Speaker 1: Yet another streaming service raises prices. Another Apple event will
Speaker 1: be online only. Tips from my Disneyland adventure plus your
Speaker 1: tech questions Answered? What's going on on Richidimiro And this
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about
Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's
Speaker 1: also the place where I answer the questions you send me.
Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at Channel five KTLA in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the show. Welcome.
Speaker 1: If you are watching on Facebook Live, thanks for tuning
Speaker 1: me in. I mentioned I went to Disneyland?
Speaker 2: Was it last week?
Speaker 1: So I will give you a couple of my takeaways
Speaker 1: from Disneyland later in the show. You typically I do
Speaker 1: that at the beginning of the show, kind of my
Speaker 1: personal whatever you know, I don't know what you call it,
Speaker 1: my personal twist on things or spin, I don't know what.
Speaker 2: Whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: But I'll do that at the end of this show,
Speaker 1: or maybe not the end, but just somewhere somewhere in
Speaker 1: the middle of the show. Let me talk about what
Speaker 1: I've been testing out this Let's see, we've got two
Speaker 1: phones here, so I'm gonna have a story on KTLA
Speaker 1: next week. But I'll show you the phones here this week.
Speaker 1: So this is the iPhone S I've got in my
Speaker 1: hand here, and I was I didn't really know what
Speaker 1: to expect. I kind of it took me a bit
Speaker 1: to open this one up because I just kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, was not that interested in it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a four hundred and twenty nine dollars phone, and
Speaker 1: it's very basic.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The main appeal is that it's cheap and it has
Speaker 1: this fingerprint reader still on it. But after using this
Speaker 1: phone for a little bit, I mean, realistically, to get
Speaker 1: this iPhone S, you know, it has to be a
Speaker 1: real you know, it's a budget play, which is fine,
Speaker 1: but you know, and it has the best thing about
Speaker 1: it is that it has the latest processor from Apple.
Speaker 1: But compared to the iPhone thirteen Pro, which has like
Speaker 1: a better screen, this thing just seems so antiquated, and
Speaker 1: so I've been playing with it a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: just got one lens on the back too, which is
Speaker 1: also really kind of retro and old school. Overall, it's fine.
Speaker 1: It's just very simple. So if you need like a
Speaker 1: very simple iPhone, the beauty of this is that it
Speaker 1: comes with all the iPhone accessories, plus it has that.
Speaker 1: Really it's got a good camera, it's just a very
Speaker 1: basic camera because it only has that one lens. So
Speaker 1: four hundred and twenty nine dollars for the iPhone.
Speaker 2: Se Then you've got this.
Speaker 1: This is the Samsung what's this called. This is the
Speaker 1: A fifty three to five G So this is about
Speaker 1: the same price. This is about four hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: And the big difference here is that look at the
Speaker 1: cameras on the back. There's a whole bunch of cameras
Speaker 1: on the backside, so you've got not just a macro camera,
Speaker 1: but an ultra wide camera and a standard camera. And
Speaker 1: this is the screen. So the screen is a lot
Speaker 1: lot bigger. The screen on the small iPhone, I think
Speaker 1: it's like something like under five inches. This one is
Speaker 1: like six and a half inches, and so it just
Speaker 1: feels much more modern. But it really depends what you want.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling folks whether they should go with an
Speaker 1: iPhone or Samsung.
Speaker 2: I feel like so.
Speaker 1: Many people have already made a decision in that aspect
Speaker 1: of their lives, So I'm not trying to get you
Speaker 1: to switch over. I'm just telling you that you definitely
Speaker 1: get more for your money when it comes to the Samsung.
Speaker 2: For sure, it's probably not going.
Speaker 1: To be as fast of a device as the iPhone,
Speaker 1: but it's it's quite like a really nice device for
Speaker 1: the price that you're paying. So for four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars, and actually I wouldn't even pay the four
Speaker 1: to fifty. I would wait until some kind of discount
Speaker 1: happens on this phone because already, if you trade in
Speaker 1: any phone, even when with a crack screen, you can
Speaker 1: get one hundred dollars off. That brings this phone down
Speaker 1: to three hundred and fifty dollars. And this is a
Speaker 1: great little phone. I mean I was playing with it,
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting here like taking pictures with it, and
Speaker 1: we went out and about and it's just like, it's
Speaker 1: amazing what you can get for like I'm going to
Speaker 1: say four hundred bucks these days.
Speaker 2: So that's the phone.
Speaker 1: We've got the Samsung A fifty three five G and
Speaker 1: the iPhone SE and again they both work on five
Speaker 1: G networks as well. I'm gonna have my full comparison
Speaker 1: next week on KTLA. This podcast is not like a
Speaker 1: tease for KTLA. I really that's One of my pet
Speaker 1: peeves is when people think that because you're listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast, you watch every single story I do on KTLA.
Speaker 2: I don't assume that at all.
Speaker 1: I think that people are very compartmentalized on what they do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some crossovers. Sometimes you might catch a story other times,
Speaker 1: but I don't expect you to see everything. But of
Speaker 1: course I'll post all that on my social media, so
Speaker 1: you'll have that.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the first story of the day.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna spend a whole bunch of time on this,
Speaker 1: but Elon Musk is joining the board of directors at Twitter,
Speaker 1: and so why is this important. I don't really think
Speaker 1: Twitter is a big part of most people's lives unless
Speaker 1: you're in the news business, the entertainment business. They have
Speaker 1: the least amount of followers or users, I should say,
Speaker 1: out of any of the social networks. So when you
Speaker 1: look at something like Facebook, I mean you're talking over
Speaker 1: a billion users. When you look at something like Instagram,
Speaker 1: I think, I don't know how many they have, but
Speaker 1: they have a lot and people are on there. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a popular, growing service. When you look at something
Speaker 1: like Twitter, it's not really that popular. I think in
Speaker 1: this CNBC article they just had two hundred and seventeen million.
Speaker 2: Daily active users. That is not very much.
Speaker 1: So Elon Musk, you know, he's kind of like a
Speaker 1: kind of a love hate relationship with Twitter. You know,
Speaker 1: he's kind of this outspoken, over not oversized, like size wise,
Speaker 1: but like what's the word when he's just kind of
Speaker 1: he's just a big, big you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He's a larger than life individual, and not just because
Speaker 1: of his money. It's just the guy is just very
Speaker 1: outspoken for being a CEO of a company. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of CEOs just kind of like to sit back,
Speaker 1: not really say much, do kind of like the press.
Speaker 2: But Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Likes to really get his hands dirty and just kind
Speaker 1: of get in there, whether it's controversial, whether it's not.
Speaker 1: He just likes to be out there. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: some people like that, some people don't. But he has
Speaker 1: joined Twitter's board of directors by buying a nine point
Speaker 1: two percent stake in the company, which I don't know
Speaker 1: how much that cost him, but it probably cost.
Speaker 2: Him a lot.
Speaker 1: I think he paid all cash for it, which is
Speaker 1: just totally wild. But the Twitter stock went up as well,
Speaker 1: which you know, I'm not going to get into stock
Speaker 1: numbers and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: This is a consumer show.
Speaker 1: But Elon Musk has about eighty million followers on the platform.
Speaker 1: But why does Twitter want him? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they want him. Actually they probably don't, but
Speaker 1: they're saying they do, and they said. The new CEO
Speaker 1: of Twitter, Prague Argowall, said that he is.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to.
Speaker 1: Helping Twitter from Elon Musk make significant improvements in the
Speaker 1: coming months, whatever those improvements are. And one of the
Speaker 1: big things that has been talked about on Twitter for
Speaker 1: so long now is this idea of an edit button.
Speaker 1: I will tell you why I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: good idea and why I think Twitter has shied away
Speaker 1: from it. It's because, Okay, so let's say you tweet
Speaker 1: something I love pizza.
Speaker 2: You get a whole.
Speaker 1: Bunch of people to retweet it and like it, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you change the tweet, you
Speaker 1: edit it to say I hate pizza. Uh, And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that follows through to all the
Speaker 1: different people that are that are you know that like.
Speaker 2: That tweet and retweeted it.
Speaker 1: So there's an there's an obvious issue there, and I
Speaker 1: don't know how Twitter gets around that. What do they
Speaker 1: do check every single tweet that you change? There's just
Speaker 1: no way they can do that. So we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens with Elon Musk joining the board of Twitter, see
Speaker 1: if anything changes, see if more people join. I will say,
Speaker 1: as much as I don't like Twitter for the reach
Speaker 1: of Twitter, it does reach the right people in my business.
Speaker 2: So I don't have a lot of followers on Twitter,
Speaker 2: but the.
