Speaker 1: First impressions of the Nintendo Switch to the security camera
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Speaker 1: The twenty second rule to avoid being scammed, plus your
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Speaker 1: and why they're changing the way you log in. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you're having a fantastic week. Look what I
Speaker 1: have in my hands. Well, you can't see unless you're
Speaker 1: streaming on a the KTLA plus app. But this is it,
Speaker 1: the new Nintendo Switch. To highly anticipated release from Nintendo,
Speaker 1: eight years in the making, and yes, Nintendo sent me
Speaker 1: a review unit. I've been playing with it, my kids
Speaker 1: have been playing with it, and it's been.
Speaker 2: A long time coming.
Speaker 1: You know, the original Switch came out about eight years ago,
Speaker 1: and they did some incremental upgrades along the way, but
Speaker 1: this is a full rewriting of everything, and they just
Speaker 1: sort of upgraded all the major points on this thing.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could just walk into a store
Speaker 1: and buy one just yet, so people were obviously waiting
Speaker 1: outside in line. But with a little research, I think
Speaker 1: you can track one down. And of course, they launched
Speaker 1: this thing early enough before the holidays that anyone who
Speaker 1: really wants one in time for the holidays hopefully will
Speaker 1: be able to get one. But there always seems to
Speaker 1: be this thing with these new gaming consoles where it
Speaker 1: takes a while to get it.
Speaker 2: I thought it'd be fun. We went out.
Speaker 1: You know, my day job is with KTLA TV in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and we went out to the Best Buy
Speaker 1: where folks were waiting in line for this.
Speaker 2: Now I've done this in the past.
Speaker 1: I used to cover this a lot, you know, coming
Speaker 1: up in the tech world, going to these midnight launches
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles that happened to be nine pm, which
Speaker 1: was kind of cool for these people. But I thought
Speaker 1: it'd be fun if we play some of the sound
Speaker 1: from some of the folks. So let's hear from little Eddie,
Speaker 1: who was excited to be out there.
Speaker 3: This actually my first time, so it's very exciting for me.
Speaker 3: I always wanted to do something like this at least
Speaker 3: once in my life.
Speaker 2: It's way better. I mean, the switch that I have
Speaker 2: is kind of owned.
Speaker 3: The battery runs out very quickly, and with this new
Speaker 3: switsh it has like a bigger screen, which compared to
Speaker 3: my tiny swish is a huge eyebreak for me.
Speaker 2: Actually, I think Eddie was one of the adults we
Speaker 2: talked to. Stanley. He was one of two adults we
Speaker 2: talked to. Stanley was a kid.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what Stanley had to say.
Speaker 4: It's been like eight years and I got my first
Speaker 4: Nintendo when I was five, so I just want to
Speaker 4: get a new one. I'm expecting the Super Mario, the
Speaker 4: Mario Kart and very new features.
Speaker 2: There you go, and Danny. Danny was a character.
Speaker 1: Danny really impressed me with some of the words that
Speaker 1: I had not heard before used in these terms.
Speaker 2: Check it out.
Speaker 5: I just want to switch too. I've been here since
Speaker 5: four thirty just getting comfy.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: I don't really know.
Speaker 6: I'm just kind of here.
Speaker 5: Because I think it's cool.
Speaker 4: I'm also really excited for the games like Pokemon Legends,
Speaker 4: z A, the DLC for Sonic Shatter Generations switch to version.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be peak.
Speaker 6: I'm just really excited.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be peak. I love that it's gonna be peak.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. You learn something new every day.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Now, here's the other adult we talked to, Paul Atte.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what paul Atte had to say.
Speaker 7: We did it for the first one, and it wasn't
Speaker 7: hours and hours.
Speaker 5: This is the first time I do hours and hours.
Speaker 3: But I made new friends.
Speaker 7: Right hey, because I play, I play the game, and
Speaker 7: I have the first one, so the second one helps
Speaker 7: is gonna get me more things, better visuals, new games,
Speaker 7: and more ways to interact with my husband. I play, Actually,
Speaker 7: my husband and I do play a lot. We have
Speaker 7: our own computers, we have our own consoles because each
Speaker 7: one of us has a different style that we like,
Speaker 7: so we enjoy it. And we also play with friends
Speaker 7: for each of the things that we like.
Speaker 2: All right, there you have it.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what I love about Nintendo is
Speaker 1: that it really spans a wide range of fans. It's
Speaker 1: not like some of these systems that are just sort
Speaker 1: of for like the ultimate gamers out there. Like this
Speaker 1: is like very family oriented, which I really like. And
Speaker 1: I told you that it's a little tricky to get.
Speaker 1: But I'm hearing in real time from my friend Matt Swider,
Speaker 1: he runs the shortcut dot com. He's all about how
Speaker 1: to get these things. He just texted and said, Walmart
Speaker 1: always has the best stock. They had a huge restock
Speaker 1: last night, but they sold out in thirty minutes. But
Speaker 1: they are the best place to get it online. And
Speaker 1: then some of the other people I've spoken to, you know,
Speaker 1: you can walk into a Target or another store like
Speaker 1: that they're giving out you know, like tickets when you
Speaker 1: get there and if you get a ticket, you can
Speaker 1: buy one. But of course they get a certain amount
Speaker 1: of these things every day. Let's see what else he's saying.
Speaker 1: Best buying game Stop have better in store restocks than Walmart.
Speaker 1: Target has laid shipments. Ooh ouch. So it's kind of random.
Speaker 1: So I did set this thing up and play with it,
Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: So set up as simple.
Speaker 1: They've got this new dock that I think is better,
Speaker 1: way better than the old one. I had a lot
Speaker 1: of connection problems with the old dock. This one doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to have that. The magnetic controller system is so
Speaker 1: much better, so if you're not familiar with the switch
Speaker 1: in general, it's basically like a handheld gaming console with
Speaker 1: two sort of controllers that attach on the sides, but
Speaker 1: then you can detach those. I mean you could use
Speaker 1: that on the go and then you could detach those,
Speaker 1: put it into the dock, and then connect this to
Speaker 1: your TV.
Speaker 2: So it's basically a two to one device.
Speaker 1: You can play it at home on your TV, and
Speaker 1: then when you're on the go, you can just take
Speaker 1: this thing out of the dock, put the controllers on,
Speaker 1: and then there you go. The screen is much bigger,
Speaker 1: which makes the device kind of heavier in general, which
Speaker 1: will take some getting used to if you have your
Speaker 1: original version or one of the previous versions. This thing
Speaker 1: has sort of grown over time, but I still think
Speaker 1: it feels comfortable in your hands. And I was a
Speaker 1: little bit concerned about the magnetic attachment of the controllers,
Speaker 1: like when they break off or something, but no, they
Speaker 1: stay on there pretty securely, so I think the engineering
Speaker 1: marvel of how they figured out those controllers is also
Speaker 1: pretty neat in itself. Game sharing is so much better,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. The digital games sort of now act
Speaker 1: like virtual game cards, so it's not like the old
Speaker 1: days where the game was sort of linked to just
Speaker 1: one person. Now it's like on the device and then
Speaker 1: whoever's playing sort of gets to play that game. So
Speaker 1: I think that aspect is way easier. The software way faster,
Speaker 1: way smoother, and Nintendo has kind of kept its fun
Speaker 1: friendly interface but made it feel more modern and responsive,
Speaker 1: so I really appreciated that. Now the big feature kids
Speaker 1: and players are going nuts over is this game chat.
Speaker 1: So this lets you voice chat while you play and
Speaker 1: even share your screen with a friend, So that is
Speaker 1: a welcome addition, especially for kids who already on their
Speaker 1: iPads sort of facetiming with their friends as they play
Speaker 1: their games. So now that this is built into the
Speaker 1: Nintendo Switch, I think that's gonna help it better compete
Speaker 1: on this casual gaming market with the iPad. That feature
Speaker 1: is free through March twenty twenty six. After that, you're
Speaker 1: gonna need a Nintendo Online account. Thankfully, those are not
Speaker 1: that expensive. The other new thing is that you can
Speaker 1: plug in a USBC webcam. Doesn't have to be Nintendo's,
Speaker 1: even though they sew one. We just plugged in a
Speaker 1: random one and that worked really well. Graphics look great.
Speaker 1: You can get up to ten ADP on the handheld
Speaker 1: up to four k hdr When you dock it. The
Speaker 1: speaker sounded loud and much much louder to me and
Speaker 1: much clearer. Now the kickstand. That's a big feature of
Speaker 1: this because you can put this on a table and
Speaker 1: sort of play with the controllers in your hand. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways to play this thing. I
Speaker 1: think the kickstand is a little weird. It's like it's
Speaker 1: a little flimsy when you're moving it. But the hinge
Speaker 1: is really solid, so it supports like all the angles
Speaker 1: you want. Don't think that's a deal breaker at all.
Speaker 1: But then there's a couple of games. I played, Switch Tour.
Speaker 1: It feels like it would be included because it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a tutorial about what the new switch is
Speaker 1: all about and all the new features.
Speaker 2: But they charge you ten dollars for that. Feels like
Speaker 2: it should have been free. Now. Mario Kart World is
Speaker 2: the new game. You heard the kid talk about it.
Speaker 1: That is sort of a familiar game, but they kind
Speaker 1: of built in some new I guess, some new ways
Speaker 1: to play on it.
Speaker 2: I didn't get really past.
Speaker 1: The first level just yesterday, so I didn't have too
Speaker 1: much time to play. But these games are eighty dollars now,
Speaker 1: which is wild. My favorite is that you can access
Speaker 1: all these classic Nintendo games if you have the online membership,
Speaker 1: and that's not very expensive. Again, like I said, so,
Speaker 1: I was playing Tetris from my original Game Boy like
Speaker 1: thirty plus years later, which I thought was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And of course, one of the big games coming up
Speaker 1: is Donkey Kong Bonanza that is upcoming in the next
Speaker 1: couple of months. Here price it is kind of expensive,
Speaker 1: four to fifty for the console. If you're gonna get it,
Speaker 1: definitely try to get it bundled with that Mario Kart game.
Speaker 2: It'll save you at least thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: I do not expect price drops on this anytime soon,
Speaker 1: so if you want one before the holidays, you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna have to pay full price. The only thing we'll
Speaker 1: see is maybe some bundles at the stores that bundle
Speaker 1: in some other things, like maybe a gift card or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: I think the.
Speaker 1: Bottom line here, if you like the original switch, you're
Speaker 1: gonna love this one. Not necessarily something you have to
Speaker 1: upgrade to, but if you feel like you want something
Speaker 1: that's new and fresh and faster and better graphics and
Speaker 1: just overall kind of a fresh take on the switch.
Speaker 1: I do think that Nintendo did a really nice job
Speaker 1: in improving this, all right, eighty eight rich one oh
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. I should add that my kids were very
Speaker 1: excited about this new switch, and so were their friends,
Speaker 1: so that's a really good sign. All right, coming up,
Speaker 1: we'll take some of your calls and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: about the light bulb security camera that's so easy to install.
Speaker 2: Anyone should be.
Speaker 1: Able to do it. You are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple Late rich one
Speaker 1: on one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. I should clarify because I mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier that you can see me holding the switch, and
Speaker 1: I said, if you're watching on the KTLA plus app,
Speaker 1: we don't stream the show on the app, but you
Speaker 1: can watch it after the fact. So we put the
Speaker 1: first ten minutes of the show of the radio show
Speaker 1: on TV so you can watch it and enjoy and
Speaker 1: it's sort of like the first ten minutes and it's
Speaker 1: part of my larger show.
Speaker 2: I have streaming which is called rich on Tech Weekly.
Speaker 1: So if you want to check it out anywhere you live,
Speaker 1: you can download the free KTLA plus app.
Speaker 2: Look for rich on Tech Weekly. It is on there
Speaker 2: and that's what it is.
Speaker 1: So getting more information from my pal Matt Swider about
Speaker 1: the Nintendo switch too. He's saying it's easy to get
Speaker 1: in the Midwest. In quotes, Texas stores have them sitting
Speaker 1: on shelves, but major metro areas are sold out completely.
Speaker 1: Definitely not as hard to get as a PlayStation five.
Speaker 1: But we're not at the point where you can just
Speaker 1: walk into a Best Buy and get one. And then
Speaker 1: he has his I ate his tip from his newsletter
Speaker 1: The shortcut dot com as our switch to restock notifications
Speaker 1: can attest. There's much more inventory of the console bundle
Speaker 1: than the standalone version. Some people assume that the four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars console will be easier to get
Speaker 1: because it's less popular, but they didn't account for the
Speaker 1: lack of inventory.
Speaker 2: So there you have it.
Speaker 1: I think that this is probably going to be easier
Speaker 1: to get throughout the year than the PlayStation five was.
Speaker 1: But remember did in that launch during the pandemic. So
Speaker 1: did the Xbox the New Xbox, so you know those
Speaker 1: were that was a different time for sure. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Jim in British Columbia gym.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Hey, Rich, Yeah, I got a message a couple
Speaker 8: of days ago from it appeared to be from Amazon. Now.
