WEBVTT - Netflix Buffers, Bluesky Soars & Bitcoin Breaks $90k 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.080 Why everyone's rushing to download something called Blue Sky, and 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.440 why you might want to join them. If your password 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.559 is one two, three, four five six. The good news 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.760 is you're not alone. The bad news is that's bad news. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.840 Amazon's new secret store where everything is under twenty bucks. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.400 Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.520 Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.080 show where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.080 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:34.600 answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech should 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.120 be interesting, useful, and fun. 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Well, it was fight 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.520 Night in America once again, but this time with a twist. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.080 This was one of the first major sporting events that 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.160 Netflix well try to stream. They've done some stuff in 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.520 the past. Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson, Did you watch it? 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.120 Probably many many people did. It was sort of a 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.520 technical disaster. Now, I'm not blaming Netflix here. I'm not 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.160 going to say that this is bad that they did this. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.560 You've got to start somewhere, But it gives us perspective. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.960 This is a huge company with lots of smart people, 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.640 and we are still just in the beginning stages of 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.440 fakeing this stuff out. Now, There's been lots of live 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.800 streams before, but I think that this goes to show 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.080 both the popularity of something like this and also the 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.080 fact that Netflix has some work to do. All kinds 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.840 of streaming problems with the show last night frustrated viewers 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.520 all over the world. Lots of people, including myself, reported 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.920 buffering and connectivity issues. Some people had to wait a 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.320 long time for the show to actually start, and then 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.840 some people got this black screen of death, which I 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.600 also got, and depended kind of on a lot of things. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.519 Whether you know where you lived, how you were accessing it, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.480 whether it was on mobile, whether it was on your TV. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.560 But you know, Netflix really struggled to handle so many 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.520 people watching this event at the same time, Netflix has 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:49.280 over almost three hundred million subscribers, and every single one 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.080 of them had access to this at no extra cost. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:53.720 So it's not like the days of pay per view, 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.320 where you're paying fifty bucks and you better have a 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.440 clear screen because you're paying for that. No, this was 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.080 available to everyone, which is incredible and amazing, but also 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.400 it goes to show that it takes a lot to 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.400 stream something on this level. So of course people were 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.080 on social media, including myself, joking about all the things 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:12.840 that went wrong. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:14.880 It wasn't even clear half the time. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.760 So at first when I first tuned in, I thought 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.520 it was incredible because it was looking very clear, and 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.320 then all of a sudden it started buffering, and then 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.000 all of a sudden it started dropping out, and then 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.960 all of a sudden it started not working, and then 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.040 all of a sudden, when it came back, the video. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:28.400 Quality was not very good. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.880 So even if you had a good connection like myself, 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.400 like a fiber connection, you still had issues. So do 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.360 we know how many people watch this? We don't know exactly. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.920 Netflix has not said just yet do we know how 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.080 much money it generated. One report said eighteen million dollars 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.840 at the stadium itself. Seems like a lot. I'm sure 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.360 these these guys that fought got paid a lot of money. 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.520 I'm sure all the product placement and sponsorships generated a 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:53.000 lot of money. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:53.880 But here's the thing. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.280 Netflix wants to get into live streaming in a big way. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.600 Somehow Amazon has been able to figure it out. But 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.440 you know they run that infrastructure AWS, so if anyone 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.520 could do live streaming and has the servers for it, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.000 Amazon's got it figured out. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:08.480 Now. 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.280 I don't know how many people are watching those Prime 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.840 football games if it's the same as this level, but 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.880 they've got it figured out. But Netflix is set to 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.520 stream two NFL games on Christmas Day, and you can 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.160 bet a lot of people are going to be watching 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.640 those because everyone's going to be at home and everyone 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.240 wants to watch those games. So we will have to 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.280 see if Netflix can get their act together in the 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.240 next what is it, six weeks or so to resolve 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:32.480 those technical issues. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.120 But at the end of the day, it. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.719 Was still interesting to see the entire US and maybe 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.760 the world at large come together to watch something in 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:46.880 a world of fractured and fragmented streaming programs, and everyone's 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.240 on a different wavelength, and everyone's on a different level, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.080 and everyone's watching a different show. It's kind of cool 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.440 to still have things that bring us all together. And 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.880 last night was one of those times when pretty much 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.560 everyone you knew was watching that. All right, moving on now, 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.920 also this week, if you heard there is a new 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.479 social network that is suddenly popular. 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.359 It is called blue Sky. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.720 Doesn't that just sound nice? So blue Sky gained more 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.919 than two million users in the past few weeks many 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.520 people after the election, Over fifteen million people are now 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.280 on blue Sky. Now, keep in mind that sounds like 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.919 a big number, but X and Threads have hundreds of 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.080 millions of people. So why are people coming over to 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.359 blue Sky. Well, many are unhappy with Elon Musk his 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.920 support of the new president, and they also say that 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.880 they're mad that X is going to train its ai 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.720 on their posts. But come on, if you're on Instagram, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.039 if you're on Facebook, if you're on pretty much any 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.800 system that you're not paying for, you are the product 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.760 and they're going to train on your stuff. So that's 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.320 like kind of a weak excuse to leave. But at 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.760 the same time, people are doing it and I'm seeing 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.719 a lot of momentum on this blue sky. 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:02.080 So what is it? 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.479 Well, it looks a lot like Twitter in the old days, 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.120 I mean, almost identical to Twitter. And well that's probably 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.120 for a reason because it was started in twenty nineteen 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.960 by one of the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, but 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.599 he left and it was invite only for a long time. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.359 So that's the reason you didn't really hear about it 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.640 very much. People that were nerdy, people that were in 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.400 the know. Of course, they knew about this. They've been 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.640 They're gonna say, I've been on this for a year now, 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.839 and you're gonna say, okay, thanks, do you want to meddle? 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.039 But many people are discovering it, So what can you 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.520 do on it? It's the same as Twitter. You can 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.480 follow people, they can follow you back. You can post text, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.800 you can post photos, you can post videos, you can repost, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.960 you can like. But here is the thing. It is 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.599 much more open source and decentralized as opposed to something 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.760 like Twitter that is run by one person. Well, many 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.440 people work there, but you know, Elon Musk is at 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:03.279 the Helm, so this is much more open source and decentralized. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:04.000 What does that mean. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.839 It means that one organization doesn't really own or control 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.160 your data. So if you ever want to leave blue Sky, 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.560 you can, and it's simple, and you can take all 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.400 of your data with you somewhere else. So if something 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.920 else comes up better, all your stuff will just move 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.040 over to that platform. And so that's really interesting, it's 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:22.880 really unique, and I think this is going to the 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.080 idea of Web three Web three point zero, where it's 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.760 like more of these things are much more decentralized and 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.560 they all sort of work together and you can take 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.520 your information and your services wherever you want to go 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.440 with them. Now, I will tell you, having used blue 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.720 Sky for the past couple of days now, it's nice 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.320 and a lot of people are popping up on there. 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.680 I see a few problems. Number one, it's tough to 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.160 find people on there because you have to pretty much 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.720 search for them by name. There's no way to import 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.680 your address book, which would be really handy, so you 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.160 can't do that. I mean, there are some tools. Someone 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.680 told me about a tool where you can take your 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.320 Twitter followers and it will scan them, but you have 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.400 to do that in Chrome, and it seemed a little wonky, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.560 and I think you have to give access to one 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.600 of your accounts to do that, which I never really 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.640 liked doing. But I guess people are making these lists 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.160 of like various people in groups, like all the journalists 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.440 on the Tech Journalists. Here's a list and you can 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.120 follow all of them at the same time. So that's 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:23.080 kind of a cool feature too, But otherwise I'm kind 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.640 of loving it. I've already got almost a thousand followers 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.080 on there, so it's like being back in the old days. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.840 It's like you're starting something new, You're in something fresh. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.360 I have not gone off x just yet. I'm still there. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.040 But now I'm just posting to all these places on 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:42.920 a daily basis. Facebook, X, Blue Sky, what else, Instagram, 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.520 So there's a lot and people are gonna get kind 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:47.760 of tired of posting to all these different places, but 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:49.960 right now it does feel kind of fun. I mean, 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.240 I joined I remember the day I joined Facebook pretty 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.200 much the first day I could. I remember the first 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.839 day I joined Twitter back in the day when I could. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.760 And it's fun. It's fun to be on kind of 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:03.600 the round level of these services because there's things that 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.400 you find that are great, and there's just a lot 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.240 of growing problems too. So if you want to find me, 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.640 I am on there at rich On Tech and kind 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.960 of fun on Blue Sky, and we'll see what happens 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.920 with it, all right. The other big story this week, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:23.640 Bitcoin once again has surged to a record hive over 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.480 ninety thousand dollars a coin. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:25.840 Why. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.760 Well, a lot of it is because of the President elect, 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:32.559 who has a pro crypto stance, and many people are 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.360 optimistic about this digital currency, which means they're putting more 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.480 money into it. Also, institutional investors are putting money into it. 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.520 Things like retirement accounts and ETFs were approved by regulators 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.160 and they've seen a lot of cash flowing in. Bitcoin 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.160 has now become the world's eighth largest asset, surpassing silver. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:56.680 That's pretty wild, but remember cryptocurrency remains highly volatile. You 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.760 have to know what you're doing if you're getting in 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.080 on this. I've kind of all kinds of people texting 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:02.760 me saying, rich should I get it. I can't give 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.280 you the advice on that. If you've got money to lose, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.680 sure go ahead, but this is not something that you 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.240 can say, I'm gonna put this money in here, it's 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.480 gonna be there forever. We don't know that to be true. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.599 So remember this is an investment like anything else. It 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.440 could go up, you could lose it all, but you know, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.160 it is kind of fun to watch what's going on 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.000 with it. This is not financial advice, but if you're 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.000 looking for a place to get it, coinbase is popular, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.000 PayPal has a way to buy crypto, Venmo has a way, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.480 and cash app those are all very easy ways to 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.360 buy it. Of course, do your research before you invest 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.520 in anything. And that doesn't go for just crypto. That's 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.560 any time you put your money in something where. 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:39.200 It could go away. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:43.040 All right, Coming up, your call is eighty eight rich 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.760 one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.839 four one zero one. My name is rich Damiro and 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:53.840 you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.160 rich on Tech. Rich to Buro here hanging out with 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.160 you talking technology at triple eight rich one on one. 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.840 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:09.480 zero one. The website for the show is Richontech dot tv. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.959 A couple things you can do when you're there. First off, 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.440 sign up for my newsletter. It is free. I send 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.040 it out every week and it's got a lot of 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.840 great helpful tech information in there. You can also watch 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.520 the stories that I do on TV. You can hit 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.120 the light bulb if you want links to anything I 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.960 mentioned on the show. I put my Blue Sky user 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.520 name in there. If you want to follow me, I'm 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.640 just at rich on Tech. You can just search rich 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.960 on Tech. You'll find me on Blue Sky and then 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.840 you can hit contact if you want to send an 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:38.040 email to me. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:39.120 Or the show. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:44.640 Let's go to Marcello in Galita, California. Marcelo, you're on 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:45.040 with Rich. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:46.000 Hi. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.679 Rich, thank you for taking my call this morning. I'm 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.640 calling because I have a friend who mentioned to me 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.480 that he has bitcoin lost somewhere on one of his 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.120 old phones in an old account, and he got in 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.680 the early two thousands, like he said, he bought it 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.160 through PayPal and I and I got to thinking, maybe 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.640 you know of a company that helps you gain access 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.640 to your old account and get access to your old 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.160 bitcoin with maybe they charge a fee or something. Given 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.440 you information regarding. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.000 That, Oh good question. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.760 Probably a lot of people trying to figure out what 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.000 the status is of the bitcoin. Did I buy some 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:22.480 back in the day, because I know so quick story Marcelo. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.360 I did a story with bitcoin back in Oh my gosh, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.280 I think it was bitcoin ATM. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:30.400 Let's see when I did. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:35.719 This, probably in twenty oh gosh, twenty seventeen, I don't know, 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.160 it was a long time ago. But I purchased twenty 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.880 dollars worth of bitcoin and I did the math and 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.240 it would be several thousand. I mean now with the 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.400 ninety thousand point, it would be you know, it'd be 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.440 like probably five six thousand bucks at this point. 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:49.920 I don't know. Don't don't quote me on the math. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.000 My point is I went back to that story and 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.640 I tried to freeze frame the little QR code they 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.480 gave me, because I just threw out the sheet as 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:58.760 soon as I was done with the story. I was like, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.120 this isn't going anywhere, and I tried to go back 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.559 to that story and freeze frame the video where I 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.640 pulled a little receipt out of the Bitcoin ATM where 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.599 it has my QR code with my access to it. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.800 I was like, can I scan this and recover this bitcoin? 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.040 I couldn't, but I agree there's gonna be a lot 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.920 of people that are wondering how to access this. So 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.679 it is tough. And here's my advice moving forward. If 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.520 you are signing up for anything where you're buying bitcoin, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.400 especially if you are signing up with one of these wallets, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.360 they give you what's called a recovery phrase, so you 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.439 need to remember that. And I specifically remember many years 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:36.640 ago signing up for a bitcoin service and I got 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.800 the recovery phrase, and I have no idea where it is, 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.719 and I can't remember if I actually bought bitcoin on 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.400 that account either, but my kid and I were trying 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.079 to go through and we were like signing into coinbase 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.280 and signing into all these apps to see. With that said, 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.000 it is very, very tough to recover this stuff. Because 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.040 if you're buying it through a big company, then it 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.440 might be easier, but if you're buying it through one 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.280 of these wallets and you lose it, you're not really 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.040 going to get it back. So there are a couple 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.840 of resources online. I cannot vouch for them, but I 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:12.200 can tell you what has been featured before in various publications, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.600 and one of those is Cryptoasset Recovery dot com, so 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.959 that's one of them. I don't know how much they 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:23.960 cost to do this, let's see pricing. Oh wow, so 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.360 password recovery, if they figure it out, they will take 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.000 twenty percent of your wallet. So if you had one 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.480 thousand dollars in there, they take two hundred dollars, which 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.280 probably a small price to pay. But this is a 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.920 story out of Motherboard. They are talking about back when 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.800 I don't think Motherboard's still around, but they were talking 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.920 about how these This is a father son team in 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.880 New Hampshire, and I guess they're just trying. They know 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.640 people need this. So and then there's another one I 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:59.480 found called keychain x dot io and this says Wallet 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:05.000 Recovery Services trusted since twenty seventeen. And they've got a 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.960 whole bunch of information on there as well. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.600 So let's see. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:15.000 Keychain x can decrypt most types of cryptocurrency, wallets, Ethereum. Okay, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.520 so they've got basically they they may help you do that, 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.000 but again you're gonna pay to get this done. So 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.360 how how much does your friend have does he say. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.560 He said he bought it like in two thousand and six, 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.280 or anybody put in one thousand dollars? 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:30.840 Oh my gosh. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.880 Yeah, so he thinks he's got a lot there. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.000 Oh, my gosh, two thousand. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.440 Yeah, I'll talk on the information and I appreciate it, all. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.640 Right, pass on the info that's said. Oh my gosh, okay, 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.320 so bitcoin, let's see they bought it. Let's see they 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:52.200 bought it for one thousand dollars, and let's see calculate, 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:53.800 so that'd be worth. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.840 Okay, hold on, let's see. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:00.360 Okay, so that'd be worth ninety one thousand dollars at 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.360 this point. That's just that's just a quick calculator. I 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.520 don't know if that's correct or not, but that's pretty wild. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.680 Oh that's not taken into concern. Oh okay, hold on, 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.120 I got to look up the buy price from two thousand. Okay, 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:19.280 hold on, bitcoin price so in two thousand it was 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.320 let's see, we got to go back. Oh, I guess 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.800 I can't even look up. I can't even look up 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.920 the price in two thousand. Bitcoin price two thousand was like, 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:32.280 oh my gosh, that's a long time. Okay, Yeah, that's 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.160 it's worth more than ninety thousand dollars. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.720 That's that's worth a lot of money. 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.840 Oh my gosh, okay, yeah, I would pay to have 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:39.880 someone figure that out. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:41.120 All right, good question. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.360 Marcelo Please, No matter what you're signing up for, whether 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.000 it is bitcoin, whether it is crypto, whether it is 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.080 an account that you open up at Facebook or anything, 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.080 please remember your account password. I don't know what it 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.000 is about people that just they refuse to use a 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.560 password manager. Get a password manager. Bitwarden is completely free. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.960 All you have to do. It's like a little notebook. 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.040 Just write down your username and password as you sign up. Yes, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.800 it takes you an extra three minutes to sign up 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.760 for a website because you have to do a little 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.720 legwork to generate the password and save it. But I 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.159 do it every day, and I'm telling you it has 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.080 saved me so many times. I just set up a 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.200 new computer. I said, oh, I'll never forget the password 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.280 to this computer. I forgot it as soon as I 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.160 set it up, and of course it was in my wallet. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.080 Please use a password manager. Eight A eight rich one 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.720 oh one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.080 rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:45.120 talking technology this week. If you like Google, you might 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.760 like their new app for the iPhone. They released their 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:52.240 AI app, a standalone Gemini AI app for the iPhone. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.159 So this is something you could access in the past, 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.680 but you had to go through the Google app. Now 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.679 Gemini AI is standalone, so that means you can go 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.560 to the app store search for Gemini AI. Just be 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.280 careful because there's a lot of impersonators whenever you search 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.040 for these main AI brands, so make sure you're getting 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.640 that the one that is actually from Google. I'll put 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.680 a link on the website. Rich on tech dot TV 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.080 go to the show notes. But what can you do 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.200 with Gemini AI. Well, this is this is Google's version 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.240 of Chat GPT, so you can text it, you can 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:29.320 ask it questions. There's a camera mode. It also has 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.760 Gemini Live. This is their conversational mode, so you can 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.359 talk to AI in a natural language. And I was 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.840 hanging out with Google this week in New York City 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.680 and they talked about how they have not only can 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.719 these things speak forty different languages, which is just absolutely wild, 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:52.439 but the names of these these Gemini Live characters, I 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.480 guess you can call them whatever you want to, however 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.320 you want to describe them. They all are inspired by 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.840 heavenly bodies, so they didn't want to name them traditional 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.399 names because they thought it'd be weird. If you know, 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.479 like remember we have Siri and we have the alex 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:12.080 A one. But you know, Google Assistant never really had 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.520 a name, but Jem and I. They wanted to come 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.440 up with these interesting kind of names that were much 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:22.159 more kind of mysterious, because you don't want to say, oh, 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.159 I'm talking to Bob. You know you're just talking to 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.840 Let's see, where's the voices. So here's the voices. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.320 I'm ready to be your voice. If you like what 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.200 you hear, choose me to start talking. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:33.119 So that's URSA. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.200 Feel free to keep exploring until you find the perfect voice. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.080 That's Vega. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:40.720 You can always change voices later. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.400 I'll be here whenever you're ready to talk. 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.920 And this is Nova described as calm mid range. Here's 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:46.520 Pegasus s. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.680 It's about the other voices. Swipe to explore or pick 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.560 me to start engaged in deeper voice Eclipse. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:53.920 Is it good to meet you? 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.280 Give me a chance or check out the other options Energetic. 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.919 Maybe I'm your style, Pick me and I can be 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:01.760 the voice you hear. 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.639 Why why does he sound a little down? He doesn't 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:11.280 sound like I don't know if you let's go back. 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:12.400 This is dipper hold it. 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.840 Maybe I'm your style, Pick me and I can be 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:16.680 the voice you hear. 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.760 I feel like he might read like one of those 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:21.720 like romance novels late at night. 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:23.800 I don't know. It sounds like the guy at the 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.280 bar that just brought you a drink. Yeah, I don't 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:28.120 know that's that one anyway. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.880 So so all, so this is actually if you haven't 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:32.320 tried this, now is your time. 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:32.880 Now. 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.159 Gemini Live used to be a feature they had to 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:36.679 pay for. I'm not sure if they open that up 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.399 for free now, but that is the So there's various 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.320 options once you download this app, but that live thing 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:44.840 is something you should really try. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:46.720 It's in the lower right hand corner. It looks like 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:47.480 kind of a voice. 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.080 But the neat thing about this is that you can 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:56.120 now just access Gemini AI a lot faster on the iPhone. Now, 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.880 there are some hang ups because it is the iPhone. 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.960 The way it's constructed, it can't access other apps on 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.919 the phone unless they're Google properties. So it can do 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.560 things like Google maps and link up with YouTube music, 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.360 but it's not gonna be able to like do other 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.679 things on your phone like Siri would be able to do, 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:14.520 so just keep that in mind. 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:15.359 But it's kind of cool. 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.920 I would definitely recommend downloading it. And the thing about 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.440 that's neat about Gemini is that it's up to date 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.520 with all of Google's information, so that's kind of a 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.879 little leg up against some of these other AI chatbots 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.280 out there that may not be as fresh like Google AI. 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.240 Gemini really has all the information you need, so if 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.560 you're looking for like answers to questions about things that 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:41.080 just happened, you can get those answers a lot easier 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:43.679 on Gemini compared to some of the other things. Now 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:47.600 chat GBT just introduced web search results not as good 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.879 and also it's a premium feature, so Gemini has that 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.919 built in for free, even on the free level. So anyway, 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.679 Gemini for iOS, you can check it out. Let's go 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.200 to Mark in Los Angeles. Mark, you're on with. 