WEBVTT - Siri Settlement, $60 Fitness Tracker & WiFi Password Worries 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.680 Is your iPhone spying on you? We'll dive into Apple's 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:08.600 evesdropping settlement. Plus, Samsung's got a new fitness tracker that 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.120 won't break the bank. And I'll explain the connection between 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:16.239 Turo and two recent attacks. It's all happening right here, 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.760 right now on rich on Tech. What's going on? I'm 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.280 rich Dmiro and this is the show where we make 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:26.840 tech interesting, useful and fun. Got a burning tech question? 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.680 Need some expert advice. The lines are now open for 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:34.440 the first time in twenty twenty five. Dial up eight 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.120 eight eight rich one oh one. 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Well, I hope you had a great 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.320 holiday season. It is the new year. Happy twenty twenty five. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.720 This is the first show of the new year. Very 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.520 happy to be back in this seat talking with you. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.040 Got some good time off. In fact, towards the end, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.440 I was like, I'm ready to get back. I am 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.640 ready to get back to work. You know, as much 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.680 as I love my family and I love the time off, 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.680 I always feel like I'm unemployed after a certain amount 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.080 of time. Like it literally it's like, wait, do I 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.240 still have a job? Does my email still work? I 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.240 wondered if my card would still swipe when I went 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.000 into the studio because I just wondered if it still 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.920 everything was still working, But it is. We got a 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.120 nice quick trip into Sedona, Arizona, over the break. If 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.360 you have not been, I highly recommend it. It is 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.000 a I know from LA. It's a nice drive, probably 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.560 about eight hours or so. That's what we did. I 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:19.480 love road trips. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:19.920 You know. 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.280 My wife was kind of fighting the road trips. You 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:23.919 don't want to go that far. I said, let's just try. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.200 It'll be great. Kids loved it. You know, road trips 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.560 are so much more comfortable now than they were back 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.480 in the day. Right, like when I was driving with 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.200 my parents, Think about the cars that we were in 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:40.320 compared to today today's cars are. They're comfortable, they're quiet. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.760 You know, you've got all the endless entertainment you could 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.760 ever imagine at your fingertips. All right, the big story 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.919 of this week, Apple has agreed to pay ninety five 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:57.520 million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.480 Siri violated users privacy. Now, this has been percolating for 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.519 a while since twenty nineteen. A lot has changed since then, 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.880 but Apple finally decided to say, you know what, we're 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.000 gonna stop fighting this. We're just gonna settle it. And 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.400 as you might expect, ninety five million dollars is not 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.720 a lot of money when it comes to Apple's monopoly money. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.160 I mean, this is a company that made fifteen billion 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.240 dollars in the last quarter. So this is just, you know, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.480 a gnat that they're swatting away. But there are some 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.160 lessons to be learned from this. So here's what happened. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:34.480 The lawsuit claimed that Siri was evesdropping on conversations and 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.960 sharing those recordings with third parties. Now, I think the 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:42.200 term evesdropping is very sexy for this lawsuit. I think 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.640 that it gets a lot of people's attentions, but that 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:48.800 shows intention of Apple to listen, and I don't think 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.640 that that was Apple's intention. Did it happen? Absolutely? Does 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:53.840 it happen all the time. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:54.160 Oh? 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.400 Yeah. If you have one of these voice assistants, whether 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.080 it's Siri, whether it's Alexa, whether it's Google, a speaker, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.600 a watch, a phone, how many times have you have 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.440 you been talking to someone and all of a sudden 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.560 your voice assistant chimes in and it gives you an answer, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.560 or it says I don't know what you're talking about, 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.720 or here's what you're talking about, or I don't have 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.839 an opinion on that or whatever, and you're surprised and 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.520 you go, ah, okay, you were listening. Now these things 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.440 are listening, but the way that they're listening is typically 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.760 local for that hot word, that keyword, and then if 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.240 it thinks it has that keyword identified, it will then 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.599 send what it hears after that to the server to 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.719 figure out what you're trying to do, Whether it's asking 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.040 for the weather, whether it's asking for information, a question, 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:44.080 whatever it is. Now. Back in the day and Apple 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.159 and a lot of these companies still do this, you know, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.919 shared recordings with third parties for quality control. So the 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.039 idea behind this lawsuit was that not only was Siri 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:58.760 triggering without these users knowing, but then the information contained 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.600 in those recordings was with third parties. And so most 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.680 of the time those third parties were there to sort 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.880 of quality control and see, Okay, here's what the person said. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.080 Do we get their answer right, did we get the 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.560 hot word right? Whatever. You know, they're trying to make 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.840 sure that these systems are working and they're trying to 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.240 make them better. Now, typically this was probably in the 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.240 user's you know, terms and conditions that said, hey, if 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.200 you're going to use Google Assistant, if you're going to 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.960 use Siri, if you're going to use Alexa, you agree 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.000 to this happening. And I think people since twenty nineteen 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.480 a lot has changed. Like I said, we've gotten more 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.320 hip to these privacy controls, and so since then a 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.080 lot of these companies have given us more control and 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.200 more choices over these assistants. When we first set up 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.400 our devices, it's not perfect, but it's it's better than 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.200 it was now. The original lawsuit and you'll probably hear 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.240 about this as well, also claim that Apple shared recordings 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.400 of what these people were saying with advertisers, and they 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.479 mentioned a whole bunch of ads that popped up in 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.600 their news feed after they talked about things in front 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.520 of their phone. But I don't think this was fully 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.240 substantiated in the lawsuit. I don't think it made it 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.960 to the final settlement because Apple has been very very 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.880 clear about how they share user data and the user 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.719 privacy that they keep in mind with almost every product 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.919 that they make, and I just don't see Apple sharing 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.560 what we're talking about with advertisers. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:18.720 Now. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.880 I know casual conversations. Everyone believes this is happening, but 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.400 you know, I think the perpetrator there would most likely 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.800 be Facebook and Instagram if that was happening, which, by 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.760 the way, think about the billions and billions of conversations 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:35.919 that are happening in phones in front of phones on 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.120 a daily basis, It would be quite the undertaking to 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.400 scan all of those conversations for keywords and to show 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.760 up ads for those things. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.039 Believe me, I've talked about stuff in front of a 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.160 friend or family member and all of a sudden that 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.320 ad shows up in my news feed. It's happened to 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.240 all of us. Facebook, of course, says they have certain 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.120 ways of making that happen. It's all magic, based on 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.640 things that you search, and your phones close to each 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.120 other and all that kind of stuff. But anyway, so 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.520 Apple settle settling this means that they're not admitting any wrongdoing. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.440 They just want this to go away. What are you 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.760 going to get? Individuals will likely get up to twenty 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.360 dollars per device that they had activated since twenty nineteen, 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.480 so it might have been even earlier than that. This 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.440 was a large swath of time. But it's a maximum 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.960 of five devices, so even if you upgraded your phone 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.960 a couple of times, the most you can get as 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.480 one hundred dollars. And most likely you're gonna have to 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.760 say that, yes, Siri was accidentally enabled on my device. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.960 I attest to that, and I want my money. And 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.320 the final settlement is slated for February fourteenth with the judge, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.840 so we're not gonna have anything until, you know, later 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.120 this year. And then of course you have the time 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.600 period where you have to submit your claim or you know, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.560 get yourself out of the class action all that good stuff. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.000 So it's not gonna happen overnight, but just something to 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.880 keep your mind on now. I think that this case 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.560 really highlights the import of understanding privacy settings on your 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.720 devices and the terms and conditions whenever you set up 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:10.680 a device. Ninety nine percent of the time, the selections 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.240 that are sort of pre selected are going to be 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:17.400 in the company's best interest, not yours. Right, they want 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.080 the most that they can get out of you because 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.080 they're collecting as much data as possible to make their 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.840 products better and of course make money off of what 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.160 you do. And so there are a couple things you 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.680 can do to you know, improve your privacy. Number one, 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.680 on the iPhone, you can turn off this entire area 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:40.360 where you're improving Siri and dictation with your interaction. So 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.000 if you go into your settings Privacy and Security, then 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.720 Analytics and Improvements, that's where you can say turn off 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.200 Siri and Dictation. The other thing you can do is 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.600 also flip your phone over. If you don't want your 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.480 iPhone listening to you, just flip it over and so 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.280 if it's screened down, Siri will not be listening. Go 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.000 ahead and try it, say Hey s with your phone 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.880 face up, it'll spring to action. Flip your phone over, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.560 it will not spring to action. So that's another way 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:10.560 to do it. Now. On Android, there is a way 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.640 to sort of manage your voice and audio activity. So 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.880 if you go into your settings, you tap on Google, 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.079 You've got your name and an email address at the top. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.280 You can go into Manage your Google Account, Data and Privacy, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.120 scroll down to history, tap Web and app activity, and 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.600 then you can uncheck the box next to include voice 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.120 and audio activity. Yeah, they don't make this stuff very 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.440 easy to find. Alexa same thing. You can go into 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.200 your Alexa app and delete your existing voice recordings, or 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.520 you can prevent Alexa from saving your future voice recordings 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.000 and using what you say and interact to help improve 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.199 the service. There's also a setting on Android which is 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.520 quite handy. They don't have the same sort of flip 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.440 over to disable Hey Google, but there is a setting 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.640 on there where you can toggle the mic off globally, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:01.880 which is really handy. So if you don't want your 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.120 phone listening, you don't want the microphone on at all. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.840 You can go into your quick settings up at the top, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.080 and there is one that you can add for your microphone. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.240 So right now I have microphone access toggled off, which 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.000 means my phone will not listen to me in any way, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.320 shape or form while that is off. And that means 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.280 you can go ahead and try it, try voice typing, 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:21.880 whatever you want, it will not listen. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:22.640 Now. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.880 I know those directions were a lot, so I put 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.600 them all on the website rich on Tech dot TV. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:29.840 Just go there right at the top. It says how 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.160 to stop your devices from evesdropping, and I've got all 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.720 the instructions right there. Also put it on the show 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.679 notes as well. All right, eight a eight rich one 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.480 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.920 to one zero one. Coming up, we'll talk about Turrow 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.680 and your questions right after this. Welcome back to rich 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.640 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.760 technology at triple A Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:02.360 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.320 Let's take our first call from riverside. Joe, You're on 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:06.880 with Rich. 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.040 Hey, Rich, how are you doing. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.040 I'm doing fantastic. What's up? 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.719 So I've been trying to find information on LG's M 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:21.880 four O lead TV and I can't as far as 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:25.400 what I've researched. It was supposedly supposed to come out 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.160 in the middle of twenty twenty four, and I can't 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:33.080 find any one, whether it's Costco, best Buy, anybody in 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.640 the States selling the M four. So I was wondering 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:37.960 if you have any information on that. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:43.640 Interesting. So this is a four case let's see with 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.040 wireless video and audio transfer, ninety seven inch TV. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:49.760 I'm looking at the eighty three inch. