Speaker 1: The AI pin.
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Speaker 2: that blends live TV plus streaming all in one place.
Speaker 2: Does Apple owe you money for a new gift card settlement?
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Speaker 2: this week include Jeremy Kaplan. He writes the wonder Tools newsletter.
Speaker 2: This is a newsletter all about cool AI tools, so
Speaker 2: we'll hear all about those. Brian Heater, hardware editor at
Speaker 2: tech Crunch, we'll talk about his hands on time with
Speaker 2: the Humane AI pin. This is the device that the
Speaker 2: tech world is going gaga over, either in a good
Speaker 2: way or in a bad way. Jefferson Graham friend of
Speaker 2: the show, He's a with Photo Walks TV. He's gonna
Speaker 2: explain how he captured an epic ten day time laps
Speaker 2: in Manhattan Beach, California with both the iPhone and the Samsung.
Speaker 2: He's gonna share tips on how to take similar videos
Speaker 2: and dish on which phone performed better.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you spent your weekend, but I
Speaker 2: was at Chuck E Cheese last night felt like I
Speaker 2: was a kid again. Not just for any old reason,
Speaker 2: but it came to my attention that Chuck E Cheese
Speaker 2: is moving away from animatronics. What I could remember being
Speaker 2: a kid being both memorized, mesmerized and also scared out
Speaker 2: of my mind looking at these large moving mice and
Speaker 2: dogs and whatever these things were. The moose, the band
Speaker 2: this is the Munches Make Believe band, and this band is,
Speaker 2: you know, just something that only the eighties could really
Speaker 2: bring about in this world. Right. So, we were at
Speaker 2: the Northridge, California location last night with the CEO of
Speaker 2: Chuck E Cheese and also Nolan Bushnell, the founder of
Speaker 2: Chuck E Cheese. He also founded Atari, so he has
Speaker 2: been instrumental in all things technology throughout the years, and
Speaker 2: he came up with the idea of this these animatronics.
Speaker 2: But here's the deal. Chuck E Cheese is changing with
Speaker 2: the times. They are ditching the animatronics for something they
Speaker 2: call Chuck E Cheese two point zero. Bobo definitely a
Speaker 2: kid of the eighties doesn't want this to go away.
Speaker 2: I know, I know four hundred Chuck E Cheese locations.
Speaker 2: Many of them have already gotten the upgrade, and the
Speaker 2: upgrades are now an interactive dance floor and a video wall.
Speaker 2: So the I guess the entertainment is going to be
Speaker 2: on this video wall.
Speaker 1: But here's the good news.
Speaker 2: For those of you that live in California, specifically Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: you can visit the Northridge, California location and see Munch's
Speaker 2: Make Believe Band in all their glory. This is going
Speaker 2: to stick around permanently. There you go. And I had
Speaker 2: to go back in my files of because we had
Speaker 2: my kids like sixth party, a sixth birthday party at
Speaker 2: this Chuck E Cheese location, and I had to go
Speaker 2: back and look, because last night, I will tell you,
Speaker 2: this band was really spruced up, like they looked good.
Speaker 2: They were in there, like everything was clean. It looked
Speaker 2: like this was like brand new. And so I looked
Speaker 2: back in my pictures and sure enough, this band is
Speaker 2: completely cleaned up from the way it was six years ago.
Speaker 2: Like this is the best case scenario of a Chuck
Speaker 2: E Cheese band. It's bright, they are all kind of
Speaker 2: clean and working, and you know, all the outfits are
Speaker 2: brand new. And so they really revamped this band to
Speaker 2: make them look their best. So last night with the
Speaker 2: was the grand reopening. Like I said, the CEO was there,
Speaker 2: no one was there. They explained this whole thing. They
Speaker 2: explained the changeover where they're changing with the times, and
Speaker 2: now this Northridge location is going to be a place
Speaker 2: that people will stop at when they come to California,
Speaker 2: when they come to Los Angeles, when they come to Hollywood,
Speaker 2: this Chuck E Cheese location will be a place they
Speaker 2: want to stop mostly for the parents, because the kids
Speaker 2: they don't really remember this stuff, they don't even know
Speaker 2: about this stuff. But for parents of a certain age,
Speaker 2: Chuck E Cheese was a big part of their childhood.
Speaker 2: Going into this darkly lit place that had games in
Speaker 2: pizza and food and the cake that I remember that
Speaker 2: was so delicious. It's all kind of changing, and it's
Speaker 2: the tickets are gone, the physical tickets are gone. The
Speaker 2: games are more fun, they're new. I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 2: they're competing with the iPad. That is no easy feat.
Speaker 2: Kids are like they see animatronics are like really a
Speaker 2: thing that kind of moves with pneumatics, like come on.
Speaker 2: So anyway, that is the story. If you want to
Speaker 2: see it, it's on my Instagram at rich On Tech.
Speaker 2: You can check out the band in all of their glory.
Speaker 2: And when you come to Los Angeles, when you come
Speaker 2: to Hollywood, you have to make a stop in little
Speaker 2: Old Northridge, California to see this Chuck E Cheese location,
Speaker 2: the only one in the nation that will feature the
Speaker 2: original animatronic band and by the way, the future of
Speaker 2: Chuck E Cheese. They announced it last night. Trampolines. They're
Speaker 2: going to be adding trampolines at their locations, which is interesting,
Speaker 2: but I guess they want to keep kids active and
Speaker 2: give them a place to jump around. And I know
Speaker 2: that those like sort of sky zone places are very popular.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's always fascinating to me when you see
Speaker 2: places changing with the times. And we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 2: how it all works out. Oh, I thought this was
Speaker 2: really interesting. So Google has a new way to shop.
Speaker 2: And it takes a lot to impress me with shopping tools,
Speaker 2: but this one does. And I got to say, Google
Speaker 2: obviously is scouring the web on a daily basis, and
Speaker 2: if you search in shop deals on Google, this is
Speaker 2: a brand new destination where they are. They're always looking
Speaker 2: at the prices of things online because in the course
Speaker 2: of searching the web, they are noticing what the prices
Speaker 2: of popular products are.
Speaker 1: And of course if.
Speaker 2: It goes down from one week to the next or
Speaker 2: one day to the next, Google sees a trend. And
Speaker 2: so now someone at Google got the smart idea of saying,
Speaker 2: you know what, why don't we put all of these
Speaker 2: things that we're tracking on one page and tell people
Speaker 2: about the items that have the biggest price drops.
Speaker 1: And so that's what they're doing.
Speaker 2: So if you go to Google dot com and search
Speaker 2: shop deals, you will see a bunch of popular categories.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at cell phones, I'm looking at cameras, I'm
Speaker 2: looking at laptops. I'm looking at tablets, headphones, all kinds
Speaker 2: of categories, TVs, watches, toys. You can see the products
Speaker 2: that have the best price drops. So, for instance, in
Speaker 2: the TV category, this uh wow Insignia TV forty nine
Speaker 2: ninety nine thirty seven percent off, Samsung q Leeds Smart
Speaker 2: TV thirteen hundred bucks, thirty five percent off. When you
Speaker 2: look at headphones, Apple Beats Solo three fifty percent off
Speaker 2: ninety nine dollars. Tablets a Samsung Galaxy tab A seven
Speaker 2: light one hundred thirty bucks, thirty five percent off.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else?
Speaker 2: A chromebook fifty percent off one hundred and fifty bucks
Speaker 2: at best Buy, on and on and on, Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 2: S twenty two three ninety nine forty two percent off.
Speaker 2: So again, shop deals is the magic search. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for a specific thing, just put that title in
Speaker 2: between shop deals. So for instance, shop Apple Watch deals
Speaker 2: will bring up the cheapest Apple watches. Now you have
Speaker 2: to remember the top line is always going to be sponsored.
Speaker 2: So if you don't want the sponsored stuff, which you know,
Speaker 2: that's fine, but you can move down past and you'll
Speaker 2: see the actual stuff that Google is cataloging. That is
Speaker 2: percentage off. So I thought that was pretty interesting. I
Speaker 2: thought that was pretty useful. I'm always on the lookout
Speaker 2: for better shopping tools, especially as we are heading into
Speaker 2: this season of shopping, and this was also interesting. I
Speaker 2: had a friend at work say, hey, Rich, is there
Speaker 2: any way to get a document that I have onto
Speaker 2: my Kindle? How do I get a document like a
Speaker 2: word document or anything else a pdf onto my Kindle?
Speaker 1: I said, It's very very easy. You go to.
Speaker 2: Amazon dot com slash send to Kindle. So if you
Speaker 2: have a PDF, you've got a document, you've got a
Speaker 2: text file, whatever you have, even JPEGs and anything you
Speaker 2: have up to two hundred megabytes, you can just drag
Speaker 2: and drop on this website and it will send it
Speaker 2: to your Kindle. So if you need to read a
Speaker 2: large document for work, you have an ebook, someone gave you,
Speaker 2: whatever you've got, just go to Amazon dot com slash
Speaker 2: send to Kindle.
Speaker 1: That is the letter's t o send to Kindle.
Speaker 2: You drag and drop and you can now read anything
Speaker 2: you want that you have as a document on your Kindle.
Speaker 1: Why do you want to do that? Well, the Kindle's
Speaker 1: so nice.
Speaker 2: The Kindle has a great screen, it's not a table
Speaker 2: it's a it's not like a tablet screen like your iPad.
Speaker 2: It's much easier on the eyes because it is a
Speaker 2: paper sort of looking document. So again, you want to
Speaker 2: send something to your kindle Amazon dot com slash send
Speaker 2: to kindle, very very easy. He tried it that night
Speaker 2: and he said, Rich it worked. I said, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, I told you it would.
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up, Uh, I got to tell you
Speaker 1: about this new AI pin.
Speaker 2: This thing has taken the tech world by storm, for
Speaker 2: better or for worse. You got to see what you
Speaker 2: think about this device. It is AI on a device
Speaker 2: that you wear. So we'll talk about that. Plus we'll
Speaker 2: take your questions at triple eight rich one oh one
Speaker 2: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here talking technology at triple eight rich one
Speaker 2: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 2: four one zero one. If you have a question about technology,
Speaker 2: give me a call. We got Kim standing by to
Speaker 2: get you on the air. So I told you about
Speaker 2: this device called Humane AI, and we're gonna have a
Speaker 2: guest talk about this. They went hands on with this thing,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you what it's all about, because it
Speaker 2: is kind of like one of the biggest stories in
Speaker 2: the tech world right now, and it's a head scratcher.
Speaker 2: This is a startup called Humane h u m an E.
Speaker 2: It's called the AI Pin. This is a new wearable
Speaker 2: AI assistant device and it's kind of an entirely new platform.
Speaker 2: So the way that the iPhone introduced apps, they are
Speaker 2: hoping that this new device might be similar to that.
Speaker 2: And so you wear this device and the best way
Speaker 2: to describe it, I mean, it's really tough to describe
Speaker 2: what it looks like.
Speaker 1: It looks like a.
Speaker 2: Tiny it's a pin. I don't know, it's a seven
Speaker 2: hundred Oh I should tell you the price, seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: So this is a seven hundred dollars pin that has microphones,
Speaker 2: It has a laser projector on it, it has no screen,
Speaker 2: has some lights, and it has a speaker. And the
Speaker 2: idea behind this device is that you can sort of
Speaker 2: ditch your smartphone and be more present and use AI
Speaker 2: to help you out in this world. So it is
Speaker 2: screenless and it has a voice activated AI assistant on it,
Speaker 2: so you can ask it things like Hey, catch me
Speaker 2: up on my email, or Hey, what was the name
Speaker 2: of the twenty third president, and it will search the web,
Speaker 2: search AI and bring that information back to you. It
Speaker 2: can also play music, it can also take pictures. It
Speaker 2: can do real time translation. So it is kind of
Speaker 2: a device of the future that really capitalizes on artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: And some of the biggest backers are Microsoft, Open AI, Qualcom.
Speaker 2: T Mobile provides the data connectivity. So it's six hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety nine dollars and twenty four dollars a month
Speaker 2: for this device. And so as I understand it, you
Speaker 2: can put your hand out in front of you. It
Speaker 2: will project out the screen onto your hand, so you
Speaker 2: can read little things or see little things.
Speaker 1: It can take pictures.
Speaker 2: It's got an apparently all day battery use, so you
Speaker 2: can swap the battery as you're using it, and that
Speaker 2: way you can use.
Speaker 1: It all day.
Speaker 2: And they said they've put a strong focus on privacy
Speaker 2: and security, so apparently it's not listening all the time,
Speaker 2: but you can ask it to do stuff at any time.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure how that works. And the bottom line.
Speaker 2: About this device is that the people who got to
Speaker 2: try it out first sort of got to see it
Speaker 2: in action, but they didn't necessarily get to try it
Speaker 2: in action, so they got to see a lot of
Speaker 2: demos of how this stuff works. But this is kind
Speaker 2: of like the first big major startup that is leaning
Speaker 2: very heavily into AI.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm kind of unsold on this thing.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna have Brian Heater of tech Crunch to
Speaker 2: talk about this a little bit later in the show
Speaker 2: because he went hands on, or I should say I
Speaker 2: guess eyes on in a demo, and it's it's one
Speaker 2: of those things where you kind of have to see
Speaker 2: it to understand it. I don't really get it. I
Speaker 2: feel like we've got our phones. People are a very
Speaker 2: much attached to their phones.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 2: We're trying to be a little bit more screenless, we're
Speaker 2: trying to be a little bit more present, But at
Speaker 2: the same time, it feels like you can replicate a
Speaker 2: lot of what this device does using a smart watch
Speaker 2: or your phone or a combination of both. And to
Speaker 2: go and spend seven hundred dollars on a new device
Speaker 2: to do all this stuff, I just don't know. So again,
Speaker 2: Humane AI Pin, We'll have to watch that one. Angie
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, writes in on the website rich on tech
Speaker 2: dot TV. I'm ten years behind great show. I keep
Speaker 2: my phone in the side pocket of my yoga pants
Speaker 2: while cleaning houses for work. I'm done having kids, but
Speaker 2: wondered if that's still a carcinogen risk having the phone
Speaker 2: in the side pocket. I have AirPods and a watch,
Speaker 2: but with them both, I like the phone close. I
Speaker 2: admire your positivity. Angie in Wisconsin. Well, Angie, I am
Speaker 2: no expert in all things health, and I would be
Speaker 2: remiss if I didn't say I've thought about this before,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure many people have. We've seen a whole
Speaker 2: cottage industry of gadgets pop up that purport to take
Speaker 2: the radiation away from phones or angle it away from
Speaker 2: your face or your head or whatever. And yes, many
Speaker 2: of us do carry our phones in our pockets.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've heard from experts that we're okay, and
Speaker 2: we have gone thirty years with these smartphones, and the
Speaker 2: conclusion is still sort of that we haven't seen an
Speaker 2: increased connection between cancer and the smartphone. And so I
Speaker 2: want to believe that we can believe that. But I
Speaker 2: will say my one concern that I do have is
Speaker 2: the fact that I wear an Apple Watch on my wrist. Now,
Speaker 2: with the phone, I go eight, ten, twelve, fourteen hours
Speaker 2: where it's not in my pocket, whereas with my Apple Watch,
Speaker 2: it is on my wrist the entire day and except
Speaker 2: for when I sleep, and for some people it is
Speaker 2: on their wrist when they sleep. And so I will
Speaker 2: say I am more concerned about that being so close
Speaker 2: to my wrist and the potential for issues there because
Speaker 2: it is on your body at all times. Now, the AirPods,
Speaker 2: you know, with the Bluetooth, I'm not really concerned about that.
