WEBVTT - Rich On Tech Radio Show 001 - January 7, 2023 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.519 Tech and the crowds return to Las Vegas for CES 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:09.440 twenty twenty three. One major airline now giving its passengers 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:13.119 free Wi Fi. Apple Fitness has some new ways to 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.280 get you in shape for the new year. Plus your 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.480 tech questions answered? What is going on? I'm Rich d'miro 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.400 and this is rich on Tech, the show where I 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.040 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about, 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.240 and it is the place where I answer your questions. 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.040 Now you're probably wondering what happened to Leo. If not, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.760 thanks for knowing who I am, and please let's keep 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.760 it that way. Leo Laporte has retired from this radio 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:46.040 show and after nineteen years, he finally gets to enjoy 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.960 his weekends. And now I'm the new guy. That's right, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.800 You've got me for your guide for all things technology. 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.560 My naming once again is rich Demiro. I'm the tech 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.959 reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, and now 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.160 now I'll be hosting this very show every week. If 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:05.680 you want to do some research on me, you can 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.520 find me on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at rich on Tech. 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:14.760 My website is richon Tech dot tv. You are in 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.279 for something special. I mean, every day, you know things happen, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.080 things change, But this is the first. This is the 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.640 very first episode of rich on Tech. I've never been 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.800 more excited. This has been a lifelong dream of mine. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.840 Uh if you've listened to my podcast over the years, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.920 this show is going to be largely similar to that, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.040 except that didn't have you as a live caller, which 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.959 has been the thing I've wanted to do for so 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.640 many years. You get to connect with me. I'm going 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.559 to reveal the new phone number for the very first time. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:51.640 Are you ready here? It is eight eight eight rich 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.240 one oh one. That's eight eight eight rich one oh 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.440 one one triple eight seven four to two four to 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.920 one zero one. Write it down, commit it to memory. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.360 This is the phone number you need to know if 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.920 you need some tech help and guidance whenever, I'll be 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.400 here for you. So give me a call. We'll get 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.760 some of your questions in today's show. We'll see if 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.440 we can help you out, and just have fun. This 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:17.800 is going to be a back and forth. This is 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.160 not just me talking to you. This is you. You 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.480 are part of this show, and you're a big part 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.600 of it because without you, there is no show. You 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.840 have questions, I have answers. We'll get the you know, 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.800 we'll get this all figured out. It's going to be fun. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.120 My plan is to make this the most useful show 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.679 you listen to each and every week. I'm gonna pack 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.760 it with tech tips, reviews, cool new apps and websites, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.919 plus information to keep you safe from scams and other 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.960 online issues. I mean, think about it every day. I'm 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.800 covering this stuff for KTLA. I'm seeing a lot of 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.400 stuff come through. I'm going to a lot of things, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.239 talking to a lot of people. I'm going to bring 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:58.040 that information right here. I'm also excited to bring on 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.399 interesting guests to talk about a wide range of topics. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.640 It's going to be different, it's going to be you know, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.359 I find tech to be a wide swath of things. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.239 It's not just one thing. Tech is all is gadgets, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.480 but it's also how do people do their jobs with technology? 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.000 What apps do you use to stay organized and to 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.560 stay focused and to stay productive. That's the kind of 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.799 stuff that I want to explore in this show. All right, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.120 So a little bit about me. All Right, I'm just 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.760 a regular person who loves tech. I've always loved tech. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.600 I mean, I've been thinking about technology since I was 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.440 a kid. I remember waiting to get on the internet, 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.880 this thing called the Internet when AOL was a thing, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.880 and AOL was sort of this, you know, it was 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.800 part of the Internet, but not really. And I waited 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.080 every day as a kid for that little Internet link 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.400 on AOL to light up. That's how nerdy I was. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.480 I'm originally from New Jersey, right outside New York City, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:54.200 and my typical job throughout the last couple decades has 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.600 been a TV reporter. And I started out as a reporter, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.880 as you would in a small market Yakima, Washington. I 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.119 moved my way up to Shreveport, Louisiana. Then I went 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.640 to Los Angeles, then I went to New York and 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.240 then I came back to Los Angeles. And in that 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.840 time where I really cut my teeth as a tech 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.119 person was at cnet in New York City. And Wow, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.240 what a fun place to work. I mean, to go 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.040 from looking at a website like ce neet to actually 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.000 being on a website like cenet. I got to see 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.320 it all, I got to do it all. I was 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.080 there for the launch of the iPhone in New York 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.039 City in two thousand and seven. It was such a 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.679 phenomenal time. I could still remember being in the Apple 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.640 Store in that launch day like it was yesterday. In fact, 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.680 the song that you just heard, the lead singer of 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.160 that song was inside the Apple Store and I got 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:46.680 to talk to him for a little bit. I mean, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.320 just what an incredible experience. Now, I've been covering tech 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.440 for more than a decade at KTLA TV in Los Angeles, 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.279 and it has been so much fun. I wake up early. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.039 You know, I talked to people. I've traveled around the 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:10.120 world doing my job, to countries including China, including Japan, Ireland, England, Spain, Portugal, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.560 I mean, you name it. I've seen tech in different places. 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.760 And what I love about that is that, you know, 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.120 we grow up here in America and we see how 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.400 we do things, but when you go to other places, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.400 you see how other people do things and it could 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.320 be a little bit different than the way we do stuff. 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.880 So it gives you depth, it gives you perspective. But 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.760 really my secret weapon is you. Your emails, your messages, 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.480 your responses to my TV segments. Help me know what 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:36.400 is important, What are you thinking about? What do you 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.600 want to know about? I mean, I don't have all 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.880 the answers. I don't wake up and just know everything 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.760 there is to know about technology. I explore and I 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.760 figure it out, and I also know the ways to 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.920 figure this stuff out, and that really helps me out. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.680 I'm going to do my best to use my knowledge 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.800 to help you out. I'm on a journey just like 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:54.200 you with all of this stuff. You know, I get 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.400 a gadget for Christmas and I got to figure it out, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.480 just like you. I've got a wife, i've got two kids, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.800 I've got a full time job. I've got a lot 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.479 to juggle, and you know, reading the manuals has never 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.000 been my forte. I kind of like to figure it 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.839 out as I go along. And in twenty twenty three, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.120 I'll be figuring out how to get organized. Like digital 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.960 photos and files, they've become a mess, just like yours have. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:20.280 I bet I've got Google Drive, I've got Apple Cloud Storage, 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.119 I've got my phone. I've got all kinds of things 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.160 in different places, and I want to figure out how 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.080 am I going to dupe? How am I going to organize? 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.760 That's my goal this year. Also, how to become more productive, 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.800 how to keep tracking my notes. I've been journaling on 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.320 a daily basis, which is really fun? What's the best 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.520 to do list? App I've been trying to figure that out. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.800 My hope with this show is to inspire you. It's 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.880 to make you smile, it's to make you think, it's 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.039 to make you laugh, and overall, just make you enjoy 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.320 our time together. That's really what it's all about. You're 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.080 giving me your time. If that's not fun, then you 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:55.880 probably got to go somewhere else. It's got to be 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.480 fun for this to be interesting. Now. I just got 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.760 back from CS twenty twenty three. This is the big 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.880 tech show in Las Vegas. I've been going to this 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.920 for over a decade and this year things were back 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.040 in full swing. Last year, the year before, it's been 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.720 a little rough for the show, obviously because of the pandemic. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.920 But this year it was. It was pretty incredible. There 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.560 is so much to see. I did not get to 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.440 see it all. But you know, people complain about ces. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.040 They say how big it is, they say how annoying 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.040 it is, how they get sick, how they get tired, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.000 how they have to walk. I will embrace every bit 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.640 of that because at the end of the day, this 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.360 is where you see the stuff that I'm going to 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.600 be talking about for the next year or two. This 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.080 is where I get to see my friends. This is 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.200 where I get to see pr folks that I connect 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.480 with over email and I just know them by an 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.840 email account. This is how business gets done in person. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.880 I get it. We've been remote, we've been hybrid. You 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.240 could do your job from anywhere these days. But when 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.720 you're in person, you actually get to connect with a 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.840 human being, and that is still the most magical experience 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.840 we have as humans. You're listening to me right now 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.440 through some sort of speaker or headset, and we feel connected. 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.880 But if you see me in person, it's a whole 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.440 different world. You get to say, hey, rich you know, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.000 I like what you do. I see thanks for this, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.760 I like that post. It's just a different connection that 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.800 you can't have any other way in this world. But 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.120 I'll take this too, because this is really fun. At 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.800 CS always the TVs. They're getting bigger, they're getting slimmer. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.160 Eight K still a buzzy thing. We also saw wireless TVs. 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.040 I drove to CES because I like driving. I like 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.080 my time. I like that time in the car to 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:35.000 just kind of enjoy and you know, disconnect from the world. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.240 I mean, it's a couple of hours where I can't 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.600 check my social media while I'm driving, and it's kind 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.559 of a glorious thing. Is CS a ton of work? Absolutely? 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.199 Is it all worth it? One hundred percent. I even 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:48.679 got to go to a concert. While I was there, 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.080 I saw Imagine Dragons, and you know, everything you do 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.319 there is for a reason. Imagine Dragons was presented by Dolby. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.680 It was in their theater that they have at Park MGM, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.400 and it was presented and Dole me at most. So again, 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.160 everything you do just adds to that perspective that you 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.800 have as a journalist, as a tech person, and quite honestly, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.840 if you haven't seen Imagine Dragons, very inspiring concert. I 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.320 had a fantastic time. I went with my photographer Luis. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.120 It was late, we were tired, it was after a 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.160 full day of work, and we really really enjoyed ourselves 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:24.640 and I can't say how inspiring that concert was. I 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.079 never realized just what an impact someone like that can 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.560 make on me. All right, coming up, we are going 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.960 to take your very first call at one eight eight 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.360 eight rich one oh one. Again. The phone number to 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.160 the show is triple eight seven four to two four 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.920 one zero one. That is the direct line for me. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.440 If you don't call, I've got some questions that you've 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.680 emailed me. Again. I'm at rich on Tech on social media, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:59.439 my website rich on tech dot tv. Coming up, we're 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.480 gonna talk ab the airline, the major airline that is 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.439 now giving free Wi Fi not just to select passengers 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.080 but to all passengers, and does that mean we're going 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:10.480 to see more of that? Plus Apple Fitness, I'm going 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.320 to tell you about their latest workout, which I don't 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.400 think I've ever done before, but you know what, maybe 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.040 I'll try it. My name is rich dmiro. You're listening 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.559 to rich on Tech. More of the show after this, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:25.120 plus you your calls coming up. Welcome back to the show, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.160 rich DeMuro here rich on Tech. It's a whole new 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.040 show here on the radio, taking your calls, talking about 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.160 technology and just breaking down the news of the week. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.880 We're going to talk about CS some of the cool 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.160 things I saw there. We're going to talk to Brian Tong, 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.319 mister CS, one of my good friends who hosts the 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.320 show every year. He was there with me in Las Vegas. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.240 We'll talk about some of the cool stuff we saw 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.880 and most importantly, we're taking your phone calls. The phone 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.720 number is triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.560 eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.320 If you're thanks joining once again. My name is Rich Demiro, 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:06.800 new host of this radio show called Rich on Tech. 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.600 All right, let's do this. This is another little piece 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:10.040 of history. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:10.199 Here. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:11.920 See if I can reach the phone here, we're going 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.760 to take our very first caller, and it is Mary 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:20.200 in Downie. Mary in Downie, you are on with Rich 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.000 on Tech. How's it going? 