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:54.520 Play you're looking at three? Oh, just eighty three Huh yeah, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:54.800 I don't. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.280 I don't have you know, forty fifty thousand dollars for 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:00.840 one hundred thousand for TV. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.319 Yes, I was gonna say, so these are I mean, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.480 this is a very expensive model. I mean I'm looking 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.280 at the one, so I guess it's launched in other countries. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.520 So this one looks like it was launched in Hong Kong, 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.960 the one that I'm looking at. So the thing about 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.840 LG is that, Okay, So let's see. So it's supposedly 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.160 going to be launched globally. This is the latest article 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.360 I could find. It's going to be launched globally on 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:33.280 July first. That clearly didn't happen. Huh. Yeah, Now, they 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.640 did just launch this transparent TV here in the States, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.719 which is that was like sixty thousand dollars. So was 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.839 the M Was the M three here or no. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.160 I've seen I've seen the M three available. I think 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.640 it was being resold like by just a reseller on 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.280 like Walmart dot com or something. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.600 Okay, Yeah, that's interesting. Uh, I mean, I guess my 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.120 I guess the main answer to this is I don't 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.040 know when this is coming out to the US. But 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.480 the other answer is CES is happening this week, And 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.199 so I guess I will check for this over in 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.840 Las Vegas when I visit the LG booth and see 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.319 what they say about it. Maybe I think that what 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.360 aspect of this TV is appealing to you, the wireless aspect. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:24.080 Yeah, So from my research, I'm guessing the G four 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.960 and the M four are essentially the same TV. It's 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.800 just the M four has the wireless HDMI connectivity, which 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.360 that sounds extremely appealing to me. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:36.080 Yeah. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.040 No, they've been they've been touting the wireless box, which 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.120 you know you can plug, So basically the wireless boxes 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.840 where you can plug everything in to the box, which 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.000 can sit in a corner or a closet or whatever 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.400 you need away from the TV, and then you can 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.440 have the TV somewhere else and it will beam that, 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.960 you know, data to the TV wirelessly. You still have 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.520 to plug in the TV, but that's the main thing. Okay. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.520 So what I'll do is I will note this and 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.160 I will with them and see what they say about 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.280 this TV. I mean, there's so many models that are 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:07.320 available that. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.200 I feel like I'm probably gonna end up going with 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.160 the G four. But it's just like, man, like all 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.800 my research was saying, like this should have already been out, 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.200 and it's like nobody's carrying it, Like what the heck 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:20.760 is going on? 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.560 Yeah? That is, that's It's interesting. But I mean, you know, 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.160 sometimes these TVs are very similar. They might just have 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.320 different model numbers in different states or different countries. Rather, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.720 I think with this one, it seems like because I'm 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.120 looking at this the rollout of the twenty twenty four 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.520 O led EVO TV lineup. This was in February, right 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.920 after CS obviously last year. But let's see what they 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.800 do this year. Let's see what they do for cs. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.120 I have a feeling that you're going to see more 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:51.000 of that wireless connectivity on more TVs. I think LG 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.680 was sort of like the first that really pushed that. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.520 I remember them showing us that, and I think more 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.880 companies maybe will have that this year, so it'll probably 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.160 be standard in a couple years. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.800 Right, Yeah, that's that's kind of my guess. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:04.560 So what's the G four go for? 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.600 So during Black Friday, I was looking at the G 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:15.440 four and it was it was five thousand dollars at 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:21.520 Costco and it came with UH install free installation as well. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.280 If you check Costco's website right now, it's at fifty 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.040 four ninety nine. Okay, so you were getting like a 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.440 five hundred dollars discount. But that's really not a big 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.280 deal to me. It's neither here nor there when you're 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.640 when you're talking about spending this kind of money on 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.720 a TV. But I was just like, I want to 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.320 see I want to see the price point on the 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.960 m for you know, and see if it makes sense 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:50.200 to get that wireless or if it just makes more 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.680 sense for me to fish my HDMI cables through the 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.720 back of the drywall, which is not terribly hard. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.520 No, I mean I've I've not done it myself, but 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.200 I've seen the installer do it at my place a 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.480 couple of times, and they do it in seconds, so clearly, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:06.920 I mean, and I show he showed me how he 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.320 did it. I was like, Oh, that's pretty cool. It's 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.040 like this little I don't know, it's like a cable 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.520 with a magnet, I don't know, whatever it was. It 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.880 was pretty simple. And I mean to him, not to me, 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.280 But you know, if you know what you're doing, you 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.160 can do it all right, Joe. I will make a 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.080 note of it to check at CES this year. Thanks 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.400 for the call, appreciate. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.800 It, Thank you, have a great day. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.720 Eight eight eight rich one o one eight eight eight 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.400 seven four to two four one zero one. Uh before 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.840 we go to break here, Uh, you know, I was 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.240 thinking about this over the holidays, the Amazon error. You know, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.400 we we all get these gifts from Amazon, and we 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.800 literally had this this situation where I feel like the 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.040 gift giving world has changed because of Amazon. So now 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.000 I don't know if this happens with you, but people 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.960 are like, oh, what do you want for the holidays 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.440 for your kids? And literally you send your loved ones 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.480 a list of stuff and they just ship it to 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.400 your house. And we were getting boxes. We're like, who's 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.040 this from? Had like, no, noe, no nothing. It's like, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.840 is that really the meaning of gift giving? All right? 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.240 Coming up, we're gonna talk about one of my new 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.479 favorite apps. It's called All Trails. I'll explain coming up 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.840 right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.440 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.760 technology at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.000 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.440 The website for the show richon Tech dot TV. If 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.320 you've got a Samsung phone, Samsung is releasing a very 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:36.320 inexpensive fitness tracker, the Galaxy Fit three. It will be 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.119 available in the US on January ninth. This thing is 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.320 just sixty dollars, so it looks like a smart watch. 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.560 If you've been wanting to get on that smart watch 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.240 fitness tracker sort of thing, but you didn't want to 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.040 spend two three hundred dollars for something. This is a 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:57.680 great deal at this price. So it's got a small touchscreen, monitors, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:02.520 obviously over one hundred workout types, running, swimming, cycling, tracks 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.640 your sleep, you're snoring, blood, oxygen, heart rate, even your stress. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:08.920 May not want to check that one when you're at work. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.200 Up to thirteen days of battery life if you've got 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:14.320 the display sort of like turned off. If you have 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.639 it always on, you're gonna get like three days. Like 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:19.680 I said, it's got everything you need for sixty bucks, 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.640 so not a bad deal. I like how Samsung has 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.560 a wide variety of products, right, Like they don't just 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.560 do the premium, high end stuff. They've got stuff for 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.280 everyone's budget. And this Fit three has been available in 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.280 other countries for a while now, but they're bringing it 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.320 to the US on January ninth, so kind of cool. 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:38.800 And I love the fact that it works with all 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.280 the Samsung phones and apps that they already have all right, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.199 speaking of getting fit, Like I said, I was in 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.040 Sidona recently and we did a lot of hiking, and 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:50.800 this is an app that I've had on my phone 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.160 for a while, but I had sort of a light 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.440 bulb moment in Sodona with this All Trails app and 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.119 it just really really helped us explore the outdoors. So 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.560 joining me now, Kai Twan Mo from All Trails, Welcome 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.879 to the show. Thanks Rich thanks for having me so 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.560 explain what All Trails is for the person that doesn't know. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.280 Yeah, absolutely, All Trails is the world's most popular and 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:21.720 most trusted platform for outdoor exploration. We are an app 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.119 that's available through the Apple App Store and the Google 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:24.679 Play Store. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.680 We also have a website. But we help help. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.440 People discover new places outside and enhance their experiences when 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:32.080 they're on the trail. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.000 And so this has been around for a while. I 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.800 looked back to my original email I sent to All 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.479 Trails saying, oh, I love this app. It was like 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.320 in I don't know, twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. It's been 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.639 a while. So I've had it on my phone for 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:45.840 a long time and I used it. But now I 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.320 feel like I'm sort of like an expert because I 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.600 started looking at like the filters and things. So in Sedona, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.000 I know there's so many different hikes. I wanted to 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.320 find stuff that was appropriate for my family, right, like 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.520 my two kids, and so I put on like literally 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:03.240 the I switched the filters to say, like, I only 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.280 want four and a half stars, right like the top 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.320 rated trails. I want stuff that's you know, easy or 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:12.480 maybe moderate great views, Like, there's so many different sliders 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.240 you can you know, kind of dial in exactly what 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:17.960 you want. So how do you figure all this stuff out? 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.520 Well, first, i'd say twenty sixteen. That is a little 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.720 while ago. So thank you for being such a long 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.840 standing member of the all trails community. 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:28.960 What you're describing. 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.600 You know, we have a incredible team of more than 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.840 two hundred people at this point who were united by 0:20:36.240 --> 0:20:38.440 a passionate love for the outdoors. So we spend all 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.880 day every day thinking about exactly the type of thing that. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:42.520 You just teed up. 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.040 You know, how are people going to find hikes that 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:46.760 they can do with their kids? You know, how are 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:48.399 they going to get out there and find sort of 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.800 exactly the right trail for them. So we're we're building 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:53.359 new features all the time. You hit on a few 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:56.920 that are relatively new to us. So yeah, I think 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.960 that definitely qualifies you as an expert all trails user 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:00.560 at this point. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:03.679 Well, the feature that really was the light bulb moment 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.399 is you know, I have an Apple Watch, and you 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.000 know when you're on a trail, the last thing you 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:09.800 want to do is get lost right or take like 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.120 the wrong fork or whatever. Especially when you're with your family, right, 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.479 And so there's this feature on the Apple Watch where 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:21.680 it is basically a compass and it highlights where you're 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:25.359 supposed to go in green. And so if you come 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:26.879 up to like a fork in the trail, you know 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.040 how sometimes people walk off trail and they kind of 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.800 make an area that's really not the trail. And all trails, 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:34.480 by the way, does a good job of like showing 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:36.760 you where the trail is on your phone. But I 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:39.280 love the idea that literally you look at your watch 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:41.760 and you just kind of move your watch left and 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:45.159 right and it will highlight the correct path. That to 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.320 me is like it just gives you so much reassurance 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.240 that you're not going to get lost out there. 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:54.240 Yeah, I saw your Instagram post about your Apple Watch. 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:56.560 That we relaunched our. 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.520 Apple Watch app last year in the second half of 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.200 last year. So that's all a relatively new offering for us. 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.600 And I'm slightly embarrassed to admit, as an employee of 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:07.840 an outdoor tech company that I just got an Apple 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:08.840 Watch for Christmas. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:10.680 So while I had I had. 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:14.560 Of course seen our Apple Watch app in action before this, 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:16.760 I now can use it every day myself. 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:18.240 And it's fantastic. 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:22.399 It's you know, we recognize that while we are an 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.520 app that you have on your phone, we're here to 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.080 help people get outside and enjoy their time outside. So 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:32.200 I'm having your watch and your stats and your navigation 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:33.160 at a glance. 