WEBVTT - Feedbag extravaganza, AI tips & Disney Imagineering magic (131, July 26, 2025) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.800 What's going on on rich dmiro And this is Rich 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.800 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.440 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.920 also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.040 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.160 Let's open up those phone lines at triple a rich 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.400 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.280 two four one zero one. Give me a call if 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:30.040 you have a question about technology. Email is also open. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.680 Just go to rich on tech dot tv and hit contact. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.879 This show is all about you. 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I've got a backlog of emails. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.000 I've got them ready to go. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:46.040 You have. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.600 You get in touch with me pretty much every day 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.760 of the week, and so I figured I'd take this 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.800 show to sort of just get through a bunch of 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.280 these questions that I get that I think apply to 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:57.120 a lot of people. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:58.960 So we can help some folks out. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.360 So email open, go to the website rich on tech 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.600 dot tv, or if you want to call eight eight 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.920 eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.160 to two four one zero one. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.720 We do have some guests this week. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:18.440 Three great guests in fact, tech journalists and podcaster Tom Merritt, 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.200 host of the Daily Tech News Show, is going to 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.240 talk about some of his favorite tech things recently, including 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:30.000 the new x real glasses, and later, we've got technology 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:35.440 journalists Sabrina Ortiz, senior editor at ZD Net. She's going 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.399 to join to talk all things AI and UH. Later 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.240 later in the show, we've got Josh Goren. He is 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.479 with Walt Disney Imagineering. I told you I recently had 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.400 the opportunity to take a tour meet up with those 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:55.200 folks and got some cool inside looks at what you know, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.840 Disney does with cutting edge technology to bring all these 0:01:58.880 --> 0:01:59.960 experiences to life. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:04.240 So we're going to talk to Josh about that this week. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:10.080 I just got back from Kawai, Hawaii. Always fun to 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.519 go to Hawaii. It's man. We celebrated My wife and 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.200 I celebrated our twenty year wedding anniversary, which is just 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.600 wild because I remember going to Hawaii for our anniversary. 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:29.000 Thank you, Bobo, And it was great, really really nice. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.679 It's one of these things where you got to take 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.400 the time to do these things and just celebrate. And 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.760 you know, we felt bad leaving the kids. We felt 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.880 bad leaving work. We had to change everything around the 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.080 last minute because my wife is starting a new job, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.079 and so we had everything planned and we had actually 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.160 a different place planned, and we had to just swap everything. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:51.480 And it's these little things in life that you kind 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.120 of come up against and you just power through it 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.640 and you do it. And we changed all the flights, 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.440 we changed the hotel, and we did it all and 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.000 it was great. We had such a nice and if 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.120 you haven't been to Kawhi, it is it's quite the experience. 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.840 I'm a big Jurassic Park fan, and so Kawai obviously 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.240 is where they filmed a lot of that movie, and 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.040 it is it is desolate. There's not a lot there 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.680 and that's what we wanted, and so we were hiking 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.080 to breakfast, which was really cool, just stayed at the 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.040 hotel most of the time, went to places locally around there, 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.600 but there's not a lot. There's not like chain restaurants. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.600 There's not a lot of places to go and eat. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.520 And I'm not really selling this place, but that's what 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.400 we wanted. And it rained every day we were there, 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.680 which was really cool. At night, went on a bunch 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.560 of hikes which were just amazing. I cannot speak highly 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.640 enough of all trails. If you are not if that, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.600 if that app is not on your phone, and you 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.560 like to like hike at all, or even run or 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.000 anything that's outdoors, that just opens up the world. Like 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.280 I will tell you when my wife and I went 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.960 to Kawai ten years ago, I think, or fifteen years ago, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.400 it was we went on this hike that we had 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.120 no idea what we were in for. I'm talking this 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:08.640 hike was about seven hours up and down mountains, muddy, slippery, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.720 going crossing rivers, and we were in crocs, we were 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.320 in flip flops, and we had no idea what to 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.960 expect out of this hike. And that was before technology 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.640 gave you the ability to know what to expect in 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.039 this world. And now you go on the hikes, you've 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.760 got people leaving reviews from the day before saying, Hey, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.040 this is what you need to know, this is what 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.160 you're up against. This area was muddy, here's the trail, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.839 you can follow it, you can download it on your phone. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.360 I mean, it really is quite incredible. It's the same 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.240 way kind of like with Google Maps. I was talking 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.279 to a couple on our vacation that was from you know, 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:46.680 they lived in New York City, and I said, when 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.400 I lived in New York City, it was so tough 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.719 to get around before Google Maps. You literally had to 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:57.400 print out your entire route on this website called hop stop. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.240 You would say where you're starting, where you're going, and 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.760 it would print out directions to take the subway, and 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.760 then you would exit the subway, you'd go the wrong way. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.480 You'd start walking down the street and invariably going the 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.159 wrong way. So, I mean, our world has just gotten 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:15.159 so much easier because of the smartphone and the apps, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.240 and it's it's just quite incredible now. The thing that 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.000 I do struggle with, I will tell you when I'm 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.720 on vacation is my email. So on this vacation specifically, 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.240 I did not want to check my email. And I 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.240 understand that my emails on my phone, so of course 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.800 I was looking at that. But you know, I want 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.880 it to be on vacation. I want to be disconnected. 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.599 But the problem is I end up getting more stressed 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:37.480 out watching all the. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:38.440 Emails pile up. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.480 And by the way, people are saying rich like I 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.880 got someone that of your very nice thank you. They 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:45.960 said they're a listener of the show, and they said, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.240 this is my second request, this is my third request. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.200 I'm like, excuse me, Like, okay, I get it, you're 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.719 emailing me and you're not hearing back, but like, you 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.000 have to understand that I am a human that is 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.520 like going through life, and I have jobs and things 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.039 and family, and like writing back to emails is not 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.760 something I'm always able to do instantly. And so I'm 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:08.599 on my trip and I'm like, I'm telling my wife. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.800 I'm like Lynn, I'm like, I really just need to 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.320 bring my laptop and every day I just need to 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.040 do my email for an hour in the morning and 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.960 I'll be less stressed. I know I'm on vacation, but 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.719 I have to do that just to sort of triage things. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:21.880 And she said, yeah, that's what my dad always did 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.160 on vacation. They would sit there, my mom and dad 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.360 would have a coffee in the morning and they would 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.120 sit there with their email. And I didn't want to 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.479 do that, but now I realize you kind of have to. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.039 So it's something that I've always struggled with because I 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.160 don't leave. Some people do that thing where it says 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.679 out of office. I don't do that because no one's 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.600 really out of the office ever anymore. Right, Like there's 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.880 a really truly important email it needed of responding to. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.560 Of course I'd reply to it. The other thing that 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.880 I did is I tried watching movies on my phone. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.760 I watched Happy Gilmore Too, which it was funny. 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:55.560 I know. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.000 Someone literally texted me I posted on my Instagram that 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.920 I watched this movie. Someone was like, way to bow 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.520 to the lowest common denominator in life. I'm like, you know, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.600 I can enjoy a silly movie, like these are the 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.720 things you bobo's just walking out of the room. These 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.280 are the things that you open yourself up to when 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.480 you are a public person and posting on your social media. Right, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.880 I posted my anniversary, posted that I watched Happy Gilmore. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.440 I post all the time on my Instagram at richon 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.520 Tech if you want to check it out. But yes, 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.760 you open yourself up to people saying, oh, that movie 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:27.400 was silly too. 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:28.800 I thought it was funny. I enjoyed it. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.880 And also the people shaming you for watching a silly 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.240 movie that, by the way, every single person in the 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.200 United States watched Happy Gilmore on Friday night. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:37.960 Give me a break. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.960 When I looked at the top Google searches. Every single 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.520 search was related to Happy Gilmore. And by the way, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.720 just how wild that, like thirty years later after the 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.320 first movie, how much has changed in our world, Like 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.000 just the age of people in that movie, the people 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.640 that died, you know that were in the first original 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:59.160 movie that are no longer with us. But I did 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.000 try watching movie on my phone because I want to 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.440 bring a tablet, And that was another mistake I made, 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.880 because I'm sitting there on the plane and I'm watching 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.560 this like tiny The first movie I watched and now 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.040 I can't even remember what it was, but I'm watching it. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.680 It was like one of oh it was Sinners, which, 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.080 by the way, was Sinners was interesting, That was an 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.920 interesting movie. But I'm watching it and it's like letterboxed 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.840 inside the screen. So not only are you watching it 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.280 on a tiny screen, but there's also like two inches 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.880 of border around the movie that you can't expand. And 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:33.640 so my wife is sitting there, She's like, what is 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.960 going on on your screen there? Like you're watching on 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.240 a postage stamp. I said, yes, I know, Uh so 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.320 I do need to bring a tablet. A one tip 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.000 I will give you that I did. I did pick 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.600 up while I was at the Hawaii went to this 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.520 like random grocery store, and of course you come to 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.640 the checkout and you know, you have to put in 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.720 your club card number. And I'm telling you, and I've 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.800 mentioned this before, but I'm going to tell you again 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.360 because they're like, okay, club card, and it's always embarrassing 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.040 to do this, but I'm telling you, you put in 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:02.800 eight six, seven, five, three oh nine. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.000 It works every time. It works every single time. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:07.880 The only thing I had to know was the area 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.240 code for Hawaii, and I guessed it really quickly. I 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.240 think it was was it eight oh eight? I think 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.960 it was eight oh eight Hawaii area code. Let me say, 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:18.480 uh yeah, eight o waight, So I did eight OA. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.240 And you know, the person that to check out is 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:21.760 like waiting for me, and I'm typing it in and 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.640 I'm like, I'm just waiting for like some sort of 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.760 alarm to go off, you know, like or the song 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.800 to start like playing on the speakers in the in 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.559 the grocery store. It didn't, but the guy's like, Okay, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.120 that worked, thank you. And I'm telling you, I've used 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.120 that so many times when I travel. If it's not 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.079 like one of the chain stores that you're you're you 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.600 used to shopping in where your card may work. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.760 Try it. A six, seven, five, three oh nine works 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:42.240 every time? 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:43.000 Not sure? 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.160 Why why is that number so prominent. 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.080 The other thing I will tell you about the trip 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:57.160 is hotels need to figure out tipping in a cashless society. Now, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:03.199 I will tell you this because the problem is housekeeping. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.480 You want to leave a tip. So first couple of 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.520 days I had some cash on me and I'm like, okay, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.040 I'm leaving, you know, cash, And the problem is, if 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.520 you don't get change, you can't really leave. You know, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.640 if you only have twenties, you only have one hundred, 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.600 whatever you have on you, you may not be able 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.040 to you know, you might not want to leave that 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.040 for every single time you want to tip someone. Right, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.920 So I went around I'm not kidding. The last day, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.080 I really I wanted to leave a tip for the housekeeper. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.600 I went around to no less than like ten people 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.120 around the like, I walked all around, all the bars, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.199 all the you know, the people around the pool. Nobody 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:39.040 had cash. Sorry, can't make change. Sorry, can't make change. Sorry, 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.520 can't make change. And so finally when I was I 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.400 was getting the car from the valet guy. I was like, hey, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.200 do you have any change because I only have a twenty. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.680 He's like, no, not really, so I had to tip 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.600 him even more than I would like. This guy that 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.720 literally just brought me my car got like the biggest 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.520 tip of the day just because I wasn't gonna not 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:56.960 tip him. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.280 So I was like, Okay, well here here's it. You know, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:00.000 whatever you got. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.520 You know, It's just my point is we need I've 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.520 been in hotels where they have QR codes in the room. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.120 I think every person that works at a hotel needs 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.160 like a QR code to like be like, hey, yes, 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.800 you can tip me, because the problem is you're just 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.600 not getting as many tips as you used to get 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.280 because people just don't have cash on them or they 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.319 don't have an easy way to tip. People want to tip. 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.880 They want to give you that money for helping them 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.800 out and providing some sort of service, especially if it's 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:26.480 a good service. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.320 So hotels really need to figure that out. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.800 My favorite thing on this trip watching people struggle to 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.640 take selfies. That is always that's a pastime of mine. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.280 I will never it's so funny, especially in front of 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.480 the sunset. No camera can do that all right. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.959 Eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.319 to two, four to one zero one. You coming up next. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.160 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.240 out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.640 oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.400 one zero one. I was reading capping my trip to 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:05.719 Hawaii and the valet person who had no change for me, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.000 Ki Kim wrote me and said, uh, I got played. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.520 He's a valet guy. Of course he has plenty of change, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.880 and I will give him this. It was early in 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.640 the morning. I was like one of the first people 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.640 to get my car, and so I think that was it. 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.640 And so because I did ask the valet person the 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.640 first day I got there to break you know, break 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.040 a hundred, and this guy pulled out a wad like 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.400 I'm talking just tons of money, like he was embarrassed 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:33.000 to show it. 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.040 It was so much money, you know, so much cash there. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.840 And I remember when I was a waiter, I would 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.040 always start my day with the right amount of change, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.920 right like that would be part of my preparation because 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.839 you always wanted to be able to make change for 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.800 folks that were paying their bill, and so you were prepared, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.920 so be prepared. But yeah, nowadays, I'm telling you everything 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.480 has gotten so digital, and so you know, people just 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.199 they're not prepared. And I think that some people think 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:58.960 it might help them, which I guess in the case 0:12:59.000 --> 0:12:59.960 of the valet guy did. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:01.640 But some people just. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.000 If it's if it's not going to get changed, they're 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.920 just like, okay, never mind, but yeah, let's go to uh, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.840 let's go to Tarin in Tennessee. Tarn You're on with rich. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:18.520 By a little on about three to four acres. I'm 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.559 currently inside my home using the Aero product okay for 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:27.800 my WiFi extenders and router and using Spectrum. I recently 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:33.960 had an Ethernet cable installed outside, so now I'm looking 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:38.520 for some sort of hardwired Wi Fi extender weather proof 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:45.040 to attached to the house to extend the Wi Fi projecting. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.720 Out super easy. You already have euro Euro has it. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.280 They've got what's called the Outdoor seven and this is 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.720 specifically meant for an outdoor setup, exactly what you're talking about. 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.880 And the good news is it sounds like you are 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.160 and ready to just install this because you've already got 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.800 the Ethernet, which means you're going to get a nice, clean, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:10.400 fast connection to this outdoor extender. This thing works. Let's see, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.680 it's Outdoor seven, that's what it's called. Operates negative forty 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.080 degrees to one hundred and thirty one degrees, so hopefully 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.520 you're within that range. If you're getting hotter than one 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.800 hundred and thirty one degrees in Tennessee, then that that 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.320 could be a problem. It also provides up to fifteen 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.920 thousand square feet of outdoor coveraging can connect up to 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.640 one hundred devices. I've not personally tested this, but I 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.040 was actually just talking to someone that that has and 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.840 it's it's getting great reviews. So it's expensive. It's three 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.480 hundred and ninety nine dollars for one of these. But 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.480 it sounds like you've got a pretty good setup there. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.920 Sounds like you've got a lot of outdoor space. If 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.200 you want those gadgets to connect properly, this is the 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.680 way to do it. And it doesn't sound like you're 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.680 gonna need a lot of installation like it sounds like 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.480 this is something you can do yourself since you already 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.320 have the Ethernet jack. The only thing is you may 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.640 have to the only thing is you may have to get. 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.160 I'm looking to see if there's a plug that's required. 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:08.920 That might be the only thing you have to do 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.200 is get a plug for this. So but yeah, three 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.320 hundred nine and nine bucks called the Eero Outdoor seven. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.240 I think that'll solve all of your problems. Taran Terran. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.120 By the way, my sister's name is Arran. You spell 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.680 it t r e n. My sister spells t r 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.920 y n. So unique name. Thanks for the call today, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.840 appreciate it. Uh, let's go to uh, let's see here 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.200 Super Super and Berkeley. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.720 You're on with her rye Hie. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:37.280 Show. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.760 Thank you love to hear that. What's going on? 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.440 Well, so I'm visually in treed to I my friends 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:49.120 let me use the raven of metaglasses. Okay, And so 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.720 I find out via my Instagram account and on Facebook. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.320 And I was just thinking enough a college friend that 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:57.640 I haven't talked to you in a while, and the 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.040 only way I could get a hold of them is 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:04.200 via Facebook. So I went on to Facebook. They sent 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:08.080 me a code to type it in. But then it 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.760 looked like I created a new account and an account 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.600 I don't see my old e fent from college. I'm confused. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.400 Okay, so it sounds like it sounds like you either 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.280 have a different account or two accounts. The way the 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.200 meta quest works, is it or sorry, the meta glasses 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.960 is they use your Facebook account to log in typically 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.720 as far as I know. So it sounds to me like, 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.920 have you downloaded the app to your phone? I'm sure 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.800 you have, because you needed to sign up for these things. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.720 Right, Yeah, I have the meta AI, but it's a 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.360 meta through the glasses are through my Instagram now. 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.000 Okay, right, talking about Facebook, right, okay, so it sounds 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:48.360 like you need to switch the account that you're using 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:49.240 on these glasses. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.680 So if you open up that meta. 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.720 Oh, they're not related. They're not related at all. What 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.640 happened was that I haven't been on Facebook in a while, 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.080 and but them getting the meta glasses inspired me to 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.800 look up some college friends. So when I when they 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.320 sent me on my phone, they sent me a code. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.240 I typed it in and it looked like I created 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.239 a new account instead of my old account with all 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.000 my college friends that I was trying to look for. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.480 I'm not related, Okay, it just inspired me to get 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:21.240 onto Facebook. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.320 I got it, got it, got it, Okay, But you're sorry. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.359 That you're enjoying the glasses. 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:27.320 I am. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.679 Yeah, those things are incredible. And you said you're you 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:31.760 said your vision impaired. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:36.720 Yeah, I'm totally blind. So I was been reading menus 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.719 and reading stuff off the store, and I even went 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.280 to a small convenience serve out my house and pretty 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:45.359 much ninety five percent it at myself. Just grabbed a 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.280 couple of baggageips and I drink and I had the 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:49.200 glasses read it. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.240 I love to hear it. Super I've got to run, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.320 but I love to hear it. I'm glad you're having 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.280 a great experience with them. Back after this with tom 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:02.160 Merritt's Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.040 hanging out with you talking technology at triple eight rich 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.400 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:14.280 four one zero one the website rich on Tech dot TV. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.240 Sarah writes in rude and I thought she was talking 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:19.880 to me, but she said, I just heard you say 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.280 some people repeat their email questions to you two or 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.720 three times. You're on vacation, your advice is free. What's 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.760 wrong with people? Always grateful for any help I can get, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.240 either from you directly or your amazing. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.720 Tip filled show best Sarah. Thank you, Sarah. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.240 I know I feel bad even sharing that, but you 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.719 know it's it's comical sometimes, like I am not like 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.600 sitting here as an operator like waiting for your emails 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.120 to like write back, but yes I do right back 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:45.000 to a lot of them. 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.800 So thanks for that. Now I'm not going to get 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:49.760 any emails anymore. Bobo. That's it. 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.600 We're done with the emails now. Good news is I 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.120 have a backlog of like ten years of them. Let's join. 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.720 Let's bring Tom Merritt on the show. Tom Merrit is 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.439 host of the Daily Tech News Show and a former 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.119 colleague of mine at SNET way way back. 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:05.320 Tom, Welcome to the show. 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.440 Thanks Rich, good to be here. Man, good talk to 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:07.800 you again. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.040 So how is the show going. You've been doing that 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.000 for how long now? How long has Daily Tech News 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:13.720 Show been going on? 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.720 Eleven years now? Oh my gosh, yeah, we've been keeping 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.879 it consistent. My co host Sarah Lane, my producer Roger 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.440 Chang still with us. So yeah, it's been going great. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:25.359 We'd love it. 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.879 Now, would you call this Do you ever feel like 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:29.480 there's ever a slow newsweek? 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.520 That is a point of contention with me and everyone else. 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.600 I always look at the news every day and I'm like, 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.439 there's more things I want to talk about than I 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.239 have time for. But there are definitely times where it 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:46.200 gets closer to manageable versus like overwhelming. But that's just 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.240 because I'm a news junkie and I love all this stuff. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.040 Yeah, I feel the same way with this show. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:53.040 Like I come in with like one hundred things printed 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.600 out and like ready to go, and I might get 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.080 to like just a fraction of them. 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:58.639 I want to mention that. I want to mention that. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:00.119 Oh I wanted to mention that, And it's like you 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.720 just can't get to it all, even though time is 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:06.120 unlimited on podcasting, and I guess, I mean not really 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.960 on the radio, but I mean if you wanted like 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.280 a seventeen hour podcast, I guess you could get through 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:11.560 it all. 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.520 Right, Yeah, I mean you could do it. I don't 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:14.960 know if anyone will listen to it, but you you 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.000 can make one for sure. 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.240 So you've got a newsletter this weekend. You did your 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:22.119 newsletter on some of your favorite apps, So tell me, well, 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:24.080 first off, tell me your setup, because I see you 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.840 on Instagram. You're often taking pictures on like a pixel fold, right, 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:30.600 don't you use like a dual phone set up or what? 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:35.480 Yeah? I have an iPhone sixteen Promax that I use, 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:39.760 and I have a pixel fold original. I haven't upgraded 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.080 it to the new one. Although everyone says the new 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.960 one's a little more powerful. I like it, and I 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.320 just I really like using the pixel fold when I 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.120 travel because then I can do a little video without 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.399 having to pull out a tablet or a laptop, just 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.000 by unfolding it and increase I don't even see anymore. 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.359 What do you think of the foldable kind of You know, 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.400 we had the new fold hooles come out from Samsung, 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.720 and you know there really trying to make that happen. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.240 It's been six years, I think, yeah. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:05.919 And then of course Apple is going to come out 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:07.879 with the next year and everyone's gonna go, oh my gosh, 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:09.200 what's a fold of ball? 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.600 Yeah, right, as always happens when Apple finally jumps on 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.840 the train. I think they're too expensive, that's my main 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.680 complaint with them. But I find the book style foldable 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:24.320 like I have to be really useful in replacing the 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.040 small tablet. I don't know if you remember the Next 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.919 to seven way back in the day, Wow, I loved 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.199 reading books on that and stuff, and this kind of 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.879 fills that spot that I haven't had a gadget to 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.400 fill in a long time. And I think even the flips, 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:42.960 like the Razor the Samsung Galaxy Flip are popular. My 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.040 wife has the Samsung Galaxy Flip and just loves it 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:48.919 because it's compact but then folds out into a regular 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:50.800 phone size not taking up as much room. 