Speaker 1: Microsoft makes some big announcements in New York and Google
Speaker 1: unveil some new privacy features. You should know about what's
Speaker 1: going on. I'm Rich Dmiro. This is Rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: the podcast where I talk about this stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about happening in the tech world. And
Speaker 1: it's also where I answer the questions that you send me.
Speaker 1: And on this show, we'll do things a little differently.
Speaker 1: Since I'm streaming live on Facebook, I will attempt to
Speaker 1: take some of your questions live on the show. So
Speaker 1: Producer Megan, in case you haven't noticed, she is not
Speaker 1: with me today. She is vacationing somewhere in the world,
Speaker 1: I believe somewhere tropical. So I'm very jealous of her today.
Speaker 1: But I am handling the show solo, and I've got
Speaker 1: lots of good questions for you, and also lots of
Speaker 1: updates from this new Microsoft event. I was just in
Speaker 1: New York City for a Microsoft Surface event. I personally
Speaker 1: don't necessarily use a surface. I use a MacBook Pro.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people love the Surface devices, and
Speaker 1: I see why. It's kind of the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1: You've got a tablet, you've got a sort of a
Speaker 1: laptop at the same time, and it's everything you need
Speaker 1: all in one. And for me personally, I do a
Speaker 1: lot of video editing, so I use a MacBook Pro
Speaker 1: and it's tough for me to switch to a Windows device.
Speaker 1: I know plenty of creators that do that, but for me,
Speaker 1: I'm just so used to my Final Cut Pro I
Speaker 1: can't leave it. And I love my computer. You guys
Speaker 1: know if you follow me, that I just paid about
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars to replace the hard drive.
Speaker 2: In my laptop.
Speaker 1: Five hundred and fifty dollars, I think to be exact
Speaker 1: who But the cool thing about these new Microsoft devices
Speaker 1: is that they are going to allow you to replace
Speaker 1: the hard drive yourself in both the laptops and the tablet.
Speaker 1: So let me just quickly run down what Microsoft announced
Speaker 1: at their event. They announced five new products, Surface Laptop three,
Speaker 1: Surface Pro seven, Surface pro X, Surface earbuds. Those are
Speaker 1: all going to be available by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Then there's two new devices, the Surface Neo and the
Speaker 1: Surface Duo. Let me go through these quickly so that
Speaker 1: you understand what's happening with the Surface. So Surface Laptop three.
Speaker 1: I do have a lot of experience with that device.
Speaker 1: Surface Laptop three is the newest and latest and greatest.
Speaker 1: It now comes in a bigger size, so you can
Speaker 1: get in a thirteen inch or a fifteen inch. It's
Speaker 1: also twice as fast. And if you had if I
Speaker 1: had to pick a Windows laptop, this would be it.
Speaker 1: It is a beautiful laptop. The styling is impeccable, it
Speaker 1: is it's it's just amazing. So if I had to
Speaker 1: choose a Windows laptop, this would definitely be it. In fact,
Speaker 1: I might be tempted by the fifteen inch laptop. I've
Speaker 1: been editing with this new program called Adobe Rush, and
Speaker 1: I can do ninety nine percent of what I need
Speaker 1: to do for TV on that program that runs perfectly
Speaker 1: on this Surface Laptop three, So that could tempt me
Speaker 1: to come over. This is the fastest, according to Microsoft,
Speaker 1: fastest lightest fifteen inch laptop you can buy. They really
Speaker 1: went to great lengths to explain how comfortable the typing
Speaker 1: experience is, and I tried the keyboard out on it
Speaker 1: and it was very comfortable. I cannot stand the keyboard
Speaker 1: on my MacBook Pro. It is terrible, terrible, terrible. Maybe
Speaker 1: the new ones are better. Mine's a year old two
Speaker 1: years old. They also have a larger track pad on it,
Speaker 1: and for the first time, you get both USB A
Speaker 1: and C. USB C is the popular connector these days
Speaker 1: now that's available on the surface laptop, so you really
Speaker 1: get everything you need. This is a pretty good device.
Speaker 1: It also has fast charging, which means it's gonna charge
Speaker 1: nice and fast, just like your smartphone, up to eighty
Speaker 1: percent in about an hour. The thirteen inch starts at
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine and the fifteen inch starts at eleven
Speaker 1: ninety nine. I always recommend going for the next level up,
Speaker 1: so if you're going for that eleven ninety nine. They
Speaker 1: make those prices sound super sexy for people that just
Speaker 1: want to get something, but in reality, if you go
Speaker 1: a little bit higher, you're already going like almost the
Speaker 1: whole disc. And it's just go a little bit more
Speaker 1: and pay a little bit more and you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a lot more for that money. Surface Pro seven. Let's see,
Speaker 1: not much to tell you about the Surface Pro seven,
Speaker 1: except again they added USBC and it's now twice as fast.
Speaker 1: Now the Surface pro x not the Surface Pro ten.
Speaker 1: Everyone seems to be loving that X naming convention this year.
Speaker 1: Surface pro X is their thinnest, lightest, most powerful surface
Speaker 1: Pro ever, and it's also connected.