Speaker 8: I just tried to send you a copy of it
Speaker 8: on Rich on tach dot tv and it said it's
Speaker 8: an invalid email address.
Speaker 9: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, we're gonna have to look into that.
Speaker 1: I'm getting a lot of emails from people, so I
Speaker 1: don't know what the email address was, what the problem was.
Speaker 2: Let me see.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's rich on tech dot TV. Yes, and it's
Speaker 8: feed bag it rich on email address.
Speaker 1: Feed anyway, feedbag it rich on tech dot TV. That's
Speaker 1: the email, not feedback I got.
Speaker 8: I get this message and it says that Amazon has
Speaker 8: got a whole whack of these palettes which are in
Speaker 8: the picture. They appear to be about three or four
Speaker 8: feet tall. I mean they're huge, and they're twenty nine dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's yeah.
Speaker 8: They're selling them for two weeks. And uh, I'm just
Speaker 8: wondering if it's for real, because you know, it had
Speaker 8: had some the.
Speaker 10: Message really, I mean, it was beautiful.
Speaker 8: If it's a scam, those guys are really getting good.
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 2: Well let's see.
Speaker 1: So, uh, I feel like Jim, because you're calling me
Speaker 1: you have an inkling that this might.
Speaker 2: Be too good to be true. Yeah, yeah, and so
Speaker 2: what so.
Speaker 1: The the the idea here is and I've not seen
Speaker 1: one of these ads.
Speaker 2: I've heard of this before. I've heard of you know,
Speaker 2: various things.
Speaker 1: This sort of plays au pron those TV shows where
Speaker 1: people go into like the abandoned storage facilities and like
Speaker 1: get stuff and like find treasure and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what this sounds like to me. But
Speaker 1: I'm going to say that it is probably very unlikely
Speaker 1: that you're finding a legitimate Amazon liquidation palette for thirty bucks.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's possible. It's funny you say
Speaker 1: this because right before the show, I returned a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff to Amazon at the Amazon Store, and
Speaker 1: I watched. You know, the return policy, or the return
Speaker 1: sort of process is very easy at the Amazon Store.
Speaker 1: You give it to them, they scan a bar they
Speaker 1: paste a bar code on the item, they scan it,
Speaker 1: they scan the bar code from your email, and off
Speaker 1: you go. And then they take the item. They just
Speaker 1: toss it into a giant box. And I was looking
Speaker 1: at the address on the box, and they basically send
Speaker 1: it to an Amazon warehouse in like Las Vegas, or
Speaker 1: probably a local one, whatever's closest to you, and then
Speaker 1: someone goes through that whole thing. So typically the products
Speaker 1: that you return to Amazon go to a couple places.
Speaker 1: They'll either put them back on Amazon as a used item.
Speaker 1: If there's nothing wrong with it, they'll send it back
Speaker 1: to the manufacturer if there's like a problem or an
Speaker 1: issue or some sort of defect, or they might just
Speaker 1: destroy it if it's not really worth any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: And I've also heard of situations where Amazon will just
Speaker 1: say just keep it, you know, it's not.
Speaker 2: Worth our time.
Speaker 1: Although I feel like they're doing that less because people
Speaker 1: got hipped to that and just started returning stuff and
Speaker 1: got to keep it for free and got the credit.
Speaker 1: But typically an Amazon return palette, just looking up online
Speaker 1: here might cost anywhere between one hundred and ten thousand
Speaker 1: dollars with all of this stuff that's on the palette.
Speaker 1: And there are social media platforms, especially Facebook, that have
Speaker 1: these scam listings that promise these unrealistically low prices, and
Speaker 1: often this turns out to be fraudulent. So it, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars to you, Jim, not a big deal.
Speaker 1: But if they're scamming a couple of people every day
Speaker 1: selling twenty nine dollars and never delivering on the goods,
Speaker 1: not a bad business to be in until you get caught,
Speaker 1: or until you get banned, or until someone gets hipped
Speaker 1: to it. So I would not buy the Amazon pallet
Speaker 1: for twenty nine dollars just to ship you. Let's just
Speaker 1: think about the math here, just to ship you a
Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars pallet. There's no way that that works
Speaker 1: out in anyone's favor. So I'm gonna call this a
Speaker 1: big and we're not doing this. Thanks for the call, Jim,
Speaker 1: do appreciate it. Eight eight eight Rich one oh one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we'll take some more of your calls. I
Speaker 2: check the email.
Speaker 1: It is working. It is feedback at Richontech dot TV.
Speaker 1: And coming up, I'll tell you about this new light
Speaker 1: bulb security camera. I think it's pretty cool. If you
Speaker 1: can screw in a light bulb, you can have.
Speaker 2: A security camera.
Speaker 1: My name is rich Demiro. You are listening to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Drew in Costa Mesa.
Speaker 2: Drew, you're on with Rich Pray.
Speaker 9: Rich.
Speaker 11: I got an Epston copier et point seven twenty and uh,
Speaker 11: I don't use it often. So every time I've had
Speaker 11: to use it, you know, I have to go through
Speaker 11: the maintenance, cleaning the heads and everything. But now it's
Speaker 11: after the last time I did that, it still won't work.
Speaker 11: I called the guy and he said, it's cheaper to
Speaker 11: buy a new one than it is to fix it. Yes,
Speaker 11: asking you if you can recommend a copier for somebody
Speaker 11: like me who doesn't use it that much.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, easy, easy, easy choice.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: The I had this printer for I think over ten
Speaker 1: years and it was fantastic, and my kids convinced me
Speaker 1: to upgrade to an HP color laser jet all in
Speaker 1: one you know thing, and it's been nothing but trouble.
Speaker 1: I'm talking, you know, just the amount I'm spending on
Speaker 1: inc I broke the duplexer. I can't figure out how
Speaker 1: to scan on this thing. It's just all a nightmare.
Speaker 1: And I told my kids again this morning, I said,
Speaker 1: can I please downgrade to the Brother? Well, I just
Speaker 1: gave it away, but this is the one you want.
Speaker 1: You want the Brother, You want a Brother laser printer.
Speaker 1: And it's simple, it's easy. They have a bunch of models.
Speaker 1: The one that I'd recommend for you is the DCP
Speaker 1: L two six forty DW You don't have to write
Speaker 1: that down, I'll put it in the show notes. Rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. This is episode one four, but
Speaker 1: that's the one I recommend. One hundred and ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars and it's got the you said you wanted the
Speaker 1: printer and the copier, so it's got all that built in.
Speaker 1: I might just buy this for myself right now. If
Speaker 1: I had a place to put this in my house,
Speaker 1: I would. This would be on my doorstep by tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But I had this printer, the smaller version of it,
Speaker 1: just I didn't have the copier part of it, but
Speaker 1: I had the smaller one, Like I said, for about
Speaker 1: ten years, never had a single problem. The most annoying
Speaker 1: thing was just a couple of times you had to
Speaker 1: buy the ink or the toner rather, which you know
Speaker 1: lasts pretty long if you get the Excel one. But
Speaker 1: in general, yeah, printers are are pretty much the razor
Speaker 1: Blade model Drew, where you buy the printer for really cheap,
Speaker 1: and then you got to buy the ink, which is
Speaker 1: typically pretty expensive. So I always recommend looking at the
Speaker 1: price of the ink before you actually purchase this thing. Now,
Speaker 1: this one replacement toner, if you get the Excel one,
Speaker 1: which i'd recommend, is going to cost you eighty five bucks.
Speaker 1: So the machine itself is two hundred, the toner is
Speaker 1: eighty five, But that's going to be. You know, that's
Speaker 1: going to give you a lot if your only this
Speaker 1: is up to three thousand pages, so you may just
Speaker 1: want to you know, the one that comes with it
Speaker 1: may last you for a while, even though I think
Speaker 1: it's probably like a starter thing. But that's the one
Speaker 1: i'd recommend. Very simple, very easy again. It's the Brother
Speaker 1: DCP L two six four zero DW. It's a black
Speaker 1: and white laser printer copy scan duplex. All the good
Speaker 1: stuff you need. Two hundred dollars. You might even wait
Speaker 1: to see if it goes on sale. Let's let's cross
Speaker 1: reference this. I'm gonna go to Camelcammelcammel dot com. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pop in the Amazon URL and yeah, no, this
Speaker 1: thing does not go on sale, so I just buy
Speaker 1: it today. You can use a website like a shop
Speaker 1: back if you want to buy it from a store
Speaker 1: that might have.
Speaker 2: Let's see if they have any good deals right now.
Speaker 2: Let's see here.
Speaker 1: You might be able to stack it if you go
Speaker 1: to like some of these brands, they have deals on Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get five dollars when you spend fifty on Amazon,
Speaker 1: so there's another five dollars you can save. Shopback dot
Speaker 1: com great question, Drew, Thanks for the call today, do
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I told you about this light bulb that
Speaker 1: Wise has launched. Now, why's this is a company that
Speaker 1: when they came out with a twenty dollars security camera
Speaker 1: back in the day this might have been I don't know,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen or something like that, people went bananas over
Speaker 1: it because it's twenty dollars. Whoever heard of a security
Speaker 1: camera for twenty dollars. So now they've come out with
Speaker 1: things over the years, and I've talked to the people
Speaker 1: at this company. It's a lot of like ex Amazon folks,
Speaker 1: a lot of smart people, and they make just great
Speaker 1: stuff at great prices. Now, yes, before you say, rich,
Speaker 1: didn't they have that security lapse?
Speaker 9: Rich?
Speaker 1: Don't they have issues with their privacy and security? Yes,
Speaker 1: they've had some issues in the past, and I would
Speaker 1: call them growing pains. I think they've fixed all of
Speaker 1: those issues. They made people lock down their accounts with
Speaker 1: two factor authentication. I have no problem recommending the security
Speaker 1: cameras from this company. So they came out with a
Speaker 1: new Wise BULBCAM and what's cool about it is it's
Speaker 1: it looks like a light bulb with the security camera
Speaker 1: on the top. So if you have a light fixture
Speaker 1: that you want to put a security camera in, you
Speaker 1: can do it.
Speaker 2: You just screw in the light bulb and the security
Speaker 2: camera's there. So obviously it has.
Speaker 1: To be a place where you can have an open
Speaker 1: sort of area, like if it, say, a fixture, has
Speaker 1: to either be open on the top or the bottom.
Speaker 1: For this thing to have, the cameras kind of stick
Speaker 1: out because it's can be longer than your typical light bulb.
Speaker 1: But great for garages, porches, anywhere you don't have an outlet,
Speaker 1: anywhere you don't want to deal with wires or solar Now,
Speaker 1: I've not tested this personally just yet, but i have
Speaker 1: no reason to believe. It looks like a wisecam is
Speaker 1: just attached to a light bulb. And I've got wisecams.
Speaker 1: I've been using them since day one in my home
Speaker 1: and they are fantastic because they do exactly what you
Speaker 1: need to do. This one's got two k HD video,
Speaker 1: it's got color, night vision, one hundred and sixty degrees
Speaker 1: field of view, two A audio. Now, the camera is adjustable,
Speaker 1: so you can kind of tilt it, rotate it, extend
Speaker 1: it up or down, to get the angle that you want.
Speaker 1: The light bulb is dimmable. It can be grouped with
Speaker 1: other wise bulbs, which is really cool. So the bulbcam
Speaker 1: itself with the security cameras fifty dollars. Then you can
Speaker 1: buy other light bulbs for about twenty dollars and you
Speaker 1: can group it with up to five other bulbs. So
Speaker 1: let's say you had a whole bunch of light fixtures
Speaker 1: surrounding your home. You can put the security camera bulb
Speaker 1: in one and then the five other camera light bulbs
Speaker 1: in the others, and when the security camera senses motion,
Speaker 1: it will turn on all the other lights at the
Speaker 1: same time, which is just really cool.
Speaker 2: It also records locally to an SD card.
Speaker 1: Now, if you're worried about someone jacking the camera and
Speaker 1: taking that, of course they would have all the video
Speaker 1: as well, so that doesn't require a subscription. But if
Speaker 1: you want the stuff to go into the cloud, you'd
Speaker 1: have to pay something like three dollars a month. But
Speaker 1: it's very easy to set up if it's just like
Speaker 1: any of the other wise cameras. I see these things
Speaker 1: as sort of like just workhorses. You set them up
Speaker 1: once and they kind of just work. For a long time.
Speaker 1: So again, the bulb cam is fifty dollars. The additional
Speaker 1: bulbs are seventeen dollars. They're available now at wys dot com.
Speaker 1: Last I checked, of course, because this thing is let's say,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna type in wise bulb. You know how tough
Speaker 1: it is to type while you're on the radio. It
Speaker 1: is really impossible. But I so let's see. If you
Speaker 1: get the bulb. It's forty nine to ninety eight ships
Speaker 1: in one to two weeks, so that's not too bad.
Speaker 1: And then you can get the you know, the bundle
Speaker 1: is sixty five dollars. If you want to get one
Speaker 1: extra bulb plus the security camera, two extra bulbs, you
Speaker 1: can get a deal whatever.
