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Speaker 1: Duck Duck, don't pass Go, Google lets you go back

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Speaker 1: in time. Walmart expands drone delivery. Plus your tech questions Answered.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the

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Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think

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Speaker 1: answer the questions you send me. I'm a tech reporter

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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Usually I open

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Speaker 1: the show by saying, I hope you are having a

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Speaker 1: fantastic day.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, with everything that's been going on in the.

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Speaker 1: News lately, I try not to let that seep into

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Speaker 1: my show, but you know, with what's happening in Texas,

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Speaker 1: it's just inevitable. I can't. I am a human being.

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Speaker 1: I cannot just ignore what's going on. And so with

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Speaker 1: that said, I have had a very very very heavy

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Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a second, that can't be right.

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Speaker 1: That number can't be right, and that number just continue

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Speaker 1: to grow and it just you know, I've got two kids.

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Speaker 1: Obviously this effects or I guess it touches everyone, but

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Speaker 1: Age, it's really really just I mean, basically, it's just

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Speaker 1: the past couple of days. I haven't really said anything,

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Speaker 1: so I do want to let you know that I

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Speaker 1: And I don't know what the solution is. I think

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Speaker 1: Anyway, With that said, let's get to the first sort

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Speaker 2: So I have been using this.

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Speaker 1: I did a story on this probably a year ago,

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Speaker 1: I already have a credit card. Well, when you've had

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Speaker 1: The second time, I left my credit card at a restaurant,

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Speaker 1: And so I don't know if I told you this,

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Speaker 1: And by the way, you can make up different rules.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of different things you can do

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Speaker 1: But I've been using it a lot because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: dollars extra, and now the savings are really starting to dwindle. Also,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of little gotcha's with their plans. So

438
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: with this really inexpensive plan, you don't get HD streaming,

439
00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:31,280
Speaker 1: and when you go to their pricing info, it's really annoying.

440
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,919
Speaker 1: It's like almost impossible to see the pricing info. But

441
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 1: you basically get twenty gigs of full speed data and

442
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,400
Speaker 1: then after that it's reduced down to one megabit per second,

443
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 1: which is like, oh my gosh, that's like crawling. You

444
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,760
Speaker 1: are going to have so much trouble using this. If

445
00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: you use more than twenty gigs of data on this

446
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:56,199
Speaker 1: line videos DVD quality, you can pay an extra ten

447
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 1: dollars a month twenty dollars a month for those two

448
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Speaker 1: lines to get the thirty gigs of data usage plus

449
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 1: HD video. Now, by the way, if you don't have

450
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,920
Speaker 1: if you don't have the Spectrum Internet. It's forty five

451
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,400
Speaker 1: dollars aligned per month. So when you look at forty

452
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,640
Speaker 1: five a month, Visible is a much better deal. It's

453
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: going to give you similar kind of service, and personally,

454
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: it's not going to be linked to any other thing

455
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: that you have to keep going.

456
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Speaker 2: And so you know, I.

457
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Speaker 1: Just it's really tough because I just don't like some

458
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Speaker 1: of these business practices, and that's why I would not

459
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Speaker 1: do this.

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Speaker 2: But again, if.

461
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Speaker 1: You're sticking with it, if you like it, if you

462
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Speaker 1: have it, if it works for you, it's fine. They

463
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:43,199
Speaker 1: also have this data plan that's really inexpensive that is

464
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 1: fourteen dollars per gig So if you just want a

465
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: really cheap phone that you can just use for mostly

466
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: calls and text, fourteen bucks a month gets you one

467
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,760
Speaker 1: gigabyte of data if you're mostly on Wi Fi. So

468
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Speaker 1: good question. But yeah, this is the thing, this is

469
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Speaker 1: the stuff. You have to just be on the lookout

470
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Speaker 1: for those gotchas. That's really what's important. All right, let's

471
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Speaker 1: get to the next story of the day. Apple has

472
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Speaker 1: a new deadline for in app account deletion, so this

473
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: is from nine to five mac. They spotted a little

474
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Speaker 1: provision in the app Store terms for developers. So a

475
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, Apple announced a change in the guidelines.

476
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Speaker 2: If you want to publish an.

477
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Speaker 1: App through Apple, you have to if you let people

478
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Speaker 1: create an account through your app, you also have to

479
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Speaker 1: let them delete their entire account through your app. Now,

480
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: according to nine to five Mac, this requirement has been

481
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Speaker 1: delayed a couple of times, but now there's a new

482
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Speaker 1: deadline of June thirtieth, twenty twenty two. So what that

483
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Speaker 1: deadline says If you let someone sign up for an app,

484
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Speaker 1: which a lot of apps do, you have to let

485
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Speaker 1: them delete not just the app, but their entire account

486
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Speaker 1: from that app. So you have to say, oh, I

487
00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: signed up for this app. I'm not just deleting this app.

488
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Speaker 1: I want to delete my entire account. And not just

489
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Speaker 1: your account, but all the data associated with that count Now.