Speaker 3: It's got LTE built in, which is really cool. I
Speaker 3: love that idea.
Speaker 1: And taking a page from the Apple playbook, Microsoft created
Speaker 1: their own chip with Qualcom called the SQ one, which
Speaker 1: means this is gonna have some advantages because they made
Speaker 1: this chip specifically for this device. It's also very thin.
Speaker 1: They say it gives you a thirteen inch screen and
Speaker 1: a twelve inch device.
Speaker 2: And one of the cool.
Speaker 1: New features they have the storage for the pen right
Speaker 1: in the keyboard case. So if you get the keyboard
Speaker 1: case and the pen, which by the way, adds a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of money to this ice, you can store
Speaker 1: the slim pen right in the keyboard case, which is
Speaker 1: really cool. I love this fact that you can do
Speaker 1: that because it just means that the pen is always there,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get lost, and it also charges the pen,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. The Surface Pro seven starts at
Speaker 1: seven forty nine. The Surface pro x starts at nine
Speaker 1: to ninety nine. Now let's talk about the surface earbuds.
Speaker 1: I tried these on and they look super weird. They
Speaker 1: look like big giant discs in your ear.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you.
Speaker 1: They were very comfortable, very lightweight, and there's also some
Speaker 1: tap things you can do on them where you can
Speaker 1: swipe to move the song to the next song and
Speaker 1: all this different stuff. I didn't have much luck with that.
Speaker 1: I also couldn't hear them very well because it was
Speaker 1: super loud in there. But I do think these are promising.
Speaker 1: I would place them somewhere between the Galaxy buds.
Speaker 2: And the AirPods.
Speaker 1: They might actually be better than the Galaxy buds as
Speaker 1: staying in your ears. Those are going to be expensive though.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and forty nine dollars. That's a lot for
Speaker 1: earbuds considering the kind of the best on the market
Speaker 1: right now. The AirPods are one sixty, so this is
Speaker 1: almost a full hundred dollars more expensive than those. All right, now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the two fun things that Microsoft announced,
Speaker 1: the Surface Neo and the Surface Duo. This is just
Speaker 1: it's crazy for a company to show us something that's
Speaker 1: not coming out for a whole other year. And by
Speaker 1: the way, we saw this with Apple. Do you remember
Speaker 1: something called the air Power. They showed off that charger
Speaker 1: at one of their events, and guess what, it never
Speaker 1: saw the light of day. Let's hope that doesn't happen
Speaker 1: with these two devices. Surface Neo is a dual screen
Speaker 1: device built for productivity on Windows ten X. This is
Speaker 1: their new dual screen operating system. It's got a three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty degree hinge with two.
Speaker 2: Nine inch screens.
Speaker 1: So this is not a foldable display, but it's a
Speaker 1: display that sort of folds in half. It's a dual display,
Speaker 1: so two nine inch screens give you a thirteen inch
Speaker 1: display total. It's really thin and you can also connect
Speaker 1: all the other stuff. Think of it as a surface,
Speaker 1: but both of the screens the up in the bottom
Speaker 1: are both screens, so you can do a lot with that.
Speaker 1: Then the Surface Duo is a surface that fits in
Speaker 1: your pocket. So this is a lot smaller. Yes, it
Speaker 1: makes phone calls. Yes, it runs some sort of version
Speaker 1: of Android along with Windows apps. And are you know
Speaker 1: Windows Desktop apps not? There's no Windows Mobile going on here.
Speaker 1: They're not bringing that back.
Speaker 2: They were.
Speaker 1: They understand what's going on in the mobile landscape. It's
Speaker 1: Android versus iOS.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: They're not trying to change that. But these are two
Speaker 1: five point six inch screens that unfold to eight point
Speaker 1: three inches and they showed me. They wouldn't let me
Speaker 1: touch this thing, but they had it like by ropes.
Speaker 1: But they did give me a demo of it not on.
Speaker 1: The screens were not on, but you know how you
Speaker 1: can fold it, unfold it the size of the screens.
Speaker 2: It looks cool.
Speaker 1: Do I think this is the future right now? I
Speaker 1: don't think right now, but I think that they're onto
Speaker 1: something and it does seem like these foldable displays will
Speaker 1: be part of our future when it comes to computing.
Speaker 1: While you're calling in, let's get a question from my
Speaker 1: Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash rich on tech. This
Speaker 1: is from Laurel hey Rich. Thanks for all the info,
Speaker 1: tips and fun stuff you've shared with us on KTLA.
Speaker 1: Just being sure that upgrading to iOS thirteen point one
Speaker 1: is okay?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Are all the bugs ironed out? I have the ten
Speaker 1: ten are no, the bugs are not ironed out. I
Speaker 1: am still having so many issues with iOS thirteen even
Speaker 1: though we're on thirteen point one point two. So my advice,
Speaker 1: Laurel is to just hang tight unless you need it.
