Speaker 1: Black Friday, shopping Tips, is Hive the new Twitter, some
Speaker 1: personal news plus your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place where I
Speaker 1: answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter
Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles and soon host
Speaker 1: of Rich on Tech on Premier Networks, debuting January seventh,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Yes, you heard me correctly.
Speaker 1: This little podcast is becoming a radio show.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: Feels kind of wild to say those words because I've
Speaker 1: been doing this podcast for so many episodes pretty much,
Speaker 1: you know, almost every week for years now, and it's
Speaker 1: it's something I always dreamed of doing and something I
Speaker 1: always wanted to do, and and kind of in the
Speaker 1: back of my head, I always imagine, like, wow, what
Speaker 1: would this be like this was actually on the radio,
Speaker 1: and now it's happening. So the story is Leo Laporte.
Speaker 1: You know him as the Tech Guy. He's had a
Speaker 1: show on radio for many, many years and he is retiring.
Speaker 1: So it came to you know, who's going to take
Speaker 1: over this show? Who's going to do this show, who's
Speaker 1: going to be on the radio. And I got some
Speaker 1: calls and you know, said absolutely. I mean, there there
Speaker 1: was not a there was no decision to be made
Speaker 1: other than the details of the decision. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I this is an incredible opportunity. I am so honored
Speaker 1: that Leo trust me with the show. It's changing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a new show. It's a different show, but some
Speaker 1: things are similar. I mean, obviously I'll be taking.
Speaker 2: Callers live callers on the radio.
Speaker 1: Obviously I will be talking about technology, talking about gadget reviews.
Speaker 1: But I think what's going to be the most different
Speaker 1: is really trying to fuse what I do on TV
Speaker 1: with the radio. So when I have an interesting guest
Speaker 1: on TV for my TV segment, I'll bring them on
Speaker 1: the radio, bring them on the radio to talk about
Speaker 1: whatever is interesting, and so we'll have a rotating cast
Speaker 1: of guests in that regard. But also just the useful nature.
Speaker 1: I just want to make this show really, really useful.
Speaker 1: And how do you do that? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I've tried to do that over the years
Speaker 1: with my TV segment, and that's kind of what I'd
Speaker 1: like to do with this segment is just anything, whether
Speaker 1: it's the callers, whether it's the news that.
Speaker 2: I decided to talk about.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be very useful to people. And realistically,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're talking the radio, Yes, some people
Speaker 1: will tune in specifically to listen, but a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, I call them drive by on TV. They're
Speaker 1: just they're just passing by and they see me on
Speaker 1: TV and they say, oh, that's interesting. Same thing with
Speaker 1: the radio now, so you know, we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there'll be.
Speaker 1: A bigger opportunity to reach more people. And so it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be really, really fantastic. So Leo's last show
Speaker 1: will be January. First, we've already talked about it on
Speaker 1: his show. We kind of discussed some of the things
Speaker 1: that are happening here. And if I don't sound excited,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. This is just really really a
Speaker 1: lot to navigate, right. I mean, I'm gonna continue doing
Speaker 1: my KTLA stuff and now this this is on Saturdays
Speaker 1: from eleven am to two pm, or if you're on
Speaker 1: the you know, East coast two pm to five pm
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. It'll be broadcast live on KFI and
Speaker 1: then in the rest of the US just various new sorry,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe we're doing video live stream, which, to
Speaker 1: be quite honest, you know, I do video every day
Speaker 1: with Katla. So if I can you know, be incognito
Speaker 1: one day a week on the radio where maybe a'all
Speaker 1: you know, a bit more relaxed, that would be really welcome.
Speaker 1: Although I will say Leo always dressed up for the show,
Speaker 1: and so you know he he was you know, he
Speaker 1: always dressed up. I mean he brought it, and you
Speaker 1: know his show is on video, so but who knows.
Speaker 1: We'll say everyone who has had a part in making
Speaker 1: this happen, I am so grateful, And to the listener,
Speaker 1: I just really want to reassure you that this is
Speaker 1: going to be a great new show.
Speaker 2: It's going to be exciting.
Speaker 1: And I know Leo is retiring from radio, but he's
Speaker 1: going to continue doing his stuff for Twitch, so that's
Speaker 1: very exciting. He's not going away, but this will be
Speaker 1: a new chapter for the Tech Radio and so Rich
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Speaker 2: So rest assured.
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Speaker 1: Just hang tight and I'll see what's going on with
Speaker 1: that situation and we'll figure that out.
Speaker 2: Anyway. Thanks so much for.
Speaker 1: All of your dedication to the show and listening to
Speaker 1: the show, and the feedback and the amount of emails
Speaker 1: I get from people saying I love the podcast is
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Speaker 1: long to do this show the way that I did it,
Speaker 1: and that enthusiasm clearly transferred to this show becoming what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: In the radio. So I think I've spoken enough about this.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I am very excited, and I'll give you more
Speaker 1: information as I have it. But January seventh, twenty twenty three, Saturday,
Speaker 1: January seventh, twenty twenty three, rich On Tech Radio show
Speaker 1: three hours on the weekends, live callers will be happening.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the first story of the week,
Speaker 1: Black Friday Shopping So Black Friday is, you know, the
Speaker 1: day after Thanksgiving. It's when the retailers traditionally, I mean,
Speaker 1: the story goes that they, you know, get back in
Speaker 1: the black after being in the red all year. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's still true, but you know, who knows.
Speaker 2: Maybe it is.
Speaker 1: But Black Friday is really morphed into an entire weekend
Speaker 1: of shopping starts, you know, it starts earlier and earlier.
Speaker 1: But I think the best deals really do happen on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Speaker 2: But that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Of course, I hope you have a list of things
Speaker 1: that you want to get so you're not just like
Speaker 1: aimlessly shopping now. According to wallet hub, discounts are around
Speaker 1: thirty seven percent this year, which is up from last
Speaker 1: year and the year before is thirty two percent, but
Speaker 1: down from the recent high of forty percent discounts we
Speaker 1: saw in twenty nineteen. So bottom line, there are going
Speaker 1: to be good deals this year. I think, incredible deals.
Speaker 1: Some of the best places to look for deals. I
Speaker 1: love the website Slick Deals. I mean, this has been
Speaker 1: a website I've checked daily now for many many years.
Speaker 1: I mean, going on I can't even tell you how
Speaker 1: many years. So I go to their front page deals
Speaker 1: every single day. I typically find something that's interesting and usable,
Speaker 1: and whether it's a coupon or whether it's a promo code,
Speaker 1: or whether it's just a sample or something I actually purchase.
Speaker 2: I mean, they've been really really good about that.
Speaker 1: And it's crowdsource, so anyone can submit a deal and then.
Speaker 2: The rest of the community votes it up.
Speaker 1: The best ones go to the top, and that's how
Speaker 1: it's kind of like this almost like an eBay for deals,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's almost like the perfect market. Deal
Speaker 1: News is another great website. And what I like about
Speaker 1: deal News is that they don't really miss the thing.
