WEBVTT - Why You Should Stop Swiping a Card at the Gas Pump 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.160 Why gas station is a dangerous place to use your 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:19.239 credit card. Instagram combats bullying in a unique way. Ten 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.960 best gadgets of the last ten years, and your tech 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.319 questions Answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro. This is 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.080 Rich on Tech, the show where I talk about the 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.880 tech stuff that I think you should know about. Plus 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.760 I answer all the questions that you send me. But 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.040 I will say, for the first time in several weeks, 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:42.280 your questions are actually less than the CES emails I'm getting, 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.240 which is just insane all time high. Welcome producer Megan 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:46.760 to the show. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:48.080 What's Up? What's going on? 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.080 The holidays? That's what's going on? Like our little holiday music. Yeah, 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.960 all right, we'll get that out of there. Lots to 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.480 talk about in this show. I will start by talking 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:06.080 about upgrading my mom's setup because I was in New 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.480 Jersey and whenever I go home to New Jersey, I 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.440 basically spend a day with my dad and a day 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.840 with my mom upgrading all their stuff. Because it's kind 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.120 of what tech nerds do when they go home. It's 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.600 a very common thing. And so for my mom, she's 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.240 going to go over all the things I did because 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.120 it was crazy. It was one day, but everything changed 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.200 for her. And this is the thing. You know my mom, 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.440 she rolls with this stuff. And this is the beauty 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.000 of technology is that it doesn't have to be super complicated. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.280 Everything that I do when I set up my friends 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.679 and family with tech is I want to make it 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.039 not so complicated so that they can enjoy it and 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.399 understand it and just love it and not have to 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.120 be figuring out fifteen different remotes and this, how do 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:49.800 I switch to this input in this and that. So 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.760 first thing I did, I basically upgraded my mom's fire 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.920 TV stick. She had an old Amazon Fire TV stick, 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.440 not the four K version, and so I actually had 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.240 given her a four K Fire TV stick, like I 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.320 think it was over the summer for like her birthday, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.880 and I was like, oh, here, you need an upgrade. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.919 And she never set it up. Of course she didn't 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.720 because she doesn't set things up herself. So I get home, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.240 I see this thing on the table and I'm like, Mom, 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:14.960 can we set this up? So we set that up 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.480 and I'm using her old firestick and wow, it was 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.000 so slow. She's like, well, this thing always has problems. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.239 I'm like, yeah, I can see why, because it's so slow. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.799 It was ridiculous. So I got the four K one 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.760 worked so much better, logged her into different apps. Then 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.480 I'm looking at her at and T TV. I'm like, hey, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.560 let me see your bill, your credit card bill for 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.160 this at and T direct TV now whatever it used 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.079 to be called. And she shows me your bill. It's 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.160 sixty five bucks a month. I'm like, sixty five bucks 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.679 a month. How many channels are you watching? She only 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.480 watches one out there in New York, it's like ABC seven. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:47.840 And so I'm like, well, you know you're paying like 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.000 sixty five dollars a month for all these different channels 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.919 that you don't watch. It's like, well, sometimes watch Food Network. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.280 I'm like, can you do without it? Because we can 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.959 save you sixty bucks a month. So it's like yeah, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.440 I'm all right. So we cancel that, and so DirecTV 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.959 eighten T now whatever's gone. But now she doesn't have 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.079 a local channel. So I look up low Cast. I 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.280 remember we talked about this, This is the app that 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.840 lets you get your local channels. Oh OK, A lot 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.359 of people have written in with mixed reactions to how 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:12.880 good it is. But anyway, so I set her up 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.680 with that low cast dot org is the website. Plus 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.320 they have an app that lets you get your local channels. 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.679 Even in LA. You can get KTLA on there. I 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.760 don't know how long it's gonna last, and it's not illegal, 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.320 but they're operating as some sort of a gray zone 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.919 that the broadcasters are kind of fighting it, so who knows, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.400 but it works for now. And I set her up 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.119 with that and to get rid of all the kind 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.680 of clutter on the screen, like they kind of bombarred 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.000 you every fifteen minutes with like an AD or something. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:40.880 You pay five bucks a month. So I was like, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.560 all right, for five bucks a month, are you willing 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.120 to pay that? She's like sure, So we did that. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.240 Then we were on a roll. I said, well, now 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:48.960 you've got a four K fire stick, do you want 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.640 to upgrade your TV? And she's like sure. I said, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.320 four KTVs are so cheap. So we found one of 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.880 Best Buy TCL five series. It was three hundred and 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.960 twenty nine dollars and I was like, for three hundred 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.320 twenty nine dollars for four KTV. By the way, way 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.640 bigger fifty yes, she had a forty two, so fifty 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.480 five and by the way, forty two with like these 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.880 giant bezels, you know, the black bar around the screen. 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.760 So we go to best Buy. We order it online, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.200 pick up in store. I gave her my five dollars 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.720 best Buy rewards card five dollars off. So we do that. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.320 We come home, we set it all up, the TV 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.560 so light. I can carry it by myself up the 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.000 stairs into our place and you know, set it all ye, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.560 So we do that. Her TV looks fantastic. So all 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.800 that's done. Then I upgrade her computer. I bought her 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.760 computer a couple of years ago, and so I upgraded 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.520 that to another computer that I had given her, like 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.000 one of my old ones. Yeah, and she never really 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.920 set it up again. So I got that all set up. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.000 This is fun for you. This is fun for you. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.760 Love doing this, Like this is like if I could 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.920 do this every day. Yeah, well it'll probably be a job, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.880 so probably not, but I do it is fun because 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.279 it's like things could be interesting and different. So we 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.800 do the computer and then with the old computer. She 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.680 had two of her old computers sitting there from the 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.320 last two times I upgraded over the past decade because 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.080 I was like, mom, we'll figure this out. So I'm like, 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.360 all right, you know what, we're getting rid of these 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.520 right now? So I research online. It turns out that 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.839 at best Buy they charge you to like recycle a monitor, 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.800 it's like twenty five bucks. But at Staples they'll take 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.039 anything with no fee. So we drove her to Staples, 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.159 brought the computer to the old computer and the old monitor, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.800 and we recycled there and that was good. I also 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.320 gave her a Google Home Hub. This was one of 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.360 her Christmas gifts, so I got her like the little one. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.160 I want to get her the big one, but I 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.000 was like, she really got a video chat? Probably not, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.880 so got her the little one. And the thing that 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.920 she loves about this is the pictures. So it's basically 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.080 a picture frame. It's now called the Google Nest Hub, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.080 but it shows your pictures when you're not using it, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.680 and she loves her pictures blah blah blah. So we 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.520 did that and now she's got her pictures on this 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.640 little thing. And finally I gave her my old pixel 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.400 because I upgraded to the iPhone, so I gave her 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.640 my old Pixel three Excel that I bought, and she 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.320 still wanted to stick with a pixel. She's had a 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.760 pixel now for I think two years three, okay, and 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.200 she really likes it and she loves her pictures from it. 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:04.200 She was a new woman. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.520 Yeah, so she got a new phone. And by the way, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.840 the phone is bigger because it's the Excel. She used 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:09.680 to have the regular one. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:10.040 Okay. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.719 So anyway, my point is she is hooked up. Oh 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.240 and it's basically all hand me downs for me. But 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.039 still it's new to her for the most part. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.640 You treat your tech nicely too, It's not like it's 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.440 all dinged up. It's exactly pretty much brand new. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.040 Yes. So anyway, so she is loving all her new 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.400 stuff and transferring everything and setting it all up was 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.400 not that tough and it was really fun. And the 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.440 reason I tell this story is because if my mom 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.520 can deal with all this new technology and one day 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.160 it's basically a tech makeover, you can deal with it too. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.479 You can figure it out. This stuff is not complicated. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.200 It gets easier and easier every year. Next time I 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:45.880 go home, I'm gonna set her up with some smart 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.360 plugs because I think that she'd really like the idea 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.840 of turning on and off lights around ther house with 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.640 just her voice. Oh yeah, and also setting some of 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.200 those on timers, because right now she's like walking through 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.240 the house turning things on and off, and I feel 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.599 like she'd probably really enjoy having some of these on timers. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.960 I also think she'd really enjoy a chrome Cast that 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.000 would show her pictures on the big screen when she's 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.120 not using her TV. Also, so I've been doing that 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.720 at my house. I come home and I now say, h, Google, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.280 turn on the living room chrome cast and if you 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.800 just do that, it'll turn on your TV, switch to 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.520 the chrome Cast input and just display your pictures as 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.840 a screen saver, which is really nice because your TV, 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.440 if it's sitting there with a dark screen, it's kind 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.800 of useless. So I've been doing that. The only problem 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.680 is when I want to switch back to fire TV, 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.880 I have to like use the input button on the remote, 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.200 which is kind of annoying. So I'm trying to figure that. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.760 I don't know if you can add your own pictures 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.480 to Roku. Last I checked, I don't think you can. Natively, 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.600 there might be a third party app that lets you 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.520 do it, and you know, Google or Sorry, the Amazon 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.080 fire Stick lets you do it, but you have to 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.360 upload your pictures to Amazon and so that means curating them, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.640 whereas Google just does it for you, and then Apple 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.040 same thing. You can do it, but you have to 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.400 curate your pictures and it's kind of a anyway. All right, 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.160 So now you heard my story. Let's get one of 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:03.800 the questions. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.679 Okayat Megan, So this first question comes from and Alon. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.040 She says, I need your advice. Can you please let 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:16.080 me know the difference between a chromebook and laptop. I'm 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.920 planning on buying these for my daughters, ages twelve and 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.000 nine years old. I'm not looking for any fancy stuff, 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.920 basically for homework and for them to log into their 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:30.320 applications from school for extra reading and mathwork. And then 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.400 she asks which device should I buy for each girl 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.079 for depending on their ages. My twelve year old is 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.240 a seventh grader and my nine year old is a 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:38.960 fourth grader. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.360 Okay, so first question, the difference between a Chromebook and Windows. 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.520 The main difference between a Chromebook and Windows is that 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:51.200 Chrome runs the Chrome operating system, which if you've ever 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.320 used the Chrome web browser online, it's basically that, but 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.440 as an entire operating system. So it does have a 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.240 desktop and things like that, but primarily When you think 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.240 of a chromebook, think of it as you are on 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.839 the web doing work. Now I can get ninety nine 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.120 point nine percent of my work done on the web, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:15.240 which includes resizing photos, checking my email, watching YouTube, uploading pictures, 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.240 uploading videos. What else did I miss surfing the web? 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:25.640 The things I can't do mail, email, spreadsheets, making documents, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.640 google docs, typing up documents. The thing I can't do 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.920 is basically edit video. And that's it. So if your 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.960 daughters are they both daughters? Did she say yes? So 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.880 if your daughters are only doing things primarily, I think 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.199 the delineation is this, do your daughters need to download 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:48.000 any sort of specialty apps for their use? So if 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.040 there's a special let's say they're a scientist and they 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.000 need a special science app that you need to download 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.920 to a computer and run it, the chromebook will not 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.400 run that app because it's generally a Windows app. Okay, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.319 So that's the main thing to keep in mind. But 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.480 otherwise I would say, talk to your kids and see 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.600 if they use like, ask them, hey, what apps do 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.720 you use? Like what? Don't use the word apps? Use 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.960 programs because apps think you think of phone, So program 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:12.800 is like on my computer right now, I have like 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.120 ever note is a program. Now you can run that 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:16.920 in totally in the web, but it works better as 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.439 a native app. I've got my Reminders that's a MacApp, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.520 so I use that, you know, on the computer, But 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.640 ninety nine percent of what you want to do for 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.680 the average person is available on a chromebook, so I'd 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.880 recommend going with those. The benefits of a Chromebook are security, 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.199 so there's really no viruses for them. Software updates are automatic, 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.480 and they're really fast, and they're kind of invisible. It 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.800 happens when you kind of restart the computer and that's it. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:44.840 What about like a MacBook Air. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.040 The problem is if she's deciding between a Chromebook, it's 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.920 usually a MacBook Air starts at about one thousand bucks. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:53.600 So I thought, like the. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.320 Really small one was cheaper, but maybe it might be 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:57.679 it maybe six ninety nine. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.040 Yeah, but I don't think so, I think that it 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:01.679 let me let me go one that's. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.480 Like twelve inch screen, I think, or even smaller. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.720 There's well, let's say MacBook Air. So you've got a 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.480 MacBook Air and the cheapest MacBook Air that I see 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:15.200 on the website is one ninety nine. Yeah, So when 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.920 you're talking ninety nine percent of the people that email 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.520 me about a computer, Mac is not even in the 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.880 picture because you're only looking at a Mac if you 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.000 need to do something specific when it comes to audio video, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.680 or you love your iPhone so much you just feel 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.640 like a Mac would be the perfect compliment. Otherwise, most 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.880 people that I'm talking to are not going with a Mac, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.960 and they're going like, I'm talking average person who's just 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.560 doing web surfing stuff. And in fact, I love the Mac. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.240 I think that the Mac is amazing. Do I recommend 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:45.800 it for everyone? Because no, you probably don't need it. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.440 If you can save money, like just surfing the web 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.640 on a chromebook, go ahead and get the Chromebook. And 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.040 it also has a lot of advantages for software. You 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.880 don't have to think about updates, you to think about 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.319 apps and things like that. So for most people, I 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.679 would say a Chromebook is the way to go. And 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.360 when people are looking at laptops and chromebooks, I always 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.839 recommend Costco because they generally only have one to two selections, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.240 so it's very easy and they're always better than what 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.360 you find anywhere else. So let's say they had the 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.920 same exact chromebook at Costco that they do at Best Buy. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:16.960 The one at Costco will be a little bit cheaper 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:18.760 and the specs will be a little bit better. It's 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.160 always like that. It's the way Costco cuts their deals 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.360 with these retailers or these manufacturers. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:24.640 I should say love Costco? 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:29.079 Yes, so do I love that place. Gas stations are 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.319 the most dangerous place to use your credit card, and 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.520 not just credit card, but debit card, anything that has 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.240 the Visa or MasterCard logo on it, or American Express whatever. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.400 And according to Visa, they have said that hackers are 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.000 not even using skimmers anymore. We've always heard about skimmers, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.760 which is a physical device that hackers install over the 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.320 card reader and steal your number. They don't bother with 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:52.960 that anymore because people are kind hiped to that if 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.959 you see some big old thing on the scanner, you're 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:56.920 gonna be like, I'm not using that. What they do 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.880 is they hack the gas station software and once inside, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.320 all they have to do is scrape all the card 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.800 numbers that are flown through that software when you scan 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.040 your card at the pump. And the reason why Visa's 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.320 warning about this is because it's basically in their best 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.080 interest to have these gas stations upgrade to the chip 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.920 and pin And if you've noticed, every retailer now pretty 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.480 much has chip and pin so which chip Most of 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.439 the time they're chip so, which means you pop your 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.840 you insert your credit card in, you don't swipe it anymore. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.360 My favorite is the tap. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:29.280 Tap is the best. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.000 Tap is the best. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.200 And a lot of retailers have tap as well. And 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.480 I would say the last holdout that I go to, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.959 I think is Ralph's that does not have LAP. They're 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.400 trying to use their own, like Kroger. Kroger's so big 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.280 that they can use their own like Walmart. Actually, Walmart 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:46.880 and Kroger are the last two holdouts. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:47.920 They have their own version. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:49.920 Yeah, they have their own thing. It's like a QR 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.400 code you scan because think about it, when you tap 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.280 your credit card on that device, they have to pay 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.840 a little percentage to that credit card company for that 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.920 ability to take that card. So the reason they don't 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.839 want to do that is because with their system, if 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.320 they use like you know, Walmart Pay or whatever, yeah, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.240 it doesn't cost them as much. So if you think 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.160 about a billion transactions in a year or however many 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.600 they do, even a penny per transaction is a lot 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:15.000 of money. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.480 But do you think people will decide to not go there? 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.320 No. No, Every time I go to Ralph's, I'm like, 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.120 when are you going to take it? Was a while 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.320 they wouldn't even take the chip. So, but the tap 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.120 is so I've gotten so used to the tap and 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.120 in fact, so okay, let me just go through a 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.880 little bit more of this story. So the hackers are 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.200 getting these numbers because they're they're exposed when you swipe 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.280 your card, your actual card number that's printed on the 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.920 front of the card is being transmitted over the internets 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.040 when you dip your card, when you pop it into 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.240 that slot. As a chip, it's creating a one time 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.080 number that is transmitted. So if someone, let's say, you 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.600 got my number, you can't do anything with it because 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.240 that number only lasted. It's a one time number. It's 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.480 disposable for all intents and purposes. So this is why 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.280 we switch over to the chip because it's much more secure. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.640 And Visa saying that gas stations the reason why they're 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.160 so dangerous is because they are the last place that 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.280 does not have chip. Everyone else has chip now and 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.560 I'm not talking mobile payment chip. Chip is still chip 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.080 and dip. It sounds like something you would have it 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.720 you're a fourth at your your super Bowl part. So 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.520 my recommendation on this with a gas station, and I've 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.120 found this to be true with myself, find a gas 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.840 station that uses tap and it's very tough to find. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.080 I find in the Los Angeles area. Arco is really 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.640 good at having tap to pay, so is Chevron. That's it. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.960 The rest of the gas stations they don't. They all 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.040 have this still the swipe where it's actually insert, but 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.120 it's not really a chip. It's still it's a swipe 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.280 insert kind of thing, you know what I mean. I 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.640 think it's not a true chip anyway. So that's my 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.840 advice because when you use tap to pay or use 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.120 your chip, or if you even tap your credit card, 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:55.360 A lot of these credit cards, if you look on 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.280 the back, they have a little wireless symbol. Your credit 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.200 card is actually taped to pay enabled, so you can 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.240 actually physically a lot of the Chase cards you can 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.680 tap to pay. Yeah. Yeah, and so that's the cards 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:07.080 that I got. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:07.320 Works. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.000 Yeah, So my advice, use the tap to pay your 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.440 gas station. It's I would say, I was trying to 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:15.560 find a good app to recommend that you can look 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.600 at to see where a tap to pay gas station 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.480 is near you and I the only app I found. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.440 I didn't really it wasn't very good. It was kind 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.520 of like, let's see so I had deleted off my phone. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.200 I think I did. Yeah, I did. It was so 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.200 bad I didn't even keep it on here Gas Buddy, No, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.680 I don't think gas Buddy shows it may but I don't. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.000 I don't. I have to look at that. In the meantime, 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:37.560 while I look that up, you go through your next question. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.920 Okay, so our next question comes from Diane. The subject 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.800 is new phone phobia. My husband and I need to 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.040 upgrade our cell phones. We're not tech savvy, So which 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.320 do you recommend? The iPhone or an Android phone. We 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.120 like to talk, text, take pictures and share stuff with family. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.760 Did I mention we're over fifty eight years of age? 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.240 Technology challenged? I thought that was a sweet. 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:10.600 Okay, I like that. That's nice. I would recommend probably. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.920 I know. I know everyone that's listening is gonna say, oh, 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.800 Rich is gonna say the iPhone right. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.800 Here's why I don't know what you're gonna say. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.880 Here's why I say the iPhone. Okay, because number one, 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.840 she said she wants to text with friends and family, right, yes, okay, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.280 I'm guessing if she's like a lot of Americans, her 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.440 family and friends have iPhones. Okay, So that means that 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.679 you have I Message and you probably want to be 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.520 able to send things easily, quickly, share photos, videos, all 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.800 that good stuff. That's why I would recommend the iPhone. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.359 It's also easier because when you run into a problem, 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.359 you can ask a friend versus an Android, where a 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.080 lot of people put their shoulders up and they're like, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.679 I don't know. So that's another reason for the iPhone. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.320 You've got the Apple Store, so if you really have, 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:54.879 you know, you want to really take it to the 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.000 next level, you can take some classes there about how 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.720 to use your phone. There's also this book, what's the 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.600 book book? Did someone write an iPhone book? 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.119 There's an iPhone book? Oh my gosh, what is it called? 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.359 One iPhone? That one? Yeah? 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:07.800 That one? 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.919 Yea. Who's the author on that? So you've got that? 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:15.440 It seems like Tom Demiro, it's very similar, yeah, Tom, Tom. 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.120 So so you've got the book. You can get one 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.520 hundred and one iPhone Tips and Tricks I just feel like, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:22.280 and I love Android, don't get me wrong, you know, 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.959 I love it. Yeah, yeah, I don't. I always want 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:25.720 to switch to Android. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.679 You're no, you there's like a good six months of 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:30.840 the year where you're on Android, and you're like, I 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.320 don't want to go back to the iPhone and buy 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.440 the next iPhone? Yes, well yeah you should. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.440 So, and it is great and it's you know, it's 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:40.679 one of these things. Plus you have a lot of 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.560 selections of phones you can go in. You've got a 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.760 lot of choice. Yeah, And I just feel like, if 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.600 you want to phone your you're fifty eight, if you 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.240 want a phone that lasts, you know, a good three years, 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.679 I would say, just go go with an iPhone. Go 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.840 with the iPhone eleven. Yeah, go with the ten R 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.480 if you're if they don't even sell that anymore, I 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:57.679 don't think, but iPhone, Go with the iPhone eleven and 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.840 just that'll last you three years. You'll be great, you know, 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:01.520 three years, if not more. 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:02.439 I feel like forever. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.240 Yeah, it could last you four years. Yeah, yeah, my 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.600 dad is still on the Uh what did he have, 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.200 like the success? Maybe my dad. 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.000 Had the five for like up until a month ago. 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.480 You can keep these things for a long time. Yeah, 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.639 let's put it this way. The latest version of iOS 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.800 is iOS thirteen. It still works on the iPhone six s, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.320 which I remember the iPhone's success when that came out, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.800 and that had to be Let's see how many years 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.040 ago was that. That was twenty fifteen. You're talking four years. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:36.080 Okay, all has a success. Plus, that's pretty good time 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:36.760 for HERD update. 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:41.040 Okay, let's talk about Instagram. They're doing something interesting to 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:45.119 try to combat bullying. When you type a caption on 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:50.040 your photo and it's considered offensive by their AI, they 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.600 are going to say, excuse me, do you really want 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:55.000 to say that? And we've talked about this before. They've 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:56.800 done this with comments in the past. I call it 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.439 the Taylor Swift filter because she basically was the one 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.800 who asked to do this. Apparently, Oh did she? 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.159 Yeah? Because I guess show doesn't have like she turns 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:04.600 all of that. 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.639 I know that's why, because she didn't like the mean comments. Yeah, so, 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:11.159 and I get it. It's it's the Internet is a 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.080 is a rough place. You don't you know, you put 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.360 yourself out there when you put a Now, if you're 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:17.639 just posting stuff with friends, and family generally, you're not 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:19.320 gonna I mean, are your friends really gonna be that? Like, 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:23.560 al yeah, I hope they're not. I mean, but if 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.719 you're in the public, if you're in the public, and 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.480 a lot of people do bully public figures because they figure, 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:29.920 I don't know this person, like I could just say 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.520 whatever I want, you know, model Supermodel posts like a 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:34.480 picture and they're like, oh, you're too fat, like yeah, 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.720 and people do it right, and they do it just 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:39.040 to be like mean yeah, and you know, it's it's 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.840 really bad on YouTube. YouTube meets to license this technology 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.400 from Instagram. I I always call Instagram like Disneyland. It's 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.280 like the Disneyland of the Internet because it really is 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.960 like happy. They block all the hashtags that are bad. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:54.400 You know, you try to type in a bad hashtag 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.840 on Instagram, I don't try it, Okay, well do you try. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.440 I've tried, yeah, and there and it comes up nothing. 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:01.960 They say that this hashtag that was a couple of 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:03.640 years ago where they started doing that, And they even 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.520 do it where they find trending because people get around it. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.720 So people pick a hashtag to do something dirty with 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.240 or something bad with, and Instagram will pick up on 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.800 it and they'll block it. They'll say like these tags 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.119 have been registered as offensive or something. So anyway, my 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:20.879 point is, ye, and I remember this whole thing happened. 