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:34.399 Really great feature. 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:34.800 We love it. 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.240 So how much of this is sort of like crowdsource? 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.879 Like when I take a walk or a hike or whatever, like, 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.440 do I help build the database of like, Hey, here's 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:48.000 where the trail is, Here's where you know the markings are. 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:49.840 Like I mean, I know people can submit pictures and 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:51.760 things like that, but how much of this is crowdsource 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:53.960 versus like, I don't know, do you guys go out 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:55.480 there and like look at trails yourself? 0:22:56.720 --> 0:22:57.000 Yeah? 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:58.639 I love this question. 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.040 So you absolutely, as a member of our community, are 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.320 contributing to our collection of more than four hundred and 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:07.920 fifty thousand trails that so many trails are on the 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:12.119 platform today by far the biggest and most comprehensive collection 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.639 of trails in the world, and the community is. 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.080 A big part of helping grow that collection. 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:20.600 But something that a lot of people, I think don't 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:23.560 know about us is we have a dedicated team of 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:28.000 trail data integrity specialists who all day, every day are 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:32.000 monitoring and digitally maintaining that collection of trails. So when 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.239 you get out there with all trails, you're doing so 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:37.439 with not just the support of our community of seventy 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.280 five million members, but with the knowledge and expertise of 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.520 people whose literal job it is to help you get outside, 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:44.879 have a great time, and do it safely. 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.520 And that's cool. I mean I can't speak enough to 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:50.520 like how much. I mean, we're in front of screen 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:53.919 so much during the day, and so the ability to 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:55.760 sort of look for a trail that has you know, 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.400 epic views or waterfalls. Every time I do one of these, 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:01.920 I just feel like I've done something good for myself. 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:03.480 And if I can get my kids to join me 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:06.680 or someone else, you know, it's it just feels really 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:11.080 really nice. So explain the I guess the other thing 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:14.119 I want to talk about is privacy. So, you know, 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:16.600 since this is a community, you know the things that 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:19.040 you do sometimes could be put on your profile that 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:22.080 could be public explained like what's public versus private, like 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:24.880 without changing any settings, and what people should look at 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:27.640 if they want to change those settings. 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:32.240 Yeah, absolutely, so privacy and safety of our community are 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:35.959 of the utmost importance, and we think mainly you know, 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:37.639 we think about getting outside all the time, but we 0:24:37.680 --> 0:24:39.920 think about that all the time too, you know, as 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:43.480 a community based platform, you know, by default a lot 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:47.200 of activity is public, but we have built the ability 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:50.040 for any activity that you do with All Trails to 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:53.520 be adjusted in your privacy settings. You can make it 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:55.679 either totally private so that only you can see it 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:58.960 if you don't want to share your outdoor adventures with 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:03.000 anyone else. You can also set it to just people, 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.159 you know, a sort of smaller group, or you can, 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:07.960 of course, like you said, have it be public and 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:11.000 our public trove of you know, reviews and photos. That's 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:14.240 a huge part of what makes All Trails special and 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:17.160 our communities united by love of the outdoors. So we're 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:19.880 really grateful that people continue to pick us outside that way. 0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:22.840 And what do you get for the free versus sort 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:24.680 of the upgrade to All Trails Plus? 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:28.520 Yes, great question. So All Trails is it's available for 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:30.879 free to download like I said, in the Apple or 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:35.440 Google app stores. All Trails Plus is really our you know, 0:25:35.600 --> 0:25:38.440 that's our premium and paid offering, and. 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:39.560 You get so many. 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:42.679 Features with All Trails Plus things that you mentioned like 0:25:42.720 --> 0:25:45.879 wrong turn alerts. That's an Ultrails plus feature. It allows 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:48.560 you to go offline, which is huge. You can either 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:52.919 download an individual trail for offline use or actually, just 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:55.280 a few weeks ago, we introduced offline parks where you 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:58.240 can download an entire park, every single trail in the park, 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:03.119 recent reviews, photos, plus essential park information like ours, fees, 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:07.080 accessibility info. Really kind of game changing if you're planning 0:26:07.160 --> 0:26:09.359 a trip to a place where there might not be 0:26:09.560 --> 0:26:14.280 great service, and so many spectacular outdoor places are exactly 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:14.640 that way. 0:26:15.320 --> 0:26:18.080 And I just saw you can print maps. Look at this. 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:22.640 You can print your own customizable maps for backup on 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:24.960 through the website. So that's neat. I mean, you go 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:27.359 to these national parks, a lot of them do not 0:26:27.680 --> 0:26:32.000 have sell connectivity, so that offline feature is really crucial. 0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:34.679 So Kit, tell me about you. What what got you 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:36.600 interested in all trails why? I mean, are you a 0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:38.600 hiker or you do you like doing that stuff or 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:39.280 what already have to do? 0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:43.920 Now that you work there, certainly I see getting outside 0:26:43.920 --> 0:26:46.080 as something that not that I have to do, but 0:26:46.119 --> 0:26:48.800 that I love to do. I had been in the 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:52.040 outdoor industry before this, Prior to that, I worked at 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:54.000 Nike for a long time. I'm coming to you here 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:58.239 from Portland, Oregon, near where the company's based. But you know, 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:01.120 I was just I was really drawn to All Trails 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:06.719 as this incredibly interesting intersection of outdoors and tech. You know, 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:10.200 this is a company that is so focused on innovation 0:27:10.680 --> 0:27:16.400 and moving incredibly quickly, but also fundamentally so deeply committed 0:27:16.400 --> 0:27:19.920 to being intentional technology. You know, you mentioned earlier. We're 0:27:19.960 --> 0:27:22.760 on our screens so much, we're at our desks so much. 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:26.919 We know that time outside is essential to physical and 0:27:27.000 --> 0:27:30.240 mental health, and so we want to make sure that 0:27:30.359 --> 0:27:34.560 people can do that as part of their everyday life. 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:37.960 That is not a special occasion to go outside. And 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:40.560 so just that that mission, the commitment to the mission 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:42.960 to get the world, help the world find its way outside. 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:43.840 Let me in. 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:45.640 And it's been a really fun ride so far. 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:51.160 All right, Kaitwan, move from All Trails the website AllTrails 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:53.200 dot com. If you go to the website, rich on 0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:56.080 Tech dot tv, I've got a link for a month 0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:59.000 free of the premium, so just go to the show 0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:00.720 notes for that. Kai, thanks for joining me today. 0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:02.120 Thanks so much for having me. 0:28:02.320 --> 0:28:05.600 All right, coming up, I'll tell you about Turo, explain 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:08.119 what that's all about, plus more of your calls at 0:28:08.160 --> 0:28:10.760 eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:28:10.920 --> 0:28:19.680 seven four to two four one zero one. Welcome back 0:28:19.680 --> 0:28:22.200 to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:26.120 talking technology at triple eight rich one O one. That's 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:30.400 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:28:30.440 --> 0:28:34.840 The website richon tech dot TV. If you want notes 0:28:34.880 --> 0:28:38.880 for today's show, just hit episode one oh three, and 0:28:38.960 --> 0:28:43.000 if you want to email me, just hit contact up 0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:46.479 at the top. Rich on tech dot TV. So no 0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:50.840 doubt you heard about these two attacks, one in New Orleans, 0:28:50.840 --> 0:28:55.280 one in Las Vegas. They both involved cars that were 0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:59.200 rented through a service called Turo. And this is not 0:28:59.320 --> 0:29:02.120 the publicity they wanted, but obviously a lot of people 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:05.000 are now just hearing about Turo for the first time. 0:29:05.560 --> 0:29:10.640 So what is Turo. Turo is like Airbnb, but for cars. 0:29:11.200 --> 0:29:13.600 So if you have a car, let's say, you know, 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:15.080 use it a couple of days a week, but the 0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:17.280 rest of the time it just sits there. You can 0:29:17.360 --> 0:29:19.880 rent this out to other people. And this has been 0:29:19.920 --> 0:29:22.560 around for a long time. It's not like a new thing. 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.480 I've personally not used Turo. I'm well aware of it. 0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:28.840 For me, it's always been a matter of every time 0:29:28.880 --> 0:29:31.040 I look to rent a car on there, which, by 0:29:31.040 --> 0:29:32.720 the way, it started out really cheap, but now I 0:29:32.720 --> 0:29:35.680 feel like it's not anymore. It was just always kind 0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:38.600 of like the same price and more hassle than getting 0:29:38.600 --> 0:29:41.920 from Hurtz or Avis or something like that. So what's 0:29:41.960 --> 0:29:46.040 the deal with this Turo thing? So they have what's 0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:49.880 called a Turo risk score algorithm. So when someone rents 0:29:49.920 --> 0:29:52.120 a car from you, you know, they put all the 0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:54.880 information into the app, their driver's license, stuff like that 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:58.280 credit card number, and then they, according to Bloomberg, look 0:29:58.320 --> 0:30:01.480 at fifty different data points to screen renters. Now I 0:30:01.480 --> 0:30:03.640 don't know how both of these renters got through this 0:30:03.880 --> 0:30:07.640 risk score with no problem, but Turo did confirm that 0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:11.640 both of these cars were rented through them. One was 0:30:11.680 --> 0:30:14.000 a Tesla cyber truck. Obviously you know that because that 0:30:14.040 --> 0:30:16.560 was very much in the news. The Ford f one 0:30:16.600 --> 0:30:20.440 point fifty was a lightning, which is their electric car 0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:25.120 or electric truck, I should say, So what went wrong here? 0:30:25.160 --> 0:30:28.000 I mean, this just brings up the idea of you've 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:30.920 got these peer to peer platforms and they're everywhere. You've 0:30:30.960 --> 0:30:33.720 got Airbnb, I mean Uber is really peer to peer. 0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:37.880 You're driving your car picking up strangers. Turo is where 0:30:37.880 --> 0:30:41.400 you're literally renting someone else's car from them and they 0:30:41.440 --> 0:30:43.120 may drop it off to you at the airport. You 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:45.000 may pick it up at a parking lot if it's 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:47.160 something like a Tesla or another car that has like 0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:50.960 you know, easier sort of digital key access. That makes 0:30:51.000 --> 0:30:53.200 life a lot easier with renting these things out. But 0:30:53.800 --> 0:30:55.560 you know, it just it just raises a lot of 0:30:55.640 --> 0:30:58.840 questions about like what's the vetting process of these companies? 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:02.920 Are we safe using them? Are you safe renting through 0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:06.240 them or you know, driving through them? How are these 0:31:06.280 --> 0:31:10.680 people screened? You know, you think about Uber, you know 0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:13.120 this driver, It's like, how do you know what this 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:15.880 driver's all about? And every time I've asked Uber or 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:18.960 Lift about their screening process, you know, they do a 0:31:19.120 --> 0:31:21.720 very if you ask me, it's a very light background check. 0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:25.480 In fact, I'll tell you the story that I told 0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:28.360 when I went to Nashville last year or year before. 0:31:28.440 --> 0:31:31.920 I think it was my driver, you know, I got 0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:33.920 to the area of my hotel I said, oh, it's 0:31:33.920 --> 0:31:35.520 a really nice area, Like, what's the deal with it? 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:36.920 And he's like, Oh, I don't know. I'm just I'm 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:40.000 just driving for my brother who's in the hospital. What like. 0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:44.960 He literally just used his Relatives app to sign in 0:31:45.200 --> 0:31:47.560 and you know it was just picked up his phone 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:49.719 and started driving the car. Now, that is something I 0:31:49.800 --> 0:31:51.960 never thought of in a million years, Right. You think 0:31:52.000 --> 0:31:55.320 that the driver that you have is the driver on 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:57.280 the app that you ordered. And I don't know if 0:31:57.280 --> 0:31:59.040 you've ever looked at the picture of the driver on 0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:01.120 the app, but it's always blurry. It's not like the 0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:03.080 clearest thing. It's not like you could tell exactly who 0:32:03.160 --> 0:32:07.440 this person is. And so ever since then I'm like, Okay, 0:32:07.720 --> 0:32:10.160 that's an a fear unlocked that I never really thought about. 0:32:10.200 --> 0:32:13.080 Someone could just literally drive with someone else's app. So 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:16.240 I know that Uber does sort of like because I 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:18.680 looked into it. Afterwards, they will ask drivers to take 0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:20.640 like a selfie at the beginning of their shift or 0:32:20.680 --> 0:32:23.800 something like that. But again, these systems aren't perfect, and 0:32:23.840 --> 0:32:27.600 so being aware of the implications of these is always 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:30.640 a good thing. And for me now I always check 0:32:30.720 --> 0:32:33.040 the driver. I always check their picture I always kind 0:32:33.040 --> 0:32:35.680 of try to make sure it's the person that's driving me. 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:38.160 But again, you know, it's just one of these things 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:40.800 where we have to think about this stuff. Turo, for 0:32:40.840 --> 0:32:43.760 their part, they said they're, you know, cooperating with law enforcement. 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:48.240 Neither attacker had a criminal background according to their research 0:32:48.280 --> 0:32:51.600 that they did. And this is a company where you know, 0:32:51.600 --> 0:32:54.360 they've got like four hundred thousand cars listed for rent, 0:32:54.880 --> 0:32:58.800 billions of dollars that's been done through this. I look 0:32:58.800 --> 0:33:01.360 at Turro reported hundred and twenty two million dollars in 0:33:01.400 --> 0:33:03.960 revenue in the first nine months of twenty twenty four. 0:33:04.080 --> 0:33:06.800 So people are using it for the most part. It's fine, 0:33:07.360 --> 0:33:10.120 but it's just stuff to keep in mind when you're 0:33:10.200 --> 0:33:14.520 using this stuff. Let's go to Mike in Los Angeles. Mike, 0:33:14.520 --> 0:33:15.200 you're on with Rich. 0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:18.000 Hey, Rich, thanks Jay, and I call yeah. 0:33:18.040 --> 0:33:19.320 I don't know if you have an answer to this, 0:33:19.400 --> 0:33:22.440 but maybe you have some insight. I have at my email. 0:33:22.200 --> 0:33:25.160 Is with hotmail. Lately the past year or. 0:33:25.080 --> 0:33:28.240 So, whenever I email someone with a dot net packed 0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:31.800 all dot net, att dot net, Sbcglobal, dot net, its 0:33:31.920 --> 0:33:35.280 returned to me undeliverable. I went online and found out 0:33:35.320 --> 0:33:39.000 this is happening to everybody, from hotmail to dot net, 0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:41.760 and some people have speculator or maybe they know more 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:45.360 than I do that across the board atp, dot net, 0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:50.640 et cetera is rejecting all emails from Hotmail, possibly due 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:53.840 to they say something about it has the most hacking 0:33:53.960 --> 0:33:54.560 or scamming. 0:33:54.840 --> 0:33:56.320 Have you heard of this or do you know anything 0:33:56.360 --> 0:33:56.760 about it? 0:33:57.600 --> 0:33:57.840 Yeah? 0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:01.080 I mean so number one, I've not heard of this. 0:34:01.760 --> 0:34:05.680 I know that emails get rejected for various reasons. I 0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:08.160 don't think that this is something that's across the board 0:34:08.200 --> 0:34:10.719 with Hotmail, although you know, hotmail is one of those 0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:13.279 services that I know people still use it, but it's 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:17.359 definitely not the most up to date email. So what 0:34:17.400 --> 0:34:19.560 I would try to do is use an alternative email 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:22.799 address and see if the same thing happens, and when 0:34:22.840 --> 0:34:25.200 you send to those people, maybe use that. I mean, 0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:27.719 it depends how much you're sending. But just taking a 0:34:27.800 --> 0:34:31.879 quick look online, you know, some people are reporting that 0:34:31.960 --> 0:34:35.280 the dot net domains are sometimes associated with more spam, 0:34:35.719 --> 0:34:39.160 so maybe Hotmail has sort of flagged these servers, but 0:34:39.239 --> 0:34:42.240 it's odd that it's happening with all of those domain emails. 