Speaker 2: They've got a lot more and.
Speaker 1: The way, you know, it's not as like, oh, here
Speaker 1: are the top five deals, per se, like slick deals
Speaker 1: of the day, but they're more like, hey, here's the
Speaker 1: things that our editors have evidenced as some of the
Speaker 1: best things out there on the web. And so that's
Speaker 1: a great place to go because and what I like
Speaker 1: about it is that whatever deal they have, so like,
Speaker 1: let's just see, let me see, because I think they
Speaker 1: let's like Hulu, I know, is doing this thing where
Speaker 1: they're doing like this great yeah Black Friday sale. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is what I like. So the thing that's
Speaker 1: cool about about deal News is the way their editors
Speaker 1: explain the deal and why it's a deal. So Hulu
Speaker 1: Black Friday sale one year at two dollars a month,
Speaker 1: and they say the best offer we've seen since last
Speaker 1: Black Friday. New and eligible returning subscribers get sixty five
Speaker 1: percent off the ad supported plan, a savings of four
Speaker 1: dollars a month. So what I like is that they
Speaker 1: say the best offer we've seen since last Black Friday.
Speaker 1: So they give you that perspective and that basis so
Speaker 1: you really understand why a deal is a deal, because
Speaker 1: not every deal is a deal.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes these things say they're a deal, but it's like,
Speaker 1: well this was a better deal on Cyber Monday last
Speaker 1: year or whatever. So I really enjoy that about about
Speaker 1: deal News. Another site to look is called best Reviews.
Speaker 1: This is a site that's owned by KTLA's parent company,
Speaker 1: Next Star, and Best Reviews is kind of like similar
Speaker 1: to Wirecutter, where they test a lot of stuff and
Speaker 1: they pick their favorites and then they've got deals that
Speaker 1: they put on there as well, and so I'm growing
Speaker 1: to love this site because obviously it's in the family,
Speaker 1: and I'm becoming friends with Jacob who helps run it
Speaker 1: out there in San Francisco, and so it's just as
Speaker 1: it's really like a nice website. I like how it's organized,
Speaker 1: I like how they give the perspective on things. So
Speaker 1: check out best Reviews as well. My other tip for
Speaker 1: Black Friday shopping is to and this is sounds simple,
Speaker 1: but this is what I do whenever someone's like, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: is there is this on sale? Or how do I
Speaker 1: get the best price on this? So all you have
Speaker 1: to do. Let's say you want the Apple Watch Ultra.
Speaker 1: So you type in Apple Watch Ultra into Google and then.
Speaker 2: Type the word deal.
Speaker 1: So apple Watch Ultra deal is your search term, and
Speaker 1: then you go and once the search terms come up
Speaker 1: the search results, you click news and this is going
Speaker 1: to give you all the blogs that post about the
Speaker 1: best deals on the Apple Watch. So first result is
Speaker 1: CNN the Apple Watch Ultra is on sale right now
Speaker 1: for the first time ever, and Gadget the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: Ultra is sixty dollars off in early Black Friday sale
Speaker 1: and so again you can instantly go to this report
Speaker 1: from Engadget and see what the deal is, which they
Speaker 1: already said in the headline sixty dollars off. So that's
Speaker 1: the first time we've seen that. So that is a
Speaker 1: really easy way to find anything that you want on sale.
Speaker 1: So let's say, let's say if we want the fire
Speaker 1: TV Cube third generation and we want it deal, and
Speaker 1: you can also try putting in sale, so right away
Speaker 1: the first result. Now see I didn't click news yet,
Speaker 1: so actually hold on. So yeah, so they don't say
Speaker 1: that the third one is on sale, but it says
Speaker 1: the previous is super tempting. So again it gives you
Speaker 1: that perspective of Okay, I'm not really seeing anything with
Speaker 1: this new one, but the old one has something, so
Speaker 1: very very easy way to search for stuff that you
Speaker 1: want on sale. If you're according to best Reviews, prices
Speaker 1: that you should look for on electronics or even toys
Speaker 1: should be about twenty to thirty percent off.
Speaker 2: That's the regular price.
Speaker 1: So if something is one hundred dollars typically and you
Speaker 1: find it for eighty or seventy, that's a really good deal.
Speaker 1: So and that kind of aligns with what while at
Speaker 1: Hubs said around the discounts are about thirty seven percent,
Speaker 1: so twenty to thirty percent is pretty good. And it
Speaker 1: all depends on what you're getting. Some things you know
Speaker 1: are marked up so they can be marked down. Other
Speaker 1: things are just you know, they don't go on sale
Speaker 1: very often, So.
Speaker 2: Good luck with the shopping.
Speaker 1: And my advice, please keep a list of the stuff
Speaker 1: you want to get so it's much easier to shop
Speaker 1: for that stuff and not be distracted by all of
Speaker 1: these sales out there. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: first question of the show. Marissa says, Hey, Rich, hope
Speaker 1: you're well. I've emailed you before with questions. My husband
Speaker 1: and I have been using the same Apple iCloud account
Speaker 1: for ID for years on two phones. Our two sons
Speaker 1: have their own Apple id cloud with their iPads and
Speaker 1: Apple Watches under family sharing. We are wondering if the
Speaker 1: time is finally right to create a separate Apple iCloud
Speaker 1: ID for my husband. Under family sharing, our workarounds for
Speaker 1: I Message are okay. I Message send receive is set
Speaker 1: to our respective phone numbers, so we don't receive each
Speaker 1: other's texts, but it would be nice to separate health data. However,
Speaker 1: the biggest issue in not sharing has always been the photolibrary,
Speaker 1: not sharing an ID. We are reading about iCloud shared
Speaker 1: photol library.
Speaker 2: Is this a solution we need? Help?
Speaker 1: Love Love Love your podcast, Marissa, Marissa Absolutely. I actually
Speaker 1: can't believe that you're still sharing your Apple ID because
Speaker 1: this was something that was very common when the iPhone
Speaker 1: first arrived. Pretty much every family shared the Apple ID,
Speaker 1: so they would have mom and dad sharing the same
Speaker 1: Apple ID, signed in on different phones, but it would
Speaker 1: be the same thing, and so people were getting each
Speaker 1: other's texts. They're really I messages, not texts per se.
Speaker 1: Same thing with the kids. You'd give the kid the
Speaker 1: Apple I D and it was a big mess because
Speaker 1: it was not very pretty to share in this regard.
Speaker 1: And so I'm surprised you've stuck with it this long
Speaker 1: because most people have gotten frustrated. But you did find
Speaker 1: that workaround for I messages with the sen received, so
Speaker 1: good job on that. But yes, absolutely, shared photo library
Speaker 1: is the solution you need. This will allow you to
Speaker 1: share your photos and have them show up in a
Speaker 1: shared library, but also maintain separate and private accounts, which
Speaker 1: I think is important.
