WEBVTT - Pixel 10 first look, car tracking devices & a landline for kids (136, Aug 23, 2025) 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.560 Details on Google's new Pixel ten smartphones. Another streaming service 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:10.719 is hiking prices and the startup that's reinventing the landline 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:16.079 for kids. Plus, as always, your tech questions answered. What's 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.240 going on? I'm Rich Debiro and this is Rich on Tech. 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:21.960 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.799 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.680 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:32.680 that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 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It worked for me, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.160 so we're going to talk about how that does, how 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:23.720 that works, and see Scott Brown, senior editor at Android Authority. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.720 He's been on the show before. We were both at 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.400 the Google Pixel event in Brooklyn. He is going to 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.600 break it down and he has had so much success. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.919 He started basically his own YouTube channel just a couple 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.880 of weeks ago, and man, it is taken off in 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.680 such a big way, so that's really cool. And then 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:46.560 later we've got a senior editor from XDA to share 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.520 the simple steps you need to know to deep clean 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:54.120 your Windows PC so it runs faster and smoother. That's 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.640 going to be a great segment as well. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:57.920 Well. Welcome to the show. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.960 If you're streaming us on ktail plus, thank you for 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:02.440 doing that. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.800 Welcome to watching the show. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.920 We don't stream in live time, but you can download 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.079 that app and stream the show later. We stream the 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.480 first ten minutes of it, so if you want a 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.760 little behind the scenes, you could see me in my 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.680 Chucky Cheese T shirt today. Yes, I'll talk more about 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.080 my visit to the new Chucky Cheese concept later, but 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:25.440 this week, Yes, in New York City in Brooklyn for 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.440 the Pixel event. I actually I told you my mom 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.440 was in town for many, many weeks, so I actually 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.600 got to fly back there with her, which was great. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.079 We've only done this a couple of times because she's 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.760 always coming back and forth between the coasts, but it's 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:40.400 not always that I have a reason to go back 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.640 with her, but I did this time, and so I 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.919 got to fly next to her, which was great, and 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.720 to me, it was more of a lesson in like 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.320 the average person experiencing technology on a plane. So number One, 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.800 she opens up her phone, none of her Netflix downloads 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.600 were there. How many times does that happen to people 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.240 all the time? Number Two, her earbuds wouldn't pair with 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.120 her phone. That was another struggle, and also the seatback 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:05.600 and I was trying to help her with that, and 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.080 then of course general Wi Fi issues connecting. I showed 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.120 her how to connect to the Wi Fi on the 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.400 plane and how she can get her messaging for free, 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.800 which a lot of the airlines offer. So she was 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.120 like text messaging the whole flight. That was pretty cool. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.399 So it was a great experience to be there, mom 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.480 up in the air, and we had a smooth journey, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.960 so that was always nice. But I was in town 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:30.359 for the Pixel ten launch. This was not your typical 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:31.200 tech launch. 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:32.360 Let me tell you. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.520 They were very mysterious. Google was very mysterious about this thing. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.160 They did not invite a lot of people. I was 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.480 apparently one of the chosen ones along with I would say, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.640 there's just a couple hundred people there, not your typical 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:48.160 giant swath of tech journalists. This was on a set 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.120 in Brooklyn, and it was literally they recreated a late 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.840 night talk show set and it was complete with Jimmy Fallon. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.720 He was there, he hosted it. They had applause signs, 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.720 They had celebrities on stage, a studio audience, which I 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.880 was a part of. All these camera people and they 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.800 had a whole bunch of celebs, and they did this 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.800 as like instead of just your typical tech presentation, they 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.360 did this as almost like a TV show with the 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.920 Google Pixel ten series as the starring role. So they 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.560 had various guests that came up, like Alex Cooper, she's 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.760 a popular podcaster. She came up and demoed something on 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.839 the camera. Cody Rigsby, he's a very popular Peloton instructor. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.240 He demoed a feature on the fitness app or sorry, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:32.000 the fitness of the Apple watch Apple Watch, look at 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.720 me falling into the Apple trap? The pixel watch then 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:40.000 the Jonas Brothers, actually a Jonas brother was there talking 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.719 about how much they love camera and video on the 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.800 Pixel and they actually shot their music video in New 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.880 York City on the new Pixel and so they premiered 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.080 that as well. And then Stephen Curry was there as well. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:55.560 Stephan Curry was there as well to I guess he 0:04:55.720 --> 0:05:01.200 is the new Google Fitness ambassador, so there he was there, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:05.600 just on screen, not actually in person. So anyway, small 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.760 invite only crowd. It was, you know, it got mixed reactions. Obviously, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.520 the tech press is like, you know, all these hot 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.960 takes online, Oh it didn't work, it was so horrible. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.839 It was fine, it was funny. It was different. The 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.040 tech people that are interested in the phone are always 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:21.800 going to go out and read the specs and see 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.240 exactly what this thing can do. But for the average 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.760 person that's just maybe watching on YouTube saying, oh, let's 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.000 let me see what's going on here. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.000 It was fine. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:30.479 I mean, I don't know if they'll do it again, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.240 but it was It was good for them to take 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.360 that chance. So what did we get at the event? 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.120 Brand new Pixel phones. Pixel ten that's the standard phone. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.240 Then you've got the Pixel ten Pro, and that comes 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.200 in two flavors, the Pro and then the Xcel, which 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.480 is just a larger version of that. So the Pixel 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.640 ten has a lot of the things that the Pixel ten, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.080 you know, the pixels known for. It's got all the 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.320 AI features, got the same processor, it's got a three 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.680 camera lens set up now, so you've got a five 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:01.360 times telephoto zoom lens which is great, ten times optical 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.440 quality zoom, and then up to twenty times super rezoom, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.640 which means they're using a little AI to clean up 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.440 those pictures. Then when you get to the Pro, and 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.719 I think for most people the Base Pro is probably 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.880 going to be your best bet overall. I think the 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.000 ten is just fine, but I think it's like, if 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.680 you want to step up just a little bit, go 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.440 with the Pro. But this has the six point three 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.720 inch display or a six point eight inch. You get 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.200 your choice of screen size basically, and then it comes 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.360 with sixteen gigabytes of RAM, which is incredible. I love 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.279 that that they did that. Based storage on the Pro 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.240 is one hundred and twenty eight gigabytes, but even better 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.919 on the Pro Excel it is two hundred and fifty 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.359 six gigabytes, So that is awesome. It's got a triple camera, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.160 a similar triple camera setup, except this one can go 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.000 one hundred times super rezuom. And so I've got the 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.839 phone right here and tested this out last night. I 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:59.040 took a picture of a sign super far away. I 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.919 could not believe it. It actually takes it's not really 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.760 it's zooming in, but then it takes whatever you zoomed 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.440 in on, and it literally just uses AI to kind 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.280 of recreate the picture pixel by pixel. And so this 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.080 picture I took was of a street sign, and it 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.520 looks a little AI ish, but it was just I mean, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.840 it's just wild the things that we're doing now with AI. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:20.679 I don't even know if you can call that zooming, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.480 because now it's just basically AI is looking at what 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.040 you zoomed in on and just making it better. So 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.440 we'll see how that works out for people, but it's 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.320 a pretty cool party trick. The biggest feature I think 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.960 for most people is that they finally added magnets to 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.200 the back of the pixel lineup, which is great because 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.360 this is the first Android device that has magnets built in, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:42.720 at least here in the US. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.880 Maybe somewhere else they have them, but not here in 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:45.360 the US. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:50.040 So basically, if you know mag safe on the Apple 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.760 side of things, this is Google's version. They're calling it 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.320 pixel Snap, and so that means you can snap on 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.080 all kinds of stuff, And by snap, I mean magnetically 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:03.080 attached while it's charged, Rings, grips, whatever you got you 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.840 can put on to the back of these phones with 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.160 no extra case necessary, even though you'll probably still want 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.640 a case. The other big change no more physical SIM 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.000 card slot. It is now e SIM only, which means 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.720 electronic SIM. So yesterday when I was setting up the device, yeah, 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.280 I ran into a little bit of an issue because 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.080 I had to like swap the sin SIM electronically and 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.559 I couldn't just push one SIM out of my old 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.800 phone and pop it into the new phone. So it does, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.800 you know, for some people that will present a challenge, 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.360 but for most people that are just upgrading once every 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.800 three years four years, not going to be that big 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.160 of a deal. So the pricing for these devices, the 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.079 standard phone starts at eight hundred dollars, the pro is 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.040 a thousand, the pro Xcel is eleven hundred dollars, very 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.520 very good pricing. I think on these phones they didn't 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.800 really raise prices as far as I can tell, and 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:56.960 you did get a bump on some of the specs, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.800 and you know just some of the things these can do. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.800 So I really think that they did a great job 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.880 with these phones this year. I really really do like 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.520 this is the year. If you're going to switch to 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.120 a pixel, this is the year to do it. Everything 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.280 is finally lined up after ten years. They also showed 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.559 off the Pixel ten pro fold. Not much to say 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.120 about here except it's still there. The foldable phone dust 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.080 resistance is now built in that starts at eighteen hundred dollars. 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.280 I don't see a lot of people running out to 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.760 get the foldables right now, but it's there and it's 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.600 still a nice phone if you like that. Now, when 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.920 it comes to some of these AI features, this is 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.160 what Google really focused on. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:33.719 Number one. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.719 This feature called Magic Q, which is just incredible. When 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.880 someone texts you a question, AI looks through all the 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.400 data on your phone, your emails, your text your notes, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.000 your photos, and it will surface that information right away. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:47.720 So all you have to do is tap and click 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.920 and it'll send it to that person. So if someone says, hey, 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.400 what's Jim's phone number? Again, it'll look in your address 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:53.439 book for Jim's pone number. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.040 Put it right there. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.120 Hey, what's our dinner reservation for tonight? It'll put your 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.680 reservation right there. You tap it sends it. Hey, remember 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.560 to send those pictures you took of us at the circus. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.600 It'll surface your circus photos and I've got a lot 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.439 of them on my camera roll and it will send 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.520 them right to the other person. I mean, that is 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.880 a really really cool feature. I need to test that out. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.439 Then the other big feature asked to edit, So you 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.240 don't even need to know how to use a photo 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.480 editor anymore. You just take your picture and then there's 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.920 a little text chat underneath it, and you just text 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:23.720 with Google about what you want it to do to 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.679 that picture. So you can say, remove the reflection fix 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.800 this photo, and AI will do all the fixes for you, 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.520 crop it whatever you want, and it'll give you a 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.120 whole bunch of options. And then it can also do 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.959 a surprise me mode, so if you just want to 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.320 see something wild and crazy with your pictures, just tap 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.559 surprise me. The other cool feature real time call translation. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.080 So not only are they translating your phone calls on 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.880 the other ends for the other person, if they speak 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.520 a different language, but it's in the person's voice. So 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.680 if I spoke to someone that was only speaking Spanish 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.040 and they're speaking to me, they would hear me speaking 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.760 Spanish in Rich's voice, I would hear them speaking English 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.000 in their voice. They're using AI to do that. That's 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.720 a really interesting feature. And then finally, the other feature 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.800 they mentioned is something called camera Coach, where basically AI 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.440 helps you take a better picture while you're taking it. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.480 I don't see anyone using this, but maybe I'll be 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:22.240 proven wrong. Google definitely took some shots at Apple. They said, look, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.280 they're running a walled garden. We've got open choice messages 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.120 like the blue bubble versus green bubble. Give me a break, 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.240 this is over. They said, everyone has rcs. Your pictures 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:33.800 are going to look good, your videos are going to 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.360 look good. You can see when your Android friends are typing, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.719 or your iPhone friends are replying, or there's emojis and 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.480 all that stuff. So they said, look, we get it. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.160 Switching is hard. Apple locks you into all this stuff. 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.960 While I'm saying this, actually Apple locks you into all 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.320 this stuff and it is really hard to switch. But 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.800 I do think that people that have a pixel and 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.320 it's a very small amount of people. When they have them, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.720 they've got some of the smartest devices out there. All right, 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.800 come up eight eight eight rich one O one. We're 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.720 gonna take your calls, your emails. We're gonna have more 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.360 of my thoughts, and I'm gonna tell you about the 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.000 Chuck E Cheese arcade I visited for kids of all ages. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.400 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.360 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.640 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.839 to two four to one zero one. Phone lines are open. 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.439 Kim is here answering phones. What are you waiting for? 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.719 Give me a call? Eight eight eight rich one oh 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.040 one Diego in San Diego. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:33.000 You're on with Rich. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.800 Hello, Thank you Rich for doing this what you're doing. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.720 I have this MacBook Pro A nineteen I'm excusing nineteen 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.560 ninety and after cleaning up everything, all the pictures and 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.920 stuff that I didn't need everything, I decided to transfer 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.440 everything over. And after transfer anything over, I was gonna 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.280 do factor reset and sell it to. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.840 My friend he's been waiting for it, sure, And. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.560 Then never did that. It just got stuck on the 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.320 little Global, the little Earth thing, and there it went. 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.160 I just sat there for hours. I kept rebooting it, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.400 doe to everything that I was supposed to, even a factory. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.680 Where is it that downloaded from the internet? Off the 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.480 Internet and everything? I just sat there. So I put 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.800 it on the shelf and I just, hey, I'm already 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.520 good with my computer. I'll let him and I'll get 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.800 to it later. And then the battery went dead. And 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.240 for what I learned on the internet, this machine needs 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.160 a battery to run. 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.680 Yeah, you can't. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.319 And it said that when I transfer everything over, it 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.280 did a self execute. It committed suicide. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:40.000 So it's so, what's the what's the question? How to 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.840 get this thing back up and running? To format it? Is? 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:43.600 This is your data? 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:44.280 St want to do that? 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:46.760 Can I actually get it back and up and running? 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.839 I like to sell it. My friend he got another one, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:50.880 but you can use them for his kid too. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:51.160 Yeah. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.360 Of course this is a twenty nineteen model. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:58.160 You said, No, it's an Apple nineteen ninety. It's the 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.760 years between sixteen and nineteen. Twenty nineteen is the year 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:02.760 more or less when. 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.959 They Okay, so see, yeah, it's a couple of years old. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.040 I mean it's still you know, it's still reasonably I 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.480 think that the a MacBooks can have like probably almost 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.520 like a ten year lifespan. So what is the status 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.360 of the computer? It won't boot up at all? Is 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.160 that the problem? 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:18.600 It has a dead battery? 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:19.600 Has a dead battery? 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.080 Okay, So the question is do you want to replace 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.880 the battery to save this or now have you left 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.680 it plugged in for like a really long time to 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.800 get the battery to maybe come back to life. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.240 Yes, and it just it just won't. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.960 No, was there a problem with the battery before? No, 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.200 so it was so it wasn't like, uh, there was 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.040 no issue with like the battery was like on its 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:45.440 last legs or anything like that. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.360 Yeah, yeah, it was. It was about there because there's 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:49.960 that crane on when you just go ahead and get 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.240 another one. So I did, but it wasn't. It was okay, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.600 it could have been a little bit longer necessuidly brand 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.560 new course, but I would say it will give me 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.880 about eighty percent, you know what I'm saying, stead of 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.200 the usual watching the movie for you know, a couple 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.120 of hours or two and a half hours. They wouldn't 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.000 do that. I had to plug it in somewhere in 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:10.560 between there. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.200 Okay, Well, the only thing I can think of is 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.960 so your your computer will not come to life because 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.400 I had a MacBook that I was able to use 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.240 without the battery, and this was a long time when 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.360 the batteries actually popped out. You can't pop that out. 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.000 So I guess the question is do you want to pay? 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.280 I mean, you could sell this to your friend as is, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.640 and they could just get the battery replaced and then 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.640 they have a perfectly good computer and then they just 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.400 have to reinstall the operating system. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.000 It sounds that's what that's what they would hang up 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.400 with the batteries running. Okay, Like I said before, like 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.400 eighty percent that was up in their life. And when 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.440 I tried to do factor the reset, I got hung 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.720 up on that little the little gold the little earth 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.720 looking thing, and then just the bar will will go 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.080 about three quarters away and then start back over again, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.680 and you can see it doing its progress, and do 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.080 it again, and they just keep recycling, just keep doing that. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.680 Okay, So it sounds like there's something. Yeah, I mean, 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.880 it's tough to know what's what's going on here without 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.200 exactly seeing it. I'm a little confused. As to what's happening. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.760 But I would say a couple of things to think about. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.760 You know, leave it plugged in for a while, see 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:21.200 if that brings it back to life. Sounds like you've 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:25.160 already done that. There are some ways to reset. Is 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.880 this an Intel based? This is an Intel based? 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:28.080 Right? 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.280 I could not tell you. I don't. 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.360 I think it is, Yeah, because it's the twenty eighteen, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:35.440 so there's there is one. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.520 Have you heard of this resetting the p RAM? 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.680 Yes, okay, we. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.120 Tried that, Yeah, okay. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.800 I think it sounds like you might need someone to 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.640 do a diagnostic on this to get it or just 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.840 bring it to a place where they can actually replace 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.920 that battery and get this thing going. I'm a little 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.520 confused as to like what is what the status of 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.640 that battery is. Sounds like it's working a little bit, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.480 but not necessarily. But I think once you get battery 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.880 figured out and this computer turns on, you can easily 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.800 just wipe the drive. You can use something like there's 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.880 a program that I like called disk drill that will 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.280 let you make a recovery drive for this thing. You 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.920 could boot it up from there and it'll it should 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.600 come back to life. I mean, there's still life left 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.919 in this computer. I think, so if you want to 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.960 replace that battery or at least get someone that knows 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:23.720 how to get this thing turned on, I think it 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:24.840 might be a good idea. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:25.720 All right, Coming up. 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.480 Next, we are going to talk about how to recover 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.879 a refund if your airfare drops in price. This is 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.720 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.920 DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple eight 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.440 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.040 two four one zero one. This week I went to 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:48.000 the first Chuck E Cheese arcade. It's called Chuck's Arcade 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:51.440 location in Brea, California. It was one of the first 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.520 people in there. This is their tenth location overall for 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.720 this Chuck's Arcade. And this is kind of like a 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.160 it's like a new con except from Chuck E Cheese. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.080 That's basically like what I grew up with, right, just 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.280 an arcade. So there's no pizza, there's no birthday parties. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.959 It's just all focused on the games. There's no you know, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.280 there's no food in there or anything like that. But 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.560 there are prizes, which is fun. So the one I 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.640 visited had like sixty games. They were really nice, really new, 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.600 like very clean and fresh and modern. And apparently these 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.200 these crane machines they call them Clawcades, are I guess 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.320 really popular. I know my kid loves these claw games, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.480 so and I won one on my first try, which 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.720 is awesome. But then they've got retro titles galagam Is, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.040 pac Man plus the modern stuff. And then each location 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.520 has a you know, they've been decommissioning these animatronics from 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.200 Chuck E Cheese places, so they have one of them 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.160 like in glass that you can see. So this one 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.720 had Mister Munch. And then of course there's all a 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.359 bunch of like merch you can I'm actually wearing one 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.760 of the t shirts that they sell there. It's like retro. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.600 It's all retro merchandise, which is really cool. So yeah, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.879 I mean this is a place that anyone can go to, kids, adults, whatever. 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.240 You don't need to have a birthday party. And I 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.520 really enjoyed it, and I think it's smart they're putting 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.240 them in like they're trying to put them mostly next 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.960 to mall food courts, which I think is really smart 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:12.400 as well. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.680 So if you happen to see a Chuck's arcade. 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.080 And you're wondering what it's all about now, you know, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:19.160 and if you want to see what it's all about, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.400 I put it on my Instagram at rich On Tech. 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.000 I did a little video which is sort of making 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.240 the rounds right now at rich On Tech on Instagram 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.080 if you want to see the Chuck's Arcade. They do 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.560 have locations across the nation, just about ten right now, 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.520 so be on the lookout for. 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:35.440 I love the chuck Eg stuff. I mean, I grew 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:36.040 up going there. 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.359 I love the pizza and the you know, my kids 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.080 had birthday parties there, so I think a lot of 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.800 people have fond memories of this place for different reasons. 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.920 So anyway, kind of cool, all right. 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.439 This week I was also surprised because I woke up 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.359 to an email that said, hey, You've got eighty dollars 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.480 back as a refund from United. I said, wait what? 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.280 And I forgot that I even had signed up with 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.200 this website. But it's called Payback Pai c k dot app, 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.159 and we've got Jason Lucking on the line. He is 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.240 one of the co founders to explain how this all works. Basically, 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.480 it gets you money back when an airfare that you 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.240 book the price drops. 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:18.000 Jason, Welcome to the show. Do we have him? Nope, Okay, 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:19.520 I don't. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:25.159 He's there, Okay, Jason, Jason, you on im. 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:25.920 There we go. 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.800 We've got Jason ring the bell. Okay, Jason. So tell 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.520 me explain the Payback website, Like, tell me how this works. 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:38.280 So, so Payback was driven out of my own personal 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.440 travel experiences as well nuts and bolts of it. Payback 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:48.120 is a AI driven flight optimization tool, so we automate 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:52.080 the process of optimizing optimizing your flight price for an 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:53.679 already purchased ticket. 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.120 And so as I understand, like basically, all I did 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:58.200 was sign up for the website. 0:20:58.240 --> 0:20:58.960 It's free. 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.359 You phear your confirmation from one of the major airlines, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.000 and then it just watches the price and as soon 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.560 as it drops to a certain threshold, it will go 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.520 out and request that refund. It's really a credit from 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:12.080 the airline. 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:12.520 Correct. 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:12.919 Correct. 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.600 So again, you're going to book directly with the airline, 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.520 and we focus on American Delta, United Alaska, and we're 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.240 in talk with some of the other airlines as well 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:23.000 to grow that. 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:25.480 And then you, just as you said, you ford the 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:26.080 ticket to us. 0:21:26.400 --> 0:21:29.480 We monitor it throughout the day and so whenever that 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:33.639 flight price drops and a thresholder is nothing below ten dollars, 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.760 so any drop over ten dollars, we automate that process 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:40.400 to get you a credit or a refund for the difference. Now, 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:44.080 most of us book non refundable tickets, and non refundable 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:48.000 tickets get you future flight credits and refundable tickets, which 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:49.600 are you know, you pay a bit of a premium 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.280 for them, you end up getting that back as a refund, 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:54.399 back to the original method of payment. 