Speaker 1: New iPhone rumors, a note ten review, well mine, Gmail
Speaker 1: does grammar check, and Roku makes it easier for parents
Speaker 1: to find stuff for their kids to watch. What's going on.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Temiro. This is Rich on Tech, the podcast
Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
Speaker 1: should know about, and it's also the place where I
Speaker 1: answer the questions that you send me, all with the
Speaker 1: help of producer Megan. Welcome to the show. How are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well. How are you?
Speaker 1: My day is not going so well, I know, and
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this has not really happened to me
Speaker 1: in a long time. My computer I was working this
Speaker 1: morning writing a script and my computer all of a
Speaker 1: sudden I was in a Google doc and it just
Speaker 1: kept like crashing that web page and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's weird. Then all of a sudden, my whole computer crashes.
Speaker 1: That's weird. Then I go to log into my computer
Speaker 1: and my password doesn't work. So immediately I'm thinking, oh, no,
Speaker 1: this is it. It's over. Yeah, and I restart my
Speaker 1: computer and then I get this little file folder with
Speaker 1: a question mark which that do we even know what
Speaker 1: that means? But it can't be good.
Speaker 3: No, it does not look good. It does not look good.
Speaker 3: It doesn't look computer what. It's horrible.
Speaker 1: That's it. It's just so I've restarted a couple of
Speaker 1: times and I'm going to do some more. I assume
Speaker 1: the hard drive is fried. And when you have yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I think it crashed. Why you don't know,
Speaker 1: It's just like it just hit a little sector in
Speaker 1: that drive. That's just like popped the whole thing to
Speaker 1: you know, oblivion. So we'll see from.
Speaker 3: Throwing your laptop on the ground. Probably when you write
Speaker 3: your books.
Speaker 1: When I step on it, Oh, good thing, the book is.
Speaker 1: Everything's in the cloud. Except I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: I am kind of sad. I've recently reforded, my reformatted
Speaker 1: my kid's iPad Parkers, and so I took all of
Speaker 1: his pictures off his iPad that he's been taking on his iPad,
Speaker 1: and I put him on my desktop and I was
Speaker 1: going to upload him back to his iPad or to
Speaker 1: Google Photos, but I have not done that yet. So
Speaker 1: if I do lose anything, that's I'll lose, which is
Speaker 1: kind of sad. His memory, it's his memory, So yeah,
Speaker 1: it is kind of sad.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, hopefully that well say.
Speaker 1: I'm being optimistic. We'll see, we'll see if I can
Speaker 1: save some of that stuff. But let's talk some tech.
Speaker 1: What do we want to start with? Do you want
Speaker 1: to do? What do you want me to start? Do
Speaker 1: you want me to start with the iPhone rumors? Or
Speaker 1: do you want me to start with my thoughts after
Speaker 1: using the Note ten for a week?
Speaker 2: Honestly, iPhone rumor Oh.
Speaker 1: Okay, I knew you'd say that, So let's start with
Speaker 1: the iPhone rumors. This does not come for me. This
Speaker 1: comes from Bloomberg Mark German. He is the expert on
Speaker 1: all things Apple. He has got some sort of mole
Speaker 1: inside the Apple organization that just gives him all this information.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're talking about in the next from the
Speaker 1: next Apple event, which is supposedly going to happen on
Speaker 1: September tenth. That is not official, but that's kind of
Speaker 1: the date that everyone sort of agrees on because they've
Speaker 1: looked at the previous dates and the previous they don't
Speaker 1: want to do it on a September eleventh because that's
Speaker 1: kind of a weird date to do a big event on,
Speaker 1: although I think on year they did oh weird, and
Speaker 1: they don't want to do it on a Monday, although
Speaker 1: sometimes they do so. Anyway, long story short, the prediction
Speaker 1: is Tuesday, September tenth for the big Apple event.
Speaker 3: Is there a lot of mystery just because they want
Speaker 3: everyone to be on their toes.
Speaker 1: Apple never tells you until two weeks before, got it,
Speaker 1: and they send you the invitation and then everyone emails.
Speaker 1: So this is what happens. You get the invitation in
Speaker 1: your email and then every journalist tweets out a picture
Speaker 1: of the invitation, which has a little clue as to
Speaker 1: what you might see. Anyway, it's a whole big game
Speaker 1: with Apple, and I don't know how much longer it
Speaker 1: can go on, but it goes on.
Speaker 2: It's still very exciting.
Speaker 1: So three new iPhones. According to Bloomberg, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: called the iPhone Pro at least the upper models. Then
Speaker 1: there's going to be a successor to the iPhone ten are.
Speaker 1: The big new feature is a new camera system on
Speaker 1: the back with a third camera, and it's going to
Speaker 1: take wide angle pictures, ultra wide, and regular all at
Speaker 1: the same time. So when you snap a picture, it's
Speaker 1: theoretically snapping three pictures, which helps you go back and
Speaker 1: and recrop a picture. I think that will be useful sometimes.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's like always useful. But we've
Speaker 1: talked about this before, and so I remember we talked
Speaker 1: about like the wine glass being like right outside the
Speaker 1: picture and you wanted to recrop.
Speaker 2: It or something. Yes, with your pictures, all my.
Speaker 1: Pictures, low light photos are going to improve as well.
Speaker 1: Now you're a big iPhone fan, so is the low
Speaker 1: light thing like a big deal? Like you notice that
Speaker 1: when you take like pictures in the club or whatever.
Speaker 2: No, I don't notice this at all.
Speaker 1: Wait, what that low light pictures on the iPhone are
Speaker 1: just not very good? Yeah, Like they're pretty terri I
Speaker 1: don't take pictures, I know. I was just kidding about that.
Speaker 3: Usually clubs have photo booths, so I.
Speaker 1: Just okay, just take them there. So let's see what else.
Speaker 1: Significantly upgraded video recording capabilities. Already the iPhone has an
Speaker 1: amazing video camera on it, so I guess it's just
Speaker 1: going to get better.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They're also adding the reverse wireless charging, which we've already
Speaker 1: seen on the Samsungs, where you can put the wireless
Speaker 1: device on the back of the phone and charge it
Speaker 1: like another device. That's cool. The phones are going to
Speaker 1: look very similar to what they look like right now,
Speaker 1: except with the different cameras. The face ID is getting
Speaker 1: an improvement, so it would be multi angle. And this
Speaker 1: is something that's actually pretty interesting. When you have your
Speaker 1: phone on your desk, you have to like lift it
Speaker 1: up to unlock it. You don't have face ID, so
Speaker 1: you don't have that problem. I'm stuck when you upgrade
Speaker 1: and then let's see what else. And the iPhone ten are,
Speaker 1: which I usually recommend, is like the phone to get
Speaker 1: for ninety nine percent of people that's going to get
Speaker 1: a second camera on the back so you can do
Speaker 1: the zoom, you know, the optical zoom. And none of
Speaker 1: the phones will include five G. So there you have it,
Speaker 1: in a nutshell exciting. It's exciting, and they will sell
Speaker 1: a lot of them, but it is getting less exciting
Speaker 1: as the years go on. Because these phones are lasting
Speaker 1: for three years. People are not necessarily upgrading. I remember
Speaker 1: when when back in the day, when the iPhone come out,
Speaker 1: there's always a great, cool, amazing new feature on it.
