Speaker 1: Why everyone's rushing to download something called Blue Sky, and
Speaker 1: why you might want to join them. If your password
Speaker 1: is one two, three, four five six. The good news
Speaker 1: is you're not alone. The bad news is that's bad news.
Speaker 1: Amazon's new secret store where everything is under twenty bucks.
Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the
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Speaker 2: Guests.
Speaker 1: This week we've got former USA Today Tech columnist and
Speaker 1: current AARP Tech editor at bag. He's going to talk
Speaker 1: about tech support for your parents. And later we've got
Speaker 1: turn it In's Annie Checatelli. She is going to discuss
Speaker 1: the impact of AI on education. Well, it was fight
Speaker 1: Night in America once again, but this time with a twist.
Speaker 1: This was one of the first major sporting events that
Speaker 1: Netflix well try to stream. They've done some stuff in
Speaker 1: the past. Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson, Did you watch it?
Speaker 1: Probably many many people did. It was sort of a
Speaker 1: technical disaster. Now, I'm not blaming Netflix here. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say that this is bad that they did this.
Speaker 1: You've got to start somewhere, But it gives us perspective.
Speaker 1: This is a huge company with lots of smart people,
Speaker 1: and we are still just in the beginning stages of
Speaker 1: fakeing this stuff out. Now, There's been lots of live
Speaker 1: streams before, but I think that this goes to show
Speaker 1: both the popularity of something like this and also the
Speaker 1: fact that Netflix has some work to do. All kinds
Speaker 1: of streaming problems with the show last night frustrated viewers
Speaker 1: all over the world. Lots of people, including myself, reported
Speaker 1: buffering and connectivity issues. Some people had to wait a
Speaker 1: long time for the show to actually start, and then
Speaker 1: some people got this black screen of death, which I
Speaker 1: also got, and depended kind of on a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Whether you know where you lived, how you were accessing it,
Speaker 1: whether it was on mobile, whether it was on your TV.
Speaker 1: But you know, Netflix really struggled to handle so many
Speaker 1: people watching this event at the same time, Netflix has
Speaker 1: over almost three hundred million subscribers, and every single one
Speaker 1: of them had access to this at no extra cost.
Speaker 1: So it's not like the days of pay per view,
Speaker 1: where you're paying fifty bucks and you better have a
Speaker 1: clear screen because you're paying for that. No, this was
Speaker 1: available to everyone, which is incredible and amazing, but also
Speaker 1: it goes to show that it takes a lot to
Speaker 1: stream something on this level. So of course people were
Speaker 1: on social media, including myself, joking about all the things
Speaker 1: that went wrong.
Speaker 2: It wasn't even clear half the time.
Speaker 1: So at first when I first tuned in, I thought
Speaker 1: it was incredible because it was looking very clear, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden it started buffering, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it started dropping out, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it started not working, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, when it came back, the video.
Speaker 2: Quality was not very good.
Speaker 1: So even if you had a good connection like myself,
Speaker 1: like a fiber connection, you still had issues. So do
Speaker 1: we know how many people watch this? We don't know exactly.
Speaker 1: Netflix has not said just yet do we know how
Speaker 1: much money it generated. One report said eighteen million dollars
Speaker 1: at the stadium itself. Seems like a lot. I'm sure
Speaker 1: these these guys that fought got paid a lot of money.
Speaker 1: I'm sure all the product placement and sponsorships generated a
Speaker 1: lot of money.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Netflix wants to get into live streaming in a big way.
Speaker 1: Somehow Amazon has been able to figure it out. But
Speaker 1: you know they run that infrastructure AWS, so if anyone
Speaker 1: could do live streaming and has the servers for it,
Speaker 1: Amazon's got it figured out.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people are watching those Prime
Speaker 1: football games if it's the same as this level, but
Speaker 1: they've got it figured out. But Netflix is set to
Speaker 1: stream two NFL games on Christmas Day, and you can
Speaker 1: bet a lot of people are going to be watching
Speaker 1: those because everyone's going to be at home and everyone
Speaker 1: wants to watch those games. So we will have to
Speaker 1: see if Netflix can get their act together in the
Speaker 1: next what is it, six weeks or so to resolve
Speaker 1: those technical issues.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, it.
Speaker 1: Was still interesting to see the entire US and maybe
Speaker 1: the world at large come together to watch something in
Speaker 1: a world of fractured and fragmented streaming programs, and everyone's
Speaker 1: on a different wavelength, and everyone's on a different level,
Speaker 1: and everyone's watching a different show. It's kind of cool
Speaker 1: to still have things that bring us all together. And
Speaker 1: last night was one of those times when pretty much
Speaker 1: everyone you knew was watching that. All right, moving on now,
Speaker 1: also this week, if you heard there is a new
Speaker 1: social network that is suddenly popular.
Speaker 2: It is called blue Sky.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that just sound nice? So blue Sky gained more
Speaker 1: than two million users in the past few weeks many
Speaker 1: people after the election, Over fifteen million people are now
Speaker 1: on blue Sky. Now, keep in mind that sounds like
Speaker 1: a big number, but X and Threads have hundreds of
Speaker 1: millions of people. So why are people coming over to
Speaker 1: blue Sky. Well, many are unhappy with Elon Musk his
Speaker 1: support of the new president, and they also say that
Speaker 1: they're mad that X is going to train its ai
Speaker 1: on their posts. But come on, if you're on Instagram,
Speaker 1: if you're on Facebook, if you're on pretty much any
Speaker 1: system that you're not paying for, you are the product
Speaker 1: and they're going to train on your stuff. So that's
Speaker 1: like kind of a weak excuse to leave. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, people are doing it and I'm seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of momentum on this blue sky.
Speaker 2: So what is it?
Speaker 1: Well, it looks a lot like Twitter in the old days,
Speaker 1: I mean, almost identical to Twitter. And well that's probably
Speaker 1: for a reason because it was started in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: by one of the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, but
Speaker 1: he left and it was invite only for a long time.
Speaker 1: So that's the reason you didn't really hear about it
Speaker 1: very much. People that were nerdy, people that were in
Speaker 1: the know. Of course, they knew about this. They've been
Speaker 1: They're gonna say, I've been on this for a year now,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna say, okay, thanks, do you want to meddle?
Speaker 1: But many people are discovering it, So what can you
Speaker 1: do on it? It's the same as Twitter. You can
Speaker 1: follow people, they can follow you back. You can post text,
Speaker 1: you can post photos, you can post videos, you can repost,
Speaker 1: you can like. But here is the thing. It is
Speaker 1: much more open source and decentralized as opposed to something
Speaker 1: like Twitter that is run by one person. Well, many
Speaker 1: people work there, but you know, Elon Musk is at
Speaker 1: the Helm, so this is much more open source and decentralized.
Speaker 2: What does that mean.
Speaker 1: It means that one organization doesn't really own or control
Speaker 1: your data. So if you ever want to leave blue Sky,
Speaker 1: you can, and it's simple, and you can take all
Speaker 1: of your data with you somewhere else. So if something
Speaker 1: else comes up better, all your stuff will just move
Speaker 1: over to that platform. And so that's really interesting, it's
Speaker 1: really unique, and I think this is going to the
Speaker 1: idea of Web three Web three point zero, where it's
Speaker 1: like more of these things are much more decentralized and
Speaker 1: they all sort of work together and you can take
Speaker 1: your information and your services wherever you want to go
Speaker 1: with them. Now, I will tell you, having used blue
Speaker 1: Sky for the past couple of days now, it's nice
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are popping up on there.
Speaker 1: I see a few problems. Number one, it's tough to
Speaker 1: find people on there because you have to pretty much
Speaker 1: search for them by name. There's no way to import
Speaker 1: your address book, which would be really handy, so you
Speaker 1: can't do that. I mean, there are some tools. Someone
Speaker 1: told me about a tool where you can take your
Speaker 1: Twitter followers and it will scan them, but you have
Speaker 1: to do that in Chrome, and it seemed a little wonky,
Speaker 1: and I think you have to give access to one
Speaker 1: of your accounts to do that, which I never really
Speaker 1: liked doing. But I guess people are making these lists
Speaker 1: of like various people in groups, like all the journalists
Speaker 1: on the Tech Journalists. Here's a list and you can
Speaker 1: follow all of them at the same time. So that's
Speaker 1: kind of a cool feature too, But otherwise I'm kind
Speaker 1: of loving it. I've already got almost a thousand followers
Speaker 1: on there, so it's like being back in the old days.
Speaker 1: It's like you're starting something new, You're in something fresh.
Speaker 1: I have not gone off x just yet. I'm still there.
Speaker 1: But now I'm just posting to all these places on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. Facebook, X, Blue Sky, what else, Instagram,
Speaker 1: So there's a lot and people are gonna get kind
Speaker 1: of tired of posting to all these different places, but
Speaker 1: right now it does feel kind of fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: I joined I remember the day I joined Facebook pretty
Speaker 1: much the first day I could. I remember the first
Speaker 1: day I joined Twitter back in the day when I could.
Speaker 1: And it's fun. It's fun to be on kind of
Speaker 1: the round level of these services because there's things that
Speaker 1: you find that are great, and there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of growing problems too. So if you want to find me,
Speaker 1: I am on there at rich On Tech and kind
Speaker 1: of fun on Blue Sky, and we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with it, all right. The other big story this week,
Speaker 1: Bitcoin once again has surged to a record hive over
Speaker 1: ninety thousand dollars a coin.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of it is because of the President elect,
Speaker 1: who has a pro crypto stance, and many people are
Speaker 1: optimistic about this digital currency, which means they're putting more
Speaker 1: money into it. Also, institutional investors are putting money into it.
Speaker 1: Things like retirement accounts and ETFs were approved by regulators
Speaker 1: and they've seen a lot of cash flowing in. Bitcoin
Speaker 1: has now become the world's eighth largest asset, surpassing silver.
Speaker 1: That's pretty wild, but remember cryptocurrency remains highly volatile. You
Speaker 1: have to know what you're doing if you're getting in
Speaker 1: on this. I've kind of all kinds of people texting
Speaker 1: me saying, rich should I get it. I can't give
Speaker 1: you the advice on that. If you've got money to lose,
Speaker 1: sure go ahead, but this is not something that you
Speaker 1: can say, I'm gonna put this money in here, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be there forever. We don't know that to be true.
Speaker 1: So remember this is an investment like anything else. It
Speaker 1: could go up, you could lose it all, but you know,
Speaker 1: it is kind of fun to watch what's going on
Speaker 1: with it. This is not financial advice, but if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a place to get it, coinbase is popular,
Speaker 1: PayPal has a way to buy crypto, Venmo has a way,
Speaker 1: and cash app those are all very easy ways to
Speaker 1: buy it. Of course, do your research before you invest
Speaker 1: in anything. And that doesn't go for just crypto. That's
Speaker 1: any time you put your money in something where.
Speaker 2: It could go away.
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, your call is eighty eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. My name is rich Damiro and
Speaker 1: you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
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Speaker 2: Or the show.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Marcello in Galita, California. Marcelo, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 5: Rich, thank you for taking my call this morning. I'm
Speaker 5: calling because I have a friend who mentioned to me
Speaker 5: that he has bitcoin lost somewhere on one of his
Speaker 5: old phones in an old account, and he got in
Speaker 5: the early two thousands, like he said, he bought it
Speaker 5: through PayPal and I and I got to thinking, maybe
Speaker 5: you know of a company that helps you gain access
Speaker 5: to your old account and get access to your old
Speaker 5: bitcoin with maybe they charge a fee or something. Given
Speaker 5: you information regarding.
Speaker 2: That, Oh good question.
Speaker 1: Probably a lot of people trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: the status is of the bitcoin. Did I buy some
Speaker 1: back in the day, because I know so quick story Marcelo.
Speaker 1: I did a story with bitcoin back in Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I think it was bitcoin ATM.
Speaker 2: Let's see when I did.
Speaker 1: This, probably in twenty oh gosh, twenty seventeen, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was a long time ago. But I purchased twenty
Speaker 1: dollars worth of bitcoin and I did the math and
Speaker 1: it would be several thousand. I mean now with the
Speaker 1: ninety thousand point, it would be you know, it'd be
Speaker 1: like probably five six thousand bucks at this point.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Don't don't quote me on the math.
Speaker 1: My point is I went back to that story and
Speaker 1: I tried to freeze frame the little QR code they
Speaker 1: gave me, because I just threw out the sheet as
Speaker 1: soon as I was done with the story. I was like,
Speaker 1: this isn't going anywhere, and I tried to go back
Speaker 1: to that story and freeze frame the video where I
Speaker 1: pulled a little receipt out of the Bitcoin ATM where
Speaker 1: it has my QR code with my access to it.
Speaker 1: I was like, can I scan this and recover this bitcoin?
