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And later 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.839 Joel Santo Domingo of The Wirecutter is going to break 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.759 down mesh networking, what it is, why you need it, 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.520 and the best systems to buy well. It is a 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.040 spring break and also summer travel coming up, so I've 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.360 been getting a lot of questions about how to travel 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.280 with your current phone plan or your current phone but 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:00.320 avoid all of those roaming charges, especially internationally. Now this 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.040 has gotten a lot easier over the years. I remember 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.160 the first time I ever went to Japan, I was 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.520 without a phone for basically the moment I got off 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.840 the plane to the moment I got to my hotel 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.040 room a couple hours later. It was a long, long 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.600 train ride, and it was so frustrating. I thought I 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.040 had done the right things. I thought I had the 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:26.680 plan figured out. I did not, and it was tough. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.680 Now I ended up getting over it, but in the 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.200 meantime I said that would never happen again. And so 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.920 here are my tips for making sure that you can 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.080 stay connected without coming back home to a giant bill. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.760 So number one, I think the easiest thing to do 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.360 is to stick to your current plan. So if you 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.760 have a major carrier, that's AT and T, Verizon, T Mobile. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.000 They all offer these international day passes. So if you 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.040 just want your phone to work the way that it 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.440 works in the States, just use that. That's going to 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.560 be twelve dollars a day for AT and T and Verizon. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.919 That lets you keep your phone your same phone number. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.399 Let's you use your data. You don't get a ton 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.600 of data in most instances, but you'll get enough to 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.520 get you through what you need for the most part. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.880 But that's going to be very pricey. So T Mobile 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.919 a lot of their plans actually include free international data, 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.160 but the speeds might not be as fast as you're 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.400 used to at home. You can pay them to have 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.519 faster speeds. Now, if you're on one of those fifty 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.440 five plus plans, a lot of those I checked do 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:34.560 not include international data. They might include international texting when 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.240 you're overseas, but the data might not be included. So 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.920 number one, be sure to check what your plan offers 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.880 and what you have. Now here's a little trick. If 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.520 you're on one of those very expensive unlimited plans. We're 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.200 talking like the ninety dollars a month plan, A lot 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.280 of the carriers give you what's called a free roaming day, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.480 and they sort of bank. So even some of the 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.960 smaller carriers do this, but if you're on a pricey plan, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.680 you may be banking international days. So if you check 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.600 your little account, go on the app, go on the website, 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.840 it may say, hey, you have five free days of roaming. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:11.840 I mean, if you're going on a five day trip, 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.360 six day trip, that might be just enough and that 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.000 won't cost you a thing. So that's my number one 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.280 tip is to either look online, call your carrier, check 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.120 your plans, see what's already included, and see how much 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.080 it costs to just use what you have. If you're 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.880 just going on a short trip, three day trip overseas, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.200 maybe that twelve dollars a day isn't so bad, right, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.360 thirty six dollars still very expensive, but it's going to 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.200 be very easy to do that. So that's number one. Now, 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.200 if you have one of these mv and o's right 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.600 mobile virtual network operator. They go by the names like 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:47.560 Mint Mobile, Consumer, Cellular, Visible, Google Fi. A lot of 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.640 those carriers, some of them may not include the international roaming, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.159 but a lot of them are adding it as an 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.800 add on, So It used to be the big delineation 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.320 for those mv and o's was you didn't pay very much, 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.600 but you didn't get a lot of the extra perks. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.159 But nowadays they're starting to add some of these perks 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.520 to the plan, and it's getting tougher and tougher to 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:10.159 differentiate between the big, pricey plans and these smaller carriers 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.960 with these great unlimited plans. So if you have one 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.440 of these mv and o's, really double check to see 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.440 what's included and if you're able to add international roaming 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.080 to that plan, because sometimes you can, sometimes you can't, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.200 Like I know, Mint Mobile just added it. So that's 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.120 another way. Google Fi, by the way, a lot of 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.640 their plans at a lot of people like Google Fi 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.240 because you can pretty much go all over the world 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:38.600 and it's included in your roaming fees. Okay, or I 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.559 guess your roaming is included without additional fees, I should say. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.640 Now here's the second thing. You've probably heard of these, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:47.320 but they're called eSIMs, and electronic sims are a great 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.320 money saving option because eSIMs basically let you install a 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.320 temporary wireless plan on the phone that you already have 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.280 no physical sim card necessary. It used to be when 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.800 you landed in a country, you would buy the physical 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.240 SIM card, pop yours out, pop this one in and 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.279 you can be on your way. Now you can do 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.159 this right from your phone. You download an app. I've 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.000 tried a Relo, AI R A l O. I like 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.520 them a lot. I've used them in various countries. I've 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.920 tried gig Sky gig Sky and they offer a free 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.560 one hundred megabyte plan, and then you've got one that's 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.000 called Saley and they also are sort of up and coming. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.040 So those are three good places to start. But there 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.120 are many many eSIM providers out there, so just do 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.800 your research, make sure that it's reputable. But what you're 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.400 going to do is download that app here, buy your eSIM, 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.960 and then you will activate it. Basically right when you 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.800 hit the ground, you'll activate that. Now, keep in mind 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:46.640 most eSIMs are data only, so before you travel, make 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.560 sure you enable Wi Fi calling and texting in your 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.880 phone settings. That way, even if you're on data only, 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:54.840 you should be able to get your phone calls through 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:59.080 Wi Fi and your texts through Wi Fi calling and texting. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.359 You're wondering does my phone support eSIMs? These have been 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.080 around for a while now, even though you might not 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.040 have used it or might not be familiar with it. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.880 iPhone ten, R, ten S or newer, they all have 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.360 eSIMs enabled. Samsung Galaxy AS twenty and later all have eSIMs. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.480 And the neat thing about an eSIM is usually your 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.600 phone can support several of them at once. So even 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.960 if your primary carrier is on an eSIM, which you know, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.720 Apple's been doing this for a long time in their stores, 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.280 They've been activating eSIMs on the iPhone, you can still 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.080 add a second SIM, maybe up to like eight eSIMs 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.360 on your phone. It just depends on your phone model. Now, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.400 the main thing you have to check is to make 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.680 sure your phone is not locked to your carrier. So 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.680 a lot of times these cell phone plans, the big plans, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.600 they don't want you using an eSIM because guess what, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.640 they're a lot more affordable and they want you to 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.640 pay more, so they lock your phone to them only 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.680 their network. So if you have rise in AT and T, 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.880 sometimes you're not able to install an eSIM. So if 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:00.800 you're on an iPhone, you can go in your Settings 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.960 General about and look under carrier lock and see if 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.520 it says no SIM restrictions, and if you see that, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.680 you're good to go. If it says lock to your carrier, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.920 you're not good to go. On Android, you can go 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.880 to a website called imeicheck dot com and you can 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.400 type in the secret code from your phone, the Imei code, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.400 which is kind of the universal code for your your 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.960 Android phone, and it will tell you if that's locked 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.720 to your carrier. I tested it this morning. It does work. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.520 I tried it with a couple different phones. It'll tell 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.000 you if it's locked or not. Now, if you're using 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.600 an a SIM, you might want to turn off roaming 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.719 to avoid any surprise charges. Because even if you leave 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:42.040 your other eSIM on your standard carrier, that may still 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.480 activate when you fly to another country. So be very 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.040 careful and turn off roaming if you want to avoid 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.080 any sort of surprise charges when you come back home. Now, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.959 if you're thinking rich, this all sounds very complicated. I 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.199 feel like I don't know, I don't really understand this. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.559 I feel like I'm gonna be hit with all these charges. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.199 The cheapest option is to go old school, and that 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:04.920 is to use airplane mode and turn off your cellular 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.520 So turn basically you can turn on your airplane mode. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.719 But then when you have your airplane mode on, which 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.959 is going to disable your cellular you could just turn 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.319 your Wi Fi on and then just hop around to 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.880 hotspots around the city. Now hotspots have gotten a lot easier, 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.079 a lot more prevalent in various countries and cities, so 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.679 you should be able to find something where you're going. 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.679 You may not have coverage the whole time, but at 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.400 least you can go to like a cafe or your 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.480 hotel and still have coverage, check your messages, and get 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.040 to the next place safely. There is an app, a 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.559 Wi Fi map app that you can download and you 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.120 can help locate free networks on there, so wi fimap 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.079 dot io that will also give you the passwords for 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.040 a lot of places. I was actually since I installed 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.520 this app to test it out, I was at a 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.240 place that had free Wi Fi and I said, Hey, 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.280 do you want to submit the Wi Fi password for 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.480 us to share with other folks? And I said, sure, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.400 why not? I mean it's printed on the you know, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.319 the page in the in the little waiting room I 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.680 was in, so not, so you can submit your information 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.079 to that app and sort of crowdsource that data and 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.600 help other folks as well. Now the trick is someone 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:09.560 emailed me and they said, hey, Rich, well wait a second, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.480 what if I don't have data, how do I get 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.440 the information on that Wi Fi app? And I said, oh, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.599 that's they've thought of that. So you can pay the 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.320 Wi Fi app to download all the Wi Fi information 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.160 for an area. So if you're going to a city 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.200 like Rome or something, you can download all that information. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.400 And then of course once you're there, you can use 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.079 WhatsApp or other messaging apps like Telegram if you want 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.959 to make calls, chats video, just make sure your friends 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.400 have that installed as well. And my other tip turn 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.839 off your automatic backups on things like your photos and 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.880 your cloud, your cloud apps, anything that's going to automatically 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.240 back up data in the background or use a lot 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.160 of data in the background, your music, your YouTube, your Netflix. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.760 Make sure those are set to Wi Fi only. That 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.040 way they don't gobble up all your data. And finally, 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.000 one other good tip download offline maps before you go. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.840 Google Maps and Apple Maps support this, so if you're 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.800 going to a city, be sure to download the offline 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.720 maps in Google Maps or Apple Maps. It's very easy 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.719 to do. You can find all of these instructions on 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.920 my website. Rich on Tech dot TV. All right, eight 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.520 eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.040 four two four one zero one. We'll take some of 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.640 your calls right here on rich on Tech. Coming up next. 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.760 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.480 out with you, talking technology at triple eight Rich one 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.839 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.880 four one zero one. Phone lines are open. Website is 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.000 open rich on Tech dot TV. There you can get 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.240 notes to anything I talk about. Mentioned international travel. We 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.520 know that real ID deadline is coming up. I think 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.000 it's May seventh. You gotta get your drivers license upgraded. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.320 But I'm in this weird world where both my driver's 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.040 license and my passport expire this summer. So there could 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.400 be a scenario where if I don't get these things renewed, 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.720 I'm not able to travel even domestically, because you can 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.120 use your passport to travel domestically even if you don't 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.960 have the real ID. So that's my current plan right now. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.920 So I went online. I don't know if you know 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.880 you can do this, but you can renew your passport 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.559 now completely online. And so I did that, and the 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.280 process was very easy as long as your passport sort 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.360 of meets the requirements. And it was like one hundred 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.000 and thirty dollars I think to renew my passport. But 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.679 I did it all online, took maybe fifteen minutes. The 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.400 trickiest part is taking the picture, because you take your 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.280 own passport picture, so you have to enlist a friend 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.360 because you can't take a selfie. This is not like 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.439 you know, the social media world, but you can take 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.160 your own picture. You got to stand in front of 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.599 some sort of like you know, I think it's like 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.839 a white background, neutral background, can't smile. But they give 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.719 you a whole bunch of example online of what the 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.600 picture looks like for your passport and so you basically 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.960 can take it with your smartphone. So, uh, Bobo looks 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.000 like he has a question about this? Are you you're 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:14.240 you're wondering about this? You have the Samsung Ultra. Yes, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:16.360 you could have just took it yourself with the pin. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.319 No you can't anymore, Are you serious? No? They took 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.160 that feature away. Yeah, that the new So it's so 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.520 funny you say it because that was my initial thing. Now, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.679 of course, you could set a timer, and I did. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.800 I tried it on the tripod and all that stuff. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.640 It doesn't work. You gotta have a friend take it 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.960 because you want it to be eye level. But yes, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.800 the new phone, the S twenty five Ultra, they took 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.880 the bluetooth out of the pen and so you can't 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.520 use it as a little remote control anymore. Why would 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.719 they do That's as far as I know. Now you're 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.640 now you have me second guessing this. Let me test 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.960 this since I have it right here. Yeah, no, you cannot. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.040 You cannot press it anymore. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:51.200 There. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.680 It used to be the pen and you can still 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.839 do it. On the older models, the stylists would act 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:59.360 as a little bluetooth remote control. And yeah, they took 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.120 that away on the latest one. Let's go to Lynn 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.199 in Marietta, California. Lynn, you're on with Rich. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.320 I'm getting messages that say text messages on my phone 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.480 that say Hi, it's AT and T. On June seventeenth, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.760 twenty twenty five, will stop supporting email to text messages. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.200 That means you won't be able to send a text 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.560 message to an AT and T customer from an email address. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.840 And I get this when I send, for example, a 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.480 photo I've taken on my phone to my laptop because 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.880 I want to do something with that photo on my laptop. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.600 What is this about and what's the workaround? 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.720 So back in the day when when texting first started, 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.160 there was like a little hack where you could literally 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.200 email to text. So and all a lot of the carriers, 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.280 I think they all supported it. But it looks like 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.720 AT and T as of June seventeenth, is discontinuing the 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.120 ability to send through email. So it used to be 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.560 you could put your phone number, let's to say, three 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.920 one oh five FI five one two one two at 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.960 text txt dot att dot net or at MMS dot 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.320 att dot net. So you could literally turn your phone 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.960 number into an email address and you would receive that 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.160 as a text message. They are taking that ability away. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.520 Now ninety nine point nine percent of people don't do 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.320 this anymore, so they don't really need that feature. So 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.200 for you, you're saying that sometimes you do what you 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.760 send a photo to your phone through your computer through email, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:33.200 the reverse. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.640 I send a photo I've taken on my phone to 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.000 my computer. But I think they're just based on what 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.760 you just said, maybe they're just broadcasting this to anyone 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.920 and everyone, because that's not the scenario of me sending 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.240 a photo from my phone to my email address. 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.360 No exactly. So this is this is like if I 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:56.240 wanted to send you a text message from my computer 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.560 email system, I would address it to your phone number, 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.120 and you have AT and T and it would it 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.120 would come through you to your text message. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.920 But again, email to text means that literally not the 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.160 converse of text to. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:13.560 Email exactly, So you should be fine. Yeah, and by 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.480 the way, if you ever want to send something simply 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.000 on your own network, there's a great app called local 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.880 Send localsend dot org. So if you're trying to do 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.440 like cross platform devices like an iPhone to a Windows 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.600 computer or you know, Android to a Mac computer, local 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.000 send is great. The other one that's really great is 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:37.560 file dot Pizza. File dot pizza lets you transfer stuff 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.120 right from your web browser. That's a good one. And 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.720 then there's one called pair Drop pair drop dot net. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.760 You just go to that website on both devices and 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.840 you can drag and drop files. So three easy ways 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.720 to drag and drop files. I get it. Apple users 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.120 have air drop. They all love air drop, but air 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.360 drop is not so good if you are trying to 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.080 send from an iPhone to a Windows computer or from 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.680 an Android to a Mac computer. So we need some 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.639 of these other ways to do it. And thankfully you 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.800 know you can email yourself. You can text yourself if 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.120 you've got I message. There's so many ways to exchange 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.800 things nowadays, but local send, file, pizza, and pair drop 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.399 are all three easy ways to exchange files. All right, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.480 Coming up, we are going to talk about the Nintendo 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.440 switch To. We've got details on pricing and availability with 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:38.080 our pal Matt Swider. Coming up next, Welcome back to 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.639 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:45.120 talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.840 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.640 We'll get back to the phone lines in just a moment. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.719 Website for the show Richontech dot TV if you want 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.840 links to anything I mentioned. We're going to talk Nintendo 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.520 switch To. Joining me now is Matt Swider. He is 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:08.200 editor in chief of the shortcut dot com, great website 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:12.520 newsletter all filled with like consumer tips and reviews and 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:15.080 all kinds of great stuff. So check it out. Matt. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.280 You went hands on with the switch too, huh? 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.320 I did the brand new Nintendo console. It's coming out 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.320 June fifth, and it is a significant upgrade if you 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:29.800 were still, you know, carrying around that original Nintendo, that 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.399 Nintendo switch that's eight years old at this point, so 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.160 it's due for an upgrade. And I got early access, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.760 hands on time with it, and the thing I love 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:41.080 about it is the screen. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:42.479 It's a lot bigger. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.879 It's seven point nine inches and you think back the 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.160 original switch with six point two inches, so it feels 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.040 you feel every single extra pixel that's on there. Ten 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.520 ADP instead of seven to twenty P. It can be 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.320 four K if you plug it into a doc that 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.600 you know it does four K on a TV, so 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:06.080 that is great. It's LCD technology, so it's not like 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.080 the switch O Lead, which seems like a downgrade. But 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:13.760 that extra extra resolution HDR one hundred twenty frames per second, 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.360 that makes a difference. And it's very bright, so that's 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.880 really important. It's not like the technology from eight years ago. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.960 So significant upgrade on the screen, all right. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:24.320 But that just tells me they're going to have an 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.639 O LED version down the line, of course, because they 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.880 refreshed the original switch throughout the years with like little 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.160 improvements here and there, but this is like the real 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.359 big improvement the switch too, So June fifth, four hundred 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.280 and fifty dollars. Were you surprised at that price tag? 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:41.639 You know what I was? 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:46.080 It was fifty dollars more than anybody expected, and now 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.719 that the US tariffs are are in place, people are 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:51.760 unsure if it's even going to be that much, it 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.840 could increase, so they delayed the pre order. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:55.920 That's like the big news. 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.240 So it's a you know, the pre orders are supposed 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.200 to go live on April ninth, and everybody's waiting for 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.159 that moment because it could sell out for delivery on 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:08.800 day one. But now it's delayed indefinitely. The release date's 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.159 still delayed. Just to be clear, the release date is 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:12.880 still June fifth. 