Speaker 1: Amazon is set to show off an AI inspired voice assistant.
Speaker 1: Apple takes on Evite with a new app, the web
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Speaker 1: off this week with Amazon. The company announced an event
Speaker 1: in New York City, happening on February twenty sixth, So fittingly,
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: The day we're on in New York City.
Speaker 1: So my invite says, join Amazon Devices on February twenty
Speaker 1: sixth in New York City and see what's next.
Speaker 2: So I thought that was pretty interesting. According to The Verge.
Speaker 1: Though the website The Verge, they saw that there were
Speaker 1: five different invite styles. They all said something a little
Speaker 1: bit different. But if you string them all together, they
Speaker 1: spell out Alexa.
Speaker 2: Oops, I just said it. Whoops.
Speaker 1: Apologies, They spell out alex A in the background.
Speaker 2: So what does that mean.
Speaker 1: That means that we are going to see smart home devices,
Speaker 1: the next generation of Amazon's smart home devices, and get
Speaker 1: a look at the next generation AI powered I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: alex A just to not activate all of your speakers
Speaker 1: at home.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: This is a big moment for Amazon because they were
Speaker 1: super early to the voice assistant game, right like everyone,
Speaker 1: when they got one of those speakers, those echo speakers
Speaker 1: in their home. The magic of being able to just
Speaker 1: call something up, just saying, hey, play this song, or
Speaker 1: play this radio station, or turn on those lights or
Speaker 1: turn off that or answer this question.
Speaker 2: It was incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember, I literally remember the first time
Speaker 1: that I heard one of these echo speakers. Not to
Speaker 1: mention the sound, the audio quality was excellent as well.
Speaker 1: But this was a kind of a new moment in life.
Speaker 1: But since then, alex A has remained mostly the same.
Speaker 1: It still answers basic questions. It's mostly used to set
Speaker 1: timers and control smart home devices. Meanwhile, the likes of Chat,
Speaker 1: GBT and all these other assistants have really been taken
Speaker 1: to the next level. So Amazon needs to get this right.
Speaker 1: They've got millions of devices in people's homes, and they're
Speaker 1: kind of walking a fine line here. They still need
Speaker 1: those devices, even with the new AI to work properly
Speaker 1: and the way that people know and love. So they
Speaker 1: still need to be able to turn on and off
Speaker 1: the lights, but they need to have that added magic
Speaker 1: of AI that doesn't mess all of this up.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Amazon actually first previewed the new ELECTSA there I go,
Speaker 1: I said it again, the New Voice in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: but it's been delayed and delayed and delayed ever since
Speaker 1: then because they've been figuring out how to make this work.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's not easy because AI has a mind of
Speaker 1: its own and you say, hey, turn off the lights
Speaker 1: in the backyard, it may have other things that it
Speaker 1: wants to do. So again, it has to ride this
Speaker 1: line of getting the core functionality right but also adding
Speaker 1: new functionality that people are going to love. Now, there
Speaker 1: are some rumors circulating out there that Amazon wants to
Speaker 1: charge ten dollars a month or up to ten dollars
Speaker 1: a month to use this new AI assistant.
Speaker 2: We'll see.
Speaker 1: So far, if history is our guide, every single AI
Speaker 1: company has given folks a standard level of service for
Speaker 1: free and then an added level of service for a
Speaker 1: paid cost. So if you go on chat GBT, you
Speaker 1: can use it as much as you want. You're getting
Speaker 1: maybe not the best model out there, maybe you're not
Speaker 1: getting the most usage that you can if you're paying
Speaker 1: for chat gibt. And by the way, they're paid plans
Speaker 1: or anywhere from twenty dollars to two hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Claude, same thing with if you look
Speaker 1: at Google, they've got Google Gemini. A lot of these
Speaker 1: AI companies are still figuring out what's that nice mix
Speaker 1: of paid and also free access. So again, February twenty sixth,
Speaker 1: big event in New York City with Amazon. I will
Speaker 1: be there and I will tell you all of the
Speaker 1: updates that you need to know. In other news this week,
Speaker 1: Apple taking on Evite. Can you believe that twenty five
Speaker 1: years into evite they are still the king of party invites? Like,
Speaker 1: when you get an invite to a party, chances are
Speaker 1: it's arriving on Evite. And this thing looks like it
Speaker 1: was locked in time, right, Like Evite still looks like
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight is calling. And that's fine because it
Speaker 1: does what you need, right, It gets you the information.
Speaker 1: What do you need on a party invite? The address
Speaker 1: and the date and an RSVP yes or no. That's
Speaker 1: about it. There's not much we need from invites. So
Speaker 1: evite you pick your little picture, you pick your little theme.
Speaker 1: You know, we send out our Halloween party invite, you know,
Speaker 1: through Evite. And the thing is, everyone has their information
Speaker 1: in evite already, so you've got your contacts in there.
Speaker 1: It's it's simple. You just put the names in and
Speaker 1: you send out the invite. But now Apple said, you
Speaker 1: know what, we see an opportunity here, so they came
Speaker 1: out with the new app this week called Apple Invites. Fittingly,
Speaker 1: it's very simple. You enter an event title, the date
Speaker 1: and time, the location, and that's about it, and you
Speaker 1: send it off. Now this looks much more modern, it's
Speaker 1: much more slick looking. Of course it's iPhone only because
Speaker 1: it's Apple. There's even a They did some smart thing
Speaker 1: so for instance, when you put the date and time in,
Speaker 1: it'll put the weather for that day. So if it's
Speaker 1: an outdoor party or whatever, some people just like to
Speaker 1: know what the weather is going to be, like how
Speaker 1: to dress for the party. So they've got that built in.
Speaker 1: There's even an option to create a shared album. This
Speaker 1: is actually pretty smart because you know, with every party
Speaker 1: there's always that issue of how do we share the
Speaker 1: party picks and videos with all the other guests. So
Speaker 1: now you can just upload them to this shared album
Speaker 1: and people will see them. So the app makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. You've already got your photos on your phone,
Speaker 1: You've got your contacts on your phone, so it's nice
Speaker 1: and easy to build an invite and send it through
Speaker 1: this new app. They also did something kind of fun.
Speaker 1: If your phone supports AI, you can use AI to
Speaker 1: generate backgrounds for your invites, so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So it all works together, and Apple promises that this
Speaker 1: will work with non Apple users, but we know the
Speaker 1: process is not going to be perfect because they want
Speaker 1: everyone to have an iPhone, right. So I tried sending
Speaker 1: a link to myself and accessing it from a non
Speaker 1: Apple device, and at first I couldn't really figure it out.
Speaker 1: It kept like asking me to log in or verify
Speaker 1: my address, So it seems like you have to confirm
Speaker 1: your email address with a one time code before you
Speaker 1: can RSVP to the invite. The other catch is that
Speaker 1: you have to have a subscription. Yes, this is not
Speaker 1: just anyone with an iPhone. You have to have a
Speaker 1: subscription to iCloud Plus, which is basically if you're paying
Speaker 1: for any sort of storage on the iPhone that will
Speaker 1: get you access to this new app. And my pal
Speaker 1: Jefferson Graham, he figured out that your iCloud storage cannot
Speaker 1: be full or your invite won't go through, so that's another.
Speaker 2: Little catch there. Now.
Speaker 1: I think the app is great, it's slick, it's nice
Speaker 1: to have an option outside of Evite, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: many folks who have an iPhone will use this. But
Speaker 1: Apple Invites breaks one of my general rules in life,
Speaker 1: and that is I prefer to use apps and services
Speaker 1: that work equally well across every platform and the two
Speaker 1: main platforms iPhone and Android. So for me personally, I
Speaker 1: like to download apps that work on iPhone and work
Speaker 1: on Android.
Speaker 2: I know we have this whole.
Speaker 1: Big divide between the blue bubble and the green bubble,
Speaker 1: and it's gotten better, but why contribute to that? Right? Like,
Speaker 1: this app is going to be used by so many
Speaker 1: people that have iPhones. All the Android people that get
Speaker 1: these invitations are going to feel like, ah, I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit left out because I'm Android. So there are alternatives.
Speaker 1: You can use something called party full. In fact, party
Speaker 1: full made a big, kind of a big deal about
Speaker 1: this online because they said that app will kind of
Speaker 1: rip them off a little bit. So party full works
Speaker 1: with green and blue bubbles, you've got punch bowl, you've
Speaker 1: got paperless posts, and of course if you want to
Speaker 1: use evite you still can. All right, Coming up on
Speaker 1: today's show, I'm gonna tell you about another app. This
Speaker 1: is a great app. You have to download this if
Speaker 1: you have a Windows PC. It's a little sluggish, a
Speaker 1: little weird. Download this free app. I'll tell you about that,
Speaker 1: But first it is your turn. Your calls coming up
Speaker 1: next at eight eight eight rich one oh one eight
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Speaker 1: My name is rich DeMuro and you are listening to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple A rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
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Speaker 1: to Diana. Diana, you're on with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hi Rich, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: The question is I'm very new to home security cams
Speaker 3: and I recently bought a b Link Mini and set
Speaker 3: it up, which was pretty simple, and so I guess
Speaker 3: I expected it to be able to continuously stream, but
Speaker 3: it seems like it streams for like five minutes and
Speaker 3: then goes up and you have to keep clicking this
Speaker 3: like a play button to have it stream five more minutes.
Speaker 3: And I guess, So my question is I'd like to
Speaker 3: have something that will just stream continuously that I don't
Speaker 3: have to pay a monthly fee for. So are any
Speaker 3: of the current popular home security cameras able to do that?
Speaker 3: And then also I was wondering if there's any iOS
Speaker 3: apps that will let you convert old iPhones into home
Speaker 3: like security cameras.
Speaker 1: Ooh there is, Oh gosh, I gotta get that. There
Speaker 1: is a there is an app that lets you do that.
Speaker 1: I got to find it here.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: So, okay, so your first question number one, the blink cameras,
Speaker 1: those are really not meant to live stream. Those are
Speaker 1: like out of all of the security cameras. Think of
Speaker 1: the name Blink, right, So those those were invented for
Speaker 1: quick clips. And the whole technology behind Blink is the
Speaker 1: battery life. And so with a couple of double A
Speaker 1: or triple A batteries whatever those little cameras take, those
Speaker 1: cameras can last up to like two years without changing
Speaker 1: the batteries.
Speaker 3: Oh, the cameras that I have is plug in, so
Speaker 3: it's required.
Speaker 1: Well so yeah, I mean and still but the but
Speaker 1: the idea behind Blink has always been it is not
Speaker 1: a live streaming camera.
Speaker 2: It is a camera, okay.
Speaker 3: And I'm not too concerned with recording capability or.
Speaker 2: You just want to watch the camera.
Speaker 3: Mainly, I'm looking for a home security that will just
Speaker 3: stream continuously that I can monitor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I mean that's pretty much almost any camera
Speaker 1: I would take a look at, Diane. I think the Diane,
Speaker 1: I think the best one for you would be a
Speaker 1: UFI eu f Y eu F Y. And what people
Speaker 1: love about these cameras is that there's no monthly fees
Speaker 1: associated with them. So and you can also have local storage,
Speaker 1: so you can start with one. You can you know,
Speaker 1: live stream it as much as you want, and you
Speaker 1: can store stuff on a hard drive as well.
Speaker 2: They sell that.
Speaker 1: The other camera, if you want something that's a little
Speaker 1: bit cheaper, is the Wysecam w y Z, Wisecam Wyze
Speaker 1: and those are great and you can live stream those
Speaker 1: as well. So now, some of these cameras sometimes will
Speaker 1: have a timeout depending on the device you're looking at
Speaker 1: them on, so it kind of depends on and also
Speaker 1: the setup, so like some of the Ring cameras may
Speaker 1: do that as well. But you know, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: my wise cam right now and basically, yeah, you just
Speaker 1: load it up and you can watch it now. There
Speaker 1: were some limitations at one point when we were trying
Speaker 1: to watch this through a Google Home device, But on
Speaker 1: my on my phone right here, I can watch it
Speaker 1: as much as I want. It's not it's not timing out.
Speaker 1: So that's Those are the two brands I'd recommend for
Speaker 1: that uf EU f Y and Wyse, and the Wyse
Speaker 1: is going to be a little bit cheaper. They're known
Speaker 1: for like pretty inexpensive cameras. Now, when it comes to
Speaker 1: converting an old phone into a security camera, the app
Speaker 1: that you want is called Alfred a l FR ed
Speaker 1: Alfred Camera, and this is available for both Android and iPhone.
