Speaker 1: A major spying issue involving the Chrome web browser. Sony
Speaker 1: reveals details about its upcoming PlayStation five. Facebook launches an
Speaker 1: election initiative, Apple gears up for a virtual WWDC. Plus
Speaker 1: Your tech Questions Answered. What's going on on Riche Dmiro?
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
Speaker 1: It's also the place where I answer the questions that
Speaker 1: you send me. And I guess since you've been safe
Speaker 1: at home, you guys have been just firing up those
Speaker 1: emails like crazy. My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter
Speaker 1: at KATLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Joining me is
Speaker 1: producer Megan, who's been safe at home more than she
Speaker 1: ever imagined.
Speaker 2: What's up, Producer Megan?
Speaker 3: I know it's been what three full months.
Speaker 1: When I set up this little home studio, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: week or two, and it's just keep going on and on,
Speaker 1: and so I've gotten quite comfortable working from home.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I feel like we just adjusted, like
Speaker 3: as humans, We're just like, Okay, this is just what
Speaker 3: we're doing now. But I know, you know, it would
Speaker 3: be nice to separate work and home too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that is the biggest problem that I've
Speaker 1: noticed is for instance, when I'm doing you know, because
Speaker 1: all my interviews, a lot of them are by Skype,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, you know what, what's a good time.
Speaker 1: They're like two thirty. I'm like perfect, Like what does
Speaker 1: it matter?
Speaker 3: Right? Yeah? Exactly. Yeah. I feel like, if anything, it's
Speaker 3: like we're working more because what else do we have
Speaker 3: going on besides going to the market like once a week.
Speaker 1: Like, I don't know about you, but I've got a
Speaker 1: lot going No, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2: We don't have anymore.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're getting your haircut now, I.
Speaker 1: Am getting my haircut. We actually went on vacation, so
Speaker 1: that was nice. Went to Zion. Have you ever been
Speaker 1: there in Utah?
Speaker 3: No? No, but I want to go there.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful, Go go go. It is awesome.
Speaker 1: And we went from literally being safe at home for
Speaker 1: you know, three whatever two three months to you know,
Speaker 1: staying at a hotel and going to restaurants and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, going you know, on hikes, and it was
Speaker 1: most of it was I mean, it was very safe
Speaker 1: what we did, but very different, you know. And yeah,
Speaker 1: the way they're I mean, it's funny. When we left LA,
Speaker 1: everything was still closed. Then when we got back to LA,
Speaker 1: everything is open now. So I feel like we haven't
Speaker 1: really been out here in LA to like a restaurant
Speaker 1: or anything. But I guess tomorrow night I will, so
Speaker 1: we'll see how that is.
Speaker 3: That's exciting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And believe me, these restaurants are really very much
Speaker 1: like cleaning the tables, like it's a process, you know,
Speaker 1: it's very much. People are taking this very seriously with
Speaker 1: the masks and everything. So I didn't feel unsafe at all.
Speaker 1: I guess I'll know, and I have one more week
Speaker 1: to know if I actually get COVID though, So out
Speaker 1: of the woods, I mean there's not like fourteen days
Speaker 1: for like figuring it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's yeah, I think it's fourteen days you mean
Speaker 3: from like your trip, like if you got it while you're.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't say.
Speaker 1: Like my wife and I keep joking, we're like, we're
Speaker 1: not out of the woods yet, but we'll say so,
Speaker 1: but stay safe, we are not. You know, I know
Speaker 1: things are reopening, but it doesn't mean that it's just
Speaker 1: like okay to go back to normal life. You still
Speaker 1: have to be very much aware of what's happening, and
Speaker 1: wear your mask when you're around other people, especially in
Speaker 1: small enclosed areas. Most of the restaurants we went to
Speaker 1: were outside and very far apart, like the kind of
Speaker 1: what they're doing in Los Angeles where the tables they've
Speaker 1: taken over, like the outdoor areas, And so that felt
Speaker 1: pretty good. So we'll see continue to stay safe out there, folks.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about one of the big stories
Speaker 1: of the week, which really surprised me because we think
Speaker 1: of Google Chrome as such a secure web browser, and
Speaker 1: when you hear something like this, you realize that almost
Speaker 1: anything can somehow have a problem with it. And researchers,
Speaker 1: according to Reuter's, discovered that there was malicious Google Chrome extensions.
Speaker 1: These extensions were installed about thirty two million times, and
Speaker 1: this is all according to Awake Security. And I guess Google,
Speaker 1: once they found out about this last month, removed seventy
Speaker 1: of these malicious add ons. And I've always wondered about
Speaker 1: these Google Chrome extensions because I feel like there is
Speaker 1: a lot of potential for abuse because some of them,
Speaker 1: when you click them, it says, hey, we're going to
Speaker 1: look at all of your web browsing all the URLs
Speaker 1: you type in. You know, all this different, all these
Speaker 1: different things, and some of them need that information to
Speaker 1: work properly. But you wonder what is keeping them from
Speaker 1: just being malicious, and clearly not much, I guess.
Speaker 2: So these extensions that.
Speaker 1: Were problematic were supposed to warn users about questionable websites
Speaker 1: or help them convert file formats, but instead they actually
Speaker 1: took all their broads history siphon that off, and also
Speaker 1: they could see I guess, some of their passwords and
Speaker 1: things like that, so that's kind of scary. In fact,
Speaker 1: these things were really going a step further. If you're
Speaker 1: using them on a home computer, they would transmit information,
Speaker 1: but if you're on a corporate network, it would not
Speaker 1: transmit information because they knew that the corporate network security
Speaker 1: might detect what they were doing. So this is pretty
Speaker 1: nefarious if you ask me, and it makes me. You know,
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of Chrome extensions installed, but I
Speaker 1: really try to limit those to make sure that I
Speaker 1: don't install ones that I think are pretty random. And
Speaker 1: I do have a couple on there that I you know,
Speaker 1: they're all from pretty big names, but some are not. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess they're all from pretty big names that I have,
Speaker 1: but you have any of these things installed, I.
Speaker 3: Only use Let's see, I have Honey and Wikibi, and
Speaker 3: I know they literally do the same thing, but I
Speaker 3: have those two. Those are the only ones.
Speaker 1: We talked about Honey because I was I didn't like
Speaker 1: Honey for a long time, and now I have it.
Speaker 1: And I my wife was ordering pictures the other day
Speaker 1: from Walgreens and the little Honey thing, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: let me run it through Honey.
Speaker 2: Let me just see, because it was.
