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You know, look, when you tune into 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.880 rich On Tech, you never know what you're gonna get. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.120 It's gonna be fun, it's gonna be different, it's gonna 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.120 be unique. But at the end of the day, we're 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.600 gonna have a good time, all right. So this week 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.920 I was in Las Vegas for just a short less 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.880 than I think. It was my quickest trip ever, less 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.280 than twenty four hours. But I got invited to see 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.919 this new v U two film at the Sphere and 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.200 I had to go. I wanted to be there for 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:29.920 the opening night because I was not able to go 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.240 to the opening concert night. So I said, well, the 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:33.960 next best thing is this film. And I was very 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.400 curious because this is not a live concert. This is 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.840 an immersive film that they shot at the Sphere during 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.360 the U two concerts that they did there. So if 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.720 you're not familiar with the Sphere, I'm sure you've seen it. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.440 It's that giant globe looking thing that lights up in 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.600 Las Vegas. This is the first film to be shot 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.600 with the spheres Big Sky ultra high resolution camera, which 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.680 has a giant lens. I gotta look at this earlier 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.200 this year at Yes. And of course this film takes 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.200 advantage of the one hundred and sixty thousand square foot 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.760 LED screen, which is sixteen by sixteen K resolution, and 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:14.280 there's also haptic seats inside this theater. So what's it like? Well, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.160 I got to say it was pretty incredible, better than 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.919 I expected. So first off, it starts around eight pm, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.320 while our show did, but they give you about forty 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.880 five minutes to spend some time in the Sphere atrium, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.640 which has all kinds of things in it, like talking robots, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:32.400 holographic displays, and this audio demonstration. Because the Sphere has 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.479 this technology that can beam different sounds to each seat, 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.680 and so you can stand in these different beams of 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.160 light and you're hearing something different in each one. It's 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.000 pretty neat. Then you get into the show, which starts, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.200 like I said, about forty five minutes later. Tickets for 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.280 this show are about one hundred dollars, so more expensive 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:53.000 than maybe like a movie, but less expensive than a 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.000 concert ticket, I mean, depending on the concert obviously, And 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.960 they see people in the center suitet spot of the theater, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.280 so there are empty seats on the left and right 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.880 of you. But they do that for a reason. Now, 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.760 the show starts very simply, you see the guys on stage, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.880 you two. But the neat thing they did was they 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.600 progress the show as you go along, so it gets 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.040 more immersive and more impressive. They make more and more 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.520 use of the magic of the venue as the show 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.960 goes along, so they kind of, you know, start out 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.599 slow and you're like, okay, this is cool. But then 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.599 slowly but surely, they just start doing these neat things 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.919 that you're like, oh that's cool. Oh that's really cool. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.160 Oh that's even cooler. So at one point, for instance, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.040 you feel as if the ceiling above you is moving 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.600 down towards you. So that's one neat kind of thing 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.840 that they do. But they use all these different tricks. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.200 Another neat part is this was my favorite, and I'm 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.040 not giving away any spoilers, but kind they make the 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.320 wall in front of you seem to disappear, so all 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.000 of a sudden, it looks like the wall in front 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.680 of you melts away, and now you're sitting in your 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.760 seat looking at the band playing, but now they're playing 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.479 out side with the Vegas strip in the background, so 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.279 you feel like you're outside and the you two is 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.560 just playing in the middle of this like basically with 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.880 the strip behind you. That was really really cool. Then 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.480 there's some surprises, so of course the haptic seats they 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.560 rumble that surprises you at some point throughout the show. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.359 That's pretty cool. The first time it happened, we were 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.160 all like, whoa wait, what And the people I was with, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.320 my wife had been to the sphere, but the other 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.080 two people I was with had not, so they were 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.120 really taken aback by that. But it surprised all of 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.120 us even if you've been there before. And I'm not 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.200 sure how they did this because the screen is not 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.719 three D, but it literally looks like the band is 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.640 playing there in front of you. It's almost a holographic experience. 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.240 And that was probably the best part of the show, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:50.200 is that if you kind of give up that suspension 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:52.080 of disbelief, like if you kind of have that a 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.160 little bit you are literally feeling as if you two 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:56.839 is playing there in front of you, but they're not. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.839 I mean, it's a film. The audio and this experience 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.320 was absolutely impeccable. I mean I would say it might 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.400 even be better than the acoustics of a real concert. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.120 I know that's a bold statement, but it was so perfect, 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.200 it was so crystal clear, and it was just so 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.240 great that I was thoroughly impressed with the audio. And 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.280 the Sphere is known for really good audio motion sickness. 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.200 I know everyone's worried about motion sickness. Inside the sphere. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.680 You're not moving. This is not a ride at Disneyland. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.640 This is not a ride at Universal. The seats do 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.720 not move, and you're not moving on an axis. It 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.400 may it may give you the appearance or the feeling 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.600 that you're moving because of the immersive screen. The screen 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:41.160 is pretty much taking up the entire stadium, so that 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.680 it does feel like you're moving at certain points. And 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.720 there was a one point of the show where we 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.240 all kind of looked at each other like, oh wow, 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.960 we're getting sick right now. But you can look away 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.160 from the screen, like look down, or look to the left, 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.000 or look to the right, to kind of center yourself 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.080 and you'll be fine. I don't think that's a big deal. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.720 I mean, yes, some people do feel motion sickness inside 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.600 this fe I don't think that's the standard thing. But 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.840 it's also kind of fun because it is a little 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.480 bit of a different experience and it's like, Okay, I 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.200 feel that I can look, I'm okay, We're safe and sound. 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:14.720 It's fun. Overall. The sphere has created a new form 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.840 of storytelling and one that I will say I was 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.440 impressed with. I did not know what to feel or 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.000 what to think about this because I saw the thing 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.320 with Taylor Swift on the big screen. I didn't see 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.200 at the movie theater. I saw it at home, and 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.440 that's just a film of a concert. This is almost 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.120 a new way to experience a band. So there's these 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:39.240 unique physical and visual aspects that you might only experience 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.760 at a special venue like this, something that might have 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.320 been only at a theme park, something that might be 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:50.240 termed four D. But because this screen is so immersive, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.640 and because this screen is so big and large, it's 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.040 just totally different than anything I've experienced. So I think 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.920 that this is really going to give creative types a 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.400 new way of using the Sphear's unique canvas to tell stories. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.080 This is just the beginning. So far, they've only had 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.240 really four events at this They've got the opening movie, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.640 which was like Postcard from Earth, which I saw, which 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.800 was great. Then they had YouTube play there, real like 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.640 actual playing in the sphere where they recorded this they 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.000 did like forty shows or something like that. And then 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.800 they had Death and Co or Death in Company Band 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:27.480 they played there. And of course they've done a couple 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.520 of events here and there, like I think the UFC 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.360 is now going to be there, but this is like 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.480 the first time they've kind of taken advantage of what 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.520 these creative people have made out there in the desert, 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.680 and it will see. I mean, this was an over 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.680 a two billion dollar project, so we'll see if they 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.400 can replicate this in the different cities. I know they 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.880 had these plan for other cities, but I think this 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.440 is a very expensive thing to build and the return 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.360 is probably a little bit slower than they imagined. And 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.880 by the way, just to make this film of You Too, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.520 I'm sure was very expensive as well. But I liked 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.000 how they didn't go all at once with the sphere 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.000 like what it can do I liked how the show 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.160 gradually progresses to show off more of the unique aspects 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.280 and the magic of this venue. So overall, I would 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:14.240 say very unique experience, worth one hundred dollars, especially if 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.560 you like the band. They successfully blurred the line between 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.199 a film and a live performance, so if you're in Vegas, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.040 kind of something fun to see. I thought it was great. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.400 And for artists, what I think is neat about this 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.640 is their music can live on in a in a 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.400 unique new way. So I mean this you two show 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.160 can live on for very, very many years, and I 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.840 think fans would feel as if they are experiencing just 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.200 a small part of a live performance, but it's not live. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.520 And by the way, the rockers never age, which is 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.600 also kind of nice. Anyway, that's my review of the 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:52.199 new v U two film at the Sphere. You can 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.880 read that on my website. Rich on Tech dot TV. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.880 All right, coming up your questions eight eight eight rich 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.840 one oh one eight eight eight seven four two four 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.080 one zero one plus all the week's tech news. Let's 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.800 kick it off. You are listening to rich on Tech. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.120 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.920 out with you talking technology at triple A Rich one 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.199 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.160 four one zero one. The website for the show Rich 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.120 on tech dot tv. If you want links to anything 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.440 I mentioned, hit the light bulb, or if you want 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.000 to just pruse the site sent up for the newsletter. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:32.920 It's all right there. Let's go to David in Fresno, California. David, 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:33.640 you're on with Rich. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.319 Hi, thank you. My wife and I were watching the 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:42.320 US Open and I'm mindlessly scrolling through messages from a 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.840 group thing that we have on Facebook with my retired friends, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.680 and one of them sends me a link for movie shorts, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:55.120 and ultimately, ever since I clicked on that upper right 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.839 hand corner of my nac air, I get this pop 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.240 up about my viruses. I need to enroll in their 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:08.040 service because I've been at tapped and so I did 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.880 a virus scan. I have nothing what I can't get 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.199 rid of, and it's really starting to flummix me. I 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.880 cannot figure out how to get that dumb pop up 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.320 to keep from continuously popping up on my screen. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.640 It sounds like you got some malware installed by clicking 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.959 this link, and this is pretty typical. It can happen 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.880 very easily. Did you install any programs on your computer? 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.679 Do you think like, did you install any programs on 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:37.559 your Mac computer? 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:38.440 No? 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.319 Okay, so I think what happened. There's two ways to 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.400 kind of clear this out. I think it sounds like 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.199 you may have gotten an extension installed in your browser. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:48.559 What browser are you using? 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:49.880 Safari? 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.439 Okay? Oh, well that's interesting, all right. So in that case, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:58.199 I don't think that you got HM because installing extensions 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.520 on Safari is a little bit more deep detail than 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.920 it is on Chrome. So what I would do on 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.000 Safari is, now here's the question do you have? Does 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.800 this only happen when you're on the internet when you 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:10.600 open Safari? 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.160 It only happens it appears to only happened when I'm 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:14.760 on Safari. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.280 Okay, all right, So what I would do is you've 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.319 got to clear out Safari completely. So I would go 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.880 when you go into Safari upper left hand corner of 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.520 your screen, you can tap where it says Safari and 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.000 where it says clear history, and then it gives you 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.000 an option clear last hour, Clear today, clear today, and 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.480 yesterday Clear all history. I would clear all history, and 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.800 that's going to remove all the fragments of the websites 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.559 that you visited from your browser. And I think what 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:47.560 happened is you may have enabled notifications from a website 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.280 and that's what's popping up in your upper right hand corner. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.120 So once you clear the history that website, the settings 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.320 for that site will be reset and it will no 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.400 longer be able to send you those So I think 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.559 that's what's going to do it for you. If that 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.280 does not work, I would go into Safari and I 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.079 would go into your settings, and I would just look 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.280 under the extensions just to make sure that you don't 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.240 have any extensions installed. Mine says no extensions, That's what 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.640 your should say. And I would just look at let 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.680 me look at one more thing here. I would look 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.760 under your websites and where it says notifications, I would 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.280 make sure because it says these websites have asked for 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.720 permission to show alerts in notification center. I would also 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.360 look under there and make sure that no website is 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.520 in there. If a website is in there, remove it. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.960 And I think that's what's happening to you, David. 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.000 All right, I'll do those three things. I greatly appreciate 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:48.080 your advice. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.560 All right. Appreciate you listening there in Fresno. Hope you're 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:55.000 staying cool. I know it is a scorcher'er here in California. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:59.320 Thanks for the call today. I appreciate that Verizon is 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:05.000 acquiring Frontier Communications for twenty billion dollars in cash. So 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.880 if you have Frontier as your internet service provider, it 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.120 will soon become Verizon in the next year and a 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.520 half or so. It's ironic because here in southern California 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:18.480 they actually acquired Frontier, acquired Verizon's service area a couple 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.760 of years ago, and now it's going back to Verizon. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.360 Very very strange, but anyway, the merger is going to 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.960 combine Frontier's two point two million fiber customers with verizon 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.320 seven point four million FiOS customers. This will all be 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.840 rebranded as FiOS and the new network's going to reach 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:38.920 twenty five million houses across thirty one states. Frontier customers 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.280 are going to be sold on all of Verizon stuff, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.480 so the cell phones and the home internet, the just 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.640 everything that Verizon has. And of course Verizon in their 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.640 release says it's going to provide more choice and access 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.680 to premium services. But we all know what's really going 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.240 to happen here. Your price for Internet is slowly but 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.960 surely going to creep up because less competition means higher 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.680 prices for consumers, and so the fact that there is 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.200 one less company fighting against another company that is not 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.480 very good for consumers. Because Verizon was heavily selling their 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.360 home internet, their wireless home internet in places where they 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.880 did not have fiber, and now that they have fiber 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.000 and more places, they don't need to sell that as 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.920 hard and the prices on that will probably go up 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:26.840 as well. Again, transaction expected to close in about a 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.880 year and a half. At the same time, Verizon is 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.480 cutting their autopay discount. If you have an older plan, 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.640 you might have gotten an email that says, hey, we 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.240 want you to switch to this newer plan or we're 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.560 going to cut your autopay discount from ten dollars a 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.040 month to five dollars a month. Change is going to 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.920 take effect on about October tenth. These affected plans are 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.440 the older plans they have. They want you to switch 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.560 to their new unlimited plan, which, by the way, yes 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.880 you'll get that full ten dollars autopay discount, but you're 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.200 probably going to be paying more overall for this plan 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.560 or getting less than you used to get my recommendation. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.600 Check out Verizon Prepaid for sixty dollars unlimited or Visible 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.840 is a good alternative. Eight eight eight rich one O 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.920 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.760 zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.439 here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.320 rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.159 to two four one zero one. The website for the 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:30.960 show Richontech dot TV. You can hit the contact link 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.879 if you want to send me an email. You can 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:34.959 also sign up for my newsletter there, and you can 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.399 hit the light bulb if you want links to what 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.400 I mentioned on the show. Coming up next hour, we're 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.359 going to talk to YouTuber Robert Rosenfeld. He is host 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.560 of the Apple Circle, and he's going to talk about 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.280 the upcoming Apple event happening next week, and just generally 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.520 covering the Apple ecosystem. It's such a wild world. I mean, 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.600 any video you do about Apple just seems to go 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.920 viral for some reason. I mean not for everyone, but 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.600 for him for sure. So we'll talk to him in 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.280 a little bit. Steve writes in from Salem Oregon, is 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.680 my SIM card corrupted? Messages and emails to me are 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.760 delayed by hours, The battery runs down fast. My phone 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:14.720 heats up about a half an hour to one hour 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.720 of use. Steve, I don't think that is your SIM card. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.560 I think that sounds like either a connection problem. You 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.439 could be in an area where you're not getting a 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.800 strong connection, so that could run down your battery. I 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.480 would suggest getting on Wi Fi when possible. The phone 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.200 heats up, I mean, obviously it's a summer, the phones 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.399 are getting you know, they are working overtime right now, 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.760 and if it's getting you know, hot, after half an 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.880 hour or an hour of use, that is pretty typical. 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.320 Phones do heat up if you're using them for that 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.480 amount of time. And some of the you know, latest 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.720 phones do run a little bit warmer, especially the iPhone, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.199 especially the not so much the Samsung anymore, but the 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.240 pixels definitely run a little warm. So as for the 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.879 messages and emails delayed by hours, I can understand messages 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.000 if you're not in a good spot with a signal 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.640 emails that seems to be odd. So your phone could 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.800 be in a low power mode, which means it's not 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:15.040 checking for messages as fast as it typically would, so 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:16.480 I would check to see if your phone is in 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.359 a low power mode. Otherwise, I'm a big fan of 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.680 what's called the network settings reset. Both the iPhone and 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.960 the Android let you do this. So if you go 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.720 into your settings, there is a way to reset your 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.680 network settings, and it's a little bit different for the 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.919 iPhone and for Android, but you can Google and get 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:39.520 the directions for your particular device. But once you do that, 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.240 that will reset your WiFi, that will reset your mobile settings, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.600 and reset your Bluetooth all back to like kind of factory. 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:48.919 So that means you're gonna have to reconnect any of 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.879 your Wi Fi devices to your phone, not to your 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:53.879 route or just to your phone. So you're gonna have 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:56.480 to connect your phone to Wi Fi once again, whether 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.520 it's at home or at the office. Your mobile connection 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.000 that's going to ge a reset, so it's going to 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.960 kind of find the cellular towers again. And then your Bluetooth. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:06.560 You are going to have to reconnect your phone to 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:10.000 any Bluetooth devices like your headphones or your car. But 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.480 that typically takes care of a lot of the issues. 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.600 The other thing I would check is to see if 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:17.400 you're on Wi Fi calling, if you're having trouble with 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.480 your network at your home, if you have a low signal, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.440 then I would just sign up turn on the Wi 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.959 Fi calling at home, you know, so you can when 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.000 you're on your Wi Fi network at home, it'll default 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.520 to that instead of the cellular network. Thanks for the question, Steve, 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.159 appreciate it up there in Salem, Oregon. I bet it's 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.800 beautiful up there. New FTC data shows there is a 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:45.359 massive increase in losses due to bitcoin ATM scams. This 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:47.560 one surprised me. I've seen a lot of these Bitcoin 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.879 ATMs are typically in gas stations. I'm guessing that the 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.160 gas stations get sold on the appeal of a bitcoin 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.639 ATM because they probably get a small profit from whatever 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.480 transactions are done at the gas station, and that's where 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:04.280 I've mostly seen these things. But the FTC says there's 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:09.359 been nearly a tenfold increase since twenty twenty one. Hundred 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.919 and ten million dollars lost in just twenty twenty three alone, 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.200 and in twenty twenty four. Just the first six months 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.080 of this year, losses have already topped sixty five million. 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:21.120 So if you're doing the math and you're thinking, there's 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.280 another six months left in twenty twenty four, that's another 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.280 sixty five million. So that's more than last year. So 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:31.280 that's that's a pretty wild number, sixty five million dollars 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:33.879 in scams. You wonder why you get these text messages. 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:36.800 You wonder why you get these emails that are just 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.359 trying to get you to fall for one of these things, 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.960 because people do do it, and people over sixty are 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:45.920 three times more likely to fall victim to these scams 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.720 compared to younger adults. That makes sense too. And you know, 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.320 excuse I hear from my family a lot of times, 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.760 or just people in general. I didn't want to bother you. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.959 I didn't want to bother you, bother your friends and family. 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:02.320 If you have a situation like this that's happening to you, 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:05.080 call your friends and family say hey, here's what's happening. 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.240 This person's telling me to withdraw my money from my 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.879 bank account and put it in a shoe box and 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.200 hand it to them in the back of a black suv. 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.560 Don't do that. People have done that. Yes, smart people 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.480 have done that. Or this scam with the ATMs. Here's 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.960 how it works. These people call you, they pretend they're 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.199 either from the government or from a business like a 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.159 bank or tech support, and they say, oh, you got 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:31.560 to protect your cash. You got to take it out 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:34.000 of the bank and you've got to deposit it into 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.080 a Bitcoin ATM to safeguard it. And then once you 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:40.640 do that, send us the QR code that they give 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.560 you and will make sure that your money is safe. 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:45.560 And that's the proof that it's safe. Well, guess what. 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:49.040 Once the scam artists get that QR code, they are 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:52.359 stealing your money. That's how they steal it. So how 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:55.600 do you protect yourself? Do not respond to these calls, 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:57.879 these messages, or even these pop ups you see that 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.680 come up on your computer. If they're on and you're 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.320 not thinking that something should be happening, don't do it. 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:07.320 Verify any contact information, so if someone contacts you and 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:10.000 they say they're from a particular place, go to the 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:12.040 back of your bank card, call the bank from that 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:16.000 phone number and ask take time to think, consult with 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:19.320 others like friends and family. Like I mentioned, never withdraw 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:22.600 cash from your account in response to these requests. And 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:25.080 if anyone's asking you to use a Bitcoin ATM, a 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:28.359 gift card or something like that to move money to 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:31.640 protect it. Come on, you just know that's not right. 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:34.199 You have a feeling, and what does it go back to? 0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:36.359 It goes back to that old adage, if it seems 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:38.680 too good to be true, it probably is. So if 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:40.320 someone's calling you out of the blue and saying, hey, 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.320 you got to move fifty grand out of your your 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:45.400 hard earned savings account and put it into a bitcoin ATM, 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:48.199 come on, just think how silly that sounds. Don't do it. 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:54.040 Don't do it at all. On a lighter note, Google 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:56.400 Photos has a really cool feature that I've been playing with. 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.360 It is an AI feature. You know, I love Google Photos. 