Speaker 1: Now again, of course you want to you know, if
Speaker 1: you're going to do this, you want to wipe the
Speaker 1: phone clean, start over fresh, and then install just this
Speaker 1: app on the phone, because you do need to leave
Speaker 1: your phone plugged in and also on the whole time
Speaker 1: if it's going to work that way. But this is
Speaker 1: a popular app, it's got a lot going on. Let's
Speaker 1: see if it's when the last time they were updated.
Speaker 1: I always like, whenever I'm looking at an app to
Speaker 1: see if it's a good app, you want to check
Speaker 1: the last time it was updated. So if it was
Speaker 1: updated in the last six months or something like that,
Speaker 1: then great. Now this one was updated January sixteenth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, so that one's going to be great on
Speaker 1: the androidd side, on the iPhone side January twenty third,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So again, this is the website Alfred
Speaker 1: Alfried Dot Camera. The other thing I like to look
Speaker 1: at is if there are any in app purchases. So
Speaker 1: on Google they don't necessarily show you if there are
Speaker 1: in app purchases, but if you look up the app
Speaker 1: on the App Store and you scroll down, it will
Speaker 1: tell you if there are any in app purchases. And
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Alfred it does say Alfred Premium
Speaker 1: five ninety nine twelve months twenty nine ninety nine. So
Speaker 1: that tells me that you'll get a free level of
Speaker 1: usage out of this app, and then you have to
Speaker 1: pay if you want something a little bit above and
Speaker 1: beyond that.
Speaker 2: So but yeah, this is super easy to use.
Speaker 1: It says you can set it up in three minutes
Speaker 1: and twenty four to seven livestream, watch the video from anywhere,
Speaker 1: and you can change. You can convert an old iPhone
Speaker 1: or an old Android phone into a security cam. This
Speaker 1: great question, Diana, Thanks for kicking off the show with that.
Speaker 2: Do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
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Speaker 2: Coming up, we will.
Speaker 1: Talk to a special guest, plus I'll tell you about
Speaker 1: the app you need to download if you have a
Speaker 1: Windows PC. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro
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Speaker 2: So did you know that.
Speaker 1: Microsoft has a free PC optimization app? I downloaded this yesterday,
Speaker 1: and you know, if your system is running kind of
Speaker 1: messy or sluggish or whatever you think something's going on,
Speaker 1: download this app. It's called Microsoft PC Manager. Now, don't
Speaker 1: just go searching on Google for that, because if you do,
Speaker 1: it's going to lead you to one hundred different programs
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Speaker 1: the website Pcmanager dot Microsoft dot com. There's many imposters
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Speaker 1: from Microsoft. And again it's called Microsoft PC Manager, So
Speaker 1: if your computer's acting a little wonky, you got Windows
Speaker 1: ten or Windows eleven, download this app. The alternative is
Speaker 1: called Sea Cleaner. That's been the one over the years
Speaker 1: that a lot of folks like I think that was
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Speaker 1: have it, rich on tech dot tv if you want
Speaker 1: to link to that. All right, let's bring on special guest.
Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned that this is the first show
Speaker 1: that we are broadcasting in New York City, so I
Speaker 1: figured i'd bring on a special guest who knows the
Speaker 1: Tri State.
Speaker 2: Area well, and it is none other than my mom.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Mom, Hi Richard, thank you.
Speaker 2: My mom is the only one who calls me Richard.
Speaker 1: By the way, after all these years, you are Jersey
Speaker 1: born and you've lived there forever. First off, are you
Speaker 1: excited that you can finally hear me on the airwaves
Speaker 1: in New York City?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm very excited. Yes, I really am.
Speaker 2: Have you told any of your friends?
Speaker 5: I'm even more excited that because it was your dream.
Speaker 5: But what's your question?
Speaker 1: Have you told any of your friends? More importantly, are
Speaker 1: you spreading the word?
Speaker 5: Yes? Of course I did. I told a lot of
Speaker 5: my friends. Of course I was bragging.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, so I guess typically when I call you, I
Speaker 1: ask how your tech is doing?
Speaker 2: So how is everything? Is everything working in your home?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Everything is? What once in a while my phone doesn't
Speaker 5: make a sound when I get a text or something.
Speaker 2: So, oh, look at the time we got to go
Speaker 2: all right, Well, thank you mom for joining me. Appreciate that. No, well,
Speaker 2: you know that happens.
Speaker 6: That good.
Speaker 5: But the good news is when I stilled an entire
Speaker 5: cup of coffee on my laptop that's working.
Speaker 7: Oh you know, go figure.
Speaker 1: I've dropped coffee on my computer several times, and you
Speaker 1: know you got to let it dry.
Speaker 2: Out.
Speaker 1: My main advice is to let it dry out. So
Speaker 1: now here's the other thing. I know your cellular service
Speaker 1: because I help you with it. It costs like fifteen
Speaker 1: bucks a month. Does it really cost that much?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I pay for the whole year, so
Speaker 5: I don't really know what it costs a month.
Speaker 2: But I mean, you have service that's pretty you know,
Speaker 2: it's like I think it's Mint Mobile, right, isn't that
Speaker 2: what it is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you tell your friends that I only pay this much,
Speaker 1: like under three hundred a year, and they don't believe you.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, because they don't believe that I get everything
Speaker 5: for that cost.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't get everything.
Speaker 1: I think you only had like four gigs of data,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's still only fifteen dollars a month.
Speaker 5: I've never used all the gigs.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised with all that scrolling on Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 5: No, I've never used them all, so go figure. But no,
Speaker 5: but I have everything. I mean, I have everything on
Speaker 5: my phone. Everybody else does and it's fine.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's my other question for you. Now, you were
Speaker 1: a Netflix kling on for many years, so you were
Speaker 1: you were in the sharing economy of your family member
Speaker 1: mainly me and maybe some other siblings.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Netflix broke that functionality. They said no more, no more sharing.
Speaker 1: So how long did you go without Netflix?
Speaker 2: And what was that like?
Speaker 5: I guess I won't about how it would be a year,
Speaker 5: maybe maybe more. But the weird thing is Netflix would
Speaker 5: would I would get Netflix every so often for about
Speaker 5: a week and then they.
Speaker 3: Would take it away.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this kind of came and went, well, now
Speaker 1: you have Netflix for real.
Speaker 2: Do you know why?
Speaker 5: Excuse me?
Speaker 2: Do you know why you have Netflix for real right now?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 5: Because you got it for me.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: I finally decided that my mom was worth nine dollars
Speaker 1: a month for the added account that you can add
Speaker 1: onto Netflix. So after all these months, I felt guilty
Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, I think. I think
Speaker 1: I could swing the nine dollars a month for my
Speaker 1: mom to have Netflix. And are you have you watched
Speaker 1: all of Netflix yet or what? Are you making your
Speaker 1: way through it?
Speaker 5: I haven't watched all of it, No, but I mean
Speaker 5: I do put it on usually at night.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, Well, don't let it get in the in
Speaker 1: the in the way of this show, all right, So
Speaker 1: before you go. I do have a couple of questions
Speaker 1: for you, like a little a little New York area
Speaker 1: quiz for you. Okay, you ready?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: I hope I have the answers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, first question?
Speaker 1: What states are in the tri state area?
Speaker 5: New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
Speaker 2: That's right? Okay, you got that right.
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 6: Oh, I thank god?
Speaker 2: Bagel buttered or cream cheese for me?
Speaker 4: Buttered?
Speaker 2: Oh that's me too, okay. See, oh yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Don't really like cream cheese.
Speaker 7: I like butter.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: As a Jersey in, what do you think of Jersey Mikes?
Speaker 9: Pretty good?
Speaker 5: Actually, I have a gift card to Jersey Mics that
Speaker 5: I won at work. I haven't used it yet because
Speaker 5: I keep forgetting.
Speaker 2: We'll get that sub on.
Speaker 5: It's pretty good, okay.
Speaker 2: Uh? And uh Bruce Springsteen or bon Jovi?
Speaker 5: I was always more a bon Jovi girl.
Speaker 2: That's putting it lightly. Mom.
Speaker 9: Why Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Like bon Jovi better than Bruce Springsteen Okay, mainly because
Speaker 5: he's he's very good looking? Can I say that?
Speaker 1: And he Why couldn't you say that? You don't think
Speaker 1: anyone's ever thought that?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And I preferred music more than Christein but I also
Speaker 5: like Bruce Springsteen, all.
Speaker 1: Right, and favorite food from down the shore. That's what
Speaker 1: we call it. By the way, New Jersey. You go
Speaker 1: down the shore, up the lake, down the shore into
Speaker 1: the city. So what do you what's your favorite food
Speaker 1: growing up?
Speaker 5: My favorite food I don't know, maybe pizza and Core's
Speaker 5: ice cream.
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say Core's light. I was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: mom is getting a little sloppy.
Speaker 5: Now, no, that would be no, that would be a martini.
Speaker 2: But oha, oh, just going straight for the hard stuff. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: Any advice for me as I embark on taking on
Speaker 1: New York City with this show.
Speaker 5: Any advice I think, just be yourself because you're part Jersey,
Speaker 5: you're part California, and I think you have the best
Speaker 5: of world and I think you're going to do great.
Speaker 2: Actually, all right, well, thank you mom, Love you have
Speaker 2: a good day.
Speaker 5: Okay, love you.
Speaker 1: I hope that internet continues to work. Thank you, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Uh that is my mom. Thank you mom for joining me.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we're going to talk more more
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Speaker 1: Hold, we'll get to those in just a moment. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Mark. Mark, you're on with Rich. Welcome
Speaker 2: to the show.
Speaker 4: Hello Rich. We're very sad you're leading La just when
Speaker 4: we really need you.
Speaker 2: I'm not leaving LA.
Speaker 1: Everyone's saying that, I'm just it's it's an expansion. I'm
Speaker 1: staying in LA. We are just now on in New
Speaker 1: York City.
Speaker 2: So okay, just to be clear, Yeah, thank you. I
Speaker 2: know I missed that.
Speaker 1: People got a little upset. I got a bunch of emails.
Speaker 1: So no, I'm still here. What can I help you with?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 4: I have an orb Mesh system which was not cheap,
Speaker 4: about two and a half years old, and I just
Speaker 4: added a new satellite to it and it does not connect.
Speaker 4: I called orb Tech support and they said that I
Speaker 4: need to renew this is the security subscription for three
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty nine dollars. Wow, So I did what
Speaker 4: and it's not working?
Speaker 2: Oh? Come on, no way, that sounds like a scam.
Speaker 2: Are you sure? You dialed the right phone number.
Speaker 4: Well, how did you get the number that you follow?
Speaker 4: I mean they had my account, they had you know,
Speaker 4: they they had access to the you know.
Speaker 2: Orb app and three nine dollars for what for five years? Okay?
Speaker 2: For five years? Okay?
Speaker 1: Uh divided by five okay, sixty five dollars a year?
Speaker 1: What do you get for that?
Speaker 4: You get?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 4: It's I guess that they're saying that the system doesn't
Speaker 4: that MESH systems don't really work unless you actually have
Speaker 4: their security package and then you get the.
Speaker 2: Whole text from Now this sounds bogus. I would I
Speaker 2: would request a refund.
Speaker 4: Okay this, but the satellite's not working though.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so there's two things going on here. First off,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the So is this like netgear armor?
Speaker 1: Is that what is called?
Speaker 4: Okay, No, it's not the armor. They said, that's something different.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what what did you subscribe to?
Speaker 4: They're calling it the security system that comes with it.
Speaker 4: You get two years when you buy it, and they're
Speaker 4: saying that it well, the whole system doesn't work unless
Speaker 4: you have the security on it.
Speaker 1: M that's that sounds very I mean number one, I
Speaker 1: would not I would not even the fact that this
Speaker 1: little satellite is not working and connecting. That could be
Speaker 1: related to maybe the age of the system, like the
Speaker 1: because you have an older system that you're connecting a
Speaker 1: new satellite to.
Speaker 4: But but it is the satellite that's made to connect
Speaker 4: to that system, which they told me, you know, this
Speaker 4: is the one if you buy it new, but it's
Speaker 4: definitely made to connect to your satellite, your system.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, there's no way that you need a subscription
Speaker 1: to connect this satellite. I just I don't believe that.