Speaker 2: Wys dot com.
Speaker 1: They also typically sell their stuff on Amazon, but it's
Speaker 1: not usually they wait a bit because it's pretty hot
Speaker 1: at the beginning, so you probably can't find this on
Speaker 1: Amazon yet. And what I like about this is that
Speaker 1: I already know people are buying these light bulb security
Speaker 1: cameras on Amazon.
Speaker 2: Don't do it.
Speaker 1: They're junk. You don't know if they're good or not.
Speaker 1: They're coming from a no name company. You don't know
Speaker 1: what the security is like. Talk about a security nightmare.
Speaker 1: You don't want to get those things, and I know
Speaker 1: people are buying them because I got questions about them
Speaker 1: all the time my email. This is a much safer
Speaker 1: bet and it's not much more expensive. Yeah, it's maybe
Speaker 1: ten dollars twenty dollars more than these cheapeas I'm seeing
Speaker 1: on Amazon, but those are going to be all over
Speaker 1: the The only thing to know about the Wise camera
Speaker 1: is that it only works with two point four gigahertz.
Speaker 1: So if you've had problems in the past with your
Speaker 1: router and linking up those types of devices, you could
Speaker 1: have a problem with this. But most modern routers have
Speaker 1: a way to do that. Okay, So that's that. I'll
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. Let's go to Spencer in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Spencer, you've got an update on I guess
Speaker 1: some advice I gave you.
Speaker 10: Yes, converting Windows ten to Windows eleven. Uh, if you
Speaker 10: have a compatible motherboard that thinks that it is ready
Speaker 10: for Windows eleven and you keep getting errors on your
Speaker 10: uh stuff that tells you whether you can go or not?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like if you can actually upgrade? Yeah, yeah, Uh.
Speaker 10: The problem the problem is with secure boot.
Speaker 2: Yes, and uh, all.
Speaker 10: These people that are sneaking around ah to convert their
Speaker 10: systems without doing all this stuff, We're going to get
Speaker 10: into trouble eventually. But the way to convert your hard drive.
Speaker 10: UH to do this is, uh, you have to convert
Speaker 10: U E F I to secure boot, and UH you
Speaker 10: have to turn off the compatibility support module which allows
Speaker 10: you to use older biosystems.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think I think were you were you listening
Speaker 2: last week?
Speaker 1: I think our guest was talking about that he was
Speaker 1: ed bought the Windows security or the Windows guy. I
Speaker 1: think he was mentioning something about that that you got
Speaker 1: to basically disable something. But this is this is kind
Speaker 1: of advanced, right a little bit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but if you don't do this conversion, you'll never
Speaker 10: get Windows eleven.
Speaker 2: To work, right, right, So you did this.
Speaker 10: First, Yeah, yeah, my system turned out great. What you
Speaker 10: do first is back up all your data and then
Speaker 10: you test that backup to make sure it works. And
Speaker 10: then you open a command prop with admin access and
Speaker 10: you use this command. Now, I'm going to read it
Speaker 10: and read it slow so you can get it. The
Speaker 10: command is m b R numeric two g p T,
Speaker 10: and what that stands for is m b R is
Speaker 10: a master boot record, and secure boot does not look
Speaker 10: at master boot records. And the n b R numeric
Speaker 10: to g p T. What GPT is is a q
Speaker 10: I D partition table, which allows you to have up
Speaker 10: to one hundred and twenty eight partitions on a single disc,
Speaker 10: whereas NBR would only allow four. So you do the
Speaker 10: n b R numeric two g p T dot e
Speaker 10: x E space forward slash, convert space forward slash allow
Speaker 10: full o S. That's a l l O w f U.
Speaker 11: L l O s.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 10: You fire that command off and it will convert your
Speaker 10: drive to GPT and if everything does well, you uh
Speaker 10: reboot the computer, go into your bios, turn off CMS
Speaker 10: like CSM, and then reboot and it should should work
Speaker 10: like a charm.
Speaker 2: Wow, well sounds easy.
Speaker 10: And then and then all you got to do is
Speaker 10: load Windows eleven.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, now I don't know if we have time to
Speaker 1: learn how to load with is love. But so you
Speaker 1: did this, and so your computer was giving you a
Speaker 1: message that said you can't get Windows eleven because of
Speaker 1: the way it boots up, and that that secure chip
Speaker 1: or whatever they you know, the new computers basically have
Speaker 1: like added security at the boot level, and that's really
Speaker 1: what Windows wants moving forward for security and all these
Speaker 1: different things. But if you're sort of smart and savvy,
Speaker 1: which you seem to be, you can get around that.
Speaker 1: If you know what you're doing. I wouldn't reckon the
Speaker 1: average person to do this. There's a reason why Windows
Speaker 1: are sort of stopping that. But there there's also a
Speaker 1: reason why they're allowing it for people that sort of
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, like yourself.
Speaker 2: Would you agree with that.
Speaker 10: Well, this is actually doing what WIN does want you
Speaker 10: to do. Win does does not want you to do
Speaker 10: master boot record anymore? When does want you to do
Speaker 10: the guid petition table, which is, let's see GUID stands
Speaker 10: for Global Unique Identifiers to identify partitions. And like I said,
Speaker 10: NBR would only support four petitions, whereas GPT can support
Speaker 10: up to one hundred and twenty eight on a single disc.
Speaker 1: Is there a good tutorial online that I can link
Speaker 1: up to that sort of encompasses everything you just said?
Speaker 1: Or am I going to have to just find just
Speaker 1: transcribe what you just said and put it in the
Speaker 1: show notes?
Speaker 10: Well, you can look up GPT format and get some information,
Speaker 10: and then you can look up CXM mode and get
Speaker 10: some information. Between those two kinds of lookups, it will
Speaker 10: eventually get you around to those commands and how to
Speaker 10: do the conversion.
Speaker 1: All right, I love it, Well, thank you, Spencer, appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That's uh, you know, it's a little bit more advanced,
Speaker 1: I think than a lot of people you know that
Speaker 1: that are just sort of casual users are in for.
Speaker 1: But if you've been trying to update to Windows eleven,
Speaker 1: we know that deadline is coming up. I believe it's
Speaker 1: in October, So you know a lot of people have
Speaker 1: been wondering about this, and that's why we had the
Speaker 1: guest last week sort of talk about what the options are.
Speaker 1: But the whole thing is that, you know, this idea
Speaker 1: of Windows eleven wants your computer to boot up in
Speaker 1: a very secure way. And so the thing is that
Speaker 1: Windows when they check your computer see if it's if
Speaker 1: it's available to go to Windows eleven, they check for
Speaker 1: this thing called secure boot, and so that's why it
Speaker 1: sort of gives you the message that your computer can't
Speaker 1: be updated if it doesn't immediately find that. What Spencer's
Speaker 1: saying is that you can sort of toggle some things
Speaker 1: and get it to go and make your computer ready
Speaker 1: to update. So good call there. Appreciate the call. Spencer
Speaker 1: from Charlotte, North Carolina. I thought this was interesting. The
Speaker 1: twenty second rule to avoid scams. So we've actually had
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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people, you know.
Speaker 1: It came out Thursday, so I bet Friday was a
Speaker 1: very unproductive day in the office for people who purchased
Speaker 1: that thing. Midnight launch over on the East coast, nine
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Speaker 1: when you get these things, you want to play them.
Speaker 1: I remember so many times over the years getting I
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Speaker 1: sent to me. At this point, there's like a there's
Speaker 1: too many. I don't even have the time to go,
Speaker 1: you know, to go through all of them. But you know,
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Speaker 2: But you know, it's like having these shared experiences.
Speaker 1: Why do you think people have so much fun at
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Speaker 2: So thank you for that, Adam. Uh eighty to eight.
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Speaker 2: let's go to let's see here line three.
Speaker 1: Is it Margie in Fortune in California?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Hi, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1: I am doing fantastic, Welcome to the show, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 12: I was wondering, is there any kind of a program
Speaker 12: out there that could help kind of create a basic
Speaker 12: first draft screenplay of some ideas that you might have.
Speaker 2: Hmm, good question.
Speaker 1: I mean I think all of the you know, all
Speaker 1: of the standard AIS can write, it can help you write.
Speaker 2: Have you tried any of those or.
Speaker 12: No, no, I really haven't. I was trying to find
Speaker 12: something that encompassed all of it, that would lay out
Speaker 12: the structure of the format, you know, just a basic
Speaker 12: first draft.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm looking at some ideas.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously CHATCHYBT can easily you know, if you
Speaker 1: ask it to help you with a screenplay, it can
Speaker 1: do it. So that's number one. Then you've got Claude,
Speaker 1: which I think is actually probably a little bit better
Speaker 1: at writing. So if you haven't tried Claude, I'd go
Speaker 1: with that one first because CHATCHYBT is sort of like
Speaker 1: a jack of all trades. It can do everything. It
Speaker 1: does everything you know that you can think of. But
Speaker 1: I think Claude has a little bit better command of
Speaker 1: the English language, So I try that if you're just
Speaker 1: gonna use an off the shelf kind of thing. Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to specialized tools, there are many out there,
Speaker 1: and I think this is kind of a hot topic
Speaker 1: in you know, the the Hollywood sort of world, because
Speaker 1: you know, AI is is this force to be reckoned
Speaker 1: with because it can do things like write an entire
Speaker 1: movie if you wanted it to. I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: one called NOLANAI dot app. So this is one that
Speaker 1: sort of works does everything, So it does covering the
Speaker 1: full film production process from concept creation to screenwriting to
Speaker 1: planning and stage production. So that can kind of write
Speaker 1: and do everything you need to do. That's Nolan AI
Speaker 1: dot app. Let's see here. I mean this one is
Speaker 1: like this one's called AI Screenwriter. I mean, who thought
Speaker 1: of that title. Wow, that's really very unique. I want
Speaker 1: that one writing my AI screenplay. This one was built
Speaker 1: by film industry insiders. This industry secret will set your
Speaker 1: creativity free. Yeah, because everyone at the Academy Wards is
Speaker 1: saying their industry secret is using AI to write a screenplay.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing, Margie, I think that you know,
Speaker 1: using AI is great, I think as a collaborator, but
Speaker 1: I think if you're just gonna use it to write
Speaker 1: the whole thing, it's just, you know, you gotta have
Speaker 1: that human touch, you know, you got to have that
Speaker 1: human kind of like the way I write my newsletter
Speaker 1: is I write it and then I'll use AI to
Speaker 1: sort of polish it. So it's still very very much me.
Speaker 1: But I'm not having it. You know, you could you
Speaker 1: could literally, and I know there's people that do this.
Speaker 1: You could literally have AI write entire blog posts for you.
Speaker 1: Like you could just say, Hey, write me a whole
Speaker 1: blog post on the dangers of clicking random links in
Speaker 1: texts that you get and I'll just write a whole
Speaker 1: blog post. And some people do that and they put
Speaker 1: on the web and they call that slop AI slop.
Speaker 1: It's basically just stuff that like it's just regurgitated kind
Speaker 1: of stuff from all over the web that it's finding
Speaker 1: and putting together, and it just doesn't have that human
Speaker 1: feel to it. Now, yeah, it's pretty good, but I
Speaker 1: think that the human aspect of writing and then polishing
Speaker 1: is probably better. But this AI screenwriter aiscreenwriter dot com.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. And then let's see this one. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: Deep Story. Let's see what deep story is all about. Oh,
Speaker 1: deep Story the best free AI scriptwriter and story generator.
Speaker 1: So again, I mean it's like if you're having someone
Speaker 1: come up with your whole story too. I'm a little
Speaker 1: concerned about that. So the deep story servers are currently
Speaker 1: undergoing maintenance. Please refresh your browser or try again. That's
Speaker 1: not really a good sign. But look at this. You
Speaker 1: can try out a minimal version of deep Story AI
Speaker 1: right here on the web page. Look at that Oscar
Speaker 1: winning sample. You don't even have to look. You could
Speaker 1: get an Oscar winning sample right away. You can do
Speaker 1: let's see super Bad Goodwill hunting. It's actually pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Tells you the action, the character of the dialogue. You know,
Speaker 1: I did write a screenplay one time in my life.
Speaker 1: I will not forget this. It's actually quite good. I
Speaker 1: was in college and I had an idea for a screenplay,
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. I locked myself in a room
Speaker 1: for an entire weekend and I wrote the entire screenplay
Speaker 1: from start to finish, and it's still really good. I'd
Speaker 1: probably have to update it, and now that again is
Speaker 1: something that I might use AI to update, right, And
Speaker 1: you can't just like feed the whole thing in there
Speaker 1: and expect it to come out perfectly. But it's one
Speaker 1: of the things where you start with something and AI
Speaker 1: is a really good assistant, so that's the way I'd
Speaker 1: go for it. I gave you a couple of solutions there,
Speaker 1: Claude Nolan, what was the other one? AI screenwriter and
Speaker 1: deepstory Dot AI and of course chat GBT is always
Speaker 1: there as well. So good luck with the screenplay. I
Speaker 1: hope you uh. I hope to see you on the
Speaker 1: stage the Academy Awards in a couple of years. Maybe
Speaker 1: we'll both be up there.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 1: My kids keep saying, Dad, I want you dust off
Speaker 1: your screenplay. I got an agent, I'm not kidding for
Speaker 1: this screenplay, and like I sent it out to a
Speaker 1: couple of people, I got like a couple calls immediately
Speaker 1: and then they're like, wait, how young are you?