490
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Speaker 1: I think this is a very smart move on Apple's part, because,

491
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Speaker 1: let's face it, it's very easy to download an app, sign

492
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Speaker 1: up in a couple of clicks, and then never use

493
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Speaker 1: it again, and now your data is floating around forever

494
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Speaker 1: and if you want to go delete your account, most

495
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Speaker 1: of these apps have no provisions for deleting your account

496
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Speaker 1: unless it's a very big app. There's a website that

497
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 1: I like. I don't know if it's still around. Let's see,

498
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: it's just delete dot me. Just delete dot me, and

499
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: that will help you find out how to close out

500
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Speaker 1: some of these accounts. Like let's Blue Apron. Very easy

501
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: to delete your account. It's one link, one click, and

502
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: it will help you get right to the page to

503
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Speaker 1: delete your account. Bitley very easy. Select why it gives

504
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Speaker 1: you like a little kind of Barnes and Noble impossible. Oh,

505
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 1: it's not possible to delete your Barnes and Noble account.

506
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: The best you can do is delete any personal information

507
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: you have stored in their website. So again, it just

508
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 1: gives you all these kind of different things. The website

509
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: is just delete me. But anyway, this is a great thing.

510
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: Apple is really really on this hardcore mission of kind

511
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: of empowering the consumer, especially when it comes to privacy.

512
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,200
Speaker 1: I think they've really hung their hat on this. We're

513
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: seeing so many of these companies, like these social media

514
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: networks like Facebook and Snapchat, they are really having some trouble,

515
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: even Twitter, because you know, Apple introduced this no cross

516
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 1: party app tracking. So what that means is that you

517
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,120
Speaker 1: know you have that little option. We download an app

518
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Speaker 1: that says, hey, don't track me across the web and

519
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 1: across other apps, and most people are gonna say no

520
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: yes to that, like don't track me, And that's really

521
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Speaker 1: affecting the bottom line. Remember all that stuff I just

522
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Speaker 1: mentioned about, you know how if you look for the

523
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 1: toaster in one place and you look for the toaster

524
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Speaker 1: and the other that's basically the equivalent of Apple saying

525
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: we're not allowing third party cookies across our whole phone.

526
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: And we're kind of doing that at the phone level.

527
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: And so it's a pretty big deal for these companies.

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Speaker 1: They're losing tens of millions, if not potentially billions of

529
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Speaker 1: dollars of lost revenue because they just can't track users

530
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Speaker 1: as easily as.

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Speaker 2: They used to. It used to be free for all

532
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Speaker 2: on the web.

533
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Speaker 1: You signed up for something, and your information floated all around,

534
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: followed you everywhere you possibly went on the web until

535
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: they converted you. And now it's just a lot tougher

536
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: for them to do that. When you go to Twitter,

537
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: you go to Facebook, you go to Instagram, you go

538
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 1: to Snapchat, you're just not bringing that whole luggage set,

539
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: whole suitcase of information about you, saying, hey, here's all

540
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 1: my searches, here's everything I looked up. Here's my demographics,

541
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Speaker 1: Here's who I am, Here's how much money I make,

542
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: here's my job. Here take it, okay, now, market me

543
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: everything you possibly can. And so it's just a lot

544
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Speaker 1: tougher for them to sell ads against that, because the

545
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: ads have to be much more general. Anyway, all that

546
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,239
Speaker 1: to say that this will be happening inside apps, and

547
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: what's going to happen, and I already see this happening,

548
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: is that a lot of apps are just going to

549
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,840
Speaker 1: give up on account creation and just make it so

550
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: you have to create your account on the website or

551
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: on the desktop. Oh and then once you create your

552
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 1: account on the website or the desktop, then you can

553
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: go log into the app. So they're going to get

554
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: around it, of course, any way they can.

555
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 2: That's just one.

556
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: Way that they will get around it. But I do

557
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: like that apples doing this because I do think it

558
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: gives consumers just a little bit more empowerment over their

559
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Speaker 1: personal data. All Right, Jane says, I've purchased a new

560
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: Mac computer and I want to back up the old

561
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: one as a precaution. Can you recommend a device to

562
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Speaker 1: do that. Thanks, Jane, Jane, very very easy. In fact,

563
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Speaker 1: I just purchased one of these myself. I got quite

564
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: the deal on every day Slick Deals their front page.

565
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Speaker 1: And it's funny, I was shopping for a hard drive.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, did I get third party cookieat and

567
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: that's why I saw this? Now, probably not, But every

568
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: day on slickdeals dot net, I go there and they've

569
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: got a list of like kind of the top deals

570
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: on the web at any given time, and so I

571
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: kind of just checked that every single day.

572
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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: So I was looking for a hard drive on Amazon,

574
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Speaker 1: a five terabyte hard drive. It's about one hundred and

575
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: ten dollars on Amazon. And then I saw one on

576
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,719
Speaker 1: slick Deals, a refurbished one, which is fine for my uses,

577
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: and it was only sixty bucks, and so I ordered

578
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: it off eBay refurbished, got it like basically the next day.