Speaker 1: Like thirteen bucks for these pictures she was ordering, and
Speaker 1: sure enough, Honey went through and it got her six
Speaker 1: dollars like fifty percent off, and I was like, oh see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's nice too, especially with like pictures. I
Speaker 3: don't know, like that's that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it was like fifty percent, but why not.
Speaker 1: I found for a lot of things like in fact,
Speaker 1: I did order have you heard of Daily.
Speaker 2: Harvest like the smoothies?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, I was ordering those that my first
Speaker 1: shipment is coming today, and I used the Honey thing
Speaker 1: and it was like, okay, you got this amount off.
Speaker 1: But then I was like, oh, I know someone that
Speaker 1: actually ordered these, and so I texted them, and they
Speaker 1: texted me back their referral code and it actually turned
Speaker 1: out to be better than what Honey found. So I
Speaker 1: thought that, you know, you know, you got to you
Speaker 1: gotta look at all angles. That's why you've got people
Speaker 1: and Honey installed. You never know which one's gonna work.
Speaker 3: Actually, did they get like something free for that's the
Speaker 3: other thing.
Speaker 1: They got like twenty five bucks, and then I got
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars off, So that's nice.
Speaker 2: Now I'll put my.
Speaker 1: Referral link in the podcast notes, so if you want
Speaker 1: to order Dailly Harvest, I'll.
Speaker 2: Get twenty bucks.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's really smart. You really should do that,
Speaker 3: just tweet it all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very excited to try those, by the way. Smart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, they look really good. I always hear about
Speaker 3: them on podcasts and I'm like, okay, that would be
Speaker 3: really nice to just have. But it's pretty like pricey,
Speaker 3: yes it is.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's like anything else with these subscriptions.
Speaker 1: The first one is really cheap, Like I think my
Speaker 1: first order is like thirty eight dollars, and then after
Speaker 1: that it jumps to like seventy bucks, and my wife
Speaker 1: is like, that's a little pricey, and I'm doing the math.
Speaker 1: It's still cheaper than going to like a Jamba juice,
Speaker 1: but it's by having it on that automatic kind of cycle.
Speaker 1: You're still spending that money no matter what, but you
Speaker 1: can always pause and all that stuff like anything else.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'll let's know how it is in the
Speaker 1: next podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So this first question comes from Stacy and
Speaker 3: Wally hi Rich. We are thinking about getting a newer,
Speaker 3: up to date TV. We have a sixty inch Sony
Speaker 3: and we're wondering what you recommend as a comparable TV.
Speaker 3: You've always liked Sony, but would like to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm curious why they're getting a new TV already,
Speaker 1: because sixty inch Sony sounds like it'd be pretty good.
Speaker 1: Maybe they got up many years ago, but most people
Speaker 1: didn't get a sixty inch TV years ago. But anyway,
Speaker 1: whatever your reason for getting a new TV, congratulations, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: Here is how I rank my television sets.
Speaker 2: Okay. I would say that.
Speaker 1: If you want the absolute best, I think that Sony
Speaker 1: is still going to give you the overall best picture
Speaker 1: kind of experience combination of you know, the way it looks,
Speaker 1: the way it performs all that. I mean, Sony is Sony,
Speaker 1: right right, That's why they're the most expensive. Like, if
Speaker 1: you go in the store, Sony is going to be
Speaker 1: more expensive than all the other sets. And there's a
Speaker 1: reason for that. It's because Sony is overall the best.
Speaker 1: So that's number one. Number two. If you want the
Speaker 1: best picture quality but at a maybe slightly lower price,
Speaker 1: go with the LG O LAED TV. I think that
Speaker 1: those are known to be the best. And I mentioned
Speaker 1: this in a podcast a long time ago. My friend
Speaker 1: at CET that reviews all the TVs. When I saw
Speaker 1: him at CES, I was like, hey, Dave, which TV
Speaker 1: do I get if I'm just buying one TV? And
Speaker 1: he said, oh, led LG OLED. I'm like, okay, there
Speaker 1: you go. So if you want that, then you have Samsung,
Speaker 1: which I think is a good combination of both price
Speaker 1: and picture, and so go with Samsung if you want
Speaker 1: kind of that. Then after that we get into more
Speaker 1: of the budget models, so then you have the kind.
Speaker 2: Of the Visios of the world and the tcls of
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 1: Now, I in the last year bought a TCL and
Speaker 1: a Visio, and I will tell you. I think they're
Speaker 1: both great, but I was slightly more impressed with the
Speaker 1: feel of the TCL, and that's just kind of like
Speaker 1: the whole setup process, Like the software seemed a little
Speaker 1: bit slicker, the quality of the device seemed a little
Speaker 1: bit better. But I think that you'll be perfectly served
Speaker 1: with either. I personally have a Visio that I bought
Speaker 1: many years ago, and I'm kind of looking to upgrade
Speaker 1: my TV as well, but I don't know what I
Speaker 1: go with right now, Probably that the LG.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: The other thing is do you get a TV for
Speaker 1: the smarts inside? And I always say no, do not
Speaker 1: buy a TV based on the smarts unless you're going
Speaker 1: with a TCL, which has the Roku system built in.
Speaker 1: And I think that the Roku system is really good,
Speaker 1: so that would be my recommendation. Don't you know, if
Speaker 1: Sony's gonna have Android TV built in, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's very good. Visio has their stuff built in. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna be better served with a platform. And
Speaker 1: those platforms right now are Apple TV, they are Roku TV,
Speaker 1: and they are fireTV. Those are the three platforms that
Speaker 1: developers are concentrating on. And if you have a Visio
Speaker 1: like we saw when Disney Plus came out, it wasn't
Speaker 1: available on Visio right away, and we see that over
Speaker 1: and over with HBO Max. It's kind of like the
Speaker 1: same thing, except that time HBO is playing hardball with
Speaker 1: Roku and what was the other one? Roku and Fire
Speaker 1: and they didn't make their app available And I still
Speaker 1: think it's not available on both of those platforms, which
Speaker 1: is crazy to think.
Speaker 3: So that is crazy. Yeah, So if you have a platform,
Speaker 3: does it automatically update itself?
Speaker 1: Well, I just think that the I think that the
Speaker 1: platform gets upgraded or updated regularly, and so do the apps.
Speaker 1: So if you're an app developer and you look at
Speaker 1: fireTV and see that it has fifty percent of the
Speaker 1: market and Roku has forty percent and I'm just throwing
Speaker 1: out numbers, and Apple TV has ten percent and then
Speaker 1: Android TV has five percent, which apps you're gonna update first?
