Speaker 1: My review of the new AirPods and why I might
Speaker 1: be switching from the pros. Amazon's new TVs are now available.
Speaker 1: There's a new family filter for your home internet service
Speaker 1: that's free. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on
Speaker 1: on Rich Demiro And this is Rich on Tech, the
Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place right answer
Speaker 1: the questions you sent me. I'm the tech reporter at
Speaker 1: KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Thanks for watching on
Speaker 1: television if you so choose to do that. Otherwise, maybe
Speaker 1: you've discovered me online somewhere. Thanks for tuning in. I
Speaker 1: decided that I am going to start sharing a little
Speaker 1: bit more behind the scenes, a little inside baseball about
Speaker 1: my job on LinkedIn.
Speaker 2: And here's the reason.
Speaker 1: So this could be a total total mistake, but a
Speaker 1: couple of things going on. Number One, I feel like
Speaker 1: I want to demystify a little bit of what it
Speaker 1: takes to do my job. So it takes a lot,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that go into it. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of decisions that are made, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of thought, there's a lot of process, and I feel
Speaker 1: like young journalists people coming up in the business may
Speaker 1: want to see how I do things. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe they don't, maybe they don't care. Otherwise, what else
Speaker 1: the thing is LinkedIn I feel like is a place
Speaker 1: where when I go on there, I'm looking for sort
Speaker 1: of inspiration, I'm looking for tips, I'm looking for just
Speaker 1: I don't know, just information. And so I felt like
Speaker 1: that was a pretty good place for it. I could
Speaker 1: be totally wrong. I mean, I know TikTok is where
Speaker 1: everything's at, but I felt like LinkedIn maybe is a
Speaker 1: better place for professionals to exchange opinions and thoughts on things.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll continue doing it, maybe I won't. But I've
Speaker 1: got my first two posts up. I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: post every day, just FYI. So I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: post every single day and some kind of like little
Speaker 1: nugget behind the scenes wherever I am whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll just see.
Speaker 1: I'll use all the different different faculties available to me
Speaker 1: on LinkedIn. You know, whether it's a video, whether it's
Speaker 1: a picture, whether it's a poll.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So if you want find me on LinkedIn. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you search on there. Just search rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: LinkedIn and follow me there. So let's get to the
Speaker 1: first story of the week. I will probably end up
Speaker 1: switching to the new AirPods. I talked about this a
Speaker 1: little bit in last week's show, the brand new Airpod's
Speaker 1: third generation, but I was under embargo, couldn't really speak
Speaker 1: about my impressions of them. And yeah, embargoes are kind
Speaker 1: of a mixed bag when it comes to journalism, like
Speaker 1: we love them and hate them. So it's nice that
Speaker 1: Apple will get me the AirPod so that I can
Speaker 1: test them. But it's you know a lot of times
Speaker 1: when companies send stuff, it's there's some sort of caveat
Speaker 1: with when you can actually.
Speaker 2: Speak about it.
Speaker 1: And so is This has led to a whole joke
Speaker 1: with MKBHD, who's one of the biggest or probably the
Speaker 1: biggest tech you where he always you know, the joke
Speaker 1: is when the product comes out the day comes out,
Speaker 1: he always says, hey, guys, I've been using this product
Speaker 1: for the last three months and here are my thoughts
Speaker 1: on it. You know, where everyone else is like, wait,
Speaker 1: we just found out about this, but you've been using
Speaker 1: this secretly, so it led to a whole big joke
Speaker 1: in the comment section of his stuff or any in general.
Speaker 2: I digress.
Speaker 1: So, I've been wearing the new air pods and these
Speaker 1: are these standard air pods. So if you're familiar with AirPods,
Speaker 1: you know there's the standard ones and then there's the
Speaker 1: air Pods Pro. And so I've been using the pros
Speaker 1: pretty much since they came out, which I love because
Speaker 1: they the day that they came out basically enabled me
Speaker 1: to stop carrying noise cancellation headphones on the plane, and
Speaker 1: I said, wow, now I've got one set of things,
Speaker 1: one set of earbuds for every purpose. And they're tiny,
Speaker 1: by the way. When you're packing, that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: And so I've liked them. But the one thing I
Speaker 1: don't like about them is that they seal out your ears,
Speaker 1: and that's good for noise cancelation, but it's sort of
Speaker 1: bad for everything else if you want to hear people
Speaker 1: around you.
Speaker 2: If you just don't like that feeling.
Speaker 1: And so for me, I never really liked that feeling,
Speaker 1: but I put up with it because whatever. And now
Speaker 1: that the AirPods have all of the same features as
Speaker 1: the pros, except for noise cancelation and the silicone tips
Speaker 1: you know, basically the rubber tips at the end of them.
Speaker 1: They're pretty much the same. And I've been using these
Speaker 1: and I really really liked them. So bottom line, if
Speaker 1: you don't need the noise cancelation, I think that the
Speaker 1: standard Airpod's third generation are better. They may not be
Speaker 1: a better deal because they sell for one seventy nine,
Speaker 1: but the AirPods Pro were on sale for one ninety
Speaker 1: nine at Target this week, so you know, people might think, oh,
Speaker 1: for twenty dollars more, I get the Pros. But it
Speaker 1: depends on how you like these things to feel in
Speaker 1: your ears. Now.
Speaker 2: I went on a run with them, you.
Speaker 1: Can see that on my Instagram at rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: They were fantastic. They sounded good. They don't fall out
Speaker 1: of my ears at all. I think they're comfortable. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're as comfortable as the pros, but they're comfortable.
Speaker 1: They feel like the kind of the colder feeling of
Speaker 1: the air Pods where they're just a little harder in
Speaker 1: your ears. The design looks very similar to the Pros.
Speaker 1: They've got a new sensor on them that will they
Speaker 1: get a couple of new sensors. So in the stems,
Speaker 1: which are way smaller, there's a force sensor that you
Speaker 1: can squeeze to like play pausure music whatever.
Speaker 2: They also have HCII and.
Speaker 1: They also have spatial audio Dolby Atmos Adaptive EQ, so
Speaker 1: audio sounds really good. They've got head tracking, which is
Speaker 1: really cool if you haven't experienced it, and then they've
Speaker 1: got the sensor is the first and only on the
Speaker 1: air pods at this point that it's a sensor that
Speaker 1: senses your skin, so it knows if they're in your
Speaker 1: ears or whether they're in your ears or in your pocket,
Speaker 1: so that can help with with you know, false starts
Speaker 1: with the music if it starts and stops or something
Speaker 1: because you're putting them in your pocket and it's just
Speaker 1: getting covered up. Battery life is fantastic, but you can
Speaker 1: also charge them in a couple different ways. You can
Speaker 1: use MagSafe or you can use standard wireless. I found
Speaker 1: that I didn't even have to charge these things during
Speaker 1: my testing because they're just so good.
Speaker 2: And then they've got some.
Speaker 1: Find my features that can help you find them if
Speaker 1: they're lost. So bottom line, if you don't care about noise,
Speaker 1: cancelation or the silicone tips, then I think you go
Speaker 1: with the standard AirPods. I think they're just better because
Speaker 1: they just let in more of the world around you
Speaker 1: if you like that kind of thing, and they're just
Speaker 1: simpler to wear for me for longer periods of time.
Speaker 1: And so unless you're on a plane all the time,
Speaker 1: if you're on a train or some sort of noisy
Speaker 1: situation where you like the noise cancelation, then go with.
Speaker 2: The pros for sure.
Speaker 1: Or if you have trouble with things falling out of
Speaker 1: your ears, I find that the AirPods Pro almost like
Speaker 1: are like magnets into your ears. They're that good. They
Speaker 1: just stay in there. So one hundred and seventy nine
Speaker 1: dollars AirPods third generation available.
Speaker 2: Now let's get to the first question.
Speaker 1: Jerry says, since you first told us about popcart, I've
Speaker 1: been using it.
Speaker 2: It's been very helpful and I loved it.
Speaker 1: Nice to know if you're getting the best deal or
Speaker 1: the item is cheaper somewhere else. I just got an
Speaker 1: email they're shutting down, very disappointing.