579
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Speaker 1: And now I need to download my entire Google Photos

580
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: account to that hard drive as a backup. And so

581
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: that's not what you want to do, Jane. What you

582
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: want to do is back up your Mac computer. And

583
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: the Max have this great feature built into them called

584
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Speaker 1: time Machine.

585
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 2: And it's very very easy.

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00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: If you want to find it, just go ahead and

587
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: type do command space bar on your machine and type

588
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: in time machine and that should bring you into your

589
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: applications or system preferences for time machine.

590
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 2: And what time machine does once.

591
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: You do it is all you have to do is

592
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: set a hard drive and external hard drive as your

593
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: time machine, and when that's plugged in, your computer will

594
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Speaker 1: just back up to that hard drive every minute it can.

595
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Speaker 1: So it'll do backups by I think it's by the minute,

596
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: and then by the hour, and then by the day,

597
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: and then by the year, and so or by the

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Speaker 1: month and then by the year. So at any given

599
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: time you have these snapshots of your system that you

600
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,040
Speaker 1: can really hone in on. And so if you lost something,

601
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: you know, a year ago, you can go back and

602
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 1: kind of retrieve it, and if you lost something a

603
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: day ago, you can retrieve it. And so I personally

604
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: don't use that anymore because I don't back up my

605
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: computer in a big way anymore. I back up just

606
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: the stuff to the cloud, So I don't use that,

607
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: but it is a fantastic method for backing up a

608
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Speaker 1: macimmuter very easily. And by the way, if you have

609
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: a Windows computer, this same exact thing is built into

610
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: it as well. I think it's just called Windows backup.

611
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: And so if you go into Windows ten, I think, oh,

612
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 1: here it is file history. It's called and so you know,

613
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: if you go in there and just just set a

614
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 1: hard drive, it's in the start menu settings, Update and Security,

615
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: backup at a drive and just just plug in an

616
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: external drive, set that as your location for your backup,

617
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: and just do it. And so you should definitely be

618
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: doing this if if if you are not backing up

619
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Speaker 1: things to the cloud, like I am so personally, the

620
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: only things I don't have anything local on my computer

621
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Speaker 1: that I that I can't lose, So everything I use

622
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: is all from the cloud. So I use Google Docs

623
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,600
Speaker 1: for my docs, I use Google Photos for my photos.

624
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: If I'm storing any documents in my computer, I will

625
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: just use the iCloud drive finder and so that way

626
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: I can have those anywhere I need them. Or I

627
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: use Dropbox for any of my work stuff. So I

628
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: use a lot of different things, but they're all in

629
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: the cloud. Of course, gmails in the cloud. So if

630
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: you don't do that, if you have a lot of

631
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: stuff that you kind of just keep on your hard drive. Definitely,

632
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: definitely back it up, and that's the easiest way to

633
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: do it, Jane. And once you back up your computer,

634
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: then you can erase that computer and you can donate

635
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: it or give it to someone, or you know, just

636
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: take it to a recycling center or whatever. But definitely

637
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: don't get rid of that old one without deleting everything

638
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: off of it.

639
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 2: Great, great question, Jane. All right, let's get to the

640
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 2: next story of the day.

641
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: Google is testing this smaller street View camera system, which

642
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. So can you believe that StreetView

643
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: launched fifteen years ago this week?

644
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 2: I just can't. Like, I remember when.

645
00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: StreetView started and I thought it was that's the coolest

646
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: thing I had ever experienced in my life. And I

647
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: think about this on a daily basis. Google has taken

648
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: a picture of every corner of the world, and we

649
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: take for granted that when you're visiting another city, you

650
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: can see exactly.

651
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,959
Speaker 2: What the exterior of your hotel looks like.

652
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: You can walk down the street a little bit and

653
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Speaker 1: see if there's a Starbucks or seven to eleven or

654
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Speaker 1: something else that you might need.

655
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 2: Once you get there.

656
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: You can walk down your childhood's street and see what

657
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: your house looks like. Now these are things that just

658
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: weren't possible back in the day, and now they are

659
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: and so this is just amazing and the fact that

660
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: we have this is just truly remarkable. We take it

661
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: for granted. And I know, Google this big evil corporation

662
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: that does all this stuff, but you know, they do

663
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: a lot of cool stuff and StreetView is one of

664
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: those cool things. So anyway, they now have a smaller,

665
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: modular street view camera system, which is going to allow

666
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: them to get street view imagery from even more places

667
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: around the world that they couldn't get it before, or

668
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: maybe take those pictures more often, because you know, the

669
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: whole thing about street view is as soon as they

670
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: take those pictures, it's like, now what you got to

671
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: take them again because things change so quickly. So StreetView,

672
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: by the way, a little bit of trivia in case

673
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: you're ever on Jeopardy. StreetView first launched in San Francisco,

674
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver. But what they're

675
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: doing that's now cool is a feature that's been available

676
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: on the desktop for a while, but now they're giving

677
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: it to you on mobile. And this is a feature

678
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: that allows you to go back in time and kind

679
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: of access the historical pictures for that location. So if

680
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: you have a house on a street or a business,

681
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 1: you can go back and see all the different times

682
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 1: they took StreetView pictures to see how that business or

683
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: house or whatever has evolved over the years.