Speaker 1: Now it seems like we're seeing a lot of the
Speaker 1: features on the Samsung devices before Apple, So it kind
Speaker 1: of takes a little bit of the wind out of
Speaker 1: their sales. But the Apple people don't care because they're
Speaker 1: not using Samsung. So to them, it's new when they
Speaker 1: get a wide angle lens. It's brand new, right, even
Speaker 1: though I've been testing it on Samsungs for a year now.
Speaker 3: It's it's funny too, because the changes used to be
Speaker 3: so big, Like it was like, you know, a little
Speaker 3: bit bigger of a phone, but like it was lighter,
Speaker 3: and like now.
Speaker 1: It's just the print sensor, then a face ID. Now
Speaker 1: it's just like it's an iteration.
Speaker 2: How's that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, So starting off with the first question from Corone
Speaker 3: who writes in on your Facebook page, which is Facebook
Speaker 3: dot com slash rich on tech Corona Rights, do you
Speaker 3: have a few online sites you would recommend for writing
Speaker 3: and publishing my own books? I have multiple writings I've
Speaker 3: been working on over the past twenty years, and I
Speaker 3: finally have the courage to move forward and try to
Speaker 3: publish them.
Speaker 1: Good question. Let's see, so I wrote a book, so
Speaker 1: this is a perfect question for me, and I used
Speaker 1: a lot of different websites and I'm just bringing them
Speaker 1: up in my computer right now. So the first one,
Speaker 1: this is the blog that I really used. I looked
Speaker 1: at a lot and there's a lot of websites about
Speaker 1: writing books. I mean there's a million blogs, and generally
Speaker 1: what people do is they just search. Like when I
Speaker 1: was writing my book, I just search like the answers
Speaker 1: to what I needed at that time, like how to
Speaker 1: market my book and how to do this, how to
Speaker 1: do that, how to publish, how to print, how to
Speaker 1: you know, make a cover, how to do keywords on Amazon.
Speaker 1: But the one that I kept coming back to was
Speaker 1: Kindle Kindle preneur, I guess like entrepreneur except Kindle. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is a great website. K I N d
Speaker 1: L E p r E n eu are Kindle preneur.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you say that. That's it. But
Speaker 1: this guy named Dave is let's see, what's his name,
Speaker 1: Dave Chessin. That's a great website and it taught me
Speaker 1: a lot. He does it. It's very simple. Everything is
Speaker 1: very easy. But that's kind of like the number one
Speaker 1: website just kind of look at every day. The website
Speaker 1: that I used to actually create my book is called
Speaker 1: press Books, and they let you it's kind of like
Speaker 1: word Press, but for writing books. Very simple. Now I
Speaker 1: say simple, it's simple at its heart. Formatting a book
Speaker 1: for print is not very easy and it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of trial and error. But this website is the
Speaker 1: best that I found. There's a lot of other software
Speaker 1: that can do it, but press books. To me, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit more expensive, but it really is nice.
Speaker 1: And by expensive I mean you don't have to pay
Speaker 1: until you actually publish it. You can do the whole
Speaker 1: thing for free. So if you write your whole book
Speaker 1: and you decide, eh, this is not very good, you
Speaker 1: just don't use it. You don't have to pay. But
Speaker 1: once you do decide to actually export it in a
Speaker 1: format that can go to the Kindle or go to
Speaker 1: hardcover publishing or paperback publishing, you do have to pay.
Speaker 1: That's a great website. And then the other one, obviously
Speaker 1: is Kindled Direct Publishing. This is Amazon's way that you
Speaker 1: can get your book in on the Kindle or as
Speaker 1: a paperback in the Amazon Store, and it works fantastically.
Speaker 2: And that's what you used for your last book.
Speaker 1: That's what I used for my book one hundred and
Speaker 1: one Handi Tech Tips for the iPhone. I published it
Speaker 1: all by myself, no external help, and it was great.
Speaker 1: It did really well. It was it exceeded my expectations.
Speaker 1: And of course, now you know, I'm writing the next book, Yes,
Speaker 1: one hundred and one Handy Ticktips of the iPhone. I
Speaker 1: was thinking of some new titles, so I'll tell you
Speaker 1: some of the titles. So I was thinking iPhone, what
Speaker 1: was it? Unlocked the iPhone?
Speaker 2: I was thinking, okay, I like that.
Speaker 1: Then the other one was just handy tech tips for
Speaker 1: the iPhone. Drop the one on one because it's a mouthful.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else.
Speaker 2: I thought you had one oh one iPhone.
Speaker 1: Something oh iPhone one on one. I was thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: So anyway, those are some of the things.
Speaker 2: Exciting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's exciting when I don't.
Speaker 1: Know I have right now, I've written sixty something tips
Speaker 1: those last forty that I'm kind of not struggling with.
Speaker 1: But it's definitely like, okay, this is this takes some
Speaker 1: effort because don't forget, I put a lot of the
Speaker 1: best tips in the first two books, so I need
Speaker 1: to decide if I'm gonna include some of those in
Speaker 1: the next book. Yeah, make it kind of like a
Speaker 1: one stop shop, or if I have to make it
Speaker 1: like new tips, And then you have to go back
Speaker 1: to the old book for the old tips. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm still still kind of figuring that out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's excited.
Speaker 1: All right, Well let's talk about the Note ten. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been using this for the past week or so,
Speaker 1: and it is a really nice phone. It's a really
Speaker 1: I think the way I would sum up this review
Speaker 1: is big. This phone is big in every way, like
Speaker 1: the features, the size. It is a really nice phone.