Speaker 2: You know, you put them in and you take them out.
Speaker 2: I don't really think that's doing much. But I will
Speaker 2: say with the specifically cellular connection on your wrist, that
Speaker 2: does concern me a little bit. Especially kids. They're having
Speaker 2: these things on their wrist for a long long time.
Speaker 1: In their lifetime.
Speaker 2: So, Jerry still out, good question. I think it's important
Speaker 2: to be concerned with this stuff, but not, you know,
Speaker 2: too concern all right, coming up, Jeremy Kaplan Wonder Tools Newsletter,
Speaker 2: Let's learn about AI. You're listening to Rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 2: out talking technology with you at triple eight rich one
Speaker 2: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 2: four one one zero one. Give me a call if
Speaker 2: you have a question about technology. Joining me now is
Speaker 2: Jeremy Kaplan, director of Teacher, Teaching and Learning at Qune's
Speaker 2: Grad School of Journalism. He is the creator and writer
Speaker 2: of wonder Tools on substack. This is a great AI
Speaker 2: newsletter where he shares all kinds of useful tools that
Speaker 2: have to do with AI.
Speaker 1: Jeremy, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 4: Great to be here with you.
Speaker 1: So what made you start this newsletter on subsac.
Speaker 5: There's a huge amount of technology coming at us every day.
Speaker 5: It can be overwhelming, and I want to help people
Speaker 5: understand it and make the most of it.
Speaker 2: And so when you first heard about chat GBT, is
Speaker 2: that what got you into this. I mean, it's only
Speaker 2: been less than a year since that launched.
Speaker 5: It's been definitely something that got me really excited about AI.
Speaker 4: But I actually started the newsletter when the pandemic hit.
Speaker 4: I was alone in my home and.
Speaker 5: People were alone in their homes all over the country
Speaker 5: and trying to figure out how to live online.
Speaker 4: And I wanted to help people.
Speaker 5: So I've now written two hundred posts to help people
Speaker 5: in different ways with technology, including AI.
Speaker 1: Okay, so did you sort of when you first started
Speaker 1: it was AI the focus or did you kind of
Speaker 1: pivot to that.
Speaker 4: I pivoted to that first.
Speaker 5: It was Zoom and figuring out, you know, how do
Speaker 5: we have online meetings, how do we teach online, how
Speaker 5: do we work online? How do we live online and
Speaker 5: have fun online and meet people? So it was all
Speaker 5: of that online living, and then when AI hit with chagpt,
Speaker 5: it just became the AI revolution.
Speaker 2: Wow, and during the pandemic, bring us back to that
Speaker 2: time because it was such a you know, no one
Speaker 2: knew what was next, and so of course everyone was
Speaker 2: hopping on Zoom and all these different tools. We all
Speaker 2: learned how to work online and remote. What was it
Speaker 2: like for this newsletter?
Speaker 5: You know, it was a way for me to connect
Speaker 5: with people and to help people. You know, I couldn't
Speaker 5: necessarily volunteer in hospitals. I don't have a medical background,
Speaker 5: but I was a teacher, and I saw other teachers struggling,
Speaker 5: including you know, my kindergartener had a teacher who just
Speaker 5: didn't even know how to work our computer, and so
Speaker 5: I just saw all these teachers and other people who
Speaker 5: needed help with technology, and that was something that I
Speaker 5: could try to help them with. And so that was
Speaker 5: the purpose of the newsletter and step by step, one
Speaker 5: tool at a time each week, giving them some guidance,
Speaker 5: giving them some gestions and practical tips for just ordinary people,
Speaker 5: not for technology experts.
Speaker 2: That's the key right there. So what you know, how
Speaker 2: do you find these new tools? I mean, there's so
Speaker 2: many obviously coming out every week. How do you find them?
Speaker 2: And how do you decide what to feature?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I love exploring technology. Some people like phishing, some people
Speaker 5: like driving. I love technology. So I explore technology, you know,
Speaker 5: in the free hours that I have, and when I
Speaker 5: stumble upon something that makes me say wow, or or
Speaker 5: that I see has a really useful application or way
Speaker 5: to use it, I stop and dig in. And I
Speaker 5: call it pickstick and dig as the approach. So I
Speaker 5: picked something, I really stick with it for a while
Speaker 5: and then dig into how it can be useful.
Speaker 2: So before you kind of talk about some of these
Speaker 2: you know, apps and things that you really like and
Speaker 2: you use on a daily basis, tell me about AI.
Speaker 2: I mean, because people are concerned about it, They worry
Speaker 2: about it. They don't know what the future of AI is.
Speaker 2: What's your take on AI?
Speaker 5: So I think it's a tool like any other tool.
Speaker 5: The phone is a tool, the mobile phone is a tool,
Speaker 5: laptop is a tool. All of those can be used well,
Speaker 5: or they can be misused. They can be used to
Speaker 5: send spam, or they can be used to be to
Speaker 5: send a life saving message to somebody.
Speaker 4: So I think, like all those other tools, AI.
Speaker 5: Can be used for great purposes, for efficiency, for creativity,
Speaker 5: and it can also be misused and used to create
Speaker 5: misinformation or to recavoc So it's all a matter of
Speaker 5: how we use it and setting some guidelines and some
Speaker 5: best practices.
Speaker 2: So we've got the main you know, chat EBT, you've
Speaker 2: got clawed from Anthropic, you've got barred from Google.
Speaker 1: What do you make of those tools?
Speaker 5: So they're all fantastic in their own way. So, for example,
Speaker 5: claud allows you to upload up to seventy thousand words,
Speaker 5: so you can give it an entire book or a
Speaker 5: huge PDF with your whole company set of company policies,
Speaker 5: and guide a new person to your company with here
Speaker 5: are some of the key principles, right, So they don't
Speaker 5: have to read seventy thousand words of a giant PDF,
Speaker 5: for example. Or you can upload a huge amount of
Speaker 5: data that you're just trying to get a sense of
Speaker 5: and understand, or a document in multiple languages that you
Speaker 5: may not speak so for the purpose of understanding large
Speaker 5: giant documents. Claude is fantastic and I've written about it
Speaker 5: in Wonder Tools. Chat GPT has something that's really unique,
Speaker 5: which is this app store. So there are more than
Speaker 5: a thousand different apps now that plug into chat GPT,
Speaker 5: and they do things like connect to Canva, for example.
Speaker 5: So you can ask chat gpt to create a drawing
Speaker 5: for you, or a design for your company, or a
Speaker 5: poster or a slide or any number of visuals. So
Speaker 5: that's something that's unique to chat gpt for example. So
Speaker 5: each of them has their unique capabilities. And now there's
Speaker 5: a whole of other AI tools beyond just the chat
Speaker 5: tools as well.
Speaker 2: So the more I think about AI and specifically Google,
Speaker 2: the more I kind of realize why Google was slow
Speaker 2: to roll out something like chat GBT, Because once you
Speaker 2: get on board with like even Bard, you realize that
Speaker 2: it completely changes the way you search the Internet. You
Speaker 2: know right Now, when you search the Internet, it's kind
Speaker 2: of like you know, hunt and peck, right, You're looking
Speaker 2: and you click a link and you don't find what
Speaker 2: you need, and you go back and you click another one.
Speaker 2: And that's great for Google's business model. But when you
Speaker 2: go to like one of these AI tools and you
Speaker 2: ask for information, and yes, I understand that sometimes that
Speaker 2: information can be false or you know, hallucinations, but it's
Speaker 2: a totally different way of finding information versus that kind
Speaker 2: of clicking a lot of links that might lead you
Speaker 2: to a sponsored link or you know, a paid post.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that idea?
Speaker 5: I think you're absolutely right, Rich. I think the web
Speaker 5: can be overwhelming. And when you search Google and get
Speaker 5: a thousand different links and you have no way of
Speaker 5: verifying you know, one from another, it's just overwhelming. And
Speaker 5: it's a lot more efficient in many cases if you
Speaker 5: can tailor a specific request to an AI engine that
Speaker 5: you can actually trust. Now, the question is can you
Speaker 5: actually trust the results? And what I've found is that
Speaker 5: the AI engines work best as language engines and work
Speaker 5: not quite as well as knowledge engines. So that's where
Speaker 5: there's a distinction with what Google's doing. And so when
Speaker 5: you're putting in a piece of language and saying, hey,
Speaker 5: help me make this paragraph more concise, or help me
Speaker 5: make sure I've got the grammar and the spelling of
Speaker 5: this language, or help me translate this language, or help
Speaker 5: me summarize this complicated scientific language. For those language purposes,
Speaker 5: the AI works terrifically well as a kind of language engine.
Speaker 5: When you get into the factual questions, you know, explain
Speaker 5: to me the history of this topic. In many cases
Speaker 5: you will get a majority, you know, accurate kind of
Speaker 5: piece of information. But the fact that you get a
Speaker 5: little bit of that hallucination up to three percent in
Speaker 5: a recent research study of content that you get back
Speaker 5: when you ask a knowledge based question is hallucinated information.
Speaker 4: So if you have that.
Speaker 5: Three percent faulty rate, it's not as trustworthy. Now, of course,
Speaker 5: when you search Google, you could land on a site
Speaker 5: that has information that itself is not trustworthy.
Speaker 4: So we always have to be a skeptic. In the end.
Speaker 5: It's always up to us to kind of use our
Speaker 5: skepticism and judge for ourselves what's accurate and what might
Speaker 5: not be.
Speaker 2: And as a journalist, you know, you got to fact
Speaker 2: check everything you can't just take it at face value here, okay,
Speaker 2: So can you share some tools that people might not
Speaker 2: have heard of that are useful, fun interesting? Do you
Speaker 2: have anything that you can talk about?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 5: Oasis is one of these new tools that I use
Speaker 5: almost every day. It's a what I call a bionic
Speaker 5: dictation tool, which basically means it's a voice recorder or
Speaker 5: a dictation tool, just like your voice memos app, for example,
Speaker 5: on your phone, but it does something really powerful in
Speaker 5: addition to that, So instead of just recording your voice,
Speaker 5: it also transcribes what you're saying, and in addition to
Speaker 5: transcribing what you're saying, it will transform what you're saying.
Speaker 5: So what I use it for is to list out
Speaker 5: ideas thoughts I have for article, or for a letter
Speaker 5: I'm writing, or for a class I'm teaching, whatever I'm
Speaker 5: thinking about planning, ideating a presentation, and it will give
Speaker 5: me multiple versions of that content. So we'll give me
Speaker 5: that content just as a transcript, but it will also
Speaker 5: summarize the key points that I've said, it will put
Speaker 5: it in an outline format, it will create a blog
Speaker 5: post version of that or an email version of that.
Speaker 5: And recently I was doing a couple of vertical videos.
Speaker 5: I asked it to give me a vertical videoscript format
Speaker 5: of that ideation that I was doing, and it did
Speaker 5: that as well. So the key thing here is it's
Speaker 5: my own ideas. It's not pulling that information from somewhere online.
Speaker 5: It's taking my own idea, but it's just transforming the
Speaker 5: way that language is presented. It's putting it in a
Speaker 5: summary format or an outline format or a script format.
Speaker 4: So that's super.
Speaker 5: Useful as a way to augment my own ideation process
Speaker 5: and to help me basically organize my ideas more efficiently.
Speaker 5: And it's been a super super helpful part of my
Speaker 5: brainstorming and my creative process recently. And it's called Oasis,
Speaker 5: and you can use it completely for free, and I
Speaker 5: have no affiliation with them, by the way, it's.
Speaker 4: Just something I use in life.
Speaker 5: You can use it completely for free, or you can
Speaker 5: pay a five buck a month, you know, kind of
Speaker 5: freemium payment to use it a little bit more.
Speaker 4: And so that's a great one.
Speaker 5: There's another tool it's very similar, called audio Pen and
Speaker 5: they both do essentially the same kind of idea of
Speaker 5: bionic transcription, where you essentially are using your voice and
Speaker 5: generating you know, the materials for yourself in a new
Speaker 5: way with AI.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Okay, we have time for one more. You
Speaker 2: have one more you want to talk about?
Speaker 4: Sure? Sure.
Speaker 5: Another one that I use and really like is called
Speaker 5: blocks b l oks dot app, And what that does
Speaker 5: is allow me to record any meeting, either an in
Speaker 5: person meeting or a meeting online. And it sits on
Speaker 5: my laptop so that it doesn't have to join the
Speaker 5: meeting for example, So it works on any platform, but
Speaker 5: it also works in an in person meeting. Of course,
Speaker 5: you need the permission of the person. You don't want
Speaker 5: to record people surreptitiously, but you ask if it's okay.
Speaker 5: And usually what I tell people is, I'd love to
Speaker 5: send you a summary of this conversation. Is it okay
Speaker 5: if I record it so that I can transcribe it
Speaker 5: and summarize it and share that with you. And it
Speaker 5: creates a nice transcription of that, a summary of the meeting.
