Speaker 1: Samsung and Apple schedule their next events. A review of
Speaker 1: the one plus smart Watch, the best feature Ever comes
Speaker 1: to Kindle Plus. Your tech questions Answered?
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech.
Speaker 2: Stuff I think you should know about.
Speaker 1: It's also the place where I answer the questions you
Speaker 1: send me, and believe me, you send me a lot
Speaker 1: of them, way more than I can answer in this podcast. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: You might also see me on a TV station near
Speaker 1: you because it's not just KTLA. Segments go out to
Speaker 1: TV stations across the nation. Next our nation, we call it.
Speaker 1: That's the company that owns KTLA. They own a lot
Speaker 1: of stations in a lot of different places. In fact,
Speaker 1: little tidbit for you, this is kind of a homecoming
Speaker 1: for me my second reporter job.
Speaker 2: Ever.
Speaker 1: I actually worked for the same company, so worked there
Speaker 1: for three years in Louisiana, came out to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and worked at KATLA when it was owned by a
Speaker 1: different company, and then the company from Louisiana bought I mean,
Speaker 1: the company's headquartered in Texas, but the same company bought Ktla.
Speaker 1: How wild is that? So full circle for my career? Here, Wow,
Speaker 1: this week, what a week for crypto.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I don't talk about crypto a lot, cryptocurrency, but I
Speaker 1: mean it has been. It's getting to the point where
Speaker 1: you can't avoid it. So bitcoin is the big you know, cryptocurrency,
Speaker 1: and it's been you know, it's been going on for
Speaker 1: many years now. In fact, it's funny because I've got
Speaker 1: a friend who has been talking about bitcoin forever. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm talking way before anyone in the news is ever
Speaker 1: talking about it. You know, every party you'd go to,
Speaker 1: every time you ever saw this guy at a poker game, crypto, crypto, crypto,
Speaker 1: And of course you know what do I do? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's too complicated, it's too it's not for my audience.
Speaker 1: It's too much. It's too much. And boy, I wish
Speaker 1: I bought some crypto and he started talking about it,
Speaker 1: because man, it is just it's been a wild ride
Speaker 1: for cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin. There's other cryptos as well. It's
Speaker 1: not just Bitcoin. But I am now actually, the more
Speaker 1: I learn about this getting to be a bigger believer
Speaker 1: in it, because when you think about it like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so yesterday I wanted to send someone, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple bucks, right, and I was like, do you have zeld,
Speaker 1: do you have you know, Venmo?
Speaker 2: Do you have this? Do you have that?
Speaker 1: But if they had bitcoin, if they just had some
Speaker 1: sort of like bitcoin, you know, if I could just
Speaker 1: send them that.
Speaker 2: That'd be so much easier.
Speaker 1: It's universal, it works with everything, It works across every country,
Speaker 1: it works across every phone, every everywhere you go. It's
Speaker 1: just crypto. And so I'm in. You know, Tesla is
Speaker 1: accepting crypto. Elon Musk is a big believer. Then we
Speaker 1: had Coinbase go public this week, and you know, when
Speaker 1: you look at the numbers of people using Coinbase, which
Speaker 1: you know they kind of facilitate. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a way that people can buy and trade crypto on
Speaker 1: their platform. And so when you look at the numbers
Speaker 1: of how many people are using Coinbase, it's just phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And clearly this is not just a tech thing or
Speaker 1: a tech nerd thing, or a you know, random people
Speaker 1: kind of thing. This is this is becoming big. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to follow it more closely and just continue
Speaker 1: to kind of get smarter about it because I think
Speaker 1: the reason why we're not seeing it take off in
Speaker 1: such a huge way so fast is because banks in
Speaker 1: the government don't really have a handle on it. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't really get to control it, which is a
Speaker 1: little bit scary for them because it's not really controlled
Speaker 1: by any one entity. And that's the beauty of it,
Speaker 1: but it's also flies in the face of everything we've
Speaker 1: known about money for so many years. Let's get started
Speaker 1: with the first part of the show about the one
Speaker 1: plus watch. This is, Oh my gosh, I feel so
Speaker 1: bad for OnePlus. So, you know, like most things, they
Speaker 1: send it to you before you say anything, and you know,
Speaker 1: I get to use it for a week or two
Speaker 1: before anyone else. And so I'm sitting here using the
Speaker 1: one plus watch. And I had such high hopes for
Speaker 1: this watch because it's a one hundred and fifty nine
Speaker 1: dollars smart watch, it works with Android devices, It looks amazing.
Speaker 1: It's got every sensor under the sun. So you want oxygen,
Speaker 1: You've got oxygen sensor. You want a compass, You've got
Speaker 1: a compass on there. You want running GPS, all onboard everything,
Speaker 1: This thing has it all. And it's got a nice
Speaker 1: big screen it's round, it looks like a real watch.
Speaker 1: But I'm using it and all I'm missing the entire
Speaker 1: time is my Apple Watch. And you know, it's really bad.
Speaker 1: When I'm testing something and I actually take it off
Speaker 1: to go back to my regular device in the middle,
Speaker 1: and I just put it back on just to test it.
Speaker 1: That was really bad. That's when I knew I was
Speaker 1: having some trouble with this watch. So bottom line about
Speaker 1: the watch, Okay, Like I said, it's got everything you need.
Speaker 2: It's got the microphone.
Speaker 1: It's got a little speaker so you can take calls
Speaker 1: via Bluetooth. It's got storage for songs, so you can store,
Speaker 1: you know, up to five hundred songs on this thing.
Speaker 1: Transfer process is really slow since it's over Bluetooth. To
Speaker 1: be fair, transfer process is really slow in the Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: you know, but it happens in the background, so does
Speaker 1: it It does on this you know, it happens in
Speaker 1: the background on the one.
Speaker 2: Plus watch as well.
Speaker 1: The Bluetooth was actually really strong. Connection charges really fast.
Speaker 1: The battery does last very long, up to two weeks,
Speaker 1: I'd say a week if you're doing a lot of
Speaker 1: fitness tracking. Now about all those censors. The fitness tracking
Speaker 1: was a mixed bag because I took a run that
Speaker 1: I typically take over and over and over, and it
Speaker 1: was like a third alright, let's see it said it
Speaker 1: was probably like two miles.
Speaker 2: Versus like four that it's typically.
Speaker 1: So the GPS data was not very good, and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, is that because I didn't have the
Speaker 1: phone with me? But you're not supposed to have you
Speaker 1: don't need the phone with you.
Speaker 2: I do something wrong.
Speaker 1: So again you just start thinking because there's nothing out
Speaker 1: there about this watch. You know, I'm reviewing it before
Speaker 1: anyone writes anything about it. So I'm just like, okay.
Speaker 1: The heart rate monitoring, I had it. You know, I
Speaker 1: took a cycle class the Peloton and I had the
Speaker 1: one plus watch next to the Apple Watch. They both
Speaker 1: seem to have the same heart rate, so that was good.
Speaker 1: But then it's like, you know, the automatic tracking work.
Speaker 1: It flipped on eight minutes into a walk, which is
Speaker 1: just like the Apple Watch. You start walking, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes later, I'll say, hey, you're taking
Speaker 1: a walk. You want to record it? Sure, it's IP
Speaker 1: sixty eight water resistant. So again all these things are
Speaker 1: like perfect. I'm like this could be the perfect Android
Speaker 1: smart watch, and after a week with it, I'm just like, ah,
Speaker 1: I you know, here's where the trouble started. I could
Speaker 1: not figure out, for the life of me how to
Speaker 1: change the time to twelve hour time versus twenty four
Speaker 1: hour and I email one plus finally and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that'll be a future software update. No, you can't have
Speaker 1: a watch that doesn't really work with the time. I understand.
