WEBVTT - 026 Rich on Tech Radio Show - July 1, 2023 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.400 What's going on on rich Demiro And this is rich 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.080 on Tech, this show where I talk about the tech 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.560 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:15.079 place where I answer your questions about technology. You know, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.120 I believe that technology should be easy, helpful, and sometimes, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.560 while worthy, it could also be frustrating. I get that 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.200 phone lines are open at triple A Rich one oh one. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.560 That's one eight eight eight seven four to two, four 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.519 to one zero one. Give me a call. If you 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:37.560 have a question about technology, email is also open. Send 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:44.360 it to hello at Richontech dot TV. Happy. Uh, fourth 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.360 of July weekend? Is that a thing is fourth? It 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.120 is fourth of July weekend, right, because fourth of July 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.000 is coming up, and this is the weekend that precedes it. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.440 So it is fourth of July weekend. So good weather, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.840 hopefully where you are. Hopefully you've got some plans, you know. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.320 I was thinking about if Fourth of July has been 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.959 impacted by technology, and I think it has. And I'll 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:10.360 tell you how. Drone shows, so I think some of 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.759 you will be watching and I know this sounds wild, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.199 instead of actual fireworks, I think you'll be watching drone 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.600 fireworks shows. I have not personally seen one of these 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.399 in the flesh. But I know they're happening, and i 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.600 know they're happening around town, and I'm sure they're happening 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.480 where you are, so kind of cool. I mean, you 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.440 don't have to pick up all the stuff afterwards. But 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.800 I think the standard I'm gonna have to do a 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.760 comparison of the traditional fireworks show and the drone fireworks show. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.160 I think that the boom of the fireworks is probably 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:47.000 more fun. Although if you live in Los Angeles, and 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.320 I know this from personal experience, the fireworks continue for 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:56.440 about a week in the LA area. Even though somehow 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.960 fireworks are not allowed in this area, everyone has them. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.880 And I think last year I had to go to 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:05.840 work the next morning and I wake up pretty early 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.000 and it was just all night long. I mean, you 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.519 want fireworks in your neighborhood, It's happening in Los Angeles. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.200 So maybe the drone shows are better. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:14.880 All right. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.239 So I've got a lesson to tell you about this week. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.839 That is a really you know, I'm not I don't 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.800 like to be a downer, but and this is not 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.400 like a downer story. Don't feel sorry for me whatever, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.400 but I am going to tell you a story, and 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.480 I think there's a pretty good lesson to be learned 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:34.600 from it. So here's the story. I drove home from work, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.520 parked my car on the street. My wife was leaving, 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.120 So typically I like to park my car in the driveway, right, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.760 just because it's a sense of security. My car's in 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.080 the driveway, no one's going to hit it in the driveway. Well, 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.360 I park it on the street, and sure enough, you know, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.359 I do my thing inside, my wife leaves whatever, and 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.280 I come outside. This was late late in the afternoon, 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.799 so this was all the way, you know, six seven, 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.639 eight hours later. And the first thing I do when 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.320 I come outside is look at my car. And it's like, literally, wait, 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:08.280 what the heck happened to this car? Someone clearly hit 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.720 my car and it was just totally messed up. And 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.640 I said, and they were all outside playing basketball in 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:14.840 front of the house, and I said, none of you 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.280 notice the car is just totally messed up. And they 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.080 all look at it like, oh my gosh. First thing 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:21.400 I do is look at my car. This is a 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.800 habit that I just look at my car to see 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.680 what has happened to it since the last time I 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.480 was in my car, and so immediately I've got one 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.440 of these cars that has the full DVR system, right, 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.320 so it records from all angles. And I was like, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.800 oh my gosh, I didn't want this to happen in 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.200 my car, but it did. And I've got the best 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.800 possible outcome. I have got picture, video proof of what 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:49.880 just happened. And so I open up my car and 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.800 I go to the dash cam which is built into 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.760 the car to it's like a little DVR basically, and 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.520 I wait for it and it's slow. It's not the best. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.080 It's just like it takes a while to get warmed up, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.800 and it gives you a list of all the things 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.160 happened that all the things that happened in your car 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.120 while you weren't there. And sure enough it's not there. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.280 Wait what I don't have this on video? The hit 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.720 and run driver, the license plate, whatever, it's not there. Ugh. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.560 And I remember I turned off the DVR functionality when 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.240 I'm in my home area because I park my car 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.839 in the driveway. Why would I need that, right? And 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.080 so first off, I just think to myself, Okay, that 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.360 was really not a smart move. Rich, But the good 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.680 news is I've got some other cameras around the house. 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.440 So let me check the ring cam. So I go 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.320 to the ring cam, and the ring cam does not 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.919 capture it because guess what, there's a giant tree in 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.799 front of where I parked my car, so it captures 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:51.599 everything accept my car. I could literally see everything happening 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.880 outside my house except where my car is parked. This 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.599 tree is huge. Okay, let me try the other cameras. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.640 I've got some nest cams that record twenty four to seven. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:07.560 Let's check those cameras well. Sure enough they got Well 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.839 the tree again blocks it. But the audio is there, 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.559 but none, you know, it's just you can't see it again, 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.000 the tree is blocking it. So what are my lessons? 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.680 And actually I misspoke on the ring cam. The ring 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.839 cam seese my car, but the ring cam only does 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:29.200 motion alerts, so it actually didn't capture whenever this damage 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.960 happened to the car recorded either before or after or whatever. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:33.720 So here's my lesson. And this is what I said. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.640 Don't feel sorry for me. Look, the car is a 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.720 mechanical thing, right, so nobody got hurt. Yes, it's a 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.880 pain in the you know what to get this thing 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.839 fixed because I already brought it to a place and 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.160 all parts are a month, and you gotta do this, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.599 and it's a whole big thing to get it back 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.640 to square one. And by the way, don't get me 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.640 started on spending money on things that gets you back 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:56.360 to where you were. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:56.920 Right. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.480 If you've ever gotten your tire replaced or something like that, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.960 your car literally drives exactly the same, except now you 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.600 just spent a whole bunch of money on a new tire. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.440 So don't get me started on that. But my point is, yes, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.560 the car will get repaired. Everyone's safe, it's okay. But 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.800 here's the lesson I learned from this situation. Number one. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:19.040 We've got these cameras. Check your settings. Know the limitations 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.280 of your cameras. So you probably set up these cameras 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.920 like your ring cam or your security cameras or your 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.200 car dash cam and you never thought about it ever. Again, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.080 take the minute to go through the app, go through 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.240 the settings and see how this thing is set up. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.520 For instance, on my ring cam, if I would have 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:41.080 had the setting to record motion events longer, maybe I 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.840 would have captured this. Because the way the ring cam 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.800 works is it starts to record and then it'll record 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.440 for like ninety seconds, it'll send that clip to the 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.040 cloud whatever. But then it stops and there's usually a 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.200 timeout period to save the battery where it doesn't record 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.479 right away, because if it just kept doing that, you know, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.080 every time the tree moved in front of it, it 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.960 would just record the whole day and the battery'd be 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.120 done in like ten minutes. So check the settings on 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:09.119 these things. Also check to see the angles of these things, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.240 so in the future, I will probably not park where 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.440 this big giant tree blocks the view from the cameras, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.480 because this whole system would be a little bit easier 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.960 if I had some information about who hit my car. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.400 So go through the settings. Know the limitations of your cameras. 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.520 Are they on at certain times, are they off at 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.680 certain times? When do they trigger? How do they trigger? 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.160 And also probably consider getting a dash cam because it's 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.480 one of those things where when something like this happens 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.840 to you, it's a big headache. And if you can 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.760 feel just a little bit better knowing that, you can 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.680 get maybe some recourse on your insurance or your deductible. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.880 So go for a dash cam. And when you look 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.600 at dash cams, you want to find one that has 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.520 a motion sensor, so it can have some sort of 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:01.360 motion detection or some sort of G you know, G sensor, 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.240 so if it senses your car moves, it will start recording. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.920 And uh, if you have ring already, they've got something 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.040 called the Ring Cam, which I really like. You know, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.520 it's the first generation, so it's obviously they're going to 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.400 build upon it, make it better. But that one does 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.240 record if something you know, uh hits your car, not motion, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.800 It won't do motion, but it will do if something 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.480 actually moves your car. So in this case, that would 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:25.680 have definitely triggered. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:26.360 Uh. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.320 And if you have one of these cars that actually 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.080 has a system in it that records, and there are 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.520 several of them, just check out the settings, make sure 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.199 that it's actually recording, make sure that it actually works, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.720 make sure they're familiar with how it works. Because in 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.160 my case, it's all too late. There's nothing I can 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.160 do at this point except you know, I even went 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.800 to my neighbor who had cameras, and I got I 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.640 made friends with my neighbor, and you know, he checked 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.440 all of his cameras and couldn't find anything either. So 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.920 maybe it was a mysterious uh you know self, maybe 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:00.240 the car just like self imploded. I don't know. But again, 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.960 just just be aware of this stuff and don't cry 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:04.440 for me. It's not a big deal. The car will 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.640 be fixed, but it does ruin my perfect record of 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.240 I guess hitting runs. I don't know, does that go 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.720 on your record? First thing, I asked the guy at 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.360 the car place. I was like, Hey, does this make 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.360 my insurance go up? He's like, oh, it'll just go 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.200 up a little bit next time you get your renewal. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:20.920 But no, it doesn't really go up. I'm like, you 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.960 just said two different things, Like what all right? Coming 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.440 up on this show, We've got some great guests this week. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:30.640 We've got Sam Rutherford, senior writer for n Gadget. He's 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.920 gonna have his review of the pixel Fold smartphone. Then 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.040 we've got Roger Anderson. You might have seen him in 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.760 the news. He came up with an AI chatbot system 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.800 that just messes with telemarketers and robo callers. Then later 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.319 we've got Buttam Laskin, the co founder and CEO of Swimpley. 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.840 He's gonna explain how you can make money renting out 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.760 your backyard pool, which they've been doing for a while, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.800 but now also your backyard tennis court if you happen 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.000 to have one of those you're really fancy, or a 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.040 pickleball court. You're really on the cutting edge there. And 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.480 then later in the show, Jefferson Graham, friend of the show, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.160 is going to join to talk about how to take 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.160 photos of fireworks or should you even bother taking photos 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.319 of fireworks? But first, as always, it is your turn. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.680 Your call is coming up next at triple eight rich 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.640 one on one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.720 two four one zero one. Give me a call if 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.720 you have a question about technology. My name is Richdmuro 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:36.880 and you are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.920 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:45.439 you talking technology on this holiday weekend. You know you 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.080 can follow me on social media. I am at rich 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:52.800 on Tech on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. And if you 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.840 follow me on Instagram, you're wondering why haven't you posted 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.880 in a while? Well, I had something go viral, and 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.800 anytime something goes VI or you pick up a whole 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.319 bunch of new people that really don't know who you are. