WEBVTT - An Internet Provider Upgrades Speeds for Free 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:10.080 Faster internet for free. Here's how Roku, Amazon and Sons 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:14.480 all have new speakers. Facebook does dating the thing you 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.640 should do if you use Gmail on your iPhone. Plus 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.360 your questions answered? 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.000 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.240 This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.800 about the stuff I think you should know about happening in. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:27.280 The tech world. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.560 Plus it's the place where I answer the questions that 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.160 you send me. Welcome producer Megan to the show. 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.320 Welcome Rich to the show. 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.680 Thank you. How's it going very good? 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.040 Yeah, it's been busy. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:42.440 It has been very busy. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:45.280 And you know, next week is the whole big Apple thing, 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.120 so we've prepping for that. Megan did a great job 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.959 of booking her hotel room. She was like a pit 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.920 bull on the phone with the hotel because we you know, 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.600 the hotels all sell out, especially the ones that are close. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:04.679 And I usually, based on speculation, make a hotel reservation. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.200 Wayne advanced, just guessing when the event is gonna be. Yeah, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:12.800 years in advance. Yeah, I have next year's iPhone already on. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.480 And so I told Megan, well, were staying and you know, 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.360 get a room, and of course they said, no, there's 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:18.920 no rooms. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:19.920 There's no availability. 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.600 Well you told me tuesday, You're like you can yeah, 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:23.720 And I was like, okay. 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:24.959 Yeah, it all happens. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.560 You get the invitation two weeks before, and then we didn't. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.760 I mean, yeah, we just didn't have time figured out. Yeah, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.240 but the reality is you did work it out. She 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.959 went from having no availability at the hotel to them 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.080 telling her it was a three day minimum to stay 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.119 there to getting a room. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.040 I called like ten times and then at the tenth 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.400 time they were like, oh, it's a three day minimum. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.160 And I was like, uh, okay, well if I stayed 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.400 three days, and then I basically yeah, you. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.080 Got your way, So good job. That was very good. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.640 It was a new side of you that I that 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:56.720 I have not seen. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.840 Before, but you coached me. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:01:59.840 Very impressed with that. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.360 On the flip side, for me personally, I finished my 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.800 iPhone book the first draft, so yesterday. That was a 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.040 huge deal because I'm you know, I have this book 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:10.840 one hundred and one handy tech Tips for the iPhone. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:14.200 I'm revising it for iOS thirteen, so I've been using 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.639 the beta to get all the new tips, and then 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.799 my goal is to have it out as soon as 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.040 possible when the new one, you know, the new phone 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.079 comes out and the new software. But I still have 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.799 a lot of work ahead. I got to revise it, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.359 i got to come up with a cover. I've got 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.120 to everything marketing. It's a whole big thing. But in 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.359 the meantime, if you do want to be notified when 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.560 the new book is available, you can go to Amazon 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.240 and follow my author page. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.320 Oh I'm going to do that, so you'll. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.680 Get notified, like literally the minute it's like up there, 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:40.959 you'll get like the little notification. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:42.760 So it's really cool. That's so exciting. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.000 It is exciting, and I'm excited for this book because 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.600 I made it simpler and better. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:46.840 You know. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.160 I've this the third version, so I've learned a lot 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:51.200 along the way, and I'm using a new program to 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.800 write it, which I'm I can't wait to do, so 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:55.400 I to publish it or whatever. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.800 You want to say. Let's talk about Facebook. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.480 Facebook is finally getting into the dating game. Facebook dating 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.920 is brand new here in the US. And this is 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.120 interesting because Facebook, it's weird. I have a love hate 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:16.720 with Facebook because Facebook is the place that we all 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:20.560 know and sort of love, but I feel like it 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.280 has fallen out of favor with a lot of people, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.919 but people still use it in a big way. Now 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:27.800 are the people that are dating using it? 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.000 I'm not sure. So. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.160 I mean you have these big dating apps like tender Match. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.360 I'm sure there's a million others out there. I think 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.560 what makes Facebook dating so interesting is that they have 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.600 the most data on us. And so here's the line 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.480 from what they're basically what they're doing. They're not going 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.680 to link you up with your friends. They will if 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.040 you do something, and I'll tell you about that in 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.040 a second, But here's what they're doing. So how it 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.040 works is you create a separate dating profile that's separate 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.160 from your main profile, and they're going to suggest people 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.640 on the Facebook platform based on your preferences, interests, and 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.240 other things you do on Facebook. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.920 Okay, they stalk people, no. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.720 But they really understand who you are. They see what 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.880 you're looking at on Facebook, they see the types of 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:14.200 music that you like. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:15.600 They just see what you interact with. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:20.080 Right with something like Tinder or Match, they're not getting 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.919 all that rich data about a person. The person's typing 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.159 in saying I like wine, I like going for long 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.000 walks on the beach. Facebook knows this person spends ninety 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.120 five percent of their time looking at Iron Maiden records 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:33.560 from the seventies or something. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.640 I don't know, Wait through through what Like, how do 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.040 they know that whatever you do? 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.320 No, while they can do that too. They can link 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.200 up what you do on Google through the through the 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.280 Facebook like buttons that are everywhere, so they're collecting all 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:47.960 this data no matter where you are on the web. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.800 Okay, because I feel like with my Facebook, all the 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.159 interests and all the artists that I've liked are from 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:54.840 when I was like. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.600 Twelve, That's true, and a lot of people are trying 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:57.840 to update that to be fair for you. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.040 That was only like two years ago. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.440 I know, because I'm fourteen. Everyone I don't know Rich 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.000 told you I don't. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.320 Want to reveal Megan's very young age. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.120 But yes, but that's a thing that's when I started Facebook. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.000 But they're still going to see like the kind of 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.960 posts that you interact with, the kind of things that 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:14.440 you like. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.120 Okay, I mean, it's it. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.880 Facebook has a lot of data, and I agree, Like 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.520 what you're saying is very valid that just because they 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.880 build this profile of you doesn't necessarily mean it's right. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.440 Like you can go into Facebook and look at the 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.920 advertiser like targeting for you right now, like half it's wrong, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.000 you know, but anyway, I find that interesting. The other 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:36.760 interesting feature about this that I find could be very 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:42.200 interesting is there's a secret crush feature where normally they 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.240 don't link you up with your friends, but you can 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.640 identify nine of your friends that you're interested in, and 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.280 then let's say your friends identify you as one of 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.719 those people that they're interested in. If you both do that, 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.760 Facebook will notify you and kind of hook you up. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.920 But it only has it's all secret, so if if 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.359 if someone doesn't request, you know, put you as a crush, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.720 then nothing happens. I'm curious how many times you can 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:07.839 change those secret crushes? 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:08.560 Could think about it? 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.280 What if you could change them every day and you 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.800 just went through all your friends until you found a match, right. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.960 Yeah and then yeah wow yeah, So anyway, I think yeah. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.520 Anyway, So that is Facebook dating in a nutshell. It 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.680 is available starting today. The other thing that's weird about 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.000 this are you gonna try it? 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:25.839 I don't know, maybe you should. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.320 You should try it and report that quest. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:28.280 Okay, I'll let you know how go. 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.720 But the other thing that's interesting is that they're sort 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.440 of merging Facebook and Instagram for the first time because 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.520 now it's cross friends, so it's your friends from Instagram 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:36.920 as well. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.320 Okay, yeah, because I feel like Instagram's a great way 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.520 to you know, slide into dms meet people. Right, yeah, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:44.120 I don't. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.479 Know theoretically, you would know better. I have no idea. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:53.280 All right, So this first question comes from Jerome. And 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.080 by the way, if you want to send a question, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.680 all you have to do is go to Rich on 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.480 tech dot tv, click on the contact link, and you 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.560 can send Rich your question. So Jerome writes in is 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.800 it The subject is video chat Android to iPhone. The 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.880 question is it possible? How to make it happen? 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.600 This is one of those questions that I read and 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.160 I'm just like, oh wow, this is interesting that this 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.440 is a question because it seems so simple in my mind. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.400 But the reality is, all we've heard about over the 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.240 years is FaceTime, FaceTime, FaceTime, FaceTime. That's the way people 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.360 video chat and skype. But in reality, there are many 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.800 other ways to do this, and there are many simple ways. 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.000 The simplest way is the program that's probably installed in 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.040 your both phones already, even if you're iOS and Android, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.240 and that is Facebook Messenger. People forget that Facebook Messenger 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.160 has a video chat feature and you can easily use that. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.280 So if Facebook Messenger is installed on both phones, go 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.200 ahead and use that to chat. You're already friends on there. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:51.720 You don't have to set up a separate account. It's 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.560 all done and it works nicely. The other thing, and 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.600 I think this is probably the better way to do it, 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.120 is Google Duo and Google Doo. I did a video 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.120 on Facebook when this came out a couple of years ago. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.520 I think it was like five years ago at this point, 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.400 let's say August sixteenth, twenty sixteen. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:07.680 Three years ago. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:08.440 I was nine. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.320 Sorry, continuing with the young joke. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.600 I like that, okay, But this app came out and 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.360 I thought it was the greatest thing ever because it 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.280 was really the first time you had a dedicated app 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.640 that you could use to video chat. And Google Duo 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.880 is very simple, it has better quality video than a 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.160 lot of the other apps out there. It's totally free. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.560 It works on both Android and iOS. But for some reason, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.520 nobody thinks about it ever. Did it come to mind 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:36.240 when you saw this? 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.720 I think about it all the time. No, no, no, 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.880 I've actually never this is the first time I've ever 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:41.600 heard of it. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.720 But I really the first time see that. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.520 But I was also thinking, I know people that not 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:52.080 a ton of people, but my sister facetimes or video 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.880 chats with people on Instagram, like her friends on Instagram. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.880 Yes, you can do Instagram as well. So there, okay, 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:02.680 So here are your options. Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Google Duo, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.640 and obviously face and Skype. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.360 Skype is a little bit more old school. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:08.960 I think that's more like people think of that for 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.960 business purposes, yeah, for personal and yeah, Instagram is probably 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.560 one of those other ones that's really easy because it's 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.959 already on your phone and everybody's on Instagram. So I 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.040 would say those are probably the two or three ways 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:21.600 to check it out. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.800 But it can be done. It's very simple. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.760 I think the main thing is that on Android versus 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.040 iOS or going cross platform, it's not as simple as 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.280 FaceTime because FaceTime, it's like you click their phone number 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.720 if they have an iPhone, boom, it just connects. And 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.480 that's of course part of the magic and nightmare of 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.160 the way Apple sets things up. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:40.840 Is it going to be blurry if you're on an 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:46.240 iPhone and you're video chatting with the Android on Duo. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.280 Yeah, no, quite quite contrary. It's Duo is very clear. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.040 In fact, they have this cool night site feature which 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.520 makes your nighttime chatting like even brighter, which is kind 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:56.880 of cool. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:58.480 And no, it looks great. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.679 And the thing that when Duo came out versus FaceTime, 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.440 the thing that was different is FaceTime was I mean, 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.280 it's gotten better, yeah, and plus internet speeds. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:09.120 Have gotten better over the years. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.640 But when FaceTime was first, it was it always dropped out, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.360 it was blurry, it didn't hold a connection very well. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.680 So when Duo came out, Google was using their YouTube. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.840 Google has learned so much from YouTube about compressing video 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:24.160 and making video delivered very fast. They apply that to 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.040 all their products, so Duo is no different. They're figuring out. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:29.800 You know, when you have a good connection, they'll make 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.880 the screen look really good, the picture really clear. When 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.800 you don't have as good of a connection, they'll drop 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.920 back that quality, but still keep the conversation going and 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.559 still keep the video. Sometimes the video may go out 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.520 if you have a really terrible connection, but I rarely 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:47.400 see that anymore. Anyway, good question and check those things out, Jerome, 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.480 Thanks for emailing in so many things to talk about 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.160 this week, including Samsung. And I'm not going to give 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.240 this much more than like thirty seconds, because nobody cares 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:01.920 about this phone. Nobody is buying this phone, and the 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.280 only reason we care about it is because it's like 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.439 our hurt player in sports. I'm not sports guy, so 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.840 I don't even know this analogy, but like you're hope 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.720 that you want to see them win, right that guy? 