Speaker 1: I have to do some more research, but okay, I
Speaker 1: have So I have the eurosystem, and yes, they also
Speaker 1: sell a subscription yearly, and the subscription gives you some
Speaker 1: added things like extra security, you know, malware and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: Protection. It does all that. And I also do have
Speaker 4: an Eero system at another place, and when I asked
Speaker 4: them about it, they said, well, yeah, well the euro
Speaker 4: comes with five years when you buy it, then you
Speaker 4: have to add on years. You know, at that point
Speaker 4: it's absolute all right, So you're saying that that's.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that this is all This all sounds bogus
Speaker 1: to me, Like I think they just sold you on
Speaker 1: this subscription that you I don't think you need it, Like,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, the only reason why I do the
Speaker 1: subscription on my my ero is because it blocks ads
Speaker 1: across the network and it gives me some parental controls
Speaker 1: that I want for my kids.
Speaker 2: So does it.
Speaker 4: Give me actual you know, security?
Speaker 2: It it does?
Speaker 1: I mean, it says it does. So, I mean it
Speaker 1: probably does scan the the URLs and things. But if
Speaker 1: you're using like a modern browser like Chrome, that's doing
Speaker 1: that anyway. So I mean I think that you know, look,
Speaker 1: it's one of these things. I think there's two things
Speaker 1: going on here. Do you want to pay the three
Speaker 1: twenty nine for the five years? I don't like the
Speaker 1: sales tactics that they gave you, that says, And I
Speaker 1: think you need to figure out why this this satellite
Speaker 1: device is not connecting to the network, Like why is
Speaker 1: it not adding it?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: What's the hold up? Like does it see it and
Speaker 1: then it doesn't connect or does it not even see
Speaker 1: it when you're trying to connect?
Speaker 4: You know on the uh what's it called the network chart?
Speaker 4: You know everything is green, that one is orange the
Speaker 4: network map. And so but now they're working on it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, they guy, they do call me
Speaker 4: and they have someone assigned to it from Bangalore. But
Speaker 4: I was suspicious when as soon as they did the network,
Speaker 4: as soon as I paid, and they said that's going
Speaker 4: to be it, and it didn't. And they said, well
Speaker 4: it takes forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Oh come on, eight hours, Mark, I think I think
Speaker 1: sold here. Did you check your credit card to see
Speaker 1: where the charge came from?
Speaker 4: Oh? Okay? And then and then the reason I'm doing
Speaker 4: is because I have an R Low doorbell camera and
Speaker 4: I have a house on lots of levels which is
Speaker 4: having image trouble. So I figured that it was having
Speaker 4: image trouble because of the distance between the R Low
Speaker 4: camera and this and this satellite I have on like
Speaker 4: a three or four story house.
Speaker 2: That's probably true. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: You know when the when the ring doorbells first came out,
Speaker 1: everyone thought they were horrible because they thought they didn't work.
Speaker 1: But it really it's just a Wi Fi was not
Speaker 1: ready for that level of streaming outside the house.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 1: So here's what I here's what I do, Mark. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got a couple of things going on here. Number one,
Speaker 1: I would check to make sure that this charge was legitimate.
Speaker 1: It says that they saw your your account and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. They could have been making that up. It
Speaker 1: sounds a little suspicious to me. I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: and this is another issue with their with their subscription.
Speaker 1: It's like I can't even see on their website what
Speaker 1: this subscription costs. I mean, it's like it's so hidden
Speaker 1: that I don't even Okay, So Neckgear Armor and then
Speaker 1: Neckgear Pro Support, so there's a there are three different
Speaker 1: subscriptions they have here, and I'm looking at compare plans,
Speaker 1: and even when I look at the plan, it still
Speaker 1: doesn't tell me how much it is. So I don't
Speaker 1: like that. That is not very transparent, and you know
Speaker 1: I don't so I don't like that tactic. And then
Speaker 1: the thing not working I would do. I would do
Speaker 1: a factory. First off, here's here's the order in which
Speaker 1: I would do things. Number One, I confirm that you
Speaker 1: were actually talking to Orby and Neckgear and make sure
Speaker 1: that that charge came from them, So I check your
Speaker 1: credit card, make sure that it's a legitimate charge from
Speaker 1: that company. Number two, look at the services that you
Speaker 1: get for that subscription. If you feel like it's reasonable,
Speaker 1: keep it whatever. Number three, you got to figure out
Speaker 1: why this little satellite is not connecting to your network.
Speaker 1: And what I would do now that you have this subscription,
Speaker 1: I would make sure you update the software on that satellite.
Speaker 1: If you can't do that, disconnect it, factory reset it,
Speaker 1: update the software on your whole network, and then try
Speaker 1: to reconnect that little satellite and hopefully it should come
Speaker 1: back to life and be on your network. But this
Speaker 1: whole business of your your system won't work if you're
Speaker 1: not paying for this subscription. As far as I know,
Speaker 1: none of the Mesh networks work that way. But of
Speaker 1: course the way of the world right now, everything everyone
Speaker 1: wants a subscription, and so I understand that they're trying
Speaker 1: to sell you on that. I don't necessarily think you
Speaker 1: need that to make this work. But thanks for the
Speaker 1: call mark appreciate it. Eight A eight rich one O
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Speaker 1: zero one. Well, speaking of free, the Windows Intelligence Newsletter
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Speaker 1: I mean, do you need a VPN? You know, My
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Speaker 1: Eight to eight Rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. This is
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Hope you're having a
Speaker 1: great day. The website for the show is rich john
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Speaker 1: can get the show notes, or you can hit contact
Speaker 1: to send me an email. Got a bunch of emails
Speaker 1: people saying I'm no longer gonna have this show in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: That's not true.
Speaker 1: I made a joke at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 1: I said it was the last time you're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to I said it was the last time you're
Speaker 1: going to be able to listen to me in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: something like that, without it also being on in New
Speaker 1: York anyway. So now we're on in both places and
Speaker 1: other places as well. So but this is the first
Speaker 1: day of New York City. So thanks for listening if
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Speaker 1: which you should be hopefully, thank you for listening there
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Speaker 2: Uh, let's see, let's go to the phones. Let's go
Speaker 2: to Katie. Let's go to Katie. You're on with Rich. Katie.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8: Hi, Rich.
Speaker 3: How's it going.
Speaker 2: It is going fantastic?
Speaker 8: Oh good.
Speaker 9: You know I said I love your show. At first,
Speaker 9: I wasn't, you know, I just I've been listening to
Speaker 9: Leo forever and I was like, I don't know about
Speaker 9: this guy, but I really enjoyed the show.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. I've liked myself more over the
Speaker 1: years too. I started out that way.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I have a question. You know, my
Speaker 9: fiance and I were getting married pretty Stone, and there
Speaker 9: are two different songs I want to play walking to
Speaker 9: the altar and having the bridesmaid walk to the altar,
Speaker 9: and I want to the two songs. I want to
Speaker 9: get like at least fifteen to thirty or fifteen to
Speaker 9: thirty seconds of each song and combine them. Is there
Speaker 9: a website that's free I could do that.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 1: Well, first off, congrats on getting married. That's exciting.
Speaker 9: Oh thank you, he's lucky.
Speaker 1: I like the way you think Bobo is just shaking
Speaker 1: his head. He's like, oh that's funny. Yeah, So congratulations,
Speaker 1: And so you want to combine a couple songs. There's many,
Speaker 1: many ways you can do this. There's a website that
Speaker 1: will let you do it for free. I mean, the
Speaker 1: free app that will let you do it is called Audacity,
Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, I never even use that because
Speaker 1: that's so complicated, even for me. So when I edit
Speaker 1: my video, I or sorry, when I edit audio, I
Speaker 1: do it all on Final Cut, which makes life a
Speaker 1: lot easier, even though that's meant for editing video, but
Speaker 1: it still works with audio.
Speaker 2: But anyway, But the.
Speaker 1: Website is audio mass dot co au d io mass
Speaker 1: m a s S dot co. And this website you
Speaker 1: can just drag and drop those songs in there dragon
Speaker 1: you know, just go ahead and clip the parts that
Speaker 1: you don't want. I'm just going through right now. It's
Speaker 1: super super easy. It's all web based. It is like
Speaker 1: the easiest possible thing. Even if you're a novice you
Speaker 1: haven't used anything with audio editing. Just look at the waveforms,
Speaker 1: clip the parts you want, drag the other one in
Speaker 1: and then export it and you should be good to go.
Speaker 9: Oh perfect, that sounds good. I was looking at apps
Speaker 9: last night. I don't want to spend fifteen dollars or
Speaker 9: you know, noney.
Speaker 2: No, why spend money when you don't have to?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, look, there are other apps that
Speaker 1: can do this, like do you have an iPhone or Android?
Speaker 9: An iPhone?
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean there's so many ways you can do this.
Speaker 1: I mean you could you can also just use a
Speaker 1: well I guess I'm trying to think if one of
Speaker 1: these video editing apps would also let you export into
Speaker 1: an MP three version, which I don't know.
Speaker 2: Usually they're just audio video.
Speaker 1: But I would just use the website audiomass dot cou.
Speaker 1: That's probably the easiest, simplest way to do it. So
Speaker 1: I would do that. And if you if that doesn't, like,
Speaker 1: if you need something that's more full featured, then I
Speaker 1: would check out Audacity.
Speaker 2: And that's completely free as well. It's open source, so
Speaker 2: it open source it maybe okay, perfect that may not
Speaker 2: be open source, but it's you can get it for free.
Speaker 2: So okay, all right, Katie, Well, very exciting. When's the
Speaker 2: big date? When's the when's the wedding? February twenty second
Speaker 2: this year?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, my gosh, I think I have something on that day.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. I'll clear everything out. It's fine, I'll
Speaker 2: figure it out.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, come on down.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations, have a great wedding day, and please email
Speaker 1: me to let me know if that worked for you.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 10: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks, have a great day.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Skip from Aurora
Speaker 1: writes in I'm looking to invest in headphones for commercial
Speaker 1: flights and need some advice. Should I go with wired
Speaker 1: or wireless? Also, do headphones typically come with adapters for
Speaker 1: inflight entertainment or is that something I'd need to buy separately?
Speaker 1: If so, what adapters do you recommend? Good question, Skip.
Speaker 1: I do fly a decent amount, and I do have
Speaker 1: one rule of flying, and that is I have never
Speaker 1: watched a movie on the inflight entertainment ever, maybe once
Speaker 1: in my entire life. But it's a rule of thumb
Speaker 1: that I've done for so long that now I just refuse.
Speaker 1: And I know I'm weird because of that, but I
Speaker 1: like it because it's like one of those things where
Speaker 1: you start and you can never stop, like you have
Speaker 1: to keep doing it just so I can say this forever.
Speaker 1: But if you must watch stuff, on the seat back,
Speaker 1: and by the way, everyone else does except for me.
Speaker 1: You should definitely get a good pair of noise canceling headphones,
Speaker 1: and most of them are wireless, but a lot of
Speaker 1: them do have a wired option. But I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you a couple of things that you should know. So
Speaker 1: number one, Bluetooth headphones. I would get the noise canceling
Speaker 1: and the Bluetooth because then you can use them with
Speaker 1: everything else, right, you can use them with your smartphone,
Speaker 1: your computer, whatever else you want to use these headphones with.
Speaker 1: That's why I get the Bluetooth instead of a standard
Speaker 1: pair of wired without Bluetooth. But most of the Bluetooth
Speaker 1: actually come or a lot of them come with a
Speaker 1: plug that you can plug them in as well. The
Speaker 1: thing is to know is that some of them need
Speaker 1: to be charged to actually work with the plug in.
Speaker 1: So that's something to know. Like if you just bring
Speaker 1: these things on the flight and they're the batteries dead,
Speaker 1: you may not be able to listen, So always keep
Speaker 1: them charged and the battery lasts forever for the most part.
Speaker 1: But the two brands that I like are Bows and
Speaker 1: so of course you know it's kind of a it's
Speaker 1: a personal preference if you if you want those, you
Speaker 1: know which one to get. But I think that those
Speaker 1: two are known to be the best, and you know,
Speaker 1: I've had both over the years, and I think they're
Speaker 1: both excellent. I think that the bows are just so comfortable.
Speaker 1: You pay a premium form obviously, but the Sony's you
Speaker 1: can often find on sale. They might be a little
Speaker 1: bit cheaper, and you know they're both gonna be great.