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:01.760 I have got all of my photos in there. I've 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:04.960 been using it since day one. In fact, before it 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.399 was Google Photos, it used to be called Picasa and 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:10.680 I loved it even back then. And Google Photos now 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:14.439 has this new feature called ask Photos and it's AI 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:19.119 to search your collection, which is really really incredible. So 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:22.719 you can now use natural language to search through your 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:24.560 photo collection. Now, I don't know about you, but I've 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:29.080 got I don't know, one hundreds, I've got so many photos. 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:31.000 Let's see if I can see how many photos I 0:24:31.000 --> 0:24:33.600 have in my photo collection it's not an easy thing 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:35.439 to do on Android. But let's see. If I go 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:38.679 to my posts and let's see, I can go to 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:45.800 photos and let's see here, that's really tough. See all. Yeah, okay, 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:47.520 I don't really know how to see all my pictures, 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:51.080 but I've got a lot I think over like one 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:56.480 hundred thousand. Yeah, it doesn't let me do this very easily. 0:24:57.119 --> 0:24:58.679 I thought there's a way to do that, but I 0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:02.520 guess not. Anyway, The point is I've got a lot 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:04.399 of pictures in there, and once you have a lot 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:07.760 of pictures in there, it's kind of scary because there's 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:11.640 so many that it's like, I need to get these 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:14.399 backed up somewhere else, that's for sure. Anyway. My point 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:18.040 is finding photos I think is really easy on Google 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:21.080 Photos because you can search for things like airplane or 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:24.320 park or flowers or you know, someone's name that's in 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:27.840 your contacts. But now you can use much more natural language. 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:30.360 So you can say show me that concert I went 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:32.680 to in Las Vegas last year and it will bring 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:36.040 up those pictures, or show me all my pictures from 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:39.440 Ireland that involve food and it can bring up pictures 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:42.720 like that. So again it's much more like we're getting 0:25:42.800 --> 0:25:45.640 used to it chat, GBT where we can just ask 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:48.600 things in a natural language. Now that's for your photo collection, 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:52.240 and this isn't unique to Google. Apple has also announced 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:55.800 that in iOS eighteen, with their AI powered stuff, you'll 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:58.240 be able to do this as well. But again, all 0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:01.240 of these AI features are just making life so much 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:05.040 easier for us as humans because we can finally interact 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:08.160 with computers the way that we interact with other humans. 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:12.959 You wouldn't go up to another human and say concert like, 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:14.800 you wouldn't say that to them, right, you would say, 0:26:14.880 --> 0:26:17.040 remember that concert we went to in Las Vegas last year, 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:19.000 how much fun it was. And now that's the way 0:26:19.040 --> 0:26:21.920 we're able to talk to AI and it's able to respond. 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:24.879 But for so many years, everything that we've searched on 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:27.800 our computer has been like you have to think of 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:29.840 like maybe what the file name is, or like a 0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:34.440 keyword in that file presentation. It's like, okay, you wouldn't 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:37.359 just search. You wouldn't ask someone presentation. You would say 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:42.840 that presentation that I did last year about elephants, and 0:26:42.880 --> 0:26:44.760 that's how you'd find it. And that's how we're getting 0:26:44.760 --> 0:26:46.680 to search on our computers. And that's what I think 0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:49.440 is the best part of this AI revolution is we're 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:51.840 finally able to interact in the way that we've always 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:54.359 wanted to. In fact, I shared a little tip in 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:56.399 my newsletter this week, which you can sign up for 0:26:56.520 --> 0:26:58.280 at the website rich on Tech dot TV. I know 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:00.639 I mentioned that I mentioned a lot because I love 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:03.080 my newsletter and I think I really give out great 0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:05.920 free information for that thing. But I gave a tip 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:08.800 because last week I was trying to figure out how 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:12.160 to keep my coffee maker on past the automatic shut 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.360 off and it was really like I was like, there's 0:27:15.400 --> 0:27:17.400 only so many buttons on this thing, like which one 0:27:17.440 --> 0:27:20.639 does this? And so I downloaded the PDF for the 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:23.000 coffee maker. It's a brand new coffee maker, so I 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:24.879 didn't really know how to use it very well. And 0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:27.080 I was like searching the PDF for that, like how 0:27:27.160 --> 0:27:30.240 to keep this thing on? Couldn't figure it out. Well, 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:31.800 I said, you know what, let me try this. I 0:27:31.880 --> 0:27:35.720 uploaded the entire pdf to AI and now I said, 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:37.600 I'm going to ask you some questions about this, and 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:39.639 I said, how do I keep my coffee maker on 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:42.959 past the auto shut off? And it said there are 0:27:43.000 --> 0:27:45.000 three ways to do it, and it gave the three 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:48.199 ways in natural language, and the way that I wanted 0:27:48.400 --> 0:27:51.680 was there's a caraffe icon you press that, you press 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:54.080 and hold it for three seconds, and it turns your 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:57.320 machine back on without brewing a whole nother brew. And 0:27:57.359 --> 0:28:00.280 so it's like something that was very simple. I didn't 0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:01.920 find it in the manual even though it was there, 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:05.640 but AI found it in seconds eighty eight rich one 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:08.800 oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:28:08.880 --> 0:28:11.760 one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you why Roku 0:28:12.320 --> 0:28:15.239 is getting better when it comes to screen savers and 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:19.600 backdrops for your TV. This is rich on Tech. Welcome 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:21.840 back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:25.800 with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:28.920 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:33.200 zero one. Still lots to get through. On today's show, 0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:37.000 Instagram is introducing comments for stories. I'll tell you about that. 0:28:37.080 --> 0:28:41.160 And Roku is introducing a really really cool feature that 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:44.640 turns your TV into a work of art. I'll explain that. 0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:49.080 Let's let's go to Mark in San Diego. Mark, You're 0:28:49.080 --> 0:28:52.840 on with Rich. Hi, Rich, great show, Thank you. You know. 0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:56.000 I have had problems in the last couple of days 0:28:56.040 --> 0:29:01.800 only watching YouTube on my piece at home and I 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:05.360 get a notice. It says, aw snap, something went wrong, 0:29:06.120 --> 0:29:10.440 and then it says tie clearing your your. 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:13.440 Cash and cookies. So I did that on the computer. 0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:16.160 But now I'm thinking maybe I should have done it 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:17.440 on the Chrome browser. 0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:21.160 Yes, that's that's the thing. So this, uh, is this 0:29:21.200 --> 0:29:22.040 an older computer? 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:26.120 Yeah, that's an older nice old pavilion swim line. It's 0:29:26.280 --> 0:29:28.360 I don't know, later nine years old. 0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:32.360 Yeah, yeah, if it's working right. Okay, So here's how 0:29:32.400 --> 0:29:35.480 you do this on on the Chrome web browser. So 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:39.680 you go into your settings and there is you know, 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:42.440 those three little dots in the upper right hand corner. 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:46.520 It's weird. I really wish that Chrome would add like 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:49.640 an actual like I don't know, like those three little 0:29:49.640 --> 0:29:51.880 dots are just so tough to explain to people. But anyway, 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:54.040 you see them. So you go there and then you 0:29:54.080 --> 0:29:56.680 go into your settings. Okay, and then on the left 0:29:56.680 --> 0:30:00.640 hand side it says privacy and security, and then there's 0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:04.520 something that says delete browsing data, and it says delete history, cookies, 0:30:04.600 --> 0:30:06.480 cash and more. Do you see that? 0:30:06.800 --> 0:30:09.560 Here we go studying you just got the setting jab okay. 0:30:09.560 --> 0:30:11.800 And on the left hand side Privacy and Security. You 0:30:11.800 --> 0:30:15.600 see that, Oh yes, okay, tap that and that the 0:30:15.880 --> 0:30:18.280 almost the middle of the screen. It says delete browsing data. 0:30:18.320 --> 0:30:22.600 Do you see that, clear browsing data. Oh, your says clear. Interesting, 0:30:22.640 --> 0:30:24.680 you might have an older version of Chrome. 0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:27.200 Uh clear history cookies cash. 0:30:27.320 --> 0:30:29.840 Now does it give you when you click there? Does 0:30:29.840 --> 0:30:32.200 it say cashed images and files? And it tells me 0:30:32.280 --> 0:30:34.760 that I would free up ninety megabytes to say how much? 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:36.280 How much you have it. 0:30:36.440 --> 0:30:38.680 Freed up less than three point four megabytes? 0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:42.000 Oh okay? Interesting? Oh well, what's the time range? Jack? 0:30:43.360 --> 0:30:46.680 Seven days? Oh okay, so I would do all time. Now, 0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:48.600 this is going to get rid of all of your 0:30:48.640 --> 0:30:51.200 history on your on your browser. So you know, you know, 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:53.400 how you start typing in a website and you've gone 0:30:53.400 --> 0:30:55.360 to and it like completes it, you're gonna that's gonna 0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:58.560 be gone. And also your logins are also going to 0:30:58.600 --> 0:30:59.840 go away, so you're gonna have to, you know, make 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:01.720 you know how to log into the websites that you 0:31:01.840 --> 0:31:05.880 typically go to. So just that's but anyway, so if 0:31:05.880 --> 0:31:09.200 that's all fine, then you can just tap that and uh, 0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:11.600 you know, once you do that, you can delete the 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.680 data and you're good. Now. The other thing you might 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:16.880 want to look at if you go into Advance before 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:23.040 you do this, see where it says hosted app data. 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:28.000 Let's see all the way at the end. So that 0:31:28.080 --> 0:31:30.520 may have some fragments of YouTube in there as well, 0:31:30.600 --> 0:31:33.760 so you might want to delete that as well, and 0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:36.760 so that that may help and include that in the 0:31:36.760 --> 0:31:39.840 clear data. Okay, yeah, so once you do all that, 0:31:40.040 --> 0:31:42.120 hopefully that should clear it out. I would also if 0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:44.720 I were you, once you do all this, I would 0:31:44.720 --> 0:31:48.560 also go into your settings on Chrome and I would 0:31:48.560 --> 0:31:50.640 go into about Chrome. So if you go in the 0:31:50.720 --> 0:31:52.920 lower left hand corner where you saw the Privacy and 0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:55.080 security all the way at the bottom, it says about Chrome. 0:31:55.640 --> 0:31:57.760 You tap that. And I think that everyone should do 0:31:57.800 --> 0:32:00.320 this because look at this. I just found Mike. Chrome 0:32:00.320 --> 0:32:03.360 has an update. It doesn't always tell you update immediately. 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:06.400 It does generally, but sometimes you can find the update 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:09.840 quicker by going into this little settings about Chrome, and 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:14.080 mine says relaunch Chrome to finish updating. So Mark, I 0:32:14.080 --> 0:32:17.080 would also go to there and make sure that your 0:32:17.160 --> 0:32:19.560 Chrome is the latest for this computer. It may be 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:22.280 that you're running an older version of Chrome. Just because 0:32:22.280 --> 0:32:24.240 this computer is an older model, it may not support 0:32:24.240 --> 0:32:27.080 the latest Chrome. But that's what I would do, and 0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:29.280 then I would relaunch Chrome once it's done, and then 0:32:29.280 --> 0:32:32.160 I would restart your entire computer and go back to 0:32:32.200 --> 0:32:36.560 YouTube and hopefully that takes care of that problem. So 0:32:36.760 --> 0:32:39.800 a good question, and thanks for the call today in 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:45.280 San Diego. Appreciate it. Let's see here Instagram is adding 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:49.000 comments for stories. Now. This is funny because I actually 0:32:49.680 --> 0:32:54.880 tweeted the guy who runs Instagram, Adam Oseri, and I said, hey, 0:32:55.240 --> 0:32:57.560 why are you going to introduce comments for stories? And 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:00.440 this was years ago, maybe two years ago. He was like, ah, 0:33:00.440 --> 0:33:02.520 We're not doing that, and he's like, stories are more 0:33:02.520 --> 0:33:04.920 personal bla blah blah blah. I was like, I'm just saying, 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:07.320 you know, people would like this, and A it was 0:33:07.360 --> 0:33:09.200 cool that he actually took the time to write back 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:11.200 to me, but B I knew it was a matter 0:33:11.240 --> 0:33:14.120 of time before they added this because stories are the 0:33:14.160 --> 0:33:17.840 hottest growth area on Instagram. I mean, reels are hot, 0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:21.280 but everyone posts stories. Not everyone posts reels, right, but 0:33:21.360 --> 0:33:24.960 everyone posts stories. And so now instead of just being 0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:28.840 able to send a direct message, you can now comment 0:33:28.920 --> 0:33:31.320 on stories. Now, this is rolling out, not everyone's going 0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:32.840 to have it, so if you don't have it right away, 0:33:32.920 --> 0:33:35.520 don't come yelling at me. I don't have it yet. 0:33:35.680 --> 0:33:37.800 I've only seen one person that has it so far. 0:33:38.280 --> 0:33:40.560 And the comments act just like they act on the posts. 0:33:40.640 --> 0:33:42.840 Right you see a story that you like, instead of 0:33:42.840 --> 0:33:45.800 direct messaging someone at the bottom, you can now comment 0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:47.600 and other people will be able to see it. Now, 0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:51.120 there are some caveats there, so comments will be visible 0:33:51.200 --> 0:33:55.200 to anyone who can view the story, but for private 0:33:55.200 --> 0:33:58.320 accounts only people that you also follow can leave a comment, 0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:02.360 and for public account anyone that you follow can comment. 0:34:03.040 --> 0:34:06.160 So if I follow someone on Instagram, they can comment 0:34:06.200 --> 0:34:09.000 on my stories. Comments are temporary, they last up to 0:34:09.040 --> 0:34:11.080 twenty four hours, and you can turn them on and 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:14.839 off for individual stories. Notice I said individual stories. They're 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:19.520 not letting you turn this off, just the whole thing, 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:21.279 like it's going to be on every story that you 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:23.720 have to turn it off if you don't want it now. Again, 0:34:23.800 --> 0:34:26.000 comments can be preserved if you save the story as 0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:28.879 a highlight. Otherwise they seem to go away. That's kind 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:30.560 of interesting to me. Since I don't have this, I 0:34:30.600 --> 0:34:33.560 can't test it but I'm curious if you go into 0:34:33.600 --> 0:34:36.359 your archive, which, by the way, you know all your 0:34:36.360 --> 0:34:39.080 stories on Instagram are archived, right, so if you go 0:34:39.160 --> 0:34:42.360 into Instagram and you know those stories don't really disappear 0:34:42.400 --> 0:34:44.880 after twenty four hours. If you tap your profile and 0:34:44.920 --> 0:34:46.839 then you go into the upper right hand corner, tap 0:34:46.880 --> 0:34:49.719 those three lines to go into your settings. If you 0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:52.920 go into archive, it'll show you all of your stories 0:34:52.960 --> 0:34:55.279 that you've ever posted, which is good and bad. I mean, 0:34:55.320 --> 0:34:56.960 if you posted something silly and you want to get 0:34:57.040 --> 0:34:59.680 rid of it, you can go into that actual story 0:34:59.760 --> 0:35:03.080 and and delete it for real, but otherwise it's going 0:35:03.120 --> 0:35:06.080 to be saved anyway. Kind of fun. I'm all about 0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:09.319 this because I get so many messages on a lot 0:35:09.320 --> 0:35:10.840 of my stories. It'll be kind of nice to have 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:13.960 that little bit of conversation. But it has to be 0:35:14.000 --> 0:35:16.480 people I follow, so it only limits it to certain 0:35:16.480 --> 0:35:20.279 people anyway. Eight to eight rich one O one eight 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:23.160 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:35:23.160 --> 0:35:25.120 Give me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:35:25.400 --> 0:35:28.000 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:32.120 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. The 0:35:32.160 --> 0:35:34.880 phone number four. The show is eight eight eight rich 0:35:35.040 --> 0:35:37.799 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:40.600 four one zero one. Kim is standing by to take 0:35:40.640 --> 0:35:43.560 your call and get you on the show. We'll take 0:35:43.600 --> 0:35:46.399 some more calls in just a moment. Coming up this hour, 0:35:46.560 --> 0:35:50.319 we've got the Apple Circle host Robert Rosenfeld. He's going 0:35:50.400 --> 0:35:53.359 to discuss all things Apple. We've got a big Apple 0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:56.200 event coming up next week. You can talk about his 0:35:56.320 --> 0:35:59.440 YouTube channel and the coverage he does of the Apple ecosystem. 