Speaker 1: Unless you need that dark mode, you probably don't want
Speaker 1: to upgrade just yet. I've never seen more issues with
Speaker 1: this with an upgrade I have, but it's unfortunate, but
Speaker 1: they keep ironing things out, so just I would hold
Speaker 1: off as long as humanly possible. Right now, Carolyn rode
Speaker 1: into my website richontech dot TV. She said, consumer cellular
Speaker 1: grand Pad tablets, because this is non Internet service what
Speaker 1: technical port links the connection for face to face conversation,
Speaker 1: and I had to look up what this is exactly.
Speaker 1: So the grand Pad is a tablet that is aimed
Speaker 1: towards senior citizens and it looks like a simple Android
Speaker 1: tablet that has you know, looks like calls, email, photos,
Speaker 1: and camera for video conferencing, plus a little stand. And
Speaker 1: I generally don't like things like this because it, you know,
Speaker 1: you're basically putting faith in this platform, this consumer.
Speaker 2: Cellular, which is pretty big.
Speaker 1: They're actually very popular, so that's fine, but you're putting
Speaker 1: faith in this platform that is not proven, so I'm
Speaker 1: a little hesitant with that.
Speaker 2: And then the thing is.
Speaker 1: Two hundred dollars today with eas say so it's like
Speaker 1: ten dollars plus forty dollars a month for a service plan.
Speaker 1: So the simple answer to question Carolyn is that there
Speaker 1: is a service plan. So there is cellular built into
Speaker 1: this device, and that's how it's doing things. But I imagine
Speaker 1: it's also using Wi Fi, so it connects your Wi
Speaker 1: Fi network, it connects to cellular when it doesn't have
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, and that's how you're doing those things. I
Speaker 1: would probably recommend if you have a senior and you
Speaker 1: want to get them something to video chat, I would
Speaker 1: probably look into something like the Amazon Echo Show, the
Speaker 1: Google Nest Hub Max that has the camera on it.
Speaker 1: So I would look into one of those because I
Speaker 1: think that those are a better platform, and also the
Speaker 1: person on the other end can use just like Skype
Speaker 1: or Google Duo to make a call. Three two three,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 3: Mark? Where are you calling from?
Speaker 2: Mark and Monrovia? Welcome to the show?
Speaker 4: Well, thank you Rich. My question is not so much technical,
Speaker 4: but it's regarding text. What is your view on insurance
Speaker 4: on these devices that they provide from the carriers?
Speaker 2: Great question?
Speaker 1: So my okay, So I can tell you my opinion
Speaker 1: when it comes to my rational opinion and then my
Speaker 1: everyday person opinion. Right, So my rational self tells me,
Speaker 1: don't pay fifteen ten to fifteen dollars a month, put
Speaker 1: it in a savings account, and when something happens to
Speaker 1: your device, you know, maybe six months down the line,
Speaker 1: you've got anywhere from sixty to ninety dollars saved up
Speaker 1: and hopefully the repair is not that expensive. Now, the
Speaker 1: other side of me says, it's ten dollars a month
Speaker 1: and it gives you a lot of you know, it
Speaker 1: just gives you that security of knowing that if something
Speaker 1: happens to your device, it's not going to cost you
Speaker 1: a ton to get the screen repaired or whatever. So
Speaker 1: I think with the way Apple does it, you can
Speaker 1: do I think it's like ten dollars a month now.
Speaker 1: They're doing it monthly, by the way, so you can
Speaker 1: do it forever or as long as they let you.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how long that is. But instead of
Speaker 1: paying the two years up front, you can pay you know,
Speaker 1: ten bucks a month or fifteen dollars a month if
Speaker 1: you want the loss protection and the theft protection. So
Speaker 1: I personally don't buy the protection plans I have in
Speaker 1: the past, and when I have bought them, I usually
Speaker 1: get Square Trade because it's a little bit cheaper and
Speaker 1: you can still get it repaired pretty easily. I think
Speaker 1: for ninety nine percent of people. The easiest thing to
Speaker 1: do is get it through your carrier or through Apple,
Speaker 1: because then you just bring the phone back to what
Speaker 1: where's closest to you. So I think that's easy, but
Speaker 1: it also is a very expensive way to protect your device.
Speaker 1: But then again, insurance is expensive. It gives you peace
Speaker 1: of mind. And when you're looking at ten dollars a month,
Speaker 1: I always call it, did you buy a beer this month?
Speaker 1: So if you bought a beer for you know, five
Speaker 1: six bucks, you've already spent that much money. And how
Speaker 1: long did that last you?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And this is you can if you don't drink beer,
Speaker 1: you can put that on anything. You know, maybe you
Speaker 1: went to a movie one night. It's cost seventeen dollars
Speaker 1: that gave you two hours of entertainment. So it's it's
Speaker 1: one of these things that I think comes down to
Speaker 1: a personal decision. But I think in the long term
Speaker 1: we probably ruin our phones less than we think. If
Speaker 1: you're very accident prone, you know, you may want it,
Speaker 1: but if you're not. I mean, I test a lot
Speaker 1: of phones. I've I've broken exactly three in the ten
Speaker 1: years that I've been testing phones, So that kind of
Speaker 1: gives you an idea of and I a lot of
Speaker 1: times I'll keep the case on fifty percent of the
Speaker 1: time because I want to see what a phone is
Speaker 1: like with and without the case.