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:53.680 And the Flip. And I'm doing my reviews of those 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.760 phones soon, but I've realized the Fold for me is 0:21:56.800 --> 0:21:59.440 like it's great and it's amazing, and I think Samsung 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.359 did a great It's just not for me personally, Like 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:06.600 I just don't need that. Yeah, But the Flip, I've noticed, 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:11.560 actually does have utility for content creation, and that is 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.400 the fact that it kind of stands on its own. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.200 It can take pictures with the best cameras at all times. 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:18.879 Like I did a quick little video where I just 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:21.439 you know, set the phone up and was able to 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.480 see myself and record it. And that is actually a 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.560 physical like difference between that and like every other phone 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:28.280 I've ever tested. 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:31.080 Yeah, the fact that you can do like selfies and 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.440 selfie videos and everything, and it's built in stand is 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.000 is pretty useful. Sometimes. 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:37.760 I didn't really want to use the word selfie because 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:40.560 I know Bobo will laugh at me for saying that, 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:42.919 but yes, it is good for all of that stuff. 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:44.600 It really. Yeah. 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:46.760 By the way, that the tablet that I've been testing 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.320 that I kind of like for travel is called this 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:54.360 TCL Tab ten and it's basically a smaller sized tablet 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.760 that's Android and so it's perfect for like just watching 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.280 movies and like it actually has this I don't know 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:03.720 if you've heard of this next paper from TC from TCL. Yeah, 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:06.159 we're like almost mimics like a Kindle screen on it. 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:08.600 So that's interesting too, is you can almost use it 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:11.400 as a Kindle not as good as like the standard 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:15.160 Kindle display like the e ink, but it and it's 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:15.680 not bad. 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:18.199 So yeah, if I remember right, because I think I 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:20.080 saw it at CES. I haven't been able to use 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:22.760 it myself. It looks kind of like e ink, but 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:25.040 it has the refresh rate of a regular screen where 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:26.679 e ink is so slow, so you kind of get 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:27.520 the best of both worlds. 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.200 Yes, yes, and you can flip it into the different 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:32.840 modes like you can have it like where it's just 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:35.199 black and white or gray scale, and then you can 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:36.639 have it like as a full color tablet, but the 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:39.880 screen is not completely the same as like a standard 0:23:40.119 --> 0:23:42.240 I would guess it's probably closer to like what they're 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:45.240 doing with the color soft Now, so tell me any 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.080 apps in the newsletter that you should clue us into 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:49.080 that are pretty handy. 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:51.320 Yeah, I'm not sure how many of these will be surprises, 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:55.440 especially to you. But the one that I swear by, 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:57.680 and I was looking at my stats, you know, and 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:01.560 like below the messages up and the Safari app on 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:05.080 the iPhone, the one I use the most is called Feedley. 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:05.960 Are you familiar? 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:08.960 Is that like an RSS reader? Yeah? 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:09.440 It is. 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:12.080 It's an RSS reader. But they've done a great job 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:14.600 over the years because they launched when Google Reader went 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:18.120 away years and years ago, and they've done a great 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:22.080 job over the years of expanding what it can do. So, yes, 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:23.960 you can still plug in your own RSS feeds and 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:26.920 find RSS feeds, but they also can pull from blue 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:30.040 Sky or x or something and put a feed in 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:32.320 that way. And they've got a few other sources. So 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.960 even if an outlet's say Reuter's, doesn't offer its RSS 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.760 feeds anymore. You can get their stories in other ways. 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:42.600 And it's great because for me, I just select all 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:44.480 the stuff that I want to read and it becomes 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:46.640 my news reader. I use it for preparing daily tech 0:24:46.640 --> 0:24:48.639 news show, of course, because I have a technology section, 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:51.159 but also have a sports section and a music section 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:54.320 and a personal blog section that I can pop in on. 0:24:55.000 --> 0:24:57.520 And it solves that problem of being overwhelmed by too 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:00.320 many sources for me. Well, yeah, that that sure eats 0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:02.720 my system, which is I have a folder here with 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:05.520 seventy one blogs I open all the same time. So 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:07.600 I just opened seventy one tabs and go through them 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:09.760 because I get a lot. So much better to have 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:13.639 seventy one blogs in one folder in an RSS reader. 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:17.119 To be overwhelmed, yes, no matter what, we will be overwhelmed. 0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:19.399 And then my favorite part is when I when I 0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:21.639 want to read something later because I may not it 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:23.280 may not be good for the show or whatever, but 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:24.760 I'm like, oh, I want to read this article. It's 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:26.960 a long read, and I put it in my you know, 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:29.280 I used to I'm flipping through so many different like 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.760 insta paper pocket went away. Now I'm using one called folio. 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:35.040 But the problem is Once I put an article in there, 0:25:35.200 --> 0:25:37.160 I'm guaranteed to never look at it again. 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:39.480 It just goes down the memory hole. I know, I 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:40.120 know what you're meaning. 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:42.160 Okay, so fee way, that's cool. 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:45.000 When Pocket went away, I was like, should I try 0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:48.240 to recover? No, I'm just gonna there. I forgot what's 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:51.440 in there. I'll just leave it at that. Open Vibe 0:25:51.640 --> 0:25:54.560 is another app and get this or Android and iOS 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:59.679 that can cross post to blue Sky, Threads, Mastodon and Noster, 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:04.720 which is a lesser known platform. It doesn't work on 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:07.800 X because X has closed its API, but I use 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.400 a lot to just cross post across all of those 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:13.359 blogs or all those microblogs when I have a thought that, 0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:16.200 I'm like, yeah, it's appropriate for all those outlets. 0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:18.199 Well, that's interesting, and that is that sort of like 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:20.400 open source. It's like free, you don't have to pay 0:26:20.400 --> 0:26:20.639 for that. 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:24.480 Yeah, it's an open source project. App is free and 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:28.280 when I first got it worked ninety five percent of 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:29.840 the time. Every once in a while install out. But 0:26:29.840 --> 0:26:31.080 I have to say in the last month or so, 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:34.480 they really tightened things up and it posts pretty fast 0:26:34.560 --> 0:26:37.199 and reliably all the time. Okay, cool, do you want 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:38.520 to do another one, or you want to talk about 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:40.840 these x ral We've got a couple minutes left here. Yeah, 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:42.960 let's talk about the x Raal glasses. I was using 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.960 these this morning for something that is of questionable use, 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:48.800 which is watching an episode of Bob's Burger's while in 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:51.480 the backyard playing with my dog. But I really just 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:53.119 kind of wanted to see if I could do it. 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:56.480 The x Raal glasses kind of look like sunglasses when 0:26:56.480 --> 0:27:00.600 you're wearing them, but they allow you to plug into 0:27:00.640 --> 0:27:05.119 anything with the USB C port and see what is 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:09.159 on that device, so laptop, phone, whatever. I have been 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:11.520 using them to watch video though, because I can get 0:27:11.560 --> 0:27:14.600 a big two hundred inch screen floating in space, I 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:16.520 can have it sit in one spot, or I can 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:18.320 have it follow me around like I did when I 0:27:18.320 --> 0:27:20.480 was playing with the dog, and then I get a 0:27:20.480 --> 0:27:25.080 really good video screen without having to find a big 0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:28.280 video screen or sit down in one particular place. So 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:32.040 it's really allows for flexibility and the video is pretty good. 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:34.920 It's not the highest resolution you could possibly get, of course, 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:37.760 but it's decent for just watching TV. 0:27:38.200 --> 0:27:38.400 Yeah. 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:40.040 I was gonna say so, I mean cause I have 0:27:40.119 --> 0:27:43.879 the VR headsets and it's like The ideal would be 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:45.760 to watch like a movie in like an Apple Vision 0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:47.879 Pro or something like that, but I never have gotten 0:27:47.880 --> 0:27:51.760 to that level of feeling comfortable enough or like, what's 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:54.399 the advantage these I did get a chance to put 0:27:54.440 --> 0:27:57.840 them on at ces. They're instant, they're quick. They mirror 0:27:57.840 --> 0:27:59.760 what's on your phone, which I think is really nice 0:27:59.760 --> 0:28:01.719 because I already know how to use that and it's 0:28:01.760 --> 0:28:04.639 already set up and logged in. So have you watched 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:07.080 like anything substantially long on there or is it more 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:09.320 just for like just kind of zone out with some 0:28:09.440 --> 0:28:11.520 videos on YouTube or something. Yeah. 0:28:11.560 --> 0:28:14.800 I watched like three or four episodes in a row 0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:18.600 of Squid Game right when the latest season had come out, 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:22.280 and I did get a little tired towards like the 0:28:22.320 --> 0:28:25.040 third hour. So I think they're good for a movie, 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:27.800 but if you're going to go for more, at least 0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:29.679 for me, it started to get tire sim and I 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:32.480 used them for work. I put him on and plugged 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:35.000 him into my laptop and made it a second screen 0:28:35.040 --> 0:28:37.720 instead of mirroring, so I could just pull things up 0:28:38.320 --> 0:28:41.680 and it worked great for that because you can see down. 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:45.360 They're not an entire headset. That's covering right. They're just glasses, 0:28:45.480 --> 0:28:47.000 so you can see down at your keyboard, you can 0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:48.680 see down at your desktop, but then you've got this 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.800 huge monitor hanging in front of you. And it actually 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:54.880 helped my posture a little because I wasn't having to 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:56.920 figure out how to position the monitor. I could just 0:28:56.960 --> 0:28:58.080 have it where I'm looking. 0:28:58.480 --> 0:29:00.920 So it's almost like a solution for someone that wants 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:03.280 VR to watch video but like or do like a 0:29:03.280 --> 0:29:05.880 little bit of light work with your computer instead of 0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:08.960 the entire VR setup that like is much more complicated 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:10.440 to kind of get going with. 0:29:10.880 --> 0:29:13.320 Yeah, because these you just plug in the USBC cable, 0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:15.480 put them on your face, and you're you're done. You 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:19.280 don't have to put a whole headset around you. You 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:21.520 look a little weird because they are a bit thick, 0:29:21.800 --> 0:29:24.040 but you're gonna get fewer looks than you would with, like, 0:29:24.200 --> 0:29:27.240 you know, a quest on your head or something. The 0:29:27.280 --> 0:29:29.560 next thing for me is to try them on the airplane. 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:32.400 I have some friends who've said they're great for, like, 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:35.200 you know, watching movies on the airplane. They have their 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:37.920 own built in audio which works really well around the house. 0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:40.120 I imagine on an airplane, I'm gonna have to use headphones, 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:41.040 but you can do it that way. 0:29:41.080 --> 0:29:43.360 Too interesting, all right, I'm just looking up the prices 0:29:43.400 --> 0:29:44.360 on these things. 0:29:45.040 --> 0:29:46.600 What is it? What do they range from? 0:29:46.720 --> 0:29:48.400 Do you know? I think the ones I have these 0:29:48.440 --> 0:29:51.560 are the the x real Pro start at six ninety 0:29:51.600 --> 0:29:52.080 nine right now? 0:29:52.160 --> 0:29:54.080 Wow, okay, I'm trying to see what's the cheapest, do 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:57.600 we know? Let's see here, six two ninety nine looks 0:29:57.600 --> 0:29:58.840 like the cheapest on their website. 0:29:58.840 --> 0:30:01.280 So yeah, that's the preview model. I think it's just 0:30:01.320 --> 0:30:03.760 a little lower resolution, little smaller field of view, but 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:04.920 mostly the same tech. 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:06.720 All right, Tom Merat, it's been fun. 0:30:06.920 --> 0:30:07.040 Uh. 0:30:07.400 --> 0:30:09.400 Where where can folks find you? Follow you all that 0:30:09.440 --> 0:30:09.959 good stuff? 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:10.640 Yeah? 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:12.840 If you if you want to catch us on the 0:30:12.880 --> 0:30:15.600 Daily Technews Show, where at Dailytechnews Show dot com or 0:30:15.640 --> 0:30:18.680 just put it in a search in your podcast catcher, YouTube, Twitch, 0:30:18.760 --> 0:30:22.640 anywhere like that, and you can find me at free Tomnewsletter, 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:25.040 Free toomnewsletter dot com smart url. 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:25.920 I like that one. 0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:28.480 Thanks Tom Merrett, thanks so much for joining me. Eighty 0:30:28.520 --> 0:30:31.000 eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four to 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:33.520 two four one zero one more of your calls and 0:30:33.560 --> 0:30:39.160 emails after this. Welcome back to rich On tech Rich 0:30:39.200 --> 0:30:42.720 DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple 0:30:42.760 --> 0:30:45.480 eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:30:45.560 --> 0:30:49.840 to two four one zero one. All the show notes 0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:53.120 on the website just go to rich on tech dot tv. 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:56.280 This is episode one thirty one. So if you hear 0:30:56.360 --> 0:30:59.160 something mentioned on the show and you're like, wait, I 0:30:59.160 --> 0:31:00.760 want to link to that, just go right to the 0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:04.600 website rich on tech dot tv. Everything is linked up there. 0:31:05.600 --> 0:31:09.720 Got an email from Rick, he says, talking about the 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:12.280 valet with a change. He said, I had a twenty 0:31:12.320 --> 0:31:15.160 dollars bill. I asked valet if he had fifteen dollars 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:17.320 to give back to me. He said no, thinking he'd 0:31:17.320 --> 0:31:20.120 get my twenty. When it appeared he was getting nothing, 0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:24.040 he suddenly quote found a forgotten lot of bills in 0:31:24.080 --> 0:31:24.960 his left pocket. 0:31:27.520 --> 0:31:28.200 That's so funny. 0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:29.960 It's like, okay, I could you could either give me 0:31:30.080 --> 0:31:32.560 change or nothing. It's like, oh hold on, let me 0:31:32.560 --> 0:31:34.719 dig a little deeper into my pocket and find that change. 0:31:35.040 --> 0:31:35.760 But here's the thing. 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:37.920 If you are, you know, in this in this sort 0:31:37.960 --> 0:31:40.920 of a service industry, have that change or have a 0:31:40.920 --> 0:31:44.560 way Like I'm not kidding the amount of people that 0:31:44.640 --> 0:31:49.640 grumble about accepting Venmo. I'm like, dude, like take it. 0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:51.720 It's so much easier, Like you will get paid more 0:31:51.840 --> 0:31:55.800 if you accept Venmo, and it's just amazing. Or any 0:31:55.840 --> 0:31:58.760 of these systems that let you take the money. When 0:31:58.800 --> 0:32:01.600 I was selling my book, I use Square and it 0:32:01.720 --> 0:32:03.720 was like, yeah, it costs a little bit of money. 0:32:03.760 --> 0:32:06.040 That's the other thing. All these companies, Like I noticed 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:08.720 a trend in Hawaii. These companies are like, oh, I 0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:11.400 got to charge you, you know, four percent, three percent 0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:12.959 extra because we take a credit card. 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:15.480 I'm like, hold on, that's called the cost of doing business. 0:32:15.680 --> 0:32:18.440 Just raise your prices by thirty cents and don't charge me, 0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:21.160 Like just it doesn't matter, Like we're already paying, Like 0:32:21.200 --> 0:32:23.400 we get it. It costs money to do this stuff, 0:32:23.800 --> 0:32:25.080 but it's always better. 