Speaker 1: A review of Apple's new air tags. Your car is
Speaker 1: spying on you, but you probably already knew that. How
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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Dumiro and this is Rich
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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel
Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. Thank you so much for tuning
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Speaker 1: kind of fun. Lots going on in the tech world
Speaker 1: this week. Got a little little Apple trial going on.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got Apple battling or I guess you
Speaker 1: got it's really Epic battling Apple. Epic makes Fortnite one
Speaker 1: of the most popular games in the world. Apple makes
Speaker 1: the iPhone one of the most popular phones in the world,
Speaker 1: and of course the App Store. And what I find
Speaker 1: fascinating about this entire little skirmish what do you want
Speaker 1: to call it, you know between these two big companies,
Speaker 1: is that Apple all the stuff coming out of the
Speaker 1: trial is is kind of like making me like Apple less. Now.
Speaker 1: I already knew that Apple was very you know, pacific
Speaker 1: in the way that they deal with their stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: the way they market things, the way that they you know,
Speaker 1: kind of want to make you get in their ecosystem
Speaker 1: with the iPhone, and I message not being you know,
Speaker 1: everything Apple does is one sided, right they I mean,
Speaker 1: they want to make sure that everything you use keeps
Speaker 1: you in the Apple ecosystem. And just seeing the emails
Speaker 1: come out of this trial and seeing the thought behind
Speaker 1: all of this is like it's kind of icky, Like
Speaker 1: it makes me like I'm reading it and I'm kind
Speaker 1: of like cringing because it's so gross to me. Like
Speaker 1: when I think about something like Google, and I think
Speaker 1: about how open they are and how they are they literally,
Speaker 1: when they do something, they do it for the entire
Speaker 1: world at once, right, no matter what language you speak,
Speaker 1: no matter what operating system you use, no matter what
Speaker 1: style of phone you have, whether it's a really high
Speaker 1: powered phone or whether it's a really an expensive phone
Speaker 1: that might cost twenty five dollars in developing country. So
Speaker 1: that's what I've always appreciated about Google. Now I appreciate
Speaker 1: a lot about Apple. I think that they make some
Speaker 1: amazing products. I mean, the Apple Watch is something that
Speaker 1: I've I've talked about I just can't live without, and
Speaker 1: you know, other things like the iPhone, the camera and
Speaker 1: the video and just the quality of what they've built
Speaker 1: is amazing. But it comes at a cost. And the
Speaker 1: cost is they have engineered every step of the way
Speaker 1: to make sure that they have figured out how to
Speaker 1: keep people in their system in the best way possible.
Speaker 1: And a lot of times that involves things like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't want you to use a third
Speaker 1: party payment system because that's too easy for you to
Speaker 1: like move to a different system. If you've got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of apps that you know, work on iPhone
Speaker 1: and Android or something like that. So anyway, I just
Speaker 1: think that the the ramifications of this trial for me personally,
Speaker 1: are just kind of like I'm trying not to read
Speaker 1: so much of it because every time I read it,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I don't I don't know what I
Speaker 1: think about this, but we'll keep we'll keep tabs on that,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I just I just feel like
Speaker 1: I love Apple and I love what they do, but
Speaker 1: I also see kind of like the dark side of Apple.
Speaker 1: And I know it's not something that's new, but it's
Speaker 1: just it's like when it's on display in these emails
Speaker 1: in this trial, I just like, oh, like, there's a
Speaker 1: reason why you can't subscribe to Netflix inside the Netflix app.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why you can't buy a Kindle book
Speaker 1: inside the Amazon app, you know, and it goes on
Speaker 1: and on and on. There's a reason why maybe you
Speaker 1: could subscribe to Spotify at this point, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but there's a reason why all these little subscription costs,
Speaker 1: you know, ten percent more, twenty percent more if you
Speaker 1: subscribe through the iPhone versus you know, going on the web.
Speaker 1: But you would never see those two prices on the
Speaker 1: iPhone app because you know, Apple doesn't allow that. So
Speaker 1: it's just little things like that. And you know, I
Speaker 1: deal with the average consumer. You know, my my segment,
Speaker 1: my spot in life with my tech stuff is for
Speaker 1: the average person, and the average person is not keeping
Speaker 1: up with all the little nuances of the differences of
Speaker 1: life on iOS versus is Android, or the differences in
Speaker 1: life between what Google is doing and what Apple's doing
Speaker 1: or what other companies are doing. So that's why I
Speaker 1: keep up with it. And I do notice the differences.
Speaker 1: You know, I do switch between iPhone and Android quite often,
Speaker 1: and so I'm noticing, you know, the limitations of both platforms.
Speaker 1: So anyway, something to keep out an eye on. And
Speaker 1: it's just been very very interesting for me to kind
Speaker 1: of to keep track of that whole situation. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the first question of the day. It
Speaker 1: comes from Kristin. Kristin says, hey, Rich, I've been trying
Speaker 1: to research any sound systems that would allow you to
Speaker 1: separate music from dialogue. As a senior, I really need
Speaker 1: to find a way to turn down the music and
Speaker 1: TV and movies so I can hear the dialogue. I
Speaker 1: have to believe someone has created a feature or device.
Speaker 1: I wish you had the expertise to create one because
Speaker 1: us baby boomers are in dire need of help. Is
Speaker 1: this technology out there? Thanks Kristin. Yes, Kristin, it is
Speaker 1: because it is a feature on my Son's soundbar. And
Speaker 1: I was trying. You know, it's funny because you know
Speaker 1: every movie is the same, right, or every TV show
Speaker 1: when it's like a big especially if you're watching in
Speaker 1: a house with like the kids, it's like you're sitting
Speaker 1: there and you know you're watching this movie and the
Speaker 1: loud scene, like the chase scene or the explosion scene
Speaker 1: is like whoa, it's so loud. And then when people
Speaker 1: are talking, you're like, wait, what are they saying? I
Speaker 1: can't hear them. So this is not just a senior moment.
Speaker 1: This is a moment for everyone. We've all experienced this.
Speaker 1: And in in my soundbar. I've got the son soundbar.
Speaker 1: It's it's an aging device at this point, it's been
Speaker 1: around for a while. A lot of my son No
Speaker 1: stuff is. In fact, I need to buy a new
Speaker 1: speaker from them. Two new speakers were on my list,
Speaker 1: the new son No's Rome, which is their Bluetooth speaker
Speaker 1: I want to get, and then also I need a
Speaker 1: new Play five, which is kind of their biggest standard speaker.
Speaker 1: But they call it speech enhancement. So what it does
Speaker 1: is it boosts the audio frequencies associated with the human voice.
Speaker 1: Turning this feature on will make dialogue easier to hear.
Speaker 1: So what I would do if you're going to get
Speaker 1: a soundbar or even with your TV, just search your
Speaker 1: TV name or your soundbar name along with speech enhancement
Speaker 1: or like voice clarity or you know, hear speech better,
Speaker 1: you know those kind of things, and you'll see if
Speaker 1: that feature is available on your system. If it's not,
Speaker 1: you could invest in a soundbar that would I think
Speaker 1: any soundbar would help in general, just because the TV
Speaker 1: speakers are generally terrible. But I think that look for
Speaker 1: one that specifically has this feature. I can't recommend the
Speaker 1: Sons one. I mean, as much as I love it,
Speaker 1: it's just way too expensive. Now they do have a
Speaker 1: cheaper so no soundbar that I've seen at Costco that's
Speaker 1: sort of like a smaller one and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: see here it is. I think it's called the Beam.
Speaker 1: Is that the one? Yeah? The so No's Beam is
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars, so it's still expensive, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's less expensive, and I'm guessing that
Speaker 1: they would have yeah, speech enhancement is oh wow. Beam
Speaker 1: was specially tuned by Oscar winning sound engineers to emphasize
Speaker 1: the sound of human voice. So you know what what
Speaker 1: I would say, Kristen, if you are looking for a soundbar,
Speaker 1: Sons Beam is the way you want to go three
Speaker 1: ninety nine. You can finally hear your dialogue in your movies,
Speaker 1: and I think that is going to be the best
Speaker 1: way to go. If you're looking for a less expensive one,
Speaker 1: just look for a sound clarity feature on that soundbar.
Speaker 1: It's definitely there. Believe me. If you hear meowing in
Speaker 1: my home today, yes I'm working from home. If you
Speaker 1: hear me owing near the studio, my wife yesterday thought
Speaker 1: it was a good idea. She's been having an eye
Speaker 1: on fostering cats or kittens specifically. My kids really want
Speaker 1: a pet, but I've been saying no because you know,
Speaker 1: we travel a lot. We were always out and it's
Speaker 1: just it's tough to to have a pet in believing
Speaker 1: we've had a dog in the past, and it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot of work, especially when you go away on
Speaker 1: the weekends. You know, you're sitting there bringing the dog
Speaker 1: to a kennel or not a kettle. That's it's probably
Speaker 1: not a nice word anymore. What's a border? I don't know.