0:34:42.280 --> 0:34:44.759 Now the other side of this is that you know, 0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:48.200 Yahoo has taken over sort of servicing all of those 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:52.000 email addresses that you mentioned, the Cox email, the SBC, 0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:55.839 the AT and T that's all being done by Yahoo now, 0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:59.560 so there could be something there as well. I would 0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:01.920 just make sure sure before you send these, just make 0:35:01.960 --> 0:35:03.600 sure that your account is on the up and up, 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:06.560 like you're you're not at your limit, you know, these 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:09.920 attachments things like that, and see if that helps. But 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:11.720 I'll keep an eye out on this. That's an interesting 0:35:11.760 --> 0:35:14.319 one eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight 0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:18.879 eight seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:21.799 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:35:21.880 --> 0:35:26.640 talking technology at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:30.600 eight eight eight seven four to two four to one 0:35:30.800 --> 0:35:34.560 zero one. The website for the show is rich on 0:35:34.719 --> 0:35:38.120 Tech dot tv. If you want links to anything I mentioned, 0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:43.239 just hit the episode number one oh three, and coming 0:35:43.280 --> 0:35:46.120 up this hour, we're gonna talk pictures. I don't know 0:35:46.120 --> 0:35:48.480 if you've scanned in your pictures yet or if you 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:52.080 have a way to kind of organize and manage your 0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:56.080 digital photo collection, which mind just grows by the dozens 0:35:56.120 --> 0:35:59.560 every day, every single day. We're gonna have Christa Kowalchik 0:36:00.680 --> 0:36:04.640 talk to us about preserving and organizing both your digital 0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:08.000 and print photos. We'll have her on just a little 0:36:08.000 --> 0:36:11.160 bit later. Greg writes in through the website. When I 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:14.640 open up the passwords app on my iPhone and select 0:36:14.680 --> 0:36:17.920 the Wi Fi option, I see my Wi Fi information 0:36:18.120 --> 0:36:22.200 and other networks I've accessed. Some are listed as WPA 0:36:22.280 --> 0:36:26.319 two personal, and I can unmask their passwords, including my own. 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:30.279 I have two big concerns. Can I unmask my Wi Fi? 0:36:30.400 --> 0:36:33.919 Can others unmask my Wi Fi password using the passwords app? 0:36:33.920 --> 0:36:36.440 How can I prevent this? Is it normal for me 0:36:36.480 --> 0:36:38.719 to see passwords for other networks? This feels like a 0:36:38.719 --> 0:36:41.759 security issue. I'm worried my Wi Fi password could be 0:36:41.800 --> 0:36:45.839 exposed to anyone nearby. Has Apple addressed this as a 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:52.359 security flaw? Good question, Greg. For many years password Wi 0:36:52.360 --> 0:36:55.720 Fi passwords were sort of hidden on the iPhone, mostly 0:36:55.760 --> 0:36:59.000 inaccessible unless you really knew what you were doing. But 0:36:59.120 --> 0:37:02.359 now they are all inside the passwords app. So this 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:06.279 does bring up some good concerns. Number One, there there's 0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.280 not a security flaw here. This is just what's new, 0:37:09.760 --> 0:37:13.640 and so Apple has by default put all of your 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:17.000 passwords for Wi Fi networks that you've connected to in 0:37:17.040 --> 0:37:20.319 the past in your Passwords app. That's the new app 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:24.480 they introduced with iOS eighteen. It's on most iPhones at 0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:28.080 this point if you've upgraded to the software, the latest software, 0:37:28.440 --> 0:37:31.440 and so before there were ways of seeing the passwords 0:37:31.440 --> 0:37:33.960 for Wi Fi networks that you connected to with previous 0:37:34.040 --> 0:37:37.720 iOS versions, but it wasn't clear and it wasn't easy. 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:40.520 Now this is much easier. So I understand the concern there. 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:44.080 These are networks that you have connected to, So these 0:37:44.120 --> 0:37:49.040 are not random networks. These are not networks that our secret. 0:37:49.400 --> 0:37:52.799 They are everything that you've connected to. So the answer 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:56.239 to your first question, can others unmask your Wi Fi password? Yes, 0:37:56.280 --> 0:37:59.200 they can, only if you've given them access to your 0:37:59.200 --> 0:38:02.960 Wi Fi network. So that's the main thing to know here. Now, 0:38:02.960 --> 0:38:05.360 I understand that a lot of people scan QR codes 0:38:05.400 --> 0:38:08.759 to log onto Wi Fi networks and the password is 0:38:08.800 --> 0:38:12.960 just in there. It's not secretive. So typically what I'd 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:16.440 recommend is that you do not use a password for 0:38:16.520 --> 0:38:19.759 your Wi Fi network that is easily guessed or that 0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:24.359 accesses other stuff anywhere. And I take it a step further, 0:38:24.800 --> 0:38:27.040 I would not allow people in your home to use 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:30.279 your primary Wi Fi network, I would set up a 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:33.120 guest network. And I understand there's a little bit of like, 0:38:33.520 --> 0:38:35.759 you know, it's a little bit of social awkwardness when 0:38:35.760 --> 0:38:38.120 someone comes to your house and they're like, oh, what's 0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:41.600 the coach pat your WiFi and you're like, oh, here's 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:44.600 the guest network. I get it. It's a little awkward, 0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:48.160 but for security reasons, and I usually just tell people, Hey, 0:38:48.160 --> 0:38:50.920 for security reasons, I have everyone log onto my guest network. 0:38:50.960 --> 0:38:53.359 In case there's a major issue, I can wipe all 0:38:53.360 --> 0:38:56.320 those off the network very easily. So I would suggest 0:38:56.400 --> 0:38:59.680 having a guest network in general. Is it normal for 0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:01.960 me to see passwords of other networks? This feels like 0:39:02.000 --> 0:39:05.560 a security issue, Yes, now it is. So again, it 0:39:05.600 --> 0:39:09.399 goes back to that whole idea of don't use a 0:39:09.600 --> 0:39:14.560 password that is easily guessed or that accesses other stuff 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:17.480 in your life. So do not use your email password 0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:21.360 as your Wi Fi password. Let's see, I'm worried my 0:39:21.400 --> 0:39:25.120 WiFi password could be exposed to anyone nearby. No, that's 0:39:25.160 --> 0:39:29.160 not true. They would have to connect to your network 0:39:29.320 --> 0:39:31.880 before they can see the password, and you would have 0:39:31.920 --> 0:39:33.880 to give them the password for them to connect to 0:39:33.960 --> 0:39:36.680 the network, so it's a chicken versus Egg kind of thing. 0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:40.000 You know, you have to give them the password. Once 0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:41.719 they have that password, they'd be able to see that 0:39:41.760 --> 0:39:44.560 password even if they sign in with a QR code. 0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:49.279 That QR code has the password embedded in it, so 0:39:49.360 --> 0:39:51.560 anyone with a QR code reader could look at that. 0:39:52.160 --> 0:39:54.520 So I'm looking through all my passwords and it's actually 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:57.680 kind of funny like looking through these because people do 0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:02.719 use some interesting passwords for their works, so yes, be 0:40:02.840 --> 0:40:06.000 aware of that. It is available. And on the Android 0:40:06.040 --> 0:40:08.280 side of things, you can see the passwords as well. 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:11.919 So if you go into your settings, you go into 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:16.239 connections and you look at let's see here, I got 0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:18.440 to find where they are on here, but if you 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:22.719 look at the let's see, I'd have to look for it. 0:40:23.000 --> 0:40:25.279 But if you look for oh, managed networks there it is. 0:40:25.680 --> 0:40:27.920 So if you go to manage networks, you tap one 0:40:27.920 --> 0:40:30.160 of those networks, you can easily see the password for 0:40:30.160 --> 0:40:33.040 that network as well all the networks that you've connected to. 0:40:33.640 --> 0:40:35.160 I actually think it's kind of fun to see all 0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:37.880 the networks you've connected to because it's kind of like 0:40:37.920 --> 0:40:42.000 a little who's who list of where you've been. But yeah, 0:40:42.520 --> 0:40:44.800 please be careful with your Wi Fi passwords. Don't just 0:40:44.840 --> 0:40:47.560 give them to anyone and set up a guest network. 0:40:48.800 --> 0:40:53.279 Kia is recalling over twenty two thousand of their EV 0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:57.840 nine electric SUVs. The reason some of the back seats 0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:00.880 might be missing their bolts. Yeah, not a good not 0:41:00.920 --> 0:41:06.279 a good look, Kia. So this apparently was an assembly 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:09.719 line worker error at their plant in South Korea. The 0:41:09.760 --> 0:41:12.600 good news is no one's been hurt. There's not been 0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:17.279 any reports of injuries or accidents. But this is this 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:22.080 is twenty over twenty two thousand EV nine electric SUVs 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:26.040 from model years twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. Now, 0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:29.160 these are the SUVs that have second and third row seats. 0:41:29.600 --> 0:41:31.720 This was a hot this is still a hot suv. 0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:35.840 It's all electric, it's got third row seats. This was 0:41:35.840 --> 0:41:39.360 one of the first EV's that had third rows besides 0:41:39.400 --> 0:41:42.600 like the Rivian, and so you know, this was a 0:41:42.719 --> 0:41:46.480 very popular car, still is. And so this is not 0:41:46.760 --> 0:41:49.479 exactly the look that Kia wanted with this car because 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:51.279 a lot of people probably got it thinking oh this 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:54.560 is cool, this is new, and now this is happening. 0:41:55.000 --> 0:41:58.080 So not every car has the issue, but Kia will 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:01.360 You're gonna have to bring this car into a dealer 0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:04.800 to have them inspect it and put in the bolts 0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:07.160 if they're not there. So Key is going to start 0:42:07.160 --> 0:42:10.960 notifying affected owners by male starting January twenty fourth. This 0:42:11.000 --> 0:42:13.640 will all be free, of course, for the fix. But 0:42:14.719 --> 0:42:17.960 you know loose, You might hear loose or rattling seats 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:20.080 and if that was driving you nuts, because you have 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:23.840 one of these cars, it's not just you, it's them. 0:42:24.719 --> 0:42:27.160 Let's go to eight eight eight rich one O one 0:42:27.280 --> 0:42:29.799 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:42:29.880 --> 0:42:33.920 Let's go to Diane in a menafee. You're on with rich. 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:44.640 Dian. Hi, I have a Samsung Galaxy phone and when 0:42:44.680 --> 0:42:48.160 I take pictures, I have it on pictures. But it 0:42:48.280 --> 0:42:52.000 wants to take a movie. Come, how can I change? 0:42:52.040 --> 0:42:52.239 Yes? 0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:56.040 Okay, So when you say it's taking a movie, does 0:42:56.080 --> 0:42:57.920 that mean when you're looking back through your picture it 0:42:58.040 --> 0:42:58.839 moves a little bit? 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:01.560 Yeah? 0:43:01.600 --> 0:43:05.160 Okay, So I think that's a feature called motion photo. 0:43:05.480 --> 0:43:09.160 So what this is is it's basically capturing a couple 0:43:09.160 --> 0:43:13.200 of seconds of video before and after you hit that 0:43:13.239 --> 0:43:15.320 shutter button or right when you hit that shutter button, 0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:17.800 and some people like that because you can go back 0:43:18.360 --> 0:43:21.359 and let's say someone blinked in your picture, you can 0:43:21.360 --> 0:43:24.760 go back and choose a different frame of that photo, 0:43:25.239 --> 0:43:28.080 almost like going back in time and changing the look 0:43:28.160 --> 0:43:31.240 of that picture. But it's because it's capturing. It's almost 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:33.839 like a think of a film strip, right, So you've 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:37.200 got when you take a picture, you're taking just one 0:43:37.239 --> 0:43:39.840 of those frames of that film strip. But what this 0:43:40.000 --> 0:43:44.080 phone is doing, it's capturing a couple of those film stripped, 0:43:44.440 --> 0:43:46.799 you know, those frames. So if you want to turn 0:43:46.840 --> 0:43:49.359 this off, it's actually quite easy. It's a feature called 0:43:49.400 --> 0:43:53.000 motion photo. And in the upper part of your frame 0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:55.680 of your phone, when you're taking a picture, you should 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:58.759 see a little square box that almost looks like a 0:43:58.800 --> 0:44:02.040 play button, and if you press that, you can toggle 0:44:02.040 --> 0:44:05.520 it on or off. It's called motion photo. And so 0:44:05.920 --> 0:44:08.600 that is that is the feature that I would toggle off. 0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:11.440 You can also go into your settings for camera and 0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:13.600 toggle it off that way as well. So if you 0:44:13.600 --> 0:44:16.239 can't find it on your screen, you can go into 0:44:16.280 --> 0:44:21.279 your camera settings and you can switch it off inside there. 0:44:21.920 --> 0:44:24.040 So if you go, let's see, I'm looking for my 0:44:24.080 --> 0:44:29.160 camera settings, let's see here is it in there? Let's see, Yeah, 0:44:29.520 --> 0:44:35.120 shooting methods, okay, settings to keep let's see. I'm on 0:44:35.200 --> 0:44:37.760 a beta version of the software, which I realized quickly 0:44:37.760 --> 0:44:39.440 that I should not have done that for the purposes 0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:43.480 of this show, because my settings are completely different. But Bobo, 0:44:43.560 --> 0:44:46.640 you've got the Samsung. Do you see that little when 0:44:46.640 --> 0:44:49.080 you open up your camera? Do you see a little 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:52.480 almost like looks like a play button inside you know, 0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:54.120 a square? Yes? 0:44:54.200 --> 0:44:54.480 Okay? 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:58.839 Is that the second to last thing on the right? Okay, right, 0:44:58.960 --> 0:45:00.759 that's okay, So on my it's the last thing on 0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:02.560 the right. So if you toggle that, this a motion 0:45:02.640 --> 0:45:03.279 photo off? 0:45:03.680 --> 0:45:06.040 Okay, on, Oh, I see it now. 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:07.080 Yeah, there you go. 0:45:07.160 --> 0:45:09.760 Diane, thank you very much. 0:45:10.080 --> 0:45:13.000 All right, thanks for listening to us. There and Menafie 0:45:13.040 --> 0:45:17.520 appreciate it. There you go, see solving problems, changing lives. Bobo, 0:45:17.719 --> 0:45:20.680 I feel useful. I hoped you did help. I realized 0:45:21.160 --> 0:45:25.480 I realized that I downloaded the new software, the beta software, 0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:29.000 on this Samsung S twenty four Ultra, and I realized 0:45:29.000 --> 0:45:30.520 that is the wrong thing to do when you're on 0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:32.719 a radio show where you're trying to tell people how 0:45:32.760 --> 0:45:34.799 to find things. All of my stuff is different it's 0:45:34.800 --> 0:45:37.960 all in different places eight eight eight rich one O 0:45:37.920 --> 0:45:41.000 one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:45.359 one The website rich on tech dot tv more after this, 0:45:46.880 --> 0:45:49.600 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:45:49.640 --> 0:45:53.000 out with you, talking technology. The website for the show 0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:57.880 rich on Tech dot TV. While you go there, be 0:45:57.880 --> 0:46:00.759 sure to sign up for my free newsletter rich on 0:46:00.840 --> 0:46:04.319 Tech dot TV. Hit sign up. It will arrive at 0:46:04.360 --> 0:46:08.360 your inbox usually every Saturday morning. It's filled with a 0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:12.240 whole bunch of tips, tricks, stuff I'm thinking about that week. 0:46:12.520 --> 0:46:14.640 It's kind of like a version of this radio show, 0:46:14.719 --> 0:46:16.880 but in newsletter form, so you get a lot of 0:46:16.880 --> 0:46:20.560 good information, a lot of useful information and things that 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:27.840 I think you should know. Let's go to Steve in Edmunds, Washington. Steve, 0:46:27.880 --> 0:46:28.840 you're on with rich. 0:46:29.760 --> 0:46:31.759 Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. I really like 0:46:31.840 --> 0:46:32.200 the show. 0:46:32.360 --> 0:46:32.719 Thank you. 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:38.880 My question is about Google. I added that to my 0:46:39.800 --> 0:46:42.120 phone at Galaxy S twenty one. I have a five 0:46:42.200 --> 0:46:46.759 twelve gigabytes. I have a lot of pictures, family pictures, 0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:49.600 and they're all organized files and all that, and so 0:46:50.200 --> 0:46:53.960 I do have them backed up at My kids were 0:46:53.960 --> 0:46:56.800 telling me, you know, get the Google Photos and you 0:46:57.200 --> 0:46:59.279 can never go wrong. Well, as soon as I loaded it, 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:03.080 and I have because I have a lot of photo 0:47:03.120 --> 0:47:07.360 files on my and videos on my phone, Google Photos 0:47:07.360 --> 0:47:10.080 started backing those up and telling me, oh, you you've 0:47:10.120 --> 0:47:13.960 exceeded the free level. You're going to have to pay, 0:47:14.040 --> 0:47:17.200 And so I thought, well, you know, what's a few bucks? 0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:19.600 Well just kept Now I'm paying like ten dollars a 0:47:19.600 --> 0:47:23.319 month because of the level that I'm at for a 0:47:23.400 --> 0:47:26.920 five to twelve phone, and so I thought, well, they 0:47:27.000 --> 0:47:29.120 I'll just do this on my own. I'll turn off 0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:31.920 Google Photos. I know there's a lot of tips online 0:47:31.960 --> 0:47:34.480 about doing that, but I don't see anything that works. 0:47:34.480 --> 0:47:37.879 And I'm reading about that people complaining you really can't 0:47:37.920 --> 0:47:40.319 turn it off, and so if you do, try to 0:47:40.400 --> 0:47:43.719 just nuke it on your phone, you risk losing all 0:47:43.760 --> 0:47:46.840 your pictures. There's no assurance that I can see that 0:47:47.239 --> 0:47:51.160 you're gonna that I can survive that. Even if I 0:47:51.200 --> 0:47:53.520 do have back my pictures back up backed up, I 0:47:53.560 --> 0:47:56.360 just don't want to go through that hassle. So so 0:47:56.360 --> 0:47:59.400 that's why I'm I'm wondering about how do I. 0:47:58.840 --> 0:48:01.520 Okay, you want to Google phone, you want to cease 0:48:01.640 --> 0:48:05.440 using Google Photos, Okay, I actually think it's it's relatively 0:48:05.480 --> 0:48:08.040 easy compared to anything with iCloud. So this I think 0:48:08.080 --> 0:48:10.759 that's the good news here. So my first concern though, 0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:12.320 where your pictures backed. 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:14.680 Up a couple of external drives. 