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.920 Good morning, Rich. First of all, I would like to 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:29.040 say congratulations on your new show. I've been following you 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:30.440 on KTLA for years. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.160 Oh well, thank you so much. I can you hear 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.440 the excitement and the nervousness in my voice. I was 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.000 surprised I didn't get a notification from my Apple Watch 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.520 saying your heart rate is a little higher than typical. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.160 No, you sound really confident, just as you always do. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.240 Thank you so much. What can I help you with today? 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:48.480 What's going on in your life? 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.680 So my question is, when I'm in my car, my 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.800 cell phone, my android connects to my car and it 0:11:56.040 --> 0:12:00.479 says do I want to auto connect to the car's wife? 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.280 I don't have it on auto connect. I'm a boomer. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.079 I would like for you to explain the difference between 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:11.240 my celf, WiFi, my car and Wi Fi, or even 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.640 at work I connect to a hotspot. Can you explain 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.480 all those different terms for me? 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.920 Oh? Absolutely, This is a great question, and it's funny. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.560 I was just talking about this yesterday. I was in 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.480 Vegas and I was saying how I rarely connect my 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.959 phone to the Wi Fi network at the hotel because 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.960 I'd rather if I have a good signal on my phone, 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.960 I'm going to use my LTE or my cellular or 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.280 my you know, five G signal. So you've got a 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.520 couple things going on. I mean, you've got cellular, which 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.400 is the connection between your phone and your carrier. So 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.440 whether you have Verizon, T Mobile, at and T or 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.360 one of the smaller carriers out there, that's a direct 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.360 connection between your phone and the tower. You've seen them 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.360 all over town, you know. Sometimes they look like trees. 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.120 Sometimes they just look like a bunch of speakers on 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.040 a pole. That's a direct connection. That's also the most 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:03.680 secure connection you can have between your phone and the network. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:08.280 So if you're doing anything like banking, anything really private. 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.800 I always recommend turning off Wi Fi and using just 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.880 the direct cellular connection. Now, when you get into your car, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.400 your car could have two connections, So the Wi Fi 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.040 connection in your car, your car may be equipped with 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.040 a cellular connection. A lot of the new cars are 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.640 equipped with that. And that cellular connection means that you 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.200 pay a monthly fee or it's somehow included in the 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.600 price of your car, and it is connecting to a network. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.400 And the benefit of that is that your car probably 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.320 has a higher powered antenna than your phone, which means 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.320 you're going to grab a signal in more places with 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.280 the LTE or the five G connection in your car. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.679 And so your car is physically or I guess wirelessly connected. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.040 If it was physically connected to the cellular tower, you 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.079 wouldn't go very far. But your car is wirelessly connected 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.559 to the cellular tower, and that is giving a cellular 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.400 connection to your car. And this can power things like 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.960 streaming music. It can power things like streaming radio, and 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.760 also the maps in your car and anything else that 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.040 your car may use, you know, software updates, all that 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.080 kind of stuff. Many cars today, I mean this is 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.319 going back many years have those sort of connections. Now, 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.000 why would you want your phone to connect to the 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:24.320 Wi Fi that your car is emitting. Well, you might 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.840 want a stronger connection in more places. You also might 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.040 have a limited data plan on your phone, and maybe 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.720 you want to use the data plan that's on your car, 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.840 So those are some of the reasons why you might 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.360 want to do that. The other reason is, you know 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.120 you can use features like Android Auto wirelessly, so if 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.400 you're not connecting to your car, Android Auto would not 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:50.760 be able to connect wirelessly to take over the screen 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.080 in the center console. So that's definitely another reason why 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:55.880 you'd want to connect to the Wi Fi in your car, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.080 even if you're not using a Wi Fi connection per se, 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.640 But that's the way your phone is is communicating with 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.920 that center screen to take it over. Now, at work, 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.840 this is a tricky topic because I'm also not a 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.040 big fan of connecting my phone to the in work 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.280 Wi Fi. Not that I'm doing anything wrong at work, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:21.200 but quite honestly, companies do have tracking software that they 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.120 can potentially use on the Wi Fi networks at work, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.320 and depending on how your Wi Fi at work is 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.160 set up, it could be very secure and you may 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.240 have to accept some sort of what's called a trust 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.800 certificate to actually use that Wi Fi, or you may 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.720 have to use a network that is very insecure and 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:43.880 open network. And the reality is these days Wi Fi 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:48.120 is pretty secure for the most part. Unless someone's using 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.520 a sophisticated device to sort of sniff out what's happening 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.760 on the network, you're probably going to be okay. But 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.240 I just rather there are so many implications of when 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.280 you join a Wi Fi network, how you can be 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:04.520 tracked and followed and monitored and notified, and I just 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.960 would rather stay out of all of that. So typically, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.600 unless I'm doing something that requires a big download or 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.440 a big upload, I'm just staying off the Wi Fi 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.480 connection at work. If you have an unlimited cellular pro 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.080 A plan on your phone, why do you need to 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.920 be on the Wi Fi. It's something to think about. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:23.960 And I'm not saying that you have to, you know, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.760 disconnect from your company's Wi Fi today, but it's just 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.760 one of those things. Maybe ask some questions like, hey, 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.680 how is the Wi Fi set up, or what's the 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.840 limitations or what are you monitoring for? Because you know, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.840 we do a lot of personal stuff on our phones, 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.960 and most of it's encrypted so you should be okay. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.440 But the reality is, you know, they could potentially see 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.400 when you come and go to work. They could see 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.680 where you hang out at work. They can see when 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.600 you connect, they can see when you disconnect, they can 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.680 see websites that you go to. There are a lot 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.160 of implications of any network that you connect to, and 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:59.160 Bluetooth is very similar. So I think that knowing about 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.240 this stuff and being away of it is the smart thing. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.760 And Mary, I think that you know, just asking these 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.560 questions like this is a smart thing because you're curious 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.960 and that's always the first step to just being on 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.000 top of things. So thank you Mary in Downy, California 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.240 for having the very first question on the Rich on 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.919 Tech radio show. We've got a lot more in store 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.560 coming up. We're going to talk to Brian Tong. He 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.720 has a podcast, he has a YouTube channel. He used 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.840 to be at Cena and he is the host of 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.640 CS for the past couple of years. So we are 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.040 going to talk about CEES twenty twenty three and all 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.400 the fun stuff we saw with guest Brian Tong. Coming up. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.280 My name is Rich Demiro. You are listening to Rich 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.920 on Tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. My name 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.320 is Rich dmiro and this is the show where we 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.840 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.920 It's also the place where I answer the questions that 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.360 you call in with. Joining me now is Brian Tong. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.280 He's a content creator for technology. He's this year's host 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:06.679 of CS twenty twenty three and an all around nice guy. Brian. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.440 Welcome to the show and history once again. You're the 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.639 first guest on this brand new radio show. How you 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:13.480 doing on this day? 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.320 Rich, I am honored to be part of such a 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:22.400 exclusive group of individual and I thank you so much. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.080 We go way back in This is awesome, so I'm 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:24.760 happy to be here. Bro. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:28.680 Congratulations, thank you. Congratulations to Brian. Brian and I used 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.600 to both work at c net technology website, and Brian 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.119 is on his own He does all kinds of cool 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.320 tech stuff on YouTube and also your podcast where you 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.159 talk about all things Apple. How has it been you 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:43.720 are still at CTS right? 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:45.160 Yeah? 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.240 You know, I'm hosting the show, but I'm going to 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.800 take a break to talk to one of my good friends. 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.080 And we saw each other here, but see us. I 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.160 think this year right, last year was a pandemic kind 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.760 of recovery year or a transitional year where people really 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.280 weren't sure whether they were coming or not. To me, 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:02.640 when I see the boost, this feels like a fool 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.240 on CEF. Even the amount of people here the show 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.119 feels like maybe around eighty five to ninety percent of 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.639 what we normally get, and I think that's actually a 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.600 good thing. There's a point where CS was getting too crowded, 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.400 and now that things have kind of changed, there's people 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.600 that aren't going to come back to conventions as much. 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.639 But I think the energy and also more than I think, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.639 we've seen a lot of companies who during this roughly 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.679 two and a half year period have done things that 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.000 I don't think they might have done if things were 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.399 kind of going year after year iner you know, and 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.600 just kind of be more iterative. I think it for 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.800 the companies to really be a lot more innovative. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:38.440 Oh yeah, and also the breadth of companies, like the 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.720 stuff that we've seen, I mean stuff like john Gear, Caterpillar, 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.360 I mean a car tech. It's there's so many things 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.639 that have expanded now. So Brian is the host for CS, 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:50.639 so you do videos for CS. You kind of get 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.440 the inside scoop on everything that's happening there. So you've 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.800 really seen it all, and you've seen like the biggest stuff, 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.160 you see the small stuff. So one of the trends 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.720 we saw this year is I guess we're going to 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.760 have wireless TVs because LG had THEIRS on display and 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.439 then there was a startup the name is evading me 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.400 right now, maybe you remember it, but they also had 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.120 a wireless TV. LG still had a plug the startup 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:14.880 they did not have a plug at all, Like it's 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.600 a phone a TV that you reach arge, did you 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:18.639 see either of these? 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.919 I saw, I got my I got definitely time with 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.520 the LG wireless TV. I don't know about the startup 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.800 because there's so many products that we're only two men. 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:30.359 It's like we can't cover everything. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.000 Yeah, but you know, with wireless transmission to a TV, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.520 whether or even wireless transmission to a home theater system, 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:39.760 this is honestly been the holy grail for a while 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.399 for home entertainment. I remember I've been at CS for 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.840 fifteen years now, and I remember some of my early 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.560 years there were demos that are done private suite that 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:53.320 were showing off like hey, we have a wireless audio 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:57.120 system and we have wireless, and they never came to fruition, like. 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.159 Hey, they had wireless HDMI as well, remember that. I 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:01.960 mean I remember seeing this, and of course it was 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.280 like it was like a little adapter that you put 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:05.480 on the back of your TV and it had to 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:07.320 be I think it's like a line of sight or something. 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.800 By the way, the TV that's the startup is called 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:10.800 Displace TV. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:12.520 Oh that's good. 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.480 Displace, you said, yeah, Displace. And by the way, the 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:17.560 TV apparently has suction cups on the back so you 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.239 can just literally stick it anywhere. Now I would not. 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.480 I don't know if you've ever used a command strip 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.400 on your wall, but mine fall off like once a year. 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:27.240 Stuff that I put up like the year before just 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.800 falls off in succession, like all the pictures. So I'm 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:32.840 not ready to use I'm not ready to stick a 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:33.640 TV on my wall. 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.760 Well, I mean you you might not be ready now, 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.520 but when you see what LG is doing, you know 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:42.560 they have their own proprietary I guess ecosystem and connection. 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:45.560 The fact that you're sending not just a video signal 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.719 and audio signal, but a four K refress rate, which is, 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.080 you know, more than enough for gaming. I mean, if 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:53.960 you want hire, sure, most people are gonna actually be 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.320 playing gaming on monitors, but now more TVs are getting 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.760 higher refresh rates. The big thing here is, though, people 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.520 that are really into this whole minimalist design, one of 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:04.159 the biggest things that you always have to struggle with 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.000 is wires. These are first world problems, rich, but no 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.159 wire a table clutter of TVs right, and can you 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:14.680 imagine just literally mounting a TV now truly no wires. 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.119 It would look so clean, so beautiful and get all 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:20.720 the benefits of Dolby autmost Audio, Adobe Vision Video four 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:22.720 K one hundred and twenty herd Like, this is a 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.280 big this to me for the home get or junkie 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.439 who's been waiting for this for arguably ten years and 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:30.920 has been told it's coming. The fact that LG now 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.560 has it nailed down tells me that it's actually here. 