WEBVTT - Checking for Personal Data on the Dark Web & Managing iCloud Storage 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.360 Open AI changes the world once again, this time with 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:11.160 AI generated video, the first major malware for the iPhone. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:12.600 What you need to know. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.640 Samsung promises a big update for its latest S twenty 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:22.440 four phones. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.360 rich dmiro and this is Rich on Tech broadcasting live 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.640 from Los Angeles, coast to coast. This is the show 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.479 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.040 should know about. It's also the place where I answer 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:39.320 your questions about technology. I believe that technology should be interesting, useful, 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.800 and fun. Let's open up those phone lines triple eight 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.480 rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:51.120 to two four one zero one, triple eight, rich one 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:52.520 oh one. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:53.159 Give me a call. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.880 If you have a question about technology. Email is also open. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:02.040 Just go to Richontech dot cog TV hit contact. Keep 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.280 in mind I can't respond to everyone personally, but I 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:10.759 will do my best. Guests this week, we've got Bob O'Donnell, president, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.080 founder and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research. He's going to 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.840 explain what aipcs are all about. And I'm very excited 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.080 to talk to Bob because he actually used to host 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.800 pretty much a version of this show back in the day. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.480 So I'm gonna talk to him about that. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:32.280 Advisorator columnist Jared Newman is going to talk to talk 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.360 about what to do if you're out of iCloud storage, 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.440 you see that dreaded message and you don't know what 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:38.960 to do. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:41.399 Well. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.319 Today, I figured i'd tell you a story about technology, 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:49.520 but really it's a story about perseverance because this all 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.760 started at my work. You know, I work as a 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:57.040 TV reporter at a tech tech reporter at a TV station, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.400 and uh, you know, people come up to me all 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.400 the time and say, hey, Rich do you have a 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.240 second for a question? All the time, and of course 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.840 I say, yes, what do you need? And it inevitably 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:13.200 is some very complicated situation on their phone or computer 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.560 or iPad or at home that is not easily answered 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.079 in a minute or two. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:20.680 But it's fine. I don't mind. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.320 I love talking to people about this stuff, as I 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.440 do here on the show. So they come up they say, hey, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.560 my computer. I've got this old computer. I want to 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.760 like kind of freshen it up, clean it out, and 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:32.639 make it new it again. I said, oh, that's easy. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.239 We kind of computer macro pc. Oh it's a mac 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.840 oh super easy. We could just reformat it'll be back 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.000 up and running a couple of minutes. He's like, oh great, 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.079 I have it right here. Oh okay, let me have it. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.600 So he brings it to my desk and I start 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.400 looking at this computer. It's kind of old, it's aging, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.360 it's it's kind of slow, it's got old software on it, 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.600 and it's very clear that this thing just needs a 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.960 total reinstallation of the operating system. So I said, all right, 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:00.400 leave it here, can you can you leave it at 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:01.959 my desk for a couple minutes and I'll I'm doing 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:03.480 other stuff, but let me try to work on it. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.160 Well. To connect this thing to the. 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.600 Internet at my work was very complicated because we have 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.880 a kind of secured Wi Fi and it's not very 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.799 easy to do that when you're trying to form out 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.760 a machine and get it up and running. It's easier 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.000 to have either Wi Fi at home or some sort 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.800 of Ethernet connection. Plus it's fat, you know, it's much faster. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.280 So I start trying to do this at my work 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.960 with the work connection. It keeps failing, and so I'm like, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.919 all right, let me try a hotspot. So I hook 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.320 it up to my cell phone and I hotspot it 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.760 connection is a little bit better, but everything I'm trying 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.360 to do is still failing. And it's trying to connect 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.720 to some server. But the computer's really old and the 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.760 software is really old. So I feel like Apple's shut 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.280 down whatever server it's trying to connect to. So I 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.360 said to the guy, look, do you mind if I 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.200 just bring this thing home and I will figure it 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:47.520 out at home and I will work on it. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:47.840 Oh. 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.160 Absolutely, It's got a whole bag, puts all the stuff 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.480 in it, all the you know, cables and things, and 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:53.960 bring it. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:54.960 Bring this thing home. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.800 So I get it home, and you know, it's one 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.360 of these days where I got home kind of early 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.080 from work. I would gonna work on it that afternoon, 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.400 so I want to go to the gym, kind of 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:02.840 do some. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:03.720 Other stuff whatever. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.880 I start working on this thing, and you know, I 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.840 just go down a rabbit hole of trying to figure 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.120 this thing out. Nothing is working. So I get the 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.520 good internet connection. I find a way to connect. First 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.760 thing I had to do. This thing doesn't have USBC, 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.520 so I had to like find a way to connect 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.240 my ethernet to this even though all I had was USBC. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.960 So I had to find like an adapter, which I 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.719 ended up finding in my old you know, gadget closet whatever. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:31.719 So I figured that out. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.320 But I'm sitting here and now now time is starting 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.520 to go by, right like I'm kind of getting a 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.760 little bit annoyed at the fact that I'm spending so 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.240 much time and nothing I'm doing is working. And next 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.640 thing you know, I'm trying to get into like terminal 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.560 on this computer. I'm trying to like format things. I'm 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.119 trying to make a USB boot drive, all this stuff 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.320 that I've done a million times in the past, but 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.760 nothing seems to work. And I keep going and going 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.600 and going, and I'm sitting there thinking to myself, this 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.960 should be so easy. But at this point, I'm so invested. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:04.919 I can't go back to this guy at my work 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.960 as the tech guy. I'd be like, oh, sorry, I 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.320 wasn't able to figure this out, Like could you imagine, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.400 Like I can't have that word spreading around KTLA or 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:13.080 anywhere else. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.159 And so I am determined. So I finally, I'm not kidding. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.440 I spent three hours in the afternoon and I thought 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.560 at one point I got it up and running. I 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.960 text the guy I'm like, hey, look at this splash screen. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.600 It was showing like the installation working. I was like, see, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.160 all I needed was better Internet. And sure enough, right 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.000 at the end of that installation, it's like error failed. 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.159 Right at the end, ninety nine percent, that last one 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.200 percent failed. I'm like, You've got to be kidding me 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.160 right now. So I am just trying to figure out 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.080 any way to get this thing to work. And you know, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.240 as you spend more time on something, you're getting a 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.800 little bit more like quick and hasty and like things 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.280 aren't working. And I've downloaded like all the software to 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.680 my computer. Nothing's working. I shelve it. I'm like, you 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.280 know what, I got to take a break. I gotta 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:58.080 take a breath. I sholve the computer. I put it 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.160 in my room. I, you know, just leave it there. 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.400 Like a week or two goes by. I see this 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.400 guy at work, He's like, hey, Ranch, any update. I'm like, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.520 it's going, it's going, it's going, But really nothing was happening. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.760 So finally I have a breakthrough. I'm at home and 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.600 I realized what I needed. So with the way mac 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.640 os works, you can't download a current version of the 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.560 software or an old version of the software on a 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.640 new machine, you have to use an old machine that 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.000 used to be able to run that software. And all 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.680 of a sudden, I'm going through like my drawers and 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.320 I find a laptop, a Mac laptop that I forgot 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.520 I had, because I forgot I had it because the 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.520 battery is is shot so it doesn't hold a charge. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.479 And so usually I hand my computers down to a 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.320 family member, but this one I just threw in a 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:41.640 drawer because I'm like, oh, I don't really know what 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.120 to do with this thing, because nobody else could use it. Well, 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.200 I plug it in, it gets up and running. I 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:47.800 look at the version of the software. I'm like, you've 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:49.640 got to be kidding me. I think this is gonna work. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.920 And so I download this program called disk Drill, and 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.680 it's like a really easy program to help you make 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.440 these bootable drives. I download it and I'm starting to 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.040 download the software and everything is working. I'm like, You've 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.040 got to be kidding me, Like this is actually working. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.720 Like I'm sitting there smiling to myself. I am working 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.720 on a ten year old computer with another ten year 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.240 old computer next to me, with my current computer there, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.760 so I have like a whole like factory of MacBooks 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.000 sitting in front of me, and it's working. It is working. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.560 So I get this little drive made. And by the way, 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.320 since these computers are so old, everything that should take 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.200 five or ten minutes really takes like twenty to thirty minutes. 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.200 But finally I am getting some progress. This drive that 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.280 I need, it's like a USB drive is it's what's 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.280 called a bootable drive. So when you plug it into 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.240 the new computer, it looks at that it says, ooh, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.360 I can use this to boot up, and I can 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.880 use this to actually install this operating system and run. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.600 And so I get this little drive made. And by 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.600 the way, I had to have a USB drive that 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.679 was USBC on one side and USB on the other side, 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:55.800 and so I had that because I test stuff and 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.680 I happen to have that lane around the house. So 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.680 that was like, that was just incredible to have I 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:01.880 get the software on this thing. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:03.160 I plug it into the computer. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.040 Immediately the computer went from having a question mark on 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.080 the screen to an Apple logo and it was starting 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.200 to install. And I didn't even have to do anything. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.360 It just started like it knew. It was like magical. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:14.800 As soon as I plugged this piece, and it was 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.360 like out of a movie. And I'm sitting there like 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:22.080 high fiving myself, laughing that this is like actually a thing. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.520 And I'm more just sitting there thinking that this is 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.360 my reputation on the line more than anything. I'm like, oh, yeah, 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.840 I'm gonna figure this out. I get the software. It installs, 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.320 the computer opens up, it turns on. It is a fresh, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.000 clean installation of mac os High Sierra, which by the way, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.520 came out I don't know how many years ago. But 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:47.000 it's on there and it's working. And I'm like, okay, 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.640 and I finally get this thing to work. I plug 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.120 it all in, I turn it on. I set up 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.440 his littleccount and it is perfect. It is pristine. His 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.160 old computer that I couldn't figure out for two weeks 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.560 finally worked. I looked back in the email that I 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.720 originally sent him, saying, oh, I think I got it. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:07.560 It was sixteen days ago. This guy waited sixteen days 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.000 thinking oh, this is not going to work. Why do 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:11.560 I tell you this story, Well, I said it was 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.720 a story of perseverance. So you can apply this to 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.320 anything in your life, whether it is tech, whether it 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.720 is your job, whether it's sports, maybe your marriage, I 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.800 don't know. Whatever you need, just keep going. And I'm 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:25.800 so proud that I figured this out, something that I've 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.000 done many, many times. But more so than that, it 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.000 is exciting to have this up and running for this 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:36.000 person again and deliver them this computer. And man, I 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.240 feel good. I feel good. But here is the bottom line. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.320 I say this story because people come up to me, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.199 as you know, the person who knows about technology, thinking 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.280 I have all the answers, and you call me on 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.600 this show and you think I have all the answers. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.640 Tech people don't have all the answers immediately. But the 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.840 difference between me and other people out there and other 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.760 tech people is that we know how to find the answers. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.600 Like any person that is a sort of an expert 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.520 in their field, they may not have all the answers 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.240 off the top of their head, but they know where 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.640 to find that answer. If a doctor comes up against something, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.680 and I'm not comparing myself to a doctor, believe me, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.040 but if a doctor comes up against something that is 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.960 challenging them, they will figure out. They will consult with 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.160 their colleagues and figure out a solution that they think 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.120 is best someone fixes cars, they come up against the 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.960 problem that they can't figure out. They'll consult with other people. