Speaker 1: You can now unlock your iPhone with your Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: dangerous smart doorbells, freezing your webcam on purpose? Plus your
Speaker 1: tech questions answered? What's going on on rich Demiro? And
Speaker 1: this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
Speaker 1: and it is the place right answer the questions that
Speaker 1: you send me. So who am I? The tech reporter
Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. That is where
Speaker 1: I present stories on a wide variety of consumer tech
Speaker 1: topics on a daily basis. I also post stuff to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
Speaker 1: I'm having a lot of fun there lately because, oh,
Speaker 1: let me just tell a quick story. I had no
Speaker 1: idea this book was so impactful. Story. My kid and
Speaker 1: I are in Target and this has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with tech, but we're in Target and my kid sees
Speaker 1: a book that he wants to get two of them.
Speaker 1: One was like a dinosaur book. The other one was
Speaker 1: this book called Love You Forever. And so I get
Speaker 1: him the books and my wife I didn't have a
Speaker 1: chance to read it to him first. My wife read
Speaker 1: it to him the next night or so, and he
Speaker 1: comes into my office the next morning and he just
Speaker 1: puts the book on my desk. He goes, Dad, can
Speaker 1: you please return this? I said, what why? I just
Speaker 1: I don't want it. I didn't know it was so sad.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, So I take the book and
Speaker 1: I you know, at dinner that night, I'm talking to
Speaker 1: my wife about the book, and I'm like, what's the deal.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, just go ahead, try to read it
Speaker 1: to him. So I started reading this book called Love
Speaker 1: You Forever. And let's just say it is nearly impossible
Speaker 1: to get through this book without needing at least a
Speaker 1: box of tissues. And I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: If it's the words, if it's the way it's written,
Speaker 1: if it's the combination of the pictures. But I was like,
Speaker 1: I was, Oh my gosh, it was really really interesting.
Speaker 1: And so I said, wow, if this happened to me,
Speaker 1: I wonder if someone else out there has ever heard
Speaker 1: of this book or had this happen. And I posted
Speaker 1: my Facebook and sure enough, the comments just come flooding in.
Speaker 1: And clearly I was very late to the train with
Speaker 1: with the Love You Forever book. Because it's been around forever.
Speaker 1: People know it, people know it to be a tear
Speaker 1: jerker and just the way it is. So anyway, if
Speaker 1: you really want to challenge yourself, I think there needs
Speaker 1: to be a TikTok challenge with this book because you
Speaker 1: can't make it through the end without If your eyes
Speaker 1: are dry by the end, there might be something wrong
Speaker 1: with you. I'm just saying. So, I think there should
Speaker 1: be a TikTok challenge once these kids discover this book,
Speaker 1: because well they wouldn't be it probably wouldn't affect them,
Speaker 1: but they should give it to their parents. The TikTok
Speaker 1: challenge should be they give this book to their pay parents,
Speaker 1: record them reading it and see how far they get
Speaker 1: before Niagara falls. Anyway, I hope you're having a fantastic day.
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great week and everything's good
Speaker 1: over here. Just really excited about where the future lies
Speaker 1: with this whole pandemic, you know, getting through it. It
Speaker 1: feels like there's a little light at the end of
Speaker 1: the tunnel at this point. I mean, people I know
Speaker 1: that are close to me have gotten the vaccine and
Speaker 1: that is very exciting. And I just the numbers where
Speaker 1: I live in Los Angeles have been dropping, so that's good. Restaurants,
Speaker 1: I got a haircut the other day. Can't believe that
Speaker 1: little ding for the haircut. And anyway, so it's good.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good and I have a lot of hope
Speaker 1: for things getting better. Speaking of the pandemic Apple with
Speaker 1: the iPhone, they're now letting you use your Apple Watch
Speaker 1: as a way to unlock your iPhone. This is a
Speaker 1: new feature coming to iOS fourteen point five, which'll be
Speaker 1: the next version of the mobile operating system. They did
Speaker 1: come out with a beta for developers and a public beta,
Speaker 1: but I don't really recommend that you download the public
Speaker 1: beta unless I don't know. I always find that they're exciting,
Speaker 1: but you know, then you kind of regret it at
Speaker 1: the end of the day because now your phone is
Speaker 1: not on the standard track, and it's you know, unless
Speaker 1: you're a real real techi that it's just it's kind
Speaker 1: of a headache sometimes because there's a little bug that
Speaker 1: affects something that you want to do, it's going to
Speaker 1: be a problem. And so that's for that reason I
Speaker 1: just kind of stay away. I used to do the
Speaker 1: public betas, but I don't really do it anymore. If
Speaker 1: you have a test device, fine, but this new feature
Speaker 1: will allow you to put on a in Settings on
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch or Settings on the iPhone, rather under
Speaker 1: face ID and passcode, you can opt into iPhone unlock
Speaker 1: with Apple Watch, and so the iPhone will recognize when
Speaker 1: you are wearing a mask and you try to unlock
Speaker 1: your iPhone, and it will default to checking to see
Speaker 1: if the Apple Watch is on your wrist. If it's
Speaker 1: on your wrist and it's unlocked, and you haven't removed
Speaker 1: it from your wrist, and you know, I'm sure Apple
Speaker 1: has some little secret security baked into this whole process,
Speaker 1: it will then go ahead and unlock your phone. You'll
Speaker 1: feel a haptic feedback on your watch or on your wrist,
Speaker 1: so that you know that your watch has unlocked your phone.
Speaker 1: I think this is fantastic. It's not a new idea.
Speaker 1: I mean, Android has had this forever. It's smart unlock.
Speaker 1: I mean they've had this forever, forever, forever. But the
Speaker 1: difference here is you know they're using I guess they're
Speaker 1: using Bluetooth to do it. The other thing is that
Speaker 1: this feature already works with the Mac, which I'm not
Speaker 1: even sure it ever works right with me. I sometimes
Speaker 1: it works, sometimes it doesn't. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: even notice. But I had the idea for this last
Speaker 1: month in January, and I tweeted out, I said, you know, Apple,
Speaker 1: and I said exactly this, and so for that reason,
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. Apple. You did what I said.
Speaker 1: And although I'm not going to be downloading it anytime
Speaker 1: soon until the real software comes out, I should say
Speaker 1: the final software comes out, that is exciting because it
Speaker 1: is a pain to type in your password so many times.
