Speaker 1: Apple, Apple Apple Everything you need to know from the
Speaker 1: company's Worldwide Developers Conference, and yes I was there. I'll
Speaker 1: talk about the new features coming soon to iOS sixteen,
Speaker 1: watch os, new MacBooks, and more, plus your tech questions answered.
Speaker 1: What's going on. I'm rich to Biro and this is
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the
Speaker 1: tech stuff I think you should know about. It's also
Speaker 1: the place where I answer the questions you sent me.
Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KATE How do I mess up?
Speaker 1: Where I'm from the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I've only been here a decade. Can't
Speaker 1: seem to say it properly? And uh wow, wow wow.
Speaker 1: This week was a wild one. I was up in
Speaker 1: Coopertino for WWDC. I was up there for a couple
Speaker 1: of days. And it's so interesting because WWDC was virtual
Speaker 1: this year, but then somehow it turned into an in
Speaker 1: person event and it was kind of sneaky, kind of
Speaker 1: a little secret on Apple's part, but they did a
Speaker 1: really good job of inviting people personally to this event
Speaker 1: and getting them up there. And the funny thing is
Speaker 1: I was talking to some of my journals. Well, let
Speaker 1: me explain. So you know Apple, you know, they do
Speaker 1: their thing, and they say, hey, you know, we'd love
Speaker 1: to have you up there. Can you go? We can't
Speaker 1: really tell you anything. And so I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: but it's Apple. You never know, you never know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do, you never know what's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: so you go. And so they're one of a handful
Speaker 1: of tech companies that can do that. And so I went.
Speaker 1: And you get up there, and I still don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. They just said, okay, meet it this
Speaker 1: time and place whatever, and so you meet and as
Speaker 1: a meeting there, I'm like, wait a second. This is
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of a lot more people. And
Speaker 1: I'm starting to see tweets from other journalists saying that
Speaker 1: they're at WWDC. I'm like, all right, so what's happening.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I get there and it is a much
Speaker 1: larger scale experience than I thought. I mean, they had
Speaker 1: the entire Apple Park set up outside with this giant screen.
Speaker 1: It was the biggest it was. It looked like a
Speaker 1: drive in movie theater screen and with speakers, and it
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of Io, like what Apple, sorry,
Speaker 1: what Google does? Because they do theirs at kind of
Speaker 1: an amphitheater, so it's outside, but Apple had set up
Speaker 1: kind of an indoor outdoor area at Apple Park, and
Speaker 1: I'd never been inside the actual Apple Park headquarters. Typically
Speaker 1: when they take us up to or when we go
Speaker 1: to WWDC, they take us right to the Steve Jobs Theater,
Speaker 1: which is a circular building kind of off to the side,
Speaker 1: and then that's it. But this time we went into campus,
Speaker 1: pretty deep into campus and into that circular building that
Speaker 1: you see sort of that spaceship looking building, and the
Speaker 1: event was held kind of indoor outdoor. It's tough to explain,
Speaker 1: but they have these giant like sliding glass doors on
Speaker 1: one part of the campus that just opens up all
Speaker 1: three floors to the outside, and so you sat in there,
Speaker 1: and then they had some people sitting more out on
Speaker 1: the grass, and then they had this big screen setup.
Speaker 1: And so the part you probably didn't see online was
Speaker 1: that Tim Cook and one of the other executives it
Speaker 1: comes out and they kind of give like an introduction,
Speaker 1: like a welcome, and then they start the actual event.
Speaker 1: And once the event started, it was all on tape.
Speaker 1: And then at the end, I think they came back
Speaker 1: on I can't really remember, just to say thanks and whatever,
Speaker 1: and then we got scurried away to kind of a
Speaker 1: hands on area where we got to go hands on
Speaker 1: with the MacBook Air and some of the other features
Speaker 1: that they announced at the actual event. So that was
Speaker 1: kind of cool. And that was back at the Steve
Speaker 1: Jobs Theater. They also had food. I mean the food
Speaker 1: that Apple serves at these things is just so unbelievable,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's super like cutting edge. Like the food
Speaker 1: that they have there is always very healthy, very thoughtful,
Speaker 1: very like if they serve any sort of snacks, like
Speaker 1: it's always a brand that I've never heard of but
Speaker 1: will be big in like six months to a year.
Speaker 1: And I had, you know, like for lunch, they had
Speaker 1: these little like just a little finger sandwiches and stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's unbelievable, and you know, it's just one
Speaker 1: of these things where it's a great experience to go
Speaker 1: because not only do you get to you know, I
Speaker 1: went to this podcast taping with a bunch of executives,
Speaker 1: you know, I got to go to this meeting with
Speaker 1: a bunch of the developers and you got to see
Speaker 1: this new developers building they have. I mean, it's really
Speaker 1: quite phenomenal. And so it's funny. I was reading this
Speaker 1: blog post this morning about you know, these events that
Speaker 1: these bloggers and things go to, and how you know
Speaker 1: it could be construed is taking gifts from them, like
Speaker 1: if it's you know, if they go to like this
Speaker 1: big party and this and that. But the underlying message
Speaker 1: of the of the blog post was that, look, you know,
Speaker 1: anything I do is trying to get more information and
Speaker 1: better information for my readers. And that's kind of the
Speaker 1: same thing with this, like Okay, oh Rich, you got
Speaker 1: to eat lunch at Apple's campus, Like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: But the reality is the access to people that you get,
Speaker 1: the access to information that you get, the basis of
Speaker 1: information that you get from doing these types of events
Speaker 1: is so much better than you could ever get covering
Speaker 1: it at home and never going to any of this stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it costs like real money to go up
Speaker 1: to Koopertino for a couple of days, and it's a
Speaker 1: lot of work and it's a lot of effort, and
Speaker 1: it's a lot of energy, and it's a lot of flying,
Speaker 1: but it's always worth it for the basis that you
Speaker 1: get and the perspective that you get on these products,
Speaker 1: and not only the products, but the company. So the
Speaker 1: understanding of Apple, like when I saw their headquarters, like
Speaker 1: now I have a real understanding of like how people
Speaker 1: work there and what they do and just how things
Speaker 1: are run. And it's funny, the Apple campus is just
Speaker 1: as high tech and perfect as the iPhone, Like the
Speaker 1: way they design it, the attention to detail is just
Speaker 1: exactly the same. And so it just gives you that understanding.
Speaker 1: And I work with a lot of tech companies, like
Speaker 1: I cover so many of them, and I talk to
Speaker 1: all the different PR people and I see how they
Speaker 1: do stuff, and I see how they send me their
Speaker 1: product and how it's packaged and how it's done, and
Speaker 1: you know, there are little patterns that you pick up
Speaker 1: and it really goes to show like a bigger system
Speaker 1: of what this company's all about. So anyway, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just phenomenal and I'm glad to be a part
Speaker 1: of it. And it's it's just and by the way
Speaker 1: the people that they have, like only Apple can throw
Speaker 1: a party where they tell people nothing, and the quality
Speaker 1: and caliber of people that show up, Like when I
Speaker 1: tell you every single high end YouTuber, you know, from
Speaker 1: MKBHD on down is there and they are all there,
Speaker 1: and it's just you know, the journalists that are there.
Speaker 1: The quality of you know, the journalists that they can
Speaker 1: get at their events is just phenomenal. So anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be like overly a few. Is it effusive?
Speaker 1: Is that the word? I don't know if that's the
Speaker 1: word effusive? Yeah, effusive of Apple. But it really is
Speaker 1: a phenomenal experience. And you know, again, there's a lot
Speaker 1: to unpack from this event. Let's start with iOS sixteen.
Speaker 1: So iOS sixteen is going to be a pretty big
Speaker 1: I don't think it looks very different from the well
Speaker 1: I guess it does because the lock screen is totally different.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of let's just go through some of
Speaker 1: the features. So let's start with iOS sixteen. So iOS
Speaker 1: sixteen coming out in the fall. They already have a
Speaker 1: developer's beta. Public beta's coming out I believe in July.