Speaker 4: Now not my follow up was you carrier, which it's
Speaker 4: not important us, but they only provides one type of
Speaker 4: others out there through these types of bud devices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think the most popular is uh, square
Speaker 1: Trade squ ar So square Trade is a good one.
Speaker 1: And then I think the other one is is really
Speaker 1: Apple Care. That's the other popular one. You can go directly.
Speaker 1: You can actually do it now through your phone if
Speaker 1: you buy a new iPhone. I notice there's now a
Speaker 1: new option inside the settings to add Apple Care to
Speaker 1: your phone right from the phone. So if you go
Speaker 1: into Settings General, it says like and actually I talk
Speaker 1: about this in my book because you can now see
Speaker 1: the warranty time period two in your phone. But it
Speaker 1: basically lets you add Apple Care right from your phone.
Speaker 1: It tells you how many days you have left to
Speaker 1: do that, because there's a certain window of time that
Speaker 1: you have when you get a new device to add
Speaker 1: the insurance. So I would look into that, and I
Speaker 1: would compare a couple of In fact, It's funny you
Speaker 1: asked this question because I have a story idea for
Speaker 1: KTLA where I'm going to compare some of these different
Speaker 1: insurance companies. But in general, if you're going with a
Speaker 1: third party like Square Trade, it's going to be cheaper.
Speaker 1: Apple Care is right in the middle, and I feel
Speaker 1: like the carriers are just a little bit more expensive.
Speaker 1: But you have to remember there are usually deductibles no
Speaker 1: matter what, so even if.
Speaker 4: You pay regardless of the dam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so that's that's different.
Speaker 1: Now with Apple I do believe it's only twenty nine
Speaker 1: dollars if you crack your screen if you have Apple
Speaker 1: Care for the first two incidents. So the way I
Speaker 1: always look at these insurance plans, I add up for
Speaker 1: you know, how long I think I'm gonna keep the phone,
Speaker 1: Let's say two years. I add up the monthly fee
Speaker 1: plus what it would cost to actually do one fix,
Speaker 1: which in the case of a screen, would be thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: So if you look at ten dollars a month times
Speaker 1: two years, that's two forty plus thirty dollars, that is
Speaker 1: is two seventy. So you're looking at two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy dollars for the first time you need a screen replacement,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you're looking at. But you get
Speaker 1: two years of security with your phone. So it's a
Speaker 1: good question. It's one that you know, I think is
Speaker 1: a very personal decision for people. A lot of people
Speaker 1: just feel better having the insurance on their phone. All right,
Speaker 1: Thanks Mark, thanks for calling in. Appreciate it. Good good question.
Speaker 1: I struggle with that myself. But in general, I think
Speaker 1: that if you can save the money and you're good in,
Speaker 1: you know, being diligent about putting that money away, it's
Speaker 1: never gonna catch up, probably will never catch up to
Speaker 1: how much you need when you know when you need
Speaker 1: that repair, but at least you'll have half of it
Speaker 1: saved away, and then it's like not as bad now.
Speaker 1: I was kind of telling Mark the story. But I
Speaker 1: have replaced, or I have now repaired this laptop twice,
Speaker 1: and so I call this my three thousand dollars laptop,
Speaker 1: even though it started out as a two thousand dollars laptop.
Speaker 1: Because the first repair was my kid through a a
Speaker 1: toy at my screen and it cracked the screen, and
Speaker 1: that was I think a five hundred dollars repair. And
Speaker 1: then the second time my hard drive failed and that
Speaker 1: was a five hundred and fifty dollars repair. So now
Speaker 1: I'm holding on to this computer as long as humanly
Speaker 1: possible because it has cost me so much more than
Speaker 1: it should have cost me. But great question, and uh Courtney.
Speaker 1: On the live stream, Courtney Rogers says, your story idea
Speaker 1: for KTLA was from me, So thank you, Courtney, and
Speaker 1: I will I will do my research and actually come
Speaker 1: up with a story for KTLA because I do think
Speaker 1: that people need to know about that stuff. Question from James' guest,
Speaker 1: He says iOS thirteen point one point two for iPad
Speaker 1: is requiring a passcode? How do I avoid a passcode? Well, James,
Speaker 1: you know, as a tech guy, I can never ever
Speaker 1: ever recommend that you don't put a passcode on your device.
Speaker 1: You should always have a passcode. The reason why is
Speaker 1: because you got to protect your device. Let's say someone
Speaker 1: finds this device, it is now totally it's worthless to
Speaker 1: you because they're going to be able to easily take
Speaker 1: it over. If you don't have a passcode on there,
Speaker 1: your personal information is at risk. If you don't have
Speaker 1: a passcode, you just always need a passcode. I know
Speaker 1: it's a pain and it's tough. You got to type
Speaker 1: it in. They want you to do six digits. There
Speaker 1: are two things now you're asking about thirteen point one
Speaker 1: point two. I don't know this to be sure that
Speaker 1: they're requiring a passcode, but in the past I can
Speaker 1: speak to how the iPhones are generally set up, and
Speaker 1: in the past it says please put in your passcode.