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:35.920 I mean, LG is a brand y. I own an LGTV, 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:36.359 and it. 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:38.879 Will happen because here's the thing. LG showed off the 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.120 rollable TV. I think it was like four years ago. 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:44.320 It was like a it went from early prototype to like, okay, 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:47.240 it's really expensive, and then it's like okay, now it's here. 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:49.680 Now it's still expensive, but that's the beauty of technology 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:51.960 is that it does come down in price over time, 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:54.720 no problem. So we will see wireless TVs. It'll give 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:57.000 you this the flexibility to I remember every time I 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.720 got a new apartment back in the day, your TV 0:22:59.920 --> 0:23:02.399 was determined by where that little cable came up in 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.359 the floor, like from the last personally is it? And 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.280 now it's like to go from that to just putting 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.200 your your entertainment stuff where you want it in your room, 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:12.720 and then your TV where you want it is a 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.560 whole bay thing. All right, let's talk about this this 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.239 BMW color changing car. Did you get to see that? 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:20.840 Yes, got to see that up close. On The good 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:23.160 thing is that last year they also I also got 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.920 to see it up close. This is a concept design. 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:31.280 It's called the I BMW I Vision D as spelled D. 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:36.359 And last year, yeah, last year they they showed it 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:38.679 off as a black and white concept and it was 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:41.879 a wrap on one of their current existing cars. It 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:44.359 was very geometric, but what it was is like, hey, 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:46.840 we've got a color changing car. It showed off cool 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:49.959 black and white patterns. But this year they wrapped it 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:54.800 on a streamlined car design to really actually take advantage 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:56.880 of these e ink panels. So for people that aren't 0:23:56.880 --> 0:23:59.200 familiar e ink, which is like on an Amazon kindle, 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.679 you're familiar it being in black and white. There are 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:05.280 companies that make e ink that actually is in color, 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:09.639 and so what BMW has done is essentially partnered with 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:12.560 one of those companies and wrapped a car, but wrapped 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.320 it specifically with this car is designed with Queen lines 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.680 to allow this ink raped to be just really tight. 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.240 It just looks like it's it's been dipped in this 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:26.160 stuff and it's yeah, it's incredible in amazing to see. 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:29.320 I have some video footage that that that'll be going 0:24:29.440 --> 0:24:32.879 up about it, but it's captured everyone's imagination. There's not 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:35.239 a single person who hasn't seen it that said they 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:38.320 loved it. I talked to BMW and the person who's 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.720 responds her name is a doctor Stella. I can't remember 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:43.919 her last name, but she's been a part of this 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:46.919 project from the beginning. It's been really a true passion 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:49.520 project for her. And she talks about the advances of 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:52.000 even the rap that they put on. If you when 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:54.880 there's cut lines, you know, a car has grooves and whatnot. 0:24:55.160 --> 0:24:58.360 You actually cannot cut this ink material too many times 0:24:58.440 --> 0:25:01.800 otherwise it pretty much breaks down the electrical signal that 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:04.359 goes through a panel and then would prevent it from 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:06.480 sending a single that allows it to change color. 0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:08.520 So they have to be very strategic. 0:25:08.119 --> 0:25:10.560 In how they wrap this car and where the cut 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.080 lines are. It's the most it's the most incredible thing. 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:14.760 But this is not coming out any times things right, 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:17.040 They're still developing more things with it, but she says 0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:19.159 she even sees me like, oh, we have more ideas 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:20.600 for next year, don't worry. I was like wow. 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:23.040 But again, the reality is when we see these things, 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:25.440 we know that they will be coming out in the future. 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:28.920 Sony and Honda working together on their new car called 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:31.160 a FeelA. What do you think of that name? Are 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:31.879 you a feeling it? 0:25:33.760 --> 0:25:34.000 Rich? 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.880 I got a feeler that's a nice gonna. 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:39.880 Be good night, Okay, I'll stop. 0:25:40.320 --> 0:25:42.760 Your listeners are just I don't want them to see now. 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:46.200 But I think it's an incredible, fascinating idea where we've 0:25:46.200 --> 0:25:49.280 seen the electric vehicle space, you know, for a while, 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:52.119 ben Argue quite honestly dominate at least here in the 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:56.240 US by Tesla. You now have actual car manufacturers who 0:25:56.240 --> 0:25:58.360 really have a better fit and finish when we talk 0:25:58.400 --> 0:26:01.440 about some of the aspects of a car that are 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:03.280 that are better than a Tesla, but Tesla has that. 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:06.920 It's like a it's like a technology exhibition, and they 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:10.760 have a better charging network right now, but as time 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:13.320 has gone on, charging networks will continue to grow. These 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:16.880 other companies that are behind, they're actually garnering more interest 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:21.960 because of think about this, right, Honda and Sony partnering 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:25.240 together and then also using a Qualcom ship inside it. 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:27.800 Those are three tech giants basically saying, hey, we need 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:31.120 to work together as a you know, a triple threat. Yeah, 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:33.480 to make something that is special. Like they've seen the 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:35.800 landscape and they're not trying to do this alone. 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:37.040 They're like, let's work together. 0:26:37.280 --> 0:26:39.000 And that's a big electronic experience. 0:26:39.160 --> 0:26:41.280 Yeah, a huge deal and it's fascinating and I. 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:43.520 Love the idea that we're seeing more competition in this 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:47.199 electric car space. I think Sony, look, we've got Apple 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:49.480 jumping into the mix. At some point, You've got Sony, 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:51.679 You've got Honda. I mean, we are just at the 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:53.959 beginning of what we're seeing with all this stuff all right, 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:55.840 Brian Tong, thanks so much for joining me. Where can 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:57.280 folks find you online? Real quick? 0:26:57.840 --> 0:26:59.760 Yeah, if you want to go follow my YouTube channel. 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:03.119 It's just YouTube dot com slash Briantong br I a 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:08.040 Mtong Twitter. I'm really active there. Brian Tong on Instagram. No, 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:10.159 Stra Tong is You're just gonna have to type it 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:10.880 in and find it. 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:14.800 Thanks Brian rich thanks for joining me from CS twenty 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:16.919 twenty three. Brian Tong. My name is Rich Damiro. You 0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:19.400 are listening to Rich on Tech. More of your calls 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:24.240 coming up next. Welcome back, Rich Demiro Here, Rich on Tech. 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:26.880 This is the radio show where we talk about tech stuff, 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:29.879 basically the stuff I think you should know about. Plus 0:27:29.880 --> 0:27:33.639 it's the place where I answer your questions. Let's go 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:37.639 to Carlos in Van Eyes. Carlos and Van Eyes, you 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:39.600 are on with Rich. Did I get the right I don't. 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:40.600 Did I get the right one? 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:40.800 No? 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:43.800 I didn't know. This is Rick and Lamesa. See. You know, 0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:46.560 it's my first day. It's a new job. You know 0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:49.640 I've been you know, I've been in my TV career 0:27:49.640 --> 0:27:51.239 for a long time, and I still don't know how 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:52.679 to press a button on a phone. But anyway, Rick 0:27:52.720 --> 0:27:54.680 and La Mesa, welcome to the show. 0:27:55.520 --> 0:27:57.679 There must be something to do with us. Both happened 0:27:57.720 --> 0:27:59.359 the greatest name on Earth Rich. 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:02.359 Now, you know what's funny about having the name rich 0:28:03.040 --> 0:28:05.200 is that I get called Rick all the time, even 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:07.399 though I've never introduced myself as Rick. But it's like 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:11.719 one of those interchangeable things, right, I guess, Yeah, I 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:16.480 hear you, So is your real is your actual name Richard? Okay, 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:20.000 there you go. So my family calls me Richard, which 0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:23.960 means I'm in trouble if I'm hearing that name. So, uh, Rick, 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:25.000 what's on your mind today? 0:28:26.119 --> 0:28:26.320 Oh? 0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:29.720 I was wondering about this five G thing. You know, 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:32.840 I supposedly I'll see my phone then the five G, 0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:36.240 but I don't know if it's really using five G. 0:28:36.400 --> 0:28:39.040 How on the heck do you see what your phone 0:28:39.120 --> 0:28:40.800 is actually using for service? 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:47.080 Good question? Which carrier do you have? Okay? So with 0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:49.280 Verizon there's a couple things. So this is a great 0:28:49.360 --> 0:28:52.160 question because you know, we've heard so much hype about 0:28:52.240 --> 0:28:55.640 five G and what does it mean? So number one, 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:58.760 you know, four G networks are still pretty good. They were, 0:28:58.960 --> 0:29:01.920 It's they're well built out. If you see an LTE 0:29:02.320 --> 0:29:04.560 on your phone, that means you're still on four G. 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:07.680 If you see five G, that means you're on the latest, 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:10.400 greatest five G network, which is sort of an upgrade. 0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:12.840 It's a little bit better than four G. Now what 0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.360 you really want to look for is this new thing. 0:29:16.240 --> 0:29:20.520 This is five G plus five GUW and five GUC. 0:29:21.120 --> 0:29:24.560 So you're on Verizon. When you see five GUW, that 0:29:24.640 --> 0:29:28.760 means ultra wideband. That means you're getting Verizon's best, absolute, 0:29:28.800 --> 0:29:31.600 most cutting edge network, and it's going to be really fast, 0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:34.640 Like I'm talking faster than almost all the Wi Fi 0:29:34.680 --> 0:29:37.080 networks that you're using. And I've seen speeds that are 0:29:37.120 --> 0:29:40.640 just incredible on these UW networks. For T Mobile, it's 0:29:40.720 --> 0:29:43.640 five G u C And I was in Vegas over 0:29:43.640 --> 0:29:45.600 the last week and T Mobile had a lot of 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:49.880 UC there. Ultracapacity, that's what that means. And it just 0:29:49.920 --> 0:29:54.520 means that that's the real, real, you know, the spectrum 0:29:54.520 --> 0:29:57.000 that these carriers have been wanting for so many years 0:29:57.000 --> 0:29:59.520 that enables them to do so many more things like 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:04.239 home internet, like really basically ditch Wi Fi altogether at 0:30:04.280 --> 0:30:07.000 some point in our lives because these networks are going 0:30:07.040 --> 0:30:10.240 to be so ubiquitous and so fast and just so 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:14.120 capable that we won't really need that. So how do 0:30:14.160 --> 0:30:18.080 you know which icon or which service you're on? On 0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:20.560 the iPhone? You swipe down from the upper right hand 0:30:20.600 --> 0:30:23.520 corner and then it'll show you in your control center, 0:30:23.640 --> 0:30:27.960 you know, Verizon five G, five GUW. There's also a 0:30:28.000 --> 0:30:30.440 couple of settings you can look at on the iPhone. 0:30:30.480 --> 0:30:33.240 If you go into your settings and Cellular, you can 0:30:33.280 --> 0:30:36.760 actually choose which network you want to be on. You 0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:38.800 can say, you know, I only want five G or 0:30:38.880 --> 0:30:42.000 I only want LTE. And the reason why you might 0:30:42.040 --> 0:30:44.200 want to switch networks is because, let's say you're in 0:30:44.240 --> 0:30:46.800 a really congested place, like a stadium, and maybe that 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:50.200 stadium is not fully upgraded to you know, these new 0:30:50.240 --> 0:30:52.880 five G networks, and so you're having trouble getting a 0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:56.000 tweet through or a picture through to Instagram. Sometimes it 0:30:56.080 --> 0:30:58.520 might be helpful to drop back to an LTE network 0:30:58.560 --> 0:31:01.280 because guess what, less are on it now, because everyone 0:31:01.360 --> 0:31:03.480 wants to be on the fancy new five G network. 0:31:04.640 --> 0:31:06.760 That's kind of the bottom line with these networks. I 0:31:06.760 --> 0:31:09.400 think that the thing to know is that number one, 0:31:09.520 --> 0:31:14.000 they're not everywhere. So these carriers are very much still 0:31:14.080 --> 0:31:17.920 working on their five G networks, and that means sometimes 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:20.360 you may see a five G signal, sometimes you may not. 0:31:20.920 --> 0:31:23.080 You may see a five G in one place, you 0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:25.400 may see lt E in another. You may see the 0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:29.120 UW or the PLUS or the UC in various places. 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:32.480 Usually at this point, the PLUS, the UW, and the 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:39.360 UC are in you know, city centers, freeways, stadiums, downtowns, 0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:42.840 anywhere there's a large amount of people. They've sort of 0:31:42.840 --> 0:31:46.480 built out the ultra capacity in those areas first, and 0:31:46.520 --> 0:31:49.600 then eventually it will make its way to more neighborhoods. 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:51.680 I know Verizon, I was just talking with them about 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:54.320 this and they were telling me that they're getting there. 0:31:54.520 --> 0:31:56.880 You know, they've covered a bunch of the population in 0:31:56.920 --> 0:31:59.560 the US, but there's still work to do. You also 0:31:59.640 --> 0:32:02.280 may see fluctuations in some of these networks. Sometimes they 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:05.520 work really well. Sometimes you may have some trouble. And 0:32:05.600 --> 0:32:08.440 I know that some of the carriers are actually proactively 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:11.640 texting users in certain areas saying, hey, look, we're working 0:32:11.680 --> 0:32:14.120 on the towers in your neighborhood. You may have some 0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:17.160 you know, some spotty connections, or you may be using 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:19.440 a connection that's from a network that's or a tower 0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:22.280 that's further away. So just be aware. I know where 0:32:22.320 --> 0:32:26.280 I you know, work on a daily basis in Hollywood. Yeah, 0:32:26.320 --> 0:32:28.280 go ahead, Rick, would you want to add. 0:32:28.920 --> 0:32:32.080 Oh, real quick, you know I had the big hope 0:32:32.120 --> 0:32:35.040 to cut the wire by starting to use five G 0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:36.600 for my home internet. 0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:38.200 Yeah, so did I. 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:41.280 It's just like you're talking about the signal that isn't 0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:43.600 available real strong in my neighborhood yet. 0:32:43.840 --> 0:32:46.320 Yeah, me either. I've got I still have LTE where 0:32:46.320 --> 0:32:48.120 I live. And it's kind of wild because if you 0:32:48.160 --> 0:32:50.400 go down the street, it's got five G and it's 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:51.120 got UW. 0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:54.239 That's exactly what I see, same thing. 0:32:54.760 --> 0:32:56.760 And I'd love to switch to one of those, you know, 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.560 either the T Mobile Home Internet or the Verizon. I mean, 0:32:59.760 --> 0:33:02.760 they're they're very competitive right now. I think it's like 0:33:02.800 --> 0:33:06.640 twenty five dollars a month or something. That seems pretty incredible. Uh, 0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:08.720 if you have that signal and people are wondering, like, 0:33:08.720 --> 0:33:11.600 wait a second, how can I replace this like wire 0:33:11.680 --> 0:33:14.440 that comes into my house with a cellular signal and 0:33:14.520 --> 0:33:17.320 power all my stuff. But that's what this spectrum allows 0:33:17.360 --> 0:33:20.000 them to do because UW and you see is so 0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:23.360 broad and it's got so much power it enables you 0:33:23.400 --> 0:33:23.760 to do that. 0:33:23.920 --> 0:33:26.720 So Rick gret question the hotspot. 0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:29.880 Oh yeah, it's like setting up a hot spot, except 0:33:30.080 --> 0:33:32.640 you know, you've got a better antenna. It's it's more 0:33:32.720 --> 0:33:35.480 high powered and so it's just gonna work a whole 0:33:35.520 --> 0:33:38.280 lot better. Thanks for the question. And yeah, a lot 0:33:38.320 --> 0:33:40.640 of mystery around all this stuff, you know, that's that's 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:43.040 just how it is with with anything that changes in tech. 0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:46.960 All right, now let's go to Carlos in van Ey's Carlos, 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:48.960 you're on with Rich on Tech? What's up? 0:33:49.800 --> 0:33:50.000 Rich? 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:53.520 Congratulations a niche show. Uh, you know, it's better to 0:33:53.560 --> 0:33:55.440 free meeting to listen to you on a Sunday, and 0:33:55.480 --> 0:33:56.920 it is try to get you on a Friday when 0:33:56.920 --> 0:34:00.040 you can do your podcast. But so congratulations on that. 0:34:00.520 --> 0:34:04.120 Thank you. Yeah, I know the podcast was you know, 0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:06.120 I typically did it on Fridays, but you know sometimes 0:34:06.160 --> 0:34:07.720 it was all over the place, just depended on my 0:34:07.720 --> 0:34:10.600 broadcast schedule. So the fact that this is a shift 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:12.960 that is a scheduled thing will be a lot better 0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:15.640 for many many people. So what's on your mind today? 0:34:16.160 --> 0:34:16.440 All right? 