WEBVTT - Amazon smart home devices, deepfake app Sora & Prime Day tips (142, October 4, 2025) 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.000 Ring cameras can now help you find a lost dog. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.800 Amazon and Google are in a battle for smart home supremacy. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.680 Meta isn't listening to your phone, but they will start 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.840 eavesdropping on your AI chats. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.000 What's going on on rich dmiro And this is rich 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.799 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.040 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.360 also the place where I answer your questions about technology, 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.560 and yes you have a lot of them. I believe 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.560 that tech should be interesting, useful and fun. 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Later, Steven Roboles, tech journalists 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.120 and content creator, is going to share insights on Apple. 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.840 He came out with a cool shortcut that went viral 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.280 to help you find a stolen iPhone. He'll talk about 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:27.400 that and later in the show. Mark Vina, CEO and 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.640 principal analyst at Smart Tech Research, always a guy that 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.400 I hang out with when I go to these tech events. 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.120 We're going to talk gadgets. We're going to see what 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.920 he likes these days. All right, this was a big 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.640 week for Amazon and Google. The two companies are locked 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.040 in a battle for smart home supremacy. So on one side, 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.480 you've got Echo speakers, You've got Ring cameras, and Alexa Plus. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:52.360 You might want to. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.520 Mute that right now because we're going to be hearing 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.000 it a lot. On the other side, you've got Google, 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:02.080 Nest cameras, Thermostats, Home Speed, and Gemini. So which one 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.640 is gonna win? You've probably got some of these gadgets 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.400 in your house. Let's start with Amazon. They held an 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.800 event this week in New York City. Now, typically I 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.360 say I went to New York City for this event. 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.919 Yes, I was invited, No, I did not go. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.400 I was celebrating my kid's birthday this week, and I 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.160 am not gonna be out of town when it's my 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.800 kid's birthday. So I'm just putting that out there, you 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.720 know what I mean, Like you got, I gotta ride 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.360 the line of family and this stuff. And so I 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.680 watched from Afar. I got all the info, but you know, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.280 it would have been nice to be there. But you know, 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.120 I do what I can. But Amazon's game is to 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.360 just throw a lot at the wall, right and see 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.240 what sticks. Usually they have pretty good prices on their 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.920 tech stuff, and this is what they came out with 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.960 new this time around, So new Kindle Scribes. These are 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.079 the kindles that you can write on. So the new 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.440 one they have their flagship, is thinner and lighter than 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.680 ever larger screen eleven inch. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:54.720 It's got glare free. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.080 That's one trend we're seeing with all these screens is 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.840 glare free, which is really nice on the ice make 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.320 that's a big difference. There's also a new color Soft 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.639 that's a color version of the kindlescribe. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:06.960 Now these are expensive. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.440 The scribe starts at five hundred bucks, the color version 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.440 starts at six hundred and thirty dollars. You might be saying, rich, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.000 why not just get an iPad at those prices, Well, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.919 these are much easier on the eyes because it's e ink, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.600 which means it looks more like the printed page. Now 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.160 these are color well, the second one is only get 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.799 the color e inc reader if you read comic books 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.480 or something that is colorful, or you need the color 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.840 screen because you're highlighting or something like that, or you're 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:36.600 writing and you need that color because the contrast of 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.160 the black ink on the color ones are not as 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.000 good as it is on a standard black and white 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:42.680 e ink screen. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:43.640 Just keep that in mind. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.840 I mean, it's nice to see the book cover in color, 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.960 but do you really need that if that's your only thing? 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:49.680 All right? 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.000 Next up, Ring Ring is releasing their first ever four 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.480 K cameras, so more details in your videos. That means 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.320 you can zoom in on things like if you have 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.320 a license plate you're trying to make out, or face 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.240 you're trying to make out. They call this retinal vision. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.800 Not to be confused with something else. You don't want that. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.600 This is mostly for wired cameras right now. They also 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.400 have two K cameras for a bit more clarity there. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.520 They've got that on their indoor camera and a wired doorbell, 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.000 so basically the standard battery doorbell that everyone has doesn't 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.360 seem to have gotten an update, but there are a 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.240 few new features that will make their way to a 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.400 lot of these cameras that are already out there. Number one, 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.480 Alexa Plus Greetings, So basically you can now have Alexa 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.000 Plus this is their smart Ai answer the doorbell for you. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.240 So right now, if you have a ring doorbell, if 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.320 someone rings it, you can have a canned response that 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.479 says something back to them like hey, sorry, no solicitors, 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.360 or please leave a message or whatever. But now you 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.159 can actually have Alexa Plus say hey, can I help you? 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.920 What do you what are you here for? Okay, can 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.960 you come back? Or whatever, so Alexa can relay that 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.960 info to your phone. Well, so that's kind of a 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.599 neat thing. I've not played with that, but I'll be 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.599 curious to see how that works. Then they have this 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.720 feature called familiar Faces. So this cuts down on notification 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.280 spam because it will ignore the regulars at your house 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.880 if you choose, and you won't get a notification when 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.640 your kid takes out the trash, but it will get 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:20.400 a notification when a stranger walks up to your door. Now, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.600 the most interesting new feature, it's probably already getting a 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.960 lot of publicity is called Search Party. This one uses 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.880 AI to help find lost dogs. So if your pet 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.080 goes missing, you can upload a picture to the Ring app. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.440 And they said last year a million people did this 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.560 alone and just last year but they didn't have this feature. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:41.440 It was more manual. 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.120 Ring will use AI to comb through the video footage 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.520 of nearby cameras. Yes hear that again. Ring will take 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.320 the picture of the dog and use AI to try 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.160 to find an image of that dog on your neighbor's cameras. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.880 What if it finds a match, it will alert the 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.840 owner of that camera, not the pet owner, and it 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.720 will ask you, hey, do you want to share your 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.760 footage or this location with the other person that's pet 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:10.040 is missing and you can decide. So they're trying to 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.479 put privacy in first place here. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.920 But you can see the ramifications. You can see where 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:15.560 this could go. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:18.880 It's pretty wild to think that Ring can scour so 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.279 much footage for a match of a pet. When you 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.120 think about pets, they all look kind of similar anyway, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.840 don't they. I mean, I know, if it's your dog, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:31.960 they're different. I know your cocker spaniel is unique. But 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.080 imagine if they expanded this to other things like Silver 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.920 alerts for missing people, child abductions, car license plates. They're 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:40.680 not doing any of this right now. Right now it's 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.960 just dogs and eventually cats and other pets. But the 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:49.080 tech is clearly there for a surveillance scenario. I mean, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:50.960 what if you commit a crime and the Ring cameras 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.279 can track you down instantly? Now this feature is they're 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.400 not doing that. They're not saying they're doing that, but 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.919 I'm just saying the technology is there clearly. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:00.080 Now. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.560 This feature is turned on by default in the Ring app. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.440 If you don't like the idea of finding other dogs 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.640 helping people find their lost pets, you can go into 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.320 the app and turn it off. So go into your 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.559 Ring app if you just want to see the option. 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.040 It's under menu, control center and search party and it 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:19.960 is enabled by default. So that's an interesting one. I mean, look, 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.120 they're wading into this with dogs. Who doesn't want to 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:22.840 find a lost dog? 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:23.440 I mean, come on. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.440 But it's the other stuff that this could potentially be 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.560 used for that is very interesting. There's also new Blink 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.120 cameras with higher resolution and a way to combine two 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.240 Blink cameras for a one hundred and eighty degree panoramic view. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.920 People love these Blink cameras because they have a super 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:39.880 long battery life. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.120 That's like what Blink invented. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.520 That's why Amazon paid so much for them. These are 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.000 good if you just want to keep an eye on 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.320 an area of your home or outside. That's just simple 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.640 and easy. You put the batteries in last for like 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.440 a year. Then we got some new Fire TVs, a 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.280 new Fire TV stick that's forty bucks. And then the 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.200 interesting thing is Echo speakers. They've got a new Dot 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.560 Max for one hundred bucks and an Echo studio that's 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.720 even bigger for two hundred and twenty dollars. So right 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.320 in on Sonos right now, they're getting in on their game. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.560 You can now connect up to five of these speakers 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.000 to a Fire TV stick for instance surround sound. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:14.000 How cool is that? 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.960 Affordable and easy instance surround sound wireless, And this is 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.160 a trend we're seeing with a lot of the streaming devices, 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.560 almost all of them at this point, whether it is Roku, Google, 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:28.360 Apple TV, and now fireTV. You can connect their speakers 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:33.400 wirelessly and have a simple wireless home theater setup. That's 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.760 pretty cool. There's also two new Echo shows these are 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.640 the echo speakers with a display on them. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.319 Now powering all. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.880 Of this is Alexa Plus, which I have been testing 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:44.560 and I think it's pretty cool. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:45.680 I think it's a big upgrade. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.280 But I have gotten some mixed responses from listeners about 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.040 all the smart home controls and what works right now 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.080 and what doesn't. Remember, this is pretty early days, so 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.560 if you have a complex smart home setup, it might 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.439 not be the best time to accept that upgrade email 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.080 when you get it from Amazon that's inviting you to 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.479 use Alexa Plus. But overall, Alexa plus is very conversational, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.240 just sounds much smarter. You can go back and forth. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.960 All of these ais are great if you're just trying 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.560 to have a conversation. They seem smart, they sound smart. 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.280 Sometimes they make mistakes, just remember that, and they're not 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.680 your friend, even though they sound like your friend. We 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.680 literally were using an AI the other day in the 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:29.559 car and it laughed. I was like, wait, what did 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.160 you just laugh at me? I had never heard an 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:36.160 AI do that. This was grock by the way, the 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:41.160 AI from x I guess. I couldn't believe it. It sounded 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.000 human like. I was like, wait, what you laughed? Is 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:48.120 it gonna cry next. Overall, I think Amazon has built 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.160 a compelling and affordable smart home ecosystem with its own 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.480 products and thousands more work with Alexa. So while I 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.720 don't think their announcements are super groundbreaking, I do think 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.000 there are some good upgrades. If you're in their ecosystem, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.640 if you want to be again, you don't need to upgrade. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.120 If your fire TV stick is working from three years ago, 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.760 stick with it, no pun intended. But the Echo speakers 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.760 to me are really interesting because I've had my ups 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.800 and downs with Sonos over the past couple of years. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.440 But I will say they finally fixed that one feature 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.199 I wanted, which is the ability to adjust all the 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:20.920 volume across all my speakers at. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.320 The same time. So I'm excited about that. All right. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.320 Coming up, we're going to talk about what Google announced 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.640 with their hardware and software this week. They're doing some 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:29.720 big changes as well. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:31.240 Eight eight to eight. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.839 Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:37.040 two four one zero one the website rich on Tech 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:37.760 dot TV. 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:38.720 Good to have you here. 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.280 We'll take some more of your calls coming up next 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:42.640 right here on rich on Tech. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.760 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.880 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.600 Oh do you recognize this song? Not yet? 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.320 Oh you will. This will be played a lot in 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.720 the next couple of months. Taylor Swift's new album dropped. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.559 Whatever you think of Taylor, you know whatever. My wife 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.439 is obsessed. She was sending me all kinds of things yesterday, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:18.520 all about Taylor's album. Yes, I listened to it twice 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.480 and uh, you know, it's good. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:22.680 Look my wife said it today. 