Speaker 1: We used to bring them to like this little place
Speaker 1: that was like, you know, at some point it was
Speaker 1: someone's house, and then you know, now we've got we
Speaker 1: had a place that was you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: bigger than that. But anyway, it's a lot. So anyway,
Speaker 1: my wife thought that fostering kittens would be a good
Speaker 1: idea for the kids, and so she did, and she
Speaker 1: picked up not one, not two, but three kittens yesterday,
Speaker 1: and the kids, I will say, my two sons were
Speaker 1: absolutely loving them. They were just I mean, I've never
Speaker 1: seen them on better behavior yesterday than in my entire life,
Speaker 1: and they were just so good. They played with them
Speaker 1: the entire afternoon. I cuddled with them while I watched
Speaker 1: TV last night. I mean, yes, they're fun, but they
Speaker 1: are all over the place. I mean, three little tiny
Speaker 1: cats that are like, I don't know, a couple weeks old,
Speaker 1: and I have to feed them something called gruel, which
Speaker 1: is like mixed up wet cat food. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't done it yet, but I have to do
Speaker 1: it today. So anyway, if you hear the me owing,
Speaker 1: that's the story. And I do. Look, I love little
Speaker 1: animals like this, They're so cute, but it's just it's
Speaker 1: so much work already. Like my kids were exhausted, they
Speaker 1: were they were begging me to go to sleep last night.
Speaker 1: And to me, that's a win in my book. All Right, Ah,
Speaker 1: I digress. Let's talk about Apple's AirTag tracker now. And
Speaker 1: my last couple of podcasts I talked about how I
Speaker 1: think this is just the most amazing product to ever
Speaker 1: be invented when it comes to trackers, and I know,
Speaker 1: I got so much stuff on my Facebook page, like
Speaker 1: people challenging me like well, how is this any different
Speaker 1: than the tile? And I'm like, look, I mean I
Speaker 1: get it. Yes, Tyle came up with this idea many
Speaker 1: many years ago. This is not a new thing. GPS
Speaker 1: trackers have been around for a long time. This is
Speaker 1: not a GPS tracker. But the beauty of this device,
Speaker 1: this twenty nine dollars AirTag, is that it is working
Speaker 1: with the find my network and to find. My network
Speaker 1: is comprised of nearly a billion Apple gadgets helping to
Speaker 1: locate your stuff. Now. Apple sent me a few devices
Speaker 1: to test out. I've been testing them for the past
Speaker 1: bit and I will say they're amazing. I mean I
Speaker 1: put them on my keys, I put them in my backpack.
Speaker 1: I gave my wife one to test on her keys,
Speaker 1: and they're simply amazing. I mean they are something that
Speaker 1: will make you never lose your stuff ever again. Now,
Speaker 1: in my review on ktla dot com slash tech, I
Speaker 1: said that they're great for stuff, not so good for people.
Speaker 1: The reason I said they're not so great for people
Speaker 1: is because there are some privacy concerns and I'm not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, rehash all the privacy concerns, but yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like you slip this into someone's bag and you will
Speaker 1: know where they are and it may be a while
Speaker 1: before they realize that this thing is with them. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's good and it's bad, and it's like
Speaker 1: all technology. And I've said that before. So the device,
Speaker 1: in case you're not familiar, has a small user replaceable battery.
Speaker 1: It lasts for a year. You can up to sixteen
Speaker 1: of them to an Apple ID and then once you
Speaker 1: have that linked up, you can see the location of
Speaker 1: your item on a map. There's no monthly fees. You
Speaker 1: can ping the device when it's nearby. So the number
Speaker 1: one used case scenario is that your keys are in
Speaker 1: your house and you're looking for them. You go on
Speaker 1: your phone, you press ping my air tag, and you
Speaker 1: hear the little sound that the air tag makes and
Speaker 1: you find it. Now, if you have a newer iPhone
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve, you can use the precision finding feature,
Speaker 1: which uses this special ultra wideband chip on both these
Speaker 1: devices to literally lead you to the device. It's like
Speaker 1: your phone will say turn to the left, Okay, go
Speaker 1: one hundred feet or whatever, and it's not that far,
Speaker 1: but you know that works when it's close by. Then finally,
Speaker 1: if you want to call in the network, you can
Speaker 1: do that and you can see the air tag on
Speaker 1: the bigger network. And like I said, when I tested
Speaker 1: it with my wife on her key chain, with her
Speaker 1: you know, of course approval, I was able to see
Speaker 1: where she was pretty much at all times. This is
Speaker 1: not real time. There's no GPS here, but Apple's network
Speaker 1: is so vast and so thorough that chances are you
Speaker 1: will pretty much see where this thing is all the time.
Speaker 1: Now again, I said that there's some some safeguards built
Speaker 1: in to keep people from abusing these, but the reality
Speaker 1: is people are going to abuse these. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was trying to think, like, Okay, let's say worst
Speaker 1: case scenario, have got an X right, an X situation,
Speaker 1: and you know that person already knows where you live
Speaker 1: and where you work, and so it's not like this
Speaker 1: would be new information. But the reality is, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: definitely some like icky ways that these things could be used.
Speaker 1: So I think Apple is going to continue to kind
Speaker 1: of hone these things in, you know, not to use
Speaker 1: a pun, but you know, hone in on the software,
Speaker 1: make it better, make you know, learn from the situations
Speaker 1: that happen out there. But I think they're amazing. And
Speaker 1: if you're in the Apple ecosystem, which by the way,
Speaker 1: this will lock you in. This will this will lock
Speaker 1: you in and throw out the key. Once you've got
Speaker 1: an air tag, you are not switching to anything else
Speaker 1: because the fact that you can just see all your
Speaker 1: stuff on a map, it's gonna be hard to replicate
Speaker 1: that with anything else, even the competing trackers. So once
Speaker 1: you're in, I think you'll really like these, all right,
Speaker 1: Mark says Rich. Question, sir, I have a movie projector
Speaker 1: that I used outside with an inflatable movie screen, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to use it. Will my kids wearing wireless
Speaker 1: use it with my kids wearing wireless headphones and not
Speaker 1: having loudspeakers disturbing our neighbors. Is there device to use
Speaker 1: for multiple Bluetooth speakers from one source, respectfully? Mark? Uh? Yeah, Mark,
Speaker 1: you can just go on Amazon and search Bluetooth transmitter
Speaker 1: and I would type in multiple Bluetooth transmitter for multiple devices. Uh.
Speaker 1: The one that I see is two devices, So I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's one that has more, but in general, I
Speaker 1: think two would probably be the best. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: get more. I mean, look, I they know they do
Speaker 1: more than two, because I've done a story with this
Speaker 1: thing called a uh, oh my gosh, what's it called.
Speaker 1: It's a silent like disco. Yeah, that's what it was,
Speaker 1: a silent disco. And everyone at the silent disco, I'm
Speaker 1: talking like, you know, one hundred people had headphones on
Speaker 1: with Bluetooth that were listening to the DJ. And so
Speaker 1: clearly there is some sort of system that can broadcast
Speaker 1: Bluetooth to a lot of different devices, So I don't
Speaker 1: think you need that. That's a little little extreme, but
Speaker 1: you can definitely get a system that has multiple devices.
Speaker 1: From what I'm just seeing with a quick search here,
Speaker 1: it looks like two devices is kind of the standard.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know. You didn't say how many kids
Speaker 1: you have, But if you got two kids they both
Speaker 1: want to listen, there you go. Now, some of the
Speaker 1: headphones out there, you can kind of chain them together.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm wondering if the pure ones do this,
Speaker 1: but you know, you basically the kids can have one
Speaker 1: of them is Bluetooth, and then you can kind of
Speaker 1: take up cable and connect that to the other headphone
Speaker 1: and that would give you maybe four headphones. So there's
Speaker 1: lots of ways to do it. I just search Bluetooth
Speaker 1: transmitter multiple devices on Amazon, and as long as your
Speaker 1: projector has a Bluetooth connection or actually, you know what,
Speaker 1: you don't even need Bluetooth connection. You probably just plug
Speaker 1: it in with the headphone jack and then it would
Speaker 1: bluetooth out. So there might be a little latency there.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be too much of a big deal,
Speaker 1: but yeah, those the movie nights are starting up again.
Speaker 1: We did this last summer and it's just so much fun.
Speaker 1: The kids love it. There's something great about having that
Speaker 1: giant screen in the backyard with the movie playing. It's
Speaker 1: just such a fun experience, Like even if you've watched
Speaker 1: the movie before, Because if you've listened to my podcast,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd ever like to pay for anything like streaming,
Speaker 1: Like I like to whatever is on my streaming services
Speaker 1: I subscribe to. That's what we're watching. And so maybe
Speaker 1: I'll break this out tonight. I don't know how cold
Speaker 1: it's going to be, but maybe it'd be fun to
Speaker 1: watch that. What's that new movie everyone's talking about Mitchell's
Speaker 1: Versus the Machines on Netflix. I've gotten like no less
Speaker 1: and two text messages from friends saying have you watched
Speaker 1: this yet? And I'm like, no, I didn't even know
Speaker 1: about it. And comedy sci fi, and it sounds sounds great.