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.760 And so I've been like paralyzed with fear about posting 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.679 something new because I just imagine all those people are 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.840 just going to be like, wait, who's this? Let me 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.400 unfollow them. So I'm just kind of letting it percolate. 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.280 Let's go to Shana in Brea, California. You're on with Rich. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.560 Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.360 Thanks for calling. What's up? 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:30.800 You're welcome. So my mom had something happen this week 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.000 where she got text messages from her bank that she 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.520 banks with, but it was for charges that she didn't recognize, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:44.120 and it asked her to click on a link to 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.160 talk about what the charges were. And thank goodness that 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.800 she called her bank with the number that she knows, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:54.040 but she still was so tempted to click on those links. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.640 And I was trying to explain to her that you 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.280 can't do that, and she pretty much knows that. But 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.080 I know that because I get training at work. I 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.640 have to watch tutorials for five minutes. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.840 And they're so boring, but they are. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:10.120 Helpful, they are, and that's why I know about those things. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.720 And I find not to click on an email link, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.840 even if it's somebody that I know, if I'm not 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.760 expecting the email and it's got hey have you seen this? 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.320 And it's got a link for me to click. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.360 I know not to do that now, even though you're tempted, 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.520 I know people. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.440 That aren't in the workforce that don't get that training. 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:29.600 Is there somewhere that they can go to. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.520 Get that knowledge? 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:36.440 Great question, And I'm glad that your mom didn't click 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.560 on those links because and this is the thing they 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.720 you know, I get these texts my wife this morning, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.480 we're sitting down for breakfast, and she like shows me 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.720 her phone. She goes, oh, I just got a link. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.880 I need to confirm this delivery address for this shipment 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.440 that I didn't order. And so, you know, we had 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.680 a little laugh. But the reality is people do fall 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.480 for these They fall for them all the time. And 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:01.400 it's a great, great question about Yes, those of us 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.680 in the workforce, we are constantly being reminded if you 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.560 get an email from outside your organization, it's marked with 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.520 big red letters. This came from outside your organization. Do 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.600 not click on the links. Be cautious. And of course 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.280 we have to go through those training videos and those 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.400 little quizzes and things to make us more aware of 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.680 all this stuff. So here are two great resources I 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.920 think are perfect for anyone that's got a loved one 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.800 that they want to teach this stuff to the first 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:33.960 one is called scamspotter dot org. Scam spotter dot org 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.679 and this is almost like what you do at work, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.520 where it lets you go through you can watch some 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.520 videos about some of the scams that are actually happening 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.840 out there. You can learn more about those scams, and 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.920 then you can test your knowledge about these scams. And 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.960 this is brought to you by the Cybercrime Support Network 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.520 and also Google. They work together to create this and 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.800 it goes through all the different scams that are popular nowadays. 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.440 It tells you can you spot these things, you know, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.400 be skeptical of urgent pop ups, which I've talked to 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.160 people who get caught on those. Investigate the company on 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.480 usual payment methods. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:11.680 You know. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:15.439 This person emailed me or I think it was through Instagram. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.600 I forget what it was. But they're like, hey, Rich 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:19.600 I've got someone in the hospital. I need to get 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.440 them a gift card, but I can't make it to 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.280 the store and buy it myself. And I said, oh, 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.320 let me help you get that, just to mess with them, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.320 and they said, okay, great, can you go to the 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.360 store buy an Apple gift card and send me the number, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.120 and I said, no, no, no, you can easily do this yourself. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.760 And I sent them the link to the Apple website 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.880 where they can buy a gift card. They stop replying. Now, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.080 I don't recommend that you do that. In fact, my 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.200 wife said that she an eight hundred number or some 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.560 sort of number called her yesterday and she wanted to hear, 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.320 like was this person real? And so she pressed one. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.360 And so I never recommend that you interact with these 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.240 whether it's a text, whether it's a phone number, whether 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.960 it's an email. Do not interact, even though I'm telling 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.720 you I do it. I do it out of research 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.800 and out of helping you, and I want to see 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.880 where these things go so I can understand these scams better. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.360 But please do not interact with these things, because what 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.160 happens is imagine they're like we got a live one. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.360 They send to a bunch of phone numbers. If you 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.000 reply back to them, now they know they can really 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:17.760 target you. And it may not be with that scam, 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.360 it may be with others. So again, scamspotterer dot org. 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.280 And the second one is actually from the Better Business 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:29.120 Bureau BBB dot org. Slash scam tracker. And this is 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.760 really handy because you can not only report scams, but 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.080 you can also understand the scams that are out there. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.720 So you can look up a keyword. So right now, 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.320 some of the biggest scams going around are pet scams, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:47.200 pyramid schemes, consumer fraud lawyers, cash app scams, and tax fraud. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:51.480 And so you can literally type in a keyword usps 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.240 and see what other people are reporting about that scam. 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.960 Type in the word piano. I'm looking at all these 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.920 different things. Type in an app, blood work. I mean, 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.960 there's so many different scams. If you type in one keyword, 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.240 you can teach your loved ones that, hey, other people 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.520 are having these same exact texts come to them and 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:15.040 they are totally totally a scam. Great question, Shana, thanks 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.360 so much for calling in appreciate it. Phone number is 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.480 triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.760 four to two four to one zero one. A lot 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.760 of people asking about this apple my photo stream. I 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.560 will explain what you need to know about that a 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.480 little bit later in the show. We talked about it 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.920 on a previous show. But for sure, I know it's 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.040 kind of percolating in the news media again, so I 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.960 will explain what it means that Apple is shutting down 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.440 my photostream. But coming up next, we've got a great guest. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.560 We've got Sam Rutherford, senior writer for n Gadget. He 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.800 is going to have his review of the Pixel fold smartphone. 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.920 This is Pixel, this is Google's eighteen hundred dollars smartphone. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.480 It's a foldable and he says it's got some good 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.760 things going for it, but also need to know the bad. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:09.240 You're listening to Rich on Tech. Joining me now is 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.000 Sam Rutherford, senior writer at n Gadget. Sam, Welcome to 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:13.359 the show. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.960 Hey, good to be here. So let's talk about the 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:18.600 Google tax soel fold. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.320 There's a couple of foldable phones on the market, but 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.399 now Google is getting into it with this eighteen hundred 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:28.040 dollars phone. You have reviewed it, So what is your 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.800 first impression of this device? 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.800 Yeah, I mean, and you think right away when you 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.480 look at the competition. What Google did with the design 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.800 is really interesting because they have a wider exterior display, 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.480 which has a lot of impacts on how you use device. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.000 But most importantly, it just makes the exterior screen a 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.520 lot more usable when you compare it to something like 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.600 Samsung's Galaxy z Fold four the skinny. The skinny design 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.440 on Samsung's device feels really cramped, especially when you're trying 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.800 to type. But on the pixel Fold, it means you can, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.320 you know, all your apps behave normally, and you know, 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.520 you never feel like you need to open it up, 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.679 which is kind of an interesting juxtaposition for a foldable device, 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.399 but it allows you to you know, do more with 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.119 the outside screen, and then when you open it up, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.720 you feel like, hey, this is what I'm going to 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.480 use for you know, watching movies or multitasking and stuff 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:13.800 like that. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.480 So pixel Fold has a five point eight inch exterior screen, 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.720 when you open it up it has a seven point 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.800 six inch interior screen. Now, you set in your review 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.639 for nd Gadget that you have been using a foldable 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.320 device as your daily driver for three years. Now tell 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:30.840 me about that. 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.680 I mean, I was really interested in, like the whole 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:37.120 flexible screen technology, and so I jumped on with the Galaxy. 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.399 Z Fold two and I've been using their devices. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.520 For the last three years, partially because you know, I 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.080 like the technology, but they were also the only kind 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.120 of real game in town, especially outside of China, where 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.320 you know, our options are a little bit less or 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.120 more more limited when it comes to foldable devices. 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.479 Foldable devices are clearly going to be a thing because 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.800 we have upcoming foldables from one plus now Google has 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.720 one on. Samsung is of course going to launch their 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:07.160 new foldables at the end of July, and then people 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.439 are of course waiting for Apple to come out with theirs. 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.520 But what makes a foldable device so compelling to you? 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.840 For me, it's really all about adaptability. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.080 So you know, if I just want to do something quick, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.840 or you know, check an app or check a notification, 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.480 respond to a text, whatever, you have the outside screen. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.760 But when you want to watch a movie, everyone's talking about, Oh, 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.800 I always want to watch a movie or video on 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.639 the biggest display I can. So you open it up 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.760 and suddenly you have a significantly bigger screen. It just 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.760 makes everything better, you know, whether you're playing games, you're 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.359 watching videos, or you're trying to multitask, which is something 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.679 that like a lot of people don't necessarily think of 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.960 as possible on a standard device or a standard phone, 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.320 just because the screen is a little smaller, it's a 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.879 little more limited, and you don't really necessarily always have 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.320 the right controls to be able to manage multiple apps 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:57.000 at the same time. 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:02.080 When I was testing the Samsung Fold for I really 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.360 fell in love with the idea that this phone did everything. 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.360 But the funny thing was, I ended up doing everything 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.000 on my phone. So I was reading my kindle ebook 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.879 on there, I was watching movies on there, and it 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.359 just seemed like I was, you know, even though that 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.840 time might have been divided between a phone, a computer, 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.320 and a tablet, it felt like, oh my gosh, I'm 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.920 literally using this phone twenty four to seven now. Because 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:24.280 it's so flexible. 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.280 Yeah, because, like you kinda that's a group of good point, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.560 because you it combines so many devices into one. Like 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:32.919 you said, it's an e reader, it's a movie watcher. 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.840 You know. You have a little taskbar on both. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.960 The Samsung z Fold four and the Pixel Fold that 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.479 allows you to like, you know, do simultaneous multitasking. And 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.720 so to me, I love that simplification because I think 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.800 a lot of people nowadays they want less devices in 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:50.199 their life, less devices I have to. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.000 Worry about, they have to worry about keep charged. 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.560 And so if you can get rid of, you know, 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.800 a tablet and an e reader and you only have 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:58.920 to worry about your phone and maybe your laptop two. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:00.399 To me, that. 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.560 Simplification is just a great weight off my mind. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.400 So let's get back to the Google Pixel fold. So 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.920 the software is pretty much Google Pixel software. Anything notable 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.280 or different about the software that you liked in this phone. 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.199 Yeah, I mean the main thing is for definitely per 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:22.080 power users. You have that taskbar, and Google is doing 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.720 something a little bit different with the taskbar because instead 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.200 of having something in that does permanently there all the time, 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:29.760 there's a new gesture that you can use to sum 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:31.919 in the taskbar. It's a you know, short swipe up 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.479 from the bottom of the screen and from there, like 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:38.240 you can open your app into a multi window mode, 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.200 and then once you're done with that, the taskbar disappears. 