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:07.160 Rich All Rich, I'm a Mac guy since nineteen eighty four. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:11.360 I'm about to buy either an iMac or a Mac 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:15.439 Many and one of my considerations is that if I 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:18.640 buy a Macmini, I will have to get an external monitor. 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.600 The Apple monitor is awesome, but they love it as 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.320 much as I do, and it's kind of expensive, so 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.320 I'm looking to either. I would look to a four 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:32.720 K monitor, which would be less. So I'm curious as 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:39.000 to your thoughts on the visual experience of that monitor, 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:42.120 which admittedly would be awesome, and a four K monitor, 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:45.840 and what brands you trust if I were to go 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:49.560 to a four K monitor of a different of a 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.520 different kind. I haven't had to buy a monitor in 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:52.560 a very long time. 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:53.520 Well, all the. 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:56.040 Specs are kind of amazing now, you know, all over 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:56.400 the place. 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:59.680 Yes they are. So I will tell you as someone 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.520 who just got the Macmini. So Apple sent along the 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.680 Macmini to test out. And I've never had a Mac 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.360 Mini before, and they just sent the most basic one. 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:08.639 It was. 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:11.720 It's like the basic version of it. So it's got 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:15.040 the sixteen gigs a RAM, it's got the standard M 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.840 four chip. It's not the pro. And I'm telling you, Mark, 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:20.600 I'm in love with this thing. I was on it 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:22.440 this morning, I was on it last night. My wife 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:24.280 is like, are you coming to bed? I'm like, I'm 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:27.520 still playing on this computer. The screen is huge. They 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.000 sent one of the studio displays, so it's the standard 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:32.359 studio display, which I get is sixteen hundred bucks. 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:34.359 But it's a twenty seven. 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:37.440 Inches seven inch That's what I have I have a 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:42.120 like a Circle twenty thirteen iMac and it's just they 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:44.760 just don't support it anymore. It won't it won't stop working, 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:46.919 you know, it never gets right, of course, but I 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:50.119 need to replace it. And if it didn't cost so much, 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:51.960 it wouldn't be a I wouldn't think about it. 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:55.159 Yeah, well, yeah, there are many other monitors that are 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:55.879 a lot cheaper. 0:23:56.280 --> 0:23:56.520 I think. 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.560 Obviously, Apple of course has a little bit of you know, 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:03.040 sinner between their monitor and their computers, but you don't 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:05.880 really need that. But I will tell you as far 0:24:05.920 --> 0:24:08.840 as between the iMac and the Macmini, I would go 0:24:08.920 --> 0:24:12.639 with the Macmini for sure, just because I love the 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:15.760 idea that this thing is so small. It's got ports 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:18.720 on the front, which I really like, so you can 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:20.760 plug in things, and it's just it's always there and 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:22.080 it's just simple and it's nice. 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:23.560 So when it comes to. 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:27.199 Buying the monitor, we actually had a guest on and 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:32.120 the guest was Matthew S. Smith, So look him up. 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:35.760 He's got actually i'll send I'll put the links in 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:38.400 the show notes, but he mentioned all of the monitors 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:40.480 that he recommends. I don't have it off the top 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:43.560 of my head, but he had a great and a 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.439 whole buyer's guide, so he explained like the difference between 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:49.000 the monitors, which ones he likes, and I've got it. 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:52.000 I'll put it all in the show notes, but it 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:55.920 was from what I remember, he had some pretty strong 0:24:55.960 --> 0:25:01.120 opinions on things. He also maintains the PC mag Monitor 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:03.640 Buying Guide, so I would look there and let's let's 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:05.400 see PC mag. 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:11.320 Let's okay here, but that's where Matthew Smith Matthew S. 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:14.000 Smith, And if you look at if you look at 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:17.240 his information on there, he's got all the monitors that 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:19.479 he recommends on PC mag. That's I'm trying to look 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:20.880 it up. Of course I can't find it while I'm 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:25.000 talking to you. Monitor Buying guide on PC mag. Let 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:27.080 me see that real quick. Here we go best monitors 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:31.840 of twenty twenty four. So I mean they recommend, yeah, 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:33.879 some of these standard brands that you would know, like 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:38.159 the Lenovo, Dell HP A SEUs. But he explains in 0:25:38.200 --> 0:25:40.320 his interview what to look for, and I think that's 0:25:40.359 --> 0:25:42.920 the main thing is there's so many specs that he 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:45.440 sort of like explained what he thinks are the things 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:47.240 that you should mainly look for in these. 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:50.360 Monitors so available on your website. 0:25:50.480 --> 0:25:52.040 Yeah, I'll link it up on the show notes. 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:53.879 I can't find it right now while we're talking on 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:56.320 the air, but it was it was basically everything you 0:25:56.320 --> 0:25:58.199 need to know. Like I love when these experts come 0:25:58.240 --> 0:25:59.679 on they just say, look, this is what I like. 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:02.399 I've said all these things. This one's like five hundred 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:05.200 bucks and it's going to be fantastic. So but I 0:26:05.240 --> 0:26:07.639 would say the main difference between the iMac and the 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:10.359 Macmini is, you know, the iMac is sort of like 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:13.000 stuck in time, like once you get it, that's it. 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:15.560 I mean Mac Minnie kind of the same way, like 0:26:15.560 --> 0:26:17.000 you're not going to really be upgrading a lot of 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:18.920 stuff on there. But I just like the idea that 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:21.880 you're bringing your own components. So again, you can get 0:26:21.880 --> 0:26:23.880 that nice big display that you want, you can get 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:24.960 a keyboard that you like. 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:27.520 I mean, you could do that with the iMac as well. 0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:30.800 But I guess the only difference is, and this is 0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:33.040 something that Matthew talked about, was whether you should get 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:36.480 a webcam built in or not, and he he said 0:26:36.520 --> 0:26:39.760 he does not like the webcams built in, and the 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:45.280 reason is because you know they're usually higher quality when 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:49.040 they're not built in and they're also you know, it's 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:49.960 just much better. 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:51.879 Yeah, here's his buying guide. Okay, I found it. 0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:57.800 Okay, so he so his best monitor overall is the 0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:02.760 Dell Ultra Sharp PIXEO is the best budget monitor for 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:04.360 one hundred and fifty bucks. I don't think you want 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:07.280 that one. The best budget four K is a Dell 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:11.560 that's three hundred bucks. Best budget gaming monitor is also Dell. 0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:16.640 So he really likes the Dell stuff. MSI best Gaming monitor, Alienware, 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:20.400 best gaming monitor a sus they make the best high 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:26.160 refresh rate monitor that's a thousand bucks, and best budget. 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:29.520 As when they say gaming monitor, what's different between a 0:27:29.560 --> 0:27:33.719 gaming monitor and just a good computer like the like 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:38.720 the like the studio display. Is there something different from 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:41.320 a gaming monitor and Apple's expensive monitor. 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:44.280 I believe it's the refresh rate. I think that's mainly 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:46.400 what it is and how it handles that. 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:47.840 I'm not a gamer, yeah. 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:51.159 So you probably don't need to worry about that, but 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:53.800 that's I think that's the main thing. And he explains it. 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:56.720 Let's see, yeah, yeah, higher a refresh rate, but he 0:27:56.800 --> 0:27:59.359 was also explaining how the refresh rates you know, for 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:03.439 standard computing, you don't really need something that high. So 0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:05.959 I'm looking at the Let's see if you look at 0:28:05.960 --> 0:28:10.600 the the Apple studio displays. See like Apple doesn't even 0:28:10.640 --> 0:28:14.280 mention their refresh rates on their main page because most 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:15.399 people are not looking at that. 0:28:15.480 --> 0:28:16.680 You know, you know it's going to look good. 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:20.600 This does okay. Interesting, So the studio monitor does have 0:28:20.640 --> 0:28:23.879 a camera built in. I did not didn't even notice 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:27.200 that on one And the other thing that the Apple 0:28:27.240 --> 0:28:30.480 monitors are doing now is they have the the iMac. 0:28:30.560 --> 0:28:32.760 The only separate the only thing that's a little bit different. 0:28:32.760 --> 0:28:37.080 It's got the downward facing camera. So it's called desk view. 0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:38.400 So you can put like a piece of paper if 0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:40.240 you're doing a zoom like in front of the monitor 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:42.160 and it will look down at that. So if you're 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:44.440 sharing like things on your desk, you can do that. 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:47.040 So that's one thing the iMac does that I'm not 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:49.560 sure that the studio display does. But that's something to 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:53.840 look for anyway. Great question, Yeah, I'll link it up 0:28:53.920 --> 0:28:55.120 rich on Tech dot TV. 0:28:55.480 --> 0:28:59.280 Look for the show notes. This is show number. What 0:28:59.360 --> 0:28:59.600 is it? 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:05.840 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:10.200 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:13.880 triple eight rich one oh one, that's eight eight eight 0:29:14.560 --> 0:29:19.560 seven four to two four one zero one. Richon tech 0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:22.760 dot tv is the website we've been talking about. Blue Sky. 0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:25.440 Bobo just found me on there. I just found him 0:29:26.120 --> 0:29:28.320 blue Sky. You can find me on there at rich 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:31.479 on Tech. If you've adopted or are trying out that 0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:33.800 new social media platform. 0:29:35.200 --> 0:29:40.160 Let's go to uh Kent. Let's see here Kent in 0:29:40.560 --> 0:29:43.520 Huntington Beach, Kent. You're on with rich Hi. 0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:43.920 Rich. 0:29:44.280 --> 0:29:49.320 I have a iPhone, twelve promats and two hundred and 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:53.120 fifty six gigabytes. I've got like fifteen gigabytes left, but 0:29:53.240 --> 0:29:59.600 he can't download the last seventeen or eighteen iOS so 0:30:00.200 --> 0:30:01.800 enough says I don't have enough memory. 0:30:02.160 --> 0:30:06.239 Oh you don't have enough memory? Okay, So well, so 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:08.640 you said how many gigs you have left on your phone? 0:30:10.000 --> 0:30:12.160 Fourteen? Like fourteen and a half. 0:30:12.360 --> 0:30:15.640 Oh okay, and so and iOS eighteen is saying that's 0:30:15.640 --> 0:30:16.080 not enough. 0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:19.360 Yeah, when it when it? When the downloads is it's 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:20.400 point like four. 0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:23.840 Well okay, but that's that's the download. But that doesn't 0:30:23.880 --> 0:30:26.240 take into consideration what this thing needs to do on 0:30:26.280 --> 0:30:29.920 your phone. So it doesn't just because the download is 0:30:29.920 --> 0:30:32.040 that amount. It wants a certain amount of space on 0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:35.360 your phone to make sure that nothing gets corrupted or 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:38.240 it needs it needs some space to work, is what 0:30:38.280 --> 0:30:40.520 I'm trying to say. So, is there any way you 0:30:40.520 --> 0:30:43.280 can free up like a couple of gigs on your phone? 0:30:44.160 --> 0:30:45.840 Yeah? I could it, just it would be nice if 0:30:45.840 --> 0:30:48.000 they would tell you what they need, or you know, 0:30:48.080 --> 0:30:50.120 built them in such a way that even if you 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:52.160 i mean, because you you know, you pay a lot 0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:55.280 of money for these things in the storage, they should 0:30:55.320 --> 0:30:56.840 make it so that it works and you still get 0:30:56.840 --> 0:30:59.600 your usable storage, not always having to delete stuff. 0:31:00.160 --> 0:31:04.760 Okay, So I'm looking at some things, some reports online 0:31:04.880 --> 0:31:08.840 and it's saying that for iOS eighteen, it looks like 0:31:08.920 --> 0:31:11.880 you need about twenty gigs of storage available. Now Apple 0:31:11.920 --> 0:31:16.040 doesn't I don't think they published this, but that is 0:31:16.080 --> 0:31:18.520 what people are reporting you need. 0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:22.800 So yeah, I've heard people with sixty four gigabytes. They're 0:31:22.840 --> 0:31:24.920 really I mean, they're they're deleting them a ton of 0:31:24.920 --> 0:31:27.280 stuff from they're telling and still can't do it. 0:31:27.400 --> 0:31:30.360 Sixty four you mean like sixty four total? 0:31:31.320 --> 0:31:34.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know that is yeah, that's 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:36.440 unfortunate because here's the thing, like, for a long time, 0:31:36.600 --> 0:31:39.040 and many in the tech world gave Apple a lot 0:31:39.040 --> 0:31:40.960 of you know, a lot of trouble for this is 0:31:40.960 --> 0:31:43.840 that for many, many years they were selling phones that 0:31:43.880 --> 0:31:47.640 were understored, right, you had way less storage than people 0:31:47.720 --> 0:31:50.880 needed for today's current applications, which you know, if you're 0:31:50.880 --> 0:31:53.400 taking any sort of four K videos or you know, 0:31:53.400 --> 0:31:55.320 even if you're downloading a lot of apps. I mean 0:31:55.360 --> 0:31:58.720 apps today are like three hundred megabytes sometimes so and 0:31:58.760 --> 0:32:00.720 that you know, just for like an average like Facebook 0:32:00.800 --> 0:32:03.280 or something, So you do need much more storage than 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:05.400 you think on your phone. And also a lot of 0:32:05.400 --> 0:32:07.240 people think that they can just buy their way to 0:32:07.320 --> 0:32:10.720 more storage with iCloud, when you know you can in 0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:12.920 a way, but it's also kind of linked to your phone, 0:32:13.040 --> 0:32:16.880 so it's not that easy. But and I do wish 0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:20.720 Apple would say on the on the actual you know, 0:32:20.760 --> 0:32:23.000 when you're downloading this or trying to download it, like, hey, 0:32:23.080 --> 0:32:25.000 you need one more gig of storage before we can 0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:26.160 install this, instead. 0:32:25.880 --> 0:32:28.239 Of just yeah, you need to pree it up this 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:30.880 and then we can download it or a different way 0:32:30.920 --> 0:32:33.200 to do it on your computer or something else. 0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:34.120 Yeah, and by the way. 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:36.440 They should also say, like, here's three files you can 0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:39.520 delete that we think you don't need. So do you 0:32:39.520 --> 0:32:41.480 know how to free up space quickly on your phone 0:32:41.560 --> 0:32:43.480 or have you have you come up with a plan 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:44.160 for that or no. 0:32:44.720 --> 0:32:47.720 I haven't really, I mean I have. I have a 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:50.000 lot of photos and videos, and I have a Google 0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:54.080 backup and Prime backup, so I could I could delete 0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:54.520 a lot of. 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:57.160 Those, Okay, So the easiest way to do it is 0:32:57.280 --> 0:32:59.840 if you go into oh see, I've I've got the 0:32:59.840 --> 0:33:03.160 new iOS eighteen, but I think it's similar, but I 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:06.800 think under general I'm not sure if they still have it, 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:08.400 but it says iPhone storage. 0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:09.080 This might be new. 0:33:09.320 --> 0:33:12.080 I know they have an iPhone storage somewhere on your iOS. 0:33:12.280 --> 0:33:14.360 It may not be under general, but there is if 0:33:14.360 --> 0:33:17.280 you find maybe just search for iPhone storage and what 0:33:17.320 --> 0:33:19.640 they do is they give you recommendations for what you 0:33:19.680 --> 0:33:22.640 can do to free up some storage. So, for instance, 0:33:22.720 --> 0:33:26.800 I'm looking at my phone, Netflix is holding fifteen gigs 0:33:27.200 --> 0:33:29.400 and that's just stuff I've downloaded on Netflix. I could 0:33:29.440 --> 0:33:32.360 easily get rid of that. Those are like downloaded shows. 