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.000 You probably consult with other people at your work, asking hey, 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:32.280 how do I solve this problem? 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.840 That is what it's all about. That is it. That 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.839 is the story. I feel good. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.600 I'm excited I can deliver this guy's computer back and 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:45.199 I learned a lesson. Not only is disc drill an 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.000 excellent program to have around, but I'm also gonna keep 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:52.240 a bootable USB drive for every version of Mac os 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:53.760 at the ready from now on. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.040 That's what I'm gonna do, all right. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.160 Coming up on the show, I hope you enjoyed that 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.960 because I really got kick. My My wife and family 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.520 were like every day when they come home, they get 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.960 a little update about this computer, Like Dad, that computer 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:08.480 is still sitting there in the office. I'm like, I know, 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.720 I'll figure it out, all right. Coming up, more of 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.400 your call or your calls eight A eight Rich one 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.120 on one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.320 to one zero one. Give me a call if you 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:21.520 have a question about technology. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:22.280 I'm feeling good. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.240 I'm feeling like I accomplished stuff. Let's accomplish some more. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.800 My name is Rich d'miro and you are listening to 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:33.240 Rich on Tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.600 DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.160 A Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:44.560 four to two four one zero one. Website for the 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.880 show richon Tech dot TV. If you want a link 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.280 to something I mentioned, you can find it right at 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:52.120 the top there. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:53.560 It is highlighted in red. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.000 Let's go to cam in Los Angeles. 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:57.960 Cam you're on with Rich. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.640 Hi, Rich, I love you on KTLA and just wanted 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:04.800 to say thank you for your information all the time. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:11.280 And my question is I'm looking for some resources actually 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.480 hopefully this is a quick question for someone to perform 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.640 an investigation on the dark web to find maybe some 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:25.439 uh information pertaining to somebody maybe putting information out there 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.280 that's false. And I've been doing a lot of research 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.640 on my own and I'm kind of limited in my 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.280 understanding of, you know, the complete realm of technology, and 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:40.000 was wondering if you had a resource of some investigative 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.720 either law firm or investigative company that can it would recommend, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.959 that would be able to perform that type of investigation. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.040 Well, I have one person that comes to mind that 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.839 I've interviewed actually several times for KTLA and thanks for 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.640 the kind words on that. And so I can recommend 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.480 a website that you can contact. Her name is Haley Kaplan. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.880 What is privacy dot com? And there's dashes between, so 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:11.800 what dash is dash? Privacy dot com? And Hailey works 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.240 with a lot of high profile individuals for reputation management. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.480 And you know basically what you're saying, She's not a lawyer, 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.520 and I can't really recommend a legal route to go, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.520 but that's that's a route to go that can at least, 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:26.559 you know, get you in. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:27.199 The right direction. 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:29.840 Now, when it comes to the dark Web, this is 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.640 an area of the Internet that is not necessarily traversed 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.120 by the average person, nor is it easily searchable by 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.880 the average person. But there is information on pretty much 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.079 every single one of us out there on the dark web. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.440 And so if you are just looking to see what 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.960 is out there on you, there's a couple of resources 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.559 I can mention that you can use to scan kind 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.120 of some of these things. And believe me, when you're 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.520 talking about your personal information on the Internet, it is 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.920 a game of whack a mole. You can get this 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.520 removed and it shows up instantly a couple of days later. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.360 I use a service called Google Results About You, which 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.880 I highly recommend. I just signed up my wife this morning, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.600 but I highly recommend you go in here and set 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.960 this up. It is free, and it doesn't remove the 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.960 data about you from the Internet, but it removes kind 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.920 of the links on Google. So if someone's searching for 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.240 information about you, you know, your name, address, phone number, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:30.320 SoC security number, whatever, that information may still be out 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.720 there on the websites, but most people are just gonna, 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.320 you know, casually search Google for that and those links 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.160 will not show up. So that again is called Google 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.320 Results about You. If you want to sign up for it, 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.000 open up the Google app on your phone has to 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.640 be the Google app. Tap in the upper right hand corner. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.240 You'll see a little icon and then you'll see something 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.880 that says Results about You. And so to sign up, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.280 you basically have to give Google your information, your name, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.280 your address, your phone number, your email and then they 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.480 go out on the web and they scan the web 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.120 for that information and as they find it, they will 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.880 send you a notification that says, hey, do you want 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.200 us to take this off of our Google Search results? 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.320 And they're not going to take everything down, but they 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:11.920 will take down a lot. I mean I had three 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.000 taken down just yesterday, So that's one way to do it. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.880 Another website that's really handy is called have I Been Pooned? 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.200 And it's not spelled the way you think it's h 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:28.680 a ve I beIN pwned and it looks like pawned, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.840 but it's pned dot com. Have I Beenpooned? 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:31.200 Dot com? 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.160 And I'll link this up on my website rich on 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.800 tech dot tv, and you can put your email address 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.600 in there and it will tell you if your email 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.560 address is in one of these breaches, and if it is, 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.640 that means that the password associated with that email address 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.560 is out there on the web as well. So don't 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:50.280 reuse your passwords please. When it comes to scanning your 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.160 information on the dark web, a lot of these services 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.880 are paid. Experience has a dark Web scanning option you 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.560 can pay for that. It says you can start for free. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.600 I have not use that one personally, so I can't 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:06.400 vouch for it. Norton also has some dark web monitoring Mozilla. 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.720 I don't think they monitor the dark web, but they 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:13.040 do monitor for data breaches. It's called Mozilla Monitor and 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.160 you can get a first scan for free. I think 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.400 we talked about it on the show last week. And 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.880 then there is another option through Google One if you 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.240 have Google One, So if you pay for any subscription 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.680 service on Google, you have a membership to Google One 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.720 and they will scan your information on the dark Web. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.600 So it's kind of it's similar to that results about 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.840 you that I talked about that's available to everyone, but 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.480 this takes it a little deeper into the dark web 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.320 and you will get those alerts and you'll be surprised 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.640 that your social your data, birth, your address, all that 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.200 stuff is really out there on the dark web where 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.600 people are selling, buying, trading this stuff on a daily basis. 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:53.960 It's pretty wild when you start going down these roads. 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.680 It's not easy to get this stuff off the Internet, 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.440 and it's probably never going to be completely off. But 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.760 that is what I recommend for some of the free 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.680 resources and paid resources out there. Good question, just something 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.200 you got to keep on top of all. Right, coming 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.320 up on the show, people are already returning their Apple 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.840 Vision pro why we'll find out plus more. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.359 Of your calls at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.040 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:31.399 zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.520 here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:38.440 Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:44.840 two four one zero one. Website rich on Tech dot tv. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.359 If you need a link to something I mentioned, I 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.280 just mentioned a whole bunch of dark web monitoring services. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.080 You can get the links for those there, and you 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.440 can follow me on social media. I am at rich 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.520 on Tech. Well, the fourteen day return window for early 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.560 adopt of Apple's Vision Pro headset is up, and a 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.840 lot of people took to social media saying they are 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.200 returning the product. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:08.399 Why. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.720 They say it feels too isolating when you're wearing it, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.719 it's too heavy and uncomfortable, and they haven't found a 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.720 daily use case for it. A lot of people say 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.680 maybe they'll buy the next version when it's a little 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.919 bit more refined, it's lighter, it's cheaper. This is a 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.639 thirty five hundred dollars device. Add it up with tax 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.439 and accessories. You're talking four grand for something that you 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.080 can only use by yourself. And there's not really a 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.520 ton of use case scenarios for this just yet. Now, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.640 a lot of people probably just bought this to check 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.520 it out, you know, make some content with it, knowing 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.320 they'd return it. But it's kind of wild because I've 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.160 not seen this sort of reaction with an Apple product 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.720 in a very long time. In fact, I don't know 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.960 if I could ever remember an Apple product that people 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.199 were excited about. And in my lifetime, I've seen you know, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:19:00.760 the iPhone, the Apple Watch, the iPad, you know, very computers. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.399 This is kind of like, we don't know if this 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.480 is going to be a hit or a miss just yet. 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.400 But supposedly they sold under two hundred thousand of these things. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.800 But the good news is once Apple gets these things 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:18.159 back in the in the back stock room, they'll refurbish 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:19.840 them and you'll be able to buy it at a discount. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.120 Now I'm curious to see. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:23.760 I don't think Apple will do this, but it'd be 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.400 interesting to see if they discount this thing and make 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.160 it a lesser price that even I was trying to think, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:30.920 like how much would it take for me to buy 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.399 this thing? Even at fifteen hundred bucks, I don't know, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.280 it still feels too expensive. You've got the Mediquest three, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.199 which is five hundred bucks, and Mark Zuckerberg in a 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.920 very rare It's rare that you see a tech CEO 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.200 do a review of a competitor's product, but that's exactly 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.960 what Mark Zuckerberg did this week. He tried out the 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.280 Vision Pro. He said it was underwhelming compared to his product, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.400 the Mediquest three. Now that makes sense, of course he's 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.760 going to say that, but he says it has The 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.520 Mediquest three has a wider field of view, it's lighter, 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:05.040 it's more comfortable, it supports Xbox games, which the Vision 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.520 Pro does not, and he thinks that overall, the Quest 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.879 three is a better device. I think he said something 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:14.879 like period it is the best. He likes the Vision 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.160 pros eye tracking, he gave it that, but he said 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.560 they also had that in their Quest Pro and they're 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.560 going to bring it back. He also said the Quest 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.080 three has a better immersive content library currently, and he 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.840 said the Quest three is seven times less. So it's 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.159 hard to argue with Mark Zuckerberg. But you also have 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.480 to remember keep in mind for perspective that Apple is 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:39.040 the company that probably took about twenty billion dollars away 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.639 from the bottom line of Facebook when they changed the 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.159 way that the iPhone works with the advertising. Facebook was 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.760 no longer able to track people across the iPhone's apps 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.520 and services and web browser, and so that took a 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.439 lot of money away from Facebook. And so you have 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.960 to remember, these are not These guys are frenemies, right 0:20:58.320 --> 0:20:59.919 Mark Zuckerberg. Most of the time, if you look at 0:20:59.920 --> 0:21:01.879 the phone he's using in a reflection in a mirror 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.440 or window, it is not an iPhone because he you know, 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:07.840 he knows a lot of people are using iPhones that 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.280 he is his customers. I guess you can call them, 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.399 you know, Facebook, Instagram users, but he also knows that 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.439 he'd probably rather have them using a Android. Let's go 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.000 to Stephen in Bakersfield. Steven, you're on with Rich. 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:23.560 Hey, Hey Dan, Rich, thanks for making the call. 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:24.760 Doing great. What's up? 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:27.399 My wife and I are going to be doing a 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:31.920 pilgrimage walk the Camino Ignaciano in Spain coming up in May. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.840 It's about three hundred miles of a hike. Oh wow, 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:40.040 and man Resa, Yeah, it's there are some other the Saniago, 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:40.720 some other stuff. 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.359 Okay, that sounds that sounds like a lot. 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:44.560 It is. 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:46.280 It's going to be a hoot. I'm a bit of 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.960 an oldish guy. I'm going to be sixty. I have 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.440 lived in the Apple world, and for the hike itself, 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.680 I don't know that I want to hump my iPhone 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:57.879 all over the place. I don't have an Apple Watch, 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.520 I don't have comp you know, communication, that kind of thing. 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:01.800 I'm interested in. 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.560 Your thoughts on what would maybe be a better product 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:06.960 than the iPhone, Maybe an Apple Watch for text and 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:10.359 things like that for communication, and also maybe some software. 