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.000 So it appears when you need it and then it 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:44.840 gets out of the way when you don't. And it's 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.879 a really interesting approach to make multitasking a little bit 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.679 more easier but also less kind of in your face 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:51.320 all the time. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.080 And what about the optimizations of some of these apps 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.119 because Android has kind of been all over the place. 0:21:57.440 --> 0:21:59.840 You know, Apple, you've got the iPhone, you've got the iPad. 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.760 Developers are pretty pretty clear about what they do for 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.080 those devices, but Android it could be all over the place. 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.280 Did you find that apps were like that or were 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:09.920 they pretty much optimized? 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:10.639 No. 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:12.760 Absolutely, That's a big part of it, and I think 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:15.080 that actually speaks to part of the reason why Google 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:18.000 launched this phone in the first place, because you know, 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:20.640 with the introduction of the pixel Fold, Google was able 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:23.480 to get more than fifty first party apps optimize for 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.520 devices like the pixel fold that has a flexible to screen, 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:29.560 and that means you're talking about supporting things like adaptive 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:34.200 screen resolutions, but also more interesting UI and app layouts 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.240 that take advantage of the pixel folds design. So you know, say, 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:40.080 for things like YouTube, you can fold it in half 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:41.520 and rest it on the table and you'll get a 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.000 different UI that makes it you know, so, hey, you 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:45.800 want to sit down for lunch and watch a quick 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:47.640 video on your lunch, but you don't have the laptop 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:48.080 with you. 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:48.720 This is perfect. 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:50.239 You don't have to hold the device that sits up 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:52.760 on its own, and it's great for that. Unfortunately, the 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:54.719 problem with that is that it takes a little bit 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:57.160 of extra work on the developers part. You know, they 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:00.000 need to convince developers that like, hey, these optimations are 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.640 or optimizations are worth making, but also get enough devices 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.680 out in the real world that there are enough customers 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.960 demanding that developers like, hey, I love what your app 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:12.200 is doing, but hey, is there something else that we 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.399 can do to really take advantage of, you know, this 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:16.200 uncoming wave of foldable devices. 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:19.440 What about the camera on this device? I mean, clearly 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:22.200 pixels are known for having excellent cameras. Is that any 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:22.800 different here? 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:23.320 Actually? 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:25.639 That's one of like the really big achievements with the 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:29.960 pixel fold is that, from you know, my testing, I've 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:32.960 to me, it seems like the pixel fold de delivers 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.639 pretty much a very very close experience to what you 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:36.920 get on the Pixel seven Pro. 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:39.960 You still get a really great five x optical. 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:41.399 Zoom, which is longer than what you get on the 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.679 Samsung z Fold four. And then on top of that, 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:47.560 you get Google's you know, really good image processing and 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:51.360 night sight low light mode, and so you combine that 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:52.879 and it's like, you know, that was one of my 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:54.960 big gripes about the z Fold four is that it 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:57.639 feels like Samsung had to cut a little corners to get, 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:00.239 you know, a good camera, but not as good they 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:02.639 can get on, say like the Galaxy S twenty two Ultra, 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:05.920 And so you know, the pixel folds cameras doesn't feel 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:09.440 nearly as compromise, which is a really big achievement because 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:11.800 you know you're working with a completely different design, different 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.320 form factor, and it's really hard to fit, especially something 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:16.639 like a five be ex tel photo lens on a 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:17.600 foldable device. 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:20.720 You said one of your gripes was that it the 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:23.720 phone never fully opens. So yeah, is that like a 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:26.679 deal breaker or just something that Google work on for 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:27.399 the next one. 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:29.960 I think that, you know, that's one of those challenges 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:31.600 because you know, Google has a lot of things that 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:33.880 they need to solve. Because you know, the pixel fold 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:36.200 when you fold it, it folds completely flat, unlike this 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:39.680 evil four And that doesn't sound like a huge difference, 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:42.760 but in practice it makes such a big improvement over 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:45.479 general usability. It just feels a little bit more waldy, 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.320 doesn't feel as clunky in your hand, and you know 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:50.880 they were able to move the hinges around. That said, 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:52.960 you know you do have to have those tight hinges 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:55.240 because you know, who knows how many times you're going 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:57.119 to open and close this thing over years, and you 0:24:57.119 --> 0:24:59.760 know people are holding onto their phones longer, and so 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:01.119 at I think it's just one of those things that 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:03.119 you have to get used to. And it's sort of like, 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.240 you know, it is a flexible screen. It's made out 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:07.520 of plastic. You can't you know, it's a little bit 0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:10.800 more delicate than your standard glass phone, and so that 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:12.159 means you got to kind of take care of it. 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:14.480 You got to baby just a little bit more. But 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:16.280 you also have to deal with things like a crease 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:20.480 because you know, Google wasn't entirely able to eliminate the 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:23.400 crease on their flexible display. That said they were able 0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:25.800 to minimize it, and you know, from my perspective, I 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:27.600 don't really notice it at all. It's not you know, 0:25:27.640 --> 0:25:30.000 it's just like you know, the notch on an iPhone 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:34.080 or puntole selfie camera in that you know, after a while, 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:35.199 you just kind of get used to it and it 0:25:35.200 --> 0:25:36.920 doesn't even become distraction anymore. 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:37.439 All right. 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.200 So, knowing that we've got a new device from one 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:42.959 Plus coming up that's foldable, We've got several new from 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:46.679 Samsung that are foldable, what's your guidance on the pixel 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:49.760 fold This is an expensive phone. It's eighteen hundred dollars 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:51.360 and what's your guidance. 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:54.520 Yeah, I mean that that's really the crust of it, right, 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.960 is like, you know, I would love this phone to 0:25:57.000 --> 0:26:00.679 be in other foldable devices, to be warmer, widelyailable. But 0:26:00.840 --> 0:26:03.200 you know, we you have to acknowledge that we're still 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:05.480 in the very early stages of you know, the whole 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:09.240 flexible foldable phone trend, and so this is you know, 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:11.399 it's still really for early adopters. You know, this is 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:13.359 Google's first phone, and you know they've been able to 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:17.280 take bits and pieces from you know, previous rivals and competitors. 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:20.080 But yeah, that price is really. 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:21.800 A sticking point and I you know, it's something that 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:23.800 I really would like to see come down in the future. 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:26.360 And you know, I think you know, both like companies 0:26:26.359 --> 0:26:29.080 like Google, Samsung, they're very aware that like eighteen hundred 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:31.840 dollars is a lot to ask for a phone, and 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:34.120 so hopefully, you know, future generations, so we will bring 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:34.680 that price down. 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:37.600 Sam Rutherford, Senior writer at n Gadget. How can folks 0:26:37.840 --> 0:26:38.760 find you online? 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:41.400 Yeah, you can find me on Twitter at Sam Rutherford 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:43.800 and as always on engadget dot com. 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:46.119 You are listening to Rich on Tech more of the 0:26:46.119 --> 0:26:48.480 show coming up after this, plus your calls at Triple 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:51.040 eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:59.120 four two four one zero one back after this. Welcome 0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:02.040 back to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging out 0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:06.480 with you talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one. 0:27:06.640 --> 0:27:09.919 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four to 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:14.800 one zero one. Tanuga is in Pasadena, California. Am I 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:20.800 pronouncing that right? Tanuga at Tanusha Tanusia? Got it? Welcome 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:21.320 to the show. 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:24.680 Yeah, thank you. I love you on KTLA. And now 0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:26.639 that I know you have a podcast, you keep me 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:27.760 coming on my way to work. 0:27:27.960 --> 0:27:30.800 Oh, thank you, appreciate that. 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:32.439 Thanks. 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:33.960 I have a question for you. 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:34.479 Uh. 0:27:34.720 --> 0:27:38.760 Recently, I was at a Dodgers game and I, like usual, 0:27:38.920 --> 0:27:40.560 my sister and I put our stuff in the trunk, 0:27:40.680 --> 0:27:43.320 move everything into the clear bag, but we leave stuff 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:46.119 in the trunk. Came back to find that someone had 0:27:46.119 --> 0:27:49.320 gotten into my car, into the trunk, still my driver's license, 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:52.480 credit cards, all kinds of things. So when I talked 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:55.239 to LAPD, I said, you know, I'm not positive I 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:57.960 always lost my car, but maybe I didn't. They did 0:27:58.000 --> 0:28:01.719 say sometimes people have devices they can override cars and 0:28:01.760 --> 0:28:04.280 these locks and so I wanted to see if you 0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:06.359 had any advice or ideas of how to sort of 0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:07.680 prevent that as possible. 0:28:07.920 --> 0:28:11.440 Oh, sorry, that happened. It's like, that's the worst because 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:14.119 you did your due diligence of putting everything in the trunk. 0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:17.919 It was out of sight, so and we don't know 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:20.679 if a car was locked or not, which obviously, you 0:28:20.720 --> 0:28:22.639 know you probably did lock it because most of us 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:25.760 do that without thinking if you do that typically, But 0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:30.159 unfortunate that this happened, So sorry to hear that. There 0:28:30.200 --> 0:28:33.800 are several ways that people can get into cars. Obviously, 0:28:33.840 --> 0:28:36.760 people just check, you know, to see if cars are unlocked. 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:40.320 That's one of the simplest ways. The other thing is 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.600 this thing called a relay attack, which is what I 0:28:42.640 --> 0:28:47.560 think lapd was was talking about. And this is when 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:52.360 someone uses sort of a wireless relay system to capture 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:56.320 the code off of your key, your keyfob, and then 0:28:56.440 --> 0:28:59.080 relay that to the car at a different time. So 0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:00.800 your little key fob that you have in your pocket, 0:29:00.840 --> 0:29:03.440 it's always generating like a code that will unlock your car. 0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:06.520 And so there are systems out there that can capture 0:29:06.560 --> 0:29:10.400 that information and then use that and sort of pretend 0:29:11.000 --> 0:29:14.040 emulate that this device is your key and use it 0:29:14.080 --> 0:29:16.480 to unlock the car. Now, this has been going on 0:29:16.520 --> 0:29:20.000 for a long time. Obviously, manufacturers have ways of getting 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:23.440 around this. They use something called a rolling passcode, so 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:27.200 every couple of seconds the code changes on both ends 0:29:27.240 --> 0:29:29.800 to keep this from happening. But it can still happen, 0:29:30.000 --> 0:29:33.080 and obviously if someone is really targeting cars that this 0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:36.680 just works with, it can happen and it's definitely a thing. 0:29:37.560 --> 0:29:40.239 So couple things you can do. I think that the 0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:43.920 number one is to just be aware that this can happen. 0:29:43.960 --> 0:29:47.800 That's the awareness is number one. Number two, there are 0:29:48.680 --> 0:29:52.800 Faraday bags you can get for your your keyfob, which 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:54.840 you can put them in so that when you're not 0:29:54.960 --> 0:29:58.320 using the keyfob it is not emitting any sort of signal. 0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:01.200 And some of the keyfobs may have a switch on 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:03.840 them to turn off the sort of emitting that signal 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:06.480 twenty four to seven, so maybe only when you're actually 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:08.920 using it it emits it. And of course it depends 0:30:08.920 --> 0:30:12.840 on the car manufacturer too what they've done to mitigate this. 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:17.120 So there's a pretty famous issue with Hyundai's and kias 0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:23.280 they have a free software update for millions of their cars. Basically, 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:29.680 cars could start low ard a fake KEYFOP and so 0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:33.680 now there is a software update that's free to Kia 0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:37.640 and Hyundai owners that will update the alarm software on 0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:41.280 the car where the alarm will happen longer. And also 0:30:41.320 --> 0:30:43.760 it requires the key to be in the ignition for 0:30:43.840 --> 0:30:47.640 the switch to turn the car on. So that's that's 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:49.760 a little thing that they did in response to this 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:51.680 whole TikTok challenge. I don't know if you heard about 0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:55.640 that whole thing. But the two bags that you can 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:57.520 get two companies that I've talked about in the past. 0:30:57.600 --> 0:31:01.840 One is called Silent sln T formally Silent Pocket, and 0:31:01.880 --> 0:31:04.960 the other one is the off Grid Fold. This is 0:31:05.000 --> 0:31:08.080 like a little bag you can put your keyfob in 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:14.760 and it'll block all signals going to it, GPS, Wi Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, RFID. Now, look, 0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:17.800 at the end of the day, I'm sorry this happened 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:20.800 to you. I think that this is something that does 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:24.479 happen in the world, and it's unfortunate, but it is 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:27.840 definitely something that is tougher than it sounds like like. 0:31:27.880 --> 0:31:30.719 This is definitely more of a targeted sort of attack 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:34.920 where they have to get this information off your keyfob. 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:37.479 The other thing you can do if you have your 0:31:37.560 --> 0:31:41.000 keyfob in your house, some of the things I'm reading 0:31:41.320 --> 0:31:43.840 recommend that you don't keep it by your front door. 0:31:43.920 --> 0:31:46.280 Of course, we all keep our car keys by the 0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:49.080 front door, and that can definitely be an issue because 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:51.120 they could pick up the signal from the key and 0:31:51.160 --> 0:31:52.840 if your car's in the driveway, they may be able 0:31:52.880 --> 0:31:55.000 to relay that signal to the car in the driveway. 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:57.240 So those are just a couple of the ways that 0:31:57.280 --> 0:32:00.560 you might be able to mitigate this. Definitely on fortunate. 0:32:00.640 --> 0:32:03.479 It's definitely sad that people do this, but look, these 0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:06.400 are crimes of opportunity, and if you look on YouTube, 0:32:06.400 --> 0:32:09.160 you'll see all kinds of videos about this relay attack 0:32:09.720 --> 0:32:15.200 and the systems that these folks can use to do it. 