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.120 But why do you think they're delaying the prutors because 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:16.639 they don't know the price tag yet that they're going 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:17.320 to settle on. 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.480 I think that's why they didn't make the price tag announcement. 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.680 Even during the presentation that had a video presentation that 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.400 was online, they didn't even mentioned price. They just said, 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:29.480 you know, go to the website and eventually we saw 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.919 four fifty. And now I think it's you know, they 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:36.200 they're giving themselves a wiggle room just in case tariffs 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.680 do affect the console price. That on their end, so 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.680 they they want that wiggle room. I also think they're 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.560 hoping that that's, you know, part of a negotiation tactic 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.240 maybe something like that. But the games are going to 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.400 be as much as eighty dollars for some of the games, 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:53.720 Mario Kart World. 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:56.760 Digitally will be eighty dollars. It'll be ninety if you 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:57.159 buy it. 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:01.280 Oh my gosh, that is wilds it used to be. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.919 I mean these games were like, what fifty, and then 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.480 they became sixty. Now we're up to ninety dollars. So 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.359 if you actually buy the bundle, which is five hundred dollars, 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.560 let's say these prices stick, you know, four to fifty 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.800 or five hundred. So four to fifty is without the game, 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.320 five hundred includes Mario Kart World, so you're actually saving 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:20.840 thirty dollars there on the bundle. 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.800 Yes, And I forty highly highly recommend buying that bundle 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.280 if you have any interest in Mario Kart World, because 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.639 you're you're gonna save a bunch of money. And I 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:34.199 think that's that's the one that the pre orders will 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.040 sell out right away because everybody wants to play that 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.000 game and it's a thirty dollars at least thirty dollars savings. 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.800 Okay, so what about the joy cons they now detach 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.560 and attach and detach magnetically. Did you get to try 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:48.680 that out? Was that aggressive? I did? 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:50.920 Nintendo had a really cool experience in New York City. 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.080 It's coming to LA and then Dallas after that. Got 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:57.320 to play tested early and being able to play those 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:59.960 different modes where you're playing in handheld mode, you're playing 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.800 in TV mode, and you're playing it with the joy 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:03.879 cons detached. 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:06.919 I was able to detach them and attach them very quickly. 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:11.159 It's a lot a lot more simpler than what it 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.000 was before, where you had to kind of do the 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:16.560 sliding mechanism that works sometimes sometimes it didn't work. This 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.639 has really strong magnets and it's going to be a 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.639 sinch just to detach them and attach them. And hopefully 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.399 there's no breakable parts because like it's magnetized. It's really strong. 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.880 But you know, we'll see when people do tear downs 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:31.399 stuff like that. 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:34.639 What did it feel like these things to like, you know, 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.680 like the magnets they go on like left and right, 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:38.480 But like, did it feel like you can just kind 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:40.360 of break them off, like with is there any part 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.400 that in your connect innerconnects between these devices? 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:48.040 I think there is. Well, how they come apart is 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:53.080 that there's little mechanism where you push a button and 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:58.080 it actually has another part that kind of pushes off 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:03.360 of Nintendo switch. So it's it's a very simple mechanism. 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:05.719 It turns out. We thought it would be a lot 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:09.800 more complicated than it actually was, but I don't think 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:14.360 it's I think it's very durable, and I had confidence 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:15.760 that it wouldn't just fall off. 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:19.280 The magnets are pretty strong, so they built it really well. 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.200 But I'm sure some people are going to put some 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.240 torture tests online on some video so those will be 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:25.760 fun to watch. 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:28.720 Okay, So if it's new feature game chat, so I 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:31.600 guess at the minimum, because there's a new button on here, 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:34.359 a Sea button, you can chat with your friends like 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:36.920 audio chat. But then if you buy the they have 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:40.840 a new USBC camera you can video chat. And this 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:43.600 is kind of like reminds me of Discord or all 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.119 these other ways that gamers are already kind of like 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.320 video and audio chatting online. So what do you think 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:49.919 of that feature? 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:53.320 Yeah, everybody at the Shortcut, all my entire team. They 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.920 want to buy a Nintendo Switch for this feature. Because 0:23:56.000 --> 0:24:01.560 Mario Kart World, you can appear against your screen background 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.000 so you can like watch what other people are doing 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:07.000 in a you know, there's it supports up to twenty 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:10.119 four people, but the four of us want to play 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:13.359 and kind of taunt each other on camera and have 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.160 a lot of fun. There's a new mode called Knockout Mode, 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:21.399 and this seems like a very interactive, almost twitch like experience. 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:24.440 You mentioned discord, a lot of these game chats have 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:26.680 video capabilities. Now Nintendo finally has. 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:30.240 That, okay, and then they're also bringing game cube games 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:33.000 to this as well. Now this will this come to 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:34.760 the old switch as well? I mean, because it's just 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:36.560 going to be part of a Nintendo Switch Online if 0:24:36.600 --> 0:24:38.080 you have a subscription. 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:39.080 Yeah, you would think. 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:43.159 I think it's a new Switch to exclusive because they 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.560 have a new controller that is coming and you can 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:49.919 buy that separately. So it's a GameCube controller with new 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:54.240 extra buttons on there, and that is definitely something that 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:57.720 you want to experience it. You know, you pay yearly 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:00.359 for the subscription, but this is going to be exclusive 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:01.040 to the new console. 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:05.280 Oh wow, that's interesting. Okay, so let's talk about pre orders. 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:07.239 I mean, you can't. All you can do is put 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:09.359 your email address in right now, right. And then there's 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:12.639 also a report I've read that they were basically requiring 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:15.359 fifty hours of gameplay if you wanted to order it 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:17.840 direct from Nintendo, to like help fend off scalpers. 0:25:18.520 --> 0:25:20.720 Absolutely, so, I think that's a really good thing because 0:25:20.800 --> 0:25:23.560 we saw during the PS five restock chaos of a 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:26.720 couple of years ago that people were buying, you know, ten, 0:25:26.880 --> 0:25:29.480 twenty thirty of the consoles at a time and reselling 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:32.359 them for double their price. That could easily happen. But 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:35.120 with these measures that Nintendo is putting in place, you're 0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:38.639 able to you know, say like it goes to it 0:25:38.720 --> 0:25:42.200 rewards the players that are actually playing games. So you 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:45.879 need fifty hours of gameplay time, and you need to 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:49.680 have a switch account, you know, or a Nintendo Online 0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:53.920 account for over a year, so it's so that the 0:25:54.040 --> 0:25:57.720 gamers actually get it. My suggestion, though, is to pre 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:00.720 order it from one of the retail store when the 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:04.439 pre orders go live, because Nintendo's website, it's online website 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:07.439 called my Nintendo Store doesn't go live with their pre 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:11.440 orders until May eighth, and that's really late, so if 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:13.520 they run out of pre orders, you can't really go 0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:16.040 back in time and pre order it from Best Buy, 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:17.840 which was April. 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:19.080 Ninth, but now maybe another date. 0:26:19.200 --> 0:26:23.120 So try all the major retail stores, just a secure 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:27.280 of reservation and maybe get two reservations because they don't 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:29.960 usually charge their card until they ship. But at least 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:32.240 you'll have two stores in case one gets delayed or 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:33.280 canceled for some reason. 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:35.480 So what do we think? Is this a must have? 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:38.399 Do you upgrade if you already have the Nintendo Switch? 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:40.320 And is it going to be tough to get for 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:43.120 the holidays. I think it will be tough to get. 0:26:43.160 --> 0:26:44.720 I think a lot of parents are going to want it. 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:48.320 I think it is a must have if you're playing 0:26:48.359 --> 0:26:50.919 the Switch on a even a weekly basis, If if 0:26:50.960 --> 0:26:53.600 that's your go to console, if you love Mario games, 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:56.320 Mario Kart World is going to be a blast to play. 0:26:56.400 --> 0:27:00.920 They have Donkey Kong Bonanza, a little pun that's gonna 0:27:00.920 --> 0:27:02.800 be a lot of fun for both kids and adults. 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:04.919 So I think it's the right console for a lot 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:08.840 of people. It's a little bit pricey, but My word 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:10.880 of warning is don't wait for the price to go down, 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:12.879 because that usually doesn't happen with the Nintendo console. So 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:15.960 if you're putting it off hoping for a sale, you're 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:17.800 probably gonna be waiting a really long time. 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:20.680 With the pre orders, I would get it the moment 0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:21.080 they open. 0:27:21.119 --> 0:27:23.680 I'm gonna have if you follow at Matt Sweider or 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:26.240 the shortcut dot com and subscribe, I'm gonna have the 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:29.080 moment the preorders go live links to those retailers, because 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:31.639 I do expect them to sell out pretty quickly and 0:27:31.760 --> 0:27:33.840 we might get less inventory because of the tariffs. 0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:37.119 Yeah, and I don't expect any discounts on this. Typically 0:27:37.200 --> 0:27:40.399 the way that Nintendo operates is no discounts. Maybe a 0:27:40.520 --> 0:27:43.760 bundle is good or some added extra you might get, 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:45.840 but just seeing a slash of one hundred dollars or 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:49.240 something really doesn't happen there. All right, Matt Swider, thanks 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:51.920 so much for joining me. The shortcut dot com is 0:27:52.040 --> 0:27:54.520 his website. You were the first place that I learned, 0:27:54.560 --> 0:27:57.240 since I follow you on X that the date was 0:27:57.400 --> 0:28:00.160 changed or you know, Nintendo put out that statement that said, hey, 0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:03.960 we're gonna, you know, change the launch date or the 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:05.880 pre order date. I guess we're holding off. 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:09.520 It makes turning on notifications that's that much more important, 0:28:09.560 --> 0:28:12.800 So stand by for that news. Hopefully I get to 0:28:12.880 --> 0:28:15.920 inform you and everybody else when the pre orders go live. 0:28:16.359 --> 0:28:18.960 Tap that bell, all right, Matt, thanks so much for 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:22.280 joining me. Let's eighty eight rich one O one eight 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:25.239 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:28.600 Coming up, I'll tell you why TikTok gets yet another 0:28:28.720 --> 0:28:36.119 lifelined right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to 0:28:36.280 --> 0:28:38.480 rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:42.400 talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O one eight 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:45.200 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:28:46.040 --> 0:28:48.040 Just one thing we forgot to mention about the switch 0:28:48.440 --> 0:28:51.640 from Nintendo in the last segment is will the games 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:56.080 be backwards compatible? So Switch one games will work on 0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:59.400 switch to Switch two games will not work on Switch one, 0:28:59.800 --> 0:29:05.200 and some games will be switched to enhanced of older games. 0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:09.040 So yeah, so bottom line, your mileage may vary, but 0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:12.440 it sounds like in general, the old games will work 0:29:12.480 --> 0:29:14.320 on the new console, the new games will not work 0:29:14.720 --> 0:29:20.320 on the old console. Let's go to Katie in Garden Grove. 0:29:20.680 --> 0:29:25.880 Katie, you're on with Rich, Hi, Rich, I've seen advertised these. 