Speaker 1: Microsoft's new earbuds are worth a look. Apple fixes the
Speaker 1: keyboard on the MacBook thirteen inch laptop, an app to
Speaker 1: see all of your Apple Watch activity stats plus your
Speaker 1: tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and
Speaker 1: this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
Speaker 1: and it's also the place where I answer the questions
Speaker 1: that you send me. My name is Rich Dmiro. I'm
Speaker 1: the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Joining me is producer Megan, who is mourning the loss
Speaker 1: this morning of suit plantation.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't even hear about that. That's so sad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's getting a lot of play. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been to a suit plantation?
Speaker 2: Maybe once?
Speaker 1: It was popular on the West Side. When I lived
Speaker 1: in Brentwood for a long time, they had a suit
Speaker 1: plantation there and we would go. Probably only went three times,
Speaker 1: but it was always good. And now apparently they're closing down.
Speaker 2: So are It's really sad?
Speaker 1: It is kind of sad. So how are you doing?
Speaker 1: People wondered if you had COVID because you weren't around
Speaker 1: for a couple episodes, so they wondered, are you okay,
Speaker 1: just give us the debriefing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm okay.
Speaker 3: I had a migraine last week, and so when that happens,
Speaker 3: you're kind of like out of commission.
Speaker 2: And then the week before you recorded later in the day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I missed that.
Speaker 1: That was yeah, So I tried to explain. I wrote
Speaker 1: back to the emails. You got a lot of them,
Speaker 1: so you are very loved on this show. So you
Speaker 1: should know that a lot of people said they were
Speaker 1: going to unsubscribe if you were not here this week,
Speaker 1: so I made sure.
Speaker 2: No, I don't believe that you've just said fail.
Speaker 1: So how are things going? Because it's, uh, it feels
Speaker 1: like groundhog Day. I thought this was going to be
Speaker 1: a two week thing and it just continues to go
Speaker 1: on and on and on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels I feel like it's just the same day,
Speaker 3: over an overdone. But then it's the weekend and you
Speaker 3: get a little break.
Speaker 2: But things are Things are fine.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm trying to like stay active and trying
Speaker 3: to like work out every day.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's what he is keeping me sane.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're in better shape now than
Speaker 1: you were before COVID, because I feel that way, Yes,
Speaker 1: isn't that weird?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I found like this this online like pilates class, and
Speaker 3: I'm like loving it and I like look forward to
Speaker 3: doing it every day. So I feel like there are
Speaker 3: people that are like getting into wellness, and then there
Speaker 3: are people that are like hating on that. Like I
Speaker 3: just listened to a podcast, but they were just like
Speaker 3: hating on people like getting into wellness. I feel like
Speaker 3: that's what you should be doing to like keep yourself
Speaker 3: from going crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's be honest. I mean, if you have
Speaker 1: the time to watch a couple of Netflix shows a night,
Speaker 1: I mean you should have the time to you know,
Speaker 1: do some sort of exercise. That's and I'm not preaching,
Speaker 1: I'm saying that's my personal belief. Like if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sit there like last night, you know, we had dinner,
Speaker 1: we got CBK, and it's like if I can sit
Speaker 1: there and spend an hour watching Jerry Seinfeld on Netflix,
Speaker 1: like why can't I spend half an hour doing a
Speaker 1: bike ride you know before that? And That's what I did,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of been my mantra every day. So yeah,
Speaker 1: my wife and I both feel like we're in better shape.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's great. Let's start with the first story
Speaker 1: of the week, which is Microsoft. They announced several products.
Speaker 1: There's been a bunch of tech products throughout this whole situation,
Speaker 1: which I find really fascinating because not necessarily the best
Speaker 1: time to be spending money, because who knows, you know,
Speaker 1: with all the job uncertainty. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: a lot of these things were planned before COVID, and
Speaker 1: it kind of the show goes on. And so one
Speaker 1: example that is a bunch of new products from Microsoft,
Speaker 1: including the Surface Go Too, the Surface Book three, the
Speaker 1: Surface Headphones two, and Surface Earbuds. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: go into detail on all of these things except for
Speaker 1: the Surface Go Too because that's actually particularly interesting at
Speaker 1: this point because of work at home and the Surface Megan,
Speaker 1: when I tell you, when I first did a story
Speaker 1: on the Surface that came ATLA number one, we had
Speaker 1: the guy in charge of the whole program, Panos Pene,
Speaker 1: come into KTLA, which, by the way, he would never
Speaker 1: even give me an interview at this point, right but
Speaker 1: back then he was just starting and he you know,
Speaker 1: he came in and you know, it was amazing and uh,
Speaker 1: really nice guy. And anyway, so people didn't understand how
Speaker 1: a computer could run Window, or how a tablet could
Speaker 1: run Windows and also be a laptop and a tablet
Speaker 1: and have a case. It was a whole big thing. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Surface has been very popular for Microsoft, and now the
Speaker 1: Surface go To is kind of their entry level model,
Speaker 1: and it's three hundred ninety nine dollars and it has
Speaker 1: a larger screen this time, so ten point five inch screen,
Speaker 1: better battery life, better microphones, so if you're trying to
Speaker 1: use this for Skype and all that stuff, and a
Speaker 1: front facing five megapixel camera with a sharp video even
Speaker 1: in low light. Now, the one thing I have to
Speaker 1: take issue with Microsoft with these Surface devices, they always
Speaker 1: show them in the commercial fully loaded, right, I'm talking
Speaker 1: the cover with the keyboard and the pen. Now, in reality,
Speaker 1: that three ninety nine price does not include those two things.
Speaker 1: So you're talking three ninety nine for just the tablet.
Speaker 1: Then the cover is an extra ninety nine dollars, and
Speaker 1: then the pen. I'm not really sure how much that costs,
Speaker 1: but I'm guessing it's another ninety nine to one fifty,
Speaker 1: So realistically you're talking still four hundred five hundred, about
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars if you want it the way they
Speaker 1: portray it in the commercial. Now if I said, you know,
Speaker 1: and the good news is this thing runs Windows, so
Speaker 1: you can run like everything you need on here, and
Speaker 1: that's what I really like about it. Second thing I
Speaker 1: want to tell you about is the surface earbuds. I
Speaker 1: tried these on. Remember I went to that event in
Speaker 1: New York City, the Microsoft event. I went by myself
Speaker 1: and I shot it. So I did try on these
Speaker 1: surface earbuds, and I will tell you they were one
Speaker 1: of my favorite earbuds I tried on this year. So
Speaker 1: I know they look weird. They're the ones that look
Speaker 1: kind of like the Frankenstein like they have that big
Speaker 1: kind of flat circle.