Speaker 2: What do you doing?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 2: And nothing ever came of it, But anyway, good question eight.
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Speaker 2: I think it's actually more expensive than this.
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Speaker 1: I'm Rich on Tech Cheryl in Glendora, Cheryl your own
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Speaker 13: Hi, Rich, How are you doing today?
Speaker 1: Oh I'm doing fantastic. Thanks for asking. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 14: Thursday morning. I believe it was on the Early Show
Speaker 14: with and Kirk and Megan.
Speaker 2: Thanks you great folks. Great group of folks, by the way,
Speaker 2: they are.
Speaker 13: That's phenomenal.
Speaker 9: Ye.
Speaker 14: Yes, so you addressed the iPhone that some of them
Speaker 14: that email was working on and off, and I was
Speaker 14: leondering if you had any update when I iPhone has
Speaker 14: been a correct app turned updates.
Speaker 2: Ah, good question. Uh, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: So this is the beauty of having a bunch of
Speaker 1: people that email me when there's something going on. Because
Speaker 1: I got the first email about this the mail app
Speaker 1: on iOS eighteen point five when people updated there was
Speaker 1: like problems and I got the first email about it.
Speaker 1: Someone said, hey, if you heard any issues about this?
Speaker 1: Said no, I'd never heard anything. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: about an hour later, I get another email, Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: having issues with the mail app on my iPhone.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: And I said, uh, And when I get two emails
Speaker 1: in a row, then I know something's going on. And
Speaker 1: then I get three and four and five, and then
Speaker 1: people say on Twitter, yes I'm having the same problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, I tweeted this and I couldn't believe how
Speaker 1: many people were saying that they had problems with their
Speaker 1: mail app. And so yeah, basically what we know right
Speaker 1: now is that users are reporting the mail app on
Speaker 1: the iPhone is opening to a white screen, then freezing
Speaker 1: or crashing, and it seems linked to iOS eighteen point five,
Speaker 1: which is interesting because I feel like that came out
Speaker 1: a while ago. So Apple has not acknowledged any issue
Speaker 1: with this whatsoever just yet. People have tried restarting their phone,
Speaker 1: which might work for a little bit, deleting the app,
Speaker 1: reinstalling it. Some people even say turning off auto correct
Speaker 1: might work. But all of these are temporary. Most users
Speaker 1: do see the issues returning, and the bug seems to
Speaker 1: be widespread, so I am assuming that Apple is working
Speaker 1: on a fix behind the scenes. The thing is for
Speaker 1: Apple to update this usually takes a software update, like
Speaker 1: they have to do in iOS eighteen point five point
Speaker 1: one or something like that, so hopefully we'll see that soon.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the responses on this, a lot of people
Speaker 1: had issues with this, So.
Speaker 2: Just hang tight.
Speaker 1: I know it's annoying in the In the meantime, you know,
Speaker 1: if you're using something like a Gmail or a Yahoo,
Speaker 1: you could download the Gmail or Yahoo app, you know,
Speaker 1: you can download their mail app and then that way
Speaker 1: you have direct access to the mail and you don't
Speaker 1: have to deal with the Apple built in mail app.
Speaker 1: So that's what's happening, Cheryl. Let's hope it gets fixed soon.
Speaker 1: Apple has a big event coming up this week so
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're they're very busy. We're getting prepared for that.
Speaker 1: But I know they know about these issues. You know,
Speaker 1: Apple's the kind of company that doesn't really they don't
Speaker 1: really acknowledge things in public. They don't say, hey, we
Speaker 1: know there's a big problem with the mail app and
Speaker 1: we're working on it.
Speaker 2: They don't really do that.
Speaker 1: They will just come out with an update to iOS
Speaker 1: and they will just say bug fixes and improvements. And
Speaker 1: if they want to say that there is, like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're specifically fixed an issue with the mail app, they
Speaker 1: might say it. But again, if you want to check,
Speaker 1: you have to go into software our general software update,
Speaker 1: and right now it's iOS eighteen point five five. iOS
Speaker 1: is up to date. There is nothing new to report there,
Speaker 1: just yet. Appreciate the call, Cheryl eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: ones around. Oh, Erica, hold on, we got more about this.
Speaker 1: We got Erica, Erica and Temecula. You have the male
Speaker 1: issue as well. Oh, I guess Erica got cold feet.
Speaker 1: She she didn't want to talk on the air. Okay,
Speaker 1: the other thing I want to tell you about this
Speaker 1: is actually a great app to download to your iPhone.
Speaker 1: It's called whisper Flow wispr Flow. This is a great
Speaker 1: dictation app for iPhone and uh your desktop. Now I've
Speaker 1: been talking about this if you listen to this show,
Speaker 1: you know I've been talking about this in the past.
Speaker 2: So it was available for Mac first.
Speaker 1: Then it came to Windows, then it came to iPhone
Speaker 1: in beta, which I've been testing for the past couple
Speaker 1: of months. Now it's available for iPhone for everyone. So
Speaker 1: if you want to dictate stuff into your phone and
Speaker 1: have it perfectly format and really fast, this is incredible.
Speaker 1: I just absolutely love this app and I use it
Speaker 1: every day and again it's called whisper Flow. The base,
Speaker 1: the base functionality is free. If you use it a ton,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to pay, but right now it is free,
Speaker 1: So I'll put a link on the website. Rich on
Speaker 1: tech dot TV. I'm getting a lot of emails back
Speaker 1: from folks who have downloaded this and they're all saying, yes,
Speaker 1: they absolutely love it. So that's a good thing. All right,
Speaker 1: Before hang on, we got our let's see here. We
Speaker 1: got our guests coming up. Bald Brian Brian Bishop. He
Speaker 1: is going to talk about this newsletter that he does
Speaker 1: and give you some of his backstory that's quite interesting.
Speaker 1: But this week on TV I featured these apps that
Speaker 1: help you sort of keep a watch list of the
Speaker 1: things that you want to stream next. So I'll tell
Speaker 1: you about a couple of these and then tell you
Speaker 1: which one I've been using. But first off is kernel
Speaker 1: K E R and E L like popcorn Kernel. This
Speaker 1: is only for the iPhone. But what's neat about this
Speaker 1: is that it's very simple. It gets you right to
Speaker 1: the movies you want to stream, but you can make
Speaker 1: multiple lists. So I think that's what people like about
Speaker 1: this is that if you want certain movies to watch
Speaker 1: with your kids, or certain movies to watch with your
Speaker 1: wife or your husband, whatever, you can make multiple lists.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's cool about that one. Showly,
Speaker 1: this one is great overall. It just has a lot
Speaker 1: of good information. I think the streaming links are a
Speaker 1: little annoying, but they've got a ton of information on
Speaker 1: this app called Showly. Then you've got an app called
Speaker 1: Real Good ore E E L Good.
Speaker 2: This is probably one of the best apps out there.
Speaker 1: It supports nearly every major streaming service, you pick the
Speaker 1: ones that you have. It only shows you the stuff
Speaker 1: that's on those which is really nice. It's got sort
Speaker 1: of a blended rating system, so it uses its own
Speaker 1: proprietary ratings, but that one's good. And then the one
Speaker 1: I've been using is called just Watch. And what I
Speaker 1: like about this is that it gives you direct links
Speaker 1: to the movies right on. Your services got a million
Speaker 1: ways to sort of filter the movies you want to watch.
Speaker 1: The only one filter that I want that us money
Speaker 1: is the one that filters by runtime. Sometimes I only
Speaker 1: have ninety minutes to watch a movie and I want
Speaker 1: to see all my shortest movies in order, but that
Speaker 1: requires a paid upgrade. The other one that people like
Speaker 1: is called letterboxed L E T T E R B
Speaker 1: O x D. This is very minimalistic, but is what
Speaker 1: all the kids are using. So there you go.
Speaker 2: I'll link them all up on the website.
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV more movie talk coming up
Speaker 1: next with Bald Brian Brian Bishop. Right here, I'm rich
Speaker 1: on tech. We were just talking about movie tracking apps.
Speaker 1: You know this idea of I always want to go
Speaker 1: to the movie theater, but of course time I can't.
Speaker 1: So every movie that comes out like add to my
Speaker 1: list and it just continues to grow. Of all these
Speaker 1: movies I want to see here to talk about. He's
Speaker 1: come out with like a great newsletter he has. He's
Speaker 1: my friend, Brian Bishop. Okay, bald Brian. If you've ever
Speaker 1: heard him on the radio. He basically asked me to
Speaker 1: lunch a couple of months ago and said, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I know you do a newsletter. I might start one.
Speaker 1: I said absolutely, It's the best thing I've ever done.
Speaker 1: And he's like, I might talk about movies. I said,
Speaker 1: do it. And he has come out with this newsletter
Speaker 1: and it is fantastic, great, great recommendations on streaming services
Speaker 1: and the stuff that's in the theaters.
Speaker 2: Brian Bishop, welcome to the show.
Speaker 15: Oh thanks, Rich story you called me in the middle
Speaker 15: of enjoying my favorite newsletter. They're rich on Tech newsletter
Speaker 15: that just came out this morning. Very informative, very entertaining.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're my wife, she said, Rich, you know
Speaker 1: your newsletter's a little long.
Speaker 5: You know what, That's what I love about it. It's
Speaker 5: it's a verbose.
Speaker 9: It is.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You know, some people pay like they upgrade to pay,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I want to give everyone their Money's worth,
Speaker 1: even the people that are you know, everyone gets it
Speaker 1: for free and it's the same whether you pay or not.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just I feel like I want
Speaker 1: to give people their value.
Speaker 15: Well, here's as long as we're talking about movies. People
Speaker 15: you know, complained about long movies. There's no such thing
Speaker 15: as a good movie that's too long. Like a good
Speaker 15: movie you want to keep going on.
Speaker 5: And on and on.
Speaker 15: Now, there are plenty of bad movies that are too long,
Speaker 15: whether they actually are long movies three hours or yeah,
Speaker 15: if they're long in an hour and forty five minutes,
Speaker 15: like the length is as long as it needs to be,
Speaker 15: if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Well, and some of them, okay, so I will This
Speaker 2: is a great example. I don't know if you remember this.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you do.
Speaker 1: The movie The Irishman, sure, okay, Now I know it
Speaker 1: got mixed reviews. I personally loved it, like I loved
Speaker 1: every second of that movie.
Speaker 5: And it was up for Best Picture.
Speaker 2: It was oh well, okay, well I thought I was
Speaker 2: the only one that liked it.
Speaker 15: But anyway, but you know what there was there was
Speaker 15: a little bit of a pushback, but go on, three hours,
Speaker 15: twenty nine minutes and I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2: When that thing ended, I was still wanting more.
Speaker 1: And I guess that goes to show that like, if
Speaker 1: you like it, you're gonna want more of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly for me.
Speaker 15: Maybe that's The Godfather where it's over three hours long,
Speaker 15: but I am never I've seen that movie ten twelve times.
Speaker 5: I've never been like, that's a little lone.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we're talking to Brian Bishop bald Brian.
Speaker 2: We have a history.
Speaker 1: We went to school together and we've been friends ever since.
Speaker 1: For better or for worse, I guess checkered past. He
Speaker 1: obviously was on radio for many years with Adam Carolla.
Speaker 1: He does his own podcast now called The Film Vault.
Speaker 1: He just started a newsletter called The Baldywood Newsletter on substack,
Speaker 1: so definitely subscribe to it on Instagram at bald Brian. So, Brian,
Speaker 1: first off, I know you had a long history in radio,
Speaker 1: but then you got cancer at some point during that time.
Speaker 2: You've talked about your journey. How are you doing right now?
Speaker 5: It's still a.
Speaker 15: Personal rich I was ready to talk about movies, but
Speaker 15: I guess I guess we can change it up a
Speaker 15: little bit. No, I was diagnosed at age thirty, right
Speaker 15: in between when the Adam Crawler radio show ended and
Speaker 15: the Adam Kraler podcast began, and was writing that nestle
Speaker 15: in nuts spot and yeah, I was two months out
Speaker 15: of our away from our wedding with my fiance now wife.
Speaker 15: I'm glad to say that was two thousand and nine
Speaker 15: when I was given six months to live, and spoiler alert,
Speaker 15: I'm still here doing well. Thank you for asking. I
Speaker 15: don't know if you after or not, but thank you
Speaker 15: for I assume you're curious. But yeah, it's been just
Speaker 15: past sixteen years of diagnosis and it's been awful at
Speaker 15: times that you've seen personally you and your wife and
Speaker 15: your family, but also it's given me some opportunities do
Speaker 15: some pretty amazing things. So it's been a real double
Speaker 15: edged sort of real journey. But glad to be here.