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:30.720 They're like ear pods and they translate. So you've just 0:29:30.920 --> 0:29:35.480 put this thing on your ear and you can go 0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:39.680 to several different countries and it'll translate for you. Have 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:40.960 you heard anything about that? 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:41.600 I have. 0:29:43.080 --> 0:29:45.600 I'm concerned that you saw them advertised. Where'd you see 0:29:45.640 --> 0:29:49.760 them advertised? Social media? Yes? Yeah, so I would be. 0:29:50.280 --> 0:29:52.160 I saw them on Amazon as well. 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:54.480 Okay, well, what's the brand, because there is a brand 0:29:54.520 --> 0:29:55.200 I do recommend. 0:29:55.960 --> 0:29:57.880 Oh, okay, that's what I'm asking about. 0:29:58.080 --> 0:30:03.160 Okay, so they're pretty the Time Kettle, Time Kettle M three. 0:30:04.520 --> 0:30:07.920 Those are the most inexpensive, or that I should say, 0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:11.800 the least expensive translating earbuds. Now, I have not personally 0:30:11.880 --> 0:30:14.000 tested these, but I've talked to many friends who have 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:19.320 and they are known to work pretty well. So those 0:30:19.360 --> 0:30:22.640 are probably what i'd recommend. What's the brand that Kettle? 0:30:23.360 --> 0:30:27.240 Time Kettle like T I M E K E T. 0:30:27.400 --> 0:30:30.520 T L correct Time Kettle M three. Now, they have 0:30:30.680 --> 0:30:33.560 more expensive ones. They have a whole bunch of different versions. 0:30:33.960 --> 0:30:35.880 This is just the most affordable. So if you want 0:30:35.920 --> 0:30:37.920 to spend more, they've got ones that I think are 0:30:37.960 --> 0:30:40.120 four fifty you know, a little bit more expensive, but 0:30:40.240 --> 0:30:43.960 these are these are which of course bring added features 0:30:43.960 --> 0:30:45.360 to them, but these are the kind of the the 0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:49.720 budget version of these that kind of work, and people 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:52.200 seem to like them, so they get good reviews. They 0:30:52.480 --> 0:30:54.720 they kind of do what you need. I will say, 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:57.320 I think that in general you have to keep your 0:30:57.400 --> 0:31:02.160 expectations quite low with technology. You like this because I 0:31:02.960 --> 0:31:06.800 in my experience, anytime you're talking about translation, it can 0:31:06.920 --> 0:31:08.920 be tricky. Now I think AI has made things a 0:31:09.000 --> 0:31:12.560 lot better, but for me personally, when I go abroad, 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:15.160 I use my phone and you just kind of like 0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:18.520 use your translate app. Google Translate app will translate. That 0:31:18.640 --> 0:31:21.280 will work pretty well for most circumstances. But these are 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:23.920 much more of a you know, if you want like 0:31:24.040 --> 0:31:27.400 that idea of someone talking to you, this thing listens 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:30.200 and then in your ears, instead of hearing what they're saying, 0:31:30.240 --> 0:31:32.520 you're hearing it in your language. That's kind of what 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:35.960 the earbuds are for. The other earbuds that work to 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:39.400 do this are the Google Pixel buds. And I originally 0:31:39.440 --> 0:31:42.920 thought you had to have them on a pixel phone, 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:44.760 but you don't. You just have to have these pixel 0:31:44.840 --> 0:31:47.760 buds with an Android phone. Now there are some requirements 0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:50.760 for the Android phone, but Google Pixel buds might be 0:31:50.800 --> 0:31:53.720 another way to do it because Google Pixel our Google 0:31:53.760 --> 0:31:57.040 Translate is really good. The Google Pixel buds are nice. 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:01.320 They are one hundred and seventy nine dollars and so 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:03.760 that is another way. Right now, they're fifty dollars off 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:06.760 typically they're two twenty nine, so that could be another 0:32:06.800 --> 0:32:10.320 way to do it. They have an A series, so 0:32:10.440 --> 0:32:13.240 they're like cheaper, they're eighty dollars. But I'm not sure 0:32:13.280 --> 0:32:17.120 they have the translation feature built in, so I would 0:32:17.240 --> 0:32:20.120 check to see if that's a if that's in there, 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:22.840 I'm looking at their website right now, I don't necessarily 0:32:22.920 --> 0:32:26.640 see the translate. Oh you know what it does look 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:32.080 like hold on real time translation, So they may they 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:34.600 may not have the full feature translation on the A buds, 0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:36.400 but anyway, pixel buds are another way. But I think 0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:38.880 time Kettle is kind of like the main brand out 0:32:38.880 --> 0:32:41.320 there that's that's doing really well, that gets good reviews. 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:43.760 I know there's a lot of these things advertised, but 0:32:43.920 --> 0:32:47.000 I'd be very cautious. And the reason is what a 0:32:47.080 --> 0:32:49.480 lot of this stuff comes down to is the software 0:32:49.600 --> 0:32:52.920 and the technology. So if the translation technology is not 0:32:53.080 --> 0:32:55.360 very good or the software is not very good, it's 0:32:55.480 --> 0:32:57.640 not going to be a good experience, and that means 0:32:57.640 --> 0:32:59.680 you're going to use them for about two minutes on 0:32:59.760 --> 0:33:02.320 your initial you know, you step off the plane or 0:33:02.440 --> 0:33:05.360 off the cruise ship, whatever however you're getting there and 0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:07.280 you try it and you're like, oh, this is not 0:33:07.480 --> 0:33:09.760 this doesn't work, and you're going to be frustrated and 0:33:09.840 --> 0:33:12.440 then hopefully there's a good return policy. And on an 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:15.840 item that's advertised on social media, sometimes there is not 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:18.960 a good return policy. So no matter what, I get 0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:21.160 so many emails every week from folks that send me 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:24.440 a screen shot or a link they see to something. 0:33:25.040 --> 0:33:28.600 These advertisements you see on social media, the products that 0:33:28.720 --> 0:33:31.840 we see seem too good to be true, and a 0:33:31.880 --> 0:33:34.960 lot of times they are. So just be careful. And 0:33:35.080 --> 0:33:37.520 if you're going to these websites that you've never heard 0:33:37.560 --> 0:33:41.240 of and buying a product. Number one, if the website 0:33:41.480 --> 0:33:45.600 is like, hey, you've got one minute to shop or 0:33:45.760 --> 0:33:49.120 time count down, this discount is ending in thirty you know, 0:33:49.240 --> 0:33:51.520 thirty minutes, or you know you got to buy this now, 0:33:51.720 --> 0:33:55.680 like beware because a lot of you know, those high 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:58.720 pressure sales tactics often mean that they're just trying to 0:33:58.720 --> 0:34:01.720 get that sale before you kind of investigate or look 0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:05.520 for reviews or what I always do. Check the return policy, 0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:08.840 check the contact info. If you can't really find a 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:11.600 good amount of info, there probably not a place that 0:34:11.719 --> 0:34:15.040 you want to shop, So just be careful with that stuff. 0:34:16.239 --> 0:34:20.080 Let's see here I said that TikTok is getting one 0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:23.920 more I don't know. I guess it's another deadline extension. 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:29.719 So TikTok Us divestiture deadline has been pushed now another 0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:34.280 seventy five days. This is like the saga that keeps 0:34:34.360 --> 0:34:37.880 on going. Now it's mid June. So they had faced 0:34:37.920 --> 0:34:42.800 a deadline of April fifth under this whole national security presumption, 0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:46.880 but now it is extended one more time. So you 0:34:47.000 --> 0:34:50.799 might remember that TikTok was briefly removed from the app 0:34:50.840 --> 0:34:53.919 stores both Google Play and also the Apple App Store, 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:58.680 but they returned after an executive order. And now a 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:00.879 bunch of companies are coming forward saying, yeah, we want 0:35:00.920 --> 0:35:03.800 to buy this, but nobody's really doing it, so we 0:35:03.840 --> 0:35:05.839 don't know what's going on here. Just China not want 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:07.800 to sell it. Do these companies really not want to 0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:09.840 buy it is this all just kind of like stirring 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:13.600 the pot. We don't know, but Oracle, Amazon, app, Lovin, 0:35:14.040 --> 0:35:16.719 and some investor groups have all shown interest. But of 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:20.279 course China's government must still approve any deal before it 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:21.640 can go through. And we don't even know if they 0:35:21.680 --> 0:35:23.040 really want to sell it. I mean, I know they 0:35:23.120 --> 0:35:25.239 don't want to, and we're not even sure if they're 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:30.280 willing to, So this is wild. The possibility of banning 0:35:30.360 --> 0:35:33.839 TikTok was first publicly mentioned back in July twenty twenty. 0:35:33.920 --> 0:35:36.480 I remember rushing out to do a story with a 0:35:36.520 --> 0:35:38.480 TikToker to be like, what are you gonna do? And 0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:41.960 this goes away, and five years later, here I am 0:35:42.080 --> 0:35:45.560 still talking about it, still wasting my breath talking about 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:48.279 TikTok being banned. Eighty to eight rich one oh one 0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:51.640 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:35:57.920 --> 0:36:00.279 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging 0:36:00.280 --> 0:36:03.600 out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:07.160 oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:11.080 one zero one. You can follow me on social media. 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:13.480 I am at rich on Tech. You can sign up 0:36:13.520 --> 0:36:16.000 for my free newsletter on the website rich on Tech 0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:19.640 dot tv just hit sign up. It is free. Get 0:36:19.680 --> 0:36:22.160 it every week. It's kind of like this show. Like 0:36:22.239 --> 0:36:24.600 I said this week of my newsletter, the newsletter is 0:36:25.440 --> 0:36:27.400 the show is kind of like the newsletter. The newsletter 0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:28.880 is kind of like the show. So if you like 0:36:28.960 --> 0:36:30.600 the show, you'll probably like the newsletter. If you like 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:33.960 the newsletter, you'll probably like this show. I talked this 0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:36.800 week in my newsletter about removing some of your personal 0:36:36.880 --> 0:36:39.640 information from the Internet. So if you've ever searched for yourself, 0:36:39.719 --> 0:36:42.759 you probably have seen your name, your address, your phone number, 0:36:42.800 --> 0:36:45.640 and all kinds of stuff online. This could be used, 0:36:46.000 --> 0:36:49.920 you know, for nefarious reasons, everything from stalkers to identity theft. 0:36:50.400 --> 0:36:52.640 So the more info out there probably the worse it is. 0:36:52.800 --> 0:36:55.160 You know, it depends on your level of eh. I mean, 0:36:55.719 --> 0:36:57.640 back in the day, we had the white Pages, remember 0:36:57.680 --> 0:36:59.880 that where you can look up anyone. Yeah, I mean 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:02.080 it was a turning point and back to the future. 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:04.320 It's like that whole movie wouldn't happen if he didn't 0:37:04.360 --> 0:37:06.799 have the White Pages there to look up where Doc 0:37:06.880 --> 0:37:10.320 Brown was. Anyway, I digress. These days, you know, we 0:37:10.360 --> 0:37:12.959 probably don't want this stuff online. So if your info 0:37:13.080 --> 0:37:15.080 shows up in Google Search. There is a way to 0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:18.680 get rid of that. You can tap the three dots 0:37:18.880 --> 0:37:22.520 next to a search result that includes your info and 0:37:22.640 --> 0:37:25.279 you'll see an option that says remove result. You can 0:37:25.320 --> 0:37:27.560 fill out the form and they usually remove that within 0:37:27.600 --> 0:37:31.000 a couple of days, sometimes quicker and then. Google has 0:37:31.080 --> 0:37:34.400 this free tool called Results about You, which you can 0:37:34.440 --> 0:37:36.680 sign up for. It is free. It will monitor any 0:37:36.800 --> 0:37:39.880 new search results that include your personal contact info and 0:37:40.080 --> 0:37:42.759 they will email you every time you get every time 0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:45.600 they find something on the Internet that involves you, and 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:47.399 you can say, yeah, I want to remove that. They're 0:37:47.400 --> 0:37:49.000 not going to prove it all the time, but at 0:37:49.080 --> 0:37:51.279 least it's a way to kind of automate that process. Now, 0:37:51.400 --> 0:37:54.759 keep in mind, removing a link from Google Search does 0:37:54.840 --> 0:37:57.759 not delete the source, so that just takes it out 0:37:57.800 --> 0:37:59.960 of Google Search, which is where ninety nine point nine 0:38:00.000 --> 0:38:01.680 percent of people are going to find it. If you 0:38:01.800 --> 0:38:05.040 want to remove the website, you have to contact them 0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:08.080 to remove that page completely. You can do an opt out. Now, 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:12.320 there are paid services like Incogni and Privacy b lots 0:38:12.360 --> 0:38:14.880 of them out there. They all promise to automate the removals, 0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:17.480 but these can be pricey. They can cost twenty dollars 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:21.160 a month or more, and consumer reports found that not 0:38:21.280 --> 0:38:23.080 a lot of these services did a very good job. 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:27.800 Two that did well were easy opt Outs and Optry, 0:38:28.400 --> 0:38:30.880 and they charge not very much twenty to forty dollars 0:38:30.920 --> 0:38:32.600 per year. But keep in mind you probably want to 0:38:32.600 --> 0:38:33.440 do this like over and over. 0:38:34.200 --> 0:38:34.319 Now. 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:37.080 I think doing yourself is probably the most cost effective. 0:38:37.600 --> 0:38:39.600 So easy way to do this just start with the 0:38:39.640 --> 0:38:43.200 Google results for yourself, Like just start with the top results, right, 0:38:43.800 --> 0:38:46.120 and you can just submit opt out requests for each 0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:48.520 of those websites. And if you want to know how 0:38:48.560 --> 0:38:50.879 to do that, you can literally most of the time, 0:38:51.480 --> 0:38:53.759 you can just google the name of the website, like 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:57.239 if it's white Pages, just say like white Pages opt out, 0:38:57.840 --> 0:38:59.840 and they kind of put you through this little process 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:02.359 get everything out of there. But it does work most 0:39:02.440 --> 0:39:05.759 of the time. But if you want a directory, the 0:39:05.840 --> 0:39:09.719 website delete me dot com has a DIY guide for 0:39:09.840 --> 0:39:12.560 like almost every website you can think of, So you 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:15.520 go there, you tap there and it'll tell you the 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:17.480 step by step instructions on how to get rid of 0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:21.400 your data. So that's delete me dot com. And then 0:39:21.440 --> 0:39:24.040 in the future you might want to consider giving out 0:39:24.080 --> 0:39:26.719 your information less right. You know, all these websites I 0:39:26.800 --> 0:39:28.880 call it the data grab. They're going to ask for 0:39:28.960 --> 0:39:31.480 as much as humanly possible. Like the other day, I 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:33.200 was signing up for something. I was like, really you 0:39:33.320 --> 0:39:33.560 need this? 0:39:34.160 --> 0:39:36.400 You need that? Do you really need this? 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:39.759 And so sometimes if there's not an asterisk next to 0:39:39.880 --> 0:39:43.120 the field that you're filling out, don't fill it out. 0:39:43.640 --> 0:39:45.640 Don't give them the extra information. If I'm giving out 0:39:45.680 --> 0:39:47.200 my data birth, a lot of times I'll just make 0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:49.880 something up. If it's a random website that doesn't need 0:39:50.000 --> 0:39:53.239 my data birth, why give them that information. The reason 0:39:53.280 --> 0:39:55.080 why they're asking for that is because then they go 0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:59.839 into other databases and kind of form this complete data 0:40:00.200 --> 0:40:03.560 profile of you by collecting information from a whole bunch 0:40:03.600 --> 0:40:08.040 of places. So secondary email, secondary phone number, cloaked email 0:40:08.160 --> 0:40:11.480 might work to avoid getting more of this information. I've 0:40:11.480 --> 0:40:13.799 got this all on the website rich on tech dot TV, 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.160 and coming up later this hour, we're actually going to 0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:20.200 talk to the co founder of the website cloaked that 0:40:20.680 --> 0:40:23.920 helps you come up with like new identities basically to 0:40:24.080 --> 0:40:29.000 use online to protect your privacy. Let's go to uh 0:40:29.600 --> 0:40:31.719 Loudy in Long Beach Ludy you're on with. 