0:33:32.400 --> 0:33:34.480 I can easily get rid of those. In the meantime 0:33:34.760 --> 0:33:38.160 to download iOS eighteen and then re download those shows 0:33:38.600 --> 0:33:44.040 Instagram eight gigs, podcasts, five gigs, voice memos four gigs. 0:33:44.560 --> 0:33:47.400 So again, those are some low hanging fruit. Pretty easy 0:33:47.440 --> 0:33:50.200 to get rid of those things without even deleting your 0:33:50.240 --> 0:33:53.120 files or videos. But typically what I tell people to 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:56.200 do is as long as they're backed up somewhere else, 0:33:56.680 --> 0:33:58.640 is you can delete some of the longest videos that 0:33:58.720 --> 0:34:01.840 you have on your iPhone. And I think even Apple 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:04.000 makes that tricky to find those, but sometimes they put 0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:07.520 them under the recommendations. But on Android it's pretty easy. 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:09.200 You just go into your files app and you just 0:34:09.239 --> 0:34:13.160 sort by the largest files. But on on iPhone, you 0:34:13.200 --> 0:34:15.920 can go into your videos and you can just look 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:18.799 at the times of the videos and find the ones. 0:34:18.880 --> 0:34:24.080 Let's see, can you sort view options? No filter, Nope, can't. 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:27.920 It doesn't let you sort by biggest videos unfortunately, but 0:34:28.000 --> 0:34:29.520 that's you know, an easy way to do it is 0:34:29.520 --> 0:34:31.480 just to look for a video that's over, you know, 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:34.319 like I'm looking at one that's uh, let's see here, 0:34:34.440 --> 0:34:37.480 maybe like fifteen minutes long or something ten minutes. 0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:39.600 It would be nice, it would be nice if they 0:34:39.600 --> 0:34:43.000 gave you the same storage on iCloud that you buy 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.319 on your phone, so that if you have to do 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:48.160 a total reset or something, you not have to like 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:50.759 buy in it for a month or whatever just to 0:34:51.160 --> 0:34:52.320 save it and put it back. 0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:54.120 Yeah, well there isn't. 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:56.359 That doesn't always work because I've had the genius part 0:34:56.600 --> 0:34:58.200 lose a bunch of my stuff when they set it 0:34:58.239 --> 0:35:00.040 downloaded to the cloud and it did. 0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:03.239 Well, that's not good. But there is a feature that 0:35:03.280 --> 0:35:07.520 Apple did introduce this year or last year with iCloud, 0:35:08.840 --> 0:35:11.640 which is I'm trying to find the exact name of it, 0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:15.200 but yes, here it is. It's temporary iCloud storage. I'll 0:35:15.239 --> 0:35:16.800 link this up in the show notes. So this is 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:19.279 actually something they did that's pretty good. So if you 0:35:19.320 --> 0:35:22.239 have if you're switching to a new iPhone and you 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:25.080 don't have enough iCloud storage to back up your current device, 0:35:25.600 --> 0:35:30.120 they will automatically expand your iCloud storage to accommodate everything 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:32.200 on your phone so that you can move it over 0:35:32.239 --> 0:35:33.960 to your new one, and then once it's moved over 0:35:34.040 --> 0:35:36.799 to the new one, Apple will delete that information after 0:35:36.800 --> 0:35:39.480 twenty one days. So that's actually kind of a nice 0:35:39.480 --> 0:35:42.400 thing they did. Understanding that people don't always have as 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:44.440 much eCloud as they have storage on their phone. But 0:35:45.040 --> 0:35:48.600 you also have to remember Kent that Apple makes a 0:35:48.680 --> 0:35:51.799 lot of money on iCloud storage. That's one of their 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:55.120 biggest growing areas of money for that company. This is 0:35:55.200 --> 0:36:00.000 rich on Tech. Welcome to another hour of rich on Tech. 0:36:00.160 --> 0:36:03.520 My name is rich DeMuro, talking technology with you at 0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:06.120 eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:36:06.560 --> 0:36:08.920 seven four to two four one zero one. 0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:10.200 Welcome one, Welcome all. 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:15.200 We are here to chat technology tech news this week, 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:19.239 your issues, new apps, all kinds of fun stuff. 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They have a vested interest in this stuff. 0:36:59.200 --> 0:37:03.600 But they've been studying passwords for four six years, and uh, 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:07.799 apparently password habits are not improving. Even with all the 0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:09.839 people like myself that are saying you got to get 0:37:09.840 --> 0:37:14.399 a better password, people are still using week week passwords, 0:37:14.880 --> 0:37:18.400 and this is for their personal systems and their company computers. 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:22.360 One two three, four five six is the most common 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:27.719 password for the fifth time in six years. Now here's 0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:29.600 the thing. You may say, Oh, I do one two 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:34.359 three four five six exclamation point, that'll keep them out. No, 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:37.920 these uh, these hackers use sophisticated programs that can figure 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:42.440 out these passwords in seconds. In fact, looking at their 0:37:42.440 --> 0:37:45.919 website NordPass dot com slash a most common password list, 0:37:47.040 --> 0:37:48.960 Uh one two, three, four five six, you might think 0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:49.680 seven eight nine. 0:37:49.760 --> 0:37:51.400 Adding to the end is going to be better. No 0:37:52.560 --> 0:37:52.920 one two. 0:37:53.000 --> 0:37:56.400 Okay, So in the top ten, you've got the combination 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:58.560 of knowing one two, three, four, five six, seven eight nine, 0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:01.799 and you've got password coardy one two three one one 0:38:01.840 --> 0:38:06.439 one one one one one secret Secret is number nine. Yeah, 0:38:06.480 --> 0:38:11.120 that'll keep them out. I Love you number eighteen, Dragon 0:38:11.239 --> 0:38:15.880 number twenty monkey number twenty one password with a capital 0:38:15.920 --> 0:38:18.879 P number twenty six. Yeah, that'll that'll keep them out. 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:22.560 Target one two three, tinkle number twenty nine. Oh bobo, 0:38:22.640 --> 0:38:27.920 they found your password. Oh yours is twinkle, of course, 0:38:28.000 --> 0:38:32.440 twinkle twinkle, Uh cordy with a G number thirty three. 0:38:33.640 --> 0:38:36.200 Uh okay. It just goes on and on and on. Now, 0:38:36.280 --> 0:38:39.440 by the way, all of these passwords, every single one 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:43.120 of them, until you get to the word the number 0:38:43.440 --> 0:38:45.799 number one O eight, which is seven seven five eight 0:38:45.920 --> 0:38:48.680 five two one. Every single one before that takes a 0:38:48.760 --> 0:38:53.160 second less than a second to crack using software. This 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:55.920 one takes uh four minutes, but they'll still crack it. 0:38:56.920 --> 0:39:01.080 Let's see anything that's seventeen minute. Wow, So if you 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:05.080 use the password unknown, that actually takes seventeen minutes to crack. 0:39:05.760 --> 0:39:07.759 So I guess, at the at the very least, if 0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:11.359 you're okay. So it looks like interesting. So Nicole takes 0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:16.839 two minutes, Anthony takes seventeen to crack. They recommend a 0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:20.520 password of at least twenty characters long. You will never 0:39:20.600 --> 0:39:23.520 remember a password that's twenty characters long. Plus you have 0:39:23.600 --> 0:39:28.799 to mix uppercase, lowercase numbers, and symbols. Never reuse passwords 0:39:28.800 --> 0:39:32.279 across accounts. Consider going passwordless. You can use an option 0:39:32.400 --> 0:39:34.880 like passkeys. It's kind of funny. I've only set up 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:36.880 pass keys on like one account, but every time I 0:39:36.920 --> 0:39:39.359 log into that account, I love it because it's so easy. 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:41.560 You just unlock your phone and it puts you into 0:39:41.600 --> 0:39:44.799 the account. It's super, super easy. And of course, use 0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:48.000 a password manager. Use a password manager. I talked about it. 0:39:48.040 --> 0:39:53.040 You can use there's so many. There's a Bitwarden that's free, 0:39:53.200 --> 0:39:57.200 nord pass one password dash. 0:39:56.960 --> 0:39:59.080 Lane, there's so many. 0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:01.320 Just pick one and use it and secure that with 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:03.880 a good password and make sure that you do not 0:40:04.040 --> 0:40:09.479 lose your recovery key. Let's go to Paul in Columbus, Ohio. Paul, 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:11.680 you're on with Richel. 0:40:11.840 --> 0:40:13.799 Huh. I love it. 0:40:13.920 --> 0:40:15.160 I'll just give you a hard time. 0:40:17.160 --> 0:40:21.600 Yeah, I've got a Tshiba notebook that I'm donating to 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:25.640 the local library at the old computer, but it was 0:40:25.680 --> 0:40:29.319 hardly used and it still boots up the better. He's good, mom. 0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:33.720 I want to wipe it so they could put Linux 0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:39.000 or Chrome Plus or something like that on. But I've 0:40:39.000 --> 0:40:40.520 got Windows seven right now. 0:40:40.880 --> 0:40:46.240 Oh okay, Yeah, So that's trickier because the new versions 0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:48.080 of Windows have an easy way to wipe them. The 0:40:48.080 --> 0:40:52.360 old ones do not, So what are you trying to do? 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:53.680 What have you tried to do with this? 0:40:54.760 --> 0:40:56.839 Oh? I know I'm having not much because I didn't 0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:59.000 want to screw something up. But I know there was 0:40:59.040 --> 0:41:01.520 a stuff stuff I looked up. It said to go 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:06.200 to restore and recover. I think it was. Yeah, I 0:41:06.200 --> 0:41:08.600 mean at the end of the matter of fact, I've 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.200 heard you talk about this to some extent in the path. 0:41:11.480 --> 0:41:13.279 Yeah, I mean, you can't screw much up because this 0:41:13.360 --> 0:41:15.160 computer is you know it's going You're just going to 0:41:15.239 --> 0:41:19.160 recycle it. But so on Windows, let's see here. So 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:24.560 Windows eight, Windows eight and ten and eleven obviously have 0:41:24.600 --> 0:41:27.480 an easy way to do this. Windows seven does not. 0:41:27.680 --> 0:41:31.200 So there are a couple of couple of apps you 0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:33.200 can use to do this if you want to just 0:41:33.239 --> 0:41:36.960 erase the hard drive. One of them is killed disc. 0:41:37.000 --> 0:41:40.279 Have you heard of that one? Okay, so that's one. 0:41:41.120 --> 0:41:43.520 There used to be one called DBAN, but I guess 0:41:43.600 --> 0:41:47.759 that one is not really maintained anymore. But that's what 0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:51.280 that did in the past, is that you would basically 0:41:51.280 --> 0:41:53.600 make a put it on a drive like on a 0:41:53.600 --> 0:41:55.640 CD drive. You'd put it in the drive and as 0:41:55.640 --> 0:41:57.239 soon as you turn on that computer, it would see 0:41:57.280 --> 0:42:00.880 that program and it just erase everything. So it seems 0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:03.000 like it's still available. But last I heard, I got 0:42:03.000 --> 0:42:08.600 an email from a listener last year, Dave, and he 0:42:08.680 --> 0:42:11.200 said that d BAN is abandon where it has not 0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:14.560 been maintained in many years. It's full of bugs and 0:42:14.880 --> 0:42:16.719 it won't boot on a lot of systems. So he 0:42:16.719 --> 0:42:21.520 says there is two things that he recommended, which is 0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:26.040 n wipe and a bootable version of that called shred os. 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:31.520 So those are the the things that you can look up. 0:42:31.520 --> 0:42:33.879 But apparently, you know, all of these look like they 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:36.920 take a little bit of know how to do, so 0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:38.840 it may not be that easy if you if you know, 0:42:38.880 --> 0:42:41.440 if you don't have the full know how, what about 0:42:41.520 --> 0:42:45.200 just putting what about just putting the chromos on there? 0:42:45.800 --> 0:42:48.279 That the chromos flex. 0:42:49.600 --> 0:42:52.080 Flex you know, I said plus was flex. Okay? Could 0:42:52.560 --> 0:42:54.120 with that overright the window? 0:42:54.280 --> 0:42:55.920 It should if you if you put it on there, 0:42:55.920 --> 0:42:58.360 as long as you're installing it and not just running 0:42:58.360 --> 0:43:01.439 it off the you know, off the us B because 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:03.759 you can run this off a USB drive, but if 0:43:03.800 --> 0:43:06.080 you actually install it on there, you can you know, 0:43:06.120 --> 0:43:08.240 that'll that'll format everything, it'll wipe everything. 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:12.360 Off, so you might try that. Yeah, okay, and that 0:43:12.360 --> 0:43:12.920 that'll make it. 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:16.399 I don't even care if Windows seven was on make 0:43:16.440 --> 0:43:19.160 sure whether there's not much data on it otherwise, but 0:43:19.280 --> 0:43:21.040 they didn't want to erase it other one. 0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:23.839 Yeah, no you won't. You won't need that. It's because 0:43:23.880 --> 0:43:24.680 once it's on there. 0:43:24.880 --> 0:43:29.759 So basically, you you create this bootable USB drive and 0:43:29.800 --> 0:43:33.600 then uh, that's it. You install it on your your mac. Uh, 0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:36.480 well let's see it on trying to see what's going 0:43:36.520 --> 0:43:38.600 on here. Okay, Yeah, you install it on your PC 0:43:38.760 --> 0:43:40.879 or MAC to replace the operating system and that's it. 0:43:41.800 --> 0:43:43.799 And it's that's pretty easy. Maybe just do that and 0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:46.279 that way you give it to them already ready to go. 0:43:47.880 --> 0:43:51.040 Okay, thought chickie. 0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:53.600 Yeah, Chrome os Flex it's called. I'll put that in 0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:57.080 the show notes as well. Yeah, we got a quick minute. 0:43:57.400 --> 0:44:02.359 Okay. I've got an older Ethernet switch that I've got 0:44:02.360 --> 0:44:10.399 my television and Apple Box connected to, and sometimes I'm 0:44:10.480 --> 0:44:15.480 getting a pause or a problem with buffering, and I'm 0:44:15.560 --> 0:44:18.080 just wondering if the switch could cause an old switch 0:44:18.080 --> 0:44:22.560 could kill it. That's like eight or nine sports on. 0:44:23.800 --> 0:44:25.719 I don't think so, I mean a switch is going 0:44:25.760 --> 0:44:29.120 to be at minimum one hundred. You know it's it's 0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:31.120 a minimum one hundred. So there's no way that that's 0:44:31.160 --> 0:44:34.360 going to cause buffering on these systems. 0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:37.120 So what's causing me to get pauses in the middle 0:44:37.160 --> 0:44:39.320 of a program? Have you radically? 0:44:39.920 --> 0:44:43.440 Have you tried connecting the device via Wi Fi to 0:44:43.520 --> 0:44:45.360 your router and see if it still happens. 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:50.480 No, it's hard Everything is hard wired at this point. 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:52.560 Can you disconnect that hard wire or no? 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:59.759 Yeah, I could sure, I would use a yet or 0:44:59.840 --> 0:45:00.880 t a cube. 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:04.720 Okay, well yeah, I mean you shouldn't be experiencing buffering 0:45:04.719 --> 0:45:07.240 the fire TV cube has that's actually like the highest 0:45:07.280 --> 0:45:10.919 powered fire So I would say what I would try 0:45:10.960 --> 0:45:13.319 to do is I would do two things. I would 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:16.279 first off, connect You might need a long Ethernet cable 0:45:16.280 --> 0:45:18.200 to do this, depending on where your router is, but 0:45:18.560 --> 0:45:21.319 I would connect the fire TV Cube first. I would 0:45:21.320 --> 0:45:23.360 just try it over Wi Fi and see if the 0:45:23.440 --> 0:45:26.200 problem persists. And if that problem persists and you know, 0:45:26.280 --> 0:45:29.200 it's the cube itself and it's not the actual Internet connection, 0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:32.560 then the second thing I would do is connect. If 0:45:32.600 --> 0:45:35.520 it's still happening that way, then I would connect the 0:45:36.080 --> 0:45:40.600 fireTV Cube directly to your router with an Ethernet cable 0:45:41.000 --> 0:45:43.440 and see if it happens there. So if it continues 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:46.000 to happen with all the different methods of connecting, then 0:45:46.040 --> 0:45:48.359 you know it's something with your fire TV Cube and Paul, 0:45:48.400 --> 0:45:51.400 what I would do is my favorite solution is to 0:45:51.560 --> 0:45:54.839 just bring that back to factory settings and see if 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:57.080 that continues to happen. You might have installed an app 0:45:57.120 --> 0:45:59.799 on there something that's just not agreeing with it, and 0:45:59.840 --> 0:46:03.640 it's that's what's happening and causing that stumble. But today, 0:46:03.719 --> 0:46:05.960 in today's day and age, unless you're watching the Netflix 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:08.840 Live fight, you shouldn't really have buffering issues. 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:10.319 It's just the way it is. 0:46:10.360 --> 0:46:12.719 Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:15.400 seven four to two four to one zero one. This 0:46:15.800 --> 0:46:19.719 is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:46:19.840 --> 0:46:24.520 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:46:24.640 --> 0:46:27.960 eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:31.279 four to two four one zero one. The website for 0:46:31.400 --> 0:46:34.360 the show richon Tech dot tv. 0:46:35.920 --> 0:46:36.359 Let's see. 0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:41.120 We got an email from Brian in San Diego. He says, Hey, Rich, 0:46:41.160 --> 0:46:43.520 I love your show. I have a question about video editing. 0:46:43.560 --> 0:46:46.200 Is there a software or app that can automatically edit 0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:49.480 video clips into a full video. I have hours of 0:46:49.520 --> 0:46:52.480 go Pro footage from a motorcycle trip from San Diego 0:46:52.560 --> 0:46:55.280 to the bottom tip of South America, but the amount 0:46:55.320 --> 0:46:59.319 of footage feels overwhelming. Is there something I can automatically 0:46:59.320 --> 0:47:01.120 go through and find parts of clips that are good 0:47:01.200 --> 0:47:03.200 and cut them out and combine them with other clips? 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:07.360 Thanks keeps the keep the show rolling, Brian. 0:47:07.520 --> 0:47:09.520 Yes, there are programs that can do this, but I 0:47:09.520 --> 0:47:11.919 will tell you every time I've ever tested one, it's 0:47:12.120 --> 0:47:16.960 pretty horrible. They're just nothing will replace an actual human 0:47:17.040 --> 0:47:21.000 being going through the video and formatting it for the 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:24.719 video that you want. So I understand, and this is 0:47:24.760 --> 0:47:27.600 just a common occurrence. We shoot so many pictures, so 0:47:27.680 --> 0:47:31.440 many videos, and when it comes to placing those together, 0:47:31.680 --> 0:47:34.759 it is not easy. Now, as someone who edits video 0:47:34.840 --> 0:47:38.600 every single day of my life, I find that of course, 0:47:38.719 --> 0:47:41.080 I want to have the ultimate say to what these 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:43.840 videos look like, and I can trioge pretty quickly and 0:47:43.880 --> 0:47:46.160 find stuff, but I get it. It's it's a lot 0:47:46.200 --> 0:47:49.600 of work. It's not easy. But there are some programs 0:47:49.600 --> 0:47:51.319 that will do this, and you can try them out 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:55.160 and see what happens. The first is actually built into GoPro. 