Speaker 1: It's all been living for this moment, and I've seen
Speaker 1: Brian on the ups and the downs. I would say,
Speaker 1: at this point you're at your best you've been in
Speaker 1: a long time, so I really appreciate that.
Speaker 15: It's scary to say this is about as good as yets,
Speaker 15: but this is this is this is my peak.
Speaker 2: Now you've been open about your journey.
Speaker 1: I know, so people I'm sure ask you, like, are
Speaker 1: there any movies that really portray illness or recovery that
Speaker 1: you recommend?
Speaker 2: Is there anything that you like?
Speaker 15: No, this is the first time I've ever talked about it.
Speaker 15: One of the best movies just movies. Just a great
Speaker 15: movie I've seen in the last ten years, and a
Speaker 15: movie that really is insightful as it pertains to a
Speaker 15: cancer journey is fifty to fifty, the movie with Joseph
Speaker 15: Gordon Levitt and Seth Rogen and Kendrick.
Speaker 5: Just a great movie.
Speaker 15: On his face, it's kind of like sixth sense, not
Speaker 15: like this sixth sense, but in the sense that it's
Speaker 15: a great movie and it's got a great twist, but
Speaker 15: it's great without the twist. Fifty to fifty is a
Speaker 15: great movie by itself. The fact that it speaks to
Speaker 15: me so personally, with so many great insightful cancer moments
Speaker 15: and references is just bonus.
Speaker 5: It's just a great movie.
Speaker 15: A lot of knowing references from someone the writer who
Speaker 15: obviously lived the story.
Speaker 5: There are plenty of times during that movie where I'd.
Speaker 15: Be like, oh, yeah, that's something I recognized, that's something
Speaker 15: up to make so that's that's a great one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I remember when that came out. I'll put that
Speaker 1: on my list.
Speaker 15: Know you you you it's a great so I I
Speaker 15: my personal, my my proprietary definition of a great date
Speaker 15: movie is it, you know, a movie that's romantic or whatever.
Speaker 15: It's a movie that I think men and women can
Speaker 15: enjoy equally. It's not a guy movie, it's not a
Speaker 15: chick like. It's just it's a great movie that can
Speaker 15: be enjoyed by everyone.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: And I think fifty to fifty is is right there.
Speaker 2: In that sweet spot all right, women like it? I
Speaker 2: like that has the title.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now you've started this newsletter, which I think
Speaker 1: is fantastic.
Speaker 2: You know, you're a great writer.
Speaker 1: You've got good opinions on things, except for Transformers that
Speaker 1: you know you recommend often. Sure, But notwithstanding that, what
Speaker 1: I like about it is that you always have a
Speaker 1: couple of picks. Like you talk about the major movie
Speaker 1: in the theater, but you also talk about the like
Speaker 1: hidden gems on the streaming services. And I think that's
Speaker 1: really what people want, because like we're all paying for Netflix,
Speaker 1: we're all paying for Peacock or whatever these things are.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm the only one.
Speaker 5: But you want to I'm blaming whatever you've got. I've
Speaker 5: got twice moody.
Speaker 1: You want to get the Criterion Channel because I don't
Speaker 1: even know what that is. I'm movie though, I'm a
Speaker 1: big movie No, I'm just kidding. Sure, I've heard of
Speaker 1: that one. So how do you I mean, you're seeing
Speaker 1: like how many movies a week? And how do you
Speaker 1: decide what to put in this newsletter?
Speaker 15: Typically I see about three movies a week, some new,
Speaker 15: some old. We we talk about them all in the
Speaker 15: film BA podcast you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 5: But uh yeah, I try to.
Speaker 15: I talk about a new movie in the newsletter and
Speaker 15: this in theaters if it's worth talking about. There's plenty
Speaker 15: of times where movies just that great, and I don't
Speaker 15: like I don't like talking crash about movies.
Speaker 5: I love movies. I want every movie I seem to
Speaker 5: be good.
Speaker 15: So the fact that I see ones that aren't great,
Speaker 15: I just let them go and they can, you know,
Speaker 15: do whatever they do.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it's your huge hits and don't even my help.
Speaker 15: But then my my secret sauce. The thing that I
Speaker 15: hope makes the newsletter kind of stand out is like
Speaker 15: you allude to those hidden gems.
Speaker 5: Those movies that are great.
Speaker 15: Should have been seen by more people, aren't seen by
Speaker 15: more people, And I want to bring them up and
Speaker 15: bring them to people's attention, but also give that sort
Speaker 15: of oddly specific scenario where you'd want to watch that movie,
Speaker 15: like for fifty to fifty maybe that's.
Speaker 5: A little more well known or maybe not, but you
Speaker 5: haven't seen it.
Speaker 15: But like I might say, oh, I want a date
Speaker 15: movie that my wife and I are going to enjoy.
Speaker 5: Equally, I might say, right, well, you know what, fifty
Speaker 5: fifty is your choice?
Speaker 1: So and I bookmarked so many of the movies you recommend,
Speaker 1: so I've gotten my list in a world you recommended
Speaker 1: a couple of months show, let's see the Spanish Prisoner
Speaker 1: you recommend? I mean, these are movies that you know.
Speaker 1: I've been out for a while, but it's like new
Speaker 1: to me, Philomena. Was that on your list? That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's on my list. So my wife and I ended
Speaker 1: up watching Nana's Last Night or Nona's.
Speaker 5: Oh I haven't seen it? How was it?
Speaker 1: Well, we only got halfway through. It's very depressing, like
Speaker 1: everyone dies in that movie, which is really sad.
Speaker 2: But I love it did not.
Speaker 5: I did not recommend it.
Speaker 1: I did not recommend that. All right, we got to run.
Speaker 1: But you have any recommendations you want to tell people
Speaker 1: about the UH under the radar gem, a recent must watch,
Speaker 1: a classic?
Speaker 2: What do you want to?
Speaker 1: What do you want to?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the one.
Speaker 15: The ones that you mentioned are very indicative of what
Speaker 15: I go for in the newsletter, which is, you know,
Speaker 15: ones that fell through the cracks, ones that you may
Speaker 15: have heard of but I haven't seen, or or like
Speaker 15: a movie that you know you just don't want to
Speaker 15: spend the time in the hassle of finding something.
Speaker 5: Just listen to me. I know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 5: and I really want everyone to love the movies. I
Speaker 5: recommend a good one.
Speaker 15: I don't know if your kids have seen this Rich
Speaker 15: uh an animated film to come out a year or
Speaker 15: two ago called Naemona.
Speaker 9: Do.
Speaker 5: I recommend this.
Speaker 15: One to you back in the Daynemona Pnemona and im
Speaker 15: a Namona Sweet.
Speaker 5: It's streaming on Netflix.
Speaker 15: It's an animated film about It's it's hard to describe,
Speaker 15: but it's about this.
Speaker 7: UH.
Speaker 5: These nights like nights, right, but they live in the future.
Speaker 5: It's like a futuristic nights.
Speaker 15: But like, like all of a sudden, this girl named
Speaker 15: Naemona comes on the scene and she is this complete
Speaker 15: ass kicking like kid who just like you know, decimates everyone.
Speaker 15: And she's hilarious and she's fun, and it's great for kids,
Speaker 15: it's great for adults. It was nominated for Best Animated
Speaker 15: Feature and it's on Netflix. Check out Pnemona.
Speaker 5: That's a winner.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, if you want more, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go find Brian's newsletter. It's uh Baldbrian dot
Speaker 1: substack dot com. Baldbrian dot substack dot com. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for coming on the show, Tay, Brian really appreciate it.
Speaker 15: Hey, before I leave, can I say I'm a big
Speaker 15: fan and I enjoy everything we do.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Save it for the feedback.
Speaker 1: Fair enough eight eight eight rich one on one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Back to the phone lines. Right after this, let's go
Speaker 1: to Jim and Hammett. Jim, you're on with Writch.
Speaker 9: Hey, how are you doing.
Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic.
Speaker 9: I'm glad you're doing great. My question is can you
Speaker 9: hear me?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I hear you?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 13: My question is I get a lot of pictures.
Speaker 9: From my employees, and most of them are on Samsung,
Speaker 9: but some of them are on.
Speaker 10: Apple, and the Apple has the HC.
Speaker 9: Whatever it is. So when I try and download them
Speaker 9: on my PC, my PC says they don't understand them.
Speaker 9: So I have to put them in Google Drive save
Speaker 9: them as the JPEG so I can download them.
Speaker 2: Yes, what can what can I help you with in
Speaker 2: that process?
Speaker 9: My question is is there a way to do that
Speaker 9: quicker are faster between you know, as Samsung and a
Speaker 9: Jay and Ale.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look the easy.
Speaker 1: So what's what's happening here is that the people that
Speaker 1: are using their iPhone iPhone switched to this new format,
Speaker 1: like you said, h I C, right, And the reason
Speaker 1: why that format is nice is s h I C
Speaker 1: or h I F Yeah, h I C. And so
Speaker 1: the reason why people like that is or why Apple
Speaker 1: likes it is because it's it's more efficient, right, It's
Speaker 1: like you can store more data in a smaller amount,
Speaker 1: and you know.
Speaker 2: And also it's just Apple being Apple.
Speaker 1: I feel like like sometimes they just change things that
Speaker 1: like everyone in the world knows jpeg, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, iPhones start taking pictures in this hchic format. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's probably fine, and I'm sure it's better
Speaker 1: in some way, but for a lot of people it
Speaker 1: causes issues, like you're saying, So the first thing you
Speaker 1: can do is, if you're getting these from the same
Speaker 1: people over and over, you can just say, hey, do
Speaker 1: you mind changing the format on your phone. I don't
Speaker 1: know how close you are with these people, if they're employees,
Speaker 1: whatever might be a tall order, but I've changed it
Speaker 1: on my phone because it just got to be so
Speaker 1: annoying that half the people this would work with, and
Speaker 1: myself when I try to upload a picture to a
Speaker 1: website or something, it doesn't work because it's achic. Then
Speaker 1: if you convert it, and it's easy enough to convert,
Speaker 1: but it takes a little bit to do that. So
Speaker 1: Number one, if you are having this similar issue, go
Speaker 1: into your settings, tap camera and under formats you'll see
Speaker 1: camera capture high efficiency or most compatible. Most compatible is
Speaker 1: going to keep it in JPEG. High efficiency is going
Speaker 1: to be the h G I F or h G
Speaker 1: I C format, whatever they whatever it's called. Now, Jim
Speaker 1: for you on the back end here trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what to do with this. What I would do
Speaker 1: is you could do it could do a couple of things.
Speaker 1: You can download an app from Windows from Windows Store
Speaker 1: to transform these, which sounds like you might have already
Speaker 1: been doing. Actually no, it sounded like you were doing
Speaker 1: Google Photos. That's a very like roundabout way of doing it.
Speaker 1: I don't think you should do that. I think go
Speaker 1: into Windows Store see if they have an app that
Speaker 1: will do that.
Speaker 2: If not, there's website. There's a website called.
Speaker 1: Vert v E R T dot s H and basically
Speaker 1: short for convert and you can go in there and
Speaker 1: it will You can drag and drop the picture and
Speaker 1: it will convert it into a jpeg. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: really pretty simple. So that's probably what I would do.
Speaker 1: And you could drop a bunch of them and that's
Speaker 1: probably the easiest way to do it. There's also websites
Speaker 1: that will do it, but again you can either get
Speaker 1: a piece of software or use the website to do it.
Speaker 1: That's probably what I would do. I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: if there is a Windows app that will do this.
Speaker 1: Let me see here, let's see the built in photos app.
Speaker 1: But you see see the Windows doesn't seem to like
Speaker 1: it very much, so it doesn't seem to really like
Speaker 1: that format, which is why you're having trouble with it.
Speaker 1: It looks like you have to pay at least a
Speaker 1: dollar for an extension to let Windows natively open these files.
Speaker 1: You can get third party software that can do it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it looks like So this actually looks like
Speaker 1: the best one interesting copy trans hi c And what's
Speaker 1: nice about that is it will make a right click
Speaker 1: in Windows Explorer to convert it.
Speaker 2: But how much do they charge for this app?
Speaker 1: Is the question? Personal usage? Free download? There you go,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Let's see if it is there
Speaker 1: a price? That might be the way to do it.
Speaker 1: Copy dot net looks like they have copy trans Hic
Speaker 1: for Window open and convert hic files in your Windows PC,
Speaker 1: and it looks like it adds it to a right
Speaker 1: click and it says free and premium plans. So I
Speaker 1: would try that first, and that's probably gonna be the
Speaker 1: easiest just because then you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: moving it anywhere else. You can just do that right
Speaker 1: inside your your Windows Explorer. But again, you have a
Speaker 1: lot of options. Not ideal, but there are ways of converting,
Speaker 1: and you know, unless the person changes it on their
Speaker 1: end with their iPhone, you're gonna be stuck with the
Speaker 1: conversion on your end.