Speaker 1: I couldn't, but I agree there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are wondering how to access this. So
Speaker 1: it is tough. And here's my advice moving forward. If
Speaker 1: you are signing up for anything where you're buying bitcoin,
Speaker 1: especially if you are signing up with one of these wallets,
Speaker 1: they give you what's called a recovery phrase, so you
Speaker 1: need to remember that. And I specifically remember many years
Speaker 1: ago signing up for a bitcoin service and I got
Speaker 1: the recovery phrase, and I have no idea where it is,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember if I actually bought bitcoin on
Speaker 1: that account either, but my kid and I were trying
Speaker 1: to go through and we were like signing into coinbase
Speaker 1: and signing into all these apps to see. With that said,
Speaker 1: it is very, very tough to recover this stuff. Because
Speaker 1: if you're buying it through a big company, then it
Speaker 1: might be easier, but if you're buying it through one
Speaker 1: of these wallets and you lose it, you're not really
Speaker 1: going to get it back. So there are a couple
Speaker 1: of resources online. I cannot vouch for them, but I
Speaker 1: can tell you what has been featured before in various publications,
Speaker 1: and one of those is Cryptoasset Recovery dot com, so
Speaker 1: that's one of them. I don't know how much they
Speaker 1: cost to do this, let's see pricing. Oh wow, so
Speaker 1: password recovery, if they figure it out, they will take
Speaker 1: twenty percent of your wallet. So if you had one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in there, they take two hundred dollars, which
Speaker 1: probably a small price to pay. But this is a
Speaker 1: story out of Motherboard. They are talking about back when
Speaker 1: I don't think Motherboard's still around, but they were talking
Speaker 1: about how these This is a father son team in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, and I guess they're just trying. They know
Speaker 1: people need this. So and then there's another one I
Speaker 1: found called keychain x dot io and this says Wallet
Speaker 1: Recovery Services trusted since twenty seventeen. And they've got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of information on there as well.
Speaker 2: So let's see.
Speaker 1: Keychain x can decrypt most types of cryptocurrency, wallets, Ethereum. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they've got basically they they may help you do that,
Speaker 1: but again you're gonna pay to get this done. So
Speaker 1: how how much does your friend have does he say.
Speaker 5: He said he bought it like in two thousand and six,
Speaker 5: or anybody put in one thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so he thinks he's got a lot there.
Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, two thousand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll talk on the information and I appreciate it, all.
Speaker 1: Right, pass on the info that's said. Oh my gosh, okay,
Speaker 1: so bitcoin, let's see they bought it. Let's see they
Speaker 1: bought it for one thousand dollars, and let's see calculate,
Speaker 1: so that'd be worth.
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, let's see.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that'd be worth ninety one thousand dollars at
Speaker 1: this point. That's just that's just a quick calculator. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's correct or not, but that's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not taken into concern. Oh okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: I got to look up the buy price from two thousand. Okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, bitcoin price so in two thousand it was
Speaker 1: let's see, we got to go back. Oh, I guess
Speaker 1: I can't even look up. I can't even look up
Speaker 1: the price in two thousand. Bitcoin price two thousand was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that's a long time. Okay, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it's worth more than ninety thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: That's that's worth a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, yeah, I would pay to have
Speaker 1: someone figure that out.
Speaker 2: All right, good question.
Speaker 1: Marcelo Please, No matter what you're signing up for, whether
Speaker 1: it is bitcoin, whether it is crypto, whether it is
Speaker 1: an account that you open up at Facebook or anything,
Speaker 1: please remember your account password. I don't know what it
Speaker 1: is about people that just they refuse to use a
Speaker 1: password manager. Get a password manager. Bitwarden is completely free.
Speaker 1: All you have to do. It's like a little notebook.
Speaker 1: Just write down your username and password as you sign up. Yes,
Speaker 1: it takes you an extra three minutes to sign up
Speaker 1: for a website because you have to do a little
Speaker 1: legwork to generate the password and save it. But I
Speaker 1: do it every day, and I'm telling you it has
Speaker 1: saved me so many times. I just set up a
Speaker 1: new computer. I said, oh, I'll never forget the password
Speaker 1: to this computer. I forgot it as soon as I
Speaker 1: set it up, and of course it was in my wallet.
Speaker 1: Please use a password manager. Eight A eight rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: talking technology this week. If you like Google, you might
Speaker 1: like their new app for the iPhone. They released their
Speaker 1: AI app, a standalone Gemini AI app for the iPhone.
Speaker 1: So this is something you could access in the past,
Speaker 1: but you had to go through the Google app. Now
Speaker 1: Gemini AI is standalone, so that means you can go
Speaker 1: to the app store search for Gemini AI. Just be
Speaker 1: careful because there's a lot of impersonators whenever you search
Speaker 1: for these main AI brands, so make sure you're getting
Speaker 1: that the one that is actually from Google. I'll put
Speaker 1: a link on the website. Rich on tech dot TV
Speaker 1: go to the show notes. But what can you do
Speaker 1: with Gemini AI. Well, this is this is Google's version
Speaker 1: of Chat GPT, so you can text it, you can
Speaker 1: ask it questions. There's a camera mode. It also has
Speaker 1: Gemini Live. This is their conversational mode, so you can
Speaker 1: talk to AI in a natural language. And I was
Speaker 1: hanging out with Google this week in New York City
Speaker 1: and they talked about how they have not only can
Speaker 1: these things speak forty different languages, which is just absolutely wild,
Speaker 1: but the names of these these Gemini Live characters, I
Speaker 1: guess you can call them whatever you want to, however
Speaker 1: you want to describe them. They all are inspired by
Speaker 1: heavenly bodies, so they didn't want to name them traditional
Speaker 1: names because they thought it'd be weird. If you know,
Speaker 1: like remember we have Siri and we have the alex
Speaker 1: A one. But you know, Google Assistant never really had
Speaker 1: a name, but Jem and I. They wanted to come
Speaker 1: up with these interesting kind of names that were much
Speaker 1: more kind of mysterious, because you don't want to say, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Bob. You know you're just talking to
Speaker 1: Let's see, where's the voices. So here's the voices.
Speaker 6: I'm ready to be your voice. If you like what
Speaker 6: you hear, choose me to start talking.
Speaker 2: So that's URSA.
Speaker 4: Feel free to keep exploring until you find the perfect voice.
Speaker 2: That's Vega.
Speaker 6: You can always change voices later.
Speaker 7: I'll be here whenever you're ready to talk.
Speaker 1: And this is Nova described as calm mid range. Here's
Speaker 1: Pegasus s.
Speaker 2: It's about the other voices. Swipe to explore or pick
Speaker 2: me to start engaged in deeper voice Eclipse.
Speaker 6: Is it good to meet you?
Speaker 8: Give me a chance or check out the other options Energetic.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm your style, Pick me and I can be
Speaker 2: the voice you hear.
Speaker 1: Why why does he sound a little down? He doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like I don't know if you let's go back.
Speaker 1: This is dipper hold it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm your style, Pick me and I can be
Speaker 2: the voice you hear.
Speaker 1: I feel like he might read like one of those
Speaker 1: like romance novels late at night.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It sounds like the guy at the
Speaker 2: bar that just brought you a drink. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: know that's that one anyway.
Speaker 1: So so all, so this is actually if you haven't
Speaker 1: tried this, now is your time.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Gemini Live used to be a feature they had to
Speaker 1: pay for. I'm not sure if they open that up
Speaker 1: for free now, but that is the So there's various
Speaker 1: options once you download this app, but that live thing
Speaker 1: is something you should really try.
Speaker 2: It's in the lower right hand corner. It looks like
Speaker 2: kind of a voice.
Speaker 1: But the neat thing about this is that you can
Speaker 1: now just access Gemini AI a lot faster on the iPhone. Now,
Speaker 1: there are some hang ups because it is the iPhone.
Speaker 1: The way it's constructed, it can't access other apps on
Speaker 1: the phone unless they're Google properties. So it can do
Speaker 1: things like Google maps and link up with YouTube music,
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be able to like do other
Speaker 1: things on your phone like Siri would be able to do,
Speaker 1: so just keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: But it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I would definitely recommend downloading it. And the thing about
Speaker 1: that's neat about Gemini is that it's up to date
Speaker 1: with all of Google's information, so that's kind of a
Speaker 1: little leg up against some of these other AI chatbots
Speaker 1: out there that may not be as fresh like Google AI.
Speaker 1: Gemini really has all the information you need, so if
Speaker 1: you're looking for like answers to questions about things that
Speaker 1: just happened, you can get those answers a lot easier
Speaker 1: on Gemini compared to some of the other things. Now
Speaker 1: chat GBT just introduced web search results not as good
Speaker 1: and also it's a premium feature, so Gemini has that
Speaker 1: built in for free, even on the free level. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Gemini for iOS, you can check it out. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Mark in Los Angeles. Mark, you're on with.
Speaker 9: Rich All Rich, I'm a Mac guy since nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 9: I'm about to buy either an iMac or a Mac
Speaker 9: Many and one of my considerations is that if I
Speaker 9: buy a Macmini, I will have to get an external monitor.
Speaker 9: The Apple monitor is awesome, but they love it as
Speaker 9: much as I do, and it's kind of expensive, so
Speaker 9: I'm looking to either. I would look to a four
Speaker 9: K monitor, which would be less. So I'm curious as
Speaker 9: to your thoughts on the visual experience of that monitor,
Speaker 9: which admittedly would be awesome, and a four K monitor,
Speaker 9: and what brands you trust if I were to go
Speaker 9: to a four K monitor of a different of a
Speaker 9: different kind. I haven't had to buy a monitor in
Speaker 9: a very long time.
Speaker 3: Well, all the.
Speaker 9: Specs are kind of amazing now, you know, all over
Speaker 9: the place.
Speaker 1: Yes they are. So I will tell you as someone
Speaker 1: who just got the Macmini. So Apple sent along the
Speaker 1: Macmini to test out. And I've never had a Mac
Speaker 1: Mini before, and they just sent the most basic one.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It's like the basic version of it. So it's got
Speaker 1: the sixteen gigs a RAM, it's got the standard M
Speaker 1: four chip. It's not the pro. And I'm telling you, Mark,
Speaker 1: I'm in love with this thing. I was on it
Speaker 1: this morning, I was on it last night. My wife
Speaker 1: is like, are you coming to bed? I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: still playing on this computer. The screen is huge. They
Speaker 1: sent one of the studio displays, so it's the standard
Speaker 1: studio display, which I get is sixteen hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: But it's a twenty seven.
Speaker 9: Inches seven inch That's what I have I have a
Speaker 9: like a Circle twenty thirteen iMac and it's just they
Speaker 9: just don't support it anymore. It won't it won't stop working,
Speaker 9: you know, it never gets right, of course, but I
Speaker 9: need to replace it. And if it didn't cost so much,
Speaker 9: it wouldn't be a I wouldn't think about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, there are many other monitors that are
Speaker 1: a lot cheaper.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Obviously, Apple of course has a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: sinner between their monitor and their computers, but you don't
Speaker 1: really need that. But I will tell you as far
Speaker 1: as between the iMac and the Macmini, I would go
Speaker 1: with the Macmini for sure, just because I love the
Speaker 1: idea that this thing is so small. It's got ports
Speaker 1: on the front, which I really like, so you can
Speaker 1: plug in things, and it's just it's always there and
Speaker 1: it's just simple and it's nice.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to.
Speaker 1: Buying the monitor, we actually had a guest on and
Speaker 1: the guest was Matthew S. Smith, So look him up.
Speaker 1: He's got actually i'll send I'll put the links in
Speaker 1: the show notes, but he mentioned all of the monitors
Speaker 1: that he recommends. I don't have it off the top
Speaker 1: of my head, but he had a great and a
Speaker 1: whole buyer's guide, so he explained like the difference between
Speaker 1: the monitors, which ones he likes, and I've got it.
Speaker 1: I'll put it all in the show notes, but it
Speaker 1: was from what I remember, he had some pretty strong
Speaker 1: opinions on things. He also maintains the PC mag Monitor
Speaker 1: Buying Guide, so I would look there and let's let's
Speaker 1: see PC mag.
Speaker 2: Let's okay here, but that's where Matthew Smith Matthew S.
Speaker 1: Smith, And if you look at if you look at
Speaker 1: his information on there, he's got all the monitors that
Speaker 1: he recommends on PC mag. That's I'm trying to look
Speaker 1: it up. Of course I can't find it while I'm
Speaker 1: talking to you. Monitor Buying guide on PC mag. Let
Speaker 1: me see that real quick. Here we go best monitors
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. So I mean they recommend, yeah,
Speaker 1: some of these standard brands that you would know, like
Speaker 1: the Lenovo, Dell HP A SEUs. But he explains in
Speaker 1: his interview what to look for, and I think that's
Speaker 1: the main thing is there's so many specs that he
Speaker 1: sort of like explained what he thinks are the things
Speaker 1: that you should mainly look for in these.
Speaker 9: Monitors so available on your website.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll link it up on the show notes.
Speaker 1: I can't find it right now while we're talking on
Speaker 1: the air, but it was it was basically everything you
Speaker 1: need to know. Like I love when these experts come
Speaker 1: on they just say, look, this is what I like.
Speaker 1: I've said all these things. This one's like five hundred
Speaker 1: bucks and it's going to be fantastic. So but I
Speaker 1: would say the main difference between the iMac and the
Speaker 1: Macmini is, you know, the iMac is sort of like
Speaker 1: stuck in time, like once you get it, that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean Mac Minnie kind of the same way, like
Speaker 1: you're not going to really be upgrading a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff on there. But I just like the idea that
Speaker 1: you're bringing your own components. So again, you can get
Speaker 1: that nice big display that you want, you can get
Speaker 1: a keyboard that you like.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could do that with the iMac as well.