Speaker 2: Do you have another service that does this, Jerry, Jerry,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I popcart was a service that I had not heard
Speaker 1: of until the pandemic. And popcart basically is a little
Speaker 1: chrome extension. And when you're shopping on a website that's supported,
Speaker 1: like a best Buy or a Target or a game
Speaker 1: Stop or a Low's or a Coal's, and you go
Speaker 1: to a product, it would say, oh, hey, we found
Speaker 1: this cheaper. And so I really don't know of a
Speaker 1: good alternative. I really liked popcart because it so simple
Speaker 1: and it just worked. But I did get the same
Speaker 1: email that you got that said, hey, we're shutting down,
Speaker 1: We're done, So I don't know what to say more
Speaker 1: about that. Then they're just it's it, They're gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't believe it says they've helped more than two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand users, So I don't know what
Speaker 1: to say. So you could get rid of it. I
Speaker 1: don't know why they're shutting down. I gues two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand users is just not that many. The
Speaker 1: only alternative I can think of is probably Honey, and
Speaker 1: that's it. I think their website is get honey dot com.
Speaker 1: Let me see what their website is, Join honey dot com.
Speaker 1: So joinhney dot com is their website and I guess
Speaker 1: that's the best one. That's the one that I use now.
Speaker 1: I've got that installed on my computer and it seems
Speaker 1: to work. But to be quite honest, I mainly shop
Speaker 1: on Amazon. I'm not doing a lot of price comparisons online.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll cross check best Buy, but I think Honeywill
Speaker 1: will be a decent replacement. But I don't know of
Speaker 1: one good website that searches deals across various websites. I
Speaker 1: think it's probably because all the websites want you to
Speaker 1: shop on Amazon because they get a referral fee. So
Speaker 1: I don't really know. If you find one, let me know,
Speaker 1: or if you have one, tweet me. But that's I'm
Speaker 1: mostly Amazon anyway. I mostly shop Amazon, Target, best Buy.
Speaker 1: That's it, so I can easily look at the prices
Speaker 1: across those three places. But it was nice to know
Speaker 1: if something was was on sale somewhere else. Speaking of Amazon,
Speaker 1: Amazon's new fire TV smart TVs are now available. They
Speaker 1: have two flavors of these, the fire TV Omni series
Speaker 1: and the four Series. The Omni is the nicer of
Speaker 1: the bunch. I think they're going to sell a lot
Speaker 1: of the four series because they're so cheap, but I
Speaker 1: would probably recommend the Omni series if you're getting serious,
Speaker 1: and especially if you're buying the bigger size, so the
Speaker 1: four series. A forty three inch TV is three sixty nine,
Speaker 1: which a pretty pretty good deal. A fifty inch is
Speaker 1: let's see here, a fifty inch is four to sixty nine,
Speaker 1: and a fifty five inch is five p nineteen, and
Speaker 1: then you step up to the sixty five inch Omni series,
Speaker 1: which is better four k those I would say you
Speaker 1: probably don't want to go less than sixty five inch.
Speaker 1: That's eight twenty nine, and then a seventy five inch
Speaker 1: is one thousand ninety nine. Now I need to upgrade
Speaker 1: my tea, and I'm trying to figure out if I
Speaker 1: should go with this, or if I should go with TCL,
Speaker 1: or if I should go with Visio.
Speaker 2: I've got a Visio right now. I like the TCL.
Speaker 1: I've recommended the sixth series to everyone, and so I
Speaker 1: feel like that's a good one to get. But I
Speaker 1: also like the software on the Fire TV. But also
Speaker 1: now TCL makes a Google TV like it's powered by Google,
Speaker 1: so I may go with that. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: be making this decision very soon. There's kind of a
Speaker 1: lot on my list right now things to buy, so
Speaker 1: I need to figure out my plan for purchasing all
Speaker 1: of these different things. But the fireTV Omnia or Omna
Speaker 1: Omni series has everything you need. It's got hands free
Speaker 1: voice control, it's got four K, it's got HDR, it's
Speaker 1: got Dolby Digital Plus also Dolby Vision on the sixty
Speaker 1: five and seventy five inch models.
Speaker 2: It's got support for Airplay.
Speaker 1: Two coming soon, which is really neat because you can
Speaker 1: share stuff from your phone. It's got this feature where
Speaker 1: you can ask Alexa to play something on Netflix, so
Speaker 1: you can just say play something on Netflix and it
Speaker 1: will play something that it thinks you'll like. You've got
Speaker 1: three HDMI inputs, although you probably don't need them as
Speaker 1: much anymore because everything is built into the TV. It's
Speaker 1: got picture and picture for the doorbell or video cameras,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. It's got Alexa Voice video calling,
Speaker 1: so if you plug in a supported webcam you can
Speaker 1: do that, or you can do Zoom later this year.
Speaker 1: It's got the fireTV remote that I love, so I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm one. This one's seeming pretty good. So
Speaker 1: it really comes down to the software. Do you like
Speaker 1: the software from Amazon or Google? Probably Amazon is the
Speaker 1: bigger platform at this point. But I always tell people
Speaker 1: to buy the TV and then add a streaming box.
Speaker 2: Later of your choice.
Speaker 1: But to be totally honest with this Fire TV, I
Speaker 1: don't think you need to do that. And I think
Speaker 1: that Amazon will continue to support these for a while
Speaker 1: just because they are such a big, a big part
Speaker 1: of their business.
Speaker 2: You know, these smart products.
Speaker 1: So they are available. Let me know if you purchase one.
Speaker 1: I think they look pretty pretty great. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to another question here. This one comes from mm
Speaker 1: MM rights iCloud storage.
Speaker 2: What do you think about it?
Speaker 1: It says you can share it with family as my
Speaker 1: wife has an iPhone, but I have a Galaxy S
Speaker 1: ten e. I can see it, says I have it,
Speaker 1: but I don't see it.
Speaker 2: MM.
Speaker 1: So, yes, if you have iCloud, you can share it
Speaker 1: among several family members, and if your wife has an iPhone,
Speaker 1: she can use easily on the on the Galaxy.
Speaker 2: I don't know of a way to use iCloud storage.
Speaker 1: Now, maybe I am mis misguided on that, but I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a way for you to easily access
Speaker 1: iCloud on the Galaxy S ten. So if you are
Speaker 1: thinking of sharing as a family plan, I would say
Speaker 1: maybe look into a third party service that works across
Speaker 1: all platforms, which would be something like a dropbox something like.
Speaker 1: It depends what you're doing, you know, like a one drive.
Speaker 1: You can do Google Photos if you're just doing photos.
Speaker 2: But I would look.
Speaker 1: Into that because iCloud is primarily geared towards iPhone users,
Speaker 1: and if you're a family that's using a variety of devices,
Speaker 1: it's probably not the best choice for you. Really get
Speaker 1: through some of these stories here. Let's move on to Instagram.
Speaker 1: Instagram has opened up links in stories to everyone. Now
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this given the fact that the average
Speaker 1: person probably doesn't have a need for this. How many
Speaker 1: links is the average person sharing?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But when you need to share one, maybe you figured
Speaker 1: out that you couldn't the feature wasn't available. But there's
Speaker 1: so many influencers out there that you follow that they're
Speaker 1: always sharing links, you know. So it used to be
Speaker 1: on Instagram Stories. It used to be a swipe up
Speaker 1: to link. And so I had this feature, you got
Speaker 1: access to it when you had ten thousand followers or
Speaker 1: somehow Instagram blessed you with it, but primarily it was
Speaker 1: if you had ten thousand followers you would get this feature,
Speaker 1: So that was mostly influences creators, people that amassed a
Speaker 1: large following. They were able to give that option to
Speaker 1: swipe up for a link to something, an external link
Speaker 1: to a website, and I've had that for a while,
Speaker 1: I've used it. It's very helpful, but the average person
Speaker 1: could not use that, And so if the average person
Speaker 1: wanted to share, for instance, a link to their GoFundMe
Speaker 1: or a link to find a loss pet or whatever,
Speaker 1: they just couldn't do it. And they probably a lot
Speaker 1: of people were probably scratching their heads and being like
Speaker 1: am I missing something? Like why don't I have this?