Speaker 1: And so the main thing is the lock screen is
Speaker 1: totally different. The lock screen, the best way I can
Speaker 1: describe it is it is now an Apple Watch lock screen,
Speaker 1: so it has widgets, it's customizable. It just everything is
Speaker 1: totally different because now you have these little widgets that
Speaker 1: are basically Apple Watch complications. In fact, developers it's the
Speaker 1: same thing. So if they developed an Apple Watch complication,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much easy to bring it to the lock
Speaker 1: screen on the iPhone. So you can get all your
Speaker 1: information that you want, and you can customize this with calendar, events, weather,
Speaker 1: battery levels, alarms, time zones, activity, ring progress, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: You can also change the look of the time and
Speaker 1: the date, so they have different fonts, they have different colors.
Speaker 1: The home screen or the lock screen itself can have
Speaker 1: different live wallpapers. You can see kind of like the weather.
Speaker 1: You can see the Earth, the solar system. You can
Speaker 1: have emojis on them. I mean, there's so many different
Speaker 1: things you can do. You can also swipe between lock screens,
Speaker 1: again very much inspired by the Apple It's you know,
Speaker 1: you can swipe through a couple like I have a
Speaker 1: couple of different Apple Watch screens. One is for going
Speaker 1: out at night, one is for work, one is for
Speaker 1: you know, activity, and so you can swipe through those.
Speaker 1: Now you can do the same thing on your iPhone.
Speaker 1: The other cool thing is the live Activities features. So
Speaker 1: these are notifications that help you keep up with something
Speaker 1: that's happening live. So if you're getting like an uber
Speaker 1: that's arriving to you, you know, right now, Uber sends
Speaker 1: you like fifteen different notifications saying, okay, we found your Uber. Okay,
Speaker 1: your Uber driver is on its way, your Uber driver
Speaker 1: is arriving. Don't forget to wear a mask in the uber.
Speaker 1: You know, all these different things, whereas now it's consolidated
Speaker 1: into one notification that has live updates. And this is
Speaker 1: something yes, that has been available on Android for a while,
Speaker 1: especially with sports scores, I think, but now you can
Speaker 1: see this on iPhone and it's It also works with
Speaker 1: things like a food delivery order. So if door Dash
Speaker 1: we've picked up your order, your order is picked up
Speaker 1: by this person, they're preparing your order, arriving with your order,
Speaker 1: where should they leave the order. That's all just on
Speaker 1: your lock screen and you don't have to unlock your
Speaker 1: phone to see this stuff happening live. So that's really cool.
Speaker 1: The other thing they're improving is Focus, so now you
Speaker 1: can have lock screens linked to a focus. I haven't
Speaker 1: really gotten into Focus. I should probably set it up
Speaker 1: because I like the idea of having one sort of
Speaker 1: look for my phone for work, one for play, one
Speaker 1: for focusing. But the reality is it's just kind of
Speaker 1: all intertwined and it's really tough to set those things up.
Speaker 1: Apple says they're going to make it easier to set
Speaker 1: up focus and your lock screen will correspond to focus
Speaker 1: and the widgets that it shows. You can also have
Speaker 1: things filtered out in calendar, mail messages and safari. So
Speaker 1: let's say you only want text from work people during
Speaker 1: your work focus, they won't come through when you're on
Speaker 1: your personal focus. Now, this is tough again because our
Speaker 1: lives are so intertwined with work. But if you can
Speaker 1: set it up and it works great also though, unless
Speaker 1: they add third parties support for some of these apps,
Speaker 1: like let's say I use Gmail, I'm not sure that
Speaker 1: that would really work properly. Maybe it will, who knows,
Speaker 1: We'll say. They've also got this iCloud Shared photo library,
Speaker 1: so similar to what you can do on Google Photos
Speaker 1: for many years now, you can now set up an
Speaker 1: iCloud photo library that is shared with up to six users,
Speaker 1: so you can all collaborate. You can share photos automatically,
Speaker 1: it can suggest photos to put into there, but basically
Speaker 1: you can have one shared library that you can all
Speaker 1: kind of pull from and share pictures in. They're going
Speaker 1: pretty deep on this because even in the camera app,
Speaker 1: there will be a little notification at the top when
Speaker 1: you take a picture that says send this to your
Speaker 1: shared library, and you can do that on a one
Speaker 1: off basis, and it's just be kind of a persistent
Speaker 1: message up there, or just have all your pictures go
Speaker 1: into there for a certain amount of time. Mail is
Speaker 1: getting some new features. You can schedule a message, you
Speaker 1: can cancel a message again, all things that have been
Speaker 1: in Gmail for a while. So a lot of these features.
Speaker 1: If you're just Apple, if you're just one hundred percent
Speaker 1: committed to that Apple ecosystem, these are great things. It's
Speaker 1: taken a while for Apple to get them, but they
Speaker 1: are arriving. But if you're using other apps, some of
Speaker 1: this stuff is like, Okay, I've had this for a while.
Speaker 1: Live text is kind of cool. They're just continuing that.
Speaker 1: I think that that is just an amazing feature that
Speaker 1: Apple has, the live text. I use all the time
Speaker 1: to copy things from you know, like if I see
Speaker 1: something on Instagram that I like, like a quote or
Speaker 1: a recipe, I'll just take a screenshot and just grab
Speaker 1: the text off of there with live text again, something
Speaker 1: that's been available on Google Lends for a long time now,
Speaker 1: but I think Apple does do this feature better. Now
Speaker 1: they've got this new feature where you can literally, when
Speaker 1: you're looking at a picture, just press and hold kind
Speaker 1: of like lightly tap on like a person or a thing,
Speaker 1: and just drag it out of the picture and it
Speaker 1: will automatically find the outline, drag that item out of
Speaker 1: the picture, and you can drag that into a text
Speaker 1: or somewhere else. I mean, pretty pretty wild. So it
Speaker 1: literally just lifts the subject of an image from the background.
Speaker 1: That's pretty amazing. The other thing, and you know that
Speaker 1: I'm not a big credit card slash finance person, but
Speaker 1: Apple pay Later is this new feature where they will
Speaker 1: split any purchase into four equal payments over six weeks
Speaker 1: with zero interest and no fees of any kind. Now,
Speaker 1: just because there's no interest, just because there's no fees,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that it's okay to do this with everything. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this gets into your financial what you like to do
Speaker 1: with your finances versus what I like to do. And
Speaker 1: it's one tool that's out there. Use it at your discretion,
Speaker 1: but it is going to make splitting purchases into four
Speaker 1: payments very very easy for a lot of people. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of a nice thing that Apple is doing.
Speaker 1: What are the implications of that, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that there's got to be some sort of
Speaker 1: I mean, if there's no fees, I mean, is there
Speaker 1: a late fee if you pay it late? Like, I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure. Zero interest and no fees of any kind.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. We'll have to see how that works.
Speaker 1: Car Play they are they showed off a next generation
Speaker 1: car Play that will basically take over the entire dashboard screen.
Speaker 1: So I've every car that I look at nowadays has
Speaker 1: these giant dashboard screens, not just the one in the center,
Speaker 1: but it also has kind of like the instrument cluster
Speaker 1: is all digital, Like basically the entire screen is digital
Speaker 1: inside these new cars, and so CarPlay can now take
Speaker 1: advantage of all of the screens and show you, you know,
Speaker 1: your instrument cluster, you can you can add widgets that
Speaker 1: you want, your weather. I mean, it's it's an Apple
Speaker 1: car inside, except it's being made by someone else. And
Speaker 1: Apple says they're going to show kind of or I guess,
Speaker 1: announce some of the first cars that will take advantage
Speaker 1: of this late next year, so we still got a
Speaker 1: while before we see this. But again, we're just getting
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper into this idea of Apple kind
Speaker 1: of taking over the car screen. I'll be quite honest,
Speaker 1: I've got a Tesla, and the idea of just having
Speaker 1: just seeding that control to Apple and CarPlay on my big,
Speaker 1: giant Tesla screen would be phenomenal. I don't need Tesla's
Speaker 1: screen on there at all. I don't. There's nothing that
Speaker 1: Tesla does that's better than Apple or Google when it
Speaker 1: comes to their infotainment system. It's just it's fine. It's
Speaker 1: just not very good in my opinion. So what I
Speaker 1: love if Tesla said, you know what, here's a new option.