Speaker 1: A quirky, dysfunctional families road trip is upended when they
Speaker 1: find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse. That
Speaker 1: sounds fantastic. Can't wait to watch that. Any movie that
Speaker 1: is a kid's movie that I can watch with my
Speaker 1: kids is a win in my book, because there's not
Speaker 1: many of them, and so I just I love it
Speaker 1: when I can find a movie hopefully what was the
Speaker 1: rating on that? I didn't even check it. Let's see
Speaker 1: PG perfect, Okay, love it all right, so we'll be
Speaker 1: watching that. But yeah, Mark, that's what i'd recommend, and
Speaker 1: good luck. Let me know what you find. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to your car. Now. This is something
Speaker 1: that I've sort of known for a while, but it's
Speaker 1: always it's always interesting to see it in print. And
Speaker 1: this is an article out of the Intercept. Actually a
Speaker 1: guy named Sam Biddle who I used to I worked
Speaker 1: with him once at We did a CEES show for
Speaker 1: Spike TV back in the day. This was ces like
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, two thousand and twelve, I think or
Speaker 1: something like that. So we worked together a long long
Speaker 1: time ago. But Sam has done really well for himself.
Speaker 1: He writes a lot of this stuff, investigation type pieces.
Speaker 1: This is one of them. Law enforcement agencies are purchasing
Speaker 1: this technology called iv ive. It's a vehicle forensics kit
Speaker 1: and once you hook it up to a car, it
Speaker 1: can extract all kinds of information. And he says it
Speaker 1: can sync the data from your phone, like if you
Speaker 1: connected your phone to your I always wonder about this, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, when I get a rental car, you know,
Speaker 1: first thing you do, you plug in your phone, right, Well,
Speaker 1: how much of the data from my phone stays on
Speaker 1: that rental car? Is it? Like the contents of my
Speaker 1: text messages? Is it? You know, all of my contacts?
Speaker 1: Like how much is actually synced to that car? Versus
Speaker 1: just displayed on that car? And I'm very unclear on that, honestly.
Speaker 1: And I always say no when a car says, oh,
Speaker 1: we have access to your messages, I said no, can
Speaker 1: we have access to your contacts? No? I say no
Speaker 1: to all of those things. I'm not gonna let some
Speaker 1: random car just you know, suck all the data out
Speaker 1: of my phone. Then, of course, when you return the car,
Speaker 1: the rental car, you forget to clear the phone off
Speaker 1: of it. You should always do that in general. But
Speaker 1: of course I just returned a rental car, and I
Speaker 1: didn't do that. Twice to rental cars in last month. Uh,
Speaker 1: Hawaii won, by the way, very expensive. I cannot believe
Speaker 1: how much I actually I have another rental car coming
Speaker 1: up soon, and it's also very Actually all three have
Speaker 1: been very, very expensive. I could have bought a car.
Speaker 1: I could have bought a car for a year for
Speaker 1: the amount I've paid now in rental car prices. And
Speaker 1: it's just one of these things where what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Like my wife and I, like, you know,
Speaker 1: when we go on a trip, like, what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do not get a rental car? Like we went
Speaker 1: to Hawaii? What are you gonna do not drive around?
Speaker 1: Like the one day you're sitting there, like, oh, be
Speaker 1: so nice to go to that giant state park. That's
Speaker 1: amazing that we flew five thousand, three thousand miles here
Speaker 1: for Yeah, we'll just stay here. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if you use it a couple of days out of
Speaker 1: your trip, like it doesn't pay for itself, but it
Speaker 1: certainly feels like it's worth it. Anyway. I digress. I
Speaker 1: digress a lot on this show, in case you didn't
Speaker 1: know that anyway, So can download this is the other
Speaker 1: part your car if you have like an even like
Speaker 1: the older cars, they are all basically recording everything about
Speaker 1: what's happening in that car, the speed, when you turn
Speaker 1: on the lights, when you open the doors, and the
Speaker 1: system works with all the popular car brands, and the
Speaker 1: main thing is that civil liberty groups are concerned that
Speaker 1: law enforcement might not use a search warrant to access
Speaker 1: the data. Now that's just one side of this. Imagine
Speaker 1: your insurance company, and I've thought about this a lot.
Speaker 1: So let's say you have a you know, some sort
Speaker 1: of accident, right, it doesn't even have to be a
Speaker 1: bad one. Let's just say that there's a you know,
Speaker 1: there's a payout that's involved there, and the insurance company says, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: to get your money, we've got to connect this little
Speaker 1: thing to your car and kind of you know, collect
Speaker 1: the data from your car. And you're like, what, hey,
Speaker 1: it was in the terms and conditions that you agree
Speaker 1: to and you say, oh, I didn't read those. Of
Speaker 1: course nobody does. And they say, yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: your you know, we're gonna give you a five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars payout, but got it, We've got to check this
Speaker 1: data first. And then they check the data like, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: We saw that you had your phone connected to the system,
Speaker 1: and the phone says that you're actually using it to
Speaker 1: text while you're driving, So therefore that nullifies your claim
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, okay. And so this is how
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff that you're like, well, I don't
Speaker 1: do anything bad, I'm I'm you know, I'm okay. I
Speaker 1: don't need to worry about this stuff. No, you do
Speaker 1: need to worry because this is where it comes into
Speaker 1: play in everyday situations. And so this is you know,
Speaker 1: I've always talked about even when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I talked about the concept of what keeps you know,
Speaker 1: what keeps law enforcement or even a city or whatever
Speaker 1: a state from just autumn printing out tickets. Right, the
Speaker 1: technology is there. Your car speeds, it's got some sort
Speaker 1: of sensor transponder, they calculate the license plate whatever, They
Speaker 1: have a camera on the freeway and it just goes, okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. We're mailing a ticket to your house
Speaker 1: because you went over seventy miles an hour. So how
Speaker 1: are the laws created? Like, are the laws created? Do
Speaker 1: they say you're not allowed to speed only when a
Speaker 1: police officer's watching and they catch you, or is it no,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to speed at all and we can
Speaker 1: use any means possible to ticket you for that. I
Speaker 1: don't know. But again, these are the kind of things
Speaker 1: that we're going to address in the future as technology
Speaker 1: just continues to get better and better when it comes
Speaker 1: to doing things automatically. Already, a lot of cities in
Speaker 1: America and in the world, probably you know, they've outfitted
Speaker 1: their their cars that, you know, whatever city cars they
Speaker 1: have driving around with cameras that can do a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. They use AI to identify stuff they identify,
Speaker 1: you know, it could be they scan every license plate
Speaker 1: and just look for stolen cars. And hey, these people
Speaker 1: are driving around the city anyway, like our our ticket people,
Speaker 1: So why don't we just scan cars while we're driving around?
Speaker 1: So I just find this stuff super duper fascinating. That's
Speaker 1: why I mention it. I don't know what the answer is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the answer is. But when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, I always imagined that cars in the future.
Speaker 1: I always said, like, what's to keep your car from
Speaker 1: just spitting out a ticket on your dashboard in the future?
Speaker 1: Like what we have the tech, I don't know, lots
Speaker 1: lots to think about in our high tech world. Robert says, Hello, Rich,
Speaker 1: can you walk me through setting up a new T mobile?
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty one five G phone and transferring data
Speaker 1: from my Galaxy No. Eight h Robert, I don't need
Speaker 1: to walk you through because there's a there's an app
Speaker 1: called smart Switch that is just phenomenal. This is from Samsung,
Speaker 1: and if you're going to Samsung to Samsung, you are
Speaker 1: really really doing well. I mean everything when you when
Speaker 1: you turn on that S twenty one to five G
Speaker 1: and you follow the prompts and you make sure that
Speaker 1: you you smart switch with your old phone which have
Speaker 1: it nearby. It can be wireless. I prefer wired because
Speaker 1: it's just faster and simpler and it'll be easier. You
Speaker 1: literally plug the two phones into each other and it's
Speaker 1: going to transfer over everything, and it's going to not
Speaker 1: just transfer everything, like your background's going to be there,
Speaker 1: the placement of your apps is going to be there.
Speaker 1: Everything's going to be literally like you just took this
Speaker 1: phone and just took the new one and kind of merged,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. It's just you just swapped out the
Speaker 1: hardware and it works really well with smart Switch. So
Speaker 1: now I've had mixed results with this. This also works
Speaker 1: really well iPhone to iPhone and it you know, it
Speaker 1: also somewhat works on other Androids, like if you went Android,
Speaker 1: you know, like a Samsung to one plus or one
Speaker 1: plus to pixel or you know whatever these random Android
Speaker 1: devices are. So it works, O OK. It sometimes will
Speaker 1: bring the whole screen in. Sometimes it won't, like your
Speaker 1: your icons may or may not be placed where they were.