Speaker 1: It's not a phone that I personally will use. I
Speaker 1: used it for the week and that was kind of
Speaker 1: enough for me. And that's not to say this is
Speaker 1: a bad phone. I think that it's a very nice phone.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if it's for everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think that ninety nine point nine percent
Speaker 1: of people will be better served with the Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: S ten plus if they're thinking about this phone. The
Speaker 1: only reason really to get this device is if you
Speaker 1: want the stylus. And if you have no use for
Speaker 1: a stylus, why are you getting this. That's kind of
Speaker 1: my thesis. The cameras are nearly identical. I can't see
Speaker 1: any improvement in the cameras over previous Samsung devices. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of kind of mad at Samsung because
Speaker 1: the cameras used to get so much better with each Samsung,
Speaker 1: and now I feel like they've gotten to this point
Speaker 1: where they're not very good. Whereas the iPhone, when we
Speaker 1: went from even iPhone ten to iPhone ten s, the
Speaker 1: camera's significantly improved. I'm talking really improved, and with the
Speaker 1: Note ten plus, I don't see that improvement, which kind
Speaker 1: of makes me sad. Yeah, the other things to know
Speaker 1: about this phone is that it is big. Did I
Speaker 1: say that it's big. It's big and using the spen.
Speaker 1: So the main things that they're trying to sell in
Speaker 1: this new phone is that it has a lot of
Speaker 1: features for video and audio, and I think that's great,
Speaker 1: But is it really going to become the creator's device
Speaker 1: of choice. I don't know. I still think that the
Speaker 1: iPhone's easier to use when it comes to video and audio.
Speaker 1: I still think the camera is a little bit slower
Speaker 1: on the Note than it is on other phones that
Speaker 1: I test, which kind of annoys me. Again because this
Speaker 1: is Samsung. I do think that Samsung did their homework
Speaker 1: and stuff like the live focus video is really cool,
Speaker 1: but how often are you going to use that, probably
Speaker 1: not very long. Often that's the video gives you the
Speaker 1: blurry background. This whole thing about the depth vision camera
Speaker 1: which lets you three D map things. Remember, on the
Speaker 1: stage they showed I don't know if you watched the presentation,
Speaker 1: but they showed like them three D scanning a little okay,
Speaker 1: stuffed animal. Who's really going to do that after the
Speaker 1: first time you ever do that? No one, No one's
Speaker 1: three D scanning their stuff. Super Steady's really cool, we
Speaker 1: had that before. Screen recorder's cool, but you can download
Speaker 1: an app to get that. The video editor is cool
Speaker 1: and it's great for like very small use cases. But
Speaker 1: if you're actually going to create videos for social media
Speaker 1: and the web, you're probably going to download an app
Speaker 1: like Adobe Rush to do that. And so their video
Speaker 1: editing that they put on there is really cool, but
Speaker 1: it's very basic. It's very simple, and I think that
Speaker 1: most people who are making videos for a living or
Speaker 1: for social media will be better served with Adobe's program,
Speaker 1: which by the way, costs ten dollars a month, but
Speaker 1: it's on there. But if you have a Samsung Galaxy No,
Speaker 1: you can get it for eight dollars a month for
Speaker 1: a year. Oh which is kind of nice. Wow, ar doodle,
Speaker 1: you're never going to use after the first time, you
Speaker 1: know where you saw me with a little cowboy hat
Speaker 1: on you like you can kind of draw in three
Speaker 1: D on someone's video. How often are you gonna use that?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Almost never?
Speaker 2: Don't they have that on Snapchat now?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe don't know what the kids are
Speaker 1: doing on Snapchat And the rest of the stuff. All
Speaker 1: the integration with your computer, I think is really handy
Speaker 1: if you are on a Windows computer Windows PC, I
Speaker 1: think that stuff is pretty cool. But at this point,
Speaker 1: a lot of these things, you know, it's just it's
Speaker 1: a lot, and it's a good phone. It's an expensive phone.
Speaker 1: The screen is beautiful. I find that it's very big.
Speaker 1: Even after a week of use, it was kind of
Speaker 1: tough to get used to. A couple of things that
Speaker 1: really annoy me are the power button is moved to
Speaker 1: the left side of the phone instead of the right,
Speaker 1: where it's much easier to get with your thumb. So
Speaker 1: I found myself like having to go reach over kind
Speaker 1: of get this thing activated, which I didn't like.
Speaker 2: Why would they move it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. The fingerprint sensor, I don't think is
Speaker 1: very good, although they did put out a software update
Speaker 1: that sort of improved it. Batteries amazing, camera is okay.
Speaker 1: I still think the iPhone takes better pictures in certain circumstances.
Speaker 1: I think that in bright circumstances, especially with like scenery
Speaker 1: and stuff, the Samsung does a better job. With people,
Speaker 1: I think that the iPhone does a better job. It
Speaker 1: just captures them better.
Speaker 2: Interesting, and that's kind of it.
Speaker 3: Any other questions you have, well, didn't you didn't it
Speaker 3: inspire you to buy a different phone?
Speaker 2: Or do you not want to talk about?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you really put me out there. Yes,
Speaker 1: yesterday I bought a Pixel three XCEL because I had
Speaker 1: my hopes set on the Note ten and I thought
Speaker 1: that was going to kind of be my phone to use.
Speaker 1: And I realized that I don't. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of the heavy handed approach to software that Samsung
Speaker 1: puts on their devices, and I just realized that I
Speaker 1: kind of like love the way Google's phones are pure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I kind of said this with the one Plus.
Speaker 1: I just love the way it's very pure. But the
Speaker 1: one Plus camera is not as good as the Pixel.
Speaker 1: So I did buy the Pixel yesterday. Same day shipping
Speaker 1: on Amazon. I bought it in the morning and I
Speaker 1: got it by like six o'clock last night. I did
Speaker 1: not tell Lindsay that I purchased this, so why, uh well,
Speaker 1: it was a couple hundred bucks. So I just figured,
Speaker 1: how do you like it?
Speaker 2: So far?
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm the camera is just so good.
Speaker 1: So I just love the camera. It's not it's it's
Speaker 1: a stop gap until I get the pixel four probably
Speaker 1: right right, okay, But and I still have my iPhone,
Speaker 1: so I still have that, So I you know, I used,
Speaker 1: I used the best of all these worlds, you know,
Speaker 1: but I realized that I kind of missed the pixel camera.
Speaker 3: Okay, So this next question comes from your email, which
Speaker 3: is by the way, Rich on tech dot Tv. You
Speaker 3: just go to his website and you can find a
Speaker 3: place to contact Rich and send in your question. This
Speaker 3: is from Pam. I think you had talked about a
Speaker 3: find my Watch feature that you could launch from your iPhone.
Speaker 3: Am I dreaming. I've looked in your book, but I
Speaker 3: think you talked about it in the last few months.