Speaker 5: It even will include action points, and then you can
Speaker 5: query it. You can say, what were the three things
Speaker 5: we talked about when we came at the toward the
Speaker 5: end of the meeting, You can ask it questions and
Speaker 5: get just that.
Speaker 4: So it's like having an assistant.
Speaker 5: Next to you helping you and keeping track of your
Speaker 5: meetings and your notes, so you don't have to manually
Speaker 5: write down everything and you don't forget anything. So that's
Speaker 5: a free tool and I really love it. I'm using
Speaker 5: it regularly for most of my meetings these days. So
Speaker 5: that's another super helpful AI tool that you.
Speaker 4: May not have heard of. And I've written about these
Speaker 4: in wonder tools, so if.
Speaker 5: People are interested, they can they can dig into that
Speaker 5: further on the newsletter.
Speaker 2: All right, Jeremy Kaplan, thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 4: Thanks Rich, it's been great talking with you.
Speaker 2: And if you want to get Jeremy's substack newsletter, just
Speaker 2: go to wondertools dot substack dot com. I love reading
Speaker 2: it every time it arrives to my inbox. Very very
Speaker 2: helpful stuff. Triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight
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Speaker 1: X and threads. Let's go to Jeff in Jackson, Mississippi. Jeff,
Speaker 1: you're on with rich.
Speaker 6: Hey rich fand your show today. I got a had
Speaker 6: a desire to get a new TV to the bedroom,
Speaker 6: but I'm not sure what to look for and look
Speaker 6: at and one's an advice.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for finding the show. You're you're looking for
Speaker 2: a TV.
Speaker 6: Som TV, something that you know get into the twenty
Speaker 6: first stating okay.
Speaker 2: And so do you have a TV in another room
Speaker 2: that has kind of the smarts or do you like
Speaker 2: what are you using for your prime Mary TV?
Speaker 6: Yeah, as a just a flat string TV and the
Speaker 6: dand is a smart TV. But the bedroom is not
Speaker 6: not that new of the TV. I'm not sure what
Speaker 6: it is. I was gonna buys one, but I was
Speaker 6: talking with some people and they said be careful about
Speaker 6: buying from Walmart, Target places like that. They'll have they
Speaker 6: have older, you know, TVs, and I don't know what
Speaker 6: to look for. I'm just wanting to buy.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I think the main thing you have to
Speaker 2: think about when it comes to a TV is do
Speaker 2: you want the smarts to be built into the TV
Speaker 2: or do you want to add the smarts later. So
Speaker 2: if you're if you're looking for the smarts to be
Speaker 2: built into the TV, you've got a couple of options.
Speaker 2: You've got Roku, You've got Google TV, and you've got
Speaker 2: fire TV, and those are kind of like the three
Speaker 2: main operating systems in addition to you know, the operating
Speaker 2: systems that the TV manufacturers have. So then you have
Speaker 2: Visio they have their own operating system, and also LG
Speaker 2: has one called web OS. So it's a lot to
Speaker 2: think about because if you get one of these TVs
Speaker 2: with this built in, you have to like both the
Speaker 2: TV and the operating system behind the TV, and then
Speaker 2: you have to figure out, well, does the operating system
Speaker 2: have the apps that I want? Now, every TV in
Speaker 2: the world is going to have access to things like Netflix,
Speaker 2: but then when it comes to you know, more obscure apps,
Speaker 2: that's where you may have to make sure the TV
Speaker 2: platform that you want has what you need. So if
Speaker 2: you like something like you know, Curiosity stream or you
Speaker 2: know some sort of like documentary streaming service, you want
Speaker 2: to make sure that it's available on these So my
Speaker 2: personal preference, I think Roku is very very popular. They
Speaker 2: have a good combination of TVs that are inexpensive, good
Speaker 2: value TCL that's kind of the TCL Roku TVs. Those
Speaker 2: have always been a very very strong TV choice. I
Speaker 2: think when it comes to Amazon, if you're looking to
Speaker 2: buy one online, the Fire TVs, I like the software,
Speaker 2: you know, the TV itself doesn't get the best reviews necessarily,
Speaker 2: but they're always a good value. And we are coming
Speaker 2: up into Black Friday, the Cyber Monday, the holiday shopping season.
Speaker 2: There's going to be a lot of deals on TV,
Speaker 2: so I would wait until this shopping season sort of starts.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Amazon's kicking it off a week
Speaker 2: early this year on the seventeenth, so that's when we're
Speaker 2: going to start seeing a lot of deals on these TVs. Now,
Speaker 2: when it comes to the best, best best TVs, which
Speaker 2: I don't think you need in the bedroom, the LG
Speaker 2: O LEDs are clearly ranked number one all the time.
Speaker 2: The G three specifically is probably the top of the line,
Speaker 2: as is the Sony A ninety five K. That's what
Speaker 2: are the last time we had a TV editor on
Speaker 2: that's what they recommended. Now when it comes to mid
Speaker 2: range TVs, that's probably what you want in the secondary room,
Speaker 2: So I would say a TCL or a high Sense
Speaker 2: might be the best case scenario. Now, personally, I like
Speaker 2: to add my smarts later on to the TV because
Speaker 2: I like to pick the device that I'm using for
Speaker 2: my platform, and I really like the fireTV platform, so
Speaker 2: you can get a fire TV stick to add to this.
Speaker 2: What's really cool is that the new Fire TV stick,
Speaker 2: the four K Max, has what's called ambient technology, so
Speaker 2: when you're not using the fire stick, your TV sort
Speaker 2: of turns into a picture frame, and that's really cool.
Speaker 2: Google also does that with their Chrome Cast, their Google
Speaker 2: TV device, not the regular Chrome Cast, but the Google TV,
Speaker 2: and it's great if you use Google Photos. Apple TV
Speaker 2: is another way to get it. If you're an iPhone person,
Speaker 2: you know, Apple TV obviously is going to work very
Speaker 2: nicely with the iPhone, But the Apple TV itself is
Speaker 2: much more expensive than any of the other streaming devices.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to buying.
Speaker 2: The TV at Walmart or Target, I think, to be
Speaker 2: quite honest, it really comes down to looking up some
Speaker 2: reviews online of the best TVs that you can buy,
Speaker 2: and places like Wirecutter offer great reviews. Digital Trends has
Speaker 2: great reviews of TVs. There is no plethora, there's no
Speaker 2: shortage of TV reviews online. So I think it comes
Speaker 2: down to the brand that you get and the model
Speaker 2: that you get. And also it used to be very
Speaker 2: important when it came to like how many HDMI ports
Speaker 2: and things that were on TVs. That's getting less important
Speaker 2: as people are streaming everything. So I think you find
Speaker 2: a size at a price that you like, and you
Speaker 2: make sure it has the features that you like. Obviously
Speaker 2: you want something that's four K and something that you
Speaker 2: can add one of these streaming devices to. I think
Speaker 2: that's gonna be your best bet. So good luck with
Speaker 2: the TV. I am in the I'm in the market
Speaker 2: for a TV myself, and I'll be quite honest, I
Speaker 2: think I'm gonna go with the High Sense U eight
Speaker 2: K because it's getting great review use High Sense. I
Speaker 2: know it's a brand that not many people have heard of,
Speaker 2: but they are definitely making some progress here in the US.
Speaker 2: So thanks for the call, Jeff over there in Jackson, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Spotify this week added two hundred thousand audiobooks for premium users,
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Speaker 1: Patty did just that.
Speaker 2: Patty says, what are your thoughts on the three dollars
Speaker 2: version of total AV for the iPad? Patty, My thought
Speaker 2: is that you do not need it. I know, the
Speaker 2: way that the iPhone and iOS and iPad is set up,
Speaker 2: there is no need for antivirus.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2: The antivirus program itself cannot even scan the entire system
Speaker 2: because it's what's called sandboxed, and so that means that
Speaker 2: this total AV can't really do anything.
Speaker 1: Let's see, what do they promised to do.
Speaker 2: I get this total av they advertise so heavily, I
Speaker 2: must get fifteen questions about it a week. Let's see
Speaker 2: smart scan data, breach, check photos and videos, clean up,
Speaker 2: duplicate contact finder, webshield, QR code, Private can action, VPN.
Speaker 2: All those are premium features. I don't think you need
Speaker 2: any of this stuff. Honestly. The biggest thing you can
Speaker 2: do to protect yourself on any device is to watch
Speaker 2: the places where you log in. Make sure you're not
Speaker 2: logging into a website that's trying to trick you, and
Speaker 2: watch out for those texts that come in that try
Speaker 2: to make you click a link and hand over your
Speaker 2: personal information. But if you think this is anti virus
Speaker 2: for the iPad, it's just not, so you can go
Speaker 2: ahead and skip it. Good question, though, Let's go to
Speaker 2: Let's go to Joan in San Diego.
Speaker 1: Joan, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 7: Hi, thank you. I have this printer that I bought
Speaker 7: a few years ago. It's an epsom Et twenty and
Speaker 7: I absolutely love it. But something, an airring, fell in
Speaker 7: the back and stammed it and I pulled that out
Speaker 7: and what happened is now the paper when you go
Speaker 7: to print something. It just scrunches up in bunches and
Speaker 7: it won't come out. So I'll tech support and they
Speaker 7: immediately realized that I was not under warranty. We tried
Speaker 7: to troubleshoot it, but it didn't work first, and so
Speaker 7: I asked him. I said, I have a cabinet full
Speaker 7: of the five twenty two inc. Because I sort of
Speaker 7: got it on auto order on Amazon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got like a whole bunch.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I thought I loved the printer. No big deal.
Speaker 7: And he looked one and back and looked at printers
Speaker 7: and he said, well, and I don't believe this because
Speaker 7: I've found otherwise on Google, but I want to I
Speaker 7: want to verify it. He said, the five twenty two inc.
Speaker 7: That you have will not work in any other EPSOM printers.
Speaker 1: Well, that's not true, okay.
Speaker 7: I just wonder what my options are. Should I try
Speaker 7: to fix this or should I just try to find
Speaker 7: another one that'll take that ink the new one?
Speaker 1: How long have you had this printer?
Speaker 7: I think it's three years okay, probably just outside the warranty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, usually everything breaks just outside the warranty.
Speaker 2: It works perfectly while it's in warranty. So I'm looking
Speaker 2: on Amazon for this five twenty two inc. And it
Speaker 2: says it works with the twenty seven to twenty, the
Speaker 2: twenty eight hundred, the twenty eight oh three, the twenty
Speaker 2: eight to forty, the forty seven hundred, the forty eight hundred,
Speaker 2: the forty eight ten. So I think that you can
Speaker 2: find another printer. What they may have been referencing is
Speaker 2: that perhaps this this you know, there's not a current
Speaker 2: printer that uses this ink. You know, maybe the newer
Speaker 2: models use the five twenty three or something like that,
Speaker 2: but there are definitely models that use this, including the
Speaker 2: same printer that you have. I mean, you can still
Speaker 2: just buy a new printer if you want. This one's
Speaker 2: been discontinued, but of course people are going to still
Speaker 2: sell it for a little bit. But what I would
Speaker 2: do is I would go I just did a quick
Speaker 2: search on THEPPS on the Amazon website, but I would
Speaker 2: go on the EPs and website for the five twenty
Speaker 2: two listing, and I'm sure and I can try to
Speaker 2: find this quickly here.
Speaker 8: But another one.
Speaker 7: I found other ones too, and I just he's double checked,
Speaker 7: and I don't know what he must have just been
Speaker 7: having an off day or something.
Speaker 1: Well, now here's the other question I have.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at the Yeah, so now I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the website, and it does have all these printers
Speaker 2: that are listed the twenty four hundred. I mean there's
Speaker 2: there's at least one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
Speaker 2: nine ten printers.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is just go through each.
Speaker 2: One of those printers on this page on the EPSOM
Speaker 2: website and just search and see how much they cost,
Speaker 2: and go with one that has the features that you want.
Speaker 2: Some have a scanner, some have the automatic document feed
Speaker 2: or whatever you need. But yes, you can use this ink.
Speaker 2: Now on the flip side, you know, depending on how
Speaker 2: much ink you have, you may just want to say,
Speaker 2: you know what, let's just call this a total loss
Speaker 2: and let's just go to cost Go and buy a
Speaker 2: new printer and just you know, start over.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Costco had when I really liked on sale. It
Speaker 7: doesn't take my ink.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, here's the thing. I mean, these
Speaker 2: ink is not cheap. And I'm on this plan with
Speaker 2: HP where they send the ink. It's like five six
Speaker 2: I think it was paying like thirteen bucks a month.
Speaker 2: But it's like I went to I said, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm sick of pain all this. Let me just buy
Speaker 2: the ink out right, And they wanted like two hundred
Speaker 2: dollars for the ink cartridges. And then, by the way,
Speaker 2: the ones in my printer would stop working, like it
Speaker 2: wouldn't use the ones that I already had, like I
Speaker 2: had just send those back in. So I think you're
Speaker 2: doing better than I am because I'm stuck with what
Speaker 2: I have. You're sort of stuck with what you have.
Speaker 2: But the good news is, Joan, this ink will work
Speaker 2: in a different printer. I think that you just go
Speaker 2: on the website see which printers that it works with.
Speaker 2: Since you already have the ink, you're already halfway there.
Speaker 2: And this ink lasts for a long time. So I
Speaker 2: would just go ahead and find a new printer that
Speaker 2: it works with and go that route. Thanks for the question,
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Let's go to Lewis in Riverside with an
Speaker 2: update about a call from Was this last week?
Speaker 1: Lewis?
Speaker 9: Yes, it was last week. Hi had a kid is
Speaker 9: a short story. His mom died unexpectedly, had an iPhone
Speaker 9: turned out it's an iPhone can, had it switched over,
Speaker 9: It had a lock on it.
Speaker 1: Yes, and we were worried.
Speaker 9: Ask you about that. We got it to him. Kids understand tech.
Speaker 9: It was like they speak that language. In less than
Speaker 9: a minute, he was punching the numbers so fast. Had
Speaker 9: it turned on. He's back online and it worked out great.