Speaker 1: It's always kind of random. But if you're going Samsung
Speaker 1: to Samsung, You're gonna be just fine. Super simple process. Robert,
Speaker 1: let me know how it goes. And congrats on the
Speaker 1: new phone. That's a good upgrade cycle. You went No. Eight,
Speaker 1: you kept that for a while, and you went S
Speaker 1: twenty one standard. I've got my eye. I keep looking up.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm every day I go on Amazon and I
Speaker 1: look up the S twenty one Ultra and I just
Speaker 1: I want it, but I you know, and it's like
Speaker 1: they could deliver it same day. Right now. It's out
Speaker 1: of stock, but it's two hundred dollars cheaper. It's nine
Speaker 1: ninety nine right now. That's for the one twenty eight.
Speaker 1: I want the five to twelve, which is totally out
Speaker 1: of stock. They don't even have it. The two fifty
Speaker 1: six you can get, no, totally out of stock. So
Speaker 1: I think this little price cut of the of the
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine it used to be twelve hundred. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have purchased it. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: one's even out of stock. But I've had my eye
Speaker 1: in the s twenty one Ultra five because I just
Speaker 1: I want that, like zoom, I want I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm getting antsy with my iPhone, like I
Speaker 1: but it's tough, like I've said in the beginning of
Speaker 1: the podcast, like I can't give up my Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: so I'd have to come up with some weird scheme
Speaker 1: to still use my Apple Watch with the Samsung. But
Speaker 1: then I'm thinking the new pixels coming out, Pixel six,
Speaker 1: which I'm very high hopes for, that will likely be
Speaker 1: my next phone, as long as if it's an Apple
Speaker 1: or sorry, if it's a Google designed processor. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I am I you know, phones, I
Speaker 1: get it. They're not that exciting to people anymore. They're
Speaker 1: still very exciting to me, especially especially the Pixel, because
Speaker 1: it is just I feel like the Pixel is a
Speaker 1: device that throw a phone in the dryer, and that's
Speaker 1: the Pixel. It's just bouncing around. It's there's just no
Speaker 1: there's no definitive trajectory for the Pixel. Every year the
Speaker 1: Pixel come comes out, Google does some wild and weird
Speaker 1: and wacky thing with that. You're just like, ah, I
Speaker 1: thought this was gonna be the one. No, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't. I'm trying to think the last
Speaker 1: time the Pixel was like the best phone I ever
Speaker 1: like loved in my life, and it might have been
Speaker 1: like the three. I don't know. It's like it was
Speaker 1: a while ago. But I still love the idea of
Speaker 1: the Pixel. I love how smart the Pixel is. And
Speaker 1: so the Pixel five was a major disappointment for me,
Speaker 1: even though it's a great little phone. And I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: for a regular phone, like if you're just you know,
Speaker 1: not a power user, but if you just want like
Speaker 1: the best inexpensive camera on a phone, the Pixel four
Speaker 1: A and the four A five G are just phenomenal phones,
Speaker 1: you know. Like I've said, I've said this before. My
Speaker 1: mom has a Pixel. She loves it. She loves her Pixel,
Speaker 1: and she just doesn't understand everyone says her pictures are
Speaker 1: so great. You know. She also has mint Mobile, which
Speaker 1: she loves, you know, and it's just one of these
Speaker 1: things she doesn't understand why people are like so obsessed
Speaker 1: with like iPhone, and they're expensive data plans, and I'm like, mom,
Speaker 1: I know, it's just you know, people don't realize they're
Speaker 1: caught up in a lot of this hype. But like
Speaker 1: your phone is fantastic, you know, like your phone is great,
Speaker 1: your service is great. As long as your mint Mobile,
Speaker 1: which runs on T Mobile, works where you go and
Speaker 1: live and do things, You're fine. Yeah, fifteen bucks a month,
Speaker 1: you're okay, Like why do you have to pay more?
Speaker 1: She doesn't understand it, as she's like, why my friends
Speaker 1: pay more for phone? I'm like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: know why I do. I have Verizon. I need Verizon.
Speaker 1: The coverage is fantastic, and I have an Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: So I can't go with one of these third party
Speaker 1: mv and o's, these smaller carriers because they don't offer
Speaker 1: all of the futures that I need. I need, you know,
Speaker 1: full upload a video. I want HD video when I
Speaker 1: watch videos on my phone, and some of these things
Speaker 1: you just can't get when you're with a smaller carrier.
Speaker 1: But they're the things that the average person who just
Speaker 1: needs a connection, who's just checking Facebook, who's just looking
Speaker 1: at Instagram, who's uploading a picture, who wants to make calls?
Speaker 1: It all works, it's all all good. All right, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Twitter. I don't talk too much about Twitter
Speaker 1: because I feel like it's not very mainstream. Although if
Speaker 1: I had to pick one social media network to stick
Speaker 1: with forever, I think it would be Twitter. Even as
Speaker 1: much as I love Instagram, everything is so you know,
Speaker 1: they they make it so tough, right, there's no links
Speaker 1: you get, it's just you've got stories you have. I mean,
Speaker 1: just the amount of thought I have to put into
Speaker 1: anything that I post to Instagram is so my brain literally.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I gets headaches so much, because I
Speaker 1: just feel like I have to sit here and think
Speaker 1: about formats of video. So, like, you know, the new
Speaker 1: thing on Instagram is you know, igtv is like how
Speaker 1: they want you to post your videos, which, yes, you
Speaker 1: can post your videos as Okay, I'll just I'll just
Speaker 1: go off for a second here. So on Instagram, the
Speaker 1: easiest video is is the sixty second square video, right,
Speaker 1: And that is the easiest way to get a video
Speaker 1: on Instagram because the most people will see it. It's simple,
Speaker 1: it shows up in the feed, it plays the entire video,
Speaker 1: but your limitations are it can't be more than sixty seconds.
Speaker 1: It has to be square, which is fine, and you
Speaker 1: know it shows the entire video when you're scrolling through
Speaker 1: the feed, and it will show it to the most
Speaker 1: people because it's in the feed. Then you have IGTV,
Speaker 1: which of course they love, but it's so complicated because
Speaker 1: if you post, you can post a full, you know,
Speaker 1: rectangular sixteen by nine video. But guess what that looks
Speaker 1: tiny on a phone screen. It looks like a thumb.
Speaker 1: Uh what is it? A posted stamp? So who wants
Speaker 1: to watch a video like that? Not me? So that's
Speaker 1: why you rarely see me post videos like that unless
Speaker 1: I'm being really lazy and I'm just like, I don't
Speaker 1: feel like figuring this out, so I'm just gonna post
Speaker 1: sixteen by nine. When I see other people post sixteen
Speaker 1: by nine, guess what I do, I scroll right past it.
Speaker 1: If you want to post a video on Instagram that
Speaker 1: sort of really captures the eye, it's an IGTV video
Speaker 1: in sixteen by nine, but vertical format, which we've been
Speaker 1: taught as journalists and video creators our entire lives never
Speaker 1: shoot vertical video. But yet that's the video format that
Speaker 1: Instagram wants. Now, when I'm out there shooting my videos,
Speaker 1: like today, i posted a video from inside Firestone Walker Brewery.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there in the brewery literally, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: do I shoot this sixteen by nine? Do I shoot
Speaker 1: square so I can later edit it? Or do I
Speaker 1: shoot up and down vertical so I can make a
Speaker 1: longer video. Oh and by the way, if it's longer
Speaker 1: on Instagram, if you want you know, the unlimited time
Speaker 1: you go IGTV because then you get you're not within
Speaker 1: that sixty seconds of timeframe. So this is the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that when you just see my stuff on
Speaker 1: Instagram and it's oh, Rich posted something new, how cute,
Speaker 1: Oh cool, let me like it. You have no idea
Speaker 1: the psychological torture that is going on for me as
Speaker 1: someone who is trying to deal with all these different
Speaker 1: formats and noo. And then by the way, I want
Speaker 1: to post the same thing to Facebook, and I'm like, ah,
Speaker 1: do I want to post square? Because if people are
Speaker 1: watching it on Facebook on their TV, it's gonna look
Speaker 1: all messed up, or you know, it's gonna have the
Speaker 1: wings we call them on the sides, you know where
Speaker 1: it's like the blurry background, or if they're watching on
Speaker 1: their computer, don't they want to watch it full screen?
Speaker 1: So it is very, very complicated anyway. So I say
Speaker 1: this all because Twitter just is so easy, Like you
Speaker 1: just tweet and you can put links and you can
Speaker 1: it's just everything just works so nicely. They don't try
Speaker 1: to play games with you, right and they just you know,
Speaker 1: it just works. You can have a conversation, people can comment,
Speaker 1: you know, you can at people, you can tag places,
Speaker 1: you can put videos in there, you can put pictures
Speaker 1: in there, you can put links in there, you can
Speaker 1: put audio in there. It just all works. But the
Speaker 1: problem is it doesn't have the audience that Instagram and
Speaker 1: Facebook have, especially for me. Now some people have built
Speaker 1: their audiences on there. The problem is my audience is
Speaker 1: more of a typical consumer, and the typical consumer is
Speaker 1: on Instagram, not on Twitter. You're still there, okay. So
Speaker 1: with all that said, Twitter has a really cool feature
Speaker 1: now called tip jar, and this is how it sounds.