Speaker 1: You're gonna put your priority in those three main platforms, right,
Speaker 1: and then you'll get.
Speaker 3: To the rest.
Speaker 1: That's kind of my feeling, and that's why I always
Speaker 1: say go with a TV, don't worry about the smarts
Speaker 1: unless you're getting Roku. Again, Roku is kind of a
Speaker 1: unique position because it's a TV type and it's also
Speaker 1: a platform as well. All right, let's get into some
Speaker 1: Twitter news this week. Twitter just a small piece of news.
Speaker 1: Twitter now has a new feature that lets you tweet
Speaker 1: your voice. You can tweet up to one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty seconds of audio at a time, and even if
Speaker 1: you go longer, it will just cut up your audio
Speaker 1: into several tweets, so you can go longer. I don't
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna say for that long. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have yet to listen to one of these things
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I actually listen to exactly one. But I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that I'm gonna be listening to a lot
Speaker 1: of tweets. Maybe I will, I don't know. But the
Speaker 1: one cool thing I like about this, Megan, is that
Speaker 1: when you listen to an audio tweet, you can keep
Speaker 1: scrolling Twitter you're listening, So that's potentially pretty cool. I
Speaker 1: can see many updates, or many, I don't know, just
Speaker 1: mini updates that people listen to while they're still You know,
Speaker 1: we're all about multitasking, right.
Speaker 3: So you should just do one day, for one day,
Speaker 3: you should just do audio tweets, just to like try it. Out. Well.
Speaker 1: I think there's potential if you wanted to say, hey,
Speaker 1: here's what's going on or here's what I'm doing. But
Speaker 1: why would you do that versus video? I don't really know,
Speaker 1: and I'm not doing video tweets, so why would I
Speaker 1: do audio tweets?
Speaker 2: I don't really know.
Speaker 1: I think that Twitter is a platform that it's kind
Speaker 1: of like Instagram. You can do the video on there
Speaker 1: and people watch video, but it takes a lot for
Speaker 1: me to stop and actually turn up the audio on Instagram,
Speaker 1: and so I find that that might be the same
Speaker 1: way on Twitter. We'll see right now, folks that have
Speaker 1: this are iOS only, and it's only a small subset
Speaker 1: of people that are on Twitter.
Speaker 2: I do not have this new feature, do you? Oh?
Speaker 3: I haven't even How could I find out? Just go
Speaker 3: to Twitter and try to find an audio tweet? No?
Speaker 1: You every okay, so every one can listen to them
Speaker 1: right now, whether you're on Android or iOS. The only
Speaker 1: people that can tweet using audio are people on iOS,
Speaker 1: and only a small portion of people who have been granted.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have it.
Speaker 1: If you want to, if you have it, just try
Speaker 1: to make a new tweet on iOS. Make surer app
Speaker 1: is updated and it will say, you know, compose an
Speaker 1: audio tweet or try an audio tweet. So I'll try
Speaker 1: it once I get it for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, So this next question comes from Cindy. Hello, I
Speaker 3: follow you on Facebook. You always give out good advice
Speaker 3: on iPhone information. I was wondering if you have ever
Speaker 3: checked out the total av app for phone security. Is
Speaker 3: it legit?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Here here's what I think of the
Speaker 1: total av app.
Speaker 3: Do not know?
Speaker 2: Run Run Run?
Speaker 1: Okay, I've gotten so many questions about this app in
Speaker 1: the past week that I don't know what they're doing,
Speaker 1: but they must be blasting people all over the place.
Speaker 1: Right let me tell you why this is such a
Speaker 1: scam and such bs that I just don't even go
Speaker 1: near it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't even know, it's just okay.
Speaker 1: So a couple of people have emailed me, A bunch
Speaker 1: of people have emailed me about this, and a couple
Speaker 1: of people have included the link that they've gotten about it, and.
Speaker 2: It leads you to this website called.
Speaker 1: Security savers online dot com. And when you click it,
Speaker 1: it looks like it's a blog post about this amazing
Speaker 1: new app called Total av Number one. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this website today and guess what. Scam Number one. The
Speaker 1: website date of the blog post that it purports to
Speaker 1: be is updated magically to today, So they just wrote
Speaker 1: this today. Oh my gosh, it's up to date.
Speaker 2: Well, guess what.
Speaker 1: When I checked it two days ago, the blog post
Speaker 1: was dated two days ago.
Speaker 2: So that's number one. Scam Number two.
Speaker 1: If you go down to the bottom of the article,
Speaker 1: all the way down to the bottom, Security savers dot
Speaker 1: com acts as an independent advertising publisher. This website is
Speaker 1: formatted as an advertorial. Please aware this is an advertisement,
Speaker 1: not actual news, news article, blog, or consumer protection. So
Speaker 1: again number two, the whole blog is total advertisement.
Speaker 2: Number three.
Speaker 1: I downloaded this app and to try it out, and
Speaker 1: you can't do a thing without signing up for it.
Speaker 2: That is giveaway number three.
Speaker 1: That give me a break, at least give me something
Speaker 1: to see about this app before I actually.
Speaker 2: Have to sign up.
Speaker 1: And if you go to sign up, the whole thing
Speaker 1: is high pressure tactics. In fact, my computer, because I
Speaker 1: have some security enabled, won't even let me click the
Speaker 1: link to sign up because it's totally bogus. So stay
Speaker 1: away from this total av even if it's a good app,
Speaker 1: the way that they're doing this and blasting people is
Speaker 1: totally not nice and it's to sure, it's it's just
Speaker 1: not good. And by the way, can we also talk
Speaker 1: about the fact that if you're running an iPhone, there's
Speaker 1: really not a v program that you need to have
Speaker 1: an antivirus program on your iPhone. The way that the
Speaker 1: iPhone is set up is that there is no virus
Speaker 1: for the iPhone. You really can't get one. And I
Speaker 1: say that, and I know people are going to challenge
Speaker 1: me on that, but the reality is, there is no
Speaker 1: simple way for someone to sideload an app on your
Speaker 1: iPhone without you knowing. Yes, you can click a malicious
Speaker 1: link on the iPhone and theoretically they could have an
Speaker 1: exploit that they can figure out and somehow mess up
Speaker 1: your entire phone. But ninety nine point nine percent of
Speaker 1: the time when I get an email about someone thinking
Speaker 1: that their iPhone is infected, it is a link that
Speaker 1: they clicked that led them to a website that's totally bogus.