Speaker 1: The other ones that I like that I would recommend
Speaker 1: as well are the son Nos Ace And this is
Speaker 1: our first pair of headphones from Sonos, but they are excellent.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're even one hundred dollars off, they're three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars, so they are expensive, probably more
Speaker 1: than the Bow's and the Sony's, but they are really
Speaker 1: comfortable and really good. And if you have a Sonos
Speaker 1: system at home, they may work with that. So those
Speaker 1: are my three choices for the headphones. Now, when it
Speaker 1: comes to listening on the seatback, a lot of the
Speaker 1: seatback entertainment systems still use a standard headphone jack instead
Speaker 1: of Bluetooth. Some of the new planes do have bluetooth. Now,
Speaker 1: I will tell you the one time I had a
Speaker 1: plane that had the Bluetooth. I noticed there's something weird
Speaker 1: about connecting AirPods to it. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but I notice people all the time have issues connecting
Speaker 1: their AirPods to it. I don't know why. Even I did,
Speaker 1: I could not get my AirPods to connect. Maybe they
Speaker 1: came out with an update that fixes that. But the
Speaker 1: thing I would recommend is called the Airfly adapter. So
Speaker 1: Airfly from a company named twelve South. I think they
Speaker 1: made their name on this Bluetooth transmitter device. It plugs
Speaker 1: in matt It's a little tiny square box. It's tiny,
Speaker 1: almost like a keychain dongle. You plug it into the
Speaker 1: headphone jack on the seat pack, and that has a
Speaker 1: Bluetooth transmitter that will now transmit that audio signal to
Speaker 1: your headphone. So basically what I'm telling you is that,
Speaker 1: for let's see, how much is this thing thirty five
Speaker 1: to sixty bucks, you can use your headphones on any
Speaker 1: plane no matter what.
Speaker 2: And this Airfly if you get.
Speaker 1: The the premium one, the Deluxe for sixty five bucks.
Speaker 2: It even comes to that little adapter.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes the planes have that weird like two
Speaker 1: prong headphone adapter. I don't know what that's all about,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them do that. But that will
Speaker 1: come with this Airfly as well. So again, Bose Sony
Speaker 1: Sons for your headphones and then the Airfly adapter, and
Speaker 1: you will be a frequent flyer skip and people will
Speaker 1: think you are Yeah, they'll be asking you this question
Speaker 1: next year. So good question, Thanks for the call, Thanks
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Speaker 2: It will come up. It's really really good. No surprise here.
Speaker 1: Security flaws found in deep Seek in their iOS app
Speaker 1: now Secure, the mobile security firm found multiple critical security
Speaker 1: and privacy vulnerabilities deep Seek. If you remember, is that
Speaker 1: startup AI out of China. This was the top downloaded
Speaker 1: app on both iPhone and Android millions of downloads. So
Speaker 1: this came out about January twenty fifth, and you know,
Speaker 1: people were trying it out seeing how it was compared
Speaker 1: against chat GPT. I downloaded it, but you know, I
Speaker 1: just did it mostly to test it out. I'm not
Speaker 1: switching to deep Seek. I mostly wanted to see what
Speaker 1: they were doing. But the findings from this now secure
Speaker 1: mobile firm include unencrypted data transmission that means they're sending
Speaker 1: whatever you write into this thing over the Internet without
Speaker 1: encrypting it, weak encryption and other places insecure storage of
Speaker 1: usernames and passwords, and extensive data collections. Some of the
Speaker 1: data even went to byte Dance, which you know they
Speaker 1: are the ones that own TikTok. So we knew that
Speaker 1: this was going to be a problem with this app
Speaker 1: deep Seek. I don't think necessarily they are an nefarious app.
Speaker 1: But again, they put this thing together pretty quickly and
Speaker 1: a lot of people started using it because wow, it's
Speaker 1: the new thing, and how did they do this for
Speaker 1: so cheap.
Speaker 2: Well, now we know they probably cut a few corners,
Speaker 2: So just.
Speaker 1: Be aware if you're gonna use deep seek on your
Speaker 1: phone that you know there could be some data leaks
Speaker 1: there eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we're gonna talk more tech, more of your calls,
Speaker 2: and we've got.
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Speaker 6: Hi, Rich Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 7: I had a question about a flash drive. I use
Speaker 7: different flash drives for different reasons, usually because some because.
Speaker 1: Of my work.
Speaker 7: So if I have a client files, then I'm moving
Speaker 7: from my home computer where I work from home to
Speaker 7: a laptop if I'm on the road or whatever. I
Speaker 7: use that flash drive for that client's file that I
Speaker 7: work with. And so I have different flash drives that
Speaker 7: I use, but one of my main one that I
Speaker 7: used was to back up my old computer that died
Speaker 7: a couple of years ago, and I took it to
Speaker 7: Best Buy and they recovered the hard drive, but they
Speaker 7: couldn't repair it. They put the hard drive, the contents
Speaker 7: of that hard drive on the old computer onto a
Speaker 7: flash drive, a PNY flash drive that they sold me
Speaker 7: at Best Buys.
Speaker 6: So I brought it home.
Speaker 7: And it's been a couple of years and I still
Speaker 7: had my old files on it, but I've transferred them
Speaker 7: onto my new PC. However, I noticed that just a
Speaker 7: couple of days ago, I was accessing something on that
Speaker 7: pn Y flash drive and it said a Windows error
Speaker 7: message came up that there was a problem with it,
Speaker 7: and it asked me to repair it, and so I
Speaker 7: said yes, I clicked yes, go repair it, and it did.
Speaker 7: And I checked to see that the files were available,
Speaker 7: and they were.
Speaker 6: But my question to you is.
Speaker 7: Should should I avoid p and Y flash drives. Should
Speaker 7: I replace it or is it good now that Windows
Speaker 7: fixed it? Or should I just get rid of it
Speaker 7: and get a new one? Are they reliable?
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Pn Y is fine?
Speaker 1: I use pn Y sand Disc obviously is the other
Speaker 1: big brand out there, but I would say yes, get
Speaker 1: a new one. I would not trust this drive anymore
Speaker 1: because the fact that there was some sort of corruption
Speaker 1: on it means that that may happen again, and the
Speaker 1: next time it happens, you may not be able to
Speaker 1: recover this stuff. Now it sounds like you have these
Speaker 1: files in a different place. Is that what I understood?
Speaker 7: Yes, So it's interesting. The ones for the client files
Speaker 7: that I keep on different flash drives to shuttle back
Speaker 7: and forth. I do back them up on my PC,
Speaker 7: but I keep them on their individual flash drives depending
Speaker 7: on the client. And the funny thing is those I
Speaker 7: got from Microcenter and I've never had a problem with them.
Speaker 7: It was just the one that I had to back
Speaker 7: up my computer at best Buy and the pn Y
Speaker 7: they transfer onto my new computer. That's where I had
Speaker 7: the problem with that.
Speaker 2: PNY Well that could just be a fluke. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know these things they make millions of them.
Speaker 1: It could just be that you got a bad one,
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe it got jostled around. There's some
Speaker 1: sort of damage that that occurred there. But the bottom
Speaker 1: line is, you know, we're talking about a fifty dollars
Speaker 1: or less fix right to.
Speaker 2: Have peace of mind.
Speaker 1: And so I think that that's probably what I would do,
Speaker 1: and I think I maybe go with you know, there's
Speaker 1: if you're going to be moving this flash drive around
Speaker 1: a lot, and most flash drives are kind of by
Speaker 1: the nature of a flash drive, there's small and portable,
Speaker 1: and people bring them around with them. I used to
Speaker 1: keep on on my keychain. You know, I keep one
Speaker 1: in my bag right here.
Speaker 2: Let's see, let's see see what brand I have on
Speaker 2: mind that I keep jostling around in my bag.
Speaker 1: Oh, I guess I took it off my keychain. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't have one anymore. But I do
Speaker 1: have hard drive. I've got a one one terabyte sand
Speaker 1: disc hard drive that I carry around.
Speaker 2: So I've got that.
Speaker 1: But you know the reality is, I think, Adam, I
Speaker 1: would just get a new drive. I would go with
Speaker 1: a you know, like a sand disc. How much storage
Speaker 1: do you need on this thing like a terabyte or less,
Speaker 1: no much less, okay. So I mean if you're talking,
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred and twenty eight two fifty six gigs,
Speaker 1: you we're talking thirty to forty dollars. So I would
Speaker 1: just for the peace of mind, I would just get
Speaker 1: a new one and you know, wipe that old one
Speaker 1: and just get rid of it. But that's what I
Speaker 1: would do. Or you know, if you have these files
Speaker 1: safe and sound somewhere and you know you want to
Speaker 1: take a little bit of a gamble on the drive,
Speaker 1: you can just continue to leave them on the drive.
Speaker 1: But if you're using this drive day in, day out
Speaker 1: for anything, I would definitely get a new one because
Speaker 1: you just don't want to take a risk with these things.
Speaker 1: And when these flash drives fail, you know, they fail
Speaker 1: usually to a larger degree than some of the standard
Speaker 1: hard drives that were used to you might be able
Speaker 1: to recover some of the data. So once these things go,
Speaker 1: could put that's pretty much it. So I would just
Speaker 1: go on and go on Amazon or go to your
Speaker 1: local store and just grab something new. And micro Center
Speaker 1: you mentioned love that place, great great place. I was
Speaker 1: in there for a story the other day and just
Speaker 1: spent so much time in there because it was so cool.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call today, Adam, appreciate it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: get a new drive. That's what I would do.
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Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one did you know
Speaker 1: that Google Maps turns twenty this year?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Two decades of Google Maps now. By the way, I
Speaker 1: know this our first day in New York City. When
Speaker 1: I lived in New York City, well, I lived in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, but I worked in New York for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. There was no such thing as the
Speaker 1: maps that we know and love now. So when I
Speaker 1: was there, this is really dating myself. I had to
Speaker 1: use something called like HopStop. I think you have to
Speaker 1: print out maps when you want to go on the
Speaker 1: subway to like figure out where you were going. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Google did a whole blog about all the most reviewed restaurants.
Speaker 1: Cats Delicatessen, Sherman's Deli, Barbecue, Terry Blacks in Austin, The
Speaker 1: Salt Lick also in Austin. Most reviewed destinations Metropolitan Museum
Speaker 1: of Art, The Getty, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Parks,
Speaker 1: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Zoos, San Diego Zoo, Smithsonian, and the
Speaker 1: Bronx Zoo. World's largest attractions Superman Statue. Oh, I gotta
Speaker 1: find out that one ball of twine that reminds me
Speaker 1: of that movie Rocking Chair. Most photographed parks, Central Park,
Speaker 1: Niagara Falls, Griffith Park and visitor attractions, Rockefeller Center, Statue
Speaker 1: of Liberty, Navy Peer. Again, a lot of these things
Speaker 1: in New York. I didn't plan it that way. I
Speaker 1: just this is what Google said. But it makes sense,
Speaker 1: right because so many people go there anyway, Google Maps
Speaker 1: twenty if you can believe it.
Speaker 2: Let's bring on our guest. Joanna Stern is the.
Speaker 1: Excellent personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and
Speaker 1: I believe well I know lives in the New York area.
Speaker 2: Joanna, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 10: Hey, how are you rich?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: Were you born in New York, New Jersey or what?
Speaker 12: I was born in New Jersey, lived in New York
Speaker 12: for a long time, and now back in New Jersey.
Speaker 2: So I love it. So how is my home state?
Speaker 10: It's it's it. I would say it's doing great, but
Speaker 10: it's cold. I think it's gonna be great. Tomorrow is
Speaker 10: supposed to snow.
Speaker 12: Okay, so yeah, we're gonna have some hopefully some weekend sledding.
Speaker 12: But I can't say I'm not a little jealous.
Speaker 10: Of where you live.
Speaker 1: Well, it's been raining, so it's you know, But I
Speaker 1: will tell you when I sled when I was sledding.
Speaker 1: As a kid, we sled down this hill that literally
Speaker 1: just like went right into a highway like this. Obviously,
Speaker 1: like nowadays there's probably a fence and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but like when we were kids, it was just hey,
Speaker 1: there's like less rules. So but we had I love
Speaker 1: sledding when there was a snow day. All right, So
Speaker 1: explain first off, what you do for the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal if if people are not familiar, you write a
Speaker 1: great column, but you do videos and stuff. So what's
Speaker 1: your approach to technology?
Speaker 2: Number one?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's about That's about right.
Speaker 12: I write a column for the Wall Street Journal, but
Speaker 12: I do not you know, my title is columnist, but
Speaker 12: I would say I spend less time writing the column
Speaker 12: and much more time out and about shooting videos and
Speaker 12: doing some fun things on video.
Speaker 10: But my approach is really the consumer first.
