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Speaker 1: the book right here, the two week Tech Reset for Kids. Yes,
Speaker 1: many families out there need that. I know that for
Speaker 1: a fact. Well, welcome once again to the show. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining me, and thanks for streaming the first part
Speaker 1: of the show on the KTLA plus app. This week
Speaker 1: took me to Mexico City for a brand new tech show.
Speaker 1: It's called Electronics Home. Now I'm back in the studio,
Speaker 1: but I just got back from Mexico City. Just to
Speaker 1: be clear, it's called Electronics Home. This is the first
Speaker 1: year they did this show. The organizers asked if they
Speaker 1: can bring me down to Mexico City. I said, sure,
Speaker 1: why not. I've never been there before. And I think
Speaker 1: that the more you experience travel and the more you
Speaker 1: experience the world, the better perspective you have on just
Speaker 1: about everything, including technology and personally. I love to travel
Speaker 1: because it always forces me to try new things with
Speaker 1: technology and to check out new gadgets and to just
Speaker 1: see what it's like to make your way around this world.
Speaker 1: The group behind this show has been running a major
Speaker 1: electronics show in Brazil for the past two decades. They
Speaker 1: recently expanded into Argentina and now Mexico City, so they
Speaker 1: have a trifecta of Latin America. Now. The show itself
Speaker 1: was very small, really small, compared to something like CS
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas or IFA in Berlin, both shows that
Speaker 1: I've attended, and it's a start. Now. Many of the
Speaker 1: companies were from China that were exhibiting their products. There
Speaker 1: were a few from Europe and the US as well.
Speaker 1: But the big takeaway for me many but number one,
Speaker 1: Mexico is an emerging market. People there are getting disposable income,
Speaker 1: so more people are spending money. That means opportunity. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Price still matters more than brand for
Speaker 1: a lot of consumers there. That's a challenge if you're
Speaker 1: a premium brand going into a market because think about it,
Speaker 1: why would you spend fifty dollars as a consumer in
Speaker 1: Mexico on a charging cable when you know you can
Speaker 1: get one for five And so that's the challenge of
Speaker 1: these brands here. They're working to educate consumers explaining, hey,
Speaker 1: we've got stuff that's better quality. It means it's going
Speaker 1: to be longer lasting. It's going to be safer for
Speaker 1: your other tech products out there. So that was one
Speaker 1: thing I saw. The other is that some of these brands,
Speaker 1: like a Mofi are doing a sub brand like a
Speaker 1: Mofi Essentials, which is, you know a little bit of
Speaker 1: a I guess like a maybe not lesser quality, but
Speaker 1: it maybe has a few less features than the main
Speaker 1: brands so that they can charge less but still get
Speaker 1: that good brand. Tariffs, of course another hot topic. I
Speaker 1: asked just about every company there about them. Now, these
Speaker 1: companies aren't scared of tariffs in general because they're very
Speaker 1: used to them. Tariffs have been around forever, that is
Speaker 1: not a new concept. What bothered the CEOs and the
Speaker 1: people I spoke with is the unpredictability that they're seeing
Speaker 1: right now. It's really hard to plan when you don't
Speaker 1: know if the tariff is going to be ten percent
Speaker 1: next week or forty percent, and that uncertainty is what's
Speaker 1: leading to a lot of stress, especially as we head
Speaker 1: into the holidays. How much is my pricing going to
Speaker 1: be for a particular product now. As for Mexico City itself,
Speaker 1: I was really impressed. This is a massive historical city
Speaker 1: with lots of energy. I had no idea going there
Speaker 1: that it was like on top of a mountain range
Speaker 1: or whatever, so really high elevation. It's actually higher than Denver,
Speaker 1: over seven thousand feet compared to you know, we know Denver.
Speaker 1: Remember back to great school math. What's a mile hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty feet high mile high city? There you go,
Speaker 1: it's higher than Denver. Now, I felt it only on
Speaker 1: my run. When I took a run and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm breathing heavy. That's when I realized the air was
Speaker 1: really thin. The people are great in Mexico City. The
Speaker 1: food is awesome and your money goes very far there.
Speaker 1: The most expensive meal I think I had was about
Speaker 1: thirty five dollars. That was at it like what I
Speaker 1: would consider a tourist trap. And yes I did try grasshoppers.
Speaker 1: Grasshoppers on guacamole. I don't I mean, look, I had
Speaker 1: to do it. I'm in you know, when in Rome,
Speaker 1: right in this case Mexico City. Let's see what else
Speaker 1: I walked everywhere. I took ubers. They were also cheap.
Speaker 1: I went to the Wahwei store, so they've got their
Speaker 1: version of Rodeo drive. And of course I had to
Speaker 1: check out the Wahwei store because we can't have Huahwei
Speaker 1: here in the US. And I'm not kidding you walk
Speaker 1: into this store. If I blindfolded you and walked you
Speaker 1: into this store and took off the blindfold and I
Speaker 1: said where are you, you would say, oh, I'm in
Speaker 1: an Apple store and wrong answer. No, you were in
Speaker 1: Ahahwei store. It looks identical, like literally someone just came
Speaker 1: here to the US took pictures of the Wahwei store
Speaker 1: or the Apple store and said, yeah, just make that
Speaker 1: and so yes, a little bit of a copycat. But
Speaker 1: the phones, I will tell you, I checked out the
Speaker 1: cameras really impressive. Like it's incredible how many choices of
Speaker 1: smartphones they have in overseas places like Europe and Mexico
Speaker 1: and China compared to the US and the US we
Speaker 1: are pretty much limited to Samsung, Apple, Pixel and Motorola
Speaker 1: is like probably a tiny bit of the market. But
Speaker 1: in other countries you've got all these other brands opo
Speaker 1: zte a SEUs or is it a a sir Huaweih
Speaker 1: of course, I mean really a lot of brands out there.
Speaker 1: But what strikes me every time I travel is just
Speaker 1: how much tech has transformed the game. So I can't
Speaker 1: remember the last time I needed cash in a country
Speaker 1: that I went to. Because you can use tap to
Speaker 1: pay for just about everything, you don't need to trans
Speaker 1: convert your cash anymore. I didn't need a new simcard,
Speaker 1: so I recently switched to a phone plan that now
Speaker 1: includes international roaming, which is really convenient. I don't have
Speaker 1: to do anything, just turn on my phone. Now, you
Speaker 1: do pay more per month, so I do not recommend
Speaker 1: you switch to a plan that has international roaming unless
Speaker 1: you travel abroad a lot. Otherwise you're paying every month
Speaker 1: a little bit more for that, you know, for that service,
Speaker 1: So you don't necessarily need that unless you're traveling a lot.
Speaker 1: And e SIM is a great bet. I tested out
Speaker 1: two of them while I was in Mexico, Aerolow, which
Speaker 1: I've talked about many times on the show, and then
Speaker 1: a new one called Saley s Ai L s A
Speaker 1: I L E Y s A I L E Y
Speaker 1: s AI L why Sale And they both worked great.
Speaker 1: And like I said, Tap to pay is everywhere, so
Speaker 1: use that. Lean on that. Make sure your card, whatever
Speaker 1: card you're using, does not charge foreign transaction fees. So
Speaker 1: an Apple Wallet is something else I figured out. If
Speaker 1: you want to change your default card that pops up
Speaker 1: when you tap to pay, just slide it to the front.
Speaker 1: So literally just press and hold it in your Apple
Speaker 1: Wallet and slide it to the front and that will
Speaker 1: be your default card. Took me a bit to figure
Speaker 1: that one out. Android, you can just go into the
Speaker 1: card and press set as default. Now, when it comes
Speaker 1: to currency conversions, you can also do that right on
Speaker 1: your phone. This was another thing I figured out. On
Speaker 1: the iPhone. You can swipe down and you can just
Speaker 1: type in like two hundred and forty pass and it'll
Speaker 1: convert it instantly into dollar, So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: They also have built in conversions in the Calculator app.
Speaker 1: Look in the lower left hand corner. You tap the
Speaker 1: little calculator icon. It says do conversions. You tap that
Speaker 1: and boom, No need to download anything extra Now an Android,
Speaker 1: I recommend the XE app that'll do conversions pretty easily.
Speaker 1: Other travel tips I picked up add a widget to
Speaker 1: your home screen with your time zone back home to
Speaker 1: make it easy to know what time it is back home.
Speaker 1: Download offline maps before you travel so that you can
Speaker 1: navigate even if you don't have service, Like there may
Speaker 1: come a time when you're going from the airport to
Speaker 1: your hotel and you don't have service or connectivity just
Speaker 1: yet because maybe you haven't gotten your eSIM activated or whatever.
Speaker 1: You might need to navigate download those offline maps. That
Speaker 1: is great. Now the other big thing, and this is
Speaker 1: a really pro tip that I've took me a while
Speaker 1: to figure this one out, but when you go to
Speaker 1: a different country and you search on Google for the
Speaker 1: first time, it's going to change your region to that country.
Speaker 1: And what does that mean? All of your search results
Speaker 1: are going to come up in my case as Mexico
Speaker 1: search results right or whatever country you're in, like you
Speaker 1: might be in Italy and get Italian search results. That's
Speaker 1: not going to be very helpful for you as an American.
Speaker 1: So what you want to do is go into your
Speaker 1: Google account, which is your profile picture upper right hand
Speaker 1: corner of the Google main page, and it'll say settings,
Speaker 1: So you can go manage your Google account and you'll
Speaker 1: see your settings and all you have to search for
Speaker 1: is region settings and once you do that, you can
Speaker 1: search that to your standard. Let me just I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do this as I talk to you here, but yeah,
Speaker 1: as you go into your oh here it is lower
Speaker 1: right hand corner. Sorry, settings, okay, and it says search settings.
Speaker 1: And then you go into let's see where is it
Speaker 1: other settings, and it says language and region and you
Speaker 1: tap that and it says results language filter and results
Speaker 1: region is what you want to change back to the US.
Speaker 1: And I'll put this all on the website so you
Speaker 1: know it. But that is key because otherwise you're gonna
Speaker 1: get all those results for your local area that you're
Speaker 1: not gonna make any sense to you. So change the
Speaker 1: default region to United States, and that way you can
Speaker 1: get your your standard Google results that you like. And yes,
Speaker 1: chat GBT. This is my first major international trip with
Speaker 1: chat GBT and it's incredible. I mean it did everything
Speaker 1: for me, from telling me the neighborhoods to visit to
Speaker 1: the things to do and translating menus. I mean it
Speaker 1: was really great. You know, I love Google's AI mode.
Speaker 1: That did not work in Mexico because I guess it's
Speaker 1: a regional thing here in the US. Still, so I
Speaker 1: ended up using perplexity a lot, which is also excellent.
Speaker 1: So if you're not trying perplexity, check that out. But
Speaker 1: the bottom line. The world indeed feels a lot smaller
Speaker 1: and more accessible than ever, and it is all thanks
Speaker 1: to that little phone in your pocket. Lean on it,
Speaker 1: use it, and with these tips you will be a
Speaker 1: pro traveler. All right. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: about the camera app that I was testing over in
Speaker 1: Mexico City gives your photos a cool film like vibe.
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Speaker 1: get show notes and you can also email me by
Speaker 1: hitting contact up at the top. Let's go to Oscar
Speaker 1: in Winchester, California. Oscar, you are on with Rich. What's up, Hi, Rich?
Speaker 2: I've got a a question about the U in my
Speaker 2: Windows ten desktop. I have Microsoft Outlook that I have
Speaker 2: to have. I got it to go, Daddy, and then
Speaker 2: Microsoft exchange, and uh, I would like to be able
Speaker 2: to uninstall it because their font site on it for
Speaker 2: some reason. Got I think it's when it added, you know,
Speaker 2: one of the AI options or something, and the font
Speaker 2: size got in in uh to the largest and I
Speaker 2: can't get it down. And then right now, also there
Speaker 2: are there's a Microsoft notification that that that is up
Speaker 2: on the screen that stays up that I can't get without,
Speaker 2: so it covers my Outlook screen and I can't get
Speaker 2: to the inbox or anything without this notification coming up.
Speaker 1: So you want to start over or are you? Are
Speaker 1: you going to reinstall Outlook?
Speaker 2: Yeah? The thing, well, let me give you a not more.
Speaker 2: It's it's more like a standalone version of Outlook.
Speaker 1: Right, so you want to get the one from Microsoft,
Speaker 1: the new one.
Speaker 2: It's not right, it's not it's the new version. It's
Speaker 2: not the one that.
Speaker 3: Came in.
Speaker 2: Like I had used to have Office thirteen on there,
Speaker 2: and it's had Outlook that is removed. So now it
Speaker 2: doesn't show in up apps and features. Okay, so it
Speaker 2: doesn't show in the program files or program files eighty six.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well here's what I would do. So it sounds
Speaker 1: like if you don't want to use this Outlook anymore,
Speaker 1: then you want to uninstall it. And that sounds like
Speaker 1: you're going to reinstall the new version of Outlook, which
Speaker 1: you can download from Microsoft as well. They have like
Speaker 1: a free version you can get for Windows. So what
Speaker 1: I would do is you got to go into your
Speaker 1: settings on Windows. So if you go into Settings, just
Speaker 1: type in the search bar add or remove programs, and
Speaker 1: it should bring up System Settings at to remove programs
Speaker 1: and you'll see a list of all of your apps there,
Speaker 1: so it'll say installed apps. And up at the top
Speaker 1: there's a search bar. You can type in Outlook and
Speaker 1: you should find the version of Outlook that you're looking for.