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:12.840 I know that a bunch of years ago there was 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.200 What's app and some other stuff, But just wanted to 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:17.960 pick your brain on both hardware and software for when 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:19.000 we do this walk. 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:22.000 So what's your main goal is to stay connected without 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:24.320 a lot of like looking at screens or what's your 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:25.320 goal when you're walking? 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:28.840 My goal is to stay connected with family back here 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:32.639 in the States, and without having to have even that 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.720 iPhone in my hand all the time, to kind of 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.800 be a little bit more hands free, and to yeah, 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:39.240 not have a huge screen. We will have opportunity in 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:42.840 the eve means to dial it down and have access 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:44.639 to that, but during most of the day, I'd like 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:47.320 to have communication, you know, maybe text. 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:47.680 Things like that. 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:50.600 Well, I think I think an Apple Watch is probably 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.120 the easiest solution, since you can glance at it and 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:55.520 you'll get some metrics that are kind of nice. I 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.560 don't think that you can leave this thing on GPS 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:01.000 all day, because it will it will run out of 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:03.640 battery if you do that pretty quickly. But I think 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.400 that that's probably the easiest way to kind of monitor 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:08.880 things in as people are texting you, you could see those 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:09.280 come in. 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.760 Is this an area that has cellular connectivity or no? 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:17.679 I'm assuming it does the east or the west slope 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:20.880 of the Pyrenees Mountains in a Basque region from up 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:25.240 in the north around Loyola down almost to Barcelona. Okay, 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.240 all right, I think it's that pretty good reception. 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:32.159 And I'm trying to see if the emergency SOS feature, 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:33.480 which which iPhone do you have? 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:36.720 I have a fourteen pro right now? 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:40.560 Oh okay, so fourteen Pro does have the emergency SOS. 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:43.959 Do you anticipate needing that service at all? Like? Are 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:45.760 you off the grid that much? Is this like a 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.639 you're with a group of people, right, We're going to. 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:52.199 Be doing it with a couple of people, and so 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:55.040 we're not completely off the grid. And I think we're 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:58.640 going to be going through the places where I short 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:00.000 answer is, I think we're gonna be on the grid. 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:01.040 I don't think that's a problem. 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:01.399 Okay. 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:03.960 Well, the good news is if there was any sort 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:06.000 of time when you need it to you know, if 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:10.320 they're not a cellular connection, emergency SOS is available in Spain, 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:12.480 so that's really nice. So make sure that you have 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:15.560 your phone updated to the latest operating system and the 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:18.960 iPhone fourteen Pro and the iPhone fifteen models they both 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:21.600 have the emergency SOS via satellite. 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:26.320 Are you familiar with that feature? That's a little about Okay, 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:27.640 So I. 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:29.439 Have kids that continue that help for me. 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:34.000 Basically, if your phone does not have a cellular or 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:37.439 Wi Fi signal, you will see a little satellite signal 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:39.840 in the upper right hand corner, and that means as 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:41.720 long as you have a clear view of the sky, 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:44.240 you will be able to send for emergency help. You'll 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:48.440 be able to text effectively text an emergency response person 0:24:48.480 --> 0:24:50.280 and say you know, hey, we need this or we 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:52.399 need that, or send your location or anything like that. 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:54.240 So that'll be nice. 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:56.480 But wou I would recommend I know this is kind 0:24:56.480 --> 0:25:00.000 of expensive, but I think you know, maybe treat yourself 0:25:00.040 --> 0:25:02.280 of as a as a reward for doing this with 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:04.920 the Apple Watch Ultra, because the battery is going to 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:07.880 last a really long time. The screen is nice and big, 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:10.680 it's got a nice extra button on there which you 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:13.760 can program to do a whole bunch of things. And 0:25:13.880 --> 0:25:16.080 you know, there's there's a whole bunch of tracking features. 0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:19.560 It's got better GPS than the standard Apple Watches, and 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:22.280 so I think that's gonna be nice to keep in 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:25.280 touch with friends and family back home. And then you 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:27.320 kind of have to decide if you want to get 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:29.280 a do you have roamings? 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:30.360 What's your cellular plan? 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:33.120 Right now? 0:25:33.119 --> 0:25:34.679 I'm kind of at the top end with stuff, and 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:37.560 so I have roaming and everything else is connected to 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:40.440 a business, so I have I have all the cellular 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:43.720 data and unlimited everything you can think of. 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:44.520 At least in the States. 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:46.000 Oh, I was gonna say, okay. 0:25:46.080 --> 0:25:49.600 Yeah, yeah, as far as connectivity someplace, FILF. I don't 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:52.000 know if your suggestion would be some kind of an 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:55.560 international plan at least temporarily, or like I said, I 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:57.560 think a thousand years ago when we went to Italy 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:00.280 once we did what's app and communication. So I don't 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:01.199 know what the best ways to go on. 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:04.600 So I mean, I think, you know, these days, you 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:07.639 don't even really need WhatsApp anymore. If you're you know, 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:10.399 if you're texting you what I would recommend is turning 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:13.800 on what's called Wi Fi calling and texting, And so 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:16.040 before you leave the States, turn that on your phone. 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:18.479 If you're going to number one, I call your carrier 0:26:18.680 --> 0:26:21.199 ask if you have any sort of roaming included with 0:26:21.240 --> 0:26:23.639 your plan. So for instance, the plan that I'm on, 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:26.520 I get a day of roaming free. I think I 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:28.720 get like four months. So when I log into my account, 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:30.960 it tells me you have fourteen days of roaming for free. 0:26:31.280 --> 0:26:33.400 And so when I go on a trip international trip 0:26:33.440 --> 0:26:35.760 for you know, three four days, most of the time 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:38.639 I'm covered. So I would call your company and or 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:41.000 your carrier and ask them what you've got. The other 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:43.920 thing I would recommend is a company named Aralo Ai 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:47.800 r Alo and this is a this is a company 0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:50.160 where you can buy an e SIM for your phone, 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:54.439 and that is basically a temporary cell phone plan that 0:26:54.520 --> 0:26:57.800 works internationally, and it's very inexpensive. And that's something you 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:00.840 can install on your phone. If you don't have roaming, 0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:03.119 you install it on your phone, and then when you 0:27:03.160 --> 0:27:05.200 get to the you know, before you take off, you 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:09.239 will turn off your your connection with whatever company you have, 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:11.840 whether it's AT and TV, Verizon, T Mobile, whatever, and 0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:13.439 then when you get to the country, you turn on 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:17.560 this other connection to this secondary ara lo sim It 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:20.040 sounds a little complicated, but I'll be honest. My mom 0:27:20.080 --> 0:27:22.240 went to Germany. We did this all over the phone. 0:27:22.280 --> 0:27:24.439 She figured it out and she had great connection the 0:27:24.480 --> 0:27:26.600 whole time, and all of her friends that she was 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:28.760 with were like, how do you have a connection and 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:30.480 I don't. She's like, well, my son's the tech guy, 0:27:30.560 --> 0:27:32.440 so I mean, of course I figured it out with him, 0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:35.440 and everyone was like cracking up. But I think you'll 0:27:35.440 --> 0:27:37.600 be able to text I personally if you you know. 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:40.480 When I go overseas, I use something called Telegram, And 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:42.720 what I like about Telegram is that it works no 0:27:42.800 --> 0:27:45.800 matter what connection I have, whether I have Internet, whether 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:47.960 I have Wi Fi, whether I have cellular, whether the 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:49.800 person on the other end is on an iPhone or 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:53.199 an Android. So I really like that program. WhatsApp is 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:55.960 also very good. It just depends. It's like a matter 0:27:56.000 --> 0:27:58.040 of preference. So if you have if you want to 0:27:58.080 --> 0:27:59.960 log in with that. You can also use Facebook Messa 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:02.480 if you have that installed, but it really comes down 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:04.639 to what the people on the other end have. So 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:08.240 those are the things that I'd recommend, uh, Steven, But 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:09.760 it sounds like an epic trick. 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:11.359 I think you're gonna have a great time. 0:28:11.440 --> 0:28:14.679 It's very much easier to stay connected internationally than it 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:17.800 ever has been. Eight A eight rich one O one. 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:20.320 Thanks for the call. Eight eight eight seven four to 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:23.560 two four one zero one. I'll tell you what open 0:28:23.640 --> 0:28:27.840 eye open ai is doing now, and it's AI video. 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:36.360 It is incredible. More show right after this. Welcome back 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.120 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:43.200 talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one eight 0:28:43.280 --> 0:28:47.080 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:28:47.920 --> 0:28:50.480 Everyone in the tech world this week is talking about 0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:53.360 what open ai is doing now, and what they're doing 0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:55.280 now is AI video. 0:28:56.320 --> 0:28:59.000 It is called Sora s o r A. 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:03.920 This is a new AI system that generates really realistic 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:05.400 looking video from text. 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:06.920 Videos can be up. 0:29:06.840 --> 0:29:12.600 To a minute long and they really have impressive detail, lighting, texture, 0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:16.200 shot composition. It looks like something Pixar made. It looks 0:29:16.240 --> 0:29:19.840 like something a film a director would make. I mean, 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:24.880 it's really quite impressive. They showed a bunch of different videos. 0:29:24.920 --> 0:29:26.960 I highly recommend you to take a look at these things. 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:30.520 Snow one of them was a couple walking through a 0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:35.640 snowy Tokyo landscape. That was awesome. Let's see what else 0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:37.640 did they have. They had a little monster next to 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:41.400 a candle. Looked like something Pixar would make. And let's 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:44.240 see what was the other one? A virtual zoo tour. 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:49.880 I saw a like a car driving through a city, 0:29:50.000 --> 0:29:52.360 but they had they changed it into like twenty five 0:29:52.360 --> 0:29:57.040 different ways. It's really quite impressive. So what is the 0:29:57.040 --> 0:29:59.040 deal with this? Can you get your hands on it? No, 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:01.760 this is right now. Just research that they are showing 0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:05.040 off and it is very very impressive. So if you 0:30:05.120 --> 0:30:07.240 have a chance, I'll put it. I'll put the link 0:30:07.280 --> 0:30:09.320 on the website rich on tech dot tv in the 0:30:09.320 --> 0:30:12.920 show notes. But it's OpenAI dot com slash sora s 0:30:13.000 --> 0:30:16.080 O r A. And when you see the video that 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:20.760 this is generating, you will realize that everything is going 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:24.000 to change once again. Just like chat GBT changed AI 0:30:24.120 --> 0:30:26.920 for the average person, this is now going to change 0:30:27.120 --> 0:30:30.080 video forever. You've heard of deep fakes, you've heard of 0:30:30.440 --> 0:30:34.400 AI generated text and images. This is video and it 0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:38.520 looks incredibly realistic. Now, the one thing that they're not 0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:41.920 saying is how long it takes to generate these videos. 0:30:41.960 --> 0:30:45.800 They're up to a minute long. And I saw one 0:30:45.840 --> 0:30:49.160 person describe it as it takes maybe the time it 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:51.520 would take to get a burrito, not you know. 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:53.000 I don't know. 0:30:53.080 --> 0:30:55.000 I forgot what the other thing was. But anyway, it's 0:30:55.120 --> 0:30:58.600 it's long, but it's not that long. And of course 0:30:58.600 --> 0:31:01.080 this will only get better. But the fact that you 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:04.080 can now type in something like this person says a 0:31:04.120 --> 0:31:07.000 young man in his twenties sitting on a piece of 0:31:07.080 --> 0:31:10.840 cloud in the sky reading a book, And yeah, that's 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:11.480 what it looks like. 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:13.280 This was an. 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:15.960 Animated scene featuring a close up of a short, fluffy 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:19.920 monster kneeling beside a melting red candle. The art style 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:22.240 is three D and realistic, with a focus on lighting 0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:25.480 and texture. Now, one of the videos I saw was 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:30.520 a it was a person in bed. It's not always right. 0:31:30.640 --> 0:31:33.120 They do show some examples of where it gets things 0:31:33.200 --> 0:31:35.680 really wrong. And you know you've seen those AI photos 0:31:35.720 --> 0:31:37.880 where like the hand is off or the teeth are off. 0:31:38.320 --> 0:31:40.880 They show some videos where things are off and it's creepy. 0:31:40.920 --> 0:31:43.680 It's like we are I'm not kidding. We are heading 0:31:43.720 --> 0:31:50.840 into a really weird time. Open Ai, Sora sr. Let's 0:31:50.840 --> 0:31:53.400 go to Mark in San Diego. Mark, you're on with Rich? 0:31:53.920 --> 0:31:55.920 Yeah, hey Rich, uh, great show. 0:31:56.080 --> 0:31:56.400 Thanks. 0:31:57.200 --> 0:32:01.760 I am having trouble getting to my email after I 0:32:01.840 --> 0:32:04.920 after I did an update on my Windows seven. It's 0:32:04.920 --> 0:32:08.960 an old Windows seven operating system on a on a PC, 0:32:09.200 --> 0:32:13.600 a desktop, okay, And so I go to open it 0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:15.480 and all I get is just a you know, the 0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:18.920 outlook little letter. It just keeps cycling, looks like it's 0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:21.040 going to open, open, open, open, It just never does. 0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:23.400 Now I can get to my emails on my phone, 0:32:23.840 --> 0:32:26.560 but I can't get to it on my my desktop. 0:32:27.280 --> 0:32:29.240 Okay, So I think what you need to do is 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:32.920 reset your Outlook. It sounds like something got a little 0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:37.600 a little messed up in there, So can you I'm 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:39.240 trying to think of the way the best way to 0:32:39.280 --> 0:32:42.960 do this. Can you get into a like your settings 0:32:43.000 --> 0:32:45.360 on that computer? Like do you get any sort of 0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:47.680 menu at all on Outlook or does it just kind 0:32:47.680 --> 0:32:50.560 of just spinny kind of thing the whole time? 0:32:50.600 --> 0:32:52.400 Well it comes up, I can probably get to the 0:32:52.440 --> 0:32:53.920 three dots in the upper right course. 0:32:54.000 --> 0:32:56.160 Okay, okay, so if you can get to the three 0:32:56.160 --> 0:32:58.120 dots in the upper right hand corner, I would look 0:32:58.160 --> 0:33:01.160 for an option to reset outlook. It might be under 0:33:01.200 --> 0:33:04.080 something like Advanced Options. But that's kind of like what 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:05.840 you need to do. It sounds like this thing got 0:33:05.880 --> 0:33:08.520 stalled or something got corrupted during the What did you 0:33:08.640 --> 0:33:09.160 upgrade to? 0:33:09.400 --> 0:33:10.840 Is it like it was just. 0:33:10.800 --> 0:33:14.000 The latest before the end of the support from Windows seven? 0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:18.120 It was it was like at the very end of December, okay, 0:33:18.440 --> 0:33:21.520 before the first of January twenty twenty four, they had 0:33:21.520 --> 0:33:24.719 one apparently one last update that I did, and it 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:27.560 was it was legit. I always check to make sure 0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:31.160 that it's directly from Microsoft, and it just it updated. 0:33:31.200 --> 0:33:33.440 And then it seems like right after that I had 0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:34.920 the problem and again I can get to it on 0:33:34.960 --> 0:33:35.360 my phone. 0:33:35.520 --> 0:33:37.240 Yeah. Yeah, So your email is fine. 0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:40.760 It just sounds like you've got It's just it sounds 0:33:40.760 --> 0:33:44.320 like something got a little bit a little bit messed 0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:46.800 up in transit there. So in your email, what type 0:33:46.800 --> 0:33:48.800 of email do you use? Like, is it a Gmail 0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:50.479 or it's. 0:33:49.960 --> 0:33:51.680 A hot mail it's an old hotmail account. 