WEBVTT - Razr is back, promo code hacks that work & Windows security gets a boost (172, May 2, 2026) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.640 Uber wants you to book more than just rides. Now 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:07.200 they handle hotel rooms. Motorola goes Hollywood for the launch 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:10.840 of its latest foldables. Are you ready for a razor again? 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.160 What you need to know about the airlines, New rules 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:19.360 on lithium batteries, plus your tech questions answered? What's going 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.200 on on rich dmiro And this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.880 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.120 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.600 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.440 the tech should be interesting, useful and fun. All right, 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.200 let's do it. Let's open up those phone lines. Kim, 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.160 you're ready, triple a rich one oh one. That's eight 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.040 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.199 eight eight eight rich one oh one. Give me a 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.280 call if you have a question about technology. Email is 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.240 also open. Just go to rich on Tech dot tv 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.280 and hit contact. Give me a call if you have 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.639 a question or need some tech advice. All right, We've 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.320 got a couple of great guests this week. Jimmy Doheeney 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.200 is going to join us from the only website that 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.960 I used to check for online codes, simply codes. He 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.280 will talk about how to get the best deals, avoid 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.840 bad coupon codes, and just be an overall smarter shopper. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.040 And then later we've got Jubilee TV CEO Ashish Agarwall. 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.000 He's gonna explain how his device can make your TV 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.559 simple to monitor, connect with, and care for aging loved 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.160 ones at home. Did a story with him for TV 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.200 a couple months ago, maybe probably a year ago at 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.199 this point, and it's a very interesting system he's got 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.720 set up. Well, thanks for joining the show. I'm so 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.480 happy to be back in this seat chatting with you. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.600 Was in New Jersey last week for my brother's wedding, 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.280 so that was very exciting, lots of fun. I was 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:54.920 actually the officiant. I talked all about it in my 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.240 newsletter this week and this was the thing. So my 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.720 brother told me, you can write the whole ceremony. I 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.080 interviewed them, I looked up all the quotes and things 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.240 like that, but don't use AI to write it. So 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.320 I really sat there and wrote out the whole thing. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.679 You know, I typed it out, but I used a 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.520 eye to polish just a little bit. But in the 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.640 end it came out great. It was kind of fun 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.680 to do that actually, and I didn't feel nervous necessarily, 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.600 but I really didn't want to mess up their big day, 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.080 so I was like, all right, they're gonna trust me 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:22.360 with this. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:23.280 But it was great. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.800 Everything went off without a hitch. And in New Jersey, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.440 the weather was not very good last week except for 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.080 the day of their wedding, and it was perfect. So 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.080 that was a great start to their wedding. It was 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.880 such a nice time to see everyone. Beautiful location. New 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.200 Jersey can sometimes get a bad rap, but you know, 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.800 there are very beautiful places there, really really beautiful. I 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.079 mean they called the Garden State for a reason. There 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.320 is a lot of greenery there. So that was really fun. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:55.880 And now they are vacationing on their honeymoon. So congrats 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.960 to Justin and Darcy, and thanks for allowing me to 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.280 be a big part of your ceremony. There. Let's talk 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.919 about Motorola this week. I was in back in Hollywood 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.239 for a Motorola event. So you remember back in the 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.760 day when you had a Motorola phone. We all had them, right, 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.880 you had the Razor, you had the Star Tac depending 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.959 on your age, maybe you had that big brick phone. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.960 Motorola was it when it came to smartphones back in 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.680 the day. Now, they did say their razors are the 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:29.520 number one flip phone in the world, so worldwide, the 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.040 Razor is the number one flip phone. So it's still 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.760 doing well. But now they've got a whole bunch of 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:39.160 new flip phones and a new foldable phone to kind 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:43.000 of hopefully sell more phones. So they did this big event. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.280 You know, typically these these tech launches are at like 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.240 a corporate campus or some sort of event center. They 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.520 did THEIRS at a Hollywood studio. They did a carpet like, 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.480 it wasn't a red carpet, it was a blue carpet, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.840 and they did a fashion show. So I didn't really 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.400 know what to expect. But we get in there and 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.560 all of a sudden, the lights go down, the music 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.400 starts pumping, and all these I don't know if they're 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.040 actors and fashion models. They started walking out with the 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.640 phones just like a runway show. And it was kind 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.160 of silly, but I was like, I mean, how could 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.000 you not smile? So they were all using the flip 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.360 phone and it was really it actually worked. Paris Hilton 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.920 was there and it's funny. Just give you a little perspective. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.960 The last time I was at an event with Paris Hilton, 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:29.000 was a BlackBerry event in Hollywood, So this was probably 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.960 going on, I don't know, sixteen fifteen years ago at 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.279 this point. So anyway, but now she's with Motorola and 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.000 she's been at a bunch of Motorol events, so that's 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.600 been ongoing. But they launched four foldable phones, okay, three 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.240 flip style razors, and then that book style fold Okay, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.640 So the flip raisers are all about style. So they 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:49.880 come in a whole bunch of different colors, right, and 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.400 they've got a little screen on the outside, four inch 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.760 outer screen, seven inch inner screen, and keep in mind 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.160 this flips open like the old razor, except it's all 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.640 screen now, no buttons, right, and all these colors. So 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.839 they've got a blue color, orient blue. They've got a 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.280 cocoa which is a darker wood inspired look. They've got 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.080 a mountain view green. They've got a bright white with 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.680 almost like a diamond finished. They've got a violet ice, hematite, 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.760 metallic gray, and sporting green. So you can see what 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.760 they're doing here. And they had all these colors on display. Pantone, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.960 they had all these on display, so they're really kind 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.480 of positioning these as a fashion accessory, trying to get 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.560 away from the boring black phones that everyone has. Maybe 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.600 something that shows off your personality a little bit more. 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.760 So those are the razor flips. Now you've got the 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.640 razor fold. This is their book style. This is kind 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.440 of the answer to the Galaxy Z fold. Also the 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.240 pixel fold. So you open this one like a book 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.360 and it opens up to an eight point one inch 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.000 screen inside. And they've got the largest battery on a foldable, 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.120 six thousand millionamp hours, sixteen gigabytes a RAM, which is good. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.720 And I snapdrag and trip, so the specter really good 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:02.960 on this. 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:03.360 Now. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.599 The price is also really high, nineteen hundred dollars, and 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:09.839 I would say I love the feel of this phone. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.840 They did not give me any review units, so I 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.039 don't have any samples. But I will tell you I 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.040 love the software on Motorola phones because it is very clean, 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.680 and that is a great thing when it comes to Android. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:25.280 You know, Samsung, they're fine, but they Samsung really makes 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.800 the software their own. With Motorola, it's much closer to 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.159 stock Android, which I personally just really like. And so 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.200 I think the big question here is are the cameras 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:37.680 good on these phones, and I'd need some testing to 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.240 figure that out. But they're also fun, and they also 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.160 have some interesting features built in. Like they've got this 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.600 chop feature, like you karate chop kind of like I 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.360 don't know, you just chop the phone twice. That'll turn 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.400 on the flashlight. You can twist the phone to open 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.159 the camera, give it another twist and that will flip 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.279 it to selfie mode. And then they've got a cam 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.520 quarter mode where you can kind of half fold the 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.720 phone and hold like a camquarder, and then you can 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.640 twist it left and right and that will zoom in 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.279 the camera. But they're also stealing kind of one of 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.760 Samsung's features that horizon locks, so that even though you're 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.600 twisting the camera, the level stays the same, it just 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.360 zooms in. So that's kind of neat. Where do these 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.840 phones not hold up? From what I'm reading the software updates, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.560 so a lot of these manufacturers, now, the Samsungs of 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.600 the world, the Googles of the world, they're giving you 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.520 seven years of updates. Apple about six years, So these 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.000 only get about three years of major Android operating system 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.400 updates and five years of security updates, so a little 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.960 lag there. So who are these four? I mean, I 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.080 think it's for anyone who wants something that's a little 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.200 bit different, right, Like, maybe you don't want a Samsung, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.000 maybe you don't want a Pixel, maybe you don't want 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.440 the iPhone. I will say, I think it's gonna be 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.600 tough for people to give up their iPhone to switch. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.119 At this point, you know that Apple ecosystem is so tight. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.680 You've got your photos in there, you've got your messages 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.680 in there, you've got to iCloud, you've got find my, 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.480 You've got all your family members' locations in there. You've 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.080 got air tags, you've got iPads and MacBooks that all sink. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.320 So Apple did this for a reason. They made such 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.880 a tight ecosystem because they know the more you get in, 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.240 the more the longer you're using an iPhone and all 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.200 of Apple products, the tougher it's going to be to 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.120 get out. And that's why I always talk about third 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.360 party independent software apps and programs because I don't want 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.680 to be locked in, because I know it's tough to 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.440 get out. And I talk to people. Of people I 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.520 talked to, they say that phone's pretty cool, but there's 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.840 no way, I'm getting out of that Apple ecosystem. And 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.320 Apple knows that their software and services keeps growing and 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.760 growing and growing. They're just making money on people having 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.360 these devices, paying into iCloud, paying into Apple Music, paying 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.360 into you know, all these other services, Apple TV Plus, 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.040 and then they bundle them Apple Fitness. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:51.720 I mean, think. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.439 About all the things they do, and ninety nine percent 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.880 of it only runs on an iPhone. Apple TV Plus 0:08:58.000 --> 0:08:59.679 is one of the main exceptions. You can get that 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.240 pretty much across all different platforms. But these are also 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.800 leaning into nostalgia. Like I said, one of my first 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.920 phones was the Star Tak, that bulky battery that pull 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.240 out antenna. My mom and my sisters love their razors, 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.520 the really thin phones. They had them in pink. I 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.200 think my mom's was silver. And my favorite phone before 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.200 the iPhone was the Moto Q, which was Motorola's take 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.480 on a smartphone and the competition to the BlackBerry. So 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.360 we'll see, maybe people that are Android will switch over. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.400 I would like to get some at least the flip 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.880 or the foldable into review to check it out because, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.920 like I said, I do really like the software, but 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:38.320 will the razor make a comeback. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:39.040 We will see. 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.360 Did I mention pricing? They start at eight hundred dollars. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:43.920 I would say the top of the line flip is 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.840 about fifteen hundred dollars and then the foldable like that 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.280 that fold book style. You're talking nineteen hundred dollars. So 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.000 not cheap, that's for sure. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:54.120 All right. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.280 I'll put up more information on the website rich on 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.360 tech dot tv. If you want to see my video 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.400 coverage from the event that Rolla held in Hollywood, you 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.000 can go to my Instagram at rich on Tech. All right, 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.160 we're just getting started here. We've got so much to 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.680 talk about on the show. I've got so many handy 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.000 apps for you. We've got great guests, all the news 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.520 of the week, plus your phone calls at triple eight 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.160 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.760 two four one zero one. You are doing something smart. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:29.079 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.160 rich on Tech. Rich Simiro here hanging out with you 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.800 talking technology. Triple eight rich one O one eight eight 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:39.000 eight seven four to two four one zero one. I 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.280 mentioned I was at my brother's wedding, so I rented 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.560 a car. I don't know why my rental car luck 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.800 is so bad right now. But uh, anyway, I returned 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.040 my car, and I'm not kidding. It was so like 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.320 chaotic at the airport that someone just jumped into the 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.559 car and took it and drove off with it. And 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.360 like I'm assuming it was like an employee of the 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.400 rental car place, but I realized, like most of the 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:03.920 time they kind of talk to you and they check 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.360 you out and they scan the little code whatever, but 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.439 this guy just jumped into the car and drove it off. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.560 And I was like afterwards, you know, we started walking 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.800 to the airport. I was like, wait a second, what 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.120 if that car was just stolen, Like what a scam 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.640 that would be, where like someone just literally hangs out 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:19.959 at the exits where you return these rental cars and 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.880 just drives them off. But I guess maybe I don't 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.680 know anyway, maybe the facility is or security you can't 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.760 really get out. But anyway, so I was freaking out 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.600 because usually when I rent a car, you get an 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.720 email receipt right to your email like instantly, right with 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.440 like Hertz and Avis. Well this time I didn't, and 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.280 I was like, oh my gosh, I bet you this 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.080 car was stolen. So I'm gonna be on the hook 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.720 for this. And it was a big car like I rented, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.560 like the biggest cars. We had my in laws with me, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:43.880 So I was like, I'm gonna be on the hook 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.080 for this one hundred thousand dollars car. It was like 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:50.600 a giant Ford expedition, like Max or something. Long story short. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.800 Two days later, I get a receipt in the mail 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.240 or the email. I was like, Oh, it was just 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.160 one of those moments where I was like, that would 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.400 be the perfect scam. But now that I think about it, 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.400 I think to get out of those rental car facilities, 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.280 you do have to go through like a big barricade. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:05.600 Now I know why. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.160 All right, let's go to Bill Line too, Bill in 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.600 Los Angeles. What's up, Hello, Billy. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:20.520 Yes, yeah, I'm here. Every once in a while, I 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:28.160 got a message on my phone. I got viruses on 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:36.520 my phone, and I wondering, what's the best site we're 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.160 getting rid of those viruses. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.400 On the iPhone? Yeah, okay, Well, the good news is 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.640 there are no viruses on the iPhone. So what you're 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:51.280 seeing as a complete scam. Those are notification pop ups, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.119 and they could be coming from a variety of places, 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.800 and a lot of the times they're coming from websites 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.080 that you're visiting. They could be coming from apps that 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.520 you've installed, and they could be coming from those are 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.839 the two main places on an iPhone, so they're usually 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.840 it's it's usually just bogus notifications. So what I would 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.640 do is for you, there's no you don't have an 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.600 you don't have a virus on your phone. I can 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.600 tell you that unless you are sideloading an app on 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.040 the iPhone somehow, which would be nearly impossible unless you 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.600 are an expert in the iPhone. I'm not even sure 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.520 how to do that. But unless you've jail broken the phone, 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.360 which I don't think you have, but that is the 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.080 only way you would actually have a virus. So I 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.640 think you're probably fine. And what I would do if 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.200 I were you, I would go into your web browser. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.200 And I'm guessing you Safari, so I would go in 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.880 there and I would clear everything so it says clear 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.640 history and website data, and I would clear everything there 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.480 and that will help get rid of all of those 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.160 pop ups. Because what's happening is it sounds like some 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:03.560 of these websites are sending you notifications because you've either 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.640 agreed to that or you are they're in the background 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:07.920 on your phone or something like that. 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:08.760 So that's number one. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.920 Number two, you probably want to block your pop ups, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.920 so go into your settings on your iPhones. You go Settings, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:20.080 Apps and then Safari and then scroll down. You can 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.000 see all the options in there, so block pop ups. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.160 That's what I do. Number one. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.400 Number two, I would do, let's see where is it 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.440 privacy and security, make sure all those things are turned on, 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.240 and then I would also do the clear history and 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:38.320 website data. And once you do that, that should really 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.000 get rid of a bunch of that stuff. And I'm 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.960 looking if there's anything else that you need to do 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.800 in there. Yeah, I think that should be fine. Now, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.920 if you're using Chrome, you can go into Chrome and 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:50.360 Chrome Settings and do the same thing. So the notifications. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.960 If an app is sending you notifications like that, I 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.120 would go through your list of apps and delete any 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.880 apps that you do not need or recognize, and then 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.920 I would do the software updates on your phone and 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.600 I'll restart your phone. But that's really what it comes 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.320 down to, Bill, is that these these apps and websites 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.960 are just spamming you. They're not you're you know, anytime 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.960 you see those big pop ups that say warning you 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.479 have a virus on your iPhone, and it's like a countdown, 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:19.600 it's flashing screen. That's all nonsense. Happens on Windows, happens 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.600 on Android. And it really comes down to these bad 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.880 guys just sit there and figure out ways of tricking us, 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.360 and so they take things that we know and love. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.160 Notifications are great, you know, websites actually have a reason 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:38.200 to send you notification sometimes, but they they reverse engineer 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:39.920 and they figure out, like how can I use this 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.760 in a nefarious way, and that's what they do. They 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.440 scare you. I've seen people they send me screenshots of 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.440 their computer. The whole notifications are all filled with your virus, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.440 this that you need to update, you got to get 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:52.440 more cloud storage. 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:53.400 It's all a joke. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.200 There is one app if you want to verify that 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.800 your iPhone is secure. It's called I Verify Basic, and 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.720 they do charge ninety nine cents, but it's the only 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.960 app I know of that can actually look for kind 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.520 of spyware and stuff. You have to understand the way 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:13.600 that the iPhone operating system is created. Everything is sandboxed, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.080 which means nothing can kind of look and snoop into 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.000 other places that isn't just for that app or that 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.200 you've allowed for Apple. Like you know how when you 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:23.600 open up an app and says, hey, can we have 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.400 access to your photo library? Yes, it does that for 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.840 a reason. It's to protect you. You're saying, okay, fine, 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.120 you can look at my photos. Otherwise an app can't 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.920 look at your photos. Hey, can we have access to 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.280 your contacts? They can't just look at your contacts without 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.600 you saying yes, hey, can we have access to your camera? 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.840 Can we have access to your microphone? And by the way, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.520 you can rescind all of this stuff. If you don't 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.680 want an app to have access to those things, you 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.280 can go into your settings and change that stuff. So 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.800 if you go into your settings on the iPhone and 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:56.120 there's a privacy there's an entire section for privacy, privacy 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.400 and security. Just look through there. You can see it 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:02.320 has access to your calendar, contacts, your files, your health stuff. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.520 It's always a good idea to just look through there, 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.040 especially location. A lot of these apps do not need 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.919 access to this stuff. Same thing on Android, so you 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.720 are in control and yes, anytime you're using an online service, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:18.000 or an app. There's of some information and some data 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.160 about you that's flowing outwards to that app, but you 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.160 should be in control of how much of that information 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.399 is flowing out. Great question, Bill, Thanks for the call today. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.760 Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.320 seven four two four one zero one. Give me a 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.320 call if you have a question or need some tech advice. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.880 The website is rich on tech dot TV. Back after this, 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.680 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Kathy and Chicago Rights 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.280 and Hey, Rich, do you use a to do app 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.960 on Android? The one I love isn't cloud based, so 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.480 every time I get a new phone, I have to 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.800 retype everything, which is a pain. I've tried Google's app, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.440 but I don't like it, and I can't seem to 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.520 find one that works for me. My whole life is 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.119 in my to do list, so I figured I would 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.920 ask Kathy. I've tried all of them, every single one 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.560 of them, and I think that, like, if you look 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.840 at the most popular, which is probably like to doist, 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.080 I would say that's probably up there with some of 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.760 the best Google tasks. I understand you don't like, but 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.160 that one's simple because it integrates with Gemini and also Gmail. 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.280 But the one that I go back to and I 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:31.600 personally use over and over is Microsoft to Do. And 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.359 the reason I like Microsoft to Do is because it 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:39.520 is free, it's fully featured, it is cross platform, which 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.440 means it works on both iPhone, Android, Mac PC, and 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.360 it has my absolute favorite feature that I think you'll 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:52.000 enjoy as well, and that is it starts every day fresh, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.000 so you decide what's on your to do list for 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:55.560 that day. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:57.320 What does that mean. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.600 It means that instead of just having a list right now, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.000 I have a list to forty nine to doce I 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.800 can see that list, but my day has one to 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.000 do that's today, That's the thing I have to accomplish today. 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.480 And yes, you can set recurring tasks can I love 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.040 the sound it makes when you click the task to 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.080 be done with it. I love the lists you can make, 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.840 But my favorite thing is how you can add stuff 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.840 to your day, so every day is a fresh, blank slate. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.639 And the reason why that's handy is because sometimes you 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:29.679 don't want all of your tasks in front of your 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.359 face every day. You just want the things that you 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:33.960 need to accomplish that day. So when I get up, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:35.439 I kind of write the things I need to do 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.600 that day, and then I look at the other tasks 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.560 and you can just easily carry them over by right 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.600 clicking and says add to my day. And so this 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.840 is a very simple task system, but it's also very 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.920 full featured at the same time. And you can also 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.560 get it to integrate if you're using the iPhone with Siri, 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.160 so you can set the Microsoft to Do app as 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.840 your defaults where your tasks will go. When you say, hey, Siri, 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.280 set a task for this, or set a reminder for this, 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:04.680 you can instead of it going to the default reminders 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.160 app on the iPhone, you can set it for the 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:10.040 Microsoft to Do list. So anyway, it's called Microsoft to Do. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.320 I know it's not the sexiest dancer in the world, 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.399 but it works and I go back to it. And 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.800 believe me, I've tested every single to do app in 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.159 the world. There's not one that I have not tested. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.000 There's one called twos that I really like. That one's 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:24.840 I mean, there's every one of them. There's not one 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.040 that I have not tested. I'm trying to think of 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.359 a tick tick or whatever it's called. That one I've tried. 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.639 There's just so many. But you know, but again, This 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.040 is very personal, so whatever works for you is the best. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:36.800 But that's what I use. 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:41.159 Thanks for the email. Today, let's go to Dennis and 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:41.960 Marina del Rey. 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.040 Dennis, what's up, hey, Rich? 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.640 First of all, I really enjoy your program, and any 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.639 of your sponsors that I visit, I let them know 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:52.760 that I've heard it on the KFI radio. 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:54.520 Oh well, excellent, Well thank you for that. 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.600 Anyway, occasionally here in Marina del Ray we have power 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.639 outages and it happens in the evening and all of 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.600 the powers out I want to be able to listen 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.800 to iHeartMedia on my phone. But the problem is if 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:10.119 I drain my phone battery down. I do have a 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:13.040 heart condition, so if I needed to call medical attention, 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:16.160 you know, my phone would be totally drained down. Now, 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.520 I have some lithium batteries, you know, back up one 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.119 of those the rectangular things. But the problem is with 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:25.639 that you have to recharge it from time to time, 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.680 and usually when I go and grab it, it's discharged. 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.560 So what I would like is a battery backup that's 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.040 double A batteries because I've probably cut one hundred double 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.080 A batteries. So is there such a thing or is 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.800 the power drained so much that the batteries wouldn't handle it? 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.160 Ooh, that I don't think. I mean, I'm sure those exist, 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.440 but I would not recommend it. I don't think it's 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.080 the best solution. So Number one, you're going to be 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:55.360 burning through a lot of batteries. That's number one. Number Two, 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.800 the amount of power that your phone needs to stay 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.680 powered is probably just out run these batteries. 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:03.480 And so I'm. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.440 Curious, why are these things? I Okay, there's a couple 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.359 of solutions for you, Dennis, which I think are going 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.000 to be way better. Number One, if this is happening 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:15.280 quite often, I would recommend a larger like a portable 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:17.000 power station. Have you heard of those? 