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:17.480 It's not an easy thing to do, but it can 0:32:17.600 --> 0:32:20.400 be easy if you know what you're doing and if 0:32:20.440 --> 0:32:23.120 you have the right hardware. The one story that I watched, 0:32:23.120 --> 0:32:26.360 it looked pretty complicated to do this to pull this off, 0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:31.240 but again, people do it all the time. So Tanuja, 0:32:31.440 --> 0:32:34.360 I hope that helps you. I hope that helps you 0:32:34.400 --> 0:32:36.040 figure out what you need to do in the future. 0:32:36.080 --> 0:32:38.480 I would look first at your car and sort of 0:32:38.520 --> 0:32:40.840 look up on the internet what type of car you have, 0:32:40.920 --> 0:32:44.520 what type of system they have for theft, and see 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:47.160 if that is a known system that needs an update 0:32:47.360 --> 0:32:49.280 or has something that may be able to help you. 0:32:49.760 --> 0:32:52.000 That's probably the first place to start. If it's an 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:54.640 older car, it definitely is probably more susceptible to these 0:32:54.680 --> 0:32:57.360 sorts of attacks, but it may have a software update 0:32:57.360 --> 0:33:00.760 for the manufacturer, so definitely check into that. All right, 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:08.760 good question. Let's see here. Let's go to Steve. Steve 0:33:08.840 --> 0:33:11.280 is in Mariata, California. Steve, you're on with Rich. 0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:15.840 That's right, Rich. I'm thinking about a Pixel of seven 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:20.239 or eight right now, I have a Samsung. What are 0:33:20.280 --> 0:33:22.480 your comments on those two phones at seven or eight? 0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:26.160 Well, the Pixel eight hasn't come out yet, so it'd 0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:29.080 be tough to give my opinion on that phone. So 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:34.120 the Pixel eight is typically launched in October. So right 0:33:34.120 --> 0:33:38.440 now we're about halfway through the cycle with the with 0:33:38.480 --> 0:33:42.440 the pixels, the Pixel seven, the seven pro, the sixth 0:33:42.560 --> 0:33:47.520 A just came out. So my I guess question is, Steve, 0:33:47.840 --> 0:33:49.880 what do you need to do on this phone. Is 0:33:49.880 --> 0:33:52.600 there anything in particular you want to do on this device? 0:33:53.160 --> 0:33:56.200 You know, I already have I think two hundred thousand photos, 0:33:56.400 --> 0:34:02.080 so I'm using it mainly downloading documents, okay away from 0:34:02.120 --> 0:34:05.520 the computer, and you know, pretty mundane thing. 0:34:05.840 --> 0:34:09.640 Okay, so the basics. So you you know, you may 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:12.960 not even need What do you have right now? What 0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:17.919 do you have for oh wow? Oh gosh, Okay, Well, 0:34:17.960 --> 0:34:20.799 I think you'll you'll. I think, look, it depends what 0:34:20.840 --> 0:34:23.520 you want. I've tested the Pixel seven and the seven 0:34:24.160 --> 0:34:27.680 A sorry and this and the seven Pro. They are 0:34:27.760 --> 0:34:30.759 excellent devices. They have everything you need. I think you'll 0:34:30.800 --> 0:34:32.600 be very happy with them. I think it depends on 0:34:32.640 --> 0:34:34.680 the size of the phone you want. I think that 0:34:34.680 --> 0:34:37.120 the Pixel seven is a much easier phone to hold. 0:34:38.040 --> 0:34:39.759 The six A or the seven A is going to 0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:43.120 be a lot cheaper than the seven. It's not gonna 0:34:43.160 --> 0:34:46.439 be as it's not gonna be as full featured as 0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:48.239 that device. And then the Pixel A, if you want 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:50.960 to wait for it, is coming out in October. Obviously 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:53.400 that's gonna have some upgrades and some polish, But I 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:55.920 think I think you'd be very happy with the Pixel seven. 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:58.440 That's probably what i'd go with at this point, so 0:34:58.560 --> 0:35:00.640 good question. Of course, if you love those pictures, you're 0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:03.239 gonna get great photos off of the pixel, no matter what. 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:06.520 All right, coming up more of your calls at triple 0:35:06.520 --> 0:35:09.320 eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight, seven 0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:13.319 four to two, four to one zero one. Please rate 0:35:13.360 --> 0:35:15.879 and review this show on your favorite audio app and 0:35:16.200 --> 0:35:18.359 share with your friends that you listen. That's the best 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:20.319 way we're gonna grow here, all right. Our number one 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:22.840 in the can our number two of rich on Tech 0:35:23.360 --> 0:35:29.200 coming up right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:33.239 Rich Tomuro here hanging out with you, talking technology on 0:35:33.280 --> 0:35:37.680 this holiday weekend. Happy July fourth. Is it July fourth 0:35:37.760 --> 0:35:40.520 or fourth of July? I think there's like a there's 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:43.960 a difference. I think it's fourth of July. Oh, there's 0:35:43.960 --> 0:35:48.840 no difference, okay. Producer Adam says, no difference. Okay, Happy 0:35:48.840 --> 0:35:53.040 fourth of July or July fourth, whatever you prefer. Eighty 0:35:53.120 --> 0:35:55.680 eight rich one on one eight eight eight. Look at this, 0:35:55.719 --> 0:35:57.560 Look at all the fours in our phone numbers seven, 0:35:57.680 --> 0:36:01.440 four to two, four to one zero one. Grace is 0:36:01.440 --> 0:36:06.919 in Rancho, Cordova, California. Grace, you're on with Rich hi rich. 0:36:07.520 --> 0:36:12.560 So I keep getting emails from Gmail that your Gmail 0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:19.480 is out of storage despite the least oh no, so 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:22.440 asking me to buy storage? 0:36:22.960 --> 0:36:24.279 Will I lose all my. 0:36:24.320 --> 0:36:26.480 Emails if I don't buy the storage. 0:36:27.120 --> 0:36:29.920 Well, here's what's going to happen. What how much storage 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:33.440 do you have on there? The fifteen gigs? 0:36:34.000 --> 0:36:34.400 Fifteen? 0:36:34.560 --> 0:36:34.759 Yeah? 0:36:34.960 --> 0:36:35.520 Okay? 0:36:35.560 --> 0:36:37.399 Do you use Google Photos at all? 0:36:38.480 --> 0:36:38.680 Yes? 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:39.920 Do you use Google Drive? 0:36:41.280 --> 0:36:41.520 No? 0:36:41.920 --> 0:36:46.160 Okay? So it sounds like you are up against your 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:48.719 storage limit. And the way you can check to see 0:36:48.760 --> 0:36:51.799 what's going on is go to one dot Google dot com. 0:36:51.800 --> 0:36:53.200 Have you gone to that website? 0:36:54.000 --> 0:36:54.239 No? 0:36:54.400 --> 0:36:57.920 Okay, it's O n E, not the number O N 0:36:58.040 --> 0:37:02.000 E dot Google dot And this will give you a 0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:05.000 rundown of your storage and where it's being used. So, 0:37:05.080 --> 0:37:08.600 for instance, I actually have five terabytes of storage because 0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:11.440 I've got a lot of stuff on Google. So it 0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:13.560 tells me that one hundred and thirty one gigs is 0:37:13.600 --> 0:37:16.920 being used in Google Drive, thirty three gigs in Gmail, 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:21.000 which is just absolutely ludicrous because how are Gmail? How 0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:23.920 are emails taking up thirty three gigabytes of storage? Like 0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:30.000 that's wild? Google Photos two and a half terabytes. Then 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:33.359 I've got some family storage situations going on at two 0:37:33.480 --> 0:37:36.920 hundred gigabytes. So here's what you need to do. You 0:37:37.040 --> 0:37:41.320 need to go through your storage and figure out what's 0:37:41.360 --> 0:37:43.520 taking up all of this storage. If it's stuff that 0:37:43.560 --> 0:37:46.600 you can get rid of, then dump it. If it's 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:49.280 stuff you can't, then you're going to have to pay 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:52.839 for more storage to get to continue using this. Now, 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:54.759 your Gmail is not going to stop working. You're just 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:57.280 gonna not be able to receive or send messages because 0:37:57.360 --> 0:38:00.560 it's gonna say sorry, storage full. There may be a 0:38:00.560 --> 0:38:03.360 tiny little grace period in there, but the reality is 0:38:03.400 --> 0:38:05.919 you're not gonna be able to upload Google Photos. You're 0:38:05.960 --> 0:38:07.560 just not gonna be able to do a lot of things. 0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:10.640 Storage starts at two bucks a month, I believe. For 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:13.839 I think two hundred gigabytes, which would be more than 0:38:13.960 --> 0:38:16.719 enough for you at this point. But that's what you 0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:20.879 need to do. So there are various ways to free 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:23.920 up account storage when you go to that area of 0:38:24.000 --> 0:38:27.240 one dot Google dot com. And so if I'm looking 0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:30.360 at my ways to do it, I've got items in 0:38:30.400 --> 0:38:34.360 trash on trash or spam in Gmail. So I've got 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:38.239 one hundred and eighty one megabytes in trash one megabyte 0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:40.680 in spam, and then I've got five hundred and seventy 0:38:40.719 --> 0:38:44.200 megabytes of files and trash on drive. I can get 0:38:44.280 --> 0:38:49.760 rid of all those, free up almost less than a gigabyte. 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:55.960 Then we've got large items, three hundred gigabytes of large items, 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:58.640 and I'm looking at emails with large attachments and I 0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:00.680 can already tell I can review and get rid of 0:39:00.680 --> 0:39:03.239 a bunch of these. Then I've got large files, and 0:39:03.280 --> 0:39:06.840 I've got large photos and videos. So again you just 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:09.280 have to go through the storage manager on that Google 0:39:10.000 --> 0:39:14.120 one area and clean up some of these files that 0:39:14.160 --> 0:39:16.200 you may not need, that may be too big, that 0:39:16.280 --> 0:39:18.200 are just you know, you just don't need them anymore, 0:39:18.360 --> 0:39:20.839 or they're in the trash. Get rid of those. See 0:39:20.840 --> 0:39:23.520 if that frees up enough space to keep you going 0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:26.480 for a while. But it sounds like grace. Eventually, if 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:29.080 you're going to continue using these products, you're going to 0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:31.759 have to pay up. And this all goes into my 0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:36.480 theme for the tech world in twenty twenty three, and 0:39:36.520 --> 0:39:40.400 that is the free ride is over. We have gotten 0:39:40.600 --> 0:39:43.799 so used to all of these services that just want 0:39:43.840 --> 0:39:46.319 to give us their services for free, and for many 0:39:46.440 --> 0:39:49.440 years it was great. It was a free ride, and 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:52.640 now the free ride is over. The layoffs have happened. 0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:57.520 In the tech world, the VC funding is tightened up. 0:39:58.160 --> 0:40:00.759 People want to actually make money. It's not just this 0:40:00.880 --> 0:40:02.799 free flowing thing where like, let's just get a whole 0:40:02.840 --> 0:40:05.320 bunch of customers and hopefully the money comes later. No, 0:40:05.719 --> 0:40:07.960 we've got to we've got to make some money now. 0:40:08.200 --> 0:40:10.640 And Google, you know, they've got a lot of folks 0:40:10.719 --> 0:40:13.520 using Gmail, They've got a lot of folks using Google Photos. 0:40:13.960 --> 0:40:16.239 They want to make money on those products too. But 0:40:16.320 --> 0:40:19.319 I do think they're pretty good about giving people the 0:40:19.320 --> 0:40:22.200 fifteen gigs of free storage. If you look at Apple, 0:40:22.239 --> 0:40:24.439 they only give you five. And that's been happening since 0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:27.200 like day one. So really, if you're using an iPhone, 0:40:27.239 --> 0:40:30.840 you're probably paying for iCloud storage immediately right off the bat. 0:40:31.400 --> 0:40:36.279 Great question, Grace. Let's talk about Apple for a second. Here, 0:40:36.360 --> 0:40:41.000 my photostream this is percolating in the news once again. 0:40:41.160 --> 0:40:43.360 We talked about a couple weeks ago. But Apple is 0:40:43.400 --> 0:40:47.920 shutting down this my photostream feature, so it already it 0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:52.080 already stopped uploading pictures as of June twenty sixth, and 0:40:52.120 --> 0:40:54.759 now on July twenty six they're just going to eradicate 0:40:54.840 --> 0:40:58.239 the feature fully. So everyone's whoa, whoa, whoa all these 0:40:58.280 --> 0:41:00.799 headlines online. Let me just let me type this in 0:41:01.360 --> 0:41:06.520 photo Apple shutting down. Okay, let me just let me 0:41:06.560 --> 0:41:10.320 just look at the photo the headlines here. Okay, Apple's 0:41:10.360 --> 0:41:13.880 my photostream shutting down. Here's what to do. Let me 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:16.400 actually take out photostream because a lot of these headlines. 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:22.440 Well okay, anyway, my point is these headlines are scary. 0:41:22.520 --> 0:41:25.520 But the reality is, I would say ninety nine percent 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:27.719 of people are not using this feature, nor have they 0:41:27.800 --> 0:41:31.120 used this feature in like five years. So if you're 0:41:31.200 --> 0:41:33.560 using the feature, you probably know about it. And so 0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:36.400 here's what you need to do. Bottom line. Look at 0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:40.440 your iPhone, go into your photos app, go into your 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:44.359 albums and look for an album called my Photostream. If 0:41:44.360 --> 0:41:46.640 you do not have that album, you do not need 0:41:46.680 --> 0:41:49.600 to worry about this. Go on your Mac computer, open 0:41:49.680 --> 0:41:52.600 up photos, look for my photostream. Go on your iPad, 0:41:52.719 --> 0:41:55.680 open up your photos app, look for my photostream. If 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:59.120 you don't see that album on your devices, you don't 0:41:59.120 --> 0:42:01.759 need to worry about it. Stop thinking about this. If 0:42:01.800 --> 0:42:03.920 you do see that album, then you need to do 0:42:04.000 --> 0:42:07.520 one of two things. If you're using iCloud, chances are 0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:10.279 those pictures are already backed up to iCloud because they 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:12.839 were taken on one of these devices and they backed 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:17.600 up to iCloud. If you're not using iCloud, then what 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:20.560 you want to do is go into my photostream, click 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:24.920 that album, look in there, see what photos are in there, 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:27.120 and then if there's any photos that you want to save, 0:42:27.520 --> 0:42:30.439 just tap the photo and then tap the share icon 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:33.920 and it says save image. Save that image to your 0:42:34.160 --> 0:42:37.319 regular camera role, and then it will back up. However 0:42:37.400 --> 0:42:39.600 you back up your photos, whether that's iCloud, whether that's 0:42:39.640 --> 0:42:43.080 Google Photos, whether that's Amazon Photos, it's all the same. 0:42:43.239 --> 0:42:46.840 It will go in there. You could select several photos 0:42:46.880 --> 0:42:50.319 at once and do the same thing. So if there's 0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:52.439 every photo you want to save to your camera role, 0:42:52.600 --> 0:42:55.520 just go ahead and hit the select up in the 0:42:55.560 --> 0:42:58.080 upper right hand corner. You can select a whole bunch 0:42:58.120 --> 0:43:00.480 of photos at once and then just press save and 0:43:00.520 --> 0:43:02.520 you should be good to go there. It's one of 0:43:02.560 --> 0:43:04.960 these things where, yeah, it makes a it makes for 0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:08.320 a sexy headline because it's scary when Apple changes anything, 0:43:09.040 --> 0:43:11.640 but the reality is most people do not need to 0:43:11.680 --> 0:43:13.799 worry about that, but at least you know what's going on. 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:14.520 Uh. 0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:16.759 If you want to see that information once again, you 0:43:16.760 --> 0:43:19.080 can go to my Instagram. It is at rich on 0:43:19.200 --> 0:43:23.000 Tech and I pinned this information, so it's the first 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:25.920 thing you'll see on my Instagram and it's an Instagram 0:43:25.960 --> 0:43:28.840 reel that says will be shut down on July twenty sixth. 0:43:29.120 --> 0:43:33.640 Tap that reel, listen to what I say, read, understand, 0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:35.759 and then share that to your stories so that your 0:43:35.760 --> 0:43:38.239 friends who are asking you about this and freaking out, 0:43:38.360 --> 0:43:41.160 can you know since you're listening to rich on Tech, 0:43:41.239 --> 0:43:43.359 you know what's going on. Now you can share that 0:43:43.600 --> 0:43:48.200 wealth of knowledge with your friends. Niantic, the company behind 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:51.640 Pokemon Go, it's been it's been a rough run for 0:43:51.680 --> 0:43:54.960 this company because Pokemon Go is such a great success. 0:43:55.120 --> 0:43:57.719 It's like, how do you follow that up? Right? It's 0:43:57.719 --> 0:43:59.480 like a It's like an amazing artist that has like 0:43:59.480 --> 0:44:02.680 a one hit. They're under so much pressure to come 0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:05.359 up with something that's amazing, and I feel like that's 0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:08.680 been Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go, for so long now. 0:44:09.000 --> 0:44:11.600 They had this amazing thing, Pokemon Go. Nobody had ever 0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:14.600 seen anything like it before, and now they've been struggling 0:44:14.680 --> 0:44:17.040 to come up with something just as amazing ever since 0:44:17.440 --> 0:44:20.399 they tried a Harry Potter game and didn't really work out. 0:44:20.760 --> 0:44:24.280 They've got this new new game called Paradot, which is okay, 0:44:24.600 --> 0:44:27.640 but again it hasn't seen the buzz like Pokemon Go. 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:31.279 With all that in mind, they are closing their Los 0:44:31.320 --> 0:44:34.160 Angeles studio. They're laying off two hundred and thirty people, 0:44:34.560 --> 0:44:37.680 and they're basically saying, look, our expenses were growing faster 0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:38.840 than the money we're making. 0:44:39.280 --> 0:44:39.440 Now. 0:44:39.440 --> 0:44:41.600 We saw a lot of people playing these games during 0:44:41.600 --> 0:44:43.799 COVID nineteen. Of course, people are at home. They had 0:44:43.800 --> 0:44:46.120 nothing to do except walk around their neighborhoods. Now that 0:44:46.160 --> 0:44:48.000 people are out and about, it's a little bit tougher. 