Speaker 1: And so Instagram had reasons for this. The primary reason
Speaker 1: is that there was never really a good way to
Speaker 1: link out of Instagram. But influencers need that to make
Speaker 1: money and to share links and all that good stuff,
Speaker 1: so they gave it to them. But they also had
Speaker 1: to ride this other side of things of safety and security.
Speaker 1: They don't want just a whole bunch of bought accounts
Speaker 1: setting up or bought accounts just immediately sharing links, so
Speaker 1: there had to be some sort of threshold for it,
Speaker 1: and the ten thousand followers seemed to be a threshold
Speaker 1: that worked, and so that's what they did for a
Speaker 1: long time until now. Now they're giving this functionality to everyone,
Speaker 1: and they said, you know what, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: reasons why we like this idea, so let's give it
Speaker 1: to everyone. And they change it a little bit. Now
Speaker 1: it's actually a link. It's a sticker that you put
Speaker 1: on your account, like on your story. And if you've
Speaker 1: used a sticker before, those are basically if you have
Speaker 1: ever added like a gift to your account or you know,
Speaker 1: like a it's Monday or whatever like. So it's a sticker.
Speaker 1: It's a sticker on your account. If you've used it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. So now if you
Speaker 1: go into the stickers when you go into stories, there
Speaker 1: should be one.
Speaker 2: That says link.
Speaker 1: If it's not there right away, they're still rolling out
Speaker 1: availability to this to everyone and so you may not
Speaker 1: have it today, but it might show up tomorrow. So
Speaker 1: you go on there, you uh tap the sticker link
Speaker 1: and you can then paste a link in there.
Speaker 2: And put it on your story. And that's it.
Speaker 1: And I did a little tutorial on this on my
Speaker 1: face on my Instagram at rich On Tech if you
Speaker 1: want to check it out, because I always take for
Speaker 1: granted that people just know how to do all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and I realize that they don't, so I put the
Speaker 1: little tutorial there. If you know how to do it, great,
Speaker 1: just freeze by it. If you don't, share it with
Speaker 1: a friend or learn how to do it. But the
Speaker 1: stickers and the links are you know, it's helpful, you
Speaker 1: know when we're putting a link to something. And I
Speaker 1: think that the sticker is better than the swipe up
Speaker 1: because swipe up was always confusing to people and the
Speaker 1: tapping on a link sticker is much more understandable. I
Speaker 1: think to most people. If you don't have access to it,
Speaker 1: the only reason you wouldn't is because you've been posting
Speaker 1: harmful content on Instagram. So if you're a brand new account,
Speaker 1: or you're posting stuff like hate speech or misinformation all
Speaker 1: the time, or anything that violates their community guidelines, you
Speaker 1: will not get access to link sticker. But you're listening
Speaker 1: to the rich On Tech Show, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: anyone that's listening here. Let's get to the next question
Speaker 1: of the show Let's see. Audrey says that I love
Speaker 1: following your Instagram and listening to your podcast. Keep up
Speaker 1: the awesome work, Audrey. I feel like I'm talking directly
Speaker 1: to your ears right now. Thank you so much for that.
Speaker 1: Audrey says, I had to download the Clear app on
Speaker 1: my phone and attend an event for vaccination verification. Now
Speaker 1: I have concerns about the app, like if they're ever hacked.
Speaker 1: After having to upload a photo of my driver's license
Speaker 1: and vaccine card, you also need to take a selfie photo,
Speaker 1: so now they have my eyescan, is there a way
Speaker 1: to pull back my info from their database files? And
Speaker 1: are my concerns valid? Thanks Audrey, Audrey, No, you are
Speaker 1: totally out of line.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I think your concerns are very valid, and I think
Speaker 1: that it's smart to think this way. Whenever you are
Speaker 1: uploading anything to anywhere that involves your personal information or
Speaker 1: your biometrics, you should be very concerned. In fact, I
Speaker 1: think twice about giving my phone number at the checkout
Speaker 1: when they say, hey, you can save ten percent today
Speaker 1: by giving us your phone number. Well, yeah, that ten
Speaker 1: percent is nice, but guess what happened your phone number
Speaker 1: is now percolating into one thousand and one different databases
Speaker 1: depending on their privacy policy. And you probably didn't read
Speaker 1: it before you shared your phone number, and so that's
Speaker 1: why you get all those robo calls from time to time.
Speaker 1: Well it's just one reason. So yes, you should be
Speaker 1: concerned about giving out anything when it comes to personal information.
Speaker 1: In fact, I always recommend give out the least amount
Speaker 1: of information that they will take to do whatever you're
Speaker 1: trying to do. And when it comes to signing up
Speaker 1: at places like Target or you know, Walmart or whatever,
Speaker 1: Walmart doesn't have a loyalty program, but you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. You know there's a loyalty program everywhere, and
Speaker 1: there's always like some little perk that you get in
Speaker 1: exchange for your phone number, and then they start texting
Speaker 1: you incessantly. And so you know, with some of these companies,
Speaker 1: it's fine because you get something in exchange. But with
Speaker 1: clear I understand this is a big company. Your information
Speaker 1: is probably safe with them, but there's always a way
Speaker 1: to get out of their databases. And so if you
Speaker 1: look at their privacy policy, it says you may request
Speaker 1: that we remove your databases remove from our databases any
Speaker 1: personal information we maintain about you. You may request removal
Speaker 1: of your personal information by contacting us in the how
Speaker 1: to contact Us section of this privacy policy. We will
Speaker 1: honor your request, except that we may retain limited information
Speaker 1: so that we can comply with your request not to
Speaker 1: be contacted in the future. So go ahead and contact them,
Speaker 1: say I want out, and they should contact you back
Speaker 1: and say you got out. And I think, Audrey, that
Speaker 1: it's a good idea to be like this and from
Speaker 1: time to time just get rid of your information, you know,
Speaker 1: unsubscribed to things, you know, close out accounts, old accounts, certainly,
Speaker 1: don't reuse the same password over and over, and get
Speaker 1: your information out of as many databases as possible, and
Speaker 1: that really you don't have to make a concerted effort
Speaker 1: to do this, but when the time comes. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: I talked to a privacy expert a long time ago,
Speaker 1: Haley Kaplan was her name is her name.
Speaker 2: We haven't talked in a while.
Speaker 1: But she was she was great, and she talked all
Speaker 1: about privacy and all these different things, and one thing
Speaker 1: she said that always stuck with me. She said, you know,
Speaker 1: you get these things in the mail every year from
Speaker 1: your bank, from your from everyone, and it says, hey,
Speaker 1: you have to you can you can opt out of
Speaker 1: your of US sharing your your privacy or your information
Speaker 1: with third parties. And you just take this thing, you
Speaker 1: look at it and you say I'm not doing that,
Speaker 1: and you throw it out. It's too confusing to understand.
Speaker 1: But she said every single time you should, you should
Speaker 1: send it back and say I opt out. And what
Speaker 1: that means is that your bank, your credit card, your
Speaker 1: your insurance company can't share anything with third parties. And
Speaker 1: if your personal information. A lot of times they aggregate
Speaker 1: this information and share it in databases with other people
Speaker 1: that they either sell it to or just share it to.
Speaker 1: And so you have the option to say, nah, I
Speaker 1: don't want that. And the more that you do this,
Speaker 1: the less you're information shows up in those databases. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, I went through and remove my information from
Speaker 1: a lot of those like personal information websites step pop
Speaker 1: up everywhere that say you know who is rich to
Speaker 1: miro you know, and it has all this disinformation, half
Speaker 1: of it's fake or half of it's not right you
Speaker 1: know about you. And so I went through and I
Speaker 1: did that, And you can do this with yellow pages.
Speaker 1: You could do this with white pages. You could do
Speaker 1: this with well maybe not yellow pages, but you know
Speaker 1: white pages. You can do this with you know, Google maps.
Speaker 1: You can blur out your house, you can you can
Speaker 1: do it with a lot of this stuff. And so
Speaker 1: any opportunity you have to get your information taken out
Speaker 1: of one of these databases, do it. If it's as
Speaker 1: long as you can do it and it's easy and
Speaker 1: the company's legitimate. If they're legitimate, they'll get rid of it.