0:48:14.960 --> 0:48:18.680 Okay, So what happened was, just to understand your question, 0:48:19.200 --> 0:48:21.480 you have all your pictures on your phone, right, so 0:48:21.480 --> 0:48:23.160 you said you have like a five hundred and twelve 0:48:23.200 --> 0:48:25.040 gigabyte phone. You've got a whole bunch. Let's say you 0:48:25.040 --> 0:48:27.319 have one hundred gigabytes of pictures on there, whatever it is, 0:48:28.719 --> 0:48:31.920 ten gigs, whatever it is, it's definitely over the fifteen 0:48:31.960 --> 0:48:34.879 gigs that Google gives you, right, four hundred gigs. But yeah, 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:39.160 you've got four hundred gigs of photos and videos. Oh wow, Okay, 0:48:39.200 --> 0:48:41.600 that's a lot I've got. I mean, I'm saying that 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:45.759 I've got like two terabytes. It's I mean, my my 0:48:45.840 --> 0:48:49.200 Google photos is a whole other concern. But ill, let's 0:48:49.200 --> 0:48:52.840 get through yours. So what i'd recommend is, you know 0:48:52.880 --> 0:48:54.680 what you need to do is, first off, I would 0:48:54.719 --> 0:48:57.160 just back up all these photos from your phone to 0:48:57.320 --> 0:48:59.400 an external drive. Once you know you have them all 0:48:59.440 --> 0:49:02.800 backed up, are good, then you can go into Google Photos, 0:49:02.840 --> 0:49:05.160 and you can turn off Google Photos. There's a setting 0:49:05.160 --> 0:49:08.719 on there that just says, you know, back up, and 0:49:08.800 --> 0:49:11.759 if you go into your settings, you just turn off backup. 0:49:12.239 --> 0:49:12.640 And so. 0:49:16.239 --> 0:49:18.319 Look at it with me, go to the there. So 0:49:18.360 --> 0:49:20.080 if you go to their version, I don't see it. 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:22.440 Go to photos upper right hand corner and you're in 0:49:22.480 --> 0:49:26.920 Google Photos for sure, right. Okay, do you see where 0:49:26.920 --> 0:49:28.920 it says backup. I don't know if you're says backup 0:49:28.920 --> 0:49:32.160 complete or backup in progress whatever it says, so backup complete? 0:49:33.200 --> 0:49:33.600 Okay? 0:49:33.840 --> 0:49:34.440 Do you see that. 0:49:36.000 --> 0:49:41.120 Going there? Now, let's see backup, getting ready to back 0:49:41.200 --> 0:49:42.440 up and storm. 0:49:42.960 --> 0:49:45.240 So if you go so, once you go into Google Photos, 0:49:45.239 --> 0:49:47.359 you should see your own picture in the upper right 0:49:47.360 --> 0:49:51.160 hand corner. That's your Google account profile, right, yeah, okay, 0:49:51.200 --> 0:49:54.720 tap that and then it should say either backup complete 0:49:54.880 --> 0:49:57.680 or in backup or there's things waiting to be backed up. 0:49:57.719 --> 0:50:00.920 It says something about backup on like the second section there. 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:02.959 If you see that, yeah, what does it say? 0:50:03.719 --> 0:50:04.799 I'm getting ready to back up? 0:50:04.840 --> 0:50:08.640 Okay? So tap that and it should bring you to 0:50:08.680 --> 0:50:15.960 where it says backup is on. Yes, okay, so now 0:50:16.000 --> 0:50:18.040 how much does it say? Now in mind it says 0:50:18.040 --> 0:50:20.480 I've got two hundred and fourteen, six hundred and ten 0:50:20.520 --> 0:50:23.760 photos and videos backed up to Google Photos. That's a lot. 0:50:25.680 --> 0:50:28.000 Yeah, I do not see a number. 0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:31.920 Okay, well mine, Yeah, mine's backup of complete. So that's 0:50:31.920 --> 0:50:33.799 probably why it's showing the number. But now, is there 0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:36.360 a toggle that says backup photos and videos on this device? 0:50:36.520 --> 0:50:37.880 Is there a toggle that you can turn off? So 0:50:37.920 --> 0:50:42.520 turn that off now? Now that's going to stop your 0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:44.960 photos from being backed up to Google Photos if you're 0:50:44.960 --> 0:50:47.920 getting those error messages because your Google Photos is still 0:50:47.960 --> 0:50:49.719 all filled up. There's a couple of things you can 0:50:49.719 --> 0:50:53.120 do there. So you can go to one dot Google 0:50:53.160 --> 0:50:56.279 dot com from your computer. Don't do this on your phone. 0:50:56.280 --> 0:50:58.759 Do this on your computer and you'll see where it 0:50:58.760 --> 0:51:02.680 says storage. You tap that and it says clean up space. 0:51:03.480 --> 0:51:06.080 And once you go in there, you can clean up 0:51:06.160 --> 0:51:08.239 either large files. Like what I would do is for 0:51:08.280 --> 0:51:12.480 you just get rid of some of the big photo files, right, 0:51:12.560 --> 0:51:15.400 some of the big photos or videos that you have 0:51:15.920 --> 0:51:19.280 inside there. So you can do that and that's very easy. 0:51:19.280 --> 0:51:22.120 It'll organize all your pictures by large and you can 0:51:22.160 --> 0:51:24.120 just delete, like whenever I need more space or want 0:51:24.120 --> 0:51:25.759 to get rid of some stuff. I just literally go 0:51:25.840 --> 0:51:28.600 through there and delete, you know, ten or twenty files whatever. 0:51:29.040 --> 0:51:30.680 The other thing you can do is, if you want 0:51:30.680 --> 0:51:32.879 to get rid of these photos from Google but keep 0:51:32.920 --> 0:51:36.640 them on your phone, go to photos dot Google dot 0:51:36.680 --> 0:51:40.080 com from a web browser and you can now delete 0:51:40.120 --> 0:51:43.279 pictures out of your Google account, but they will not 0:51:43.440 --> 0:51:46.439 delete off your phone. And that's what I would do there. 0:51:46.480 --> 0:51:48.000 So those are the two things that I would do. 0:51:48.600 --> 0:51:52.319 One dot Google dot com free up storage. If you 0:51:52.320 --> 0:51:54.200 want to get rid of these pictures completely, go to 0:51:54.239 --> 0:51:56.320 photos dot Google dot com and you can select a 0:51:56.360 --> 0:51:58.840 whole bunch at once and just delete them. They'll remain 0:51:58.920 --> 0:52:00.719 on your phone, and make sure that backup has turned off. 0:52:00.760 --> 0:52:03.839 Great question today, Steve eighty eight rich one oh one. 0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:06.719 We're gonna talk more about pictures and videos coming up 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.640 right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:52:09.719 --> 0:52:14.000 Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple 0:52:14.040 --> 0:52:17.280 eight rich one oh one. The website for the show 0:52:17.560 --> 0:52:22.879 is rich on Tech dot tv eighty eight seven four 0:52:22.880 --> 0:52:24.719 to two four one zero one. I was just checking 0:52:24.760 --> 0:52:27.040 my Facebook. I forgot that I posted about this, but 0:52:27.320 --> 0:52:30.479 Facebook dot com slash rich on Tech. My kid got 0:52:30.480 --> 0:52:35.440 this uh weighted blanket for Christmas. My my mother in 0:52:35.520 --> 0:52:36.920 law gave it to him. I don't know if you 0:52:36.920 --> 0:52:38.799 asked for it or what, but I was like, what 0:52:38.920 --> 0:52:42.000 is the deal with a weighted blanket? And so he 0:52:42.040 --> 0:52:43.600 said he loved it, and I was like, I don't 0:52:43.719 --> 0:52:46.040 let me try this thing. You put this thing on. 0:52:46.080 --> 0:52:47.360 I don't know if you've ever been to the dentist 0:52:47.400 --> 0:52:49.600 where they put that extray blanket, that's what it feels like. 0:52:50.200 --> 0:52:53.120 But I'm not kidding. I've had my like three best 0:52:53.239 --> 0:52:56.080 naps I've ever had in my life. We were joking 0:52:56.120 --> 0:52:58.880 because my wife put it on on our drive to Sodona. 0:52:59.600 --> 0:53:02.360 She put it on in the car. She never falls 0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:05.399 asleep in the car, fell asleep like a baby. So 0:53:05.440 --> 0:53:08.319 we think this is like a magic blanket. You know it. 0:53:08.440 --> 0:53:10.920 I have one, You have a weighted Why is everyone 0:53:11.000 --> 0:53:11.800 keeping these a secret? 0:53:11.960 --> 0:53:14.239 It's amazing, bro, I swear to you, I love this 0:53:14.320 --> 0:53:16.320 thing so much. Oh my gosh. 0:53:16.520 --> 0:53:18.320 So I didn't know this was a thing. So people 0:53:18.520 --> 0:53:20.960 my bit all the time. That is hilarious. People are 0:53:20.960 --> 0:53:24.919 commenting all about them. They say it improves their sleep, relaxation. 0:53:26.000 --> 0:53:27.960 Some people say it takes them getting used to because 0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:30.800 it is heavy. Uh, some people buy them too heavy. 0:53:31.160 --> 0:53:34.160 So I guess there's different you know, weights of these things. 0:53:34.239 --> 0:53:38.120 But and now someone also said, try a weighted sleep mask. 0:53:38.480 --> 0:53:43.959 That's next. I do like my sleep mask. I'm telling you. See, 0:53:43.960 --> 0:53:46.560 I thought the sleep mask was the way to fall asleep, 0:53:46.600 --> 0:53:48.800 and now it's like the sleep mask, the weighted blanket. 0:53:49.120 --> 0:53:52.600 Slept like a baby yesterday. All right, joining me now. 0:53:53.040 --> 0:53:57.560 Professional photographer Christa Kowalcik. Christa, thanks for joining me. 0:53:58.120 --> 0:53:58.920 Thanks for having me. 0:53:59.040 --> 0:53:59.239 Rich. 0:53:59.520 --> 0:54:04.759 So you worked with helping Hurricane Ian survivors recover some 0:54:04.840 --> 0:54:08.040 of their damaged photos and memory. So you've built quite 0:54:08.080 --> 0:54:11.760 the following online talking about Well, I'll let you explain. 0:54:11.800 --> 0:54:13.279 So how did you I mean, you've been doing this, 0:54:13.320 --> 0:54:15.960 you're photographer, but what sort of like pushed you into 0:54:16.400 --> 0:54:18.200 you were on a bunch of TV shows to talk 0:54:18.239 --> 0:54:20.480 about preserving memories? Explain what happened? 0:54:21.040 --> 0:54:24.080 Yeah, for sure. So I am a lifelong photographer. I've 0:54:24.120 --> 0:54:26.240 loved photography since I was a child. It's the only 0:54:26.400 --> 0:54:30.120 real job I've ever had. So I've just always been managing, 0:54:30.200 --> 0:54:33.160 way back to the film days, I've managed my photos, 0:54:33.239 --> 0:54:37.120 managing digital photos. But it wasn't until Hurricane Ian came 0:54:37.239 --> 0:54:40.080 and it just devastated my area where I live here 0:54:40.080 --> 0:54:43.640 in southwest Florida. And when that storm came thru it 0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:46.279 was floodwater and it just destroyed homes. There were over 0:54:46.320 --> 0:54:49.640 five thousand homes that they lost every they lost their photos. 0:54:49.680 --> 0:54:51.000 They were just gone. Everything was gone. 0:54:51.040 --> 0:54:54.160 But then there was another forty some thousand homes that 0:54:54.280 --> 0:54:57.399 had severe damage, and I was able to just jump 0:54:57.480 --> 0:54:59.680 in and start volunteering to help people to try to 0:54:59.719 --> 0:55:02.400 sell bitch some of those water damaged photos. 0:55:02.440 --> 0:55:04.560 So that's kind of how I got started in this. 0:55:04.640 --> 0:55:07.080 But it was really then that I realized the things 0:55:07.120 --> 0:55:10.560 that I do every day managing all of those photos 0:55:10.600 --> 0:55:12.720 that I have, that a lot of people just don't 0:55:12.800 --> 0:55:15.560 know how to manage their photo collection. 0:55:15.840 --> 0:55:18.080 So I started to help people. 0:55:18.280 --> 0:55:20.959 After that experience, I realized that most of the people 0:55:20.960 --> 0:55:23.520 I was helping, they didn't know that there was even 0:55:23.520 --> 0:55:26.560 an option to get a digital copy of those photographs 0:55:26.600 --> 0:55:28.120 before disaster. 0:55:27.760 --> 0:55:30.040 Happened and have that memory saved. 0:55:30.040 --> 0:55:32.279 So now I just coach people every day and I 0:55:32.320 --> 0:55:35.560 share the easy, easy tips and tricks to get digital 0:55:35.560 --> 0:55:38.200 copies of those pictures and also make sure that digital 0:55:38.200 --> 0:55:39.360 pictures are safe too. 0:55:39.360 --> 0:55:41.600 All right, So what's the first step that people should 0:55:41.600 --> 0:55:45.799 take to protect their pictures from natural disasters? What's you know? 0:55:45.840 --> 0:55:47.040 These are the printed pictures. 0:55:47.440 --> 0:55:49.239 Yeah, for sure, absolutely. 0:55:49.280 --> 0:55:50.879 The very first thing you need to do is get 0:55:50.880 --> 0:55:53.920 a digital copy of those pictures. I've heard there's a 0:55:53.920 --> 0:55:56.920 lot of myths about ways to store photographs to keep 0:55:56.920 --> 0:55:59.680 them safe, but at the end of the day, there's 0:55:59.719 --> 0:56:02.680 just so many things can go wrong. The one way 0:56:02.680 --> 0:56:05.080 to just make sure those pictures are always safe and 0:56:05.080 --> 0:56:06.920 that memory is always safe is to just get that 0:56:07.000 --> 0:56:08.359 digital copy of. 0:56:08.280 --> 0:56:09.520 All of the photographs. 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:12.520 Okay, And so what I mean, where do they do this? 0:56:12.600 --> 0:56:14.960 Do they send it out to someone? Do they do 0:56:15.040 --> 0:56:16.799 it themselves? I know it takes a long time to 0:56:16.800 --> 0:56:19.279 do it yourself. I sent all mine out. What do 0:56:19.320 --> 0:56:21.120 you like to do? You know? 0:56:21.560 --> 0:56:24.520 I think it's it's The answer is different for different people. 0:56:24.520 --> 0:56:26.600 It depends on what your budget is and the amount 0:56:26.640 --> 0:56:28.920 of time that you have to commit to it. There 0:56:28.920 --> 0:56:31.920 are some really fabulous scanning options now though, that make 0:56:32.000 --> 0:56:34.000 it easy. So if you are somebody has a little 0:56:34.000 --> 0:56:36.320 bit of time and you want to diy it, EPSN 0:56:36.440 --> 0:56:39.600 has a photo that has a feater, you can scan 0:56:39.960 --> 0:56:42.880 as many as thirty or forty pictures a minute with 0:56:43.000 --> 0:56:44.880 the scanner, so you just put them in and it zips, 0:56:44.920 --> 0:56:45.920 it's it, It scans up. 0:56:46.280 --> 0:56:47.799 It's so easy a child could do it. 0:56:47.840 --> 0:56:50.480 So I think it's an easy project to diy if 0:56:50.480 --> 0:56:53.360 you want to. There's also phone apps that allow you 0:56:53.440 --> 0:56:55.800 to get a digital copy of your pictures too, So 0:56:56.360 --> 0:56:58.879 there's ways to diy and do it. But there's also 0:56:58.960 --> 0:57:04.160 fabulous services. There's there's a company in Gosha, Wisconsin. I 0:57:04.160 --> 0:57:07.520 believe they're it's Pixology. They are a small business that 0:57:07.680 --> 0:57:10.120 will digitize your pictures for you. They even have a 0:57:10.160 --> 0:57:11.880 service where they will come right to you. They have 0:57:12.040 --> 0:57:14.080 a few clients a year. They go right to them 0:57:14.440 --> 0:57:17.600 and help them to organize and digitize their pictures. 0:57:17.640 --> 0:57:18.920 So there's there's a lot of ways to do it. 0:57:18.960 --> 0:57:21.240 I think as long as you are getting that digital copy, 0:57:21.720 --> 0:57:23.960 it's that's the only thing, no matter. 0:57:23.760 --> 0:57:24.320 How you do it. 0:57:24.720 --> 0:57:26.560 You mentioned the phone apps. Is there an app that 0:57:26.600 --> 0:57:28.800 you like? Because I tested one called I think it 0:57:28.840 --> 0:57:31.480 was photo Mine or something. Is there one that you 0:57:31.680 --> 0:57:33.120 like that works better than others? 0:57:33.880 --> 0:57:36.320 You know, photo Mine is the best that I've seen 0:57:36.480 --> 0:57:37.400 of the phone apps. 0:57:37.840 --> 0:57:40.160 You know there is the quality is not as good 0:57:40.320 --> 0:57:42.880 as a traditional scanner. If you get a desktop scanner 0:57:42.960 --> 0:57:44.960 or that apps and scanner with the feeder, that's going 0:57:45.040 --> 0:57:48.080 to be your best quality scan But if you have 0:57:48.760 --> 0:57:51.000 just old memories that you want to keep, and a 0:57:51.040 --> 0:57:53.400 lot of our photographs are that they aren't pictures we're 0:57:53.400 --> 0:57:56.040 going to be printing again, but we'd be devastated if 0:57:56.040 --> 0:57:58.520 we lost them. They're you know, the birthday party or 0:57:58.520 --> 0:58:00.600 the baby shower, just things that we have old print 0:58:00.600 --> 0:58:03.760 photos of that aren't necessarily being passed down for generations, 0:58:04.120 --> 0:58:05.960 but we want to have that memory saved, and I 0:58:05.960 --> 0:58:08.040 think photomine is a fabulous app for that. 0:58:08.560 --> 0:58:10.640 What about a picture that's like damage, Like is there 0:58:10.760 --> 0:58:12.760 a good app that you like that will fix it up? 0:58:13.960 --> 0:58:15.360 So, you know, one thing that's. 0:58:15.240 --> 0:58:18.440 Neat with photomine and also the apps, the epps and 0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:21.640 photo scanners is they have some enhancements that they can do. 0:58:22.400 --> 0:58:23.200 Just that's easy. 0:58:23.240 --> 0:58:25.200 You're getting the scan of the photo and they get 0:58:25.200 --> 0:58:27.840 that enhancement for you. So that's the first thing I 0:58:27.880 --> 0:58:30.600 usually suggest. You'd be surprised how they can Either of 0:58:30.600 --> 0:58:33.560 those can just bring back to life an old photo. 0:58:33.760 --> 0:58:34.640 But there's also. 0:58:34.560 --> 0:58:36.919 Lots of services online if you have something that has 0:58:37.200 --> 0:58:39.840 damaged to it that you can send a photo off 0:58:39.880 --> 0:58:42.200 And it's amazing what you can do. Now anybody with 0:58:42.520 --> 0:58:46.240 just a tiny bit of photoshop skills can use the 0:58:46.280 --> 0:58:48.880 AI tools in Photoshop and can restore almost anything. So 0:58:49.160 --> 0:58:51.120 I do tell people if you have a damaged photo, 0:58:51.200 --> 0:58:52.360 don't just throw it out. 0:58:52.400 --> 0:58:54.439 There's a lot of times that you can save, even 0:58:54.480 --> 0:58:55.760 things that look pretty bad. 0:58:56.520 --> 0:59:01.200 Now, do you recommend scanning the actual film negatives or 0:59:01.240 --> 0:59:03.680 the actual picture? Like, if you have both, which one 0:59:03.680 --> 0:59:04.520 would you prefer? 0:59:05.520 --> 0:59:08.400 So that's you know, that just depends on the situation. 0:59:09.080 --> 0:59:11.600 The negative is going to give you the best quality. 0:59:11.680 --> 0:59:14.520 So I think if you're looking for the best quality scan, 0:59:14.600 --> 0:59:16.640 if this is an heirloom photo and it's so important 0:59:16.680 --> 0:59:18.160 to you, I'd. 0:59:17.960 --> 0:59:18.800 Go with the negative. 0:59:19.200 --> 0:59:22.360 But what I found is ninety percent of people's photo 0:59:22.400 --> 0:59:25.400 collections or just great memories they want to keep, And 0:59:25.760 --> 0:59:27.800 I think it's easier to get a scan of a 0:59:27.880 --> 0:59:28.440 print photo. 0:59:28.560 --> 0:59:30.720 So if you're just looking to make sure. 0:59:30.560 --> 0:59:34.560 That that memory is safe, I think that using using 0:59:34.560 --> 0:59:35.600 the print is just fine. 0:59:35.800 --> 0:59:38.440 All right, let's talk digital photos. I take so many. 0:59:38.840 --> 0:59:40.560 I'm trying to go through them. I usually go through 0:59:40.560 --> 0:59:41.760 them at the end of the day to kind of 0:59:41.760 --> 0:59:44.280 get rid of all my screenshots and random images. But 0:59:44.360 --> 0:59:47.200 what do you recommend for someone who's trying to start 0:59:47.240 --> 0:59:48.400 the decluttering process. 0:59:49.160 --> 0:59:51.360 Yeah, for sure, I think what you're doing is great. 0:59:51.440 --> 0:59:54.160 I think having a routine is the is the key. 0:59:54.280 --> 0:59:57.040 I personally, I'm similar to you. I am going through 0:59:57.040 --> 0:59:58.920 my pictures once a day, you know, I have been 0:59:58.960 --> 1:00:00.440 been at night, I do a quick roll of the 1:00:00.440 --> 1:00:02.760 pictures I took that day. I think favoriting your best 1:00:02.800 --> 1:00:05.200 pictures is just an easy way to narrow down your 1:00:05.200 --> 1:00:08.120 best ones, deleting things at that point, or you know, 1:00:08.160 --> 1:00:09.280 even once a week doing that. 1:00:09.560 --> 1:00:13.080 There's also an app it's called Daily Delete. I love 1:00:13.160 --> 1:00:15.720 this app. It really makes it mindless. So it does 1:00:15.760 --> 1:00:18.320 go through all of your pictures. It shows your photos 1:00:18.360 --> 1:00:19.240 in a calendar. 1:00:19.280 --> 1:00:22.840 Basically, you select the date you want to look at 1:00:22.840 --> 1:00:24.720 and it will show you all the pictures from that date, 1:00:25.040 --> 1:00:28.640 and then it uses an AI technology to tell you 1:00:28.640 --> 1:00:30.360 which ones it thinks you need to delete. 1:00:30.680 --> 1:00:33.000 But then it also learns your preferences. 1:00:33.040 --> 1:00:35.760 So let's say you have a pet and you never 1:00:35.800 --> 1:00:37.880 want a single photo of that pet to be deleted. 1:00:38.400 --> 1:00:41.280 It will learn that you've decided you don't want those, 1:00:41.320 --> 1:00:43.280 So you're kind of correcting its work as it goes along. 1:00:43.400 --> 1:00:45.200 And after a few days or a week of just 1:00:45.240 --> 1:00:48.320 kind of correcting what Daily Delete has done, it's going 1:00:48.360 --> 1:00:50.880 to start doing it mindlessly for you. 1:00:51.760 --> 1:00:55.280 That's interesting. Okay, what about storage apps? Like I always 1:00:55.320 --> 1:00:58.080 recommend Google Photos, that's my favorite. But what do you 1:00:58.240 --> 1:01:00.080 like for different photo storage apps? 1:01:01.480 --> 1:01:04.480 So I'm an Amazon Photos user just because it's free 1:01:04.520 --> 1:01:06.120 with Amazon Prime. 1:01:07.200 --> 1:01:08.240 So you know, that makes it easy. 1:01:08.280 --> 1:01:10.200 It's got an app that just automatically is backing up 1:01:10.200 --> 1:01:12.640 my photos. But Google Photos was free. 1:01:12.760 --> 1:01:13.160 Everything is. 1:01:13.280 --> 1:01:14.960 I don't believe it's going to be free forever, so 1:01:15.440 --> 1:01:17.760 I think that's just you know, something to well. 1:01:17.800 --> 1:01:20.040 It's free with Prime, so as long as we're and 1:01:20.080 --> 1:01:22.720 it's also the photos only, just to be clear, the 1:01:22.840 --> 1:01:25.960 videos are an extra you know, costs. But I always 1:01:26.040 --> 1:01:27.760 mention to people, if you have Amazon Prime and you're 1:01:27.760 --> 1:01:30.160 gonna stick with it, which most people do, it's a 1:01:30.200 --> 1:01:32.720 great way to kind of back up your photos as well. 1:01:33.280 --> 1:01:33.480 Yeah. 1:01:33.600 --> 1:01:35.320 No, I think it's great. I think Google Photos is great. 1:01:35.360 --> 1:01:36.160 I think they're all great. 1:01:36.720 --> 1:01:41.240 There's one storage called forever storage that is dedicated towards photos. 1:01:41.520 --> 1:01:44.040 They it says it guarantees. 1:01:43.560 --> 1:01:46.360 Your photos will be there for one hundred years or 1:01:46.360 --> 1:01:50.280 something ridiculous. I personally don't trust anywhere. I think everything 1:01:50.360 --> 1:01:53.560 needs to be stored in multiple places, and I think 1:01:53.600 --> 1:01:56.160 that's the only safe way to keep your photos. 