0:36:00.120 --> 0:36:04.080 Have a fun conversation with him. My Instagram at rich 0:36:04.160 --> 0:36:06.640 On Tech, I posted I was in Vegas. If you 0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:08.680 heard the first segment, I was talking about my time 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:12.399 in Vegas. We stayed at this new hotel I think 0:36:12.440 --> 0:36:15.799 you say it the fontin blue. It's kind of at 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:19.080 the end of the strip. Beautiful hotel, really really nice. 0:36:19.760 --> 0:36:24.040 But I posted an instagram of the first thing I 0:36:24.080 --> 0:36:26.319 do when I get to the hotel room. So I 0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:29.160 know everyone has like a little routine. I show you mine. 0:36:29.520 --> 0:36:31.600 So if you want to see that at rich On Tech, 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:33.279 and you can comment and let me know if you 0:36:33.360 --> 0:36:35.600 do the same thing or if you do something different. 0:36:36.080 --> 0:36:39.360 A lot of people commenting there. Beverly writes in on 0:36:39.400 --> 0:36:43.040 the website rich On tech Dot TV hit contact and 0:36:43.080 --> 0:36:45.919 you can get your email to me. Beverly says, hey, Rich, 0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:48.640 great weather jokes. The heat wave is unbelievable, but listening 0:36:48.719 --> 0:36:52.160 to your show and reading your fantastic newsletter provide some 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:55.680 great distractions. My question is it okay to use the 0:36:55.719 --> 0:36:58.920 Wi Fi when renting an Airbnb? I wonder about the 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:02.239 security of connecting phones and computers with bank accounts and 0:37:02.320 --> 0:37:07.560 other sensitive information. Generally, I would say, yes, you're gonna 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:12.520 be fine, but you specifically mentioned bank accounts and sensitive information, 0:37:13.320 --> 0:37:15.400 so I think you're gonna be just fine with things 0:37:15.440 --> 0:37:18.160 like your email and pretty much anything else you're doing 0:37:18.200 --> 0:37:21.680 on there. But when it comes to checking your bank account, 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:25.480 specifically logging in there, I would say, use a VPN 0:37:26.600 --> 0:37:29.360 or flip your phone, flip the Wi Fi off on 0:37:29.440 --> 0:37:32.080 your phone, and use your mobile data. But anything else 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:34.960 you're going to do, whether you're using Netflix or whether 0:37:35.040 --> 0:37:38.640 you are just surfing the web, that's all gonna be fine. 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:42.160 I mean, you know, modern Wi Fi networks are pretty secure. 0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:45.799 Now you are using a quote unquote public network here, 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:48.879 because many people have access to this network. People could 0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:52.120 have modified the network to spy on you. People could 0:37:52.200 --> 0:37:55.239 have you know, there's just many, many things that could 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:58.560 happen when you're in an airbnb where many people have 0:37:58.680 --> 0:38:02.799 access to this router and network, So I would be cautious, 0:38:03.239 --> 0:38:05.640 So use a VPN if you're checking your bank account. 0:38:05.640 --> 0:38:08.160 But better yet, save the money. Just flip your phone 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:11.040 out of Wi Fi into just mobile data from your 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:13.600 cellular carrier if you have to check your bank account 0:38:13.600 --> 0:38:16.279 while you're there, and do that. And that's what I do. 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:18.399 I mean, it's funny because the other day I'd noticed 0:38:18.440 --> 0:38:20.840 myself I was doing my routine on my computer. Then 0:38:20.840 --> 0:38:22.680 all of a sudden, I was like, I want to 0:38:22.800 --> 0:38:24.120 check something in my bank and I was like, oh 0:38:24.120 --> 0:38:25.919 wait a second, I got to turn the Wi Fi off. 0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:29.840 Same thing. Just anytime you're at an airport or a hotel, 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:32.480 anytime you're on a public network, just kind of be 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:35.359 aware of what you're doing. I think ninety nine point 0:38:35.440 --> 0:38:37.880 nine percent of the time, your computer and your firewall 0:38:37.920 --> 0:38:40.880 and all the stuff that's built in to modern systems 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:43.120 is going to protect you to a certain extent, but 0:38:43.120 --> 0:38:45.560 it can only go so far. So just be aware 0:38:45.840 --> 0:38:48.799 that anything you do that's sensitive. I would flip off 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:52.640 that flip off that didn't sound right, I would turn 0:38:52.680 --> 0:38:55.239 off your Wi Fi and I would go into your 0:38:55.239 --> 0:38:57.880 cellular or use your hotspot. So yesterday at the airport 0:38:57.960 --> 0:39:00.359 in Vegas, I just said, you know, I want let 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:03.200 me just use my hotspot because that's the easiest thing 0:39:03.239 --> 0:39:05.480 to do. So good question, Beverly. And I'm glad you 0:39:05.560 --> 0:39:07.800 liked my weather jokes. I don't do jokes very often. 0:39:08.160 --> 0:39:11.440 I may joke around, but I'm glad you enjoyed those. 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:17.880 Let's go to Angela in San Diego. Angela, you're on 0:39:17.920 --> 0:39:18.319 with Rich. 0:39:18.800 --> 0:39:19.879 Thanks for teting my call. 0:39:20.040 --> 0:39:20.239 Rich. 0:39:20.480 --> 0:39:23.920 I caught a piece of the back end of a 0:39:23.960 --> 0:39:26.200 piece that you did on the Bill Handle show last 0:39:26.239 --> 0:39:30.359 week about making the best use of airline miles. And 0:39:30.400 --> 0:39:33.560 I'm wondering if you could repeat that information because it 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:35.960 sounded like something that was really valuable. 0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:38.760 Oh well, thank you. You know, I try to share 0:39:38.880 --> 0:39:41.520 valuable information all the time. But I'm glad what kind 0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:43.560 of miles and points are you most interested in? Like, 0:39:43.600 --> 0:39:45.319 what do you collect them? Do you try to get 0:39:45.360 --> 0:39:45.799 them or what? 0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:48.640 Well, ordinarily I collect them and use them for flights, 0:39:48.680 --> 0:39:51.000 but you pointed out that that wasn't the most prudent 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:54.960 thing to do. In fact, you if I, if I understood, 0:39:55.040 --> 0:39:59.319 correctly recommended using them for upgrades rather than flights. And 0:39:59.400 --> 0:40:03.640 you even alluded to some websites that indicate when you're 0:40:03.680 --> 0:40:05.920 better off buying a ticket than using mile. 0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:09.120 Yes, okay, good listener, Angela, you get a gold star 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:09.720 for listening. 0:40:09.840 --> 0:40:12.000 That's but I don't I heard enough. 0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:14.960 Well, I'll tell I'll go through it right now. So okay, 0:40:14.640 --> 0:40:17.279 So here's the deal. So I did mention a couple 0:40:17.280 --> 0:40:19.960 of websites. This was inspired by my segment on KTLA 0:40:19.960 --> 0:40:24.200 about tools to maximize your travel rewards. Now, with all 0:40:24.239 --> 0:40:26.960 this said, I have hung out with the points guy. 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:30.719 Points are big business. This is big money. So if 0:40:30.760 --> 0:40:33.719 you think you're getting ahead by, you know, getting these 0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:36.640 points from your credit card and all these places, you're not. 0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:39.840 They are having the last laugh. They are making money 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:44.600 on this stuff. And yes, you can enjoy free flights, upgrades, 0:40:44.680 --> 0:40:46.600 all that good stuff. Just keep in mind don't go 0:40:46.680 --> 0:40:49.880 into debt trying to rack up airline points because that 0:40:50.000 --> 0:40:52.560 is not a winning game. And by the way, when 0:40:52.560 --> 0:40:55.960 you are trying to use your credit card to accrue 0:40:55.960 --> 0:40:58.520 these points, a lot of times you do spend more 0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:00.600 money than you typically would because it's on a credit 0:41:00.600 --> 0:41:03.799 card versus cash. Anyway, now I'm off my soapbox with 0:41:03.840 --> 0:41:06.680 all those warnings. I collect points. I think they're fun. 0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:09.520 I do them in a responsible way, and I'm not 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:12.879 setting out to try to game the system. But yeah, 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:15.160 I mean, I'm a member of Mario, I've got their points. 0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:17.880 I'm a member of United, I've got their points and 0:41:18.239 --> 0:41:21.080 various other things out there. So with all that said, 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:23.240 the things that you need to know Number one Points 0:41:23.360 --> 0:41:26.399 Yeah dot com. We had Bart Welch from Points Yeah 0:41:26.480 --> 0:41:29.960 on this show to talk about his points search engine. 0:41:30.400 --> 0:41:33.640 This searches across twenty different airline programs and six different 0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:37.319 bank programs. And what's really unique about that is, let's 0:41:37.320 --> 0:41:39.520 say you have Chase points, or let's say you have 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:43.359 City Bank points. Those points are very valuable and they 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:47.600 could be transferred into airline programs at a higher usage 0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:50.360 rate and a higher value than they would if you 0:41:50.600 --> 0:41:53.560 just booked through Chase. So I think, Angela, that's what 0:41:53.600 --> 0:41:55.239 you were alluding to when I was talking about some 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:58.560 of that stuff. So that's a great search engine. A 0:41:58.560 --> 0:42:00.600 lot of it's free, but it is paid if you 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:03.320 want to get the maximum out of it, which means 0:42:03.360 --> 0:42:06.880 searching on more days at once and also getting alerts 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:09.000 when the flight that you want for the points that 0:42:09.040 --> 0:42:13.480 you want is available. Also, the Daydream Explorer tool is 0:42:13.520 --> 0:42:16.200 a really cool tool because you can say, look, I 0:42:16.200 --> 0:42:19.760 want to go to Europe business class, and let's see 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:22.719 the cheapest times or days or ways to do that, 0:42:23.080 --> 0:42:24.719 and it may be on an airline that you didn't 0:42:24.760 --> 0:42:27.520 think of, but because you can transfer those miles from 0:42:27.560 --> 0:42:30.560 American Express or whatever, or even a different airline into 0:42:30.640 --> 0:42:33.440 another airline and get more value out of them, that 0:42:33.520 --> 0:42:36.120 could really be a unique way to do that. The 0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:38.759 other one that I really like is called point dot me, 0:42:39.480 --> 0:42:41.880 and so point me is a great one. It's kind 0:42:41.920 --> 0:42:42.760 of similar to Points. 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:43.040 Yeah. 0:42:43.080 --> 0:42:46.640 I think it's a little bit simpler in look because 0:42:46.640 --> 0:42:48.600 it only really does one thing and it just searches 0:42:48.640 --> 0:42:52.760 across all different points programs to find the best value 0:42:52.760 --> 0:42:56.080 for your points. And I use this to find a 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:59.000 flight for my mom. Didn't even realize that we could 0:42:59.080 --> 0:43:01.880 use our points with Jet Blue, and it found a 0:43:02.080 --> 0:43:06.160 super cheap Jet Blue flight with points, and I immediately 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:09.080 signed up for Jet Blue their points program whatever it's called, 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:12.960 transferred my points into there and was able to buy 0:43:13.000 --> 0:43:15.760 a flight for my mom way cheaper than the going 0:43:15.880 --> 0:43:18.960 rate for cash for any flight for that weekend, And 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:21.759 so I was a believer there. Now point dot me 0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:26.560 is a paid system. They used to offer like they'll 0:43:26.600 --> 0:43:28.279 have specials here and there where you could do a 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:30.600 search for free or something like that, but they do 0:43:30.680 --> 0:43:34.279 want you to pay if you're getting serious about using that. Now, 0:43:34.320 --> 0:43:37.560 this is a really cool browser extension. It's called points Path, 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:40.200 and so you can install this on Chrome and then 0:43:40.239 --> 0:43:44.719 when you search Google flights, it puts the points equivalent 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:48.320 right next to the flight prices. So it's really easy 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:50.360 to see, Like if you're searching for a flight to 0:43:50.600 --> 0:43:53.360 let's say Hawaii, and it's you know, three hundred and 0:43:53.440 --> 0:43:56.920 forty eight dollars with dollars, but it says this same 0:43:57.040 --> 0:44:00.520 flight is only twenty thousand points. It will actually point 0:44:00.560 --> 0:44:03.759 an arrow to the better value of your time and 0:44:03.840 --> 0:44:06.680 money and resources. So if points are a better deal, 0:44:06.719 --> 0:44:09.359 it will say use points. If money is a better deal, 0:44:09.400 --> 0:44:11.759 it'll say, use your money and save your points. It 0:44:11.840 --> 0:44:15.520 supports United American, Delta Jet Blue in Alaska. Now the 0:44:15.520 --> 0:44:18.399 Points Guy mentioned the points Guy, Brian Kelly. He does 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:22.439 a great job with his website very successful there. He 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:27.799 has a calculator on his website called Awards versus Cash Calculator. 0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:30.480 So if you go there and I'll link this all 0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:32.680 up on my website, rich on tech dot TV, hit 0:44:32.680 --> 0:44:34.560 the light bulb and you can get show notes for 0:44:34.600 --> 0:44:37.680 today's show. This is show number eighty eight. It will 0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:42.680 be in there. So if you go there, you can. 0:44:42.920 --> 0:44:45.000 This is kind of a manual way of that points 0:44:45.000 --> 0:44:47.520 path I just talked about. You pop in like, Okay, 0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:50.759 here's the deal I found with points. Compare it to cash, 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:52.640 and it will tell you it's a better deal to 0:44:52.719 --> 0:44:54.319 use your cash, or it's a better deal to use 0:44:54.360 --> 0:44:57.359 your points, because sometimes it might be cheaper to use 0:44:57.360 --> 0:45:00.279 cash because your points are worth more. And that's the 0:45:00.280 --> 0:45:02.440 other thing I was talking about. Angela's a lot of 0:45:02.480 --> 0:45:05.960 people like to use their points to upgrade because it 0:45:06.080 --> 0:45:08.960 is a better value for them because they're getting like 0:45:09.040 --> 0:45:12.640 a first class flight for something that they feel is 0:45:12.920 --> 0:45:15.160 almost free. You know, they're points that they've racked up, 0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:18.279 So always look at that as well. The points guy 0:45:18.320 --> 0:45:20.879 there you go a ward wallet. I really like this 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:24.680 because it tracks your account balances across all the loyalty programs. 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:27.600 So for instance, myself, I signed up for this and 0:45:27.640 --> 0:45:30.000 I had some Hyatt points, which by the way, are 0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:32.760 very very valuable. So even though I only had thirteen 0:45:32.840 --> 0:45:35.640 thousand points, that was like basically a free night. A 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:38.200 free night was fifteen thousand, and I didn't even realize that. 0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:40.080 I was like, oh, I have only thirteen thousand. I'm 0:45:40.120 --> 0:45:42.439 just gonna let those go to waste because I haven't 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:44.320 stayed at Higatt in a while. I'm not going to 0:45:44.360 --> 0:45:46.560 get more points. And I got this alert from a 0:45:46.600 --> 0:45:49.600 ward wallet that said, hey, use your points with Hygat. 0:45:49.640 --> 0:45:51.680 They're going to expire at the end of September, and 0:45:51.719 --> 0:45:53.200 my wife and I were going to a concert in 0:45:53.239 --> 0:45:54.680 Orange County and I said, let me see if there's 0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:57.360 any Hyatts near our concert we wanted to stay overnight, 0:45:57.480 --> 0:45:59.080 and so sure enough, it saved me like a couple 0:45:59.120 --> 0:46:01.920 hundred bucks on a hotel room. And I did have 0:46:01.960 --> 0:46:05.480 to transfer in about a thousand points. But my point 0:46:05.640 --> 0:46:08.600 is no pun intended that a ward walle it came 0:46:08.719 --> 0:46:10.880 to save me about three hundred dollars, and it's a 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:13.879 free service. Just by saying, hey, these points are about 0:46:13.920 --> 0:46:16.399 to expire, use them or lose them, and it gives 0:46:16.440 --> 0:46:19.120 you all the ways you can actually extend those points. 0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:20.880 A lot of times all you have to do is 0:46:20.880 --> 0:46:23.200 some sort of transaction, like it might only take a 0:46:23.200 --> 0:46:26.560 dollar transaction to extend the life of these points. So 0:46:26.680 --> 0:46:29.960 a ward wall is really great for that. And then 0:46:30.000 --> 0:46:32.520 the expert advice we got from Bart. You know, don't 0:46:32.880 --> 0:46:36.719 don't don't keep, don't hold on to these points. They 0:46:36.719 --> 0:46:39.479 don't earn interest, so it's best to just use them 0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:42.600 as you accrue them, because otherwise the value of them 0:46:42.840 --> 0:46:46.480 is going down. Great question, Angela from San Diego, Thanks 0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:48.759 so much for calling. Eight to eight rich one oh 0:46:48.800 --> 0:46:52.000 one eight eight eight seven four two core one zero one, 0:46:52.440 --> 0:46:54.960 rich on tech dot TV coming up. I'll tell you 0:46:55.000 --> 0:46:58.279 what Roku is doing to your TV. It's pretty cool. 0:46:59.440 --> 0:47:02.239 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:47:02.239 --> 0:47:05.960 out with you, talking technology at eight eight eight rich 0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:08.719 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:47:08.760 --> 0:47:13.560 two four one zero one. You can you can sense 0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:17.040 the trend with the songs today. Yeah, it's hot in 0:47:17.080 --> 0:47:20.160 Los Angeles. It is a heat wave. I think we're 0:47:20.320 --> 0:47:24.000 finally close to getting through. But stay safe out there. 0:47:24.440 --> 0:47:26.480 Don't do too much, you know what, you have an 0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:30.240 excuse to just not do that much, you know, because 0:47:30.400 --> 0:47:34.399 it's like you don't want to overheat yourself. Eighty eight 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:36.759 rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to 0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:42.400 two four one zero one. Roku introducing a cool new feature. 