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of things going on here. Find
Speaker 1: Number one, you have an app on your iPhone called
Speaker 1: find my iPhone or it's find my phone. I think
Speaker 1: now it's being changed to what's called find my Do
Speaker 1: you remember there's two apps on your phone. There's find
Speaker 1: my iPhone or find my phone, and then there's find
Speaker 1: my Friends. Yeah, those are being merged in iOS thirteen. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's becoming one app. So you open which makes sense.
Speaker 2: You'll see your friends and you'll see.
Speaker 1: Your devices devices. But it's two tabs at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the page. So you click one for your friends,
Speaker 1: you see them on a little map. You click one
Speaker 1: for your devices. Makes sense. You go to one place
Speaker 1: to find everything. Now you will see your Apple Watch
Speaker 1: on there if you're in a Wi Fi area and
Speaker 1: your Apple Watch is on, or it'll show you the
Speaker 1: last known location of your device. If you have a
Speaker 1: cellular watch, obviously it can show you where it is
Speaker 1: if it's somewhere you know, if you lost it in
Speaker 1: the woods somewhere, it'll show you where it is. But
Speaker 1: the thing you need to know about this is a
Speaker 1: you have to activate it when you set up your device,
Speaker 1: like say find my So I always recommend people open
Speaker 1: up to find my Phone app and just make sure
Speaker 1: all your devices are sort of on there before you
Speaker 1: lose them, because once you lose them, you can't do
Speaker 1: anything about it. So just make sure if you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone and an iPad, a MacBook, and an Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: go open up the Find my iPhone app and just
Speaker 1: make sure that those are listed there and there's not
Speaker 1: any problems if you don't see one of them. Set
Speaker 1: it up now. I think she's also confusing the feature
Speaker 1: that's on your Apple Watch that allows you to find
Speaker 1: your iPhone. There's a pang feature, so if you swipe
Speaker 1: up from the bottom of your Apple Watch, you can
Speaker 1: find it looks like a little iPhone with two little
Speaker 1: kind of pings coming out of it, like a wave
Speaker 1: being omitted out of it. You press that and it
Speaker 1: will ping your iPhone and make a sound on your
Speaker 1: iPhone so you can find it around the house.
Speaker 3: Okay, that might be it, because she does right. It
Speaker 3: was in parentheses and I'm just seeing it and can
Speaker 3: you tell I've lost my watch? So she must have
Speaker 3: lost her watch and she's trying to figure out how
Speaker 3: to trace it.
Speaker 1: So she's gonna need the app. And the other place
Speaker 1: you can go, by the way is iCloud dot com
Speaker 1: slash find, and that will also give you a list
Speaker 1: of all your devices. But again, set this stuff up before.
Speaker 1: Just go to this right now if you have Apple devices,
Speaker 1: and make sure that your stuff is listed, because if
Speaker 1: it's not, you're not gonna be able to find it
Speaker 1: when it's actually lost.
Speaker 2: And if your watch is dead, you won't find it.
Speaker 1: No, but we did do that story on the guy
Speaker 1: who lost his Apple watch at sea and found it
Speaker 1: six months later someone else found it and when they
Speaker 1: charged it up, and here's why, you also want to
Speaker 1: put the lost message on it. When the guy charged up.
Speaker 1: The person who found this watch that washed up at sea,
Speaker 1: he charged it up. He went out and bought the
Speaker 1: charger right, charged up the watch, and then when it
Speaker 1: came to life, is said the person who owned it
Speaker 1: their name and phone number on the screen. He called
Speaker 1: it and reunited it with its owner. Didn't ask for anything, Megan,
Speaker 1: You love auto correct?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Love it? Need it?
Speaker 1: How many times has autocorrect messed up something for you?
Speaker 3: When I try to write certain words, it'll change it.
Speaker 2: To like duck.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, maybe I shouldn't have say no, you're
Speaker 1: writing that word.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, like you know, some words change and
Speaker 3: that's I wanted.
Speaker 1: To say this, and for some reason they changed when
Speaker 1: you press send, like yeah, like you see it after
Speaker 1: you send it, and I'm like, wait, that's not what
Speaker 1: I wrote exactly. So now we need Gmail to do
Speaker 1: the same thing. And Gmail is now doing two things.
Speaker 1: They're going to check your grammar as you type, which
Speaker 1: is cool. I think that's great. I use a plug
Speaker 1: in called grammar ly which does the same thing, but
Speaker 1: now it's going to be built in. I noticed that
Speaker 1: they built it into Google Docs because when I was
Speaker 1: writing my book, which I did not write in Google
Speaker 1: Docs last time, I wrote it in Apple Notes, but
Speaker 1: this time I'm writing it in Google Docs, and it's
Speaker 1: actually been a lot better because it corrects my grammar.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, wow, well, aren't.
Speaker 3: You happy you're writing in Google Docs because with the
Speaker 3: crash of your.
Speaker 1: Well notes would have been backed up. I backed it
Speaker 1: up in my cloud as well. Okay, but yeah, pretty
Speaker 1: much everything was backed up in my computer except Parker's pictures.
Speaker 1: It's all what a bad dad. So they're they're doing
Speaker 1: the grammar correction and instead of read squiggly lines, that
Speaker 1: will be blue squiggly lines. And the new thing that
Speaker 1: they're doing with spelling is that they're going to change
Speaker 1: right now. If you ever see spell check on Gmail
Speaker 1: when you're typing, it puts read squiggly lines, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't change the word for you. What they're doing that's
Speaker 1: different is now they will start changing words that they
Speaker 1: sort of know are spelled wrong. So if you type
Speaker 1: weird the wrong way, which is like I always forget
Speaker 1: which way it's spelled, W E I R D, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: So if you type w I E r D, yeah,
Speaker 1: it will kind of know, oh, we know that's the
Speaker 1: wrong Yeah, you're weird. It'll change that automatically, so it
Speaker 1: will auto correct okay, which I think could be kind
Speaker 1: of dangerous with work emails because I've seen the changes
Speaker 1: in the past with my texts, and if it does
Speaker 1: some of those things, it puts some words in there
Speaker 1: that you're like, I did not mean that, Like I've said,
Speaker 1: give me a sec it'll change it something else.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, so awkward.
Speaker 1: It is awkward, especially when you're texting your mom.
Speaker 3: Yeah sucks. Mom does not want to see that.
Speaker 1: No, not fun anyway, So be aware of the blue
Speaker 1: squiggly lines and the red squiggly lines okay in Gmail. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, that's coming to the Gmail business users first,
Speaker 1: then they'll probably roll it out to the regular the
Speaker 1: rest of us.
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, all right, Well, this next question comes from
Speaker 3: Penny and its subject is via SAT. Seeing ads on
Speaker 3: this new internet service called via sat.
Speaker 2: Can you do a look see for us and let
Speaker 2: us know if it's a.