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:26.320 Where was I. 0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:29.000 They wanted cash and it's like, no, just pay with 0:32:29.000 --> 0:32:31.880 with my card. It's much easier tap to pay. Linda 0:32:31.920 --> 0:32:32.840 and Burbank, what's up? 0:32:34.440 --> 0:32:37.959 I heard something worse than what you were talking about 0:32:38.640 --> 0:32:42.040 earlier when you couldn't get fund and you can get. 0:32:42.720 --> 0:32:43.760 Get cash from people. 0:32:43.960 --> 0:32:45.400 Yeah, sometime it's. 0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:46.240 In a laws. 0:32:46.640 --> 0:32:49.120 On the other hand, Lenn Dix said, it's going through 0:32:49.160 --> 0:32:54.320 the tocause Congress passed it. The digital dollar. 0:32:55.600 --> 0:33:01.480 Oh well, and the digital dollar, you know, the government 0:33:01.520 --> 0:33:04.880 will track on everything we buy it and it will 0:33:04.920 --> 0:33:06.680 limit what we can buy. 0:33:06.800 --> 0:33:09.000 Yeah, there's a lot of people that don't want the 0:33:09.040 --> 0:33:09.720 digital dollar. 0:33:09.800 --> 0:33:10.000 Now. 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:13.080 Now here's the thing I'm I probably actually would not 0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:16.360 advocate for that because when you have a digital dollar, 0:33:16.440 --> 0:33:20.960 the government is really in control of everything you do 0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:24.160 and all of this spending. And I'm not sure that's 0:33:24.160 --> 0:33:28.360 something we want, right like number one cash, Yeah, well 0:33:28.360 --> 0:33:30.480 that's the thing, like that would be well, here you 0:33:30.600 --> 0:33:32.760 understand why they want to do a way of cash, right. 0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:35.160 To track down everything we buy. 0:33:35.160 --> 0:33:38.640 Exactly, and not just that, but also taxes because you know, 0:33:38.720 --> 0:33:42.240 there's there's a there's an element of cash is not 0:33:42.280 --> 0:33:44.080 necessarily trackable in a big way. 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:44.400 I gues. 0:33:44.480 --> 0:33:46.600 I get if you win ten thousand dollars at the casino, 0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:48.560 they make you fill out a form. But you know, 0:33:48.640 --> 0:33:51.040 cash in general, small amounts has just kind of moved 0:33:51.080 --> 0:33:54.640 around freely, and with a digital dollar, that would not 0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:57.120 happen anymore. And I'm not sure we want to live 0:33:57.120 --> 0:34:00.400 in a world where the government knows where every single 0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:04.479 dollar you have to your name, where it goes, and 0:34:04.920 --> 0:34:08.360 you know where that was transferred to. There are governments 0:34:08.360 --> 0:34:11.880 that are trying this. I believe China has a pilot 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:15.600 program with a digital currency, and I guess that makes 0:34:15.640 --> 0:34:19.759 sense for them. So for me personally, I'm all good 0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:22.399 with the Venmo tap to pay. I just want the options, right. 0:34:22.440 --> 0:34:25.320 There are times when cash is king and it's amazing 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:27.600 to use, and it's great, and of course, you know 0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:29.040 you want to leave a tip for somewhere you want 0:34:29.040 --> 0:34:31.359 to pay in cash, great, but there's also times when 0:34:31.360 --> 0:34:33.160 it's just easier to tap to pay or use Venmo 0:34:33.280 --> 0:34:35.800 or whatever. But yeah, Linda, I don't think in the 0:34:35.920 --> 0:34:39.640 US right now, I don't think we're even experimenting with 0:34:39.640 --> 0:34:43.440 the digital dollar just yet. So hopefully it stays that 0:34:43.480 --> 0:34:47.560 way for a while. John Let's see. Johnny writes in 0:34:47.600 --> 0:34:49.480 from New York, New York. Hey, Rich, I'm trying to 0:34:49.520 --> 0:34:52.799 email a video file that's currently on my iPad. It's 0:34:52.800 --> 0:34:55.880 about one hundred and eighty megabytes. I downloaded the Compressed 0:34:55.960 --> 0:34:58.840 Video and re Size app and managed to compress the 0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:01.640 video to six megabyte. When I try to attach it 0:35:01.680 --> 0:35:03.920 to the Yahoo mail app, it thinks the attachment is 0:35:03.960 --> 0:35:06.400 over twenty five and will not attach. Do you have 0:35:06.440 --> 0:35:09.520 any suggestions on getting the video attached to email? I 0:35:09.600 --> 0:35:12.360 enjoyed one of your shows where you mentioned Gateway two thousand. 0:35:12.719 --> 0:35:17.520 They were great computers. Yes, what I would do, Johnny, 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:21.799 is go to this website wormhole dot App. I know 0:35:21.840 --> 0:35:25.239 it sounds silly, wormhole dot app, but what you can 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:28.239 do is upload the file there. They will give you 0:35:28.320 --> 0:35:31.600 a URL and you can just put that URL into 0:35:31.880 --> 0:35:34.799 the email. And what I like about this wormhole is 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:36.680 that you don't have to sign up, you don't have to. 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:37.520 Do anything special. 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:41.640 It's super fast, it's super easy, and it's private, it's 0:35:41.760 --> 0:35:44.360 end to end encrypted, and you can send up to 0:35:44.440 --> 0:35:49.320 ten gigabytes of a file, So literally could not be easier. 0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:51.520 Just go to wormhole dot app, upload the file there, 0:35:51.560 --> 0:35:53.719 get the link and send it. You can even make 0:35:53.719 --> 0:35:56.160 it where the link expires after one or two downloads. 0:35:56.719 --> 0:35:59.480 Great question, rich On Tech dot TV. If you want 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:02.080 to submit your questions, we'll have more of them coming 0:36:02.160 --> 0:36:05.959 up right after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 0:36:06.040 --> 0:36:09.640 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, Talking Technology Triple 0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:12.840 eight Rich one one eight eight eight seven four to 0:36:12.840 --> 0:36:18.120 two four one zero one Guests on the show today 0:36:18.239 --> 0:36:23.040 include technology journalist Sabrina Ortiz, senior editor at ZD Net. 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:26.279 She's going to talk about all things AI. And then 0:36:26.360 --> 0:36:30.080 later we've got Josh Goren. He is with Walt Disney Imagineering. 0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:33.680 He's going to talk about how Disney uses technology to 0:36:33.760 --> 0:36:36.720 bring all their experiences to life. What a cool place 0:36:36.760 --> 0:36:41.000 to visit, the Walt Disney Imagineering, Very very fun. 0:36:41.440 --> 0:36:42.799 You can find that stuff. By the way. 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:44.399 You can see some of the videos I shot there 0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:46.520 on my Instagram at rich on Tech. 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:48.080 Just check it out. 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:50.319 I've got like the little robots that I saw there, 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:53.840 also tried a lightsaber which was really cool. 0:36:54.280 --> 0:36:55.600 And then there's a floor. 0:36:55.640 --> 0:36:57.399 I don't think I posted the floor yet, but there's 0:36:57.400 --> 0:37:00.000 like a floor that lets you kind of walk infinitely 0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:02.960 in any direction, which is pretty cool. They haven't figured 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:05.200 out how they're going to use that yet, but when 0:37:05.239 --> 0:37:09.279 they do, that'll be neat website for the show rich 0:37:09.480 --> 0:37:12.200 on Tech dot TV. There you can sign up for 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:16.080 my free newsletter. You can also email me and that 0:37:16.280 --> 0:37:18.439 is what many of you do. You can also watch 0:37:18.480 --> 0:37:20.720 my TV segments. I've got them all there as well. 0:37:20.840 --> 0:37:24.600 So lots to do there. Let's take an email from 0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:30.600 Lucia writes in from South Carolina, listening on fifteen to ten. 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:33.400 My ninety three year old mother who's in assisted living, 0:37:33.480 --> 0:37:37.400 has an older Google phone with incoming and outgoing calls. 0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:40.799 After they connect, she tries to press speaker, but frequently 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:44.520 hits a different button and inadvertently hangs up. Is there 0:37:44.560 --> 0:37:46.600 an app that would automatically turn the volume all the 0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:50.560 way up and put the phone on speaker with each call? 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:56.239 There is some assistance features built into smartphones, and I 0:37:56.280 --> 0:38:00.000 think on the pixel this would be under the accessibility settings. 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:04.960 This is a feature called call routing, so basically, whenever 0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:08.160 you get a call, it would route it to the speaker. 0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:11.720 I think you can choose Bluetooth speaker or just standard 0:38:11.800 --> 0:38:14.040 so this in this case, you'd want to choose speaker, 0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:21.240 So go accessibility settings, accessibility touch, and then call audio routing. 0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:24.440 If that doesn't work, just search for audio routing and 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:27.239 you should find speaker phone and that's probably the best 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:30.280 way to do it. The other thing is the volume. 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:32.560 I think you're just gonna have to leave that turned 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:36.279 up one time, and there is a way to On 0:38:36.360 --> 0:38:40.160 most phones, there's a way to decouple the volume key 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:44.920 from changing the volume for everything all at once, So 0:38:45.120 --> 0:38:47.319 look into the settings on that and just look at 0:38:47.400 --> 0:38:49.480 volume and see if there's an option to sort of 0:38:49.800 --> 0:38:54.239 say I don't want everything to be, you know, turned 0:38:54.320 --> 0:38:56.319 up or down by the volume key. I know they 0:38:56.360 --> 0:38:59.080 do it on the iPhone, and it's drives some people 0:38:59.200 --> 0:39:00.719 nuts because that's not the way it used to be, 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:03.680 but that's the way it is now I think by default. 0:39:05.280 --> 0:39:05.800 Let's see. 0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:09.279 Yeah, on iPhone, the feature is also audio routing, so 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:13.080 just look under calling audio Routing speaker, and there's also 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:15.480 an auto answer it looks like on the iPhone as well, 0:39:15.640 --> 0:39:18.000 so you can have it where the phone just automatically 0:39:18.040 --> 0:39:18.799 answers as well. 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:21.160 So yeah, good. 0:39:21.080 --> 0:39:25.839 Question, Thanks for that, Let's see. Larry writes in from 0:39:25.920 --> 0:39:28.200 listening on KFI. Hey, Rich, I'll be starting a new 0:39:28.280 --> 0:39:31.000 job with a claims company that requires lots of photos 0:39:31.000 --> 0:39:35.280 of damaged property and contents. I currently have an Android, 0:39:35.280 --> 0:39:37.480 but we'll be purchasing a new phone for business use. 0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:40.919 What's your recommendation for best quality picks? Android or iPhone? 0:39:41.239 --> 0:39:44.160 Do you have a model preference? Thanks and continue, Thanks 0:39:44.160 --> 0:39:49.959 for continuing to enlighten us non tech listeners. Larry, I mean, look, 0:39:50.000 --> 0:39:52.600 I think any modern smartphone is going to work for this. 0:39:52.840 --> 0:39:56.319 I think if you want the absolute best camera out there, 0:39:56.560 --> 0:39:59.240 probably the iPhone. I mean, if you want the absolute 0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:00.600 best of the best, probably have to go to the 0:40:00.640 --> 0:40:05.520 iPhone sixteen pro. But I think that the iPhone sixteen's 0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:07.400 probably gonna be okay with this unless you need a 0:40:07.400 --> 0:40:10.640 bunch of zoom. So those are probably my two choices. 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:12.920 I think the pixel would be fine. The thing is, 0:40:13.120 --> 0:40:15.120 the reason I would go with an iPhone in this 0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:19.600 case is because you're gonna want accessories and a case, 0:40:20.160 --> 0:40:22.680 and I think that when it comes to these phones, 0:40:22.840 --> 0:40:25.200 you're going to find that the iPhone has a lot 0:40:25.239 --> 0:40:27.960 of options out there, and just when you're using a 0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:30.520 job a phone for a job like this, it might 0:40:30.600 --> 0:40:34.600 just be the best. And you might also be texting 0:40:34.680 --> 0:40:37.400 or air dropping these photos to your computer. So I 0:40:37.400 --> 0:40:39.440 think it's just gonna be easier. I don't want to, 0:40:39.520 --> 0:40:41.880 you know, pooh pooh Android. I think it's great, But 0:40:41.920 --> 0:40:44.359 I think if you're trying to do something that's simple, streamlined, 0:40:44.440 --> 0:40:46.000 and a lot of your colleagues are probably gonna have 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:49.759 the same or similar phone, the iPhone sixteen might be 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:53.359 the best. So go iPhone sixteen if you don't need Zoom, 0:40:53.400 --> 0:40:55.440 if you just need like a standard camera, but if 0:40:55.440 --> 0:40:57.440 you need anything with Zoom, you probably got to go 0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:02.280 iPhone sixteen Pro. So yeah, that's that's what i'd recommend. 0:41:03.080 --> 0:41:06.800 Let's see, we just going through all these emails. Rosita 0:41:07.320 --> 0:41:11.400 writes in from upland, Hey, Rich, I'm seeking your expertise. 0:41:11.400 --> 0:41:13.399 I've an iPhone fifteen Pro that I need to free 0:41:13.440 --> 0:41:17.120 up some storage. I don't want to purchase a monthly subscription. 0:41:17.520 --> 0:41:19.520 I was looking for a device that I can transfer to. 0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:21.440 There are so many options. I'd like your advice on 0:41:21.520 --> 0:41:25.759 which one to purchase. So this email actually sparked an 0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:30.640 entire segment and Instagram video and a blog post because 0:41:31.840 --> 0:41:35.160 you would be surprised how many people email me about 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:38.080 wanting to bypass the cloud or not using the cloud 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:39.240 or freeing up storage. 0:41:39.719 --> 0:41:43.200 And I will say, number one, please use the cloud. 0:41:43.480 --> 0:41:46.719 It is easy, it is simple, it is safe, it 0:41:46.840 --> 0:41:49.400 is a good way to do this. And I understand 0:41:49.480 --> 0:41:51.840 that it gets annoying to have to pay the monthly, 0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:54.759 but I get so many emails from people on a 0:41:54.800 --> 0:41:59.560 daily basis that say, Rich, I lost my phone, I 0:41:59.640 --> 0:42:05.000 dropped my phone, I something happened. Everything got erased, and 0:42:05.280 --> 0:42:08.799 I don't have a backup. What can I do? There's 0:42:08.840 --> 0:42:11.360 nothing you can do. If you don't have your phone 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:14.840 backed up, you are not recovering those pictures. It's just 0:42:14.880 --> 0:42:18.399 not happening. People's phones fall in the bottom of a lake. 0:42:18.719 --> 0:42:21.719 It's a summer, people are out, they're about, and you 0:42:21.840 --> 0:42:24.160 never think this is going to happen, right Like, you 0:42:24.200 --> 0:42:25.920 don't think this is going to happen to you, But 0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:29.440 it does and it can so at the very least, 0:42:29.840 --> 0:42:33.200 if you are truly against cloud storage, you can do 0:42:33.280 --> 0:42:35.920 what I'm about to tell you, But I think the 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:38.520 cloud is the easiest way to do it. And there 0:42:38.520 --> 0:42:41.560 are many, many options, right, I mean, even if you're 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:46.000 using Google, they have a feature on their Google Photos 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:50.240 that's called Storage Saver. So if you are, let's see, 0:42:50.560 --> 0:42:52.640 there is a I'm gonna open up Google Photos. Here, 0:42:52.719 --> 0:42:59.080 go into my settings and okay photos settings, backing up, okay, 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:04.279 so backup quality. You can do Storage Saver. And what 0:43:04.320 --> 0:43:08.799 it does is it compresses your photos to sixteen megabits 0:43:09.960 --> 0:43:13.440 megapixels sorry, and then your videos are high definition. So 0:43:13.480 --> 0:43:16.879 if you take a giant four K video, that's gonna 0:43:16.880 --> 0:43:19.839 gobble up a gig or two of your storage. When 0:43:19.840 --> 0:43:22.279 it goes into Google Photos to be backed up, it's 0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:22.920 just gonna. 0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:25.800 Compress it to be HD. Same thing with your photos. 0:43:25.840 --> 0:43:28.680 You take a giant two hundred megapixel photo, it's gonna 0:43:28.680 --> 0:43:32.680 compress it to sixteen megapixels and it's gonna save much 0:43:32.760 --> 0:43:36.120 more in the same space. So if you are looking 0:43:36.640 --> 0:43:40.480 to free up storage, like if you're using if you're 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:43.719 using Google Photos, and you're just like you know, you 0:43:43.719 --> 0:43:45.759 don't want to pay for more storage, look into that 0:43:45.800 --> 0:43:48.239 storage saver setting. A lot of people say they can't 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:51.960 even tell the difference. So the other option obviously is 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:57.600 iCloud if you're on iPhone. But Amazon Photos offers a 0:43:57.840 --> 0:44:02.680 completely freeway to back up your photos unlimited if you 0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:05.560 are an Amazon Prime member, So yes, you do have 0:44:05.600 --> 0:44:08.439 to be a paying Amazon Prime member, but you can 0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:13.080 store unlimited photos there. Now for video, you only get 0:44:13.080 --> 0:44:16.520 five gigabytes. But the nice thing is that Amazon does 0:44:16.640 --> 0:44:18.760 give you an option to not even back. 0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:20.000 Up your videos. 0:44:20.400 --> 0:44:21.880 So if you don't want to deal with like the 0:44:22.000 --> 0:44:24.680 storage being full in about two seconds with your videos, 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:27.799 you can just say, back up my photos and at 0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:28.280 the very. 0:44:28.200 --> 0:44:31.000 Least if something goes wrong. At least you have your photos. 0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:32.959 You won't have your videos if you drop your phone 0:44:32.960 --> 0:44:36.440 in the ocean, but you'll have your photos. The other 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:38.600 thing is, I mean you still have flicker. Flicker is 0:44:38.640 --> 0:44:43.640 still there, and I think they're unlimited for like, let's 0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:48.520 see Flicker pro. Gosh, they even give you the come 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:49.839 on Flicker, where's the price? 0:44:49.920 --> 0:44:50.239 I hate. 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:52.239 I hate when websites don't give you the pricing, like 0:44:52.440 --> 0:44:56.000 right away, like it should always have Okay, here we go. 0:44:56.719 --> 0:45:00.960 Flicker Pro unlimited, full resolution photos, sharing and backup on 0:45:01.000 --> 0:45:05.640 all your devices. You can pay monthly ten dollars a month, 0:45:06.200 --> 0:45:09.800 annual six dollars a month two years, prepaid five dollars 0:45:09.880 --> 0:45:13.080 and fifty four cents a month, five dollars and fifty 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:16.399 four cents a month for two years. So that would 0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:20.799 be six dollars times twenty four, one hundred and forty 0:45:20.800 --> 0:45:23.960 five dollars for two years of not worrying about your 0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:27.319 photos getting lost forever. Anyway, if you want to back 0:45:27.360 --> 0:45:29.399 them up to a flash drive, you can do that. 0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:33.600 I recommend the PNY Duo link. They've got a brand 0:45:33.600 --> 0:45:37.319 new one V three and it's super fast. You plug 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:39.360 it into the bottom of your iPhone or your Android 0:45:39.400 --> 0:45:41.560 and you can copy the pictures over. There's actually an 0:45:41.560 --> 0:45:43.880 easy way to do this and I've linked it up 0:45:43.880 --> 0:45:46.040 on my Instagram at rich on Tech you can see 0:45:46.040 --> 0:45:47.680 how to do it, or you can just go to 0:45:47.680 --> 0:45:50.960 the website rich on tech dot tv. Look under popular 0:45:51.000 --> 0:45:53.239 and it says how to transfer photos from iPhone to 0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:56.879 flash drive And I put that on there, and let's 0:45:56.880 --> 0:45:58.600 see I put the Android one yet, No, but I'll 0:45:58.600 --> 0:46:00.880 put the Android one there as well. But basically, if 0:46:00.920 --> 0:46:04.239 you have a recent model phone with USBC, this is 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:06.880 super simple. It's a little bit easier on Android than 0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:10.000 it is on iPhone. And the reason is Samsung gives 0:46:10.000 --> 0:46:12.920 you a select doll, so it shows you images and 0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:15.040 videos and it says select all, and you can select 0:46:15.080 --> 0:46:18.920 every image on your phone in one tap. iPhone doesn't 0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:20.880 give you that option. You got to select them manually. 