Speaker 1: And you can say.
Speaker 2: Rich can't use military time.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, get with it, buddy, No, I
Speaker 1: don't use military time.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't love it because I don't use it,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate it. And you know, my brother is
Speaker 1: a big believer in military time, and it's annoying when
Speaker 1: you're not.
Speaker 2: A military type.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to you know, fourteen fifty seven Now,
Speaker 1: I know that's two fifty seven because I've been using
Speaker 1: the one plus watch. The saving grace is that the
Speaker 1: data from the watch goes into the Google fit app,
Speaker 1: which does slice and dice the data.
Speaker 2: And it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, everything on there was very good, so except
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if the reading's were accurate. So long
Speaker 1: story short, when the reviews came out and I saw
Speaker 1: what other people were saying about it. We all felt
Speaker 1: about the same way. It's beautiful hardware, It's got a
Speaker 1: lot of sensors. The software is just not there. The
Speaker 1: accuracy doesn't seem to be there. Could it be fixed
Speaker 1: with software updates?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 1: Could you somehow add the ability to reply to notifications?
Speaker 2: I hope so.
Speaker 1: Could you somehow add the ability to make it light
Speaker 1: up brighter when you're in the sun?
Speaker 2: I hope? So?
Speaker 1: Could you make it so you can tap the screen
Speaker 1: to turn it on because it doesn't always turn on
Speaker 1: when you lift.
Speaker 2: It, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's like all these little things one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty nine bucks available now. I'd wait to see if
Speaker 1: you know, this thing gets some software updates that makes
Speaker 1: it a little bit more usable and functional for daily use.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: First question of the day comes from Gil. Gil says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts about cybersecurity for devices like Norton
Speaker 1: three sixty? Is it worth looking into and possibly obtaining? Thanks?
Speaker 2: Gil, have a magical day. You know.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a little heavy handed with the
Speaker 1: Norton three sixty stuff. I feel like when you install
Speaker 1: that on your machine. It just kind of takes over everything.
Speaker 1: And I think Norton is a good company. I think
Speaker 1: that they do have security front of mine. They've got
Speaker 1: great folks that are researching stuff. But I feel like
Speaker 1: their approach is a little heavy handed when it comes
Speaker 1: to the amount of things that they want you to do,
Speaker 1: and the amount of pricing, and the amount of programs
Speaker 1: and the amount of you know, there's just so much
Speaker 1: going on. So personally, what I would do on iPhone,
Speaker 1: you don't need anything. So just you know, forget about iPhone.
Speaker 1: You don't You don't need any sort of security on
Speaker 1: the iPhone. It's built in. Believe me. The only thing
Speaker 1: you need to do on the iPhone is make sure
Speaker 1: that you protect yourself from yourself, which means do not
Speaker 1: click links from unknown senders. Don't get curious when you
Speaker 1: see those links that you know you realize they're totally bogused.
Speaker 2: But you're just like, eh, let me click. No, don't click.
Speaker 1: You don't want to do that, So don't click the
Speaker 1: bad links and you'll be fine on the iPhone. Don't
Speaker 1: install software from third parties, which you can't really do
Speaker 1: on the iPhone unless you jail break it. You said,
Speaker 1: don't do that. You know that that's the main thing.
Speaker 1: Don't fall for phishing emails. Those are the main things
Speaker 1: on the iPhone Android I probably if you want to,
Speaker 1: I would, I would definitely look into something for androids,
Speaker 1: so maybe like a malware bytes or in a vast
Speaker 1: and the website I like I've mentioned this before is
Speaker 1: avdashtest dot org and you might have to translate it
Speaker 1: or get it select English as your language. But they've
Speaker 1: got a lot of security choices for Android, for even
Speaker 1: mac Os, which I still don't really think you need,
Speaker 1: but if you're you know, if you want to be
Speaker 1: totally secure, sure, and Windows and then you know there's
Speaker 1: nothing for iPhone, So I would say a vaster AVG
Speaker 1: for the Android phones, a vaster AVG for Windows users,
Speaker 1: and make sure that your Windows what is it called
Speaker 1: defender is up to date, So make sure you go
Speaker 1: into your software updates and make sure Windows Defender.
Speaker 2: Is up to date.
Speaker 1: And then I would also if you want, you can
Speaker 1: run something like malware bytes on your desktop to see
Speaker 1: if it catches anything. But those are the main things
Speaker 1: Gil that I would do personally is just realistically the
Speaker 1: fishing I think phishing emails and any sort of you
Speaker 1: know scams. Those are are much more prevalent right now,
Speaker 1: and I think are the bigger danger than just random
Speaker 1: viruses being downloaded from the web right now. All right,
Speaker 1: good question. So to two big announcements this week? Oh
Speaker 1: do I have a trumpet? Two big announcements this week?
Speaker 1: Apple doing a spring loaded event, and then not to
Speaker 1: be outdone, Samsung sent out an invitation on the very
Speaker 1: same day for their Galaxy Unpacked twenty twenty one. Now
Speaker 1: let's start with Apple. This was interesting because Siri spilled
Speaker 1: the beans on the Apple event. So some smart folks
Speaker 1: at mac Rumor's notice that if you ask Siri, hey,
Speaker 1: when's the next Apple event, she would answer April twentieth
Speaker 1: at Kupertino, go to Apple dot com for more information, And.
Speaker 2: She doesn't really talk like that, but that's my voice
Speaker 2: for her.
Speaker 1: And so it was about, you know, maybe a period
Speaker 1: of eight hours where she was talking about this event
Speaker 1: that nobody had officially heard any word about from Apple,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, right like clockwork, I think,
Speaker 1: nine am on Tuesday of this week, which you could
Speaker 1: be listening to this in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: So what does it matter the time or date.
Speaker 1: But my point is, all of a sudden, journalists like
Speaker 1: myself and media folks and influencers and YouTube stars and
Speaker 1: Instagram amazing folks and anyone else who has a popular
Speaker 1: podcast in whoever Apple seems to like. This week, got
Speaker 1: an email that said, Hey, you're invited. You're invited to
Speaker 1: a public event that is on the internet for all
Speaker 1: to see and share.
Speaker 2: You are invited, Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, thank you Apple, Thank you for inviting
Speaker 1: me to watch a live stream on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Ah you rock.
Speaker 1: I joke because typically these invitations that you get from
Speaker 1: Apple are actually very you feel very special hitting them
Speaker 1: because you know they invite a select group of people
Speaker 1: to their events up in Kupertino. But this is virtual,
Speaker 1: so you know anyone can watch it. And I don't
Speaker 1: get any special treatment than any I don't get a
Speaker 1: front row seat, I don't.
Speaker 2: Get an earlier live stream. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: You know what they should do, Apple free idea for you,
Speaker 1: the journalists that you invite to these virtual events. We
Speaker 1: get a feed that is sixty seconds ahead of everyone else.
Speaker 1: That means we can send out our tweets of all
Speaker 1: the new stuff just a minute before the average person.
Speaker 1: And that gives us a little leg up on everyone else. Right,
Speaker 1: our tweets can go viral because they're they're they're in
Speaker 1: the hopper sixty seconds before everyone else.
Speaker 2: Do you like that idea? I love it? You know everything.
Speaker 1: This one thing I've learned about being a journalist is
Speaker 1: that there's always a VIP section.
Speaker 2: There's always a there's always.
Speaker 1: Something better than what I get buying the regular ticket
Speaker 1: that gives me admission to something. You know, you go
Speaker 1: to a concert, there's always like a meet and greet
Speaker 1: before you go to the you know whatever, there's all
Speaker 1: some sort of VIP. You go to a hotel, you know,
Speaker 1: you stay in a nice room, there's always a nicer room.