0:47:42.480 --> 0:47:45.319 I love this feature. It's called backdrops. You know how 0:47:45.320 --> 0:47:47.040 when you have a Roku, it just shows that like 0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:49.960 weird like Digital City with like the weird ads like 0:47:50.080 --> 0:47:52.239 scrolling through. If you have a Roku, you know what 0:47:52.280 --> 0:47:55.399 I'm talking about, Well, you can finally set this new 0:47:55.480 --> 0:48:00.399 backdrop as your TV background. It's weird because I kind 0:48:00.400 --> 0:48:02.880 of did it a little bit half, you know what, 0:48:03.640 --> 0:48:05.560 so it's not going to be your screen saver. It 0:48:05.680 --> 0:48:09.399 sounds like you have to activate this manually every single time. 0:48:09.440 --> 0:48:12.080 But I'll take it because it's pretty neat. So they 0:48:12.080 --> 0:48:16.400 call it backdrops, and it's basically a way to display 0:48:16.440 --> 0:48:20.080 classic artwork and landscape photos on your Roku device when 0:48:20.120 --> 0:48:22.279 it's not in use. And they give you a whole 0:48:22.280 --> 0:48:25.800 bunch of images, so thousands of images like Claude Monet 0:48:25.960 --> 0:48:28.120 and a whole bunch of other stuff. There are also 0:48:28.200 --> 0:48:30.800 descriptions so you can understand what the art is all about, 0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:34.960 plus geography. But the cool thing is You can also 0:48:35.040 --> 0:48:37.960 upload your personal photos to use with this, or connect 0:48:37.960 --> 0:48:42.080 your Google Photos account, and that is incredible. So no 0:48:42.160 --> 0:48:44.839 matter what, you now can turn your Roku into sort 0:48:44.840 --> 0:48:47.560 of a piece of art for your living room or 0:48:47.560 --> 0:48:50.680 wherever your TV is. This feature is rolling out to 0:48:51.080 --> 0:48:56.160 Roku branded TVs in the coming weeks, and if you 0:48:56.320 --> 0:48:59.799 have a Roku box, you have to wait until the 0:49:00.239 --> 0:49:02.279 some time. It already kind of is the fall, so 0:49:02.360 --> 0:49:05.040 I'm guessing the next couple of months. But it's kind 0:49:05.040 --> 0:49:07.440 of cool. I'm very excited for this. You have to 0:49:07.480 --> 0:49:11.399 activate it manually. Apparently, maybe they'll change that if people say, hey, 0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:12.960 can we just make it so that when my screen 0:49:13.000 --> 0:49:15.640 times out after five minutes, it'll display this instead of 0:49:15.640 --> 0:49:19.200 that weird scrolling city scape thing that's been around. It 0:49:19.239 --> 0:49:21.520 looks like it's like, you know, ten years old from 0:49:21.520 --> 0:49:25.040 the nineties or something. But I think Roku sells ads 0:49:25.040 --> 0:49:29.640 on that weird digital screenscape thing, so that's probably why 0:49:29.680 --> 0:49:31.440 they want to keep that there. But anyway, you'll be 0:49:31.480 --> 0:49:34.480 able to activate this either manually with your voice or 0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:38.000 by the settings. But kind of cool backdrops from Roku 0:49:38.239 --> 0:49:40.120 that's new and it kind of gives new life to 0:49:40.160 --> 0:49:44.000 your TV. I love putting on like kind of a 0:49:44.040 --> 0:49:46.840 photo screensaver when I have people over. But then my 0:49:46.960 --> 0:49:49.120 TV like times out after a while, and then it 0:49:49.239 --> 0:49:51.560 like goes off, but it's kind of fun. And then 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:53.759 people get like they start looking at the pictures on 0:49:53.800 --> 0:49:55.080 the TV. I'm like, you're not supposed to be like 0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:56.759 looking at them. It's not a slide show. It's just 0:49:56.840 --> 0:49:59.080 like the background, you know. And then like people are like, 0:49:59.080 --> 0:50:00.000 what's that picture? What's that? 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:00.160 Oh? 0:50:00.200 --> 0:50:03.879 Yeah, okay, let's go to Paul and Columbus, Ohio. Paul 0:50:03.880 --> 0:50:04.560 your own with Rich. 0:50:05.560 --> 0:50:09.359 Well keep it cool, hey, Paul, a little a little 0:50:09.360 --> 0:50:13.120 cooler you are today. But anyway, I've got a using 0:50:13.160 --> 0:50:17.600 a fire TV cube with a High Sense TV and 0:50:17.680 --> 0:50:21.560 I've got a Denim AV receiver and in the last 0:50:22.040 --> 0:50:25.799 several days or a week or so, maybe periodically just 0:50:25.960 --> 0:50:30.400 randomly a few times a day or evening, it goes 0:50:30.880 --> 0:50:32.759 just goes to pause. 0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:35.359 To make a. 0:50:35.280 --> 0:50:39.400 Difference with the video sources as far as what channel 0:50:39.560 --> 0:50:43.359 or service anything like that. But when it is on 0:50:43.400 --> 0:50:45.839 a station, like I say, it just all of a 0:50:45.840 --> 0:50:47.480 sudden will just pause itself. 0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:51.480 Hmm. Interesting, and it's just pausing any any kind of 0:50:51.520 --> 0:50:53.360 streaming content is pausing. 0:50:54.320 --> 0:50:57.200 Whatever's on the whatever's on the system at that time. 0:50:57.280 --> 0:51:01.280 Yeah, okay. And are you are you pressing anything, touching anything, 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:02.920 doing anything when this happens? 0:51:03.560 --> 0:51:03.680 No? 0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:04.640 Nothing? 0:51:04.680 --> 0:51:05.040 And is it? 0:51:05.280 --> 0:51:05.440 Is it? 0:51:05.960 --> 0:51:07.880 Is it a buffering issue? Like can you tell if 0:51:07.880 --> 0:51:09.040 your screen is buffering? 0:51:09.880 --> 0:51:14.600 It'll tell us the just the most show that it's 0:51:14.680 --> 0:51:15.840 buffering if it's buffering. 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:17.520 But okay, this is besides it. 0:51:17.760 --> 0:51:20.280 And I've got a good solid five hundred downs. 0:51:20.320 --> 0:51:23.160 Oh nice. Now when this happens, do you see the 0:51:23.200 --> 0:51:26.280 playbar come up on the screen with the pause like enabled. 0:51:26.440 --> 0:51:29.880 Is that what it looks like? No, it doesn't. 0:51:30.560 --> 0:51:31.400 It just pauses. 0:51:31.640 --> 0:51:32.520 Oh that's interesting. 0:51:32.600 --> 0:51:35.360 Okay, Well, no, I don't want to say that absolutely 0:51:35.440 --> 0:51:39.360 that nothing shows up otherwise because I'm visually impaired. But 0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:44.160 my wife would say there may be. Okay, So I 0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:46.960 just pushed the pause button to you know, go back 0:51:47.000 --> 0:51:49.040 to play, and it starts to play right away. 0:51:49.239 --> 0:51:51.839 Okay, So that would be that That would be something 0:51:51.880 --> 0:51:54.400 I would be curious about, is the if the play 0:51:54.440 --> 0:51:55.960 button comes up. There's a couple of things that could 0:51:55.960 --> 0:51:59.319 be going on here. You know, another device on your 0:51:59.360 --> 0:52:03.200 network could be interfering and controlling this and stopping it. 0:52:03.280 --> 0:52:07.640 So there's something with HDMI called CEC, which is basically 0:52:07.800 --> 0:52:11.680 one device can control another through little signals that they 0:52:11.719 --> 0:52:13.560 send to each other. So if you have another device 0:52:13.600 --> 0:52:16.120 on this network that's sort of turning on or firing up, 0:52:16.520 --> 0:52:19.160 it may be sending that signal that's causing your fireTV 0:52:19.239 --> 0:52:21.400 to pause. That's one thing. The other thing that I 0:52:21.400 --> 0:52:23.799 would do is check your fireTV to make sure you 0:52:23.840 --> 0:52:26.920 have the latest software. You can go into your settings 0:52:27.080 --> 0:52:30.480 and check for the latest software update. Go to the 0:52:30.480 --> 0:52:33.120 about page and that's where you find it and see 0:52:33.120 --> 0:52:35.759 if that's the case. And I would also restart your 0:52:35.760 --> 0:52:39.160 fireTV and I might disconnect it from your denin system 0:52:39.239 --> 0:52:41.440 and see if this continues to happen because it sounds 0:52:41.480 --> 0:52:43.880 like something is sending a signal. And don't forget some 0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:46.520 of the other remotes can also pause these things too, 0:52:46.600 --> 0:52:48.200 so make sure you're not like sitting on a remote 0:52:48.280 --> 0:52:50.560 or something like that. Thanks for the call, Paul. Coming up, 0:52:50.560 --> 0:52:55.160 we're talking Apple. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich 0:52:55.160 --> 0:52:59.200 Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at triple 0:52:59.280 --> 0:53:02.320 eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven 0:53:02.480 --> 0:53:05.359 four two four one zero one give me a call 0:53:05.400 --> 0:53:07.160 if you have a question about technology. We'll get back 0:53:07.200 --> 0:53:10.120 to the phone lines in just a little bit, but first, 0:53:10.800 --> 0:53:13.799 Robert Rosenfeld is joining us. He is a YouTuber and 0:53:13.960 --> 0:53:18.120 host of The Apple Circle, where he discusses all kinds 0:53:18.160 --> 0:53:21.719 of Apple stuff and it's a great site, a great 0:53:21.920 --> 0:53:24.520 a great channel on YouTube. So if you like Apple stuff, 0:53:24.600 --> 0:53:28.439 go ahead and follow him. Robert, Welcome to the show, Rich, 0:53:28.480 --> 0:53:31.680 Thanks so much for having me absolutely. Let's first off, 0:53:32.120 --> 0:53:34.920 so you started this YouTube channel. You've had some pretty 0:53:34.920 --> 0:53:37.840 good success. What's it like to be a YouTuber like people? 0:53:38.120 --> 0:53:39.680 You know, people used to want to be like an 0:53:39.719 --> 0:53:41.920 actor or a singer, like someone like a If you 0:53:41.960 --> 0:53:43.600 ask a kid like what they want to do, they 0:53:43.640 --> 0:53:46.799 want to be someone famous. You're living like the YouTube dream. 0:53:46.920 --> 0:53:47.759 So what's that like? 0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:49.160 It is like. 0:53:49.160 --> 0:53:51.760 Living a dream as a kid. I was the one 0:53:52.000 --> 0:53:54.920 watching YouTube videos. That's where I sort of got my news. 0:53:55.160 --> 0:53:58.319 I was sort of the kid watching Apple keynotes like 0:53:58.360 --> 0:54:01.520 it was Christmas Day, sort of seeing what presence there 0:54:01.520 --> 0:54:04.040 would be to sort of unpack and what Steve Jobs 0:54:04.040 --> 0:54:06.560 would sort of unveil on stage and to sort of 0:54:06.600 --> 0:54:08.719 really take a couple of weird turns and be able 0:54:08.800 --> 0:54:10.960 to do this like full time as a career. Is 0:54:11.480 --> 0:54:13.560 It's a dream come true and it is so much fun, 0:54:13.640 --> 0:54:15.719 especially with big days coming up, like the big Apple 0:54:15.760 --> 0:54:16.520 event on Monday. 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:18.759 Is it a lot of work because people think, you know, 0:54:18.800 --> 0:54:21.120 you make it look easier, videos are slick, But is 0:54:21.160 --> 0:54:21.920 it a lot of work. 0:54:22.719 --> 0:54:25.239 It's a lot of work with you know, research and 0:54:25.440 --> 0:54:28.160 shooting and editing, and it's a lot of going down 0:54:28.280 --> 0:54:32.360 rabbit holes and reading through legal jargon and technical documents 0:54:32.400 --> 0:54:35.200 and going on Reddit threads and watching you know, great 0:54:35.239 --> 0:54:39.120 reports from reporters like you, and trying to consolidate consolidate 0:54:39.120 --> 0:54:41.560 that information in a way that hopefully is entertaining and 0:54:41.640 --> 0:54:43.799 fun and hopefully not too long because I could ramble 0:54:43.800 --> 0:54:45.799 and ramble for twenty five minutes, So to get that 0:54:45.840 --> 0:54:47.880 into a nice, you know, eight to ten minute package 0:54:48.320 --> 0:54:50.080 can sometimes be a little tough. 0:54:50.320 --> 0:54:50.560 Yeah. 0:54:50.600 --> 0:54:53.920 I know, as someone who is creative as well, you know, 0:54:54.000 --> 0:54:56.800 it's like you sometimes go longer than you think and 0:54:56.840 --> 0:54:58.239 you're like, I don't want to cut any of this, 0:54:58.360 --> 0:55:01.280 It's all my baby, but sometimes you have to be brutal. 0:55:02.320 --> 0:55:04.799 So what resonates on your YouTube channel the most with 0:55:04.840 --> 0:55:06.759 people when it comes to Apple, I mean pretty much. 0:55:06.920 --> 0:55:08.480 You know, I joked earlier that if you do an 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:10.520 Apple video it could like go viral because people just 0:55:10.719 --> 0:55:13.239 they're fascinated with this company. But what do you find 0:55:13.280 --> 0:55:16.600 that resonates with your viewers the most? You know, it's 0:55:16.640 --> 0:55:20.280 so funny. It's the secrecy of Apple. The Apple lovers 0:55:20.560 --> 0:55:22.480 want to know what Apple's going to do. The Apple 0:55:22.520 --> 0:55:24.520 haters want to know what Apple's going to do next. 0:55:24.920 --> 0:55:28.239 And because everything this company does is show shrouded in 0:55:28.400 --> 0:55:31.719 mystery and secrecy, it's just fun to try to read 0:55:31.760 --> 0:55:33.760 the tea leaves, so to speak, and put the puzzle 0:55:33.760 --> 0:55:37.040 pieces together to see what is sort of coming up 0:55:37.040 --> 0:55:38.480 next and what the new feature could be or what 0:55:38.480 --> 0:55:40.320 the new product could be. I think a lot of 0:55:40.360 --> 0:55:42.440 the people in our community who watch our videos, they're 0:55:42.480 --> 0:55:43.800 Apple fans. They're the geeks. 0:55:43.800 --> 0:55:45.640 They want to geek out and sort of know and 0:55:45.719 --> 0:55:47.360 be in the loop on what could be coming next. 0:55:47.640 --> 0:55:49.960 But I think more and more these days it's people 0:55:50.080 --> 0:55:52.560 just trying to sort of validate their purchase decision. If 0:55:52.600 --> 0:55:55.160 they're going to invest into a new iPhone or a 0:55:55.200 --> 0:55:57.839 Mac or an iPad or whatever it may be, they 0:55:57.840 --> 0:56:00.160 want to make sure they're buying the right device at 0:56:00.200 --> 0:56:01.799 the right time, and they don't want to miss out 0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:04.520 on something amazing that could be coming in two days 0:56:04.600 --> 0:56:05.919 or three weeks or three months. 0:56:05.920 --> 0:56:07.399 So they just want to know what's coming next. 0:56:07.440 --> 0:56:10.440 So I think everyone sort of either selfishly sort of 0:56:10.440 --> 0:56:12.759 an Apple fan maybe the Apple hater sort of wants 0:56:12.760 --> 0:56:15.120 to know where Apple's going next door. Hey, I want 0:56:15.160 --> 0:56:16.480 to spend a thousand bucks on a phone. I want 0:56:16.480 --> 0:56:17.759 to make sure I'm buying at the right time. 0:56:18.000 --> 0:56:20.359 Yeah, And I always joke that the Apple stuff has 0:56:20.400 --> 0:56:23.800 like this like ticking time bomb of a timeline where 0:56:24.239 --> 0:56:25.920 if it's a product that they come out with, you 0:56:25.960 --> 0:56:27.640 almost have to get it like right when it comes 0:56:27.680 --> 0:56:29.239 out because they're going to have a new version like 0:56:29.280 --> 0:56:31.799 a year later. And so like with a MacBook, I mean, 0:56:31.960 --> 0:56:34.440 I know that they have a long lifetime with these things, 0:56:34.480 --> 0:56:36.279 but for me personally, I'm like, Okay, I want that 0:56:36.320 --> 0:56:38.400 new MacBook now because I know they're going to come 0:56:38.440 --> 0:56:40.239 out with the new generation in a year, and I 0:56:40.280 --> 0:56:42.239 want to like feel like I've gotten my use out 0:56:42.280 --> 0:56:44.279 of this. If I buy it six months in now, 0:56:44.280 --> 0:56:45.839 it's like, oh, I could have had six more months 0:56:45.840 --> 0:56:48.640 of use before the new one. But anyway, that's just me. 0:56:49.280 --> 0:56:51.319 Let's talk about some of the hot kind of like 0:56:51.400 --> 0:56:53.640 iPhone apps and accessories that you like. Do you have 0:56:53.719 --> 0:56:56.160 anything that we, you know, would find interesting. 0:56:57.080 --> 0:56:59.400 Yeah, you know, I'm always on the hunt for really 0:56:59.440 --> 0:57:02.239 cool apps that extend beyond the iPhone. If they can 0:57:02.280 --> 0:57:05.440 sort of tie into other parts the Apple ecosystem, AirPods, 0:57:05.640 --> 0:57:08.719 Apple watches, I'm all in for that. One I've been 0:57:08.760 --> 0:57:11.400 testing that I really like is an Apple called train Well. 0:57:11.760 --> 0:57:13.920 And the idea of this app is they connect you 0:57:13.960 --> 0:57:16.480 to sort of a real fitness professional. You've got your 0:57:16.480 --> 0:57:18.760 own sort of personal trender who sort of you know, 0:57:18.840 --> 0:57:21.120 you do a Google meet with them and they sort 0:57:21.120 --> 0:57:23.520 of are able to craft their custom workout plan for you, 0:57:23.920 --> 0:57:25.680 and then you go to the gym or you work 0:57:25.720 --> 0:57:27.360 out a home. You open up the app whenever you 0:57:27.360 --> 0:57:29.480 want to work out, and not only do you have 0:57:29.600 --> 0:57:32.200 sort of you know, videos of what the workout is, 0:57:32.280 --> 0:57:33.640 you can sort of see what you're doing and sort 0:57:33.680 --> 0:57:35.600 of track along and make sure you're staying on pace. 0:57:35.960 --> 0:57:38.320 But also, I think the secret sauce here is their 0:57:38.360 --> 0:57:40.600 integration with the Apple Watch. So because a lot of 0:57:40.720 --> 0:57:42.760 us are wearing these Apple watches on our wrists. It's 0:57:42.800 --> 0:57:46.760 collecting our heart rate information, it's analyzing our movement. So 0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:49.880 as I work out, the Apple Watch Companion app is 0:57:49.920 --> 0:57:52.439 tracking all this information and I can get real time 0:57:52.480 --> 0:57:55.000 info and feedback. So maybe I've got my AirPods in, 0:57:55.080 --> 0:57:57.320 I'm doing dumbbell curls. I'm listening to the Ridge on 0:57:57.400 --> 0:58:00.240 Tech podcast as I work out, and I'm getting sort 0:58:00.240 --> 0:58:02.520 of a voice in my ear saying, hey, you're going 0:58:02.560 --> 0:58:04.200 a little too high at the top or a little 0:58:04.240 --> 0:58:06.000 too low at the bottom, or slow down that move 0:58:06.280 --> 0:58:08.360 So I'm getting that real time feedback as I work out. 0:58:08.400 --> 0:58:10.960 And then what's also cool is sort of post workout, 0:58:11.240 --> 0:58:13.600 your trainer, wherever they are in the world, is able 0:58:13.600 --> 0:58:15.360 to sort of look at that info, see if your 0:58:15.360 --> 0:58:17.000 heart rate was where it needed to be, see how 0:58:17.000 --> 0:58:18.920 your e motion was, and then they sort of message 0:58:18.960 --> 0:58:20.320 you in the app and give you feedback to say, hey, 0:58:20.360 --> 0:58:22.120 great job, or know this, you were a little too 0:58:22.120 --> 0:58:25.200 fast on that, maybe we should adjust the weight. So finding, 0:58:25.400 --> 0:58:27.480 you know, apps that sort of use the different parts 0:58:27.520 --> 0:58:30.200 of the ecosystem, that's been super fun for me, and 0:58:30.240 --> 0:58:32.320 this one has been quite love The Apple Watch integration 0:58:32.440 --> 0:58:33.120 is so so cool. 0:58:33.360 --> 0:58:36.080 That's cool. Okay, so train well dot Net is that one. 0:58:36.440 --> 0:58:39.680 So we've got this big event coming up on Monday. 0:58:39.720 --> 0:58:42.800 This is the iPhone launch event. What do they call it? 0:58:42.840 --> 0:58:46.120 Glow time? That's their It's glowtime. It's glow time. So 0:58:46.920 --> 0:58:50.360 what are we expecting? I know the iPhone sixteen obviously, 0:58:50.800 --> 0:58:52.600 but is there going to be any surprises with that 0:58:52.640 --> 0:58:55.080 device or what? I hope We. 0:58:55.040 --> 0:58:57.360 Always sort of hope for that one more thing, that 0:58:57.560 --> 0:59:00.240 special magical moment, and sometimes Apple does sort of throw 0:59:00.320 --> 0:59:02.800 us for a loop and show us something we weren't expecting. 0:59:03.280 --> 0:59:05.320 But I think that the Apple leaks have gotten so good, 0:59:05.400 --> 0:59:07.800 especially the last couple of years, that we typically sort 0:59:07.800 --> 0:59:11.400 of know by and large what's coming before Apple announces it. 0:59:11.440 --> 0:59:14.000 So we will, of course see the iPhone sixteen. We're 0:59:14.040 --> 0:59:17.120 expecting some minor re spec bumps to every Apple watching 0:59:17.120 --> 0:59:20.040 the lineup, and I think the one wild card could 0:59:20.120 --> 0:59:23.000 be in the air pods category. We're expecting an AirPods 0:59:23.040 --> 0:59:25.960 Gen four, so a nice update to the regular standard 0:59:25.920 --> 0:59:28.439 air pods with active noise cancelation for the first time 0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:31.280 in a non pro seat of AirPods. That'd be awesome. Well, 0:59:31.280 --> 0:59:34.040 we've also heard these rumblings about a ninety nine dollars 0:59:34.040 --> 0:59:37.120 pair of AirPods, maybe a more base entry level Gen 0:59:37.200 --> 0:59:40.640 four that we still have slick, you know, us sinking 0:59:40.640 --> 0:59:43.320 between all your Apple devices, great batter like maybe minus 0:59:43.320 --> 0:59:45.040 some of the bells and whistles of the pro stuff. 0:59:45.360 --> 0:59:48.400 But you know, ninety nine dollars will not inexpensive in 0:59:48.440 --> 0:59:50.560 the Apple world. That's sort of a bargain because they 0:59:50.560 --> 0:59:53.840 don't usually do you know, higher end pristine products at 0:59:53.880 --> 0:59:55.760 these price points. So that would be cool. And that's 0:59:55.800 --> 0:59:58.680 the one thing I'm sort of hoping to see, hopefully 0:59:58.680 --> 1:00:00.520 Tim or another exec show off on Monday. 1:00:00.640 --> 1:00:03.120 I mean that that sub one hundred dollars price is 1:00:03.240 --> 1:00:07.240 music to anyone's ears, because I'm looking at the current AirPods. 1:00:07.240 --> 1:00:09.960 You've got one hundred and twenty nine, one sixty nine 1:00:10.000 --> 1:00:12.120 and two forty nine. So if you can get a 1:00:12.200 --> 1:00:15.240 ninety nine dollars AirPods, and that's by the way, you know, 1:00:15.360 --> 1:00:17.680 not on sales. I've seen AirPods as they get a 1:00:17.720 --> 1:00:21.000 little bit aged up there, they do drop in price 1:00:21.000 --> 1:00:22.800 a little bit, and you know, there this is an 1:00:22.800 --> 1:00:25.760 easy win, like on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, like the 1:00:25.800 --> 1:00:29.040 discounts on AirPods because people love getting earbuds and it's 1:00:29.040 --> 1:00:31.280 like an easy gift, It's an easy thing to get yourself. 