Speaker 1: So we figured out the code to open the phone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he had the code. I didn't even try it
Speaker 9: because I had phones before. Where after you try so
Speaker 9: many times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll lock you out.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, So I didn't even try and he went
Speaker 9: in there. It was like his third try in less
Speaker 9: than a minute and turned on.
Speaker 1: Now what did I say last week?
Speaker 9: You had said that maybe they had If we couldn't
Speaker 9: get it, maybe we could go with them to like documentation.
Speaker 9: Hayes mom died. This was the phone, and it would
Speaker 9: have been a you know, I imagine we could have maybe
Speaker 9: we could have done something. But we're lucky we didn't.
Speaker 2: You're lucky that he figured out the code and three tries,
Speaker 2: so very good.
Speaker 9: I was concerned. I guess he was close with his mom,
Speaker 9: so he knew the information and got it.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 1: I love that he figured it out.
Speaker 2: I love that you can use his phone less waste
Speaker 2: in the in the you know, recycling bent of phones,
Speaker 2: and uh, I would.
Speaker 9: Just and and the best thing, any information that was
Speaker 9: on there didn't get lost.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's well, back it up.
Speaker 2: And uh at some point I would probably recommend backing
Speaker 2: up the information that's on there and then maybe starting
Speaker 2: over with his own account, if that's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1: But h Lewis, thanks for the update, appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Hey, thank you Rich, thanks.
Speaker 2: For listening there in Riverside. And UH, I do recall
Speaker 2: that I did give the advice to for the child
Speaker 2: to think about the number if he if he could
Speaker 2: figure out that pin code. But in the future, I
Speaker 2: will say the lesson learned from this is to set
Speaker 2: up what's called a legacy contact. So on iOS, on Facebook,
Speaker 2: and on Google, you can set up what's called a
Speaker 2: legacy contact. This is someone that can manage your online
Speaker 2: accounts after you die. Not something you want to think about, right,
Speaker 2: but it's something that is important because yeah, there are
Speaker 2: systems for this. You can write to Apple, you can
Speaker 2: write to Google, you can show a death certificate. But realistically,
Speaker 2: a do you really want to be doing that for
Speaker 2: yourself or a loved one? I guess you wouldn't be
Speaker 2: doing it for yourself because you're not there. But you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So, I mean there are systems,
Speaker 2: but there's also ways of making these systems easier. So
Speaker 2: for instance, my wife and I have a binder with
Speaker 2: all of the important information, all of the accounts, everything
Speaker 2: we need to know for each other. And again it's
Speaker 2: not something you want to think about. I mean, who
Speaker 2: wants to make a binder this says open this up
Speaker 2: in case I'm my death. Nobody does. But I will
Speaker 2: tell you your loved ones will be much happier for
Speaker 2: it because they will have, if you're okay with it,
Speaker 2: the passwords to the two important accounts, the accounts to
Speaker 2: look for all that good stuff. So Facebook, Google and
Speaker 2: Apple for sure, look up legacy contact. Set someone as
Speaker 2: your legacy contact that if you stop accessing your account
Speaker 2: for a while, they will email them and say, hey,
Speaker 2: this account hasn't been used in a while and you
Speaker 2: have the ability to now take it over and get
Speaker 2: the data from there. So thanks for the call, Lewis,
Speaker 2: appreciate it all right. If you have a question for me,
Speaker 2: give me a call. It's triple eight rich one O one.
Speaker 2: That's eight eight eight seven, four to two, four to
Speaker 2: one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you about the
Speaker 2: Zoomo stream box. If you're clinging onto your cable box,
Speaker 2: this might be a good option for you. Amazon starting
Speaker 2: Cyber Monday deals a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that. And plus we're gonna talk.
Speaker 2: To Brian Heter of tech Crunch about the Humane AI pin.
Speaker 2: Listening to rich on Tech, Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. Before
Speaker 2: the break, we were talking about legacy contacts and how
Speaker 2: to set it. You can indeed set one for Facebook, Apple,
Speaker 2: and Google calls it Inactive Account Manager. It's all linked
Speaker 2: up on the website richon Tech dot tv. You can
Speaker 2: check the show notes for this week's show and everything
Speaker 2: I mentioned is in there. Amazon is starting Black Friday
Speaker 2: and Cyber Monday deals a little bit earlier this year.
Speaker 2: Black Friday deals will start on November seventeenth. Cyber Monday
Speaker 2: deals will happen starting Saturday, November twenty fifth. Amazon, of course,
Speaker 2: is promising deals on popular brands Sony Disney, Peloton, Lego,
Speaker 2: all the Amazon devices like Echo, ring fireTV. They'll be
Speaker 2: up to fifty percent off of course they kind of
Speaker 2: discount the older devices more or so than the newer devices,
Speaker 2: but again, be on the lookout for that.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of cool.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not a huge sports guy, but I
Speaker 2: do think that part of that problem is that sports
Speaker 2: is just all over the place when it comes to
Speaker 2: where you can find the games, and like literally every
Speaker 2: game is on a different platform or a different channel
Speaker 2: or different streaming service, and it's kind of annoying. And
Speaker 2: so this, I think is kind of cool. So the
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime Video, which they've been doing Thursday night football games,
Speaker 2: which I love because anyone with a Prime account can
Speaker 2: access that game and watch it and stream it from
Speaker 2: any device. And now they're going to apply that same
Speaker 2: logic on Black Friday. You can stream the Jets Dolphins
Speaker 2: game on Prime Video. But here's the difference. You don't
Speaker 2: need an Amazon Prime account to watch it, so all.
Speaker 1: You need is an Amazon account.
Speaker 2: So they're opening up this Prime game to anyone with
Speaker 2: an Amazon account. So that's kind of cool. Now, of course,
Speaker 2: they are going to have shopping during the game. And
Speaker 2: I was tuned into the Thursday night football game on
Speaker 2: Amazon Prime and yeah, in the commercials, they're like literally saying, hey,
Speaker 2: you can buy this, like, scan this QR code on
Speaker 2: the screen and it brings you right to Amazon to
Speaker 2: buy it. So that's kind of interesting. But I just
Speaker 2: thought that was cool. Like it's so like streaming has
Speaker 2: made things so easy but also so complicated because there
Speaker 2: are a thousand different services and everything is on different services.
Speaker 2: Even if you follow one team, they can be playing
Speaker 2: on you know, five six different services throughout the course
Speaker 2: of a season.
Speaker 1: Let's go to UH.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Jerry, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 11: Rich, how you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great?
Speaker 11: How are you well? I'd be happier if it can
Speaker 11: help me out. Rich. You ever hear of Olympia. It's
Speaker 11: a Filipino egg roll.
Speaker 1: I have not.
Speaker 11: Well, if you're ever going to chance to try when
Speaker 11: you want to what I've done, I've written a spreadsheet
Speaker 11: with all the ingredients on it, okay, in in Google sheets,
Speaker 11: with one sell UH for the user to adjust according
Speaker 11: to their to the recipe. If you have, i say,
Speaker 11: three pounds of meat, it'll put it in there, plugget
Speaker 11: and it'll just all your other vegetables and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure, you put like the proportions, and you
Speaker 2: programmed it in credit, and.
Speaker 11: I want to have a new machine so I can
Speaker 11: give the link to other people. And I've locked them
Speaker 11: spreadsheetings and that my problem is I want to go
Speaker 11: back into the sprindtsheet as a different user and see
Speaker 11: if my if my parameters are working as far as
Speaker 11: unlocking the lock of that. Some people can't change the
Speaker 11: other stuff I have on there.
Speaker 2: You want to make sure before you share this that
Speaker 2: actually works for a random person.
Speaker 11: Right, And I tried opening up I sent I sent
Speaker 11: the link to a different uh email that I have.
Speaker 11: It's not associated with it, and it's not working. I
Speaker 11: can open it up, but if I change it on
Speaker 11: the secondary email, I can see it change on the
Speaker 11: primary and I want to be able to well, what
Speaker 11: I want to say is that it's just a mirror
Speaker 11: of it. I want to make sure that.
Speaker 1: I can type things in but not change the original.
Speaker 11: Right now, how I do that?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: So what you want to do is there's two parts
Speaker 2: to your question. First off, you want to make this
Speaker 2: document so that you can share it around and not
Speaker 2: have someone change it, but they can use it. So
Speaker 2: that's the number one part. And then the second part
Speaker 2: is that you want to be able to try this out.
Speaker 2: So I think for the first part it depends how
Speaker 2: you share this. So in Google there is a in
Speaker 2: the upper right hand corner a share icon, and it
Speaker 2: gives you a couple of options on how to share.
Speaker 2: So there is an option that says anyone with a
Speaker 2: link can view, and then there is anyone with a
Speaker 2: link and comment, and anyone with the link can edit.
Speaker 2: So you you probably want to make people a viewer,
Speaker 2: and when they view that link, you want to make
Speaker 2: sure that they can change those numbers inside that link.
Speaker 2: And that's the way you format. You format that the
Speaker 2: cell inside that spreadsheet. So the second part of the
Speaker 2: equation here is testing this out. So as you noticed,
Speaker 2: you emailed it to yourself. So what I would do
Speaker 2: is I would just copy the link once you set
Speaker 2: the permissions, and once you copy the link, I would
Speaker 2: use what's called a private browsing window or an incognito window.
Speaker 2: So on your web browser, if you go to file,
Speaker 2: it should say you know. If you're using Safari, they
Speaker 2: call it a private window. If you're using Chrome, they
Speaker 2: call it an incognito window. So open up an incognito window.
Speaker 2: And then paste that URL in there, and you should
Speaker 2: be able to see what's happening on that URL. Like,
Speaker 2: if you can't access it and you can't change the
Speaker 2: data the way you're saying, then you have to go
Speaker 2: back and reformat your your document. Now, if you don't
Speaker 2: want people to be able to save this stuff, you
Speaker 2: need to make sure that they are not an editor
Speaker 2: and they are just a viewer. But you need to
Speaker 2: make sure that when you make them a viewer, they
Speaker 2: can still change you know, the data inside those inside
Speaker 2: those parameters. So with that said, you would have to
Speaker 2: figure that. Off the top of my head. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if you can make a spreadsheet that people can
Speaker 2: pop in their own data. You may have to make
Speaker 2: it a template and that way people can copy it
Speaker 2: to their Google Docs account and then make the changes
Speaker 2: that they want to do.
Speaker 1: That would probably be the best.
Speaker 2: Way of handling this. So again, maybe a template or
Speaker 2: they have to just save it. You might just you
Speaker 2: just might make it so that they can see this
Speaker 2: document and then save it to their drive and then
Speaker 2: they can make the appropriate changes. I think that it's
Speaker 2: going to be the best way because if you think
Speaker 2: about it, you can't have fifteen people on there making
Speaker 2: changes at the same time, adjusting their ingredients and expecting
Speaker 2: this to work out because you can only have one
Speaker 2: person at a time that's changing it. So I would
Speaker 2: make them just a viewer only once they copy it
Speaker 2: to their account, which there's a little icon for that
Speaker 2: up near the top, then they can then they can make.
Speaker 1: The appropriate changes.
Speaker 2: Let me know, Jerry, go on the website, rich On
Speaker 2: Tech dot TV email me with the update. All right,
Speaker 2: coming up Zumo stream box and oh we're going to
Speaker 2: talk to Brian Heater, hardware editor at tech Crunch. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about the Humane AI pin. Welcome back
Speaker 2: to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 2: talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. Brian
Speaker 2: Heater is hardware editor at tech Crunch. He got to
Speaker 2: go hands on with the gadget that the entire tech
Speaker 2: community is talking about. It's the Humane AI pin. Brian,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: So can you explain you got to go hands on
Speaker 2: with this device. I'm sure it was a small group
Speaker 2: of people that got to do this up in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Can you explain what the Humane AI pin is sure.
Speaker 12: Yeah, let me let me caveat by saying, you know,
Speaker 12: I got to wear it and I got to see
Speaker 12: it in action, but I didn't really get to, you know,
Speaker 12: use it in a super meaningful way.
Speaker 1: But it's a brand new startup.
Speaker 12: They've actually been around since twenty eighteen, but they were
Speaker 12: made public earlier this year.
Speaker 1: It's run by.
Speaker 12: A couple of forber Apple executives and the pitch is
Speaker 12: effectively life beyond the smartphone. It's a little pin that
Speaker 12: sits on your lapel that hangs on there magnetically, and
Speaker 12: it uses AI.
Speaker 1: To do a number of different actions.
Speaker 12: You interact with it, primarily through voice, but there's also touch.
Speaker 1: And the far and away.
Speaker 12: The most visually interesting aspect of it is it actually
Speaker 12: has a projector, a laser projector in it that will
Speaker 12: project emails and even photos if you're getting a call
Speaker 12: during those times where you don't actually want to speak
Speaker 12: to the thing.
Speaker 2: And so, would you actually replace your smartphone with this
Speaker 2: or do you think most people would have it in
Speaker 2: addition to their smartphone.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't think anybody's getting rid of their smartphone
Speaker 12: at any point in the near future. But the device
Speaker 12: itself has a twenty four dollar a month subscription fee
Speaker 12: that includes a phone number. It's it's LTE, It's on
Speaker 12: the T Mobile network, and the idea is that you
Speaker 12: can at least leave the smartphone at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so theoretically it does operate or I guess it
Speaker 2: does operate independently. Whether people would you know, end up
Speaker 2: doing that as another question. It's kind of like the
Speaker 2: Apple Watch. You could, you know, get the cellular and
Speaker 2: use that on a run or something without it without
Speaker 2: the phone being near by. So this is screenless, it's
Speaker 2: voice activated, and it's got a lot of AI built
Speaker 2: in and chat GBT. Open ai is one of the
Speaker 2: the backers of this startup as well.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, Sam.
Speaker 12: Altman, the founder of open ai is I believe he's
Speaker 12: the largest shareholder at this point. The actual relationship between
Speaker 12: the two companies is an entirely clear. Asked them a
Speaker 12: few questions about that during our conversation yesterday. It seems
Speaker 12: like they largely built it independently. He believed in the idea.
Speaker 12: A lot of companies right now are trying to figure
Speaker 12: out how to actually bring a lot of these large
Speaker 12: language models generated AI systems like chatpt into the world.
Speaker 1: I know that it is running.