Speaker 12: That I am out there testing and talking to the companies,
Speaker 12: always advocating for the consumer, always thinking about do these
Speaker 12: these tech products work well for us?
Speaker 10: Which are the best to use?
Speaker 12: Then often sometimes you know, investigating why things don't don't
Speaker 12: work well. But that's where I enjoy this type of work.
Speaker 12: It's just we're out there, we're using these things. And
Speaker 12: the companies should give us more answers about the devices
Speaker 12: and the products we're being given to use.
Speaker 2: What about the hype of AI?
Speaker 1: What do you make of AI at this point, because
Speaker 1: now it's like, you know, everything is AI. I joke that,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're coming, like it used to be
Speaker 1: when you went to CES, the big consumer show, you know,
Speaker 1: the big tech show in Las Vegas, I always joked
Speaker 1: that they were in the process of adding Internet to everything,
Speaker 1: including your coffee mug, which, by the way, this morning
Speaker 1: I use an Ember mug, which does have, you know,
Speaker 1: a connection to your phone. But now I joke that
Speaker 1: everything has AI because it's just it has to. So
Speaker 1: do you think there's too much hype on AI? And
Speaker 1: do you think this is actually working for people?
Speaker 12: I think there's a ton of hype, But I do
Speaker 12: think it's one of the biggest moments we've experienced in
Speaker 12: the tech industry in a long time. And you lived
Speaker 12: through and we kind of covered it through it together.
Speaker 12: The advent of mobile and how quickly the iPhone got better,
Speaker 12: and how quickly Samsung and all these devices got better,
Speaker 12: and how that changed the way we live.
Speaker 10: I think that is absolutely where we're heading with AI.
Speaker 12: I think, given what happened with mobile and everyone, you
Speaker 12: just jumped on that, let's make an app. I mean
Speaker 12: remember these days, the early days of apps, people are
Speaker 12: making apps. You have a lighter on your phone. I
Speaker 12: mean were there were all these.
Speaker 10: Like yeah, nonsense whatever, nonsense type of things.
Speaker 12: I mean, that's where we are with AI, and so
Speaker 12: everyone's trying to get in, try to get a piece.
Speaker 12: But I'm writing a book right now about the impact
Speaker 12: of AI on my life for the for the next year,
Speaker 12: starting in what was starting in January, I said, I'm
Speaker 12: going to do as much of my life, as much
Speaker 12: of the people and the products and the things I
Speaker 12: do in life, I'm going to try to figure out
Speaker 12: where AI can replace or augment or help.
Speaker 2: Wait, what does that mean? Hold on, explain that.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 1: Wait, like when you're going to dinner, deciding between two restaurants,
Speaker 1: you just ask AI or what sure?
Speaker 10: I'm doing stuff like that.
Speaker 12: But I really think the deeper stuff is going to
Speaker 12: come in the places where we interact with humans and
Speaker 12: where we start to realize, wow, those humans are either
Speaker 12: going to be replaced by AI or really working deeply
Speaker 12: with AI. And one of the examples that this is
Speaker 12: my first month on the book has been all about healthcare,
Speaker 12: all about doctors and the way they're using AI. I'm
Speaker 12: doing some really interesting stuff or I've seen a lot
Speaker 12: of really interesting stuff on that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 12: I think there's a day that's going to come as
Speaker 12: we're all going to go to the doctor and we're
Speaker 12: going to realize, Okay, I'm really seeing a human, but
Speaker 12: I'm also seeing some sort of robot or some sort
Speaker 12: of bot here. And so I'm exploring all those types
Speaker 12: of ways that A is going to infiltrate our lives.
Speaker 12: That isn't just sitting in front of a computer and
Speaker 12: talking to a chatbot.
Speaker 2: I mean it's yeah, well that's the other thing.
Speaker 1: It's like already starting with the chatbots where they're screening
Speaker 1: you right, like if you need customer service for something,
Speaker 1: it's like, well here, they push you to the chatbot
Speaker 1: first that's AI obviously now, and then maybe it'll flick
Speaker 1: you to an actual person later on down the road.
Speaker 1: And I feel like with medicine that's going to happen too.
Speaker 1: It's like they screen you like here, put on all
Speaker 1: your stuff, like your symptoms whatever, and now the doctor
Speaker 1: comes in with like a little bit of knowledge and
Speaker 1: baseline understanding of what's going on before they talk to
Speaker 1: you for twenty minutes.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, and.
Speaker 12: I'm like, part of this is, of course I'm seeing
Speaker 12: human doctors this here, but every time I go to
Speaker 12: the doctor, I get test results, I'm running those through AI.
Speaker 12: Some of those those doctors are already doing that. They're
Speaker 12: using it at radiology, they're using in these places.
Speaker 10: So I'm going all in. I'm using it in that way.
Speaker 12: I'm going to be doing transportation of course, self drive
Speaker 12: in cars, all of that education. I'm just kind of
Speaker 12: going all in for a year to see where we're at.
Speaker 1: And you had a chance to check out the Weaimos
Speaker 1: self driving car, right, weren't you in La recently?
Speaker 2: I was you tried that? Did you try the Weaimo
Speaker 2: while you're out here?
Speaker 10: I did? I did.
Speaker 12: I spend quite a bit of time in Weimo's and
Speaker 12: I'm going out to Phoenix soon to spend even more
Speaker 12: time in them.
Speaker 10: I mean, I should ask you, what do you think
Speaker 10: you live around them?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I live around them, but yeah, so it's interesting they
Speaker 1: don't necessarily work in my neighborhood, yet they work where
Speaker 1: I work, and so I have taken one, but I
Speaker 1: did take it in San Francisco, and the other day
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to take one, and I was
Speaker 1: a little bit scared.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know if I actually want to.
Speaker 2: I think I'm just gonna drive myself. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I but I have my car drive itself
Speaker 1: a lot. So it's it's this weird thing of it's
Speaker 1: all software and I feel like it should be better,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure.
Speaker 10: So I'm with you.
Speaker 12: I think there's a lot of spectrum on this. Right,
Speaker 12: there's the cars that drive yourself that you have either,
Speaker 12: I don't know if you have a Tesla.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, So look, you have.
Speaker 12: A good chunk of self driving car software and there
Speaker 12: autonomous software, and that is probably going to work in
Speaker 12: some really good situations.
Speaker 10: And of course we could get deep into that. But
Speaker 10: then on the Waimo.
Speaker 12: Side, I think it is it is really fascinating and
Speaker 12: it really I've been telling everyone if you have the
Speaker 12: opportunity to get in one of these, you.
Speaker 10: Should do it.
Speaker 12: It does feel so incredibly safe, especially in these cities
Speaker 12: where these cars have been trained and have done the
Speaker 12: same roots over and over and over again. I mean,
Speaker 12: I truly feel like this was the most safe driver
Speaker 12: I've ever been with. I did say and I pieced
Speaker 12: there that it felt at times like it was like
Speaker 12: my mom, it got a little nervous. But I think
Speaker 12: it's in a good way in the sense of like, Okay,
Speaker 12: it is cautious. It is always cautious in the intersections
Speaker 12: that will make you feel nervous, but then once you
Speaker 12: do it enough times, you're like, oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 12: just how it approaches an intersection.
Speaker 10: It wants to be incredibly safe.
Speaker 12: But why I asked you is I think that some
Speaker 12: of the funnier stories are about people who are living
Speaker 12: in these spaces and just like.
Speaker 10: Observing their odd behavior.
Speaker 12: I also heard a story in LA And I was
Speaker 12: in Davas a few weeks ago, and I was talking
Speaker 12: to the company Serve, the Serve robotics that have the
Speaker 12: little robots.
Speaker 10: You've you've seen those around.
Speaker 2: Your yeah, your area, of course, the delivery robots.
Speaker 12: And I was asking him about this viral video of
Speaker 12: the way moo that hit the serve robot.
Speaker 10: Did you see that?
Speaker 2: I did not see that, But that's funny too.
Speaker 12: Hilarious because you're like, this is the future. The robots
Speaker 12: just colliding in the streets.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I mean he.
Speaker 12: Had a good explanation of why it probably happened, but yeah,
Speaker 12: you're living in the future there.
Speaker 1: In LA I'm amazed every time I see one of
Speaker 1: those delivery robots that it's actually just working, and people
Speaker 1: most of the time respect it. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: they've been roughed up sometimes, but I mean it's just
Speaker 1: it's like kind of sad.
Speaker 2: It's like, this is just a little robot. Okay, so
Speaker 2: I do to New.
Speaker 12: York and New York here, and we're not going to
Speaker 12: New York here because this is your your opening show.
Speaker 12: But you know, we've still got regular grocery carts and
Speaker 12: we're still yeah, we're.
Speaker 10: Like nineteen ninety five. I would say, we're not so
Speaker 10: far behind.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering when, Yeah, like the self driving, if it
Speaker 1: makes it to New York City, then we know it's
Speaker 1: it's taken a it's reached a tipping point.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Before we run out of time here, I do need
Speaker 1: to ask you some some Jersey and New York questions. So,
Speaker 1: first off, ever pumped your own gas?
Speaker 10: I live. I live in New Jersey. Of course I
Speaker 10: grew up.
Speaker 12: I go to other states thinking I need to pump
Speaker 12: my own gas.
Speaker 1: Well, you do pump in other states and New Jersey
Speaker 1: you can't write, isn't it still illegal?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 10: Sorry, so you're asking.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I was like, wait a second, are you just
Speaker 1: breaking the rules here every day?
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, I've got it opposite there.
Speaker 12: Okay, yes, have pumped my own gas, but only learned
Speaker 12: when I went to college and went to other states.
Speaker 2: Okay, that makes more sense.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes much more sense, because yeah, like I
Speaker 1: I jump out of my car when I get to
Speaker 1: Jersey and I'm like, oh, hey, I can't do this,
Speaker 1: but I love it. When it's freezing cold, you have
Speaker 1: to you open your like window a tiny little slit
Speaker 1: and like slip your credit card through it, and it's
Speaker 1: like here, fill it up.
Speaker 2: Sorry okay.
Speaker 12: And I'm also thinking that when I go to other states,
Speaker 12: same situation. I'll sometimes sit there now.
Speaker 1: Waiting for someone to come to you, and it's just
Speaker 1: like nope, not happening, right.
Speaker 12: But also I guess it's similar to you drive an
Speaker 12: ev now and don't spend that much time at gas stations.
Speaker 2: Yes, Times Square magical or a tourist trap.
Speaker 10: Somewhere in between.
Speaker 12: I still like to walk through Times Square every couple
Speaker 12: of months to see some things that have changed. I live,
Speaker 12: I work right in Times Square, so I have to
Speaker 12: kind of trudge through it if I sometimes need to
Speaker 12: get to the train station. But you know, it changes
Speaker 12: every so often, and when of the changes are made,
Speaker 12: it's fun to see them.
Speaker 2: And have you ever been to the top of the
Speaker 2: Empire State Building or is that just for tourists?
Speaker 7: You know what?
Speaker 10: I never have been to the top of the Empire
Speaker 10: State Building.
Speaker 12: I always wanted to because I grew up listening to
Speaker 12: Z one hundred and.
Speaker 2: I was yester. Yes, but like they.
Speaker 10: Went I remember, I think it was like fourth grade,
Speaker 10: like my school trip. They went on one and I
Speaker 10: was sick that day.
Speaker 12: They went to the top of the Empire Statement and
Speaker 12: I've never done it, so I guess I should take
Speaker 12: my kids.
Speaker 1: Okay, quick story, I'm out of time. But so when
Speaker 1: I was young, of course you one hundred from the
Speaker 1: top of the Empire State Building. I finally make my
Speaker 1: way up as a high schooler and I'm like, where's
Speaker 1: this Z one hundred studio. They're like, kid, you got
Speaker 1: to listen closely. They said broadcasting, not the studio. So
Speaker 1: that's right. I that was like, oh my gosh, life lesson,
Speaker 1: Joanna Stern, this has been so much fun.
Speaker 2: Good luck with the book. What's it called?
Speaker 12: The working title is chat but like but with two
Speaker 12: t's at the at the end. So if listeners like that,
Speaker 12: tell me let me know, hit me up on social
Speaker 12: let me know.
Speaker 10: If I should keep that or should keep thinking of
Speaker 10: a new one.
Speaker 2: All right, Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal, thanks so much
Speaker 2: for joining me today. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 6: Hi, good after me a long time listener. First time I'm.
Speaker 2: Calling you, but uh well, thank you?