Speaker 1: There's always someone that's getting treated just a little bit better.
Speaker 1: And I've noticed that over the years. So anyway, that's
Speaker 1: that's the reality. But anyway, so what are we gonna
Speaker 1: have at this spring loaded event? I mean, what more
Speaker 1: do you want? We've got a good iPhone from Apple?
Speaker 1: Do you really need a new iPad Pro? Do you
Speaker 1: really need a new Apple pencil? Do you really need
Speaker 1: a new iPad Mini?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For the kids. Absolutely, So that I hope they
Speaker 2: have new air tags.
Speaker 1: They've been talking about air tags now for like twenty
Speaker 1: seven years with Apple, so I think the air tags thing.
Speaker 1: I talked about it last week, how they're they're expanding
Speaker 1: that find my with the chipolo. Do you need the
Speaker 1: air tags? But yes, people want their Apple stuff, so
Speaker 1: those are going to be exciting.
Speaker 2: New AirPods.
Speaker 1: I mean, the AirPods are perfect. The airpod's pro or
Speaker 1: just about perfect. New Apple TV. I mean the Apple
Speaker 1: TV is perfect. It's it's like, is it any slower
Speaker 1: than it needs to be to watch Netflix?
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: So what more could they add ak video?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty darn good iOS fourteen point five.
Speaker 1: That would be exciting because we can finally use our
Speaker 1: phone with our mask on and unlock using Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: But again, that only appeals to, you know, the folks
Speaker 1: that have Apple Watch, which a lot of people do.
Speaker 1: You know, New MacBooks, new that kind of stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna have a new MacBook, but
Speaker 1: maybe maybe a new sixteen inch MacBook Pro, which would
Speaker 1: definitely interest me with that M one chip, but I'll
Speaker 1: probably wait till the next generation anyway. So again, it's exciting.
Speaker 1: Apple events are always exciting. It's you know, as a
Speaker 1: tech journalist, when I cover stuff, Apple is king. I
Speaker 1: get the most response from Apple, uh more so than
Speaker 1: anything else I cover anywhere in the world.
Speaker 2: It's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: So now we've got the Samsung Unpacked twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: again virtual event. This is happening on Oh do I
Speaker 1: tell you when the Apple event is. Apple Event is
Speaker 1: happening on April twentieth. So if you're listen to this
Speaker 1: past April twentieth, go go in the past and listen.
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever Galaxy on pack twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: is happening on April twenty eighth, and they say the
Speaker 1: most power.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you the tagline for the Apple event? Yeah,
Speaker 2: spring loaded.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Samsung's is the most powerful Galaxy is coming
Speaker 1: soon now if you ask me as a tech reviewer,
Speaker 1: I just reviewed the most powerful Galaxy. I just sent
Speaker 1: it back, the S twenty one Ultra. I mean, wasn't
Speaker 1: that And by the way, you know these companies, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the deal is with Samsung asking for
Speaker 1: stuff back so quickly. I mean I barely had the
Speaker 1: phone for like thirty days, and it's like, I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to test this thing, and you know, it's like harassment
Speaker 1: almost to get these things back.
Speaker 2: And I get it, you know, like, but can.
Speaker 1: You give me a little bit more time to see
Speaker 1: how this thing evolves and use it just a little
Speaker 1: bit more in different situations. I mean, I might have
Speaker 1: wanted to compare it against the one plus nine pro,
Speaker 1: but I didn't really wasn't able to so.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I digress.
Speaker 1: Yes, um, Most Powerful Galaxy coming soon April twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: So teaser trailer was announced. Some are saying it's like
Speaker 1: Galaxy laptops. It's gotta be foldable phones as well in there, right,
Speaker 1: So that's what we have from Samsung. Most Powerful Galaxy
Speaker 1: that's on April twenty eighth. I will keep track of
Speaker 1: all of these events and of course talk about them
Speaker 1: if I feel like it in a future something. All right,
Speaker 1: long email from Jerome. I'm hoping you can remove my
Speaker 1: confusion inso much. I'm not even sure I can keep
Speaker 1: my question simple, but I'll try. The bottom line, I'm
Speaker 1: spending two hundred and forty dollars per month on DirecTV. Shocked, No, not,
Speaker 1: I was spending that much for a while it should be.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to reduce my monthly bill and look into
Speaker 1: streaming options. I have the top of the package that
Speaker 1: DirecTV offers. It's one ninety a month plus monthly access
Speaker 1: charges for five devices plus service protection. Dude, cancel this today.
Speaker 1: I also pay for sports and movie pack that pushes
Speaker 1: my bill to two forty. I want to lower my
Speaker 1: DirecTV package, return the devices and reduce my cost. I
Speaker 1: have two Apple TV devices, one's the new four K.
Speaker 1: I've downloaded all the apps for programs that we watch.
Speaker 2: They work great.
Speaker 1: In my Direct TV package are the channels that we
Speaker 1: watch and plenty that we do not. As you know,
Speaker 1: the lower the package, the less channels. In some cases,
Speaker 1: after an app after downloading to the Apple, we'll ask
Speaker 1: you for your TV provider. Obviously I entered direct TV.
Speaker 1: I'm often running there.
Speaker 2: Here's the question.
Speaker 1: Do I need to have the programming in order to
Speaker 1: work for the and do I need to have the
Speaker 1: programming in my package in order for it.
Speaker 2: To work on Apple TV?
Speaker 1: Can I switch to the lower packages that may not
Speaker 1: have the channel for the apps I downloaded and will
Speaker 1: still stream thanks in advanced drome. The answer is no, Jerome,
Speaker 1: it will not still stream. So what's happening on the
Speaker 1: back end is it's authenticating that channel. It's saying on
Speaker 1: Apple TV, they're talking to direct TV saying, does Jerome
Speaker 1: is Droome subscribe to because we noticed that Jerome's watching
Speaker 1: a lot of Bravo app And next thing you know,
Speaker 1: Direct TV says, yes, Jerome is subscribed to Bravo and
Speaker 1: you can watch Bravo and miraculously all the stuff streams.
Speaker 1: And they say, now we notice that Droome is watching
Speaker 1: the what's another cable channel? I have no idea because
Speaker 1: I don't watch any of them.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I couldn't even come up with one.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: So another channel, is Jerome authenticated to watch this channel? Yes,
Speaker 1: he has a subscription and that's included, and so yes
Speaker 1: it plays nicely. Now, next thing you know, you downgrade
Speaker 1: your Direct TV and now you don't have the E
Speaker 1: channel and or I don't even know what these channels
Speaker 1: are HGTV. I don't even know. I mean, okay, so
Speaker 1: you got those channels, and it's like, is does Jerome
Speaker 1: have HGTV And it's like, no, he does not, So
Speaker 1: HGTV does not play the programming, so Jerome it will
Speaker 1: not play.
Speaker 2: But here's my advice.
Speaker 1: You don't need all these channel It's two forty a
Speaker 1: month for DirecTV. Oh my gosh, get rid of the devices,
Speaker 1: send them all back, cancel it all. Start from the beginning.
Speaker 1: Now you said you already have all the apps. I
Speaker 1: guarantee you when you start looking at all this stuff,
Speaker 1: number one, you're not even gonna miss half the stuff
Speaker 1: that you're watching.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 1: You can find a service that maybe encompasses half these
Speaker 1: channels or a majority of these channels, like a maybe
Speaker 1: a YouTube TV for like eighty five bucks a month,
Speaker 1: and you might have you might have to buy some
Speaker 1: more streaming devices. If you have five devices for direct TV,
Speaker 1: and you say you have two Apple TVs, so maybe
Speaker 1: you have to buy like two more firesticks at like
Speaker 1: a cost of like thirty bucks each. But get rid
Speaker 1: of all this stuff, be done with the satellite dish,
Speaker 1: and just subscribe as necessary to these different channels. You
Speaker 1: may find that Netflix, and you know a couple other things.