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:22.879 This actually happened a couple of years ago by a 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:26.320 viewer unbeknownst to me. She said, my son is finding 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.800 these really inappropriate pictures on Instagram. And I was like, 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.640 there's no inappropriate pictures on Instagram. Sure enough, I did 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:33.639 a main main hashtag that she sent me. It was 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:38.280 like I don't know, ice cream or something, yeah, whatever 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.040 it was, it was something very like simple, and sure enough, 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.679 the pictures that came up were filled with terrible stuff. 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.159 And so I was like, wow, I had no idea. 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:48.919 And so this is when I kind of realized that 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:51.159 Instagram is doing that. And then they after that was 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.119 like probably six months later that they said, oh, we're 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.320 going to start filtering hashit. Anyway, so now they're doing comments. 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.440 So when you type a comment, it will say can 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:00.560 you please reconsider this because it might be mean, And 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.280 it's AI that's figuring out if it's mean or not. 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:09.080 So you say eat a burger to who's adi? So 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.119 if you say eat a burger to her and maybe 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:12.920 like Megan, do you really want to say that? 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.280 But it would I feel like eat a burger that's 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.439 not right, as like an AI wouldn't pick that up 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:18.920 as oh. 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.560 You don't know it may or like you need a burger, 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:24.000 Yeah you need a burger. That could be mean. 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:24.840 That could be mean. 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:26.960 Or how about like I bet you put your mayo 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:27.600 on the side. 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:31.119 Yeah, I bet you take the bun off and just 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:31.760 eat the meat. 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:33.359 I bet you eat that protein style. 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:35.960 Yeah, those are good. 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:39.919 That lettus wrap, Yeah, I would do that just. 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:41.240 Just for a healthy lunch in and out. 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:47.000 It's it's much lighter. Yeah, you can well done? Yeah, exactly, 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.560 have well done. Okay, so that's what Instagram is doing. 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:57.000 Okay. This next question comes from your Facebook, which is 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:03.480 Facebook dot com. Slash rich On Chris asks, Hey, rich 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.800 is there a digital picture frame that can be linked 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.560 to your iPhone? I feel like we've answered this a 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:10.680 couple times, but I. 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:12.280 Feel like it too, but I think I'll just go 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.679 over the too. It is. Okay, So everyone, this is 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:18.680 really funny because this holiday season, for some reason, I'm 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:21.639 getting more of the digital picture frame question than ever before. 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:23.600 I don't know if that's a I don't know if 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:26.359 someone's a lot of times these companies are advertising on 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:28.880 Instagram and Facebook, and that's why people email me because 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.600 they're seeing this ad over and over. So I'll just 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:34.720 throw out two recommendations. The first is nix Play and 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:37.200 I X P L A Y. They make some of 0:23:37.240 --> 0:23:39.639 the best frames out there. I've tested these in the past. 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:41.760 They work really well, they do what you want, and 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:44.880 you know, they're pretty simple. It's a picture frame that's digital. 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:48.200 You can send stuff from your your phone to the frame. 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:50.280 You can send stuff to your loved ones frames if 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.280 they have it set up that way. It works, and 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:55.000 it's you know, they have cloud frames. They have ones 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:57.200 that you can plug the USB into the back. However 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.560 you want to do it, they'll Nixplay will do that. 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:03.120 The thing that I personally like better is, well, there's 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:04.680 another way you can do it. Well, there's a third 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:06.080 way I'll tell you in a second. But the other 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:08.439 way you can do it is I really like the 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:12.320 Google Nest Hub and the Google Nest Hub. I get it. 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.760 It's a smart speaker. It's listening. It's evil because it's 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:17.640 Google listening in your house with a microphone and potentially 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:20.000 a camera. If you get the big version. But let's 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:21.560 be honest, we all have those things in our home. 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:23.520 So it's like, come on, what are you gonna do. 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:23.919 Yeah. 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:25.640 But the best part about that is if you're using 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.639 Google Photos already, it curates the best photos. Not it 0:24:29.640 --> 0:24:32.600 doesn't always do the best job. Sometimes, Like my mom 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:34.960 she sells stuff on like Facebook, Marketplace, and like a 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:36.879 couple of like her old pairs of shoes showed up. 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:38.760 She's like, I thought you said these were curated. I 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:40.000 was like, well, it's not always right. 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:41.080 It's like all selfies. 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:43.840 Clearly you took a good picture of those shoes, because 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:47.240 Google's ai wreck, you know, identified it as a good picture. 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:48.040 Yeah. 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:50.440 And so you can also do things like so when 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:52.720 my kid, when it was my kid's birthday, you can 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.240 say I only want to show pictures of a certain face. 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:58.040 So on one of my albums, I have just like 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:01.360 the family, so I say like Lindsay rich Tanner Parker, 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:04.520 and it can automatically just show pictures that involve those faces. 0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:06.199 So you can do a lot of stuff. Or you 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.679 can say I just want sunsets, so all my sunset pictures, 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:10.840 or you can say just pictures in Hawaii or you 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:12.600 can do a combination of whatever you want. And that's 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:15.680 why I think the Google nest Hub is the best 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:18.800 way to go because it's so flexible and you can 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:21.160 change your pictures at a moment's notice. Yeah, like I said, 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:23.000 when we had the birthday party at my house, I 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:27.120 changed all the digital displays to show just Tanner first 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:30.160 Birthday's amazing. Nobody noticed, but I was hoping one person 0:25:30.240 --> 0:25:33.000 might be like, oh, he's yeah anyway, But to me, 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:34.600 I smiled, They probably thought. 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:37.320 You spent hours putting it together. I'm like, oh, poor guy. 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:39.840 Yeah, what a loser. The only other thing I would 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:42.200 recommend is if you have like an old iPad around, 0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:46.520 you could probably work that into a frame and you 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:48.680 could probably just put some pictures on there and set 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:50.600 it as a slide show or whatever. And I'm sure 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:52.680 there's apps out there that you can use as well. 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:56.560 So cool, cool question. Let's talk about the ten best 0:25:56.600 --> 0:25:59.280 gadgets of the twenty tens. You know, we're rounding on 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:03.040 a decade here, Megan, it's almost twenty twenty, So top 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:04.600 ten gadgets to the twenty tens. I'm not going to 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:07.040 talk about this too much because I actually talked about 0:26:07.080 --> 0:26:11.520 this at length in another podcast, my friend Brian Tong's podcast, 0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:14.560 the Apple Bits XL. So if you want to hear 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:18.840 us discuss all these gadgets of the last decade, check 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:22.120 out Apple Bits XL with Brian Tongue. He's my pal 0:26:22.280 --> 0:26:25.000 from when I worked at c net and we talked 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:28.240 about this. Your helm, yeah, actually lives close by to me. 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:29.800 We never see each other. We're always like, oh, we 0:26:29.840 --> 0:26:31.240 got to hang out, and we only see each other 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:32.880 like out and about at events. We're like, we got 0:26:32.880 --> 0:26:35.480 to hang out. We never do. So one of these days, 0:26:35.480 --> 0:26:39.199 one of these days we will. Apple iPad that was 0:26:39.200 --> 0:26:42.080 one of the top ten Tesla model s that was 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:45.000 a big game changer. Raspberry Pie do you know that one? 