684
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 2: And it's kind of cool.

685
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: Now, Look, they're not gonna have a ton it's not

686
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: going to be like you can flip through like a

687
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: you know, like you can do a hyper lapse of

688
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: this thing. Like, No, they might have two or three

689
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: years represented because they don't take these pictures very very often.

690
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: For bigger places, they may, But I think that's a

691
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: really cool feature. In fact, this kind of parlays and

692
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: it kind of makes this app idea I've had forever

693
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: kind of move. But I thought it'd be really cool

694
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: to have an app that would let you go and

695
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: see what a place looked like in the past. So

696
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: let's say there was a restaurant that you loved as

697
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 1: a kid on your street or down down your block.

698
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 1: You could go in there and see what that restaurant

699
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: is now, or you can see how a restaurant looked

700
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: twenty years ago or thirty years ago or forty years ago. Now,

701
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,359
Speaker 1: obviously there's no street View thirty forty years ago, so

702
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: someone could kind of build this in to this to

703
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: a street View style app, or even maybe if StreetView

704
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: has an API that allows you to use it, maybe

705
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: someone could use that and just build in the.

706
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 2: Old historical pictures.

707
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: And I think there were a couple of apps like

708
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: this out there, but nothing that was like perfect.

709
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 2: But I thought that was a pretty cool idea.

710
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: So I just love the idea of being able to

711
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: see all this stuff and it's just kind of fun.

712
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the next question of the podcast.

713
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: Rick Hope, Paul as well, love your segments on Channel five.

714
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: I follow you on Instagram. I'm looking for a recommendation

715
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,800
Speaker 1: to help organize my calendars.

716
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 2: I fit golf clubs.

717
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: I'm a great club fitter, trying to get better at

718
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: my administration duties. My territory is a bunch of California,

719
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: includes Arizona, New Mexico. I've got club fitters in all

720
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: those regions. My goal is to have a common calendar

721
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: for all. I know Google has one, but I thought

722
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: i'd check with you first. The one device we have

723
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: in common is an iPad. But we all have computers

724
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: as well. Appreciate any input. Thank you, Jim, So Jim,

725
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: great question. I do this with my family. I do

726
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: this with Oh did I already do this question?

727
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 2: Maybe I did? But use it.

728
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: I just use Google Calendar, and you know, it's it's

729
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: very very simple, and it's very easily shared. It works

730
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: across a wide variety of devices, whether you have iPhone,

731
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: whether you have iPad, whether you have whatever you got,

732
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: it's going to work Android. So Google, and you mentioned

733
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,879
Speaker 1: that in your email is definitely a good option. Now,

734
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: the other option I would look into is if your

735
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: company uses sort of a suite like whether they use Google,

736
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: whether they use Microsoft, whether they use another third party.

737
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: If they do, you might want to use the one

738
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 1: that's linked to your corporate email. And so, for instance,

739
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 1: for my work, we use Microsoft and we use three

740
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 1: sixty five. And so if I was starting a work

741
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: calendar with people that I only interfaced with work.

742
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 2: I would probably use that because.

743
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: It would interface with my work email client. But I

744
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: use Google, and I share it with a whole bunch

745
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: of people. I've got shared calendars with my wife, I've

746
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: got them shared with my some of my employee or

747
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: my photographer at work. I've got it shared with my

748
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: family members back home and so it works very well. Now,

749
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: the other thing, since you do have an iPad you

750
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: might want to look into is iCloud, and so you

751
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: can do a shared iCloud calendar and that's going to

752
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: integrate really nicely into the calendar app on the iPad.

753
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: If you want to just use that, it's simple, but

754
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: that would require someone to set up the iCloud account

755
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: with the calendar and then share it out and of

756
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 1: obviously someone kind of being the administrator of that.

757
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 2: But that's going to be true of any of these.

758
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 2: So those are the things I'd recommend, you know.

759
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: The big ones are Google, Microsoft Outlook, and then the iCloud,

760
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: and there's probably some others out there that I'm not

761
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: thinking about right now. I'm sure there's many many corporate solutions,

762
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 1: but I would say those calendar options are probably the best.

763
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: So have fun on the golf course. I'm sure you

764
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,279
Speaker 1: play a lot. I never really took up golf. I

765
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: did for a little bit. My father in law and

766
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: my brother in law are obsessed about golf. I mean

767
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: to the point of, you know, when I'm hanging out

768
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: with them, I'm almost edged out of the conversation because

769
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: I just don't talk golf. I don't know anything about it.