Speaker 1: But I guess the only difference is, and this is
Speaker 1: something that Matthew talked about, was whether you should get
Speaker 1: a webcam built in or not, and he he said
Speaker 1: he does not like the webcams built in, and the
Speaker 1: reason is because you know they're usually higher quality when
Speaker 1: they're not built in and they're also you know, it's
Speaker 1: just much better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's his buying guide. Okay, I found it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so he so his best monitor overall is the
Speaker 1: Dell Ultra Sharp PIXEO is the best budget monitor for
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty bucks. I don't think you want
Speaker 1: that one. The best budget four K is a Dell
Speaker 1: that's three hundred bucks. Best budget gaming monitor is also Dell.
Speaker 1: So he really likes the Dell stuff. MSI best Gaming monitor, Alienware,
Speaker 1: best gaming monitor a sus they make the best high
Speaker 1: refresh rate monitor that's a thousand bucks, and best budget.
Speaker 9: As when they say gaming monitor, what's different between a
Speaker 9: gaming monitor and just a good computer like the like
Speaker 9: the like the studio display. Is there something different from
Speaker 9: a gaming monitor and Apple's expensive monitor.
Speaker 1: I believe it's the refresh rate. I think that's mainly
Speaker 1: what it is and how it handles that.
Speaker 9: I'm not a gamer, yeah.
Speaker 1: So you probably don't need to worry about that, but
Speaker 1: that's I think that's the main thing. And he explains it.
Speaker 1: Let's see, yeah, yeah, higher a refresh rate, but he
Speaker 1: was also explaining how the refresh rates you know, for
Speaker 1: standard computing, you don't really need something that high. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Let's see if you look at
Speaker 1: the the Apple studio displays. See like Apple doesn't even
Speaker 1: mention their refresh rates on their main page because most
Speaker 1: people are not looking at that.
Speaker 2: You know, you know it's going to look good.
Speaker 1: This does okay. Interesting, So the studio monitor does have
Speaker 1: a camera built in. I did not didn't even notice
Speaker 1: that on one And the other thing that the Apple
Speaker 1: monitors are doing now is they have the the iMac.
Speaker 1: The only separate the only thing that's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: It's got the downward facing camera. So it's called desk view.
Speaker 1: So you can put like a piece of paper if
Speaker 1: you're doing a zoom like in front of the monitor
Speaker 1: and it will look down at that. So if you're
Speaker 1: sharing like things on your desk, you can do that.
Speaker 1: So that's one thing the iMac does that I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that the studio display does. But that's something to
Speaker 1: look for anyway. Great question, Yeah, I'll link it up
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2: Look for the show notes. This is show number. What
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to uh Kent. Let's see here Kent in
Speaker 2: Huntington Beach, Kent. You're on with rich Hi.
Speaker 4: Rich.
Speaker 3: I have a iPhone, twelve promats and two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty six gigabytes. I've got like fifteen gigabytes left, but
Speaker 3: he can't download the last seventeen or eighteen iOS so
Speaker 3: enough says I don't have enough memory.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't have enough memory? Okay, So well, so
Speaker 1: you said how many gigs you have left on your phone?
Speaker 3: Fourteen? Like fourteen and a half.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, and so and iOS eighteen is saying that's
Speaker 1: not enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when it when it? When the downloads is it's
Speaker 3: point like four.
Speaker 1: Well okay, but that's that's the download. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: take into consideration what this thing needs to do on
Speaker 1: your phone. So it doesn't just because the download is
Speaker 1: that amount. It wants a certain amount of space on
Speaker 1: your phone to make sure that nothing gets corrupted or
Speaker 1: it needs it needs some space to work, is what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. So, is there any way you
Speaker 1: can free up like a couple of gigs on your phone?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I could it, just it would be nice if
Speaker 3: they would tell you what they need, or you know,
Speaker 3: built them in such a way that even if you
Speaker 3: i mean, because you you know, you pay a lot
Speaker 3: of money for these things in the storage, they should
Speaker 3: make it so that it works and you still get
Speaker 3: your usable storage, not always having to delete stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm looking at some things, some reports online
Speaker 1: and it's saying that for iOS eighteen, it looks like
Speaker 1: you need about twenty gigs of storage available. Now Apple
Speaker 1: doesn't I don't think they published this, but that is
Speaker 1: what people are reporting you need.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I've heard people with sixty four gigabytes. They're
Speaker 3: really I mean, they're they're deleting them a ton of
Speaker 3: stuff from they're telling and still can't do it.
Speaker 2: Sixty four you mean like sixty four total?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know that is yeah, that's
Speaker 1: unfortunate because here's the thing, like, for a long time,
Speaker 1: and many in the tech world gave Apple a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, a lot of trouble for this is
Speaker 1: that for many, many years they were selling phones that
Speaker 1: were understored, right, you had way less storage than people
Speaker 1: needed for today's current applications, which you know, if you're
Speaker 1: taking any sort of four K videos or you know,
Speaker 1: even if you're downloading a lot of apps. I mean
Speaker 1: apps today are like three hundred megabytes sometimes so and
Speaker 1: that you know, just for like an average like Facebook
Speaker 1: or something, So you do need much more storage than
Speaker 1: you think on your phone. And also a lot of
Speaker 1: people think that they can just buy their way to
Speaker 1: more storage with iCloud, when you know you can in
Speaker 1: a way, but it's also kind of linked to your phone,
Speaker 1: so it's not that easy. But and I do wish
Speaker 1: Apple would say on the on the actual you know,
Speaker 1: when you're downloading this or trying to download it, like, hey,
Speaker 1: you need one more gig of storage before we can
Speaker 1: install this, instead.
Speaker 3: Of just yeah, you need to pree it up this
Speaker 3: and then we can download it or a different way
Speaker 3: to do it on your computer or something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and by the way.
Speaker 1: They should also say, like, here's three files you can
Speaker 1: delete that we think you don't need. So do you
Speaker 1: know how to free up space quickly on your phone
Speaker 1: or have you have you come up with a plan
Speaker 1: for that or no.
Speaker 3: I haven't really, I mean I have. I have a
Speaker 3: lot of photos and videos, and I have a Google
Speaker 3: backup and Prime backup, so I could I could delete
Speaker 3: a lot of.
Speaker 1: Those, Okay, So the easiest way to do it is
Speaker 1: if you go into oh see, I've I've got the
Speaker 1: new iOS eighteen, but I think it's similar, but I
Speaker 1: think under general I'm not sure if they still have it,
Speaker 1: but it says iPhone storage.
Speaker 2: This might be new.
Speaker 1: I know they have an iPhone storage somewhere on your iOS.
Speaker 1: It may not be under general, but there is if
Speaker 1: you find maybe just search for iPhone storage and what
Speaker 1: they do is they give you recommendations for what you
Speaker 1: can do to free up some storage. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my phone, Netflix is holding fifteen gigs
Speaker 1: and that's just stuff I've downloaded on Netflix. I could
Speaker 1: easily get rid of that. Those are like downloaded shows.
Speaker 1: I can easily get rid of those. In the meantime
Speaker 1: to download iOS eighteen and then re download those shows
Speaker 1: Instagram eight gigs, podcasts, five gigs, voice memos four gigs.
Speaker 1: So again, those are some low hanging fruit. Pretty easy
Speaker 1: to get rid of those things without even deleting your
Speaker 1: files or videos. But typically what I tell people to
Speaker 1: do is as long as they're backed up somewhere else,
Speaker 1: is you can delete some of the longest videos that
Speaker 1: you have on your iPhone. And I think even Apple
Speaker 1: makes that tricky to find those, but sometimes they put
Speaker 1: them under the recommendations. But on Android it's pretty easy.
Speaker 1: You just go into your files app and you just
Speaker 1: sort by the largest files. But on on iPhone, you
Speaker 1: can go into your videos and you can just look
Speaker 1: at the times of the videos and find the ones.
Speaker 1: Let's see, can you sort view options? No filter, Nope, can't.
Speaker 1: It doesn't let you sort by biggest videos unfortunately, but
Speaker 1: that's you know, an easy way to do it is
Speaker 1: just to look for a video that's over, you know,
Speaker 1: like I'm looking at one that's uh, let's see here,
Speaker 1: maybe like fifteen minutes long or something ten minutes.
Speaker 3: It would be nice, it would be nice if they
Speaker 3: gave you the same storage on iCloud that you buy
Speaker 3: on your phone, so that if you have to do
Speaker 3: a total reset or something, you not have to like
Speaker 3: buy in it for a month or whatever just to
Speaker 3: save it and put it back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there isn't.
Speaker 3: That doesn't always work because I've had the genius part
Speaker 3: lose a bunch of my stuff when they set it
Speaker 3: downloaded to the cloud and it did.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not good. But there is a feature that
Speaker 1: Apple did introduce this year or last year with iCloud,
Speaker 1: which is I'm trying to find the exact name of it,
Speaker 1: but yes, here it is. It's temporary iCloud storage. I'll
Speaker 1: link this up in the show notes. So this is
Speaker 1: actually something they did that's pretty good. So if you
Speaker 1: have if you're switching to a new iPhone and you
Speaker 1: don't have enough iCloud storage to back up your current device,
Speaker 1: they will automatically expand your iCloud storage to accommodate everything
Speaker 1: on your phone so that you can move it over
Speaker 1: to your new one, and then once it's moved over
Speaker 1: to the new one, Apple will delete that information after
Speaker 1: twenty one days. So that's actually kind of a nice
Speaker 1: thing they did. Understanding that people don't always have as
Speaker 1: much eCloud as they have storage on their phone. But
Speaker 1: you also have to remember Kent that Apple makes a
Speaker 1: lot of money on iCloud storage. That's one of their
Speaker 1: biggest growing areas of money for that company. This is
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Speaker 1: got lots of shows. This has show number ninety eight,
Speaker 1: so you can find that there as well. How good
Speaker 1: is your password? Nord Pass, you know one of the
Speaker 1: password manager programs. They have a vested interest in this stuff.
Speaker 1: But they've been studying passwords for four six years, and uh,
Speaker 1: apparently password habits are not improving. Even with all the
Speaker 1: people like myself that are saying you got to get
Speaker 1: a better password, people are still using week week passwords,
Speaker 1: and this is for their personal systems and their company computers.
Speaker 1: One two three, four five six is the most common
Speaker 1: password for the fifth time in six years. Now here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You may say, Oh, I do one two
Speaker 1: three four five six exclamation point, that'll keep them out. No,
Speaker 1: these uh, these hackers use sophisticated programs that can figure
Speaker 1: out these passwords in seconds. In fact, looking at their
Speaker 1: website NordPass dot com slash a most common password list,
Speaker 1: Uh one two, three, four five six, you might think
Speaker 1: seven eight nine.
Speaker 2: Adding to the end is going to be better. No
Speaker 2: one two.
Speaker 1: Okay, So in the top ten, you've got the combination
Speaker 1: of knowing one two, three, four, five six, seven eight nine,
Speaker 1: and you've got password coardy one two three one one
Speaker 1: one one one one one secret Secret is number nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll keep them out. I Love you number eighteen, Dragon
Speaker 1: number twenty monkey number twenty one password with a capital
Speaker 1: P number twenty six. Yeah, that'll that'll keep them out.
Speaker 1: Target one two three, tinkle number twenty nine. Oh bobo,
Speaker 1: they found your password. Oh yours is twinkle, of course,
Speaker 1: twinkle twinkle, Uh cordy with a G number thirty three.
Speaker 1: Uh okay. It just goes on and on and on. Now,
Speaker 1: by the way, all of these passwords, every single one
Speaker 1: of them, until you get to the word the number
Speaker 1: number one O eight, which is seven seven five eight
Speaker 1: five two one. Every single one before that takes a
Speaker 1: second less than a second to crack using software. This
Speaker 1: one takes uh four minutes, but they'll still crack it.
Speaker 1: Let's see anything that's seventeen minute. Wow, So if you
Speaker 1: use the password unknown, that actually takes seventeen minutes to crack.
Speaker 1: So I guess, at the at the very least, if
Speaker 1: you're okay. So it looks like interesting. So Nicole takes
Speaker 1: two minutes, Anthony takes seventeen to crack. They recommend a
Speaker 1: password of at least twenty characters long. You will never
Speaker 1: remember a password that's twenty characters long. Plus you have
Speaker 1: to mix uppercase, lowercase numbers, and symbols. Never reuse passwords
Speaker 1: across accounts. Consider going passwordless. You can use an option
Speaker 1: like passkeys. It's kind of funny. I've only set up
Speaker 1: pass keys on like one account, but every time I
Speaker 1: log into that account, I love it because it's so easy.
Speaker 1: You just unlock your phone and it puts you into
Speaker 1: the account. It's super, super easy. And of course, use
Speaker 1: a password manager. Use a password manager. I talked about it.
Speaker 1: You can use there's so many. There's a Bitwarden that's free,
Speaker 1: nord pass one password dash.
Speaker 2: Lane, there's so many.
Speaker 1: Just pick one and use it and secure that with
Speaker 1: a good password and make sure that you do not
Speaker 1: lose your recovery key. Let's go to Paul in Columbus, Ohio. Paul,
Speaker 1: you're on with Richel.