Speaker 1: Clearly this can be done with software. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: let you plug in your iPhone in the Tesla or
Speaker 1: use Apple CarPlay wirelessly, and we'll just let you control
Speaker 1: your whole car from car Play. And when I say
Speaker 1: control your whole car, yeah, this has the integrations for
Speaker 1: controlling the radio, for controlling the climate, for controlling all
Speaker 1: of the vehicle data on your car. That's the idea
Speaker 1: here is that Apple can also control that, and they
Speaker 1: made a lot of illusions. I use a lot of
Speaker 1: words here that I don't even know what they mean,
Speaker 1: but they they said that the car makers will be
Speaker 1: able to brand this in their own way. So they
Speaker 1: are giving car makers, just like Apple would typically do it,
Speaker 1: the ability to make this their own, but within the
Speaker 1: parameters of what Apple will allow. So that's another improvement. Safari.
Speaker 1: They're trying to get rid of passwords with this thing
Speaker 1: called past keys, And if anyone has the ability to
Speaker 1: do this, yes, it's Apple because they've got the iPhone.
Speaker 1: And if you're logging in on a website on your
Speaker 1: computer and it says, hey, can you scan your face
Speaker 1: and will log you in? Sure, Apple will easily be
Speaker 1: able to do that. Apple maps getting multi stop routing,
Speaker 1: so that's easy dictation, very similar to what the Android
Speaker 1: offers with the newest pixel where you can have a
Speaker 1: text sorry, you can be dictating text on the microphone,
Speaker 1: but then go back, highlight a word and just type
Speaker 1: in the right word or change something with the keyboard
Speaker 1: because they're both on screen at the same time right now.
Speaker 1: The way the iPhone works when you're in dictation mode,
Speaker 1: the keyboard disappears now the keyboard will stay there and
Speaker 1: you'll still be able to dictate, so you can use
Speaker 1: both at the same time. Again, if you're on Android,
Speaker 1: this is something that you're used to, but if you're
Speaker 1: on iPhone, you've never had that before, so now this
Speaker 1: is something that's pretty nice. Fitness app is let's see,
Speaker 1: fitness app oh is gonna now be on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: so you can track your goals even if you don't
Speaker 1: have an Apple Watch. So you can set up a
Speaker 1: daily move goal. And it's going to use some of
Speaker 1: the sensors on the iPhone to estimate your calories and
Speaker 1: help you close your rings. Are going to track steps, distance,
Speaker 1: flight climbed, flights climbed. The health app is going to
Speaker 1: add a medication section, which I thought this is actually
Speaker 1: really really neat. It's going to allow you to monitor
Speaker 1: the medications like build. You can input all of the vitamins,
Speaker 1: supplements and medications prescription meds that you take and you'll
Speaker 1: see them all there. It can give your reminders on
Speaker 1: when to take them. Obviously, this would be helpful for
Speaker 1: you know, either elderly people or you don't have to
Speaker 1: be elderly. I mean, if you're going through some sort
Speaker 1: of illness or sickness or treatment for something. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're on a medication routine, and this could really
Speaker 1: help you organize your pills, get reminders on when to
Speaker 1: take them, and track the fact that you've taken them.
Speaker 1: It will also show you any sort of critical interactions
Speaker 1: on those medications. The other thing I didn't mention here
Speaker 1: is messages. Messages will enable you to edit or recall
Speaker 1: a recently sent message. So basically, after you send a message,
Speaker 1: you'll have fifteen minutes to edit a word in there
Speaker 1: or delete the whole message from the other phone. Or
Speaker 1: you can also recover recently deleted message messages, so similar
Speaker 1: to when you delete a picture on the iPhone. Now
Speaker 1: the iPhone will keep your recently deleted I messages in
Speaker 1: a folder that saves for I think thirty to forty days.
Speaker 1: So that's really nice. I think that got the biggest
Speaker 1: reaction from people on the ground at WWDC because Messages
Speaker 1: is really the kind of the biggest messaging app. I
Speaker 1: would say in the US and outside the US it
Speaker 1: falls off a cliff, but here in the US it
Speaker 1: is king and it is like the way that people
Speaker 1: message here in the US, I don't agree with that.
Speaker 1: I know that Apple loves loves loves Messages. That gives
Speaker 1: them the lock and key for everything else in the
Speaker 1: Apple ecosystem. It's kind of like the basis of everything
Speaker 1: iPhone and really getting people locked into that ecosystem. I personally,
Speaker 1: if I had my way, would not use messages because
Speaker 1: I hate the fact that it is so so proprietary
Speaker 1: to the iPhone that it excludes other people that are
Speaker 1: on Android. It excludes people around the world that may
Speaker 1: not want to use an iPhone. And to me, it
Speaker 1: is just your playing favorites when you're on I Message,
Speaker 1: and it's really annoying the fact that if you're not
Speaker 1: on I Message, all the I Message features don't work,
Speaker 1: and also your messages are It's just not a good thing.
Speaker 1: I just don't like it. And it's I know it's Apple.
Speaker 1: I know it's like their premiere thing, and it's it
Speaker 1: works great, but I just wish it was a much
Speaker 1: more what's the word common messaging protocol between phones? Like,
Speaker 1: we are in an age of many many devices, and
Speaker 1: I don't care if you're on an iPad, or you're
Speaker 1: on an Android tablet, or you're on some sort of
Speaker 1: smart watch or you're on some sort of smartphone. Every
Speaker 1: single or on a smart TV, every single app, or
Speaker 1: every single device these days should be able to message
Speaker 1: another device using a common protocol. And maybe that's our CS,
Speaker 1: maybe it's something that's new, but it's not text messaging.
Speaker 1: It is not I Message. It shouldn't be WhatsApp or
Speaker 1: any of these other proprietary messaging services. There should be
Speaker 1: a common messaging protocol that every device in the world
Speaker 1: should be able to do the same things on. I
Speaker 1: think it's tough because of safety and security and encryption,
Speaker 1: but I think that could be built and I think
Speaker 1: it should happen. Oh that was a lot for iOS sixteen.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the first question of the show. Debra says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I love all the information from Cooper Tino. I need
Speaker 1: your expertise. I have a twenty seven inch iMac that
Speaker 1: I need to back up. I'm embarrassed to say I've
Speaker 1: lived a risky life not doing updates on here for
Speaker 1: a couple of years. Before I dare do some updates,
Speaker 1: I need to make sure everything is backed up. I've
Speaker 1: been using it for business remote working. My time machine
Speaker 1: keeps saying it can't back up because of system failure.
Speaker 1: So I'm worried this thing is going to crash. I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if there's something you could recommend. I did look
Speaker 1: at a Seagate drive at Costco, wondered if I should
Speaker 1: go with something like that. Let me know. Thank you, Debrah, Debra,
Speaker 1: you're on the right path. You mentioned two things. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Seagate, you mentioned time machine. What you need to
Speaker 1: go What you need to do is go back to
Speaker 1: Costco buy that Seagate drive. The first time you plug
Speaker 1: that Seagate drive into the iMac, it's going to say
Speaker 1: would you like to use this as a time machine backup?
Speaker 1: And you should say yes. And as soon as you
Speaker 1: do that, you'll see a little icon in your menu
Speaker 1: bar of a time machine going to work. And it
Speaker 1: may take a day or I don't know how long,
Speaker 1: depending on how much you've gotten this computer. It may
Speaker 1: take a while for that first time machine backup to complete.
Speaker 1: That will be a full backup of your Mac system.
Speaker 1: Now you can do the updates. Now what you want
Speaker 1: to do is do all the updates and then just
Speaker 1: keep that drive plugged in. Bottom line, keep it plugged
Speaker 1: in for a week or two, and it will just
Speaker 1: update your computer. It will back up your computer. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it will back up your computer to that drive at
Speaker 1: regular intervals, so it'll do I haven't used time machine
Speaker 1: in a while, so I can't remember what the intervals are.
Speaker 1: But it's like, you know, a minute by minute, then
Speaker 1: it's hour by hour, then it's day day, then it's
Speaker 1: month by month, then it's maybe year by year. But
Speaker 1: whatever it is, it will keep a nice backup of
Speaker 1: your system that if something ever fails, you can go
Speaker 1: back in time to that time machine, backup, see what
Speaker 1: they did there, and recover whatever you need. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: a file, maybe it's a you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's your whole system. But that's the way to
Speaker 1: do it. All you need is one of those Seagate drives.