Speaker 2: They like stick out.
Speaker 1: They didn't really stick out. They actually were very flush
Speaker 1: with the ear, but they were just big and like frankensteinish,
Speaker 1: you know. But they were very comfortable, and so I
Speaker 1: can I have not tried these. I apparently was not
Speaker 1: on the list with Microsoft to get a pair of
Speaker 1: review units.
Speaker 2: But they kind of look weird.
Speaker 1: They look weird, but they felt really comfortable. So I
Speaker 1: have no problem recommending that you at least check these out.
Speaker 1: They're mostly integrated with Spotify Android phones Outlook and Microsoft
Speaker 1: three sixty five. So if you're full Microsoft, these are
Speaker 1: something that you definitely want to check out. But I
Speaker 1: will say they were very comfortable. Two hundred dollars by
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: The buds, yeah, they kind of look like those ear rings.
Speaker 1: Yes, those big what are they called when.
Speaker 2: You stick the low bearring?
Speaker 1: Yeah, my brother in law has those. He looks like
Speaker 1: such a mean dude. You know, he's got tattoos everywhere.
Speaker 1: He's got the low bearrings. I mean it's just totally
Speaker 1: tatted up. And he is nicer than me. That's how
Speaker 1: crazy it is said. Looks can be very deceee. Folks,
Speaker 1: do not judge a book by its cover. That's for sure.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is your signal, Megan.
Speaker 3: Okay, so first question, Hi Rich, longtime, second time, curious
Speaker 3: about your thoughts and reviews of Simple Safe versus Ring
Speaker 3: home Security.
Speaker 2: Thanks best, Ded.
Speaker 1: So, now do you know that reference? He said longtime?
Speaker 1: Second time? Do you know that what that means?
Speaker 2: Has he asked you a question before?
Speaker 1: Okay? So that's yeah, the second time. I guess, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's asked me a question before. Long time. It's like
Speaker 1: an old radio thing when people would call in radio shows.
Speaker 1: They would be like longtime listener, first time guest or whatever.
Speaker 1: First time caller, Oh, okay, okay, interesting, ask your mom.
Speaker 1: I know your mom listens to a lot of radio.
Speaker 1: Ask her about that longtime listener, first time caller, and
Speaker 1: they're like, well, good to have you on the show.
Speaker 1: So it's an old radio thing anyway. So he is
Speaker 1: asking about my thoughts reviews of Simply Safe versus Ring
Speaker 1: Home Security, So soll I, it's funny because I love
Speaker 1: Simply Safe and I've been a big fan of them
Speaker 1: since they started. We did a big video with them
Speaker 1: at CS and I've used their system and I will
Speaker 1: tell you I think it's very good. But here's what
Speaker 1: I think the problem with Simply Safe and why they're
Speaker 1: in kind of a precarious position at this point. So
Speaker 1: Simply Safe is a very simple system. You install it yourself.
Speaker 1: It's it's diy home security. They have everything you need.
Speaker 1: You put the little sensors on your windows, you put
Speaker 1: them on your doors. You got a base station, they
Speaker 1: have cameras. They all have everything you need. But the
Speaker 1: difference between Simply Safe and something like Ring and some
Speaker 1: of the other competitors at this point is that the
Speaker 1: other competitors are more integrated with sort of the smart
Speaker 1: home devices, and Ring has got the backing of Amazon,
Speaker 1: so it works with all the Alexis stuff. I mean
Speaker 1: it really, it's everything is becoming very siloed in the
Speaker 1: tech world. So Ring. I was actually thinking of switching
Speaker 1: over to Ring because I was thinking, well, right now,
Speaker 1: I've got a mix of a whole bunch of different
Speaker 1: stuff in my house. And over the years, you know,
Speaker 1: as I tried stuff and I use stuff, and I
Speaker 1: liked it, and I would get it, and so now
Speaker 1: I've like Nest, I've got some Ring stuff, I've got
Speaker 1: some simply safe stuff. So it's all mixed up, and
Speaker 1: I kind of thought about it. It's almost better to
Speaker 1: be on one page. And I was looking at Ring
Speaker 1: because the thing about Ring that they're doing right now
Speaker 1: is they are doing their home monitoring for very cheap
Speaker 1: and so it's ten dollars a month, which is really cheap.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Now most of the other ones cost about anywhere from
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty five. If you do something like ADT,
Speaker 1: you're talking fifty bucks a month. So this is the
Speaker 1: reason why Ring is very appealing. And I was in
Speaker 1: Costco the other day and they had a three pack
Speaker 1: of ring cameras for two hundred and fifty bucks, so
Speaker 1: again very inexpensive. So my thought, Dave is I would
Speaker 1: see do you do you want the integration with other
Speaker 1: products or you're just looking at price. I would price
Speaker 1: out both systems, see how much they cost, and then
Speaker 1: I would price out maybe five years of service or
Speaker 1: three years of service, and see what comes out to
Speaker 1: be a better deal, because simply safe might be cheaper,
Speaker 1: or might be more expensive in the long run, or
Speaker 1: you know, one of them might be more expensive in
Speaker 1: the long run than the other. But I think that
Speaker 1: ten dollars a month for a ring right now is
Speaker 1: you can't beat it. But you might have to pay
Speaker 1: more upfront for the different products. I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: that's the way I would look at those two products
Speaker 1: to compare them. So hopefully that helps. But if you
Speaker 1: are looking at one of these systems, even if you
Speaker 1: have just a simple like apartment setup or you know anything,
Speaker 1: you're renting a house, a room in an airbnb, you
Speaker 1: know you can get one of these simple security systems
Speaker 1: that kind of alerts you if someone opens your door.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to go totally elaborate, and
Speaker 1: I kind of like that because it gives you some
Speaker 1: peace of mind, right, all right, So we did Microsoft,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Apple. This week, they updated the thirteen
Speaker 1: inch MacBook Pro. And there's not too much to talk
Speaker 1: about with this MacBook Pro. It's just the fact that
Speaker 1: they updated the keyboard. You know, they did the basic updates,
Speaker 1: but the biggest one is really the keyboard. They gave
Speaker 1: it the new Magic keyboard, which I will tell you
Speaker 1: in personal experience, is leaps and bounds ahead of their
Speaker 1: last keyboard. And I had the last keyboard on my
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro thirteen inch, which was absolutely terrible. I had
Speaker 1: that for three years. My son is now using it.
