see messages. Nope, 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.920 not there. I don't know why. It seems like it 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.600 would be very simple for them to just put your 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.360 messages into iCloud and say, hey, you can download them 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.319 as you know, some sort of comma separated value file whatever. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.120 Just give me a way to download my messages. Can't 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.800 find it. So the way that you access these messages 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.880 is there's a couple ways. You can transfer them to 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.280 a new iPhone during setup. Okay, you can download them 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.400 to your Mac computer with I Messages, but again no 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.440 way to export. Or you can use a third party 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:20.200 program to access the file that Apple puts in a 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.439 secret place in your iTunes backup to get your messages. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.120 All three of these options are terrible and I don't 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.280 know why our messages are hijacked. I find this to 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.520 be very annoying. When you switch phones, you go from 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.079 an Android to or sorry iOS to Android. Some of 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:41.640 the manufacturers, like Samsung or Google, they try to extract 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.720 your messages. Doesn't always work. I read these things all 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.280 the time. People are like, I can't get access to 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.920 my messages. I don't know why the messages has become 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.280 such a I don't know, it's just very tough to 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.280 get a hold of anyway, Cindy, I don't have a 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.880 very good explanation for you, but there's a if you 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.160 look at a website called Wondershare dot com doctor Phone, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.080 they make a lot of software that can help you 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.080 recover these things. And Jose is saying in the chat, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.560 not true for Google Voice, and Jose, you are so right. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.040 In fact, I have almost wanted to switch over to 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.720 Google Voice again. I used to use Google Voice religiously, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:22.920 but it got kind of annoying because you know, the 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.040 whole like, it's just it's a lot to use Google 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:27.640 Voice because the way it works. I'm not going to 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.800 get into it, but yes, I almost want to switch 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.400 back to Google Voice, just so I can finally have 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.120 all of my texts in one place without having to 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.000 think are they being deleted when I switch phones or 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.880 which you know, when did you? How did you text me? 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.240 But the problem is people love I Message, and I 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.880 Message is sort of the gold standard with messaging. But 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.320 the fact is if you use it, your messages are 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.720 hijacked by Apple forever until they figure out away or 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.200 they know a way. But they don't want to give 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.600 us access. I don't know why. So yes, Jose, I 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.559 totally agree. Google Voice is a great solution. In fact, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.640 like I said, I'm thinking of switching back to that 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.160 just for the idea of my text messages being in 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.679 one place, archived forever. I can search for a text 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.760 that I wrote in twenty fifteen and it's still there, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:15.240 whereas with I Message every time. I finally set my 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.360 messages on I Message to just be a year because 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.160 I'm so sick of like, I can't do anything with 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.000 these messages. Even though I'm saving them forever, I can't 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.040 access them in an easy way, So what's the point 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.280 of saving them forever? Not to mention the fact that 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.720 they take up like seven gigs of your iCloud. So anyway, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.160 that's the other solution. Now. The other thing is if 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.720 you have an Android, it's much easier. You can use 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:43.880 an app called SMS Backup and Restore. It's fantastic, and 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.040 messages on Android are much more open source in nature, 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.880 where you can actually download these back them up to 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.880 Google Drive. I have this set to back up to 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:58.679 Google Drive automatically. It's so easy SMS backup and restore 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.120 is a super easy pro and it just works. It 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.160 just takes your messages and puts them on a new phone. 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.000 I used to use an app called Pulse, which was 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.160 an app that would save all your messages in the 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.360 cloud as well. It was their cloud, but it was 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.840 very easy and it worked. And this an independent developer 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.800 and he does a really nice job of kind of 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.320 putting all your messages in the cloud. So that's another option. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.920 But here's the other thing. Most people are not like me. 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.400 They're not switching phones, not testing new phones. They don't 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.480 really need their SMS messages across a whole bunch of devices. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.480 But I do think it would be nice just to 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.280 be able to have these things saved forever. All right, 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.000 great question, Cindy. You got me really going here at 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.040 the first question. Let me, since we're on this topic, 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.000 let me talk about backing up your phone. You have 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.880 no idea how many emails I get from people about 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:53.440 losing stuff on their phone. Rich, I lost all my pictures, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.840 I lost all my voicemails, I lost all my texts. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.800 I lost You gotta back up your phone. And I 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.640 know now I'm preaching here, but the reality is people 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.800 email me. I have to sit there and read the 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.840 sad emails and say, I don't really think there's a 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.760 way to get back your stuff. Yeah, you can take 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.600 your phone to a repair clinic and see if they 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.160 can maybe fish out some of your old emails, your 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.200 old text your old pictures. You know, people email me 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.560 that I lost all my pictures of my granddaughter, I 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.720 lost all my pictures of my newborn. I can't really 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.560 help you if you don't back up your phone. You 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.480 have to back up your phone. That is the only 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.880 way that your phone will be backed up in case 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.720 of a problem. So let me tell you about what 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.760 Google's doing to kind of help you out with this. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.840 And they have a new feature called Google One, which 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.960 this has been a feature for Google for a while, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.360 but now they're expanding it to make it a little 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.080 bit easier to back up your phone whether you're on 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:52.760 Android or iOS. So it's basically an app called Google One. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.800 You install this on your Android phone and you can 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.400 back up stuff. So you can back up various things. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:04.040 See let's see what can you back up. You can 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.880 back up your photos, your videos, your contacts, and your 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.680 calendar and so that is on the iPhone side, again, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.040 not your SMS messages, which would have been really nice 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:16.920 for Google to try to figure out how to do that. 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.800 Maybe they can't. So again, at the minimum, if you 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.640 have an iPhone and you hate iCloud, at the minimum, 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.880 just install this new iOS app called Google One on 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.280 your iPhone and let it back up your photos, your videos, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.040 your contacts, and your calendar. Boom. It's free for fifteen gigabytes. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.560 This is on Android as well. I think Android goes 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.160 a little bit further in what they allow you to 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.640 back up your on your phone. But to be honest, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.760 I've had this on my phone and I still can't 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.920 really figure out like the backups like it shows me. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.840 My backups in Google Drive used to show it there, 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:54.120 but I guess it doesn't anymore. But it's like anyway, 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.800 just the iOS app is not out just yet, but 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.640 the Android one is and they're upgrading this over the 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:01.760 next So just be on the lookout for something called 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.879 Google One. At the very least, just back up your phone, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.199 use iCloud, use Google Photos for your pictures, use one 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.040 Drive for your pictures, use Amazon Photos for your pictures. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.119 Get your pictures backed up. No matter what, it should 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.879 be a priority that you check on your phone on 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.560 a daily basis. Because here's the other thing. If you 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.560 have an iPhone, especially unless if you're not using iCloud 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.440 and using one of these third party apps like Amazon 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.560 or Google Photos, they're not necessarily backing up on a 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.080 regular basis because iPhone puts them those apps to sleep 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.480 and they're not able to do much in the background. 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.720 So unless you're physically opening that app on a regular basis, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.399 your pictures are just sitting there, not backed up. So 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.159 remember you have to do that as well, So just 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.639 back up your stuff. That's that's my final that's my 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.000 final answer today. It's just please be sure you do that. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.920 All right, Let's get to a new question from Angel. 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.200 Angel says, thanks for all you're covering from home these days. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.240 My college age daughter USC viturbe fight On, Fight On. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:05.920 I did go to USC. I don't mention that often, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.280 but yes I did. My daughter has gotten the green 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:12.159 light for a podcast on her favorite subject in the world, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.600 musical theater. She's got a laptop and learning how to 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.960 edit everything on her dad's Mac. But do you have 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.240 mic recommendations that are not going to break the bank? 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.080 I know you didn't early piece on the sound in 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.000 this pandemic, but everything feels like it was years ago, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.359 even though it was four or five months. Angel in 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.040 San Fernando, California, Home of the rude morning wake up 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:36.400 call that we all got today, which yes, we all 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.959 got that, and it was I wasn't a wake up 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.560 call for me because I had been up for over 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.880 an hour and a half. But it was a rude 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:48.119 wake up call no matter what. Okay, So doing a podcast, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.480 I would say that your daughter should probably look at 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:58.800 a website called Blue Microphones. So let's see Blue Microphones, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.960 and okay, I have a graphic on there. Let's see 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.760 Blue Microphones. And I think that these are easy because 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.439 they plug into USB on your computer. They feature great sound. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.119 They've been kind of the standard for mics for you know, 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.480 web stuff for a long time. But I would look 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.840 at that and you can get Let's see what kinds 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.560 they have here. They've got the yetti. Why can't I 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.760 go in here? Let's see I'm having trouble actually scrolling 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.760 through the website here, So let's see. You've got the 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.080 yetti and the snowball are the two that I like? 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.240 And the YETI they have a whole bunch of different 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.160 price points. They've got one starting at ninety nine, ninety 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.359 nine all the way up to two hundred dollars if 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.760 you want one that has kind of an arm. And 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.960 then they have a snowball mic. They've got a whole 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.360 bunch of snowball mics. They're great. I mean, I think 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.400 that you're gonna be happy with any of these. Let's see. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:54.600 So for podcasting, they recommend the Yeah, the Snowball, which 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.560 you can get one for as low as fifty dollars. 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.119 And my opinion, when it comes to podcasting, because everyone 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.800 is all over the place with this stuff, you consistency 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.720 is key, but it's tough to stay consistent. Maybe not 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.520 now since we're all home, but I would start with 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.199 a cheaper microphone and just build your way up. You 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.840 don't need to buy all the best stuff at the beginning. 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:16.840 When I first started my podcast, I did it on 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.080 my iPhone and I just recorded it into the microphone 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.040 on the iPhone, and then I upgraded the microphones over 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.119 the years to get to a place where you know it, 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:29.480 where I'm doing it consistently, and the microphone also sounds 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.119