Speaker 1: And that's that you don't need protection against that. You
Speaker 1: just need to click out of the website.
Speaker 3: So someone did a review of it. Like I know,
Speaker 3: you're like you basically a full no is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: But someone did a review on tech radar dot com
Speaker 3: and I got a star and a half.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's really well.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: And also when you Google something and there's really nothing
Speaker 1: that shows up, it's kind of like, okay, I mean
Speaker 1: it does have a PC mag total av essential antivirus.
Speaker 2: So anyway, just just stay away.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you need an antivirus program for
Speaker 1: your iPhone, you know, you just don't you just more so,
Speaker 1: I'd rather you be very aware of the things that
Speaker 1: you're clicking and the things that you're installing. But if
Speaker 1: you're installing an app from the app store, chances are
Speaker 1: most of the time the worst it can do is
Speaker 1: get access to things like your contacts and your photos
Speaker 1: that I would be more aware of, and your location.
Speaker 1: So this is why Apple is introduced with iOS thirteen,
Speaker 1: the ability to say only give access one time to
Speaker 1: my location or you know, use that, use that as
Speaker 1: much as you can. All right, Speaking of Apple, WWDC
Speaker 1: kicking off Monday, June twenty second, and this year it's
Speaker 1: going to be an all virtual show, which means Megan
Speaker 1: and I do not have to travel up to Kooper
Speaker 1: Tino for this, nor does my photographer Luis. We get
Speaker 1: to sit at home and cover this from YouTube. So
Speaker 1: the event kicks off ten am. What can we expect
Speaker 1: looking at a very thorough article from nine to five
Speaker 1: MAC talking about all the things that they will be doing.
Speaker 1: And number one, this will be something you can watch
Speaker 1: on your TV like you could in past years, but
Speaker 1: there will be no audience, or as far as I know,
Speaker 1: there will be no audience. iOS fourteen. That is the
Speaker 1: thing that many people will be excited to hear about
Speaker 1: because it will tell us what the iPhone will be
Speaker 1: able to do next. So some of the rumors a
Speaker 1: more customizable home screen, which means you might actually be
Speaker 1: able to scroll up and see a list of all
Speaker 1: your apps the way you can on Android.
Speaker 2: That would be really interesting.
Speaker 1: I've actually given up on organizing my apps on my
Speaker 1: home screen ever since I had to reformat my phone
Speaker 1: because I decided I'm only doing the first two screens
Speaker 1: of organization and then the rest can all just live
Speaker 1: wherever they want to, because I'll search for those apps
Speaker 1: because I don't use them as much.
Speaker 2: Is that fair, Megan?
Speaker 3: I think that's that's fair. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to organize all my screens, but everything into
Speaker 1: like a bunch of categories. Now I'm like, why I
Speaker 1: spend all that time. Yeah, we might get is home
Speaker 1: screen widgets, let's see, and you know there'll be a
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff for iOS fourteen, bunch of little things.
Speaker 2: But I you know, I'm not going to go over
Speaker 2: all of them here, iPad os.
Speaker 1: They'll talk about that iPhone or sorry, I watched watch os.
Speaker 1: Now the big thing about watch os. Megan, you just
Speaker 1: got an Apple watch.
Speaker 3: What is your reaction?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Oh? I love it. I love it. I think it's
Speaker 3: so great. I mean I just I love it for
Speaker 3: health reasons, which is like why. I mean, I've been
Speaker 3: listening to you for like almost two years say it's
Speaker 3: like so great to have for your health and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like always trying to meet my circles and like
Speaker 3: it's it's it's great. I think it's amazing.
Speaker 2: What's your circle goal?
Speaker 3: It's five hundred calories?
Speaker 1: Oh but I mean what about the minutes? Like how
Speaker 1: many exercises? So you're doing like the move goal.
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, so it's thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: Okay, thirty minutes I moved the goal.
Speaker 3: It's like moderate, Yeah, I actually am. I mean, I
Speaker 3: just like go for a walk and I do plates
Speaker 3: and I tend to hit it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting I've noticed and I'm a little bit confused
Speaker 1: as to how exactly those minutes count, because I've noticed
Speaker 1: if you're if you start a workout, it will count
Speaker 1: minutes more so than just like taking a walk around
Speaker 1: the block. Like if let's say you take a walk
Speaker 1: around the block for twenty minutes, you may get five
Speaker 1: minutes out of that walk, but if you have it
Speaker 1: on workout, you might get the full twenty, which I
Speaker 1: think I'm not really sure have you noticed any discrepancies there?
Speaker 3: So what I do is I just go ahead when
Speaker 3: I'm going to go on a walk or a run,
Speaker 3: I do like do the workout like I go to
Speaker 3: the workout app. So I haven't just like gone for
Speaker 3: a walk without doing that. But I should try to
Speaker 3: see what the difference is because because that yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, does that does that count towards
Speaker 3: your just like your steps.
Speaker 1: Well, it's still it will still capture if your heart rate.
Speaker 1: I think the way it works is that I think
Speaker 1: your minutes are based on your heart rate being elevated
Speaker 1: for a certain amount of time, and I think by
Speaker 1: triggering the workout app, it will measure your heart rate
Speaker 1: more often or constantly, And I think that's why it's
Speaker 1: getting you more minutes, because it's noticing your heart rate
Speaker 1: more versus just having it on where it's checking it
Speaker 1: every so often. Right, I think that's the difference, but
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure anyway. The big features they might
Speaker 1: be adding to the Watch OS is sleep, which would
Speaker 1: be really nice to have a sleep monitor, uh, and
Speaker 1: then Kids Mode, which you know, it's really I've talked
Speaker 1: about this before, but I think the Apple Watch would
Speaker 1: be perfect for kids, especially if they set it off
Speaker 1: on its own, where you can just buy an Apple
Speaker 1: Watch for your kid, and that would be so great.
Speaker 1: Let's see tvOS. This is for Apple TV talking about
Speaker 1: screen time being on there. If you're a parent at
Speaker 1: home with kids right now, you know that screen time
Speaker 1: is one of the most important things to figure out
Speaker 1: and kind of manage with your kids because they will
Speaker 1: be on the TV or the iPad or app whatever,
Speaker 1: they will be on it all day. Long if you
Speaker 1: left them to their own devices. So I've really been
Speaker 1: monitoring my kid's screen time. I've been testing out a
Speaker 1: device called Circle, which is kind of confusing to have
Speaker 1: both circles set up and screen time, but Circle works
Speaker 1: with every device on your network, not just Apple devices,
Speaker 1: and it's been really handy because, like, for instance, my
Speaker 1: kid has a half an hour allowance of YouTube every day,
Speaker 1: and of course he burns through that, and I could
Speaker 1: hear as soon as I get a notification on my
Speaker 1: watch as soon as he burns through it through Circle,
Speaker 1: and then when he and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'll know, Okay, here comes Tanner.