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:34.320 Rich Yeah LBC. 0:40:34.680 --> 0:40:38.360 Long time listening to the show, first time listening to you. 0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:39.239 Oh wow. 0:40:39.239 --> 0:40:40.960 I want to give my shout out to Leo La 0:40:41.080 --> 0:40:43.360 pol It give me informed. 0:40:43.480 --> 0:40:44.680 But now you're in man. 0:40:45.080 --> 0:40:47.080 Yeah, I mean it's only been two and a half years, 0:40:47.160 --> 0:40:50.920 but you know, I know it's all good. What's up, 0:40:51.000 --> 0:40:51.520 Loudy you have? 0:40:51.640 --> 0:40:56.600 But finally I have a question. Yes, hey, so listen man, 0:40:56.719 --> 0:41:00.279 I have iPhones, right, and I have a fat mini 0:41:00.320 --> 0:41:04.360 plan of a two terabyte and it says that it's full. 0:41:04.880 --> 0:41:08.440 So I'm looking at it and for myself. Right, it 0:41:08.520 --> 0:41:12.520 says that I am using my drive. 0:41:13.560 --> 0:41:14.440 I think it's called it. 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:16.560 Drive iCloud drive. 0:41:17.160 --> 0:41:19.239 Yep, okay, it isn't. 0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:22.799 I'm using two hundred and fifty three gigabytes. 0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:26.880 However, I don't have anything in it. When I go 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:34.239 and review files, there's four files that are like one megabyte. 0:41:34.440 --> 0:41:36.120 Hmm, okay, So I don't know. 0:41:36.760 --> 0:41:42.600 Is it is iCloud drive the same as the iCloud. 0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:46.160 Not necessarily so iCloud drive is part of iCloud. So 0:41:46.239 --> 0:41:48.879 you're saying how much data do you have? How much 0:41:48.920 --> 0:41:51.640 storage do you have on iCloud? You said two terabytes. 0:41:51.640 --> 0:41:54.240 Two terabytes and shared with families. 0:41:54.400 --> 0:41:58.080 Ah okay, so there that that's probably what's happening here. 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:03.000 So my kids are little our little storage goblins, and 0:42:03.160 --> 0:42:07.040 so what they like to do is have these giant 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:10.239 files that take up a ton of storage. So what 0:42:10.400 --> 0:42:12.359 you have to do is you have to look. Now, 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:14.680 are you looking on your phone or your computer for 0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:15.320 this information? 0:42:16.080 --> 0:42:17.520 I'm looking on my phone right now. 0:42:17.560 --> 0:42:20.320 I'm actually on my iplone okay. And then when I 0:42:20.480 --> 0:42:24.760 look at dry for myself, not the family, it says 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:29.640 that I am using two hundred and fifty three gigabytes. Okay, 0:42:29.840 --> 0:42:33.200 but I don't know where that's coming from because I 0:42:33.320 --> 0:42:35.880 review the files and four. 0:42:35.840 --> 0:42:38.200 Files well, when you look at okay, so when you 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:41.480 tap there is a section. Now they just redesign this. Actually, 0:42:41.520 --> 0:42:43.759 Apple made this a little bit easier because, you know, 0:42:44.239 --> 0:42:46.640 I feel like iCloud has you know, the storage has 0:42:46.640 --> 0:42:50.080 always been sort of a black hole right where you 0:42:50.160 --> 0:42:52.880 have no idea what's what's in there, what's taking up 0:42:52.920 --> 0:42:55.279 the storage? They have work to make this just a 0:42:55.320 --> 0:42:59.000 little bit easier. But there's two things. Number One, Ludie, 0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:01.319 I would I would look at your backups that could 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:03.040 be taking up a lot of the storage. A lot 0:43:03.040 --> 0:43:05.799 of times people forget to get rid of their old 0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:09.560 backups of their phone. So that's number one, and so 0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:11.719 I would look into those. And you can look under 0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:16.080 your iCloud backups. Like for me, I've got one, two, three, four, 0:43:16.280 --> 0:43:19.200 five devices that I have backed up, and two of 0:43:19.280 --> 0:43:22.400 them are it looks like a duplicate my iPad. I 0:43:22.440 --> 0:43:24.400 have the old one and the new one. So that's 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:26.719 number one. Look at your backups. Now, if you're just 0:43:26.840 --> 0:43:31.080 looking at drive iCloud drive, it says manage storage and 0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:34.520 you tap that and that should tell you where it's 0:43:34.640 --> 0:43:36.880 using up the storage, and it says documents and data 0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:40.960 iPhone storage, So those are the places that you need 0:43:41.040 --> 0:43:43.800 to look to see what is taking up. Mine says 0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:46.760 you have seven hundred and fifty seven gigabytes of files 0:43:46.800 --> 0:43:49.680 stored in iCloud, which I don't even know how I 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:52.239 have that much, but the thing, like. 0:43:52.560 --> 0:43:57.040 I know, I go to manage storage on the iCloud drive. Yeah, yeah, 0:43:57.040 --> 0:44:00.120 it's telling me that I have two hundred gig a 0:44:00.440 --> 0:44:02.800 bye files securely story nightcloud. 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:06.200 Oh good, I'm glad they're secure. We can't even find them, 0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:06.920 they're so secure. 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:10.239 Yeah, but I don't know what file of those are. 0:44:10.360 --> 0:44:13.640 That's what I'm Okay. Now, do you get a section 0:44:13.880 --> 0:44:17.160 underneath where it says show large files, because mine sets 0:44:17.239 --> 0:44:19.879 review large files and if I tap that, it'll show 0:44:19.920 --> 0:44:22.319 me my largest files in here, so it. 0:44:22.400 --> 0:44:23.920 Tells me review files. 0:44:24.680 --> 0:44:25.160 Do you have that? 0:44:26.520 --> 0:44:27.359 Yeah, review file? 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:29.440 Okay, Now when you tap that, is there is there 0:44:29.520 --> 0:44:30.680 some big files shown there? 0:44:31.719 --> 0:44:33.799 No, there's there's there's four of them. 0:44:33.920 --> 0:44:36.120 Man, they're all the thing is one is. 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:39.480 Three megabytes? 0:44:39.640 --> 0:44:44.239 Oh wow, Well that's a problem. Uh interesting, Okay, Well, 0:44:44.320 --> 0:44:48.000 there's probably some phantom thing taking up your iCloud. I 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:49.960 wonder if there's like a trash you can empty or 0:44:50.000 --> 0:44:52.320 something like that. Do you have a Mac computer or no? 0:44:53.680 --> 0:44:54.840 Yeah, I got a Mac computer. 0:44:55.040 --> 0:44:57.759 So I would go on your Mac computer and see 0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:02.080 if you can go into your iCloud drive from there 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:05.520 and see what's taken up the storage there if it 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:09.719 shows you something different, So that's what I would do. 0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:14.280 I mean, this is a mystery to me. That's because 0:45:14.320 --> 0:45:16.600 I feel like you should be able to see between 0:45:16.640 --> 0:45:19.319 your phone and your and your actual iCloud drive what's 0:45:19.360 --> 0:45:22.200 taking it up, because that would make the most sense. 0:45:22.200 --> 0:45:24.560 The only other thing I can think of, is there 0:45:24.640 --> 0:45:27.200 are some of these directories that files make, like I 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:32.640 can see I've got one from pages, I've gotten from numbers, keynote, shortcuts, 0:45:32.840 --> 0:45:35.680 text edit. There might be something in there that's taking 0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:40.279 up a lot of space. But this sounds like sort 0:45:40.280 --> 0:45:42.920 of a mystery, because if you're running up against your 0:45:42.960 --> 0:45:45.600 two terabytes because of this, you know that's a problem. 0:45:45.640 --> 0:45:47.160 You need to be able to clear this stuff out. 0:45:47.200 --> 0:45:49.879 So if you can't figure this out, I would take 0:45:49.880 --> 0:45:51.319 it to the Apple Store and see what they say 0:45:51.400 --> 0:45:53.399 and just say, hey, look, you know this is telling 0:45:53.480 --> 0:45:55.640 me I'm up against my cloud storage. I don't understand 0:45:55.640 --> 0:45:57.440 what's taking up all the storage When I'm going into 0:45:57.480 --> 0:46:00.879 my iCloud drive and there's nothing in there, I mean mine, 0:46:00.960 --> 0:46:02.719 I see seven hundred and fifty eight gigs, but I 0:46:02.760 --> 0:46:05.279 can see what's taking up that info or taking up 0:46:05.320 --> 0:46:09.560 that storage. And then there's also app syncing to iCloud drive, 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:12.800 which I have three of them, Books, Obsidian, and WhatsApp, 0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:16.600 So those could be a problem. But the couple places 0:46:16.880 --> 0:46:20.359 you know iCloud storage is is really tricky, I think, 0:46:20.480 --> 0:46:23.279 and it still is. It's not as straightforward as it 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:26.560 should be. But I would check check those iCloud backups 0:46:26.600 --> 0:46:29.719 for sure, Ludi and uh and if you can't figure 0:46:29.760 --> 0:46:32.000 out what's going on in this drive, then you kind 0:46:32.040 --> 0:46:33.480 you kind of have to bring into the Apple store 0:46:33.520 --> 0:46:36.000 and see what they say. Eighty eight rich one oh 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:39.080 one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. 0:46:39.160 --> 0:46:40.680 I made the joke the other day on TV that 0:46:40.760 --> 0:46:44.399 when I retire, I'm going to finally take the time 0:46:44.480 --> 0:46:48.719 to organize my photos, my cloud drive, and you know 0:46:48.840 --> 0:46:51.440 everything else that's taking up storage in the cloud because 0:46:51.680 --> 0:46:54.000 it's like a full time job. It's like nobody has 0:46:54.080 --> 0:46:56.080 the time to figure this stuff out. You still won't 0:46:56.120 --> 0:46:58.239 do it. I still won't do it, And then I 0:46:58.280 --> 0:47:01.040 said it, then I'll travel probably be too late by then. 0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:03.239 Eight to eight rich one on one eight eight eight 0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:05.759 seven four to two four one zero. I guess I'm saying, 0:47:06.000 --> 0:47:08.440 don't feel so bad if your cloud storage is a mess, 0:47:08.600 --> 0:47:24.160 because everyone's is. Welcome back to rich on Tech eighty 0:47:24.239 --> 0:47:26.680 eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven four 0:47:26.719 --> 0:47:29.560 to two four one zero one. The website rich on 0:47:29.880 --> 0:47:34.239 tech dot TV. Kyle writes in and says, hey, rich, 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:36.640 is there a way for an iPhone to automatically respond 0:47:36.680 --> 0:47:40.040 to all incoming text messages with a custom message twenty 0:47:40.120 --> 0:47:42.879 four hours a day. I've looked around and only found 0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:45.480 options for things like driving mode or customer applies to 0:47:45.600 --> 0:47:50.160 certain contacts, but nothing universal. Kyle, Kyle, You're right. There 0:47:50.280 --> 0:47:53.239 is no way to auto reply to all texts at 0:47:53.280 --> 0:47:56.319 all times, as far as I know. The closest hack 0:47:56.480 --> 0:48:00.120 I've found is to turn on the driving mode. And 0:48:00.320 --> 0:48:02.480 when you have that on, let's see what's it actually called. 0:48:02.520 --> 0:48:06.680 Hold on? It's called yeah, driving, So driving can auto respond, 0:48:07.040 --> 0:48:09.680 but only I think to your contacts, your favorites, or 0:48:09.719 --> 0:48:13.920 a combination of folks. It's not everyone. So this is 0:48:14.080 --> 0:48:16.839 a sort of an Apple thing. It's part of their 0:48:16.880 --> 0:48:19.800 operating system. I'm not sure why they don't allow that, 0:48:20.480 --> 0:48:23.960 but they did add text message scheduling recently, so that's 0:48:24.000 --> 0:48:26.600 a good good sign. But yeah, it would be nice 0:48:26.640 --> 0:48:28.600 because sometimes when I'm using like a different phone, like 0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:31.200 a test phone, I want to like text everyone, say hey, 0:48:31.200 --> 0:48:34.480 if this is important, you know, call me here or whatever. 0:48:34.880 --> 0:48:36.760 And the only way I can do it is with contacts, 0:48:36.760 --> 0:48:39.520 which I guess is fine. You know, maybe maybe it's 0:48:39.560 --> 0:48:41.600 the security things they don't want you like texting. You know, 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:44.160 if some spammer gets a hold of your number and 0:48:44.239 --> 0:48:45.600 then they get a spam you know, they get a 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:50.040 reply that says, hey, I'm currently on the beach in Miami, 0:48:50.400 --> 0:48:53.600 like call me here, I'm staying at this place whatever, 0:48:53.880 --> 0:48:57.080 you know what I mean. So sorry, Kyle, doesn't doesn't 0:48:57.120 --> 0:48:59.680 work right now. You might have seen the headlines that 0:49:01.000 --> 0:49:04.120 things are changing over at Zel. They are shutting down 0:49:04.239 --> 0:49:08.920 their standalone app. Oh my gosh, nobody uses the standalone 0:49:09.000 --> 0:49:12.440 Zel app. Okay, let's be honest. So all those headlines 0:49:12.480 --> 0:49:14.960 were there to get you to click and read and go, 0:49:15.120 --> 0:49:16.759 oh yeah, it's already the way I'm using it. So 0:49:16.840 --> 0:49:20.879 starting now, I guess Zell will no longer support sending 0:49:21.000 --> 0:49:24.160 or receiving money through the app if you were using 0:49:24.200 --> 0:49:27.560 the app, if you are using your bank, your bank 0:49:27.600 --> 0:49:31.400 account app, it's all good. You're all fine, So no 0:49:31.560 --> 0:49:35.480 action necessary. Over twenty two hundred banks and credit unions 0:49:35.520 --> 0:49:38.000 support Zell directly. I guess they thought they were going 0:49:38.040 --> 0:49:39.800 to have an app that was a competitor to like 0:49:39.880 --> 0:49:42.160 the paypals of the world and the cash apps and 0:49:42.200 --> 0:49:45.640 the venmos. But then they realized that people were just 0:49:45.760 --> 0:49:48.359 using this through their bank and that was the easiest way, 0:49:48.480 --> 0:49:50.920 So just two percent of transactions were happening through the 0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:54.120 standalone app. So you can view your old payment history 0:49:54.160 --> 0:49:55.960 in the app until August eleventh, so if you need 0:49:56.000 --> 0:49:58.880 anything in there, be sure to download it. But going forward, 0:49:59.040 --> 0:50:01.440 the app will still be there. It's just going to 0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:04.839 focus on fraud education and how to get it through 0:50:04.880 --> 0:50:08.799 your bank. So once again, if you're using Zel through 0:50:08.840 --> 0:50:11.160 your bank, you don't need to change a thing. And 0:50:11.280 --> 0:50:14.719 people like Zel because it's immediate, and it's free and 0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:17.520 it's through your bank. And this is really an example 0:50:17.560 --> 0:50:20.280 of the big banks coming together to kind of band 0:50:20.320 --> 0:50:23.480 against Venmo and all these other payment services. Now, I 0:50:23.520 --> 0:50:26.120 think Zell is great when it works. It is a 0:50:26.120 --> 0:50:29.880 little scarier than these other apps because there's really no recourse, 0:50:29.960 --> 0:50:32.399 like the money's hopping from your account directly to someone 0:50:32.440 --> 0:50:35.600 else's account. So I've noticed there's a lot of security 0:50:35.640 --> 0:50:38.360 precautions when you're sending money through Zell. But when it 0:50:38.440 --> 0:50:40.400 works and you've got a trusted person on the other end, 0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:43.560 it's it's great because it's free. So just just beware 0:50:44.280 --> 0:50:47.840 the you know, the the implications of sending money like 0:50:47.920 --> 0:50:50.680 it's it's like a freeway from your bank account to theirs, 0:50:51.160 --> 0:50:53.959 so be just be aware of that. All right, let's 0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:57.719 go to let's see here, let's go to Rob in 0:50:58.080 --> 0:50:59.880 Los Angeles. Rob, you're on with Rich. 0:51:01.440 --> 0:51:01.600 Hi. 0:51:01.680 --> 0:51:02.239 How are you doing. 0:51:02.680 --> 0:51:03.759 I'm doing fantastic. 0:51:03.880 --> 0:51:04.600 My question is. 0:51:06.320 --> 0:51:12.200 I have Outlook hot Mail, and I'm people on getting 0:51:12.280 --> 0:51:18.840 locked out because there's too many attempts. So it's you know, 0:51:19.840 --> 0:51:24.920 my Microsoft account is linked through it, and I know 0:51:25.080 --> 0:51:31.120 that I look on my y up for my account 0:51:31.360 --> 0:51:35.040 and it shows like one hundred attempts a day for 0:51:35.239 --> 0:51:36.760 my Microsoft account. 0:51:36.920 --> 0:51:39.440 Yeah, this is a common This is clearly a common 0:51:39.520 --> 0:51:41.560 thing that's happening, because it happened to me. I mentioned 0:51:41.600 --> 0:51:43.680 it my newsletter. I got a bunch of emails about it. 0:51:44.120 --> 0:51:47.279 Clearly there's a bunch of people trying to log into 0:51:47.320 --> 0:51:51.440 Microsoft accounts all day long. So are they actually getting 0:51:51.480 --> 0:51:52.160 into your account? 0:51:53.520 --> 0:51:57.279 Well I'm not sure, but I think so. 0:51:59.520 --> 0:52:01.960 But anyway, Okay, well you know. 0:52:02.040 --> 0:52:04.440 About the twenty four hours lockout. 0:52:04.680 --> 0:52:06.399 Okay, here here's what I recommend, rob. 0:52:06.560 --> 0:52:07.120 Getting more and. 0:52:07.239 --> 0:52:10.600 More recent as far as like, because I guess I'm 0:52:10.640 --> 0:52:13.520 getting more attempts, so it's getting kind of aggregating that 0:52:14.000 --> 0:52:17.840 I gotta wait, like twenty four hours because the idiots 0:52:17.840 --> 0:52:19.840 are trying to log into my account and it's not. 0:52:20.000 --> 0:52:25.120 Me, right, So I hear you, Okay, Well here here's 0:52:25.160 --> 0:52:28.239 what I recommend to fix this. Okay, So number one, 0:52:30.160 --> 0:52:32.160 I has three things to do. Number one, you've got 0:52:32.200 --> 0:52:35.360 to change your password. So that's number one. Change your password. 