1:01:56.240 --> 1:01:58.720 I would agree like anything that I mean forever storage. 1:01:58.760 --> 1:02:01.760 I love the idea forever, but we know nothing's really forever. 1:02:01.920 --> 1:02:04.960 So I always have two places where they are backed 1:02:05.040 --> 1:02:09.000 up and any and we have like less than a minute. 1:02:09.240 --> 1:02:11.200 Common to mistake. You see when people are trying to 1:02:11.280 --> 1:02:14.280 organize their photos, taking on too much. 1:02:14.400 --> 1:02:17.480 I think that it's huge having a lifetime of photographs 1:02:17.560 --> 1:02:20.120 or photos going back your parents photos. Sometimes, if you 1:02:20.160 --> 1:02:22.120 have a lifetime of photos, don't don't sit down and 1:02:22.160 --> 1:02:23.680 try to do it all at once. Break it into 1:02:23.680 --> 1:02:27.400 small projects and just check off one month or one year. 1:02:27.960 --> 1:02:31.120 It's not like cleaning the garage. It's an emotional it's 1:02:31.120 --> 1:02:33.840 an emotional project and sometimes you need to walk away 1:02:34.120 --> 1:02:36.200 from it for a minute. So break it into small 1:02:36.240 --> 1:02:37.960 projects and just get a little. 1:02:37.800 --> 1:02:39.160 Bit done at a time, all right. 1:02:39.240 --> 1:02:44.840 Christa Kowalchik the website the christak dot com the Krista 1:02:44.920 --> 1:02:48.400 with a k k dot com. So the k R 1:02:48.520 --> 1:02:51.280 I s t a k dot com and I picked 1:02:51.320 --> 1:02:54.360 up one of your tips from your Instagram to get 1:02:54.400 --> 1:02:58.280 a photo album for the year and then print out. 1:02:58.320 --> 1:02:59.880 So this year my goal is I got like a 1:03:00.040 --> 1:03:02.080 six hundred one. I'm going to print out a couple 1:03:02.120 --> 1:03:03.840 of pictures each month at the end of the month 1:03:04.160 --> 1:03:06.200 of my favorites and put them in this album that's 1:03:06.200 --> 1:03:07.920 gonna sit on my coffee table. So at the end 1:03:07.920 --> 1:03:10.280 of twenty twenty five, I should have a full photo 1:03:10.280 --> 1:03:12.240 album of like some of my favorite pictures. I think 1:03:12.280 --> 1:03:13.280 that's very exciting. 1:03:13.640 --> 1:03:15.120 Oh absolutely, I think you'll love it. 1:03:15.160 --> 1:03:17.480 Printed, by the way, not just on my phone where 1:03:17.480 --> 1:03:20.160 I'm showing people my phone. Christa, thanks so much for 1:03:20.240 --> 1:03:24.360 joining me today. Thanks rich Christa Kowalcik. Follow her on 1:03:24.400 --> 1:03:27.040 social media. I love the tips that she offers the 1:03:27.280 --> 1:03:30.080 christak dot com. I'll link it up on my website. 1:03:30.160 --> 1:03:34.360 Rich on Tech dot tv. Coming up, I'll explain what 1:03:34.560 --> 1:03:38.280 advanced data protection is on the iPhone and explain if 1:03:38.280 --> 1:03:40.320 you should keep it on, turn it on, or keep 1:03:40.360 --> 1:03:42.880 it off. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:03:43.000 --> 1:03:45.360 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you 1:03:45.440 --> 1:03:49.760 talking technology took me a bit there. I was furiously 1:03:49.880 --> 1:03:52.240 typing up the show notes for all the things that Christa, 1:03:52.320 --> 1:03:56.000 our photo guest, mentioned. It's all on the website rich 1:03:56.040 --> 1:03:59.240 on tech dot tv. So everything that she just mentioned, 1:03:59.280 --> 1:04:02.520 all the different ways to organize your photos, it's all 1:04:02.640 --> 1:04:06.600 right there on the website rich on tech dot TV. 1:04:07.960 --> 1:04:10.800 Let's see here coming up, Let's see. Oh that's next hour. 1:04:10.840 --> 1:04:14.960 I'll tell you about that next hour. Let's talk about Gloria. 1:04:15.160 --> 1:04:18.640 She wrote in is it a bad idea to buy 1:04:18.720 --> 1:04:23.600 electronics like cell phones, tablets or laptops from shopping channels? 1:04:24.920 --> 1:04:29.400 Good question, Gloria, I don't think so. I would say 1:04:29.400 --> 1:04:33.560 my main concern would be to make sure the return 1:04:33.640 --> 1:04:35.920 policy is good, like make sure it's easy to return, 1:04:35.960 --> 1:04:38.720 because you're getting these site on scene, and that the 1:04:38.760 --> 1:04:41.440 warranty matches what you're getting if you bought it from 1:04:41.440 --> 1:04:45.480 somewhere else. That's the main thing. The other thing I 1:04:45.520 --> 1:04:48.520 would say is just, you know, just make sure you 1:04:48.560 --> 1:04:50.760 know what you're buying and if it's actually a good deal. 1:04:50.800 --> 1:04:52.560 I think a lot of times are these home shopping 1:04:52.560 --> 1:04:56.920 networks and these home shopping channels you know, the whole 1:04:56.960 --> 1:04:59.120 point is like you've either have credit with them or 1:04:59.200 --> 1:05:02.320 it's for easy pay or something like that, so you 1:05:02.400 --> 1:05:04.880 may be spending more than you need to on these gadgets. 1:05:04.920 --> 1:05:07.840 So i'd always look up the actual model number on 1:05:08.040 --> 1:05:10.480 something like an Amazon or Best Buy and just see 1:05:10.520 --> 1:05:13.120 if it's the same price. If it is, it might 1:05:13.160 --> 1:05:14.640 be easier just to buy it from a place you 1:05:14.680 --> 1:05:18.640 already go to. But and then also make sure that 1:05:18.680 --> 1:05:20.960 it's the current model. So sometimes you may be getting 1:05:20.960 --> 1:05:23.000 a really good deal on these things because it's the 1:05:23.040 --> 1:05:26.240 previous model or a model that's no longer being made. 1:05:26.600 --> 1:05:29.160 But you know, I don't know, I have no problem 1:05:29.160 --> 1:05:31.560 with this. I actually I actually have always thought that 1:05:31.600 --> 1:05:33.760 I'd be a great person to be on these channels, 1:05:34.240 --> 1:05:37.640 Like I love talking about gadgets. In fact, it's funny 1:05:37.640 --> 1:05:40.200 when you do kind of like a first look at gadgets, 1:05:41.280 --> 1:05:43.160 you know, that's what you're doing. You're you're basically like 1:05:43.160 --> 1:05:45.720 if you're talking about it to camera, you're kind of 1:05:45.760 --> 1:05:48.440 memorizing all these different little features and then kind of 1:05:48.480 --> 1:05:50.800 selling it to camera. So I always thought it'd be 1:05:50.840 --> 1:05:52.800 really fun to be on like a home shopping channel. 1:05:53.720 --> 1:05:55.080 But I think a lot of people just buy this 1:05:55.120 --> 1:05:57.280 stuff because it sounds really cool, and then they get 1:05:57.320 --> 1:05:58.760 it and I don't know do they open it or 1:05:58.840 --> 1:06:02.600 use it. But Gloria, if you like it, it looks good, 1:06:02.680 --> 1:06:04.520 go ahead get it. I have no problem with it. 1:06:05.080 --> 1:06:09.960 I got an email from someone asking about advanced data protection. Actually, 1:06:10.040 --> 1:06:12.160 this person contacted me on Instagram. They said, hey, I 1:06:12.160 --> 1:06:15.080 saw this reel tells me to turn on advanced data 1:06:15.120 --> 1:06:18.320 protection on the iPhone. Should I do it? So, let 1:06:18.320 --> 1:06:22.480 me explain what advanced data protection is. This basically gives 1:06:22.520 --> 1:06:26.920 you end to end encryption on your iCloud data. So 1:06:27.880 --> 1:06:30.160 iCloud data is pretty much a lot of your stuff 1:06:30.160 --> 1:06:32.520 that's on your iPhone is already end to end encrypted, 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:37.440 but this increases that protection from certain categories, like certain 1:06:37.480 --> 1:06:39.880 things like already it's end to end encrypted, but this 1:06:40.040 --> 1:06:44.280 increases that protection of more categories, including your entire device, backup, 1:06:44.360 --> 1:06:48.360 your photos, and your notes, which means only trusted devices 1:06:48.440 --> 1:06:53.920 can access them. So with ADP, which Advanced Data Protection activated, 1:06:54.040 --> 1:06:57.000 Apple cannot access your encrypted data in any way, shape 1:06:57.080 --> 1:07:00.360 or form. So this means that if there's a data 1:07:00.400 --> 1:07:03.320 breach on Apple servers and your stuff got out there, 1:07:03.920 --> 1:07:06.600 no one would be able to see your pictures, or 1:07:06.640 --> 1:07:10.960 your data or your info. Sounds great, right, But the 1:07:11.080 --> 1:07:15.240 downside is if you forget your password or you forget 1:07:15.240 --> 1:07:18.600 the recovery key for your iCloud, there is no way 1:07:18.640 --> 1:07:22.120 you'll be able to recover this data ever, never, ever, ever, 1:07:22.520 --> 1:07:27.880 So if you're someone that loses your passwords can't remember things, 1:07:27.920 --> 1:07:30.000 this might not be the best thing to turn on. 1:07:31.920 --> 1:07:34.960 That's one of the downsides. The other downside is that 1:07:35.040 --> 1:07:37.959 all of your devices that are linked to your iCloud 1:07:38.000 --> 1:07:41.280 account have to be updated to the latest operating system 1:07:41.320 --> 1:07:43.520 to have this benefit turned on. So that means if 1:07:43.560 --> 1:07:47.400 you're running a combination of devices on your account, all 1:07:47.440 --> 1:07:49.320 of them have to be updated. If some of them 1:07:49.360 --> 1:07:52.200 can't be, then you cannot. You either have to remove 1:07:52.200 --> 1:07:54.720 that device from your account or you can't activate this. 1:07:55.440 --> 1:07:59.680 The other downside is that a lot of functionalities of 1:07:59.720 --> 1:08:02.760 act accessing your iCloud data via the web will be 1:08:02.840 --> 1:08:07.040 disabled because you cannot access this stuff via the web 1:08:07.600 --> 1:08:11.200 because it's a whole complicated situation, but because it's not 1:08:11.240 --> 1:08:14.320 a trusted device that has the key to unencrypt your information, 1:08:14.920 --> 1:08:17.160 it can't access it. And the web browser is not 1:08:17.200 --> 1:08:19.839 equipped to do that, So that means you just can't access. 1:08:19.840 --> 1:08:22.200 So if you ever said, oh, I lost access to 1:08:22.240 --> 1:08:24.120 my phone, let me go to iCloud and grab my 1:08:24.479 --> 1:08:27.160 pictures or grab my contacts, No, not going to happen 1:08:27.520 --> 1:08:32.000 because you have this ADP on. So this would fall 1:08:32.120 --> 1:08:37.640 under the category of stuff you see online and it 1:08:37.720 --> 1:08:40.759 looks really good and you see this expert quote unquote 1:08:40.840 --> 1:08:44.840 telling you what to do and you don't realize there 1:08:44.840 --> 1:08:48.320 are implications, pros and cons of every action in this world. 1:08:49.040 --> 1:08:53.200 And so I get these things all the time. Cybersecurity experts, 1:08:53.280 --> 1:08:58.000 data experts, iPhone experts, Android experts, expert, expert, expert. If 1:08:58.000 --> 1:09:01.360 someone calls themselves an expert, I'm always concerned, right because 1:09:01.720 --> 1:09:04.080 what does that mean? Do you have a PhD and iPhone? 1:09:04.840 --> 1:09:07.080 You have a PhD and Android? Like, what is expert 1:09:07.120 --> 1:09:09.040 mean you've studied these or does it mean that you 1:09:09.120 --> 1:09:11.240 just you know? Like I always, I don't consider myself 1:09:11.280 --> 1:09:14.440 an expert anything. I just know a lot about technology 1:09:14.640 --> 1:09:17.160 and I don't even know everything about technology. I just 1:09:17.320 --> 1:09:19.439 cover this stuff on a daily basis, so I'm versed 1:09:19.439 --> 1:09:23.640 in it. And again, when it comes to answering tech questions, 1:09:24.040 --> 1:09:25.519 you know people think you have all the answers. I 1:09:25.520 --> 1:09:28.360 don't have all the answers. But the difference between someone 1:09:28.439 --> 1:09:30.719 like myself and you know, people that are smart about 1:09:30.760 --> 1:09:34.759 technology is that you understand how to figure out the answer, 1:09:35.000 --> 1:09:37.000 Where to go for the answer, who to talk to 1:09:37.120 --> 1:09:40.080 for the answer, what the implications of that answer is, 1:09:40.120 --> 1:09:42.760 the pros and cons of things that, to me is 1:09:42.880 --> 1:09:45.160 much more useful than expert tells you to turn on 1:09:45.240 --> 1:09:47.519 this setting, turn off this setting. If you look at 1:09:47.560 --> 1:09:50.400 all the stuff that I post to Instagram, Facebook, I 1:09:50.520 --> 1:09:54.280 explain the pros and cons. I explain what's going on, 1:09:54.360 --> 1:09:57.639 so you understand and you can make an informed decision. 1:09:57.960 --> 1:09:59.680 I don't just say you should turn this feature on. 1:10:00.160 --> 1:10:02.639 I explain what the feature is and why you might 1:10:02.680 --> 1:10:05.679 want to turn it on. So with this advanced data protection, 1:10:06.000 --> 1:10:09.240 in all these advanced security features, there's a reason why 1:10:09.280 --> 1:10:11.799 Apple doesn't just turn them on for you, or Android 1:10:11.920 --> 1:10:14.240 doesn't just turn them on for you. It's because there 1:10:14.400 --> 1:10:17.040 usually are reasons why you may want them on and 1:10:17.080 --> 1:10:18.880 you may want them off. If you're smart, you know 1:10:18.920 --> 1:10:22.000 what you're doing, You're with it. You understand technology, turn 1:10:22.040 --> 1:10:24.559 it on, understand it, you understand the pros and cons 1:10:25.320 --> 1:10:29.160 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:10:29.520 --> 1:10:33.080 My name is rich Demiro, hanging out with you talking technology. 1:10:34.000 --> 1:10:38.200 The website for the show rich on Tech dot tv. 1:10:39.640 --> 1:10:41.640 If you want to send me an email, go to 1:10:41.680 --> 1:10:45.320 the website rich on tech dot tv. Hit contact and 1:10:45.360 --> 1:10:49.640 there you can submit feedback, submit questions, comments, whatever you'd like. 1:10:49.760 --> 1:10:54.000 That's what KL did. KL wrote in about my comments 1:10:54.000 --> 1:10:57.320 about the weighted blankets, saying kids have died using weighted 1:10:57.320 --> 1:11:00.599 blankets and that was news to me, but I did 1:11:00.600 --> 1:11:03.679 look it up and apparently, yes, there were a couple 1:11:03.760 --> 1:11:08.000 of kids that did die in April twenty twenty two 1:11:08.680 --> 1:11:11.519 by these weighted blankets sold by Target, which led to 1:11:11.560 --> 1:11:15.040 a huge recall. Now those were apparently a design flaw, 1:11:15.640 --> 1:11:18.439 but you know, just looking at the tips here, it's 1:11:18.439 --> 1:11:21.360 saying that you got to be age appropriate, not recommended 1:11:21.400 --> 1:11:25.479 for babies or toddlers. Check the manufacturers age recommendations, proper 1:11:25.520 --> 1:11:29.439 size and weight. Kids should be supervised. And you know 1:11:29.479 --> 1:11:32.240 this is all common sense. It goes without saying. But 1:11:32.760 --> 1:11:34.719 you know, since I did mention them, I should probably 1:11:34.760 --> 1:11:35.960 say that. You know, if you're going to use one 1:11:36.000 --> 1:11:39.599 of these blankets, you know, probably make sure that your 1:11:39.680 --> 1:11:41.479 child can handle something like this. 1:11:41.680 --> 1:11:44.080 With all these lawsuits going on, you should realize common 1:11:44.120 --> 1:11:46.200 sense isn't all that common anymore. 1:11:46.720 --> 1:11:50.400 Is there anything as common sense? No? I mean, look, 1:11:50.479 --> 1:11:52.679 you know when you're talking about I am a big 1:11:52.720 --> 1:11:56.360 believer in if there are issues with the product, Like 1:11:56.479 --> 1:11:59.640 clearly this had a design flaw with the zipperk so 1:12:00.120 --> 1:12:02.960 got like entangled in this thing, that makes sense. Like 1:12:03.160 --> 1:12:05.479 if it's a if it's a design flaw, if there's 1:12:05.520 --> 1:12:10.240 a problem, like yes, But common sense in general, I 1:12:10.320 --> 1:12:13.080 feel like has gone out the window with a lot 1:12:13.120 --> 1:12:13.920 of things in life. 1:12:13.960 --> 1:12:14.120 Now. 1:12:14.200 --> 1:12:16.480 The blanket that I have isn't a zipper blankets. 1:12:16.640 --> 1:12:20.120 It's like a almost like knitted Yeah, it's a weighted 1:12:20.240 --> 1:12:21.080 knitted blanket. 1:12:21.160 --> 1:12:21.439 Yeah. 1:12:21.479 --> 1:12:23.800 And it's not big. It literally just covers me from 1:12:23.840 --> 1:12:24.840 my chest down on my feet. 1:12:25.040 --> 1:12:27.799 Yeah. The one that my kid has is a smaller one. 1:12:27.920 --> 1:12:30.360 But again, I mean, if I had an infant, I'm 1:12:30.400 --> 1:12:32.599 not putting a weighted blanket on the infant. Like that's 1:12:32.680 --> 1:12:35.519 just to me, that would be common sense, right. I 1:12:35.560 --> 1:12:37.400 think if you're a parent in general, there are so 1:12:37.479 --> 1:12:40.280 many things that you need to learn and understand, and 1:12:40.560 --> 1:12:43.599 there's just I mean, look, there's things that our parents 1:12:43.640 --> 1:12:46.439 did with us that you would never do now. My 1:12:46.520 --> 1:12:48.880 father in law was telling me, you know, they're in car. 1:12:48.960 --> 1:12:52.280 I mean there wasn't even seatbelts. I mean kids would 1:12:52.320 --> 1:12:54.519 sleep like on the you know they had these big 1:12:54.520 --> 1:12:57.040 old station wagons, right and kids would sleep on like 1:12:57.120 --> 1:12:58.840 the back like you. 1:12:58.720 --> 1:13:00.720 Know, I don't know what you call it. I can 1:13:00.840 --> 1:13:03.840 get my dad in trouble with this one corvette. My 1:13:03.920 --> 1:13:07.360 dad had an older corvette, was at eighty six, and 1:13:07.400 --> 1:13:09.520 me and him my mom would ride in this corvette, 1:13:09.520 --> 1:13:11.080 but I would ride in the trunk of the car 1:13:11.760 --> 1:13:15.680 and the closed trunk like the back where the yeah, yes, 1:13:15.920 --> 1:13:17.720 laid back there. Yes, And to me it was the 1:13:17.720 --> 1:13:21.800 most coolest thing ever you did. No, no, no, not 1:13:21.920 --> 1:13:24.759 at all. But back then it was fun. 1:13:24.920 --> 1:13:26.800 Oh yeah. I mean just this, if you look at 1:13:26.840 --> 1:13:29.559 some of the pictures of things, the stuff we take 1:13:29.600 --> 1:13:33.479 for granted now, the safety measures we have, the everything, 1:13:33.640 --> 1:13:37.240 it's all just like it's because something bad happened. And 1:13:37.520 --> 1:13:39.960 I mean I remember we've test drove like this uh 1:13:40.479 --> 1:13:43.800 big old giant station wagon when I was a kid, 1:13:44.000 --> 1:13:46.240 and it had like the two seats that faced backwards, 1:13:46.280 --> 1:13:48.160 you know, like out the back, and it was like, 1:13:48.600 --> 1:13:50.960 that was the coolest thing ever. And now when you 1:13:51.000 --> 1:13:54.240 think about, like how these rear end crashes, like maybe 1:13:54.280 --> 1:13:56.360 not the best place to put your kids something so. 1:13:56.280 --> 1:13:58.760 Simple drinking from a water holes as a child. 1:13:59.000 --> 1:14:01.360 Yes, nobody ever died doing that, did they? 1:14:01.400 --> 1:14:04.000 But I wouldn't now what you wouldn't no now right now? 1:14:04.080 --> 1:14:06.439 Uh huh? Well, I guess I've had no BPA in 1:14:06.479 --> 1:14:11.080 the I'll get out everything. I mean, you mentioned anything 1:14:11.120 --> 1:14:14.120 and someone has some sort of issue. Ron writes into 1:14:14.120 --> 1:14:16.160 my Instagram at rich On Tech. Hey, rich I've been 1:14:16.160 --> 1:14:18.519 listening to your radio show since day one. I'm curious 1:14:18.880 --> 1:14:21.280 can we actually see you live? You always post a 1:14:21.320 --> 1:14:23.240 pick with you in the station, but I was wondering 1:14:23.520 --> 1:14:25.559 if we can see you live in some of these episodes. 1:14:25.640 --> 1:14:28.240 Keep up the great content in twenty twenty five. This 1:14:28.320 --> 1:14:31.559 has been an ongoing question since day one of this show. 1:14:32.680 --> 1:14:35.840 The short answer is no. The other answer is if 1:14:35.880 --> 1:14:37.800 you want to see the first ten minutes of the 1:14:37.840 --> 1:14:40.920 show that is part of my rich On Tech Weekly show, 1:14:40.920 --> 1:14:44.599 which airs on KTLA plus, part of the TV station 1:14:44.680 --> 1:14:47.080 I work for here in Los Angeles, you can see 1:14:47.120 --> 1:14:49.720 the first ten minutes of the show that you would 1:14:49.760 --> 1:14:53.000 have to download the KTLA plus app on your Roku, 1:14:53.479 --> 1:14:56.920 your Apple TV, your Fire TV, or your Samsung Smart TV. 1:14:57.520 --> 1:14:59.320 And that's a weekly show that airs and you can 1:14:59.360 --> 1:15:02.559 see the first ten minutes of the radio show. Don't 1:15:02.560 --> 1:15:05.000 really have plans for live right now. I'm on TV 1:15:05.120 --> 1:15:07.640 Live every day, and so this is sort of like, 1:15:08.280 --> 1:15:10.040 you know, a time when I'm not doing live unless 1:15:10.040 --> 1:15:15.360 something changes, we'll see. Let's go to Deborah in Santa Monica. Deborah, 1:15:15.439 --> 1:15:17.479 You're on with Rich by Rich. 1:15:18.360 --> 1:15:22.000 Okay, the reason I'm calling them is I have a 1:15:22.120 --> 1:15:26.280 one plus seven pro Android phone. 1:15:26.640 --> 1:15:28.400 Okay, I've had it for years. 1:15:28.439 --> 1:15:28.960 I love it. 1:15:28.960 --> 1:15:30.080 It's a wonderful phone. 1:15:30.280 --> 1:15:36.160 However, in the last couple of weeks, something has happened 1:15:36.680 --> 1:15:39.200 to the settings that I didn't do anything with. Okay, 1:15:39.200 --> 1:15:40.040 I didn't change it. 1:15:40.240 --> 1:15:42.639 Oh no, nobody ever changes anything on their phone. 1:15:43.280 --> 1:15:43.599 Really. 1:15:44.360 --> 1:15:45.000 I said, that's the. 1:15:45.000 --> 1:15:47.080 Way I want it, and then I leave it alone 1:15:47.360 --> 1:15:50.200 unless it's something you know, serious, Okase, But I would 1:15:50.280 --> 1:15:53.080 remember that if I had been anything to the setting. 1:15:53.240 --> 1:15:53.519 Sure. 1:15:54.280 --> 1:15:58.439 So what's been happening, and it's very annoying, is when 1:15:58.840 --> 1:16:05.040 there's when the system apparently when a here's talking, it'll revert. 1:16:04.720 --> 1:16:07.240 It to text. 1:16:06.680 --> 1:16:11.640 Which will stream across my screen. It'll do it. And 1:16:11.960 --> 1:16:16.080 any app or program that I'm aware of when I 1:16:16.200 --> 1:16:19.040 was on and anytime I've been on X recently. If 1:16:19.040 --> 1:16:22.599 there's talking and I'm listening to a tweeter watching a tweet, 1:16:23.520 --> 1:16:27.280 it'll it'll put the put the talking right. 1:16:27.320 --> 1:16:30.680 It's almost like close captions, right, Is that kind of 1:16:30.680 --> 1:16:31.120 what it is. 1:16:31.240 --> 1:16:35.400 Calling live cat Yes. I cannot figure out in any 1:16:35.439 --> 1:16:38.879 of the apps or on my Android phone, even in settings, 1:16:38.920 --> 1:16:41.720 and I've spent hours going through the settings to see 1:16:41.800 --> 1:16:45.120 that it's in somewhere. You know, I have to drill down. 1:16:45.920 --> 1:16:49.519 It's not there. I even did a Google search and 1:16:49.560 --> 1:16:51.360 they actually said, yes, there's a way to do it. 1:16:51.360 --> 1:16:54.400 Go to settings, go to this good event. Guess what 1:16:54.400 --> 1:16:57.080 what they say to go through is missing on my phone. 