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.160 That never mind, I'm not going to also try to because. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:15.920 No, we don't do sports analogies here because we don't 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.199 do sports sports. There's a reason why I talk about technology. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.000 But the thing is, the Galaxy Fold was supposed to 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.280 launch on April twenty sixth. It did not launch because 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.000 there's a whole bunch of problems. We've been waiting for 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:29.800 it to launch. Nobody's really been waiting for it to 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.959 launch except the media that just wants to talk about it. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.839 Nobody really, Like, no one go up to thirty people 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.520 in the street and not one person is ready to 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:40.160 buy this thing. But nonetheless, it's cool that Samsung is 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.160 experimenting with new technologies, and I do think this will 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.120 be indicative of technologies to come, and I think we 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:50.400 will see more foldable phones. But the story is that 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.200 the Galaxy Fold will launch in the US in the 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.400 coming weeks. It is available in South Korea. So Megan, 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.360 if you have nothing to do this weekend and you 0:11:58.400 --> 0:11:59.280 want to get. 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:00.560 A plane the fold, go ahead. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.480 That's what I'm going to do tomorrow after work. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.400 They did not say anything about the price. But the 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.320 other thing that I do want to mention is that 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.240 there's a rumor going around that Samsung will create a 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:14.280 second foldable phone for next year, and that one's supposed 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.400 to be more like the Motorola Eraser where it folds 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.760 in half, like like it flop folds down. I guess 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.880 you should say, right, instead of folding in half, you know, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.959 so it folds like a flip phone, like the old. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:24.600 School flip phone. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:25.239 Yeah. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.920 And I think that that's really interesting because that could 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.000 be kind of cool to have a big screen phone 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.960 in your pocket that folds up small, not the one 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.240 square into a square, not the weird one that the 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.920 Galaxy Fold is just really thick and weird, Like, yeah, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.840 you want like a thin phone that also when you 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:42.880 open it up, has. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.200 A giant like a nice big screen. Yea. 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.520 Anyway, so I'm rooting for it. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:48.720 You're excited. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.640 I am excited for next year the square, not for 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:51.400 this one. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.319 All right. This next question comes from Stephen. He writes, 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.800 thank you again for all your information. You're a life saver. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.439 Oh wow, what is your opinion on thumb I D 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.320 for your iPhone? I don't want my thumb print out there, 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.680 so I don't use that doesn't matter. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.280 I haven't heard uh number one. I didn't even know 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.080 people still use the thumb print. But I guess you 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:17.840 have it on your phone. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:24.240 Okay, all right, but hate and this could be this 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.040 could apply to various phones because the Samsung phone still 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.000 have a fingerprint reader. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.160 But is he talking about the iPhone or is he 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.960 talked does this say sent for my phone? 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:33.640 Thumb ID for your iPhone? 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:34.200 Your iPhone? 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.520 Okay, So the thing about thumb I D they call it, 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.800 it wasn't called it called touch id. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.520 Yeah, but you I guess you could use your thumb. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.440 You could also you can use your finger, but not 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:45.960 your elbow. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.160 Not your elbow. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:53.000 So the thing about this is that Apple has been 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.640 very clear that they do not store the fingerprint anywhere 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.559 except on your phone in what they call the secure enclave, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.000 and that's just a fancy word for like a little 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.960 lock box inside your phone that all this secure stuff 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.960 is stored inside, and it's really tough to crack into, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.600 and there are various safeguards that if someone did crack 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.280 open your phone or try to steal it, they wouldn't 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.360 be able to retrieve your information. And it doesn't go 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.760 on the internet. It's not transmitted anyway. It's not stored 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.880 in iCloud. So when you take an imprint of your 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.920 fingerprint on your iPhone, it's staying on that phone and 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.000 that's it. And it's only being used to authenticate the device, 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.960 and everything happens on device. It's not being sent to 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.760 the cloud for verification all that stuff I just said. 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.960 So I think that you're safe using the touch ID. Yeah, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.400 and the face ID works in the same way. And 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.200 you know, Apple has been a very big proponent of 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.520 privacy on your phone, and it shows. I mean a 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.480 lot of things that happen on the iPhone do happen 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.240 on device. I'll give you an example, since I'm writing 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.400 the book, and I was experimenting with a new photos 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.800 app on iOS thirteen, and it scans your pictures for 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.200 things that are inside them. So if you take a 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.040 picture of a piece of p pizza, you can search 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.200 for pizza and your iPhone will show. 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.880 You your pizza pictures. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.080 And Google can do this on the you know, on 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.960 any phone with Google Photos. The difference is your pictures 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:15.600 are being sent to a server to be scanned by 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:20.160 Google's artificial intelligence, and that information indexed through Google. So 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.240 it's not as secure as the iPhone, where it's just 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.240 being done on the iPhone. So Apple sends a whole 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.320 bunch of instructions to the iPhone saying, here's how you 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.600 recognize pizza, Here's what a beach looks like, Here's what 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.200 a dog looks like, and then your iPhone identifies those 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.000 things and it's all kept kind of secret on your phone. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:35.920 See the difference. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.040 Yeah, that makes sense. But now I'm curious about Google, Like, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.680 so they have access to all of our photos basically, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:43.160 or am I? 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:44.360 Yeah? Pretty much? 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.440 I mean they're scanning them to see what's in them 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.840 there but we know that well, I mean I do, yeah, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.720 but it is there is a level of trust that 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.920 has to be given to these companies, especially when you're 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.640 getting something for free. Now, I would argue the iPhone 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.360 comes at a premium because if you really think about it, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.720 and I go between iPhone and Android a lot, and 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:05.560 you can see, I've got my Android in front of 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.280 me and my iPhone, and there's a lot of things 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:08.920 that are different. Like when you think about it, I 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.520 message is really a service that you're sort of paying 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.800 for built into the price of your phone, because that 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.080 is a whole separate messaging service that is very private 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.840 and very encrypted and secure photos. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:21.560 I mean, even though you might pay. 