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.200 Right now? It doesn't happen that often. It happens in 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:21.240 every couple of months. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:23.560 Okay, But but to be prepared. 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.439 But I agree, I mean, in Los Angeles, you know 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:27.359 the power now. 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:28.000 It's funny. 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:29.800 When I first moved into my home, we had some 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:34.359 significant power outages, and I'll I'm knock on wood, they've 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:36.720 we've not had one in a while. But I do, 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:38.600 I am prepared with all this stuff, and I do 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.560 think about all this stuff. So I would recommend getting 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.679 a portable power station. And so the brand I like 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.120 Eco Flow. They've got some great ones on their website. 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.160 And these are giant, So we're talking not giant, We're 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:54.800 like they're too big. But it's like we're talking. You know, 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:57.440 one of those little portable battery packs that you have, 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.000 you know may last for like two charges of your phone. 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:03.560 This is going to last for way more than that. 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.320 And this also, so we're talking, you can get one. 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:08.600 I'm looking at this one for three hundred and forty 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:13.159 nine dollars, which is incredible, and I'm looking at the 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.920 and this, by the way, has a real plug as well, 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:19.320 so if you want to plug in something that's not USB, 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.760 you can and it's got all the connections. So it's 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:25.399 got up to twelve hours of home battery backup. That 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:29.760 means so it's nine hundred and sixty wat hour capacity, 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:34.160 So that's that's a huge capacity, right, And that's three 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:36.960 hundred and fifty bucks, which is not that bad. And 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.000 then you can also add solar, so if you want 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:41.600 a solar panel, you can add that to it, and 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:44.080 so that means you're going to be capturing the sun 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.800 and this thing could be charged theoretically forever, but it's 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:50.120 a great I think it's a great thing for everyone 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:52.080 to have in their home if you live in an 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.360 area where you've even experienced one power out, because we're 0:23:54.400 --> 0:23:57.240 so dependent on our phones and with something like this, 0:23:57.359 --> 0:24:00.159 you can really have a lot of power. Now, I'm 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:01.680 trying to think, so if we do nine hundred and 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:08.760 sixty kill a, what our capacity in terms of MAH. 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.560 I'm trying to see if I can convert this into 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:15.080 MILLIONMP hours? Okay, so that's about that's about three hundred 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:18.280 million amp three hundred thousand million hours, so that would 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.400 be oh my gosh, that would be thirty of those 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:24.920 little portable power banks you would have at ten thousand 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:26.919 million powers. I know this is getting very complicated, but 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:31.040 my point is it's like thirty times the backup and 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:32.960 these things, by the way, when you charge them. I 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:35.399 talked to a company about this. I said, how you know, 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:38.920 like how much charge should you be losing on these things? 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.919 And they said, it's only a couple of percentages every month, 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:45.000 are every six months, so I would I would check 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:46.840 on these things every six months. So what you do 0:24:46.920 --> 0:24:48.480 is you power it up in a good time, you know, 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:50.919 when you have power, put it in your closet, and 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:52.800 then when the power goes out, you pull this thing out. 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:55.000 You could plug in a light. They've got a picture 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:58.200 of a guy plugging his refrigerator right here. Refrigerator right there. 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:02.520 But that's what I would recommend. The battery backup. I'm 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:04.720 sure if I searched Amazon, you might be able to 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:07.399 find one, probably Energize or makes it or something like 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:10.120 that portable. I'm gonna see if I can find one 0:25:10.160 --> 0:25:15.000 portable charger powered by double A batteries. Let's just say 0:25:15.359 --> 0:25:17.000 curious if they even make these things. 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:17.800 They do. 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:21.520 They've got a couple brands. I mean, I guess as 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:26.359 an emergency it's seven bucks. I mean, Dennis, I like 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:28.080 how you call in. I'm like, all right, here's your 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:30.359 three hundred and fifty dollars solution. Your solution is like 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:33.560 six dollars and fifty cents. So look, if it makes 0:25:33.600 --> 0:25:36.280 you feel better, sure go with it. I just think 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:40.480 that having one of these portable battery backup backups is 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:43.080 just going to be infinitely better, and they shouldn't lose, 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:46.240 they shouldn't be dead when you go to use it again. 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:50.240 The other brand that is very much into solar is 0:25:50.320 --> 0:25:53.520 Goal zero. They make a lot of these solar battery 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:57.640 banks and all kinds of stuff solar oriented. My only 0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:00.480 trouble with those is you have to remember solar is 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:03.000 going to be very slow to recharge these. So it's 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:06.119 good over time and long term, but you know in 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:08.480 the short term, the battery that's on it is going 0:26:08.480 --> 0:26:11.840 to be a lot better. Jackerie is also a brand 0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:14.200 that makes these portable power stations. You can check out 0:26:14.240 --> 0:26:17.080 Eco Flow Jackerie. But I think that every home should 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:19.399 have one of these. Like I've got mine at the ready, 0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:22.720 all the time, ready to go. It's I check on it, 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:24.960 make sure it's charged up. If there's ever any sort 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:28.520 of inclement weather like we have wind, we have rain, 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:33.000 whatever it is, I'm going to pull this thing out 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:35.120 and have it ready to go just in case because 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:37.360 we have And by the way, charge your phone too. 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:39.399 There's so many people I know they wake up and 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:41.280 their phone is like, you know, their phone is on 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:41.879 five percent. 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:44.560 Don't do that. Don't do that. That's not not what 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:46.280 you want to do. I'm just still laughing. And it's 0:26:46.280 --> 0:26:47.480 only three hundred and fifty bucks. 0:26:47.520 --> 0:26:48.240 Oh you can fix it. 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:49.080 For six bucks. 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:51.800 It's not gonna be as good in a similar shake, 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:54.080 and I do believe me. I take this stuff into 0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:57.560 into consideration. Thanks for the call, Dennis, really appreciate it. 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:00.000 Speaking of emails, I got an email from a listener 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:01.320 her name Wendy in New York. 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:02.560 She listens over there. 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:05.000 She said she was hearing me talk about in Cogny, 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:07.360 so she signed up with my code and get this, 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:11.359 she had over four hundred data brokers that they already 0:27:11.400 --> 0:27:14.560 removed her data from four hundred brokers, her personal info. 0:27:14.720 --> 0:27:18.320 That's why I recommend in cogny. 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Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:43.560 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:46.480 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:50.040 to two four one zero one. New feature on Uber 0:28:50.160 --> 0:28:54.320 this week. You can now book hotel rooms directly inside 0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:57.040 the Uber app, so no need to jump to a 0:28:57.080 --> 0:28:59.680 third party site. They're working with Expedia, so they've got 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:03.360 access to all the hotel rooms everywhere. Seven hundred thousand worldwide. 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:07.880 Verbo vacation rentals are coming next. The idea here is 0:29:07.920 --> 0:29:10.840 that Uber, like a lot of apps, they want to 0:29:10.880 --> 0:29:13.360 be your one stop shop. They don't want you to 0:29:13.440 --> 0:29:15.360 just book a car. They want you to do everything 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:18.600 that has to do with travel and getting around. And 0:29:18.640 --> 0:29:21.200 so now there's a new hotels tab you can filter 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:24.360 by price, ratings, amenities, and book using the credit card 0:29:24.400 --> 0:29:27.400 that's already any information that's already stored in your Uber account. 0:29:27.680 --> 0:29:30.840 And that's another big benefit of these apps because they 0:29:30.880 --> 0:29:33.680 have your information. You already trust Uber with your card 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:36.840 now and your information now it's easy. You don't have 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:39.160 to sign up for anything else. So here is the 0:29:39.200 --> 0:29:42.240 part that gets really interesting if you're an Uber because 0:29:42.440 --> 0:29:45.080 I would not think to do this generally, but if 0:29:45.080 --> 0:29:48.440 you're an Uber one member, they've got a rolling list 0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:51.240 of about ten thousand hotels that are going to be 0:29:51.320 --> 0:29:54.720 up to twenty percent off. That's huge. And some of 0:29:54.720 --> 0:29:57.120 the websites, all you know, the blog websites, they already 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:59.120 looked like the points guy and stuff, and they compared 0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:01.360 a bunch of prices and they did find that the 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:04.240 prices you get on Uber are cheaper than what you 0:30:04.280 --> 0:30:07.160 could typically get at that hotel. The trick is you 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:09.600 have to be an Uber one member. That membership is 0:30:09.600 --> 0:30:12.640 generally about one hundred dollars a year. But I would 0:30:12.640 --> 0:30:15.480 not pay full price for that because I've gotten it 0:30:15.520 --> 0:30:18.600 for the past couple years discounted. Sometimes on Black Friday 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:20.920 they run a deal. Sometimes they just run an offer 0:30:21.000 --> 0:30:24.160 inside the app. If you are open Table Gold, you 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:25.920 can get six months free of that. So there's a 0:30:25.920 --> 0:30:27.960 lot of ways to save on that. Uber one membership 0:30:28.000 --> 0:30:30.080 should just be on the lookout for that. But here's 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:32.400 the other interesting part. Not only do you get up 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:34.720 to twenty percent off these hotels, but then you get 0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:37.760 ten percent back in Uber credits. So that's where it 0:30:37.760 --> 0:30:40.400 can get really interesting. I know, when I travel for business, 0:30:40.720 --> 0:30:43.200 two nights at a hotel could be seven eight hundred dollars, 0:30:43.680 --> 0:30:47.680 So getting ten percent back, you're talking eighty dollars back 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:50.120 in Uber credits, and that would go to me. So 0:30:50.240 --> 0:30:52.960 even though you're using your company's you know, your company's 0:30:52.960 --> 0:30:54.959 card to maybe pay for the hotel, you get back 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:58.680 those credits. So that's very interesting for someone that's booking 0:30:58.680 --> 0:31:00.760 a lot of hotel rooms. Now, now here's the thing. 0:31:01.560 --> 0:31:03.880 The downside to this is that if you book through 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:07.800 Uber you're probably not gonna get your hotel loyalty perks 0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:10.680 or points, especially from some of those big chains like 0:31:10.760 --> 0:31:13.840 Hilton or Marriott. They want you to book direct, and 0:31:13.920 --> 0:31:16.560 so you do have to kind of weigh the advantage 0:31:16.600 --> 0:31:19.360 of getting that credit versus what you might get for 0:31:19.440 --> 0:31:22.240 your perks. Now, I don't know if that's always true 0:31:22.440 --> 0:31:25.680 because I mostly booked direct, but you know, that's typically 0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:29.120 how it works. Let's see anything else that's interesting there. No, 0:31:29.280 --> 0:31:31.320 I think that's just it hasn't showed up on my 0:31:31.400 --> 0:31:34.520 app just yet on my Uber app. But I'm looking 0:31:34.560 --> 0:31:36.800 forward to seeing how this works because a lot of times, 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:38.840 if I'm booking for work, I don't need all the 0:31:38.880 --> 0:31:41.840 perks from you know, my status at whatever hotel chain, 0:31:42.200 --> 0:31:44.440 and usually the status doesn't get you much anyway, and 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:47.800 the points are like okay, whatever. So I think that's 0:31:47.920 --> 0:31:49.920 a really could be a big win for a lot 0:31:49.960 --> 0:31:52.560 of people. So check it out inside Uber. Now you 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:53.360 can book hotels. 0:31:53.440 --> 0:31:54.080 Let's go too. 0:31:56.480 --> 0:31:59.280 Chime in Sherman Oaks eighty to eight Rich one oh 0:31:59.280 --> 0:32:03.040 one eighty eight one zero one chime You're on with. 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:07.600 Rich, wonderful second time caller, Hi Rich, Hi. Before I 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:09.600 get to my main topic. I just want to let 0:32:09.640 --> 0:32:11.920 you know that when I visit your site in a 0:32:11.960 --> 0:32:14.960 Linux text browser, I get a five twenty two er 0:32:15.080 --> 0:32:20.040 or something about cloudslayer or Something' is like, oh wow, yeah, 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:23.960 I know some of us who are blind like to 0:32:24.080 --> 0:32:27.960 use Linux or you know, text browsers like links l 0:32:28.080 --> 0:32:28.600 y n X. 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:30.440 Okay, interesting, I'll look into that. 0:32:30.880 --> 0:32:34.480 The The other thing is that back on October twenty eighth, 0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:39.360 CNN launched a subscription service, which luckily I get authenticated 0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:42.840 through direct TV. That is the issue. The issue is 0:32:42.840 --> 0:32:52.040 that no matter which connect the TV, Google, you know, Streamer, Roku, Amazon, Fire, 0:32:52.760 --> 0:32:57.040 none of them have accessibility on this particular app. I 0:32:57.120 --> 0:32:59.920 tried everything I could think up to contact CNN or 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:05.040 developers or somebody, phone numbers listed on their website. Nothing. 0:33:05.760 --> 0:33:08.560 And I don't really feel like waiting till Paramount acquires 0:33:08.600 --> 0:33:11.400 them for them to change it later this year. 0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:15.680 It's probably not going to get better. So what are 0:33:15.680 --> 0:33:17.640 you trying to get? What type of feature are you 0:33:17.720 --> 0:33:18.320 looking for? 0:33:18.600 --> 0:33:23.400 Okay? So, like, for example, on the Roku, when I 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:26.640 launched the app, the Roku screen reader, which is actually 0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:29.320 pretty bad actually, but I mean it does work. It 0:33:29.400 --> 0:33:34.160 says launching CNN and it says nothing else. Nothing. You 0:33:34.200 --> 0:33:37.200 can't you try, You go up and down with the arrows, whatever, 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:40.520 you hear nothing. The only thing if you're lucky enough 0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:44.160 to land on one of the feeds of CNN or 0:33:44.320 --> 0:33:49.040 CNN International or whatever, it will start playing. But you 0:33:49.120 --> 0:33:50.120 get no navigation. 0:33:50.520 --> 0:33:54.560 Right, So even though you're moving the whatever the pointer 0:33:54.680 --> 0:33:57.120 on the screen, it's not reading you what those buttons 0:33:57.160 --> 0:33:58.520 do exactly. 0:33:58.600 --> 0:34:02.400 And that's on all three, you know, Amazon, Google and 0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:05.040 the Roco. It's the same thing. And I've tried. I 0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:07.600 called Amazon and they said, oh, we don't know who 0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:08.480 the developer is. 0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:11.480 They don't know. I just looked it up. I've got 0:34:11.520 --> 0:34:14.399 it right here. It's uh, you've got I mean, there's 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:19.320 someone contacting. There's an email for closed captioning. I tried that, okay, 0:34:19.400 --> 0:34:20.440 the IP closed cap. 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:25.560 I tried calling the phone number listed on there, Uh, 0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:30.160 with a Cathy somebody or who's the contact? That number 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:31.120 is always. 0:34:30.760 --> 0:34:32.080 Busy, always busy. 0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:34.719 Okay, Well this should be a So here's the deal. 0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:38.160 I talked to Amazon a couple of weeks ago at 0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:41.239 the Season Assistive Tech Conference, so I do know that 0:34:41.280 --> 0:34:42.960 they do have people at work on this, But you're right, 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.359 it's like this has to be that something that the 0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:48.719 app developer codes in so that it works with the 0:34:48.760 --> 0:34:52.719 accessibility features built into these streaming services or these you know, 0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:56.080 these platforms. So that's the problem. And it sounds like, 0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:58.279 and I'll be completely honest, I think because they're in 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:02.120 the process of being acquired, that's is that my understanding 0:35:02.160 --> 0:35:04.480 that their CNN is part of what they're going to 0:35:04.480 --> 0:35:05.440 become part of Paramount? 0:35:05.680 --> 0:35:07.279 Well maybe, okay. 0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:08.920 I mean I'm not I'm not up on that one. 0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:13.560 I mean, even before when CNN had a streaming thing 0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:17.120 called CNN Plus, it was the same thing, it's the 0:35:17.160 --> 0:35:18.719 same platform. 0:35:18.719 --> 0:35:20.160 Interesting it didn't work. 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:23.960 Yeah, And I mean I've tried looking for to contact 0:35:24.080 --> 0:35:26.440 CNN announcers you know that. I thought, well, maybe they 0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:29.520 could pass it along or something. You can't And of 0:35:29.560 --> 0:35:33.400 course I don't have social media and Linux, uh you know, 0:35:33.440 --> 0:35:36.160 in a command line set up, so it's you know, 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:37.840 I don't know what would happen if I had a 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:40.360 graphical if I could reach out to somebody. 