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.360 She goes, if you don't like Taylor, you know, it's fine, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.959 you know, don't tell anyone. So anyway, I'm enjoying it, 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:34.800 and it's it's darker and deeper than her previous albums, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.080 and also not so much for kids. There's a lot 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.280 of a lot of things she says in there that 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.360 you're gonna have to explain to your kids. I'll just 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:44.000 leave it there. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:45.439 Eight to eight. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.760 Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:52.559 two four one zero one the website for the show 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:58.000 rich on Tech dot TV. I mentioned this on my 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.880 Instagram stories at rich on Tech and people were like, wait, 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:05.040 what what? So I got my nest thermostat replaced yesterday. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:07.760 The guy comes to my house to replace it. First 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.120 thing he says, like rich On Tech. I'm like, oh okay. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.400 Like every time when you're on TV when someone comes 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.000 to your home, there's always this moment of like is 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.520 this person going to recognize me or not? And I 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.480 think it's an amazing thing that people know who I am. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.760 That's great because it means I'm doing something right. But 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.760 at the same time, you know, you're welcoming someone into 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.560 your home, a stranger, and it's like, so long story short. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.240 He's like rich On Tech and then I was like 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.480 so embarrassed because he's like, how come you're not doing this? 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.480 I said, I said, look, I do a lot of 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.680 my stuff myself. I go, but when it comes to 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:38.680 something that my wife is going to be using on 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.880 a daily basis, I don't mess around. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:41.800 I do not want to. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.319 Have to say, honey, I messed up on the thermostat. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.520 I missed a wire. It's not working. And then it's 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.560 like I got to hear it. So he comes in. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.240 It took him about, you know, seven minutes to replace 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.920 this thing and so and you know, a couple hundred 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.520 bucks later, which, by the way, you know these people 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.480 ask for a picture at the end, you. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.640 Know, hey, can I a selfie? I'm like, sure, sure, sure, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:03.520 no discount. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.040 Ever, I feel like you pay more because they're like, oh, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.000 you're on TV, you could afford it. I don't think so, 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.440 not the case, just putting it out there. Uh okay, 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.679 So my story. The reason why I tell you all 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.960 of that is because I posted to my Instagram that 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.920 I replaced this, and people are like, wait, the original 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.560 Nest thermostat is like going away. 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:22.440 Yes it is. 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.120 If you've had a Nest in your house like I 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.679 have for like ten years, you need to know this 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.440 Nest Learning thermostat the first gen from twenty eleven and 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.079 the second gen from twenty twelve. Google is ending support 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.600 for them on October twenty fifth, So after that date, yes, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.000 your thermostat will still. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.200 Work manually on the wall. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.280 You can adjust the temperature up and down, but it's 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.560 not going to connect to Nest or the Google Home app. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.240 So that means no more remote control, no more status, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.800 no more notifications, no more app settings, no more home 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.000 away assists, no more third party assistants that can control it. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:14:00.000 So basically it becomes a dumb thermostat you've had ten years, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.679 and yes, I got a lot of good life out 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.640 of this thing, and the new one's very nice, so 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.439 everything on device will still work. There's not going to 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.880 be any software, no security updates. So if you have 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.319 one of these original Nests, look in your email. Google 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.600 sent you an email that said important service update for 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.600 your Nest Learning Thermostat, and they gave you a special price. 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.480 It's like one hundred and fifty bucks to upgrade to 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.320 the new one. So that's what you need to do. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.200 So October twenty fifth, that's the date. And of course, yes, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.960 I procrastinate, just like every other good American and waited 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.840 until the last minutes to do that. Daniel writes in 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.560 I use Apple Photos with iCloud and Google Photos with 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.600 backup on my iPhone fourteen pro. When I delete a 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.800 photo from Google it deletes from my Apple too. Is 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.160 there a way to stop this? If I delete the 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.200 Google Photos app, will it delete my Apple Photos? Is 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.840 it a good idea to even have both on my phone? Okay, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:59.120 so here's the thing. It's when you delete something when 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.200 you have Google Photos and you delete a photo out 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:03.920 of Google Photos, Yes, it will delete it off your iPhone. 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.800 If you delete something off the iPhone Photos app, it 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.680 will not delete off Google Photos. So think of Google 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.440 Photos as sort of a one way street. Everything goes 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.360 up into Google Photos but does not come back down. Now, 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.640 if you delete something in Google Photos, yes, it will 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.400 carry over that change to the Photos app, So just 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.200 remember that. The best way to do what you're talking about, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.360 Like if you want to clean up your Google Photos 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.760 without deleting them off your iPhone, is to go to 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.480 the Google Photos website photos dot Google dot com on 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.480 a desktop computer. Any changes you make there will not 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:40.240 be reflected on your iPhone. Now they will inside Google Photos, 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:41.840 but not in the Apple Photos app. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.560 I know this is very complicated. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.440 If I delete the Google Photos app, will it delete 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.000 my Apple Photos? No, because again you're just deleting the app, 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.920 and it's data your Google Your Apple Photos stays there. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.560 I use Google Photos for all my photo management. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:58.760 I love it. It's great. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.000 But of course you want to keep your pictures in 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.800 two places, so I think it is a good idea 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.760 to have both on your phone. And there's some things 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.800 I do inside the Photos app on iPhone, and there's 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.320 some things I do inside Google Photos. Sue writes in Hey, Rich, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.160 I was wondering if you have any suggestions for an 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.760 app on my iPhone to monitor my blood pressure. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.800 No, you can't do that. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.000 It doesn't there's no blood pressure monitoring built into the iPhone. Now, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.120 if you have a third party device, you can so 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.960 Apple Watch series nine or later can give you alerts 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.760 if you may be experiencing hypertension, but it does not 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.440 take real time blood pressure readings. They just added this feature, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.240 so yes, it will say, hey, we think you might 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.480 have hypertension, but they're not going to say here's your 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:45.480 blood pressure. So that's one thing. If you want accurate 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.840 tracking through your phone, you have to get a cuff 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.640 right now. In the future maybe not, but right now 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:55.600 you do need a cuff Withvings Witings. They really are 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.200 the leader in this area. They've got FDA cleared models 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.800 that sync with your iPhone and let you keep a 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.360 detailed history of your numbers. So that's the best way 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.800 to do that right now. If you suspect you have hypertension, Oh, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.040 we got to go eight eight eight rich one O 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.080 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.280 zero one coming up more. We'll take some of your 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.720 calls and we're going to talk about Amazon Prime Day. 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.000 Don't shop until you hear this. This is rich on Tech. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.240 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.040 out with you talking technology at triple A rich one 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.119 on one eight eight eight seven four to. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.280 Two four one zero one. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:41.639 Uh. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.400 Notes on the website if you hear something I mentioned 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.600 you need more information like that nest thermostat end of support. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.880 Everything is on the website rich on Tech dot tv. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:52.919 And while you're there, be sure to subscribe to my 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.560 free newsletter. It's got all the goodies that you need 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.160 to know about the tech world each and every week. Now, well, 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.000 Prime Day is coming up coming up this week. Yes, 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.560 it's yet another Prime Day, and there are some new 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.520 things happening this year and there are some deals you 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.439 can score right now. So let's hear from Trey Boge, 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.840 smart shopping expert at Truetrey dot com with all the 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:16.680 tips and tricks. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.920 What is Prime Day and why does Amazon continue. 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.640 To do it as a Prime Day is a member's 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.639 only sale. There are sales on millions of items, from 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:30.320 say a small countertop appliance to paper towels, and so 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.840 it's a great time for Prime members to save money. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.040 Prime Bay started about ten years ago. Amazon and other 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.040 retailers have been trying to figure out a way to 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.360 generate excitement in a slow period in July, and Amazon 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.719 figured it out with Prime Day, and so now it's 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.199 a very big shopping period. And of course now we 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.879 have the second one of the year, which is October, 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.960 and Amazon again has done it. They've created a lot 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.120 of excitement around this time, and many other retailers throw 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:58.680 their hats into the ring as well. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.800 That's a big part of it is when Amazon throws 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.480 these events, Target gets on board, Walmart gets on board. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.840 So should we look around or just stick to Amazon? 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.639 We should absolutely look around. You know, Amazon will have 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.480 millions of things on sale, and that's very exciting. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.760 But like you said, we've. 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:22.440 Got best Buy, Walmart, Cohle's so many other retailers having 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.600 big sale moments. So it is really important for cost 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.560 conscious consumers, which is you know, pretty much all of us. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.560 We should be shopping around. We should be comparing prices 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.280 because the best price may be on Amazon, or it 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:34.640 may not. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.080 Be anything new about this year's Prime Day. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:42.760 So around Prime Day, Amazon will launch special things on 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.840 and just kind of reframing certain sales as well. And 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.080 so that's what I would look for. They are always 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:53.119 really good credit card offers. There's a one medical offer 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.200 right now, There's an Amazon Unlimited music offer right now, 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.719 so look for those, and then a lot of the 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.520 deals will be held on the Today's Deals page. And 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.320 this is a page that lives on Amazon, but it 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.360 will also house Lightning deals as well, So that's kind 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.000 of a good go to if you're a consumer looking 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.639 for those best deals on Prime Day or otherwise. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:16.520 Now, I always see a lot of discounts on Amazon products. 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.040 Can you give me some of the ideas of the 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.520 Amazon brand names out there that we should look for 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:22.359 on this Prime Day for those discounts. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:23.080 Sure? 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.280 So, of course Amazon owns many many brands. They have 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.720 Amazon Basics, Amazon Essentials, and there are other brands that 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.239 they own like Ring Fire, Kindle. Those are where you're 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.280 going to be seeing the bigger, more generous discounts because 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.280 Amazon has more wiggle room with the price. So I 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.160 always say start with those brands, and then we will 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.399 see many, many other sales from brands big and small. 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.399 So be sure to look around when you're shopping on 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.520 Amazon Prime Day because the deals are going to be 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:51.760 very widespread. 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.080 That brings me to my next question, how do you 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.280 know if a deal is actually a deal. Yeah, that's 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:58.040 a great question. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:00.800 And you know this is it takes a couple of minutes, 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.640 it's totally worth it because we do see these other 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.880 retailers having sales as well. So it's good to use 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.320 a tool like Yahoo Shopping or Google Shopping. Enter the 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.320 name of the item that you're interested in, and then 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.920 you'll see where it's being sold in how much. PayPal 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:20.040 Honey has a historical pricing feature, as does a tool 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.400 called Camel Camel Camel, which is specific to Amazon, and 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:25.679 they will give you a sense of whether it's a 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:28.680 good deal right now or not. And I think it's 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.160 really good to use one or two of those tools 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.639 just to really get a sense of if this is 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.200 a great deal, it's the very best deal, and if 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:36.879 you should make. 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.760 Your move now. There's been so many Prime Days over 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.639 the years, and now twice a year, are we getting 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.760 Is there any sense of Prime Day fatigue among consumers? 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.280 So that's an interesting question. I mean, Amazon experimented in 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:52.879 July with a four day Prime Day, and from what 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.800 I could hear, people didn't need four days to shop 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.000 on Amazon. So they've pulled back and now they're at 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.879 two days. Again, I don't necessarily think there's fatigue. I 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.920 think that these Amazon Prime sales have created a shopping 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:10.160 moment one in July and one October. So I don't 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:13.880 think there's fatigue necessarily. But it's really important for Amazon 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:16.920 and these other retailers to keep things fresh and exciting, 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.760 because then, of course you do risk that fatigue if 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.280 it becomes kind of the same old, same old. 