Speaker 12: It's using a lot of different AI models right now.
Speaker 12: I know that chat GPT is among them, and that
Speaker 12: at some point, I guess by the time that it
Speaker 12: actually launches early next year, it will likely be running
Speaker 12: some form of GPT for.
Speaker 2: So some of the features of this device. You can
Speaker 2: use it for messaging. You can make phone calls. I'm
Speaker 2: guessing there's a catch up function for your inbox, so
Speaker 2: it will kind of summarize what's in your inbox, let
Speaker 2: you know the most pertinent information. You can listen to
Speaker 2: music through it, foreign language interpreter, and it can also
Speaker 2: identify food. Which of those items were you able to
Speaker 2: try and see in person?
Speaker 12: I was able to see pretty much all of them,
Speaker 12: but you know, as I said at the top, it
Speaker 12: wasn't able to actually to do them myself.
Speaker 1: I watched a few of the employees use them in
Speaker 1: front of.
Speaker 2: Me, and was it impressive? I mean, did you you
Speaker 2: know you've covered this stuff for a while. Did you
Speaker 2: get the sense that this was the next iPad or
Speaker 2: the next you know, zoom?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Google Glass is the comparison that I hear you
Speaker 12: and I think I think it's a fair one because
Speaker 12: they're Google was trying to do something really similar.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 12: The primary difference one the technology just wasn't there at
Speaker 12: the time. A lot of these AI models have come
Speaker 12: really long way since then. And the other one is
Speaker 12: that it was a head mount display. And this is
Speaker 12: there are a few companies kind of operatings in this space,
Speaker 12: but this is the first one that I've seen with
Speaker 12: what appears to be a viable product that just sits
Speaker 12: on the lapel. It's going to be there's going to
Speaker 12: be a big learning curve. I will say that up
Speaker 12: top six hundred ninety nine dollars is a lot in
Speaker 12: smartphone land, but it is a lot when talking about,
Speaker 12: you know, an unproven first generation device, and then you
Speaker 12: add that the mandatory twenty four dollars a month on
Speaker 12: top of that, if you don't have the mobile subscription,
Speaker 12: then the thing is is basically bricked.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of money here.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 12: There are obviously a lot of really smart people here there.
Speaker 12: There there's Vision as well. I think a lot of
Speaker 12: people like the message around the company. They're effectively positioning
Speaker 12: themselves as being kind of, I guess in direct competition
Speaker 12: with Apple's Vision pro as far as the way that
Speaker 12: we you will interact with computers going forward. You know,
Speaker 12: Apple is taking the display and putting on your head
Speaker 12: and they're removing display altogether.
Speaker 2: What was the projected kind of image? Like, I mean,
Speaker 2: did it look cool or was it tough to read?
Speaker 2: Or was it you know, where do you project it
Speaker 2: onto like a table in front of you or on
Speaker 2: your hand?
Speaker 12: Yeah, So it's if you've ever you've probably seen one
Speaker 12: of these kinds of laser projectors in the world. There's
Speaker 12: there's advertisers that will do them. You know, you'll see
Speaker 12: it like projected on a sidewalk in front of you.
Speaker 12: It's it's very sharp. It functionality, it's it's somewhat limited.
Speaker 12: Like I said, you can look you can preview the
Speaker 12: pictures that you take with the device, but that's not
Speaker 12: you don't really want to actually use that to look
Speaker 12: at the pictures. They're not super clear. Texta is pretty clear.
Speaker 12: The way it works is you you tap the device,
Speaker 12: you tap the touch screen.
Speaker 1: Then it uses.
Speaker 12: I believe it used to see motion tracking and object
Speaker 12: identification to tell they you've got your hands out in
Speaker 12: front of you, and then the projector turns on and
Speaker 12: projects onto your hands, and then while reading it that way,
Speaker 12: you can also use your hand to interact with it
Speaker 12: in a sense. You know, for example, you could pinch
Speaker 12: two fingers together to scroll, or you know, move your
Speaker 12: hands at an angle. There's a variety of different ways
Speaker 12: to interact with it once it's actually on the palm.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure out why someone would want
Speaker 2: this and not just use their smartphone with like an
Speaker 2: ear piece. And I love cool things, and I love
Speaker 2: new things, and I love new ways of thinking about things.
Speaker 2: But I'm just really struggling here to understand how this
Speaker 2: is better than the solutions we have.
Speaker 1: And I haven't gone hands on, so maybe that's part
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 12: Sure, I mean, I'm certainly not here to sell it
Speaker 12: to you, and I you know, I absolutely approach these
Speaker 12: things with skepticism. I will almost certainly be getting one
Speaker 12: of these things at some point to try out. I
Speaker 12: think most people are skeptical, and I think it's right.
Speaker 12: I don't know that the company has entirely figured out
Speaker 12: what the killer app.
Speaker 1: Is right now.
Speaker 12: There aren't a lot of hardware startps in the world,
Speaker 12: but the way you can think of all these devices
Speaker 12: are kind of really like whide beta testing with that
Speaker 12: first generation of people. It's a bit expensive to get there,
Speaker 12: but there are a lot of people who just get
Speaker 12: excited about tech and will be the first ones to
Speaker 12: try it.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of.
Speaker 12: Sign ups, you know, they had a waiting list that
Speaker 12: I think actually closed. During the event yesterday they said
Speaker 12: they had a one hundred and ten thousand sign ups. Now,
Speaker 12: again that doesn't actually equate to devices sold. You know,
Speaker 12: there's no money down, there's no commitment there, but there's
Speaker 12: certainly interest.
Speaker 2: Are there any potential privacy concerns with this new device?
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean there are always privacy concerns when you're
Speaker 12: bringing a new form factor out with a camera on
Speaker 12: it and you're walking around with it at all times.
Speaker 1: A couple of things I'll say and I don't.
Speaker 12: I'm certainly not an expert on the privacy or security
Speaker 12: at the moment.
Speaker 1: This is just based on the conversations that I've had
Speaker 1: so far.
Speaker 12: But one of the key parts is that you have
Speaker 12: to actively engage with it, so it's not listening for
Speaker 12: a wake word the way you know, like Siri or
Speaker 12: Alexa or Google assystem is, so it's not constantly monitoring
Speaker 12: and it's certainly not constantly taking video, and when it
Speaker 12: does take video, it's got a privacy light on it,
Speaker 12: so you know, it's pretty clear. The light sortainly goes
Speaker 12: back and forth like a syloon on the top, So
Speaker 12: I people aren't going to know necessarily what's going on
Speaker 12: or what they're looking at. That at least they'll be
Speaker 12: able to tell like something is going on with that device.
Speaker 2: Brian Heater, hardware editor at tech Crunch, thanks so much
Speaker 2: for joining me today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for having me. That's it.
Speaker 2: The Humane Ai pin pre order start November sixteenth, six
Speaker 2: hundred ninety nine dollars twenty four dollars a month for
Speaker 2: unlimited calls, text and data through T Mobile. This is
Speaker 2: shipping in early twenty twenty four. Give me a call
Speaker 2: if you have a question about technology. Triple eight rich
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Speaker 2: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 2: here hanging out with you talking technology. Before the interview,
Speaker 2: we had Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, asking about Google Sheets.
Speaker 2: I learned a food that I had not heard of, Lumpia,
Speaker 2: a Filipino version of spring rolls. The rappers are made
Speaker 2: from flour, cornstarch, and water than in delicate but strong
Speaker 2: enough to hold fillings. They can be served fresh or fried.
Speaker 2: Kind of looks like a like a you know, like
Speaker 2: a what do you call a thing? An egg roll?
Speaker 2: Like a spring roll? So now I'm hungry. Thanks, But Jerry,
Speaker 2: I think I found a more complete answer. So I
Speaker 2: mentioned that you should save and share this as a template.
Speaker 2: But the little trick, according to this website, conquer the
Speaker 2: digit empire dot com. When you create that link to
Speaker 2: share it okay, You then update the link at the
Speaker 2: end with slash copy at the end, and then you
Speaker 2: can share that updated link. And when they first take
Speaker 2: that link, it will say do you want to copy
Speaker 2: this template to your Google Drive? And that makes the
Speaker 2: process a little easier, and it also makes it so
Speaker 2: that they can change the numbers like you did in
Speaker 2: your template without changing the original.
Speaker 1: And I tested this.
Speaker 2: I created like a very simple template, very simple Google spreadsheet.
Speaker 2: I put in a couple numbers with the you know
Speaker 2: we're at the end. It added them all up and
Speaker 2: then I was able to share this template and then
Speaker 2: I logged in you know with the incognito window like
Speaker 2: I mentioned, and made a copy and it completely worked.
Speaker 2: So I put the link on the website so you
Speaker 2: can find it in the show notes. But again, just
Speaker 2: add that slash copy to the end of the link
Speaker 2: when you share it out on Google when you generate it,
Speaker 2: and that should work. Paul says, I have an iMac
Speaker 2: I bought in twenty twenty. When I'm using Safari, seems
Speaker 2: like it's infected with a virus called Searchalpha dot com,
Speaker 2: making it very difficult for me to search the web.
Speaker 2: What should I do, Paul, I think you have an
Speaker 2: extension on there that is bad. These are sometimes called
Speaker 2: search helpers, but realistically they're pretty much malware and sometimes
Speaker 2: you download them you don't realize and they.
Speaker 1: Take over your search.
Speaker 2: So open up Safari, go into the settings, click extensions,
Speaker 2: and if you see anything you don't need or don't recognize,
Speaker 2: delete it and just get rid of them. Same thing
Speaker 2: on Google Chrome you can go through and this is
Speaker 2: probably something you should do in general, is just check
Speaker 2: the extensions that are installed in your computer, make sure
Speaker 2: you recognize them. If you don't recognize them, get rid
Speaker 2: of them. You can do that by clicking there's a
Speaker 2: little puzzle piece icon in your toolbar. If you hover
Speaker 2: over it, it'll say extensions. You can click that and
Speaker 2: it will show you all the extensions that are installed
Speaker 2: on your browser, and then you can click down below,
Speaker 2: or it says manage extensions to delete those and get
Speaker 2: rid of them. Alternatively, you can go into the menu
Speaker 2: on Chrome, which you can let's see. You could just
Speaker 2: go into the three dots in the upper right hand
Speaker 2: corner next to your profile icon, and then it says extensions,
Speaker 2: and then it says manage extensions. You tap that and
Speaker 2: it will give you a list of all the extensions
Speaker 2: on your computer. I've got two four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen,
Speaker 2: eighteen twenty extensions. Not all of them are turned on,
Speaker 2: so you can either turn one off or you can
Speaker 2: just click or remove if you don't need it anymore.
Speaker 2: So if you see anything on there that says search helper,
Speaker 2: search Functions, search Buddy, you probably don't need it.
Speaker 1: Get rid of it.
Speaker 2: That is interfering with your searches, and it's also collecting
Speaker 2: data in the background that you don't need it to
Speaker 2: be doing. Let's go to Sarah in Ventura. Sarah you're
Speaker 2: on with rich Hi.
Speaker 1: Hi Hi.
Speaker 8: I was taking a class. In the morning it's a
Speaker 8: Google Suite and in the afternoon it's Microsoft Office Suite.
Speaker 8: It's just one day. It's in class with the teacher
Speaker 8: where assigned laptops. And I was wondering if maybe the
Speaker 8: teacher or this is at a job center, okay, And
Speaker 8: I was wondering if maybe someone is doing something because
Speaker 8: on the in the daytime, I mean in the morning part,
Speaker 8: I was on one network and then I turned it off,
Speaker 8: and when I came back, it was on another network.
Speaker 8: And then I noticed that whenever I started the class August,
Speaker 8: whenever the teacher says pay attention to what I'm saying,
Speaker 8: the computer, the laptop I'm using, stops. It won't let
Speaker 8: me click anything, move anything, do anything, and then other
Speaker 8: things happen like so.
Speaker 2: It sounds like it sounds like they have control over
Speaker 2: the computer. Are these are these handed out by them?
Speaker 11: It's fair?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so they have they have software on this
Speaker 2: that allows them to control when you can do things
Speaker 2: and also to allow them to do whatever they want
Speaker 2: on this computer, Walt, It's in front of you. So
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty standard software that allows them to remain
Speaker 2: in control of the situation.
Speaker 8: And when she needs to leave early, the battery suddenly
Speaker 8: goes down to where the battery is low, and then
Speaker 8: I would need to recharge it. So can I stop
Speaker 8: her from doing that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Not if it's their computer, it's are you Are you
Speaker 2: bringing this computer home?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not.
Speaker 8: But I noticed when she feels bored she people just
Speaker 8: suddenly when she's looking up looking for something to do,
Speaker 8: nothing's happening. Then someone has a problem, and I think
Speaker 8: that she likes to feel useful, So I noticed it
Speaker 8: just seems like she's interfering with something that I need
Speaker 8: to learn when she just feels like, you know, talking
Speaker 8: to someone who needs to have help it.
Speaker 2: Sarah, it sounds like it sounds like this teacher is
Speaker 2: not working out for you.
Speaker 1: Do you like this teacher?
Speaker 8: You know, she was very nice except when she started
Speaker 8: to teach Excel. I started when she was teaching Excel,
Speaker 8: and this is near the end of one cycle. They
Speaker 8: teach in cycles, and now that she's in Excel again,
Speaker 8: she all thistay's happened. But in between she's so sweet
Speaker 8: and nice, but suddenly she's not not quite that way. Yeah,
Speaker 8: well the battery.
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, that's the battery. The battery is interesting. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure about the battery. I don't think she has
Speaker 2: a switch, a magic switch on her computer to say, okay, now,
Speaker 2: drain everyone's battery on these computers. But when it comes
Speaker 2: to computers that are handed out, and this this is
Speaker 2: for anyone that has a company issued computer, a school
Speaker 2: issued computer, uh, there is a lot of software out
Speaker 2: there that keeps tabs on these computers. They may they
Speaker 2: may take a screenshot at random intervals. They may be
Speaker 2: able to remotely access into your computer without you even
Speaker 2: knowing your Your company may have software that logs what
Speaker 2: you do. So my advice, if you are using a
Speaker 2: computer that is not completely yours, you treat it that way,
Speaker 2: and they have the ability to monitor what you're doing
Speaker 2: on there, to see anything that you do, anything that's
Speaker 2: on your screen. Schools do it, companies do it. They
Speaker 2: all do it. And it's mostly there because they are
Speaker 2: the administrator of that computer. So it sounds like, Sarah,
Speaker 2: what you're talking about is, I think it sounds halfway
Speaker 2: between this teacher has this ability and also you're not
Speaker 2: a fan of this teacher and what she's doing. And
Speaker 2: so for the teacher part, I would just avoid classes
Speaker 2: with this teacher in the future. Finish up what you're doing.