Speaker 1: And so once you do that, you're going to see
Speaker 1: a couple little dots on the right hand side and
Speaker 1: it'll say advanced options or uninstall, and you want to
Speaker 1: just tap that uninstalled. Let it go through the process
Speaker 1: of uninstalling that program from your computer, and then you
Speaker 1: want to restart your computer. And then once you do that,
Speaker 1: then you can go to the Outlook website. Let's see
Speaker 1: here download Microsoft Outlook because there should be a version
Speaker 1: of Outlook you can get for Yeah, the new Outlook
Speaker 1: for Windows so it's free for anyone with Windows, and
Speaker 1: that's a little bit different than the program that you're
Speaker 1: talking about. I think this is more like a consumer
Speaker 1: friendly version of Outlook than the standard ones that used
Speaker 1: to come with the office programs. So you can then
Speaker 1: view that in the Windows Store and you can download
Speaker 1: that for free, and then you'll just have to reconnect
Speaker 1: your email. And typically most email nowadays is all done
Speaker 1: server side, so you should get all your emails in there.
Speaker 1: If you're worried about your emails oscar being in the
Speaker 1: old app, you might want to export those first before
Speaker 1: you uninstall that app, so that way you have access
Speaker 1: to your emails if you need them as a backup.
Speaker 1: But that's what I would do, and then just reinstall
Speaker 1: the new Windows or the new Outlook and you should
Speaker 1: be just fine with that system, and that's fine. That's
Speaker 1: the way to do it. So if you're getting these
Speaker 1: random little things that are happening on your computer and
Speaker 1: it's just not working out for you, get rid of it,
Speaker 1: download the new one, and it's a whole refresh like
Speaker 1: Outlook got a lot friendlier looking, I think than the
Speaker 1: standard old version. And so I use the web version
Speaker 1: of Outlook, which is completely different. But that's just because
Speaker 1: I'm on a Mac most of the day and it's
Speaker 1: just easier for me to do it that way, and
Speaker 1: I have the installed version I do you know, I
Speaker 1: have Outlook for Mac as well. There's just one little
Speaker 1: feature that does not work for me. I've got this
Speaker 1: like distribution list that I send an email to every week,
Speaker 1: and for some reason, the Outlook for Mac does not
Speaker 1: support that. And you know, they keep upgrading it because
Speaker 1: it's brand new, But that's that's the reason I'm not
Speaker 1: using that. Thanks for the call, Oscar, do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight rich one O
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Uh, let me tell you this and then
Speaker 1: we got got to go to a break. But YouTube TV,
Speaker 1: if you are a YouTube TV subscriber, a lot of
Speaker 1: subscribers are seeing a surprise ten dollars discount. So if
Speaker 1: you're paying, remember they raise prices up to like eighty
Speaker 1: three dollars a month. Well, if you're a subscriber and
Speaker 1: you've been a subscriber for a while, I guess they're
Speaker 1: quietly rolling out this ten dollars discount for existing users,
Speaker 1: so that'll bring your price back to seventy three dollars
Speaker 1: for the next six months. So they're not promoting this.
Speaker 1: This is not official, but if you go into your
Speaker 1: YouTube account YouTube tv account, this is if you're paying
Speaker 1: for the streaming service you know with all the TV channels,
Speaker 1: log in on a desktop browser, go into Managed plan
Speaker 1: on the YouTube tv website and the discount might show
Speaker 1: up there as a gift, and if you accept the gift,
Speaker 1: they'll take ten dollars off your account for the next
Speaker 1: six months. So again, if you got YouTube TV, go in,
Speaker 1: log in on a desktop browser, check Managed plan and
Speaker 1: see if you have a ten dollars discount. Eighty to
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Back after this, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O
Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Before the break, we were talking to Oscar about uninstalling
Speaker 1: Outlook on his computer. Turns out it's not showing up
Speaker 1: in that list of ad or remove programs. So when
Speaker 1: that's happening, a couple things it could be. It could
Speaker 1: be that it's part of Microsoft Office Suite, which has
Speaker 1: sounded like Oscar said, so in that case you might
Speaker 1: have to go to the Office Suite and uninstall it.
Speaker 1: That way. There's also a third party program that might
Speaker 1: be able to help. And this is in general, if
Speaker 1: you want to uninstall some of the programs that are
Speaker 1: on your computer that Windows is just not helping you do.
Speaker 1: It's called Revo Uninstaller r e v O Uninstaller, and
Speaker 1: this has a free version which can do some of
Speaker 1: the basics for you. It'll uninstall your apps for free
Speaker 1: Windows apps and a couple other things. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you want kind of the pro version, you might
Speaker 1: have to pay, but I would check out the free
Speaker 1: version and just see if that helps. Let's go to
Speaker 1: let's see Karina in Las Vegas, Krena. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 4: Hi, Rich, Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Well, we used to have an exercise class here where
Speaker 4: I live, and because I'm in a senior community and
Speaker 4: they didn't rehire the gal. Well, I've got all these
Speaker 4: videos that I've taped her classes on they're on my phone.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, but I of course it's taking up so
Speaker 4: much space, So I want to know where's the best
Speaker 4: place and the easiest because I don't want a lot
Speaker 4: a lot of complications of where I can store all
Speaker 4: these videos.
Speaker 1: How much? How much are we talking? Like how much
Speaker 1: are they taking up? And what are you trying to
Speaker 1: give them to her? Or are you trying to just
Speaker 1: keep them?
Speaker 4: I want to save them. I want to save them
Speaker 4: for myself because now that we don't have her here anymore,
Speaker 4: I want to still be able to use them when I'm.
Speaker 5: In the gym.
Speaker 1: Oh I see she still want to like, you still
Speaker 1: want to watch these videos on your phone?
Speaker 4: Well, yes, but I want to put them on another platform.
Speaker 4: I guess that's what you call it, so that it
Speaker 4: won't take up so much space on my phone, because
Speaker 4: I keep getting that message to clear up the storage,
Speaker 4: and it's because, yeah, I've got pictures and videos and
Speaker 4: my grandkids and but right now what's more important is
Speaker 4: these exercise videos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to get rid of these things. It's
Speaker 1: like you can't do anything else on your phone because
Speaker 1: of this. How do you know how much storage these
Speaker 1: photo these videos are taking up? Roughly? Like are we
Speaker 1: talking a gigabyte? Are we talking five? Gigs.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're asking me a question. I said, I don't
Speaker 4: know how to answer that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay. So the main thing is that
Speaker 1: there's a couple. So it sounds to me like you
Speaker 1: want to get these off your phone, but you also
Speaker 1: want to be able to access them on your phone
Speaker 1: in the future, so that if you wanted to refer
Speaker 1: to them, it'd be easy to do that.
Speaker 4: Now, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Now, here's the thing. Are you paying for iCloud storage?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, you're not, Okay, So what I would do is,
Speaker 1: I think, uh Karina, I think the best way to
Speaker 1: do this is to really get a cloud service provider
Speaker 1: where you can upload these photos or these videos and
Speaker 1: then that way you'll still be able to access them,
Speaker 1: but you will have them off your phone. So what
Speaker 1: I would do is look for a provider. There are
Speaker 1: a couple, so it depends on how big these attachments are. Right,
Speaker 1: So if we're talking like a gig or two gigs,
Speaker 1: most of the service providers will give you up to
Speaker 1: like fifteen gigabytes of free storage, depending on the service provider.
Speaker 1: So for instance, if you were to download Dropbox, what
Speaker 1: you could do is you could upload these videos directly
Speaker 1: from your phone to the Dropbox app, and then once
Speaker 1: they're in the Dropbox app, you can delete them off
Speaker 1: your phone. Now, Dropbox gives you two gigabytes of free storage.
Speaker 1: So let me just take a look at the amount
Speaker 1: of space of video is taking up on my phone. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's see. Here's a standard video that's about This
Speaker 1: is about a minute long, and this video is taking
Speaker 1: up about one hundred gigabyte one hundred megabytes. So if
Speaker 1: we're doing the math on there, you know, it depends
Speaker 1: on how much you need. The one that I probably
Speaker 1: recommend is one Drive because they're going to give you
Speaker 1: five gigs of storage for free, and it's pretty easy.
Speaker 1: You could download one Drive, you can sign up and
Speaker 1: that will give you five gigabytes of storage and you
Speaker 1: can keep that on your phone and so you'll still
Speaker 1: have access to these videos. The other one I'm looking
Speaker 1: at is let's see here. So there's a service called
Speaker 1: Pea Cloud which I was testing, and they're going to
Speaker 1: give you ten gigabytes of free storage. And I've tested
Speaker 1: this recently. It's exactly as it sounds. Ten gigabytes is
Speaker 1: pretty good. So maybe start with that one. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: So ten gigabytes for free. And what you would do
Speaker 1: is you would just upload these videos to this this
Speaker 1: pa cloud app, and then once they're on that app safely,
Speaker 1: they'll be in the cloud. You can just delete them
Speaker 1: off of your phone and they will still live in
Speaker 1: the cloud. So that's the way I do it. And
Speaker 1: then you can access them at any time through this
Speaker 1: app on your phone, and it's very easy. I've tried
Speaker 1: this and it's pretty simple to do, so that's probably
Speaker 1: what I recommend. So go to the website pcloud dot
Speaker 1: com or just download that app on your phone and
Speaker 1: set it up, sign up, and then once you download
Speaker 1: that app, take you know. The app will show you
Speaker 1: in your gallery all your videos, find those little exercise video,
Speaker 1: upload them to this app, and then you can delete
Speaker 1: them one by one off your phone. And this is
Speaker 1: free pretty much forever for that amount of storage. So
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna be the easiest way to do it.
Speaker 1: There are a million ways to do what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's just a matter of like what
Speaker 1: do you want to do with these videos afterwards? Like
Speaker 1: if you just wanted to offload them from your computer
Speaker 1: or your phone, I would say, you could just grab
Speaker 1: a flash drive, plug it into the bottom of your
Speaker 1: phone and drag these videos to that flash drive and
Speaker 1: then delete them. But you said you wanted to follow
Speaker 1: these exercise videos from your phone in the future, so
Speaker 1: that's probably the best way to do it. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the call, Kreta, appreciate it. Do appreciate that. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: how long do we have Bobo before I got to
Speaker 1: go to break? Okay, got time. So let me tell
Speaker 1: you about this, this giant password leak because sixteen billion passwords.
Speaker 1: Lots of headlines about this, Lots and lots of headlines, scary,
Speaker 1: scary stuff. Everyone's saying you gotta change all your passwords
Speaker 1: right now. That is not realistic. So this is being
Speaker 1: called the largest data breach. Ever, a lot of this
Speaker 1: was stolen via malware that logs your keystrokes, so it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily like these companies were hacked. It was computers
Speaker 1: that were hacked. And this is a gathering of stuff.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people are debating whether this is
Speaker 1: old or new. It doesn't matter. You still have to
Speaker 1: treat this as a reminder to lock things down. So
Speaker 1: number one, do not reuse passwords. If one password gets compromised,
Speaker 1: the hackers will try to use it everywhere else. That's
Speaker 1: why you don't want to reuse your passwords. Number two,
Speaker 1: turn on two factor authentication. So you want to use
Speaker 1: an app like two fas or pretty much any two
Speaker 1: factor authentication app that you come across that you like.
Speaker 1: You can use au these good Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator.
Speaker 1: They all have their pros and cons. Two fas is nice,
Speaker 1: it works on iPhone and Android, and it's better than
Speaker 1: getting those SMS codes. So sign up for an app
Speaker 1: like that and then use a password. Man, I know
Speaker 1: I'm a broken record. You got to use a password manager,
Speaker 1: something like bitwarden, which is great. It's free, it's cross
Speaker 1: platform that'll generate and store long unique passwords. Now, focus
Speaker 1: on protecting your key accounts. Now in this password leak,
Speaker 1: we've heard about Google, Apple, Facebook, We've heard about those
Speaker 1: passwords being involved in this. Now, if your account is
Speaker 1: out there with this password in the wild, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a chance that someone can log into your account. But
Speaker 1: if you have two factor authentication, you're going to be
Speaker 1: protected way more than if you don't. So do you
Speaker 1: have to go out and change your password on these accounts?
Speaker 1: If it's a password that you've been reusing for the
Speaker 1: past ten years, absolutely get out there and change it,
Speaker 1: because chances are it's in this dump. If it's not
Speaker 1: a password that you've been reusing, if it's something in
Speaker 1: a password manager, you're probably okay. And you have two
Speaker 1: factor turned on, you're probably okay. Keep it in mind,
Speaker 1: a lot of these hacks happen when people say, oh,
Speaker 1: I got hacked on Facebook, hack on Google, I got
Speaker 1: hacked on Instagram. It's not necessarily that someone is sitting
Speaker 1: out there trying to hack your account. It's most of
Speaker 1: the time you are being tricked into entering your password
Speaker 1: on a fake website that is trying to steal your information.