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:24.080 And what do you make about all this, anything that 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:27.040 people ask you about Prime Day or any observations on 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:30.160 this as someone who's covered shopping for a long time now, Yeah, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:30.520 I mean. 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:32.920 The main thing that question, the main question that comes 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:34.959 to me, and it's usually by DM. It's like what 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:35.680 should I buy? 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:36.600 What should I skip? 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:38.760 So I'm always trying to share that information in my 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:42.600 segments and on Instagram. I think that's a big question. 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:42.879 You know. 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:45.800 Obviously we have those brands that Amazon owns where you 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:48.280 can really find those deep discounts. But then we do 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:51.040 see discounts on things like Apple products. I mean, that's 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.400 very exciting and that doesn't happen too much. The way 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:56.520 I like to approach Amazon Prime Day is what are 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:59.320 the things that I need maybe from my home, what 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.240 are the things that I'm maybe thinking of buying for 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:04.280 holiday gifts and then kind of approach it that way, 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:06.840 and I'm looking for deals. I'm only buying things that 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.600 are on sale on Amazon Prime Day because otherwise I 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:10.240 could just get. 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.600 Them another time. All right, there you have it. 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:18.240 Trey Bodge from Truetrey dot com Amazon Prime Day. My 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:21.760 advice every year is to put the items you want 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:24.240 in your like, stop buying stuff right now in Amazon 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:26.800 and just put the stuff you want in your cart, 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:30.240 and that way you can watch for price drops over 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.320 the next couple of days, because pretty much everything goes 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:33.920 on sale. 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:36.600 Thanks for that interview. That was great. 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:41.640 Let's go to Hank in South Michigan. Hank Southeast Michigan. 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.720 You're on with Rich Southeast Michigan. I got you on 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:47.800 nine to ten am on my drive to work. This 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:49.000 is Saturday afternoon. 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:50.040 Love it Rich. 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:56.680 Rich. I just bought a brand new Gateway computer Windows 0:23:56.720 --> 0:24:01.200 eleven unit because my ten year old Ace Windows ten. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.960 Actually it was a Windows eight point one that I 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:08.160 upgraded at ten, but it's not upgradeable to eleven. So 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:12.280 I bought the eleven unit and I got it all 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:20.080 set up Microsoft of cloud one drive, transfer all my 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:24.760 settings and everything to the new computer. But I don't 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:28.200 know how to get my local files for my seed drive, 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:31.800 all my documents and photos that weren't on one drive, 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:36.879 and that to my new computer without you know. My 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:39.520 missile thought was just and I just did a USD 0:24:39.760 --> 0:24:44.280 cord and and find the seed drive and transfer that. 0:24:44.359 --> 0:24:46.240 But I don't want to clone it because I don't 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:48.040 want the operating No. 0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:50.520 So what, there's a couple. I mean there's many many 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:52.400 ways you can do this. You can use a program. 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:54.120 But how I mean? Are we talking. 0:24:58.200 --> 0:24:58.680 Without? 0:24:59.080 --> 0:24:59.320 You know? 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:01.679 My missile thought was just and I just did a 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:06.919 USD cord and and find the seed drive and transfer that. 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:08.840 But I don't want to clone it because I don't 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:10.680 want the operating No. 0:25:10.880 --> 0:25:13.120 So what, there's a couple. I mean, there's many many 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:15.040 ways you can do this. You can use a program. 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:19.080 But how I mean? Are we talking like terabytes of files? 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:21.080 Are we talking thousands of files? 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:21.239 Oh? 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:24.720 No, no, no, no. The the SSD on the new 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:29.960 computer is five to twelve okay, and the seed drive 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:33.760 on the old computer was one terabyte. But I think 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:36.560 I've only got I didn't look at it today but 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:39.159 I think there's maybe three hundred gigs total. 0:25:39.280 --> 0:25:43.120 Do you have do you have a good well okay, do. 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:44.159 You have a good Internet connection? 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:45.600 Oh? 0:25:45.720 --> 0:25:46.280 Yeah, yeah? 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:48.439 Okay, So I mean you've already got one drive. Is 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:52.160 one drive built into your old computer? Yes, okay, So 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:54.160 you can just create a folder on one drive as 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:57.119 long as you have some space there and just drag 0:25:57.200 --> 0:25:59.399 all the files into there. And it's gonna be a 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:01.760 little bit of a clim which I think is good anyway, 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:03.719 because you probably have a lot of stuff to accumulated 0:26:03.760 --> 0:26:04.600 on that old computer. 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:07.520 But just go ahead and drag all the stuff that 0:26:07.600 --> 0:26:07.960 you want. 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:09.240 And if you don't want to deal with it all, 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:10.880 as long as you have enough storage and one drive, 0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:13.679 I think they give you like five gigs. As long 0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:16.080 as you have enough in there, you can put in 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:18.320 all your files and there may you know, if you're 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.199 if you're talking a lot of videos and photos, then 0:26:21.240 --> 0:26:24.239 you may have to get a USB drive like a 0:26:24.280 --> 0:26:26.000 flash drive or a hard drive. 0:26:26.080 --> 0:26:29.119 Okay, but that was my thought too. Get a couple 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:33.959 of decent size flash drives and just move those files 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.200 out of that and then plug it into the new computer. 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.760 And well, so here's here's how I attack this, Hank. 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:42.360 It all depends on how much you have to transfer. 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:45.359 So if it's a couple of gigabytes, go with the cloud. 0:26:45.680 --> 0:26:46.320 It's easy. 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:48.840 You drop the files in on the one computer, they'll 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:51.640 show up on the other computer. If we're talking hundreds 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:53.800 of gigabytes, you may be able to get a flash drive, 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:56.760 but those get kind of expensive, you know, so and 0:26:56.960 --> 0:26:58.600 they top out. You know, you can get one for 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:00.560 like one terabyte, two terabytes, but those are going to 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:02.920 be a lot more expensive than something like one hundred 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:07.840 and twenty eight gigs. So Elf, my advice to you there, 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:11.240 to anyone listening when you're cleaning up your cloud drive, 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:14.359 slowly but surely, because I made the mistake of trying 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:17.000 to move like hundreds of gigabytes of stuff all at once. 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:20.800 It really messes up your computer. So slowly but surely 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:23.000 clean this stuff up. But Hank, I'm glad you got 0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:25.120 onto the Windows eleven I know it's a big thing 0:27:25.480 --> 0:27:29.080 with this Windows ten end of support. So glad you're 0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:32.399 on the right page there and getting those old files 0:27:32.400 --> 0:27:36.359 over again. Cloud drive, flash drive, hard drive, depending on 0:27:36.400 --> 0:27:38.840 how much you have, easiest way to do it. 0:27:38.880 --> 0:27:39.439 Thanks for the call. 0:27:39.480 --> 0:27:42.359 Today. Appreciate you listening there on nine ten am in 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:45.960 Southeast Michigan eight eight eight rich one oh one eight 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:48.560 eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:51.000 Coming up, We're going to take some more of your calls. 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:53.879 Plus I still have to promise you the the Google 0:27:53.920 --> 0:27:56.399 stuff I'm going to talk about. Google came out with 0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:59.400 the whole bunch of smart home stuff. Bobo producer Bobo's 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:03.359 talking about the rice increases from Microsoft on the game Pass. 0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:06.480 We also have some price increases from Peloton. A lot 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:08.000 going on in the tech world. We'll talk about all 0:28:08.040 --> 0:28:08.880 of it coming up right here. 0:28:08.960 --> 0:28:09.840 I'm rich on Tech. 0:28:15.920 --> 0:28:18.800 Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:22.360 out with you, talking technology at Triple A rich one 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:24.800 oh one eight eight eight seven four to two, four 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:25.520 one zero one. 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:27.760 I see we've got a caller. 0:28:27.960 --> 0:28:32.000 Carla wants to talk about the Taylor Swift film last night. 0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:34.159 I guess they they screened it in the movie theaters, 0:28:34.200 --> 0:28:36.720 like if you're a real diehard. So we'll see if 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:38.320 we can get to her in just a bit. 0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:39.200 Uh. 0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:41.840 But first Tim writes in, I've been listening to you 0:28:41.880 --> 0:28:44.000 for years. I love the weekend show on the Radio. 0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:47.760 Thank you, Tim. I usually buy otter box to protect 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:50.960 my phone, but I just purchased the new iPhone seventeen Promax. 0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:54.360 Nice going. Do you have any cases you recommend? Oh, 0:28:54.400 --> 0:28:57.120 my gosh, of course. You know how many cases I 0:28:57.160 --> 0:28:59.640 get sent when a new phone comes out. It's so 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:02.479 many that I can't even Literally, I'm sitting there just 0:29:02.520 --> 0:29:04.400 trying them all on my phone to see what which 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:06.640 one I like. I'll tell you the ones I like, 0:29:06.760 --> 0:29:08.720 over and over and over. And by the way, I 0:29:08.760 --> 0:29:13.360 did drop my iPhone seventeen Pro Max and it did 0:29:13.400 --> 0:29:16.600 suffer some damage even with a case on. And that's 0:29:16.600 --> 0:29:18.400 not a case I'm going to recommend, So that's not 0:29:18.640 --> 0:29:20.040 None of the recommendations I'm about to. 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:21.959 Give you were the one that was on when I 0:29:22.080 --> 0:29:22.600 dropped it. 0:29:23.480 --> 0:29:25.800 But if you want something, I like something that's thin 0:29:26.400 --> 0:29:29.040 and simple and usually clear to show off the color 0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:31.880 of the phone. So if you like that outer box 0:29:31.920 --> 0:29:35.720 symmetry you mentioned, outter box auto box symmetry I think 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:39.160 is great. It's simple, it's clean, it's clear. I love 0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:42.080 that and it's a great great protection for your phone. 0:29:43.080 --> 0:29:46.440 UAG if you've heard of them urban armor gear, that's 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:49.320 what it stands for. They make really rugged styles, so 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.840 some of their cases I think can are drop tested 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:54.440 up to like eighteen feet, so it all sort of depends. 0:29:54.480 --> 0:29:57.720 And they have some cool it's just cool looks. They 0:29:57.760 --> 0:29:59.360 do less of the clear stuff, but they do a 0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:02.040 lot of like looking cases. And then if you just 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:03.960 want the case that I put on every single one 0:30:03.960 --> 0:30:05.680 of my test phones as soon as I get it, 0:30:06.040 --> 0:30:09.800 except this new one, I like the Spegan Ultra Hybrid, 0:30:10.240 --> 0:30:12.640 which is just a simple clear case has got the 0:30:12.720 --> 0:30:15.880 charging ring on the back, and it's like dirt cheap. 0:30:15.920 --> 0:30:17.760 I mean, you can get those on Amazon for under 0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:21.840 twenty five bucks usually and it works. I've dropped many 0:30:21.880 --> 0:30:23.960 phones with that on there and it just works perfectly. 0:30:24.040 --> 0:30:27.200 So those are my choices. There are many many others 0:30:27.240 --> 0:30:29.840 out there, but those are the ones that I really 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:33.840 like over and over and over. Hey, this segment is 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:38.720 sponsored by Shopback. What if best Buying Amazon actually paid 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:41.960 you to shop there? Yes, you shop at a store 0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:44.400 and you get cash back. I found an app that 0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:48.400 makes buying electronics a lot smarter because this is the 0:30:48.400 --> 0:30:51.600 best part. 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So you might be hearing this terminology 0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:48.560 G two and it's written out QI so when you 0:32:48.600 --> 0:32:50.400 see it's that said CHI. 0:32:51.120 --> 0:32:52.520 So G two is the. 0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:56.600 Newest wireless charging standard. It's faster than it was before. 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:59.560 So if you're using the newest iPhone with an old charger, 0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:04.680 not getting the fastest charging speeds. So this one is 0:33:04.800 --> 0:33:08.000 twenty five watts of charging, which means zero to fifty 0:33:08.040 --> 0:33:10.920 percent around twenty five minutes on new iPhones or newer 0:33:10.920 --> 0:33:12.880 phones in general, because some of the other phones support 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:16.360 G two as well. It also has this chill boost, 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:20.959 which is this active cooling situation which speeds up your 0:33:22.120 --> 0:33:24.680 charging because it's cutting the heat. You know, these phones 0:33:24.720 --> 0:33:26.920 heat up when they charge. I do notice there's a 0:33:26.920 --> 0:33:28.680 little tiny bit of a fan sound. It took me 0:33:28.720 --> 0:33:30.280 a minute to realize that. I was like, wait, what's 0:33:30.320 --> 0:33:32.640 that sound? And so you might hear that once in 0:33:32.640 --> 0:33:34.680 a while. But the cool thing is this can charge 0:33:34.680 --> 0:33:37.640 your phone, your Apple Watch, and your AirPods all at once. 0:33:38.200 --> 0:33:42.080 And it ships with a forty five watt USBC power 0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:44.000 adapter in the box, which is nice because you don't 0:33:44.000 --> 0:33:45.920 have to go find something. So if you've got an 0:33:45.960 --> 0:33:48.600 iPhone sixteen are up, you probably want to upgrade to 0:33:48.680 --> 0:33:52.160 this and take advantage of those faster charging speeds, especially 0:33:52.200 --> 0:33:55.880 if you have the seventeen. That one really can charge fast. 0:33:56.280 --> 0:33:59.280 Price is about one hundred and thirty bucks. The other 0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:01.240 thing if you don't want to spend that much, is 0:34:01.280 --> 0:34:05.160 the U Green forty five watt USBC wall charger. And 0:34:05.480 --> 0:34:08.759 this specifically if you got an iPhone seventeen model this year, 0:34:09.239 --> 0:34:12.080 even the standard one or the Pro, it can now 0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:16.239 support two times faster wired charging, so you need to 0:34:16.360 --> 0:34:19.480 upgrade your charging plug that you plug into the wall, 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:22.560 not your cable. The USBC is still fine, but this 0:34:22.640 --> 0:34:26.400 supports up to forty five watts of USBC charging, so 0:34:26.440 --> 0:34:29.360 you're gonna get a lot faster charging. The new iPhone 0:34:29.400 --> 0:34:32.719 basically charges twice as fast, so that's only gonna cost 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:36.520 you on Amazon. I think it's about twenty five bucks. Anyway. 0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:40.040 Gear of the Week, thanks to shop Back. Let's go 0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:42.319 to Let's go to Carla. Let's hear Carla. How was 0:34:42.360 --> 0:34:44.120 the Taylor Swift film last night? 0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:45.080 Oh? 0:34:45.160 --> 0:34:47.520 Hi, Rich, thank you for talking with me today. 0:34:47.719 --> 0:34:49.359 Absolutely, how was it? 0:34:50.520 --> 0:34:54.640 Well, you know, I want to we heard you talking 0:34:54.680 --> 0:34:59.200 about Taylor Swift and your reaction. We feel it was 0:34:59.239 --> 0:35:03.040 a little muted her because your boys went a little 0:35:03.120 --> 0:35:04.680 higher when you said it was good. 0:35:05.320 --> 0:35:08.120 Okay, So I mean, look, yeah, go ahead, keep going. 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:09.759 Yeah. 0:35:09.800 --> 0:35:12.040 So, my daughter and I, you know, I'm a moderate 0:35:12.280 --> 0:35:16.239 adult swiftie and my daughter, she's thirty, and we went 0:35:16.280 --> 0:35:18.800 to you know, I bought tickets last week and we 0:35:18.840 --> 0:35:20.840 head down to Century City to watch. 0:35:20.600 --> 0:35:21.359 The film. 0:35:22.880 --> 0:35:27.320 And we had to leave because we started laughing because 0:35:27.320 --> 0:35:32.600 our expectations were completely different from what we were seeing 0:35:32.640 --> 0:35:33.240 on the screen. 0:35:33.400 --> 0:35:34.480 What was on the screen. 0:35:36.400 --> 0:35:38.880 Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how old your 0:35:39.120 --> 0:35:42.239 kids are, but I would say a seventh or eighth 0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:49.560 grader would have probably been able to produce a film 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:53.560 that was just higher quality than I would expect from 0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:54.240 this list. 0:35:54.440 --> 0:35:56.480 Oh gosh, Okay, that's not right. 0:35:57.360 --> 0:36:00.440 And I'll tell you I'm a little nervous because I 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:03.600 feel like we're not going to get honest reviews. 0:36:04.520 --> 0:36:06.120 Well, we got one from you, we got I got 0:36:06.120 --> 0:36:09.319 a run. But sounds like, look, as with anything in 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:12.080 pop culture, reviews are going to be mixed. Eight to 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:17.759 eight rich one oh one back after this. Welcome back 0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:21.719 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology at 0:36:21.800 --> 0:36:25.240 Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:28.359 four to two four one zero one. Show notes are 0:36:28.440 --> 0:36:31.480 up at the website. Just go to rich on tech 0:36:31.680 --> 0:36:34.600 dot tv. This is episode one forty Show notes are 0:36:34.680 --> 0:36:37.680 up at the website. Just go to rich on tech 0:36:37.880 --> 0:36:41.239 dot tv. This is episode one forty two. And if 0:36:41.239 --> 0:36:44.920 you missed the show live, yes, you can follow the podcast. 