0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:37.719 Make sure it's something that is strong, unique at least 0:52:37.760 --> 0:52:41.120 fourteen characters. Use a password generator. You got to turn 0:52:41.200 --> 0:52:44.319 on two factor authentication. Turn on two factor authentication. Use 0:52:44.360 --> 0:52:47.600 an app if you can. The email thing is with 0:52:47.680 --> 0:52:49.680 the code is okay. With the app is much better. 0:52:50.040 --> 0:52:52.880 And then I want you to sign out everywhere so 0:52:53.200 --> 0:52:56.120 you can go to Microsoft. I will put the link 0:52:56.200 --> 0:52:58.560 on the website rich on tech dot tv. But basically, 0:52:58.680 --> 0:53:02.319 once you sign into your micro Soft account, you got 0:53:02.400 --> 0:53:05.600 to sign into your Advanced Security options on your Microsoft 0:53:05.640 --> 0:53:08.680 Account Security dashboard and then you scroll down and it 0:53:08.719 --> 0:53:12.439 says sign out everywhere. Once you sign out everywhere, sign 0:53:12.520 --> 0:53:15.040 in on just the one place where you want to 0:53:15.440 --> 0:53:19.279 access this account with your new password, and hopefully that 0:53:19.400 --> 0:53:22.360 should help this. But you know, all those loggin attempts, 0:53:22.440 --> 0:53:24.600 this same exact thing happened to my account, and it 0:53:24.760 --> 0:53:26.440 was really annoying. When I found that, and I did 0:53:26.520 --> 0:53:29.839 go in and change my password, so you can check 0:53:29.920 --> 0:53:32.839 for that as well. Let's say I'm trying to find 0:53:32.840 --> 0:53:35.239 the link I gave out. It's on my newsletter from 0:53:35.320 --> 0:53:38.080 last week eight and eight rich one on one eight 0:53:38.200 --> 0:53:40.239 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:53:40.280 --> 0:53:43.600 Coming up, we'll talk about protecting your personal information online. 0:53:49.400 --> 0:53:51.959 Welcome back to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging 0:53:51.960 --> 0:53:55.640 out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one 0:53:55.719 --> 0:53:58.279 O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:53:58.560 --> 0:54:00.879 four one zero one. Thanks for joining me on the show. 0:54:01.320 --> 0:54:03.560 Appreciate you being here. We've got a lot of good 0:54:03.600 --> 0:54:06.719 information coming your way. Rich on tech dot tv is 0:54:06.719 --> 0:54:09.960 the website if you want links to anything I talk about. Uh, 0:54:10.080 --> 0:54:12.600 this should be an eye opening conversation. Cloak to co 0:54:12.800 --> 0:54:16.400 founder and CEO Arjun Botnager is here to join me. 0:54:17.200 --> 0:54:20.480 Thanks for being here, of course, thanks for having me Rich. 0:54:20.719 --> 0:54:23.680 So I called this number, what is it? Tell me 0:54:23.719 --> 0:54:25.200 what the number is? Eight five five? 0:54:26.239 --> 0:54:29.560 Yeah, eight five five seven five two five six two. 0:54:29.520 --> 0:54:31.400 Five Okay, So I call that and that's like it 0:54:31.600 --> 0:54:34.560 translates into seven seven five cloak or something. 0:54:34.840 --> 0:54:37.879 Yeah, say eight five five seven five cloak. 0:54:37.719 --> 0:54:41.239 Okay, Now, as soon as you call that number, you'll 0:54:41.280 --> 0:54:44.800 be surprised because agreed to by name, and then it 0:54:44.920 --> 0:54:48.640 proceeds to tell you your social Security number, your address, 0:54:48.880 --> 0:54:51.400 and all kinds of personal information. You go, wait a second, 0:54:51.520 --> 0:54:53.920 what is happening here? And it's all kind of an 0:54:53.960 --> 0:54:57.920 example of just how much information is floating around on 0:54:58.080 --> 0:54:58.960 the internet about you. 0:54:59.120 --> 0:55:01.000 Right, that's absolutely right. 0:55:01.160 --> 0:55:04.560 There's so much information that we willingly give out and 0:55:04.719 --> 0:55:08.640 what companies and corporations and even governments use to tie. 0:55:08.560 --> 0:55:10.800 Back to you on around everything. 0:55:11.520 --> 0:55:13.680 So I always tell people like, okay, let's say you 0:55:13.760 --> 0:55:15.719 go to the grocery store. You give them your phone number. 0:55:15.960 --> 0:55:18.239 It's like, oh, no, big deal, that's just my phone number. 0:55:18.800 --> 0:55:21.439 They go in and use that phone number to find 0:55:21.520 --> 0:55:22.960 every other piece of data about you. 0:55:23.200 --> 0:55:23.640 Is that right? 0:55:24.640 --> 0:55:26.000 So exactly right. 0:55:26.120 --> 0:55:28.719 The grocery store might be doing that. But really it's 0:55:28.800 --> 0:55:32.040 not always everyone's the bad guy. We always find that 0:55:32.360 --> 0:55:34.640 it might be benign or good that a company's using 0:55:34.680 --> 0:55:37.759 your information, it might be malicious. The problem is that 0:55:38.239 --> 0:55:41.480 even if someone's good, if they're hacked, compromised, or. 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:43.960 Breached, the problem ends up being the same. So it's 0:55:44.000 --> 0:55:44.640 exactly right. 0:55:44.760 --> 0:55:47.440 The phone number, or any piece of data, whether it's 0:55:47.480 --> 0:55:50.680 for good or bad, gets aggregated, collected, and eventually it 0:55:50.680 --> 0:55:53.120 is either to target you, compromise. 0:55:52.680 --> 0:55:56.600 You, or watch you. So you run a website called Cloaked. 0:55:56.840 --> 0:55:59.560 Explain what that does. What's your idea to fight all this? 0:56:00.560 --> 0:56:03.560 Yeah, so, for the longest time, we've always believed, from 0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:06.239 the government to corporations to what we're trained is that 0:56:06.600 --> 0:56:10.320 let companies keep your information safe. And we all know 0:56:10.480 --> 0:56:13.280 that's a funny concept because there's a breach every single 0:56:13.360 --> 0:56:17.120 day that impact millions, if not a billion, people worldwide 0:56:17.360 --> 0:56:20.280 when their data is exposed. So what we really indexed 0:56:20.320 --> 0:56:23.840 on is how can we as individuals be in control 0:56:23.920 --> 0:56:24.600 of our own data. 0:56:24.880 --> 0:56:26.200 So that's what we do at cloat. 0:56:26.600 --> 0:56:29.279 We give you the power to actually think about how 0:56:29.400 --> 0:56:30.600 is my identity being out there? 0:56:30.960 --> 0:56:34.080 What's exposed? And we help you by cleaning up your 0:56:34.160 --> 0:56:35.480 past and protecting your future. 0:56:35.760 --> 0:56:39.439 And that's through cleaning your data footprint, actually deleting data, 0:56:39.560 --> 0:56:43.640 removing it and then masking your email, phone number, passwords, 0:56:43.680 --> 0:56:47.000 soon even credit card and address with new information that 0:56:47.080 --> 0:56:48.040 doesn't tie back to you. 0:56:48.800 --> 0:56:51.840 So this is the concept of data poisoning. Explain that. 0:56:52.840 --> 0:56:56.120 Yeah, so data poisoning is a fairly new concept. People 0:56:56.160 --> 0:56:58.640 have talked about it for a while. But your single 0:56:58.760 --> 0:57:01.439 data point, for example, why when you call that phone 0:57:01.520 --> 0:57:04.600 number it works is because you give up that piece 0:57:04.640 --> 0:57:08.280 of data to both the irs and dominos. And because 0:57:08.320 --> 0:57:11.239 that one data point never really changes your whole life. 0:57:11.320 --> 0:57:13.879 You might have one to two phone numbers, maybe two 0:57:13.960 --> 0:57:16.880 to three email addresses, it's very easy to target you. 0:57:17.520 --> 0:57:20.960 So data poisoning is this idea that what if one 0:57:21.120 --> 0:57:23.960 data point is confusing, it doesn't. 0:57:23.880 --> 0:57:26.640 People can't figure out who is it or what is it? 0:57:27.360 --> 0:57:28.360 How do you tie back to it? 0:57:28.800 --> 0:57:30.920 So what with Cloak we try to introduce is that 0:57:31.560 --> 0:57:35.120 the phone numbers you generate, the emails, the passwords, credit cards, 0:57:35.640 --> 0:57:39.800 that information is distinct, unique per website or even per person. 0:57:40.440 --> 0:57:43.800 But we also think about, well, what if Rich and 0:57:43.920 --> 0:57:47.160 I each generate a Cloak phone number and it's actually 0:57:47.200 --> 0:57:49.400 the same number. You might use it for best Buy, 0:57:49.840 --> 0:57:53.360 I might use it for Target. But when it's stolen, compromised, 0:57:53.440 --> 0:57:57.600 or even packaged and sold, it's impossible to tell whether 0:57:57.840 --> 0:58:00.720 that's our general Rich, and that's the technology you've developed 0:58:01.000 --> 0:58:03.600 to make it very hard to figure out who's who. 0:58:04.040 --> 0:58:06.440 Wow, that's interesting and what about I mean, we know 0:58:06.560 --> 0:58:08.680 AI is coming on board and people are saying, look, 0:58:08.720 --> 0:58:11.040 AI is going to make it so much easier for 0:58:11.440 --> 0:58:13.920 people to target you and to put this information together. 0:58:14.120 --> 0:58:14.880 Is that happening. 0:58:16.160 --> 0:58:19.520 Yeah, So this is where AI enabled threats have grown 0:58:19.600 --> 0:58:22.640 over three hundred percent in the last year alone, and 0:58:22.800 --> 0:58:24.840 so it's getting worse and worse. 0:58:25.320 --> 0:58:26.720 And you might see this if you. 0:58:26.720 --> 0:58:29.400 Look at a phishing text that says, and this is 0:58:29.440 --> 0:58:32.040 a growing one, Hey, we know you shop at this 0:58:32.240 --> 0:58:35.560 local Starbucks, we know where you live, or I know 0:58:35.720 --> 0:58:39.800 some stuff about where you walk every day. Now those 0:58:39.880 --> 0:58:43.200 aren't actually necessarily humans typing all these messages out. We 0:58:43.400 --> 0:58:46.280 leverage technology or even AI to combine a lot of 0:58:46.320 --> 0:58:49.000 this data, use AI to kind of figure out the 0:58:49.120 --> 0:58:53.280 pattern where your location is, and craft messages and these 0:58:53.280 --> 0:58:55.560 are all what scammers or fishers or hackers try to do. 0:58:56.200 --> 0:58:59.680 Craft messages automatically using AI that make it feel very 0:58:59.720 --> 0:59:03.920 per And that's the biggest risk vector going forward is 0:59:03.960 --> 0:59:07.320 that people's systems they're getting more secure, But the biggest 0:59:07.400 --> 0:59:11.120 vulnerability are people. And it's whether it's employees and businesses 0:59:11.360 --> 0:59:14.400 or us as customers. The way we act and enabled 0:59:14.520 --> 0:59:15.720 and leverage technology. 0:59:16.280 --> 0:59:19.520 I always say that the scammers sort of take something 0:59:19.560 --> 0:59:22.400 that we know, like we've all gotten that text from 0:59:22.400 --> 0:59:24.440 our bank that says, hey, did you just make a 0:59:24.520 --> 0:59:27.280 purchase here? And you know press one or a reply 0:59:27.480 --> 0:59:30.600 one if you did, or why or and and you know, 0:59:30.680 --> 0:59:32.320 they take that and they kind of spin it and 0:59:32.400 --> 0:59:34.080 they send us that and you're like, wait, is this 0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:35.960 for my bank or not? And the next thing you know, 0:59:36.080 --> 0:59:37.000 you're getting scammed. 0:59:37.880 --> 0:59:38.680 That's exactly right. 0:59:38.760 --> 0:59:42.040 And that's where the threats and the vectors are trying 0:59:42.120 --> 0:59:45.040 to make it so that you believe it's true, and 0:59:45.120 --> 0:59:47.640 the moment you believe it's true, it's all over. I 0:59:47.720 --> 0:59:50.040 think I've actually given this an example. I think you've 0:59:50.040 --> 0:59:53.080 already talked about it. There's this website Have I Been Boned? 0:59:53.520 --> 0:59:57.280 And the author that just recently got compromised because of 0:59:57.320 --> 1:00:00.920 a very specific trusting look a message. 1:00:00.600 --> 1:00:03.800 That they ended up clicking and following through and logging in. 1:00:04.040 --> 1:00:04.160 Now. 1:00:04.240 --> 1:00:07.160 I love Troy, he was on this show, but I mean, ah, 1:00:07.600 --> 1:00:09.880 and I get it, this can happen to anyone, but 1:00:10.040 --> 1:00:13.080 like I really I'm surprised that that happened to him. 1:00:13.120 --> 1:00:14.960 I mean, I always said he was tired from you know, 1:00:15.080 --> 1:00:17.680 jet Lag and all this stuff. But like, I can't 1:00:17.720 --> 1:00:20.280 believe that he his password manager didn't fill in the 1:00:20.400 --> 1:00:22.960 site and then he proceeded to fill it in manually 1:00:23.080 --> 1:00:25.560 and then put the one time code in. It's like, yeah, 1:00:25.640 --> 1:00:25.920 oh my. 1:00:26.040 --> 1:00:31.640 Gosh, it's I can't understand how it happens and happens 1:00:31.680 --> 1:00:33.800 to the best of us. But this is the point 1:00:33.880 --> 1:00:36.480 that Troy kind of revealed, was that things there were 1:00:36.560 --> 1:00:39.240 flags along the way. The pass manager didn't flag. The 1:00:39.320 --> 1:00:43.080 link is a little suspicious, but when you're tired, it happens. 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:46.200 I think this is where kind of the hygiene and 1:00:46.360 --> 1:00:49.120 how we operate for me e, in our own staff, 1:00:49.640 --> 1:00:53.560 we just don't click links in emails et cetera. Like 1:00:53.840 --> 1:00:55.480 there's a little bit of homework, et cetera, and the 1:00:55.520 --> 1:00:57.680 way we operate before we click anything. Even if the 1:00:57.760 --> 1:01:00.880 link says, hey, there's something wrong, well, we open a 1:01:00.960 --> 1:01:03.040 new tab and go to it ourselves. Yeah, there's no 1:01:03.200 --> 1:01:05.240 reason to click the link in the email. You can 1:01:05.280 --> 1:01:08.040 always go to the website directly and figure out the alert. 1:01:08.440 --> 1:01:10.600 So what is your advice for consumers? I mean, obviously 1:01:10.680 --> 1:01:12.680 you'd love if everyone's signed up for your website and 1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:15.880 use your services beyond that? What do you think? 1:01:16.000 --> 1:01:16.240 I mean? 1:01:16.400 --> 1:01:18.440 You know, what's your advice for consumers? How do we 1:01:18.520 --> 1:01:18.920 deal with this? 1:01:20.040 --> 1:01:22.480 So I say it's a couple of different problems. 1:01:22.520 --> 1:01:24.880 Actually, on hand, I think there's the idea of our 1:01:24.920 --> 1:01:29.440 own personal safety scams, fishing, and also like being annoyed 1:01:29.440 --> 1:01:32.280 and frustrated with people turning bombarda. So I look at 1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:35.040 as a problem of safety, a problem of your own 1:01:35.160 --> 1:01:36.600 spam being annoyed. 1:01:36.480 --> 1:01:37.880 And a problem of personal privacy. 1:01:38.320 --> 1:01:40.520 And the way I look at is the first simplest 1:01:40.560 --> 1:01:44.440 thing I tell people start saying no. And what that 1:01:44.600 --> 1:01:47.680 means is that between apps that ask for all these 1:01:47.680 --> 1:01:50.440 permissions like I never give my contact permissions, don't give 1:01:50.520 --> 1:01:53.560 up every contact you own, don't give up location permissions 1:01:53.560 --> 1:01:56.280 because you don't have to. And this is where that 1:01:56.400 --> 1:01:59.760 mindset of we're trained to keep saying yes start hitting 1:01:59.760 --> 1:02:04.480 to and you'd be surprised. Similarly, at restaurants and Sapphora whichever, 1:02:04.960 --> 1:02:06.440 they hey, can you give me a phone number? You 1:02:06.480 --> 1:02:09.080 give me your email? I say no, I don't have 1:02:09.240 --> 1:02:11.320 to give the information, and they say, oh, no, big deal, 1:02:11.440 --> 1:02:14.000 no worries. But and you'll realize you don't have to 1:02:14.000 --> 1:02:16.160 give up. The culture of sharing is that first part, 1:02:16.600 --> 1:02:16.919 and then. 1:02:16.960 --> 1:02:19.520 Almost before you proceed to the next part. I was 1:02:19.560 --> 1:02:22.760 at a new place. This place just opened nearby. I went, 1:02:22.880 --> 1:02:25.439 I visited. It was a new store, and they're like, okay, 1:02:25.680 --> 1:02:28.360 let's get your email address for like, you know, promotions 1:02:28.400 --> 1:02:30.560 and this and that. And I actually felt bad like 1:02:30.720 --> 1:02:32.080 being like, no, I don't want to give that. And 1:02:32.160 --> 1:02:34.080 so I did give my email even though I didn't 1:02:34.120 --> 1:02:36.880 want to, and they proceeded to email me every single 1:02:37.000 --> 1:02:39.280 day after that. I was like ah, but because it 1:02:39.360 --> 1:02:41.400 was a human that was like standing there, it's like 1:02:41.560 --> 1:02:44.000 just this routine thing like okay, now give me your emails. 1:02:44.000 --> 1:02:46.480 You can get those great offer codes, and you know, 1:02:46.560 --> 1:02:48.280 I need to come up with a fake email or 1:02:48.760 --> 1:02:51.680 a you know, spam email for future things like that. 1:02:52.800 --> 1:02:54.960 Well that's kind of leading to so I didn't want 1:02:54.960 --> 1:02:56.480 to get gives a part. This is what Cloak does. 1:02:56.600 --> 1:02:58.840 Like we one of the big things that a lot 1:02:58.880 --> 1:03:01.600 of companies in our sector do is they say stop 1:03:01.720 --> 1:03:05.040 doing this or don't give any email address. I think 1:03:05.080 --> 1:03:08.000 the culture of saying no is the first step. But 1:03:08.120 --> 1:03:09.880 the part too is we want you to keep you 1:03:09.960 --> 1:03:12.600 want to get promotions and this is where for Cloak, 1:03:12.680 --> 1:03:15.000 what we thought about is we'll make a unique email 1:03:15.080 --> 1:03:17.800 for that local coffee shop. I personally bought something for 1:03:18.160 --> 1:03:22.080 my partner recently, and I get six emails a day, 1:03:22.160 --> 1:03:24.160 but all goes to a specific Cloak email you for 1:03:24.200 --> 1:03:26.320 that website, So I never look at it doesn't matter. 1:03:26.720 --> 1:03:28.840 But when I need to check on order confirmation CE, 1:03:29.040 --> 1:03:31.240 I can go right to that single email address and 1:03:31.400 --> 1:03:34.040 check it. And that's where we start to change the behavior. 1:03:34.080 --> 1:03:37.200 Where it's step one is stopping, but step two is 1:03:37.320 --> 1:03:38.040 changing the way you. 1:03:38.120 --> 1:03:44.080 Share Okay, interesting stuff. I mean I I yeah, I 1:03:44.360 --> 1:03:46.280 totally agree with the idea of coming up, Like I 1:03:46.360 --> 1:03:49.200 have a Google Voice number two, which I use sometimes, 1:03:49.680 --> 1:03:51.520 But then I feel bad when I give people that 1:03:51.680 --> 1:03:54.959 number because I'm like, well, they're you know I'm giving 1:03:55.240 --> 1:03:57.479 It's just it's this weird It's almost like this human 1:03:57.560 --> 1:04:00.840 thing where you feel almost like you're being deceitful by 1:04:00.920 --> 1:04:04.080 giving out something that protects you. And do you find 1:04:04.160 --> 1:04:06.440 that and do people react like that? Like I that's 1:04:06.440 --> 1:04:09.160 the way I feel, I think even. 1:04:09.040 --> 1:04:11.600 For me, since people know I do Cloak, et cetera. 1:04:11.960 --> 1:04:13.600 When I give out a phone number I haven't given 1:04:13.640 --> 1:04:15.640 my personal phone number since twenty twenty one when I 1:04:15.680 --> 1:04:18.600 started the company, and it's been it's been. 1:04:18.480 --> 1:04:19.640 A kind of interesting experience. 