Speaker 1: If they're not, you're actually just handing over your personal information. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, if you see a spam email and it's
Speaker 1: like legitimate spam.
Speaker 2: And they're like, hey, you know, click here to be.
Speaker 1: To opt out, don't click those because that actually opts
Speaker 1: you in. It confirms that your email address is a live,
Speaker 1: working email address, and then they send you more email
Speaker 1: and it was spam.
Speaker 2: Same thing.
Speaker 1: Don't even respond to spam emails. Don't even say stop.
Speaker 1: Now if it is a real company, like a home depot,
Speaker 1: and you sign up for a coupon or something, and
Speaker 1: now they text you every weekend saying hey, come on
Speaker 1: in five bucks off that I'm going to stay on
Speaker 1: that list.
Speaker 2: If they give you five bucks off.
Speaker 1: But what I've found is that they just text you,
Speaker 1: like promotions that are not discounts, and they just say, hey,
Speaker 1: come on in and get your garden going for the
Speaker 1: summer or whatever. I don't know why you do that,
Speaker 1: because do you summer garden?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: If I was a gardener, maybe i'd know. But with those,
Speaker 1: with those texts, you can opt out, like a best Buy,
Speaker 1: a Macy's, you know, if it's a real company, you can.
Speaker 1: You can just type stop and you'll stop getting messages.
Speaker 1: And I feel bad, especially with the smaller businesses. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll sign up for their stuff, you know, if I'm
Speaker 1: in a store, like if I find myself in a
Speaker 1: little hallmark town, like a little main street somewhere, and
Speaker 1: I'm at a gift shop with those little signs that
Speaker 1: say like, you know, whine is my best friend and
Speaker 1: my ally or something like that.
Speaker 2: You know, those little.
Speaker 1: Signs that you see. I was in one the other day.
Speaker 1: It was so funny. It had like the best signs.
Speaker 1: Some of those things are so great and anyway, so
Speaker 1: you sign up for their little database thing, and then
Speaker 1: you feel bad taking your name off the list because
Speaker 1: you're like, well, I don't know. Maybe maybe I should
Speaker 1: just stay with them. But what was I talking about anyway?
Speaker 1: So yes, Audrey, good, good point. Get your information out
Speaker 1: of those databases when possible.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk.
Speaker 1: Speaking of databases, let's talk everyone's favorite conversation.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Do people even call it coronavirus anymore? It's just covid
Speaker 1: or it's just like the world we live in. But
Speaker 1: there was an update to the iPhone this week, iOS
Speaker 1: fifteen point one, and it gave you a new feature,
Speaker 1: the ability to add your vaccination card to Apple Wallet.
Speaker 2: And I got so much about this, Rich, I've been
Speaker 2: able to do this forever. I know more than you. Okay, Yes,
Speaker 2: And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When I post stuff to social media or to my
Speaker 1: Facebook page, people are always trying to like get me, like,
Speaker 1: h Rich, I knew this.
Speaker 2: I already know that.
Speaker 1: I knew, Oh you could do this before. I've had
Speaker 1: that for months.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: When I post something typically it's because there's something new
Speaker 1: to it, there's a new aspect to it. And so yes,
Speaker 1: with the digital vaccination card. In fact, I've had my
Speaker 1: card in an app called common Pass that has been
Speaker 1: on my phone for a while, but you could not
Speaker 1: add it to Apple Wallet, and some people have through
Speaker 1: their healthcare provider the ability to add to Apple Wally.
Speaker 1: Here's what's different about this new vaccination card. It is
Speaker 1: now what's called a verifiable vaccination card.
Speaker 2: And so what they're.
Speaker 1: Doing is they are working with third party apps that
Speaker 1: can verify that your card in your Apple Wallet is legitimate.
Speaker 1: And so what does that mean. It means that let's
Speaker 1: say you're flying United Airlines and they say, hey, can
Speaker 1: you upload a copy of your vaccination card? Instead of
Speaker 1: having to actually go take a picture of your vaccination
Speaker 1: card or somehow finding you know, a verification of that
Speaker 1: card and uploading it to the app, the app will say, hey,
Speaker 1: can we ping your Apple Wallet and we'll find it
Speaker 1: in there or Apple Health and we'll just see that
Speaker 1: your copy is verifiable, and you say sure, and they
Speaker 1: do it and in seconds you're verified without having to
Speaker 1: do anything more. So that's what the big difference is here.
Speaker 1: And so if you're in California, and I wrote the
Speaker 1: instructions just for California, and since that's where I primarily appear,
Speaker 1: it's it's really easy. You just go to the vaccine
Speaker 1: the Vaccine Record Portal from California. You type in your information,
Speaker 1: you choose a four digit pin, they send you a
Speaker 1: QR code, and then you just import that QR code.
Speaker 2: It should be there should be.
Speaker 1: A button at the bottom that says add to Apple
Speaker 1: Wallet and Health. You tap it and boom, your vaccination
Speaker 1: card is now an Apple Wallet.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I also updated my Apple Watch, and if you have
Speaker 1: one of these with the latest Apple Watch software on it,
Speaker 1: which I think is Watch os eight point one, you
Speaker 1: can double click your little home button or your side button,
Speaker 1: and now your vaccination card is also in there. And
Speaker 1: so that's really cool, and so it's a neat feature.
Speaker 1: It's simple. I'm not going to get into the debate
Speaker 1: over asking for vaccination proof and all that stuff. That's
Speaker 1: not for this show. But I will say if you
Speaker 1: are being asked for your vaccination card at entry at
Speaker 1: certain places, this is an easy way to show it.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you just quickly about some of the places. Now,
Speaker 1: I did the the easiest way for California with the records,
Speaker 1: but there is a whole bunch of providers that this
Speaker 1: works with. So what they're doing is they're using these
Speaker 1: smart health card. So that's the smart Health Card is
Speaker 1: importable into Apple Wallet and Apple Health and if you're
Speaker 1: a business, you can actually download the Smart Health Card
Speaker 1: Verifyer app and you can scan people's QR codes. Now
Speaker 1: that's it's getting pretty intense if you're doing that. But
Speaker 1: you know, again, we're not getting into the whole debate
Speaker 1: over this in this show. But who uses this California, Hawaii, Louisiana,
Speaker 1: New York, Virginia, a bunch of places in Canada, a
Speaker 1: bunch of pharmacies Cedar Sinai, Express Scripts, Kaiser, write Aid,
Speaker 1: United Healthcare, Walgreens, Walmart, and then a whole bunch of providers.
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to go over the list of
Speaker 1: those because there's just too many. City of Hope, Cleveland Clinic,
Speaker 1: Penn Medicine. So basically, the bottom line is that if
Speaker 1: you see or can access your Smart Health Card record
Speaker 1: from your wherever you got your vaccination card, you can
Speaker 1: now import it into Apple Wallet. It's a really simple process.
Speaker 1: It's really great, you know, if you're into this sort
Speaker 1: of thing, and it works really nicely.
Speaker 2: And so that's it. Now.
Speaker 1: The other question is when you get a booster, will
Speaker 1: it show up and the reality is that you actually
Speaker 1: have to import this card once again to show the
Speaker 1: booster but it does have the ability to show booster shots.
Speaker 2: So that's it. That's all you need to know. Get
Speaker 2: that card on your phone if you so choose. Jackie
Speaker 2: says Rich.
Speaker 1: When will Apple come out with a new iPod Touch
Speaker 1: or are they finished with them?
Speaker 2: Please let me know, oh Jackie. The iPod Touch.
Speaker 1: The iPod Touch revolutionized running. In my mind back in
Speaker 1: the day, when I had an iPod Touch, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: along with Nike running on it, I thought I was
Speaker 1: king of the world. I had my music, I had
Speaker 1: a running app I could see. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was a map of where I ran, but it
Speaker 1: was like a trail of where I ran.