0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:21.840 So I'm looking at getting a wireless doorbell. So have 0:34:21.960 --> 0:34:24.879 you tested any of them that you feel that are 0:34:24.920 --> 0:34:26.080 better than others. 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:28.640 I mean, look, you've got a couple of players in 0:34:28.680 --> 0:34:32.480 this area. You've got Google with the Nest, You've got Why's, 0:34:32.840 --> 0:34:34.840 and you've got Ring, and so I think what it 0:34:34.920 --> 0:34:38.399 really comes down to personally, I use Ring. In fact, 0:34:38.440 --> 0:34:41.040 I just talked to Jamie yesterday, the guy who started Ring, 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:42.960 and I said to him, I said, Jamie, you did 0:34:42.960 --> 0:34:45.520 pretty well, you know, because I remember meeting with him 0:34:45.520 --> 0:34:47.600 when he first had his first doorbell, was called the 0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:49.840 Doorbough and we tested it at Katla. This must have 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:52.920 been ten years ago, and you know, it was kind 0:34:52.920 --> 0:34:54.799 of wonky. It was the first of its kind. And 0:34:54.840 --> 0:34:56.319 I said, you know, you did pretty well. You know, 0:34:56.360 --> 0:35:00.600 selling too Amazon for a billion dollars. And so I 0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:03.399 think Ring, you know, they invented the genre. I think 0:35:03.440 --> 0:35:05.719 that they have the most products that sort of work 0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:09.080 around it. I think Whys is really good too, But 0:35:09.120 --> 0:35:11.600 it just it kind of depends on what other smart 0:35:11.600 --> 0:35:13.800 home stuff you have. Do you have any other products 0:35:13.800 --> 0:35:18.200 from different companies? Do you have Alexa, do you have Amazon? 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:20.960 Do you have oh yeah, everything in the house. So 0:35:21.040 --> 0:35:24.480 we have a Google Hub you know, we have Alexa 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:28.600 devices all over the place. So you know, my other 0:35:28.719 --> 0:35:30.920 question I guess was on top of that is I 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:35.560 guess the monthly fee, you know, because that was my 0:35:35.640 --> 0:35:37.880 biggest concern is that you know, you pay for the device, 0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:39.440 but then you have a monthly fee that you have 0:35:39.480 --> 0:35:40.759 to worry about, right, And. 0:35:40.760 --> 0:35:43.200 I think that's why it comes down to the ecosystem 0:35:43.200 --> 0:35:45.399 that you want to be in, because if you're on Ring, 0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:47.600 you're going to pay you know, the ten dollars or 0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:49.400 twenty dollars a month, depending on whether you have their 0:35:49.440 --> 0:35:52.680 alarm system, and that will include all of your various 0:35:52.719 --> 0:35:55.960 door bells and things like that. Wise obviously has their 0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:58.320 own conventions for how they do it, and Nest I 0:35:58.360 --> 0:36:00.320 think I pay like twelve bucks a month for that stuff. 0:36:00.680 --> 0:36:02.359 So I think you have to kind of pick an 0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:05.439 ecosystem and then go from there because once you start 0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:09.680 mixing and matching, it's very complicated. Things will change later on, 0:36:09.760 --> 0:36:12.040 but that's where we're at right now. Carlos, thanks so 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:14.600 much for your question. You are listening to Rich on Tech. 0:36:14.640 --> 0:36:17.439 My name is rich Demiro. We'll have more of your 0:36:17.480 --> 0:36:22.839 calls and more news tech news coming up. Welcome, back 0:36:22.840 --> 0:36:25.480 to Rich on Tech. My name is Rich Dmiro and 0:36:25.560 --> 0:36:27.480 this is the show we talk about the tech stuff 0:36:27.480 --> 0:36:29.560 I think you should know about. It's also the place 0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:33.080 where I answer the questions you ask me. If you're 0:36:33.080 --> 0:36:35.160 just joining, you might be wondering what happened to Leo? 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:38.640 Where is Leo? Well, I hope he's sleeping in today. 0:36:39.239 --> 0:36:43.440 After nineteen years, Leo Laporte has retired from this radio show. 0:36:43.520 --> 0:36:47.200 And now you've got me. I am your guide through 0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:49.640 all things tech. We're gonna have a great time. Today 0:36:49.760 --> 0:36:53.840 is the beginning of something new, of something fun, something different. 0:36:54.520 --> 0:36:56.719 And I don't know if you can tell, but I'm 0:36:56.719 --> 0:37:01.040 a pretty positive guy. I've got a pretty positive outlook 0:37:01.080 --> 0:37:04.239 on things. And that's just the way I roll, you know. 0:37:04.719 --> 0:37:07.200 I feel like we are all given this opportunity here 0:37:07.239 --> 0:37:11.839 to just enjoy, right. And if you go through and 0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:14.440 you're sitting there and you're seeing everything in a negative 0:37:14.520 --> 0:37:18.400 light and a critical light, I think critical is good. 0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:21.880 I think negative is not good. There's a difference between 0:37:21.920 --> 0:37:24.520 the two. It could be subtle sometimes, but it's there. 0:37:25.160 --> 0:37:28.200 And yes, I am very critical of a lot of things. 0:37:28.719 --> 0:37:31.120 And believe me, you should see me try to make 0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:35.719 a decision about something. It doesn't come fast. You know, 0:37:36.040 --> 0:37:38.239 my wife at the you know, anytime we have to 0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:41.400 do something, whether it's book a plane ticket or you know, 0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:44.399 just anything at a store, there's a lot of thought 0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:46.279 that goes into it. And there's a reason for that, 0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:49.719 because I am critical of the decisions I make and 0:37:49.800 --> 0:37:53.480 the things that I do and the stuff that I 0:37:53.480 --> 0:37:56.640 put in my life. And that's all for a reason, because, 0:37:56.920 --> 0:37:58.759 like I said, we get one chance to be here, 0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:01.040 and I want to make it as good as possible. 0:38:01.080 --> 0:38:03.920 And I hope that you joining me here today is 0:38:04.000 --> 0:38:06.719 part of that journey, part of that excitement, and part 0:38:06.760 --> 0:38:09.279 of that positivity. We're going to talk about tech. I mean, 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:10.800 that's what this show is all about. 0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:11.520 Uh. 0:38:11.680 --> 0:38:14.719 But you're not gonna hear me, you know, complain about 0:38:14.760 --> 0:38:16.799 a lot of things. I mean, now you'll probably hear 0:38:16.840 --> 0:38:19.359 me go off some sometimes about stuff. Believe me, if 0:38:19.400 --> 0:38:21.279 you've listened to my podcast, you know I get on 0:38:21.360 --> 0:38:23.719 a tangent sometimes when it comes to stuff that I 0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:26.839 get a little angry about, especially when tech companies push 0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:29.680 us into a corner. I don't like that. The phone 0:38:29.719 --> 0:38:32.120 number for the show is triple eight Rich one oh 0:38:32.160 --> 0:38:35.160 one eight eight eight rich one oh one. You can 0:38:35.160 --> 0:38:39.960 find me on social media on Instagram, on Twitter, on Facebook. 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:42.359 What else is there out there? I think those are 0:38:42.400 --> 0:38:45.239 the big ones. I am at rich on Tech on 0:38:45.400 --> 0:38:48.760 all of those. I'm also the tech reporter for KTLA 0:38:48.880 --> 0:38:52.279 Channel five in Los Angeles. So if you see me 0:38:52.320 --> 0:38:54.239 on your morning TV and you say, wait, is that 0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:56.719 the same guy? Yep, it's the same guy. It's me 0:38:57.640 --> 0:39:00.200 getting up early during the week and then here on 0:39:00.239 --> 0:39:03.560 the weekends to do this show. So it's a lot 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:06.000 of fun to do it all because during the week 0:39:06.040 --> 0:39:08.400 I see so much stuff, you know, come through my desk, 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:11.160 and it's like, now I get some time to really 0:39:11.600 --> 0:39:15.040 talk to you about it in depth. And TV is great, 0:39:15.400 --> 0:39:17.239 but it's quick. You know, you say that what did 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:18.879 he just say? What was that? Hold on? That looks 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:21.640 really cool? And now you've got think of this as 0:39:21.680 --> 0:39:25.040 office hours, Right, you see something cool on TV? Hey, 0:39:25.080 --> 0:39:26.319 Rich can I ask you more about that? 0:39:26.400 --> 0:39:26.640 Sure? 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:31.000 A couple of things happening this week that are interesting. 0:39:31.080 --> 0:39:33.600 Apple Fitness Plus this is a great way. If you 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:35.960 haven't tested this or tried it out, give it a chance. 0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:38.319 It's the new year. I know everyone's joining a gym 0:39:38.400 --> 0:39:41.080 right now. But you know, this is something that you 0:39:41.120 --> 0:39:44.759 can do with your phone. With it, it used to 0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:46.680 require an Apple Watch, so if you haven't looked at 0:39:46.719 --> 0:39:49.120 it in a while, it no longer requires an Apple Watch. 0:39:49.239 --> 0:39:51.719 It used to that was like your your ticket in. 0:39:51.840 --> 0:39:53.800 You don't need that anymore. You just need an iPhone 0:39:54.160 --> 0:39:56.760 or I think an iPad as well. But Apple Fitness 0:39:56.760 --> 0:40:00.719 Plus is sort of Apple's online fitness clos and it 0:40:00.880 --> 0:40:02.759 of course has a high tech twist. It gives your 0:40:02.840 --> 0:40:04.640 you know, data from the Apple Watch if you have 0:40:04.719 --> 0:40:07.160 one of those. But it's really well done and I 0:40:07.200 --> 0:40:10.040 think this this got me through the pandemic. They launched 0:40:10.080 --> 0:40:12.600 it during the pandemic when you know, nobody could go 0:40:12.600 --> 0:40:14.200 to the gym. They didn't do that on purpose, It 0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:17.080 just timed out that way, and so I started doing 0:40:17.120 --> 0:40:21.000 it during the pandemic and it was fantastic. And you know, 0:40:21.000 --> 0:40:23.799 I did also the Peloton stuff. But I go back 0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:26.080 and forth between Apple Fitness. I think they're really good 0:40:26.120 --> 0:40:28.920 for their classes and I really like Peloton for the 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:32.640 actual bike workouts and the running workouts. So you kind 0:40:32.680 --> 0:40:35.439 of can choose what you want. But anyway, Beginning January ninth, 0:40:35.480 --> 0:40:38.320 that's in a couple of days here, Apple Fitness Plus 0:40:38.320 --> 0:40:42.320 will introduce a new workout, kickboxing. I've never done that before, 0:40:42.440 --> 0:40:44.880 so you can try kickboxing now. You know, it can 0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:47.200 be intimidating to do one of these classes at a 0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:49.960 big gym, right. I remember the first time I went 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.400 to like a spin class at the gym. It was 0:40:52.440 --> 0:40:54.880 so intimidating. I don't think I ever went again, because 0:40:55.120 --> 0:40:57.239 you know, how do you clip those shoes on? How 0:40:57.239 --> 0:40:59.000 do you do the bike? How do you adjust this stuff? 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:01.000 Like you feel like, oh, everyone knows what they're doing 0:41:01.000 --> 0:41:03.920 and I don't, And so it could be really alienating 0:41:03.920 --> 0:41:06.080 at a gym to try new things and to even 0:41:06.200 --> 0:41:08.520 use a piece of equipment that you've never used before, 0:41:08.680 --> 0:41:10.920 because there's always someone else that's like, hey, can I 0:41:10.920 --> 0:41:12.879 get on there? I know what I'm doing, and you're 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:14.640 looking around like, am I the only person that doesn't 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:16.880 know what I'm doing in here? So this could be 0:41:16.880 --> 0:41:20.000 a good way to try kickboxing. So, starting January ninth, 0:41:20.040 --> 0:41:23.920 Fitness Plus is adding kickboxing as a new total body 0:41:23.960 --> 0:41:29.239 cardio workout type. You don't need any equipment. Workouts are ten, 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:31.239 twenty or thirty minutes and that's What I love about 0:41:31.239 --> 0:41:33.920 Apple Fitness Plus is that you basically it's almost like 0:41:33.960 --> 0:41:36.600 a search engine for workouts, so you can narrow down 0:41:36.680 --> 0:41:38.640 and say, oh, I've got a pair of dumbells, I'll 0:41:38.719 --> 0:41:40.360 use those, or I want to do upper body, or 0:41:40.400 --> 0:41:41.719 I want to do lower body, or I want to 0:41:41.760 --> 0:41:45.440 do ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes. It's really fantastic, 0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:49.120 So check that out. My favorite are the strength training 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:52.560 workouts on there, because you know, they teach you how 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:54.480 to do the stuff that you're doing and it doesn't 0:41:54.480 --> 0:41:57.440 really require much equipment at all, maybe a couple of, 0:41:58.200 --> 0:42:01.239 you know, dumbbells. They also have this new sleep meditation, 0:42:01.800 --> 0:42:04.640 so I know, sleep is becoming like a thing, right. 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:07.880 I mean it's always been a thing, but we're seeing 0:42:07.920 --> 0:42:12.080 more of an emphasis on the health benefits of good sleep. 0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:14.239 And I think some of that's partly due to the 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:16.560 wearables that we're seeing, like the Aura ring and of 0:42:16.560 --> 0:42:19.480 course the Apple Watch and all the other wearables that 0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:23.200 measure your sleep, and so people are interested in how 0:42:23.239 --> 0:42:25.919 am I sleeping. Oh, I got a bad night's sleep 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:27.520 last night because I went out all night and I 0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:29.600 went bed late, or I got a good night's sleep 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:32.360 because I took care of myself before I went to 0:42:32.400 --> 0:42:34.000 bed and it was kind of nice to, you know, 0:42:34.080 --> 0:42:37.280 relax without my screen for an hour. So we're learning 0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:40.560 that sleep could be good for us. And so with 0:42:40.640 --> 0:42:44.040 that in mind, now there is a brand new sleep 0:42:44.200 --> 0:42:48.800 meditation theme, and so they've got nine other themes for meditation, 0:42:48.880 --> 0:42:52.400 including calm, gratitude, resilience, and creativity. But they're going to 0:42:52.480 --> 0:42:55.400 do new sleep meditations every week. So that's a good 0:42:55.440 --> 0:42:58.040 way I might try that. I, because I wake up 0:42:58.040 --> 0:43:00.400 so early on a daily basis, don't really have trouble 0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:03.279 sleeping when you're so exhausted at the end of the day. 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:06.319 He just kind of collapse into bed. But you know, 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:08.920 there there are days when you're like I could use 0:43:08.960 --> 0:43:12.520 like a disconnection from the world for a couple of 0:43:12.560 --> 0:43:16.880 minutes before I turned down. And finally, Apple Fitness Plus 0:43:16.920 --> 0:43:19.640 will have new episodes of Time to Walk. I really 0:43:19.719 --> 0:43:22.239 discounted Time to Walk when it came out. It came 0:43:22.239 --> 0:43:24.879 out during the pandemic, and I was like, I don't 0:43:24.920 --> 0:43:27.680 need to walk to someone talking to me, and it 0:43:27.760 --> 0:43:30.200 took me a while. I actually started trying it when 0:43:30.239 --> 0:43:32.400 they did Time to Run, and I was like, all right, 0:43:32.480 --> 0:43:34.480 running's kind of more my thing. I'm a big runner. 0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:37.200 I love running. Let me try running with one of 0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:40.000 these audio guided experiences, and I fell in love with it. 0:43:40.000 --> 0:43:42.400 It's such a great thing. If you haven't tried it, 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:46.520 give it a chance. But walk is basically very similar. 0:43:46.640 --> 0:43:49.360 It's you know, you any you know, you go outside, 0:43:49.360 --> 0:43:51.680 you walk. You pop one of these things on and 0:43:51.719 --> 0:43:55.200 they're adding you know different. They're not always celebrities, but 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:59.920 they're important people, notable people. And Jamie Lee Curtis is 0:44:00.200 --> 0:44:03.600 going to be new She's gonna kick off the fifth 0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:06.319 season of This Time to Walk And basically every week 0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:08.520 there's a different person that you can walk with and 0:44:08.560 --> 0:44:11.080 you kind of learn from them. They play music, they talk. 0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:13.440 It's really cool. I mean, if you like the person, 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:18.359 it's like bonus points. Otherwise you learn. Jason Siegel made 0:44:18.360 --> 0:44:20.319 famous on How I Met Your Mother, He'll also be 0:44:20.400 --> 0:44:24.319 on there. Jose Andres, the Spanish Chef, he'll also be 0:44:24.400 --> 0:44:29.960 on there. Cheryl Lee Ralph, she stars in Abbott Elementary, 0:44:30.000 --> 0:44:32.840 a very popular show. She will be on there as well. 0:44:33.200 --> 0:44:36.400 So again, check it out. Apple Fitness Plus is not free, 0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:39.719 but you can often get a free trial if you 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:42.320 have the Target app. They're like almost a Target and 0:44:42.360 --> 0:44:44.560 Best Buy are always offering like free trials for this, 0:44:44.640 --> 0:44:47.120 so check that out. Otherwise, it's ten bucks a month 0:44:47.200 --> 0:44:50.480 or eighty dollars a year for Apple Fitness Plus. All right, 0:44:50.520 --> 0:44:54.399 speaking of free tea, Mobile and Delta Airlines teaming up 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:58.759 to give all passengers free in flight Wi Fi. Now 0:44:58.800 --> 0:45:01.200 I love this. I've watched Wi fi go from non 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:05.280 existent on flights to very expensive on flights, too cheaper, 0:45:05.719 --> 0:45:07.520 like on my last United flight it was like eight 0:45:07.560 --> 0:45:12.279 bucks to now free. So Delta sky Miles members will 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:14.640 get free WiFi. Oh there's the catch, you got to 0:45:14.640 --> 0:45:17.040 be a sky Miles member. Well, it's free to sign 0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:19.040 up and you could actually do it on the plane. 0:45:19.280 --> 0:45:22.359 So beginning February first, you will get free Wi Fi. 0:45:22.960 --> 0:45:26.080 There's no really no strings here. You'll get to connect 0:45:26.120 --> 0:45:30.040 your tablet, your phone, your laptop, whatever you need. And 0:45:30.080 --> 0:45:31.960 the best part is if you forget to sign up 0:45:32.000 --> 0:45:34.839 for sky Miles on the ground, you can actually sign 0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:37.960 up for free while you're on the plane. Now, this 0:45:38.000 --> 0:45:41.000 is sponsored by T Mobile. So do we know if 0:45:41.000 --> 0:45:43.400 this is something that's permanent or if it's something that's 0:45:43.440 --> 0:45:46.520 you know, you know, something that may expire after T 0:45:46.719 --> 0:45:49.440 Mobile says all right, we're done. But the reality is 0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:52.400 this is amazing. I used to think that the plane 0:45:52.480 --> 0:45:54.560 was like the last kind of quiet time where you 0:45:54.600 --> 0:45:57.440 can disconnect from the world because you didn't have Internet. 0:45:57.800 --> 0:45:59.960 But you know, as I get older and more war 0:46:00.239 --> 0:46:02.040 and it's just it's a time where maybe you just 0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:04.560 want to be connected and check your messages and do things. 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:06.840 It's kind of nice to have that Wi Fi connection. 0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:09.440 So next time you're on a Delta flight, starting February, 0:46:09.480 --> 0:46:13.000 first free Wi Fi thanks to T Mobile, you don't 0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:15.239 have to be a T Mobile customer. And I think 0:46:15.280 --> 0:46:19.919 what's great about this is hopefully, hopefully it'll push more 0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:22.359 airlines to offer free Wi Fi. I know Jet Blue does, 0:46:22.680 --> 0:46:26.600 but among the major carriers now, Delta is the first 0:46:26.600 --> 0:46:29.400 to do that. All right, once again, my name is 0:46:29.480 --> 0:46:32.120 rich Dmiro. You are listening to rich on Tech. Coming up, 0:46:32.200 --> 0:46:34.440 we're going to take more of your calls at eight 0:46:34.480 --> 0:46:37.520 eight eight rich one oh one. Plus, we're gonna talk 0:46:37.520 --> 0:46:43.319 about LG's color changing refrigerator. Yes, a refrigerator door, four 0:46:43.360 --> 0:46:47.680 of them that change color. You're listening to rich on Tech. 0:46:48.520 --> 0:46:51.719 Welcome back to rich on Tech. I'm Rich Demiro and 0:46:52.000 --> 0:46:56.080 Angie is in Huntington Beach. Angie, You're on with Rich. 0:46:57.320 --> 0:47:01.040 Oh we lost Angie. Sorry, Angie, try to back you know, 0:47:01.400 --> 0:47:03.840 still learn how to use a phone. Here. Laala is 0:47:03.880 --> 0:47:06.439 in Orange Laala, You're on with Rich. 0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:08.680 I'm Rich. 0:47:08.760 --> 0:47:09.839 Good to talk to you. 0:47:10.239 --> 0:47:13.440 Hey, thanks for having thanks for listening. I mean thanks 0:47:13.440 --> 0:47:15.040 for having me on. Usually I'm saying that to the 0:47:15.120 --> 0:47:17.359 other person having me on their radio show. Now now 0:47:17.400 --> 0:47:19.840 I'm the one having you on the radio show. So 0:47:20.800 --> 0:47:21.800 how's it going today? 0:47:22.440 --> 0:47:26.600 Hey, you have helped me so much through Instagram. I 0:47:26.719 --> 0:47:31.560 just wanted to thank you for always answering my stupid questions. 