770
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: I tried playing golf when it was worst timing ever.

771
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I've got to take up golf.

772
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: My father in law plays it, my brother in law

773
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,919
Speaker 1: plays it. I've got to play golf. And so you

774
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: have never seen a more excited father in law in

775
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: your entire life than me saying, Hey, I'm going to

776
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: take up golf. And it was like the eyes just

777
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: lit up, like finally I've gotten my goal of having

778
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: a son in law that plays golf. And so we

779
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: started playing and I, you know, got the clubs. I

780
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: got the shoes, hand me down clubs. I got the

781
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: golf bag, hand me down golf bag. You know, I'm

782
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 1: on the golf course on the weekends on Saturday. I'm

783
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: going to hit balls after work. And then we were

784
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: going to have our first kid, and that was all

785
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: derailed because six months to before you have a kid

786
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: is not the time to pick up golf.

787
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 2: Because once I had my kid, there was just no

788
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 2: time for golf at all.

789
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: And now it's it's funny because that my kid is

790
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: ten years old, my oldest, and it seems like, you know,

791
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: it seems like just yesterday I was I was trying

792
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: to pick up this sport and it's been a decade.

793
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 2: Wow, that's wow.

794
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: I got to think about that for a moment. Is

795
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: he really ten? Oh that's unbelievable. And so I think

796
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: he's turning ten this year. Actually, Oh my gosh, what

797
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: a major fail. Anyway, Yeah, so the point is, don't

798
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: try to pick up golf right before you're having a kid.

799
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: And it's really fun.

800
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: I just you know, I didn't really get good at

801
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: it in a quick way, but I did think it

802
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: was fun. Also, to me, it was really tough to

803
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: justify spending you know, five hours with you know, on

804
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: a golf course on a Saturday morning, you know, with

805
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 1: the kid and you know, the first kid, and all

806
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: the things I had to do, and it was just

807
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 1: a lot.

808
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 2: So I do see the appeal of it though, for sure.

809
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: I mean, the beauty of these golf courses, hanging out

810
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: with the guys or your friends. It's just so fun

811
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: and it's just it's a I mean, it's a frustrating game,

812
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: but it's also a very fun game. And really it's

813
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: a lot of kind of quality time with your friends.

814
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: So I get it. I have nothing against golf, believe me.

815
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,800
Speaker 1: If I could, if someone can magically impart the golf

816
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: skills to me, I would definitely take it. And uh yeah, anyway,

817
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 1: all right, let's get to the next Uh what are

818
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: we gonna do?

819
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 2: Should I do another question? Let me do another question,

820
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 2: Let's do another question? Why not?

821
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: Margie says, I watched your segment on creating space on

822
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 1: an iPhone.

823
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 2: I'm confused.

824
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 1: Uh oh, that's never good. If I follow the instruction

825
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: to turn on optimize iPhone storage, does that stop photos

826
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: from being deleted from my iCloud. I couldn't tell if

827
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: that was an alternative for them being deleted or just

828
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: going to a different subject. In other words, is it

829
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: always the case that if I delete a photo from

830
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: my iPhone, it will be deleted from the iCloud? I

831
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: wanted to clarify before I delete any Thank you for

832
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 1: the important information you give us. The answer is yes,

833
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: they will be deleted. The iPhone is a mirror of iCloud, and.

834
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 2: That's just the way it is.

835
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,280
Speaker 1: So if you have what I recommended in my segment,

836
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: if you're trying to free up space on the iPhone

837
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 1: is to make sure in your iCloud Iphotos storage options

838
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: on your phone is to have something called Optimize iPhone

839
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 1: Storage turned on. And what that does is it keeps

840
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,359
Speaker 1: a low res version of the photos on your phone,

841
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: so you can still scroll through them, but then it

842
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: keeps the full res version in the cloud, and so

843
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: it can it can really free up a lot of

844
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: space on your phone by not holding that high resolution

845
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: picture on your device. It's still there, it's just in

846
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: the cloud and when you need it, when you tap,

847
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: it just comes back magically.

848
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 2: So what happens when you delete something from your phone.

849
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: You might be thinking, well, I can delete it from

850
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: my iPhone and it's safe and sound in the cloud.

851
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 2: No it's not.

852
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: It is absolutely not safe. Anything that you delete from

853
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: your iPhone is going to be deleted from iCloud.

854
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 2: That's just the way it works. Now.

855
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: This is why I recommend third party apps like Google Photos.

856
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 2: I like Iedrive Photos as well.

857
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: If you want something that's really inexpensive, Amazon Photos is good.

858
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 1: If you have Amazon Prime, you can use drop Box,

859
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: you can use one box, one Box, you can use

860
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: one drive. I mean there's a million photo storage apps

861
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 1: out there, and the reason I like those apps slightly

862
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: better than iCloud is that it's a little bit more straightforward.