Speaker 1: So that's what's really happening a majority of the time. Now,
Speaker 1: in this case, you know a lot of these passwords
Speaker 1: were gotten via malware that steals your keystrokes from your computer. Again,
Speaker 1: your computer was hacked at some point along the way.
Speaker 1: And this happens when you download some random program or
Speaker 1: you know, whatever you're doing on your computer that you
Speaker 1: might install something that you're like, oh, wait a second,
Speaker 1: why did I just do that? And then you've got
Speaker 1: something that's logging what you're doing on there. Now, there
Speaker 1: are some ways if you're curious. A website called cyber
Speaker 1: News has a password leak checker, so they actually have
Speaker 1: a website where you can go to you can type
Speaker 1: in your password. I know this sounds scary, and I
Speaker 1: don't recommend that you necessarily do this unless you are
Speaker 1: typing in a password that's old and you've reused a
Speaker 1: bunch and you're just sort of curious. So I typed
Speaker 1: in a couple of my old, old passwords that I
Speaker 1: was reusing a lot before I got smart, and sure enough, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh yeah, those are out there. So if
Speaker 1: you've got those passwords you want to try to put
Speaker 1: into this website cybernews dot com slash password dash leak
Speaker 1: dash check, and you can type in a password that
Speaker 1: you've reused over the years and it will tell you, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's out there. They've got thirty a database of thirty
Speaker 1: three million passwords that are just sitting out there, exposed
Speaker 1: on the open web. So if you're using one of
Speaker 1: those passwords from back in the day, chances are yes,
Speaker 1: it is been leaked. And again this is not new information.
Speaker 1: This stuff. I'm telling you. The steps I'm telling you
Speaker 1: to take right now are the same steps I would
Speaker 1: have told you six months ago before we had these
Speaker 1: scary headlines. It is the same main things. You have
Speaker 1: to get used to using strong, unique passwords. Today I
Speaker 1: was logging into a new account that I created at
Speaker 1: a bank, and it was like, hey, do you want
Speaker 1: to create You have to create these security questions. Answers
Speaker 1: to security questions, name of the street you grew up on,
Speaker 1: name of your best friend when you grew up. I
Speaker 1: forget what the third one is. And I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: I don't use real answers to those questions. Because you
Speaker 1: could figure out the street that I grew up on.
Speaker 1: You could figure out my best friend's name when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. That's pretty common knowledge, or my school,
Speaker 1: my high school mascot. So what I do is I
Speaker 1: use a some sort of generator to make up fake answers,
Speaker 1: and I remember those answers so that if that information
Speaker 1: got out there, you wouldn't be able to figure it
Speaker 1: out because it's something that I don't even know. It's
Speaker 1: just made up. Now, you have to keep tracted. Caveat
Speaker 1: is If you're doing that, it'll keep you secure, but
Speaker 1: you have to keep track of that information. So in
Speaker 1: your password manager there's literally a small notes field and
Speaker 1: you can type in the answers those questions and the answer,
Speaker 1: so that'll give you an added layer of security. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this stuff is not easy. I guess My point is,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to secure online, it's not something that's fast.
Speaker 1: It does take a little bit extra, but it will
Speaker 1: protect you from things like this in the future. I'll
Speaker 1: put the link to that password checker on my website.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv eighty to eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eighty eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. The website for the show
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. This is episode one twenty six.
Speaker 1: If you want show notes, it's all there on the
Speaker 1: website links to anything I mentioned, is right there A
Speaker 1: lot of you sending emails in let's see here we've
Speaker 1: got Greg says, so should I use the password manager
Speaker 1: on my iPhone or get the one you recommended in
Speaker 1: your latest newsletter, Greg, I recommend a third party password manager,
Speaker 1: so you can use the one on the iPhone, the
Speaker 1: Passwords app. It's safe, it's fine. But the the reason
Speaker 1: I don't like it is because it locks you into
Speaker 1: the iPhone and iOS and all that stuff. And I
Speaker 1: just personally think that third party software is better because
Speaker 1: Bitwarden is thinking about everyone. They're thinking about how to
Speaker 1: make their app work great on iPhone, Android, Windows, Chrome, everything,
Speaker 1: versus Apple is only thinking about getting people to stick
Speaker 1: to the iPhone and so therefore they're only prioritizing things
Speaker 1: that work for iPhone users. So it's fine. If you're
Speaker 1: never going to switch out of Apple, go ahead use it.
Speaker 1: It's simple, it's easy, it's built in. But personally, I
Speaker 1: like third party when it comes to all of my
Speaker 1: software because it works equally across everything. And that's the
Speaker 1: way I think the technology should be. I think that
Speaker 1: technology should be inclusive and getting everyone on board in
Speaker 1: the same way versus something that excludes people. And when
Speaker 1: you're using something like passwords app on the iPhone, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got a way that you can use it on
Speaker 1: a Windows computer, but it's just not very good, not
Speaker 1: as easy as something like a Bitwarden. Well that's the answer.
Speaker 1: But if you're fine with that, just go with it.
Speaker 1: It's built in. And yes, of course it's easy and
Speaker 1: it's simple. Then we got another email here from Let's
Speaker 1: see here? Where was it? Vic says, Hey, Rich, I
Speaker 1: listened to your podcast. I find it very informative. You
Speaker 1: make it easy to understand technology. I'm trying to join Cantina,
Speaker 1: but it wants to access my contact list and I
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable giving them full access. When I try
Speaker 1: to select contacts, it won't let me. Do you know
Speaker 1: if they if they contact everyone on my contact list
Speaker 1: to try Cantina, is there a way around joining without
Speaker 1: giving them full access? Thanks, I have not heard about
Speaker 1: this app called Cantina, but yes, a lot of these
Speaker 1: apps will try to get you to sign up and
Speaker 1: give access to your full contact book because guess what
Speaker 1: is a growth hack? It helps them get this information
Speaker 1: to more people. So that is a red flag if
Speaker 1: they will not let you sign up without giving them
Speaker 1: full access. Because what's happened is so many of these
Speaker 1: apps over the years that I've tested out, they will
Speaker 1: take access to your information and they will spam your
Speaker 1: followers or your contacts. I guess I should say, and
Speaker 1: so with this app. I'm not sure. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: go through the sign up sign up process right now
Speaker 1: while we talk. Oh wow, look, I'm already I'm already
Speaker 1: signed up for Cantina. How I've never even heard of
Speaker 1: this app? Sorry, this email is taken? How is my
Speaker 1: email taken on an app I've never heard of in
Speaker 1: my life? Okay, I'm gonna type skip. When is your birthday? Okay?
Speaker 1: I already don't like this app. If apps are asking
Speaker 1: you for all this information, I don't know what that
Speaker 1: You must be eighteen? Okay, well so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I gotta get back to you on that one. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I like that app. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: let's go to Bill in Fullerton. Bill, what's going on?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 2: Rich? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 1: Are you great?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 7: I've got a Dell Tower to a PC model eighty
Speaker 7: nine hundred I got from Costco about four or five
Speaker 7: years ago, and the Windows eleven upgrade is telling me
Speaker 7: that my CPU is not meeting their requirements. So instead
Speaker 7: of buying a whole new computer, I was wondering, could
Speaker 7: I upgrade the motherboard and the CPU and keep everything else.
Speaker 1: I mean you might be able to, But how much
Speaker 1: would you pay for this computer?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Probably, I'm guessing five point fifteen six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so by the time you upgrade this thing, which
Speaker 1: mayor you know, you may be able to do that,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's worth it. So you're the
Speaker 1: amount you're going to pay for new components, if any,
Speaker 1: that are going to work inside this computer is probably
Speaker 1: going to be more than the price of a new PC.
Speaker 1: But I don't think that that means this is hopeless.
Speaker 1: We had a couple of guests on the show talking
Speaker 1: about ways to get around these. You know what Windows
Speaker 1: is doing is it's looking. It's it's checking your computer
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's compatible, and it's it has
Speaker 1: a list of things that it has in its checklist.
Speaker 1: It says, yeah, this is going to make sure that
Speaker 1: that when eleven works smoothly on this computer. But if
Speaker 1: you're if you're gonna get rid of this thing anyway
Speaker 1: or like upgrade or buy a new one, I'd rather
Speaker 1: see you upgrade or force the upgrade of the software
Speaker 1: on your computer and at least use this computer as is.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is I mentioned this article
Speaker 1: last week. There's a great article The Intelligence dot Com
Speaker 1: is a great Windows newsletter, and he talks about Chris
Speaker 1: a guy, a guest we've had on our show, talks
Speaker 1: about how you can kind of force your computer to
Speaker 1: upgrade to Windows eleven, even if it says it is
Speaker 1: not officially supported. And the way you do this is
Speaker 1: there's an app called rufous, So you download Rufus and
Speaker 1: once you have that, that's basically going to help you
Speaker 1: create a bootable USB drive very simply, and then you
Speaker 1: download the Windows eleven disk image from Microsoft's website and
Speaker 1: all you have to do is install that and it
Speaker 1: will say a Windows User Experience window will appear, and
Speaker 1: there is an option that says move requirement for four
Speaker 1: gigabytes of RAM, secure boot and TPM two point zero.
Speaker 1: Make sure that's checked. Install this, and now you can
Speaker 1: just install Windows eleven on here. This is not again,
Speaker 1: if Bill, if you're not sort of like a little
Speaker 1: bit advanced with your computer, but it sounds like you
Speaker 1: are based on what you just said to me. This
Speaker 1: is not for the the inexperienced person, So I think
Speaker 1: that you have to be a little bit tech savvy
Speaker 1: to try this. And of course, before you do something
Speaker 1: like this. You want to make sure that you are
Speaker 1: backing up everything on your computer because it could all
Speaker 1: go away when you're doing this fourced upgrade. But that's
Speaker 1: what I would do. I'll put a link to this,
Speaker 1: you know, this article on my website rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. But I'd probably do that before you look into,
Speaker 1: you know, opening up this tower and replacing some of
Speaker 1: those components on a computer. That's probably not meant to
Speaker 1: do that. Rich on Tech dot TV eighty to eight
Speaker 1: rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four one zero one. We'll talk Prime Day coming up next.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out out with you, talking technology. The website for the
Speaker 1: show is rich on tech dot TV eight eight eight
Speaker 1: rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two, four one zero one. My name is rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for hanging out with me. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. Uh, we've got a great
Speaker 1: guest this hour. Remember the BlackBerry. You know, everyone loved
Speaker 1: their BlackBerry phone and had that keyboard click aty clack,
Speaker 1: click any clack. Well, if you want to bring back
Speaker 1: that experience, there's a company called Clicks that is doing that.
Speaker 1: They're making keyboard cases for a couple of the smartphones
Speaker 1: out there, like the Samsung's, the iPhones, some Motorolas, and
Speaker 1: you can actually buy them at Best Buy. But this
Speaker 1: has been pretty popular. So we're gonna have the CEO
Speaker 1: of Clicks join us this hour to talk about how
Speaker 1: you can add a physical keyboard to your phone and
Speaker 1: just you know, I guess people like it. They've sold
Speaker 1: a bunch of them. It is Prime Day, I guess sorry,
Speaker 1: it is not Prime Day, falsel arm. I'm not spreading
Speaker 1: false news here. It is not Prime Day. Stand down.
Speaker 1: Put your credit card. Put your credit card back in
Speaker 1: your wallet? Is that a credit card in your pocket?
Speaker 1: You're you just happy for Prime Day? That'll get Boba?
Speaker 1: See I would that be considered a dad joke or no? Yeah? Okay, Bobo,
Speaker 1: Bobo's back. By the way, Bobo is Bobo. If you
Speaker 1: didn't know, the show did not fall off the rails
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, but it could have easily because
Speaker 1: Bobo was off cruise in. Uh does that mean something different? No,
Speaker 1: You're fine with that, okay. I was celebrating my forty
Speaker 1: second Yes, happy birthday, Thank you?
Speaker 4: Bo?
Speaker 1: How old forty two, damn right and and everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can say that word. You're getting up there, tell
Speaker 1: me about it, you know, Hey, it's you know, forty
Speaker 1: two is pretty young, all things consider. Oh it is,
Speaker 1: I bet hold on, do you remember do you remember
Speaker 1: turning twenty one? Vaguely? Oh, vaguely? Okay, you had a
Speaker 1: good party.
Speaker 5: Then.
Speaker 1: I remember turning twenty one. I can remember it like
Speaker 1: it was yesterday. I was in Vegas. I went to Vegas.
Speaker 1: It was so exciting, like that was such a big
Speaker 1: moment in my life. I was in Vegas.
Speaker 8: My cousin took me to Vegas with my twenty first
Speaker 8: was the first time I got drunk off alcohol.
Speaker 1: Firt. Wow, you were better than I was. I didn't
Speaker 1: drink it till I was twenty one.
Speaker 9: More.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're a saint. Well sadly, it's been downhill ever since. No, no,
Speaker 1: you're not wrong. Oh my gosh, that's funny though. Good
Speaker 1: for you. Hey, you know what, kids, if you're listening,
Speaker 1: be like Bobo. There is no reason to drink. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it is none at all. It's honestly, ever, But the
Speaker 1: problem is you get started and then it's relaxing. It's fun.
Speaker 1: You know, you have a good time, and then it's
Speaker 1: like you know, and for some people they can't handle it.