0:46:20.960 --> 0:46:23.480 But there are some easier ways of doing that. If 0:46:23.480 --> 0:46:25.400 you have an older iPhone, you'll need what's called the 0:46:25.480 --> 0:46:29.080 sand disc I expand, which uses a lightning connector. But 0:46:29.120 --> 0:46:31.600 you can plug the flash drive into your phone, copy 0:46:31.640 --> 0:46:33.440 the photos over, and now you have them on a 0:46:33.440 --> 0:46:35.920 flash drive before you delete them from your phone. I 0:46:35.960 --> 0:46:37.640 do recommend that you have them backed up in the 0:46:37.640 --> 0:46:40.120 cloud or somewhere else. All right, I'll put that all 0:46:40.120 --> 0:46:43.440 on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. Good question. 0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:45.839 All right, Well, plenty more of your questions coming up 0:46:45.920 --> 0:46:50.000 right here on this all feedback edition of Rich on Tech. 0:46:52.560 --> 0:46:55.239 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:46:55.280 --> 0:46:58.319 out with you, talking technology triple eight Rich one oh 0:46:58.400 --> 0:47:02.200 one eight eight eight seven four two for one zero one. 0:47:02.239 --> 0:47:06.560 Also taking your emails at richon Tech dot TV. Hit contact. 0:47:07.160 --> 0:47:09.520 Let's go to Kathy and Los Angeles. You're on with Rich. 0:47:10.320 --> 0:47:16.319 Hey, Hi, Rich Hi, all right. I bought and returned 0:47:16.600 --> 0:47:19.320 a water leaf detection system. 0:47:19.000 --> 0:47:22.920 Called go v G o v e E okay, and. 0:47:23.040 --> 0:47:26.000 I set it up and it just wasn't connecting to 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:28.560 the Wi Fi. And then I did a little bit 0:47:28.680 --> 0:47:32.319 more homework. I have a five G network and the 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:34.680 GOVI only works on two point four. 0:47:35.160 --> 0:47:35.399 Ah. 0:47:35.760 --> 0:47:40.080 Yes, I did talk to Jane Sharp last week weekend 0:47:40.160 --> 0:47:44.040 and he said this no system that works on five G. 0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:48.560 So I'm thinking if can I get another like router 0:47:49.160 --> 0:47:54.080 or modem that can can go between two point four 0:47:54.360 --> 0:47:55.840 and five point zero? 0:47:57.040 --> 0:48:00.240 Well, okay, A couple things let's break this down. Number one, 0:48:00.840 --> 0:48:03.600 I feel like I'm being punked right now because I 0:48:04.160 --> 0:48:05.759 didn't mention this because I don't want to be a 0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:09.480 Debbie Downer. But we came back from our vacation to 0:48:09.640 --> 0:48:15.239 a giant water leak in our home. So and I'm 0:48:15.360 --> 0:48:18.880 laughing because I'm crying inside because you know the expense 0:48:18.920 --> 0:48:21.520 of cleaning up that disaster, because we actually had this 0:48:21.560 --> 0:48:25.360 happen once before in a different area of our home, 0:48:25.800 --> 0:48:29.120 and I actually got a water detector for that area, 0:48:29.520 --> 0:48:32.919 but not for the new area. So anyway, yes, I'm 0:48:32.960 --> 0:48:35.479 glad you're getting the water detectors because they this would 0:48:35.480 --> 0:48:38.160 have prevented you know, someone was actually coming to look 0:48:38.160 --> 0:48:39.960 at our house to check on it, and of course 0:48:39.960 --> 0:48:42.759 we would have known that this was going on. But 0:48:43.000 --> 0:48:45.840 so you're doing the right thing. But here's the deal. 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:49.120 How do you know that your router does not support 0:48:49.160 --> 0:48:56.319 two point four at all? Like who's your provider for 0:48:56.360 --> 0:48:57.799 your router? Like what type of router? 0:48:57.880 --> 0:48:58.040 Do you? 0:48:58.840 --> 0:49:01.560 Okay? And have you called Spectrum and ask them about this? 0:49:02.640 --> 0:49:02.839 No? 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:06.719 Okay, because typically on the router, if you go into 0:49:06.760 --> 0:49:11.000 the settings, there is a way to toggle on a 0:49:11.040 --> 0:49:14.719 two point four gigahertz network, even if it's just temporarily. 0:49:15.360 --> 0:49:18.919 So the smarter kind of routers nowadays, we'll figure out 0:49:18.960 --> 0:49:20.880 if something will only connect to two point four and 0:49:20.920 --> 0:49:23.920 it will connect. But the some of the you know, 0:49:24.040 --> 0:49:26.400 non smarter, you know, the ones they provide you from 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:28.839 the cable company are not typically the best out there. 0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:31.759 And so you know, there may be a setting that 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:37.000 you can toggle on this router. So if you're feeling no, 0:49:37.280 --> 0:49:40.560 it's typically it's typically a log in like if you 0:49:40.600 --> 0:49:42.600 look at them, yeah, and that's what I'm saying. So 0:49:42.640 --> 0:49:44.160 this is, you know, it's something that you may not 0:49:44.239 --> 0:49:45.880 want to tackle on your own, which is why if 0:49:45.920 --> 0:49:48.759 you call Spectrums customer service, they may be able to 0:49:48.760 --> 0:49:51.600 walk you through it. But typically on the bottom of 0:49:51.640 --> 0:49:55.120 your router there is a special address that lets you 0:49:55.280 --> 0:49:59.000 tap into the settings of that router, and inside those settings, 0:49:59.040 --> 0:50:02.799 it'll say two point four network, five gigahertz network, like 0:50:02.840 --> 0:50:05.319 do you want to activate those? And so that could 0:50:05.320 --> 0:50:09.359 be a possibility. The other thing is, yes, you're absolutely right. 0:50:09.400 --> 0:50:13.359 A lot of these smart home IoT devices, a lot 0:50:13.400 --> 0:50:15.680 of them only support that two point four because they're 0:50:15.719 --> 0:50:18.600 just they don't have the expensive antennas in them to 0:50:18.680 --> 0:50:23.240 support everything. So where are you at now with these censors? 0:50:23.239 --> 0:50:24.160 Do you have them anymore? 0:50:24.320 --> 0:50:26.200 You are no, I returned them. 0:50:26.200 --> 0:50:30.400 But here's the thing. I was on vacation also, and 0:50:30.680 --> 0:50:34.040 I have a house built in nineteen twenty nine, so 0:50:34.200 --> 0:50:35.160 I have a basement. 0:50:35.480 --> 0:50:35.960 Yeah. 0:50:36.080 --> 0:50:39.399 I happened to go down the basement on Mother's Day 0:50:39.600 --> 0:50:44.960 to look for a base and I saw water. I 0:50:45.040 --> 0:50:49.040 had to replace the two water heaters, and so when 0:50:49.040 --> 0:50:52.439 the water heater guys came, they gave me these water 0:50:53.000 --> 0:50:58.680 detection sing them a jig okay, and it's very low tech. 0:50:59.280 --> 0:51:02.960 Place them on the floor, water hits it and this 0:51:03.160 --> 0:51:05.759 alarm goes off. Yeah, which is great. Yeah, if you're 0:51:06.160 --> 0:51:10.040 if you're I'm not home, Yeah, I'm screwed. Right, So 0:51:10.400 --> 0:51:11.360 right now I have nothing? 0:51:11.480 --> 0:51:14.080 Okay, Well there is Okay. So the one that I'm 0:51:14.520 --> 0:51:17.320 I use at my house is from zircon z I 0:51:17.480 --> 0:51:20.719 R co O N and it is uh, it is 0:51:20.800 --> 0:51:24.520 wi Fi. But I'm looking at it. I'm looking at 0:51:24.520 --> 0:51:27.319 the details. And this one's super easy because, like you said, 0:51:27.320 --> 0:51:30.120 it does sound an alarm, but it also will text 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:32.040 you if there's a problem and if there's no monthly 0:51:32.120 --> 0:51:33.120 fear or anything like that. 0:51:33.440 --> 0:51:34.239 But here's the deal. 0:51:34.320 --> 0:51:37.279 I'm looking at it, and the specs say that it's 0:51:37.280 --> 0:51:40.920 only supporting two point four gigahertz as well, So I 0:51:40.960 --> 0:51:43.279 think you're probably going to find a lot of these 0:51:43.320 --> 0:51:46.960 water leak detectors do the same thing. And I don't 0:51:46.960 --> 0:51:49.560 have a good recommendation for another one, like another brand 0:51:49.640 --> 0:51:50.239 outside of it. 0:51:50.280 --> 0:51:53.359 Do you have a five gig or you have two 0:51:53.400 --> 0:51:54.319 points four in your house? 0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:57.080 I've got both my I use euro E E R 0:51:57.160 --> 0:52:00.920 O which supports both. So and I've only had one 0:52:01.120 --> 0:52:03.279 gadget that has not been able to connect to the 0:52:03.480 --> 0:52:06.520 to the dual network, which was an outdoor plug. 0:52:06.560 --> 0:52:10.640 But anyway, but yeah, where did you get zero? 0:52:11.880 --> 0:52:13.960 You can? You can get on Amazon. I wouldn't. You 0:52:14.040 --> 0:52:15.600 might not want to go that far. I would. 0:52:15.680 --> 0:52:17.880 What I would do is I would call Spectrum and 0:52:18.040 --> 0:52:20.200 just ask them just I know it's a pain to 0:52:20.280 --> 0:52:22.080 call them and wait on hold and all that stuff, 0:52:22.080 --> 0:52:24.359 but like I would just call them and say, hey, look, 0:52:24.400 --> 0:52:27.440 does my router support a two point four gigahertz network 0:52:27.480 --> 0:52:30.840 in anyway? Can I toggle that on through the settings 0:52:31.239 --> 0:52:33.200 and see if they will walk you through that, Because 0:52:33.239 --> 0:52:34.880 if you can just get these things to link up 0:52:34.920 --> 0:52:37.439 once that's all you need and then they will stay 0:52:37.440 --> 0:52:39.280 on that network, you know, forever. 0:52:39.840 --> 0:52:41.640 So that's probably the easiest way. 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:43.200 And in the meantime, I'll see if I can get 0:52:43.320 --> 0:52:46.719 another recommendation for a Wi Fi sensor that says it 0:52:46.760 --> 0:52:49.279 supports the five gigaherts network. The problem is that maybe 0:52:49.320 --> 0:52:53.440 more expensive, so but let me let me look into that. 0:52:53.440 --> 0:52:55.319 Thank you, Kathy, and sorry that you had the same 0:52:55.360 --> 0:52:57.960 thing happen. It is a pain, it is. It is 0:52:58.040 --> 0:53:00.640 not fun to come home to any sort of water 0:53:00.719 --> 0:53:02.480 damage because you know that they're gonna have to tear 0:53:02.520 --> 0:53:05.319 so much up and replace things, and yeah, it's it's 0:53:05.360 --> 0:53:05.840 not fun. 0:53:06.760 --> 0:53:07.080 Okay. 0:53:07.080 --> 0:53:11.239 Coming up technology journalist Sabrina Ortiz from zd net. We'll 0:53:11.280 --> 0:53:16.839 talk to her next about all things AI. Welcome back 0:53:16.840 --> 0:53:19.160 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:53:19.239 --> 0:53:22.880 talking technology triple eight rich one oh one eight eight 0:53:22.920 --> 0:53:26.080 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Before 0:53:26.120 --> 0:53:31.280 the break, we had Kathy asking about connecting a smart 0:53:31.360 --> 0:53:34.279 device to her network and it was only on the 0:53:34.320 --> 0:53:37.480 two point four gigahertz frequency and she said her network 0:53:37.480 --> 0:53:40.120 didn't support that. Well, she has spectrum and I was 0:53:40.120 --> 0:53:42.799 able to in the break look up the support for 0:53:42.920 --> 0:53:46.799 Spectrum and yes, their routers do support two point four 0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:50.880 and five gigahertz frequencies. And so what you want to 0:53:50.920 --> 0:53:53.800 do is you can actually sign in to your Spectrum 0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:58.319 account on your services page, select Internet, navigate to the 0:53:58.760 --> 0:54:02.880 setup smart device two point four gigaherts, select switch to 0:54:02.880 --> 0:54:05.200 two point four gigaherts, and there you go. 0:54:05.280 --> 0:54:05.960 You can set it up. 0:54:05.960 --> 0:54:08.919 So they've thought of this before and they figured it out, 0:54:09.040 --> 0:54:11.600 so it's a lot easier. You can also log into 0:54:11.600 --> 0:54:13.400 your router and do it manually, but it looks like 0:54:13.400 --> 0:54:15.680 they've kind of taken care of this in a nice 0:54:15.719 --> 0:54:18.320 way for their customers. So again, if you have Spectrum, 0:54:18.320 --> 0:54:20.880 you're trying to connect one of those smart home devices 0:54:20.880 --> 0:54:23.480 and it's only got that one network, you can go 0:54:23.520 --> 0:54:26.040 into your settings and change it. It looks like right from 0:54:26.400 --> 0:54:29.600 your Spectrum account, which is kind of cool. So that's 0:54:29.640 --> 0:54:34.879 a good thing. Okay, we've got our guests. We're trying 0:54:34.880 --> 0:54:38.919 to work through some audio situation with that, but we've 0:54:38.920 --> 0:54:41.080 got Sabrina on hold. As soon as we get the 0:54:41.120 --> 0:54:43.640 audio up, we will bring her on. But we'll just 0:54:43.640 --> 0:54:46.160 give me the word when we've got that. In the meantime, 0:54:46.239 --> 0:54:50.040 let's go to jammy Hey rich a huge fan. Notice 0:54:50.040 --> 0:54:52.480 when I try to search for old emails in my Gmail, 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:55.160 they are no longer there or they're not showing up. 0:54:55.680 --> 0:54:57.520 It will show emails from a few years ago, but 0:54:57.560 --> 0:54:59.880 not the one in the last six months. My husband 0:54:59.920 --> 0:55:02.560 is noticed this as well in his Gmail account. Any 0:55:02.600 --> 0:55:09.600 insight on this issue. Yes, this actually drove me nuts 0:55:10.000 --> 0:55:12.239 because I was looking for an email I sent to 0:55:12.280 --> 0:55:16.520 someone and it was literally not showing up, and I said, 0:55:16.560 --> 0:55:19.799 I know I sent an email to this person, and 0:55:19.880 --> 0:55:24.799 sure enough I realized what happened. Gmail recently made a 0:55:24.920 --> 0:55:28.560 change to how Gmail search works, so now it's using 0:55:28.680 --> 0:55:32.440 much more AI to prioritize emails that are the most 0:55:32.680 --> 0:55:37.359 relevant in your search results, not necessarily the results that 0:55:37.440 --> 0:55:41.160 are ordered by time. So if you are searching for 0:55:41.200 --> 0:55:43.799 an email that you know is in there, like I 0:55:43.800 --> 0:55:46.920 will search for this email and up at the top 0:55:47.360 --> 0:55:51.400 there's a toggle and it says most recent or most relevant. 0:55:52.000 --> 0:55:55.200 So it looks like they changed the default to most relevant, 0:55:55.680 --> 0:55:58.480 and that means it's going to show emails out of 0:55:58.600 --> 0:56:02.160 chronological order. So if you're like me and your brain 0:56:02.360 --> 0:56:04.880 sort of works like, Okay, I know I sent this 0:56:04.920 --> 0:56:06.400 person in an email. I want to see them in the 0:56:06.520 --> 0:56:08.600 order I sent them. You might want to change that 0:56:08.680 --> 0:56:13.359 toggle instead of most relevant to most recent. Now this 0:56:13.440 --> 0:56:16.719 is it's interesting because Gmail has always had sort of 0:56:16.800 --> 0:56:20.080 smart search. When you're up at the top and you're searching. 0:56:20.160 --> 0:56:22.640 While you're searching, you'll notice you'll get a list of 0:56:22.680 --> 0:56:26.040 the most relevant emails, and so that's always been the case. 0:56:26.440 --> 0:56:30.439 But now, but when you pressed actual search, it would 0:56:30.480 --> 0:56:33.719 then reorder those in the order that you were sent 0:56:33.840 --> 0:56:37.239 or received. Now it's actually putting that most relevant up 0:56:37.280 --> 0:56:39.520 at the top instead of putting them in the order 0:56:39.520 --> 0:56:43.600 of the receive. So Jammy, definitely you found something. You 0:56:43.600 --> 0:56:47.120 stumbled upon something that is a little tricky, and it 0:56:47.200 --> 0:56:50.240 is a major change on the way Gmail does stuff. 0:56:50.280 --> 0:56:52.960 So good, good question, because that is something that's really 0:56:53.000 --> 0:56:57.000 important for people to know. Let's go to Ron in 0:56:57.040 --> 0:56:59.239 Los Angeles. He says, Hey, Rich, I love your show. 0:56:59.280 --> 0:57:01.920 I listened on K and later on your podcast during 0:57:02.000 --> 0:57:05.200 my daily walks. I don't want to miss anything. I 0:57:05.200 --> 0:57:07.520 saw an ad for a smart watch called the ze 0:57:07.600 --> 0:57:10.439 Fit two. It looks full featured and it only costs 0:57:10.440 --> 0:57:13.160 about one hundred dollars. It claims to include an always 0:57:13.160 --> 0:57:18.960 on display and even blood pressure monitoring. And let's see here, 0:57:20.160 --> 0:57:22.439 what do you think of it? Well, here's the deal. 0:57:22.720 --> 0:57:25.640 Number one, I don't think that. I well, Number one, 0:57:25.640 --> 0:57:27.880 I've never heard of this brand, ze Fit. I've never 0:57:27.920 --> 0:57:28.360 heard of. 0:57:29.840 --> 0:57:30.400 Number two. 0:57:30.560 --> 0:57:33.280 I have not heard of blood pressure monitoring on a 0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:35.400 watch just yet. I know they're trying to do that, 0:57:35.480 --> 0:57:38.600 and I know there's some solutions for that that involve 0:57:39.000 --> 0:57:43.720 a cuff, but I personally would just recommend what's called 0:57:43.760 --> 0:57:47.000 the amaze Fit. They don't have the blood pressure monitoring, 0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:49.120 but a maze Fit I would say makes the best 0:57:49.400 --> 0:57:52.880 inexpensive smart watches. And there is a band that's coming 0:57:52.920 --> 0:57:56.240 out soon next year that's already for sale in Europe 0:57:56.280 --> 0:57:59.680 that will become the first wearable that lets you monitor 0:57:59.680 --> 0:58:03.120 blood pressure without a cuff. I think you use the 0:58:03.120 --> 0:58:05.160 cuff the first time and then later on and that's 0:58:05.160 --> 0:58:07.840 called high Low h I l O High Low band. 0:58:08.240 --> 0:58:10.560 All right, it looks like we have worked through some 0:58:10.600 --> 0:58:13.680 of our issues with audio and now welcome to the show. 0:58:13.720 --> 0:58:17.360 Show Sabrina, hold on, I gotta mute myself. Sabrina Ortiz 0:58:17.400 --> 0:58:20.360 from zd net. Thanks for joining me, Hi, I'm. 0:58:20.240 --> 0:58:22.960 So excited to be here. Let's talk all things AI. 0:58:23.280 --> 0:58:25.160 Yes, So first off, just tell me what you do 0:58:25.200 --> 0:58:27.200 at zd net Totally. 0:58:27.520 --> 0:58:30.800 I leader AI coverage, which means I write about AI 0:58:30.840 --> 0:58:32.880 every day, I test the tools every day. 0:58:32.840 --> 0:58:35.040 I read about it, research it all the things. 0:58:35.120 --> 0:58:39.920 Okay, So I mean AI is a buzzword everywhere, and 0:58:39.960 --> 0:58:42.040 so I know there's a bunch of different brands of 0:58:42.120 --> 0:58:46.640 AI out there, from chat Gibt to Gemini Copilot Claude, 0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:49.200 you want to start with chat Gibt. What tell me 0:58:49.200 --> 0:58:50.000 about Chatchibt. 0:58:50.960 --> 0:58:54.919 Yeah, As you know, Chatchabt has almost become synonymous with 0:58:55.360 --> 0:58:59.160 generative AI, with AI chatbots, because it's really the first 0:58:59.240 --> 0:59:02.120 one that popular rise of technology, right e Luanda, November 0:59:02.160 --> 0:59:06.680 twenty twenty two. And since then, the term AI has exploded. 0:59:07.000 --> 0:59:10.640 And it's because of chatchipt's incredible capabilities, right, Like, it 0:59:10.720 --> 0:59:11.160 could do. 0:59:11.880 --> 0:59:14.520 Anything from answering how. 0:59:14.680 --> 0:59:17.160 A simple question, the way you would use Google with 0:59:17.240 --> 0:59:19.880 a conversational prompt, which is really what makes it unique 0:59:19.920 --> 0:59:22.640 and what drew I guess people to AI chatbox to 0:59:23.480 --> 0:59:28.160 composing an entire song, essay, research peoper, you name it. 0:59:28.680 --> 0:59:31.120 Yeah, that's what's so wild is that it's become like 0:59:31.600 --> 0:59:35.080 everyone knows chatchibt. Here's the thing I've noticed though, when 0:59:35.120 --> 0:59:37.960 people download chatchibt to their phone or computer, they're not 0:59:38.000 --> 0:59:41.600 always getting like the actual, you know, official app. So 0:59:41.840 --> 0:59:43.960 people need to be aware that if you're not getting 0:59:44.240 --> 0:59:46.680 like go to chat Gibt's website and make sure you 0:59:46.720 --> 0:59:49.720 get the right app, because people pay money sometimes without 0:59:49.720 --> 0:59:51.680 even realizing like some third party for this. 0:59:51.800 --> 0:59:53.240 You can start for free. 0:59:53.840 --> 0:59:54.040 Rich. 0:59:54.080 --> 0:59:59.320 That's such incredible advice because there's so many different knockoffs 0:59:59.440 --> 1:00:02.240 on the App Store or the Google Play Store of 1:00:02.280 --> 1:00:04.480 people trying to impersonate chatch GPT. 1:00:04.800 --> 1:00:06.720 And again, the apps are free to download. 1:00:06.760 --> 1:00:08.800 So if first of all, first food flag if you 1:00:08.840 --> 1:00:13.040 see price to download, not open AI tax GPT. And 1:00:13.080 --> 1:00:15.960 then also, like you mentioned, there's different tiers, but you 1:00:15.960 --> 1:00:17.760 could always get started for free. 1:00:18.040 --> 1:00:19.560 The minute that there's a money. 1:00:19.320 --> 1:00:21.840 Pop up and that's like a block or two using it, 1:00:22.040 --> 1:00:23.640 then you're probably using the wrong thing. 1:00:23.840 --> 1:00:26.960 Yeah, let's talk Gemini. So this is Google's what do 1:00:27.000 --> 1:00:28.760 you think Gemini strength is? 1:00:29.760 --> 1:00:33.480 You know, Google's positioned so well in the AI space 1:00:33.560 --> 1:00:36.000 right now because they have a product that we have 1:00:36.280 --> 1:00:39.200 multiple products, but the product Google Search up people use 1:00:39.360 --> 1:00:42.880 every single day, So people are already familiar with Google, 1:00:43.080 --> 1:00:45.920 and now you can access Gemini without even having to 1:00:46.040 --> 1:00:49.000 visit the individual chatbot. Right, Like, if you've ever Googled 1:00:49.040 --> 1:00:51.200 something and you see an AI summary on top or 1:00:51.240 --> 1:00:54.680 those like AI overviews, those are Gemini generated. I think 1:00:54.720 --> 1:00:58.080 that's a strength because you don't even have to go 1:00:58.160 --> 1:00:59.800 out of your way to access AI. Like we were 1:00:59.840 --> 1:01:02.560 just talking about downloading the chattypt app or going to 1:01:02.720 --> 1:01:05.160 the actual website in your browser. 1:01:05.760 --> 1:01:07.800 With Google, you're already using it and now it just 1:01:07.880 --> 1:01:08.400 pops up. 1:01:08.440 --> 1:01:13.280 But yeah, it's similar to chat ept in functionality, conversational responses, 1:01:13.360 --> 1:01:16.560 conversational prompts that you could enter, and yeah, it also 1:01:16.680 --> 1:01:20.040 uses Google Search, which is a really good advantage for 1:01:20.120 --> 1:01:22.600 people who trust, you know, search results and want their 1:01:22.640 --> 1:01:24.080 answer stuff link to. 1:01:24.240 --> 1:01:27.080 Google and also the stuff that you have in Google. 