1:00:31.600 --> 1:00:33.920 So that ninety nine dollars price point would be really nice. 1:00:34.760 --> 1:00:38.360 And I know Samsung has done the fee models of 1:00:38.400 --> 1:00:40.200 their stuff, which is a little bit cheaper but kind 1:00:40.240 --> 1:00:43.320 of premium and so and I've seen that. You know, 1:00:43.320 --> 1:00:45.960 there's just so many earbuds out there, and when people 1:00:45.960 --> 1:00:47.640 look at the Apple stuff compared to the others, like 1:00:47.720 --> 1:00:49.520 ah wa shuld I pay a little bit more, but 1:00:49.760 --> 1:00:53.320 you do get that integration with the ecosystem. Do you 1:00:53.800 --> 1:00:56.480 use like other devices like ever like Samsung or Google, 1:00:56.560 --> 1:00:58.480 like to sample them or what you know? 1:00:58.560 --> 1:01:00.680 I do. I try to dabble in world of the 1:01:00.720 --> 1:01:02.919 pixel and you know, Samsung devices, and I mean credit 1:01:02.960 --> 1:01:06.120 to where credits do. Samsung and Google and other Android 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:08.840 manufacturers are doing some really great innovative things and bringing 1:01:08.840 --> 1:01:11.360 a lot of competition to the space. But the problem 1:01:11.400 --> 1:01:13.720 I always have time and time again is that I'm 1:01:13.760 --> 1:01:17.200 so entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, this Apple walled garden, 1:01:17.640 --> 1:01:19.080 that it can be sort of hard to sort of 1:01:19.120 --> 1:01:21.439 break out. And there are ways to do it, but man, 1:01:21.480 --> 1:01:23.520 when you've got a Mac and an iPad and air 1:01:23.640 --> 1:01:25.960 pods and everything so seamlessly works, and you rely on 1:01:26.000 --> 1:01:30.080 technologies like air drop while there are alternatives. 1:01:29.280 --> 1:01:30.000 To be used. 1:01:30.680 --> 1:01:34.160 It's so it's nice and you know, as cliches it sounds, 1:01:34.160 --> 1:01:35.880 Apple does have a little bit of that Apple magic 1:01:35.920 --> 1:01:38.200 in there when you use all their stuff that it's 1:01:38.520 --> 1:01:39.760 kind of hard to sort of break away. 1:01:40.120 --> 1:01:42.800 And you said something interesting. I interviewed you from my 1:01:42.920 --> 1:01:46.080 KTLA segment which is airing Monday, and you said something 1:01:46.120 --> 1:01:50.200 interesting there about how Apple does things a little bit 1:01:50.280 --> 1:01:52.760 later sometimes, you know, like like a lot of the 1:01:52.760 --> 1:01:54.680 features that have come out I was looking at like 1:01:54.720 --> 1:01:56.280 some of the features that came out on the iPhone 1:01:56.280 --> 1:01:59.600 over the years, like wireless charging and water resistance and 1:01:59.600 --> 1:02:01.520 stuff like that, and like it's a lot of stuff 1:02:01.520 --> 1:02:05.160 that Samsung had done in the past, you know. But 1:02:05.520 --> 1:02:08.960 to explain what you said about how Apple does things, Yeah, 1:02:09.000 --> 1:02:11.480 there's this mantra that Apple. You know, typically they're never 1:02:11.520 --> 1:02:15.000 the first to enter a new product category or bring 1:02:15.040 --> 1:02:16.880 a new feature. Usually they're a little late to the 1:02:16.920 --> 1:02:20.120 party on some of these things. Other manufacturers have done 1:02:20.120 --> 1:02:23.040 it first. But typically when Apple does decide to do something, 1:02:23.440 --> 1:02:25.760 they do it really well. They bring their own spin 1:02:25.840 --> 1:02:28.600 on things, They bring some sort of integration that we 1:02:28.800 --> 1:02:32.080 just haven't seen before. And again, as cliche as it is, 1:02:32.440 --> 1:02:35.280 that Apple Magic does exist. And when they're able to 1:02:35.320 --> 1:02:37.560 introduce a new feature that fans have been clamoring for, 1:02:37.680 --> 1:02:40.240 even if it's you know, laid and Android fans have 1:02:40.280 --> 1:02:42.760 had it for five years, it's always sort of nice. 1:02:42.760 --> 1:02:44.480 And Apple's always able to do sort of their unique 1:02:44.520 --> 1:02:47.400 spin and do things their own way that users and 1:02:47.440 --> 1:02:50.440 fans definitely appreciate. All right, And I imagine you'll be 1:02:50.480 --> 1:02:54.120 watching very closely Monday morning, ten am Pacific. That's when 1:02:54.200 --> 1:02:56.200 this event happens, and you'll have your whole round up 1:02:56.240 --> 1:02:57.080 and all that good stuff. 1:02:57.600 --> 1:03:00.240 Absolutely, I will have full coverage, breakdown and every think 1:03:00.240 --> 1:03:01.800 and I don't want to spoil things too much, but 1:03:01.840 --> 1:03:04.560 I will say we've already got rumors. News cycle never 1:03:04.600 --> 1:03:07.520 sleeps on the iPhone seventeen, So in a couple of weeks, 1:03:07.560 --> 1:03:10.240 the iPhone rumor train will leave the station and start 1:03:10.320 --> 1:03:10.960 up once again. 1:03:11.000 --> 1:03:13.680 Oh my gosh, All right, Robert Rosenfeld, we're gonna leave 1:03:13.680 --> 1:03:17.560 it there. YouTube dot com slash the Apple Circle. 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I visited this cool store where they 1:05:05.000 --> 1:05:06.880 have all retro video games and it was just like 1:05:06.920 --> 1:05:09.720 a walk down memory lane. Anyway, that's all on the website. 1:05:09.800 --> 1:05:15.120 Rich on tech dot TV. Let's go to Deborah in Carson, California. Deborah, 1:05:15.280 --> 1:05:16.040 you're on with Rich. 1:05:16.800 --> 1:05:17.320 Hello. 1:05:17.600 --> 1:05:22.120 I have a situation where several times a year we 1:05:22.520 --> 1:05:25.760 stay at this one house and we stay for about 1:05:25.800 --> 1:05:29.240 two to three weeks, but there's no Wi Fi connection. 1:05:29.440 --> 1:05:30.880 There's no Wi Fi there. 1:05:32.840 --> 1:05:33.000 Up. 1:05:33.520 --> 1:05:37.200 What we've been doing is she's using my phone or 1:05:37.280 --> 1:05:41.800 our phones to create a hotspot so we can, you know, 1:05:42.080 --> 1:05:45.120 get onto our computers. But it does use up a 1:05:45.160 --> 1:05:49.520 lot of data and it runs the phone battery down. 1:05:50.440 --> 1:05:56.760 So I just came across a real quick myths about something. 1:05:57.360 --> 1:06:01.800 I think it's called a travel modem. Okay, okay, would 1:06:01.800 --> 1:06:07.200 that help us in this situation? They have better WiFi? 1:06:07.960 --> 1:06:10.960 Well, okay, so how many times a year are you 1:06:10.960 --> 1:06:11.640 going to this house? 1:06:12.440 --> 1:06:16.200 About three times a year and then we're for about 1:06:16.280 --> 1:06:17.240 two to three weeks? 1:06:17.360 --> 1:06:20.200 Oh okay, so you're there for a while, okay, okay. 1:06:20.240 --> 1:06:21.800 So there's a couple of things you can do. I mean, 1:06:21.840 --> 1:06:23.960 I think that using your phone as a hotspot is 1:06:24.000 --> 1:06:27.520 actually the best thing to do because you already have 1:06:27.600 --> 1:06:31.080 the phone, and it's by the time you buy another 1:06:31.160 --> 1:06:34.000 plan for like a Wi Fi hotspot, a dedicated Wi 1:06:34.080 --> 1:06:36.160 Fi hot spot, it's probably going to cost you more 1:06:36.200 --> 1:06:40.240 than just upgrading your phone plan to have more hotspot data. 1:06:40.600 --> 1:06:41.960 What carrier are you using? 1:06:43.200 --> 1:06:43.880 Spectrum? 1:06:44.160 --> 1:06:46.240 Okay, so you're okay, So what do they give you? 1:06:46.240 --> 1:06:49.640 How much do they give you on your on your WiFi? 1:06:50.080 --> 1:06:57.000 Uh I I don't know off my head, but I 1:06:57.040 --> 1:07:03.920 do know that or there maybe about four three fourths 1:07:03.920 --> 1:07:06.760 of the time that we're there, we're getting messages. 1:07:07.000 --> 1:07:12.360 Yeah, you're over. Yeah. Okay. So it looks like Spectrum 1:07:12.400 --> 1:07:15.880 gives you five gigabytes of monthly hotspot, which is not 1:07:16.080 --> 1:07:18.480 very much because if you're using any kind of streaming 1:07:18.600 --> 1:07:22.439 or whatever. Yeah, so if you're on an Unlimited Plus line, 1:07:22.480 --> 1:07:25.160 you get ten gigabytes, which a little bit better. But 1:07:25.520 --> 1:07:28.440 after your five gigs or ten gigs are up, they 1:07:28.520 --> 1:07:31.600 slow you down to a crawl, which you've probably noticed. 1:07:31.640 --> 1:07:33.960 You can't do anything at that speed. It's really really bad. 1:07:34.040 --> 1:07:37.600 So with that said, so you can either you may 1:07:37.640 --> 1:07:39.560 not be able to upgrade your plan if you're already 1:07:39.560 --> 1:07:41.440 on that Unlimited Plus, or you can ask them and 1:07:41.480 --> 1:07:43.680 see what the difference is. If it's like five or 1:07:43.680 --> 1:07:45.479 ten dollars, that may be worth it. For one hundred 1:07:45.520 --> 1:07:48.640 and twenty dollars for the year, you can get a 1:07:48.760 --> 1:07:52.040 separate What you would need is a hot spot, so 1:07:52.120 --> 1:07:56.040 you can go to like Verizon, you need a mobile hotspots, 1:07:56.080 --> 1:07:57.400 you can go to Verizon, you can go to AT 1:07:57.520 --> 1:07:59.560 and T, you can go to T Mobile and buy 1:07:59.560 --> 1:08:01.960 one of these hot spots. The problem is the hot 1:08:01.960 --> 1:08:04.560 spot itself is going to cost you anywhere from one 1:08:04.600 --> 1:08:07.560 hundred to two to you know, sometimes three hundred dollars 1:08:07.600 --> 1:08:10.480 for that. Then you have to have a monthly plan 1:08:10.600 --> 1:08:14.520 for that as well, so that is that's going to 1:08:14.560 --> 1:08:17.240 be kind of an expensive proposition for six weeks a year, 1:08:17.320 --> 1:08:20.080 so or nine weeks a year or whatever you're doing there. 1:08:20.560 --> 1:08:23.280 The other thing you can do is you can get 1:08:23.280 --> 1:08:28.360 what's called five G home Internet and that is through 1:08:28.400 --> 1:08:32.559 te Mobile or Verizon, and the plans on those are 1:08:33.680 --> 1:08:36.360 around i'd say thirty five dollars a month, so again 1:08:36.920 --> 1:08:39.560 you're talking thirty five times twelve. That's four hundred and 1:08:39.600 --> 1:08:43.000 twenty dollars for the year. So that's another option, but 1:08:43.040 --> 1:08:47.000 that's again kind of pricey. The other option you can 1:08:47.040 --> 1:08:50.160 do is there are standalone kind of dedicated like you 1:08:50.240 --> 1:08:57.120 mentioned travel hotspots. The company that I like is Solace Solis. 1:08:58.240 --> 1:09:01.240 They have a product where you can get hot spot. 1:09:01.680 --> 1:09:03.760 They have one that's the light or the five G 1:09:04.560 --> 1:09:07.519 So this is anywhere from one hundred and fifty to 1:09:07.560 --> 1:09:10.200 three hundred dollars, but that's meant to be used worldwide, 1:09:10.320 --> 1:09:13.120 so it's kind of a hot spot that's used everywhere, 1:09:13.479 --> 1:09:15.400 and so you're going to pay more for your data, 1:09:15.439 --> 1:09:17.040 which is you know, it's it's going to be an 1:09:17.080 --> 1:09:19.800 expensive proposition for the data. That's the problem with that. 1:09:20.920 --> 1:09:22.720 So if you look at their plans that they have, 1:09:22.880 --> 1:09:27.240 let's see their plan that they have. The plan, Yeah, 1:09:27.280 --> 1:09:32.080 they have USA unlimited data is let's see here how 1:09:32.160 --> 1:09:36.160 much eighty nine dollars for let's see twelve months. Let's 1:09:36.200 --> 1:09:38.679 just see how much it is. Five six months would 1:09:38.720 --> 1:09:41.479 be three hundred and seventy three dollars. So again, all 1:09:41.520 --> 1:09:44.000 of these options, besides your phone as a hotspot, are 1:09:44.000 --> 1:09:48.080 getting very expensive. Now here's my other question. Where this 1:09:48.160 --> 1:09:51.240 house is located, do they have a free Wi Fi 1:09:51.360 --> 1:09:54.240 signal that you can latch onto or does Spectrum have 1:09:54.320 --> 1:09:56.439 a Wi Fi signal in that area that you can 1:09:56.680 --> 1:09:58.840 log onto, because you would get that included in your 1:09:58.880 --> 1:10:05.720 Spectrum plan. Good question, I would look into that. 1:10:06.080 --> 1:10:07.599 Don't show the answer to that. 1:10:07.920 --> 1:10:11.120 So now the other thing you can do is you 1:10:11.160 --> 1:10:13.559 can get what's called an eSIM for your phone, and 1:10:13.600 --> 1:10:16.599 that's an add on, and you can get an eSIM 1:10:16.640 --> 1:10:19.800 for the US and use that as a hotspot. So 1:10:19.920 --> 1:10:24.160 if you can find a cheap eSIM that that would 1:10:24.160 --> 1:10:27.200 work in the US, which there are several, you can 1:10:27.240 --> 1:10:29.200 do that, or you can switch carriers. I mean, if 1:10:29.240 --> 1:10:31.439 you go to something like Visible, you're still going to 1:10:31.479 --> 1:10:34.160 be on that Verizon network that you're on with Spectrum. 1:10:34.479 --> 1:10:37.200 But they do offer unlimited hot spot for forty five 1:10:37.240 --> 1:10:40.000 dollars a month and that includes a plan, So that 1:10:40.040 --> 1:10:42.040 may be another way to go, But of course that 1:10:42.080 --> 1:10:47.000 involves changing carriers, something not everyone wants to do. So Deborah, 1:10:47.000 --> 1:10:49.160 you've got options, but I think I mean, I'll tell 1:10:49.200 --> 1:10:51.840 you what my dad did. He he switched carriers. He 1:10:52.000 --> 1:10:54.080 was at a place where he goes to a vacation 1:10:54.200 --> 1:10:57.360 home where his phone didn't work, and he switched to 1:10:57.400 --> 1:10:59.840 another carrier where and he upgraded to the one hundred 1:10:59.840 --> 1:11:03.920 gargabytes of Wi Fi hotspot a month because he needed 1:11:03.960 --> 1:11:06.920 his hotspot when he went there, and so he took 1:11:06.960 --> 1:11:09.680 that plunge there and changed carriers. She may have to 1:11:09.680 --> 1:11:12.040 do that, Debra, Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight 1:11:12.160 --> 1:11:14.360 rich one oh one more rich on Tech right after this, 1:11:14.640 --> 1:11:17.360 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:11:17.360 --> 1:11:20.720 out with you, talking technology. The phone line is eight 1:11:20.760 --> 1:11:23.920 eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 1:11:24.080 --> 1:11:26.840 four to two four one zero one. The website rich 1:11:27.040 --> 1:11:30.640 on Tech dot tv and feel free to follow me 1:11:30.680 --> 1:11:34.200 on Instagram. At rich on Tech, we just had a 1:11:34.240 --> 1:11:37.400 caller who was trying to figure out her hotspot situation 1:11:38.040 --> 1:11:40.320 in a place where she was running through her hotspot 1:11:40.400 --> 1:11:43.880 on her phone very quickly. Leslie from Santa Ana writes 1:11:43.880 --> 1:11:45.519 in rich I'm listening to your show right now, and 1:11:45.560 --> 1:11:50.240 I wanted to suggest a solution. Why not recommend visibles hotspot. 1:11:50.320 --> 1:11:53.000 I use it for streaming Hulu, Netflix and other services. 1:11:53.000 --> 1:11:55.759 It works great. She can even buy an affordable phone 1:11:55.800 --> 1:11:57.960 like the Moto G Play for about ninety bucks to 1:11:58.040 --> 1:12:00.800 use as a dedicated hotspot. Just trying to help out 1:12:00.800 --> 1:12:02.920 a fellow listener. Have a great day you're listening to 1:12:03.000 --> 1:12:06.880 rich on Tech. Haha, thank you, Leslie. 1:12:07.080 --> 1:12:07.479 Uh. 1:12:08.120 --> 1:12:11.439 I did recommend Visible because of their unlimited hotspot service, 1:12:12.560 --> 1:12:14.840 but and I do think they have it capped at 1:12:14.840 --> 1:12:16.599 a certain speed, but I think that should be fine. 1:12:16.640 --> 1:12:19.479 Like you said, it works for Hulu, Netflix, but that 1:12:19.520 --> 1:12:23.559 would require, like you said, a different phone completely and 1:12:24.439 --> 1:12:26.519 you know, I think that most people probably don't want 1:12:26.520 --> 1:12:29.080 to have a separate phone for just for hotspot. But 1:12:29.600 --> 1:12:31.479 you know, if you switch to Visible, you could use it. 1:12:31.520 --> 1:12:34.799 And I did recommend that, so good choice, good selection, 1:12:35.080 --> 1:12:39.680 and it's definitely. It's a very visible is really like 1:12:39.960 --> 1:12:43.920 a sleeper service because it's great for the price. I mean, 1:12:44.040 --> 1:12:47.800 let's see, if you go to the website, I mean, oh, 1:12:47.880 --> 1:12:49.760 right now they're doing oh wow, if you're a T 1:12:49.920 --> 1:12:52.879 mobile customer, you can switch and you get fifteen dollars 1:12:52.960 --> 1:12:57.920 a month for five years. Wow, that's pretty good. Now 1:12:57.960 --> 1:13:00.680 that's for their basic plan. They have two plans, so 1:13:00.720 --> 1:13:03.120 their basic plan is usually twenty five dollars a month 1:13:03.160 --> 1:13:07.480 that just includes your talking text and your data like unlimited. 1:13:07.960 --> 1:13:10.719 But if you move up to their forty five dollars 1:13:10.720 --> 1:13:14.040 a month plan, you get the premium data, faster, hot Spot, 1:13:14.560 --> 1:13:18.240 smart watch service included, and even some global roaming. So 1:13:18.320 --> 1:13:21.160 that's pretty good. I mean, this is very very good. 1:13:21.360 --> 1:13:24.120 And it's the trick is it is visible. They own 1:13:24.560 --> 1:13:27.599 Verizon owns this company. Why is this so much cheaper 1:13:27.600 --> 1:13:29.920 than Verizon. It's because there's no stores. You cannot go 1:13:30.000 --> 1:13:31.680 into a store to get help with this. You have 1:13:31.720 --> 1:13:35.320 to do everything online or through chat or whatever, and 1:13:35.400 --> 1:13:38.040 so that may turn off certain people who like to 1:13:38.080 --> 1:13:40.920 actually go to a store to do things. But if 1:13:40.920 --> 1:13:43.960 you don't mind doing it, diy, I mean, believe me, 1:13:44.000 --> 1:13:47.400 it's pretty good. Coming up this hour, We've got former 1:13:47.479 --> 1:13:50.679 Yahoo CEO Mersa Meyer. She is going to talk about 1:13:50.720 --> 1:13:54.000 her tech career, her new startup called Sunshine. She's going 1:13:54.080 --> 1:13:56.880 to talk ai and you know her from Yahoo, she 1:13:57.040 --> 1:13:59.040 was the CEO there. But also you know she was 1:13:59.080 --> 1:14:04.040 Google employee number twenty number twenty, joined in nineteen ninety nine. 1:14:04.080 --> 1:14:07.439 So she has had a very long and very fruitful 1:14:07.520 --> 1:14:10.080 tech career. So we're looking forward to talking to her. 1:14:10.479 --> 1:14:13.880 Let's go to Gary in Laguna Neguel. Gary, you're on 1:14:14.000 --> 1:14:14.400 with Rich. 1:14:15.160 --> 1:14:17.360 Yes, Rich, got a couple of questions. 1:14:17.120 --> 1:14:19.719 A couple questions we charge after the first. 1:14:20.120 --> 1:14:23.960 I was just in Arizona. One of my favorite places 1:14:23.960 --> 1:14:26.680 to go to is Portal, Arizona, Okay, poking up on 1:14:26.720 --> 1:14:30.080 a map. It's far in the southeastern corner of Arizona. 1:14:30.920 --> 1:14:35.639 They used to have Horizon cell service there and they've 1:14:35.640 --> 1:14:39.519 now switched to AT and T. So how do you 1:14:39.560 --> 1:14:42.559 get your Verizon phone to work with AT and T? 1:14:42.720 --> 1:14:46.200 And I'm here on the phone right now. You know, 1:14:46.240 --> 1:14:48.160 I'm not talking to you on the phone, but I'm 1:14:48.160 --> 1:14:51.479 looking at the settings on the phone. So if I 1:14:51.520 --> 1:14:57.040 switch over to like either Global or LTE GSM UMTS, 1:14:57.080 --> 1:14:58.000 would that do any good? 1:14:58.960 --> 1:15:03.200 Not if you're are you you're a subscriber of Verizon, right, yes, 1:15:03.680 --> 1:15:05.400 well it's not going to latch onto the eight and 1:15:05.400 --> 1:15:08.559 T network unless you're unless you're a subscriber to eight 1:15:08.680 --> 1:15:11.800 and T. So do you mean the whole city changed 1:15:11.800 --> 1:15:13.000 over to EIGHTE and T. What do you mean by 1:15:13.040 --> 1:15:14.719 they switched to AT and T? Who switched? 1:15:14.840 --> 1:15:17.839 Well, see, it's well if you look at Portal, Arizona 1:15:17.840 --> 1:15:20.320 that it's a very very small community. It's in the 1:15:20.400 --> 1:15:25.400 Cherokeella Mountains. But they've had Horizon for the last twenty 1:15:25.479 --> 1:15:28.920 years and then they just switched over AT and T 1:15:28.920 --> 1:15:31.479 two years ago. When I was there, I couldn't get 1:15:31.479 --> 1:15:32.880 my phone to work anywhere, got it? 1:15:32.920 --> 1:15:36.080 Okay, So they kind of they switched their their tower. 1:15:36.240 --> 1:15:39.639 I guess they must. Maybe the city itself runs the towers, 1:15:39.640 --> 1:15:41.720 and they switched the agreement. 1:15:41.360 --> 1:15:46.160 Community not really a city, it's part of the state 1:15:46.200 --> 1:15:47.240 of Arizona, got it? 1:15:47.320 --> 1:15:49.200 But you know that you know that AT and T 1:15:49.360 --> 1:15:49.960 works there? 1:15:50.680 --> 1:15:50.800 Well? 1:15:50.880 --> 1:15:52.760 Yeah, yeah, matter of fact, I talked to the owner 1:15:52.800 --> 1:15:55.360 of the Portal Peak Lodge, which is the place one 1:15:55.400 --> 1:15:58.000 of the places I go to stay on and a 1:15:58.000 --> 1:15:59.439 lot of other birdwatchers see this is. 1:15:59.439 --> 1:16:01.600 A birdwatching are ah, okay. 1:16:01.479 --> 1:16:04.320 And it's it's out of the middle of nowhere, you know. 1:16:05.520 --> 1:16:07.960 But it's so nice because so many birds in the area. 1:16:08.000 --> 1:16:11.040 It's such a beautiful environment out there. It's really really 1:16:11.040 --> 1:16:14.880 a great place to go. And the last ten times 1:16:14.880 --> 1:16:17.680 I've gone there, my Verizon phone has work great. But 1:16:17.720 --> 1:16:20.240 now they switch over to AT and T. And I 1:16:20.240 --> 1:16:22.599 can tell you rich, when when I'm traveling, I'm doing 1:16:22.640 --> 1:16:26.520 my job. It's just photographing birds. There's so many places 1:16:26.720 --> 1:16:29.880 that AT and T does not work yet Verizon does. 1:16:29.960 --> 1:16:31.479 I mean the mountains on the town. 1:16:31.800 --> 1:16:34.960 Well, yeah, you probably know where Anso Barrigo is, right, 1:16:35.400 --> 1:16:36.320 I've heard of it. Yep. 1:16:36.960 --> 1:16:39.759 AT and T doesn't work out there, but yet Verizon 1:16:39.800 --> 1:16:42.400 works fantastic, right, And it's just an example. 1:16:42.560 --> 1:16:44.919 Yeah, And here's the thing. So I do think Verizon 1:16:45.240 --> 1:16:49.200 for rural areas works very well. The way I see 1:16:49.200 --> 1:16:52.200 the three carriers, I think T mobile urban areas like 1:16:52.400 --> 1:16:54.240 they have that covered and they're getting better at other 1:16:54.240 --> 1:16:58.000 places with the acquisition of Sprint and all that. Verizon, 1:16:58.040 --> 1:17:01.120 I feel like just overall everywhere, it's like right in 1:17:01.160 --> 1:17:04.400 the middle, it just works really well everywhere. And then 1:17:04.479 --> 1:17:06.960 AT and T is kind of like they're a mix. 1:17:07.000 --> 1:17:09.400 They're like they have some of those traditional areas that 1:17:09.439 --> 1:17:11.160 they work really well in and the rural, but they 1:17:11.160 --> 1:17:13.320 also have a lot of those urban areas. So it's 1:17:13.400 --> 1:17:16.440 kind of mix of Verizon and T Mobile with the coverage. 