Speaker 1: In the unlikely event that when you plug this drive
Speaker 1: in your computer does not recognize it, you will have
Speaker 1: to format this drive to be used on your computer.
Speaker 1: So what you want to do is find something called
Speaker 1: disc utility. You can press command space bar on your computer,
Speaker 1: search for disc in spotlight. You should see the disc
Speaker 1: show up. You want to erase that disc and so
Speaker 1: you want to erase it and format it as a
Speaker 1: I think it's like what is it? Osh, gosh, what
Speaker 1: is it? Mac os? I don't have a disc here,
Speaker 1: see what it's what the format is, but I think
Speaker 1: it's OS extended or something like that. But just do
Speaker 1: that and you'll be fine, and there you go. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Watch OS nine. So I would say,
Speaker 1: after the iPhone, my second favorite gadget is the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: And sometimes I've said the Apple Watch my favorite, but
Speaker 1: I can't edit video on the Apple Watch, so it
Speaker 1: can't be my favorite. Apple Watch is Apple knows that
Speaker 1: Apple Watch is the second stickiest gadget that they make
Speaker 1: after the iPhone. This is the thing that really keeps
Speaker 1: people in the Apple ecosystem because once you have an
Speaker 1: Apple Watch on your wrist, it is really really tough
Speaker 1: to go to any other smart watch. It's really tough
Speaker 1: to not have it. For me anytime that I switch
Speaker 1: back to an Android and literally I'm talking when I
Speaker 1: switch switch, like put a SIM card in it, and
Speaker 1: it is just I can't tell you how different the
Speaker 1: experience is because I'm so used to having my phone
Speaker 1: on silent that when my phone is on silent, I
Speaker 1: don't miss a thing because everything just redirects to my
Speaker 1: wrist and I'm in a studio most of the time,
Speaker 1: or in some sort of TV station setting, or in
Speaker 1: a shoot where I'm recording audio, and so my phone
Speaker 1: never ranks, is never ever not on silent mode. So
Speaker 1: when that happens on Android, I miss everything because you
Speaker 1: can't hear anything, and unless your phone is in your
Speaker 1: pocket vibrating, you're not gonna hear any of your messages
Speaker 1: come through. And so that's why the Apple Watch is
Speaker 1: so amazing that I can never miss a beat because
Speaker 1: even though everything is silent, I'm still feeling the vibration
Speaker 1: on my wrist and looking for the message. With all
Speaker 1: that said, Watch os nine got a couple new watch faces.
Speaker 1: I don't really get that excited about watch faces, but
Speaker 1: you've got that portrait mode has more depth effect on cats, dogs,
Speaker 1: and landscapes. You can have the Apple Watch face switch
Speaker 1: with your focus mode. We talked about that earlier. The
Speaker 1: Workout app as better metrics for measuring your performance. You
Speaker 1: can now make custom workouts, which is kind of like.
Speaker 1: There's an app I use called Seconds, which I used
Speaker 1: to use to time out this podcast. It kind of
Speaker 1: does interval timing for workouts. You know. Three minutes on,
Speaker 1: three minutes off, three minutes on, three minutes off. That
Speaker 1: is now sort of built into the workouts app. It
Speaker 1: pretty much is. And then there's new alerts including pace, power,
Speaker 1: heart rate, and cadence. So if you want to make
Speaker 1: sure you're hitting a certain heart rate, you can add
Speaker 1: that alert to your workouts and you can hear when
Speaker 1: you reach you know your target heart rate. For triathletes,
Speaker 1: there's now a multi sport mode, so it can switch
Speaker 1: between swimming, biking, and running workouts. And let's see, there
Speaker 1: are new running form metrics including stride length, ground contact time,
Speaker 1: vertical oscillation. I am a big runner and I don't
Speaker 1: care about any of that stuff. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that means. But hey, if you are an even
Speaker 1: more intense runner than I am, if you're working towards
Speaker 1: some sort of goal that I don't really understand, then
Speaker 1: those are gonna be great for you. And swimming, you've
Speaker 1: got kickboard detection and it can also classify the stroke type.
Speaker 1: I mean, this stuff. It's just truly remarkable what Apple
Speaker 1: is doing with with on device learning, so it can
Speaker 1: identify using algorithms what you're doing in your workouts. It
Speaker 1: knows it all. This is kind of cool. If you're
Speaker 1: on Fitness Plus and you're a subscriber to that, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't let me slow down here. You no longer
Speaker 1: need an Apple TV. It can now airplay your workouts
Speaker 1: to a compatible third party TV and device. So if
Speaker 1: you're at say a hotel that works with airplay, which
Speaker 1: I have yet to see, you would be able to
Speaker 1: stream your workout to that TV in your room, which
Speaker 1: is really cool. Now can you do that right from
Speaker 1: your watch? That would be amazing that that would be Wait,
Speaker 1: is that truly what you can? Yeah? I guess so
Speaker 1: I wonder if you need your iPhone. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's that's interesting. I gotta figure that out. Okay, what else? Uh? Sleep? Oh,
Speaker 1: sleep tracking is coming to Watch OS nine, So this
Speaker 1: means I'm gonna have to start wearing the Apple Watch
Speaker 1: to bed because I do want to get these rich
Speaker 1: sleep metrics. Uh. It will tell you let's see here
Speaker 1: ram sleep, core sleep, and deep sleep, and it's using
Speaker 1: the accelerometer and the heart rate monitor and of course, uh,
Speaker 1: some sort of algorithm that Apple has built. So that's
Speaker 1: really cool. Aphib history detection, So a FIB is if
Speaker 1: your heart is working, it has like some sort of
Speaker 1: abnormal you know, I'm not a doctor, so I don't
Speaker 1: really understand. But if you're if your heart, I guess
Speaker 1: when you have a FIB. Your heart works normally a
Speaker 1: lot of the time, but sometimes it's the heart rate
Speaker 1: is atypical and so that's a FIB. And so a
Speaker 1: lot of times this can lead to stroke if it's
Speaker 1: left untreated. And most of the time, as I understand it,
Speaker 1: to detect a FIB, yeah, you can do a one
Speaker 1: off test or now with the Apple Watch, it will
Speaker 1: be able to look at your heart from over time,
Speaker 1: like I'm talking all the time, and it can tell
Speaker 1: you when you went into a FIB, so whether it
Speaker 1: was for a couple of moments at you know, seven
Speaker 1: am on a Saturday it always seems to happen, or
Speaker 1: on a Sunday night, whatever it is, it will tell
Speaker 1: you like here's the times when you typically experience this.
Speaker 1: And with a doctor they can go through and tell
Speaker 1: you like, look, okay, maybe you need to sleep better
Speaker 1: on a Friday night, or you need to drink less,
Speaker 1: or you need to work out more, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what the factors are
Speaker 1: but this is the first time apparently that you can
Speaker 1: see a much longer APHIB history then typically doctors get
Speaker 1: access to because most of the time they got to
Speaker 1: hook you up with all these sensors to see what's
Speaker 1: going on with your So you can download a detailed
Speaker 1: PDF with a history of your a FIB and also
Speaker 1: your lifestyle factors, and you can talk to your doctor
Speaker 1: about how to make this all better. Medications app I
Speaker 1: think we already talked about, so that's gonna be on
Speaker 1: Apple Watch as well. And I think that's it for
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch. I mean there's a lot, obviously a
Speaker 1: lot more that Apple announced, but those are like the
Speaker 1: big main things, and I just think the Apple Watch continues.
Speaker 1: I've said this a thousand times on the podcast. The
Speaker 1: Apple Watch just continues to get better and better and better.
Speaker 1: I can't wait until they set it free. I know
Speaker 1: why Apple is not setting it free. There should be
Speaker 1: no reason why you shouldn't be able to just activate
Speaker 1: this thing as its independent line. Right now, you still
Speaker 1: need a family member to do it on an iPhone.
Speaker 1: But it just Apple needs to set this thing free
Speaker 1: because it is so phenomenally helpful, especially with the Cellular
Speaker 1: Connection twenty four to seven, that this is one of
Speaker 1: Apple's best products and it just continues to get better.
