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Speaker 1: rich dmiro and this is Rich on Tech broadcasting live
Speaker 1: from Los Angeles, coast to coast. This is the show
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Speaker 1: will do my best. Guests this week, we've got Bob O'Donnell, president,
Speaker 1: founder and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research. He's going to
Speaker 1: explain what aipcs are all about. And I'm very excited
Speaker 1: to talk to Bob because he actually used to host
Speaker 1: pretty much a version of this show back in the day.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna talk to him about that.
Speaker 1: Advisorator columnist Jared Newman is going to talk to talk
Speaker 1: about what to do if you're out of iCloud storage,
Speaker 1: you see that dreaded message and you don't know what
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Today, I figured i'd tell you a story about technology,
Speaker 1: but really it's a story about perseverance because this all
Speaker 1: started at my work. You know, I work as a
Speaker 1: TV reporter at a tech tech reporter at a TV station,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, people come up to me all
Speaker 1: the time and say, hey, Rich do you have a
Speaker 1: second for a question? All the time, and of course
Speaker 1: I say, yes, what do you need? And it inevitably
Speaker 1: is some very complicated situation on their phone or computer
Speaker 1: or iPad or at home that is not easily answered
Speaker 1: in a minute or two.
Speaker 2: But it's fine. I don't mind.
Speaker 1: I love talking to people about this stuff, as I
Speaker 1: do here on the show. So they come up they say, hey,
Speaker 1: my computer. I've got this old computer. I want to
Speaker 1: like kind of freshen it up, clean it out, and
Speaker 1: make it new it again. I said, oh, that's easy.
Speaker 1: We kind of computer macro pc. Oh it's a mac
Speaker 1: oh super easy. We could just reformat it'll be back
Speaker 1: up and running a couple of minutes. He's like, oh great,
Speaker 1: I have it right here. Oh okay, let me have it.
Speaker 1: So he brings it to my desk and I start
Speaker 1: looking at this computer. It's kind of old, it's aging,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of slow, it's got old software on it,
Speaker 1: and it's very clear that this thing just needs a
Speaker 1: total reinstallation of the operating system. So I said, all right,
Speaker 1: leave it here, can you can you leave it at
Speaker 1: my desk for a couple minutes and I'll I'm doing
Speaker 1: other stuff, but let me try to work on it.
Speaker 2: Well. To connect this thing to the.
Speaker 1: Internet at my work was very complicated because we have
Speaker 1: a kind of secured Wi Fi and it's not very
Speaker 1: easy to do that when you're trying to form out
Speaker 1: a machine and get it up and running. It's easier
Speaker 1: to have either Wi Fi at home or some sort
Speaker 1: of Ethernet connection. Plus it's fat, you know, it's much faster.
Speaker 1: So I start trying to do this at my work
Speaker 1: with the work connection. It keeps failing, and so I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, let me try a hotspot. So I hook
Speaker 1: it up to my cell phone and I hotspot it
Speaker 1: connection is a little bit better, but everything I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do is still failing. And it's trying to connect
Speaker 1: to some server. But the computer's really old and the
Speaker 1: software is really old. So I feel like Apple's shut
Speaker 1: down whatever server it's trying to connect to. So I
Speaker 1: said to the guy, look, do you mind if I
Speaker 1: just bring this thing home and I will figure it
Speaker 1: out at home and I will work on it.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, It's got a whole bag, puts all the stuff
Speaker 1: in it, all the you know, cables and things, and
Speaker 1: bring it.
Speaker 2: Bring this thing home.
Speaker 1: So I get it home, and you know, it's one
Speaker 1: of these days where I got home kind of early
Speaker 1: from work. I would gonna work on it that afternoon,
Speaker 1: so I want to go to the gym, kind of
Speaker 1: do some.
Speaker 2: Other stuff whatever.
Speaker 1: I start working on this thing, and you know, I
Speaker 1: just go down a rabbit hole of trying to figure
Speaker 1: this thing out. Nothing is working. So I get the
Speaker 1: good internet connection. I find a way to connect. First
Speaker 1: thing I had to do. This thing doesn't have USBC,
Speaker 1: so I had to like find a way to connect
Speaker 1: my ethernet to this even though all I had was USBC.
Speaker 1: So I had to find like an adapter, which I
Speaker 1: ended up finding in my old you know, gadget closet whatever.
Speaker 2: So I figured that out.
Speaker 1: But I'm sitting here and now now time is starting
Speaker 1: to go by, right like I'm kind of getting a
Speaker 1: little bit annoyed at the fact that I'm spending so
Speaker 1: much time and nothing I'm doing is working. And next
Speaker 1: thing you know, I'm trying to get into like terminal
Speaker 1: on this computer. I'm trying to like format things. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to make a USB boot drive, all this stuff
Speaker 1: that I've done a million times in the past, but
Speaker 1: nothing seems to work. And I keep going and going
Speaker 1: and going, and I'm sitting there thinking to myself, this
Speaker 1: should be so easy. But at this point, I'm so invested.
Speaker 1: I can't go back to this guy at my work
Speaker 1: as the tech guy. I'd be like, oh, sorry, I
Speaker 1: wasn't able to figure this out, Like could you imagine,
Speaker 1: Like I can't have that word spreading around KTLA or
Speaker 1: anywhere else.
Speaker 2: And so I am determined. So I finally, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: I spent three hours in the afternoon and I thought
Speaker 1: at one point I got it up and running. I
Speaker 1: text the guy I'm like, hey, look at this splash screen.
Speaker 1: It was showing like the installation working. I was like, see,
Speaker 1: all I needed was better Internet. And sure enough, right
Speaker 1: at the end of that installation, it's like error failed.
Speaker 1: Right at the end, ninety nine percent, that last one
Speaker 1: percent failed. I'm like, You've got to be kidding me
Speaker 1: right now. So I am just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: any way to get this thing to work. And you know,
Speaker 1: as you spend more time on something, you're getting a
Speaker 1: little bit more like quick and hasty and like things
Speaker 1: aren't working. And I've downloaded like all the software to
Speaker 1: my computer. Nothing's working. I shelve it. I'm like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I got to take a break. I gotta
Speaker 1: take a breath. I sholve the computer. I put it
Speaker 1: in my room. I, you know, just leave it there.
Speaker 1: Like a week or two goes by. I see this
Speaker 1: guy at work, He's like, hey, Ranch, any update. I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's going, it's going, it's going, But really nothing was happening.
Speaker 1: So finally I have a breakthrough. I'm at home and
Speaker 1: I realized what I needed. So with the way mac
Speaker 1: os works, you can't download a current version of the
Speaker 1: software or an old version of the software on a
Speaker 1: new machine, you have to use an old machine that
Speaker 1: used to be able to run that software. And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm going through like my drawers and
Speaker 1: I find a laptop, a Mac laptop that I forgot
Speaker 1: I had, because I forgot I had it because the
Speaker 1: battery is is shot so it doesn't hold a charge.
Speaker 1: And so usually I hand my computers down to a
Speaker 1: family member, but this one I just threw in a
Speaker 1: drawer because I'm like, oh, I don't really know what
Speaker 1: to do with this thing, because nobody else could use it. Well,
Speaker 1: I plug it in, it gets up and running. I
Speaker 1: look at the version of the software. I'm like, you've
Speaker 1: got to be kidding me. I think this is gonna work.
Speaker 1: And so I download this program called disk Drill, and
Speaker 1: it's like a really easy program to help you make
Speaker 1: these bootable drives. I download it and I'm starting to
Speaker 1: download the software and everything is working. I'm like, You've
Speaker 1: got to be kidding me, Like this is actually working.
Speaker 1: Like I'm sitting there smiling to myself. I am working
Speaker 1: on a ten year old computer with another ten year
Speaker 1: old computer next to me, with my current computer there,
Speaker 1: so I have like a whole like factory of MacBooks
Speaker 1: sitting in front of me, and it's working. It is working.
Speaker 1: So I get this little drive made. And by the way,
Speaker 1: since these computers are so old, everything that should take
Speaker 1: five or ten minutes really takes like twenty to thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: But finally I am getting some progress. This drive that
Speaker 1: I need, it's like a USB drive is it's what's
Speaker 1: called a bootable drive. So when you plug it into
Speaker 1: the new computer, it looks at that it says, ooh,
Speaker 1: I can use this to boot up, and I can
Speaker 1: use this to actually install this operating system and run.
Speaker 1: And so I get this little drive made. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I had to have a USB drive that
Speaker 1: was USBC on one side and USB on the other side,
Speaker 1: and so I had that because I test stuff and
Speaker 1: I happen to have that lane around the house. So
Speaker 1: that was like, that was just incredible to have I
Speaker 1: get the software on this thing.
Speaker 2: I plug it into the computer.
Speaker 1: Immediately the computer went from having a question mark on
Speaker 1: the screen to an Apple logo and it was starting
Speaker 1: to install. And I didn't even have to do anything.
Speaker 1: It just started like it knew. It was like magical.
Speaker 1: As soon as I plugged this piece, and it was
Speaker 1: like out of a movie. And I'm sitting there like
Speaker 1: high fiving myself, laughing that this is like actually a thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm more just sitting there thinking that this is
Speaker 1: my reputation on the line more than anything. I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna figure this out. I get the software. It installs,
Speaker 1: the computer opens up, it turns on. It is a fresh,
Speaker 1: clean installation of mac os High Sierra, which by the way,
Speaker 1: came out I don't know how many years ago. But
Speaker 1: it's on there and it's working. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: and I finally get this thing to work. I plug
Speaker 1: it all in, I turn it on. I set up
Speaker 1: his littleccount and it is perfect. It is pristine. His
Speaker 1: old computer that I couldn't figure out for two weeks
Speaker 1: finally worked. I looked back in the email that I
Speaker 1: originally sent him, saying, oh, I think I got it.
Speaker 1: It was sixteen days ago. This guy waited sixteen days
Speaker 1: thinking oh, this is not going to work. Why do
Speaker 1: I tell you this story, Well, I said it was
Speaker 1: a story of perseverance. So you can apply this to
Speaker 1: anything in your life, whether it is tech, whether it
Speaker 1: is your job, whether it's sports, maybe your marriage, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Whatever you need, just keep going. And I'm
Speaker 1: so proud that I figured this out, something that I've
Speaker 1: done many, many times. But more so than that, it
Speaker 1: is exciting to have this up and running for this
Speaker 1: person again and deliver them this computer. And man, I
Speaker 1: feel good. I feel good. But here is the bottom line.
Speaker 1: I say this story because people come up to me,
Speaker 1: as you know, the person who knows about technology, thinking
Speaker 1: I have all the answers, and you call me on
Speaker 1: this show and you think I have all the answers.
Speaker 1: Tech people don't have all the answers immediately. But the
Speaker 1: difference between me and other people out there and other
Speaker 1: tech people is that we know how to find the answers.
Speaker 1: Like any person that is a sort of an expert
Speaker 1: in their field, they may not have all the answers
Speaker 1: off the top of their head, but they know where
Speaker 1: to find that answer. If a doctor comes up against something,
Speaker 1: and I'm not comparing myself to a doctor, believe me,
Speaker 1: but if a doctor comes up against something that is
Speaker 1: challenging them, they will figure out. They will consult with
Speaker 1: their colleagues and figure out a solution that they think
Speaker 1: is best someone fixes cars, they come up against the
Speaker 1: problem that they can't figure out. They'll consult with other people.
Speaker 1: You probably consult with other people at your work, asking hey,
Speaker 1: how do I solve this problem?
Speaker 2: That is what it's all about. That is it. That
Speaker 2: is the story. I feel good.
Speaker 1: I'm excited I can deliver this guy's computer back and
Speaker 1: I learned a lesson. Not only is disc drill an
Speaker 1: excellent program to have around, but I'm also gonna keep
Speaker 1: a bootable USB drive for every version of Mac os
Speaker 1: at the ready from now on.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm gonna do, all right.
Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, I hope you enjoyed that
Speaker 1: because I really got kick. My My wife and family
Speaker 1: were like every day when they come home, they get
Speaker 1: a little update about this computer, Like Dad, that computer
Speaker 1: is still sitting there in the office. I'm like, I know,
Speaker 1: I'll figure it out, all right. Coming up, more of
Speaker 1: your call or your calls eight A eight Rich one
Speaker 1: on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: to one zero one. Give me a call if you
Speaker 1: have a question about technology.
Speaker 2: I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling like I accomplished stuff. Let's accomplish some more.
Speaker 1: My name is Rich d'miro and you are listening to
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple
Speaker 1: A Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Website for the
Speaker 1: show richon Tech dot TV. If you want a link
Speaker 1: to something I mentioned, you can find it right at
Speaker 1: the top there.
Speaker 2: It is highlighted in red.
Speaker 1: Let's go to cam in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Cam you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hi, Rich, I love you on KTLA and just wanted
Speaker 3: to say thank you for your information all the time.
Speaker 3: And my question is I'm looking for some resources actually
Speaker 3: hopefully this is a quick question for someone to perform
Speaker 3: an investigation on the dark web to find maybe some
Speaker 3: uh information pertaining to somebody maybe putting information out there
Speaker 3: that's false. And I've been doing a lot of research
Speaker 3: on my own and I'm kind of limited in my
Speaker 3: understanding of, you know, the complete realm of technology, and
Speaker 3: was wondering if you had a resource of some investigative
Speaker 3: either law firm or investigative company that can it would recommend,
Speaker 3: that would be able to perform that type of investigation.
Speaker 1: Well, I have one person that comes to mind that
Speaker 1: I've interviewed actually several times for KTLA and thanks for
Speaker 1: the kind words on that. And so I can recommend
Speaker 1: a website that you can contact. Her name is Haley Kaplan.
Speaker 1: What is privacy dot com? And there's dashes between, so
Speaker 1: what dash is dash? Privacy dot com? And Hailey works
Speaker 1: with a lot of high profile individuals for reputation management.
Speaker 1: And you know basically what you're saying, She's not a lawyer,
Speaker 1: and I can't really recommend a legal route to go,
Speaker 1: but that's that's a route to go that can at least,
Speaker 1: you know, get you in.