1:17:16.720 --> 1:17:19.439 But you know, I typically recommend people to go with 1:17:19.520 --> 1:17:22.000 the carrier that works where they work and where they live, 1:17:22.080 --> 1:17:24.719 because those are the two places you are the most. Now, 1:17:25.240 --> 1:17:26.639 if you what kind of phone do you have? 1:17:27.120 --> 1:17:28.240 Well, that's the other thing I want to ask you 1:17:28.240 --> 1:17:30.840 about is my telephone I have. I love my phone, 1:17:31.439 --> 1:17:33.400 but it just seems to be pretty outdated. It's a 1:17:33.400 --> 1:17:37.120 Samsung Galaxy Stene m okay, and when I look at 1:17:37.120 --> 1:17:40.040 all the modern phones out there, Rich, I mean, put 1:17:40.080 --> 1:17:42.760 yourself in my position. You're wearing a photo best. You 1:17:42.800 --> 1:17:46.200 need a fairly small phone because I carry teleconverters, I 1:17:46.200 --> 1:17:48.240 carry a bottle of water on me carry my phone. 1:17:49.000 --> 1:17:51.240 And you know these phones that are made nowadays, I 1:17:51.280 --> 1:17:54.240 mean these things are gargant. One well, then begin to 1:17:54.240 --> 1:17:54.519 fit in. 1:17:55.360 --> 1:17:57.240 I will tell you, I think the phone for you 1:17:57.360 --> 1:17:59.559 is the Pixel nine, not the Pro. I mean, if 1:17:59.560 --> 1:18:01.320 you want the Pro for the Zoom, but I think 1:18:01.320 --> 1:18:05.559 the Pixel nine is incredible. It's a great value, it's small, 1:18:05.640 --> 1:18:08.680 it's pocketable. I've been carrying around the Pixel nine Pro, 1:18:08.800 --> 1:18:10.800 which they also made in a small version this year, 1:18:11.240 --> 1:18:14.000 so I know that we have that trend of the bigger, 1:18:14.200 --> 1:18:16.519 giant phone screens, which is great if you want to 1:18:16.560 --> 1:18:19.679 watch movies and stuff. But I think that the Pixel 1:18:19.760 --> 1:18:22.360 nine would be a great upgrade from this phone. With 1:18:22.479 --> 1:18:23.200 that said. 1:18:23.160 --> 1:18:27.400 Pixel nine, yeah that take a small micros media or 1:18:27.439 --> 1:18:29.719 because I use that all the time. Yeah, no phones 1:18:29.920 --> 1:18:31.920 med cards whenever I have different photo students. 1:18:32.080 --> 1:18:33.640 Yeah, no phones are going to do that. None of 1:18:33.640 --> 1:18:36.160 the new modern phones have the SD card slot at all. 1:18:36.200 --> 1:18:40.240 But you could use an SD card reader on the 1:18:40.240 --> 1:18:42.040 bottom of the phone, so you can just grab a 1:18:42.600 --> 1:18:45.720 on Amazon an SD card reader like a micro SD 1:18:45.800 --> 1:18:49.960 card USBC reader. It's like, you know, under ten bucks plug. 1:18:50.040 --> 1:18:51.320 But see that that stuff and I have to have 1:18:51.360 --> 1:18:53.479 it externally. Look to the phone. I want to have 1:18:53.520 --> 1:18:54.760 an internal into the phone. 1:18:55.160 --> 1:18:57.920 Well yeah, you're that's yeah, that's going to be tricky 1:18:57.960 --> 1:19:01.120 these days because the phones just do not have But look, 1:19:01.160 --> 1:19:02.760 if you're gonna stick with your phone and you want 1:19:02.800 --> 1:19:04.880 to switch to AT and T, the thing you have 1:19:04.920 --> 1:19:06.800 to do is go to the website on AT and 1:19:06.840 --> 1:19:11.599 T this phone. Maybe so nowadays, nowadays, every pretty much 1:19:11.640 --> 1:19:15.040 every phone is compatible with all the networks. I would 1:19:15.040 --> 1:19:17.439 say a majority of the phones just work with everything. 1:19:18.000 --> 1:19:20.320 But back in the day, and especially with this phone 1:19:20.320 --> 1:19:21.960 that you have is a little bit older, it may 1:19:21.960 --> 1:19:25.559 be specifically just Verizon bands. So if you want it to 1:19:25.640 --> 1:19:28.680 consider switching to AT and T, go to their website, 1:19:29.240 --> 1:19:33.120 search a compatibility checker. So search what I search here 1:19:33.560 --> 1:19:36.439 AT and T compatibility checker and then you click that 1:19:37.080 --> 1:19:41.519 and it will say check compatibility. And basically you have 1:19:41.600 --> 1:19:46.080 to type in your phone's IMEI number and it will 1:19:46.080 --> 1:19:47.960 tell you how to do that. And so once you 1:19:48.000 --> 1:19:50.840 type that in, it will tell you if your phone 1:19:51.120 --> 1:19:55.280 is you know, compatible or not, and it just needs 1:19:55.320 --> 1:19:57.000 to have those certain bands. But they will be able 1:19:57.000 --> 1:19:59.160 to tell you that pretty simply if you go to 1:19:59.200 --> 1:20:01.840 their website and you can do that. So if you 1:20:01.840 --> 1:20:04.720 want to check to see and switch to AT and 1:20:04.760 --> 1:20:06.640 T and keep your phone that you have, that'd be 1:20:06.640 --> 1:20:09.760 the easiest way to do this. But you know, that's 1:20:09.840 --> 1:20:12.680 kind of the main thing. It's interesting they've got a 1:20:12.880 --> 1:20:16.200 thing on their website that says the phones that are 1:20:16.240 --> 1:20:20.800 approved for their network. Samsung, let's see, you've got the 1:20:20.920 --> 1:20:25.800 S ten e and I'm looking on here Samsung S 1:20:25.960 --> 1:20:28.559 ten e. Yeah, I see the S ten on there 1:20:29.120 --> 1:20:31.120 S ten plus S ten e. So they've got a 1:20:31.120 --> 1:20:33.320 couple of them on there that look like they are compatible. 1:20:33.320 --> 1:20:36.599 But again, go to the website do that compatibility checker 1:20:36.640 --> 1:20:38.519 with the IEMEI and that's the way to do it. 1:20:39.360 --> 1:20:41.840 Thanks for the call, Gary, And it sounds like you've 1:20:41.840 --> 1:20:46.200 got quite the fun there in portal checking out those birds. 1:20:46.320 --> 1:20:48.320 My brother is a burder what do you call it, 1:20:48.320 --> 1:20:52.920 a birdwatcher, but I think the pixel off also if 1:20:52.960 --> 1:20:55.240 you're taking pictures of birds, the pixel I just saw 1:20:55.280 --> 1:20:59.240 they just added it to my phone, the new super zoom, 1:20:59.439 --> 1:21:02.000 like the old rez zoom thing that you can now 1:21:02.080 --> 1:21:04.240 zoom in on your picture. Remember like on the TV 1:21:04.280 --> 1:21:07.000 shows where they show like the police like zooming in 1:21:07.040 --> 1:21:09.280 on the or the CSI like zooming in on something 1:21:09.560 --> 1:21:11.240 and it's like pixelated, but then all of a sudden 1:21:11.280 --> 1:21:13.840 it like gets clear, like a license plate. Well now 1:21:13.840 --> 1:21:16.559 they've added that feature to Google Photos and I can't 1:21:16.600 --> 1:21:18.120 wait to try it out. I just saw it pop 1:21:18.240 --> 1:21:21.000 up my phone. I'm like, oh, that's cool. Before we 1:21:21.040 --> 1:21:24.360 go to break, Samsung bring in AI to more devices. 1:21:24.400 --> 1:21:27.720 So if you have an older Samsung S twenty three series, 1:21:28.320 --> 1:21:31.519 the z Fold five, z Flip five, you are getting 1:21:31.520 --> 1:21:34.880 an update that includes these new AI features, the composer, 1:21:35.000 --> 1:21:39.240 the sketch to image, auto zoom, all kinds of features. 1:21:39.240 --> 1:21:41.640 So if you have one of these phones, the S 1:21:41.720 --> 1:21:44.719 twenty three or the Folds from last year, go ahead 1:21:44.720 --> 1:21:47.920 and check that software update. This is one UI six 1:21:47.960 --> 1:21:51.320 point one point one. So Samsung just on a roll 1:21:51.560 --> 1:21:54.200 with bringing these AI features to like all of their 1:21:54.320 --> 1:21:57.400 back catalog of phones. I love that you don't need 1:21:57.439 --> 1:21:59.479 to spend money and your phone feels like it's got 1:21:59.520 --> 1:22:02.519 cool new fe eighty to eight rich one oh one 1:22:02.680 --> 1:22:05.800 eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 1:22:06.920 --> 1:22:09.720 I'll tell you why earthquake alerts are going national if 1:22:09.720 --> 1:22:12.880 you have an Android phone, coming out. Welcome back to 1:22:13.000 --> 1:22:15.280 rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you 1:22:15.400 --> 1:22:18.240 talking technology. 1:22:18.479 --> 1:22:18.759 Uh. 1:22:19.280 --> 1:22:24.600 Android earthquake alerts. We have them here in the LA area, 1:22:24.640 --> 1:22:30.040 also in California, Oregon, and Washington, but now they're going national. 1:22:30.400 --> 1:22:32.920 So if you have an Android phone, Google is expanding 1:22:32.960 --> 1:22:37.400 these life potentially life saving alerts. Across all fifty states. 1:22:38.000 --> 1:22:42.720 So they're using the accelerometers in Android phones to detect earthquakes. 1:22:42.760 --> 1:22:45.200 So all of the Android phones in the US are 1:22:45.200 --> 1:22:49.800 now little earthquake detectors. Uses crowdsource data to determine if 1:22:49.800 --> 1:22:53.000 an earthquake is happening, and if it is, it will 1:22:53.000 --> 1:22:56.320 alert other users in that area. So there's two types 1:22:56.320 --> 1:22:59.000 of notifications. One is light shaking, which gives you a 1:22:59.040 --> 1:23:01.680 small pop up on this and if it's moderate to 1:23:01.760 --> 1:23:04.759 extreme shaking, you'll get a full screen take action alert 1:23:04.800 --> 1:23:08.120 with safety instructions. And they say even a few seconds 1:23:08.160 --> 1:23:11.160 of warning can help people move to safer areas. They've 1:23:11.200 --> 1:23:14.400 been working with experts. Google has to improve the accuracy. 1:23:15.439 --> 1:23:18.840 But this is really great because in California, Oregon, and 1:23:18.920 --> 1:23:21.799 Washington they actually have like little censors in the ground 1:23:22.320 --> 1:23:24.160 and that system even took a while to get up 1:23:24.200 --> 1:23:26.920 and running on people's phones, and that works on iPhone Android. 1:23:27.680 --> 1:23:30.479 But this is really neat because now we have earthquake 1:23:30.479 --> 1:23:33.439 alerts everywhere because earthquakes, I don't know if you've noticed, 1:23:33.479 --> 1:23:37.320 but not just California, Like there's been earthquakes in various 1:23:37.360 --> 1:23:40.800 states across the nation, and so I love that they 1:23:40.800 --> 1:23:42.960 did this, and so if you go in your Android phone, 1:23:43.000 --> 1:23:46.680 just make sure this is turned on. It's under the 1:23:47.000 --> 1:23:50.280 Google settings and like usually under emergency there. So kind 1:23:50.280 --> 1:23:54.920 of cool. Let's go to Maria in Los Angeles. Maria, 1:23:55.000 --> 1:23:56.840 you're on with rich Hi. 1:23:57.479 --> 1:23:58.080 Can you hear me? 1:23:58.320 --> 1:23:58.760 I hear you? 1:24:00.080 --> 1:24:02.040 Uh yeah, thank you so much for picking my call. 1:24:03.040 --> 1:24:05.760 I'm calling because I would like to ask you if 1:24:05.760 --> 1:24:10.559 you can suggest me a wait to control my thirteen 1:24:10.600 --> 1:24:15.640 year old I iPhone. He I have an Android. I 1:24:15.720 --> 1:24:21.080 have an iPhone. I'm sorry, I have an Android ten 1:24:22.280 --> 1:24:25.200 and he he used to have a NiFe an Android, 1:24:25.200 --> 1:24:28.960 but when he when I and I have the risk 1:24:29.360 --> 1:24:33.840 to an I iPhone and now the Google apps friends, 1:24:33.840 --> 1:24:35.160 that control doesn't work anymore. 1:24:35.320 --> 1:24:37.120 Yeah, yeah, that's not gonna work. 1:24:38.120 --> 1:24:41.240 I mean I tried the Tea mobile app. It doesn't 1:24:41.240 --> 1:24:44.240 work either. I do have an iPod because I know 1:24:44.360 --> 1:24:46.800 sometimes Apple communicate with. 1:24:46.800 --> 1:24:48.799 Apple, right, yeah, but not the iPod. 1:24:50.439 --> 1:24:50.679 Yeah. 1:24:50.720 --> 1:24:55.120 So to manage to manage screen time, that's what you 1:24:55.160 --> 1:24:57.160 need to do. So you have to manage the screen 1:24:57.200 --> 1:24:59.720 time on there. Uh. And what you can do is 1:24:59.760 --> 1:25:03.000 you have actually have to you would have to get 1:25:03.000 --> 1:25:06.479 his phone obviously with his approval and set this up 1:25:06.520 --> 1:25:10.719 from his phone. So you can go into his phone 1:25:10.880 --> 1:25:15.160 into settings and you would set a pin code number one, 1:25:15.800 --> 1:25:17.320 and then you would and then you would go in 1:25:17.360 --> 1:25:19.920 there and kind of change all the settings. So how 1:25:19.960 --> 1:25:23.320 long he could spend on certain websites, restricting certain websites, 1:25:24.240 --> 1:25:26.920 you know, whatever it is. But basically it's all kind 1:25:26.960 --> 1:25:30.599 of controlled from screen time and your your pin code 1:25:31.320 --> 1:25:33.880 that you set is the key to unlock it. So, 1:25:33.960 --> 1:25:35.680 but you'd have to use his device to do it 1:25:35.720 --> 1:25:40.080 if you don't have another device. I don't know if 1:25:40.120 --> 1:25:44.160 you can do it from the website, like if you 1:25:44.200 --> 1:25:46.800 went to iCloud dot com. I don't think so. I 1:25:46.800 --> 1:25:49.639 think you have to do it from his device. So 1:25:50.000 --> 1:25:52.320 or if you had an iPhone or an iPad and 1:25:52.360 --> 1:25:54.680 he was part of your family on there like the 1:25:55.080 --> 1:25:57.759 iCloud family, you could do it from there. But really, 1:25:57.800 --> 1:25:59.720 realistically you have to use his phone to do this. 1:26:00.520 --> 1:26:02.479 I have a knife, I have a night bus. 1:26:02.520 --> 1:26:06.759 I try to do it through the family sharing, I think, yeah. 1:26:07.439 --> 1:26:09.920 Are you saying iPad? I'm sorry, did you say iPad? 1:26:10.360 --> 1:26:11.160 I have a night bud? 1:26:11.280 --> 1:26:11.439 Yes? 1:26:11.520 --> 1:26:13.479 Oh iPad? Okay, yes, you should be able to do 1:26:13.520 --> 1:26:13.960 it through there. 1:26:14.040 --> 1:26:16.519 Yeah, but the part is that every time I do it, 1:26:16.880 --> 1:26:20.880 for some reason, he gets the notification or input the 1:26:20.920 --> 1:26:23.880 code and everything, but all of a sudden it disappeared. 1:26:24.200 --> 1:26:27.400 It said, uh, you know, his name was removed from 1:26:27.439 --> 1:26:32.640 the family Sharing, but he did not do anything. So h. 1:26:34.240 --> 1:26:36.799 That's tricky. Well, he has to be on the family 1:26:36.840 --> 1:26:38.880 Sharing for it to work, for these things to take 1:26:39.280 --> 1:26:42.599 to take effect. Now I'm not sure why it's saying 1:26:42.680 --> 1:26:46.040 he's being removed from there. That's something that you got 1:26:46.040 --> 1:26:47.760 to figure out. Maybe go to the Apple store and 1:26:47.760 --> 1:26:49.880 see what they say. But you he shouldn't. Once you 1:26:49.920 --> 1:26:52.720 add him, he has to accept that. Then he's part 1:26:52.760 --> 1:26:55.120 of your family and then you can add those those 1:26:55.160 --> 1:26:58.000 screen time controls to his device. If you want to 1:26:58.000 --> 1:26:59.599 just do it manually, you can just go to his 1:26:59.640 --> 1:27:01.280 device and say, hey, look, we're going to set this 1:27:01.439 --> 1:27:03.519 up on your device, and you just set it up 1:27:03.520 --> 1:27:05.400 directly there and then he doesn't have to be part 1:27:05.400 --> 1:27:08.479 of the family Sharing. So that's a little bit of 1:27:08.520 --> 1:27:10.920 an easier way if you want to skip the family Share. 1:27:11.120 --> 1:27:12.880 But the only issue with that is then you can 1:27:13.160 --> 1:27:15.680 check things on your iPad and you know, give you 1:27:15.720 --> 1:27:19.960 all that that control. There are third party programs that 1:27:20.000 --> 1:27:23.360 you can use if you want it, something like Barkbark 1:27:23.520 --> 1:27:27.200 dot us. That's another family control program that you can use. 1:27:27.760 --> 1:27:30.640 But I will tell you, with my kids, you know, 1:27:30.680 --> 1:27:33.240 this stuff is tricky. It's not easy, it's not straightforward, 1:27:33.280 --> 1:27:35.960 it's not simple, and a lot of times the kids 1:27:36.000 --> 1:27:37.720 are a little bit smarter than us when it comes 1:27:37.720 --> 1:27:39.720 to this stuff. So you got to be aware when 1:27:39.760 --> 1:27:42.360 you're typing in your pass code that they those little 1:27:42.360 --> 1:27:44.960 eyes are sometimes watching it and they will change settings 1:27:45.000 --> 1:27:47.519 without you knowing. So just keep in mind all of 1:27:47.560 --> 1:27:49.680 those things. But if it's if it's the problem of 1:27:50.000 --> 1:27:51.840 you understand how to set it up, but it's just 1:27:51.840 --> 1:27:55.080 not letting you add him as the family member, then 1:27:55.160 --> 1:27:56.920 I would go ahead and take it to the Apple 1:27:56.960 --> 1:27:58.599 Store and say, hey, look, I'm trying to add my kid. 1:27:58.680 --> 1:28:01.080 We're trying to do the right thing. It's just not working. 1:28:01.200 --> 1:28:02.800 And see if there's some kind of block on your 1:28:02.800 --> 1:28:05.519 account or something that you have to enable on there 1:28:05.560 --> 1:28:08.160 to make that work. But otherwise, if you want to 1:28:08.200 --> 1:28:09.960 skip all that, you can just go directly to his 1:28:10.040 --> 1:28:12.479 device and say, hey, look we're gonna set this up, 1:28:12.560 --> 1:28:15.679 make that pin code, and there there you go. Thanks 1:28:15.720 --> 1:28:18.759 for the call, Maria, give me an update on the website. 1:28:18.840 --> 1:28:20.880 Rich on Tech dot TV. Hit contact and let me 1:28:20.920 --> 1:28:23.360 know if you get that sorted out. Coming up, we're 1:28:23.360 --> 1:28:27.240 gonna talk to former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer. She is 1:28:27.360 --> 1:28:30.639 discussing her tech career, her new startup, and AI. It's 1:28:30.680 --> 1:28:33.439 all right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:28:33.520 --> 1:28:36.040 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 1:28:36.280 --> 1:28:40.360 talking technology the website for the show rich on Tech 1:28:40.640 --> 1:28:45.000 dot TV. Yeah, it's been a heatwave here in Los Angeles, 1:28:45.000 --> 1:28:51.160 so we're playing all songs inspired by the heat. Joining 1:28:51.160 --> 1:28:54.640 me now, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer, also one of 1:28:54.720 --> 1:28:59.000 Google's earliest employees, now with her own startup called Sunshine. 1:28:59.280 --> 1:29:02.240 Welcome to the show, Marissa, thank you very much for 1:29:02.280 --> 1:29:06.840 having me. Very exciting. Let's talk about first off, the 1:29:06.880 --> 1:29:09.720 early days I want to hear about Google. So I 1:29:09.760 --> 1:29:12.880 mean back, I mean you joined in like nineteen ninety 1:29:12.960 --> 1:29:15.760 nine or somewhere around there, so I mean people were 1:29:15.880 --> 1:29:18.160 just learning that word for the first time. What were 1:29:18.200 --> 1:29:21.160 your thoughts about joining that company? 1:29:21.640 --> 1:29:23.559 Well, when I first started, there were just seven people, 1:29:24.120 --> 1:29:26.599 and instead of a conference table, they had a pool, 1:29:26.680 --> 1:29:31.160 a ping pong table, and so the office was you know, 1:29:31.640 --> 1:29:34.439 pretty messy. They were also working on building computers that 1:29:34.439 --> 1:29:37.600 would eventually become prototypes for what they put in the 1:29:37.680 --> 1:29:41.519 data centers. But they had a real vision for how 1:29:41.600 --> 1:29:44.559 search could change the Internet and could change how all 1:29:44.600 --> 1:29:46.920 this live our everyday lives. And so it was really 1:29:46.960 --> 1:29:48.519 an exciting and interesting time. 1:29:49.080 --> 1:29:52.559 Wow, that's incredible, And it was it fun there? I mean, 1:29:52.560 --> 1:29:54.080 did you have a good time? And you started some 1:29:54.120 --> 1:29:58.000 pretty good projects there and did some pretty great things. 1:29:58.240 --> 1:30:01.439 I had an amazing time at Google. Wonderful place to work. 1:30:02.360 --> 1:30:05.519 You know, for so many of my colleagues, you know, 1:30:05.600 --> 1:30:08.479 they are lifelong friends because we just had such a 1:30:08.520 --> 1:30:12.000 set of formative experiences and I'm really proud of what 1:30:12.040 --> 1:30:15.920 we've built and how it's helped shape everyday lives and technology. 1:30:16.720 --> 1:30:21.240 And then talk about the transition to Yahoo. What made 1:30:21.240 --> 1:30:23.519 you go to Yahoo and kind of what was your 1:30:23.880 --> 1:30:24.599 mission there? 1:30:26.160 --> 1:30:30.599 Well, there, I got a call from a recruiter who 1:30:30.680 --> 1:30:33.040 was helping the board try and identify the next CEO. 1:30:33.960 --> 1:30:37.360 And I wasn't looking to leave. I was just at 1:30:37.360 --> 1:30:41.559 the end of my first trimester with my son, and 1:30:41.600 --> 1:30:43.439 I had, you know, my plan for what I wanted 1:30:43.439 --> 1:30:46.320 to accomplish before my maternity leave and my plan for 1:30:46.400 --> 1:30:49.600 a long maternity leave, and I got this call, but 1:30:49.720 --> 1:30:52.120 I have to say, Yeah, who's a company I always admired, 1:30:52.800 --> 1:30:56.280 And it was one that was really a company that 1:30:56.320 --> 1:30:58.280 we all looked up to at Google. You know, they 1:30:58.320 --> 1:31:00.719 were a really important partner for us for our early days, 1:31:00.720 --> 1:31:04.720 a very spat after partner, and you know, the role 1:31:04.800 --> 1:31:07.760 from a product perspective really embodied a lot of the 1:31:07.760 --> 1:31:15.280 products I had already worked on, search, mail, news, maps, 1:31:15.320 --> 1:31:18.320 you know, social, mobile, and so I was really excited 1:31:18.680 --> 1:31:21.080 to take my learnings for my time at Google and 1:31:21.200 --> 1:31:24.120 apply them in a new way at a new company, 1:31:24.200 --> 1:31:26.400 especially one that I admired, and so I knew it 1:31:26.400 --> 1:31:29.000 would be a hard job. At the same time, it 1:31:29.000 --> 1:31:32.719 was one I was really drawn to. I really value learning, 1:31:33.680 --> 1:31:35.760 and I love working with smart and nice people. And 1:31:35.760 --> 1:31:37.160 I think there are also a lot of smart and 1:31:37.240 --> 1:31:40.640 nice people at Yahoo as well as at Google. And 1:31:40.720 --> 1:31:43.280 so it was a challenge that I ultimately, you know, 1:31:43.760 --> 1:31:46.120 took us some rearranging in terms of plans on my side, 1:31:46.160 --> 1:31:49.080 but it was a challenge I was excited to take on. 1:31:49.840 --> 1:31:51.960 So a little bit of trivia for myself, I actually 1:31:51.960 --> 1:31:54.400 got a job offer at Yahoo many many years ago, 1:31:55.000 --> 1:31:57.920 and I remember getting the welcome kit in the mail 1:31:58.080 --> 1:31:59.640 and they would you would open it up and it 1:31:59.640 --> 1:32:03.040 would go Yahoo when you opened like the little box. 1:32:03.120 --> 1:32:04.639 It was like one of those greeting cards you get, 1:32:04.640 --> 1:32:07.160 you know that has like the music inside. That's what 1:32:07.200 --> 1:32:08.840 they did, and I was like so impressed with that. 1:32:09.439 --> 1:32:10.280 I have one of those. 