Speaker 1: You basically connect a payment system, whether it's cash app, Patreon, PayPal, Venmo,
Speaker 1: and people can leave you a tip. So if they
Speaker 1: like what you're doing on Twitter, they can leave you
Speaker 1: a tip. Now. This is enabled for me on Facebook.
Speaker 1: I haven't really publicly mentioned this very much, but there's
Speaker 1: something called stars that Facebook invited me to test, and
Speaker 1: people can leave me stars, which somehow equates into money.
Speaker 1: I haven't really seen the money from this, but it does.
Speaker 1: Like if you leave me one hundred stars, I think
Speaker 1: it's like a dollar. So I see them from time
Speaker 1: to time, and I guess it works. I don't really
Speaker 1: call them out, I don't really say anything about them,
Speaker 1: so I'm not like actively pursuing stars. But I think
Speaker 1: it's amazing if you made, if you make your living
Speaker 1: as a creator, you want all these different avenues. You know,
Speaker 1: if you have a video that goes totally viral, and
Speaker 1: you know, look, if I love the idea of supporting
Speaker 1: creators that I like, like I want people to be
Speaker 1: independent if they can, right, if you can be independent
Speaker 1: and do your job and love it, like, more power
Speaker 1: to you, Like I want to support that. And if
Speaker 1: it takes a buck for me to send you on
Speaker 1: venmo or cash app or Patreon or whatever, cool. So
Speaker 1: the thing that I think is interesting here is that
Speaker 1: Twitter is not taking any cut of this tip jar,
Speaker 1: which I think is kind of odd, like, I think
Speaker 1: that's a missed opportunity for them. I get it, maybe
Speaker 1: they don't need the money, but I feel like they
Speaker 1: could have taken like even ten percent or one percent
Speaker 1: and people still would have been happy to have this.
Speaker 1: But hey, you know what, it's cool if they're doing it,
Speaker 1: if you want to see if it's enabled for you.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're doing it for journalists and experts. I'm
Speaker 1: somehow not included in that. I didn't see it online,
Speaker 1: but you can go to your profile, pick edit profile
Speaker 1: and see if it's enabled for you. All right, shout
Speaker 1: out to the folks in the spaces on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: know I just talked about Twitter, so hey, it seems
Speaker 1: like there's a couple of people in there. My mic
Speaker 1: is actually working now. I understand what I'm doing on
Speaker 1: spaces right now, which I'm broadcasting live to Twitter, is
Speaker 1: totally anti to everything Spaces is about, right Spaces is
Speaker 1: about conversations, and right now you're just listening to a
Speaker 1: one way feed of what I have to say, and
Speaker 1: you can't talk back. Now, maybe this could be something
Speaker 1: I could do in the future, Like if someone raises
Speaker 1: their hand, I guess I could bring them on the podcast,
Speaker 1: which would be kind of cool. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never that would be an interesting thought.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do it next time. But yeah, says tap
Speaker 1: on an avatar to invite someone to speak. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so people are like doing little waves and little like
Speaker 1: symbols and stuff. It's really cool. Again one of the
Speaker 1: reasons I love Twitter. It's just it's they've they've built
Speaker 1: in all the things you need as like the best
Speaker 1: communication system, right without fooling around, without trying to trick
Speaker 1: people like Instagram and Facebook everything like Facebook, you know,
Speaker 1: you put a YouTube video in there and somehow it
Speaker 1: doesn't embed. You're telling me Facebook's engineering team can't figure
Speaker 1: out how to make a Facebook video playable in Facebook
Speaker 1: on the news feed. No, it's because Facebook doesn't want
Speaker 1: you to play a YouTube video. In fact, they don't
Speaker 1: want you to post a YouTube video. They'd rather you
Speaker 1: upload a video natively to their platform so that they
Speaker 1: get the recognition, they get the money, they get the ads,
Speaker 1: they get the everything. And it's those little kind of
Speaker 1: decisions that like, I just ugh, it makes my skin
Speaker 1: crawl because now, by the way, videos used to play
Speaker 1: embedded in Facebook, but they made a decision to take
Speaker 1: it out. Same thing as Instagram. When you used to
Speaker 1: tweet a picture on Instagram, yeah, it used to go
Speaker 1: to Twitter, and of course they took that out. So again,
Speaker 1: all these companies I talked about Apple in the beginning,
Speaker 1: None of these companies are innocent. They all do things
Speaker 1: that are that fly in the face of what's best
Speaker 1: for the consumer. And as consumers, you may not realize that,
Speaker 1: but I do. And this is why you know, I
Speaker 1: keep on top of this stuff, and this is why
Speaker 1: I talk about so that you understand that there's no
Speaker 1: technical reason why a YouTube link that you paste into
Speaker 1: your newsfeed should not play inside Facebook. They don't want
Speaker 1: it to play inside Facebook. They want to make it
Speaker 1: as horrible as an experience as possible, so that you
Speaker 1: don't post a link to a YouTube video, or a
Speaker 1: creator doesn't use Facebook to just put their YouTube links.
Speaker 1: They don't want to do that. They want the creator
Speaker 1: to use Facebook's platform. Okay, Christine says, hey, Rich, don't
Speaker 1: even get me started on links on Instagram. Oh hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at finally getting a streaming device since my
Speaker 1: smart TV won't hold too many apps. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: which one I should get. So I wanted to get
Speaker 1: your advice. I saw your review of the new Apple
Speaker 1: TV device. I'm not really sure that's worth the extra
Speaker 1: money in your opinion, What is the best device to get,
Speaker 1: Christine Christine Christine, Well, I think the Apple TV is
Speaker 1: you're asking me, which is the best device? You know,
Speaker 1: I probably that's a tough one. I think the Apple
Speaker 1: TV is really really nice. I'm not it is expensive,
Speaker 1: so I don't think it's worth it for the average
Speaker 1: person to get. I love mine. I think that it's
Speaker 1: really nice. I also really love the Chrome Cast with
Speaker 1: Google TV, but I can't recommend that one because it's
Speaker 1: such a newer. Like Okay, when you look at when
Speaker 1: you look at the state of streaming devices, right, you've
Speaker 1: got Roku, You've got Apple, and you've got Amazon. And
Speaker 1: I will tell you out of those three, which are
Speaker 1: the most popular. I mean, Chrome Cast is popular, but
Speaker 1: that's definitely you know, people kind of like to have
Speaker 1: these things with a remote control, and so I think
Speaker 1: Google was smart to do the Google TV, but I
Speaker 1: also don't think it's as prominent as these other ones.
Speaker 1: So when I look at platforms, here's what I look
Speaker 1: at Amazon and Roku are pretty much the top two. Now,
Speaker 1: the reason why people love Roku and Amazon is because
Speaker 1: they are cheap. They've got streaming sticks that are so
Speaker 1: cheap you buy I am like a ten pack. It's
Speaker 1: like a pack of gum and you just you know,
Speaker 1: put them on the backs of all your TVs. Now,
Speaker 1: I think that those those really cheap streaming sticks are horrible.
Speaker 1: They're slow, they're jittery. Yeah, you don't need much power
Speaker 1: to stream stuff. Like believe me, you can use a
Speaker 1: streaming stick that's a couple of years old and it's fine,
Speaker 1: but it's not going to be the smoothest experience. So
Speaker 1: when it comes to the streaming sticks, I would go
Speaker 1: a little higher and if you can spend fifty dollars
Speaker 1: instead of twenty five, and you'll get a much better
Speaker 1: experience on these sticks. Now, with that said, Roku versus Amazon,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. If you're an Amazon subscriber, like
Speaker 1: a prime subscriber, I would probably go Amazon. The problem
Speaker 1: is Amazon's their interface is all over the place. It's
Speaker 1: just so like cluttered with like stuff. I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: just like you're like bombarded with like do I watch this?
Speaker 1: Do I watch that oh this is on Prime Video. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's like so much. But I also like how they
Speaker 1: highlight stuff from the services that you subscribe to, so
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. Roku, on the other hand, is
Speaker 1: very simple. They're just ad filled. There's ads everywhere. It's
Speaker 1: just ads galore. So it's like you just on that screen.
Speaker 1: I just it's like, I hate seeing the ads on
Speaker 1: the Roku. But with that said, I like the Roku
Speaker 1: devices because they're universal, like pretty much. I think at
Speaker 1: this point every app is on. There might be a
Speaker 1: couple on missing, but all the major apps are on
Speaker 1: Roku and Fire. I know that there's a little fight
Speaker 1: right now between Roku and YouTube TV, so I'm sure
Speaker 1: that will be figured out. That it's always a money thing.