0:35:40.480 --> 0:35:43.840 Well, that's that is frustrating, I would say. The only 0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:46.680 I mean, so tell me about an app that works. Well, 0:35:46.680 --> 0:35:48.200 I've got less than a minute, tell me about an 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.200 app that works well. And I guess just the idea 0:35:50.239 --> 0:35:52.319 is that just getting this out there, maybe we'll hear 0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:53.040 from someone. 0:35:52.840 --> 0:35:55.279 That says, yeah, I'm just trying to think. I mean, 0:35:55.800 --> 0:35:58.399 al Jazeera works fine. I watched their news. I don't 0:35:58.440 --> 0:36:01.360 always agree with their content, you know, but I like 0:36:01.440 --> 0:36:05.160 what they do a TRT world, I mean. 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:09.239 Okay, so there are apps that actually do this right as. 0:36:08.960 --> 0:36:11.600 Well, Oh yeah, definitely, but there are also ones that 0:36:11.680 --> 0:36:12.280 do it wrong. 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:16.200 And these people, you know, these app developers, I understand 0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:17.560 that they're doing a lot, and there's a lot of 0:36:17.560 --> 0:36:20.640 different platforms out there, but they may not realize just 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:23.480 how important these features are to someone like you, Chime. 0:36:23.520 --> 0:36:26.520 And so I do know that from talking to some 0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:29.920 of these companies there is much more emphasis on this 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:32.600 sort of thing these days than there ever was. So 0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:35.080 I think that's a good thing. Hopefully someone from this 0:36:35.160 --> 0:36:37.640 app will hear this and get things fixed. Thanks for 0:36:37.640 --> 0:36:40.600 the call today, Chime more rich on Tech. Right after this, 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:46.760 welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:36:46.800 --> 0:36:50.359 out with you, talking technology ad eight a rich one 0:36:50.400 --> 0:36:53.839 oh one eight eight eight seven four two four one 0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:55.680 zero one got. 0:36:55.520 --> 0:36:57.040 Lots to talk about on the show. 0:36:57.120 --> 0:36:59.839 We'll take some of your calls, some of your emails, 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:02.480 talk about the tech news of the week. Got a 0:37:02.520 --> 0:37:05.879 list of so many things. Every week. We're gonna talk 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:09.840 about the new airline battery rules. Do you see that 0:37:10.200 --> 0:37:11.680 Spirit Airlines no more? 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:12.880 No more. 0:37:12.960 --> 0:37:17.359 Spirit Airlines just gone. They canceled all their flights. I mean, 0:37:17.760 --> 0:37:21.640 so many people probably impacted, just scrambling, you know, because 0:37:21.680 --> 0:37:21.960 of that. 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:24.400 So not fun when that happens. 0:37:24.840 --> 0:37:26.320 I'm trying to think of all the airlines that have 0:37:26.400 --> 0:37:28.880 gone out of business since I've been around. There's been 0:37:28.920 --> 0:37:31.879 a lot over the years, but that one was kind 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:34.680 of a quick one. It was just like overnight, boom, 0:37:34.719 --> 0:37:37.680 We're done. We're canceling our flights. So if you do 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:42.040 have I'm not just complaining here about that. If you 0:37:42.120 --> 0:37:46.439 do have a ticket on Spirit, some information to know 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:50.440 other airlines. So first off, if you booked a ticket direct, 0:37:50.480 --> 0:37:53.400 you're gonna be getting an automatic refund from Spirit, So 0:37:54.200 --> 0:37:56.279 hopefully that will happen automatically. If you book through a 0:37:56.320 --> 0:37:58.759 third party like Expedia or something like that, you will 0:37:58.760 --> 0:38:01.360 have to contact them to get your refund. But the 0:38:01.400 --> 0:38:05.040 other airlines are kind of helping, pitching into help. I 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:06.600 don't know how much help that's going to be, but 0:38:06.840 --> 0:38:12.200 United is giving is offering stranded Spirit passengers price capped 0:38:12.200 --> 0:38:15.600 replacement flights mostly two hundred dollars up to three hundred 0:38:15.640 --> 0:38:19.920 dollars for two weeks within with proof of booking. American 0:38:20.080 --> 0:38:24.920 similar offering rescue fares on overlapping Spirit routes and putting 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:30.200 bigger planes and adding flights where possible. Delta reduced non 0:38:30.239 --> 0:38:35.080 refundable rescue fares for five days across Spirit markets. Let's 0:38:35.080 --> 0:38:37.600 see Southwest Airport only, so you got to go to 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:41.239 the airport to get these. That's interesting. Airport Only discounted 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:43.400 fares about two hundred and four hundred dollars based on 0:38:43.440 --> 0:38:48.680 distance through May sixth, on overlapping routes, plus the status 0:38:48.680 --> 0:38:52.200 match for Spirit Elite. Spirit had an Elite program. You 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:53.880 could be Spirit Elite. 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:54.520 Wow. 0:38:55.880 --> 0:38:58.000 I know they had those big front seats. I booked 0:38:58.000 --> 0:39:01.480 my Data Spirit flight and he missed it. He actually 0:39:01.480 --> 0:39:02.240 missed his flight. 0:39:02.760 --> 0:39:03.279 Yes, there are. 0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:05.800 Still people I missed flights. I said, Dad, I booked 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:08.000 you like the big front seat. He's like, well, we 0:39:08.000 --> 0:39:11.080 were not in that because we missed our flight. Thanks 0:39:12.080 --> 0:39:15.920 Jet blue ninety nine dollars, rescue fares for stranded Spirit 0:39:16.000 --> 0:39:19.920 passengers with caps up to two ninety nine, expanding flights, 0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:22.600 and key markets like Fort Lauderdale. So that's on my 0:39:22.640 --> 0:39:27.160 Facebook page, Facebook dot com, slash rich on tech. Let's 0:39:27.200 --> 0:39:28.520 go to Bill and Little Rock. 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:28.799 Bill. 0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:34.400 I hope you didn't have a Spirit flight plan, did you? 0:39:34.440 --> 0:39:34.480 No? 0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:38.560 Okay, well you're good. Then what can I help you? 0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:38.680 With? 0:39:41.960 --> 0:39:46.160 Text messages? When you open them up and it's got 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:52.839 that blue linked to it. Okay, so as long as 0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:58.279 you don't press on that link, you're good. As far 0:39:58.320 --> 0:39:59.480 as spam. 0:39:59.080 --> 0:40:04.560 And yes, typically yeah, typically, yes, you're talking iPhone, I'm guessing. 0:40:05.680 --> 0:40:06.440 Yeah, yeah. 0:40:06.680 --> 0:40:11.520 So the iPhone, if it suspects that the message is 0:40:11.640 --> 0:40:15.239 spammy or scammy, it will not that the link will 0:40:15.239 --> 0:40:18.279 actually not highlight and blue. So you have a little 0:40:18.280 --> 0:40:21.240 bit of protection there that is not fool proof. Don't email, 0:40:21.320 --> 0:40:23.520 don't send me the angry emails, not you, Bill, but 0:40:23.560 --> 0:40:26.759 the rest. You know, it's not foolproof. But if if 0:40:26.920 --> 0:40:29.719 Apple determines that it's a spammy message, it does not 0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:33.640 highlight the link in blue. So that's one little line 0:40:33.640 --> 0:40:36.400 of defense. And also, you know, you have to remember 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:42.080 the way the iPhone is architected, the there's not really 0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:44.680 Now this is going to get a little bit technical, 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:47.919 but so actually the main way that people get into 0:40:47.960 --> 0:40:51.160 the iPhone like and hack it is through text messages. 0:40:51.440 --> 0:40:54.440 Historically it's because they find some sort of exploit and 0:40:54.480 --> 0:40:56.120 they figure out a way to send you a message 0:40:56.120 --> 0:40:58.160 and you click the link and it installs something on 0:40:58.200 --> 0:40:58.640 your phone. 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:00.520 So but that is. 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:05.160 Very very very rare, like very very rare for most people. 0:41:05.200 --> 0:41:07.880 You're gonna be just fine, now, I would say, just 0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:10.360 the thing to be worried about is really when you 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:14.440 click those links if it's a phishing website, And in 0:41:14.440 --> 0:41:17.160 that case, you don't really unless you're using the Chrome 0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:20.120 web browser. Safari does a little bit, but Chrome does 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:22.760 a really good job at scanning those links and making 0:41:22.800 --> 0:41:26.080 sure that they're not gonna get you into a phishing situation. 0:41:27.120 --> 0:41:30.400 I'm just looking to see if there's any options inside messages. 0:41:30.480 --> 0:41:33.839 Let me just go into the settings here, let's see 0:41:35.440 --> 0:41:38.840 screen text message filter, so you can. Yeah, So I 0:41:38.840 --> 0:41:42.520 would just say in general, you're you're probably gonna be fine, Like, 0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:46.000 just them sending you that message is not going to 0:41:46.040 --> 0:41:48.880 like hack you most ninety nine point nine nine percent 0:41:48.880 --> 0:41:51.480 of the time, and so that's it. So are you 0:41:51.520 --> 0:41:53.120 getting a lot of what do you get? You're getting 0:41:53.160 --> 0:41:54.919 like a lot of spam messages or what bill? 0:41:56.880 --> 0:42:01.399 Yeah, okay, I get a lot of crap on it, 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:05.560 and some of them are legitimate, and I'll open up 0:42:05.600 --> 0:42:10.080 the message, but I don't click on that blue highlighted 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:12.319 link right now. 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:14.520 Do you have to spam filter turned on for the 0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:16.600 messages or no? 0:42:16.600 --> 0:42:18.680 No, I don't know how the phone works. 0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:22.600 Well, there is if you go into your settings on 0:42:22.640 --> 0:42:25.120 the iPhone, you go into settings, you scroll all the 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:28.000 way down to the bottom. They'll make these easier to find. 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:30.279 You tap apps, and then you scroll all the way 0:42:30.280 --> 0:42:32.520 to the middle to the MS where it says messages. 0:42:33.080 --> 0:42:37.279 You can find the settings for messages and you can 0:42:37.640 --> 0:42:40.919 look in there and it will tell you it will 0:42:41.000 --> 0:42:44.520 there's a toggle for text message filter. You can turn 0:42:44.560 --> 0:42:47.719 that on, and then there's filter spam, and so that 0:42:47.800 --> 0:42:50.040 will cut down on a lot of those spam messages 0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:53.320 that you get. But again, if Apple determines that it's spam, 0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:55.600 Like I'm looking at a message right now that's from Amazon, 0:42:56.080 --> 0:42:58.600 and yes, I can tap the blue link, but if 0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:02.600 I look at a message that it has decided is spam. 0:43:03.040 --> 0:43:06.799 The link is not in blue. You actually and this 0:43:06.880 --> 0:43:08.400 is why this is another thing to be on the 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:11.960 lookout for. This is why spammers have gotten and scammers 0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:17.080 have gotten very sophisticated. They say, please reply why to 0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:21.200 activate this message? And so when you interact with a message, 0:43:21.320 --> 0:43:23.360 all of a sudden, the links turn blue on an 0:43:23.400 --> 0:43:27.319 iPhone And the reason for that is because they say, Okay, well, 0:43:27.320 --> 0:43:29.040 now you've determined that this is something you want to 0:43:29.080 --> 0:43:32.200 interact with. Now we're going to activate those links. But again, 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:34.920 just activating those links is not really going to harm you. 0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:37.640 It's more what you do with that link. And so 0:43:37.760 --> 0:43:39.239 that's when you have to be on guard, is when 0:43:39.280 --> 0:43:40.880 you click that link if it's from your bank or 0:43:40.920 --> 0:43:43.839 anything like that. You know, banks and stuff usually don't 0:43:43.880 --> 0:43:46.640 send links because they know that these scammers are doing 0:43:46.680 --> 0:43:49.480 the same thing, so they try to. It's it's just 0:43:49.600 --> 0:43:51.520 very tricky. You just have to really look at all 0:43:51.600 --> 0:43:54.760 the signals from the message and that's the return center, 0:43:55.320 --> 0:43:59.600 how it's come in the messaging everything. Like one of 0:43:59.600 --> 0:44:02.440 these messes in my spam is actually for my rental 0:44:02.480 --> 0:44:04.880 car and it went to the spam filter. But I 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:08.720 can tell to a legitimate message and it's not necessarily 0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:12.879 a spam message. So that's what's to look out for. Bill, 0:44:13.400 --> 0:44:15.799 Thanks for the call today, appreciate it. Eight eight eight 0:44:15.960 --> 0:44:18.560 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:44:18.560 --> 0:44:20.560 two four one zero one. 0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:23.279 I'm gonna see if I have a oh. 0:44:23.040 --> 0:44:25.920 You know, I'm gonna mention this for my my LA listeners. 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:29.920 This is a big deal in la uh. Fubo, you 0:44:29.920 --> 0:44:34.000 know the streaming service Fubo. They now have Sportsnet LA 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:38.120 so you can stream the Dodgers without cable. This is 0:44:38.160 --> 0:44:42.239 a brand new option. Fubo has added Spectrum sportsnet La. 0:44:43.360 --> 0:44:43.560 Uh. 0:44:43.600 --> 0:44:46.200 This is the channel that carries most Dodgers games and 0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:48.640 this is brand new for the twenty twenty six season. 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:51.680 Why is this a big deal? You know, if you 0:44:51.760 --> 0:44:54.440 watch sports, they all have their own channels now, and 0:44:54.480 --> 0:44:59.960 they're usually exclusive to some sort of carrier or platform 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:02.719 because you know, they make money on this stuff. So 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:04.800 Sports Net LA has been one of the hardest channels 0:45:04.800 --> 0:45:09.040 to get because it's been locked behind traditional cable, mostly Spectrum, 0:45:09.360 --> 0:45:10.560 and then they kind of open it up. 0:45:10.560 --> 0:45:11.040 They've got it. 0:45:11.040 --> 0:45:13.960 I think it's on Direct TV as well. But with 0:45:14.040 --> 0:45:17.799 this deal now Fubo now streams local Dodgers games over 0:45:17.840 --> 0:45:20.640 one hundred and forty regular games, plus pre show and 0:45:20.680 --> 0:45:24.920 postgame shows only in the Southern California market, So if 0:45:24.920 --> 0:45:26.920 you live outside Southern California, you're not going to get this. 0:45:26.960 --> 0:45:30.680 You don't have access. This doesn't mean every single Dodgers game. 0:45:30.800 --> 0:45:34.080 Some are still national broadcasts that are on like ESPN, 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:35.120 Fox or Apple TV. 0:45:35.200 --> 0:45:35.560 Plus. 0:45:35.640 --> 0:45:40.760 I know it's so confusing for sports now. It really 0:45:40.800 --> 0:45:42.760 really is. You have to figure out where it's playing 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:45.560 and if you have access to where it's playing. But 0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:48.120 Fubo base plan this is Remember this is like full 0:45:48.160 --> 0:45:50.960 on cable, so you're getting like two hundred channels, not 0:45:51.080 --> 0:45:56.200 just this Sportsnet seventy three dollars a month, seventy four 0:45:56.239 --> 0:45:58.640 dollars a month. The first month is about fifty dollars. 0:45:59.040 --> 0:46:03.239 But I got an email. Let's see, I got I 0:46:03.280 --> 0:46:05.920 got a fine. Where that email came in from Fubo 0:46:07.719 --> 0:46:10.080 I mentioned, let's see where is it here? 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:12.400 Dave. 0:46:12.560 --> 0:46:14.480 Dave wrote me, I want to thank you for your 0:46:14.520 --> 0:46:17.280 information on Fubo now being able to broadcast the Dodgers. 0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:19.960 You basically saved me one hundred and fifty dollars a 0:46:20.000 --> 0:46:23.120 month because of this information. So he probably had some 0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:27.040 big old package from either Direct TV or Spectrum that 0:46:27.200 --> 0:46:28.879 was paying a ton of money for now he could pay. 0:46:29.239 --> 0:46:31.480 You know, it's still expensive seventy four dollars a month, 0:46:31.480 --> 0:46:34.200 but you're getting all your cable included and DVR and 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:36.200 all that stuff, and you know you can cut the cord. 0:46:36.600 --> 0:46:39.640 You still need the Internet. People realize, you know, if 0:46:39.680 --> 0:46:42.319 you're trying to cut the cord and get rid of 0:46:42.320 --> 0:46:45.239 your cable package, keep in mind you probably need to 0:46:45.320 --> 0:46:50.320 keep that Internet. You need Internet to access Netflix, Paramount Plus, 0:46:50.360 --> 0:46:55.040 YouTube TV, Fubo, all these streaming services. You have to 0:46:55.080 --> 0:46:58.319 have a base internet to get them. It doesn't just 0:46:58.440 --> 0:47:01.520 magically appear on your Fire TV stick or your Roku 0:47:01.640 --> 0:47:04.120 or your Apple TV. You need a way to get 0:47:04.120 --> 0:47:07.200 that programming, and that is the cable and the cable 0:47:07.200 --> 0:47:09.279 companies know this, which is why they charge a lot 0:47:09.320 --> 0:47:11.400 for cable. I think I'm up to every month, it 0:47:11.480 --> 0:47:12.799 just keeps going up. I think I'm up to one 0:47:12.880 --> 0:47:15.000 hundred and five dollars a month now for my Internet. 0:47:15.280 --> 0:47:18.000 I love it. It's good, but it's expensive. And by 0:47:18.040 --> 0:47:20.320 the way, when I first started it was probably I 0:47:20.360 --> 0:47:22.680 don't know sixty bucks a month. I mean, it just 0:47:22.760 --> 0:47:25.319 keeps going up. But I know I get it. We 0:47:25.360 --> 0:47:26.960 all need it, and that's where we're getting our stuff. 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:30.040 From eight to eight rich one O one eight eight 0:47:30.040 --> 0:47:32.319 eight seven four to two four one zero one. If 0:47:32.320 --> 0:47:35.399 you're on the website, it's richon Tech dot tv. I've 0:47:35.400 --> 0:47:37.279 got all the show notes there. Be sure to check 0:47:37.280 --> 0:47:40.319 out my newsletter subscribe to the podcast so you can 0:47:40.360 --> 0:47:42.400 listen to this show on demand. Coming up, we'll take 0:47:42.440 --> 0:47:46.360 more of your calls and i'll talk those airline battery 0:47:46.440 --> 0:47:48.040 rules so you know what you can bring on and 0:47:48.120 --> 0:47:48.640 what you can't. 0:47:48.760 --> 0:47:50.439 Coming up right here on rich on Tech. 0:47:56.440 --> 0:47:58.839 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:47:58.840 --> 0:48:02.200 out with you, talking tech Triple eight rich one on 0:48:02.200 --> 0:48:05.040 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:48:05.320 --> 0:48:09.000 zero one. You might have heard that airlines are tightening 0:48:09.120 --> 0:48:12.600 their rules on portable chargers known as power banks, you know, 0:48:12.600 --> 0:48:15.600 those little portable batteries. So here's what you need to know. 0:48:15.640 --> 0:48:17.279 I get a lot of questions about this. People say, 0:48:17.360 --> 0:48:20.239 Rich what can I bring on board? What can I 0:48:20.239 --> 0:48:21.920 pack in my carry on? You know they say no 0:48:22.000 --> 0:48:24.360 lithium ion batteries. Does that mean I can't have an 0:48:24.400 --> 0:48:26.760 air tag in my luggage. No, that's not what that means. 0:48:27.080 --> 0:48:30.680 They're really looking for in your in your checked baggage. 0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:33.520 They don't want loose lithium ion batteries, and that includes 0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:37.000 the portable batteries. But that's really what they're looking for. 0:48:37.680 --> 0:48:40.120 And so I would just be upfront with the person 0:48:40.120 --> 0:48:41.960 when you're checking in your luggage to say, here's what 0:48:42.000 --> 0:48:44.840 I have if you're questioning it, right, like, don't just 0:48:44.880 --> 0:48:46.920 throw stuff in there and say no, I have no 0:48:47.040 --> 0:48:49.080 no battery in there. Like if you do tell them, 0:48:49.480 --> 0:48:51.480 most of the time it's fine. I've I travel with 0:48:51.560 --> 0:48:54.799 so many gadgets and I've never had a problem. But 0:48:54.840 --> 0:48:57.759 the big change when it comes to portable chargers for 0:48:57.800 --> 0:49:02.680 your carry ons is that most airlines are limiting you Okay, 0:49:03.200 --> 0:49:04.920 most of them are limiting you to just two of 0:49:04.960 --> 0:49:07.080 those portable chargers and they have to be one hundred 0:49:07.080 --> 0:49:10.280 WAT hours or less. And that's a little confusing because 0:49:10.320 --> 0:49:15.000 most of the chargers are rated in millionamp hours, so 0:49:15.040 --> 0:49:18.920 you have to do the conversion and so one hundred 0:49:19.080 --> 0:49:23.040 what hours, let's see, one hundred WA hours to millionamp 0:49:23.120 --> 0:49:29.279 hours is gonna be about maybe yeah, well, see this 0:49:29.360 --> 0:49:31.960 is the problem. It's all about the voltage. But you're 0:49:31.960 --> 0:49:34.000 gonna be fine if you have a standard power bank 0:49:34.040 --> 0:49:36.520 that's about twenty thousand million hours, which is what i'd 0:49:36.560 --> 0:49:40.319 recommend for you know, travel, you're gonna be fine. So 0:49:40.400 --> 0:49:42.359 if you have one of those standard power banks, you're 0:49:42.360 --> 0:49:44.719 gonna be no problem. The other thing is that they 0:49:44.760 --> 0:49:47.960 want you to keep them visible and within reach at 0:49:47.960 --> 0:49:49.480 all times, so they don't want you to put these 0:49:49.520 --> 0:49:52.200 in the overhead bins anymore. And they also don't want 0:49:52.200 --> 0:49:54.680 you to recharge your portable charger on the plane, so 0:49:54.719 --> 0:49:56.120 even if you could plug it in, they don't want 0:49:56.160 --> 0:49:59.080 you to do that. Why it's because every single person 0:49:59.200 --> 0:50:01.239 has one of these now on the plane, and when 0:50:01.239 --> 0:50:03.640 you have that many people with them, there's bound to 0:50:03.680 --> 0:50:06.640 be an issue. And you know, it could be a fire, 0:50:06.760 --> 0:50:09.320 could be you know, you drop them, could be short circuiting. 