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:57.760 So this surprised me because I think I plugged in 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:00.520 like three flights that I had, and two of nothing 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:03.240 really happened, and this one is I mean it's just 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:04.760 all of a sudden, out of the blue. I've bought 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.119 four tickets, so I got twenty dollars each ticket times 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:11.320 for eighty dollars. What kinds of refunds are people seeing? Like, 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.199 are you seeing a lot of like a fluctuation in 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.720 these prices and people kind of capturing these refunds. 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.080 Yeah, So you know, when we started this again, it 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:20.800 was kind of like a personal thing to start off with. 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.400 I'm both a frequent flyer and we fly a lot 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.199 with the family, so for me I was thinking this 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.560 would be great for frequent flyers, maybe saving on economy classes, 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:34.320 but it's happening on every single class, Economy, business, first class. Obviously, 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:38.640 the ranges vary. We've seen tickets drop once, and we've 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:41.280 seen them drop as many as five or eight times. 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:45.240 Now sixty percent of the time the price has been 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:48.439 dropping below what somebody's originally purchased it for. And the 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:51.120 average if you kind of take an amalgamation of all 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:54.720 those savings, the average savings is two hundred and fifty 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:58.560 dollars per saving, So that might be somebody's getting twenty 0:22:58.600 --> 0:23:01.080 dollars here, twenty dollars fifty dollars here. 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.440 And we've seen drops as high as nine thousand dollars. 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:08.479 Now obviously that was an international first class ticket, but 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.040 we're still seeing these big drops on the domestic economy 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:12.840 tickets as well. 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:17.239 Wow, that's wild. So people are definitely capturing it. So 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:19.760 you mentioned the fares it works with, so not obviously 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.600 not an economy basic fare. I'm guessing right, because there's 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:23.520 no changes to us. 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:25.919 The only one that's out is basic economy, which, as 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.480 you know, you know, basic economy you have to buy 0:23:28.520 --> 0:23:30.960 a seat belt and an issue to the toilet. You know, 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:33.960 it's it's meant to be bare bones at that point. Yeah, 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.000 it's anything above basic economy. 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:38.040 And so how are you getting these refunds? Are you? 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:41.119 I mean, I assume it's some AI involved in here, Like, 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:43.679 how are you actually reaching out to these airlines? 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.280 Yes, so we use we use AI to monitor it. 0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.239 We use AI to converse with the airline on your 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:51.960 behalf to get you that credit for the difference. Now, 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.639 what one important thing that we think is really key 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.919 is we don't cancel your ticket and rebook you. What 0:23:57.960 --> 0:23:59.879 we do is we get it reticketed, so you end 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.240 staying on the same confirmation number in the same seat 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:05.520 and I will say ninety nine percent of the time 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:07.439 in the same seat. They may move you from one 0:24:07.480 --> 0:24:10.479 aisle seat to another if you're flying with one specific airline, 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:13.480 I wouldn't mentioned that one. But same flight, same seat, 0:24:13.600 --> 0:24:15.960 nothing changes for you. You just end up getting a 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:19.560 future flight credit to use on a future flight. And 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:23.560 for me, anybody that is a flies more than three 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:24.240 times a year. 0:24:24.359 --> 0:24:26.920 This is this is a key thing. 0:24:27.000 --> 0:24:29.120 You know, credits are like cash at that point you're 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:30.280 going to be using them again. 0:24:30.720 --> 0:24:31.560 Well, here's the thing. 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:33.280 I mean, so I know because I book a ton 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:36.080 of flights, and here's here's how most people do it. 0:24:36.080 --> 0:24:38.040 Maybe I mean this is how I do it. I 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:41.280 research the heck out of it before I book. I mean, 0:24:41.280 --> 0:24:43.080 I sit there, I track it, I look at it 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:45.160 every day. The price goes up, the price goes down, 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:47.000 it goes around, and all of a sudden, I finally 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:49.480 book and I never think about it again. So all 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:52.880 that fluctuation still is happening. I'm just no longer monitoring 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:54.359 it is that kind of what most. 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:57.400 People exactly, So even in that time of you doing 0:24:57.440 --> 0:24:59.639 the initial look and the time you're purchasing it, it's 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:02.600 probably fluctuating throughout the day. I mean, we've seen drops 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:05.159 happen for one hour. We've seen them drop for you know, 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:09.280 multiple days. The precipice of payback is to say when 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:11.679 is the best time to book? You know, I'm a 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:14.399 super analytical person, and I was always thinking, you know, 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:17.439 follow these fads. It's on a Tuesday at six am, 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:18.480 clear your cookies. 0:25:18.560 --> 0:25:21.120 Make sure you know mercury is in retrograde. All these 0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:23.840 like running baths on social media. 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:25.719 And what we wanted people to be able to do 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:27.399 is say, when is the right time to book? 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:29.240 The right time to book is now? 0:25:29.400 --> 0:25:29.880 Is right now? 0:25:30.840 --> 0:25:31.520 To worry? 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:33.880 You book when you want to make that initial decision, 0:25:33.880 --> 0:25:36.440 and if the price drops, we're going to optimize that 0:25:36.520 --> 0:25:38.120 for you anyway. 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:40.000 Yeah, because the price is going to go up no 0:25:40.040 --> 0:25:42.159 matter what, Like it eventually goes up, like when you 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:44.800 get closer to the date. But like you said, there 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:46.840 might be these things where it just drops and I 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:49.120 and you can see when you log into the website 0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:51.960 that you see that graph of like what the flight, 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:54.320 what the price has done for that flight over time. 0:25:54.440 --> 0:25:57.720 So here's my big question though, because I've seen similar 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:00.680 startups like this before. Now that this is happening and 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.639 you know, people can tap into this thing that probably 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:06.400 was never tapped into these refunds, the airlines are like, oh, 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:08.840 not so fast. We're just going to change our terms 0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:10.800 and conditions and you can no longer get a credit. 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:11.760 Are they going to do that? 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:14.040 So we don't believe. 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:17.159 So in twenty twenty, United announce that they were removing 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:20.560 change fees forever, permanently, never coming back. One of the 0:26:20.600 --> 0:26:23.600 things that you're building towards is partnerships with the airlines 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:25.920 directly we want to integrate into the airlines, and here's 0:26:25.960 --> 0:26:28.960 the reason why, is because people that use payback become 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:32.240 more loyal to that specific airline. We recently did a 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:34.760 study that showed sixty seven percent of our users that 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:37.919 receive a price drop are more likely to book with 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:41.760 that dedicated airline again for two reasons. One they feel 0:26:41.760 --> 0:26:43.640 better about the ticket that they're flying with, and two 0:26:44.000 --> 0:26:46.200 they've got a credit to use with the airline, which 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:46.919 you either. 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:49.040 Use it or you lose it, and if you use 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:50.160 it amazing. 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:54.359 Our whole ethos is we want people more, do more 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:56.200 of what you love, go out and see the world, 0:26:56.280 --> 0:27:00.240 whether that's domestically or internationally, and that's kind of a 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:03.080 a deep rooted element of payback. So there's a huge 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:06.440 loyalty element with the airlines that we drive forwards. 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:09.160 It's funny because my holiday flights that I was booking 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:13.040 for the holidays like Christmas, I was waiting and then 0:27:13.080 --> 0:27:15.119 when I heard about this website, I actually just booked. 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:17.240 I said to my wife, we could just book these 0:27:17.280 --> 0:27:19.600 because if the price goes down, which is what we're 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:20.880 waiting for, we'll just get a credit. 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:22.560 And that's what happened. By the way. So that's the 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:25.920 flights that we got, and his exactly. 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:28.439 Price goes up, we do nothing about it. You know, 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:30.600 if the price goes up, let it keep going up. 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:33.520 You know that you paid the best price two months ago, 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:35.879 three months ago, whenever it was that you initially booked 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:36.320 that ticket. 0:27:36.520 --> 0:27:39.480 Right, I've got about thirty seconds. What's the cost here? 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:43.520 So we don't charge anything upfront. We charge a twenty 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:47.119 percent service fee on whatever we save you, so we 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:48.840 don't want it to be any friction of you to 0:27:48.960 --> 0:27:49.520 question it. 0:27:49.640 --> 0:27:51.960 Only when you win do we win. 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:52.520 All right? 0:27:53.000 --> 0:27:58.240 Jason Lucking, co founder of payback pai back dot app. 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:00.720 I'll put the link on the website rich on Tech 0:28:00.840 --> 0:28:03.640 dot tv can find it in the show notes. Get 0:28:03.680 --> 0:28:07.080 your money back if your airfare price drops. Great idea. 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:09.760 Thanks so much for joining me, Jason. Coming up on 0:28:09.840 --> 0:28:13.240 the show, I'll tell you more about the pixel watch 0:28:13.320 --> 0:28:15.320 four and your calls. Eighty to eight rich one O 0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:18.760 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:23.480 Welcome back to rich on tech rich Demiro here eighty 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:26.359 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven. 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:28.720 Four to two four one zero one. 0:28:28.800 --> 0:28:33.119 The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV 0:28:33.840 --> 0:28:36.520 this is episode one three six. So if you go 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:38.800 to the website you want the show notes, or you 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:41.520 want to see my cool Chuck E Cheese shirt, Yeah, 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.760 go to the website. Rich on tech dot tv episode 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:49.840 one three six. Hel In Seemi Valley, Welcome to the show. 0:28:50.200 --> 0:28:56.760 Well, thanks, thank you, Rich. I've got a strange problem. 0:28:57.720 --> 0:29:04.360 My icons are no longer medium, my preferences medium. They're 0:29:04.520 --> 0:29:09.360 larger than small and smaller than medium. The print underneath 0:29:09.400 --> 0:29:18.040 them is smaller when I go into my folders and smaller. 0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:23.960 I've tried scaling. I've done whatever research I can do, 0:29:24.320 --> 0:29:28.560 and I said, well, I don't think it's a virus. 0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:33.400 I've run anti virus, and no matter what I do, 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:37.160 it just seems to be smaller. 0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:41.160 I'm assuming it's on Windows. 0:29:42.440 --> 0:29:42.680 Yes. 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:45.520 The only other thing I can tell you about that 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:48.800 is unusual, and maybe it's at about the same time 0:29:48.840 --> 0:29:53.240 I wasn't paying that much attention is about every ten seconds, 0:29:53.400 --> 0:29:56.920 my icons will blink off and on against. 0:29:56.640 --> 0:29:59.280 Okay, it sounds like it sounds like a scaling issue. 0:29:59.320 --> 0:30:02.920 If you ask me, it sounds like somehow your the 0:30:03.040 --> 0:30:06.400 scale of your screen got changed. So did suddenly everything 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:07.520 on the screen get smaller? 0:30:08.800 --> 0:30:14.080 Well, I didn't notice it right away, but everything on 0:30:14.120 --> 0:30:17.240 the screen, all the icons and the words underneath them 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:22.400 are smaller. And I tried customs scaling I have for 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:25.600 my word documents. I have it set at one hundred 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:27.600 and that's all there. 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:30.479 Okay, and that's but that's that's a setting that is 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:33.240 just for the word app. So there are you know, 0:30:33.280 --> 0:30:36.000 when it comes to these computers, there's like global settings, 0:30:36.400 --> 0:30:39.320 and then there's settings inside the actual apps. So I'm 0:30:39.360 --> 0:30:41.040 going to tell you the places to look that I 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:44.080 think will help fix this. And I think the first 0:30:44.120 --> 0:30:46.560 thing is number one, you have to just look at 0:30:46.560 --> 0:30:48.880 the scale of your screen. So when you go into 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:51.920 your Windows settings, you can just just go to your 0:30:51.960 --> 0:30:55.400 desktop actually and write click and you can go and 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:57.120 hang on, I gotta move something around here so I 0:30:57.120 --> 0:30:59.920 can see what I'm doing here display settings, so that 0:31:00.000 --> 0:31:02.480 that's the number one place to look. And make sure 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:05.280 that your scale is the right scale. So mine's at 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:08.440 one hundred and seventy five percent. It's based on the monitor, 0:31:08.520 --> 0:31:10.560 So just play with that number a little bit and 0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:12.840 see if things look the way they used to be. 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:14.160 So that's number one. 0:31:14.200 --> 0:31:17.680 So again, just write, click on the screen and once 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:20.120 you write click, you're going to go into display settings 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:24.040 and look under scale and layout and just tap that 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:27.880 and you can change your scaling. Now, once you're in there, 0:31:28.400 --> 0:31:32.040 you can actually check your text size. That's also in there, 0:31:32.480 --> 0:31:34.360 so you can go in there, and this is under 0:31:34.400 --> 0:31:37.240 accessibility actually, but if there's like a quick link, so 0:31:37.280 --> 0:31:39.520 you can go in there and check your text size, 0:31:39.600 --> 0:31:42.040 and right now, minds at one hundred percent, you can 0:31:42.080 --> 0:31:45.240 make that much bigger all the way up to once 0:31:45.280 --> 0:31:46.680 I tap this, I'm never going to be able to 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:49.600 go back one hundred let's say two hundred and twenty 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:52.320 five percent. So there's a little slider. So again that's 0:31:52.360 --> 0:31:55.560 under text size, and you could just search text size 0:31:55.640 --> 0:32:00.280 in the Windows search bar at the bottom. The other 0:32:00.280 --> 0:32:04.080 thing to do is I think your icons. You said 0:32:04.120 --> 0:32:06.840 your icons were looking a lot smaller. So if you 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:11.040 right click again this desktop, you'll see where it says 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:16.560 view and you'll notice there's three options large icons, medium icons, 0:32:16.640 --> 0:32:21.560 and small icons. So you might have somehow selected the 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:25.000 medium or small and maybe you still want the large, 0:32:25.120 --> 0:32:26.720 So those are the. 0:32:26.640 --> 0:32:27.280 Places do it. 0:32:27.280 --> 0:32:28.880 The other thing is, and it sounds like you already 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:30.840 found this, but if you want a shortcut to just 0:32:31.320 --> 0:32:33.200 in general, this is probably a good thing to know 0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:35.360 on Windows. But if you just you know, if you 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:37.520 have any vision issues or you want to see something 0:32:37.600 --> 0:32:39.120 closer up and you don't want to change a whole 0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:41.760 bunch of stuff, you can just press the Windows key 0:32:42.240 --> 0:32:45.120 and the plus sign on your computer at the same time, 0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:49.000 and it will bring up the accessibility magnifier and you 0:32:49.040 --> 0:32:51.760 can zoom into like any part of your page. So 0:32:51.760 --> 0:32:54.000 if you're trying to read something that's got tiny text, 0:32:54.120 --> 0:32:56.520 or you're just you know, having issues that day, maybe 0:32:56.520 --> 0:32:58.800 you just woke up, you know, and you can't see 0:32:58.840 --> 0:33:02.720 as well in the morning, just the Windows plus the 0:33:02.920 --> 0:33:06.400 plus key will take you there so and then minus 0:33:06.440 --> 0:33:08.120 will take you the other way. So those are the 0:33:08.160 --> 0:33:10.800 main places I would look how I think those one 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:13.280 of those will fix it. It sounds like because you 0:33:13.320 --> 0:33:16.600 said the icons were blinking, that sounds like some sort 0:33:16.640 --> 0:33:19.760 of screen scaling or refresh rate kind of thing. So 0:33:19.800 --> 0:33:21.920 it looks like something got a little tweaked in there. 0:33:22.240 --> 0:33:24.360 But hopefully you can just go in and change those 0:33:24.400 --> 0:33:27.840 settings and find something that works for you. Good question today, 0:33:27.840 --> 0:33:30.240 Thanks for the call. Eight eight eight Rich one O 0:33:30.360 --> 0:33:33.240 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:33:33.320 --> 0:33:33.840 zero one. 0:33:34.400 --> 0:33:36.280 Let's see, do I have time for another one? Probably not. 0:33:36.360 --> 0:33:40.040 Let me do this, so let me tell you about 0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:44.840 the pixel Watch four. Pixel Watch four I mentioned earlier. 