Speaker 1: Followers I do have are a lot of the tech
Speaker 1: people that also have a lot of followers, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of this network. So that's what I do like
Speaker 1: about Twitter is for professionals like myself, I can tweet
Speaker 1: something and it can rise up and because the right
Speaker 1: people see that tweet. And I also really like the
Speaker 1: fact that Twitter is almost the best platform agnostic social
Speaker 1: media platform out there because it almost operates the same
Speaker 1: way on iOS and Android. A lot of these social
Speaker 1: media networks are vastly different on android and iOS, and
Speaker 1: it's really really annoying, besays bsays Shout Out from the Philippines, Awesome.
Speaker 1: One day, I'd like to do a meet up with
Speaker 1: my followers and just meet them in all these different
Speaker 1: cool places.
Speaker 2: All right, first question of the show.
Speaker 1: Victoria says, I keep receiving texts about selling my home.
Speaker 1: Some of them say type stop to opt out. Do
Speaker 1: you think that's safe, Victoria, This is a great question,
Speaker 1: and here is the answer. The answer is it is
Speaker 1: only safe to opt out of, whether it's text or emails,
Speaker 1: if it is a legitimate sender. So if you are
Speaker 1: getting this from say a Redfin or a Zillow or
Speaker 1: a you know, even even a local realtor that you
Speaker 1: might have looked at an open house and they started
Speaker 1: texting you and now you're getting those texts from them,
Speaker 1: those are all examples of a legitimate business that you
Speaker 1: can safely type the word stop and those texts will stop.
Speaker 1: They will take you off of that list. Uh, in
Speaker 1: a business that I would not do this too. Is
Speaker 1: a text that you've you don't really understand where it's
Speaker 1: coming from. The return phone number is not very good.
Speaker 1: It just seems spammy or weird. Just go ahead and
Speaker 1: delete that text because they're they're by by clicking a
Speaker 1: link inside that text or by replying to that text,
Speaker 1: you are actually confirming to those spam spammers that that
Speaker 1: phone number is good.
Speaker 2: And when you do that, guess what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a whole lot more spam texts. So again,
Speaker 1: if it's a Macy's Home Depot, any of these companies
Speaker 1: that you do business with that you have signed up
Speaker 1: for a lot of times nowadays, you have to give
Speaker 1: your phone number as part of like a sign up
Speaker 1: process or whatever. You know, if you give that phone number,
Speaker 1: a lot of these companies text you because text is
Speaker 1: so universal and it's really sticky. So when you get
Speaker 1: those texts, you know, it's easy to get a hold
Speaker 1: of you because you're gonna look at your texts. And
Speaker 1: so people love text messaging because it's kind of a
Speaker 1: really good way to get a hold of people. But
Speaker 1: you don't have to be beholden too these companies don't
Speaker 1: feel bad. Go ahead, type stop and get rid of
Speaker 1: the Home Depot text, Get rid of the Walmart text.
Speaker 1: Whoever's texting you if you don't need them, if they're
Speaker 1: not sending you coupons on a regular basis, get rid
Speaker 1: of them because it's just making you spend more money.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to these companies that do not
Speaker 1: have a legitimate track record. Don't even do anything to
Speaker 1: these texts, just delete them. You can try blocking them,
Speaker 1: but honestly, these people are not texting from the same
Speaker 1: numbers anyway, so you know it's not worth it to
Speaker 1: go ahead and block these people. Blocking really only works
Speaker 1: for someone that you know or a legitimate business. But
Speaker 1: legitimate businesses are going to take you off the list
Speaker 1: when you type stop. So I am really you have
Speaker 1: no idea with my emails. I unsubscribe to everything. I
Speaker 1: mean literally, even companies that I like, even companies I
Speaker 1: do business with, unless they are sending me discounts.
Speaker 2: That's my delineation.
Speaker 1: If you are not sending me a discount in that email,
Speaker 1: if you're just like advertising a new product, a new service,
Speaker 1: reminding me about something, then you're gone because I just
Speaker 1: want those coupon codes.
Speaker 2: I want those promo codes. I want those discount codes.
Speaker 1: That's how you get me to stay on your email
Speaker 1: list if you keep sending me those codes. Otherwise I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say please, I'll see you later.
Speaker 2: Great question, Victoria.
Speaker 1: All right, next story on the list for today, Apple's
Speaker 1: Worldwide Developers Conference is.
Speaker 2: Going to be online only once again.
Speaker 1: You know, I think the pandemic sort of quote unquote
Speaker 1: ended a little bit too soon for Apple to kind
Speaker 1: of switch gears. This is happening in June. This happens
Speaker 1: from let's see June sixth through June tenth. And this
Speaker 1: is a very big event. This is the third year.
Speaker 1: Now for those of you on the Facebook Live, I'm
Speaker 1: holding up four fingers.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: This is the third year that Apple is doing this
Speaker 1: in a virtual way. So the first year was let's see,
Speaker 1: it was twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty no,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, hold on, now, I got to remember when
Speaker 1: the pandemic started. Was it twenty twenty or twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: I've got it all wrong. I think it was yeah,
Speaker 1: three years, so probably March twenty twenty was when the
Speaker 1: first when the pandemic first started, So that would be
Speaker 1: twenty twenty in June, then twenty twenty one in June,
Speaker 1: then twenty twenty two in June. So yeah, So this
Speaker 1: is an event where I would say about five thousand
Speaker 1: people fly in from all over the world. All these developers,
Speaker 1: all these people that make apps for the iPhone will
Speaker 1: fly in, and they fly in and they learn more
Speaker 1: about what they can do with iPhone software, and so
Speaker 1: for us the consumers out there, we get to see
Speaker 1: the next version of iOS, We get to see the
Speaker 1: next version of iPad.
Speaker 2: Os, mac os, watch os, and tvOS.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they have one, two, three, four, five operating systems
Speaker 1: at this point. So it's kind of fun because you
Speaker 1: get to see what, let's say, in this case, iOS
Speaker 1: sixteen is going to do, and watch OS, I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're up to eight or something like that,
Speaker 1: or I guess it'd be nine. So we get to
Speaker 1: see all these different things, so it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we get hardware. Most of the time we don't.
Speaker 1: You never know, they could throw something in there. But
Speaker 1: this year they are going to do a little bit
Speaker 1: of a live portion and this is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: They're going to host a special day for developers and
Speaker 1: students at Apple Park on June sixth, so they can
Speaker 1: watch the keynote and the State of the Union videos
Speaker 1: along with the online community. Space will be limited, and
Speaker 1: details about how to apply will be provided on the
Speaker 1: Apple Developer site and app soon. So for sure I
Speaker 1: would apply to that if you want to go. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're going to select a few people, but it's you
Speaker 1: might as well be in it to win it, right,
Speaker 1: And then they also have this Students around the world
Speaker 1: are invited to create a swift Swift Playgrounds app project
Speaker 1: on a topic of their choice and you can submit
Speaker 1: it through April twenty fifth, not very much time, but
Speaker 1: it's the Swift Student Challenge website. So if you know
Speaker 1: a student that's coding already, get them to start this,
Speaker 1: get them to enter this Swift Student Challenge, because you
Speaker 1: never know.
Speaker 2: I mean I interviewed a kid. I call him a kid.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a young man a couple weeks ago
Speaker 1: up in San Francisco who was one of these students
Speaker 1: that they selected for this challenge a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and now he's a very successful developer. He came up
Speaker 1: with an app that we featured on KTLA and I
Speaker 1: have no doubt that kid is going to be a
Speaker 1: millionaire by the time he is thirty years old, because
Speaker 1: he's only like twenty something and he just graduated college.
Speaker 1: But his app was like downloaded by so many people.
Speaker 1: Let's see, it was called Locket Camera, so let's see
Speaker 1: if it's been acquired yet. It's like basically a little
Speaker 1: tiny I mean, look at this seventy three thousand ratings.
Speaker 1: It was like downloaded by millions of people around the
Speaker 1: world instantly, and he made it for his girlfriend. It's
Speaker 1: a little tiny widget that you put on your home
Speaker 1: screen on your iPhone and friends and family can send
Speaker 1: pictures to it. So instead of opening up your phone,
Speaker 1: logging in or looking at Facebook or Instagram, you just
Speaker 1: literally have this little picture right on your home screen
Speaker 1: that your loved one sent to you or your friend.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant idea. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that that will be acquired or
Speaker 1: he will be what they call aqua hired, like acquire
Speaker 1: like he he's an aquahirer, like basically a company like
Speaker 1: Instagram will buy his app, but they'll also get him
Speaker 1: in the process. So A get a couple questions on
Speaker 1: the live stream. I know it's really tough for me
Speaker 1: to reply. The comments just kind of go really fast
Speaker 1: in front of me. So I am going to eventually
Speaker 1: try to do a show where I answer questions live
Speaker 1: as well. So I haven't figured out exactly the cadence
Speaker 1: on that, but please understand if you're watching on the
Speaker 1: live stream. That that is My goal is to make
Speaker 1: this an interactive process, because really what this show is
Speaker 1: all about is answering your questions. So right now, what
Speaker 1: I do is I select the best questions that I
Speaker 1: get all week, and I answer those on the live stream,
Speaker 1: the ones that I think appeal to the most people,
Speaker 1: the questions that I think will resonate with the most people,
Speaker 1: the things that people are wondering about the most. Right, So,
Speaker 1: I don't really answer like the really kind of small
Speaker 1: questions like how come my printer drivers not working? You know,
Speaker 1: like that like you got to figure that out, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, I'm trying to answer stuff
Speaker 1: that has a much broader appeal that you all can
Speaker 1: kind of have a takeaway from.