0:33:51.720 --> 0:33:55.320 Okay, So it's probably hopefully if you can see them 0:33:55.360 --> 0:33:57.960 on your phone, then your emails are safe. I don't think, 0:33:58.080 --> 0:34:00.760 because there could be you know, if you reset this 0:34:00.880 --> 0:34:03.760 app and something, you know, the emails get deleted or 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:04.760 everything gets deleted. 0:34:05.120 --> 0:34:07.120 There could be a world where those emails are gone. 0:34:07.120 --> 0:34:10.080 But it sounds like this is if you're if you're 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:13.600 accessing these on the web, then it's probably not downloading 0:34:13.600 --> 0:34:15.800 the emails to your computer. They're just it's just looking 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:16.640 at it through IMAP. 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:19.520 So I yeah, quick question, just quick question. 0:34:19.760 --> 0:34:23.479 Now if I have too many emails on that, because 0:34:23.520 --> 0:34:26.319 I've got quite a few, I don't know, like a lot, 0:34:26.440 --> 0:34:28.200 But would would that be a problem. 0:34:28.840 --> 0:34:31.319 I don't think. I mean, well, it depends or your emails. 0:34:30.960 --> 0:34:34.480 Sending and receiving they are on my phone, okay, then 0:34:34.520 --> 0:34:36.359 then there's no problem with like your storage. I would 0:34:36.400 --> 0:34:39.200 check your storage limit on UH on hotmail in general? 0:34:39.320 --> 0:34:40.640 Do you go to outlook dot com. 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:40.840 To check that? 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:43.560 I did not, because I just don't know how to 0:34:43.600 --> 0:34:45.600 do it, but I can probably figure it out. 0:34:45.719 --> 0:34:47.279 Well, how do you check your email? Do you check 0:34:47.280 --> 0:34:49.439 it by going to hotmail dot com or Outlook dot com? 0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:51.600 Outlook on my on my cell phone. 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:56.800 Okay, Yeah, So I would go on oh, the Outlook app. Yeah, okay, 0:34:56.800 --> 0:34:59.719 so I would. I would go from a What I 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:02.359 would is go on your desktop computer, go to go 0:35:02.400 --> 0:35:05.480 to outlook dot com sign in check to make sure 0:35:05.520 --> 0:35:07.560 your storage is okay. I don't think that's what's happening 0:35:07.600 --> 0:35:10.160 here because your phone is working. But I would go 0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:15.640 and reset the Outlook app on Windows. So go into 0:35:15.640 --> 0:35:20.000 the menu, look for something that says to reset. Might 0:35:20.000 --> 0:35:22.160 be under like Advanced Options or something like that, but 0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:24.279 it sounds like there's something that's a little corrupt there. 0:35:24.840 --> 0:35:26.960 But that's what I would do, And once you get 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:28.719 that done, you should be able to I'd say, to 0:35:28.800 --> 0:35:30.879 uninstall the whole app and reinstall it. 0:35:31.000 --> 0:35:32.960 That might be your best case scenario. 0:35:32.560 --> 0:35:33.759 But I'm not sure that you can do that on 0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:37.000 a Windows PC because Outlook is part of the system. 0:35:37.040 --> 0:35:39.320 But if you can do that, if all us fails, 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:41.439 you can try to uninstall it and reinstall it there. 0:35:41.560 --> 0:35:44.759 So thanks for the call, mark and hopefully you get 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:48.320 that figured out. Coming up coming up on the show 0:35:48.600 --> 0:35:51.240 in the next hour, we're gonna have Bob O'Donnell, president 0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:55.000 and founder at Technolysis Research. He's going to tell you 0:35:55.040 --> 0:35:58.560 what you need to know about AIPCS. Plus I'm gonna 0:35:58.560 --> 0:36:00.719 tell you about a new feature in Google Photos that 0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:03.480 I am just loving. Plus more of your questions at 0:36:03.480 --> 0:36:06.400 triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:12.400 four to two four one zero one. 0:36:14.360 --> 0:36:16.200 Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:36:16.360 --> 0:36:19.560 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:36:19.600 --> 0:36:21.399 triple eight rich one oh one. 0:36:22.080 --> 0:36:22.880 That's eight eight. 0:36:22.760 --> 0:36:27.640 Eight seven four to two four one zero one website 0:36:27.640 --> 0:36:31.120 for the show rich on Tech dot TV. If you 0:36:31.160 --> 0:36:33.040 need a link to something I mentioned, you'll see a 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:35.440 big red banner at the top of the website. Tap 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:38.560 there and you will get the links in real time to. 0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:39.360 What I talk about. 0:36:39.400 --> 0:36:41.839 And you can find me on Instagram. I am at 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:44.280 rich on Tech. Typically I tell you what I posted 0:36:44.320 --> 0:36:48.840 this week. Let's see what I posted to Instagram. Oh, actually, 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:51.480 some fun stuff. If you live in the LA area 0:36:52.040 --> 0:36:54.720 or maybe any state that had these, do you remember something 0:36:54.760 --> 0:36:58.000 called Thomas Guides. These were like maps that you would 0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:01.359 this was before Google Maps, and you would flip through 0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:03.840 these pages to find things on these maps. And so 0:37:03.880 --> 0:37:07.160 I posted I was going through my phone and I 0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:10.080 forgot that I recorded this video and it was basically 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:13.760 someone was showing me these Google maps, sorry, these Thomas 0:37:13.760 --> 0:37:16.520 Guide maps that I remember, but I forgot about and 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:18.400 so I guess a lot of people forgot about them 0:37:18.520 --> 0:37:20.759 or remembered them. So that's kind of, you know, going 0:37:20.800 --> 0:37:23.080 a little bit viral, which is surprising because it's just 0:37:23.120 --> 0:37:27.200 so silly. Then I was down in Baldwin Park, California, 0:37:27.360 --> 0:37:30.800 site of the first In and Out Burger. If you 0:37:30.840 --> 0:37:33.120 don't live in California, you know In and Out Burger 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:35.759 is a huge part of California and probably maybe like 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:39.840 the West Coast, but especially LA. It's a quality food 0:37:39.960 --> 0:37:42.680 at a great price, and the people are always friendly, 0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:44.960 and it's clean and it's nice. And so I was 0:37:45.000 --> 0:37:47.480 in Baldwin Park for a story and they have like 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:50.920 a little museum of the original In and Out Burger 0:37:51.120 --> 0:37:53.160 and it was so cool. So I stopped and I 0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:56.440 recorded some video and I posted that to my Instagram. 0:37:56.960 --> 0:37:59.920 And then oh, I did a story on this VO 0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:03.719 flight training. So they're now using virtual reality to train 0:38:03.840 --> 0:38:08.400 helicopter pilots and so instead of this giant expensive flight simulator, 0:38:08.400 --> 0:38:11.400 they use VR, which is more realistic, it's cheaper. And 0:38:11.440 --> 0:38:13.239 I got into this thing and I was actually I 0:38:13.239 --> 0:38:15.600 will be honest. I was actually a little bit apprehensive. 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:17.479 I said to the guy before we started it, I said, 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:20.200 look if this gets too realistic, because they started me 0:38:20.239 --> 0:38:22.319 out on a helicopter on top of a building in 0:38:22.360 --> 0:38:24.840 downtown LA, and I was gonna fly off the building. 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:26.799 And I was like, if this gets too realistic, can 0:38:26.840 --> 0:38:28.600 I just like rip this headset off. He's like, yeah, 0:38:28.719 --> 0:38:33.120 you'll be fine. It really was realistic. And then last night, 0:38:33.200 --> 0:38:34.640 I guess there's a lot of burgers this week, we 0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:37.840 went to something called Burger King whopper World. This was 0:38:38.520 --> 0:38:40.960 like a pop up. I don't know these companies do 0:38:41.040 --> 0:38:43.160 this stuff, but it's just you know, it's like a promotion. 0:38:43.239 --> 0:38:46.000 I guess Burger King's doing some sort of promotion where 0:38:46.000 --> 0:38:48.799 you build your own whopper and then someone's gonna win 0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:50.719 like a million dollars. And so last night they had 0:38:50.719 --> 0:38:52.600 like a little party. We went to it with the kids. 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:54.640 It was a lot of fun. We ate a whopper 0:38:54.840 --> 0:38:57.280 and it was great. You could put some random toppings 0:38:57.320 --> 0:38:59.399 on it. But they had one thing that was cool. 0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:02.160 They had this like tablet where you can type in 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:05.040 the toppings for your whopper, which could be anything you wanted, 0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:07.920 and they were using AI to generate an image of 0:39:07.960 --> 0:39:10.040 the Whopper with those toppings. So if you put like 0:39:10.440 --> 0:39:14.120 gummy bears or sprinkles or chocolate chip cookies, it would 0:39:14.120 --> 0:39:16.480 make an image of the Whopper with that. And then 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:18.440 they printed it out on a T shirt. And so 0:39:18.960 --> 0:39:21.560 I almost wore my my Burger King T shirt today, 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:25.479 but I'm gonna This is in Santa Monica at the Pier, 0:39:25.680 --> 0:39:30.600 so it's happening this weekend in Los Angeles. Anyway, Google 0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:33.640 Maps or sorry, Google Photos, is getting a new feature. 0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:36.000 It showed up on my phone last night, which means 0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:38.399 it may show up on your phone any day now. 0:39:38.760 --> 0:39:41.560 Google Photos, of course, is my favorite photo app, and 0:39:41.920 --> 0:39:45.560 they now have a feature called stacks. This is something 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:49.480 I have been waiting for forever because I take a 0:39:49.520 --> 0:39:51.560 bunch of pictures. So if someone says, hey, take you know, 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:53.560 a picture or whatever, I'm taking pictures of the kids. 0:39:53.600 --> 0:39:56.240 I just snapped that picture like a thousand times, because 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:59.080 you know, the storage is cheap and you want to 0:39:59.120 --> 0:40:01.279 make sure you get the shot. But the problem is 0:40:01.280 --> 0:40:04.080 when you go through your your photos, there's like so 0:40:04.280 --> 0:40:07.200 many in a row, and it becomes very stressful because 0:40:07.200 --> 0:40:08.560 you don't want to pick out the best one, because 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:10.400 you've got to zoom into everyone's face, make sure it 0:40:10.440 --> 0:40:12.600 looks all. You know, which one they're smiling, which one 0:40:12.600 --> 0:40:15.520 their eyes are open. And so now photo stacks will 0:40:15.560 --> 0:40:19.239 group similar photos taken together and it will put the 0:40:19.280 --> 0:40:21.120 best one at the top and it will pick It'll 0:40:21.160 --> 0:40:24.040 say the best pick or something like that. And so 0:40:24.440 --> 0:40:26.200 you can, of course see all the other photos. But 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:29.240 if you're scrolling through your pictures, instead of seeing seventy 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:32.680 photos or fifteen photos, you'll see one photo. It'll have 0:40:32.719 --> 0:40:35.520 a little icon that looks like a photo stack, and 0:40:35.600 --> 0:40:37.399 it'll pick the best one, put that on the top, 0:40:37.480 --> 0:40:39.400 and then you can tap in and see all. 0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:41.240 The other photos if you want to choose a different one. 0:40:41.400 --> 0:40:44.640 Anyway, it's rolling out now iOS and Android, Google Photos 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:47.600 photo stacks, So now when you see it on your phone, 0:40:47.719 --> 0:40:48.319 you will be. 0:40:48.360 --> 0:40:48.960 Prepped for it. 0:40:51.040 --> 0:40:54.920 Let's let's go to Victor in Santa Barbara, one of 0:40:54.920 --> 0:40:56.799 the most beautiful places in California. 0:40:56.920 --> 0:40:58.960 Victory, you're on with right, Rich, Thanks for taking my call? 0:40:59.160 --> 0:41:03.160 Yeah quickly, so look we're our email comes through earthlink 0:41:03.320 --> 0:41:03.959 dot net. 0:41:04.360 --> 0:41:07.880 Yeah, I just met the guy who started Earthlink sky Dayton. 0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:08.360 He was in. 0:41:09.040 --> 0:41:11.440 I literally I said to him, I said, dude, the 0:41:11.480 --> 0:41:13.040 guy looked like he was young. I said, how old 0:41:13.040 --> 0:41:14.799 are you a kid when you started this? He's like yeah, 0:41:14.800 --> 0:41:17.520 he's like twenty something. So I mean, anyway, the guy, 0:41:17.880 --> 0:41:20.080 he's he's a pilot. He did the VR. He's one 0:41:20.080 --> 0:41:22.960 of the investors in that VR stuff. Anyway, I remember 0:41:22.960 --> 0:41:25.120 Earthlink when he started it. But go ahead, I'm glad. 0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:30.040 So anyways, Windows ten Mail, we configured it so we're 0:41:30.080 --> 0:41:34.160 getting Earthlink emails through Windows ten Mail. Everything's working out great, 0:41:34.360 --> 0:41:38.080 and we're happy. Microsoft is starting to most what's the 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:42.719 right word they're rattling sabers. Yeah, got to shut down 0:41:42.800 --> 0:41:47.920 Windows ten mail. A couple of questions that we have 0:41:48.040 --> 0:41:52.960 never downloaded Outlook. We've never really needed it. So now 0:41:52.960 --> 0:41:57.960 we're going to have to Outlook to get Windows in 0:41:58.120 --> 0:42:02.719 email Earthlink dot Net on Outlook. Is that going to work? 0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:03.759 You know? 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:04.879 Yeah, it will work. 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:07.920 So what you're talking about is, you know, so Microsoft 0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:11.279 used to have what's called the mail app inside Windows 0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:14.960 and now they're transitioning everyone over to Outlook. And that's 0:42:15.080 --> 0:42:17.439 you know, it's more of a branded program. It's it's 0:42:17.560 --> 0:42:19.880 kind of streamlined things, makes it easier because all they 0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:22.960 have to do is make one program instead of two, 0:42:23.640 --> 0:42:26.080 so you don't have to switch just yet. It's going 0:42:26.160 --> 0:42:29.359 to happen sometime in twenty twenty four towards the end, 0:42:29.880 --> 0:42:32.040 so there will probably be an option for people to 0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:34.759 upgrade early to Outlook if you want to, you know, 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:37.480 do it early. You can download it and install it 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:39.520 and get it all going. But they're not going to 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:41.400 force people to do it until towards the end of 0:42:41.400 --> 0:42:44.600 the year, so you still have time. But yes, Outlook, 0:42:44.960 --> 0:42:47.960 I know. It's the thing that's confusing about Outlook is 0:42:48.000 --> 0:42:50.760 that it's a program, but it's also kind of an 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:54.200 email in itself. People have Outlook for work, they have 0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:58.480 Microsoft Email, and they think that it's only for Microsoft email, 0:42:58.840 --> 0:43:03.280 But the Outlook program will check email from a variety 0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:07.440 of email providers, whether that's Google, Gmail, whether that's Yahoo, 0:43:07.719 --> 0:43:10.680 whether it is Earthlink, whether it is your work email, 0:43:10.760 --> 0:43:14.359 whatever it is. Outlook is just an email program that 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:19.239 can handle different email addresses, and so no matter what 0:43:19.280 --> 0:43:21.399 email address you have, you will be able to use 0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:24.719 it on Outlook within reason. Obviously, there may be some 0:43:24.760 --> 0:43:28.000 that are not supported, but if you're on Outlook, you 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:30.399 could just go into your file and it will say 0:43:30.400 --> 0:43:33.520 account information and it will say add account, and so 0:43:33.640 --> 0:43:36.359 you will just add your account by email address. If 0:43:36.400 --> 0:43:40.759 it recognizes that Earthlink settings, it will automatically do it 0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:42.920 all for you. You just put in your username and your 0:43:42.920 --> 0:43:45.719 password and it will figure everything else out. If it 0:43:45.760 --> 0:43:50.759 can't figure those out, then just google Earthlink email settings, 0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:54.520 server settings and it will give you the options of 0:43:54.560 --> 0:43:58.160 how to type that in and format it. I would 0:43:58.239 --> 0:44:03.240 use imap over pop three and in general it should 0:44:03.400 --> 0:44:05.680 automatically figure this stuff out. And this goes by the 0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:09.040 way for a lot of email apps, whether using Gmail, 0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:12.600 you can check other email services on these apps. They 0:44:12.640 --> 0:44:15.560 are an all in one app. It's really confusing because 0:44:16.000 --> 0:44:19.319 people know Outlook as email and a program, but it 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:23.000 does check other email addresses as well, so no problems there. 0:44:23.719 --> 0:44:26.160 Victor and Santa Barbara, thanks for the call today. Do 0:44:26.239 --> 0:44:29.839 appreciate it. Phone number is eighty to eight rich one 0:44:29.880 --> 0:44:33.520 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:34.359 zero one. 0:44:36.080 --> 0:44:36.200 Uh. 0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:41.359 Speaking of the iPhone, there is a new malware going 0:44:41.400 --> 0:44:45.799 around for the iPhone called gold PICKACS, and apparently this 0:44:45.800 --> 0:44:48.560 steals your photos, your text messages. It even tries to 0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:51.360 get your banking info. The good news is this is 0:44:51.400 --> 0:44:55.400 not completely widespread right now. This is mostly happening to 0:44:55.840 --> 0:44:58.880 folks in Vietnam and Thailand, but of course because this 0:44:58.960 --> 0:45:01.520 is now out in the wild, that could change. We 0:45:01.560 --> 0:45:04.200 could see it here in the States. The main thing 0:45:04.360 --> 0:45:06.879 is that this is not going to happen to you 0:45:07.000 --> 0:45:09.920 if you are using your phone as the average person. 0:45:10.719 --> 0:45:13.880 So the way that they install. 0:45:13.560 --> 0:45:18.799 This is through an MDM profile, and you may get 0:45:18.800 --> 0:45:22.680 this for work. It's a MDM stands for Mobile Device Management. 0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:25.720 This is kind of like a if your work wants 0:45:25.719 --> 0:45:28.560 to monitor your phone or have certain restrictions on it, 0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:32.040 they would download this profile to your phone. But that's 0:45:32.080 --> 0:45:34.440 for very specific use cases, you know, so if your 0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:37.480 company requires that, talk to your IT folks. But if 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:40.440 you're doing this on your own or you're downloading an 0:45:40.440 --> 0:45:43.719 app outside the app store, your phone is jailbroken. That's 0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:45.880 when you are at risk. So if you're just using 0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:48.560 your iPhone the way that you typically use it, which 0:45:48.600 --> 0:45:51.960 is turning it on, taking pictures, downloading apps from the 0:45:51.960 --> 0:45:55.080 app store, you're going to be okay. But we still 0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:57.560 need to understand that this is possible on the iPhone 0:45:57.560 --> 0:45:59.920 at this point, it's possible on the Android. Does it 0:46:00.200 --> 0:46:01.080 happened very often? 0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:01.400 No. 0:46:02.360 --> 0:46:05.000 This is why Apple has fought really hard to keep 0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:07.879 the app store and this closed ecosystem because they want 0:46:07.920 --> 0:46:11.280 to keep this safe. And yes, we've heard of tools 0:46:11.320 --> 0:46:14.440 that can crack into the iPhone, we've heard of exploits 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:18.120 that can take advantage of text messages, but most of 0:46:18.120 --> 0:46:21.800 the time, average people are pretty safe when using an iPhone, 0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:28.200 even on Android, very very safe, and in fact, Android 0:46:28.200 --> 0:46:32.000 added a feature called Android Safe Browsing that you can 0:46:32.040 --> 0:46:35.080 actually turn this on. They added something called Live Threat 0:46:35.160 --> 0:46:38.560 Detection and it's an upgrade. I didn't even know this 0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:40.239 was available, so I looked at my phone into the 0:46:40.280 --> 0:46:43.640 settings and sure enough, it's there. So this is what 0:46:43.680 --> 0:46:46.080 Google is doing to try to keep you safe from 0:46:46.200 --> 0:46:48.440 some of those links you get and text messages, the 0:46:48.480 --> 0:46:51.319 phishing links, and all of these different ways people are 0:46:51.360 --> 0:46:55.440 trying to attack us at this point, malware and phishing links. 