863
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: It's kind of a one way sync.

864
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: So you know when you're deleting a picture in Google

865
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: Photos that it is deleting off your phone and from

866
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: Google Photos. But it's not as clear when you're deleting

867
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: a picture off of iCloud or off of your photos

868
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: app on your iPhone that it's deleting out of your iCloud.

869
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:53,919
Speaker 2: So that's why I use Google Photos. I just feel

870
00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 2: like it's.

871
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 1: Much easier because it's a one way sync. The pictures

872
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: go up, they don't come back down, and they just

873
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: stay up there on less. I go into Google Photos

874
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: and kind of just kind of pare down things, which

875
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: I mentioned in my last podcast. I'll just take some time,

876
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: you know, I'll just take some time at the end

877
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: of the day and just go through my Google Photos

878
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: and just kind of like pare down a couple of

879
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: big videos. I'll just look through and be like, do

880
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: I really need this stuff anymore?

881
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 2: You know.

882
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: I've been editing a lot of those reels lately, and

883
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: a lot of the video that I shoot for that

884
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: I don't need.

885
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 2: After I make the reel, because it's.

886
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: Just kind of nonsense, not nonsense video, but it's just

887
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: b roll that we just don't need anymore. And so

888
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: you know that's that's something I can just go through

889
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: and delete. But good question, and just you know, back up,

890
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: back up, back up, back up, back up, that's what

891
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: you need to do.

892
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 2: Back up your stuff, back that phone up. All right.

893
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: Next story here, Walmart is expanding drone delivery. And this

894
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: is really this is kind of tough to believe. And

895
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: the reason why I don't fully believe all this stuff

896
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: is because I've reached out to so many of these

897
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: companies that are doing stuff like this, and they always

898
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: tell me no, no, no, no, no no, we don't

899
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: want you to cover this. We're not ready, We're not ready,

900
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: We're not ready. So I see this headline from CNBC

901
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: that says Walmart is expanding its drone delivery to reach

902
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: four million households. Yet, I can guarantee you if I

903
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: emailed Walmart and said, hey, can I come out to

904
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 1: Arizona or Texas or Utah and check this out in person,

905
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: they'd say, no, not right now, We're not ready for primetime.

906
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: When companies tell me they're not ready to have me

907
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: cover something. I'm always a little bit suspect to the technology.

908
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: So now I'm not saying I have not asked Walmart

909
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: to do this, and I'm I'm just saying in general,

910
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 1: this happens a lot. But this is really hard to believe.

911
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: So Walmart is expanding drone delivery across six states with

912
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: this operator called drone Up. So they've got thirty seven

913
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: sites that they are delivering from across six states. Now

914
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: that sounds like a lot, but when you do the math,

915
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: it's four million people. And the whole point of this

916
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: idea of these brick and mortar stores is that Walmart,

917
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: like this article says, ninety percent of Americans live within

918
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: ten minutes of a Walmart. That's amazing, right until you

919
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: read the fine print. So the deliveries by air are

920
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: being fulfilled from a total of thirty seven stores, but

921
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: thirty four of those are run by drone Up, which

922
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: means these are probably what's called a dark store, which.

923
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 2: Means no one can actually go in those stores.

924
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: So it's a warehouse that is like a Walmart, but

925
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: there's no public facing part of that Walmart. So really

926
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:35,280
Speaker 1: only three of their stores are actually delivering these drones

927
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: from So how do these drones work? This is quite unbelievable.

928
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: Customers who live within the range of a Walmart Delivery

929
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 1: drone site and order thousands of items between eight am

930
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: and eight pm. Drone Delivery has a four dollars fee.

931
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: You can order up to ten pounds. The order is

932
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 1: picked and packaged and loaded onto a drone and then

933
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: it's flown remotely by a certified pilot to your driveway

934
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: or yard, and a cable on the drone slowly lowers

935
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,879
Speaker 1: the package. Now, I don't know about you, but I've

936
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: got kids, and if I get a drone delivery, I

937
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: can guarantee you my kids are running out into the

938
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: backyard or the driveway, and what's the first thing they're

939
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: gonna do. They're gonna yank on that drone cable And

940
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Number one is very dangerous? What

941
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: if that drone falls on them? Number two? What if

942
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: they get tangled up in this cable? Number three?

943
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 2: That's gonna mess things up in general.

944
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: Number four. This sounds amazing, but the reality of a

945
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: drone landing in your driveway or backyard, it just seems

946
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: a little bit unrealistic, especially in urban areas. Now, maybe

947
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: they're testing this in more suburban or remote areas where

948
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: it's a little wider uh swath that these things can

949
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 1: land on, but it seems pretty pretty wild. I mean,

950
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: I love that they're doing this, Believe, don't get me wrong.

951
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: I think this it's amazing. I mean, what people are

952
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 1: ordering this is just so so ironic. At one store,

953
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: the top seller for drone delivery is get this Hamburger helper. Now,

954
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: how bad do you need Hamburger helper that you are

955
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: paying three ninety nine on top of your your Walmart

956
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: price for a by the way, hamburger helper at Walmart?