0:50:09.360 --> 0:50:11.600 A lot of these things are cheap, people buy off brands. 0:50:11.600 --> 0:50:14.040 They're not perfect, so you just have to be very 0:50:14.040 --> 0:50:17.719 aware of these rules. Bottom line, make sure if you 0:50:17.760 --> 0:50:20.000 have one of these portable batteries brant in your carry on, 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:22.520 keep it within reach, make sure it's not you know, 0:50:22.600 --> 0:50:25.400 over the size limit. Don't recharge it on the plane. 0:50:25.520 --> 0:50:28.760 A twenty thousand million. Our battery bank is just fine. 0:50:29.120 --> 0:50:30.920 And all the rules. I kind of went through all 0:50:30.920 --> 0:50:35.080 the different airlines. They really spell out their rules. American 0:50:35.440 --> 0:50:37.920 is the strictest. They have that new policy that just started. 0:50:37.960 --> 0:50:44.239 They're the strictest. Southwest is pretty strict. Yeah, I mean 0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:47.239 they're all. They all are slightly different, but I linked 0:50:47.280 --> 0:50:49.520 them all up on my website Rich on tech dot tv. 0:50:49.600 --> 0:50:51.040 I'll put that in the show notes so you can 0:50:51.040 --> 0:50:52.880 see exactly what you need to know. But yes, an 0:50:52.880 --> 0:50:55.960 air tag, some sort of portable tracker in your luggage. 0:50:56.160 --> 0:51:01.399 Just find no problem there. Let's go too, Barbara Line too, 0:51:01.440 --> 0:51:02.200 you're on with Rich. 0:51:02.400 --> 0:51:05.040 Hello, I love your show. I always learned something. I 0:51:05.040 --> 0:51:09.520 have a small ukulele band, about eight people, and we 0:51:09.640 --> 0:51:13.320 have all of our songs on Google a Google drive. 0:51:13.480 --> 0:51:15.839 So I send that link out to my people and 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:19.600 we have a several hundred songs in there. My question 0:51:19.920 --> 0:51:22.399 is is there any way that when we show our 0:51:22.480 --> 0:51:25.919 songs on our iPads, and we all use iPads, can 0:51:25.960 --> 0:51:29.359 we write on our music right now? We cannot, And 0:51:29.440 --> 0:51:32.279 when we meet each other, we say, oh, right there, 0:51:32.320 --> 0:51:35.040 I wish it were a different chord or something like that. 0:51:35.320 --> 0:51:38.160 And if we could write on our screens with our 0:51:38.200 --> 0:51:44.120 magic pencil iPad pencil, we could all have music that matched. 0:51:44.680 --> 0:51:45.439 I need your help. 0:51:46.400 --> 0:51:48.839 Well, okay, so you're hold on So you're saying you 0:51:48.920 --> 0:51:52.000 want to change what it says in real time. You 0:51:52.040 --> 0:51:54.759 want to write on that on that page? Like, so 0:51:54.760 --> 0:51:56.760 are these saved as PDFs? How are they saved? 0:51:57.360 --> 0:51:57.560 Yes? 0:51:57.600 --> 0:51:59.279 They are, okay, And you want to be. 0:51:59.200 --> 0:52:02.319 Able to write, say you're you're at your gig, you 0:52:02.360 --> 0:52:04.200 want to write on your iPad. You want that to 0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:05.800 show up on everyone else's instantly. 0:52:07.360 --> 0:52:10.200 I know that that might be difficult. But if each 0:52:10.239 --> 0:52:12.360 of us could pick up our own pens and write 0:52:12.400 --> 0:52:15.719 on them. But yes, ideally it would be that. But 0:52:15.800 --> 0:52:18.400 if we all have to buy on song, which is 0:52:18.440 --> 0:52:20.759 the only one I know that might do that to 0:52:20.840 --> 0:52:23.680 the other members, it's too pricey, okay? 0:52:23.719 --> 0:52:25.520 And which one is that called? That's called on song? 0:52:25.840 --> 0:52:28.440 Yes, I have on song on my iPad and I 0:52:28.440 --> 0:52:31.960 can write on my music, but my other people can't 0:52:31.960 --> 0:52:33.240 see it because they don't have that. 0:52:33.120 --> 0:52:36.040 Right, Well, can you export it once you write on it? 0:52:37.160 --> 0:52:37.319 Uh? 0:52:38.200 --> 0:52:39.839 No, it doesn't save it to do that. 0:52:40.000 --> 0:52:40.920 It doesn't save it. 0:52:40.960 --> 0:52:42.440 Interesting if it saves. 0:52:42.160 --> 0:52:44.719 It on my iPad, it doesn't save it if I 0:52:44.800 --> 0:52:47.960 hit it and say send. What I'm doing so far 0:52:48.280 --> 0:52:52.760 is I send myself an email of that song. Open 0:52:52.840 --> 0:52:56.920 it in my email, I can write on it. Then 0:52:57.000 --> 0:52:59.480 I can send it back to on song, and then 0:52:59.520 --> 0:53:01.600 I can send it out. 0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:05.560 Yeah, that's that's a lot of steps. Well, I don't. 0:53:05.560 --> 0:53:09.160 I mean, I'm looking at this this app called staff Pad. 0:53:09.200 --> 0:53:10.040 Have you heard of that one? 0:53:10.160 --> 0:53:11.680 I have not? We do spell it for me. 0:53:11.719 --> 0:53:15.239 I didn't understand you s T A F F P A. 0:53:15.440 --> 0:53:18.080 D oh staff yeah pad. 0:53:18.400 --> 0:53:21.000 Yeah, And that one looks like it might be exactly 0:53:21.040 --> 0:53:24.000 what you need. I don't know if it's gonna sink, 0:53:24.120 --> 0:53:25.880 but it looks like I'm looking at some of the 0:53:27.360 --> 0:53:30.279 some of the documentation here, and it looks like you can, 0:53:30.400 --> 0:53:32.520 you know, export these things if you need to. It 0:53:32.520 --> 0:53:34.719 looks pretty full featured. Let's put it that way. So 0:53:35.320 --> 0:53:36.600 I would check that out. 0:53:36.960 --> 0:53:39.359 I will. Some people have talked about a thing called 0:53:39.440 --> 0:53:42.440 four score, but I don't even know how that's spelled. 0:53:42.600 --> 0:53:45.240 Okay, I let's say four score. 0:53:45.400 --> 0:53:48.200 I mean there, this is the thing about apps like this, Okay, 0:53:48.320 --> 0:53:51.319 It's like basically It's one of those things where you 0:53:51.400 --> 0:53:53.319 just have to kind of download it and try it 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:55.239 and see if it works for exactly what you're talking 0:53:55.239 --> 0:53:57.680 because they're all going to do different things. Now, this one, 0:53:57.800 --> 0:54:01.080 the four score, does say it supports Apple pens, but again, 0:54:01.120 --> 0:54:03.080 you would need it where it would mirror what you're 0:54:03.120 --> 0:54:07.040 saying or what you're writing on a different device, So 0:54:07.160 --> 0:54:08.880 I would check out. I'm gonna link all these up 0:54:08.880 --> 0:54:11.640 that I found. I found Staff Pad. There's one called 0:54:11.680 --> 0:54:15.440 Fender Studio, which you know, it says it sinks to 0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:19.400 your preferred cloud, which is good, or between applications, so 0:54:19.440 --> 0:54:22.200 that's kind of nice. But I think I think you 0:54:22.239 --> 0:54:24.360 could do what you're talking about. I would also upload 0:54:24.560 --> 0:54:28.040 or download the Google Drive app to your iPad and 0:54:28.040 --> 0:54:30.000 you can upload directly to there. That might be a 0:54:30.000 --> 0:54:33.560 lot easier than just emailing yourself. Thanks for the call, Barbara, 0:54:33.600 --> 0:54:36.120 sounds like a cool gig. More rich on Tech right 0:54:36.160 --> 0:54:40.400 after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich de 0:54:40.440 --> 0:54:43.080 Mirro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Just thinking 0:54:43.120 --> 0:54:47.120 more about Barbara's question. She wanted to be able to 0:54:47.800 --> 0:54:51.239 write on her music on the iPad and then have 0:54:51.360 --> 0:54:55.360 that information kind of mirrored over to her colleagues and 0:54:55.400 --> 0:54:58.080 she's like emailing herself PDFs and stuff like that. But 0:54:58.160 --> 0:55:01.440 she said she used Google Drive. So there's a files 0:55:01.440 --> 0:55:04.799 app on the iPhone that's actually pretty handy. So I mean, 0:55:04.800 --> 0:55:07.319 that's one way of doing it. Instead of using the 0:55:07.360 --> 0:55:09.319 Google Drive app, you can just use files and that's 0:55:09.360 --> 0:55:12.360 going to be more included. But also I'm trying to 0:55:12.400 --> 0:55:16.239 see if see like Dropbox and a couple others like 0:55:16.280 --> 0:55:18.680 integrate directly into the. 0:55:20.160 --> 0:55:20.759 Files app. 0:55:20.760 --> 0:55:22.440 I got to see if Drive does that as well, 0:55:22.440 --> 0:55:24.480 because that'd be an easier way to just upload right 0:55:24.520 --> 0:55:26.640 through there and then you can share it right now, 0:55:26.680 --> 0:55:28.640 she's like emailing herself everything. It was like kind of 0:55:28.640 --> 0:55:34.120 a not very simple all right, And I put the 0:55:34.160 --> 0:55:36.359 links on the website rich on tech dot tv with 0:55:36.400 --> 0:55:39.000 all the apps that we talked about. Let's bring on 0:55:39.239 --> 0:55:42.640 Jimmy Doheeney from one of my favorite websites. I refer 0:55:42.760 --> 0:55:45.240 to it often, not only on this show, but also 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:48.360 in my everyday life looking for those promo codes. How 0:55:48.400 --> 0:55:51.719 many times have you searched online where you're looking and 0:55:51.760 --> 0:55:54.680 looking and trying and trying and none of them work. Well, 0:55:54.719 --> 0:55:57.280 I will tell you in my experience if simply codes 0:55:57.320 --> 0:55:59.560 has a site and sup at the top. It's probably 0:55:59.600 --> 0:56:01.080 gonna work. I don't know how they do it. I 0:56:01.080 --> 0:56:03.240 guess we're going to find out. Thanks for joining me, Jimmy. 0:56:03.880 --> 0:56:04.240 Awesome. 0:56:05.960 --> 0:56:08.560 So do you know that your site is better than most? 0:56:09.800 --> 0:56:12.080 We like to believe we are, And that really kind 0:56:12.080 --> 0:56:14.360 of ties into all the work we do around verifying 0:56:14.440 --> 0:56:18.120 Goupon codes just really built around that core idea of 0:56:18.800 --> 0:56:21.200 a code you can't trust, it's basically worthless. 0:56:21.520 --> 0:56:22.480 Yeah. 0:56:22.800 --> 0:56:26.239 So, I mean you've probably seen this, but tons and 0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:29.040 tons of codes out there. When you try them, they're expired. 0:56:29.600 --> 0:56:31.480 So that really kind of goes back into all the 0:56:31.560 --> 0:56:34.320 data where we actually found about one and four codes 0:56:34.480 --> 0:56:36.799 are expired. And that's what we built. It is really 0:56:36.800 --> 0:56:39.799 this multi layered system to help us break that and 0:56:39.800 --> 0:56:42.000 help us really deliver the best codes to shoppers. 0:56:42.520 --> 0:56:45.040 So give me some background on these codes. Why are 0:56:45.040 --> 0:56:47.759 there so many websites that purport to have codes? I mean, 0:56:47.760 --> 0:56:49.360 I'm guessing I know the answer. It's all because of 0:56:49.360 --> 0:56:52.600 the referral traffic, right, But like these websites they say, oh, 0:56:52.640 --> 0:56:54.080 we've got a code for this, and you click it 0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:56.120 and of course it doesn't work. But what they get 0:56:56.160 --> 0:56:58.320 a little commissioned off whatever you buy or something. 0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:02.480 Yeah, that's it's really the core business model, and it's 0:57:02.520 --> 0:57:05.840 not always intentional on those coupon sites behalf. You know, 0:57:06.040 --> 0:57:09.120 coupons are a really difficult challenge. They have a short 0:57:09.160 --> 0:57:14.040 shelf life and really to invest in heavily testing coupons, 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:16.200 making sure they're still working. They may have been working 0:57:16.200 --> 0:57:18.840 a day ago, but they expired, and a lot of 0:57:18.840 --> 0:57:22.000 these platforms out there, they just don't have the capabilities 0:57:22.000 --> 0:57:25.360 to regularly test codes every single day, make sure they're 0:57:25.400 --> 0:57:28.840 still working. Make sure you have the correct restrictions, because 0:57:28.880 --> 0:57:31.200 sometimes a code that doesn't work for your car may 0:57:31.240 --> 0:57:33.840 work for my cart. And so that's really what drills 0:57:33.880 --> 0:57:36.240 down into how do you have the best codes with 0:57:36.320 --> 0:57:39.240 the deepest data just to deliver that to users. 0:57:39.720 --> 0:57:42.880 And so you've got five hundred and forty five thousand stores, 0:57:43.000 --> 0:57:47.320 every code is verified, and then so how are you 0:57:47.480 --> 0:57:50.000 doing this differently? Like how did you approach this differently 0:57:50.040 --> 0:57:53.680 where you're figuring out that these verified codes actually work. 0:57:54.960 --> 0:57:57.640 Yeah, that's something that we've built over the past few years. 0:57:57.640 --> 0:58:01.960 It's really this multi layer system testing with our AI agents. 0:58:02.360 --> 0:58:05.320 We have real shop or feedback flowing into our platform, 0:58:05.400 --> 0:58:08.280 giving us feedback on codes every day, as well as 0:58:08.280 --> 0:58:11.040 we have a whole community of humans actually testing codes. 0:58:11.520 --> 0:58:13.800 So all in all, we're testing about two hundred thousand 0:58:13.800 --> 0:58:17.360 codes every single day, taking down ones that stopped working 0:58:17.480 --> 0:58:19.880 and pushing ones up that are still working or even 0:58:19.920 --> 0:58:22.840 just live updating all their data. And so that pure 0:58:22.960 --> 0:58:26.000 volume is really what allows us to maintain really that 0:58:26.000 --> 0:58:26.920 accurate database. 0:58:27.240 --> 0:58:29.640 And what I love the website is simply codes dot com. 0:58:29.640 --> 0:58:31.160 By the way, what I love about it is when 0:58:31.200 --> 0:58:33.680 you go to like one of the storefronts, there's not 0:58:33.760 --> 0:58:36.000 just the code, but there's so much like nerdy information. 0:58:36.240 --> 0:58:38.880 And that's why I knew you guys were legit, because 0:58:39.440 --> 0:58:41.880 you don't just have all this info like randomly. Like 0:58:41.920 --> 0:58:45.240 you've got like every you got like your savings intelligence, 0:58:45.240 --> 0:58:48.040 you've got your top savings hacks, you've got similar deals. 0:58:48.400 --> 0:58:52.280 Then you've got all the codes below that, You've got 0:58:52.360 --> 0:58:55.080 the code activity, like how many people use codes, a 0:58:55.160 --> 0:58:58.840 live feed of you know, who's using them the best times, 0:59:00.440 --> 0:59:02.680 single use codes from the community, So that's like to 0:59:02.720 --> 0:59:04.680 get around, you know, if there's like a referral or 0:59:04.680 --> 0:59:06.880 something like that similar codes, and then you've got like 0:59:06.920 --> 0:59:09.720 a screenshot of the website where it says, here's where 0:59:09.760 --> 0:59:11.760 you can find the promo code box. 0:59:13.880 --> 0:59:14.280 All kinds. 0:59:14.280 --> 0:59:15.800 I mean, it's just amazing. I mean it just goes 0:59:15.840 --> 0:59:18.760 on and on. So who's behind this company? Like, do 0:59:18.800 --> 0:59:20.960 you are you guys like just savings nerds or what. 0:59:22.440 --> 0:59:25.720 We definitely are savings nerds. I mean, just you know 0:59:25.800 --> 0:59:28.400 here here at simply codes. You know, we're all about 0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:32.120 making online shopping just easier. You know, we've were shoppers ourselves, 0:59:32.200 --> 0:59:35.880 and that frustration of adding all these products to your cart, 0:59:36.320 --> 0:59:40.080 trying to find a working code, it was frustrating. That's 0:59:40.080 --> 0:59:43.120 what really has led us to bringing all this data 0:59:43.160 --> 0:59:46.840 to the forefront and just helping consumers make a better 0:59:46.880 --> 0:59:51.200 decision when shopping. And if it comes down to that 0:59:51.320 --> 0:59:54.680 first code you copy works, that's that's the ultimate result 0:59:54.680 --> 0:59:56.880 that we're always looking for. And so that's what bleeds 0:59:56.920 --> 1:00:00.440 into all that data. And it's hard to it's hard 1:00:00.440 --> 1:00:02.320 to say, hey, here's we all a ton of data 1:00:02.320 --> 1:00:05.280 behind every single code. How do you pack that up 1:00:05.320 --> 1:00:07.959 so that it's not overwhelming to the consumer but still 1:00:08.040 --> 1:00:11.880 gives them enough data to be confident. And here's what 1:00:11.920 --> 1:00:15.040 this code means and even little things like that screenshop 1:00:15.120 --> 1:00:17.560 down below. There are a lot of stores where they're 1:00:17.680 --> 1:00:21.240 checked out, they almost hide the coupon box. The more 1:00:21.280 --> 1:00:23.760 that we can help educate consumers on the best ways 1:00:23.800 --> 1:00:27.440 to save, how to save, even diving to things like 1:00:27.520 --> 1:00:30.480 gated coupon offers nowadays, you know, how do you how 1:00:30.480 --> 1:00:32.200 do you activate those offers? 1:00:32.640 --> 1:00:33.680 That's that's the best of What. 1:00:33.680 --> 1:00:36.120 Does that mean? What's a gated Is that like is 1:00:36.120 --> 1:00:38.200 that like somehow hidden or something? What does that mean? 1:00:38.920 --> 1:00:42.040 Yeah, gated offers, Uh, you know, it's a fairly broad 1:00:42.120 --> 1:00:45.120 range of meetings, but essentially there's some sort of requirement 1:00:45.240 --> 1:00:47.480 that you need to hit in order to get that 1:00:47.560 --> 1:00:49.880 offer for your car. A lot of times that may 1:00:49.960 --> 1:00:53.760 mean signing up for the brand's newsletter, joining their loyalty program, 1:00:54.240 --> 1:00:57.560 downloading their app. And that's actually something that tons of 1:00:57.600 --> 1:01:01.120 brands now. They're hiding these coupons behind their apps. When 1:01:01.120 --> 1:01:04.080 you downloaded, that's where you find a code that is 1:01:04.360 --> 1:01:08.720 nowhere available nowhere else online. But even you know, gated 1:01:08.760 --> 1:01:11.440 offers like signing up for their text messages. That's that's 1:01:11.480 --> 1:01:13.280 a big trend that we've seen more and more brands 1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:16.960 leaning into, and so the brands. Really, they still want 1:01:17.000 --> 1:01:18.840 you to buy and they want want to help you 1:01:18.880 --> 1:01:21.440 save money. They're just being a little bit more deliberate. 1:01:21.600 --> 1:01:23.440 And really who gets the best price? 1:01:24.280 --> 1:01:26.560 And are most of these I mean to some companies 1:01:26.560 --> 1:01:28.400 they do the thing where like the code will be 1:01:28.480 --> 1:01:30.560 right on the homepage, right, it'll be like save thirty, 1:01:30.640 --> 1:01:33.040 you know whatever. But a lot of these, it's like 1:01:33.080 --> 1:01:34.960 some of them are tough to find, and a lot 1:01:35.000 --> 1:01:37.440 of it's through like influencers or like through like some 1:01:37.480 --> 1:01:40.360 sort of advertisement. And how do you know you're getting 1:01:40.400 --> 1:01:43.640 the best deal? I guess is the endgame there? 1:01:44.880 --> 1:01:47.320 Yeah, So that that really comes down to really how 1:01:47.600 --> 1:01:50.360 how you search as a consumer. You know, absolutely a 1:01:50.440 --> 1:01:52.320 lot of brands do do a great job of showing 1:01:52.360 --> 1:01:54.720 at least one, you know, the most relevant offers on 1:01:54.800 --> 1:02:00.200 their homepage. Influencers is something that obviously it's it's or 1:02:00.240 --> 1:02:04.080 I see that on my social media feed. One interesting 1:02:04.200 --> 1:02:08.760 thing with influencer codes is they're actually getting worse for consumers, 1:02:09.000 --> 1:02:13.080 meaning the average discount has been declining since the data 1:02:13.120 --> 1:02:15.720 we have Back in twenty twenty two, the average was 1:02:15.800 --> 1:02:18.680 around nineteen percent off that you would get from an influencer. 1:02:19.240 --> 1:02:21.520 Now in twenty twenty five, that's actually down to about 1:02:21.560 --> 1:02:26.600 fifteen percent. So really it's something that brands are still 1:02:26.640 --> 1:02:30.040 heavily leading into influencers, though the average discount you're getting 1:02:30.200 --> 1:02:32.880 from them has gone down a little bit. And when 1:02:32.920 --> 1:02:36.280 we broke that data down even further, the code that 1:02:36.320 --> 1:02:39.840 you're finding outside of influencers on a verified coupon platform. 1:02:40.040 --> 1:02:42.960 By joining these kind of gated platforms with these brands, 1:02:43.360 --> 1:02:45.200 that's where you'll actually get a little bit better of 1:02:45.280 --> 1:02:48.960 a discount. And so spending extra thirty seconds just to 1:02:49.120 --> 1:02:52.360 really research around before you make that purchase can really 1:02:52.400 --> 1:02:53.439 help you save a lot of money. 1:02:53.800 --> 1:02:56.400 It feels so good when you pop in that code 1:02:56.600 --> 1:02:59.200 and it just lights up, and it's like, dang, you 1:02:59.280 --> 1:03:01.200 got it. You get some sort of discount. I don't 1:03:01.200 --> 1:03:04.040 care what the discount is. If I'm shopping online and 1:03:04.120 --> 1:03:05.800 my wife gives me such a hard time about this, 1:03:05.880 --> 1:03:09.000 because I will spend a half an hour looking for 1:03:09.080 --> 1:03:09.439 a code. 1:03:09.480 --> 1:03:09.960 If I can't. 1:03:10.040 --> 1:03:12.040 Now, I will tell you my Like I said, my 1:03:12.160 --> 1:03:14.360 biggest secret is simply codes dot com. I will go 1:03:14.480 --> 1:03:16.760 there ninety nine percent of the time. It works and 1:03:16.880 --> 1:03:19.120 it's easy to find. But there are some things that 1:03:19.160 --> 1:03:21.080 are a little bit trickier, and it you know, it 1:03:21.160 --> 1:03:23.000 takes a couple of minutes to like look around and 1:03:23.080 --> 1:03:26.280 find something. But I always want to find something, and 1:03:26.360 --> 1:03:28.920 I always come from the I guess this is my 1:03:29.040 --> 1:03:32.400 question for you. If there is a promo code like 1:03:32.840 --> 1:03:35.760 option on the site, is there guaranteed to be a 1:03:35.840 --> 1:03:37.880 promo code or is that just you know, sometimes it's 1:03:37.960 --> 1:03:39.200 just coded into the system. 1:03:40.240 --> 1:03:42.400 So a lot of brands will almost always have that 1:03:42.520 --> 1:03:45.760 coupon code box available there. There are a lot of 1:03:45.880 --> 1:03:48.720 brands that they may not have an active code at 1:03:48.800 --> 1:03:51.960 that time. So what one brand in particular that I'm 1:03:52.000 --> 1:03:52.480 really fond of. 1:03:52.640 --> 1:03:55.000 Nike, they regularly have a code. 1:03:55.080 --> 1:03:57.560 Now about once a quarter they'll have an actual coupon, 1:03:57.720 --> 1:04:00.640 but that box will always be living in chuckout, which 1:04:00.720 --> 1:04:01.480 I agree with you. 1:04:01.560 --> 1:04:02.440 If if I see that. 1:04:02.440 --> 1:04:04.920 When I'm checking out, I'm going on that hunt. I'm 1:04:04.960 --> 1:04:07.880 trying to find some way to save money. And even 1:04:07.920 --> 1:04:10.360 if it's just a couple percent or a couple of dollars, 1:04:10.880 --> 1:04:13.880 that reward you get from entering that code, having that 1:04:14.000 --> 1:04:16.840 light up and say you save money, that's really rewarding. 