Speaker 2: But if you look way at.
Speaker 1: The bottom, it says you can have an option for
Speaker 1: new options, and the options are if you want to
Speaker 1: do a four digit passcode or bypass the passcode altogether.
Speaker 2: So it is small print.
Speaker 1: It's at the bottom of that screen, and they make
Speaker 1: it so that you don't really see it, kind of
Speaker 1: blends into the background, so you don't choose that option.
Speaker 1: But the reality is they want that option on there.
Speaker 1: They don't want you to choose that option, and I
Speaker 1: don't think you should. I think you should have a
Speaker 1: passcode on your iPad. There's no reason why you shouldn't.
Speaker 1: And yes, it takes a little bit longer, but it's.
Speaker 2: Totally worth it, believe me.
Speaker 1: All Right, while we're waiting for another call, let me
Speaker 1: tell you about some new Google privacy features. So they
Speaker 1: have introduced at least four new ways to protect and
Speaker 1: control your privacy on Google and the first is incognito
Speaker 1: mode on Maps, and this is on Android. In fact,
Speaker 1: this was on my Android for a while. I guess
Speaker 1: I was in the test case. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: I was one of the testers of this. But if
Speaker 1: you go into your Maps and if you tap your
Speaker 1: little head in the upper right hand corner, there is
Speaker 1: now a new option that says incognito mode, and you
Speaker 1: press that, and now it stops tracking you. So any
Speaker 1: restaurants you search for, any directions you go to or
Speaker 1: navigate to, it's not going to keep that in your
Speaker 1: Google history. So if you want to try that out,
Speaker 1: just go into Google Maps on Android right now. At
Speaker 1: the top, you'll see a little search bar. To the
Speaker 1: right of that search bar is your face or your
Speaker 1: profile picture. Tap and then it says incognito mode. You
Speaker 1: tap that, and now it's gonna stop tracking you and
Speaker 1: it will not be saved and used to personalize your
Speaker 1: Maps experience. So let's say you're researching a restaurant that
Speaker 1: you don't want anyone else to know about because it's
Speaker 1: you don't want it to affect your recommendations from Google.
Speaker 1: You can tap that incognito mode. It's coming to iOS soon,
Speaker 1: they say, auto delete is coming to YouTube. This is
Speaker 1: something that's expanding on location history and web and app activity.
Speaker 1: This is something that you've been able to delete on
Speaker 1: Google for a couple of months now, maybe six months ago.
Speaker 1: So now you can extend this to YouTube. So if
Speaker 1: you go into your YouTube settings, there is now an
Speaker 1: option to auto delete your YouTube history. And what that
Speaker 1: means is you can delete all the stuff that you watch,
Speaker 1: all the stuff that you search for, all the stuff
Speaker 1: that you view, and you can decide to keep that
Speaker 1: stuff for three months, eighteen months, or until you delete it.
Speaker 1: So that's a new option, is well, and uh, that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good option, I guess. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: don't want a record of all the stuff that you're
Speaker 1: watching on YouTube, you can just auto delete after three months. Now,
Speaker 1: this is really interesting. If you have one of these
Speaker 1: Google Home devices, there is a new way to control
Speaker 1: your data right from the Google Assistance. You can now
Speaker 1: ask Google. You can say, hey, you know who, delete
Speaker 1: the last thing I said to you? And then hey,
Speaker 1: you know who delete everything I said to you last week.
Speaker 1: I think this is really cool, and this is something
Speaker 1: that we've been asking for as tech folks, because it
Speaker 1: just makes sense that you would be able to ask
Speaker 1: Google just as easily as you ask Google a question,
Speaker 1: ask Google to delete what you just ask Google. Now,
Speaker 1: I personally think that this is the most incriminating thing
Speaker 1: in the world. If you ask Google a question, then
Speaker 1: you say, hey, Google, oh sorry, I just said the words.
Speaker 1: But if you say that and then you say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you delete what I just asked you? I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, if I was the authority, that's the first
Speaker 1: thing I'd want to know, Hey, did this person ask
Speaker 1: to delete anything on Google? But maybe it's truly deleted forever.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I would assume there's some sort of record on the
Speaker 1: Google servers that you asked to delete your stuff, but
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I can't be sure on that one.
Speaker 1: So if you asked to delete more than a week's
Speaker 1: worth of data from your account, the assistant will tell
Speaker 1: you how to do that in your settings. And this
Speaker 1: is rolling out next week, So that's next week, and
Speaker 1: then all other languages next month, so you can't do
Speaker 1: this just yet. And rolling out means that it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen overnight. It means that it will take a while.