Speaker 2: The right direction.
Speaker 1: Now, when it comes to the dark Web, this is
Speaker 1: an area of the Internet that is not necessarily traversed
Speaker 1: by the average person, nor is it easily searchable by
Speaker 1: the average person. But there is information on pretty much
Speaker 1: every single one of us out there on the dark web.
Speaker 1: And so if you are just looking to see what
Speaker 1: is out there on you, there's a couple of resources
Speaker 1: I can mention that you can use to scan kind
Speaker 1: of some of these things. And believe me, when you're
Speaker 1: talking about your personal information on the Internet, it is
Speaker 1: a game of whack a mole. You can get this
Speaker 1: removed and it shows up instantly a couple of days later.
Speaker 1: I use a service called Google Results About You, which
Speaker 1: I highly recommend. I just signed up my wife this morning,
Speaker 1: but I highly recommend you go in here and set
Speaker 1: this up. It is free, and it doesn't remove the
Speaker 1: data about you from the Internet, but it removes kind
Speaker 1: of the links on Google. So if someone's searching for
Speaker 1: information about you, you know, your name, address, phone number,
Speaker 1: SoC security number, whatever, that information may still be out
Speaker 1: there on the websites, but most people are just gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, casually search Google for that and those links
Speaker 1: will not show up. So that again is called Google
Speaker 1: Results about You. If you want to sign up for it,
Speaker 1: open up the Google app on your phone has to
Speaker 1: be the Google app. Tap in the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 1: You'll see a little icon and then you'll see something
Speaker 1: that says Results about You. And so to sign up,
Speaker 1: you basically have to give Google your information, your name,
Speaker 1: your address, your phone number, your email and then they
Speaker 1: go out on the web and they scan the web
Speaker 1: for that information and as they find it, they will
Speaker 1: send you a notification that says, hey, do you want
Speaker 1: us to take this off of our Google Search results?
Speaker 1: And they're not going to take everything down, but they
Speaker 1: will take down a lot. I mean I had three
Speaker 1: taken down just yesterday, So that's one way to do it.
Speaker 1: Another website that's really handy is called have I Been Pooned?
Speaker 1: And it's not spelled the way you think it's h
Speaker 1: a ve I beIN pwned and it looks like pawned,
Speaker 1: but it's pned dot com. Have I Beenpooned?
Speaker 2: Dot com?
Speaker 1: And I'll link this up on my website rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot tv, and you can put your email address
Speaker 1: in there and it will tell you if your email
Speaker 1: address is in one of these breaches, and if it is,
Speaker 1: that means that the password associated with that email address
Speaker 1: is out there on the web as well. So don't
Speaker 1: reuse your passwords please. When it comes to scanning your
Speaker 1: information on the dark web, a lot of these services
Speaker 1: are paid. Experience has a dark Web scanning option you
Speaker 1: can pay for that. It says you can start for free.
Speaker 1: I have not use that one personally, so I can't
Speaker 1: vouch for it. Norton also has some dark web monitoring Mozilla.
Speaker 1: I don't think they monitor the dark web, but they
Speaker 1: do monitor for data breaches. It's called Mozilla Monitor and
Speaker 1: you can get a first scan for free. I think
Speaker 1: we talked about it on the show last week. And
Speaker 1: then there is another option through Google One if you
Speaker 1: have Google One, So if you pay for any subscription
Speaker 1: service on Google, you have a membership to Google One
Speaker 1: and they will scan your information on the dark Web.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of it's similar to that results about
Speaker 1: you that I talked about that's available to everyone, but
Speaker 1: this takes it a little deeper into the dark web
Speaker 1: and you will get those alerts and you'll be surprised
Speaker 1: that your social your data, birth, your address, all that
Speaker 1: stuff is really out there on the dark web where
Speaker 1: people are selling, buying, trading this stuff on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: It's pretty wild when you start going down these roads.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to get this stuff off the Internet,
Speaker 1: and it's probably never going to be completely off. But
Speaker 1: that is what I recommend for some of the free
Speaker 1: resources and paid resources out there. Good question, just something
Speaker 1: you got to keep on top of all. Right, coming
Speaker 1: up on the show, people are already returning their Apple
Speaker 1: Vision pro why we'll find out plus more.
Speaker 2: Of your calls at triple eight rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Website rich on Tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: If you need a link to something I mentioned, I
Speaker 1: just mentioned a whole bunch of dark web monitoring services.
Speaker 1: You can get the links for those there, and you
Speaker 1: can follow me on social media. I am at rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Well, the fourteen day return window for early
Speaker 1: adopt of Apple's Vision Pro headset is up, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people took to social media saying they are
Speaker 1: returning the product.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 1: They say it feels too isolating when you're wearing it,
Speaker 1: it's too heavy and uncomfortable, and they haven't found a
Speaker 1: daily use case for it. A lot of people say
Speaker 1: maybe they'll buy the next version when it's a little
Speaker 1: bit more refined, it's lighter, it's cheaper. This is a
Speaker 1: thirty five hundred dollars device. Add it up with tax
Speaker 1: and accessories. You're talking four grand for something that you
Speaker 1: can only use by yourself. And there's not really a
Speaker 1: ton of use case scenarios for this just yet. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of people probably just bought this to check
Speaker 1: it out, you know, make some content with it, knowing
Speaker 1: they'd return it. But it's kind of wild because I've
Speaker 1: not seen this sort of reaction with an Apple product
Speaker 1: in a very long time. In fact, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I could ever remember an Apple product that people
Speaker 1: were excited about. And in my lifetime, I've seen you know,
Speaker 1: the iPhone, the Apple Watch, the iPad, you know, very computers.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like, we don't know if this
Speaker 1: is going to be a hit or a miss just yet.
Speaker 1: But supposedly they sold under two hundred thousand of these things.
Speaker 1: But the good news is once Apple gets these things
Speaker 1: back in the in the back stock room, they'll refurbish
Speaker 1: them and you'll be able to buy it at a discount.
Speaker 2: Now I'm curious to see.
Speaker 1: I don't think Apple will do this, but it'd be
Speaker 1: interesting to see if they discount this thing and make
Speaker 1: it a lesser price that even I was trying to think,
Speaker 1: like how much would it take for me to buy
Speaker 1: this thing? Even at fifteen hundred bucks, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it still feels too expensive. You've got the Mediquest three,
Speaker 1: which is five hundred bucks, and Mark Zuckerberg in a
Speaker 1: very rare It's rare that you see a tech CEO
Speaker 1: do a review of a competitor's product, but that's exactly
Speaker 1: what Mark Zuckerberg did this week. He tried out the
Speaker 1: Vision Pro. He said it was underwhelming compared to his product,
Speaker 1: the Mediquest three. Now that makes sense, of course he's
Speaker 1: going to say that, but he says it has The
Speaker 1: Mediquest three has a wider field of view, it's lighter,
Speaker 1: it's more comfortable, it supports Xbox games, which the Vision
Speaker 1: Pro does not, and he thinks that overall, the Quest
Speaker 1: three is a better device. I think he said something
Speaker 1: like period it is the best. He likes the Vision
Speaker 1: pros eye tracking, he gave it that, but he said
Speaker 1: they also had that in their Quest Pro and they're
Speaker 1: going to bring it back. He also said the Quest
Speaker 1: three has a better immersive content library currently, and he
Speaker 1: said the Quest three is seven times less. So it's
Speaker 1: hard to argue with Mark Zuckerberg. But you also have
Speaker 1: to remember keep in mind for perspective that Apple is
Speaker 1: the company that probably took about twenty billion dollars away
Speaker 1: from the bottom line of Facebook when they changed the
Speaker 1: way that the iPhone works with the advertising. Facebook was
Speaker 1: no longer able to track people across the iPhone's apps
Speaker 1: and services and web browser, and so that took a
Speaker 1: lot of money away from Facebook. And so you have
Speaker 1: to remember, these are not These guys are frenemies, right
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg. Most of the time, if you look at
Speaker 1: the phone he's using in a reflection in a mirror
Speaker 1: or window, it is not an iPhone because he you know,
Speaker 1: he knows a lot of people are using iPhones that
Speaker 1: he is his customers. I guess you can call them,
Speaker 1: you know, Facebook, Instagram users, but he also knows that
Speaker 1: he'd probably rather have them using a Android. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Stephen in Bakersfield. Steven, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 4: Hey, Hey Dan, Rich, thanks for making the call.
Speaker 2: Doing great. What's up?
Speaker 4: My wife and I are going to be doing a
Speaker 4: pilgrimage walk the Camino Ignaciano in Spain coming up in May.
Speaker 4: It's about three hundred miles of a hike. Oh wow,
Speaker 4: and man Resa, Yeah, it's there are some other the Saniago,
Speaker 4: some other stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds that sounds like a lot.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a hoot. I'm a bit of
Speaker 4: an oldish guy. I'm going to be sixty. I have
Speaker 4: lived in the Apple world, and for the hike itself,
Speaker 4: I don't know that I want to hump my iPhone
Speaker 4: all over the place. I don't have an Apple Watch,
Speaker 4: I don't have comp you know, communication, that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: I'm interested in.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts on what would maybe be a better product
Speaker 4: than the iPhone, Maybe an Apple Watch for text and
Speaker 4: things like that for communication, and also maybe some software.
Speaker 4: I know that a bunch of years ago there was
Speaker 4: What's app and some other stuff, But just wanted to
Speaker 4: pick your brain on both hardware and software for when
Speaker 4: we do this walk.
Speaker 1: So what's your main goal is to stay connected without
Speaker 1: a lot of like looking at screens or what's your
Speaker 1: goal when you're walking?
Speaker 4: My goal is to stay connected with family back here
Speaker 4: in the States, and without having to have even that
Speaker 4: iPhone in my hand all the time, to kind of
Speaker 4: be a little bit more hands free, and to yeah,
Speaker 4: not have a huge screen. We will have opportunity in
Speaker 4: the eve means to dial it down and have access
Speaker 4: to that, but during most of the day, I'd like
Speaker 4: to have communication, you know, maybe text.
Speaker 6: Things like that.
Speaker 1: Well, I think I think an Apple Watch is probably
Speaker 1: the easiest solution, since you can glance at it and
Speaker 1: you'll get some metrics that are kind of nice. I
Speaker 1: don't think that you can leave this thing on GPS
Speaker 1: all day, because it will it will run out of
Speaker 1: battery if you do that pretty quickly. But I think
Speaker 1: that that's probably the easiest way to kind of monitor
Speaker 1: things in as people are texting you, you could see those
Speaker 1: come in.
Speaker 2: Is this an area that has cellular connectivity or no?
Speaker 4: I'm assuming it does the east or the west slope
Speaker 4: of the Pyrenees Mountains in a Basque region from up
Speaker 4: in the north around Loyola down almost to Barcelona. Okay,
Speaker 4: all right, I think it's that pretty good reception.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to see if the emergency SOS feature,
Speaker 1: which which iPhone do you have?
Speaker 4: I have a fourteen pro right now?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so fourteen Pro does have the emergency SOS.
Speaker 1: Do you anticipate needing that service at all? Like? Are
Speaker 1: you off the grid that much? Is this like a
Speaker 1: you're with a group of people, right, We're going to.
Speaker 4: Be doing it with a couple of people, and so
Speaker 4: we're not completely off the grid. And I think we're
Speaker 4: going to be going through the places where I short
Speaker 4: answer is, I think we're gonna be on the grid.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's a problem.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, the good news is if there was any sort
Speaker 1: of time when you need it to you know, if
Speaker 1: they're not a cellular connection, emergency SOS is available in Spain,
Speaker 1: so that's really nice. So make sure that you have
Speaker 1: your phone updated to the latest operating system and the
Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen Pro and the iPhone fifteen models they both
Speaker 1: have the emergency SOS via satellite.
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with that feature? That's a little about Okay,
Speaker 2: So I.
Speaker 4: Have kids that continue that help for me.
Speaker 1: Basically, if your phone does not have a cellular or
Speaker 1: Wi Fi signal, you will see a little satellite signal
Speaker 1: in the upper right hand corner, and that means as
Speaker 1: long as you have a clear view of the sky,
Speaker 1: you will be able to send for emergency help. You'll
Speaker 1: be able to text effectively text an emergency response person
Speaker 1: and say you know, hey, we need this or we
Speaker 1: need that, or send your location or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So that'll be nice.
Speaker 1: But wou I would recommend I know this is kind
Speaker 1: of expensive, but I think you know, maybe treat yourself
Speaker 1: of as a as a reward for doing this with
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch Ultra, because the battery is going to
Speaker 1: last a really long time. The screen is nice and big,
Speaker 1: it's got a nice extra button on there which you
Speaker 1: can program to do a whole bunch of things. And
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's a whole bunch of tracking features.
Speaker 1: It's got better GPS than the standard Apple Watches, and
Speaker 1: so I think that's gonna be nice to keep in
Speaker 1: touch with friends and family back home. And then you
Speaker 1: kind of have to decide if you want to get
Speaker 1: a do you have roamings?
Speaker 2: What's your cellular plan?
Speaker 6: Right now?
Speaker 4: I'm kind of at the top end with stuff, and
Speaker 4: so I have roaming and everything else is connected to
Speaker 4: a business, so I have I have all the cellular
Speaker 4: data and unlimited everything you can think of.
Speaker 6: At least in the States.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was gonna say, okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, as far as connectivity someplace, FILF. I don't
Speaker 4: know if your suggestion would be some kind of an
Speaker 4: international plan at least temporarily, or like I said, I
Speaker 4: think a thousand years ago when we went to Italy
Speaker 4: once we did what's app and communication. So I don't
Speaker 4: know what the best ways to go on.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think, you know, these days, you
Speaker 1: don't even really need WhatsApp anymore. If you're you know,
Speaker 1: if you're texting you what I would recommend is turning
Speaker 1: on what's called Wi Fi calling and texting, And so
Speaker 1: before you leave the States, turn that on your phone.