Speaker 2: But for the computer part, no, you're not able to
Speaker 2: turn that off easily. I mean, yes, you can maybe
Speaker 2: hack into it and figure that out, but this is
Speaker 2: a safety precaution. They are administrators on this computer, kind
Speaker 2: of like at work. When you can't install something on
Speaker 2: your computer at work, that's because you are not the administrator.
Speaker 2: If you want to be in charge of your computer,
Speaker 2: you have to buy it yourself. And I would even
Speaker 2: say if you are installing programs are apps on your
Speaker 2: devices from your company, you need to be aware of
Speaker 2: what you're installing because sometimes that can have implications as well.
Speaker 2: You may get a notice on your computer that when
Speaker 2: you log in with your corporate account on something like Microsoft,
Speaker 2: that says, hey, can we uh can you can your
Speaker 2: work remotely wipe this device? So just be real careful
Speaker 2: with that kind of stuff, because if you want your
Speaker 2: own stuff, you got to have your own stuff.
Speaker 1: And keep it that way.
Speaker 2: Eight a eight rich one on one eight eight eight
Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you about the Zoomo stream box. You're listening
Speaker 2: to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at Triple eight
Speaker 2: rich one on one. That's eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 2: to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour
Speaker 2: of the show. Friend of the show, Jefferson Graham of
Speaker 2: Photo Walks TV is going to talk about how he
Speaker 2: captured an epic ten day time laps. He did it
Speaker 2: on both the iPhone and the Samsung, and he's got
Speaker 2: some information about which one did it better, plus tips
Speaker 2: on how to take similar videos. I did a time
Speaker 2: lapse in my hotel room. I was in New York
Speaker 2: City and I had this cool view of the city,
Speaker 2: and so I just set up my phone on the
Speaker 2: window and did a time lapse.
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: They're fun Triple eight rich one on one eighty eight
Speaker 2: seven four to two four one zero one. Howard says,
Speaker 2: can you send me the links from today's show? He emails,
Speaker 2: particularly the gas of the guests, Jeremy, with the newsletter
Speaker 2: and the other sites you were talking about.
Speaker 1: You have an amazing show. Thank you well.
Speaker 2: It made it really easy if you want to find
Speaker 2: links to the show in real time. Let's say I
Speaker 2: mentioned something. I keep everything in the notes. So if
Speaker 2: you go to rich on tech dot tv slash wiki wiki,
Speaker 2: this will bring you to the awesome show notes and
Speaker 2: they go back almost to the first show. I didn't
Speaker 2: start doing this until like maybe show number ten, but
Speaker 2: we've done forty five shows and so you can see
Speaker 2: the notes for every single show. Some shows even have
Speaker 2: a transcript, so if you want to see if I
Speaker 2: mentioned something specific, you can search there. But all the
Speaker 2: notes and all the links are there. So rich on
Speaker 2: tech dot tv slash wiki, now that's the wiki, so
Speaker 2: that's like everything. But rich on tech dot tv the
Speaker 2: standard page eventually has the notes for that show, along
Speaker 2: with the audio of the show. Eva says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 2: enjoy everything you do. I have thousands of photos i'd
Speaker 2: like to scan into my laptop. What's the best scanner
Speaker 2: I can buy? I want good quality resolution in case
Speaker 2: I want to print a photo later, example a four
Speaker 2: x six eight by ten eleven fourteen. Thank you, Eva,
Speaker 2: So yeah, if you're gonna print photos bigger than a
Speaker 2: four x six, most people are just scanning these things
Speaker 2: and then putting them on their phone. But if you
Speaker 2: are going to print, you probably want to scan at
Speaker 2: a higher dpi, probably six hundred. Most scanners default to
Speaker 2: about three hundred, and some can even go as low
Speaker 2: as I believe, like seventy six. So you probably want
Speaker 2: to do a higher dpi if you're going to do
Speaker 2: those bigger pictures. I have a feeling, though, EVA, You're
Speaker 2: probably not gonna end up printing out all those pictures.
Speaker 2: I always think I'm gonna print out pictures, and I
Speaker 2: don't now. If you want the best, and you've got
Speaker 2: thousands of photos, like you said, and you want to
Speaker 2: do this at home, probably the best is this EPSN
Speaker 2: Fast Photo FF six't eighty W high speed scanning system.
Speaker 1: But that's six hundred bucks, so you.
Speaker 2: Can get it and then sell it or you know,
Speaker 2: split the price of the family member if you have
Speaker 2: a bunch of people that want to all scan their photos.
Speaker 2: This is like the Lamborghini of scanners. You feed in
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of pictures at once, it will scan
Speaker 2: through them really fast. I think it even does the
Speaker 2: front and back at the same time. So if you
Speaker 2: wrote stuff on the back of the pictures, that will
Speaker 2: do it. But six hundred bucks, nobody really wants to
Speaker 2: spend that on a scanner. So Trusty Amazon has a
Speaker 2: couple of top picks for the scanners. Cannons are very popular.
Speaker 2: The cannon Cano scan lied l id E three hundred
Speaker 2: is fifty eight bucks. So, but that's a flatbed scanner,
Speaker 2: so you're gonna be you're gonna be putting pictures in there,
Speaker 2: one at a time, very slowly. And you also have
Speaker 2: they have a cheap O not a cheapo but a
Speaker 2: kind of like a third party brand I've never heard
Speaker 2: of that does do a feeder, but it looks like
Speaker 2: it's one picture at a time.
Speaker 1: That's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Then they've got the epsom Perfection V nineteen that's ninety bucks,
Speaker 2: and that has higher resolution as well. So I would
Speaker 2: probably go with some sort of scanner where you can
Speaker 2: feed stuff in easily as opposed to a flatbed flatbed
Speaker 2: if you have thousands of pictures, those are going to
Speaker 2: take a while to get through.
Speaker 1: Zuomo's stream box. All right.
Speaker 2: So if you are clinging to the idea of cable,
Speaker 2: and I'm saying this with the idea of I personally
Speaker 2: prefer a completely cord cutting streaming service, So I like
Speaker 2: a fire TV or an Apple TV. But there are
Speaker 2: many people out there that still like traditional cable and
Speaker 2: they have a traditional cable box, but they still want
Speaker 2: to stream stuff. And so that means you have two
Speaker 2: different items going on with your TV. You've got your
Speaker 2: cable box on one input and you've got a streaming
Speaker 2: stick on another input, and you're switching between those things.
Speaker 2: When you want to watch Netflix, you got to go
Speaker 2: to the stick. When you want to watch Channel five,
Speaker 2: you got to go to your cable box. So the
Speaker 2: cable companies they have banded together to come up with
Speaker 2: this thing called Zumo. And I believe this was a
Speaker 2: startup and they purchased it or something like that, but
Speaker 2: Charter and Comcast are the two big companies that are
Speaker 2: behind this. And it's a box. It's called the Zumo
Speaker 2: stream Box, and it combines cable TV with popular streaming apps.
Speaker 2: So it doesn't have a Cox cable. It's all delivered
Speaker 2: over the internet. But what it essentially is is your
Speaker 2: cable service, like a streaming cable service, like if you
Speaker 2: have a YouTube TV, but it would be Spectrum's version
Speaker 2: of that alongside these streaming apps. And there's three hundred
Speaker 2: streaming apps on this box. They're not all installed at once,
Speaker 2: but they're all on the screen. You it, it kind of
Speaker 2: installs it in the background and you're good to go.
Speaker 2: So the big difference here is that this comes from
Speaker 2: your cable company. So you have to have a cable plan,
Speaker 2: you have to have cable Internet, and you get this box.
Speaker 2: The box is either five bucks a month as a
Speaker 2: service fee, which you would pay forever, or you can
Speaker 2: pay sixty dollars outright, but they're not going to help.
Speaker 1: You if something goes wrong with the box.
Speaker 2: So by paying the five dollars a month, you get
Speaker 2: kind of the backing of the cable company, just like
Speaker 2: you would a cable box. Something goes wrong, you exchange it.
Speaker 1: It's nice.
Speaker 2: I mean, I had a demo of this over at
Speaker 2: the Spectrum store and in the limited time I had
Speaker 2: it seems like a nice option if you still like
Speaker 2: a traditional cable TV experience.
Speaker 1: So if you like all those.
Speaker 2: Channels that are always streaming or I should say always
Speaker 2: kind of just playing something, you turn on your TV,
Speaker 2: it goes to a channel. Now, the funny thing is
Speaker 2: it goes to Spectrum's own Spectrum one News, which happens
Speaker 2: to be Channel one on their systems. If you don't
Speaker 2: have Spectrum News in your area, it's going to default
Speaker 2: to the first channel that you have, which is probably
Speaker 2: channel two. I think that they should let you customize
Speaker 2: that to your favorite channel. So let's say you love MTV,
Speaker 2: you can have it go to that. Let's say you
Speaker 2: love channel five, you can have a default to that.
Speaker 2: That would be a nice thing for them to do.
Speaker 2: But again, these are cable companies. They're not always you know,
Speaker 2: they're not always thinking in I feel bad even saying it,
Speaker 2: but not every company is always, you know, thinking of
Speaker 2: their customer's best interest. Sometimes there's a little bit of
Speaker 2: a loaded, you know, a little bit bias towards their
Speaker 2: own interests. But otherwise I like the idea that this
Speaker 2: has one remote control for everything, and it does have
Speaker 2: a keypad, so if you want to once you're in
Speaker 2: the cable side of things, you can just type in
Speaker 2: the cable channel number, so if you know the channels
Speaker 2: that you like, you can go straight to them. That's
Speaker 2: something that most I would say, I don't think I've
Speaker 2: ever seen that on a streaming stick. It's got voice search,
Speaker 2: and in the voice search that I looked at, it's
Speaker 2: supposed to be really good it was okay. Maybe there
Speaker 2: are some issues, maybe it needs a software update, but
Speaker 2: it's like the ideas that you'd be able to use
Speaker 2: your voice to do almost everything. You can also add
Speaker 2: cloud DVR service for a monthly fee. And this is
Speaker 2: what I would consider a stop gap and in between technology.
Speaker 2: So while people are still on cable, while people are
Speaker 2: still on streaming, the cable companies, of course want a
Speaker 2: piece of the action, and they want to offer you
Speaker 2: this box so that it kind of bridges both worlds,
Speaker 2: but they're still in the game versus you ditching your
Speaker 2: cable company, your traditional cable company and going with something
Speaker 2: like YouTube TV.
Speaker 1: Now you can.
Speaker 2: Email me and tell me Rich I can do all
Speaker 2: of this stuff on my Fire TV stick, and Rich
Speaker 2: I can do all of this stuff on my Apple TV.
Speaker 1: Yes you can.
Speaker 2: You can cobble together all the apps you want and
Speaker 2: all of the cable services you want. There's Fubo, there's
Speaker 2: Sling TV, there is you know, there's so many of them.
Speaker 2: But this is a little bit different because it's much
Speaker 2: more combined, it's much more integrated. It feels like traditional
Speaker 2: cable just a little bit more. Some people might like that,
Speaker 2: some people may not like that. I'm kind of in
Speaker 2: the middle. I think for some people that still have
Speaker 2: a cable box and a streamer streaming stick, go for it.
Speaker 1: Why not.
Speaker 2: Life Hacker explains the difference between a modem and a router.
Speaker 2: I thought this was pretty interesting. The modem connects your
Speaker 2: home network to your internet service provider. It translates the
Speaker 2: data between your devices and the Internet service provider. A
Speaker 2: router creates a local network in your home and connects
Speaker 2: all your devices together wirelessly or through Ethernet. It routes
Speaker 2: data between your devices and the modem. Modems just provide
Speaker 2: the Internet connection. The routers enable the wireless networking and
Speaker 2: connect multiple devices. Most of the time, your Internet service
Speaker 2: provider is giving you a combined modem slash router device.
Speaker 2: And that's why it's a little confusing, because it's a
Speaker 2: modem that also sends out the Wi Fi signal that
Speaker 2: all of your devices latch onto. If you're getting something
Speaker 2: like an ear row that is a that is a
Speaker 2: router and that will take your modem signal and put
Speaker 2: it out to all of your devices, you can get
Speaker 2: an upgraded signal, so if you want, you can buy
Speaker 2: your own modem from your cable company or your Internet
Speaker 2: service provider. You know, I'm kind of torn on that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like one of these things where I
Speaker 2: get it. Some of these ISPs charge five bucks a
Speaker 2: month ten bucks a month to rent the router or
Speaker 2: the modem rather and it's it may be cheaper to
Speaker 2: buy it if you're going to stick with them for
Speaker 2: a long time. You can buy it out right and
Speaker 2: have it yourself, but you know, if something goes wrong,
Speaker 2: you are on the hook. And they're also not going
Speaker 2: to provide support for you. And finally, mostly for my
Speaker 2: California listeners, well California, Washington, Oregon, the app Quake Alert
Speaker 2: USA is shutting down. So as of November sixth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, the free quake Alert USA app is decommissioned,
Speaker 2: which means you will no longer get earthquake early warning
Speaker 2: alerts through the This was one of the earliest apps
Speaker 2: that I covered with the Quake Alert system or the
Speaker 2: Shake alert system. It's been operating for eight years. If
Speaker 2: you have it on your phone, you can delete it
Speaker 2: and if you have an Android you can actually just
Speaker 2: use the built in earthquake alerts under settings Safety and Emergency,
Speaker 2: Earthquake alerts and you can turn that offer on. Google
Speaker 2: has built that into Android, or I guess Android has
Speaker 2: built it into Android. If you're on an iPhone, the
Speaker 2: app that you want is called My Shake, My Shake,
Speaker 2: and Noah has nothing to do with a protein shake.