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.200 For iCloud space to store your photos, again, that's a 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.240 private service that nobody else is seeing your photos unless 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.560 you choose to share them. But with something like Google, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.400 when you're uploading your photos, Google is looking at those 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.120 photos for different reasons. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.320 And let's see what else. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.720 Notes, like the notes app, you know, if you look 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.600 at the notes app on your iPhone is syncs with 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.400 your computer. That again, it is another service that you 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.280 might pay for. You might pay forever, Note, you might 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.040 pay for Bear, you might pay for any of these 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.200 other app note taking app programs. So a lot of 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.120 things that are built into the iPhone, you're sort of 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.120 they're front loaded. You're paying, you paid for it, You 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:56.960 paid for the iPhone and you're kind of getting these 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.160 services to go along with it. And yes, you have 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.680 to pay for iCloud to at more online storage. Yeah, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.720 but a lot of the software that's built into the iPhone, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.160 like maps, you know, a lot of that is much 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.399 more private than what Google's doing with Google Maps. When 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:10.920 you drive around, Google's recording everything that you do and 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.439 everywhere that you go to make their products and services better. Apple, 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.640 to a lesser extent, is doing that. They're still looking 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.600 at the place you're going. I'm not sure how they're 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:21.320 using that data, but in general, it's a little bit 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.240 more secure than what Google's doing. 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.600 So if you write in a doc on Google like right. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.280 Google Docs, Yeah, I don't know, I mean, where does that? 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:31.399 I mean it is? 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.800 It's it's yeah, So all right, good to know. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.040 All right, let's talk about some of the there's like 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.080 three speakers right now, three new speakers. 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:42.520 So Roku came. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.080 Out with a Roku Smart soundbar, and the only thing 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:47.440 you need to know about this one hundred and seventy 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.800 nine bucks going to be available in October. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.120 And the thing. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:53.680 That I think is kind of interesting about this is 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.879 that it includes Roku in the bar, which is kind 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.200 of cool because I don't know about you, but most 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.040 TVs have terrible sound, Like even my TV like it 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:04.919 just don't have very good sound. I have Sonos, so 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.440 it sounds better, but it's still sometimes really tough to 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.760 hear dialogue. Maybe I'm just getting older, I don't know, but. 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.879 It's tough to you can't hear It's tough to hear. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.480 Dialogue, and you know, my wife complains about that. And 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.040 Sonos has like a feature that supposedly. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.320 Makes it better. It really doesn't, I don't think. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.080 But the Roku Smart Soundbar apparently makes dialogue sound better, 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.960 and I think a soundbar is just a good thing 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.800 to have on any TV because think about it, TVs 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.840 are mainly screen. They're not known for their speakers. So 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:32.639 one hundred and seventy nine dollars you get a Roku 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.680 plus the soundbar built in, which is kind of cool. 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:35.240 Now. 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.080 I don't see anything when it comes to compatibility for 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:43.199 either Airplay or chrome Cast, which are two services that 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.000 might make it easier to use audio from your phone 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.600 with this soundbar. But if you have Roku, you don't 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.600 really need that because you can just dream, Spotify and 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.240 stuff from the Roku. Yeah, you'll have Roku, right, So 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.200 they have like a Spotify Appy, Pandora app. 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.920 Yeah, they have. They have it all almost. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:18:59.520 So that's that. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.560 The other thing that I'm more excited for because I'm 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.920 out of Roku house, but I am a Sono's house. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.520 They have a new speaker called the Move and this 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.800 is the first battery powered Sono speaker. 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:10.679 That you can use outside. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.800 And not only does it connect to your existing son 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.879 No system, but it also uses Bluetooth. So for me, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.480 for instance, let's say I'm having a party. I've had 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.800 a son No speaker on my back patio for a while. 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.439 Problem is, I always forget it in the rain and 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:26.919 next thing you know, you know, it's plugged in. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:28.080 So that's dangerous. Number one. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.200 Number two gets in the rain. It's lasted even getting 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.480 wet rain, yeah, which is I guess it dries out 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.800 and it's fine. I don't really trust it as much 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.160 and the control on it has kind of worn out 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.120 because of the rain, so I have to use. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.200 It doesn't really rain that much, no, but it did 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.400 for a while, but you forget, Yeah, and it did 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.160 for a while all the time. 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.320 So I think that's really cool. So anyway, this is 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.920 going to be much better outside. So in the backyard 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.560 it would just connect to my existing Sonos system. But 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.720 let's say we go to the beach and you want 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:58.960 to use your son No speaker. You can now take 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.639 this speaker and it has a battery which lasts for 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.160 let's see, ten hours, oh wow, which is fine. And 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.399 it also has Bluetooth streaming, so you can just use 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:08.680 it with Bluetooth on your phone. 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:09.280 Nice. 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:09.840 I love this. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.199 It also has an IP fifty six rating, which I 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.400 don't believe is that that with stands falls, bumps, rain 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.760 and moisture, dust and dirt. I don't think IP fifty 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.960 six is as good as you know, like a higher rating. 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:25.880 But that's still fine. It's still going to be able 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.480 to withstand being outside. I don't think it's meant to 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.000 be left outside, but it can be brought outside and 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.760 kind of like if you forget it overnight, it's gonna 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:38.400 be okay, right, okay, what else? Hands free Airplay two. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.440 Here's the kicker on this whole Sono speaker. And what 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.440 my problem with Sona says over and over is that 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:46.720 it is a three hundred and ninety nine. 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:48.280 Dollars I was about to ask is it the praise? 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.120 Oh wait, hold on, that's for Is that a different story? 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.440 Oh that's not Yeah, it is three and ninety nine okay, yeah, three. 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:59.199 Hundred nine dollars. That's expensive for a Bluetooth speaker. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.000 You can get a blue Tooth speaker for way cheaper, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:02.640 way cheaper. 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:04.320 But the thing is, if you're like me and you're 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:06.600 in a son's house, you're kind of building out that 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:08.760 system that works really well. Like the first thing I 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:10.880 do every single day when I get home is put 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:12.240 on Sonos every single day. 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:13.159 What do you listen to? 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.439 Actually, recently I've been listening to I found a new 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:22.280 feature inside YouTube music which I use, and it basically 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:24.160 you search for an artist and then you scroll all 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.160 the way down it gives you all the similar artists. 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:28.919 So one of my favorite artists for like working is Tycho. 