Speaker 2: With that said, let's get to the next question. All right,
Speaker 2: good afternoon.
Speaker 1: I'm a longtime KTLA viewer of yours and enjoy when
Speaker 1: you sub in for Leo Laporte.
Speaker 2: We also we had a notice.
Speaker 1: On our doorknob that Frontier Fiber is coming to our neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I'm a relatively satisfied Spectrum customer, but it does peak
Speaker 1: my curiosity your thoughts. Maybe a topic for your podcast. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we don't have AT and T Fiber in our area,
Speaker 1: Thanks Allen. I think the AT and T fiber is
Speaker 1: a reference to the fact that they are a sponsor
Speaker 1: of the KTLA segment, and they have been for a
Speaker 1: long time. But that doesn't really affect my answer here
Speaker 1: because I feel like what internet service provider you have
Speaker 1: largely depends on where you live. I mean, many people
Speaker 1: don't have a choice of more than one maybe two.
Speaker 1: So okay, so you're you're a relatively satisfied spectrum customer
Speaker 1: and Frontier Fiber is coming. So here's the big difference
Speaker 1: between fiber and cable Internet or any other Internet that
Speaker 1: you get. When you get a fiber Internet connection, typically
Speaker 1: the upload and the download speed are the same.
Speaker 2: And what does that mean.
Speaker 1: That means that not only will your download speeds be fast,
Speaker 1: but if you're uploading stuff to the network, that's going
Speaker 1: to be fast as well. That's really basically the only
Speaker 1: advantage that I see to this situation. But there is
Speaker 1: one other advantage to a new company coming into town,
Speaker 1: and that is a better deal. So I can guarantee
Speaker 1: you that Frontier will likely be offering a very nice
Speaker 1: sign up deal. Maybe in the neighborhood of fifty bucks
Speaker 1: for your service. If you've been a Spectrum customer for
Speaker 1: a long time, they're probably charging you closer to eighty dollars.
Speaker 2: A month, depending on the plan you're on, of course,
Speaker 2: But the.
Speaker 1: Reality is, yeah, I would switch check it out. I mean,
Speaker 1: you say you're relatively satisfied. You know you can always
Speaker 1: go back, right, I mean, it's not like they cut
Speaker 1: the line to your house and you can never get
Speaker 1: it reinstalled. So if it's a faster speed for a
Speaker 1: cheaper price, you might as well test it out.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know that some people have their problems with Spectrum,
Speaker 1: obviously as a tech reporter, people are emailing me when
Speaker 1: they're complaining about stuff. But you know, there's millions of
Speaker 1: other people, or hundreds of thousands of other people that
Speaker 1: don't have any problem. But I do get a fair
Speaker 1: amount of complaints about Frontier. I probably get a fair
Speaker 1: amount about Spectrum, but maybe not as much.
Speaker 2: But you know, here's the deal. It's your home internet.
Speaker 1: Like as anyone like, oh my gosh, this is the
Speaker 1: best home internet I've ever had in my life. No,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of like running water. It's not like
Speaker 1: when you move from house to house, you feel like
Speaker 1: one water tastes better than the other.
Speaker 2: Maybe you do. I don't know, I haven't really noticed, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would definitely check it out see what they offer.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the main thing is that the
Speaker 1: price that Fiber that Frontier is going to offer you
Speaker 1: is probably going to be good, but it's probably going
Speaker 1: to be better than what you're paying. The good news
Speaker 1: is as a consumer, now you have you are armed
Speaker 1: with that price, so you can go to Spectrum and say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: Fiber's given me five hundred, five hundred for fifty bucks
Speaker 1: a month. Right now, I'm paying seventy dollars for four
Speaker 1: hundred four hundred down, and I think Spectrum is like
Speaker 1: thirty five up on the four hundred, so it's it's
Speaker 1: going to be significantly faster on the up. Most people
Speaker 1: don't really upload a ton of stuff to the network.
Speaker 1: I do because I'm working with video all the time,
Speaker 1: but most people just need that fast download speed, and
Speaker 1: quite honestly, for stuff like Netflix and all the streaming services,
Speaker 1: you literally need like the slowest Internet connection ever it
Speaker 1: still works just fine. So if you're having problems with
Speaker 1: your Internet, it's mostly like your signal and your latency
Speaker 1: and your WiFi is not very good. It's not that
Speaker 1: your actual internet speed is not very good. All right,
Speaker 1: Well this nicely segues into my next story. Charter Communications.
Speaker 1: They are the owners of Spectrum. I swear I didn't
Speaker 1: plan this, but this is just how the cookie crumbled
Speaker 1: with the stories this week. So they now have what's
Speaker 1: called Spectrum Internet one hundred. And this is really important.
Speaker 1: So this is this is a high speed, low cost
Speaker 1: internet service. So you get one hundred megabit download speeds
Speaker 1: for just thirty dollars a month. That includes a modem
Speaker 1: Wi Fi and oh I like this self installation is
Speaker 1: included at no charge.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
Speaker 1: I can install my own internet for at no charge.
Speaker 1: Now if you charge me for that, I would really
Speaker 1: have a problem. But remember back in the day, they
Speaker 1: would come to your house and install it for free.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe they don't do that anymore. It's
Speaker 1: been a while since I got internet installed. But it's
Speaker 1: just funny. It says self installation at no additional charge,
Speaker 1: like we are privileged to get that? Like I don't
Speaker 1: think so okay, So here's the deal. You can get
Speaker 1: this now for thirty dollars a month. This is only
Speaker 1: available to low income households, but you can also qualify
Speaker 1: for what this government. The government has what's called the
Speaker 1: Affordable Connectivity Program and that gives you a thirty dollars
Speaker 1: monthly credit. So effectively you can have internet for free indefinitely.
Speaker 1: So right now, the government they came up with this
Speaker 1: program during the pandemic. It was called the Emergency Broadband
Speaker 1: Benefits because all the kids were at home and people
Speaker 1: are working from home and they needed internet and the
Speaker 1: government wanted to make sure everyone had it, even if
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't have enough money to buy it,
Speaker 1: and so that's fine. But then they realized after this, like,
Speaker 1: well we should probably have a program like this that
Speaker 1: that runs indefinitely, and so they approve this and this
Speaker 1: is what it's called. It's called Affordable Connectivity Program. So
Speaker 1: if you know someone that's on SNAP, Medicaid, public Housing
Speaker 1: Assistance Lifeline, WICK, is a you know on a tribe
Speaker 1: tribal land, is on the school lunch program, had a pelgrant,
Speaker 1: all these things will all of these things will will
Speaker 1: approve you for this and you can basically get this
Speaker 1: for free. So that's what you need to do is
Speaker 1: just first go to the website FCC dot gov slash
Speaker 1: ACP and then you can contact Spectrum and see what
Speaker 1: the deal is to make sure you're eligible. But basically
Speaker 1: you can get internet for free for thirty dollars a
Speaker 1: month credit.
Speaker 2: Okay, so oh, let's get.
Speaker 1: To another question. Sorry, I was on something else. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see. Hi, Rich, I realize you are extremely busy.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping you can please recommend an app that I
Speaker 1: can use to remove duplicate photos on my Apple devices
Speaker 1: I have over don't fall off your chair forty four
Speaker 1: thousand pictures. I am almost seventy years old and I
Speaker 1: really need to remove so many photos. And I trust
Speaker 1: your opinion. We watch you on KTLA. Thank you in advance.
Speaker 2: Robert.
Speaker 1: Well, Robert, I did not fall off my chair, so
Speaker 1: I'm okay. And you know, forty four thousand photos that.
Speaker 2: Is a lot.
Speaker 1: Actually, I'm not even sure I have that many. I
Speaker 1: think I have like thirty thousand. But you know, you're
Speaker 1: seventy years old, so you're a little bit older than me,
Speaker 1: so you've had some more time to.
Speaker 2: Collect these pictures. But here's what I would say.
Speaker 1: Number one, whenever you are trying to get rid of
Speaker 1: duplicate photos. Number one, This is what I do on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. At the end of the night, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I will just go ahead
Speaker 1: and just kind of thumb through my Google Photos collection
Speaker 1: and I will just kind of prune my collection, right,
Speaker 1: like I'll delete things. You know, I'll look at multiple
Speaker 1: photos and I'll say, Okay, I don't need that one.