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:51.080 So what is going to happen to Pokemon Go. It's 0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:53.960 going to keep happening. It's going to keep going. But 0:44:54.080 --> 0:44:55.879 Niantic is going to slow down on some of their 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:58.799 third party games that they're creating. I think there's one 0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:01.640 for the NBA or something. They're not going to really 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:04.160 invest in those anymore. They're going to invest in their 0:45:04.200 --> 0:45:07.480 first party games. So if you're playing Pokemon Go, you 0:45:07.520 --> 0:45:10.279 see these headlines about Niantic. It's not going anywhere. But 0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:13.440 I think what Pokemon Go is they're saying, Look, we 0:45:13.440 --> 0:45:16.760 were onto something a long time ago, these augmented reality games, 0:45:17.200 --> 0:45:20.040 and now that we see technology like Apple coming out 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:24.600 with their Vision Pro headset, these games are going to 0:45:24.680 --> 0:45:26.480 be good in the future. People are going to want 0:45:26.480 --> 0:45:28.480 to play these games. In fact, Pokemon Go may have 0:45:28.560 --> 0:45:31.719 a whole new life inside the Apple headset, but it's 0:45:31.719 --> 0:45:34.040 going to be a while. So they've got to kind 0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:36.960 of get back to the basics, narrow down some of 0:45:37.000 --> 0:45:41.480 those expenses, and you know, get ready for what the 0:45:41.520 --> 0:45:44.120 future is, which is ar but it's just not here 0:45:44.239 --> 0:45:47.840 just yet in a big way with these goggles. So anyway, 0:45:48.000 --> 0:45:51.000 I figured i'd tell you about that because Pokemon Go 0:45:51.080 --> 0:45:53.960 is so popular. Coming up, we're going to talk to 0:45:54.160 --> 0:45:58.640 a guy who created an AI chatbot system for messing 0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:03.160 with telemarketers and robo callers. I can't condone this behavior, 0:46:03.239 --> 0:46:05.720 but it certainly is fun to talk about. You're listening 0:46:05.760 --> 0:46:08.399 to rich on Tech triple eight rich one oh one 0:46:08.520 --> 0:46:10.680 eight eight eight seven four to two four to one 0:46:10.960 --> 0:46:12.360 zero one. If you want to get a hold of me. 0:46:17.239 --> 0:46:22.080 Nobody likes getting spam calls. Robocalls and uh, one person 0:46:22.160 --> 0:46:27.240 decided to do something about it. This company, Jolly Roger, 0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:31.600 uses AI technology to troll telemarketers and waste their time. 0:46:32.239 --> 0:46:35.440 They generate different characters that distract the telemarketers and keep 0:46:35.440 --> 0:46:39.359 them on the line as long as possible. The goal is, 0:46:39.880 --> 0:46:41.759 I guess the theory is that if they're on the 0:46:41.800 --> 0:46:45.560 line with this this AI chatbot, they can't be calling 0:46:45.560 --> 0:46:49.680 someone else. Roger Anderson is joining me. Roger, you came 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:50.680 up with this technology? 0:46:51.600 --> 0:46:52.719 Yes, Rich, how are you? 0:46:52.960 --> 0:46:56.360 I'm doing fantastic. Thanks for joining me. So it sounds 0:46:56.400 --> 0:46:58.000 like you did this a while back, but it just 0:46:58.040 --> 0:47:01.759 bubbled up in the New World. Was there like an 0:47:01.840 --> 0:47:04.200 article or something that featured you. Is that what happened? 0:47:05.680 --> 0:47:05.919 Yes? 0:47:06.040 --> 0:47:09.720 The Wall Street Journal reached out to me and asked 0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:13.280 if I was doing anything with chat GPT in relation 0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:16.160 to this, which was quite timely because I have been 0:47:16.239 --> 0:47:19.640 looking into it. So, yes, I plugged the Jolly Roger 0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:24.200 telephone service, these these chatbots. I basically plugged them into 0:47:24.280 --> 0:47:27.200 chat GPT, and it kind of opened up a whole 0:47:27.239 --> 0:47:31.600 new layer and possibility and level of entertainment as these 0:47:31.680 --> 0:47:35.960 chatbots now talk to telemarketers and scammers on the phone. 0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:38.799 So Jolly Roger is the company, and explain how it works. 0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:40.640 So I sign up for this, How much does it cost? 0:47:40.680 --> 0:47:42.680 And then what do I do? Do I forward my calls? 0:47:42.760 --> 0:47:43.520 Or how does it work? 0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:48.080 Well, it's it's two dollars per month per line, so 0:47:48.360 --> 0:47:54.440 less than twenty four dollars per year, and you basically 0:47:54.640 --> 0:47:58.319 just forward your phone, forward your unanswered calls to us 0:47:58.360 --> 0:48:00.520 and will either answer with regular voice if you know 0:48:00.600 --> 0:48:03.040 who they are, or or will treat them kindly if 0:48:03.080 --> 0:48:05.600 we don't know who they are, but if they're scammers, 0:48:05.640 --> 0:48:08.080 if you tell us this numbers as a scam, or 0:48:08.120 --> 0:48:10.880 if we we use some third party tools to determine 0:48:10.920 --> 0:48:14.160 if the calls are are unwanted or not, and then 0:48:14.160 --> 0:48:16.280 we'll pick up with robots. And the robots are kind, 0:48:16.320 --> 0:48:20.280 they're patient, they're polite, but they will never divulge personal 0:48:20.360 --> 0:48:24.160 information or financial information. But they sound gullible, so it's 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:28.160 just the right mix of gullible, funny, realistic, and the 0:48:28.200 --> 0:48:31.120 telemarketers will will chat with them for as long as 0:48:31.120 --> 0:48:34.120 they're willing and and your phone is clear, you can 0:48:34.200 --> 0:48:36.200 keep making and receiving calls, or just go about your 0:48:36.280 --> 0:48:38.759 day and our robots will chat with your scammers while 0:48:38.800 --> 0:48:40.799 you while you do whatever you want to do. 0:48:41.000 --> 0:48:44.040 I'm looking at some of the names. Whitey Whitebeard is 0:48:44.040 --> 0:48:46.120 a bumbling senior citizen, Is that right? 0:48:46.680 --> 0:48:48.520 That's right, another one of our favorites. 0:48:48.600 --> 0:48:48.839 Yeah. 0:48:48.960 --> 0:48:53.960 Another one is a salty sally, an easily distracted mother. Adam, 0:48:54.000 --> 0:48:57.279 do we have a clip that that we got sent 0:48:57.800 --> 0:48:59.640 about these things? Let's let's hear the clip. 0:49:00.200 --> 0:49:03.840 You're listening to Rich on Tech with Rich DeMuro. Follow 0:49:03.960 --> 0:49:07.839 Rich for tech News, how to videos, gadget reviews and 0:49:07.960 --> 0:49:09.400 useful tips and tricks. 0:49:11.239 --> 0:49:14.080 Well, there we go. You're doing a promo for you. 0:49:14.160 --> 0:49:15.760 That's our Whitey white Beard. 0:49:15.840 --> 0:49:17.759 Oh, that's Whitey white Beard. Okay, so that's why do 0:49:17.760 --> 0:49:19.280 you have Do you have another one? We have another 0:49:19.280 --> 0:49:21.160 clip too, so we're gonna we're gonna play that one 0:49:21.160 --> 0:49:23.680 to Roger Hangem. This is at white Beard. 0:49:23.719 --> 0:49:27.280 I am a robot from the Jolly Roger Telephone Company. 0:49:28.400 --> 0:49:31.520 He actually sounds pretty realistic, Like I'm quite impressed. So 0:49:31.520 --> 0:49:34.000 how are you using chat GBT? How is the AI 0:49:34.440 --> 0:49:35.600 mixed into this whole world? 0:49:36.760 --> 0:49:39.239 Well, it's so we've got a phone system and then 0:49:39.320 --> 0:49:42.920 behind the scenes there's just a giant Rude Goldberg machine 0:49:43.239 --> 0:49:46.960 of of you know, a bunch of tasks that are 0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:50.279 frantically feeding the next thing that Whitey Whitebeard should say. 0:49:50.640 --> 0:49:53.440 So it's using voice cloning technology from a company that 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:55.760 sound called play dot ht, which. 0:49:55.560 --> 0:49:56.360 Is very good. 0:49:57.239 --> 0:50:01.280 Just a short clip of Whitey white Beard. The voice 0:50:01.320 --> 0:50:03.640 talent behind that is actually a friend of the family, 0:50:03.760 --> 0:50:06.400 is the father of Steve Burts and our co founder. 0:50:06.480 --> 0:50:09.960 So Sid is a farmer in Vermont, dairy farmer and 0:50:10.040 --> 0:50:12.879 Vermont and recorded some stuff for us years ago, and 0:50:12.920 --> 0:50:15.120 we just fed some of those old recordings into played 0:50:15.160 --> 0:50:18.359 dot ht. They clone the voice and now we can 0:50:18.360 --> 0:50:21.959 have Whitey say whatever chat GPT wants wants to say. 0:50:22.000 --> 0:50:25.080 So we've kind of given chat GPT a voice by 0:50:25.160 --> 0:50:27.080 using voice cloning technology. 0:50:27.719 --> 0:50:30.239 Do you think this is mean to the telemarketers, to 0:50:30.280 --> 0:50:33.600 the scam artists, the scam callers. 0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:36.320 Well, I don't think that because the robots, again, they're friendly. 0:50:36.360 --> 0:50:39.520 The robots are friendly. And sometimes we have telemarketers who 0:50:39.520 --> 0:50:41.800 are just bored out of their minds and they're somewhat 0:50:41.800 --> 0:50:45.399 delighted to get a laugh when talking because they don't 0:50:45.400 --> 0:50:47.239 really know if it's you know, in some cases they 0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:50.600 don't know what's going on. I think it's mean to 0:50:50.640 --> 0:50:53.160 the industry. Our goal is to is to really fight 0:50:53.200 --> 0:50:59.399 the industry of unsolicited telemarketing robocalling. There's certainly a lot 0:50:59.440 --> 0:51:02.000 of scam and a lot of fraud taking place. So 0:51:02.320 --> 0:51:05.920 our goal really is to entertain you, protect the network, 0:51:06.600 --> 0:51:11.719 and really fight these telemarketers and prevent prevent them from scamming. 0:51:11.880 --> 0:51:14.240 You know, the vulnerable out there, such as the elderly 0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:18.720 or or anyone else that might be susceptible to be scams. 0:51:18.800 --> 0:51:21.600 So really we're just we're it's sort of a whimsical service, 0:51:21.640 --> 0:51:24.680 but a serious mission, and that is to fight telemarketing. 0:51:25.000 --> 0:51:29.720 All right, Roger Anderson of Jolly Roger Telephone dot com, 0:51:29.760 --> 0:51:32.120 thanks so much for joining me today. I appreciate the information. 0:51:32.840 --> 0:51:33.480 Thank you, Rich. 0:51:33.880 --> 0:51:37.200 All Right, keep those robocallers busy so they're not calling me, 0:51:37.480 --> 0:51:40.680 as we've all gotten those calls. All right. Coming up 0:51:40.719 --> 0:51:42.719 a little bit later, we're going to talk about the 0:51:42.760 --> 0:51:46.759 startup that can help you rent out your backyards. If 0:51:46.760 --> 0:51:50.359 you have a backyard pool, you've got a backyard tennis court. 0:51:50.400 --> 0:51:51.879 I mean, if you're doing that, maybe you don't need 0:51:51.920 --> 0:51:55.200 the extra cash, but backyard pickleball court. Or you can 0:51:55.200 --> 0:51:57.680 also use this website to rent one of these things. 0:51:57.680 --> 0:52:00.280 So we'll talk to them a little bit later. First, 0:52:00.320 --> 0:52:03.239 more of your calls at triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:52:03.640 --> 0:52:07.080 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:52:07.360 --> 0:52:12.000 zero one. This is rich on Tech, your friendly tech show. 0:52:12.120 --> 0:52:14.960 And No, I am not AI. No, I'm not a robot. 0:52:15.000 --> 0:52:17.719 This is a real voice. I swear. How do I 0:52:17.760 --> 0:52:20.160 prove this? I don't know if there is a way 0:52:20.200 --> 0:52:22.239 to prove it anymore. You're listening to rich on Tech. 0:52:22.280 --> 0:52:31.000 I guess because I make mistakes. Jay is in Guardina, California. Jay, 0:52:31.080 --> 0:52:32.960 you're on with Rich Welcome to the show. 0:52:33.800 --> 0:52:38.400 Our age. Thank you for your great program. I have 0:52:38.480 --> 0:52:42.560 a question about this iMac that I have. It's about 0:52:42.600 --> 0:52:47.120 twelve years old, very good processor. I hardly used it. 0:52:48.080 --> 0:52:50.680 I wanted to be able to reset it to a 0:52:50.920 --> 0:52:56.440 point that I can only open the Internet to my banking, 0:52:56.560 --> 0:53:02.440 pay my bills, nothing else. That's a question about Apple. 0:53:03.440 --> 0:53:06.719 My other question is what happened to Maya Space. What 0:53:06.960 --> 0:53:11.520 was the difference between my space and Facebook that just 0:53:11.640 --> 0:53:15.040 become a region dollar company and the other one disappeared? 0:53:16.400 --> 0:53:16.759 Thank you? 0:53:17.000 --> 0:53:17.280 Wow. 0:53:17.360 --> 0:53:19.080 Well the second question I think I need a whole 0:53:19.160 --> 0:53:21.640 radio hour to answer because that's a little in depth, 0:53:21.719 --> 0:53:25.680 but I'll attempt to do it. Jay. My Space was 0:53:26.000 --> 0:53:28.920 simply before its time. It was the first of its kind, 0:53:29.080 --> 0:53:31.239 and of course when you have the first of its kind, 0:53:31.920 --> 0:53:35.880 it is emulated and people see the weaknesses in that 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:39.120 platform and they figure out what they can do better. 0:53:39.560 --> 0:53:43.919 And I think, quite simply, Facebook came along and did 0:53:44.000 --> 0:53:46.200 things better than my Space. There was a lot of 0:53:48.160 --> 0:53:51.760 like Facebook did the feed, and my Space didn't really 0:53:51.800 --> 0:53:55.080 have a feed, and I think that's what made Facebook 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:58.480 take off in such a big way, is that you 0:53:58.560 --> 0:54:01.400 saw what your friends were doing versus going to their pages. 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:04.880 My Space was sort of like a glorified personal website 0:54:05.600 --> 0:54:07.920 that lets you see how you were connected to your friends. 0:54:07.920 --> 0:54:10.320 And by the way, that was the best feature ever 0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:15.200 about MySpace was it gave you how you were linked 0:54:15.239 --> 0:54:17.640 up to someone, because you could look up anyone on 0:54:17.800 --> 0:54:21.480 that platform and it would show you exactly how you 0:54:21.719 --> 0:54:24.000 were linked to them. It would say, your friend Jan 0:54:24.560 --> 0:54:27.600 knows Jim, and Jim knows Bob, and that's how you 0:54:27.680 --> 0:54:31.239 know Frank. Wow, that's amazing and I've always wanted that 0:54:31.280 --> 0:54:35.200 feature on Facebook. The degrees of separation, let's call it, 0:54:35.280 --> 0:54:40.000 and it just never never came. So that's to answer 0:54:40.040 --> 0:54:42.240 your question. And I don't know if that's the full answer. 0:54:42.320 --> 0:54:44.520 I'm sure there's people that could write a documentary about 0:54:44.520 --> 0:54:48.960 how Facebook took over my Space. But with that said, 0:54:49.560 --> 0:54:52.520 and I think that all major platforms are always at 0:54:52.640 --> 0:54:56.080 risk of It's almost like the Roman Empire, right, you 0:54:56.120 --> 0:54:58.439 have this thing, you built it up, and there's some 0:54:58.520 --> 0:55:03.000 sort of a achilles heel that someone else figures out 0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:05.880 and they take over. And so we've seen the major 0:55:05.920 --> 0:55:08.279 platforms at this point kind of keep their rain for 0:55:08.360 --> 0:55:12.319 a while, the YouTube's of the world, the Instagrams of 0:55:12.320 --> 0:55:14.600 the world. But when you look at something like TikTok 0:55:14.640 --> 0:55:18.200 that came along, it rocketed to the top very quickly. 0:55:18.760 --> 0:55:22.360 And who would have thought vertical video on an app 0:55:22.640 --> 0:55:25.759 would take over the mind space and mind share of 0:55:25.800 --> 0:55:30.960 all these other apps so quickly, and then the government 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:32.319 tries to take it down. But anyway, that's a whole 0:55:32.320 --> 0:55:35.040 another talk for another day. But let's talk about your 0:55:35.040 --> 0:55:39.000 first question, how to make this mac wow? You have 0:55:39.000 --> 0:55:43.520 a twelve year old iMac. iMac twelve years old, that's 0:55:43.520 --> 0:55:46.480 a that's doing the math that's yeah, that's a long 0:55:46.520 --> 0:55:49.960 time ago. So I was gonna say, the new Macs 0:55:50.000 --> 0:55:51.879 have a way, and you want to kind of clear 0:55:51.920 --> 0:55:53.680 this thing out to get it nice and fresh and 0:55:53.760 --> 0:55:55.960 clean and just just surf the web on it and 0:55:56.239 --> 0:55:58.360 do your banking on it. And that's that's understandable. You 0:55:58.360 --> 0:56:01.040 want to get rid of all the crud. So the 0:56:01.120 --> 0:56:04.200 new Max actually have and all new computers, the Windows 0:56:04.200 --> 0:56:06.919 computers and the Mac computers have a very easy way 0:56:06.960 --> 0:56:10.640 to reset to factory settings, just very similar to the 0:56:10.640 --> 0:56:13.120 way the cell phones have it. In your settings. You 0:56:13.160 --> 0:56:17.120 can go back to eraseol factory reset and it just 0:56:17.160 --> 0:56:20.200 brings it back to that factory finish and the way 0:56:20.239 --> 0:56:23.919 it was set up. There's nothing there except the out 0:56:23.920 --> 0:56:26.600 of the box software. So the Max have that feature. 0:56:26.719 --> 0:56:29.759 The new Max do, and also the new Windows computers do, 0:56:30.560 --> 0:56:33.040 but the old Max do not. Now they have it, 0:56:33.080 --> 0:56:35.399 but it's a little bit more. You got to look 0:56:35.400 --> 0:56:38.279 for it. So what you have to do, and you 0:56:38.320 --> 0:56:42.359 may not have this, but you have to reinstall the 0:56:42.520 --> 0:56:45.880 entire operating system from scratch. So what you have to 0:56:45.880 --> 0:56:48.040 do is you have to start up your computer into 0:56:48.200 --> 0:56:52.200 what's called mac os recovery mode and the max are 0:56:52.239 --> 0:56:54.600 a little unique. The way you do this. You turn 0:56:54.600 --> 0:56:59.000 on your Mac and you immediately press and hold. When 0:56:59.040 --> 0:57:01.879 you see the app, press and hold command plus R, 0:57:02.480 --> 0:57:05.399 and when you see an Apple logo, then you can 0:57:05.640 --> 0:57:10.160 let go of those So command R, turn on the computer, 0:57:10.360 --> 0:57:12.960 hold down command R, and just hold that down until 0:57:13.000 --> 0:57:15.319 you see your Apple logo. Once you do that, you 0:57:15.400 --> 0:57:19.520 unlock this magic disc utility. And when you're inside disc utility, 0:57:19.960 --> 0:57:23.360 you can then use that to erase your entire disc. 0:57:23.480 --> 0:57:27.280 And then once you erase it, you can reinstall your software. 0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:31.840 And now this is where it gets tricky. You may 0:57:31.880 --> 0:57:34.760 have that software available on the computer and maybe on 0:57:34.840 --> 0:57:38.040 like a partition. I know it's getting very complicated, but 0:57:38.160 --> 0:57:40.959 you may have to use the original disc that came 0:57:41.000 --> 0:57:43.040 with your computer. So if you still have that in 0:57:43.080 --> 0:57:46.640 the box, that'll help. That's all very complicated, and I 0:57:46.800 --> 0:57:49.560 don't think that's something the average person wants to tackle. 0:57:49.760 --> 0:57:49.920 Now. 0:57:49.920 --> 0:57:52.600 I've done this in the past on computers. It's a 0:57:52.640 --> 0:57:56.240 pretty straightforward system. I used to. I actually still do 0:57:57.200 --> 0:58:00.440 wipe my computers once a year to get them back 0:58:00.480 --> 0:58:02.880 to whenever I do a new install of the latest 0:58:02.880 --> 0:58:06.120 software update, like if it's you know, the new Mac 0:58:06.200 --> 0:58:09.680 operating system. I will factory refresh my computer just to 0:58:09.720 --> 0:58:12.000 get all the little things off of there and then 0:58:12.080 --> 0:58:15.360 start fresh again. I don't recommend you do that, but 0:58:15.520 --> 0:58:17.280 I like to do it. I'm a nerd and I 0:58:17.400 --> 0:58:19.920 like to start fresh because I test a lot of stuff, 0:58:19.960 --> 0:58:21.520 you know, So it's like all these little programs that 0:58:21.560 --> 0:58:24.640 are all just lingering on there anyway. So I tell 0:58:24.640 --> 0:58:27.400 you all that because it's probably not something that's very 0:58:27.440 --> 0:58:29.680 simple to do, but it is doable, and it is 0:58:29.840 --> 0:58:33.040 Once you do it, it's done. And you can find 0:58:33.080 --> 0:58:35.919 the instructions on the Apple support website. You can find 0:58:35.960 --> 0:58:38.240 YouTube videos. But just make sure you sort of like 0:58:38.280 --> 0:58:40.920 print everything out before you tackle this, or you have 0:58:40.960 --> 0:58:44.120 a second screen nearby that you can use to follow 0:58:44.160 --> 0:58:47.400 these instructions, because there will be something that happens that 0:58:47.440 --> 0:58:50.480 you will not expect and then you will be scrambling 0:58:50.520 --> 0:58:52.400 to try to figure out how to recover from that. 0:58:52.480 --> 0:58:54.760 Believe me, it has happened to me, and I'm like, 0:58:54.800 --> 0:58:57.560 wait a second, this took way longer than I expected 0:58:57.560 --> 0:59:00.640 it to take. The other thing you could do, and 0:59:01.640 --> 0:59:03.520 I've talked about this a lot, is you can just 0:59:03.520 --> 0:59:06.120 turn it into a Chromebook, and you can use what 0:59:06.440 --> 0:59:10.120 Google has for free software. It's called Chrome os Flex 0:59:10.800 --> 0:59:13.480 and you can install that on your old iMac And 0:59:13.520 --> 0:59:15.720 what that does is it just turns it into a 0:59:15.800 --> 0:59:18.680 basically a Chromebook and you'll just have Chrome on there. 0:59:18.960 --> 0:59:21.800 You'll be able to, you know, do basic things that 0:59:21.840 --> 0:59:25.240 you could do on a chromebook, surf the web, just 0:59:25.400 --> 0:59:27.720 whatever whatever you could do on a basic Chromebook you 0:59:27.720 --> 0:59:30.320 could do on there. And that would probably be a 0:59:30.400 --> 0:59:32.200 nice way of using it. You said, the processor is 0:59:32.240 --> 0:59:36.200 pretty good, but that'll run really fast and speedy, and yes, 0:59:36.200 --> 0:59:37.560 you'll be able to do your banking on there. So 0:59:38.440 --> 0:59:43.800 great question, Jay, thanks for the question. I've told you this, 0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:49.640 and I told you how this Tesla charging standard continues 0:59:49.680 --> 0:59:53.880 to just become the charging standard and another company has 0:59:53.920 --> 0:59:57.840 now signed on, so Electrify America. If you have an 0:59:57.880 --> 1:00:00.600 EV you've probably heard of this company. They make charging 1:00:00.680 --> 1:00:03.840 stations around the US. They've got eight hundred and fifty 1:00:03.880 --> 1:00:07.520 charging stations, four thousand individual chargers in the US and Canada. 1:00:08.160 --> 1:00:11.000 And they said, you know what, Okay, fine, we're in. 1:00:11.120 --> 1:00:14.760 We're gonna start building these Tesla chargers into our charging stations. 