0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:58.200 So GoPro knows that this is an issue for people 0:47:58.200 --> 0:48:00.440 that shoot a lot of GoPro stuff, so they have 0:48:00.520 --> 0:48:05.080 what's called go pro Quick qu I K. So if 0:48:05.120 --> 0:48:08.719 you download that app, and I don't think you have 0:48:08.760 --> 0:48:12.040 to pay for it, but yeah, you can import your 0:48:12.280 --> 0:48:14.480 go pro video into there and it will come up 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:17.000 with a little highlight reel. And all of these, by 0:48:17.000 --> 0:48:19.279 the way, will come up with a highlight reel that 0:48:19.400 --> 0:48:23.600 lets you eventually tweak it to what you want. So 0:48:23.719 --> 0:48:28.040 go Pro not only will it take the the the 0:48:28.120 --> 0:48:31.480 video footage that you've shot on GoPro, but any other camera, 0:48:31.719 --> 0:48:34.840 so it can be anything. So I've tried that in 0:48:34.880 --> 0:48:37.560 the past. It's pretty good. And all of these programs 0:48:37.600 --> 0:48:40.640 are really looking for you know, they're looking for smiling faces, 0:48:40.719 --> 0:48:43.560 they're looking for the action in the shot. You know, 0:48:43.560 --> 0:48:46.240 they're programmed to look for certain things in the video 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:50.080 clips that might make that something that you want to see. Eventually, 0:48:50.120 --> 0:48:52.839 they're not human beings, so they don't always get it right, 0:48:53.440 --> 0:48:55.879 but they will do that. And also this go pro 0:48:55.960 --> 0:49:00.000 Quick can auto sync the edits to music. You can 0:49:00.120 --> 0:49:02.759 change the video speed you've got filters that you can 0:49:02.840 --> 0:49:06.000 choose from, so that's go pro quick Quik. 0:49:06.840 --> 0:49:07.480 I've tried it. 0:49:07.520 --> 0:49:09.360 I've never really I don't think I've ever posted a 0:49:09.440 --> 0:49:12.920 video that has been made automatically. I just haven't because 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:16.960 they just they're never like they're they're almost there. The 0:49:17.000 --> 0:49:20.000 other one that I used to use, I don't know 0:49:20.000 --> 0:49:25.040 if this is around anymore, but there's one called Magisto 0:49:25.239 --> 0:49:28.279 M A G I t O, but it doesn't I 0:49:28.280 --> 0:49:31.480 don't know if this is actually around. It looks like 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:37.560 they might have been purchased by Vimeo, and this one 0:49:37.640 --> 0:49:39.680 was actually it looks like it's still on here. 0:49:39.880 --> 0:49:41.960 Yeah okay, oh yeah it was. Yep, it was purchased 0:49:42.000 --> 0:49:42.520 by Vimeo. 0:49:42.960 --> 0:49:45.880 It looks like no, it says it was updated in 0:49:45.920 --> 0:49:50.400 twenty twenty four, so I might try it. Magisto is 0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:54.080 another one that I've used in the past. Again, it's 0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:57.879 just okay. The other one, I mean, obviously the big 0:49:57.920 --> 0:50:00.239 one is cap cut. So cap cut is gonna have 0:50:00.280 --> 0:50:03.560 this feature built into it and you can upload your stuff. 0:50:03.640 --> 0:50:05.880 It will come up with a little clip reel and 0:50:05.960 --> 0:50:07.759 this might be just fine. This might be all you 0:50:07.840 --> 0:50:10.560 need is just a quick clip reel of the stuff. 0:50:10.600 --> 0:50:11.840 That you shot. 0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:14.480 But I find that if you really want to do this, 0:50:14.640 --> 0:50:16.640 download one of these apps, like I would say, download 0:50:16.640 --> 0:50:19.799 a cap cut or download you know, any of these 0:50:19.880 --> 0:50:22.919 video There's so many video editing apps, but cap cut 0:50:22.960 --> 0:50:24.960 is one that I really like. Splice is the other 0:50:24.960 --> 0:50:28.560 one that I like. I think that's that's both iOS 0:50:28.600 --> 0:50:31.920 and Android, but those are those are both easy ways 0:50:31.960 --> 0:50:34.799 to kind of do this on your phone. But for 0:50:34.920 --> 0:50:38.000 me personally, if I'm doing something that that's a bigger project, 0:50:38.080 --> 0:50:40.000 I'm doing this on my computer with final cut Pro. 0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:42.360 You can also get final Cut Pro on your iPad 0:50:42.360 --> 0:50:44.640 if you have if you have a recent iPad, I 0:50:44.640 --> 0:50:46.080 think you have to have an m chip in the 0:50:46.120 --> 0:50:48.200 iPad to use final cut Pro, but it's like five 0:50:48.239 --> 0:50:48.880 bucks a month. 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:51.160 But that might be an easy way to do it 0:50:51.200 --> 0:50:51.880 on your iPad. 0:50:52.239 --> 0:50:54.719 And you might find, Brian, that you enjoy doing this, 0:50:54.840 --> 0:50:56.480 you know, once you start getting into it, you might 0:50:56.520 --> 0:50:58.759 find that you really like, you know, because what you 0:50:58.800 --> 0:51:01.120 do is just take all the clips that you have, 0:51:01.560 --> 0:51:04.120 put them all in the timeline and just go through 0:51:04.120 --> 0:51:06.400 each clip and just kind of triage it, like just 0:51:06.480 --> 0:51:09.480 clip the parts out that aren't interesting, delete the clips 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:11.759 that aren't interesting, and then clip the little areas of 0:51:11.760 --> 0:51:14.320 the clip that's interesting, and then you'll just keep going 0:51:14.320 --> 0:51:17.160 from there. So now you're twenty minutes of footage becomes 0:51:17.480 --> 0:51:20.000 ten minutes of footage, You're ten minutes a footage becomes 0:51:20.040 --> 0:51:22.200 five minutes a footage, You're five minutes of footage becomes 0:51:22.200 --> 0:51:25.600 three minutes, and just keep going through. So those that's 0:51:25.640 --> 0:51:27.239 the way I usually do it if I have a 0:51:27.280 --> 0:51:31.120 lot of stuff to work with, great question and have fun. 0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:34.880 That sounds like a fun trip. Now let's get into 0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:37.479 your Amazon News before we have. We've got ed Bag 0:51:37.600 --> 0:51:40.560 coming up. He wrote for USA Today for many many 0:51:40.600 --> 0:51:45.440 years and now he is the current AARP Tech editor. 0:51:45.440 --> 0:51:48.879 He's going to talk about remote solutions for helping your 0:51:49.160 --> 0:51:52.040 aging parents with their technology challenges if you don't live 0:51:52.080 --> 0:51:53.239 near them, or we'll we're just. 0:51:53.160 --> 0:51:54.000 Going to talk in general. 0:51:54.040 --> 0:51:55.839 I've been wanting to talk and see he edited all 0:51:55.880 --> 0:51:58.600 the events over the years, so we'll talk to him 0:51:58.719 --> 0:52:00.880 in just a moment. But let me give your Amazon News. 0:52:00.880 --> 0:52:04.560 So first off, Amazon doing their Black Friday sale starts 0:52:04.600 --> 0:52:07.400 November twenty first, so they're doing it for a week 0:52:07.960 --> 0:52:10.760 November twenty first through December second. That might be longer 0:52:10.800 --> 0:52:13.359 than a week, and of course they're promising all kinds 0:52:13.400 --> 0:52:13.840 of stuff. 0:52:13.960 --> 0:52:15.120 Oh look at this. 0:52:15.719 --> 0:52:18.040 You can get gas savings for the first time this year, 0:52:18.080 --> 0:52:21.479 twenty five cents a gallon for Prime members. So buy 0:52:21.480 --> 0:52:26.800 your gas during Prime Week. I mean you probably have 0:52:26.840 --> 0:52:33.440 to buy it anyway, don't wait. Amazon also launching their competitor, 0:52:33.560 --> 0:52:37.919 I guess their answer to Timu. It's called Amazon Hall. 0:52:38.560 --> 0:52:40.920 This is a section that sells stuff that's just twenty 0:52:40.960 --> 0:52:43.680 dollars or less. Many items are priced under ten dollars 0:52:43.719 --> 0:52:46.759 summer as low as a dollar. Here's the catch. It 0:52:46.760 --> 0:52:48.680 takes you one to two weeks to get this stuff 0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:52.560 delivered Amazon, which has made their name on super fast delivery. 0:52:52.560 --> 0:52:54.399 The last time I got something delivered, I ordered it 0:52:54.800 --> 0:52:56.719 that night and I got it delivered between four and 0:52:56.800 --> 0:52:59.560 seven am. So this you have to wait up to 0:52:59.600 --> 0:53:02.640 two weeks. I guess to compete with Timu. I guess 0:53:02.680 --> 0:53:05.799 it's cheaper. Four dollars shipping fee for anything under twenty 0:53:05.840 --> 0:53:11.760 five dollars, fifteen dollars return window, eight thousand return locations. 0:53:11.800 --> 0:53:12.279 You can get an. 0:53:12.239 --> 0:53:15.680 iPhone sixteen case for a bucks seventy nine, kitchen tongs 0:53:15.680 --> 0:53:18.880 for four ninety nine winter gloves for three dollars twenty 0:53:18.880 --> 0:53:22.200 one cents, table runners for two dollars ninety nine cents. 0:53:22.239 --> 0:53:24.920 Amazon dot Com slash haul you can only shop from 0:53:24.960 --> 0:53:28.000 your phone. Coming up next, Ed Bag, we'll talk tech 0:53:28.239 --> 0:53:31.279 right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:53:31.320 --> 0:53:34.760 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 0:53:35.719 --> 0:53:37.640 We'll get back to those phone lines in just a 0:53:37.719 --> 0:53:40.879 moment at eighty eight rich one oh one. That's eight 0:53:41.040 --> 0:53:44.279 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:53:44.360 --> 0:53:46.320 Give me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:53:46.360 --> 0:53:50.280 The website for the show Richontech dot tv can also 0:53:50.800 --> 0:53:53.799 hit contact there and send me an email. Joining me 0:53:53.840 --> 0:53:57.240 now is a former USA Today Tech columnist and current 0:53:57.320 --> 0:53:59.000 AARP Tech editor. 0:53:59.640 --> 0:54:01.760 Ed bay Ed Welcome to the show. 0:54:02.480 --> 0:54:03.520 Hey, Rich, how you doing? 0:54:03.719 --> 0:54:07.319 I am doing fantastic. So we've seen each other at 0:54:07.320 --> 0:54:09.399 many of the tech events over the years. How many 0:54:09.440 --> 0:54:11.920 years did you cover tech for USA Today? It was 0:54:12.160 --> 0:54:12.759 a long time. 0:54:12.960 --> 0:54:15.800 It was a long time, about twenty years, actually twenty 0:54:15.920 --> 0:54:18.440 years over twenty years. Yeah, it's hard to believe. It 0:54:18.480 --> 0:54:19.160 goes fast. 0:54:19.280 --> 0:54:21.399 And do you remember kind of the first thing that 0:54:21.600 --> 0:54:24.440 wowed you there? Because twenty years are talking, Oh, this 0:54:24.480 --> 0:54:25.520 is pre iPhone. 0:54:26.080 --> 0:54:28.000 It's pre iPhone. I mean, there were a lot of 0:54:28.000 --> 0:54:31.040 things through the years. I mean I remember early on 0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:35.560 being excited about the first Kindle for example, Wow, going back. 0:54:36.080 --> 0:54:39.000 But the iPhone, of course, as we know, I'm not 0:54:39.280 --> 0:54:42.840 breaking news here, changed so much. And I was fortunate 0:54:42.920 --> 0:54:47.080 to be one of four reviewers who got to review 0:54:47.120 --> 0:54:50.239 the initial iPhone ahead of ahead of its launch, and 0:54:51.080 --> 0:54:53.880 that was an interesting time, to say the least. And 0:54:54.160 --> 0:54:58.120 I remember giving it a pretty glowing review and I 0:54:58.160 --> 0:55:00.759 called it a prodigy and I said, like, some of 0:55:00.800 --> 0:55:03.480 them burn out. Well I guess the iPhone didn't burn out. 0:55:04.080 --> 0:55:07.799 No, that has been quite the quite the amazing thing 0:55:07.880 --> 0:55:10.440 for Apple. But here's the thing, and this happens with 0:55:10.480 --> 0:55:12.480 a lot of tech products. When you're reviewing things in 0:55:12.520 --> 0:55:15.839 a vacuum, especially something that different that no one had 0:55:15.840 --> 0:55:19.480 ever really seen before. I mean, you're by yourself, You're 0:55:19.520 --> 0:55:21.520 reviewing this thing, and you're like, I don't know, like, 0:55:21.560 --> 0:55:23.640 are people going to like this or people not? Like 0:55:24.000 --> 0:55:26.080 it was very limited when it first came out, but 0:55:26.120 --> 0:55:28.440 it was so different that it was tough to compare 0:55:28.440 --> 0:55:29.320 it to other things. 0:55:29.400 --> 0:55:33.279 So exactly exactly, it was limited, but it also was 0:55:33.440 --> 0:55:35.800 very cool. I mean, you know, it didn't have things 0:55:35.800 --> 0:55:37.680 that we all take for granted now. You know, there 0:55:37.719 --> 0:55:41.239 was no app store to take one example back then, 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:44.840 and of course through the years we know how that changed. 0:55:45.040 --> 0:55:46.680 Yes, no turn by turn directions. 0:55:46.680 --> 0:55:48.640 I mean they had they had Google Maps on there, 0:55:48.680 --> 0:55:50.960 but it wasn't the turn by turn that we all 0:55:51.440 --> 0:55:56.200 know and love today. I remember when the Motorola I 0:55:56.239 --> 0:55:58.600 think it was called the Droid Bionic came out with it. 0:55:58.600 --> 0:56:01.120 It was the first exclusive turn by turn. It even 0:56:01.160 --> 0:56:03.160 came with like a harness for your car to like 0:56:03.239 --> 0:56:04.920 set it up like a GPS device. 0:56:05.040 --> 0:56:05.239 You know. 0:56:05.960 --> 0:56:09.680 Yeah, I mean so many things over the years. So 0:56:09.719 --> 0:56:13.320 tell me about ARP as the tech editor. What's what's happening. 0:56:13.440 --> 0:56:17.400 Well, well, I'm writing a column Tech Ask kind of 0:56:17.440 --> 0:56:20.440 asked the Tech Guru column in which we're taking questions 0:56:20.480 --> 0:56:23.640 from readers and so you know, I'll give a plug 0:56:23.719 --> 0:56:25.520 there send in your questions. 0:56:25.719 --> 0:56:27.920 What are the concerns that readers are. 0:56:28.880 --> 0:56:32.000 Well people, you know, it's interesting because we're dealing with 0:56:32.040 --> 0:56:34.839 the fifty plus crowd. I mean there's a lot of 0:56:35.200 --> 0:56:38.400 people who want, you know, hold on to landlines or 0:56:38.440 --> 0:56:40.640 their old phone numbers and things like that. You know, 0:56:40.719 --> 0:56:44.760 so we get we get interested in things like that certainly, 0:56:45.520 --> 0:56:49.480 Like you know, it's very hard to generalize. Sometimes people think, oh, 0:56:49.560 --> 0:56:52.680 a certain generation is in his tech savvy, but you know, 0:56:53.120 --> 0:56:55.920 lots of people have grown up through the years with 0:56:56.040 --> 0:56:59.800 technology who are certainly in the ARP crowd. So you know, 0:56:59.840 --> 0:57:02.560 the people at every end of the spectrum in terms 0:57:02.560 --> 0:57:04.239 of technology. 0:57:03.840 --> 0:57:06.480 And and post fifty at is not that old. 0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:08.279 It's not. 0:57:09.080 --> 0:57:10.880 Maybe when I was a kid, I thought it was, 0:57:10.920 --> 0:57:14.520 but now I don't think that's that old. Let's talk 0:57:14.520 --> 0:57:16.840 about some of the stuff in your recent One of 0:57:16.840 --> 0:57:19.080 your recent articles or one of the recent articles in 0:57:19.160 --> 0:57:24.120 AARP talked about access, like remote access. You know, if 0:57:24.160 --> 0:57:26.520 you have a parent that's across the miles they need 0:57:26.560 --> 0:57:28.960 some help with their computer. Is there a way to 0:57:29.680 --> 0:57:31.160 give that remote tech support? 0:57:31.920 --> 0:57:32.120 There? 0:57:32.160 --> 0:57:35.880 There is. There are several ways. And it's interesting because 0:57:35.880 --> 0:57:37.880 many people, you know, if you work for a company, 0:57:37.880 --> 0:57:42.560 for example, you may have had situations where you know, 0:57:42.680 --> 0:57:46.160 an IT person in your organization will will literally take 0:57:46.160 --> 0:57:50.800 control of your computer remotely, and if you feel comfortable 0:57:50.840 --> 0:57:52.640 with it, you let them access you know, have at 0:57:52.680 --> 0:57:54.880 the cursor and do what they have to do. Well, 0:57:54.920 --> 0:57:57.600 you can actually do that, say with with you know 0:57:58.000 --> 0:58:00.560 a parent or a grandparent who, as you say, lives 0:58:00.600 --> 0:58:03.440 miles and miles away and you can't you can't answer 0:58:03.480 --> 0:58:05.760 the support call and go to their house. 0:58:06.000 --> 0:58:06.440 Easily. 0:58:07.440 --> 0:58:11.160 Built into Windows, for example, is something called the Windows 0:58:11.280 --> 0:58:16.160 Quick Assist and literally when you press control Windows, the 0:58:16.160 --> 0:58:21.880 Windows logo key and the queue simultaneously, it brings up 0:58:21.880 --> 0:58:25.120 this thing and there's some boxes there and a tool appears. 0:58:25.160 --> 0:58:28.080 It's a pop up window, and it creates a code 0:58:28.120 --> 0:58:30.880 that the person helping with being you in this case, 0:58:31.080 --> 0:58:34.800 shares with the person needing help. And again, if they 0:58:34.800 --> 0:58:38.640 feel comfortable with this, uh, you can literally take over 0:58:38.680 --> 0:58:41.080 their computer and you're now the I T person for 0:58:41.160 --> 0:58:43.440 your for your mom or your dad or your grandparents. 0:58:43.600 --> 0:58:43.920 Wow. 0:58:43.960 --> 0:58:46.920 And that's built in two Windows, built into Windows. I 0:58:46.920 --> 0:58:47.640 did not know that. 0:58:48.720 --> 0:58:53.080 Yeah, Yeah, there are some alternatives. There are a bunch 0:58:53.120 --> 0:58:55.640 of programs out there. I frankly haven't tested them, but 0:58:55.680 --> 0:58:59.520 they're programs with names like any Desk and there's something 0:58:59.520 --> 0:59:02.440 called detail Service and help wire and team Viewer. 0:59:03.080 --> 0:59:03.200 Uh. 0:59:03.320 --> 0:59:05.200 There's a lot of ways to do that. There's a 0:59:05.240 --> 0:59:08.200 lot of remote programs out there, but again, you've got 0:59:08.200 --> 0:59:11.240 this one built right into Windows. That's wild can be 0:59:11.320 --> 0:59:11.880 very helpful. 0:59:11.960 --> 0:59:14.560 Now I'm curious because okay, look at it. I just 0:59:14.560 --> 0:59:16.680 looked it up and it says learn to protect yourself 0:59:16.720 --> 0:59:19.200 from tech support scams. Because here's the thing, ed, we 0:59:19.240 --> 0:59:21.400 know that these these scam artists, one of the biggest 0:59:21.440 --> 0:59:24.520 ways they take over people's computers is they tell them 0:59:24.560 --> 0:59:27.080 to download some software, right they say, okay, now we're 0:59:27.080 --> 0:59:30.600 going to lead you through. Could this be used nefariously 0:59:30.640 --> 0:59:32.560 in that way as well? Like should people be aware 0:59:32.560 --> 0:59:34.640 of that? Like if someone if someone that's not your 0:59:34.720 --> 0:59:38.200 kid says, hey, let's connect using quick Assist, don't don't 0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:38.640 allow it. 0:59:39.920 --> 0:59:43.600 Absolutely, you always have to keep your guard up, especially nowadays. 0:59:43.600 --> 0:59:47.640 You know, Uh, scams, I mean we unfortunately, it's it's 0:59:47.680 --> 0:59:48.720 the way of the world. There are a lot of 0:59:48.760 --> 0:59:53.560 scams out there, and AI is helping perpetrate some of that. 0:59:54.280 --> 0:59:54.560 I guess. 0:59:54.640 --> 0:59:57.600 The bottom line here is do not do not grant 0:59:57.640 --> 1:00:01.360 full access to a device to anyone you do not trust. Uh, 1:00:01.520 --> 1:00:03.720 And even if it's somebody you think is a relative. 1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:06.560 Make sure you know when you're when you're on one 1:00:06.600 --> 1:00:10.120 of these things, uh, you know, be on the phone too. 1:00:10.160 --> 1:00:14.000 At the same time, you know, Uh, that's always, you know, 1:00:14.040 --> 1:00:17.200 a helpful and easy thing to do. And even if 1:00:17.240 --> 1:00:19.920 you're able to disconnect what you are because obviously, if 1:00:19.960 --> 1:00:22.480 you take over my computer and I don't like what 1:00:22.520 --> 1:00:25.640 you're doing, I can put you off. But before I 1:00:25.680 --> 1:00:27.800 do that, who knows what damage you might do? 1:00:28.760 --> 1:00:31.520 What about AI? Because you know everyone's using it. 1:00:31.760 --> 1:00:34.280 I was just doing a talk to some folks the 1:00:34.280 --> 1:00:36.760 other night and I said, look, don't be afraid of AI, Like, 1:00:36.920 --> 1:00:39.520 try it out. You're not going to break anything. And 1:00:39.760 --> 1:00:41.360 if you don't know how to use it, literally, you 1:00:41.400 --> 1:00:43.680 could ask AI. You know, if I'm trying to figure 1:00:43.680 --> 1:00:45.520 out how to do something, I will ask AI how 1:00:45.520 --> 1:00:46.000 to ask it. 1:00:46.040 --> 1:00:47.440 I'll say, hey, how would I ask you to do this? 1:00:47.520 --> 1:00:51.160 And it will tell me yeah, and sometimes exactly. And 1:00:51.200 --> 1:00:53.760 that's a good, good use case for it, you know, 1:00:54.360 --> 1:00:57.120 because it you know, it helps your brainstorm. You know, 1:00:57.240 --> 1:00:59.320 what what is it? I forgot to ask? What is 1:00:59.360 --> 1:01:02.040 it I should be asking? Who should I should be asking? 1:01:02.520 --> 1:01:02.680 Now? 1:01:02.720 --> 1:01:05.840 Of course we are, you know, we have to make 1:01:05.880 --> 1:01:09.960 sure that the answers that you're getting are accurate. You know, 1:01:10.000 --> 1:01:13.960 there's something out there that the tech community has called hallucinations, 1:01:14.520 --> 1:01:17.200 where it sounds like what you know, it sounds like 1:01:17.240 --> 1:01:20.920 a really authoritative, plausible answer, but guess what, it might 1:01:20.960 --> 1:01:24.040 be made up or wrong. Now that stuff's getting a 1:01:24.040 --> 1:01:27.040 little bit better, some of the companies behind this are 1:01:27.880 --> 1:01:31.120 beginning to be a little bit better at providing sources 1:01:31.160 --> 1:01:34.480 for the information that that's being you know, sent to you. 1:01:34.560 --> 1:01:36.440 But you really have to be careful with what you're 1:01:36.480 --> 1:01:37.040 getting back. 1:01:37.440 --> 1:01:39.640 Yeah, and that's the thing, Like nobody really wants to 1:01:39.640 --> 1:01:42.600 sit there and fact check everything. But I've been using Perplexity, 1:01:42.640 --> 1:01:45.120 which I really like for the you know, gives these 1:01:45.160 --> 1:01:46.760 answers and then I'll give you like kind of where 1:01:46.800 --> 1:01:49.440 it got the answers. I know that all of them 1:01:49.440 --> 1:01:51.200 are really starting to do that more and more. Like 1:01:51.240 --> 1:01:53.760 I've noticed, you know, Gemini kind of I think they 1:01:53.840 --> 1:01:56.919 kind of pioneered the the Google one. Well, I guess 1:01:56.920 --> 1:02:00.200 Perplexity always did, but now I've even noticed because chat 1:02:00.280 --> 1:02:03.760 gybt has the web search built in, I think you 1:02:03.800 --> 1:02:05.120 have to be premium. 1:02:04.680 --> 1:02:05.080 To get it. 1:02:05.480 --> 1:02:07.760 But yes, I know right now, Yeah. 1:02:07.520 --> 1:02:10.720 They're giving some uh what do we call it citations 1:02:10.760 --> 1:02:13.280 back in the day, right when you wrote a book report. 