Speaker 1: It's always a money thing, so it will be figured out.
Speaker 1: It's like back in the day when cable channels used
Speaker 1: to fight with the cable systems. Right just notework is
Speaker 1: taking away my Fox Sports. Well now that battle has
Speaker 1: just moved to the streaming services. Because if you don't
Speaker 1: think that Amazon and Roku are making a little cut
Speaker 1: off of all these streaming services that they allow on
Speaker 1: their device, oh yeah, they are. Believe me. That's why
Speaker 1: it took so long for HBO Max to arrive on Fire.
Speaker 1: That's why it took re cool while to get I
Speaker 1: forget what it was, but it was something they had
Speaker 1: a problem with. But it's all about the money. It's
Speaker 1: all about the money. So with that said, I would
Speaker 1: I mean, if I had my way, I would go
Speaker 1: with the Chrome Cast. I think that one's the best
Speaker 1: because I feel like it when I use my Chrome
Speaker 1: Cast with Google TV. I mean, the beauty of it
Speaker 1: is that it suggests all content from services that you
Speaker 1: pay for. And I just love that because I go
Speaker 1: on the home screen of Google TV and I see
Speaker 1: twenty five things I want to watch, and guess what
Speaker 1: It clearly shows right underneath that that movie or TV
Speaker 1: show if it's included in one of your streaming packages.
Speaker 1: I love that. That is a major, major plus in
Speaker 1: my book, because if you know me, you know I'm
Speaker 1: not paying five ninety nine to stream a movie. Ever,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't happen. I don't pay. I'm paying for
Speaker 1: HBO Max, I'm paying for uh Hulu, I'm paying for
Speaker 1: Disney Plus, I'm paying for NETFLI the most expensive one
Speaker 1: with four K, which I don't even understand the difference.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even look any different. But I've got like
Speaker 1: twenty people on my account watching, so I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't you know, I need as many simultaneous devices as
Speaker 1: possible before they cut me off. I only had it
Speaker 1: happen once where I sat down to watch Netflix and
Speaker 1: it was like, sorry, your account was in use, and
Speaker 1: I was like, what someone that I you know, I
Speaker 1: get maybe maybe you share your password with a few
Speaker 1: family members. And I was like, so I had to
Speaker 1: call them in or a text them all, and I'm
Speaker 1: like a group text who's watching Netflix? Someone needs to
Speaker 1: log off? I'm watching I need to watch something, Okay,
Speaker 1: but Christine, Uh, Okay. My bigger point about all these
Speaker 1: streaming devices is you want to go with one that
Speaker 1: is updated. Often. I don't like the smart TVs because
Speaker 1: the software on them. Like, okay, this is the example
Speaker 1: I always give your HBO max. Right, You've got eighty
Speaker 1: percent of people watching on a Roku, twenty nineteen percent
Speaker 1: watching on a fire, two percent watching on Apple TV,
Speaker 1: and two percent watching on chrome Cast TV. Okay, which
Speaker 1: app are you going to update with the newest features? First?
Speaker 1: Probably the Roku app right, followed by the Amazon app,
Speaker 1: and maybe you'll get to the other two later. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just that's just a you know, I think the
Speaker 1: Apple TV apps are updated and are really good, but
Speaker 1: the reality is like, as a developer, you know, you're
Speaker 1: probably not gonna update the random video platform app from
Speaker 1: you know, two thousand and nine. It's just it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's on your TV, but it's probably not gonna be
Speaker 1: updated very often. So that's why I like to get
Speaker 1: one of these streaming devices, plug it into the TV,
Speaker 1: and that way you get the best apps and features
Speaker 1: that are readily available. So finally, I guess my my
Speaker 1: summation of all this is go with which one you
Speaker 1: like the best, whether it is Roku or Amazon. If
Speaker 1: you're all Apple products, maybe you go with the Apple TV,
Speaker 1: But like you said, you don't want to spend the
Speaker 1: extra money and it is tough to justify. So and
Speaker 1: I love the Chrome Cast one, especially with the remote.
Speaker 1: That's the one i'd probably go with personally, but I
Speaker 1: just feel like it's not going to be as updated
Speaker 1: as frequently as the other two. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the one I feel like does the
Speaker 1: best job of what I want. When I sit down
Speaker 1: in front of the TV. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: another story. This is Google Assistant new features. A couple
Speaker 1: of new features to tell you about. One of them
Speaker 1: is broadcast. And this is not a new feature for
Speaker 1: Google Assistant, but they're extending it. And so now it
Speaker 1: used to be you could say, hey G, broadcast, how
Speaker 1: about we go to lunch at noon or I'm coming
Speaker 1: home soon, and it would it would say your little
Speaker 1: voice on all your speakers. So let me give you scenario.
Speaker 1: You are leaving work, you fire up Google Assistant on
Speaker 1: your smartphone, whether you have an iPhone or Android. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's a Google Assistant for iPhone. You can download the
Speaker 1: app and use it, and you say to that Google Assistant,
Speaker 1: hey G, broadcast, I'm coming home and I'll be home
Speaker 1: in ten minutes. And at home your speakers all you know,
Speaker 1: if you have a Google Home speaker or a Google
Speaker 1: Nest Hub display, it will announce in your voice what
Speaker 1: you just said. And that's a cool feature. It's been
Speaker 1: around for a while. I don't think anyone uses it.
Speaker 1: Maybe they do. I always forget about it. But now
Speaker 1: they're extending this to phones, So on Android or iPhone,
Speaker 1: you'll see the little notification with that pop up and
Speaker 1: it'll say the same thing. So I thought that was
Speaker 1: really cool. That's brand new. And I gotta remember I
Speaker 1: scared the heck out of my family one time when
Speaker 1: I tested this feature, because I tried it, you know,
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, everyone, what's up or whatever
Speaker 1: I said, and everyone, like my wife said, she just
Speaker 1: about you know, jumped out of the house when she
Speaker 1: heard that because it was so out of there. Okay,
Speaker 1: the other things, I mean, there's a bunch of features
Speaker 1: that they're talking about, these new Google Assistant features. I'm
Speaker 1: just going over the ones I think are cool for kids.
Speaker 1: They've got new stories and this is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: You can say, hey, gee, talk to who was hero?
Speaker 1: And you can listen to stories about over one hundred
Speaker 1: different people that are kind of like big in history.
Speaker 1: And so that's really cool because I know the kids
Speaker 1: love to play with these Google Assistant devices, but anytime
Speaker 1: you can get them to learn something and enrich their
Speaker 1: little brains, I think that's pretty cool. And then this
Speaker 1: one's really fun. You can play the popular game show
Speaker 1: Are You Smarter Than a fifth Grader on the Nest Hub,
Speaker 1: so you just say, hey, gee, talk to are you
Speaker 1: smarter than a fifth grader? And you can play that game.
Speaker 1: And while I have on that topic, we played in
Speaker 1: the car. If you have Android Auto, you can ask
Speaker 1: to play games in the car. And I know it
Speaker 1: sounds really scary and kind of dangerous, but I got
Speaker 1: to say, once you're on like an open stretch of
Speaker 1: the freeway, if you're on a road trip and you
Speaker 1: know there's not a lot of traffic around, and you
Speaker 1: can kind of, you know, play this game. We played.
Speaker 1: It was like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? And
Speaker 1: it was so much fun. We had a great time.
Speaker 1: And it's it's really slick like how they do it.
Speaker 1: You know, they basically ask questions, you say your answers,
Speaker 1: and it's it's back and forth. It's very interactive. It's
Speaker 1: a little odd that you're playing games in the car,
Speaker 1: like while you're driving with your family, but you know,
Speaker 1: it seemed relatively safe. I think it's mainly if you're
Speaker 1: not really putting a lot of brain power into driving,
Speaker 1: Like if you're just on like an open stretch right
Speaker 1: where you're just kind of there's not a lot going on,
Speaker 1: and you you know, you can I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's not meant for the driver. Maybe it's just passengers only.
Speaker 1: So I'll leave it at that, all right, Genny says,
Speaker 1: I have several Apple products to recycle or even get
Speaker 1: a credit for. I've gone through Apple and receive the
Speaker 1: shipping statement. It appears that I do not need to
Speaker 1: remove my data and they will do it for me.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is safe? If not, I do.