Speaker 1: You know, they just can't handle it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: True, you seem like a guy that can handle ithred
Speaker 1: percent minus life year.
Speaker 3: And we've all had those days. Yeah, they're just like
Speaker 3: never again. But I can't say that I did miss
Speaker 3: the show. Like I was telling my wife, I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I gotta go back on Rich. I said, Rich,
Speaker 3: don't think I'm abandoning, But I was like, I gotta
Speaker 3: go back, and She's like, you shouldn't want to take
Speaker 3: off one more like jokingly, I was like, nah, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Have a word with Britney. Come in, hold on. I
Speaker 1: thought I liked her. All right, Well, it's good to
Speaker 1: have you back.
Speaker 8: Oh, and shout out to the city of Santa Monica.
Speaker 8: I mentioned that I worked with you on Saturdays. I
Speaker 8: hosted a Juneteenth festival and everybody told me to say
Speaker 8: you love so from Santa Monica to Rich.
Speaker 1: They wanted to say, hey, thank you, Santa Monica. And
Speaker 1: now they have that new promenade which you can drink outside.
Speaker 1: Yes they do speak. Okay, so Prime Day happening. It's
Speaker 1: bigger than ever this year, happening July eighth through July eleventh,
Speaker 1: four full days, first time ever for that started out
Speaker 1: as one day back in twenty fifteen. Remember Prime Day
Speaker 1: started as a way to celebrate Amazon's twentieth birthday and
Speaker 1: Prime like membership for customers, and of course sell Prime memberships.
Speaker 1: But now they just keep expanding it and clearly Prime
Speaker 1: Day is doing well for Amazon, and I think some
Speaker 1: years it was like a little bit like Okay, give
Speaker 1: me a break. Now I actually think it's gotten very legitimate,
Speaker 1: like companies plan around Prime Day, and if you don't
Speaker 1: really understand how Amazon works, it kind of benefits everyone
Speaker 1: for Prime Day because there are so many Amazon affiliates
Speaker 1: out there, right, people who write about Amazon products link
Speaker 1: them up on their websites, and that website gets a
Speaker 1: little commission from Amazon for selling products. So they have
Speaker 1: like all these sales people out there that sell products
Speaker 1: and they come up with like, you know, ten ten
Speaker 1: travel products that are the best or ten whatever, just
Speaker 1: pick any category. Websites are promoting this stuff. That's why,
Speaker 1: so Prime Day kind of works out for everyone because
Speaker 1: everyone wins. So this year, what's going to be different?
Speaker 1: Lowest prices of the year on brands like Sony, Dyson,
Speaker 1: and Samsung. Today's Big Deals. That's a new thing. They're
Speaker 1: doing daily theme drops exclusive to Prime members. They just
Speaker 1: come up with like a different deal name every year.
Speaker 1: You're also gonna get a dollar off a gallon of
Speaker 1: gas per gallon July third through six, so good for
Speaker 1: Fourth of July weekend. That's at BP, Amoco and AMPM,
Speaker 1: but you have to sign up for that first. That
Speaker 1: program they have, Alexa Plus, is gonna help you track
Speaker 1: deals and there's gonna be all kinds. Like the bottom line,
Speaker 1: here's what you need to know about Prime Day. Don't
Speaker 1: believe the hype. Don't go in there trying to spend money,
Speaker 1: trying to find things to buy. What you really need
Speaker 1: to do is just think about the stuff that you
Speaker 1: need and or want right. There is a difference. But
Speaker 1: put that stuff in your cart now or put it
Speaker 1: in your save for later, and then when July eighth
Speaker 1: rolls around, that's when you can look in your cart
Speaker 1: and see if these things go on sale. Now there's
Speaker 1: a caveat. You know, all the Amazon brands are gonna
Speaker 1: go on sale, the rings, the Kindles, the fire TVs,
Speaker 1: all that stuff's gonna go on sale. A lot of
Speaker 1: big brands are gonna go on sale too, But put
Speaker 1: the stuff that you want in your cart now. And
Speaker 1: by the way, we're talking about this a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks before it happens. Prices drop in the in the
Speaker 1: hours and days leading up to Prime Day because there's
Speaker 1: so much attention around Prime Day. People are just looking
Speaker 1: for stuff to buy. I'm already going to Amazon dot
Speaker 1: com slash Prime Day, and there's already a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of deals on all kinds of stuff. I mean, everything
Speaker 1: back to school, up to thirty percent off top products
Speaker 1: like ring I mean, there's just so much stuff that
Speaker 1: you might want to buy. But again, don't just browse
Speaker 1: the website. That's gonna You're gonna lose money in the
Speaker 1: end doing that. What you want to do is think
Speaker 1: about the stuff you need. Look around your house, even
Speaker 1: things that you eat, things that you need, like to restock.
Speaker 1: It sounds silly, but that's the best way to get
Speaker 1: the most out of Prime Day. It's like buying the
Speaker 1: stuff that you're gonna get anyway. It's like going into Costco.
Speaker 1: When you go into Costco for one thing, right, they
Speaker 1: get you because you want to buy your coffee that
Speaker 1: you like at Costco and it's inexpensive because you buy
Speaker 1: it in bulk. Well, most people can't walk out of
Speaker 1: Costco with just buying that one thing. They parade through
Speaker 1: all the aisles and there's so many great deals and
Speaker 1: you end up spending a couple hundred bucks just because
Speaker 1: you came in for that coffee or I mean paper towels,
Speaker 1: toilet paper. Why do you think they put all those
Speaker 1: on the back wall. You gotta walk all the way
Speaker 1: through Costco and there's it's like you know, you're a
Speaker 1: kid in a candy store when you're an adult at Costco, right,
Speaker 1: there's so many things and it's and don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: Costco is a good deal. You compare the price you're
Speaker 1: gonna paid anything at Costco, it's gonna be better than
Speaker 1: on anywhere else you go. But the thing is you're
Speaker 1: buying a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time.
Speaker 1: And usually there's one or two things you buy that
Speaker 1: you probably didn't go in for, that you don't really need,
Speaker 1: but you buy anyway. That's how it goes. So anyway,
Speaker 1: Prime Day is happening with that said, I do have
Speaker 1: a list of I just created on my website a
Speaker 1: list of some of the products that I like because
Speaker 1: people always ask me what's your go to gadgets and gear,
Speaker 1: So I made a list of my go to gadgets
Speaker 1: in gear and I put it all on there. This
Speaker 1: is stuff that I've tested that I like, and it's
Speaker 1: all linked up. So if you want to see if
Speaker 1: that stuff goes on sale for Prime Day, check it out.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV. The thing I did test
Speaker 1: on my trip to Mexico City is a portable carbon
Speaker 1: monoxide detector. I'm sure you've heard the stories in the
Speaker 1: you know, these couple of stories throughout the years where
Speaker 1: there's been some unfortunate incidents where carbon monoxide has claimed lives.
Speaker 1: You know, people are in a rental place or in
Speaker 1: a hotel room. Now, I don't think this is a
Speaker 1: prevalent thing. I don't think it's a major issue, but
Speaker 1: it has happened, and it's happened enough, or when I've
Speaker 1: stayed in a rental I'm like, Okay, I want to
Speaker 1: have one of these things in there, because you never know.
Speaker 1: And so I tested this new one, which is a
Speaker 1: digital one. It's small, it's compact, it's got a digital readout.
Speaker 1: And the wild thing is I plug this thing in
Speaker 1: or actually it's it's a cordless so I didn't have
Speaker 1: to plug it in, but I charged and the first
Speaker 1: night I'm in my hotel room, the thing is given
Speaker 1: a reading of thirty, like thirty ppm of COO and
Speaker 1: I'm like, uh, oh, what the heck, what am I
Speaker 1: supposed to do? It was ten o'clock at night. I
Speaker 1: turned this thing on and I'm like, great, my room
Speaker 1: is filled with carbon monoxide. That's not good, now, I
Speaker 1: figured at the end of the day. So I ended
Speaker 1: up putting on putting on my shoes, and walking downstairs
Speaker 1: in my pajamas at this hotel and I went outside
Speaker 1: with this little carbon dioxide detector. I'm like, let me
Speaker 1: see if it changes to zero. And it did change
Speaker 1: to like a little bit less, but it was still
Speaker 1: a little bit on the high end. But I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, this thing has an alarm on it.
Speaker 1: If it's if it's a problem, it's going to alarm.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Laurna in Long Beach. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 10: Bye, Rich, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. What's going on?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 10: I have a printer model HP Office Jet Pro okay
Speaker 10: six eight three zero. I know it's an old printer,
Speaker 10: but I really really need a printer right now related
Speaker 10: to work. So I have searched Google on how to
Speaker 10: print head, how to clean the print head. So I
Speaker 10: did follow the directions one and then uh I let
Speaker 10: the printer rest dry for about thirty minutes and I
Speaker 10: was successful. But then after another couple of hours, maybe
Speaker 10: I wanted to print again, and so the print head
Speaker 10: error appeared again.
Speaker 1: So what First off, this is an ink chet printer, right, Yes?
Speaker 1: Are you using genuine HP ink Chet cartridges? Yes? I am?
Speaker 1: And are they old or new?
Speaker 10: They're new? Actually I just got them and I made
Speaker 10: sure that they're not expired.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so when you put these in, have you
Speaker 1: did you go through? How did you clean this?
Speaker 10: So I followed the print head cleaning from Google, you
Speaker 10: know for HP Office Jet Pro. I looked at the
Speaker 10: model and then I I detached the or I unplugged.
Speaker 10: I unplugged so I was able to move the print
Speaker 10: head from side to side. And I've placed the paper
Speaker 10: towel underneath the print head, and then I flushed each
Speaker 10: port of the ink, the color ones and the black port.
Speaker 10: I flushed it with a print head cleaning kit that
Speaker 10: I bought separately from Amazon.
Speaker 1: Well, typically these little printer as far as I understand,
Speaker 1: the print head is like on the cartridge itself. So
Speaker 1: if I feel like there's something bigger going on here,
Speaker 1: have you done the have you done like the built
Speaker 1: in sort of system cleaning where you go into like
Speaker 1: set up printer maintenance and then clean print head. Have
Speaker 1: you done that?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 10: I tried that, but it wouldn't show me you know
Speaker 10: there it's it's better when I see the picture and yeah,
Speaker 10: and so I I've done that. But and then even
Speaker 10: if I do it, it doesn't print anyway.
Speaker 1: So what's the what's the error on the actual machine
Speaker 1: saying yes?
Speaker 10: On the actual machine?
Speaker 1: And what's the error saying clean the print heads? Yes?
Speaker 10: And then it keeps uh giving an error message your
Speaker 10: print print head is uh is I forgot what the
Speaker 10: message was. But it needs a pension. Your print head
Speaker 10: needs a pension.
Speaker 11: Okay, So I.
Speaker 10: I probably will try cleaning it again, but then I
Speaker 10: probably would have to ask your suggestion if I have
Speaker 10: to buy another another printer.
Speaker 1: How old this printer? How old is this printer?
Speaker 10: Ten years?
Speaker 1: Ten years old? Okay? That okay, that could be the issue.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I think that a printer should last
Speaker 1: ten years. I don't know what's going on with this printer.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure I've encountered this error on mine.
Speaker 1: I would think that replacing the cartridges. And I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the manual cleaning. I mean it says like for
Speaker 1: effective manual print head cleaning, gather these supplies lint free
Speaker 1: microfiber cloths, distilled water, shallow dish, printer cleaning solution, rubber gloves,
Speaker 1: paper towels. Sounds like you're doing surgery on this printer here.
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like a lot. I would say
Speaker 1: I wouldn't spend any more money on this printer to
Speaker 1: fix this or to try this, but I would other
Speaker 1: than following their printing. You know, they're they're kind of
Speaker 1: like built in print head cleaning process. It says you
Speaker 1: might need to do it up to three to four times,
Speaker 1: so that's the only thing I can think of. There's
Speaker 1: also a printer diagnostic test. This might help with the
Speaker 1: HP Print and Scan Doctor, So that might be something
Speaker 1: you look into and maybe that can help you out.
Speaker 1: It's called hp Print and Scan Doctor for Windows, and
Speaker 1: that might be a way to see what's going on
Speaker 1: with this printer. Otherwise, you can take this printer into
Speaker 1: a place like you break I fixed, and you can
Speaker 1: get them to give you like a free estimate on
Speaker 1: how much it might cost to fix this thing. But
Speaker 1: I wouldn't really spend any extra money on it. If
Speaker 1: I were you, I would just go with the brother
Speaker 1: laser jet printer if you need me in depends if
Speaker 1: you need color or not, but I would just go
Speaker 1: with the Brother laser jet. There's a I'll link up
Speaker 1: the model number on the website. Rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: But that's probably what you want to do, is just
Speaker 1: get something simple that's inexpensive, because ten years is a
Speaker 1: pretty good run for a printer, but I'd like for
Speaker 1: it to last longer. But if it's not working and
Speaker 1: the print head cleaning is just not it sounds like
Speaker 1: you've done everything you need to do to get these
Speaker 1: print heads cleaned and it's just not giving you that
Speaker 1: error free message. The only other thing I would think
Speaker 1: to do, and you might want to try this, is
Speaker 1: do a reset, like a factory reset of this printer.