1:00:15.360 --> 1:00:17.760 So by twenty twenty five, they will add what's called 1:00:17.800 --> 1:00:22.560 the North American Charging Standard connector to its charging network. Now, 1:00:22.560 --> 1:00:25.480 they're not going to drop support for the other charging standards, 1:00:25.480 --> 1:00:29.280 which is the cs CCS one. They're just going to 1:00:29.360 --> 1:00:31.640 add this new connector. So when you get up to 1:00:31.680 --> 1:00:35.320 their charger, you're gonna have the option to charge via 1:00:35.360 --> 1:00:39.040 the Tesla charger or via the standard chargers that have 1:00:39.120 --> 1:00:41.800 been on the other evs for a while now. So 1:00:41.840 --> 1:00:44.760 again Electrify America. By twenty twenty five, they will start 1:00:44.800 --> 1:00:50.280 adding these things to their network. So the reality is 1:00:50.480 --> 1:00:53.320 Tesla came out with their own charging system, and now 1:00:53.400 --> 1:00:56.880 other companies have adopted this charging system. The first out 1:00:56.880 --> 1:00:59.120 of the gate was GM. They said, okay, fine, we're 1:00:59.120 --> 1:01:02.440 switching over to TESTS. Then Ford said, okay, we'll do 1:01:02.480 --> 1:01:07.200 the same, Volvo okay, we'll do the same, Rivian Okay, 1:01:07.200 --> 1:01:09.400 we'll do the same. Who does that leave two of 1:01:09.400 --> 1:01:15.360 the biggest car companies out there, Hondata I just mixed Honda, Honda, 1:01:15.640 --> 1:01:20.280 and Hyundai. So you got Hyundai, You've got Honda, You've 1:01:20.280 --> 1:01:23.280 got Toyota. Out of those three companies, only Hyundai has 1:01:23.360 --> 1:01:29.520 really shown interest in EVS. Toyota and Honda still have 1:01:29.680 --> 1:01:33.080 yet to have a mainstream ev car, and so we're 1:01:33.120 --> 1:01:35.080 still waiting for them to come out with even an 1:01:35.120 --> 1:01:38.040 ev car. In general, they still think hybrid is the 1:01:38.080 --> 1:01:43.640 way to go, So Electrify America jumping on board. And 1:01:44.160 --> 1:01:49.320 before we go, finally to break YouTube limiting video views 1:01:49.400 --> 1:01:50.920 if you have an ad blocker. So, if you have 1:01:50.920 --> 1:01:53.200 an ad blocker on your computer and you're trying to 1:01:53.320 --> 1:01:56.920 use YouTube and getting around those ads, guess what. YouTube 1:01:56.960 --> 1:01:59.000 is doing an experiment where they are only letting you 1:01:59.040 --> 1:02:03.080 watch three video before they show you a message that says, 1:02:03.080 --> 1:02:06.960 you know what, buddy, enough your ad blocker, stop blocking us, 1:02:07.080 --> 1:02:10.200 or else you can't watch any more videos. And so 1:02:10.280 --> 1:02:13.080 you'll get to watch three with your ad blocker before 1:02:13.120 --> 1:02:16.720 you have to allow YouTube to show you ads. It 1:02:16.800 --> 1:02:19.640 also suggests that you subscribe to YouTube Premium, which is 1:02:19.640 --> 1:02:22.280 what I do. It's very expensive, but then you don't 1:02:22.280 --> 1:02:24.200 have to deal with any of the ad situation on 1:02:24.240 --> 1:02:28.760 YouTube in general. But again, if you're wondering what's happening 1:02:29.280 --> 1:02:33.040 with this whole YouTube situation when you have an ad blocker, yeah, 1:02:33.200 --> 1:02:36.640 it's it's by design. Google's saying enough of you getting 1:02:36.640 --> 1:02:40.360 around our revenue source here, stop blocking our ads, so 1:02:40.400 --> 1:02:43.680 you'll get three videos before they give you that warning 1:02:43.800 --> 1:02:47.200 that you got to pay up or disable your ad blocker. 1:02:48.120 --> 1:02:50.000 All right, more rich on Tech coming up after this. 1:02:50.160 --> 1:02:52.560 The phone number to call in triple eight Rich one 1:02:52.560 --> 1:02:56.000 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 1:02:56.120 --> 1:02:59.880 four one zero one. Coming up next, we're going to 1:03:00.000 --> 1:03:02.080 tell you about a website that lets you rent out 1:03:02.120 --> 1:03:05.600 your backyard and make some money doing it. It's the 1:03:05.680 --> 1:03:13.000 Airbnb of swimming pools and more. Coming up. Welcome back 1:03:13.000 --> 1:03:16.160 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:03:16.360 --> 1:03:20.080 talking technology, and you know, the gig economy is a 1:03:20.120 --> 1:03:23.080 big part of our world. It started with Uber, it 1:03:23.200 --> 1:03:25.800 continued with door dash, and now people are renting out 1:03:25.840 --> 1:03:29.480 all kinds of things, including their cars and their backyard. 1:03:30.200 --> 1:03:32.920 Swimply is a startup that lets you rent out your 1:03:32.960 --> 1:03:36.600 backyard pool. They've been doing that for years now. They're 1:03:36.640 --> 1:03:41.840 expanding into backyard pickleball and tennis courts. Recently I chatted 1:03:41.880 --> 1:03:45.760 with swimpley co founder and CEO Buham Laskin about how 1:03:45.760 --> 1:03:49.200 people are renting out their backyards to make some extra cash. 1:03:49.640 --> 1:03:51.880 Somebody's an app where if you have a beautiful ribbit pool, 1:03:51.880 --> 1:03:53.240 they spend a lot of money on it, you barely 1:03:53.320 --> 1:03:55.280 use that. You get to actually earn a passive income 1:03:55.360 --> 1:03:57.080 by sharing it with local families and friends in the 1:03:57.120 --> 1:03:59.640 area that are just looking to get together and celebrate privately. 1:04:00.040 --> 1:04:01.440 And if you don't have a pool, you could actually 1:04:01.480 --> 1:04:04.080 go on the app and find different private pools. Different 1:04:04.080 --> 1:04:05.720 you can put in filters so how many people you are, 1:04:05.720 --> 1:04:07.440 whether you want to bring your pet, whether you want 1:04:07.480 --> 1:04:09.280 to be child friendly or event friendly, and then you 1:04:09.280 --> 1:04:12.040 can just preserve it by the hour. Since twenty nineteen, 1:04:12.080 --> 1:04:14.000 we've hosted over a million people and over one hundred 1:04:14.000 --> 1:04:16.320 and twenty five cities and now we're we're available also 1:04:16.320 --> 1:04:17.000 in Australia and. 1:04:16.960 --> 1:04:21.480 Canada, and so it's been quite successful. People like this idea. 1:04:21.720 --> 1:04:22.360 Yes, we've been. 1:04:22.280 --> 1:04:25.160 Going every year obviously, people love swimming, people love spending 1:04:25.200 --> 1:04:27.560 time together, and as the pandemic is eased, that is 1:04:27.600 --> 1:04:29.040 only accelerated. 1:04:29.280 --> 1:04:32.160 What gave you the idea to expand to pickleball and tennis? 1:04:32.840 --> 1:04:35.640 From the beginning, we've been about democratizing luxury and finding 1:04:35.640 --> 1:04:37.560 creative ways of bringing people together in ways they could 1:04:37.600 --> 1:04:40.200 only have dreamed of. And with the rise of pickleball 1:04:40.280 --> 1:04:43.080 growing so fast, and the people not being able to 1:04:43.080 --> 1:04:46.200 build courts fast enough for people, for people to even 1:04:46.280 --> 1:04:48.240 find one to play in. It was something that we 1:04:48.240 --> 1:04:50.560 felt like it's our mission to provide, and so we've 1:04:50.560 --> 1:04:53.720 taken the formula we created with pools and we simply 1:04:54.360 --> 1:04:55.720 brought it to the pickleball community. 1:04:55.960 --> 1:04:57.560 And what do you know about pickleball? And we all 1:04:57.600 --> 1:05:00.600 know tennis, but pickleball is like this kind of people 1:05:00.600 --> 1:05:01.680 are discovering it. 1:05:01.840 --> 1:05:02.000 Well. 1:05:02.000 --> 1:05:03.959 The reason why we love pickleball so much is because, 1:05:04.080 --> 1:05:07.160 like pools, people from all ages love it. Right. A 1:05:07.200 --> 1:05:11.960 pool is friendly for kids, parents, senior citizens, and pickaballs 1:05:12.320 --> 1:05:14.720 has the same origins where it actually started in senior 1:05:14.720 --> 1:05:17.280 citizen community and has trickled this way downwards and now 1:05:17.280 --> 1:05:20.400 everybody's playing pickaball. Everyone gets together and it's something that's 1:05:20.400 --> 1:05:22.080 healthy and gets people outside and puts. 1:05:21.840 --> 1:05:22.520 Their phone away. 1:05:22.760 --> 1:05:24.920 So that's enough for what we needed to know for 1:05:25.000 --> 1:05:26.240 us to be proud to be able to bring that 1:05:26.240 --> 1:05:26.680 to some point. 1:05:27.200 --> 1:05:29.360 Obviously, whenever you do a story like this, there's always 1:05:29.400 --> 1:05:31.360 that idea of strangers coming to your house or you 1:05:31.480 --> 1:05:34.640 as a stranger going to someone else's house. Do you 1:05:34.680 --> 1:05:36.720 have any problems with this everything work out most of 1:05:36.760 --> 1:05:37.120 the time. 1:05:37.760 --> 1:05:41.280 So I launched swimply because my mother had her twelfth 1:05:41.400 --> 1:05:43.160 child and we need a way to get out of 1:05:43.160 --> 1:05:45.760 the house, and so we paid my neighbor to let 1:05:45.840 --> 1:05:48.360 us use her pool without needing to bother her. And 1:05:48.440 --> 1:05:50.480 so safety has always been a priority from day one, 1:05:50.640 --> 1:05:53.960 and as we've grown, it's become more and more the 1:05:54.040 --> 1:05:56.880 epicenter of how we operate. And so with pickleball, we're 1:05:56.880 --> 1:06:00.000 applying pool level safety standards to pickleball. We verified but 1:06:00.080 --> 1:06:03.280 sids in the marketplaces reviews. Most of our owners are home, 1:06:03.280 --> 1:06:06.200 but you don't have to be home. We've hosted over 1:06:06.240 --> 1:06:07.680 a million people with no incidents today. 1:06:07.840 --> 1:06:10.120 How much money are people making doing the pool thing 1:06:10.160 --> 1:06:11.480 and how much can they make. 1:06:11.400 --> 1:06:13.200 Host them so big an expect to earn anywhere between 1:06:13.200 --> 1:06:15.800 fifteen hundred and three thousand dollars a month passively. Some 1:06:15.880 --> 1:06:18.000 of our owners actually get so passionate about their business 1:06:18.040 --> 1:06:20.080 that they've earned the six figures on the platform. Today, 1:06:20.320 --> 1:06:22.520 owners are in full control. They can set up all 1:06:22.520 --> 1:06:24.240 the rules. There are charge of their own pricing, how 1:06:24.240 --> 1:06:26.080 many guests they allow, how experience they need to be, 1:06:26.080 --> 1:06:29.600 how many adults versus kids, ratio so we give the 1:06:29.600 --> 1:06:32.400 full control to the owners to operate their business however 1:06:32.440 --> 1:06:35.800 they want to, and guests gearable to see previous reviews 1:06:36.120 --> 1:06:38.520 from other players in the area, the families that have 1:06:38.640 --> 1:06:41.120 enjoyed the experience, and for even more peace of mind, 1:06:41.160 --> 1:06:44.200 simply offers up to two million dollars per reservation and 1:06:44.240 --> 1:06:45.520 protection and free of charge. 1:06:45.720 --> 1:06:48.600 I then spoke with bell Air resident Aubrey Stark. She 1:06:48.680 --> 1:06:51.400 rents out her home for film shoots. Now she's renting 1:06:51.400 --> 1:06:53.960 out her backyard pickleball court through Swimply. 1:06:54.200 --> 1:06:55.040 This court, I. 1:06:55.000 --> 1:06:59.200 Think is pretty unique because it has the Thrive sound 1:06:59.200 --> 1:07:01.440 speakers which are top of the line. We have a 1:07:01.480 --> 1:07:05.120 seating area that can fit twelve people, mini fridge, We 1:07:05.240 --> 1:07:09.120 have a pickleball machine which you can use, fire pit 1:07:09.280 --> 1:07:13.240 with included propane. And then we have a couple add 1:07:13.280 --> 1:07:16.640 ons like our sauna area we called our zen Zone, 1:07:16.640 --> 1:07:19.920 but it includes a sauna and a cold plunge. It's incredible. 1:07:20.080 --> 1:07:23.440 I actually have made that into a full on business myself. 1:07:24.680 --> 1:07:27.480 I am renting out the house, the property, the court 1:07:28.160 --> 1:07:31.000 usually like three times a week now, so it's become 1:07:31.200 --> 1:07:33.960 a major avenue of revenue for us. 1:07:34.280 --> 1:07:36.640 And what do you think about the people that come here, like, 1:07:36.720 --> 1:07:39.160 are they pretty nice for the most part? 1:07:39.240 --> 1:07:43.200 Yeah, everyone's pretty nice. We have a couple bad apples 1:07:43.240 --> 1:07:45.520 here and there, but for the most part, everyone's amazing 1:07:45.560 --> 1:07:47.000 and really respectful of the property. 1:07:47.240 --> 1:07:48.920 What do you think makes pickleball fun? 1:07:49.120 --> 1:07:52.160 It's great because it's really competitive. I think just about 1:07:52.160 --> 1:07:54.440 anyone can pick it up and learn it pretty quickly. 1:07:55.640 --> 1:07:57.320 But if you play one on one then it's actually 1:07:57.360 --> 1:07:59.720 a workout as well, so it kind of encapsulates all 1:07:59.720 --> 1:08:00.680 three of those things. 1:08:01.120 --> 1:08:03.040 And what is a court like this rent for? What 1:08:03.120 --> 1:08:04.840 do you what do you put this on swimply for? 1:08:06.040 --> 1:08:08.600 I believe our court is currently I mean there's a 1:08:08.680 --> 1:08:10.360 range depending on a number of people in number of 1:08:10.360 --> 1:08:13.000 hours that I think we're currently around eight or ninety 1:08:13.120 --> 1:08:16.760 bucks an hour with maybe a two hour minimum. 1:08:16.800 --> 1:08:17.680 Are people renting it? 1:08:18.040 --> 1:08:21.160 Yeah, people are renting it. And they just launched this 1:08:21.439 --> 1:08:24.599 platform on Swimplea, so it's very very new, but we've 1:08:24.640 --> 1:08:26.759 had consistent rentals just about every week. 1:08:27.320 --> 1:08:28.920 And do you think swimpley is gonna have to change 1:08:28.920 --> 1:08:30.719 their name now that they're doing all these other things 1:08:30.960 --> 1:08:31.880 sides swimming pools. 1:08:31.880 --> 1:08:35.080 It's a really good question. I don't know I guess 1:08:35.120 --> 1:08:38.320 it depends on how much press they do. Potentially. I 1:08:38.320 --> 1:08:40.400 think pick a Ball is a major I mean, it's 1:08:40.400 --> 1:08:42.960 the fastest screen sport in America right now, So it 1:08:43.000 --> 1:08:44.920 wouldn't surprise me if there had to be a little 1:08:44.920 --> 1:08:46.479 bit of rebranding around the name. 1:08:47.800 --> 1:08:49.800 And what do you think of you know, like, what's 1:08:49.840 --> 1:08:52.000 your advice to other people that may have an asset 1:08:52.040 --> 1:08:54.639 at their home that they can rent out, whether it's anything, 1:08:54.680 --> 1:08:56.200 I mean it's strangers coming to your house. 1:08:56.280 --> 1:08:59.320 Yeah, it's always a little bit of trepidation there, absolutely. 1:09:00.320 --> 1:09:02.639 I think you just have to design around what you're 1:09:02.680 --> 1:09:06.479 comfortable with. I was candidly, very nervous about it in 1:09:06.520 --> 1:09:10.000 the beginning, but I do a good amount of research 1:09:10.040 --> 1:09:11.320 and make sure to get to know the person. I 1:09:11.360 --> 1:09:13.320 always do the check ins myself, make sure I feel 1:09:13.320 --> 1:09:15.920 comfortable with a person, and for the most part, we've 1:09:15.960 --> 1:09:19.519 had really great experiences. I would say that definitely keep 1:09:19.560 --> 1:09:21.160 someone on site at all times. 1:09:22.560 --> 1:09:25.960 All right, there you have it, swimply renting out your 1:09:26.120 --> 1:09:30.519 backyard pool. I ran that idea by my in laws 1:09:30.600 --> 1:09:31.960 and I said, you know, you can make a couple 1:09:32.040 --> 1:09:34.080 thousand bucks a month, and they were like, no way. 1:09:34.920 --> 1:09:39.920 So your mileage may vary. If you want information on 1:09:40.280 --> 1:09:42.800 swimply how to rent out your pool, your tennis court, 1:09:42.960 --> 1:09:45.120 your pickleball court, or if you want to rent one 1:09:45.120 --> 1:09:47.519 of these things, you can go to my website. It's 1:09:47.680 --> 1:09:51.200 rich on Tech dot tv. Look for rich on Tech 1:09:51.320 --> 1:09:54.559 Radio show and then look for the show notes and 1:09:54.640 --> 1:09:59.200 I will have the link in there. Swimple dot com 1:09:59.320 --> 1:10:01.840 is the place to go. By the way, did you 1:10:01.840 --> 1:10:03.560 know you can listen to this show as a podcast. 1:10:03.840 --> 1:10:06.559 Be sure to subscribe so you never missed an episode 1:10:07.120 --> 1:10:11.160 just searching your favorite audio app. Rich on Tech. All right, 1:10:11.240 --> 1:10:14.000 coming up, we've got much more of the show. Many 1:10:14.080 --> 1:10:17.840 the phone lines are still still filled up. Eighty eight 1:10:17.920 --> 1:10:20.040 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two, 1:10:20.160 --> 1:10:23.599 four to one zero one, rich on Tech. Back after this. 1:10:30.200 --> 1:10:33.439 Welcome back to rich on Tech, kicking off our number 1:10:33.680 --> 1:10:37.240 three of the show. Thanks for joining me at triple 1:10:37.280 --> 1:10:40.559 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 1:10:40.600 --> 1:10:44.240 to two four one zero one. Coming up in this hour, 1:10:45.200 --> 1:10:47.600 we've got friend of the show Jefferson Graham. He's going 1:10:47.640 --> 1:10:50.320 to talk about how to take photos of fireworks? Should 1:10:50.360 --> 1:10:54.439 we even bother? I'll ask him that question. Also, he's 1:10:54.479 --> 1:10:58.360 got a hot tip for travel that is a little 1:10:58.720 --> 1:11:01.600 low tech, so I'll ask him about that as he 1:11:01.640 --> 1:11:05.439 embarks on a thirty day road trip. Then we've got 1:11:05.479 --> 1:11:08.280 this app that I think you should download. It's a 1:11:08.320 --> 1:11:12.000 life saving tool. Tell you about that and the new 1:11:12.120 --> 1:11:16.360 password manager that also protects your email. But first let's 1:11:16.400 --> 1:11:19.800 kick it off with Mark in Lomita, California. Mark, you're 1:11:19.840 --> 1:11:20.400 on with Rich. 1:11:20.880 --> 1:11:23.559 Hey, Rich, thank you for what you do here. 1:11:24.080 --> 1:11:25.400 Thanks for saying that. 1:11:25.520 --> 1:11:28.640 My question, Yeah, my question is I'm going to Switzerland 1:11:28.680 --> 1:11:33.960 next week and I've heard about an e simcard, but 1:11:34.000 --> 1:11:35.479 I don't know anything about it. 1:11:35.680 --> 1:11:37.880 What do you recommend I want. 1:11:37.760 --> 1:11:39.400 To when I'm obile in Switzerland? 1:11:39.439 --> 1:11:42.439 I want to post on What's app Facebook and maybe 1:11:42.479 --> 1:11:43.799 call back a couple of times. 1:11:44.040 --> 1:11:47.599 Okay. And who's your carrier for your phone? Okay? 1:11:47.720 --> 1:11:49.599 I have an S twenty one Verizon. 1:11:50.080 --> 1:11:54.400 Okay, so you're on Verizon? Yeah, okay. And have you 1:11:54.640 --> 1:11:57.760 checked to see if you get any free days on 1:11:57.800 --> 1:11:59.120 your international travel? 1:12:00.200 --> 1:12:00.320 No? 1:12:00.400 --> 1:12:00.960 I have none? 1:12:00.960 --> 1:12:03.479 Okay, So first thing you got to do call Verizon 1:12:04.040 --> 1:12:07.840 and say do I have any travel past days? And 1:12:07.920 --> 1:12:11.080 so that's number one. So for instance, on my account, 1:12:11.600 --> 1:12:14.360 I've got four travel past days which means I can 1:12:14.520 --> 1:12:18.040 roam for free for four days. Usually that's ten dollars 1:12:18.120 --> 1:12:20.559 a day, and I will get that for free. So 1:12:20.720 --> 1:12:22.360 that's the first thing you want to do is see 1:12:22.400 --> 1:12:24.479 if you have anything available on your account, and it 1:12:24.479 --> 1:12:26.920 depends on your plan, how long you've been with them, 1:12:27.400 --> 1:12:29.920 all that good stuff. But if you use your phone, 1:12:30.280 --> 1:12:32.680 just you know, standard you turn on your phone and 1:12:32.720 --> 1:12:34.559 open it up in a different country, like they're going 1:12:34.600 --> 1:12:37.960 to say, okay, welcome to Switzerland. You're now paying ten 1:12:38.000 --> 1:12:40.599 dollars a day for your your global pass and that'll 1:12:40.600 --> 1:12:43.080 only give you I think it's half a gig of 1:12:43.200 --> 1:12:45.160 data a day, which might be enough just to get 1:12:45.160 --> 1:12:47.720 through what you need. But that's ten dollars a day, 1:12:47.760 --> 1:12:50.080 so that can that can add up quickly. But if 1:12:50.120 --> 1:12:52.720 you're only there for you know, three four days, if 1:12:52.720 --> 1:12:55.040 you don't mind paying the extra forty bucks, it's very 1:12:55.200 --> 1:12:57.639 very simple. You don't really have to change anything at all. 1:12:58.680 --> 1:13:01.839 That's number one. Now you're talking about is an eSIM. 1:13:02.320 --> 1:13:05.280 So an eSIM is built into the new phones. You've 1:13:05.320 --> 1:13:09.040 said you have a S twenty one YEAP and have 1:13:09.120 --> 1:13:11.040 you confirmed that that does have SIM? 1:13:12.280 --> 1:13:13.040 No, I don't know. 1:13:13.439 --> 1:13:17.320 Okay, Okay, so I'm going to look this up and 1:13:17.400 --> 1:13:21.040 see if it has an eSIM. Let's see the S 1:13:21.080 --> 1:13:24.720 twenty one does have SIM support. Okay, so you're good there. 1:13:25.240 --> 1:13:28.680 The newer iPhones, I think it was iPhone thirteen and up. 1:13:28.760 --> 1:13:31.000 Don't quote me on that, but I they came out 1:13:31.000 --> 1:13:34.559 with them and kind of standardized this technology which is 1:13:34.600 --> 1:13:37.280 in most of the new phones. But what eSIM is, 1:13:37.360 --> 1:13:41.240 instead of a physical SIM card, you can activate a 1:13:41.280 --> 1:13:44.760 SIM card through your phone, so you don't need to 1:13:44.840 --> 1:13:48.080 do anything except just download, download an app, sign up 1:13:48.080 --> 1:13:50.080 for the app, and it'll say, okay, let's activate a 1:13:50.120 --> 1:13:53.160 phone line. And so what you do is you can 1:13:53.439 --> 1:13:56.880 either turn off your other SIM, your standard SIM which 1:13:56.920 --> 1:13:59.160 is your Verizon, and that way you don't get charged 1:13:59.240 --> 1:14:02.639 or anything. Or better yet, you can just turn off 1:14:02.680 --> 1:14:06.200 the data portion and turn on Wi Fi calling and 1:14:06.280 --> 1:14:09.120 you'll be able to use your phone if you have 1:14:09.240 --> 1:14:11.799 Wi Fi, and you'll be able to make and receive calls, 1:14:11.840 --> 1:14:15.040 send your text, all that good stuff. So that's kind 1:14:15.080 --> 1:14:18.240 of the options now with the eSIM. There are two 1:14:18.320 --> 1:14:22.040 ways I recommend doing the eSIM route. One company is 1:14:22.120 --> 1:14:26.320 called US Mobile, and you download the app and you 1:14:26.400 --> 1:14:30.000 sign up for a plan that is pretty inexpensive. So 1:14:30.160 --> 1:14:34.080 for instance, you're going to Europe, this is twenty dollars, 1:14:34.080 --> 1:14:37.240 will give you ten gigabytes of data for thirty days. 1:14:37.840 --> 1:14:40.559 So for twenty bucks you can roam all around Europe 1:14:40.560 --> 1:14:43.760 for thirty days and get ten gigabytes of data, which 1:14:43.840 --> 1:14:45.960 is more. I think that'll be more than enough for you. 1:14:46.880 --> 1:14:50.519 So that's very very simple. The other app I like 1:14:50.800 --> 1:14:56.120 is called er low air Alo. Now their ten gigabyte 1:14:56.160 --> 1:15:01.120 plan just for Switzerland is going to cost twenty four dollars, 1:15:01.760 --> 1:15:04.400 and so again you buy that through the app and 1:15:04.400 --> 1:15:06.719 then it leads you through the step by step directions 1:15:06.760 --> 1:15:09.439 on how to install that on your Samsung phone. I've 1:15:09.479 --> 1:15:12.639 done this a dozen times. It's very very simple. I've 1:15:12.640 --> 1:15:14.920 only had one problem with it when I was in 1:15:15.000 --> 1:15:18.719 Japan on an Android phone. It worked fine on my iPhone, 1:15:18.720 --> 1:15:20.880 but it would not work on my Android for some reason. 1:15:21.600 --> 1:15:23.839 But I've not had that same problem in other places. 