Speaker 1: All right, Rosa, it says, maybe you can help. I
Speaker 1: recently got an iPhone eleven. I'm having problems keeping it
Speaker 1: connected via Bluetooth to my JVC aftermarket car stereo. It
Speaker 1: just continually breaks up when I try connecting Spotify or iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: I was told to download the firmware from the JVC
Speaker 1: website to a flash drive. How do I decompress the
Speaker 1: files that are downloaded from my Mac desktop to my
Speaker 1: flash drive? I only see the option to compress them.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Rosa. Rosa, sometimes things are so obvious we
Speaker 1: miss them. But to decompress, I'm guessing you mean unzipped
Speaker 1: the files that you downloaded. Typically when you download a
Speaker 1: firmware update, it comes as a ZIP file, and so
Speaker 1: to decompress or unzip those, you would just double click
Speaker 1: that file and it should do that now. I a
Speaker 1: lot of times when you're using a flash update, you
Speaker 1: just go with the zip file and the actual device
Speaker 1: will will unzip those and kind of let it run
Speaker 1: through its motions. I don't know how the JVC car
Speaker 1: stereo works but typically what you would do is you
Speaker 1: would go on the website looks like you I already
Speaker 1: did this. You would find the firmware update. You would
Speaker 1: download it to the flask drive. You plug that flask
Speaker 1: drive into the JVC, You go into the settings menu
Speaker 1: and you say update firmware. It will find the flash drive,
Speaker 1: find the software on that flask drive, run through the software,
Speaker 1: update the software, update the firmware, and restart the JVC,
Speaker 1: and your phone should work better. I don't know why
Speaker 1: your phone is breaking up. That is odd. It shouldn't
Speaker 1: be happening. It could be as easy as unpairing the
Speaker 1: JVC and repairing it. It could be resetting all of
Speaker 1: your network connections on the JVC. That's a setting under
Speaker 1: general and reset that will wipe all your Wi Fi
Speaker 1: connections and things away, so you will have to reconnect
Speaker 1: all your Wi Fi and cellular and Bluetooth. But that
Speaker 1: could fix it, or it could just be that you
Speaker 1: need to restart your phone. That could fix it. I
Speaker 1: with the iPhone rarely see choppiness with Bluetooth. It's something
Speaker 1: that I often see with Android device is Back in
Speaker 1: the day, I wouldn't say much anymore, but it was
Speaker 1: definitely much more of a of an Android thing, but
Speaker 1: it should not be. It sounds like whenever there's choppiness,
Speaker 1: you know, something is maybe running in the background. So
Speaker 1: you can maybe go through your apps, delete stuff that
Speaker 1: you don't need or don't want, and then restart the phone.
Speaker 1: But that's what I would recommend, go through those steps.
Speaker 1: But once you get that firmware on, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: try the stuff like restart your iPhone, see if that helps,
Speaker 1: but and then disconnect it for sure from the bluetooth
Speaker 1: on the JVC. Restart your iPhone, then reconnect it and
Speaker 1: see hopefully that should work out because there should be
Speaker 1: no choppiness. I don't know how old. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: an iPhone eleven, it's not that old. The JVC, I mean,
Speaker 1: Bluetooth is not like a new thing. It's not like
Speaker 1: it's this, you know, wild thing you're trying to do.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty simple. So I would just check those
Speaker 1: things and see if they work. All right? Do we
Speaker 1: want to talk iPad os sixteen. Now, it's tough for
Speaker 1: me to get excited about the iPad because I do
Speaker 1: not do anything of use on the iPad. The most
Speaker 1: I do on my iPad is look at the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal and use the Peloton app on there. That's
Speaker 1: basically it. I mean, there's not much I do on
Speaker 1: the iPad. I don't really even read books on there
Speaker 1: because I read them on my kindle. So the iPad
Speaker 1: to me, has not really evolved in a meaningful way
Speaker 1: in many, many years because I don't use one tenth
Speaker 1: of the power of the iPad. And I think the
Speaker 1: iPad is absolutely Gosh, you're really going to tell me
Speaker 1: I'm an Apple fanboy by the end of this podcast,
Speaker 1: But the iPad is the best tablet out there. It
Speaker 1: just is. It does what you need. It's amazing. Yes,
Speaker 1: there are cheaper tablets out there, but if you want
Speaker 1: a tablet that lasts a really long time and is
Speaker 1: super powerful and very easy and it works, the iPad
Speaker 1: is the way to go. Yes, you can get a
Speaker 1: fire tablet from Amazon. It's just not going to be
Speaker 1: as The experience is going to be painful at best. Okay,
Speaker 1: the experience is going to be fine, painful at the worst.
Speaker 1: I guess I should say. Let's talk about the new
Speaker 1: features on iPad os sixteen. The number one feature is
Speaker 1: Stage Manager. This is kind of Apple's way of tiptoeing
Speaker 1: into making the iPad a real kind of computer device.
Speaker 1: So there's been a lot of talk about Apple killing
Speaker 1: off laptops and Apple killing off the Mac, but that's
Speaker 1: not happening. The Mac computer and the iPad are here
Speaker 1: to say, are they getting similar features? Is there some overlap? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: But the reality of the situation with the iPad is this,
Speaker 1: If you can run your personal computing life on an
Speaker 1: iPad and maybe with a keyboard or a pencil and
Speaker 1: an iPhone, that's amazing. That is just congrats, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: But if you're like me and you want to do
Speaker 1: that but you can't because you edit video on your
Speaker 1: computer and you write video on your computer, then that's
Speaker 1: just not a possibility. Like I need final cut on
Speaker 1: my laptop. If you don't need that, if you just
Speaker 1: do emails, if you just do word documents, maybe spreadsheets,
Speaker 1: although I think that's probably way easier on a laptop.
Speaker 1: But if you're just doing even photo editing, maybe you
Speaker 1: just need an iPad and it's amazing. So Apple is
Speaker 1: adding features to the iPad that makes it similar to
Speaker 1: a computer, but I don't think they're trying to replace
Speaker 1: the computer in the process. If it can be replaced
Speaker 1: for you. Like I said, that's awesome. But they're trying
Speaker 1: to give people options and they're trying to give people
Speaker 1: different ways of doing things. So one of those things
Speaker 1: is Stage Manager, which is a whole new way to
Speaker 1: multitask with overlapping windows and full external display support. That
Speaker 1: is coming to the iPad in iOS sixteen, but only
Speaker 1: if you have an m one chip inside your iPad,
Speaker 1: which is basically the recent models of the iPad. They
Speaker 1: also have this thing called Freeform, which is an app
Speaker 1: that is kind of a flexible canvas. They describe it
Speaker 1: as kind of like, you know, you can collaborate with
Speaker 1: your family on there, or you're sorry, your your colleagues,
Speaker 1: your friends or family. This has given me major Google
Speaker 1: buzz vibes. I'm gonna call it doa but we'll say, well,
Speaker 1: you let me know if you use it. I just
Speaker 1: can't imagine anyone will ever use that. But we'll say
Speaker 1: mail same thing. You can schedule a piece of mail,
Speaker 1: you can unsend a message canceled delivery before it reaches
Speaker 1: someone's inbox. So I guess they'll give you a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes to do that. You can move in an
Speaker 1: email to the top of your inbox to send a
Speaker 1: follow up. The iCloud Shared library is there. Let's see
Speaker 1: the weather app is coming to the iPad. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I looked forward the other day. I was
Speaker 1: planning a trip and I was like, oh, let me
Speaker 1: see what the weather's gonna be like. And I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that the weather app was not on the iPad.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that they're bringing the weather app to
Speaker 1: the iPad ten years after the iPad debuts. Let's see
Speaker 1: what else I talked about. The stage manager lets you
Speaker 1: create overlapping windows of different sizes in a single view.
Speaker 1: You can drag and drop. You can open apps from
Speaker 1: the dock, create groups of apps. Again, only on the
Speaker 1: iPad Pro and iPad Air with the M one chip.