Speaker 1: And I noticed this mostly at the grocery store when
Speaker 1: I've got some sort of list on my phone of
Speaker 1: what i want to buy, and I'm constantly unlocking my
Speaker 1: iPhone like with the passcode, and it's kind of a lot.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that let's see here, so Apple
Speaker 1: Pay does not work using this method, so you can't
Speaker 1: be at the checkout and just you know, do Apple
Speaker 1: Pay from your phone. But if you have Apple Pay
Speaker 1: set up on your watch, then you can do it
Speaker 1: that way anyway. So there you have it easier to
Speaker 1: wear a mask and use your iPhone. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to our first question. Let's see here. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: it's not on here. Let me get it here. I
Speaker 1: had to restart my computer because it actually was like
Speaker 1: frozen or something. I don't know what happened. That was
Speaker 1: where I've got all these extensions inslved right now, which
Speaker 1: I think are messing up everything because I'm testing them
Speaker 1: for like these shopping add ons. So I'm doing a
Speaker 1: segment for KTLA or planning a segment about that. So
Speaker 1: I've been testing all these shopping add ons from like,
Speaker 1: you know what is this retail me not or at Tucin.
Speaker 1: I don't know all these other ones anyway. All right,
Speaker 1: Pete says Rich, could you please tell us about this
Speaker 1: new security app total av for iPhones for three dollars
Speaker 1: seems too good to be true. Check on this for
Speaker 1: your followers please. I have an iPhone twelve. Pete. I've
Speaker 1: said this once before and I will say it again.
Speaker 1: Here's my thoughts about total av. You do not need
Speaker 1: this for your iPhone. You do not need it for
Speaker 1: your iPhone. Let me say it one more time. You
Speaker 1: do not need this for your iPhone. Nothing against Total AV.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they make great products, but the fact is,
Speaker 1: there just is not a need for antivirus software on
Speaker 1: an iPhone. Now. The reason I say this is because
Speaker 1: the iPhone's operating system architecture is totally different than something
Speaker 1: like a Windows computer, And even the Mac computer is
Speaker 1: so locked down now that I would actually be surprised.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's more ways into a Mac, but your iPhone,
Speaker 1: there's really only two ways to kind of exploit this
Speaker 1: if you have everything running as the standard kind of
Speaker 1: set up, like if you're not if you're not jail broken,
Speaker 1: you don't have like third party apps that you've sideloaded somehow.
Speaker 1: But really, realistically, the two ways someone could you know,
Speaker 1: hack into your phone is through your messages and I
Speaker 1: Message and then through Safari, and I Message has been
Speaker 1: really really locked down in iOS fourteen, so that's even
Speaker 1: more secure. And then in Safari they do find some
Speaker 1: exploits every once in a while, but again it's not
Speaker 1: something generally that could like take over your whole phone
Speaker 1: unless it's a major, major exploit. So for the average
Speaker 1: person that's just sitting there thinking that they might get
Speaker 1: a virus on their phone, on their iPhone specifically, it
Speaker 1: just doesn't really happen. And so I think when it
Speaker 1: comes comes to the iPhone and this total av I
Speaker 1: just don't think you need it. I think it's a
Speaker 1: lot to do for something that is just it. You're
Speaker 1: paying for something that just doesn't really do much on
Speaker 1: an iPhone because the architecture of the iPhone is that
Speaker 1: a program can't sit there and like constantly scan everything
Speaker 1: that's happening on it because everything is so locked down.
Speaker 1: Let me see how much? What are the features that
Speaker 1: they say, okay, Total av iOS and iPhone app helps
Speaker 1: you keep you safe from online criminals through VPN and
Speaker 1: website filtering, as well as anti fraud and theft services
Speaker 1: such as data breach alerts and Locate Device Location tracker. Well,
Speaker 1: device location is already it's already built into the iPhone
Speaker 1: with find my iPhone, data breach check, webshield, device locator system, security,
Speaker 1: secure search browser. I don't want to use this random
Speaker 1: third party browser. Photo manager, Battery monitor, I mean it
Speaker 1: tells you how much battery I've left on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: Private connection VPN okay, Total av Free, I mean, so
Speaker 1: I just again, I think the main thing here is
Speaker 1: to get you to do that in app purchase for
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that you may not necessarily need
Speaker 1: on your phone. How much are they charging for this
Speaker 1: in app purchase? Fifty three ninety nine for the year.
Speaker 1: So what they do is they get you to get
Speaker 1: the the app, perhaps for free or for three dollars
Speaker 1: like you said, and then next thing you know, they're
Speaker 1: hitting you up for fifty three dollars. So I would say, Pete,
Speaker 1: just skip it. That's my advice until I'm proven wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna do a segment where I talk to
Speaker 1: an iPhone security expert and I'm gonna challenge it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, like, do people need this stuff? I don't
Speaker 1: think they do. That's been my advice for many years now.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking specifically on the iPhone Android, a little
Speaker 1: questionable Mac computers, a little questionable Windows computers. Most of
Speaker 1: the time, I just recommend that you use the built
Speaker 1: in defender program, but specifically iPhones. Like I said, if
Speaker 1: you are not sideloading stuff, I just don't think you
Speaker 1: need this stuff. So good question, Thanks for asking it,
Speaker 1: and hopefully I'll have a segment soon where I get
Speaker 1: answers from an iPhone security expert. Well, you probably heard
Speaker 1: the news this week that Jeff Bezos is stepping down
Speaker 1: from role of CEO at Amazon. He has done some
Speaker 1: amazing things at this company, and this is a company
Speaker 1: that if you could remember, several years ago, people actually
Speaker 1: wondered if Amazon would ever make money. How wild is that?
Speaker 1: And now we've gone from that to an Amazon that
Speaker 1: can deliver almost anything you can imagine to your front
Speaker 1: door in two hours to one day. I mean, we
Speaker 1: have the super speedy delivery because we live in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: and it's just unbelievable how fast things can get to
Speaker 1: your house from Amazon when you live in an area
Speaker 1: that they fully service, where they are fully up and running,
Speaker 1: an area that's still you know, more suburban when they
Speaker 1: get it, when they get into things like you know,
Speaker 1: the little delivery robots and the delivery drones and people
Speaker 1: on bikes. I mean, it's just it's unlimited what this
Speaker 1: company can do right now, there's a lot of momentum
Speaker 1: behind them. It is. If you have an Amazon Prime membership,
Speaker 1: basically that's your shopping search engine. You don't even care
Speaker 1: to look anywhere else. And I found myself trying to
Speaker 1: look for things in other places. You know, if I'm
Speaker 1: buying a TV, or if I'm buying anything, but if
Speaker 1: it's something that's pretty simple and I know that it's
Speaker 1: going to be on Amazon, that's pretty much where I go,
Speaker 1: and I remember when Amazon Prime first came out, it
Speaker 1: was I think it was fifty nine bucks, maybe it
Speaker 1: was even less. But now it's up to I think
Speaker 1: one point thirty nine or something like that. But it's
Speaker 1: well worth it. People over last they said one hundred
Speaker 1: million people pay for that. Just that alone is amazing.
Speaker 1: In his letter to employees, Jeff says, the journey began
Speaker 1: twenty seven years ago. Amazon was just an idea. It
Speaker 1: had no name. Now they employ one point three million people.