Speaker 2: So good question. Thanks for the call, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Speaking of photos, Photoshop has come to Android. They've had
Speaker 1: some versions in the past, but this is like the
Speaker 1: new Photoshop beta app, free to download on Google Play,
Speaker 1: works on Android eleven plus devices with at least six
Speaker 1: gigs of RAM. It's got all the iconic Photoshop tool
Speaker 1: built in, like layers and masks and clone stamp, magic
Speaker 1: wand it also has some of the AI features, So
Speaker 1: Firefly AI is Adobe's brand of AI. You can use
Speaker 1: that to easily add or remove objects or backgrounds, so
Speaker 1: again you can use this on your phone to make thumbnails,
Speaker 1: artwork whatever you want. It's got pretty much everything you
Speaker 1: need and free access to some Adobe stock assets. Now
Speaker 1: this is in beta, so a lot of the features
Speaker 1: are free, but eventually they might cost something. But if
Speaker 1: you've been waiting for Photoshop to come to Android, it
Speaker 1: is on Android at this point in beta. It came
Speaker 1: to the iPhone earlier this year, and of course it's like, oh, sure,
Speaker 1: you come to the iPhone first.
Speaker 2: When are you going to come to Android? And now
Speaker 2: it actually has.
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Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, we're going to talk about pass keys.
Speaker 1: This is the the new way to log in that
Speaker 1: does not require a password, and a lot of websites
Speaker 1: are adopting it. We'll talk to someone from the Fido
Speaker 1: Alliance to explain what that's all about.
Speaker 2: Plus we have the feedbag.
Speaker 1: Coming up later, so if you want to get your
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Speaker 1: some more of your calls as well. I was doing
Speaker 1: the self checkout thing this week, you know, at one
Speaker 1: of the registers at the grocery store. My kids helping me,
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding the entire tay. It is just
Speaker 1: the worst experience ever. Depends on the place you go,
Speaker 1: but this self checkout, you know, it's like some companies
Speaker 1: have decided we're going to make our self checkout really
Speaker 1: easy and you know, not so bad. Other companies said,
Speaker 1: you know, they just decided we're going to make it
Speaker 1: the worst possible experience for a human being. Now, this
Speaker 1: particular location, I will not name names, but it's sort
Speaker 1: of like a first person's name. It's a very prominent
Speaker 1: grocery store and it's really bad. And every single item
Speaker 1: you've got to scan it and then it's got to
Speaker 1: go on the side where you put it like in
Speaker 1: this little thing. And so the way the system works
Speaker 1: is every item is weighed, and so when you scan
Speaker 1: about a carton of milk, the system knows how much
Speaker 1: that milk weighs, and then you have to put that
Speaker 1: milk on the side and there's like the whole thing
Speaker 1: is a scale and it weighs the milk and so
Speaker 1: it knows you put it there. It's like, okay, that's
Speaker 1: that's the right thing they scanned. They're not stealing.
Speaker 2: And you know, we.
Speaker 1: Kept scanning stuff putting it in the bags, and the
Speaker 1: thing just kept flagging and flagging. The lady comes over
Speaker 1: and she was really not very nice and she's like,
Speaker 1: you can't put the stuff in the bags while your
Speaker 1: bag while you're checking out. So what what do you mean,
Speaker 1: I can't put stuff in bags while I'm checking out
Speaker 1: at the grocery store. And she's like, no, it's you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's you know, you're trying to cheat the system
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: I said, We're not trying to cheat the system. We're
Speaker 2: trying to check out.
Speaker 1: So I did not ask to be hired as a
Speaker 1: checkout clerk at a grocery store. That was not on
Speaker 1: my list of things I wanted to do today. But
Speaker 1: you have made me do it because guess what, every
Speaker 1: single aisle at this store, every single checkout register is
Speaker 1: closed except for the ten or twenty that you've converted
Speaker 1: into self checkout.
Speaker 2: And so you're making me do this. Don't treat me like.
Speaker 1: A shoplifter because you've decided not to staff the registers.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening now at Target on Name Names because
Speaker 1: they actually have a good checkout system. They don't let
Speaker 1: you self check out anymore if you have more than
Speaker 1: like ten things. I guess people were just throwing stuff
Speaker 1: in bags. It was like, you know, left and right.
Speaker 1: But the big thing is that this self checkout, it's
Speaker 1: like the stores have to decide do you want us
Speaker 1: to check out and just assume, yeah, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some level of theft, or do you want to come
Speaker 1: up with a better system that actually works for the people. Now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you I checked out just before the
Speaker 1: show at an Amazon Fresh and it was a very
Speaker 1: nice experience. System must have been written from the ground
Speaker 1: up by Amazon, because it just worked.
Speaker 2: Now I will tell you I did.
Speaker 1: I did scan an item twice by accident, and I
Speaker 1: just because it asked me to call someone over and
Speaker 1: there's no one to call over. I just walked to
Speaker 1: a different self checkout and just started over again. So
Speaker 1: whoever goes to that one has to deal with my
Speaker 1: uh my half order. I guess let's go to Marshall.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try Marshall again in Studio City.
Speaker 2: Marshall, you're on with I'm here? What's up?
Speaker 9: I got you?
Speaker 13: First of all, I know that Ralph I hate them too.
Speaker 2: I did not name names, Marshall, Okay, I.
Speaker 13: Will, but anyways, I hope you deplete me out. But anyways,
Speaker 13: I gotta ask. I have the note I have not
Speaker 13: to note the Samsung twenty five Ultra, and I thought
Speaker 13: I heard you tell when you were heard they were
Speaker 13: first introducing it that the batteries were being for environmentally,
Speaker 13: they were using recycled, like refurbished batteries. Because I'm having
Speaker 13: a pavern with my battery I had when I was
Speaker 13: targe to it came up like a yellow triangle with
Speaker 13: an exclamation point during the time at one point it
Speaker 13: never happened again. But it's charge is slow. And I
Speaker 13: have two different cables and two different blocks from Best Buys,
Speaker 13: so I know they're pretty you know, credible, you know,
Speaker 13: equipment like that, and yet it's charging slow. They when
Speaker 13: I talked to Team Mobile, my carrier, they said they
Speaker 13: never heard of such a thing. Did you not tell
Speaker 13: when you were introducing the Samsung twenty five vols a
Speaker 13: while back that they're using refurbished batteries.
Speaker 1: Well, they're not refurbished batteries. What these all these companies
Speaker 1: are doing is they're using recovered materials in their batteries.
Speaker 1: So it's not like the battery is fresh. It's just
Speaker 1: the recycling some of the you know, precious metals and
Speaker 1: things that are in these batteries and using them over
Speaker 1: So explain, Wait, what's what's the problem with the battery again, it.
Speaker 13: Doesn't charge its fast well, it' stop charging altogether. At
Speaker 13: one point it had a yellow triangle with an exclamation
Speaker 13: point on my screen. Okay, hey, but other times I
Speaker 13: have it, we're super fast charging. I'm going to my
Speaker 13: cables and like that. Yeah, and it takes over two
Speaker 13: and a half hours for it to get a fold
Speaker 13: and hard.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, it sounds like there could be an issue
Speaker 1: with your phone because I have the S twenty five Ultra.
Speaker 1: I've used a lot of Samsung products and they I
Speaker 1: actually think they charge really well and quite fast, especially
Speaker 1: when you see that. What I'd like you to do,
Speaker 1: there is an app you can download for free. It's
Speaker 1: called the Samsung Members App, and so you download that
Speaker 1: app and they have a diagnostic for your phone built
Speaker 1: into this app. So if you go into the Samsung
Speaker 1: Members App, open it up lower right hand corner, it
Speaker 1: says support. You tap that and then you can run
Speaker 1: through a diagnostic and it will test everything. We're talking
Speaker 1: the battery, the NFC, SIM power restart, official software, Mobile network, sensors, camera,
Speaker 1: It tests it all and then it will give you
Speaker 1: the results. And so once you get the results, you
Speaker 1: can tap battery status to see what it says about
Speaker 1: your battery and mindsets normal life. Good tells you the
Speaker 1: capacity and if that's a problem, you can check the
Speaker 1: battery usage. But it sounds to me like if you're
Speaker 1: having this many issues, a couple of things could be happening.
Speaker 1: If you're not using a good charging cable, that could
Speaker 1: be the problem. And so what I'd recommend is making
Speaker 1: sure you have a thirty watt plug in charger with
Speaker 1: a reputable cable attached. And then I would also check
Speaker 1: the bottom of your phone, make sure that there's nothing
Speaker 1: caught in there. Could be lint, could be you know,
Speaker 1: something could be caught in that charging cable. Because if
Speaker 1: it's saying fast charging, it usually gives a time of
Speaker 1: how long it's going to take to charge. It should
Speaker 1: not be taking, you know, well, it should be taking
Speaker 1: whatever time it says on there. So that's what i'd recommend.
Speaker 1: Marshall the recycled battery, I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: it has anything to do with the performance of the battery.
Speaker 1: I mean, Samsung is a big company. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of experience with batteries, and I don't think that
Speaker 1: they would put something in there. That's not going to work,
Speaker 1: especially on a brand new phone that they make millions of.
Speaker 1: So if you do have a problem with the S
Speaker 1: twenty five Ultra, I would invoke your warranty. I mean
Speaker 1: that phone has not been out for a year just yet,
Speaker 1: so I would go with a warranty on that That's
Speaker 1: a brand new phone. I mean, didn't it come out
Speaker 1: in January. So figure out the warranty situation and bring
Speaker 1: that in. And if that app says something wrong. If
Speaker 1: it doesn't say anything wrong, it could be how you're
Speaker 1: charging or what you're doing, so I would make sure
Speaker 1: that you've got the right charger set up on that
Speaker 1: phone as well. Thanks for the call, Marshall, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Good listener was listening to what I said when that
Speaker 1: phone came out.
Speaker 2: If you're using.
Speaker 1: PayPal in Google Wallet, it will no longer work starting
Speaker 1: on June thirteenth, So if you have your PayPal linked up,
Speaker 1: it will automatically be deleted from the Google Wallet app.
Speaker 1: So this will affect your instore payments. You will not
Speaker 1: be able to tap to pay with PayPal via Google
Speaker 1: Wallet anymore. Google says this was PayPal's decision, not theirs,
Speaker 1: so check your email for more details from PayPal. If
Speaker 1: you want to still use your PayPal account, you can
Speaker 1: link up a PayPal debit card just like you would
Speaker 1: any other card you put into Google Wallet. You would
Speaker 1: add that directly to Google Wallet. This has been a
Speaker 1: long time. They started this integration back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: But I guess PayPal either no one's using this or
Speaker 1: it's just not part of their plan anymore. So Uh,
Speaker 1: there you have it if you have Google Wallet in
Speaker 1: a PayPal in Google Wallet no longer happening after June thirteenth.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about the new study that reveals the
Speaker 1: ideal amount of time you should work before you take
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Speaker 1: Mark in Weineka. Mark, you're on with rich.
Speaker 16: Yes, my family has been interested in finding out our history.
Speaker 16: We're a bit hesitant about because of all the data
Speaker 16: breaches in and the selling information of DNA. We don't
Speaker 16: want to go that route. And a professional genealogist is
Speaker 16: almost prohibitively expensive. Really, do you have any suggestions for
Speaker 16: those who are just looking to find out their family tree,
Speaker 16: where we're from, that sort of thing, somebody who can
Speaker 16: do the backgrounding and without the DNA.
Speaker 1: Oh. I don't really have a suggestion on that because
Speaker 1: I feel like, if you want to learn about that stuff,
Speaker 1: you got to do the DNA test. But I understand
Speaker 1: the whole DNA situation. I did an ancestry DNA for
Speaker 1: what it's worth, you know, I thought the results were interesting,
Speaker 1: they were not groundbreaking. I did not do twenty three
Speaker 1: in meters, which I know a lot of people have,
Speaker 1: especially around Prime Day. The other thing I did is
Speaker 1: there's a website called Genie dot com g E n
Speaker 1: I dot com. If you tried that, no, Suir, Okay,
Speaker 1: So Genie dot com is pretty much your own You
Speaker 1: can build your own family tree on there. So if
Speaker 1: you have some relatives you want to talk to them,
Speaker 1: you can kind of fill out a family tree there,
Speaker 1: and I believe they sort of help you along with
Speaker 1: you can look out some records and things like that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's got like automatic tree matches. There's already
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy million people on there, so it's
Speaker 1: it's not a bad way to build your own family
Speaker 1: tree if you don't want to go the DNA route.
Speaker 2: I guess they have.
Speaker 1: Let's see, they have a link for their own DNA
Speaker 1: test my heritage DNA tests, so I guess they have
Speaker 1: their own link there as well. One hundred and forty
Speaker 1: nine dollars, three hundred and sixty eight and then five
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine. Those are the prices for various
Speaker 1: tests you can get. But I don't know if you don't,
Speaker 1: you know the problem with all these DNA tests is,
Speaker 1: like you said, the data breaches, you don't know how,
Speaker 1: Like twenty three meters was just purchased, you don't know
Speaker 1: how the new company is going to use the data,
Speaker 1: even though they pledged to sort of honor the old
Speaker 1: data privacy rules that twenty three meters had in place.