Speaker 1: And I think, I mean, look again, there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. But that's kind of the high level
Speaker 1: stuff that I think is interesting. So yes, there will
Speaker 1: be more, but that's iPad in a nutshell. Hello. As
Speaker 1: far as Internet security for your computer, what is a
Speaker 1: good recommendation for a home computer, McAfee, etc. I would
Speaker 1: appreciate any assistance in this regard. I just bought a
Speaker 1: new HP. We also have an IMAX, so I never
Speaker 1: really worried about it before. Thank you, Louri Laurie. No
Speaker 1: one likes to hear the answer I have, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you need a lot of Internet security on
Speaker 1: your computer. I think Windows Defender that is built into
Speaker 1: your computer will be just fine. I think the more
Speaker 1: important thing is really watching what you click on the Internet.
Speaker 1: That is the main thing you have to watch for.
Speaker 1: Downloading apps that are just either garbage or malware, or
Speaker 1: links that are malicious. That is the main thing you
Speaker 1: need to look out for. Because, yeah, mccaffee, you can
Speaker 1: install it and it's gonna have a million warnings and
Speaker 1: pop ups and says it's protecting you and it's doing
Speaker 1: all this. But like, really, when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: if you're not clicking links that have malware, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. If you're not clicking links from untrusted senders,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be okay. If you're not downloading things that
Speaker 1: could have a virus, you're gonna be okay. If you
Speaker 1: want to protect yourself, you know, I think Windows Defender,
Speaker 1: keep that up to date, keep it running keep it on.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be your best bet. It's free,
Speaker 1: it's built into Windows, and I think you'll be okay there. Now,
Speaker 1: if you think you already have malware on your computer,
Speaker 1: I would maybe recommend installing malware bites on there and
Speaker 1: running it and seeing what it comes up with. But
Speaker 1: I don't think so, because you just bought a new HP.
Speaker 1: What I would do is go through the programs I'd
Speaker 1: removed programs on the HP and get rid of all
Speaker 1: the garbage that is pre installed in this computer. There's
Speaker 1: probably a ton of it. One of those apps is
Speaker 1: probably McAfee. You're probably getting some sort of you know,
Speaker 1: free trial to some sort of security program and antivirus program,
Speaker 1: and la la la, I'm falling asleep just thinking about it.
Speaker 1: You don't need it. It's like scare tactics. It's just
Speaker 1: so many pop up windows you have to deal with.
Speaker 1: This is why when Microsoft still had stores, I recommended
Speaker 1: buying computers from the Microsoft Store because they were what
Speaker 1: were called signature additions. If you sold your computer in
Speaker 1: a Microsoft store, you could not install crapwear or bloatwear
Speaker 1: on it. You just Apple or Microsoft did not allow it. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're buying a computer from Dell, if you're buying
Speaker 1: a computer from HP, what are the other big brands
Speaker 1: acer you know, these computers just come pre installed a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff because these computer companies get a lot
Speaker 1: of money. They get a lot of money from nor In,
Speaker 1: from McAfee, from all these computer companies that install little
Speaker 1: parts of their program and say, hey, we'll pay you
Speaker 1: a fifty bucks each computer that you would you would
Speaker 1: pre install this on in hopes of the person that
Speaker 1: gets that computer will be scared enough into subscribing to
Speaker 1: that program, and now they'll get a little bit of
Speaker 1: money on the back end from that subscription. So I
Speaker 1: don't think you need it. I think it's a lot
Speaker 1: of like busy work with all these things. I think
Speaker 1: you just you know, we're doing most of our work
Speaker 1: online in the cloud anyway, So if you're using like
Speaker 1: Windows or sorry, yeah, I mean Windows three sixty five,
Speaker 1: or if you're using Gmail, or if you're using Google Docs, like,
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff we're doing is happening online.
Speaker 1: So the amount of apps that you're actually downloading to
Speaker 1: your computer, you know, probably isn't very much. And if
Speaker 1: you're downloading apps, usually they're from a reputable source. You know.
Speaker 1: The main thing is to make sure when you download stuff,
Speaker 1: you're not using that top link that says add on Google.
Speaker 1: So if you're searching for Chrome, you know, scroll down
Speaker 1: to the fifth or sixth link whatever. It is. Used
Speaker 1: to be only three links at the top on Google
Speaker 1: where the sponsored links. I think now they've extended that
Speaker 1: to many, many more. But you know, make sure you're
Speaker 1: scrolling past the sponsored links and going to the actual
Speaker 1: link and downloading programs from there. If it looks like
Speaker 1: some weird website, you know, check the url. Make sure
Speaker 1: that it's not like Chrome downloader dot com. Like no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, make sure it's coming from Google. If you're
Speaker 1: downloading any sort of like free app or whatever, just
Speaker 1: make sure it's coming from a reputable site. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that you don't ever need security on your computer.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that the level of security you need
Speaker 1: a lot of it is taken care of with something
Speaker 1: like McAfee. If you need something else, there are there
Speaker 1: is a website that will that ranks this stuff, and
Speaker 1: it's it's av test avdash test dot org. And you
Speaker 1: can go and see the windows ten. What they rank
Speaker 1: as the top security that you need for Windows ten.
Speaker 1: So they like something called on lab ahn lab. Then
Speaker 1: it's a VAST, then it's AVEG, then it's a Verra,
Speaker 1: then it's Bitdefender, then f secure. I mean McAfee ranks
Speaker 1: like pretty low. Actually Windows Defender ranks under them, which
Speaker 1: is surprising. Nor In is even lower than all of that.
Speaker 1: So again total av even lower, trend Micro almost at
Speaker 1: the bottom. So again I would check, you know, just
Speaker 1: check these rankings on there and go with something on
Speaker 1: there if you want a program that's sort of running
Speaker 1: all the time in the background to sort of monitor
Speaker 1: for all of this stuff. But I don't necessarily think
Speaker 1: y'all need it, but you do have to. You do
Speaker 1: have to keep yourself safe out there. I mean, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people that are trying to scam
Speaker 1: you in different ways, but ninety nine percent of the
Speaker 1: scams that I see nowadays, a lot of it has
Speaker 1: to do with fishing links, and not just phishing link links,
Speaker 1: but also social engineering. So techts that have malicious links
Speaker 1: just a lot of a lot of social engineering to
Speaker 1: get us to click and hand over our information to
Speaker 1: the bad people. And it's just not good. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the hardware that was unveiled
Speaker 1: at WWDC. We got a new MacBook Air and a
Speaker 1: new MacBook Pro. They updated the MacBook Pro thirteen inch.
Speaker 1: They redesigned the MacBook Air. I went hands on with
Speaker 1: the MacBook Air, and yeah, it kind of takes the
Speaker 1: design language that Apple has been using a little more
Speaker 1: like cyborgy. I don't know how to describe it, but
Speaker 1: it's kind of like much more like metal, like with
Speaker 1: these edges that are a little bit more like commanding.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it has the M two chip inside.
Speaker 1: This is the second generation of Apple's own processor. Remember
Speaker 1: they made their own processors for the iPhone. Now they
Speaker 1: make their own processors for computers. M two is the
Speaker 1: second generation, you know, is it like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: so much better than the M one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a processor like tester person, but I know
Speaker 1: the M one got very rave reviews. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: M two is great. It also delivers support for up
Speaker 1: to twenty four gigs of memory, so now instead of sixteen,
Speaker 1: you could have twenty four gigs, which, of course, if
Speaker 1: you're doing something like video editing or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot better. You can't have enough memory.
Speaker 1: MacBook Air has a new design. It's two point seven pounds.
Speaker 1: It's thinner, it's lighter, it's faster. It also has two
Speaker 1: new colors, Midnight and Starlight, So in addition to space
Speaker 1: gray and silver, if I was getting this, i'd probably
Speaker 1: get the Midnight. Honestly, that's a pretty nice color. It's
Speaker 1: like a blue color, dark blue navy. If I had
Speaker 1: to translate, Starlight is kind of a like a cream color,
Speaker 1: I would say. So. I did not see that one
Speaker 1: in person. I'm sure it was there, I just didn't.
Speaker 1: I missed it. They also have a three point five
Speaker 1: inch audio jack on there, and it's got mag Safe again.
Speaker 1: Now mag Safe has come back to the MacBook Air.
Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with mag Safe, it's instead of
Speaker 1: plugging in USBC to charge your laptop, it's a proprietary connector,
Speaker 1: but it has a magnet and so when you trip
Speaker 1: over the cord that is that is connecting your cable
Speaker 1: to the wall or your your computer to the wall,
Speaker 1: your computer does not go flying and get ruined. The
Speaker 1: cord just yanks itself out of your computer because it's
Speaker 1: just held in there by a magnet. They also say
Speaker 1: that the HD FaceTime camera is better now it's a
Speaker 1: new ten ADP FaceTime HD camera, the larger image sensor.
Speaker 1: We'll have to see how much better that is. But
Speaker 1: I'll talk more about the solution for the camera that
Speaker 1: Apple has in a moment when we talk about the
Speaker 1: new Mac os. Let's see the charging the charging brick,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, is actually kind of cool.
Speaker 1: They have this new one which is great. It has
Speaker 1: as two USB C ports in it, so now you
Speaker 1: can charge your laptop and something else at the same time,
Speaker 1: and that's a great thing. It's gonna cost you a
Speaker 1: little bit more to get that, so it's not included
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, it's not included in
Speaker 1: the laptop. Let's see, the thirty WAT USB C power
Speaker 1: adapter is thirty nine dollars, So do they not include
Speaker 1: a power adapter at all? I don't know. The thirty
Speaker 1: five WAT dual USBC port adapter is sixty dollars, and
Speaker 1: then you have a thirty five WoT dual USBC adapter
Speaker 1: for fifty nine. What's the difference US thirty five WAT
Speaker 1: dual USBC I don't know. Oh and then you okay,
Speaker 1: never mind. So anyway, it's sixty bucks if you want
Speaker 1: that dual one. Maybe it comes with a regular one.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I didn't. I didn't get that information.
Speaker 1: Computer prices MacBook Air with M two starts at twelve
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. It's eleven hundred if you have an ED
Speaker 1: education ID or your student teacher whatever. A thirteen inch
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro with M two starts at thirteen hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve hundred for education. So those are going to be
Speaker 1: two solid computers. I still say that Apple needs to
Speaker 1: make a computer that is five hundred and ninety nine dollars,
Speaker 1: that is a laptop. Take that old M one chip
Speaker 1: in two years or maybe a year when it's finally
Speaker 1: kind of out of its life cycle with your regular laptops,
Speaker 1: and pop that into a computer that is just basic
Speaker 1: laptop and make it six hundred dollars. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you that thing will sell like hotcakes. This is what
Speaker 1: Apple needs, because it is that's the price point that
Speaker 1: the average person wants. The average person does not want
Speaker 1: to pay eleven hundred or twelve hundred dollars for a laptop.
Speaker 1: They want to pay five to six hundred dollars. That's
Speaker 1: how do I know that? It's because those are the
Speaker 1: emails that I get on a daily basis. When people
Speaker 1: ask me for a laptop. They don't say, rich, what's
Speaker 1: the best most expensive Mac laptop I can purchase? I've
Speaker 1: got a budget. That's just you've earn in a hole
Speaker 1: in my pocket. No, they say, Rich, I love Apple,
Speaker 1: I want a MacBook, but I want to spend five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. What can I get for that price? And
Speaker 1: you know, I tell them, look, you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get an acer or some sort of you know,
Speaker 1: laptop at best Buy that is five hundred dollars or
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars. It's it's tough to get a six
Speaker 1: hundred dollars laptop that's really that good. They're not going
Speaker 1: to be as good as the MacBooks. And I tell people, look,
Speaker 1: you spend the twelve hundred dollars on a MacBook and
Speaker 1: it's going to last you four years, minimum, five years,
Speaker 1: six years. I mean, these laptops can last a very
Speaker 1: long time. And that's what people forget because we're so
Speaker 1: instant gratification in our world that you want to spend
Speaker 1: five hundred six hundred because that's what you've saved up,
Speaker 1: or that feels like it's it's approachable, but you're not
Speaker 1: realizing that that laptop is going to bore you to
Speaker 1: death in three years with how slow it is, and
Speaker 1: so you're just going to be wanting to replace that
Speaker 1: after a couple of years. It's going to be slow,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be laggy, it's going to be at a
Speaker 1: date by the time you, you know, have it for a
Speaker 1: couple of years, whereas the MacBook. I'm telling you, these
Speaker 1: things will continue to perform at a very very good
Speaker 1: clip for five, six, seven, eight, you know, eight years.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm trying to think because I replace mine every
Speaker 1: couple of years, but I pass it down, like my
Speaker 1: my dad has my old laptop. Uh before, I've had
Speaker 1: my old laptop which my other kid, which my kid has,
Speaker 1: and then my current laptop. So I'm gonna be passing
Speaker 1: these all down again when I end up buying a
Speaker 1: new laptop. But my dad, the one that he has
Speaker 1: is probably a twenty sixteen at this point. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're talking that's what four or five six years old.
Speaker 1: That's and it's still fine. Like when I go over there,
Speaker 1: I kind of clean it up a little bit. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's running a little bit slower, but it's still fine
Speaker 1: for like what he's doing, which is mainly Facebook. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest here, all right, let's get to the next
Speaker 1: question of the podcast. Here, Lisa says, Hey, Rich, I
Speaker 1: just read your article on VPNs. I'm looking for an idea.
Speaker 1: What do I need to put on my iPad and
Speaker 1: iPhone when I travel to make it more secure? I
Speaker 1: visit internet cafes. My next trip will be aboard a ship.
Speaker 1: Do I need to get some other security besides a
Speaker 1: VPN in addition to other security? What are recommendations on
Speaker 1: packages like I keep getting messages from McAfee. I'm afraid
Speaker 1: to install it because I've read the reviews and some
Speaker 1: seem like there's difficulties in connecting after installation. I hope
Speaker 1: I've asked all the pertinent questions. I am in no
Speaker 1: way security expert. I've had Apple products for years, and
Speaker 1: I've totally dropped the ball because I think they're mostly
Speaker 1: safe from attack. Thank you very much, Lisa. Lisa, You're right,
Speaker 1: they are very much safe from attack, and I don't
Speaker 1: think you need any special software on them whatsoever, on
Speaker 1: your iPhone or iPad at all. The main thing, like
Speaker 1: I said from before, you have to watch out for
Speaker 1: is phishing scams. You're not going to download an app
Speaker 1: on the iPhone or iPad in passing because it's just
Speaker 1: not allowed. You have to go through the app store,
Speaker 1: and the app store is vetted. So, yes, could there
Speaker 1: be malicious software on the app store? Perhaps? Does it happen?
Speaker 1: Not really, so I think you're going to be okay there.
Speaker 1: When it comes to antivirus all that stuff, you don't
Speaker 1: need any of that stuff on the iPhone. Now, when
Speaker 1: it comes to a VPN, yes, I did an article
Speaker 1: on VPNs, and this is a great segue to talk
Speaker 1: about what the experts told me. And so when do
Speaker 1: you need a VPN? You do not need a VPN
Speaker 1: in your computer for day to day use. It's just
Speaker 1: something that you don't need. When do you want to
Speaker 1: use a VPN? I would recommend a VPN in this
Speaker 1: situation when you want to protect your web surfing and
Speaker 1: secure your internet, when you're doing anything private or sensitive
Speaker 1: like banking, when you are on an untrusted public Wi
Speaker 1: Fi connection. Now that's a lot to unpack. In general,
Speaker 1: I don't think you need a VPN unless you are
Speaker 1: on some sort of sketchy Wi Fi. If you're on
Speaker 1: you can expand that to public Wi Fi. So if
Speaker 1: you want to secure your browsing and anything you're doing
Speaker 1: on your computer on public Wi Fi, yes, get a VPN,
Speaker 1: turn it on when you're on public Wi Fi. Use
Speaker 1: it and you'll be fine. I'll talk about the VPNs
Speaker 1: I recommend in a moment. If you ever want to
Speaker 1: just secure your connection, if you're somewhere where you are
Speaker 1: doing you know you need to look up your credit card,
Speaker 1: your bank account, whatever. All you have to do is
Speaker 1: switch into cellular mode, turn off your Wi Fi, get
Speaker 1: on cellular, and you'll be fine. Cellular is very secure.