Speaker 1: Hulu might be just fined for what you need. The
Speaker 1: website that I like is called Untangled dot tv that
Speaker 1: will give you kind of a heads up. You type
Speaker 1: in all the shows that you watch. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's the show. I don't know any of this stuff
Speaker 1: because I don't watch any of this TV. So I
Speaker 1: mean Naked and Afraid? Is that still a show?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of stuff that I've seen in passing.
Speaker 1: What's the other one below deck? I mean all these
Speaker 1: shows that, like, you know, people waste their time on.
Speaker 1: I don't know any of them, but people seem to
Speaker 1: love them. Real Housewives don't The Bachelor, I don't know,
Speaker 1: is that.
Speaker 2: A show still?
Speaker 1: So you know, just type in these shows. It'll tell
Speaker 1: you where they're airing, and you know, most of the
Speaker 1: time you can get them. My kids just started watching
Speaker 1: Lego Masters and that's on Hulu. A lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff is on Hulu. I mean, there's only a couple
Speaker 1: companies that own all this stuff anymore. Anyway, I hope
Speaker 1: I answered your question properly, But that's that's my advice.
Speaker 1: Speaking of my kids, Microsoft Edge now has a kid's mode,
Speaker 1: and this is fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's a bit late for the whole.
Speaker 1: At home distance education debacle we've been dealing with for
Speaker 1: the past year. But nonetheless Microsoft Edge. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you haven't switched, fantastic, people love it. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I have not gone back to it. I'm
Speaker 1: still using Chrome. My Chrome was slow for a real while.
Speaker 1: I think I've narrowed it down to grammar Ly, which
Speaker 1: is a plugin that I have which makes things kind
Speaker 1: of slow on Chrome. But I love grammar Ly, so
Speaker 1: I'm not giving it up. But it feels like when
Speaker 1: I disable that, that's when my Chrome speeds up. The
Speaker 1: rest of this stuff doesn't seem to really have an
Speaker 1: effect on it. So anyway, Microsoft Edge, check it out.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's from Microsoft. It's this weird
Speaker 1: kind of full circle. We've gone from like everyone had
Speaker 1: Microsoft back in the day with the Internet Explorer. Then
Speaker 1: Internet Explorer was evil, and everyone downloaded the alternative, which
Speaker 1: was Chrome or you know Netscape Navigator back in the day,
Speaker 1: and now we're going back. Chrome is now evil because
Speaker 1: of the way it tracks you. And now we're back
Speaker 1: to you know, Safari and Microsoft Edge and Brave and
Speaker 1: all these other browsers.
Speaker 2: But it's great.
Speaker 1: We have options, so choose one that works for you.
Speaker 1: Microsoft Edge is a great option. It's actually built on
Speaker 1: the same foundation as Chrome, so it has a lot
Speaker 1: of the same features and extensions, but it's just the
Speaker 1: privacy is just a little more tightened up, the speed
Speaker 1: is a little more tightened up. And they've got some
Speaker 1: really nice features in there, like a reading list feature
Speaker 1: which is really nice, a markup feature for like PDFs,
Speaker 1: which is really nice. So they've got some good stuff
Speaker 1: in there. This is a new one. It's called Kids Mode,
Speaker 1: and so Microsoft says that Kids Mode basically is a
Speaker 1: one click kind of solution to keeping your kids safe online.
Speaker 1: And this is a huge deal with you know, I
Speaker 1: know my kids are always online now with the working
Speaker 1: from are the schooling from home, they're going back a
Speaker 1: little bit, but it's not full time just yet. But
Speaker 1: my one kid has has Edge on his computer and
Speaker 1: he really likes it. He's got he's very advanced with
Speaker 1: this stuff, and so I like the idea of this
Speaker 1: Kid's Mode because you know, what they're saying is fifty
Speaker 1: percent of parents have this handoff scenario, which means, you know,
Speaker 1: you're using your laptop, then all of a sudden you're like, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: here use my laptop, and you hand it off to
Speaker 1: your kid, and now they're on an adult laptop with
Speaker 1: all these things on there that maybe they shouldn't have
Speaker 1: access to, like Google Search for the full search or whatever.
Speaker 1: And so with this one click, you can now put
Speaker 1: them into a kid's mode and immediately it kind of
Speaker 1: locks things down on the Internet. And so you just
Speaker 1: have choose the appropriate age range, which is either five
Speaker 1: to eight or nine to twelve, and that's it. Now
Speaker 1: your kids are in this this kid's mode profile that
Speaker 1: kind of does a bunch of things. It puts on
Speaker 1: the strictest tracking prevention, it blocks the majority of trackers,
Speaker 1: and then it restricts the websites that your kids have
Speaker 1: access to. So from the get go they say there's
Speaker 1: about seventy popular kid sites that are allowed, but you
Speaker 1: can customize the list, and then the kids in the
Speaker 1: older range nine to twelve have like a news feed
Speaker 1: that's appropriate for them. And then there's also fun stuff
Speaker 1: like custom themes like Frozen, Little Mermaid, Finding, Nemo Cars,
Speaker 1: Toy Story, Coco. I can't wait to give this to
Speaker 1: my kid. He's gonna love it, except for the fact
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna block half the website.
Speaker 2: See typically goes to.
Speaker 1: But I love this. I think it's fantastic. The one
Speaker 1: feature I asked Microsoft if they had which they did
Speaker 1: not put in, which as a parent, is the one
Speaker 1: feature we actually need, and that is time limits on
Speaker 1: these websites. So you know that the number one thing
Speaker 1: you want to limit is their time on YouTube, or
Speaker 1: their time on scratch or their time on slither dot io.
Speaker 1: And it does not have that. And I said, you know,
Speaker 1: this is the thing we need. We need the time limits,
Speaker 1: and yeah, they're getting back to me on that. So
Speaker 1: the thing that I'd recommend in the meantime, which we
Speaker 1: use here is called Circle and it's a physical device
Speaker 1: you have to plug into your network. But it's actually
Speaker 1: pretty darn amazing with the with the control you get.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you it's a pain in the you
Speaker 1: know what to set it up. It's a pain, then,
Speaker 1: you know what, for Dad and mom to actually watch
Speaker 1: things that we want to watch when it comes time
Speaker 1: to do that, Like let's say I want to watch
Speaker 1: a YouTube video in the afternoon, Well it's like, sorry,
Speaker 1: YouTube is already timed out for the day because my
Speaker 1: kids have used all the YouTube time. So I have
Speaker 1: to go in and you know, give myself a reward
Speaker 1: of thirty minutes extra of YouTube.
Speaker 2: I mean it's like little things like that.
Speaker 1: Now you might be saying, well, Ranch, I mean, why
Speaker 1: why are you on the same device or kids on? Well,
Speaker 1: if you got a TV in the main living room,
Speaker 1: you gotta lock it down during the day for the kids,
Speaker 1: but then at night you want to unlock it so
Speaker 1: that you can actually watch stuff. So there is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a back and forth with all these things,
Speaker 1: but I like Microsoft's approach. The Kid's Mode is definitely
Speaker 1: something that I think if you're if your kid is
Speaker 1: using a device or your device, you should definitely download
Speaker 1: Edge and switch to it for your kid and just
Speaker 1: give them that little that it's that little peace of mind,
Speaker 1: even if you can't limit the time, just having the access,
Speaker 1: limiting the access to the websites. I don't you know.