Speaker 2: It's important for a lot of reasons.
Speaker 1: Security is the main reason, I'm not too worried about
Speaker 1: your reading your husband's text or him reading yours.
Speaker 2: I think it's more about.
Speaker 1: Security because if one of these devices is breached in
Speaker 1: some way, then technically they're all breached. And so I
Speaker 1: don't like to see I don't like to see sharing
Speaker 1: of any sort of credentials. I mean, I know people
Speaker 1: do it for like Netflix and stuff like that, but
Speaker 1: there's not really too much of a security risk there.
Speaker 1: But any sort of sharing of anything else, even you know,
Speaker 1: giving your password for a website to someone is you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of implications that come along with that.
Speaker 1: So Yes set up the iCloud Shared Photo Library. I
Speaker 1: have not played with the iCloud photo Shared Photo Library
Speaker 1: because personally, I do the same thing on Google. Google
Speaker 1: has had this for many, many years, and it's it's amazing.
Speaker 1: So my wife takes a picture on her phone, it
Speaker 1: goes to my Google Photos.
Speaker 2: When I take a photo on my phone, it goes
Speaker 2: to hers. And it's a really slick setup.
Speaker 1: It's very similar to the way iPad or the iCloud
Speaker 1: Shared Photo Library will work, and you can I think
Speaker 1: they take it a little bit of a step further,
Speaker 1: where the way that you share. I think you can
Speaker 1: share everything or you can share certain things. So there's
Speaker 1: like a manual sharing, and there's like, you know, where
Speaker 1: you can share just stuff that you want to share.
Speaker 1: So and every photo is marked, I guess that's sharing.
Speaker 1: I should probably test this out just to see, because
Speaker 1: I haven't really really played with this because I think
Speaker 1: personally I don't typically recommend iCloud photos because I think
Speaker 1: it's very complicated.
Speaker 2: I think that it is confusing.
Speaker 1: I don't like that it's not cross platform, even though
Speaker 1: they have come finally to Windows. But I don't like
Speaker 1: the fact that if you're, you know, wanting to switch
Speaker 1: to an Android, how do you see these pictures?
Speaker 2: So there's just no way.
Speaker 1: And also it's just you know, like I prefer cross
Speaker 1: platform products, and I know that the iPhone, notoriously is
Speaker 1: probably the least cross platform device you can use because
Speaker 1: you know, whether you use I Message, whether you use
Speaker 1: you know notes, whether you use I mean, basically everything
Speaker 1: on the iPhone is kind of locked to the iOS ecosystem,
Speaker 1: and I don't like that. So some ways they're open,
Speaker 1: and obviously the iPhone is still an amazing device, but
Speaker 1: I don't like having all my pictures in a place
Speaker 1: that are just not very accessible anywhere else or on
Speaker 1: any other device other than an iPhone. Now, Google Photos,
Speaker 1: I have my problems with that too. Like I do
Speaker 1: think that, and I've talked about this before, I do
Speaker 1: think that Google needs to have a way for me
Speaker 1: to back up my Google Photos in a simple way
Speaker 1: to a hard drive, like sync my Google Photos collection
Speaker 1: to a hard drive. I don't know why Google's not
Speaker 1: doing that, obviously, it's some sort of financial play in
Speaker 1: the background that I can't really figure out. I would
Speaker 1: be willing to pay. I mean, I already pay twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month to use Google Photos, so why
Speaker 1: can't I just have that functionality? I mean, yes, some
Speaker 1: people will download and run, but that's I mean, I'd
Speaker 1: rather have people do that, and I'd rather have them
Speaker 1: be able to back up their pictures on a physical
Speaker 1: device that they have in their home.
Speaker 2: So anyway, good question.
Speaker 1: Definitely do it and get the things separated out, set
Speaker 1: it all up, and I think it'll be a great thing.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Twitter, we know that there's been a lot of chaos
Speaker 1: at Twitter right ever since Elon Musk took over. I'm
Speaker 1: still kind of like, I don't know, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: watching it. I haven't really stopped using Twitter.
Speaker 2: I mean I would.
Speaker 1: There would have to be like a real reason for
Speaker 1: me to not use Twitter at this point.
Speaker 2: And I've never been a huge Twitter user.
Speaker 1: I love certain aspects about Twitter, but really I've built
Speaker 1: my following primarily on Instagram, Facebook, and to a lesser extent, YouTube.
Speaker 1: But Twitter has always been a really good tool for journalism.
Speaker 1: And it's a tool that allows you to reach everyone
Speaker 1: because everyone has a Twitter. It allows you to, you know,
Speaker 1: get information out in real time. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that it works on all platforms. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that you can upload photos, you can upload videos, you
Speaker 1: can put in links. I mean, it doesn't like restrict
Speaker 1: you in any way like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram do.
Speaker 1: I mean, Instagram is the worst. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: to put a link on there, it's got to open
Speaker 1: in their own browser and this and that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just such a it's such a process. But I
Speaker 1: do like Twitter. So anyway, people have been looking for
Speaker 1: alternatives ever since Elon has kind of taken this big,
Speaker 1: this big stir and just like stirred the pot and
Speaker 1: it's just like it's very chaotic there. So one of
Speaker 1: the things that people have been trying is masted on, which,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that that seems from everything I've
Speaker 1: I've read and everything I've seen from friends, it just
Speaker 1: seems like it's it's way too complicated for the average
Speaker 1: person to ever really get on there in a big way.
Speaker 2: So what's a simpler alternative.
Speaker 1: Well, this app called Hive, according to tech Crunch, has
Speaker 1: hit a million users, and so I don't know how
Speaker 1: people discovered this, but it was founded in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: and by a twenty two year old. It was aimed
Speaker 1: at Jen Zeer's and it's it's very much so a
Speaker 1: Twitter clone. It looks like a mix of Twitter Instant
Speaker 1: and also a bit of MySpace thrown in there. Now
Speaker 1: there's no story aspect on here. It's just mostly posts,
Speaker 1: but there's also an explore tab and you can you
Speaker 1: can put music on your profile, which I think is
Speaker 1: kind of the homage to MySpace. But using this app,
Speaker 1: it's clean, it's organized, it's kind of like the same
Speaker 1: thing where you have followers and this and that. The
Speaker 1: only problem I have with it is that it's really slow,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's because they are just totally overloaded
Speaker 1: at this point, because they went from nobody using it
Speaker 1: to now over a million users, and you know, at
Speaker 1: this point.
Speaker 2: It's probably a lot.
Speaker 1: So if you go like it just took you know,
Speaker 1: a good ten seconds to load up my my homepage,
Speaker 1: I've got forty six followers.
Speaker 2: Now, I did reserve my username.
Speaker 1: And in fact, I interviewed a guy named Matt Swider
Speaker 1: for a story recently. He runs a newsletter called The Shortcut,
Speaker 1: and he was like his advice on all these new
Speaker 1: social networks, He's like, at least reserve the username that
Speaker 1: you want. And I thought that was pretty smart because
Speaker 1: that way you can, you know, if they ever become
Speaker 1: a thing, you can actually use that username with.