Speaker 1: If you're going to number one, I call your carrier
Speaker 1: ask if you have any sort of roaming included with
Speaker 1: your plan. So for instance, the plan that I'm on,
Speaker 1: I get a day of roaming free. I think I
Speaker 1: get like four months. So when I log into my account,
Speaker 1: it tells me you have fourteen days of roaming for free.
Speaker 1: And so when I go on a trip international trip
Speaker 1: for you know, three four days, most of the time
Speaker 1: I'm covered. So I would call your company and or
Speaker 1: your carrier and ask them what you've got. The other
Speaker 1: thing I would recommend is a company named Aralo Ai
Speaker 1: r Alo and this is a this is a company
Speaker 1: where you can buy an e SIM for your phone,
Speaker 1: and that is basically a temporary cell phone plan that
Speaker 1: works internationally, and it's very inexpensive. And that's something you
Speaker 1: can install on your phone. If you don't have roaming,
Speaker 1: you install it on your phone, and then when you
Speaker 1: get to the you know, before you take off, you
Speaker 1: will turn off your your connection with whatever company you have,
Speaker 1: whether it's AT and TV, Verizon, T Mobile, whatever, and
Speaker 1: then when you get to the country, you turn on
Speaker 1: this other connection to this secondary ara lo sim It
Speaker 1: sounds a little complicated, but I'll be honest. My mom
Speaker 1: went to Germany. We did this all over the phone.
Speaker 1: She figured it out and she had great connection the
Speaker 1: whole time, and all of her friends that she was
Speaker 1: with were like, how do you have a connection and
Speaker 1: I don't. She's like, well, my son's the tech guy,
Speaker 1: so I mean, of course I figured it out with him,
Speaker 1: and everyone was like cracking up. But I think you'll
Speaker 1: be able to text I personally if you you know.
Speaker 1: When I go overseas, I use something called Telegram, And
Speaker 1: what I like about Telegram is that it works no
Speaker 1: matter what connection I have, whether I have Internet, whether
Speaker 1: I have Wi Fi, whether I have cellular, whether the
Speaker 1: person on the other end is on an iPhone or
Speaker 1: an Android. So I really like that program. WhatsApp is
Speaker 1: also very good. It just depends. It's like a matter
Speaker 1: of preference. So if you have if you want to
Speaker 1: log in with that. You can also use Facebook Messa
Speaker 1: if you have that installed, but it really comes down
Speaker 1: to what the people on the other end have. So
Speaker 1: those are the things that I'd recommend, uh, Steven, But
Speaker 1: it sounds like an epic trick.
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 1: It's very much easier to stay connected internationally than it
Speaker 1: ever has been. Eight A eight rich one O one.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. I'll tell you what open
Speaker 1: eye open ai is doing now, and it's AI video.
Speaker 1: It is incredible. More show right after this. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Everyone in the tech world this week is talking about
Speaker 1: what open ai is doing now, and what they're doing
Speaker 1: now is AI video.
Speaker 2: It is called Sora s o r A.
Speaker 1: This is a new AI system that generates really realistic
Speaker 1: looking video from text.
Speaker 2: Videos can be up.
Speaker 1: To a minute long and they really have impressive detail, lighting, texture,
Speaker 1: shot composition. It looks like something Pixar made. It looks
Speaker 1: like something a film a director would make. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really quite impressive. They showed a bunch of different videos.
Speaker 1: I highly recommend you to take a look at these things.
Speaker 1: Snow one of them was a couple walking through a
Speaker 1: snowy Tokyo landscape. That was awesome. Let's see what else
Speaker 1: did they have. They had a little monster next to
Speaker 1: a candle. Looked like something Pixar would make. And let's
Speaker 1: see what was the other one? A virtual zoo tour.
Speaker 1: I saw a like a car driving through a city,
Speaker 1: but they had they changed it into like twenty five
Speaker 1: different ways. It's really quite impressive. So what is the
Speaker 1: deal with this? Can you get your hands on it? No,
Speaker 1: this is right now. Just research that they are showing
Speaker 1: off and it is very very impressive. So if you
Speaker 1: have a chance, I'll put it. I'll put the link
Speaker 1: on the website rich on tech dot tv in the
Speaker 1: show notes. But it's OpenAI dot com slash sora s
Speaker 1: O r A. And when you see the video that
Speaker 1: this is generating, you will realize that everything is going
Speaker 1: to change once again. Just like chat GBT changed AI
Speaker 1: for the average person, this is now going to change
Speaker 1: video forever. You've heard of deep fakes, you've heard of
Speaker 1: AI generated text and images. This is video and it
Speaker 1: looks incredibly realistic. Now, the one thing that they're not
Speaker 1: saying is how long it takes to generate these videos.
Speaker 1: They're up to a minute long. And I saw one
Speaker 1: person describe it as it takes maybe the time it
Speaker 1: would take to get a burrito, not you know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I forgot what the other thing was. But anyway, it's
Speaker 1: it's long, but it's not that long. And of course
Speaker 1: this will only get better. But the fact that you
Speaker 1: can now type in something like this person says a
Speaker 1: young man in his twenties sitting on a piece of
Speaker 1: cloud in the sky reading a book, And yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what it looks like.
Speaker 2: This was an.
Speaker 1: Animated scene featuring a close up of a short, fluffy
Speaker 1: monster kneeling beside a melting red candle. The art style
Speaker 1: is three D and realistic, with a focus on lighting
Speaker 1: and texture. Now, one of the videos I saw was
Speaker 1: a it was a person in bed. It's not always right.
Speaker 1: They do show some examples of where it gets things
Speaker 1: really wrong. And you know you've seen those AI photos
Speaker 1: where like the hand is off or the teeth are off.
Speaker 1: They show some videos where things are off and it's creepy.
Speaker 1: It's like we are I'm not kidding. We are heading
Speaker 1: into a really weird time. Open Ai, Sora sr. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Mark in San Diego. Mark, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 6: Yeah, hey Rich, uh, great show.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 6: I am having trouble getting to my email after I
Speaker 6: after I did an update on my Windows seven. It's
Speaker 6: an old Windows seven operating system on a on a PC,
Speaker 6: a desktop, okay, And so I go to open it
Speaker 6: and all I get is just a you know, the
Speaker 6: outlook little letter. It just keeps cycling, looks like it's
Speaker 6: going to open, open, open, open, It just never does.
Speaker 6: Now I can get to my emails on my phone,
Speaker 6: but I can't get to it on my my desktop.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think what you need to do is
Speaker 1: reset your Outlook. It sounds like something got a little
Speaker 1: a little messed up in there, So can you I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of the way the best way to
Speaker 1: do this. Can you get into a like your settings
Speaker 1: on that computer? Like do you get any sort of
Speaker 1: menu at all on Outlook or does it just kind
Speaker 1: of just spinny kind of thing the whole time?
Speaker 6: Well it comes up, I can probably get to the
Speaker 6: three dots in the upper right course.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so if you can get to the three
Speaker 1: dots in the upper right hand corner, I would look
Speaker 1: for an option to reset outlook. It might be under
Speaker 1: something like Advanced Options. But that's kind of like what
Speaker 1: you need to do. It sounds like this thing got
Speaker 1: stalled or something got corrupted during the What did you
Speaker 1: upgrade to?
Speaker 2: Is it like it was just.
Speaker 6: The latest before the end of the support from Windows seven?
Speaker 6: It was it was like at the very end of December, okay,
Speaker 6: before the first of January twenty twenty four, they had
Speaker 6: one apparently one last update that I did, and it
Speaker 6: was it was legit. I always check to make sure
Speaker 6: that it's directly from Microsoft, and it just it updated.
Speaker 6: And then it seems like right after that I had
Speaker 6: the problem and again I can get to it on
Speaker 6: my phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So your email is fine.
Speaker 1: It just sounds like you've got It's just it sounds
Speaker 1: like something got a little bit a little bit messed
Speaker 1: up in transit there. So in your email, what type
Speaker 1: of email do you use? Like, is it a Gmail
Speaker 1: or it's.
Speaker 6: A hot mail it's an old hotmail account.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's probably hopefully if you can see them
Speaker 1: on your phone, then your emails are safe. I don't think,
Speaker 1: because there could be you know, if you reset this
Speaker 1: app and something, you know, the emails get deleted or
Speaker 1: everything gets deleted.
Speaker 2: There could be a world where those emails are gone.
Speaker 1: But it sounds like this is if you're if you're
Speaker 1: accessing these on the web, then it's probably not downloading
Speaker 1: the emails to your computer. They're just it's just looking
Speaker 1: at it through IMAP.
Speaker 2: So I yeah, quick question, just quick question.
Speaker 6: Now if I have too many emails on that, because
Speaker 6: I've got quite a few, I don't know, like a lot,
Speaker 6: But would would that be a problem.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I mean, well, it depends or your emails.
Speaker 1: Sending and receiving they are on my phone, okay, then
Speaker 1: then there's no problem with like your storage. I would
Speaker 1: check your storage limit on UH on hotmail in general?
Speaker 1: Do you go to outlook dot com.
Speaker 2: To check that?
Speaker 6: I did not, because I just don't know how to
Speaker 6: do it, but I can probably figure it out.
Speaker 1: Well, how do you check your email? Do you check
Speaker 1: it by going to hotmail dot com or Outlook dot com?
Speaker 6: Outlook on my on my cell phone.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, So I would go on oh, the Outlook app. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so I would. I would go from a What I
Speaker 1: would is go on your desktop computer, go to go
Speaker 1: to outlook dot com sign in check to make sure
Speaker 1: your storage is okay. I don't think that's what's happening
Speaker 1: here because your phone is working. But I would go
Speaker 1: and reset the Outlook app on Windows. So go into
Speaker 1: the menu, look for something that says to reset. Might
Speaker 1: be under like Advanced Options or something like that, but
Speaker 1: it sounds like there's something that's a little corrupt there.
Speaker 1: But that's what I would do, And once you get
Speaker 1: that done, you should be able to I'd say, to
Speaker 1: uninstall the whole app and reinstall it.
Speaker 2: That might be your best case scenario.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure that you can do that on
Speaker 1: a Windows PC because Outlook is part of the system.
Speaker 1: But if you can do that, if all us fails,
Speaker 1: you can try to uninstall it and reinstall it there.
Speaker 1: So thanks for the call, mark and hopefully you get
Speaker 1: that figured out. Coming up coming up on the show
Speaker 1: in the next hour, we're gonna have Bob O'Donnell, president
Speaker 1: and founder at Technolysis Research. He's going to tell you
Speaker 1: what you need to know about AIPCS. Plus I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you about a new feature in Google Photos that
Speaker 1: I am just loving. Plus more of your questions at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one.
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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Typically I tell you what I posted
Speaker 1: this week. Let's see what I posted to Instagram. Oh, actually,
Speaker 1: some fun stuff. If you live in the LA area
Speaker 1: or maybe any state that had these, do you remember something
Speaker 1: called Thomas Guides. These were like maps that you would
Speaker 1: this was before Google Maps, and you would flip through
Speaker 1: these pages to find things on these maps. And so
Speaker 1: I posted I was going through my phone and I
Speaker 1: forgot that I recorded this video and it was basically
Speaker 1: someone was showing me these Google maps, sorry, these Thomas
Speaker 1: Guide maps that I remember, but I forgot about and
Speaker 1: so I guess a lot of people forgot about them
Speaker 1: or remembered them. So that's kind of, you know, going
Speaker 1: a little bit viral, which is surprising because it's just
Speaker 1: so silly. Then I was down in Baldwin Park, California,
Speaker 1: site of the first In and Out Burger. If you
Speaker 1: don't live in California, you know In and Out Burger
Speaker 1: is a huge part of California and probably maybe like
Speaker 1: the West Coast, but especially LA. It's a quality food
Speaker 1: at a great price, and the people are always friendly,
Speaker 1: and it's clean and it's nice. And so I was
Speaker 1: in Baldwin Park for a story and they have like
Speaker 1: a little museum of the original In and Out Burger
Speaker 1: and it was so cool. So I stopped and I
Speaker 1: recorded some video and I posted that to my Instagram.
Speaker 1: And then oh, I did a story on this VO
Speaker 1: flight training. So they're now using virtual reality to train
Speaker 1: helicopter pilots and so instead of this giant expensive flight simulator,
Speaker 1: they use VR, which is more realistic, it's cheaper. And
Speaker 1: I got into this thing and I was actually I
Speaker 1: will be honest. I was actually a little bit apprehensive.
Speaker 1: I said to the guy before we started it, I said,
Speaker 1: look if this gets too realistic, because they started me
Speaker 1: out on a helicopter on top of a building in
Speaker 1: downtown LA, and I was gonna fly off the building.
Speaker 1: And I was like, if this gets too realistic, can
Speaker 1: I just like rip this headset off. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll be fine. It really was realistic. And then last night,
Speaker 1: I guess there's a lot of burgers this week, we
Speaker 1: went to something called Burger King whopper World. This was
Speaker 1: like a pop up. I don't know these companies do
Speaker 1: this stuff, but it's just you know, it's like a promotion.
Speaker 1: I guess Burger King's doing some sort of promotion where
Speaker 1: you build your own whopper and then someone's gonna win
Speaker 1: like a million dollars. And so last night they had
Speaker 1: like a little party. We went to it with the kids.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. We ate a whopper
Speaker 1: and it was great. You could put some random toppings
Speaker 1: on it. But they had one thing that was cool.
Speaker 1: They had this like tablet where you can type in
Speaker 1: the toppings for your whopper, which could be anything you wanted,
Speaker 1: and they were using AI to generate an image of
Speaker 1: the Whopper with those toppings. So if you put like
Speaker 1: gummy bears or sprinkles or chocolate chip cookies, it would
Speaker 1: make an image of the Whopper with that. And then
Speaker 1: they printed it out on a T shirt. And so
Speaker 1: I almost wore my my Burger King T shirt today,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna This is in Santa Monica at the Pier,
Speaker 1: so it's happening this weekend in Los Angeles. Anyway, Google
Speaker 1: Maps or sorry, Google Photos, is getting a new feature.
Speaker 1: It showed up on my phone last night, which means
Speaker 1: it may show up on your phone any day now.