Speaker 1: Invention is the root of our success. We pioneered customer reviews,
Speaker 1: one click personalized recommendations, which I still don't think they're
Speaker 1: there just yet. I still think there is a huge
Speaker 1: opportunity on Amazon to upsell folks with more recommendations based
Speaker 1: on what they are, what they've purchased in the past,
Speaker 1: and things like that. I don't see a lot of that.
Speaker 1: When I shop on Amazon, I basically buy the stuff
Speaker 1: that I come in for and that's it. Prime shipping,
Speaker 1: walk out shopping, Climate, Pledge, Kindle, Alexa, Marketplace, I mean
Speaker 1: so many things not to mention Aws. Now they have
Speaker 1: a new person stepping in to become CEO. Andy Jasse
Speaker 1: and you know, Jeff Bezos is still going to be
Speaker 1: on the executive board or let's see what's he going
Speaker 1: to yeah, chief of the Amazon chriff of the Amazon board.
Speaker 1: He said. The thing is, you know, being CEO of
Speaker 1: Amazon is a very big responsibility. It consumes you twenty
Speaker 1: four and he wants to spend his time on other
Speaker 1: things like you know, his fund, Blue Origin, all the
Speaker 1: space stuff, the Washington Post and some other things he
Speaker 1: has going on. But he thinks Amazon's going to continue
Speaker 1: to figure out new and exciting ways of doing things.
Speaker 1: And it's always scary when the figurehead leaves a company
Speaker 1: like this. I mean, yes, he'll still be involved. But
Speaker 1: you know how much of this came from him? I
Speaker 1: don't know. At the beginning, sure a lot of it.
Speaker 1: But as it goes on, did it come from him
Speaker 1: or does it come from committees and ideas? Who knows?
Speaker 1: I guess time will tell. But my favorite is the
Speaker 1: last lines of his letter. He said, keep inventing. Don't
Speaker 1: despair when at first the idea looks crazy, Remember to wander,
Speaker 1: let curiosity be your compass. It remains day one and
Speaker 1: I shared a note about this on my social media.
Speaker 1: It remains. Day one is just so powerful. Imagine I've
Speaker 1: been doing my job at KTLA for ten years now,
Speaker 1: and if I think of the next couple of years
Speaker 1: as today is day one, imagine what that does for
Speaker 1: your thinking. You have a fresh outlook on things. This
Speaker 1: podcast is the first podcast, and how would you do
Speaker 1: it differently if you were just coming into this versus
Speaker 1: doing it for two hundred episodes? So I thought that
Speaker 1: was really powerful and it really resonated. And one of
Speaker 1: these days I'm going to print out all these little
Speaker 1: things that I clipped from Instagram, all these little inspirational quotes.
Speaker 1: I want to put them in my office because they're
Speaker 1: only inspirational if you look at them and you reference
Speaker 1: them right. Otherwise you kind of forget about them. But
Speaker 1: it really does do a lot. I love the inspirational stuff,
Speaker 1: even if I find inspiration of things. I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: seek out inspirational quotes, but I do find things inspiring
Speaker 1: and those are the best kind for me, all right.
Speaker 1: Thomas writes in Hey, Rich, I love your show. Thank
Speaker 1: you for providing such great information. I want to select
Speaker 1: and print one hundred family images for each year starting
Speaker 1: in twenty ten. I am worried that they will eventually
Speaker 1: be lost in the cloud if I print them and
Speaker 1: put them in albums. Should I buy a printer and
Speaker 1: print them myself or should I use the service like
Speaker 1: Shutterfly Nation's photo lab at Arama. The factors I want
Speaker 1: to consider are quality, durability, cost, time, investment, ease of use,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for your guidance, best Thomas
Speaker 1: Wow durability fifty years. I think that you should. I
Speaker 1: don't think I would go the printer route. If you're gonna, well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna print hundred images each year, you don't say that,
Speaker 1: you don't really say what size these pictures are gonna be.
Speaker 1: I would think that you should probably just go with
Speaker 1: a printing lab because since you are doing so many pictures,
Speaker 1: I think it's probably easiest to just do that. So
Speaker 1: at Arama I have gotten pictures printed from because they
Speaker 1: did a unique size that I needed and I was
Speaker 1: very impressed because they are a photo company, a camera company,
Speaker 1: and so I thought they did a really great job.
Speaker 1: I forget what I ordered from there, so you know,
Speaker 1: I would definitely I would go with one of these systems,
Speaker 1: you know, like the adder. Where is the Adorama Prints.
Speaker 1: Let's see, there we go photo printing. So uh oh
Speaker 1: they oh wow, well maybe they use Okay, they call
Speaker 1: it printiq p R I n T I q U E,
Speaker 1: And so I think I'd go with something I would test.
Speaker 1: Here's what I would do personally, I would try about
Speaker 1: three of these services myself and see which one I'm
Speaker 1: most impressed with. So pick the same picture and upload
Speaker 1: it to you know, this, uh printique. I would upload
Speaker 1: it to like a Shutterfly and Nation's photo Lab I'm
Speaker 1: not as familiar with, but I would upload it to that.
Speaker 1: Now here's the other thing you can do, And this
Speaker 1: is a great search just to know in general. But
Speaker 1: if you type in Shutterfly into the search engine, you
Speaker 1: type and Shutterfly versus, and this will give you a
Speaker 1: whole list of similar printing places. I guess. So upcome Snapfish, MPIs,
Speaker 1: mixed book, Nations, photo Lab, chat books. Now some of
Speaker 1: these are actually oh, Amazon Photos, let's not forget about
Speaker 1: that one. So some of these are more for photo books.