1:15:23.880 --> 1:15:26.320 That was just a specific problem I seem to have. 1:15:26.960 --> 1:15:31.000 Otherwise it works pretty well. But again, Mark, that's what 1:15:31.040 --> 1:15:34.280 I'd recommend. Call Verizon first, see if you have any 1:15:34.360 --> 1:15:37.760 travel past days, see how many days you have use 1:15:37.840 --> 1:15:41.839 that first. If you want to just have the simplest process, 1:15:42.520 --> 1:15:44.400 or if you don't mind paying. Let's say let's say 1:15:44.400 --> 1:15:46.679 you have three travel past days, you're going for a week, 1:15:47.200 --> 1:15:49.320 and then you don't mind paying the ten dollars every 1:15:49.360 --> 1:15:51.719 additional day you're only there, you know, three extra days. 1:15:51.720 --> 1:15:54.400 That would be thirty dollars total to use your phone 1:15:54.439 --> 1:15:58.439 as you use it in America. Otherwise, I would look 1:15:58.439 --> 1:16:02.599 into the eSIM from US Mobile or Ara Loo. I've 1:16:02.640 --> 1:16:05.439 got both of those linked up on the website, and 1:16:05.640 --> 1:16:07.360 I think those would work for you. Does that sound 1:16:07.439 --> 1:16:08.080 like something you could do? 1:16:09.160 --> 1:16:11.360 Yeah, yeah, I'm going there for three weeks, so oh 1:16:11.680 --> 1:16:13.480 check all that just okay. 1:16:13.400 --> 1:16:16.120 So for three weeks that that definitely changes things. I'd 1:16:16.120 --> 1:16:19.599 probably I'd probably steer away from the Verizon situation because 1:16:19.960 --> 1:16:22.120 twenty one days times ten dollars a day, that's two 1:16:22.200 --> 1:16:24.880 hundred and ten dollars. I would not do that. I 1:16:24.920 --> 1:16:28.200 personally would go with the US Mobile twenty dollars for 1:16:28.280 --> 1:16:31.679 ten gigs for thirty days. That'll be more than enough data. 1:16:32.200 --> 1:16:35.559 And just obviously hop on a Wi Fi network whenever possible, 1:16:35.960 --> 1:16:38.040 don't do your banking on the Wi Fi. Always use 1:16:38.080 --> 1:16:40.479 a VPN when you're doing any sort of banking, or 1:16:41.280 --> 1:16:44.400 just use a cellular connection disconnect from Wi Fi whenever 1:16:44.439 --> 1:16:45.759 you're doing something like banking. 1:16:45.920 --> 1:16:48.360 All right, gotcha, Thank you very much. 1:16:48.400 --> 1:16:48.920 I appreciate it. 1:16:48.920 --> 1:16:51.120 All right, Mark, have a safe trip and a fun 1:16:51.160 --> 1:16:54.760 trip over there. I've heard Switzerland is beautiful. I've been 1:16:54.760 --> 1:16:56.679 there when I was a kid, but only to fly 1:16:56.760 --> 1:16:59.800 in and then drive out to another country. But it 1:17:00.320 --> 1:17:02.599 was as far as I remember. Maybe I'm just making 1:17:02.600 --> 1:17:04.320 this up in my head, but I just remember mountains 1:17:04.320 --> 1:17:08.160 with snow. That's probably just what I've seen on TV. 1:17:08.720 --> 1:17:10.479 All right, I think we have time for another call here. 1:17:10.560 --> 1:17:13.920 Let's go to uh Jan in Orange County. Jan you're 1:17:13.920 --> 1:17:14.519 on with Rich. 1:17:15.439 --> 1:17:17.000 Oh, Hi, thank you Rich. 1:17:18.200 --> 1:17:19.120 I just was wondering. 1:17:19.320 --> 1:17:22.320 I have a Samsung and I've always been an Android user, 1:17:22.640 --> 1:17:25.679 and I'm thinking of switching the iPhone and I was wondering, well, 1:17:25.800 --> 1:17:29.800 everything from my Samsung transfer over to an iPhone? 1:17:30.439 --> 1:17:36.120 Ooh, yes, the short answer. The short answer is yes, 1:17:36.160 --> 1:17:39.599 and I'm someone who uses both platforms on a daily basis, 1:17:39.680 --> 1:17:45.400 much to my wife's what's is chagrin a word? Okay, chagrin? Yeah, 1:17:45.439 --> 1:17:48.680 that's what she feels is She's like, which phone are 1:17:48.680 --> 1:17:52.080 you using today? So, Jan, why do you want to 1:17:52.120 --> 1:17:53.400 switch to the iPhone? 1:17:55.640 --> 1:17:58.040 Basically because my son's saying, just get an iPhone, so 1:17:58.080 --> 1:18:02.240 much easier. But I'm used to, you know, my Samsung. 1:18:02.360 --> 1:18:04.759 So will it be easy for me to learn an iPhone? 1:18:04.800 --> 1:18:07.920 I'm not. I mean, I'm pretty I feel I'm a 1:18:08.000 --> 1:18:10.560 little maybe a little above average in technology. 1:18:10.760 --> 1:18:14.599 Okay, well I like that. So here's the thing. Everyone says, 1:18:14.680 --> 1:18:16.880 just get an iPhone, Just get an iPhone, Just get 1:18:16.880 --> 1:18:19.639 an iPhone. It's easier. So you change your whole life 1:18:19.680 --> 1:18:22.000 just to make their life easier. Okay, I mean, I look, 1:18:22.040 --> 1:18:25.440 I'm not going to debate the merits of that conversation, 1:18:25.880 --> 1:18:28.560 but I know what happens across the US on a 1:18:28.640 --> 1:18:32.879 daily basis, and it's mostly to do with I message. 1:18:32.920 --> 1:18:36.800 Everyone wants their messages to, you know, go between these 1:18:36.840 --> 1:18:40.559 phones easily. And the one thing you have going for you. 1:18:40.640 --> 1:18:42.320 I will tell you if you switch over to an 1:18:42.320 --> 1:18:46.519 iPhone because of your son, is that many people have 1:18:46.560 --> 1:18:48.920 an iPhone and they will be able to help you 1:18:49.000 --> 1:18:51.840 with that iPhone. So when I wrote a book, I 1:18:51.840 --> 1:18:54.599 wrote one hundred and one handy tech tips for the iPhone. 1:18:54.640 --> 1:18:58.000 Why did I choose iPhone because it's almost universal here 1:18:58.120 --> 1:19:01.160 in the US. People have an iPhone, they know how 1:19:01.160 --> 1:19:03.600 to they have it, and they know the basics, but 1:19:03.640 --> 1:19:05.280 they didn't know all the little things you could do 1:19:05.560 --> 1:19:07.640 on top of the basics. And so I wrote the 1:19:07.640 --> 1:19:10.639 book because it would reach so many people with that phone. 1:19:10.880 --> 1:19:13.639 Android devices are all very different. If you have a Samsung, 1:19:13.720 --> 1:19:16.960 it's different than a Motorola, it's different from a one Plus, 1:19:17.040 --> 1:19:20.240 it's different than a pixel. So that's the reason why 1:19:20.280 --> 1:19:23.120 these tips and tricks and people helping each other out 1:19:23.360 --> 1:19:26.320 with the Android side of things doesn't happen as much 1:19:26.680 --> 1:19:29.320 because you know, chances are if your friend has an Android, 1:19:29.360 --> 1:19:31.719 they have a totally different model than you have, Whereas 1:19:31.720 --> 1:19:33.800 if they have an iPhone, it's running pretty much the 1:19:33.840 --> 1:19:35.360 same software. So they can say, oh, yeah, I know 1:19:35.400 --> 1:19:36.720 how to turn on the hot spot here, let me 1:19:36.720 --> 1:19:39.479 show you. So I do think in that case you're 1:19:39.520 --> 1:19:43.280 going to be better off. But what type of Android 1:19:43.320 --> 1:19:43.920 phone do you have? 1:19:44.680 --> 1:19:48.479 H it's a Samsung A forty two. It's not a 1:19:48.560 --> 1:19:49.040 very good one. 1:19:49.160 --> 1:19:51.360 I don't really like it, Okay, so okay, well there 1:19:51.360 --> 1:19:53.280 you go. Now you don't like it, So I in 1:19:53.320 --> 1:19:55.080 that case then the A forty two is sort of 1:19:55.120 --> 1:19:59.000 their basic models. You know, I think you'd probably be 1:19:59.000 --> 1:20:02.879 happy with an iPhone and being on that group message 1:20:03.000 --> 1:20:05.599 chat with your kids and your friends and the blue 1:20:05.600 --> 1:20:08.479 bubbles and all that stuff. So to answer your original question, 1:20:08.600 --> 1:20:11.960 will things transfer over? Yes, there is an app that 1:20:12.000 --> 1:20:16.519 you would download called move to iOS, and this is 1:20:16.560 --> 1:20:19.720 what you download on your Samsung. It's called move to iOS. 1:20:20.320 --> 1:20:24.160 And once you download that, this will help you transfer 1:20:24.200 --> 1:20:27.360 everything over to your iPhone. And so once you have 1:20:27.400 --> 1:20:30.600 your iPhone, you will literally just connect these two devices 1:20:30.640 --> 1:20:33.760 and you can move them over. And so it's a 1:20:33.840 --> 1:20:39.400 very simple, simple process and it basically just connects these 1:20:39.400 --> 1:20:42.400 things over a Wi Fi network that it creates between 1:20:42.400 --> 1:20:45.480 these two devices. So what will transfer over? Your contacts, 1:20:45.520 --> 1:20:49.759 your message history, your camera photos, your videos, your photo albums, 1:20:49.800 --> 1:20:53.800 your files, your accessibility settings, your display settings, your web bookmarks, 1:20:54.360 --> 1:20:57.839 reading this off the Apple support page, your mail accounts, 1:20:57.880 --> 1:21:02.440 your WhatsApp, your calendars, and any app that is available 1:21:02.520 --> 1:21:06.719 on both platforms will transfer over. Now, not the actual app, 1:21:06.760 --> 1:21:08.800 but it will just download that app to the iPhone. 1:21:09.120 --> 1:21:11.479 So if there's any app that you don't see, you 1:21:11.479 --> 1:21:14.519 can just go ahead and download that later. But from 1:21:14.560 --> 1:21:16.800 what you're telling me, if you're not really happy with 1:21:16.840 --> 1:21:19.960 this Samsung phone and it's a pretty basic phone, I 1:21:20.040 --> 1:21:23.799 say get a new iPhone. You can go with the iPhone. 1:21:24.560 --> 1:21:26.760 I would probably go with the iPhone fourteen at this 1:21:26.880 --> 1:21:29.559 point and just get the standard iPhone. I think it's 1:21:29.600 --> 1:21:31.680 going to be leaps and bounds ahead of what you 1:21:31.840 --> 1:21:34.599 have already. And you could even go to the Apple 1:21:34.640 --> 1:21:36.760 website and see if they'll give you any money for 1:21:36.800 --> 1:21:39.760 that trade in. I don't think they will give you 1:21:39.840 --> 1:21:42.720 much for that phone, but you may get something now. 1:21:42.760 --> 1:21:45.519 If you also go through a carrier, they may try 1:21:45.520 --> 1:21:49.200 to give you a free iPhone. Just know, if they're 1:21:49.240 --> 1:21:52.559 giving you a free phone, it's not necessarily free. It's 1:21:52.640 --> 1:21:54.960 pretty much a three year contract where you have to 1:21:55.040 --> 1:21:58.400 stick with that carrier for three years. And yeah, the 1:21:58.439 --> 1:22:00.519 phone you won't be paying a payment for, but you 1:22:00.520 --> 1:22:03.160 will be paying to stay with that carrier for the 1:22:03.200 --> 1:22:07.559 time being. So good question, Jan, Thanks so much. But yes, 1:22:07.920 --> 1:22:12.200 Apple has created an app again called move to iOS 1:22:13.000 --> 1:22:17.760 that will help you transfer an Android phone to an iPhone. 1:22:17.800 --> 1:22:21.040 Switching phones these days is quite quite simple, all right, 1:22:21.080 --> 1:22:23.679 Coming up? More of your calls at Triple eight, Rich 1:22:23.720 --> 1:22:26.960 one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, 1:22:27.000 --> 1:22:29.120 four to one zero one. We got my friend Jefferson 1:22:29.160 --> 1:22:32.000 Graham on tap. He's going to talk about taking pictures 1:22:32.520 --> 1:22:36.760 of fireworks, and then we've got some more news. I'm 1:22:36.760 --> 1:22:39.200 going to tell you about a new password manager that 1:22:39.240 --> 1:22:42.599 actually looks pretty good and an app that you should 1:22:42.640 --> 1:22:47.200 download that I use probably on a weekly basis. You 1:22:47.280 --> 1:22:53.920 are listening to Rich on tech. Rich Demiro here, rich 1:22:54.000 --> 1:22:59.400 on Tech, hanging out on the holiday weekend, talking technology, 1:22:59.439 --> 1:23:03.439 technology arrests. The phone line is U eight eight eight 1:23:03.760 --> 1:23:07.440 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two, 1:23:07.479 --> 1:23:10.800 four to one zero one. Let's go to Jack in 1:23:11.200 --> 1:23:13.760 uh Riverside, California. Jack, you're on with Rich. 1:23:15.479 --> 1:23:16.639 Hey, Rich, how you doing. 1:23:16.880 --> 1:23:18.479 I'm doing fantastic. How are you? 1:23:20.280 --> 1:23:21.960 I'd be great if you can help me and tell 1:23:22.000 --> 1:23:24.360 me what I did wrong with my Windows desktop? 1:23:24.560 --> 1:23:24.760 Uh? 1:23:24.760 --> 1:23:25.759 Oh, what happened? 1:23:27.240 --> 1:23:29.920 Well, it used to be a Windows seven. Then I 1:23:30.040 --> 1:23:33.439 rolled up the Windows ten. So but I was using 1:23:33.439 --> 1:23:35.960 a Sea cleaner and it said I have programs slowing 1:23:35.960 --> 1:23:39.000 me down, so I turned them off. Then I couldn't 1:23:39.000 --> 1:23:41.360 get into my Yahoo at and T mail, so I 1:23:41.439 --> 1:23:44.640 tried to restore to an earlier day, and now I 1:23:44.680 --> 1:23:47.400 won't do anything. I tried hitting this, turn it out 1:23:47.439 --> 1:23:50.080 and hitting the state they were restoring it to an 1:23:50.080 --> 1:23:54.280 early day, but he says, there's no restoring dat and 1:23:54.320 --> 1:23:55.679 it still won't come back up. 1:23:56.360 --> 1:23:57.280 What did I do wrong? 1:23:57.640 --> 1:23:57.840 Oh? 1:23:58.680 --> 1:24:01.760 So, where does your computer stand right now? Is it? 1:24:01.840 --> 1:24:02.799 What's on the screen? 1:24:04.560 --> 1:24:05.879 That? Oh? 1:24:06.560 --> 1:24:11.439 Nothing? Okay, Well, it sounds like you might have it 1:24:11.520 --> 1:24:13.439 sounds like you're in the middle of a restore, but 1:24:13.479 --> 1:24:15.880 it but it stopped and then it now it doesn't 1:24:16.040 --> 1:24:18.599 know what's what it's doing. Is that sound about right? 1:24:20.400 --> 1:24:23.960 Sounds like it, yeah, because I was trying to restore 1:24:23.960 --> 1:24:26.800 it from an earlier date, but it never gave me 1:24:26.840 --> 1:24:29.960 a date. And then I took a couple hours. Then 1:24:30.040 --> 1:24:32.840 I said, oh shoot, so that's when I hit turned 1:24:32.840 --> 1:24:34.680 it out, turned it back on. It started hitting the 1:24:34.720 --> 1:24:37.800 skate and then I was able to get that little menu. 1:24:38.920 --> 1:24:41.400 But then it said there's no restort point. 1:24:41.640 --> 1:24:44.880 Okay, so it sounds like you might have lost what's 1:24:44.920 --> 1:24:48.400 on this computer. The first thing I would do is, uh, 1:24:48.640 --> 1:24:52.160 unplug it from the wall, let it sit for a 1:24:52.160 --> 1:24:55.000 little bit, and then plug it back in and then. 1:24:54.880 --> 1:24:55.400 Start it up. 1:24:55.439 --> 1:24:59.639 If you're still getting an error message, then it sounds 1:24:59.680 --> 1:25:03.040 like you you've lost some data on this drive. I 1:25:03.080 --> 1:25:06.880 would probably boot it up in safe mode, and so 1:25:07.000 --> 1:25:09.559 safe mode will let you see what's happening on this 1:25:09.680 --> 1:25:13.519 computer if there's anything that is you know, if you 1:25:13.560 --> 1:25:16.559 can still somehow boot up this computer into a basic 1:25:16.640 --> 1:25:19.960 Windows shell and see what's going on there and then 1:25:20.000 --> 1:25:21.680 see if you're you know, and then once you get 1:25:21.680 --> 1:25:24.240 into there, you can troubleshoot a little bit more. But 1:25:24.600 --> 1:25:28.559 that is probably what I would do. Now if none 1:25:28.560 --> 1:25:30.800 of that stuff works, If you really can't rescue this, 1:25:31.280 --> 1:25:36.120 I'm hoping that you're backed up, because that's uh, sounds 1:25:36.160 --> 1:25:38.200 like you're gonna have to reinstall Windows on this thing, 1:25:38.560 --> 1:25:41.439 or at least restart Windows into a uh, you know, 1:25:41.479 --> 1:25:44.240 a factory. You've got Windows ten on there, you said, 1:25:44.280 --> 1:25:45.840 So hopefully you should just be able to go into 1:25:45.840 --> 1:25:50.600 safe mode and restart or reinstall this program. But I 1:25:50.640 --> 1:25:54.000 I this is why I recommend always having a backup, 1:25:54.560 --> 1:25:57.160 because it just you never know when something like this 1:25:57.200 --> 1:26:00.000 is going to happen. You're using a program, you're deleting something, 1:26:00.160 --> 1:26:02.760 you're changing a little setting here or there, and next 1:26:02.760 --> 1:26:06.880 thing you know, the world goes dark, and now you're like, uh, 1:26:06.880 --> 1:26:10.240 what do I do? So again, unplug it, let it 1:26:10.280 --> 1:26:12.160 rest for a minute, plug it back in, see if 1:26:12.200 --> 1:26:14.240 it comes back to life, if it doesn't, go into 1:26:14.240 --> 1:26:17.679 safe mode, and see if you can troubleshoot from there. 1:26:18.400 --> 1:26:20.960 But otherwise, if that, if none of those things work, 1:26:21.120 --> 1:26:24.519 you might think about bringing it in somewhere that they 1:26:24.520 --> 1:26:28.000 can troubleshoot before you delete anything off of this computer. 1:26:28.160 --> 1:26:30.559 You don't want to, you know, fully lose everything. So 1:26:30.680 --> 1:26:32.800 that's what I would do, and maybe bring it into 1:26:32.840 --> 1:26:35.720 a place like a Shurion or you know, find a 1:26:35.760 --> 1:26:39.080 local you know, local data doctor and if you have 1:26:39.080 --> 1:26:41.679 stuff on this that you need, maybe they can help. 1:26:42.840 --> 1:26:45.280 Let's go to Stella in Santa Monica. Stella, you're on 1:26:45.360 --> 1:26:45.800 with Rich. 1:26:46.720 --> 1:26:46.880 Hi. 1:26:47.120 --> 1:26:49.599 Rich, I'm doing fantastic. How are you? 1:26:50.360 --> 1:26:52.479 I'm doing well. I just want to to say thank 1:26:52.520 --> 1:26:54.599 you for everything that you do. I love your show 1:26:54.600 --> 1:26:56.800 and it's awesome because you help all of us that 1:26:56.880 --> 1:26:58.320 don't know anything about what you know. 1:26:58.560 --> 1:27:01.599 Ah, thank you. Well I try. I'm coming up against 1:27:01.640 --> 1:27:03.519 a break. So what's going on? Stella? 1:27:03.880 --> 1:27:06.920 Okay, my phone's getting hot and also my battery is 1:27:06.960 --> 1:27:10.720 like running like really low, like really fast. Is it 1:27:10.760 --> 1:27:13.719 time for new phone? Is it time for a new battery? 1:27:14.080 --> 1:27:15.080 What kind of phone do you have? 1:27:15.840 --> 1:27:19.760 It's an iPhone Mini twelve, okay, So what you need 1:27:19.800 --> 1:27:22.320 to do is figure out why it's running hot and 1:27:22.439 --> 1:27:24.679 why the battery is running out so fast. 1:27:24.680 --> 1:27:26.439 So what I want you to do is go into 1:27:26.520 --> 1:27:30.280 settings on your iPhone, go into battery and the first 1:27:30.280 --> 1:27:32.519 thing you got to check is the battery health. See 1:27:32.520 --> 1:27:35.680 what your maximum capacity is, and then go in there 1:27:35.720 --> 1:27:39.200 and make sure that it says optimized battery charging, and 1:27:40.000 --> 1:27:42.360 see what's running down your battery. So for me, I 1:27:42.400 --> 1:27:44.559 can tell what's been running down my battery. It'll give 1:27:44.560 --> 1:27:46.760 you a list of all of those things inside there. 1:27:47.240 --> 1:27:51.240 If something is making your phone run hot, delete that app, 1:27:51.280 --> 1:27:53.840 get rid of it, or update your apps and figure 1:27:53.880 --> 1:27:56.360 out what's going on with that battery. Stella all right, 1:27:56.640 --> 1:28:00.360 Coming up Jefferson Graham, we'll talk fireworks photo. So you're 1:28:00.360 --> 1:28:12.080 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:28:12.200 --> 1:28:15.639 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology and 1:28:15.960 --> 1:28:22.519 on the line my friend Jefferson Graham, formerly of USA Today, 1:28:23.160 --> 1:28:26.519 now of Photo Walks TV. Jefferson, thanks so much for 1:28:26.560 --> 1:28:26.960 joining me. 1:28:27.640 --> 1:28:28.479 Thrilled to be here. 1:28:28.600 --> 1:28:33.639 Hey, you sound great. Photo Walks TV on YouTube. Definitely 1:28:33.680 --> 1:28:38.200 subscribe because Jefferson is you are everywhere. You are all 1:28:38.280 --> 1:28:42.760 over the US traveling taking pictures, and the best part 1:28:42.880 --> 1:28:46.080 is you're doing everything with your smartphone. I think it 1:28:46.120 --> 1:28:47.560 was a couple of years back when you told me 1:28:47.640 --> 1:28:52.280 Rich I'm ditching the giant DSLR and I'm going with 1:28:52.360 --> 1:28:54.240 the smartphone. How is that going? 1:28:54.920 --> 1:28:57.960 It's doing great. I actually I have a video that's 1:28:57.960 --> 1:28:59.920 going to run next week where I did it back 1:29:00.200 --> 1:29:05.600 back on the iPhone video versus the Canon DSLR the 1:29:05.760 --> 1:29:12.439 eos R six, and I defy you to see the difference. 1:29:13.600 --> 1:29:16.479 If there's anything, you're getting a better video quality from 1:29:16.479 --> 1:29:20.400 the iPhone on a smaller camera that does not make 1:29:20.439 --> 1:29:23.800 people get their backs up when you walk in the door. 1:29:24.360 --> 1:29:28.439 That is small, it's portable, it's light. It works in 1:29:28.520 --> 1:29:31.160 so many great situations, and it has been fantastic for 1:29:31.280 --> 1:29:34.280 me as a run and gunner going all over the 1:29:34.320 --> 1:29:37.880 place from France and Japan and solve it. You know, 1:29:38.000 --> 1:29:41.000 Solvang I was in Columbus, Ohio, and I'm about to 1:29:41.040 --> 1:29:44.360 go on a big thirty day shoot between LA and 1:29:44.400 --> 1:29:48.200 South Dakota, stopping in Colorado and Utah and Arizona and Nevada, 1:29:48.520 --> 1:29:51.120 in Wyoming and Idaho, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 1:29:51.439 --> 1:29:53.280 And I'm going to be doing a lot of episodes 1:29:53.760 --> 1:29:55.519 doing it this way. So I just got my box 1:29:55.560 --> 1:29:58.520 full of smartphones and accessories. 1:29:58.640 --> 1:30:01.000 I love it. And I will say tell you we 1:30:01.080 --> 1:30:03.679 shoot a lot of our TV segments on the iPhone 1:30:03.720 --> 1:30:08.320 because it's easier, it's simpler, it can go anywhere. Nobody 1:30:08.360 --> 1:30:11.240 bats an eye because it's an iPhone versus a big 1:30:11.240 --> 1:30:11.839 old camera. 1:30:12.320 --> 1:30:12.479 You know. 1:30:12.520 --> 1:30:15.000 We started out with that on the shoulder camera. Then 1:30:15.000 --> 1:30:17.720 we went to a DSLR, which we still use primarily. 1:30:18.200 --> 1:30:21.320 But now with the wireless mics and all the iPhone, 1:30:21.680 --> 1:30:24.519 the quality of the iPhone is just so good. It 1:30:24.600 --> 1:30:27.719 really is the gold standard in video and in photos 1:30:27.720 --> 1:30:30.599 too in a lot of ways. Okay, so first off, 1:30:30.640 --> 1:30:33.360 you mentioned your thirty day road trip, so you had 1:30:33.360 --> 1:30:37.280 a tip in your newsletter today. Jefferson is very prolific 1:30:37.320 --> 1:30:40.320 with his newsletter, and I'm very jealous of how good 1:30:40.320 --> 1:30:42.720 you are at writing these things. But you had a 1:30:42.800 --> 1:30:46.760 tip this week about booking hotel rooms, which is sort 1:30:46.760 --> 1:30:49.320 of anti to everything we would think of tell me 1:30:49.360 --> 1:30:50.120 what that tip is. 1:30:50.760 --> 1:30:53.439 Okay, the tip is and I learned it from the 1:30:53.439 --> 1:30:59.400 hotel rep in Deadwood, South Dakota. Okay. She said, never 1:31:00.040 --> 1:31:05.680 look online at the hotel site booking dot com, hotels 1:31:05.720 --> 1:31:08.840 dot com, you name it, because you're being you're being 1:31:08.840 --> 1:31:14.080 asked to pay a giant commission. And it started because 1:31:14.240 --> 1:31:17.719 I was on the Windom site. Windom owns super eight. 