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:57.680 So if you want to check this out, go into 0:46:57.719 --> 0:47:02.000 your settings on your iPhone, Settings and Privacy, more Security, 0:47:02.960 --> 0:47:05.920 and then look under androids Safe Browsing and there's something 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:08.400 called Live Threat Protection. You can turn that on for 0:47:08.440 --> 0:47:11.040 an extra layer of security on your Android. Of course, 0:47:11.080 --> 0:47:13.800 I'll link it up on the website. Richon Tech dot 0:47:13.840 --> 0:47:16.680 tv eight to eight rich one O one. You are 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:21.040 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:25.200 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:28.799 triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:47:28.920 --> 0:47:32.399 seven four to two four one zero one. You can 0:47:32.440 --> 0:47:35.800 find me on social media at rich on Tech. Thanks 0:47:35.800 --> 0:47:39.719 for following me there be ready for anything. Rich on 0:47:39.800 --> 0:47:43.560 Tech dot tv is the website for the show. We'll 0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:45.120 get to your calls in just a second. 0:47:45.200 --> 0:47:45.359 Here. 0:47:45.680 --> 0:47:49.000 Coming up on the show, we've got Bob O'Donnell, president 0:47:49.040 --> 0:47:52.719 and founder at TECHnalysis Research. He's going to talk about 0:47:52.760 --> 0:47:57.200 aipcs and explain what they are all about. New Windows 0:47:57.239 --> 0:48:01.799 computers even have an AI key on them. But first 0:48:01.840 --> 0:48:05.319 Samsung has said yes, we are going to fix some 0:48:05.360 --> 0:48:08.839 of the issues on the S twenty four series. Now 0:48:08.920 --> 0:48:11.880 my review, I said that the S twenty four Samsung 0:48:11.880 --> 0:48:14.919 Galaxy S twenty four Ultra is nearly perfect. This thing 0:48:15.080 --> 0:48:19.480 is incredible, but I did notice some issues with the camera, 0:48:19.600 --> 0:48:23.360 especially in low light and moving shots, and you know 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:25.680 a little bit of lag here and there. And this 0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:27.759 is odd for Samsung to come out and say, yes, 0:48:27.800 --> 0:48:29.719 we're doing a software update, but I think there was 0:48:29.840 --> 0:48:32.520 enough feedback that they feel it is necessary to do that. 0:48:33.239 --> 0:48:35.839 So two things they talked about this week that they're 0:48:35.840 --> 0:48:39.480 going to address. Number one is a vividness setting. Some 0:48:39.520 --> 0:48:41.399 people were saying that the screen on the S twenty 0:48:41.440 --> 0:48:44.760 four Ultra is not as vivid as the S twenty 0:48:44.760 --> 0:48:47.120 three or previous models. I disagree with that. I think 0:48:47.120 --> 0:48:49.799 the screen is absolutely incredible. I don't know why people 0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:52.239 are saying that. Maybe they I don't know, but they 0:48:52.239 --> 0:48:55.480 are going to have a new adjustment for vividness. And 0:48:55.480 --> 0:48:58.960 then the camera, they said they're going to upgrade the zoom, 0:48:59.120 --> 0:49:03.200 the portrait mode, low light photography, and video. That's pretty 0:49:03.239 --> 0:49:05.839 much the whole camera. So I said that this thing 0:49:05.880 --> 0:49:07.920 needed a camera update. I think that this is an 0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:11.680 incredible device and it's one that I was using for weeks. 0:49:12.280 --> 0:49:14.120 I did end up switching back to wait for this 0:49:14.239 --> 0:49:16.680 software update, but it is. It is still one of 0:49:16.680 --> 0:49:19.279 my favorite devices of twenty twenty four. So anyway, if 0:49:19.320 --> 0:49:21.600 you bought an S twenty four Ultra and you're thinking, huh, 0:49:21.600 --> 0:49:23.359 I thought my camera was better going to be better 0:49:23.360 --> 0:49:26.000 than this? It will get better software update is a 0:49:26.160 --> 0:49:30.400 schedule to start rolling out on February twenty second, but 0:49:30.600 --> 0:49:32.239 with Samsung those things take a. 0:49:32.200 --> 0:49:33.919 Bit, so you may not get it on that day. 0:49:33.960 --> 0:49:35.759 So I would just look for it, you know, end 0:49:35.760 --> 0:49:38.000 of February March something like that. 0:49:40.040 --> 0:49:44.279 Let's go to Mark in Woodland Hills. Mark your own 0:49:44.320 --> 0:49:44.719 with Rich. 0:49:45.440 --> 0:49:45.640 Hi. 0:49:45.760 --> 0:49:46.000 Rich. 0:49:46.640 --> 0:49:48.759 I'm you know, I like to I'm retired, guys. I 0:49:48.800 --> 0:49:51.840 get to read a lot I love compared to religion, history, 0:49:52.000 --> 0:49:54.399 political science stuff by a bit of an autodi deck. 0:49:55.040 --> 0:49:58.080 So often I'll pick a lot of different things. I'll 0:49:58.120 --> 0:50:01.680 pull the icon down to my desktop so that I 0:50:01.719 --> 0:50:03.719 can view it later, you know. 0:50:04.080 --> 0:50:06.560 You know I had to look up autodidact by the way. 0:50:07.760 --> 0:50:11.560 Wow, I'm just I'm just into research and just information 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:13.319 for its own sake. 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:15.759 I'm going to define it for in case, you know, 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:17.920 some people don't know. But it's a self taught person. 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:20.160 Did you know that, Bobo? Yeah, see Bobo shaking and 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:21.919 said I didn't know that. Okay, keep going. 0:50:22.280 --> 0:50:24.439 That's what you get for going to college. You never 0:50:24.440 --> 0:50:26.680 want to stop. But what I do is I've been 0:50:26.760 --> 0:50:29.400 pulling these icons off of a website, you know, pulling 0:50:29.440 --> 0:50:32.520 it down near the the address bar, that little symbol, 0:50:32.880 --> 0:50:34.879 and then I'll click it later and I'll go through 0:50:34.920 --> 0:50:39.360 whatever information they have for me and and then move on. Unfortunately, 0:50:39.960 --> 0:50:44.440 for months now, almost a year, I've tried to delete 0:50:45.400 --> 0:50:48.279 two of these icons and they just won't leave. And 0:50:48.320 --> 0:50:50.040 I don't want, you know, I have so many nuanced 0:50:50.440 --> 0:50:52.600 information and whatnot on my computer. The last thing I 0:50:52.600 --> 0:50:54.920 want to do is a factory reset. Right, yeah, so 0:50:55.040 --> 0:50:58.800 these to Twitter. I'm not even a I'm not a twitiot, 0:50:59.040 --> 0:51:02.160 but I but I do occasionally find myself going to 0:51:02.280 --> 0:51:06.960 something there that's preferred. So these two Twitter icons will 0:51:07.080 --> 0:51:10.799 not delete. I've tried everything. It just won't come off, 0:51:10.920 --> 0:51:13.479 you know, sort of doing a reset, which I really 0:51:13.480 --> 0:51:15.880 would loath they have to do. I was hoping you 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:17.279 could give me a suggestion on that. 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:22.000 Okay, So just to understand, so you've dragged these these 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:25.120 URL links to your taskbar. Is this on Windows? 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:28.320 No, it's to the desktop itself. I keep almost everything 0:51:28.320 --> 0:51:31.720 on the desktop, okay, yeah, I'm doing folders and files 0:51:31.719 --> 0:51:32.319 and stuff like that. 0:51:33.200 --> 0:51:35.080 And so you drag these to the desktop and you 0:51:35.120 --> 0:51:37.440 can't just right click and say delete. 0:51:37.360 --> 0:51:38.919 No, sir, they will not leave. 0:51:39.400 --> 0:51:41.399 Oh wow, Okay, Yeah, it's just the. 0:51:41.320 --> 0:51:43.040 Most bizarre thing I've ever seen. You know, I've got 0:51:43.040 --> 0:51:44.640 to go through thousands of these every year. 0:51:44.680 --> 0:51:46.840 I mean literally, what if you drag them to the 0:51:47.400 --> 0:51:48.080 to the trash. 0:51:48.160 --> 0:51:48.799 That doesn't work? 0:51:48.920 --> 0:51:51.440 They know, sir, it won't. It won't either, you know, 0:51:51.440 --> 0:51:54.600 the rubbish span I call it. It basically will not. 0:51:55.520 --> 0:51:57.759 You can drag it, but it won't do a bloody thing, 0:51:57.800 --> 0:52:01.160 or just sit there and it reac no way whatsoever. 0:52:01.680 --> 0:52:04.279 Well, I am sure there is some way to get 0:52:04.360 --> 0:52:07.560 rid of these. Those are the two methods that I know. 0:52:07.719 --> 0:52:09.520 The only other thing I can think of are these 0:52:09.760 --> 0:52:11.879 with your web browser? Like these are from your web 0:52:11.880 --> 0:52:12.680 browser that you're. 0:52:12.600 --> 0:52:16.959 Using, Yes, Firefox, almost exasively. I have a whole bunch 0:52:17.000 --> 0:52:19.920 of browsers actually down below the Brave you know, Tusk 0:52:20.719 --> 0:52:24.760 and stuff like that. But I just an opera for instance. 0:52:24.760 --> 0:52:27.080 But most of the time I'm using Firefox. 0:52:27.640 --> 0:52:32.680 Okay, so there's probably I'm looking at a I'm looking 0:52:32.719 --> 0:52:36.160 at a website that says there is some sort of 0:52:36.239 --> 0:52:40.279 folder that we'll have this in there, Like are using 0:52:40.280 --> 0:52:41.359 Windows eleven. 0:52:41.920 --> 0:52:43.440 I believe I am. 0:52:43.560 --> 0:52:45.200 You know, well, so this is saying and this is 0:52:45.239 --> 0:52:50.359 just a quick you know shortcut, kind of shortcut keeps reappearing, 0:52:50.400 --> 0:52:53.200 and it says that they're in a folder on your desktop. 0:52:53.200 --> 0:52:57.920 It says, see user's public desktop or this pc C 0:52:58.239 --> 0:53:02.080 user's public public desktop. I'm just gonna take me too 0:53:02.120 --> 0:53:04.279 long to try to navigate there on my computer. But 0:53:05.680 --> 0:53:07.719 I would try to look there. And if it said, Okay, 0:53:07.719 --> 0:53:10.520 I'm looking at my users, and I'm looking at my 0:53:10.640 --> 0:53:11.720 public and. 0:53:11.960 --> 0:53:13.120 Let's see desktop. 0:53:13.520 --> 0:53:15.279 I don't see my desktop, so I don't see it 0:53:15.320 --> 0:53:18.520 in there, users desktop, public desktop. I don't see a 0:53:18.520 --> 0:53:23.480 public desktop online. Interesting, But I would look in there. Oh, 0:53:23.680 --> 0:53:26.320 here we go, desktop? Is it in here? So I 0:53:26.360 --> 0:53:28.400 would look on there and see if you can find 0:53:28.440 --> 0:53:31.000 it in there and delete them from that folder. 0:53:31.560 --> 0:53:33.600 Okay, I guess you'll be placing that online. 0:53:33.680 --> 0:53:35.439 Yeah, I'll put that link online so you can see. 0:53:35.440 --> 0:53:36.759 But the other thing I would do is have you 0:53:36.800 --> 0:53:41.440 tried clearing like your history on Firefox, like clearing everything? Yeah, 0:53:41.480 --> 0:53:45.680 and that doesn't work either. I think this may work. 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:48.960 It looks like it looks like this. This may work 0:53:49.000 --> 0:53:50.719 for you, So I would look for this. I'll put 0:53:50.719 --> 0:53:52.680 this link on the website. Rich on tech dot tv 0:53:52.760 --> 0:53:54.839 in the show notes. But I want to hear if 0:53:54.880 --> 0:53:57.680 this works, because this is a this is a tricky one. 0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:01.480 I'll just I'll blame put Okay. 0:54:01.200 --> 0:54:03.520 We could just we can just blame people for everything. 0:54:03.560 --> 0:54:06.399 But I think that's uh, that's that's a new one. Wow, 0:54:06.480 --> 0:54:08.520 how did Okay? This reminds me of the story I 0:54:08.600 --> 0:54:10.359 told at the beginning of the show. It's like, you 0:54:10.400 --> 0:54:12.760 gotta you gotta figure out you gotta just keep trying 0:54:12.760 --> 0:54:15.319 to figure out how to get this thing gone from 0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:19.000 the computer. All right, thanks for the call, appreciate the call. Today, 0:54:19.480 --> 0:54:22.440 let's see how long do we have? Thirty oh, thirty seconds? Okay, well, 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:24.879 I can't do that. I will tease our next guest then, 0:54:25.719 --> 0:54:30.280 Bob O'Donnell, president, founder and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research. 0:54:30.320 --> 0:54:33.480 He's gonna explain what aipcs are all about. And Bob 0:54:33.640 --> 0:54:36.680 used to host a version of this show, or a 0:54:36.800 --> 0:54:38.839 very similar one, so I'm curious to talk to him 0:54:38.840 --> 0:54:43.840 about that. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 0:54:43.880 --> 0:54:46.960 back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out 0:54:46.960 --> 0:54:51.080 with you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one. 0:54:51.200 --> 0:54:54.479 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:54:54.760 --> 0:54:58.840 zero one. Joining me now is Bob O'Donnell a person 0:54:58.880 --> 0:55:01.640 that I often see out and about at the various 0:55:01.680 --> 0:55:04.480 tech events that I attend, whether it's Apple or Samsung 0:55:04.640 --> 0:55:07.760 or something in between. He's the president, founder, and chief 0:55:07.800 --> 0:55:09.960 analyst at TECHnalysis Research. 0:55:10.640 --> 0:55:12.200 Bob, thanks so much for joining me today. 0:55:12.640 --> 0:55:14.439 Hey Rich, Thanks happy to be there. 0:55:15.040 --> 0:55:18.400 So let's start with a little bit of your history. 0:55:18.440 --> 0:55:21.239 So you actually hosted a show It may even be 0:55:21.320 --> 0:55:23.200 like a version of this show back in the day. 0:55:23.440 --> 0:55:25.000 Explain did I did. 0:55:25.120 --> 0:55:29.719 I'm an og tech talk show host. So yeah, from 0:55:29.800 --> 0:55:32.920 ninety seven to two thousand and seven, I ran a 0:55:33.160 --> 0:55:36.280 show called O'Donnell on Computers, and then it became O'Donnell 0:55:36.360 --> 0:55:39.880 on Technology because of course the world expanded, and I 0:55:39.920 --> 0:55:42.560 actually took over from Leo Laporte, who was one of 0:55:42.600 --> 0:55:46.560 the original OGOG radio hosts. Leo does, of course, This 0:55:46.719 --> 0:55:50.719 Week in Tech and Gina Smith also had a radio 0:55:50.800 --> 0:55:52.520 show and I would fill in for them occasionally that 0:55:52.640 --> 0:55:55.000 I took over for Leo's show. He was on for 0:55:55.000 --> 0:55:56.239 about a year and a half and I ran it 0:55:56.239 --> 0:55:59.600 for over ten in an ABC affiliate up in San Francisco. 0:56:00.120 --> 0:56:01.640 It was a lot of fun, so it's so much 0:56:01.680 --> 0:56:02.880 fun to come back on the radio. 0:56:03.080 --> 0:56:06.120 Yeah, and so what were people asking from ninety seven 0:56:06.160 --> 0:56:07.960 to two thousand and seven, because I, you know, I 0:56:08.040 --> 0:56:11.680 just got a question about you know, URL's shortcuts not 0:56:11.719 --> 0:56:14.719 being able to delete on the desktop on Windows? Will 0:56:14.760 --> 0:56:18.520 Earthlink work with my email? What kind of questions? Were 0:56:18.520 --> 0:56:21.120 people just asking the same stuff they were? 0:56:21.320 --> 0:56:23.640 I'm telling you, it's it's crazy that, you know, a 0:56:23.680 --> 0:56:27.319 lot of the issues are very similar still. I mean, 0:56:27.600 --> 0:56:29.800 thank god the technology has gotten a little bit easier 0:56:29.840 --> 0:56:33.359 to use, but it's also gotten more complex. It can 0:56:33.400 --> 0:56:35.680 do more, so there's more things to kind of tear apart. 0:56:35.800 --> 0:56:38.520 But you know, a lot of it would be those 0:56:38.640 --> 0:56:40.560 kinds of things. And you know how many times have 0:56:40.640 --> 0:56:42.360 you told people, well you might want to reboot? 0:56:42.760 --> 0:56:47.319 Yeah, I told you that. I had to say, you know, 0:56:47.520 --> 0:56:49.920 like restart out look. You know, like it's just little 0:56:49.960 --> 0:56:52.239 things that And it's funny because a lot of times 0:56:52.320 --> 0:56:54.080 it is very simple. And I get a lot of 0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:56.520 emails from people that you know, are asking for help, 0:56:56.840 --> 0:56:59.359 and sometimes if it's something that's very simple, I might 0:56:59.400 --> 0:57:01.839 wait a date respond and then I'll respond and say 0:57:01.880 --> 0:57:03.919 is this still happening? And nine times out of ten 0:57:04.239 --> 0:57:05.719 it's not right? 0:57:05.960 --> 0:57:08.920 Yeah, No, exactly, but you know what, people need to 0:57:08.960 --> 0:57:11.560 be kind of walked through it. And one of the 0:57:11.640 --> 0:57:14.120 challenges I think that we have with tech these days 0:57:14.280 --> 0:57:19.520 is there's not enough contextual explanations. Even if people are 0:57:19.600 --> 0:57:23.760 the type that read owner's mantles and one have you, 0:57:23.760 --> 0:57:26.280 you just don't get enough of sort of the context 0:57:26.320 --> 0:57:29.360 around it and the principles involved. And one of the 0:57:29.480 --> 0:57:30.640 one of the things I always used to like to 0:57:30.680 --> 0:57:31.960 try and do, and I'm sure you do as well, 0:57:32.080 --> 0:57:35.640 is you kind of explain the principles involved, like teaching 0:57:35.680 --> 0:57:38.840 them how to fish, not just to get one fish, 0:57:38.880 --> 0:57:41.680 but what are the principal boles involved with doing something, 0:57:42.080 --> 0:57:44.600 And that's how you work through some of these problems. 0:57:44.640 --> 0:57:47.240 And as people start to learn those principles, they can 0:57:47.280 --> 0:57:49.360 start doing some more of that troubleshooting on their own. 0:57:49.680 --> 0:57:51.720 Yeah, that that is typically what I'll try to do, 0:57:51.800 --> 0:57:53.800 is say, here's here's the steps that I would take 0:57:53.840 --> 0:57:56.240 to because I'm not there with their computer or their 0:57:56.680 --> 0:57:59.200 phone exactly, here's the steps I would take to try 0:57:59.240 --> 0:58:04.480 to figure out what's going on. Like first off, you know, restart, delete, whatever. Okay, 0:58:04.520 --> 0:58:07.080 So it's good to know that even in what was 0:58:07.080 --> 0:58:10.240 that twenty years ago, thirty years ago. It's all it's 0:58:10.280 --> 0:58:15.120 all the same stuff. It's just newer technology and different technology. Indeed, 0:58:15.560 --> 0:58:20.240 so you're you're talking about aipcs today is what's an AIPC? 0:58:20.400 --> 0:58:21.080 What does that mean? 0:58:21.600 --> 0:58:23.880 Well, it's a great question, Britch. And you know, here's 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:28.040 the thing. You're going to hear a lot about aipcs 0:58:28.160 --> 0:58:31.200 over the next year to two years, in particular from 0:58:31.280 --> 0:58:33.920 all the big PC vendors, from the big chip companies 0:58:33.960 --> 0:58:37.080 like Intel and am D and Nvidio and Pulcom and 0:58:37.120 --> 0:58:39.080 what have you. I mean, look, at the end of 0:58:39.120 --> 0:58:43.560 the day, you know, AIPC very simply is a PC 0:58:44.160 --> 0:58:47.680 that has some special sauce in it that allows it 0:58:47.720 --> 0:58:51.520 to run certain AI applications a little faster. And so 0:58:51.680 --> 0:58:55.160 most people are focused on this notion of adding a 0:58:55.200 --> 0:58:58.520 new type of a chip called an NPU or neural 0:58:58.720 --> 0:59:03.600 processing unit, and an NPU is a different type of 0:59:03.640 --> 0:59:09.640 accelerator than a GPU, being you know, GPU's graphics processing unit. 0:59:10.040 --> 0:59:15.600 So NPU kind of marks the beginning of the AIPC era, 0:59:15.720 --> 0:59:18.760 and AMD actually was first to market. They had a 0:59:18.840 --> 0:59:22.920 chip last year, the seventy forty, the rise in seventy 0:59:22.960 --> 0:59:25.160 forty that had it now they have an updated version 0:59:25.160 --> 0:59:28.720 of the eighty forty. Intel just came out with their 0:59:28.800 --> 0:59:34.000 media link that's the Ultra Core Ultra CPU. And then 0:59:34.640 --> 0:59:37.080 Qualcomm has already announced that they will have a chip 0:59:37.120 --> 0:59:39.240 it'll be coming out toward the middle of the year 0:59:39.960 --> 0:59:42.560 that will have an NPU as well. And of course, 0:59:42.720 --> 0:59:47.560 by the way, smartphones all have NPUs, they're just smaller 0:59:47.680 --> 0:59:49.600 and not quite as powerful as the ones we're going 0:59:49.640 --> 0:59:52.360 to start to see in PCs. So then what we're 0:59:52.360 --> 0:59:56.560 going to see basically is just as we saw. GPUs 0:59:57.120 --> 1:00:01.560 Initially were a element that you you know, had to 1:00:01.600 --> 1:00:06.520 be done separately. Eventually, then GPUs were built into every 1:00:06.640 --> 1:00:11.160 single uh CPU and main chip inside a PC, and 1:00:11.200 --> 1:00:13.240 if you wanted to, you could add a dedicated one, 1:00:13.280 --> 1:00:14.800 like if you're a gamer, of course, you buy a 1:00:14.800 --> 1:00:17.800 fancy GPU. So what's going to happen early on with 1:00:18.080 --> 1:00:21.360 NPUs is initially only a few systems will have them, 1:00:21.800 --> 1:00:24.160 and then over time every system will have it, and 1:00:24.200 --> 1:00:29.120 eventually I think we'll see dedicated npush to to accelerate things. 1:00:29.200 --> 1:00:32.800 And so basically, long win answer to a short question, sorry, 1:00:33.120 --> 1:00:36.680 but it's it's that addition of the NPU that sort 1:00:36.720 --> 1:00:39.640 of turns it into an AIPC. Then it becomes a 1:00:39.720 --> 1:00:41.640 question of degree, and we can get into that in 1:00:41.640 --> 1:00:42.200 a second. 1:00:42.360 --> 1:00:45.040 Well I'm curious, So you know, if people are already saying, well, 1:00:45.080 --> 1:00:49.600 I'm already using Chat, GPT or Microsoft Copilot or you know, 1:00:49.720 --> 1:00:52.680 Claude or any of these other AI tools out there, 1:00:52.760 --> 1:00:54.320 I don't. I don't think I have an MPU on 1:00:54.360 --> 1:00:57.800 my computer or you know this AI chip? Do I 1:00:57.960 --> 1:00:58.360 need this? 1:00:58.440 --> 1:00:59.520 Like? Why do I need this? 1:01:00.160 --> 1:01:00.280 Oh? 1:01:00.360 --> 1:01:03.800 It's a great question, and initially it is very confusing 1:01:04.080 --> 1:01:06.680 because most of the AI stuff that we are doing 1:01:06.720 --> 1:01:10.720 now Chat, GPT, if you started to use the Office 1:01:10.760 --> 1:01:15.520 Copilot with Microsoft and all these other capabilities, Dolly and 1:01:16.160 --> 1:01:19.000 all of these AI based things, they're all being done 1:01:19.440 --> 1:01:23.280 in the cloud. The idea with an AIPC is that 1:01:23.520 --> 1:01:27.320 some of that processing can happen locally on the device. 1:01:27.880 --> 1:01:31.520 The benefits down the road, in particular being things like privacy, 1:01:31.960 --> 1:01:35.200 things like security because you're doing it all within your 1:01:35.200 --> 1:01:39.640 own device, and also speed because you don't have to 1:01:39.680 --> 1:01:42.200 do round trips back and forth to the cloud every 1:01:42.240 --> 1:01:45.280 single time that you're doing it. So that's what we're 1:01:45.320 --> 1:01:48.680 going to start to see happen in the meantime, what 1:01:48.680 --> 1:01:51.720 we're also going to see is what I call hybrid AI, 1:01:51.840 --> 1:01:54.440 and that means some of it happens on the PC 1:01:55.000 --> 1:01:57.240 and some of it happens in the cloud, and again 1:01:57.480 --> 1:02:00.640 that will speed up the performance. In theory, it will 1:02:00.680 --> 1:02:05.120 allow you to do run certain things on just your data. 1:02:05.160 --> 1:02:08.840 So imagine an example like this. So let's say you're 1:02:08.880 --> 1:02:11.880 somebody who you know like me, I've written probably a 1:02:11.920 --> 1:02:15.200 thousand articles over the years. I have this cash of 1:02:15.280 --> 1:02:18.560 content that I've created, and I would love sort of 1:02:18.600 --> 1:02:23.680 the chat GPT type tool that actually only derived its 1:02:23.720 --> 1:02:26.200 new content based on what I did. Now you could 1:02:26.240 --> 1:02:29.160 do that with your own photos, et cetera. That's the 1:02:29.280 --> 1:02:33.360 perfect application for something like an AIPC because you're going 1:02:33.440 --> 1:02:36.800 to want to have it run locally and you know, 1:02:36.960 --> 1:02:40.000 and use your own data. Now, to be fair, that 1:02:40.080 --> 1:02:44.240 doesn't exist quite yet, but we're getting very close and 1:02:44.280 --> 1:02:46.080 we're going to start to see some of those sorts 1:02:46.120 --> 1:02:50.920 of applications go out there. So you know, do I 1:02:51.080 --> 1:02:53.240 need to have an AIPC now to your back to 1:02:53.240 --> 1:02:56.080 your original question, No, but am I going to start 1:02:56.080 --> 1:02:59.480 to see some of these benefits? Yes, eventually you will, 1:02:59.680 --> 1:03:02.200 and over time there's gonna be more and more of 1:03:02.240 --> 1:03:02.680 these things. 