1:02:13.760 --> 1:02:17.640 Exactly exactly, and you know, I tell people have fun 1:02:17.680 --> 1:02:20.320 with AI. You know, when I first started playing around 1:02:20.320 --> 1:02:22.120 with it, I would be in a restaurant with my 1:02:22.200 --> 1:02:26.200 family and and I remember one one time, We're at 1:02:26.200 --> 1:02:29.720 a pizza place where it was cash only, and I 1:02:29.760 --> 1:02:31.840 suddenly panic because I don't know about you, but I 1:02:31.840 --> 1:02:34.960 don't carry that much cash for me anymore. And I 1:02:35.000 --> 1:02:38.120 so I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna have chat Gypt, I 1:02:38.160 --> 1:02:40.080 think it was at the time, write a little on 1:02:40.120 --> 1:02:43.000 the spot, little script about a scene about what it 1:02:43.040 --> 1:02:46.600 is if you're in a restaurant without you know, without cash. 1:02:46.640 --> 1:02:49.280 And it did it, and you know, it was not 1:02:49.360 --> 1:02:51.280 an episode of Law and Order or anything, but it 1:02:51.400 --> 1:02:53.880 wasn't bad. And then I'd said, well make it, you know, 1:02:53.920 --> 1:02:56.480 add a character or make it better or jazz it 1:02:56.560 --> 1:02:58.160 up somehow, and it would do that. And that was 1:02:58.200 --> 1:03:00.760 early on. So you can have fun with AI too, 1:03:01.400 --> 1:03:03.840 but just be careful if you're you know, be careful 1:03:03.840 --> 1:03:07.919 about using it for something that's really serious, well, finance, health, 1:03:08.000 --> 1:03:08.480 et cetera. 1:03:08.600 --> 1:03:11.120 How did you get out of the restaurant without the cash? 1:03:11.160 --> 1:03:11.920 My wife had kid? 1:03:12.000 --> 1:03:13.800 Okay, well I was so, I just I was at 1:03:13.840 --> 1:03:16.480 a restaurant the other night with my family in New 1:03:16.520 --> 1:03:18.960 York City actually, and I forgot to I locked my 1:03:19.040 --> 1:03:21.200 wallet in my suitcase because I left the room and 1:03:21.240 --> 1:03:23.120 I left it in the room to go on a run, 1:03:23.320 --> 1:03:24.800 and when I went out to dinner, I forgot to 1:03:24.800 --> 1:03:27.400 bring it, and so I'm eating dinner, and of course 1:03:27.440 --> 1:03:30.880 I was actually treating for dinner. So I was like, 1:03:30.880 --> 1:03:33.480 you guys won't believe this, but I actually forgot my wallet. 1:03:33.800 --> 1:03:35.960 And my family was like, I mean, now they all 1:03:35.960 --> 1:03:37.640 had their cards, so I could, you know. It wasn't 1:03:37.680 --> 1:03:40.160 like we couldn't pay for dinner, but actually was able 1:03:40.200 --> 1:03:44.000 to add my card from my payment. I actually have 1:03:44.000 --> 1:03:46.040 a credit card app, you know, like one of my 1:03:46.080 --> 1:03:48.360 bank apps, and it lets you add the card to 1:03:48.360 --> 1:03:51.560 your wallet right from the app, and so I thought 1:03:51.560 --> 1:03:53.160 that was kind of cool. I was like, oh, this 1:03:53.240 --> 1:03:54.760 is why that's here. So I didn't even need the 1:03:54.800 --> 1:03:57.919 physical card and I was able to tap to pay. 1:03:57.920 --> 1:03:59.600 I asked the waiter, did do you take tap to 1:03:59.640 --> 1:04:01.200 pay here? And he's like, yeah, we do. I'm like 1:04:01.200 --> 1:04:03.360 all right, I'm like I will pay that way. 1:04:03.880 --> 1:04:05.400 You were ready to wash dishes. 1:04:05.800 --> 1:04:08.080 Yeah, well, I was gonna just have my family pay 1:04:08.080 --> 1:04:09.760 and I'd be like sorry, I said, I'd treat. But 1:04:09.880 --> 1:04:12.840 you know you're paying any AI that you like, anything 1:04:12.880 --> 1:04:13.960 that you're using. 1:04:14.880 --> 1:04:17.640 Well, I'm trying to play around with everything at this point. 1:04:17.760 --> 1:04:20.920 You know, I'm interested in in where AI is going 1:04:20.960 --> 1:04:26.160 with with healthcare, and really there's a lot of as 1:04:26.200 --> 1:04:28.560 you know, again, I'm not breaking news here to say 1:04:28.600 --> 1:04:30.720 that everybody is involved with this in some way. So 1:04:30.760 --> 1:04:33.720 I'm playing around with everybody and they all have, you know, 1:04:33.800 --> 1:04:36.040 things I like and things that could certainly be better. 1:04:37.120 --> 1:04:39.040 But I I it's hard to say I would. It's 1:04:39.040 --> 1:04:40.320 hard to pick a favorite, if. 1:04:40.240 --> 1:04:42.360 You will, Yeah, we're definitely, I mean, I'm the same way. 1:04:42.400 --> 1:04:45.360 I'm using so many different ones. All right, A r 1:04:45.400 --> 1:04:47.680 P tech editor ed Big, We're gonna leave it there. 1:04:47.680 --> 1:04:50.280 What's the best way for folks to follow you these days? 1:04:50.560 --> 1:04:54.919 Well again, come come at us at a r A 1:04:54.920 --> 1:04:57.880 a r P dot org slash tech a ar P 1:04:58.080 --> 1:05:01.160 dot org slash tech. Al So look for my tech 1:05:01.240 --> 1:05:03.760 Guru column which is in the main members the only 1:05:03.840 --> 1:05:07.160 section of ARP. So join AARP if you're not already 1:05:07.200 --> 1:05:11.440 remember and of course read our magazine, two, ARP Magazine 1:05:11.480 --> 1:05:12.800 and the ARP boet. 1:05:13.080 --> 1:05:14.280 Thanks, Ed, appreciate it. 1:05:14.440 --> 1:05:16.480 More Rich on tech right after good to be with you. 1:05:16.840 --> 1:05:19.479 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:05:19.480 --> 1:05:22.960 out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one 1:05:22.960 --> 1:05:25.160 on one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 1:05:25.400 --> 1:05:28.480 four one zero one. I got to tell you the 1:05:28.520 --> 1:05:31.840 gift of the year, and I said this probably last year, 1:05:31.880 --> 1:05:34.920 but it is just unbelievably amazing. 1:05:35.600 --> 1:05:35.720 Uh. 1:05:35.800 --> 1:05:39.160 I gave my dad one of those Aura frames a 1:05:39.360 --> 1:05:43.040 U R A and uh I didn't really know if 1:05:43.080 --> 1:05:46.040 you would even like it, Like it's a digital picture frame, right, 1:05:46.920 --> 1:05:50.080 And I am not kidding. I have never ever in 1:05:50.120 --> 1:05:54.160 my life seen me give something to my dad that 1:05:54.280 --> 1:05:58.680 was so quickly and universally loved. I've just never seen 1:05:58.680 --> 1:06:01.800 anything like it. Like literally, he could not believe how 1:06:01.800 --> 1:06:04.560 amazing it was that he could see the pictures that 1:06:04.640 --> 1:06:08.400 he takes on his phone on his kitchen counter and 1:06:08.440 --> 1:06:10.400 he's like, it's just he just keeps adding them and 1:06:10.440 --> 1:06:12.800 adding them and adding them and adding them. And I said, well, 1:06:12.840 --> 1:06:15.080 you know, you know everyone else can add pictures to 1:06:15.120 --> 1:06:17.880 this frame as well from our phones, and it's just 1:06:18.000 --> 1:06:22.600 it's just such an incredible thing that once again I 1:06:23.000 --> 1:06:24.480 just can't help but recommend it. 1:06:24.560 --> 1:06:26.040 So it's a U R A. 1:06:27.720 --> 1:06:30.200 And it's just I've tried a lot of these different 1:06:30.360 --> 1:06:32.760 digital frames. I think that this brand is the best 1:06:32.840 --> 1:06:36.640 because it's so simple and easy to use, and also 1:06:38.600 --> 1:06:41.960 the software is really good and that makes a big difference. 1:06:42.280 --> 1:06:43.880 I mean, I remember back in the day when digital 1:06:43.880 --> 1:06:46.479 frames first started, you had to put like an SD 1:06:46.560 --> 1:06:48.680 card into them, and that's how you got the pictures 1:06:48.680 --> 1:06:49.000 on there. 1:06:49.040 --> 1:06:49.960 This is all Wi Fi. 1:06:50.120 --> 1:06:52.120 And the cool thing is you can when you go 1:06:52.200 --> 1:06:54.200 home for the holidays, you can set this up for 1:06:54.280 --> 1:06:57.520 your family member and then you can still continue to 1:06:57.560 --> 1:07:00.680 put pictures on that frame from your phone where you live. 1:07:00.800 --> 1:07:02.960 So I'll put a link in the show notes or 1:07:03.040 --> 1:07:06.680 a A U R A. And it's pretty pretty amazing. 1:07:07.360 --> 1:07:09.120 I just thought of that because I got a notification 1:07:09.160 --> 1:07:11.919 that my dad added more pictures to his frame. That's 1:07:11.920 --> 1:07:14.040 why I thought about it, said, your dad has added 1:07:14.040 --> 1:07:15.440 twenty more pictures to his frame. 1:07:17.480 --> 1:07:19.960 Let's see here website for the show. 1:07:20.080 --> 1:07:23.840 Rich on tech dot TV, James wrote in question on 1:07:23.960 --> 1:07:27.200 Apple Passwords, Hey, Rich, I have if I have everything 1:07:27.240 --> 1:07:30.520 Apple computer, iPad, phone, is it okay to use Apple 1:07:30.560 --> 1:07:34.440 Passwords as my password manager instead of one pass et cetera. 1:07:34.960 --> 1:07:37.320 Thank you, enjoy your show. And listening to you on 1:07:37.480 --> 1:07:40.600 KFI on Tuesday mornings. Thanks Jim and Dana. 1:07:40.640 --> 1:07:41.000 Point. 1:07:42.720 --> 1:07:46.600 Yes, so I think Apple Passwords is perfectly fine. Apple 1:07:46.640 --> 1:07:50.240 Passwords is brand new. It is in iOS eighteen. It 1:07:50.320 --> 1:07:53.600 is a full fledged passwords app. You can put all 1:07:53.640 --> 1:07:56.960 your passwords in there. It will generate passwords, it will 1:07:57.080 --> 1:08:00.360 do the two factor authentications. You can look for your 1:08:00.360 --> 1:08:04.000 Wi Fi passwords in there. It will also handle pass keys, 1:08:04.480 --> 1:08:09.360 so it does everything you need. Now here's my caveat 1:08:09.720 --> 1:08:13.680 This is great if you only use Apple products. If 1:08:13.680 --> 1:08:16.720 you don't, if you are thinking of switching, or use 1:08:16.760 --> 1:08:19.800 a combination of products, I don't recommend this. Now if 1:08:19.840 --> 1:08:21.760 you use a Windows computer, they do have a plug 1:08:21.840 --> 1:08:24.759 in that will make this work. But you know, Apple's 1:08:24.800 --> 1:08:27.479 heart is not in anything that's not Apple. In fact, 1:08:27.600 --> 1:08:31.000 they make it actively tough for you to use their 1:08:31.000 --> 1:08:34.800 stuff with non Apple stuff. So I would say they 1:08:34.840 --> 1:08:40.320 probably begrudgingly made the password manager work for Windows computers, 1:08:40.439 --> 1:08:42.360 but they know that. Okay, you might have an iPhone 1:08:42.400 --> 1:08:45.000 plus a Windows computer. Fine, we'll give you this functionality. 1:08:45.560 --> 1:08:48.960 But I would say, James, in your instance, yes, if 1:08:49.000 --> 1:08:51.599 you have everything Apple and you're sticking to Apple forever, fine, 1:08:51.720 --> 1:08:55.200 use it, but so like even okay, let me just 1:08:55.200 --> 1:08:59.040 look at my Okay, so my passwords here. So like 1:08:59.479 --> 1:09:02.120 I'm looking to see if there's a way to export 1:09:02.240 --> 1:09:07.360 all my passwords to another device. Now, almost every single 1:09:07.520 --> 1:09:12.439 password manager in the world pretty much lets you export 1:09:12.520 --> 1:09:15.320 your passwords to another program if you want to switch. 1:09:16.080 --> 1:09:19.040 Of course, I'm not finding that in the Apple passwords. 1:09:19.120 --> 1:09:20.599 Let me look in the apps. Let me see if 1:09:20.640 --> 1:09:26.880 it's in the Maybe it's in the apps. Let's see passwords. Okay, 1:09:27.320 --> 1:09:30.840 can you export? No, I don't see any way to 1:09:30.920 --> 1:09:33.080 export my passwords. So that would be my number one 1:09:33.200 --> 1:09:35.880 red flag is that if you're using something like a 1:09:35.960 --> 1:09:39.360 dash lane or a one password or a Bitwarden or 1:09:39.560 --> 1:09:42.200 nord pass, there's a million of them out there, they 1:09:42.280 --> 1:09:44.920 all let you export your stuff so that you can 1:09:45.000 --> 1:09:48.080 switch to another program. Apple, I don't see that functionality. 1:09:48.680 --> 1:09:51.519 So that's one thing. Number two, I don't think it's 1:09:51.520 --> 1:09:54.200 that easy to use, honestly, Like, I'm looking to see 1:09:54.640 --> 1:09:58.599 if I want to add a new item, and it's 1:09:59.080 --> 1:10:01.839 just okay, I think I'm just I think it's better 1:10:02.000 --> 1:10:06.080 than nothing. Like obviously, it just locks you into their 1:10:06.120 --> 1:10:09.000 ecosystem more and more and sure, it's easy and it's 1:10:09.040 --> 1:10:11.320 gonna work with all their Safari and all this stuff. 1:10:11.320 --> 1:10:13.800 But to me, I would just feel better if you 1:10:13.880 --> 1:10:16.759 signed up with a third party app. But again, James, 1:10:16.760 --> 1:10:19.320 if you're just gonna use Apple stuff, fine, it's gonna 1:10:19.360 --> 1:10:22.400 work and it's better than nothing. So that's that's the 1:10:22.439 --> 1:10:26.479 main thing is that's better than nothing. Let's see another 1:10:26.560 --> 1:10:30.639 question here. Dennis writes in from San Clementy. Hey, Rich, 1:10:30.680 --> 1:10:35.880 I've lost my email, which was SBC Global dot net 1:10:36.200 --> 1:10:39.160 the Southern Bell. They were bought by Yahoo and years 1:10:39.200 --> 1:10:41.120 later Yahoo was bought by AT and T and three 1:10:41.160 --> 1:10:44.719 months ago I opened up my email and nothing's there. James, 1:10:45.640 --> 1:10:49.880 Oh sorry, this is Dennis. Dennis Yahoo has I guess 1:10:49.960 --> 1:10:53.040 they purchased or they whatever. It's switched over to Yahoo 1:10:53.040 --> 1:10:55.840 mail now. So as I understand, if you go to 1:10:55.920 --> 1:10:59.519 Yahoo dot com and log in with your original SBC 1:10:59.680 --> 1:11:04.200 globe Net email address and password, your emails should be there. 1:11:04.720 --> 1:11:08.920 Same thing with Cox if you have Cox Cable whatever 1:11:08.960 --> 1:11:11.760 it was Cox Internet and your email used to be 1:11:11.800 --> 1:11:14.840 through Cox. Yahoo also purchased that, or I guess they. 1:11:15.120 --> 1:11:16.639 I don't know if they purchased it or they were 1:11:16.640 --> 1:11:19.080 seated it whatever, it was, it's handed over to Yahoo. 1:11:19.080 --> 1:11:21.640 They're handling it now. Same thing with AT and T. 1:11:21.760 --> 1:11:24.639 It's all Yahoo mail now. So just go to Yahoo 1:11:24.680 --> 1:11:28.160 dot com your Yahoo mail and log in with your 1:11:28.200 --> 1:11:32.080 original log in and it should come over. That says, 1:11:32.160 --> 1:11:35.920 I understand it, So let me know. Eighty eight rich 1:11:36.000 --> 1:11:38.240 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 1:11:38.360 --> 1:11:43.000 four one zero one. Coming up to sad day in history. 1:11:43.479 --> 1:11:47.760 The guy who voiced that You've got mail is no 1:11:47.880 --> 1:11:51.920 longer with us. I'll explain. Eighty eight rich one on one. 1:11:51.960 --> 1:11:55.160 This is rich on Tech. Welcome to another hour of 1:11:55.600 --> 1:11:58.360 rich on Tech. My name is rich Demiro. Glad to 1:11:58.400 --> 1:12:02.720 have you with me here hanging out talking technology. The 1:12:02.760 --> 1:12:06.639 website for the show Richontech dot tv. The phone line 1:12:06.640 --> 1:12:09.160 for the show eight eight eight rich one oh one 1:12:09.360 --> 1:12:10.400 eight eight eight. 1:12:10.400 --> 1:12:14.920 Seven four to two four one zero one. Sad Week. 1:12:15.200 --> 1:12:20.280 The voice behind You've Got Mail has died. Elwood Edwards 1:12:21.240 --> 1:12:24.559 was the iconic voice behind aols You've Got Mail greeting. 1:12:24.840 --> 1:12:27.880 He passed away at seventy four in North Carolina. Now 1:12:27.920 --> 1:12:31.759 he recorded that famous phrase You've got mail, along with welcome, 1:12:32.439 --> 1:12:35.960 file's done, and goodbye. I can't do it as good 1:12:36.000 --> 1:12:39.360 as he did back in nineteen eighty nine. He recorded 1:12:39.360 --> 1:12:41.599 that and guess what he was paid just two hundred 1:12:41.680 --> 1:12:45.679 bucks for it. His wife, Karen, was a customer service 1:12:45.760 --> 1:12:49.160 rep at the company and volunteered him for the job. 1:12:50.200 --> 1:12:54.519 This is when Steve Case was running the place, and uh, 1:12:55.160 --> 1:12:58.200 just so wild that you can imagine that his wife 1:12:58.200 --> 1:13:00.160 was like, hey, would you mind recording these things? We're 1:13:00.160 --> 1:13:02.479 doing something at work, and next thing you know, you 1:13:02.520 --> 1:13:06.439 are literally the voice of millions of Americans checking their 1:13:06.520 --> 1:13:09.680 email on a daily basis and logging onto the internet. 1:13:11.080 --> 1:13:14.560 Edwards maintained a successful career in broadcasting. He made appearances 1:13:14.600 --> 1:13:18.360 on shows like The Tonight Show, and he just you know, 1:13:18.400 --> 1:13:22.120 he never really did much more than the You've got 1:13:22.160 --> 1:13:25.960 mail stuff, but kind of cool, just so cool that 1:13:26.200 --> 1:13:27.880 I think he said, he didn't really make a lot 1:13:27.920 --> 1:13:30.400 of money on that, but he was able. You know, 1:13:30.439 --> 1:13:33.160 he had a nice career in broadcasting. I think he 1:13:33.200 --> 1:13:36.479 worked at a local TV station. But anyway, we all 1:13:36.520 --> 1:13:39.160 know that phrase. We've all said that phrase. There was 1:13:39.200 --> 1:13:44.080 a movie of the same name, and I remember having 1:13:44.120 --> 1:13:46.400 AOL by the way back in the day, and I 1:13:46.439 --> 1:13:49.440 remember they had a section. AOL was like all little sections. 1:13:50.040 --> 1:13:53.600 It was like sports entertainment news, and then there's a 1:13:53.640 --> 1:13:57.000 section called like Internet. And I remember every day I'd 1:13:57.040 --> 1:14:00.519 log onto my computer waiting for that little Internet to 1:14:00.600 --> 1:14:02.960 switch from like coming soon to like now you can 1:14:03.000 --> 1:14:03.919 access the Internet. 1:14:04.360 --> 1:14:05.920 And one day it just switched, and I was like, 1:14:05.920 --> 1:14:08.280 oh my gosh, where do I go? And I don't 1:14:08.280 --> 1:14:08.519 even know. 1:14:08.520 --> 1:14:10.200 I think I probably went to like yahoo dot com 1:14:10.200 --> 1:14:12.400 because there's like nothing on the Internet. I mean there was, 1:14:12.479 --> 1:14:14.920 but it was like mostly like you know, universities and 1:14:14.960 --> 1:14:18.000 personal web pages and things like that. But what a 1:14:18.040 --> 1:14:20.519 wild ride it's been, that is for sure, what a 1:14:20.560 --> 1:14:21.240 wild ride. 1:14:21.520 --> 1:14:21.960 Let's go to. 1:14:22.040 --> 1:14:24.520 Julie in Downy, California. 1:14:25.800 --> 1:14:28.479 Julie, I hear you. Can you lower your radio in 1:14:28.520 --> 1:14:30.599 the background so we can hear your lovely voice? 1:14:30.880 --> 1:14:33.639 Oh my gosh, Okay, can you hear me now? 1:14:33.800 --> 1:14:34.519 I can hear you now. 1:14:34.520 --> 1:14:39.120 It's like the Verizon guy before he went to sprint. 1:14:39.240 --> 1:14:41.640 Okay, how's that sound great? What can I help you with? 1:14:41.800 --> 1:14:42.120 Okay? 1:14:42.360 --> 1:14:42.960 Sorry about that? 1:14:43.320 --> 1:14:43.679 Okay. 1:14:43.760 --> 1:14:47.280 So, my mom, who is an iPhone iPad user, is 1:14:47.280 --> 1:14:50.080 looking to get a new iPad because hers. 1:14:49.840 --> 1:14:53.880 Is not holding a charge and she can't update some 1:14:54.000 --> 1:14:55.120 of her apps anymore. 1:14:55.600 --> 1:15:00.559 Okay, okay, So she doesn't want to spend the. 1:15:00.560 --> 1:15:01.479 Money for a pro. 1:15:02.040 --> 1:15:05.280 She doesn't want a mini. And when I started to research, 1:15:05.360 --> 1:15:09.200 I was looking at either ninth or tenth generation or 1:15:09.520 --> 1:15:10.719 is there something else? 1:15:11.240 --> 1:15:13.519 No, I just go with the tenth the tenth generation 1:15:13.600 --> 1:15:16.800 iPad for mom. I think that's going to be on 1:15:16.880 --> 1:15:20.599 sale over the holidays a lot. I'm already seeing. Uh 1:15:21.439 --> 1:15:26.120 looks like the lowest price already is let's see two 1:15:26.240 --> 1:15:31.240 sixty nine. Usually it's about three fifty, so. 1:15:31.240 --> 1:15:33.200 It's already on sale. Let me see how much it 1:15:33.280 --> 1:15:33.960 is on UH. 1:15:34.120 --> 1:15:38.920 So on Apple's website it is the standard price, right, 1:15:38.960 --> 1:15:40.760 which is three fifty all right? 1:15:40.840 --> 1:15:43.360 Sorry to me? Three nine is that? Well? 1:15:43.520 --> 1:15:46.320 Hold on, wait, that's really weird. If I on their 1:15:46.360 --> 1:15:49.559 main website, it says three forty nine. Oh, I'm on 1:15:49.600 --> 1:15:52.000 the education store. Okay, got it. Sorry, I got to 1:15:52.000 --> 1:15:55.120 exit that. So three hundred and fifty bucks for this thing. 1:15:56.120 --> 1:15:59.400 If you go online and you look at the different websites, 1:15:59.640 --> 1:16:03.800 Amazon on selling it for about three twenty BJS, which 1:16:03.840 --> 1:16:05.559 I don't think you're in Downey. I don't think we 1:16:05.600 --> 1:16:08.439 have those out here on the West coast. But that's 1:16:08.640 --> 1:16:11.519 they're selling it. For two seventy So I think that's 1:16:11.560 --> 1:16:14.240 a good indicator of where we might see that price 1:16:14.280 --> 1:16:16.960 go over the holidays. 1:16:17.400 --> 1:16:20.439 But that's uh, yeah, we don't have a BJ's here 1:16:20.479 --> 1:16:21.320 in California. 1:16:21.560 --> 1:16:25.760 No, we don't, so no, but you know Costco may 1:16:25.800 --> 1:16:27.840 sell it for that for a similar price. 1:16:28.840 --> 1:16:30.640 Right another, what did you say that price was? 1:16:30.680 --> 1:16:33.760 Again, that was two seventy nine, So I'm looking at 1:16:34.240 --> 1:16:37.080 let's see here. Yeah, so Amazon had it as low 1:16:37.120 --> 1:16:40.080 as three hundred, so I would say, yeah, it looks 1:16:40.120 --> 1:16:42.360 like it looks like the price point that most people 1:16:42.400 --> 1:16:44.559 are going to have it at is probably around three hundred. 1:16:44.600 --> 1:16:47.840 If you wait until Black Friday, like specifically that day, 1:16:48.320 --> 1:16:50.200 you're probably going to get it for a little bit cheaper. 1:16:50.240 --> 1:16:52.440 But I think in the weeks leading up to it, 1:16:52.439 --> 1:16:54.960 it's going to flirt with that three hundred dollars price point, 1:16:56.120 --> 1:16:58.840 and maybe places like Costco and BJ's, because they are 1:16:58.960 --> 1:17:02.439 membership member only, they don't have their prices as heavily 1:17:02.479 --> 1:17:03.960 advertised outside of the store. 1:17:04.040 --> 1:17:06.160 It might be a little cheaper in there, but. 1:17:06.280 --> 1:17:08.160 That's don't go with the ninth Don't go with the 1:17:08.240 --> 1:17:10.519 ninth generation just because these things are already old to 1:17:10.520 --> 1:17:13.200 begin with. Like the tenth and the ninth, so I 1:17:13.200 --> 1:17:16.960 think they you know, the tenth is already from a 1:17:16.960 --> 1:17:20.280 couple of years ago, so I would I would definitely. Wow, 1:17:20.320 --> 1:17:22.839 I believe it's a I believe it's a twenty twenty 1:17:23.040 --> 1:17:27.519 two model. Let me look, uh macro Rumors. So there's 1:17:27.560 --> 1:17:31.760 a great website called mac Rumors Buyer's Guide. And if 1:17:31.840 --> 1:17:37.240 I look at the iPad, let's see here the iPad. Yeah, 1:17:37.240 --> 1:17:39.880 the iPad has been out for seven hundred and sixty 1:17:39.960 --> 1:17:43.559 days since so that's two years. But here's the thing. 