Speaker 6: Using I was using Yeah, I've been using Microsoft Word.
Speaker 4: We're writing. Writing a letter.
Speaker 6: Yesterday was fine. I opened up my computer this morning
Speaker 6: and now the spelling checker is in Spanish. How do
Speaker 6: I get it back to English?
Speaker 2: Were you writing in Spanish or English?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 6: English? And it asked it starting to say all my
Speaker 6: words in the first sentence where we're incorrect. They gave
Speaker 6: me some Hispanic alternatives. So then I wrote burrito and
Speaker 6: it was correct. So figure I'm in Spanish spelling checker.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, interesting, is burrito a Spanish? I guess it
Speaker 1: is a Spanish word.
Speaker 6: It didn't say it was wrong.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I so I actually went on my Windows computer to
Speaker 1: try to see how to set the language and my
Speaker 1: version of Office is expired, which I'm embarrassed to say,
Speaker 1: but I think that's pretty common with a lot of people.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh wait a second, but I'm looking here,
Speaker 1: and have you tried going to set the language preferences
Speaker 1: in the options?
Speaker 2: Have you done that?
Speaker 6: I haven't found that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: I just got home.
Speaker 1: So okay, now is this a new version or an
Speaker 1: old version of Office?
Speaker 6: It's the new three sixty five co pilot version.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it looks like you can go into file
Speaker 1: options and language and this will set the authoring, proofing
Speaker 1: and display language. So file options language and that may
Speaker 1: be set to Spanish, so you might want to just
Speaker 1: make sure that's set to English and hopefully that should
Speaker 1: fix it. The other thing you could do if that's
Speaker 1: not working is I would you know, close it out,
Speaker 1: reopen it, restart it and see if that you know,
Speaker 1: and then go into the settings and make sure that
Speaker 1: that's set. It's odd that it would just switch by
Speaker 1: itself without exactly yeah, without but that, but that's the best.
Speaker 1: You know, when tech does that, that's the best is
Speaker 1: that you know, it just does things that we don't
Speaker 1: understand why it does it. So try that. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: do you see what what is it saying? Does it
Speaker 1: say it's English?
Speaker 6: Prefer English? It says preferred English proofing initiated? Okay, the
Speaker 6: United States General preferred.
Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 1: So hopefully now when you write okay, when you when
Speaker 1: you write click a word like when it gets a
Speaker 1: little squigglies underneath, is it giving you suggestions in Spanish?
Speaker 6: Arning, Yes, it's giving me Okay, now that I've done this,
Speaker 6: I'm going to go back to.
Speaker 1: So here's the other thing. So okay, so if you're
Speaker 1: I mean every all the yeah, I mean all of
Speaker 1: the options that I'm seeing are all under this uh
Speaker 1: file options language. So the only thing I would say
Speaker 1: is that perhaps you have you might have a global
Speaker 1: option on your you know Windows PC that's uh this,
Speaker 1: you know a similar option. So in that case, I
Speaker 1: would go into your settings and search for language and
Speaker 1: make sure that that's set to English, and are using
Speaker 1: this through a web browser or through your or through an.
Speaker 6: Appu through on a web on a web browser. It's
Speaker 6: one of my one of the apps that I have
Speaker 6: on my I came with the computer and it just
Speaker 6: switched me to co pilot two days ago. So maybe
Speaker 6: it's something new. But my options are propeller, propel and
Speaker 6: propeller for property.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Okay, well yeah, this is quite the quite the situation here, okay.
Speaker 1: And even if you so, have you tried restarting and
Speaker 1: then setting English as your language.
Speaker 6: It happened last night and I said forget, I'm going
Speaker 6: back to it this morning. It's still there.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: The only other thing I would check is in your
Speaker 1: web browser there's there's a section called preferred languages. So
Speaker 1: if you go into your settings on your web browser
Speaker 1: settings and then search language, you should see the preferred
Speaker 1: languages there and that should be English. But my greater
Speaker 1: advice ron without being in front of the computer, is
Speaker 1: all like I would start at the local level and
Speaker 1: keep working up and make sure, uh to go into
Speaker 1: settings and just search for language and make sure everything's
Speaker 1: set to English if that's what you want to use,
Speaker 1: and again set it start at the browser, then you
Speaker 1: can go up to you know, word or actually I
Speaker 1: would start at word and then go to the browser
Speaker 1: and then go up to the computer at large and
Speaker 1: just search language and make sure they're all set to English.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting one.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at
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Speaker 1: coming up with today's playlist and uh picking some you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't have any Connecticut. This is the Tri State area,
Speaker 1: so probably should have had something Connecticut in there.
Speaker 2: A couple of.
Speaker 1: Headlines before we get to the phones. Rick, I see
Speaker 1: you there. We'll get to you in just a moment.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Libra Office. Libra Office.
Speaker 1: This is a privacy focused alternative to sort of the
Speaker 1: big you know, like the Microsoft Words of the world,
Speaker 1: the Google docs of the world. So if you want
Speaker 1: something that you can download that is completely free, they
Speaker 1: have a brand new version of this Libra l I
Speaker 1: b R Librale looks yeah, Libra, why can't I pronounce
Speaker 1: this word anyway? Office twenty five point two now available
Speaker 1: for Windows, mac Os, and Linux. It's got more polished UI,
Speaker 1: better accessibility, and also works better with Microsoft documents. So
Speaker 1: this is privacy focused. It's got an option, a new
Speaker 1: option to remove all personal data from documents like time
Speaker 1: stamps and author info. It's got a whole bunch It's
Speaker 1: just a whole bunch of new stuff. So one thing
Speaker 1: you do need to know. Support for Windows seven and
Speaker 1: eight of this program is ending, so you got to
Speaker 1: upgrade before version twenty five point eight, so that's coming soon.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: But Libraoffice remains free and open source, and it supports
Speaker 1: the uh ODF files and the Microsoft formats. And I
Speaker 1: downloaded this yesterday just to kind of try it out
Speaker 1: before I talked about it, and it's great. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just looks like Microsoft Word and Excel in the
Speaker 1: spreadsheet program, So I mean, why not. I personally use
Speaker 1: Google Docs, But I understand if you're, you know, more
Speaker 1: privacy centric, or you don't like big tech or something
Speaker 1: like that, and you want to use something that's a
Speaker 1: little bit more open source, then I would check this out.
Speaker 1: The website is uh libra l I b R eoffice
Speaker 1: dot org slash download and I will put that on
Speaker 1: the website rich on tech dot TV. Meanwhile, if you
Speaker 1: had an iPhone seven with the loop disease, you are
Speaker 1: you might have gotten a payout. So I guess Apple
Speaker 1: pay out thirty five million dollars in a class action
Speaker 1: settlement related to this loop disease. I guess the software
Speaker 1: was making it. Boot Loop payments are around two hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: so if you got like an email that said, hey,
Speaker 1: claim your two hundred bucks or your payouts coming, like, yes,
Speaker 1: you should do it, but you know, obviously you should
Speaker 1: confirm that it's legitimate because you know, whenever something like
Speaker 1: this happens, these other people they scam artists. They will
Speaker 1: look at that and say, ooh, let's try to figure
Speaker 1: out how we can scam people. So no matter what,
Speaker 1: let me see if I can find something on this
Speaker 1: iPhone loop disease. So it was oh sorry, it was
Speaker 1: degraded audio and call quality and listening to music caused
Speaker 1: by users applying pressure on a certain part of the phone.
Speaker 1: I do not remember this when this happened, but that's interesting.
Speaker 1: I was a while ago iPhone seven. That was a
Speaker 1: real long time ago. Anyway, if you but here's the deal,
Speaker 1: this this is over. So you had to make that
Speaker 1: claim a long time ago. But up to three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty nine dollars, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to uh rick in uh Let's
Speaker 2: see west Hill's Rick. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 11: Hey, Rich, thank you for taking my call. So I'll
Speaker 11: try to be quick. I just want to know if
Speaker 11: I should purchase more Apple storage or buy an app
Speaker 11: to help clean up my photos or back up to
Speaker 11: my computer. And then the second part of the question
Speaker 11: is if I do back up to the computer, I
Speaker 11: don't know how that works because it keeps adding the
Speaker 11: same pictures over and over again, does it? Anyway, those
Speaker 11: are that's the question.
Speaker 1: Okay, So first the first question is should you tell
Speaker 1: me them again?
Speaker 11: Oh, purchase more Apple storage. I purchased the fifty gig plans,
Speaker 11: but I've already used one hundred gigabytes, so I'm not
Speaker 11: obviously my phone is not backing up now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So man, I so the thing about Apple
Speaker 1: storage is so I'm on the I think I'm on
Speaker 1: the five terabyte plan on Google. So I use Google Storage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got three I've got like three terabytes of photos.
Speaker 1: So but you know, it's all my videos and stuff
Speaker 1: from work. So it's like, I, you know, I'd rather
Speaker 1: keep it than get rid of it. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: so I would you could do two things. You could
Speaker 1: either try to pare down the hundred gigs or you
Speaker 1: said you have one hundred gigs on your phone, but
Speaker 1: you have fifty available to you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so I bought the two night I think it's
Speaker 11: the two ninety nine plan, So it's like fifty gigabytes
Speaker 11: and do you.
Speaker 2: Know how much of that? Do you know how much
Speaker 2: of that is photos?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Photos is twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Okay, so photos, So you're still like, even with that
Speaker 1: twenty eight, that's a lot. I mean, you've got that's
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, a lot of photos.
Speaker 11: So iPhone and iPhone and iPhone, so they add.
Speaker 2: Up, right. So there's a couple of things you could do.
Speaker 2: You could.
Speaker 1: You could try to pare down the twenty eight gigs
Speaker 1: to get under the fifty with your backup of your phone,
Speaker 1: but that's going to be really tough because you're going
Speaker 1: to be spending a lot of time and it's just
Speaker 1: going to be like, you know, you're just gonna be
Speaker 1: pulling your hair out. The other thing you could do
Speaker 1: is you could just not if money is not a problem, Like,
Speaker 1: if you're not how much is the step up to
Speaker 1: the next sire?
Speaker 11: I'll shoot, I knew I should have wrote that down.
Speaker 11: It probably like three ninety nine a month or something
Speaker 11: like that or something.
Speaker 4: It's that bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So if that feels fair to you, then that's
Speaker 1: probably the easiest solution. But what I would do in
Speaker 1: once you upgrade to that is, I would pare down
Speaker 1: your camera roll, get get some of the big videos
Speaker 1: out of there that you don't need, or duplicate pictures
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. So that's the second
Speaker 1: thing I would do. As for offloading to your computer,
Speaker 1: that's my least favorite option because it's the most labor intensive. Yes,
Speaker 1: your computer can figure out which like when you plug
Speaker 1: your phone into your computer, let's say of a Windows computer,
Speaker 1: it can it can import just the new pictures or
Speaker 1: on a Mac it'll do this. It'll it'll figure out
Speaker 1: which ones it hasn't imported, so it can do that.
Speaker 1: But now you have to make sure that those pictures
Speaker 1: are backed up somehow on your computer.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: There is an argument there that you can say, well, rich,
Speaker 1: I've got my photo, I've got one copy on my phone,
Speaker 1: and now I've got one copy on my computer, so
Speaker 1: I'm good. And typically we would say you'd want one
Speaker 1: copy on your computer, one copy on your phone, and
Speaker 1: one copy in the cloud somewhere right just to make
Speaker 1: sure you've got you know, everything covered. So those are
Speaker 1: kind of your options. What are you leaning towards? What
Speaker 1: do you feel like you want to do.
Speaker 11: I'm leaning just buying that seems like the cheapest option.
Speaker 11: But I don't know if the wife would like that.
Speaker 11: She just she hates to spend money on things like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's and so it's a I totally get that.
Speaker 1: And of course that's what Apple wants you to do, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why they that's why Apple does not
Speaker 1: make it easy. Like if you told me, like if
Speaker 1: you said, Rich, how do I find all the biggest
Speaker 1: video files on my phone?
Speaker 2: Right now? They don't make it easy to do that.