Speaker 1: Google Photos, of course, is my favorite photo app, and
Speaker 1: they now have a feature called stacks. This is something
Speaker 1: I have been waiting for forever because I take a
Speaker 1: bunch of pictures. So if someone says, hey, take you know,
Speaker 1: a picture or whatever, I'm taking pictures of the kids.
Speaker 1: I just snapped that picture like a thousand times, because
Speaker 1: you know, the storage is cheap and you want to
Speaker 1: make sure you get the shot. But the problem is
Speaker 1: when you go through your your photos, there's like so
Speaker 1: many in a row, and it becomes very stressful because
Speaker 1: you don't want to pick out the best one, because
Speaker 1: you've got to zoom into everyone's face, make sure it
Speaker 1: looks all. You know, which one they're smiling, which one
Speaker 1: their eyes are open. And so now photo stacks will
Speaker 1: group similar photos taken together and it will put the
Speaker 1: best one at the top and it will pick It'll
Speaker 1: say the best pick or something like that. And so
Speaker 1: you can, of course see all the other photos. But
Speaker 1: if you're scrolling through your pictures, instead of seeing seventy
Speaker 1: photos or fifteen photos, you'll see one photo. It'll have
Speaker 1: a little icon that looks like a photo stack, and
Speaker 1: it'll pick the best one, put that on the top,
Speaker 1: and then you can tap in and see all.
Speaker 2: The other photos if you want to choose a different one.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's rolling out now iOS and Android, Google Photos
Speaker 1: photo stacks, So now when you see it on your phone,
Speaker 1: you will be.
Speaker 2: Prepped for it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go to Victor in Santa Barbara, one of
Speaker 1: the most beautiful places in California.
Speaker 7: Victory, you're on with right, Rich, Thanks for taking my call?
Speaker 7: Yeah quickly, so look we're our email comes through earthlink
Speaker 7: dot net.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just met the guy who started Earthlink sky Dayton.
Speaker 2: He was in.
Speaker 1: I literally I said to him, I said, dude, the
Speaker 1: guy looked like he was young. I said, how old
Speaker 1: are you a kid when you started this? He's like yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like twenty something. So I mean, anyway, the guy,
Speaker 1: he's he's a pilot. He did the VR. He's one
Speaker 1: of the investors in that VR stuff. Anyway, I remember
Speaker 1: Earthlink when he started it. But go ahead, I'm glad.
Speaker 7: So anyways, Windows ten Mail, we configured it so we're
Speaker 7: getting Earthlink emails through Windows ten Mail. Everything's working out great,
Speaker 7: and we're happy. Microsoft is starting to most what's the
Speaker 7: right word they're rattling sabers. Yeah, got to shut down
Speaker 7: Windows ten mail. A couple of questions that we have
Speaker 7: never downloaded Outlook. We've never really needed it. So now
Speaker 7: we're going to have to Outlook to get Windows in
Speaker 7: email Earthlink dot Net on Outlook. Is that going to work?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it will work.
Speaker 1: So what you're talking about is, you know, so Microsoft
Speaker 1: used to have what's called the mail app inside Windows
Speaker 1: and now they're transitioning everyone over to Outlook. And that's
Speaker 1: you know, it's more of a branded program. It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of streamlined things, makes it easier because all they
Speaker 1: have to do is make one program instead of two,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to switch just yet. It's going
Speaker 1: to happen sometime in twenty twenty four towards the end,
Speaker 1: so there will probably be an option for people to
Speaker 1: upgrade early to Outlook if you want to, you know,
Speaker 1: do it early. You can download it and install it
Speaker 1: and get it all going. But they're not going to
Speaker 1: force people to do it until towards the end of
Speaker 1: the year, so you still have time. But yes, Outlook,
Speaker 1: I know. It's the thing that's confusing about Outlook is
Speaker 1: that it's a program, but it's also kind of an
Speaker 1: email in itself. People have Outlook for work, they have
Speaker 1: Microsoft Email, and they think that it's only for Microsoft email,
Speaker 1: But the Outlook program will check email from a variety
Speaker 1: of email providers, whether that's Google, Gmail, whether that's Yahoo,
Speaker 1: whether it is Earthlink, whether it is your work email,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Outlook is just an email program that
Speaker 1: can handle different email addresses, and so no matter what
Speaker 1: email address you have, you will be able to use
Speaker 1: it on Outlook within reason. Obviously, there may be some
Speaker 1: that are not supported, but if you're on Outlook, you
Speaker 1: could just go into your file and it will say
Speaker 1: account information and it will say add account, and so
Speaker 1: you will just add your account by email address. If
Speaker 1: it recognizes that Earthlink settings, it will automatically do it
Speaker 1: all for you. You just put in your username and your
Speaker 1: password and it will figure everything else out. If it
Speaker 1: can't figure those out, then just google Earthlink email settings,
Speaker 1: server settings and it will give you the options of
Speaker 1: how to type that in and format it. I would
Speaker 1: use imap over pop three and in general it should
Speaker 1: automatically figure this stuff out. And this goes by the
Speaker 1: way for a lot of email apps, whether using Gmail,
Speaker 1: you can check other email services on these apps. They
Speaker 1: are an all in one app. It's really confusing because
Speaker 1: people know Outlook as email and a program, but it
Speaker 1: does check other email addresses as well, so no problems there.
Speaker 1: Victor and Santa Barbara, thanks for the call today. Do
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Phone number is eighty to eight rich one
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the iPhone, there is a new malware going
Speaker 1: around for the iPhone called gold PICKACS, and apparently this
Speaker 1: steals your photos, your text messages. It even tries to
Speaker 1: get your banking info. The good news is this is
Speaker 1: not completely widespread right now. This is mostly happening to
Speaker 1: folks in Vietnam and Thailand, but of course because this
Speaker 1: is now out in the wild, that could change. We
Speaker 1: could see it here in the States. The main thing
Speaker 1: is that this is not going to happen to you
Speaker 1: if you are using your phone as the average person.
Speaker 2: So the way that they install.
Speaker 1: This is through an MDM profile, and you may get
Speaker 1: this for work. It's a MDM stands for Mobile Device Management.
Speaker 1: This is kind of like a if your work wants
Speaker 1: to monitor your phone or have certain restrictions on it,
Speaker 1: they would download this profile to your phone. But that's
Speaker 1: for very specific use cases, you know, so if your
Speaker 1: company requires that, talk to your IT folks. But if
Speaker 1: you're doing this on your own or you're downloading an
Speaker 1: app outside the app store, your phone is jailbroken. That's
Speaker 1: when you are at risk. So if you're just using
Speaker 1: your iPhone the way that you typically use it, which
Speaker 1: is turning it on, taking pictures, downloading apps from the
Speaker 1: app store, you're going to be okay. But we still
Speaker 1: need to understand that this is possible on the iPhone
Speaker 1: at this point, it's possible on the Android. Does it
Speaker 1: happened very often?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: This is why Apple has fought really hard to keep
Speaker 1: the app store and this closed ecosystem because they want
Speaker 1: to keep this safe. And yes, we've heard of tools
Speaker 1: that can crack into the iPhone, we've heard of exploits
Speaker 1: that can take advantage of text messages, but most of
Speaker 1: the time, average people are pretty safe when using an iPhone,
Speaker 1: even on Android, very very safe, and in fact, Android
Speaker 1: added a feature called Android Safe Browsing that you can
Speaker 1: actually turn this on. They added something called Live Threat
Speaker 1: Detection and it's an upgrade. I didn't even know this
Speaker 1: was available, so I looked at my phone into the
Speaker 1: settings and sure enough, it's there. So this is what
Speaker 1: Google is doing to try to keep you safe from
Speaker 1: some of those links you get and text messages, the
Speaker 1: phishing links, and all of these different ways people are
Speaker 1: trying to attack us at this point, malware and phishing links.
Speaker 1: So if you want to check this out, go into
Speaker 1: your settings on your iPhone, Settings and Privacy, more Security,
Speaker 1: and then look under androids Safe Browsing and there's something
Speaker 1: called Live Threat Protection. You can turn that on for
Speaker 1: an extra layer of security on your Android. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'll link it up on the website. Richon Tech dot
Speaker 1: tv eight to eight rich one O one. You are
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. You can
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Speaker 1: for following me there be ready for anything. Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech dot tv is the website for the show. We'll
Speaker 1: get to your calls in just a second.
Speaker 8: Here.
Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, we've got Bob O'Donnell, president
Speaker 1: and founder at TECHnalysis Research. He's going to talk about
Speaker 1: aipcs and explain what they are all about. New Windows
Speaker 1: computers even have an AI key on them. But first
Speaker 1: Samsung has said yes, we are going to fix some
Speaker 1: of the issues on the S twenty four series. Now
Speaker 1: my review, I said that the S twenty four Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty four Ultra is nearly perfect. This thing
Speaker 1: is incredible, but I did notice some issues with the camera,
Speaker 1: especially in low light and moving shots, and you know
Speaker 1: a little bit of lag here and there. And this
Speaker 1: is odd for Samsung to come out and say, yes,
Speaker 1: we're doing a software update, but I think there was
Speaker 1: enough feedback that they feel it is necessary to do that.
Speaker 1: So two things they talked about this week that they're
Speaker 1: going to address. Number one is a vividness setting. Some
Speaker 1: people were saying that the screen on the S twenty
Speaker 1: four Ultra is not as vivid as the S twenty
Speaker 1: three or previous models. I disagree with that. I think
Speaker 1: the screen is absolutely incredible. I don't know why people
Speaker 1: are saying that. Maybe they I don't know, but they
Speaker 1: are going to have a new adjustment for vividness. And
Speaker 1: then the camera, they said they're going to upgrade the zoom,
Speaker 1: the portrait mode, low light photography, and video. That's pretty
Speaker 1: much the whole camera. So I said that this thing
Speaker 1: needed a camera update. I think that this is an
Speaker 1: incredible device and it's one that I was using for weeks.
Speaker 1: I did end up switching back to wait for this
Speaker 1: software update, but it is. It is still one of
Speaker 1: my favorite devices of twenty twenty four. So anyway, if
Speaker 1: you bought an S twenty four Ultra and you're thinking, huh,
Speaker 1: I thought my camera was better going to be better
Speaker 1: than this? It will get better software update is a
Speaker 1: schedule to start rolling out on February twenty second, but
Speaker 1: with Samsung those things take a.
Speaker 2: Bit, so you may not get it on that day.
Speaker 1: So I would just look for it, you know, end
Speaker 1: of February March something like that.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Mark in Woodland Hills. Mark your own
Speaker 2: with Rich.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 3: Rich.
Speaker 5: I'm you know, I like to I'm retired, guys. I
Speaker 5: get to read a lot I love compared to religion, history,
Speaker 5: political science stuff by a bit of an autodi deck.
Speaker 5: So often I'll pick a lot of different things. I'll
Speaker 5: pull the icon down to my desktop so that I
Speaker 5: can view it later, you know.
Speaker 2: You know I had to look up autodidact by the way.
Speaker 5: Wow, I'm just I'm just into research and just information
Speaker 5: for its own sake.
Speaker 1: I'm going to define it for in case, you know,
Speaker 1: some people don't know. But it's a self taught person.
Speaker 1: Did you know that, Bobo? Yeah, see Bobo shaking and
Speaker 1: said I didn't know that. Okay, keep going.
Speaker 5: That's what you get for going to college. You never
Speaker 5: want to stop. But what I do is I've been
Speaker 5: pulling these icons off of a website, you know, pulling
Speaker 5: it down near the the address bar, that little symbol,
Speaker 5: and then I'll click it later and I'll go through
Speaker 5: whatever information they have for me and and then move on. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: for months now, almost a year, I've tried to delete
Speaker 5: two of these icons and they just won't leave. And
Speaker 5: I don't want, you know, I have so many nuanced
Speaker 5: information and whatnot on my computer. The last thing I
Speaker 5: want to do is a factory reset. Right, yeah, so
Speaker 5: these to Twitter. I'm not even a I'm not a twitiot,
Speaker 5: but I but I do occasionally find myself going to
Speaker 5: something there that's preferred. So these two Twitter icons will
Speaker 5: not delete. I've tried everything. It just won't come off,
Speaker 5: you know, sort of doing a reset, which I really
Speaker 5: would loath they have to do. I was hoping you
Speaker 5: could give me a suggestion on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So just to understand, so you've dragged these these
Speaker 1: URL links to your taskbar. Is this on Windows?
Speaker 5: No, it's to the desktop itself. I keep almost everything
Speaker 5: on the desktop, okay, yeah, I'm doing folders and files
Speaker 5: and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And so you drag these to the desktop and you
Speaker 1: can't just right click and say delete.
Speaker 5: No, sir, they will not leave.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, Yeah, it's just the.
Speaker 5: Most bizarre thing I've ever seen. You know, I've got
Speaker 5: to go through thousands of these every year.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, what if you drag them to the
Speaker 1: to the trash.
Speaker 2: That doesn't work?
Speaker 5: They know, sir, it won't. It won't either, you know,
Speaker 5: the rubbish span I call it. It basically will not.
Speaker 5: You can drag it, but it won't do a bloody thing,
Speaker 5: or just sit there and it reac no way whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Well, I am sure there is some way to get
Speaker 1: rid of these. Those are the two methods that I know.
Speaker 1: The only other thing I can think of are these
Speaker 1: with your web browser? Like these are from your web
Speaker 1: browser that you're.
Speaker 5: Using, Yes, Firefox, almost exasively. I have a whole bunch
Speaker 5: of browsers actually down below the Brave you know, Tusk
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. But I just an opera for instance.
Speaker 5: But most of the time I'm using Firefox.
Speaker 1: Okay, so there's probably I'm looking at a I'm looking
Speaker 1: at a website that says there is some sort of
Speaker 1: folder that we'll have this in there, Like are using
Speaker 1: Windows eleven.
Speaker 5: I believe I am.
Speaker 1: You know, well, so this is saying and this is
Speaker 1: just a quick you know shortcut, kind of shortcut keeps reappearing,
Speaker 1: and it says that they're in a folder on your desktop.