Speaker 2: He's going to come running into my room.
Speaker 1: Dad, I'm up, and I'm like, And then you can
Speaker 1: reward your kid through your phone and give them an
Speaker 1: extra whatever ten fifteen minutes. So circles advice that actually
Speaker 1: plugs into your network physically and helps you manage. So
Speaker 1: I'll have a review of that soon on KTLA, but
Speaker 1: right now I'm just in the testing phase.
Speaker 2: But anyway, WWDC coming up Monday. I can't wait. It's
Speaker 2: always fun to see the goodies that Apple has in store.
Speaker 3: Okay, this next question comes from Steve love your Ktaly
Speaker 3: segments and podcast. Not sure if you've already addressed this,
Speaker 3: but with many of us now using FaceTime much more
Speaker 3: regularly to keep in touch with family members, I was
Speaker 3: wondering if there's an easy way to record FaceTime calls
Speaker 3: with audio. I've googled it, tried street screen recording, and
Speaker 3: downloaded other apps, but haven't found a way to do it.
Speaker 3: I can only get the video of these calls, but
Speaker 3: no audio. I've re signed to setting up a separate
Speaker 3: camera and shooting a video of my phone. This works,
Speaker 3: but it's very clunky. I normally saw my grandkids every
Speaker 3: week and regularly chuck photos and videos of them, but
Speaker 3: since I haven't been able to be with them in
Speaker 3: person in months, simpler FaceTime recordings would be a great
Speaker 3: way to capture memories during these tough times. Thanks for
Speaker 3: all you do.
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 1: And Uh, it's funny because there used to be I
Speaker 1: use a program which I love and I recommend it
Speaker 1: all the time.
Speaker 2: Megan, do you know what I'm gonna say?
Speaker 3: Oh? I don't know. Screen?
Speaker 2: What's that? Well?
Speaker 3: Can record on QuickTime?
Speaker 1: No ekam is I used to make to record my
Speaker 1: Skype calls. Which by the way, is fantastic. Now they
Speaker 1: used to have a program to record FaceTime.
Speaker 2: But remember that.
Speaker 1: Whole thing with Apple and where you can listen in
Speaker 1: to people on FaceTime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So after.
Speaker 1: That, Apple really I think closed a lot of gaps
Speaker 1: on FaceTime, and I think that's the reason why our
Speaker 1: listener is having trouble recording these calls.
Speaker 2: Because I did a quick test.
Speaker 1: With Megan to see if QuickTime would record it, because
Speaker 1: you can plug your iPhone into your computer, into your
Speaker 1: Mac and record the screen of your iPhone, and I
Speaker 1: found that you can also record QuickTime, but as soon
Speaker 1: as I chose the microphone from my iPhone, it would
Speaker 1: not record. So that was number one, Like the screen
Speaker 1: just went black. And then I tried doing a screen
Speaker 1: recording and recording and it did get the screen, but
Speaker 1: it did not record the microphone. And then finally I
Speaker 1: tried a program called Reflector, which I really like, which
Speaker 1: can let you mirror. It lets you mirror your iPhone
Speaker 1: and all your Apple stuff and Android stuff to your
Speaker 1: computer very easily. It's great if you're trying to record
Speaker 1: like screen captures. And I tried doing that and guess
Speaker 1: what it recorded Megan's and what she was saying did
Speaker 1: not record what I was saying. So it's complicated and
Speaker 1: I don't have a solution. If you're listening and you
Speaker 1: have a solution, please let me know Hello at richontech
Speaker 1: dot TV and we'll get it in the next podcast.
Speaker 1: But as far as I know, I can't find an
Speaker 1: easy way to record FaceTime calls with audio. And I
Speaker 1: looked at some of the tutorials online and it seems
Speaker 1: like they're either outdated or they don't work anymore. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of what I'm so, maybe he should just
Speaker 1: do this Skype thing.
Speaker 3: That's probably the best way, right if he wants to
Speaker 3: be able to record.
Speaker 1: Like, yes, so that would be my I guess, switch
Speaker 1: over to Skype and try doing it that way. But no,
Speaker 1: it's like most people aren't on type and it's just
Speaker 1: not really what he wants to do. I mean, FaceTime
Speaker 1: is very simple for you know, I was thinking that.
Speaker 2: Face zoom, Well yeah, exactly, you zoom and recording is
Speaker 2: built in.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so that's what I would recommend, just
Speaker 1: you know what, switch over to zoom. Everyone has zoom,
Speaker 1: everyone has an account right now. Recording is built right
Speaker 1: into Zoom. I know it's not as simple as FaceTime,
Speaker 1: but that's that's what I would recommend, So good, good
Speaker 1: alternative there.
Speaker 3: I have one question with the Zoom thing. Can you
Speaker 3: can you record calls on the Zoom app on your
Speaker 3: phone or do you have to be on you even
Speaker 3: try that?
Speaker 2: I don't know, and I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think you have to be on the desktop because
Speaker 1: it leverages the hardware on the desktop to actually like
Speaker 1: process the call. But that's only for my account. I
Speaker 1: have a free account. So if you have, if you
Speaker 1: have a paid account which has cloud recording, it may
Speaker 1: be able to it may enable that on the phone,
Speaker 1: but I am not sure, so I'd have to check
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: But good question, Megan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Sony revealed the PlayStation five what it's going
Speaker 1: to look like.
Speaker 2: Did you see the pictures?
Speaker 1: You edited the video so you saw it's got this
Speaker 1: really crazy like bold design.
Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's a departure like in years past the chassis has
Speaker 1: been a black color and now it's kind of this
Speaker 1: bold white and blue maybe or black.
Speaker 3: Was it like a little blue light on the sides.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well they've had like cool lighting for a while.
Speaker 1: But this is like it just looks like a spaceship
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, it's very futuristic, very futuristic, Like good job
Speaker 3: on the design.
Speaker 2: So it looks really cool.
Speaker 1: Now, some people might not like that it's white because
Speaker 1: it might not fit into like sort of their other
Speaker 1: stuff on TV. You know, I could see.