Speaker 1: You can go into settings and in the settings it'll
Speaker 1: say like factory reset printer. You might want to try that,
Speaker 1: and that's going to clear all the settings and that's
Speaker 1: going to bring this thing back to factory. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to reset it up, but that might clear out
Speaker 1: that error message. Good question, Lorna, that's a tricky one
Speaker 1: eighty eight Rich one O one eighty eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one coming up, We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk physical keyboards for your smartphone right here. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology at eight eight eight rich one oh one.
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Speaker 1: zero one. Rich on tech dot tv is the website.
Speaker 1: Joining me now, Adrian Lemouching, CEO of Clicks. They are
Speaker 1: making keyboard cases for various smartphones and it's been quite successful. Adrian,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me, Rich. Great to be here, absolutely
Speaker 1: so if someone hasn't heard of Clicks, explain what it is.
Speaker 12: Sure, Clicks creates physical people cases for smartphones, so for
Speaker 12: iPhones and androids, and really what it is is we
Speaker 12: have taken the best experience you can get from physical
Speaker 12: buttons and added them to your smartphone just as an accessory.
Speaker 12: And it's really for those who have those who missed
Speaker 12: the speed and accuracy of having buttons on your phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, look, we all loved the BlackBerry back
Speaker 1: in the day. Did you were you a BlackBerry lover?
Speaker 1: Was this part of the inspiration or.
Speaker 12: What I and my entire team were huge BlackBerry lovers,
Speaker 12: you know, massively passionate about it, and so you know,
Speaker 12: this is something that we've wanted to do for a
Speaker 12: really long time.
Speaker 1: Now, that's the interesting thing. So clearly you did your homework.
Speaker 1: Did you find that there was a need or a
Speaker 1: want for people to go back to these physical keyboards
Speaker 1: because it's been a while since we've had them.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it has, and a lot of us have been
Speaker 12: in this space for a number of years now, and
Speaker 12: we've always known that there is this nascent demand for
Speaker 12: people who really missed their buttons. I mean, one of
Speaker 12: our co founders, he's known online as crackbree ke Heavin, and
Speaker 12: he's the guy who always gets emailed every single week.
Speaker 12: Do you know where the BlackBerry's coming out? Do you
Speaker 12: know when the next keyboard phone is coming out? And
Speaker 12: so we know that there's always a demand there for it.
Speaker 1: So who do you think this is for? Like, do
Speaker 1: you think this is for someone that just likes the
Speaker 1: old days of their BlackBerry keyboard or do they you know, like,
Speaker 1: is it just to get work done? Like what do
Speaker 1: you think this is? Like what's the use case scenario here?
Speaker 9: Yeah, really good question.
Speaker 12: We've been on the market for a year now and
Speaker 12: we've done a number of post purchase surveys just to
Speaker 12: get an idea of who's using the products, and it's
Speaker 12: actually a lot different to what we initially thought. So
Speaker 12: you do get your I guess you'd say you're kind
Speaker 12: of business people who really miss their blackberries. You know,
Speaker 12: you're kind of ex Wall Street or Wall Street banker
Speaker 12: type people who you know, missed back braze.
Speaker 9: And use this.
Speaker 12: But actually we've also found that the demographic is really broad,
Speaker 12: so anybody from you know, entrepreneurs, people who kind of
Speaker 12: work for themselves, you just like to do stuff on
Speaker 12: the go. Also to students, people in college, you know,
Speaker 12: they're taking their devices with their clicks into their class
Speaker 12: and they're using it to record that their lectures.
Speaker 1: Now, how hard is it to get used to typing
Speaker 1: on a keyboard again after years of you know, training
Speaker 1: on a touch screen.
Speaker 12: That's a that's a really good question. It's it does
Speaker 12: feel a little bit alien at first. We say, it
Speaker 12: takes around kind of you know, between two days to
Speaker 12: two weeks to get used to having buttons under your
Speaker 12: thumbs again. But once you're there, you're you're flying and
Speaker 12: it feels so good.
Speaker 1: So what has been the reaction? I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: you guys are in best Buy, right like, that's that's
Speaker 1: pretty huge for a tech gadget.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we are.
Speaker 12: We we were actually in We were in best Buy
Speaker 12: for over a year now. We started off with them
Speaker 12: middle of last year. You know, great great partners, and
Speaker 12: we've got our own little space and about two hundred
Speaker 12: best Buy stores in the US in the theater district space.
Speaker 9: And you know, it's been super successful.
Speaker 12: People have been, you know, going there trying the products
Speaker 12: in their hands and then and then supporting it to
Speaker 12: the extent we're actually this year we launched a new
Speaker 12: product called most roller Raser clicks and Best Buy for
Speaker 12: when they promoted them the first phone, the first most
Speaker 12: roller razer for this year, they actually gave a free
Speaker 12: clicks away to.
Speaker 9: Every customer that bought a corresponding razor phone.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's pretty cool. How much do these keyboards
Speaker 1: typically cost.
Speaker 12: They are one three nine dollars for the regular size
Speaker 12: and one hundred and fifty nine and for the larger size.
Speaker 1: And what phones do you have them for? I know
Speaker 1: you started out with the iPhone obviously that's you know,
Speaker 1: a good place to start, but you've branched out, So
Speaker 1: tell me what phones you have them for now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we did.
Speaker 12: We started off doing iPhone fourteen and fifteen. When iPhone
Speaker 12: fifteen launched in September, we may go on for that
Speaker 12: product as well. This year, we've also made it for
Speaker 12: the Google Pixel nine nine prob and for the most
Speaker 12: roller Razor Flip and Adrian.
Speaker 1: Do you think that because of the success of these
Speaker 1: keyboards there will be a company that makes smartphones that
Speaker 1: brings back the physical keyboard that built in.
Speaker 9: That is such a good question, Rich.
Speaker 12: I don't know whether you're seeing what's going on at
Speaker 12: the moment online on TikTok, there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 12: about BlackBerry and you know, either bringing back BlackBerry or
Speaker 12: companies out there that are trying to restore all Blackberries.
Speaker 12: We know of projects that have tried in the past
Speaker 12: and that are looking to do this, and so we
Speaker 12: know the demand is there. We know that there is,
Speaker 12: and ultimately, I think a lot of people who you know, yeah,
Speaker 12: they like their they're like an iPhone with a keyboard
Speaker 12: case on it, but some really do want to have
Speaker 12: just a phone like a Blackberries have experience again.
Speaker 1: And I was able to I know, mister Mobile obviously,
Speaker 1: Michael Fisher one of your other is he a co
Speaker 1: founder with the company.
Speaker 9: Yes, Michael is a co founder. He's he's been with
Speaker 9: us on the journey since you know, really early days.
Speaker 12: He's had a lot of input into you know, everything
Speaker 12: we do, from you know, keyboard designs to user experience.
Speaker 12: You know, he just knows he knows the products, not
Speaker 12: just from a keyboard, addective smartphones as well. You know,
Speaker 12: he's probably reviewed every single keyboard smartphone that's ever been
Speaker 12: produced and been released to market. So he's such a
Speaker 12: such a world of knowledge, you know, and such a
Speaker 12: genuine guy as well.
Speaker 9: He's a really really good person to have on the team.
Speaker 7: He is.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I go to a lot of events
Speaker 1: with him, and he always has the most friends around
Speaker 1: him at every event, So that's a that's a good
Speaker 1: sign for him. But you know, here's the thing, So
Speaker 1: I tried this out at CES. This was a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, I think when it was first launching.
Speaker 1: It does add some bulk to the phone, So explain
Speaker 1: that aspect, because is it a case. Is it something
Speaker 1: you put on and off when you need it, or
Speaker 1: is it something you leave on all the time.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we don't.
Speaker 12: Really tell people how to use it, but what we
Speaker 12: found from our users is that most people leave it
Speaker 12: on all the time. Now, it does add a little
Speaker 12: bit of bulk, and you know, it does stick out
Speaker 12: of your pockets. You know, we have a lot of
Speaker 12: our female customers saying it doesn't fit into a handbag.
Speaker 12: We've tried to make it as small as possible for
Speaker 12: kind of the product as it is today, but we're
Speaker 12: continuing to innovade, you know, look at how we can improve,
Speaker 12: even if it's shaving minimey to new product form factors.
Speaker 12: You know, we're always listening to our customers and we
Speaker 12: want to try and make the best keyboard experience out
Speaker 12: there for people.
Speaker 1: All right, is called clicks Adrian, What do you find
Speaker 1: fun about all this? I assume this is not your
Speaker 1: first sort of startup or thing that you've done before.
Speaker 1: What do you find fun about all this stuff.
Speaker 12: Yeah correct, Yeah, not one of my first roudio here.
Speaker 12: But I love making products. I think we we, we
Speaker 12: and a lot of the team we come from a
Speaker 12: place where we just love making physical products. We're really
Speaker 12: passionate about them. We love seeing people use the product.
Speaker 12: I mean, I was in a I was in an
Speaker 12: event last week. Somebody came up to me and he said, clicks,
Speaker 12: I know you guys. I was in a board meeting
Speaker 12: last week and Linda Yakarino, who's on my board, showed up.
Speaker 12: She put she sat on the set, she sat down,
Speaker 12: took her phone out, put it on the table and
Speaker 12: I had your product on that and she started telling
Speaker 12: you all about it.
Speaker 9: And this was such an amazing story.
Speaker 12: And to hear things like that, and to know that
Speaker 12: your product is being used by people, whether they're fortune
Speaker 12: ten CEOs, whether they are you know, college students, whether
Speaker 12: it's somebody who has you know, some kind of you know,
Speaker 12: hearing or site visibility issue and they can't, you know,
Speaker 12: use a phone properly, and now they can. You know,
Speaker 12: all of these things I think really give us a
Speaker 12: kick to making the products that we do.
Speaker 1: Wait, that's interesting, So is there an accessibility aspect to
Speaker 1: these keyboards.
Speaker 12: Well, I think you know, we didn't, we didn't go
Speaker 12: into it deep ourselves initially. What we found is that
Speaker 12: visually impaired people, We've had feedback from people that have
Speaker 12: Parkinson's for example, who were unable to really use a
Speaker 12: touchscreen very well, have now been able to really navigate
Speaker 12: you know, keyboards and actually input into a phone. And
Speaker 12: that's and that was a really nice story when we
Speaker 12: started hearing some of these things.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. Yeah, it's it's I've I've found that with
Speaker 1: a lot of tech products that they don't set out
Speaker 1: to help people, you know, necessarily, like they don't think
Speaker 1: about that aspect. But of course as people use these
Speaker 1: things and they find these aspects that really benefit them,
Speaker 1: Like I'm thinking of specifically the ray band glasses, Like
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the accessibility community were like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, these are so great for this, this
Speaker 1: and this, and I just think that's a that's a
Speaker 1: neat side effect of all this stuff.
Speaker 9: Agreed, Yeah, no, Agrede. I mean, I've got a great story, right.
Speaker 12: I was before we actually launched the products. I was
Speaker 12: in the Apple Store in the UK. This was about
Speaker 12: three months before launch and I had to buy an iPhone.
Speaker 12: I was like, we would have an iPhone to the team,
Speaker 12: I'm just going to buy iPhones.
Speaker 9: So I went.
Speaker 12: I went to the Apple store. The lady serving me
Speaker 12: was visually impaired, and I was so impressed how she
Speaker 12: was navigating through iOS. And you know when you go
Speaker 12: to Apple stores and you purchase something, they all use
Speaker 12: their iPhones to you know, to make the payments, make
Speaker 12: the transaction. She was using a combination of an AirPod
Speaker 12: and audio cues to navigate through with the menu system.
Speaker 12: And I kind of let her finish what she was doing,
Speaker 12: and I said, oh, you know, I'm really impressed how
Speaker 12: you're navigating through iOS and how you're doing this transaction
Speaker 12: For me. I just want to let you know, you know,
Speaker 12: the reason I'm buying the phone, and you know, I
Speaker 12: let out and I said, look, we're developing this product.
Speaker 9: I think you might be you know, you might find
Speaker 9: it interesting.
Speaker 12: And I put her fingers on it and she touched
Speaker 12: the keys and immediately she got in she was like, wow,
Speaker 12: it's it's the keyboards and and you know, her reaction
Speaker 12: and her face was like you know it was. It
Speaker 12: really touched me. And you know, to me, I thought,
Speaker 12: you know what, this is something that the world really needs.
Speaker 12: You know, it might not be something that everybody will
Speaker 12: out there take out, take and grab, but I think,
Speaker 12: you know, there is definitely a really strong community out
Speaker 12: there and people that want a product like this.
Speaker 9: So we're just going to keep keep growing and keep
Speaker 9: scaling amazing.
Speaker 1: The website is clicks dot tech. Clicks dot tech if
Speaker 1: you want to check out a physical keyboard for your smartphone.
Speaker 1: They've gotten for the iPhone, the Pixel, the razor. Any
Speaker 1: any thought about Samsung in the future, is that maybe
Speaker 1: going to happen.