1:04:17.440 --> 1:04:20.440 And so actually, what I've started to do and what 1:04:20.520 --> 1:04:22.120 we see a lot of our users doing is really 1:04:22.240 --> 1:04:25.680 flipping their shopping search. So instead of starting and saying, 1:04:25.680 --> 1:04:27.880 all right, I want Nike, I'm gonna go to Nike 1:04:28.000 --> 1:04:31.440 dot com, think about what products you're actually looking to buy. 1:04:32.000 --> 1:04:36.160 Start looking at what retailers sell that product. Then you know, 1:04:36.280 --> 1:04:40.040 leverage a verified coupon platform, So start seeing what codes 1:04:40.120 --> 1:04:43.440 do those retailers offer, and we're actually seeing this is 1:04:43.520 --> 1:04:46.800 a lot of time, these smaller D two C type platforms, 1:04:47.360 --> 1:04:49.680 they're the ones that will actually have these great site 1:04:49.720 --> 1:04:52.680 wide discount codes. They can get the same exact Nike 1:04:52.800 --> 1:04:56.600 product or or any any brand product and actually save money. 1:04:56.400 --> 1:04:59.080 On Yeah, that's actually a good point because a lot 1:04:59.160 --> 1:05:00.560 of these things, like you say a D two C 1:05:00.760 --> 1:05:02.840 direct to consumer products, there's so many that you know 1:05:02.920 --> 1:05:06.040 we're all buying, like brands that you see advertised on 1:05:06.160 --> 1:05:08.840 social things like that. The instinct is to go to 1:05:08.880 --> 1:05:11.000 Amazon and just buy it, but a lot of times 1:05:11.040 --> 1:05:13.120 that's not necessarily the cheapest way to get it, Like 1:05:13.160 --> 1:05:15.040 if you go directly to their website, they may have 1:05:15.200 --> 1:05:18.360 a twenty five percent off code code or deal for 1:05:18.480 --> 1:05:21.360 like new customers, which can be significantly better than what 1:05:21.480 --> 1:05:22.440 Amazon is offering. 1:05:23.400 --> 1:05:26.480 Yeah, exactly, And I mean Amazon is great for convenience, 1:05:27.160 --> 1:05:29.920 but a lot of these brands, they're on Amazon almost 1:05:29.960 --> 1:05:33.040 as a need for kind of growing brand awareness, and 1:05:33.160 --> 1:05:36.320 so they are leveraging those coupons on their own site 1:05:36.320 --> 1:05:38.520 as a way to draw users and bring them into 1:05:38.600 --> 1:05:39.520 their ecosystem. 1:05:40.080 --> 1:05:43.400 All right, we've got about thirty seconds simply coodes dot com. 1:05:43.480 --> 1:05:46.640 Anything else we should know before we bookmark this site? 1:05:48.280 --> 1:05:50.400 I mean, honestly, you know, the biggest thing is be 1:05:50.520 --> 1:05:53.960 smart when you're shopping these days. You know, things are expensive, 1:05:54.040 --> 1:05:56.680 it's hard to save money, but there are great deals 1:05:56.720 --> 1:05:59.640 out there. And we're entering into this great peak season 1:05:59.720 --> 1:06:02.720 from summer where more and more discouncert rolling out with 1:06:02.880 --> 1:06:06.560 Mother's Day, Father's Day, Memorial Day. So if you're shopping, 1:06:06.680 --> 1:06:09.600 keep an eye out leverage platforms like simply codes to 1:06:09.640 --> 1:06:10.640 help save the most money. 1:06:11.000 --> 1:06:14.280 All right, Jimmy Doheeney from simplycodes dot com, thanks for 1:06:14.400 --> 1:06:15.720 joining me today. I really appreciate it. 1:06:16.120 --> 1:06:16.440 Awesome. 1:06:16.520 --> 1:06:19.080 Thanks Rich all right, I'll put a link to simply 1:06:19.160 --> 1:06:23.960 Codes on the website. Rich on tech dot Tv. No 1:06:24.120 --> 1:06:28.720 promo code there, it just works. Coming up, we'll take 1:06:28.760 --> 1:06:30.240 more of your calls at Triple eight rich one on 1:06:30.320 --> 1:06:32.640 one and I'll tell you why Microsoft this is a 1:06:32.680 --> 1:06:34.960 big deal, says you don't need anti virus. 1:06:35.040 --> 1:06:40.680 Wait what I'll explain coming up next. Welcome back to 1:06:40.800 --> 1:06:41.439 rich on Tech. 1:06:41.600 --> 1:06:41.680 Now. 1:06:41.760 --> 1:06:44.360 Sure if you've noticed the bumper music today is all 1:06:44.440 --> 1:06:49.320 kind of inspired by big movies. These were featured in movies. 1:06:50.320 --> 1:06:54.080 We watched Kindergarten Cop last night with the kids. You know, 1:06:54.200 --> 1:06:57.760 it is tough with a family of four to find 1:06:57.800 --> 1:07:00.840 a movie that everyone can agree on. Right, you've a 1:07:00.960 --> 1:07:02.920 kid that a kid that's like more of a teenager, 1:07:03.040 --> 1:07:05.240 You've got a younger child. You got my wife who 1:07:05.320 --> 1:07:08.200 wants like a comedy, like action and then or a 1:07:08.320 --> 1:07:10.360 romantic comedy would be her ideal. Then you've got me, 1:07:10.480 --> 1:07:13.640 who you know, like a wide swath, but a good 1:07:13.720 --> 1:07:19.080 raunchy comedy. I always love when I say something in 1:07:19.160 --> 1:07:24.600 Bobo just looks like wait what. But like my friend 1:07:25.200 --> 1:07:30.880 Brian Bishop, bald Brian, he had a recommendation on his 1:07:30.960 --> 1:07:31.919 newsletter this week. 1:07:32.920 --> 1:07:35.960 Let's see what is his newsletter? Bald Brian newsletter. You 1:07:36.040 --> 1:07:38.560 gotta remember what it's called, Oh, Baldywood. How could I 1:07:38.600 --> 1:07:39.000 forget that? 1:07:39.200 --> 1:07:44.400 Baldywood? But yeah, he had a recommendation for this movie called, uh, 1:07:44.600 --> 1:07:45.200 let's see what was it? 1:07:45.640 --> 1:07:47.240 Oh my gosh, how do I access this? 1:07:48.440 --> 1:07:50.760 Come on, Brian, where is it funniest movie I've seen 1:07:50.840 --> 1:07:55.080 in years? And it was called Pizza Movie and it's 1:07:55.160 --> 1:08:00.160 on Hulu and he said it's it's really funny, but 1:08:00.320 --> 1:08:02.240 fair warning, this movie is not for everyone. So anyway, 1:08:02.280 --> 1:08:03.880 that's the kind of movie that intrigues me. I'm like, oh, 1:08:03.920 --> 1:08:07.520 it looks funny. It's a kid from Stranger Things and 1:08:07.600 --> 1:08:09.400 it looks great, Like that's a movie I want to watch. 1:08:09.440 --> 1:08:12.080 It's R rated college comedy. So I'm like, okay, cool, 1:08:12.160 --> 1:08:15.560 that sounds great. But of course my kids can't watch that. 1:08:15.760 --> 1:08:17.800 My wife may or may not like that kind of humor. 1:08:18.439 --> 1:08:22.280 So my point is we ended up watching Kindergarten Cop. 1:08:22.320 --> 1:08:24.720 It was it was a crowd pleaser. I'van rightman, I mean, 1:08:24.800 --> 1:08:26.880 it's you know, how could you go wrong? He's done 1:08:26.880 --> 1:08:30.120 a bunch. And the sad part is about watching old 1:08:30.200 --> 1:08:33.320 movies is that I just look at everyone in that movie. 1:08:33.360 --> 1:08:36.200 I'm like, oh my god, they're dead, they're you know, 1:08:37.160 --> 1:08:40.439 ninety now, they're no longer acting. You know, it's just 1:08:40.600 --> 1:08:42.439 wonder like it's just wild or the kid in the 1:08:42.479 --> 1:08:48.280 movie is now like fifty. It's just anyway, what was 1:08:48.360 --> 1:08:50.760 my point with all that? I don't feel makes me 1:08:50.840 --> 1:08:53.519 feel old. I mean, I don't remember Kindergarten Cop as 1:08:53.520 --> 1:08:56.280 a kid. What year did that movie come out? Probably 1:08:56.320 --> 1:08:57.840 the nineties, right, it was the nineties. 1:08:57.880 --> 1:08:59.880 I mean Art Schwarzenmaker was young and actually buff. 1:09:00.280 --> 1:09:03.280 Yeah, oh dude, the guy was so buff. Like they 1:09:03.320 --> 1:09:05.120 did one shot of him where you saw like his 1:09:05.880 --> 1:09:12.280 biceps and it's just like, whoa, that guy was built. Okay, 1:09:12.280 --> 1:09:13.640 I don't know what my point of all that was. 1:09:13.760 --> 1:09:17.800 But anyway, let's see what else Microsoft says you do 1:09:18.000 --> 1:09:19.439 not need anti virus. 1:09:19.560 --> 1:09:20.040 Wait, what. 1:09:21.600 --> 1:09:24.800 Microsoft finally is saying what a lot of people like 1:09:24.880 --> 1:09:27.479 myself have been saying for a while. The built in 1:09:27.680 --> 1:09:31.360 anti virus on Windows eleven is now enough protection for 1:09:31.520 --> 1:09:32.000 your PC. 1:09:32.680 --> 1:09:33.920 This is wild. 1:09:34.400 --> 1:09:36.280 They did a whole blog post about it. I will 1:09:36.320 --> 1:09:38.080 link it up on my website so you can read it. 1:09:38.640 --> 1:09:40.360 Rich on tech dot tv. By the way, this is 1:09:40.439 --> 1:09:43.639 episode one seventy two, so if you want to find 1:09:43.680 --> 1:09:46.640 the show notes, it'll all be there. Their built in 1:09:46.720 --> 1:09:51.040 system is called Microsoft Defender. It comes pre installed. Most 1:09:51.080 --> 1:09:53.200 of it is turned on by default and it runs 1:09:53.280 --> 1:09:56.439 in the background. And it's not just basic antivirus, because 1:09:56.439 --> 1:09:58.720 if you're paying for antivirus a lot of it, there's 1:09:58.760 --> 1:10:02.120 a delineation free versus paid. Sometimes it may not be 1:10:02.240 --> 1:10:06.000 scanning files in real time. Microsoft does. They check apps 1:10:06.040 --> 1:10:08.920 before they run, and it uses you know, the cloud 1:10:09.080 --> 1:10:12.240 to spot new stuff as it emerges and like send 1:10:12.280 --> 1:10:15.679 that info to your computer. Then they've got smart screen 1:10:15.760 --> 1:10:18.960 which warns you about risky websites and downloads. And then 1:10:18.960 --> 1:10:22.080 they've got ransomware protection that locks down your important folders. 1:10:22.760 --> 1:10:25.680 So these are all things that are built in. Microsoft 1:10:25.720 --> 1:10:28.360 says if you put these on and you don't disable them, 1:10:28.880 --> 1:10:33.000 that will cover most everyday threats without extra software. That 1:10:33.360 --> 1:10:36.639 is a big claim. Here's the key piece of advice 1:10:36.720 --> 1:10:39.840 from Microsoft. Don't run more than one antivirus at a time. 1:10:40.360 --> 1:10:42.680 So if you're running third parties, should probably turn off 1:10:42.720 --> 1:10:44.240 the built in stuff. If you're running the built in, 1:10:44.280 --> 1:10:46.519 you probably shouldn't have third party because that will slow 1:10:46.520 --> 1:10:49.080 down your system. So many of these people that are 1:10:49.120 --> 1:10:52.679 running antivirus, their computers like slowed to a halt. They're like, why, well, 1:10:52.680 --> 1:10:56.040 you're running this program that's not coded very well. This 1:10:56.200 --> 1:10:58.240 is a pretty big shift because you know, we know 1:10:58.400 --> 1:11:01.559 Windows as assystem them that like you have to protect 1:11:02.320 --> 1:11:04.120 and now it's a little bit of a paradigm shift 1:11:04.120 --> 1:11:07.439 for that protection to be built in. But not everyone 1:11:07.479 --> 1:11:10.879 agrees you should ditch your antivirus software completely. Some experts 1:11:10.920 --> 1:11:14.519 are saying, if you have a specific situation, like you 1:11:14.640 --> 1:11:16.799 share your computer with a bunch of people, you manage 1:11:16.840 --> 1:11:19.960 multiple devices, you want other features that are built in 1:11:20.280 --> 1:11:24.680 like identity, THEFT, VPNs, parental controls. You know your antivirus 1:11:24.760 --> 1:11:29.479 software may offer those as well. Let's see what else. 1:11:29.600 --> 1:11:31.280 But yeah, I mean, the main thing here is that 1:11:31.840 --> 1:11:36.000 all these operating systems are taking a que from Apple 1:11:36.680 --> 1:11:40.479 and with the iPhone, iPhone is the most locked down 1:11:40.800 --> 1:11:43.960 system you can have. You cannot figure out how to 1:11:44.040 --> 1:11:46.479 install an app on that system outside of the App store, 1:11:46.800 --> 1:11:49.800 most people can, and that's the way most of these 1:11:49.800 --> 1:11:54.120 other operating systems are getting, like anything like Chrome, Chrome, Books, 1:11:54.240 --> 1:11:57.839 all these operating systems are getting where it's like tougher 1:11:57.960 --> 1:12:00.759 to kind of put third party stuff on there because 1:12:00.880 --> 1:12:05.120 it keeps them safe. So I think if your takeaway 1:12:05.160 --> 1:12:06.800 here is that you want to go to go to 1:12:06.840 --> 1:12:09.479 your Windows computer, go to that little search bar. And 1:12:09.560 --> 1:12:12.519 by the way, this is mostly for Windows eleven. Windows ten, 1:12:12.920 --> 1:12:15.040 you know that's going out of style. It's probably not 1:12:15.120 --> 1:12:17.559 as up to date as Windows eleven, So I would 1:12:17.640 --> 1:12:20.120 just I would say this probably applies to Windows eleven only. 1:12:20.960 --> 1:12:23.960 But go to your little search. Type in Windows Security 1:12:24.439 --> 1:12:26.400 and you'll see there's a whole bunch. It says virus 1:12:26.479 --> 1:12:31.320 in threat protection, account protection, firewall app and browser control, 1:12:31.479 --> 1:12:34.519 device security. Tap every one of those. Make sure they 1:12:34.560 --> 1:12:36.400 have a green dot. Make sure they have a green 1:12:36.520 --> 1:12:39.280 check mark that means they're turned on. My app in 1:12:39.360 --> 1:12:41.680 Browser Control was not turned on. I had to turn 1:12:41.760 --> 1:12:45.519 that on. Device security, make sure that's turned on. And 1:12:45.560 --> 1:12:48.280 then there's one more place you want to look controlled 1:12:48.520 --> 1:12:52.960 folder access. This is for randomware or ransomware. So type 1:12:53.000 --> 1:12:57.800 in ransomware protection and make sure that is toggled on. 1:12:58.640 --> 1:13:00.960 And if you toggle that on, it'll make it tougher 1:13:01.640 --> 1:13:04.120 for some of your some of these random programs to 1:13:04.160 --> 1:13:07.280 get access to your core files. Obviously, read the blog 1:13:07.360 --> 1:13:09.600 post before you make any changes to your computer or 1:13:09.760 --> 1:13:13.880 ditch anything, because everyone's situation is different. But I've been 1:13:13.920 --> 1:13:16.280 saying this for a while. What's built into Windows is 1:13:16.360 --> 1:13:20.080 probably enough The bigger threats these days are really phishing 1:13:20.920 --> 1:13:24.760 emails and texts and bad websites, So be careful out there. 1:13:25.439 --> 1:13:28.519 Rich on Tech dot TV episode one seventy two for 1:13:28.600 --> 1:13:31.000 the notes on that. Coming up, We'll take more of 1:13:31.000 --> 1:13:33.679 your calls at Triple eight rich one on one eighty 1:13:33.800 --> 1:13:35.000 eight seven four to two. 1:13:35.120 --> 1:13:36.439 Four one zero one. 1:13:39.680 --> 1:13:42.240 Welcome back to rich on Tech rich Demiro here hanging 1:13:42.280 --> 1:13:45.479 out with you, talking technology, Triple eight rich one on 1:13:45.600 --> 1:13:48.000 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:13:48.160 --> 1:13:51.519 zero one. I'm always concerned with giving out the number 1:13:51.600 --> 1:13:55.160 this late in the show because we're already slammed, and 1:13:55.720 --> 1:13:59.040 you know, I don't know how much more can we handle. 1:13:59.520 --> 1:14:00.000 You know what I'm saying. 1:14:00.400 --> 1:14:01.880 I mean, I guess a good problem to have, but 1:14:01.920 --> 1:14:03.840 I still have like a thousand stories to get through. 1:14:04.280 --> 1:14:07.240 One hundred emails from you this week, let me do 1:14:07.360 --> 1:14:12.920 one from Gianetta in Florida. My son is in prison 1:14:13.000 --> 1:14:16.400 and he says you're great. He listens every Saturday and 1:14:17.000 --> 1:14:20.919 has other people listening too. I'm seventy eight with arthritis 1:14:20.960 --> 1:14:22.680 and I can't drive anymore, but I'd love to be 1:14:22.680 --> 1:14:24.439 able to go shopping on my own again like I 1:14:24.520 --> 1:14:27.360 did for sixty years. Are there any cars that fully 1:14:27.479 --> 1:14:29.840 drive themselves so I can just sit and go where 1:14:29.880 --> 1:14:34.160 I need and are any of them affordable? Well, first off, 1:14:34.960 --> 1:14:37.960 thank you to your son and his friends listening from jail. 1:14:38.040 --> 1:14:42.880 That's very special. Here's the deal with self driving cars, 1:14:43.560 --> 1:14:48.280 so there's really not I mean there. Look, the easy 1:14:48.360 --> 1:14:51.160 answer is a Tesla and it does have self driving. 1:14:51.240 --> 1:14:53.879 But the thing is, and they're probably the most advanced 1:14:53.920 --> 1:14:56.200 in that area when it comes to something a consumer 1:14:56.320 --> 1:14:58.720 can purchase, But here's the thing. You still have to 1:14:58.760 --> 1:15:01.759 pay attention and to take over. And it's not perfect. 1:15:02.280 --> 1:15:04.400 So I use it on a daily basis to drive 1:15:04.479 --> 1:15:07.840 me around, but it's not like you. I mean, it 1:15:08.000 --> 1:15:10.960 has actually gotten to the place where you can push 1:15:11.000 --> 1:15:13.479 a button from your driveway and it will back out 1:15:13.520 --> 1:15:16.639 of your driveway, drive you wherever you want, and almost 1:15:17.000 --> 1:15:20.519 pretty much park where you need to park. But is 1:15:20.600 --> 1:15:22.920 it like you would still have to be able to 1:15:24.040 --> 1:15:26.599 drive like it's not in a place where we're at 1:15:26.640 --> 1:15:29.360 the level where it's fully autonomous. So that's number one. 1:15:29.760 --> 1:15:32.040 If you want something fully autonomous, you'd have to go 1:15:32.200 --> 1:15:35.160 to a ride service like Waimo, where the car does 1:15:35.240 --> 1:15:37.400 drive itself and you sit in the back like a passenger. 1:15:37.800 --> 1:15:39.640 I don't know if that's available where you live, but 1:15:39.760 --> 1:15:44.960 that's an option. Zookes is also an option where that's 1:15:45.120 --> 1:15:47.320 same thing, but also not in a lot of places. 1:15:47.760 --> 1:15:50.800 But why not just use uber lyft there you go, 1:15:51.439 --> 1:15:53.360 Just call an uber Lyft. You'll have an actual human 1:15:53.479 --> 1:15:56.400 driver and they will bring you wherever you need to go. 1:15:57.479 --> 1:15:59.800 And that's probably the easiest thing at this point. So 1:16:00.280 --> 1:16:01.880 you don't you don't need to pay. I mean, you know, 1:16:02.160 --> 1:16:04.000 you said if are any of them affordable? None of 1:16:04.000 --> 1:16:06.560 those things I mentioned or foot Well, you know that 1:16:06.760 --> 1:16:09.200 the zooks and the Waimo may be affordable, but those 1:16:09.200 --> 1:16:11.320 are per ride tesla. You gotta buy a whole new 1:16:11.360 --> 1:16:14.800 car to get that. So I would say, bottom line, 1:16:15.320 --> 1:16:17.519 uber lyft. They'll pick you up, they'll drop you off, 1:16:18.240 --> 1:16:19.920 and if you talk to them nicely, they may even 1:16:20.080 --> 1:16:22.240 help you with your luggage, your stuff. I don't know, 1:16:23.360 --> 1:16:26.360 That's what i'd recommend. All right, Let's let's try a 1:16:26.439 --> 1:16:29.360 call real quick here because I've got so much. Let's see, 1:16:29.439 --> 1:16:31.320 let's go to Debbie in Wisconsin. 1:16:31.439 --> 1:16:32.160 You're on with Rich. 1:16:33.160 --> 1:16:34.120 Hi, Rich, how are you? 1:16:34.320 --> 1:16:34.800 I'm doing? 1:16:34.920 --> 1:16:35.120 Well? 1:16:35.200 --> 1:16:35.640 What's up? 1:16:36.479 --> 1:16:39.960 Thank you? Well, I had a good lemma. I tell 1:16:40.080 --> 1:16:44.080 him in the beginning about I have voicemails from my 1:16:44.200 --> 1:16:50.320 love whould pass away, and after like I would save 1:16:50.439 --> 1:16:52.160 voicemails purposely, save. 1:16:52.080 --> 1:16:53.920 Them on my phone. 1:16:54.280 --> 1:16:58.400 Yes, very important, but after thirty days, if I don't 1:16:58.439 --> 1:17:03.439 resave those voicemails, they get automatically erased. But then I 1:17:03.520 --> 1:17:09.800 had remembered about virtual voicemail, which I choose pick and 1:17:09.920 --> 1:17:12.639 choose what to delete there because it also will save 1:17:13.200 --> 1:17:16.920 every voicemail I have, you know, through regular voicemail, And 1:17:17.000 --> 1:17:20.400 I'm like, I don't want this junk stuff here in 1:17:20.520 --> 1:17:23.200 virtual I just want to save what's important to me 1:17:23.360 --> 1:17:26.920 or dear or phonier or whatever. But I only have 1:17:27.439 --> 1:17:31.160 I only did that purposely saved with three from my 1:17:31.280 --> 1:17:34.360 love instead. So I'm just wondering there's a way I 1:17:34.439 --> 1:17:38.439 could get the voicemails that I had saved previously that 1:17:38.520 --> 1:17:40.519 were automatically deleted back. 1:17:41.280 --> 1:17:42.240 How long ago is this? 1:17:43.640 --> 1:17:44.000 Oh boy? 1:17:44.120 --> 1:17:46.400 I mean, well he passed away to be a year 1:17:46.439 --> 1:17:46.840 and a half. 1:17:47.320 --> 1:17:49.880 I'm sorry, but I say me. 1:17:49.920 --> 1:17:52.680 Too, But he's in a good place. He's proud of 1:17:52.760 --> 1:17:54.840 me for me calling. Oh my gosh, you have no idea, 1:17:55.439 --> 1:17:58.800 he would listen and I never I think he goes 1:17:58.880 --> 1:18:00.639 deep call, which I call it contack. 1:18:01.520 --> 1:18:05.479 Oh my gosh, that means a lot to me. Uh well, hey, 1:18:06.120 --> 1:18:07.800 here's the deal. I mean, I a year and a 1:18:07.840 --> 1:18:11.040 half a year, Well, these voicemails if they this is so? 1:18:11.120 --> 1:18:13.080 Were these voicemails saved through your carrier? 1:18:13.240 --> 1:18:13.280 Like? 1:18:13.479 --> 1:18:16.000 Was this like an eighteen T Verizon T mobile something 1:18:16.080 --> 1:18:16.240 like that? 1:18:17.479 --> 1:18:21.880 I just go I was buying the Boost phone and 1:18:22.160 --> 1:18:26.639 I was just resaving them. I mean remember usually yeah, 1:18:26.720 --> 1:18:28.800 you know, but they didn't get as an important until 1:18:28.840 --> 1:18:31.800 I knew he was sick and cycle right, and I think, 1:18:31.920 --> 1:18:34.720 and you know, if it is what it is? But 1:18:35.439 --> 1:18:37.439 I heard half rich, How do you know if you 1:18:37.479 --> 1:18:38.120 don't ask. 1:18:38.200 --> 1:18:39.920 It, probably you don't know. 1:18:40.040 --> 1:18:42.559 If you don't add one hundred and they're probably they're 1:18:42.640 --> 1:18:43.639 they're probably gone. 1:18:43.800 --> 1:18:46.920 I will say that. But now you do you have 1:18:46.920 --> 1:18:48.040 an iPhone? Do you have an Android? 1:18:48.080 --> 1:18:50.160 What do you have androids? 1:18:50.240 --> 1:18:50.439 Okay? 1:18:50.960 --> 1:18:52.960 How many times I'm sort of technology? 1:18:54.000 --> 1:18:56.560 Okay, So but you've got the Visual Voicemail app. So 1:18:56.600 --> 1:18:59.000 when you go on there is there like a deleted 1:18:59.080 --> 1:19:01.200 folder or any thing like that that you can find 1:19:01.280 --> 1:19:03.080 on there. Have you looked You've poked around the app 1:19:03.200 --> 1:19:05.040 enough to know that they're not lingering anywhere. 1:19:06.160 --> 1:19:08.040 Yes, And I'm wondering if it is an apps because 1:19:08.040 --> 1:19:10.920 I think it's automatically built into my phone. Okay, I 1:19:10.960 --> 1:19:14.200 could pay for premium, but I don't, and I think 1:19:14.920 --> 1:19:16.839 they even really I can repoke. 1:19:17.920 --> 1:19:21.360 Okay, Well, it depends on the provider, depends on the 1:19:21.400 --> 1:19:24.280 cell company. Some of them do charge for visual voicemail. 1:19:24.360 --> 1:19:26.200 And you could download an app, but but I would 1:19:26.280 --> 1:19:27.960 check with boosts see if there's an app that you 1:19:28.040 --> 1:19:31.000 can download, see if that has some of these old 1:19:31.240 --> 1:19:33.720 messages in there, if you can download that, And then 1:19:33.720 --> 1:19:36.519 also I would I would call them and just ask 1:19:36.600 --> 1:19:38.560 them say, hey, look, I'm trying to retrieve some of 1:19:38.600 --> 1:19:41.200 these old voicemails. I know it's a long shot, but 1:19:41.320 --> 1:19:43.439 I'm just curious if you keep them on your servers 1:19:43.600 --> 1:19:47.320 or anything like that. And the answer is probably no. 1:19:47.479 --> 1:19:49.120 I mean, I hate to say, but like you have 1:19:49.200 --> 1:19:52.439 to know. I mean, you got to think how many 1:19:52.479 --> 1:19:55.000 million you got, one hundred million customers of just AT 1:19:55.120 --> 1:19:59.639 and T, then Verizon, then T Mobile and these voice scails. 