Speaker 2: That with that service.
Speaker 1: So that's probably a lot of what's happening right now
Speaker 1: with with Hive. I can't say to switch, I can't
Speaker 1: say to sign up. I really don't know if it's
Speaker 1: like the next Twitter, But if you want to get
Speaker 1: your username on there, Hive, I believe the website is
Speaker 1: Hive Social Hive Yeah, hivesocial dot app. So hivesocial dot app.
Speaker 1: If you want to check it out, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's one of these things that we'll just continue to
Speaker 1: watch and see what happens. And if you want to
Speaker 1: be there now, hey, you'll be an early adopter. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the next question. Fred says, congratulations on
Speaker 1: your new radio show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Fred.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a device that will pair up
Speaker 1: with my cell phone and that device will broadcast Bluetooth
Speaker 1: signal to multiple speakers simultaneously.
Speaker 2: The best I could.
Speaker 1: Find so far was one speaker to pair up with
Speaker 1: the cell phone and that speaker will broadcast its own
Speaker 1: Bluetooth signal to the auxiliary speakers. The problem is there's
Speaker 1: a delay between the main speaker and the auxiliary speakers.
Speaker 1: I'd like to set up eight Bluetooth speakers in my backyard.
Speaker 1: I want the music to be in sync. Any ideas,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Fred, Fred, great question, and this is why
Speaker 1: Sonos was invented. I mean, you know, Sonos tackled this
Speaker 1: problem many many years ago of whole home audio, and
Speaker 1: now we see the same thing with the Echo speakers,
Speaker 1: with the Home pods, the Google speakers, they have all
Speaker 1: sort of taken on this idea of just adding multiple
Speaker 1: speakers to the same stream. Now these speakers are not
Speaker 1: using Bluetooth. They are using their own believe on the
Speaker 1: back end. It's Wi Fi or some other frequency that
Speaker 1: they're using to communicate, so it's not Bluetooth. And the
Speaker 1: reason they're not using Bluetooth is because I'm not sure
Speaker 1: Bluetooth is really a quick to do.
Speaker 2: Something like this. The most I've seen, and a.
Speaker 1: Couple of like a TLC TLC TCL phone had this feature,
Speaker 1: and a couple other phones have had like dual audio
Speaker 1: output and so it's able to send one signal to
Speaker 1: two phone or two speakers at the same time. And
Speaker 1: also iPhone with their air pods and those kind of
Speaker 1: things have a built in share audio functionality. I don't
Speaker 1: think that functionality is built into Android at large, but
Speaker 1: Samsung may have it as well. But the reality is
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't recommend eight random Bluetooth speakers synced up
Speaker 1: because you're just never I don't think you're ever really
Speaker 1: going to get a good signal that sounds good and
Speaker 1: is in sync across all of these speakers. I think
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of software at play on the
Speaker 1: back end with Sonos and with Google and with Amazon
Speaker 1: and with the HomePods to make them sound perfectly in sync.
Speaker 1: And so the old only thing. I mean, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at like, there's this website or this this product line
Speaker 1: called twelve South, and they do a bunch of like
Speaker 1: probably the most popular device, which I need to buy
Speaker 1: actually because I needed this on a plane the other day.
Speaker 1: But it's a device that allows you to plug in
Speaker 1: your use your Bluetooth headphones with the three point five
Speaker 1: millimeter jack on an airplane. So if you're on an
Speaker 1: airplane or a treadmill, you can plug in this little
Speaker 1: Airfly device and then you can use any Bluetooth AirPods
Speaker 1: that you want. So and what this says, Airfly says
Speaker 1: connect two pairs of headphones. So I think that the
Speaker 1: two pairs is kind of the max for a lot
Speaker 1: of these things. I do know that they do this
Speaker 1: thing called Silent Disco, and so I'm wondering what those
Speaker 1: headphones use?
Speaker 2: Are they?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm looking at this. So if we look
Speaker 1: at these silent Disco headphones, how are they broadcasting?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 1: So a ten piece bundle is okay? Yeah, So the
Speaker 1: transmitter does not look like it's Bluetooth. It is some
Speaker 1: sort of other does it say what it does for
Speaker 1: the transmitter. Okay, Yeah, the wireless kit uses RF two
Speaker 1: point four gigahertz technology, not Bluetooth, and that reduces the
Speaker 1: audio lag, which is thirty milliseconds, significantly less than the
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty milliseconds of standard Bluetooth. So I
Speaker 1: think that this situation is best solved by buying. If
Speaker 1: I was going to recommend speakers, i'd recommend the one.
Speaker 2: Where is it. I'm trying to look for mine right here?
Speaker 1: Oh there it is the Sonos Rome, which is just
Speaker 1: a fantastic little speaker. It was I think it was
Speaker 1: about two hundred dollars, might be a little bit less
Speaker 1: than that. It's probably a good time to buy it
Speaker 1: over the Black Friday Cyber Monday shopping weekend. But those
Speaker 1: speakers are small, their weather proof. You can set them
Speaker 1: up all over your backyard. Yeah, you're talking about one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for eight those things, but I think.
Speaker 2: That will give you the best solution.
Speaker 1: Or you can just go with the SOS Move and
Speaker 1: the Soas Move is a much bigger speaker. You may
Speaker 1: not need eight of them. That's what I personally use,
Speaker 1: and I just it's always on the charger in the house.
Speaker 1: When I go outside, I just take it in the
Speaker 1: backyard and it sounds great. Sometimes I bring the room
Speaker 1: as well, depending on how you know how much of
Speaker 1: the backyard we're using. But this is this is one
Speaker 1: of my best purchases that I got during the pandemic
Speaker 1: because it's just every time I go outside, sit by
Speaker 1: the fire pit, whatever, grilling it, just take the Sos
Speaker 1: Move with me and listen to the music. The cool
Speaker 1: thing about the Sonas Move and the rom is that
Speaker 1: they work in your house with the Sonos network, and
Speaker 1: then when you leave your house, they will work with
Speaker 1: the Bluetooth.
Speaker 2: On your phone.
Speaker 1: So but you can't have them SYNCD up with the
Speaker 1: Bluetooth as far as I know.
Speaker 2: All Right, great question and good luck.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you want to have some real fun out
Speaker 1: in your backyard, and I don't blame you on that one.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about a new website called way Away. This
Speaker 1: is a travel website, and I'm always sort of suspicious
Speaker 1: about new travel websites because you know, I mean, everyone
Speaker 1: I personally really like to book direct.
Speaker 2: In fact, I booked a hotel.
Speaker 1: In Japan that was not direct, and I was very
Speaker 1: surprised to find out that you don't get any points
Speaker 1: with that hotel when you don't book direct. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if that is something that happens across all
Speaker 1: hotel brands or if that was just IHG, but I
Speaker 1: was very surprised that you don't get any points because
Speaker 1: it was booked on a third party website. So I
Speaker 1: guess I never do that. I always book direct, and
Speaker 1: so when I heard that, I was like, wait, really interesting.