Speaker 2: It was life was good.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what's happening to the iPod Touch,
Speaker 1: because this is a device that has been eclipsed by
Speaker 1: the iPhone and it's just something that a large majority
Speaker 1: of people no longer need, which means Apple is not
Speaker 1: really putting that much effort into them now. When I
Speaker 1: go to my favorite website for all things Apple products,
Speaker 1: Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot Com, again Buyer's guide dot
Speaker 1: MacRumors dot com. It tells me that the iPod Touch
Speaker 1: has not been updated in eight hundred and eighty four days,
Speaker 1: which sounds absolutely wild until you look at the history
Speaker 1: of the updates and the history the average is four
Speaker 1: hundred days four hundred and four to be to be exact,
Speaker 1: So four hundred and four days is the average it
Speaker 1: takes them to come up with a new one. The
Speaker 1: last time they came up with it was July twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: then July twenty fifteen, June twenty fourteen, September twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: May twenty thirteen, and then Octo over twenty twelve. So
Speaker 1: let's say twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and twenty nineteen. There could be a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one in there, but I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: think we're good with all the product updates from Apple
Speaker 1: this year, but perhaps next year, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe they'll keep this going.
Speaker 1: Just as kind of a legacy product that just some
Speaker 1: people buy, and they know they just need to make, like,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple hundred thousand of them a year
Speaker 1: just for.
Speaker 2: Keep some people happy.
Speaker 1: But that is That is the most I know, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the rumors. This says unreleased iPod Touch
Speaker 1: five with Shamford edges and thirty pin dock connector shared online.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, this actually looks like an iPod Touch that is.
Speaker 1: Closer to the I don't know, there's no way thirty pin.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this means.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I think that it's one of these things
Speaker 1: where I don't think it's coming out this year.
Speaker 2: Let's put it this way, Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: So maybe make plans for a you know, maybe just
Speaker 1: purchasing one on eBay or just buy the current one
Speaker 1: and use that because a current one works just fine.
Speaker 2: There's nothing new about.
Speaker 1: It all, right, Wise came out with a lot of
Speaker 1: new products this week. Whyse is a real fan favorite
Speaker 1: when it comes to smart home products, and they're building
Speaker 1: out a very, very robust lineup of smart home products.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I often talk on this show about my love of
Speaker 1: Ring and how they're doing a robust lineup of products,
Speaker 1: but I think Why Is is sort of the anti Ring
Speaker 1: because they're not owned by a big company and they
Speaker 1: have a lot of stuff very competitive prices. But I
Speaker 1: think that the frustrating thing about Why sometimes is that
Speaker 1: it could either be tough get their products, or it's
Speaker 1: like weird pricing because you have to pay for like shipping.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're not always available on Amazon in like a
Speaker 1: straightforward way or just available in a straightforward way in general.
Speaker 1: But with that said, I've got a couple of wise cams.
Speaker 1: I love them. I think they do a great job.
Speaker 1: I think that their software is always being updated. They
Speaker 1: have a good team, it seems. And so here's what
Speaker 1: they've got going on. A new Wise solar panel which
Speaker 1: is twenty dollars, and the Why solar panel will power
Speaker 1: the wise cam outdoor, so it's it's basically the equivalent
Speaker 1: of the Ring solar panel. This is twenty bucks plus shipping,
Speaker 1: which is pretty good. But shipping starts see this is
Speaker 1: the thing. It starts shipping in January. So I'm telling
Speaker 1: you about this in October and you can't get it
Speaker 1: until January, which I think, as a customer or as
Speaker 1: a consumer is really frustrating because you're hearing about this
Speaker 1: and you want it, and now you have to wait
Speaker 1: until January to get it. So my advice to Whys
Speaker 1: would be to not talk about products until they're available,
Speaker 1: or maybe in a week or two before, because it's
Speaker 1: that's frustrating, you're talking. I gotta wait at least two
Speaker 1: months to get my product, and perhaps in January. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure it's gonna be available. Then you've got
Speaker 1: the Why's Lamp Socket and this this enables you to
Speaker 1: plug your camera into a lamp socket so to power
Speaker 1: it that way. That's forty five dollars plus shipping, and
Speaker 1: that starts shipping in December, so again we got to
Speaker 1: wait till December. Then they've got a Wyse Switch three pack,
Speaker 1: and this is a three pack of switches that control
Speaker 1: wise lights and other wise devices at the touch of
Speaker 1: a button. That's thirty three dollars for a three pack,
Speaker 1: which is very competitive.
Speaker 2: That starts shipping in December.
Speaker 1: Then you've got the Why's Bulb white four pack, and
Speaker 1: that is thirty two dollars. Again, starts shipping in November,
Speaker 1: which I think Wyse already has. They do have white
Speaker 1: bulbs because I got them for my mom. So that's
Speaker 1: a four pack. I don't know what the difference is
Speaker 1: between this and the other ones that they had before,
Speaker 1: but that's what's happening. Then you've got a couple other
Speaker 1: things happening Campo Cam plus Pro and this is a
Speaker 1: new way to secure your home with AI powered professional security.
Speaker 2: Your wisecam will be able to arm, disarm.
Speaker 1: Detect people, and trigger alerts to a professional dispatch security.
Speaker 1: And all you need is a wisecam, So that's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. And then you've got camera. Oh you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to view your wise cams on the web,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. So a lot of announcements
Speaker 1: from Why's and again it's all just kind of getting
Speaker 1: into the scheme of things when it comes to, you know,
Speaker 1: just building out a robust system that you can rely
Speaker 1: on in your house with these smart home products at
Speaker 1: a very reasonable price. And I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: you'd be hard pressed to find another family of products
Speaker 1: as robust as.
Speaker 2: Ring or Wise.
Speaker 1: And if you look at stuff like at Google, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got a bunch of stuff, but it's very expensive.
Speaker 2: And Google's kind of all over the place.
Speaker 1: I've said this before, it's probably why they're not sending
Speaker 1: me the pixel to test out.
Speaker 2: But Google is all over the place with their products.
Speaker 1: And you get stuff and it's like, oh, we just
Speaker 1: continued that, or we're not supporting it, or whatever they do.
Speaker 1: They just hang on, let me check my email before
Speaker 1: I trash them even more. Are they sending me the
Speaker 1: the Pixel to test out?
Speaker 2: No, they're not.
Speaker 1: So I put in my request to Google to test
Speaker 1: the Pixel and they just completely ignored it.
Speaker 2: They could care less.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what I did, what I said,
Speaker 1: but they are just like, we don't care rich We're
Speaker 1: not We're not sending you the Pixel to review. So
Speaker 1: I've got to go out and secure one when it
Speaker 1: hits the stores.
Speaker 2: Google.
Speaker 1: I've tested every pixel phone, They've sent every Pixel phone
Speaker 1: to test since day one, and this one they just
Speaker 1: decide that I don't exist.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the deal is. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's probably something I said.
Speaker 1: I believe I called the Pixel a one trick pony
Speaker 1: on this podcast.
Speaker 2: Maybe that was it. I don't know, but I think
Speaker 2: that honesty is the best policy.
Speaker 1: I like to tell you what I think about products,
Speaker 1: and if that interrupts my relationship with the company and
Speaker 1: their ability to send me that product review, then then
Speaker 1: so be it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't I can't.
Speaker 1: Withhold the truth because that's what I deal in, and
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that you know what's happening
Speaker 1: with these things, all right, syl says, hey, Rich, hope
Speaker 1: all as well. I have over sixty thousand pictures on
Speaker 1: my iPhone. Can you recommend the best way to save
Speaker 1: and retrieve all these photos is a stick?
Speaker 2: The best way? If so, which one?
Speaker 1: I'm currently saving on iCloud and Google Photos and on
Speaker 1: a Shutterfly app. I would like to clear my phone
Speaker 1: of some of these photos. They are all family photos,
Speaker 1: grandchildren mostly. Thanks for your advice, Sylvana. Well, Sylvana, I
Speaker 1: think you are doing the right thing by saving to iCloud,
Speaker 1: Google Photos and Shutterfly.
Speaker 2: I also think that maybe that's a little overkill. I
Speaker 2: think you only need two places.
Speaker 1: So you said you want to clear your phone of
Speaker 1: some of these photos, now, I think the easiest way
Speaker 1: to do that is to stick with iCloud and Google Photos.