1:20:00.280 --> 1:20:03.479 Isn't any different for me because I buy my service 1:20:03.600 --> 1:20:06.240 monthly by the card. Well not anymore now I pay 1:20:06.360 --> 1:20:08.960 you know, it's automatic, But for a long time I 1:20:09.000 --> 1:20:12.439 would just reboot through the card I picked up at Walmart. 1:20:12.600 --> 1:20:14.559 Yeah, and I would say in that case, they probably 1:20:14.640 --> 1:20:18.479 keep those voicemails even less, just because it's much more 1:20:18.520 --> 1:20:21.200 of you know, it's it's more of a temporary account. 1:20:21.520 --> 1:20:23.840 So you just did the same thing for me that 1:20:24.120 --> 1:20:25.920 simply codes did for me. 1:20:26.439 --> 1:20:26.679 Both. 1:20:26.720 --> 1:20:29.880 You save me from the group called pizza. The I 1:20:30.000 --> 1:20:32.880 ta paying the asphalt. 1:20:33.800 --> 1:20:35.120 Because sometimes it takes away. 1:20:35.439 --> 1:20:39.160 I had a problem on practicing patients. And it's true, 1:20:39.400 --> 1:20:41.760 you know, I don't pray for things because you Yeah, 1:20:42.680 --> 1:20:43.519 thank you so much. 1:20:43.720 --> 1:20:46.519 All right, really well, Debbie, thanks for the call today. 1:20:46.520 --> 1:20:48.439 I really appreciate it. I'm so sorry. If you're a loss, 1:20:48.600 --> 1:20:51.120 and I would, I would do that. I would call 1:20:51.240 --> 1:20:54.120 Boost just just out of curiosity. See give your account number, 1:20:54.160 --> 1:20:56.840 see what they say. I think they're lost. In general, 1:20:56.920 --> 1:20:59.000 I get a lot of emails, a lot of questions 1:20:59.000 --> 1:21:02.479 about voicemails. So number one couple things to do if 1:21:02.520 --> 1:21:04.680 you want a voicemail. If there's a voicemail on your 1:21:04.760 --> 1:21:08.479 phone that's important to you, save it today. So go 1:21:08.680 --> 1:21:11.160 through on both iPhone and Android. If you have a 1:21:11.240 --> 1:21:14.680 visual voicemail app, you can press the share icon and 1:21:14.800 --> 1:21:18.240 it will share out the audio of that voicemail wherever 1:21:18.320 --> 1:21:20.360 you want. You can email it to yourself. You can 1:21:20.479 --> 1:21:23.400 upload it to cloud storage. If it's a phone that's 1:21:23.520 --> 1:21:26.080 old or you don't have visual voicemail, you have to 1:21:26.479 --> 1:21:28.160 press and hold the number one on your phone to 1:21:28.240 --> 1:21:31.320 dial voicemail. Just put your phone on speaker and use 1:21:31.320 --> 1:21:34.600 another phone or friend's phone to record that message. You 1:21:34.680 --> 1:21:36.560 have the audio of that message, and then email that 1:21:36.680 --> 1:21:40.080 to yourself. And then if you want to keep your 1:21:40.120 --> 1:21:42.040 emails long term, like I do that, I keep a 1:21:42.080 --> 1:21:44.080 bunch on my phone. If you want to keep them 1:21:44.160 --> 1:21:47.360 long term, sign up for a third party email service 1:21:47.479 --> 1:21:50.400 like I have Google Voice, so when my voicemails go there, 1:21:50.520 --> 1:21:53.439 they are saved forever. I was scrolling back the other day. 1:21:53.439 --> 1:21:56.000 I've had that for since about two thousand and seven. 1:21:56.600 --> 1:21:59.120 I could scroll all the way back to like two 1:21:59.160 --> 1:22:01.479 thousand and seven and still listen to my voicemails because 1:22:01.479 --> 1:22:03.479 it never goes away. Now that may have changed within 1:22:03.680 --> 1:22:07.639 you know whatever. But there's other programs like youmail dot com. 1:22:08.080 --> 1:22:10.120 You can subscribe to that and they will save your 1:22:10.160 --> 1:22:13.320 emails for much longer than your carrier. So if these 1:22:13.400 --> 1:22:16.040 things are important to you, take the time to set 1:22:16.080 --> 1:22:19.160 it up. Make sure that you're saving these email, these 1:22:19.280 --> 1:22:23.719 voicemails in a place that will last forever, because most 1:22:23.760 --> 1:22:26.240 of the time you cannot get them back. That's just 1:22:26.320 --> 1:22:28.880 the reality. Like I was saying earlier, with one hundred 1:22:28.920 --> 1:22:32.880 million customers each thirty second voicemail, think about how much 1:22:32.960 --> 1:22:36.839 space that ends up taking up on these carrier servers. 1:22:37.560 --> 1:22:38.960 They want to get rid of them, they want to 1:22:39.040 --> 1:22:40.960 cycle through them. That's why they don't last very long. 1:22:41.000 --> 1:22:43.519 They say these are going to expire, or they don't 1:22:43.520 --> 1:22:46.320 give you enough space. You know, they only give you 1:22:46.320 --> 1:22:49.240 a certain amount of visual voicemail space on your your 1:22:49.360 --> 1:22:52.000 voicemail box for a reason. They don't want you to 1:22:52.080 --> 1:22:54.200 clog up their systems, so they do get rid of 1:22:54.280 --> 1:22:58.200 these things. So Debbie, thanks for the call. Appreciate it. 1:22:58.360 --> 1:23:01.040 What a fine person. I love that, She said her 1:23:01.720 --> 1:23:04.760 loved one new rich On Tech that call rich On 1:23:04.880 --> 1:23:09.680 Tech All right, before we go to break, Kim sent 1:23:09.800 --> 1:23:13.960 through a story out of San Francisco. There was a 1:23:14.840 --> 1:23:18.160 passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to San 1:23:18.240 --> 1:23:22.360 Diego had to arrive late because someone was bringing a 1:23:22.479 --> 1:23:26.400 humanoid robot on board and talk about a giant lithium 1:23:26.520 --> 1:23:29.960 battery inside. So they started as a seventy pound robot. 1:23:30.320 --> 1:23:33.559 They started asking all kinds of questions, delayed the flight, 1:23:34.760 --> 1:23:36.800 and they ended up having to buy a seat for 1:23:36.880 --> 1:23:41.000 this robot, and they took out his battery. I guess 1:23:41.080 --> 1:23:44.400 they took out they had to get the robot down 1:23:44.439 --> 1:23:47.920 to seventy pounds. Oh, they didn't mention the battery in 1:23:48.000 --> 1:23:51.160 the story. They were overnighting extra batteries. It was just 1:23:51.240 --> 1:23:53.920 a weight issue. Why do you have to be under 1:23:53.920 --> 1:23:58.640 one hundred pounds, I wonder interesting? Anyway, that's I mean. 1:23:58.640 --> 1:24:01.519 I guess maybe as a as AI is embodied in 1:24:01.600 --> 1:24:03.479 more of these humanoids, because you know, people are falling 1:24:03.520 --> 1:24:06.080 in love with AI. People are literally in love with 1:24:06.160 --> 1:24:10.880 their AI chatbots already today twenty twenty six. Imagine when 1:24:10.920 --> 1:24:16.000 these AI chatbots are in a robotic body. Okay, people 1:24:16.040 --> 1:24:18.120 are really gonna be falling in love with these things. 1:24:18.160 --> 1:24:21.240 I mean, this is what kinky. Oh yeah, I didn't 1:24:21.240 --> 1:24:25.320 even mention that aspect. When the robots, you know, when 1:24:25.360 --> 1:24:27.480 people start fooling around. 1:24:28.160 --> 1:24:33.040 God, they're already doing it. I mean, this is what's happening. 1:24:33.280 --> 1:24:35.559 Wasn't there a whole movie based off of but based 1:24:35.760 --> 1:24:38.360 I'm sure there's plenty A guy fill in love with 1:24:38.479 --> 1:24:41.560 his oh her, Yeah, yes, but that was just like 1:24:41.840 --> 1:24:42.799 I wasn't even embodied. 1:24:42.840 --> 1:24:44.400 I don't think. I think it was just like a voice. 1:24:44.840 --> 1:24:47.560 But imagine when these things are embodied and some of 1:24:47.600 --> 1:24:51.479 the parts work, if you know what I'm saying. I mean, 1:24:51.520 --> 1:24:55.120 it's like game over for humanity. This is it, folks 1:24:55.800 --> 1:24:57.920 telling you all right? Eighty eight rich one on one 1:24:58.000 --> 1:24:59.880 eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:25:00.240 --> 1:25:03.080 Coming up, I've got a list right here of about 1:25:03.400 --> 1:25:06.400 one two be four about ten new apps and websites 1:25:06.439 --> 1:25:08.400 that you need to know about. They're all very good. 1:25:08.960 --> 1:25:12.360 I will detail them coming up right here on rich 1:25:12.439 --> 1:25:23.439 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro 1:25:23.640 --> 1:25:30.120 here talking technology the website rich on Tech dot TV. 1:25:31.880 --> 1:25:33.680 One of Bobo's favorite songs here. 1:25:33.840 --> 1:25:34.920 This was his choice. 1:25:35.160 --> 1:25:37.960 Yeah but this fit in the theme. This was a 1:25:38.040 --> 1:25:42.920 major anthem for a major movie. And yeah, so good 1:25:43.080 --> 1:25:43.599 good tune. 1:25:44.880 --> 1:25:45.400 Got a bunch of. 1:25:45.439 --> 1:25:49.040 Emails about this. Microsoft is killing off publisher, So if 1:25:49.080 --> 1:25:52.120 you still use publisher for flyers or newsletters. You need 1:25:52.200 --> 1:25:54.880 to know this information. It's going to reach end of 1:25:55.000 --> 1:25:58.040 life in October twenty twenty six. After that, it's no 1:25:58.160 --> 1:26:02.280 longer included in Microsoft three. If you're a three sixty 1:26:02.360 --> 1:26:04.920 five subscriber, you will not be able to open or 1:26:05.120 --> 1:26:08.599 edit publisher files at that After that date, the app 1:26:08.600 --> 1:26:11.880 will basically just disappear. So if you bought a standalone 1:26:12.000 --> 1:26:16.080 version like you got this physical software, support will end, 1:26:16.200 --> 1:26:18.760 but you may be able to still run it, just 1:26:18.880 --> 1:26:21.120 without updates or support, so like it'll still function on 1:26:21.160 --> 1:26:23.120 your system, it just will not get any updates and 1:26:23.160 --> 1:26:26.960 you won't have support for this. Microsoft says most of 1:26:27.000 --> 1:26:30.280 what people do in publisher flyers, brochures, business cards, newsletters 1:26:30.320 --> 1:26:32.320 can already be done in Canva. Oh I'm sorry, I 1:26:32.400 --> 1:26:38.240 mean Word or PowerPoint. Okay, So if you have old files, 1:26:39.280 --> 1:26:43.599 Publisher uses thepub dot pub format that is not widely 1:26:43.680 --> 1:26:46.479 supported outside the app, so they say convert your files 1:26:46.520 --> 1:26:48.840 before October or you may not be able to open 1:26:48.920 --> 1:26:51.519 them later. Easiest option is to open your file and 1:26:51.560 --> 1:26:55.040 publisher choose files save as PDF. If you want to 1:26:55.080 --> 1:26:57.759 keep editing, convert it to PDF, open up that PDF 1:26:57.840 --> 1:27:00.120 and word. Obviously there's gonna be a lot of if 1:27:00.920 --> 1:27:03.479 you know, like all the formatting is going to be broken, probably, 1:27:03.640 --> 1:27:06.120 so just be aware of that. If you have a 1:27:06.240 --> 1:27:09.680 lot of files. They suggest using a PowerShell script to 1:27:09.880 --> 1:27:12.000 bulk convert. If you don't know what that is, it's 1:27:12.120 --> 1:27:13.840 probably not something you're gonna be able to do easily 1:27:13.880 --> 1:27:15.920 on your own, so you might need to enlist some help. 1:27:16.040 --> 1:27:19.000 That's for people like schools, offices, anyone that has a 1:27:19.080 --> 1:27:23.280 lot of these documents. So long story short, Yeah, publisher 1:27:23.439 --> 1:27:25.840 is going away October twenty twenty six. Come up with 1:27:25.880 --> 1:27:30.320 a plan and switch to PowerPoint word Canva. There's a 1:27:30.360 --> 1:27:34.080 whole bunch of ways to make flyers and things nowadays 1:27:34.120 --> 1:27:36.240 online besides this proprietary program. 1:27:36.360 --> 1:27:36.840 So there you go. 1:27:37.360 --> 1:27:39.679 All right, speaking of programs, I've got a whole bunch 1:27:39.720 --> 1:27:41.040 to tell you about. I'm gonna get through a bunch 1:27:41.080 --> 1:27:43.360 of these theser I bookmark all these things all the 1:27:43.400 --> 1:27:44.920 time that I come across, and these are some of 1:27:44.920 --> 1:27:46.720 the notable ones from the past couple of weeks. So 1:27:47.240 --> 1:27:50.799 number one, this app is super super cool, not for everyone, 1:27:50.960 --> 1:27:52.960 Like you may not need this, but I certainly do, 1:27:53.080 --> 1:27:56.680 and it's really cool. It's called dual Shot Recorder and 1:27:57.320 --> 1:28:00.800 it's an iPhone app that records vertical in hers at 1:28:00.840 --> 1:28:04.080 the same time. So if you are shooting stuff for 1:28:04.160 --> 1:28:07.160 social media, there's always this struggle do I record it vertical? 1:28:07.280 --> 1:28:10.040 Do I record it horizontal? Now you get both and 1:28:10.320 --> 1:28:14.320 you get both files in your camera or your camera roll, 1:28:14.479 --> 1:28:17.120 and you can use one for TV one for social 1:28:17.520 --> 1:28:21.040 It's ten dollars and it's iOS only. And there are 1:28:21.080 --> 1:28:26.000 a whole bunch of different brands of this out there, 1:28:26.439 --> 1:28:30.519 but the one to know is from Derek Downey Junior. 1:28:30.640 --> 1:28:32.680 He's the original and it's been number one on the 1:28:32.720 --> 1:28:35.080 App Store for photo and video. I'll put the link 1:28:35.120 --> 1:28:37.360 on the website, but that's dual shot Recorder. Then if 1:28:37.360 --> 1:28:39.880 you're on Android, there's a new Android weather app called 1:28:39.960 --> 1:28:44.439 gradient Weather, and this one's just a beautiful weather app. 1:28:44.520 --> 1:28:47.000 So if you like kind of like that Pixel weather, 1:28:47.640 --> 1:28:51.120 this kind of looks like that, except just for anyone. 1:28:51.520 --> 1:28:53.719 You don't have to be on a pixel So gradient 1:28:53.800 --> 1:28:57.680 Weather it's all about visuals, no ads, no tracking, and 1:28:57.840 --> 1:28:59.960 you've got a whole bunch of great widgets as well. 1:29:00.000 --> 1:29:00.200 Well. 1:29:01.160 --> 1:29:05.559 I believe some things are paid, like the basics are free, 1:29:05.640 --> 1:29:08.439 but there are some in app purchases Yes. And then 1:29:08.439 --> 1:29:11.800 there's a new app called Memo dot Ai. This is 1:29:11.960 --> 1:29:17.320 from another great app called Notepad. Let's see Memo dot Ai. 1:29:17.880 --> 1:29:21.800 Oh nope, Plan sorry nopeplan dot co slash memo And 1:29:22.439 --> 1:29:25.839 this is an iPhone only voice notes app that converts 1:29:25.880 --> 1:29:29.000 whatever you talk into structured notes, so summaries, action items, 1:29:29.040 --> 1:29:31.680 and key insights. This is for power users because it's 1:29:31.680 --> 1:29:34.040 not cheap. It's seventy nine dollars a year. But if 1:29:34.040 --> 1:29:36.120 you're the kind of person like me that's always taking 1:29:36.240 --> 1:29:38.960 voice notes, this is a great app for you. I 1:29:39.120 --> 1:29:41.880 use a whole bunch of these apps. This is, this 1:29:42.040 --> 1:29:44.559 is this is looks like a good one. The one 1:29:44.560 --> 1:29:47.320 that I use is voice, Notoes dot Com and Whisper Memos. 1:29:47.320 --> 1:29:50.920 I have a whole bunch. Alp and Glow. Alpen Glow 1:29:51.360 --> 1:29:53.960 is for it. Basically, it tells you if it's going 1:29:54.040 --> 1:29:55.840 to be a good sunset or not. So this is 1:29:55.920 --> 1:29:58.320 really for photographers, but for anyone if you're on vacation, 1:29:58.479 --> 1:30:00.559 whatever you want to know, you can know the exact 1:30:00.640 --> 1:30:03.400 time for Golden Hour and also if the sunset's going 1:30:03.479 --> 1:30:06.599 to be any good. So that's cool. That's Alp and Glow. 1:30:07.640 --> 1:30:11.080 There's one called US National Parkfinder, and this is an 1:30:11.160 --> 1:30:13.479 interesting one. This looks like it was coded with ai 1:30:13.680 --> 1:30:17.280 Vibe coded, but you can see you can pick the 1:30:17.320 --> 1:30:20.519 best national park based on where you're starting, distance, best 1:30:20.680 --> 1:30:23.839 months ratings, and stargazing potential. 1:30:24.439 --> 1:30:25.960 So it's really cool. It's got all. 1:30:25.960 --> 1:30:29.120 Sixty three parks and it's just an easy way to 1:30:29.240 --> 1:30:31.400 slice and dice and figure out which one to go to. 1:30:32.760 --> 1:30:33.400 Clove app. 1:30:33.560 --> 1:30:37.280 This one is awesome, awesome, awesome iPhone and Android. It's 1:30:37.320 --> 1:30:40.680 a recipe saver app. And what's cool about it is 1:30:40.760 --> 1:30:45.240 that it's super it's free, so Clove dot Kitchen and 1:30:45.360 --> 1:30:50.520 you can import recipes from anywhere. We're talking reels, TikTok, 1:30:51.280 --> 1:30:54.920 regular web page, YouTube, and it scans the information and 1:30:55.040 --> 1:30:57.559 puts it in a perfect format. It is really really 1:30:57.640 --> 1:31:02.559 good Clove dot Kitchen. And then NASA has something called 1:31:02.600 --> 1:31:06.920 your Name in landsat. This is an interactive little thing 1:31:07.000 --> 1:31:09.479 from NASA that spells out your name using real satellite 1:31:09.520 --> 1:31:14.639 images from the Earth. And finally, blank dot Page. If 1:31:14.680 --> 1:31:17.040 you just want something to write, you want a blank page, 1:31:17.160 --> 1:31:18.679 just go to blank dot Page. 1:31:18.880 --> 1:31:19.599 It's pretty cool. 1:31:19.840 --> 1:31:20.120 All right. 1:31:20.120 --> 1:31:22.200 I'll link all these up on the website. Rich on 1:31:22.680 --> 1:31:33.519 tech dot TV back after this. Welcome back to rich 1:31:33.600 --> 1:31:36.920 on tech rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 1:31:37.680 --> 1:31:39.240 I know. I give you a lot of apps just 1:31:39.360 --> 1:31:43.000 now before the break, a lot of handy apps and websites. 1:31:43.360 --> 1:31:45.960 They are all linked up on the show notes. Just 1:31:46.040 --> 1:31:50.880 go to rich on tech dot TV Episode one s 1:31:51.200 --> 1:31:52.840 two should be right at the top of the page. 1:31:52.880 --> 1:31:54.840 If not, just scroll down to where it says radio 1:31:54.920 --> 1:31:58.320 show and in there is everything we talked about, not 1:31:58.560 --> 1:32:01.000 just that, but all the things I mentioned, all the 1:32:01.040 --> 1:32:03.599 helpful tools and tricks and tips. It's all right there 1:32:03.840 --> 1:32:07.360 rich on tech dot TV, all right. Joining me now 1:32:07.720 --> 1:32:12.439 is the CEO of Jubilee TV, A shish Arga Wall. 1:32:12.600 --> 1:32:13.360 Welcome to the show. 1:32:16.360 --> 1:32:20.880 After initially covered or launch. Excited to be here. 1:32:21.280 --> 1:32:21.960 Yeah, so we did. 1:32:22.160 --> 1:32:24.679 We did a segment for TV a couple of years ago, 1:32:25.800 --> 1:32:28.760 and as I understand it, the takeaway for me is 1:32:28.880 --> 1:32:32.439 that this is a box that you connect to your 1:32:32.560 --> 1:32:36.400 TV and it kind of lets you control someone else's TV, 1:32:36.520 --> 1:32:38.919 but also makes that TV easy for the people. 1:32:38.760 --> 1:32:42.360 That live there to control, especially if they're older. Is 1:32:42.439 --> 1:32:44.240 that Did I do that properly? 1:32:45.320 --> 1:32:45.479 Yes? 1:32:45.560 --> 1:32:49.519 Exactly, Probably better than me So what we are is 1:32:49.560 --> 1:32:54.479 a system that connects a caregiver's phone or app into 1:32:54.680 --> 1:32:59.679 a senior's TV, allows the caregiver to support the seniors remotely, 1:33:00.160 --> 1:33:03.240 but also allow seniors to age independently with dignating their 1:33:03.280 --> 1:33:07.200 own home. It starts by the first main scenario, as 1:33:07.240 --> 1:33:09.280 you can see, like caregiver can see what's in the TV. 1:33:09.479 --> 1:33:12.200 They can put any shot or content, fix any issues, 1:33:12.600 --> 1:33:13.719 mom logs out oft Netflix. 1:33:13.760 --> 1:33:15.880 They can do that. That's how it started. But then 1:33:15.920 --> 1:33:16.960 you add connection to it. 1:33:17.040 --> 1:33:20.719 They can do video calls, share photos, reminders, group calling, 1:33:20.960 --> 1:33:22.400 which Grandma happy birthday? 1:33:22.720 --> 1:33:24.080 You know, the whole family jumps on. 1:33:24.520 --> 1:33:27.960 And now the third layer that we build is the 1:33:28.040 --> 1:33:31.519 camera and the microphone give you like rich insights onto 1:33:31.560 --> 1:33:34.600 what's happening with mom, so you can stay ahead of 1:33:34.960 --> 1:33:38.120 mom's journey as she ages through the years. 1:33:38.600 --> 1:33:40.760 Oh interesting, Okay, so that's a new aspect to it. 1:33:40.880 --> 1:33:43.320 So I'm looking at the website. It looks like since 1:33:43.360 --> 1:33:46.679 we talked, you're now doing kind of a monthly where 1:33:46.720 --> 1:33:49.679 you you know, the hardware is included in the monthly fee. 1:33:49.760 --> 1:33:51.120 Is that or I guess you have a bunch, but 1:33:51.600 --> 1:33:53.719 that's is that how most people are doing it, you think. 1:33:54.720 --> 1:33:57.080 Yeah, so you know, we try to make it easier. 1:33:58.280 --> 1:34:01.000 So it's a rental model now, so you just pay 1:34:01.000 --> 1:34:04.000 per month, use it until you know, most people use 1:34:04.040 --> 1:34:08.120 it until mom passes away, and then they return the 1:34:08.160 --> 1:34:10.600 box because you don't need it afterwards. So makes it 1:34:10.680 --> 1:34:12.960 really easy for them to come into the system, use 1:34:13.000 --> 1:34:14.639 it as long as says they need it, and turn 1:34:14.680 --> 1:34:14.960 it back. 1:34:15.160 --> 1:34:16.840 I didn't know this conversation was going to get so 1:34:16.960 --> 1:34:20.040 dark so quickly. Oh my gosh, but it's a reality 1:34:20.160 --> 1:34:24.160 of you know of these systems. But okay, so tell 1:34:24.200 --> 1:34:25.240 me why you came up with this. 1:34:27.000 --> 1:34:30.360 Look, I have three kids, I have four sits of 1:34:30.439 --> 1:34:32.720 parents in laws and parents, and my wife and I 1:34:32.840 --> 1:34:36.320 both work, and COVID kind of like they deteriorated so 1:34:36.520 --> 1:34:41.439 fast it was really tough to handle, like just absolutely crazy. 1:34:41.520 --> 1:34:44.799 And people who live this realize right away when that happens, 1:34:44.880 --> 1:34:46.360 it's like you are in a quick sign. 1:34:47.000 --> 1:34:47.800 Nothing pulls you out. 1:34:47.880 --> 1:34:51.120 So I started to think about what will make me 1:34:51.439 --> 1:34:54.600 take care of them remotely, Like how can I I 1:34:54.720 --> 1:34:56.280 want to be there at twenty four to seven, I 1:34:56.400 --> 1:34:59.280 just can't be there, So what can sort of try 1:34:59.320 --> 1:35:03.280 and at least be my help. But right, and when 1:35:03.280 --> 1:35:05.680 you think about it, what do I really have for them? 1:35:05.680 --> 1:35:07.000 I have empathy, that's great, But. 1:35:07.080 --> 1:35:09.280 I also have eyes and ears. I have a brain 1:35:09.720 --> 1:35:12.120 that can see what's happening. How can I make that? 1:35:12.320 --> 1:35:12.360 So? 1:35:12.439 --> 1:35:14.400 How can I first start with making their TV because 1:35:14.400 --> 1:35:18.360 they watch six hours of TV really really useful because 1:35:18.360 --> 1:35:22.040 they're isolated if they don't watch right content six hours 1:35:22.080 --> 1:35:24.719 of watching eighty four percent of the time they're watching 1:35:24.800 --> 1:35:28.240 news to get anybody depressed, not alone. 1:35:28.040 --> 1:35:29.760 Us or to say that. 1:35:30.360 --> 1:35:32.920 So that's how it started, and then I started to 1:35:33.000 --> 1:35:35.000 extend it more and more over the last year year 1:35:35.040 --> 1:35:38.479 and a half, where now it almost literally replaces my 1:35:38.680 --> 1:35:40.920 need to be there twenty four to seven. So in 1:35:40.920 --> 1:35:42.560 the middle of the night, I don't need to go 1:35:43.520 --> 1:35:45.479 figure out what's happening in the room. The system tells 1:35:45.560 --> 1:35:47.879 me your mom got up, she went to the bathroom, 1:35:48.000 --> 1:35:49.800 she came back in, she turned on the TV. She 1:35:49.840 --> 1:35:52.480 didn't turn on the TV. I can send a photos. 