Speaker 3: Viable alternative to in my case, the Ugly Verse, the
Speaker 3: few options.
Speaker 1: Available out the Ugly Verse Ugly I had you Verse
Speaker 1: for many years. I had no problem with it. It
Speaker 1: was great. They were actually a sponsor of our program,
Speaker 1: and so I got them at home to make sure
Speaker 1: I used them and try them outside everything I had,
Speaker 1: Like at one point I had AT and T service,
Speaker 1: U Verse Internet and u Verse TV, and then I
Speaker 1: got Direct TV and it was fine. I mean, my
Speaker 1: u Verse was actually great back then. It was only
Speaker 1: twenty five down I think, but it was fine. I
Speaker 1: never had any problem with it. Okay, So here is
Speaker 1: the thing about via SAT. I don't think, unless what's
Speaker 1: this person's Penny, Penny, Unless Penny lives in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere in a rural area, I don't recommend VIASAT
Speaker 1: Satellite Internet is not where it's at right now. It's
Speaker 1: just it's way too slow, the latency issues, and it's
Speaker 1: gotten better over the years, but I'm looking the bottom
Speaker 1: line is you are going to pay more for less.
Speaker 1: So if you look at these three speeds you've got.
Speaker 1: The Bronze is up to twelve megabits per second for
Speaker 1: fifty dollars a month. Then it goes up to seventy
Speaker 1: dollars a month. That's really expensive. I pay seventy dollars
Speaker 1: a month for one hundred this is twelve Oh no, no, no, yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: we can't have that. Recommended for most households is Silver,
Speaker 1: which is twenty five and that's one hundred dollars after
Speaker 1: three months. So again I pay that. I pay less
Speaker 1: for four times faster speed through cable. So bottom line,
Speaker 1: Penny Viasat is not a good alternative. I would recommend
Speaker 1: going too high speed Internet dot com. Type in your
Speaker 1: zip code and see what your other option is. And
Speaker 1: does she give her zip code or where she's from?
Speaker 3: Um no, no, okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1: So the bottom line is you generally only have two providers,
Speaker 1: which is a cable company and a phone company. She's
Speaker 1: saying she's using the phone company. So check your cable company,
Speaker 1: which is either Spectrum, Frontier, Sentry Link one of these
Speaker 1: other companies, and see what the price is for the
Speaker 1: for the speed and you can switch from your verse.
Speaker 1: But unless you don't like their customer service or something like,
Speaker 1: the service is not that bad. It's just you don't
Speaker 1: have many options when it comes to internet sactly.
Speaker 2: It is sad.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Disney Woo. Are you a Disney fan?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yes?
Speaker 1: What what love Disney Princess? Would you be?
Speaker 3: Well? Growing up, I was obsessed with Sleeping Beauty because
Speaker 3: she had blonde.
Speaker 1: Hair, and so I was like, you know, you thought
Speaker 1: you were sleeping movies?
Speaker 2: Thought I was.
Speaker 1: I could ever fall asleep for a long time. What
Speaker 1: was Sleeping Beauty's deal? Did she fall asleep like by
Speaker 1: eating an apple or something.
Speaker 2: She's the one who she.
Speaker 1: Got bit by a spider, she had a curse.
Speaker 2: Put on her.
Speaker 3: Then she lived with her fairy godmothers in the forest,
Speaker 3: and when she turned sixteen, she would like fall asleep.
Speaker 1: Wow, I got to watch that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you should have they done a remake of today?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I don't think I ever saw Sleeping Beauty
Speaker 1: to be honest, or a Punzel or any Disney except Ariel.
Speaker 1: What's what's that? Little Mermaid? Little Mermaid and Beauty the Beast.
Speaker 1: I saw that. Yes, these are all the things. Oh
Speaker 1: this is a perfect segue into when I subscribe to
Speaker 1: Disney Plus, I'll be able to watch Sleeping Beauty because
Speaker 1: it will probably be honest.
Speaker 3: Like one of the first Princess movies done by Walt Disney.
Speaker 1: Disney Plus is set to launch on November twelfth. We've
Speaker 1: talked about this before, but the new news is that
Speaker 1: it might not launch on Amazon's fire TV, which a
Speaker 1: lot of people have. And the story goes that Disney
Speaker 1: confirmed they had this big announcement that hey, we're launching
Speaker 1: on all these platforms, and they mentioned in my name,
Speaker 1: Apple TV, iOS, Chrome Cast, Android, Android TV, PlayStation, Roku, Xbox.
Speaker 1: Did not say a word about Amazon fireTV, And some
Speaker 1: of you might say, rich they mentioned Android and Android TV,
Speaker 1: that's what fireTV is based on. But no, fire TV
Speaker 1: is its own thing. Even though it's based on Android.
Speaker 1: We know. We went to the fireTV party in Las Vegas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's its own thing.
Speaker 2: There is a Disney person there.
Speaker 1: There was a Disney person there. He was just kind
Speaker 1: of like drinking and eating free food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So the thing is, we still have some time before
Speaker 1: the launch in November. But I think that Amazon is
Speaker 1: like not making friends, Like they're really bad at making friends.
Speaker 1: If you remember, YouTube and YouTube TV were not on
Speaker 1: there for the longest time. They finally just made up
Speaker 1: and we got a YouTube app. I believe when DirecTV
Speaker 1: first launched, like they weren't on there, or maybe it
Speaker 1: was Roku one of them. But the point is Amazon
Speaker 1: makes some friends. Yeah, come on, because they had a
Speaker 1: big feud with Apple. Remember all the Apple products weren't
Speaker 1: in their store for a while. Chrome Cast was out
Speaker 1: of their Amazon shopping for a while. They need to
Speaker 1: make friends with Disney, yes, because they need Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: People will switch platforms to get Disney Plus. If you have.
Speaker 2: Kids, they will lose us.
Speaker 1: You will switch to a Roku to get Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: If you have Amazon that I have, that's what you have.
Speaker 1: So you're good. Are you going You're not going to
Speaker 1: subscribe to this? You don't need this? I mean seven
Speaker 1: bucks a month? Why would you do that? Like, are
Speaker 1: you really that big into Disney?
Speaker 2: No? I don't have kids, so I guess there's really
Speaker 2: no reason.
Speaker 1: But as you like secretly like like you're like clicking
Speaker 1: go on your thing to like subscribe right now.
Speaker 3: I mean I really just wouldn't need it, So, yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't need it.
Speaker 2: But ABC shows that's true. The Bachelor will be on there,
Speaker 2: will it?