0:36:45.040 --> 0:36:47.760 Just search rich on Tech in your favorite audio app. 0:36:48.280 --> 0:36:50.120 And while you're at the website, by the way, don't 0:36:50.120 --> 0:36:53.840 forget to subscribe to my newsletter. Laura writes in on 0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:58.280 the email listening on KOA, Hey, Rich, I love the show. 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:01.480 My question is the al one of to switch or 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:03.640 not to switch from a Samsung S twenty two plus 0:37:03.719 --> 0:37:06.680 to an iPhone. The reason is aging mom and mother 0:37:06.719 --> 0:37:09.480 in law both live independently and have new medical issues. 0:37:10.160 --> 0:37:13.239 I want to track them FaceTime with them and their 0:37:13.320 --> 0:37:16.919 medical teams. Additional factors out of state daughter is also 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:21.360 an iPhone. Most important feature beyond beyond what I stated 0:37:21.400 --> 0:37:25.840 above is photo quality. I do consider myself tech savy 0:37:25.840 --> 0:37:31.960 thoughts suggestions, thanks Laura. Yes, well, okay, She says she 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:34.719 used a Microsoft Surface and a Samsung tablet, which is 0:37:34.800 --> 0:37:35.680 mostly used for reading. 0:37:35.880 --> 0:37:37.760 I would say switch because. 0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:39.880 You're gonna find that it's going to be easier to 0:37:40.880 --> 0:37:43.400 keep in touch with these folks because of the FaceTime situation. 0:37:43.480 --> 0:37:46.239 As much as I hate that whole FaceTime thing, like 0:37:46.280 --> 0:37:48.560 the fact that it's a you know, yes, you can 0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:51.000 FaceTime someone on Android, but it's not very easy. 0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:52.600 You gotta sent them a link and all this stuff. 0:37:52.640 --> 0:37:54.680 Like Apple, please just. 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:59.200 Come out with an app make these things independent where 0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:01.319 you can use face time on an Android. You can 0:38:01.440 --> 0:38:04.160 use I message on an Android, just please make these apps. 0:38:04.480 --> 0:38:07.480 Why are we dividing folks, Let's bring them together. So anyway, 0:38:08.000 --> 0:38:10.600 until that happens, you do have to switch. And I 0:38:10.600 --> 0:38:14.359 would say switch because the medical stuff that you're talking about, 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:16.360 a lot of those things work better with the iPhone. 0:38:17.320 --> 0:38:20.719 The tracking you can all be on find my FaceTime 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:23.719 is simple, medical teams. It's just a lot easier when 0:38:23.719 --> 0:38:25.520 you're all on the same page. So for that reason, 0:38:25.520 --> 0:38:28.400 i'd say switch. Otherwise, I typically tell people stick with 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:30.120 what you like, but I think it sounds like in 0:38:30.120 --> 0:38:33.359 this situation it might be a better fit. Now let's 0:38:33.400 --> 0:38:36.200 go to the other side of things. Debbie is wondering 0:38:36.239 --> 0:38:39.440 about Debbie and Murieta. You're worrying about Gemini. 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:39.879 What's up? 0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:43.799 Yes, Hi, Rich, thank you for your show. First of all, 0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:44.920 great information. 0:38:45.200 --> 0:38:46.400 Happy to do it. Thank you. 0:38:47.320 --> 0:38:50.800 Yes, I have a question for you about Gemini on 0:38:50.880 --> 0:38:55.160 the cell phone. And I just bought a new samsong 0:38:56.360 --> 0:39:00.440 a sixteen to five g okay, a cell phone, Okay, 0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:03.600 So I was using it. I started to use it. 0:39:03.760 --> 0:39:08.359 Everything's going fine, nobody said anything about Gemini whatever. I 0:39:08.400 --> 0:39:11.040 had it for about two days and then all of 0:39:11.080 --> 0:39:14.080 a sudden, a screen came up and a prompt and 0:39:14.120 --> 0:39:19.040 it said, would you like Gemini something like this, would 0:39:19.080 --> 0:39:23.640 you like Gemini loaded? To load Gemini on your phone 0:39:24.360 --> 0:39:27.360 for efficiency or something like that, better use see your phone. 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:31.200 I'm a senior. I'm kind of reluctant about that. I 0:39:31.239 --> 0:39:34.680 didn't want that option. So I was like, oh, no, no, no, 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:37.960 I don't want this. And before I could even do anything, 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:42.560 I swear I didn't phone. It's all there, all of 0:39:42.560 --> 0:39:44.840 a sudden, I've got Gemini, Well my phone? 0:39:45.239 --> 0:39:47.279 What what are you worried about? What don't what don't 0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:49.200 you want about? It? Is it the AI aspect? 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:53.560 Okay? Rich It's it's like I feel like it's taking 0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:57.800 over my phone. It started doing things. It changed things 0:39:57.840 --> 0:40:01.200 on my phone immediately, like it went to a dark 0:40:01.280 --> 0:40:05.520 screen for better efficiency of the battery or whatever. I 0:40:05.520 --> 0:40:07.880 don't want a dark screen. I don't want that. So 0:40:07.920 --> 0:40:10.000 it started doing that, and then the other thing, I'm 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:15.440 having trouble shutting it off, and then it constantly is 0:40:15.480 --> 0:40:20.160 giving me these prompts about AI. Do you want as. 0:40:19.719 --> 0:40:22.000 Okay, okay, I think I think I know what's happening. 0:40:22.080 --> 0:40:25.840 So I think that a simple reassignment of the power 0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:26.719 button might help. 0:40:26.800 --> 0:40:27.200 Okay. 0:40:27.640 --> 0:40:32.280 So basically, once you have AI, the side button turns 0:40:32.320 --> 0:40:33.960 into the Google Assistant. 0:40:34.000 --> 0:40:34.360 Okay. 0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:37.480 So I think if you go into your settings okay, 0:40:37.520 --> 0:40:39.239 and I think this, I think that's gonna this is 0:40:39.239 --> 0:40:40.800 gonna make you a lot happier. 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:41.480 I'm telling you. 0:40:41.600 --> 0:40:45.080 Yes, uh, you go go into your settings and you 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:49.120 go into Advanced Features and underside button and I will 0:40:49.200 --> 0:40:51.200 I will tell you how to find this in a second. 0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:53.920 But under side button right now, your long press. If 0:40:53.960 --> 0:40:55.400 you press your side button, like if you want to 0:40:55.400 --> 0:40:58.239 turn off your phone, it's bringing up Google Assistant, which 0:40:58.280 --> 0:40:59.480 is Gemini, right, and it's like. 0:40:59.440 --> 0:41:00.319 Saying all this UF. 0:41:00.880 --> 0:41:03.759 You don't want that, that's right. 0:41:03.880 --> 0:41:04.440 You want to go. 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:07.439 Back to the old school method of powering off your phone. 0:41:07.480 --> 0:41:08.560 You press the power button. 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:09.759 So all you have to do is go into that 0:41:09.960 --> 0:41:14.520 long press menu and it says Google Assistant, Bixby or 0:41:14.600 --> 0:41:18.040 power off menu. Once you select power off menu. Now 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:20.120 when you press your power button, your phone will actually 0:41:20.120 --> 0:41:24.240 turn off. Oh my gosh, there's an idea. People spend 0:41:24.280 --> 0:41:25.960 hours trying to figure out how to turn off their 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:29.160 phone because the side button's been reassigned to all those things. 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:33.320 So, yes, I talked to other people. It's a common process. 0:41:33.520 --> 0:41:36.120 It is a common problem just in the future, and 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:39.759 I'm testing this right now in the future. I'm trying 0:41:39.800 --> 0:41:41.640 to figure out how to There is a way to 0:41:41.680 --> 0:41:43.839 turn off your phone like manually. If you swipe down 0:41:43.840 --> 0:41:45.719 from the upper right hand there's a little power button. 0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:46.680 But I tried that. 0:41:46.760 --> 0:41:49.640 Okay, anyway, so here's so here's I got to find 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:51.960 out how to how to get to this advanced features. 0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:55.600 So if you go into your settings, uh, and then uh, 0:41:55.680 --> 0:42:00.600 let's see here advanced features. Okay, Okay, got that, and 0:42:00.600 --> 0:42:02.960 then we're going to go to side button to see that. 0:42:03.239 --> 0:42:05.640 Right now, you see where it says long press digital assistant. 0:42:07.560 --> 0:42:13.160 Okay, I'm just I'm taking notes on back and I'll. 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:14.200 Put these in the show notes as well. 0:42:14.200 --> 0:42:16.399 But anyway, you press as long as you tap words 0:42:16.400 --> 0:42:18.560 says long press, and you switch it from where it 0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:21.520 says digital assistant to power off menu and Debbie, I 0:42:21.520 --> 0:42:23.560 think that's going to save you a lot of headaches 0:42:23.560 --> 0:42:26.160 over the time. Now, Google Assistant, when you want to 0:42:26.160 --> 0:42:27.680 call it up, if you want to, you can always 0:42:27.719 --> 0:42:30.520 just open up the Gemini app to activate it. You 0:42:30.520 --> 0:42:32.440 could also say hey Google to your phone that may 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:35.400 activate it. But I think just having that power button 0:42:35.760 --> 0:42:38.360 reassigned to the actual power is going to make a 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:39.040 big difference. 0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:42.960 Okay, Rich, Still that's one problem with so turn up. 0:42:43.239 --> 0:42:45.600 But let me ask you this second part question. 0:42:45.840 --> 0:42:48.120 Sorry, but how do I charge for the second? 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:51.080 I want to get gem Andi like off my phone. 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:53.680 It's on my phone now, and I went into the 0:42:53.760 --> 0:42:56.479 carrier store and even they don't know how to shut 0:42:56.520 --> 0:42:56.839 it down. 0:42:56.880 --> 0:43:00.080 There you can't, you can't. I've looked into it. 0:42:59.680 --> 0:43:00.719 There really not all. 0:43:01.040 --> 0:43:02.960 There's not a way, not an easy way that I 0:43:03.000 --> 0:43:06.640 know of, to disable it. But here's the thing, Debbie, 0:43:07.400 --> 0:43:10.160 embrace it. Embrace the AI. Have some fun with it, 0:43:10.200 --> 0:43:11.480 ask it, some fun questions. 0:43:11.520 --> 0:43:11.840 Ask it. 0:43:12.080 --> 0:43:14.040 Here's what's what I think gets people when you can 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:17.759 ask it a really complex question, maybe something from your childhood, 0:43:17.760 --> 0:43:19.120 maybe a movie that you love. 0:43:19.239 --> 0:43:19.719 Like it. 0:43:20.120 --> 0:43:22.640 It's true, I've already done that. I do like it 0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:25.400 for that, but I don't want it loaded on my phone. 0:43:25.680 --> 0:43:28.160 I like when you have. 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:32.160 Old style and it says AI answer to that, yes 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:35.560 that you're right. It's great, it's great. But I so 0:43:35.640 --> 0:43:40.120 there's no way to once it's loaded, No no getting at. 0:43:40.080 --> 0:43:41.719 All there's not an easy way. I will I will 0:43:41.760 --> 0:43:43.560 look into an easier way, but there's not like a switch. 0:43:43.640 --> 0:43:45.239 Let's put it that way, because these things, you know, 0:43:45.280 --> 0:43:47.560 these companies are making. You know, this is the future 0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:50.880 of Google and and Apple, and they all want to 0:43:50.880 --> 0:43:52.840 put this stuff on us. And right now they're not 0:43:52.840 --> 0:43:55.200 giving us the off switch. But the other thing you're 0:43:55.200 --> 0:43:56.919 talking about, and thanks for the call, by the way, 0:43:57.120 --> 0:43:59.520 is the dark mode I think you were talking about. 0:44:00.200 --> 0:44:03.200 You're just dark mode went on on your screen, So 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:05.759 you can go into your display settings and turn that 0:44:05.840 --> 0:44:08.120 feature off. So if you want your phone to you know, 0:44:08.160 --> 0:44:10.200 like my phone goes into dark mode at night and 0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:12.359 then in the morning and then it comes into the 0:44:12.400 --> 0:44:15.600 standard mode throughout the day. But you can go into 0:44:15.640 --> 0:44:19.160 display and you'll see it says dark mode settings and 0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:21.239 you may have turn on as scheduled. You can just 0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:23.840 toggle that switch off and you can also see the 0:44:24.640 --> 0:44:27.400 setting to go dark or light. Thanks for the call, 0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:30.160 Debbie and Mirietta really appreciate it. I know this stuff. 0:44:30.840 --> 0:44:34.360 These companies like to change stuff, and it's kind of 0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:36.080 their way or the highway a lot of the times, 0:44:36.120 --> 0:44:38.200 and they're like, you know, we're changing this. 0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:39.440 You have to deal with it. 0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:41.920 And you know, millions of people are using these devices, 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:45.239 and so when something changes substantially, it affects a lot 0:44:45.239 --> 0:44:46.160 of people all at once. 0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:49.560 What do we have about two minutes? Two minutes? 0:44:49.560 --> 0:44:52.040 Okay, I'm gonna try to get through this this Google stuff. 0:44:52.440 --> 0:44:55.680 So Google, you know, we talked about the Gemini stuff. 0:44:55.680 --> 0:44:58.879 Google had their own hardware announcements this week. No fancy event, 0:44:58.960 --> 0:45:00.920 just pressure releases. But the the main thing to know, 0:45:01.360 --> 0:45:04.239 as we just spoke, is that Gemini is going to 0:45:04.280 --> 0:45:06.920 replace Google Assistant on your smart home speakers. 0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:08.400 That is rolling out right now. 0:45:08.840 --> 0:45:09.000 Now. 0:45:09.040 --> 0:45:11.120 I know that deb was not a fan of Gemini, 0:45:11.880 --> 0:45:13.759 you know, being forced on her phone, but I think 0:45:13.760 --> 0:45:16.759 it's actually pretty good on the speakers because it's going 0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:18.320 to be much more helpful. It's going to be a 0:45:18.360 --> 0:45:21.959 lot smarter. It can answer complex questions. You can also 0:45:22.000 --> 0:45:24.440 have natural conversations, so that means you'll be able to 0:45:24.440 --> 0:45:28.840 control your smart home more easily. The other thing, another change. 0:45:28.920 --> 0:45:31.719 The Google Home app is getting a big redesign. You 0:45:31.800 --> 0:45:34.000 might have already seen it. It just hit mine yesterday. 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:36.800 It looks a little bit different, some things are moved around, 0:45:36.880 --> 0:45:38.840 but I think I can get used to that. The 0:45:38.880 --> 0:45:41.960 big new feature is called Ask Home. This means you 0:45:42.000 --> 0:45:44.919 can use AI to ask questions about things that your 0:45:44.920 --> 0:45:47.960 camera sees. You can say, hey, find the red bicycle 0:45:48.000 --> 0:45:49.759 that went in front of my house yesterday, and it 0:45:49.800 --> 0:45:52.600 will find that footage on your camera. The other nice 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:54.560 thing is that if you're paying for Google One, So 0:45:54.600 --> 0:45:57.600 if you're paying for AI or storage through Google, you're 0:45:57.640 --> 0:46:00.359 now going to get more premium features included in your 0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:04.279 Google Home products, like your cameras and your Nest So 0:46:05.360 --> 0:46:08.399 you might have more features and included now, like more 0:46:08.440 --> 0:46:12.680 recording history. And by the way, Gemini is going to 0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:16.480 go on all Google Home devices and Nest devices shipped 0:46:16.480 --> 0:46:18.160 in the past decades, So if you have one of 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:20.799 these things in home, you're probably going to be hearing 0:46:20.840 --> 0:46:22.920 a new Gemini voice that's going to be a little perkier, 0:46:23.160 --> 0:46:25.560 a little more excited to talk to you than Google 0:46:25.600 --> 0:46:26.360 Assistant was. 0:46:26.920 --> 0:46:27.880 They also have a couple. 0:46:27.719 --> 0:46:30.960 Of new cameras and doorbells, so those are getting better, 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:34.080 and then they're going to start selling Google cameras at Walmart, 0:46:34.480 --> 0:46:37.680 So twenty three dollars for an indoor camera at Walmart 0:46:37.680 --> 0:46:40.600 for their on brand, and then fifty dollars for a 0:46:40.640 --> 0:46:44.440 wired doorbell. Of course, all through Google as well. The 0:46:44.520 --> 0:46:47.040 name of the game is AI. Again, we just talked 0:46:47.040 --> 0:46:49.680 about it. If you have Google or Amazon, everything is 0:46:49.680 --> 0:46:53.000 getting these smart upgrades. Apple, where are you? We're still 0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:55.399 waiting on your smart home strategy. What's going on there? 0:46:55.840 --> 0:46:59.319 They've been kind of a slow go. All right, good conversations, 0:46:59.360 --> 0:47:01.319 good calls. We'll take more of them after this. Eight 0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:04.000 eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:47:04.080 --> 0:47:07.040 four to two four one zero one. My name is Richdimiro, 0:47:07.239 --> 0:47:09.280 and you are doing something smart for yourself. 0:47:09.280 --> 0:47:16.960 You are listening to rich on tech. Welcome back to 0:47:17.040 --> 0:47:17.800 rich on tech. 0:47:19.600 --> 0:47:24.040 Meta is going to start using your chats with AI 0:47:24.280 --> 0:47:28.760 to personalize the ads that you see on Facebook and Instagram. 0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:33.880 Yes you heard me right, So anything you say canon 0:47:33.920 --> 0:47:35.359 will be used. 0:47:35.800 --> 0:47:39.000 To show you ads. Uh so. 0:47:39.280 --> 0:47:42.000 This is with Meta AI. So if you are chatting 0:47:42.120 --> 0:47:46.160 with Meta AI. Uh So, for example, if you ask 0:47:46.239 --> 0:47:51.440 about hiking, you're asking about trails. Whatever your vacation, you 0:47:51.480 --> 0:47:55.759 may start seeing ads for hiking trail. Uh you know, 0:47:55.920 --> 0:48:00.080 hiking boots, you may see ads for anything related to that. 0:48:00.239 --> 0:48:01.840 Or let's say you say you're going to Hawaii, you 0:48:01.920 --> 0:48:06.120 might see ads for Hawaii hotels. You're going to start 0:48:06.120 --> 0:48:11.080 getting notifications about this this week and then changes. So 0:48:11.120 --> 0:48:16.760 this will take effect on December sixteenth. So until then, 0:48:17.080 --> 0:48:20.120 anything you say will be fine, won't It won't be 0:48:20.239 --> 0:48:23.440 used for this new ad gathering, but after December sixteenth, 0:48:23.440 --> 0:48:27.520 it will be. Meta says more than a billion people 0:48:27.640 --> 0:48:31.279 use Meta ai every month, and this is everything else 0:48:31.280 --> 0:48:34.160 that you know. This goes into everything else that Meta 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:37.400 collects about you, your likes, your comments. 0:48:37.280 --> 0:48:38.080 Who you follow. 0:48:38.400 --> 0:48:41.440 That all shapes the things that you see on Instagram. 0:48:41.520 --> 0:48:44.520 People are always saying, oh, Instagram's listening, Facebook's listening to 0:48:44.560 --> 0:48:46.720 my phone. They're not listening to your phone. You're doing 0:48:46.719 --> 0:48:49.360 all these things on your phone that they are noticing. 0:48:49.760 --> 0:48:54.360 So when you like an artist because they just posted 0:48:54.400 --> 0:48:56.600 something to Instagram, they're going to show you ads for 0:48:56.640 --> 0:48:58.080 that artist concert coming up. 0:48:58.280 --> 0:48:59.240 That's how this works. 0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:05.000 This is this is very sophisticated and there's a lot 0:49:05.040 --> 0:49:07.399 of signals that go into the ads that you see, 0:49:07.400 --> 0:49:10.200 and that's why they're so good. Meta might be the 0:49:10.239 --> 0:49:13.640 best at ads because we give it the information, we 0:49:13.760 --> 0:49:16.200 feed it where we're going, what we're doing, and by 0:49:16.200 --> 0:49:18.120 the way, they have the location of our phone at 0:49:18.120 --> 0:49:21.760 all times, so when you're on vacation in another state, 0:49:21.960 --> 0:49:25.000 they can start serving you ads for that too. In 0:49:25.040 --> 0:49:27.920 addition to everything else you've looked up over the past, 0:49:27.960 --> 0:49:31.759 you know, twenty five years of using Instagram. Meta says 0:49:31.760 --> 0:49:36.080 sensitive topics like political, health, religion, all the fun stuff 0:49:36.080 --> 0:49:38.759 to talk about around the dinner table, that's all off off, 0:49:39.800 --> 0:49:44.720 off limits for AI ads. They're not going to use that, thankfully. 0:49:45.360 --> 0:49:48.080 You cannot turn off. You can't opt out of this. 0:49:48.680 --> 0:49:52.080 You can adjust what you see, but you can't entirely 0:49:52.120 --> 0:49:55.640 turn off this anyway. So just remember anything you say 0:49:55.680 --> 0:49:58.480 to AI on Meta is going to be used for 0:49:58.560 --> 0:50:05.480 ads on Facebook and Instagram or Messenger. Speaking of wild stuff, 0:50:05.760 --> 0:50:09.360 open ai released this new app called Sora, and it 0:50:09.440 --> 0:50:11.240 is basically a deep fake. 0:50:11.160 --> 0:50:12.480 Version of Instagram. 0:50:12.840 --> 0:50:14.279 And if you want to see an example, go to 0:50:14.320 --> 0:50:16.640 my Instagram average on tech I posted a video that 0:50:16.680 --> 0:50:17.759 I created of myself. 