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:33.399 It's like instrumental music, and so it just I just 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:35.159 pick one of the other artists and listen to them 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:37.679 on shuffle or I do Tycho Radio Artist Radio, and 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.680 it mixes in all the Taycho songs and then all 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.680 the other artists that are similar, and I just leave 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.320 that on for like hours. It's very easy, kind of 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.760 like yeah, eats like cool, just chill beats. 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.040 Oh I want to listen, so Tycho write that. 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:50.719 Down, Tycho. 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:53.639 I believe that the album that I really fell in 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:57.240 love with is called Awake, and it is fantastic. 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:58.320 If you just want to get some. 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.000 Work done, Yeah, you can like focus. 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:02.440 Yeah, Tycho away, it's really great. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:04.800 Yeah, because when I listen to rap music, I can't really. 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:05.760 Yeah, it's tough. 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:06.600 It's tough. 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:10.560 It's tough with little Nas, Little Nas as your study guide. There, 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.560 let me do one more. I'll just get all the 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.240 kind of audio video stuff away. But they also have 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:20.080 a new Amazon Fire TV Cube. This is kind of 0:22:20.080 --> 0:22:22.919 the highest end Fire TV as far as I know. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.200 And the thing about the cube that is different than 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:29.199 the Fire TV sticks is that the cube lets you 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.919 control your TV hands free and your cable box. So 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:34.520 it has a lot of smarts built in where you 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:36.560 can say tune to channel five and it will turn 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:38.840 on your TV and tune into that channel on your 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:39.320 cable box. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:40.000 So it's kind of cool. 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.880 It's only one hundred and nineteen dollars, and I think 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:47.840 that this is now the most powerful fire TV stick 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:50.240 because I have the or the Fire TV because I 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:53.040 have the stick four K, which is forty dollars, and 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.720 I'm looking at this and it has Yeah, the fire 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:57.639 TV Cube has a built in speaker, which means you 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:01.199 can have Alexa right there. You've got far field voice control, 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:02.919 which means the thing can be off and you can 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:06.640 just scream from across your room and well, yell whatever, 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:08.560 and you can you know, you don't. 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:09.199 Have to press anything. 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:12.000 Yeah, you need to say a turn on the TV 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:14.600 and tune into whatever Netflix there's and it works with 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.320 a lot of different things as well. Okay, so the 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:22.240 processor is now hexacore instead of quad core, and HEXA. 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:28.680 Don't quote me, but hex is what eight hexagon? How many? 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:32.040 How many sides does a hexagon have? Six sides? 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:36.160 Okay, so six cores and two Okay, so six cores 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:39.760 versus four. And it has sixteen gigs of storage versus eight. 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:44.160 And it also has an Ethernet adapter built in, which 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:46.879 is really cool because if you want really fast Internet 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.560 instead of using Wi Fi, you can plug an Ethernet 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:50.199 cable into the. 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:51.600 Back of the fire TV Cube. 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:54.680 So if you want the best kind of home system 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:57.040 for fire TV, the cube is now the best. 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:59.119 I may have to upgrade. But I'm very happy with 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:00.639 my stick. It works. 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:02.720 Just that's what my mom and dad have. 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:05.320 I gave it to them, oh Christmas. 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:06.560 They never use it. 0:24:06.920 --> 0:24:09.160 Well, then it's oh it doesn't work. What do they use? 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:12.600 They just you know, watch cable. I can't really get 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:13.400 into it right now. 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:17.040 We need an old school, old. 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:21.800 School, all right. So this next question comes from Sam. 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:25.919 He says, who do you recommend for online backup? I 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:31.160 had a bad experience with Carbonite, so not them. 0:24:31.480 --> 0:24:36.800 Oh wow, abrupt endings Carbonite. I'm wondering what the bad 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.880 experience was. I think that the experience with all these 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:43.120 online backups, and the reason why I don't use them 0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:47.680 is because there's two number one. Almost everything I'm doing 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:51.960 is in the cloud these days. So I'm laughing because 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:56.000 Megan was taking a sip of her was it coffee, Yeah, 0:24:56.400 --> 0:24:59.439 trying to trying to get caffeinated here. It was just 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:01.919 a very funny sip because we wear these microphones and 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:03.520 you kind of have to, like anything you have to do, 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:04.680 you have to. 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:06.840 Like kind of do it around and Ale, Yeah, it's 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:07.679 it's just funny. 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:09.280 Yeah. I was trying not to look at you. 0:25:09.480 --> 0:25:11.160 Yeah, I know, but you did and you looked like 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:13.000 those funny eyes that are like off to the side 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:14.000 that you're doing something wrong. 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:15.840 So classic. 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:20.639 So uh, the reason why I find these online backup 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:24.280 services kind of tricky is because a almost everything I'm 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:26.639 doing is in the cloud. Anyway, I'm using Google Docs, 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:30.479 all my pictures are with Google. I like to have 0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:34.280 a physical backup close by. Because Number one, to do 0:25:34.320 --> 0:25:36.159 one of these backups, if you have everything on your computer, 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:38.520 takes a while to like actually get the first backup, 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:41.359 and then after that it's fine. It's incremental, so anything 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:43.320 that changes on your computer, it will update, but that 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:45.520 first update could take a couple of weeks depending on 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:46.400 your internet connection. 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:48.520 And I used to do I should probably do this again. 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:50.880 And because last week we talked about on the show 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:54.720 how I did lose my desktop because that wasn't backed up. 0:25:55.359 --> 0:25:57.960 But if you have iCloud and a Mac, your desktop 0:25:58.080 --> 0:26:00.640 can be backed up on iCloud. In fact, a lot 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:02.399 of your computer can be backed up in die cloud. 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:04.000 So anyway, to. 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:06.240 Get to his answer, I would say, the other one 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:09.960 to look at is Backblaze, and Backblaze is kind of 0:26:09.960 --> 0:26:13.280 like the biggest competitor to carbonite and all of these companies. 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:14.680 There used to be a ton of them out there. 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:18.240 They've all pivoted sort towards the enterprise or business solutions. 0:26:18.560 --> 0:26:22.880 But Backblaze, I am checking. They still do a personal 0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:25.600 backup for six dollars a month. Now, six dollars a 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:28.080 month doesn't sound expensive, but over time, that is a 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:30.960 very expensive way to back up your computer. Six dollars 0:26:30.960 --> 0:26:33.679 times twelve is seventy two dollars. You can get a 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:36.919 drive on Amazon to back up your computer for I 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:39.520 think it's like sixty dollars for like a terabyte or 0:26:39.520 --> 0:26:42.040 even wow, let me look that up. 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:44.320 You know what. You're right, that's definitely how much mine 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:45.760 was what I think. 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:48.240 It was sixty Yeah, for like one terabyte of hard drive. 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:50.680 It might even be two terabytes. At this point, Western 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:54.560 Digital two terabyte drive is now sixty dollars, So imagine 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:57.320 a two terabyte drive sixty bucks. You plug it into 0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:02.240 your computer. Both Windows and Mac both have very easy 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:05.000 to use backing up systems, which on Makets Time Machine. 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:07.880 On Windows it's just backup, so search on your Windows 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:12.480 and if you just go to backup settings and if 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:14.920 you go into there you plug in a drive. Windows 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:17.280 will say hey, backup using file history. 