Speaker 1: I don't need that one, and I'll delete those. I'll
Speaker 1: especially sort by video because those take up a lot
Speaker 1: of space in my account, And so I will go
Speaker 1: through and delete some videos that I know I don't need,
Speaker 1: like if I just shot something. But the reality is
Speaker 1: this should be an ongoing process. And yes, there are
Speaker 1: some apps that can help, but there is not one
Speaker 1: main app that I can recommend that will do this
Speaker 1: all for you magically and pick all the best pictures.
Speaker 1: So the app, though, that I do recommend is called Gemini.
Speaker 1: And so this is an app that is Gemini. It's
Speaker 1: called Gemini Gallery Cleaner, Gemini Photos. And so you can
Speaker 1: use this on your iPhone. I don't think they have
Speaker 1: an Android version. Did you say you have an iPhone?
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. Oh yeah, on my Apple devices.
Speaker 2: So now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You just have to be really careful when you're deleting
Speaker 1: pictures in bulk with an app like this, because you
Speaker 1: may delete something that goes away forever. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: when you're deleting pictures on the iPhone, they go into
Speaker 1: a recently deleted folder and so you can get back
Speaker 1: those pictures. But if you're deleting five ten thousand pictures,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really tough to go through all those
Speaker 1: pictures and you're recently deleted and get back the ones
Speaker 1: that you need.
Speaker 2: So just be aware of that.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you want to clean up your
Speaker 1: photos with an app like this, it will do a
Speaker 1: good job. It will look for screenshots, similar photos, all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. And I believe it is free to try,
Speaker 1: and then let's see how much it costs regularly. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, and what I do with every app
Speaker 1: is that you just go to the app Store and
Speaker 1: scroll all the way down until it says in app purchases,
Speaker 1: and this will give you an idea of how much
Speaker 1: a quote.
Speaker 2: Unquote free app actually costs.
Speaker 1: So this app is free, but yearly access is twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: Monthly access is five dollars and you can get unlimited
Speaker 1: access for about thirty five dollars, so that I guess
Speaker 1: means it works forever. By the way, this is one
Speaker 1: of the companies that is based in Ukraine. So this
Speaker 1: made by Macpaul, which is one of my favorite software developers.
Speaker 1: They also may clean my MacX. It's a great clean
Speaker 1: up app for your device, your Mac or your PC.
Speaker 1: I think it's called clean my Pc for the PC one.
Speaker 1: But they are based in Ukraine, so thinking to them,
Speaker 1: and if you're buying this app from them, you're actually
Speaker 1: supporting them as well, which is kind of nice, but
Speaker 1: good question. Just be careful, make sure that you've got
Speaker 1: a backup if you can before you do anything like this.
Speaker 1: But it removes blurry photos, similar photos.
Speaker 2: And also screenshots. All right. Well, I hate to be the.
Speaker 1: Bearer of bad news, but Amazon is is raising prices
Speaker 1: on its music unlimited plans. Now, this is a little
Speaker 1: confusing because Amazon has several different types of music. If
Speaker 1: you are a Prime subscriber, you get a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of music included in Amazon Prime. Now it's about two
Speaker 1: million songs that you can play for free without ads
Speaker 1: and you may never even realize that you're not getting
Speaker 1: the whole collection until you ask alex A to play
Speaker 1: a specific song and she says, oh, sorry, that's not
Speaker 1: included in your collection for free, and then maybe she
Speaker 1: tries to upsell you to the Amazon Music Unlimited. So
Speaker 1: Amazon Music Unlimited is a paid service, and this will
Speaker 1: give you access to all of the songs in the catalog,
Speaker 1: very much like a Spotify or a YouTube Music or
Speaker 1: an Apple Music.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing.
Speaker 1: Now, up until now, this was two dollars less than Spotify,
Speaker 1: Apple Music, and YouTube Music, and that's that's what drew
Speaker 1: a lot of people to it. So, uh, even just
Speaker 1: because it was two dollars less a month, and so
Speaker 1: it was, it was seven ninety nine a month versus
Speaker 1: Spotify's entry level is nine ninety nine a month. So
Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, look, I have an Echo.
Speaker 1: I've got you know, a fire TV. It integrates nicely
Speaker 1: with my device and it saves me two dollars a month.
Speaker 1: That's twenty four dollars a year. So hey, over five years,
Speaker 1: that's over one hundred bucks. And so yeah, over over
Speaker 1: four years, that's one hundred dollars. So again, you know
Speaker 1: people like this, but now the price is going from
Speaker 1: eight dollars a month to nine dollars a month for
Speaker 1: Prime subscribers, and so the savings is not as big.
Speaker 1: So now you're only saving a dollar a month.
Speaker 2: And Spotify, I will say.
Speaker 1: Is probably a superior experience to the Amazon Music. Amazon
Speaker 1: Music is pretty basic but it works. But you know,
Speaker 1: now you're only saving a dollar a month. So I
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people are probably gonna move
Speaker 1: over to Spotify because of this. Now, you know, saving
Speaker 1: two dollars a month versus a dollar. Look, it's it's all,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it depends on what you're what
Speaker 1: you feel like that's worth to you. Right, if you
Speaker 1: feel like a buck a month is a good deal
Speaker 1: to save then, which it is over time, sure, stay
Speaker 1: stick with it. But again this is for their Prime Unlimited.
Speaker 1: Now they also to make things even more confusing, they
Speaker 1: have a single device plan and this single device plan
Speaker 1: goes from four dollars a month to five dollars a month.
Speaker 1: And what that does is, let's say you just have
Speaker 1: an Echo speaker. One Echo speaker, you can get unlimited
Speaker 1: music on that speaker for five dollars a month. So
Speaker 1: let's say you're not using Amazon Music on your phone,
Speaker 1: in your car, on any other device. You just want
Speaker 1: that one echo speaker, like maybe in your office to
Speaker 1: have music. You could pay five bucks a month, And
Speaker 1: that's actually a pretty good deal because why pay for
Speaker 1: all these other devices if you don't really need it.
Speaker 1: So again, Amazon Music Unlimited price increase starting on May fifth.
Speaker 1: If you're just using the free level of Amazon Prime
Speaker 1: Music on your devices and you don't pay anything except
Speaker 1: for Amazon Prime, that will not change.
Speaker 2: That's still free.
Speaker 1: It's just sometimes you might run into a situation where
Speaker 1: it does not include the music that you want to hear.
Speaker 1: Ada says on Facebook, what do you think about the
Speaker 1: new T mobile Internet service? I think it's great if
Speaker 1: it's available in your area and it's fast.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on the podcast a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. I tested the Verizon Home Internet and it's
Speaker 1: fantastic if you have the signals at your house.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. You put this little box.
Speaker 1: By your window, it pulls in a wireless signal and
Speaker 1: it broadcasts it out to your entire house over a
Speaker 1: Wi Fi.
Speaker 2: It's basically like a giant.
Speaker 1: Hotspot for your entire house, and for T Mobile it's
Speaker 1: like fifty bucks a month. For Verizon it's anywhere from
Speaker 1: twenty five to like eighty bucks a month. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if you have that available in your home. Absolutely where
Speaker 1: I live, I don't have it available. I tried testing
Speaker 1: it in my house. I do not have the right signal,
Speaker 1: and at my office I did and up in Sevenrancisco,
Speaker 1: I brought it to a hotel room.
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so cool that you can have a
Speaker 1: five G signal that powers the Internet in your entire house.
Speaker 1: So definitely, that's another way you could save money on
Speaker 1: your Internet is those are significantly cheaper than the wired
Speaker 1: internet most of the time. The problem with the wired
Speaker 1: internet from these cable companies is that the price goes up.
Speaker 1: So mine started at a certain price.
Speaker 2: It just keeps creeping up and the deals get less
Speaker 2: and less.
Speaker 1: Although I still will tell you make sure you call
Speaker 1: every single time your price goes up, and you've got
Speaker 1: to You've got to wheel and deal with these people.
Speaker 1: You've got to talk to them. You've got to and
Speaker 1: do your research, see what your other options are, and
Speaker 1: be willing to switch. So, for instance, mine went up
Speaker 1: to eighty bucks a month, and I called in and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, look I can get this for you know,
Speaker 1: a better deal. And they you know, I didn't really
Speaker 1: want to switch, and so they said, look, we can
Speaker 1: give you ten bucks off for the next year, and
Speaker 1: I said, perfect, seventy bucks a month sounds good. I'm
Speaker 1: getting a really good speed. And you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: have to switch services, but I was willing to switch.
Speaker 1: If I had to, I would switched back to my
Speaker 1: old service that I had instead of my new service.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see, Alexis Oh, I almost said the
Speaker 2: other word, Hey, Rich, I need your help.