0:50:18.280 --> 0:50:20.560 It's a deep fake video. It's a fake video of me. 0:50:21.040 --> 0:50:23.960 Now they call it something nice, they call it a cameo, 0:50:24.040 --> 0:50:27.600 so it sounds nice and sweet and you know, not dangerous, 0:50:27.719 --> 0:50:30.480 but it's really a deep fake. It's a fake version 0:50:30.560 --> 0:50:34.080 of you saying something. By the way, So Sora is 0:50:34.440 --> 0:50:37.200 Sora too is open Ay's new audio and video model. 0:50:37.600 --> 0:50:41.280 It's much more realistic at making things than before videos. 0:50:41.760 --> 0:50:43.480 And then they came out with this app that uses 0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:46.240 Sora on the back end, and it's also called Sora. 0:50:46.600 --> 0:50:49.520 It's a iPhone only. It's invite only right now, so 0:50:49.520 --> 0:50:52.080 you have to know someone to get it. But basically, 0:50:52.160 --> 0:50:55.080 you take a little video of yourself in the app. 0:50:55.360 --> 0:50:58.600 It only takes about ten seconds. You record yourself, you 0:50:58.640 --> 0:51:00.600 look you left, you look left, you look right, and 0:51:00.640 --> 0:51:03.399 you say a couple numbers to the phone and then 0:51:03.440 --> 0:51:06.759 it uses that to make videos of you, and you 0:51:06.880 --> 0:51:09.360 make the videos, or your friends can also make videos 0:51:09.360 --> 0:51:10.440 of you, including you. 0:51:10.760 --> 0:51:12.040 Yeah, this is just wild. 0:51:12.080 --> 0:51:15.960 I mean it's really like, I'm actually surprised that open 0:51:16.000 --> 0:51:19.080 ay launched this so easily without a lot of uproar. 0:51:19.160 --> 0:51:20.360 Maybe there is a lot of uproar. 0:51:20.400 --> 0:51:26.120 I'm not sure, but it's pretty much they've put guardrails 0:51:26.120 --> 0:51:28.799 in place so you can't make things that are you know, 0:51:29.960 --> 0:51:32.319 political videos, this kind of stuff. You know, it's kind 0:51:32.360 --> 0:51:34.200 of fun videos like you could say, put me riding 0:51:34.200 --> 0:51:37.320 a roller coaster, a wild roller coaster through flames or 0:51:37.360 --> 0:51:38.879 whatever and they'll do that, but they won't do other 0:51:38.880 --> 0:51:43.040 stuff that might be a little bit dicey. Anyway, Sora 0:51:43.160 --> 0:51:46.640 is pretty popular already in the app store, and I 0:51:46.640 --> 0:51:48.799 don't know, I'm like blown away that this is a 0:51:48.840 --> 0:51:51.000 thing right now. It's just one of those things that 0:51:51.040 --> 0:51:53.600 you see and you're like okay now. And by the way, 0:51:53.600 --> 0:51:57.360 the Sora app itself is pretty much a version of Instagram, 0:51:57.400 --> 0:52:00.279 but filled with all these fake videos of people of 0:52:00.320 --> 0:52:03.840 your friends, so it's like interesting. Like you see your friend, 0:52:03.920 --> 0:52:06.680 like you know, as a farmer or something, you know, 0:52:06.719 --> 0:52:10.240 and they're doing something wild and you're like, Okay, that's crazy. 0:52:10.560 --> 0:52:12.719 And then you see another crazy video and another crazy video. 0:52:12.760 --> 0:52:14.319 And if you see a crazy video that you like, 0:52:14.680 --> 0:52:16.920 you can remix that with yourself in that video. 0:52:17.680 --> 0:52:20.840 It's just anyway, check it out. It's called Sora. 0:52:21.440 --> 0:52:23.359 I'm on there at rich On Tech if you want 0:52:23.360 --> 0:52:26.000 to see me, but you can also see the video 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:28.200 that I posted. You can download these videos that it 0:52:28.239 --> 0:52:30.680 generates and put them on your Instagram or other places. 0:52:31.000 --> 0:52:32.799 So I put out on my Instagram at rich On Tech. 0:52:32.840 --> 0:52:35.960 I said, does it give me the prompt of what 0:52:36.040 --> 0:52:39.080 I said to make you can basically prompt it with anything. 0:52:39.600 --> 0:52:41.480 But I said, uh, let's see. Does it give? 0:52:41.520 --> 0:52:41.600 Oh? 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:43.520 Yeah, I said, how about a video of me saying 0:52:43.520 --> 0:52:45.319 you should listen to my radio show in a cool 0:52:45.400 --> 0:52:48.120 radio studio, futuristic, high above the city scape. 0:52:48.640 --> 0:52:50.000 And that's what it came up with. So you can 0:52:50.000 --> 0:52:52.720 see what that looks like. Uh, you said, two minutes? 0:52:54.400 --> 0:52:55.600 Oh see here? 0:52:56.840 --> 0:52:58.440 Oh one? Now, oh my god. By the time I 0:52:58.440 --> 0:53:00.200 get to a call, it'll be zero. All right, I'll 0:53:00.200 --> 0:53:02.279 do an email because a little bit simpler to get 0:53:02.320 --> 0:53:06.360 to here. Sherry writes in We've had Verizon for mobile 0:53:06.400 --> 0:53:08.919 and Spectrum for internet, but Spectrum just raised our bill 0:53:08.920 --> 0:53:10.880 by twenty five dollars a month after telling us our 0:53:10.960 --> 0:53:13.520 rate was locked. When I called, the rep actually said 0:53:13.560 --> 0:53:16.360 it's a game. Wait until your bill closes, then threaten 0:53:16.440 --> 0:53:19.759 to leave. I told her it's not a game, and 0:53:19.800 --> 0:53:22.839 we're canceling. So my question is, viewer fifty five, who 0:53:22.840 --> 0:53:25.640 would you pick for home internet? Maybe bundled with mobile? 0:53:25.680 --> 0:53:28.600 I work from home sometimes, so reliability is huge. Do 0:53:28.680 --> 0:53:32.880 any providers not raise prices after the first year? The 0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:36.279 price hikes are a part of this world. Sadly they've 0:53:36.280 --> 0:53:38.600 been going on forever, And yes it is somewhat of 0:53:38.600 --> 0:53:41.359 a game. Some companies will play with you and kind 0:53:41.360 --> 0:53:43.040 of give you a better deal if you say I'm leaving. 0:53:43.120 --> 0:53:45.919 Some won't. Last time I called my company was like, Nope, 0:53:45.920 --> 0:53:46.359 we don't care. 0:53:46.480 --> 0:53:46.920 You can leave. 0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:50.640 We don't change prices. Spectrum, I think may play ball 0:53:50.680 --> 0:53:53.279 a little bit more. If you can get fiber in 0:53:53.320 --> 0:53:55.520 your area, that's always my first pick. It's the fastest 0:53:55.560 --> 0:53:58.480 and most reliable. You can also look into wireless home 0:53:58.520 --> 0:54:02.239 options from T Mobile or they have good prices right now. 0:54:02.400 --> 0:54:04.880 Just make sure you have a good signal and good speed. 0:54:05.160 --> 0:54:07.000 Do a speed test on your phone or a friend's 0:54:07.040 --> 0:54:09.279 phone before you sign up. All right, coming up, we're 0:54:09.280 --> 0:54:11.360 going to talk all things Apple and smart home and 0:54:11.400 --> 0:54:14.560 shortcuts and all things Apple coming up next right here 0:54:14.560 --> 0:54:19.919 on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:54:20.040 --> 0:54:23.440 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:54:23.480 --> 0:54:26.120 Triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight 0:54:26.239 --> 0:54:29.319 seven four to two four one zero one. Joining me 0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:33.920 now is Steven Roblez. He is a tech journalist and 0:54:34.000 --> 0:54:38.880 content creator, and he had a shortcut go viral recently 0:54:38.960 --> 0:54:43.680 that would basically help you locate your stolen iPhone. 0:54:44.080 --> 0:54:45.280 Steven, Welcome to the show. 0:54:46.320 --> 0:54:48.879 Hey, thanks so much for having me. So first off, 0:54:48.920 --> 0:54:51.440 give me the website. Where do you post all your stuff? 0:54:53.120 --> 0:54:56.440 I mean you can go to beardfm. That's my website 0:54:56.480 --> 0:54:58.319 and have links to my YouTube channel where most of 0:54:58.320 --> 0:55:00.760 my content is. And yeah, find on my up there. 0:55:00.920 --> 0:55:01.839 And beard fm. 0:55:01.920 --> 0:55:03.600 So I must have gotten The reason I got in 0:55:03.600 --> 0:55:05.080 touch with you is because I must have gotten like 0:55:05.120 --> 0:55:09.319 twenty people that sent me your real about this shortcut 0:55:09.800 --> 0:55:12.480 that you know does all these things if your iPhone 0:55:12.520 --> 0:55:15.319 gets stolen. So explain to me, first off, what do 0:55:15.360 --> 0:55:17.040 you do typically, Like what do you cover most of 0:55:17.080 --> 0:55:18.560 the time, Like, what do you focus on? 0:55:18.680 --> 0:55:21.000 And then tell me about this shortcut how it came 0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:21.239 to be. 0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:25.360 Yeah, we'll to cover a lot of iPhone tips, Apple software, 0:55:25.440 --> 0:55:27.359 I'll do hardware reviews as well, but a big part 0:55:27.360 --> 0:55:29.759 of my content is Shortcuts, which is an app that's 0:55:29.800 --> 0:55:32.719 on every iPhone, iPad and the mech And what's really 0:55:32.719 --> 0:55:35.560 powerful is you can automate a ton of stuff everything 0:55:35.640 --> 0:55:38.200 from being as simple as when my battery falls below 0:55:38.239 --> 0:55:41.680 twenty percent, turn on low power mode automatically. That's just 0:55:41.800 --> 0:55:44.400 simple one that a lot of people could probably benefit from. 0:55:44.480 --> 0:55:46.879 But you can create more complex shortcuts that are also 0:55:47.040 --> 0:55:51.960 triggered via automations. And so I actually seen someone post about, oh, 0:55:52.040 --> 0:55:54.240 here's some shortcut things you can do when someone steals 0:55:54.239 --> 0:55:56.000 your phone, and I kind of wanted to take it 0:55:56.040 --> 0:55:58.360 to the end degree. What can you do? And basically 0:55:58.400 --> 0:56:01.160 one of the triggers can be when someone texts you 0:56:01.560 --> 0:56:04.240 with a certain phrase, it can fire off a shortcut, 0:56:04.320 --> 0:56:06.040 and a shortcut can do a number of things like 0:56:06.480 --> 0:56:09.560 turn on low power mode so your battery will last longer. 0:56:09.800 --> 0:56:12.200 It can take a picture from the front facing or 0:56:12.239 --> 0:56:15.360 rear facing camera and then automatically texted back to the 0:56:15.440 --> 0:56:18.120 number that texted the phone. It can play a sound 0:56:18.280 --> 0:56:20.600 like this phone is stolen out loud of the out 0:56:20.600 --> 0:56:23.000 of the speaker, and you can even disable silent mode 0:56:23.040 --> 0:56:24.840 and turn the volume all the way up. All of 0:56:24.840 --> 0:56:27.319 those you can do inside of a shortcut action. And 0:56:27.320 --> 0:56:29.320 that's the one I created that you can download. I 0:56:29.360 --> 0:56:32.440 think it's a beard dot FM slash stolen and you 0:56:32.480 --> 0:56:34.400 can just download that shortcut and run it yourself. 0:56:34.680 --> 0:56:38.040 I can't believe that the iPhones, you can text the 0:56:38.080 --> 0:56:40.800 phone and the shortcut app is like sort of monitoring 0:56:40.880 --> 0:56:45.799 the text for that whatever you say, that keyword is well, 0:56:45.840 --> 0:56:47.000 and Shortcuts. 0:56:46.560 --> 0:56:49.719 Is built by Apple. Apple it's Apple's application, and so 0:56:49.800 --> 0:56:52.319 it is access to the phone you're you know, it 0:56:52.360 --> 0:56:54.399 can be triggered by emails that come into your phone 0:56:54.400 --> 0:56:56.760 to text messages. And I've actually had a lot of 0:56:56.800 --> 0:57:00.560 my followers and community ask for those text automated responses 0:57:00.600 --> 0:57:03.680 for people who have clients and businesses because they want 0:57:03.719 --> 0:57:05.839 to when they're on vacation to be able to auto 0:57:05.880 --> 0:57:08.360 respond to texts but not have to do it themselves. 0:57:08.640 --> 0:57:10.720 And so I have helped people create where if someone 0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:13.440 texts you that's not in your context, or if it's 0:57:13.440 --> 0:57:15.960 anyone besides these two or three people like your family, 0:57:16.360 --> 0:57:18.640 that it's going to fire off an auto response that says, hey, 0:57:18.680 --> 0:57:20.840 I'm on vacation. And so that's not something you can 0:57:20.880 --> 0:57:22.680 do in the text message by default. You can do 0:57:22.680 --> 0:57:24.840 it for your email. But a lot of contractors and 0:57:24.840 --> 0:57:27.040 people who work in like that kind of field, they 0:57:27.040 --> 0:57:29.080 get a lot of texts, and so little automations like 0:57:29.120 --> 0:57:31.840 that for texts emails they can be really useful for people. 0:57:32.320 --> 0:57:33.120 That's really interesting. 0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:35.680 Yeah, I'm sure you're aware of this app, but you know, 0:57:35.680 --> 0:57:37.480 I used to be an Android guy, like through and 0:57:37.520 --> 0:57:40.000 through and I what I liked about it is because 0:57:40.000 --> 0:57:43.120 it lets you tinker with things more than the iPhone. 0:57:43.200 --> 0:57:46.360 And they had this app called Tasker and that was 0:57:46.440 --> 0:57:49.439 like it, but it was so nerdy. I mean like 0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:51.960 like shortcuts is nerdy, but it's like you can, you know, 0:57:52.080 --> 0:57:54.200 the average person can kind of see and create a 0:57:54.240 --> 0:57:58.440 couple of simple things on their own. Tasker was like really, 0:57:58.600 --> 0:58:00.160 you know, it's like you have to really take a 0:58:00.200 --> 0:58:02.480 deep dive into like all these automation things, but you 0:58:02.480 --> 0:58:05.000 could do make your phone do whatever you want. And 0:58:05.240 --> 0:58:08.760 so I was very surprised when Apple brought shortcuts to 0:58:08.920 --> 0:58:13.280 the iPhone because it's really like it's simple but very powerful. 0:58:14.560 --> 0:58:17.840 One it's powerful because one I've I have Android phones 0:58:17.840 --> 0:58:20.960 and I use Tasker because I have tried to use it. 0:58:21.080 --> 0:58:23.120 It's actually not as powerful as shortcuts, because every one 0:58:23.160 --> 0:58:25.200 of my YouTube videos where I talk about shortcuts, someone 0:58:25.240 --> 0:58:27.680 will inadvertently comment, oh, Tasker for Android does all this. 0:58:27.920 --> 0:58:30.880 It actually does not have as many actions and capabilities 0:58:30.920 --> 0:58:34.120 as shortcuts. With shortcuts, you can use APIs from third 0:58:34.120 --> 0:58:36.960 party websites and developers. So I have a shortcut that 0:58:37.040 --> 0:58:39.760 uses the movie database API, where I can search for 0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:42.480 a movie find out where to stream it, get the 0:58:42.560 --> 0:58:44.880 link exactly to stream it, and then add that information 0:58:44.920 --> 0:58:47.040 to my Apple Notes. And that's something I can do 0:58:47.120 --> 0:58:49.160 all within shortcuts, and you can build upon that with 0:58:49.240 --> 0:58:52.520 external sources. Make dot com is another great resource that 0:58:52.560 --> 0:58:55.600 can integrate with shortcuts using some of those web hooks. 0:58:55.920 --> 0:58:58.520 But Apple Intelligence actually just came out with io was 0:58:58.520 --> 0:59:00.920 twenty six built into shortcuts, and not a lot of 0:59:00.960 --> 0:59:04.560 people know about this because shortcuts still struggling to get mainstream, 0:59:04.880 --> 0:59:07.600 but those Apple Intelligence actions are actually really powerful. And 0:59:07.640 --> 0:59:10.840 another reel that went viral was actually to save recipes 0:59:11.040 --> 0:59:14.240 that you see in incogram reels two notes, and I 0:59:14.240 --> 0:59:17.800 actually created a shortcut that uses Apple Intelligence to pull 0:59:17.840 --> 0:59:21.480 the caption. So if the creator put the ingredients and 0:59:21.520 --> 0:59:24.880 the steps in the caption, it will get the raw HTML, 0:59:25.240 --> 0:59:28.080 it will pull those ingredients out, format it nicely, format 0:59:28.080 --> 0:59:29.920 the steps, and then create an Apple note with that 0:59:29.960 --> 0:59:32.360 recipe and a link back to the reel. And that'll 0:59:32.600 --> 0:59:34.160 also one viral. You can get that one at beard 0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:36.520 dot fm slash recipe. Oh my, I mean you just 0:59:36.560 --> 0:59:38.880 sold me on that one. That's that's an incredible thing. 0:59:38.920 --> 0:59:40.560 I was just literally. 0:59:41.840 --> 0:59:46.760 Saving a recipe from Instagram yesterday and I was like 0:59:46.840 --> 0:59:49.160 copying and pasting and like all this time. I put 0:59:49.200 --> 0:59:51.760 into chat ebt to like, you know, hey, clean this up, 0:59:51.840 --> 0:59:54.240 like all this stuff, but this is great. I mean, 0:59:54.520 --> 0:59:56.400 so you've got okay, So she had the stolen one 0:59:56.440 --> 0:59:59.120 go viral, you had the the AI recipe to notes 0:59:59.160 --> 1:00:03.080 go viral. What really resonates with your followers? 1:00:04.760 --> 1:00:07.480 You know, it's all about everyone has very specific needs, 1:00:07.680 --> 1:00:10.120 and so a lot of my content is just tweaking 1:00:10.200 --> 1:00:13.560 shortcuts to be specific to certain people. And so like 1:00:13.600 --> 1:00:16.240 I've had airline pilots reach out to me and say, 1:00:16.280 --> 1:00:18.480 can you create a shortcut that when I run it, 1:00:19.120 --> 1:00:21.000 I will run it at the hotel that I arrive at. 1:00:21.040 --> 1:00:23.480 I can put my room number in and it finds 1:00:23.600 --> 1:00:26.000 restaurants near me, and then when I run it again, 1:00:26.080 --> 1:00:28.360 it'll get me walking directions back to the hotel and 1:00:28.400 --> 1:00:30.800 remind me of my room number. And so just that 1:00:30.840 --> 1:00:32.280 simple thing, which a lot of people could use it 1:00:32.320 --> 1:00:34.320 if you travel a lot to go on vacation. But 1:00:34.520 --> 1:00:37.280 when people realize that you can tailor shortcuts to really 1:00:37.320 --> 1:00:41.160 meet your specific need and ease your workflows, that's when 1:00:41.200 --> 1:00:43.840 it really starts becoming powerful and resonates with people, and 1:00:43.920 --> 1:00:45.880 I could not create the amount of content I do 1:00:45.960 --> 1:00:49.480 without shortcuts. I have shortcuts that pulls news from RSS 1:00:49.480 --> 1:00:52.960 feeds from popular websites, runs those articles through chat GPT, 1:00:53.400 --> 1:00:56.120 summarizes them and turns them into a podcast, a script 1:00:56.160 --> 1:00:58.240 for a daily news show, and I can do it 1:00:58.240 --> 1:00:59.960 all with one click and it happens in the background. 1:01:00.360 --> 1:01:02.440 And even as simple as like well, I create a 1:01:02.520 --> 1:01:04.400 daily journal and I just want to be able to 1:01:04.400 --> 1:01:07.440 create a note with today's date, a couple headings, and 1:01:07.440 --> 1:01:08.840 I don't want to have to type or copy and 1:01:08.840 --> 1:01:10.640 paste that every day. Well, a shortcut can do that. 1:01:10.680 --> 1:01:12.480 And I created a shortcut that when you tap it, 1:01:12.720 --> 1:01:15.360 it creates an Apple note, says today's date up at 1:01:15.360 --> 1:01:17.480 the top, a couple headings, and prompts some questions and 1:01:17.480 --> 1:01:19.480 then people can get off writing. And so just a 1:01:19.480 --> 1:01:22.240 little simple like that just takes one shortcut that you 1:01:22.240 --> 1:01:24.720 could use every day, and it starts you on the 1:01:24.840 --> 1:01:27.440 rabbit's trail of finding some great ones. 1:01:27.640 --> 1:01:31.880 Again, we're talking with Steven Roblez at Beard dot Fm. 1:01:31.960 --> 1:01:36.080 He does YouTube videos reels and he primarily talks about 1:01:36.120 --> 1:01:40.520 the Apple ecosystem and especially shortcuts on your phone making 1:01:40.560 --> 1:01:43.080 your phone do all these cool things. The app, if 1:01:43.080 --> 1:01:44.640 you want to find it on your phone, it's pre 1:01:44.720 --> 1:01:47.480 installed on the iPhone. It's called Shortcuts, and you can 1:01:47.520 --> 1:01:49.040 go in there and just see some of the things 1:01:49.080 --> 1:01:51.080 that you're able to do that are kind of pre loaded. 1:01:51.400 --> 1:01:53.400 But then you can also create your own or you 1:01:53.480 --> 1:01:56.360 can import these from other places. So if you go 1:01:56.440 --> 1:01:59.120 to Steven's website and you find something you like, like 1:01:59.160 --> 1:02:02.560 you just mentioned this stolen phone one the recipes shortcut, 1:02:02.560 --> 1:02:04.800 you can just bring those into your system kind of 1:02:04.840 --> 1:02:07.840 like someone else did the programming for you. So that's 1:02:07.880 --> 1:02:10.440 another fun thing about this community is that people come 1:02:10.480 --> 1:02:12.600 up with these and they share the shortcuts that work. 1:02:13.040 --> 1:02:15.800 Is there any danger in downloading a shortcut that you 1:02:15.960 --> 1:02:20.680 find online that could do something nefarious to your phone? 1:02:21.840 --> 1:02:24.840 You know, you do need to be careful. It is 1:02:24.960 --> 1:02:28.760 possible not for shortcuts to like install viruses or get 1:02:28.800 --> 1:02:31.360 your information. But you know, you can create a shortcut 1:02:31.400 --> 1:02:35.280 that automatically emails some information or like pulls your device 1:02:35.360 --> 1:02:38.080 infoe and then text to someone. But what's great is 1:02:38.120 --> 1:02:40.120 it's always going to warn you before you download the shortcut. 1:02:40.160 --> 1:02:42.120 You can always go in and see the actions and 1:02:42.160 --> 1:02:44.120 if you see one that looks too complicated, then just 1:02:44.160 --> 1:02:46.600 don't install it. You know, you don't have to put 1:02:46.600 --> 1:02:48.160 it on your phone before previewing. 1:02:48.400 --> 1:02:48.720 Just tap. 1:02:48.800 --> 1:02:50.760 When you tap a shortcut link, you just have a 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:52.480 little three dots and you can kind of see how 1:02:52.520 --> 1:02:55.200 it's built. Get them from a trusted source. Of course, 1:02:55.320 --> 1:02:59.320 there's actually an amazing Reddit community are slash shortcuts that 1:02:59.360 --> 1:03:01.760 build shortcut It's there, and that's why I also created 1:03:01.760 --> 1:03:04.360 a private community where we just talk about shortcuts. I 1:03:04.400 --> 1:03:06.360 share some that I don't put in videos, and I 1:03:06.440 --> 1:03:09.160 just put one there and I'll just I can't actually 1:03:09.200 --> 1:03:11.200 share share this one on YouTube because it's against their 1:03:11.200 --> 1:03:14.480 community guidelines, but I'll share it on your show with 1:03:14.800 --> 1:03:21.320 no guidelines. Well, the reason why video Yes, okay, yes, 1:03:21.440 --> 1:03:23.880 it's to download YouTube video, but more so to be 1:03:23.920 --> 1:03:25.600 able to do it through shortcuts in your phone. And 1:03:25.640 --> 1:03:28.200 what I've done is I created this Rube Goldberg machine 1:03:28.480 --> 1:03:31.160 where I use an app on my iPhone called Transloader. 1:03:31.520 --> 1:03:34.040 So if I'm on YouTube on my phone, I tap Transloader, 1:03:34.240 --> 1:03:36.840 it actually sends that link to a Mac at my house. 1:03:37.520 --> 1:03:41.000 That Mac can open that link in an app called downy, 1:03:41.200 --> 1:03:43.880 which can download any Internet video. Could be YouTube and Instagram, 1:03:43.960 --> 1:03:47.120 rail TikTok or video on a website. Download that video 1:03:47.640 --> 1:03:50.760 and now with mac os Tahoe, the latest software, it 1:03:50.800 --> 1:03:54.040 can actually take a video, transcribe it, summarize it with 1:03:54.080 --> 1:03:57.680 Apple Intelligence, create an Apple note with that information, and 1:03:57.720 --> 1:03:59.600 then I can move that video file to my Plex 1:03:59.680 --> 1:04:02.280 server or so in just a few seconds after I 1:04:02.320 --> 1:04:04.600 tap that button on my phone, I can watch that 1:04:04.680 --> 1:04:07.680 video from my Plex server either from my phone. My kids, 1:04:07.720 --> 1:04:09.640 you know, they can watch videos. That's how we do 1:04:09.720 --> 1:04:11.480 a lot of video stuff. They just use the Plex 1:04:11.480 --> 1:04:13.840 app on their iPads. And so that one I can't 1:04:13.840 --> 1:04:16.080 put on YouTube because you can't put how to download 1:04:16.160 --> 1:04:19.120 videos there. But you can go to create beard dot fm. 1:04:19.120 --> 1:04:22.200 That's my shortcuts community and that's actually what I shared 1:04:22.240 --> 1:04:24.760 for my paying supporters directly, and so that's you can 1:04:24.760 --> 1:04:25.400 find that there. 