Speaker 1: It was really bad. It felt like you were typing
Speaker 1: on a piece of paper because the keys just didn't
Speaker 1: push down very much. And there's a lot of mistakes
Speaker 1: as well with those keys. And the new keyboard I
Speaker 1: now have of my sixteen inch MacBook Pro, which is
Speaker 1: kind of the primary reason I bought it, it's just
Speaker 1: way way better. And so I do recommend if you're
Speaker 1: looking at these things and you were kind of burned
Speaker 1: in the past, the keyboard is way better and that's
Speaker 1: kind of it. I mean there's other things that are
Speaker 1: that are new on this which you know. Double the
Speaker 1: storage two fifty six gigabytes is now the base storage.
Speaker 1: It offers up to four terabytes. And my advice on
Speaker 1: buying a laptop, oh get the most storage you can
Speaker 1: afford and the most memory. And I will tell you
Speaker 1: from personal experience, I was very what's the word impatient
Speaker 1: when I bought my laptop, and so I couldn't wait
Speaker 1: for it to be shipped because if you want certain storage,
Speaker 1: remember this, remember this. Yeah, And so I ended up
Speaker 1: walking into the store and buying the off the shelf version,
Speaker 1: which was a sixteen gigabytes of RAM and one terabyte
Speaker 1: of storage. And I wish I had thirty two gigabytes
Speaker 1: of RAM and two terabytes of storage, which would have
Speaker 1: cost me a little bit more, but I would have
Speaker 1: been much happier. And so don't be impatient. You know,
Speaker 1: if it takes a little bit to get your computer
Speaker 1: because you want it in the configuration you want, just
Speaker 1: just wait. Don't be a rich don't be a rich
Speaker 1: on tech impatient. The laptop starts at thirteen hundred dollars
Speaker 1: for the everyday person, twelve hundred dollars if you are
Speaker 1: an educator, which is a pretty decent price. And my
Speaker 1: other advice with these laptops everyone the most emails I
Speaker 1: get Megan are I want a cheap laptop. But the
Speaker 1: problem with cheap laptops is, yes, you're gonna spend two
Speaker 1: hundred three hundred bucks on a Chromebook, but you're then
Speaker 1: gonna want a new laptop in a couple of years.
Speaker 1: These Apple laptops will last you. My sister is on
Speaker 1: hers is ten years old and it's still working. Now, wow,
Speaker 1: it's getting up there, and she says she kind of
Speaker 1: wants a new one, but ten years.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they last a very long time.
Speaker 1: They last a very long time. And the best part
Speaker 1: is even if you use it, like for me, my
Speaker 1: life cycle is about three years. After those three years,
Speaker 1: I give it to one of my family members and
Speaker 1: so they get the benefit of using it as well.
Speaker 1: So my dad got my last Apple laptop, my little
Speaker 1: my son got my other one. So that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's another side thing.
Speaker 3: You can be general do you normally say for MacBooks
Speaker 3: though you say not to do the just like the
Speaker 3: first tier, you go like up a tier, Yes, that's.
Speaker 1: That's kind of Apple's pricing game. So whenever you see
Speaker 1: that first like you know, initial price hundred, it's usually
Speaker 1: if you go with the next tier, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot more for your money. That's kind of Apple's
Speaker 1: game with everything they sell, whether it's the iPad, whether
Speaker 1: it's the iPhone. When you just bump up to that
Speaker 1: next level for a little bit more, you get more,
Speaker 1: a lot more when it comes to storage, process or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I always tell people because they always say, well,
Speaker 1: it's you know, you think about it. The next bump
Speaker 1: up on this laptop, I don't know, maybe it's fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1: They're like, well, that's fifteen hundred bucks. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: you've already gone to thirteen hundred, so really it's only
Speaker 1: an extra two hundred. You're not not spending the thirteen hundred.
Speaker 1: So good question, Megan.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this next question comes from Kenji. Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 3: I hope all has been well with you. You're definitely
Speaker 3: the best and keeping up to date with technology. I
Speaker 3: would like to ask if you could recommend the best
Speaker 3: way to remove as much of my personal information from
Speaker 3: the web as possible. I've finally contacted White Pages directly
Speaker 3: and that response is pending. Is there a re reputable
Speaker 3: company that can assist with this reasonable pricing that you
Speaker 3: are aware of?
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 1: This is a good question and something that I actually
Speaker 1: did myself recently. And if you've ever been on one
Speaker 1: of these sites, there's a bunch of them, like My
Speaker 1: Life White Pages, they have a whole bunch. Basically all
Speaker 1: of your personal information is on these sites and you're like,
Speaker 1: how is this legal? How are they able to have this? Well,
Speaker 1: it's all public records, especially when you buy a house
Speaker 1: or you know anything, anything you do, it creates a
Speaker 1: public record that's in the public. So these companies just
Speaker 1: scour the public databases and they just organize it in
Speaker 1: a way that's much easier to access than say going
Speaker 1: to the library and looking up the database for the
Speaker 1: DMV or whatever. You know, like you worked on the
Speaker 1: desk at KTLA, so you know what was the thing
Speaker 1: they had lexis Nexus. Yes, like you were looking up
Speaker 1: x's all the time, right time.
Speaker 2: No, you get so like there's a charge when you search.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not free to like look up an
Speaker 3: X like KTLA would get like an eighty dollars charge.
Speaker 2: Right every time you get in trouble.
Speaker 1: Every time, Oh my gosh. But at least you knew
Speaker 1: what they were doing, where they were and you could
Speaker 1: just kind of keep an eye on them.
Speaker 2: But no, it doesn't track them. It just says where
Speaker 2: they live.
Speaker 1: And what would you need for them, like a license
Speaker 1: plate kind of thing. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, you know for like, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: you would.
Speaker 3: You would just do a first and last name and
Speaker 3: maybe or like no round their birthday or how they are,
Speaker 3: and then you like get a list of people that
Speaker 3: I could be and then you pick who it looks like. Okay,
Speaker 3: well that's difficult for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's almost exactly how these websites work. And they
Speaker 1: just do the same thing except find all the personal
Speaker 1: information that's available online. So anyway, I'll give you some
Speaker 1: of the names. Spokio my life. If you go down
Speaker 1: a rabbit hole of looking up yourself on these sites,
Speaker 1: it's very scary. Just fyi, Spochio my life, Ridaris White
Speaker 1: pages in tell Us and been verified. Now, what our
Speaker 1: listener is asking, Kenji, is asking how he can get
Speaker 1: rid of these. So there's a website called Join delete
Speaker 1: me dot com and they will for I think it
Speaker 1: was like twenty bucks a month take care of all
Speaker 1: of this and get you off all these sites. But
Speaker 1: as far as a month, well yeah, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you I think that's how much it is, let me
Speaker 1: let me see how much it is, you know, for
Speaker 1: some people, and maybe you don't need it, you know,
Speaker 1: every month, but let's see how much it is it is.