Speaker 1: So I stick to kind of like booking on the
Speaker 1: airlines and hotels own websites. But I also do look
Speaker 1: at some of these search engines just to see what's
Speaker 1: out there, like I do like hotels dot Com. I
Speaker 1: think their app is the best when it comes to
Speaker 1: finding the hotel closest to where you're going. So it's
Speaker 1: the only app I know of that lets you put
Speaker 1: in an address and then sort hotels by that address.
Speaker 1: And so what I'll do is I'll put in, you know,
Speaker 1: let's say I'm going to the San Jose Convention Center.
Speaker 1: I'll put that into the app hotels dot com app,
Speaker 1: and then once the results come up, I'll sort by distance,
Speaker 1: and I'll kind of see based on those results, like okay,
Speaker 1: I want to stay at, let's say, a Hilton. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's that's like this is the closest Hilton to
Speaker 1: that hotel or that that place, but not just a Hilton.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a maybe the Hilton is three miles away,
Speaker 1: and there's a hotel that's point one tenth of a
Speaker 1: mile away, and I'm like, ah, that's the one I
Speaker 1: want to stay at. I phone a walk to the
Speaker 1: convention center because it's much easier. And so those are
Speaker 1: the kind of things that I think even with like
Speaker 1: Kayak and all these other ones, they'll do like city center,
Speaker 1: but they don't really do like an actual address, so
Speaker 1: I do like hotels dot com for that anyway. So
Speaker 1: this this website is called way Away, and this a
Speaker 1: new travel website that lets you do flights, lets you
Speaker 1: do car rentals and hotels and so basically, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a standard travel website, but they compare options from
Speaker 1: seven hundred different partners for flights. Then they have this
Speaker 1: membership plan that basically it's one hundred dollars for the year.
Speaker 1: Right now it's fifty because they just started, but they
Speaker 1: pay you cash back on your travel purchases. So not
Speaker 1: only can you see the best deals, but you also
Speaker 1: get a percentage back. So when I tested it, I
Speaker 1: saw a flight that I typically would take to New Jersey.
Speaker 1: It was like a five hundred dollars flight. You got
Speaker 1: about seven bucks back. So you're not going to become
Speaker 1: rich with this cash back, but it kind of depends
Speaker 1: on what you're doing. I think that if you book
Speaker 1: your own travel and you work for a company that
Speaker 1: lets you book your own travel on third party sites,
Speaker 1: this could pay for itself in you know, with one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars worth of bookings at five percent at fifty
Speaker 1: dollars for the service. So so you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of cool if it's the same price that you're paying
Speaker 1: on another website, with the same perks you're getting, especially
Speaker 1: with airfare, like why not and I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, these sites, these travel sites really push you
Speaker 1: to book direct, and so I think that that's kind
Speaker 1: of like the main thing is that you do lose
Speaker 1: some privileges when you don't book direct, But if you're
Speaker 1: getting the same stuff, then all things considered, it's all
Speaker 1: things equal.
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So flights up to five percent back booking dot Com
Speaker 1: up to ten percent back, and then rental cars up
Speaker 1: to five percent. They have ticketing and hostels. Those are
Speaker 1: all you know, different percentages back. So the other cool
Speaker 1: thing is that there's customer service. You can you know,
Speaker 1: get in touch with this way away and they'll help
Speaker 1: you with what you need. They also work with two
Speaker 1: hundred local guides in ninety five cities to create travel guides,
Speaker 1: so it can tell you like where the best bars
Speaker 1: and restaurants are, the must see places, and also neighborhoods. Now,
Speaker 1: I think that's great that they've curated that. I really
Speaker 1: like this tool on Google Travel. If you go to
Speaker 1: Google Travel and you go to the explore tab or no,
Speaker 1: the things to do tab, it's pretty phenomenal. You type
Speaker 1: in any city. Let's just type in let's see hold
Speaker 1: on what's the cool city Chicago. So if we type
Speaker 1: in Chicago, it will give me the top sites, the
Speaker 1: top sites by interest, kid friendly, outdoors, museums, top experiences,
Speaker 1: notable neighborhoods, and then travel articles.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's.
Speaker 1: Really really pretty good how they've used the wisdom of
Speaker 1: the web to you know, and just use AI to
Speaker 1: pretty much slice and dice all that information and make
Speaker 1: it into a travel guide on Google. So Google dot
Speaker 1: com slash travel, look at the things to do tab,
Speaker 1: but I was looking at the in the nutshell guides.
Speaker 1: There's something to be said for that too. An editor,
Speaker 1: an actual human has gone through and said, here's the
Speaker 1: cool place is. I just am concerned as how up
Speaker 1: to date they can keep those right, because that's a
Speaker 1: lot of that's like a whole you know, travel site,
Speaker 1: like a photo how do you say a photos f
Speaker 1: O D O R foot I don't know how to
Speaker 1: say it, but you know that website and all these
Speaker 1: other guide websites like that's a full time job, the
Speaker 1: ones that are not crowdsourced. And they say, on average,
Speaker 1: our users cover the cost of their plus membership with
Speaker 1: the cash back from a single trip. And with the
Speaker 1: cash back you do get PayPal cash back, so it's
Speaker 1: not like a rewards program. It's literally just cash back
Speaker 1: on your travel. So if you want to check it out,
Speaker 1: it is way away dot io, Way Away dot Io.
Speaker 1: All right, uh, Resa says, convert videotapes to digital? Can
Speaker 1: you recommend a trustworthy company that can convert family home
Speaker 1: videos from tape to digital? Great question, And this is
Speaker 1: something that I've done a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: I ended up doing these myself. But you can do
Speaker 2: a couple of ways.
Speaker 1: So number one, I recommend, if you have the Camquard
Speaker 1: and you've got a computer, and you've got a VCR
Speaker 1: or whatever plays these tapes, do them yourself. I mean
Speaker 1: locally in your home is probably the best way to
Speaker 1: do these. It's time consuming, but it also means that
Speaker 1: you don't have to send these out. That it can't
Speaker 1: get lost in the mail. You know, they can't get
Speaker 1: messed up, you know, all these things that can happen
Speaker 1: when you send them out. But I would recommend doing
Speaker 1: them yourself. So the two things that you can do
Speaker 1: that is Roxio is a big brand that does that.
Speaker 1: And then gosh, I can't remember this. I can't remember
Speaker 1: what this other one is called. Ah, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can remember this. El Gato, El
Speaker 1: Gato and Roxio. So those are the two that I
Speaker 1: tested and they worked pretty well, and I think those
Speaker 1: are the easiest ways. It's very analog, it's very you.
Speaker 2: Know, old school to do this, but it works.