Speaker 1: My phone was recently stolen, along with a few important items.
Speaker 1: I have the iPhone ten s and this person turned
Speaker 1: my phone off. Is there an alternative way to locate
Speaker 1: my phone? I did try track my phone through other
Speaker 1: family members' devices. If you could help me, you don't
Speaker 1: know what that would mean to me. I look forward
Speaker 1: to hearing from you, Alexis. Okay, So a couple of things.
Speaker 1: If you lose your phone number one. I wrote about
Speaker 1: this in my book one hundred and one iPhone Tips
Speaker 1: and Tricks. I wrote that you want to make sure
Speaker 1: that find my for your iPhone is turned on and
Speaker 1: properly set up before you lose your phone, because it's
Speaker 1: not the time to set it up once you lose
Speaker 1: your phone. If it's not properly set up, your phone's
Speaker 1: gonna be gone.
Speaker 2: Now. I don't know what these people do with the phones.
Speaker 1: They probably chop them up for parts, because there's not
Speaker 1: really much you can do with a phone that's been
Speaker 1: activated on a different account. But what I want you
Speaker 1: to do is go into the Find My app on
Speaker 1: your iPhone and just go through the settings there and
Speaker 1: just make sure that everything is set up properly. And
Speaker 1: that way, before you lose your phone, you can make
Speaker 1: sure that you have these things set up. There's a
Speaker 1: couple of little options in there, and so just make
Speaker 1: sure that you've looked through those options and they're properly
Speaker 1: set up. Now, with the latest iOS fifteen, even when
Speaker 1: your phone is turned off, it still reserves a little
Speaker 1: bit of power. And this is pretty sneaky, it's actually
Speaker 1: pretty smart on Apple's part, but it still reserves a
Speaker 1: little bit of power that will power find my phone.
Speaker 1: So even if the bad people turn off your phone,
Speaker 1: it can still use the network to ping Apple servers
Speaker 1: and say and give a location of that phone. Now,
Speaker 1: this may not always work depending on what the bad
Speaker 1: people do to your phone, but they could put it
Speaker 1: in a Faraday cage and you know, next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: nothing comes in or out, no signals.
Speaker 2: Phone would not be able to see where it is.
Speaker 1: But I would definitely make sure you're going to find
Speaker 1: my and just make sure that your your your lost
Speaker 1: settings are set up before I wish. Uh, I should
Speaker 1: actually refer to my book because I have it in there.
Speaker 1: I have this tip in there, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's you know, it's a very important thing
Speaker 1: to do because you want to make sure that everything
Speaker 1: is set up before you lose this stuff.
Speaker 2: I've got to look at my book. Oh gosh, I
Speaker 2: have so many things.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the main question that Apple is going to
Speaker 1: ask you is if you want your phone to like,
Speaker 1: you know, basically use the battery even though it's off,
Speaker 1: reserve a little bit of battery, and also it'll it'll
Speaker 1: you can display a message. Just to just go in
Speaker 1: there and make sure that everything is turned on and
Speaker 1: properly done. That's the main thing you want to do now,
Speaker 1: if you lose your phone, Alexis, it was pretty smart
Speaker 1: of you to use someone else's phone to look for yours.
Speaker 1: So if you go to find my on someone else's phone,
Speaker 1: they will. It has a little link at the bottom
Speaker 1: that says, hey, are you someone else that needs to
Speaker 1: find your phone? You can click that link and then
Speaker 1: it will basically just bring you to a website to
Speaker 1: log in with your iCloud password and then try to
Speaker 1: locate your phone.
Speaker 2: If you're on and so.
Speaker 1: Number one, you can always go to iCloud dot com
Speaker 1: slashed iCloud dot com slash find. So yeah, iCloud dot
Speaker 1: com slash find from any website and you can find
Speaker 1: your phone that way. This happened to me the other day.
Speaker 1: If you have Android, you can actually just go ahead
Speaker 1: and ask Google where's my phone, and so it will
Speaker 1: just it will show you. I had to do this
Speaker 1: the other day I lost a phone, And you can
Speaker 1: just say to Google where's my phone, and it will
Speaker 1: show you on a map where your phone is. And
Speaker 1: so that's really cool. And then you can also ring
Speaker 1: your phone or you can recover your phone. You can
Speaker 1: do that from any just literally type that into Google.
Speaker 1: Where's my phone? Now, if you want to go to
Speaker 1: the eggs exact website. It's actually Google dot com slash
Speaker 1: Android slash find and so that will show you all
Speaker 1: your different devices on a map as well. So you know,
Speaker 1: these are little things that I try to talk about,
Speaker 1: is that you know in advance, so that you can
Speaker 1: figure this stuff out and you're not kind of searching
Speaker 1: the internet looking for all this stuff. You kind of
Speaker 1: have a heads up as to you know, how you
Speaker 1: can do this stuff before it actually happens to you.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it doesn't happen to you, Hopefully no one's out there.
Speaker 1: Typically when people lose their phone, it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: either left behind.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I guess people are still stealing iPhones and androids and
Speaker 1: not really sure why, but because once they're activated, it's
Speaker 1: really tough to to do anything with that device. So
Speaker 1: if you're thinking of stealing someone's phone, not a very
Speaker 1: good idea.
Speaker 2: There's not much you can do for it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could probably take the screen and the
Speaker 1: you know whatever, take the parts inside.
Speaker 2: And am I giving you ideas now what to do
Speaker 2: with stolen phones? I hope not.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you were to do that, I
Speaker 1: guess that's what you would do but I I personally
Speaker 1: try to remain on the up and up in my life,
Speaker 1: and so I'm not stealing phones on.
Speaker 2: A regular basis.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some new features on Google Maps.
Speaker 1: So Google Maps just in time for your spring break
Speaker 1: road trips. Gas prices in California actually went down a
Speaker 1: little tiny bit.
Speaker 2: There's still about six bucks.
Speaker 1: But they're down just like ten cents for the week
Speaker 1: or something like that. So that's a nice thing, right,
Speaker 1: Gotta look on the bright side, folks. But okay, a
Speaker 1: couple of new features in Google Maps. Number one, instead
Speaker 1: of just showing you that there's a toll road in
Speaker 1: Google Maps, it will now tell you how much that
Speaker 1: toll road will cost you. So this is really handy.
Speaker 1: You might be saying, rich, give me a break. If
Speaker 1: I'm driving an Orange County, I know exactly how much.
Speaker 2: The toll road is. Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 1: As someone who travels frequently, sometimes I'll see a toll
Speaker 1: road and I'll be like, ah, how much is it?
Speaker 1: And they like never even tell you anymore, just says
Speaker 1: pay your toll three days later. Like I went across
Speaker 1: the Golden Gate Bridge the other day and they don't
Speaker 1: even tell you how much the toll is, and there's
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that story in a second, but so
Speaker 1: this will now show you the estimated toll price before
Speaker 1: you actually start navigating. Now, personally, I avoid toll roads
Speaker 1: at all costs. I grew up in New Jersey. Toll
Speaker 1: roads are a way of life there. I think they're silly.
Speaker 1: The roads there are not any better than anywhere else
Speaker 1: in the US, and they're collecting tons of money from
Speaker 1: people on a daily basis. Not really sure where that
Speaker 1: money's going, but it's definitely not going back into the roads,
Speaker 1: so you know, and they're expensive. You know, you drive
Speaker 1: a New Jersey, you're gonna pay a toll. So I personally,
Speaker 1: on my Google Maps have the little toggle selected that
Speaker 1: says avoid toll roads, and so that way I don't
Speaker 1: have to ever even come up to these tolls. Because
Speaker 1: there's the other thing that they do where a lot
Speaker 1: of these toll roads now you can't pay someone at
Speaker 1: a booth. I like to just pay and be done
Speaker 1: with it, because if you've ever rented a car with
Speaker 1: one of these little toll transponders on it, I've gotten
Speaker 1: my bill and it's absolutely, absolutely, just ridiculous. It's like
Speaker 1: a twelve to twenty five dollars charge just to use
Speaker 1: that little transponder every day. And I'm like, okay, that's
Speaker 1: that's just not acceptable. That's way the convenience does not
Speaker 1: outweigh the cost of how ridiculously expensive it is.
Speaker 2: So I always.
Speaker 1: Try to pay for the toll at the time of
Speaker 1: the toll if I need to take a toll road.
Speaker 1: I was up in San Francisco the other day a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and you know, I was coming back.
Speaker 1: I guess you can go one way over the Golden
Speaker 1: Gate without paying the toll. When you come back, you
Speaker 1: have to pay the toll. And so I'm, you know,
Speaker 1: navigating on my maps, and it's like it'll take you
Speaker 1: two hours.
Speaker 2: And I'm literally fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Across the bridge, and I go to navigate back and
Speaker 1: it's like, it'll take you two hours and fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: to get back to San Francisco.