Speaker 12: We we thought about it, you know, I think we
Speaker 12: listened to our community and you know, it's who's going
Speaker 12: to shout loudest. You know, we're also a growing business
Speaker 12: and we want to scale at the right page. We
Speaker 12: don't want to do We've learned I think a lot
Speaker 12: of lessons in the last year. It's very easy to
Speaker 12: do too much too quickly. And Samson's are you know,
Speaker 12: beast in itself in terms of the different phone models,
Speaker 12: just like Apple an iPhone. So we'll we'll get to
Speaker 12: it eventually, okay.
Speaker 1: Adrian Limao, Ching, CEO of Clicks thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me today. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Thank you, rich appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1: I'll put a link to it on my website. Rich
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Speaker 1: with her twenty first birthday Bobo. She went to Chevy's,
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Speaker 1: you know that. You know what Chevy's has. I don't
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Speaker 1: my whole meal. Oh, speaking of things, I ate, I
Speaker 1: did I tell you this? I ate a grasshopper in Mexico?
Speaker 1: Have you what have you ever eaten a grashopper? I
Speaker 1: have no desire to eat an insect. So they come,
Speaker 1: you can get it on the side with your guacamole,
Speaker 1: So it comes. It just sounds worse a little bowl
Speaker 1: of grasshoppers for like they're like, I don't know, dried
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Speaker 1: then you like put some on your guacamole and eat it.
Speaker 1: And you did it. I tried it. Come on, would
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm in Mexico once, well, I mean
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Speaker 11: Hell, Hi, Hi, I'm gonna can you hear me?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, you kind of broke up a little bit,
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Speaker 11: I have an acer Chromebook.
Speaker 7: It's about a year old.
Speaker 11: I love it. I do genealogy and I use a
Speaker 11: split screen. And what's happening with my computer is it'll
Speaker 11: just start spinning like it's not connected to the internet.
Speaker 11: But my internet is very strong. All the other devices
Speaker 11: are fine. And the only solution is to turn it
Speaker 11: off and to turn it back on, and that gets annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, and I didn't.
Speaker 11: Know if there was any way of fixing it. But
Speaker 11: since prime days are coming up, I also can get
Speaker 11: a new Chromebook like that.
Speaker 5: They're light.
Speaker 1: You just got this a year ago. We're not buying
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Speaker 9: This.
Speaker 1: The computer should last more than a year.
Speaker 6: So I used.
Speaker 11: It's very heavily.
Speaker 1: Used, so well, that shouldn't like effect. So here's the deal. Number.
Speaker 1: There could be number one. There could be you said
Speaker 1: this a Chromebook, right right, So there could be the
Speaker 1: fact that you know, the Wi Fi chromebooks are not
Speaker 1: necessarily known for being the most powerful computers out there,
Speaker 1: so the components in them are not going to be
Speaker 1: of the highest quality necessarily. It doesn't mean that they're not,
Speaker 1: but it just means that the Wi Fi chip inside
Speaker 1: this computer may not be as strong as some of
Speaker 1: the other devices you were talking about. Now, I test
Speaker 1: a lot of devices, and believe me, there is a
Speaker 1: wide range of Wi Fi reception on the various devices
Speaker 1: that I test. Like, for instance, Samsung phones have probably
Speaker 1: the best Wi Fi and cellular reception out of any
Speaker 1: device that I test. It's just the way they make them.
Speaker 1: Pixel probably has the worst Wi Fi reception. And that's
Speaker 1: also Google by the way, and so you know, an
Speaker 1: iPhone somewhere in between. So I think the first thing
Speaker 1: is has this been happening since you first got this Chromebook? No? No, okay,
Speaker 1: So it could be that this thing is, like you said,
Speaker 1: it's used a lot, but a year a very small
Speaker 1: amount of time for a computer. So what I would
Speaker 1: do is the neat thing about chromebooks is that you
Speaker 1: can factory reset them without losing the data because it's
Speaker 1: all basically done in the cloud. Like this, this computer
Speaker 1: is just something that you sign in with your Google
Speaker 1: account and you're browsing the web. Correct, yes, uh huh?
Speaker 11: And is it does it save all the passwords? I
Speaker 11: have a password saver?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're you have it saved in Google Passwords. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: those will all be in there. So that's the beauty
Speaker 1: of this. So what I would do is just to
Speaker 1: save you and probably get you another year of this
Speaker 1: computer at least. I mean, you want a computer to
Speaker 1: last anywhere from four to you know, eight years. But
Speaker 1: what I would do is there's a thing called power wash.
Speaker 1: So have you heard of that on the chromebook? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you can basically powerwash this computer, which is a
Speaker 1: factory reset of the entire computer, so it's going to
Speaker 1: be back to the when you open this thing up
Speaker 1: for the first time. So that's what I would do,
Speaker 1: is what called the powerwash. I'll put the instructions on
Speaker 1: my website in the show notes rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: But basically, you sign out of your Chromebook, you press
Speaker 1: and hold control alt shift are, and then you press restart. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so you sign out control alt shift are, select restart,
Speaker 1: and then you'll see a box and in that box
Speaker 1: you'll see powerwash and that basically the name implies what
Speaker 1: it's doing. It's giving your computer a power washing, which
Speaker 1: means it's going to clear out all the junk, clear
Speaker 1: out any settings that you changed, it's going to delete
Speaker 1: all the Wi Fi networks that you've connected to, and
Speaker 1: it's going to reset your Chromebook. And then once you
Speaker 1: reset it, you can open it up, sign back in
Speaker 1: with your Google account. Everything should be there and then
Speaker 1: hopefully the problem is fixed and you won't have this
Speaker 1: issue anymore, and that'll also get rid of any little
Speaker 1: lingering issues that might be happening. The only thing is
Speaker 1: you have to know is that ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: what you're doing on the chromebook is in the cloud.
Speaker 1: Do you have any sort of oh, we got to go,
Speaker 1: but that that should be just fine just back up
Speaker 1: any fire that might be on an external drive. Great question, Daisy,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the call. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking
Speaker 1: technology at eight eight eight rich one oh one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: Kim is standing by, get you on the air. Bobo's dancing.
Speaker 1: I'm just doing my thing here on the mic. The
Speaker 1: website for the show rich on tech dot TV. If
Speaker 1: you're not following me on social media, check me out
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Got a couple of posts of note. If
Speaker 1: you want to see a trifolding phone, I've got that.
Speaker 1: A watch that has earbuds built into it. That's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. I think it's only available in Mexico, but
Speaker 1: it's still fun to look at. And then a couple
Speaker 1: I got my number one hotel hack number one. I
Speaker 1: am sharing all my secrets. By the way, I mentioned
Speaker 1: that WhatsApp is getting at so you probably see a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of headlines about that. The thing
Speaker 1: is look all these companies of Meta, you know, Meta
Speaker 1: owns WhatsApp. They bought them. They got to make some
Speaker 1: money on it. So this is what they're doing. They're
Speaker 1: going to put ads in the updates tab. I never
Speaker 1: even looked at the updates tab until I just looked
Speaker 1: at this. It is basically like the status update area.
Speaker 1: So that's where you're going to start seeing ads if
Speaker 1: you're looking at that section. Most people, I think, are
Speaker 1: looking at the chats, which is what I use it for.
Speaker 1: WhatsApp was was instrumental in Mexico because there's you know,
Speaker 1: ten or fifteen of us on the trip, and we
Speaker 1: all have different phones, this and that, and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: can we just use WhatsApp. Let's just make a WhatsApp group.
Speaker 1: And it's perfect because everyone is It's a level playing field.
Speaker 1: WhatsApp works the same on every single device, So you
Speaker 1: want to send a big picture, video link, whatever, no
Speaker 1: matter what phone you have, you can use it. And
Speaker 1: so that's what people love. I mean, outside the US,
Speaker 1: WhatsApp is huge. I mean everyone uses it. Hearing the
Speaker 1: US people use it, but you know, I message is
Speaker 1: really kind of the king of everything. Sadly, I say, sadly,
Speaker 1: because again I like cross platform applications, and yes, I
Speaker 1: message has gotten a lot better with RCS versus you know,
Speaker 1: exchanging messages between iPhone and Android has gotten a lot
Speaker 1: better because of RCS. But still people are not I Message,
Speaker 1: and people get all bent out of shape. Oh you're
Speaker 1: making the group green or whatever. That's nonsense to me
Speaker 1: in a world of technology that should work equally well
Speaker 1: for everyone anyway. Besides the point, so your personal chats,
Speaker 1: your messages will remain ad free and most importantly, end
Speaker 1: to end encryptied, which is really what WhatsApp is all about.
Speaker 1: No one can tap into those messages that you sent
Speaker 1: on WhatsApp. No one, no government, no, not even Meta themselves.
Speaker 1: So that's why people like it because it is private
Speaker 1: and encrypted by default. Let's go to Sherry in Orange County. Sharry,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 5: Oh Rich, nice to meet you.
Speaker 1: Well, nice to meet you you too via phone.
Speaker 5: Okay, so my question is kind of a interesting, Uh dylmma,
Speaker 5: I have I've retired almost three years ago.
Speaker 10: Congratulations, thank you, and I have three issues.
Speaker 5: First off, on my iPhone, go in and I'm trying
Speaker 5: to enter in my email address. It goes to my
Speaker 5: work email address, and I've looked all over and I
Speaker 5: can't figure out how to remove that. It's like an
Speaker 5: instant thing.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's an instant thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you know, you you start typing it in
Speaker 5: and a little auto we put in your email address.
Speaker 1: Oh auto fill, yes, yeah, go to.
Speaker 5: My work email. And then then the next two are
Speaker 5: that I set up the Facebook for my work years
Speaker 5: and years ago, and I also set up Instagram, and
Speaker 5: I guess I'm the main admin on it, and the
Speaker 5: girl that took over can't remove me because I'm I
Speaker 5: guess still working there and.
Speaker 2: Superior to her.
Speaker 5: But I don't know anyway. I need to figure out
Speaker 5: how to do that too. I know I probably have
Speaker 5: to make her the main admin too and then delete me,
Speaker 5: but I can't find.
Speaker 2: How to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that's that the admin thing is, uh is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got to look into that because I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I've got I've got my wife as an admin on
Speaker 1: my page, and I gotta I gotta see if you
Speaker 1: can switch that. But let's let's tackle the the autofil first.
Speaker 1: I think where that's coming from is your There's two
Speaker 1: places that you can potentially do that first off, in
Speaker 1: your contacts if you go to your con If you
Speaker 1: go to your contacts and you go to yourself, which
Speaker 1: is my card up at the top, you should delete
Speaker 1: your work email out of there.
Speaker 5: Under my card?
Speaker 9: Did you say yes?
Speaker 1: Under my card? And so that's that's probably where it's
Speaker 1: populating that from the other place you can go is
Speaker 1: into settings and there is a keyboard. Let's see here, keyboard,
Speaker 1: let's see so is your is your email address in there?
Speaker 5: Well? I had like three emails in there, but it
Speaker 5: always goes to my work one first.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so I would I would delete the work
Speaker 1: one out of there and just that way that that
Speaker 1: should probably fix that. But I'm going to look up
Speaker 1: under the keyboard on your computer there is reset keyboard dictionary,
Speaker 1: So I would tap that and see if that helps.
Speaker 1: Because what happened is if you if you selected that
Speaker 1: auto complete a couple of times throughout the years, your
Speaker 1: iPhone just learns that that's what you're using, and they
Speaker 1: kind of put that there at the top because it's
Speaker 1: it's just what they're doing.
Speaker 5: If I delete them all or delete before I do that,
Speaker 5: am I deleting everything? Then?
Speaker 1: Well? Do you have a lot of stuff in your
Speaker 1: custom keyboard. I don't think you do. I mean it
Speaker 1: probably chance, but I'm just wondering chances are you don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. It's just basically anything that the keyboard has
Speaker 1: learned over the years, like if you corrected someone's name
Speaker 1: or something like that. I don't think it's a big
Speaker 1: deal to start over on that. If that's my first
Speaker 1: first start with the contact Go to your contact card
Speaker 1: and delete out your work email address, and I think
Speaker 1: that should fix it. Restart your phone and see if
Speaker 1: that helps the next time you go to type in
Speaker 1: an email. For what it's worth, Sherry, uh. I. For
Speaker 1: some reason, the only email address my iPhone does not
Speaker 1: auto complete is my email address. It does every other
Speaker 1: email address in the world except mine, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure why that's doing that. So I've got it in
Speaker 1: my contact let me just maybe, you know what, let
Speaker 1: me just make sure it's in my contact card now
Speaker 1: that I've got you here. Yeah, I've got it right there,
Speaker 1: and so I its just for some reason, it auto
Speaker 1: completes every other email address in the world except for mine.
Speaker 1: So that's it. Okay. Number two, change the admin on
Speaker 1: a Facebook page.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 5: Change it on Facebook. Is it also changing on Instagram
Speaker 5: or do you go both places?
Speaker 1: Uh? That I am not sure about. Usually with the
Speaker 1: with the if their accounts are linked. Are the accounts linked, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: then it typically should change it on both. So what
Speaker 1: I would do is, I think now I'm just kind
Speaker 1: of imagining how you would do this, is that you
Speaker 1: would name the new person as an administrator. Have you
Speaker 1: done that?
Speaker 5: I haven't looked at it recently, but I probably did.