Speaker 1: I just do a reset on all the products. Some
Speaker 1: have the old charging connection and I don't know if
Speaker 1: they will even power up. Thanks, Ginny, Ginny. Okay, So
Speaker 1: my advice in general is if I'm ever sending something
Speaker 1: in I want to you know, format it, like I
Speaker 1: want that hard drive or that device wiped clean. Now,
Speaker 1: the reality is, if if you have a password on
Speaker 1: your device, chances are they're not gonna crack. They're not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, get to the recycling facility and someone's gonna
Speaker 1: spend an hour trying to crack your password. I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: that's a possibility, but most of these recycling facilities or
Speaker 1: these uh, you know, refurbishing facilities have safeguards in place
Speaker 1: to keep their employees from doing that, and it's just
Speaker 1: not something that probably happens very often. It could, and
Speaker 1: I think that you should take safeguards against it just
Speaker 1: to be sure. And there will be some places like
Speaker 1: I you know, like I've said, I've been to places
Speaker 1: where I've left my computer and they said, hey, can
Speaker 1: you write down your password? And I'm like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not writing down my password to my computer. So if
Speaker 1: they ever ask you to do that, say no, and
Speaker 1: they will figure out a way around it. Now, they
Speaker 1: may have to format your drive, and you know, so
Speaker 1: you want to make sure you have a backup of
Speaker 1: this stuff if you're sent in Now in your situation,
Speaker 1: you're sending stuff into recycle. So my advice is if
Speaker 1: you can power it up, plug in the old charging cable.
Speaker 1: If it's a really old gadget, you can't just plug
Speaker 1: it in and expect it to power up. It may
Speaker 1: take an hour for that thing to come alive because
Speaker 1: it's the battery is so dead that it's going to
Speaker 1: take a bit for it to even get to a
Speaker 1: place where it can do anything on that screen. So
Speaker 1: you may plug it in and it may look like
Speaker 1: it's not charging, but just leave it there for a
Speaker 1: solid hour and it may come to life with a
Speaker 1: little charger symbol after an hour's I've noticed that with
Speaker 1: my gadgets that I have very old that I'm kind
Speaker 1: of trading in, not trading in, but like getting rid of,
Speaker 1: and I or I haven't used them in a really
Speaker 1: long time, and that's the case. And then yes, do
Speaker 1: a reset. You want to go into your settings and
Speaker 1: it's settings reset, and it's factory reset, so you can.
Speaker 1: You can do that on most of the Apple gadgets
Speaker 1: have that built in, or in fact, all of the
Speaker 1: gadgets pretty much these days have some sort of factory
Speaker 1: reset built in which will erase the data on them.
Speaker 1: And that should be fine. Now, if you can't power
Speaker 1: up a product it doesn't work, I think you'll be
Speaker 1: okay sending it in again. If you had a pass
Speaker 1: code on that product or a password at some point,
Speaker 1: it should be fine. It's gonna get to the factory.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna do the wipe, either manually somehow, or
Speaker 1: they're even just gonna recycle it, you know, crunch it
Speaker 1: up if it's so old that they don't need anymore.
Speaker 1: So good question. I'm glad that you are, you know,
Speaker 1: interested in protecting your privacy. I think that is very
Speaker 1: very smart. Let's talk about this. This is just a
Speaker 1: small story. Well I'll just do this one. We did
Speaker 1: a story on KTLA about scanning in old slides, and
Speaker 1: it depends, you know, if you're of a certain age,
Speaker 1: like for me personally, I don't have any slides. I
Speaker 1: never shot slides. I don't I never used them. I mean,
Speaker 1: the only thing I remember is as a kid, we
Speaker 1: did have I'll never forget my dad setting up a
Speaker 1: slide show just once, like it wasn't even our projector.
Speaker 1: I think it was his parents projector. And I remember
Speaker 1: like looking at some slides, but that's really it. I mean,
Speaker 1: my childhood was mostly film and then of course digital
Speaker 1: cameras and now smartphones. But if you're of a certain
Speaker 1: age and you have a bunch of slides laying around,
Speaker 1: or you know your family might have left you slides
Speaker 1: or they have slides, you know you can scan these
Speaker 1: in and make them digital. And so we tested two
Speaker 1: different methods. One was a one hundred and forty dollars
Speaker 1: digital scanner. It was from a company called digit Now
Speaker 1: Scan Slides. Let's see, I think I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that was the name. So I okay, this is
Speaker 1: this is what happens sometimes with stories. So I was
Speaker 1: sent this scanner to test and I thought it was
Speaker 1: forty dollars. For some reason, I don't know why I
Speaker 1: missed the one and so I was like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is such a great deal. It's so easy. Then I
Speaker 1: saw that it was one hundred and forty dollars, which
Speaker 1: you know, that's expensive for a standalone device, but it's
Speaker 1: still not that expensive for converting your slides. So we
Speaker 1: tested that. I thought it was great. You put the
Speaker 1: slide in. It's a it's a time consuming process. You
Speaker 1: have to slide each scan in manually, take a picture
Speaker 1: of it, you know, it kind of lights it from behind.
Speaker 1: It puts it on a memory card and then you
Speaker 1: can put that on your computer. The quality is excellent,
Speaker 1: it comes out great. It's simple, it's easy, and it's
Speaker 1: done right. And then you can either put this on
Speaker 1: eBay or give it to a friend or split the
Speaker 1: price with a family member. It also does film, It
Speaker 1: does all kinds of stuff, so that was great. Then
Speaker 1: we tried, because I know I like giving people options,
Speaker 1: we tried an app called slide scan and I could
Speaker 1: not believe that an app could scan a slide. I
Speaker 1: was like, how, well, here's how it does it. It uses
Speaker 1: just your iPhone or Android. You hold your your slide
Speaker 1: up to your computer screen and the slide scan app
Speaker 1: gives you like a QR cod scan to just basically
Speaker 1: take you to a blank white page on your browser.
Speaker 1: So that's this nice bright white background. You hold your
Speaker 1: scanner or your slide in front of that, and then
Speaker 1: you hold your phone in front of the slide and
Speaker 1: you you know, it's lit from behind, and you take
Speaker 1: a picture of it with the app. It's not just
Speaker 1: your regular camera. And then the app you know, performs
Speaker 1: a little magic and AI to bring that slide back
Speaker 1: to life as a digital file. And I gotta say
Speaker 1: it works really well, like extremely well. Not as clear
Speaker 1: as the scanner. But the main issue is that since
Speaker 1: you're holding it in your hand, you're holding the slide
Speaker 1: and you're holding your phone, it's like it's an you know,
Speaker 1: it's a lesson in like steadiness, because I noticed with
Speaker 1: my father in law, whose hands you know a little
Speaker 1: bit shakier than mine. You know, he's a little bit older.
Speaker 1: Nothing against him, it's just you know, when you get older,
Speaker 1: you're not as like steady as you are when you're younger.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not everyone, but I feel like that's maybe
Speaker 1: what happens. And so he had a little bit of
Speaker 1: trouble kind of steadying the slide to get it perfect
Speaker 1: for the phone, whereas I really didn't. But still then
Speaker 1: you have glare and you have all these other things.
Speaker 1: So bottom line, the slide scan app is pretty miraculous.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to scan in like a
Speaker 1: couple of slides, like, definitely it out. It's available for
Speaker 1: iPhone and Android. You can try it for free, although
Speaker 1: you do have to pay. It's like seven bucks a
Speaker 1: month if you want to do unlimited slides. I would
Speaker 1: recommend putting a towel over your like kind of using
Speaker 1: Remember when people would take pictures back in the old days,
Speaker 1: like the really old days, like the old West, where
Speaker 1: they would like put their head underneath like a some
Speaker 1: sort of I don't know, covering on the camera. Like
Speaker 1: they would go underneath like a what do you call
Speaker 1: like a tarp or something I don't know, like a blanket,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you call that thing whatever it's
Speaker 1: like attached to the camera and they would go they
Speaker 1: would lift it up and they would go underneath like
Speaker 1: a sheet. Well, that's kind of what you need to
Speaker 1: do here with your with your phone scanning your slides,
Speaker 1: because you don't want any external light on top of
Speaker 1: the slide because it will reflect. And so I took
Speaker 1: a towel, I put it over my head, I put
Speaker 1: it over my computer, and I did the picture like
Speaker 1: that and it came out great. It's just not as
Speaker 1: clear as the slide scanner. But I got to say,
Speaker 1: there were two really cool methods of getting those slides scanned.
Speaker 1: And believe me, anytime you can get old things scanned
Speaker 1: in digital, definitely do it. It is such a cool
Speaker 1: thing people, you know, you send it to your friends
Speaker 1: and family. I personally love to just dump all this
Speaker 1: stuff into Google Photos and then it automatically slices and
Speaker 1: dices it all. You can, you know, now, click on
Speaker 1: the head of you know, the picture of the face
Speaker 1: of someone that's in one of the pictures. It shows
Speaker 1: you all the pictures that're in. You make a little album,
Speaker 1: you send it off to them, and it's just such
Speaker 1: a cool, cool thing to do, all right. Barbara asks,
Speaker 1: is there a way to totally block YouTube from iPad
Speaker 1: and our iPhone? My seven year old grandson watched things
Speaker 1: that are not appropriate for him. Oh I'm laughing, but
Speaker 1: I'm not. We've tried blocking, but where he goes on
Speaker 1: the iPad or iPhone, he knows how to unblock it.