Speaker 1: Join delete me. It's uh oh sorry, ten dollars a
Speaker 1: month for one person for a year, so one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty nine dollars for the year. But it will
Speaker 1: remove you from all the major data broker websites for
Speaker 1: one year, so I mean that's not too bad. Ten
Speaker 1: seventy five a month, so you have to pay for
Speaker 1: the year. I'm guessing yeah, build annually for one thirty
Speaker 1: but that's not you know, if you want to protect
Speaker 1: your privacy, that's not that bad. But what I like
Speaker 1: about this site and why I kind of trust them,
Speaker 1: is because they have a post of how to do
Speaker 1: it on your own, and they give you the manual,
Speaker 1: step by step instructions for all of these different websites.
Speaker 1: And so that's what I did personally. I just went
Speaker 1: through and most of the time. It requires verifying yourself
Speaker 1: on the website, signing up for the website, sending them
Speaker 1: an email, opting out, doing a confirmation. It's a whole
Speaker 1: big process. They basically don't want you to do this,
Speaker 1: but it did work, and I can tell you from
Speaker 1: my experience at a lot of these sites. I was
Speaker 1: able to get some my information off of there, and
Speaker 1: a lot of it is confusing because it's not a
Speaker 1: lot of it's not right. They had me as way
Speaker 1: older than I really am, but yeah, exactly so, and
Speaker 1: they didn't have the best profile pictures of me, so
Speaker 1: I just wanted all of it gone. So you're like, nope,
Speaker 1: so join delete me dot com. Check it out, and
Speaker 1: I think that you will find exactly what you need
Speaker 1: to get yourself off of many of these websites. Good question.
Speaker 1: And there's another. We did a story about this a
Speaker 1: long time ago, and you can hire someone to do
Speaker 1: this as well. Haley Kaplan was her name, and let's
Speaker 1: see what her website is, so if you want to
Speaker 1: pay someone to do it more personally, her website is
Speaker 1: what is dash privacy dot com And we interviewed her
Speaker 1: for KTLA and she's great. She knew everything, and she
Speaker 1: will go She's a lot of celebrities will use her
Speaker 1: and they will pay her a lot of not just celebrities,
Speaker 1: but you know, like CEOs and stuff like that, you know,
Speaker 1: like big time people will pay her to get them
Speaker 1: off of the Internet, and she can do that, you know,
Speaker 1: and protect your reputation. Let's say there's a you know,
Speaker 1: so anyway, she's she's very good. What dash is dash
Speaker 1: Privacy dot com. But that's going to be a different route,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit more expensive obviously because it's
Speaker 1: a one on one kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But interesting, good question.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about Sonos. You know, I love my
Speaker 1: Sona's products, Megan, and now they have new products. They
Speaker 1: have three new products. I told you there's a lot
Speaker 1: of new products, right, so yeah, like what, yeah, three
Speaker 1: new But here's the thing. The pipeline is is going
Speaker 1: to dry up because this was all stuff that they
Speaker 1: made before COVID, right, they have to sell it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but after like next year, there's not gonna be anything news.
Speaker 1: Three new items. The number the biggest one is called
Speaker 1: Sonos ARC and this is a soundbar and I have
Speaker 1: the old version of this which I can't remember what
Speaker 1: it's called but it's I've had it for years and
Speaker 1: I love it. And I'll explain why this is a
Speaker 1: problem for Sonos. But the son No's ARC has a
Speaker 1: new design and it has Dolby at most support. And
Speaker 1: I love my son Nos. I don't know what it's
Speaker 1: called sound bar. Maybe I think it's just called son
Speaker 1: No sound bar. And it's been sitting under my TV
Speaker 1: for at least five years. And the new son Nos
Speaker 1: Arc is eight hundred dollars. And I remember when I
Speaker 1: bought my son No sound bar, it was like six
Speaker 1: ninety nine, I think, And I thought that was a
Speaker 1: lot at the time, But when you do the price
Speaker 1: over the years, it's fine. But here's my problem with Sonos.
Speaker 1: I still have their stuff that I've bought for I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think I well, I did buy a new
Speaker 1: speaker this year, so that's not true. But their stuff
Speaker 1: lasts a really long time, and so it's tough to
Speaker 1: like say, I want to upgrade my stuff because why
Speaker 1: But here's how they're gonna get you at upgrade. They've
Speaker 1: got a new app and operating system that's gonna come
Speaker 1: out June eighth, and it's only going to enable the
Speaker 1: new higher resolution audio, updated interface, and more personalization, including
Speaker 1: saved room groups, which is if you have sons that
Speaker 1: is something that I never knew I needed, but now
Speaker 1: that they say it, oh my gosh, because like, let
Speaker 1: me give you an example. When I work in the
Speaker 1: dining room, I want just the dining room and the
Speaker 1: kitchen speakers on, and so I have to go into
Speaker 1: the app every time and regroup those two because the
Speaker 1: night before I had the whole house on. So it's
Speaker 1: like little things like that. Then when the kids are
Speaker 1: watching TV, they want just a living room on. So anyway,
Speaker 1: my point is that this Sono stuff is amazing, but
Speaker 1: it's number one is really expensive. So the other thing
Speaker 1: they have is a new Sonas sub, which is a
Speaker 1: subwoofer that's six hundred ninety nine dollars. And then the
Speaker 1: Son's five, which is pretty much their most powerful speaker
Speaker 1: for music, which I have the old version in my
Speaker 1: dining room and I might think about upgrading that because
Speaker 1: it's been many years since I've had that. But that's
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars and the sound expensive. But I will
Speaker 1: say that I bought the Sons move this year, and
Speaker 1: I told you this, but It's my absolute favorite speaker.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have gotten so much use out of
Speaker 1: that speaker for four hundred dollars in the past three months.
Speaker 1: I bring it in the backyard when I'm outside grilling,
Speaker 1: we're playing with the kids in the front yard, I
Speaker 1: bring it there. We're having dinner in the dining room,
Speaker 1: I put it behind me so we have more music
Speaker 1: in the dining room instead of just the one speaker.
Speaker 1: Sono stuff is very expensive, but it is well worth it.
Speaker 1: If you want a cheap alternative, you can just use
Speaker 1: Google Home Products and or you know, and just linked those.
Speaker 1: They're not going to sound the same, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: kind of be the same, and it's a little bit,
Speaker 1: just a little bit not as like the Sona's app
Speaker 1: is really the magical part of it because it's so good.