Speaker 1: It says, see user's public desktop or this pc C
Speaker 1: user's public public desktop. I'm just gonna take me too
Speaker 1: long to try to navigate there on my computer. But
Speaker 1: I would try to look there. And if it said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my users, and I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: public and.
Speaker 2: Let's see desktop.
Speaker 1: I don't see my desktop, so I don't see it
Speaker 1: in there, users desktop, public desktop. I don't see a
Speaker 1: public desktop online. Interesting, But I would look in there. Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go, desktop? Is it in here? So I
Speaker 1: would look on there and see if you can find
Speaker 1: it in there and delete them from that folder.
Speaker 5: Okay, I guess you'll be placing that online.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll put that link online so you can see.
Speaker 1: But the other thing I would do is have you
Speaker 1: tried clearing like your history on Firefox, like clearing everything? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't work either. I think this may work.
Speaker 1: It looks like it looks like this. This may work
Speaker 1: for you, So I would look for this. I'll put
Speaker 1: this link on the website. Rich on tech dot tv
Speaker 1: in the show notes. But I want to hear if
Speaker 1: this works, because this is a this is a tricky one.
Speaker 5: I'll just I'll blame put Okay.
Speaker 1: We could just we can just blame people for everything.
Speaker 1: But I think that's uh, that's that's a new one. Wow,
Speaker 1: how did Okay? This reminds me of the story I
Speaker 1: told at the beginning of the show. It's like, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta figure out you gotta just keep trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to get this thing gone from
Speaker 1: the computer. All right, thanks for the call, appreciate the call. Today,
Speaker 1: let's see how long do we have? Thirty oh, thirty seconds? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I can't do that. I will tease our next guest then,
Speaker 1: Bob O'Donnell, president, founder and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research.
Speaker 1: He's gonna explain what aipcs are all about. And Bob
Speaker 1: used to host a version of this show, or a
Speaker 1: very similar one, so I'm curious to talk to him
Speaker 1: about that. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you talking technology at triple eight rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Joining me now is Bob O'Donnell a person
Speaker 1: that I often see out and about at the various
Speaker 1: tech events that I attend, whether it's Apple or Samsung
Speaker 1: or something in between. He's the president, founder, and chief
Speaker 1: analyst at TECHnalysis Research.
Speaker 2: Bob, thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 9: Hey Rich, Thanks happy to be there.
Speaker 1: So let's start with a little bit of your history.
Speaker 1: So you actually hosted a show It may even be
Speaker 1: like a version of this show back in the day.
Speaker 2: Explain did I did.
Speaker 9: I'm an og tech talk show host. So yeah, from
Speaker 9: ninety seven to two thousand and seven, I ran a
Speaker 9: show called O'Donnell on Computers, and then it became O'Donnell
Speaker 9: on Technology because of course the world expanded, and I
Speaker 9: actually took over from Leo Laporte, who was one of
Speaker 9: the original OGOG radio hosts. Leo does, of course, This
Speaker 9: Week in Tech and Gina Smith also had a radio
Speaker 9: show and I would fill in for them occasionally that
Speaker 9: I took over for Leo's show. He was on for
Speaker 9: about a year and a half and I ran it
Speaker 9: for over ten in an ABC affiliate up in San Francisco.
Speaker 9: It was a lot of fun, so it's so much
Speaker 9: fun to come back on the radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so what were people asking from ninety seven
Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven, because I, you know, I
Speaker 1: just got a question about you know, URL's shortcuts not
Speaker 1: being able to delete on the desktop on Windows? Will
Speaker 1: Earthlink work with my email? What kind of questions? Were
Speaker 1: people just asking the same stuff they were?
Speaker 9: I'm telling you, it's it's crazy that, you know, a
Speaker 9: lot of the issues are very similar still. I mean,
Speaker 9: thank god the technology has gotten a little bit easier
Speaker 9: to use, but it's also gotten more complex. It can
Speaker 9: do more, so there's more things to kind of tear apart.
Speaker 9: But you know, a lot of it would be those
Speaker 9: kinds of things. And you know how many times have
Speaker 9: you told people, well you might want to reboot?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I told you that. I had to say, you know,
Speaker 1: like restart out look. You know, like it's just little
Speaker 1: things that And it's funny because a lot of times
Speaker 1: it is very simple. And I get a lot of
Speaker 1: emails from people that you know, are asking for help,
Speaker 1: and sometimes if it's something that's very simple, I might
Speaker 1: wait a date respond and then I'll respond and say
Speaker 1: is this still happening? And nine times out of ten
Speaker 1: it's not right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, No, exactly, but you know what, people need to
Speaker 9: be kind of walked through it. And one of the
Speaker 9: challenges I think that we have with tech these days
Speaker 9: is there's not enough contextual explanations. Even if people are
Speaker 9: the type that read owner's mantles and one have you,
Speaker 9: you just don't get enough of sort of the context
Speaker 9: around it and the principles involved. And one of the
Speaker 9: one of the things I always used to like to
Speaker 9: try and do, and I'm sure you do as well,
Speaker 9: is you kind of explain the principles involved, like teaching
Speaker 9: them how to fish, not just to get one fish,
Speaker 9: but what are the principal boles involved with doing something,
Speaker 9: And that's how you work through some of these problems.
Speaker 9: And as people start to learn those principles, they can
Speaker 9: start doing some more of that troubleshooting on their own.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that is typically what I'll try to do,
Speaker 1: is say, here's here's the steps that I would take
Speaker 1: to because I'm not there with their computer or their
Speaker 1: phone exactly, here's the steps I would take to try
Speaker 1: to figure out what's going on. Like first off, you know, restart, delete, whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's good to know that even in what was
Speaker 1: that twenty years ago, thirty years ago. It's all it's
Speaker 1: all the same stuff. It's just newer technology and different technology. Indeed,
Speaker 1: so you're you're talking about aipcs today is what's an AIPC?
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 9: Well, it's a great question, Britch. And you know, here's
Speaker 9: the thing. You're going to hear a lot about aipcs
Speaker 9: over the next year to two years, in particular from
Speaker 9: all the big PC vendors, from the big chip companies
Speaker 9: like Intel and am D and Nvidio and Pulcom and
Speaker 9: what have you. I mean, look, at the end of
Speaker 9: the day, you know, AIPC very simply is a PC
Speaker 9: that has some special sauce in it that allows it
Speaker 9: to run certain AI applications a little faster. And so
Speaker 9: most people are focused on this notion of adding a
Speaker 9: new type of a chip called an NPU or neural
Speaker 9: processing unit, and an NPU is a different type of
Speaker 9: accelerator than a GPU, being you know, GPU's graphics processing unit.
Speaker 9: So NPU kind of marks the beginning of the AIPC era,
Speaker 9: and AMD actually was first to market. They had a
Speaker 9: chip last year, the seventy forty, the rise in seventy
Speaker 9: forty that had it now they have an updated version
Speaker 9: of the eighty forty. Intel just came out with their
Speaker 9: media link that's the Ultra Core Ultra CPU. And then
Speaker 9: Qualcomm has already announced that they will have a chip
Speaker 9: it'll be coming out toward the middle of the year
Speaker 9: that will have an NPU as well. And of course,
Speaker 9: by the way, smartphones all have NPUs, they're just smaller
Speaker 9: and not quite as powerful as the ones we're going
Speaker 9: to start to see in PCs. So then what we're
Speaker 9: going to see basically is just as we saw. GPUs
Speaker 9: Initially were a element that you you know, had to
Speaker 9: be done separately. Eventually, then GPUs were built into every
Speaker 9: single uh CPU and main chip inside a PC, and
Speaker 9: if you wanted to, you could add a dedicated one,
Speaker 9: like if you're a gamer, of course, you buy a
Speaker 9: fancy GPU. So what's going to happen early on with
Speaker 9: NPUs is initially only a few systems will have them,
Speaker 9: and then over time every system will have it, and
Speaker 9: eventually I think we'll see dedicated npush to to accelerate things.
Speaker 9: And so basically, long win answer to a short question, sorry,
Speaker 9: but it's it's that addition of the NPU that sort
Speaker 9: of turns it into an AIPC. Then it becomes a
Speaker 9: question of degree, and we can get into that in
Speaker 9: a second.
Speaker 1: Well I'm curious, So you know, if people are already saying, well,
Speaker 1: I'm already using Chat, GPT or Microsoft Copilot or you know,
Speaker 1: Claude or any of these other AI tools out there,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I have an MPU on
Speaker 1: my computer or you know this AI chip? Do I
Speaker 1: need this?
Speaker 2: Like? Why do I need this?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: It's a great question, and initially it is very confusing
Speaker 9: because most of the AI stuff that we are doing
Speaker 9: now Chat, GPT, if you started to use the Office
Speaker 9: Copilot with Microsoft and all these other capabilities, Dolly and
Speaker 9: all of these AI based things, they're all being done
Speaker 9: in the cloud. The idea with an AIPC is that
Speaker 9: some of that processing can happen locally on the device.
Speaker 9: The benefits down the road, in particular being things like privacy,
Speaker 9: things like security because you're doing it all within your
Speaker 9: own device, and also speed because you don't have to
Speaker 9: do round trips back and forth to the cloud every
Speaker 9: single time that you're doing it. So that's what we're
Speaker 9: going to start to see happen in the meantime, what
Speaker 9: we're also going to see is what I call hybrid AI,
Speaker 9: and that means some of it happens on the PC
Speaker 9: and some of it happens in the cloud, and again
Speaker 9: that will speed up the performance. In theory, it will
Speaker 9: allow you to do run certain things on just your data.
Speaker 9: So imagine an example like this. So let's say you're
Speaker 9: somebody who you know like me, I've written probably a
Speaker 9: thousand articles over the years. I have this cash of
Speaker 9: content that I've created, and I would love sort of
Speaker 9: the chat GPT type tool that actually only derived its
Speaker 9: new content based on what I did. Now you could
Speaker 9: do that with your own photos, et cetera. That's the
Speaker 9: perfect application for something like an AIPC because you're going
Speaker 9: to want to have it run locally and you know,
Speaker 9: and use your own data. Now, to be fair, that
Speaker 9: doesn't exist quite yet, but we're getting very close and
Speaker 9: we're going to start to see some of those sorts
Speaker 9: of applications go out there. So you know, do I
Speaker 9: need to have an AIPC now to your back to
Speaker 9: your original question, No, but am I going to start
Speaker 9: to see some of these benefits? Yes, eventually you will,
Speaker 9: and over time there's gonna be more and more of
Speaker 9: these things.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 9: It's it's a truism in the PC business that hardware
Speaker 9: comes before the software, right, So you're gonna get the hardware,
Speaker 9: and then the software eventually is gonna come along.
Speaker 1: So, you know, I actually saw your you're mentioning that
Speaker 1: with like your you know, you build your own chat
Speaker 1: GBT kind of thing, like your own chat I guess
Speaker 1: we should call it a chat bot or chat ai.
Speaker 1: But in Nvidia did like a demo you can download
Speaker 1: you know, this app to your computer. And I actually
Speaker 1: did this with my radio show with chat GBT. So
Speaker 1: I was taking my transcripts, putting them into a custom
Speaker 1: chat g ebte and then I could type in and
Speaker 1: say what did Rich say about this?
Speaker 2: And it would actually answer like what I said on
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: And this is cool, and this is going to be
Speaker 1: very handy for let's say, right now, let's say you
Speaker 1: have Google Drive, right, You've got or all these documents
Speaker 1: on your computer. You know, you've searched for a keyword
Speaker 1: in those documents, but maybe in the future you might
Speaker 1: search for like, hey, what's the deal summarize my trip
Speaker 1: to you know, Amsterdam next week? And it'll give you
Speaker 1: all the information across like all those different things there.
Speaker 1: So the bottom line, I've got two minutes here, Bob.
Speaker 1: You know we see this aikey on the keyboard on
Speaker 1: the Windows computer.
Speaker 2: Is there gonna be a lot of marketing.
Speaker 1: We're going to see surrounding these aipcs and do we
Speaker 1: need one right away?
Speaker 9: There's gonna be a ton of marketing, and it's very
Speaker 9: confusing because you know, like the Nvidia example we talked
Speaker 9: about actually uses a GPU and not an NPU, so
Speaker 9: that is also going to get thrown into it because
Speaker 9: some of these AI applications, like some of the things
Speaker 9: Adobe's working on, are also going to use a more
Speaker 9: powerful GPU. So short answer is you don't need one now,
Speaker 9: but if you are a future looking person and you
Speaker 9: want to be prepared, it's good to get one. The
Speaker 9: thing to be aware of, don't forget that, as with
Speaker 9: any other technology, the first version is going to be
Speaker 9: decent and then later versions, of course, are going to
Speaker 9: be much better. So you also have to decide do
Speaker 9: I want to dive in first or do I want
Speaker 9: to kind of wait a little bit and see what happens.
Speaker 9: And that's completely up to the individual in terms of
Speaker 9: they want to be on the cutting edge or they
Speaker 9: want to kind of wait a little bit.
Speaker 1: And just finally, AI in general, how impressed are you
Speaker 1: with all this stuff we're seeing.
Speaker 2: It's it's coming fast and curious.
Speaker 9: It's amazing. You know, I've I've been in the tech industry.
Speaker 9: You know, obviously I age myself with how old my
Speaker 9: radio show is, but you know, I've been tracking this
Speaker 9: stuff for a long time and I have never seen
Speaker 9: anything like the pace of development in AI. It's absolutely incredible,
Speaker 9: and you know, some of the stuff that's starting to
Speaker 9: do is great. I mean, it doesn't do everything everybody thinks,
Speaker 9: and there is some you know, level of disappointment some
Speaker 9: people have after a little bit, but the stuff that's
Speaker 9: being worked on and some of the things are starting
Speaker 9: to happen. The new video tool that open AI just
Speaker 9: introduced is amazing. I mean just you know, it's explosive
Speaker 9: and it's really going to change everything. And that's why
Speaker 9: aipcs become a really interesting topic.