Speaker 1: It is the shake.
Speaker 2: It works with the Shake Alert system, which is a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of sensors in California, Oregon, and Washington that
Speaker 2: detect earthquakes and send a alert to your phone anywhere
Speaker 2: between five and thirty seconds before you feel the shaking.
Speaker 2: So again, Quake Alert USA. If you have it on
Speaker 2: your phone, it no longer works. It's no longer going
Speaker 2: to send you alerts, so delete it and download My Shake.
Speaker 2: You can do that on iPhone or Android. But if
Speaker 2: you have Android, you've got earthquake alerts built right into
Speaker 2: your operating system. Open up your settings, tap safety in
Speaker 2: emergency and you will find the earthquake alerts in there.
Speaker 2: And yes, the earthquake alert alerts work. I got one
Speaker 2: for the last to earthquake we had. It was like
Speaker 2: maybe five or six seconds before the earthquake. All right,
Speaker 2: coming up, Jefferson Graham is going to talk to us
Speaker 2: about his time lapse capture plus more tech news, tips, reviews.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich on Tech.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, and then totally
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Speaker 2: If you want to email me, you can go to
Speaker 2: the contact link. There a lot of you commenting on
Speaker 2: my Instagram about the story I broke at the beginning
Speaker 2: of the show about how Chuck E.
Speaker 1: Cheese is doing away with animatronics.
Speaker 2: This was news to me last night going to their
Speaker 2: event and the Northridge location. I can't believe it. It's
Speaker 2: like it's just so wild that something I grew up
Speaker 2: with is like no longer going to be a thing.
Speaker 2: I'm glad my kids were able to experience it, But
Speaker 2: as I explain to my instagram at richon Tech, the
Speaker 2: last location in the US that you'll be able to
Speaker 2: experience animatronics at Chuck E. Cheese will be the Northridge,
Speaker 2: California location. So I have a feeling it's going to
Speaker 2: make it to a lot of lists. When people hit
Speaker 2: up California for travel, they're going to say, gotta stop there,
Speaker 2: bring my kids, And most of the time the kids
Speaker 2: won't really care.
Speaker 1: It'll be the parents that care. Let's see here.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't have the person's name, but they wrote
Speaker 2: in I travel frequently for work. Often I have the
Speaker 2: address of my client and they need to find it
Speaker 2: a nearby hotel. I'd like to search for a hotel
Speaker 2: based on brand to increase my loyalty points, and so
Speaker 2: let's see here. I've tried various methods on iOS, Google Maps,
Speaker 2: even map quest to find hotels in proximity, but I've
Speaker 2: not found an easy solution. I've spoken to fellow travelers
Speaker 2: and they don't have good suggestions. If you have a
Speaker 2: tip app or anything else that resolves this, I bet
Speaker 2: your followers would be eager to learn about it. Yes,
Speaker 2: I do have a solution for this because I did
Speaker 2: the same exact thing. I was looking for a way
Speaker 2: to find hotel closest to where I am going for
Speaker 2: an event in a different city, and it's surprisingly tough
Speaker 2: and I think the reason why it's so tough is
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of marketing money at stake. These
Speaker 2: websites like trip Advisor and all these other sites, they
Speaker 2: make money based on the hotel that you choose, and
Speaker 2: I don't want to make it easy for you to
Speaker 2: just find the closest hotel and book it. They want
Speaker 2: to make money based on They're presenting you a list
Speaker 2: of results that make them the most money in that order.
Speaker 1: So what have I found?
Speaker 2: Well, my favorite app for doing this used to be
Speaker 2: called hotels dot com. And you can put in the
Speaker 2: address of where you're going, and then hotels, of course
Speaker 2: would try to sort it by what's quote unquote recommended,
Speaker 2: which just means the sort that makes us the most money.
Speaker 2: But you could change that sort to distance and you
Speaker 2: can find the hotels directly closest to the area you
Speaker 2: want to stay in.
Speaker 1: You know the thing.
Speaker 2: Let's say you have a convention center, you know, convention
Speaker 2: at a convention center, you want the hotel that's walking
Speaker 2: distance to the convention center, right, so you can sort
Speaker 2: by distance, and then, like you're saying, you want to
Speaker 2: be able to sort even further by the hotel name
Speaker 2: or the Loyalty brand, and you'd be able to do
Speaker 2: that as well. But Hotels dot Com just got rid
Speaker 2: of this functionality, and so I've been searching for a
Speaker 2: new way to do this, and it seems like the
Speaker 2: closest way is called Booking dot Com. And Booking dot
Speaker 2: Com will let you put in as on the website.
Speaker 2: I haven't checked this on the app, but on Booking
Speaker 2: dot Com you can type in an address and sort
Speaker 2: by distance from that address. So, for instance, if I
Speaker 2: say Las Vegas Convention Center and you can put that
Speaker 2: in there and check in date, let's just put any
Speaker 2: old date here and press search and it will show
Speaker 2: your results on a map. Now, of course, again I
Speaker 2: said the the sort you want to do distance from
Speaker 2: place of interest, and so that's the that's the way
Speaker 2: you want to sort. And the closest hotel is the
Speaker 2: Residence in by Mariott Las Vegas Convention Center, point two
Speaker 2: miles from map center. Now, if you do the default,
Speaker 2: which is top picks that hotel is twenty miles away.
Speaker 2: I mean, on who wants to say twenty miles away
Speaker 2: from where they're going. So that is the way to
Speaker 2: do it. That's the only way I can do it.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you have to book on booking dot Com,
Speaker 2: but that will definitely help you find the hotel. Now,
Speaker 2: the other way I find hotels this is since I'm
Speaker 2: on the topic of hotels, I'll tell you my little secrets.
Speaker 2: So I go to I have actually two more secrets.
Speaker 2: So I go to trip Advisor. I type in the
Speaker 2: name of where I'm going. So let's say I'm going
Speaker 2: to Charleston, South Carolina. Okay, so char LSTN. So if
Speaker 2: you go to trip Advisor, you can type in Charleston,
Speaker 2: and then up at the top it says hotels. You
Speaker 2: tap that, and then you can put in your dates.
Speaker 2: You don't have to, but you can put in your
Speaker 2: dates if you want. But you can see all the
Speaker 2: properties in Charleston one hundred and thirty seven and then
Speaker 2: it says sort by best value. Now I don't like
Speaker 2: that sort because I don't even know what that means. You
Speaker 2: can look up. You can change that sort to what's
Speaker 2: called traveler ranked, and that's the one that I like
Speaker 2: because that's going to show you the top hotel based
Speaker 2: on what travelers you're doing. And then you can go
Speaker 2: in you can sort by the neighborhood, the rating, the
Speaker 2: hotel class or the brand. So those are my two
Speaker 2: little tricks for booking hotels. All right, Coming up next,
Speaker 2: Jefferson Graham, I'm going to talk about taking time lapses
Speaker 2: on your smartphone. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro,
Speaker 2: that's my name, talking technology with you. Website is Richontech
Speaker 2: dot tv, and you can follow me on social media
Speaker 2: on all of the major platforms at rich on Tech
Speaker 2: got an email through the website from my k Rich
Speaker 2: regarding the caller on Saturday that asked about photo scanning.
Speaker 2: Did they indicate the medium of her pictures? We're actual
Speaker 2: photos or were they slides and negatives. I've scanned tens
Speaker 2: of thousands of slides and negatives and generally pick a
Speaker 2: DEPI between twenty four thirty and thirty two hundred. I
Speaker 2: use an flatbed scanner and scan up to twelve slides
Speaker 2: at a time or twenty four photos on negatives at
Speaker 2: a time. Software product I use is called silver Fast
Speaker 2: that allows me to batch scan the slides and negatives. Ooh,
Speaker 2: silver Fast. That's a good one, So good question, Mike.
Speaker 2: I believe they said photos in the email, but I
Speaker 2: agree I should have mentioned the delineation between negatives and
Speaker 2: also actual photos. I would say I think that negatives
Speaker 2: would be the better way to go because that's a
Speaker 2: much more kind of pure way of capturing what was
Speaker 2: originally in the picture. Jefferson Graham is with Photo Walks
Speaker 2: TV formerly of USA Today, recently captured an epic ten
Speaker 2: day time lapse with both the iPhone and Samsung. Jefferson
Speaker 2: is all about smartphone photography.
Speaker 1: Did I say that right? Jefferson? Smartphones?
Speaker 3: It's a new word. It's a new word, but I
Speaker 3: like it.
Speaker 1: What A say song?
Speaker 2: They've got something like they call phontography. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you great to be here.
Speaker 1: Have you scanned?
Speaker 2: Do you have a do you have a thought on
Speaker 2: UH scanning negatives versus the old the actual picture.
Speaker 10: It's very funny because our friend who has this little
Speaker 10: UH scanning business is the is the place I go to.
Speaker 3: I hate to give him plug and.
Speaker 10: He's so pushy on this, but scan my photos dot
Speaker 10: Com is where I bring my stuff. I just had
Speaker 10: hundreds of negatives scanned and hundreds of slides and they
Speaker 10: clean up the image and they're really nice.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would think that the negative would be
Speaker 2: better than the actual photo.
Speaker 3: But all of your listeners, yes, but anyway.
Speaker 2: Anyway, but as as I was remembering from what what
Speaker 2: you know, what I was told is that most people
Speaker 2: just have the pictures they you know, and look, you're
Speaker 2: looking at them on your smartphone ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 1: So it's it's just as good.
Speaker 10: Okay, So let's yeah this har as scanner goes, I
Speaker 10: don't have a scanner. I find it way too time consuming. Yeah,
Speaker 10: so that that's my answer to that. And you could
Speaker 10: take great photos of your of your photos on your phone.
Speaker 2: That's true. You can use your phone to scan them.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many ways to do this, but
Speaker 2: it's just the reality is just get them scanned. That's
Speaker 2: the bottom line. Like, no matter what you do, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be better. Just don't do the thing where you
Speaker 2: take a picture with a flash and you have like
Speaker 2: this big giant like flash reflection on your pictures when
Speaker 2: you scan them.
Speaker 10: There are definitely some better Also, stand further back because
Speaker 10: you'll get a shadow of yourself in the photo. So
Speaker 10: if you use your your Portraita telephoto lens and stand
Speaker 10: further back, you'll get a better image of the photo.
Speaker 2: The two that's a great one. The two apps that
Speaker 2: I like. One is from Google. It's called photo Scan.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been updated in a while, so I think
Speaker 2: they gave up on it, but it still works. And
Speaker 2: then the other one that's actually really good is called
Speaker 2: photo Mind P h O T O M y n E.
Speaker 2: And I think you have to pay a little bit,
Speaker 2: but it's pretty good. And you can even scan negatives
Speaker 2: with that slide? Can you scan it? I think you
Speaker 2: could scan slides with it. Maybe not a negative, but
Speaker 2: a slide for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about.
Speaker 3: Your monthly subscription. Yes, let's talk about a tide lapse.
Speaker 3: Go for it.
Speaker 2: So you took this epic ten date. What made you
Speaker 2: want to take a ten day time lapse?
Speaker 10: Well, what happened was that I was visiting Nova Scotia.
Speaker 10: I was filming one of my episodes for Photo Walks
Speaker 10: TV on Nova Scotia, and the place we stayed in
Speaker 10: was they put on the TV one morning a thirty
Speaker 10: minute time lapse of Nova Scotia for you know, as
Speaker 10: we were eating breakfast, I said, you know I could
Speaker 10: do that in Manette Beach. Why don't I do something
Speaker 10: like that when I get home, and I have a
Speaker 10: friend who actually lives at the beach, and I said,
Speaker 10: may I put my camera on your deck for a
Speaker 10: few days? And they said, well, we can go want better.
Speaker 10: Our next door neighbor upstairs neighbor is away for ten days,
Speaker 10: and why don't you put it up there on a
Speaker 10: second story. You don't have to worry about anybody stealing
Speaker 10: your phone. And I said, great, Now she's gone for
Speaker 10: ten days, so I'm going to use the ten days. Really,
Speaker 10: all I wanted to do was go from one day
Speaker 10: to the next, because when I do a time lapse,
Speaker 10: I let it go for about an hour and then
Speaker 10: I peter out. I just get tired of standing there.
Speaker 10: And I wanted to see the sunset to the darkness
Speaker 10: of the night, to the night shifting today. That's really
Speaker 10: what I wanted. But since I had the opportunity to
Speaker 10: go for so long, I took it. And now I
Speaker 10: have a friend who lives at the beach. You don't,
Speaker 10: You probably don't, but you might have a friend.
Speaker 3: Who has a balcony, who has a deck, who has.
Speaker 10: Or you may have one of those things, and so
Speaker 10: if you could put the camera, let it roll. You're
Speaker 10: going to get some amazing footage of stuff that you
Speaker 10: would never see with your naked eye, primarily because you'll
Speaker 10: be asleep.
Speaker 3: Asleep, and all this stuff happened.
Speaker 2: So you did this with the iPhone and the Samsung,
Speaker 2: and I assume you set it up on a tripod.
Speaker 2: You had to make sure the tripod didn't blow over,
Speaker 2: you had to plug in the phones. I'm guessing, so
Speaker 2: what did you? Did you use any particular settings because
Speaker 2: I never know, like which time lap setting to use
Speaker 2: on the iPhone. I don't think they give you a setting, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, First of all, all you need is a tripod,
Speaker 10: a smartphone, a mount to go in the tripod to
Speaker 10: put the phone on top of it, and the extension cord.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: That is it.
Speaker 10: And I kept going back every day to make sure
Speaker 10: that the cameras hadn't turned off, that they weren't overheating,
Speaker 10: and they weren't, so that was all good. That the
Speaker 10: iPhone will not let you make a decision beyond which
Speaker 10: lens to use, the ultra wide, the wide, or the telephoto.
Speaker 3: I recommend the.
Speaker 10: One X, which is the wide, because it's the sharpest
Speaker 10: lens and it's the best in low light. So that's
Speaker 10: what I use on the galaxy. There's thirty decisions. There's
Speaker 10: a lot of decisions.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the galaxy and is it under hyper laps?
Speaker 10: It's under more. It's under more said, you know, after
Speaker 10: you go all the way to the end. Yes, under more.