Speaker 4: Huh. I love it.
Speaker 2: I'll just give you a hard time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got a Tshiba notebook that I'm donating to
Speaker 4: the local library at the old computer, but it was
Speaker 4: hardly used and it still boots up the better. He's good, mom.
Speaker 4: I want to wipe it so they could put Linux
Speaker 4: or Chrome Plus or something like that on. But I've
Speaker 4: got Windows seven right now.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yeah, So that's trickier because the new versions
Speaker 1: of Windows have an easy way to wipe them. The
Speaker 1: old ones do not, So what are you trying to do?
Speaker 1: What have you tried to do with this?
Speaker 4: Oh? I know I'm having not much because I didn't
Speaker 4: want to screw something up. But I know there was
Speaker 4: a stuff stuff I looked up. It said to go
Speaker 4: to restore and recover. I think it was. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean at the end of the matter of fact, I've
Speaker 4: heard you talk about this to some extent in the path.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you can't screw much up because this
Speaker 1: computer is you know it's going You're just going to
Speaker 1: recycle it. But so on Windows, let's see here. So
Speaker 1: Windows eight, Windows eight and ten and eleven obviously have
Speaker 1: an easy way to do this. Windows seven does not.
Speaker 1: So there are a couple of couple of apps you
Speaker 1: can use to do this if you want to just
Speaker 1: erase the hard drive. One of them is killed disc.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of that one? Okay, so that's one.
Speaker 1: There used to be one called DBAN, but I guess
Speaker 1: that one is not really maintained anymore. But that's what
Speaker 1: that did in the past, is that you would basically
Speaker 1: make a put it on a drive like on a
Speaker 1: CD drive. You'd put it in the drive and as
Speaker 1: soon as you turn on that computer, it would see
Speaker 1: that program and it just erase everything. So it seems
Speaker 1: like it's still available. But last I heard, I got
Speaker 1: an email from a listener last year, Dave, and he
Speaker 1: said that d BAN is abandon where it has not
Speaker 1: been maintained in many years. It's full of bugs and
Speaker 1: it won't boot on a lot of systems. So he
Speaker 1: says there is two things that he recommended, which is
Speaker 1: n wipe and a bootable version of that called shred os.
Speaker 1: So those are the the things that you can look up.
Speaker 1: But apparently, you know, all of these look like they
Speaker 1: take a little bit of know how to do, so
Speaker 1: it may not be that easy if you if you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't have the full know how, what about
Speaker 1: just putting what about just putting the chromos on there?
Speaker 1: That the chromos flex.
Speaker 4: Flex you know, I said plus was flex. Okay? Could
Speaker 4: with that overright the window?
Speaker 1: It should if you if you put it on there,
Speaker 1: as long as you're installing it and not just running
Speaker 1: it off the you know, off the us B because
Speaker 1: you can run this off a USB drive, but if
Speaker 1: you actually install it on there, you can you know,
Speaker 1: that'll that'll format everything, it'll wipe everything.
Speaker 2: Off, so you might try that. Yeah, okay, and that
Speaker 2: that'll make it.
Speaker 4: I don't even care if Windows seven was on make
Speaker 4: sure whether there's not much data on it otherwise, but
Speaker 4: they didn't want to erase it other one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no you won't. You won't need that. It's because
Speaker 2: once it's on there.
Speaker 1: So basically, you you create this bootable USB drive and
Speaker 1: then uh, that's it. You install it on your your mac. Uh,
Speaker 1: well let's see it on trying to see what's going
Speaker 1: on here. Okay, Yeah, you install it on your PC
Speaker 1: or MAC to replace the operating system and that's it.
Speaker 1: And it's that's pretty easy. Maybe just do that and
Speaker 1: that way you give it to them already ready to go.
Speaker 4: Okay, thought chickie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chrome os Flex it's called. I'll put that in
Speaker 1: the show notes as well. Yeah, we got a quick minute.
Speaker 4: Okay. I've got an older Ethernet switch that I've got
Speaker 4: my television and Apple Box connected to, and sometimes I'm
Speaker 4: getting a pause or a problem with buffering, and I'm
Speaker 4: just wondering if the switch could cause an old switch
Speaker 4: could kill it. That's like eight or nine sports on.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, I mean a switch is going
Speaker 1: to be at minimum one hundred. You know it's it's
Speaker 1: a minimum one hundred. So there's no way that that's
Speaker 1: going to cause buffering on these systems.
Speaker 4: So what's causing me to get pauses in the middle
Speaker 4: of a program? Have you radically?
Speaker 1: Have you tried connecting the device via Wi Fi to
Speaker 1: your router and see if it still happens.
Speaker 4: No, it's hard Everything is hard wired at this point.
Speaker 2: Can you disconnect that hard wire or no?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could sure, I would use a yet or
Speaker 4: t a cube.
Speaker 1: Okay, well yeah, I mean you shouldn't be experiencing buffering
Speaker 1: the fire TV cube has that's actually like the highest
Speaker 1: powered fire So I would say what I would try
Speaker 1: to do is I would do two things. I would
Speaker 1: first off, connect You might need a long Ethernet cable
Speaker 1: to do this, depending on where your router is, but
Speaker 1: I would connect the fire TV Cube first. I would
Speaker 1: just try it over Wi Fi and see if the
Speaker 1: problem persists. And if that problem persists and you know,
Speaker 1: it's the cube itself and it's not the actual Internet connection,
Speaker 1: then the second thing I would do is connect. If
Speaker 1: it's still happening that way, then I would connect the
Speaker 1: fireTV Cube directly to your router with an Ethernet cable
Speaker 1: and see if it happens there. So if it continues
Speaker 1: to happen with all the different methods of connecting, then
Speaker 1: you know it's something with your fire TV Cube and Paul,
Speaker 1: what I would do is my favorite solution is to
Speaker 1: just bring that back to factory settings and see if
Speaker 1: that continues to happen. You might have installed an app
Speaker 1: on there something that's just not agreeing with it, and
Speaker 1: it's that's what's happening and causing that stumble. But today,
Speaker 1: in today's day and age, unless you're watching the Netflix
Speaker 1: Live fight, you shouldn't really have buffering issues.
Speaker 2: It's just the way it is.
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Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: We got an email from Brian in San Diego. He says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I love your show. I have a question about video editing.
Speaker 1: Is there a software or app that can automatically edit
Speaker 1: video clips into a full video. I have hours of
Speaker 1: go Pro footage from a motorcycle trip from San Diego
Speaker 1: to the bottom tip of South America, but the amount
Speaker 1: of footage feels overwhelming. Is there something I can automatically
Speaker 1: go through and find parts of clips that are good
Speaker 1: and cut them out and combine them with other clips?
Speaker 2: Thanks keeps the keep the show rolling, Brian.
Speaker 1: Yes, there are programs that can do this, but I
Speaker 1: will tell you every time I've ever tested one, it's
Speaker 1: pretty horrible. They're just nothing will replace an actual human
Speaker 1: being going through the video and formatting it for the
Speaker 1: video that you want. So I understand, and this is
Speaker 1: just a common occurrence. We shoot so many pictures, so
Speaker 1: many videos, and when it comes to placing those together,
Speaker 1: it is not easy. Now, as someone who edits video
Speaker 1: every single day of my life, I find that of course,
Speaker 1: I want to have the ultimate say to what these
Speaker 1: videos look like, and I can trioge pretty quickly and
Speaker 1: find stuff, but I get it. It's it's a lot
Speaker 1: of work. It's not easy. But there are some programs
Speaker 1: that will do this, and you can try them out
Speaker 1: and see what happens. The first is actually built into GoPro.
Speaker 1: So GoPro knows that this is an issue for people
Speaker 1: that shoot a lot of GoPro stuff, so they have
Speaker 1: what's called go pro Quick qu I K. So if
Speaker 1: you download that app, and I don't think you have
Speaker 1: to pay for it, but yeah, you can import your
Speaker 1: go pro video into there and it will come up
Speaker 1: with a little highlight reel. And all of these, by
Speaker 1: the way, will come up with a highlight reel that
Speaker 1: lets you eventually tweak it to what you want. So
Speaker 1: go Pro not only will it take the the the
Speaker 1: video footage that you've shot on GoPro, but any other camera,
Speaker 1: so it can be anything. So I've tried that in
Speaker 1: the past. It's pretty good. And all of these programs
Speaker 1: are really looking for you know, they're looking for smiling faces,
Speaker 1: they're looking for the action in the shot. You know,
Speaker 1: they're programmed to look for certain things in the video
Speaker 1: clips that might make that something that you want to see. Eventually,
Speaker 1: they're not human beings, so they don't always get it right,
Speaker 1: but they will do that. And also this go pro
Speaker 1: Quick can auto sync the edits to music. You can
Speaker 1: change the video speed you've got filters that you can
Speaker 1: choose from, so that's go pro quick Quik.
Speaker 2: I've tried it.
Speaker 1: I've never really I don't think I've ever posted a
Speaker 1: video that has been made automatically. I just haven't because
Speaker 1: they just they're never like they're they're almost there. The
Speaker 1: other one that I used to use, I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is around anymore, but there's one called Magisto
Speaker 1: M A G I t O, but it doesn't I
Speaker 1: don't know if this is actually around. It looks like
Speaker 1: they might have been purchased by Vimeo, and this one
Speaker 1: was actually it looks like it's still on here.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, oh yeah it was. Yep, it was purchased
Speaker 2: by Vimeo.
Speaker 1: It looks like no, it says it was updated in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, so I might try it. Magisto is
Speaker 1: another one that I've used in the past. Again, it's
Speaker 1: just okay. The other one, I mean, obviously the big
Speaker 1: one is cap cut. So cap cut is gonna have
Speaker 1: this feature built into it and you can upload your stuff.
Speaker 1: It will come up with a little clip reel and
Speaker 1: this might be just fine. This might be all you
Speaker 1: need is just a quick clip reel of the stuff.
Speaker 2: That you shot.
Speaker 1: But I find that if you really want to do this,
Speaker 1: download one of these apps, like I would say, download
Speaker 1: a cap cut or download you know, any of these
Speaker 1: video There's so many video editing apps, but cap cut
Speaker 1: is one that I really like. Splice is the other
Speaker 1: one that I like. I think that's that's both iOS
Speaker 1: and Android, but those are those are both easy ways
Speaker 1: to kind of do this on your phone. But for
Speaker 1: me personally, if I'm doing something that that's a bigger project,
Speaker 1: I'm doing this on my computer with final cut Pro.
Speaker 1: You can also get final Cut Pro on your iPad
Speaker 1: if you have if you have a recent iPad, I
Speaker 1: think you have to have an m chip in the
Speaker 1: iPad to use final cut Pro, but it's like five
Speaker 1: bucks a month.
Speaker 2: But that might be an easy way to do it
Speaker 2: on your iPad.
Speaker 1: And you might find, Brian, that you enjoy doing this,
Speaker 1: you know, once you start getting into it, you might
Speaker 1: find that you really like, you know, because what you
Speaker 1: do is just take all the clips that you have,
Speaker 1: put them all in the timeline and just go through
Speaker 1: each clip and just kind of triage it, like just
Speaker 1: clip the parts out that aren't interesting, delete the clips
Speaker 1: that aren't interesting, and then clip the little areas of
Speaker 1: the clip that's interesting, and then you'll just keep going
Speaker 1: from there. So now you're twenty minutes of footage becomes
Speaker 1: ten minutes of footage, You're ten minutes a footage becomes
Speaker 1: five minutes a footage, You're five minutes of footage becomes
Speaker 1: three minutes, and just keep going through. So those that's
Speaker 1: the way I usually do it if I have a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff to work with, great question and have fun.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a fun trip. Now let's get into
Speaker 1: your Amazon News before we have. We've got ed Bag
Speaker 1: coming up. He wrote for USA Today for many many
Speaker 1: years and now he is the current AARP Tech editor.
Speaker 1: He's going to talk about remote solutions for helping your
Speaker 1: aging parents with their technology challenges if you don't live
Speaker 1: near them, or we'll we're just.
Speaker 2: Going to talk in general.
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to talk and see he edited all
Speaker 1: the events over the years, so we'll talk to him
Speaker 1: in just a moment. But let me give your Amazon News.
Speaker 1: So first off, Amazon doing their Black Friday sale starts
Speaker 1: November twenty first, so they're doing it for a week
Speaker 1: November twenty first through December second. That might be longer
Speaker 1: than a week, and of course they're promising all kinds
Speaker 1: of stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh look at this.
Speaker 1: You can get gas savings for the first time this year,
Speaker 1: twenty five cents a gallon for Prime members. So buy
Speaker 1: your gas during Prime Week. I mean you probably have
Speaker 1: to buy it anyway, don't wait. Amazon also launching their competitor,
Speaker 1: I guess their answer to Timu. It's called Amazon Hall.
Speaker 1: This is a section that sells stuff that's just twenty
Speaker 1: dollars or less. Many items are priced under ten dollars
Speaker 1: summer as low as a dollar. Here's the catch. It
Speaker 1: takes you one to two weeks to get this stuff
Speaker 1: delivered Amazon, which has made their name on super fast delivery.