957
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: What is it a dollar ninety eight? So you're paying

958
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: three ninety nine to get Hamburger helper delivered to your

959
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 1: house by drone. That just doesn't sound right. Other frequent

960
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: items delivered by drone are batteries, trash bags, laundry, detergent,

961
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: Welch's fruit snacks. I mean, come on, what I mean,

962
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: I get it where it's just you know, the things

963
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: that people get delivered that you just, you know, don't

964
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: really feel like going out for. But that's just really

965
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: really I mean here's all this amazing technology.

966
00:48:58,000 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 2: I could I don't.

967
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I was gonna say I would see getting

968
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: baby formula or something like that, but it's like, oh

969
00:49:03,160 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 1: my gosh, you can't even get that right now, When

970
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: has that ever happened in the history of America. Walmart's

971
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: going to use the drones to make money in another way.

972
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,760
Speaker 1: According to this article from CNBC, it's going to sell

973
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: photographs taken by the drones to municipalities and local businesses

974
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: like construction or real estate companies. So what does that mean?

975
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,720
Speaker 1: They're going to be taking pictures as they go along

976
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: of all these neighborhoods, kind of like a street view camera.

977
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it makes sense because they're flying low and

978
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: they can get really clear pictures of things, and it's

979
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: probably just automatic as they're sailing away. But what an

980
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: interesting Oh my gosh. All right, since I do have

981
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: a couple of you on Instagram, I will take a

982
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: few questions from Instagram, So get those questions in while

983
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: I read the final story, and then I'll do a

984
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 1: couple questions off Instagram before I go.

985
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here.

986
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 1: This is Microsoft had their big the Old conference this week,

987
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: and you know, This is kind of a little bit

988
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: more you know, I try to keep this show consumer focused.

989
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: Build is a little bit more developer focused, or I

990
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: guess a lot developer focused. But one of the things

991
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:15,240
Speaker 1: that they introduced is called power platform, and they introduced

992
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: something called power pages. And what I like about this

993
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,800
Speaker 1: is it's a simple way for businesses to create modern

994
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: and secure websites without a lot of code. So you

995
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: can start designing a website from the ground up. You

996
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: can add text, video, images, forms, and you can use

997
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: one of the templates to get started. So again, this

998
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: is called power Pages. I just feel like there's a

999
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: lot of kind of website builders out there that are

1000
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 1: not very good or cost a lot of money, and

1001
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: so there are you know, I haven't done this in

1002
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: a while, built a business website, but you know, try

1003
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: to use these tools that like this is probably a

1004
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: decent one. I know Google has one, but you know

1005
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: there's I just wanted to mention.

1006
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,720
Speaker 2: It because it's called power pages.

1007
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: And it's something just to help you make easy website sites.

1008
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,240
Speaker 1: All right, let's see if we've got any questions now

1009
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: on the chat. Let's see here, someone, let's see s

1010
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 1: more stup to get the names on here. Hey, Rich,

1011
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: can you download iCloud photos? And if so, how will

1012
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: it take the pictures off my phone?

1013
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 2: If I do that?

1014
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: Someone told me, and I've not tested this in a while,

1015
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: but someone said, you can go to iCloud dot com

1016
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: and download the photos. The other way to download them

1017
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: is to go to the photos app on a Mac

1018
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 1: and you can download them from there. But once you

1019
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,280
Speaker 1: download them, you'd still have to delete them off your phone,

1020
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: so it wouldn't really it wouldn't delete them if you

1021
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: downloaded them from a different way.

1022
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 2: They used to have a.

1023
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: Way that you could do it third party, but of course,

1024
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: you know, Google Photos, iCloud, they've all kind of cut

1025
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: off third party access to their websites and so you

1026
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: can't really download these things easily now. They do that

1027
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: mostly for security reasons and mostly so you don't mess

1028
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: things up, but it's also, you know, they're just trying

1029
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: to control the entire situation.

1030
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 2: Here.

1031
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: Mama Laura says, what's the best smartphone for older people?

1032
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:12,919
Speaker 1: My mom has an iPhone, but I'm thinking of getting

1033
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: her a Jitterbug. I have no problem with the jitterbug

1034
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 1: if it's a you know what, I don't like about

1035
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: the Jitterbug is that you have to go with their service,

1036
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: and obviously Jitterbug is going to be just a little

1037
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: bit more expensive maybe than going with your own thing.

1038
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: But I do like how these phones are kind of simple.

1039
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: I don't think they're the most powerful phones in the world.

1040
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: I think that there might be some contracts with these phones,

1041
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: but they do offer a flip phone, which I think

1042
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,040
Speaker 1: is really nice. The other alternative to the flip phone

1043
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: is look up Alcatl Alca t E L and they've

1044
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: got Alcatl still makes some flip phones and you've got

1045
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 1: it from T Mobile, maybe a couple other but I

1046
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: would go on Amazon personally, I would just go on

1047
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:00,240
Speaker 1: Amazon and look up unlocked flip phone and let's.