1:04:19.720 --> 1:04:21.360 People say, oh, how you giving me a Cloak number, 1:04:21.840 --> 1:04:24.840 and I think, but I think the idea is that 1:04:24.960 --> 1:04:27.680 at least what we're trying to enable is that it's 1:04:27.800 --> 1:04:30.400 not a throwaway or burner. When I give a Cloak 1:04:30.480 --> 1:04:33.440 number out, I can lock it to just you, so 1:04:33.560 --> 1:04:36.280 that number is just between us. So when I get 1:04:36.320 --> 1:04:39.600 the textra call, I know it's just you. It's not spoofed, spam, 1:04:39.720 --> 1:04:42.120 et cetera. So I try to position is like, this 1:04:42.320 --> 1:04:44.360 is meant to be more personal. When I'm giving a 1:04:44.440 --> 1:04:47.440 number out to the shake shack or a restaurant, I 1:04:47.520 --> 1:04:50.080 was like, well, I'm only hearing from that one entity. 1:04:50.360 --> 1:04:52.760 And yes, it takes a little bit of a cultural 1:04:52.960 --> 1:04:54.040 shift and change, but I. 1:04:54.400 --> 1:04:57.960 What I've realized is yes, when people might react and say, 1:04:58.080 --> 1:05:01.040 oh are you hiding, But the moment you do it 1:05:01.160 --> 1:05:04.320 once or twice, it doesn't feel so bad. And I 1:05:04.400 --> 1:05:07.200 think that's where we start to really push. You've become 1:05:07.240 --> 1:05:10.560 a bit more organized your emails, text calls, if you're 1:05:10.560 --> 1:05:12.240 buying a home, which is what we noticed a lot 1:05:12.240 --> 1:05:15.040 of users do or apartment hunting. There's a lot of 1:05:15.160 --> 1:05:17.800 noise happening, but once it's all over, you turn it 1:05:17.880 --> 1:05:20.360 off or delete it. Now it's gone, and I think 1:05:21.080 --> 1:05:23.480 the benefits out weigh kind of that initial feeling. 1:05:23.920 --> 1:05:26.160 Don't ever give your email address when you're shopping for 1:05:26.240 --> 1:05:29.840 a car. That is the worst. You will get those forever. 1:05:30.480 --> 1:05:33.000 And you know two years in, hey, you're still looking 1:05:33.040 --> 1:05:35.320 at that Honda. You're like, I bought a car two 1:05:35.400 --> 1:05:38.439 years ago. What's happening here? They're just going through those lists? 1:05:38.480 --> 1:05:41.880 All right. Cloaked dot com is the website. CEO our 1:05:41.960 --> 1:05:44.400 gunbot Naggert, thanks so much for joining me today. 1:05:45.080 --> 1:05:47.520 Absolutely, and the last second say is do give that 1:05:47.600 --> 1:05:50.240 phone number a call? That eight five five seven five 1:05:50.320 --> 1:05:52.760 two five six two five. It's a big eye opener. 1:05:53.360 --> 1:05:55.440 Yes it is. I made my wife diala and we 1:05:55.520 --> 1:05:57.560 were like, my kids are like, what's happening right now? 1:05:58.040 --> 1:06:00.400 All right? Eighty eight our phone number or eight eight 1:06:00.440 --> 1:06:02.840 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 1:06:02.880 --> 1:06:04.600 to two four to one zero one. I'll put the 1:06:05.160 --> 1:06:07.440 phone number for Cloaked on the website rich on tech 1:06:07.520 --> 1:06:10.480 dot TV. It is eye opening. You dial that number, 1:06:10.600 --> 1:06:12.919 Believe me, you will be like, wait, what, I didn't 1:06:12.920 --> 1:06:14.919 even know they had that, especially the social Security number. 1:06:15.480 --> 1:06:19.960 We'll be right back. Welcome back to rich on tech. 1:06:20.080 --> 1:06:24.440 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 1:06:24.520 --> 1:06:27.400 triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:06:27.520 --> 1:06:32.240 four to two four one zero one. Let's go to 1:06:32.480 --> 1:06:38.120 uh Francis in Irvinest, Florida. You're on with Richo. 1:06:38.680 --> 1:06:39.800 Hello, rich how are you? 1:06:40.080 --> 1:06:42.080 I am doing fantastic. How are you today? 1:06:42.720 --> 1:06:46.240 I'm not too bad other than my computer. I did 1:06:46.520 --> 1:06:49.680 tell me, Hey, I don't I didn't start correctly. 1:06:50.240 --> 1:06:52.480 Oh no, that sounds like me on a cold day. 1:06:56.000 --> 1:06:57.959 Yeah, it's hard to put your feet on the floor 1:06:58.000 --> 1:06:58.760 when you're sleeping. 1:07:01.240 --> 1:07:01.720 There you go. 1:07:02.760 --> 1:07:03.800 So what's the problem. 1:07:04.720 --> 1:07:07.200 Well, I got this blue screen of death and it 1:07:07.280 --> 1:07:12.640 says automatically pair your PC did not start correctly. Press 1:07:12.800 --> 1:07:18.800 restart to research your PT which can sometimes fix the problem. 1:07:19.120 --> 1:07:22.200 Sometimes that's the operative word. Uh oh did this? Sometimes not? 1:07:23.920 --> 1:07:29.080 You can also press advanced options. I'll tell you something 1:07:29.560 --> 1:07:31.200 which nothing worked. 1:07:32.600 --> 1:07:33.360 Nothing's working? 1:07:34.360 --> 1:07:37.160 Yes, I'm just going The blue screen just stayed there? 1:07:38.200 --> 1:07:38.480 And so. 1:07:40.080 --> 1:07:41.960 Does does your computer make any sound? 1:07:43.000 --> 1:07:43.040 No? 1:07:43.960 --> 1:07:46.560 Okay? And have you did you change anything on your 1:07:46.600 --> 1:07:47.800 computer before this happened. 1:07:48.840 --> 1:07:51.240 No, well I did turned it off and then the 1:07:51.360 --> 1:07:54.240 next day I turned it on continue and that's what 1:07:54.320 --> 1:07:54.840 it came up. 1:07:55.160 --> 1:07:59.120 Oh man, are you is your computer backed up? 1:08:02.360 --> 1:08:03.520 Backed up? In which way? 1:08:03.880 --> 1:08:06.640 Like do you have a you know, your important files somewhere? 1:08:08.680 --> 1:08:11.720 Well, it wasn't really necessary. It's not I don't have 1:08:11.920 --> 1:08:12.960 much in my computer. 1:08:13.120 --> 1:08:15.520 Okay, So it's more it's more just getting the computer 1:08:15.640 --> 1:08:16.600 working again. Got it? 1:08:19.000 --> 1:08:19.200 Well? 1:08:19.400 --> 1:08:21.439 The I mean, there are a bunch of things you 1:08:21.520 --> 1:08:23.439 can try to do. It sounds like you tried to 1:08:23.520 --> 1:08:26.519 do them with the the advanced startup options and all 1:08:26.560 --> 1:08:30.680 the repair stuff. But I think have you tried to 1:08:30.760 --> 1:08:32.799 restart this into safe mode. 1:08:34.240 --> 1:08:34.479 State? 1:08:35.560 --> 1:08:37.439 Okay? So that's what I would try as the last 1:08:37.520 --> 1:08:39.720 resort is see if you can do safe mode on 1:08:39.760 --> 1:08:41.960 this computer? Is this what? What version of Windows? 1:08:42.080 --> 1:08:42.240 Is this? 1:08:43.280 --> 1:08:43.679 Windows? 1:08:44.360 --> 1:08:47.920 Okay? So Windows ten? H you gotta I gotta look 1:08:48.000 --> 1:08:49.719 up the way to do that. But there's there's basically 1:08:49.760 --> 1:08:54.400 a key that you can let's see Windows ten. Let's 1:08:54.400 --> 1:08:57.320 see boot into safe mode. So that's what you want 1:08:57.360 --> 1:09:02.280 to look into. And so if you can boot into 1:09:02.360 --> 1:09:06.120 safe mode, that will start your computer up without a 1:09:06.200 --> 1:09:09.519 whole bunch of things running. So maybe there's something that's 1:09:09.640 --> 1:09:13.320 like messing with your computer when it when it turns on, 1:09:13.439 --> 1:09:16.160 and that's what's causing this screen of death. Now, I 1:09:16.240 --> 1:09:18.719 think the problem it may be more than that, because 1:09:19.280 --> 1:09:21.559 if you're getting if you're not getting anything to happen 1:09:21.640 --> 1:09:23.120 on this computer, I don't know if it's like starting 1:09:23.240 --> 1:09:25.280 up and then giving you this screen, or if it's 1:09:25.320 --> 1:09:26.960 not starting up at all, which one do you think 1:09:27.000 --> 1:09:27.200 it is? 1:09:28.439 --> 1:09:31.000 Well, it starts up and then gives me the screen. 1:09:31.000 --> 1:09:33.080 Okay, So it seems like your computer's like going through 1:09:33.120 --> 1:09:37.160 some motions and then it's like now we can't yeah, okay, 1:09:37.560 --> 1:09:39.680 So then safe mode may help because it may be 1:09:39.840 --> 1:09:41.760 something you know. It could be that one of your 1:09:41.800 --> 1:09:44.280 apps or one of your drivers or something got an 1:09:44.360 --> 1:09:47.080 update that just does not agree with this system. So 1:09:47.520 --> 1:09:50.120 that is that's kind of like the main thing that 1:09:50.439 --> 1:09:53.880 you know could be causing this, I hope. But it 1:09:53.960 --> 1:09:57.120 looks like you can press the F four key to 1:09:57.200 --> 1:09:59.200 start in safe mode when your computer starting up. I 1:09:59.240 --> 1:10:03.240 would check that on just look in your just look 1:10:03.280 --> 1:10:05.960 in and like Google to see for your specific system. 1:10:06.240 --> 1:10:09.840 I think that's it. But once you start in safe mode, 1:10:10.360 --> 1:10:15.879 that basically only starts up the most basic parts of Windows. 1:10:15.960 --> 1:10:18.080 So it's not going to run every driver, it's not 1:10:18.160 --> 1:10:20.680 going to run everything, all the apps, all the things 1:10:20.720 --> 1:10:22.880 that automatically turn on it log in, like, all those 1:10:22.920 --> 1:10:24.240 things are not going to start. So it's just the 1:10:24.360 --> 1:10:28.000 base of the operating system. So that if that works, 1:10:28.880 --> 1:10:31.600 if the operating system comes up, that may fix it 1:10:31.640 --> 1:10:33.679 in itself, Like it may start up and like repair 1:10:33.720 --> 1:10:35.479 whatever it needs to do, and then you can restart 1:10:35.479 --> 1:10:38.640 into regular mode. But if it doesn't, you know, if 1:10:38.640 --> 1:10:40.639 it doesn't even come up even with the safe mode, 1:10:40.680 --> 1:10:43.000 then you have a bigger problem. And then if that's 1:10:43.120 --> 1:10:45.120 if that's the problem, then I would probably look into 1:10:45.240 --> 1:10:47.519 just kind of if you said, your your files and 1:10:47.640 --> 1:10:49.200 things are good, you don't have a you know, you 1:10:49.240 --> 1:10:51.599 don't need to back up whatever. You can just kind 1:10:51.600 --> 1:10:54.360 of start this computer. I hate to say this, but 1:10:54.560 --> 1:10:56.759 just kind of start it fresh, like reset the PC 1:10:57.680 --> 1:11:03.160 and that'll reinstall Windows completely and then it'll start up 1:11:03.160 --> 1:11:05.240 because obviously then it's a fresh computer at that point. 1:11:05.360 --> 1:11:08.720 But that is a frustrating thing to happen. It's tough 1:11:08.800 --> 1:11:11.320 to tell exactly what's going on without seeing it. So 1:11:11.840 --> 1:11:13.479 if you want to spend money and bring it to 1:11:13.520 --> 1:11:15.960 a professional. That may help as a last resort if 1:11:16.000 --> 1:11:19.160 you don't want to do this yourself. But you know, 1:11:19.240 --> 1:11:21.000 if you don't care, if you're you know, if you 1:11:21.080 --> 1:11:25.559 can just get this thing and you know, reinstall Windows yourself, 1:11:26.120 --> 1:11:28.320 that will be the cheapest option. And then you start fresh. 1:11:28.360 --> 1:11:29.920 And the nice thing about that is, you know all 1:11:29.960 --> 1:11:31.320 the stuff that you had on there, all the things 1:11:31.400 --> 1:11:34.360 you collected, you know, a little fragments of programs and stuff. 1:11:34.400 --> 1:11:36.880 You will notice that your computer will feel new again. 1:11:37.320 --> 1:11:39.679 So I guess that's the looking on the bright side 1:11:39.720 --> 1:11:43.200 of your computer completely crashing and not working anymore. But again, 1:11:43.280 --> 1:11:45.439 try the safe mode and then if that doesn't work, 1:11:45.720 --> 1:11:47.840 you may want to bring it to professional see if 1:11:47.840 --> 1:11:49.840 they can figure out what's going on, and if they can't, 1:11:50.280 --> 1:11:52.959 or if you just want to reset your computer completely, 1:11:53.600 --> 1:11:56.840 that will be the cheapest option. But the you will 1:11:56.920 --> 1:11:59.759 have to reinstall everything again, all your programs, all your apps, 1:12:00.080 --> 1:12:02.680 your browser, just everything will have to be put back 1:12:02.720 --> 1:12:05.320 on that computer because it will be like new. Thanks 1:12:05.360 --> 1:12:07.559 for the call, appreciate it. Francis eight eight eight rich 1:12:07.640 --> 1:12:09.680 one o one eight eight eight seven four to two 1:12:09.840 --> 1:12:12.200 four one zero one I'll tell you about a smart watch. 1:12:12.240 --> 1:12:21.760 I like, that's just eighty dollars coming up. Welcome back 1:12:21.760 --> 1:12:24.040 to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:12:24.240 --> 1:12:28.120 talking technology. Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight 1:12:28.160 --> 1:12:31.400 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Phone 1:12:31.439 --> 1:12:34.840 lines are loaded, So I don't know what that means. 1:12:34.920 --> 1:12:38.360 Can people not? You just got a busy signal? Oh 1:12:38.520 --> 1:12:41.200 well you can try calling if someone drops off. I 1:12:41.280 --> 1:12:44.000 see on the lines, I hear you. I feel for you. 1:12:44.160 --> 1:12:45.800 I know some of you have been waiting for a while, 1:12:45.920 --> 1:12:47.559 but we will get to as many of you as 1:12:47.640 --> 1:12:50.240 we can. But you know, this show is a balance 1:12:50.320 --> 1:12:52.280 of things, right, Like I try to get through some 1:12:52.360 --> 1:12:54.280 of the information that I need. You know, I always 1:12:54.280 --> 1:12:56.360 say this is the tech news I think you should 1:12:56.400 --> 1:12:58.160 know about, So I always try to get that plus 1:12:58.240 --> 1:13:01.519 your questions, your emails, your tweets. I mean, there's so 1:13:01.680 --> 1:13:05.160 much going on, Jas writes in on Twitter. Hey, Rich, 1:13:05.280 --> 1:13:08.280 I've got one terabyte on one drive. In March, I 1:13:08.360 --> 1:13:10.800 spent about an hour each day cleaning it up. I 1:13:10.880 --> 1:13:13.760 got from six hundred gigs down to four hundred. Every 1:13:13.840 --> 1:13:16.519 three months, I transfer my camera uploads from dropbox to 1:13:16.600 --> 1:13:19.280 one drive. Now I will delete pictures I don't want 1:13:19.360 --> 1:13:22.479 before transferring. Talking about cleaning up cloud storage, Yeah, no 1:13:22.640 --> 1:13:26.040 easy feat. These companies love just keeping us on there. 1:13:26.479 --> 1:13:30.000 Chat GBT plus is now free for students. If you're 1:13:30.000 --> 1:13:33.439 a college student, you can get access to Chat GPT 1:13:33.640 --> 1:13:37.680 plus just in time to write those final papers. I 1:13:37.760 --> 1:13:41.599 mean interesting timing on this one. Chat GBT. Chat GBT 1:13:41.720 --> 1:13:44.160 plus free for all college students in the US and 1:13:44.360 --> 1:13:48.320 Canada through the end of May. That includes their latest 1:13:48.400 --> 1:13:52.680 model for writing and image generation Voice Mode Deep Research, 1:13:53.160 --> 1:13:56.000 which can help with those papers and much much more. 1:13:56.640 --> 1:13:56.680 So. 1:13:56.960 --> 1:13:59.320 It's all on the website usually about twenty dollars a month, 1:13:59.400 --> 1:14:03.439 so basically forty dollars value here. And you know it'll 1:14:03.479 --> 1:14:07.320 probably make you more efficient during the finals season. So 1:14:07.680 --> 1:14:10.160 I'll put the link rich on tech dot tv to 1:14:10.320 --> 1:14:14.360 access that. And then this little smart watch I've been 1:14:14.439 --> 1:14:17.800 testing from a company called a maze Fit. It's called 1:14:17.800 --> 1:14:21.280 the BIP six and it's just eighty dollars and I 1:14:21.360 --> 1:14:25.680 got to say, very very impressed. So this kind of 1:14:25.720 --> 1:14:28.840 looks like an Apple watch and it does all the 1:14:28.920 --> 1:14:31.800 things you need. It's got a nice display, it's really bright. 1:14:31.960 --> 1:14:34.960 You can read it in almost any lighting. Except I 1:14:35.120 --> 1:14:38.360 noticed with my polarized sunglasses on, which kind of bugs 1:14:38.400 --> 1:14:41.679 me because that's what I wear all the time. Tracks 1:14:41.720 --> 1:14:46.160 your heart rate, your sleep, blood oxygen, stress, heart rate variability, 1:14:46.800 --> 1:14:51.040 one hundred and forty workout modes. Let's see. It even 1:14:51.200 --> 1:14:53.800 tracks twenty five workouts automatically, you know, like if you 1:14:53.880 --> 1:14:56.400 start a run or something. It's got maps on it. 1:14:56.640 --> 1:14:58.760 Two week battery life. Battery life on this thing is 1:14:58.800 --> 1:15:03.800 a champ good water resistance. It's got AI built in 1:15:03.960 --> 1:15:05.840 so you can ask it questions and things like that. 1:15:06.200 --> 1:15:09.880 No subscription, and I even love the food tracking on 1:15:09.920 --> 1:15:12.759 the app. It's called ZEP. You can take a picture 1:15:12.800 --> 1:15:14.640 of your food and it basically gives you all the 1:15:15.120 --> 1:15:17.800 macros and whatever you're trying to track. Or you can 1:15:17.880 --> 1:15:19.880 just type in what you ate and'll it'll parse it 1:15:19.920 --> 1:15:23.320 all out. It's really really cool. So anyway, very impressive. 1:15:23.560 --> 1:15:26.320 This is not an iPhone, This is not an Apple watch, 1:15:26.439 --> 1:15:29.360 it's not an Android watch. It doesn't run like any 1:15:29.360 --> 1:15:32.080 of the standard operating system. This is their own operating system, 1:15:32.120 --> 1:15:34.479 so you don't have access to third party apps, but 1:15:34.560 --> 1:15:37.320 pretty much everything you need is built in. So if 1:15:37.360 --> 1:15:40.240 you are just looking for a basic smart watch that 1:15:40.360 --> 1:15:43.320 does all the little things you need at a really 1:15:43.360 --> 1:15:45.800 good price eighty dollars. I would check this out a 1:15:45.880 --> 1:15:49.280 maze fit bipsix. The only thing is, if you're gonna 1:15:49.280 --> 1:15:52.200 listen to music on this, there's no cellular you would 1:15:52.240 --> 1:15:55.080 have to transfer MP three's manually through the app, which 1:15:55.080 --> 1:15:57.760 you can do. But there again, there's no third party apps. 1:15:57.800 --> 1:16:00.880 You're not gonna find like Spotify, iHeartRadio, know, all those 1:16:00.960 --> 1:16:03.280 things you're not gonna be on here. You gotta you know, 1:16:03.720 --> 1:16:06.839 bring your own music. I guess. Anyway, it's available now Amazon. 1:16:06.920 --> 1:16:10.280 I'll have my video review on KTLA channel five and 1:16:10.400 --> 1:16:14.120 my website rich on Tech on Monday. Uh, let's go 1:16:14.320 --> 1:16:17.320 to let's see here. We've got my special guest here, 1:16:18.040 --> 1:16:22.040 Parker Parker saw the Minecraft movie. This is my son, 1:16:22.160 --> 1:16:23.679 Parker Parker. Welcome to the show. 1:16:24.320 --> 1:16:25.680 Hello, thank you for having me. 1:16:25.840 --> 1:16:30.080 Dad, Hey tell me about you're a big Minecraft fan. 1:16:30.680 --> 1:16:32.240 So what did you think of the movie? 1:16:33.360 --> 1:16:38.080 I thought the movie was pretty good. I actually liked it. 1:16:39.479 --> 1:16:42.840 I thought the you know, the actors were very well 1:16:42.920 --> 1:16:46.040 picked played, the scenes were well made. It was actually uh, 1:16:46.520 --> 1:16:49.280 you know, there were some it was like kind of 1:16:49.360 --> 1:16:51.840 like funny. That's what I really liked about it. 1:16:52.080 --> 1:16:54.360 So it's a comedy. So you got Jason Momoa. 1:16:54.720 --> 1:16:56.200 It was a comedy for sure. 1:16:56.320 --> 1:17:01.120 Jack Black, Emma Myers, Jennifer Coolidge, who you probably remember 1:17:01.439 --> 1:17:06.760 as the character in American Pie from back in the day. 1:17:07.080 --> 1:17:09.400 This is getting a forty eight percent of Rotten Tomatoes, 1:17:09.439 --> 1:17:11.120 So some people are liking it, some people are not 1:17:11.200 --> 1:17:11.479 liking it. 1:17:11.680 --> 1:17:16.040 Yeah, I don't agree with the forty eight percent ron tomatoes. 