1:04:25.560 --> 1:04:29.240 That's wild. I love the stuff that. 1:04:29.400 --> 1:04:31.640 Now can your kids and other people in your house 1:04:31.680 --> 1:04:33.680 figure out all these automations that you do, because that's 1:04:33.680 --> 1:04:34.200 the important part. 1:04:34.240 --> 1:04:35.440 That's when you know you have a winner. 1:04:36.680 --> 1:04:39.880 They do, and we've helped them create little automations like 1:04:39.880 --> 1:04:42.080 you can have an automation that whenever you open an app, 1:04:42.440 --> 1:04:45.880 something happens. And so for my middle son who struggled 1:04:45.920 --> 1:04:47.960 to have all his tasks done, but there's apps that 1:04:48.000 --> 1:04:50.400 he always opened, whether it's a game or whatever, admit 1:04:50.480 --> 1:04:52.880 a little shortcut that says, when this app opens, pop 1:04:52.960 --> 1:04:55.640 up this pdf which is his schedule for the school day. 1:04:56.160 --> 1:04:58.640 So when every open of that app, it pops up. 1:04:58.640 --> 1:05:00.920 And so you can do things like that a simple 1:05:01.120 --> 1:05:03.520 Another simple one is you could set up yourself if 1:05:03.520 --> 1:05:06.200 you ever lock the orientation on your iPhone, you know 1:05:06.200 --> 1:05:08.080 how to make sure so it stops rotating when you 1:05:08.080 --> 1:05:10.200 turn it, which is great unless you want to look 1:05:10.200 --> 1:05:11.880 at the photos and the photos app and then that 1:05:12.000 --> 1:05:14.400 rotation is locked. Well, with shortcuts, you can go to 1:05:14.440 --> 1:05:18.040 the automations tab, tap new automation and when an app 1:05:18.120 --> 1:05:20.680 is opened, and you can choose photos and say, when 1:05:20.720 --> 1:05:24.160 photos is opened, unlock my orientation. So when you open 1:05:24.160 --> 1:05:26.960 the photos app, now you can rotate it the photo rotates, 1:05:27.080 --> 1:05:28.720 and then you can create another automation that says when 1:05:28.760 --> 1:05:30.640 I close the photos app, meaning when you swipe to 1:05:30.680 --> 1:05:33.360 go home, it locks the orientation back up. Now. I 1:05:33.480 --> 1:05:35.440 just share that on my Instagram reels and just a 1:05:35.440 --> 1:05:37.840 simple little orientation like that is a little quality of 1:05:37.840 --> 1:05:40.760 life improvement every day. You multiply that by creating dozens 1:05:40.800 --> 1:05:43.040 of shortcusts for yourself. They're really powerful. 1:05:43.200 --> 1:05:47.120 All right, this is fun Beard dot FM, Steven Roblez, 1:05:47.880 --> 1:05:50.200 thanks so much for joining me. I have realized from 1:05:50.200 --> 1:05:53.120 this conversation that most of us are using about one 1:05:53.160 --> 1:05:55.440 percent of the capacity of our iPhones. 1:05:56.080 --> 1:05:57.400 Thanks so much for joining me today. 1:05:57.440 --> 1:05:59.720 Eight eight eight rich one on one eighty eight seven 1:05:59.760 --> 1:06:03.439 four two four one zero one. Rich on tech dot TV. 1:06:03.480 --> 1:06:06.120 I'll put a link to Steven's website back after this. 1:06:10.200 --> 1:06:13.720 Welcome back to Rich on tech Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:06:13.720 --> 1:06:17.680 out with you, talking technology. Eighty eight rich one O 1:06:17.800 --> 1:06:21.040 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:06:21.120 --> 1:06:25.360 Let's go to Cheryl in Phoenix, Arizona. Cheryl, you're on 1:06:25.400 --> 1:06:28.840 with Rich. Welcome to the show. Hi Rich, thanks for 1:06:28.920 --> 1:06:30.720 taking my call absolutely. 1:06:30.920 --> 1:06:31.400 What's up? 1:06:32.480 --> 1:06:36.760 I have a question about the subscription service delete me 1:06:36.880 --> 1:06:40.080 dot com. Okay, I've been told that if they search 1:06:40.640 --> 1:06:42.920 the web, the Dark Web, the Purple Web, the white 1:06:42.920 --> 1:06:46.680 webs and find your information on data brokers and they 1:06:46.720 --> 1:06:49.360 remove that and you get a month they report it's 1:06:49.480 --> 1:06:53.520 especially nine dollars a month. Do you have any insight 1:06:53.600 --> 1:06:54.720 on this, So. 1:06:54.800 --> 1:06:58.200 You're okay, well, number one, I mean the dark web. 1:06:58.440 --> 1:07:00.760 No one can remove stuff from the dark Web. So 1:07:01.280 --> 1:07:05.280 if you're looking for that, that's not worth it. Now 1:07:05.760 --> 1:07:09.960 what these what these data of removal services typically do 1:07:10.760 --> 1:07:14.480 is they remove your personal data from websites that display 1:07:14.520 --> 1:07:18.520 it and also data brokers that sell it. So if 1:07:18.520 --> 1:07:21.360 you're looking to do that, these can do a lot 1:07:21.400 --> 1:07:23.120 of that stuff. And there's there's you know, there's a 1:07:23.120 --> 1:07:24.880 lot of them out there. Not just delete me. There's 1:07:24.880 --> 1:07:28.920 a bunch of there's a bunch of others. I've other 1:07:29.960 --> 1:07:33.680 Well okay, well, let me give you a a great 1:07:33.720 --> 1:07:36.160 tip that this will work for pretty much anything that 1:07:36.200 --> 1:07:38.920 you're you're looking for in the future. So if you 1:07:38.920 --> 1:07:41.800 go to Google, do you use Google or use something else. 1:07:43.240 --> 1:07:45.600 I use Safari on the phone, but I can sign 1:07:45.680 --> 1:07:46.160 on to Google. 1:07:47.120 --> 1:07:49.439 So if you just type in something and you say 1:07:49.560 --> 1:07:53.880 delete me versus, okay, this is I love. This is 1:07:53.920 --> 1:07:57.520 one of my favorite searches in the world. You type 1:07:57.520 --> 1:08:02.000 in delete me versus and you will see Google automatically 1:08:02.440 --> 1:08:06.880 gives you every single competitor to that company. So you've 1:08:06.920 --> 1:08:12.720 got Incogniti, one rep or a optery privacy, be cloaked, LifeLock, 1:08:13.400 --> 1:08:17.919 and you now have a lot of options to choose from. 1:08:18.400 --> 1:08:21.479 So where do you go? So Consumer Reports did a study. 1:08:21.920 --> 1:08:24.240 They found that some of these are worth it, some 1:08:24.280 --> 1:08:27.800 of them are not. And the two that they liked 1:08:27.840 --> 1:08:31.080 the best is called easy opt Outs and optery. Now 1:08:31.120 --> 1:08:33.639 that was a year ago, but you know, I'll put 1:08:33.680 --> 1:08:35.519 this in the show notes as well. There is a 1:08:35.520 --> 1:08:38.800 place that you can start for free, and it's called 1:08:38.840 --> 1:08:42.840 Google Results About You. So you can go there and 1:08:42.960 --> 1:08:46.000 Google will actually find a lot of the personal information 1:08:46.040 --> 1:08:49.160 that's in the search results. So if you search your name, 1:08:49.880 --> 1:08:52.040 you know, Ryl and Phoenix and it comes up with 1:08:52.080 --> 1:08:54.840 your home address, you can actually remove some of those 1:08:54.920 --> 1:08:57.720 results from Google. It doesn't remove the website, it just 1:08:57.800 --> 1:09:02.640 removes the Google results. So you know, okay, it's gonna be. 1:09:02.960 --> 1:09:05.400 So it's there's a there's a varied prong approach. Now 1:09:05.920 --> 1:09:07.679 there's a couple of things that I've done in the past. 1:09:08.280 --> 1:09:12.240 I have done this manually. So there's a website called 1:09:12.680 --> 1:09:15.439 joindelete me dot com and they have a bunch of 1:09:15.560 --> 1:09:18.479 opt out guides that are DIY. So you can go 1:09:18.520 --> 1:09:20.679 to all these websites and you can find the little 1:09:20.680 --> 1:09:23.479 tiny thing at the bottom of the website and say, 1:09:23.600 --> 1:09:26.280 you know, hey, you know, can you take me off 1:09:26.320 --> 1:09:28.840 your page? I don't want my information there, And so 1:09:29.439 --> 1:09:32.040 you can do that manually. It just takes a lot longer. 1:09:32.960 --> 1:09:36.880 And my experience with these data brokers personally, I use Incognate. 1:09:36.960 --> 1:09:39.840 It's a sponsor of my newsletter, and I I have 1:09:39.960 --> 1:09:44.080 found great a great response with that, Like it works 1:09:44.120 --> 1:09:47.280 really well, and so it's not going to get rid 1:09:47.320 --> 1:09:49.679 of everything, and I think you have to be realistic 1:09:49.720 --> 1:09:53.160 about what it can remove. But they do go through 1:09:53.360 --> 1:09:55.679 and on their own, they'll just remove hundreds of sites 1:09:55.720 --> 1:09:57.360 that they know. They can just go and send an 1:09:57.360 --> 1:10:00.200 email on your behalf and they've remove it. Some you 1:10:00.200 --> 1:10:03.200 are a lot tougher to remove. But this is you know, 1:10:03.240 --> 1:10:05.400 this is a very popular thing on the Internet because 1:10:05.400 --> 1:10:08.200 there's so many companies at this point that are trying 1:10:08.240 --> 1:10:11.000 to profit off of our personal information. 1:10:11.080 --> 1:10:12.160 And it's kind of scary too. 1:10:12.439 --> 1:10:15.120 Like the other day, a website popped up on my 1:10:15.560 --> 1:10:18.679 dashboard and had all of my information about my house 1:10:18.760 --> 1:10:22.040 and pictures and all this stuff, and you know, I 1:10:22.120 --> 1:10:25.400 didn't want that there, and so I submitted the link 1:10:25.640 --> 1:10:29.080 and got it removed, and so it can be done. 1:10:29.560 --> 1:10:31.240 It's just not and it's not gonna be overnight. By 1:10:31.240 --> 1:10:32.760 the way, it's a game. I always say this, it's 1:10:32.760 --> 1:10:35.479 a game of whack a mole. So one, you know, 1:10:35.520 --> 1:10:37.439 you may get rid of one of these websites. Two 1:10:37.439 --> 1:10:38.160 more pop up. 1:10:39.080 --> 1:10:43.640 Okay, well it sounds like it as the thing to 1:10:43.720 --> 1:10:45.080 start working on, thank you. 1:10:45.320 --> 1:10:46.519 Yeah, I would check it out. 1:10:46.760 --> 1:10:49.000 Do your research, see which see which one of these 1:10:49.040 --> 1:10:51.320 services appeals to you the most, which one has the 1:10:51.360 --> 1:10:54.679 best deal for you, which one seems to do the. 1:10:54.560 --> 1:10:55.639 Most for what you want. 1:10:55.800 --> 1:10:58.400 So they all kind of approach it a little bit differently, 1:10:59.439 --> 1:11:01.519 but you know, they all at the end of the day, 1:11:01.880 --> 1:11:04.000 they try to do the same thing, which is really 1:11:04.040 --> 1:11:06.360 just remove as much as your information from the Internet 1:11:06.400 --> 1:11:09.120 as possible. Just keep in mind none of them can 1:11:09.160 --> 1:11:11.599 remove information from the dark web. The dark web is 1:11:11.640 --> 1:11:15.360 not a business. It is not professional. It is people 1:11:15.439 --> 1:11:20.599 moving large amounts of your information amongst each other and 1:11:20.680 --> 1:11:23.320 selling that information in a way that is not regulated 1:11:23.520 --> 1:11:27.840 or you know, it's not official. And so those websites, 1:11:28.080 --> 1:11:30.800 they're not posted anywhere. You can't visit a dark web 1:11:30.840 --> 1:11:33.439 website on your own and just say hey, can you 1:11:33.560 --> 1:11:35.960 get rid of my information? So when we have these 1:11:36.040 --> 1:11:39.240 data breaches, these AT and T data breaches, these big 1:11:39.320 --> 1:11:42.080 data breaches that have your social and your passwords and 1:11:42.120 --> 1:11:45.599 your user names, that's the stuff that really, once it's 1:11:45.640 --> 1:11:48.200 out there, can never come back down. And so that's 1:11:48.200 --> 1:11:52.080 why I always recommend you have to use a unique password, 1:11:52.120 --> 1:11:56.720 you have to use a two factor authentication because you know, 1:11:57.240 --> 1:12:00.360 let's just say you're secure on your end, but AT 1:12:00.439 --> 1:12:03.719 and T gets breached and you know they have your social, 1:12:03.840 --> 1:12:06.000 they've got your data birth, they've got your password. 1:12:06.040 --> 1:12:07.599 All that stuff is going to go out in the web. 1:12:07.960 --> 1:12:10.000 And now that they've got that password, let's say you're 1:12:10.080 --> 1:12:11.600 using it at five different websites. 1:12:12.040 --> 1:12:13.599 The hackers know that, and they're. 1:12:13.439 --> 1:12:16.320 Going to these other websites trying that same exact username 1:12:16.360 --> 1:12:18.519 and password. And now, by the way, they've got your 1:12:18.560 --> 1:12:20.680 data birth and your social. So you have to be 1:12:20.760 --> 1:12:22.560 very careful. There's only so much you can do to 1:12:22.600 --> 1:12:25.760 protect your information. And when it comes to your social specifically, 1:12:25.880 --> 1:12:28.559 do not give it out unless you absolutely must. 1:12:29.240 --> 1:12:31.320 Every time someone asks you for that, just say do 1:12:31.360 --> 1:12:33.160 you need this? Do you do? I have to give that. 1:12:33.920 --> 1:12:35.960 Most of the time you do not unless it's something 1:12:36.000 --> 1:12:38.519 like a mortgage or something. Eighty to eight Rich one 1:12:38.560 --> 1:12:44.599 on one back after this, Welcome back to rich on tech. 1:12:44.720 --> 1:12:47.840 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Eighty 1:12:47.840 --> 1:12:51.880 to eight Rich one oh one. Two quick price hikes 1:12:51.920 --> 1:12:54.280 to tell you about before we get back to the calls. Uh, 1:12:54.760 --> 1:12:57.080 let's start with Microsoft. I know Bobo was interested in 1:12:57.080 --> 1:13:01.240 this one. Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate going up to 1:13:01.400 --> 1:13:06.760 thirty dollars a month. Okay, he's getting his mic ready, 1:13:06.800 --> 1:13:09.160 he's ready, he's like ready to pounce. What do you 1:13:09.200 --> 1:13:11.160 want to say about this? Are you excited to pay 1:13:11.200 --> 1:13:12.120 fifty percent more? 1:13:12.360 --> 1:13:12.559 No? 1:13:14.479 --> 1:13:18.000 Going up from twenty dollars a month to thirty a month. Now, 1:13:18.200 --> 1:13:22.040 what they're saying is that you're getting more value. Four 1:13:22.120 --> 1:13:28.240 hundred titles available, seventy five day one releases up fifty percent. 1:13:28.400 --> 1:13:31.679 She'll get more games you'd be soft plus classics included. 1:13:31.680 --> 1:13:37.439 You're gonna play those, maybe Fortnite crew Membership. That's where 1:13:37.439 --> 1:13:37.880 they get you. 1:13:38.040 --> 1:13:41.000 Battle bucks battle Pass one thousand V bucks monthly. 1:13:41.000 --> 1:13:42.200 How much is a thousand V bucks? 1:13:42.360 --> 1:13:45.760 So when you look at it like that, So right now, 1:13:45.840 --> 1:13:48.720 if you're playing Xbox Ultimate, I pay nineteen ninety nine 1:13:48.760 --> 1:13:49.080 a month. 1:13:49.320 --> 1:13:51.000 Yeah, so if you add. 1:13:50.760 --> 1:13:54.080 In Fortnite Crue, you're paying eleven ninety nine. 1:13:53.960 --> 1:13:54.559 A month for that. 1:13:54.760 --> 1:13:57.320 Okay, so if you add them together, you're paying about 1:13:57.320 --> 1:13:59.320 thirty one to thirty two bucks a month. 1:14:00.040 --> 1:14:01.240 Actually drops it two. 1:14:01.040 --> 1:14:03.200 Bucks only if you're playing that game. Only if you're 1:14:03.200 --> 1:14:06.080 playing four and you have both subscriptions. Yeah, not everyone's 1:14:06.080 --> 1:14:08.640 gonna have both exactly, So but if you do, I mean, 1:14:08.640 --> 1:14:11.400 it's it's like, okay, fine, I just I'm almost saving 1:14:11.400 --> 1:14:13.600 a dollar a month or two almost, But you know, 1:14:13.920 --> 1:14:16.280 you're still now you're locked into paying this every month 1:14:16.280 --> 1:14:17.559 for yeah, you know, and. 1:14:17.680 --> 1:14:19.600 Before you used to be able to go to a 1:14:19.640 --> 1:14:22.160 game stop or a Target or a Best Buy and 1:14:22.280 --> 1:14:24.240 buy an Xbox Live subscription card. 1:14:24.360 --> 1:14:25.280 You can't do it, dude. 1:14:25.400 --> 1:14:28.559 No, they're all getting rid of those because they're thirty 1:14:28.600 --> 1:14:29.280 bucks a month. 1:14:29.360 --> 1:14:32.080 It's a pretty penny just to play video. 1:14:31.840 --> 1:14:35.000 Games, not including you buying games, right and all the 1:14:35.000 --> 1:14:36.160 stuff you buy in the games. 1:14:36.240 --> 1:14:38.040 But you know, here's the deal. All these prices are 1:14:38.080 --> 1:14:39.800 going up. Everything just keeps going up. People are just 1:14:39.800 --> 1:14:41.760 gonna have to choose, like do I want this to 1:14:41.880 --> 1:14:45.080 want to keep it? Let's see what else PC game Pass, 1:14:45.120 --> 1:14:47.479 if you're on that, that's twelve bucks to seven almost 1:14:47.520 --> 1:14:51.519 seventeen dollars a month. So and apparently I guess is 1:14:51.680 --> 1:14:54.439 Xbox Series X console prices raising this week too. 1:14:54.520 --> 1:14:56.880 They raised fifty bucks, just like PlayStation did. 1:14:57.080 --> 1:15:03.840 Gosh, all right, yeah, Peloton also raising prices. I got 1:15:03.840 --> 1:15:05.960 this email, so you're all access. So if you have 1:15:06.000 --> 1:15:08.240 a Peloton machine, you were paying forty four dollars a 1:15:08.280 --> 1:15:11.040 month for your monthly, that's going up to fifty a month. 1:15:11.439 --> 1:15:13.680 If you're using just the app like I was or 1:15:13.680 --> 1:15:16.639 I am, that's going up from twenty four to twenty nine. 1:15:17.439 --> 1:15:19.560 And if you're on the cheapest app plan, which was 1:15:19.600 --> 1:15:22.400 thirteen dollars, didn't give you access to everything, that's going 1:15:22.479 --> 1:15:25.240 up to sixteen. All the bike prices are going up, 1:15:25.760 --> 1:15:28.320 but they're adding AI to this stuff, and you know, look, 1:15:29.320 --> 1:15:34.320 it's just these streaming services. I say, the free ride 1:15:34.439 --> 1:15:34.760 is over. 1:15:35.000 --> 1:15:36.160 It's just it's. 1:15:36.080 --> 1:15:38.800 They're no longer doing this for their you know, for 1:15:38.880 --> 1:15:41.799 your benefit. It is now for their benefit. They started 1:15:41.840 --> 1:15:44.320 all these during the pandemic. They needed to build as 1:15:44.400 --> 1:15:47.519 many subscribers as possible, and now it is like nope, 1:15:47.600 --> 1:15:49.840 we've got to have a business here. People are you know, 1:15:50.479 --> 1:15:52.760 people are buying less physical games, so what do you 1:15:52.760 --> 1:15:54.320 have to do? They're they're renting them now, so you 1:15:54.320 --> 1:15:57.360 got to make the rental price higher. It's just that's 1:15:57.439 --> 1:15:59.840 what's happening. And I've just continued to report on all 1:15:59.840 --> 1:16:02.599 of these price hikes. It's getting wild. I mean when 1:16:02.640 --> 1:16:04.400 you compare it to what we used to pay, like 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:07.040 one movie ticket used to be, you know, it's probably 1:16:07.080 --> 1:16:09.519 still is thirty bucks twenty five dollars depending on where 1:16:09.520 --> 1:16:11.479 you live. So it's like, okay, well I get all 1:16:11.520 --> 1:16:13.439 the gaming I want for thirty dollars a month, or 1:16:13.720 --> 1:16:16.200 Peloton you know, you can't get a gym membership for 1:16:16.400 --> 1:16:18.120 I guess you can for fifty dollars a month. I 1:16:18.160 --> 1:16:20.559 mean it's just look, if you got these things, you're 1:16:20.560 --> 1:16:24.759 paying more. Let's see, let's go too. Oh my gosh, 1:16:24.760 --> 1:16:28.840 the phone lines are Let's go to Bob and Denver. 1:16:29.840 --> 1:16:32.760 Are we on more stations? Like every calls from a 1:16:32.800 --> 1:16:35.880 different state right now? Bob, you're on with Rich. 1:16:37.200 --> 1:16:39.000 Hey Rich, it's good to talk to you. 1:16:39.400 --> 1:16:40.639 Yeah, welcome to the show. 1:16:42.000 --> 1:16:49.240 I have a Mac computer and an iPhone and both 1:16:49.360 --> 1:16:55.040 have music on them. There's at one time there was 1:16:55.160 --> 1:16:59.599 the same things on both the computer and the phone, 1:16:59.720 --> 1:17:05.960 and over time and software updates and stuff, I've lost 1:17:06.120 --> 1:17:12.240 a lot of the music songs from the computer. And 1:17:12.280 --> 1:17:17.840 in talking to Apple Tech, they say you can transfer 1:17:18.479 --> 1:17:23.800 from the Apple to the Mac, I mean to the iPhone, 1:17:24.040 --> 1:17:28.479 but iPhone's the one that's complete. Yeah, So if I 1:17:28.600 --> 1:17:31.200 did that, I'd lose stuff there. 1:17:31.640 --> 1:17:32.959 I know, Oh, I need. 1:17:32.720 --> 1:17:38.120 To transfer from the iPhone back to the Mac or something. 1:17:38.400 --> 1:17:40.800 Yeah, And Apple does not give you a way to 1:17:40.840 --> 1:17:43.360 do that. There's there's always been a one way transfer. 1:17:43.520 --> 1:17:46.240 So when they say sync, it's always been we want 1:17:46.240 --> 1:17:49.080 to go from your computer to your phone. And these 1:17:49.120 --> 1:17:51.559 people have figured out with their iPod they've got all 1:17:51.600 --> 1:17:54.120 this music on there from forever and they go, oh, 1:17:54.160 --> 1:17:55.639 let me just transfer it back to my computer. 1:17:55.840 --> 1:17:56.360 You can't. 1:17:56.439 --> 1:17:59.360 There's no way that Apple gives you officially to do this, 1:17:59.560 --> 1:18:03.120 no easy way. The good news is, Bob, there are 1:18:03.200 --> 1:18:05.599 third party programs. The bad news is you're probably gonna 1:18:05.600 --> 1:18:07.519 have to spend a little bit to buy them. So 1:18:07.640 --> 1:18:09.680 a couple programs I'll give you the names that I know. 1:18:09.920 --> 1:18:13.640 Work number one I Amazing. They make a program that 1:18:14.160 --> 1:18:17.479 basically is kind of like the Swiss army knife that 1:18:17.479 --> 1:18:18.680 Apple does not give you. 1:18:19.120 --> 1:18:20.839 So it allows you to do all these. 1:18:20.680 --> 1:18:23.040 Things on your phone, back up your text messages, print 1:18:23.040 --> 1:18:25.519 them out, back up. I mean basically anything that you've 1:18:25.520 --> 1:18:27.040 wanted to do on your phone where you're like, oh, 1:18:27.040 --> 1:18:29.800 I should be able to do that, and Apple's just like, Nope, 1:18:29.800 --> 1:18:31.920 you can't do that. This lets you do it, so 1:18:32.920 --> 1:18:36.840 you know, again, download your I messages, transfer photos and 1:18:36.960 --> 1:18:41.000 videos between Mac and PC, transfer your music back and 1:18:41.040 --> 1:18:45.080 forth between those things, local backups, anything you want to do. 1:18:45.200 --> 1:18:48.000 I Amazing will do it. Let's say I'm trying to 1:18:48.000 --> 1:18:48.719 find a price. 1:18:49.200 --> 1:18:50.760 They don't. Let's see do they put the. 1:18:50.720 --> 1:18:56.360 Price subscription five devices for one year's fifty bucks, So 1:18:56.400 --> 1:19:00.280 it looks like they're doing the whole subscription thing there. Okay, 1:19:00.280 --> 1:19:02.640 so that's number one. Then you've got one. I've not 1:19:02.720 --> 1:19:05.760 tested this one. I've tested the I Amazing. I've not 1:19:05.840 --> 1:19:07.760 tested this one, but it's recommended. It is called touch 1:19:07.840 --> 1:19:12.960 copy and this is similar. But I have not tested 1:19:13.000 --> 1:19:14.679 this one, but it says it does the same thing. 