Speaker 2: And I said, what the traffic is that bad?
Speaker 1: Two hours and fifteen minutes, And I realized that I
Speaker 1: still had the toggle on my Google Maps that said
Speaker 1: avoid tolls, and so it was routing me around the
Speaker 1: Golden Gate Bridge somehow, and whatever route that would take
Speaker 1: you without tolls, and so I I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm not spending. So in that case, yes,
Speaker 1: I broke down and I paid the toll, But it
Speaker 1: was one of these situate because it was a ten
Speaker 1: minute drive. In this case, it was one of these
Speaker 1: tolls where there are no humans anymore. It's only one
Speaker 1: of those license plate readers, and then you have to
Speaker 1: remember in a couple of.
Speaker 2: Days to pay.
Speaker 1: Now, it was a little bit better than what I
Speaker 1: experienced in Orange County once, where it's like, oh, pay
Speaker 1: in five days or whatever, and you forget and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, you get this giant bill and it's
Speaker 1: like a two hundred dollars fine along with the fee
Speaker 1: of like two dollars for the toll and so and
Speaker 1: then you have to call them and they bring down
Speaker 1: the fee and all this stuff. But anyway, this one
Speaker 1: was a lot easier. They sent you a bill on
Speaker 1: the mail and you pay that bill when you get
Speaker 1: it. It was like nine dollars and five cents. What was
Speaker 1: my point of all this? My point is that I
Speaker 1: do try to avoid these things, but sometimes I like
Speaker 1: to pay them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you.
Speaker 1: Want to download an app that's pretty handy for using
Speaker 1: toll roads. It's called uproadp up Road, Uproad, up Road
Speaker 1: Toll toll app and I featured this yeah, uproad. So
Speaker 1: it's a pay as you go toll app. It recognizes
Speaker 1: a lot of the tolls in the US on a.
Speaker 2: Lot of the roads.
Speaker 1: You put your credit card or Venmo or however you
Speaker 1: want to pay, and when you go through the toll,
Speaker 1: your phone somehow figures it out and it pays the toll.
Speaker 2: And it's really pretty slick.
Speaker 1: But you do have to pay a little premium on
Speaker 1: top of the toll price, but in that case it's
Speaker 1: not as wild as the price you would pay if
Speaker 1: you're in a rental car. It's like, I think fifteen percent,
Speaker 1: depending on a plan. They have a bunch of different plans.
Speaker 1: But anyway, just again, this show is all about giving
Speaker 1: you information, giving you options, helping you understand what's out
Speaker 1: there in life, and this is just one of those things.
Speaker 1: Uproad Toll app is just one more option. Oh, i'd
Speaker 1: even finish what Google is gonna do with maps. So
Speaker 1: in addition to the toll estimates are also going to
Speaker 1: show traffic lights and stop signs and that's something that
Speaker 1: Apple Maps has had for a long time, which my
Speaker 1: kids in the car whenever they see that, they're like,
Speaker 1: Apple Maps is so much better a show stop signs
Speaker 1: than traffic lights. I'm like, that makes it better, Like
Speaker 1: come on, I mean, it does look prettier for.
Speaker 2: Sure than than Google Maps. Google Maps looks like.
Speaker 1: I will never forget the So I switched to Android
Speaker 1: because of Google Maps. This is a very old story,
Speaker 1: but I will never forget back in the day, and
Speaker 1: you know, some of you may remember this, some of
Speaker 1: you may not. Back in the day, when the iPhone
Speaker 1: first came out, it did not have turn by turn navigation.
Speaker 1: It had turn by turn directions built into the app.
Speaker 1: It did not have turn by turn navigation, so it
Speaker 1: had Google Maps built in. But it was the Droid
Speaker 1: Bionic smartphone from Verizon that was the first to have
Speaker 1: turn by turn navigation maps in your car. It came
Speaker 1: with this fancy little holder, and that caused me to
Speaker 1: wait in line outside the Verizon store, purchased that Droid
Speaker 1: Bionic and switched to Android because I thought it was
Speaker 1: a superior system because it had those turn by turn directions.
Speaker 1: And so we take for granted now that turn by
Speaker 1: turn is available on every phone in five thousand different apps.
Speaker 1: But my point of that story is that the maps
Speaker 1: today on Google pretty much look the same as they
Speaker 1: did back in the day. I'm sure they have changed.
Speaker 1: Don't get mad at me for saying that if you
Speaker 1: work at Google, but yes, they've improved and the information,
Speaker 1: all the stuff is so much better. But at their core,
Speaker 1: they kind of have the same look and feel that
Speaker 1: they did back in that.
Speaker 2: Day, which is still pretty great.
Speaker 1: I love Google Maps, but Apple Maps definitely has a
Speaker 1: superior looking map. I think that when it actually comes
Speaker 1: to using the maps, it's a different story. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get into that. My preferred is Google Maps.
Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way. One more thing you'll
Speaker 1: be able to do is navigate from your Apple Watch
Speaker 1: on Google Maps, which is really nice. You don't need
Speaker 1: to actually open up the Google Maps on your phone
Speaker 1: before you navigate on your Apple Watch. You'll just be
Speaker 1: able to use the mapping app on your Apple Watch directly,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a big deal. I'm still waiting
Speaker 1: Apple for the ability to just go ahead and set
Speaker 1: a default mapping app. That is my biggest pet peeve
Speaker 1: of the iPhone that they've gone defaults on mail, they've
Speaker 1: gone defaults on the browser.
Speaker 2: Which doesn't really default most of the time.
Speaker 1: But the maps is still a sore point because you
Speaker 1: cannot have a default mapping app on the iPhone right now? Okay,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey says, hello, Rich, I have an older computer that
Speaker 1: uses Windows a operating system. Is it still okay and
Speaker 1: safe to use? I have researched it and found mixed answers, best.
Speaker 2: Regards, Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Uh, Jeffrey, I did a little research myself, and there's
Speaker 1: something called end of life when it comes to Windows.
Speaker 2: The end of life.
Speaker 1: So Windows, Windows eight point Windows eight, Well, okay, so
Speaker 1: it's Windows eight definitely end a life happened. Then they
Speaker 1: came up with Windows eight point one and Windows eight
Speaker 1: point one.
Speaker 2: You still have a little bit of life left.
Speaker 1: So Windows eight point one started in November thirteenth, twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: The mainstream end date was January ninth, twenty eighteen. That
Speaker 1: means they no longer update Windows eight point one at all.
Speaker 1: Since then, we've had Windows ten and Windows eleven. There
Speaker 1: is no Windows nine because Windows eight. No, it was
Speaker 1: Windows ten eight nine.
Speaker 2: Get it? Oh?
Speaker 1: Do I have a boom boom, get it Windows ten
Speaker 1: eight nine. It's a really dorky joke, but anyway, the
Speaker 1: support date, the extended end date for Windows eight point
Speaker 1: one is January tenth, twenty twenty three. So you are
Speaker 1: good if you update to Windows eight point one. So
Speaker 1: right now you said you have Windows eight you need
Speaker 1: to get your computer on Windows eight point one and
Speaker 1: that will give you just under a year to save
Speaker 1: up some money and get a new computer in the
Speaker 1: next year so that you can have the latest Windows
Speaker 1: and of course have the security. Why do you want
Speaker 1: to make sure you mentioned is it okay and safe
Speaker 1: to use?
Speaker 2: Well, the two biggest.
Speaker 1: Things with using older operating systems is security and also compatibility,
Speaker 1: so some of the new apps may not run on
Speaker 1: the old operating system and the security. Now, this will
Speaker 1: be secure until January tenth, twenty twenty three. So Microsoft
Speaker 1: is still actively looking for exploits and things like that,
Speaker 1: or still I should say, fixing exploits if they're found,
Speaker 1: and maybe not bugs so much, but mostly just major exploits.
Speaker 1: So they will fix that until January tenth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: But I would say start saving your money now.
Speaker 1: Costco has some pretty nice all in ones for about
Speaker 1: seven hundred bucks. You can get one of those in
Speaker 1: January and of next year and think of it.
Speaker 2: As your holiday gift to yourself. All right, let's get
Speaker 2: two the next story of the week. How much more
Speaker 2: time do we have? All right, We've got a little
Speaker 2: bit more.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you're looking for an alternative cloud backup
Speaker 1: storage app, one of my favorites now a couple things.
Speaker 2: Number One, I.
Speaker 1: Use Google Photos for my backup, photos storage or whatever
Speaker 1: you want. Yeah, my photos backup. You should have your
Speaker 1: photos in two places. You should have it on a
Speaker 1: cloud backup, you should have it on a physical backup,
Speaker 1: and technically somewhere else, probably on your phone. So if
Speaker 1: you don't have your photos in two places, please get
Speaker 1: them there. Because I get way too many emails from
Speaker 1: people saying, rich, I lost all my photos, and I.