Speaker 1: It's so slick. You can find music across any service
Speaker 1: you can imagine, and that's really what's so beautiful about them.
Speaker 1: Connie wrote on Facebook, my kids gave me a pair
Speaker 1: of Sona's wireless speakers. I used to use them with
Speaker 1: music that I have on my phone. Now I can't
Speaker 1: where can I find out how to make that work?
Speaker 1: I believe they took away that functionality. It used to
Speaker 1: work with music off of your phone, Connie, but now
Speaker 1: it does not. So what I would recommend is uploading
Speaker 1: your music to a service like Plex or Google Cloud Music,
Speaker 1: and then you can play them through your phone. I
Speaker 1: believe that way. So that's the way to get around that,
Speaker 1: all right, Okay.
Speaker 3: Next question, Hi, rich I am thinking of trying out
Speaker 3: last Pass as a password manager.
Speaker 2: I've never used one before.
Speaker 3: A couple of questions I could not find the answer
Speaker 3: answer to is what happens if I decide to no
Speaker 3: longer use a password manager? Do I have to go
Speaker 3: back and reset all of my passwords in each of
Speaker 3: my individual accounts? Or will last Pass revert back to
Speaker 3: my original passwords? Also, how would I or any of
Speaker 3: my family members log into streaming services on our TVs
Speaker 3: like Netflix? Since I assume it would be asking for us,
Speaker 3: It would be asking us for a new log on. Thanks,
Speaker 3: and I really enjoy your rich On Tech podcast, Bill.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. Bill. Let's see, so he wants to
Speaker 1: switch to last Pass, He's never used a password manager before.
Speaker 1: What happens if I decide to no longer use it? Okay,
Speaker 1: So if you number one Last Pass does not change
Speaker 1: your passwords for you. You kind of load them into
Speaker 1: last Past. Like let's say you have you sign up
Speaker 1: for last Pass, you have ten accounts, you have Netflix,
Speaker 1: you have Google. At the beginning, you sort of copy
Speaker 1: your passwords into the app to load them up into there,
Speaker 1: and then you can decide if you want to use
Speaker 1: last pass to help you change those passwords to become
Speaker 1: stronger passwords. But it doesn't automatically just do that for you.
Speaker 1: But well, there might be a functionality on last pass
Speaker 1: that can do that. I know on Dashline there is,
Speaker 1: I forget if there is on last Pass. But so
Speaker 1: the question is if he ditches last Pass, what happens.
Speaker 1: You can export a list of your passwords in various ways,
Speaker 1: so you can export them as sort of a text
Speaker 1: file as you know, a CSV whatever, so you can
Speaker 1: see your passwords. It'll say like here's your passwords. You
Speaker 1: can do that. You can bring them into a different
Speaker 1: service like last like a dash lane or one password whatever.
Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of the beginning question is yes,
Speaker 1: all the accounts you can you can see your passwords
Speaker 1: at the end. It doesn't just like if you delete
Speaker 1: your Last Past it's like, oh, sorry, you have no
Speaker 1: more access to your passwords, so you can do that,
Speaker 1: but again, you have to do that before you delete
Speaker 1: your account. So don't delete your account before you export.
Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two, how would my family members
Speaker 1: log into the streaming services? Which I love that he's
Speaker 1: just like putting it out there that, like everyone's sharing accounts.
Speaker 1: Did I tell you that right now? With my Netflix?
Speaker 1: Have I told you this? I mentioned this in the
Speaker 1: last how many everyone? But I'm I personally can't use
Speaker 1: my Netflix account because it does not work. But everyone
Speaker 1: my dad's works, my mom's works, my kid works. Mine
Speaker 1: does not work. So I have to do I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just says error every time when I go to
Speaker 1: use it. So I have to like reset my whole Netflix.
Speaker 2: Account, right, and then they're all going to lose I know.
Speaker 1: And then I have to And then that means I
Speaker 1: got to sit there and I got to talk my
Speaker 1: mom through logging in on her Fire TV stick and
Speaker 1: you know, and the password is going to be complex
Speaker 1: because I use a password manager to create it, so
Speaker 1: it's not just easy. No, I can't make it easy.
Speaker 1: I used to have an easy one on Netflix and
Speaker 1: now I don't anyway. So let's see his question is
Speaker 1: the family members would have to log in if you
Speaker 1: changed it, but you don't have to change it. So
Speaker 1: but if you're using it, if he's asking because he
Speaker 1: wants to start using better passwords, then yes, you'll want
Speaker 1: to use last pass to create stronger passwords. That's kind
Speaker 1: of the whole point of these things, and that's what
Speaker 1: I would recommend doing. But the reality is you start
Speaker 1: using it and you can just change things over time.
Speaker 1: You don't have to change it all at once, and
Speaker 1: you can also evolve. So what you can do is
Speaker 1: then you know, you can take one week at a
Speaker 1: time and maybe change your Netflix password one weekend and
Speaker 1: make it a little bit strong longer. And the Last
Speaker 1: Pass manager and all the other ones, they will actually
Speaker 1: when you're creating this is the best part of them.
Speaker 1: Let's say you're creating a new account, like you sign
Speaker 1: up for Hulu, you sign up from the website, it
Speaker 1: will say do you want us to create a strong
Speaker 1: password for you, and it will save it into last Pass,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to kind of do all that.
Speaker 1: It's it's very much automated towards the end, but it
Speaker 1: is more work. I mean, believe me. Like I I
Speaker 1: complained about it all the time with my wife. I'm like, ah,
Speaker 1: this is so like to download a game on my
Speaker 1: kids I Pad, it probably takes like ten minutes because
Speaker 1: of all the different procedures in place passwords.
Speaker 2: But it's safer.
Speaker 1: It's safer and more secure. So I think I answered
Speaker 1: that for the most.
Speaker 2: So you use Dahlane, I like Dashlane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think that. But I use last pass
Speaker 1: as well, and I thought that was great. I mean
Speaker 1: it really, there's one password I've experimented with that. I
Speaker 1: mean it really, I've tried them all just to kind
Speaker 1: of see which ones they all. Now here's the other thing.