Speaker 10: And it's called hyper laps.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they call it hyper lapse. That's confusing. Shouldn't
Speaker 2: it be time lapse?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Well, okay, it should, but it isn't.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 10: And there are so many decisions. Do you want to
Speaker 10: shoot one frame a second? Do you want to shoot five, ten, thirty?
Speaker 10: It goes on and on and on. Do you want
Speaker 10: to shoot for a minute? Do you want to shoot
Speaker 10: for ken? Do you want to shoot for twenty? I
Speaker 10: shot for Unlimited and I shot at one frame a
Speaker 10: second and it ran for days and days.
Speaker 3: My file was HUMANUS sixty gigabytes.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 10: But once I finally got there, I got there.
Speaker 2: That's really cool. I love that they give you all
Speaker 2: these options. I'm looking at this. You get automatic fifteen x,
Speaker 2: forty five five X, and then the time limit, so
Speaker 2: if you want to do it for a certain amount
Speaker 2: of time, you can do four K, or you can
Speaker 2: do just HD.
Speaker 1: So which camera did it better?
Speaker 10: The Galaxy by far, hands down. Now that's that's using
Speaker 10: the settings that I used in the Galaxy, and that's
Speaker 10: using the automatic settings in the iPhone. People have to
Speaker 10: know that Apple will actually screw you if you want
Speaker 10: to shoot for longer than an hour. No matter how
Speaker 10: long you shoot, whether it's for two hours, five hours,
Speaker 10: ten hours a day, three days, five days, your video
Speaker 10: will be thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: So after it will be thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: No matter what, no matter how long you leave it there.
Speaker 2: So if you leave it there and walk away, matter what. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you're only getting thirty seconds.
Speaker 10: So they will take frames out out of your footage.
Speaker 10: They will do all sorts of weird things that will
Speaker 10: make it really really really fast, faster than it needs
Speaker 10: to be unless you go to a third party app.
Speaker 10: Once I discovered what was going on, I couldn't figure
Speaker 10: it out.
Speaker 3: Hey, I just let it run for three days, I'll
Speaker 3: I have thirty seconds. Doesn't make any sense. So anyway, so.
Speaker 10: I use an app called lapse it, which is well,
Speaker 10: it's sort of free, and it's a dollar for a week,
Speaker 10: and it's five dollars for the year, but it worked
Speaker 10: really well and it did everything I wanted to do.
Speaker 3: There are other apps you can use, the Moment app.
Speaker 10: You can use the new black Magic Camera app, which
Speaker 10: is complicated. The Lapset app is not, so back to
Speaker 10: back both of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the the.
Speaker 3: Lap to watch TV, go to the hour long.
Speaker 2: Yeah we lost you for a second there, so you're
Speaker 2: you're saying the lapse laps it and then the Moment
Speaker 2: app and then the black Magic Camera app, and that
Speaker 2: one's like really high end.
Speaker 1: So where can we see the fruits of your labor?
Speaker 10: YouTube dot com, slash go to watch TV. I have
Speaker 10: a playlist and you can go to all of them.
Speaker 10: I had the ten day, I have the one hour
Speaker 10: which is that's laps and at the beginning then it
Speaker 10: goes to the galaxy and have a complete how too.
Speaker 10: So I think I'll answer all your questions there and
Speaker 10: if you have any more, just hit me up. Subscribe
Speaker 10: to the newsletter. Jefferson gram that substack dot com. I
Speaker 10: know we've had three substackers here today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go substack, Go sub stack. So I have a
Speaker 1: challenge for you.
Speaker 2: There's a website called window dash swap dot com and
Speaker 2: I found this website and it basically has people's windows
Speaker 2: like they looking out their window. And so I think
Speaker 2: that this would be a fun thing for you to do,
Speaker 2: is to create one of these. You know, I think
Speaker 2: it's like tenor This is not a time lapse, but
Speaker 2: it's just like a ten or fifteen minute video outside
Speaker 2: your window. And since you live near the beach, you
Speaker 2: could have fun with this. And you can just see
Speaker 2: a bunch of people's different windows throughout the world. And
Speaker 2: it's called windows Swap, Window dash Swap dot com, and
Speaker 2: so it's just kind of.
Speaker 10: I will be happy to do that with YouTube at
Speaker 10: time lapse of Chucky Cheese at the end of the animatronics.
Speaker 2: Oh I should I it's so sad, it's almost but
Speaker 2: when you look at those things up close, they are
Speaker 2: kind of creepy.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2: The like I said, the last time laps I did,
Speaker 2: Jefferson was in my hotel room in New York City.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why I got in so early. I
Speaker 2: got in it. I took a red eye. I got
Speaker 2: it at five am. I checked into my hotel at
Speaker 2: five point fifty five am. And the guy looks at
Speaker 2: the time he goes, you're here a little early, you know,
Speaker 2: check in is usually like four pm, he said, but
Speaker 2: I do have a room for you. And so I
Speaker 2: was so tired, but it was such a beautiful view
Speaker 2: outside my room that I was like, ooh, before I
Speaker 2: go to sleep. Because I was going to take a nap.
Speaker 2: I said, let me set up the camera in the
Speaker 2: window and I'll see if I can get a time lapse.
Speaker 2: And so I set up the camera and it worked.
Speaker 2: It ran forever. I actually was using the nothing phone
Speaker 2: and it did a beautiful time lapse. I don't know
Speaker 2: where I posted that, maybe on my Instagram. Anyway, time
Speaker 2: lapses are fun. Thanks for coming on the show today.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Jefferson Graham of Photo Walks TV.
Speaker 1: Check him out. He's on YouTube. Friend of the show.
Speaker 2: I think Jefferson has now been on the show more
Speaker 2: than anyone else. I think that was your fourth time
Speaker 2: coming up the feedback segment. You are listening to rich
Speaker 2: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Time for
Speaker 2: the feed back segments. This is all the stuff that
Speaker 2: you email me throughout the week. I can't get to
Speaker 2: all of it, but I'll try to do my best.
Speaker 2: Let me just get through a couple of news stories first,
Speaker 2: I wanted to mention a couple of Amazon stories. Amazon
Speaker 2: is introducing a new Prime health benefit with their new
Speaker 2: subsidiary called One Medical. They bought this company, I don't know,
Speaker 2: last year. This is a medical provider, and now they're
Speaker 2: adding nine dollars a month or ninety nine dollars a
Speaker 2: year for Prime members to get twenty four to seven
Speaker 2: on demand virtual care nationwide, or you can get an
Speaker 2: appointment for an in office visit at one Medical locations
Speaker 2: across the US. You can use your insurance or you
Speaker 2: can pay out of pocket. They do accept a lot
Speaker 2: of insurance plans. The main thing here is that you
Speaker 2: can get unlimited access to virtual care at no cost.
Speaker 2: So if you have something simple that just requires a
Speaker 2: of you know, virtual care, you can do that quickly
Speaker 2: and sign up now. Of course they want you to
Speaker 2: get your your prescriptions through Amazon Pharmacy, but nine bucks
Speaker 2: a month or ninety nine dollars a year, this is
Speaker 2: really if you are kind of you want like a
Speaker 2: more modern medical experience and you maybe don't go to
Speaker 2: the doctor as much.
Speaker 1: That's the way I see it.
Speaker 2: But Amazon's really been pushing hard into healthcare, and so
Speaker 2: far nobody's really made a huge dent in healthcare, like
Speaker 2: made it easy for someone like myself that I like
Speaker 2: everything to be sort of on demand. You know, you
Speaker 2: call your doctor to reschedule an appointment. They're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we can get you in. Maybe this is just an
Speaker 2: LA thing. We can get you in, you know, next October.
Speaker 2: You're like, what what do you mean next October?
Speaker 1: Like what I mean?
Speaker 2: I literally called one time for you know, I had
Speaker 2: like a sore throat or something like, oh, we can't
Speaker 2: take you got to go to like a medi center.
Speaker 1: It's like wait, what So anyway.
Speaker 2: The one medical says you can get same day or
Speaker 2: next day appointments at the clinics too. Other Amazon News
Speaker 2: Amazon expanding it's grocery delivery and pickup from Amazon Fresh
Speaker 2: stores to all customers, even if you don't have a
Speaker 2: Prime membership. So it used to be you had to
Speaker 2: have a Prime membership to shop at Amazon Fresh online.
Speaker 2: You no longer need to have a Prime membership to
Speaker 2: do that. Now delivery is gonna cost you a fee.
Speaker 2: From what I can tell, pickup is free, so you
Speaker 2: can go to the store and pick it up. Anyway,
Speaker 2: the main news here is that you can use Amazon
Speaker 2: Fresh for groceries delivery pickup even if you don't have
Speaker 2: a Prime membership. And they have redesigned the dash cart,
Speaker 2: which is the self checkout car. I love the killer
Speaker 2: new feature, which is it adds up your groceries as
Speaker 2: you're walking through the store. I've wanted that forever because
Speaker 2: I want to know how much I'm spending. You know,
Speaker 2: you go to the grocery store, you end up spending
Speaker 2: so much more than you think. BUCkies and Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 2: Have you been to a BUCkies? Have you heard of BUCkies?
Speaker 2: Bobo has never heard of BUCkies. I never did either
Speaker 2: until I would land it in some Texas town and
Speaker 2: I said, what is this? It was like the Holy
Speaker 2: Grail of gas stations. I'm talking like one hundred pumps
Speaker 2: and this place was incredible. It's probably one of the
Speaker 2: earliest viral videos or videos I had go viral on
Speaker 2: my Facebook page because I was such a fish out
Speaker 2: of water. I'm like, I'm like this, you know, kid
Speaker 2: from New Jersey in LA and I get to Texas
Speaker 2: and I'm like, wait, what is this? I stopped, I
Speaker 2: walked in. I'm like This is incredible. I'm talking all
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. Anyway, if you haven't been to all BUCkies,
Speaker 2: you have to check it out when you go to Texas.
Speaker 2: And if you have been, you know what I'm talking about. Anyway,
Speaker 2: they're partnering with Mercedes Benz. They're gonna add ev charging
Speaker 2: at Buckies' locations by the end of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: They're adding a whole bunch of them. They're gonna have
Speaker 2: over four hundred charging hubs nationwide by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: They're gonna use charge Point and they're gonna have plugs
Speaker 2: for all different evs, not just Mercedes, but I guess
Speaker 2: they'll be Mercedes branded, so that's kind of cool. So
Speaker 2: they get to charge your car, and I will happily
Speaker 2: stop to charge my car. Yeah, Bobo says, this is huge.
Speaker 2: I would happily stop to charge my car for a
Speaker 2: long time at a Buckie's. Apple gift card lawsuit settlement,
Speaker 2: You're probably gonna see a lot of ads about this
Speaker 2: if you bought a gift card for the app Store
Speaker 2: or iTunes. There is a new settlement which covers people
Speaker 2: who bought gift cards between March twenty eighteen and July
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and they had other people steal the cards
Speaker 2: from them, apparently unauthorized redemptions in California. It's from May
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen to February twenty eighteen. Apple's going to pay
Speaker 2: one point eight million dollars total. Oh that's not that much,
Speaker 2: which each claimant receiving up to the face value of
Speaker 2: their card. So if you want to get settlement money,
Speaker 2: you got to submit a claim by January eighth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. The gift the settlement is shay Gift Card
Speaker 2: Settlement dot com. But my advice watch out for scams
Speaker 2: because you know they're going to be capitalizing on this,
Speaker 2: so just be careful.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Some feedback, Wendy, I'm the least technical person in the
Speaker 2: world and I love listening to your show. Thanks so much. Well,
Speaker 2: thank you, Wendy. That is the goal. If you've noticed,
Speaker 2: this show is not for nerds. Nerds love it, but
Speaker 2: you can be a regular person and enjoy this show.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be in tech nerd. The whole
Speaker 2: point is that I'm making you help you understand technology
Speaker 2: and making you feel smarter about it. You know't say
Speaker 2: I don't know technology at all. Brent says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 2: I saw your Rivian segment and you commented on the
Speaker 2: charging issues. I'm surprised you didn't call it the company
Speaker 2: Electrify America. The signage indicates the speeds, but like you said,
Speaker 2: they're inconsistent. Many are non operational or intentionally set below
Speaker 2: one hundred kilo hours. Please do a look seet into
Speaker 2: this company. There's not one EA that's not disappointing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've heard things about this Electrify America. I know it's
Speaker 2: not a perfect system. Charles says, I enjoyed your segment
Speaker 2: on the Rivian with regards to evs. Where are the
Speaker 2: solar roofs and hoods? I read about corporating solar panels
Speaker 2: into rooftop surfaces a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Than nothing, not a peep. It would help with range anxiety. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The problem, Charles is that solar.
Speaker 2: Would not charge the battery fast enough or meaningful enough,
Speaker 2: and it would be too heavy.
Speaker 1: I think that's why.
Speaker 2: Joanne says, hey, Rich, I bought a Ring camera and
Speaker 2: it works perfectly, but Amazon and FedEx driver deliveries do
Speaker 2: not record.
Speaker 1: Where's our X files? Music?
Speaker 2: Ring User blog suspects that drivers are jamming the devices.
Speaker 2: I primarily wanted to see deliveries to prevent porch piracy.
Speaker 2: There are reports to the FCC. I learned Amazon and
Speaker 2: FedEx with the delivery tracking numbers since an Amazon products surprise,
Speaker 2: there's not been any sufficient response from ring complaints date
Speaker 2: back years.
Speaker 1: Joanne Joeann.
Speaker 2: That sounds like a major conspiracy. I doubt that FedEx
Speaker 2: and Amazon workers are sitting there trying to jam every
Speaker 2: ring doorbell they see. Alan says, I love listening to
Speaker 2: you talk about EV's and range. Do you even realize
Speaker 2: most evs are charged up by diesel generators, So all
Speaker 2: your electric dream is really a talk about that on
Speaker 2: your show. Look it up, Alan Oh, Alan, I don't
Speaker 2: want to end the show on a bad note, but
Speaker 2: that's going to do it. You can find links on
Speaker 2: the website rich on tech dot TV. Find me on
Speaker 2: social media. I am at rich on tech.
Speaker 1: Talk to you next week.