Speaker 3: That, Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 1: But at the time, cool everything with silver, Like back
Speaker 1: in the day, like in the eighties and nineties, all
Speaker 1: the stuff used to be like silver, and then it
Speaker 1: went black and then it's kind of remained black for
Speaker 1: a while and now this is, you know, a departure.
Speaker 1: So if that really you know, some people are really like,
Speaker 1: you know, they want things to look a certain way
Speaker 1: under their TV. Like me, like I have one Apple
Speaker 1: TV box and that's it.
Speaker 2: And even my this is really funny.
Speaker 1: When Luis was over here shooting a segment with our cable,
Speaker 1: like with my modem, he noticed when I took it
Speaker 1: off the shelf, there was a tiny piece of like
Speaker 1: sticky tack stuff underneath it. And he's like, what's that
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, because if you lay my
Speaker 1: modem on its side, it's not it tilts over because
Speaker 1: it's like got this, it's like not even, and so
Speaker 1: it really bugged me that modem was not straight at
Speaker 1: the bottom, and so I put a little piece of
Speaker 1: fun tack at the bottom to like hold it up,
Speaker 1: to make it looked like it was hovering anyway.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess you could always paint the PlayStation five.
Speaker 1: Okay, So again, what I've done in the past, I've
Speaker 1: actually taken because I hated having blinking lights on the
Speaker 1: front of my devices, I've taken black electrical tape and
Speaker 1: put it over all the lights and.
Speaker 2: Motem because they.
Speaker 1: Just they're like flashing, Like the people who design these things,
Speaker 1: who wants a bunch of flashing lights while you're trying
Speaker 1: to watch TV? Right like underneath your TV. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: space going in.
Speaker 3: You know how My TV is on like a roller,
Speaker 3: I like right by my bed at night when I
Speaker 3: watch TV, like to go to bed, but then the
Speaker 3: light bothers me when I'm actually trying to sleep. So
Speaker 3: that's what I'll do. I'll cover it with the Only.
Speaker 1: Thing you have to be careful about is the IR sensor,
Speaker 1: so you have to make sure you don't cover that up,
Speaker 1: so you know, just usually the IR sensor is near
Speaker 1: the little led, so just you know, you can shine
Speaker 1: a flashlight into your kind of where the lights are
Speaker 1: and see where the sensor is, and that should help
Speaker 1: you not cover that up.
Speaker 2: Okay, anyway, now you know what to do. Very cool,
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 1: So what else about the Sony two different options. You
Speaker 1: get a standard model or a model with an Ultra
Speaker 1: HD Blu Ray dis drive, so you can go digital
Speaker 1: or you can hold onto the past a little bit there,
Speaker 1: which I don't have any use for an ultra There's
Speaker 1: like one or two times a year when I want
Speaker 1: to try to play a disc, and usually it's around
Speaker 1: screener time when they send me the movies for like
Speaker 1: Academy Awards or whatever. But other than that, I do
Speaker 1: not need a disk drive anymore. It'd be nice, but
Speaker 1: I don't really see the point unless you like, really
Speaker 1: like to watch your movies in the ultimate Ultra HD way.
Speaker 1: Then they have a bunch of games announced. Marvel Spider
Speaker 1: Man Miles Morales is kind of one of the big ones,
Speaker 1: Grand Turi's most seven resident evil Village. And then there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a Grand Theft Auto five. This is gonna
Speaker 1: launch Holiday twenty twenty. They have not given up price.
Speaker 1: But I did interview Todd Martin's of the La Times.
Speaker 1: He is their video game journalist, and he was telling
Speaker 1: me that he thinks around four to five hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: depending on the model, you get this Spider Man game
Speaker 1: super anticipated. And also he said the graphics look really,
Speaker 1: really good. And he said the difference between PlayStation five
Speaker 1: and Xbox Series X, which is also launching this holiday
Speaker 1: season is Sony is sort of positioning themselves as you
Speaker 1: still need this this piece of hardware that's going to
Speaker 1: play the best games, whereas Microsoft is more moving to
Speaker 1: a fully digital kind of internet based, you know, digital play.
Speaker 1: So they're kind of like two different ways, you know,
Speaker 1: like Microsoft might say, hey, you can play them on
Speaker 1: the Xbox, or you can play them on your PC
Speaker 1: if you have a good PC. But Sony's like, no,
Speaker 1: you need this box to get this thing. I think
Speaker 1: that's what he kind of that was the point he made.
Speaker 1: So I hope I'm not butchering that all right, Megan,
Speaker 1: you're up.
Speaker 3: Okay, this next question is from Rudy. I've got a sorry,
Speaker 3: should I turn my that phone off?
Speaker 2: I don't hear anything?
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh okay, sorry, Okay, So this next question is
Speaker 3: from Rudy. I've got a stupid question. I purchased a
Speaker 3: Wi Fi Extra Boost. It was made in China. Is
Speaker 3: there any chance when I install it, someone will be
Speaker 3: able to what equipment wait to see what equipment is
Speaker 3: using it and can rip me off? Is this a
Speaker 3: pick from the side of the box? Thank you very much?
Speaker 1: Wait, all right, so he bought one of these Wi
Speaker 1: Fi Extra Boosts, which we actually talked about in a
Speaker 1: previous show. This goes right up there with the total
Speaker 1: av thing or whatever, like don't buy the by extra Boost.
Speaker 2: They were advertising heavily.
Speaker 1: And now I don't take issue with the fact that
Speaker 1: it's made in China. I mean a lot of things
Speaker 1: are made in China, and I don't think that this
Speaker 1: is trying to steal your personal information, although that is
Speaker 1: a very real concern. So because it's a device that
Speaker 1: we're not really sure where it comes from or who
Speaker 1: makes it, or you know, if there's different versions of
Speaker 1: these things, it could be made pretty cheaply. There was
Speaker 1: a heavy, heavy, heavy advertising campaign surrounding this thing, So
Speaker 1: I think that his concern is legitimate. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're doing but I am glad that he's thinking that way,
Speaker 1: because if you buy something random and you introduce it
Speaker 1: to your network, you have to wonder what that piece
Speaker 1: of equipment could be doing on your network. I think
Speaker 1: he's okay. The other thing I would say the bigger
Speaker 1: problem is that I think this Wi Fi Extra boost
Speaker 1: is not going to do very much to boost his network.
Speaker 1: And I used to recommend these WiFi boosters, but again,
Speaker 1: they take a bad signal, they make it even worse.
Speaker 1: And I would definitely recommend something like an EO, something
Speaker 1: like a Google Wi Fi or Google Nest Wi Fi,
Speaker 1: or something like a neckgear orbi. My friend recently updated
Speaker 1: his system.