Speaker 1: You can also if you only have Apple devices, you
Speaker 1: can use the pass word manager that's built into iOS,
Speaker 1: which is like keychain. It's called iCloud keychain, and we
Speaker 1: use that for the iPad because we only save like
Speaker 1: one app on there, the Peloton app. And it's super
Speaker 1: easy because it's built in. You don't have to think
Speaker 1: about it. It's so if you're only using Apple products,
Speaker 1: you can just use the Apple you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: the one that's built into Apple. If you only use
Speaker 1: Google products, you can use Google smartlock or whatever they
Speaker 1: call theirs, but I personally, I think it's better to
Speaker 1: use one that works across all of them. I just
Speaker 1: think it's it's just planning for the future. Speaking of Google,
Speaker 1: I discovered something today that I think is pretty helpful.
Speaker 1: It's Google cloud Print. And I was aware of this
Speaker 1: for a while, but I never set it up, nor
Speaker 1: did I ever put much stock into it. But now
Speaker 1: that I think about, it's actually quite brilliant. So a
Speaker 1: lot of people have a printer in their home that's
Speaker 1: connected to Wi Fi, and I get this question all
Speaker 1: the time about rich how do I print to that printer.
Speaker 1: It's a pain. It doesn't work with AirPrint.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I always recommended in the past downloading the manufacturer app
Speaker 1: for your printer onto your phone so that you can
Speaker 1: print from your phone, and that's an easy way to
Speaker 1: get around the whole air print thing or Google whatever
Speaker 1: on Android, cloud print, whatever. But I was looking at
Speaker 1: this cloud print thing and it actually works pretty well.
Speaker 1: I set it up on my printer. All you have
Speaker 1: to do is make sure your printer is connected to
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi network, and then you go on your
Speaker 1: Chrome browser on your desktop and you type in like,
Speaker 1: let's see, that's what was it? Hold on, let's see
Speaker 1: connect a printer that's not. You go Chrome colon slash
Speaker 1: slash devices and press enter and then you just click
Speaker 1: ad printer under Classic Printers, you find your printer, you
Speaker 1: select it, and now you can use Google Cloud Print
Speaker 1: from any of your devices, which means your Android phone,
Speaker 1: your iPhone, your Chrome devices, anything, your Chrome book and
Speaker 1: it just kind of connects your your printer to the
Speaker 1: Chrome cloud Print network and now it's super easy to print. Now.
Speaker 1: The only caveat to this, and I check, is that
Speaker 1: you have to have your computer on and Chrome kind
Speaker 1: of open on your computer for this to work, because
Speaker 1: it kind of goes through Chrome as like an intermediary.
Speaker 1: But if you're having printer issues or you have an
Speaker 1: older printer and you just want to be able to
Speaker 1: print from all your devices, definitely check out Google Cloud Print.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty cool. I set up this morning in
Speaker 1: about two minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's fass.
Speaker 3: This next question comes from Rita Rich. What do you
Speaker 3: think is the best QR reader to download for an
Speaker 3: Android phone?
Speaker 2: I have a Samsung three.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's an older Samsung. Oh Samsung three. That's
Speaker 1: that's I'm impressedive that's still kicking.
Speaker 2: That is.
Speaker 1: Let's see, when did the Samsung Galaxy S three come out?
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty twelve. Oh my gosh, eight years.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Huh oh wow, eight years. So with this,
Speaker 1: I there was an app that I really liked for
Speaker 1: QR scanning now number one. QR code scanning is built
Speaker 1: into pretty much every modern smartphone. QR codes have a
Speaker 1: funny thing because they've been trying to take off for
Speaker 1: about ten years now, and nobody actually uses QR codes
Speaker 1: but they do. You see them every once in a while,
Speaker 1: but nobody actually uses them. So it's this weird thing
Speaker 1: that they They are around and they are cool, but
Speaker 1: it's just no one, like they never really took off
Speaker 1: in a big way. With that said, they are very useful.
Speaker 1: They're the QR code that kind of looks like a square,
Speaker 1: that's what or sorry, they're like the barcode that looks
Speaker 1: like a square. Kind of weird, you know, it looks
Speaker 1: like very futuristic. So with ninety nine percent of smartphones today,
Speaker 1: you can just hold your camera, like hover your phone's
Speaker 1: camera over it, like obviously open up the camera app,
Speaker 1: hover the phone over the QR code and on your
Speaker 1: screen it will display a message do you want to
Speaker 1: to open the link that is behind this QR code?
Speaker 1: Most QR codes contain a weblink and that brings you
Speaker 1: to the website. And almost every phone, iPhone, Android, whatever, Samsung,
Speaker 1: they all do that. Now you have an older Samsung Rita,
Speaker 1: so you don't have that built in because these things were,
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day. QR code scanning apps
Speaker 1: are pretty big. Anyway, the one I liked was purchased
Speaker 1: by Snapchat. It was called I think Scan and it
Speaker 1: was super easy, super nice. It was just very simple.
Speaker 1: But then Snapchat bought them. I think it became the
Speaker 1: snap codes. Have you ever used Snapchat just to like,
Speaker 1: when you add.
Speaker 2: Someone you used to take a picture or you like
Speaker 2: hover over their phone or something.
Speaker 1: So I think they use that technology that they bought
Speaker 1: from that company Scan to build those snap codes. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's gone. But the one I found that I liked
Speaker 1: is actually from Kesperski, which is a this is a
Speaker 1: anti virus company, and they have QR code reader for
Speaker 1: Android Keasperski Lab, and that is the one I recommend
Speaker 1: because it's simple, it's easy, and it scans the code
Speaker 1: for anything malicious before it gives you the link, so
Speaker 1: it makes sure that because you there, there is a
Speaker 1: thing where people can be malicious with these QR codes.
Speaker 1: They can try to get you to go to links
Speaker 1: that are that are not very they're evil, and so
Speaker 1: that's that's you got to watch out. And it was
Speaker 1: updated on April sixth, So I think that's fine. So
Speaker 1: QR code Keasperski Lab. Just search for that inside Google
Speaker 1: Play and you should find that. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see here I found an app that I thought
Speaker 1: was pretty cool. Speaking of apps, and this is an
Speaker 1: app that you don't have an Apple Watch?
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 1: Did you get one yet?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, so on Apple Watch it becomes very you really
Speaker 1: want to complete your rings every day. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the main It gets you very much motivated to
Speaker 1: do whatever you can. I've talked about on the pot cast.
Speaker 1: How if I see that I got two minutes of exercise,
Speaker 1: I will do like twenty eight minutes just to complete
Speaker 1: the rings for that day, and not a minute more. Well,
Speaker 1: a developer named let's see, where is his name? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: I don't have his name, but a developer came up
Speaker 1: with a app called Activity Stats, and it is super simple.