Speaker 1: I'd rather just totally take it off so we can
Speaker 1: see nothing regarding YouTube. We do have kids YouTube. Please help.
Speaker 1: Barbara in Mount Prospect, Illinois. All right, Barbara, So I
Speaker 1: think the easiest way to block YouTube is just too well,
Speaker 1: there's two ways. If you have an app, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to set up screen time. This is like the simplest,
Speaker 1: cheapest way. You don't have to buy any extra equipment.
Speaker 1: But there's two things you gotta do. Number one, you
Speaker 1: got to go on screen time. Set that up. You
Speaker 1: can set that up from your phone. If he's on
Speaker 1: your family plan, you can do it all from your
Speaker 1: phone and then it'll carry over to his device. You know,
Speaker 1: you just set them up as a family member and
Speaker 1: you can do all the settings from your phone. If
Speaker 1: he's not a family member, you could just go onto
Speaker 1: his iPad set up screen time, and basically you have
Speaker 1: to come up with a code. My kids have been
Speaker 1: able to figure out the codes I've set up which
Speaker 1: make them tricky and don't let them watch you type
Speaker 1: them in. And then once you're done with that, you
Speaker 1: can approve only certain websites that he can go to,
Speaker 1: so you can block YouTube completely, or you can just
Speaker 1: pick a list of like ten websites so he's allowed
Speaker 1: to go to PBS kids or whatever. And then you
Speaker 1: got to get rid of the app, so delete the app,
Speaker 1: and then you have to change a setting on the
Speaker 1: iPad that says they cannot install or delete apps, and
Speaker 1: that will keep him from reinstalling the app. But my
Speaker 1: kids also found another way around this. This is they're
Speaker 1: really tricky. They what they do is they go into
Speaker 1: my purchased apps. They can go into the family purchased
Speaker 1: apps on my account through their iPad and search for
Speaker 1: an app that they want to download, and then it
Speaker 1: doesn't ask for permission from the parent. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's like a They love finding hacks and
Speaker 1: it seems to be a pretty good one. But you
Speaker 1: can still block out any app with screen time by
Speaker 1: saying you can limit the time on it, and that's
Speaker 1: the easiest way that I'd recommend. If you're looking for
Speaker 1: a little more control, you can block YouTube from the
Speaker 1: entire network using Circle. This is a device that you
Speaker 1: connect to your network, and this is what I have here,
Speaker 1: and it is it's complicated, but it is very thorough
Speaker 1: and you will have all the controls you need to
Speaker 1: keep your kids in line, or most of them, I
Speaker 1: should say. There's a website called next dns, dot Io
Speaker 1: and Barber that's going to be a little bit more complicated,
Speaker 1: but I'm just giving you options that will let you
Speaker 1: control all the network settings and block certain websites from
Speaker 1: your entire network. You also have Eero if you have
Speaker 1: an ear or you know, one of your your routers
Speaker 1: with the newer routers give you a lot of these
Speaker 1: controls inside your router. So I subscribe to something called Eurosecure.
Speaker 1: It's thirty bucks a year and it gives you a
Speaker 1: lot of controls to filter things on your Internet at home.
Speaker 1: So those are the things I'd recommend. Good luck. It
Speaker 1: is an ongoing battle in my home with YouTube. It
Speaker 1: took me so long to figure out how to block
Speaker 1: YouTube on my smart displays because once you get into
Speaker 1: like the way the Google Nest Hub works, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: They have like two different connections. It's like one is
Speaker 1: like a chrome cast connection, and one is like another,
Speaker 1: and anyway, it took me forever to figure out how
Speaker 1: to block YouTube on those things. And then it's it's
Speaker 1: very I don't want to get into it all, but
Speaker 1: it's it's super complicated because when I want to sit
Speaker 1: down and watch YouTube on the main TV, I can't
Speaker 1: because it's blocked for my kids, and there's no easy
Speaker 1: way for me to unblock it. So I had to
Speaker 1: come up with a way of basically coming up with
Speaker 1: a family the home profile that blocks out YouTube unless
Speaker 1: I reward myself with fifteen minutes of time for YouTube.
Speaker 1: I know, it's wild. This is the stuff I deal with,
Speaker 1: and I understand it's so so complicated, and this is
Speaker 1: why parents just let their kids have free roam because
Speaker 1: they don't want to deal with it. And I understand that.
Speaker 1: But you got to keep these kids in line with
Speaker 1: this YouTube stuff because there is a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: on there, and some of it they should not be watching.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see, let's just it fire. Amazon has
Speaker 1: a bunch of new Toshiba smart Fire TVs, and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to spend a whole bunch of time on these,
Speaker 1: but if you need it like a fire TV all
Speaker 1: on one kind of thing. It's kind of cool, but
Speaker 1: I thought this was neat. They have a new feature
Speaker 1: called Live Picture and Picture and it will let you
Speaker 1: see your video doorbell on your TV when someone rings it,
Speaker 1: and I just thought that was so cool. They don't
Speaker 1: say that it's a ring doorbell, but I'm guessing it
Speaker 1: has to be ring. Maybe not, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I just thought that was so cool because I love
Speaker 1: that feature that if someone rings your doorbell, you can
Speaker 1: see the ring pop up on your TV screen. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's such like a useful feature. But again, all these
Speaker 1: tech companies love to put us in silos, right, so
Speaker 1: if you want the most out of all of them,
Speaker 1: you have to kind of stick with all their brands.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I'm seeing here, I'm assuming.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I've got a lot more questions, but we're
Speaker 1: running out of time here, so I'm just gonna do
Speaker 1: one more real quick. I'm gonna just gonna do an
Speaker 1: article from a PetaPixel dot com. They name their best
Speaker 1: smartphones first Photography in twenty twenty one, and I totally
Speaker 1: agree with them, so I'm just gonna go over them
Speaker 1: real quick best overall smartphone for photography Samsung Galaxy S
Speaker 1: twenty one Ultra. One percent agree with this. It is
Speaker 1: such a versatile phone. The pictures are phenomenal, but it's
Speaker 1: not just the pictures, because I think the iPhone twelve
Speaker 1: Pro has amazing pictures and video. But I think what's
Speaker 1: different about the Ultra is it gives you more options,
Speaker 1: you know, like there's just the zoom capabilities of that
Speaker 1: phone are so phenomenal. You're just not gonna get that
Speaker 1: on the iPhone. Now, not everyone needs that, but it's
Speaker 1: again best overall smartphone for photography as twenty one Ultra
Speaker 1: and what you know edges it out is really the
Speaker 1: the zoom lens on that thing that is just so phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Best for computational photography is the is the pixel Google
Speaker 1: the Google Pixel five, And again I agree, computational photography
Speaker 1: means this camera is not equipped with like the best lens,
Speaker 1: the best sensor, the best anything. But somehow the pictures
Speaker 1: from the Google Pixel five still look phenomenal, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's just great. HDR on the Pixel five is
Speaker 1: just amazing. It's better than any phone I've seen. It
Speaker 1: just does if you want to point and shoot. That
Speaker 1: just nails it every time. It's going to be the
Speaker 1: Pixel five. But with that said, I would recommend the
Speaker 1: what they say the best bang for the Bucks smartphone
Speaker 1: for photography is the Google Pixel four A. Now i'd
Speaker 1: probably go four A five G just because you know,
Speaker 1: I think you should probably get on five G if
Speaker 1: you're buying a new phone today. But the the fora
Speaker 1: is just phenomenal, and if you're on a budget, it's
Speaker 1: literally the best phone cameras money can buy less money
Speaker 1: can buy. That's what they said, and I agree with
Speaker 1: that because it's just it's just a simple phone. It
Speaker 1: takes great pictures and it's not that expensive. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of fuss. Yeah, it's not as sexy as
Speaker 1: the iPhone or the Samsung, but it does the job.
Speaker 1: If you just want to take nice pictures and be
Speaker 1: on your merry way, it's gonna take a great picture
Speaker 1: every time. Then they say the best smartphone for video
Speaker 1: is the iPhone twelve Pro Max, which is interesting. I
Speaker 1: use the iPhone twelve Pro and they say the Max
Speaker 1: is better because it's got a larger sensor forty seven
Speaker 1: percent larger sensor in the ultra wide, which, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: gonna bring in more light, and that means it's going
Speaker 1: to be great to shoot footage with. But I gotta
Speaker 1: say the phone that I've been using for the past year,
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, the iPhone twelve pro or since
Speaker 1: it came out. I mean, the video I shoot on
Speaker 1: that is just so phenomenal. It's just so buttery. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to explain it, but it's just it's buttery.
Speaker 1: Like it just everyone always asks me on my Facebook
Speaker 1: and Instagram, like what camera are you using, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's just an iPhone. It just looks so good. Like
Speaker 1: when I edit, it's like, ugh, I love it. And
Speaker 1: it's That's one of the things that's kept me from
Speaker 1: Android for a while is just the buttery video that
Speaker 1: just looks so good on the iPhone. Oh listen to
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