Speaker 1: The last time I got something delivered, I ordered it
Speaker 1: that night and I got it delivered between four and
Speaker 1: seven am. So this you have to wait up to
Speaker 1: two weeks. I guess to compete with Timu. I guess
Speaker 1: it's cheaper. Four dollars shipping fee for anything under twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars, fifteen dollars return window, eight thousand return locations.
Speaker 2: You can get an.
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen case for a bucks seventy nine, kitchen tongs
Speaker 1: for four ninety nine winter gloves for three dollars twenty
Speaker 1: one cents, table runners for two dollars ninety nine cents.
Speaker 1: Amazon dot Com slash haul you can only shop from
Speaker 1: your phone. Coming up next, Ed Bag, we'll talk tech
Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology.
Speaker 1: We'll get back to those phone lines in just a
Speaker 1: moment at eighty eight rich one oh one. That's eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Give me a call if you have a question about technology.
Speaker 1: The website for the show Richontech dot tv can also
Speaker 1: hit contact there and send me an email. Joining me
Speaker 1: now is a former USA Today Tech columnist and current
Speaker 1: AARP Tech editor.
Speaker 2: Ed bay Ed Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Hey, Rich, how you doing?
Speaker 1: I am doing fantastic. So we've seen each other at
Speaker 1: many of the tech events over the years. How many
Speaker 1: years did you cover tech for USA Today? It was
Speaker 1: a long time.
Speaker 7: It was a long time, about twenty years, actually twenty
Speaker 7: years over twenty years. Yeah, it's hard to believe. It
Speaker 7: goes fast.
Speaker 1: And do you remember kind of the first thing that
Speaker 1: wowed you there? Because twenty years are talking, Oh, this
Speaker 1: is pre iPhone.
Speaker 7: It's pre iPhone. I mean, there were a lot of
Speaker 7: things through the years. I mean I remember early on
Speaker 7: being excited about the first Kindle for example, Wow, going back.
Speaker 7: But the iPhone, of course, as we know, I'm not
Speaker 7: breaking news here, changed so much. And I was fortunate
Speaker 7: to be one of four reviewers who got to review
Speaker 7: the initial iPhone ahead of ahead of its launch, and
Speaker 7: that was an interesting time, to say the least. And
Speaker 7: I remember giving it a pretty glowing review and I
Speaker 7: called it a prodigy and I said, like, some of
Speaker 7: them burn out. Well I guess the iPhone didn't burn out.
Speaker 1: No, that has been quite the quite the amazing thing
Speaker 1: for Apple. But here's the thing, and this happens with
Speaker 1: a lot of tech products. When you're reviewing things in
Speaker 1: a vacuum, especially something that different that no one had
Speaker 1: ever really seen before. I mean, you're by yourself, You're
Speaker 1: reviewing this thing, and you're like, I don't know, like,
Speaker 1: are people going to like this or people not? Like
Speaker 1: it was very limited when it first came out, but
Speaker 1: it was so different that it was tough to compare
Speaker 1: it to other things.
Speaker 7: So exactly exactly, it was limited, but it also was
Speaker 7: very cool. I mean, you know, it didn't have things
Speaker 7: that we all take for granted now. You know, there
Speaker 7: was no app store to take one example back then,
Speaker 7: and of course through the years we know how that changed.
Speaker 2: Yes, no turn by turn directions.
Speaker 1: I mean they had they had Google Maps on there,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't the turn by turn that we all
Speaker 1: know and love today. I remember when the Motorola I
Speaker 1: think it was called the Droid Bionic came out with it.
Speaker 1: It was the first exclusive turn by turn. It even
Speaker 1: came with like a harness for your car to like
Speaker 1: set it up like a GPS device.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so many things over the years. So
Speaker 1: tell me about ARP as the tech editor. What's what's happening.
Speaker 7: Well, well, I'm writing a column Tech Ask kind of
Speaker 7: asked the Tech Guru column in which we're taking questions
Speaker 7: from readers and so you know, I'll give a plug
Speaker 7: there send in your questions.
Speaker 2: What are the concerns that readers are.
Speaker 7: Well people, you know, it's interesting because we're dealing with
Speaker 7: the fifty plus crowd. I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 7: people who want, you know, hold on to landlines or
Speaker 7: their old phone numbers and things like that. You know,
Speaker 7: so we get we get interested in things like that certainly,
Speaker 7: Like you know, it's very hard to generalize. Sometimes people think, oh,
Speaker 7: a certain generation is in his tech savvy, but you know,
Speaker 7: lots of people have grown up through the years with
Speaker 7: technology who are certainly in the ARP crowd. So you know,
Speaker 7: the people at every end of the spectrum in terms
Speaker 7: of technology.
Speaker 2: And and post fifty at is not that old.
Speaker 7: It's not.
Speaker 1: Maybe when I was a kid, I thought it was,
Speaker 1: but now I don't think that's that old. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about some of the stuff in your recent One of
Speaker 1: your recent articles or one of the recent articles in
Speaker 1: AARP talked about access, like remote access. You know, if
Speaker 1: you have a parent that's across the miles they need
Speaker 1: some help with their computer. Is there a way to
Speaker 1: give that remote tech support?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 7: There is. There are several ways. And it's interesting because
Speaker 7: many people, you know, if you work for a company,
Speaker 7: for example, you may have had situations where you know,
Speaker 7: an IT person in your organization will will literally take
Speaker 7: control of your computer remotely, and if you feel comfortable
Speaker 7: with it, you let them access you know, have at
Speaker 7: the cursor and do what they have to do. Well,
Speaker 7: you can actually do that, say with with you know
Speaker 7: a parent or a grandparent who, as you say, lives
Speaker 7: miles and miles away and you can't you can't answer
Speaker 7: the support call and go to their house.
Speaker 4: Easily.
Speaker 7: Built into Windows, for example, is something called the Windows
Speaker 7: Quick Assist and literally when you press control Windows, the
Speaker 7: Windows logo key and the queue simultaneously, it brings up
Speaker 7: this thing and there's some boxes there and a tool appears.
Speaker 7: It's a pop up window, and it creates a code
Speaker 7: that the person helping with being you in this case,
Speaker 7: shares with the person needing help. And again, if they
Speaker 7: feel comfortable with this, uh, you can literally take over
Speaker 7: their computer and you're now the I T person for
Speaker 7: your for your mom or your dad or your grandparents.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And that's built in two Windows, built into Windows. I
Speaker 2: did not know that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, there are some alternatives. There are a bunch
Speaker 7: of programs out there. I frankly haven't tested them, but
Speaker 7: they're programs with names like any Desk and there's something
Speaker 7: called detail Service and help wire and team Viewer.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of ways to do that. There's a
Speaker 7: lot of remote programs out there, but again, you've got
Speaker 7: this one built right into Windows. That's wild can be
Speaker 7: very helpful.
Speaker 1: Now I'm curious because okay, look at it. I just
Speaker 1: looked it up and it says learn to protect yourself
Speaker 1: from tech support scams. Because here's the thing, ed, we
Speaker 1: know that these these scam artists, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: ways they take over people's computers is they tell them
Speaker 1: to download some software, right they say, okay, now we're
Speaker 1: going to lead you through. Could this be used nefariously
Speaker 1: in that way as well? Like should people be aware
Speaker 1: of that? Like if someone if someone that's not your
Speaker 1: kid says, hey, let's connect using quick Assist, don't don't
Speaker 1: allow it.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you always have to keep your guard up, especially nowadays.
Speaker 7: You know, Uh, scams, I mean we unfortunately, it's it's
Speaker 7: the way of the world. There are a lot of
Speaker 7: scams out there, and AI is helping perpetrate some of that.
Speaker 4: I guess.
Speaker 7: The bottom line here is do not do not grant
Speaker 7: full access to a device to anyone you do not trust. Uh,
Speaker 7: And even if it's somebody you think is a relative.
Speaker 7: Make sure you know when you're when you're on one
Speaker 7: of these things, uh, you know, be on the phone too.
Speaker 7: At the same time, you know, Uh, that's always, you know,
Speaker 7: a helpful and easy thing to do. And even if
Speaker 7: you're able to disconnect what you are because obviously, if
Speaker 7: you take over my computer and I don't like what
Speaker 7: you're doing, I can put you off. But before I
Speaker 7: do that, who knows what damage you might do?
Speaker 2: What about AI? Because you know everyone's using it.
Speaker 1: I was just doing a talk to some folks the
Speaker 1: other night and I said, look, don't be afraid of AI, Like,
Speaker 1: try it out. You're not going to break anything. And
Speaker 1: if you don't know how to use it, literally, you
Speaker 1: could ask AI. You know, if I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how to do something, I will ask AI how
Speaker 1: to ask it.
Speaker 2: I'll say, hey, how would I ask you to do this?
Speaker 7: And it will tell me yeah, and sometimes exactly. And
Speaker 7: that's a good, good use case for it, you know,
Speaker 7: because it you know, it helps your brainstorm. You know,
Speaker 7: what what is it? I forgot to ask? What is
Speaker 7: it I should be asking? Who should I should be asking?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 7: Of course we are, you know, we have to make
Speaker 7: sure that the answers that you're getting are accurate. You know,
Speaker 7: there's something out there that the tech community has called hallucinations,
Speaker 7: where it sounds like what you know, it sounds like
Speaker 7: a really authoritative, plausible answer, but guess what, it might
Speaker 7: be made up or wrong. Now that stuff's getting a
Speaker 7: little bit better, some of the companies behind this are
Speaker 7: beginning to be a little bit better at providing sources
Speaker 7: for the information that that's being you know, sent to you.
Speaker 7: But you really have to be careful with what you're
Speaker 7: getting back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the thing, Like nobody really wants to
Speaker 1: sit there and fact check everything. But I've been using Perplexity,
Speaker 1: which I really like for the you know, gives these
Speaker 1: answers and then I'll give you like kind of where
Speaker 1: it got the answers. I know that all of them
Speaker 1: are really starting to do that more and more. Like
Speaker 1: I've noticed, you know, Gemini kind of I think they
Speaker 1: kind of pioneered the the Google one. Well, I guess
Speaker 1: Perplexity always did, but now I've even noticed because chat
Speaker 1: gybt has the web search built in, I think you
Speaker 1: have to be premium.
Speaker 2: To get it.
Speaker 7: But yes, I know right now, Yeah.
Speaker 1: They're giving some uh what do we call it citations
Speaker 1: back in the day, right when you wrote a book report.
Speaker 7: Exactly exactly, and you know, I tell people have fun
Speaker 7: with AI. You know, when I first started playing around
Speaker 7: with it, I would be in a restaurant with my
Speaker 7: family and and I remember one one time, We're at
Speaker 7: a pizza place where it was cash only, and I
Speaker 7: suddenly panic because I don't know about you, but I
Speaker 7: don't carry that much cash for me anymore. And I
Speaker 7: so I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna have chat Gypt, I
Speaker 7: think it was at the time, write a little on
Speaker 7: the spot, little script about a scene about what it
Speaker 7: is if you're in a restaurant without you know, without cash.
Speaker 7: And it did it, and you know, it was not
Speaker 7: an episode of Law and Order or anything, but it
Speaker 7: wasn't bad. And then I'd said, well make it, you know,
Speaker 7: add a character or make it better or jazz it
Speaker 7: up somehow, and it would do that. And that was
Speaker 7: early on. So you can have fun with AI too,
Speaker 7: but just be careful if you're you know, be careful
Speaker 7: about using it for something that's really serious, well, finance, health,
Speaker 7: et cetera.
Speaker 2: How did you get out of the restaurant without the cash?
Speaker 7: My wife had kid?
Speaker 1: Okay, well I was so, I just I was at
Speaker 1: a restaurant the other night with my family in New
Speaker 1: York City actually, and I forgot to I locked my
Speaker 1: wallet in my suitcase because I left the room and
Speaker 1: I left it in the room to go on a run,
Speaker 1: and when I went out to dinner, I forgot to
Speaker 1: bring it, and so I'm eating dinner, and of course
Speaker 1: I was actually treating for dinner. So I was like,
Speaker 1: you guys won't believe this, but I actually forgot my wallet.
Speaker 1: And my family was like, I mean, now they all
Speaker 1: had their cards, so I could, you know. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like we couldn't pay for dinner, but actually was able
Speaker 1: to add my card from my payment. I actually have
Speaker 1: a credit card app, you know, like one of my
Speaker 1: bank apps, and it lets you add the card to
Speaker 1: your wallet right from the app, and so I thought
Speaker 1: that was kind of cool. I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is why that's here. So I didn't even need the
Speaker 1: physical card and I was able to tap to pay.
Speaker 1: I asked the waiter, did do you take tap to
Speaker 1: pay here? And he's like, yeah, we do. I'm like
Speaker 1: all right, I'm like I will pay that way.
Speaker 7: You were ready to wash dishes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was gonna just have my family pay
Speaker 1: and I'd be like sorry, I said, I'd treat. But
Speaker 1: you know you're paying any AI that you like, anything
Speaker 1: that you're using.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm trying to play around with everything at this point.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm interested in in where AI is going
Speaker 7: with with healthcare, and really there's a lot of as
Speaker 7: you know, again, I'm not breaking news here to say
Speaker 7: that everybody is involved with this in some way. So
Speaker 7: I'm playing around with everybody and they all have, you know,
Speaker 7: things I like and things that could certainly be better.