1:01:27.120 --> 1:01:30.080 It's a pretty powerful way to slice and dice that. 1:01:30.200 --> 1:01:32.680 Like I noticed I was I opened a PDF and 1:01:32.800 --> 1:01:35.280 like Google Drive and it literally like Gemini showed up 1:01:35.280 --> 1:01:37.240 on the side and it like summarized all this stuff. 1:01:37.240 --> 1:01:38.600 I was like, wait a second, I don't even asked 1:01:38.600 --> 1:01:38.880 for that. 1:01:39.680 --> 1:01:40.520 Yeah, did you like that? 1:01:40.560 --> 1:01:40.680 Though? 1:01:40.720 --> 1:01:43.240 Because I feel like that's also a two edged sword, right, 1:01:43.280 --> 1:01:45.560 Like I happen to also be a fan that in 1:01:45.640 --> 1:01:47.680 all of these workspace apps that I use every day 1:01:47.720 --> 1:01:50.840 for work, it's already there. But I also I think 1:01:50.920 --> 1:01:53.160 some people are kind of turned off, like, stop pushing 1:01:53.240 --> 1:01:54.760 throwing this on me. I didn't ask for this. I 1:01:54.760 --> 1:01:56.720 just wanted to use my Google doc in peace. 1:01:57.080 --> 1:01:58.800 Yeah. No, I totally understand that. 1:01:58.840 --> 1:02:01.160 And I you know, I think it's cool, But I 1:02:01.240 --> 1:02:03.040 think I could see the side of someone saying, hey, 1:02:03.040 --> 1:02:05.320 I didn't ask to use this, but you know, here 1:02:05.360 --> 1:02:07.320 it is popping up in front of me. But at 1:02:07.360 --> 1:02:09.360 the same time, if you get used to it and 1:02:09.400 --> 1:02:10.960 see the power of it, I think that's what they're 1:02:10.960 --> 1:02:13.000 trying to do is show you, like, hey, this is 1:02:13.040 --> 1:02:15.080 the benefit of AI in like a way that you're 1:02:15.120 --> 1:02:18.920 already using it could be beneficial. Now Copilot, now talk 1:02:18.960 --> 1:02:21.800 about you know, putting it everywhere. I mean, Microsoft is 1:02:21.920 --> 1:02:25.840 really pushing Copilot in everything from Windows to you know, 1:02:26.000 --> 1:02:28.280 Outlook to all of their services. 1:02:28.840 --> 1:02:30.200 Yeah, Copie it's a unique one. 1:02:30.200 --> 1:02:32.160 When it first came on the scene, there was a 1:02:32.200 --> 1:02:35.360 point in time where I would actually preach to the 1:02:35.800 --> 1:02:39.520 everybody that would listen that co Pilot was a stronger 1:02:39.600 --> 1:02:43.000 chatbot than chat GBT because it was actually using open 1:02:43.000 --> 1:02:47.240 ayes most advanced AI models for free in Copilot, where 1:02:47.280 --> 1:02:49.720 Chat Gypt you would have to pay for them, So 1:02:49.880 --> 1:02:52.640 at one point it was really really competitive. 1:02:53.040 --> 1:02:55.000 I think it's lost its edge a little bit. 1:02:55.040 --> 1:02:58.040 Like you mentioned, the strongest I guess appeal of it 1:02:58.160 --> 1:03:00.800 now is that if you are ready in an office 1:03:01.160 --> 1:03:06.080 Microsoft Office three sixty five user, where you know Excel, 1:03:06.560 --> 1:03:10.320 Microsoft Word PowerPoint, now it's embedded in there really seamlessly. 1:03:10.600 --> 1:03:13.320 So again for ease of access, it's great. But if 1:03:13.360 --> 1:03:17.760 you're going to access the standalone chatbot experience, I don't 1:03:17.800 --> 1:03:20.360 really know if there's many reasons to use it over 1:03:21.560 --> 1:03:25.600 Gemini or chat ept unless you're a diehard bing user, 1:03:25.600 --> 1:03:27.440 because then in that case you get to experience it 1:03:27.440 --> 1:03:29.120 the same way you would in Google. 1:03:29.200 --> 1:03:31.360 But I don't know how many people how many. 1:03:31.720 --> 1:03:34.080 Are AST's say, I don't think I've ever heard the 1:03:34.160 --> 1:03:38.000 term diehard bing user because I've never met someone. Most 1:03:38.000 --> 1:03:39.880 of the time, it's just kind of like, oh, I 1:03:40.000 --> 1:03:43.320 landed on being somehow now here. It's funny you said 1:03:43.320 --> 1:03:45.920 that about Copilot because I used to sing the praises 1:03:45.920 --> 1:03:48.720 of Claude. Like when chatch Ebt first came out, I 1:03:48.800 --> 1:03:51.760 was using Claude for everything, and I still think that 1:03:51.840 --> 1:03:55.120 it excels in like writing. But tell me what Claude's 1:03:55.200 --> 1:03:57.280 strengths are, you know, I. 1:03:57.320 --> 1:04:00.760 Still think that Claude is positioned really really well in 1:04:00.800 --> 1:04:01.280 this space. 1:04:01.440 --> 1:04:03.120 And I'll tell you a couple of its advantages. 1:04:03.600 --> 1:04:06.200 If you talk to anyone, I mean, like, not even 1:04:06.840 --> 1:04:10.000 people who are like hardcore devs, I mean anybody who 1:04:10.080 --> 1:04:13.280 has any interest in coding, even if just like for fun, 1:04:13.320 --> 1:04:16.200 if you want a vibe code, you know, use kind 1:04:16.240 --> 1:04:18.840 of natural language prompts to build your own app for stuff. 1:04:18.960 --> 1:04:23.000 Claud's a really powerful tool for coding. And I've heard 1:04:23.040 --> 1:04:25.680 this from again all the way, inspect from beginners to 1:04:25.920 --> 1:04:31.280 like people who live, eat, and breathe programming developers all that. 1:04:31.800 --> 1:04:33.480 So that's one unique aspect of it. 1:04:33.520 --> 1:04:36.320 And the second thing that I think really draws users 1:04:36.480 --> 1:04:40.640 is that security in privacy. They've never from the beginning, 1:04:40.800 --> 1:04:45.600 they've taken pride and never training on your input data. 1:04:45.680 --> 1:04:48.120 So for that, just you know, most of these models 1:04:48.200 --> 1:04:51.280 generated iMOS, they get smarter by using what you give it, 1:04:51.360 --> 1:04:52.800 and that's your personal information. 1:04:52.880 --> 1:04:54.400 A lot of time, and a lot of people don't 1:04:54.440 --> 1:04:54.880 want that. 1:04:54.960 --> 1:04:57.160 So there's been a lot of you know, you hear 1:04:57.200 --> 1:04:58.800 it all the time, people like I don't really want 1:04:58.800 --> 1:05:00.680 to feel comfortable using these fool I don't want to 1:05:00.680 --> 1:05:04.240 give my data From the beginning, Anthropic took that position. 1:05:04.680 --> 1:05:07.560 It still holds true to it, and I think that's 1:05:07.880 --> 1:05:10.320 really really it's draw and I think it's great that 1:05:10.360 --> 1:05:12.760 they're doing that. We we need somebody who seeking a 1:05:12.760 --> 1:05:14.120 slightly different approach. 1:05:14.320 --> 1:05:16.439 Yeah, that's a that's a good differentiator. And I wasn't 1:05:16.440 --> 1:05:18.960 aware of that as someone who has fed like pretty 1:05:19.040 --> 1:05:22.760 much all of my information into chat GBT because I'm like, ah, whatever, 1:05:22.840 --> 1:05:23.680 what are they gonna do with it? 1:05:23.720 --> 1:05:24.160 This time? 1:05:24.400 --> 1:05:27.320 I even't had someone needed like my like information for 1:05:27.400 --> 1:05:29.280 like flights to like book flights. I just said, hey, 1:05:29.360 --> 1:05:31.600 chat ebt, do you have all my information? Like can 1:05:31.640 --> 1:05:33.960 you just write down like my you know tsa pre 1:05:34.080 --> 1:05:36.240 check it. It didn't have it, but it didn't, like say, 1:05:36.280 --> 1:05:36.880 it remembered it. 1:05:36.960 --> 1:05:40.000 But anyway, that's a call out too because you could 1:05:40.000 --> 1:05:43.560 always turn off the settings in chat GBT to train 1:05:43.640 --> 1:05:45.560 it off so it doesn't train on your data like 1:05:45.640 --> 1:05:48.080 I have that off because I love chat to BT. 1:05:48.200 --> 1:05:50.280 I love its interface. It's probably what I go to 1:05:50.320 --> 1:05:50.640 the most. 1:05:50.680 --> 1:05:52.760 But if you still want privacy, you do have that option, 1:05:52.800 --> 1:05:53.480 you can turn it off. 1:05:53.560 --> 1:05:55.600 Okay, that's a great, a great tip. 1:05:55.640 --> 1:05:59.360 I'm gonna so go to your settings and let's see 1:05:59.400 --> 1:06:05.280 it says personalization, Let's see connectors, schedule security. All right, 1:06:05.280 --> 1:06:07.920 we got to I'll find that. I'll find that setting 1:06:08.000 --> 1:06:09.439 so I can tell people how to do that, because 1:06:09.440 --> 1:06:11.760 that's a really interesting one that I think I turned 1:06:11.760 --> 1:06:13.680 off at some point and it's probably a good pricy 1:06:13.760 --> 1:06:16.800 all right. Sabrina Ortiz from zd net. How can folks 1:06:16.840 --> 1:06:17.960 follow your work online? 1:06:18.600 --> 1:06:21.520 Yeah? First again, all my coverage over at zd net. 1:06:22.200 --> 1:06:24.120 Every single day you will get a new story from 1:06:24.160 --> 1:06:26.920 me and even newsletters now too. But also on my 1:06:27.000 --> 1:06:29.680 personal please follow me on Instagram. I'm constantly sharing all 1:06:29.680 --> 1:06:33.360 my stories on there, Sabrina with an extra AFPN dot 1:06:33.480 --> 1:06:37.080 orts on Instagram and then also on Twitter or x 1:06:37.120 --> 1:06:40.120 so Sabrina actually at the end, underscore Ortiz there. 1:06:40.400 --> 1:06:42.800 Thanks a lot more rich on Tech right after this. 1:06:47.360 --> 1:06:50.120 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:06:50.120 --> 1:06:53.600 out with you talking technology, triple eight Rich one oh 1:06:53.680 --> 1:06:57.520 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:06:57.880 --> 1:07:02.160 zero one. The website for the show Rich on tech 1:07:02.440 --> 1:07:05.560 dot TV. If you want to email me there, you 1:07:05.560 --> 1:07:07.600 can do that, just hit contact. If you want to 1:07:07.640 --> 1:07:09.400 sign up for the free newsletter, you can do that. 1:07:10.360 --> 1:07:10.600 Also. 1:07:10.800 --> 1:07:13.080 You can look at the episode notes. This is episode 1:07:13.240 --> 1:07:16.960 one thirty one, So everything that I mentioned here is 1:07:17.360 --> 1:07:20.120 linked up there so you can easily go back and 1:07:20.160 --> 1:07:20.680 reference it. 1:07:20.760 --> 1:07:21.040 Later. 1:07:22.200 --> 1:07:25.280 We got a note from Kim said, a plumber called 1:07:25.320 --> 1:07:28.720 in and said about the water leaks, you can get 1:07:28.760 --> 1:07:30.000 a mowing flow. 1:07:30.680 --> 1:07:32.760 It works on spectrum and it should work. 1:07:33.400 --> 1:07:37.160 And yeah, this is actually you know, it's funny because 1:07:37.680 --> 1:07:41.120 covering technology for so long, pretty much every startup, every company, 1:07:41.120 --> 1:07:42.520 they come to me and they say, hey, can we do this? 1:07:42.600 --> 1:07:45.160 Can we install this at your house? Can we give 1:07:45.200 --> 1:07:47.800 you this to test out? Can you try this? And 1:07:47.880 --> 1:07:51.160 I can't do it all? And I remember these this 1:07:51.320 --> 1:07:54.840 flow type technology. I think the other one was finn 1:07:55.040 --> 1:07:59.680 pH y N And it's these systems that actually attach 1:08:00.080 --> 1:08:01.840 to your main water. 1:08:02.720 --> 1:08:03.600 Whatever you want to call it. 1:08:03.640 --> 1:08:07.800 You're you're you're in right your water pipe, and they 1:08:07.840 --> 1:08:12.160 basically monitor the water use on your system and if 1:08:12.200 --> 1:08:15.240 they notice something going wrong, it can actually turn off 1:08:15.600 --> 1:08:17.000 the water at the source. 1:08:17.800 --> 1:08:18.160 And so. 1:08:19.680 --> 1:08:22.240 Yeah, Finn p h y N is one of them, 1:08:22.720 --> 1:08:26.320 he said, the Mowen flow flo And so this is 1:08:26.640 --> 1:08:30.439 a smart device that monitors for leaks and immediately takes 1:08:30.479 --> 1:08:34.320 action to help prevent them. So it'll actually it'll go 1:08:34.520 --> 1:08:37.080 between your main you know, sort of water pipe and 1:08:37.120 --> 1:08:41.559 it will and it will turn off. It monitors interesting, 1:08:41.560 --> 1:08:44.640 it monitors a flow. So it uses like an algorithm 1:08:45.080 --> 1:08:47.439 to notice like, hey, number one, are using a ton 1:08:47.479 --> 1:08:50.160 of water this month more so than other months, and 1:08:50.200 --> 1:08:53.120 it will tell you that. And number two it will 1:08:53.160 --> 1:08:56.639 figure out if there's a leak and it will turn 1:08:56.680 --> 1:08:59.320 off the water. And this has this does have a 1:08:59.360 --> 1:09:03.080 monthly fee thirty dollars a month. Wow, that's that's a lot. 1:09:03.560 --> 1:09:09.080 Ultimate protection. The standard protection, I guess enhanced is twenty 1:09:09.080 --> 1:09:12.839 dollars a month. So it's not cheap. But when you're talking, 1:09:13.240 --> 1:09:15.639 when you're talking any sort of water damage at your home, 1:09:16.160 --> 1:09:19.559 it is not cheap. And even if you have insurance, 1:09:19.560 --> 1:09:21.479 you're still gonna be paying your deductible. And by the way, 1:09:21.479 --> 1:09:24.120 it's just it's a nightmare in general. Like we had 1:09:24.120 --> 1:09:26.920 this happen when our kid was born. We were at 1:09:26.960 --> 1:09:29.400 the hospital, so we didn't notice the leak until we 1:09:29.439 --> 1:09:31.320 came home and my wife stepped on the floor and 1:09:31.360 --> 1:09:34.200 it was soggy, and that that is a feeling you 1:09:34.240 --> 1:09:39.000 don't want. Jim from Orange County rights in or no Orange, California. 1:09:39.600 --> 1:09:42.760 First off, I enjoy enjoy your reports on KTLA, even 1:09:42.800 --> 1:09:44.840 when the tech doesn't apply to me. I still love 1:09:44.880 --> 1:09:47.880 hearing about what's new. I've been having a terrible time 1:09:47.960 --> 1:09:51.720 with Nitro pro pdf. I think my subscription expired but 1:09:51.800 --> 1:09:54.600 never got to notice. Support's impossible to reach. I was 1:09:54.640 --> 1:09:57.120 even shown a charge to a card that isn't mine. 1:09:57.680 --> 1:09:59.599 I've spent hours trying to sort it out, no luck. 1:09:59.640 --> 1:10:01.559 I'm thinking of just starting over as a new user. 1:10:01.560 --> 1:10:05.240 Any advice, Jim, That does not sound good. But if 1:10:05.240 --> 1:10:07.800 you need to edit PDFs, it depends like what your 1:10:07.920 --> 1:10:11.120 level of need is. But if you're just casually trying 1:10:11.160 --> 1:10:13.640 to edit and do things with PDFs, check out a 1:10:13.720 --> 1:10:18.400 website called I lovepdf dot com. All the tools you 1:10:18.439 --> 1:10:23.240 need and they're free to do whatever you need. Merge PDFs, 1:10:23.240 --> 1:10:28.200 split PDFs, compress PDFs, convert PDFs, rotate, unlock, watermark, or 1:10:28.240 --> 1:10:30.640 even edit so you've got everything you need if you 1:10:30.640 --> 1:10:35.280 want a PDF to word, pdf to PowerPoint, create a pdf, 1:10:35.640 --> 1:10:38.400 watermark a PDF, and then edit pdf. Of course, if 1:10:38.439 --> 1:10:42.599 you want to add text, shapes, comments, and highlights, that'll 1:10:42.600 --> 1:10:45.439 do it. So those are the That's probably the website 1:10:45.439 --> 1:10:50.880 I'd recommend Nitro pdf. I'm not too familiar with, but 1:10:51.040 --> 1:10:54.720 it looks like it's just standard, you know, competition for Adobe. 1:10:55.400 --> 1:10:56.920 If you can get in touch with them, you like 1:10:56.960 --> 1:11:00.519 what they're doing, then yeah, go ahead. But if you 1:11:00.600 --> 1:11:03.760 don't like what they're doing, then just check out that website. 1:11:03.800 --> 1:11:07.360 I love pdfu dot com and you should be able 1:11:07.360 --> 1:11:08.559 to do a lot of stuff there. 1:11:08.680 --> 1:11:08.880 You know. 1:11:08.920 --> 1:11:12.040 Adobe also has a level of free tools that you 1:11:12.080 --> 1:11:14.960 can use with their with PDFs there. 1:11:15.439 --> 1:11:15.640 You know. 1:11:15.720 --> 1:11:17.479 Don't forget a lot of these companies are going to 1:11:17.560 --> 1:11:20.679 try to make you pay at some point. So dependsing 1:11:20.760 --> 1:11:23.040 on depending on what you want to do. Like if 1:11:23.040 --> 1:11:25.320 you want to edit the actual PDF, you may have 1:11:25.360 --> 1:11:28.640 to pay for that functionality. Eighty eight rich one oh 1:11:28.680 --> 1:11:31.160 one eighty eight seven four to two four to one 1:11:31.240 --> 1:11:34.599 zero one more rich on Tech after this, Welcome back 1:11:34.640 --> 1:11:37.519 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:11:37.720 --> 1:11:41.240 talking technology. Triple eight rich one o one eight eight 1:11:41.280 --> 1:11:45.640 eight seven four to two four one zero one. So 1:11:45.720 --> 1:11:48.280 far we've had quite the show, packed with a lot 1:11:48.320 --> 1:11:52.240 of your calls and emails, lots of great interviews. We 1:11:52.280 --> 1:11:55.639 have one more coming up this hour. Josh Goren from 1:11:55.880 --> 1:11:59.240 Walt Disney Imagineering is going to talk about the tech 1:11:59.280 --> 1:12:04.400 that Disney used to bring all their experiences to life. 1:12:04.720 --> 1:12:05.800 Also, we talked to. 1:12:05.760 --> 1:12:09.640 Sabrina over at zd net and she mentioned there was 1:12:09.680 --> 1:12:12.920 a setting inside chat gbt that you can turn off 1:12:13.040 --> 1:12:17.360 if you don't want chat gbt to train on your data. 1:12:18.080 --> 1:12:20.680 So if you don't want that to happen, which I 1:12:20.720 --> 1:12:23.280 did look and I did have that actually turned off already. 1:12:23.760 --> 1:12:27.160 But the setting is under data controls. So if you 1:12:27.200 --> 1:12:30.519 go to chatgbt dot com, tap your name in the 1:12:30.520 --> 1:12:35.800 lower left hand corner, tap settings, and go to data Controls. 1:12:35.960 --> 1:12:39.720 It says improve the model for everyone, and you can 1:12:39.760 --> 1:12:43.519 toggle that off, and if you don't, it says allow 1:12:43.560 --> 1:12:46.679 your content to be used to train our models, which 1:12:46.720 --> 1:12:50.360 makes chat gbt better for you and everyone who uses it. 1:12:50.400 --> 1:12:53.920 We take steps to protect your privacy. Learn more and 1:12:54.000 --> 1:12:58.840 if you tap here, it talks all about how it 1:12:59.040 --> 1:13:03.519 can use your data to basically improve their model, So 1:13:03.880 --> 1:13:07.360 it's learning from what you're doing. And so if you 1:13:07.479 --> 1:13:11.160 don't want to help open ai, and there are billions 1:13:11.160 --> 1:13:14.880 and billions of dollars of whatever they're doing, I mean, look, 1:13:14.880 --> 1:13:17.479 I love what open ai is doing. But I understand 1:13:17.479 --> 1:13:21.200 if if you're you know enough, people probably have this 1:13:21.320 --> 1:13:23.400 turned on where they're not going to hurt if I 1:13:23.479 --> 1:13:26.160 tell you that it's okay to turn this off. So 1:13:26.800 --> 1:13:29.360 if you turn off improve the model for everyone, they 1:13:29.400 --> 1:13:33.000 basically will not use your data to improve the model. 1:13:33.560 --> 1:13:36.519 And you know, you may not care, but some people might. 1:13:37.080 --> 1:13:38.839 And by the way, there's a whole bunch of options 1:13:38.840 --> 1:13:42.000 in here that you can look at, and you may 1:13:42.000 --> 1:13:43.599 not be familiar with a lot of these. 1:13:43.600 --> 1:13:44.320 There's so many. 1:13:44.360 --> 1:13:49.240 You can change themes, the language, the voice notifications, how 1:13:49.240 --> 1:13:52.160 it's personalized. You can even look at the memories that 1:13:52.200 --> 1:13:55.479 it has of you. So I can look, I'm scrolling 1:13:55.520 --> 1:13:57.920 through all the things that I've told chat GBT over 1:13:57.960 --> 1:14:01.280 the years, and it's or over the years. Yeah, I 1:14:01.320 --> 1:14:05.040 guess this is so random. Yeah, it's got a bunch 1:14:05.080 --> 1:14:08.520 of stuff in here. You can delete those. You've got connectors, 1:14:08.520 --> 1:14:12.280 so if you want to connect things like Gmail, Google Calendar, outlook. 1:14:12.320 --> 1:14:13.280 You can do that in there. 1:14:13.720 --> 1:14:15.320 You may have to be paid for some of those 1:14:15.960 --> 1:14:20.320 schedules data controls, so you can delete all the chats 1:14:20.320 --> 1:14:25.720 you've had with chat GBT security two fracture authentication. I 1:14:25.760 --> 1:14:29.160 would definitely, definitely, definitely turn that on. Just like any 1:14:29.160 --> 1:14:31.959 other website. If you log in and it doesn't recognize 1:14:31.960 --> 1:14:35.840 the log in, it will say, hey, let's text you 1:14:35.880 --> 1:14:38.439 a code or email you a code. You can also 1:14:38.560 --> 1:14:41.360 log out of all of your devices. So if you're 1:14:41.400 --> 1:14:43.439 like me, you log in from a bunch of different places, 1:14:43.479 --> 1:14:45.880 you can log out of all those from the website. 1:14:46.439 --> 1:14:49.439 You can also look at your account. Oh little hack, 1:14:49.960 --> 1:14:52.360 because I've got fifty percent off for the next three 1:14:52.400 --> 1:14:54.320 months if you go to cancel. If you're a paid 1:14:54.360 --> 1:14:58.600 subscriber of chat ebt, if you go to cancel your subscription, 1:14:58.760 --> 1:15:01.320 it may offer you fifty percent. Just it did it 1:15:01.360 --> 1:15:05.320 to me, So I've got fifty percent off until October third, 1:15:05.560 --> 1:15:06.479 So that's kind of cool. 1:15:06.800 --> 1:15:07.720 Now, someone emailed me. 1:15:07.760 --> 1:15:10.040 I think I mentioned that on my Instagram and someone said, hey, 1:15:10.040 --> 1:15:11.200 just cancel my account. 1:15:10.880 --> 1:15:12.480 Immediately said whoops. 1:15:13.120 --> 1:15:16.360 So your mileage may vary, but typically it will tell 1:15:16.400 --> 1:15:19.360 you what it's doing before it actually just cancels everything out. 1:15:20.680 --> 1:15:22.519 But yeah, there is a lot of stuff in here 1:15:22.520 --> 1:15:26.240 that you can check out with chat ebt. 1:15:27.000 --> 1:15:27.720 Yeah so much. 1:15:27.760 --> 1:15:30.760 I mean I do everything in there, So that's that's 1:15:31.360 --> 1:15:36.840 that's a popular service at this point, Janine writes in says, 1:15:36.880 --> 1:15:40.280 I received an email with a PDF attachment supposedly an 1:15:40.360 --> 1:15:43.719 invoice with a thank you for ordering. I use AOL 1:15:43.760 --> 1:15:47.040 email and Norton three sixty with LifeLock neither flagged it 1:15:47.080 --> 1:15:49.320 as spam. But I'm afraid to open the email or 1:15:49.360 --> 1:15:52.479 the attachment. How can I tell if it's legit or 1:15:52.560 --> 1:15:55.120 if someone's trying to scam me. The sender's address is 1:15:55.240 --> 1:15:59.720 just a Gmail account, Janine, I'm very proud of you 1:15:59.800 --> 1:16:03.040 for being on top of this, because this is a 1:16:03.120 --> 1:16:07.240 major problem. The invoice scam is a big one, and 1:16:07.280 --> 1:16:09.519 it doesn't come for just it comes from all kinds 1:16:09.560 --> 1:16:12.559 of things. I've seen it for geek Squad, from best Buy, 1:16:13.120 --> 1:16:18.200 confirmation that you've purchased an iPhone, confirmation of a some 1:16:18.240 --> 1:16:21.400 sort of anti virus order, and they send you an 1:16:21.400 --> 1:16:24.719 attachment that's basically looks like a receipt or an invoice, 1:16:24.760 --> 1:16:27.200 and it's saying thank you for your order. It's got 1:16:27.280 --> 1:16:30.040 your information on there, and sometimes it has all of 1:16:30.080 --> 1:16:32.960 your information like your address, your email, your phone number, 1:16:33.080 --> 1:16:36.040 depending on how much data they've scraped from data hacks 1:16:36.080 --> 1:16:39.880 out there, data breaches, and then what it wants you 1:16:39.920 --> 1:16:42.680 to do. And what the trick here is that you 1:16:42.720 --> 1:16:45.760 see this invoice and you go, I didn't order an 1:16:45.760 --> 1:16:47.720 anti virus. Wait, what do you mean three hundred and 1:16:47.760 --> 1:16:50.320 sixty seven dollars? You're charging my card? And it has 1:16:50.360 --> 1:16:53.479 a phone number says if there's any problem, call this number. 