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure if you're you say you're gonna
Speaker 1: put them an album, So I'm guessing you just want
Speaker 1: the pictures. So that's what I would do so, I
Speaker 1: would look up Nations Photo Lab versus and that should
Speaker 1: bring up more of the professional ones, which is MPIs
Speaker 1: or Shutterfly. And we all know that Costco recently, or
Speaker 1: you maybe you don't know, but Costco recently stopped doing
Speaker 1: their in store printing. But of course you can still
Speaker 1: print not in store, you know, you can mail or
Speaker 1: upload things to them. But once you get the pictures
Speaker 1: back from these various services, I would analyze them, see
Speaker 1: which one you like the best, see which one has
Speaker 1: the best mix of quality and also the price that
Speaker 1: you pay for it, and then go from there and
Speaker 1: also look on their website at their FAQs and see
Speaker 1: how long they say their pictures are going to last. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, to me, it seems like, you know, the
Speaker 1: printed pictures last pretty long. I think if you're going
Speaker 1: the printer route, like a printer that you'd use at home,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have all that information on the printer
Speaker 1: itself when you purchase it, how long these pictures are
Speaker 1: expected to last. And what you're talking about doing I've
Speaker 1: wanted to do as well for many many years. I
Speaker 1: always say I want to print, you know, a bunch
Speaker 1: of pictures and put them in albums, and I want
Speaker 1: to do this once for every month, so you know,
Speaker 1: like January twenty twenty one, it's a great month to
Speaker 1: start and just pick out, you know, a bunch of
Speaker 1: pictures and print them and put them on your on
Speaker 1: your you know, shelf at home, and then when people
Speaker 1: come over, when people start coming over again, it's such
Speaker 1: a natural thing for people to just pull this off
Speaker 1: your coffee table or off a shelf and just start
Speaker 1: flipping through all your great pictures. Now, I know Google
Speaker 1: will do this for you automatically. I believe they will
Speaker 1: pick a bunch of pictures out of your Google Photos
Speaker 1: and automatically send them to you. I haven't tested this,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if you can go in and
Speaker 1: kind of switch things out before you print them. But
Speaker 1: I also know that you can just say, like, hey,
Speaker 1: make me a photo book. I mean, the photo printing
Speaker 1: on Amazon Is or on Google Photos is pretty elaborate,
Speaker 1: and they're using AI to pick your pictures, so I
Speaker 1: would also check into that one. All right, good question,
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, maybe I'll do that one of these days,
Speaker 1: because I used to print pictures a lot and I
Speaker 1: just kind of stopped, all right, let's get to some
Speaker 1: of the rumor mill news. I don't typically do a
Speaker 1: lot of rumor mill stuff just because, you know, I
Speaker 1: try to make this show something of news you can use,
Speaker 1: like I like it to be informative, but like you know,
Speaker 1: helpful for your life. And all the Apple rumors in
Speaker 1: the world, there are so many podcasts dedicated to them,
Speaker 1: and that's fine if you want to keep up with
Speaker 1: all the rumors, that's great. Personally, you know, I keep
Speaker 1: an eye on the rumors, but this show is not
Speaker 1: about rumors. It's about real life stuff. And the problem is,
Speaker 1: you know, there are some things that just bubble up
Speaker 1: to a place where you have to talk about them,
Speaker 1: and this Apple Car has sort of gotten to that
Speaker 1: place because we just keep hearing so much about the
Speaker 1: Apple Car. I'm not going to spend a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of time on it. But CNBC reporting that Apple is
Speaker 1: going to sign a deal or has sign a deal,
Speaker 1: or is very close to signing a deal with Hyundai
Speaker 1: Kia and they're going to make the Apple Car at
Speaker 1: their plant in Georgia. And this is a multi billion
Speaker 1: dollar deal. It's not just a Kia or a Hyundai.
Speaker 1: That's sort of branded as Apple, and it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of like remember when the iPhone came out, and you
Speaker 1: know they use fox con to manufacture it, but AT
Speaker 1: and T was kind of the carrier. So imagine that
Speaker 1: Hyundai Kia. Their technology is the base of this car,
Speaker 1: but Apple is the developer and the designer, and they
Speaker 1: kind of dictate everything except for maybe how the car goes, right,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I mean, we'll see, but the production
Speaker 1: they're saying is maybe gonna happen in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: And you know, this could be big for Apple if
Speaker 1: they if they capture a bit of the market place
Speaker 1: because it you know, cars are a huge market, and
Speaker 1: you know it has all the inklings of an Apple product. Right.
Speaker 1: It's a thing that people would like to be done better.
Speaker 1: It's a thing that could be electric, it's a thing
Speaker 1: that could be high tech. It's a thing that you
Speaker 1: upgrade all the time. I mean, look at the least
Speaker 1: the phone least people lease their phones all the time.
Speaker 1: Now they can lease their cars. I mean they're already
Speaker 1: doing that too. So it has all the markings of
Speaker 1: a of an area that's ripe for disruption. But cars
Speaker 1: have been very tricky and Tesla I think has done
Speaker 1: a good job of disrupting. But and I think Apple
Speaker 1: can do it given the base they have and the
Speaker 1: money they have. But it's not like an overnight done deal.
Speaker 1: But with all that said, would I buy an Apple Car? Probably?
Speaker 1: In fact, I've been saving up for a Tesla, and
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I'll just wait. I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: wait a little bit longer to purchase. But if I did,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe I'll just wait till twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: when one of these comes out. The only problem is
Speaker 1: buried inside all these headlines it says the Apple car,
Speaker 1: the Apple car, the Apple car is the fact that
Speaker 1: the first generation Apple car might only be for delivery companies.
Speaker 1: They say it's going to be fully autonomous, which I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see. I mean, there's a lot to
Speaker 1: unpack with the Apple Car. But again, this is why
Speaker 1: I don't do too many rumors, because it could happen,
Speaker 1: it could never happen, and it could happen completely differently
Speaker 1: than whateveryone's reporting. All Right, Tammy says, Hello, I was
Speaker 1: wondering how I can control what my son does or sees,
Speaker 1: or how much time he spends on his iPhone. I
Speaker 1: have an app called kids Lock, but I'm not very
Speaker 1: happy with it, and Tammy, the reason you're probably not
Speaker 1: very happy with it is because it's tough to lock
Speaker 1: down things on the iPhone. I'm assuming again with the iPhone,
Speaker 1: it's very tricky. On Android, you can do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: Developers can make whatever you want happen. On iPhone, it's
Speaker 1: very tricky because there are very specific rules and regulations
Speaker 1: that developers have to abide by when it comes to
Speaker 1: the way that the apps interact with the rest of
Speaker 1: the phone. So I'm guessing that this app does everything
Speaker 1: through a VPN if I had to guess, because on
Speaker 1: the iPhone you can't just have an app come in
Speaker 1: and say, oh, we're going to restrict your time on YouTube,
Speaker 1: We're going to restrict your calls and text. It just
Speaker 1: really can't do that kind of stuff as far as
Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, kids Block does not block basic functions
Speaker 1: like calling and texting. So if you can't block that,
Speaker 1: how can you really be called a kids lock, Right,
Speaker 1: So I think this must use a VPN. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: some I'm guessing anyway, So what I use at my house,
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you what I use. I use a
Speaker 1: combination of things. I use screen time, which I think
Speaker 1: is probably your best bet if you're on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: If your kid is on the iPhone, and it just
Speaker 1: takes a little bit of set up, you put them
Speaker 1: on the family plan, you set it up. You can
Speaker 1: do it all from your phone and then it just
Speaker 1: carries over to their device, and you can give them
Speaker 1: a certain amount of time for websites. You can give
Speaker 1: them a certain amount of time for apps. You can
Speaker 1: make down time, which means you know your kid can't
Speaker 1: do certain things at certain times. You can block all
Speaker 1: websites except for ones that you approve. So maybe you
Speaker 1: only want PBS kids to be available, you can do that,
Speaker 1: or you can say I only want Apple approved dumb
Speaker 1: you know, kid sites, or you can say block adult sites.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to do, you can pretty much do it.