0:47:31.880 --> 0:47:34.960 There are no stupid questions there there. Let's just make 0:47:35.000 --> 0:47:38.160 that clear. There are no stupid questions. I believe me. Now, 0:47:38.200 --> 0:47:41.040 I may give stupid answers, but there are no stupid questions. 0:47:41.239 --> 0:47:43.600 In fact, like I said earlier in the show, I 0:47:43.640 --> 0:47:47.719 get some of my best story ideas and feedback from 0:47:47.719 --> 0:47:50.759 Instagram because I've got so many folks on there that 0:47:50.800 --> 0:47:52.759 are like texting me. I call it texting. I know 0:47:52.800 --> 0:47:55.440 it's DM, but yeah, it tells me like what you're 0:47:55.520 --> 0:47:57.200 thinking about, you know what I mean? Like I may 0:47:57.320 --> 0:47:59.120 that may not be something in my life, but you 0:47:59.200 --> 0:48:02.040 may have something in life and I'm like, oh, that's interesting, 0:48:02.120 --> 0:48:04.640 and I get some of my best tips my reels. 0:48:05.080 --> 0:48:06.799 By the way, I'm at rich on tech. If you're 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:08.880 not following me, I think it's kind of fun. Like 0:48:08.880 --> 0:48:11.080 I really put a lot of myself on Instagram, So 0:48:12.040 --> 0:48:13.759 that's that's kind of what you're talking about is just 0:48:13.800 --> 0:48:15.439 you know, it's a It's a wide range of stuff 0:48:15.480 --> 0:48:19.000 from junk food that I eat to you know, tech stuff. 0:48:19.160 --> 0:48:20.320 So what's on your mind today. 0:48:21.040 --> 0:48:23.319 One of the reasons why I always follow you is 0:48:23.320 --> 0:48:25.560 because you really keep it real. 0:48:25.920 --> 0:48:26.680 Oh thank you. 0:48:26.840 --> 0:48:30.520 Well that's I mean, so congratulations on this show. I 0:48:30.560 --> 0:48:32.680 can't think of a better person to try and fill 0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:36.439 Leo's shoes, so put you the best in twenty twenty three. 0:48:36.760 --> 0:48:39.279 Thank you so much. I'm excited for twenty twenty three. 0:48:39.320 --> 0:48:40.839 I mean it's a new start. I mean I've been 0:48:40.840 --> 0:48:43.319 doing TV for I don't want to say how many years, 0:48:43.320 --> 0:48:45.200 but a lot. I mean, when do you get to, like, 0:48:45.480 --> 0:48:48.560 you know, midway through your career, start something completely new 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:51.160 and different And TV's not going away. By the way, 0:48:51.160 --> 0:48:52.719 people have been asking me, like, wait, are you are 0:48:52.800 --> 0:48:54.719 you getting off of you know, KT light? 0:48:54.760 --> 0:48:54.880 No? 0:48:54.880 --> 0:48:57.360 No, no, like that's the plan is to do both, 0:48:57.480 --> 0:48:59.480 like I'm not trying to, you know, do one or 0:48:59.520 --> 0:49:01.440 the other. Like it's I think the beauty is to 0:49:01.440 --> 0:49:04.120 do both because it's so fun to have both things happening. 0:49:04.280 --> 0:49:08.000 So well, good for you, Good for you, congratulations cool. 0:49:08.160 --> 0:49:09.440 Is there something I can help you with today or 0:49:09.440 --> 0:49:10.359 do you just want to get there? 0:49:10.560 --> 0:49:12.080 Okay, there is there is. 0:49:13.680 --> 0:49:21.120 I like to keep my personal living address as private 0:49:21.160 --> 0:49:21.800 as possible. 0:49:21.920 --> 0:49:24.279 Absolutely so. 0:49:24.840 --> 0:49:29.719 For example, the company I work for, I give them 0:49:29.760 --> 0:49:30.640 a PO box. 0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:34.319 Yep, Okay, they're like, now, what what's Lala doing that 0:49:34.360 --> 0:49:36.120 she needs to give us a PO box? 0:49:36.920 --> 0:49:38.680 Yeah exactly, exactly. 0:49:39.040 --> 0:49:44.400 Well, you know everyone has a good human resources company 0:49:44.400 --> 0:49:48.920 that keeps everything confidential, right, yeah hopefully, so you know 0:49:49.000 --> 0:49:51.799 how that goes. And there is a situation I was 0:49:51.800 --> 0:49:54.320 in several years ago that someone got my home address 0:49:54.320 --> 0:49:55.240 and it was not fun. 0:49:55.600 --> 0:49:58.120 Yeah, no, I get it, I believe me. I privacy 0:49:58.239 --> 0:50:02.640 is a huge important tenant of life, and it's it's 0:50:02.920 --> 0:50:06.880 eroding with the internet. So so correct, what do you 0:50:06.920 --> 0:50:08.200 want to do? You want the PO box? 0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:11.800 And what I understand that if someone really wanted to 0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:15.320 find out my mailing address. They really could because everything. 0:50:15.000 --> 0:50:15.480 Is out there. 0:50:15.520 --> 0:50:21.360 I understand that. But the USPS is now raising once 0:50:21.400 --> 0:50:24.560 again for the second year in a row, the price. 0:50:24.440 --> 0:50:25.759 Of PO boxes. 0:50:26.280 --> 0:50:29.640 The very very smallest PO box, I pay them forty 0:50:29.680 --> 0:50:31.200 two dollars for a month. 0:50:31.280 --> 0:50:32.160 Oh wow, that's a lot. 0:50:33.120 --> 0:50:37.760 So I'm wondering what you know about I postal one 0:50:38.040 --> 0:50:43.359 which is a virtual PO box, okay, or anything that 0:50:43.440 --> 0:50:45.319 I can do well? 0:50:45.320 --> 0:50:46.759 And how much are they charging. 0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:51.440 Nine a month for thirty pieces of items or less? 0:50:51.800 --> 0:50:54.120 And you could they scan them in for you? 0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:54.479 Yep? 0:50:54.520 --> 0:50:57.080 You could go down to the address and actually pick 0:50:57.120 --> 0:50:57.480 them up. 0:50:57.680 --> 0:51:01.120 Yep if you need to, yep. And okay. So looking 0:51:01.160 --> 0:51:04.800 this one up, it says over twenty five hundred locations worldwide. 0:51:04.920 --> 0:51:06.640 Is there a location near you that you can pick 0:51:06.719 --> 0:51:08.120 up your physical stuff from? 0:51:08.680 --> 0:51:10.680 There is actually in a staple? 0:51:11.000 --> 0:51:13.600 Oh oh interesting. Oh that's smart that they kind of 0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:17.040 partnered with them. I think it's a great idea. I 0:51:17.040 --> 0:51:20.200 think that it's smart. And I actually watched an entire 0:51:20.520 --> 0:51:23.759 there's a series about a startup that was doing this, 0:51:24.000 --> 0:51:26.560 and you know, this was a couple of years ago. 0:51:26.840 --> 0:51:30.439 But you know, the big thing is it's tricky, and 0:51:30.560 --> 0:51:32.680 you want to make sure that that address lasts for 0:51:32.719 --> 0:51:34.800 a while because it's kind of a pain to switch 0:51:34.840 --> 0:51:36.799 your address very often and you don't want to have 0:51:36.800 --> 0:51:39.240 to do that. So the way that these work typically 0:51:39.440 --> 0:51:41.120 is that you know, you sign up for one of 0:51:41.120 --> 0:51:45.160 these virtual mailbox services, They get your mail, they scan 0:51:45.280 --> 0:51:47.200 your mail in so you can see if it's important 0:51:47.560 --> 0:51:49.200 and if their system is good, you know, you can 0:51:49.280 --> 0:51:51.840 just trash mail virtually, like right from your app or 0:51:51.840 --> 0:51:53.759 your desktop and say, okay, you can throw that out. 0:51:53.800 --> 0:51:56.440 You can throw that out. Oh, that one I actually 0:51:56.440 --> 0:51:59.279 need to go grab from the box, and then of 0:51:59.280 --> 0:52:01.280 course you may be able to get packages there depending 0:52:01.280 --> 0:52:03.640 on your plan. I think it's great. I think it's 0:52:03.680 --> 0:52:06.320 something that you should do if you trust the company. 0:52:07.280 --> 0:52:11.239 The fact that this ipostal one has twenty five hundred 0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:16.120 locations is a good sign because the main thing is 0:52:16.120 --> 0:52:18.440 that you just want this to be around for a while, 0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:21.320 and they're saying that the according to their website, the 0:52:21.400 --> 0:52:26.440 number one digital mailbox service worldwide. Now, the downside is 0:52:26.560 --> 0:52:29.839 you just need to know what this plan includes, so 0:52:29.960 --> 0:52:32.799 it may not include certain things, you know, and that's 0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:35.239 that's what kind of you have to look at for 0:52:35.320 --> 0:52:37.040 that nine to ninety nine a month, like, what do 0:52:37.120 --> 0:52:39.560 they give you? You know, do you get packages there? Can 0:52:39.600 --> 0:52:43.320 you get mail there? I'm looking at this maximum names 0:52:43.320 --> 0:52:48.040 per address one personal name. You know, receive first class 0:52:48.080 --> 0:52:49.839 mail in packages, So it looks like you can get 0:52:49.880 --> 0:52:52.399 all this stuff. Now I'm looking here. It says free 0:52:52.400 --> 0:52:56.399 storage is thirty days and that's for mail, and then 0:52:56.560 --> 0:52:59.640 free storage for boxes ten days and that depends on 0:52:59.680 --> 0:53:01.400 the side to the box, and then five days for 0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:04.640 really big boxes. And of course you can probably pay 0:53:04.680 --> 0:53:07.600 more for them to forward you this mail if you 0:53:07.640 --> 0:53:09.480 don't want to go in, So this is probably good 0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:11.279 of also for someone who has like an RV or 0:53:11.360 --> 0:53:14.560 travels a lot. I've had a Peo box pretty much 0:53:14.560 --> 0:53:17.160 my entire life because I find it to be very 0:53:17.200 --> 0:53:19.319 convenient and it's simple and you can give out that 0:53:19.360 --> 0:53:22.839 address without worrying. When I publish my book there, you know, 0:53:22.840 --> 0:53:24.680 people could come and they could pick up the book 0:53:24.719 --> 0:53:26.359 if I signed it, they could just go there and 0:53:26.400 --> 0:53:29.360 grab it. So there's many, many benefits to having a 0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:33.600 Peo box. I think virtual is a next logical step, 0:53:34.000 --> 0:53:36.560 and what you're really paying for is that service that 0:53:36.680 --> 0:53:40.120 allows them to scan your documents, and let's be honest, 0:53:40.440 --> 0:53:43.000 ninety nine percent of the mail we get physical mail 0:53:43.200 --> 0:53:45.160 you don't really need, you know, it goes right into 0:53:45.160 --> 0:53:47.839 the trash. And so they're banking on the fact that 0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:50.359 most of the mail they don't have to store. They 0:53:50.400 --> 0:53:52.480 just scan it. It goes in and you can look 0:53:52.480 --> 0:53:54.279 it out on your app and sort of flick it 0:53:54.400 --> 0:53:56.319 left or right, kind of like a Tinder for mail. 0:53:56.320 --> 0:53:58.160 Do I need this? Yes? Do I not need that? 0:53:58.360 --> 0:53:58.440 No? 0:53:59.160 --> 0:54:01.799 So great question, la la. I say, go for it 0:54:01.880 --> 0:54:03.759 and let me know how it goes, and maybe I'm 0:54:03.760 --> 0:54:04.960 going to look into this. This is kind of a 0:54:05.000 --> 0:54:09.239 good idea. So cool. Thanks so much for listening. This 0:54:09.400 --> 0:54:11.720 is rich on Tech coming up more of your calls 0:54:11.760 --> 0:54:14.080 at triple eight rich one oh one. Plus we're going 0:54:14.120 --> 0:54:20.440 to talk about LG's color changing refrigerator. LG's color changing 0:54:20.480 --> 0:54:24.879 refrigerator coming up on rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here, 0:54:24.960 --> 0:54:26.759 rich on Tech. You're listening to the show where we 0:54:26.800 --> 0:54:31.040 talk about tech stuff and answer your tech questions. Phone 0:54:31.040 --> 0:54:34.719 lines are open triple eight rich one oh one, eight 0:54:34.719 --> 0:54:38.560 eight eight rich one oh one. My name is Rich 0:54:38.600 --> 0:54:41.920 DeMuro and uh just got back from CS twenty twenty 0:54:41.960 --> 0:54:44.960 three in Las Vegas, and so much to see there. 0:54:45.040 --> 0:54:47.279 I mean, there's just no way one human being can 0:54:47.320 --> 0:54:48.640 see it all. And I was there for a week 0:54:49.239 --> 0:54:52.440 Monday through Friday, and uh, you know, I try my best, 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:54.799 but there is just I mean, I think over three 0:54:54.840 --> 0:54:58.160 thousand exhibitors this year, not to mention the crowds. Not 0:54:58.200 --> 0:55:01.080 to mention, it's spread all of cross Las Vegas. It's 0:55:01.120 --> 0:55:03.319 not just in one place. You know, it's in the 0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:05.680 convention Center. There's also the new part of the convention 0:55:05.800 --> 0:55:07.960 Center that is like a ten minute walk from the 0:55:07.960 --> 0:55:10.759 old convention center. And then you've got the hotels and 0:55:10.800 --> 0:55:12.959 the hotel rooms and the suites, and then you've got 0:55:13.360 --> 0:55:15.640 the ballrooms. I mean there's a lot. I think one 0:55:15.719 --> 0:55:18.200 day I did what I do, twenty thousand steps in 0:55:18.239 --> 0:55:22.000 one day. That's I think that's a lot. Anyway, don't 0:55:22.000 --> 0:55:24.279 worry about me. I thought it was fun to walk 0:55:24.280 --> 0:55:26.239 all these things. But one thing I saw that was 0:55:26.239 --> 0:55:31.759 pretty cool. LG new refrigerator called the mood Up and 0:55:32.440 --> 0:55:34.440 this is just you know, it's look, I don't expect 0:55:34.440 --> 0:55:36.960 you to buy this refrigerator tomorrow. But what I love 0:55:36.960 --> 0:55:40.000 about stuff like this is it just shows that this 0:55:40.080 --> 0:55:42.520 is what's going to happen in the future, Like why 0:55:42.719 --> 0:55:45.239 choose the color of your refrigerator when you don't have 0:55:45.320 --> 0:55:47.919 to when you can change it? And so the mood 0:55:48.000 --> 0:55:51.400 up has four panels on it, and each one of 0:55:51.440 --> 0:55:56.400 these panels is an LED screen, so it's not like 0:55:56.440 --> 0:56:00.360 a computer screen per se, but it's an LED panel 0:56:00.920 --> 0:56:03.000 that lets you change the color. So it's kind of 0:56:03.040 --> 0:56:06.080 like a matte finish on the panel. If you don't 0:56:06.120 --> 0:56:08.239 want it to be a wild and wacky color, then 0:56:08.360 --> 0:56:10.480 it can just kind of blend in as a standard 0:56:10.520 --> 0:56:13.960 refrigerator color, whatever that may be for you and your kitchen. 0:56:15.120 --> 0:56:17.000 But if you want to have some fun, you can 0:56:17.080 --> 0:56:20.000 choose from twenty two colors for the upper refrigerator and 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:23.480 nineteen for the lower. I don't know why the differential there, 0:56:23.480 --> 0:56:25.239 Like why can you only do twenty two on the 0:56:25.239 --> 0:56:28.040 top and nineteen on the bottom. I'm not sure, but 0:56:28.120 --> 0:56:30.680 the top is the refrigerator and the lower is the freezer. 0:56:31.719 --> 0:56:37.840 You can also have themes season Place healing and pop Healing. 0:56:38.520 --> 0:56:40.799 Elicits a feeling of well being through the use of 0:56:40.880 --> 0:56:46.040 soft soothing colors, creating a calming mindfulness space mindfulness that's 0:56:46.080 --> 0:56:48.840 a word we've heard a lot about. I thought this 0:56:48.960 --> 0:56:51.560 was pretty neat. It's just neat to be able to 0:56:51.640 --> 0:56:53.680 change the color. You can have some fun. Obviously, it 0:56:53.680 --> 0:56:57.319 can do different things. There's also built in Bluetooth, so 0:56:57.560 --> 0:57:01.240 you can connect this to a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop, 0:57:01.320 --> 0:57:04.440 or a PC and listen to music from your favorite 0:57:04.480 --> 0:57:07.000 streaming apps, so if you want to, you know, if 0:57:07.000 --> 0:57:09.000 you don't have like a dedicated speaker in the kitchen. 0:57:09.040 --> 0:57:10.680 You know, people gather in the kitchen when you have 0:57:10.800 --> 0:57:13.040 a get together. No matter where you put the your doors, 0:57:13.440 --> 0:57:15.319 people always seem to come back to the kitchen and 0:57:15.320 --> 0:57:16.920 stay there. I don't know why. It's just the way 0:57:16.960 --> 0:57:19.480 it is. It's just the place. It's the one place 0:57:19.480 --> 0:57:21.360 in the house that was never intended for people to 0:57:21.400 --> 0:57:23.840 hang out in. And yet every single time you have 0:57:23.840 --> 0:57:25.880 people over, where do you hang out in the kitchen? 0:57:26.400 --> 0:57:27.800 I don't know. That's just the way it is. I 0:57:27.800 --> 0:57:31.840 don't mind it. You can stream music. Let's see what 0:57:31.880 --> 0:57:34.439 else can you do? You can have notifications from your door, 0:57:35.000 --> 0:57:37.640 so if you leave the door open. You know, you've 0:57:37.680 --> 0:57:40.960 ever like left your refrigerator door open just slightly, and 0:57:41.240 --> 0:57:45.520 it's you know, emitting all that cold air into your house. Well, 0:57:45.600 --> 0:57:48.479 now the refrigerator door can blink to let you know, hey, 0:57:48.480 --> 0:57:51.560 this is not fully closed. My mom always said that 0:57:51.640 --> 0:57:54.320 it costs a nickel every time you open the refrigerator door. 0:57:54.640 --> 0:57:57.840 And so I do not keep the refrigerator door open 0:57:57.880 --> 0:57:59.160 for very long. You know, I'm not one of those 0:57:59.160 --> 0:58:01.240 people that just linger and looks like no, no, I 0:58:01.320 --> 0:58:03.680 go into the fridge. I open that door with purpose. 0:58:04.160 --> 0:58:06.280 I know exactly what I'm getting, I know where to 0:58:06.280 --> 0:58:10.640 look for it, and it's closed within seconds. Because you know, 0:58:10.680 --> 0:58:12.480 that's the way I grew up. He didn't leave the 0:58:12.480 --> 0:58:16.520 refrigerator door opened very long. It also has motion sensor, 0:58:16.640 --> 0:58:19.360 so it knows when someone walks into the kitchen, so 0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:22.960 it can blink kind of like a little welcoming blinking 0:58:23.280 --> 0:58:26.720 light when you walk into the kitchen, saying like oh, hey, fridge, 0:58:26.800 --> 0:58:31.160 I know you're here. I see you. From midnight snackers, 0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:34.560 the freezer door can illuminate brighter at night time to 0:58:34.600 --> 0:58:37.160 help you guide your way to the fridge. Does anyone 0:58:37.200 --> 0:58:39.800 really midnight snack? This is like something that's just sort 0:58:39.800 --> 0:58:43.720 of overplayed in like you know, stories and TV shows. 0:58:43.960 --> 0:58:47.000 No one actually midnight snacks do they. I can think 0:58:47.040 --> 0:58:49.320 of like zero times in my life when I got 0:58:49.400 --> 0:58:50.960 up in the middle of the night and got a 0:58:51.000 --> 0:58:53.080 midnight snack. If you challenge me on that, gimme a call. 0:58:53.160 --> 0:58:55.680 Triple eight rich one oh one. I've gotten up in 0:58:55.720 --> 0:58:57.040 the middle of the night and I've watched like an 0:58:57.040 --> 0:58:59.360 episode of a TV show, like if I can't sleep, 0:59:00.240 --> 0:59:01.960 and I told you, most of the time this doesn't happen, 0:59:02.040 --> 0:59:04.360 but if it does, I will get up. And I'm 0:59:04.360 --> 0:59:06.040 the kind of person that will just sit in front 0:59:06.040 --> 0:59:07.920 of the TV and watch an episode of Seinfeld or 0:59:07.920 --> 0:59:10.400 something like. I'm like, I'm using my time, and then 0:59:10.520 --> 0:59:12.080 you know, I'll fall asleep after that. But I'm not 0:59:12.080 --> 0:59:13.640 going to just sit there and like toss and turn 0:59:13.720 --> 0:59:17.680 forever and again. Once the refrigerator is you know, if 0:59:17.680 --> 0:59:19.360 you don't want the color, you can just do Lux 0:59:19.440 --> 0:59:23.480 gray or Lucks white, pricing all that stuff. Not really 0:59:23.520 --> 0:59:26.960 sure on this new mood up TV from LG, but 0:59:27.520 --> 0:59:32.000 kind of cool. I'm digging it. I think that some 0:59:32.040 --> 0:59:34.240 of the stuff we see coming out is it seems 0:59:34.280 --> 0:59:36.320 like it could be hokey, but at the same time, 0:59:36.440 --> 0:59:39.240 why not. I think that it'd be kind of cool. 0:59:39.280 --> 0:59:41.160 To be able to color change my fridge, especially if 0:59:41.160 --> 0:59:42.560 you have people over them. We all have those color 0:59:42.640 --> 0:59:45.200 changing lights, or a lot of us do. So why 0:59:45.240 --> 0:59:48.240 not Mark is in Houston. Mark, you're on with Rich 0:59:48.320 --> 0:59:51.120 on Tech. What's up? Mark? You're on? 0:59:52.640 --> 0:59:52.840 Yeah? 0:59:52.960 --> 0:59:55.400 Hey, Rich congratulations on your new show. 0:59:55.600 --> 0:59:57.960 Hey, thanks, I appreciate it. What's going on? 0:59:58.960 --> 0:59:59.240 Missed? 0:59:59.280 --> 1:00:01.320 But I think it's pick the right guy for the 1:00:01.440 --> 1:00:02.120 to take over. 1:00:02.240 --> 1:00:03.560 Oh, I appreciate those words. 1:00:03.640 --> 1:00:08.600 Yes, considering a new phone, and I might even switch plans. 1:00:08.680 --> 1:00:11.880 And I know T Mobile. I know I'm jumping the 1:00:11.920 --> 1:00:14.040 gun a little early in the game. It may not 1:00:14.080 --> 1:00:16.280 happen for about a year, but I know T Mobile's 1:00:16.400 --> 1:00:20.360 teaming up with Starlink, and I'm just curious what that's 1:00:20.480 --> 1:00:24.520 going to do for their service. Are you going to 1:00:24.600 --> 1:00:27.480 get much better service than other network? 1:00:27.680 --> 1:00:32.160 Good question? So, yeah, the idea is that T Mobile 1:00:32.160 --> 1:00:35.800 announced this with Starlink, I don't know, a couple months ago. 1:00:36.200 --> 1:00:39.640 And you know, the idea is that Starlink has this 1:00:39.760 --> 1:00:43.560 nice network that's built out with satellites, actually an Elon 1:00:43.680 --> 1:00:48.160 Musk venture, and you know you're gonna get better. I 1:00:48.160 --> 1:00:51.200 think they said it was just messaging on the phone 1:00:51.280 --> 1:00:54.040 at this point, and here's the deal. Like, I wouldn't 1:00:54.040 --> 1:00:57.400 put much stock into this right now because there's not 1:00:57.640 --> 1:00:59.560 much that they announced that you can do with it. 1:01:00.840 --> 1:01:04.880 You know, you may have extra signal in certain places, 1:01:06.320 --> 1:01:10.200 you know, and obviously this starlink covers like everything, but 1:01:10.400 --> 1:01:13.560 the reality is, you know, I think with the iPhone 1:01:13.600 --> 1:01:18.480 adding satellite capability to their phone, for most people in 1:01:18.560 --> 1:01:21.760 most situations, that's probably going to be enough. I think 1:01:21.760 --> 1:01:24.440 that starlink with T Mobile once they get this up 1:01:24.480 --> 1:01:26.200 and running, which by the way, is going to take 1:01:26.200 --> 1:01:29.920 a while. And also we may not see support from 1:01:30.000 --> 1:01:32.480 every phone. Did they announce that they're going to have 1:01:32.560 --> 1:01:37.040 every phone compatible with this, because it probably will require 1:01:37.080 --> 1:01:41.520 a different antenna, I don't know. With this technology, T 1:01:41.640 --> 1:01:44.960 Mobile planning to give customers text coverage practically everywhere in 1:01:45.000 --> 1:01:48.760 the continental US, Hawaii and parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico, 1:01:49.200 --> 1:01:54.280 and waters even outside of T Mobile signal. So you know, again, 1:01:54.480 --> 1:01:58.000 it would be just messaging which is already available through 1:01:58.000 --> 1:02:01.440 the iPhone on the iPhone fourteen with satellite right now, 1:02:02.120 --> 1:02:04.800 to anyone has an iPhone fourteen, this is not even 1:02:04.840 --> 1:02:08.360 available yet, and it's planned and it's text messaging, which 1:02:08.400 --> 1:02:12.080 is great, which Apple is just giving you emergency messaging, 1:02:12.120 --> 1:02:16.280 so that's another differentiator here. But eventually T Mobile and 1:02:16.360 --> 1:02:20.080 Starlink will give voice and data coverage. But that's eventually, 1:02:20.120 --> 1:02:25.160 that's like beyond beyond, So this is early thing. I 1:02:25.200 --> 1:02:27.320 think that they wanted to build some buzz for this 1:02:27.360 --> 1:02:29.760 new feature, and I think it's cool, and I think 1:02:29.760 --> 1:02:32.280 it just again goes to show what's coming, but it's 1:02:32.320 --> 1:02:34.440 not here. And I don't think that you choose your 1:02:34.480 --> 1:02:37.560 carrier based on this. I think that if you want 1:02:37.560 --> 1:02:40.600 the satellite technology for peace of mind right now, I 1:02:40.600 --> 1:02:42.919 think the iPhone is the only game in town, and 1:02:43.240 --> 1:02:48.200 the iPhone fourteen models specifically with the satellite over SOS, 1:02:48.280 --> 1:02:50.520 and it's slow, and that's probably the way this one's 1:02:50.520 --> 1:02:52.840 going to be. It's a slow process to connect, it's 1:02:52.880 --> 1:02:56.800 a slow process to send messages. But the idea and 1:02:56.840 --> 1:02:59.560 the reality is that it's already saved lives, it will 1:02:59.600 --> 1:03:04.280 continue to save lives, and we will have connectivity at 1:03:04.280 --> 1:03:06.400 this point. If you have an iPhone fourteen, you're pretty 1:03:06.480 --> 1:03:10.560 much never disconnected from help anywhere you are in the US, 1:03:11.120 --> 1:03:13.480 and that's the idea here with T Mobile as well 1:03:13.600 --> 1:03:16.479 in the US and other places that you'll be able 1:03:16.480 --> 1:03:19.400 to not only get help but also text people as well. 1:03:19.880 --> 1:03:21.520 But it's a long ways off, and I think it's 1:03:21.520 --> 1:03:23.400 a little confusing because people might think they have this 1:03:23.480 --> 1:03:26.160 already or we're on the cusp of it. But with 1:03:26.200 --> 1:03:29.360 Team Mobile, they didn't really say what the timeline is 1:03:29.400 --> 1:03:31.880 on this, so it's going to be a bit and 1:03:31.920 --> 1:03:33.720 I think that you choose the carrier. I always give 1:03:33.760 --> 1:03:36.479 people the advice choose the carrier that works best where 1:03:36.520 --> 1:03:39.160 you live and where you work. Talk to some folks 1:03:39.320 --> 1:03:42.920 and see where those two things are, and that's the 1:03:42.920 --> 1:03:46.040 best carrier for you right now. If you're upgrading your phone, 1:03:46.520 --> 1:03:49.880 good question. Thanks for calling in, Mark from Houston, Texas. 