0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:47.880 They had the Pixel w the Pixel Phones, the Pixel ten. 0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:51.120 They also unveiled a new watch and so the thing 0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:54.080 the headlines to know about the pixel Watch four is 0:33:54.120 --> 0:33:57.560 that it is the first smart watch that can call 0:33:57.720 --> 0:34:00.440 for help with satellites. So we know we have this 0:34:00.520 --> 0:34:03.400 on our phones, some of the recent model phones have this. 0:34:03.640 --> 0:34:06.880 Now the watch has it for the first time. And 0:34:07.040 --> 0:34:08.799 the only thing to know about this is that it 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:11.879 has to be the cellular that what pixel Google calls 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:14.279 the LTE version of the watch, so it's not gonna 0:34:14.280 --> 0:34:16.279 be the regular watch. You do have to have that 0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:18.680 cellular modem inside the watch, so it is the more 0:34:18.680 --> 0:34:21.920 expensive watch. But if you are some of that hikes, 0:34:22.840 --> 0:34:25.200 you're always out in the middle of nowhere without your 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.000 phone and you know you just have your watch on. Yes, 0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:30.160 you could have cellular, but now you can have the 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:33.200 satellite emergency, which is really cool. So that's that's their 0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:36.319 number one new feature. It is free and included on 0:34:36.360 --> 0:34:39.800 the device. Then they also have this new domed display. 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:42.680 I didn't really notice a crazy different dome display, but 0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:44.600 it definitely looked like the screen was bigger when I 0:34:44.640 --> 0:34:48.840 saw it. The battery life has improved, so thirty hours 0:34:48.960 --> 0:34:53.800 or forty hours fast charging is improved better, Gorilla glass 0:34:54.040 --> 0:34:57.920 easier to fix this thing, and of course everything's more accurate. 0:34:57.960 --> 0:35:01.120 All the tracking, sleep trackings more accurate. All these things 0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:04.880 are more accurate. So they upgraded the sensors on this device, 0:35:04.920 --> 0:35:07.799 and then of course they added this personal AI health 0:35:07.880 --> 0:35:11.600 coach with Gemini. This is similar to what Samsung did 0:35:11.640 --> 0:35:14.080 and similar to what Apple did. Obviously, AI is making 0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:16.279 its way into every part of our lives. But the 0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:19.160 other nice thing they have on this is the Gemini AI, 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:21.480 which you can just lift your wrist up to your 0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:24.319 mouth and just start talking to AI, so you don't 0:35:24.320 --> 0:35:26.400 have to like activate it with a button or anything 0:35:26.440 --> 0:35:28.719 on screen. You can just lift your wrist, which is 0:35:28.719 --> 0:35:30.640 something you've been able to do with Siri for many years. 0:35:30.640 --> 0:35:34.480 But let's be honest, Siri is definitely not as helpful 0:35:34.520 --> 0:35:37.200 as Gemini AI because you can get answers to anything 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:40.000 in the world with Gemini. It is a really cool feature. 0:35:40.200 --> 0:35:42.600 Three hundred and fifty dollars for the Wi Fi version, 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:46.880 up to five hundred dollars for the biggest LTE version 0:35:47.000 --> 0:35:50.000 in stores October ninth, eighty eight rich one oh one 0:35:50.080 --> 0:35:53.200 eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:58.120 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:35:58.200 --> 0:36:01.360 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you focking technology triple 0:36:01.400 --> 0:36:04.000 eight rich one O one eight eight A seven four 0:36:04.040 --> 0:36:07.600 to two four one zero one. The website for the 0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:11.000 show rich on Tech dot TV. Visit there for the 0:36:11.040 --> 0:36:13.440 show notes. Also, you can check out the stories I 0:36:13.480 --> 0:36:16.680 do for TV. They're all right there, and follow me 0:36:16.680 --> 0:36:19.640 on Instagram at rich on Tech. You see the theme here. Yes, 0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:22.640 I posted a couple of things to Instagram this. 0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:26.000 Week, and one of them was. 0:36:27.560 --> 0:36:30.360 I'm at the airport and I'd use the self checkout, 0:36:30.840 --> 0:36:33.840 and sure enough, it asks me if I would like 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:34.600 to leave a tip? 0:36:35.000 --> 0:36:37.600 Why would I leave a tip for a self checkout? 0:36:37.719 --> 0:36:41.200 Kiosk, I'm not leaving a tip, and it defaulted to 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:44.360 let's see here eighteen percent. By the way, I was 0:36:44.400 --> 0:36:46.719 already paying seven dollars for a bottle of water, and 0:36:46.760 --> 0:36:49.000 everyone commented is like, well, why would you pay seven 0:36:49.000 --> 0:36:53.400 bucks for bottle water? Number one when you're in an arena, 0:36:53.960 --> 0:36:57.040 a sporting event, or an airport, there's something or a 0:36:57.120 --> 0:37:01.640 movie theater, there's something called suspension of pricing disbelief. You 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:04.520 have to just imagine that a Coca cola cost twenty 0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:07.400 dollars when you're at a movie theater or an airport. 0:37:07.760 --> 0:37:09.480 And that's the same thing with the water. Now, I 0:37:09.600 --> 0:37:12.280 did bring my own water bottle. Yes, I do travel 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:14.239 with a water bottle. When I filled it up at 0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:16.560 the airport at one of their fillers, it was hot water, 0:37:16.680 --> 0:37:19.400 like literally hot, and I just did not feel like 0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:21.680 drinking hot water. So that's why I bought the bottle 0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:23.560 of water. Anyway, you can see that there. You can 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:27.200 also see My Chuck's Arcade My Chuck e Cheese Arcade video. 0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:29.840 But we went to you know, if you check my 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:31.880 stories too, you can see we went last night to 0:37:32.239 --> 0:37:36.000 Dave Matthews's band. We watched them and it was great. 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:38.080 It was a nice show. It was if you like music, 0:37:38.120 --> 0:37:40.400 it was a great show. Right didn't play all the 0:37:40.480 --> 0:37:42.880 songs that I knew, which I thought was kind of annoying, 0:37:42.880 --> 0:37:44.120 but you know, what are you gonna do? I can't 0:37:44.120 --> 0:37:46.560 tell him what to play, but it made me think 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:50.080 about something because we knew exactly what time he was 0:37:50.080 --> 0:37:54.560 taking the stage, exactly what time he was leaving exactly. Well, 0:37:54.719 --> 0:37:56.560 you know people have the set list or whatever. But 0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:59.799 like it made me realize, in this world, we don't 0:37:59.880 --> 0:38:04.880 leave anything to chance anymore, right, Like everything is planned 0:38:04.880 --> 0:38:07.520 out in advance. Like there was a time and I've 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:12.160 lived this life where things were mysterious. Right, your favorite band, 0:38:12.280 --> 0:38:15.279 like like Counting Crows, Dave Matthews, they would just show 0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:17.239 up on stage whenever they felt like. You didn't know 0:38:17.280 --> 0:38:19.000 what time they were supposed to come on, you didn't 0:38:19.040 --> 0:38:21.440 have access to Reddit, You didn't know the set list 0:38:21.480 --> 0:38:24.719 because you didn't look it up online. Right, I mean, 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:26.560 these are the things that we just do now. How 0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:29.840 about going to a restaurant. You go to a restaurant. 0:38:30.840 --> 0:38:33.160 So many people I know they study the menu for 0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:35.560 hours before they go to the restaurant. What about being 0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:38.120 surprised at what's on the menu at a restaurant? Why 0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:39.480 can't we just be surprised? 0:38:40.440 --> 0:38:40.680 Now? 0:38:41.040 --> 0:38:42.879 My wife and I debate on that because she loves 0:38:42.880 --> 0:38:44.759 to look at the menu. I never ever thought about 0:38:44.760 --> 0:38:46.919 looking at the menu at a restaurant before until I 0:38:46.960 --> 0:38:51.000 met her. And now it's like we're analyzing the whole menu. 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:54.040 You know, we've got like everything figured out beforehand. What 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:57.960 about maps? You know, I was we were going to 0:38:58.000 --> 0:39:01.640 the concert yesterday, and you know the maps. It's like 0:39:01.719 --> 0:39:04.360 we knew where to take the turns. You know, ways 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:06.080 is like all it takes you all over the city. 0:39:06.080 --> 0:39:08.120 You know, it takes you a million left turns whatever. 0:39:08.480 --> 0:39:10.080 But it's like, what about the days when you just 0:39:10.200 --> 0:39:13.040 literally drove, Like even on my ride home, I know 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:14.040 exactly where I'm going. 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:15.439 I still put on my maps. Why. 0:39:15.520 --> 0:39:19.920 I don't know, It's just something we do movies. I mean, 0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:21.719 there are apps that will tell you the exact time 0:39:21.760 --> 0:39:23.560 to leave the theater. She can go to the bathroom, 0:39:24.120 --> 0:39:27.160 run pe. I think it's called. I mean, there is 0:39:27.239 --> 0:39:30.120 no more mystery in our lives, in a modern life, 0:39:30.200 --> 0:39:32.600 in twenty twenty five, there's no more mystery. Maybe that's 0:39:32.640 --> 0:39:35.759 why people are so unhappy. It's nice to have some 0:39:35.880 --> 0:39:38.439 mystery in life. What about when people called, they would 0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:40.000 call you on the phone, you would just pick up 0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:42.799 and say, hello, who is this? Now it's like you 0:39:42.880 --> 0:39:44.719 know exactly who's on there. You know who's on the 0:39:44.760 --> 0:39:46.960 other end. You don't pick it up half the time. 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:51.080 Picture same thing. You used to take pictures on your camera, 0:39:51.200 --> 0:39:54.080 you know, and you'd get it developed. Remember that anticipation 0:39:54.239 --> 0:39:56.240 of waiting for the film to be developed. 0:39:56.320 --> 0:39:57.600 We don't have that anymore. Now. 0:39:57.600 --> 0:39:59.799 You take a selfie, you look at it the second later, 0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:01.920 and invariably someone's like, I don't like it. 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:05.200 Let's take another one. Sports same thing. 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:08.719 I mean, instant highlights on your phone packages, Oh this one. 0:40:08.800 --> 0:40:13.440 I like package tracking. Like you would order something off 0:40:13.480 --> 0:40:15.719 the TV sight on scene. You'd be like, oh, that 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:18.360 looks cool, let me order it. Six to eight weeks 0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:20.799 it was a mystery. You would call the thing, or 0:40:20.840 --> 0:40:24.480 you'd mail in and order perhaps, and then six to 0:40:24.520 --> 0:40:26.680 eight weeks later someone will show up on your doorstep. 0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:29.600 I mean, this is it's really this stuff. I get 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:32.040 to think about all this stuff all week long. Sometimes 0:40:32.080 --> 0:40:33.640 I remember to mention it. Sometimes I don't. 0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:36.880 John writes in from Orange, California. 0:40:36.920 --> 0:40:39.239 I want to continuously video my game room so I 0:40:39.239 --> 0:40:41.360 can make a collage of clips when someone makes a 0:40:41.400 --> 0:40:44.239 great shot. What type of camera should I use? I'd 0:40:44.280 --> 0:40:46.320 like to have it remote control and wired charging, so 0:40:46.360 --> 0:40:48.840 I don't have to keep it taking it down. I 0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:50.799 will tell you, John, I've had my Google Nest Cam 0:40:50.880 --> 0:40:54.399 running twenty four to seven for over ten years now, 0:40:54.800 --> 0:40:56.839 twenty four to seven. For ten years, the thing has 0:40:56.880 --> 0:40:59.480 not missed a beat. And you can pay Google to 0:40:59.520 --> 0:41:02.360 record in the cloud twenty four to seven. You know, 0:41:02.400 --> 0:41:03.799 you have to pay a little bit every month, but 0:41:03.840 --> 0:41:05.920 I'm telling you that's the way to go. I've had 0:41:05.960 --> 0:41:09.520 this thing plugged in and literally it is never stopped 0:41:09.520 --> 0:41:12.120 for ten years, ten plus years at this point. And Google, 0:41:12.160 --> 0:41:14.200 when I met with them a couple months ago, they 0:41:14.200 --> 0:41:17.000 said that actually, what people like about their devices is 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:18.880 that they last a really long time. Like I have 0:41:18.960 --> 0:41:22.319 the Nest thermostat, the original one that's been up for 0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:24.000 eleven years now in my house, and I do have 0:41:24.040 --> 0:41:26.080 to replace it because it's gonna stop working. But I mean, 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:28.600 that's a great run. Eleven years of not having to 0:41:28.640 --> 0:41:32.120 think about this stuff. Let's see, Paul's been waiting for 0:41:32.120 --> 0:41:36.640 a while, and Hammett, Paul, you're on with Rich. I'm 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:40.160 here myself. Paul, sounds like you're listening. Paul, you on? 0:41:40.520 --> 0:41:44.440 No, okay, Paul, you were? How do I get this 0:41:44.560 --> 0:41:45.120 on hold again? 0:41:45.560 --> 0:41:46.279 Particular one? 0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:50.920 Okay, let's go to Karen in Bakersfield. Karen, you're on 0:41:50.960 --> 0:41:52.719 with Rich Hi. 0:41:52.800 --> 0:41:54.440 Rich love your show. 0:41:54.560 --> 0:41:58.359 You're a great teacher. And my question is you could 0:41:58.360 --> 0:42:03.400 recommend a rogue buck antivirus software where when you purchase, 0:42:04.040 --> 0:42:07.120 then every time you scan, you aren't getting suggestions for 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:08.440 adding utilities and. 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:08.959 All these things. 0:42:09.160 --> 0:42:13.160 You know, you never feel like you're you're completely protected. 0:42:13.200 --> 0:42:15.920 And I know that there'll be you know, enhancements and 0:42:15.960 --> 0:42:19.680 so forth, but studies are just you know, bobarding you 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:20.200 to add on. 0:42:20.400 --> 0:42:23.000 Yeah, and they crawl, They slow your computer down to 0:42:23.080 --> 0:42:26.680 a crawl. And it's it's horrific. I mean, it really is, 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:29.640 like honestly, the and I know a lot of people 0:42:29.680 --> 0:42:31.600 are gonna like me saying this, but this whole anti 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:34.759 virus kind of thing has gotten out of control. There 0:42:34.800 --> 0:42:36.880 are a lot of people, a lot of tech experts 0:42:36.920 --> 0:42:39.800 out there that do not believe you need anti virus 0:42:39.800 --> 0:42:40.920 on your computer anymore. 0:42:41.160 --> 0:42:43.120 Now. I think I'm somewhere in the middle. 0:42:43.160 --> 0:42:45.400 I think that there are we are still up against 0:42:45.440 --> 0:42:47.480 a lot of stuff when we are on the internet. 0:42:47.960 --> 0:42:51.000 And I think two things. Number one to know. Number one, uh, 0:42:51.120 --> 0:42:55.279 Windows computers have built in uh now uh you know 0:42:55.320 --> 0:42:57.120 they call it Defender let's see, I think they just 0:42:57.160 --> 0:42:58.880 recently changed the name. I think it's all under like 0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:02.520 Windows Security now, but they have that built into your computer, so. 0:43:02.480 --> 0:43:05.160 You can use that. As long as it's up to date, you're. 0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:07.880 Going to be just fine for like ninety nine percent 0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:09.400 of things that happen on your computer. 0:43:10.400 --> 0:43:11.239 So that's number one. 0:43:11.320 --> 0:43:12.839 If you want to just go into there, you can 0:43:12.880 --> 0:43:16.719 just type in Windows Security and it will bring up 0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:20.280 all of the security functionality that's built into Windows. 0:43:20.719 --> 0:43:21.719 So you've got virus in. 0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:27.440 Threat protection, account protection, firewall, device app and browser control, 0:43:27.920 --> 0:43:30.680 and you can tap into something like virus in threat 0:43:30.680 --> 0:43:33.680 protection and you can see when the last time your 0:43:33.800 --> 0:43:37.120 computer was scanned, when the last time it found something, 0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:40.000 what you need to do, the updates that you have, 0:43:40.200 --> 0:43:43.200 and oh this is actually something I think someone's someone 0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:46.560 emailed about this. But there's also like ransomware protection built 0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:48.600 into your computer as well, so you can turn that on. 0:43:49.000 --> 0:43:50.880 So I mean, I think Windows has a lot of 0:43:50.920 --> 0:43:52.960 stuff that's already built in and I think is fine 0:43:53.040 --> 0:43:56.279 for most for many many people. The thing that I 0:43:56.280 --> 0:43:59.240 think we're up against the most these days is actually 0:43:59.280 --> 0:44:03.640 clicking a lot or being misled online, and so for 0:44:03.680 --> 0:44:08.200 that reason I really recommend people using Chrome because Chrome 0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:13.239 has built in tools that will actually scan the websites 0:44:13.600 --> 0:44:16.520 that you are visiting and the links that you're visiting 0:44:16.560 --> 0:44:19.040 to make sure that they are not filled with malware 0:44:19.280 --> 0:44:23.360 or viruses or some sort of fishing or whatever. And 0:44:23.440 --> 0:44:28.000 so if you go into your Chrome settings and let's see, 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:30.040 I think we go under I got to find where 0:44:30.080 --> 0:44:35.320 this is privacy and security. Let's see here, Yeah, privacy 0:44:35.360 --> 0:44:38.759 and security. So under that you can tap security, and 0:44:38.760 --> 0:44:41.960 they've got this thing called safe Browsing, and the standard 0:44:41.960 --> 0:44:44.200 protection is pretty much I think that's just turned on 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:47.120 for most of Chrome. But if you really want the 0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:50.640 best protection from Chrome to protect you in real time 0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:54.919 with AI, go in and select this enhanced protection under 0:44:54.920 --> 0:44:58.040 safe Browsing, and it will warn you about dangerous sites. 0:44:58.920 --> 0:45:03.560 It will scan suspicious downloads. I mean, it really does 0:45:03.640 --> 0:45:05.600 a lot of stuff to make sure you're protected. And 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:08.279 I check I unlike what you should be doing. I 0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:10.600 click a lot of these websites that are that are 0:45:10.800 --> 0:45:13.799 bogus or scammy to see what they try to do. 0:45:14.200 --> 0:45:16.640 And there are some that literally just try to download 0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:20.279 a virus to your computer or malware right away. And 0:45:20.360 --> 0:45:22.520 there's others that will just try to, you know, take 0:45:22.560 --> 0:45:24.880 your information things like that. So this will protect you 0:45:24.960 --> 0:45:26.680 from a lot of that. The other thing I like, 0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:28.720 I do like malware bites. I think that's a pretty 0:45:28.719 --> 0:45:31.960 good way to scan your computer. There is a website, 0:45:32.040 --> 0:45:35.960 by the way, Karen called avdash test dot org. And 0:45:36.040 --> 0:45:38.359 if you look at all of the ratings for these 0:45:39.719 --> 0:45:42.840 these antivirus software, they're all almost the same at this point. 0:45:43.160 --> 0:45:45.040 So what it really comes down to is, like you said, 0:45:45.080 --> 0:45:46.480 something that doesn't have a ton. 0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:48.480 Of bloatwear involved. 0:45:48.719 --> 0:45:50.719 And I think there is one that I think is 0:45:51.080 --> 0:45:54.000 pretty good, this sofos s O p h O s 0:45:54.640 --> 0:45:57.799 sofos dot com. It is a little more expensive, and 0:45:58.080 --> 0:45:59.840 you know, it's not gonna have like things like VPN 0:46:00.040 --> 0:46:02.200 all that stuff necessarily does it I don't think it does. 0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:04.920 But it does have real time protection. 0:46:05.120 --> 0:46:06.600 It does have a lot of good things, and I 0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:09.320 think their whole business is just protecting you. So I 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:11.560 think that's what you want to look for, is a 0:46:11.640 --> 0:46:13.960 system that is just simple and not trying to sell 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:16.799 you on a thousand other things. Once they have your 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:19.960 email address and once they have you So those are 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:21.680 the things I'd recommend to do. I think that's going 0:46:21.719 --> 0:46:25.320 to protect you in like ninety nine percent of the circumstances. 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:27.040 I really think a lot of it comes down to 0:46:27.080 --> 0:46:30.759 these links that people are clicking. They're getting malware, they're 0:46:30.800 --> 0:46:33.560 getting scammed, and I think that's what we need to 0:46:33.560 --> 0:46:36.799 be protected more so than just the random viruses. It's 0:46:36.840 --> 0:46:41.280 really the malvertizing and all these pop ups and websites 0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:43.160 that we're seeing that I think is the biggest issue 0:46:43.200 --> 0:46:46.279 out there right now. So stay protected out there, and 0:46:46.640 --> 0:46:48.480 you know, just be smart about what you click and 0:46:48.520 --> 0:46:51.840 what you're looking at. Great call, Karen, appreciate the question. 