1:32:10.320 --> 1:32:12.880 I also there's a button, a yodel button where you 1:32:12.880 --> 1:32:15.360 can press it and actually has like six different modes 1:32:15.400 --> 1:32:17.839 so you can hear the Yahoo yodel like six different ways. 1:32:18.160 --> 1:32:19.800 And I still have my T shirt. They also sent 1:32:19.840 --> 1:32:21.439 a T shirt in that packet. I mean, it was 1:32:21.439 --> 1:32:24.000 like a very thorough packet of like welcome to Yahoo, 1:32:24.160 --> 1:32:26.120 even though I hadn't really accepted the job yet. I 1:32:26.160 --> 1:32:27.960 don't know if they whatever. Anyway, it was kind of 1:32:27.960 --> 1:32:32.240 the offer situation. Yeah, didn't end up working there, but 1:32:32.680 --> 1:32:34.599 it was great and it was fun to tour the campus. 1:32:34.960 --> 1:32:35.080 You know. 1:32:35.120 --> 1:32:36.600 It was back in the day when like, you know, 1:32:36.640 --> 1:32:38.760 you go to these campuses and they're just like, you know, 1:32:38.800 --> 1:32:42.320 the volleyball courts, and it was just so cool. So 1:32:42.520 --> 1:32:46.000 now you've got something new. You're you're doing a startup 1:32:46.080 --> 1:32:49.320 called Sunshine Tell me what this is all about now. 1:32:50.439 --> 1:32:52.720 Well, at someshine, we're really focused on how to we 1:32:52.800 --> 1:32:56.560 take cutting it edge technology, especially AI, and apply it 1:32:56.600 --> 1:32:59.880 to everyday tasks. So I've always worked in the consumer space. 1:33:00.080 --> 1:33:02.719 I like to take everyday tests and make them easier 1:33:02.760 --> 1:33:07.000 and make them better. And so we've been focused, and 1:33:07.120 --> 1:33:09.200 we started off the company we were really focused on 1:33:09.840 --> 1:33:14.760 contacts and management of birthdays and important events, and most 1:33:14.800 --> 1:33:18.880 recently we have started working in the photo space with 1:33:18.960 --> 1:33:22.519 photos and events. Basically, how do you share with a 1:33:22.560 --> 1:33:26.840 group of ten twenty fifty people, Because we think one 1:33:26.880 --> 1:33:28.960 to one sharing works really well, and we think one 1:33:29.000 --> 1:33:33.040 to many broadcasting photos works really well. All at Instagram 1:33:33.360 --> 1:33:36.080 we find that intermediate case doesn't work that well, and 1:33:36.479 --> 1:33:39.200 there's places where we think that a lot of what 1:33:39.240 --> 1:33:42.479 AI can do in terms of curating photos, suggesting photos 1:33:42.479 --> 1:33:45.240 that you may want to share based on your patterns 1:33:45.720 --> 1:33:48.400 is something that really needs a lot of improvement. 1:33:48.800 --> 1:33:51.599 Yeah, Like it's always a challenge when like, let's say 1:33:51.640 --> 1:33:54.120 it's like a group birthday party or something you're like, oh, everyone, 1:33:54.240 --> 1:33:56.280 let's pull these photos together. Like if you took some 1:33:56.320 --> 1:33:59.400 great photos and people are just they argue on are 1:33:59.439 --> 1:34:02.360 they disagree on how to do that, whether it's you know, 1:34:02.479 --> 1:34:04.880 a shared album or you know, some people want to 1:34:04.920 --> 1:34:08.120 use air drops, some people are Android, some people want 1:34:08.160 --> 1:34:10.400 to text the photos. It's just a mess every time. 1:34:10.520 --> 1:34:12.719 So how does Shine make that easier? 1:34:13.680 --> 1:34:13.840 Right? 1:34:13.920 --> 1:34:16.040 So we have an app as Our app is available 1:34:16.120 --> 1:34:19.040 on iOS and on Android, which is one of the 1:34:19.040 --> 1:34:20.920 big friction points in a group that size. As soon 1:34:20.960 --> 1:34:22.760 as you get to ten people, you definitely have users 1:34:22.800 --> 1:34:27.720 of both platforms. And from there we you set up 1:34:28.000 --> 1:34:31.840 an album and you can declare an event and a place, 1:34:32.520 --> 1:34:34.439 and you can decide do you want to explicitly share 1:34:34.479 --> 1:34:35.960 photos or do you want to share them through what 1:34:36.000 --> 1:34:38.360 we call magic mode. And what magic mode does is 1:34:38.720 --> 1:34:40.599 it looks at a photo, it tries to understand if 1:34:40.600 --> 1:34:42.479 it's the type of photo someone would want to share, 1:34:42.920 --> 1:34:44.800 and asks us of people in it it seems really 1:34:44.840 --> 1:34:50.000 visually interesting, and you'd either suggest that you share it 1:34:50.120 --> 1:34:52.360 or if you're in magic mode, it automatically shares it. 1:34:52.920 --> 1:34:55.879 So it works really well for events and gets togethers. 1:34:55.880 --> 1:34:58.200 And also I found his work worked really well on 1:34:58.320 --> 1:35:01.720 trips and travel. So those are some of the use 1:35:01.760 --> 1:35:05.640 cases working on now. But we're also working on expanding 1:35:05.800 --> 1:35:07.519 the types of use cases that we cover. 1:35:08.120 --> 1:35:11.800 And I do, like, I know the Sunshine Contacts has 1:35:11.840 --> 1:35:14.559 been around for a while, but I really I don't 1:35:14.560 --> 1:35:16.200 know if you remember this company back in the day, 1:35:16.200 --> 1:35:17.880 it used to be called Trello. I think it was 1:35:18.160 --> 1:35:21.120 that they would like, Yeah, so it kind of reminds 1:35:21.120 --> 1:35:22.800 me of like the magic of that, where like it 1:35:22.920 --> 1:35:26.400 just kind of finds the information from your contacts in 1:35:26.439 --> 1:35:28.280 your emails and things like that and like kind of 1:35:28.320 --> 1:35:31.840 puts in that missing information. So how's that going. Are 1:35:31.840 --> 1:35:33.400 people finding that pretty handy or what? 1:35:33.920 --> 1:35:34.120 Yeah? 1:35:34.160 --> 1:35:36.920 I think we have the highest rated Contacts app in 1:35:36.960 --> 1:35:40.840 the app Store that's also available on iOS and Android. 1:35:41.439 --> 1:35:43.400 And what we do is we take your contacts from 1:35:43.439 --> 1:35:47.800 your phone, We ask for permission to your email, We 1:35:47.920 --> 1:35:52.000 interface with Gmail and Outlook and a few other carriers, 1:35:52.200 --> 1:35:55.200 and then we do as we look through there, figure 1:35:55.240 --> 1:35:57.280 out who have you emailed back and forth with, what 1:35:57.479 --> 1:36:00.839 to signature information is there, and then we cross correlated 1:36:00.880 --> 1:36:03.599 with publicly available information from the white Pages and other 1:36:03.680 --> 1:36:07.080 sources LinkedIn, and we actually give you a much more 1:36:07.080 --> 1:36:11.719 comprehensive contact card, so you end up with really nice 1:36:12.360 --> 1:36:18.479 complete contexts that stitch together phone number, email address, your job, 1:36:18.680 --> 1:36:21.599 your role, all those different pieces, and we even show 1:36:21.600 --> 1:36:23.920 you the last email you exchanged with that person to 1:36:23.960 --> 1:36:25.040 give you more context. 1:36:25.680 --> 1:36:27.680 Yeah, it's so much easier than trying to search in 1:36:27.720 --> 1:36:29.639 your email for like a cell phone number, like whenever 1:36:29.680 --> 1:36:31.960 I need contact info for someone, And I like how 1:36:31.960 --> 1:36:34.559 it also tells you, like which email address is like 1:36:34.600 --> 1:36:37.240 the most recent or the most up to date versus 1:36:37.280 --> 1:36:38.960 like an old one that you might have for them, 1:36:39.200 --> 1:36:40.720 But it still shows you. And by the way, I 1:36:40.800 --> 1:36:42.880 meant to say Placo, I don't know if that was 1:36:42.880 --> 1:36:44.040 the company Plaxo. 1:36:44.200 --> 1:36:46.840 Yeah, Plaxo Paso. You know, I become kind of a 1:36:46.960 --> 1:36:50.680 historian on contact apps in Silicon Valley, and Paxo and 1:36:50.760 --> 1:36:54.559 Keen really reigned supreme from two thousand to two thousand 1:36:54.560 --> 1:36:56.600 and three. And then it will say they kind of 1:36:56.600 --> 1:36:58.519 We kind of went through the Winter of Contacts where 1:36:58.520 --> 1:37:00.519 not many people worked on them for a lot on time, 1:37:01.320 --> 1:37:06.080 and then Microsoft and Apple standardized the format for contacts 1:37:06.800 --> 1:37:11.559 around twenty ten twenty twelve, and that made it much 1:37:11.600 --> 1:37:14.639 easier to standardize contacts, But nobody really did a lot 1:37:14.680 --> 1:37:16.880 of work, and we thought was interesting is we did 1:37:17.080 --> 1:37:20.439 more than a three thousand user surveys, and every single 1:37:20.479 --> 1:37:24.720 person reported that their contacts were in terrible shape. And 1:37:24.800 --> 1:37:26.040 the other thing we found, which is one of the 1:37:26.040 --> 1:37:28.120 reasons why we found it would be so important to say, 1:37:28.280 --> 1:37:31.599 tell you what you've used most recently, is about one 1:37:31.960 --> 1:37:34.400 in five contacts on your phone. About nineteen percent of 1:37:34.439 --> 1:37:39.040 contacts on people's phones are obsolete. Yeah, and so our scale. 1:37:39.360 --> 1:37:41.280 So if you tried to go and use that phone 1:37:41.320 --> 1:37:43.559 number or that email address right now, you actually wouldn't 1:37:43.560 --> 1:37:45.040 reach the person you hoped to reach. 1:37:45.240 --> 1:37:47.480 Yeah, that's always a problem. Then you're trying to scramble 1:37:47.560 --> 1:37:50.040 and figure out, you know, where this stuff is. And 1:37:50.320 --> 1:37:52.360 that's why I like this. It's I'm trying to see 1:37:52.360 --> 1:37:54.400 how many Usually it doesn't it tell you, like how 1:37:54.400 --> 1:37:56.160 many contacts? Oh yeah, here we go. So I have 1:37:56.320 --> 1:37:59.519 seven three hundred and eighty six total contacts. Sunshine improved 1:37:59.520 --> 1:38:02.600 six thousand in three hundred and sixty two. That's a 1:38:02.600 --> 1:38:05.760 lot of people. One of these days I'll go through 1:38:05.760 --> 1:38:07.679 those and organize well. 1:38:07.960 --> 1:38:10.280 And one of the core of thoughts for Sunshine is 1:38:10.280 --> 1:38:13.160 that we really want to be help people be thoughtful. 1:38:13.600 --> 1:38:15.080 And so the old adage of you know, if a 1:38:15.160 --> 1:38:17.280 tree falls in the forest. It doesn't make a sound 1:38:17.840 --> 1:38:21.320 if you email or call someone and you're thinking about them. 1:38:21.640 --> 1:38:22.960 They don't know that you're thinking about them if you 1:38:22.960 --> 1:38:27.080 don't reach them. So making sure that contacts really work 1:38:27.120 --> 1:38:30.320 well as something that's foundational, because we also knew that 1:38:30.360 --> 1:38:33.200 we wanted to build Sunshine into a portfolio company where 1:38:33.200 --> 1:38:35.400 we have a set of apps so will be more 1:38:35.400 --> 1:38:38.320 popular than others. But ultimately we really wanted to get 1:38:38.320 --> 1:38:40.080 to the space that we're starting to work in now 1:38:40.280 --> 1:38:45.800 around photos, events, groups, those kinds of tasks that we 1:38:45.880 --> 1:38:48.120 think have been you know, less less of focus in 1:38:48.200 --> 1:38:50.599 recent years and really trying to ease the friction there. 1:38:50.880 --> 1:38:54.559 But to actually do events and groups and even photos 1:38:54.640 --> 1:38:57.920 arguably well, you actually need to have your contacts in 1:38:57.960 --> 1:38:59.000 resonably good shape. 1:38:59.479 --> 1:39:01.880 I want to get sure thoughts on AI real quick. 1:39:01.880 --> 1:39:04.240 We only have about a minute. But I'm curious, Like 1:39:04.360 --> 1:39:06.679 I mean, this is something I'm sure you've thought about 1:39:06.720 --> 1:39:08.960 for many, many years, but now of course the public 1:39:09.080 --> 1:39:11.519 is getting their taste of it with you know, all 1:39:11.640 --> 1:39:14.519 these new AI tools. Is it going to change everything 1:39:14.560 --> 1:39:15.640 in the next couple of years or what. 1:39:17.080 --> 1:39:20.560 For certain, I've been fascinated by AI since my cologyears. 1:39:20.600 --> 1:39:24.040 Both of my degrees are actually in artificial intelligence, and 1:39:24.160 --> 1:39:26.479 I think that it's wonderful to see you having this moment, 1:39:26.960 --> 1:39:29.960 and it won't be without some challenges, but overall, I'm 1:39:30.000 --> 1:39:34.920 incredibly optimistic in terms of the type of power and 1:39:34.960 --> 1:39:37.640 creativity is going to unleash for people. 1:39:37.720 --> 1:39:40.679 And your advice to not just young women but anyone 1:39:40.680 --> 1:39:42.519 interested in tech, still a good time to do that 1:39:42.640 --> 1:39:42.840 or what? 1:39:43.680 --> 1:39:44.120 For sure? 1:39:44.240 --> 1:39:48.479 I really think that technology is just such a wonderful field. 1:39:48.560 --> 1:39:50.800 There's just so many If you like ideas and you 1:39:50.920 --> 1:39:53.439 like learning and always having the challenge of learning something new, 1:39:54.200 --> 1:39:55.800 it's wonderful to have a career in tech. 1:39:56.360 --> 1:39:58.759 All right, we're going to leave it there. Mersa Meyer, 1:39:59.640 --> 1:40:04.360 early employee at Google, former Yahoo CEO, and now doing 1:40:04.600 --> 1:40:07.400 her own thing at Sunshine dot com. Check it out. 1:40:07.400 --> 1:40:10.760 They've got a couple apps for photo sharing, contact management, 1:40:10.920 --> 1:40:14.200 and also birthdays. Thanks so much for joining me today, Marsa. 1:40:14.760 --> 1:40:15.479 Thank you so much. 1:40:15.560 --> 1:40:15.760 Rich. 1:40:16.280 --> 1:40:19.920 All right, coming up, we've got your favorite segment. It 1:40:20.000 --> 1:40:23.600 is the feedback. We're going to get to your emails 1:40:24.240 --> 1:40:26.439 that you've sent me throughout the week about the show. 1:40:27.240 --> 1:40:29.519 The website if you want to link to sunshine. By 1:40:29.520 --> 1:40:32.519 the way, rich on Tech dot TV, we'll be right back. 1:40:33.600 --> 1:40:36.639 Welcome back to rich on Tech. What a great interview. 1:40:36.840 --> 1:40:42.519 Just reflecting on Marissa Mersa Meyer. Oh my gosh, what 1:40:42.640 --> 1:40:46.640 a career Google, Yahoo, doing your own thing. I mean, 1:40:46.680 --> 1:40:50.439 it's just incredible. Okay, before we get to the feedback, 1:40:50.560 --> 1:40:53.879 just want to tell you about this new crime deterrent 1:40:54.000 --> 1:40:58.160 solution from Deep Sentinel. This is a company that has 1:40:58.439 --> 1:41:02.880 security cameras that have virtual security guards. So basically, these 1:41:02.960 --> 1:41:06.080 virtual security guards can view a live fee of the camera, 1:41:06.320 --> 1:41:09.840 see what's going on, scare people off, whatever. But now 1:41:09.880 --> 1:41:13.479 they have a new product called flash Bang and this 1:41:13.560 --> 1:41:18.520 can deploy smoke bombs, pepper spray, and ear piercing sirens. 1:41:19.320 --> 1:41:23.360 And these are mostly for businesses for business theft, and 1:41:23.400 --> 1:41:27.120 so of course the guards watch the camera or get 1:41:27.320 --> 1:41:30.000 flagged when there's an issue, you know, with something going on, 1:41:30.560 --> 1:41:32.479 and then of course they get fair warning and then 1:41:32.479 --> 1:41:37.679 they can deploy this flash Bang technology remotely. They say 1:41:37.680 --> 1:41:41.920 that they're getting interest from various businesses and it's just 1:41:43.080 --> 1:41:45.320 it's just wild. We did a story with this Deep 1:41:45.360 --> 1:41:48.960 Sentinel a while back and they showed us the cameras, 1:41:49.000 --> 1:41:50.880 which are interesting. You know the fact that someone like 1:41:50.960 --> 1:41:53.760 kind of watches them live if they need to. But 1:41:54.080 --> 1:41:57.760 this is a whole other thing. So smoke bomb and 1:41:57.800 --> 1:42:00.800 pepper spray from a camera. Lots of comments on my 1:42:01.320 --> 1:42:04.880 Instagram and Facebook about that one and the YouTube video. 1:42:05.840 --> 1:42:09.360 It's a little different time for feedback. Let's so open 1:42:09.479 --> 1:42:12.080 up the feedbag here with Bruce from San Diego. He said, 1:42:12.080 --> 1:42:15.639 I recently upgraded my older ACER desktop to Windows eleven. 1:42:15.680 --> 1:42:18.719 I'm happy to report it went better than expected. After 1:42:18.800 --> 1:42:21.839 a few upgrades, disc cleanups, and to fragments, the system 1:42:21.880 --> 1:42:24.840 is running smoothly. I'm still getting used to shutting down 1:42:24.880 --> 1:42:29.160 the computer's power off button, but overall, I'm enjoying THEOS. 1:42:29.520 --> 1:42:31.959 By the way, I love catching your show every Saturday 1:42:32.000 --> 1:42:34.160 after work. Thanks for keeping us informed and have a 1:42:34.160 --> 1:42:38.880 great weekend. Thanks Bruce. Appreciate that Michael from Philadelphia rights in. 1:42:38.960 --> 1:42:41.479 As someone who is hard of hearing and legally blind, 1:42:41.520 --> 1:42:45.679 I understand the challenges of navigating technology. I've been adapting 1:42:45.680 --> 1:42:48.320 to text based system since the DOS days. For the 1:42:48.320 --> 1:42:51.320 blind caller you had recently, I suggest they look into 1:42:51.320 --> 1:42:54.719 local resources. Here in Philadelphia, we have the Free Library 1:42:54.720 --> 1:42:57.800 for the Blind, and I imagine most major cities have 1:42:57.920 --> 1:43:01.479 similar services. The caller could benefit from basic knowledge about 1:43:01.520 --> 1:43:04.360 how technology can assist them. My advice would be to 1:43:04.360 --> 1:43:07.040 contact their local city library and ask to be connected 1:43:07.439 --> 1:43:11.360 with services for the visually impaired. They can provide valuable 1:43:11.400 --> 1:43:15.320 guidance on accessible tech options. Great advice, Michael, thanks for 1:43:15.400 --> 1:43:20.360 listening there in Philadelphia, I talked about my Sonos issues 1:43:20.400 --> 1:43:23.760 and the echo situation. Barry from Orange County, New York 1:43:23.840 --> 1:43:26.160 rights in Thanks for keeping us informed. Rich I heard 1:43:26.160 --> 1:43:30.240 your comments about discovering Amazon Echo devices for music and 1:43:30.280 --> 1:43:32.880 wanted to share my experience. We use a mix of 1:43:32.920 --> 1:43:36.200 Echo Dot and full size Echo devices. While the dots 1:43:36.240 --> 1:43:39.160 sound quality is good, the regular Echo is good to excellent. 1:43:39.760 --> 1:43:42.080 We stream your podcast on a phone and connect it 1:43:42.120 --> 1:43:45.360 to an Echo via Bluetooth. Regarding stereo sound, you can 1:43:45.400 --> 1:43:48.760 actually pair two Echo devices for stereo output using the 1:43:48.800 --> 1:43:52.400 Alexa app. It's a great way to enhance the audio experience. 1:43:52.439 --> 1:43:56.040 Hope this information is helpful. Yeah, I should try pairing 1:43:56.040 --> 1:43:57.479 two of them. By the way, you can just ask 1:43:57.520 --> 1:44:00.000 to listen to the podcast directly. You can just say 1:44:00.080 --> 1:44:02.160 listened to the Rich on Tech podcasts and it should 1:44:02.200 --> 1:44:05.360 bring it right up. Phil from Orange County rights In. 1:44:05.400 --> 1:44:08.000 I wanted to share some valuable information about the Jackerie 1:44:08.120 --> 1:44:10.760 portable power station you recommend it to Marry on your 1:44:10.800 --> 1:44:14.160 August third episode Southern California. Edison gives you one hundred 1:44:14.120 --> 1:44:16.760 and fifty dollars rebate on these types of products. You 1:44:16.760 --> 1:44:19.720 can check for eligibility by searching for Jackerie on the 1:44:19.960 --> 1:44:24.559 SCE marketplace website. I recently purchased an Anchor portable power station. 1:44:24.640 --> 1:44:26.280 I can confirm I got my one hundred and fifty 1:44:26.280 --> 1:44:29.599 dollars rebate check from about thirty days. I keep minding 1:44:29.640 --> 1:44:32.360 the car trunk for emergencies. Just wanted to pass along 1:44:32.400 --> 1:44:35.000 this money saving tip to your listeners. Thanks for always 1:44:35.000 --> 1:44:38.280 sharing your tech wisdom with us. 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Thanks to 1:45:43.560 --> 1:45:45.880 convincing three friends to sign up, I only paid about 1:45:45.920 --> 1:45:48.639 sixty bucks for the next twelve months. That's five dollars 1:45:48.680 --> 1:45:51.200 a month plus my friend's got credit too. It's an 1:45:51.280 --> 1:45:54.519 unbeatable deal. Thanks for the great information you provide on 1:45:54.600 --> 1:45:58.120 your shows. And finally, Michael from Santa Fe, New Mexico 1:45:58.200 --> 1:46:00.720 writes in your recent discussion reminded me of something from 1:46:00.760 --> 1:46:03.280 my past. About fifty years ago, I worked with a 1:46:03.280 --> 1:46:06.679 computer console that had built in recessed cup holders about 1:46:06.680 --> 1:46:09.599 twelve inches to the side of the main interface. It's 1:46:09.640 --> 1:46:12.479 some forward thinking designer had already considered the importance of 1:46:12.560 --> 1:46:15.000 keeping drinks away from the equipment. Looks like they were 1:46:15.040 --> 1:46:17.680 ahead of time in preventing coffee spills on Important Tech. 1:46:17.720 --> 1:46:20.599 Would you believe it? After I mentioned the coffee spill, 1:46:20.760 --> 1:46:24.120 I spilled water on my computer, my brand new MacBook. 1:46:24.960 --> 1:46:27.000 Over the weekend. I put down a water bottle. This 1:46:27.080 --> 1:46:29.679 is my new fear, and the water, it was so high, 1:46:29.880 --> 1:46:32.600 splashed out of the top onto my keyboard. So I 1:46:32.760 --> 1:46:36.160 immediately was using the compressed air and I was drying 1:46:36.160 --> 1:46:38.960 it out. Seems to be okay, but please keep that 1:46:39.040 --> 1:46:41.880 water away from your computer. You don't want to have 1:46:41.960 --> 1:46:44.840 to get that keyboard relate replaced, or that logic board 1:46:44.880 --> 1:46:47.439 or whatever might short circuit. All right, that's gonna do 1:46:47.439 --> 1:46:49.120 it for this episode of the show. You can find 1:46:49.160 --> 1:46:52.120 everything I mentioned on my website. Go to richontech dot tv. 1:46:52.680 --> 1:46:56.479 Find me on social media at rich on Tech. Next 1:46:56.520 --> 1:46:59.360 week we've got the Apple event. I'll be there. We're 1:46:59.360 --> 1:47:01.759 gonna have I Justine on the show to talk about 1:47:01.800 --> 1:47:04.760 all things Apple. Thanks so much for listening. There are 1:47:04.840 --> 1:47:06.760 so many ways you can spend your time. I really 1:47:06.800 --> 1:47:09.600 appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to 1:47:09.640 --> 1:47:12.320 everyone who makes this show possible. My name is rich Demiro. 1:47:12.560 --> 1:47:14.040 I'll talk to you real soon.