1:16:57.640 --> 1:17:00.240 Okay, well, so you have stumbled upon a fee. Sure 1:17:00.320 --> 1:17:02.040 that is quite helpful for people. 1:17:02.080 --> 1:17:02.280 You know. 1:17:02.800 --> 1:17:04.240 I think there's a couple of things going on here. 1:17:04.320 --> 1:17:06.760 Number one, So what you're talking about is live captions. 1:17:06.840 --> 1:17:10.360 This is available on both iPhone and Android, and it's 1:17:10.400 --> 1:17:13.960 a feature that on Android, it came a couple of 1:17:14.040 --> 1:17:16.639 years ago. On iPhone, I think it's within the last 1:17:16.720 --> 1:17:19.280 year or so. But what it does is it listens 1:17:19.320 --> 1:17:22.800 to the audio on the phone and it transcribes it 1:17:22.840 --> 1:17:24.840 in real time and puts it in a little box. 1:17:24.960 --> 1:17:28.320 And so for people that you know could be hard 1:17:28.320 --> 1:17:31.000 of hearing, they want this on their screen. That's one 1:17:31.040 --> 1:17:33.360 reason to use it. Another reason is you just want 1:17:33.400 --> 1:17:36.320 captions because you're, you know, watching something in class. You 1:17:36.320 --> 1:17:38.240 don't want to disturb someone else. You know, there's lots 1:17:38.240 --> 1:17:41.120 of reasons why you might activate this. I made the 1:17:41.280 --> 1:17:45.519 joke Tebra about no one ever changes features, because it's 1:17:45.560 --> 1:17:47.799 an ongoing joke. When someone comes to me with a problem, 1:17:47.880 --> 1:17:51.240 they say, I didn't change anything. But you know, sometimes 1:17:51.280 --> 1:17:54.240 what happens is we tap a button by accident. We 1:17:54.360 --> 1:17:56.519 you know, just something you know, gets hit in our pocket, 1:17:56.560 --> 1:17:59.000 whatever it is. And so that's just kind of my 1:17:59.120 --> 1:18:02.080 inside tech show for anyone. My mom calls me with 1:18:02.280 --> 1:18:04.080 a problem and I'm like, she's like, and I didn't 1:18:04.120 --> 1:18:05.840 touch a thing. I was like, Okay, no one ever 1:18:05.920 --> 1:18:08.800 touches anything. But here's how we do it. So this 1:18:08.960 --> 1:18:11.120 is an accessibility feature. So there are a couple of 1:18:11.120 --> 1:18:14.400 ways to turn it on and off. The first way 1:18:14.560 --> 1:18:18.080 is to go into settings and tap accessibility and to 1:18:18.320 --> 1:18:21.040 choose live captions and turn that on or off. Are 1:18:21.080 --> 1:18:22.599 you is that the feature that's not there? 1:18:23.479 --> 1:18:23.879 Okay? 1:18:23.920 --> 1:18:28.040 When I go into my settings, there's no specific accessibility. 1:18:28.080 --> 1:18:32.559 You have to go to something like it's either in 1:18:32.840 --> 1:18:36.799 system or Apps and Notifications. I'm going to see apps 1:18:36.800 --> 1:18:37.480 and notifications. 1:18:37.479 --> 1:18:39.799 Well, it wouldn't be under Apps and Notifications. There's usually 1:18:39.840 --> 1:18:44.040 a separate setting just for accessibility on almost every Android phone. 1:18:44.120 --> 1:18:44.320 Now. 1:18:44.400 --> 1:18:46.519 Of course, the one day I did not bring the 1:18:46.560 --> 1:18:49.880 Android phone that I'm testing with me, I said, nobody's 1:18:49.880 --> 1:18:51.680 gonna have a question about one plus today, and of 1:18:51.720 --> 1:18:53.280 course you have the question about one plus, so I 1:18:53.280 --> 1:18:56.559 don't have it in front of me. But typically if 1:18:56.560 --> 1:18:59.240 you go into settings accessibility, that's going to be the 1:18:59.240 --> 1:19:04.439 first place to and then you should find it under privacy. Okay, 1:19:04.520 --> 1:19:04.840 what's that. 1:19:06.800 --> 1:19:11.639 You have to in settings? There is something called privacy okay, 1:19:11.720 --> 1:19:13.599 and permissions and personal data. 1:19:13.720 --> 1:19:15.400 No, that's not going to be it. Okay. So the 1:19:15.439 --> 1:19:16.920 other way to look for it, it's. 1:19:16.920 --> 1:19:21.200 On it is because there's accessibility usage. That's the only 1:19:21.280 --> 1:19:23.960 way I found anything having to do with assessibility. 1:19:24.040 --> 1:19:26.280 Well, okay, accessively, that's not it though, that's not the 1:19:26.400 --> 1:19:28.160 that's not the part. So the other way to do 1:19:28.240 --> 1:19:30.320 it is to go in the upper right hand corner 1:19:30.320 --> 1:19:34.400 when you go into your settings and type in live captions. Okay, 1:19:34.479 --> 1:19:37.120 so you can type in live caption and that should 1:19:37.120 --> 1:19:39.519 bring up the setting of where to find it. So 1:19:39.680 --> 1:19:43.000 on this Samsung phone I'm looking at, it's under hearing enhancements, 1:19:43.439 --> 1:19:48.320 under accessibility accessibility, So settings accessibility, hearing enhancements. That's one 1:19:48.320 --> 1:19:50.360 way of bringing it up. The other way to bring 1:19:50.360 --> 1:19:52.400 it up is to press the volume button on your 1:19:52.400 --> 1:19:56.080 Android phone, and when you press that volume button, there 1:19:56.200 --> 1:20:01.240 is a little captions icon. So if you press volume 1:20:01.320 --> 1:20:04.120 up and then press Settings, you should see a little 1:20:04.160 --> 1:20:08.439 live caption's icon. In that main settings page of your volume. 1:20:08.640 --> 1:20:10.760 You'll see a whole bunch of sliders you tap there 1:20:11.240 --> 1:20:14.080 and that should toggle it on or off. The third 1:20:14.080 --> 1:20:16.840 way to find it is to swipe down from the 1:20:16.880 --> 1:20:19.320 top of your screen and you see a whole bunch 1:20:19.360 --> 1:20:22.880 of widgets like to turn on and off, the airplane mode, 1:20:22.920 --> 1:20:27.160 the flashlight location, whatever it is. And then if you 1:20:27.240 --> 1:20:30.880 tap the little edit button there, it's like a maybe 1:20:30.920 --> 1:20:34.240 a pencil icon, and then you tap edit on your 1:20:34.479 --> 1:20:37.680 widgets for your These are called quick tiles that it 1:20:37.720 --> 1:20:41.000 should say available buttons, and one of those should be 1:20:41.080 --> 1:20:45.920 labeled live captions. Tap that and you should now it'll 1:20:45.920 --> 1:20:49.360 put it into those quick tiles. Tap done, and then 1:20:49.360 --> 1:20:51.879 once you swipe down to bring up those quick tiles, 1:20:52.040 --> 1:20:54.160 make sure you expand it. You should have a new 1:20:54.200 --> 1:20:57.080 option that says live caption and you can toggle it 1:20:57.200 --> 1:21:02.400 on or off right there. So those are three ways, Deborah, 1:21:02.520 --> 1:21:05.799 to turn that on and off. Please send me an email. 1:21:06.160 --> 1:21:08.040 Go to rich on Tech dot TV. Send me an 1:21:08.040 --> 1:21:10.760 email so I have your email address and I will 1:21:10.760 --> 1:21:12.240 give you when I get home, I will give you 1:21:12.280 --> 1:21:15.680 specific directions for the one plus phone. But that is 1:21:15.720 --> 1:21:19.040 the three ways in general on Android that you can 1:21:19.080 --> 1:21:21.840 turn on and off live caption. If you ask me, 1:21:23.080 --> 1:21:25.720 they should have it right on the captions when they 1:21:25.720 --> 1:21:28.559 show up. That would make the most sense. Let me 1:21:28.600 --> 1:21:31.800 just see, I'm playing a YouTube video and you would 1:21:31.800 --> 1:21:35.080 think it would have them right on, you know, a 1:21:35.120 --> 1:21:38.400 little toggle right on there. But I guess it doesn't 1:21:38.400 --> 1:21:41.280 do that. Eight eight eight rich one O one eight 1:21:41.360 --> 1:21:44.639 eight eight seven four two four one zero one. This 1:21:44.960 --> 1:21:48.040 is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 1:21:49.800 --> 1:21:52.920 Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 1:21:53.040 --> 1:21:56.439 seven four two four one zero one, the website rich 1:21:56.560 --> 1:22:00.479 on Tech dot tv. Don't forget this show is available 1:22:00.520 --> 1:22:03.559 as a podcast. Just search rich on Tech in your 1:22:03.600 --> 1:22:07.040 favorite audio app. Never miss an episode. Of course, the 1:22:07.080 --> 1:22:10.439 best way to listen is live right here on the radio. 1:22:10.560 --> 1:22:13.719 That's my preferred way. But the podcast is fun as well. 1:22:14.800 --> 1:22:17.360 Apple Fitness Plus. I don't know if you're a person 1:22:17.400 --> 1:22:20.000 that wants to close your rings on a daily basis, 1:22:20.040 --> 1:22:22.040 I know I am. If you have an Apple Watch, 1:22:22.080 --> 1:22:25.680 those rings represent the move minutes that you get on 1:22:25.720 --> 1:22:29.519 a daily basis standing up every hour for like twelve hours. 1:22:30.000 --> 1:22:33.320 And then what's the third one? The steps you take 1:22:33.360 --> 1:22:35.400 on a daily basis. Let me say, I don't even know. 1:22:35.439 --> 1:22:39.479 I'm only worried about the move minutes. Let's see here, Oh, 1:22:40.000 --> 1:22:42.479 great segment, rich You don't even know what you're talking about. 1:22:42.840 --> 1:22:47.479 Move minutes exercise interesting? Oh move is your calories? Okay, 1:22:47.880 --> 1:22:49.880 I don't worry about that. So you got the calories, 1:22:50.400 --> 1:22:55.320 exercise minutes and then stand minutes. So yeah, if you're 1:22:55.360 --> 1:22:56.920 someone who wants to do that. Apple came up with 1:22:56.960 --> 1:22:59.120 this thing called Apple Fitness Plus a couple of years ago. 1:22:59.439 --> 1:23:01.799 During the pan lets you work out from your phone 1:23:01.920 --> 1:23:04.320 or your Apple Watch. It started out you had to 1:23:04.320 --> 1:23:06.360 have an Apple Watch. Now you can do it just 1:23:06.400 --> 1:23:10.479 through your iPhone. But I visited their Apple Fitness Plus 1:23:10.520 --> 1:23:13.760 studio in Santa Monica to get a little preview of 1:23:13.800 --> 1:23:16.960 some of the new programs they have for twenty twenty five. 1:23:17.000 --> 1:23:21.599 They're launching all of these on Monday, January sixth, largest 1:23:21.640 --> 1:23:26.080 ever lineup of their fitness and mindfulness programming. And they've 1:23:26.120 --> 1:23:29.439 got new strength training. So the thing about strength training, 1:23:29.479 --> 1:23:32.479 it's very intimidating. You've got people like Bobo that work 1:23:32.520 --> 1:23:34.360 out all the time and they know what they're doing. 1:23:34.720 --> 1:23:37.040 Every time you go on Instagram, he's with lifting more weight. 1:23:37.439 --> 1:23:41.000 I'm like, I never lift that. But if if you're 1:23:41.000 --> 1:23:44.320 intimidated by that, you know, maybe you just want to 1:23:44.320 --> 1:23:46.639 start small. So this program you can start with any 1:23:46.640 --> 1:23:48.920 weight and it could be anything. So if you if 1:23:48.960 --> 1:23:50.760 you strong and you already want to lift a lot, 1:23:50.800 --> 1:23:52.400 you can start with that, or if you don't want 1:23:52.439 --> 1:23:54.439 to lift a lot, you can start with that. Then 1:23:54.439 --> 1:23:58.080 they've got pickleball conditioning, so that's new. I know pickleball 1:23:58.160 --> 1:24:01.599 is very popular. They've got these programs so you can 1:24:01.680 --> 1:24:04.559 learn like specific yoga poses and then of course breath meditation. 1:24:05.880 --> 1:24:07.639 The other feature I really think is great. If you're 1:24:07.680 --> 1:24:09.880 just trying to move your you know, move yourself, get 1:24:09.880 --> 1:24:12.320 yourself up and out of the house, it's called time 1:24:12.360 --> 1:24:16.040 to walk. And so they interview all these like celebrities 1:24:16.080 --> 1:24:18.439 and notable people and you just walk with them, so 1:24:18.479 --> 1:24:21.080 they're in your ear. You just walk and they talk 1:24:21.120 --> 1:24:22.600 and tell their story and before you know it, you 1:24:22.640 --> 1:24:26.240 got thirty minutes of walk time. Fitness Plus is also 1:24:26.320 --> 1:24:30.200 integrating with Strava for the first time ever in a 1:24:30.200 --> 1:24:33.200 big way, so you can see detailed tracking and workouts 1:24:33.240 --> 1:24:35.840 shared on the app, so it's a bigger integration. I 1:24:35.880 --> 1:24:39.080 don't use Strava, so I'm not totally knowledgeable about that, 1:24:39.160 --> 1:24:40.719 but I know a lot of people love it, especially 1:24:40.720 --> 1:24:42.600 I think it start out with like the biker community, 1:24:43.120 --> 1:24:45.320 not the motorcycle bikers. 1:24:45.360 --> 1:24:49.479 The I use Strava, do you Yeah? I use it 1:24:49.479 --> 1:24:50.920 around my neighborhood. It's pretty simple. 1:24:50.960 --> 1:24:51.920 What do you do with it? 1:24:52.080 --> 1:24:54.120 You just started like, wherever you go, you hit the 1:24:54.160 --> 1:24:57.000 button to record your pace, and it keeps track of 1:24:57.040 --> 1:24:59.800 your miles, your elevation, and amount of calories that you 1:25:00.160 --> 1:25:03.000 could have possibly burned in the process and the time. 1:25:03.240 --> 1:25:04.840 Okay, so so it's like a tracker app. 1:25:04.960 --> 1:25:08.080 Yeah, but it tracks to your map, like to your 1:25:08.120 --> 1:25:10.519 areash o. God, you like the path that you went 1:25:10.600 --> 1:25:13.000 and everything like that. And there's a friend network on 1:25:13.080 --> 1:25:15.559 it too, so like I can see what you did 1:25:15.600 --> 1:25:16.559 and like it, or you can. 1:25:16.479 --> 1:25:18.080 See what right you don't like it. And I think 1:25:18.120 --> 1:25:20.600 that's what the big improvement is with Fitness Plus is 1:25:20.600 --> 1:25:23.639 that it now shows the specific workout that you did 1:25:24.000 --> 1:25:27.559 to your friends. Fitness Plus is ten dollars a month, 1:25:27.640 --> 1:25:30.439 eighty dollars a year. You can share it up to 1:25:30.680 --> 1:25:32.559 six people in your family. You can get a free 1:25:32.560 --> 1:25:35.000 trial by going to like I think best Buy has 1:25:35.040 --> 1:25:36.840 two months. If you have a new Apple device, you'll 1:25:36.880 --> 1:25:39.479 get it. But anyway, it's kind of fun. Let me 1:25:39.520 --> 1:25:41.960 just give you a quick idea of Apple, how they operate, 1:25:42.040 --> 1:25:44.840 you know, and I know I talk about Apple a lot. 1:25:44.880 --> 1:25:47.439 I also talk about Android. I like both, but you 1:25:47.439 --> 1:25:49.840 know they're two very different companies, right, But like Apple, 1:25:49.920 --> 1:25:52.360 So I go to these studios and they open the 1:25:52.360 --> 1:25:54.120 door for me and they're like, hey, before you go in, 1:25:54.280 --> 1:25:55.559 just so you know, we have a lot of energy 1:25:55.560 --> 1:25:57.000 around here. I'm like, all right, what does that mean? 1:25:57.680 --> 1:26:01.760 They opened the door. They had secretly collected every employee 1:26:01.760 --> 1:26:04.040 in the building. So I'm talking like I don't know 1:26:04.120 --> 1:26:06.800 one hundred people at this building, and they were all 1:26:06.840 --> 1:26:09.240 standing there in the lobby when I walk in, and 1:26:09.320 --> 1:26:13.519 all just like clapping and shouting and saying welcome, rich 1:26:13.880 --> 1:26:15.880 and it's just like, you know, these big smiles. And 1:26:15.920 --> 1:26:18.240 I was so taken aback because it's just like this 1:26:18.320 --> 1:26:20.559 is Apple is just such a unique company. I mean, 1:26:20.640 --> 1:26:22.639 to grab everyone. Can you imagine doing that at any 1:26:22.640 --> 1:26:24.960 company you work for? Say, hey, this guy's coming in today. 1:26:25.000 --> 1:26:27.400 Let's let's grab everyone downstairs and let's have them all, 1:26:27.560 --> 1:26:29.840 you know, say hello in the lobby and like cheer 1:26:29.840 --> 1:26:34.839 for him. Bill from Kingston, Pennsylvania, who listens to the podcast, 1:26:34.840 --> 1:26:38.200 writes in I'm considering replacing my Moto Edge twenty twenty 1:26:38.200 --> 1:26:41.360 two with a Pixel xcel Pro. I'm also intrigued by 1:26:41.360 --> 1:26:43.760 the one plus thirteen, which is coming out in January. 1:26:44.080 --> 1:26:46.439 The Pixel has a higher price plus two extra years 1:26:46.479 --> 1:26:49.479 of support, but the one plus looks impressive. What's your take? 1:26:49.560 --> 1:26:51.320 You don't mention one plus often, but I know you're 1:26:51.320 --> 1:26:55.720 a fan of the Pixel. Here's my take historically, and 1:26:56.000 --> 1:26:58.280 I am testing the one plus thirteen, so I have 1:26:58.360 --> 1:27:01.080 been using it. I can't tell you everything I'm under embargo, 1:27:01.400 --> 1:27:04.559 but I will tell you that here's my thought. The 1:27:04.600 --> 1:27:08.759 Pixel is all about the software and camera. One plus 1:27:08.960 --> 1:27:13.080 is all about very very good hardware at a great price. 1:27:13.600 --> 1:27:15.960 So if you're looking for the best camera out there, 1:27:16.040 --> 1:27:18.639 I'd say probably go with the Pixel. If you're looking 1:27:18.680 --> 1:27:22.120 for a great value of hardware and price, I think 1:27:22.120 --> 1:27:25.720 the one plus thirteen might be your best bet. But 1:27:25.760 --> 1:27:27.479 I will have more about the one plus when I 1:27:27.479 --> 1:27:30.000 can talk about it and give my full review. That 1:27:30.080 --> 1:27:32.439 will be coming up soon in the next couple of weeks. 1:27:33.680 --> 1:27:36.840 But I will say the photos are looking good off 1:27:36.840 --> 1:27:39.720 of this one plus thirteen. Coming up next, we're going 1:27:39.760 --> 1:27:43.720 to talk to Gerald Casulis of nord VPN about the 1:27:43.760 --> 1:27:46.240 biggest scams to watch out for in twenty twenty five. 1:27:47.280 --> 1:27:51.639 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking 1:27:51.760 --> 1:27:55.439 technology with you. We're going to get to the top 1:27:55.640 --> 1:27:58.559 scams of twenty twenty five in just a second here, 1:27:59.520 --> 1:28:05.320 But first, Kenny from Warwick, Rhode Island, rights in I 1:28:05.400 --> 1:28:08.599 rented a Kia EV six while traveling in North Carolina 1:28:08.680 --> 1:28:13.280 and love the quiet responsive drive. However, finding a reliable 1:28:13.400 --> 1:28:17.680 EV charger was a challenge. I dealt with charging anxiety 1:28:17.680 --> 1:28:20.280 when Google Maps led me to chargers I couldn't use 1:28:20.439 --> 1:28:23.559 or were occupied. Is there an app that makes finding 1:28:23.640 --> 1:28:29.120 chargers easier for non Tesla drivers, Kenny? This is why 1:28:29.240 --> 1:28:32.559 I only rented a EV once, and I drive an EV, 1:28:32.680 --> 1:28:35.400 so believe me, I love them, but I think renting 1:28:35.439 --> 1:28:37.120 one is a little bit different because people are not 1:28:37.160 --> 1:28:39.679 prepared for the fact that you do have to charge 1:28:39.680 --> 1:28:43.439 this thing, and charging a non Tesla EV can be tricky. 1:28:43.479 --> 1:28:47.600 As you experienced, these third party charging stations can be 1:28:47.720 --> 1:28:50.920 very hit or miss. Sometimes they don't work, they're not maintained, 1:28:51.560 --> 1:28:55.400 just it's a mixed bag. So two apps that can help. 1:28:55.760 --> 1:28:59.600 One is called plug Share plug Share. This is a 1:29:00.360 --> 1:29:03.719 really handy app. It's crowdsourced. People put information in about 1:29:03.920 --> 1:29:07.960 apps or sorry about apps, about the charging stations everywhere, 1:29:07.960 --> 1:29:10.360 so you can look for them that way. The other 1:29:10.880 --> 1:29:14.559 one is called a Better Route Planner a Better Route 1:29:14.600 --> 1:29:17.800 Planner and this was actually bought by Rivian, but it 1:29:17.920 --> 1:29:21.400 still operates. It looks like it operates independently, and they 1:29:21.400 --> 1:29:23.320 do have an app and so you can put in 1:29:23.360 --> 1:29:25.919 your information you want to look for, you know, chargers 1:29:25.960 --> 1:29:28.000 along the way, you can say what kind of car 1:29:28.080 --> 1:29:30.400 you have. It's got a lot of great information there, 1:29:30.439 --> 1:29:32.759 but at the end of the day, like you experience, 1:29:32.840 --> 1:29:36.200 sometimes when you get to these places, the charger may 1:29:36.360 --> 1:29:39.200 just not work. And that's getting better because Tesla is 1:29:39.280 --> 1:29:43.080 opening up its super charging network to third party cars 1:29:43.280 --> 1:29:46.080 and brands. But you need an adapter most of the time. 1:29:46.200 --> 1:29:48.920 And it is a kind of a slow process because 1:29:48.920 --> 1:29:51.439 they've announced this, but not everyone's on board right away. 1:29:52.000 --> 1:29:54.360 So Kenny, thanks for the email, Thanks for listening to 1:29:54.400 --> 1:29:59.280 the podcast to appreciate it. Gerald casulis now on the 1:29:59.320 --> 1:30:03.480 line from nord VPN. You probably have heard of NordVPN. 1:30:03.520 --> 1:30:06.480 They have all kinds of security programs and VPN programs. 1:30:07.120 --> 1:30:09.160 He's going to talk to us about twenty twenty five 1:30:09.400 --> 1:30:14.360 top cyber threats. Gerald, thanks for joining me today. Hi Rich, 1:30:14.520 --> 1:30:17.320 thanks for having ny So what is NordVPN all about? 1:30:17.320 --> 1:30:19.240 What I mean, I know the VPN, but you guys 1:30:19.280 --> 1:30:20.280 got a whole bunch of products. 1:30:20.360 --> 1:30:22.080 Huh oh yeah. 1:30:22.080 --> 1:30:25.760 Absolutely, we want to make Internet a safer place, so 1:30:25.800 --> 1:30:30.719 we have of course NORDPN to protect your identity online. Also, 1:30:30.760 --> 1:30:33.640 we have Bustard Manager, we have business tools, we have 1:30:33.680 --> 1:30:36.719 cyber Efects Intelligence, So we have a bunch of things 1:30:37.040 --> 1:30:41.920 fully focusing on cybersecurity and you and your business safety online. 1:30:42.320 --> 1:30:45.160 I guess my first question is do people actually get 1:30:45.200 --> 1:30:47.559 scammed on a daily basis? I know that I share 1:30:47.800 --> 1:30:50.360 kind of these scams and text messages and all kinds 1:30:50.400 --> 1:30:52.479 of things that are going around on a daily basis. 1:30:52.880 --> 1:30:54.360 Are people falling for this stuff? 1:30:55.600 --> 1:30:59.960 Sadly? Absolutely, people, businesses, everyone does. 1:31:00.200 --> 1:31:03.280 I think we live way too hectic and fast space 1:31:03.479 --> 1:31:06.719 of a life that we easily get tricked by receiving 1:31:06.720 --> 1:31:09.439 an email, clicking on a link that we shouldn't, could 1:31:09.439 --> 1:31:11.559 be text messages Here in US, you know, we get. 1:31:11.479 --> 1:31:12.439 A lot of that as well. 1:31:13.200 --> 1:31:16.479 It's very easy, and if you do fall for something, 1:31:16.600 --> 1:31:18.479 you don't need to feel the silly bad about it. 1:31:18.520 --> 1:31:21.640 It's just obviously what you do about it straight afterwards 1:31:21.720 --> 1:31:25.080 and what tools you implement on digital devices that you 1:31:25.200 --> 1:31:26.559 use to protect yourself better. 1:31:27.160 --> 1:31:28.840 All right, So we're talking about some of these things 1:31:28.880 --> 1:31:30.719 you need to watch out for in twenty twenty five 1:31:31.479 --> 1:31:34.080 combo lists. What does that mean and why are they 1:31:34.120 --> 1:31:35.000 a big concern? 