Speaker 1: The other thing is like, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: deal is with with Google. I know you can change
Speaker 1: the search on Edge. Of course it defaults to bing,
Speaker 1: but you can change that in the settings. I haven't
Speaker 1: gone hands on with this, so I need to check
Speaker 1: it out to see exactly how it works. Oh, we're
Speaker 1: just on the topic of kids, Paul says, Hey, Rich
Speaker 1: my high school daughter daughter wants to download art full
Speaker 1: app to share her artwork. Are there any other apps
Speaker 1: besides Instagram? I think she has talent. I'm her dad,
Speaker 1: though it doesn't count. Katila is awesome. Thanks Paul. Sent
Speaker 1: from my iPhone. So I have to look up art full.
Speaker 1: It's not art full, it's art full, fol And it's
Speaker 1: an app for artists that is on both Android and iOS.
Speaker 1: And it looks like an Instagram, but for artwork. And
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, Yeah, maybe there's some artists out there
Speaker 1: that know about this, and maybe this thing is amazing,
Speaker 1: and yes, you should probably be.
Speaker 2: On it if you're an artist. But just get her
Speaker 2: on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I mean that that is the place when I think
Speaker 1: about you know, well, there's an app that's specifically for this. Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if the audience is not there. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how great this app is. I get pitches
Speaker 1: all the time for apps that are the better social
Speaker 1: media app, and the free speech social media app, and
Speaker 1: the better video app. It doesn't matter if nobody's there.
Speaker 1: You're you're talking into the woods, you're the echo, nobody
Speaker 1: hears it. So an art I don't know anything, but
Speaker 1: let me look up the let's see how many reviews
Speaker 1: this app has. It's got one hundred thousand installs on
Speaker 1: Android and it's got two hundred and thirty seven ratings
Speaker 1: on iOS. So I don't want to knock Artful because
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's amazing. I'm sure the way they, you know,
Speaker 1: came up with this app is just fantastic. But the
Speaker 1: reality is, let's look up Instagram on iOS and Instagram
Speaker 1: on Android, and I will tell tell you that Instagram
Speaker 1: on iOS and Instagram on Android. Instagram on Android has
Speaker 1: oh one billion installs. Instagram on iOS has twenty million ratings.
Speaker 1: So where do you think your kid's artwork is going
Speaker 1: to be seen more in this world? Instagram or Artful. Now,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, you can put it on both.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any problem with uploading it to
Speaker 1: both of these. But get the audience on Instagram and
Speaker 1: that I know you said besides Instagram. So my answer is.
Speaker 2: Null for you, Paul.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, get on Instagram, build an audience
Speaker 1: on Instagram, and just have her figure out a way
Speaker 1: to build up that audience. She's got to interact with
Speaker 1: people on Instagram. She's got to follow some other folks
Speaker 1: that are sharing similar things. Just build that community. You know,
Speaker 1: Instagram doesn't just show your stuff to other people. You
Speaker 1: have to be a good part of the community for
Speaker 1: it to reward you. And that means spending time on Instagram.
Speaker 1: So spend some time interacting with people, commenting on other
Speaker 1: people's stuff, liking other people's stuff, answering the emails that
Speaker 1: you get or the dms that you get. You got
Speaker 1: to be a good citizen and it will reward you
Speaker 1: by showing your stuff to more people.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Spotify this week released or unveiled their first piece of hardware.
Speaker 1: It's called the car Thing, And at first I was
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh, come on, Spotify, what is this?
Speaker 1: And the more I think about it, the more I
Speaker 1: actually think is kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I take for granted, in my car, I have car
Speaker 1: Play and Android Auto, so it's easy for me to
Speaker 1: have my apps on my dashboard screen. But if you
Speaker 1: have an older car, you don't have that. So Spotify
Speaker 1: was trying to think like, okay, well, what can we
Speaker 1: do to help people that are in older cars that
Speaker 1: may just connect their phone via bluetooth, you know, listen
Speaker 1: to the stuff they want to listen to so car
Speaker 1: thing is. It reminds me of the days of Serious
Speaker 1: when you used to have to get like a specialized
Speaker 1: player in your car, like I forget what they called them,
Speaker 1: but you know, you'd get it installed or you'd do
Speaker 1: it yourself. With an FM transmitter. I always got mine
Speaker 1: installed because that was like my dream. That was me
Speaker 1: living large back in the day when I lived in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Speaker 1: I remember going to Best Buy and paying about three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for someone to install the Serious XM head
Speaker 1: unit whatever it was in my car.
Speaker 2: Now, not the head unit.
Speaker 1: It was a it was an add on piece, but
Speaker 1: you know, cause I had the FM transmitter for so long,
Speaker 1: but now I had it actually installed in my car
Speaker 1: by a professional, and it looked so good. It would
Speaker 1: turn on when my car turned on, it would turn
Speaker 1: off when my car turned off. It would fire right
Speaker 1: into the back of my FM transmitter hardwired into my
Speaker 1: stereo system.
Speaker 2: Oh it was so nice and it sounded oh so good.
Speaker 2: Back then.
Speaker 1: By the way, Serious XM advertised CD quality sound. They
Speaker 1: no longer say that because if you've listened to some
Speaker 1: of the stations on Serious XM, oh they are compressed
Speaker 1: into a way that you would not believe. I mean,
Speaker 1: it sounds like robots talking on some of the higher
Speaker 1: end stations there, some of the higher channels.
Speaker 2: So I always joke my.
Speaker 1: Serious XM app when I'm streaming through there to my
Speaker 1: car sounds better than the Serious XM in my wife's car.
Speaker 1: I don't have it in mind, but it actually like
Speaker 1: if you listen to like kids Bop, that's one of
Speaker 1: the stations I know.
Speaker 2: When you're a parent, these are the things you do.
Speaker 1: Kids Bop sounds better when I'm streaming it through my
Speaker 1: app than it does from the satellite because kids Bop
Speaker 1: is so compressed. It's like, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: They must must be like one. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the compression rate is. What was it used to be,
Speaker 1: like sixty four kilobits per second or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like one. Whatever it is, it's really compressed.
Speaker 1: They can fit more channels anyway. What was I talking about?
Speaker 1: Spotify car thing? So this looks like one of those
Speaker 1: units from you put it on your dashboard, you connect
Speaker 1: it to your power and then it connects your phone
Speaker 1: via Bluetooth, and.
Speaker 2: I think that's how it connects.
Speaker 1: It looks that way, and then they have a screen,
Speaker 1: they have a dial, and then there's four preset buttons,
Speaker 1: so it works in various ways. You can use your voice,
Speaker 1: so you can say hey, Spotify and then ask for
Speaker 1: a song, album, artist, station, playlist, or podcast. There's four microphones,
Speaker 1: so they say it works even when your windows are down.
Speaker 1: Then you have a dial, so you see this little
Speaker 1: screen you can dial to select, pause, play, discover, whatever.
Speaker 1: Then there's also the touch screen, so you can just
Speaker 1: use the touch screen, or there's four preset buttons. Now
Speaker 1: this is when I thought it was pretty cool. The
Speaker 1: preset buttons are pretty darn smart. And so you get
Speaker 1: in your car, you press one of the presets. That
Speaker 1: could be for your podcast, your favorite podcast, that could
Speaker 1: be for your favorite station, that could be for your
Speaker 1: favorite album, favorite whatever. That's pretty cool and so I
Speaker 1: don't know, I love that. So the car thing is free.