1:19:14.800 --> 1:19:17.160 So that's another one that is. Let's see how much 1:19:17.160 --> 1:19:20.880 this one is. Lifetime license seventy bucks six months thirty 1:19:20.920 --> 1:19:24.840 dollars twelve months forty dollars, So you can get that one. 1:19:25.000 --> 1:19:28.080 And then the other one, which I have tested, is 1:19:28.120 --> 1:19:32.400 called alt tunes. This is for Windows, all right. Do 1:19:32.400 --> 1:19:33.800 they have it for Mac too? Oh, they do have 1:19:33.880 --> 1:19:35.880 it for Mac. Okay, it started on Windows. I guess 1:19:35.920 --> 1:19:39.040 it came to Mac. But alt tunes lets you back 1:19:39.120 --> 1:19:41.680 up your iPhone transfer any file from your iPhone to 1:19:41.760 --> 1:19:45.479 a Windows PC. Oh it is Windows. Okay, I'm very 1:19:45.479 --> 1:19:48.599 confused here. I thought this was Windows. But anyway, so 1:19:48.600 --> 1:19:50.240 that's another one you can do as well. So you 1:19:50.320 --> 1:19:53.360 mentioned you have a Mac, so I'd probably recommend the 1:19:53.400 --> 1:19:55.919 ie amazing. But if you're listening and you have Windows 1:19:55.920 --> 1:19:58.160 and you've been trying to, you know, pull your hair 1:19:58.200 --> 1:19:59.479 out of your head, trying to figure out how to 1:19:59.520 --> 1:20:03.200 get files from your phone to your computer, all tunes 1:20:03.200 --> 1:20:04.680 can help you do that. And it can help you 1:20:04.720 --> 1:20:07.120 do the other stuff too. You can get your messages, 1:20:07.240 --> 1:20:10.280 your call history, your photos, your music backups, all that 1:20:10.320 --> 1:20:13.519 good stuff. And it comes from a company called soft Areno, 1:20:13.640 --> 1:20:15.799 which they just make great apps. 1:20:15.880 --> 1:20:16.479 In general. 1:20:16.640 --> 1:20:18.799 I rely on a lot of them on a daily basis, 1:20:19.160 --> 1:20:22.439 so check them out. Company out of Ukraine actually so 1:20:23.439 --> 1:20:25.479 we've talked to them about what's going on over there 1:20:25.520 --> 1:20:29.040 in the past, and we're thinking of them as well. Anyway, Bob, 1:20:29.080 --> 1:20:30.360 that's the way to do it. You got to get 1:20:30.400 --> 1:20:34.080 that third party software. Unfortunately, that's really the best way 1:20:34.080 --> 1:20:39.760 to handle that task. Let's go to Mark in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Mark, 1:20:39.800 --> 1:20:40.439 you're on with Rich. 1:20:41.760 --> 1:20:43.320 Yeah, Hi, Rich, Thank you for taking my call. 1:20:43.560 --> 1:20:44.280 Absolutely. 1:20:44.800 --> 1:20:50.559 I just recently retired and I was looking to get 1:20:50.600 --> 1:20:54.160 a new laptop of some sort to Windows eleven, and 1:20:54.240 --> 1:20:59.160 I didn't know whether or not I needed like Microsoft 1:20:59.200 --> 1:21:02.479 Office all those kind of add ons, or go with 1:21:02.520 --> 1:21:03.479 something like a Chromebook. 1:21:04.640 --> 1:21:06.000 What are you going to be doing on the computer? 1:21:07.840 --> 1:21:12.320 Just basic every day surfing, you know, taking care of bills, 1:21:12.880 --> 1:21:14.639 those type of things. I'm not going to be doing 1:21:14.640 --> 1:21:18.920 anything in spreadsheets or word documents or anything. I know, 1:21:19.040 --> 1:21:21.120 I can do that through Chrome, you know, I can 1:21:21.200 --> 1:21:24.680 use their little suite they have. But I just just 1:21:24.680 --> 1:21:26.559 trying to figure out which would be the better way 1:21:26.600 --> 1:21:30.439 to go as far as is it necessary to to 1:21:30.479 --> 1:21:34.320 buy something with a licensed product suite like Office, and I. 1:21:34.320 --> 1:21:34.840 Don't think so. 1:21:35.160 --> 1:21:38.759 I've I've worked for twenty five years now without paying 1:21:38.800 --> 1:21:41.360 for Office because I just don't need it, and I, 1:21:41.400 --> 1:21:44.599 you know, I actually think Google Docs is a superior product. 1:21:45.080 --> 1:21:47.120 Oh my gosh, those are some fighting words right there. 1:21:47.880 --> 1:21:50.599 But it's just it's more flexible, it's easy, it's always 1:21:50.680 --> 1:21:52.800 up to date. It has never failed me, and I've 1:21:52.840 --> 1:21:55.200 been like I said, I've been using it since day one. 1:21:56.200 --> 1:21:58.920 There is a version of Office on the web. They 1:21:58.920 --> 1:22:03.800 have their their answer to Google Docs, and if you 1:22:03.920 --> 1:22:06.760 go on, let's see, I got it. They hide the 1:22:06.800 --> 1:22:10.320 link because they don't want people to know about this. 1:22:10.479 --> 1:22:13.880 But yes, you can access a free version of word 1:22:14.080 --> 1:22:18.320 Excel and power Point on the web for free. You 1:22:18.320 --> 1:22:20.160 don't have to download anything. You can use it just 1:22:20.200 --> 1:22:23.559 like you can Google Docs and the website. I don't 1:22:23.560 --> 1:22:26.160 have like a simple website to find it on, but 1:22:26.280 --> 1:22:29.400 if you Google, it's so funny, like the website is. 1:22:29.439 --> 1:22:30.920 I can't even read it on the air because it's 1:22:30.960 --> 1:22:33.599 just so long. But yes, use Microsoft three sixty five 1:22:33.640 --> 1:22:36.080 apps for free on the web. Get free access to 1:22:36.120 --> 1:22:38.920 word Excel and PowerPoint using Microsoft three sixty five for 1:22:38.960 --> 1:22:41.760 the Web formerly Office sign in and that's it. 1:22:42.080 --> 1:22:42.200 Now. 1:22:42.240 --> 1:22:44.320 There are some things you can't do on the free 1:22:44.400 --> 1:22:48.360 version versus the paid but you can do pretty much 1:22:48.400 --> 1:22:51.160 anything you need the basics. So how much you want 1:22:51.160 --> 1:22:52.040 to spend on this computer? 1:22:54.000 --> 1:22:54.240 Three? 1:22:55.360 --> 1:22:55.679 Okay? 1:22:55.760 --> 1:22:58.519 In that range a couple options. I would say a 1:22:58.600 --> 1:23:01.160 chromebook will probably serve you well. The problem is chromebooks 1:23:01.160 --> 1:23:04.760 are traditionally very underpowered, so at the very least I 1:23:04.800 --> 1:23:08.320 would look at a chromebook. Plus those have the better 1:23:08.600 --> 1:23:10.960 specs compared to the standard chromebooks. So if you're going 1:23:11.000 --> 1:23:13.880 to get a chromebook, go that route, which I think 1:23:13.920 --> 1:23:17.000 is fine for what you're doing. I just think look 1:23:17.040 --> 1:23:19.840 for a high quality screen. That to me is the key, 1:23:19.880 --> 1:23:23.519 because typically chromebook screens are just not very good compared 1:23:23.560 --> 1:23:24.800 to the traditional computers. 1:23:25.200 --> 1:23:25.760 Otherwise. 1:23:26.080 --> 1:23:29.200 The other computer to look into, which are expert recommended 1:23:29.200 --> 1:23:33.360 the other day, is the Lenovo Idea Pad Slim. This 1:23:33.439 --> 1:23:36.120 has got the new Snapdragon X processor, which means the 1:23:36.160 --> 1:23:38.559 battery is going to last a really long time. It's 1:23:38.600 --> 1:23:40.599 got a nice fifteen inch screen. This thing is only 1:23:40.680 --> 1:23:43.920 five hundred bucks. That is an incredible deal, and it's 1:23:43.920 --> 1:23:48.080 got great specs. It's got that snap Dragon processor which 1:23:48.120 --> 1:23:50.000 is kind of a mobile processor, which means its going 1:23:50.040 --> 1:23:53.439 to be very power efficient. Sixteen gigs a RAM one 1:23:53.560 --> 1:23:57.840 terabyte hard drive, it runs Windows eleven. It's got an 1:23:57.920 --> 1:24:00.240 SD card reader. I mean, I don't see a album 1:24:00.280 --> 1:24:04.200 with this computer at all. Lenovo Idea Pad Slim. I'm 1:24:04.240 --> 1:24:07.639 looking at the micro center website. Fifteen inch laptops typically 1:24:07.960 --> 1:24:10.240 seven hundred and thirty dollars. It's on sale for five 1:24:10.320 --> 1:24:13.080 hundred that I think is going to be a great 1:24:13.160 --> 1:24:16.519 option for you there as well. So good question Mark, 1:24:16.560 --> 1:24:19.559 Thanks so much for the call today. Enjoy retirement. Thanks 1:24:19.560 --> 1:24:21.160 for getting in touch today. 1:24:21.680 --> 1:24:22.479 Eighty to eight. Rich. 1:24:22.560 --> 1:24:24.200 I shouldn't even give out the number. We don't even 1:24:24.200 --> 1:24:25.479 know if we can get to more calls. Eighty to 1:24:25.479 --> 1:24:28.400 eight Rich one O one rich on tech dot TV. 1:24:28.520 --> 1:24:29.400 We'll be back after this. 1:24:31.760 --> 1:24:37.000 Welcome back to rich on tech rich on tech dot TV. 1:24:37.960 --> 1:24:40.800 During the breaks, you know, I am busy, I am 1:24:41.200 --> 1:24:43.920 taking show notes, So they're all on the website rich 1:24:43.960 --> 1:24:49.360 on tech dot TV. Look under where it says radio 1:24:49.439 --> 1:24:53.080 show and this is episode one, and so if you 1:24:53.120 --> 1:24:55.280 click that, you will get the links to everything I mentioned, 1:24:55.280 --> 1:24:59.800 including all those software apps that we just mentioned, any 1:24:59.840 --> 1:25:02.640 of the the articles I mentioned, and I'm putting up 1:25:02.640 --> 1:25:06.680 the computers that I mentioned as well. Let's go to 1:25:07.479 --> 1:25:12.440 let's see here, line four, Kelly in Quartz Hill, California. 1:25:12.640 --> 1:25:13.439 You're on with Rich. 1:25:14.720 --> 1:25:14.880 Hi. 1:25:14.960 --> 1:25:18.280 Rich, I've been watching you on KTLA for years. I'm 1:25:18.280 --> 1:25:19.720 so glad you're on KFI now. 1:25:20.040 --> 1:25:22.400 Oh, thank you. General here too. 1:25:24.680 --> 1:25:29.080 I generally prefer using Safari on my iMac and it 1:25:29.120 --> 1:25:32.519 doesn't work quite often on banking and other websites, and 1:25:32.600 --> 1:25:36.479 so I have to go to Google and open up Chrome, 1:25:36.720 --> 1:25:39.839 and for some reason, it takes forever to switch, because 1:25:40.439 --> 1:25:43.280 you know, I close down Safari and then I open 1:25:43.360 --> 1:25:45.719 up Chrome and it just takes forever. 1:25:46.000 --> 1:25:49.120 Is there an easier way to go back and forth. 1:25:48.840 --> 1:25:53.599 Between the two, Well, it sounds like your computer might 1:25:53.760 --> 1:25:56.920 be low on something like RAM or you know, the 1:25:56.960 --> 1:25:59.000 memory on the computer, and that's what's causing it to 1:25:59.400 --> 1:26:01.679 take a while, because when you open and close apps, 1:26:02.120 --> 1:26:05.479 that's pretty much the most effort your computer is putting out, 1:26:05.600 --> 1:26:07.599 and so that's probably what's. 1:26:07.439 --> 1:26:08.200 Going on here. 1:26:08.439 --> 1:26:10.920 So basically, when how many apps do you have opened 1:26:10.920 --> 1:26:12.759 when you're doing this? Do you just have the browser? 1:26:12.800 --> 1:26:14.280 And what kind of computer are we talking here? 1:26:15.760 --> 1:26:18.240 I have an IMAX, but it's a twenty. 1:26:17.760 --> 1:26:20.960 Eighteen, okay, so it's older. Yeah, it is older. 1:26:21.360 --> 1:26:24.040 So yeah, it's probably feeling the it's probably feeling the 1:26:24.040 --> 1:26:27.040 way of these You know, the computer doesn't slow down, 1:26:27.200 --> 1:26:30.000 it's the apps just keep getting more and more complex. 1:26:30.040 --> 1:26:32.840 So when you open up these apps, they're just demanding 1:26:32.880 --> 1:26:35.840 a lot of resources from this computer. And that's I think, 1:26:35.880 --> 1:26:36.720 what's happening here. 1:26:37.760 --> 1:26:41.080 Okay, okay, that makes sense. I was just thinking maybe 1:26:41.280 --> 1:26:43.639 I could have them both on a tag or something. 1:26:44.280 --> 1:26:46.479 Well, you can leave them both open. You can leave 1:26:46.600 --> 1:26:50.200 Chrome and Safari open at the same time. Does your 1:26:50.200 --> 1:26:51.040 computer allow that? 1:26:53.120 --> 1:26:55.880 I don't know. I guess I've never tried it. 1:26:56.160 --> 1:26:59.639 I mean, so you're saying that would probably drain my computer. 1:27:00.080 --> 1:27:01.520 Well, when I'm both open. 1:27:01.680 --> 1:27:03.559 I actually think it's easier to leave them open once. 1:27:04.200 --> 1:27:06.439 It really depends on how your computer's running. Are you 1:27:06.479 --> 1:27:08.960 when you're running these programs? Are they Is everything kind 1:27:09.000 --> 1:27:11.280 of fine for what you're trying to do? 1:27:12.360 --> 1:27:13.519 Yeah, it works pretty good. 1:27:13.640 --> 1:27:16.559 Okay, Well, here's what I would do, and in general, 1:27:16.600 --> 1:27:19.760 since you've had your computer so long, in general, what 1:27:19.760 --> 1:27:21.080 I would do is kind of a little bit of 1:27:21.120 --> 1:27:24.439 a spring cleaning on this computer. So I would go 1:27:24.520 --> 1:27:26.920 through and you know, make sure you're not maxed out 1:27:26.920 --> 1:27:28.599 on your hard drive. So go through and just kind 1:27:28.600 --> 1:27:30.559 of delete some of the files you no longer need. 1:27:30.920 --> 1:27:32.320 I would go through and get rid of some of 1:27:32.320 --> 1:27:34.759 the apps that you no longer use or need, because 1:27:35.200 --> 1:27:37.920 you know that's those could be hogging some resources. 1:27:38.400 --> 1:27:39.519 I would also go to. 1:27:41.000 --> 1:27:45.160 Your your section of your settings where there's a section 1:27:45.320 --> 1:27:48.960 called open at login and that's something that like a 1:27:48.960 --> 1:27:51.160 lot of apps will try to creep in there because 1:27:51.560 --> 1:27:54.040 it's their benefit to always be open and running on 1:27:54.080 --> 1:27:56.040 your system, so they can be doing things like looking 1:27:56.120 --> 1:27:58.639 in the background for software updates and stuff like that. 1:27:59.160 --> 1:28:01.960 But you can go through and actually delete some of 1:28:02.000 --> 1:28:04.439 the apps that are trying to open up at startup. 1:28:04.720 --> 1:28:06.920 That means every time you turn on your computer, these 1:28:06.960 --> 1:28:08.920 apps are using a little bit of resources in the 1:28:08.920 --> 1:28:12.519 background to do things. And I just found one that 1:28:12.560 --> 1:28:14.639 I can delete because I don't need that opening every 1:28:14.640 --> 1:28:16.000 single time I turn on my computer. 1:28:16.479 --> 1:28:19.519 So that okay, that's a great idea. I've seen that before. 1:28:19.840 --> 1:28:23.519 Yeah, So go to open at login. It's called Login 1:28:23.600 --> 1:28:27.519 Items and Extensions. And then when you're on your computer. 1:28:28.760 --> 1:28:30.880 You know, with these two apps, I would try leaving 1:28:30.920 --> 1:28:32.840 them running at the same time. You can easily do that. 1:28:32.880 --> 1:28:35.120 It's not going to hurt what's going on in one 1:28:35.200 --> 1:28:36.920 or the other. They don't talk to each other that way. 1:28:37.920 --> 1:28:39.880 But you also might want to close out other apps 1:28:39.920 --> 1:28:42.960 that you're not using. So I'm always using different apps 1:28:42.960 --> 1:28:45.360 on my computer, but when I'm not using them for 1:28:45.400 --> 1:28:47.519 a while, I will close them out from time to 1:28:47.560 --> 1:28:50.320 time just to kind of free up some resources. 1:28:50.520 --> 1:28:53.200 Okay, I do try and do that, close them out 1:28:53.280 --> 1:28:54.719 red then keep them all open. 1:28:54.880 --> 1:28:56.200 But that's a good idea. 1:28:56.439 --> 1:28:59.639 Yeah, but I would say, see what your computer can. 1:28:59.680 --> 1:29:02.960 Hell, this is definitely an older machine, so you know, 1:29:03.040 --> 1:29:05.479 like anyone that's gotten a little older in their years. 1:29:05.520 --> 1:29:08.600 You know, it's a little more sophisticated and refined, but 1:29:08.640 --> 1:29:11.280 it also needs a little, very true, a little coddling 1:29:11.320 --> 1:29:12.599 every once in a while, you know what I mean. 1:29:13.640 --> 1:29:16.880 Yes, yes, actually has lasted this long. I'm surprised. It's 1:29:16.880 --> 1:29:17.839 been a great computer. 1:29:18.000 --> 1:29:21.000 But the only reason I haven't switched it is because 1:29:21.439 --> 1:29:25.160 I have the old twenty seven inch the whole computer. 1:29:25.000 --> 1:29:26.000 Yeah, the all in one. 1:29:26.320 --> 1:29:29.160 Yeah, I mean look, yeah, again, if it's working for you, 1:29:29.160 --> 1:29:30.880 you don't need to change it. And they do make 1:29:31.200 --> 1:29:32.479 I don't know if they make a twenty seven I 1:29:32.479 --> 1:29:33.280 know they make a twenty four. 1:29:33.320 --> 1:29:34.839 I don't if they do the twenty seven anymore. 1:29:34.880 --> 1:29:38.360 But you know, if a computer's working for you, as 1:29:38.360 --> 1:29:39.960 long as your software is up to date, as long 1:29:40.000 --> 1:29:43.080 as your security, you know you're secure in that aspect. 1:29:43.240 --> 1:29:44.960 I have no problem with keeping up a computer for 1:29:45.000 --> 1:29:48.080 as long as you possibly can. And that's a testament 1:29:48.120 --> 1:29:50.000 to Apple and how they build these things that they 1:29:50.080 --> 1:29:51.519 last a very long time. 1:29:52.160 --> 1:29:54.599 So yes, Apple is the best for sure. I mean 1:29:54.640 --> 1:29:58.639 I've found just great results and it doesn't crash. 1:29:58.680 --> 1:29:59.840 I don't have problems like that. 1:30:00.479 --> 1:30:03.920 Yeah, and no virus issues usually ninety nine point nine 1:30:03.920 --> 1:30:06.280 percent of the time. All right, Kelly, they're playing us off. 1:30:06.320 --> 1:30:08.280 Thanks so much for the call today. I really appreciate it. 1:30:10.320 --> 1:30:14.559 Oh oh that was cold. Oh my gosh, that was bobo. 1:30:15.600 --> 1:30:18.880 What back after this? 1:30:21.280 --> 1:30:24.040 Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:30:24.080 --> 1:30:26.360 out with you talking technology. We had a great call 1:30:26.400 --> 1:30:29.519 from a Mark in Saint Petersburg. He was asking about 1:30:29.880 --> 1:30:31.760 if he should buy Word and I mentioned that you 1:30:31.800 --> 1:30:36.320 can access Excel, Word and PowerPoint for free on the 1:30:36.360 --> 1:30:40.080 web and I just signed in with my Microsoft account. 1:30:40.120 --> 1:30:42.479 I'm not paid on anything on there. It's not a 1:30:42.479 --> 1:30:44.840 corporate account, just my personal account, and sure enough, here 1:30:44.840 --> 1:30:49.040 I am typing in Microsoft Word on the web, and 1:30:49.040 --> 1:30:53.680 I'm trying to figure out what's not included here. I 1:30:53.800 --> 1:30:56.519 don't see anything that I can't do. There must be 1:30:56.600 --> 1:30:59.679 some sort of limitation. But I just downloaded my document 1:30:59.680 --> 1:31:02.960 as a maybe let's see, can you download it? Okay, 1:31:03.760 --> 1:31:06.799 maybe that's the catch. So I wonder if you can't 1:31:06.880 --> 1:31:11.839 download it. Okay, you could download his pdf, oh, export 1:31:11.840 --> 1:31:14.280 to Kindle, but maybe you can't download it as a 1:31:14.320 --> 1:31:18.799 word document. Okay, maybe that's the catch. But I mean, okay, 1:31:18.840 --> 1:31:21.040 there you go. So pdf is the way you have 1:31:21.080 --> 1:31:23.080 to download it, looks like. But I put the link 1:31:23.120 --> 1:31:26.880 on the website rich on tech dot tv, So if 1:31:26.880 --> 1:31:30.200 you want to access those, test them out. Google docs 1:31:30.240 --> 1:31:32.680 is gonna be just fine too. But this is another way. 1:31:32.680 --> 1:31:34.840 If you're used to word and you want to check 1:31:34.880 --> 1:31:38.160 it out, it's all there. Let's bring on Mark Vina. 1:31:38.280 --> 1:31:42.120 He is CEO and principal analyst at Smart Tech Research. 1:31:42.880 --> 1:31:44.000 Mark, Welcome to the show. 1:31:45.120 --> 1:31:46.559 Hey, how you doing. 1:31:46.880 --> 1:31:50.639 I'm doing well. We often chat at these tech events. 1:31:50.680 --> 1:31:52.920 We're often sitting next to each other and near each other. 1:31:54.120 --> 1:31:56.200 How are things going in your world? As an analyst. 1:31:56.240 --> 1:31:58.320 Explain what an analyst does, by the way, because I 1:31:58.320 --> 1:32:00.160 feel like your job is kind of like mine as 1:32:00.160 --> 1:32:02.360 a journalist, but maybe more fun. 1:32:02.400 --> 1:32:03.040 I'm not sure. 1:32:04.520 --> 1:32:06.679 Oh well, I think they both have the pluses and minuses. 1:32:06.840 --> 1:32:08.400 I think the big plus is that you can't, you 1:32:08.400 --> 1:32:10.439 know what the work that I do maybe a little 1:32:10.439 --> 1:32:11.160 bit different from you. 1:32:11.160 --> 1:32:11.519 You have an. 1:32:11.479 --> 1:32:15.320 Obligation to cover, you know, work with most clients are 1:32:15.920 --> 1:32:18.680 you don't really call them clients. You're covering businesses that 1:32:18.760 --> 1:32:22.000 are announcing new products, whereas I, you know, cover them 1:32:22.000 --> 1:32:25.600 from an from a market analysis standpoint. Do they have 1:32:25.640 --> 1:32:28.480 really good products? Do they are they write for the marketplace? 1:32:29.000 --> 1:32:31.759 Is there a market for them? I mean, you broadly 1:32:31.840 --> 1:32:34.960 can apply that principle to everything. But the nice thing 1:32:35.040 --> 1:32:37.760 is sometimes I get your customers that come to me, Hey, Mark, 1:32:37.800 --> 1:32:39.800 I've got the greatest product in the world. Please tell 1:32:39.800 --> 1:32:41.400 me that it's going to take over the world, and 1:32:41.439 --> 1:32:44.400 you politely tell them, well, it's really not the next iPhone. 1:32:45.000 --> 1:32:47.320 So but if you know, I've got a podcast, as 1:32:47.320 --> 1:32:49.240 you know, I write quite a bit. If you don't 1:32:49.320 --> 1:32:51.400 like writing, you don't want to be a marketing a 1:32:51.439 --> 1:32:52.200 market analyst. 1:32:52.320 --> 1:32:53.960 So that's what I kind of tell people. 1:32:54.120 --> 1:32:56.320 Yeah, I imagine you're just writing a lot of reports 1:32:56.360 --> 1:32:58.439 about stuff, like, you know, company comes to you and says, hey, 1:32:58.479 --> 1:33:00.400 here's our new product, give me a whole rep on 1:33:00.439 --> 1:33:03.400 the you know, the marketplace for this product. And but 1:33:03.479 --> 1:33:05.000 now you can just use AI to write all that. 1:33:05.120 --> 1:33:05.360 Right. 1:33:06.800 --> 1:33:09.439 Well, I mean, I'm not going to say that that 1:33:09.600 --> 1:33:13.200 using Chatchipt or Gemini is not helpful, but it gets 1:33:13.200 --> 1:33:15.280 you you might be sixty percent down the field. 1:33:15.280 --> 1:33:17.080 And then you have to customize the content. 1:33:17.080 --> 1:33:18.800 You're going to make sure the content is accurate, because 1:33:18.840 --> 1:33:21.400 despite what you may think, a lot of the AI 1:33:21.479 --> 1:33:23.360 content that's generated is not always accurate. 1:33:23.400 --> 1:33:25.240 So you've got to make sure that it's it's consistent 1:33:25.280 --> 1:33:27.160 with whatever was announced. 1:33:27.520 --> 1:33:30.680 And you know, most of the time, you know, uh, 1:33:30.880 --> 1:33:33.000 depending on how you use AI, it's not going to 1:33:33.000 --> 1:33:34.000 give you a point of view. 1:33:34.080 --> 1:33:35.320 The point of view is in your head. 1:33:35.560 --> 1:33:38.720 So again, I think it's helpful, But at the end 1:33:38.720 --> 1:33:40.000 of the day, it's all about you. 1:33:40.080 --> 1:33:42.679 Who's winning right now? In AI? To you? 1:33:44.840 --> 1:33:45.519 I you know, I have. 1:33:45.640 --> 1:33:48.679 The open eye and I think Google now with Gemini 1:33:48.720 --> 1:33:50.600 Gemini has been huge improvements. 1:33:50.960 --> 1:33:52.439 They've done some incredible anime. 1:33:52.560 --> 1:33:55.600 I mean, people kind of associate with AI with you know, 1:33:55.720 --> 1:33:58.400 chatchipt and you know, conjure up an article for me 1:33:58.439 --> 1:34:01.519 about this topic. Some of the things that they've added 1:34:01.600 --> 1:34:05.759 to the list iterations of chatch ept and Gemini AI 1:34:06.400 --> 1:34:09.200 is pretty remarkable. I mean, you can go into Gemini 1:34:09.680 --> 1:34:12.360 and say, make a nineteen eighty six baseball card for me, 1:34:12.640 --> 1:34:15.599 and here's a picture of my brother for the New 1:34:15.680 --> 1:34:19.559 York Mets, and it will create a unbelievable not just 1:34:19.680 --> 1:34:24.679 front but back baseball card with fake statistics, with fun 1:34:24.800 --> 1:34:26.719 facts that will blow you away. 1:34:26.760 --> 1:34:28.680 Now that's kind of a goofy thing to do, but. 1:34:29.080 --> 1:34:29.720 People do it. 1:34:29.800 --> 1:34:30.080 Why not. 1:34:30.160 --> 1:34:31.840 You've got a birthday party coming up, You've got an 1:34:31.840 --> 1:34:34.040 anniversary you want to do. I mean, this is the thing, 1:34:34.120 --> 1:34:36.600 Like I feel like people need ideas for how to 1:34:36.680 --> 1:34:39.160 use this stuff because it's all there, like the stuff 1:34:39.200 --> 1:34:42.160 that Gemini can do and open AI with chat GBT. 1:34:43.000 --> 1:34:45.120 Most people are only scratching the surf when you're saying 1:34:45.240 --> 1:34:47.599 what's the best place to go on vacation this summer? 