1:16:54.080 --> 1:16:56.759 And what people do is they call that phone number 1:16:56.960 --> 1:16:59.160 to say, hey, I didn't order this, Can you cancel this? 1:16:59.240 --> 1:17:02.280 What's happening? And that's when the scam starts. And that's 1:17:02.280 --> 1:17:04.720 when they say, Okay, no problem, ma'am. Let me just 1:17:04.800 --> 1:17:07.400 get some information from you. Give me your name, give 1:17:07.439 --> 1:17:11.200 me your email. Which credit card did you use? Is 1:17:11.200 --> 1:17:13.679 it the one ending in three two seven nine? 1:17:13.840 --> 1:17:16.960 Yes? Oh okay, can you confirm the rest of that? Yes? 1:17:17.520 --> 1:17:18.960 And by the time you go through. 1:17:18.800 --> 1:17:21.920 This whole rigamarole, you have now just given all of 1:17:21.920 --> 1:17:24.400 your information to these people, these scam artists, and they 1:17:24.400 --> 1:17:27.240 are now taking that information and running with it. So 1:17:27.680 --> 1:17:30.599 that is the scam So how do you tell if 1:17:30.600 --> 1:17:33.360 this is a scam? Number one, use your Spidey sense. 1:17:33.479 --> 1:17:35.960 You seem to do that with the Gmail account. So 1:17:36.040 --> 1:17:38.439 check the sender. That's the number one way. When you 1:17:38.520 --> 1:17:41.360 see one of these emails that you get, check the 1:17:41.400 --> 1:17:44.360 sender and see who sent it to you. Now, sometimes 1:17:44.400 --> 1:17:46.679 they will spoof the sender, but a lot of times 1:17:46.680 --> 1:17:50.000 you can tell pretty quickly that it is a spamy sender. 1:17:50.760 --> 1:17:52.599 So let's see if I can find one on here. 1:17:52.600 --> 1:17:58.360 I'm looking at my spam emails. Let's see here to do. No, 1:17:58.560 --> 1:18:02.920 that one's not it. So many, there's just so many, 1:18:03.000 --> 1:18:06.120 like there's just too many to go through. But anyway, 1:18:06.760 --> 1:18:09.439 what I would do is check the center number one. 1:18:09.960 --> 1:18:12.960 Number two, you can actually forward the email to a 1:18:13.000 --> 1:18:16.439 website called snitcher dot space. I think I mentioned this 1:18:16.520 --> 1:18:20.719 on the last show. Uh Snitcher dot space. You can 1:18:21.160 --> 1:18:24.679 email the Yeah, just forward the email to scan at 1:18:24.720 --> 1:18:29.280 snitcher dot space and they will analyze the email and 1:18:29.439 --> 1:18:32.840 reply to you with if they think it's fake or not. Now, 1:18:32.840 --> 1:18:35.080 there's also some other ones you can do out there. 1:18:35.240 --> 1:18:39.880 I think Norton actually has their own Norton Yeah, Norton 1:18:40.000 --> 1:18:45.360 Ai Genie and so Norton ai Genie is another one 1:18:45.720 --> 1:18:49.599 where you can just basically put the email in there 1:18:50.160 --> 1:18:52.600 and it will You can just copy and paste the 1:18:52.760 --> 1:18:54.960 entire email and it will take a look at that 1:18:55.040 --> 1:18:57.519 and tell you if it is bogus or not. And 1:18:57.560 --> 1:18:59.000 that's another way to do it. The other way you 1:18:59.000 --> 1:19:01.240 can do it is literally just copy and paste into 1:19:01.280 --> 1:19:04.800 chatchubt or Gemini and it will tell you say, hey, 1:19:04.880 --> 1:19:07.280 I got this email. I'm a little suspicious of it, 1:19:07.720 --> 1:19:10.040 and it will look at all the different kind of 1:19:10.920 --> 1:19:13.519 indicators on that email of whether they think it's fake 1:19:13.600 --> 1:19:16.400 or not, and it will tell you, now, ninety nine 1:19:16.439 --> 1:19:18.439 point nine percent of the time this stuff is fake. 1:19:18.800 --> 1:19:21.439 But I know because people forward me this stuff all 1:19:21.479 --> 1:19:23.960 the time. Sometimes it is legitimate. And that's what these 1:19:23.960 --> 1:19:26.639 scam artists do is they try to make it look 1:19:26.800 --> 1:19:30.720 like something we would receive and they imitate that, and 1:19:30.760 --> 1:19:32.960 then they get it to a place where you don't 1:19:33.000 --> 1:19:36.360 really know, and so you click a link not thinking, actually, 1:19:36.439 --> 1:19:39.000 I can tell you I got an email from someone 1:19:39.240 --> 1:19:43.080 a DM over the weekend or sorry, over the week 1:19:43.160 --> 1:19:46.559 when I was in Hawaii and they said, hey, let's 1:19:46.560 --> 1:19:52.040 see if I can find this. Okay, they said, rich, 1:19:52.200 --> 1:19:55.880 is this legitimate keeper. I guess Keeper is one of 1:19:55.880 --> 1:20:00.760 the brands of you know, the I'm trying to find 1:20:00.760 --> 1:20:04.080 this as Oh here it is. Okay, they said, hey, 1:20:04.160 --> 1:20:06.800 rich is keep her password manager a valid site. I 1:20:06.800 --> 1:20:09.439 got a message from them saying my Amazon account saying 1:20:09.479 --> 1:20:12.280 I need to log in to verify my account. Now, 1:20:12.320 --> 1:20:15.360 anytime you get an email like that, be very careful 1:20:15.520 --> 1:20:17.759 because what they want you to do is they're tricking 1:20:17.800 --> 1:20:20.719 you into logging into your Amazon account and then they're 1:20:20.720 --> 1:20:23.400 capturing your username and password. Which is why I always 1:20:23.439 --> 1:20:26.000 recommend that you have two factor turned on, because in 1:20:26.040 --> 1:20:29.080 that way, even if you logged in you would get 1:20:29.360 --> 1:20:32.160 the two factor code. They would not have that right 1:20:32.479 --> 1:20:34.800 because when you log into Amazon with two factor turned on, 1:20:34.840 --> 1:20:36.960 they send you a code to your email or your text. 1:20:37.439 --> 1:20:40.599 So the scam artists, if they captured your password, they 1:20:40.600 --> 1:20:43.160 would not get that two factor code, but they've gotten 1:20:43.160 --> 1:20:46.280 tricky about getting that from you as well. Anyway, she 1:20:46.479 --> 1:20:50.679 tapped the link that this keeper sent. It says, Hey, 1:20:51.479 --> 1:20:54.519 we've temporarily placed your Amazon account on hold and canceled 1:20:54.560 --> 1:20:57.120 any pending orders. We took this action because we detected 1:20:57.200 --> 1:21:02.160 unusual activity. Please log into your Amazon account to verify 1:21:02.240 --> 1:21:07.080 the requested information, and so she logged in and that's 1:21:07.120 --> 1:21:10.680 when Amazon said, hey, this is a scam, and so 1:21:10.720 --> 1:21:13.479 you have to be very careful with this stuff. And 1:21:13.520 --> 1:21:16.240 so I told her when she sent me the second screenshot, 1:21:16.400 --> 1:21:19.559 I can look at it, and it's actually pretty good. 1:21:21.479 --> 1:21:25.599 Her Google web browser, Google Chrome, actually jumped in and said, hey, 1:21:26.200 --> 1:21:30.200 you just entered your password on a deceptive website. So 1:21:30.880 --> 1:21:34.120 that was pretty good. So if you're using Chrome, they 1:21:34.120 --> 1:21:36.080 do scan for this stuff, but the problem is it's 1:21:36.080 --> 1:21:39.439 not always immediate and you may not get caught in time. So, 1:21:39.479 --> 1:21:41.240 by the way, when I saw the URL that she 1:21:41.280 --> 1:21:44.640 was trying to log into completely fake. I mean you 1:21:44.640 --> 1:21:46.799 could tell from this url it is not the official 1:21:46.800 --> 1:21:50.000 Amazon website. But again they try to trick you, so 1:21:50.080 --> 1:21:53.839 be careful with this stuff. Definitely ask a friend, family member, 1:21:54.120 --> 1:21:57.759 or use one of these websites I just mentioned, Norton, Genie, Snitcher, 1:21:57.840 --> 1:22:01.519 dot Space, or you can just copy the entire email 1:22:01.640 --> 1:22:04.720 into something like chat, gubt or Gemini and see what 1:22:04.760 --> 1:22:07.240 they say. Don't take what they say as you know, 1:22:07.280 --> 1:22:09.920 that is gospel. It may not be right every time, 1:22:10.280 --> 1:22:13.360 but it can help you understand. And there's a great 1:22:13.400 --> 1:22:21.639 website called scamspotter dot org scam scamspotter dot org, and 1:22:21.680 --> 1:22:25.240 that will help you understand these tactics that I just mentioned. 1:22:25.800 --> 1:22:28.280 And this has brought to you by Fight Cybercrime dot 1:22:28.360 --> 1:22:31.120 org and Google. They created this website to help you 1:22:31.320 --> 1:22:36.000 understand the scams that target users. So familiarize yourself with 1:22:36.040 --> 1:22:38.880 that and also send that to anyone in your family 1:22:39.000 --> 1:22:41.840 or friends that may not understand this stuff so they 1:22:41.840 --> 1:22:44.960 can understand these scams. Eighty eight rich one O one 1:22:45.040 --> 1:22:48.120 eighty eight seven four two four one zero one rich on. 1:22:48.320 --> 1:22:50.040 Tech dot TV back after this. 1:22:52.439 --> 1:22:55.120 Welcome back to rich on tech rich Demiro here hanging 1:22:55.160 --> 1:22:59.040 out with you, talking technology. The website for the show 1:22:59.240 --> 1:23:06.840 is rich on tech dot TV. The email address, well, 1:23:06.960 --> 1:23:09.320 you know, I just go to the website rich on 1:23:09.360 --> 1:23:11.360 tech dot do you This is what happens when I 1:23:11.400 --> 1:23:13.920 get distracted. I'm trying to tell you something, I'm looking 1:23:14.000 --> 1:23:15.960 at my phone to try to look something up, and 1:23:16.000 --> 1:23:18.160 then I realize I'm like, wait a second, why am 1:23:18.160 --> 1:23:20.120 I giving this out again? But the website is rich 1:23:20.160 --> 1:23:23.360 on tech dot TV. Can go there and you can 1:23:23.439 --> 1:23:26.080 hit contact that will send your message directly to me. 1:23:26.960 --> 1:23:29.600 That's exactly what Tim did. He said, I was just 1:23:29.680 --> 1:23:32.439 listening to the show, and I have the flow smart 1:23:32.479 --> 1:23:35.040 shut off valve and I also have the optional flow 1:23:35.120 --> 1:23:38.400 leak detectors. There is an option for no monthly fee. 1:23:38.800 --> 1:23:41.800 The difference is they don't pay your deductible if there 1:23:41.920 --> 1:23:45.080 is a flood and the warranties only a year. The 1:23:45.160 --> 1:23:47.439 leak detectors are amazing. They are hooked up to your 1:23:47.439 --> 1:23:49.759 house Wi Fi. You place some new your water sources 1:23:50.040 --> 1:23:52.280 and if they get wet, they instantly shut the water 1:23:52.360 --> 1:23:54.240 off to your house. I have tested them. It takes 1:23:54.280 --> 1:23:57.599 about three seconds. Amazing show, my friend. Thanks for everything 1:23:57.600 --> 1:23:57.880 you do. 1:23:58.000 --> 1:23:58.320 Tim. 1:23:58.840 --> 1:24:01.200 Well, that's you know, but I think I'm going to 1:24:01.240 --> 1:24:05.080 install that today. I think you've sold me, Tim, because 1:24:05.680 --> 1:24:09.000 I you know, two water leaks is enough. I And 1:24:09.040 --> 1:24:11.320 it's funny because you know some of you listening maybe 1:24:11.360 --> 1:24:13.400 saying rich when you had the first leak, why didn't 1:24:13.400 --> 1:24:16.080 you install the stuff I did. I put a leak 1:24:16.160 --> 1:24:19.439 detector near the water heater. This time it wasn't the 1:24:19.479 --> 1:24:22.479 water heater, it was the washing machine. So I should 1:24:22.479 --> 1:24:24.920 have done the leak detector near the washing machine as well. 1:24:25.960 --> 1:24:28.400 But again it's you know, you live in your learn 1:24:28.840 --> 1:24:31.000 you know, these things are things that you hear about, 1:24:31.080 --> 1:24:33.200 you see on TV. You know, you got to protect 1:24:33.200 --> 1:24:35.600 this and that. And even if you have insurance, like 1:24:35.640 --> 1:24:38.800 I said, it's still expensive. They still want their deductible 1:24:39.000 --> 1:24:42.280 and in many cases that's going to be pretty expensive. So, 1:24:42.400 --> 1:24:44.920 no matter what, you're looking at a mess. And it's 1:24:44.920 --> 1:24:48.639 not just the money, it's also the time and energy 1:24:48.760 --> 1:24:51.479 and effort and everything that you have to go through 1:24:51.520 --> 1:24:54.719 to recover. And I call this kind of thing getting 1:24:54.800 --> 1:24:57.320 back to where you started. So it's like when you 1:24:57.439 --> 1:25:00.639 place the tires on your car, right, your car doesn't 1:25:00.680 --> 1:25:02.720 drive any better. I mean, yeah, maybe if you know 1:25:02.960 --> 1:25:04.839 you know, but like you know, I replaced the tires 1:25:04.840 --> 1:25:07.040 on my car a couple months ago, and it's like, 1:25:07.240 --> 1:25:09.560 you're spending all this money just to get back to 1:25:09.600 --> 1:25:12.040 where you started. I call that, you know, the repair 1:25:12.080 --> 1:25:14.920 that just literally it's like, Okay, let's say your alternator 1:25:14.960 --> 1:25:17.120 goes on your car. Your car is not driving any 1:25:17.160 --> 1:25:19.800 better with a new alternator, but you just spent fifteen hundred, 1:25:19.840 --> 1:25:22.479 two thousand bucks. I call it getting back to where 1:25:22.520 --> 1:25:24.800 you started, but just spent a whole bunch of money 1:25:24.800 --> 1:25:27.920 to do it. Also, by the way, if you want 1:25:27.960 --> 1:25:31.080 to follow me on Instagram at rich On Tech. John 1:25:31.160 --> 1:25:32.920 is in Newport Beach. What's up, John? 1:25:34.040 --> 1:25:37.679 Hi? I want to transfer an MP four file from 1:25:37.680 --> 1:25:42.080 a hard drive to a flash drive. Easy enough. Now, 1:25:42.560 --> 1:25:45.040 the MP four file is on my flash drive and 1:25:45.080 --> 1:25:48.240 I want to copy protected so that it cannot be 1:25:48.360 --> 1:25:52.759 duplicated from the flash drive. I'm using Windows eleven Home. 1:25:53.520 --> 1:25:58.040 Ah, okay, can you can you just make it read only? 1:25:58.160 --> 1:26:02.640 Perhaps you can make it read only on your on 1:26:02.720 --> 1:26:06.639 the security tab under properties if it's on your hard drive, right, 1:26:06.640 --> 1:26:09.679 But then you can't transfer to your flask drive. Once 1:26:09.720 --> 1:26:12.680 you transfer to your flask drive and you go to properties, 1:26:13.000 --> 1:26:16.440 there is no security tab to give it those attributes. 1:26:16.680 --> 1:26:17.240 Yeah. 1:26:17.400 --> 1:26:21.559 See, I'm thinking this is this is almost like a 1:26:21.600 --> 1:26:24.600 copy protection thing. Like it's almost like, uh, you know, 1:26:24.680 --> 1:26:28.680 like these companies go through like really you know, they 1:26:28.680 --> 1:26:32.120 have their own DRM basically you know, if you're if 1:26:32.120 --> 1:26:34.920 you're a you know, Amazon or an MP three file 1:26:34.960 --> 1:26:36.880 whatever it is that they have where they make it 1:26:36.960 --> 1:26:39.320 where you can't really copy your transfer. But that's those 1:26:39.320 --> 1:26:43.240 are like really big systems. Have you found I don't 1:26:43.240 --> 1:26:44.679 know of an app off the top of my head 1:26:44.680 --> 1:26:47.200 that'll do this easily? I mean, I'm just doing a 1:26:47.280 --> 1:26:51.960 search and it. You know, there's there's one called Cockasoft. 1:26:53.280 --> 1:26:53.960 Did I see that? 1:26:55.280 --> 1:26:55.639 I try. 1:26:55.760 --> 1:26:59.080 I tried a free trial on that and I just 1:26:59.120 --> 1:27:00.320 didn't get anywhere with that. 1:27:00.640 --> 1:27:04.719 Interesting because this says USB copy protection for PDFs, office 1:27:05.800 --> 1:27:07.479 audio image files, EXSE. 1:27:09.040 --> 1:27:12.000 That comes up. It's that's how much was let's see. 1:27:12.439 --> 1:27:14.839 Yeah, I mean this one gives you like full access 1:27:14.880 --> 1:27:16.439 to everything per habit printing. 1:27:16.479 --> 1:27:17.080 This didn't work. 1:27:17.200 --> 1:27:21.920 Huh, Well, I think I was having trouble trying to 1:27:22.040 --> 1:27:24.320 use it. It might have been my fault. So maybe 1:27:24.320 --> 1:27:27.680 I'll just try that one again. But it appears not 1:27:27.760 --> 1:27:30.639 to be just a simple no setting or security setting 1:27:30.640 --> 1:27:33.200 that you can make. You've got to use some outside software. 1:27:33.360 --> 1:27:36.360 Yeah, it's definitely not. It's not a simple setting. 1:27:36.400 --> 1:27:38.800 And now there are ways to you know, there are 1:27:38.800 --> 1:27:41.160 there are many ways like encrypt the drive make it 1:27:41.200 --> 1:27:43.400 so that it's like tough to access if someone just 1:27:43.439 --> 1:27:46.720 found it. But for actual copying of that file, if 1:27:46.720 --> 1:27:50.280 you don't have access to that functionality, it's really like 1:27:50.320 --> 1:27:51.640 I don't know off the top of my head how 1:27:51.680 --> 1:27:56.160 to do that. So that program seems to be I'm 1:27:56.200 --> 1:27:58.920 trying to see if there's like a free freeware version 1:27:58.920 --> 1:28:00.320 of that, and there may be. And that's the beauty 1:28:00.360 --> 1:28:03.320 of this show is that hopefully someone that's listening knows 1:28:03.360 --> 1:28:04.920 how to do this, and we'll say like, hey, you 1:28:05.000 --> 1:28:07.519 got to use this app, but I don't know off 1:28:07.520 --> 1:28:10.479 the top of my head, John. I will experiment a 1:28:10.520 --> 1:28:12.280 little bit with this and see if I can come 1:28:12.360 --> 1:28:15.240 up with something. But I'm not seeing something quick and 1:28:15.320 --> 1:28:19.240 easy that's sort of built into Windows. That's that's the 1:28:19.280 --> 1:28:22.840 main thing that, Yeah, that I'm coming up against. USB 1:28:23.640 --> 1:28:26.240 copy Yeah, Like even if I go I typically go 1:28:26.280 --> 1:28:29.360 into this website alternative to dot net to see if 1:28:29.400 --> 1:28:32.559 there's like a USB tool that we can use to 1:28:32.600 --> 1:28:35.120 do this, and I'm not finding something there. How about 1:28:35.600 --> 1:28:39.680 copy protect? Yeah, nothing interesting. None of this stuff's coming up. 1:28:39.720 --> 1:28:41.639 So this is definitely a tricky problem. But I will 1:28:42.320 --> 1:28:44.639 write this down in my notes. Now I've got homework 1:28:44.680 --> 1:28:47.360 to do, so I will figure out how we can 1:28:48.160 --> 1:28:52.719 make this video where you can't transfer it. Coming up next, 1:28:52.760 --> 1:28:55.960 we are going to talk to Josh Goren at Walt 1:28:55.960 --> 1:28:57.160 Disney Imagineering. 1:28:57.520 --> 1:28:58.880 This is rich On Tech. 1:29:01.120 --> 1:29:03.679 Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:29:03.680 --> 1:29:07.920 out with you, talking technology. Well, if you've been around 1:29:07.920 --> 1:29:11.560 this world for a while, you've probably heard the term imagineering. 1:29:12.040 --> 1:29:16.760 It sounds magical, mysterious, and of course very Disney. But 1:29:16.800 --> 1:29:19.120 what does it mean and who are the people behind 1:29:19.160 --> 1:29:21.759 the magic? Well, recently I had the chance to visit 1:29:21.840 --> 1:29:25.560 Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, California to see some of 1:29:25.600 --> 1:29:27.800 the cool stuff they're working on, and there I talked 1:29:27.840 --> 1:29:31.720 to Josh Goren, an executive R and D imagineer at 1:29:31.720 --> 1:29:35.960 Walt Disney Imagineering. He's one of these creative minds blending art, 1:29:36.080 --> 1:29:40.639 technology and engineering to bring Disney stories to life across 1:29:40.680 --> 1:29:43.439 all their properties, not just theme parks. Here's some of 1:29:43.479 --> 1:29:47.840 our conversation herm imagineering over the years. Imagineer sounds like 1:29:47.840 --> 1:29:49.720 this very magical, mysterious thing. 1:29:50.160 --> 1:29:51.959 What does that mean exactly? 1:29:52.160 --> 1:29:54.599 So, Imagineers are the people who conceive, design, and build 1:29:54.640 --> 1:29:58.160 Disney physical experiences all around the world. The rides, the lands, 1:29:58.200 --> 1:30:00.840 the theme parks, the hotels, the cruise ship those are 1:30:00.880 --> 1:30:04.280 made by imagineers, and imagineers are all over the world. 1:30:04.320 --> 1:30:09.640 We come from over one hundred different disciplines. So it's artists, designers, engineers, fabricators, 1:30:09.920 --> 1:30:13.439 all coming together to create these impossible worlds that you 1:30:13.479 --> 1:30:14.479 know from Disney Parks. 1:30:14.760 --> 1:30:17.759 A lot of this does involve technology and in different ways, 1:30:18.040 --> 1:30:20.439 but I also read that you can come up with 1:30:20.520 --> 1:30:22.599 any concepts, Like the way you come up with these 1:30:22.840 --> 1:30:25.439 rides and things is, hey, if we can do anything, 1:30:25.880 --> 1:30:26.880 this is how we do it. 1:30:27.120 --> 1:30:29.840 And then it goes into the process of how do 1:30:29.880 --> 1:30:31.880 we make this? Can you explain that a little bit? 1:30:32.040 --> 1:30:36.839 At Imagineering, everything starts with story. We are storytellers. Walt 1:30:36.840 --> 1:30:41.240 created Imagineering by pulling his favorite talent from the studios, artists, engineers, 1:30:41.280 --> 1:30:44.519 fabricators to create these imagined worlds and to bring them 1:30:44.520 --> 1:30:47.760 to life. At Imagineering we continue that today. So we 1:30:47.800 --> 1:30:49.960 don't start with how do we make this type of 1:30:50.040 --> 1:30:52.400 ride or use this type of robot? You start with 1:30:52.439 --> 1:30:55.240 what's the story? How do we want guests to feel? 1:30:55.680 --> 1:30:58.400 And even when you're adapting a Disney film for the parks, 1:30:58.400 --> 1:31:01.439 it's not just copy paste. Where would you want to 1:31:01.479 --> 1:31:03.280 be in this world? Who would you want to meet, 1:31:03.320 --> 1:31:04.640 who would you want to be, and what would you 1:31:04.720 --> 1:31:08.000 want to do? And so it starts there, what's the 1:31:08.040 --> 1:31:09.680 story we want to tell and how do we want 1:31:09.720 --> 1:31:12.960 to tell it and then the technology serves the story 1:31:13.360 --> 1:31:15.639 and hopefully, when we do our jobs correctly, the guests 1:31:15.680 --> 1:31:18.920 I'm going in saying wow, what amazing technology. Hopefully that 1:31:18.960 --> 1:31:22.960 technology stating to the background and they're just experiencing a story, 1:31:23.040 --> 1:31:26.519 a character, a world, interacting with their family, having a 1:31:26.560 --> 1:31:31.440 great time. That's what we ultimately create is emotions. Emotions 1:31:31.479 --> 1:31:34.240 are our product. Technology is just one more tool in 1:31:34.280 --> 1:31:35.839 our toolkit to make that happen. 1:31:36.360 --> 1:31:39.519 So interesting note on the technology side of things. During 1:31:39.560 --> 1:31:43.000 my tour here, we saw the Spider Man that is 1:31:43.040 --> 1:31:44.960 a robot that kind of does a flip at one 1:31:45.000 --> 1:31:48.000 of the theme Parks's California Adventure and I've seen that 1:31:48.040 --> 1:31:52.160 several times, never realizing that that was not a human 1:31:52.720 --> 1:31:54.679 or some sort I don't even know what I thought 1:31:54.680 --> 1:31:57.120 that was. But now that I know that's a robot 1:31:57.160 --> 1:32:00.479 that has been engineered in a way to do that 1:32:00.520 --> 1:32:03.840 flip every time perfectly, that's pretty wild. So that goes 1:32:03.880 --> 1:32:06.360 to show that the technology did blend into the background. 1:32:06.439 --> 1:32:09.120 For me, Yes, Centronics is such a great project because 1:32:09.120 --> 1:32:11.719 that was the goal to make you believe that Spider 1:32:11.760 --> 1:32:14.360 Man was doing these larger than life flips and the 1:32:14.439 --> 1:32:18.439 reality is a human performer could not physically withstand the 1:32:18.479 --> 1:32:21.880 g forces that that character goes through, much less twelve 1:32:21.880 --> 1:32:24.599 times a day. That was a story that could only 1:32:24.680 --> 1:32:28.080 be told through a stunt tronic, through an advanced character robot. 1:32:28.400 --> 1:32:30.760 But I'm so glad that it got you because that 1:32:30.880 --> 1:32:33.960 was the goal, was for anyone coming into Avengers campus 1:32:34.000 --> 1:32:35.679 to feel like they were part of a real world 1:32:35.920 --> 1:32:38.160 and getting to see Spider Man as they knew him 1:32:38.160 --> 1:32:40.599 from the films, even if that wouldn't have been physically 1:32:40.600 --> 1:32:41.559 possible with a human. 