Speaker 1: If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you got to
Speaker 1: pay seven dollars for shipping. Now this is not for
Speaker 1: someone who has car play, because they're basically saying no,
Speaker 1: this is for folks that don't have car play. Like
Speaker 1: if you don't have a screen. This is kind of
Speaker 1: the screen in your car, and the idea that Spotify
Speaker 1: says that's sort of faster than trying to use your
Speaker 1: phone screen. Now, yeah, it probably is, but honestly, with
Speaker 1: all the clutter in your car, I would probably get
Speaker 1: a good high quality amount from something like a proclip
Speaker 1: USA and use that to mount your phone and then
Speaker 1: you know, you can control your phone because you can
Speaker 1: see the screen better. So that's what I would do
Speaker 1: PROCLIPUSA dot com and that will you know, it's not free.
Speaker 1: This this Spotify is free, but it's kind of it's
Speaker 1: a big, kind of bulky thing to have in your car.
Speaker 1: I like the preset buttons. I will give it that.
Speaker 1: I wish that the phone screen had that somehow, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't. So anyway, you know, there's a waiting list too,
Speaker 1: by the way, so if you want to get one
Speaker 1: of these things, it's not like you can just order
Speaker 1: on Spotify immediately and get it tomorrow. That's not how
Speaker 1: they're doing it, So be aware. All right, Hey, rich
Speaker 1: I'm inquiring about your opinion on all the photo gadgets
Speaker 1: that flash flash across our Instagram. I have so many
Speaker 1: photos that are not backed up to my computer. I
Speaker 1: would like to get them off my phone and save them.
Speaker 1: I'm in my early seventies, so I'm not keen on
Speaker 1: backing up anymore. I'm interested in the gadget fob that's
Speaker 1: fairly easy use on iPhone. I started following you on
Speaker 1: Instagram several months ago. I also listened to your input
Speaker 1: on KTLA.
Speaker 2: No Facebook here.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Chris B sent for my iPhone. Chris, I've
Speaker 1: got the perfect gadget. It is across the room.
Speaker 2: Shall I go get it? Let me? Let me get
Speaker 2: it so I can talk about it. Hang on, Hang on,
Speaker 2: Chris getting the gadget. Can you still hear me? I'm
Speaker 2: getting the gadget.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've got it right here in front of me,
Speaker 1: and believe me, I will be doing a segment on
Speaker 1: this gadget very soon. It's called the sand Disc I
Speaker 1: expand flash drive. Lucks Lucks Lucks, that's not lucks, but
Speaker 1: I used to have some chimes that would sound like
Speaker 1: a harp, but I don't have them anymore, so.
Speaker 2: That'll be my lucks. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is a brand new gadget just came out and
Speaker 1: it is fantastic and I think it blows away all
Speaker 1: those bogus photo gadgets are advertising on your Instagram feed
Speaker 1: because this is from a legit company, sand Disc. Sand
Speaker 1: Disc knows a thing or two about backing things up
Speaker 1: in storage and hard drives and flash drives and flash
Speaker 1: storage and whatever.
Speaker 2: Now the beauty of this device.
Speaker 1: They've had these before, but this one is brand new
Speaker 1: because it is lightning on. It's a flash drive that
Speaker 1: is lightning on one end and then USBC on the
Speaker 1: other end. The idea is that you plug it into
Speaker 1: your iPhone. It has special software called sand disc I
Speaker 1: expand Drive, which again, the software is going to better
Speaker 1: on this because it is from sand Disk versus some
Speaker 1: random company, and the software has been hit or missed
Speaker 1: in the past, but I think it's gotten better. And
Speaker 1: what you do is you plug this into your phone.
Speaker 1: It'll even say, hey, you got to download the software
Speaker 1: to use this ken do you want to? And you
Speaker 1: say sure, And then you download the software. It says,
Speaker 1: do you want to back up your photos? It'll automatically
Speaker 1: back up your photos from your phone. It'll put them
Speaker 1: on this little drive and you don't have to do
Speaker 1: anything more. You can just keep this drive in a
Speaker 1: safe place or you can then take the other end
Speaker 1: of the drive if you have a USB C computer
Speaker 1: and pop it into your computer and now copy the
Speaker 1: photos onto your computer. Now, I would recommend, and I
Speaker 1: always say this when I talk about photos, you got
Speaker 1: to have them in two places. Got to have them
Speaker 1: in the cloud and somewhere else or sorry, you.
Speaker 2: Gotta have them. Just pick two places, whether.
Speaker 1: That's two physical drives, two cloud places, a cloud place
Speaker 1: and a physical drive, whatever. Just make sure that your device,
Speaker 1: your photos are in two places. So you can if
Speaker 1: you want it to be really wild, Chris, you could
Speaker 1: buy two of these I Expand flash Drive looks. I
Speaker 1: don't know why the music doesn't fit, but you know,
Speaker 1: I got to do something when I say looks or
Speaker 1: uh and then just you know, do this twice and
Speaker 1: you know, back up your photos twice or copy them
Speaker 1: to whatever you got. You get what I'm saying, right,
Speaker 1: So this device is the latest and greatest. They also
Speaker 1: make another it's just called the Sandis I Expand flash Drive.
Speaker 2: I think it's whatever.
Speaker 1: They have a bunch of models, so pick the one
Speaker 1: that's right for you, and that's what I would use.
Speaker 1: It's super easy, it's super simple and if the photos
Speaker 1: are still on your phone, that counts as your first place.
Speaker 1: So if you're not running out of storage on your phone,
Speaker 1: just keep them on your phone and then back them
Speaker 1: up to the flash drive and you are good to go. Chris,
Speaker 1: no more worries. Now you've got this little flash drive.
Speaker 1: Just plug it in every month or every week, whatever,
Speaker 1: and it will figure out which photos it's already copied,
Speaker 1: it'll copy the new one. It's pretty pretty.
Speaker 2: Good, pretty pretty.
Speaker 1: Pretty good for my for my Curb your Enthusiasm friends
Speaker 1: out there. You know, I can never watch HBO ever again.
Speaker 1: Uh after the intro of the and then it's like
Speaker 1: in my mind it's gonna go boom boom boom, But.
Speaker 2: I can't every single show. Now.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's because CURB was like one of the biggest
Speaker 1: shows I watched on Maybe if you watched like Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones, maybe they did something there that you know,
Speaker 1: they're the intro went into the show.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I never watched it, so but for me, whenever I
Speaker 1: see that, it's always forever, forever going to be Curb
Speaker 1: Your Enthusiasm, Doom Doom doomaunna boo boop do I.
Speaker 2: Lose everyone did I lose you yet? Are you still there?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Look, this podcast is called rich on Tech, so you're
Speaker 1: gonna get rich on Tech now. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: rich on Tech and also weird voices and my thoughts
Speaker 1: on things and random diatribes and also conspiracy theories which
Speaker 1: I don't really.
Speaker 2: Share, so I wouldn't really say that. Okay, where are
Speaker 2: we at? Kindle?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the Kindle has gotten the best feature
Speaker 1: in the world. The Kindle can now display book covers
Speaker 1: on the lock screen. I'm gonna give three dings for that,
Speaker 1: because this is quite possibly the feature that has been
Speaker 1: missing from the Kindle forever.
Speaker 2: This comes from goodreader dot com.
Speaker 1: I cannot take responsibility or credit for finding this feature,
Speaker 1: but here is the scenario with me. I am reading
Speaker 1: an amazing book on the Kindle and I can't tell
Speaker 1: you what the name is or who wrote it, or
Speaker 1: what the cover looks like because guess what, I forgot
Speaker 1: two minutes into the book, So people ask me, what
Speaker 1: are you reading?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's really good and it takes me a while to
Speaker 1: figure out what the title is, who the author is.