Speaker 1: The main thing that you can't do, and I find
Speaker 1: that this is the toughest thing, is that, well you
Speaker 1: can you can sign you can assign time limits for apps,
Speaker 1: like for YouTube. But if your kid is like mine,
Speaker 1: they use a combination of things. Like my kids also
Speaker 1: use a computer and they also use a TV, So
Speaker 1: I use a thing called Circle, which can do these
Speaker 1: things across everything. So it can it can put time
Speaker 1: limits across everything. It can you know, block out apps,
Speaker 1: it can block out certain you know, anything you want,
Speaker 1: and your opportunities are unlimited with Circle. But Circle is
Speaker 1: a device that physically plugs into your network and controls
Speaker 1: it that way. And so you do have to pay.
Speaker 1: It's like one hundred bucks one hundred and twenty bucks,
Speaker 1: but you get a year free and then after that
Speaker 1: you have to pay for the service. But I find
Speaker 1: that if you want the most control, you got to
Speaker 1: go with Circle, because, like in my house, sometimes we
Speaker 1: go through times where we completely block YouTube where it
Speaker 1: is just no dice, you can't get onto it, and
Speaker 1: you can just do that. We can also limit the
Speaker 1: time on YouTube across all their devices. So let's say
Speaker 1: they spend fifteen minutes on their iPad watching YouTube, and
Speaker 1: then you know, fifteen minutes in the bedroom watching YouTube,
Speaker 1: and then fifteen minutes on the main TV watching YouTube.
Speaker 1: It will be smart enough to add all that time
Speaker 1: up to be to reach their forty five minute limit. Now,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of downsides to this, and believe me,
Speaker 1: I'm always giving my kids more time extra time, screen time.
Speaker 1: You know, everything shuts down at six pm, so they
Speaker 1: give me a hard time for that. It is not easy.
Speaker 1: You know, the more you lock this stuff down, the
Speaker 1: more it does affect you as a parent because you
Speaker 1: have to then spend the time to unlock it or
Speaker 1: give them more time when they run out or when
Speaker 1: you know, on a weekend or something. So and it
Speaker 1: does take a lot of time to set up. But
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, the easiest
Speaker 1: thing to do is just to start with screen time
Speaker 1: and if that doesn't do what you need, then you
Speaker 1: move on into some other aspects of limiting this stuff.
Speaker 1: But believe me, it is a struggle. Even in my home,
Speaker 1: we have effectively blocked roadblocks completely and you know, the
Speaker 1: rest of the stuff is all timed out. But believe me,
Speaker 1: my kids get around it. What they've done now is,
Speaker 1: you know, since YouTube is timed on all the main
Speaker 1: TVs and all their computers, they now watch YouTube on
Speaker 1: the smart displays and so they'll just they'll just sit
Speaker 1: in one in front of one of the smart displays
Speaker 1: because we don't have those timed out. And the problem
Speaker 1: is if I time out the smart displays and put
Speaker 1: them under their profiles. Now, Dad can't look at a
Speaker 1: YouTube video on the smart display when I need to
Speaker 1: see how to chop an onion or something. So it is.
Speaker 1: It is a struggle, and it's really tricky and complicated.
Speaker 1: But just know Tammy that you are not the only
Speaker 1: one that is struggling with this stuff. So and I'll
Speaker 1: check into kids Lock a little bit more and see
Speaker 1: what the deal is with that. But it's let's see,
Speaker 1: it's one hundred dollars for lifetime, sixty dollars for a year,
Speaker 1: six dollars for one month. But yeah, there you have
Speaker 1: it all right, Let's move on to Instagram. Instagram is
Speaker 1: rolling out a new feature called recently Deleted and this
Speaker 1: is a feature to help you in two ways. Number One,
Speaker 1: if you delete something mistakenly, you can go back into
Speaker 1: this little folder within thirty days and find it. The
Speaker 1: other thing, and this is interesting, is that if someone
Speaker 1: hacks your account, apparently they delete everything in your account.
Speaker 1: And these instagrammers get really sad because there goes all
Speaker 1: their work, right, all their stuff is gone that they've
Speaker 1: wor on their pretty layouts, all this stuff, and they
Speaker 1: can't get it back even if they happen to regain
Speaker 1: control of their account. So clearly Instagram knows this happens
Speaker 1: all the time, so they are making this recently deleted
Speaker 1: folder where you know, if the hacker comes in and
Speaker 1: they delete everything, it goes into that folder in thirty days,
Speaker 1: and they can't just empty that folder. So to empty it,
Speaker 1: you actually have to somehow verify your identity, and Instagram
Speaker 1: does not say how you verify your identity. But the
Speaker 1: idea here is that let's say you lose access to
Speaker 1: your Instagram account, hacker gets access, they replace all your
Speaker 1: posts with like bitcoin advertisements and flood your feed. You
Speaker 1: get your account back, and now you delete all their
Speaker 1: stuff and now you have nothing. So somehow you will
Speaker 1: say to Instagram, yes, I am who I am, and
Speaker 1: can I please now restore all this stuff? And so
Speaker 1: you can do that. I guess maybe they let you
Speaker 1: restore it, but not permanently delete it. That would make
Speaker 1: more sense, I guess. So to find this, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen this on my phone just yet, but when it's there,
Speaker 1: it'll be under Instagram settings. Account recently deleted and you'll
Speaker 1: have thirty days again to restore things on Instagram. All right,
Speaker 1: let's see Kim says, Hi, my sister and I want
Speaker 1: to get the new iPads eighth generations. Have you heard
Speaker 1: when the ninth generation is coming out and we should wait?
Speaker 1: And it looks like there's a little kissy emoji there
Speaker 1: sent for my iPad. Okay, Kim, okay. So the thing
Speaker 1: I've said this before on the show, but the thing
Speaker 1: that I always look at when it comes to when
Speaker 1: to purchase Apple products. I'm a big believer in the
Speaker 1: fact that you should always purchase Apple products like as
Speaker 1: close to the first day that they come out as possible,
Speaker 1: because apple products have a new life span of about
Speaker 1: a year and then an extended lifespan after that. But
Speaker 1: the fact is you want to get the most bang
Speaker 1: for your buck by getting them in that first year. Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the iPad, the iPad standard iPad,
Speaker 1: if you look on this website buyers Guide dot MacRumors
Speaker 1: dot com, it has all the Apple products listed and
Speaker 1: then how many days since the last release the average
Speaker 1: amount of time until they release a new one. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, iPhone the day since last release, it's been
Speaker 1: one hundred and twelve days since the iPhone twelve came out,
Speaker 1: which you can if you can believe that the average
Speaker 1: is three hundred and seventy one days, which if you
Speaker 1: think about it, yes, there's a new iPhone every single year,
Speaker 1: and so the average is about three hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: one days. Then you have the iPad Air. This was
Speaker 1: released alongside the new I think it was well around
Speaker 1: the new iPhone one hundred and twelve days ago. I
Speaker 1: guess was it the same day? Yeah, I guess it
Speaker 1: was the same day, So iPad Air and average time
Speaker 1: for that is six hundred and thirty five days, So
Speaker 1: that's about two years. So every other year they're releasing
Speaker 1: a new iPad Air. Now the iPad this is the
Speaker 1: one that you're talking about days since release September twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: They did this a little bit before the iPhone. This
Speaker 1: has been one hundred and forty three days. The average
Speaker 1: is five hundred and seventy nine. So I would say
Speaker 1: the answer to your question is go ahead, buy the
Speaker 1: iPad because it doesn't look like we're getting another one
Speaker 1: for about another year. Or I'd guess no. Well, let's
Speaker 1: see five seventy nine minus one forty three, so you
Speaker 1: got four hundred and thirty six days, So you basically
Speaker 1: have a year and a half before the new iPad,
Speaker 1: so I would buy the new iPad or right now.