Speaker 7: But I I it's hard to say I would. It's
Speaker 7: hard to pick a favorite, if.
Speaker 1: You will, Yeah, we're definitely, I mean, I'm the same way.
Speaker 1: I'm using so many different ones. All right, A r
Speaker 1: P tech editor ed Big, We're gonna leave it there.
Speaker 1: What's the best way for folks to follow you these days?
Speaker 7: Well again, come come at us at a r A
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Speaker 7: dot org slash tech. Al So look for my tech
Speaker 7: Guru column which is in the main members the only
Speaker 7: section of ARP. So join AARP if you're not already
Speaker 7: remember and of course read our magazine, two, ARP Magazine
Speaker 7: and the ARP boet.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Ed, appreciate it.
Speaker 7: More Rich on tech right after good to be with you.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: on one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. I got to tell you the
Speaker 1: gift of the year, and I said this probably last year,
Speaker 1: but it is just unbelievably amazing.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I gave my dad one of those Aura frames a
Speaker 1: U R A and uh I didn't really know if
Speaker 1: you would even like it, Like it's a digital picture frame, right,
Speaker 1: And I am not kidding. I have never ever in
Speaker 1: my life seen me give something to my dad that
Speaker 1: was so quickly and universally loved. I've just never seen
Speaker 1: anything like it. Like literally, he could not believe how
Speaker 1: amazing it was that he could see the pictures that
Speaker 1: he takes on his phone on his kitchen counter and
Speaker 1: he's like, it's just he just keeps adding them and
Speaker 1: adding them and adding them and adding them. And I said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you know everyone else can add pictures to
Speaker 1: this frame as well from our phones, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's just such an incredible thing that once again I
Speaker 1: just can't help but recommend it.
Speaker 2: So it's a U R A.
Speaker 1: And it's just I've tried a lot of these different
Speaker 1: digital frames. I think that this brand is the best
Speaker 1: because it's so simple and easy to use, and also
Speaker 1: the software is really good and that makes a big difference.
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember back in the day when digital
Speaker 1: frames first started, you had to put like an SD
Speaker 1: card into them, and that's how you got the pictures
Speaker 1: on there.
Speaker 2: This is all Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing is you can when you go
Speaker 1: home for the holidays, you can set this up for
Speaker 1: your family member and then you can still continue to
Speaker 1: put pictures on that frame from your phone where you live.
Speaker 1: So I'll put a link in the show notes or
Speaker 1: a A U R A. And it's pretty pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: I just thought of that because I got a notification
Speaker 1: that my dad added more pictures to his frame. That's
Speaker 1: why I thought about it, said, your dad has added
Speaker 1: twenty more pictures to his frame.
Speaker 2: Let's see here website for the show.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV, James wrote in question on
Speaker 1: Apple Passwords, Hey, Rich, I have if I have everything
Speaker 1: Apple computer, iPad, phone, is it okay to use Apple
Speaker 1: Passwords as my password manager instead of one pass et cetera.
Speaker 1: Thank you, enjoy your show. And listening to you on
Speaker 1: KFI on Tuesday mornings. Thanks Jim and Dana.
Speaker 2: Point.
Speaker 1: Yes, so I think Apple Passwords is perfectly fine. Apple
Speaker 1: Passwords is brand new. It is in iOS eighteen. It
Speaker 1: is a full fledged passwords app. You can put all
Speaker 1: your passwords in there. It will generate passwords, it will
Speaker 1: do the two factor authentications. You can look for your
Speaker 1: Wi Fi passwords in there. It will also handle pass keys,
Speaker 1: so it does everything you need. Now here's my caveat
Speaker 1: This is great if you only use Apple products. If
Speaker 1: you don't, if you are thinking of switching, or use
Speaker 1: a combination of products, I don't recommend this. Now if
Speaker 1: you use a Windows computer, they do have a plug
Speaker 1: in that will make this work. But you know, Apple's
Speaker 1: heart is not in anything that's not Apple. In fact,
Speaker 1: they make it actively tough for you to use their
Speaker 1: stuff with non Apple stuff. So I would say they
Speaker 1: probably begrudgingly made the password manager work for Windows computers,
Speaker 1: but they know that. Okay, you might have an iPhone
Speaker 1: plus a Windows computer. Fine, we'll give you this functionality.
Speaker 1: But I would say, James, in your instance, yes, if
Speaker 1: you have everything Apple and you're sticking to Apple forever, fine,
Speaker 1: use it, but so like even okay, let me just
Speaker 1: look at my Okay, so my passwords here. So like
Speaker 1: I'm looking to see if there's a way to export
Speaker 1: all my passwords to another device. Now, almost every single
Speaker 1: password manager in the world pretty much lets you export
Speaker 1: your passwords to another program if you want to switch.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm not finding that in the Apple passwords.
Speaker 1: Let me look in the apps. Let me see if
Speaker 1: it's in the Maybe it's in the apps. Let's see passwords. Okay,
Speaker 1: can you export? No, I don't see any way to
Speaker 1: export my passwords. So that would be my number one
Speaker 1: red flag is that if you're using something like a
Speaker 1: dash lane or a one password or a Bitwarden or
Speaker 1: nord pass, there's a million of them out there, they
Speaker 1: all let you export your stuff so that you can
Speaker 1: switch to another program. Apple, I don't see that functionality.
Speaker 1: So that's one thing. Number two, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: that easy to use, honestly, Like, I'm looking to see
Speaker 1: if I want to add a new item, and it's
Speaker 1: just okay, I think I'm just I think it's better
Speaker 1: than nothing. Like obviously, it just locks you into their
Speaker 1: ecosystem more and more and sure, it's easy and it's
Speaker 1: gonna work with all their Safari and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But to me, I would just feel better if you
Speaker 1: signed up with a third party app. But again, James,
Speaker 1: if you're just gonna use Apple stuff, fine, it's gonna
Speaker 1: work and it's better than nothing. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: main thing is that's better than nothing. Let's see another
Speaker 1: question here. Dennis writes in from San Clementy. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I've lost my email, which was SBC Global dot net
Speaker 1: the Southern Bell. They were bought by Yahoo and years
Speaker 1: later Yahoo was bought by AT and T and three
Speaker 1: months ago I opened up my email and nothing's there. James,
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, this is Dennis. Dennis Yahoo has I guess
Speaker 1: they purchased or they whatever. It's switched over to Yahoo
Speaker 1: mail now. So as I understand, if you go to
Speaker 1: Yahoo dot com and log in with your original SBC
Speaker 1: globe Net email address and password, your emails should be there.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Cox if you have Cox Cable whatever
Speaker 1: it was Cox Internet and your email used to be
Speaker 1: through Cox. Yahoo also purchased that, or I guess they.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they purchased it or they were
Speaker 1: seated it whatever, it was, it's handed over to Yahoo.
Speaker 1: They're handling it now. Same thing with AT and T.
Speaker 1: It's all Yahoo mail now. So just go to Yahoo
Speaker 1: dot com your Yahoo mail and log in with your
Speaker 1: original log in and it should come over. That says,
Speaker 1: I understand it, So let me know. Eighty eight rich
Speaker 1: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Coming up to sad day in history.
Speaker 1: The guy who voiced that You've got mail is no
Speaker 1: longer with us. I'll explain. Eighty eight rich one on one.
Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome to another hour of
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. Glad to
Speaker 1: have you with me here hanging out talking technology. The
Speaker 1: website for the show Richontech dot tv. The phone line
Speaker 1: for the show eight eight eight rich one oh one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight.
Speaker 2: Seven four to two four one zero one. Sad Week.
Speaker 1: The voice behind You've Got Mail has died. Elwood Edwards
Speaker 1: was the iconic voice behind aols You've Got Mail greeting.
Speaker 1: He passed away at seventy four in North Carolina. Now
Speaker 1: he recorded that famous phrase You've got mail, along with welcome,
Speaker 1: file's done, and goodbye. I can't do it as good
Speaker 1: as he did back in nineteen eighty nine. He recorded
Speaker 1: that and guess what he was paid just two hundred
Speaker 1: bucks for it. His wife, Karen, was a customer service
Speaker 1: rep at the company and volunteered him for the job.
Speaker 1: This is when Steve Case was running the place, and uh,
Speaker 1: just so wild that you can imagine that his wife
Speaker 1: was like, hey, would you mind recording these things? We're
Speaker 1: doing something at work, and next thing you know, you
Speaker 1: are literally the voice of millions of Americans checking their
Speaker 1: email on a daily basis and logging onto the internet.
Speaker 1: Edwards maintained a successful career in broadcasting. He made appearances
Speaker 1: on shows like The Tonight Show, and he just you know,
Speaker 1: he never really did much more than the You've got
Speaker 1: mail stuff, but kind of cool, just so cool that
Speaker 1: I think he said, he didn't really make a lot
Speaker 1: of money on that, but he was able. You know,
Speaker 1: he had a nice career in broadcasting. I think he
Speaker 1: worked at a local TV station. But anyway, we all
Speaker 1: know that phrase. We've all said that phrase. There was
Speaker 1: a movie of the same name, and I remember having
Speaker 1: AOL by the way back in the day, and I
Speaker 1: remember they had a section. AOL was like all little sections.
Speaker 1: It was like sports entertainment news, and then there's a
Speaker 1: section called like Internet. And I remember every day I'd
Speaker 1: log onto my computer waiting for that little Internet to
Speaker 1: switch from like coming soon to like now you can
Speaker 1: access the Internet.
Speaker 2: And one day it just switched, and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, where do I go? And I don't
Speaker 2: even know.
Speaker 1: I think I probably went to like yahoo dot com
Speaker 1: because there's like nothing on the Internet. I mean there was,
Speaker 1: but it was like mostly like you know, universities and
Speaker 1: personal web pages and things like that. But what a
Speaker 1: wild ride it's been, that is for sure, what a
Speaker 1: wild ride.
Speaker 2: Let's go to.
Speaker 1: Julie in Downy, California.
Speaker 2: Julie, I hear you. Can you lower your radio in
Speaker 2: the background so we can hear your lovely voice?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, Okay, can you hear me now?
Speaker 2: I can hear you now.
Speaker 1: It's like the Verizon guy before he went to sprint.
Speaker 2: Okay, how's that sound great? What can I help you with?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 9: Sorry about that?
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 3: So, my mom, who is an iPhone iPad user, is
Speaker 3: looking to get a new iPad because hers.
Speaker 5: Is not holding a charge and she can't update some
Speaker 5: of her apps anymore.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, So she doesn't want to spend the.
Speaker 4: Money for a pro.
Speaker 6: She doesn't want a mini. And when I started to research,
Speaker 6: I was looking at either ninth or tenth generation or
Speaker 6: is there something else?
Speaker 1: No, I just go with the tenth the tenth generation
Speaker 1: iPad for mom. I think that's going to be on
Speaker 1: sale over the holidays a lot. I'm already seeing. Uh
Speaker 1: looks like the lowest price already is let's see two
Speaker 1: sixty nine. Usually it's about three fifty, so.
Speaker 2: It's already on sale. Let me see how much it
Speaker 2: is on UH.
Speaker 1: So on Apple's website it is the standard price, right,
Speaker 1: which is three fifty all right?
Speaker 2: Sorry to me? Three nine is that? Well?
Speaker 1: Hold on, wait, that's really weird. If I on their
Speaker 1: main website, it says three forty nine. Oh, I'm on
Speaker 1: the education store. Okay, got it. Sorry, I got to
Speaker 1: exit that. So three hundred and fifty bucks for this thing.
Speaker 1: If you go online and you look at the different websites,
Speaker 1: Amazon on selling it for about three twenty BJS, which
Speaker 1: I don't think you're in Downey. I don't think we
Speaker 1: have those out here on the West coast. But that's
Speaker 1: they're selling it. For two seventy So I think that's
Speaker 1: a good indicator of where we might see that price
Speaker 1: go over the holidays.
Speaker 3: But that's uh, yeah, we don't have a BJ's here
Speaker 3: in California.
Speaker 1: No, we don't, so no, but you know Costco may
Speaker 1: sell it for that for a similar price.
Speaker 5: Right another, what did you say that price was?
Speaker 1: Again, that was two seventy nine, So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: let's see here. Yeah, so Amazon had it as low
Speaker 1: as three hundred, so I would say, yeah, it looks
Speaker 1: like it looks like the price point that most people
Speaker 1: are going to have it at is probably around three hundred.
Speaker 1: If you wait until Black Friday, like specifically that day,
Speaker 1: you're probably going to get it for a little bit cheaper.
Speaker 1: But I think in the weeks leading up to it,
Speaker 1: it's going to flirt with that three hundred dollars price point,
Speaker 1: and maybe places like Costco and BJ's, because they are
Speaker 1: membership member only, they don't have their prices as heavily
Speaker 1: advertised outside of the store.
Speaker 2: It might be a little cheaper in there, but.
Speaker 1: That's don't go with the ninth Don't go with the
Speaker 1: ninth generation just because these things are already old to
Speaker 1: begin with. Like the tenth and the ninth, so I
Speaker 1: think they you know, the tenth is already from a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, so I would I would definitely. Wow,
Speaker 1: I believe it's a I believe it's a twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two model. Let me look, uh macro Rumors. So there's
Speaker 1: a great website called mac Rumors Buyer's Guide. And if
Speaker 1: I look at the iPad, let's see here the iPad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the iPad has been out for seven hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: days since so that's two years. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You know, what is mom doing on this thing?