1:34:47.720 --> 1:34:50.640 That is like a no brainer question for these ais. 1:34:51.120 --> 1:34:53.720 But what you can really do is analyze things, and 1:34:53.840 --> 1:34:59.719 especially with Google's AI mode, that is incredible in fact, 1:34:59.720 --> 1:35:03.080 now prompts you right on there, says please ask complex 1:35:03.160 --> 1:35:05.559 questions because that's when you're going to get the best answer. 1:35:05.720 --> 1:35:07.960 So where should I go on vacation. 1:35:07.800 --> 1:35:11.599 In July with two kids eleven and thirteen who don't 1:35:11.680 --> 1:35:14.160 like to do this, that and the other thing, and 1:35:14.200 --> 1:35:17.240 we also like nice restaurants and you know, outdoor activities. 1:35:17.600 --> 1:35:20.680 Then you get an answer that AI can bring you. 1:35:20.720 --> 1:35:22.719 No, I think you're right, because for the last twenty 1:35:22.800 --> 1:35:25.599 five years we've been trained to use Google and kind 1:35:25.600 --> 1:35:29.240 of just a declarative one question. It's not even a question, 1:35:29.320 --> 1:35:33.439 it's really you know, searching on whatever phrase you put 1:35:33.439 --> 1:35:36.760 in there. But the idea of complexity and a prompt 1:35:36.920 --> 1:35:39.320 where you can ask for multiple things at the same time, 1:35:39.920 --> 1:35:42.479 it's pretty amazing. I mean, I'll be very honest with you, 1:35:42.560 --> 1:35:45.160 I don't Google anything anymore. When I have a question 1:35:45.160 --> 1:35:47.639 about a product, you know, how do I do this feature? 1:35:47.960 --> 1:35:50.760 I'll ask that a fairly complex question, and I will 1:35:50.760 --> 1:35:55.040 get a very detailed answer that will say the twenty 1:35:55.080 --> 1:35:57.280 five steps if I were doing things the old fashioned way. 1:35:57.360 --> 1:36:00.840 So it's really amazing, and I'll go one step. What 1:36:00.880 --> 1:36:04.240 we haven't seen, at least with the mainstream and it's 1:36:04.240 --> 1:36:07.720 gonna happen very soon. Is that the ability to use 1:36:07.920 --> 1:36:12.240 video and create video using AI but doing some really 1:36:12.320 --> 1:36:14.439 interesting things. I mean, I'm seeing some demos under the 1:36:14.439 --> 1:36:17.800 coverage with tools like, right, let's say I do a video. 1:36:18.000 --> 1:36:21.439 Of one of your kids at a birthday party, and in. 1:36:21.400 --> 1:36:23.320 The back of it, it's a thirty second clip, and 1:36:23.400 --> 1:36:26.760 maybe let's say the garbage fan is in the backyard 1:36:26.840 --> 1:36:29.160 and he's walking around the back and it's making the 1:36:29.160 --> 1:36:32.120 clip look bad. Now, in the old days, you could 1:36:32.120 --> 1:36:33.760 go into a video, you know, you'd have to be 1:36:33.800 --> 1:36:38.280 a pretty good video video editing person to remove that artifict. 1:36:37.800 --> 1:36:40.400 That those tools did exist. But now you'll be able 1:36:40.400 --> 1:36:41.639 to use a prompt with some of. 1:36:41.560 --> 1:36:43.960 These tools, say please use the moving object in the back, 1:36:44.479 --> 1:36:47.439 and it will, you know, emulate what a studio could 1:36:47.479 --> 1:36:50.479 do twenty five years ago. So I think the video 1:36:51.200 --> 1:36:53.560 implications they are going to be unbelievable. 1:36:53.600 --> 1:36:56.880 We're just just starting that. I mean, because just we 1:36:56.920 --> 1:36:58.960 saw at the Pixel event in New York City when 1:36:59.000 --> 1:37:03.360 they released Ask to Edit, you know, like basically instead 1:37:03.360 --> 1:37:06.240 of you doing edits to your photos on the Pixel phones. 1:37:06.280 --> 1:37:08.919 And now they've expanded this to Google Photos on Android, 1:37:08.960 --> 1:37:11.559 I believe only. But you can just ask for the 1:37:11.680 --> 1:37:14.160 edits you want. So, like you just said, remove the 1:37:14.160 --> 1:37:17.280 person in the background, make this a better background, or 1:37:17.439 --> 1:37:20.400 brighten up my picture, or just reframe my picture so 1:37:20.439 --> 1:37:22.519 it looks better. It'll do all those things without you 1:37:22.680 --> 1:37:26.280 having to actually move the sliders around. That is probably 1:37:26.320 --> 1:37:29.679 coming for video, you know, we have. We've just scratched 1:37:29.720 --> 1:37:30.679 the surface with video. 1:37:31.560 --> 1:37:34.080 No, and the quality is so unbelievable. 1:37:34.080 --> 1:37:37.000 I did the thing the other day with my after 1:37:37.040 --> 1:37:39.759 the Yankees won the other night, I took a picture 1:37:39.760 --> 1:37:42.519 with my dog and simply say, hey, put this picture 1:37:42.640 --> 1:37:45.920 that as if I'm at Yankee Stadium celebrating. Now, I 1:37:45.960 --> 1:37:48.840 clearly wasn't at the game. I wasn't dressed for it. 1:37:48.960 --> 1:37:51.640 You know, most people didn't pick it up. Once I 1:37:51.720 --> 1:37:54.719 put that on Facebook. I must have gotten twenty five people. 1:37:55.120 --> 1:37:57.200 They allowed you to have a dog in the stadium. 1:37:58.760 --> 1:38:01.799 Why, Oh, it's crazy, crazy stuff. 1:38:01.920 --> 1:38:03.760 So this week, and we'll get to we're going to 1:38:03.800 --> 1:38:06.880 talk about some of the gadgets that Mark likes right now. 1:38:07.080 --> 1:38:11.960 But the Gemini Google posted on their Instagram an idea 1:38:12.080 --> 1:38:15.599 of how to use this nano banana thing. They basically said, 1:38:15.640 --> 1:38:18.240 you can make a picture of you with your parent 1:38:18.680 --> 1:38:21.840 that never existed. So they gave the exact kind of 1:38:22.640 --> 1:38:25.960 phrasing you should use, where you upload a selfie of yourself, 1:38:26.000 --> 1:38:28.439 a selfie of your picture of your parent, and then 1:38:28.479 --> 1:38:31.559 you tell it to create this picture of you two 1:38:31.560 --> 1:38:34.960 together like a polaroid. I mean, it's just the stuff 1:38:35.000 --> 1:38:37.920 that's happening here. And nano Banana is what Google's doing 1:38:37.920 --> 1:38:40.719 with their image generation. It's just it's a fancy name 1:38:40.800 --> 1:38:44.880 for like very high end AI. It's really good, like 1:38:45.160 --> 1:38:47.400 scary good. Like you were just mentioning, all right, So 1:38:48.040 --> 1:38:50.600 you came to the table with a couple gadgets. You like, 1:38:51.040 --> 1:38:52.960 every time we go to these events, we always compare 1:38:53.600 --> 1:38:55.960 the gadgets that we're carrying. But you have a couple 1:38:55.960 --> 1:38:57.880 that you like for podcasting if you want to start 1:38:57.920 --> 1:38:59.200 your own podcast. 1:39:00.200 --> 1:39:02.120 But it's not like you you know, now you're you're 1:39:02.160 --> 1:39:05.240 a professional journal assignment. You know, I kind of got 1:39:05.280 --> 1:39:07.640 into this about five or six years ago. And you know, 1:39:07.680 --> 1:39:10.160 I've got a video, I've got a YouTube podcast. It's 1:39:10.160 --> 1:39:11.760 got a lot of it's a lot of views, a 1:39:11.760 --> 1:39:14.679 lot of subscribers. But you know, to me, when people 1:39:14.760 --> 1:39:16.599 approach me and I get that all the time. Hey, Mark, 1:39:16.640 --> 1:39:19.040 how do I become a How do I become a podcaster? 1:39:19.640 --> 1:39:22.759 And I'm really sensitive as I know you are, about 1:39:22.760 --> 1:39:25.320 avoiding that kind of wing wings world effect the men 1:39:25.400 --> 1:39:27.719 years ago, Hey, a couple of kids down in their basement. 1:39:27.760 --> 1:39:31.479 That was that hope, that hope that hold stick on 1:39:31.920 --> 1:39:34.640 sating it live and it was amateur hour. But the 1:39:34.720 --> 1:39:38.360 tools that exist today are broadcast quality tools. 1:39:38.520 --> 1:39:39.400 You know that you don't have. 1:39:39.760 --> 1:39:41.960 You don't adoperate in the studio, you don't have five 1:39:42.040 --> 1:39:45.519 or six highly pain trading people. And I find like 1:39:45.640 --> 1:39:47.639 one thing that I love that I'm a big, big 1:39:47.680 --> 1:39:50.360 time on because it's the first thing that will tell 1:39:50.400 --> 1:39:53.639 people that you're an amateur versus a professional is having 1:39:53.720 --> 1:39:56.960 really good audio. So I'm a big, big believer in 1:39:57.120 --> 1:40:00.479 using these. And there's been a whole plaus throw them 1:40:00.479 --> 1:40:04.000 out there. But the latest DGI Mike three is fantastic. 1:40:04.040 --> 1:40:05.000 It will support the. 1:40:04.840 --> 1:40:09.120 Four wireless mics. They're probably as big as maybe a quarter. 1:40:09.720 --> 1:40:11.920 They have magnets so they can go on discreetly on 1:40:11.960 --> 1:40:14.559 your clothes. They have a great carrying case and you 1:40:14.600 --> 1:40:15.200 pop them in. 1:40:15.240 --> 1:40:19.160 But the fascinating thing is is that up until recently 1:40:19.200 --> 1:40:21.800 you really only could have two wireless mics with a 1:40:21.800 --> 1:40:25.040 bluetooth device like an iPhone. And when you're doing, like Rich, 1:40:25.080 --> 1:40:27.040 what you and I do, sometimes that's a limitation. 1:40:27.520 --> 1:40:28.800 But four is a big deal. 1:40:29.120 --> 1:40:32.400 Yeah, it's for you, you know, the conduct conversation with 1:40:32.439 --> 1:40:33.559 four people at the same time. 1:40:33.680 --> 1:40:37.040 Yeah, without any wires. I mean, that's that's unbelievable. I'm 1:40:37.040 --> 1:40:39.439 getting the one minute from my producer here. So we've 1:40:39.479 --> 1:40:41.960 got two more picks. I'll link these up on the website. 1:40:41.960 --> 1:40:44.000 By the way, Rich on tech dot tv. And by 1:40:44.000 --> 1:40:46.120 the way, what's the name of your podcast so folks 1:40:46.200 --> 1:40:46.880 can find it. 1:40:47.920 --> 1:40:49.360 It's a smart tech check podcast. 1:40:49.439 --> 1:40:52.519 Okay, so search that on YouTube and find it. You 1:40:52.560 --> 1:40:54.720 also have a green screen that you use. 1:40:55.760 --> 1:40:57.800 I'm a big believer in that. Now I'm not using 1:40:57.800 --> 1:40:58.280 a green. 1:40:58.120 --> 1:41:02.360 Screen right now because I'm using which is tool to participate. 1:41:02.400 --> 1:41:06.200 But normally speaking, you know, do yourself a favor is 1:41:06.280 --> 1:41:07.320 go out these and these. 1:41:07.360 --> 1:41:09.760 There's a lot of goods green screens out there. 1:41:09.800 --> 1:41:12.280 This one's really good because you know, you don't have 1:41:12.320 --> 1:41:14.799 to put it against the wall. It's like a projector 1:41:14.840 --> 1:41:17.040 that you pull up. You can Stubb it in the closet, 1:41:17.040 --> 1:41:19.080 which is what I do after I use it, and 1:41:19.120 --> 1:41:21.080 it will make all the difference in the world in 1:41:21.120 --> 1:41:23.719 terms of what that artifacting that goes around your head, 1:41:23.840 --> 1:41:26.200 you know when you're doing it then. So I'm a 1:41:26.200 --> 1:41:28.400 big believer that if you're getting into the podcast world, 1:41:28.600 --> 1:41:29.599 get a green screen. 1:41:29.640 --> 1:41:31.479 It will be the best one hundred bucks or so 1:41:31.560 --> 1:41:32.160 you ever spend. 1:41:32.240 --> 1:41:34.519 And you've got this one E Mark green screen. 1:41:34.560 --> 1:41:36.880 It's got like a little a little place to like 1:41:36.920 --> 1:41:40.960 a little projector holder. And then finally this super cage. 1:41:42.040 --> 1:41:44.400 Now that one is really really cool, and you know this, 1:41:45.840 --> 1:41:48.000 I can see Witch getting this. This is a really 1:41:48.000 --> 1:41:50.240 interesting item in that and it's a bit more on 1:41:50.280 --> 1:41:54.439 the professional side. It essentially turns your iPhone or any 1:41:54.520 --> 1:41:57.160 kind of phone into almost like a port replicator. So 1:41:57.240 --> 1:42:00.640 you plug this in, it holds it professionally and it 1:42:00.680 --> 1:42:02.800 gives you three or four other ports. So when when 1:42:02.800 --> 1:42:04.680 you're when you really get good at this and you 1:42:04.720 --> 1:42:07.720 start doing all kinds of advanced stuff, you can you 1:42:07.720 --> 1:42:10.639 can put an external power plug in one thing. I'm 1:42:10.640 --> 1:42:13.720 doing more increasingly that when I'm doing podcasts locally, I 1:42:13.760 --> 1:42:16.519 want to have some type of screen. It's showing the 1:42:16.600 --> 1:42:19.760 person who's in front of the camera what they're looking at. Again, 1:42:19.840 --> 1:42:22.920 that's very common in professional setups. This would allow you 1:42:23.000 --> 1:42:25.720 to do that, and it's just a terrific Godamosi has 1:42:25.760 --> 1:42:26.559 an SD slot. 1:42:26.400 --> 1:42:28.400 If you want to put memory. Oh wow, the store 1:42:28.439 --> 1:42:30.200 big file, very very handy. 1:42:30.280 --> 1:42:33.280 All right, A couple of good recommendations, Mark Vina, thanks 1:42:33.320 --> 1:42:38.080 so much. Smart Techresearch dot Net. Check it out, subscribe 1:42:38.080 --> 1:42:40.479 to the podcast. Always good to see you. See you 1:42:40.479 --> 1:42:41.240 at the next event. 1:42:42.520 --> 1:42:44.240 Rich, go yankees our peculatory. 1:42:45.439 --> 1:42:47.240 All right, coming up, we are going to open up 1:42:47.280 --> 1:42:49.720 the feedback. These are the emails you sent all week. 1:42:49.760 --> 1:42:51.240 We'll get to that coming up next. 1:42:56.560 --> 1:42:59.880 Oh now I'm on right. 1:43:00.439 --> 1:43:04.040 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here I said, 1:43:04.040 --> 1:43:05.559 we got Rick rolled at the end of the show. 1:43:05.840 --> 1:43:07.000 Isn't this the Rickroll song? 1:43:07.400 --> 1:43:10.320 Yeah, we got rickrolled. Thanks for rickrolling me. 1:43:12.040 --> 1:43:13.080 Hey, can I do something? 1:43:13.160 --> 1:43:14.120 What can I give? 1:43:14.120 --> 1:43:17.320 A happy birthday shout out to my wife absolutely, Brittany, 1:43:17.320 --> 1:43:21.000 Happy birthday. I love you so much. Enjoy your day. 1:43:21.479 --> 1:43:24.400 And have fun today. And I know sorry I'm at work, 1:43:24.479 --> 1:43:27.240 but I know Bill's got to be paid. It's okay. 1:43:27.320 --> 1:43:31.599 Bobo's got a nice dinner. We're talking five star dinner 1:43:31.680 --> 1:43:34.080 plan for tonight, five star dinners. 1:43:33.800 --> 1:43:37.519 Out on Rich. Thank you, Ron, I appreciate it. 1:43:37.920 --> 1:43:40.040 Rich is gonna send us to a five star restaurant 1:43:40.080 --> 1:43:40.679 for your birthday. 1:43:40.840 --> 1:43:44.879 Let's let's open up the feedback. Happy birthday, Brittany. Anita 1:43:44.920 --> 1:43:48.000 writes in from California. I bought a Mac desktop last 1:43:48.040 --> 1:43:50.040 week and at first struggled to get used to everything. 1:43:50.040 --> 1:43:52.320 I called Microsoft for help. That was frustrating. 1:43:52.720 --> 1:43:54.519 Little by little, I'm learning how to use the Mac 1:43:54.560 --> 1:43:56.799 and using the mail app has made things so much easier. 1:43:57.080 --> 1:43:59.280 I can't say enough how much you taking the time 1:43:59.320 --> 1:44:01.360 to help me has me. By the way, I heard 1:44:01.400 --> 1:44:03.000 you were in an accident, So glad you're all right. 1:44:03.040 --> 1:44:05.080 We need more people who are kind enough to help 1:44:05.120 --> 1:44:07.320 out A quote old lady, Oh thank you. 1:44:07.360 --> 1:44:07.759 Anita. 1:44:08.479 --> 1:44:10.800 Glenn says, I had to switch back from Alexa Plus 1:44:10.840 --> 1:44:13.280 to what I called dumb Alexa. I got two Echo 1:44:13.360 --> 1:44:16.639 show fives that I mainly use as clocks. I love 1:44:16.680 --> 1:44:20.120 the full screen clock that I would customize both Alexa plus. 1:44:20.160 --> 1:44:22.920 Amazon completely changed the home screen. There's no settings to 1:44:22.960 --> 1:44:25.439 restore the old view. Their online help bot just kept 1:44:25.479 --> 1:44:28.240 sending me to menus that did not exist. I bought 1:44:28.240 --> 1:44:30.360 these devices. I should get to decide how they look 1:44:30.400 --> 1:44:33.160 and work. Not Amazon funny enough. After the update, they 1:44:33.160 --> 1:44:35.840 asked me for feedback on Alexa Plus. They should have 1:44:35.840 --> 1:44:38.519 done that before rolling out the changes. Thanks for your show. 1:44:38.560 --> 1:44:42.160 I listen all the time, Robbie. I really enjoy your 1:44:42.160 --> 1:44:44.120 show and learn something new. Every time I was trying 1:44:44.160 --> 1:44:47.080 to enroll in Windows ten Extended Service updates, couldn't find 1:44:47.080 --> 1:44:49.439 the option in settings. You told me to make sure 1:44:49.479 --> 1:44:52.000 all the updates were installed. After switching back to my 1:44:52.080 --> 1:44:55.000 admin account, changing the password, and running all the original updates, 1:44:55.200 --> 1:44:58.640 the option finally appeared. A couple clicks later. I was 1:44:58.760 --> 1:45:01.160 in Thanks for the quick respet rich. I don't know 1:45:01.160 --> 1:45:04.960 how you find the time to answer individual emails, Robbie, 1:45:05.000 --> 1:45:07.880 don't tell people I do that. Pat writes in saw 1:45:07.920 --> 1:45:11.439 your segment on KTLA about updating Windows ten security. I 1:45:11.479 --> 1:45:14.840 followed your instructions, which were the simple and easy to understand. 1:45:15.200 --> 1:45:17.519 Now I have Windows ten Protection for another year. Your 1:45:17.560 --> 1:45:20.599 advice was very helpful. Keep up the good work. Thank you, Pat, 1:45:21.360 --> 1:45:24.800 Mike love the show. I recently replaced the battery on 1:45:24.840 --> 1:45:27.479 my Dell XPS fifteen. I bought it directly from Dell. 1:45:28.240 --> 1:45:30.760 After installing it, the laptop wouldn't power on until I 1:45:30.840 --> 1:45:34.360 plugged in the charger. Some tutorials online suggested it should 1:45:34.360 --> 1:45:36.759 start up right away, but I learned that some computer 1:45:36.800 --> 1:45:39.280 batteries need just a little juice from the charger before 1:45:39.280 --> 1:45:42.040 they start working. Just a friendly word of encouragement for 1:45:42.080 --> 1:45:43.960 anyone else swapping a laptop battery. 1:45:44.400 --> 1:45:45.400 Keep up the good work. 1:45:46.800 --> 1:45:48.720 Chris writes in my five year old Dell was not 1:45:48.760 --> 1:45:51.280 eligible for the Windows eleven upgrade. I asked around and 1:45:51.320 --> 1:45:54.519 people mentioned to work around. Instead, I took it to 1:45:54.560 --> 1:45:56.320 a local shop for two hundred and twenty bucks. They 1:45:56.320 --> 1:45:59.080 put in a new hard drive, bypassed the annoying login screen, 1:45:59.120 --> 1:46:02.439 and installed Windows A. Now my machine runs faster than ever, 1:46:02.439 --> 1:46:04.040 and I didn't have to copy over all my data 1:46:04.080 --> 1:46:07.760 to a new computer. Chris Oh He says he's also 1:46:07.760 --> 1:46:11.120 been watching since the Tech TV days. Oh wow, that 1:46:11.200 --> 1:46:13.280 was my dream job back in the day Tech TV. 1:46:14.400 --> 1:46:17.240 That's where I literally hounded them to let me work there. 1:46:17.360 --> 1:46:21.240 Never got a job there, but anyway, Gary writes in Rich, 1:46:21.280 --> 1:46:22.600 I love your show and I look forward to it 1:46:22.640 --> 1:46:25.320 every week. Great advice on taking photos of rental cars. 1:46:25.320 --> 1:46:27.240 I actually take video when I pick up the car 1:46:27.280 --> 1:46:31.120 when returning to make sure to include the hood, roof 1:46:31.200 --> 1:46:33.479 and glass. Recently I got a letter saying out four 1:46:33.520 --> 1:46:36.519 grand for hail damage on a rental in Phoenix, even 1:46:36.560 --> 1:46:38.639 though I only had the car a few hours. Luckily 1:46:38.720 --> 1:46:41.679 I had the video and never heard anything more. Hurts 1:46:41.760 --> 1:46:44.480 is now doing high resolution cameras at some airport locations 1:46:44.479 --> 1:46:47.080 to inspect cars for damage. If you don't have proof, 1:46:47.120 --> 1:46:51.519 you might get stuck paying. Yes, Gary, definitely, I recommend 1:46:51.600 --> 1:46:54.280 take at least four pictures of the car in the 1:46:54.360 --> 1:46:56.479 highest resolution that your camera will allow. 1:46:58.000 --> 1:46:58.960 Scott, I was. 1:46:58.960 --> 1:47:00.760 Listening to your podcast. I want to call her asks 1:47:00.800 --> 1:47:02.360 how to get a photo of his daughter off an 1:47:02.360 --> 1:47:05.240 old Nokia. I found myself yelling at the show. Just 1:47:05.280 --> 1:47:07.160 bring the picture up on that phone and snap a 1:47:07.160 --> 1:47:09.639 photo of it with your current phone. Then just run 1:47:09.680 --> 1:47:11.920 it through an app like Gemini Nano Banana to clean 1:47:12.000 --> 1:47:14.839 up the graininess. It's fast, free and gets the job done. 1:47:15.439 --> 1:47:18.479 Mary Anne, Yesterday my computer was taken over by a 1:47:18.520 --> 1:47:21.120 spam pop up. It told me to call Apple support 1:47:21.160 --> 1:47:23.439 and not log off with a very loud recording that 1:47:23.600 --> 1:47:26.000 locked up my computer. I didn't use the number on 1:47:26.040 --> 1:47:28.759 the screen. Instead, I just looked up Apple Support's real number, 1:47:28.960 --> 1:47:32.400 just like you always suggest good that you avoided that, 1:47:32.479 --> 1:47:36.719 Mary Anne, that would have been really bad. And Alan 1:47:36.840 --> 1:47:39.680 in Deerfield Beach, Florida, I was walking home from the 1:47:39.680 --> 1:47:41.960 gym listening to your show when you played an Olivia 1:47:42.040 --> 1:47:44.920 Dean song. I didn't recognize it. I loved it, though, 1:47:44.920 --> 1:47:46.360 which one was it? I want to make a ring 1:47:46.400 --> 1:47:49.559 tone from it. I taught electronics and computers for thirty 1:47:49.560 --> 1:47:51.960 two years and always told my students this was a 1:47:52.000 --> 1:47:54.840 great field because you'll always be learning. I never once 1:47:54.920 --> 1:47:58.000 woke up not wanting to go to work. Thanks for listening. 1:47:58.000 --> 1:47:59.960 That song was Nice to each Other by Olivia Dan. 1:48:00.280 --> 1:48:03.400 It is on repeat in my house for sure. 1:48:04.680 --> 1:48:10.800 Let's see we've got kloy. Chloe says. 1:48:10.800 --> 1:48:12.840 I've never been an alarmist, but when my bankell out 1:48:12.840 --> 1:48:15.240 in ach on my checking account without confirming it, it 1:48:15.280 --> 1:48:17.360 was clear financials are going to be a bigger risk 1:48:17.439 --> 1:48:21.160 going forward. I've also received fake emails from Social Security. 1:48:23.000 --> 1:48:25.200 I asked my provider how they're slipping through. Their long 1:48:25.240 --> 1:48:29.519 reply didn't answer the question. There isn't one be careful 1:48:29.560 --> 1:48:29.960 out there? 1:48:30.400 --> 1:48:31.040 That's going to do it. 1:48:31.040 --> 1:48:32.600 For this show, you can find links to what I 1:48:32.640 --> 1:48:35.320 mentioned on the website rich on tech dot tv. I'm 1:48:35.360 --> 1:48:38.040 on social media at rich on tech. Thanks so much 1:48:38.080 --> 1:48:40.880 for listening. Next week we'll talk about scams. There are 1:48:40.880 --> 1:48:42.719 so many ways you can spend your time. I appreciate 1:48:42.800 --> 1:48:45.439 you spending it right here with me. Please don't drive distracted, 1:48:45.479 --> 1:48:47.040 put that phone down. Thanks to everyone who makes this 1:48:47.080 --> 1:48:49.120 show possible. My name is rich Dedmiro. 1:48:49.240 --> 1:48:50.519 I will talk to you real soon