Speaker 1: It is that'll probably be on Hulu.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I have Hulu, so I'm fine, but you can get
Speaker 1: the bundle which they also announce Whi's gonna be thirteen
Speaker 1: dollars for Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and Hulu.
Speaker 2: I don't have thirteen dollars to spare for that.
Speaker 1: Well, how much you're paying for Hulu or are you already
Speaker 1: getting it for free right now?
Speaker 2: How would I be getting it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Are you using someone's passwords? Oh no, no, no, okay,
Speaker 1: just making sure.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Oh, I take that back. Let me do one more thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: since we are on the topic of kids and family
Speaker 1: the Roku. Speaking of Roku, they launched a kids in
Speaker 1: family section. It's called the Kids and Family on the
Speaker 1: Roku channel. And I will tell you what's so popular
Speaker 1: right now are these streaming services, but the free streaming services?
Speaker 1: People love free we're at a TV station that's free.
Speaker 1: People love free. Who doesn't love free? So if you
Speaker 1: can get a Roku and what they've done is they've
Speaker 1: curated all this programming that's free, ad supported with commercials,
Speaker 1: but still you can go on there and watch stuff
Speaker 1: for free, kind of like YouTube, but like you know,
Speaker 1: TV shows. So Roku has kind of found this that
Speaker 1: people really like that, and other people are catching on.
Speaker 1: There's other services that do similar things, like Pluto TV.
Speaker 1: There's also Amazon has a bunch of stuff that's not
Speaker 1: prime because you have to have a membership for that.
Speaker 1: But they have something called IMDbTV.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, which.
Speaker 1: I think was called freeview or something. They changed the name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did a story, but what was it called watch
Speaker 1: movies or Yeah? Was it freeview by Amazon? Uh No,
Speaker 1: I forget what they called it. I think it's called
Speaker 1: IMDbTV now they changed it on my they changed it
Speaker 1: on my service. Yeah, it used to be called free Dive.
Speaker 1: Now it's called IMDbTV, which makes more sense because that
Speaker 1: you understand what that means more IMDbTV. You're like, okay,
Speaker 1: so that's free with ads. Anyway, on Roku, you can
Speaker 1: look for a new kids and Family section, which has
Speaker 1: a bunch of kids and family stuff that's free. And
Speaker 1: if you have any of the premium subscriptions to like
Speaker 1: HBO or Stars, all that stuff, well we mixed in
Speaker 1: as well. This is curated by humans, which is kind
Speaker 1: of nice, so you can just have your kids look
Speaker 1: at this and find it show they want to walk.
Speaker 3: Wait, what do you mean if you have an HBO
Speaker 3: or Stars account, it'll be mixed in.
Speaker 1: So if you are on Roku, you can subscribe to
Speaker 1: HBO and Stars through Roku, so they know that, and
Speaker 1: then they say, oh, well, since you're an HBO subscriber,
Speaker 1: we'll put Sesame Street from HBO on this kids and
Speaker 1: Family section because we know you can play that. And
Speaker 1: I also think they'll probably upsell you by saying like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a show that you could be getting if you subscribe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: The other thing they're doing is a pin number, so
Speaker 1: now you can do a pin code to It's like
Speaker 1: a parental control, which is really smart because I told
Speaker 1: you Tanner bought three episodes of Bubble Guppies all by
Speaker 1: himself on my fire TV. Oh my that and I
Speaker 1: was gonna call Amazon to like, you know, dispute the charge,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know what, I can't it
Speaker 1: was my fault, like I left this thing open for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and thank god it was just that. But it was
Speaker 1: pretty funny when I saw that. I was like, how
Speaker 1: do you buy these? And he goes and he showed me.
Speaker 1: He goes, Dad, I just did this, and he showed
Speaker 1: me the exact thing he said. It said two ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, these kids these days.
Speaker 3: That's money, all right, switching gears. This next question come
Speaker 3: in from Perl. She writes, you did a piece on
Speaker 3: how to back up desktop to external hard drive? Can
Speaker 3: you explain how to do this? How often do you
Speaker 3: need to back up a desktop every night? Two times
Speaker 3: a week, once a week.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're me, yesterday yesterday, So it depends on
Speaker 1: which kind of computer you have. If you now, this
Speaker 1: is what I think. It's kind of funny because so
Speaker 1: much of what we're doing is in the cloud. So
Speaker 1: my computer where the hard drive just crashed, I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about anything that's on there because everything's in the cloud.
Speaker 1: I've got Google Drive, I've got my photos and Google Photos.
Speaker 1: I've got iCloud for all the other stuff, I will say,
Speaker 1: one thing I will be turning back on with iCloud
Speaker 1: is my desktop upload because on iCloud you could turn
Speaker 1: on where it sinks your desktop to the cloud on
Speaker 1: your Mac computer. I will be turning that back on
Speaker 1: because his photos were on the desktop. If I would
Speaker 1: have had that turned on, all his photos would be
Speaker 1: an iCloud. Really sad that I didn't have that turn on.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to bat backing up your computer,
Speaker 1: you can use a time machine on your Mac, which
Speaker 1: is super easy. You have you ever used this. You
Speaker 1: plug in a hard drive, you flip a switch, and boom,
Speaker 1: it just backs up and that does its own backup.
Speaker 1: It does it like every every like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like every ten minutes. It like just keeps pushing the
Speaker 1: backup like it just deletes the old one and just
Speaker 1: keeps doing it as long as your computer's on and
Speaker 1: the hard drive's plugged in. That's really easy. And then
Speaker 1: on Windows it's the same thing. You just literally go
Speaker 1: to your control panel system and maintenance and then backup.
Speaker 1: You pop a hard drive in. It formats that hard
Speaker 1: drive and it just keeps putting the backup on that
Speaker 1: drive as long as it's attached to your computer. So
Speaker 1: with a desktop computer, it's pretty easy just leave your
Speaker 1: your hard drive attached the external that you use to
Speaker 1: back up. On a laptop, it's a little trickier because
Speaker 1: you're not always going to have that plugged in, so
Speaker 1: it's more of like you have to remember, I would say,
Speaker 1: depending on how much stuff you store on your computer
Speaker 1: hard drive versus a cloud, that's how often you should
Speaker 1: back it up. If you're doing work every day from
Speaker 1: home and writing a book that's stored on your hard drive,
Speaker 1: you want to back that hard drive up every day, Yeah,
Speaker 1: every hour practically, But if you're not, if you're doing
Speaker 1: stuff like me, like I get a little note on
Speaker 1: my computer, which, oh maybe I backed it up since then?
Speaker 1: Oh oh maybe I did, because I do use time machine,
Speaker 1: so maybe it's on my backup. Oh I'm gonna check
Speaker 1: that when I get home. But it's been nagging me.