1:17:44.200 --> 1:17:46.160 You know, what is mom doing on this thing? 1:17:47.280 --> 1:17:51.920 She looking up named the medicines and reading books and 1:17:52.479 --> 1:17:54.640 not really place any games, and she uses it to 1:17:54.680 --> 1:17:57.000 look up information. Yeah, it can be dangerous. 1:17:57.280 --> 1:17:58.640 This is well as long as she's not. 1:17:58.800 --> 1:18:01.400 You know, uh, does you have her credit card attached 1:18:01.400 --> 1:18:03.719 to Apple pay to maybe take that away from. 1:18:03.680 --> 1:18:05.640 Mom, because yeah, no, she does. 1:18:05.800 --> 1:18:07.840 It's very easy to spend money on these things. These 1:18:07.840 --> 1:18:10.639 little iPads are literally just like they're literally like your 1:18:10.840 --> 1:18:13.639 extension of your bank account to like every company. That's 1:18:13.680 --> 1:18:16.120 what really the iPhone is. It's like I was ordering 1:18:16.320 --> 1:18:19.000 DoorDash last night, which I try not to do because 1:18:19.000 --> 1:18:20.800 it's so expensive, and my wife gives me a hard 1:18:20.840 --> 1:18:23.439 time because I go through like fifteen apps to see 1:18:23.479 --> 1:18:27.720 which one is the cheapest. But these things, really the 1:18:27.760 --> 1:18:31.519 iPhone revolutionize spending money in the easiest way ever, with 1:18:31.560 --> 1:18:34.280 no friction. I mean, if you really think about it, 1:18:34.320 --> 1:18:38.400 that's really what the iPhone has done. Anyway, So I 1:18:38.400 --> 1:18:41.360 think the iPad, this ten generation iPad, will be just 1:18:41.360 --> 1:18:42.520 fine for mom. 1:18:42.920 --> 1:18:44.679 Okay, wonderful, Thank you so much. 1:18:44.760 --> 1:18:46.800 Appreciate it all right, Julie, have a great day there 1:18:46.840 --> 1:18:50.280 and downy. So a couple of resources for looking for deals. 1:18:50.640 --> 1:18:54.639 Number one, Google Shopping. They just revamped Google Shopping. It's 1:18:54.680 --> 1:18:56.479 completely new, so if you haven't been to it in 1:18:56.479 --> 1:18:59.400 a while, check it out Google dot Com, slash shopping. 1:18:59.439 --> 1:19:03.599 If you type in iPad tenth generation, it's gonna give 1:19:03.640 --> 1:19:05.600 you all the places that sell it that are on 1:19:05.640 --> 1:19:09.599 their kind of like network and how much they're selling 1:19:09.680 --> 1:19:13.800 it for. So and I should have mentioned this though 1:19:13.840 --> 1:19:16.479 for mom, for the nine year old mom as well, 1:19:16.880 --> 1:19:20.200 she could go refurbished and save even more money. So 1:19:20.240 --> 1:19:23.200 there are some places, like a gizmo Go you can 1:19:23.280 --> 1:19:27.800 buy refurbished goods. Let's see, it's back markets. That's one 1:19:27.800 --> 1:19:30.320 of them where you can buy refurbished goods. So there's 1:19:30.360 --> 1:19:32.559 a lot of places you can go and buy these 1:19:32.600 --> 1:19:35.439 things that are cheaper. What was the other one that 1:19:35.479 --> 1:19:39.200 I just found out about Tiptop, So you can go 1:19:39.240 --> 1:19:42.960 to Tiptop and buy stuff there. So there's a lot 1:19:42.960 --> 1:19:45.840 of ways you can save money. Amazon renewed anyway, So 1:19:46.040 --> 1:19:48.360 the shopping websites to look for the couple ways I 1:19:48.360 --> 1:19:52.679 look for deals. Number one is Google Shopping. Yahoo actually 1:19:53.000 --> 1:19:57.000 does a lot with shopping as well, so Yahoo's shopping. 1:19:57.600 --> 1:19:59.200 And then the other one I like to do is 1:19:59.320 --> 1:20:01.719 just type in the product that you want into Google, 1:20:01.800 --> 1:20:05.200 so Apple, iPad, tenth generation, and then instead of just 1:20:05.200 --> 1:20:09.280 scrolling through the links, actually hit the news tab and 1:20:09.680 --> 1:20:14.799 you will find that you will see articles about sales 1:20:15.400 --> 1:20:18.840 related to the iPad or whatever product you're looking for. 1:20:19.280 --> 1:20:21.639 Why do you find those It's because all of these 1:20:21.680 --> 1:20:25.800 bloggers it's in their best interest to post links to 1:20:25.840 --> 1:20:28.320 these product deals because they get a little tiny cut. 1:20:28.479 --> 1:20:32.479 It's called affiliate marketing. And so anyone who posted Amazon link, 1:20:32.520 --> 1:20:36.160 myself included, they might get a little tiny bit of 1:20:36.200 --> 1:20:39.040 that link. If you if you buy something from them, 1:20:39.240 --> 1:20:41.960 they might get like one percent of that you know, 1:20:42.080 --> 1:20:43.800 maybe on an iPad like a dollar or something. I 1:20:43.800 --> 1:20:46.439 mean it's pennies, but it's still added up times. You know, 1:20:46.600 --> 1:20:49.400 with these big blogs, millions of people buying off of them, 1:20:49.640 --> 1:20:52.599 they get some money every month. So again you can 1:20:52.640 --> 1:20:56.360 see Tom's guide number one link. iPad tenth generation is 1:20:56.400 --> 1:20:58.519 my favorite iPad. It's one hundred and fifty dollars off 1:20:58.560 --> 1:21:00.840 in an early Black Friday deal one hundred ninety nine 1:21:00.840 --> 1:21:04.800 dollars that was on Amazon. The other way to track 1:21:04.880 --> 1:21:09.640 these prices is to install Honey, which I really like. 1:21:10.360 --> 1:21:14.040 And Honey has this thing called drop list, and once 1:21:14.120 --> 1:21:16.759 you put an item in your shopping car on Amazon 1:21:16.960 --> 1:21:20.320 or save it, it will email you when that price drops. 1:21:20.880 --> 1:21:21.599 And I'm not kidding. 1:21:21.640 --> 1:21:24.360 So I wanted to get a new ring spotlight for 1:21:24.560 --> 1:21:27.720 my house, and it was typically you know, I don't 1:21:27.720 --> 1:21:30.880 know whatever it was, but I got an email from Honey. 1:21:30.920 --> 1:21:32.839 I just put it in my shopping cart and just waited, 1:21:33.200 --> 1:21:34.760 and I knew this thing was going to go on sale, 1:21:34.800 --> 1:21:37.280 and sure enough, Honey emails me and says, hey, this 1:21:37.280 --> 1:21:40.639 thing's on sale for one hundred and thirty bucks, and let's. 1:21:40.400 --> 1:21:43.440 See how much it is now. Ring Spotlight. 1:21:43.960 --> 1:21:48.719 I think it's a floodlight camera I got. Let's see, Yeah, 1:21:48.720 --> 1:21:51.240 it's up to two hundred dollars right now. I paid 1:21:51.240 --> 1:21:54.479 one thirty. So again it's it's you're not going to 1:21:54.520 --> 1:21:57.040 sit there on Amazon and check the prices every single day, 1:21:57.520 --> 1:22:01.000 but honey is. And so I save seventy bucks on 1:22:01.040 --> 1:22:04.160 this thing just because I installed this shopping helper. 1:22:04.600 --> 1:22:07.000 Now, obviously honey is. 1:22:07.439 --> 1:22:09.559 You know, it's a business and they're making money because 1:22:09.560 --> 1:22:11.120 I think when you click the link that they send 1:22:11.160 --> 1:22:12.960 you they get a little percentage of that. But hey, 1:22:13.160 --> 1:22:16.559 they save me seventy bucks, so it's all good. Anyway, 1:22:16.600 --> 1:22:18.120 I'll put all of these in the show notes rich 1:22:18.160 --> 1:22:21.599 on tech dot TV. Today's show is ninety eight. So 1:22:21.680 --> 1:22:23.559 I know people email me and they say where do 1:22:23.560 --> 1:22:25.720 I find the show notes? Just go to rich on 1:22:25.840 --> 1:22:28.120 tech dot tv and you hit the light bulb right 1:22:28.120 --> 1:22:30.080 at the top, and that will bring you to the 1:22:30.240 --> 1:22:33.160 rich on tech show wiki and you can look up 1:22:33.240 --> 1:22:35.559 just peruse the notes. You can find out how to 1:22:35.600 --> 1:22:39.720 listen to the podcast, how to listen live, where you 1:22:39.720 --> 1:22:44.479 can find me on social media. It's all there. Rich 1:22:44.520 --> 1:22:47.519 on tech dot tv is the place to go. All right, 1:22:47.560 --> 1:22:50.519 coming up, install have another guest. This hour, we're gonna 1:22:50.560 --> 1:22:54.040 talk to the folks that make this software that scans 1:22:55.000 --> 1:22:57.320 papers at schools to see if they were written with AI. 1:22:57.400 --> 1:23:00.439 That's gonna be interesting, and coming up right away the break, 1:23:00.439 --> 1:23:03.920 I'll tell you about dealing with flight anxiety the apps 1:23:03.960 --> 1:23:06.920 that might be able to help. This is rich on Tech. 1:23:08.960 --> 1:23:11.679 Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:23:11.720 --> 1:23:16.280 out with you, talking technology. So this week I went 1:23:16.320 --> 1:23:18.880 to New York City. This actually might have been a 1:23:18.920 --> 1:23:22.880 limit for me. I went for twenty four hours, left 1:23:23.080 --> 1:23:27.559 la seven am on I don't know Tuesday morning was it? 1:23:27.720 --> 1:23:31.680 And I returned Wednesday night at eight pm. 1:23:32.040 --> 1:23:32.519 So it was. 1:23:32.520 --> 1:23:35.599 Basically, well, I guess, is that more than twenty four hours. 1:23:35.640 --> 1:23:37.160 It's a little bit more than twenty four any one 1:23:37.240 --> 1:23:39.200 night in New York City. It was a lot. 1:23:39.840 --> 1:23:40.200 It was. 1:23:40.640 --> 1:23:43.759 It kind of tested even myself, not because I minded 1:23:43.840 --> 1:23:46.280 doing all that travel in that time, but it was 1:23:46.360 --> 1:23:48.720 really because I love New York City and it's such 1:23:48.760 --> 1:23:50.960 a fun place. So I went to dinner with my 1:23:51.040 --> 1:23:53.000 family on the night I was there. I actually, I 1:23:53.080 --> 1:23:55.360 think I mentioned I used AI to find the restaurant. 1:23:55.920 --> 1:23:58.840 So I used AI to find the restaurant. It was fantastic. 1:23:58.880 --> 1:24:00.760 If you want to see by the way, they did 1:24:00.800 --> 1:24:04.320 this thing at the Italian restaurant table side Tierra Mesoue, 1:24:05.280 --> 1:24:09.040 which it was just fantastic. It's like they made the 1:24:09.080 --> 1:24:12.639 Tierramisioue right right there table side, which I'd never seen before. 1:24:13.000 --> 1:24:15.120 So I posted it to my Instagram at rich On 1:24:15.280 --> 1:24:18.240 Tech and it was fantastic the restaurant. This is what 1:24:18.360 --> 1:24:22.200 I love about these little walkable cities like that, is 1:24:22.200 --> 1:24:24.200 that you just walk like we're walking down the street, 1:24:24.840 --> 1:24:26.360 nothing is around, and all of a sudden, I'm like, 1:24:26.360 --> 1:24:28.280 I think the restaurant's right Oh, there it is, and 1:24:28.320 --> 1:24:30.400 it's right across the streets. It's a little, tiny, cozy 1:24:30.520 --> 1:24:33.880 Italian restaurant, nicely lit, decorated for the holidays, and it 1:24:33.960 --> 1:24:36.040 was just so nice and that the owner was there, 1:24:36.200 --> 1:24:38.719 his wife was there, We're chatting with them. It was packed, 1:24:39.160 --> 1:24:41.200 and it's just it feels like you're in a movie 1:24:41.520 --> 1:24:44.519 because it's cold outside, but it's cozy inside. Everyone's just 1:24:44.640 --> 1:24:48.200 chatting their big jackets and stuff, except for me, who 1:24:48.360 --> 1:24:50.040 did not realize that it was cold there. So I 1:24:50.160 --> 1:24:52.800 ended up having to go for a run. I went 1:24:52.840 --> 1:24:54.400 for a run right when I got off the plane 1:24:54.439 --> 1:24:58.599 and it was freezing. I mean, I'm talking wind whipping 1:24:58.640 --> 1:25:00.840 all over my ears and I shorts and. 1:25:00.840 --> 1:25:03.240 I just you know, it was just so wild. But 1:25:03.280 --> 1:25:04.160 I had a great time. 1:25:05.360 --> 1:25:09.320 Speaking of flying, if you're one of these anxious flyers, 1:25:09.360 --> 1:25:11.320 and I know a lot of folks are, I am not, 1:25:11.520 --> 1:25:14.440 I personally love flying. I think it's a miracle of technology, 1:25:14.520 --> 1:25:18.720 and I love to put my faith and trust in 1:25:18.920 --> 1:25:21.880 these amazing engineers and pilots that know how to do 1:25:21.920 --> 1:25:25.280 this stuff, because I don't know how it works, honestly, 1:25:25.880 --> 1:25:28.920 Like I am in this metal tube that is as 1:25:28.960 --> 1:25:32.080 big as a house with three hundred other people, and 1:25:32.120 --> 1:25:35.479 somehow it is the most comfortable thing to take off 1:25:35.479 --> 1:25:38.439 from lax and land in New York City. How is 1:25:38.479 --> 1:25:42.360 that possible? And I'm sitting there like, oh, ring the button, Come, 1:25:42.439 --> 1:25:43.519 I have another drink please? 1:25:44.000 --> 1:25:45.000 How is that a thing? 1:25:45.800 --> 1:25:48.240 Like you are literally sailing through the air at six 1:25:48.360 --> 1:25:51.880 hundred miles an hour at thirty five thousand feet It 1:25:52.040 --> 1:25:52.840 just works. 1:25:53.760 --> 1:25:56.599 Ninety nine point nine percent of the time. 1:25:57.479 --> 1:26:00.640 So anyway, needless to say, I love flying, But I 1:26:00.720 --> 1:26:02.760 know there's some white knuckle folks out there. 1:26:03.439 --> 1:26:04.519 If you're one of those people. 1:26:05.479 --> 1:26:10.080 Travel and Leisure wrote an article about these apps that 1:26:10.120 --> 1:26:12.920 can help nervous flyers. So the first one is called 1:26:13.040 --> 1:26:16.720 Flying Calmly. This is available for the App Store and 1:26:16.800 --> 1:26:20.920 Google Play. It gives you turbulence forecasts up to thirty 1:26:20.960 --> 1:26:24.080 six hours ahead, so it shows you if there's going 1:26:24.160 --> 1:26:26.560 to be turbulence on your flight. Now, I don't know 1:26:26.600 --> 1:26:29.000 about you, if I'm a nervous flyer, I don't know 1:26:29.000 --> 1:26:30.439 if that's a good thing or a bad thing to 1:26:30.520 --> 1:26:32.840 know it. But I do know someone close to me 1:26:32.880 --> 1:26:35.559 that is a nervous flyer and they look up the 1:26:35.640 --> 1:26:38.800 turbulence forecast for the flight, and I think that they 1:26:38.840 --> 1:26:41.080 feel better if they know they're going into the flight 1:26:41.680 --> 1:26:43.760 when it's not going to be turbulent e. And if 1:26:43.800 --> 1:26:45.920 it is going to be turbulent e if that's even 1:26:45.960 --> 1:26:48.479 a word, they feel better knowing that, Like that's a 1:26:48.520 --> 1:26:52.280 predicted thing, right, it's not just like random. By the way, 1:26:52.320 --> 1:26:54.800 the best book I ever read that made me a 1:26:54.920 --> 1:27:00.320 very confident flyer was by Patrick Smith. And trying to 1:27:00.320 --> 1:27:03.920 get the name of the book here, let's see he 1:27:04.000 --> 1:27:09.439 wrote the book Let's see Flying Ask the pilot. That 1:27:09.600 --> 1:27:12.920 was the book. Great, great book. And I read this book, 1:27:12.960 --> 1:27:15.240 and I don't know if this book made me. I 1:27:15.320 --> 1:27:18.240 think if you don't like to fly, this book might 1:27:18.280 --> 1:27:20.519 make you a more scared flyer. But for me, someone 1:27:20.520 --> 1:27:24.040 who already liked it, it was like, okay, this is anyway, 1:27:24.439 --> 1:27:27.479 Ask the Pilot by Patrick Smith. It's a great book 1:27:27.520 --> 1:27:32.240 to read if you're a scared flyer. The other things 1:27:32.240 --> 1:27:35.559 that they mentioned in this article sore so Sore is 1:27:35.600 --> 1:27:41.960 another app that will tell you fear management lessons and 1:27:42.000 --> 1:27:44.120 also a G force reader, so you can see the 1:27:44.200 --> 1:27:47.160 G force on your plane through this app. Okay, I 1:27:47.160 --> 1:27:49.000 think all these apps are actually secretly trying to make 1:27:49.040 --> 1:27:51.960 people more scared. And then the one I like is 1:27:52.320 --> 1:27:56.880 terbly t rbli dot com and this gives you the 1:27:57.000 --> 1:27:59.160 turbulence forecast for your flight. You can just do it 1:27:59.160 --> 1:28:02.640 on the website. But what's interesting is it gives you 1:28:02.680 --> 1:28:05.720 the historical data, so it tells you the most turbulent 1:28:05.920 --> 1:28:10.479 routes and the most turbulent airports. So I had a 1:28:10.520 --> 1:28:15.920 feeling that in North America some of the most turbulent airports. Okay, 1:28:16.120 --> 1:28:19.160 so the most turbulent airports of twenty twenty three in 1:28:19.200 --> 1:28:23.840 North America number one Portland number two, Denver number three, 1:28:23.920 --> 1:28:26.840 Las Vegas. I knew it was Las Vegas. Flying into 1:28:26.880 --> 1:28:30.280 Las Vegas is like white knuckle. You're gripping that seat 1:28:30.360 --> 1:28:32.479 the entire time you're landing because it's just like you're 1:28:32.520 --> 1:28:33.759 being whipped all over the place. 1:28:33.920 --> 1:28:34.799 What is white knuckle. 1:28:35.760 --> 1:28:38.200 It's like when you hold something so tight that your 1:28:38.280 --> 1:28:39.720 knuckles turn white. 1:28:39.920 --> 1:28:44.960 Okay, never saw that? You never you never like, held 1:28:45.000 --> 1:28:48.800 on for dear life. I don't know, it just happens. No, 1:28:49.120 --> 1:28:50.400 that's the first time I've ever heard it. 1:28:50.479 --> 1:28:55.000 Oh, it's it's terminology, but I you know, maybe you know. 1:28:55.680 --> 1:28:57.400 My point is it's when you're nervous and you're just 1:28:57.400 --> 1:28:59.320 hold you're holding on for dear life. You've heard that, 1:28:59.400 --> 1:29:01.400 you get it now, but I didn't know you was before. 1:29:01.680 --> 1:29:04.200 You've heard of that though, holding on for dear life. Course, Yeah, 1:29:04.240 --> 1:29:05.840 so that's like I think it's similar. I think it 1:29:05.880 --> 1:29:08.080 probably comes from like you can see your bone through 1:29:08.120 --> 1:29:08.679 the skin. 1:29:08.840 --> 1:29:11.040 Maybe I don't know. 1:29:11.120 --> 1:29:15.200 I guess they're playing me off. Then they also have 1:29:15.280 --> 1:29:19.840 the most turbulent routes. Nashville. I knew it. Another one Nashville. 1:29:19.960 --> 1:29:21.519 I flew in there and that was a you know, 1:29:23.320 --> 1:29:26.640 a knucklebiter. Is that what they call it all has 1:29:26.680 --> 1:29:29.760 to do with your knuckles? If rich on tech dot TV, 1:29:29.800 --> 1:29:32.000 I'll link up the the apps and we're gonna talk 1:29:32.040 --> 1:29:35.760 to turn it In CEO, the folks would turn it 1:29:35.800 --> 1:29:38.400 In coming up next. Welcome back to rich on tech 1:29:38.479 --> 1:29:42.240 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The 1:29:42.280 --> 1:29:47.280 website for the show rich on tech dot TV. If 1:29:47.320 --> 1:29:49.479 you want the links, hit the light bulb for all 1:29:49.520 --> 1:29:52.400 the stuff I just mentioned about. The flying Joining me 1:29:52.479 --> 1:29:56.000 now is turn it In cpo Annie checkatelly. 1:29:56.400 --> 1:29:57.559 Annie. Welcome to the show. 1:29:58.840 --> 1:30:02.000 Thanks Rich. Happy to be here and excited for the conversation. 1:30:02.320 --> 1:30:05.240 Absolutely So we're talking about turn it In. 1:30:05.680 --> 1:30:08.200 I know does some sort of you you can explain, 1:30:08.280 --> 1:30:11.240 but you know, in schools AIS having a big impact 1:30:11.400 --> 1:30:14.519 because it's being used for everything, not just students, but 1:30:14.560 --> 1:30:17.679 everyone's using AI for just about everything at this point, 1:30:18.120 --> 1:30:20.479 and so this is a real issue when it comes 1:30:20.520 --> 1:30:23.760 to grading papers and students turning in stuff that don't 1:30:23.800 --> 1:30:26.599 really care if they, you know, work the system. 1:30:26.960 --> 1:30:29.080 So explain what turn it In does. 1:30:30.360 --> 1:30:33.160 Sure so, turn it In is a company that's been 1:30:33.240 --> 1:30:36.320 around for over twenty five years now. 1:30:36.840 --> 1:30:38.320 It got started. 1:30:38.120 --> 1:30:43.760 With the beginning of the Internet taking shape and teachers 1:30:43.840 --> 1:30:47.640 feeling that many students were going to different sites and 1:30:47.720 --> 1:30:52.240 copying and pasting and putting it into papers. So different technology, 1:30:52.400 --> 1:30:55.519 similar problem in a different age, and so turn it in. 1:30:56.479 --> 1:30:59.960 Originally was was created to find what we call cop 1:31:00.040 --> 1:31:03.720 be paced plagiarism and to let teachers know when we 1:31:03.760 --> 1:31:07.240 saw either there was a lot of matching between a 1:31:07.280 --> 1:31:11.639 student paper and a site or perhaps even another paper 1:31:11.640 --> 1:31:11.960 that a. 1:31:11.920 --> 1:31:13.160 Different student charge in. 1:31:13.280 --> 1:31:18.200 So really focused on academic integrity to help students really 1:31:18.760 --> 1:31:23.120 create their own original thinking. And then with the advent 1:31:23.360 --> 1:31:27.679 of chat GBT. So the end of twenty twenty two 1:31:28.760 --> 1:31:32.000 was the release of chat GPT, but it wasn't the 1:31:32.040 --> 1:31:37.640 first time we'd started working on generative AI. Chat GPT 1:31:38.000 --> 1:31:41.599 or GPT three five came out actually in June twenty twenty, 1:31:41.920 --> 1:31:43.960 so we got to play around with it in advance 1:31:44.040 --> 1:31:50.240 to really learn the statistical patterns of generative AI in writing, 1:31:50.400 --> 1:31:52.840 and so we were able to learn early, and so 1:31:52.920 --> 1:31:55.120 when it came out, a lot of our customers and 1:31:55.160 --> 1:32:00.000 teachers were quite afraid. I think that the sentiment has changed. 1:32:00.479 --> 1:32:02.599 I think there's still a lot of fear. But those 1:32:02.600 --> 1:32:06.000 first two months there were, you know, articles being written 1:32:06.040 --> 1:32:09.240 everywhere such as like it's the end of the paper, 1:32:09.280 --> 1:32:11.759 it's the end of the essay, Everyone's going to cheat. 1:32:12.560 --> 1:32:16.040 And so even the New York public schools actually banned it. 1:32:16.040 --> 1:32:19.519 It was January of twenty twenty three, in the hopes 1:32:19.560 --> 1:32:23.400 of preventing any problems. There was like an early chaos, 1:32:23.160 --> 1:32:27.559 and we created an AI Writing Indicator so that teachers 1:32:27.600 --> 1:32:30.880 would have insight into whether or not AI was. 1:32:30.840 --> 1:32:32.040 Being used in papers. 1:32:32.439 --> 1:32:34.599 And so we've come a long way and it's been 1:32:34.680 --> 1:32:35.840 quite a journey since then. 1:32:36.080 --> 1:32:36.400 Wow. 1:32:36.479 --> 1:32:39.080 So at the end of the day, it's very similar. 1:32:39.720 --> 1:32:42.759 The teacher feeds the paper that the student writes into 1:32:42.800 --> 1:32:46.920 your software and it tells you if it's plagiarized basically, 1:32:47.040 --> 1:32:48.160 or if it's coming from AI. 1:32:50.200 --> 1:32:52.280 Pretty much so, yes, the student turns it in through 1:32:52.280 --> 1:32:55.040 their normal usually a learning management system, and then yes, 1:32:55.080 --> 1:32:58.479 the teacher is able to see what parts of the 1:32:58.560 --> 1:33:02.960 paper were either matching with a different paper or predicted 1:33:03.000 --> 1:33:03.799 as AI writing. 