Speaker 1: That way you get the most use out of it
Speaker 1: before the next one comes out. Again, that website is
Speaker 1: Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com. Let's see, do they
Speaker 1: have anything that's like the longest iPad Mini is probably
Speaker 1: the longest six hundred and ninety days since last release.
Speaker 1: That was March twenty nineteen, so six hundred and ninety days.
Speaker 1: And I think I bought my kids the iPad Mini
Speaker 1: in September twenty sixteen, so that's nine hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two days ago. I do need to upgrade my one
Speaker 1: kid's iPad Mini to a newer model. He keeps bugging
Speaker 1: me about it because he's playing you know, more bigger games.
Speaker 1: But anyway, great website, and that is what I look
Speaker 1: to when I'm looking for those that buying guidance. All right,
Speaker 1: this is a This was kind of a fun thing
Speaker 1: that we talked about on social media on KTLA. But
Speaker 1: you know how you've been in zoom meetings and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, the person freezes or they lock up,
Speaker 1: or their microphone cuts in and out. Well, this is
Speaker 1: a an app that actually does this on purpose. It's
Speaker 1: called Freezing Cam and the founder Kevin Peachee Picky p
Speaker 1: I c c h I peach pick I can't say
Speaker 1: it h Picchi. Let's call Picchi. So Kevin Picchi. He
Speaker 1: made this app. It's called freezing Cam. It's a simple
Speaker 1: app for your Mac computer. And when you're in a
Speaker 1: meeting and you know things are getting a little crazy,
Speaker 1: things are getting a little wide, do you need to
Speaker 1: kind of take a little breather. You can just press
Speaker 1: this freezing cam butt and it will freeze your camera
Speaker 1: or it will stutter your camera so it looks like
Speaker 1: you're having connection issues. In the future, there will be
Speaker 1: an option to mess up with your mic as well.
Speaker 1: This works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, go to
Speaker 1: meeting wherebe or whereby, and WebEx works on mac os
Speaker 1: right now, And he said the idea came from a
Speaker 1: discussion with a bunch of friends who were complaining about
Speaker 1: the hassles of having to turn on their cameras during meetings.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, earlier I read that he said that it
Speaker 1: was him wanting to turn on and off his camera
Speaker 1: during meetings to do random things, you know, like sometimes
Speaker 1: your kid comes nearby and you got to like, you know,
Speaker 1: wish them away or you know, kind of swosh them away,
Speaker 1: and then or they ask you something and you got
Speaker 1: to talk to them. So it's just perfect. You just
Speaker 1: freeze your camera or make it stutter, and you know,
Speaker 1: you can do your business on the side, and then
Speaker 1: you can get back to your meeting and nobody, you know,
Speaker 1: they just assume that you you have a little problem
Speaker 1: with your connection. So again it's called freezing cam. I
Speaker 1: have not downloaded it because the last time I downloaded
Speaker 1: one of these these camera add ons. The way they
Speaker 1: work is that they become a virtual camera for your computer,
Speaker 1: and once you get them on there, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like every time, it's kind of like it sees it
Speaker 1: as its own little webcam. So it could present some
Speaker 1: issues if you're trying to join meetings, and it's always
Speaker 1: going to default to that if you have that going on,
Speaker 1: and sometimes if you forget about it, it's just I
Speaker 1: had one. I downloaded two of these things to test
Speaker 1: them out. One was from Snap and it was like
Speaker 1: their virtual camera, which is really cool, but it you know,
Speaker 1: it takes over your camera every time, and sometimes you'll
Speaker 1: show up as a potato head. And then the second
Speaker 1: one I did was just like Loomy. It was called
Speaker 1: I Think Loomy AI and again it was really cool,
Speaker 1: but I could never get it to work properly, but
Speaker 1: it kept taking over my video camera. And so anyway,
Speaker 1: now I don't use these virtual cams because they can
Speaker 1: mess with your connections and what you need to do.
Speaker 1: So just know that before where you download it, and
Speaker 1: if you have a good way of uninstalling, you know,
Speaker 1: just know, like I use an app called clean my Mac,
Speaker 1: so that's always a good way to get that as well,
Speaker 1: to get those programs out of there when you're done
Speaker 1: using them. All right, let's get to another question from
Speaker 1: uh Karna Happy Sunny Sunday. I love you and watch
Speaker 1: you all the time. I love your advice and your tips.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you could do a review on the
Speaker 1: regular Galaxy S twenty one, not the Ultra. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of upgrading and the Ultra has some great features, but
Speaker 1: it's just too much money for me. I want to
Speaker 1: know how the S twenty one is. Thank you Karina, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you Karina for the email, and you're right. I
Speaker 1: when I did my review on TV of the SAMSUNGS.
Speaker 1: I did the S twenty one Ultra. That's the one
Speaker 1: I primarily concentrated on. The reason for that is because
Speaker 1: I wanted to show off the latest and greatest features
Speaker 1: and features set that Samsung has and I was thinking
Speaker 1: from myself as a power user and to be completely honest.
Speaker 1: Once I did that and in I've here's the thing,
Speaker 1: this is the truth here. So when I'm doing my
Speaker 1: reviews for KTLA, I only have a minute and thirty seconds, right,
Speaker 1: so I do not have a long time to really
Speaker 1: get into the nitty gritty of these devices. So I
Speaker 1: have to do the most top level information that I
Speaker 1: think the average person watching local news needs to know.
Speaker 1: And that gets very, very tricky because I'm a nerd.
Speaker 1: I you know, I know a lot about these devices.
Speaker 1: I use them, I compare them, and I you know,
Speaker 1: but the reality is I need to distill them in
Speaker 1: a way that is super easy and super fast for
Speaker 1: my audience and that fits into my time slot. And
Speaker 1: so that's why generally I'll do more stuff on Facebook
Speaker 1: and social media and you'll see me post about my
Speaker 1: experience with these things along the way, so that if
Speaker 1: you're following me on social or listening to me on
Speaker 1: the podcast or my reviews online, you can actually get
Speaker 1: a bigger picture of what this is all about. Now.