Speaker 5: She looking up named the medicines and reading books and
Speaker 5: not really place any games, and she uses it to
Speaker 5: look up information. Yeah, it can be dangerous.
Speaker 2: This is well as long as she's not.
Speaker 1: You know, uh, does you have her credit card attached
Speaker 1: to Apple pay to maybe take that away from.
Speaker 2: Mom, because yeah, no, she does.
Speaker 1: It's very easy to spend money on these things. These
Speaker 1: little iPads are literally just like they're literally like your
Speaker 1: extension of your bank account to like every company. That's
Speaker 1: what really the iPhone is. It's like I was ordering
Speaker 1: DoorDash last night, which I try not to do because
Speaker 1: it's so expensive, and my wife gives me a hard
Speaker 1: time because I go through like fifteen apps to see
Speaker 1: which one is the cheapest. But these things, really the
Speaker 1: iPhone revolutionize spending money in the easiest way ever, with
Speaker 1: no friction. I mean, if you really think about it,
Speaker 1: that's really what the iPhone has done. Anyway, So I
Speaker 1: think the iPad, this ten generation iPad, will be just
Speaker 1: fine for mom.
Speaker 5: Okay, wonderful, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it all right, Julie, have a great day there
Speaker 1: and downy. So a couple of resources for looking for deals.
Speaker 1: Number one, Google Shopping. They just revamped Google Shopping. It's
Speaker 1: completely new, so if you haven't been to it in
Speaker 1: a while, check it out Google dot Com, slash shopping.
Speaker 1: If you type in iPad tenth generation, it's gonna give
Speaker 1: you all the places that sell it that are on
Speaker 1: their kind of like network and how much they're selling
Speaker 1: it for. So and I should have mentioned this though
Speaker 1: for mom, for the nine year old mom as well,
Speaker 1: she could go refurbished and save even more money. So
Speaker 1: there are some places, like a gizmo Go you can
Speaker 1: buy refurbished goods. Let's see, it's back markets. That's one
Speaker 1: of them where you can buy refurbished goods. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of places you can go and buy these
Speaker 1: things that are cheaper. What was the other one that
Speaker 1: I just found out about Tiptop, So you can go
Speaker 1: to Tiptop and buy stuff there. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of ways you can save money. Amazon renewed anyway, So
Speaker 1: the shopping websites to look for the couple ways I
Speaker 1: look for deals. Number one is Google Shopping. Yahoo actually
Speaker 1: does a lot with shopping as well, so Yahoo's shopping.
Speaker 1: And then the other one I like to do is
Speaker 1: just type in the product that you want into Google,
Speaker 1: so Apple, iPad, tenth generation, and then instead of just
Speaker 1: scrolling through the links, actually hit the news tab and
Speaker 1: you will find that you will see articles about sales
Speaker 1: related to the iPad or whatever product you're looking for.
Speaker 1: Why do you find those It's because all of these
Speaker 1: bloggers it's in their best interest to post links to
Speaker 1: these product deals because they get a little tiny cut.
Speaker 1: It's called affiliate marketing. And so anyone who posted Amazon link,
Speaker 1: myself included, they might get a little tiny bit of
Speaker 1: that link. If you if you buy something from them,
Speaker 1: they might get like one percent of that you know,
Speaker 1: maybe on an iPad like a dollar or something. I
Speaker 1: mean it's pennies, but it's still added up times. You know,
Speaker 1: with these big blogs, millions of people buying off of them,
Speaker 1: they get some money every month. So again you can
Speaker 1: see Tom's guide number one link. iPad tenth generation is
Speaker 1: my favorite iPad. It's one hundred and fifty dollars off
Speaker 1: in an early Black Friday deal one hundred ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars that was on Amazon. The other way to track
Speaker 1: these prices is to install Honey, which I really like.
Speaker 1: And Honey has this thing called drop list, and once
Speaker 1: you put an item in your shopping car on Amazon
Speaker 1: or save it, it will email you when that price drops.
Speaker 2: And I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to get a new ring spotlight for
Speaker 1: my house, and it was typically you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know whatever it was, but I got an email from Honey.
Speaker 1: I just put it in my shopping cart and just waited,
Speaker 1: and I knew this thing was going to go on sale,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, Honey emails me and says, hey, this
Speaker 1: thing's on sale for one hundred and thirty bucks, and let's.
Speaker 2: See how much it is now. Ring Spotlight.
Speaker 1: I think it's a floodlight camera I got. Let's see, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's up to two hundred dollars right now. I paid
Speaker 1: one thirty. So again it's it's you're not going to
Speaker 1: sit there on Amazon and check the prices every single day,
Speaker 1: but honey is. And so I save seventy bucks on
Speaker 1: this thing just because I installed this shopping helper.
Speaker 2: Now, obviously honey is.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a business and they're making money because
Speaker 1: I think when you click the link that they send
Speaker 1: you they get a little percentage of that. But hey,
Speaker 1: they save me seventy bucks, so it's all good. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: coming up, install have another guest. This hour, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk to the folks that make this software that scans
Speaker 1: papers at schools to see if they were written with AI.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be interesting, and coming up right away the break,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about dealing with flight anxiety the apps
Speaker 1: that might be able to help. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. So this week I went
Speaker 1: to New York City. This actually might have been a
Speaker 1: limit for me. I went for twenty four hours, left
Speaker 1: la seven am on I don't know Tuesday morning was it?
Speaker 1: And I returned Wednesday night at eight pm.
Speaker 2: So it was.
Speaker 1: Basically, well, I guess, is that more than twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more than twenty four any one
Speaker 1: night in New York City. It was a lot.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It kind of tested even myself, not because I minded
Speaker 1: doing all that travel in that time, but it was
Speaker 1: really because I love New York City and it's such
Speaker 1: a fun place. So I went to dinner with my
Speaker 1: family on the night I was there. I actually, I
Speaker 1: think I mentioned I used AI to find the restaurant.
Speaker 1: So I used AI to find the restaurant. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1: If you want to see by the way, they did
Speaker 1: this thing at the Italian restaurant table side Tierra Mesoue,
Speaker 1: which it was just fantastic. It's like they made the
Speaker 1: Tierramisioue right right there table side, which I'd never seen before.
Speaker 1: So I posted it to my Instagram at rich On
Speaker 1: Tech and it was fantastic the restaurant. This is what
Speaker 1: I love about these little walkable cities like that, is
Speaker 1: that you just walk like we're walking down the street,
Speaker 1: nothing is around, and all of a sudden, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I think the restaurant's right Oh, there it is, and
Speaker 1: it's right across the streets. It's a little, tiny, cozy
Speaker 1: Italian restaurant, nicely lit, decorated for the holidays, and it
Speaker 1: was just so nice and that the owner was there,
Speaker 1: his wife was there, We're chatting with them. It was packed,
Speaker 1: and it's just it feels like you're in a movie
Speaker 1: because it's cold outside, but it's cozy inside. Everyone's just
Speaker 1: chatting their big jackets and stuff, except for me, who
Speaker 1: did not realize that it was cold there. So I
Speaker 1: ended up having to go for a run. I went
Speaker 1: for a run right when I got off the plane
Speaker 1: and it was freezing. I mean, I'm talking wind whipping
Speaker 1: all over my ears and I shorts and.
Speaker 2: I just you know, it was just so wild. But
Speaker 2: I had a great time.
Speaker 1: Speaking of flying, if you're one of these anxious flyers,
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of folks are, I am not,
Speaker 1: I personally love flying. I think it's a miracle of technology,
Speaker 1: and I love to put my faith and trust in
Speaker 1: these amazing engineers and pilots that know how to do
Speaker 1: this stuff, because I don't know how it works, honestly,
Speaker 1: Like I am in this metal tube that is as
Speaker 1: big as a house with three hundred other people, and
Speaker 1: somehow it is the most comfortable thing to take off
Speaker 1: from lax and land in New York City. How is
Speaker 1: that possible? And I'm sitting there like, oh, ring the button, Come,
Speaker 1: I have another drink please?
Speaker 2: How is that a thing?
Speaker 1: Like you are literally sailing through the air at six
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour at thirty five thousand feet It
Speaker 1: just works.
Speaker 2: Ninety nine point nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1: So anyway, needless to say, I love flying, But I
Speaker 1: know there's some white knuckle folks out there.
Speaker 2: If you're one of those people.
Speaker 1: Travel and Leisure wrote an article about these apps that
Speaker 1: can help nervous flyers. So the first one is called
Speaker 1: Flying Calmly. This is available for the App Store and
Speaker 1: Google Play. It gives you turbulence forecasts up to thirty
Speaker 1: six hours ahead, so it shows you if there's going
Speaker 1: to be turbulence on your flight. Now, I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, if I'm a nervous flyer, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's a good thing or a bad thing to
Speaker 1: know it. But I do know someone close to me
Speaker 1: that is a nervous flyer and they look up the
Speaker 1: turbulence forecast for the flight, and I think that they
Speaker 1: feel better if they know they're going into the flight
Speaker 1: when it's not going to be turbulent e. And if
Speaker 1: it is going to be turbulent e if that's even
Speaker 1: a word, they feel better knowing that, Like that's a
Speaker 1: predicted thing, right, it's not just like random. By the way,
Speaker 1: the best book I ever read that made me a
Speaker 1: very confident flyer was by Patrick Smith. And trying to
Speaker 1: get the name of the book here, let's see he
Speaker 1: wrote the book Let's see Flying Ask the pilot. That
Speaker 1: was the book. Great, great book. And I read this book,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this book made me. I
Speaker 1: think if you don't like to fly, this book might
Speaker 1: make you a more scared flyer. But for me, someone
Speaker 1: who already liked it, it was like, okay, this is anyway,
Speaker 1: Ask the Pilot by Patrick Smith. It's a great book
Speaker 1: to read if you're a scared flyer. The other things
Speaker 1: that they mentioned in this article sore so Sore is
Speaker 1: another app that will tell you fear management lessons and
Speaker 1: also a G force reader, so you can see the
Speaker 1: G force on your plane through this app. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think all these apps are actually secretly trying to make
Speaker 1: people more scared. And then the one I like is
Speaker 1: terbly t rbli dot com and this gives you the
Speaker 1: turbulence forecast for your flight. You can just do it
Speaker 1: on the website. But what's interesting is it gives you
Speaker 1: the historical data, so it tells you the most turbulent
Speaker 1: routes and the most turbulent airports. So I had a
Speaker 1: feeling that in North America some of the most turbulent airports. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the most turbulent airports of twenty twenty three in
Speaker 1: North America number one Portland number two, Denver number three,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. I knew it was Las Vegas. Flying into
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is like white knuckle. You're gripping that seat
Speaker 1: the entire time you're landing because it's just like you're
Speaker 1: being whipped all over the place.
Speaker 2: What is white knuckle.
Speaker 1: It's like when you hold something so tight that your
Speaker 1: knuckles turn white.
Speaker 2: Okay, never saw that? You never you never like, held
Speaker 2: on for dear life. I don't know, it just happens. No,
Speaker 2: that's the first time I've ever heard it.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's it's terminology, but I you know, maybe you know.
Speaker 1: My point is it's when you're nervous and you're just
Speaker 1: hold you're holding on for dear life. You've heard that,
Speaker 1: you get it now, but I didn't know you was before.
Speaker 1: You've heard of that though, holding on for dear life. Course, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's like I think it's similar. I think it
Speaker 1: probably comes from like you can see your bone through
Speaker 1: the skin.
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess they're playing me off. Then they also have
Speaker 1: the most turbulent routes. Nashville. I knew it. Another one Nashville.
Speaker 1: I flew in there and that was a you know,
Speaker 1: a knucklebiter. Is that what they call it all has
Speaker 1: to do with your knuckles? If rich on tech dot TV,
Speaker 1: I'll link up the the apps and we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to turn it In CEO, the folks would turn it
Speaker 1: In coming up next. Welcome back to rich on tech
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The
Speaker 1: website for the show rich on tech dot TV. If
Speaker 1: you want the links, hit the light bulb for all
Speaker 1: the stuff I just mentioned about. The flying Joining me
Speaker 1: now is turn it In cpo Annie checkatelly.
Speaker 2: Annie. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Thanks Rich. Happy to be here and excited for the conversation.
Speaker 2: Absolutely So we're talking about turn it In.
Speaker 1: I know does some sort of you you can explain,
Speaker 1: but you know, in schools AIS having a big impact
Speaker 1: because it's being used for everything, not just students, but
Speaker 1: everyone's using AI for just about everything at this point,
Speaker 1: and so this is a real issue when it comes
Speaker 1: to grading papers and students turning in stuff that don't
Speaker 1: really care if they, you know, work the system.
Speaker 2: So explain what turn it In does.
Speaker 8: Sure so, turn it In is a company that's been
Speaker 8: around for over twenty five years now.
Speaker 6: It got started.
Speaker 8: With the beginning of the Internet taking shape and teachers
Speaker 8: feeling that many students were going to different sites and
Speaker 8: copying and pasting and putting it into papers. So different technology,
Speaker 8: similar problem in a different age, and so turn it in.