Speaker 1: Like you can't sort like on a Samsung device or
Speaker 1: on a Google device, you could just go in and
Speaker 1: literally sort my largest videos and just get rid of them,
Speaker 1: right if you say, oh, I ran my camera for
Speaker 1: twenty four hours and forgot about it. But like on
Speaker 1: the iPhone, it's really tricky. So there are some there
Speaker 1: are some apps that will do this for you. Clean
Speaker 1: my Phone is one of them. You can check that
Speaker 1: out and see. But again, you know, it's it's going
Speaker 1: to take a while to figure this stuff out, to
Speaker 1: get to get this to a place where it's under
Speaker 1: the fifty gigs, including your backups. I think you're right, Rick,
Speaker 1: The other thing you could do is if you're a
Speaker 1: member or do you have Amazon Prime. I do, okay,
Speaker 1: so they have a free photos app that as long
Speaker 1: as you're an Amazon Prime member, you can download this
Speaker 1: photos app from Amazon and it will back up all
Speaker 1: of your photos for free and unlimited at full resolution.
Speaker 1: But yeah, well the caveat is two things. Number One,
Speaker 1: you have to be a Prime member, So if you
Speaker 1: stop paying for Prime, you know, they'll give you a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time where you have to download all
Speaker 1: your stuff before they kick you out, you know, So
Speaker 1: that's number one. Number two is they don't give you
Speaker 1: any story. They give you a tiny bit of storage
Speaker 1: for videos, so it's not a solution for your videos,
Speaker 1: but if you want, you know, you can use this
Speaker 1: as another way of offloading these pictures. So I use
Speaker 1: it personally as like a secondary backup and I just
Speaker 1: turn off the videos completely.
Speaker 2: I say, don't even back up videos. Which it's actually
Speaker 2: nice that the app gives you that option.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, I didn't know about that, so thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, look the photos. If you look
Speaker 1: at the earnings reports of all the major companies, whether
Speaker 1: it's Amazon, whether it is Apple and Google. The number
Speaker 1: one growth for these companies right now is in what's
Speaker 1: called their service and cloud divisions. And why do you
Speaker 1: think that is all the stuff that we are uploading
Speaker 1: from our phones? And why do you think these phones,
Speaker 1: you know they keep they shoot in four K, they
Speaker 1: shoot and you know higher megapixels, they're all taken up.
Speaker 1: This is this is where it's at, Like, this is
Speaker 1: money that these companies will make forever based on us
Speaker 1: being unorganized.
Speaker 11: I was I was thinking Apple's not selling a phone,
Speaker 11: They're selling storage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's really what it comes down to. They
Speaker 1: sell the phone they make. You know, people are holding
Speaker 1: their phones for thirty nine months now, so that that
Speaker 1: money you spend on a phone, let's say you spend
Speaker 1: eight hundred to one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Do the math.
Speaker 1: But if you're spending I mean Apple iCloud storage starts
Speaker 1: at ninety nine cents a month, three ninety nine, five,
Speaker 1: ninety nine, ten dollars, I think I'm up to twenty.
Speaker 1: I'm up to two hundred and fifty dollars a year
Speaker 1: on my Google storage, Apple storage. I pay for the
Speaker 1: ridiculous Apple one, which is another forty bucks a month
Speaker 1: and then I pay for Dropbox. So I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: but I don't want anything to go away. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a little crazy in that way where I want
Speaker 1: everything all at once, and you know, plus I test
Speaker 1: this stuff out, so well.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 11: I'm going to hopefully my wife Maria will allow me
Speaker 11: just to get the cloud stuff and just fight the bullet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would sit down and uh, you know, like
Speaker 1: I say to my wife, you know, if we're spending
Speaker 1: over you know, a certain amount of money, usually like
Speaker 1: over one hundred bucks, it's like family meeting time.
Speaker 2: We got to talk about this. We got to discuss
Speaker 2: So sit.
Speaker 1: Down, you know, maybe pour some wine, you know, just
Speaker 1: get everyone a little bit relaxed, and you know, we
Speaker 1: talk about this cloud storage thing.
Speaker 11: Rick all right, say thanks for your time. I really
Speaker 11: appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the question. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Just one more example of the fact that none of
Speaker 1: us are organized when it comes to our photos. I
Speaker 1: will tell you this, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: sit down and go through your photo role. Just take
Speaker 1: ten minutes a day, because that is the best way
Speaker 1: I found to get rid of a lot of the clutter,
Speaker 1: a lot of the things you do during the day,
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily need it long term eight eight eight
Speaker 1: Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two Poor one zero one. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. You can find me online
Speaker 1: at richon Tech dot tv. Coming up this hour, YouTuber
Speaker 1: Jimmy is Promo is going to talk about the Samsung
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty five and give some tips and tricks
Speaker 1: if you have a Samsung device, and we'll get to
Speaker 1: the phone lines in just a moment. But first couple
Speaker 1: of items of no true caller. This app finally, finally,
Speaker 1: finally brings real time caller ID to the iPhone and
Speaker 1: I got my first call yesterday where I identified it
Speaker 1: using this app. So iPhone for many many years has
Speaker 1: had spam blockers and some level of caller ID, but
Speaker 1: this is the first time that apps can take advantage
Speaker 1: of a new feature in the latest version of the
Speaker 1: iOS software eighteen I think eighteen point three or eighteen
Speaker 1: point two rather and basically you can now see real
Speaker 1: time caller ID for the first time. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to get into it, but it used to be that
Speaker 1: apps like True Caller were limited to like a small
Speaker 1: database of phone numbers they stored on your phone, but
Speaker 1: now it can actually look up using what's called live
Speaker 1: caller ID when someone actually calls. So this is a
Speaker 1: paid subscriber situation, so you do have to pay either
Speaker 1: ten dollars a month or seventy five dollars for the year.
Speaker 1: But if you've been looking for a solution on the
Speaker 1: iPhone for actual caller ID and also spam blocking that
Speaker 1: actually works, this might be the solution. And again, yesterday
Speaker 1: I got my first call where the caller phone number
Speaker 1: came up with the name and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there it is. Wow, it works. So True Caller is
Speaker 1: the app. They do have a level of free service,
Speaker 1: but if you want this new premium real time caller ID,
Speaker 1: you gotta get the paid Let's see what else here?
Speaker 1: Oh this app I love. It's called Rosebud. This is
Speaker 1: a journaling app and it uses AI. And I'm not
Speaker 1: kidding you know, I'm not a huge journaling guy, but
Speaker 1: this has made me journal because I love it. It's
Speaker 1: so it's called Rosebud and basically you put an entry
Speaker 1: into the app and then the app uses AI to
Speaker 1: kind of read what you wrote and gives you either
Speaker 1: questions back or insights on what you wrote. So if
Speaker 1: you're having like a rough day at work, you write
Speaker 1: in I keep having problems with gym at work. You know,
Speaker 1: just it's on my case every day about this. It
Speaker 1: will basically identify like how you think, patterns, and it
Speaker 1: just learns about you over time. I mean, it's really good.
Speaker 1: I don't want to call this therapy, but it feels
Speaker 1: almost like a mix of like therapy and life coaching
Speaker 1: all in one. And it's again, I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how good this is now. I know it seems a
Speaker 1: little scary to have AI kind of like reading what
Speaker 1: you're writing. But the guys who made this app, they
Speaker 1: tell me everything is private, everything's encrypted, nobody's reading your stuff.
Speaker 1: But I love this app. You type something in, like
Speaker 1: the other day, I had a little thing at work
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, let me type this into Rosebud.
Speaker 1: And the insights that it gives you about your life
Speaker 1: are just like wow, it figures out, like it'll say, Rich,
Speaker 1: here's how you think. Here's the pattern we notice over
Speaker 1: and over. Here's what we notice you do over and over.
Speaker 1: You say, over and over or how you react to
Speaker 1: this situation over and over and it's really spot on.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for more like self awareness, self reflection,
Speaker 1: maybe you just want to start a journal in the
Speaker 1: new year, I would.
Speaker 2: Check out this app. It's really really cool.
Speaker 1: The website rosebud Dot app rosebud Dot app. It's available
Speaker 1: for iPhone and Android, and I think, you know, if
Speaker 1: you're looking to improve your mental health, you want that
Speaker 1: kind of Like I told my wife the other day,
Speaker 1: she was stressed out about something.
Speaker 2: I said, did you journal about it?
Speaker 1: Now that I'm mister journal And she, by the way,
Speaker 1: is into like counseling and all that stuff, so she's like, no,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm like, all right, well try that. And
Speaker 1: I'm telling it just feels better to like write something
Speaker 1: out and just get it out of your head and
Speaker 1: onto somewhere else and then to get that. It gives
Speaker 1: you a weekly report of like all the stuff that
Speaker 1: happened and even figures out your mood. It'll give you
Speaker 1: like a weekly like here was your mood during the
Speaker 1: week based on how you wrote. So I really really
Speaker 1: like this app rosebud And yes it's freemium, so there
Speaker 1: is a free level of things you can do on it,
Speaker 1: and of course a paid level. Kathy and Pittsburgh, welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 8: Hi. I'll warn you your listeners are going to be
Speaker 8: bored and they're going to be laughing.
Speaker 2: Okay, well are they listening to just me? Or is
Speaker 2: that including what you're going to say?
Speaker 8: No, that's what I'm going to say. First time. I
Speaker 8: just heard you today, So thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 8: Almost eighty years old, and I have been using Windows
Speaker 8: eighty one on a desktop forever.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 8: But all of a sudden, I'm just getting delused with
Speaker 8: must upgrade, you know, in order to access So I said, okay,
Speaker 8: kicking and screaming. I'm trying to figure out what to get,
Speaker 8: and I have to hardware everything in my house. But
Speaker 8: here's two considerations. I recently was away from home for
Speaker 8: a couple of weeks and had go to the library
Speaker 8: to be able to access my emails, and such a
Speaker 8: nice discuss to stop. So I'm looking for something that's portable,
Speaker 8: and I don't know whether to go for a app
Speaker 8: top tablet or what now. And I will mention because
Speaker 8: I'm Wi Fi sensitive, I limit my use on my
Speaker 8: cell phone. But I can put some protection and some
Speaker 8: grounding to use.
Speaker 2: A laptop or right, you can use a connection like
Speaker 2: a wire.
Speaker 1: I've got less than a minute, so I've got to Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's my question for you, Kathy.
Speaker 8: But what could you recommend for an old person that
Speaker 8: doesn't really use their computer for much but emails than routes.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I was going to ask you.
Speaker 1: Do you want to accomplish work on this or you
Speaker 1: just want to mostly consume?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, then I would say just get an iPad and
Speaker 1: you can get you can get an adapter for Ethernet.
Speaker 1: So if you want to, you know, a long cable
Speaker 1: from your you know, your router, just connect it to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the iPad. But that's the best thing
Speaker 1: to get, because.
Speaker 8: Do you have something other than an Apple product?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, go with the Samsung. Go with the Samsung
Speaker 1: Tab S nine is their latest tablet. I would just
Speaker 1: go with that. But you know, I will tell you
Speaker 1: the apps are going to be way better on the iPad.
Speaker 1: That's just the bottom line, because the iPad has the
Speaker 1: most support for mobile apps.
Speaker 2: So but the.
Speaker 1: Tab, you know, the tab best nine will be great.
Speaker 1: I think that it's gonna be a little bit more expensive,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's gonna have a nice big screen.
Speaker 1: It's gonna have all the Android apps, and you'll be
Speaker 1: able to do all the stuff you want to do.
Speaker 1: And then just get a little connector for the bottom
Speaker 1: of the USB c to Ethernet to plug in your
Speaker 1: Ethernet cable. Coming up, we're gonna talk to Jimmy is
Speaker 1: Promo about Samsung right here on rich On tech Rich.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On tech Rich. DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. What a show it's been.
Speaker 1: First show in New York City. You know, don't forget
Speaker 1: we're on other places and we're not going anywhere in LA.
Speaker 1: We are staying put in LA as well. I know
Speaker 1: I've gotten a lot of emails people saying, Rich, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? No, No, we're We're now on both coasts.
Speaker 2: What do they say? Both coasts best coast right? No, No,
Speaker 2: one says that.
Speaker 1: I've got a great guest here, YouTuber Jimmy is Promo,
Speaker 1: always sharing tips and tricks and all things Samsung on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Jimmy, welcome to the show.
Speaker 13: Hey, thanks for having me, man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So Jimmy and I see each other once or twice
Speaker 1: a year at the tech events, and he every time,
Speaker 1: I'm just like, hey, can you wait, you could do
Speaker 1: that on your phone. Wait what He's like, don't you
Speaker 1: watch the channel? I'm like yes, But every time I
Speaker 1: always pick up something new. So first off, I guess,
Speaker 1: how did you get into like doing Samsung tips and tricks?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 13: So it first originated quite a while ago. Was back
Speaker 13: in twenty twelve. I was curious about, you know, what
Speaker 13: is it like to upload a video? I was actually
Speaker 13: in an AT and T store back then doing some
Speaker 13: marketing and some promotions for what was brand new back
Speaker 13: then was the original Note one Oh Wow, And so
Speaker 13: I was showing off some of the tips on the
Speaker 13: tricks and they're like, hey, take the phone home with you,
Speaker 13: get used to it, play around with it, you know,
Speaker 13: master that you're showing off, and I was like cool.