Speaker 1: In years past, with some of these devices, I've often
Speaker 1: done two in one, but I realized that that even
Speaker 1: does a bigger disservice because there's no way that you
Speaker 1: can compare and contrast these two things that quickly, and
Speaker 1: it gets very confusing for the end user because I
Speaker 1: have to say every single time what device I'm referencing.
Speaker 1: She get one hundred times zoom on the Ultra. You
Speaker 1: get a thirty time zoom on the S twenty one,
Speaker 1: and that becomes very confusing after your you know, by
Speaker 1: the time you get through your piece, all you've done
Speaker 1: is say what's on the one and what's on the
Speaker 1: what's not on the other. So with the S twenty
Speaker 1: one Ultra, I decided to do just the S twenty
Speaker 1: one Ultra, and it's it was kind of a disservice
Speaker 1: because I realized after using the S twenty one, that
Speaker 1: is a great phone for the for the typical person
Speaker 1: and not necessarily the power user. In fact, that became
Speaker 1: my favorite phone due to the form factor and the
Speaker 1: size of it. I like the functionality on the S
Speaker 1: twenty one Ultra, but I like the size of the
Speaker 1: S twenty one better. But here's another thing. I can't
Speaker 1: really go ahead and do another segment on KTLA and
Speaker 1: for all my stations on another Samsung phone right after
Speaker 1: I just did a Samsung segment on the S twenty
Speaker 1: one Ultra and then I do an S twenty one
Speaker 1: the next day. It would be very confusing. And also,
Speaker 1: you know that's a lot of It's just it's very,
Speaker 1: very tough, And these are the decisions that you know
Speaker 1: kind of are in the background that I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: talk about in a public way. But as the sort
Speaker 1: of editor in chief of my own segment that goes
Speaker 1: out to all these stations, I have to make the
Speaker 1: best decisions based on what I know to be kind
Speaker 1: of what's happening. And I don't want to do a
Speaker 1: disservice to people out there that do want something that
Speaker 1: is better than the iPhone or comes up more closer
Speaker 1: against the iPhone. The S twenty one I see as
Speaker 1: a very good phone, but it's nothing like groundbreaking compared
Speaker 1: to what's out there, whereas the S twenty one really is.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty fantastic as a device. So that's
Speaker 1: a long, long answer to or long explanation to. The
Speaker 1: simple answer is yes, the S twenty one is perfect.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. I don't have any problems with it. I
Speaker 1: would use it as my daily driver if mainly if
Speaker 1: it had more memory, perhaps because it only has eight gigs,
Speaker 1: which is enough, but I find that I to me,
Speaker 1: I just want the best, and when I'm using the
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve Pro, that's the best, and the Samsung S
Speaker 1: twenty one is not the best that Samsung has to offer.
Speaker 1: The S twenty one Ultra is and I want that
Speaker 1: in the form factor that is convenient to me, and
Speaker 1: the S twenty one Ultra is just not convenient. It's
Speaker 1: so big that I just I want to use it
Speaker 1: and I can't. It's just too big on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: It doesn't fit in my pocket, it doesn't you can't
Speaker 1: hold it comfortably. And so for all those reasons, the
Speaker 1: S twenty one is my favorite, but I just can't
Speaker 1: really bring myself to using it because when I really
Speaker 1: think about it, it's not better than when I get
Speaker 1: off the iPhone twelve Pro, and that is my personal
Speaker 1: experience and my personal situation. For you, if you want
Speaker 1: the if money is the most important thing, what you're saying,
Speaker 1: that's just too much money, then yes, the S twenty
Speaker 1: one is going to be just fantastic and it is
Speaker 1: a great phone. But I'm primarily interested in content creation.
Speaker 1: And again this is inside baseball, but I want to
Speaker 1: be able to do things that are unique and different
Speaker 1: and not necessarily available to everyone. And by the Ultra,
Speaker 1: that's what you get because you get one hundred times
Speaker 1: zoom and all these other cool camera tricks that are
Speaker 1: very unique, and some of the things are not available
Speaker 1: on the iPhone and so even on the iPhone twelve pro.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I'd like to use it, because
Speaker 1: then you have some cool tricks that people look at
Speaker 1: your social media and say, oh, that's cool, how did
Speaker 1: you do that? You know this picture and picture mode
Speaker 1: and things like that. So again that is my situation.
Speaker 1: But for you know, an average person who's just using
Speaker 1: this phone. It's their phone. You're not really cared about
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You're not really interested in trying to
Speaker 1: impress people with fancy, random features like I am. So again,
Speaker 1: S twenty one is a fantastic phone. It's Samsung's best ever,
Speaker 1: not just you know, it's just their best ever. They've
Speaker 1: never made a better phone than that device. And so
Speaker 1: that is a fantastic phone to get, and I highly
Speaker 1: recommend you get it. All Right, I said earlier in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the in the beginning of the podcast,
Speaker 1: that there are some what I say, how did I
Speaker 1: call them? Oh, dangerous smart doorbells. And this is something
Speaker 1: that I've kind of alluded to, but this is some
Speaker 1: security research from Cyberscoop. They talk about vulnerabilities in Genie
Speaker 1: and Mercury branded security cameras and smart doorbells. And I've
Speaker 1: often talked about how when you're looking at Internet of
Speaker 1: Things devices, the smaller companies or the let's say, the
Speaker 1: more inexpensive companies, you know, the stuff that's sold really cheap.
Speaker 1: And I know Mercury specifically because I was at Walmart
Speaker 1: and I bought one of their five dollars smart bulbs.
Speaker 1: But here is kind of the concern in the back
Speaker 1: of my head. And I'm not saying it's always, but
Speaker 1: you think, okay, if these things are selling for really cheap,
Speaker 1: where are they cutting the corners? And in some cases,
Speaker 1: it could be the security of those devices. The software
Speaker 1: might not be as robust when it comes to security,
Speaker 1: it might not be as updated as much as some
Speaker 1: other devices like a ring or you know, a Nest
Speaker 1: camera or maybe like a Google Nest Audio like a
Speaker 1: speaker from them. So you do have to be on
Speaker 1: your guard when it comes to these cheap, cheap devices.