1:03:02.760 --> 1:03:02.960 You know. 1:03:03.680 --> 1:03:07.960 It's it's a truism in the PC business that hardware 1:03:08.080 --> 1:03:10.600 comes before the software, right, So you're gonna get the hardware, 1:03:10.640 --> 1:03:12.680 and then the software eventually is gonna come along. 1:03:13.160 --> 1:03:17.320 So, you know, I actually saw your you're mentioning that 1:03:17.360 --> 1:03:19.160 with like your you know, you build your own chat 1:03:19.200 --> 1:03:20.960 GBT kind of thing, like your own chat I guess 1:03:20.960 --> 1:03:22.800 we should call it a chat bot or chat ai. 1:03:23.760 --> 1:03:26.400 But in Nvidia did like a demo you can download 1:03:26.600 --> 1:03:29.680 you know, this app to your computer. And I actually 1:03:29.720 --> 1:03:31.760 did this with my radio show with chat GBT. So 1:03:31.800 --> 1:03:34.760 I was taking my transcripts, putting them into a custom 1:03:34.840 --> 1:03:37.200 chat g ebte and then I could type in and 1:03:37.240 --> 1:03:38.560 say what did Rich say about this? 1:03:38.600 --> 1:03:40.560 And it would actually answer like what I said on 1:03:40.600 --> 1:03:40.960 the show. 1:03:41.960 --> 1:03:43.680 And this is cool, and this is going to be 1:03:43.800 --> 1:03:45.680 very handy for let's say, right now, let's say you 1:03:45.760 --> 1:03:48.040 have Google Drive, right, You've got or all these documents 1:03:48.040 --> 1:03:50.760 on your computer. You know, you've searched for a keyword 1:03:50.800 --> 1:03:52.880 in those documents, but maybe in the future you might 1:03:52.920 --> 1:03:55.800 search for like, hey, what's the deal summarize my trip 1:03:55.840 --> 1:03:59.520 to you know, Amsterdam next week? And it'll give you 1:03:59.600 --> 1:04:02.640 all the information across like all those different things there. 1:04:02.960 --> 1:04:05.400 So the bottom line, I've got two minutes here, Bob. 1:04:07.000 --> 1:04:09.400 You know we see this aikey on the keyboard on 1:04:09.440 --> 1:04:10.240 the Windows computer. 1:04:10.480 --> 1:04:11.920 Is there gonna be a lot of marketing. 1:04:11.640 --> 1:04:14.480 We're going to see surrounding these aipcs and do we 1:04:14.520 --> 1:04:16.440 need one right away? 1:04:16.720 --> 1:04:18.560 There's gonna be a ton of marketing, and it's very 1:04:18.560 --> 1:04:21.960 confusing because you know, like the Nvidia example we talked 1:04:22.000 --> 1:04:25.640 about actually uses a GPU and not an NPU, so 1:04:25.760 --> 1:04:28.160 that is also going to get thrown into it because 1:04:28.560 --> 1:04:31.000 some of these AI applications, like some of the things 1:04:31.000 --> 1:04:34.200 Adobe's working on, are also going to use a more 1:04:34.240 --> 1:04:38.720 powerful GPU. So short answer is you don't need one now, 1:04:38.760 --> 1:04:41.080 but if you are a future looking person and you 1:04:41.120 --> 1:04:44.640 want to be prepared, it's good to get one. The 1:04:44.720 --> 1:04:47.280 thing to be aware of, don't forget that, as with 1:04:47.360 --> 1:04:49.960 any other technology, the first version is going to be 1:04:50.000 --> 1:04:52.480 decent and then later versions, of course, are going to 1:04:52.560 --> 1:04:54.440 be much better. So you also have to decide do 1:04:54.520 --> 1:04:57.240 I want to dive in first or do I want 1:04:57.280 --> 1:04:59.000 to kind of wait a little bit and see what happens. 1:04:59.000 --> 1:05:01.400 And that's completely up to the individual in terms of 1:05:01.800 --> 1:05:03.320 they want to be on the cutting edge or they 1:05:03.360 --> 1:05:04.680 want to kind of wait a little bit. 1:05:05.240 --> 1:05:08.200 And just finally, AI in general, how impressed are you 1:05:08.240 --> 1:05:09.480 with all this stuff we're seeing. 1:05:10.080 --> 1:05:11.880 It's it's coming fast and curious. 1:05:12.440 --> 1:05:14.840 It's amazing. You know, I've I've been in the tech industry. 1:05:14.960 --> 1:05:16.760 You know, obviously I age myself with how old my 1:05:16.880 --> 1:05:18.720 radio show is, but you know, I've been tracking this 1:05:18.720 --> 1:05:21.320 stuff for a long time and I have never seen 1:05:21.640 --> 1:05:26.840 anything like the pace of development in AI. It's absolutely incredible, 1:05:26.920 --> 1:05:28.800 and you know, some of the stuff that's starting to 1:05:28.840 --> 1:05:31.640 do is great. I mean, it doesn't do everything everybody thinks, 1:05:31.640 --> 1:05:33.760 and there is some you know, level of disappointment some 1:05:33.800 --> 1:05:36.880 people have after a little bit, but the stuff that's 1:05:36.880 --> 1:05:39.040 being worked on and some of the things are starting 1:05:39.040 --> 1:05:43.160 to happen. The new video tool that open AI just 1:05:43.280 --> 1:05:47.120 introduced is amazing. I mean just you know, it's explosive 1:05:47.240 --> 1:05:49.640 and it's really going to change everything. And that's why 1:05:50.000 --> 1:05:52.240 aipcs become a really interesting topic. 1:05:52.520 --> 1:05:55.160 All right, Bob, what's the best way folks can follow you? 1:05:56.400 --> 1:05:59.439 They can I'm on Twitter at babo d tech bo 1:05:59.520 --> 1:06:02.640 bod E T E C h on LinkedIn It just 1:06:02.680 --> 1:06:06.919 Babo Donald and the tech analysis Research dot Com. It's 1:06:07.000 --> 1:06:09.040 kind of hard too. 1:06:08.400 --> 1:06:08.920 And that's all right. 1:06:08.960 --> 1:06:11.320 We'll find you on Twitter. Thanks so much for joining 1:06:11.320 --> 1:06:14.800 me today. Really appreciate it, bab o'donald uh eighty eight 1:06:14.880 --> 1:06:17.320 rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to 1:06:17.320 --> 1:06:19.200 two four one zero one. 1:06:19.240 --> 1:06:20.040 More show after this. 1:06:21.800 --> 1:06:25.320 Welcome back to Rich on tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:06:25.320 --> 1:06:29.280 out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one 1:06:29.320 --> 1:06:31.520 on one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 1:06:31.840 --> 1:06:38.640 four one zero one. Let's go to Johnny in Hacienda Heights, California. Johnny, 1:06:38.640 --> 1:06:39.400 you're on with Rich. 1:06:41.080 --> 1:06:48.400 Hey, Rich, I was a wondering if you would be 1:06:48.440 --> 1:06:51.560 able to answer this. It's I len't know about my 1:06:51.600 --> 1:06:57.000 one password because you did the article on on on 1:06:57.080 --> 1:07:03.360 the on the joannistin thing where and wondering as you 1:07:03.440 --> 1:07:09.600 switched back to the regular one password, I mean the 1:07:09.640 --> 1:07:10.720 regular Apple password. 1:07:11.880 --> 1:07:17.240 Oh from one password? Yes, okay, so you want to 1:07:17.280 --> 1:07:19.880 switch back? Okay, So you're paying for one password or 1:07:19.920 --> 1:07:21.800 we're using the free version? Is there a free version of. 1:07:25.520 --> 1:07:27.320 Yeah? Exactly. So here's the thing. 1:07:27.360 --> 1:07:32.560 Here's my recommendation on in general, I like third party 1:07:32.760 --> 1:07:36.120 software because you are not tied to any one system 1:07:36.160 --> 1:07:39.080 in particular. So if you want to switch right now, 1:07:39.120 --> 1:07:41.320 you're saying you want to go to the Apple password manager. 1:07:41.880 --> 1:07:48.000 I believe they call it Apple Keychain, So you know, 1:07:48.160 --> 1:07:52.480 that's great if you're using Apple devices, But what if 1:07:52.520 --> 1:07:54.840 you want to switch to a different device. You know, 1:07:55.000 --> 1:07:57.200 you want to go to a different browser, or a 1:07:57.200 --> 1:08:01.080 different computer, or a different phone, Android, whatever. Now, Apple 1:08:01.160 --> 1:08:05.720 did come out with an extension for Windows which lets 1:08:05.760 --> 1:08:08.880 you use iCloud keychain, so that is a nice step 1:08:08.880 --> 1:08:11.320 in the right direction, but I still don't believe you 1:08:11.320 --> 1:08:13.520 could use it on Android, which would be a problem 1:08:13.520 --> 1:08:15.920 if you ever switched Android. But that's why I always 1:08:16.000 --> 1:08:19.400 like third party independent apps. So on the flip side, 1:08:19.400 --> 1:08:22.439 you're saying that one password. You know you like the 1:08:22.479 --> 1:08:25.320 idea that the Apple keychain is included, right, it's free, 1:08:25.320 --> 1:08:28.439 it's part of just Apple and all that stuff, and 1:08:28.520 --> 1:08:30.439 one password. You're gonna have to pay for this to 1:08:30.560 --> 1:08:33.760 use it, and most of the password managers work that way, 1:08:33.800 --> 1:08:36.160 where if you want to use it across different devices, 1:08:36.200 --> 1:08:37.600 you have to pay. 1:08:37.720 --> 1:08:39.160 Some are more expensive than others. 1:08:39.720 --> 1:08:42.760 So my recommendation is if you are only going to 1:08:42.840 --> 1:08:47.240 use Apple devices, and you're sticking to the iPhone and 1:08:47.439 --> 1:08:53.160 the iPad and a Mac computer, go ahead and safari whatever. 1:08:53.680 --> 1:08:54.719 It's going to be just fine. 1:08:55.040 --> 1:08:58.200 If you are using a combination of devices, then I 1:08:58.200 --> 1:09:02.479 would think about using a third part password manager. Now 1:09:02.479 --> 1:09:05.160 there are some password managers I like that are free 1:09:05.280 --> 1:09:08.760 and do work across various devices. And the first one 1:09:08.840 --> 1:09:11.720 is called bitwarden. So if you want a free alternative, 1:09:11.800 --> 1:09:16.320 check out bitwarden, b T war d e N and 1:09:16.479 --> 1:09:19.680 bitwarden is. They have a free level of service. It's 1:09:19.760 --> 1:09:22.760 open source, so it's trusted and it's a great little 1:09:22.800 --> 1:09:25.839 program if you want to just use a free password manager. 1:09:26.880 --> 1:09:31.360 The other one is actually Google Password Manager. So what 1:09:31.520 --> 1:09:35.120 Google did is they started with their password manager working 1:09:35.240 --> 1:09:38.439 in Chrome, but now they've expanded it where you can 1:09:38.479 --> 1:09:42.800 actually use it as an auto fill service on the iPhone. 1:09:42.960 --> 1:09:46.120 And that's that's also free and it's pretty easy to use. 1:09:46.240 --> 1:09:50.679 That's called Google Password Manager. So those are some options. 1:09:50.760 --> 1:09:54.320 Again in general, if you're only using Apple products and 1:09:54.360 --> 1:09:56.880 you never planned to switch, I like, you know, I 1:09:57.000 --> 1:09:59.800 don't typically recommend using that, but it's easy, it's. 1:09:59.720 --> 1:10:00.880 Build and go ahead. 1:10:01.560 --> 1:10:03.000 But if you want to step it up a notch, 1:10:03.040 --> 1:10:05.160 and go third party and you don't want to pay, 1:10:05.520 --> 1:10:08.760 then I like Bitwarden or Google Password Manager, but I 1:10:08.800 --> 1:10:11.840 do think some of these third party password managers, like 1:10:11.880 --> 1:10:15.439 one password and also dash Lane, they are really good, 1:10:15.840 --> 1:10:18.920 but they are expensive and especially over time, they do 1:10:19.000 --> 1:10:23.439 get quite expensive. So great question, Johnny, and ultimately it 1:10:23.640 --> 1:10:25.679 is up to you what you want to do. Thank 1:10:25.720 --> 1:10:28.000 you for the call. Triple eight rich one on one 1:10:28.120 --> 1:10:31.720 eight eight eight seven four to two for one zero one. 1:10:33.880 --> 1:10:38.160 Let me a couple things of notes here. Verizon making 1:10:38.240 --> 1:10:41.960 a big change to its auto pay discount. So all 1:10:42.000 --> 1:10:45.840 of the cellular carriers have been forcing their customers to 1:10:46.000 --> 1:10:48.120 use auto pay if they want to get the best 1:10:48.200 --> 1:10:51.479 rate every month, which I don't like, but we have 1:10:51.560 --> 1:10:54.360 to do it because it's it's like ten dollars savings 1:10:54.360 --> 1:10:56.120 a month, that's one hundred and twenty dollars a year. 1:10:57.120 --> 1:11:00.639 So typically they required you to be on on a 1:11:00.760 --> 1:11:03.360 debit card or a bank account because those are cheaper 1:11:03.400 --> 1:11:07.439 to process than a credit card. Well, now Verizon is 1:11:07.840 --> 1:11:10.280 taking it up a notch. They're going to require a 1:11:10.320 --> 1:11:13.400 bank account or their own Verizon Visa card, which I 1:11:13.479 --> 1:11:16.760 wouldn't recommend getting, but you know that's an option, but 1:11:16.880 --> 1:11:19.160 if you want to have the biggest discount, which is 1:11:19.200 --> 1:11:22.360 ten dollars a month on autopay, you will now require 1:11:22.479 --> 1:11:25.840 a bank account or the Verizon Visa card. You used 1:11:25.840 --> 1:11:27.639 to be able to use the debit card and get 1:11:27.680 --> 1:11:30.880 that discount as well. If you're on Verizon autopay with 1:11:31.000 --> 1:11:33.720 the debit card, they will continue to honor that discount. 1:11:34.360 --> 1:11:35.759 So no changes. 1:11:35.800 --> 1:11:37.960 If you're like, wait, Rich, I have my debit card 1:11:38.000 --> 1:11:39.920 with Verizon because I switched a couple of years ago 1:11:39.960 --> 1:11:41.960 for my credit card to get this discount, yes, you 1:11:42.000 --> 1:11:45.080 can still leave that as of right now. We don't 1:11:45.080 --> 1:11:48.519 know if that'll change in the future. This change for 1:11:48.600 --> 1:11:51.360 new customers already took effect, so if you are a 1:11:51.400 --> 1:11:53.680 new customer on Verizon you don't have autopay set up 1:11:53.680 --> 1:11:55.240 and you go to set it up, you will need 1:11:55.280 --> 1:11:57.320 to use your bank account to get that big discount. 1:11:57.720 --> 1:12:00.160 T Mobile and AT and T have made similar changes, 1:12:00.720 --> 1:12:03.639 and it's just, you know, it's just one of those 1:12:03.640 --> 1:12:04.840 things that I don't agree with. 1:12:04.920 --> 1:12:06.680 I don't like when companies. 1:12:06.280 --> 1:12:09.760 Have access to auto pay, especially on a service that 1:12:09.840 --> 1:12:15.799 is not a fixed cost Sure, Netflix, Hbo, Max, Disney Plus. 1:12:15.880 --> 1:12:19.040 I don't mind auto pay on those services. I do 1:12:19.160 --> 1:12:22.639 mind when it's on things like bills that change, because 1:12:22.680 --> 1:12:25.400 what do they do. They like to surprise you and 1:12:25.439 --> 1:12:27.960 they've already taken your money and now it's up to 1:12:28.000 --> 1:12:30.719 you to figure out how to get around that surprise. 1:12:31.240 --> 1:12:33.200 Oh my bill is like one hundred bucks extra this month, 1:12:33.200 --> 1:12:36.200 Well they're taking out that payment no matter what. And 1:12:36.320 --> 1:12:39.080 Google has a new feature, talk to a Live rep. 1:12:39.520 --> 1:12:42.479 This brings basically a great feature they've had on Pixel 1:12:42.520 --> 1:12:45.400 for a while called hold to Me to all search users. 1:12:45.880 --> 1:12:47.800 So now when you search for an eight hundred number 1:12:47.800 --> 1:12:50.800 from a company, you may see an icon that says 1:12:51.760 --> 1:12:55.400 you can talk to a live representative, and it will 1:12:55.439 --> 1:12:58.400 give you an option to put in your phone number 1:12:58.920 --> 1:13:01.559 and they will call you when a representative is ready. 1:13:02.040 --> 1:13:05.599 So this works with major airlines, Delta, American Airlines, Verizon, 1:13:05.600 --> 1:13:09.799 t Mobile, Walmart, Best Buy, Ups, grub Hub, State Harm, 1:13:09.840 --> 1:13:13.599 State Farm, and Geico. If you call one of those 1:13:13.640 --> 1:13:16.040 you search for that number on you Google, you might 1:13:16.080 --> 1:13:19.200 see an option to say, hey, have Google hold on. 1:13:20.080 --> 1:13:22.920 Be it hold for you and call you when the 1:13:22.960 --> 1:13:26.120 rep is ready. It's kind of a cool feature, reminds 1:13:26.160 --> 1:13:28.800 me of get human dot com. You are listening to 1:13:29.280 --> 1:13:35.920 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 1:13:36.000 --> 1:13:39.000 Demiro here kicking off another hour of the show for 1:13:39.120 --> 1:13:42.599 you at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight 1:13:42.680 --> 1:13:47.200 eight seven four to two four one zero one. You know, 1:13:47.240 --> 1:13:49.320 I was thinking today. I usually take a run before 1:13:49.360 --> 1:13:52.479 the show and I do a lot of thinking during 1:13:52.520 --> 1:13:55.879 that time, and I was thinking about you as the listener. 1:13:56.479 --> 1:13:58.599 So the fact that you are listening to this show, 1:13:58.960 --> 1:14:02.120 I feel like you are doing something really good for yourself. 1:14:02.160 --> 1:14:03.920 You know, we do so many things for other people, 1:14:04.000 --> 1:14:08.360 right We're always demanding, you know, people are always demanding 1:14:08.400 --> 1:14:12.519 our time, They're demanding our energy, our efforts, and we 1:14:12.640 --> 1:14:15.559 have to make our own efforts to do things for us. 1:14:16.080 --> 1:14:18.519 And so by tuning into this show and listening to 1:14:18.600 --> 1:14:21.160 me and hearing about this stuff that's going on in 1:14:21.200 --> 1:14:23.759 the tech world, I think you're doing something pretty smart. 1:14:23.800 --> 1:14:25.360 So I do appreciate that. 1:14:25.760 --> 1:14:27.840 I always think of you when I'm coming up with 1:14:27.880 --> 1:14:31.240 the stories I talk about, or the stories I tell, 1:14:31.720 --> 1:14:34.400 or the news tidbits or the things I post to 1:14:34.439 --> 1:14:38.479 social media. It is all really to help you take 1:14:38.520 --> 1:14:41.280 control of all this tech that's in our lives, because 1:14:41.320 --> 1:14:43.400 there's so much of it. And yeah, we can get 1:14:43.439 --> 1:14:46.000 in the weeds here, we can get really techy and nerdy. 1:14:46.360 --> 1:14:49.800 But I think that this show is best for someone 1:14:49.840 --> 1:14:51.720 who just wants to keep up with this stuff and 1:14:51.760 --> 1:14:55.160 feel smart and understand it. And so thank you for 1:14:55.200 --> 1:14:58.080 tuning in. That's basically all I'm trying to say. Rich 1:14:58.160 --> 1:15:01.280 on tech dot tv is the website. You can follow 1:15:01.320 --> 1:15:04.479 me on social media at rich on tech and the 1:15:04.520 --> 1:15:07.040 phone line for the show is triple eight rich one 1:15:07.040 --> 1:15:09.799 oh one. That's eighty eight eight seven four to two 1:15:09.880 --> 1:15:12.240 four one zero one. By the way, if you ever 1:15:12.280 --> 1:15:14.439 want to come up with a solution to a problem, 1:15:14.680 --> 1:15:16.679 there's two things you could do. You can either wells 1:15:16.760 --> 1:15:19.240 three things you could or come up with an idea. 1:15:19.280 --> 1:15:21.479 You could take a shower, you could go to sleep, 1:15:21.920 --> 1:15:23.439 or you can take a run. Those are like the 1:15:23.560 --> 1:15:25.960 three things that like every single time I do those, 1:15:26.320 --> 1:15:28.240 it's like, oh wait, I need to write this down 1:15:28.320 --> 1:15:29.680 because things just come to you. 1:15:30.720 --> 1:15:31.639 Let's go to. 1:15:32.720 --> 1:15:35.720 Michelle is in mission Viajo. Michelle, you're on with rich 1:15:37.200 --> 1:15:37.519 I just. 1:15:37.479 --> 1:15:40.320 Have a question. I'm one of those non techy persons. Yes, 1:15:40.439 --> 1:15:42.640 I just bought a car that does not have a 1:15:42.720 --> 1:15:45.840 ZV player. I'm an avid book on tape kind of girl, 1:15:46.479 --> 1:15:48.960 And I want to know if there's a product out 1:15:49.000 --> 1:15:53.680 there that has at least some quality to it that 1:15:53.800 --> 1:15:56.120 can attach to bluetooth so I can listen to it 1:15:56.160 --> 1:15:57.240 at home and in my car. 1:15:57.479 --> 1:16:02.960 Any suggestions, MM, So you have you have CDs with 1:16:03.000 --> 1:16:03.920 books on tape? 1:16:04.479 --> 1:16:06.920 Yes, and my new car doesn't have a CD player, 1:16:07.240 --> 1:16:08.960 nor do I have a CD player at home? 1:16:09.160 --> 1:16:11.000 Okay, oh, okay, So I would love. 1:16:10.880 --> 1:16:13.599 To have it attached somehow like a portable. I've seen 1:16:13.640 --> 1:16:15.320 them on Amazon, but I don't know if they're any 1:16:15.360 --> 1:16:18.920 good quality, if they skip in the car, or if 1:16:18.920 --> 1:16:21.559 there's anything else out there that I hadn't thought of. 1:16:22.120 --> 1:16:23.960 Well, I mean, the number one thing I would think 1:16:24.000 --> 1:16:26.360 that would be easiest is to rip the CD to 1:16:26.560 --> 1:16:29.559 a file that you can put on your phone, and 1:16:29.600 --> 1:16:31.760 then you can use the bluetooth from your phone to 1:16:31.840 --> 1:16:35.840 do that. So that would be one way to do it. 1:16:36.800 --> 1:16:37.080 Now. 1:16:37.760 --> 1:16:41.960 The audiobook should probably be pretty simple to do that. 1:16:42.000 --> 1:16:44.720 The only problem with that is that this is, you know, 1:16:44.760 --> 1:16:48.800 audiobooks usually have a lot of chapters, so it could 1:16:48.800 --> 1:16:51.439 be a little bit tricky to do that, and then 1:16:51.479 --> 1:16:52.840 you have to transfer it to your do you have 1:16:52.880 --> 1:16:56.720 an iPhone or an Android iPhone. Okay, so there's a 1:16:56.920 --> 1:17:01.360 there's a really easy app that I like for transferring 1:17:01.400 --> 1:17:04.519 things to iPhone, which is called Walter w A L 1:17:04.640 --> 1:17:08.559 t R. But you said you're non techie, so I 1:17:08.640 --> 1:17:10.439 just don't know if that route is gonna be the 1:17:10.479 --> 1:17:13.040 easiest for you, because you're gonna you know, you've got 1:17:13.040 --> 1:17:15.840 to first off, rip the the album. It used to 1:17:15.840 --> 1:17:18.360 be really easy with iTunes. I don't know if it's 1:17:18.360 --> 1:17:20.000 that easy anymore. It used to be, you know, you 1:17:20.040 --> 1:17:23.160 pop your the DV the CD in your computer and 1:17:23.479 --> 1:17:25.519 you know rip. The problem is most of us don't 1:17:25.520 --> 1:17:28.240 even have a CD player anymore, like you said, And 1:17:28.760 --> 1:17:32.639 does your computer have a CD drive? Yes, oh it does, okay. 1:17:32.680 --> 1:17:34.080 And are you on Windows or Mac? 1:17:35.040 --> 1:17:35.280 Mac? 1:17:35.720 --> 1:17:38.160 Oh you are on Mac? Okay, okay. 1:17:38.200 --> 1:17:40.680 Well in that case, I mean, if you do have that, 1:17:40.680 --> 1:17:42.760 that might actually be a pretty easy thing to do. 1:17:44.080 --> 1:17:46.559 So what you do is you would rip the the 1:17:46.760 --> 1:17:50.599 audio book to your computer. And rip means it basically 1:17:50.640 --> 1:17:54.519 transfers the file from the audio CD to your computer 1:17:54.680 --> 1:17:57.800 as an MP three. And you know, there's a couple 1:17:57.760 --> 1:18:00.800 of programs that can do that. I'm trying to think 1:18:00.840 --> 1:18:02.960 of one that I haven't used this in so long 1:18:03.040 --> 1:18:05.200 that I gotta I gotta think of one to do. 1:18:05.320 --> 1:18:08.080 But once you get that done, you can then use 1:18:08.080 --> 1:18:11.440 this Walter program to drag and drop onto your iPhone. 1:18:11.479 --> 1:18:14.719 And that's pretty simple, uh, because it's just a Dragon drop. 1:18:14.760 --> 1:18:17.040 So that's that's probably the easiest way to do it. 1:18:18.240 --> 1:18:20.519 I think that that would work better. I'm looking at 1:18:20.520 --> 1:18:25.280 Amazon at the CD players and I see one, and 1:18:25.320 --> 1:18:26.880 I'm sure you saw this one on there. 1:18:27.200 --> 1:18:29.720 It's the Yeah. 1:18:29.760 --> 1:18:33.760 This one's about forty seven bucks, the Ara FUNA, and 1:18:34.120 --> 1:18:37.080 it says portable CD player with Bluetooth with FM radio. 1:18:37.520 --> 1:18:41.960 It's rechargeable, and it's got anti shock protection, and it's 1:18:42.000 --> 1:18:42.960 got an OX cable. 