Speaker 13: So I got home and pretty much at that time,
Speaker 13: I was like, let's shoot a video. So I just
Speaker 13: wanted to shoot something, and it was the same spiel
Speaker 13: that I was doing in the stores, just showing off
Speaker 13: all the brand new tips and tricks and the new features,
Speaker 13: and basically I was curious of Okay, could I get
Speaker 13: some views and where can it go? And so pretty
Speaker 13: much it was mostly just based off of curiosity. So
Speaker 13: I uploaded the first video. It actually did pretty well,
Speaker 13: almost better than some of my videos today, but it
Speaker 13: was I think that one got like a little over
Speaker 13: three hundred and forty three hundred and fifty thousand views
Speaker 13: pretty quick because there wasn't as many tech specific phone
Speaker 13: related channels out there. Yeah, and so yeah, that's basically
Speaker 13: how it started. So it came from the world of
Speaker 13: marketing promotions showing customers how to use their phone, and
Speaker 13: then it kind of moved into just doing it more
Speaker 13: and more and more on YouTube. And then after I
Speaker 13: figured out that it's actually a thing that I just
Speaker 13: kept uploading. And then the name Jimmy is pro came
Speaker 13: from the email that I created back way back in
Speaker 13: the day doing promotional work tours promotions, and I was like,
Speaker 13: I have to have an easy email that they would
Speaker 13: go with and maybe something that's more professional than some
Speaker 13: of the older emails that we had, and so Jimmy
Speaker 13: is Promo just kind of stayed and that's just kind
Speaker 13: of how I got that work. And then that's how
Speaker 13: YouTube kept the name of Jimmy as promo. The only
Speaker 13: change I did was put in the spaces between Jimmy
Speaker 13: is promo.
Speaker 1: And as they say, the rest is history. So now,
Speaker 1: of course you have a channel on YouTube and you
Speaker 1: know very successful. What do you think about the new
Speaker 1: S twenty five series. I've been loving it. I think
Speaker 1: it is the best phone.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know you may have a different opinion because you
Speaker 1: know the micro SD cards and the Bluetooth on the
Speaker 1: you know, no Bluetooth on the stylist, But like, I
Speaker 1: think this is overall the best Samsung phone I've ever used.
Speaker 13: I mean, I'd say it's the best well rounded phone
Speaker 13: I think. I'm and I guess pun intended with the corners.
Speaker 13: I mean, I love the flag that you know, with
Speaker 13: the S twenty four it was a rectangular device and
Speaker 13: if you use it without a case, it was just
Speaker 13: in your palm. Yeah, and so this is a comfortable
Speaker 13: phone to hold, a comfortable phone to use. So with
Speaker 13: the rounded corners you have a little bit better performance
Speaker 13: than even the S twenty four Ultra. I mean, I
Speaker 13: can tell the difference between the camera as well as
Speaker 13: the sound, Like I feel like it sounds much better
Speaker 13: than the S twenty four and then also Samsung one
Speaker 13: UY seven Yeah, which is basically the skin that Samsung
Speaker 13: uses on top of Android. It just it gives you
Speaker 13: a really good experience, a whole bunch of really fun,
Speaker 13: you know, packed features, and yeah, so far, it's definitely
Speaker 13: one that I could tell the difference between the S
Speaker 13: twenty four and for anybody who was holding onto any
Speaker 13: phone of like the S twenty, the S twenty one,
Speaker 13: the S twenty two, the S twenty three, they'll see
Speaker 13: a huge difference for upgrades.
Speaker 4: If you're maybe.
Speaker 13: Moving or thinking of moving from the S twenty four
Speaker 13: series to the S twenty five series, those are mostly
Speaker 13: those who love the latest and greatest, who wants the
Speaker 13: highest trade and value for the most recent phone. But yeah,
Speaker 13: anybody that moves into it, I think is going to have,
Speaker 13: you know, a really good experience with the device.
Speaker 1: I'd say, even if you have the S twenty four
Speaker 1: and you're thinking of it, go for it, because I
Speaker 1: just think that just the design alone on the S
Speaker 1: twenty five Ultra compared to the twenty four is like
Speaker 1: it just feels perfect in your hand, like compared to
Speaker 1: the old one, which was fine, but it wasn't as
Speaker 1: easy to hold and manipulate as this one.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's my thing. Who's going.
Speaker 13: I mean, you get a little bit better of a
Speaker 13: camera set up like the Ultra wise a little bit better. Yeah,
Speaker 13: and then even even the power efficiency is better, so you.
Speaker 1: Thel the cooling is way improved because it's like the
Speaker 1: vape what I mean. I know this is nerdy and techy,
Speaker 1: but like that vapor chamber, it's like bigger, so it
Speaker 1: keeps the phone cooler. Like I'm not kidding, Jimmy, I
Speaker 1: was using the pixel of was the pixel fold. The
Speaker 1: heat that that thing puts out compared to the Samsung
Speaker 1: that does not heat up at all, is just it's
Speaker 1: just night and day.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I believe the vapor chamber, if I remember right,
Speaker 13: they said it was forty percent larger in the S
Speaker 13: twenty five Ultra versus the S twenty four Ultra.
Speaker 1: So that means that your phone when it's being used,
Speaker 1: if you're playing games or just using it a lot,
Speaker 1: or even charging it, it's just not going to get
Speaker 1: hot compared to the older model. And it to me,
Speaker 1: I've never even felt this phone warm. I know it's
Speaker 1: not the summer right now, but it's still pretty pretty good. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I wanted you to touch upon one thing before
Speaker 1: we get to some of your tips and tricks. But
Speaker 1: easy Mode this is a really this is like a
Speaker 1: nice hidden gem on the Samsung side of things. Can
Speaker 1: you explain what that is?
Speaker 13: Yeah, so easy Mode it's actually even easy to find.
Speaker 13: So it just changes your display so you still have
Speaker 13: a very powerful phone. But when you go inside your
Speaker 13: display settings, you have an option for easy Mode. And
Speaker 13: what it does is it makes it easier to use.
Speaker 13: It is limiting basically what is shown on the screen.
Speaker 13: It also has larger print. It only comes with three
Speaker 13: home screens initially, so on the left hand side, if
Speaker 13: you swipe to the left, that is where you're gonna
Speaker 13: have all of your quick contacts. So like you have
Speaker 13: I believe it's nine or twelve. I think it could
Speaker 13: be nine contacts and you tap on them so in
Speaker 13: this way you can either call them or text them.
Speaker 13: Then you have your main home screen that you can
Speaker 13: move your applications wherever you want them to go. You
Speaker 13: have your camera, the Internet, and then your next screen
Speaker 13: is just whatever you want there, like if you want
Speaker 13: a couple of widgets, you know, on the right so
Speaker 13: pretty much, it's like if you don't need all the
Speaker 13: bells and whistles, but you still want it, you can
Speaker 13: basically tone it down.
Speaker 2: And that's really what easy mode does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just makes the phone like just simpler. I mean,
Speaker 1: look in general, like you if it's like someone that's
Speaker 1: a little bit more elderly or a senior that you
Speaker 1: know may not want everything or just want something simple,
Speaker 1: or even the fact that I was looking at it
Speaker 1: and it says it increases the touch and hold delay,
Speaker 1: so that means that like you know, some people like
Speaker 1: they may hold things or touch their screen longer and
Speaker 1: like now they're like, oh, something just happened. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I didn't do anything. Well, that's because you're
Speaker 1: touching stuff randomly and it's activating stuff. So this actually
Speaker 1: makes that delay longer so that you're not like triggering
Speaker 1: random stuff all the time, which I know you know
Speaker 1: is a common problem. So any tip you want to
Speaker 1: offer for the Samsung phones, anything that you think people
Speaker 1: should look into if they have one of these things.
Speaker 13: I mean, first off, when it comes down to you know,
Speaker 13: let's say like the camera. Pretty much for the camera,
Speaker 13: you're able to play with your Galaxy Log if you
Speaker 13: want to create like a really nice video shot where
Speaker 13: you're able to notice if you're shooting something that's overexposed,
Speaker 13: so you'll have like just a really clean shot, so
Speaker 13: you'll be able to play with the Galaxy Log a
Speaker 13: couple of things too, Like one of the newer ones,
Speaker 13: it's features called now bar, And if you're into sports,
Speaker 13: if it's NBA or baseball, basketball, football, doesn't matter what
Speaker 13: it is. They actually have a new now bar that
Speaker 13: is called Live Sports and pretty much it's associated with
Speaker 13: your Google and it's actually very easy to set up.
Speaker 13: I've actually shown videos showing off like the best tips
Speaker 13: in the tricks, some of the hidden features, some of
Speaker 13: the settings can change immediately, you know, on my channel.
Speaker 13: And also if you create, you know, some of the
Speaker 13: simple stuff. If you create something on your calendar and
Speaker 13: you notice it's on the wrong day, you can do
Speaker 13: a simple drag and drop rather than editing, so you
Speaker 13: can just drag it and drop it to the correct
Speaker 13: date and then that's all you would have to do.
Speaker 13: And then you can, if you want, fully customize your
Speaker 13: lock screen and your home screen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's I think that's the biggest I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess I should ask you this, why do you
Speaker 1: like Samsung and Android over iOS?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 13: So, I mean one of the reasons would be a
Speaker 13: lot of the customizations. I mean, there's just so much
Speaker 13: you can do with it. And actually, yesterday I played
Speaker 13: with the new and upcoming Samsung Home Up application. It's
Speaker 13: where you can fully free form set up your entire
Speaker 13: home screen however you want. You can diagnoalize anything, make
Speaker 13: any application bigger.
Speaker 2: You can also.
Speaker 13: Change your animation, so some people love the animations of
Speaker 13: Samsung phones. You can actually completely change how the animation looks,
Speaker 13: how it bounces, how fast or how slow it goes.
Speaker 13: So I'd say the number one would be a customization.
Speaker 13: Other than that, I mean, Samsung is you know, if
Speaker 13: you're looked in that security reasons, Samsung is just as
Speaker 13: you know, just as or more secure than Apple, Especially
Speaker 13: when it.
Speaker 2: Comes down to Samsung Knox.
Speaker 13: I think personally, just because my home has so many
Speaker 13: Samsung products that I feel they have a bigger ecosystem
Speaker 13: because not only do they have you know, Samsung has
Speaker 13: the phones, the watches, the tabs, the earbuds, they have
Speaker 13: the TVs, the washers, the dryers, the refrigerators, the robot vacuums, everything,
Speaker 13: so you can just connect everything together. And then lastly,
Speaker 13: I'll say the camera. So I know that I have
Speaker 13: a few friends that have Apple iPhone devices and if
Speaker 13: I'm with them, they'll say, hey, Jimmy, just take the photo.
Speaker 13: And it's sometimes just because they know that I can
Speaker 13: sometimes create a better shot.
Speaker 2: Than what they can.
Speaker 13: So I don't know if it's a big main thing
Speaker 13: out there, but in my world out here, some of
Speaker 13: my iPhone friends asked me to take the photos. Which
Speaker 13: is funny because within Samsung phones and Apple phones, they
Speaker 13: both use sensors that are coming from either Sony or Samsung.
Speaker 13: It just kind of depends on some of the processing
Speaker 13: after the fact. Interesting, So I love the camera and
Speaker 13: the security and the ecosystem and the customizable you know, customizability.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really what it comes down to. I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously it's a personal preference, and you know there's always
Speaker 2: till the end of the world there will be a
Speaker 2: debate of iPhone versus Android.
Speaker 1: But that's what makes this stuff fun. Jimmy is promo
Speaker 1: search them up on YouTube, subscribe to his chance if
Speaker 1: you want to take your Samsung to the next level.
Speaker 1: I mean, this stuff, it's just like you sit there
Speaker 1: in like every little setting that you go through, every
Speaker 1: little customization feature, it's all there and you do a
Speaker 1: great job.
Speaker 2: Jimmy, thanks for joining me today. Thank you man, I
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much for having me on the show
Speaker 13: and taking up some of your time.
Speaker 2: Absolutely all right.
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