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:19.000 So that's what it's called. So you just plug in 0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:19.400 your drive. 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:21.440 Every time you plug in that drive, it automatically backs 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:23.960 up all the new stuff and boom, sixty bucks, a 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:26.440 lot cheaper than seventy two for the year. The benefit 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:29.360 to the online is that it's online, so you don't 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:30.840 really have to think about it as much. You don't 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:34.000 have to worry about your backup drive crashing. The problem 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:37.880 comes when you want to restore from an online backup 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:41.840 and guess what, Downloading all those terabytes. 0:27:41.600 --> 0:27:43.159 To your computer takes forever. 0:27:43.480 --> 0:27:45.040 And so what they want to do is they'll say, oh, 0:27:45.119 --> 0:27:46.679 we'll send you a hard drive with all this stuff 0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:48.840 on it. Maybe they do it for free, but a 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:50.400 lot of times it might cost you a one time 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:52.679 fee of like, you know, twenty five fifty bucks, okay, 0:27:53.240 --> 0:27:55.600 which again, now add that all up and you're talking 0:27:56.080 --> 0:27:56.800 it's a lot of money. 0:27:56.880 --> 0:27:57.040 Yeah. 0:27:57.080 --> 0:28:00.000 But with that said, it's peace of mind totally. 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:03.159 And you're using back blaze or carbonite. It's very simple 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:04.160 because it's peace of mind. 0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:07.480 Yeah, and that reminds me, I think I really need 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:09.800 to backup my laptop, my old laptop. 0:28:09.920 --> 0:28:12.679 You should, yeah, but I think in general, if you 0:28:12.760 --> 0:28:16.240 have the external hard drive with Time Machine or on Windows, 0:28:16.280 --> 0:28:19.320 and you have everything on your computer that's in two places, 0:28:19.600 --> 0:28:22.040 so hopefully both of those things don't crash at the 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:24.760 same time. Yeah, you're hoping either you're not hoping, but 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:27.040 either your computer hard drive is going to crash or 0:28:27.080 --> 0:28:29.800 the external is going to crash, hopefully not at the 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:30.240 same time. 0:28:30.359 --> 0:28:30.760 Yeah. 0:28:30.880 --> 0:28:32.840 The only time that you have to be worried is 0:28:33.080 --> 0:28:35.760 I mean, God forbid, you're in the house, your computer's 0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:37.720 in your house, and your heart drives in your house 0:28:37.760 --> 0:28:41.480 and everything burns down, right, Yeah, that's when you. 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:43.280 But again the other but if there was a fire, 0:28:43.320 --> 0:28:44.840 I'd probably just grab my laptop. 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:47.480 No, you probably wouldn't grab my dog. You'd want to 0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:50.120 save yourself and you know, anyone else, my puppy. 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:51.520 Yeah, but I always think about that. 0:28:51.560 --> 0:28:53.160 I'm like, oh, with a fire like that puts you 0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:54.640 in a tough place if you didn't back up. 0:28:54.760 --> 0:28:57.800 Yeah, because you're like, I knew I should have listened 0:28:57.840 --> 0:28:58.640 to Rich on tech. 0:28:58.880 --> 0:29:00.880 I don't know why, but that really stresses me out. 0:29:00.960 --> 0:29:02.160 Oh, it's totally stressful. 0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:04.440 It's the worst, like anything that has to do with 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:05.880 your house or that's why it's. 0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:08.240 Better to live in a brick house, right, because I 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:09.160 can't catch on. 0:29:09.720 --> 0:29:10.320 I don't know. 0:29:10.800 --> 0:29:14.080 I'll never forget asking my Oh my gosh, this is embarrassing. 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:15.160 You have to tell us now. 0:29:15.560 --> 0:29:17.000 I didn't even want to tell because it gets into 0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:19.800 religion and stuff, but I'll never forget. In third grade, 0:29:19.920 --> 0:29:24.200 my teacher we were talking about fires and somehow like 0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:25.600 a church came up and I was like, well, a 0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:28.400 church can't burn down because it's God's house. Yeah, and 0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:30.320 my teacher was like, and I didn't go to Catholic school, 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:31.960 it's just public school, and she's like, oh, no, I 0:29:32.000 --> 0:29:32.640 can burn down. 0:29:32.680 --> 0:29:33.200 I was like what. 0:29:33.320 --> 0:29:36.040 I was like devastated to know that, Like, oh my gosh, 0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:37.640 God can't protect his own house. 0:29:38.200 --> 0:29:40.160 It was really that's really sad. 0:29:40.280 --> 0:29:41.680 I'm just going to end the podcast here. 0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:45.560 Yeah, well, if it's made out of stone, right, I 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:46.640 don't know anyway I. 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:50.120 Can still burn. I've seen churches burn, Notre Dame that 0:29:50.160 --> 0:29:51.400 wasn't that a church that burned? 0:29:51.440 --> 0:29:52.280 That was really sad. 0:29:52.720 --> 0:29:57.040 All right, let's talk about something fun, talking about backing 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:59.920 up your stuff. If you live in the LA area 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:02.800 or any area that is serviced by Spectrum in a 0:30:02.880 --> 0:30:05.160 large city, you might want to do a speed test. 0:30:05.520 --> 0:30:07.640 I saw commercial on TV and I think we talked 0:30:07.640 --> 0:30:09.760 about this in a previous podcast where it said now 0:30:09.840 --> 0:30:12.120 speeds you're double to two hundred, and I pay for 0:30:12.120 --> 0:30:14.280 one hundred. So I was like, what I want two 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:19.240 hundred because faster internet is always better. So I tweeted 0:30:19.280 --> 0:30:22.280 about this and I got some responses online and some 0:30:22.320 --> 0:30:23.680 of the folks said that, yeah, they live in the 0:30:23.800 --> 0:30:27.120 LA area and they're all already getting the faster internet, 0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:28.960 and one person told me that you don't have to 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:32.640 do anything. They chatted with the Spectrum folks and they said, yeah, 0:30:32.680 --> 0:30:34.520 just reset your modem and you'll notice. 0:30:34.320 --> 0:30:35.640 The faster speeds we have. 0:30:35.720 --> 0:30:36.760 Spectrum I think. 0:30:36.680 --> 0:30:39.840 Went to my house, went to my house and did 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:41.800 a speed test, and sure enough, I was not getting 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:45.800 the faster speeds. So this morning I chatted with Spectrum 0:30:45.840 --> 0:30:47.400 and they said, oh, we looked up your account. You 0:30:47.440 --> 0:30:50.880 are getting you got it. We are automatically upgrading pretty 0:30:50.920 --> 0:30:53.040 much everyone that's paying for one hundred to two hundred, 0:30:53.200 --> 0:30:56.520 which is awesome. Wow, never mind you I pay sixty 0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:58.920 five dollars a month, so two hundred sounds, you know, 0:30:59.080 --> 0:31:02.040 way better than one hundred for that price. Yeah, long 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:04.160 story short, I did a speed test and sure enough 0:31:04.200 --> 0:31:07.680 I got over two hundred down. Still ten up, but whatever, 0:31:07.720 --> 0:31:10.600 it's fine. So the thing is, they figure most people 0:31:10.640 --> 0:31:13.320 are more downloading than uploading. But when you're uploading, that 0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:16.760 comes in handy for things like backing up all that 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:18.640 good stuff, you know. But they're thinking most people are 0:31:18.640 --> 0:31:19.680 just downloading stuff. 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:23.480 So wait, sorry, my brother has a YouTube channel, yes, 0:31:23.480 --> 0:31:26.760 and he's always uploading stuff. Does that like slow our 0:31:26.800 --> 0:31:28.200 internet down for us? 0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:28.920 It could? 0:31:29.120 --> 0:31:30.840 Yeah, I mean you get a certain amount of bandwidth, 0:31:30.960 --> 0:31:33.680 so yeah, it could do that if he's uploading all 0:31:33.680 --> 0:31:34.000 the time. 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:35.840 Yeah, it can. You know, you only get so much 0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:36.560 of the pie, you know. 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:39.480 Yeah, And that's why with cable internet in your neighborhood, 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:42.240 when all of your neighbors are online at the same time, 0:31:42.840 --> 0:31:46.000 that's one of the downsides of cable internet versus the 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:48.240 internet from the phone company is that you're sharing that 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:51.320 line among your neighbors. Now, I think that things have 0:31:51.320 --> 0:31:53.200 gotten so good these days that it's not that much 0:31:53.240 --> 0:31:56.320 of an issue. But I will say sometimes at night 0:31:56.360 --> 0:31:58.840 on a Friday or Saturday night, when everyone's streaming Netflix, 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:02.240 you might notice a hit on your speed versus two 0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:06.360 pm during the day when I'm normally home. So anyway, 0:32:06.440 --> 0:32:09.760 my advice to you is, if you have Spectrum, definitely 0:32:09.800 --> 0:32:11.680 do a speed test. Couple of ways you can do that. 0:32:11.800 --> 0:32:14.080 Number one, go to fast dot com on a web 0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:16.720 browser that is connected to your Wi Fi at home 0:32:17.240 --> 0:32:19.200 and check out the speed and see if you're getting 0:32:19.240 --> 0:32:21.360 close to two hundred. If you're not, I would call in. 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:23.160 If you're getting something under one hundred. You got to 0:32:23.240 --> 0:32:24.840 check see what's going on with your internet. 0:32:26.120 --> 0:32:26.400 Now. 0:32:26.760 --> 0:32:29.240 Your WiFi is not necessarily the best way to test 0:32:29.280 --> 0:32:33.080 your internet because Wi Fi is generally slower than what's 0:32:33.080 --> 0:32:37.080 coming into the modem because the signal is sometimes getting interrupted. 0:32:37.720 --> 0:32:39.600 But if you have a system like Ero or one 0:32:39.600 --> 0:32:42.400 of these mesh Wi Fi systems, generally like me, I 0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:46.320 get the perfect Internet throughout my house because of that system. 0:32:46.720 --> 0:32:48.280 The other thing to do if you're not getting it 0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:51.200 is to just unplug your modem and restart it and 0:32:51.240 --> 0:32:54.640 see if that triggers the upgrade. But otherwise, I put 0:32:54.640 --> 0:32:56.560 this on my Facebook page and I got a lot 0:32:56.560 --> 0:32:59.400 of responses, and people are all posting their Internet speed 0:32:59.400 --> 0:33:00.200 tests and they're saying. 