1:18:43.000 --> 1:18:45.719 Does your phone have does your car have an OX port? 1:18:47.120 --> 1:18:47.360 Yes? 1:18:47.439 --> 1:18:48.000 I believe that. 1:18:48.080 --> 1:18:50.800 Okay, so I would probably go with that. I mean, 1:18:50.800 --> 1:18:52.280 the Bluetooth or do. 1:18:52.200 --> 1:18:53.599 You think they're good quality? 1:18:54.600 --> 1:18:56.680 I mean, I think it's probably fine. I don't think 1:18:56.680 --> 1:18:59.920 it's gonna I mean, look, you're you're talking forty six 1:19:00.120 --> 1:19:02.559 dollars here. I would probably try that first because it's 1:19:02.600 --> 1:19:04.600 going to be the absolute easiest way to do this. 1:19:05.200 --> 1:19:07.240 So I would order this from Amazon. 1:19:07.360 --> 1:19:09.760 Obviously, you can return it if it doesn't work, but 1:19:09.800 --> 1:19:12.519 I would order it from Amazon. Put the CD player, 1:19:12.600 --> 1:19:14.479 put the CD in it. I don't know where you're 1:19:14.479 --> 1:19:15.840 gonna put this or you're going to keep it like 1:19:15.880 --> 1:19:18.160 on the seat next to you. Like that's the tricky part. 1:19:18.200 --> 1:19:22.040 When I was you know, when I was growing Okay, 1:19:22.120 --> 1:19:23.640 well then you could do that. When I was growing up, 1:19:23.640 --> 1:19:25.240 I had a CD player in my car. This was 1:19:25.320 --> 1:19:28.800 before you know they were installed in the car going 1:19:28.880 --> 1:19:32.400 back aways. And I use some double stick like velcrow 1:19:32.520 --> 1:19:35.599 to like velcrow the CD player to the center console, 1:19:36.200 --> 1:19:38.679 so you can do that. You can vel crow it somewhere. 1:19:38.720 --> 1:19:39.920 But I think that's. 1:19:39.920 --> 1:19:41.840 Well then that way, I use it at home and 1:19:41.920 --> 1:19:43.880 just plug it into one of my other speakers, like 1:19:44.040 --> 1:19:46.519 you know, a portable speaker and have it played throughout 1:19:46.560 --> 1:19:46.920 the house. 1:19:47.240 --> 1:19:47.439 Yeah. 1:19:47.520 --> 1:19:50.160 And if it's also if it's if it's Bluetooth, you 1:19:50.160 --> 1:19:51.920 can use it with a Bluetooth speaker as well. 1:19:52.160 --> 1:19:52.679 I mean you could. 1:19:52.760 --> 1:19:55.639 Look, I would. I would start with this little CD 1:19:55.720 --> 1:19:59.040 player on Amazon. See what it does. It's got Bluetooth 1:19:59.040 --> 1:20:00.840 built in that means you don't need any wires. It 1:20:00.920 --> 1:20:02.760 has a battery built in, which means you don't even 1:20:02.760 --> 1:20:04.439 have to you know, you charge it at home, you 1:20:04.520 --> 1:20:07.040 bring it into your car. You've got the CD in there, 1:20:07.160 --> 1:20:09.120 and now you can just press play connected to the 1:20:09.120 --> 1:20:11.400 Bluetooth on your car and if it sounds great, if 1:20:11.439 --> 1:20:12.280 it's if it's good. 1:20:12.640 --> 1:20:12.920 Done. 1:20:12.960 --> 1:20:15.600 It's a very simple solution to a kind of a 1:20:15.640 --> 1:20:18.720 complex problem. But if it doesn't sound good, you can 1:20:18.800 --> 1:20:21.479 return it and then you can go the route where 1:20:21.479 --> 1:20:22.639 you put this stuff on your phone. 1:20:22.680 --> 1:20:24.320 But I think that's a little bit too complicated for 1:20:24.400 --> 1:20:24.800 right now. 1:20:25.600 --> 1:20:26.640 Okay, thank you so much. 1:20:26.680 --> 1:20:28.960 I appreciate all right, Michelle, go to the website rich 1:20:29.000 --> 1:20:31.559 on tech dot TV. Hit contact once you do all 1:20:31.560 --> 1:20:33.240 this and let me know. I want an update so 1:20:33.320 --> 1:20:35.200 I can see if this is going to work right. 1:20:37.000 --> 1:20:40.639 Thanks a lot for the call. Appreciate that. Let's see 1:20:40.840 --> 1:20:43.679 super Bowl. Hard to believe it was just last weekend. 1:20:43.760 --> 1:20:46.519 It feels like it was an eternity ago. It was 1:20:46.560 --> 1:20:49.720 a big, big Super Bowl. We had a lot of 1:20:49.760 --> 1:20:51.320 fun in my house watching it. We had a couple 1:20:51.360 --> 1:20:53.439 of people over. I told you I upgraded my TV, 1:20:53.640 --> 1:20:54.679 so we had a great time. 1:20:54.720 --> 1:20:55.120 The TV. 1:20:55.560 --> 1:20:59.439 The four K on YouTube TV looked incredible. One hundred 1:20:59.479 --> 1:21:04.280 and twenty three point four million viewers, across CBS, Nickelodeon, Univision, 1:21:04.320 --> 1:21:09.360 and NFL plus. This was this was the second most 1:21:09.560 --> 1:21:14.120 viewed item in history after the moon landing in nineteen 1:21:14.200 --> 1:21:17.360 sixty nine. How did more people watch that back in 1:21:17.439 --> 1:21:19.640 nineteen sixty nine? That doesn't make sense, right, but I 1:21:19.640 --> 1:21:23.120 guess yeah, people were just glued to their TV. Was 1:21:23.120 --> 1:21:26.160 there one hundred and twenty three million TVs like in 1:21:26.200 --> 1:21:30.439 the US back then? That's seems weird. But anyway, last 1:21:30.520 --> 1:21:33.160 year's Super Bowl was one hundred and fifteen million. One 1:21:33.240 --> 1:21:35.600 hundred and twenty million who watched on CBS alone, is 1:21:35.640 --> 1:21:39.799 the largest single audience ever for a network. Oh interesting, 1:21:39.840 --> 1:21:42.760 So they just revealed how many people were streaming versus CBS. 1:21:42.840 --> 1:21:45.759 So only about three million on streaming three point five million. 1:21:46.960 --> 1:21:50.120 Let's see, Kansas City Chiefs have played in and won 1:21:50.400 --> 1:21:53.040 two of the most watched Super Bowls ever. I know 1:21:53.080 --> 1:21:55.800 that's a sore spot for some of you. Call screen 1:21:55.880 --> 1:21:59.200 er Kim sorry, I know she's a big forty nine 1:21:59.280 --> 1:21:59.679 Ers fan. 1:22:00.800 --> 1:22:01.200 Let's see. 1:22:01.200 --> 1:22:03.639 Among the ten most watched super Bowl, CBS now has 1:22:03.680 --> 1:22:07.280 three of them. Why did people watch this Super Bowl? 1:22:07.400 --> 1:22:09.840 Why do you think the Chiefs? You know, it was 1:22:09.880 --> 1:22:12.800 a big deal for them, but also Travis Kelce and 1:22:12.840 --> 1:22:16.559 Taylor Swift call it the Taylor Swift effect. Look you 1:22:16.640 --> 1:22:18.880 got yeah, Usher, I mean, look, you got a lot 1:22:18.880 --> 1:22:21.120 of things going on here. It was a very it 1:22:21.160 --> 1:22:23.120 was a very safe super Bowl. Let's put it that way. 1:22:23.160 --> 1:22:25.880 You had a great halftime show with a proven talent, 1:22:26.360 --> 1:22:28.880 You had two great teams that were, you know, proven 1:22:29.040 --> 1:22:32.680 that people love. And you had the third element, which 1:22:32.800 --> 1:22:36.799 was this whole Travis Kelce Taylor Swift relationship. And also 1:22:36.880 --> 1:22:38.800 I would argue that they made it easy to watch 1:22:38.840 --> 1:22:41.040 this year because in years past it's been a little 1:22:41.040 --> 1:22:43.479 tricky to figure out, like where's it streaming, what's it doing? 1:22:43.760 --> 1:22:45.760 Like they got it. They got it down this year. 1:22:46.200 --> 1:22:50.240 So again new record for the Super Bowl. I know 1:22:50.320 --> 1:22:52.960 I was watching up until you know the last second 1:22:52.960 --> 1:22:56.479 of overtime, which is also wild eighty eight rich one 1:22:56.479 --> 1:22:59.040 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 1:22:59.080 --> 1:23:01.400 to one zero one. You can follow me on the 1:23:01.680 --> 1:23:04.640 website or on social media. It is at rich on 1:23:04.720 --> 1:23:09.559 Tech coming up. Amazon forgot to mention something when they 1:23:09.560 --> 1:23:11.040 said you have to pay three dollars a month to 1:23:11.040 --> 1:23:11.760 get rid of ads. 1:23:11.760 --> 1:23:13.120 They also took something else away. 1:23:13.200 --> 1:23:15.960 I'll tell you what they took away, and Voodoo is 1:23:15.960 --> 1:23:18.160 getting a new name. I'll tell you what that is. 1:23:18.360 --> 1:23:22.360 You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:23:22.600 --> 1:23:27.160 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out talking technology 1:23:27.240 --> 1:23:31.639 with you at triple eight rich one oh one eight 1:23:31.680 --> 1:23:35.720 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:23:37.080 --> 1:23:39.320 Give me a call if you have a question about technology. 1:23:39.320 --> 1:23:43.120 We've got coming up on the show. Jared Newman of Advisorator. 1:23:43.320 --> 1:23:46.479 He is a friend of the show, been on many times. 1:23:46.520 --> 1:23:50.120 In fact, you crashed his website the first time he 1:23:50.240 --> 1:23:53.120 was on because you liked what he had to say 1:23:53.160 --> 1:23:56.680 so much. So he's got some great stuff. He's going 1:23:56.760 --> 1:23:59.000 to talk about what to do if you are running 1:23:59.040 --> 1:24:02.240 out of iCloud store bage. He writes a great newsletter. 1:24:02.280 --> 1:24:04.479 He was telling a story about this the other day, 1:24:04.640 --> 1:24:07.080 and I think he has some good information to share. 1:24:08.920 --> 1:24:13.040 Let's talk Roku. Roku now has over eighty million active users. 1:24:14.200 --> 1:24:17.880 That is quite a milestone for them. They said that 1:24:18.240 --> 1:24:21.280 people streamed over one hundred billion hours on Roku in 1:24:21.320 --> 1:24:25.320 twenty twenty three. On average, each Roku account streamed four 1:24:25.479 --> 1:24:29.960 point one hours per day in the last quarter. Roku 1:24:30.040 --> 1:24:31.960 now has more active accounts in the US than the 1:24:32.040 --> 1:24:35.320 number of subscribers to the sixth biggest traditional cable and 1:24:35.360 --> 1:24:39.280 satellite TV providers combined. Why is this a big deal? 1:24:40.000 --> 1:24:44.240 Roku makes money off of ads, and the more people 1:24:44.280 --> 1:24:46.960 they have that are using Roku, the more data they 1:24:47.000 --> 1:24:51.080 have to sell. So we talked about this last week 1:24:51.120 --> 1:24:54.960 on the show how TV Manufacturers. You know, they look 1:24:54.960 --> 1:24:57.080 at what you're watching on the TV and they use 1:24:57.160 --> 1:25:00.439 that data to sell to sell ads against it, and 1:25:00.479 --> 1:25:02.760 that's exactly what Roku does. And Roku actually takes it 1:25:02.760 --> 1:25:04.479 a step further. They get a little bit of ad 1:25:04.520 --> 1:25:08.120 time from some of these streaming properties as well, so 1:25:08.200 --> 1:25:11.040 they've got a pretty decent business going. But the more 1:25:11.080 --> 1:25:14.880 that they you know, you love Roku. Actually it's funny 1:25:14.880 --> 1:25:17.240 because you know, I told that story about my mom 1:25:17.520 --> 1:25:21.240 switching from her TV, like her firestick went out and 1:25:21.280 --> 1:25:23.600 so she had to switch to the Roku that was 1:25:23.640 --> 1:25:26.240 built into the TV. And I talked to her last 1:25:26.240 --> 1:25:27.880 week and I said, or this week and I said, hey, Mom, 1:25:27.880 --> 1:25:30.439 how you know how you like in the system the 1:25:30.479 --> 1:25:34.280 set up? She goes, I actually like Roku better than 1:25:34.320 --> 1:25:37.800 fire TV. I said, what she said, Yeah, I hate 1:25:37.800 --> 1:25:39.519 to say that, but I said, well, why do you 1:25:39.520 --> 1:25:40.840 hate to say? I mean, it's not that big of 1:25:40.880 --> 1:25:42.840 a deal, but why do you like it better? And 1:25:42.840 --> 1:25:45.040 she said, I don't know. It's just easier. She goes 1:25:45.080 --> 1:25:47.640 and they have all this content on there for free. 1:25:48.240 --> 1:25:50.200 She said, so she can I can click news and 1:25:50.200 --> 1:25:52.120 there's a whole bunch of news stuff I can watch. 1:25:52.720 --> 1:25:57.880 And I said, that's interesting because the free streaming services 1:25:57.960 --> 1:26:01.960 are the fastest growing right now. People like free And 1:26:02.040 --> 1:26:03.720 so the fact that she can just go in there 1:26:03.800 --> 1:26:06.160 and fire TV has a free area as well, maybe 1:26:06.160 --> 1:26:08.639 she didn't find it, but it's interesting that she picked 1:26:08.680 --> 1:26:10.800 up on that with Roku. So and I have no 1:26:10.840 --> 1:26:14.200 problem with Roku or fire TV or Apple TV. I 1:26:14.240 --> 1:26:17.280 will say at this point, I think Apple TV is 1:26:17.320 --> 1:26:20.960 the only one that's not hijacking the home screen for ads. 1:26:21.479 --> 1:26:23.759 And also I don't believe that they sell any. 1:26:25.200 --> 1:26:30.040 Any of your data for ads like fireTV does or Roku. 1:26:30.600 --> 1:26:32.599 And is there another one out there? Oh, Google TV? Yeah, 1:26:32.600 --> 1:26:34.240 I'm sure Google is, because it's Google. 1:26:35.200 --> 1:26:35.320 Uh. 1:26:35.880 --> 1:26:39.880 Voodoo is gonna rebrand a get a rebranding as Fandango 1:26:39.920 --> 1:26:44.719 at Home. So Voodo Voodoo announced this on their social 1:26:44.760 --> 1:26:48.799 media networks this week. Fandango purchased Voodoo in twenty twenty 1:26:49.479 --> 1:26:55.320 from Walmart, and so that's pretty much it. That's what's changing. 1:26:55.960 --> 1:26:58.040 But you will have the option to link your Fandango 1:26:58.080 --> 1:27:01.519 account if you have one. But not much more to 1:27:01.600 --> 1:27:06.800 report there except that Voodoo will become Fandango at Home. 1:27:07.880 --> 1:27:10.080 Now, a little history on Voodoo. 1:27:10.120 --> 1:27:11.759 By the way, I was one of the first people 1:27:11.800 --> 1:27:14.760 to cover Voodoo when it first launched. So the way 1:27:14.840 --> 1:27:18.799 Voodoo launched, this was a startup before it was purchased 1:27:18.840 --> 1:27:21.120 by Walmart and before it was purchased by Fandango, which 1:27:21.160 --> 1:27:24.640 I believe is owned by NBC Universal. Voodoo was a 1:27:24.680 --> 1:27:29.040 startup and their little magic sauce was that they would 1:27:29.040 --> 1:27:30.840 give you this or you'd buy this box. 1:27:30.880 --> 1:27:31.960 It was a Voodoo box. 1:27:32.760 --> 1:27:35.519 And what they would do is, since internet was really 1:27:35.560 --> 1:27:40.120 slow back then, they would actually download a portion of 1:27:40.160 --> 1:27:43.759 the popular movies to the box, so they were sitting 1:27:43.800 --> 1:27:44.360 on the box. 1:27:44.400 --> 1:27:44.559 Now. 1:27:44.600 --> 1:27:46.840 I know this seems so weird now because streaming you 1:27:46.920 --> 1:27:48.800 just get everything on demand, But back in the day, 1:27:48.840 --> 1:27:51.439 when Internet was really slow and we were just going 1:27:51.479 --> 1:27:55.840 from dial up connections to DSL and not everyone had 1:27:55.840 --> 1:28:00.519 a really fast Internet connection. So they would basically look 1:28:00.520 --> 1:28:03.600 at what people were watching. So if you know, the 1:28:03.680 --> 1:28:07.920 new Mission Impossible movie was really popular, they would download 1:28:08.160 --> 1:28:10.559 the first couple of minutes of that movie in the background, 1:28:10.680 --> 1:28:13.880 so like overnight, and while you weren't watching anything, they 1:28:13.880 --> 1:28:16.599 would download a portion of this movie so that when 1:28:16.640 --> 1:28:20.519 you went to play that movie, it would start really fast. 1:28:21.040 --> 1:28:23.120 And now, of course this seems so silly because you 1:28:23.160 --> 1:28:25.280 can access anything you want in the world and it 1:28:25.320 --> 1:28:27.320 will start really fast. But back when we didn't have 1:28:27.720 --> 1:28:30.760 super high speed internet, this made a difference, and so 1:28:31.160 --> 1:28:34.719 it was it was a really revolutionary idea at the time, 1:28:34.840 --> 1:28:37.160 but it kind of was an in between technology because 1:28:37.160 --> 1:28:40.200 now we don't need that. And of course when Netflix 1:28:40.200 --> 1:28:43.000 came along, their whole thing was that they figured out 1:28:43.000 --> 1:28:46.719 a way to start streaming really quickly on any connection 1:28:46.840 --> 1:28:52.200 speed almost and so that's really what Netflix does very well, 1:28:52.320 --> 1:28:57.240 is that they have a lot of technologies surrounding fast 1:28:58.360 --> 1:29:00.879 start of movies. You know, no matter what your connection 1:29:01.000 --> 1:29:03.400 looks like. Now all of this has become kind of 1:29:03.400 --> 1:29:05.880 a moot point because our connections are so fast. But 1:29:05.920 --> 1:29:08.720 back in the day, these were real challenges because to 1:29:09.200 --> 1:29:12.760 watch a full movie like it just it was trickier than. 1:29:12.640 --> 1:29:14.799 It is today. Now it's obviously very easy. 1:29:16.120 --> 1:29:20.960 And Amazon has quietly removed support for Dolby Vision and 1:29:21.040 --> 1:29:25.479 Dolby Atmost from their ad supported tier of Prime Video 1:29:25.520 --> 1:29:30.559 without telling customers. So remember this whole thing where Amazon said, oh, 1:29:30.720 --> 1:29:33.880 now we're putting commercials in our programming on Prime Video 1:29:33.960 --> 1:29:36.519 unless you pay an extra three dollars a month for 1:29:36.600 --> 1:29:39.200 our ad free tier, which is kind of annoying to 1:29:39.240 --> 1:29:43.200 begin with. Well, now some of these I think it 1:29:43.240 --> 1:29:46.960 was Ours Technica that figured out that they also took 1:29:46.960 --> 1:29:51.400 away this Dolbie Vision and Dolby Atmost support. Why well, 1:29:51.520 --> 1:29:55.799 it all comes down to money, because when these companies 1:29:55.840 --> 1:29:58.800 like Amazon put Dolby Vision in Dolby Atmost support on 1:29:58.880 --> 1:30:02.200 their movie and TV shows, they have to pay a 1:30:02.240 --> 1:30:05.760 licensing fee. And so by taking this away from their 1:30:05.800 --> 1:30:08.680 basic free which I call it the free tier, even 1:30:08.720 --> 1:30:11.760 though people are paying for Amazon Prime, but it is 1:30:11.800 --> 1:30:15.840 now their free tier of Amazon Prime Video, they that 1:30:15.960 --> 1:30:18.360 is a lot of people, you know, two hundred million people. 1:30:18.439 --> 1:30:20.519 Let's say that now they don't have to pay for 1:30:20.560 --> 1:30:25.880 this licensing for Dolby Vision and Dolby Autmost. So very sneaky, sneaky, 1:30:26.120 --> 1:30:29.479 but that's what Amazon did. So if you really like 1:30:29.600 --> 1:30:34.280 your high quality video and audio, and Dolby Utmost, by 1:30:34.320 --> 1:30:38.720 the way, is spatial audio. So audio typically when you 1:30:38.720 --> 1:30:41.320 think about surround sound is kind of like left and 1:30:41.400 --> 1:30:44.840 right and center. A Dolby Utmost is kind of above you, 1:30:45.360 --> 1:30:49.120 so it's like the audio that happens above, So you're 1:30:49.160 --> 1:30:53.479 losing that channel basically, So sneaky. I don't like when 1:30:53.520 --> 1:30:55.400 companies do stuff they make a big deal about it 1:30:55.400 --> 1:30:57.800 and they don't say anything about what they're really doing. 1:30:57.840 --> 1:31:00.400 That's what Amazon did. That's the like that. 1:31:01.120 --> 1:31:03.320 All right, coming up, Jared Newman is going to talk 1:31:03.400 --> 1:31:06.840 about how to free up iCloud storage or what to 1:31:06.920 --> 1:31:09.479 do if you're out of it. You are listening to 1:31:09.880 --> 1:31:13.360 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 1:31:13.439 --> 1:31:17.559 Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple 1:31:17.600 --> 1:31:21.519 eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven 1:31:21.640 --> 1:31:28.960 four to two four one zero one talking evs. Went 1:31:29.000 --> 1:31:31.920 to the Chicago Auto Show last week. Obviously a lot 1:31:31.960 --> 1:31:35.400 of evs there, But what's happening with EV's in the 1:31:35.479 --> 1:31:40.000 US registrations In twenty twenty three, Tesla of course dominated, 1:31:40.600 --> 1:31:45.080 but Rivian and Hyundai catching on. So a lot of 1:31:45.120 --> 1:31:47.559 people are saying that electric car sales are falling. That's 1:31:47.560 --> 1:31:51.560 not necessarily true. According to the latest data, ev registrations 1:31:51.560 --> 1:31:54.920 were up twenty three percent in December and up fifty 1:31:54.960 --> 1:31:58.160 two percent for the full year. Tesla led the market 1:31:58.200 --> 1:32:01.080 with fifty six percent share. They had six hundred and 1:32:01.120 --> 1:32:06.719 forty two thousand plus registrations, mostly thanks to the Model 1:32:06.880 --> 1:32:10.559 Y and then Ford edged out GM for second place, 1:32:10.680 --> 1:32:13.599 but smaller brands like Hyundai and Rivian saw a lot 1:32:13.600 --> 1:32:19.160 of growth. Hunday fourth with fifty and eleven registrations, driven 1:32:19.160 --> 1:32:22.320 by the Ionic five to six and the Kona Electric, 1:32:22.960 --> 1:32:25.160 and Rivian was in fifth place with four percent share 1:32:25.200 --> 1:32:28.600 they sold. I guess they had forty six thousand registrations. 1:32:29.800 --> 1:32:30.479 I'm seeing a lot. 1:32:30.520 --> 1:32:32.360 I mean, at least in LA, A lot of the 1:32:32.439 --> 1:32:36.440 Mercedes electric cars like that is like they are everywhere. 1:32:37.680 --> 1:32:40.920 And Rivian's going to unveil a new R two, which 1:32:40.960 --> 1:32:46.240 is their lower cost suv, very soon, so we're going 1:32:46.280 --> 1:32:49.080 to see that coming up on I think it was 1:32:49.160 --> 1:32:53.640 March seventh. Joining me now Jared Newman. He is a 1:32:53.720 --> 1:32:57.439 writer of Advisorator. This is a great newsletter if you 1:32:57.479 --> 1:33:01.519 are not subscribed highly recked amend you subscribe to it. 1:33:02.000 --> 1:33:03.080 Jared, Are you there? 1:33:04.200 --> 1:33:05.880 Yeah, thank thanks for having me. 1:33:06.000 --> 1:33:09.080 Welcome to the show. How you doing today, I'm doing great? 1:33:09.160 --> 1:33:10.320 What do you do? What's Tell me? 1:33:10.360 --> 1:33:14.480 What Advisorator is all about? What is that newsletter all about? 1:33:14.600 --> 1:33:17.920 It's my weekly tech advice newsletter I started at about 1:33:17.960 --> 1:33:20.679 five years ago, just kind of all the stuff where 1:33:20.760 --> 1:33:23.360 when I tell my non nerdy friends about the things 1:33:23.360 --> 1:33:25.240 you can do with technology and they're like, oh, I 1:33:25.280 --> 1:33:27.000 didn't know you could do that. I was like, well, 1:33:27.160 --> 1:33:28.880 let me start a newsletter where I can actually tell 1:33:28.920 --> 1:33:31.000 people all the things they didn't realize they could do 1:33:31.120 --> 1:33:32.160 or need to know about. 1:33:32.240 --> 1:33:34.960 So it is really interesting the stuff that when you 1:33:35.080 --> 1:33:38.120 cover technology or you're kind of in the thick of 1:33:38.160 --> 1:33:40.760 it every day like I am and you are. There 1:33:40.840 --> 1:33:43.679 is so much knowledge that you take for granted that 1:33:43.760 --> 1:33:45.720 when you're at a party or you're just out with 1:33:45.800 --> 1:33:48.840 friends and you say something and they're like, wait what, 1:33:49.360 --> 1:33:51.439 and you're like you didn't know that? And I, you know, 1:33:51.479 --> 1:33:53.599 not in a judging way, but just in a wait 1:33:53.680 --> 1:33:55.880 what Like these things that you just take for granted 1:33:55.880 --> 1:33:57.400 that everyone knows and they don't. 1:33:58.280 --> 1:34:01.120 Yeah, some of my some of My most popular newsletters 1:34:01.160 --> 1:34:03.320 are the ones where I'm not even sure if I 1:34:03.320 --> 1:34:05.479 should write them because I'm like, wait, does everybody know 1:34:05.560 --> 1:34:07.920 this already? And I'm just going to be telling people 1:34:07.920 --> 1:34:10.200 what they already know. And then it turns out the 1:34:10.240 --> 1:34:13.479 answer is no. So yeah, including you know this thing 1:34:13.479 --> 1:34:14.200 about iCloud. 1:34:14.320 --> 1:34:17.160 Yeah, so explain what happened with the iCloud situation. So 1:34:17.200 --> 1:34:19.719 you your your newsletter this week says how to handle 1:34:19.920 --> 1:34:23.160 iCloud storage, and something happened with your wife, so explain. 1:34:24.280 --> 1:34:24.960 She sent me. 1:34:25.080 --> 1:34:28.320 She forwarded me an email from Apple that said your 1:34:28.520 --> 1:34:32.280 iCloud storage is full, and was like, do I need 1:34:32.320 --> 1:34:35.000 to do anything about this? And then I looked at 1:34:35.040 --> 1:34:37.840 my iCloud storage and it turns out that my iCloud 1:34:37.840 --> 1:34:41.880 storage was also almost full. So it kind of sneaks 1:34:41.960 --> 1:34:42.400 up on you. 1:34:43.400 --> 1:34:45.000 And so what what did you decide? 