0:46:52.040 --> 0:46:54.279 Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:46:54.360 --> 0:46:57.040 seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up 0:46:57.080 --> 0:46:58.879 this hour, We're going to talk to see Scott Brown 0:46:58.920 --> 0:47:01.959 about the pixel of and I'm going to tell you 0:47:02.080 --> 0:47:04.760 which streaming service is raising prices. 0:47:04.800 --> 0:47:10.640 Next, this is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:47:10.719 --> 0:47:11.279 On Tech. 0:47:11.400 --> 0:47:14.880 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple 0:47:14.880 --> 0:47:17.440 eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four. 0:47:17.400 --> 0:47:21.920 Two four one zero one. Let's see. 0:47:22.000 --> 0:47:23.840 I feel like this. I feel like Mark is a 0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:26.840 regular here. Mark and Woodland Hills Welcome to the show. 0:47:27.640 --> 0:47:29.200 Goon, sir, how's. 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:31.760 Going we're looking at selling our house and buying another, 0:47:32.320 --> 0:47:34.399 and when we move into the new house, we would 0:47:34.440 --> 0:47:37.799 like a comprehensive home security system. And I'm wondering if 0:47:37.840 --> 0:47:41.960 there's any conventions, you know, like home improvement conventions upcoming 0:47:42.160 --> 0:47:44.680 that you know, have all the displays and the tables, 0:47:44.800 --> 0:47:48.960 and instead of calling blindly around and having some salesman 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:51.960 pressure us into a system we'd like to, we'd like 0:47:52.000 --> 0:47:54.319 to do it hardwired. Also because you know, we know 0:47:54.400 --> 0:47:57.799 that the burglars are using Wi Fi jammers now to 0:47:57.920 --> 0:48:02.520 overcome people's wireless systems. I was wondering if you have 0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:06.239 any suggestions or know of any of these conventions coming 0:48:06.320 --> 0:48:07.399 up for home improvements here. 0:48:07.640 --> 0:48:07.879 Yeah. 0:48:07.880 --> 0:48:10.320 Well, I'm actually going to one. I think it's in 0:48:10.360 --> 0:48:14.279 a couple of weeks CDA CE D I A. I 0:48:14.320 --> 0:48:17.920 believe it's in Denver this year. But that's really the 0:48:18.600 --> 0:48:23.399 home expo for the professional things like you're talking about, 0:48:23.480 --> 0:48:26.640 like if you want a wired camera system, you want 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:29.640 you know, the TV that's indoor outdoor, you want the 0:48:29.680 --> 0:48:32.920 built in you know at Crestron System all that stuff. 0:48:33.200 --> 0:48:34.799 That's why I'm going, so I want to learn more 0:48:34.800 --> 0:48:36.680 about these things. It's been a while haven't gone to 0:48:36.719 --> 0:48:39.839 the show in like ten years, but that is the 0:48:39.880 --> 0:48:42.960 main one. So that's the first place I would I 0:48:43.000 --> 0:48:46.920 would check cedia xpo dot com, c E d I 0:48:47.080 --> 0:48:50.239 A e xpo dot com. And not only will this 0:48:50.280 --> 0:48:51.759 give you an idea of the show, but you can 0:48:51.760 --> 0:48:54.320 also look at the exhibitors too, and that'll give you 0:48:54.320 --> 0:48:56.919 a good idea of who's at this show and who's 0:48:56.960 --> 0:49:01.600 showing off stuff. Because these brands are not necessarily the 0:49:01.640 --> 0:49:04.279 brands that you would find at a Best Buy or 0:49:04.360 --> 0:49:08.280 a home depot. You know, these are more professional installers 0:49:08.360 --> 0:49:10.799 use these brands for the cameras and things like that. 0:49:10.880 --> 0:49:13.560 So that's the first place i'd look. You said you're 0:49:13.600 --> 0:49:16.000 in Woodland Hills, so I would look at the UH. 0:49:16.480 --> 0:49:18.719 I would just go to the you know, Google and 0:49:18.800 --> 0:49:22.319 I just typed in home shows and they've got a 0:49:22.320 --> 0:49:27.319 whole bunch of California home shows and they've got one 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:32.120 on Riverside, San Diego, Lodie, Sacramento. Now, the problem with 0:49:32.160 --> 0:49:34.799 these home shows, a lot of it seems like it 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:39.800 is you know, baths, closets, remodeling. But yeah, the techie 0:49:39.800 --> 0:49:43.440 stuff might not be there on display. But that's the 0:49:43.520 --> 0:49:44.960 kind of show you want to look for. You want 0:49:44.960 --> 0:49:47.080 to look for some sort of home show that's like 0:49:47.160 --> 0:49:49.799 more tech focused. I personally, you know, the ones I 0:49:49.880 --> 0:49:52.840 go to CS always going to have all this stuff, 0:49:53.400 --> 0:49:55.120 But the Cedia one is also going to have a 0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:57.960 lot of this stuff that you're talking about. But yeah, 0:49:58.000 --> 0:50:00.160 I mean, look, this is this is what people want 0:50:00.239 --> 0:50:03.800 these days. They want the full house. Everything has a camera. 0:50:04.040 --> 0:50:06.319 They want to be able to remote control access it. 0:50:06.719 --> 0:50:08.200 I think some of this stuff, you know, if you're 0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:10.400 just like a regular person, you just want like the 0:50:10.440 --> 0:50:12.120 beauty of this is that you can do a lot 0:50:12.160 --> 0:50:14.879 of this yourself nowadays. And that's what I think has 0:50:14.920 --> 0:50:19.000 really been the biggest change in the consumer electronics space 0:50:19.040 --> 0:50:21.000 in the past ten years or so, is that it 0:50:21.080 --> 0:50:22.840 used to be you had to have someone come to 0:50:22.880 --> 0:50:25.719 your house and install this stuff. But when we had 0:50:25.719 --> 0:50:28.560 the I think the ring video doorbell really kind of 0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:31.919 transformed an entire industry because it was the first time 0:50:31.960 --> 0:50:34.799 you could just literally go outside your front door pop 0:50:34.840 --> 0:50:37.239 a camera up there, and now with Wi Fi, you 0:50:37.280 --> 0:50:40.440 can see what's happening outside your front door. And I 0:50:40.520 --> 0:50:43.240 remember doing a story on the very first ring doorbell. 0:50:43.239 --> 0:50:46.800 It's called Doorbop back then, and people it was such 0:50:46.840 --> 0:50:50.960 a foreign concept that number one, nobody's WiFi was good 0:50:51.040 --> 0:50:53.439 enough to reach to the outside of their front door. 0:50:53.800 --> 0:50:56.520 So everyone thought this thing sucked because it was like, oh, 0:50:56.680 --> 0:51:00.200 this thing doesn't work. No, your Wi Fi signal was 0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:02.279 ahead of its time. Your WiFi signal had not caught 0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:05.879 up to this technology. And then you know, as soon 0:51:05.880 --> 0:51:07.920 as we got that, we got all kinds of other cameras. 0:51:08.400 --> 0:51:10.960 And then when Whys came out with their twenty dollars 0:51:10.960 --> 0:51:15.759 camera and Blink with their inexpensive cameras, suddenly it's like 0:51:15.800 --> 0:51:18.200 you could have a camera everywhere and it was really 0:51:18.239 --> 0:51:22.600 really cheap. And so people that want a professional system, 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:25.359 there's always going to be those people. But for everyone else, 0:51:25.440 --> 0:51:27.480 the fact that you can do this very easily with 0:51:27.520 --> 0:51:29.759 these mainstream brands is really really neat. 0:51:31.080 --> 0:51:31.799 You might have heard the. 0:51:31.760 --> 0:51:34.640 News that the government is taking a ten percent stake 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:41.000 in Intel. What the government putting ten billion dollars into Intel, 0:51:41.880 --> 0:51:44.520 So I guess this was the amount that Intel was 0:51:44.520 --> 0:51:48.000 supposed to get under the Chipsacked grant to build new 0:51:48.040 --> 0:51:50.480 factories here in the US. But now this is actually 0:51:50.480 --> 0:51:53.600 an investment by the US. So if Intel does well 0:51:53.680 --> 0:51:57.000 I guess the US does well. If Intel doesn't do well, 0:51:57.280 --> 0:51:59.640 then the US loses their money. But I think they 0:51:59.640 --> 0:52:02.359 could just print more. So what's you know? It's all fake, 0:52:02.440 --> 0:52:06.640 It's all phony money anyway, right, I'm not giving this 0:52:06.680 --> 0:52:09.200 is not financial advice. I have no idea. I'm just 0:52:09.280 --> 0:52:12.080 making a joke. I'm not sure how all that stuff works. 0:52:12.400 --> 0:52:14.160 I don't know where the government gets ten billion? 0:52:14.200 --> 0:52:16.359 Is it from me? Is it from Bobo? I think 0:52:16.360 --> 0:52:17.600 it's from US. I really do. 0:52:17.680 --> 0:52:21.200 I think we own Intel now at some point, you know, 0:52:21.360 --> 0:52:25.520 And here's the thing. Intel recorded nearly a twenty dollars 0:52:25.600 --> 0:52:29.000 twenty billion dollar loss in twenty twenty four. It's first 0:52:29.040 --> 0:52:32.120 lost since nineteen eighty six. It is struggling. This company 0:52:32.440 --> 0:52:35.520 is struggling. I love America, I love American companies. But 0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:39.120 Intel has missed the boat on everything mobile. All the 0:52:39.160 --> 0:52:41.880 chips inside your phones, they're either made by Samsung or 0:52:41.960 --> 0:52:47.080 TSMC or another company Media Tech. They are not made 0:52:47.600 --> 0:52:51.200 by Intel. Intel did not figure out how to make 0:52:51.239 --> 0:52:53.799 these chips for the phones work, so they just never 0:52:53.880 --> 0:52:56.120 really took off. Now, before you yell at me and 0:52:56.120 --> 0:52:58.719 say how dare the government investing companies, yes, they've done 0:52:58.719 --> 0:52:59.280 this before. 0:52:59.440 --> 0:53:00.399 I have to look it up. 0:53:01.320 --> 0:53:04.560 Financial crisis two thousand and eight, US invested in a 0:53:04.600 --> 0:53:07.879 City Group and Bank of America two thousand and eight, 0:53:07.880 --> 0:53:11.319 AIG government owned nearly eighty percent of it after one 0:53:11.360 --> 0:53:17.000 hundred and eighty billion dollar rescue, GM Chrysler, Amtrak Airlines 0:53:17.400 --> 0:53:18.320 Post nine to eleven. 0:53:18.560 --> 0:53:19.960 So yes, this has happened before. 0:53:20.480 --> 0:53:22.719 Eighty eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four 0:53:22.719 --> 0:53:29.200 to two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich 0:53:29.280 --> 0:53:31.960 On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking 0:53:32.200 --> 0:53:35.040 technology triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:53:35.760 --> 0:53:38.160 seven four to two four to one zero one. I 0:53:38.200 --> 0:53:41.439 see the calls, I see the phone lines. We will 0:53:41.480 --> 0:53:43.799 get to you in just a little bit. But we've 0:53:43.840 --> 0:53:47.000 got a great guest. Actually, the person I was sitting 0:53:47.000 --> 0:53:50.000 next to in Brooklyn at the Made by Google event, 0:53:50.360 --> 0:53:56.120 c Scott Brown, Senior editor at Android Authority, also has 0:53:56.239 --> 0:53:59.520 a great new YouTube channel of his own name and 0:53:59.800 --> 0:54:02.759 is just doing really well. He's just basically focusing on 0:54:03.280 --> 0:54:06.400 his love of pixel and all things pixel. 0:54:06.480 --> 0:54:07.879 So Scott, welcome to the show. 0:54:08.640 --> 0:54:10.680 Thanks very much, it's great to be here. And yeah, 0:54:10.719 --> 0:54:13.840 thanks for being my seating buddy at the show. 0:54:14.200 --> 0:54:14.640 Yeah. 0:54:14.680 --> 0:54:18.200 So I guess, what's your first impression, your initial takeaway 0:54:18.239 --> 0:54:19.920 from this Google Pixel event. 0:54:21.360 --> 0:54:24.680 Well, obviously, I mean maybe not obviously, but it's been 0:54:24.760 --> 0:54:27.919 quite controversial. I think a lot of the traditional tech 0:54:27.960 --> 0:54:31.319 fans have been very upset about it because it was 0:54:31.400 --> 0:54:36.320 very silly. They didn't focus on hardcore specs, they didn't 0:54:36.320 --> 0:54:39.800 even really go over pricing and availability. They just pretty 0:54:39.880 --> 0:54:42.600 much had this fun show with all these celebrity guests. 0:54:43.000 --> 0:54:44.520 And yeah, I think a lot of people are really 0:54:44.560 --> 0:54:46.759 upset about it. But I think I think it was 0:54:46.840 --> 0:54:50.080 great because it sort of bridged the divide. You know, 0:54:50.480 --> 0:54:52.960 it brought in people who might not care about a 0:54:53.000 --> 0:54:56.000 smartphone launch, made them watch it, and now those people 0:54:56.040 --> 0:54:58.640 might be like, huh, these pixel phones seem pretty cool, 0:54:58.640 --> 0:54:59.799 maybe we should check them out. 0:55:00.440 --> 0:55:01.400 Which those are the. 0:55:01.360 --> 0:55:05.400 People we're trying to convince, Like the farmcore techy's like me, like, 0:55:05.719 --> 0:55:08.160 we're already convinced. Like, you don't need to convince us 0:55:08.200 --> 0:55:10.640 to get excited. You got to convince you know, the 0:55:10.680 --> 0:55:13.480 moms and the dads and the people who just don't care. 0:55:13.600 --> 0:55:13.759 You know. 0:55:14.160 --> 0:55:16.440 Well, it's interesting because you say don't care, but I 0:55:16.440 --> 0:55:19.800 think the people that have pixels actually care more because 0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:23.840 the people I see with pixel smartphones, I usually they're 0:55:24.080 --> 0:55:26.960 a little bit elevated, like they they kind of like 0:55:27.120 --> 0:55:29.879 sought out that phone for a specific reason and that's 0:55:29.880 --> 0:55:34.320 either the Google software or integration, or also the camera 0:55:35.000 --> 0:55:37.200 or they they're like, I don't feel like a lot 0:55:37.200 --> 0:55:39.920 of people have a pixel that are just they have 0:55:39.960 --> 0:55:42.719 it happenstance, right, Like they seek this phone out, I 0:55:42.719 --> 0:55:45.520 feel like, and maybe Google knows that, and that's why 0:55:45.640 --> 0:55:47.560 they don't focus on specs and all that stuff. 0:55:47.600 --> 0:55:49.400 They say, Okay, the people that want. 0:55:49.200 --> 0:55:51.000 This thing are going to look at the specs eventually, 0:55:51.320 --> 0:55:53.359 we're going to focus on what this can do for you. 0:55:54.560 --> 0:55:57.320 Yeah, And that was even reflected in a little behind 0:55:57.320 --> 0:56:00.800 the scenes knowledge. So when when companies have big launches 0:56:00.880 --> 0:56:03.480 like this, they give journalists the information ahead of time. 0:56:03.520 --> 0:56:05.040 They say, we're going to launch this. This is what 0:56:05.080 --> 0:56:07.280 it looks like. You know, you can expect the expects 0:56:07.280 --> 0:56:09.360 and all that kind of stuff. Here's the pricing whatever, 0:56:09.680 --> 0:56:11.640 And then they give us a date and a time 0:56:11.719 --> 0:56:13.799 and they say, you can't talk about this until this 0:56:13.880 --> 0:56:16.399 date and time comes. And that date and time this year, 0:56:16.440 --> 0:56:19.640 for the first time ever, was an hour before the 0:56:19.719 --> 0:56:22.320 launch even started. So I think what Google was planning 0:56:22.400 --> 0:56:25.480 was was like the nerds, you know, like me, They're 0:56:25.480 --> 0:56:27.799 going to get all the information they need well before the. 0:56:27.800 --> 0:56:28.840 Event even starts. 0:56:29.000 --> 0:56:31.560 But then hopefully they'll be like, hey, well I already 0:56:31.560 --> 0:56:33.239 know everything that's going on, but maybe I should check 0:56:33.239 --> 0:56:36.200 out this show. So I think Google very intentionally made 0:56:36.239 --> 0:56:39.319 the show the way that it was. And yeah, tech 0:56:39.320 --> 0:56:42.040 geeks are upset about it, but you know what, like tough, 0:56:42.120 --> 0:56:43.840 it's not all about you all the time stuff. 0:56:44.320 --> 0:56:46.200 Yeah, so what do you think of the new phone? 0:56:46.200 --> 0:56:49.240 I mean, we've got the Pixel ten, Pixel ten Pro, 0:56:49.760 --> 0:56:53.719 the foldable. What kind of struck you with the improvements 0:56:53.800 --> 0:56:55.719 that you think is the best? 0:56:56.760 --> 0:56:59.719 Well, the interesting thing is that all the improvements are 0:57:00.160 --> 0:57:03.000 under the hood. If you, you know, hold the two 0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:05.920 phones that last year's Pixel nine series and this year's 0:57:05.920 --> 0:57:08.480 Pixel ten series, if you stack them all next to 0:57:08.520 --> 0:57:11.840 each other, even I, you know, it's my job to 0:57:11.840 --> 0:57:13.399 be able to tell the difference between them, and even 0:57:13.440 --> 0:57:15.319 I would be like, you know, squinting a little bit, 0:57:15.320 --> 0:57:17.400 like which ones which because they all look exactly the same. 0:57:17.840 --> 0:57:21.800 And so yeah, all the actual updates are under the hood, 0:57:21.840 --> 0:57:24.200 and there are a lot of them, and I'm sad 0:57:24.200 --> 0:57:25.760 to see that a lot of people online, a lot 0:57:25.760 --> 0:57:28.240 of the commentators and comments on YouTube and stuff with 0:57:28.280 --> 0:57:30.440 people saying like, you know, they didn't change anything, these 0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:32.320 phones are just a rehash, and it's like, no, there's 0:57:32.360 --> 0:57:35.240 so much going on. There's a brand new processor that's 0:57:35.400 --> 0:57:37.600 that's you know, the first of its kind from Google, 0:57:37.680 --> 0:57:39.480 that's you know, much more powerful, and there's a lot 0:57:39.480 --> 0:57:43.440 more cool stuff, tons of AI features, new camera upgrades, 0:57:43.520 --> 0:57:45.560 better speakers, you know, better display. 0:57:45.720 --> 0:57:47.480 Like I mean, just the list goes on and on, 0:57:47.520 --> 0:57:48.840 but you have to go looking. 0:57:49.040 --> 0:57:51.440 You can't just look at the phone and say it 0:57:52.000 --> 0:57:54.560 but yeah, but specifically answer your question. The thing that 0:57:54.640 --> 0:57:58.479 I'm the most excited about is probably the new ask 0:57:58.560 --> 0:58:02.160 photos feature, which I think is super cool. Basically, the 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:04.080 way it works is that if you take a photo 0:58:04.120 --> 0:58:05.760 and you open it up in photos and you want 0:58:05.760 --> 0:58:07.720 to edit it, you usually have to like use your 0:58:07.840 --> 0:58:11.440 your fingers and treat things and fissknobs and move sliders 0:58:11.480 --> 0:58:12.160 up and down whatever. 0:58:12.400 --> 0:58:13.800 Now you can just ask. 0:58:14.080 --> 0:58:16.720 You can just put the button and say, hey, you know, 0:58:16.840 --> 0:58:19.760 make this photos lighting better, or you know, remove the 0:58:19.800 --> 0:58:20.440 person that's. 0:58:20.280 --> 0:58:23.000 Standing behind me or whatever. Edit you can. You can 0:58:23.080 --> 0:58:24.520 imagine and it'll just do it. 0:58:24.640 --> 0:58:26.480 And I think that's going to be a game changer 0:58:26.560 --> 0:58:29.400 for once again the normal person who just picks up 0:58:29.440 --> 0:58:31.200 this phone, it's like, well, why why should I get 0:58:31.200 --> 0:58:34.200 this over an iPhone? That alone, I mean would be 0:58:34.240 --> 0:58:35.640 something that I think a lot of people would be 0:58:35.640 --> 0:58:36.160 really interested in. 0:58:36.320 --> 0:58:36.520 Yeah. 0:58:36.520 --> 0:58:38.960 I mean, how many times have you wanted to change 0:58:39.000 --> 0:58:40.640 something in a picture but you don't even know where 0:58:40.640 --> 0:58:42.600 to start, Like, oh, I'd like to make the sky bluer, 0:58:42.760 --> 0:58:45.520 or the I want to remove this object or whatever. 0:58:45.600 --> 0:58:48.440 I mean, there's a million crop it zoom in. You know, 0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:50.400 people don't know where all these tools are. I mean 0:58:50.400 --> 0:58:53.640 the super nerdy techies do, but like the rest of us, 0:58:53.920 --> 0:58:57.120 well the rest of people, you know, they may not 0:58:57.160 --> 0:58:58.560 know where to I mean sometimes I don't even know 0:58:58.600 --> 0:59:01.200 because I'm not like a photographer person. Say so, I 0:59:01.200 --> 0:59:03.040 think that feature is great and it can of course 0:59:03.080 --> 0:59:04.840 go into AI with like if you want to add 0:59:04.840 --> 0:59:07.040 stuff to your picture too, you can do that. I mean, 0:59:07.080 --> 0:59:10.400 the Google Photos editing on this device is truly like 0:59:10.520 --> 0:59:13.040 next level, Like it's like everything you need in one place. 0:59:13.640 --> 0:59:16.760 What about the idea of snapping on the magnetic accessories? 0:59:16.800 --> 0:59:19.160 I mean I feel like that's really cool to have, 0:59:19.280 --> 0:59:21.480 But I feel like all the cases already had the 0:59:21.560 --> 0:59:24.240 ring in it, so it's like you're getting it, but 0:59:24.280 --> 0:59:25.919 you know you're already you're going to put a case 0:59:25.920 --> 0:59:27.120 on this thing anyway that has that. 0:59:28.200 --> 0:59:30.960 I Well, for me personally, I love it because I 0:59:31.000 --> 0:59:33.440 don't have a case. I go, I go nude with 0:59:33.480 --> 0:59:37.800 my phones. Oh wow, But I think that for yeah, 0:59:37.840 --> 0:59:39.800 for a lot of people who are already adopted into 0:59:39.880 --> 0:59:43.720 the too that ecosystem, you know, that's they're. 0:59:43.360 --> 0:59:44.440 Probably not too impressive. 0:59:44.480 --> 0:59:46.280 But the thing that's going to be cool about this 0:59:46.440 --> 0:59:48.480 is that now that Google's on board, now there's going 0:59:48.520 --> 0:59:50.480 to be more products. 0:59:50.560 --> 0:59:50.760 You know. 0:59:50.840 --> 0:59:52.080 Now it's not just going to be. 0:59:52.600 --> 0:59:55.120 We made this product for an iPhone, because the iPhones 0:59:55.120 --> 0:59:58.160 are the only major manufacturer, are the only major smartphones 0:59:58.160 --> 1:00:01.480 that have this technology now pixels involved, and then you 1:00:01.520 --> 1:00:03.920 know Samsung is right around the corner now, and then 1:00:04.080 --> 1:00:05.680 you know one plus and what a role All the 1:00:05.680 --> 1:00:07.800 brands are going to start adopting this now that Google has, 1:00:07.960 --> 1:00:10.800 So yeah, that's just going to be more stuff, you know. 1:00:11.400 --> 1:00:14.040 Sure it may just be like slight revamps of what's 1:00:14.080 --> 1:00:16.840 already available for the iPhone, but hey, I'll take it. 1:00:16.880 --> 1:00:18.440 You know, I'm excited to be able to join the 1:00:18.440 --> 1:00:20.840 party of what iPhone users have been using for a 1:00:20.880 --> 1:00:21.240 long time. 1:00:21.280 --> 1:00:21.480 Now. 1:00:21.800 --> 1:00:25.320 Now, you have recently started your own YouTube channel called 1:00:25.360 --> 1:00:29.240 c Scott Brown. Definitely follow him, and it's become quite 1:00:29.240 --> 1:00:32.920 popular because you are focusing It's called a pixel user's perspective, 1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:35.440 so you are focusing on what you love about the pixel, 1:00:35.880 --> 1:00:38.640 what makes this phone unique. And I've been using the 1:00:38.680 --> 1:00:41.720 new one now for twenty four hours and I'm I'm 1:00:41.760 --> 1:00:43.480 in love with it. I'll be honest, like, every time 1:00:43.520 --> 1:00:46.280 I go to the pixel, I remember how smart a 1:00:46.400 --> 1:00:50.000 smartphone can be compared to what I talk about in 1:00:50.040 --> 1:00:52.480 the iPhone, it's all about hunting and pecking, I call 1:00:52.520 --> 1:00:54.840 it because you're always hunting for something to do and 1:00:54.880 --> 1:00:59.440 pecking to do something, whereas the pixel puts so much 1:00:59.480 --> 1:01:01.840 information in front and center when you need it, and 1:01:01.880 --> 1:01:03.480 it's just like less hunting and pecking. 