1:31:35.120 --> 1:31:39.680 For cybersecurity, great question, Rich, So, combo list is a 1:31:39.680 --> 1:31:43.479 combination of information that's available in a dark web. And 1:31:43.680 --> 1:31:45.600 when you know, when we talk about dark web, we 1:31:45.640 --> 1:31:51.160 always think of this mythical, mystical place somewhere that is unreachable, 1:31:51.160 --> 1:31:54.160 but actually dark web and deep webs it's very popular 1:31:54.200 --> 1:31:57.400 among cyber criminals. And the combo list is basically a 1:31:57.439 --> 1:31:59.200 list of information that's. 1:31:59.200 --> 1:32:00.719 Originated from breaches. 1:32:00.760 --> 1:32:03.720 So it could be a website got breached somewhere that 1:32:03.800 --> 1:32:05.920 could be your email. There's another website I got breached 1:32:05.920 --> 1:32:07.920 somewhere that could be your address, And that combo list 1:32:08.200 --> 1:32:11.040 is going to be basically everything, all the information accessible 1:32:11.040 --> 1:32:14.880 from numerous different breaches that could potentially have your full 1:32:14.920 --> 1:32:19.240 contact details, your social security number, your telephone number, your addresses, 1:32:19.560 --> 1:32:22.800 a bunch of information that would made for cyber clinels 1:32:22.800 --> 1:32:27.519 to potentially steal your identity a lot easier and purchase 1:32:27.600 --> 1:32:28.800 those type of combolists. 1:32:29.040 --> 1:32:33.000 So they're piecing together information from various breaches. One may 1:32:33.000 --> 1:32:34.960 not be a big deal, Okay, your phone number, but 1:32:35.000 --> 1:32:37.799 now they've got your phone number, your social your address, 1:32:37.840 --> 1:32:40.879 your email address, a couple of your old passwords, whatever, 1:32:41.080 --> 1:32:41.920 all in one place. 1:32:43.560 --> 1:32:45.920 Absolutely, and that's where it all kind of leads to 1:32:46.040 --> 1:32:50.479 account takeovers, which is very popular. You don't necessarily need 1:32:50.520 --> 1:32:55.400 to look at a massive infringement such as someone stealing. 1:32:55.120 --> 1:32:56.920 Your identity, but even account takeover. 1:32:57.040 --> 1:33:00.599 So imagine I get your email address, maybe I get 1:33:00.600 --> 1:33:02.880 a couple of different passwords that you use somewhere that 1:33:03.240 --> 1:33:06.000 on the websites that were breached, and maybe you are 1:33:06.080 --> 1:33:08.439 reusing one of the passwords that you use somewhere else, 1:33:08.479 --> 1:33:11.120 which could be even secure passwords for instance. 1:33:11.040 --> 1:33:13.519 Or maybe using a really weak password. 1:33:13.600 --> 1:33:17.759 Of course, that full cube of criminals utilizing AI tools 1:33:17.800 --> 1:33:21.320 would take only a split second to guess pass get 1:33:21.680 --> 1:33:22.799 that type of password. 1:33:22.920 --> 1:33:23.880 So for me to. 1:33:23.880 --> 1:33:26.720 Gain access into into one of your logins, into one 1:33:26.720 --> 1:33:29.839 of your tools, and it could be banking information and whatnot, 1:33:30.040 --> 1:33:31.559 would be very very simple. 1:33:32.280 --> 1:33:34.360 That's wow. That's why I always tell people you have 1:33:34.439 --> 1:33:36.400 to use a password manager, you have to use a 1:33:36.439 --> 1:33:40.240 unique password. It's just it's vital at this point, I mean, 1:33:40.240 --> 1:33:43.439 you just can't, there's no way around it. Okay, Now 1:33:43.479 --> 1:33:46.360 this one, what is synthetic identity fraud and how does 1:33:46.400 --> 1:33:49.280 it differ from sort of traditional ID theft? 1:33:50.400 --> 1:33:54.000 Yeah, a really good question, and that's actually Sentetic identity 1:33:54.040 --> 1:33:57.240 fraud is actually getting gaining a lot popularity, so to say. 1:33:57.760 --> 1:34:01.479 Synthetic identity fraud basically criminals create a new identity by 1:34:01.520 --> 1:34:06.200 combining real and fixtious information. So potentially could be using 1:34:06.200 --> 1:34:08.400 a real social security and number that has been available 1:34:08.520 --> 1:34:11.639 somewhat and they combine it with fake information like fake 1:34:11.760 --> 1:34:14.599 name to open a pounds of some sort to commit 1:34:14.680 --> 1:34:18.600 fraud somewhere and potentially utilizing AI tools as well or 1:34:18.680 --> 1:34:23.040 deep fake technology. It makes that type of synthetic identity 1:34:23.160 --> 1:34:27.120 fraud a lot easier, and combining the real information with 1:34:27.240 --> 1:34:30.000 fake information will be would be a lot harder for 1:34:30.040 --> 1:34:33.200 you to get triggered to know that's happening in the background. 1:34:33.640 --> 1:34:37.280 And it differs from the traditional identity debt where normally 1:34:37.439 --> 1:34:40.200 your full information would be used where you might find 1:34:40.240 --> 1:34:42.519 out about it a lot sooner because it could come 1:34:42.600 --> 1:34:44.240 up on your credit report a lot easier. 1:34:44.680 --> 1:34:47.680 Wow, this is just wild. We're talking to Gerald Cassulis 1:34:47.760 --> 1:34:52.000 from NordVPN about some of the top cyber threats to 1:34:52.080 --> 1:34:54.839 look out for in twenty twenty five. How are hackers 1:34:54.960 --> 1:34:58.759 using AI to make phishing attacks and social engineering more effective? 1:34:58.800 --> 1:34:59.679 I know this is a big. 1:34:59.479 --> 1:35:03.439 One, absolutely Rich, and that's one of the things we've 1:35:03.479 --> 1:35:07.599 seen sort of rising in sort of say popularity over 1:35:07.600 --> 1:35:09.160 the last year or so. 1:35:09.960 --> 1:35:11.960 Basically, you can imagine AI. 1:35:11.720 --> 1:35:13.519 Tools, you know, a lot of us use it on 1:35:13.640 --> 1:35:15.920 daily basis, you know, to make our lives easier. Could 1:35:15.960 --> 1:35:18.120 be to draft an email for us, to do a 1:35:18.520 --> 1:35:21.479 bit research for work, university, you name it. So in 1:35:21.520 --> 1:35:23.960 a similar manner, there are AI tools in the dark 1:35:24.000 --> 1:35:28.240 word that don't have traditional limitation and security measures, meaning 1:35:28.240 --> 1:35:30.679 that you can ask those type of AI tools to 1:35:30.880 --> 1:35:35.160 put a fraudulent email together, to put deep fake together 1:35:35.200 --> 1:35:38.559 of some sort, to put malware attacked together. Right, So 1:35:39.120 --> 1:35:43.719 meaning that for me, the entry barriers as a potential 1:35:43.760 --> 1:35:46.479 hacker gets very very low, where I don't need to 1:35:46.600 --> 1:35:50.719 know how to code, how to put active activities frogun 1:35:50.760 --> 1:35:53.559 activities together. AI tools would do that for me, and 1:35:53.600 --> 1:35:58.120 I'll be able to target Rich. I could have your email, 1:35:58.120 --> 1:36:00.719 I'd be able to send out automate I think emails 1:36:00.720 --> 1:36:03.880 that would be AI generated with intention of defrauding you. 1:36:04.000 --> 1:36:07.559 So sophistication itself, it goes to the roofs and make 1:36:07.600 --> 1:36:13.240 it makes it a lot easier for individuals to actually 1:36:13.680 --> 1:36:15.160 operate in a negative manner. 1:36:15.400 --> 1:36:17.839 Yeah. I mean if you ask like a chat GBT 1:36:18.040 --> 1:36:19.760 or a Gemini to do some of these things that 1:36:19.800 --> 1:36:23.160 I'll say, sorry, I can't. But that does not mean 1:36:23.560 --> 1:36:25.680 that there are not one hundred thousand tools out there 1:36:25.680 --> 1:36:28.799 that will do it that are not necessarily in regular 1:36:28.800 --> 1:36:31.840 consumers hands or the mainstream tools. So keep in mind 1:36:31.880 --> 1:36:34.080 that you know, just because you can't do it doesn't 1:36:34.120 --> 1:36:38.280 mean that no one else can. Finally, what is reverse 1:36:38.479 --> 1:36:39.400 identity theft? 1:36:41.400 --> 1:36:45.479 Good question, Rich, So, same as with synthetic identity that 1:36:45.560 --> 1:36:47.920 we see a lot of reverse identity theft are now 1:36:47.960 --> 1:36:50.720 gaining popularity as well in the dark web in the 1:36:50.760 --> 1:36:54.759 forums that being discussed as well. Basically, it's it's a 1:36:54.760 --> 1:36:58.040 alarming concept where individuals assume. 1:36:57.840 --> 1:37:00.680 Someone else's identity and not to mention the silly for. 1:37:00.720 --> 1:37:04.400 Financial gain, not to steal your identity, but to actually 1:37:04.479 --> 1:37:07.880 live as you. In a simple way put it where 1:37:07.960 --> 1:37:10.519 they could be securing jobs, they could be accessing certain 1:37:10.560 --> 1:37:14.599 services under false three tenses with different intentions, and those 1:37:14.640 --> 1:37:19.040 type of intentions could be looking to frame person for 1:37:19.120 --> 1:37:23.720 a crime, could be doing credit sabotage, impersonation of some 1:37:23.760 --> 1:37:27.000 sort of online employments, broad so there are many. 1:37:26.760 --> 1:37:28.519 Different factors that play into it. 1:37:28.600 --> 1:37:32.000 So you can think of it reverse identity, where someone 1:37:32.160 --> 1:37:35.240 would actually try to take your identity and live as 1:37:35.400 --> 1:37:37.880 you for fraudulent purposes. 1:37:38.080 --> 1:37:41.560 Ah, that's scary, all right. Have we got about thirty seconds. 1:37:41.640 --> 1:37:43.880 What do you think consumers should do to prepare for 1:37:43.920 --> 1:37:45.920 all these challenges? Like, what do you think are their 1:37:45.960 --> 1:37:48.719 main steps to take to protect themselves? 1:37:50.120 --> 1:37:53.120 Yeah, rich, as you said at the beginning, passive managers 1:37:53.200 --> 1:37:55.680 one of the easiest tools to implement it. So and 1:37:55.720 --> 1:37:58.400 then beyond that, you know, there are three things to consider, 1:37:58.479 --> 1:38:01.240 So make sure you always enable to factors negation on 1:38:01.320 --> 1:38:04.240 tools that you have. You use unique passwords, so never 1:38:04.360 --> 1:38:06.960 reuse the password, and never create a week password like 1:38:07.000 --> 1:38:11.439 passed one two threek and also regular your accounts. Uh, 1:38:11.680 --> 1:38:13.760 you know, as frequently as you can. Make sure you 1:38:13.920 --> 1:38:16.640 update your Internet of Things devices. If you've got like 1:38:16.680 --> 1:38:20.040 a smart refrigerator, make sure you update those devices because 1:38:20.200 --> 1:38:23.840 being they're not tooriously weak in terms of cybersecuity measures, 1:38:23.840 --> 1:38:27.280 some very easy to for hackers to actually get into them. 1:38:27.360 --> 1:38:29.280 So I think that many things that we can do 1:38:29.360 --> 1:38:31.920 so not all of it is lost, which is a 1:38:31.920 --> 1:38:32.280 good thing. 1:38:33.000 --> 1:38:35.800 All right, great information. Wow, a lot of things to 1:38:36.200 --> 1:38:39.639 watch out for in the new year. Gerald casulis from 1:38:39.880 --> 1:38:46.280 nord VPN. The website nord vpn dot com is where 1:38:46.280 --> 1:38:47.479 you want to go if you want to learn more 1:38:47.520 --> 1:38:49.960 about some of those products and services. Thanks a lot 1:38:50.000 --> 1:38:51.559 for coming on today, Gerald, appreciate it. 1:38:52.439 --> 1:38:54.360 Thanks che stay stay safe online. 1:38:54.520 --> 1:38:57.120 Thank you. Coming up, we're gonna we're gonna open up 1:38:57.120 --> 1:39:00.600 the feedback, get some of those messages you've sent to 1:39:00.640 --> 1:39:03.000 me throughout the week, and we'll see what you said 1:39:03.160 --> 1:39:06.120 right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich 1:39:06.200 --> 1:39:11.360 On Tech. A couple of things to talk about before 1:39:11.400 --> 1:39:14.759 we get to the feedback here. A couple of little things. 1:39:15.640 --> 1:39:20.200 So I mentioned, I drove to Sedona and on our 1:39:20.240 --> 1:39:26.519 way through Arizona, we drove past this giant, giant manufacturing plant. 1:39:26.560 --> 1:39:28.639 I was like, what is that? It looks so high tech. 1:39:28.680 --> 1:39:32.880 It was like looked brand new. And it turned out 1:39:32.960 --> 1:39:34.760 I was trying to you know. When we passed by, 1:39:34.840 --> 1:39:35.760 I was like to my wife, I was like, I 1:39:35.760 --> 1:39:37.320 got to take a picture of this thing? What is this? 1:39:38.040 --> 1:39:41.479 And sure enough I see a little sign TSMC like 1:39:41.520 --> 1:39:45.719 TSMC What I did not realize they had a giant 1:39:45.960 --> 1:39:51.960 manufacturing facility in Arizona. That's a Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company. 1:39:52.439 --> 1:39:57.240 They make chips for all kinds of devices. So this 1:39:57.280 --> 1:40:00.160 is kind of like the I mean, I know some 1:40:00.200 --> 1:40:02.000 of you will get angry for me saying this, but 1:40:02.040 --> 1:40:04.479 this is almost like the intel of our you know, 1:40:04.560 --> 1:40:07.040 current times. Like they just make all kinds of chips 1:40:07.080 --> 1:40:11.160 and everything. And this was a multi billion dollar plant 1:40:11.160 --> 1:40:15.559 anyway near Phoenix. So the cars in that parking lot. 1:40:15.600 --> 1:40:18.559 You can always tell a good company by the quality 1:40:18.560 --> 1:40:20.800 of the cars in the parking lot, and these were 1:40:20.840 --> 1:40:24.280 some nice cars. The entire parking lot was solar paneled, 1:40:24.800 --> 1:40:28.160 you know, coverage. So you're looking for a good job, 1:40:28.240 --> 1:40:31.080 I don't know, this might be the place. Anyway. I 1:40:31.080 --> 1:40:33.479 thought that was really cool to, you know, remind us 1:40:33.520 --> 1:40:35.280 that all this stuff we take for granted, there's a 1:40:35.320 --> 1:40:37.439 lot of chips that go into these phones and computers 1:40:37.439 --> 1:40:41.559 we have. They got to be made somewhere. This was interesting. 1:40:41.880 --> 1:40:44.920 Someone asked me to test out something like a free 1:40:44.960 --> 1:40:48.120 trial of a program, like some security program, and so 1:40:48.200 --> 1:40:51.000 I signed up. It was like fifteen dollars a month. 1:40:51.040 --> 1:40:53.960 They offered like a seven day free trial. And here's 1:40:54.000 --> 1:40:56.040 the thing, Usually when I sign up for something, I 1:40:56.160 --> 1:40:59.320 cancel it right away, or I snooze the welcome email 1:41:00.120 --> 1:41:02.080 for you know, two or three days after so I 1:41:02.120 --> 1:41:05.080 can check it out and then remind myself to cancel. Well, 1:41:05.080 --> 1:41:07.639 I didn't get that welcome email, so I thought, that's 1:41:07.720 --> 1:41:10.960 kind of shady. Come on, if you're signing up for 1:41:11.040 --> 1:41:14.320 something that requires your email address, you should get an 1:41:14.320 --> 1:41:16.880 email from that company that says thank you for signing up. 1:41:17.280 --> 1:41:20.519 Your trial ends on this day. Companies that don't send that, 1:41:21.000 --> 1:41:24.559 I would be wary of doing business with them, because that, 1:41:24.680 --> 1:41:27.360 to me is already getting off on a bad foot, 1:41:27.920 --> 1:41:30.720 because you know, I had no way of remember like it. 1:41:30.880 --> 1:41:33.320 Just a couple like hours later, I'm like, wait, where's 1:41:33.320 --> 1:41:37.360 this email? Never got it, went to the website directly 1:41:37.400 --> 1:41:41.360 and canceled it. But anyway, and finally before we get 1:41:41.400 --> 1:41:43.160 to the feedback, my wife and I the other night 1:41:43.720 --> 1:41:47.599 needed some stuff for you know, like a little like whatever, 1:41:47.760 --> 1:41:50.080 just random stuff around the house. I forget what the 1:41:50.080 --> 1:41:53.160 one thing we needed was. But anyway, I said, why 1:41:53.160 --> 1:41:55.120 don't we try doordashing It Like, by the time we 1:41:55.240 --> 1:41:57.879 drive to Target pick up these three items, like DoorDash 1:41:58.080 --> 1:41:59.960 might be cheaper actually I think it was Uber Eat. 1:42:00.680 --> 1:42:02.599 And here's the thing. A lot of these companies are 1:42:02.640 --> 1:42:05.519 doing like first time deals. So Uber was giving like 1:42:05.560 --> 1:42:08.559 fifty percent off your first like non food delivery order. 1:42:08.640 --> 1:42:12.080 So Target, you know, qualified, I'm not kidding. This stuff 1:42:12.160 --> 1:42:14.760 was at our house within twenty minutes. We ordered like 1:42:14.800 --> 1:42:18.080 five items and it was so cheap. It was cheaper 1:42:18.080 --> 1:42:19.680 than going there ourselves. And by the way, when you 1:42:19.720 --> 1:42:21.559 go to Target, you spend extra money because you buy 1:42:21.600 --> 1:42:23.280 stuff that you weren't thinking you were going to get. 1:42:23.520 --> 1:42:24.880 And this thing was at our door, and I was like, 1:42:24.960 --> 1:42:27.479 this is wild, Like what world do we live in 1:42:27.520 --> 1:42:29.760 where this stuff is at our door quicker than we 1:42:29.800 --> 1:42:32.640 can drive to Target? And so I thought about that, 1:42:32.680 --> 1:42:34.160 but I was like, you know, the catch about all 1:42:34.200 --> 1:42:36.840 this is that, of course it's fifty percent off right now. 1:42:37.200 --> 1:42:38.880 All they want you to do is try it so 1:42:38.920 --> 1:42:40.559 that the next time, by the way, it's not going 1:42:40.640 --> 1:42:43.519 to be fifty percent off, you'll remember how convenient was 1:42:43.560 --> 1:42:45.559 and maybe you'll do it again. And that's how these 1:42:45.600 --> 1:42:48.040 all these tech companies build business, so that they do 1:42:48.080 --> 1:42:50.559 it really cheap at the beginning, and then when you actually, 1:42:50.600 --> 1:42:52.280 you know, later on, use it again. It's like, Oh, 1:42:52.360 --> 1:42:55.400 where'd that discount go? There's no there's no promo codes anymore. 1:42:55.720 --> 1:42:58.000 All right, let's get to the feedback. Howard writes in 1:42:58.360 --> 1:43:01.320 I enjoy your segments and radio show. I received an 1:43:01.320 --> 1:43:03.759 email about a one hundred dollars settlement from an auto 1:43:03.760 --> 1:43:07.400 parts antitrust case, but wasn't sure if it was legitimate. 1:43:07.600 --> 1:43:10.360 I searched online and found mixed results, but no news coverage. 1:43:10.400 --> 1:43:12.719 Can you suggest how to verify this? Yes, I can 1:43:13.240 --> 1:43:19.320 go to the website top class actions dot com, topclassactions 1:43:19.360 --> 1:43:22.400 dot com. He actually forwarded me the email and I 1:43:22.439 --> 1:43:25.960 popped it into this website the actual case number, and 1:43:26.000 --> 1:43:28.519 sure enough it came up. And so any class action 1:43:28.640 --> 1:43:31.320 lawsuit type in a keyword into this website and it 1:43:31.360 --> 1:43:33.840 will tell you all the details on that. That's where 1:43:33.880 --> 1:43:38.120 I go to verify Top Classactions dot Com. There's a 1:43:38.200 --> 1:43:42.320 lot of those class action lawsuits, you know, percolating. Make 1:43:42.320 --> 1:43:46.559 sure they're legit before you do anything with them. Let's 1:43:46.560 --> 1:43:49.320 see here. Rudy from San Jose writes in you had 1:43:49.360 --> 1:43:51.439 a caller with an epsoen printer and an AT and 1:43:51.479 --> 1:43:54.760 T wireless internet who mentioned they had printing issues. I 1:43:54.760 --> 1:43:57.480 wanted to share a tip. Many routers create two networks, 1:43:57.880 --> 1:44:00.680 a personal network and a guest network. The phone or 1:44:00.720 --> 1:44:02.960 computers on one network and the printer is on the other, 1:44:03.320 --> 1:44:05.479 they might not see each other. I had a similar 1:44:05.520 --> 1:44:08.880 issue at home and discovered this was the case. Thanks 1:44:08.960 --> 1:44:14.840 Rudy JL from Illinois rights in. I'd love for influencers 1:44:14.880 --> 1:44:17.360 like you to help educate people about the downsides of 1:44:17.479 --> 1:44:21.040 vertical video. It's becomes so common, but many people don't 1:44:21.040 --> 1:44:23.559 realize how much better videos look if they were shot 1:44:23.560 --> 1:44:26.360 and horizontal. Even when the issue is pointed out, the 1:44:26.400 --> 1:44:30.240 trend continues. Can you help spread the word, you know, Jl, 1:44:30.360 --> 1:44:32.639 I used to care about this, and now I'm sorry. 1:44:32.720 --> 1:44:36.439 With TikTok and Instagram reels and all these vertical videos, 1:44:36.840 --> 1:44:40.640 that format is here to stay. My best solution is, 1:44:40.680 --> 1:44:43.599 if you are shooting anything that you're not sharing on 1:44:43.640 --> 1:44:46.640 social media, yes, shoot it in widescreen because that's what 1:44:46.680 --> 1:44:49.880 you see on your TV. But you know it's I 1:44:49.920 --> 1:44:51.920 have no problem with it anymore. I have to shoot 1:44:51.960 --> 1:44:54.559 videos both ways because I'm shooting for TV and social 1:44:54.880 --> 1:44:58.479 It's just kind of the way of the world. Vanessa 1:44:58.560 --> 1:45:01.479 from Nevada rights in this while camping in Montana, my 1:45:01.560 --> 1:45:03.640 e bike was stolen. I tracked it with tile for 1:45:03.720 --> 1:45:06.920 nine hours all around town without success. Then two days 1:45:06.960 --> 1:45:09.840 later it pinged at a storage unit across town. With 1:45:09.880 --> 1:45:12.320 help from my son, daughter in law, her brother, and nephew. 1:45:12.400 --> 1:45:14.920 Oh wow, they brought out everyone. We went to the location. 1:45:15.120 --> 1:45:17.320 I rang the tile, called the Sheriff's department and they 1:45:17.360 --> 1:45:20.160 heard the ring. After getting a warrant and cutting the lock, 1:45:20.240 --> 1:45:23.639 I got my one thousand dollars plus e bike back. 1:45:23.800 --> 1:45:26.160 I listened to you on KFI through iHeart on my echo. 1:45:26.240 --> 1:45:30.000 I love your show. Be careful when you're getting Just 1:45:30.040 --> 1:45:32.840 because you can see the location doesn't necessarily mean you 1:45:32.880 --> 1:45:35.920 should go in like the but you did the right thing, 1:45:36.040 --> 1:45:38.960 got the officer involved. Teresa from Chicago rights in. I 1:45:38.960 --> 1:45:41.680 saw your segment before Christmas and immediately went out and 1:45:41.720 --> 1:45:44.720 got the remote control Geko at my local Target. It 1:45:44.760 --> 1:45:46.680 was the last one. My four and a half year 1:45:46.680 --> 1:45:49.800 old granddaughter loves it. I'm not very tech savvy, but 1:45:49.840 --> 1:45:53.639 I enjoy your segments. Thank you. My kid also loved 1:45:53.640 --> 1:45:56.760 the remote control Geko. We got it for him and 1:45:56.800 --> 1:45:58.960 now we're getting it for can't mention because they might 1:45:59.000 --> 1:46:01.680 be listening. Kids love it, that's gonna do it. You 1:46:01.680 --> 1:46:04.160 can find links on the website rich on Tech dot TV, 1:46:04.320 --> 1:46:06.720 follow me on social media at rich on tech. Very 1:46:06.760 --> 1:46:09.639 important this week because I'll be at CES twenty twenty 1:46:09.640 --> 1:46:13.640 five in Las Vegas sharing the latest and AI wearables, cars, TVs, 1:46:13.680 --> 1:46:16.160 all the other good stuff. Thanks to everyone who makes 1:46:16.160 --> 1:46:18.880 this show possible. My name is Richdmiro. I will talk 1:46:18.920 --> 1:46:19.719 to you real soon.