Speaker 1: And I've got a question on Facebook from Connie. She says,
Speaker 1: is the YouTube history auto delete only on Android? Will
Speaker 1: that be on iOS? I believe it's on both. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say I would think that's on both. I tried
Speaker 1: it on my Android, I believe, and it was there already,
Speaker 1: so that one was already there. And then the other
Speaker 1: thing they do is they have a security checkup which
Speaker 1: will automatically detect potential security issues with their Google account. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see. Yeah, that's okay, security checkup. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's good to do. And what they're saying is that
Speaker 1: if you have logged into a bunch of Google devices
Speaker 1: over the years, you can now easily you can now
Speaker 1: easily get rid of those old devices by doing this
Speaker 1: security checkup. And then they have a password checkup as well,
Speaker 1: which is going to help you figure out if your
Speaker 1: passwords are reused or compromised. The problem is to use
Speaker 1: that feature, you have to use Google's password manager. And
Speaker 1: it's fine if you only use Google products to use
Speaker 1: Google's password manager, but personally I would use a third
Speaker 1: party password manager like last pass or dash Lane. Those
Speaker 1: are probably two of my favorite. If you're all Apple,
Speaker 1: you can use the one that's built into Apple. But
Speaker 1: the problem with using all these things that are built
Speaker 1: in is that now you're locked into their ecosystem, and
Speaker 1: if you want to switch from Google to Apple, Apple
Speaker 1: to Google, it makes things a lot more complicated. So
Speaker 1: when possible, and this is in general, I always try
Speaker 1: to use a third party app. Like for my notes,
Speaker 1: I use Evernotes, and it's just better than using the
Speaker 1: built in notes app on iOS and iPhone and Mac,
Speaker 1: because if I ever want to change things up, I
Speaker 1: have to export all my notes from Apple Notes into
Speaker 1: something else. So Ever, Note works across platforms, and it's
Speaker 1: the same reason why I use Apple Maps. It's the
Speaker 1: same reason why I Message really bugs me because it
Speaker 1: locks you into iPhone in.
Speaker 2: A very big way.
Speaker 1: In fact, I've actually been testing out Verizon Messages to
Speaker 1: see if I can use because Verizon Messages lets you
Speaker 1: see your messages on various phones, your texts. The problem
Speaker 1: is you can't use I Message, and I Messages is
Speaker 1: really really good. Hector writes in on my website, rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV, Hey, I'm wondering what the best
Speaker 1: photo and video editor other than the Photoshop is in
Speaker 1: either free download or purchase for a modest price to
Speaker 1: use here and there. So this is a great question
Speaker 1: because this is what I use all the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm always editing. I don't edit my picture so much.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll pop a filter on them, but most of
Speaker 1: the time I am editing video on my computer and
Speaker 1: also my phone.
Speaker 2: So when it comes to.
Speaker 1: The best photo editor, I would say an app called
Speaker 1: pixel Mater is a really good one. It's very high powered,
Speaker 1: has a lot of features that I don't really understand,
Speaker 1: but it's a great program. I think I paid five
Speaker 1: five or six dollars for it pixel Mater Pro, and
Speaker 1: they do have it for iOS on your phone, so
Speaker 1: you can get that for your phone, and it's a
Speaker 1: you know, it does everything you need. It does all
Speaker 1: kinds of like photo editing, this and that.
Speaker 2: That's too much for me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: but I do something called snapseed, which is a lot easier.
Speaker 1: And Snapseed is just a program that lets you do
Speaker 1: very I mean, it's very powerful. It's owned by Google actually,
Speaker 1: but for me, it's just I love the filters on there,
Speaker 1: and I love kind of the different little things you
Speaker 1: can do on there, Like if you have a little
Speaker 1: you know, let's say you take a picture and you
Speaker 1: got some something stuck in your teeth, you can just
Speaker 1: kind of smudge that out with a very simple flick
Speaker 1: of the finger on your screen using that app. So
Speaker 1: snapseed is really great. If you're kind of sick of
Speaker 1: all the filters on Instagram, check that one out.
Speaker 2: The other one.
Speaker 1: People like is Visco Vsco. That's another photo editing app.
Speaker 1: I personally don't use it, but a lot of people
Speaker 1: like to use it. It's also a sharing platform. You
Speaker 1: can do that. And you did say video editor, So
Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple of recommendations for video editors.
Speaker 1: I really like a video editor called Adobe Premiere or
Speaker 1: Adobe Rush. Is it Premiere Rush or is it just Rush? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Adobe Premiere Rush. Now that's ten dollars a month, but
Speaker 1: it is the best mobile video editor for both iOS
Speaker 1: and Android.
Speaker 2: Check that out. If you're on are you on an iPhone?
Speaker 2: I can't tell, So.
Speaker 1: If you're on an iPhone, iMovie's pretty good. But I
Speaker 1: person like the other one much better, So I would
Speaker 1: I would use the Adobe Rush and then the other.
Speaker 1: The other one I like is Infinite Stories. If you're
Speaker 1: just trying to do stuff for Instagram, check out Infinite Stories.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a pretty cool program as well. So Hector,
Speaker 1: thanks for the question nine five one? You are on
Speaker 1: with rich? Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 5: Speaking with?
Speaker 3: Robby Robbie?
Speaker 5: Oh bb Yeah, we be I E Hi?
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
Speaker 5: Pretty good, isn't you?
Speaker 2: I'm excellent? What's on your mind?
Speaker 5: Well? I was just wondering which phone is better, Sampson
Speaker 5: J seven or the iPhone.