1:03:50.720 --> 1:03:54.000 Rich tamiro here with you on a rich on Tech Saturday. 1:03:54.600 --> 1:03:56.600 We'll have more of your calls. Plus we'll talk about 1:03:56.600 --> 1:04:00.000 the gadget that helps you talk to your pet. Coming up. 1:04:00.840 --> 1:04:04.439 Welcome back to rich on Tech Omrich damiro answering your 1:04:04.520 --> 1:04:07.960 tech questions and talking about important topics happening in the 1:04:08.040 --> 1:04:11.680 tech world. Let's go to Angie in Huntington Beach. Angie, 1:04:11.720 --> 1:04:13.520 I think we got disconnected your back. 1:04:14.320 --> 1:04:18.320 Hey, Rick, thank you so much. I think I timed 1:04:18.360 --> 1:04:19.919 out on my weight. I don't know. 1:04:20.120 --> 1:04:21.200 Anyway it happens. 1:04:21.240 --> 1:04:23.680 I'm really happy to be talking to you, and I 1:04:23.840 --> 1:04:27.400 listen to you every morning on KTLA or I try 1:04:27.440 --> 1:04:28.919 to anyway every time you're there. 1:04:29.240 --> 1:04:30.800 Oh well, thank you. I appreciate that. 1:04:31.800 --> 1:04:34.439 I appreciate everything you've been doing. I'm so happy you've 1:04:34.440 --> 1:04:41.080 got this program going. Me too. So I am at 1:04:41.120 --> 1:04:43.240 the age where I had to get my very first 1:04:43.320 --> 1:04:49.000 hearing made okay, and it's it's really miniaturized, and I'm 1:04:49.040 --> 1:04:51.760 fased with a situation where I have to it goes 1:04:51.800 --> 1:04:55.040 over my ear, and then I have glasses to go 1:04:55.080 --> 1:04:57.760 over my ear, and then sometimes I have to wear 1:04:57.880 --> 1:05:01.720 masks that go over my ear. And guess what happens 1:05:01.800 --> 1:05:02.680 to the hearing. 1:05:03.040 --> 1:05:06.760 Yep, I can already predict. The mask of course messes 1:05:06.760 --> 1:05:08.800 with the hearing aid. It falls off, You lose. 1:05:08.680 --> 1:05:15.560 It exactly, and it's very expensive. And guess what. They 1:05:15.560 --> 1:05:19.120 don't have any kind of a tracking mechanism. And I 1:05:19.240 --> 1:05:24.200 was just wondering if that's just one of most companies. 1:05:24.240 --> 1:05:28.840 Hearing aid companies don't have a tracking mechanism. 1:05:29.520 --> 1:05:31.240 Are these over the counter hearing aids? 1:05:32.160 --> 1:05:35.760 No? No, this is from a doctor. 1:05:36.040 --> 1:05:37.640 Oh wow, Okay, these. 1:05:37.960 --> 1:05:39.840 Are the real expensive one. 1:05:40.000 --> 1:05:45.280 Mm interesting and are they Bluetooth or they just standard 1:05:45.360 --> 1:05:48.960 like they're not they don't have that, are they? What 1:05:49.240 --> 1:05:52.400 do they work with your iPhone? 1:05:52.880 --> 1:05:55.840 Yeah? I have an app that connects with it. I 1:05:56.120 --> 1:05:56.880 have an Android. 1:05:57.360 --> 1:06:00.080 Okay. Interesting. So I mean some you know, some of 1:06:00.120 --> 1:06:02.960 the newer hearing aids they have, you know, connections to 1:06:03.720 --> 1:06:08.040 the iPhone or Android. You may investigate in there for 1:06:08.480 --> 1:06:11.000 a way to you know, and did you look in 1:06:11.040 --> 1:06:12.480 there and it didn't didn't say anything. 1:06:13.240 --> 1:06:15.960 I did, and there wasn't any way for it to find 1:06:16.040 --> 1:06:16.880 my hearing aid. 1:06:17.840 --> 1:06:20.760 Yeah, that's frustrating. So it just may be that you 1:06:20.800 --> 1:06:24.439 don't have that capability in this hearing aid. It could 1:06:24.480 --> 1:06:26.320 be something they add with software. I mean, if it's 1:06:26.360 --> 1:06:29.760 connecting to your iPhone, that means there is some technology 1:06:29.760 --> 1:06:33.520 that could potentially allow it to be you know, for 1:06:33.600 --> 1:06:35.600 the phone to know like, oh wait, we lost the 1:06:35.640 --> 1:06:39.000 connection to this device, it's gone missing and alert you. 1:06:39.560 --> 1:06:41.760 So that's a possibility, but it sounds like it's not 1:06:41.880 --> 1:06:45.400 there right now. When it comes to like adding a 1:06:45.440 --> 1:06:48.360 third party sort of like tracking device to this, I 1:06:48.440 --> 1:06:52.760 don't see that being a possibility. The tracking devices are small, 1:06:52.800 --> 1:06:54.600 but they're not that small, and there's no way that 1:06:54.640 --> 1:06:56.240 you would be able to put something like an air 1:06:56.320 --> 1:07:00.480 tag on this or any sort of you know, even tile. 1:07:00.960 --> 1:07:04.680 They're just not small enough to work with this. Now 1:07:04.720 --> 1:07:07.240 on the flip side, the trend we're seeing is that 1:07:07.400 --> 1:07:10.560 more and more companies are building what's called fine My, 1:07:11.120 --> 1:07:17.040 which is Apple's branded location you know, tracking into devices. 1:07:17.560 --> 1:07:19.720 And so it could be that, you know, it could 1:07:19.760 --> 1:07:21.680 be as simple as a software update, or it could 1:07:21.720 --> 1:07:23.880 be simple, or it could be you know, a future 1:07:24.280 --> 1:07:26.320 pair that you get. But you said, these are very expensive, 1:07:26.360 --> 1:07:29.040 so I don't imagine you're wanting to get a different 1:07:29.160 --> 1:07:34.520 style or pair anytime soon, right, you know, it might. 1:07:34.400 --> 1:07:38.080 Be possible for me to get a new phone that 1:07:38.200 --> 1:07:42.320 might have. 1:07:40.640 --> 1:07:43.240 Have you talked to your provider about whether these may 1:07:43.320 --> 1:07:47.400 work better? Because there is something there is something specific 1:07:47.480 --> 1:07:51.520 to iPhone that's called like made for for iPhone hearing 1:07:51.560 --> 1:07:54.240 aids and that may have more of what you want 1:07:54.240 --> 1:07:57.240 in there. So have you talked to your provider about 1:07:57.440 --> 1:07:59.080 this functionality and whether they have it? 1:08:00.200 --> 1:08:02.600 I think I no, I haven't, and I'm going to 1:08:02.680 --> 1:08:03.000 do that. 1:08:03.200 --> 1:08:04.960 Yeah, that's what I would do, and just seeing they 1:08:04.960 --> 1:08:06.840 may say oh, well, we just assumed you had an 1:08:06.840 --> 1:08:10.000 iPhone and you were using that feature. Because if you said, 1:08:10.040 --> 1:08:11.960 you know, if these things are expensive and they you know, 1:08:12.000 --> 1:08:14.360 they're new and modern, they may very well have this 1:08:14.400 --> 1:08:17.160 feature built in that you're just not able to tap into. 1:08:17.360 --> 1:08:21.880 Sometimes Android and iPhone, the apps and the functionality with 1:08:21.960 --> 1:08:24.920 different devices could be very different depending on how that 1:08:24.960 --> 1:08:29.120 company codes what you're able to do there. So I 1:08:29.160 --> 1:08:31.120 would check there, what are you going to do in 1:08:31.160 --> 1:08:33.160 the meantime, I mean, how have you actually like lost 1:08:33.200 --> 1:08:35.080 these where you've gone like, oh no, where is this? 1:08:35.200 --> 1:08:37.080 Or has it just been like you've noticed that they've 1:08:37.080 --> 1:08:37.679 fallen off? 1:08:38.720 --> 1:08:42.080 Well, one time I found them. One time another person 1:08:42.200 --> 1:08:42.800 found them. 1:08:43.040 --> 1:08:46.040 Oh no, so it was lucky. 1:08:45.720 --> 1:08:49.719 Out and I have insurance to replace them one time. 1:08:50.160 --> 1:08:52.519 Right, But and I'm going. 1:08:52.439 --> 1:08:56.000 To talk to my audiologists, because my audiologists really should 1:08:56.160 --> 1:08:57.240 know about these things. 1:08:57.320 --> 1:08:59.320 Yeah, I think. I think you start there and talk 1:08:59.360 --> 1:09:00.800 with them and if they say, hey, look, you know 1:09:00.840 --> 1:09:03.160 this is something that may we've seen it, you know, 1:09:03.240 --> 1:09:05.640 on only one model, or it's you know, definitely a 1:09:05.680 --> 1:09:08.080 trend we're seeing with more and more models. But see 1:09:08.080 --> 1:09:09.920 what they say, and they may have a solution. But 1:09:10.520 --> 1:09:12.559 when it comes to anything that you can do differently, 1:09:12.600 --> 1:09:15.120 there's not really much. I mean, it's it's you know, 1:09:15.479 --> 1:09:17.400 and I'm sure if you just got these for the 1:09:17.400 --> 1:09:19.920 first time, you're probably getting used to them, and that's 1:09:19.960 --> 1:09:23.439 probably contributing to, you know, whether you feel them on 1:09:23.479 --> 1:09:25.360 your ears or not. And so I think that that's 1:09:25.400 --> 1:09:28.040 all probably part of why you've lost them a couple 1:09:28.040 --> 1:09:30.400 of times. It's like anything else, you know, you're still 1:09:30.760 --> 1:09:32.800 getting into the into it, you know what I mean, 1:09:32.840 --> 1:09:35.520 And so it may be a while before you say, oh, 1:09:35.600 --> 1:09:37.640 I just hold on, I took off my mask and 1:09:37.680 --> 1:09:38.640 these things. Where did they go? 1:09:38.880 --> 1:09:38.960 So? 1:09:40.520 --> 1:09:41.160 Are they helping? 1:09:41.160 --> 1:09:41.320 Though? 1:09:41.360 --> 1:09:43.280 That's the important part, is it? Are they helping? 1:09:44.040 --> 1:09:44.200 Oh? 1:09:44.280 --> 1:09:47.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it makes a difference. 1:09:47.320 --> 1:09:50.479 Good. That's good to hear. Well, Angie, thanks for calling 1:09:50.520 --> 1:09:51.800 on this very first show. 1:09:51.840 --> 1:09:54.920 I appreciate it well and thank you for letting me 1:09:55.000 --> 1:09:55.519 call back. 1:09:55.680 --> 1:09:57.320 All right, thanks a lot. I don't know what happened, 1:09:57.320 --> 1:09:59.479 but it might have been me, it might have been you, 1:09:59.520 --> 1:10:01.920 but we'll just say it was me, okay, But. 1:10:02.479 --> 1:10:04.760 We talked and I'm happy about it. Thank you so much. 1:10:04.760 --> 1:10:08.519 All right, I'll see on TV. Thanks a lot, See bye, 1:10:09.240 --> 1:10:12.479 all right. Interesting question. Yeah, I mean that's that's the 1:10:12.520 --> 1:10:15.759 beauty of this show is that we can get questions 1:10:15.800 --> 1:10:20.320 in a wide range of topics, and I find it fascinating. 1:10:20.320 --> 1:10:24.360 The hearing aids, especially the over the counter is really 1:10:24.760 --> 1:10:28.439 I mean, the FDA just approved over the counter hearing aids, 1:10:28.479 --> 1:10:31.559 and so we're going to see a lot more tech 1:10:32.360 --> 1:10:35.320 involved in hearing aids and a lot more innovation when 1:10:35.320 --> 1:10:37.040 it comes to hearing aids because of that. You know, 1:10:37.040 --> 1:10:38.519 this is this is an industry that used to be 1:10:38.600 --> 1:10:43.160 controlled by just a few players, and now that pretty 1:10:43.240 --> 1:10:45.880 much they've opened it up to many, many different companies 1:10:46.080 --> 1:10:49.920 able to offer these things immediately over the counter without 1:10:49.920 --> 1:10:52.519 a prescription. You know it's going to change things. 1:10:52.800 --> 1:10:52.960 Now. 1:10:52.960 --> 1:10:55.200 I'm not saying you go out tomorrow and buy these 1:10:55.240 --> 1:10:56.760 over the counter. I think there are some things you 1:10:56.760 --> 1:10:59.840 should talk to an audiologist about before you put something 1:10:59.840 --> 1:11:02.880 in your ears full time or use these, because you 1:11:02.920 --> 1:11:04.880 know it's still your ears and it's still a part 1:11:04.920 --> 1:11:07.760 of your body. That's very important, and so I would 1:11:07.760 --> 1:11:11.839 still consult with a pro before I did something like that. Okay, 1:11:12.160 --> 1:11:14.680 something fun I saw at CES this. If you're a 1:11:14.680 --> 1:11:17.920 pet lover, you're gonna like this story. This is a 1:11:17.960 --> 1:11:22.080 device called Fluent Pets. Okay, and I saw this in person, 1:11:22.280 --> 1:11:25.360 and you know, look, we all want our pets to 1:11:25.479 --> 1:11:28.479 talk with us. We talked to pets, do they always 1:11:28.520 --> 1:11:31.240 talk back? Not necessarily. I mean, we can communicate with 1:11:31.320 --> 1:11:35.559 them in our own way. But this Fluent pet, it's 1:11:35.600 --> 1:11:39.280 called fluent Pet connect, allows you to let your pet 1:11:39.560 --> 1:11:42.519 talk to you. And here's how it works. So it's 1:11:42.560 --> 1:11:45.599 a bunch of these recordable sound buttons and you place 1:11:45.640 --> 1:11:48.920 them on sort of this board of interlocking tiles. They 1:11:48.920 --> 1:11:51.920 look like a rubber matt almost, and you program this 1:11:52.000 --> 1:11:55.320 button to say something in your voice, so you can 1:11:55.360 --> 1:11:58.720 say something like water or bone. And then guess what 1:11:58.760 --> 1:12:01.719 you see where this is going. When your pet wants 1:12:01.840 --> 1:12:05.120 water or a bone, what do they do? They press 1:12:05.160 --> 1:12:08.759 this button. So you teach them to press this button 1:12:08.800 --> 1:12:12.680 that then sounds your voice when they want something. And 1:12:12.760 --> 1:12:16.200 I watched this dog do this when the trainer showed 1:12:16.240 --> 1:12:19.120 the dog two different toys. One was a ball, one 1:12:19.240 --> 1:12:22.759 was one of those like sort of you know, cloth bones. 1:12:23.320 --> 1:12:25.680 The dog pressed the right button and it took a 1:12:25.720 --> 1:12:27.400 little bit for the dog to do it, but it 1:12:27.479 --> 1:12:31.160 did it. Now that's a visual thing, but eventually, I 1:12:31.200 --> 1:12:33.360 think you know, if your dog already goes like to 1:12:33.400 --> 1:12:34.759 the door when they want to go to the bathroom, 1:12:34.760 --> 1:12:36.920 it's not a big leap to think that you can 1:12:36.960 --> 1:12:39.719 do this. The system is one hundred and sixty dollars, 1:12:39.800 --> 1:12:42.680 the tiles are seventy. It's going to be available in 1:12:42.840 --> 1:12:46.280 February twenty twenty three. Again, it's called Fluent Pet Connect. 1:12:46.840 --> 1:12:50.479 If you want your pet to talk to you, well, 1:12:50.479 --> 1:12:52.000 look at it. That's going to do it. For this 1:12:52.160 --> 1:12:55.200 hour of the show, Hour number two of the brand 1:12:55.240 --> 1:12:58.360 new rich On Tech Show is in the books. Next hour, 1:12:58.400 --> 1:13:00.439 we're going to talk to an expert about what you 1:13:00.560 --> 1:13:03.439 need to do now that last pass has been hacked. 1:13:03.760 --> 1:13:07.040 More of your calls and more tech coming up. Welcome back. 1:13:07.080 --> 1:13:10.160 You're listening to rich on Tech. I'm Rich Demiro, and 1:13:10.240 --> 1:13:12.080 this is the show where we talk about the tech 1:13:12.120 --> 1:13:14.439 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 1:13:14.439 --> 1:13:17.920 place where I answer your questions. 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And yeah, sometimes it's just straight up 1:13:57.760 --> 1:14:01.760 my opinion. It'll be based in fact. Sometimes it's just 1:14:01.840 --> 1:14:05.320 kind of what I like. Sometimes it's obviously comparisons and 1:14:05.400 --> 1:14:07.880 knowledge that I bring to the table. You can find 1:14:07.880 --> 1:14:10.680 me on social media. I am on Instagram, Twitter, and 1:14:10.720 --> 1:14:14.920 Facebook at rich on Tech and my website is rich 1:14:15.080 --> 1:14:18.320 on tech dot tv. So join me there. I have 1:14:18.360 --> 1:14:21.280 a lot of fun on my Instagram, especially, you know, 1:14:21.280 --> 1:14:23.839 it's not always tech. You know, like yesterday I posted 1:14:25.439 --> 1:14:28.559 birthday cake kitkats. Have you ever seen those? I never did, 1:14:29.160 --> 1:14:31.600 and I was tempted. I didn't buy them, but I 1:14:31.680 --> 1:14:34.720 was very tempted. I'm a sucker sometimes for all these 1:14:34.760 --> 1:14:38.360 like you know, anything like funfetti flavor. Let's be honest, 1:14:38.439 --> 1:14:40.599 you know, I think Funfetti is a you know, they're 1:14:40.640 --> 1:14:43.880 wondering how pumpkin spice became so big, right, They're like, Ah, 1:14:43.960 --> 1:14:46.800 we have this flavor that's really good, but why did 1:14:46.800 --> 1:14:50.600 pumpkin spice become so popular? I think Funfetti has the 1:14:50.640 --> 1:14:51.840 ability to do that same thing. 1:14:53.120 --> 1:14:53.280 Now. 1:14:53.320 --> 1:14:56.800 I just got back from CEES and this is like, 1:14:57.000 --> 1:14:58.720 you know, the biggest tech show in the world. You've 1:14:58.760 --> 1:15:01.519 got techy people there, and so I figured, you know, 1:15:01.800 --> 1:15:04.400 historically it's a place where you exchange a lot of 1:15:04.400 --> 1:15:07.400 business cards, right, And I'm a tech guy, So I'm like, 1:15:07.640 --> 1:15:11.080 I can't have a physical business card, Like come on, 1:15:11.960 --> 1:15:14.880 I do, and I've had the same ones for many years, 1:15:15.120 --> 1:15:17.960 and I'm always like hesitant to give them out because 1:15:18.000 --> 1:15:20.880 I'm like, shouldn't we be doing something smarter, better and 1:15:20.960 --> 1:15:24.479 more efficient than a piece of paper that we cut 1:15:24.520 --> 1:15:28.080 and print with stuff? And so before CES, the night before, 1:15:28.200 --> 1:15:31.560 I tested three different digital business card apps, cause I 1:15:31.600 --> 1:15:32.720 was like, you know what, I'm going to try to 1:15:32.840 --> 1:15:35.800 use a digital business card and I'll just cut to 1:15:35.800 --> 1:15:38.000 the chase here. I'll just tell you no one likes 1:15:38.000 --> 1:15:41.400 digital business cards. It's just a fact of life. And 1:15:41.439 --> 1:15:43.439 I'll tell you why this is what I realized in 1:15:43.520 --> 1:15:46.200 trying to share my digital business cards so many times, 1:15:46.880 --> 1:15:50.479 is that when you're sharing a card with someone, it 1:15:50.600 --> 1:15:53.400 is a quick thing where basically you say, oh, and 1:15:53.439 --> 1:15:55.840 here's my card, give me a call, get in touch, 1:15:56.120 --> 1:15:59.280 let's hang out, let's do business whatever, and they take 1:15:59.320 --> 1:16:01.040 it and they put it in pocket and they forget 1:16:01.040 --> 1:16:03.599 about it until they get home they empty their pocket 1:16:03.600 --> 1:16:05.320 and say, oh, yeah, I need to call Rich. Let 1:16:05.360 --> 1:16:07.120 me put his number in my phone, or let me 1:16:07.160 --> 1:16:09.400 email him, or let me look him up. Whatever it is. 1:16:10.920 --> 1:16:14.960 With a digital business card, people need to take action immediately, 1:16:15.400 --> 1:16:19.200 and that is what breaks this whole business business card 1:16:19.240 --> 1:16:23.479 continuum because nobody wants to do something in that moment 1:16:23.600 --> 1:16:26.400 because the next person is walking up to them, or they're, 1:16:26.760 --> 1:16:29.040 you know, doing something next on their calendar, or they're 1:16:29.080 --> 1:16:31.240 going to their next meeting. They don't have time to 1:16:31.280 --> 1:16:34.680 deal with your contact information at that very moment. So 1:16:35.160 --> 1:16:37.200 I tested three of these things. The first is called 1:16:37.240 --> 1:16:40.519 Popple popl and the way that a lot of these 1:16:40.520 --> 1:16:45.439 does keep messing up on that digital business cards work 1:16:45.640 --> 1:16:47.840 is that you can scan a QR code and then 1:16:47.840 --> 1:16:53.000 I'll bring up your information. You can text someone your 1:16:53.080 --> 1:16:56.120 digital information. Usually it's a link to your digital business card. 1:16:56.560 --> 1:16:59.479 You can email them your business card. There's a lot 1:16:59.520 --> 1:17:02.040 of ways to share, and most of these apps support 1:17:02.160 --> 1:17:05.479 all the different ways. So, for instance, Popple actually the 1:17:05.479 --> 1:17:10.080 way that they started and it's popl This was a 1:17:10.120 --> 1:17:12.639 physical device like a little sticker that you could put 1:17:12.640 --> 1:17:14.320 on the back of your iPhone. You could tap that 1:17:14.400 --> 1:17:18.080 to another iPhone or any NFC enabled phone and it 1:17:18.120 --> 1:17:22.320 would trigger your information to pop up on their phone. 1:17:22.680 --> 1:17:25.200 And so it was pretty cool. But now people have 1:17:25.240 --> 1:17:27.280 gotten very used to QR codes. We don't really need 1:17:27.320 --> 1:17:29.920 to tap anymore. You can just you know, scan someone 1:17:29.920 --> 1:17:33.680 else's QR code, and so that's the primary method of 1:17:33.720 --> 1:17:36.200 sharing is a QR code. So you can put it 1:17:36.280 --> 1:17:37.800 in your Apple wallet, you can put it in your 1:17:37.840 --> 1:17:40.080 Google wallet, and then someone you know, you just pull 1:17:40.160 --> 1:17:42.200 up your QR code, someone scans it and now they 1:17:42.200 --> 1:17:44.120 have your information on their phone. But here's a thing. 1:17:45.479 --> 1:17:48.720 It typically just brings up a website, and on that 1:17:48.760 --> 1:17:51.000 website they have to do something, whether it's you know, 1:17:51.120 --> 1:17:54.360 download your information or follow you on Twitter or Instagram. 