1:01:03.480 --> 1:01:04.560 That's the way I describe it. 1:01:05.320 --> 1:01:09.120 Yeah, No, I'm I'm loving the new phones, and yeah, 1:01:09.160 --> 1:01:12.600 I have a new channel that's specifically dedicated to pixels. 1:01:13.120 --> 1:01:15.760 I'm not I don't only talk about pixels. I have 1:01:15.840 --> 1:01:18.080 talked about Samsung phones and other phones throughout the thing. 1:01:18.120 --> 1:01:21.200 But it always, like you said, it's a pixel user's perspective. 1:01:21.320 --> 1:01:24.120 It's somebody who is using pixels and is deep in 1:01:24.160 --> 1:01:27.800 the Google ecosystem, his perspective on what's going on in 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:31.080 the world of tech, which is not common. And that's 1:01:31.080 --> 1:01:33.640 probably why the channel has been so popular so quickly, 1:01:34.040 --> 1:01:37.400 is that a lot of people, even within the Android space, 1:01:37.440 --> 1:01:40.320 a lot of tech creators are iPhone users. You know, 1:01:40.480 --> 1:01:42.880 you can tell you watch their video and they talk 1:01:42.920 --> 1:01:44.080 about how great the pixel is. 1:01:44.120 --> 1:01:46.640 But then in the next video you see their Apple Watch, 1:01:46.800 --> 1:01:49.360 you know, or or they or they you know. 1:01:49.480 --> 1:01:52.000 They show themselves walking around town like you're doing like 1:01:52.000 --> 1:01:54.320 photography tests or whatever, and you can see the iPhone 1:01:54.320 --> 1:01:55.080 in their hand. 1:01:55.280 --> 1:01:57.640 And the iPhone has the iPhone says, you know, the 1:01:57.960 --> 1:01:59.840 cellular carrier on the top, and the other one they're 1:01:59.840 --> 1:02:01.160 tech has like no signal. 1:02:01.760 --> 1:02:07.120 Yeah yeah, so yeah, so I kind of saw this 1:02:07.200 --> 1:02:08.720 gap and it was like, you know, we don't have 1:02:08.960 --> 1:02:14.040 like a genuine personality somebody who is really a pixel user. 1:02:14.320 --> 1:02:15.360 What do those people think? 1:02:15.720 --> 1:02:18.880 And the response has been overwhelming because, like I said, 1:02:18.960 --> 1:02:21.920 like this just hasn't existed. So yeah, I'm very excited 1:02:21.960 --> 1:02:24.480 about the earliest success of the channel, and it's been 1:02:24.520 --> 1:02:27.600 really magnificently all right, all. 1:02:27.560 --> 1:02:29.760 Right, I've got one less than a minute. What do 1:02:29.800 --> 1:02:31.320 you think I said, this is the year if you're 1:02:31.320 --> 1:02:32.960 going to switch to a pixel, this is the year. 1:02:33.000 --> 1:02:36.240 I said that with Samsung with their foldables, they got 1:02:36.240 --> 1:02:38.480 those to a place where I think they're about perfect 1:02:38.520 --> 1:02:41.040 for now. I think the pixel is about perfect for 1:02:41.080 --> 1:02:43.560 now ten years in. Why do you think someone should 1:02:43.560 --> 1:02:45.040 try this out and switch? 1:02:46.240 --> 1:02:48.400 I think that the number one reason is because Google 1:02:48.480 --> 1:02:51.360 is doing everything it can to make you switch. Google 1:02:51.440 --> 1:02:55.000 is welcoming you Apple. You know, if you're an iPhone user, 1:02:55.200 --> 1:02:57.360 no shade to you or anything. But at the same time, 1:02:57.480 --> 1:03:00.800 like Apple is keeping you prisoner. Apple is working hard 1:03:00.840 --> 1:03:03.760 to prevent you from leaving by doing all sorts of 1:03:03.800 --> 1:03:07.720 dirty tricks behind the scenes, and Google is doing the opposite. 1:03:07.840 --> 1:03:10.200 Google is opening up its doors wide and saying, come 1:03:10.240 --> 1:03:12.840 on in and stay as long as you want, don't 1:03:12.920 --> 1:03:15.400 you know, bring your current accessories. You've got all those 1:03:15.480 --> 1:03:16.800 mag safe things, keep them. 1:03:16.840 --> 1:03:17.439 Come on over. 1:03:17.640 --> 1:03:19.680 You want to talk with your friends using you know, 1:03:19.760 --> 1:03:22.600 specialized chat features and stuff like that, We've got that too. 1:03:22.680 --> 1:03:26.120 It's Google's attitude is very much like come on over, 1:03:26.320 --> 1:03:29.800 whereas Apple's attitude is very much the opposite. So I 1:03:29.800 --> 1:03:31.960 think that's the number one reason why people should consider, 1:03:32.320 --> 1:03:35.000 you know, finally getting out of the Apple prison. 1:03:34.760 --> 1:03:35.840 For for maybe a little bit. 1:03:35.960 --> 1:03:37.880 See what we'll see what it's like on the other side. 1:03:38.080 --> 1:03:41.320 All Right, them are some fighting words. For sure, we're 1:03:41.320 --> 1:03:43.920 gonna leave it there. See Scott Brown. Check them out 1:03:43.960 --> 1:03:47.320 on YouTube. See Scott Brown. Good to see you this 1:03:47.400 --> 1:03:50.040 week in Brooklyn, and keep up the good work. 1:03:49.880 --> 1:03:50.640 On the YouTube channel. 1:03:51.280 --> 1:03:51.880 Thanks so much. 1:03:51.880 --> 1:03:52.920 Man, all right. 1:03:53.080 --> 1:03:55.520 Eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 1:03:55.640 --> 1:03:59.440 seven four two four one zero one. Coming up, I 1:03:59.480 --> 1:04:02.480 will tell you streaming service that is raising prices. Next 1:04:03.000 --> 1:04:07.439 right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 1:04:07.480 --> 1:04:09.960 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking 1:04:10.000 --> 1:04:15.200 technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight 1:04:15.240 --> 1:04:20.080 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:04:21.240 --> 1:04:25.280 Website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. While 1:04:25.320 --> 1:04:27.760 you're there, sign up for my newsletter. It is free. 1:04:27.800 --> 1:04:33.480 It's delivered every weekend. They are long, they're involved, but 1:04:33.880 --> 1:04:35.160 you know, it's all the stuff that I think you 1:04:35.160 --> 1:04:36.560 should know about in the world of tech. 1:04:36.640 --> 1:04:40.560 Kind of like this show. Let's see what else this week? 1:04:40.920 --> 1:04:41.120 Oh? 1:04:41.200 --> 1:04:47.160 Apple TV? Apple TV plus raising prices. There are only 1:04:47.400 --> 1:04:49.640 two three things we know in this world to be 1:04:49.680 --> 1:04:55.360 true death taxes and streaming service prices will go up. 1:04:55.800 --> 1:04:59.080 That's all we know to be true in this world. Yes, 1:04:59.160 --> 1:05:02.880 Apple TV plus US raising prices to thirteen dollars a month, 1:05:02.960 --> 1:05:06.439 up from ten dollars a month. The price he takes 1:05:06.480 --> 1:05:09.720 effect August twenty first for new customers. Existing users will 1:05:09.720 --> 1:05:12.040 see the change on their next bill within thirty days. 1:05:13.800 --> 1:05:17.560 They've had several price increases. It launched in twenty nineteen 1:05:17.600 --> 1:05:21.360 at five bucks. Now what does Apple say? You didn't 1:05:21.360 --> 1:05:23.560 think F one was gonna pay for itself, did you. 1:05:24.320 --> 1:05:27.040 I mean, look, they're spending so much money on these 1:05:27.080 --> 1:05:30.600 things they're doing, and so it costs a lot of money. 1:05:30.840 --> 1:05:31.800 I'm not defending them. 1:05:32.240 --> 1:05:35.320 I mean this is you know, I do the Apple one, 1:05:35.480 --> 1:05:37.120 so I pay, like I think it's thirty eight bucks 1:05:37.160 --> 1:05:40.160 a month for all their stuff, and that price went up, 1:05:40.320 --> 1:05:41.920 and so I'm wondering if that's going to go up 1:05:41.960 --> 1:05:44.960 now because of this new price increase on Apple TV Plus. 1:05:45.000 --> 1:05:46.920 So anyway, you really got to figure out what you 1:05:47.000 --> 1:05:50.200 want out of these streaming services at this point, David 1:05:50.240 --> 1:05:56.880 writes in from Dallas, Oregon, listening on KFIR in Oregon. 1:05:56.960 --> 1:05:59.520 As I used to say before I moved to California, 1:05:59.760 --> 1:06:04.200 or on no It's organ he said, I added a 1:06:04.240 --> 1:06:06.680 four digit pin to my phone. Now I regret it 1:06:06.720 --> 1:06:08.760 because I just want to swipe to one lock like before. 1:06:08.800 --> 1:06:10.360 I can't seem to figure out how to remove the 1:06:10.360 --> 1:06:11.800 lock screen and go back to the way it was. 1:06:11.840 --> 1:06:14.360 Is there any hope of eliminating this extra step. Yes, 1:06:14.920 --> 1:06:16.600 of course there is, but you don't want to do that. 1:06:17.680 --> 1:06:19.720 I cannot recommend that you go out into this world 1:06:19.760 --> 1:06:22.840 of ours with a phone without a lock on the screen, 1:06:23.360 --> 1:06:26.520 because there's way too much personal information on your phone. 1:06:26.640 --> 1:06:28.000 I remember my dad when. 1:06:27.880 --> 1:06:30.440 I set him up with the I don't know I 1:06:30.480 --> 1:06:32.000 was doing something with this phone. I gave him a 1:06:32.040 --> 1:06:35.160 new phone, new iPhone, and was used iPhone. It was 1:06:35.160 --> 1:06:37.040 one of my old ones, and I said, all right, now, 1:06:37.080 --> 1:06:39.160 set up your fingerprint. I don't want a fingerprint on there. 1:06:39.480 --> 1:06:41.080 Why not. I don't want my fingerprint. 1:06:41.320 --> 1:06:42.640 I want to just be able to look at my 1:06:42.680 --> 1:06:46.120 phone and it opens and I'm like uh, or he said, 1:06:46.120 --> 1:06:47.800 I swipe it and I said, Dad, you have to 1:06:47.840 --> 1:06:51.840 have this on there is very important and anyway, it 1:06:51.880 --> 1:06:54.200 was a whole thing, but he did put it on there. 1:06:54.480 --> 1:06:56.360 But yes, some people just don't want this. You gotta 1:06:56.400 --> 1:06:56.680 have it. 1:06:56.800 --> 1:06:59.480 You got to add add a pin code, add a fingerprint, 1:06:59.600 --> 1:07:02.040 face off, whatever, because there's just too much info on 1:07:02.080 --> 1:07:04.680 your phone. But yes, David, to answer your questions, you 1:07:04.760 --> 1:07:08.200 can go into settings security on your phone and remove that. 1:07:08.800 --> 1:07:14.040 I just can't recommend that. Reggie is in Charleston, South Carolina. 1:07:14.280 --> 1:07:15.240 Welcome to the show. 1:07:16.480 --> 1:07:17.919 Hey, Hey, how you doing. 1:07:18.200 --> 1:07:20.280 I'm doing fantastic. What's up? 1:07:21.200 --> 1:07:23.040 Hey, I'm in the Mac could say. 1:07:25.440 --> 1:07:28.160 Tracking advice, and I just got. 1:07:28.200 --> 1:07:29.200 A little criteria. 1:07:30.040 --> 1:07:33.600 It can't be expensive. I don't need my subscription. 1:07:34.800 --> 1:07:35.400 It has a. 1:07:35.360 --> 1:07:40.919 Good range and more importantly, it actually works. 1:07:41.120 --> 1:07:41.760 Can you have me? 1:07:43.120 --> 1:07:44.120 Well, we can try. 1:07:44.160 --> 1:07:48.280 I can give your options, but without having you know, 1:07:48.400 --> 1:07:50.240 here's the deal with the cart, with the tracking of 1:07:50.280 --> 1:07:53.480 the car. So a lot of these free trackers, which 1:07:53.520 --> 1:07:56.480 we're talking in air tag are similar. They're all going 1:07:56.560 --> 1:08:00.800 to work by the beauty of other phones being around them. 1:08:01.240 --> 1:08:03.880 So they work on a crowdsourced platform. 1:08:04.000 --> 1:08:04.520 Now, when you. 1:08:04.480 --> 1:08:08.840 Talk about an iPhone or an Android, they are everywhere. 1:08:09.160 --> 1:08:11.960 So as long as your phone is are your car 1:08:12.120 --> 1:08:16.759 with this little tracker inside is passing another Apple device 1:08:17.120 --> 1:08:21.280 or an an Android device, you know you're gonna be okay, 1:08:21.280 --> 1:08:23.000 it's gonna get a lock, but it's not gonna be 1:08:23.080 --> 1:08:24.880 real time. Like, you're not gonna be able to track 1:08:24.920 --> 1:08:28.000 your car in real time because these trackers just don't 1:08:28.000 --> 1:08:30.080 have that built into them. You'll be able to see 1:08:30.080 --> 1:08:32.720 an approximate location and you'll be able to see the 1:08:32.800 --> 1:08:35.479 last location, but not in real time. So you have 1:08:35.520 --> 1:08:39.360 to understand the limitations of these trackers before you put 1:08:39.360 --> 1:08:41.880 one in your car. But with that said, plenty of 1:08:41.880 --> 1:08:43.880 people have one of these hidden in their cars and 1:08:44.040 --> 1:08:45.759 they use it and they have an idea of where. 1:08:45.560 --> 1:08:46.080 Their car is. 1:08:46.479 --> 1:08:48.800 Chances are unless they bring your car into the middle 1:08:48.840 --> 1:08:52.280 of nowhere where it never sees another smartphone or the 1:08:52.320 --> 1:08:54.559 internet again, you'll be able to get a location on 1:08:54.600 --> 1:08:57.120 your car. So couple of options. Number one, obviously, air 1:08:57.240 --> 1:09:00.799 tag is you know, the number one option in this area. 1:09:01.200 --> 1:09:05.920 Apple invented this entire genre of Bluetooth trackers and so 1:09:06.400 --> 1:09:08.760 that is probably your number one option if you have 1:09:09.360 --> 1:09:11.759 an iPhone and use all Apple products. 1:09:11.800 --> 1:09:13.080 Because that's what they work best for. 1:09:13.479 --> 1:09:16.559 So air Tag is probably my number one because it 1:09:16.640 --> 1:09:19.559 is the easiest, it's simple. You pop it in your car, 1:09:19.720 --> 1:09:21.519 you see where it is on your phone. You're good 1:09:21.560 --> 1:09:25.480 to go. Now, on the Android side of things, Android 1:09:25.680 --> 1:09:31.040 has something called the Find My Device Network, and so 1:09:31.200 --> 1:09:34.200 you can get things that work with that one. And 1:09:34.280 --> 1:09:39.080 they've got different brands. Chapolo is one of them. Chapolo 1:09:39.200 --> 1:09:42.080 is one of them. There are just there's pebblebe there's 1:09:42.120 --> 1:09:44.800 so many of them, but Chaipolo is pretty good. They've 1:09:44.800 --> 1:09:46.800 been making trackers for a long time, so I'd look 1:09:46.840 --> 1:09:50.240 at them and they're going to work with your iPhone 1:09:50.320 --> 1:09:53.200 or sorry, you're Android, and so you can have this 1:09:53.240 --> 1:09:55.599 set up with your Android and basically see where your 1:09:55.640 --> 1:09:58.639 car is on your Android device. Now, if you want 1:09:58.640 --> 1:10:01.960 something that's a little bit more into Hendon, there is 1:10:02.040 --> 1:10:05.719 the tile Trackers. And tile trackers are platform agnostic, which 1:10:05.720 --> 1:10:08.200 in rich On tech World, I love that. I love 1:10:08.240 --> 1:10:10.960 when things don't just work on one platform or another, 1:10:11.160 --> 1:10:14.040 they work across all platforms. And so that's what you're 1:10:14.040 --> 1:10:16.680 gonna get with the with the tile Trackers, which is 1:10:16.720 --> 1:10:19.839 now owned by Life three sixty and you can install 1:10:19.880 --> 1:10:22.080 this and the trick to know about the Tile trackers. 1:10:22.080 --> 1:10:23.559 Not only do I really like them, I think they 1:10:23.600 --> 1:10:25.920 work really really well. I've got one on my bag. 1:10:27.160 --> 1:10:29.680 The thing to know about them is that if there 1:10:29.720 --> 1:10:32.040 is not a person in the area using the Tile 1:10:32.160 --> 1:10:34.360 or Life three sixty app, you're not going to get 1:10:34.360 --> 1:10:37.360 a location. But Tile will even tell you when you 1:10:37.400 --> 1:10:40.240 log onto the app, it will tell you how many 1:10:40.240 --> 1:10:42.800 people around you are using the Tile app. So those 1:10:42.840 --> 1:10:44.200 are gonna be the people that are gonna help you 1:10:44.280 --> 1:10:48.040 find this car if it ever goes missing, lost, stolen, whatever. 1:10:49.040 --> 1:10:51.280 And then finally, there is one other device that I've 1:10:51.360 --> 1:10:54.559 not personally tested but people seem to like. It's called 1:10:54.560 --> 1:10:57.920 the track Ye t r a c KI and they've 1:10:57.920 --> 1:11:01.679 got a couple of GPS trackers I think specifically four cars. 1:11:02.200 --> 1:11:05.840 The trackers twenty bucks. I'm trying to see if there 1:11:05.920 --> 1:11:08.639 is any monthly fee here. 1:11:10.200 --> 1:11:13.360 Today. Yeah, the lowest monthly up. So there you go, Reggie. 1:11:13.400 --> 1:11:16.439 This does not pass your your smell test here for 1:11:16.520 --> 1:11:18.000 the nine to ninety five a month. 1:11:18.120 --> 1:11:21.080 But with that said, this is uh, this. 1:11:21.040 --> 1:11:24.680 Is actually a GPS tracker, So there actually is GPS 1:11:24.720 --> 1:11:27.680 built into this device, and so that means you are 1:11:27.720 --> 1:11:30.240 going to get an exact location of your car. 1:11:30.200 --> 1:11:32.640 No matter where it is, as long as there's GPS. 1:11:33.160 --> 1:11:37.000 Great question, Reggie, Thanks for calling in from Charleston, South Carolina. 1:11:37.080 --> 1:11:39.160 Eight to eight rich one on one eighty eight seven 1:11:39.240 --> 1:11:41.040 four to two four one zero one. 1:11:42.439 --> 1:11:44.479 More rich on Tech coming your way right after this. 1:11:47.280 --> 1:11:50.320 Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging 1:11:50.360 --> 1:11:53.280 out with you, talking technology, Triple eight rich one on 1:11:53.280 --> 1:11:57.600 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:11:58.400 --> 1:12:05.759 PlayStation Sony PlayStation five raising prices. This week, Sony announced 1:12:05.760 --> 1:12:08.760 a price hike for PlayStation five consoles in the US 1:12:08.840 --> 1:12:12.200 effective well, it's already been effective August twenty first. New 1:12:12.240 --> 1:12:15.360 prices are as follows. PS five Standard five hundred and 1:12:15.360 --> 1:12:19.000 fifty bucks up from five hundred, Digital Edition five hundred, 1:12:19.040 --> 1:12:22.719 up from four to fifty. PS five Pro seven hundred 1:12:22.720 --> 1:12:26.559 and fifty dollars. Wow, that's a lot. Sony says it's 1:12:26.600 --> 1:12:32.800 responding to a quote challenging economic environment. Prices for accessories 1:12:33.960 --> 1:12:37.160 is going to stay the same. So yeah, there you 1:12:37.200 --> 1:12:42.439 have it, Sony raising prices on the PS five. Let's 1:12:42.560 --> 1:12:45.400 go to ron in Corona. 1:12:45.720 --> 1:12:46.479 You're on with Rich. 1:12:47.520 --> 1:12:52.760 Good afternoon, doesn't everybody have a challenging economic situation nowadays. 1:12:52.920 --> 1:12:55.519 Yeah, especially if you have kids and a wife, and 1:12:56.840 --> 1:12:59.240 there's various there's various aspects to that. 1:13:00.240 --> 1:13:03.000 Yes, for sure. The reason I'm calling is I've been 1:13:03.000 --> 1:13:06.639 an Android user. I liked forever, been on the Verizon 1:13:06.720 --> 1:13:10.360 family since it was Nextel in the eighties nineties. And 1:13:10.640 --> 1:13:14.080 a couple of days ago, my S twenty two hit 1:13:14.160 --> 1:13:15.200 the ground and cracked. 1:13:15.400 --> 1:13:17.840 Ouch, did you have a case on it? 1:13:19.120 --> 1:13:23.280 I had an Otter case on it. Really still I had, yeah, 1:13:23.560 --> 1:13:26.040 and cracked in the upper right hand corner where I 1:13:26.120 --> 1:13:32.000 cannot communicate with the keyboard. So I talked to Verizon. 1:13:32.080 --> 1:13:35.599 They sent me an S twenty five ultra right. And 1:13:35.640 --> 1:13:39.759 now my situation is I can't communicate with the old phone. 1:13:40.200 --> 1:13:42.960 By the way, when I got the new cover two 1:13:42.960 --> 1:13:44.760 weeks ago, the guy says, well, that looks pretty good. 1:13:44.760 --> 1:13:48.559 I should give you a trade in moving on, I 1:13:48.600 --> 1:13:52.920 can't communicate with it. So, just like Scott said on 1:13:52.960 --> 1:13:56.760 your phone call, he's got a brand new phone with 1:13:56.840 --> 1:13:59.800 no connections at all, and I need to get that 1:13:59.880 --> 1:14:01.360 information off my old phone. 1:14:01.400 --> 1:14:05.160 Any suggestions, I have a couple, So first off, you 1:14:05.400 --> 1:14:06.200 this a Samsung. 1:14:07.439 --> 1:14:08.840 Samsung twenty two. 1:14:08.960 --> 1:14:09.760 Yes, okay, so. 1:14:09.680 --> 1:14:14.080 You you can plug this into monitor and you can 1:14:14.120 --> 1:14:16.000 see what's on the screen. Can you see what's on 1:14:16.000 --> 1:14:17.960 the screen or you just can't tap what's on the screen? 1:14:18.920 --> 1:14:21.559 I got I can see about eighty percent of the screen, 1:14:21.640 --> 1:14:24.680 starting with a little bit down from the top. That's 1:14:24.720 --> 1:14:27.240 what I suggested to the Gallop Rises this morning, and 1:14:27.280 --> 1:14:30.479 she said, yeah, but then you still can't communicate with it. 1:14:30.560 --> 1:14:31.200 That's the problem. 1:14:31.360 --> 1:14:32.360 What do you mean tap on? 1:14:32.520 --> 1:14:34.439 You can't tap? Okay, what about plugging a mouse into 1:14:34.439 --> 1:14:35.920 the bottom of it? You can do that. 1:14:37.400 --> 1:14:40.400 I haven't tried that, but I can't see I have 1:14:40.479 --> 1:14:45.120 a green screen. Oh I see old blue screen screen. 1:14:45.200 --> 1:14:49.920 Oh so the screen is is completely bonked as well. Okay, yes, 1:14:50.080 --> 1:14:54.240 well that could be a problem. Okay, so that hmm yeah, 1:14:54.280 --> 1:14:56.519 without having a wait, now, is this backed up? Are 1:14:56.560 --> 1:14:58.000 you trying to get stuff off of here? Is that 1:14:58.040 --> 1:14:58.599 what's happening? 1:14:59.200 --> 1:15:03.280 It's backed up about two months ago. I've got you 1:15:03.320 --> 1:15:06.080 know a lot of my apps and photos especially that 1:15:06.200 --> 1:15:08.600 are backed up back to about two months ago. But 1:15:08.760 --> 1:15:10.559 I haven't even tried to get them. I'm just trying 1:15:10.560 --> 1:15:12.000 to recover the phone if I can. 1:15:12.439 --> 1:15:15.000 Oh, okay, recover the phone. I don't think you're gonna 1:15:15.000 --> 1:15:17.960 be able to recover the phone the phone data, oh, 1:15:18.000 --> 1:15:22.320 the phone data. Okay, well, I mean you're probably gonna 1:15:22.320 --> 1:15:25.439 have to bring it somewhere because you're there is a 1:15:25.479 --> 1:15:29.479 way to let's see here, I'm trying to see if okay, 1:15:29.479 --> 1:15:31.639 hold on, I'm looking at this. Yeah, so a couple 1:15:31.680 --> 1:15:34.840 I'm looking at Samsung. What they suggest, you know? Number one? Yes, 1:15:35.000 --> 1:15:38.000 connect your you'r to a TV screen or a monitor. 1:15:38.439 --> 1:15:40.519 So what you could do if you had I mean, 1:15:40.560 --> 1:15:42.559 this is one way of doing it. You can connect 1:15:42.600 --> 1:15:45.439 it to a TV screen or a monitor, but you 1:15:45.439 --> 1:15:47.400 would also need to connect that mouse because you have 1:15:47.439 --> 1:15:50.240 to tap as well. So that's that would be I mean, 1:15:50.240 --> 1:15:51.559 there is a way to do this. I don't think 1:15:51.560 --> 1:15:52.679 there's there's lost hope. 1:15:52.680 --> 1:15:54.599 I just think get that I've got a I've got 1:15:54.640 --> 1:15:55.639 an adapter that I can. 1:15:55.520 --> 1:15:56.519 Say the bottom. 