Speaker 1: And it's time consuming, but once you do it, you
Speaker 1: have a nice digital copy. Of your tape, you can
Speaker 1: throw that into Google Photos. And the coolest part is
Speaker 1: that it will actually identify the people in your videos,
Speaker 1: which is just phenomenal to me. So all you know,
Speaker 1: your nephews and cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles,
Speaker 1: all these people that.
Speaker 2: Appear in these videos over the years, Google will find
Speaker 2: them and put that in.
Speaker 1: You know, when you search for your uncle or whoever,
Speaker 1: it'll show that they're in this video, which is which
Speaker 1: is really really cool. So the other are two ways
Speaker 1: I would recommend is there is a website that I
Speaker 1: like and a service called scan my photos dot com.
Speaker 1: This is based in Irvine, California, and I've recommended them
Speaker 1: many many times over the years scan my Photos. They
Speaker 1: will digitize just about everything, slides, videos, everything. And the
Speaker 1: cool thing is if you're in California, you can actually
Speaker 1: drop off your stuff. I know they were offering that
Speaker 1: before the pandemic. I'm not sure if they still do that.
Speaker 1: You'd have to check with them, but you can drive
Speaker 1: down there and drop them off if you don't want
Speaker 1: to put your stuff in the mail. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the biggest risk with putting your stuff in the
Speaker 1: mail when it comes to getting these things scanned is
Speaker 1: you know, something can go wrong, and if you lose
Speaker 1: those tapes, that's it. There's no there's no recourse. You're
Speaker 1: not going to get them back. So scan my photos
Speaker 1: dot com is another good one. And then the other
Speaker 1: one I like is is to go on Yelp. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of local places, a lot of little small
Speaker 1: businesses that have popped up to do this in local places.
Speaker 1: So go on Yelp and just look up VHS digital
Speaker 1: and just sort by.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Let me do this in real time so I can
Speaker 1: tell you what I would do. So if I go
Speaker 1: to Yelp and I search VHS digital, okay, VHS digital
Speaker 1: d I T I g A l okay, this will
Speaker 1: come up with a bunch of places that will, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: hold on VHS to digital. Sorry, I gotta I gotta
Speaker 1: spell the words right otherwise it's not gonna okay.
Speaker 2: There we go. VHS to DVD is what suggested came up? Okay?
Speaker 1: So if I go sort by recommended or most reviewed,
Speaker 1: So I'll do most reviewed, and now I can see
Speaker 1: I've got in my area. After you scroll through the
Speaker 1: all the sponsored stuff, it's got the results and so
Speaker 1: one of them is about a mile from me, that's
Speaker 1: top reviewed.
Speaker 2: Another one's another mile.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is I would call these
Speaker 1: places and I would get someone on the phone. And
Speaker 1: if you can't get someone on the phone, well that's
Speaker 1: your first clue that there's a problem. And so I
Speaker 1: call these places, call the top two places, and just
Speaker 1: talk to them and just see what they say, and
Speaker 1: you can get an idea about how this service is
Speaker 1: going to be from one of those two people. Go
Speaker 1: with the one that you feel more comfortable with. The
Speaker 1: one that you feel most comfortable with. You can order
Speaker 1: and bring your stuff in, and since it's local, you
Speaker 1: can just drop them off. But that's what i'd recommend.
Speaker 1: That's what I would do if you can't do them yourself.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Next story here, Lift is teaming up with Motional to
Speaker 1: launch driverless taxis in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: So I am very excited about this.
Speaker 1: It's also quite scary, and I don't mean that it's
Speaker 1: just scary because it's like different.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been in self.
Speaker 1: Driving cars like this and it's a little odd, you know,
Speaker 1: to have the car making the decisions fully autonomously is
Speaker 1: kind of wild. So Lifting, Emotional will launch their ride
Speaker 1: hailing service in Los Angeles. Residents will be able to
Speaker 1: request an autonomous vehicle in the Lift app. They're using
Speaker 1: motionals all electronic ionic five based robotaxis. LA is the
Speaker 1: second city they're doing this in, following Las Vegas. I
Speaker 1: have not been in the Las Vegas automated car. In fact,
Speaker 1: when I was in Vegas, I was trying to get
Speaker 1: one of them on the Lift app. I never got it,
Speaker 1: but I would. I would definitely try it there.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Riders in LA will have a choice. Obviously, you can
Speaker 1: do autonomous or you can do classic ride share. They
Speaker 1: say that La is one of Lift's largest ride sharing markets.
Speaker 1: Emotional has been learning stuff about this for a while
Speaker 1: and they're just very excited to put these taxis in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This comes on the heels of Weimo announcing a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago that they are doing robotaxis in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles as well. So if all goes as planned, people
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles will have the option of two different
Speaker 1: robotaxi companies in the next couple of years. And that's
Speaker 1: pretty wild. I mean, we're seeing things really change with
Speaker 1: this stuff now. Uber tried this many years ago and
Speaker 1: they gave up on it. They're not really as far
Speaker 1: as I know, they're not focusing on robotaxis anymore.
Speaker 2: But I think that.
Speaker 1: Lift and weimo it's a very slow process. I mean,
Speaker 1: these companies have been doing this for many, many years.
Speaker 2: It's very slow.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of regulations, a lot of hurdles
Speaker 1: to get it through, and it's nothing that happens very fast.
Speaker 1: And so I think they're taking that slow approach because
Speaker 1: they don't want they know that this is kind of
Speaker 1: a big deal and they want to do it right,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they want the media, you know,
Speaker 1: latching on to any sort of major accidents that may
Speaker 1: happen with these cars, and so I think they're just
Speaker 1: taking it slow, taking it easy, and methodically building these
Speaker 1: services slowly but surely. So in my informal Instagram poll,
Speaker 1: people were overwhelmingly against this, and not against the having it,
Speaker 1: but against going in these cars. And so I said,
Speaker 1: you know, would you take a lift, an automated lift,
Speaker 1: and seventy percent said no, thirty percent said yes, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of in the you know, I would probably do
Speaker 1: it obviously to test it for a story. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I would hope that these things are well tuned. But honestly,
Speaker 1: driving Tesla, I've seen that it's kind of scary sometimes
Speaker 1: the idea that your car is making these decisions and
Speaker 1: if it makes one wrong decision, you know, you could
Speaker 1: be toast. And it's not like that with a lot
Speaker 1: of other things. You know, you've got automated this and that.
Speaker 1: It's just very different when it's your car because it's
Speaker 1: such a big piece of machinery that's moving as such
Speaker 1: a fast rate of speed. There's not much room for
Speaker 1: error there. And I think about this a lot when
Speaker 1: I'm kind of cruise controlling in my car, and I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: The level of.
Speaker 1: Autonomy that my Tesla has is not the full and
Speaker 1: so mine is just basically glorified cruise control. But still
Speaker 1: it definitely slows down around big trucks and things like that,
Speaker 1: and it you know, kind of jerks the wheels sometimes
Speaker 1: when it's you know, making a correction or something, so
Speaker 1: you know it could be I don't know, it's just dicey.