Speaker 1: It's been saying, like, you haven't backed up in like
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty four days.
Speaker 2: That's what mine says.
Speaker 1: It's been a while, but we know we don't need
Speaker 1: it as much. Yeah, yeah, realistically, what are you gonna lose?
Speaker 3: Just like all my memories from college, which is fine.
Speaker 1: Do you really not have those backed up? Actually, in
Speaker 1: your case, those will probably be better to lose.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I have everything backed up. But to be
Speaker 3: completely honest, I so like I backed up my laptop
Speaker 3: from from college and then deleted all the pictures.
Speaker 1: Oh it makes sense.
Speaker 2: No, all the pictures on my computer.
Speaker 3: No, I saved it on the on the on the
Speaker 3: hard drive. But then like when I try to go
Speaker 3: and look at the pictures, it's like so so difficult
Speaker 3: to find.
Speaker 1: Here's what you do. Just take all those pictures and
Speaker 1: drag and drop them into Google Photos. Or do you
Speaker 1: not use Google Photos?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Oh, drag and drop them into Google Photos.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: And then with Google Photos, do you have do you
Speaker 3: pay the monthly?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because you might as well since you'll get
Speaker 3: the because it's either.
Speaker 1: Free yes, at us at a quality a certain quality,
Speaker 1: high quality, or it's unlimited at the regular quality like
Speaker 1: the quality you took them in. I'll be honest for
Speaker 1: your pictures from from college. You no, I think the
Speaker 1: high school too, Yeah. I think they'll be fine with
Speaker 1: the with the regular quality, like the quality that they
Speaker 1: get for free. They'll be fine. Yeah, because the pictures
Speaker 1: weren't big enough. If only you only need the better
Speaker 1: quality if you're taking it does up to twelve megapixels
Speaker 1: for free, So unless your camera was over twelve, you
Speaker 1: really don't need to worry about it. Which your camera
Speaker 1: back in the day. I know it's only a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago.
Speaker 3: But iPhone, yeah, like three years ago.
Speaker 1: I don't think iPhone has gone over twelve megapixels yet. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's ever like it. Maybe maybe it's
Speaker 1: sixteen for the newest I see iPhone tens megapixels. They
Speaker 1: don't even talk about the megapixels on the cameras anymore.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, they don't twelve meg Yeah, it's a he's
Speaker 1: been twelve.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's what I'll do.
Speaker 1: Did you ask a question? Yeah, you did, and.
Speaker 2: You answered it. You just said basically, I.
Speaker 1: Said, basically your sol No, I'm just kidding, that's me.
Speaker 1: Good luck. Have you applied for your Apple card yet, Megan? No,
Speaker 1: are you going to?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Well, I wanted to. When it first came out.
Speaker 1: You were very excited about this. Yeah, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are getting them. It's the Apple Card, and you
Speaker 1: know that I'm not a huge credit card person, even
Speaker 1: though I have a credit card. I do listen to
Speaker 1: Dave Ramsey and he says no to credit cards. I
Speaker 1: try to do that, but it's really tough. Yeah, credit
Speaker 1: cards are just convenient. I feel like they're more secure
Speaker 1: when you're buying stuff online. Although I did buy something
Speaker 1: from Target today and I use my debit cards all scared. Well,
Speaker 1: it's just I feel like once that number's out there,
Speaker 1: it's my general rule of thumb is I tell you this,
Speaker 1: if my card is leaving my hand, I give a
Speaker 1: credit card.
Speaker 2: That's like one of your best tips.
Speaker 1: It's a good tip, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I always think about that.
Speaker 1: And it's true because like you put your card out
Speaker 1: in a restaurant and it's like, I'm not saying these
Speaker 1: people are always stealing it, but it just feels better knowing,
Speaker 1: like if they steal a credit card, it's fine, Like
Speaker 1: you get a new one, you call Chase, you tell
Speaker 1: them like, hey, my number got stolen. If it's your
Speaker 1: debit card, it just feels different because like your money's
Speaker 1: out of your account totally. And then I was thinking,
Speaker 1: like how much money can they get out of your
Speaker 1: account in one day? Like I used to have a
Speaker 1: limit on my ATM withdrawal, like five hundred dollars a day.
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, well from your checking account,
Speaker 1: from my checking account, right. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's still there or if they like increase that over time.
Speaker 1: But I always wonder, like, if you lost your debit card,
Speaker 1: what's the max someone can spend on it before you
Speaker 1: get they get cut off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I keep my checking at zero.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was gonna say that's why I don't keep
Speaker 1: much I do. I have a separate account for just
Speaker 1: my debit card, so I don't keep it as part
Speaker 1: of my regular just because it's like separate money.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, So the Apple Card works through the iPhone.
Speaker 1: Everyone can apply for at this point, not that I'm
Speaker 1: recommending that you will apply. I don't think this is
Speaker 1: the best credit card out there. I do think it's fun.
Speaker 1: I do think it's convenient if you have an iPhone.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of cool. It's very high tech.
Speaker 1: You get this cool Platinum card in the mail. It's
Speaker 1: all free. You get three percent back on anything you
Speaker 1: use anything you purchase from Apple, which includes your iPhone
Speaker 1: payment or your iPhone purchase and also any apps, app Store, iCloud,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. You get two percent cash back
Speaker 1: on anything that you use tap to pay to buy.
Speaker 1: So if you're using your phone at the checkout, you
Speaker 1: tap it to pay, you get two percent, and you
Speaker 1: get one percent on any time you're using the physical card,
Speaker 1: which a lot of credit cards out there, you can
Speaker 1: get two percent on the physical card. But I'm not here,
Speaker 1: I'm not the points guy. I'm not trying to tell
Speaker 1: you how to like hack the system get all the points.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is a fun, inconvenient card to have.
Speaker 1: I kind of like some of the tech aspects of it,
Speaker 1: especially how you pay the bill. You use this slider.
Speaker 1: So let's say you can't pay the whole bill one month.
Speaker 1: You can use a little slider and it shows you, like,
Speaker 1: if you can only pay five hundred out of one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, how much your interest is going to be.
Speaker 1: And if you slide it a little bit more, it'll
Speaker 1: be like, well it would be twenty five dollars interest,
Speaker 1: or if you pay a little bit more, be twenty
Speaker 1: twenty dollars. So that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: Oh sweet, Okay, we'll just try and understand the interest,
Speaker 3: like that, what's the APR.
Speaker 1: Well, it depends. Everyone's saying it's not the best APR either.
Speaker 1: Apparently it depends on your credit got it?
Speaker 2: So okay.