1:34:45.000 --> 1:34:47.040 I mean, did you just say, okay, let me tap 1:34:47.080 --> 1:34:49.880 to expand my storage for another couple bucks a month, 1:34:49.960 --> 1:34:51.200 or what did you decide to do? 1:34:51.920 --> 1:34:52.000 No? 1:34:52.600 --> 1:34:56.719 And the reason is, you know, the thing that really 1:34:56.840 --> 1:34:59.880 uses a ton of iCloud storages of course, photos and videos. 1:35:00.080 --> 1:35:03.679 I already knew that in our case, we were we 1:35:03.680 --> 1:35:08.799 were using Google Photos primarily as our cloud photo storage. 1:35:08.840 --> 1:35:11.840 I also use one drive as like another backup, and 1:35:11.920 --> 1:35:14.080 I keep photos on my computer, so I don't need 1:35:14.360 --> 1:35:17.200 neither of us need iCloud to handle our photos. So 1:35:17.240 --> 1:35:19.280 sure enough, when I looked at my wife's phone and 1:35:19.360 --> 1:35:22.479 looked at my phone, a huge chunk of that storage 1:35:22.600 --> 1:35:25.880 was just iCloud photos had been turned on. I don't 1:35:25.880 --> 1:35:27.680 even remember how it got turned on my end. I 1:35:27.760 --> 1:35:31.200 might have been testing something something, But yeah, in both cases, 1:35:31.200 --> 1:35:34.720 it was like three to four of the five complimentary 1:35:34.880 --> 1:35:37.839 gigabytes you get was being occupied by photos. 1:35:38.280 --> 1:35:40.160 But here's the thing, and I'm sure you saw this. 1:35:40.200 --> 1:35:42.000 When you went to turn it off, you got that 1:35:42.120 --> 1:35:45.040 big scary message that says, are you sure you want 1:35:45.040 --> 1:35:47.040 to turn off and delete all your pictures? 1:35:48.640 --> 1:35:48.920 Yes? 1:35:49.080 --> 1:35:52.639 Exactly, because you know, to be fair, if you are 1:35:53.040 --> 1:35:55.920 relying on iCloud photos, or you hadn't thought about photo 1:35:55.960 --> 1:35:59.800 backups and you're just doing to your point earlier, you know, 1:35:59.800 --> 1:36:02.400 I'm sure there's a lot of folks that just just 1:36:02.479 --> 1:36:05.080 assume that their photos are being backed up and aren't 1:36:05.120 --> 1:36:06.960 really thinking about it too much, and they just assume 1:36:07.000 --> 1:36:10.639 Apple is handling everything for them, which they very melt 1:36:10.880 --> 1:36:13.559 very well might be, and so uh yeah, you do 1:36:13.720 --> 1:36:16.559 kind of need to exercise some caution there and know 1:36:16.920 --> 1:36:19.559 what you're doing before you turn that off. But if 1:36:19.600 --> 1:36:21.839 you if you know that you have another backup solution 1:36:21.960 --> 1:36:23.840 in place, then it's not really a big deal that 1:36:23.880 --> 1:36:25.040 you click that button. 1:36:25.360 --> 1:36:25.960 Now, a lot of. 1:36:25.880 --> 1:36:30.719 People are confused about the photos on your Like if 1:36:30.760 --> 1:36:33.640 you're using iCloud for your photos, your iPhone is a 1:36:33.680 --> 1:36:36.160 mirror of the cloud, So if you delete a picture 1:36:36.160 --> 1:36:38.559 on your phone, it's going to go away in I cloud. 1:36:38.720 --> 1:36:39.880 Some people don't realize that. 1:36:41.000 --> 1:36:45.719 Yeah, that's true, and it gets into tricky territory because 1:36:45.760 --> 1:36:50.160 there's that whole thing of is your phone having all 1:36:50.200 --> 1:36:53.240 of the photos they're in I cloud versus you know, 1:36:53.360 --> 1:36:57.160 the default is that Apple will delete some photos off 1:36:57.200 --> 1:36:59.880 of your phone to make room on your phone, but 1:37:00.200 --> 1:37:03.439 keep them an eyecloud and so but the library, the 1:37:03.439 --> 1:37:06.240 photos app still shows everything that's in that eCloud. So 1:37:06.280 --> 1:37:09.240 it leads to some confusion about what's being stored ware 1:37:09.320 --> 1:37:11.200 and what happens when you actually delete something. 1:37:11.360 --> 1:37:13.920 And this is why I like Google Photos because I know, 1:37:14.400 --> 1:37:17.000 basically I think of Google Photos as a vacuum. Once 1:37:17.080 --> 1:37:20.400 the photo gets sucked up into the cloud of Google Photos. 1:37:20.960 --> 1:37:24.160 It's not going anywhere because I can delete things on 1:37:24.200 --> 1:37:26.400 my phone. If I'm not deleting them through Google Photos, 1:37:26.439 --> 1:37:27.400 they're not going to be deleted. 1:37:28.400 --> 1:37:30.720 Yeah, it's a different philosophy. Like in my mind, I 1:37:30.880 --> 1:37:33.439 like that, you know, it's not my camera role. Like 1:37:33.520 --> 1:37:36.439 my camera roll is whatever happens to it happens, and 1:37:36.479 --> 1:37:40.320 Google Photos is like this other repository where yeah, everything's 1:37:40.360 --> 1:37:42.680 on there. And so even if something happens in my 1:37:42.680 --> 1:37:45.439 phone and my camera roll is obliterated or I delete 1:37:45.479 --> 1:37:48.280 everything off my camera roll, it's still in Google Photos 1:37:48.280 --> 1:37:50.360 and it's not actually syncing back and forth that way. 1:37:50.640 --> 1:37:52.360 Lets some people prefer it the other way, where it's 1:37:52.400 --> 1:37:56.000 just that one library that's being managed through the default 1:37:56.000 --> 1:37:57.400 photo album on the iPhone. 1:37:57.600 --> 1:38:00.920 Now, my kids take giant videos on the iPads. They 1:38:00.960 --> 1:38:03.160 let it roll for like an hour, and I have 1:38:03.200 --> 1:38:07.120 a two terabyte storage on my iCloud, and I'm not kidding, 1:38:07.160 --> 1:38:09.040 it's all taken up and I have no idea what's 1:38:09.080 --> 1:38:12.000 taking it up except their stuff. And I tell them, 1:38:12.000 --> 1:38:13.439 I'm like, kids, you got to go through and like 1:38:13.439 --> 1:38:15.599 delete a couple of these big you know, they'll literally 1:38:15.640 --> 1:38:19.000 set like the iPad on their windowsill and record outside 1:38:19.040 --> 1:38:21.599 as like a security quote unquote camera just for fun, 1:38:22.120 --> 1:38:25.000 and it'll be like a giant, giant file that they'll 1:38:25.000 --> 1:38:28.800 never delete. So what anyway, what's your takeaway? What's your 1:38:28.800 --> 1:38:30.960 guidance for iCloud, Like, what do people need to know? 1:38:31.680 --> 1:38:33.400 Well, one thing, we you know, we haven't talked about 1:38:33.400 --> 1:38:35.840 the whole iCloud. This is interesting to me because I 1:38:35.960 --> 1:38:37.720 learned it in the course of researching as they haven't 1:38:37.760 --> 1:38:42.000 realized that the iCloud Photos versus iCloud backup. So even 1:38:42.040 --> 1:38:47.240 if you turn off iCloud Photos, there's still the separate 1:38:47.439 --> 1:38:50.120 iCloud backup, which is taking everything that's on your phone 1:38:50.640 --> 1:38:52.760 and uploading it to the cloud. And if you turn 1:38:52.800 --> 1:38:56.000 off iCloud photos, every photo that's on your phone still 1:38:56.040 --> 1:38:58.839 in the camera roll will still be included in that backup. 1:38:59.200 --> 1:39:02.000 So even if you are using Google Photos and then 1:39:02.040 --> 1:39:05.240 you take that extra step to turn off iCloud Photos, 1:39:05.400 --> 1:39:08.320 you're still burning through all your iCloud storage space on 1:39:08.600 --> 1:39:10.800 a separate backup, and then you have to go in 1:39:10.840 --> 1:39:13.760 and take another step in say exclude my photos from 1:39:13.760 --> 1:39:14.280 the back up. 1:39:14.720 --> 1:39:15.840 Oh, that's interesting. 1:39:16.360 --> 1:39:19.320 This whole rabbit hole you can go down. And there's 1:39:19.360 --> 1:39:22.800 also the other wrinkle to consider is I message, you know, 1:39:23.600 --> 1:39:26.000 because I never really thought of it, like you'd want 1:39:26.000 --> 1:39:29.360 a permanent history of all your messages, but I think 1:39:29.360 --> 1:39:31.120 a lot of people do, and that ends up eating 1:39:31.160 --> 1:39:33.280 up a lot of storage just by virtue of all 1:39:33.320 --> 1:39:35.400 the photos and videos that you're sharing back and forth. 1:39:35.479 --> 1:39:39.800 Oh my gosh, see iCloud, the iCloud like messages in 1:39:39.840 --> 1:39:42.639 the cloud really takes up a lot. Like I think 1:39:42.640 --> 1:39:45.600 I'm up to like six gigabytes of storage just to 1:39:45.640 --> 1:39:47.360 my I message, which I don't understand. Why does I 1:39:47.400 --> 1:39:48.880 message take up so much storage? 1:39:49.479 --> 1:39:52.000 Because everybody's sending photos and videos and all that's part 1:39:52.000 --> 1:39:55.000 of your history that you're that you're backing up there. 1:39:55.040 --> 1:39:57.080 And you know, I think it didn't used to be 1:39:57.120 --> 1:40:00.240 the case that we were so used to communicating that way, 1:40:00.280 --> 1:40:03.160 but that's how we do it now. And so if 1:40:03.160 --> 1:40:05.400 you if you want to have that full history and 1:40:05.439 --> 1:40:08.479 you don't want to create offline backups on a macro 1:40:08.520 --> 1:40:12.479 PC of your uh, you know, your whole iPhoto history 1:40:12.520 --> 1:40:15.120 then or iPhone history, then you just gonna have to 1:40:15.120 --> 1:40:15.639 pay the price. 1:40:15.640 --> 1:40:19.040 I guess one thing that I always recommend people don't realize, 1:40:19.080 --> 1:40:21.920 and now it actually Google has got Apple has gotten 1:40:21.960 --> 1:40:24.040 hip to this, because I'm looking at my recommendations for 1:40:24.120 --> 1:40:28.160 my iCloud storage and it does say to delete inactive backups. 1:40:28.520 --> 1:40:31.400 A lot of times. If you upgrade your iPhone, it's 1:40:31.520 --> 1:40:34.280 keeping the old backup of your old iPhone and your 1:40:34.320 --> 1:40:36.400 new backup of your new iPhone, which is basically almost 1:40:36.439 --> 1:40:38.200 like a yeah, so that's interesting. 1:40:38.920 --> 1:40:40.360 I don't I don't think I had that, but when 1:40:40.360 --> 1:40:43.120 I looked on my iPhone, I saw there was, you know, 1:40:43.240 --> 1:40:45.760 in the iCloud backup section it set iPhone, but then 1:40:45.800 --> 1:40:47.840 I think it would list other devices that you had 1:40:47.840 --> 1:40:50.080 also been backing up there. So yeah, it kind of 1:40:50.080 --> 1:40:53.280 helps to think of like iCloud backup is a backup 1:40:53.320 --> 1:40:57.080 of the device, just what's on the device, and then iCloud, 1:40:57.600 --> 1:41:00.800 whether it's messages in iCloud or iCloud photos, is sort 1:41:00.800 --> 1:41:03.679 of like all the data from all your devices being 1:41:03.720 --> 1:41:05.840 sucked up into this big repository. 1:41:06.479 --> 1:41:08.920 So, Jared, you cover this stuff for a living. Is 1:41:08.960 --> 1:41:09.640 this confusing? 1:41:11.120 --> 1:41:11.360 Yes? 1:41:11.640 --> 1:41:13.160 And that's why it's so you know, they make it 1:41:13.280 --> 1:41:16.280 very easy. It's only a dollar a month to add 1:41:16.320 --> 1:41:20.400 that whatever it is fifty gigabytes. So you know that's 1:41:20.400 --> 1:41:22.240 how it starts, right, you say, that's just a dollar 1:41:22.240 --> 1:41:24.519 a month, Why don't I. I'll just do this and 1:41:24.560 --> 1:41:26.280 then I don't have to think about it, and now 1:41:26.280 --> 1:41:28.320 you're in, right, and then it becomes three dollars a 1:41:28.320 --> 1:41:30.120 month once you need a little more storage. And then 1:41:30.200 --> 1:41:32.519 you're like, well, I guess I can do Apple one. 1:41:32.600 --> 1:41:34.880 Since I'm already paying for this, I'll just add this 1:41:34.960 --> 1:41:37.680 other stuff. And now they got you and you're you're 1:41:37.720 --> 1:41:40.280 in the Apple ecosystem forever. So just be mindful of 1:41:40.280 --> 1:41:43.280 those things, I guess, and know the choices that you have. 1:41:43.640 --> 1:41:45.960 And by the way, a dollar a month, there's like 1:41:46.160 --> 1:41:49.760 over a billion iPhone users in the world, so a 1:41:49.840 --> 1:41:52.080 dollar a month times let's say just half of them 1:41:52.080 --> 1:41:55.599 are using iCloud, that's a lot of money. And this 1:41:55.680 --> 1:41:59.320 is why Apple Services, they call it, is the fastest 1:41:59.360 --> 1:42:01.519 growing money maker for Apple right now. 1:42:02.200 --> 1:42:03.519 Yeah, it reminds me. 1:42:03.680 --> 1:42:06.160 You know, over on the Google side, they just boasted 1:42:06.200 --> 1:42:08.439 I think of having I think the number was one 1:42:08.520 --> 1:42:11.599 hundred million Google one subscribers. Yeah, and they were boasting 1:42:11.640 --> 1:42:13.280 about that, and I was like, yeah, well, it's because 1:42:13.320 --> 1:42:16.080 you turned off unlimited photo storage. So now everybody ran 1:42:16.120 --> 1:42:18.680 out of space for photos and Gmail and they have 1:42:18.760 --> 1:42:21.040 to pay. So one way or another, you're going to 1:42:21.080 --> 1:42:23.200 pay somebody for cloud storage. It's just a matter of 1:42:23.880 --> 1:42:27.320 deciding who and when and why and where. 1:42:27.520 --> 1:42:29.800 If you think about it, it's pretty smart. They've got 1:42:29.800 --> 1:42:34.040 our they've got our memories locked up. And whoever thought 1:42:34.080 --> 1:42:36.120 about this. Hey, let's put a camera on the phone. 1:42:36.160 --> 1:42:38.519 People take more pictures and then we'll get them free 1:42:38.600 --> 1:42:40.120 for a while and then we'll charge them. 1:42:40.360 --> 1:42:41.960 It's pretty brilliant, actually. 1:42:42.360 --> 1:42:44.599 Yeah, and we'll make the photo shooting four K at 1:42:44.600 --> 1:42:47.200 sixty free inch or second with Dulby vision. So all 1:42:47.240 --> 1:42:49.000 that stuff uses more data than it used to. 1:42:49.840 --> 1:42:54.200 Absolutely, all right, Jared, tell folks how they can find 1:42:54.200 --> 1:42:54.960 you online. 1:42:55.680 --> 1:42:57.920 Yeah, if you want to check out my newsletter, it's 1:42:58.120 --> 1:43:01.640 advisorator dot com. And in fact, if you want to 1:43:01.760 --> 1:43:04.120 check out the paid version, you can go to advisorator 1:43:04.200 --> 1:43:07.160 dot com slash rich on tech. I got a little 1:43:07.160 --> 1:43:07.760 discount for. 1:43:07.720 --> 1:43:11.120 You, nice, and I also love your You have another newsletter, 1:43:11.200 --> 1:43:14.160 cord Cutter Weekly that you keep the big list of 1:43:14.200 --> 1:43:16.439 streaming deals. I will link that up on the website 1:43:16.439 --> 1:43:20.760 as well. If you're looking for like free codes and 1:43:21.160 --> 1:43:23.559 discount codes for all the streaming services. It is a 1:43:23.720 --> 1:43:27.200 great resource that's always updated, so I'll put that on 1:43:27.240 --> 1:43:28.000 the website as well. 1:43:28.280 --> 1:43:30.080 Jared Newman, thanks so much for joining me today. 1:43:30.560 --> 1:43:32.080 Thanks for having me Rich always pleasure. 1:43:32.160 --> 1:43:34.559 All right, Jared Newman of Advisorator. I'll put the link 1:43:34.600 --> 1:43:38.040 on the website. Rich on tech dot tv coming up. 1:43:38.600 --> 1:43:41.519 We're going to close out the show in a segment 1:43:41.640 --> 1:43:45.960 we call feedback. You are listening to rich on Tech. 1:43:49.800 --> 1:43:52.679 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:43:52.680 --> 1:43:56.920 out with you, talking technology at triple eight Rich one 1:43:56.920 --> 1:44:01.720 oh one eight eight eight seven four for one zero one. 1:44:03.000 --> 1:44:04.799 I don't know why I just gave out the phone number. 1:44:04.880 --> 1:44:09.759 We don't have time for anymore calls. I'm just listening 1:44:09.800 --> 1:44:11.040 to the song. 1:44:11.120 --> 1:44:11.400 Here. 1:44:12.920 --> 1:44:15.799 It's time for the feedback segment. These are the emails, comments, 1:44:15.800 --> 1:44:18.120 and questions I get from you, and if you'd like 1:44:18.160 --> 1:44:20.200 to submit yours, go to rich on Tech dot tv 1:44:20.439 --> 1:44:24.719 and hit contact. So many to get through. So let's 1:44:24.760 --> 1:44:27.840 just start at the top here. Mike says, regarding putting 1:44:27.880 --> 1:44:31.360 a TV outdoors, we had an extra fifty five inch 1:44:31.439 --> 1:44:33.960 video that we put out doors. We purchased an excellent 1:44:34.040 --> 1:44:38.160 waterproof cover from Covers and All. The TV has survived 1:44:38.160 --> 1:44:41.880 two So Cal rainy seasons so far. Very heavy duty 1:44:41.960 --> 1:44:44.760 material that fully encloses the TV a lot cheaper than 1:44:44.800 --> 1:44:48.360 buying a Sunbright or a custom enclosure, comes in many sizes. 1:44:48.560 --> 1:44:51.680 Great show, Mike, Yeah, we're getting a. 1:44:51.680 --> 1:44:54.960 Lot of messages about people in southern California putting TVs 1:44:54.960 --> 1:44:56.720 that are not supposed to be outside outside. 1:44:56.960 --> 1:44:58.599 I mean, I guess it could be done again. 1:44:58.640 --> 1:45:00.880 I can't fully recommend it, even though I probably won't 1:45:00.880 --> 1:45:03.880 do it in my backyard. Why not, I've got the 1:45:03.920 --> 1:45:08.479 TV in my garage, SoC says Rich. I'm not sure 1:45:08.479 --> 1:45:11.680 why you're pushing evs. The EV, as we know it 1:45:11.720 --> 1:45:15.240 is dead. The auto companies are losing money by the millions. 1:45:15.280 --> 1:45:17.519 Ford is cutting way back on EV due to losing 1:45:17.560 --> 1:45:20.719 tens of millions of dollars each quarter. Toyota and Honda 1:45:20.760 --> 1:45:23.720 are not even emphasizing EV at all. The EV is 1:45:23.800 --> 1:45:26.360 just a SoCal thing. Once you go outside SoCal, everyone 1:45:26.400 --> 1:45:27.519 stays away from EV's. 1:45:27.960 --> 1:45:29.720 You know what happened to EV's. It hurts. They just 1:45:29.760 --> 1:45:31.040 got rid of their EV fleet. 1:45:31.080 --> 1:45:34.639 No one wanted to rent them at overseas, they're going 1:45:34.640 --> 1:45:36.880 back to regular gas cars once they realize they've been 1:45:36.960 --> 1:45:39.559 drinking the EV kool aid. And once you learn how 1:45:39.600 --> 1:45:42.160 the lithium ion battery is so toxic to the environment 1:45:42.160 --> 1:45:44.280 that you wouldn't want anything to do with it. Once 1:45:44.280 --> 1:45:46.599 you learn about the life cycle of the lithium ion 1:45:46.640 --> 1:45:50.759 batteries from mining the rare earth material, manufacturing of the 1:45:50.800 --> 1:45:55.439 batteries and disposal, you're not doing any favor to the environment. Well, 1:45:55.560 --> 1:45:58.280 thank you, SoC. I just talk about the news. I 1:45:58.320 --> 1:46:01.439 don't create the news. So I mean, I'm not at 1:46:01.439 --> 1:46:04.479 the car companies. I'm not making these cars. I'm not, 1:46:04.640 --> 1:46:07.719 you know, directing what's happening at the auto shows. But yes, 1:46:07.840 --> 1:46:10.720 you still have options and it is clearly within your 1:46:10.800 --> 1:46:14.080 rights to go EV or not go EV. Thanks for 1:46:14.120 --> 1:46:16.200 the email, Mark says Rich. I love your show, but 1:46:16.400 --> 1:46:20.040 for God's sake, please make your guests and callers get 1:46:20.040 --> 1:46:22.160 off those speakers in bluetooth. You have no idea what 1:46:22.240 --> 1:46:24.400 it sounds like on my end, especially your guests. Come 1:46:24.439 --> 1:46:28.040 on now, a tech guest talking on tin cans. Better 1:46:28.160 --> 1:46:29.880 make them call in on a landline. I have to 1:46:29.880 --> 1:46:33.599 fast forward through all that gibberish. Mark well Mark. Again, 1:46:33.720 --> 1:46:36.320 I can't control my guests or the callers, but I 1:46:36.400 --> 1:46:40.320 do recommend that they connect a certain way. Land lines 1:46:40.360 --> 1:46:43.000 are very rare these days. I don't know of anyone 1:46:43.000 --> 1:46:46.439 that has one. So yeah, we used to say, like, 1:46:46.520 --> 1:46:48.639 please call in on a landline on a radio show, 1:46:48.680 --> 1:46:50.880 but that's just not the case anymore, Like people just 1:46:50.920 --> 1:46:54.320 don't have access to that. Most of the time, it works, though, 1:46:54.479 --> 1:46:55.800 and I do listen to the show in my car 1:46:55.840 --> 1:46:58.760 to hear what it sounds like to you, and it 1:46:58.920 --> 1:47:01.720 sounds pretty good most of the time. Nancy says, we 1:47:01.760 --> 1:47:03.680 have so many tech issues. I'm ready to go back 1:47:03.680 --> 1:47:06.519 to pen and paper. Is it possible for someone to 1:47:06.560 --> 1:47:09.599 mess up technology from their body chemistry? As a child, 1:47:09.640 --> 1:47:11.720 my mom bought me a watch it didn't work. When 1:47:11.720 --> 1:47:13.799 I got married, my new husband bought me an expensive 1:47:13.840 --> 1:47:17.000 watch that didn't work. Even though my desktop was less 1:47:17.040 --> 1:47:18.920 than ten feet away, the modem told me it wasn't 1:47:18.960 --> 1:47:21.439 connected to the Internet. I got the same message from 1:47:21.479 --> 1:47:23.360 my printer, and that was less than two feet from 1:47:23.360 --> 1:47:25.920 the modem. I spent eight hours one day trying to 1:47:25.960 --> 1:47:29.360 attach a file. Am I getting punked? 1:47:29.360 --> 1:47:29.519 Here? 1:47:29.960 --> 1:47:31.920 I could find it and open it, but after closing it, 1:47:31.960 --> 1:47:34.400 I couldn't attach it. According to my computer, it either 1:47:34.439 --> 1:47:35.960 didn't exist or had to be moved. 1:47:36.520 --> 1:47:36.760 Later. 1:47:36.800 --> 1:47:38.679 It was there I learned my computer had a glitch 1:47:38.720 --> 1:47:41.479 and it wasn't connected to the internet. Nancy, Nancy, you 1:47:41.520 --> 1:47:46.640 know what it happened sometimes. Tim says, hey, Rich, I 1:47:46.640 --> 1:47:49.519 got the fitbit charged six shortly after you reviewed it. 1:47:49.600 --> 1:47:51.680 Bought it last Wednesday, haven't charged it yet. It is 1:47:51.720 --> 1:47:54.400 still at twenty seven percent. Thanks for the review and recommendation. 1:47:54.880 --> 1:47:57.200 I had been deciding about my next fitbit or another 1:47:57.240 --> 1:48:00.880 smart watch for some time. It is perfect, Tim, Thank you. 1:48:00.960 --> 1:48:02.120 Tim. Appreciate that. 1:48:02.800 --> 1:48:05.639 Eugene says, I was listening to a recent podcast where 1:48:05.640 --> 1:48:08.720 you mentioned decluttering and a dumpster. Rather than using a 1:48:08.800 --> 1:48:12.320 dumpster next time, considered donation thrift stores, Goodwill, et cetera, 1:48:12.360 --> 1:48:14.720 et cetera. Somehow, I don't think your stuff would be 1:48:14.720 --> 1:48:19.639 considered scrap. Enjoy all your podcasts, Eugene, absolutely one percent. 1:48:19.720 --> 1:48:22.400 I do donate when possible, and believe me, when they 1:48:22.400 --> 1:48:24.160 get some of the stuff I donate at Goodwill, they're 1:48:24.160 --> 1:48:26.120 scratching their head because they're like, this is like a 1:48:26.160 --> 1:48:30.400 brand new tech item and it's just you know, Bobo says, 1:48:30.400 --> 1:48:33.400 bring it in next time, But yes, I do donate 1:48:33.720 --> 1:48:35.640 whenever possible. The stuff that we threw out in the 1:48:35.680 --> 1:48:39.400 dumpster was mostly trash, so and we did donate a 1:48:39.439 --> 1:48:42.880 lot of stuff from there. Uh okay, that's going to 1:48:42.920 --> 1:48:45.200 be it for the feedback segment. If you want to 1:48:45.240 --> 1:48:47.240 send me your email, just go to rich on tech 1:48:47.280 --> 1:48:50.400 dot TV hit contact, and I love getting your messages. 1:48:50.479 --> 1:48:52.840 I'd do my best to reply or read it on 1:48:52.880 --> 1:48:54.519 the show. I can't get to them all, but I 1:48:54.600 --> 1:48:57.240 do appreciate you sending them in. If you can believe it, 1:48:57.280 --> 1:48:58.720 that's going to do it for this episode. You can 1:48:58.760 --> 1:49:01.719 find links everything I mentioned to richon tech dot TV. 1:49:01.960 --> 1:49:05.200 Find me on social media at rich on tech. Next week, 1:49:05.200 --> 1:49:07.120 I'm going to tell you about the AI reading tool 1:49:07.160 --> 1:49:09.639 that teachers are using that you can use at home 1:49:09.640 --> 1:49:12.800 for your kids, and it is incredible. Thanks so much 1:49:12.800 --> 1:49:14.719 for listening. There are so many ways you can spend 1:49:14.720 --> 1:49:17.040 your time. 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