Speaker 5: But she said she wasn't the like maybe she was
Speaker 5: a contributor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would set her as the set her as
Speaker 1: the main admin or set her as an admin, and
Speaker 1: then if you can set her as the main admin
Speaker 1: and then you can go through and have her I
Speaker 1: think she might have to delete you so.
Speaker 13: And she said you couldn't go well, right.
Speaker 1: But she might not have been a complete admin, So
Speaker 1: I would I would go into there and check your
Speaker 1: Facebook settings. That's going to be under settings and then
Speaker 1: page roll. So let's see. Uh Facebook, It's Facebook settings
Speaker 1: are a nightmare. They are literally the worst. They are
Speaker 1: the worst setup of anything that I've seen on the
Speaker 1: Internet because there's just so many of them, and it
Speaker 1: depends if you're managing a page versus a private account,
Speaker 1: which in my case I have both, so I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't go through these on the air right here
Speaker 1: because there's just too many settings. But typically go into
Speaker 1: your settings on Facebook, look under page rolls, and if
Speaker 1: it's not page rolls, it could also be page set up,
Speaker 1: depending on the version of Facebook that you're using. I
Speaker 1: think you're probably using I would hope the new page experience,
Speaker 1: so that's under settings, and then page set up, and
Speaker 1: then choose the user, give them access and then you'll
Speaker 1: have to confirm that and then they can probably go
Speaker 1: through and delete you. Okay, all right, sure you have
Speaker 1: a little bit of homework.
Speaker 5: When I set up Facebook and then Instagram came into existence,
Speaker 5: and then I want to say they're connected, because that's
Speaker 5: how I got into Instagram, so it should be connected, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they should be connected like mine's connected because I
Speaker 1: mine's all under the same account, So as long as
Speaker 1: it's in the same account, it should be connected. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't if it's not, and you'll just have
Speaker 1: to do the same thing on Instagram.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, Sherry, keep me posted. Go to Rich on
Speaker 1: tech Dot TV send me an email let me know
Speaker 1: if any of that stuff worked, because you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: I like do a follow up because we talk about
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff on this show, and I like
Speaker 1: to know if the things that we talk about actually
Speaker 1: work when you try to do them, because I can't
Speaker 1: do everything while I'm on the air because it's just's.
Speaker 1: I mean, like settings alone on Instagram. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the page here, there's just there's so many and they
Speaker 1: change like every week. So I'm looking at my page setup. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, page set up, and I'm looking for
Speaker 1: the page recommendations, page access. Okay, here we go page access,
Speaker 1: and there's me and there's my wife, and okay, so
Speaker 1: if I yeah, I can set let's see remove access,
Speaker 1: remove access. Oh I can remove access to my own self.
Speaker 1: That's scary, but yeah. So if you look at it,
Speaker 1: it should be where you can add someone as an
Speaker 1: admin right there. And so that's what I would do
Speaker 1: and just add her as the admin, make sure she
Speaker 1: has complete access, and then she can go into this
Speaker 1: the people with Facebook access setting and delete you out.
Speaker 1: Good question eighty eight rich one O one eight eight
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Speaker 1: and eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four two four one zero one more after this. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demurro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, talking technology website for the show Rich on
Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Let's go to uh Tom in or cut, California.
Speaker 1: Tom You're on with Rich by Rich.
Speaker 6: Thank you for calling me back. Great show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, glad glad to have you here. What can
Speaker 1: I help you with?
Speaker 6: I'm in the market for a new laptop. I have
Speaker 6: an old, old HP and I'm looking to pick up
Speaker 6: another laptop. I'm not into gaming, not into downloading movies
Speaker 6: or music. I guess I'm kind of boring. I mainly
Speaker 6: just surf the web, email, and pay my bills online.
Speaker 6: That's about basically all I use my laptop for. I
Speaker 6: had this HP for I'm still on a Windows seven
Speaker 6: if you believe.
Speaker 1: It, Oh my gosh, I burn it, burn that thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah I am, I'm just kidding. Don't don't. I don't
Speaker 1: want the environmental do do not burn batteries. Please do
Speaker 1: not burn your laptops properly.
Speaker 6: Recycled anyway, it's been working great. I have no complaints,
Speaker 6: but it's getting tired and it's been flown down, so
Speaker 6: I won't if you have any recommendations for another laptop.
Speaker 1: Now, how long have you had this laptop?
Speaker 6: Well, it's a Pavilion E seven thirteen thirty DX.
Speaker 1: Not TAB Oh my gosh, okay, HP.
Speaker 6: You know it's worth great.
Speaker 1: No, that's that's what I'm saying. I mean, look at
Speaker 1: this is the thing. Like we had a caller earlier
Speaker 1: wanted to upgrade their computer after one year. No, computers
Speaker 1: should be lasting minimum four years.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: If you're a power user like me, like I switch
Speaker 1: my I switch out my computer every usually every two
Speaker 1: to three years at the max. Right, But I'm a
Speaker 1: power user, so I need to do that. But if
Speaker 1: you're just an average user, that's like you said, you're
Speaker 1: just doing bills, you're just surfing the web. Your computer
Speaker 1: should last a long time. With a little bit of
Speaker 1: maintenance and just kind of keeping things nice and clean
Speaker 1: and up to date. You should have a computer that
Speaker 1: lasts a long time.
Speaker 6: So it's probably over fifteen twenty years I've had it.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. That's an incredible run.
Speaker 6: I'm looking up grade, okay, get in the twenty first century.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. So I mean, when it comes
Speaker 1: to specs, what I would recommend is you don't need
Speaker 1: super high end stuff. So I'm just going to give
Speaker 1: you the basic specs I think you should be looking for. Okay,
Speaker 1: so number one Intel or AMD chip. Now, most of
Speaker 1: the chips these days are numbered, whether it's A three, five, seven, nine,
Speaker 1: So I would go for you, you probably just need
Speaker 1: a five. So Intel in Intel Core five, they have
Speaker 1: two different like levels of that, so one is like
Speaker 1: Intel Core one's Intel Core Ultra. You know Ultra obviously
Speaker 1: is gonna be a little bit better. It's got the
Speaker 1: AI stuff, but you'd be fine with the Core. So
Speaker 1: but yeah, Intel Core seven or Core five, or you
Speaker 1: can go with the a MD. I would say when
Speaker 1: it comes to am D, you know, same thing. You
Speaker 1: can go five or seven. But you know, they also
Speaker 1: have these new computers that have the Qualcomm chips in them,
Speaker 1: which is like a Snapdragon X. Those are gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit less powered, but for what you're needing,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be just fine as well. So if you
Speaker 1: see a computer with snap Dragon X that's gonna be fine.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Now when it comes to memory, uh, the other one
Speaker 1: is uh, the memory you probably want. You probably want
Speaker 1: minimum sixteen gigs of memory, So that's RAM. And when
Speaker 1: it comes to the graphics, you know, the do GPU like,
Speaker 1: you don't need a separate graphics if it's built into
Speaker 1: the CPU, that's fine. Memory sixteen gigs is fine if
Speaker 1: you want to make this thing. I mean, your last
Speaker 1: computer lasted so long. If you want to go thirty
Speaker 1: two gigs to make it last even longer, that's great. Storage.
Speaker 1: You want a I would say probably five twelve to
Speaker 1: one terabyte gig hard drive and most of the time
Speaker 1: these are going to be SSD drives. That's going to
Speaker 1: be much faster than a standard hard drive. Let's see
Speaker 1: what else. And of course you just want to look
Speaker 1: for your USB C ports. You want to make sure
Speaker 1: it has that. You want good wireless. I think that's
Speaker 1: going to do it. So brands specifically, I think the
Speaker 1: brand to look at that I really like as the
Speaker 1: a SEUs. I like two brands. The Vvo Book is
Speaker 1: going to be sort of an overall great computer, the
Speaker 1: Vivo Book. They often go on sale at best Buy,
Speaker 1: so do not pay full price, but like this one
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at, this VVO book S fourteen, which
Speaker 1: is highly rated. It's nine hundred and fifty dollars. This
Speaker 1: thing been on sale for as low as like five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, So definitely be on the lookout for, you know,
Speaker 1: deals on that. And you want something that has a
Speaker 1: big screen, make sure you get fifteen fourteen fifteen sixteen
Speaker 1: inch screen is going to be best, especially if you're
Speaker 1: using your computer for all those years. The other one
Speaker 1: I like is the one I'm using over here. This
Speaker 1: is a a sus Zen book that's going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more expensive, a little more sleek and slick,
Speaker 1: but that's a really good one as well. So those
Speaker 1: are two good laptops, but really, any laptop that you
Speaker 1: find that has those specs that I mentioned, I think
Speaker 1: you're going to good with Tom. Thanks for the call
Speaker 1: and thanks for using a computer that long great for
Speaker 1: the world. Coming up, we're going to talk to Molly
Speaker 1: to Frank, host of digit Our, author of Digital DTOs,
Speaker 1: a two week tech reset for kids. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Rich On tech dot tv is the website.
Speaker 1: Joining me now is Mollie de Frank. She's got a
Speaker 1: new book called Digital Detox, The two Week Tech Reset
Speaker 1: for Kids. Mollie, thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 13: Thanks for having me rich.
Speaker 1: So, this is a problem that is happening everywhere when
Speaker 1: I was in I was in Mexico City this week
Speaker 1: and I was watching I'd love to watch how people
Speaker 1: use their phones and on the plane, just everywhere. And
Speaker 1: so this is not just kids, but like pretty much
Speaker 1: everyone is in this swiping culture of flip flip flip
Speaker 1: flip flip, Like attention span is like one second and
Speaker 1: it's getting out of control. So what inspired you to
Speaker 1: write this book?
Speaker 14: Well, as a mom to six kids, I hear exactly
Speaker 14: what you're saying. It definitely resonates, And honestly, it was
Speaker 14: out of our own experience. My kids had too much
Speaker 14: technology and I did not appreciate how much their digital
Speaker 14: entertainment was squashing their creativity.
Speaker 13: It was putting them in bad moods.
Speaker 14: It was making them fight with each other in ways
Speaker 14: that I had not seen. It made my own childhood
Speaker 14: squabbles look like nothing in comparison. I was watching, like
Speaker 14: wwe live in my living room, and I knew something
Speaker 14: had to change. So we actually did some thing crazy,
Speaker 14: and we took away all of their digital entertainment and
Speaker 14: it solved probably eighty percent of our parenting problems. And
Speaker 14: I couldn't believe it. So I wrote this book about
Speaker 14: how to help other parents do it. And I've had
Speaker 14: so many parents come back to me and say, I
Speaker 14: cannot believe how quickly and how well this worked in
Speaker 14: my family.
Speaker 1: So well, you described what was happening in your family,
Speaker 1: You describe what's happening in like ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: households in America right now, and it happens in mine too.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I call my kids like
Speaker 1: iPad zombies. When they're on their iPad, it's like nothing
Speaker 1: else in the world matters. And I've said this many times.
Speaker 1: When I was a kid, you know, I was outside,
Speaker 1: I was and I'm not. Look. I get that the
Speaker 1: world has changed in the time since I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and I get it, But at the same time, you
Speaker 1: still need to be a kid, and when you're on
Speaker 1: your screen, you're just not like it's very different of
Speaker 1: how you're developing as a child.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, and to be honest, like it's a very difficult
Speaker 14: time to parent right now. Because we're looking back at
Speaker 14: our childhood going, yeah, pack me and all that.
Speaker 13: I grew up on that stuff.
Speaker 14: It's fine Saturday morning cartoons, but the technology has changed
Speaker 14: so much over one generation that it's not the same.
Speaker 14: And just like you mentioned, you've got these kids, they're
Speaker 14: like iPad kids. They look like zombies. They're addicted to
Speaker 14: these devices. So parents are kind of scratching their heads, going, gosh,
Speaker 14: the marketing told me, you know, giving my kids a
Speaker 14: tablet early would turn them into a rocket scientist. But
Speaker 14: that's not what I'm seeing. I'm seeing kids who are
Speaker 14: bored and irritable and ornery. And what went wrong and
Speaker 14: what we know and what we're seeing us the research
Speaker 14: is just pouring out, is that this is not the
Speaker 14: same technology, and it's purposefully designed to addict our kids,
Speaker 14: and there are there are very little, if any redemptive
Speaker 14: value in our kids digital entertainment right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, And I actually think this may turn
Speaker 1: out to be the Tobacco of this generation. Like it really,
Speaker 1: like like you said, there's a lot of studies, but
Speaker 1: like parents don't want to believe it, and it's so
Speaker 1: ingrained in how kids function these days, Like when it
Speaker 1: comes to keeping it in touch with kids and playing
Speaker 1: video games. Like everything's online on the everything filters through
Speaker 1: the screen, and so that also makes it a challenge.
Speaker 1: So what is kind of the framework of your two
Speaker 1: week digital detalks.
Speaker 14: Yes, so I recommend parents, if you notice in your
Speaker 14: kids that they're irritable or they have their interests really
Speaker 14: don't go beyond the screen. If the screen timer dings
Speaker 14: and they fall apart, if you tell them go play outside,
Speaker 14: build a fort, read a book, they say that's boring.
Speaker 14: Those are red flags that shows you my kids might
Speaker 14: need a reset, they might need to do a digital detox.