1:17:54.439 --> 1:17:56.400 So unless they're ready to do that at that very 1:17:56.439 --> 1:18:00.280 exact moment, it could be tricky, so Popolite says, probably 1:18:00.280 --> 1:18:02.920 the slickest out of all of these. It's probably the 1:18:02.960 --> 1:18:05.880 most like, you know, kind of the youngest, freshest looking 1:18:05.920 --> 1:18:08.519 app out of all of them. And many of these apps, 1:18:08.560 --> 1:18:10.960 by the way, have a customizable web page that's kind 1:18:11.000 --> 1:18:14.360 of your business card. But also it has like lead capture, 1:18:14.400 --> 1:18:17.080 so if you're like a salesperson that's constantly meeting new people, 1:18:17.920 --> 1:18:19.760 or anyone that's meeting new people and you want to 1:18:19.760 --> 1:18:22.439 remember how you met them, you can also capture their 1:18:22.439 --> 1:18:26.280 information so when they add their your card to their phone, 1:18:27.040 --> 1:18:28.599 you know, the card will prompt them and say, hey, 1:18:28.680 --> 1:18:30.679 do you want to send back your information a rich 1:18:31.120 --> 1:18:35.320 So poppol looks pretty slick, it works really well. It's 1:18:35.360 --> 1:18:37.400 probably one of my top picks for sure. And they 1:18:37.479 --> 1:18:39.880 just added this feature where you can have a QR 1:18:39.960 --> 1:18:43.320 code that works without Internet, so when the person scans that, 1:18:43.360 --> 1:18:45.760 they don't need Internet on their phone, or you don't 1:18:45.800 --> 1:18:47.800 need internet on your phone to make that work, which 1:18:47.840 --> 1:18:49.320 is kind of cool. That's a brand new feature. I 1:18:49.320 --> 1:18:51.560 haven't tested it, but that came into play because a 1:18:51.600 --> 1:18:53.240 lot of the people I was talking to and trying 1:18:53.240 --> 1:18:56.599 to give my card to were international, and so they 1:18:56.600 --> 1:19:00.360 have either their you know, cellular data turned off, or 1:19:00.400 --> 1:19:02.320 they hadn't connected to the Wi Fi or whatever. It 1:19:02.360 --> 1:19:05.000 was just a little bit complicated. So that's another consideration, 1:19:05.840 --> 1:19:08.320 all right. The next app that I tested is called 1:19:08.439 --> 1:19:11.760 Hi Hello, and this app what I like is that 1:19:11.880 --> 1:19:15.240 the card, like the digital business card that it gives you, 1:19:16.080 --> 1:19:18.360 is really slick looking. It looks really nice, and so 1:19:18.439 --> 1:19:21.360 it's got this cool format. You can, you know, change 1:19:21.360 --> 1:19:23.760 how it looks. It's got all your information right on 1:19:23.760 --> 1:19:25.719 one page. So what someone could do when they see 1:19:25.720 --> 1:19:29.200 this is they could screenshot your information if they pull 1:19:29.240 --> 1:19:32.640 that up. So some of them, like poppol will just 1:19:32.720 --> 1:19:36.640 show like a Twitter icon or an Instagram icon, and 1:19:36.680 --> 1:19:38.800 so you can't really like screenshot that. If you just 1:19:38.840 --> 1:19:41.160 want to do this in a hurry, but with high Hello, 1:19:41.280 --> 1:19:44.080 you could just screenshot the whatever the business card that 1:19:44.120 --> 1:19:46.479 pops up and boom, Now you can add it to 1:19:46.520 --> 1:19:49.160 your phone later on when you have time. And again 1:19:49.200 --> 1:19:51.080 it all comes back to what I noticed. Every single 1:19:51.120 --> 1:19:53.160 person I was trying to share this with, none of 1:19:53.160 --> 1:19:55.439 them wanted to deal with my contact info at that 1:19:55.600 --> 1:19:58.000 very moment because they had better things to do with 1:19:58.040 --> 1:20:01.240 their lives. And so that's that. My big takeaway is like, 1:20:01.320 --> 1:20:04.640 oh okay, that's interesting. But like Poppel, this allows you 1:20:04.680 --> 1:20:08.880 to share via QR code, email text. This actually can 1:20:08.920 --> 1:20:11.840 write to an NFC device. If you have an NFC 1:20:11.960 --> 1:20:13.320 device that you want to write it to, you can 1:20:13.360 --> 1:20:15.960 add it to Apple Wallet and I like the look 1:20:15.960 --> 1:20:18.759 of it. And again it keeps track of the people 1:20:18.760 --> 1:20:20.479 that you send your stuff to so that you can 1:20:20.520 --> 1:20:23.960 follow up with them as well. Okay, the final one 1:20:23.960 --> 1:20:27.080 that I tested is called link l n Q, and 1:20:27.120 --> 1:20:31.160 this I would say is probably like the most business 1:20:31.240 --> 1:20:34.320 y out of all of these different apps, and so 1:20:34.520 --> 1:20:38.479 link li in q I actually like it the best 1:20:38.560 --> 1:20:41.240 for a certain reason. And the reason and this is 1:20:41.280 --> 1:20:44.880 what I've decided. The reason is that you can send 1:20:44.880 --> 1:20:48.160 your information as a text to someone. And what it 1:20:48.200 --> 1:20:50.920 does is it will send that text with a link 1:20:50.960 --> 1:20:56.200 to your business card, but also your business card embedded 1:20:56.240 --> 1:20:58.960 in that text, so your VCF card if you've ever 1:20:59.280 --> 1:21:01.360 gotten a text where it's like, you know, basically a 1:21:01.400 --> 1:21:04.360 contact card, and you can download that right to your phone. 1:21:04.400 --> 1:21:06.960 So what I like about this is that when I 1:21:07.000 --> 1:21:12.320 text someone my information, they have the option to not 1:21:12.479 --> 1:21:15.160 have to deal with it at that moment because my 1:21:15.360 --> 1:21:19.320 contact card is in their text now. So later on 1:21:19.400 --> 1:21:20.639 when they're you know, at the end of the night 1:21:20.720 --> 1:21:22.839 or whatever, when they're going through all their different texts, 1:21:23.000 --> 1:21:25.439 they can say, oh, yeah, Rich DeMuro shared his information. 1:21:25.600 --> 1:21:27.559 Here it is and I can download that. They can 1:21:27.600 --> 1:21:30.840 download that card right to their phone when they have 1:21:30.920 --> 1:21:33.320 the time to do it, as opposed to having to 1:21:33.400 --> 1:21:35.559 deal with it right then and there. The downside to 1:21:35.600 --> 1:21:39.759 that setup is that this link comes from a link 1:21:40.120 --> 1:21:44.960 phone number. So the implication for most people or you know, 1:21:45.000 --> 1:21:46.920 what most people might do is just reply back to 1:21:46.960 --> 1:21:50.160 that text it does say this came from rich DeMuro 1:21:50.240 --> 1:21:52.439 like it'll it kind of like nudges them to make 1:21:52.479 --> 1:21:55.040 them realize that it's not my text number. But that's 1:21:55.040 --> 1:21:56.800 the only downside is you have to pay extra if 1:21:56.840 --> 1:21:58.960 you want it to come from your text number, so 1:21:59.120 --> 1:22:00.760 which I'm not ready to pay for any of these 1:22:00.840 --> 1:22:03.240 apps just now, but that's that's kind of where it is. 1:22:03.280 --> 1:22:06.760 So anyway, poppol high Hello and Link l A n Q. 1:22:06.960 --> 1:22:09.360 But the bottom line is I'm probably going back to 1:22:09.479 --> 1:22:11.640 a regular business card because it just seems to be 1:22:11.680 --> 1:22:13.800 the easiest. That's what I prefer, and it seems like 1:22:13.840 --> 1:22:17.040 a lot of people prefer that as well. All right, 1:22:17.120 --> 1:22:19.760 let me just do one quick story before we get 1:22:19.760 --> 1:22:23.000 to calls in a moment here after the break But Ring, 1:22:23.600 --> 1:22:26.360 you know Ring, the video doorbell company, they came out 1:22:26.400 --> 1:22:29.160 with a Ring car cam. So one of the most 1:22:29.200 --> 1:22:33.559 popular questions I get is when or which you know, 1:22:33.640 --> 1:22:35.760 which one of these car cams should I get these? 1:22:35.840 --> 1:22:37.840 You know, everyone wants one of these little cams for 1:22:37.880 --> 1:22:40.679 their car, and now Ring has one. And it's really 1:22:40.720 --> 1:22:43.720 cool because it looks nice, it's easy to set up, 1:22:43.760 --> 1:22:46.720 it works with Ring. It can record whenever there's a 1:22:46.880 --> 1:22:49.200 you know, an event detected like a break in. But 1:22:49.280 --> 1:22:52.040 there's also sensors to kind of detect when something's happening 1:22:52.080 --> 1:22:54.920 around your vehicle. If you get stopped for a traffic stop, 1:22:54.960 --> 1:22:57.960 you can say ALEXA record and your camera will start 1:22:58.000 --> 1:23:01.400 recording even if your car's parked. This is a two 1:23:01.439 --> 1:23:04.439 hundred and fifty dollars camera. Again, it works with Ring. 1:23:04.479 --> 1:23:06.559 It's called the Ring Carcam. It's coming out soon. It 1:23:06.600 --> 1:23:09.160 looks really cool. It's one hundred ninety nine dollars if 1:23:09.160 --> 1:23:10.719 you pre order it. So if you know you want 1:23:10.720 --> 1:23:13.519 this thing, probably now's the time to get it if 1:23:13.560 --> 1:23:15.240 you have Ring on your house and you've got the 1:23:15.280 --> 1:23:18.720 whole subscription. Now this also has LTE built in, so 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:20.479 you will have to pay an extra six dollars a 1:23:20.479 --> 1:23:25.080 month if you want that LTD LTE capability, which is cellular. 1:23:26.080 --> 1:23:27.880 But I think this is gonna be something I'm gonna recommend, 1:23:27.960 --> 1:23:30.879 especially if you like the Ring video doorbell. It'll integrate 1:23:30.880 --> 1:23:33.800 with all your other cameras and it looks slick. I 1:23:33.840 --> 1:23:36.439 haven't tested it, but it's got cameras that look out 1:23:36.720 --> 1:23:40.720 and also into your car. So Ring carcam brand new 1:23:40.880 --> 1:23:44.600 unveiled at CES twenty twenty three. You are listening to 1:23:44.760 --> 1:23:47.320 Rich on Tech. Give me a call triple eight Rich 1:23:47.400 --> 1:23:49.960 one oh one with your tech question, and coming up, 1:23:50.320 --> 1:23:52.080 we're going to talk to an expert about what you 1:23:52.160 --> 1:23:54.799 need to do if you were involved in that last 1:23:54.920 --> 1:23:59.240 pass hack. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Rich tamiro 1:23:59.400 --> 1:24:03.320 here which on Tech radio show. We are talking technology 1:24:03.439 --> 1:24:08.679 and taking your questions. Dale is in Minster, Ohio. Dale, 1:24:08.720 --> 1:24:09.559 welcome to the show. 1:24:10.200 --> 1:24:12.519 How you doing, young man? Welcome to be the new 1:24:12.560 --> 1:24:13.400 guy on the block. 1:24:14.040 --> 1:24:16.880 Thank you so much. I don't know if I've ever 1:24:16.960 --> 1:24:18.280 been to new kid on the block. 1:24:21.600 --> 1:24:23.840 Drive a truck. I don't want to take up too 1:24:23.960 --> 1:24:25.680 much of your time, but I used to pick you 1:24:25.760 --> 1:24:27.840 up on the radio stations out there when I was 1:24:27.840 --> 1:24:32.479 in LA over the years. But here's my question. I'm 1:24:32.479 --> 1:24:36.679 on a fixed income. I got an old operating system, 1:24:36.800 --> 1:24:43.800 Windows eight point one, Sammy Ewlett Packard, good machine working 1:24:43.880 --> 1:24:45.760 that ninety problems with it. The only thing I ever 1:24:45.840 --> 1:24:49.840 do was crack the screen and turned off the touch 1:24:49.840 --> 1:24:52.200 screen on the human interface. If you know what I'm 1:24:52.240 --> 1:24:58.120 talking about. Sure, And here's my predicament. I can't afford 1:24:58.160 --> 1:25:01.760 to buy a new computer, can't upgrade to Windows ten. 1:25:02.800 --> 1:25:04.559 And I don't want to put you on the spot 1:25:04.600 --> 1:25:08.439 to recommend anything over the air. But if you were 1:25:08.479 --> 1:25:11.160 in my say, if it was you in my situation, 1:25:11.360 --> 1:25:12.160 what would you do? 1:25:13.479 --> 1:25:16.799 Well, Okay, so first off, you're you're already on Windows 1:25:16.800 --> 1:25:21.320 eight point one. Yeah, okay, So that means that you know, 1:25:21.640 --> 1:25:23.599 so I know you're talking about this end of life 1:25:23.640 --> 1:25:26.840 support or end of support on end of life end 1:25:26.840 --> 1:25:29.120 of support on January tenth, that's coming up in a 1:25:29.120 --> 1:25:32.320 couple of days here. So what that means is that 1:25:32.520 --> 1:25:34.960 you're not going to get any updates for that computer 1:25:35.360 --> 1:25:37.760 when it comes to Windows. Now, that doesn't mean that 1:25:37.800 --> 1:25:40.639 individual apps can't be updated. So have you had any trouble? 1:25:40.760 --> 1:25:42.920 What what like browser are you using? Using like Chrome 1:25:43.040 --> 1:25:43.439 or something. 1:25:46.000 --> 1:25:50.840 I've got Microsoft Edge in there and also Firefox. I 1:25:50.920 --> 1:25:54.639 use two different ones. I'm on a Wi Fi system, Okay, So. 1:25:54.800 --> 1:25:58.080 I mean, look, Microsoft Edge, you know they may stop 1:25:58.160 --> 1:26:00.200 updates for that, but I don't know if they're doing 1:26:00.200 --> 1:26:04.160 that just yet Firefox. Same thing. Basically, what's happening here 1:26:04.560 --> 1:26:07.320 is that you may lose updates for these computer you know, 1:26:07.360 --> 1:26:09.680 for these software programs on the computer. It doesn't mean 1:26:09.680 --> 1:26:12.759 your computer stops working on the tenth it will still work. 1:26:13.200 --> 1:26:15.000 The main thing is that you need to be aware 1:26:15.439 --> 1:26:19.719 of the security implications of no longer receiving security updates. 1:26:20.160 --> 1:26:22.640 So that means that you could be at risk for 1:26:22.760 --> 1:26:25.440 certain things. Now, if you're doing most of your stuff online, 1:26:25.600 --> 1:26:28.400 most of your stuff on websites, many of your programs 1:26:28.400 --> 1:26:31.360 are running in the browser, you probably should be Okay. 1:26:32.240 --> 1:26:34.920 I might recommend running Chrome if you can. If you 1:26:34.960 --> 1:26:37.439 can download that and run it, it's got a lot 1:26:37.439 --> 1:26:40.800 of protections built in. I mean Edge does too, and 1:26:40.880 --> 1:26:43.880 so does Firefox to an extent. But you know, I 1:26:43.920 --> 1:26:46.240 think that that's the main thing, is knowing what you're 1:26:46.280 --> 1:26:49.120 up against. Other than that, I mean, I would plan 1:26:49.200 --> 1:26:51.920 for a new computer at some time, maybe over the 1:26:51.960 --> 1:26:55.200 next year, and you know, you can go. If you're 1:26:55.200 --> 1:26:59.000 not doing anything that's truly intensive on this computer, you 1:26:59.000 --> 1:27:01.960 could probably get away with a Chromebook. And I look 1:27:02.000 --> 1:27:05.640 into Asher on the Chromebooks. I've been testing one and 1:27:05.680 --> 1:27:07.200 they've got a lot of great models and a lot 1:27:07.200 --> 1:27:09.040 of different price ranges. But you want to get one 1:27:09.080 --> 1:27:11.679 that definitely has the best specs that you can afford 1:27:12.000 --> 1:27:13.880 on your budget. You say you're on a fixed income, 1:27:13.960 --> 1:27:16.880 So I would just put away a little every month 1:27:16.880 --> 1:27:18.800 for the next couple of months and until you get 1:27:18.880 --> 1:27:21.479 enough that you can upgrade this system. But it's not 1:27:21.520 --> 1:27:25.080 going to stop working anytime soon. And yes it's an 1:27:25.080 --> 1:27:28.000 older system. Windows eight point one is not ideal, but 1:27:28.200 --> 1:27:32.280 it just got to end of support in three days, 1:27:32.280 --> 1:27:34.400 so it's not like it's going away anytime soon. 1:27:35.560 --> 1:27:38.519 Does that make sense, Yeah, it does. 1:27:39.840 --> 1:27:40.000 Well. 1:27:40.080 --> 1:27:42.719 I was more or less concerned was the security aspect 1:27:42.840 --> 1:27:45.719 of it. I think the Windows Defender will no longer 1:27:45.760 --> 1:27:49.320 be upgraded, right, And I was wondering about a possible 1:27:49.439 --> 1:27:53.519 other I've looked at everything. I add best Norton all 1:27:53.600 --> 1:27:57.200 those half dozen or two dozen security softwares out there, 1:27:57.240 --> 1:28:01.120 and cut the side on which one might be the best. 1:28:01.160 --> 1:28:02.639 And like I said, I don't want you to stick 1:28:02.720 --> 1:28:05.600 your neck out on the air recommending somebody software. 1:28:05.680 --> 1:28:08.879 But well, I don't mind. I mean that's yeah, I mean, look. 1:28:08.720 --> 1:28:12.840 Yes, you're right, that was my concern area. I don't game, 1:28:13.960 --> 1:28:17.639 I don't create anything. I just do a lot of reading. Okay, 1:28:18.040 --> 1:28:21.479 watch videos and maybe the Netflix. That's about the extent 1:28:21.520 --> 1:28:23.720 of my modern technology. 1:28:24.000 --> 1:28:25.880 I think I think you're gonna be okay, Dale, as 1:28:25.920 --> 1:28:28.280 long as you just be careful about any links that 1:28:28.320 --> 1:28:31.880 people send you through your email. I don't think you're 1:28:31.880 --> 1:28:33.880 getting text on this computer, but you know, you just 1:28:33.920 --> 1:28:37.960 have to be careful about anything that could you know, uh, 1:28:38.680 --> 1:28:41.479 that could be a security exploit of this computer, because 1:28:41.479 --> 1:28:44.000 that's what that's what happens when when when software is 1:28:44.000 --> 1:28:47.120 no longer updated with security updates. Hackers know that, and 1:28:47.160 --> 1:28:50.439 they look for exploits and they exploit them. And that's 1:28:50.520 --> 1:28:52.960 kind of the main thing that you're up against. So again, 1:28:53.320 --> 1:28:55.760 it's probably not going to be a huge thing you 1:28:55.800 --> 1:28:57.479 need to worry about in the next day or two. 1:28:57.840 --> 1:29:01.439 But again, plan for a new computer, do some research, 1:29:01.479 --> 1:29:03.559 figure out if a Chromebook's going to be good. And 1:29:03.600 --> 1:29:05.519 it sounds like it would be fine for what you need. 1:29:05.800 --> 1:29:07.400 I'd go with that. And I think you're going to 1:29:07.439 --> 1:29:10.559 be just great. So Dale, thanks for the question in Ohio. 1:29:10.680 --> 1:29:14.559 I appreciate it. Let's go to Ed in Huntington Beach, Ed, 1:29:14.720 --> 1:29:15.599 what's on your mind? 1:29:17.400 --> 1:29:21.920 Yeah, Hi, Rich, I'm one of the ones to congratulate 1:29:21.960 --> 1:29:23.759 you on getting this new job. 1:29:24.280 --> 1:29:25.760 Thank you. 1:29:25.280 --> 1:29:29.320 I bought your book one hundred and one Jeffson of 1:29:29.439 --> 1:29:33.759 the iPhone and everything I have is Apple. But anyway, 1:29:33.880 --> 1:29:38.800 my question to get down to it is, since the 1:29:39.040 --> 1:29:43.719 major hack back in August of Last Pass, I'm really 1:29:43.920 --> 1:29:48.520 losing faith in Last Pass and I've changed my master password. 1:29:48.800 --> 1:29:53.760 It's up to twenty characters, and and I guess it's 1:29:53.760 --> 1:29:58.559 a two part question. My question is should I just 1:29:58.680 --> 1:30:02.479 back out of out of last path? But I don't 1:30:02.479 --> 1:30:04.880 really know how. I've got so many passwords on there, 1:30:04.880 --> 1:30:07.920 I don't really know how to get to back out 1:30:07.960 --> 1:30:12.360 of that last path. And and. 1:30:13.920 --> 1:30:16.679 You're you're feeling, you're you're frustrated, You're you're you're kind 1:30:16.680 --> 1:30:19.400 of I feel it. I feel it in your voice 1:30:19.439 --> 1:30:22.760 that you are upset that you put so much time 1:30:22.760 --> 1:30:25.160 and effort into this program and now it's kind of, uh, 1:30:25.600 --> 1:30:27.120 you know, it's not worked out the way that you 1:30:27.120 --> 1:30:29.240 would have liked it. Is that what I'm feeling? 1:30:30.040 --> 1:30:34.800 Yeah, I'm you know, I'm losing my trust, losing my 1:30:34.920 --> 1:30:39.400 trust and last path and you know they've they've somehow 1:30:39.640 --> 1:30:44.439 somebody in their company has opened up there that somebody 1:30:44.520 --> 1:30:48.639 stole all the source code back in August, and it's 1:30:48.720 --> 1:30:53.080 just it's just getting worse and worse. So I did 1:30:53.360 --> 1:30:55.760 change my master password right now, but I have some 1:30:55.920 --> 1:30:58.800 banking on there and I have Amazon on. 1:30:59.400 --> 1:31:01.720 Here's what I want to do, ed hang on. My 1:31:01.840 --> 1:31:05.240 next guest is going to answer all these questions and more. 1:31:05.280 --> 1:31:08.479 We're going to talk to an expert about this whole 1:31:08.560 --> 1:31:10.280 last Pass hack. I think you're going to enjoy the 1:31:10.280 --> 1:31:14.640 conversation coming up. Last Pass hack. What you need to know. 1:31:15.120 --> 1:31:18.680 You are listening to rich on tech. Welcome back to 1:31:19.040 --> 1:31:22.759 rich on tech. On Richdimiro talking about technology and something 1:31:23.280 --> 1:31:26.679 pretty big in the tech world. Actually huge is this 1:31:26.880 --> 1:31:32.360 last last pass breach. Last Pass is a very popular 1:31:32.439 --> 1:31:36.120 password manager and if you hear me talk at all. 1:31:36.720 --> 1:31:38.720 On any of my segments, I'm always talking about the 1:31:38.720 --> 1:31:43.320 importance of strong passwords, two factor authentication, and also having 1:31:43.360 --> 1:31:45.920 a password manager. So then when you see in the 1:31:45.960 --> 1:31:49.639 news that last pass is hacked, not just once, but twice, 1:31:50.560 --> 1:31:53.880 you're like, rich, where are you leading me here? Because 1:31:54.160 --> 1:31:55.800 maybe it was safer for me to write my stuff 1:31:55.840 --> 1:31:58.680 down on a piece of paper. I still think it's 1:31:58.680 --> 1:32:02.080 better to use a password manager. Lots of things, though, 1:32:02.320 --> 1:32:06.719 we were taken in this breach. Website URLs for stored 1:32:06.760 --> 1:32:10.759 passwords and user names, billing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, 1:32:10.760 --> 1:32:14.679 company names, all kinds of information. Now Here to break 1:32:14.720 --> 1:32:18.000 it down is Roger Grimes. He is a data defense 1:32:18.520 --> 1:32:23.160 data driven defense evangelist at NOBI four and one of 1:32:23.200 --> 1:32:26.240 the most interesting people I interviewed at KTLA in the 1:32:26.240 --> 1:32:29.479 past year. We talked about security. Roger, thanks for joining me, 1:32:30.680 --> 1:32:34.040 glad to talk. So let's break this down. First off, 1:32:34.080 --> 1:32:35.760 can you give me a summary of what happened with 1:32:35.840 --> 1:32:38.080 last past. I believe they were hacked in eight in 1:32:38.360 --> 1:32:41.000 August and they said no, no, everything's fine, and all 1:32:41.000 --> 1:32:42.719 of a sudden it comes out, oh no, no, actually 1:32:42.760 --> 1:32:44.639 things aren't so fine. So what's the deal. 1:32:45.960 --> 1:32:49.479 Yeah, you know, they didn't necessarily get hacked. They did, 1:32:49.479 --> 1:32:51.840 but it was really one of their providers, their cloud 1:32:51.920 --> 1:32:58.080 storage providers where they stored their users users information, so 1:32:58.520 --> 1:33:03.320 including passwords, but the passwords were encrypted with AES, but 1:33:03.320 --> 1:33:04.880 they were you know, what they revealed is that a 1:33:04.920 --> 1:33:07.479 lot of the information related to their customers and the 1:33:07.479 --> 1:33:10.360 different websites were stored and last pass were not encrypted. 1:33:10.439 --> 1:33:16.000 So the passwords themselves were thankfully encrypted by AES with 1:33:16.040 --> 1:33:19.040 two hundred and fifty six bits of encryption. That's really good, 1:33:19.600 --> 1:33:22.000 but a lot of other information wasn't. So, you know, 1:33:22.040 --> 1:33:24.680 even at the very least, if they're not getting your passwords, 1:33:24.720 --> 1:33:26.840 they could at least know what websites you belong to 1:33:26.920 --> 1:33:30.400 and probably do some spear phishing attacks right and saying hey, 1:33:30.400 --> 1:33:32.479 we're from this website, we need you to change your 1:33:32.479 --> 1:33:34.840 password or something like that and then get your real 1:33:34.880 --> 1:33:36.240 password and that sort of stuff. 1:33:36.280 --> 1:33:38.200 All right, let's break that down. So first off, if 1:33:38.200 --> 1:33:40.920 I'm a last past customer, do I ditch them right now? 1:33:41.360 --> 1:33:44.120 Do I give them another chance? And is my data 1:33:44.240 --> 1:33:47.639 at risk? Do they have like my logins for every 1:33:47.640 --> 1:33:50.080 website or no, you're saying they don't kind of. 1:33:51.080 --> 1:33:53.840 They certainly don't have your passwords, but they could have 1:33:53.880 --> 1:33:56.040 your login names. And let me say, overall, I like 1:33:56.160 --> 1:34:00.679 what advice you've been telling people. Everybody should use. My opinion, 1:34:00.720 --> 1:34:03.040 and I've been doing computer security for thirty four years, 1:34:03.040 --> 1:34:05.719 written thirteen books on the subject, I think everybody should 1:34:05.760 --> 1:34:09.320 be using a password manager, and last Pass is certainly 1:34:09.360 --> 1:34:11.599 one of the more popular ones. It's had some issues. 1:34:11.640 --> 1:34:14.800 This is probably the seventh compromise that they've had since 1:34:14.800 --> 1:34:18.160 they've been in existence, but so it's they're starting to 1:34:18.880 --> 1:34:21.519 cause some trust issues. But I would still say for 1:34:21.600 --> 1:34:24.760 existing customers, I think the majority of your passwords are 1:34:24.760 --> 1:34:30.160 probably safe. If your master password that protected that your 1:34:30.240 --> 1:34:36.120 last password manager was twelve characters are longer. If it's not, 1:34:36.400 --> 1:34:39.880 If your password was something weaker than twelve characters long 1:34:40.000 --> 1:34:42.960 with a little bit of complexity, you know, uppercase lowercase numbers, 1:34:43.240 --> 1:34:45.479 then you probably need to not only change your last 1:34:46.040 --> 1:34:49.480 master password, but all the passwords that you stored in immediately. 