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:46.800 You meanke food? 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:49.160 Now, this is a little tiny computer that you can 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:51.000 like make into anything you want. So it's good for 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:53.639 like tinkers and you know nerds. Yeah, you can do 0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:55.800 a lot with it. So it's only like twenty five bucks, 0:26:55.960 --> 0:26:59.480 So that's really cool. Google Chrome Cast twenty thirteen. I 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:02.440 can't believe it's been six years since that came out. 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:05.280 That was life changing, like to me when I saw this, 0:27:05.359 --> 0:27:09.080 because streaming devices were really expensive before Chrome cast, and 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:10.560 when the first one came out, I think it was 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:13.160 like thirty five or fifty bucks. It was like, well, wait, 0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:16.760 what what is it now? I think it's thirty five maybe, 0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:19.240 but don't forget. Now you have the Roku sticks and 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:21.600 you've got the Amazon sticks that are so cheap that 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:24.119 like everyone assumed streaming can be cheap, but back then 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:27.040 it wasn't. No, you had like Apple TV, Apple TV yeah, 0:27:27.080 --> 0:27:28.800 and that was like two hundred bucks. Yea. I think 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:31.600 now it's like now it's still two hundred. 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:33.240 It's still still the same. 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:37.679 Dji Phantom, this is the drone. Yeah, okay, Amazon Echo 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:40.240 and twenty fourteen that was life. That was game changing. 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:43.439 I've never been a big Echo user, but it was 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:44.359 a lot of people like it. 0:27:44.440 --> 0:27:45.960 I feel like she doesn't hear me, right. 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:49.760 She does better than Siri, that's for sure. Yeah. Google's 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:53.239 good though, Yes, Google's amazing. Apple Watch twenty fifteen, that 0:27:53.400 --> 0:27:55.440 was game changing. You're still wanting one, I know. 0:27:55.520 --> 0:27:56.320 Noticing trend. 0:27:57.359 --> 0:28:00.639 There's only three Apple products? Oh but still air Pods 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:04.399 twenty sixteen. Nintendo Switch in twenty seventeen, which I know 0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:07.960 you're not a gamer, but that was a big one because. 0:28:07.680 --> 0:28:10.159 This might be the decade, though twenty twenty might be 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:11.400 my gaming might be. 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:15.600 Your gaming years. And then the Xbox Adaptive Controller in 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:20.560 twenty eighteen. This is for gamers with physical limitations disabilities, 0:28:20.600 --> 0:28:22.840 and it lets them play Xbox as well, which is 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:24.880 really cool. So cool again, if you want to hear 0:28:24.880 --> 0:28:27.600 me discuss all the top ten gadgets of the twenty tens. 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:30.359 Oh those are according to Time dot Com. By the way, 0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:34.000 those were not my list. Okay, Apple bits XL check 0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:36.600 out the podcast by Brian Tong. I have a. 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:42.560 Question, my own question, what was your favorite product from 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:43.680 the twenty ten I'll be. 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:46.760 Honest, I think it's the Pixel. I'm surprised. I'm surprised 0:28:46.760 --> 0:28:49.480 that was not on there. I would say either the 0:28:49.520 --> 0:28:50.880 Pixel or Google Assistant. 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:52.680 People just overlook Google. 0:28:52.760 --> 0:28:55.400 Well, I think so there was one. There was Chrome Cast, 0:28:55.480 --> 0:28:58.680 but I think that or you know, Google Photos, those 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:02.160 were not products but I and Google Assistant. But favorite 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:05.880 I think the Pixel was. I mean, for for when 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:09.040 it came out, it was the best photos I had 0:29:09.080 --> 0:29:11.920 ever seen on a smartphone with such a simple camera. 0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:15.040 And I think this year, you know, I carry the 0:29:15.080 --> 0:29:19.480 iPhone eleven Pro Max and I really truly think that 0:29:19.480 --> 0:29:23.800 that's a great overall device. If I had my way, 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:27.560 i'd probably carry the Pixel if I wasn't if I 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:30.719 was not creating well, if I was not creating content 0:29:31.000 --> 0:29:35.560 for social media, Yeah, because the iPhone and also the apps, 0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:39.240 because Android just doesn't have the apps that the iPhone does. 0:29:40.120 --> 0:29:43.040 But I love the smarts of the Android platform and 0:29:43.120 --> 0:29:47.280 especially Google and especially the Pixel. So that's uh, you know, 0:29:47.400 --> 0:29:48.400 that's that's the difference. 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:55.800 Yeah, so cool. All right. This next question comes from Kristen. 0:29:55.960 --> 0:29:58.800 She wrote on your Facebook, Hi, Rich, I just got 0:29:58.800 --> 0:30:03.400 my first iPad. It's the iPad Pro and I'm terrified 0:30:03.560 --> 0:30:06.520 of one of my cats breaking it. What is the 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:09.440 best protective case for it and how? And does the 0:30:10.040 --> 0:30:13.800 protective paper like film actually protect as well as the 0:30:13.800 --> 0:30:17.000 glass does thinks you know, I. 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:18.600 Fell in love with a cat when I was home. 0:30:19.160 --> 0:30:21.640 I'm not a big cat person, but my brother gave 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:25.200 my mom a cat, little tiny kitten, and I will 0:30:25.240 --> 0:30:27.360 say I was like, Okay, I might get one of 0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:28.840 these if it stayed that small. 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:32.239 If you're not allergic, you should I'm not allergic. I 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:33.240 wish I could have. 0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:35.600 It was really cute. It like crawl up on you 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:37.600 while you're watching like TV, and just like ball up 0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:38.880 on your lap. And I'm not used to that because 0:30:38.880 --> 0:30:41.479 I don't have like any animals. Yeah, so it was 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:42.360 I do have kids. 0:30:42.480 --> 0:30:44.239 Are your kids allergic to cats? Uh? 0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:47.280 Probably because one of them has like some allergy kind 0:30:47.320 --> 0:30:50.800 of stuff, so probably, but evenly wants a dog. But anyway, 0:30:51.120 --> 0:30:54.920 so I understand the cat thing because basically, these cats 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:58.400 are tiny tyrants around the house. They play with everything, 0:30:58.640 --> 0:31:02.080 they get into everything, they knock things over, they scratch things. 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:04.320 And if you have an iPad sitting there, she says, 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:06.480 her first iPad on the edge of the table, and 0:31:06.520 --> 0:31:08.440 you just leave it there, Boom, it's dead. It's gonna 0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:10.560 fall off because this cat's gonna claw it, and you 0:31:10.560 --> 0:31:13.680 know it's gonna go off the side. I would recommend, 0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:15.600 and this is what I've had on my kid's iPads 0:31:15.600 --> 0:31:19.120 for four years now, the otter Box. And they make 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:23.680 an iPad case that is one hundred percent inclusive of 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:26.600 the iPad, so it goes on the back and then 0:31:26.680 --> 0:31:30.200 it also has a thing a cover for the screen, 0:31:30.280 --> 0:31:32.840 and they make several cases, but I would go with one. 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:37.240 It depends what was her name again? Diane. Her name 0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:43.840 was shoot Kristin, So I would say Kristin that if 0:31:43.840 --> 0:31:46.960 you think you're gonna be responsible enough, you can get 0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:49.840 a case that doesn't necessarily cover the front like the screen. 0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:52.840 But she specifically mentioned the screen, so I would probably 0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:55.560 get an otter Box case that covers the screen and 0:31:55.600 --> 0:31:59.560 it encloses your entire your entire iPad. Now with that said, 0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:01.520 your iPad, it's going to be a lot bigger than normal. 0:32:01.560 --> 0:32:04.480 It's gonna be a little bit heavier, but it's for 0:32:04.560 --> 0:32:07.200 most people that's fine. And outer Box has a lot 0:32:07.240 --> 0:32:10.360 of different cases, so you can see, like maybe you 0:32:10.400 --> 0:32:12.560 want one Defender is kind of like the main one 0:32:12.920 --> 0:32:14.880 that's the biggest one, that's going to be pretty thick, 0:32:15.160 --> 0:32:17.480 but you can get other ones like a symmetry case. 0:32:18.000 --> 0:32:21.400 Let's see what else do they have in Alpha that's 0:32:21.440 --> 0:32:23.120 a screen chector. But I would say just look what 0:32:23.160 --> 0:32:25.520 they have. But that's the company i'd recommend is autter Box. 0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:29.960 So good question. That's protected my kids iPad for many 0:32:30.040 --> 0:32:32.120 years until my kids threw up on his iPad the 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:34.160 case and so I had to take it off. So 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:36.920 my kid's actually gone caseless for about three months. Now, 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:38.560 I need to buy. In fact, I need to buy 0:32:38.600 --> 0:32:40.360 a new case for him. It's been in my Amazon 0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:42.360 shopping cuts. But it was gross because it was like 0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:44.240 the throw up got like, you know, in like under 0:32:44.240 --> 0:32:46.600 the screen and I had to like clean the whole thing, 0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:48.280 and like it was so gross. I just wanted to 0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:48.760 trash it. 0:32:48.840 --> 0:32:51.120 Why did he aim onto the iPad? 0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:53.200 I know, right, all I wanted to do was throughout 0:32:53.240 --> 0:32:54.840 the iPad. I was like, I just want to toss 0:32:54.840 --> 0:32:56.840 this thing in the trash because it's got you know, 0:32:56.960 --> 0:33:02.160 barf on it. But I did not. I saved itw 0:33:02.880 --> 0:33:07.200 AIRTV two is now available. This is AIRTV is kind 0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:10.720 of an offshoot of Sling TV, and they say it's 0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:14.200 a cord cutting brand dedicated to meeting the growing consumer 0:33:14.240 --> 0:33:17.240 demand for over the air products and services. AIRTV two 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:20.160 is a new Wi Fi enabled network tuner. A lot 0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:23.360 of times what happens is you get these streaming services 0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:26.800 and you have to somehow figure out how to get 0:33:26.800 --> 0:33:29.440 all your channels. Like, for instance, the TV station I 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:32.240 work for KTLA is not currently on any of the 0:33:32.240 --> 0:33:35.000 streaming services. So when you get something like YouTube TV 0:33:35.600 --> 0:33:37.560 or Sling TV, all of a sudden, you're like wait, 0:33:37.600 --> 0:33:40.000 where's my local channel five? You don't have it, then 0:33:40.040 --> 0:33:42.160 you have to go and get an antenna. And you 0:33:42.200 --> 0:33:44.080 can get an antenna, and now you have to figure 0:33:44.080 --> 0:33:46.960 out how to integrate that into your streaming setup, which 0:33:47.000 --> 0:33:48.760 means do you put it on a separate input on 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:52.479 your TV? Do you get a box that integrates it? 