Speaker 1: If you want to use your laptop, just use your
Speaker 1: hotspot from your cellular connection from your phone, and that's
Speaker 1: also very secure. Now, if you want to use a VPN,
Speaker 1: like I said, if you're doing any sort of banking
Speaker 1: or any sort of sensitive information, most of the websites
Speaker 1: you're connecting to, by the time you go to Gmail
Speaker 1: dot com, yes, the Wi Fi connection, we'll be able
Speaker 1: to see that you've gone to Google to Gmail, but
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be able to see what you're exchanging
Speaker 1: on Gmail because Gmail is encrypted. You can tell that
Speaker 1: a site is encrypted by looking at the little lock
Speaker 1: next to the website name. So anything you actually do
Speaker 1: on that website is going to be safe and secure.
Speaker 1: Your ISP or the Internet service provider will be able
Speaker 1: to see the websites that you go to. They may
Speaker 1: be able to see the URLs, but they won't be
Speaker 1: able to see what you're doing on that website, the
Speaker 1: information you're exchanging with that website. So what VPNs are recommended?
Speaker 1: I talked to a couple experts and molvad m u
Speaker 1: lll VAD is the top recommended VPN and I actually
Speaker 1: really like them because their pricing is super easy. It's
Speaker 1: five dollars a month. Whether you use it for a month,
Speaker 1: a year, a decade, it's five dollars a month every month.
Speaker 1: There's no like you know, pre pay for three years,
Speaker 1: prepay for four years, five years, a decade, whatever. It's
Speaker 1: five bucks a month and it checks all of the
Speaker 1: boxes that are expert liked, which is no log which
Speaker 1: means it doesn't keep a track of what you're doing
Speaker 1: on there. It does not servers and lots of locations.
Speaker 1: It works on a variety of devices. It's fast and
Speaker 1: so moulvad m U l l v A D seems
Speaker 1: to be a really good one. The other recommendations IVPN
Speaker 1: surf Shark and tunnel Bear. And we also talked to
Speaker 1: someone from Mozilla. I've been using their VPN to test
Speaker 1: it out and it seems to check all the boxes
Speaker 1: as well. And again, you're going to be paying five
Speaker 1: to ten dollars a month for a good VPN. You're
Speaker 1: not going to get a good free VPN. Again, do
Speaker 1: not use a free VPN. You get what you pay for,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you it's just not worth it. So
Speaker 1: don't get the free VPN. All right? Is that it?
Speaker 1: I think that's it for that topic. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think that's it when it comes to the you know,
Speaker 1: the Apple products. You don't really need much more on there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the final thing before we
Speaker 1: go here mac Os Ventura. It's named after Ventura in California.
Speaker 1: I believe it's Ventura County. I don't think there's like
Speaker 1: a Ventura rock that they mentioned, but Ventura they said
Speaker 1: they were. You know, it's an area of California, just
Speaker 1: outside Los Angeles. It's also Ventura County, and they said
Speaker 1: they were inspired by the colorful wildflowers and the surf
Speaker 1: of that area. So yeah, a lot of surfing, a
Speaker 1: lot of beach. Ventura has it all. So I thought
Speaker 1: that was kind of cool. They stage Manager is coming
Speaker 1: to the Mac again, same thing like I mentioned on
Speaker 1: the iPad. Then they've got continuity camera. This is interesting.
Speaker 1: So they're making these clips in association with Belkin that
Speaker 1: you clip your iPhone to your the top of your
Speaker 1: laptop screen, I know, kind of weird, and then you
Speaker 1: can use your iPhone as a webcam on the Mac.
Speaker 1: And so it automatically recognizes that you're using the Mac
Speaker 1: and the iPhone, so you don't have to wake up
Speaker 1: your iPhone. It just automatically triggers the webcam when you
Speaker 1: hang it there apparently, or when you kind of I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know how it triggers it, but
Speaker 1: it does. And it also has this feature called desk View,
Speaker 1: and so it's doing this neat thing where if you
Speaker 1: have your iPhone clipped onto your laptop screen, it will
Speaker 1: it uses the back cameras and one of those cameras
Speaker 1: is a wide angle camera, so somehow they're using AI
Speaker 1: to use that wide angle to see what you've got
Speaker 1: in front of your laptop keyboard. So it almost makes
Speaker 1: it like a top down camera where you can show
Speaker 1: little demos of like a magic trick that used as
Speaker 1: an example, or you know anything. Let's say you're carving
Speaker 1: a bar of soap and you want to show people
Speaker 1: on your live stream what you're doing. You can show
Speaker 1: that with your phone that is facing you, but somehow
Speaker 1: it's angled down, so that's kind of cool. It's called
Speaker 1: desk view. I can't wait to try that out. They
Speaker 1: also say that the iPhone is going to give a
Speaker 1: clearer webcam, a better looking webcam, and there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of other features on mac os, but those are
Speaker 1: sort of the main ones. There's also handoff coming to FaceTime,
Speaker 1: so you can start a FaceTime on your iPhone and
Speaker 1: then you can continue it on your Mac computer. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool and I love that. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's get to a couple more little items of note
Speaker 1: here before we go. Anthony says, thanks for the Verizon discount.
Speaker 1: I heard you talking about your last episode of the
Speaker 1: Verizon loyalty discount is actually true. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a scam. I just call them now. I'm getting twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month discount on my bill. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for letting your listeners know, Tony. Great. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was quite the thing. I talked about it in the
Speaker 1: last podcast, the Verizon text that people were getting for
Speaker 1: the discount, and boy was there a lot of discussion
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page about that. But yes, if you
Speaker 1: got a Verizon text, call in get the discount. It
Speaker 1: is legitimate. But be careful about any sort of text
Speaker 1: like that. I thought it was weird that Verizon did that.
Speaker 1: Raymond says Doctor Squatch Soap at Walmart. I'm an avid
Speaker 1: listener of your podcast, and I thought i'd let you
Speaker 1: know that I was able to find Doctor Squatch bar
Speaker 1: soap at our Walmart here in Las Vegas. So far,
Speaker 1: they carry wood barrel, bourbon, pine tar, fresh falls, and
Speaker 1: citrus cedar. Hopefully they have it at the Walmart near you.
Speaker 1: They're selling for five ninety eight a piece. I just
Speaker 1: thought you could save on shipping. That is awesome. You know,
Speaker 1: I love my Doctor Squatch and I do order it
Speaker 1: on the Doctor Squatch website. I did order on Amazon once.
Speaker 1: My last Oh interesting, they don't put the prices in
Speaker 1: my last order. I'm looking up here, but my last
Speaker 1: order had Alpine Sage, Cold Brew, Klein's Wood Barrel, Bourbon Bayrum,
Speaker 1: Pine Tar, and the Batman Collection. But I will tell
Speaker 1: you that all these flavors that you mentioned, wood Barrel, Bourbon,
Speaker 1: pine Tar, Fresh Falls, and Citrus cedar are all excellent.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's why they did them because of probably
Speaker 1: the most popular ones. Six dollars apiece sounds pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if I could tell how much
Speaker 1: I paid for these, it'd be great, but I can't.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's a great price for doctor Squatch.
Speaker 1: And if it's at your local Walmart, why not, more
Speaker 1: power to you. So I don't go to Walmart often.
Speaker 1: Oh here we go. Oh wow, that's actually a great price,
Speaker 1: because if you buy them online, it looks like they're
Speaker 1: seven dollars apiece, and then I usually get a little
Speaker 1: bit of a discount depending on the whatever code they have,
Speaker 1: and shipping is free, so it looks like it's four
Speaker 1: dollars off. So yeah, I'd say it's about the same
Speaker 1: price you'd pay on the website, but obviously you can
Speaker 1: get them instantly, so that's really cool. Thanks for the
Speaker 1: for the note. I'm glad you're looking out for me.
Speaker 1: If you haven't tried The Doctor Squatch, it's excellent. I'll
Speaker 1: put a little link in the show notes. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to do the show notes. I know I get
Speaker 1: a lot of complaints on Twitter about the show notes.
Speaker 1: I personally literally use show notes on podcasts like once,
Speaker 1: like every ten episodes on a show, I'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: they mentioned something, but I know I talk about a
Speaker 1: lot of useful stuff. So I will try to put
Speaker 1: the show notes back in so you got the links
Speaker 1: to the stuff I mentioned. Well, that sound does mean
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this episode of the show.
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