1:35:52.640 --> 1:35:55.040 You know, people have done church service remotely. People have 1:35:55.160 --> 1:35:58.120 done so many things. So the idea is we're doing 1:35:58.160 --> 1:36:01.080 the show remotely. This wasn't possible twenty years ago. Why 1:36:01.160 --> 1:36:03.760 can't I take care of my parents remotely as much 1:36:03.760 --> 1:36:05.560 as I can. So that was the genesis of the 1:36:05.600 --> 1:36:08.200 whole thing. And now a year and a half later, 1:36:08.360 --> 1:36:11.640 we have forty five thousand active users that use the 1:36:11.720 --> 1:36:14.080 app five point eight times every single day. 1:36:14.960 --> 1:36:16.840 That's how much they right. 1:36:17.360 --> 1:36:20.160 And they do not cancel, and I know it will 1:36:20.160 --> 1:36:23.040 get down, but they do not cancel until they don't 1:36:23.080 --> 1:36:23.719 need it anymore. 1:36:23.760 --> 1:36:25.760 And they only need it, don't need it anymore than 1:36:26.000 --> 1:36:29.920 moms you know, gone. So it was the impact. 1:36:30.479 --> 1:36:32.880 Okay, So and let's just explain what this is. A 1:36:32.960 --> 1:36:35.679 physical box that you put on top of your TV 1:36:35.800 --> 1:36:38.080 because it just have that camera and microphone. It's got 1:36:38.120 --> 1:36:41.479 a remote control that is very easy for a senior 1:36:41.600 --> 1:36:45.559 to use. It's got big buttons, they're colorful. It's got 1:36:45.600 --> 1:36:48.599 the volume up, the volume down, the channel the numbers, 1:36:48.760 --> 1:36:51.760 unlike most traditional streaming remotes that are just like, you know, 1:36:52.120 --> 1:36:56.000 a play pause kind of thing. So once you install this, 1:36:56.400 --> 1:36:59.160 explain the logistics. So when I remember going hands on, 1:36:59.240 --> 1:37:01.240 it reminded me of like a sling box. It's almost 1:37:01.360 --> 1:37:04.280 like you can monitor everything. That's like you could see 1:37:04.520 --> 1:37:07.200 your loved ones TV screen on your phone. 1:37:07.360 --> 1:37:07.479 Right. 1:37:08.720 --> 1:37:11.400 Yeah, meaning a large part of our team. In fact, 1:37:11.439 --> 1:37:13.519 one of our big investors came from slim Box, so 1:37:13.960 --> 1:37:15.840 there is a genesis to that as well. 1:37:16.320 --> 1:37:17.200 So you're right. 1:37:17.280 --> 1:37:19.080 So the box is a microphone and a camera and 1:37:19.160 --> 1:37:22.760 a really powerful always on a engine that's you know, 1:37:23.320 --> 1:37:25.759 but you connect it to all your devices. Well, it's Soroku, 1:37:25.880 --> 1:37:28.320 your set up box, your DVD player. It's a one 1:37:28.360 --> 1:37:29.920 time setup that takes twenty minutes. 1:37:30.400 --> 1:37:32.840 And I do it for my parents. So I buy 1:37:32.880 --> 1:37:35.320 the box, I go to the home, I put it in. Done. 1:37:36.080 --> 1:37:39.200 Now for them, let's start with them. There are four 1:37:39.280 --> 1:37:41.640 ways as they age they can use it. They can 1:37:41.760 --> 1:37:43.680 use the most powerful remote that we have, which is 1:37:43.800 --> 1:37:46.839 very simple to use, very powerful. They can just say Netflix. 1:37:46.920 --> 1:37:48.920 They can just say a show. You can say ABC, 1:37:49.720 --> 1:37:52.160 the TV turns on and they're watching. So no, no 1:37:52.280 --> 1:37:54.720 more apps, no more confusion. They just say what they 1:37:54.760 --> 1:37:58.160 want to say. Right, they can just say NBC. So 1:37:58.320 --> 1:38:00.920 it's really simple for them to use. But as they age, 1:38:01.600 --> 1:38:04.120 it goes through systems where you have a small remote 1:38:04.160 --> 1:38:06.400 cover they want don't want to use complicated buttons, you 1:38:06.439 --> 1:38:09.599 can put it in and towards the very late they 1:38:09.640 --> 1:38:12.519 have a six button like a dementia friendly remote. We're 1:38:12.520 --> 1:38:14.439 all going to live with dementia, which is a proven 1:38:14.520 --> 1:38:18.519 fact now unless there's medical breakthroughs. And at the very end, 1:38:18.640 --> 1:38:20.120 they don't need to use the remote at all. I 1:38:20.200 --> 1:38:22.240 can drive the whole experience for them remote. 1:38:22.600 --> 1:38:23.759 So that's how it starts. 1:38:23.880 --> 1:38:24.000 Right. 1:38:24.320 --> 1:38:26.439 You can put any show of content. I can turn 1:38:26.520 --> 1:38:28.559 on the TV, turn it off. I can program at 1:38:28.920 --> 1:38:31.640 six o'clock every day, turn it on, play Wheel a 1:38:31.720 --> 1:38:34.400 fortune for them, right, So that's how it starts. Now 1:38:34.760 --> 1:38:37.080 on my side, I can see what's on the TV. 1:38:37.200 --> 1:38:39.160 If they log out on Netflix, I can actually put 1:38:39.200 --> 1:38:41.200 in the Netflix password for them from here, so I 1:38:41.240 --> 1:38:43.240 don't have to go drop everything and go do that for. 1:38:43.280 --> 1:38:44.479 Them, right, Because that's what's happening. 1:38:44.560 --> 1:38:47.000 You get that call from mom or dad or family 1:38:47.080 --> 1:38:49.679 member like and they just say, like, on my TV, 1:38:49.760 --> 1:38:51.800 I have a black screen. You're like, okay, well tell 1:38:51.840 --> 1:38:55.759 me more. Or it's like, oh, the volume is not working, 1:38:56.080 --> 1:38:58.519 or Netflix is logged out, or I don't know how 1:38:58.560 --> 1:39:01.960 to access this program. It's like you can't see the screen. 1:39:02.120 --> 1:39:04.400 So it's really tough to give that remote support. And 1:39:04.479 --> 1:39:07.280 of course we're all busy and working and things, and 1:39:07.360 --> 1:39:10.120 this is why the elderly don't call their loved ones 1:39:10.240 --> 1:39:13.040 because they're worried about interrupting them. That's why they're scammed 1:39:13.040 --> 1:39:15.120 at the end of the day. So this kind of 1:39:15.160 --> 1:39:15.840 bridges all that. 1:39:17.040 --> 1:39:19.280 Yeah, and then you start to build on that. Right, 1:39:19.360 --> 1:39:22.200 once you have fixed the underlying thing, Now let's try 1:39:22.240 --> 1:39:25.160 to move towards happiness and joy. Like when my mom 1:39:25.240 --> 1:39:29.280 calls my kid, Now that's a grandma grandkid connection on 1:39:29.360 --> 1:39:32.200 a big screen, which is fundamentally since there you're not 1:39:32.320 --> 1:39:35.519 watching nose hair anymore. Like you know, you've seen those 1:39:36.080 --> 1:39:38.439 where are you grandma? Like you know, people running away. 1:39:39.160 --> 1:39:42.240 It just turns the whole scenario into delight. I can 1:39:42.320 --> 1:39:45.480 send any number of photos, I can send videos. 1:39:45.320 --> 1:39:47.680 You know, things like that. So now my mom is 1:39:47.760 --> 1:39:51.400 actually using that TV screen far more effectively. 1:39:51.920 --> 1:39:53.840 I can put a yoga video, I can take her 1:39:53.880 --> 1:39:56.439 to virtually to Ireland by because somebody is going. 1:39:56.720 --> 1:39:56.920 Yeah. 1:39:58.000 --> 1:40:00.320 So there's so much content and goodness through the TV 1:40:00.760 --> 1:40:05.679 that her life now is more happy. And then right, yeah, okay, 1:40:05.760 --> 1:40:06.360 let's go down that. 1:40:06.960 --> 1:40:09.559 Well, we've only got about a minute. But I'm curious 1:40:10.160 --> 1:40:12.760 how long you've been doing this now, so. 1:40:12.920 --> 1:40:16.240 We launched, you know, it's really been two years since 1:40:16.360 --> 1:40:21.920 launch fifteen months. Okay, good growth, rapid usage, that's still 1:40:21.920 --> 1:40:22.320 a baby. 1:40:22.439 --> 1:40:24.120 But what have you learned in that time? What have 1:40:24.200 --> 1:40:24.639 you learned? 1:40:26.640 --> 1:40:28.920 This is a massive problem. We are only scratched the 1:40:29.000 --> 1:40:30.880 tip of the ice work right now, and there's a 1:40:30.960 --> 1:40:34.479 lot more to do. But amazing journey so far, amazing growth, 1:40:34.520 --> 1:40:35.320 amazing usage. 1:40:36.120 --> 1:40:39.519 Yeah, and I imagine that you probably get the most 1:40:40.400 --> 1:40:44.439 the most love from the caretakers that purchased this and 1:40:44.560 --> 1:40:47.240 set it up at their loved ones homes, because they're 1:40:47.240 --> 1:40:49.519 the ones that say, oh my gosh, you really a 1:40:49.600 --> 1:40:51.760 lot of relief in knowing that they not only have 1:40:51.840 --> 1:40:54.840 that control, but they can finally like actually help their 1:40:54.880 --> 1:40:55.439 loved ones. 1:40:56.360 --> 1:40:56.559 Yeah. 1:40:56.680 --> 1:41:00.799 Game changer, life changer. I've saved all since and thousands 1:41:00.840 --> 1:41:02.720 of dollars. I don't need to put mom into a 1:41:02.800 --> 1:41:03.479 home anymore. 1:41:03.600 --> 1:41:04.680 Those other things we hear. 1:41:05.000 --> 1:41:08.760 Yeah, I'm looking at the website. So the website is 1:41:08.920 --> 1:41:14.280 get jubileetv dot com. Get jubileetv dot com. You can 1:41:14.360 --> 1:41:16.599 rent this monthly. It looks like it's about thirty nine 1:41:16.640 --> 1:41:19.719 dollars a month. For the year, it's about three eighty 1:41:19.840 --> 1:41:22.400 nine and that includes all the software that includes the 1:41:22.439 --> 1:41:25.120 subscription and the box right and the membership. 1:41:25.320 --> 1:41:26.639 Yeah okay, all. 1:41:26.600 --> 1:41:29.719 Right, Ashish Arkawall, thanks so much for joining me today. 1:41:30.720 --> 1:41:34.160 Thank you rich great to really appreciate it. Sure beats 1:41:34.200 --> 1:41:36.479 the uh hold on, let me run right over. Let 1:41:36.520 --> 1:41:38.640 me try to You know, like when your loved one 1:41:38.720 --> 1:41:40.880 is calling you with a TV or an internet problem, 1:41:41.000 --> 1:41:44.040 it is like you can't feel right until you've fixed it. 1:41:44.200 --> 1:41:47.800 That's the bottom line. Rich on tech dot tv is 1:41:47.840 --> 1:41:50.000 the website to go for more information. When we come back, 1:41:50.400 --> 1:41:57.519 we're gonna open up the feedback. Welcome back to rich 1:41:57.640 --> 1:42:01.560 on tech. Two quick stories before we get into the feedbag, 1:42:01.720 --> 1:42:06.519 which is overfloweth this weekend. First off, you knew this 1:42:06.680 --> 1:42:12.599 was gonna happen. TikTok is so influential. Now Netflix has 1:42:12.680 --> 1:42:17.120 a TikTok style clips feature inside the app. So it's 1:42:17.200 --> 1:42:21.200 a vertical video feed where you can scroll through various 1:42:21.400 --> 1:42:23.800 of course Netflix shows. It's gonna be clips from those 1:42:23.840 --> 1:42:28.559 shows personalized to you and not just to scroll through 1:42:28.640 --> 1:42:30.960 and laugh and see little scenes and things, but in 1:42:31.040 --> 1:42:33.439 the hopes that you might want to watch the full 1:42:33.520 --> 1:42:37.160 content and also discover things you may not discover. So again, 1:42:37.240 --> 1:42:40.160 this is called clips. The idea is that you might 1:42:40.240 --> 1:42:42.400 watch a short clip of a show first to laugh 1:42:42.479 --> 1:42:45.240 a little bit, and then maybe watch that show, that movie, 1:42:45.320 --> 1:42:48.519 that comedy special later and add it to your watch list. 1:42:48.600 --> 1:42:50.640 So check that out in the Netflix app. It's not 1:42:50.880 --> 1:42:53.760 not arrived in mind just yet, but it's probably rolling out. 1:42:53.800 --> 1:42:56.400 It's called clips. And then this has been a long 1:42:56.439 --> 1:43:01.160 time coming. YouTube TV finally let you build your own multiview. 1:43:01.280 --> 1:43:04.120 You can watch four channels at once, and you can 1:43:04.280 --> 1:43:08.040 choose which channels those are. So yes, YouTube TV has 1:43:08.120 --> 1:43:10.599 had multiview for a very long time, but they kind 1:43:10.640 --> 1:43:13.360 of gave you the combos, or they gave you the 1:43:13.880 --> 1:43:16.559 channels that you could choose from for your combos. Now 1:43:16.600 --> 1:43:18.760 you can just choose pretty much any channel. There may 1:43:18.800 --> 1:43:22.799 be some limitations. It's only live TV, can't do DVR 1:43:22.960 --> 1:43:27.439 on demand stuff. But oh, it's also rolling out slowly. 1:43:28.520 --> 1:43:31.640 I hate those terms because you probably want this right 1:43:31.720 --> 1:43:33.960 now and it may not hit your TV for a bit, 1:43:34.160 --> 1:43:36.560 but you are finally in control. And I will just 1:43:36.680 --> 1:43:38.840 mention that one of my dreams when I first started 1:43:38.880 --> 1:43:42.880 out in TV journalism was I wanted this is how 1:43:43.000 --> 1:43:45.839 old I am. I wanted like a bunch of TVs, 1:43:46.040 --> 1:43:48.920 like five different TVs mounted on my wall, or I 1:43:48.960 --> 1:43:50.559 guess you couldn't been mounted them back then. They were 1:43:50.640 --> 1:43:54.920 like CRTs, but you would put five TVs and each 1:43:55.000 --> 1:43:57.360 one be playing like a different channel, like channel two, 1:43:57.520 --> 1:44:00.679 channel four, channel five, channel seven, channel, you know, eleven, 1:44:01.040 --> 1:44:03.240 and you can watch everything at once. And of course 1:44:03.280 --> 1:44:05.599 now you just do that with any TV with YouTube 1:44:05.760 --> 1:44:08.080 or a lot of these streaming services. But I did 1:44:08.160 --> 1:44:10.840 have one news director at a TV station that I 1:44:10.880 --> 1:44:12.840 guess he posted it. I never went to his place, 1:44:12.880 --> 1:44:14.720 but he told me he had this, and I was like, well, 1:44:14.840 --> 1:44:17.760 that's what I want in my house. Okay, let's open 1:44:17.880 --> 1:44:24.200 up the feedbag. Speaking of streaming, Johnny and Staten Island, Hey, Rich, 1:44:24.240 --> 1:44:26.080 I was catching up on your recent broadcast and I 1:44:26.200 --> 1:44:28.400 ran into this issue with cord cutting in sports. I 1:44:28.479 --> 1:44:30.479 tried to find a Knicks playoff game figure to be 1:44:30.560 --> 1:44:33.759 on MSG or ESPN. Nope, it was on Amazon Prime. 1:44:34.240 --> 1:44:36.240 Then I tried to follow the Yankees on Yes, that 1:44:36.439 --> 1:44:39.519 wasn't there either. It feels like games are spread across Netflix, Amazon, 1:44:39.600 --> 1:44:42.600 everywhere else. It's getting ridiculous trying to keep up with 1:44:42.640 --> 1:44:45.960 the team. You basically need multiple subscriptions. Yes, you do, 1:44:46.280 --> 1:44:48.840 and you need a way to find where those games 1:44:48.880 --> 1:44:51.400 are playing. The ESPN app is pretty handy with that. 1:44:52.520 --> 1:44:54.720 Charles in New Jersey, Rich, I want to share two 1:44:54.800 --> 1:44:56.360 tools I've been using for a long time. 1:44:57.200 --> 1:44:57.599 You Mail. 1:44:57.800 --> 1:45:00.000 Oh, we talked about that this show. It's been fantastic 1:45:00.080 --> 1:45:03.679 stick for blocking spam calls. It's also got more voicemail 1:45:03.760 --> 1:45:05.760 features in the carriers. It's not cheap, but for me, 1:45:05.840 --> 1:45:08.560 it's worth it. I also use privacy dot com for 1:45:08.680 --> 1:45:12.200 virtual credit cards. You can create single use cards, set 1:45:12.280 --> 1:45:15.000 spending limits, or lock them to one vendor. It's perfect 1:45:15.040 --> 1:45:18.920 for free trials or sites you don't fully trust. Charles, 1:45:19.040 --> 1:45:22.080 I'm familiar with email, and yes, privacy dot com is excellent, 1:45:22.320 --> 1:45:25.880 especially for free trials that you are inevitably going to 1:45:26.000 --> 1:45:30.120 forget to cancel. It is the best Men in Redondo 1:45:30.240 --> 1:45:31.040 Beach says Hey. 1:45:31.120 --> 1:45:31.280 Rich. 1:45:31.320 --> 1:45:33.439 I ordered a new phone from a T Mobile kiosk 1:45:33.479 --> 1:45:35.839 at Sam's Club. Had it shipped to a UPS access 1:45:35.880 --> 1:45:39.320 point with a signature required. I got the delivery notification 1:45:39.439 --> 1:45:41.720 an hour later another email saying it had been picked up. 1:45:42.200 --> 1:45:45.120 The UPS store confirmed someone took it. They told me 1:45:45.200 --> 1:45:48.040 the person showed up with a passport matching my first name. 1:45:48.520 --> 1:45:51.639 Video showed someone in a cap and sunglasses. I even 1:45:51.680 --> 1:45:54.040 signed up for ups my choice to prevent this kind 1:45:54.080 --> 1:45:54.320 of thing. 1:45:54.720 --> 1:45:55.360 Have you heard of this? 1:45:56.439 --> 1:46:00.360 No, but yes I have heard of thieves targeting phone 1:46:00.400 --> 1:46:04.120 deliveries in particular. I guess the weak point here is 1:46:04.160 --> 1:46:07.599 that ID verification. You know, sometimes people do this as 1:46:07.760 --> 1:46:09.840 just like they're going through the motions, but they really 1:46:09.920 --> 1:46:12.559 do need to check to make sure it matches. Hopefully 1:46:12.560 --> 1:46:14.800 you're not on the line for any of that. You 1:46:14.920 --> 1:46:15.439 should not be. 1:46:17.520 --> 1:46:18.920 Let's see Denise. 1:46:18.880 --> 1:46:21.360 Says Hey Rich About a year ago, I traded in 1:46:21.439 --> 1:46:23.439 my MacBook Air for an iMac because I wanted a 1:46:23.479 --> 1:46:25.920 bigger screen for writing at home. I loved it, but 1:46:26.000 --> 1:46:28.360 I miss being able to move around the house. Then 1:46:28.400 --> 1:46:30.879 I saw your segment on the MacBook Neo and decided 1:46:30.920 --> 1:46:33.160 to get one. It took a few weeks to arrive, 1:46:33.240 --> 1:46:35.120 but I just got it and I love it now. 1:46:35.160 --> 1:46:36.840 I feel like I've the best of both worlds and 1:46:36.840 --> 1:46:38.760 I'm already using it for my dining room. Just wanted 1:46:38.800 --> 1:46:39.599 to say thanks. 1:46:39.400 --> 1:46:40.240 For the great advice. 1:46:40.520 --> 1:46:40.840 Thank you. 1:46:42.320 --> 1:46:46.280 Let's see here Mitch and Denver listening on six point 1:46:46.280 --> 1:46:49.840 thirty K how Hey, rich. I listened to you often, 1:46:50.040 --> 1:46:53.800 or maybe it's khow one of those. I'm a cybersecurity 1:46:53.840 --> 1:46:56.320 practitioner with over forty years in the industry. Yeah, one 1:46:56.360 --> 1:46:58.120 of the old guys. Sometimes they yel at the radio 1:46:58.160 --> 1:46:59.720 when you say things. But this is the first time 1:46:59.760 --> 1:47:02.920 I actually writing in. You were talking about recording apps 1:47:02.920 --> 1:47:05.519 and I wanted to point something out important. In healthcare, 1:47:05.600 --> 1:47:09.680 there are ongoing lawsuits claiming practitioners didn't notify patients their 1:47:09.720 --> 1:47:11.760 data was being shared with third parties and didn't have 1:47:11.800 --> 1:47:15.599 proper agreements in place, which could violate HIPPA. Also, recording 1:47:15.720 --> 1:47:18.519 laws vary by state. Some require all party consent. The 1:47:18.640 --> 1:47:21.880 rules can differ whether it's phone call or in person. 1:47:21.960 --> 1:47:23.760 Your callers may not think about that, but when you're 1:47:23.760 --> 1:47:25.639 giving advice on the radio, it might be worth adding 1:47:25.680 --> 1:47:28.479 a disclaimer so people don't unknowingly. 1:47:28.080 --> 1:47:30.479 Break the law. Keep up the fight. There's no shortage 1:47:30.520 --> 1:47:30.960 of work to do. 1:47:31.600 --> 1:47:33.880 Yes, no matter what you hear, any advice you get 1:47:33.960 --> 1:47:36.320 in life, don't just follow it blindly. Always do your 1:47:36.320 --> 1:47:40.000 own research. But I will say that hip of stuff 1:47:40.840 --> 1:47:43.080 I'll just here comes the angry emails is so annoying. 1:47:43.320 --> 1:47:45.479 I went to a dermatologist the other day. I'm not kidding. 1:47:45.760 --> 1:47:48.680 It's like, oh, come early for paperwork, like seventy five 1:47:48.800 --> 1:47:51.040 pages of just like, here's how we're sharing your info. 1:47:51.160 --> 1:47:52.880 Here's do you care? Can we talk to it? 1:47:52.960 --> 1:47:54.680 Can we leave a voicemail with yourself? It's like, I 1:47:54.720 --> 1:47:57.120 don't care, I don't care. Just tell me what it 1:47:57.240 --> 1:47:59.200 is and let me know. And anyone who picks up 1:47:59.200 --> 1:48:00.840 the phone my house tell me kids. By the way, 1:48:01.479 --> 1:48:03.840 if you're putting off getting like a mold check or 1:48:03.880 --> 1:48:07.640 any sort of like any doctor situation, just go. It 1:48:07.760 --> 1:48:09.800 is so much better to know. Like I'm like sitting there, 1:48:09.880 --> 1:48:12.040 like I haven't been to the dermatologists in like years. 1:48:12.080 --> 1:48:14.160 I'm like, oh, they're probably gonna find something horrible. The 1:48:14.280 --> 1:48:16.400 lady takes one look and she's like, yeah, you're fine, 1:48:16.720 --> 1:48:18.760 Like no worries. It's like, Okay, how much better did 1:48:18.800 --> 1:48:21.840 I feel after that? But yet I took me like 1:48:21.960 --> 1:48:31.400 three years to make an appointment anyway, Hiju Julie writes 1:48:31.439 --> 1:48:33.479 in Hey, Rich, I emailed you because I couldn't open 1:48:33.560 --> 1:48:35.880 some attachments in a text message. I really needed them 1:48:35.880 --> 1:48:38.320 because are from my husband and his funeral was this weekend. 1:48:38.360 --> 1:48:41.120 Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. You suggested tapping the 1:48:41.200 --> 1:48:43.479 contact name at the top, going into the infosection and 1:48:43.520 --> 1:48:44.360 clicking the photos. 1:48:44.439 --> 1:48:44.920 I went back. 1:48:44.960 --> 1:48:47.559 I tried it and it worked. Crazy that they show 1:48:47.640 --> 1:48:49.240 up there but not in the conversation, but I'm so 1:48:49.360 --> 1:48:50.040 glad I found them. 1:48:50.120 --> 1:48:52.000 Thank you again. You have a house full of rich 1:48:52.080 --> 1:48:54.479 On tech fans here. Thank you, Julie. 1:48:54.520 --> 1:48:57.559 I am so sorry for your loss. Alan, Hey, rich 1:48:57.600 --> 1:48:59.920 I love listening to your show. It's both educational and fun. 1:49:00.120 --> 1:49:03.080 Thanks for doing what you do, Nancy, no help needed, 1:49:03.200 --> 1:49:06.800 just want to know I appreciate you. Deb in Oshkosh 1:49:07.040 --> 1:49:11.240 w hby Rich I love your radio show, Betty and 1:49:11.400 --> 1:49:14.479 upland I subscribe to your newsletter and listen on KFI 1:49:14.720 --> 1:49:17.360 and with the Bill Handle segment you do. Your segments 1:49:17.400 --> 1:49:19.479 have been so helpful to this eighty eight year old 1:49:19.600 --> 1:49:22.880 lady who doesn't have the technology instincts needed in today's 1:49:22.920 --> 1:49:23.559 internet world. 1:49:23.600 --> 1:49:25.240 Thank you so much for what you do. 1:49:26.720 --> 1:49:30.000 And Jerry writes in from Denver, love your show on KOA. 1:49:31.200 --> 1:49:35.120 And Neil from Ohio love the ORB app you introduced 1:49:35.200 --> 1:49:37.639 us to last week. Thank you for your public service. Yes, 1:49:37.760 --> 1:49:40.679 get that app ORB. I think it's ORB dot app, 1:49:41.000 --> 1:49:44.800 orb dot net. Oh my gosh, game changer. Absolutely love that. 1:49:46.040 --> 1:49:46.600 That's gonna do it. 1:49:46.640 --> 1:49:48.719 For this episode, you can find links on the website 1:49:48.800 --> 1:49:51.800 rich on tech dot tv, follow me on social media 1:49:51.880 --> 1:49:55.400 at rich on tech. Next week, I'm gonna explain wireless charging. 1:49:55.479 --> 1:49:57.880 Plus we've got the founder of save wise to talk 1:49:57.920 --> 1:50:01.839 about money saving tip. Thank you so much for listening. 1:50:01.960 --> 1:50:03.920 I know there are so many ways you can spend 1:50:03.960 --> 1:50:06.680 your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here 1:50:07.000 --> 1:50:11.240 with little old me. One reminder before I go, please, please, 1:50:11.280 --> 1:50:14.040 please please do not drive distracted. Those texts can wait. 1:50:14.200 --> 1:50:16.400 I know they're tempting. We all want to write back 1:50:16.439 --> 1:50:16.720 to them. 1:50:17.000 --> 1:50:17.519 They can wait. 1:50:18.040 --> 1:50:20.439 Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. Bobo today 1:50:20.479 --> 1:50:23.519 on board, Kim on the phones. My name is rich Demiro. 1:50:23.720 --> 1:50:25.160 I will talk to you real soon