Speaker 2: Said, well, at least they were backed up.
Speaker 1: I don't actually say that because that's so mean, because clearly,
Speaker 1: if they're emailing me, they were not backed up. So
Speaker 1: my other favorite cloud storage, which I think is a
Speaker 1: really fantastic deal, is called I Drive Photos, and I
Speaker 1: did a story with them. They're out of Calabasas California.
Speaker 1: They they basically do a lot of corporate backups, but
Speaker 1: then they got into consumer backups, and so they have
Speaker 1: this app called I Drive Photos. It's very simple, very basic,
Speaker 1: but it gives you unlimited photo storage for ten dollars
Speaker 1: a year, ninety nine cents for your first year.
Speaker 2: So if you need a good sort of backup of
Speaker 2: your backup, go ahead and do that.
Speaker 1: So what I do is I also have my photos
Speaker 1: backed up into Amazon. Because I pay for Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: You get Amazon Photos with unlimited photo.
Speaker 2: Storage for free.
Speaker 1: I say photo storage because it does not include video storage.
Speaker 1: It includes five gigabytes of video storage, which is you're
Speaker 1: going to burn through that in the first second of
Speaker 1: uploading stuff. So I don't back up my videos to it.
Speaker 1: I back up my photos to Amazon. And the nice
Speaker 1: aside to that is that Amazon does a good job
Speaker 1: of putting those photos on my alex A devices and
Speaker 1: so I can see them as my little backdrop when
Speaker 1: I come into the house and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I Drive Photos. I've tested it out.
Speaker 1: It's super fast, it's really good. Why do I tell
Speaker 1: you this because it now includes one terabyte of cloud
Speaker 1: backup for your computer for the same price, so that
Speaker 1: is included now. So if you're backing up your photos
Speaker 1: from your phone, you now get one terabyte of cloud
Speaker 1: backup for your computer, which should be enough to back
Speaker 1: up a standard laptop or computer, or basically as long
Speaker 1: as your hard drive is under a terabyte, you can
Speaker 1: have it mirror to this cloud backup, which is a
Speaker 1: really nice way to secure a computer. And the reason
Speaker 1: why you want to back up your computer like this
Speaker 1: is because if you ever get into a situation with
Speaker 1: malware or ransomware, you would have a nice backup of
Speaker 1: your computer that you can tell the ransomware folks. Hopefully
Speaker 1: that never happens to you, but you can say like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not paying you anything because I'm just going to
Speaker 1: format my computer and back reinstall it for my backup
Speaker 1: that I have in the cloud.
Speaker 2: So I drive photos.
Speaker 1: You can search by the way, you can search for
Speaker 1: pretty much anything I mentioned on KTLA by just searching
Speaker 1: like I Drive photos KTLA DeMuro and if you search that,
Speaker 1: you'll come up with my story immediately, which we did
Speaker 1: July fifth, twenty twenty one. I can't believe it's almost
Speaker 1: been a year since we did a story on that, But.
Speaker 2: There you go. I drive photos all right.
Speaker 1: Next question from the listeners and viewers, Alan says, a
Speaker 1: few months ago you said there was an update to
Speaker 1: improve the fingerprint sensor on the pixel Does it work
Speaker 1: well now? I was actually about to buy the Pixel
Speaker 1: six when you did your story. I definitely needed my
Speaker 1: phone to detect my fingerprint. I tried reading some reviews,
Speaker 1: but those aren't always reliable. I trust you more than
Speaker 1: the general reviews.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: I always looking. I always look forward to hearing from you,
Speaker 1: and my entire family watches you every morning. You're the best,
Speaker 1: h Alan say, please write more.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: No, I really do appreciate when you say how much
Speaker 1: you enjoy watching what I do, because it keeps me going.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean, I really I get all the emails, I
Speaker 1: get all the tweets, I get the texts, I get
Speaker 1: the Instagram messages. So you really do like what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: and I do appreciate that, and it's never lost on me.
Speaker 1: Does the fingerprint sensor work on the Pixel six? It
Speaker 1: is the slowest fingerprint sensor I have tested. Yes it works. Yes,
Speaker 1: it has gotten better since I did my review. No,
Speaker 1: it's not perfect, but I would still one hundred percent
Speaker 1: recommend the Pixel six. It's a great size phone, it's
Speaker 1: a great price phone, it's a great camera, it's great software,
Speaker 1: and basically the only downside of that device is the
Speaker 1: fingerprint sensor is just slightly slower than other fingerprint sensors
Speaker 1: on the market. So it's still a great device. It's
Speaker 1: just yeah, the fingerprint sensor's gonna be a little bit slower,
Speaker 1: but it has improved since they launched this phone, which
Speaker 1: I think was October, November, December, January, February, March April,
Speaker 1: about six months ago. If you can believe it, I
Speaker 1: can't believe it.
Speaker 2: I love the Pixel six. I think it's a fantastic device,
Speaker 2: and I'm tempted to switch to Itever every day.
Speaker 1: So well, Pixel six Pro, I should say, But yeah,
Speaker 1: Pixel six is excellent, especially for the price, So alan
Speaker 1: I say, go ahead and buy it.
Speaker 2: And if you.
Speaker 1: Don't like it, well just stop watching me. I'm just kidding,
Speaker 1: just kidding. But you know you can return things, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one good thing about buying stuff from
Speaker 1: like big retailers is that the return policies are so
Speaker 1: good these days. That like, if you buy from an
Speaker 1: Amazon or best Buy or basically or Target, it's like
Speaker 1: no questions asked. So if you're within I ask every
Speaker 1: single time I buy a piece of electronics, I no
Speaker 1: matter if I've bought it from that company before, I
Speaker 1: always ask them at the at the checkout what is
Speaker 1: the return policy on this? A lot of times electronics
Speaker 1: have a different return policy than other things in the store.
Speaker 1: So whether I'm shopping at Costco, whether I'm shopping at
Speaker 1: best Buy or Target or any other place in between,
Speaker 1: if I'm buying an electronics device, I always say what
Speaker 1: is your return policy to the cashier at check out?
Speaker 2: And I want to hear.
Speaker 1: It even if I'm buying anything actually, like if it's
Speaker 1: not like you know, if it's something that I may return,
Speaker 1: even if it's an an item of clothing, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: I always ask at the point of sale because I
Speaker 1: just want to be refreshed so I have it in
Speaker 1: my mind fresh, and I know, okay, two weeks, okay,
Speaker 1: sixty days, okay, ninety days, okay, one year, and you
Speaker 1: just it's just a good idea to always get into
Speaker 1: the habit of that, all right. I promised I was
Speaker 1: going to talk about my trip to Disneyland.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 1: And I said I was gonna be the middle of
Speaker 1: the podcast, but it turned out to be the end
Speaker 1: of the podcast. Went to Disneyland, I think it was
Speaker 1: last week, took a couple days off. I bought the
Speaker 1: three day park Copper passes with Genie Plus. And so
Speaker 1: you can trust what I'm saying. This was not a freebie.
Speaker 1: Disney did not invite me. You could trust me even
Speaker 1: when I go somewhere for free, because I still am
Speaker 1: just going to tell you how it is. But you
Speaker 1: can trust me even more because I paid my hard
Speaker 1: earned money for these tickets. It was like thirteen hundred
Speaker 1: bucks or something insane. But it was a four day,
Speaker 1: four tickets for a three day park hopper with the
Speaker 1: Genie Plus. So I got the top of the top,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing but the best for my children. Now,
Speaker 1: we saved a lot of money for this, and we
Speaker 1: also promised them this was their Christmas present. So this
Speaker 1: is what I got. And so we went to Disney
Speaker 1: and it was fantastic. I mean it really Look. I
Speaker 1: know people have a lot of stuff in the media
Speaker 1: about Disney, but you know, this is just my experience
Speaker 1: at the park, and it was fantastic for the most part.
Speaker 1: I will say a lot has changed with the pandemic.
Speaker 1: You have to make reservations to get in. You have
Speaker 1: to decide what park you want to start at. You
Speaker 1: can then switch parks at one PM. I packed, you
Speaker 1: know the basics, sunscreen, sanitizer, wipes, a cooling towel which
Speaker 1: I didn't use, water bottle, sweatshirt, jacket, and a battery
Speaker 1: backup and so you know, if you're coming to California
Speaker 1: for Disney, remember layers, layers, layers, those are your friends.
Speaker 1: The other thing you want to have is a battery
Speaker 1: for your phone. Your phone runs everything now when it
Speaker 1: comes to Disney, So if you are bringing, whether it's
Speaker 1: an iPhone or an Android, bring a backup battery and
Speaker 1: bring when that works really well, you don't. The cheaper
Speaker 1: the backup battery is the slower it's charging your phone.