Speaker 1: So I understand where you're coming from, But I think
Speaker 1: the easiest way is really just to build your own
Speaker 1: family tree on a website like Genie. And there's another
Speaker 1: one too. Let me see if there's another one. I
Speaker 1: Ancestry dot Com obviously is another. Let's see Ancestry. Let's
Speaker 1: see if they have their own like familytree, Yeah, ancestry
Speaker 1: dot com. But see Ancestry is a big DNA company too.
Speaker 1: They want you to do your DNA so sort of
Speaker 1: depends if you don't want your DNA stuff, that's you know,
Speaker 1: it limits in the information, But the DNA stuff really
Speaker 1: on the back end. Like what would happen on the
Speaker 1: the test that I took is that basically it would say, hey,
Speaker 1: we found a cousin of yours and it would flag them,
Speaker 1: and it like really was a cousin of mine, which
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe.
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, that's quite impressive.
Speaker 1: So if you don't want to do the DNA stuff,
Speaker 1: you can still just build the family tree on your
Speaker 1: own using the information that you provide.
Speaker 2: Good question. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I think that at a certain point everyone was excited
Speaker 1: about the DNA tests, and then after we realized the
Speaker 1: privacy concerns, everyone's like, I don't know if I want
Speaker 1: to do that anymore. I think in general, it's probably
Speaker 1: you know, if you read the if you read sort
Speaker 1: of their their privacy policies and stuff, they probably try
Speaker 1: to keep this stuff private and anonymized. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's always a breach, Like you said, new study reveals
Speaker 1: the ideal work break balance in a post pandemic world.
Speaker 2: Here it is. You're ready, bring this to your employer.
Speaker 1: Employees who work seventy five minutes and then break for
Speaker 1: thirty three minutes are the most productive.
Speaker 2: There you have it.
Speaker 1: During the pandemic, the ratio was longer, so people worked
Speaker 1: for one hundred and twelve minutes and then rested for
Speaker 1: twenty six minutes. But let's see, hybrid work appears to
Speaker 1: encourage more frequent, longer breaks now about four per day.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if you're working hybrid, of course you're you know,
Speaker 1: you've got more liberties. If you're working hybrid, office environments
Speaker 1: boost break habits, coffee, chat, walk around, which actually helps productivity.
Speaker 1: I do believe that I've mentioned this on this show.
Speaker 1: Like when you're working from home or working from work
Speaker 1: the office, it is a very different experience. And you
Speaker 1: know at work there are there are breaks sort of
Speaker 1: built into your day. People interrupt you, you walk to
Speaker 1: the restroom, someone talks to you.
Speaker 2: You have to deal.
Speaker 1: You got to interface with someone in real life, they
Speaker 1: talk to you. You know, I've got all these people,
Speaker 1: I talk to them. I work for different reasons, and
Speaker 1: so you know, it's all part of the breaks that
Speaker 1: I take at work. And I guess it just I
Speaker 1: work hard when I'm there, but i'm you know, chat
Speaker 1: with one person about baseball cards, I chat another person
Speaker 1: about their you know, how their day is going, and
Speaker 1: chat another person about travel whatever it is. Let's see,
Speaker 1: this comes from desk time. So I guess desk time.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty fourteen, found the fifty two seventeen work rule.
Speaker 1: Now it is seventy five thirty three. So again, there
Speaker 1: you have it, seventy five minutes on, thirty three minutes off.
Speaker 1: I like that I can do that. I find that
Speaker 1: my Apple Watch actually reminds me when I need to
Speaker 1: or to take a break because I'll be sitting there
Speaker 1: at my desk and it's like you haven't stood up
Speaker 1: for an hour. I'm like, oh, that's a good idea.
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Speaker 1: latest modern texting. I made a big booboo yesterday, big booboo.
Speaker 1: I was booking a flight for my wife and I
Speaker 1: booked it no problem. I was using my miles and
Speaker 1: this morning, I don't know why, I happened to look
Speaker 1: at my credit card and I was like, why is
Speaker 1: there this big charge for like four hundred dollars And
Speaker 1: I look at my email, I'm like, wait, they charged
Speaker 1: me for the miles. So apparently I bought the miles
Speaker 1: by accident, and so I called the airline and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a mistake. You know, it's only it hasn't
Speaker 1: even been twenty four hours. Like, oh, yeah, once you
Speaker 1: buy miles, there is no refund. I said, what do
Speaker 1: you mean, no refund twenty four hours? You can refund anything.
Speaker 1: It says, no, not for miles. Miles are final. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't know I was buying miles, and so I
Speaker 1: invoked my favorite words in customer service, and these are
Speaker 1: Remember these words because they have served me well so
Speaker 1: many times. I'm not trying to get over on anyone,
Speaker 1: but these words seem to unlock a world that is
Speaker 1: just reserve for the upper echelon of customer service. And
Speaker 1: the words are can you grant a one time exception?
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about those words, but
Speaker 1: they are magical to a customer service representative's years. I
Speaker 1: think it gives them the freedom to do something they
Speaker 1: can't typically do under their rules because it's a one
Speaker 1: time exception. It's not a thing they're doing for everyone.
Speaker 1: They're just doing it for you. And then for you
Speaker 1: get a pass because you get the idea that they're
Speaker 1: not doing this for everyone's. You can't go on Twitter
Speaker 1: or on a radio show and say, hey, do this
Speaker 1: because this they'll refund everyone.
Speaker 2: They won't.
Speaker 1: It was a one time exception, so it's a pass
Speaker 1: for both of you to make this situation work.
Speaker 2: And I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: They ended up refunding, which I would have fought it
Speaker 1: a little bit harder if they didn't. But the woman
Speaker 1: was very nice on the phone and she said, we
Speaker 1: don't do this for anyone, but we're gonna do it
Speaker 1: for you. I said, well, thank you for making that
Speaker 1: one time exception works like a charm every time. Try
Speaker 1: it next time. One time It is my favorite words.
Speaker 1: And for some reason, it's like a little agreement you
Speaker 1: have with the customer service representative, like they know they're
Speaker 1: doing something they don't typically do. You know you're asking
Speaker 1: them to do something they don't typically do. But it
Speaker 1: all works out in the end. Coming up, we are
Speaker 1: going to talk about past keys and how they can
Speaker 1: protect your accounts and make them easier to log into it.
Speaker 1: At the same time, this is rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you talking technology the website for the show rich
Speaker 1: on Tech dot TV. If you want to get your
Speaker 1: feedback in go ahead email me now we'll get to
Speaker 1: that next, But first we're going to talk Past Keys.
Speaker 1: Andrew Shakira is here with the Fido Alliance. This is
Speaker 1: an industry association sort of helping promote and figure out
Speaker 1: these standards to make us to make our lives easier
Speaker 1: when it comes to logging in to all of our websites. Andrew,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rich, thanks for having me.
Speaker 5: It's awesome to be here.
Speaker 1: So Past Keys, I know, well, first off, I explain
Speaker 1: the final Alliance. Did I explain that properly?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 9: You did so.
Speaker 6: Fido Alliance is an industry body. We have over three
Speaker 6: hundred members worldwide that collaborate to create open standards for
Speaker 6: better authentication. So basically our mission is to get rid
Speaker 6: of passwords, to make it easier for everyone to sign
Speaker 6: into things and more secure as well, and somber. Our
Speaker 6: members include everyone you'd think you'd want to have solving
Speaker 6: the problem is working to solve this problem.
Speaker 2: So it's like Apple and Google.
Speaker 6: And eBay and Amazon and you know, you name it.
Speaker 6: The companies that really have so much to lose by
Speaker 6: you know, it's the risk of security out there, it's
Speaker 6: what you gain by easier signings are all working together
Speaker 6: on this technology in our body Fino alliance.
Speaker 2: So what is the problem with passwords?
Speaker 6: First off, well, I think everyone can relate to the
Speaker 6: challenges of passwords. How happen do you forget a password,
Speaker 6: need to sign in and you have to try to
Speaker 6: recover it or try to guess it or supposed to
Speaker 6: use unique passwords for every site. So from a peer
Speaker 6: to you know humans standpoint, passwords are just very difficult
Speaker 6: to manage, and if you're do them correctly, which means
Speaker 6: use a complex password for each site, it's actually impossible.
Speaker 6: That's what ends up happening is people use the same password,
Speaker 6: which isn't that complex for every site, and then attackers
Speaker 6: you steal that password or it's lost in a data
Speaker 6: breach or something like that, those accounts get taken over.
Speaker 6: So not only they're hard to use, but they're very insecure.
Speaker 6: And so when you hear about these massive data breaches,
Speaker 6: hundreds of millions of accounts being stolen things like that,
Speaker 6: over eighty percent of the time that's to do to passwords.
Speaker 6: So they're hard to remember, which is not fun as
Speaker 6: a consumer, but also they're incredibly risky, so it need
Speaker 6: to you know, create these tools that makes it easier
Speaker 6: for people to sign in, but also easier for the
Speaker 6: services to have a more secure environment.
Speaker 1: So I've been hearing a lot about the pass keys.
Speaker 1: I think I've even set a couple up on a
Speaker 1: couple of my accounts, but I'm not exactly sure what
Speaker 1: they're all about. So can you explain what a past
Speaker 1: key is? And you know what that's all about?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know, let's start with passwords. So the
Speaker 6: way passwords work is you have a quote unquote secret
Speaker 6: that's sitting on a server and you know it in
Speaker 6: your head, and when you go to sign and you
Speaker 6: enter that secret and if it matches, you can sign in. Now,
Speaker 6: the problem with that is that your secret isn't that secret,
Speaker 6: so someone can steal or someone can guess it, or
Speaker 6: someone can set up a fishing site, pretend to be
Speaker 6: the real site and steal your password. That way the
Speaker 6: way past keys work. Instead, instead of a secret you
Speaker 6: know on the server, you have what's called a unique keypair,
Speaker 6: a virtual keypair, where you have one what's called the
Speaker 6: public key that sits on the server and then the
Speaker 6: unique part of the key pair is on your device
Speaker 6: with you. And then you need to verify yourself to
Speaker 6: your device for those keys to talk to each other
Speaker 6: to sign in. That sounds very complex. What it looks
Speaker 6: like to the average consumer is, you know, whatever you're
Speaker 6: doing to unlock your phone, right, So if you're on Apple,
Speaker 6: it's probably face ID or touch ID, or Android it's
Speaker 6: you know, face or touch. And so when you're doing
Speaker 6: that action, whatever you're doing to unlock your device, you're
Speaker 6: actually verifying yourself to your private key, which then signs in.
Speaker 6: But it's a very simple action, so say single gesture
Speaker 6: sign in. And so what's more secure about this than
Speaker 6: the password model is that no one can have your
Speaker 6: private key other than you, right, and if a site
Speaker 6: pretends to be in a site, it's not the real site,
Speaker 6: you know, there's no way for them to do that
Speaker 6: unless they have the public key. So it really, you know,
Speaker 6: takes away the threat of fishing and all these remote attacks,
Speaker 6: but also makes it way easier for you to sign in.
Speaker 6: You're basically doing the same thing that people do dozens
Speaker 6: of times a day. It's unlock their device. Is now
Speaker 6: what you're doing to sign in?
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's say I went to eBay and I
Speaker 1: need to sign in. It says log in, and if
Speaker 1: I have my past key that I've already set up
Speaker 1: on my phone with eBay, what does that look like?
Speaker 2: I just literally put my fingerprint on my phone. Yeah,
Speaker 2: whatever you do.
Speaker 5: To unlock your phone.
Speaker 6: So for me, I'm on iPhone for example, I'll use
Speaker 6: either face ID or my PIM. So whatever you do
Speaker 6: to unlock your device is what you now do to
Speaker 6: sign in. And by unlocking that device, you're proving that
Speaker 6: you aren't possession of that device, and that allows your
Speaker 6: magic key pare to talk to each other so you
Speaker 6: can sign in.
Speaker 2: Okay, So do I need like an app?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 1: I know a couple of the apps I use for
Speaker 1: password managers that I've tested, it seems like they have
Speaker 1: pass keys built in. I also know the phones have
Speaker 1: it built in. So what do I need to get
Speaker 1: started with this? Yeah, that's exactly it. So you know
Speaker 1: we mentioned before, you're three hundred companies in the Alliance.
Speaker 1: Because of that, you know the support virtually everywhere for
Speaker 1: pass keys, so it is built into your operating systems.
Speaker 1: It's also built into your password managers.
Speaker 6: So you can have passkeys stored in either place it's
Speaker 6: really up to you, or you can have multiple pass
Speaker 6: keys per site, So whatever you're doing, you know, again,
Speaker 6: we call this your credential manager. So whether it's your
Speaker 6: say iCloud keychain or Apple passwords, whether you're using one
Speaker 6: password or Bitwoarden or dash Lane, whatever you're doing to
Speaker 6: access that is what you're doing now to access your
Speaker 6: pass key and sign in. But again that's way more
Speaker 6: words than the actual user experience, which is generally just
Speaker 6: your device unlocked. But if you're doing to unlock your device,
Speaker 6: is what you're doing to sign in. So generally on
Speaker 6: your mobile phone, it's a biometric and you're in.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I guess the question becomes and this is
Speaker 1: why I think some people have hesitation, like wait, what
Speaker 1: if I lose my phone?