Speaker 1: All it does is show you your lifetime totals of
Speaker 1: all the fitness things you've done on your Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: So it just adds it all up, so you can
Speaker 1: see how many calories you've burned, how much time you
Speaker 1: spent exercising, how many steps you've walked, how much you've
Speaker 1: walked and run distance, total swimming, cycling, indoor cycling, elliptical
Speaker 1: workout time, and how many workouts you've done. This it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a fun thing if you just want
Speaker 1: to see, like, oh my gosh, I've walked one thousand
Speaker 1: miles in my Apple watch'd be kind.
Speaker 2: Of fun, right, Yeah, it's just is it similar to
Speaker 2: just Health on your phone?
Speaker 1: Yes, but now Health doesn't necessarily because I was thinking
Speaker 1: about that, it must be Health doesn't necessarily tallly it
Speaker 1: all up forever, right it's or maybe I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think it does by days and by weeks, and
Speaker 1: like it gives you trends. But I never open that app,
Speaker 1: by the way, like ever ever ever.
Speaker 3: But well, I started using it because I like want
Speaker 3: an Apple Watch. But I was like, I'll just use
Speaker 3: health for now, and I like try to keep track
Speaker 3: of steps that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's fine. My mom does it that way
Speaker 1: because she doesn't have a wearable, but it it's probably
Speaker 1: you know, number one, your phone has to be on
Speaker 1: you for that to work, which is fine if you're walking.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be as accurate as an actual wearable,
Speaker 1: but it's still it's a good kind of stop gap,
Speaker 1: like you've realized, like it's it's good enough for Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, if I take a walk, it'll kind of
Speaker 1: give me an idea of how far I've gone. But now,
Speaker 1: can you use the there is no workout. I guess
Speaker 1: you could start a workout app on your phone.
Speaker 2: Do you do that or no? Oh I do the Yeah,
Speaker 2: run keeper. Okay, so how far I've gone?
Speaker 1: Okay, So it is using the GPS, so it is
Speaker 1: actually very act so that's not bad. That's fine. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I forget about the days when I used to have
Speaker 1: to run without an Apple Watch. I used to run
Speaker 1: with my phone and there was a time before GPS
Speaker 1: in the phone when it would just kind of estimate
Speaker 1: by your stride, so you would just you would see
Speaker 1: how far you ran based on your stride and you'd
Speaker 1: have to set your stride in the app and the
Speaker 1: Nike app. And now, of course all of that is
Speaker 1: moot because GPS is like super accurate to like the millimeter.
Speaker 2: Okay, so crazy, Okay. Next question comes from Catherine. Greetings.
Speaker 3: I am reading chapters to my students and recording them
Speaker 3: on my iPad. Then I am uploading them to YouTube
Speaker 3: for a twelve minute video. It takes approximately four hours
Speaker 3: to upload. This seems extreme to me, but I cannot
Speaker 3: find any way to speed it up.
Speaker 2: Please help. My students are waiting for videos, but I
Speaker 2: cannot do any more than one to two per day.
Speaker 1: Number one, I give major props to you, Cat and
Speaker 1: every other teacher out there, because Megan, you don't have
Speaker 1: kids in school distance learning. But but let me tell you,
Speaker 1: these teachers, I feel so bad for them because it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of like what I have to do here,
Speaker 1: and yet you know, I have an understanding of technology,
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit easier for me to make
Speaker 1: the transition of going from like the KTLA studios to
Speaker 1: like working from home. But imagine you're, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you teach in front of a class every day, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, they're like, oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: you need to like record yourself on a phone, set
Speaker 1: up a tripod, make sure you're in good light, make
Speaker 1: sure the audio sounds good. Then upload it to a website,
Speaker 1: get it to these kids, put it in Google classroom.
Speaker 1: Everything just got so much more complicated other than drive
Speaker 1: to work, get in front of your class and talk
Speaker 1: to your kids and then collect papers. Right, It's it's
Speaker 1: like teachers are really good at that. They're not necessarily
Speaker 1: performing artists that know all this tech stuff of how
Speaker 1: to like upload and do all this stuff. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they can't figure it out. They have been.
Speaker 1: But I'm watching my kids and all these videos. These
Speaker 1: teachers have to learn how to you know, they've got
Speaker 1: to do like a whiteboard whatever, like they're drawing on exactly.
Speaker 1: It's it's a pain, and I'm sure that they all
Speaker 1: think that, and so kat I feel your pain. Number One,
Speaker 1: the whole upload thing iPhone, the process of uploading a
Speaker 1: video to YouTube from the iOS platform is the biggest
Speaker 1: nightmare in the world. And I'll explain why because the
Speaker 1: app does not work in the background, so you can't
Speaker 1: just and I'm sure every teacher in America has figured
Speaker 1: this out the hard way. You can't just sit there,
Speaker 1: press upload on YouTube and then close out your iPhone.
Speaker 1: Guess what, when you come back to the YouTube app,
Speaker 1: it's still sitting there. It says oh, one percent progress.
Speaker 1: Because the YouTube app has to be open and functioning
Speaker 1: and not working in the background to actually upload the
Speaker 1: video file. So my number one piece of advice is
Speaker 1: if you can upload from an Android, find it because
Speaker 1: guess what, it lets you upload in the background. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be sitting there babysitting your phone. That's
Speaker 1: number one. Number two, these files that you're recording are
Speaker 1: probably huge, and that is the reason why they're taking
Speaker 1: even longer because even if you babysit your iPad, screen
Speaker 1: on lock, leave YouTube open, it probably still takes a
Speaker 1: long time because we're all using so much internet. And
Speaker 1: the video is really a big video because if you're
Speaker 1: reading to them a twelve minute video, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's a long video, right, Yeah, So I would recommend
Speaker 1: using a smaller video quality when you record the video.
Speaker 1: You can do four eighty. Just go into the camera
Speaker 1: settings on the iPad or the iPhone and that is
Speaker 1: under the general settings and you can switch to a
Speaker 1: lower quality resolution. I'm not even sure if that does
Speaker 1: the iPhone offer four eighty. I think it may not.
Speaker 1: Let me look in there. I'm going to go under
Speaker 1: camera and let's see, can you record in that terrible
Speaker 1: seven twenty is the lowest. So I would think that.
Speaker 3: There's some sort of website where you could like live,
Speaker 3: not live, but like record yourself and then you pause
Speaker 3: the video and then you like save it and it
Speaker 3: doesn't have to be like through your phone, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 1: You can do that right through YouTube. But I think
Speaker 1: the problem is a lot of these teachers kind of
Speaker 1: have their setup. You know, they have a tripod, they've
Speaker 1: got their iPad on there. You know, it's like easier
Speaker 1: to it's easier to set up a phone than to
Speaker 1: you know, cause these teachers, you know, you have to
Speaker 1: also have to find a nice place in your home
Speaker 1: to like set up. So it's a whole big yea.