Speaker 1: The other thing it does is I think it's kind
Speaker 1: of cool is it shows you the actual name of
Speaker 1: the place that you purchase from. So with US, a
Speaker 1: lot of times you purchase from these little random places
Speaker 1: with your debit card and it just says like MCO
Speaker 1: Enterprises and you're like, what the heck is that? This
Speaker 1: cross references it with Google, with Apple Maps and gives
Speaker 1: you the actual name. So, especially with gas stations, a
Speaker 1: lot of the times, yeah, they don't say the name.
Speaker 1: This will be like Exon on you know, West third Street,
Speaker 1: you know, so you know that it's a place. The
Speaker 1: other thing that's kind of funny about this is Apple
Speaker 1: released a support document called how to clean your Apple
Speaker 1: Card because this thing is white, and it says you
Speaker 1: can gently wipe it with a soft, slightly damp, lint
Speaker 1: free microfibercloth. As a second step, you can moisten the
Speaker 1: microfiber with alcohol and wipe again, but don't use household cleaners.
Speaker 1: Compressed air aerosol, spray, solvents, ammonia, or abrasives. And they
Speaker 1: say should keep it in a wallet, pocket or soft
Speaker 1: bag away from hard objects.
Speaker 2: And you're not supposed to wear it with like leather pants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, leather and denim, so it could permanently discolor it.
Speaker 1: Don't put this in your pocket by itself.
Speaker 3: Well, at least it's not like blowing up or something
Speaker 3: that'd be that'd be terrible.
Speaker 2: All right, So this next question.
Speaker 1: This is it is your last question, Megan, make it
Speaker 1: a good one.
Speaker 3: Marty writes in My husband and I are going to
Speaker 3: be in Greece, Italy and Spain next month.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm jealous.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nice life, Yeah, Marty, cool Marty.
Speaker 3: We will be using our iPhones with the Wi Fi
Speaker 3: at our hotels. Should we get a VPN app?
Speaker 2: Do we need it?
Speaker 3: And if so, which ones do you recommend?
Speaker 1: I don't think you need a VPN app. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: traveled around the world without. I do have one, but
Speaker 1: I don't use it, and I've traveled everywhere with my phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The reason why you don't need it is because if
Speaker 1: you're going to China, I would say yes. If you're
Speaker 1: going to Russia, I would say yes, if you're going
Speaker 1: to country like that, yes, But if you're going to
Speaker 1: a country like Italy, where else is this? Are they
Speaker 1: going on this Spain wanderlust? Oh my gosh, Greece, Spain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these countries, you'll be fine with just using the Wi
Speaker 1: Fi that's provided. You'll be fine with using your internet
Speaker 1: connection on your phone if you have that enabled. But
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to worry about this too
Speaker 1: much because these countries are not in the business of
Speaker 1: like intercepting your communications. And most of the time, I mean, Marty,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna be doing. You're gonna be checking
Speaker 1: your email, You're gonna using Google Maps, You're gonna be
Speaker 1: using secure websites that work through a secure layer already,
Speaker 1: You're not really gonna have to worry about it. The
Speaker 1: only thing I do recommend is if you are checking
Speaker 1: your bank account through your phone and you are on
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, I would switch to the cellular connection so
Speaker 1: that you're not going through a public Wi Fi connection. Now,
Speaker 1: if you can't do that, I would recommend using a
Speaker 1: Wi Fi or a VPN. To recommend one, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's like Nord I think is a good one. I
Speaker 1: think there's just so many of them. Just do a
Speaker 1: free free trial of one of them. You can go
Speaker 1: in the app store and just find like a free
Speaker 1: trial of some of these. But I think private, I
Speaker 1: think what is it? Private VPN is like one of
Speaker 1: the big ones that people like. Yeah, private VPN. So
Speaker 1: if I had to recommend one, I'd probably say check
Speaker 1: out private VPN. Cool.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: All right, that's pretty much it for the time, I know.
Speaker 1: Can we come with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I have the family plan? Okay, so it's fifteen for.
Speaker 1: Like five people, for a lot of people. I did
Speaker 1: have that, and I was giving my mom accessed I
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Speaker 1: I got rid of it because I got Apple Music
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Speaker 2: So does she get Apple music.
Speaker 1: No, she's been using YouTube music for free on her
Speaker 1: Google home and she says, not as good as Spotify.
Speaker 1: And I'll get her I think for her good son,
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Speaker 1: pay like the ninety nine bucks and just that'll be
Speaker 1: like a nice gift. Because she's really she won't say
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Speaker 1: anytime I ask her, like, how has has it gotten
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Speaker 1: Rich on Tech, rich on Tech just search for it
Speaker 1: in there. What song are you listening to on repeat
Speaker 1: these days? Last time it was Zora Larson. Has that changed? Wait?
Speaker 2: That's so weird that you say that.
Speaker 1: Because she has a new song, because she has a well.
Speaker 3: It's not new, but it's new to me. I'm playing
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 2: That's what it's called all the time.
Speaker 1: You're playing all the time, all the time, all the.
Speaker 2: Time, all the time.
Speaker 1: Love it?
Speaker 3: And what else? There's this Snoop Dogg song that I
Speaker 3: think is so good.
Speaker 1: It's called Oh I heard this.
Speaker 2: I think it's so.
Speaker 3: Good and I don't know why everyone's not obsessed with it.
Speaker 1: It's new? Is it the California One?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Wait, it's not coming up.
Speaker 1: Okay, you look for that. You look for that while
Speaker 1: I talk about the end of the show. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for listening to the rich on Tech podcast. You
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Speaker 1: Please listen, because our job's here at KTLA depend on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Please do they know I'm just kidding, but they could. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you never.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We do appreciate you listening. If you have a question
Speaker 1: for the show, you can just go to rich on
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Speaker 1: probably won't answer you there. Sometimes I just ignore it
Speaker 1: because it's so much. There's so much.
Speaker 2: Notifications, so popular.
Speaker 1: See what it's like on my phone. I shouldn't.
Speaker 3: I should use your phone for a day and see
Speaker 3: what it's like to be you, not my new one.
Speaker 2: The song, yeah, it's called Countdown, Countdown. It's really good.
Speaker 2: I think it's really good.
Speaker 1: Listen to countdown and I think that's it. Do you
Speaker 1: enjoy the show?
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the show.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you?
Speaker 2: On Twitter?
Speaker 3: Producer Megan is the handle. I'm also on Instagram, but
Speaker 3: it's not that exciting.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a lot tougher to find you there.
Speaker 3: Monogle, it's a it's hard to.
Speaker 1: Say, all right, spell Thanks so much for listening. My
Speaker 1: name is rich Demiro rich on tech dot TV. We
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