Speaker 1: And some of these batteries are so slow that they
Speaker 1: will trickle charge your phone and you won't even be
Speaker 1: able to get any percentage increase if you're actively using
Speaker 1: the phone. So I recommend my charge mag Safe battery pack.
Speaker 1: I also like battery packs from Anchor and Mophy. I've
Speaker 1: got them all linked up. If you're not on my
Speaker 1: if you're not on my newsletter, you can go to
Speaker 1: richon tech dot substack dot com. This is my exclusive
Speaker 1: email newsletter where I send out occasional emails about things
Speaker 1: that really are important. And I linked it up in there.
Speaker 1: You can read this whole I've wrote this whole thing out.
Speaker 1: It's a whole Disney blog post. It's like six pages long.
Speaker 1: Believe me, I covered it all. So Genie Plus, let
Speaker 1: me explain what that is. This is a paid add on.
Speaker 1: I think it's about twenty dollars a ticket, and it
Speaker 1: basically includes what's called Lightning Lane. And this is the
Speaker 1: new version of fast Pass. Fast Pass used to be
Speaker 1: available in the park. Lightning Lane is now all done
Speaker 1: through an app. You choose the ride that you want
Speaker 1: to go on next, and it basically gives you a
Speaker 1: little QR code that you can scan at the ride
Speaker 1: entrance to go on. So let's say you do your
Speaker 1: first Lightning Lane of the day, it's eight am. It says, okay,
Speaker 1: you can go on Splash Mountain at eight thirty am.
Speaker 1: You say, okay, fine, I'll do that. It gives you
Speaker 1: a little QR code. You go at eight thirty to
Speaker 1: nine thirty. You give you like an hour window. You
Speaker 1: scan your QR code at the entrance, and you basically
Speaker 1: get to bypass the line. The lightning lane might be
Speaker 1: a little bit, might be a couple minutes. The most
Speaker 1: I think we had to wait was like fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: for any ride. If you do Lightning Lane, you can
Speaker 1: only do one lightning lane at a time, and you
Speaker 1: can only do one lightning lane per ride. So once
Speaker 1: you've done the Splash Mountain Lightning Lane, that's it for
Speaker 1: the day. You have to go wait in line if
Speaker 1: you want to do it again. The Lightning Lane and
Speaker 1: Genie Plus or Genie Plus I should say, also includes
Speaker 1: unlimited photo downloads from the people that take your pictures around.
Speaker 2: The park, which I thought was really cool.
Speaker 1: So you can go and take a picture with anyone
Speaker 1: that's you know, these Disney photo photographers. They scan a
Speaker 1: QR code on your phone and your pictures show up
Speaker 1: on your phone immediately. You could download them in high
Speaker 1: resolution or low resolution. I go for the high resolution
Speaker 1: because why not. The other thing to know is that
Speaker 1: this is what I didn't like about the park is
Speaker 1: that there are a couple rides you actually have to
Speaker 1: pay on top of paying on top of paying, and
Speaker 1: so you have to pay to do a Lightning Lane
Speaker 1: one time for certain of the best rides, and the
Speaker 1: ride that I did this on, I broke down and
Speaker 1: paid an extra sixty bucks four of us to ride
Speaker 1: Radiator Springs. It was fifteen dollars each just to ride
Speaker 1: one ride. It was not worth it for my littlest
Speaker 1: one because he was terrified of this ride. It was
Speaker 1: worth it for me and my wife and my other
Speaker 1: kid because we got to go on immediately. It was
Speaker 1: still probably a ten minute wait, but it was a
Speaker 1: great ride. But it's just I can't believe that we're
Speaker 1: at the point at Disney where we're now paying fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars on top of a one hundred dollars ticket to
Speaker 1: get in just to go on one ride. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's pretty pretty unbelievable, but that's where we're at. And
Speaker 1: if you have the money, it's amazing because you get
Speaker 1: to go in front of everyone else that's waiting for
Speaker 1: an hour and a.
Speaker 2: Half to go on that ride.
Speaker 1: It's sad for, you know, people that are put in
Speaker 1: that position to have to choose to pay for something
Speaker 1: that typically you know is included, or you know, kids
Speaker 1: ask questions like, oh, why do those people get to
Speaker 1: go ahead of me? It's just as someone I just
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just kind of like ichy, but
Speaker 1: I did it. I mean, you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: we saved up for this trip, so we had the
Speaker 1: money to do it. Okay, So what do I not
Speaker 1: like about the fact that all the things are now
Speaker 1: through your phone at Disney, Well, people are looking at
Speaker 1: their phones more than ever now. I mean everyone at
Speaker 1: the park is looking down at their phone, and it's
Speaker 1: just that's.
Speaker 2: Kind of the reality of it.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that you're now jumping around the
Speaker 1: park way more than you ever were, because your lightning
Speaker 1: lane rides might be in one area and then you
Speaker 1: jump to another area of the park for your.
Speaker 2: Next lightning lane.
Speaker 1: The other little tip to know about the lightning lane
Speaker 1: you can only book one at a time. So as
Speaker 1: soon as you scan that lightning lane pass at the
Speaker 1: Splash Mountain entrance, go on your app and then you
Speaker 1: can choose your next lightning lane. And so if you don't,
Speaker 1: you could be pushing those lightning lanes later and later
Speaker 1: into the day. But I have to say, if you
Speaker 1: have Lightning Lane, you really get to go on all
Speaker 1: the top rides pretty quickly and easily without without waiting
Speaker 1: almost at all. I mean, I don't think we have
Speaker 1: to wait for any of the popular rides. Okay, food
Speaker 1: you also have to order pretty much from your phone.
Speaker 1: So I went up to a I tell the story,
Speaker 1: but I went up to a churo booth in cars
Speaker 1: Land and the woman behind the booth was like, no,
Speaker 1: you can't order for me. You basically have to order
Speaker 1: from the app. So you order from the app, and
Speaker 1: this is a pretty slick process as well. They do
Speaker 1: accept Apple Pay and Android I'm assuming Android pay or
Speaker 1: Google Pay, and you order from your app and and
Speaker 1: they give you a window of time to go pick
Speaker 1: up your order. And when you get close to the
Speaker 1: restaurant that you're picking up your order from, you say
Speaker 1: I'm here, You check in kind of like curbside, and
Speaker 1: you just it gives you a window, like a window
Speaker 1: number where.
Speaker 2: To go pick up your food. So I thought that
Speaker 2: was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's a little different, but I personally love online ordering
Speaker 1: of food because I get to customize my food exactly
Speaker 1: the way I want, So if my kid doesn't want
Speaker 1: mustard on their burger, I can say no mustard, and
Speaker 1: it gives you all those modifiers and options on the app.
Speaker 2: I love that. It used to be like you just
Speaker 2: have to ask.
Speaker 1: Someone, Can I substitute, you know, American cheese for provolone
Speaker 1: or whatever. Now the app, you know, it lists out
Speaker 1: everything because you're doing it yourself.
Speaker 2: So I do like that aspect of it. Uh.
Speaker 1: One hack I realized if you find yourself with a
Speaker 1: Disney reservation, you no longer can go to like a
Speaker 1: lot of these restaurants if you want to sit down meal,
Speaker 1: you have to put a credit card down to get
Speaker 1: that reservation, and you have to cancel twenty four hours
Speaker 1: in advance if you forget to cancel, like we did
Speaker 1: for one of our reservations. I tried something and it worked,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of.
Speaker 2: Like a little hack, so it may go away at
Speaker 2: any time.
Speaker 1: But what I did was I changed the reservation to
Speaker 1: a date in the future. I modified the reservation instead
Speaker 1: of canceling, I modified it to a few days in advance,
Speaker 1: and then I canceled it because it no longer was
Speaker 1: twenty four hours from now.
Speaker 2: It was three days from now, and it worked.
Speaker 1: That may backfire if the reservation you have has no
Speaker 1: future reservations that you can find, so just keep in
Speaker 1: mind Disney may also get hip to that and cancel
Speaker 1: or you know, make it so you can't do that.
Speaker 1: But it worked for me for our reservation that we had,
Speaker 1: and so that was kind of cool. The other tip
Speaker 1: I found is that you can search for a specific
Speaker 1: food item in the app. And so there's this thing
Speaker 1: this like special bagel that's like a garlic bagel or something,
Speaker 1: a garlic cheese bagel or something. I didn't end up
Speaker 1: getting it because it just didn't work out, but you
Speaker 1: can search for these specific food item inside the app
Speaker 1: and it will tell you the places that serve that item.
Speaker 1: So if you're craving ramen, or if you're craving a bagel,
Speaker 1: or if you're craving a milk shake, just search in
Speaker 1: the app for that food item and it will it
Speaker 1: will surface the places that are serving that, which is
Speaker 1: really really cool.
Speaker 2: That's about it.
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