Speaker 2: At his house.
Speaker 1: He was getting really bad internet and he upgraded to
Speaker 1: the Eero and he sent me a screenshot of getting
Speaker 1: awesome Internet throughout everywhere in his home. So that's awesome.
Speaker 1: And he also got his internet upgraded as well. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure this thing is gonna be fine. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's sending back everything you do to China, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be very good for
Speaker 1: actually improving your network.
Speaker 2: I think that it's the bigger problem.
Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of improving your network, Megan This
Speaker 1: was on my to do list for many, many weeks,
Speaker 1: and I finally did it. So in my neighborhood, there's
Speaker 1: two competing internet services and one is offering a really
Speaker 1: good deal right now. Of like, I forget what it was.
Speaker 1: It was like fifty bucks a month for really fast internet.
Speaker 1: And also it was AT and T. So they're also
Speaker 1: including HBO Max, which I paid for, and it was
Speaker 1: cheaper than what Spectrum offers where I live. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to call before I was going to switch, no
Speaker 1: matter what. But I just wanted to call a Spectrum
Speaker 1: just to see if they would give me a better deal,
Speaker 1: because it's always easier to stick with what you have.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have a person come to your house,
Speaker 1: you have to switch things over, you have to change
Speaker 1: your router, all this stuff.
Speaker 2: So I just figured i'd called them now.
Speaker 1: Last time I called them about probably two or three
Speaker 1: years ago, the guy was so rude to me. He
Speaker 1: was like, dude, we don't do deals. We don't do that.
Speaker 1: We just don't do that anymore. I was like, okay, now,
Speaker 1: two years ago when I called, I did not have
Speaker 1: a competing deal, so he actually got me. All I
Speaker 1: did was say hey, can you do better than what
Speaker 1: I'm paying? And he's like no, but I didn't have
Speaker 1: anything to go. I was like, oh, I'll cancel. He's like,
Speaker 1: go ahead, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: And I, well, he didn't. He in so many words,
Speaker 2: he said that right, right, right, Okay, he was right.
Speaker 1: He knew that I didn't have another option that was
Speaker 1: better in my neighborhood. The price at AT and T
Speaker 1: at the time was about the same as Spectrum, so
Speaker 1: there really wasn't anything I could do except switch, which
Speaker 1: is kind.
Speaker 2: Of a pain.
Speaker 1: This time, I came armed with knowing I actually would
Speaker 1: switch because the deal is actually better at AT and T.
Speaker 1: But like I said, I would, I would stay if
Speaker 1: they gave me a better.
Speaker 2: Deal because I don't have to deal with switching.
Speaker 1: So, long story short, took me forty minutes on the
Speaker 1: phone to finally get through to someone.
Speaker 2: But guess what they gave you the deal, that's right.
Speaker 1: Twenty dollars off the next year every month. So my
Speaker 1: advice to you, the listener, go to a website like
Speaker 1: high Speed Internet dot com or allconnect dot com and
Speaker 1: actually see if there is a better deal. And if
Speaker 1: there is, and you're actually willing to switch to that
Speaker 1: better deal. Give your provider a call and tell them
Speaker 1: about that deal, and don't be mean. I was not
Speaker 1: mean in any way. I was very honest. I said, look,
Speaker 1: here's the numbers. They've got a better deal. It's a
Speaker 1: faster speed than what you're giving me. Can you do
Speaker 1: any better? And surprisingly the woman was very nice and
Speaker 1: she said, yeah, we can do better. Right off the bat,
Speaker 1: she said, I can give you twenty bucks off a month.
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, well it's not going to be
Speaker 1: as fast. Is there anything you can do better than that?
Speaker 1: And she said, well, you can jump up to a
Speaker 1: higher speed, but it's going to be the same price
Speaker 1: you're paying right now. So I could have done that,
Speaker 1: or I could have jumped up to the equivalent of
Speaker 1: what AT and T is offering, which is a gig
Speaker 1: and especially offering that for like one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The reason why AT and T is able to offer
Speaker 1: such cheap service is because they don't have the coverage
Speaker 1: like Spectrum does. They're only in certain pockets, so they
Speaker 1: really hammer those pockets hard and getting people to switch,
Speaker 1: and then they try to get you to bundle, which
Speaker 1: is the same thing Spectrum does. So my advice to
Speaker 1: you is just if you haven't looked in a while
Speaker 1: or compared in a while, give it a shot. And
Speaker 1: I was very pleasantly surprised that I didn't save a
Speaker 1: ton of money. One hundred and twenty dollars. No, twenty
Speaker 1: times twelve is two hundred and forty bucks.
Speaker 2: So that's not bad, right, that's really good.
Speaker 1: Same speed, Like, I'm not getting any faster speed, but
Speaker 1: I figured, you know what, I'd rather save the money
Speaker 1: right now than get faster speed because my speed's just fine.
Speaker 1: I get two hundred down, which is just fine. So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's that's my public service announcement.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell my mom about that.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, okay.
Speaker 3: This next question comes from Yasmin. Hello, Rich, I'm a
Speaker 3: huge five from KTLA. Oh huge KTLA five fan, and
Speaker 3: I was wondering if you can recommend any dual dash
Speaker 3: cameras that won't cost an arm and a leg please. Oh.
Speaker 1: You know, I've played with a bunch of dash cameras
Speaker 1: over the years, and I continually go back to brands
Speaker 1: that I know that work and that I like, and
Speaker 1: so the one that I searched up for this is
Speaker 1: the Vava.
Speaker 2: This is a dash cam.
Speaker 1: Do you remember we did a story with them, probably
Speaker 1: when you first started.
Speaker 3: I met right, let me look at it.
Speaker 2: That's a no, okay, so okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so I tried out their first dash cam, which
Speaker 1: is a great value or worked really nicely. Then I
Speaker 1: tried out their second dash cam, which also worked really nicely.
Speaker 1: And I was not aware that they actually came out
Speaker 1: with a front and back recording dash cam, which I
Speaker 1: you know, looked up and here it is on Amazon
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety nine dollars, and they actually have
Speaker 1: a twenty dollars coupon, so it's one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: dollars if you apply this coupon. Now, here's my only
Speaker 1: issue with these front and rear unless you're driving an uber,
Speaker 1: I don't really understand what seeing the inside of your
Speaker 1: car cabin matters, because it's like, what I really want
Speaker 1: to say is the back. The last time I got
Speaker 1: into an accident, it was someone hitting me from behind
Speaker 1: because the woman was on her phone and so she
Speaker 1: slammed right into the back of my car. I wish
Speaker 1: I had a camera on the back of my car
Speaker 1: that would.