Speaker 14: So I recommend going cold turkey no digital entertainment for
Speaker 14: two full weeks. And I know that sounds really scary,
Speaker 14: but I promise you can do it and it will
Speaker 14: absolutely change your life.
Speaker 13: It'll change your kids for the better.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, so once you do the two week digital detoks,
Speaker 1: then how do you reintroduce all this stuff?
Speaker 14: Yes, great question, because the goal here is not to
Speaker 14: move off the grid and go full like ma angles
Speaker 14: on everyone. I mean, maybe that's your goal, it wasn't ours.
Speaker 13: We enjoy digital entertainment.
Speaker 1: That's like a little house in the Prairie reference. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, we love Little House Egad.
Speaker 1: I got that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we called my kids call it l HOP. They've
Speaker 14: like given it a nickname as an acronym, LHOP. Anyway,
Speaker 14: we love that show.
Speaker 13: It's a great Yeah, it's quality programming.
Speaker 14: But yes, So the goal isn't to move off the
Speaker 14: grid completely. The goal is to put technology in its
Speaker 14: right place. So the first half of the book is
Speaker 14: all the details, what to do in the trenches if
Speaker 14: you take your kids technology away, how to get through
Speaker 14: the days when they're losing their minds ideas for what
Speaker 14: to do for every type of family. And then the
Speaker 14: second half of the book is how to make a
Speaker 14: new long term plan that sustains those great results while
Speaker 14: you're still using and enjoying digital entertainment in its right place.
Speaker 13: That was really important to our family.
Speaker 14: My kids love Mario Kart together, they love, you know,
Speaker 14: with some video games with a friend, and we don't
Speaker 14: need to have shame or stress over these things once
Speaker 14: we've agreed that now this is the right place for it.
Speaker 13: You know, it's a lot.
Speaker 14: You can kind of compare it to sugar in our
Speaker 14: world and our culture and our standard American diet, there's
Speaker 14: so much sugar, and if you take it all out
Speaker 14: and you do like a sugar detox, you're going to
Speaker 14: taste your food a lot better and you're gonna realize, Gosh,
Speaker 14: I did not need that much sugar. Once in a while,
Speaker 14: treat is fine. Similar with your kids digital entertainment, you
Speaker 14: take it all away. Now their taste buds, their creativity,
Speaker 14: what they're interested in is completely changed. It's a lot healthier,
Speaker 14: and then you can decide, yeah, a treat once, you know,
Speaker 14: every now and again. But our kids today, the standard
Speaker 14: American screen diet, eight to twelve year old kids are
Speaker 14: spending forty hours per week on digital entertainment, and thirteen
Speaker 14: to eighteen year olds are spending fifty hours a week.
Speaker 14: I mean, these kids are like working the equivalent of
Speaker 14: a full time job on just digital entertainment that doesn't
Speaker 14: even count school.
Speaker 1: I always think that about I always say that to
Speaker 1: my kids. I'm like, you're doing this like it's a job,
Speaker 1: Like you literally act like it's your job to be
Speaker 1: on like Minecraft and what's the other thing, roadblocks. I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of roadblocks Minecraft. I'll you know, I
Speaker 1: know it's silly but I don't mind it as much.
Speaker 1: But roadblocks I really take issue with because I feel
Speaker 1: like it is ninety nine point nine percent nonsense in
Speaker 1: that world. Yeah, and I think.
Speaker 14: That's great too, because I'm all about parents choosing the
Speaker 14: best technology that fits their kids.
Speaker 13: No one knows your kids like you do, so I
Speaker 13: don't think.
Speaker 14: Parents need to feel shame or stress about their rules
Speaker 14: compared to someone else's rules. You know, if you have
Speaker 14: a kid with ADHD, for example, you're probably going to
Speaker 14: notice that that child maybe responds or reacts more negatively
Speaker 14: to tablet time or video gaming.
Speaker 13: They might fall apart worse afterwards.
Speaker 14: And maybe you have another kid who doesn't have ADHD,
Speaker 14: who can handle a little more without falling apart.
Speaker 13: And there's science to support that.
Speaker 14: So take confidence as mom or dad, and no, gosh,
Speaker 14: I'm going to make these rules that fit for my
Speaker 14: family and my family's values, and I'm not going to
Speaker 14: feel stressed about it. But I just really want to
Speaker 14: encourage parents there's a way to get back in the
Speaker 14: driver's seat, because most parents just feel out of control.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now we are getting into the summer yours. A
Speaker 1: lot of kids are already in their summer break, So
Speaker 1: it seems like the worst possible time for parents to
Speaker 1: start this digital detox. So how do you get started
Speaker 1: with this? Like, how do you get the buy in
Speaker 1: from the kids, the spouse, everyone.
Speaker 14: Actually riche The summer is the best time to start
Speaker 14: a digital detox because I promise you you will enjoy
Speaker 14: your kids more for the rest of the summer when
Speaker 14: they're not a screen zombie. Okay, Like, if your kids
Speaker 14: are losing their minds, they're falling apart, they can be
Speaker 14: unpleasant to be around when they're amped up on their devices.
Speaker 14: But if you can plan out two weeks right at
Speaker 14: the front end of your summer, most families I help
Speaker 14: report that either it's easy immediately, It's like flipping a switch.
Speaker 14: That's how it was with my kids. Some families say
Speaker 14: the first day or two can be difficult, their kids
Speaker 14: are complaining, they're getting used to it. But really, what
Speaker 14: you're doing is you're resetting the dopamine levels in your kids' brains,
Speaker 14: because these devices are purposefully engineered to release so much
Speaker 14: dopamine in the brain that, by comparison the dopamine that
Speaker 14: kids are getting from things in the real world, it
Speaker 14: doesn't even register. So that's what you're doing. You're giving
Speaker 14: them a dopamine reset. And now after a couple of days,
Speaker 14: after two weeks, now they can look around and actually
Speaker 14: enjoy going for a walk or going for a bike ride,
Speaker 14: or you know, reading a book.
Speaker 1: So you're just reawakening simple things. Oh my gosh, little
Speaker 1: how do you? I mean, how do you? I always say,
Speaker 1: how do you compare with this world? There's like this
Speaker 1: world on your screen is like there's so much going on,
Speaker 1: and when you sit down to like read a book
Speaker 1: or do something simple or just play in the backyard,
Speaker 1: it's like it's also simple. It's like, wait, it doesn't
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't fire all these cylinders. Like you said,
Speaker 1: the dopamine hit all right, so we got a run.
Speaker 1: But one tip, what's a small step parents can take
Speaker 1: if they can't go all in on the detox right away,
Speaker 1: what's one small step they can take to reduce the
Speaker 1: screen overload.
Speaker 14: I really recommend you get the book Digital Detalks. I
Speaker 14: recommend you do some research. There's a lot of great
Speaker 14: research out there. Jonathan Height has a lot of great
Speaker 14: data about the effects this technology is having on our kids.
Speaker 14: And then I would say, talk with your spouse, have
Speaker 14: a conversation about when to do with detox. Even if
Speaker 14: you want to do a mini one over a weekend,
Speaker 14: you know, talk it through.
Speaker 13: I think that if you're.
Speaker 14: Trying the same old thing, setting timers, taking it away,
Speaker 14: adding on more screen time later for better behavior, it's
Speaker 14: not It doesn't work. And I think you know if
Speaker 14: you're listening to your parent, that doesn't work because you
Speaker 14: need to do a full dopamine reset. So I recommend
Speaker 14: doing some research, plan a date, put it on the calendar,
Speaker 14: grab a friend, try it.
Speaker 13: You won't get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, Mollie de Frank. The book is Digital Detox,
Speaker 1: the two week Tech Reset for Kids. Now, are you
Speaker 1: going to do one for adults next? Because you know
Speaker 1: all the things you just mentioned are the same thing
Speaker 1: with adults. We can just our brains are just more
Speaker 1: engineered to handle all this nonsense.
Speaker 14: Check out the last chapter, Rich, it's about digital de
Speaker 14: talks for mom and dad.
Speaker 1: Cover there we go. All right, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me on the show. Rich on tech dot tv
Speaker 1: is the website to go to if you want to
Speaker 1: link to Molly to Frank's book. Time to Flip the Switch,
Speaker 1: Get those kids off those screens, get them outside, find
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. We're gonna get to the feedbag.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so many you know. I come in
Speaker 1: every week with like a million things to talk about.
Speaker 1: I don't always get to all of them, but I
Speaker 1: do want to mention a couple of things. First off,
Speaker 1: there's a new camera app from Adobe called Indigo. This
Speaker 1: was developed by two of the original creators of the
Speaker 1: Pixel and Google camera app. So if you want to
Speaker 1: upgrade the camera app on your iPhone, maybe you have
Speaker 1: an older iPhone, this will work all the way back
Speaker 1: to iPhone twelve pro and up. So yeah, check it out.
Speaker 1: It's Indigo. I've been trying it out and it just
Speaker 1: gives you a lot more control uses computational photography and
Speaker 1: if you like I mean, this may not be for
Speaker 1: like the casual average, but if you like to edit
Speaker 1: things in light room and Adobe, this is probably for you.
Speaker 1: So the goal is to give your iPhone photos a
Speaker 1: more natural, sl art style look. So again it's called
Speaker 1: the Indigo Camera. If you just like to try, you know,
Speaker 1: camera apps. That one's really cool. The other one I
Speaker 1: was posting a lot of pictures with was the West
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the feedback. We've got a
Speaker 1: lot to get through. John Wrights In I picked up
Speaker 1: a set of shocks Open Run pro to sport headphones
Speaker 1: at Best Buy phenomenal sound. I got tired of earbuds
Speaker 1: jammed in my ears and over the year headphones were
Speaker 1: just too bulky for workouts. These are lightweight, stay put,
Speaker 1: and you never sweat into them. Definitely worth checking out, John, Yes,
Speaker 1: I do love the Shocks Open Run. I don't know
Speaker 1: what model number I have, but I've been testing them
Speaker 1: out and yeah, they're great because they use what's called
Speaker 1: bone conduction, so you put them basically, they don't go
Speaker 1: in your ears at all. They sit on your face,
Speaker 1: like almost right in front of your ears, and then
Speaker 1: go around the back of your neck. Yes, they do
Speaker 1: sound great. I'm not as good as like traditional air
Speaker 1: pods or headphones, like you said, but if you want
Speaker 1: to be more aware of your surroundings, you don't want
Speaker 1: anything in your ears. That's going to be a great
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Speaker 1: you call them. Ken writes in I recently bought a
Speaker 1: Moto G five G phone and I've been trying over
Speaker 1: and over to get the eSIM working with no luck.
Speaker 1: I'm using consumer cellular, and eventually they just had to
Speaker 1: send me a physical SIM card. Is this a common problem?
Speaker 1: By the way, I was born in Manhattan. They used
Speaker 1: to love looking across the river at the amusement park
Speaker 1: on the New Jersey side. I enjoy listening to your show.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ken. Yeah, eSIMs are hit or miss. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they work perfectly and flawlessly. Other times. Yeah, you'll get
Speaker 1: some issues with them, but I would say for the
Speaker 1: majority of people they probably work pretty well. But a
Speaker 1: physical SIM offers more flexibility because it can be easily
Speaker 1: moved from phone to phone if you're switching phones a lot.
Speaker 1: But on the flip side, the eSIM is embedded into
Speaker 1: the phone, so there's no moving parts, there's nothing to lose,
Speaker 1: nothing to pop out, and it's easy to switch theoretically
Speaker 1: from one phone to another. So maybe in the future
Speaker 1: you can give another run, But you probably want to
Speaker 1: go into a physical store if they had one, to
Speaker 1: get some help with that next time around. Elizabeth writes
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Speaker 1: show has helped me learn so much. I use all
Speaker 1: Mac devices, which I love, but I run a PC
Speaker 1: just for my CAD program. Not long ago, you recommended
Speaker 1: a great simple printer that scans copies prints. I wrote
Speaker 1: it down but lost the note. Could you remind me? Yes,
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Speaker 1: make sure this is the right thing that I wrote
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Speaker 1: got to look in the show notes, but it's been well.
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Speaker 1: Bob writes and I use unique passwords for every site
Speaker 1: I visit and rely on a password manager Bitwarden to
Speaker 1: generate and store them. But today there are login issues
Speaker 1: with Bitwarden's US servers, which means that functionality is compromised. Luckily,
Speaker 1: I have copies of the really important passwords. Just a reminder.
Speaker 1: In the digital world, anything can break, that is true.
Speaker 1: The downside of you using a password manager, if you
Speaker 1: can't log into it, that could be a problem. So
Speaker 1: be sure you save the master password and the recovery password,
Speaker 1: and you can export your passwords out of there to save.
Speaker 1: But you got to be careful because that's usually unencrypted,
Speaker 1: and so if you just have that file floating around
Speaker 1: in your computer, that could be really bad. So maybe
Speaker 1: for your main passwords to like Gmail, Google, Facebook, Microsoft,
Speaker 1: maybe keep those written down somewhere in a safe in
Speaker 1: your house. Good reminder. Richard and Washington say says, Hey,
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Speaker 1: this legit or is it like Napster? Too good of
Speaker 1: a thing to last? Yeah, Richard, I do not recommend
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Speaker 1: It could expose you to different things. So I cannot
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