Speaker 8: Originally was was created to find what we call cop
Speaker 8: be paced plagiarism and to let teachers know when we
Speaker 8: saw either there was a lot of matching between a
Speaker 8: student paper and a site or perhaps even another paper
Speaker 8: that a.
Speaker 6: Different student charge in.
Speaker 8: So really focused on academic integrity to help students really
Speaker 8: create their own original thinking. And then with the advent
Speaker 8: of chat GBT. So the end of twenty twenty two
Speaker 8: was the release of chat GPT, but it wasn't the
Speaker 8: first time we'd started working on generative AI. Chat GPT
Speaker 8: or GPT three five came out actually in June twenty twenty,
Speaker 8: so we got to play around with it in advance
Speaker 8: to really learn the statistical patterns of generative AI in writing,
Speaker 8: and so we were able to learn early, and so
Speaker 8: when it came out, a lot of our customers and
Speaker 8: teachers were quite afraid. I think that the sentiment has changed.
Speaker 8: I think there's still a lot of fear. But those
Speaker 8: first two months there were, you know, articles being written
Speaker 8: everywhere such as like it's the end of the paper,
Speaker 8: it's the end of the essay, Everyone's going to cheat.
Speaker 8: And so even the New York public schools actually banned it.
Speaker 8: It was January of twenty twenty three, in the hopes
Speaker 8: of preventing any problems. There was like an early chaos,
Speaker 8: and we created an AI Writing Indicator so that teachers
Speaker 8: would have insight into whether or not AI was.
Speaker 6: Being used in papers.
Speaker 8: And so we've come a long way and it's been
Speaker 8: quite a journey since then.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, it's very similar.
Speaker 1: The teacher feeds the paper that the student writes into
Speaker 1: your software and it tells you if it's plagiarized basically,
Speaker 1: or if it's coming from AI.
Speaker 8: Pretty much so, yes, the student turns it in through
Speaker 8: their normal usually a learning management system, and then yes,
Speaker 8: the teacher is able to see what parts of the
Speaker 8: paper were either matching with a different paper or predicted
Speaker 8: as AI writing.
Speaker 2: And how accurate are you? Like, how does this you know?
Speaker 1: There's so many papers out there, and I guess when
Speaker 1: you say if it matches another paper, I think of
Speaker 1: all the movies where they pull like at the fraternity house.
Speaker 1: Like they pull like the filing cabin open. They're like, okay,
Speaker 1: here's your science report that you can just copy and paste.
Speaker 1: But how accurate is your technology?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we can divide that up.
Speaker 8: So the copy paste the example of you know, pulling
Speaker 8: a paper from a database of past papers, that's harder
Speaker 8: to do with turn it in nowadays. And so in
Speaker 8: that situation, it's actually quite easy because we show the
Speaker 8: teacher the paper or the website or the journal article
Speaker 8: that it matches. Right, So there's what we call it,
Speaker 8: you know, a smoking gun there. It's very easy to
Speaker 8: point out where that match happens. Whereas AI it's not
Speaker 8: as simple.
Speaker 6: Right, we're not matching to something.
Speaker 8: We're using statistics patterns to determine if something was written
Speaker 8: by AI. And in terms of the accuracy, there are
Speaker 8: two parts, and it's really important to understand this. There
Speaker 8: are two parts of accuracy that make up whether the
Speaker 8: effectiveness of a tool. The first is and the most
Speaker 8: important is the false positive rate.
Speaker 6: So that is when we say, or another tool.
Speaker 8: Says that something was written by AI and it was
Speaker 8: actually written by a human. And so what we do
Speaker 8: is we maximized to we reduce that as much as possible,
Speaker 8: So we will change the well how much we catch
Speaker 8: in order to keep that below one percent, So less
Speaker 8: than one percent of papers will be flagged as having
Speaker 8: over twenty percent AI.
Speaker 6: In total, whereas.
Speaker 8: We probably miss on the other side, we probably miss
Speaker 8: about fifteen to twenty percent of AI we let go
Speaker 8: by so as to keep that false positive break down.
Speaker 1: So what I mean, I guess the question is if
Speaker 1: I use AI to write my paper, what is this
Speaker 1: looking for? So looking for just AI? Is it using
Speaker 1: AI to look for AI? Like it knows that a
Speaker 1: you know, an AI writs in a certain way, and
Speaker 1: can a human you know you said you have the
Speaker 1: false positive and stuff. So I mean, obviously there are
Speaker 1: instances where a kid probably says, no, I wrote this
Speaker 1: whole thing and it was clearly just CHATCHBT.
Speaker 8: Like absolutely, and so yes, we use AI to detect AI.
Speaker 8: So because of our history, we have a lot of
Speaker 8: data on how students write, just not how humans right,
Speaker 8: but how students write.
Speaker 2: Is it all these papers that were fed in back
Speaker 2: in the day for the copy paste.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, and so we have this trove of data
Speaker 8: that shows us statistically how students put together words in
Speaker 8: different types of scenarios.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: And then we have that model and we trained it,
Speaker 8: and it compares itself to how a large language model
Speaker 8: put together puts together words and sentences.
Speaker 6: And a large language model the way it writes is
Speaker 6: not for completeness of thought.
Speaker 8: So when we write something, we think about, Okay, we're
Speaker 8: going to make a point here, and we have the
Speaker 8: end in mind. When we're writing, we know that we
Speaker 8: have to complete a thought that at the end is
Speaker 8: going to make a statement or an argument or whatever
Speaker 8: it is that our.
Speaker 6: End goal is. And LM does not have an end
Speaker 6: goal in mind. It goes word by word by word
Speaker 6: by word.
Speaker 8: That's just predictabor meaning that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 6: It's just predicting the next word.
Speaker 8: And so it's always pulling the most probable next word,
Speaker 8: which humans rarely do they do, but it's rare, especially
Speaker 8: in the number of successions. So some of the safety
Speaker 8: measures we have on our AI indicator is that we
Speaker 8: won't make a prediction if the if there's less than
Speaker 8: three hundred words, and that's unique to our We feel
Speaker 8: we need that much text to really make a judgment
Speaker 8: that we can provide insight into So that's one of
Speaker 8: those examples.
Speaker 1: So can a student kind of check their own like,
Speaker 1: do you have like a consumer facing tool that people
Speaker 1: can access to like put their stuff into to see
Speaker 1: if it might be flagged?
Speaker 2: We do not.
Speaker 6: We debate this a lot, and we debate it and
Speaker 6: we talk about it with our.
Speaker 2: Customers because I know why we debate it now.
Speaker 1: I just thought of the reason, because then I would
Speaker 1: just take my paper and I'll just keep tweaking one
Speaker 1: word at a time until it said, oh no, this
Speaker 1: was totally written by a human.
Speaker 2: Now I guess yeah.
Speaker 6: We do offer.
Speaker 8: I mean we are working on how we can do
Speaker 8: that in a safe way. For instance, how do we
Speaker 8: do that in a way that the teacher knows that
Speaker 8: they did that. And so in our future iterations of
Speaker 8: our product, we're really looking more not so much about detection,
Speaker 8: but more about that transparency, so that assumption that you
Speaker 8: know what, we're all going.
Speaker 6: To use this in different ways. What are responsible ways
Speaker 6: of using this?
Speaker 2: Okay, and I have coached this.
Speaker 1: I've got less than a minute, so I want to
Speaker 1: I just want to. I got less than a minute,
Speaker 1: so I want to. I want your advice for students
Speaker 1: and teachers about this whole situation, like, what is your
Speaker 1: you know, you've been working with this company for a
Speaker 1: long time. What's your advice to students and teachers here?
Speaker 8: Yes, I have three teenagers and my husband teaches high
Speaker 8: school English, so this is a very common discussion at
Speaker 8: my house. So the number one thing is play with
Speaker 8: it yourself, right, get accustomed to it. If you've not
Speaker 8: open chat, GBT or a tool like that, use it.
Speaker 6: Also, ask your students to use it in front of you.
Speaker 8: I bet they're already using it in different ways, whether
Speaker 8: it's summarizing things or making things easier. Ask them to
Speaker 8: use it in front of you, even for a paper,
Speaker 8: and see how they're using it, and you can learn
Speaker 8: kind of the productive ways in the unproductive ways. And
Speaker 8: then when you're talking to your cheek, your student, your kids, teacher,
Speaker 8: ask them their philosophy on how much they think and
Speaker 8: what types of assignments it's appropriate. This is all about
Speaker 8: being transparent. It's not about you know, punitive, you know,
Speaker 8: making this child punished because they use it, but helping
Speaker 8: them understand the right way to use it.
Speaker 1: All right, any check Itatelly from the plagiarism detector tool
Speaker 1: turn it in dot com. Thanks so much for joining
Speaker 1: me today. Really interesting coming up, Rich, We are gonna
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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich
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Speaker 1: is time once again for the feedbag. So if you
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Speaker 2: I am loving them. Everyone. I show these things too.
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Speaker 1: Agnes writes in Hey Rich, I'm definitely not a techie. However,
Speaker 1: I listen to you every Saturday and learn something new.
Speaker 1: Just heard you talking about the Aura frame you got
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Speaker 1: It brings a smile to our faces seeing memories with
Speaker 1: our kids and our grandkids, and yes, all of us
Speaker 1: add to it, which makes it amazing to see pictures
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Speaker 1: I type this email. Thanks for your great show and information, Agnes. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you know, day three, day four, as you get into
Speaker 1: a routine of saying, oh, I took a good picture today,
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Speaker 1: It's really a great thing. I'll put the link in
Speaker 1: the show notes. Dat writes in Hi, Rich, my name
Speaker 1: is Dat and I'm blind. I love your show, sir,
Speaker 1: you make tech real fun. I'd like you to have
Speaker 1: more guests on that are experts on assistive technology on
Speaker 1: your show to keep us disabled folk updated on the
Speaker 1: latest unique tech for us. Please talk more about accessibility
Speaker 1: on your show thank you for a great show every week.
Speaker 2: That is a good point.
Speaker 1: We have had guests in the past talk about accessibility,
Speaker 1: and I have gone to the season Accessibility conference, but
Speaker 1: we will. I will make it a point to actually
Speaker 1: book more guests that talk about these things, because there
Speaker 1: are just so many things that are happening on a
Speaker 1: daily basis that affect you know, the low vision, the
Speaker 1: blind community, and just accessibility in general. Tech is such
Speaker 1: a huge driver for accessibility, and so we do need
Speaker 1: more of that, and I will absolutely keep that in
Speaker 1: mind and book more guests for that.
Speaker 2: Thanks for that, Thanks for that that.
Speaker 1: Jay David writes in don't know if this will be seen,
Speaker 1: but transition lenses need to be broken in by leaving
Speaker 1: them in bright sun or under ultraviolet light to get dark.
Speaker 1: If you wear them enough outside, they'll eventually darken. In
Speaker 1: the past, I've put them in my backyard facing south.
Speaker 1: My latest pair was treated at the store of the
Speaker 1: UV device for about ten minutes and they got extremely
Speaker 1: dark fully broken in. Huh So I mentioned that the
Speaker 1: ray bands have transition lenses that go darker, but I
Speaker 1: said they didn't get very dark and interesting, so Jay
Speaker 1: David says that you got to leave them outside. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll leave them outside for a little bit. I feel
Speaker 1: like I have noticed they've gotten darker over time, but
Speaker 1: they're still They're not like sunglass dark. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not like you. You know, So it's like anyway, Bonnie,
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, this is all about the ray bands. I
Speaker 1: would like to buy a pair of those ray bands.
Speaker 1: Only problem is, no one thinks there's a large enough
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Speaker 1: because it looks ridiculous on us. Thanks for all the
Speaker 1: great info you share, Bonnie. You know it's funny. Every
Speaker 1: product that's a wearable that I test, someone's not happy.
Speaker 2: On one side.
Speaker 1: Some people are like, oh that watch is too small,
Speaker 1: Oh that watch is too big. So there are many
Speaker 1: I think tech companies are getting hip or to the
Speaker 1: fact that people want a variety of these devices and
Speaker 1: various sizes. So the ray bands do come in various sizes.
Speaker 1: So I think that you should give give him a check.
Speaker 1: Daniel from Rutherfordton, North Carolina. He says he listens to
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Speaker 1: who wanted to consolidate and sort photos from multiple external drives.
Speaker 1: I suggest Mileo Photos. They have free and paid plans,
Speaker 1: work across platforms and devices. Many people love it. I've
Speaker 1: used it a little, though I'm not really a photo hoarder.
Speaker 1: All right, Mileo Photos if you want a photo management
Speaker 1: I personally still think Google Photos is the best. In fact,
Speaker 1: I just finished a project that I've been trying to
Speaker 1: accomplish for probably eight years now, and that is consolidating
Speaker 1: all of these different drives I had of my photos,
Speaker 1: like backups, and getting them all into Google Photos. Because
Speaker 1: Google Photos, I don't know if you know this, but
Speaker 1: it's not going to put in duplicates. So if you
Speaker 1: have photos in different places, it will upload those photos
Speaker 1: and it won't put them in your collection if they're duplicates,
Speaker 1: which is really nice. So I just I was uploading
Speaker 1: I mean I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of
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Speaker 1: there and it's fine, and now I finally have that.
Speaker 1: Now my second phase is to go into Google takeout
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