Speaker 3: Have recorded that, right right, right, Well, maybe she wants
Speaker 3: to be able to shows me kind of crowd, you
Speaker 3: know and fear right, yeah, but maybe she wants to
Speaker 3: see if someone's breaking in to her car.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, And that's another that's a that's a
Speaker 1: very valid response. And most of these cameras have what's
Speaker 1: called like a G shock sensor which will activate when
Speaker 1: your car is parked and it will record, So that's
Speaker 1: a that's a valid that's definitely valid. But personally, I
Speaker 1: think that if you really want full coverage, you got
Speaker 1: to have a camera facing out the front, you got
Speaker 1: to have a camera facing on your front license plate,
Speaker 1: you got to have a camera inside, you've got to
Speaker 1: have a camera in the back seat, and you've got
Speaker 1: to have a camera on your back you know, license plate.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking you need like five cameras in your car,
Speaker 1: which I'm joking right now now, but that is the reality.
Speaker 1: In the future. Tesla's already doing it. A lot of
Speaker 1: the cars already have these cameras, they're just not necessarily
Speaker 1: being recorded all the time. But in the future, Megan,
Speaker 1: I do think that our cars are going to be
Speaker 1: rolling around like many DVRs. With all these cameras, recording
Speaker 1: and accidents are going to matter. Just sending this info
Speaker 1: to your sending this b roll to or video to
Speaker 1: your car insurance company and they say, okay, we'll figure
Speaker 1: it all out with the other person.
Speaker 3: That is wild. No, you're totally right. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: kind of bound to happen, right, Yes.
Speaker 1: The other trend that we're seeing is connected dash cams
Speaker 1: because okay, so let's say I break into your car
Speaker 1: by the way, before I leave your car, I steal
Speaker 1: your dash cam, and now you have no dash cam.
Speaker 2: Right, so your video.
Speaker 1: So the other thing we're seeing is car cams like
Speaker 1: the owl cam. And also I tested one called the
Speaker 1: pure cam that will automatically upload the clips to the
Speaker 1: cloud as they happen. So that's that's the other thing
Speaker 1: we're going to see next is more of connected data
Speaker 1: because that in this case, it makes a lot of
Speaker 1: sense for this video to go right up to the cloud.
Speaker 2: All right, good question.
Speaker 1: I've got a ton of stuff to go through and
Speaker 1: not much more time. So let me, oh gosh, what
Speaker 1: should I go through? What should I talk about? All right,
Speaker 1: let me talk about two fun little things Nintendo has
Speaker 1: a free game right now. It's called the Jump Rope Challenge.
Speaker 1: I downloaded this and played it with my kid last night.
Speaker 1: I didn't do it, he did it, but you Basically
Speaker 1: it's free for the Nintendo Switch and you can download it,
Speaker 1: and it basically is a very simple game of jump rope.
Speaker 1: And all you do is you hold your joy Con controllers,
Speaker 1: which are the Nintendo controllers, in each hand, and you
Speaker 1: swing around and jump like you would be jump roping virtually,
Speaker 1: and it counts on your screen how many times you've
Speaker 1: jump roped. My kid got up to like five or
Speaker 1: six hundred before we stopped him. He was really sweaty too,
Speaker 1: which was cracking me up. So it actually worked out.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of It's just a fun little game
Speaker 1: to get you moving during stay at home stuff.
Speaker 2: And if you have a Switch, it's totally free.
Speaker 1: Just download it and you can do it every day
Speaker 1: and challenge yourself to do more every day or do
Speaker 1: a certain amount every day, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: You you cut the video on this for Katlage, what'd
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 3: I thought it was fun? I mean I like that,
Speaker 3: you know, the kids can have something different to do.
Speaker 3: And I actually am a big fan of jump rope.
Speaker 3: It's a good it's a good workout. Yeah, I'm actually
Speaker 3: really good at it.
Speaker 2: You're good at what means you're good at it?
Speaker 3: You can like I mean, I don't like mess up,
Speaker 3: like you know when you jump rope and you like
Speaker 3: hit your foot.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I can like do it for like five minutes straight,
Speaker 3: but you have to like go, you know, like you know,
Speaker 3: boxers they jump rope like. It's like a good cardio
Speaker 3: of vascular workout.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It is funny with all of the advancements in working out.
Speaker 1: If you really watch a lot of like the workout
Speaker 1: stuff on TV, it's it's always the simple stuff we
Speaker 1: learned in like middle school. Yeah, roping and the jumping
Speaker 1: jacks and the squats and you don't need much. So
Speaker 1: you got to work out at home during this time.
Speaker 1: One more thing I want to mention too is an
Speaker 1: app called Helio. This is an app that tells you
Speaker 1: when the sunrise or sunset are gonna be awesome. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been outside randomly or looked outside your window, Megan,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you see like a really
Speaker 1: good sunset and you're like, WHOA, that's really good and
Speaker 1: you walk outside and look at it. Yeah, yeah, well
Speaker 1: this app will tell you a prediction on a scale
Speaker 1: of one to one hundred of how the sunrise.
Speaker 2: Or sunset's going to be.
Speaker 1: Now, photographers using apps like this for a long time
Speaker 1: to kind of get really good you know what they
Speaker 1: call the magic hour twilight good pictures.
Speaker 2: But this kind of does it for you.
Speaker 1: The only feature it doesn't have yet, well, it probably
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of features, but the one is
Speaker 1: a notification, so you have to open the app to see.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't it be cool if every day at like
Speaker 1: you know whatever, you know, an hour before sunset, it
Speaker 1: would give you notification if it was going to be
Speaker 1: a really good one to like remind you, because there's
Speaker 1: something nice about just going outside and kind of just
Speaker 1: soaking in the sunset for a little bit. Even if
Speaker 1: you don't have like a perfect few Where I live,
Speaker 1: I don't really have a great view, but it's still
Speaker 1: like at the beach, of course, you get like a
Speaker 1: great view.
Speaker 3: No. I love that. I love like looking at the
Speaker 3: sunset when it's you know, pretty and pink and purple, yes.
Speaker 1: All the different color sky and you kind of just
Speaker 1: think about Wow, what an amazing world we live in.
Speaker 1: All right, Megan, can you believe it? That is going
Speaker 1: to do it for the end of the show.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. This show goes so fast, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: It really does.
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Speaker 3: I'm on Twitter at producer Megan.
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