Speaker 1: And so what I would do is there's a couple
Speaker 1: things you can do. And it gets a little confusing
Speaker 1: because there is a feature on Google Photos that lets
Speaker 1: you delete pictures.
Speaker 2: From your phone.
Speaker 1: And so let's say you're just like like I am
Speaker 1: just using Google Photos. So when my phone gets filled up,
Speaker 1: I go into Google Photos and it says free up
Speaker 1: space on this phone.
Speaker 2: I click that.
Speaker 1: It deletes all the pictures from my phone, and I
Speaker 1: now have them safely backed up to Google Cloud and
Speaker 1: they are not on my phone any longer. I also
Speaker 1: have them in a third place, and that keeps them
Speaker 1: sorry in a second place, which keeps them backed up
Speaker 1: as well, so I can safely get rid of them
Speaker 1: from my phone because I don't need them there anymore. Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to Google Photos and doing that same thing,
Speaker 1: if you're using iCloud, that is going to delete pictures
Speaker 1: off your phone and which will in turn trigger them to.
Speaker 2: Be deleted off of iCloud.
Speaker 1: So the better option for you is to actually go
Speaker 1: into if you're gonna stick with I Cloud and stick
Speaker 1: with Google Photos, is to go into iCloud settings. And
Speaker 1: so you want to go into settings, and then you
Speaker 1: want to go into iCloud, and then you want to
Speaker 1: go into photos and let's see that's not where it is. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is not where it is. Okay, well, don't listen
Speaker 1: to me, because that's not exactly where it is.
Speaker 2: Let's see where.
Speaker 1: Is the there used to be. Let me go into
Speaker 1: photos and see if it's in there. Ugh, why do
Speaker 1: you have to put things in such different places? Okay,
Speaker 1: here it is, let's see is that it?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So I don't have iCloud Photos turned on, but when
Speaker 1: you do, if you go into setting and then photos,
Speaker 1: there should be an option that says optimize.
Speaker 2: Storage.
Speaker 1: And so when you click that or toggle that on
Speaker 1: on your iPhone, it will automatically or should I say,
Speaker 1: automagically offload some of the pictures on your iPhone. And
Speaker 1: this is a very confusing feature that it's just so
Speaker 1: apple to do something like this, but it works really well,
Speaker 1: but it's very confusing because I get this question all
Speaker 1: the time. People say, if I delete a photo from
Speaker 1: Google or my phone, is it going to delete from iCloud?
Speaker 1: And the short answer is it's not easy to answer
Speaker 1: in a short answer. So the reality is the best
Speaker 1: way to do this is to just let iCloud optimize
Speaker 1: the storage on your phone. And what that means is
Speaker 1: that if your storage is running low on your iPhone,
Speaker 1: iCloud will go through and it will delete the full
Speaker 1: resolution picture.
Speaker 2: From your phone.
Speaker 1: It will keep that in iCloud, but it will keep
Speaker 1: a small, low red solution thumbnail on your iPhone, and
Speaker 1: so when you need that picture again, you can just
Speaker 1: tap it and it will quickly download the full resolution
Speaker 1: photo in the background for sharing or for viewing or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I do believe that there's a little cloud icon
Speaker 1: on the photo in the photos app that will denote
Speaker 1: that the actual photo is not being stored on your
Speaker 1: phone anymore.
Speaker 2: It's being stored in the cloud. But if you just
Speaker 2: tap it, it will restore that photo.
Speaker 1: So that's the way I would do it, and that
Speaker 1: way it will not mess with Google Photos. It will
Speaker 1: not even mess with the Shutterfly app. It will still
Speaker 1: upload to both those places, but when storage gets low
Speaker 1: on your phone, it will go through and kind of
Speaker 1: manage some of that storage on your phone to make
Speaker 1: room for everyone, to make room for all the different
Speaker 1: pictures on your phone. All right, cloud Flare is introducing
Speaker 1: one point one point one point one for families. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, this kind of gets in a little
Speaker 1: bit techy, but I guess this whole show is techy,
Speaker 1: but I try to keep it, you know, on thee
Speaker 1: for most people that can understand it. But there's something
Speaker 1: that I always change on my router immediately when I
Speaker 1: get you know, when I get a router, is uh,
Speaker 1: I always change the DNS settings. And DNS is what
Speaker 1: is basically an address book for the web, and so
Speaker 1: by default you're using you know, your provider. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this in the show before, whether it's Spectrum or
Speaker 1: AT and T or Verizon or FiOS or whoever your
Speaker 1: internet provider is, well, they use their their information their
Speaker 1: DNS look up. So if you want to be a
Speaker 1: bit more private, you can use a third party DNS resolver.
Speaker 2: And so Google makes one.
Speaker 1: There's this eight dot eight dot eight dot eight, and
Speaker 1: then the other one is cloud Flare. They make one
Speaker 1: called one dot one dot one dot one. And so
Speaker 1: what that does is it basically protects your lookups so
Speaker 1: that you know your your internet provider does not see
Speaker 1: as much information. And so this is most most a
Speaker 1: little bit more private. But a lot of people said, hey,
Speaker 1: we'd rather have oh it's also encrypted. We'd rather have
Speaker 1: something that works for the family. So can you come
Speaker 1: out with something that works for the family, and especially
Speaker 1: something that has maybe a little bit of filtering or
Speaker 1: maybe a little blocking built in. And so now one
Speaker 1: dot one dot one dot one for families gives an
Speaker 1: extra layer of protection to your home network to protect
Speaker 1: it from malware and adult content.
Speaker 2: So it's totally free, and all you have to.
Speaker 1: Do is change one setting on your router and it
Speaker 1: will immediately take effect. And so here's what you do.
Speaker 1: It's actually two settings in your router. So if you
Speaker 1: change the numbers on your primary DNS and your secondary DNS,
Speaker 1: it will help you route all of your DNS looks
Speaker 1: up look ups through their servers and not your ISPs.
Speaker 1: And so this will block malware if you set it
Speaker 1: to one dot one dot one dot two and then
Speaker 1: one zero zero two.
Speaker 2: And I'm getting a.
Speaker 1: Little bit techy here, but it sounds more complicated than this.
Speaker 1: It's actually quite easy to do this. Now, if you
Speaker 1: want to block malware and adult content, you can set
Speaker 1: it to one dot one dot one dot three and
Speaker 1: one dot zero dot zero dot three. And if you
Speaker 1: have one of the main providers, it's very easy to
Speaker 1: set this up. So if you have like an eurosystem
Speaker 1: or a a router from whatever, you can easily set
Speaker 1: this up at the router level, or you can just
Speaker 1: set it up on your actual devices. So if you
Speaker 1: if your kid has like an iPhone or a you know,
Speaker 1: computer or an Android. You can do it there. So
Speaker 1: on the website Cloudflare, I'll link it up. In the notes,
Speaker 1: they give instructions for linksys routers, a sous routers, Netgear routers,
Speaker 1: d link routers, and Ubiquity routers, and so all you
Speaker 1: have to do kind of is go into the routers
Speaker 1: and look for the DNS settings. That's that's the bottom line,
Speaker 1: and you change them to these numbers that I just mentioned.
Speaker 1: So it's either one dot one dot one dot two
Speaker 1: or one zero zero two or the other ones. And
Speaker 1: it's it's really easy. I do it on my computer
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: I use Googles or do I use Googles.
Speaker 1: Or I use I can't remember which one I use,
Speaker 1: but I either use Google or cloud Flare. But this
Speaker 1: is good for families, and they are going to add
Speaker 1: some more features in the future, which is really cool.
Speaker 1: They are going to add. Let's see what are the
Speaker 1: other features they're going to add. You can create specific
Speaker 1: lists that allow and block certain sites. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: I fere on a block like roadblocks dot com. You
Speaker 1: can do that through this. You can set times of
Speaker 1: days when categories like social media are blocked, and you
Speaker 1: can also get reports on your internet your households internet usage,
Speaker 1: so you can see I don't know what that means,
Speaker 1: but you know, maybe the websites that they're spending time
Speaker 1: on or going to. I don't know if it's specific
Speaker 1: or just you know, category level, but this is a
Speaker 1: This is a very easy way to just give some
Speaker 1: basic protection to your family from malware and adult content.