1048
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 2: Just see what they've got here.

1049
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: So they've got a three G flip phone that'll work

1050
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: on AT and T or T Mobile. And they've got

1051
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: a zte flip phone that'll work on T Mobile. They've

1052
00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:16,240
Speaker 1: got another flip phone that will work on T Mobile.

1053
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: Most of them are T Mobile, but you can go

1054
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 1: with the Samsung z flip Now just kidding, that's like

1055
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: a nine hundred dollars phone.

1056
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 2: But yeah, you've got oh here we go. This is

1057
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:26,399
Speaker 2: really good.

1058
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 1: Alcatel Go Flip forty forty four four g LT unlocked

1059
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,160
Speaker 1: for all carriers. That is going to be fantastic. That

1060
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: means you can use it on AT and T, you

1061
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: can use it on T Mobile, you can use it

1062
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: on Mint, you can use it on straight Talk. So

1063
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: what I would do is get one of these phones

1064
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: for a hundred bucks, and then I would just go

1065
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: to Target. I would go to best Buy, maybe just

1066
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: Target or Walmart, and I would go get one of

1067
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: these prepaid plans and just go for the cheapest plan.

1068
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: Like if you're if your senior in does not need

1069
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: a lot of minutes, just literally go with like the

1070
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:07,280
Speaker 1: cheapest plan that you can get monthly for ten dollars

1071
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 1: for just like.

1072
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 2: Mostly calls and text.

1073
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: So that's what I would recommend doing because that's gonna

1074
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: be the cheapest and the easiest overall.

1075
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 2: Let's see here.

1076
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:23,040
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so many questions here, thoughts on radiation

1077
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 1: from wireless earbuds versus wired I've seen some people sharing concerns.

1078
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 1: You know, look, I think there's always concern I just

1079
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: don't I don't personally think there's a lot of concern

1080
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:36,240
Speaker 1: with the wireless. The thing I'm most concerned about, honestly

1081
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 1: is the fact that I wear an Apple watch that

1082
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: has a lte A cellular and a Wi Fi connection

1083
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: that is bearing down into my wrist all day long.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's been a lot of studies about you know,

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00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:53,280
Speaker 1: cancer and wireless radiation. None of them have been truly

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00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: conclusive in a huge way, and so most of the

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00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: people have been going under the guise of these things

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00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: are generally safe. But it's also only been you know what,

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00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: thirty years that we've had these things forty years perhaps maybe, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I do think that it's something to be concerned about.

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Speaker 2: I think it's.

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00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: It's something that you know, I definitely think about, But

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00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: I just I just don't know what I can you know,

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00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: what you can do about it? All right, Let's see

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Speaker 1: another question here, financed with Jessica says, do you know

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00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: any good websites for kids to learn how to code?

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Speaker 1: I would definitely check out Swift Playgrounds. I mean that's

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00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 1: really like Apple's Swift Playgrounds is like fantastic and you

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00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,800
Speaker 1: can code like it kind of teach you the basics

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00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: of coding Apple apps, and we know that Apple is

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00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: kind of king of apps, so I would definitely start there.

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Speaker 1: My kids played with it last summer during the pandemic

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00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: and it was pretty cool. They it's like a little

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00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: game that you play that you learn how to code

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00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 1: and then code dot org. I would definitely try checking

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00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 1: out code dot org as well. And that's that's another

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00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 1: one where you can go and that's totally free. L

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00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,959
Speaker 1: pexso says Amazon Photos or Google which one's better?

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Speaker 2: Personally?

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00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,840
Speaker 1: Like Google Photos, but if you just want a simple

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00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,320
Speaker 1: way that's free. If you have Amazon Prime membership, definitely

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00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: go with Amazon Photos.

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Speaker 2: They've got a lot of the same features.

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00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: It's not as fully featured as Google Photos, but Amazon

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00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: Photos is actually still pretty good, So I would do that.

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Speaker 1: How do I get Google Authenticator app to work on

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00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: my iPhone? I used to have an Android but lost

1119
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: it and now have iPhone. I can't use it on

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00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: my iPhone frustrating.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why.

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00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Google Authenticator. The way it works is

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00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 1: that you have to transfer it to another device while

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Speaker 1: you have it active on the other device. Now that

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Speaker 1: may have changed. It's been a while since I used Authenticator.

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Speaker 1: A couple alternatives is Microsoft Authenticator and then also something

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00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: called auth the au thy and so I think that

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Speaker 1: those are slightly better than Google Authenticator. But I also

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00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: think that you if you reset up Google Authenticator, they

1130
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: now have an option that makes it work a little

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00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: bit better across multiple devices. Oh my gosh, what how

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00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:07,200
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Speaker 2: Do it for this episode of the show.

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