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:00.800 Yeah, Rich, I got it. 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:03.120 Oh my gosh, that's so cool, and it just feels 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:04.840 good to get more for what you're already paying for. 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:07.239 Right the other way to test and I like an 0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:11.040 app called Meteor met eo R. It's available for both 0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:13.920 iOS and Android, and you can do a speed test 0:33:14.000 --> 0:33:16.959 with that. It's just a fun little app that just 0:33:16.960 --> 0:33:19.560 looks cooler than your typical speed test app. 0:33:19.720 --> 0:33:21.680 All right, Megan, it's all you, all right. 0:33:21.840 --> 0:33:27.040 So this next question comes from Madelina. She writes, Hi, 0:33:27.160 --> 0:33:29.840 do you have any solutions for stopping mail from a 0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:34.200 sender that uses various forms of an app called spot 0:33:34.240 --> 0:33:40.320 dot com. I've been getting hundreds of unsolicited trashy emails 0:33:40.480 --> 0:33:48.040 on my hotmail account. She says the suggestions that she's read, 0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:50.560 I wait suggestions to set rules, and the settings do 0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:54.120 not work. Although they automatically go to junk box, they're 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:57.880 irritating just the same. One blogger said they're even going 0:33:58.440 --> 0:34:01.840 to his child's account. And then she goes on to say, 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:03.959 I've never seen this addressed by tech pros. 0:34:04.160 --> 0:34:07.840 Thinks you've never seen spam addressed by tech pros. 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:10.400 Come on, I think it's specifically this. No. 0:34:10.560 --> 0:34:12.680 I looked up that website number on that website is 0:34:12.719 --> 0:34:15.200 not trashy, so I don't know what there might be, 0:34:15.239 --> 0:34:18.040 like a variation on that website. Yea, I looked up 0:34:18.080 --> 0:34:22.120 the spot website and it's not trashy. So look, the 0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:24.480 reality is she's saying that these are going to her 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:25.840 junk spam. 0:34:25.880 --> 0:34:27.520 I mean, have you ever checked her spam? There's all 0:34:27.600 --> 0:34:28.200 kinds of garbage. 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:28.960 Yeah, that's the thing. 0:34:29.440 --> 0:34:32.000 So it doesn't to me if it's going into spam. 0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:34.239 I don't really care. Yeah, and yes, I will take 0:34:34.280 --> 0:34:36.800 a casual glance at the spam every once in a 0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:39.760 while just to see like what's in there besides the spam, 0:34:40.040 --> 0:34:43.960 and sometimes some legit emails do get in there. But 0:34:44.000 --> 0:34:45.680 if you look at this stuff in spam, I mean, 0:34:45.719 --> 0:34:48.280 it's garbage. A lot of it is just terrible, terrible 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:51.520 stuff that you know, who cares though it's in your spam. 0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:54.480 So I wouldn't worry about it too much. I think 0:34:54.520 --> 0:34:56.799 if the spam filter is doing its job, people are 0:34:56.800 --> 0:34:58.800 gonna send spam. You're not gonna like put these people 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:01.040 in jail. It's like, the spam is going to come 0:35:01.040 --> 0:35:03.880 no matter what. I think that if it's coming to 0:35:03.920 --> 0:35:07.040 your inbox, that's a problem. And yes, some people are 0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:10.200 saying to do filters, and usually I know a Gmail, 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:13.960 you can go into the menu for any email and 0:35:13.960 --> 0:35:16.799 say filter messages like this. If it's not if your 0:35:16.840 --> 0:35:19.920 spam blocker is not working, you can filter a message 0:35:19.960 --> 0:35:21.880 and just send it straight to trash. If it's like 0:35:21.960 --> 0:35:24.879 a mailing list that will just not stop. The other 0:35:24.880 --> 0:35:27.600 thing you can do is report spam, and almost all 0:35:27.640 --> 0:35:30.280 of the email providers let you report spam by pressing 0:35:30.320 --> 0:35:31.240 the report spam. 0:35:31.560 --> 0:35:32.560 She mentioned Hotmail. 0:35:32.680 --> 0:35:36.239 I mean, realistically, if you're still using Hotmail, like, it's 0:35:36.280 --> 0:35:38.400 not the best email out there, So I would switch 0:35:38.480 --> 0:35:43.120 over to something like Outlook dot com or Gmail dot 0:35:43.160 --> 0:35:48.040 com or anything but Hotmail. Yeah, just I don't think 0:35:48.040 --> 0:35:49.279 it's really kept up with the time. 0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:51.520 So my mom uses AOL and it's so annoying. 0:35:51.760 --> 0:35:53.640 My parents use SBC Global. 0:35:53.840 --> 0:35:55.239 I don't even know what that one is. That like 0:35:55.320 --> 0:35:55.879 back in the day. 0:35:56.040 --> 0:35:58.200 I made my dad a Gmail, like four years ago. 0:35:58.360 --> 0:36:01.000 Yes, so did I my mom dad, and they barely 0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:03.480 use it, and it's like it's just one of these 0:36:03.520 --> 0:36:08.759 things where Gmail has sort of mastered email. So even 0:36:08.800 --> 0:36:10.279 if you have to use iCloud, like you can set 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:12.200 up a free iCloud email address if you want, and 0:36:12.239 --> 0:36:14.239 there's probably not as much spam there, but. 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:15.200 Anything but hotmail. 0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:16.240 Yeah. 0:36:16.440 --> 0:36:20.840 Oh, speaking of email, if you're using Gmail on the iPhone, 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:23.359 there is a setting that I think you should look 0:36:23.400 --> 0:36:25.400 into and this will help cut down on spam and 0:36:25.440 --> 0:36:29.239 all kinds of emails that you don't want. But now, 0:36:29.320 --> 0:36:32.480 in the iOS version of Gmail, there is a way 0:36:32.480 --> 0:36:35.480 that you can turn off automatic image loading. And I 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:38.960 have this setting turned on on both my Android device 0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:43.080 and also my web Gmail. What it does is it 0:36:43.120 --> 0:36:45.880 does not load images. So when you get an email 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:49.120 like this, you can see. 0:36:50.000 --> 0:36:52.200 Well, that loaded the image. 0:36:52.440 --> 0:36:54.080 Wait, I thought you said it was on iOS. 0:36:54.320 --> 0:36:57.000 Well, this is new on iOS. It's always been available 0:36:57.040 --> 0:37:00.560 on the desktop and on Android. Now it's coming to iOS. 0:37:00.600 --> 0:37:01.879 So let's see if this one works. 0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:02.040 Well. 0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:05.080 That one that's weird. Uh, both of those images loaded. 0:37:05.080 --> 0:37:05.720 That's so strange. 0:37:05.719 --> 0:37:09.200 Here's one okay, So here's my Spectrum bill. See this 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:12.279 and see where it says Spectrum logo at the top. 0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:14.280 How it's not loaded. It's like a broken image. 0:37:14.360 --> 0:37:14.480 Ye. 0:37:14.719 --> 0:37:16.680 That means that it's not going to load the images 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:19.960 until I press display images below. And now you see 0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:22.359 how it all comes in the reason why I do 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:25.200 that is because inside these images are a whole bunch 0:37:25.280 --> 0:37:28.760 of trackers, and those trackers help identify when you've opened 0:37:28.760 --> 0:37:31.439 an email, where you've opened an email, how many times 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:34.040 you've opened an email, and it just generally lets people 0:37:34.080 --> 0:37:35.640 track you in different ways. 0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:36.240 It's crazy. 0:37:36.280 --> 0:37:39.680 So by having these off, you are less apt to 0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:42.640 be tracked. Also, it does not send a signal to 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:46.480 these spammers that your email address actually works. Because let's 0:37:46.480 --> 0:37:49.000 say you look at a spam email, it loads that image. 0:37:49.040 --> 0:37:51.160 It tells a spammer, oh, we know that Megan just 0:37:51.200 --> 0:37:53.560 opened this email. It then tells you that that's a 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:56.320 good email address. A lot of times spammers are just spamming, 0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:58.360 they're just sending a bunch of emails. So if you 0:37:58.400 --> 0:38:01.600 have this feature turned on, it helps protect your email 0:38:01.600 --> 0:38:04.320 address just a little bit more. And yes it's annoying 0:38:04.440 --> 0:38:05.920 because a lot of times you do have to press 0:38:06.320 --> 0:38:08.359 you know, let me see these images. But you can 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:10.920 also press the option for let me see these images 0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:13.480 every time for this email address. So with people like 0:38:13.600 --> 0:38:16.959 my family and friends, like obviously I press always load 0:38:17.000 --> 0:38:18.799 images for them, and when they send me something, I 0:38:18.840 --> 0:38:21.200 see it immediately. I don't have to take that extra step. 0:38:21.440 --> 0:38:23.200 But for all the other garbage that you get, all 0:38:23.239 --> 0:38:26.560 the bills and the you know, random unsolicited emails and 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:28.920 all the mailing list, it's just kind of one extra 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:31.680 little step. So you can go into settings on iOS 0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:36.040 and look for the option to turn image blocking on, 0:38:36.280 --> 0:38:39.879 which it probably will say something like load images by 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:41.160 default or ask and I. 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:43.399 Would change it under the Gmail like. 0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:45.759 Yeah, should be under the You have to probably go 0:38:45.800 --> 0:38:49.480 into the app settings, so it's probably into Gmail apps side. 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:52.880 On iPhone, there's two different settings. There's your setting settings 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:54.640 and then there's like inside the app you have setting right. 0:38:54.719 --> 0:38:58.839 Very confusing sometimes, but there you go. All right, let's 0:38:58.840 --> 0:39:01.160 see what do I want to talk before we go? 0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:07.280 Let's see, Well, Android ten I know launched, but nobody 0:39:07.360 --> 0:39:08.920 has it, but I do have it on my Pixel. 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:12.279 And the problem with Android ten this is like the 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:15.360 new version of the operating system. It's great, but nobody 0:39:15.440 --> 0:39:17.279 really gets it unless you have a Pixel And if 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:18.759 you have a Samsung phone, you're not going to get 0:39:18.760 --> 0:39:21.399 this for six to nine months, which is wild because 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:24.520 with iPhone, when the update comes out with iOS, you 0:39:24.560 --> 0:39:28.200 get it that day. With Android it takes forever, so 0:39:28.480 --> 0:39:30.560 I have been playing with this on my Android on 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:31.959 the pixel and it's really cool. 0:39:32.000 --> 0:39:34.520 It's very beautiful. They've had a lot of new features 0:39:35.080 --> 0:39:36.520 that are just very nice. 