Speaker 2: There are many other ways you can this.
Speaker 1: I know EO has things that are built in or
Speaker 1: you have to pay for them, I believe if you
Speaker 1: pay the extra thirty bucks a year, but you can
Speaker 1: also do something like if you want to pay something
Speaker 1: called Circle is really good. So Circle, I think their
Speaker 1: website is meet Circle, and that's really good and that
Speaker 1: gives you a lot more control. So if you want
Speaker 1: a lot of parental control over your kids and what
Speaker 1: they can access and when and how, then Circle is
Speaker 1: going to be. It's actually a physical device that you
Speaker 1: plug into your network, and that's really good. My kids
Speaker 1: hate it because you can really control. It's like down
Speaker 1: to the minute. You can say, okay, YouTube you get
Speaker 1: for a half an hour a day. You can you know,
Speaker 1: roadblocks is only available on weekends. Whatever you want to do,
Speaker 1: you can do it with that's very very powerful, all right,
Speaker 1: s rites in with the subject line iPhone thirteen can
Speaker 1: a text message be scheduled to be sent? Until recently
Speaker 1: I had an Android and I can schedule messages to
Speaker 1: be sent on a different day or time. I now
Speaker 1: own an iPhone and I would like to know if
Speaker 1: this is possible with the iPhone. Thank you S. The
Speaker 1: short answer here is I don't know, but also I
Speaker 1: don't think so, and as far as I know, built
Speaker 1: into so Android and iOS are very different in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. But Android, I know, with the stock
Speaker 1: Google Messages app, I think if you just press and
Speaker 1: hold the little send button when you're going to you know,
Speaker 1: after you type in your message, or's like a little
Speaker 1: send arrow next to it. I think if you press
Speaker 1: and hold that, it will give you options to schedule
Speaker 1: a text and you can schedule it to send in
Speaker 1: an hour, whatever whatever time you want. On iPhone, not
Speaker 1: so much. And as far as I know, you can't
Speaker 1: do this at all on an iPhone because third party apps,
Speaker 1: as far as I know, do not have access to
Speaker 1: I Message, So you can't even download a third party
Speaker 1: app and schedule a message that way. Now, the only
Speaker 1: way that I think you could do this on an
Speaker 1: iPhone is with a third party service. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are plenty of them out there that you could
Speaker 1: download an app that will send text messages. It will
Speaker 1: not likely be from your phone number, but you can
Speaker 1: send a message from that app and schedule it. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know of an app that does that. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there are plenty, especially for businesses. You know, there's
Speaker 1: lots of text messaging apps, but that would be the
Speaker 1: only way to do it. But as a as a
Speaker 1: casual user of a messaging program, if you just want
Speaker 1: to casually message your friend but schedule that message to
Speaker 1: send at a different time, I do not know of
Speaker 1: an easy way to do that on the iPhone. Let
Speaker 1: me know if you know of a way to do that.
Speaker 1: I just don't. All right, So you know, I got
Speaker 1: a Tesla, so I've been talking about and I'm very
Speaker 1: much interested in electric cars. At this point, I will
Speaker 1: tell you getting the not the supercharger, but I'm getting
Speaker 1: a charger installed at the house this week, and so
Speaker 1: I am excited for that, even though I don't really
Speaker 1: need it. I charge my car at work. That has
Speaker 1: been fantastic and quite honestly, it's free, and so I
Speaker 1: am going to take advantage of that as much as possible.
Speaker 1: And so I used to charge like on Sunday night
Speaker 1: or overnight on Saturday to Sunday. Now I just let
Speaker 1: my car run as far as humanly possible, as long
Speaker 1: as I can make it to work on Monday.
Speaker 2: I will charge it here.
Speaker 1: Because it's included. I shouldn't say free, it's included as
Speaker 1: a job perk of mine. And so but I'm getting
Speaker 1: this thing installed at home because a I bought the
Speaker 1: charger for six hundred bucks through Tesla, and I just figured, okay, well,
Speaker 1: now that I bought it, I'm not gonna return it,
Speaker 1: and it's probably nice to have it at home anyway,
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna need it eventually at some point. And
Speaker 1: so there are gonna be weekends where I want to
Speaker 1: take a road trip or I go out of you know,
Speaker 1: just drive further than I need to charge, and I've
Speaker 1: got to charge it up before Saturday or Sunday or whatever.
Speaker 1: And so I'm getting this installed. I tell you all
Speaker 1: of that because I'm talking about Lucid, and Lucid is
Speaker 1: a company that they're making an electric car that's very
Speaker 1: highly anticipated, very expensive. But they are doing their first
Speaker 1: deliveries this week. And so the Lucid Air is a
Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty mile range car and Lucid is
Speaker 1: out of Silicon Valley, but it is made in Arizona.
Speaker 1: I email the company to ask if I can come
Speaker 1: take a tour of the facility and drive the car.
Speaker 2: I hope they say yes. I don't know if they will,
Speaker 2: but let's hope they do.
Speaker 1: But they are doing deliveries of the Lucid Air, which
Speaker 1: is their first car. So this is very exciting for
Speaker 1: this company. And the range, like I said, five hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty miles, the longest range of any ev and
Speaker 1: zero to sixty and two point four to two seconds.
Speaker 1: Now this is their first you know, this is their
Speaker 1: big expensive Lucid Dream Edition and then they are going
Speaker 1: to come up with the Grand Touring Edition and then
Speaker 1: the Touring and Pure models are anticipated for in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Now, the price, don't they don't list the
Speaker 1: price on their press release about this, but I you know,
Speaker 1: some other places had pricing. So these cars that they're
Speaker 1: delivering are like one hundred and seventy grand. Then the
Speaker 1: next car down is going to be like seventy eight,
Speaker 1: and then hopefully we'll have a car cheaper than that,
Speaker 1: and then eventually they want to make a car that's
Speaker 1: about twenty five grand, which is what Tesla has said
Speaker 1: as well. But the reality here is that this is
Speaker 1: fantastic for the electric car business. It just it's this
Speaker 1: is a startup, so they're not burdened by the same
Speaker 1: thing that a major car company that's like a Ford
Speaker 1: or a GM is burdened with, you know, to try
Speaker 1: to transform their company into something that's more electric.
Speaker 2: This is a startup.
Speaker 1: They're they're building it from the ground up, and it
Speaker 1: took Tesla ten years to get to where they are
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit less, but it took a while.
Speaker 1: I mean I was there at some of their first
Speaker 1: events and just just seeing where they've come from. This
Speaker 1: roadster that was so you know, I remember sitting in
Speaker 1: this two person roadster and you know, getting to meet
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and interview him. This is when I worked
Speaker 1: as a reporter at k CAL nine. I mean I
Speaker 1: was able to interview Elon Musk because he would give
Speaker 1: anyone an interview that would that would put a microphone
Speaker 1: in his face. And now if I emailed Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: he probably would not give me that same interview. And
Speaker 1: Tesla is not the same company. The company just reached
Speaker 1: a trillion dollar valuation, which just not many companies in
Speaker 1: America have that, you know, outside of Apple and Microsoft
Speaker 1: and Google, and you know, maybe a couple others nipping
Speaker 1: at their heels.
Speaker 2: But this is this a big deal for Lucid.
Speaker 1: I saw the car in person at the mall they
Speaker 1: have at the Century City Mall here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: They've got a little storefront, and me and my son
Speaker 1: went in there and we checked.
Speaker 2: Out the Lucid.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful, but the guy lost me at eighty grand.
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, well this is not for me right now.
Speaker 1: But it's a beautiful car. It's a luxurious car, and
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that people like this car will
Speaker 1: absolutely love it. But I also saw at them all
Speaker 1: they had the charging stations that were proprietary to Lucid.
Speaker 1: And so now we're getting into this world of here's
Speaker 1: the major electric car companies got. You've got Tesla, who
Speaker 1: has superchargers.
Speaker 2: You know in a lot of places.