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:55.320 Like for me, I have something called Amazon fireTV Recast 0:33:55.760 --> 0:33:59.280 which integrates into my fireTV okay, which means I don't 0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:01.280 have to switch in puts to go to my antenna. 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:04.920 So if I want something on regular TV, I just 0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:08.000 go to my grid on my fire TV. But there 0:34:08.440 --> 0:34:10.600 it gets complicated because if you're just hooking up an 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:12.920 antenna to your TV, now you have to switch to 0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:16.120 that antenna input to watch anything on there, which most people, 0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:18.440 if you're cord cutting, you're streaming everything else, And then 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:20.279 I get switch inputs. It's a big pain in the 0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:22.080 you know what. So you don't want to do that. 0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:25.920 So this new AIRTV too is a Wi Fi enabled 0:34:25.960 --> 0:34:28.680 network tuner. And the beauty of this thing, it's kind 0:34:28.680 --> 0:34:31.960 of like my fireTV recast. You put it in the 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:35.319 spot in your house that has the best reception, so 0:34:35.360 --> 0:34:37.520 that may not be near your TV, which in the 0:34:37.560 --> 0:34:39.640 case of my mom's house, I did try an antenna there, 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:41.759 she didn't get reception near her TV. I didn't have 0:34:41.800 --> 0:34:44.600 time to relocate and do this whole setup with her, 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:48.319 you know antenna. So you put this little box where 0:34:48.360 --> 0:34:51.319 you get a signal and then the box uses Wi 0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:54.440 Fi to connect that to your TV. And in the 0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:58.520 case of this device, it actually it actually streams your 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:01.960 local channels right into the TV app, and the Sling 0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:06.120 TV app pretty much works with most of the fire 0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:09.440 sticks and the Roku devices. So I know it sounds 0:35:09.480 --> 0:35:12.239 overly complicated, but the bottom line is you connect an 0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:15.200 antenna to this device, the device connects your Wi Fi network. 0:35:15.239 --> 0:35:17.520 You can now watch your local channels on the same 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:20.440 screen that you get all your other streaming content on. 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:22.560 So you can watch Netflix and then you can say, oh, 0:35:22.560 --> 0:35:24.799 I want to go to my channel five. You just 0:35:25.480 --> 0:35:28.160 bring up the Sling TV app and Channel five will 0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:30.520 be in there. So and it's free, by the way, 0:35:30.560 --> 0:35:32.320 once you pay there's you know, once you pay the 0:35:32.400 --> 0:35:36.000 ninety nine bucks to buy this thing, there's no subscription. Yeah, 0:35:36.480 --> 0:35:38.960 people forget that Free TV has a lot of stuff. 0:35:39.400 --> 0:35:42.399 This also has a DVR. If you connect a hard 0:35:42.480 --> 0:35:45.480 drive to it. And let's see what else is there 0:35:46.360 --> 0:35:48.040 that's about it. I mean you can watch things out 0:35:48.040 --> 0:35:51.799 of your house. You can watch on Roku, Amazon, Fire, 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:54.960 tv iOS, and Android devices. That's a lot. That is 0:35:55.000 --> 0:35:57.239 a lot, and it's available for ninety nine ninety nine 0:35:57.800 --> 0:36:00.880 And yeah, I mean that's all you need to know 0:36:00.880 --> 0:36:03.600 about that. It's pretty cool. So sling dot com slash 0:36:03.680 --> 0:36:07.360 AIRTV offer, or you can just go to airtv dot net. 0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:10.359 If you purchase an AIRTV two on airtv dot net, 0:36:10.400 --> 0:36:12.759 you'll get a twenty five dollars Sling TV credit. You 0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:15.279 do not need a Sling TV subscription, by the way, 0:36:15.320 --> 0:36:17.719 to use that AIRTV So if you just want to 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:19.880 start out with your your local channels, you can do that. 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:23.360 Then you can always add a subscription later. All right, 0:36:23.400 --> 0:36:24.400 I've spoken enough Megan. 0:36:24.640 --> 0:36:27.680 Okay, So this next question comes from Lyle. 0:36:30.440 --> 0:36:34.279 Wait, uh oh what happened to Lyle? Oh? 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:36.680 Sorry? Sorry, sorry, I'm just I'm going through my email. 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:37.720 I was a private text. 0:36:38.080 --> 0:36:40.360 No no, no, no, I just I have your response 0:36:40.440 --> 0:36:43.960 to Lyle. Okay, okay, So the next question comes from Lyle. 0:36:44.360 --> 0:36:49.560 What can you recommend to block all these intrusive advertising advertisements? 0:36:49.600 --> 0:36:50.920 On Android phones. 0:36:51.239 --> 0:36:55.200 Oh I love this, love this question. You're gonna get 0:36:55.239 --> 0:36:59.480 some real insider info right here we go, because this 0:36:59.600 --> 0:37:01.960 is something that I have not really spoken about in 0:37:02.000 --> 0:37:03.439 a big way because I feel like it's a little 0:37:03.440 --> 0:37:07.600 bit complicated for most people. But if you have Okay, 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:09.239 So there's a couple of ways to block ads. I 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:12.440 asked this person if they were on Android ten because 0:37:12.880 --> 0:37:15.239 that makes a difference on Android how easy it is 0:37:15.280 --> 0:37:17.800 to block It is so easy to block ads on Android. 0:37:18.239 --> 0:37:20.520 I almost feel bad giving out this trick because it's 0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:24.879 so easy. It's scary. Do I give it out? Okay? 0:37:25.080 --> 0:37:25.360 Kidding? 0:37:25.480 --> 0:37:27.560 So on iOS, you know that you can add these 0:37:27.560 --> 0:37:30.040 things called content blockers to Safari. Do you have one 0:37:30.080 --> 0:37:34.080 of these installed? So if you add a content blocker there, well, 0:37:34.160 --> 0:37:37.080 I don't really use Safari, but still right, and that's 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:39.160 the problem if you use what you use Chrome? Yeah, yes, 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:41.640 so do I So I don't use, you know, a 0:37:41.680 --> 0:37:46.080 content blocker on Chrome on the Android. On the iOS side, anyway, 0:37:46.200 --> 0:37:48.239 if you're on iOS, you can download something called a 0:37:48.239 --> 0:37:51.319 content blocker, and what that does is it integrates into 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:53.640 Safari and blocks all your ads as you're surfing. It 0:37:53.680 --> 0:37:55.920 only works on Safari doesn't work on other apps and 0:37:55.920 --> 0:37:58.279 other things, but that's an easy way to block ads 0:37:58.320 --> 0:38:01.480 just when you're surfing the web on Safari. On Android, 0:38:02.000 --> 0:38:04.719 the easiest way that I know of is in Android ten. 0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:07.320 All you have to do is change one setting. Okay, 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:08.719 so I'll tell you where to go. You go into 0:38:08.719 --> 0:38:12.080 settings on your phone, you go into network and Internet, 0:38:12.640 --> 0:38:14.959 you go to Advanced, and then you go to something 0:38:14.960 --> 0:38:19.719 called private DNS. And DNS is how the internet or 0:38:19.760 --> 0:38:21.719 your phone looks up things on the Internet. So when 0:38:21.760 --> 0:38:24.160 you search for something, it goes to a DNS and 0:38:24.200 --> 0:38:27.200 it kind of sees like, okay, everything has an address 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:28.440 on the world on the internet. 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:32.200 Basically we are you going to say worldwide. 0:38:31.520 --> 0:38:34.320 So everything has an address there, and so the DNS 0:38:34.400 --> 0:38:36.920 helps you what's called resolve that address. So when you 0:38:36.960 --> 0:38:39.799 type in Yahoo dot com, it actually has a little 0:38:39.840 --> 0:38:42.240 number associated with it in the background, and that DNS 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:46.920 server helps resolve that find it. So what this does, Okay, 0:38:47.000 --> 0:38:48.959 Then when you go to private DNS, what you're saying 0:38:49.000 --> 0:38:52.480 is you're saying, use this DNS host to figure out 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:55.120 the addresses, and once you go through that, it will 0:38:55.120 --> 0:38:58.600 block all the ADS that comes through that connection. So 0:38:59.000 --> 0:39:01.160 what you want to do is change private DNS two 0:39:02.640 --> 0:39:05.799 dns dot adguard dot com and ad Guard is a 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:09.160 big company that does all these ad blocking services. And now, 0:39:09.160 --> 0:39:11.120 when I talk about ads, obviously a lot of people 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:13.799 make money off of that. So if you're thinking about 0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:15.719 blocking ads, you always want to take a step back 0:39:15.719 --> 0:39:19.400 and think, am I hurting people's ability to feed their children? 