1:31:17.880 --> 1:31:20.400 It's hard to find hotel rooms right now, and so 1:31:20.600 --> 1:31:22.559 you know it, particularly if you're going for thirty days, 1:31:22.560 --> 1:31:24.920 you've got to go cheap, right. Yeah, So it was 1:31:25.000 --> 1:31:28.439 two hundred dollars a night, I believe on the Windom site. 1:31:28.560 --> 1:31:31.080 When I called, she said one fifty, and I said, 1:31:31.120 --> 1:31:35.200 what gives? And she goes, Oh, the commissions. The commissions 1:31:35.479 --> 1:31:38.200 are built in, and they're baked into all the sites. 1:31:38.240 --> 1:31:42.120 Even when you go direct, the commissions are built in. 1:31:42.200 --> 1:31:44.640 So you always got a call and I'll tell you 1:31:45.400 --> 1:31:45.759 go ahead. 1:31:45.840 --> 1:31:48.560 One thing I learned about those commissions, so the website, 1:31:48.960 --> 1:31:52.160 there's some sort of weird agreement with like you know, 1:31:52.200 --> 1:31:55.519 all these like third party websites that the hotel can't 1:31:55.560 --> 1:31:59.479 be cheaper because then basically they could put the websites 1:31:59.479 --> 1:32:02.439 out of business. And so the agreement is that the 1:32:02.520 --> 1:32:05.240 website from the hotel will have the same price as 1:32:05.280 --> 1:32:08.400 like Booking dot Com or Expedia. And so what you're 1:32:08.439 --> 1:32:10.400 saying is when you call, of course that's a one 1:32:10.479 --> 1:32:13.479 to one transaction. They can do that for you and 1:32:13.560 --> 1:32:16.040 save you that money. Now, fifteen dollars may not sound 1:32:16.080 --> 1:32:18.320 like a lot twenty bucks, thirty bucks, but if you're 1:32:18.320 --> 1:32:20.760 going for thirty days like you just mentioned, that's you know, 1:32:20.760 --> 1:32:22.360 I cut add up to like one thousand dollars. 1:32:22.520 --> 1:32:25.759 Well, wait a minute, I'm talking about five oh fifty 1:32:25.840 --> 1:32:28.599 dollars less for two nights. It was one hundred dollars. 1:32:29.280 --> 1:32:33.599 The place I'm staying in Monument Valley is seventy dollars 1:32:33.680 --> 1:32:35.439 less a night. I'm staying there two nights. That's one 1:32:35.520 --> 1:32:39.960 hundred and forty. Every hotel I called was cheaper I 1:32:39.840 --> 1:32:42.559 I when I called instead of doing the online thing. 1:32:42.760 --> 1:32:44.719 And the other knock we have to give on booking 1:32:44.760 --> 1:32:47.439 and hotels is you get to the place you hate it, 1:32:47.640 --> 1:32:49.960 You're booked for four nights, you say I want out, 1:32:50.000 --> 1:32:52.559 and they say, sorry, there's nothing we can do because 1:32:52.600 --> 1:32:55.439 you went through Booking dot Com. Had you gone direct 1:32:55.439 --> 1:32:57.280 with us, it would have been no problem. Right. 1:32:57.320 --> 1:32:58.960 Well, it's a little more work. So I get it. 1:32:58.960 --> 1:33:00.680 People want to do everything on the line, and they 1:33:00.680 --> 1:33:03.400 want to you know, book things and you know, but 1:33:03.479 --> 1:33:05.000 I get it. If you want to, if you want 1:33:05.000 --> 1:33:06.960 to save money at a hotel, just call them direct 1:33:07.040 --> 1:33:08.519 and the best you can do is just ask them 1:33:08.600 --> 1:33:10.200 and see what they say. If they give you fifty 1:33:10.200 --> 1:33:12.760 bucks off times two nights, three nights, you know, that's 1:33:12.760 --> 1:33:16.080 a little extra spending money for food or drink or whatever. 1:33:16.240 --> 1:33:19.920 So great, great tip. All right, so let's talk fireworks. 1:33:20.040 --> 1:33:24.360 I know people will love to share their fireworks photos 1:33:24.600 --> 1:33:29.240 this coming weekend. Do you even bother taking pictures? Can 1:33:29.320 --> 1:33:32.280 the can the average person get a good fireworks photo? 1:33:32.600 --> 1:33:35.320 Oh, the average person can get a great fireworks photo 1:33:35.479 --> 1:33:40.400 on their smartphone. I got some great ones last December 1:33:40.439 --> 1:33:43.960 because in the city that I live in, in Manhattan Beach, California, 1:33:44.040 --> 1:33:47.120 we have our fireworks in December, not in July. 1:33:47.680 --> 1:33:51.439 So that's okay. So what so so heroes I see 1:33:51.439 --> 1:33:54.479 are never good, They're always blurry, they're always how do 1:33:54.520 --> 1:33:55.240 you get a good one? 1:33:55.800 --> 1:34:01.000 Okay, go there with your smartphone, use the wide lens, 1:34:01.040 --> 1:34:04.360 which is the one X that's the sharpest. It's the 1:34:04.479 --> 1:34:07.400 lens that's the best in low light. Don't go ultra wide, 1:34:07.720 --> 1:34:11.000 don't go close up. Just use that one X lens 1:34:11.439 --> 1:34:17.400 and then shoot video of the of a segment. You know. 1:34:17.439 --> 1:34:20.000 I used to tell people they had to use a tripod. 1:34:20.120 --> 1:34:22.880 Now they don't because the image stabilization is so good. 1:34:23.160 --> 1:34:26.240 You can handhold a two minute shot, believe it or not, 1:34:26.800 --> 1:34:30.400 and run videos. So you have the whole thing. And 1:34:30.640 --> 1:34:34.120 on the iPhone the minute you start recording with the 1:34:34.200 --> 1:34:36.640 red button. Right next to the red button is a 1:34:36.680 --> 1:34:40.120 white button and that's for taking pictures. And you could 1:34:40.160 --> 1:34:43.040 just hit that over and over again while you've got 1:34:43.120 --> 1:34:46.479 your backup video going and you can get some great photos. 1:34:46.640 --> 1:34:49.679 Oh okay, I like that. The so the one two punch, 1:34:49.720 --> 1:34:51.559 you've got the video because everyone wants the video with 1:34:51.560 --> 1:34:53.960 the oohs and ah's, and then you get the actual 1:34:54.000 --> 1:34:57.719 still shots. I would actually you gave me an idea 1:34:57.920 --> 1:35:01.160 because you're taking the video anyway. You can also go 1:35:01.320 --> 1:35:05.320 into Google Photos if you use that, and then they 1:35:05.320 --> 1:35:08.840 have a feature called export frame. Now do you think 1:35:08.880 --> 1:35:11.400 that frame would be clear with the You know, if 1:35:11.400 --> 1:35:13.280 you try to do that with the fireworks photos or 1:35:13.320 --> 1:35:14.040 no with the video. 1:35:14.400 --> 1:35:16.840 I think it'll be fine. The people at Apple told 1:35:16.880 --> 1:35:19.360 me that you're always going to get a higher resolution, 1:35:19.600 --> 1:35:23.280 better photo if you take it as a photo this way, 1:35:23.760 --> 1:35:25.519 and if you do the frame grab. Now. I do 1:35:25.560 --> 1:35:29.160 frame grabs all day, every day. And for web work, 1:35:29.280 --> 1:35:32.519 it's fine. And I don't know that you're going to 1:35:32.600 --> 1:35:36.360 hang fireworks shots on your wall, but you know, the 1:35:36.439 --> 1:35:40.519 safety thing is run the video because you can't go wrong. 1:35:40.960 --> 1:35:43.120 You're gonna get the shot right. 1:35:43.560 --> 1:35:46.360 Yeah, I love it. Any other tips for this for 1:35:46.400 --> 1:35:48.280 the fireworks specifically. 1:35:48.439 --> 1:35:51.439 I get there early, if you can grab your spot, 1:35:51.760 --> 1:35:54.559 you know, get your best spot, Get as close as 1:35:54.600 --> 1:35:57.200 you can to the front of the line. You don't 1:35:57.200 --> 1:35:59.639 want people's heads in the shot though you are going 1:35:59.640 --> 1:36:02.600 in the sky, so it's okay, but they're always you know, 1:36:02.800 --> 1:36:06.120 scouted out, and don't run all over the place. Just 1:36:06.200 --> 1:36:09.160 pick your spot and you're probably not gonna have a 1:36:09.160 --> 1:36:13.400 tripod and do several video clips. Do you know? Remember 1:36:13.479 --> 1:36:16.479 the best one is the last one, right, So do 1:36:16.560 --> 1:36:19.639 it a few times and you're gonna get some great stuff. 1:36:19.800 --> 1:36:21.160 And what do you do with these pictures if you 1:36:21.160 --> 1:36:23.280 don't put them on your wall? What do you social media, 1:36:23.640 --> 1:36:26.640 social media, Okay, social media is where it's at. Okay. 1:36:27.160 --> 1:36:29.920 So you're going on this thirty day trip. You're going 1:36:30.000 --> 1:36:33.160 all different places. You have a whole bunch of stuff 1:36:33.200 --> 1:36:35.120 that you pack, and I can't go through it all 1:36:35.160 --> 1:36:36.280 because you've got a lot of it. 1:36:36.360 --> 1:36:40.200 But I love how do you find the newsletter? Jefferson 1:36:40.240 --> 1:36:43.080 Graham dot substack dot com. I'd love to have you 1:36:43.120 --> 1:36:45.720 as a reader. Many people are charging I do not. 1:36:46.000 --> 1:36:48.799 It's free and it comes to your indocks every Saturday 1:36:48.800 --> 1:36:49.240 and Sunday. 1:36:49.360 --> 1:36:51.960 Yeah, and like clockwork, I get it every Saturday and Sunday, 1:36:52.000 --> 1:36:53.519 and I go, oh, I wish I would have started 1:36:53.560 --> 1:36:55.640 mine again. You're the one who made me start this 1:36:55.680 --> 1:36:58.439 in the first place. Okay. So some of the things 1:36:58.439 --> 1:37:02.200 that you carry, the inst three sixty x three, the 1:37:02.200 --> 1:37:07.400 Go Pro Hero eleven, a Dji, Mavic Air. You've got 1:37:07.439 --> 1:37:10.519 your USB car adapter, which I think is very smart, 1:37:11.400 --> 1:37:14.840 AirPods Pro, You've got a selfie stick, You've got a microphone. 1:37:14.920 --> 1:37:17.640 Let's see the other thing you're you're carrying now is 1:37:18.400 --> 1:37:21.799 a Samsung S twenty three? Is that the Ultra? 1:37:22.400 --> 1:37:25.439 Yes? Okay, so at the Ultra, but recently the question 1:37:25.560 --> 1:37:25.880 is why. 1:37:26.200 --> 1:37:28.280 Well, I'm just curious what your thoughts are on that, 1:37:28.320 --> 1:37:30.599 because I know there's always this big debate of the 1:37:30.640 --> 1:37:34.719 iPhone versus Android with photo quality. How are you noticing 1:37:34.800 --> 1:37:36.800 the pictures are coming out from that Samsung? 1:37:37.200 --> 1:37:39.080 All right, Well, first of all, I just got it 1:37:39.120 --> 1:37:42.919 the other day. Okay, so it's new. There's two features 1:37:42.960 --> 1:37:46.040 in here that I'm very excited about. One is that 1:37:46.080 --> 1:37:49.200 they have a way better telephoto lens. So you have 1:37:49.360 --> 1:37:52.160 basically the equivalent of a two hundred millimeter that's a 1:37:52.240 --> 1:37:54.400 ten X right now, you have a three X on 1:37:54.439 --> 1:37:58.040 the iPhone. So I used the S twenty one in 1:37:58.160 --> 1:38:00.920 Japan when I was there. I got some really nice 1:38:00.960 --> 1:38:03.680 telephoto work. I got the new one because of the 1:38:03.880 --> 1:38:09.800 astro star lighting start us. What's it called, Yeah, the 1:38:09.840 --> 1:38:14.960 astrophotography feature. Yeah, photography. Sure, Well, a three hundred X 1:38:15.439 --> 1:38:17.840 you can and you can run it for one hour. 1:38:18.000 --> 1:38:19.880 I'm going to be in the bad Lands National Park 1:38:19.920 --> 1:38:24.360 in South Dakota doing star trails and I really wanted 1:38:24.360 --> 1:38:26.920 to get it for that. I also like the fact 1:38:26.960 --> 1:38:30.280 that you can do varial speed time lapses, which you 1:38:30.320 --> 1:38:33.080 cannot do on the iPhone. I am a time lapse freak. 1:38:33.360 --> 1:38:36.880 I do them all the time, and basically put you 1:38:36.920 --> 1:38:38.840 put the camera on a tripod, you press record, and 1:38:38.840 --> 1:38:41.160 you let us stay there for an hour. But you 1:38:41.200 --> 1:38:44.280 don't have any choices. So with the Samsung, they're giving 1:38:44.320 --> 1:38:47.080 you a choice of five X and ten X, basically 1:38:47.160 --> 1:38:50.920 making it much faster. And I think that's great. And 1:38:50.960 --> 1:38:53.120 the other reason I bought the camera, just so everybody 1:38:53.160 --> 1:38:55.400 knows is I do lead a lot of photo workshops 1:38:55.640 --> 1:38:57.559 and seminars and I say, here's how you do stuff 1:38:57.560 --> 1:39:00.000 on the iPhone, and there's always somebody who says, yeah, 1:39:00.200 --> 1:39:01.960 but how do I do it on the Galaxy? So 1:39:02.000 --> 1:39:03.679 I want to be better well versed. 1:39:04.520 --> 1:39:07.519 Okay, I love it. I love it. The other thing 1:39:07.600 --> 1:39:09.719 I was going to mention is that there's a huge, 1:39:09.800 --> 1:39:11.439 I don't know if you know this, like over a 1:39:11.479 --> 1:39:14.200 two gigabyte update for the S twenty three Ultras. So 1:39:14.360 --> 1:39:17.200 just before you head out, if you haven't updated it, 1:39:17.200 --> 1:39:19.560 it's it's literally with like in the past three days. 1:39:19.960 --> 1:39:21.040 Okay, check that out. 1:39:21.080 --> 1:39:23.040 All right, Jefferson, We're gonna leave it there. Thanks so 1:39:23.080 --> 1:39:25.920 much for joining me. Where can folks follow you? 1:39:27.600 --> 1:39:29.720 Well, lease come to my YouTube which is YouTube dot 1:39:29.760 --> 1:39:32.360 com slash photo walks TV folks, I'm going to go 1:39:32.439 --> 1:39:35.200 live to three o'clock if you're listening live today, and 1:39:35.240 --> 1:39:37.519 I'm going to show off all the gear in my box. 1:39:37.720 --> 1:39:38.360 I love it. 1:39:38.800 --> 1:39:41.479 You can find me on Twitter at Jefferson Graham. Ditto 1:39:41.640 --> 1:39:45.360 for Instagram and the newsletter Jefferson Graham do stufstack dot com. 1:39:45.479 --> 1:39:47.240 All right, thanks so much for joining me, Ja jeff 1:39:47.560 --> 1:39:50.920 and have a great road trip. Thanks all right, appreciate it. 1:39:51.680 --> 1:39:55.000 Coming up, it is the end of the show and 1:39:55.040 --> 1:39:59.000 your favorite section of the show. I guess we call 1:39:59.040 --> 1:40:01.960 it the feedback. I got a couple more stories to 1:40:01.960 --> 1:40:05.240 tell you about, plus your feedback. Right here, you are 1:40:05.280 --> 1:40:14.160 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on 1:40:14.360 --> 1:40:20.840 Tech feedback time. Not to be confused with feedback feedback. 1:40:21.560 --> 1:40:24.120 This is the section of the show where it's kind 1:40:24.120 --> 1:40:27.280 of like rapid fire. It's probably too fast for any 1:40:27.320 --> 1:40:29.280 of us to understand, but I'm going to do my 1:40:29.280 --> 1:40:31.680 best because there's a lot to get through. First off, 1:40:31.680 --> 1:40:36.679 a couple stories. Proton Pass so new password manager from 1:40:36.720 --> 1:40:40.560 the folks that make proton Email, which is a secure email, 1:40:41.000 --> 1:40:44.679 encrypted email service. They've been running that since twenty fourteen. 1:40:44.840 --> 1:40:48.280 Proton Mail now they came out with a password manager. 1:40:48.280 --> 1:40:50.200 And what I like about this password manager is it 1:40:50.240 --> 1:40:54.120 is free. Now, of course it's limited in the free scope, 1:40:54.160 --> 1:40:56.920 but it's still free, and I think it's actually pretty 1:40:56.920 --> 1:41:00.280 good for what they offer for free. So what they do, 1:41:00.439 --> 1:41:05.800 what their thing is proton password Manager. I want to 1:41:05.800 --> 1:41:08.160 just make sure I have this on here. Okay, So 1:41:08.200 --> 1:41:13.000 it's open source number one, but it also covers your 1:41:13.240 --> 1:41:18.520 email address. So that's the main difference between this encrypted, 1:41:18.560 --> 1:41:22.639 open source password manager from proton mail and the others 1:41:22.720 --> 1:41:27.080 is that this one also generates a one time email 1:41:27.080 --> 1:41:29.920 address for your login, similar to what Apple does. They 1:41:29.920 --> 1:41:32.320 have a program that does that, but then you're linked there. 1:41:32.680 --> 1:41:37.000 The more hidden email addresses you generate with Apple, the 1:41:37.000 --> 1:41:39.720 more you are linked to Apple forever. And that's why 1:41:39.720 --> 1:41:42.280 they do that, because they want you to stay in 1:41:42.320 --> 1:41:45.559 that walled garden for as long as humanly possible. And 1:41:45.640 --> 1:41:48.720 I'm not knocking Apple. It's a very smart method of 1:41:48.760 --> 1:41:51.000 getting you in there and keeping you there. But if 1:41:51.000 --> 1:41:54.599 you're using third party apps and websites, I always prefer 1:41:54.680 --> 1:41:57.639 those because then you can switch when something better comes along. 1:41:58.080 --> 1:42:00.160 Right now, the iPhone is amazing. What if in in 1:42:00.200 --> 1:42:03.200 three weeks, some phone comes out that's just incredible, and 1:42:03.280 --> 1:42:05.439 you want to get out of the Apple ecosystem. Well, 1:42:05.479 --> 1:42:08.080 it's going to be tough if all your passwords and 1:42:08.120 --> 1:42:11.759 email addresses are all linked to Apple iCloud. So anyway, 1:42:12.040 --> 1:42:17.400 proton pass check it out. Let's see. It creates email aliases, 1:42:17.479 --> 1:42:20.320 so it's a randomly generated email address. And their argument 1:42:20.479 --> 1:42:23.799 is that you know these email If a website is hacked, 1:42:23.840 --> 1:42:26.519 not only do they get their password, your password, which 1:42:26.600 --> 1:42:28.920 should be random, but then they get your email address, 1:42:29.040 --> 1:42:30.920 and they say it could be embarrassing depending on the 1:42:30.960 --> 1:42:35.519 email or the website rather, but it does all these things. 1:42:35.600 --> 1:42:39.880 The free version of proton pass supports unlimited logins, unlimited 1:42:39.960 --> 1:42:43.360 encrypted notes, and a limited number of hide my email 1:42:43.439 --> 1:42:47.320 addresses and two factor authentication logins. So if you want 1:42:47.360 --> 1:42:52.600 everything unlimited, you can subscribe. They're offering an eighty percent discount. 1:42:52.920 --> 1:42:55.479 It's available for just a dollar a month with an 1:42:55.479 --> 1:42:58.880 annual subscription until the end of July forever, they say, 1:42:59.240 --> 1:43:02.400 so basically twelve bucks a year. That sounds like, and 1:43:02.840 --> 1:43:04.599 it's gonna go up to its regular price of four 1:43:04.640 --> 1:43:07.360 dollars a month, so forty eight dollars a year. After July, 1:43:07.960 --> 1:43:11.439 so check it out. It's called Proton Pass and I 1:43:11.479 --> 1:43:16.280 have not used this personally, but I actually think it 1:43:16.280 --> 1:43:21.200 looks pretty good. California State Parks teaming up with What 1:43:21.320 --> 1:43:24.400 three Words. If you watch me on KTLA, you know 1:43:24.439 --> 1:43:26.760 I've talked about this app in the past. It's called 1:43:26.800 --> 1:43:29.679 What three Words. They have divided up the entire world 1:43:30.200 --> 1:43:33.479 into ten by ten foot squares. Every one of those 1:43:33.479 --> 1:43:37.799 squares has a unique three word label. So the label 1:43:37.880 --> 1:43:40.920 for and why would you need this when we have GPS, Well, 1:43:41.439 --> 1:43:45.120 when you're in a national park, or you're in anywhere, 1:43:46.080 --> 1:43:48.960 there may be a space in that area that you 1:43:49.000 --> 1:43:50.920 want someone to meet you at. Let's say you need 1:43:50.960 --> 1:43:53.479 help your stranded hiker. You're not gonna say, oh, I'm 1:43:53.520 --> 1:43:58.280 at Dunswood Park. I'm at this ten by ten square 1:43:58.280 --> 1:44:00.439 foot area, and that way you can find me a 1:44:00.439 --> 1:44:03.680 lot easier. And so that's why California State Parks is 1:44:03.680 --> 1:44:08.280 teaming up with this What three Words app, so dispatchers 1:44:08.800 --> 1:44:12.760 can find exactly where you are if you have this 1:44:12.800 --> 1:44:15.240 app and you know how to use it, So download 1:44:15.240 --> 1:44:19.000 this app What three Words to your phone. And this 1:44:19.080 --> 1:44:22.320 means every park bench, every parking space, every camp site, 1:44:23.080 --> 1:44:25.679 any remote spot on a parking trail or a hiking 1:44:25.680 --> 1:44:28.920 trail has its own what three words address, so you 1:44:28.960 --> 1:44:31.800 can tell someone exactly where you are with precision down 1:44:31.800 --> 1:44:33.160 to ten by ten. How do you use this in 1:44:33.200 --> 1:44:35.639 the regular world if you're not stranded. Let's just give 1:44:35.640 --> 1:44:38.080 you an example. My photographer and I we meet at 1:44:39.080 --> 1:44:42.680 Anaheim Convention Center. There are ten million places you can 1:44:42.720 --> 1:44:45.519 meet at the Anaheim Convention Center. I send him my 1:44:45.640 --> 1:44:48.680 what three words for the exact bench that I'm sitting on, 1:44:49.200 --> 1:44:51.719 and he can navigate right to that bench. It's brilliant. 1:44:53.200 --> 1:44:57.800 Let's see what else here? Two minutes here, Jose says, 1:44:57.840 --> 1:45:00.439 can you help me with a free video editing? And 1:45:00.439 --> 1:45:02.080 what kind of connection do I need to play the 1:45:02.120 --> 1:45:05.679 video from an iPhone to a TV for free video editing? 1:45:05.720 --> 1:45:08.879 I'd recommend cap cut. They also have an adapter Lightning 1:45:09.680 --> 1:45:12.320 AV adapter that'll give you an hdm MY output on 1:45:12.360 --> 1:45:15.439 your iPhone. You plug that into your TV. Otherwise, you 1:45:15.439 --> 1:45:19.080 can use an app called Replica to wirelessly beam the 1:45:19.120 --> 1:45:21.160 content from your phone to the TV if you have 1:45:21.200 --> 1:45:25.360 a Smart TV or an Apple TV. Jeremy, commenting on 1:45:25.439 --> 1:45:28.160 last week's story about Uber, how my driver said, Oh, 1:45:28.200 --> 1:45:30.800 I don't live here. I'm just filling in for my 1:45:30.880 --> 1:45:33.760 brother on his app. He said, hey, rich, Uber does 1:45:33.760 --> 1:45:37.320 have facial recognition for drivers. It's not every time they 1:45:37.360 --> 1:45:40.040 log in, it's just occasionally a request to verify who 1:45:40.080 --> 1:45:42.960 they are through facial recognition. So yeah, they should probably 1:45:42.960 --> 1:45:45.519 do that every time they get in the seat. And finally, 1:45:45.560 --> 1:45:48.600 Angel last week was asking about earbuds with no microphone. 1:45:49.160 --> 1:45:50.720 He said, yeah, I need to find these for my 1:45:50.760 --> 1:45:52.840 wife because I still want to live in my house. Haha. 1:45:53.040 --> 1:45:56.000 I asked my friend Lauren Dragon over at Wirecutter. She 1:45:56.280 --> 1:45:59.400 took time out from her vacation to find these best 1:45:59.439 --> 1:46:03.519 Buy sleep A ten earbuds. She said these are pretty 1:46:03.600 --> 1:46:05.080 much the only things she can think of that do 1:46:05.160 --> 1:46:08.400 not have a mic because are meant for sleeping. All right, 1:46:08.439 --> 1:46:09.960 that's gonna do it for this episode of the show. 1:46:10.040 --> 1:46:13.360 Check out the show notes at richontech dot tv. Next 1:46:13.360 --> 1:46:16.080 week the app that can take your vitals just by 1:46:16.120 --> 1:46:19.040 snapping a selfie once again. You can find me on 1:46:19.040 --> 1:46:21.599 social media at rich on tech. My name is rich Dmurro. 1:46:21.680 --> 1:46:23.679 Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways 1:46:23.680 --> 1:46:26.400 you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending 1:46:26.400 --> 1:46:29.160 it right here with me. Congrats to Bobo who got 1:46:29.200 --> 1:46:32.839 married today, Producer Bobo, thanks to Kim on the phones, 1:46:32.960 --> 1:46:36.479 Adam filling in for Bobo, and everyone who makes this 1:46:36.520 --> 1:46:40.080 show possible. Thank you so much for spending part of 1:46:40.120 --> 1:46:42.920 your weekend with me. My name is rich Dumuro. I 1:46:42.960 --> 1:46:44.400 will talk to you real soon