1:34:49.680 --> 1:34:52.040 Oh wow, So what if you had Okay, let's say 1:34:52.080 --> 1:34:56.240 you had a not so good main password to last 1:34:56.240 --> 1:34:58.439 pass and the way that these Just to explain the 1:34:58.439 --> 1:35:01.240 way that these password managers work, if you haven't used one, 1:35:01.720 --> 1:35:04.960 you choose, like you log into the password manager with 1:35:05.000 --> 1:35:08.839 a strong password, and you know your username or your email, 1:35:09.120 --> 1:35:11.479 and then you store all of your different you know, 1:35:11.560 --> 1:35:14.400 let's say you're loging for Amazon and Google. You store 1:35:14.400 --> 1:35:17.680 those inside the manager, so you log in once and 1:35:17.720 --> 1:35:20.400 then it sort of logins logs in for you using 1:35:20.439 --> 1:35:24.800 your data. So if I had a week password on 1:35:24.840 --> 1:35:29.400 my last Past account and didn't have two factor authentication enabled, 1:35:29.760 --> 1:35:30.759 am I worse off? 1:35:32.200 --> 1:35:32.439 Yeah? 1:35:32.479 --> 1:35:35.479 I mean, you know, I still you know, hackers really 1:35:35.520 --> 1:35:39.840 don't like hacking, and encryption, like encryption is usually even 1:35:39.920 --> 1:35:43.320 bad encryption. And when we say last pass heads didn't 1:35:43.360 --> 1:35:46.160 have the strongest encryption, it was all right encryption. There 1:35:46.160 --> 1:35:50.280 were some weaknesses, some issues. It is a rarity to 1:35:50.439 --> 1:35:55.640 almost zero that hackers will actually attack the encryption. But 1:35:55.880 --> 1:36:00.000 if you had a week password, meaning eleven characters or less, 1:36:00.760 --> 1:36:03.840 that's something they could start doing password guessing that and 1:36:03.880 --> 1:36:07.599 then get access to your encrypted passwords. So, you know, 1:36:07.840 --> 1:36:09.360 and let me say, I think Last Past that they've 1:36:09.360 --> 1:36:12.320 been requiring a twelve character password for at least a 1:36:12.360 --> 1:36:14.840 couple of years. So if you've gotten last pass in 1:36:14.880 --> 1:36:17.120 the last three or four years, you probably already have 1:36:17.200 --> 1:36:20.840 a twelve character password. If you didn't you joined before that. Again, 1:36:20.840 --> 1:36:22.880 if you if you have something weaker than a twelve 1:36:22.960 --> 1:36:25.400 character password, well you need to go ahead and change that. 1:36:26.160 --> 1:36:28.840 But I think the key thing is I think everybody 1:36:28.880 --> 1:36:33.240 should use a password manager because people that don't reuse 1:36:33.400 --> 1:36:36.720 the same passwords across multiple websites, and the risk of 1:36:36.800 --> 1:36:41.520 doing that is far greater than your password manager being compromised. 1:36:41.880 --> 1:36:44.439 And also if you're using the same if you're not 1:36:44.560 --> 1:36:46.920 using a password manager, you're doing what's easy for the 1:36:47.000 --> 1:36:50.600 human brain, which is making up passwords that are variations 1:36:50.720 --> 1:36:53.559 on your passwords, which you know means you're using similar 1:36:53.600 --> 1:36:55.760 passwords across a lot of different websites as well. 1:36:56.520 --> 1:37:00.719 Kay, you're exactly right. The average person has as three 1:37:00.800 --> 1:37:03.920 to seven passwords that they reuse across one hundred and 1:37:03.920 --> 1:37:06.800 seventy different websites, and even if they don't use the 1:37:06.800 --> 1:37:09.559 same password, there's a password pattern. And it's like I 1:37:09.640 --> 1:37:11.400 used to think I was a genius years ago. I 1:37:11.400 --> 1:37:14.719 would you have my root password. Let's say it was frog, 1:37:14.760 --> 1:37:16.639 it wasn't frog. Let's say it was frog. I'd say 1:37:16.640 --> 1:37:19.640 like frog tw for Twitter, frog s B for Facebook, 1:37:19.640 --> 1:37:22.519 frog I for Instagram, and I'm like, great, I'm using 1:37:22.560 --> 1:37:25.959 a different password for every website. But hackers on average 1:37:26.040 --> 1:37:29.799 will compromise one or two of your websites every year 1:37:29.880 --> 1:37:31.760 and you don't know that. You know, oftentimes you don't 1:37:31.760 --> 1:37:34.599 know that they did, and then your passwords are out there. 1:37:34.640 --> 1:37:36.800 So if you have a pattern, like some people are like, 1:37:36.840 --> 1:37:39.840 you know, go Bucks or go Cubs or something like that, 1:37:40.240 --> 1:37:42.479 and they add something different to the end. If you 1:37:42.600 --> 1:37:46.519 have a pattern, hackers will quickly, over a couple of years, 1:37:46.560 --> 1:37:48.760 see that pattern and go, oh, you know, let's go 1:37:48.880 --> 1:37:52.479 try you know, frog A for Amazon and see if 1:37:52.479 --> 1:37:55.200 that works. So you really need to let a password 1:37:55.240 --> 1:37:59.479 manager which will create truly long and complex, perfectly random 1:37:59.479 --> 1:38:02.599 passwords do it, and the password manager will create them 1:38:02.760 --> 1:38:04.560 and use them and you don't need to even know 1:38:04.600 --> 1:38:06.080 if they are, Like I can't be fished out of 1:38:06.080 --> 1:38:08.599 my password because I don't know what they are right now? 1:38:08.680 --> 1:38:11.280 How many characters? You know there's that little slider when 1:38:11.320 --> 1:38:14.599 you know, go to choose a password. How many characters 1:38:14.640 --> 1:38:17.599 should we be sliding up to? Should it be ten, twelve, sixteen? 1:38:17.640 --> 1:38:19.559 What do you recommend if. 1:38:19.400 --> 1:38:23.600 You're using perfectly random passwords like a password manager creates 1:38:24.040 --> 1:38:28.120 twelve characters. As far as we know, no known, even 1:38:28.160 --> 1:38:32.960 advanced technology today can break a twelve character perfectly random password. 1:38:32.960 --> 1:38:35.799 And we mean somebody that has the capability of guessing 1:38:35.960 --> 1:38:41.919 forty five trillion passwords a second cannot break a twelve 1:38:42.120 --> 1:38:46.519 character perfectly random password, even if given years. If you 1:38:46.640 --> 1:38:48.559 choose it out of your brain, you know, and you 1:38:48.640 --> 1:38:51.920 make up something because we tend to use, you know, 1:38:52.560 --> 1:38:56.000 words that we add a couple of things to. In 1:38:56.080 --> 1:38:58.400 order to be perfectly safe, it needs to be twenty 1:38:58.600 --> 1:39:02.439 characters or longer. I have friends who routinely break eighteen 1:39:02.520 --> 1:39:05.680 character passwords that people have made of every day, and 1:39:05.720 --> 1:39:09.120 they're not even the least you know, the elite advanced 1:39:09.160 --> 1:39:11.120 guessers I'm talking about. So let me say it again. 1:39:11.120 --> 1:39:15.000 If it's perfectly random, twelve characters or longer is fine 1:39:15.439 --> 1:39:16.760 if you make it up out of your head. If 1:39:16.800 --> 1:39:19.920 you want it to be truly unguessable, uncrackable, it needs 1:39:19.960 --> 1:39:22.920 to be twenty characters. Nobody wants to use a twenty 1:39:23.000 --> 1:39:25.360 character password, create or use the twenty So use the 1:39:25.360 --> 1:39:27.320 password manager. Let it do the hard work. 1:39:27.520 --> 1:39:31.520 Okay, explain before you go explain the idea of spearfishing. 1:39:31.560 --> 1:39:33.519 We've heard of phishing, you know, that's when an email 1:39:33.560 --> 1:39:35.720 tries to you know, or a link tries to get 1:39:35.760 --> 1:39:39.240 your information, gets you to log in whatever. What is spearfishing. 1:39:40.439 --> 1:39:42.800 That's where they've got some type of knowledge that may 1:39:42.840 --> 1:39:45.799 not be you know, public to everybody else, Like everybody 1:39:45.800 --> 1:39:49.720 gets the Facebook, Instagram, Twitter stuff. But let's suppose that 1:39:49.800 --> 1:39:52.320 you belong to some you know, cat website, you're really 1:39:52.360 --> 1:39:55.919 into Persian cats. Well, if the hackers got that information, 1:39:56.000 --> 1:39:58.040 let's say, from last pass, and they now know that 1:39:58.200 --> 1:40:01.320 Roger seems to really like these Persian cat website he 1:40:01.320 --> 1:40:04.519 apparently raises these things or something like that, Well, that 1:40:04.800 --> 1:40:07.519 can become this intimate email where person's like, oh, I've 1:40:07.520 --> 1:40:10.600 got this great Persian cat deal for you. And so 1:40:10.840 --> 1:40:13.320 you're not expecting it to be you know, a hacker 1:40:13.400 --> 1:40:16.000 in a traditional sense, because it's not anything you know, 1:40:16.120 --> 1:40:19.920 widely used. It's something specific. This person had to know 1:40:20.000 --> 1:40:22.639 some information about you in order to use it. 1:40:23.080 --> 1:40:23.240 You know. 1:40:23.280 --> 1:40:25.640 It could be that you know, they find you're, you know, 1:40:25.640 --> 1:40:28.400 a Tampa Bucks fan, and so all of a sudden 1:40:28.400 --> 1:40:30.240 you get this email going, hey, we have you've won 1:40:30.360 --> 1:40:32.800 free Bucks tickets. You know, click here or you know, 1:40:33.160 --> 1:40:35.080 spend one hundred bucks to buy these, you know, Tampa 1:40:35.080 --> 1:40:38.439 Bay Bucks tickets. A spearfish is that they're using some 1:40:38.520 --> 1:40:42.160 intimate information that the general public doesn't know about in 1:40:42.320 --> 1:40:44.280 order for you to for some you know, to let 1:40:44.320 --> 1:40:46.479 your guard down and have a little bit more trust 1:40:46.479 --> 1:40:48.559 than you otherwise would if they just hit you with 1:40:48.600 --> 1:40:50.160 some generic phishing email. 1:40:50.880 --> 1:40:55.639 Well, said Roger Grimes of a note before and on 1:40:55.680 --> 1:40:59.120 Twitter at Roger A. Grimes, you are a wealth of 1:40:59.240 --> 1:41:01.559 information when it comes to computer security. Thanks so much 1:41:01.600 --> 1:41:05.559 for joining me today and explaining the entire last past situation. 1:41:06.760 --> 1:41:09.439 Get those passwords strong, folks. That's the bottom line. 1:41:09.320 --> 1:41:12.679 Right, Yep, yep, you're right, and you're giving good advice. 1:41:12.760 --> 1:41:13.080 All right. 1:41:13.160 --> 1:41:15.679 Thanks Roger for joining me today on this very first 1:41:15.760 --> 1:41:18.639 episode of rich on Tech. You're listening to me Rich 1:41:18.680 --> 1:41:22.840 DeMuro talk technology. Coming up. Have you heard of a 1:41:23.000 --> 1:41:26.880 bird feeder that's smart? I'm gonna tell you about that, 1:41:26.960 --> 1:41:29.880 plus wrap up the show coming up. You're listening to 1:41:30.360 --> 1:41:35.160 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Jim 1:41:35.200 --> 1:41:37.519 writes in via email, Hey, Rich, what's the best way 1:41:37.560 --> 1:41:42.360 to exchange original high quality photos between iPhone and Android phones. 1:41:43.000 --> 1:41:46.920 Email has size limits and texting degrades the images. I 1:41:47.000 --> 1:41:49.680 usually use Facebook Messenger, but there's got to be a 1:41:49.680 --> 1:41:53.760 better way. Thanks Jim. At the end of his email says, 1:41:53.760 --> 1:41:56.759 a seminar on time travel will be held two years 1:41:56.880 --> 1:42:01.679 two weeks ago. That's my kind of guy. Great question, 1:42:01.880 --> 1:42:03.960 And this is the kind of stuff that you know, 1:42:04.040 --> 1:42:07.000 it always comes up when you're with a group of 1:42:07.040 --> 1:42:10.479 people and you need to share something with them. And 1:42:10.560 --> 1:42:13.400 I find that this happens at family gatherings or when 1:42:13.439 --> 1:42:15.320 you're with your friends at a table and you take 1:42:15.360 --> 1:42:18.320 a group picture and everyone's like, oh, airdrop, airdrop, air drop. 1:42:18.360 --> 1:42:21.719 Air drop is phenomenal. But the problem with air drop 1:42:21.880 --> 1:42:25.560 is that it's only iPhone to iPhone or iPhone to 1:42:25.680 --> 1:42:28.000 mac or iPhone to iPad or iPad you know. You 1:42:28.040 --> 1:42:31.160 know what I'm saying. It's an Apple thing. And so 1:42:31.600 --> 1:42:34.120 if you are texting someone, people are like, oh, what 1:42:34.160 --> 1:42:36.560 do you texting me? This tiny video for well, it 1:42:36.600 --> 1:42:39.080 didn't start out tiny, but because it went through SMS 1:42:39.080 --> 1:42:41.680 into the iPhone, it's tiny. So a couple things here. 1:42:41.760 --> 1:42:44.960 Number one, if you're going iPhone to iPhone, it's always 1:42:45.000 --> 1:42:46.880 going to be Okay, so the message I message is 1:42:46.920 --> 1:42:51.160 going to be just fine. If you're going iPhone to Android, 1:42:51.479 --> 1:42:53.160 it's not going to be fine. If you're going Android 1:42:53.200 --> 1:42:55.479 to iPhone, not going to be fine. If you're going 1:42:55.560 --> 1:42:59.120 Android to Android and you are on a reasonably newer 1:42:59.160 --> 1:43:02.519 phone and you've activated what's called the chat feature and 1:43:02.560 --> 1:43:05.360 you're using the Google Messages app, it's going to be fine. 1:43:06.320 --> 1:43:09.479 The problem is, really what it comes down to is 1:43:09.600 --> 1:43:12.439 Android to iPhone, iPhone to Android, how do you exchange 1:43:12.439 --> 1:43:15.599 those files? Now, there are many many ways you can 1:43:15.640 --> 1:43:18.360 do this, and the reason why air drop is so cool. 1:43:18.880 --> 1:43:21.320 And by the way, Android has its own it's called 1:43:21.400 --> 1:43:24.440 Nearby Share. If you haven't looked into it, it's fantastic. 1:43:24.479 --> 1:43:27.400 You can. You know, Android has air drop built in. 1:43:27.439 --> 1:43:30.040 It's called Nearby Share, and it's it's a feature that's 1:43:30.080 --> 1:43:33.040 on most modern or i think all Android phones at 1:43:33.040 --> 1:43:35.519 this point, and if you haven't checked it out, try it. 1:43:35.560 --> 1:43:37.759 But the problem is it only works from Android to Android. 1:43:38.520 --> 1:43:40.599 But if you haven't and you've got Android friends that's 1:43:40.600 --> 1:43:43.120 the way you share big stuff among your phones, try it. 1:43:43.160 --> 1:43:46.800 I mean, it's really really phenomenal. Obviously, use air drop 1:43:46.840 --> 1:43:50.719 if you're on iPhone to iPhone. I think the best 1:43:50.720 --> 1:43:53.439 way is really, yeah, one of these messenger apps. So 1:43:53.680 --> 1:43:56.800 what you have to do is ask your friend when 1:43:56.800 --> 1:43:59.720 you're transferring, Hey, which app do you use? Maybe they 1:43:59.760 --> 1:44:03.639 used Telegram, maybe they use Facebook Messenger, maybe they use 1:44:04.520 --> 1:44:08.080 a signal or WhatsApp. I mean, chances are there's one 1:44:08.120 --> 1:44:10.679 of these products that they're using that you're also using, 1:44:10.760 --> 1:44:13.840 and that's the best way to get that large, high 1:44:13.960 --> 1:44:16.639 quality file to them. Now what I like to do 1:44:16.800 --> 1:44:18.639 is just kind of skip all that. Now, the best 1:44:18.680 --> 1:44:20.400 thing I ever did was sign up my entire family 1:44:20.479 --> 1:44:22.920 for Telegram. So we are all on a group chat 1:44:22.960 --> 1:44:26.519 on Telegram and it makes life very very easy because 1:44:26.520 --> 1:44:28.880 we all have different phones. And also I don't want 1:44:28.920 --> 1:44:31.120 to really be limited by the phone that you know, 1:44:31.240 --> 1:44:33.559 I am using. If I'm using Android and they're using iPhone, 1:44:33.560 --> 1:44:36.120 and they're using Android and I'm using iPhone, why be 1:44:36.240 --> 1:44:39.320 limited to all these different things that you know, these 1:44:39.360 --> 1:44:41.920 limitations that some of these companies put on us. So 1:44:41.960 --> 1:44:44.559 when you find that common ground, it's really nice. And 1:44:44.640 --> 1:44:46.880 many people in the US have found common ground with 1:44:46.920 --> 1:44:48.559 I Message. And if you're not part of that blue 1:44:48.560 --> 1:44:50.960 bubble system, you know, people get bent out of shape 1:44:50.960 --> 1:44:53.600 because you mess up the group chat. I'm not a 1:44:53.600 --> 1:44:55.559 big fan of all that stuff. That's why I signed 1:44:55.640 --> 1:44:58.479 up everyone for Telegram and said, let's use this because 1:44:58.479 --> 1:44:59.760 we know it's going to work. And I use it 1:44:59.800 --> 1:45:01.960 for work. I use it for my family. I use 1:45:02.000 --> 1:45:03.960 it for my wife, and it just makes life so 1:45:04.080 --> 1:45:06.519 much easier. If I'm testing an Android phone, my wife 1:45:06.560 --> 1:45:09.000 could text me the exact same way she does if 1:45:09.000 --> 1:45:12.639 we're using iPhones together with I message. So that's number one. 1:45:12.680 --> 1:45:14.960 Get your friends on the same page with a cross 1:45:14.960 --> 1:45:18.400 platform solution. If that doesn't work, what I like to 1:45:18.439 --> 1:45:21.760 do is send them a link. Send them a link, 1:45:21.840 --> 1:45:24.439 upload the file or the video. I'm guessing we're talking 1:45:24.439 --> 1:45:28.439 about videos here, or photos, I guess upload it to 1:45:28.479 --> 1:45:31.120 something like Dropbox or Google Drive or if you're using 1:45:31.160 --> 1:45:35.080 Google Photos. You can send a link that way, and 1:45:35.120 --> 1:45:36.800 when you send a link, they're going to get the 1:45:36.880 --> 1:45:40.280 high quality picture because it's a link, it's in the cloud, 1:45:40.560 --> 1:45:43.519 and there's no storage limits. I mean, obviously up to 1:45:43.520 --> 1:45:46.160 your plan limits, but there's no sort of like sending 1:45:46.200 --> 1:45:48.800 limits where you know, I can't send a one gigabyte 1:45:48.840 --> 1:45:51.040 file because obviously that's not going to work through email, 1:45:51.400 --> 1:45:53.400 but if it's a link, the file is held in 1:45:53.439 --> 1:45:55.439 the cloud until the other person on the other end 1:45:55.760 --> 1:45:59.439 downloads it. Facebook Messenger, I really feel like Jim is 1:45:59.479 --> 1:46:01.679 kind of the sea way to do this. The other 1:46:01.760 --> 1:46:07.240 thing is it's probably not best for big files, but Instagram, 1:46:07.800 --> 1:46:10.240 if you use like the messenger functionality on there, that's 1:46:10.240 --> 1:46:13.400 a pretty good cross platform solution. I don't know if 1:46:13.400 --> 1:46:16.439 the pictures are sent truly high quality, but they're probably 1:46:16.479 --> 1:46:18.640 gonna look better pictures and videos than they would if 1:46:18.680 --> 1:46:22.559 you send them through you know, just standard SMS. And 1:46:22.640 --> 1:46:26.680 so that's another option. Personally, I'm my default is to 1:46:26.760 --> 1:46:29.679 use Google Photos. I will send you know, a link 1:46:29.720 --> 1:46:32.120 with a bunch of pictures or a couple of pictures, 1:46:33.360 --> 1:46:36.480 and then I'll use Dropbox if it's more business oriented. 1:46:36.800 --> 1:46:39.280 There's also a whole host of different companies out there, 1:46:39.320 --> 1:46:43.640 like we Transfer that can send stuff. But really the 1:46:43.800 --> 1:46:47.080 problem is, you know, all of this stuff, if you're 1:46:47.120 --> 1:46:49.880 sharing it through the cloud, has to go up to 1:46:49.920 --> 1:46:52.639 the cloud first, and that could present some issues, especially 1:46:52.640 --> 1:46:55.120 if you're in a place with spotty service. And that's 1:46:55.120 --> 1:46:58.479 why people like I message are sorry. They like air 1:46:58.560 --> 1:47:01.800 drop is because it can work at hoc, which means 1:47:01.960 --> 1:47:05.439 your phone is directly connecting to that other phone, and 1:47:05.479 --> 1:47:08.880 that's the big differentiator. Now, when I mentioned the nearby 1:47:08.880 --> 1:47:11.800 Share on Android, same thing. It is ad hoc so 1:47:12.600 --> 1:47:14.839 and nearby Share is actually even a little bit smarter 1:47:14.920 --> 1:47:19.600 than air drop because nearby Share will detect what situation 1:47:19.760 --> 1:47:22.920 you're in, so it can detect, you know, whether it 1:47:23.000 --> 1:47:25.840 might be best to share it over the Internet, whether 1:47:25.880 --> 1:47:27.960 if it's a small tiny file, whether it can share 1:47:28.000 --> 1:47:30.479 it over Bluetooth, whether if it's a small file, or 1:47:30.479 --> 1:47:33.840 whether it can share it over you know, direct Wi 1:47:33.920 --> 1:47:35.600 Fi and direct WiFi is probably going to be the 1:47:35.600 --> 1:47:39.200 fastest out of any of those, and Bluetooth is another 1:47:39.240 --> 1:47:41.040 way of doing it, but that's not really something that 1:47:41.160 --> 1:47:43.599 people want. The other app that I like that I've 1:47:43.720 --> 1:47:45.559 used over the years for myself that I've found to 1:47:45.560 --> 1:47:48.600 be pretty fast is called Send Anywhere, And you know, 1:47:48.640 --> 1:47:50.599 it does require if this is kind of if you're 1:47:50.600 --> 1:47:53.040 doing it yourself, you know, you would have to have 1:47:53.120 --> 1:47:55.160 that on both devices, But if you wanted to send 1:47:55.200 --> 1:47:58.600 a large file to yourself, that can work. But Telegram 1:47:58.680 --> 1:48:01.240 also has this feature where you can have you know, 1:48:01.280 --> 1:48:03.280 and even WhatsApp just out of this where you can 1:48:03.320 --> 1:48:06.640 send messages to yourself. So look into those and I 1:48:06.680 --> 1:48:09.080 think one of those solutions should be good. But until 1:48:09.120 --> 1:48:10.880 we have you know, everyone on the same page with 1:48:10.960 --> 1:48:13.880 like cross platform, we're going to continue running into these 1:48:13.960 --> 1:48:19.679 issues with compatibility. Okay, over at CS. One more product 1:48:19.720 --> 1:48:21.559 I saw which I thought was pretty neat, is called 1:48:21.560 --> 1:48:25.360 the bird Buddy, and I love the idea of this. 1:48:25.360 --> 1:48:29.160 This is a connected bird feeder. Now they've had that 1:48:29.200 --> 1:48:31.120 for a while, started as a Kickstarter. The thing they 1:48:31.160 --> 1:48:34.400 announced that CS that's brand new is a humming bird feeder, 1:48:35.240 --> 1:48:38.320 and they think they call themselves tech for Nature. So 1:48:38.600 --> 1:48:40.760 the idea is that all these birds fly into our 1:48:40.840 --> 1:48:44.000 yard on a daily basis or weekly or monthly, the 1:48:44.040 --> 1:48:46.920 bird feeder will take pictures and videos of those birds 1:48:47.680 --> 1:48:51.080 now humming birds included, and not just take pictures but 1:48:51.120 --> 1:48:54.400 also identify the species. So it uses AI to identify 1:48:54.800 --> 1:48:56.360 And how does this all work, Well, it sort of 1:48:56.360 --> 1:48:59.439 gamifies the birds that fly into your backyard. So the 1:48:59.479 --> 1:49:02.519 way the the CEO and founders said it is it's 1:49:02.600 --> 1:49:05.679 kind of like Pokemon Go for birds. So the feeders 1:49:05.720 --> 1:49:08.719 are about two hundred dollars. Again, it's called bird Buddy, 1:49:09.080 --> 1:49:11.240 I think it's a fun idea. My brother is a 1:49:11.240 --> 1:49:15.280 big birder. Is that what they're called birders? But he 1:49:15.320 --> 1:49:17.320 would love this, And I think I hope he's not listening, 1:49:17.320 --> 1:49:19.360 because this is definitely the next gift I'm getting him 1:49:19.400 --> 1:49:23.360 because it just sounds like so much fun. A bird feeder, 1:49:23.400 --> 1:49:25.120 I might get a bird. I might become a burder, 1:49:25.479 --> 1:49:28.880 a birdwatcher. I don't know what's the term? Bird buddy 1:49:29.000 --> 1:49:31.639 is the gadget some each Facebook dot com, slash rich 1:49:31.680 --> 1:49:34.200 on Tech hit the big blue send email button, or 1:49:34.240 --> 1:49:36.639 go to richon Tech dot tv hit the email icon. 1:49:36.960 --> 1:49:39.360 You can also download the KTLA plus app to watch 1:49:39.400 --> 1:49:41.760 me on TV. Thanks to everyone who made this first 1:49:41.760 --> 1:49:46.200 show possible. Robin, Julie, Bill, Kim, Laura, Annie, Matt, my wife, 1:49:46.240 --> 1:49:49.360 my kids, and of course Leo, my mom, my dad. 1:49:49.439 --> 1:49:51.360 My name is rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening. 1:49:51.400 --> 1:49:53.200 There are so many ways you can spend your time. 1:49:53.280 --> 1:49:55.519 I do appreciate you spending it right here with me. 1:49:55.800 --> 1:49:56.920 I'll talk to you real soon.