1:15:56.560 --> 1:15:58.880 Okay, So that might be your best way to do it, 1:15:58.960 --> 1:16:00.800 is you connect it to a screen and then also 1:16:00.840 --> 1:16:02.599 connect a mouse into it, so that way you can 1:16:02.600 --> 1:16:04.880 see it on the screen and you can use the 1:16:04.920 --> 1:16:07.800 mouse as well. So I think that's probably going to 1:16:07.880 --> 1:16:09.519 be your best solution. I mean a lot of people 1:16:09.520 --> 1:16:12.559 don't realize that you can do that. But it should 1:16:12.560 --> 1:16:14.400 just show up right on the screen as soon as 1:16:14.400 --> 1:16:17.000 you plug in that adapter, whether it's a you know, 1:16:17.280 --> 1:16:22.559 a just a standard USBC thunderbolt or an HDMI if 1:16:22.560 --> 1:16:24.760 you have one of those adapters. But yeah, Like I've 1:16:24.760 --> 1:16:27.719 got this monitor in my office where I just plug 1:16:27.760 --> 1:16:30.360 into Samsung to like charge it, and the screen just 1:16:30.640 --> 1:16:33.880 it immediately mirrors onto the big screen. So you can 1:16:33.920 --> 1:16:35.679 do that and then plug in a mouse as well. 1:16:35.920 --> 1:16:38.040 The trick is plugging it both in at the same time. 1:16:39.479 --> 1:16:42.240 You could if you plug it into a monitor, you 1:16:42.320 --> 1:16:44.320 might be able to plug the mouse into the monitor 1:16:44.800 --> 1:16:47.559 and then you can it might that might pass through 1:16:47.560 --> 1:16:50.320 to the device to control it as well, So that's 1:16:50.360 --> 1:16:52.559 probably your best bet. And then once you have all 1:16:52.600 --> 1:16:54.519 that done, you know you can go through and just 1:16:54.560 --> 1:16:56.679 get that stuff up to the cloud. But I would 1:16:56.680 --> 1:17:01.200 say ron for future reference. I know, people, it sounds 1:17:01.240 --> 1:17:02.600 like you had some of this stuff backed up, and 1:17:02.760 --> 1:17:05.040 you know what I'm gonna say, but you've gotta you 1:17:05.080 --> 1:17:08.640 gotta check these backups, yep, you know, because this is 1:17:08.680 --> 1:17:11.160 the thing. It's like every time I travel, I take 1:17:11.200 --> 1:17:13.200 you know, one hundred and two hundred pictures out and about. 1:17:13.439 --> 1:17:15.360 I'm like, what if I drop my phone right now 1:17:15.400 --> 1:17:17.559 into the water or you know, I dropped it crack? 1:17:17.600 --> 1:17:20.640 Do you lose all that stuff? So now that's a 1:17:20.680 --> 1:17:23.479 different situation, but the same thing kind of sticks is 1:17:23.520 --> 1:17:25.479 like you just have to Some people go into their 1:17:25.520 --> 1:17:27.519 iPhone and they don't even realize that it hasn't been 1:17:27.560 --> 1:17:31.200 backed up in like months because of something that's stalling it. 1:17:31.360 --> 1:17:33.479 So just you know, whether you have an iPhone or 1:17:33.520 --> 1:17:36.960 a Samsung, check the backup. And Samsung makes it super 1:17:37.000 --> 1:17:39.200 duper easy to back up. You can even back up 1:17:39.240 --> 1:17:40.160 to a USB drive. 1:17:40.200 --> 1:17:40.800 Did you know that? 1:17:41.600 --> 1:17:44.960 Yeah? So I read that and the same thing. I'm 1:17:44.960 --> 1:17:45.960 gonna try that also. 1:17:46.200 --> 1:17:48.240 Yeah, so you can literally, I mean, it makes it 1:17:48.280 --> 1:17:51.160 so easy you just literally on that's funny. 1:17:51.160 --> 1:17:52.639 I'm on the on the Pixel right now. 1:17:52.760 --> 1:17:55.799 But on the Samsung, you can go into your your device, 1:17:55.920 --> 1:17:58.479 into your settings and you'll see a section let me 1:17:58.479 --> 1:18:02.280 see if it's called back up. Let's say, okay, sorry, 1:18:02.280 --> 1:18:03.680 I've got like ten phones here in front of me 1:18:03.760 --> 1:18:07.559 I'm looking at Let's see if we go into accounts 1:18:07.560 --> 1:18:11.840 and backup right there, so you can see backup data 1:18:12.000 --> 1:18:14.000 Samsung Cloud, it will tell you the last time it 1:18:14.040 --> 1:18:16.080 was backed up. Or if you don't want to deal 1:18:16.080 --> 1:18:18.439 with the cloud, you can literally just say backup data 1:18:18.479 --> 1:18:22.160 to Google Drive or external storage. You can just plug 1:18:22.200 --> 1:18:24.040 in a USB drive to the bottom of your phone. 1:18:24.120 --> 1:18:26.719 It will back up everything. Have a backup of these devices. 1:18:26.720 --> 1:18:29.519 Because Ron, you did everything right. It sounds like you 1:18:29.560 --> 1:18:31.760 had the otter box you had, you know, but it's 1:18:31.800 --> 1:18:34.720 just this is life. It throws a curveball, so it 1:18:35.720 --> 1:18:37.400 all right, Well, keep me posting eight. 1:18:37.880 --> 1:18:39.880 Right only to the ground. 1:18:40.200 --> 1:18:40.880 Yeah, I will. 1:18:40.880 --> 1:18:41.880 I keep you posting on that. 1:18:41.960 --> 1:18:45.160 Okay, thanks a lot, Ron, appreciate the call. Thank you. 1:18:45.520 --> 1:18:48.040 I think what happened there with Ron's phone is that, 1:18:48.560 --> 1:18:51.320 you know, if you if your phone falls let's say 1:18:51.360 --> 1:18:53.439 five times, right, and you look at the screen, you're like, oh, who, 1:18:53.720 --> 1:18:57.080 nothing happened to it. It might be developing micro cracks 1:18:58.360 --> 1:19:01.080 and tiny little things in that that are that are 1:19:01.160 --> 1:19:04.320 lessening the strength of that screen. And then finally on 1:19:04.360 --> 1:19:07.840 that number six drop, that's when it just goes so sorry, 1:19:07.840 --> 1:19:09.920 we can't deal with this anymore. The pressure is too much. 1:19:10.400 --> 1:19:13.400 Kind of like, uh, you know sometimes in life, he 1:19:13.600 --> 1:19:16.720 just crack. You just I had I'm not kidding. I 1:19:16.760 --> 1:19:19.960 had a flight attendant on the flight that I thought 1:19:20.080 --> 1:19:24.280 was going to I thought they were gonna crack. They 1:19:24.280 --> 1:19:27.599 were people were this is I mean, the person next 1:19:27.640 --> 1:19:30.880 to me was asking for a drink, like a sparkling water, 1:19:31.520 --> 1:19:35.040 and the guy's like, we have three different types, which 1:19:35.040 --> 1:19:37.200 one would you like? And she's like and you know, 1:19:37.200 --> 1:19:39.080 it's tough to hear in the plane, so like she's 1:19:39.080 --> 1:19:41.160 talking to him and he but this guy, he was 1:19:41.200 --> 1:19:41.880 not having it. 1:19:42.160 --> 1:19:44.639 He was like he was just kind of going off. 1:19:44.640 --> 1:19:46.280 And I was like, oh, this is why I always say, 1:19:46.320 --> 1:19:48.280 because I always order a sparkling water. They've got they've 1:19:48.320 --> 1:19:50.280 got three types. I always say, whatever one you've got, 1:19:50.280 --> 1:19:52.040 I'll take. I don't care, I don't care what flavor 1:19:52.080 --> 1:19:53.840 it is, just give me it. But you know some 1:19:53.880 --> 1:19:56.920 people have this flavor preference. Anyway, I was cracking up 1:19:56.920 --> 1:19:59.760 because then I watched him throughout the flight and he 1:19:59.840 --> 1:20:02.000 was character. I mean, he was talking with everyone. He 1:20:02.120 --> 1:20:03.920 was you know, people were ordered. 1:20:03.960 --> 1:20:06.120 He was just a character. But he didn't he didn't crack. 1:20:06.160 --> 1:20:06.880 He was a nice guy. 1:20:06.920 --> 1:20:10.439 But he really gave the passenger next to me a 1:20:10.479 --> 1:20:12.479 hard time about not knowing which drink He's like, can you. 1:20:12.439 --> 1:20:13.080 Look at the menu. 1:20:13.400 --> 1:20:15.360 We put the menu right in front of you. So 1:20:15.439 --> 1:20:18.080 here's my solution. Okay, because I'm always looking for ways 1:20:18.120 --> 1:20:22.960 of optimizing things. If you're listening United Airlines, that little 1:20:23.040 --> 1:20:25.120 menu that you put in the seatback when you get 1:20:25.120 --> 1:20:28.120 on the plane, tell people to look at it. Say hey, 1:20:28.160 --> 1:20:29.800 we're going to be serving you a drink in about 1:20:29.800 --> 1:20:32.200 an hour. Take a look at the menu. Now have 1:20:32.320 --> 1:20:35.599 your drink selection ready. Everyone looks at the flight attendant 1:20:35.640 --> 1:20:39.080 and asks them for every drink that's available. Let's see, 1:20:39.120 --> 1:20:41.360 we have apple juice, we have orange juice, we have 1:20:41.439 --> 1:20:43.960 coke products, we have that. No, why are they doing that? 1:20:43.960 --> 1:20:47.360 They're wasting time? It could be much more efficient. All right, 1:20:47.400 --> 1:20:50.960 I digress. Let's go to Craig in de Moin. Craig, 1:20:50.960 --> 1:20:56.000 you're on with rich Oh Craig, welcome back to the show. 1:20:56.120 --> 1:20:58.160 I'm doing fantastic. What can I help you with today? 1:20:58.720 --> 1:21:06.040 Okay? Ibouh I sixteen plus okay, I'd stay in the 1:21:06.120 --> 1:21:12.559 house of that left me kpie and my batteries rowed 1:21:12.640 --> 1:21:15.560 up to a hundred each time, and I let it 1:21:15.680 --> 1:21:20.320 go down to seventy five, maybe seventy percent, and then 1:21:20.400 --> 1:21:24.080 I'd plug it back in, the charge it up to 1:21:24.200 --> 1:21:28.880 a hundred, and I'd leave it plugged in all night 1:21:29.600 --> 1:21:34.719 to listen to KFI, of course, and did that hood 1:21:34.840 --> 1:21:37.719 the battery? Oh y'all read it go all the way down? 1:21:38.000 --> 1:21:38.320 Or what? 1:21:41.000 --> 1:21:41.800 Let's put it this way. 1:21:41.880 --> 1:21:43.479 You are you are putting a lot of stress on 1:21:43.520 --> 1:21:45.800 that battery, on that phone by keeping it plugged in 1:21:45.800 --> 1:21:48.120 all the time and going through those charging cycles. Now 1:21:48.600 --> 1:21:51.720 with that said, you know, is it going to ruin 1:21:51.760 --> 1:21:54.800 your battery? You know, probably not. I mean I've got 1:21:54.840 --> 1:21:58.160 I've got my phone from last year. I'm at ninety 1:21:58.240 --> 1:22:01.040 seven percent capacity. You can go into your iPhone, by 1:22:01.080 --> 1:22:04.840 the way, and check they actually put this whole setting 1:22:04.880 --> 1:22:07.960 in there battery. So go into settings battery and you 1:22:08.000 --> 1:22:11.160 can check battery health and you can see how much 1:22:12.240 --> 1:22:14.840 capacity you have. After a certain amount of time, the 1:22:14.880 --> 1:22:17.920 battery capacity goes down. It's just a function of lithium 1:22:17.920 --> 1:22:20.479 ion batteries. And then you can see the cycle count 1:22:20.520 --> 1:22:22.920 as well on your device, so you can see the 1:22:23.000 --> 1:22:25.639 number of times the iPhone has used your batteries capacity 1:22:25.640 --> 1:22:28.360 and you can learn more about that. But the reality is, 1:22:28.479 --> 1:22:30.880 I use and abuse my phone. I do not care 1:22:30.920 --> 1:22:32.800 how I charge it, how much I charge it, what 1:22:32.880 --> 1:22:35.240 I do with it, and I'm at ninety seven percent 1:22:35.280 --> 1:22:37.960 after a year of heavy, heavy usage and not caring. 1:22:38.400 --> 1:22:41.280 So yeah, by keeping your phone plugged in and streaming 1:22:41.280 --> 1:22:43.400 all the time and using it twenty four to seven, 1:22:43.760 --> 1:22:45.559 it's going to put a lot of stress in that battery. 1:22:45.720 --> 1:22:48.960 And so you may want to look at the charge 1:22:49.000 --> 1:22:52.839 limit inside your phone and either change that or toggle 1:22:52.880 --> 1:22:56.320 on what's called optimized battery charging. And those are two 1:22:56.400 --> 1:22:59.479 settings that Apple recently added to the iPhone to make 1:22:59.520 --> 1:23:02.120 the blast a little bit longer, especially if you're keeping 1:23:02.160 --> 1:23:04.840 your phone for a long time. Craig, thanks for the 1:23:04.840 --> 1:23:06.800 call today, appreciate it. Good to hear your voice one 1:23:06.840 --> 1:23:10.200 more time, or once again, I should say. Coming up, 1:23:10.280 --> 1:23:12.439 we are going to talk more about the tech news. 1:23:12.479 --> 1:23:16.040 I've got a Seattle startup that is bringing back the 1:23:16.120 --> 1:23:18.559 landline but just for kids. Plus we've got other guests 1:23:18.560 --> 1:23:20.960 to talk about cleaning up your Windows PC. Right here 1:23:21.000 --> 1:23:25.280 on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:23:25.400 --> 1:23:28.760 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. The 1:23:28.800 --> 1:23:33.880 website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. You 1:23:33.960 --> 1:23:36.680 can go there for all the notes for everything I 1:23:36.720 --> 1:23:39.800 mentioned here on today's show, don't forget. You can get 1:23:39.800 --> 1:23:41.960 this as a podcast as well. Just search rich on 1:23:42.040 --> 1:23:44.040 Tech in your favorite audio app. So if you miss 1:23:44.040 --> 1:23:46.879 an episode you want to listen to something again, listening 1:23:46.920 --> 1:23:50.599 live is always the best way, but if you can't 1:23:50.600 --> 1:23:53.040 make it to the show or you need to catch up, 1:23:53.080 --> 1:23:55.200 you can always just listen to it on your favorite 1:23:55.200 --> 1:23:58.280 audio app. Just search rich on Tech, hit follow, and 1:23:58.680 --> 1:24:01.320 all the new episodes will be there. So there is 1:24:01.400 --> 1:24:05.200 a Seattle startup that is bringing back the landline for kids. 1:24:05.760 --> 1:24:09.720 It's called tin Can. This is actually had a one 1:24:09.760 --> 1:24:11.720 of the one of my followers send this to me. 1:24:12.280 --> 1:24:15.400 It's getting a lot of publicity this week. It's basically 1:24:15.400 --> 1:24:19.680 they've got two products. They've got a the tin Can Flashback, 1:24:20.120 --> 1:24:23.120 which looks like a phone that we had in our 1:24:23.160 --> 1:24:25.200 bedroom back in the day, if you were lucky enough 1:24:25.200 --> 1:24:27.320 to have a phone in your bedroom, you know, the 1:24:27.360 --> 1:24:30.880 corded phone that kind of closes down on a on 1:24:30.960 --> 1:24:34.679 a you know, just like a two pieces. That's number one. 1:24:34.760 --> 1:24:38.400 That's set's seventy five dollars. Then they've got the tin Can, 1:24:38.920 --> 1:24:41.559 which is their phone. It looks almost like a tin can, 1:24:41.640 --> 1:24:43.880 kind of similar to a phone, but it's it's got 1:24:43.880 --> 1:24:46.280 phone styling, but it literally looks like a tin can 1:24:47.040 --> 1:24:49.479 and that's going to be a looks like one hundred dollars, 1:24:49.520 --> 1:24:53.439 but it's seventy five on sale right now. So the 1:24:53.439 --> 1:24:56.479 flashback phone looks like an eighties wall phone, but it 1:24:56.520 --> 1:24:59.960 plugs into your router or Ethernet port, so you can 1:25:00.080 --> 1:25:02.400 make calls on it. No Internet, no screen, no games, 1:25:02.479 --> 1:25:05.800 just voice calls. Of course, there's also parental controlling. You 1:25:05.840 --> 1:25:08.760 can say the hours that people can call or talk 1:25:08.840 --> 1:25:13.000 in there, and also the contacts that are approved, and 1:25:13.000 --> 1:25:14.080 then of course you can call. 1:25:14.200 --> 1:25:14.960 Now here's the thing. 1:25:15.840 --> 1:25:19.960 You can call other phones, other tin Can devices for free, 1:25:20.920 --> 1:25:23.280 but if you want to call outside numbers, they're going 1:25:23.360 --> 1:25:26.439 to charge you ten bucks a month. That's coming soon. 1:25:26.520 --> 1:25:29.200 Let's call the party line plan, so you can call anyone. 1:25:29.680 --> 1:25:32.080 So bottom line, you buy the device for seventy five 1:25:32.120 --> 1:25:35.000 dollars either one of these devices, and you can call 1:25:35.120 --> 1:25:39.280 other devices, other tin Can devices for free unlimited. So 1:25:39.479 --> 1:25:41.559 let's say your kid has a best friend. You talk 1:25:41.560 --> 1:25:43.400 to the other parent, you say, hey, let's get our 1:25:43.479 --> 1:25:44.479 let's get our kids. 1:25:44.240 --> 1:25:47.040 One of these tin cans. They can, you know, connect 1:25:47.040 --> 1:25:47.639 it to the internet. 1:25:47.680 --> 1:25:49.080 And now they can call each other as much as 1:25:49.120 --> 1:25:50.800 they want talk on the phone. 1:25:51.200 --> 1:25:51.519 Now. 1:25:51.680 --> 1:25:56.360 It's cool, but I think this is a tough sell. 1:25:56.520 --> 1:26:00.240 Because, let's be honest, kids are already communicating with all 1:26:00.320 --> 1:26:03.360 kinds of free apps, all kinds of FaceTime. Now, I'm 1:26:03.400 --> 1:26:05.840 not saying that's the best way to communicate because it's 1:26:05.920 --> 1:26:08.640 very distracting. Like these kids are playing video games and 1:26:08.640 --> 1:26:11.600 they're they're chatting on FaceTime while they do that. This 1:26:11.800 --> 1:26:15.840 I get they're trying to bring back the old days 1:26:15.880 --> 1:26:18.640 of sort of that one to one connection. You're just 1:26:18.720 --> 1:26:21.360 on the phone. You're sitting there at your desk, you know, 1:26:21.360 --> 1:26:24.439 your feeder up, laying on your bed, got that long 1:26:24.560 --> 1:26:27.080 cord on the phone, and you're just talking to someone. 1:26:27.200 --> 1:26:30.639 It's like a very classic phone experience. So we'll see 1:26:30.640 --> 1:26:31.200 if it takes off. 1:26:31.240 --> 1:26:31.920 I mean, it's cool. 1:26:32.240 --> 1:26:36.040 You can accomplish the same thing by going with Umama 1:26:36.840 --> 1:26:39.200 or a magic jack and just get a phone at Walmart, 1:26:39.240 --> 1:26:41.559 you know, like a standard they still sell those old 1:26:41.600 --> 1:26:45.360 school phones, not the rotary, but just like a standard 1:26:45.560 --> 1:26:48.320 wired phone. So that's tin Can if you want to 1:26:48.360 --> 1:26:52.400 check it out. Tincan Dot Kids and then Alaska Airlines 1:26:52.400 --> 1:26:55.040 and t Mobile are teaming up for free in flight 1:26:55.080 --> 1:26:58.840 Wi Fi. This can't come fast enough. So Alaska, I 1:26:58.840 --> 1:27:01.000 guess Alaska and Hawaii, you know they linked up now. 1:27:01.080 --> 1:27:05.519 So Alaska's new frequent Flyer program is called at Most 1:27:05.600 --> 1:27:09.920 Rewards at MOS at Most Rewards and starting next year, 1:27:10.439 --> 1:27:14.479 at Most Rewards members will get free Starlink powered Wi Fi. Yay. 1:27:15.560 --> 1:27:17.280 Wi Fi on planes is so bad. It took me 1:27:17.280 --> 1:27:19.360 an hour just to connect to the Wi Fi on 1:27:19.400 --> 1:27:22.600 the plane the other day. Starlink I've tested it on 1:27:22.640 --> 1:27:26.479 Hawaiian airlines. It is incredible. It's so fast. You can 1:27:26.600 --> 1:27:29.840 literally Next time I fly on a flight that has Starlink, 1:27:29.880 --> 1:27:31.840 I'm gonna bring my whole desk set up. I'm gonna 1:27:31.840 --> 1:27:34.320 buy my little lamp. I'm gonna bring like a little 1:27:34.360 --> 1:27:37.000 you know, water cooler. I'm just gonna s a little 1:27:37.040 --> 1:27:39.439 plant I can put like near my chair, and I'm 1:27:39.479 --> 1:27:42.000 just gonna do business because you can literally get stuff 1:27:42.080 --> 1:27:45.120 done if you have Starlink. The other Internet that's all 1:27:45.160 --> 1:27:47.400 all over, like the satellite Internet they used to have, 1:27:47.479 --> 1:27:51.719 it's just horrible. It's really really bad. So Starlink cannot 1:27:51.720 --> 1:27:56.080 come fast enough on these planes. Rollout begins twenty twenty 1:27:56.120 --> 1:27:59.120 six on select flights, with full fleet coverage by twenty 1:27:59.160 --> 1:28:03.120 twenty seven. Now remember United is also doing starlink. It 1:28:03.200 --> 1:28:04.960 had like a false start. They put it on like 1:28:04.960 --> 1:28:07.000 one or two planes and there's like a problem, so 1:28:07.000 --> 1:28:08.599 they have to bring it back. I don't know what 1:28:08.640 --> 1:28:11.120 the status is of United with Starlink, but I cannot 1:28:11.160 --> 1:28:13.720 wait for that to be on my plane anyway. T 1:28:13.880 --> 1:28:16.360 Mobile customers the whole reason. So everyone gets it for free, 1:28:16.400 --> 1:28:20.480 but T Mobile customers will get exclusive perks like seamless 1:28:20.600 --> 1:28:23.760 ad free log on to Starlink. So I guess you know, 1:28:23.800 --> 1:28:25.320 with a lot of these free wifis, you got to 1:28:25.320 --> 1:28:26.760 like watch like a little ad or something before you 1:28:26.800 --> 1:28:27.439 can access it. 1:28:28.600 --> 1:28:30.320 T Mobile customers won't have to do that. 1:28:30.640 --> 1:28:32.240 By the way, if you are a T Mobile customer, 1:28:32.280 --> 1:28:34.519 you've got a phone number with T Mobile, nine times 1:28:34.520 --> 1:28:36.160 out of ten you can access the Wi Fi for 1:28:36.280 --> 1:28:37.320 free on your plane. 1:28:37.520 --> 1:28:38.879 Just so you know, that. 1:28:39.640 --> 1:28:44.559 Amazon Autos added a new customer. I guess Hurts will 1:28:44.600 --> 1:28:48.559 be selling used cars on Amazon Autos. So remember we 1:28:48.560 --> 1:28:51.439 talked about this last week. They're selling Hyundais through there. 1:28:51.520 --> 1:28:56.080 Now you can buy Hurts cars Amazon Autos. All right, 1:28:56.160 --> 1:28:58.680 coming up, next, we're gonna talk about cleaning up your 1:28:58.720 --> 1:29:01.080 Windows PC. I know you need to do this. I 1:29:01.080 --> 1:29:02.640 know you need the infos. We're gonna give you the 1:29:02.680 --> 1:29:05.720 step by step directions. Coming up next, I'm making your computer. 1:29:05.800 --> 1:29:10.479 Run like new. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:29:10.560 --> 1:29:13.519 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology the 1:29:13.560 --> 1:29:16.920 website rich on Tech dot tv. If you want links 1:29:16.920 --> 1:29:20.960 to anything I mentioned here. All right, so we've got 1:29:21.280 --> 1:29:24.479 We've talked about a lot on today's show, and one 1:29:24.479 --> 1:29:26.439 of the things that comes up over and over and 1:29:26.479 --> 1:29:30.599 over with Windows computers, for the most part, is getting 1:29:30.640 --> 1:29:34.640 them to run smooth and fast and to their potential, 1:29:35.040 --> 1:29:37.280 because most of these computers are really good and they 1:29:37.280 --> 1:29:39.639 can last a long time. But the problem is all 1:29:39.720 --> 1:29:43.400 this gunk that gets sort of like just collected over 1:29:43.439 --> 1:29:45.639 the years, and over time you download stuff, you try 1:29:45.640 --> 1:29:47.920 it out, you stop using it apps, you're trying to 1:29:47.920 --> 1:29:50.599 get all kinds of stuff on your computer. So with 1:29:50.640 --> 1:29:55.360 that in mind, we've got Joe Karas Scoria. He is 1:29:55.640 --> 1:30:00.920 the let's see here senior XDA segment lead for OS 1:30:00.920 --> 1:30:04.479 and devices, I mean recently recently had a title change, 1:30:04.479 --> 1:30:06.679 So congrats on that, and welcome to the show. 1:30:08.280 --> 1:30:11.080 Hello, Thank you so much for having me. It's a 1:30:11.240 --> 1:30:12.360 huge quessure to be here. 1:30:12.640 --> 1:30:16.000 Yeah, you wrote a great article for XDA Developers about 1:30:16.000 --> 1:30:19.599 how to deep clean your PC every year, and so 1:30:20.240 --> 1:30:21.920 first off, just tell me, like, what do you write 1:30:21.920 --> 1:30:22.639 about typically? 1:30:23.960 --> 1:30:26.000 So, first of all, thank you for saying it's great. 1:30:26.400 --> 1:30:31.040 I'm glad it resonated. Yeah, So what the kind of 1:30:31.040 --> 1:30:33.800 stuff that I wrote about an XCA. Obviously, since I 1:30:33.800 --> 1:30:36.360 am segment made for OS and devices, I do write 1:30:36.400 --> 1:30:39.800 a lot in those two segments as well, but especially OS. 1:30:39.840 --> 1:30:43.080 I run a lot about Windows. More recently Linux I've 1:30:43.080 --> 1:30:44.599 been covering in one bit of both. 1:30:45.880 --> 1:30:46.679 Whenever I can. 1:30:47.400 --> 1:30:50.880 So yeah, and it's a lot about tips and tricks, 1:30:50.880 --> 1:30:54.120 and it's not it's we do it less so from 1:30:54.120 --> 1:30:57.519 a how to perspective, and more so you probably didn't 1:30:57.520 --> 1:31:00.920 know you should be doing this, so like you should 1:31:00.960 --> 1:31:01.320 be doing it. 1:31:01.560 --> 1:31:03.200 Yeah, yeah, I mean that's like a lot of things 1:31:03.240 --> 1:31:05.879 because people don't even know what's out there, what's available, 1:31:05.880 --> 1:31:08.960 what they should be doing. So your first step in 1:31:09.000 --> 1:31:12.679 your article you talked about uninstalling apps, I mean that's 1:31:12.760 --> 1:31:15.120 always like the first step. Explain how to do that 1:31:15.200 --> 1:31:15.880 in the best way. 1:31:16.640 --> 1:31:20.000 Yeah, of course, So you know, the standard way to 1:31:20.040 --> 1:31:22.880 an installer apps. You know, you go through your start menu, 1:31:23.040 --> 1:31:25.559 open the start menu, there's on apps button. 1:31:25.600 --> 1:31:27.040 You can see all of them there. 