1:32:41.960 --> 1:32:45.280 How has technology aided what you do and how has 1:32:45.320 --> 1:32:46.439 that changed over the years. 1:32:46.680 --> 1:32:49.719 What's funny about technology in Disney is it's not new, 1:32:49.840 --> 1:32:53.920 it's super core to our history. Walt Disney was kind 1:32:53.920 --> 1:32:56.280 of obsessed with how to use the latest and greatest 1:32:56.280 --> 1:32:59.120 in technology to bring his stories to life in new ways. 1:32:59.240 --> 1:33:00.559 Even before the theme parks. 1:33:00.600 --> 1:33:03.360 You look at Snow White as the first feature length 1:33:03.400 --> 1:33:06.360 animated film, the multiplane camera that gave different levels of 1:33:06.400 --> 1:33:10.759 depth stereophonic sound in Fantasia. Walt had this very early 1:33:10.840 --> 1:33:14.240 fascination with using the latest tech of his day to 1:33:14.320 --> 1:33:16.680 bring these stories and characters to life. And we're just 1:33:16.720 --> 1:33:21.880 extending that legacy now, so we love technologies that make 1:33:22.040 --> 1:33:25.559 people believe anything as possible. One of my favorite quotes 1:33:25.720 --> 1:33:29.120 is from the science fiction author Arthur C. Clark, and 1:33:29.200 --> 1:33:33.120 he said, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 1:33:33.560 --> 1:33:36.400 And here at Imaginary Research and Development, that's kind of 1:33:36.439 --> 1:33:40.360 our job to harness technology to make people believe magic 1:33:40.600 --> 1:33:41.080 is real. 1:33:41.600 --> 1:33:42.559 And so whether that's. 1:33:42.360 --> 1:33:45.640 Creating the next great advanced character robot or an illusion, 1:33:45.720 --> 1:33:49.320 an effect, or an interactive experience, that's what the people 1:33:49.400 --> 1:33:53.479 here do is try to make emotion through technology and 1:33:53.560 --> 1:33:56.679 to creatively apply them in new ways to bring those 1:33:56.720 --> 1:33:58.759 Disney stories characters in worlds to life. 1:33:59.000 --> 1:34:00.679 Something like the BDX robots. 1:34:00.760 --> 1:34:04.320 I mean, that's quite the undertaking because they feel so realistic. 1:34:04.760 --> 1:34:06.120 Give me a little insight into. 1:34:05.920 --> 1:34:09.040 Those We love the BDX droids, so they are part 1:34:09.080 --> 1:34:12.000 of our Advanced Character Robotics program, which is how do 1:34:12.040 --> 1:34:14.920 we bring expressive, emotive characters to life using the latest 1:34:14.960 --> 1:34:17.800 and greatest in technology. What's really cool about the bd 1:34:17.960 --> 1:34:21.160 X droids is they've appeared in Disney parks all around 1:34:21.160 --> 1:34:23.439 the world, including our ships, and people just fall in 1:34:23.479 --> 1:34:26.840 love with them. They're so cute and they're based on 1:34:27.040 --> 1:34:30.880 some really cutting edge technology using reinforcement learning. So the 1:34:30.960 --> 1:34:33.320 way they learn to move is that we make a 1:34:33.360 --> 1:34:35.240 three D model of them and put them in a 1:34:35.280 --> 1:34:38.200 computer and train them how to walk in balance. But 1:34:38.240 --> 1:34:40.599 we don't just train them how to stay upright. We've 1:34:40.640 --> 1:34:42.880 put in the input of a Disney animator to give 1:34:42.920 --> 1:34:46.679 them that expressiveness, that personality, and so they learn how 1:34:46.720 --> 1:34:50.160 to walk and perform through that animator's guidance into what 1:34:50.240 --> 1:34:53.040 you see today. So again, at the end of the day, 1:34:53.160 --> 1:34:55.559 we don't want guests focusing on the technology, even though 1:34:55.560 --> 1:34:58.680 they're technically robots. We want them to focus on the 1:34:58.760 --> 1:35:02.200 characters and their person reality and to make an emotional connection. 1:35:02.800 --> 1:35:05.879 You know, the Disney Company started with this idea of animation, 1:35:06.200 --> 1:35:09.320 and animation is the illusion of life through movement, and 1:35:09.400 --> 1:35:11.880 so whether that sells on a page or images on 1:35:11.920 --> 1:35:14.400 a screen, or a robotic droid right in front of you, 1:35:14.760 --> 1:35:17.320 that's what we do. Create the illusion of life through movement, 1:35:17.360 --> 1:35:19.760 and the BDX terroids are one very cute example of 1:35:19.800 --> 1:35:20.879 that brought to life. 1:35:21.160 --> 1:35:25.240 Now, how do you keep what the traditionalive of certain 1:35:25.320 --> 1:35:28.360 things at Disney versus what you want to push forward 1:35:28.360 --> 1:35:29.879 with technology and newness? 1:35:30.760 --> 1:35:32.400 You know, We've always had one foot in the past 1:35:32.400 --> 1:35:34.719 and one foot looking to the future. Our legacy doesn't 1:35:34.760 --> 1:35:37.400 hold us back. It inspires us. We have this strong 1:35:37.600 --> 1:35:42.120 history of technologically enabled guest experiences, going back to opening 1:35:42.200 --> 1:35:45.160 day at Disneyland. The idea of Disneyland itself, the idea 1:35:45.280 --> 1:35:47.800 of a theme park, a place where you went in 1:35:48.040 --> 1:35:50.599 and experience the stories in immersive way that was at 1:35:50.600 --> 1:35:54.360 the time a new idea. So our legacy pushes us 1:35:54.400 --> 1:35:58.040 to keep trying harder, to keep exceeding expectations, to keep 1:35:58.080 --> 1:36:00.000 surprising and delighting. 1:36:00.120 --> 1:36:01.160 Things that don't change. 1:36:01.280 --> 1:36:04.880 Our commitment to story, our commitment to surprising and innovating, 1:36:05.040 --> 1:36:08.200 our commitment to quality and detail. That stays the same. 1:36:08.680 --> 1:36:10.840 The stories we tell as new films come out and 1:36:10.880 --> 1:36:13.840 new characters get popular, The technologies we use as we 1:36:13.880 --> 1:36:17.040 see new things happening in industry. The techniques those will 1:36:17.120 --> 1:36:19.960 change and evolve. But the core values that drive what 1:36:20.000 --> 1:36:22.360 we do as imagineers and the way we do it 1:36:22.600 --> 1:36:23.760 that stays constant. 1:36:24.000 --> 1:36:26.839 Well, can we look forward to seeing from your team 1:36:26.920 --> 1:36:29.160 and in your future at Disney Properties. 1:36:29.439 --> 1:36:31.160 I can't talk specifically about some of the things we're 1:36:31.160 --> 1:36:33.479 working on. We've got some real top secret stuff behind 1:36:33.479 --> 1:36:36.000 these walls. But what I can tell you is this 1:36:36.040 --> 1:36:38.920 is an incredibly exciting time to be an imagineer, an 1:36:38.920 --> 1:36:41.479 incredibly exciting time to be a Disney Parks fan. We 1:36:41.640 --> 1:36:45.320 have global expansion happening all over the world and on 1:36:45.400 --> 1:36:48.040 our ships, and new parks being announced like the one 1:36:48.040 --> 1:36:51.679 in Abu Dhabi that provide these amazing canvases to bring 1:36:51.720 --> 1:36:54.240 stories to life in new ways to surprise people. 1:36:54.600 --> 1:36:55.439 So while I. 1:36:55.439 --> 1:36:58.519 Can't get into the specifics top secret projects beyond these doors, 1:36:58.760 --> 1:37:01.240 I can tell you we are are so excited and 1:37:01.280 --> 1:37:03.400 can't wait for our guests to experience them themselves. 1:37:03.680 --> 1:37:08.160 If someone is interested in joining the team here, explain 1:37:08.280 --> 1:37:11.599 what that process is like and how is that even possible. 1:37:12.080 --> 1:37:14.439 Yeah, you know, every imagineer has a story of how 1:37:14.479 --> 1:37:17.920 they got here, and each one's unique. But imagineering is 1:37:18.000 --> 1:37:21.120 something that is possible. It's something that real people come 1:37:21.160 --> 1:37:25.080 and do. Usually it starts with finding what you're great 1:37:25.120 --> 1:37:28.040 at and getting really passionately involved in it, whether that's 1:37:28.200 --> 1:37:32.400 the robotics side or the creative side, the music choreography. Again, 1:37:32.439 --> 1:37:35.240 we have over one hundred disciplines here, so there's a 1:37:35.320 --> 1:37:38.920 high chance that something you do is represented at Imagineering. 1:37:39.240 --> 1:37:42.040 So for young people, what I always say is start 1:37:42.080 --> 1:37:45.639 making now. There are so many amazing tools and information 1:37:45.720 --> 1:37:49.720 resources available now for kids and aspiring imagineers to just 1:37:49.760 --> 1:37:52.840 start creating. We have, for example, Imagineering in a Box, 1:37:52.920 --> 1:37:55.720 which is a free educational program we developed with the 1:37:55.800 --> 1:37:58.960 CON Academy, which is hours and hours of programming about 1:37:59.000 --> 1:38:02.000 how we do what we do, with interactive lessons and guides, 1:38:02.080 --> 1:38:05.000 all available for free online. There's a ton of amazing 1:38:05.000 --> 1:38:08.840 books about imagineering, many written by imagineers that talk about 1:38:08.840 --> 1:38:12.639 our design process. We have the Imagination's College Program, which 1:38:12.640 --> 1:38:15.639 allows for college students to develop projects and potentially get 1:38:15.640 --> 1:38:19.439 a chance to be flown out to Imagineering and present 1:38:19.640 --> 1:38:23.080 to Imagineering leadership, potentially leading to an internship. So there 1:38:23.080 --> 1:38:25.920 are many roads to imagineering no matter what people study 1:38:25.960 --> 1:38:29.080 or what they do. As long as you're passionate and 1:38:29.120 --> 1:38:31.559 you work hard, and you're talented, you may be able 1:38:31.560 --> 1:38:32.439 to find your place here. 1:38:33.240 --> 1:38:33.840 There you have it. 1:38:33.920 --> 1:38:38.519 Josh Goorn from Walt Disney Imagineering once again he mentioned 1:38:38.640 --> 1:38:42.240 Imagineering in a Box that's a free online resource for 1:38:42.439 --> 1:38:46.679 future creators. You can find it on the CON academy website. 1:38:46.720 --> 1:38:49.479 I will put the link on mine rich on Tech 1:38:49.720 --> 1:38:51.840 dot tv, and if you want to see some of 1:38:51.840 --> 1:38:54.160 the videos that I took at Imagineering, just go to 1:38:54.200 --> 1:38:55.840 my instagram at rich on Tech. 1:38:55.880 --> 1:38:57.120 Coming up, we're. 1:38:56.960 --> 1:38:59.120 Opening up the feedback once again. 1:38:59.000 --> 1:39:00.000 For more of your comments. 1:39:00.080 --> 1:39:05.760 To close out the show, Welcome back to rich On Tech. 1:39:05.880 --> 1:39:11.920 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, Talking technology. Got 1:39:11.920 --> 1:39:16.799 an email from Vincent talking about the callers question regarding 1:39:16.880 --> 1:39:21.080 copy protection. He says the potential solution could be with 1:39:21.240 --> 1:39:25.759 sand discs secure access software. So I looked up secure 1:39:25.800 --> 1:39:28.320 access from sand disc. Looks like they changed it now 1:39:28.360 --> 1:39:33.160 to private access, which it encrypts and password protects files 1:39:33.200 --> 1:39:38.320 on sand Disc USB flash drives. Doesn't necessarily say that 1:39:38.400 --> 1:39:40.519 you can't copy stuff on them, but that may be 1:39:40.600 --> 1:39:43.960 a feature. But you do need to use a sand 1:39:43.960 --> 1:39:48.160 Disc USB or I expand flash drive to use this 1:39:48.280 --> 1:39:50.960 private access software. But that's one more option. So again, 1:39:51.040 --> 1:39:53.240 private access if you don't want people to be able 1:39:53.240 --> 1:39:55.760 to copy the stuff. But I'll have to investigate that 1:39:55.800 --> 1:39:57.880 see if it works properly. Thanks for the email there. 1:39:58.960 --> 1:40:02.599 Open up the feedback now. We've got lots here. Tiffany 1:40:02.640 --> 1:40:04.720 writes in from Huntington Beach, Hey, Rich, just wants to 1:40:04.760 --> 1:40:06.880 alert you of a scary text that looks like a 1:40:06.960 --> 1:40:11.040 scam targeting moms. I received a text yesterday from a 1:40:11.080 --> 1:40:14.320 Boston phone number saying, Hi, Mom, my phone is broken. 1:40:14.760 --> 1:40:17.200 Text me now on this number right here, and it 1:40:17.240 --> 1:40:20.280 gives a phone number. My oldest is living in Baltimore 1:40:20.320 --> 1:40:23.240 and always refers to me as MA, so I knew 1:40:23.240 --> 1:40:24.040 it wasn't him. 1:40:24.280 --> 1:40:25.040 That's interesting. 1:40:25.920 --> 1:40:28.280 The scariest part is I almost fell for it, and 1:40:28.320 --> 1:40:30.479 I could easily see a mom worried about our kid 1:40:30.520 --> 1:40:32.920 and getting scammed. It feels like a personal assault on 1:40:33.040 --> 1:40:37.800 moms everywhere. Wow, Tiffany, thanks for that. Is that's scary because, yeah, 1:40:37.840 --> 1:40:39.880 think about it. Your kid might be living somewhere and 1:40:39.880 --> 1:40:42.840 they say, hey, my phone's broken, text me here. You 1:40:42.920 --> 1:40:45.160 may not think twice call them from there. 1:40:45.280 --> 1:40:46.639 Wow. Good warning there. 1:40:47.320 --> 1:40:50.559 Mark from Laguna Noguel, California writes in, Hey, Rich, thanks 1:40:50.600 --> 1:40:52.440 for warning listeners about simlocking. 1:40:52.520 --> 1:40:53.719 I wish I had known sooner. 1:40:54.200 --> 1:40:57.400 Back in February, someone ported my number without my approval 1:40:57.439 --> 1:41:01.520 and it's kicked off three months of stress and account takeovers. 1:41:02.080 --> 1:41:06.280 The attacker access my bank email, Amazon Google, PayPal, and more. 1:41:06.720 --> 1:41:10.840 Resetting passwords using my phone number. Even when I changed passwords, 1:41:10.840 --> 1:41:13.800 they just do a reset again. Mint said it would 1:41:13.800 --> 1:41:16.120 take forty eight hours to get my number back, but 1:41:16.160 --> 1:41:17.920 it took a full week, and once I had it, 1:41:18.240 --> 1:41:20.800 call still wouldn't come through. Eventually, I gave up and 1:41:20.840 --> 1:41:24.439 got a new number. Mark's advice lock your SIM with 1:41:24.479 --> 1:41:27.920 a carrier, use an authentication app instead of text based 1:41:27.920 --> 1:41:32.240 two factor authentication, keep emergency contact info for key accounts, 1:41:32.760 --> 1:41:34.040 and report things. 1:41:33.840 --> 1:41:35.599 To the FBI's IC three. 1:41:35.800 --> 1:41:39.680 Oh my gosh, Nicole writes in Hey Rich, I've been 1:41:39.760 --> 1:41:42.800 using a device called the PCI Tracker. It lets you 1:41:42.880 --> 1:41:46.240 control your PC completely with just your eyes, no hand 1:41:46.360 --> 1:41:49.080 movement needed. A friend gifted it to me, and I'm 1:41:49.120 --> 1:41:50.679 in love with it. I thought it might be something 1:41:50.720 --> 1:41:53.439 you want to check out or even feature, especially since 1:41:53.439 --> 1:41:56.560 it could be helpful to others. That's good to know, 1:41:56.720 --> 1:42:01.839 PCI Tracker. There's also I tracking built in to Apple 1:42:02.400 --> 1:42:07.560 with Settings Accessibility eye tracking, so no extra hardware necessary, 1:42:07.640 --> 1:42:12.559 so check that out Settings Accessibility, I Tracking. Mike from 1:42:12.640 --> 1:42:15.120 Denver new listener here, love your show. I listened to 1:42:15.160 --> 1:42:18.040 the podcast weekly and I'm learning so much. I followed 1:42:18.040 --> 1:42:22.000 your instructions to turn on simswap protection for Verizon, and 1:42:22.080 --> 1:42:23.800 while I was in my account, I noticed a bunch 1:42:23.840 --> 1:42:26.360 of other security and privacy settings I'd never looked at. 1:42:26.880 --> 1:42:29.320 Thanks to your heads up, I was able to enable 1:42:29.479 --> 1:42:32.320 number lock, set an account pen, and turn off a 1:42:32.320 --> 1:42:36.920 bunch of privacy default privacy settings like CPN, I sharing 1:42:37.040 --> 1:42:38.280 and custom Experience. 1:42:38.320 --> 1:42:38.719 Plus. 1:42:39.479 --> 1:42:42.040 Just wanted to say thank you and maybe remind listeners 1:42:42.040 --> 1:42:44.439 to log in and check those other privacy settings too. 1:42:44.520 --> 1:42:48.040 I'm glad I did. Great tip, Mike, thanks for being 1:42:48.080 --> 1:42:52.479 a new listener. And yes, just have some fun. Instead 1:42:52.479 --> 1:42:55.160 of going out on a Saturday night hanging out with friends, 1:42:55.600 --> 1:42:58.880 going out to the bar, restaurant, dinner with your family, 1:42:59.240 --> 1:43:02.280 just check the I, acy and data settings on all 1:43:02.280 --> 1:43:04.880 of your accounts. You know, just spend a Saturday night 1:43:05.000 --> 1:43:11.280 doing that and enjoy. Just see what you find. I'm kidding, 1:43:11.280 --> 1:43:13.320 but that's what I do. That's how nerdy I am. 1:43:13.439 --> 1:43:16.000 I go through my phones and I just go step 1:43:16.000 --> 1:43:19.360 by step every every single setting you can imagine. I 1:43:19.479 --> 1:43:21.720 just like to see what's available and just you know, 1:43:21.800 --> 1:43:25.040 see and I'm like, oh that's interesting, let's see. 1:43:26.360 --> 1:43:26.559 Yeah. 1:43:26.760 --> 1:43:27.519 Nerd for sure. 1:43:27.760 --> 1:43:34.880 Mark another interesting another mark about SIM swapping. Thanks rich 1:43:34.920 --> 1:43:37.040 for warning people to lock their SIM I didn't and 1:43:37.080 --> 1:43:41.360 I paid the price. My phone number was ported without 1:43:41.360 --> 1:43:43.400 my approval. In the next three months were a nightmare. 1:43:43.600 --> 1:43:44.920 Wait is that the same thing? I think that's the 1:43:44.920 --> 1:43:49.080 same email sounded like it. Richard from Ocean Side writes 1:43:49.160 --> 1:43:51.559 in I added the watch Duty app to my phone 1:43:51.680 --> 1:43:52.160 last week. 1:43:52.280 --> 1:43:53.040 Super easy. 1:43:53.439 --> 1:43:55.679 I got two alerts for a fire near La Mesa 1:43:55.760 --> 1:43:58.160 on July fourth, and two more on July fifth for 1:43:58.200 --> 1:44:01.000 a fire near the Ocean Side Airport. I haven't seen 1:44:01.040 --> 1:44:03.479 anything on the news or heard anything from my San 1:44:03.520 --> 1:44:06.160 Diego County emergency app. Thanks for having that guest on 1:44:06.200 --> 1:44:11.280 your show. Great recommendation. Yeah, watch Duty is essential if 1:44:11.320 --> 1:44:13.439 you live in an area that might have fires, and 1:44:13.479 --> 1:44:17.080 I think they're expanding to floods next, he said, Bruce, 1:44:17.880 --> 1:44:21.800 Oh my gosh. Another hacking story. Back in May, my 1:44:21.960 --> 1:44:25.880 Facebook account was hacked. The hacker changed the log in credentials, 1:44:25.880 --> 1:44:28.559 locking me out. I tried all the usual recovery routes 1:44:29.640 --> 1:44:31.680 and nothing worked. Everyone I talked to you said the 1:44:31.680 --> 1:44:34.080 only way back in was knowing someone on the inside 1:44:34.080 --> 1:44:38.120 at META. Eventually I tracked down a few email addresses 1:44:38.479 --> 1:44:42.080 for a few Meta attorneys and executives and explained my situation. 1:44:42.760 --> 1:44:45.200 A few days later, a real person for Meta support 1:44:45.240 --> 1:44:47.719 reached out and helped me recover the account. It wasn't 1:44:47.760 --> 1:44:50.320 smooth selling, but I finally got access back and added 1:44:50.320 --> 1:44:55.200 two factor authentication right away. Okay, yeah, tracked down those 1:44:55.240 --> 1:44:58.960 email addresses. Steve from Cincinnati writes in on your last show, 1:44:59.000 --> 1:45:02.040 you mentioned that Amazon now has price history. Well, camel 1:45:02.080 --> 1:45:04.679 Cammell Cambell has been doing it better for a while. 1:45:05.320 --> 1:45:08.519 Their browser extension, the Camelizer, gives you at least six months, 1:45:08.600 --> 1:45:11.519 sometimes a year, of price history. Thanks for the great show. 1:45:11.600 --> 1:45:11.800 Rich. 1:45:11.840 --> 1:45:14.360 By the way, my last name sounds like the word cool. 1:45:14.800 --> 1:45:16.479 I don't have his last name in here, but you 1:45:16.520 --> 1:45:17.360 are cool, Steve. 1:45:17.479 --> 1:45:17.840 Thank you. 1:45:19.000 --> 1:45:21.360 I like the Amazon price history because it's simple and 1:45:21.400 --> 1:45:23.639 it's right there. But yes, there are many options out there. 1:45:24.400 --> 1:45:26.960 Ray writes in magic Jack is still around. It now 1:45:26.960 --> 1:45:29.439 connects directly to your router, not your computer using an 1:45:29.479 --> 1:45:32.679 Ethernet cable. You just need internet service. It's about fifty 1:45:32.720 --> 1:45:35.040 dollars a year with no monthly fee. I've used it 1:45:35.040 --> 1:45:38.240 for over fifty years with both corded and cordless phones, 1:45:38.560 --> 1:45:39.759 even an answering machine. 1:45:40.720 --> 1:45:41.719 I'll not say something. 1:45:41.920 --> 1:45:44.880 Yes, look at the monitor right to your left. H 1:45:45.280 --> 1:45:49.040 that's from tmz Dare you see this? This is okay? 1:45:49.080 --> 1:45:52.000 So this says your Google customer, Congratulations, you're one of 1:45:52.040 --> 1:45:54.639 one hundred users we have selected for free stuff. 1:45:54.640 --> 1:45:56.320 And it looks just like Google. It does. 1:45:56.479 --> 1:45:58.240 Man, if you look at the website, that's not a 1:45:58.240 --> 1:46:01.240 Google website, get mega love. Yeah, no, that is not. 1:46:01.560 --> 1:46:03.879 That is not You have to be careful, and this happens. 1:46:04.160 --> 1:46:08.720 This is really called malvertising. So advertisers inject stuff like 1:46:08.800 --> 1:46:12.519 this into legitimate advertising. But they do it so quickly 1:46:12.920 --> 1:46:15.600 that before the Google systems or any of the advertising 1:46:15.640 --> 1:46:18.240 systems have a chance to figure this out, they've already 1:46:18.240 --> 1:46:21.320 netted a couple people. That happens all the time, literally 1:46:21.360 --> 1:46:24.200 tmz dot com and opened it a few minutes later. 1:46:24.280 --> 1:46:25.000 It just popped up. 1:46:25.040 --> 1:46:28.200 It can happen on any website, even legitimate ones. Just 1:46:28.240 --> 1:46:30.000 be careful with that stuff. But if you get that 1:46:30.080 --> 1:46:31.800 thousand dollars gift card, you gotta split it with me. 1:46:32.720 --> 1:46:35.160 Leo from the South Bay says, great show. We've had 1:46:35.280 --> 1:46:36.280 uma for many years. 1:46:36.280 --> 1:46:36.960 It works great. 1:46:37.000 --> 1:46:40.280 Also, you overestimated the cost. We're only paying about seven 1:46:40.320 --> 1:46:43.799 to seventy five a month for free nationwide calls. Okay, 1:46:43.840 --> 1:46:47.120 good clarification, Leo, I mentioned ten to twelve dollars a 1:46:47.120 --> 1:46:48.280 month in taxes and fees. 1:46:48.360 --> 1:46:52.679 It could be lower depending on your location. Let's see. 1:46:52.720 --> 1:46:55.040 Do we have one more to get to before the 1:46:55.479 --> 1:46:57.200 break here? Oh? 1:46:57.760 --> 1:47:00.559 Danny writes in from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rich, you 1:47:00.640 --> 1:47:03.360 can get good moon pictures with an iPhone, but it 1:47:03.439 --> 1:47:04.160 takes practice. 1:47:04.280 --> 1:47:05.479 A tripod works best. 1:47:05.520 --> 1:47:08.479 Adjust the exposure by tapping the screen to set the focus, 1:47:08.800 --> 1:47:12.280 then drag the exposure slider to manually just brightness. Eh, 1:47:12.680 --> 1:47:15.360 just get a Samsung S twenty five Ultra, gona take 1:47:15.400 --> 1:47:16.920 it all right. 1:47:16.800 --> 1:47:18.200 That's gonna do it for this episode. 1:47:18.240 --> 1:47:20.599 Next week, how AI is taking over the fast food 1:47:20.680 --> 1:47:22.719 drive through, and how it's helping you plan for long 1:47:22.800 --> 1:47:25.559 term care. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. 1:47:25.680 --> 1:47:27.880 Find me at rich on Tech. My name is Rich Dmiro. 1:47:28.120 --> 1:47:29.000 Talk to you real soon.