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:22.040 So just keep that in mind and you're fine with that, 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:25.560 and WHOA A lot of times these are what I 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:29.000 call nuisance ads. So this will actually help in a 0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:30.799 lot of these things. And this is why I have 0:39:30.840 --> 0:39:32.840 no problem recommending this. A lot of times you go 0:39:32.840 --> 0:39:36.120 to a website and you get blocked in by some 0:39:36.160 --> 0:39:39.759 sort of really obnoxious AD that is popping up on 0:39:39.800 --> 0:39:42.600 your screen a thousand times saying you want a gift card, 0:39:42.760 --> 0:39:45.120 or you want an Amazon prize or you're the tenth 0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:47.319 winner and you can't get out of it. And that's 0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:50.040 why I say, sure, go ahead and use this, because 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:52.800 you're blocking malicious stuff as well, and that's what a 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:55.080 lot of people run up against anyway. So you type 0:39:55.080 --> 0:39:58.160 in DNS dot adguard dot com into this little box 0:39:58.640 --> 0:40:03.239 under private DNA and boom, it's all your ads on 0:40:03.280 --> 0:40:07.160 your phone are blocked. Now, not every AD is going 0:40:07.200 --> 0:40:09.200 to be blocked. A lot of times it's a cat 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:12.440 and mouse game between the big ad companies and services 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:14.040 like this. So sometimes you might be like, hey, Rich, 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:16.480 I'm still seeing ads. Can't get rid of them all. Like, 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:19.239 if you're browsing, you know, Twitter, you'll probably still see 0:40:19.239 --> 0:40:21.160 Twitter ads. A lot of times. You can't get around 0:40:21.239 --> 0:40:23.880 some of the ads, but especially the nuisance ads, like 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:26.600 the really annoying ones, you'll get rid of. And that's 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:28.600 the easiest way to do it. Now, if you ever 0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:31.279 lyle have a problem where you can't load a website 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:35.120 or you can't connect to a Wi Fi network, you 0:40:35.160 --> 0:40:38.319 can just go ahead and turn this off and when 0:40:38.320 --> 0:40:40.360 you're done with that network or you're done with that website, 0:40:40.400 --> 0:40:43.040 you can turn it back on. But that's kind of 0:40:43.080 --> 0:40:45.920 like the deal. And you know, that's some real insider info. 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:48.480 But like I said, a lot of people that I 0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:51.720 see browsing the web, they're coming up against some pretty 0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:54.160 bad stuff that they can't really figure out how to 0:40:54.200 --> 0:40:57.680 exit the browser. It's scare tactics. You know, you've got 0:40:57.680 --> 0:41:01.239 these things that say you won hundred dollar Amazon gift card. 0:41:01.239 --> 0:41:03.759 You fill out these forms, it's all garbage, and so 0:41:04.120 --> 0:41:06.200 you know, if this can help protect one person from 0:41:06.239 --> 0:41:08.560 getting scammed into something, then hey, it's worth it. There 0:41:08.560 --> 0:41:11.279 you go. Okay, finally, let me close the show with this. 0:41:12.000 --> 0:41:14.360 We did a fun story for KTLA on some of 0:41:14.360 --> 0:41:16.879 the cool ways you can interact with Santa this time 0:41:16.920 --> 0:41:19.600 of the year. And I'll just start with the smart speaker. 0:41:19.680 --> 0:41:21.680 So if you're on a Google Smart speaker, you can say, 0:41:21.800 --> 0:41:24.799 h Google, Call Santa and you'll get connected to the 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:26.960 North Pole and they play this fun little game with 0:41:26.960 --> 0:41:29.520 Santa where you kind of pick some things. It's like 0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:31.879 a choose your own adventure almost. That's kind of fun. 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:35.080 On Amazon Echo, if you want to directly call Santa 0:41:35.600 --> 0:41:42.000 using you know what rhymes with abexa, you actually have 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:45.520 to go into the Alexa app first and enable the 0:41:46.080 --> 0:41:48.920 call Santa skill. And there's a bunch of them, but 0:41:49.000 --> 0:41:51.600 look for the one that says Amazon dot Com above it. 0:41:51.920 --> 0:41:54.840 There's a whole bunch of call Santa skills. You probably 0:41:54.880 --> 0:41:57.000 want the official one from Amazon. Enable that in the 0:41:57.000 --> 0:41:59.640 app first. Then you can go to your Alexa or 0:41:59.640 --> 0:42:03.680 your ex device and say, hey, call Sanna. So that's 0:42:03.680 --> 0:42:07.080 one on Siri on the iPhone. Don't even bother. She 0:42:07.280 --> 0:42:10.840 just gives you some like she really just plays some 0:42:10.880 --> 0:42:13.160 games with you, Like she's like, oh, flap your hands 0:42:13.160 --> 0:42:15.520 five times and say ho ho not come on, come on, 0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:19.359 Apple's Apple. Let's make something fun. Other things to do 0:42:19.440 --> 0:42:21.799 check out Santa Tracker dot Google dot com. This is 0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:23.920 where you can see a countdown to Christmas along with 0:42:24.000 --> 0:42:27.839 fun games and there's some cool apps as well. So 0:42:28.239 --> 0:42:31.360 on the iPhone, there's an app called Catch Santa ar. 0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:35.200 This uses the augmented reality feature of the iPhone where 0:42:35.239 --> 0:42:38.319 you can aim your video camera at your Christmas tree 0:42:38.400 --> 0:42:42.600 and catch Santa sneaking by present. It's really cool and 0:42:42.600 --> 0:42:44.160 you can record it and you can send it to friends, 0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:45.960 put on Instagram, be like, hey, we caught Santa in 0:42:46.000 --> 0:42:46.359 the act. 0:42:46.920 --> 0:42:47.880 Your kids look. 0:42:47.880 --> 0:42:50.920 Caught Santa and that was really cool. The other app 0:42:51.040 --> 0:42:55.239 is called Capture the Magic, and Capture the Magic is 0:42:55.239 --> 0:42:57.759 an app for iPhone and Android and they let you 0:42:57.800 --> 0:43:02.000 superimpose Santa, Snowman and all kinds of stuff on any 0:43:02.080 --> 0:43:04.680 scene so you can have some real fun with that. 0:43:04.760 --> 0:43:07.520 You can put Santa in your pictures and we did 0:43:07.520 --> 0:43:09.000 this at a holiday party a couple of years ago. 0:43:09.160 --> 0:43:10.400 I can't remember the name of the app, but it 0:43:10.440 --> 0:43:12.400 was very similar. But we had so much fun, like 0:43:12.400 --> 0:43:14.240 taking pictures in front of the tree like with Sanna, 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:16.160 and all the people at the party were like cracking up, 0:43:16.200 --> 0:43:18.879 so it was really cool. We put them on Instagram 0:43:19.080 --> 0:43:22.720 party trick and again that one's called Capture the Magic. 0:43:22.760 --> 0:43:24.319 And of course you know about Norrad where you can 0:43:24.400 --> 0:43:27.680 track Sanna on Christmas Eve. Yeah, so again a lot 0:43:27.680 --> 0:43:29.200 of fun you can have with the kids during this 0:43:29.239 --> 0:43:31.120 time of the year. I was looking for something with 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:33.320 Elf on the shelf. Are you familiar with that? Yeah, 0:43:33.360 --> 0:43:36.319 so that's like the new thing, right And do they 0:43:36.400 --> 0:43:39.439 have a tech? I'm sure they do, but I didn't 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:41.600 really look it up. So anyway, those are kind of 0:43:41.600 --> 0:43:44.000 some fun things you can do with Santa this time 0:43:44.040 --> 0:43:47.279 of the year. So there you have it. It's always fun, 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:50.800 have a great holiday. We are this is the last 0:43:50.840 --> 0:43:54.239 show of the year of twenty nineteen. We are going 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:56.439 to start the year off. I think there's one show 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.000 before we go to Seat. Yes, so we'll do one 0:43:59.040 --> 0:44:00.640 show at the beginning of the year and then we 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:03.680 go to CS and at CS have a fun thing 0:44:03.719 --> 0:44:05.480 planned for the show, so we're gonna be recording it 0:44:05.520 --> 0:44:07.840 on the scene, but in kind of a fun location. 0:44:08.040 --> 0:44:11.320 So I've got that going on. Follow me on Instagram. 0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:13.520 I am at rich on Tech. That's where I'm doing 0:44:14.000 --> 0:44:17.759 almost all of my posts these days. So at rich 0:44:17.800 --> 0:44:20.719 on Tech. If you see my stuff, you know it 0:44:20.800 --> 0:44:22.520 takes me a bit to do these things. So if 0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:24.359 you see it, the least you could do is like it, 0:44:24.560 --> 0:44:28.480 oh yeah, or share it or comment or comment. I mean, 0:44:28.920 --> 0:44:32.360 just just throw me a bone. Follow, follow, share with 0:44:32.440 --> 0:44:34.759 your friends. I really I'm getting into this thing. I 0:44:34.800 --> 0:44:38.399 really like sending posts to friends that It's great. 0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:38.719 Yeah. 0:44:38.719 --> 0:44:40.680 The only problem is when people send me posts and 0:44:40.680 --> 0:44:42.960 their private and I'm like, I can't look at that. 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:44.480 Yeah private, follow it. 0:44:44.360 --> 0:44:47.719 But I think that's a growth hacked tacktic is right, Yeah, 0:44:47.800 --> 0:44:48.960 and then I have to go there and follow that. 0:44:49.160 --> 0:44:50.239 Yeah, I get it. 0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:52.880 I never do. I say, can you screenshot this and 0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:53.360 send it to me? 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:55.319 Oh? My friends are like, no, you have to follow 0:44:55.320 --> 0:44:55.800 that account? 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:59.520 Interesting? Okay, Megan's funny. How can people find you. 0:44:59.640 --> 0:45:02.440 A I'm on Twitter at producer Megan? 0:45:04.120 --> 0:45:08.319 Okay, okay, what nothing? That's it. My book is one 0:45:08.440 --> 0:45:11.200 hundred and one iPhone tips and tricks. By the time 0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:13.160 you listen to this, it's probably too late to get 0:45:13.200 --> 0:45:15.960 it in time for the holidays. But if you got 0:45:16.000 --> 0:45:21.360 an Amazon gift card for Christmas or Hankah or Kwanza 0:45:21.880 --> 0:45:25.040 or what else is there? Remember the OC it was 0:45:25.120 --> 0:45:26.000 Christmas Quantica. 0:45:26.560 --> 0:45:28.680 Oh no, I never watched that episode. 0:45:28.719 --> 0:45:32.120 Or Christmas. No Christmas, ch Christma Christmas. I think it 0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:35.720 was Christmas. Cop Yeah, that was pretty funny. I'm dating 0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:39.279 myself now, Seth Cohen. Yes, So if you got a 0:45:39.320 --> 0:45:41.279 gift card, you can buy the book now. It's a 0:45:41.320 --> 0:45:43.640 great gift and or I guess, gift to yourself, I 0:45:43.640 --> 0:45:46.160 should say, and that's going to do it. I think 0:45:46.160 --> 0:45:48.440 that's it for the show. We had a great time 0:45:49.640 --> 0:45:51.160 talking all things. 0:45:51.840 --> 0:45:53.760 Tech tech twenty nineteen. 0:45:53.920 --> 0:45:55.160 Are you have any Are you going to start in 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:57.600 your resolutions for twenty twenty Megan. 0:45:57.400 --> 0:45:59.360 Oh no, I need to make some though. 0:45:59.520 --> 0:46:00.960 I need to make them too. I'm gonna be off 0:46:00.960 --> 0:46:04.520 my phone more. I'm gonna be more present. That's my 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:08.120 oh quick story, mindful. The problem with being present. I 0:46:08.160 --> 0:46:10.000 tried doing this when I went home to New Jersey. 0:46:10.280 --> 0:46:12.839 No one else is doing everyone's present, so everyone else 0:46:12.920 --> 0:46:14.239 is not present, but you should just. 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:17.560 Be that person that's like, you're not present. You're not Yeah, 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:18.880 gotta start the trend. 0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:21.840 Be present. Just be present with your family and friends 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.920 this holiday season. Take the Instagram pictures, then put down 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:27.480 the phone. Yes, all right, Yes, have a great day. 0:46:27.560 --> 0:46:29.959 Rich on tech dot TV, thanks so much for listening 0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:33.720 to the podcast. We will see you next year. Bye.