1:31:27.560 --> 1:31:29.280 You know, you can scroll down that list and don't 1:31:29.280 --> 1:31:31.559 find a lot of things that you probably don't use 1:31:31.600 --> 1:31:34.320 anymore or never used. If you've never looked at at 1:31:34.360 --> 1:31:37.120 that list before and when you got your computers, that's 1:31:37.120 --> 1:31:39.040 start going a lot of things there that you don't need. 1:31:40.080 --> 1:31:42.160 So you can just scroll down that list and if 1:31:42.200 --> 1:31:44.040 there's anything that you know you don't need, it can 1:31:44.080 --> 1:31:46.599 write make it and there's an install button right there 1:31:47.040 --> 1:31:50.599 to remove it. And if you're not sure, it's always 1:31:50.600 --> 1:31:52.519 a good idea to either google it or you can 1:31:52.560 --> 1:31:53.040 just try. 1:31:52.840 --> 1:31:54.800 To launch it and see what it does in case you. 1:31:55.040 --> 1:31:57.080 Don't know if you actually need it or not, and 1:31:57.120 --> 1:31:59.719 then you can decide whether to whether it's an installer 1:31:59.800 --> 1:32:00.000 or not. 1:32:00.439 --> 1:32:02.400 Yes, it is the standard way. 1:32:02.479 --> 1:32:03.960 Yeah, So I mean basically, if you don't if you 1:32:04.000 --> 1:32:06.559 don't reckon, can you ruin anything on your computer if 1:32:06.560 --> 1:32:09.360 you want to install something that's like like need like 1:32:09.400 --> 1:32:10.400 the system needs. 1:32:12.040 --> 1:32:15.080 Not really most of the system apps that are on 1:32:15.200 --> 1:32:18.000 Windows in the part of Windows, they can't be removed 1:32:18.360 --> 1:32:21.559 and words, you might break things that you're used to doing. 1:32:21.640 --> 1:32:24.040 It's nothing that you can to restore if you know how, 1:32:24.040 --> 1:32:26.160 don't look it up. So it's never going to be 1:32:26.560 --> 1:32:29.519 permanent damage or very like that's very like going to happen. 1:32:29.960 --> 1:32:31.840 But yeah, if you don't know what you're removing, then 1:32:31.840 --> 1:32:33.920 you might end up with something that you used to 1:32:34.000 --> 1:32:37.559 do that doesn't work anymore because you needed that specific program. 1:32:37.640 --> 1:32:40.839 But it is fixable, so it's never something that's permanent. 1:32:41.120 --> 1:32:43.919 All right, your next step run a to blow script. 1:32:44.000 --> 1:32:46.519 I mean that sounds like uh, I mean is that 1:32:46.600 --> 1:32:48.800 something regular users can do or is that for just 1:32:48.840 --> 1:32:50.000 advanced users. 1:32:50.960 --> 1:32:53.880 So this one is a little more complicated because because 1:32:53.880 --> 1:32:55.519 there's a lot of options here and some of these 1:32:55.560 --> 1:32:57.960 again can affect certain features that you might be used to, 1:32:58.000 --> 1:32:59.880 certain things that you might be used to using. And 1:33:00.360 --> 1:33:02.120 you know, one of these are programs that I might 1:33:02.240 --> 1:33:04.120 want to check boxes, and there might be a temptation 1:33:04.200 --> 1:33:07.559 to just check all of the boxes and disable everything, 1:33:07.960 --> 1:33:10.519 and this might have an impact on you if you just like, 1:33:10.520 --> 1:33:12.960 if you disabled something like Microsoft Defender, which is the 1:33:13.000 --> 1:33:15.679 anti virus in Windows and eleven, that'll be a problem 1:33:15.760 --> 1:33:19.040 because then you'll have no protection against malware on the 1:33:19.040 --> 1:33:22.960 computer by default, So you know, it is something that 1:33:22.960 --> 1:33:24.799 you would want to be a little more tech savvy 1:33:24.880 --> 1:33:28.000 before you do. Just you want to have some awareness 1:33:28.040 --> 1:33:30.160 and take your time to read all the options available 1:33:30.160 --> 1:33:33.240 in these scripts to make sure that you don't disable 1:33:33.320 --> 1:33:35.000 anything that is essential to you. 1:33:35.880 --> 1:33:38.519 Now, what about the startup apps, because this is another 1:33:38.560 --> 1:33:40.120 thing where you restart your computer. 1:33:40.640 --> 1:33:41.040 Next thing. 1:33:41.120 --> 1:33:43.360 No, it's like taking an hour because so many things 1:33:43.360 --> 1:33:45.720 are popping up as a computer restarts. 1:33:46.800 --> 1:33:47.680 Yeah, exactly. 1:33:47.800 --> 1:33:50.479 So you know, we only talked about an installing apps, 1:33:50.479 --> 1:33:54.720 and of course that's a very important first step. But 1:33:54.800 --> 1:33:57.960 even if you have apps that you do use and 1:33:58.040 --> 1:34:00.679 one of them will't create these entries in the startup 1:34:01.000 --> 1:34:03.800 in the Windows startup and then will always launch whenever 1:34:03.800 --> 1:34:05.680 you turn on the computer, So it just starts to 1:34:05.760 --> 1:34:08.400 bog things down more and more as you install more 1:34:08.439 --> 1:34:10.800 of these programs. And you don't always need these apps 1:34:10.840 --> 1:34:12.760 running in the background. Sometimes you just want to have 1:34:12.880 --> 1:34:14.439 them and you launch them and you need them, and 1:34:14.479 --> 1:34:17.400 then you'll leave them alone. So you know, you can 1:34:17.400 --> 1:34:20.200 go into the task manager in Windows on weven. If 1:34:20.200 --> 1:34:23.679 you open the task manager, there's a startup tab, which 1:34:23.720 --> 1:34:26.439 has a little icon that looks like a speedometer on 1:34:26.520 --> 1:34:30.320 a car. And there's a lot of apps there, and 1:34:30.360 --> 1:34:32.960 you can see like whether those startup entries are enabled 1:34:33.080 --> 1:34:36.360 or not, and you can enable, you can disable, you 1:34:36.360 --> 1:34:40.679 can disable these pretty freely. This is even less risky 1:34:40.720 --> 1:34:43.040 than an installing an app, because only doing is preventing 1:34:43.040 --> 1:34:43.840 that app from running. 1:34:43.880 --> 1:34:46.680 At startup. You can always launch launch it yourself if 1:34:46.720 --> 1:34:47.599 you needed to function. 1:34:47.800 --> 1:34:49.240 Oh wow, so yeah, I'm looking. 1:34:49.280 --> 1:34:53.720 I'm looking at my list bing wallpaper, co pilot ever, 1:34:53.880 --> 1:34:59.640 no iTunes, helper three sixty five, co pilot teams, no 1:34:59.760 --> 1:35:03.360 sh in one drive, phone link, so all these things 1:35:03.520 --> 1:35:05.799 are running as soon as I turn on my computer. 1:35:06.280 --> 1:35:08.439 I don't probably need all those things running every time 1:35:08.439 --> 1:35:10.639 I turn on my computer. So again, it just searching. 1:35:10.960 --> 1:35:14.880 Uh the taskbar says task manager, and you'll see it 1:35:14.880 --> 1:35:16.960 looks like you said, it's like a little spetometer, says 1:35:17.000 --> 1:35:19.559 startup aps. Just go in there and disable the ones 1:35:19.560 --> 1:35:20.200 that you don't need. 1:35:21.120 --> 1:35:21.839 Yeah, exactly. 1:35:21.960 --> 1:35:24.479 That's that's a great starting point because a lot of 1:35:24.479 --> 1:35:26.479 those that take it all. If you use something like 1:35:26.520 --> 1:35:30.879 Adobe Photoshop, the creative concuite always starts with the computer, 1:35:30.920 --> 1:35:34.120 and it's a pretty heavy piece of software. So that's 1:35:34.120 --> 1:35:36.120 something I usually do every one's own because I only 1:35:36.160 --> 1:35:38.400 need it when I open photoshops, so I don't need 1:35:38.400 --> 1:35:38.760 it right now. 1:35:38.880 --> 1:35:41.400 Yeah, and that's it's it's running as much as it 1:35:41.439 --> 1:35:43.519 can to make things faster when it does open. 1:35:43.600 --> 1:35:47.719 But just open it up. Okay. What about the driver updates? 1:35:47.720 --> 1:35:48.800 How do we check for those? 1:35:50.880 --> 1:35:51.280 Okay? 1:35:51.360 --> 1:35:54.160 So drivers, there's a few ways that they can be 1:35:54.240 --> 1:35:59.320 distributed because there's a lot of pieces to how drivers work. 1:35:59.400 --> 1:36:01.960 So Windows updates, you know, when you open the settings 1:36:01.960 --> 1:36:05.240 out as the Windows Update section, some driver updates won't 1:36:05.280 --> 1:36:08.599 come through there automatically. And then on that page there's 1:36:08.600 --> 1:36:11.599 also an advanced absence button, and if you go there, 1:36:11.720 --> 1:36:15.040 there's then an optional updates section and a lot of 1:36:15.120 --> 1:36:18.200 driver updates coming through there. They're not mandatory, but you 1:36:18.240 --> 1:36:21.280 can always install them. And then after that, it's also 1:36:21.360 --> 1:36:24.840 up to the manufacturer. So if your computer manufacturer will 1:36:24.840 --> 1:36:27.120 have a website with drivers, you will have to look 1:36:27.200 --> 1:36:29.320 up your specific model, So that's kind of vary from 1:36:29.320 --> 1:36:32.120 person to person, but you'll look you can look up 1:36:32.160 --> 1:36:33.720 your model and there will be a page with all 1:36:33.720 --> 1:36:36.280 the drivers available for your PC. And some of them 1:36:36.320 --> 1:36:38.640 might be newer. A lot of computers also come with 1:36:38.960 --> 1:36:43.599 specific software that updates your drivers automatically, so you can 1:36:43.640 --> 1:36:46.000 do that a little more easily without going to the website. 1:36:46.840 --> 1:36:50.040 And then you know, in the case of the graphics drivers, 1:36:50.680 --> 1:36:54.120 a m D and then VideA and the dedicated software 1:36:54.160 --> 1:36:57.960 for them that updates drivers. Because graphics drivers are updated 1:36:58.080 --> 1:37:01.320 very frequently, so it makes sense to separate them a 1:37:01.360 --> 1:37:04.240 little bit from the computer or Windows, you. 1:37:04.280 --> 1:37:06.520 Might want to have that dedicated software. 1:37:06.720 --> 1:37:10.160 So that's usually the best way to update graphics driverge 1:37:10.160 --> 1:37:10.519 as well. 1:37:10.760 --> 1:37:13.479 Okay, and this is always uh, you know, people are 1:37:13.479 --> 1:37:15.240 always interested in this malware. 1:37:15.840 --> 1:37:16.719 What do you recommend? 1:37:16.840 --> 1:37:19.880 You know, people think their computers infected, there's something going on. 1:37:20.320 --> 1:37:22.919 What do you recommend for scanning for malware? 1:37:24.240 --> 1:37:24.439 Right? 1:37:24.760 --> 1:37:26.880 So, by the FHONT you know, Microsoft Defender has gone 1:37:26.880 --> 1:37:29.360 into indows eleven. I always believe that it's a pretty 1:37:29.400 --> 1:37:33.240 solid solution, you know, for daily day use. But when 1:37:33.360 --> 1:37:35.160 you're doing a deep clean like this and you want 1:37:35.200 --> 1:37:37.839 to make sure that you're getting as much as possible, 1:37:38.000 --> 1:37:41.360 like no little things still on your computer, the one 1:37:41.439 --> 1:37:45.439 I usually use is called malware Bytes. It's been around 1:37:45.479 --> 1:37:48.439 for a while. It is to become specifically manware, bite 1:37:48.520 --> 1:37:52.000 sometime malware. But yeah, they have a very comprehensive solution. 1:37:52.120 --> 1:37:54.679 It's they do have a premium version that offers real 1:37:54.760 --> 1:37:58.280 time protection. But if you just want to run a scan, 1:37:58.680 --> 1:38:00.519 like on demand, it's free. 1:38:00.920 --> 1:38:01.160 Okay. 1:38:01.200 --> 1:38:04.040 So that's the difference is that if the free one 1:38:04.160 --> 1:38:07.559 you have to do the scan. The paid one it 1:38:07.600 --> 1:38:10.000 will do scans in the background all the time, real 1:38:10.080 --> 1:38:11.240 time exactly. 1:38:11.280 --> 1:38:14.200 Okay, good delineation, thank you. Okay. So it runs the 1:38:14.240 --> 1:38:16.840 scan and what it unearthed something? 1:38:17.640 --> 1:38:20.479 Yeah, generally it will. It's it's kind of a very 1:38:20.479 --> 1:38:23.960 good detection engine. So most of them malware out there, 1:38:24.000 --> 1:38:27.800 I think I have very good experiences maware. It's very 1:38:27.800 --> 1:38:30.360 good at detecting things. If you look at my article. 1:38:30.400 --> 1:38:32.800 Actually I wasn't expecting to have any hits when I 1:38:32.880 --> 1:38:35.560 was writing that article, but I ran, I ran the 1:38:35.960 --> 1:38:39.599 scan in the room at all four four items there. 1:38:39.800 --> 1:38:42.760 Oh you found four things that it flags is like, hey, 1:38:42.760 --> 1:38:44.760 this stuff you might not want in there. All right, 1:38:45.040 --> 1:38:48.439 we'll run out of time. But finally delete temporary files. 1:38:48.600 --> 1:38:49.479 What's the deal with that? 1:38:50.360 --> 1:38:52.479 Okay, So that's that's the final one. 1:38:53.000 --> 1:38:55.680 There's this is the feature that's part of Windows and 1:38:55.680 --> 1:38:59.839 it's perfectly safe. There's if you're go into the settings, 1:39:00.880 --> 1:39:03.320 they're in the system section, there's a storage page, and 1:39:03.360 --> 1:39:06.719 then within that there's a temporary files section, and this 1:39:07.040 --> 1:39:09.400 allows you to do it all kinds of things that 1:39:09.479 --> 1:39:13.920 Windows stores to speed up certain processes, like there will 1:39:13.960 --> 1:39:17.960 be icons or things or thumbnails files like that. 1:39:18.000 --> 1:39:20.760 There are storages to speed up certain things. You don't 1:39:20.800 --> 1:39:21.439 really need them. 1:39:21.520 --> 1:39:24.360 A lot of times they might be replaced by other files. 1:39:24.920 --> 1:39:27.840 So it's a good idea to run this scan. And 1:39:27.840 --> 1:39:30.080 when you when you open the temporary files page, you 1:39:30.080 --> 1:39:31.920 don't automatically. 1:39:31.240 --> 1:39:33.559 Scan your computer for all the temporary files on there. 1:39:34.120 --> 1:39:35.559 And aside from the. 1:39:35.479 --> 1:39:39.200 Downloads folder, which you shouldn't select because that we will 1:39:39.280 --> 1:39:42.759 have most of your downloaded files. You can select everything 1:39:42.760 --> 1:39:45.000 else and don't need all of it, and it will 1:39:45.080 --> 1:39:46.200 usually be perfume and fine. 1:39:46.320 --> 1:39:50.840 Okay, so that's again just search storage and it'll it'll 1:39:50.880 --> 1:39:53.719 be right under the system storage. You'll say temporary files. 1:39:54.040 --> 1:39:56.439 All right, great information. I'm going to link up the 1:39:56.560 --> 1:40:01.479 article on the website rich on Tech, but if you 1:40:01.479 --> 1:40:05.280 want to Google search it it is XDA developers. You 1:40:05.280 --> 1:40:08.160 should deep clean your Windows PC every year to keep 1:40:08.160 --> 1:40:11.640 it running smoothly. Here's how I do it, and my 1:40:11.720 --> 1:40:14.559 thanks to Joe for joining us today. Thanks so much 1:40:14.560 --> 1:40:16.360 for joining me, Joe, thank you. 1:40:16.400 --> 1:40:18.360 So much for the invitation. It's been to wait time. 1:40:18.600 --> 1:40:20.679 All right. Now you know how to get your computer. 1:40:20.720 --> 1:40:22.640 You don't even need a new one, just clean it 1:40:22.720 --> 1:40:24.200 up so easy. 1:40:24.439 --> 1:40:26.639 All right, rich on Tech dot tv, I'll link up 1:40:26.640 --> 1:40:28.519 that article and coming up we are going to open 1:40:28.600 --> 1:40:36.040 up the feedback. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Oh 1:40:36.080 --> 1:40:39.760 my gosh, what a great show it has been. It's 1:40:39.800 --> 1:40:42.759 not over yet. I'm just saying it's been a good show. 1:40:43.240 --> 1:40:46.360 Thanks to you, Thanks to you, thanks to Bobo, thanks 1:40:46.400 --> 1:40:49.439 to Kim. You know, it's a group effort here, little 1:40:49.479 --> 1:40:52.920 part of me. I just posted this to my Instagram 1:40:52.920 --> 1:40:56.680 at rich on Tech saw that there's a setting, it 1:40:56.720 --> 1:40:59.880 might be a new setting on Facebook where they might 1:41:00.520 --> 1:41:05.280 they might be scanning your phone's camera role. Yes, scanning 1:41:05.360 --> 1:41:07.960 the pictures on your camera roll. So there are two 1:41:08.000 --> 1:41:11.600 settings that basically the first one is less nefarious, but 1:41:11.640 --> 1:41:13.840 it's still like I don't want them scanning anything in 1:41:13.840 --> 1:41:18.240 my camera role. So the first one basically says camera 1:41:18.320 --> 1:41:21.920 roll sharing suggestions. So the first one is get camera 1:41:22.040 --> 1:41:25.320 roll suggestions. When you're browsing Facebook and I've seen this before. 1:41:25.360 --> 1:41:27.960 You're scrolling through Facebook says hey, you took this great picture. 1:41:28.000 --> 1:41:28.600 Do you want to share it? 1:41:28.640 --> 1:41:30.320 And it shows you one of the pictures you took, 1:41:30.720 --> 1:41:32.800 but it says, don't worry, this is private until you 1:41:32.840 --> 1:41:35.439 share it. Nah, just turn that off altogether. You don't 1:41:35.479 --> 1:41:38.120 need them looking through your pictures. That's number one. Now 1:41:38.120 --> 1:41:42.760 here's the scarier one. Get creative ideas made for you 1:41:42.840 --> 1:41:46.720 by allowing camera roll cloud processing processing. 1:41:47.000 --> 1:41:47.760 What does that mean? 1:41:48.080 --> 1:41:50.400 Not only are they looking at your pictures on your 1:41:50.400 --> 1:41:54.280 camera roll, they're uploading them to Meta's cloud to analyze 1:41:54.280 --> 1:41:57.559 them and maybe affect them with AI or something creative. 1:41:57.640 --> 1:42:00.280 And then present you that picture and they said they're 1:42:00.280 --> 1:42:03.479 scanning it for things like you know, we'll check for 1:42:03.560 --> 1:42:05.800 safety and integrity purposes. 1:42:06.280 --> 1:42:08.559 Huh huh, nah, no, thank you. 1:42:09.080 --> 1:42:12.400 So I would go in personally and change these settings 1:42:12.439 --> 1:42:15.080 to off. It looks like the first one is turned 1:42:15.080 --> 1:42:17.720 on by default, which is the less nefarious, but the 1:42:17.760 --> 1:42:19.799 second one is turned off by default. 1:42:19.800 --> 1:42:21.960 But I would turn them both off immediately. 1:42:22.520 --> 1:42:25.200 And I just posted how to find these settings It's 1:42:25.200 --> 1:42:27.439 pretty easy. Actually, just go into your Facebook settings and 1:42:27.439 --> 1:42:33.760 look for it's called camera. Let's see camera role sharing suggestions. 1:42:34.120 --> 1:42:37.080 But I posted the full instructions on my Instagram at 1:42:37.200 --> 1:42:39.720 rich on Tech, I would say take a look and 1:42:39.880 --> 1:42:43.920 uh yeah, nobody. Nobody needs that time for the feedback. 1:42:44.080 --> 1:42:46.840 These are your emails, your comments, your questions I get 1:42:46.880 --> 1:42:49.280 from you. If you want to submit, just go to 1:42:49.400 --> 1:42:53.400 richon Tech dot tv hit contact. Bruce writes in your 1:42:53.479 --> 1:42:56.680 latest newsletter, you had to be talking about you. You 1:42:56.840 --> 1:42:59.280 had to be talking about me being trapped in the 1:42:59.320 --> 1:43:01.840 Apple eco system. I almost committed to grabbing a new 1:43:01.920 --> 1:43:04.640 Pixel ten after reading about Magic Q. But with my 1:43:04.760 --> 1:43:08.240 iPhone sixteen pro, max iPad Pro, Apple Watch, iMac, Apple 1:43:08.320 --> 1:43:11.400 TV Final Cut Pro and all the Apple subscriptions, the 1:43:11.439 --> 1:43:14.280 mountain to change would be too high to climb. What 1:43:14.280 --> 1:43:17.880 do you run in here, Bruce? An Apple store? And 1:43:17.880 --> 1:43:19.519 then that's the other thing in the back of my mind. 1:43:19.560 --> 1:43:22.840 Google's reputation of dropping devices and services after everyone has 1:43:22.840 --> 1:43:25.000 adopted them. Great work, Please keep it up. 1:43:25.080 --> 1:43:27.599 Thank you. 1:43:26.600 --> 1:43:30.320 Uh No from Pico Rivera writes in Hey, rich I 1:43:30.360 --> 1:43:31.760 just wanted to share that my husband and I have 1:43:31.760 --> 1:43:34.960 been using a cell service called Tello. Since twenty twenty one, 1:43:35.000 --> 1:43:37.280 we've had no issues. We pay fourteen bucks a month 1:43:37.280 --> 1:43:40.519 plus taxes for five gigs of data with unlimited talking text. 1:43:40.840 --> 1:43:43.120 You can adjust the plan to fit your needs. Thanks 1:43:43.120 --> 1:43:45.920 for all your tech tips. I enjoy yours newsletters and 1:43:46.000 --> 1:43:46.839 TV segments. 1:43:46.920 --> 1:43:48.040 Noura great. 1:43:48.520 --> 1:43:52.439 Tello is excellent, excellent, excellent. I love them because you 1:43:52.479 --> 1:43:56.680 can basically build your own plan and customize it exactly 1:43:56.680 --> 1:43:58.160 the way you want. So if you just want five 1:43:58.240 --> 1:44:02.320 hundred texts, no data and unlimited talk, you can do 1:44:02.479 --> 1:44:06.439 that and it just does the plan price accordingly. George 1:44:06.479 --> 1:44:10.640 from Reading Pennsylvania listening on WRAW thirteen hundred says the 1:44:10.680 --> 1:44:13.479 caller who wanted to keep his old PC running asked 1:44:13.520 --> 1:44:17.480 about cleaning it up. I always recommend downloading using Microsoft 1:44:17.520 --> 1:44:19.679 PC Manager. It's a free and simple way to clear 1:44:19.760 --> 1:44:23.000 junk files and keep things running smoothly. Yes, I've definitely 1:44:23.040 --> 1:44:26.680 mentioned PC manager before. It is a easy tool. Just 1:44:26.840 --> 1:44:30.080 make sure you're getting the actual official one from Microsoft, 1:44:30.200 --> 1:44:34.680 not an impost Day from Eastern Washington writes in I 1:44:34.720 --> 1:44:36.479 heard your show and wanted to share a couple of 1:44:36.520 --> 1:44:40.800 free tools for editing PDFs. Try LibreOffice. They can do 1:44:40.880 --> 1:44:43.000 it for free. It does have a learning curve, but 1:44:43.080 --> 1:44:43.639 it works. 1:44:43.760 --> 1:44:44.040 Also. 1:44:44.120 --> 1:44:47.040 If you're having trouble changing file permissions, check out MCO 1:44:47.240 --> 1:44:49.920 unlock it. I've used it when I couldn't manipulate a 1:44:49.960 --> 1:44:50.960 file and it helped. 1:44:50.960 --> 1:44:53.479 I'm not an expert, but both are worth a try. 1:44:53.920 --> 1:44:58.280 Yeah, Libra Office is is great. Libra is it, Libra 1:44:58.680 --> 1:45:02.040 Libre Office lib It's like a free version of like 1:45:02.120 --> 1:45:06.600 Microsoft or Microsoft Office. Luke from the UK rights in 1:45:06.720 --> 1:45:08.840 wow are We're all over the place. I listened to 1:45:08.880 --> 1:45:11.000 your show every week on the podcast and I enjoy it. 1:45:11.000 --> 1:45:13.920 On a recent episode, you talked about securely erasing discs. 1:45:14.280 --> 1:45:16.960 I don't think the methods you mentioned are secure enough. 1:45:17.280 --> 1:45:19.840 If you're donating, recycling, or selling an old PC or 1:45:19.880 --> 1:45:22.200 hard drive, it should be overwritten with zeros in one 1:45:22.320 --> 1:45:25.599 several times. Windows reset only does this once. I don't 1:45:25.600 --> 1:45:28.400 think it overroots the boot, overwrits the boot unless you 1:45:28.439 --> 1:45:31.320 reinstall from the cloud. When I erase drives, I use 1:45:31.360 --> 1:45:34.519 a bootable OS called shred os. It can do up 1:45:34.560 --> 1:45:37.639 to seven passes to make sure that data is virtually 1:45:37.640 --> 1:45:41.360 impossible to recover. The interface is text base. You navigate 1:45:41.360 --> 1:45:43.040 with the keyboard, so make sure you pick the correct 1:45:43.080 --> 1:45:46.360 drive if you have more than one for maximum protection, 1:45:46.720 --> 1:45:49.679 erase with zeros and then physically destroy the hard drive. 1:45:49.880 --> 1:45:51.520 All right, Luke, you're you're running. 1:45:51.240 --> 1:45:54.839 Like the uh Fort Knox over there with your stuff. 1:45:55.240 --> 1:45:59.519 Bob from Australia rights in man. We are worldwide. One 1:45:59.520 --> 1:46:02.360 thing missing from your review of tank inkjet printers is 1:46:02.400 --> 1:46:05.479 the cost comparison with cartridge models. It takes about three 1:46:05.560 --> 1:46:09.360 to four cartridge replacements using Excel pricing before a tank 1:46:09.479 --> 1:46:11.920 printer purchase really pays off, and for some people that's 1:46:11.920 --> 1:46:15.559 a lot of printing. Ron from Washington says we've been 1:46:15.640 --> 1:46:18.479 using the epsoin et twenty seven sixty for years. The 1:46:18.520 --> 1:46:21.439 black ink tank lasted us two years. The color tanks 1:46:21.479 --> 1:46:25.160 are still a third full after three years. The issue 1:46:25.200 --> 1:46:27.640 is the nozzle clog if we don't print enough. 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