Speaker 2: At times.
Speaker 1: It feels like, oh my gosh, like that, you know,
Speaker 1: that was a close call, but maybe the car knows
Speaker 1: better than I because it has more sensors than I do.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 1: We'll say, all right, let's get to the next question
Speaker 1: of the show. Let's see where are we up here?
Speaker 1: Sometimes I lose track of where we are. Okay, Samsung
Speaker 1: tab A eight, Mike says Rich. I had to buy
Speaker 1: my wife a new tablet because the battery puffed enough
Speaker 1: to distort the screen. The new one is a tab
Speaker 1: A eight. I want to add a five hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen gigabyte SD card. Amazon has Type A one and
Speaker 1: A two. Is there a preference? Well, if you find
Speaker 1: a five hundred and fifteen gigabyte SD card, I think
Speaker 1: you won the lottery because most of the time they
Speaker 1: come in five hundred and twelve megabyte.
Speaker 2: SD card.
Speaker 1: So I'm just giving you a little grief mic, just
Speaker 1: because it's probably a typo.
Speaker 2: But I know what you're talking about here.
Speaker 1: The type you say that, it's got the type A
Speaker 1: one and A two. So let's just type in SD
Speaker 1: card five twelve on Amazon. And so I'm looking at these,
Speaker 1: and I see A one and I see A two,
Speaker 1: So you are right now. The A one has two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven thousand reviews. The A two has
Speaker 1: thirty two thousand reviews, So immediately that is telling me
Speaker 1: that the A one is more popular. I'm guessing it's cheaper,
Speaker 1: and is it?
Speaker 2: Well, these are.
Speaker 1: Different sizes, so I guess it's kind of tough to compare.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I was trying to find. Oh, here we go,
Speaker 1: here's the five twelve. Okay, so five twelve A one
Speaker 1: And does the A two have a five twelve?
Speaker 2: Yes it does.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now we can compare apples to Apple. So
Speaker 1: the the A one if it will come up here
Speaker 1: for some reason, it's not the A one is. Let's
Speaker 1: see thirty nine ninety nine for a five hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve gigabyte model, the A two is for some reason.
Speaker 2: Oh here we go seven. No, I can't. I can't
Speaker 2: seem to get this to load the price of this.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, the five hundred and twelve A two is, and
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to get this price to come up,
Speaker 1: but it just won't come up. I've got the one
Speaker 1: terrorbyte is one hundred and seventy two dollars, which wow,
Speaker 1: so and the two fifty six is twenty six sixty seven.
Speaker 1: The five twelve just will not come up for some reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: So it depends on the speed of these cards. So
Speaker 1: A two is rated for faster loading and in app performance.
Speaker 1: So basically it's a speed thing. So if you look
Speaker 1: at the speed, A one performance is fifteen hundred read
Speaker 1: five hundred wright and if you look at A two,
Speaker 1: it's four thousand read two thousand.
Speaker 2: Right, So the A two is.
Speaker 1: Going to be a bit more expensive and it's going
Speaker 1: to read and write faster. Now with that said, what
Speaker 1: do I think you need for this tablet? I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna be just fine with the A one. I
Speaker 1: don't now if you were doing like real, real intense
Speaker 1: like photo or video work on this tablet, I would say, okay,
Speaker 1: go with the A two. But I just don't think
Speaker 1: that's the case. I don't think that you need that.
Speaker 1: I think that the uh, the A one is going
Speaker 1: to be just fine for this solution. I don't think
Speaker 1: you have to spend more money to go with the
Speaker 1: A two. And I wish I could tell you how
Speaker 1: much the A two was, but it just for will
Speaker 1: not show up. Oh there we go seventy two to fifty. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's double the price. So h yeah, I'd save
Speaker 1: the money go with the A one. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine in that, in that Samsung tab
Speaker 1: A eight, which, by the way, I've i've kind of
Speaker 1: pooh pooed the Android tablets in years past, but and
Speaker 1: I might have talked about this in a previous show,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you when I tested the Amazon
Speaker 1: Fire tablet. Now, the fire tablets are notoriously slow and
Speaker 1: kind of slow.
Speaker 2: And basic whatever.
Speaker 1: They're good for just watching movies, not really much else,
Speaker 1: but or listening to music, reading books, whatever.
Speaker 2: Like basic stuff.
Speaker 1: But what was refreshing about the Android tablet over the
Speaker 1: iPad is that the iPad doesn't do anything in the background.
Speaker 1: So if you're trying to download a bunch of movies
Speaker 1: for the plane, you've got to have those apps open,
Speaker 1: and they only download when they're open and sort of alive.
Speaker 1: And so it was really a breath of fresh air
Speaker 1: when I loaded up a bunch of stuff on the
Speaker 1: Fire tablet and I closed out the apps, not closed
Speaker 1: them out, but just you know, put them in the background,
Speaker 1: and oh the movie is still downloaded. That was like
Speaker 1: really really nice. And so anyway, the iPad I still
Speaker 1: think is the best tablet out there. It's got the
Speaker 1: best apps, it's got the best accessories. But I'm not
Speaker 1: against these Android tablets. In fact, I had someone the
Speaker 1: other day at work that said, hey, what do you
Speaker 1: think of the A eight, And I said, it's great.
Speaker 1: You know, Samsung tablets I would recommend obviously getting on
Speaker 1: sale because it's just a lot of the Samsung prices
Speaker 1: are you know, they're kind of I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're inflated. They're just a little bit more expensive than
Speaker 1: they should be, and then they go on sale and
Speaker 1: they're a much better deal. So the Galaxy tab A
Speaker 1: eight is, oh, this is a really basic one. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure this is, uh the one the person
Speaker 1: was asking me about. This is the tab a So
Speaker 1: this is only seventy five bucks. So yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: to answer your question even more, Mike, is that if
Speaker 1: you're talking to seventy five dollars tablet, I don't think
Speaker 1: you need to put that other card in there, because
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be way too much for
Speaker 1: that tablet. So if I look at let's just see
Speaker 1: what's the.
Speaker 2: Top of the line tablet here? Oh tab essay?
Speaker 1: Sorry, Okay, the essay is the one the person asked
Speaker 1: me about. So that's a much much more high powered device,
Speaker 1: and I think you're gonna pay more because of that.
Speaker 1: So right now, if I look at the website and
Speaker 1: apparently nothing's working on my computer right now, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on with my Wi Fi here, but anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's probably gonna be on a good Black Friday
Speaker 1: Cyber Monday deal since everything's at a pretty big discount.
Speaker 2: Good question, all right.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Android, if you want to protect your Android
Speaker 1: with the same sort of protection that Apple has on
Speaker 1: their iPhone with the app tracking Transparency.
Speaker 2: That's where it asks you.
Speaker 1: It asks apps not to allow third party tracking, which
Speaker 1: most people say, you know when you see that little
Speaker 1: screen come up says can this app track you? And
Speaker 1: who's gonna say yes to that?