Speaker 1: And so these researchers say that they found some vulnerabilities
Speaker 1: in the Genie and Mercury branded security cameras and smart
Speaker 1: doorbells that would allow hackers to take full control of
Speaker 1: these devices and remotely disabled cameras through a denial of service,
Speaker 1: and some exploits would even allow hackers to gain remote
Speaker 1: access to a video stream of one of the affected doorbells. Now,
Speaker 1: with all this said, the company Genie told these folks
Speaker 1: the cyber Scoop or someone that we have no known
Speaker 1: exploits of any of these vulnerabilities. So a lot of
Speaker 1: times when you hear this scary stuff on the news,
Speaker 1: it's it's researchers that find these vulnerabilities, but they're not
Speaker 1: necessarily tested in the public, Like it's not just happening
Speaker 1: all the time. And you have to keep that in mind. Now,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you should let your guard down. It
Speaker 1: is scary when these vulnerabilities are found because it only
Speaker 1: takes one one hacker to exploit them and to use
Speaker 1: it in a big way to their advantage, and you
Speaker 1: don't want to be on that train. So again, what
Speaker 1: does it come down to. By the way, Mercury spokesperson
Speaker 1: told Cyberscoop that the fixes should be available later this month,
Speaker 1: we're recording this in February, so hopefully by the end
Speaker 1: of February. But again I think this is just more
Speaker 1: of a bigger word to the wise kind of explanation
Speaker 1: is that no matter what, you got to use different
Speaker 1: passwords for things, you got to set up two FO authentication,
Speaker 1: and you have to just more importantly keep in mind
Speaker 1: what you are doing. Any of these smart gadgets that
Speaker 1: you put on your network, if they are exposed or
Speaker 1: if someone has access to them, it could end up
Speaker 1: exposing your entire network. And if you have something like
Speaker 1: I do, like a NASS on my network, and you
Speaker 1: know someone might be able to get access to that,
Speaker 1: So again you have to think down the line of
Speaker 1: what is the repercussion of someone getting access to one
Speaker 1: of my things on my network. So don't let your
Speaker 1: guard down and do what you can to fortify your network. Personally,
Speaker 1: I use a guest network when people come into my home.
Speaker 1: You know, oh, Rich, what's the Wi Fi password? Hold on,
Speaker 1: let me take the two seconds to actually get you
Speaker 1: on my guest network, which is insulated from my regular network,
Speaker 1: so that a you can't go in and change things
Speaker 1: or switch things, or you know, mess with my smart
Speaker 1: home stuff or access my resources on the network. You
Speaker 1: can have your own personal network. You can do whatever
Speaker 1: you need to. And you know, let's say there was
Speaker 1: a some sort of malware or virus on your phone
Speaker 1: that would propagate to my network when you connect, it
Speaker 1: would just stay on the guest network. And that's why
Speaker 1: you have a guest network. So if you have one
Speaker 1: of those on your router, please set it up and
Speaker 1: use it. It's it's a pretty smart thing to do, all right.
Speaker 1: Let's see question from Joe Ann. I have an iPhone eight.
Speaker 1: I want to know what is the easiest way to
Speaker 1: delete duplicate photos in my album? And my answer is
Speaker 1: an app. I feel like I just answered this question
Speaker 1: on another podcast. Maybe I even answered this question. But
Speaker 1: Gemini photos that is the That's the app that I
Speaker 1: would recommend. The main thing I would say is make
Speaker 1: sure that you have a backup of your pictures on
Speaker 1: your computer before you go through and delete these duplicates
Speaker 1: because this you know, it's nice to let these apps
Speaker 1: do things on their own and let them kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, help us and do things in an automated manner.
Speaker 1: But you know, if something ever happened, you don't want
Speaker 1: to lose your picture. So Gemini g E M I
Speaker 1: ni Gemini Photos. I think, let's see how much they
Speaker 1: charge for this app. Well, I can't really tell you
Speaker 1: because it's trying to force me into the app store,
Speaker 1: which I don't want to do. But in general I
Speaker 1: would do I would plug your iPhone into a computer,
Speaker 1: make a complete backup of your iPhone, and then I
Speaker 1: would run Gemini Photos. And a regular listener of the show,
Speaker 1: Tony has pointed out to me that I often talk
Speaker 1: about Google Photos and how you should back your photos
Speaker 1: up to there and then you can clear out space
Speaker 1: on your iPhone by back by using their clear up
Speaker 1: space or clear up storage functionality, which deletes the photos
Speaker 1: off your phone. And Tony was saying, Rich, you know
Speaker 1: you might want to tell people that when you do that,
Speaker 1: it's probably going to delete their pictures out of iCloud
Speaker 1: as well, and that's probably true. I don't use iCloud
Speaker 1: for my photos, so I don't really have a lot
Speaker 1: of experience there, but yes, if I had to think
Speaker 1: about that, if you are let's say you're on an iPhone,
Speaker 1: you save a picture to your iPhone and it's backed
Speaker 1: up to iCloud, and then you clear that picture out
Speaker 1: by uploading it to Google Photos and letting Google Photos
Speaker 1: reclaim your storage, it would delete that picture off your phone,
Speaker 1: which would then in fact delete the picture from iCloud storage.
Speaker 1: So yes, you probably don't want to use Google's automated
Speaker 1: functionality to delete your pictures off your phone. You would
Speaker 1: want to go in and delete them manually, the ones
Speaker 1: that you don't need from your camera roll. But I
Speaker 1: would also say that you probably shouldn't need to do
Speaker 1: that if you're using iCloud photos. There's a feature or
Speaker 1: an option in settings to optimize iPhone storage, So if
Speaker 1: you have that turned on with iCloud, it will offload
Speaker 1: your photos to iCloud and keep little thumbnails on your phone,
Speaker 1: but it'll keep the full rest pictures off on the cloud,
Speaker 1: so that's not taking up space on your phone. And
Speaker 1: then let's say you ever wanted to share one of
Speaker 1: the pictures or whatever, it'll immediately download it back to
Speaker 1: your phone on demand when you need it. I know
Speaker 1: it all sounds very complicated, but yeah, good good delineation.
Speaker 1: Good thing to kind of think about. You know, if
Speaker 1: you're cleaning up your pictures on your phone, you don't
Speaker 1: want to see them go all over the place. Oh
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Speaker 1: I just want to say a quick note, by the way,
Speaker 1: kind of a little goodbye, not to you, but to
Speaker 1: my boss, Jason Ball. He is leaving KTLA. This is
Speaker 1: the person that hired me twelve years ago to do
Speaker 1: a tech job, to do my same job at KKEL,
Speaker 1: and then I moved over to KTLA. It's been ten
Speaker 1: years there and he is leaving on his own accord.
Speaker 1: He is somewhat retiring, figuring out what to do next.
Speaker 1: He has been an inspiration at KTLA. He has let
Speaker 1: me fly. He is let my wings spread out and
Speaker 1: soar there. So thank you Jason for your hands off
Speaker 1: approach to day to day but swooping in when necessary
Speaker 1: to give us the guidance that we so often need
Speaker 1: in this business. So thank you for that. Thank you
Speaker 1: for pushing me to do this podcast and really fighting
Speaker 1: to get it under the KTLA umbrella a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. It's been fantastic. I will miss you, I
Speaker 1: will keep in touch with you, and best of luck
Speaker 1: no matter what is next for you. My name is
Speaker 1: rich Dedimiro. Thanks so much for listening. Stay safe, I
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