Speaker 1: Believe me, I've seen so many of these videos. I
Speaker 1: feel so bad for these teachers because I'm just watching
Speaker 1: and I'm like, she's on her patio and you know,
Speaker 1: she's in her It's like you're trying to find a
Speaker 1: little spot to work in your house that you never
Speaker 1: really needed before. But continuing with the thought, I would
Speaker 1: say that's the number one. Record it at the lowest quality.
Speaker 1: Number two, I would export it in a third party
Speaker 1: program to make it even smaller. The best program for
Speaker 1: this would be Adobe Premiere Rush, and you can export
Speaker 1: it to YouTube and you can choose the quality you want.
Speaker 1: So I would choose like the lowest possible quality, like
Speaker 1: four eighty, not lower than that, because you want your
Speaker 1: kids to actually be able to see your face. Like
Speaker 1: if you go lower like three sixty, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: I might just see like old you know, like a
Speaker 1: tiny little like thumbnail video of you. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: go four eighty or seven twenty, even seven twenty with
Speaker 1: some good compression will still be way better. And then
Speaker 1: you can upload it to YouTube that way. But that's
Speaker 1: the advice. It's just these video files. A twelve minute
Speaker 1: video file is pretty big. That's that's the large file.
Speaker 1: You know, it could be a gigabyte, you know, it
Speaker 1: could be more than that.
Speaker 3: So it's like classes are you know, an hour, and
Speaker 3: like school is eight hours a day, so if like
Speaker 3: teachers are trying to record classes, I mean, I get
Speaker 3: why they're twelve minutes because they just shorten it.
Speaker 1: Like, oh yeah, school's not eight hours a day. That
Speaker 1: was when you really like, you know, with the parents, everyone,
Speaker 1: every parent right now feels really guilty with their kids
Speaker 1: working at home because if you can get your kids
Speaker 1: to do a solid hour and a half of work
Speaker 1: every day, it's fine. And it sounds like a little
Speaker 1: bit Megan, but it's really not because when you think
Speaker 1: about the way the school day is structured. In school,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of not fluff time, but a lot
Speaker 1: of time built into the day. Right You're you're not
Speaker 1: teachers are not sitting there drilling students for eight hours.
Speaker 1: You know, Like here's what you need to know. That's
Speaker 1: not what's happening at school. You know, there's there's creative time,
Speaker 1: there's played time, there's outdoor time, there's solo time.
Speaker 2: There's meditation time, right, meditation time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, they do mindfulness, Oh.
Speaker 2: For sure, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like does he sits there and he does his
Speaker 1: little no mistake.
Speaker 2: And he like is like closed eyes and like does
Speaker 2: this moment?
Speaker 1: Yeah he does? Like what is it? Cosmic kids is
Speaker 1: like the big one and so that's oh yeah on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's funny. Okay, So that was the question. Let
Speaker 1: me go to another another app that I thought was
Speaker 1: pretty cool is you tried this out, Megan so you
Speaker 1: can comment on it. Onyx This is the home workout app.
Speaker 1: What it's so onyx o n y x it it
Speaker 1: It records you in real time while you're doing the workout.
Speaker 1: He uses the camera on your iPhone. You have to
Speaker 1: have a newer iPhone with true depth, but it kind
Speaker 1: of sees you in three D and it corrects you
Speaker 1: as you do it. What did you think of this workout?
Speaker 1: It was like a five to seven minute workout?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you heart.
Speaker 3: I mean I was doing like beginner and I was
Speaker 3: using my sister's phone and I just did like a
Speaker 3: lower body workout. So it's a ton of like lunches
Speaker 3: and squats and always the toughest I thought it was.
Speaker 2: I thought it was great.
Speaker 3: I mean it was correcting my form. It was saying
Speaker 3: like your knee is going too far, you know, like
Speaker 3: little things. I understood how to make those corrections and
Speaker 3: then I actually had to record it twice.
Speaker 2: So I was so sore the next day. I was
Speaker 2: like okay.
Speaker 3: That app is the app crash, Yeah, because I was
Speaker 3: trying to save and then it just like crashed happened.
Speaker 3: Then I can save the video. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: I have to, you know, but I think it's I
Speaker 3: think it's great.
Speaker 1: It's a very cool concept. It's it's it just goes
Speaker 1: to show what the future can hold. When I mean,
Speaker 1: you did story on that other website, remember like open
Speaker 1: fit I think it was where they have a trainer
Speaker 1: actually watching you. This is oh yeah, this is kind
Speaker 1: of like an automated version of that. Like I was
Speaker 1: doing like a I was doing a thing where I
Speaker 1: was doing a plank and then I kind of put
Speaker 1: my arm up, you know, to the sky like that,
Speaker 1: and the little trainer was like, make sure that you
Speaker 1: look up at your arm when you're putting it up
Speaker 1: to the sky like so instead of just going like this,
Speaker 1: I you know, knew to now look up, which I
Speaker 1: thought was a great I would have never gotten that
Speaker 1: if I was doing an audio guided workout or just
Speaker 1: a peloton you know, where you're just watching the person
Speaker 1: on the screen. So it is really fascinating. The app
Speaker 1: is called Onyx. It's free to start. There is premium
Speaker 1: stuff which costs fifteen bucks a month, But if you
Speaker 1: want to just get started, I would I would download
Speaker 1: it and check it out. It is a very cool
Speaker 1: take on the workout, and the workouts are only I
Speaker 1: only found five to seven minute workouts in there, but
Speaker 1: they were very, very efficient.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: There was a point where I was like, like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, I guess I wasn't going low enough for
Speaker 3: like a lunge.
Speaker 2: And it was like that's okay, you can take a break. No,
Speaker 2: I'm working. I just it's just I'm not that good.
Speaker 1: And it counts your reps too, which I thought was
Speaker 1: really cool. Yeah, because like unlike the other ones where
Speaker 1: they just power through it, like whether you do them
Speaker 1: or not, this one I was doing push ups and
Speaker 1: I realized halfway through that it was not just gonna
Speaker 1: keep going to the next exercise. It was counting me
Speaker 1: out ten push ups and it wouldn't go to the
Speaker 1: next exercise without ten. And so I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's pretty interesting. So anyway, O n y X check
Speaker 1: it out. It's for the iPhone only if you have
Speaker 1: a newer iPhone. You have to have an iPhone ten
Speaker 1: and up to get that. The counting and all the
Speaker 1: virtual stuff. That's that's the phone you need for that.
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