Speaker 2: All right, Bob, what's the best way folks can follow you?
Speaker 9: They can I'm on Twitter at babo d tech bo
Speaker 9: bod E T E C h on LinkedIn It just
Speaker 9: Babo Donald and the tech analysis Research dot Com. It's
Speaker 9: kind of hard too.
Speaker 2: And that's all right.
Speaker 1: We'll find you on Twitter. Thanks so much for joining
Speaker 1: me today. Really appreciate it, bab o'donald uh eighty eight
Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: More show after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: on one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Let's go to Johnny in Hacienda Heights, California. Johnny,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 11: Hey, Rich, I was a wondering if you would be
Speaker 11: able to answer this. It's I len't know about my
Speaker 11: one password because you did the article on on on
Speaker 11: the on the joannistin thing where and wondering as you
Speaker 11: switched back to the regular one password, I mean the
Speaker 11: regular Apple password.
Speaker 1: Oh from one password? Yes, okay, so you want to
Speaker 1: switch back? Okay, So you're paying for one password or
Speaker 1: we're using the free version? Is there a free version of.
Speaker 2: Yeah? Exactly. So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Here's my recommendation on in general, I like third party
Speaker 1: software because you are not tied to any one system
Speaker 1: in particular. So if you want to switch right now,
Speaker 1: you're saying you want to go to the Apple password manager.
Speaker 1: I believe they call it Apple Keychain, So you know,
Speaker 1: that's great if you're using Apple devices, But what if
Speaker 1: you want to switch to a different device. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to go to a different browser, or a
Speaker 1: different computer, or a different phone, Android, whatever. Now, Apple
Speaker 1: did come out with an extension for Windows which lets
Speaker 1: you use iCloud keychain, so that is a nice step
Speaker 1: in the right direction, but I still don't believe you
Speaker 1: could use it on Android, which would be a problem
Speaker 1: if you ever switched Android. But that's why I always
Speaker 1: like third party independent apps. So on the flip side,
Speaker 1: you're saying that one password. You know you like the
Speaker 1: idea that the Apple keychain is included, right, it's free,
Speaker 1: it's part of just Apple and all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: one password. You're gonna have to pay for this to
Speaker 1: use it, and most of the password managers work that way,
Speaker 1: where if you want to use it across different devices,
Speaker 1: you have to pay.
Speaker 2: Some are more expensive than others.
Speaker 1: So my recommendation is if you are only going to
Speaker 1: use Apple devices, and you're sticking to the iPhone and
Speaker 1: the iPad and a Mac computer, go ahead and safari whatever.
Speaker 2: It's going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: If you are using a combination of devices, then I
Speaker 1: would think about using a third part password manager. Now
Speaker 1: there are some password managers I like that are free
Speaker 1: and do work across various devices. And the first one
Speaker 1: is called bitwarden. So if you want a free alternative,
Speaker 1: check out bitwarden, b T war d e N and
Speaker 1: bitwarden is. They have a free level of service. It's
Speaker 1: open source, so it's trusted and it's a great little
Speaker 1: program if you want to just use a free password manager.
Speaker 1: The other one is actually Google Password Manager. So what
Speaker 1: Google did is they started with their password manager working
Speaker 1: in Chrome, but now they've expanded it where you can
Speaker 1: actually use it as an auto fill service on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: And that's that's also free and it's pretty easy to use.
Speaker 1: That's called Google Password Manager. So those are some options.
Speaker 1: Again in general, if you're only using Apple products and
Speaker 1: you never planned to switch, I like, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't typically recommend using that, but it's easy, it's.
Speaker 2: Build and go ahead.
Speaker 1: But if you want to step it up a notch,
Speaker 1: and go third party and you don't want to pay,
Speaker 1: then I like Bitwarden or Google Password Manager, but I
Speaker 1: do think some of these third party password managers, like
Speaker 1: one password and also dash Lane, they are really good,
Speaker 1: but they are expensive and especially over time, they do
Speaker 1: get quite expensive. So great question, Johnny, and ultimately it
Speaker 1: is up to you what you want to do. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the call. Triple eight rich one on one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two for one zero one.
Speaker 1: Let me a couple things of notes here. Verizon making
Speaker 1: a big change to its auto pay discount. So all
Speaker 1: of the cellular carriers have been forcing their customers to
Speaker 1: use auto pay if they want to get the best
Speaker 1: rate every month, which I don't like, but we have
Speaker 1: to do it because it's it's like ten dollars savings
Speaker 1: a month, that's one hundred and twenty dollars a year.
Speaker 1: So typically they required you to be on on a
Speaker 1: debit card or a bank account because those are cheaper
Speaker 1: to process than a credit card. Well, now Verizon is
Speaker 1: taking it up a notch. They're going to require a
Speaker 1: bank account or their own Verizon Visa card, which I
Speaker 1: wouldn't recommend getting, but you know that's an option, but
Speaker 1: if you want to have the biggest discount, which is
Speaker 1: ten dollars a month on autopay, you will now require
Speaker 1: a bank account or the Verizon Visa card. You used
Speaker 1: to be able to use the debit card and get
Speaker 1: that discount as well. If you're on Verizon autopay with
Speaker 1: the debit card, they will continue to honor that discount.
Speaker 2: So no changes.
Speaker 1: If you're like, wait, Rich, I have my debit card
Speaker 1: with Verizon because I switched a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: for my credit card to get this discount, yes, you
Speaker 1: can still leave that as of right now. We don't
Speaker 1: know if that'll change in the future. This change for
Speaker 1: new customers already took effect, so if you are a
Speaker 1: new customer on Verizon you don't have autopay set up
Speaker 1: and you go to set it up, you will need
Speaker 1: to use your bank account to get that big discount.
Speaker 1: T Mobile and AT and T have made similar changes,
Speaker 1: and it's just, you know, it's just one of those
Speaker 1: things that I don't agree with.
Speaker 2: I don't like when companies.
Speaker 1: Have access to auto pay, especially on a service that
Speaker 1: is not a fixed cost Sure, Netflix, Hbo, Max, Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: I don't mind auto pay on those services. I do
Speaker 1: mind when it's on things like bills that change, because
Speaker 1: what do they do. They like to surprise you and
Speaker 1: they've already taken your money and now it's up to
Speaker 1: you to figure out how to get around that surprise.
Speaker 1: Oh my bill is like one hundred bucks extra this month,
Speaker 1: Well they're taking out that payment no matter what. And
Speaker 1: Google has a new feature, talk to a Live rep.
Speaker 1: This brings basically a great feature they've had on Pixel
Speaker 1: for a while called hold to Me to all search users.
Speaker 1: So now when you search for an eight hundred number
Speaker 1: from a company, you may see an icon that says
Speaker 1: you can talk to a live representative, and it will
Speaker 1: give you an option to put in your phone number
Speaker 1: and they will call you when a representative is ready.
Speaker 1: So this works with major airlines, Delta, American Airlines, Verizon,
Speaker 1: t Mobile, Walmart, Best Buy, Ups, grub Hub, State Harm,
Speaker 1: State Farm, and Geico. If you call one of those
Speaker 1: you search for that number on you Google, you might
Speaker 1: see an option to say, hey, have Google hold on.
Speaker 1: Be it hold for you and call you when the
Speaker 1: rep is ready. It's kind of a cool feature, reminds
Speaker 1: me of get human dot com. You are listening to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here kicking off another hour of the show for
Speaker 1: you at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight
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Speaker 1: want to come up with a solution to a problem,
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Speaker 1: three things you could or come up with an idea.
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Speaker 1: or you can take a run. Those are like the
Speaker 1: three things that like every single time I do those,
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Speaker 2: Let's go to.
Speaker 1: Michelle is in mission Viajo. Michelle, you're on with rich
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 8: Have a question. I'm one of those non techy persons. Yes,
Speaker 8: I just bought a car that does not have a
Speaker 8: ZV player. I'm an avid book on tape kind of girl,
Speaker 8: And I want to know if there's a product out
Speaker 8: there that has at least some quality to it that
Speaker 8: can attach to bluetooth so I can listen to it
Speaker 8: at home and in my car.
Speaker 1: Any suggestions, MM, So you have you have CDs with
Speaker 1: books on tape?
Speaker 8: Yes, and my new car doesn't have a CD player,
Speaker 8: nor do I have a CD player at home?
Speaker 2: Okay, oh, okay, So I would love.
Speaker 8: To have it attached somehow like a portable. I've seen
Speaker 8: them on Amazon, but I don't know if they're any
Speaker 8: good quality, if they skip in the car, or if
Speaker 8: there's anything else out there that I hadn't thought of.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the number one thing I would think
Speaker 1: that would be easiest is to rip the CD to
Speaker 1: a file that you can put on your phone, and
Speaker 1: then you can use the bluetooth from your phone to
Speaker 1: do that. So that would be one way to do it.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: The audiobook should probably be pretty simple to do that.
Speaker 1: The only problem with that is that this is, you know,
Speaker 1: audiobooks usually have a lot of chapters, so it could
Speaker 1: be a little bit tricky to do that, and then
Speaker 1: you have to transfer it to your do you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone or an Android iPhone. Okay, so there's a
Speaker 1: there's a really easy app that I like for transferring
Speaker 1: things to iPhone, which is called Walter w A L
Speaker 1: t R. But you said you're non techie, so I
Speaker 1: just don't know if that route is gonna be the
Speaker 1: easiest for you, because you're gonna you know, you've got
Speaker 1: to first off, rip the the album. It used to
Speaker 1: be really easy with iTunes. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: that easy anymore. It used to be, you know, you
Speaker 1: pop your the DV the CD in your computer and
Speaker 1: you know rip. The problem is most of us don't
Speaker 1: even have a CD player anymore, like you said, And
Speaker 1: does your computer have a CD drive? Yes, oh it does, okay.
Speaker 2: And are you on Windows or Mac?
Speaker 4: Mac?
Speaker 2: Oh you are on Mac? Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Well in that case, I mean, if you do have that,
Speaker 1: that might actually be a pretty easy thing to do.
Speaker 1: So what you do is you would rip the the
Speaker 1: audio book to your computer. And rip means it basically
Speaker 1: transfers the file from the audio CD to your computer
Speaker 1: as an MP three. And you know, there's a couple
Speaker 1: of programs that can do that. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of one that I haven't used this in so long
Speaker 1: that I gotta I gotta think of one to do.
Speaker 1: But once you get that done, you can then use
Speaker 1: this Walter program to drag and drop onto your iPhone.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty simple, uh, because it's just a Dragon drop.
Speaker 1: So that's that's probably the easiest way to do it.
Speaker 1: I think that that would work better. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Amazon at the CD players and I see one, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw this one on there.
Speaker 2: It's the Yeah.
Speaker 1: This one's about forty seven bucks, the Ara FUNA, and
Speaker 1: it says portable CD player with Bluetooth with FM radio.
Speaker 1: It's rechargeable, and it's got anti shock protection, and it's
Speaker 1: got an OX cable.
Speaker 2: Does your phone have does your car have an OX port?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 8: I believe that.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I would probably go with that. I mean,
Speaker 2: the Bluetooth or do.
Speaker 8: You think they're good quality?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's probably fine. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna I mean, look, you're you're talking forty six
Speaker 1: dollars here. I would probably try that first because it's
Speaker 1: going to be the absolute easiest way to do this.
Speaker 2: So I would order this from Amazon.
Speaker 1: Obviously, you can return it if it doesn't work, but
Speaker 1: I would order it from Amazon. Put the CD player,
Speaker 1: put the CD in it. I don't know where you're
Speaker 1: gonna put this or you're going to keep it like
Speaker 1: on the seat next to you. Like that's the tricky part.
Speaker 1: When I was you know, when I was growing Okay,
Speaker 1: well then you could do that. When I was growing up,
Speaker 1: I had a CD player in my car. This was
Speaker 1: before you know they were installed in the car going
Speaker 1: back aways. And I use some double stick like velcrow
Speaker 1: to like velcrow the CD player to the center console,
Speaker 1: so you can do that. You can vel crow it somewhere.
Speaker 1: But I think that's.
Speaker 8: Well then that way, I use it at home and
Speaker 8: just plug it into one of my other speakers, like
Speaker 8: you know, a portable speaker and have it played throughout
Speaker 8: the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if it's also if it's if it's Bluetooth, you
Speaker 1: can use it with a Bluetooth speaker as well.
Speaker 2: I mean you could.
Speaker 1: Look, I would. I would start with this little CD
Speaker 1: player on Amazon. See what it does. It's got Bluetooth
Speaker 1: built in that means you don't need any wires. It
Speaker 1: has a battery built in, which means you don't even
Speaker 1: have to you know, you charge it at home, you
Speaker 1: bring it into your car. You've got the CD in there,
Speaker 1: and now you can just press play connected to the
Speaker 1: Bluetooth on your car and if it sounds great, if
Speaker 1: it's if it's good.
Speaker 2: Done.
Speaker 1: It's a very simple solution to a kind of a
Speaker 1: complex problem. But if it doesn't sound good, you can
Speaker 1: return it and then you can go the route where
Speaker 1: you put this stuff on your phone.
Speaker 2: But I think that's a little bit too complicated for
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 8: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate all right, Michelle, go to the website rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. Hit contact once you do all
Speaker 1: this and let me know. I want an update so
Speaker 1: I can see if this is going to work right.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for the call. Appreciate that. Let's see
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Hard to believe it was just last weekend.
Speaker 1: It feels like it was an eternity ago. It was
Speaker 1: a big, big Super Bowl. We had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun in my house watching it. We had a couple
Speaker 1: of people over. I told you I upgraded my TV,
Speaker 1: so we had a great time.
Speaker 2: The TV.
Speaker 1: The four K on YouTube TV looked incredible. One hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty three point four million viewers, across CBS, Nickelodeon, Univision,
Speaker 1: and NFL plus. This was this was the second most
Speaker 1: viewed item in history after the moon landing in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty nine. How did more people watch that back in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine? That doesn't make sense, right, but I
Speaker 1: guess yeah, people were just glued to their TV. Was
Speaker 1: there one hundred and twenty three million TVs like in
Speaker 1: the US back then? That's seems weird. But anyway, last
Speaker 1: year's Super Bowl was one hundred and fifteen million. One
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty million who watched on CBS alone, is
Speaker 1: the largest single audience ever for a network. Oh interesting,
Speaker 1: So they just revealed how many people were streaming versus CBS.