1:33:04.120 --> 1:33:06.800 And how accurate are you? Like, how does this you know? 1:33:06.840 --> 1:33:09.559 There's so many papers out there, and I guess when 1:33:09.600 --> 1:33:12.320 you say if it matches another paper, I think of 1:33:12.360 --> 1:33:14.840 all the movies where they pull like at the fraternity house. 1:33:14.840 --> 1:33:17.479 Like they pull like the filing cabin open. They're like, okay, 1:33:17.760 --> 1:33:21.440 here's your science report that you can just copy and paste. 1:33:21.720 --> 1:33:24.840 But how accurate is your technology? 1:33:26.320 --> 1:33:27.639 Yeah, so we can divide that up. 1:33:27.680 --> 1:33:32.080 So the copy paste the example of you know, pulling 1:33:32.080 --> 1:33:35.479 a paper from a database of past papers, that's harder 1:33:35.520 --> 1:33:38.080 to do with turn it in nowadays. And so in 1:33:38.120 --> 1:33:41.760 that situation, it's actually quite easy because we show the 1:33:41.840 --> 1:33:45.920 teacher the paper or the website or the journal article 1:33:46.120 --> 1:33:48.519 that it matches. Right, So there's what we call it, 1:33:48.560 --> 1:33:51.160 you know, a smoking gun there. It's very easy to 1:33:51.320 --> 1:33:55.320 point out where that match happens. Whereas AI it's not 1:33:55.439 --> 1:33:56.000 as simple. 1:33:56.120 --> 1:33:58.360 Right, we're not matching to something. 1:33:58.439 --> 1:34:02.479 We're using statistics patterns to determine if something was written 1:34:02.520 --> 1:34:06.120 by AI. And in terms of the accuracy, there are 1:34:06.160 --> 1:34:08.559 two parts, and it's really important to understand this. There 1:34:08.560 --> 1:34:13.200 are two parts of accuracy that make up whether the 1:34:13.240 --> 1:34:16.479 effectiveness of a tool. The first is and the most 1:34:16.479 --> 1:34:18.840 important is the false positive rate. 1:34:19.040 --> 1:34:22.240 So that is when we say, or another tool. 1:34:22.040 --> 1:34:24.680 Says that something was written by AI and it was 1:34:24.760 --> 1:34:27.280 actually written by a human. And so what we do 1:34:27.479 --> 1:34:32.320 is we maximized to we reduce that as much as possible, 1:34:32.439 --> 1:34:35.479 So we will change the well how much we catch 1:34:35.800 --> 1:34:39.960 in order to keep that below one percent, So less 1:34:39.960 --> 1:34:44.439 than one percent of papers will be flagged as having 1:34:44.720 --> 1:34:47.000 over twenty percent AI. 1:34:49.360 --> 1:34:51.080 In total, whereas. 1:34:50.720 --> 1:34:53.840 We probably miss on the other side, we probably miss 1:34:53.880 --> 1:34:57.439 about fifteen to twenty percent of AI we let go 1:34:57.479 --> 1:35:00.479 by so as to keep that false positive break down. 1:35:00.680 --> 1:35:03.800 So what I mean, I guess the question is if 1:35:03.840 --> 1:35:06.400 I use AI to write my paper, what is this 1:35:06.479 --> 1:35:08.960 looking for? So looking for just AI? Is it using 1:35:09.040 --> 1:35:11.559 AI to look for AI? Like it knows that a 1:35:11.640 --> 1:35:13.560 you know, an AI writs in a certain way, and 1:35:13.840 --> 1:35:15.439 can a human you know you said you have the 1:35:15.439 --> 1:35:18.160 false positive and stuff. So I mean, obviously there are 1:35:18.439 --> 1:35:20.960 instances where a kid probably says, no, I wrote this 1:35:21.000 --> 1:35:23.679 whole thing and it was clearly just CHATCHBT. 1:35:23.720 --> 1:35:27.920 Like absolutely, and so yes, we use AI to detect AI. 1:35:28.560 --> 1:35:31.640 So because of our history, we have a lot of 1:35:31.760 --> 1:35:35.320 data on how students write, just not how humans right, 1:35:35.400 --> 1:35:36.559 but how students write. 1:35:36.960 --> 1:35:38.840 Is it all these papers that were fed in back 1:35:38.880 --> 1:35:40.360 in the day for the copy paste. 1:35:40.479 --> 1:35:44.719 Yes, yes, and so we have this trove of data 1:35:45.040 --> 1:35:51.960 that shows us statistically how students put together words in 1:35:52.120 --> 1:35:53.920 different types of scenarios. 1:35:54.120 --> 1:35:54.240 Uh. 1:35:54.439 --> 1:35:57.840 And then we have that model and we trained it, 1:35:57.960 --> 1:36:01.280 and it compares itself to how a large language model 1:36:01.360 --> 1:36:04.080 put together puts together words and sentences. 1:36:04.560 --> 1:36:08.760 And a large language model the way it writes is 1:36:08.800 --> 1:36:10.880 not for completeness of thought. 1:36:11.320 --> 1:36:14.320 So when we write something, we think about, Okay, we're 1:36:14.320 --> 1:36:16.360 going to make a point here, and we have the 1:36:16.520 --> 1:36:19.280 end in mind. When we're writing, we know that we 1:36:19.360 --> 1:36:21.920 have to complete a thought that at the end is 1:36:21.960 --> 1:36:25.080 going to make a statement or an argument or whatever 1:36:25.120 --> 1:36:25.760 it is that our. 1:36:25.760 --> 1:36:28.519 End goal is. And LM does not have an end 1:36:28.520 --> 1:36:31.280 goal in mind. It goes word by word by word 1:36:31.280 --> 1:36:31.639 by word. 1:36:31.760 --> 1:36:34.800 That's just predictabor meaning that's exactly what it is. 1:36:34.840 --> 1:36:36.639 It's just predicting the next word. 1:36:37.000 --> 1:36:40.639 And so it's always pulling the most probable next word, 1:36:40.840 --> 1:36:45.599 which humans rarely do they do, but it's rare, especially 1:36:45.680 --> 1:36:49.160 in the number of successions. So some of the safety 1:36:49.200 --> 1:36:53.040 measures we have on our AI indicator is that we 1:36:53.120 --> 1:36:57.200 won't make a prediction if the if there's less than 1:36:57.240 --> 1:37:00.559 three hundred words, and that's unique to our We feel 1:37:00.600 --> 1:37:03.879 we need that much text to really make a judgment 1:37:03.920 --> 1:37:07.360 that we can provide insight into So that's one of 1:37:07.400 --> 1:37:08.080 those examples. 1:37:08.240 --> 1:37:10.240 So can a student kind of check their own like, 1:37:10.280 --> 1:37:12.960 do you have like a consumer facing tool that people 1:37:13.040 --> 1:37:15.280 can access to like put their stuff into to see 1:37:15.280 --> 1:37:16.439 if it might be flagged? 1:37:17.720 --> 1:37:18.200 We do not. 1:37:18.479 --> 1:37:20.120 We debate this a lot, and we debate it and 1:37:20.160 --> 1:37:21.160 we talk about it with our. 1:37:21.080 --> 1:37:22.840 Customers because I know why we debate it now. 1:37:22.880 --> 1:37:24.519 I just thought of the reason, because then I would 1:37:24.560 --> 1:37:26.960 just take my paper and I'll just keep tweaking one 1:37:27.040 --> 1:37:28.880 word at a time until it said, oh no, this 1:37:29.000 --> 1:37:30.160 was totally written by a human. 1:37:30.880 --> 1:37:31.879 Now I guess yeah. 1:37:33.720 --> 1:37:34.519 We do offer. 1:37:34.680 --> 1:37:36.840 I mean we are working on how we can do 1:37:36.920 --> 1:37:40.320 that in a safe way. For instance, how do we 1:37:40.360 --> 1:37:42.200 do that in a way that the teacher knows that 1:37:42.240 --> 1:37:44.760 they did that. And so in our future iterations of 1:37:44.760 --> 1:37:48.919 our product, we're really looking more not so much about detection, 1:37:49.120 --> 1:37:52.439 but more about that transparency, so that assumption that you 1:37:52.439 --> 1:37:53.599 know what, we're all going. 1:37:53.400 --> 1:37:56.679 To use this in different ways. What are responsible ways 1:37:56.720 --> 1:37:57.400 of using this? 1:37:57.600 --> 1:37:59.000 Okay, and I have coached this. 1:37:59.320 --> 1:38:01.880 I've got less than a minute, so I want to 1:38:01.960 --> 1:38:03.320 I just want to. I got less than a minute, 1:38:03.360 --> 1:38:06.000 so I want to. I want your advice for students 1:38:06.040 --> 1:38:09.559 and teachers about this whole situation, like, what is your 1:38:09.640 --> 1:38:11.320 you know, you've been working with this company for a 1:38:11.320 --> 1:38:14.000 long time. What's your advice to students and teachers here? 1:38:14.960 --> 1:38:17.720 Yes, I have three teenagers and my husband teaches high 1:38:17.720 --> 1:38:20.280 school English, so this is a very common discussion at 1:38:20.280 --> 1:38:22.720 my house. So the number one thing is play with 1:38:22.800 --> 1:38:25.479 it yourself, right, get accustomed to it. If you've not 1:38:25.600 --> 1:38:28.800 open chat, GBT or a tool like that, use it. 1:38:29.360 --> 1:38:31.439 Also, ask your students to use it in front of you. 1:38:31.680 --> 1:38:34.599 I bet they're already using it in different ways, whether 1:38:34.640 --> 1:38:37.920 it's summarizing things or making things easier. Ask them to 1:38:38.040 --> 1:38:39.960 use it in front of you, even for a paper, 1:38:40.040 --> 1:38:42.880 and see how they're using it, and you can learn 1:38:43.160 --> 1:38:46.600 kind of the productive ways in the unproductive ways. And 1:38:46.600 --> 1:38:49.679 then when you're talking to your cheek, your student, your kids, teacher, 1:38:50.120 --> 1:38:53.200 ask them their philosophy on how much they think and 1:38:53.320 --> 1:38:56.280 what types of assignments it's appropriate. This is all about 1:38:56.320 --> 1:38:59.680 being transparent. It's not about you know, punitive, you know, 1:39:00.120 --> 1:39:03.719 making this child punished because they use it, but helping 1:39:03.760 --> 1:39:05.240 them understand the right way to use it. 1:39:05.680 --> 1:39:10.080 All right, any check Itatelly from the plagiarism detector tool 1:39:10.240 --> 1:39:12.759 turn it in dot com. Thanks so much for joining 1:39:12.760 --> 1:39:16.639 me today. Really interesting coming up, Rich, We are gonna 1:39:16.680 --> 1:39:21.080 have your original thoughts. Nothing chatchybt coming up. It's gonna 1:39:21.120 --> 1:39:24.120 be your original thoughts. It's the feedbag right here on 1:39:24.280 --> 1:39:29.400 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich 1:39:29.479 --> 1:39:33.519 DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, and it 1:39:33.600 --> 1:39:38.080 is time once again for the feedbag. So if you 1:39:38.080 --> 1:39:40.639 don't know what the feedbag is. I get a lot 1:39:40.680 --> 1:39:44.040 of emails from you, a lot. Like when I say 1:39:44.080 --> 1:39:47.640 a lot, I can sit down and do emails indefinitely, 1:39:48.280 --> 1:39:50.599 like literally all day, all day, every day. 1:39:50.840 --> 1:39:51.479 But I love it. 1:39:51.520 --> 1:39:53.240 And if you know, if you've ever written me, you 1:39:53.360 --> 1:39:56.439 might get a response because I do enjoy writing back 1:39:56.479 --> 1:40:00.760 to you. But these are the emails, the comments, the questions, 1:40:00.800 --> 1:40:02.519 all the things that you send me that I find 1:40:02.560 --> 1:40:05.240 interesting and I read them here in the feedbag if 1:40:05.280 --> 1:40:08.040 you want to submit something for the feedbag. And by 1:40:08.040 --> 1:40:11.920 the way, feedbag is a combination of feedback and mail bag, 1:40:12.520 --> 1:40:15.479 so that's where feedbag comes from. Yes, I just thought 1:40:15.520 --> 1:40:18.240 it was clever and funny, and so we call it 1:40:18.240 --> 1:40:20.760 the feedbag. Well I call it the feedbag I mean, 1:40:20.800 --> 1:40:21.559 there's really no one else. 1:40:21.600 --> 1:40:22.040 It's just me. 1:40:22.360 --> 1:40:27.519 It's literally me, so Rich on tech dot TV hit 1:40:27.600 --> 1:40:30.880 contact if you want to get your message in on 1:40:30.920 --> 1:40:34.000 the feedbag. Manny writes in hey brother, I love my 1:40:34.160 --> 1:40:36.439 ray band Metas. I had them about a year now, 1:40:36.840 --> 1:40:39.200 only a couple of issues. Battery life is short. I 1:40:39.240 --> 1:40:42.280 only get about sixty to ninety minutes of music at work. Also, 1:40:42.800 --> 1:40:46.919 they don't handle recordings at live concerts well if you're upfront, 1:40:46.960 --> 1:40:49.519 too much noise for the mic. Hope you and the 1:40:49.560 --> 1:40:52.599 family are well. Yeah, we talked a lot about these 1:40:52.680 --> 1:40:56.960 ray Bandmetas, so many questions and comments about them last week. 1:40:57.040 --> 1:40:59.000 I am loving them. Everyone. I show these things too. 1:40:59.000 --> 1:41:01.920 They absolutely just love it, and I'm continuing to find 1:41:01.960 --> 1:41:04.360 more and more uses for them. So they are fun. 1:41:05.520 --> 1:41:09.240 Agnes writes in Hey Rich, I'm definitely not a techie. However, 1:41:09.800 --> 1:41:12.760 I listen to you every Saturday and learn something new. 1:41:13.000 --> 1:41:15.120 Just heard you talking about the Aura frame you got 1:41:15.120 --> 1:41:17.320 for your dad. My kids got one for my husband 1:41:17.360 --> 1:41:19.720 and me a couple of years ago, and we love it. 1:41:19.720 --> 1:41:19.800 It. 1:41:19.920 --> 1:41:23.000 Sits where we can see it and at our kitchen table. 1:41:23.439 --> 1:41:26.000 It brings a smile to our faces seeing memories with 1:41:26.040 --> 1:41:28.720 our kids and our grandkids, and yes, all of us 1:41:28.760 --> 1:41:31.080 add to it, which makes it amazing to see pictures 1:41:31.200 --> 1:41:34.120 we didn't add. I'm actually looking at my aura as 1:41:34.160 --> 1:41:38.960 I type this email. Thanks for your great show and information, Agnes. Yes, 1:41:39.080 --> 1:41:42.160 I'm telling you this is the easiest gift to get anyone, 1:41:42.600 --> 1:41:45.320 because it just you can't look at this thing and 1:41:45.360 --> 1:41:47.919 not smile. You think that you look at your photos 1:41:48.000 --> 1:41:50.320 on the phone, You don't you realize that there's just 1:41:50.360 --> 1:41:53.800 so many pictures locked onto your cell phone that you 1:41:53.880 --> 1:41:57.200 never look at. And so by day you know, maybe 1:41:57.200 --> 1:41:59.160 not day one, there is going to be amazing, but 1:41:59.240 --> 1:42:01.120 you know, day three, day four, as you get into 1:42:01.120 --> 1:42:03.200 a routine of saying, oh, I took a good picture today, 1:42:03.280 --> 1:42:06.559 let me share that to my frame or my family's frame. 1:42:06.840 --> 1:42:08.400 It's really a great thing. I'll put the link in 1:42:08.400 --> 1:42:11.519 the show notes. Dat writes in Hi, Rich, my name 1:42:11.560 --> 1:42:13.720 is Dat and I'm blind. I love your show, sir, 1:42:13.840 --> 1:42:16.160 you make tech real fun. I'd like you to have 1:42:16.240 --> 1:42:19.240 more guests on that are experts on assistive technology on 1:42:19.280 --> 1:42:22.000 your show to keep us disabled folk updated on the 1:42:22.040 --> 1:42:25.720 latest unique tech for us. Please talk more about accessibility 1:42:25.760 --> 1:42:28.240 on your show thank you for a great show every week. 1:42:28.600 --> 1:42:29.920 That is a good point. 1:42:31.280 --> 1:42:34.400 We have had guests in the past talk about accessibility, 1:42:34.400 --> 1:42:38.680 and I have gone to the season Accessibility conference, but 1:42:39.560 --> 1:42:41.879 we will. I will make it a point to actually 1:42:41.960 --> 1:42:45.920 book more guests that talk about these things, because there 1:42:46.000 --> 1:42:49.120 are just so many things that are happening on a 1:42:49.200 --> 1:42:52.360 daily basis that affect you know, the low vision, the 1:42:52.360 --> 1:42:56.360 blind community, and just accessibility in general. Tech is such 1:42:56.520 --> 1:43:00.800 a huge driver for accessibility, and so we do need 1:43:00.840 --> 1:43:03.160 more of that, and I will absolutely keep that in 1:43:03.200 --> 1:43:04.519 mind and book more guests for that. 1:43:04.600 --> 1:43:06.519 Thanks for that, Thanks for that that. 1:43:07.640 --> 1:43:10.639 Jay David writes in don't know if this will be seen, 1:43:10.800 --> 1:43:13.559 but transition lenses need to be broken in by leaving 1:43:13.560 --> 1:43:17.080 them in bright sun or under ultraviolet light to get dark. 1:43:17.479 --> 1:43:20.080 If you wear them enough outside, they'll eventually darken. In 1:43:20.120 --> 1:43:22.519 the past, I've put them in my backyard facing south. 1:43:22.600 --> 1:43:25.000 My latest pair was treated at the store of the 1:43:25.080 --> 1:43:27.200 UV device for about ten minutes and they got extremely 1:43:27.280 --> 1:43:30.280 dark fully broken in. Huh So I mentioned that the 1:43:30.360 --> 1:43:33.640 ray bands have transition lenses that go darker, but I 1:43:33.640 --> 1:43:38.200 said they didn't get very dark and interesting, so Jay 1:43:38.240 --> 1:43:41.400 David says that you got to leave them outside. Okay, 1:43:41.600 --> 1:43:43.679 I'll leave them outside for a little bit. I feel 1:43:43.680 --> 1:43:45.720 like I have noticed they've gotten darker over time, but 1:43:45.760 --> 1:43:48.479 they're still They're not like sunglass dark. You know, it's 1:43:48.479 --> 1:43:52.679 not like you. You know, So it's like anyway, Bonnie, 1:43:53.600 --> 1:43:56.120 Oh gosh, this is all about the ray bands. I 1:43:56.120 --> 1:43:57.639 would like to buy a pair of those ray bands. 1:43:57.720 --> 1:43:59.679 Only problem is, no one thinks there's a large enough 1:43:59.720 --> 1:44:02.799 market for people with smaller heads, slash faces, slash wrists, 1:44:03.160 --> 1:44:05.280 and thus we get left out of the cool stuff 1:44:05.600 --> 1:44:07.840 because it looks ridiculous on us. Thanks for all the 1:44:07.840 --> 1:44:10.760 great info you share, Bonnie. You know it's funny. Every 1:44:10.800 --> 1:44:14.800 product that's a wearable that I test, someone's not happy. 1:44:14.840 --> 1:44:15.360 On one side. 1:44:15.360 --> 1:44:17.040 Some people are like, oh that watch is too small, 1:44:17.080 --> 1:44:20.000 Oh that watch is too big. So there are many 1:44:20.200 --> 1:44:22.240 I think tech companies are getting hip or to the 1:44:22.240 --> 1:44:24.640 fact that people want a variety of these devices and 1:44:24.720 --> 1:44:29.519 various sizes. So the ray bands do come in various sizes. 1:44:29.560 --> 1:44:32.679 So I think that you should give give him a check. 1:44:33.360 --> 1:44:37.080 Daniel from Rutherfordton, North Carolina. He says he listens to 1:44:37.120 --> 1:44:39.719 the podcast and writes in hey rich regarding the caller 1:44:39.760 --> 1:44:43.960 who wanted to consolidate and sort photos from multiple external drives. 1:44:44.040 --> 1:44:48.000 I suggest Mileo Photos. They have free and paid plans, 1:44:48.040 --> 1:44:51.080 work across platforms and devices. Many people love it. I've 1:44:51.160 --> 1:44:53.400 used it a little, though I'm not really a photo hoarder. 1:44:53.840 --> 1:44:56.839 All right, Mileo Photos if you want a photo management 1:44:57.200 --> 1:44:59.880 I personally still think Google Photos is the best. In fact, 1:45:00.000 --> 1:45:03.200 I just finished a project that I've been trying to 1:45:03.200 --> 1:45:08.080 accomplish for probably eight years now, and that is consolidating 1:45:08.200 --> 1:45:10.600 all of these different drives I had of my photos, 1:45:10.640 --> 1:45:13.960 like backups, and getting them all into Google Photos. Because 1:45:14.000 --> 1:45:15.320 Google Photos, I don't know if you know this, but 1:45:15.360 --> 1:45:17.040 it's not going to put in duplicates. So if you 1:45:17.160 --> 1:45:20.519 have photos in different places, it will upload those photos 1:45:20.560 --> 1:45:22.679 and it won't put them in your collection if they're duplicates, 1:45:22.680 --> 1:45:25.240 which is really nice. So I just I was uploading 1:45:25.280 --> 1:45:29.200 I mean I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of 1:45:29.240 --> 1:45:32.400 photos that I was uploading, and it all went in 1:45:32.439 --> 1:45:34.519 there and it's fine, and now I finally have that. 1:45:34.600 --> 1:45:38.040 Now my second phase is to go into Google takeout 1:45:38.080 --> 1:45:41.320 and actually download a copy of all my Google Photos. 1:45:42.800 --> 1:45:46.439 Christopher from Commerce Georgia says, on your November ninth show, 1:45:46.479 --> 1:45:49.080 you spoke about home internet provided by cellular companies. I 1:45:49.160 --> 1:45:50.960 use T Mobile home Internet and I love it for 1:45:51.000 --> 1:45:54.919 the price and speed. I browse email, stream Netflix, Discovery 1:45:54.920 --> 1:45:57.280 Plus and Paramount Plus and keep my devices updated. It 1:45:57.320 --> 1:45:59.519 works perfectly for all of that without any complaints. The 1:45:59.560 --> 1:46:00.839 speed is perfect. 1:46:01.360 --> 1:46:01.880 Good to know. 1:46:02.680 --> 1:46:04.960 Neil from Ohio writes in, I just want to say 1:46:05.000 --> 1:46:08.400 the cybersecurity Lady was great last week and today's newsletter 1:46:08.479 --> 1:46:11.080 is fantastic. I'm counting on you to help us stay 1:46:11.080 --> 1:46:13.880 more private and save more money. Thanks and keep them coming. 1:46:14.000 --> 1:46:14.679 Thank you, Neil. 1:46:16.120 --> 1:46:16.719 Let's see. 1:46:16.840 --> 1:46:19.200 Paul writes in, I agreed about what you said about 1:46:19.200 --> 1:46:21.479 the poor quality of Netflix movies. It was always a 1:46:21.560 --> 1:46:24.840 challenge to find something worthwhile watching, and I usually ended 1:46:24.920 --> 1:46:27.599 up disappointed in the acting or the plot. I finally 1:46:27.640 --> 1:46:31.080 gave up and canceled my subscription. In these times of 1:46:31.160 --> 1:46:34.320 rising prices, I was shocked, shocked, shocked to borrow Claude 1:46:34.360 --> 1:46:37.360 Rains's line from Casablanca to get an email from my 1:46:37.479 --> 1:46:40.240 visible phone provider saying my monthly fee is going down 1:46:40.280 --> 1:46:42.760 by five dollars for me being a loyal customer of 1:46:42.800 --> 1:46:46.720 six years. Thanks for all that you do well. Thank you, 1:46:47.280 --> 1:46:51.439 and yes that is I joked last night on Netflix 1:46:51.479 --> 1:46:55.000 on Instagram that if you were watching Hot Frosty on Netflix, 1:46:55.040 --> 1:46:57.679 you should stop because we needed the bandwidth for the fight. 1:46:57.800 --> 1:47:00.439 And Kim emailed me and she said, is that a 1:47:00.479 --> 1:47:02.360 real movie? And I said, yes it is. It's on 1:47:02.400 --> 1:47:04.240 the homepage of Netflix, and you know it's one of 1:47:04.280 --> 1:47:07.439 their Hallmark movie esques. Anyway, I have not watched it. 1:47:07.920 --> 1:47:09.400 That's going to do it for this episode of the show. 1:47:09.400 --> 1:47:11.400 You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website. 1:47:11.439 --> 1:47:13.680 Just go to richontech dot tv. You can find me 1:47:13.840 --> 1:47:17.800 on social media, including my new found account at blue Sky. 1:47:18.040 --> 1:47:20.800 I am at rich on Tech. If you haven't gotten 1:47:20.800 --> 1:47:22.320 on there, check it out. It's kind of fun. It 1:47:22.320 --> 1:47:25.160 feels like you're part of something new. Next week, we'll 1:47:25.160 --> 1:47:29.000 have the Wirecutter on to talk about holiday deals and 1:47:29.479 --> 1:47:32.760 how to use AI for your recipes and to bake. 1:47:33.360 --> 1:47:35.120 Thank you so much for listening. There are so many 1:47:35.160 --> 1:47:37.519 ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate you 1:47:37.600 --> 1:47:40.479 spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who 1:47:40.479 --> 1:47:42.880 makes this show possible. Bobo on the board today, Kim 1:47:42.920 --> 1:47:45.559 on the phones. My name is Richdmiro, I will talk 1:47:45.600 --> 1:47:46.559 to you real soon