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:39.880 It works great. Smart reply is one of my favorite 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:41.880 features on Android. When someone sends you a text, it 0:39:41.880 --> 0:39:43.880 gives you a bunch of options at the bottom, which 0:39:43.960 --> 0:39:46.520 I don't know if you know that, but so for instance, 0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:48.439 like if you look at this text message on here, 0:39:49.280 --> 0:39:53.279 this one didn't work, of course, but okay, so you 0:39:53.320 --> 0:39:55.200 sent me a text that says everything's set up, and 0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:58.120 at the bottom it says yay, little smiley face, awesome 0:39:58.160 --> 0:40:00.640 and great. So with one tap, I can just send 0:40:00.680 --> 0:40:03.320 you that message. So that's really I don't have to 0:40:03.400 --> 0:40:05.640 think about it. And they're expanding it into more apps 0:40:05.719 --> 0:40:08.839 so it works across various apps. They've got a dark theme, 0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:10.600 so you can now have dark theme. I noticed on 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:12.560 my phone this morning as I was driving in everything 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:14.640 was black. That was kind of cool because it gives 0:40:14.640 --> 0:40:17.600 you that dark theme. Easy on the eyes. Gesture navigation, 0:40:17.680 --> 0:40:21.080 which is just like the iPhone. Location sharing is really 0:40:21.200 --> 0:40:24.879 upgraded in Android ten. So a lot of apps when 0:40:24.880 --> 0:40:26.759 you first use them, like Yelp, it gave me a 0:40:26.760 --> 0:40:29.680 notification and said, hey, YELP just asked for your location. 0:40:29.440 --> 0:40:30.080 In the background. 0:40:30.080 --> 0:40:31.640 Did you know that? Did you want that? And it'll 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:33.880 give the option to say no. You don't realize that 0:40:33.920 --> 0:40:35.799 all these apps are asking for a location in the 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:38.759 background all the time. So now with Android ten, you'll 0:40:38.760 --> 0:40:41.799 be much more aware of that. Somehow you can mark 0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:44.239 notifications to be silent. I've not really figured that out, 0:40:44.280 --> 0:40:48.239 but there's definitely more control there. And there's Focus Mode, 0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:50.400 which I've talked about I think in the last podcast, 0:40:50.719 --> 0:40:53.600 where you can now press one button and kind of 0:40:54.080 --> 0:40:56.400 gray out some of the apps that disturb you or 0:40:56.600 --> 0:40:57.200 distract you. 0:40:57.440 --> 0:40:59.839 Yeah, and I love that feature and it's been really fun. 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:02.759 So and you have that on your Instagram. 0:41:02.440 --> 0:41:05.840 Right showing I think I put on my Instagram to 0:41:05.920 --> 0:41:07.839 show the folks. I think it might be on Twitter. 0:41:07.880 --> 0:41:09.120 I don't. I don't. I don't think it made it 0:41:09.160 --> 0:41:13.719 to Instagram. Did it? No? It did not? Sadly, Oh 0:41:13.760 --> 0:41:15.799 that's so sad. Did not? 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:20.120 Should I talk about cyber insurance anyway? If you think 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:22.960 you need cyber insurance, Mercury's got it. You can google 0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:23.640 about that one. 0:41:24.239 --> 0:41:25.880 Do you want to do? One more question before we go? 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:28.719 Quick question A quick one. 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:32.279 Yeah, I have a quick one from Kathleen. She just 0:41:32.320 --> 0:41:36.719 bought a Sony Bravia Bravia Ravia. On the box it 0:41:36.800 --> 0:41:39.239 says I must agree to a Google account to use 0:41:39.239 --> 0:41:42.440 the TV. I'm not thrilled about giving up my privacy. 0:41:42.680 --> 0:41:46.080 Is this TV just an excellent spy that's. 0:41:47.560 --> 0:41:48.400 Yeah. 0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:51.720 If she's saying that you have to have a Google account, Yeah, 0:41:51.840 --> 0:41:55.360 I have a Sony TV that was pre Google, pre Android. 0:41:55.640 --> 0:41:57.640 So the Sony TVs, you know, like you have a 0:41:57.719 --> 0:42:01.080 Roku TV, or you have an Amazon TV or a 0:42:01.120 --> 0:42:04.640 Samsung TV or an LGTV, they all use different operating systems, 0:42:04.680 --> 0:42:09.000 but the Sony uses Android Android TV specifically from Google. 0:42:09.480 --> 0:42:11.840 And yeah, you probably have to agree to that, which, 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:15.399 if you think about it, Google is collecting stuff, collecting data, 0:42:15.480 --> 0:42:18.400 probably information on what you watch, what you're streaming, how 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:20.880 you're using the TV. They're getting some of that data. 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:23.200 So if you're not comfortable with that, I would recommend 0:42:23.280 --> 0:42:26.480 taking the TV back. And the TV might also have 0:42:26.520 --> 0:42:29.120 a microphone on it, depending on the model. 0:42:29.280 --> 0:42:29.759 I don't know. 0:42:30.760 --> 0:42:34.800 That could also be a considering excellent It's probably funneling 0:42:34.840 --> 0:42:38.240 more information to Google about you now. It also depends 0:42:38.280 --> 0:42:40.080 on whether you think that's evil or not. Do I 0:42:40.160 --> 0:42:42.480 care if you're seeing what I'm watching on my TV? 0:42:42.600 --> 0:42:46.360 Not really, I don't really care. So at Google it 0:42:46.560 --> 0:42:49.000 if you do care, and that's a concern, And since 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:51.239 you're emailing me, that probably is a concern of yours, 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:52.840 I would say go with a different TV. 0:42:53.160 --> 0:42:53.319 Now. 0:42:53.320 --> 0:42:55.840 The problem is all the smart TVs are doing the 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:59.600 same thing. Whether it's Visio, whether it's Samsung. They're all 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:02.120 collecting data on what you're doing on that TV, and 0:43:02.160 --> 0:43:04.040 now with the internet connections, they're sending it back. 0:43:04.080 --> 0:43:07.000 But you don't need a Gmail account for Roku, do you? 0:43:07.040 --> 0:43:09.280 No? But Roku's doing their own thing. Yeah, they're also 0:43:09.440 --> 0:43:12.720 they're doing their own thing. Yeah, Roku they're a huge 0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:15.200 advertising platform. Why do you think they're trying to get 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:18.359 people to get their system? It's all advertising. Yeah, they say, hey, 0:43:18.400 --> 0:43:21.560 we've got twenty million people using Roku's we can sell 0:43:21.600 --> 0:43:23.920 ads against them, and we know that Megan is this 0:43:24.120 --> 0:43:26.399 age and she makes this much money and she lives 0:43:26.440 --> 0:43:29.160 in this area, and we can target ads to her. 0:43:29.200 --> 0:43:30.920 Don't you have ads on your homescreen on Yoku? 0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:33.080 You do? It's like a billboard in my room. 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:35.359 Exactly, and they know exactly who you are, and they 0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:37.400 also know what you're watching. They know what you like, 0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:39.920 they know what you don't like. It's all linked up. 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:43.120 That is so so if you don't want that to happen. 0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:46.239 If you don't want that to happen, you need to 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:49.839 get a TV that is not smart. Alternatively, you can 0:43:49.960 --> 0:43:52.000 not connect your TV to Wi Fi. Then it's going 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:53.040 to be tough to stream stuff. 0:43:54.280 --> 0:43:55.960 Aka, it's not gonna happen. 0:43:55.960 --> 0:43:56.720 It's not gonna happen. 0:43:57.000 --> 0:43:58.480 All right, that's going to do it for the show. 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:01.080 Thanks so much for listening. We do appreciate it. If 0:44:01.120 --> 0:44:02.520 you have a question for me, you can go to 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:06.040 my website rich on tech dot tv, hit the contact 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:09.160 button and send it my way. I can't guarantee at 0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:13.640 this point any personal responses because I'm getting so many emails, 0:44:14.400 --> 0:44:16.480 so many emails, I do try to respond to each 0:44:16.520 --> 0:44:18.319 and every one of them. If it's something that I 0:44:18.320 --> 0:44:21.280 don't understand or can't really easily explain in an email, 0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:23.440 I just or you know, I may just explain it 0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:26.319 here and I may just ignore you. It's nothing against you, 0:44:26.760 --> 0:44:29.319 and you're free to email again if you think you're 0:44:29.320 --> 0:44:31.080 not getting the service. 0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:33.040 You should email ten times a day. If you don't, 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:34.840 please don't don't do that. 0:44:34.880 --> 0:44:36.880 But again, I am one person and I you know, 0:44:36.920 --> 0:44:39.319 I do try to respond best to my abilities. But 0:44:39.360 --> 0:44:41.040 I do have family, kids, and. 0:44:41.480 --> 0:44:44.160 This is just part of my job kind of a life. 0:44:44.200 --> 0:44:46.520 Oh, I don't have a life, So that's okay, that 0:44:46.560 --> 0:44:49.719 part you're covered with. Yeah, let's see. I told you 0:44:49.719 --> 0:44:52.040 about the book. If you want to follow me on Amazon, 0:44:52.080 --> 0:44:53.400 go ahead and do that, or you can sign up 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:55.600 for my newsletter go to rich on tech dot TV 0:44:55.719 --> 0:44:58.239 hit newsletter and that is where I tell you about 0:44:58.280 --> 0:44:59.960 all the stuff I think you should know in newsletter 0:45:00.080 --> 0:45:02.440 format and that's kind of fun. And Meghan, how can 0:45:02.480 --> 0:45:03.400 people get in touch with you? 0:45:03.560 --> 0:45:07.440 I'm on Twitter and my Twitter account is producer Megan, 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:10.200 and I'm on Instagram. But it's not like. 0:45:10.400 --> 0:45:13.320 Really tough to find until she changes it to producer Megan, 0:45:13.320 --> 0:45:15.120 which she's really how is it hard to find? 0:45:15.320 --> 0:45:16.239 Meghan mcmonoca? 0:45:16.280 --> 0:45:18.880 Oh yeah, that's that just rolls off the monocle. 0:45:19.120 --> 0:45:22.520 Yeah, it's a very easy last name to pronounce. 0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:26.640 I am at rich on Tech and you can find 0:45:26.640 --> 0:45:29.560 me there on Instagram and Facebook. On Twitter, I'm at 0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:32.239 Rich DeMuro, which is really tough to find too. I mean, 0:45:32.239 --> 0:45:33.600 how are you going to find that? You know how 0:45:33.600 --> 0:45:35.440 to spell DeMuro? Just off the top of my head. 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:38.719 Should I changed my Instagram handle to Meg with tech No. 0:45:38.880 --> 0:45:41.959 I think you should do producer Megan. It's good because 0:45:41.960 --> 0:45:43.080 here's how easy this is. 0:45:43.520 --> 0:45:45.400 You say producer Megan, and now you can just be 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:47.640 like I'm producer Megan across all things and people just 0:45:47.640 --> 0:45:50.160 find you Preucer Megan. But for a while, producer Megan 0:45:50.160 --> 0:45:52.759 had her face, had her Instagram closed down. So but 0:45:52.800 --> 0:45:53.640 now it's open again. 0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:57.680 You had a private Oh yeah, I've gone in and out. 0:45:57.760 --> 0:46:00.000 Yeah yeah, I changed my mind periodic. 0:46:00.520 --> 0:46:03.040 All right, that's gonna do it. Thanks so much for 0:46:03.080 --> 0:46:05.640 listening to the show. If you like the show, please 0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:08.879 rate and review us on iTunes. Tell your friends about 0:46:08.920 --> 0:46:10.080 the show. 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