Speaker 1: And it's because with a typical book you are looking
Speaker 1: at it all the time. It's staring you down the
Speaker 1: eat or down in the face, staring you in your face,
Speaker 1: saying rich, why aren't you reading me? Why are you
Speaker 1: still scrolling Instagram?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, book, let me put my phone down, but
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: It's so tough. Why is it so tough to put
Speaker 2: my phone down? I don't know.
Speaker 1: But now your Kindle can display the book you're currently reading.
Speaker 1: So this is in firmware five point five point thirteen
Speaker 1: point five. So check the firmware. I know you do
Speaker 1: that all the time on your Kindle. No, not really,
Speaker 1: These things just get random updates. But if you want
Speaker 1: this feature, go into your settings, check for an update
Speaker 1: and see if it's five point thirteen point five. Then
Speaker 1: go into your let's see device options, Oh setting menus
Speaker 1: device options, and there's something new that says display cover.
Speaker 1: Make sure it's check marked, and boom, the cover of
Speaker 1: the book you are reading is now showing up on
Speaker 1: the book you are reading.
Speaker 2: Should I say the ebook or the digital device?
Speaker 1: I mean, wow, why did it take so long for this? Well,
Speaker 1: I know, because you know, Amazon sells ad space on
Speaker 1: the front of the kindles, so maybe they didn't want
Speaker 1: this now. The only thing that's unknown right now is
Speaker 1: if it works on the models that have the you know,
Speaker 1: the paid stuff, like if you didn't pay twenty bucks extra.
Speaker 1: So I have a Kindle. I haven't tested it yet.
Speaker 1: I'm going to see if I can get the lock
Speaker 1: screen to work. If it is, I will put a
Speaker 1: little video up on my Instagram at rich On Tech
Speaker 1: or Facebook. You know what I've started to do Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just a martyr for work. So now I've started
Speaker 1: to make videos because it's okay. Here's what the typical
Speaker 1: scenario is. I make a video for you know in
Speaker 1: you know, horizontal, which is good for Facebook, but on
Speaker 1: Instagram they want things to be square or vertical, and
Speaker 1: so if it's square, it's got to be under sixty seconds.
Speaker 1: But if it's vertical, it could be as long as
Speaker 1: I want, which makes my life a heck of a
Speaker 1: lot easier, right because I don't have to sit there
Speaker 1: and try to explain something in sixty seconds or less.
Speaker 1: So now I've gotten to the point where it used
Speaker 1: to take me so much extra energy to like read,
Speaker 1: you know, recut things to work for Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 1: Then I just started recording everything under sixty seconds it's
Speaker 1: Square'm putting them on both. But now I'm like, why
Speaker 1: am I penalizing folks that are watching on a particular
Speaker 1: platform by making, you know, a sixty second square video
Speaker 1: on Facebook when folks on Facebook are much more accustomed
Speaker 1: to watching longer videos, Or why am I not putting
Speaker 1: it full Instagram sixteen by nine vertical on Instagram when
Speaker 1: I can go longer and explain things better. I just
Speaker 1: have to frame it up better anyway, So my point
Speaker 1: is I'm now making double the videos. So yesterday, for instance,
Speaker 1: I was at Lakhma and they have this giant rock
Speaker 1: that's just suspended over a kind of a walkway, and
Speaker 1: I did it you know this standard you know, horizontal way.
Speaker 2: And then I'm like, ah, I want people to be
Speaker 2: able to.
Speaker 1: See I hate posting horizontal videos in Instagram because they're
Speaker 1: too tiny and most you know, you're watching on a
Speaker 1: phone screen. You have to keep that in mind. I
Speaker 1: don't want you to have to watch a video that's horizontal.
Speaker 1: It takes up you know, a tiny portion, a quarter
Speaker 1: of the screen. And why when I've got this giant
Speaker 1: screen to work with, so you got to make it vertical?
Speaker 1: Did I just eat the word vertical? I said vertil vertical.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: We go through all this trouble of learning the English
Speaker 1: language and then we mumble our words, and I'm guilty
Speaker 1: of it. My kid is guilty of it. And I
Speaker 1: keep saying, let's not mumble. We have this beautiful language
Speaker 1: we use. Let's let's let's enunciate.
Speaker 2: And when we talk, the faster we talk the faster.
Speaker 2: Wes to cut off all of these things.
Speaker 1: And these people so understand us because we can talk
Speaker 1: so fast and people understand we're saying, but the reality
Speaker 1: is slow down a nunci eight. So there's this giant
Speaker 1: rock and I ended up recording it horizontal. Then I
Speaker 1: ended up recording it vertical, and guess what. The end
Speaker 1: result is beautiful because folks on Facebook get to watch
Speaker 1: it in this nice horizontal mode. Folks on Instagram can
Speaker 1: see because it uses up the entire screen. Yes, it's vertical,
Speaker 1: so it's a little tougher to frame everything up, but
Speaker 1: you get you know, you get it, and it works.
Speaker 1: And so that's what I've been doing. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what my point was, but I guess I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to do two videos on a Kindle setting because
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that people can see it
Speaker 1: in their native formats. All right, enough about me, All right,
Speaker 1: Tom says, Hey, Rich love KTLA. That's a theme going
Speaker 1: on here. I followed you for several years and now
Speaker 1: listen to your podcast. Oh I better be on my
Speaker 1: best behavior with this answer, because.
Speaker 2: Tom will be listening.
Speaker 1: I accidentally deleted about nine thousand emails while using Outlook
Speaker 1: on my iPad.
Speaker 2: Yes nine.
Speaker 1: Wasn't paying attention to what I did. When I realized it,
Speaker 1: it was too late. Unfortunately, my Outlook settings were to
Speaker 1: mirror email on the server, so I lost everything.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: iCloud offers backups on email, but I need to create
Speaker 1: an iCloud account I stopped, or an iCloud email. I
Speaker 1: stopped at this point because I did not want another email.
Speaker 1: My question is if I create this iCloud account with
Speaker 1: that store a backup of my Earthlink emails.
Speaker 2: I'm open to your suggestions.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Tom, Tom, here's the difference, or here's
Speaker 1: what you need to know. There are two types of
Speaker 1: email account settings. There is pop three and there is
Speaker 1: IMAP and ninety nine percent of the time it used
Speaker 1: to be every email when you would set it up
Speaker 1: on your phone or a device was pop three, and
Speaker 1: so all your emails would get downloaded to that device.
Speaker 1: Any changes you made would not be reflected on the server. Nowadays,
Speaker 1: it's quite the opposite. I would say ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of the time when you go through automatic setup with email,
Speaker 1: it's set up as an imap. An imap reflects the
Speaker 1: changes on the show that you make on your local device.
Speaker 1: So let me give you an example. Let's say I
Speaker 1: have an Earthlink account like you have. I just set
Speaker 1: it up on my iPhone and boom, I'm using my
Speaker 1: email through the native app. I delete an email on
Speaker 1: my phone and I go to the webmail you know,
Speaker 1: webmail dot Earthlink dot net or whatever it is, and
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that email's gone. It's in the trash. Well,
Speaker 1: it's because everything I'm doing on my phone is mirroring
Speaker 1: what I'm doing on the server.
Speaker 2: And so it's a mirror image.
Speaker 1: Now, if I were to change a setting on my
Speaker 1: Earthlink email and I did POP three, well, any changes
Speaker 1: I make on my phone will not be reflected on
Speaker 1: the server. So if I went to the webmail version, oh,
Speaker 1: all the emails I just took an hour to delete
Speaker 1: are still there?
Speaker 2: Now? Why is that? Now?