Speaker 1: So only about three million on streaming three point five million.
Speaker 1: Let's see, Kansas City Chiefs have played in and won
Speaker 1: two of the most watched Super Bowls ever. I know
Speaker 1: that's a sore spot for some of you. Call screen
Speaker 1: er Kim sorry, I know she's a big forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers fan.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Among the ten most watched super Bowl, CBS now has
Speaker 1: three of them. Why did people watch this Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Why do you think the Chiefs? You know, it was
Speaker 1: a big deal for them, but also Travis Kelce and
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift call it the Taylor Swift effect. Look you
Speaker 1: got yeah, Usher, I mean, look, you got a lot
Speaker 1: of things going on here. It was a very it
Speaker 1: was a very safe super Bowl. Let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: You had a great halftime show with a proven talent,
Speaker 1: You had two great teams that were, you know, proven
Speaker 1: that people love. And you had the third element, which
Speaker 1: was this whole Travis Kelce Taylor Swift relationship. And also
Speaker 1: I would argue that they made it easy to watch
Speaker 1: this year because in years past it's been a little
Speaker 1: tricky to figure out, like where's it streaming, what's it doing?
Speaker 1: Like they got it. They got it down this year.
Speaker 1: So again new record for the Super Bowl. I know
Speaker 1: I was watching up until you know the last second
Speaker 1: of overtime, which is also wild eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: to one zero one. You can follow me on the
Speaker 1: website or on social media. It is at rich on
Speaker 1: Tech coming up. Amazon forgot to mention something when they
Speaker 1: said you have to pay three dollars a month to
Speaker 1: get rid of ads.
Speaker 2: They also took something else away.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what they took away, and Voodoo is
Speaker 1: getting a new name. I'll tell you what that is.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out talking technology
Speaker 1: with you at triple eight rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Give me a call if you have a question about technology.
Speaker 1: We've got coming up on the show. Jared Newman of Advisorator.
Speaker 1: He is a friend of the show, been on many times.
Speaker 1: In fact, you crashed his website the first time he
Speaker 1: was on because you liked what he had to say
Speaker 1: so much. So he's got some great stuff. He's going
Speaker 1: to talk about what to do if you are running
Speaker 1: out of iCloud store bage. He writes a great newsletter.
Speaker 1: He was telling a story about this the other day,
Speaker 1: and I think he has some good information to share.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Roku. Roku now has over eighty million active users.
Speaker 1: That is quite a milestone for them. They said that
Speaker 1: people streamed over one hundred billion hours on Roku in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. On average, each Roku account streamed four
Speaker 1: point one hours per day in the last quarter. Roku
Speaker 1: now has more active accounts in the US than the
Speaker 1: number of subscribers to the sixth biggest traditional cable and
Speaker 1: satellite TV providers combined. Why is this a big deal?
Speaker 1: Roku makes money off of ads, and the more people
Speaker 1: they have that are using Roku, the more data they
Speaker 1: have to sell. So we talked about this last week
Speaker 1: on the show how TV Manufacturers. You know, they look
Speaker 1: at what you're watching on the TV and they use
Speaker 1: that data to sell to sell ads against it, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Roku does. And Roku actually takes it
Speaker 1: a step further. They get a little bit of ad
Speaker 1: time from some of these streaming properties as well, so
Speaker 1: they've got a pretty decent business going. But the more
Speaker 1: that they you know, you love Roku. Actually it's funny
Speaker 1: because you know, I told that story about my mom
Speaker 1: switching from her TV, like her firestick went out and
Speaker 1: so she had to switch to the Roku that was
Speaker 1: built into the TV. And I talked to her last
Speaker 1: week and I said, or this week and I said, hey, Mom,
Speaker 1: how you know how you like in the system the
Speaker 1: set up? She goes, I actually like Roku better than
Speaker 1: fire TV. I said, what she said, Yeah, I hate
Speaker 1: to say that, but I said, well, why do you
Speaker 1: hate to say? I mean, it's not that big of
Speaker 1: a deal, but why do you like it better? And
Speaker 1: she said, I don't know. It's just easier. She goes
Speaker 1: and they have all this content on there for free.
Speaker 1: She said, so she can I can click news and
Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of news stuff I can watch.
Speaker 1: And I said, that's interesting because the free streaming services
Speaker 1: are the fastest growing right now. People like free And
Speaker 1: so the fact that she can just go in there
Speaker 1: and fire TV has a free area as well, maybe
Speaker 1: she didn't find it, but it's interesting that she picked
Speaker 1: up on that with Roku. So and I have no
Speaker 1: problem with Roku or fire TV or Apple TV. I
Speaker 1: will say at this point, I think Apple TV is
Speaker 1: the only one that's not hijacking the home screen for ads.
Speaker 2: And also I don't believe that they sell any.
Speaker 1: Any of your data for ads like fireTV does or Roku.
Speaker 1: And is there another one out there? Oh, Google TV? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Google is, because it's Google.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: Voodoo is gonna rebrand a get a rebranding as Fandango
Speaker 1: at Home. So Voodo Voodoo announced this on their social
Speaker 1: media networks this week. Fandango purchased Voodoo in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: from Walmart, and so that's pretty much it. That's what's changing.
Speaker 1: But you will have the option to link your Fandango
Speaker 1: account if you have one. But not much more to
Speaker 1: report there except that Voodoo will become Fandango at Home.
Speaker 2: Now, a little history on Voodoo.
Speaker 1: By the way, I was one of the first people
Speaker 1: to cover Voodoo when it first launched. So the way
Speaker 1: Voodoo launched, this was a startup before it was purchased
Speaker 1: by Walmart and before it was purchased by Fandango, which
Speaker 1: I believe is owned by NBC Universal. Voodoo was a
Speaker 1: startup and their little magic sauce was that they would
Speaker 1: give you this or you'd buy this box.
Speaker 2: It was a Voodoo box.
Speaker 1: And what they would do is, since internet was really
Speaker 1: slow back then, they would actually download a portion of
Speaker 1: the popular movies to the box, so they were sitting
Speaker 1: on the box.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: I know this seems so weird now because streaming you
Speaker 1: just get everything on demand, But back in the day,
Speaker 1: when Internet was really slow and we were just going
Speaker 1: from dial up connections to DSL and not everyone had
Speaker 1: a really fast Internet connection. So they would basically look
Speaker 1: at what people were watching. So if you know, the
Speaker 1: new Mission Impossible movie was really popular, they would download
Speaker 1: the first couple of minutes of that movie in the background,
Speaker 1: so like overnight, and while you weren't watching anything, they
Speaker 1: would download a portion of this movie so that when
Speaker 1: you went to play that movie, it would start really fast.
Speaker 1: And now, of course this seems so silly because you
Speaker 1: can access anything you want in the world and it
Speaker 1: will start really fast. But back when we didn't have
Speaker 1: super high speed internet, this made a difference, and so
Speaker 1: it was it was a really revolutionary idea at the time,
Speaker 1: but it kind of was an in between technology because
Speaker 1: now we don't need that. And of course when Netflix
Speaker 1: came along, their whole thing was that they figured out
Speaker 1: a way to start streaming really quickly on any connection
Speaker 1: speed almost and so that's really what Netflix does very well,
Speaker 1: is that they have a lot of technologies surrounding fast
Speaker 1: start of movies. You know, no matter what your connection
Speaker 1: looks like. Now all of this has become kind of
Speaker 1: a moot point because our connections are so fast. But
Speaker 1: back in the day, these were real challenges because to
Speaker 1: watch a full movie like it just it was trickier than.
Speaker 2: It is today. Now it's obviously very easy.
Speaker 1: And Amazon has quietly removed support for Dolby Vision and
Speaker 1: Dolby Atmost from their ad supported tier of Prime Video
Speaker 1: without telling customers. So remember this whole thing where Amazon said, oh,
Speaker 1: now we're putting commercials in our programming on Prime Video
Speaker 1: unless you pay an extra three dollars a month for
Speaker 1: our ad free tier, which is kind of annoying to
Speaker 1: begin with. Well, now some of these I think it
Speaker 1: was Ours Technica that figured out that they also took
Speaker 1: away this Dolbie Vision and Dolby Atmost support. Why well,
Speaker 1: it all comes down to money, because when these companies
Speaker 1: like Amazon put Dolby Vision in Dolby Atmost support on
Speaker 1: their movie and TV shows, they have to pay a
Speaker 1: licensing fee. And so by taking this away from their
Speaker 1: basic free which I call it the free tier, even
Speaker 1: though people are paying for Amazon Prime, but it is
Speaker 1: now their free tier of Amazon Prime Video, they that
Speaker 1: is a lot of people, you know, two hundred million people.
Speaker 1: Let's say that now they don't have to pay for
Speaker 1: this licensing for Dolby Vision and Dolby Autmost. So very sneaky, sneaky,
Speaker 1: but that's what Amazon did. So if you really like
Speaker 1: your high quality video and audio, and Dolby Utmost, by
Speaker 1: the way, is spatial audio. So audio typically when you
Speaker 1: think about surround sound is kind of like left and
Speaker 1: right and center. A Dolby Utmost is kind of above you,
Speaker 1: so it's like the audio that happens above, So you're
Speaker 1: losing that channel basically, So sneaky. I don't like when
Speaker 1: companies do stuff they make a big deal about it
Speaker 1: and they don't say anything about what they're really doing.
Speaker 2: That's what Amazon did. That's the like that.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, Jared Newman is going to talk
Speaker 1: about how to free up iCloud storage or what to
Speaker 1: do if you're out of it. You are listening to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple
Speaker 1: eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one talking evs. Went
Speaker 1: to the Chicago Auto Show last week. Obviously a lot
Speaker 1: of evs there, But what's happening with EV's in the
Speaker 1: US registrations In twenty twenty three, Tesla of course dominated,
Speaker 1: but Rivian and Hyundai catching on. So a lot of
Speaker 1: people are saying that electric car sales are falling. That's
Speaker 1: not necessarily true. According to the latest data, ev registrations
Speaker 1: were up twenty three percent in December and up fifty
Speaker 1: two percent for the full year. Tesla led the market
Speaker 1: with fifty six percent share. They had six hundred and
Speaker 1: forty two thousand plus registrations, mostly thanks to the Model
Speaker 1: Y and then Ford edged out GM for second place,
Speaker 1: but smaller brands like Hyundai and Rivian saw a lot
Speaker 1: of growth. Hunday fourth with fifty and eleven registrations, driven
Speaker 1: by the Ionic five to six and the Kona Electric,
Speaker 1: and Rivian was in fifth place with four percent share
Speaker 1: they sold. I guess they had forty six thousand registrations.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, at least in LA, A lot of the
Speaker 1: Mercedes electric cars like that is like they are everywhere.
Speaker 1: And Rivian's going to unveil a new R two, which
Speaker 1: is their lower cost suv, very soon, so we're going
Speaker 1: to see that coming up on I think it was
Speaker 1: March seventh. Joining me now Jared Newman. He is a
Speaker 1: writer of Advisorator. This is a great newsletter if you
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Speaker 2: Jared, Are you there?
Speaker 10: Yeah, thank thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. How you doing today, I'm doing great?
Speaker 2: What do you do? What's Tell me?
Speaker 1: What Advisorator is all about? What is that newsletter all about?
Speaker 10: It's my weekly tech advice newsletter I started at about
Speaker 10: five years ago, just kind of all the stuff where
Speaker 10: when I tell my non nerdy friends about the things
Speaker 10: you can do with technology and they're like, oh, I
Speaker 10: didn't know you could do that. I was like, well,
Speaker 10: let me start a newsletter where I can actually tell
Speaker 10: people all the things they didn't realize they could do
Speaker 10: or need to know about.
Speaker 1: So it is really interesting the stuff that when you
Speaker 1: cover technology or you're kind of in the thick of
Speaker 1: it every day like I am and you are. There
Speaker 1: is so much knowledge that you take for granted that
Speaker 1: when you're at a party or you're just out with
Speaker 1: friends and you say something and they're like, wait what,
Speaker 1: and you're like you didn't know that? And I, you know,
Speaker 1: not in a judging way, but just in a wait
Speaker 1: what Like these things that you just take for granted
Speaker 1: that everyone knows and they don't.
Speaker 10: Yeah, some of my some of My most popular newsletters
Speaker 10: are the ones where I'm not even sure if I
Speaker 10: should write them because I'm like, wait, does everybody know
Speaker 10: this already? And I'm just going to be telling people
Speaker 10: what they already know. And then it turns out the
Speaker 10: answer is no. So yeah, including you know this thing
Speaker 10: about iCloud.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so explain what happened with the iCloud situation. So
Speaker 1: you your your newsletter this week says how to handle
Speaker 1: iCloud storage, and something happened with your wife, so explain.
Speaker 3: She sent me.
Speaker 10: She forwarded me an email from Apple that said your
Speaker 10: iCloud storage is full, and was like, do I need
Speaker 10: to do anything about this? And then I looked at
Speaker 10: my iCloud storage and it turns out that my iCloud
Speaker 10: storage was also almost full. So it kind of sneaks
Speaker 10: up on you.
Speaker 2: And so what what did you decide?
Speaker 1: I mean, did you just say, okay, let me tap
Speaker 1: to expand my storage for another couple bucks a month,
Speaker 1: or what did you decide to do?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 10: And the reason is, you know, the thing that really
Speaker 10: uses a ton of iCloud storages of course, photos and videos.
Speaker 10: I already knew that in our case, we were we
Speaker 10: were using Google Photos primarily as our cloud photo storage.