Speaker 1: Then you've got Lucid coming up and they have their
Speaker 1: own superchargers that they're building, and I already saw them
Speaker 1: at the mall. And then you have Rivian, which they
Speaker 1: have their own chargers that they're putting at places like
Speaker 1: Adventure places, which you talked about on the show. And
Speaker 1: then you have Electrifi America and charge Point and all
Speaker 1: these other places, all these other charge companies that are
Speaker 1: building chargers that work on a variety of cars. And
Speaker 1: so where, I mean, where does it end. Are you
Speaker 1: going to go to a parking lot and have your
Speaker 1: choice of fifteen different proprietary chargers?
Speaker 2: I think not.
Speaker 1: So we're definitely going to see some consolidation in this
Speaker 1: world of proprietary chargers. I don't know how it's going
Speaker 1: to shake out, because every car company, like Apple, they
Speaker 1: learn from Apple. They're taking a queue from Apple and
Speaker 1: they're saying, ah, we saw what Apple did with their
Speaker 1: with their lightning and it worked really well as proprietary
Speaker 1: and all these accessories worked with lightning, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's what we want to do. We want to make
Speaker 1: sure we can optimize for our cars to be the
Speaker 1: best they can be. And you know, something like USBC
Speaker 1: for a car will have to eventually happen because it
Speaker 1: will just make things easier for the consumer. And USBC
Speaker 1: is a pretty good standard as well. It's just not
Speaker 1: on the iPhone, it's on every other Android, and it's
Speaker 1: it's worked pretty well for them. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we'll see what happens. Maybe they'll build it
Speaker 1: on top of, you know, a USBC style charger. Now
Speaker 1: when I say USBC, I mean some sort of electric standard,
Speaker 1: but it'll maybe.
Speaker 2: There'll be a separate flavor for Tesla. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe Tesla will make it better, but the reality is,
Speaker 1: we just can't have fifteen different types of chargers for
Speaker 1: every electric car company that comes on comes on board
Speaker 1: with these things. But anyway, congrats Solution for making their
Speaker 1: first deliveries. We will continue to track that company and
Speaker 1: I hope I get into one of those cars soon
Speaker 1: real quick. Since I'm on the topic of electric cars, Tesla,
Speaker 1: my first software update hit my phone today. I got
Speaker 1: a message when I woke up, it said Tesla rich
Speaker 1: on Tesla, your software update is available, and when I
Speaker 1: clicked through to that, it tells me that there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of new features available in the car. The most notable,
Speaker 1: according to Electric website is they are now doing the
Speaker 1: Century mode Live Camera access. And this is so crazy
Speaker 1: because this is a feature that I imagined you would
Speaker 1: have on the Tesla and here it is.
Speaker 2: And this feature.
Speaker 1: Lets you access the cameras on your car through your
Speaker 1: phone and you can literally like you would watch your
Speaker 1: ringcam at home, or your Nest cam or your wisecam,
Speaker 1: you can now stream the cameras from your car on
Speaker 1: your phone. That is just about amazing. It is nothing
Speaker 1: short of just unbelievable. And so this is really cool.
Speaker 1: I've not installed it on my car just yet, says
Speaker 1: The update is going to take approximately twenty five minutes.
Speaker 1: During the update process, you will not be able to
Speaker 1: drive the vehicle or use the touchscreen in your car.
Speaker 1: Alarm may be disarmed for a short duration. Do you
Speaker 1: want to install it now? I'm gonna say no, because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that later on today. This feature requires
Speaker 1: the ten dollars a month subscription the Premium or I
Speaker 1: guess the Premium connectivity feature. Oh wait, hold on, I
Speaker 1: need to pay. It's being introduced as a new Premium
Speaker 1: connectivity feature which requires a ten Okay, so you need
Speaker 1: to have that subscription to get access to this, but
Speaker 1: apparently it's only available on iOS for now, coming to
Speaker 1: Android later.
Speaker 2: But I can't wait to check that out. I will.
Speaker 1: I am sure I will talk about it more in
Speaker 1: a future report. All right, Jody says, I'm in need
Speaker 1: of a new iMac desktop. My first one is over
Speaker 1: ten years old.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I wondered if it would be worth waiting for Black
Speaker 1: Friday to order one because they don't offer education prices
Speaker 1: anymore for newer models. Any savings would be a big
Speaker 1: help because they don't usually have sales. But if they
Speaker 1: don't usually have sales, I'll just order it now. Thank
Speaker 1: you for any help you can give me. Best to
Speaker 1: you and your family, Jody, Jody, that's a testament to
Speaker 1: the quality of Apple. The fact that your iMac lasted
Speaker 1: ten years amazing. And Apple gets a hard time for
Speaker 1: high prices, but their stuff lasts forever. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you from experience. My MacBook that my kid is using
Speaker 1: is my old MacBook. Now give an eye upgrade every
Speaker 1: couple of years. But I mean he has thrown it down,
Speaker 1: dropped it, he's on it's it's it's greasy, and the
Speaker 1: thing still runs amazing. And if you clean it up,
Speaker 1: you wipe it down, it's still a fantastic computer, at
Speaker 1: least four years later. And so the fact that you're
Speaker 1: going on ten years is awesome, and these things.
Speaker 2: Have a great resale value.
Speaker 1: But the couple things, so Number one, Apple absolutely offers
Speaker 1: education pricing on the new Imax. They start at twelve
Speaker 1: forty nine for the new iMac, and if you're purchasing
Speaker 1: that as a quote unquote regular person, it would be
Speaker 1: a little bit more expensive. So twelve forty nine for
Speaker 1: the regular iMac. Let's see how much the non education
Speaker 1: store pricing is.
Speaker 2: It would be twelve ninety nine.
Speaker 1: So it's not a huge discount fifty dollars on that
Speaker 1: lower end machine, or i should say the entry level machine.
Speaker 2: It's not low end at all.
Speaker 1: But hey, fifty bucks is fifty bucks. So a couple
Speaker 1: things you could do. Number one, Yes, do the education pricing.
Speaker 1: If you are an educator, for sure, you should always
Speaker 1: be buying Apple products with education pricing. Number Two, you
Speaker 1: can go to Costco. Sometimes they offer a little bit
Speaker 1: of an upgrade for a cheaper price. I saw the
Speaker 1: new Imax there, so check that. Number three Black Friday.
Speaker 1: Apple historically does not really go all out on Black Friday.
Speaker 1: They don't really need to, and so often you will
Speaker 1: get maybe an added bonus of they will include something
Speaker 1: like headphones with it, or they will give you a
Speaker 1: gift card towards a new computer. So I would say
Speaker 1: you've waited ten years, So Jody, if you can wait
Speaker 1: another four weeks, I think wait the four weeks, see
Speaker 1: what the deal is on Black Friday. Definitely buy it
Speaker 1: from the Education store and hopefully you'll get a one
Speaker 1: to two punch of maybe the fifty dollars off for
Speaker 1: the education pricing, and maybe another fifty to one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars gift card that they offer on Black Friday. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you'll be able to connect those as well. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to one more question before the show ends,
Speaker 1: and this is Steve. He says, good night, Rich, love
Speaker 1: your show, never miss it. I love the joke because
Speaker 1: everyone says good morning. You must listen to the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Steve, he says, I'm sure the M one ship is fabulous,
Speaker 1: but I'm not willing to downsize from a twenty seven
Speaker 1: inch iMac to a twenty four Do you know if
Speaker 1: Apple's going to build a Mac with the M one
Speaker 1: and a larger screen. Steve and bo Mont, California. Steve,
Speaker 1: I would say absolutely. They have built all of their
Speaker 1: Mac computers with the M one chips. Slowly but surely
Speaker 1: they are ruling them out on all sizes and varieties,
Speaker 1: and so I think the twenty seven inch iMac will
Speaker 1: not be far behind. Maybe they were waiting to put
Speaker 1: this M one pro chip in it, and I think
Speaker 1: that's probably If I was a betting man, which I
Speaker 1: am sometimes in Las Vegas. Not in a big way,
Speaker 1: not in a problematic way, just a small way. If
Speaker 1: I was a betting man, I would say that Apple
Speaker 1: will probably probably do that for sure, all right, And
Speaker 1: with that, that's going to do it for this episode
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