Speaker 3: On seven class Samsung J seven.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm looking this up right now to see
Speaker 1: what the the Usually the J lines are kind of
Speaker 1: Samsung's entry level devices. They sell them at a lower cost.
Speaker 1: They don't they don't have all the high end features
Speaker 1: as their Galaxy s you know, S line or their
Speaker 1: Note line. And then the other one.
Speaker 5: I have both both phones right now and I'm just
Speaker 5: trying to figure out which one to go with. And
Speaker 5: I'm still I can.
Speaker 1: If I had to choose between these two phones, the
Speaker 1: iPhone seven or the Samsung J seven, I personally would
Speaker 1: go with the iPhone. And I'll tell you why, Number one, Uh,
Speaker 1: you get a better operating system on it, because it's
Speaker 1: going to be newer, more up to date. You get,
Speaker 1: you know, because you can run iOS thirteen on it,
Speaker 1: and you get better apps, and it's going to be faster,
Speaker 1: it's going to have a better camera, and basically everything
Speaker 1: about the iPhone is going to be better than this
Speaker 1: J seven. I'm looking at the uh.
Speaker 2: The screen.
Speaker 1: It's got a five point five inch super ammal ads.
Speaker 1: That's fine, it's unlocked. It's got expandable memory. So the
Speaker 1: only thing going for I think is the expandable memory.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, the you know, the rest of the specs
Speaker 1: are not going to be as good as the iPhone.
Speaker 1: It's it's decent, and I'm looking at the specs here.
Speaker 1: It's it's okay, but I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: be as good and as long lasting as the iPhone.
Speaker 1: So that would be my recommendation. Let's see what kind
Speaker 1: of Android it's running. Do you know which version of
Speaker 1: Android it's running? It doesn't even say.
Speaker 5: No, I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the thing about it just it doesn't even
Speaker 1: say what version of Android it's using, but it's Samsung
Speaker 1: is notorious for taking a really long time to upgrade
Speaker 1: the Android operating system on their devices. So you're going
Speaker 1: to be running an older version of Android versus the iPhone.
Speaker 1: You said it's a seven plus. Yeah, so you got
Speaker 1: a nice big screen. I think that's the way to go.
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely go with that phone.
Speaker 2: Is that is that help?
Speaker 5: Yes to go?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I've been watching on Channel five TV for a long
Speaker 5: time and I decided I'm going to give them more
Speaker 5: callumn see which one he would recommend.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And I you know, if you said, if you said
Speaker 1: the Note ten versus the iPhone eleven, I'd have to
Speaker 1: you know, I'd have some more debate there. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to these two phones, I think, in my mind,
Speaker 1: the iPhone seven plus is going to be a stronger
Speaker 1: contender for.
Speaker 2: For it's just everyday use.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be just easier and better
Speaker 1: and you're going to get more for your for your
Speaker 1: money out of that phone than you are the J seven.
Speaker 3: So Robbie, good question, Thanks so much for calling.
Speaker 2: You appreciate it. Have a good day.
Speaker 3: You welcome five six two you're on with Rich?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 6: I just stroud?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 6: I had a question thanks for all your help with
Speaker 6: your tech and all makes new kids. I have an
Speaker 6: iMac two thousand and eight and I'm looking to upgrade it.
Speaker 6: But I was wondering, when I buy the new iMac,
Speaker 6: can I make this my old one a second screen?
Speaker 6: Is that something that is available?
Speaker 1: Prima M that's a good question. Now I know with
Speaker 1: the new let's see here macOS Catalina. So on mac Os,
Speaker 1: the new version of macOS Catalina, there actually is a
Speaker 1: provision for letting another device be a secondary screen. I
Speaker 1: know that it works with an iPad. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if it works with another computer. And I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure that Catalina will run on a two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight iMac. So let me look at the compatibility here.
Speaker 1: Usually that is the bottom of the website. It'll tell
Speaker 1: you iMac.
Speaker 3: Let's see Ooh, okay, so.
Speaker 1: Catalina is not gonna run on your computer, which is
Speaker 1: an iMac twenty twelve and later. So if you're talking
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, which is what you said, right,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to run the operating system
Speaker 1: on there. Now, that does not mean that you can't
Speaker 1: use it as a secondary There are lots of programs
Speaker 1: out there that will turn a display into a secondary screen,
Speaker 1: So you need like usually a screen sharing program. Now
Speaker 1: I know there's one called Duet, which is for Mac,
Speaker 1: and I think the problem with Duet is that you
Speaker 1: might need it might again work with an iPad. So
Speaker 1: let's see turn your iOS or Android device into a
Speaker 1: high performance secondary display for your Mac and PC. So
Speaker 1: again that one is a Mac to a iPad. So
Speaker 1: a lot of them that I'm seeing are Mac to iPad.
Speaker 1: But let's see if we can find a program Mac
Speaker 1: secondary display. Have you done any searching to see if
Speaker 1: there's a program that you've been looking at.