Speaker 10: I also use one drive as like another backup, and
Speaker 10: I keep photos on my computer, so I don't need
Speaker 10: neither of us need iCloud to handle our photos. So
Speaker 10: sure enough, when I looked at my wife's phone and
Speaker 10: looked at my phone, a huge chunk of that storage
Speaker 10: was just iCloud photos had been turned on. I don't
Speaker 10: even remember how it got turned on my end. I
Speaker 10: might have been testing something something, But yeah, in both cases,
Speaker 10: it was like three to four of the five complimentary
Speaker 10: gigabytes you get was being occupied by photos.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, and I'm sure you saw this.
Speaker 1: When you went to turn it off, you got that
Speaker 1: big scary message that says, are you sure you want
Speaker 1: to turn off and delete all your pictures?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 10: Exactly, because you know, to be fair, if you are
Speaker 10: relying on iCloud photos, or you hadn't thought about photo
Speaker 10: backups and you're just doing to your point earlier, you know,
Speaker 10: I'm sure there's a lot of folks that just just
Speaker 10: assume that their photos are being backed up and aren't
Speaker 10: really thinking about it too much, and they just assume
Speaker 10: Apple is handling everything for them, which they very melt
Speaker 10: very well might be, and so uh yeah, you do
Speaker 10: kind of need to exercise some caution there and know
Speaker 10: what you're doing before you turn that off. But if
Speaker 10: you if you know that you have another backup solution
Speaker 10: in place, then it's not really a big deal that
Speaker 10: you click that button.
Speaker 2: Now, a lot of.
Speaker 1: People are confused about the photos on your Like if
Speaker 1: you're using iCloud for your photos, your iPhone is a
Speaker 1: mirror of the cloud, So if you delete a picture
Speaker 1: on your phone, it's going to go away in I cloud.
Speaker 2: Some people don't realize that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's true, and it gets into tricky territory because
Speaker 10: there's that whole thing of is your phone having all
Speaker 10: of the photos they're in I cloud versus you know,
Speaker 10: the default is that Apple will delete some photos off
Speaker 10: of your phone to make room on your phone, but
Speaker 10: keep them an eyecloud and so but the library, the
Speaker 10: photos app still shows everything that's in that eCloud. So
Speaker 10: it leads to some confusion about what's being stored ware
Speaker 10: and what happens when you actually delete something.
Speaker 1: And this is why I like Google Photos because I know,
Speaker 1: basically I think of Google Photos as a vacuum. Once
Speaker 1: the photo gets sucked up into the cloud of Google Photos.
Speaker 1: It's not going anywhere because I can delete things on
Speaker 1: my phone. If I'm not deleting them through Google Photos,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be deleted.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a different philosophy. Like in my mind, I
Speaker 10: like that, you know, it's not my camera role. Like
Speaker 10: my camera roll is whatever happens to it happens, and
Speaker 10: Google Photos is like this other repository where yeah, everything's
Speaker 10: on there. And so even if something happens in my
Speaker 10: phone and my camera roll is obliterated or I delete
Speaker 10: everything off my camera roll, it's still in Google Photos
Speaker 10: and it's not actually syncing back and forth that way.
Speaker 10: Lets some people prefer it the other way, where it's
Speaker 10: just that one library that's being managed through the default
Speaker 10: photo album on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: Now, my kids take giant videos on the iPads. They
Speaker 1: let it roll for like an hour, and I have
Speaker 1: a two terabyte storage on my iCloud, and I'm not kidding,
Speaker 1: it's all taken up and I have no idea what's
Speaker 1: taking it up except their stuff. And I tell them,
Speaker 1: I'm like, kids, you got to go through and like
Speaker 1: delete a couple of these big you know, they'll literally
Speaker 1: set like the iPad on their windowsill and record outside
Speaker 1: as like a security quote unquote camera just for fun,
Speaker 1: and it'll be like a giant, giant file that they'll
Speaker 1: never delete. So what anyway, what's your takeaway? What's your
Speaker 1: guidance for iCloud, Like, what do people need to know?
Speaker 10: Well, one thing, we you know, we haven't talked about
Speaker 10: the whole iCloud. This is interesting to me because I
Speaker 10: learned it in the course of researching as they haven't
Speaker 10: realized that the iCloud Photos versus iCloud backup. So even
Speaker 10: if you turn off iCloud Photos, there's still the separate
Speaker 10: iCloud backup, which is taking everything that's on your phone
Speaker 10: and uploading it to the cloud. And if you turn
Speaker 10: off iCloud photos, every photo that's on your phone still
Speaker 10: in the camera roll will still be included in that backup.
Speaker 10: So even if you are using Google Photos and then
Speaker 10: you take that extra step to turn off iCloud Photos,
Speaker 10: you're still burning through all your iCloud storage space on
Speaker 10: a separate backup, and then you have to go in
Speaker 10: and take another step in say exclude my photos from
Speaker 10: the back up.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 10: This whole rabbit hole you can go down. And there's
Speaker 10: also the other wrinkle to consider is I message, you know,
Speaker 10: because I never really thought of it, like you'd want
Speaker 10: a permanent history of all your messages, but I think
Speaker 10: a lot of people do, and that ends up eating
Speaker 10: up a lot of storage just by virtue of all
Speaker 10: the photos and videos that you're sharing back and forth.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, see iCloud, the iCloud like messages in
Speaker 1: the cloud really takes up a lot. Like I think
Speaker 1: I'm up to like six gigabytes of storage just to
Speaker 1: my I message, which I don't understand. Why does I
Speaker 1: message take up so much storage?
Speaker 10: Because everybody's sending photos and videos and all that's part
Speaker 10: of your history that you're that you're backing up there.
Speaker 10: And you know, I think it didn't used to be
Speaker 10: the case that we were so used to communicating that way,
Speaker 10: but that's how we do it now. And so if
Speaker 10: you if you want to have that full history and
Speaker 10: you don't want to create offline backups on a macro
Speaker 10: PC of your uh, you know, your whole iPhoto history
Speaker 10: then or iPhone history, then you just gonna have to
Speaker 10: pay the price.
Speaker 1: I guess one thing that I always recommend people don't realize,
Speaker 1: and now it actually Google has got Apple has gotten
Speaker 1: hip to this, because I'm looking at my recommendations for
Speaker 1: my iCloud storage and it does say to delete inactive backups.
Speaker 1: A lot of times. If you upgrade your iPhone, it's
Speaker 1: keeping the old backup of your old iPhone and your
Speaker 1: new backup of your new iPhone, which is basically almost
Speaker 1: like a yeah, so that's interesting.
Speaker 10: I don't I don't think I had that, but when
Speaker 10: I looked on my iPhone, I saw there was, you know,
Speaker 10: in the iCloud backup section it set iPhone, but then
Speaker 10: I think it would list other devices that you had
Speaker 10: also been backing up there. So yeah, it kind of
Speaker 10: helps to think of like iCloud backup is a backup
Speaker 10: of the device, just what's on the device, and then iCloud,
Speaker 10: whether it's messages in iCloud or iCloud photos, is sort
Speaker 10: of like all the data from all your devices being
Speaker 10: sucked up into this big repository.
Speaker 1: So, Jared, you cover this stuff for a living. Is
Speaker 1: this confusing?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 10: And that's why it's so you know, they make it
Speaker 10: very easy. It's only a dollar a month to add
Speaker 10: that whatever it is fifty gigabytes. So you know that's
Speaker 10: how it starts, right, you say, that's just a dollar
Speaker 10: a month, Why don't I. I'll just do this and
Speaker 10: then I don't have to think about it, and now
Speaker 10: you're in, right, and then it becomes three dollars a
Speaker 10: month once you need a little more storage. And then
Speaker 10: you're like, well, I guess I can do Apple one.
Speaker 10: Since I'm already paying for this, I'll just add this
Speaker 10: other stuff. And now they got you and you're you're
Speaker 10: in the Apple ecosystem forever. So just be mindful of
Speaker 10: those things, I guess, and know the choices that you have.
Speaker 1: And by the way, a dollar a month, there's like
Speaker 1: over a billion iPhone users in the world, so a
Speaker 1: dollar a month times let's say just half of them
Speaker 1: are using iCloud, that's a lot of money. And this
Speaker 1: is why Apple Services, they call it, is the fastest
Speaker 1: growing money maker for Apple right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it reminds me.
Speaker 10: You know, over on the Google side, they just boasted
Speaker 10: I think of having I think the number was one
Speaker 10: hundred million Google one subscribers. Yeah, and they were boasting
Speaker 10: about that, and I was like, yeah, well, it's because
Speaker 10: you turned off unlimited photo storage. So now everybody ran
Speaker 10: out of space for photos and Gmail and they have
Speaker 10: to pay. So one way or another, you're going to
Speaker 10: pay somebody for cloud storage. It's just a matter of
Speaker 10: deciding who and when and why and where.
Speaker 1: If you think about it, it's pretty smart. They've got
Speaker 1: our they've got our memories locked up. And whoever thought
Speaker 1: about this. Hey, let's put a camera on the phone.
Speaker 1: People take more pictures and then we'll get them free
Speaker 1: for a while and then we'll charge them.
Speaker 2: It's pretty brilliant, actually.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and we'll make the photo shooting four K at
Speaker 10: sixty free inch or second with Dulby vision. So all
Speaker 10: that stuff uses more data than it used to.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, Jared, tell folks how they can find
Speaker 1: you online.
Speaker 10: Yeah, if you want to check out my newsletter, it's
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Speaker 1: You, nice, and I also love your You have another newsletter,
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Speaker 2: Jared Newman, thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 10: Thanks for having me Rich always pleasure.
Speaker 1: All right, Jared Newman of Advisorator. I'll put the link
Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on tech dot tv coming up.
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Speaker 1: just start at the top here. Mike says, regarding putting
Speaker 1: a TV outdoors, we had an extra fifty five inch
Speaker 1: video that we put out doors. We purchased an excellent
Speaker 1: waterproof cover from Covers and All. The TV has survived
Speaker 1: two So Cal rainy seasons so far. Very heavy duty
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Speaker 2: Great show, Mike, Yeah, we're getting a.
Speaker 1: Lot of messages about people in southern California putting TVs
Speaker 1: that are not supposed to be outside outside.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it could be done again.
Speaker 1: I can't fully recommend it, even though I probably won't
Speaker 1: do it in my backyard. Why not, I've got the
Speaker 1: TV in my garage, SoC says Rich. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: why you're pushing evs. The EV, as we know it
Speaker 1: is dead. The auto companies are losing money by the millions.
Speaker 1: Ford is cutting way back on EV due to losing
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars each quarter. Toyota and Honda
Speaker 1: are not even emphasizing EV at all. The EV is
Speaker 1: just a SoCal thing. Once you go outside SoCal, everyone
Speaker 1: stays away from EV's.
Speaker 2: You know what happened to EV's. It hurts. They just
Speaker 2: got rid of their EV fleet.
Speaker 1: No one wanted to rent them at overseas, they're going
Speaker 1: back to regular gas cars once they realize they've been
Speaker 1: drinking the EV kool aid. And once you learn how
Speaker 1: the lithium ion battery is so toxic to the environment
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't want anything to do with it. Once
Speaker 1: you learn about the life cycle of the lithium ion
Speaker 1: batteries from mining the rare earth material, manufacturing of the
Speaker 1: batteries and disposal, you're not doing any favor to the environment. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, SoC. I just talk about the news. I
Speaker 1: don't create the news. So I mean, I'm not at
Speaker 1: the car companies. I'm not making these cars. I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know, directing what's happening at the auto shows. But yes,
Speaker 1: you still have options and it is clearly within your
Speaker 1: rights to go EV or not go EV. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the email, Mark says Rich. I love your show, but
Speaker 1: for God's sake, please make your guests and callers get
Speaker 1: off those speakers in bluetooth. You have no idea what
Speaker 1: it sounds like on my end, especially your guests. Come
Speaker 1: on now, a tech guest talking on tin cans. Better
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Speaker 1: fast forward through all that gibberish. Mark well Mark. Again,
Speaker 1: I can't control my guests or the callers, but I
Speaker 1: do recommend that they connect a certain way. Land lines
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Speaker 1: have so many tech issues. I'm ready to go back
Speaker 1: to pen and paper. Is it possible for someone to
Speaker 1: mess up technology from their body chemistry? As a child,
Speaker 1: my mom bought me a watch it didn't work. When
Speaker 1: I got married, my new husband bought me an expensive
Speaker 1: watch that didn't work. Even though my desktop was less
Speaker 1: than ten feet away, the modem told me it wasn't
Speaker 1: connected to the Internet. I got the same message from
Speaker 1: my printer, and that was less than two feet from
Speaker 1: the modem. I spent eight hours one day trying to
Speaker 1: attach a file. Am I getting punked?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: I could find it and open it, but after closing it,
Speaker 1: I couldn't attach it. According to my computer, it either
Speaker 1: didn't exist or had to be moved.
Speaker 2: Later.
Speaker 1: It was there I learned my computer had a glitch
Speaker 1: and it wasn't connected to the internet. Nancy, Nancy, you
Speaker 1: know what it happened sometimes. Tim says, hey, Rich, I
Speaker 1: got the fitbit charged six shortly after you reviewed it.
Speaker 1: Bought it last Wednesday, haven't charged it yet. It is
Speaker 1: still at twenty seven percent. Thanks for the review and recommendation.
Speaker 1: I had been deciding about my next fitbit or another
Speaker 1: smart watch for some time. It is perfect, Tim, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Tim. Appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Eugene says, I was listening to a recent podcast where
Speaker 1: you mentioned decluttering and a dumpster. Rather than using a
Speaker 1: dumpster next time, considered donation thrift stores, Goodwill, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Somehow, I don't think your stuff would be
Speaker 1: considered scrap. Enjoy all your podcasts, Eugene, absolutely one percent.
Speaker 1: I do donate when possible, and believe me, when they
Speaker 1: get some of the stuff I donate at Goodwill, they're
Speaker 1: scratching their head because they're like, this is like a
Speaker 1: brand new tech item and it's just you know, Bobo says,
Speaker 1: bring it in next time, But yes, I do donate
Speaker 1: whenever possible. The stuff that we threw out in the
Speaker 1: dumpster was mostly trash, so and we did donate a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff from there. Uh okay, that's going to
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