Speaker 1: For most people, that's kind of annoying because why do
Speaker 1: you want to do your emails twice? But for you,
Speaker 1: if you want to archive all your emails no matter
Speaker 1: what and not delete them accidentally, you would want to
Speaker 1: set this up as pop three. Now. Yeah. The other
Speaker 1: suggestion is to just keep it set up the way
Speaker 1: it is and just manage your emails and don't do
Speaker 1: select all and delete all because now that you know
Speaker 1: the difference, you know that whatever you do on your
Speaker 1: iPad is going to be reflected on your server. So
Speaker 1: that's my advice is to just understand the difference between
Speaker 1: those and just you know, proceed how you want. If
Speaker 1: you want to set it up pop three. The problem
Speaker 1: with that is that you'll eventually run out of storage
Speaker 1: space on your webmail account. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: Earthlink gives you. But if you're only deleting everything locally
Speaker 1: and organizing it locally, a if something were to ever
Speaker 1: change and you, you know, messed up your iPad and whatever,
Speaker 1: all of your work with your email over the years
Speaker 1: would be gone. So like all the emails you delete,
Speaker 1: you'd be like starting fresh. If you ever had to
Speaker 1: re download these things. So I personally just use some IMAP.
Speaker 1: I think it's very you know, it's the most efficient
Speaker 1: way of managing my emails. And I just go through
Speaker 1: delete the trash every once in a while and just
Speaker 1: know that whatever you're doing on your local device is
Speaker 1: being reflected on the other side. And let's see we
Speaker 1: have uh, well, we have time for another question. Warren says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I really enjoy your podcast. You have any recommendations on
Speaker 1: a soundbar for at TCL thirty two S.
Speaker 2: Three oh one TV.
Speaker 1: It seems like the voices are drowned out by background
Speaker 1: music and the commercials are allowed. Hopefully there is one
Speaker 1: remote to control them all.
Speaker 2: Thanks. Warren sent for my iPhone.
Speaker 1: All right, so a TCL thirty two S three oh one,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that that's a Roku TV. Let me look
Speaker 1: this up. Sure enough, Yes, it's a three series Roku
Speaker 1: Smart TV. So what I would recommend is what are
Speaker 1: called the Roku Wireless speakers. And this is fantastic because
Speaker 1: they work with Roku TVs. There are one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty bucks and they are two speakers that are wireless
Speaker 1: and they're specifically made for Roku TVs. So these work
Speaker 1: with a roqu TV. If you have a Roku device,
Speaker 1: doesn't work with them. I know it's complicated. If you
Speaker 1: have like a streaming dongle that you've you've put into
Speaker 1: your TV, that's a Roku not these speakers do not
Speaker 1: work with them. These work with Roku TVs from the factory.
Speaker 1: If you got a TCL TV it's got Roku built in,
Speaker 1: these speakers will work. I recommend them for everyone with
Speaker 1: Roku TV because they are simple, simple, simple, And what.
Speaker 2: Does it say? Look at this?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this this matches up so perfectly, Warren.
Speaker 1: You said, it seems like voices are drowned out by
Speaker 1: background music and the commercials are loud.
Speaker 2: What does it say on.
Speaker 1: The Roku Wireless Speakers website, Immersive Sound for your Roku
Speaker 1: audio system, crisp clear dialogue and quiet's loud commercials. I
Speaker 1: think that sounds like it's a perfect solution. Now, did
Speaker 1: Roku make the dialogue muddy and the commercials loud on purpose?
Speaker 2: You'd buy these speakers?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: This is not a conspiracy theory podcast, but wow, these
Speaker 1: will solve your problems. The reason I like these is.
Speaker 1: They are simple. You plug them in behind your couch
Speaker 1: and boom, you've got two speakers on either side of you,
Speaker 1: and you've got speakers in the front from your TV,
Speaker 1: speakers on the side, or you can put them on
Speaker 1: the side of your TV, however you want to do it,
Speaker 1: but it will work. It's one hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: I would I wonder if these ever go on sale.
Speaker 1: Let's see Amazon. Let's see if they sell them on Amazon.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure they do. They may not, but
Speaker 1: I would do Yep, they do. Okay, so they're on
Speaker 1: Amazon for one fifty and I'm gonna pop them into
Speaker 1: a website called Camel Camel and see if the price
Speaker 1: ever goes down.
Speaker 2: And sure enough, no, the price really.
Speaker 1: Doesn't go down. So just buy them at one fifty.
Speaker 1: That's what I would do, and.
Speaker 2: There you have it.
Speaker 1: Roku wireless speakers is the way to go. That's what
Speaker 1: I would recommend and sticking to it all right.
Speaker 2: One more question. Wow, we got a lot of bonus
Speaker 2: questions here. Jesse.
Speaker 1: Hey, I follow you on Facebook. Is there a one
Speaker 1: site solution or discounts to subscriptions. I'd love to have
Speaker 1: a subscription to the La Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: New York Times, New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs,
Speaker 1: and New Yorker. I'm not rich, so I don't what
Speaker 1: does that mean. I know I can read the New
Speaker 1: York Times through my local library. Thank you, Jesse.
Speaker 2: Jesse.
Speaker 1: I don't know of one site or solution for discounts,
Speaker 1: but I do know that you can get a majority
Speaker 1: of these through.
Speaker 2: Okay, couple ways.
Speaker 1: Number one, I believe the Apple what is it called
Speaker 1: Apple News Plus will get you. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Washington Post is part of it, but I know Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal and La Times? Is Is Washington Post part
Speaker 1: of News Plus?
Speaker 2: Apple? Let's see? Is it? Yes? It is?
Speaker 1: Look at that so yeah, I would Okay, So I
Speaker 1: think Apple News Plus is your solution here, which is
Speaker 1: ten bucks a month, and I would use that. It'll
Speaker 1: give you Wall Street Journal, I think it gives you
Speaker 1: Washington Posts. I know it gives you La Times, New Yorker.
Speaker 1: I believe is in there as well. How do you
Speaker 1: tell if things are in Apple News Plus? Is there
Speaker 1: like a is there a way to like see all
Speaker 1: the publications Apple News Plus? It's probably like already on
Speaker 1: my MacBook. But there should be like a list. Is
Speaker 1: there a list of Oh, there it is, see all publications.
Speaker 1: New Yorker's on there. Uh Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times,
Speaker 1: the Houston Chronicle. You didn't ask for that, uh Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal. I think this is going to be the
Speaker 1: way to go. I mean, this is wow. This has
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I wish I should probably subscribe
Speaker 1: to this. The problem is, I'll tell you why I
Speaker 1: start subscribing to Apple.
Speaker 2: But it used to be called oh my gosh, what
Speaker 2: was the name.
Speaker 1: It was called Texture. That was the second name. But
Speaker 1: there's a name before that, and it was formerly called.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I can't remember this out. You'd think
Speaker 1: you're gonna remember things forever.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: It used to be called Next Issue. Then it was
Speaker 1: called Texture. Now it's Apple Newsplush. I'd love when I
Speaker 1: get a little history lesson into the podcast. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the reason why I stopped subscribing to Texture back in
Speaker 1: the day, and then of course I don't subscribe to
Speaker 1: Apple Plus News Plus is because if you were subscribing
Speaker 1: to three hundred magazines and newspapers, what do you think
Speaker 1: you're doing with every waking moment of your life. You
Speaker 1: are looking at all those magazines and newspapers. There's so
Speaker 1: much good content. So if I was ever gonna read
Speaker 1: a book, I had to, you know, get rid of
Speaker 1: this subscription. Ah, this was a good show. I think
Speaker 1: it was a good show. That's gonna do it for
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