Speaker 6: I was trying to, like YouTube it, but I didn't
Speaker 6: really find anything that allowed me to convert my whole monitor,
Speaker 6: full computer into a monitor second monitor.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's looking it's looking like there might
Speaker 1: be a way to do it. It says that you
Speaker 1: might be able to use a cable to do it,
Speaker 1: and then there's you can use it as sort of
Speaker 1: an external monitor, so that might work.
Speaker 3: I think you'll be able to do this. It depends
Speaker 3: on you get to a cable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what I would do is look on the
Speaker 1: back of your device and I'm looking. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I'm looking here, and it seems like you.
Speaker 2: Could probably do this.
Speaker 1: I think it really depends on your Mac. Let's see,
Speaker 1: so use an iMac as a display with target display mode,
Speaker 1: and it looks like you can do this.
Speaker 2: System requirements and.
Speaker 6: What happens, I'm sorry, what the two thousand and eight
Speaker 6: would have.
Speaker 2: Well, here's what I'm looking at.
Speaker 6: Upgrade. I just don't want to get I just don't
Speaker 6: want to talk the old iMac.
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 6: To use it at least for a second monitor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other the the what I'm seeing on this
Speaker 1: website for the target mode is two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: and above. So I don't know if you're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to do You might be able to do it
Speaker 1: some software, but I quickly just looking don't see it.
Speaker 1: I think where there's a will, there's a way, and
Speaker 1: I bet there's a way to do it, and I
Speaker 1: think there's a way, but I just can't be sure
Speaker 1: without you know, doing some some pretty you know.
Speaker 2: Heavy research. But I agree.
Speaker 1: It's like, but here's the thing, I mean, you can
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of other ways you can
Speaker 1: repurpose this device.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can make it display pictures.
Speaker 1: You can use it as a home server, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to back up all your stuff to it,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool.
Speaker 2: You can do that.
Speaker 1: You can give it to a friend or you know,
Speaker 1: a family member, which is always what I usually do
Speaker 1: with my computers. So I think that there's a lot
Speaker 1: and I you know that unless you do you work
Speaker 1: from home at all?
Speaker 5: Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: Oh you do, okay, So it would be nice to
Speaker 1: have that secondary monitor.
Speaker 5: Huh yeah.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, I think I think you do a little bit
Speaker 1: of research. But it seems like the first thing you
Speaker 1: need to do is look at the back of your
Speaker 1: iMac and and see what kind of inputs and outputs
Speaker 1: you have, you know, so I think I think that's
Speaker 1: going to determine if you have I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: looking on Google images right now to see what's what's
Speaker 1: on the back, so.
Speaker 6: You know, it has like some USBs, it's I mean,
Speaker 6: it's really all as yeah, the new newer computers have.
Speaker 1: I think it just but it looks like it's got
Speaker 1: like a fire a FireWire mini DisplayPort. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do it. I would I would
Speaker 1: do some searching and look online and see. But it
Speaker 1: looks like you can do it. The only thing is
Speaker 1: it may just be that if you're you may need
Speaker 1: an adapter and a cable. But you know, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at these things and it seems like it's not that
Speaker 1: far off. I just I'm a little bit concerned because
Speaker 1: the official Apple website says that it needs to be
Speaker 1: a two thousand and nine and above. So that's what
Speaker 1: concerns me is maybe they just don't have the support
Speaker 1: for the older ones. I'm gonna look up one more program.
Speaker 1: There's a program called Reflector that is a great program
Speaker 1: that I've used, and that might actually that is only
Speaker 1: it looks like it's only screen mirroring, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like, yeah, it looks like it's.
Speaker 2: Only mainly for screen mirroring.
Speaker 1: And but look at that. Look at that app as
Speaker 1: well from air Squirrels. It's called Reflector. So good question,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling it. Recommend start, I would recommend not going.
Speaker 2: Let's see there there.
Speaker 1: I think the iMac has like a the least expensive one,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's the one you don't want
Speaker 1: because I believe.
Speaker 2: That there's not a retina display.
Speaker 3: Let me check the uh specs on this thing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, let's see.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the cheapest one is one ninety nine dollars
Speaker 1: and it is not a retina display, so do not
Speaker 1: get that one. Just I know. The next one is
Speaker 1: twelve hundred and ninety nine dollars. This went kind of
Speaker 1: what I was saying earlier. Don't be fooled by the
Speaker 1: cheapest Apple product because a lot of times they get
Speaker 1: that price there just to get you in, and in reality,
Speaker 1: you spend the two hundred extra dollars and you're gonna
Speaker 1: get so much more for your money. So for twelve
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, for thirteen hundred versus eleven hundred, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get a retina display, which is a four K display,
Speaker 1: which is so much better than the display on the
Speaker 1: lesser computer. So that's the one I'd recommend, is a
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred dollars one. Now, if you're gonna keep this
Speaker 1: thing for a long time, you work from home, you
Speaker 1: make money using this computer, I would go for the
Speaker 1: best system that you can afford because these things will
Speaker 1: last a while. You've had your last one for ten years,
Speaker 1: eleven years now, So do the math, and I think
Speaker 1: that it could be.
Speaker 6: A good value sound good. Thank you so much for
Speaker 6: your help.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for call and appreciate the call. You
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