Speaker 2: Do I lose all my past keys?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 2: Am I never going to be able to get back
Speaker 2: into Amazon ever? Again?
Speaker 6: Yeah, The cool thing about this, and what's really important
Speaker 6: about these credential managers and operating systems is that the
Speaker 6: way paskis work is actually your private key is readily
Speaker 6: available across anywhere where you access things. Right, So in
Speaker 6: my example, if I had enrolled with my iPhone, then
Speaker 6: I show up on my MacBook or another another piece
Speaker 6: of hardware that that key is there too, so I
Speaker 6: use the same you know, whatever I'm doing to unlock
Speaker 6: that device is generally what I'm doing to access to
Speaker 6: pass key. If it's if it's the same operating system,
Speaker 6: or if I'm using say credential manager up to one password,
Speaker 6: if I have it on you know, my phone and
Speaker 6: my PC, I can just you know, do it there
Speaker 6: as well. So if you lose one device, it doesn't
Speaker 6: really matter because your recovery now is much easier. Your
Speaker 6: recovery is just basically logging into that credential manager, which
Speaker 6: if it's on the same operating system, is just opening
Speaker 6: a device, or if it's you know, if it's a
Speaker 6: password manager, we may have to log into it be
Speaker 6: your past is there. And so this takes away actually
Speaker 6: a lot of the hassle and the risk of passwords.
Speaker 6: Also because generally attackers will leverage this what's called a
Speaker 6: recovery process right for tend you've lost your password or
Speaker 6: something like that to take over accounts, and that's no
Speaker 6: longer possible unless you have, you know, possession of the
Speaker 6: device that you're using to sign in.
Speaker 1: So it sounds to me like if you're a person
Speaker 1: like me that has a lot of different devices, like
Speaker 1: an Android, an iPhone, Mac computer, Windows computer. You might
Speaker 1: want to use like an independent sort of like like
Speaker 1: you said, like a bit Warden or a dash lane
Speaker 1: because you can install it in all those But if
Speaker 1: you're just using like an iPhone and your Mac computer,
Speaker 1: you know, you're good with just what's built into the
Speaker 1: operating system because it's just that's you know, it's all there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're only.
Speaker 6: On Apple, it's very easy. I'm typically on Apple and
Speaker 6: a PC. But also you can also set up multiple
Speaker 6: pass keys per se. In the fact, we almost recommend that.
Speaker 6: So for a lot of my sights, for a lot
Speaker 6: of sites where use paskis for example, I'll have an
Speaker 6: an Apple pass key and I'll have a Windows pass
Speaker 6: key and they you know, with my potential dander.
Speaker 2: Also, oh that's interesting.
Speaker 6: Give you some optionality, yes, and that's fine because it's
Speaker 6: not really any it's not risky because all these things
Speaker 6: can only be opened by you, right, So so.
Speaker 1: If it prompts you on whatever device you're on, hey
Speaker 1: do you want to set up a paskey?
Speaker 2: You're like, I already have one.
Speaker 1: But if it's a different device, that's like using a
Speaker 1: different operating system, it can still interface with that website
Speaker 1: because it's this device is authenticating it now plus the
Speaker 1: other device exactly.
Speaker 6: And a lot of sites where you manage where you
Speaker 6: have pasts, if you go into your accounts settings and
Speaker 6: it'll let you add pasts, and so that's a good practice. Also,
Speaker 6: the other thing you can do if you're going across
Speaker 6: operating systems, so you have a past unal on your
Speaker 6: phone and you're going to a PC, you can also
Speaker 6: scan like the little QR code on there, and so
Speaker 6: like literally the past is in your hand in that phone,
Speaker 6: and then you get a prompt like with a QR
Speaker 6: code on a PC and you can use this passk
Speaker 6: you to sign in.
Speaker 2: That's really good to do.
Speaker 6: Say I'm visiting you sim Rich, I'm at your house
Speaker 6: or something, and I want to sign it in my service,
Speaker 6: like my gaming service or something like that. I can
Speaker 6: just use my pass game my phone to sign in
Speaker 6: and I'm not actually creating a PASKI on your device,
Speaker 6: if that makes sense right. So it's really good for
Speaker 6: shared devices or like you're not at home against something
Speaker 6: you're in possession of in your hand to sign in
Speaker 6: to a site. That's you know that I'm trying to access.
Speaker 1: All right, we got less than a minute. How do
Speaker 1: I know which of my apps or websites support this.
Speaker 6: Spe Typically you'll see it at signing. The good news
Speaker 6: is when pask has only been available for around, you know,
Speaker 6: two and a half years, roughly half of the top
Speaker 6: one hundred sites on the Internet support paskis, So pretty
Speaker 6: much every major e commerce provider, a lot of you
Speaker 6: grown number of travel sites and things like that support paskis,
Speaker 6: so you can generally see it at signing.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the option of using the pasty all right.
Speaker 1: Very interesting, and uh, I think you gave me the
Speaker 1: confidence I need to start using these more often because
Speaker 1: I can't stand remembering passwords. And I do obviously use
Speaker 1: a password manager because I know that's very important. But
Speaker 1: even that, you know, it's like it's just the past
Speaker 1: key the couple of websites I've set up. It is
Speaker 1: a much smoother process. It's almost so easy. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: did I just log in or what?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: So you're doing something right? All right? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Andrews Kerr from the Fido Alliance. Any website you want
Speaker 1: people to go to to learn more about this.
Speaker 6: Can go to paskcentral dot org. But yeah, that's that's
Speaker 6: the side mainly for developers. But I check that out
Speaker 6: because you more information on paskis and by all means
Speaker 6: you know, when you see when you have a chance,
Speaker 6: he's a past.
Speaker 10: You do it.
Speaker 1: All right, there you have it, Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: the information today, rich on Tech dot TV. I'll put
Speaker 1: a link to that passkeycentral dot org. More information about
Speaker 1: passkeys there, all right, Coming up, we are going to
Speaker 1: open up the feedback. We are going to hear from you.
Speaker 2: These are the.
Speaker 1: Emails, the comments, the questions you sent me all week long.
Speaker 2: We'll do that coming up next.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. A couple of things to
Speaker 1: mention before I get to the feedback. Two tools this
Speaker 1: week to check out, actually three. First it's called payback
Speaker 1: Pai b a ck. We had a payback dot app.
Speaker 1: We had a caller call in about this. They basically
Speaker 1: track your airfare for price drops and if it you
Speaker 1: know something that you've already booked, and if the price drops,
Speaker 1: they request a credit from the airline. So I have
Speaker 1: talked to the developers and now I'm using it to
Speaker 1: track a couple of my upcoming flights again. It's called
Speaker 1: paybackpai back Dot app. And what's cool about it is
Speaker 1: it gives you the confidence to book your flight knowing
Speaker 1: that if the price drops, you'll be able to get
Speaker 1: a credit, not a refund, a credit and then another
Speaker 1: website or an app. Actually, hobby Scan. Hobby Scan is
Speaker 1: another one of those card scanning apps.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: They have a rapid scan feature where you can scan
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of cards at once and then the
Speaker 1: other thing. I'm absolutely loving, but I'm not sure I'm
Speaker 1: going to pay for it because it's kind of expensive.
Speaker 1: But Notion has this feature called AI Meeting Notes, and
Speaker 1: as soon as you start a zoom meeting or any
Speaker 1: sort of like online meeting on your computer, it starts
Speaker 1: taking a transcription and then gives you at the end
Speaker 1: a summary. It is incredibly good. So the AI AI
Speaker 1: Meeting Notes from Notion, Oh my gosh, I don't know
Speaker 1: who's programming it, but kudos to you.
Speaker 2: All right, let's open up the feedbag. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Robin from Anaheim rits In you talked about a phone
Speaker 1: cleaning app for iPhone. I'm an Android user. There are
Speaker 1: many similar apps. When I'm afraid to choose the wrong one.
Speaker 1: Do you have one you recommend something that deletes duplicates
Speaker 1: and cleans up the phone. I don't think you really
Speaker 1: need a third party cleaner app. There's one on Google
Speaker 1: for free. It's called Google Files. They have a built
Speaker 1: in clean functionality. It's got a duplicate photo finder. It's
Speaker 1: very safe, it's simple, it's effective. I ran it on
Speaker 1: my phone yesterday again. It's Google's free files app. I
Speaker 1: don't think you need to mess with any of the
Speaker 1: other ones out there. That one does exactly what you need.
Speaker 1: Google Files. PJ writes in I've been living in Mexico
Speaker 1: for several years. US phones can work here if your
Speaker 1: carrier has reciprocal agreements with Mexican providers. I use both
Speaker 1: the US phone and a Mexican phone. For my Mexican phone,
Speaker 1: I use Telsell, though there are other carriers. My plans
Speaker 1: on both phones cover Canada, the US and Mexico with
Speaker 1: no roaming charges. The US phone costs under thirty dollars
Speaker 1: a month, and the tel Cell plan is even cheaper.
Speaker 1: I keep data usage low by using Wi Fi for
Speaker 1: most things. Enrique also writes in about cell plans in Mexico.
Speaker 1: On your show, you mentioned someone needing permanent cell coverage
Speaker 1: in Mexico. T Mobile has decent plans with good coverage
Speaker 1: back to the US, but the big player in Mexico
Speaker 1: is telsell good plans but higher rates for calls to
Speaker 1: the States.
Speaker 2: I would not recommend movie Star.
Speaker 1: It's got a big footprint, but coverage to the US
Speaker 1: is poor or non existent. I imagine at some point
Speaker 1: that person is going to want to call home, even
Speaker 1: just five minutes to the in laws on Thanksgiving without
Speaker 1: getting stuck on a massive bill. Also, I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to using audible to check out Apple and China, which
Speaker 1: you recommended on the show. Keep up the great work,
Speaker 1: thank you, Enrique. Philip writes in the Personal Extended Security
Speaker 1: Updates for Windows is thirty dollars per year for business customers,
Speaker 1: the cost starts at sixty one for one year, then
Speaker 1: doubles each year, one hundred and twenty two for two,
Speaker 1: two forty four for year three. That's four hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven dollars total per PC over three years. Microsoft's
Speaker 1: blog post doesn't break down that math, probably.
Speaker 2: Because it looks pretty steep. Hey, rich I.
Speaker 1: Recently traveled to Istanbul, Croatia, and Venice. Before leaving, I
Speaker 1: downloaded Call the Midwife to my iPhone using the Netflix app.
Speaker 1: I was able to watch it on the plane, but
Speaker 1: once I got to my destination, I couldn't.
Speaker 2: Access the show anymore.
Speaker 1: I understand it might be a licensing thing, but if
Speaker 1: I'm using my own phone and paying for Netflix, why
Speaker 1: can't I watch what I already downloaded? Great question, and
Speaker 1: yes this comes down to licensing. I've had this issue.
Speaker 1: Not everything on Netflix is available everywhere. I think the
Speaker 1: hack is to put your phone into airplane mode before
Speaker 1: you open up the app the next time you're in
Speaker 1: a different country. Jonathan writes in listening to your show
Speaker 1: has made me more curious about trying AI. I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of classic movies and wanted something short to watch.
Speaker 1: Instead of looking up run times one by one, I
Speaker 1: took a screenshot of several titles on my DVR and
Speaker 1: uploaded it to Gemini and Perplexity. Both gave me a
Speaker 1: full list of runtimes. See someone else that likes run
Speaker 1: times for their movies?
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 1: I even asked them to organize the list by runtime
Speaker 1: or release here, and they did it. Gemini was a
Speaker 1: bit faster, but Perplexity gave cleaner results and helpful links.
Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping us informed on how to use this
Speaker 1: cool tech. Craig in New York rights in Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I enjoy your radio show here in Rochester on Wham
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Craig.
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Speaker 2: Let's see you well. Lots lots of feedback this week.
Speaker 1: Ron from Los Angeles writes in thank you for the
Speaker 1: recommendation of whisper flow. This might be one of the
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Speaker 1: is saving me so much time at my desktop office
Speaker 1: and in my personal iPhone life. Absolutely, Ron, it is
Speaker 1: one of the best innovations I've seen. I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised, mark my words, I would not be surprised
Speaker 1: if Apple or Google purchases this startup because it is
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Speaker 1: in a big way is going to take a big
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Speaker 2: It's that good. Steve writes in from New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Hey, Rich, just have to say your last show had
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Speaker 2: Keep up the great work. Your show is.
Speaker 1: Always one of the highlights of my weekend. Hope all
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Speaker 1: cassette tapes. I had to stop myself from collecting too much.
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Speaker 1: Mark from Portland says on your May thirtieth show, a
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Speaker 1: Mark for adding that that's going to do it for
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Speaker 1: Apple's WWDC. This is their big developers conference, but they
Speaker 1: kick it off on Monday with all of the features
Speaker 1: that are coming soon to the iPhone, so I'll have
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