Speaker 2: Right? Well, now you can have this.
Speaker 1: Across your entire Android phone and this is through Duck
Speaker 1: Duck Go for Android. Basically they're using a VPN that
Speaker 1: will filter out anything that is you know, these apps
Speaker 1: that are trying to send information to a third party tracker,
Speaker 1: and this could be your precise location, your age, a fingerprint,
Speaker 1: a digital fingerprint, of your phone.
Speaker 2: And so this is.
Speaker 1: Called app tracking protection in Duck duck Go. And so
Speaker 1: you can download the Duck dot go app. This is
Speaker 1: free and it will give you that similar protection. I
Speaker 1: think they say it's even better than what the iPhone does.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, if you really want to protect
Speaker 1: your privacy and not have these apps talk to each other,
Speaker 1: then that's probably a good thing to do. So according
Speaker 1: to Duck douck Go, the average Android user has thirty
Speaker 1: five apps on their phone. They found that with thirty
Speaker 1: five apps, you can experience between one thousand and two
Speaker 1: thousand tracking attempts every.
Speaker 2: Day, and those.
Speaker 1: Apps might contact seventy different tracking companies.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So they give the example of let's say you're planning
Speaker 1: a getaway on Southwest Airlines app, then you look at Zillo,
Speaker 1: then you look at seat geek, and then you check
Speaker 1: the weather on the weather network. With these four apps,
Speaker 1: they say forty five over forty five tracking companies will
Speaker 1: collect your information your precise location, your email, your phone number,
Speaker 1: your time zone, a fingerprint of your phone like your resolution,
Speaker 1: your device making model, language, your internet provider. All of
Speaker 1: that stuff can be used to identify who you are.
Speaker 1: So this will block that sort of information from leaving
Speaker 1: your phone. Now, the way they do this is with
Speaker 1: a VPN, and so not everyone's going to be excited
Speaker 1: about that situation because you got to run a VPN
Speaker 1: on your phone at all times. They do the filtering
Speaker 1: of this stuff locally so that it's.
Speaker 2: Not going out to the wider web.
Speaker 1: So anyway, if you want to try it out, I'll
Speaker 1: probably download this just to check it out on Android
Speaker 1: Duck Duck Go for Android. The Duck Duck Go is
Speaker 1: you know, I think that they're doing a lot with privacy.
Speaker 1: They're really putting this like, you know, stick in the
Speaker 1: ground and saying, look, we're we are the privacy centric
Speaker 1: sort of you know, Apple, but for everyone, and I
Speaker 1: like it. I just don't know about the search results
Speaker 1: from Duck Duck Go. I don't know if they're very good, and.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't really vouch because I don't really use it.
Speaker 1: But you know, they've got they have my story from
Speaker 1: today up there, but yeah, it kind of takes a
Speaker 1: no Like I just searched for myself on here, and
Speaker 1: like literally after the first result, it's like the second
Speaker 1: and third and fourth results are pretty bad. And then
Speaker 1: the next one's pretty bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean, look, it's gonna be fine for some
Speaker 1: things like basic stuff, but if you're really like, Google
Speaker 1: is still the best when it comes to actual search results,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of why.
Speaker 2: I stick with it.
Speaker 1: All right, Tesla might be coming or Apple Music might
Speaker 1: be coming to Tesla.
Speaker 2: Just a small little story here.
Speaker 1: Tesla apparently is teasing the integration of an Apple Music
Speaker 1: app and it's vehicle software. The information, according to Electric,
Speaker 1: came from the Peterson Automotive Museum. They are opening up
Speaker 1: this Tesla exhibit and I guess one of the cars
Speaker 1: someone who went through here saw. They're like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: is that Apple Music on the Tesla home screen? And
Speaker 1: sure enough, it seems like it is. This would be
Speaker 1: huge because Apple Music. If you have an iPhone and
Speaker 1: you're like me and you've got this whole Apple one bundle,
Speaker 1: you're using Apple Music because you kind of have to
Speaker 1: to get your money's worth over Spotify, and so I had.
Speaker 1: In fact, I subscribed to Spotify for the first time
Speaker 1: when I got the Tesla, and so I was using it.
Speaker 1: I actually don't think the integration of Spotify is very
Speaker 1: good in the Tesla. I think it could be better,
Speaker 1: and so anyway, let's just hope that this does happen
Speaker 1: because I think it would give people one more option
Speaker 1: for getting the most out of their music service. So
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on that one. The other little
Speaker 1: story I thought was interesting, maybe just because I use it,
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. But Evernote is being purchased by
Speaker 1: a company called Bending Spoons, and so Bending Spoons, You're like,
Speaker 1: who's that. Well, I wouldn't have known Bending Spoons from
Speaker 1: anyone else except for the fact.
Speaker 2: And it's always nerve.
Speaker 1: Racking when a company like ever Note, you know, with
Speaker 1: all of your data inside, is being purchased, because you
Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen. But Bending Spoons happens to
Speaker 1: make one of my favorite mobile editing apps in the world,
Speaker 1: which is called Splice. And so I am very trustworthy
Speaker 1: of this company. I believe they're They're located overseas, and
Speaker 1: you know so, but.
Speaker 2: I really feel like, gosh, I don't love.
Speaker 1: To see where Bending Spoons is. Let's see where they are.
Speaker 2: Bending Spoons is in. Oh, Italy. Oh wow, they're had
Speaker 2: another Italian Milan Italy. Wow, it's.
Speaker 1: So so they've got Splice, which I really really love.
Speaker 1: They've got this AI powered photo app. They've got let's
Speaker 1: see what else they have. Well, this is too long
Speaker 1: for a website to do AI remedy Remedy, and I
Speaker 1: think that's it for now. Oh they've got thirty Day
Speaker 1: Fitness and now they'll have ever Know. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: because I love the Splice app is really really slick, Like,
Speaker 1: it is such a great looking app. It's it's very
Speaker 1: well written, it's very well designed, and so I really
Speaker 1: think that that's going to be a good thing for
Speaker 1: ever Note because Every Note is kind of it's kind
Speaker 1: of lost its way over the years, and it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of gotten clunky, it's kind of gotten slow. I
Speaker 1: still use it because there's a lot of features on
Speaker 1: it that I like and that are useful to my job.
Speaker 1: But every year when I have to pay that whatever
Speaker 1: it is they want, you know, sixty seventy bucks, it's like, ugh,
Speaker 1: do I really need this? Apple Notes does like ninety
Speaker 1: nine percent of whatever Note does. But again, that's one platform,
Speaker 1: and I like Every Note because it's cross platform and
Speaker 1: it's independent, and so you know, I've been using it
Speaker 1: for many many years. Sometimes I've paid, sometimes I haven't.
Speaker 1: And I think that bending spoons purchasing them will be
Speaker 1: a really good thing. So that's exciting to hear. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: that sound does mean that's gonna do it for this
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