1:17:16.200 --> 1:17:19.240 I think a lot of the people that like, you know, 1:17:19.640 --> 1:17:23.120 the people that rate that, I don't think they probably 1:17:23.160 --> 1:17:24.080 played Minecraft. 1:17:24.640 --> 1:17:28.080 They have, but old reviewers, they don't know, they don't 1:17:28.080 --> 1:17:30.080 know the real the games the kids are playing. 1:17:31.000 --> 1:17:33.400 Yeah, but I mean, I do agree that the plot 1:17:33.560 --> 1:17:36.560 isn't that well made. I think the plot had a 1:17:36.640 --> 1:17:39.160 lot more potential, for sure. You know, I was talking 1:17:39.240 --> 1:17:41.880 about that my friends. I was talking about that. I 1:17:41.960 --> 1:17:44.880 was looking online and everything, and I don't And I 1:17:45.000 --> 1:17:47.240 also agree, I don't think the plot is the best. 1:17:47.360 --> 1:17:49.720 But I'm hoping if they do make a sequel, the 1:17:49.800 --> 1:17:51.640 plot would be much better, which I think they have 1:17:51.720 --> 1:17:55.200 a huge opportunity for. But yeah, like I said, the 1:17:55.360 --> 1:17:59.120 actors were I think the actors were actually well picked 1:17:59.240 --> 1:18:01.880 and a lot of people were upset that it was 1:18:02.000 --> 1:18:05.559 live action, which you know, I was. I was upset 1:18:05.600 --> 1:18:07.559 at first, but then an action was like, Oh, actually 1:18:07.600 --> 1:18:09.519 I think it would It's cool to have live action. 1:18:09.640 --> 1:18:11.400 I don't think animated would have been the best. 1:18:11.560 --> 1:18:13.920 Were there creepers in this Yeah? 1:18:14.000 --> 1:18:14.360 There were? 1:18:16.439 --> 1:18:18.840 Yeah, hostile mobs yep. 1:18:19.800 --> 1:18:20.000 Yeah. 1:18:20.400 --> 1:18:23.000 And if you if you don't know what Minecraft is, 1:18:23.080 --> 1:18:26.040 it's basically a game where you survive, you can build 1:18:26.120 --> 1:18:29.600 whatever you want. Uh, And they just made a movie and. 1:18:29.840 --> 1:18:32.559 It's yeah, any griefers in the game in the movie 1:18:33.360 --> 1:18:39.880 creepers griefers? Oh no, a player who intentionally damages other players, builds, 1:18:39.960 --> 1:18:41.880 or causes problems. I feel like you and your brother, 1:18:42.680 --> 1:18:43.920 you guys do that to each other. 1:18:44.200 --> 1:18:47.080 I feel like you're literally just looking up Minecraft terms 1:18:47.200 --> 1:18:49.760 right now on a computer and you're asking your son 1:18:50.320 --> 1:18:52.519 about these random Minecraft. 1:18:52.439 --> 1:18:57.880 That's exactly what we're doing. I know there's probably a 1:18:57.920 --> 1:18:59.519 pick act in the in the movie. 1:18:59.640 --> 1:19:01.880 Really do so? Yeah? 1:19:02.000 --> 1:19:02.519 I really? 1:19:02.960 --> 1:19:05.320 I think they incorporated a lot of stuff from Minecraft, 1:19:05.360 --> 1:19:09.000 which I really liked. And you know, if you're thinking, oh, 1:19:09.160 --> 1:19:11.400 do I need to play Minecraft to watch the movie, 1:19:11.479 --> 1:19:12.479 you absolutely do not. 1:19:12.800 --> 1:19:13.400 Oh you don't. 1:19:13.600 --> 1:19:16.960 Minecraft will make it better. I think you'll understand it 1:19:16.960 --> 1:19:20.240 a little more. But I like my mom when she 1:19:20.720 --> 1:19:25.120 watched it, she didn't really play Minecraft that much, and 1:19:25.200 --> 1:19:28.400 she still understood it. But you know, okay, if you 1:19:28.479 --> 1:19:30.000 do play Minecraft, you'll enjoy it. 1:19:30.439 --> 1:19:32.360 Do you wait for streaming or do you see it 1:19:32.360 --> 1:19:33.040 in the movie theater? 1:19:33.680 --> 1:19:36.439 That's a big question I was wondering. So I said, 1:19:36.600 --> 1:19:39.040 if you know, you're a huge Minecraft and you're playing 1:19:39.080 --> 1:19:41.560 for a while but don't know if it's really worth it, 1:19:41.840 --> 1:19:43.360 I could go to the theaters. You know, it'll be 1:19:43.439 --> 1:19:47.040 a fun experience. You know, the audience will probably you know, 1:19:47.560 --> 1:19:49.960 people that are going or you want to go, and 1:19:50.240 --> 1:19:52.479 you'll have good laugh. If you don't, you know, you 1:19:52.560 --> 1:19:56.000 play Minecraft, you don't really you know, like it's like 1:19:56.120 --> 1:19:59.080 I saw the Minecraft movie just Waittil Comes Home. Yeah, 1:19:59.640 --> 1:20:01.799 it really it depends you know the price and everything. 1:20:01.920 --> 1:20:04.519 But I think if you really like Minecraft, go to 1:20:04.600 --> 1:20:07.000 the movies. I think it was actually a great experience. 1:20:07.200 --> 1:20:09.640 All right. And if look and if you don't like it, 1:20:10.040 --> 1:20:12.080 Mom and Dad just spent like eighty bucks, no big 1:20:12.160 --> 1:20:15.599 deal for like two tickets at least in LA. All Right, Parker, 1:20:15.680 --> 1:20:17.080 thanks for calling in. Appreciate it. 1:20:17.120 --> 1:20:18.120 Okay, yeah, I love you. 1:20:18.520 --> 1:20:19.040 Love you too. 1:20:19.439 --> 1:20:19.840 Uh y. 1:20:20.160 --> 1:20:24.400 That's my son Parker with his review of Minecraft, Minecraft 1:20:24.479 --> 1:20:28.120 the movie. You know, my kids gave up roadblocks in 1:20:28.240 --> 1:20:31.679 the house and it's been kind of a better place, 1:20:31.840 --> 1:20:33.760 but now my kid wants to go back to it, 1:20:34.080 --> 1:20:36.599 So I don't know. It's you know, it's tough every 1:20:36.720 --> 1:20:40.240 every kid handles these video games differently, right, and even adults. 1:20:40.280 --> 1:20:42.280 I mean it's just in general anything, you know, it's 1:20:42.360 --> 1:20:44.920 like it's like, got to use moderation with all this stuff. 1:20:45.479 --> 1:20:47.040 All right, do we have time for a question before 1:20:47.040 --> 1:20:49.919 we go to break? Quick one? Okay, quick one? Jacqueline 1:20:49.960 --> 1:20:51.719 and Michigan. What's your question? 1:20:53.479 --> 1:20:53.559 Hi? 1:20:53.680 --> 1:20:54.439 Dare can you hear me? 1:20:54.479 --> 1:20:54.760 All right? 1:20:54.920 --> 1:20:55.040 Yes? 1:20:56.520 --> 1:20:58.800 Either, Thank you so much for all you do I have. 1:20:59.760 --> 1:21:02.600 I had an iPhone thirteen and I. 1:21:02.680 --> 1:21:05.560 Switched services, so I went from T Mobile to Exfinity, 1:21:06.120 --> 1:21:08.360 and when they transferred all the data from the iPhone 1:21:08.400 --> 1:21:11.960 to the Android, none of my photos transferred over, no videos, 1:21:12.000 --> 1:21:13.200 no photos, nothing. 1:21:13.479 --> 1:21:16.360 So I went back to the Exfinity store and said, hey, 1:21:16.400 --> 1:21:17.639 can you help me? And they said, no, we've done 1:21:17.640 --> 1:21:18.200 everything we can. 1:21:18.360 --> 1:21:19.120 You're on your own, right. 1:21:19.200 --> 1:21:20.559 Oh boo wow? 1:21:20.840 --> 1:21:26.000 That usually okay. So you want to transfer, you want 1:21:26.040 --> 1:21:30.559 to transfer your stuff? Okay, So I would say phone thirteen, okay. 1:21:30.680 --> 1:21:33.479 So I would say, let's see okay, pixel has on 1:21:33.600 --> 1:21:36.120 its own app, so you want okay. I think the 1:21:36.240 --> 1:21:38.599 easiest way to do this would maybe be to download 1:21:38.680 --> 1:21:41.679 Google Photos and let it upload all of the pictures. 1:21:41.680 --> 1:21:43.679 Do you have more than like fifteen gigs of pictures? 1:21:44.400 --> 1:21:44.559 Oh? 1:21:44.680 --> 1:21:46.160 I don't know how much I have. I could look 1:21:46.160 --> 1:21:48.679 it up, but you said no more than fifteen gigs? 1:21:48.920 --> 1:21:49.120 Yeah? 1:21:49.160 --> 1:21:51.240 Are they all an eye cloud or are they actually 1:21:51.360 --> 1:21:54.719 on the phone on the phone. Okay, that's that's actually easier. 1:21:54.920 --> 1:21:57.400 So I mean there's look, there are so many ways 1:21:57.479 --> 1:21:59.519 you can do this. There are many many ways. And 1:21:59.680 --> 1:22:02.160 what may you transfer from iPhone to Android? 1:22:02.640 --> 1:22:05.759 Well, we it was a better price right for the service. 1:22:05.840 --> 1:22:08.519 And I really got to like my iPhone because I'd 1:22:08.520 --> 1:22:11.439 always been an Android user. And then I got someone 1:22:11.560 --> 1:22:14.920 gave me this, My dad gave me this iPhone thirteen, 1:22:14.960 --> 1:22:17.880 and I really came to like it. But then the 1:22:18.280 --> 1:22:20.240 T Mobile just it was not a good price. So 1:22:20.320 --> 1:22:22.360 then when we switched, they, of course the mobile or 1:22:22.439 --> 1:22:25.320 Efinity tells you, oh yeah, everything is super easy. And 1:22:25.439 --> 1:22:27.920 here we'll give you this free Android and they didn't 1:22:27.920 --> 1:22:30.560 have any deals on the iPhone, so I said, okay, 1:22:30.640 --> 1:22:33.599 well I'll switch. And then it's been this and I'm 1:22:33.680 --> 1:22:36.240 sad because you know, people ask, oh, what about this 1:22:36.400 --> 1:22:37.680 or whatever? I want to look at a photo and 1:22:37.720 --> 1:22:38.559 I can't, you know what I mean? 1:22:38.920 --> 1:22:42.080 Okay, Well, I think the easiest way is going to 1:22:42.200 --> 1:22:47.719 be to just basically install Google Photos on your old phone. 1:22:48.160 --> 1:22:50.479 Let it upload all of your pictures and then they 1:22:50.479 --> 1:22:52.679 will all be on Google Photos on your new phone. 1:22:52.720 --> 1:22:55.360 I think that's the best way to do it. Jacqueline, Okay, 1:22:55.439 --> 1:22:57.160 and at least you can have them there. I got 1:22:57.280 --> 1:22:59.960 to think more about the way you do this. Tipic 1:23:00.360 --> 1:23:02.960 is during the setup of the phone, you would typically 1:23:03.080 --> 1:23:05.240 have it bring over all those photos. But unless you 1:23:05.360 --> 1:23:07.839 want to, unless you want to set up that Android 1:23:07.880 --> 1:23:09.920 phone all again and go through that process, which I 1:23:10.240 --> 1:23:13.719 probably don't recommend. But but that's really they they really 1:23:14.240 --> 1:23:16.439 missed the missed it when they did that. They should have. 1:23:16.680 --> 1:23:18.519 Yeah, they made me said, they did not help it. 1:23:18.600 --> 1:23:19.720 They just want to stay all right. 1:23:19.960 --> 1:23:23.559 Yeah, after that, that's not a very not a very 1:23:23.600 --> 1:23:27.080 good salesperson. Sadly, no, no, And I went back again, 1:23:27.160 --> 1:23:29.479 and they did, oh yeah, no. Once you're out of 1:23:29.520 --> 1:23:32.000 the store, they're like, we're done. We're done with you, Jacqueline. 1:23:32.080 --> 1:23:34.240 So install Google Photos on my iPhone. 1:23:34.360 --> 1:23:37.320 Yes, and then and then install it. Log in with 1:23:37.520 --> 1:23:40.880 your account, with your Google account, and then the same 1:23:40.920 --> 1:23:43.679 one that's on your Android phone. Let it upload everything. 1:23:43.720 --> 1:23:46.160 You may have to turn your phone the display settings 1:23:46.200 --> 1:23:49.639 to never so it doesn't it doesn't lock. Let everything upload. 1:23:49.760 --> 1:23:52.080 Keep the Google Photos app open. It will upload all 1:23:52.120 --> 1:23:54.320 those pictures that are on your iPhone and then when 1:23:54.320 --> 1:23:56.640 you open up Google Photos on your Android phone, they 1:23:56.640 --> 1:23:59.840 will all be in there in the cloud. And that's 1:24:00.000 --> 1:24:02.240 probably the easiest way to do it right now. I'll 1:24:02.280 --> 1:24:04.080 noodle this over during break and think if I think 1:24:04.080 --> 1:24:05.760 of a better way. But that's probably the best way 1:24:05.920 --> 1:24:08.360 right now. Thanks for the call, Jaqueline, You appreciate it. 1:24:09.160 --> 1:24:11.439 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:24:11.560 --> 1:24:15.479 four two four one zero one. This is rich on Tech. 1:24:20.479 --> 1:24:23.800 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 1:24:23.800 --> 1:24:27.719 out with you talking technology. The website rich on Tech 1:24:28.120 --> 1:24:31.800 dot tv. There you can get show notes, you can 1:24:31.920 --> 1:24:35.639 watch the segments I do for television. You can listen 1:24:35.760 --> 1:24:40.439 to past episodes of this show as a podcast. Check 1:24:40.479 --> 1:24:42.880 out the newsletter. There's a whole lot there. Rich on 1:24:43.160 --> 1:24:46.599 tech dot TV. This show is always such a journey. 1:24:46.640 --> 1:24:48.679 I mean, just think about how much we've done already. 1:24:48.760 --> 1:24:51.160 I mean, we've had great guests on, We've had my son, 1:24:51.320 --> 1:24:54.920 we've had callers, we've had emailers, we've had tweeters, all 1:24:55.080 --> 1:24:58.439 kinds of stuff. Let's go to Oh and we still 1:24:58.439 --> 1:25:02.200 have got coming up this hour. We've got Joel Santo 1:25:02.360 --> 1:25:06.880 Domingo of the Wirecutter, who's gonna break down mesh networking. 1:25:07.560 --> 1:25:10.200 So this is that I'd say it's new, but it's 1:25:10.200 --> 1:25:11.800 been around for a while now. But you know all 1:25:11.840 --> 1:25:14.960 these little better Wi Fi in your house basically how 1:25:15.000 --> 1:25:17.160 to get that or outside whatever you need. Let's go 1:25:17.200 --> 1:25:20.960 to Sergio in Azusa. Sergio, you're on with Rich. 1:25:21.880 --> 1:25:22.000 Hi. 1:25:22.160 --> 1:25:23.400 Rich, you got me right in the middle of a 1:25:23.479 --> 1:25:24.559 bike rest. 1:25:25.000 --> 1:25:26.960 Well, they come and ask how's your food? 1:25:27.040 --> 1:25:27.280 Thank you? 1:25:28.320 --> 1:25:31.040 Hey, Rich, I'm vision impaired. I have one eye that 1:25:31.120 --> 1:25:33.920 I can see somewhat, the other one I can't. And 1:25:34.160 --> 1:25:37.000 shout out to your vision impaired nation out during and 1:25:37.080 --> 1:25:38.439 I know you have a lot of callers. I hear 1:25:38.439 --> 1:25:43.160 a lot of good tips. I'm calling about the glasses 1:25:44.040 --> 1:25:48.640 that allow you to have AI and which are the 1:25:48.760 --> 1:25:52.320 better ones out there that you recommend. I'm also trying 1:25:52.400 --> 1:25:56.439 to see if your callers can send out any tips 1:25:56.520 --> 1:26:00.439 for you know, vision impaired accessibility places. 1:26:00.560 --> 1:26:02.240 And I appreciate everything you do. 1:26:02.560 --> 1:26:05.400 Oh thank you. Is this something new that that's happened 1:26:05.520 --> 1:26:06.800 or has this been ongoing? 1:26:08.040 --> 1:26:09.479 It's been about five years. 1:26:09.840 --> 1:26:10.000 OK. 1:26:11.080 --> 1:26:15.280 I wasn't really a tech head, but I used it 1:26:15.439 --> 1:26:19.960 and everything. I would get frustrated because things would renew 1:26:20.080 --> 1:26:21.840 before I had a chance to figure out how the 1:26:21.920 --> 1:26:25.519 old one worked, you know. And so I'm looking for 1:26:25.680 --> 1:26:29.400 some glasses that I've heard. Facebook has one. 1:26:29.520 --> 1:26:30.559 I heard there's another one. 1:26:30.479 --> 1:26:35.160 I think called in the Vision, and you know that 1:26:35.600 --> 1:26:36.559 I can, Like. 1:26:36.600 --> 1:26:40.400 I have children, I can read their papers or go 1:26:40.600 --> 1:26:42.360 through the mail. I just want to, like a lot 1:26:42.400 --> 1:26:44.920 of vision impaired people, you want to be You want 1:26:45.000 --> 1:26:46.880 to not have people depend on you. You want to 1:26:46.960 --> 1:26:50.760 do your independent stuff. And there's a lot of us 1:26:50.800 --> 1:26:53.760 out there and we appreciate everything you do for us. 1:26:53.920 --> 1:26:55.360 Yeah, you want to be able to do what you 1:26:55.439 --> 1:26:57.599 want to do and not have to always have someone 1:26:57.800 --> 1:27:01.400 helping you do that. That's what I'm understanding. I mean, 1:27:01.560 --> 1:27:04.559 so from what I've seen, and you know, I'm sure 1:27:04.600 --> 1:27:07.519 i'll get some messages from the community on this. I'm 1:27:07.520 --> 1:27:09.639 not an expert in this field, but from what I've 1:27:09.760 --> 1:27:13.400 seen at the I go to the Sea Sun Accessibility 1:27:14.280 --> 1:27:18.120 Tech Expo every year, and the glasses that I see there, 1:27:18.320 --> 1:27:24.240 you know, the specialized glasses are usually quite expensive. So 1:27:24.360 --> 1:27:28.040 you mentioned you mentioned the Envision glasses. Those look like 1:27:28.120 --> 1:27:31.360 Google glass. Those are twenty five hundred dollars, so that's 1:27:31.479 --> 1:27:33.320 you know, that's going to be a very expensive solution 1:27:33.479 --> 1:27:39.519 to things. There's another glasses called orecam My I three 1:27:39.840 --> 1:27:42.479 pro and I'm looking at those to see if I 1:27:42.520 --> 1:27:46.439 can find a price. Doesn't really it looks like you 1:27:46.520 --> 1:27:48.680 have to contact them. Let's see. Oh hold on, oh 1:27:48.720 --> 1:27:51.160 there we go. Yeah, those are forty two d and 1:27:51.280 --> 1:27:53.800 fifty dollars, so that's you know, those are very very 1:27:53.840 --> 1:27:57.280 expensive as well. And then there's another one I'm looking 1:27:57.320 --> 1:28:02.640 at Iris Vision. Look like they're using more kind of 1:28:02.720 --> 1:28:05.360 like a almost like a VR type headset for that. 1:28:05.960 --> 1:28:08.000 So I've seen a bunch of these. I did a 1:28:08.080 --> 1:28:10.200 story if you if you I'll link these up. But 1:28:10.280 --> 1:28:14.679 if you just type in ceasun Ktla DeMuro on Google 1:28:14.760 --> 1:28:17.680 you'll see my assistive tech coverage from last year and 1:28:17.720 --> 1:28:19.360 this year, where last year I did a lot more 1:28:19.400 --> 1:28:23.840 of the glasses in there. But you know, the thing, 1:28:24.000 --> 1:28:27.120 my takeaway is that these are very expensive, and I 1:28:27.280 --> 1:28:31.040 think that's why so many people are turning to the 1:28:31.160 --> 1:28:35.240 ray band metas just for everyday help. And you've got 1:28:35.280 --> 1:28:38.599 the AI built in, you've got the picture functionality. They're 1:28:38.640 --> 1:28:42.240 three hundred and fifty dollars, so at the very least, Sergio, 1:28:42.439 --> 1:28:45.479 I mean, they're worth a try. I'm not sure, you know, 1:28:45.600 --> 1:28:47.760 depending on what you want to do with them. You 1:28:47.840 --> 1:28:50.439 know what the functionality is. You know, it may it 1:28:50.479 --> 1:28:52.200 may vary. It may you may say, well it works 1:28:52.240 --> 1:28:54.040 for this, but it doesn't work for that. But the 1:28:54.160 --> 1:28:57.240 things that we kind of had a show maybe last 1:28:57.320 --> 1:29:00.040 year talking about these things when I tested them, and 1:29:00.160 --> 1:29:03.240 people just kept calling and saying all the ways they 1:29:03.400 --> 1:29:06.960 found to use these anything from taking a picture of 1:29:07.040 --> 1:29:09.559 the back of a product to say and say asking 1:29:09.640 --> 1:29:11.880 it how do I microwave this? Or what's the instructions? 1:29:11.920 --> 1:29:14.040 Say here it'll do. I mean, it can do some 1:29:14.120 --> 1:29:17.439 pretty incredible things, all right. So some of the things 1:29:17.560 --> 1:29:21.360 last year that I saw at the at the show 1:29:21.880 --> 1:29:25.360 a company called Site so E Site I wear. That's 1:29:25.400 --> 1:29:29.040 another specialized Oh this actually saw twice. I saw this 1:29:29.120 --> 1:29:32.599 at CES as well. So E Site they have glasses 1:29:32.640 --> 1:29:35.439 as well, but again, you know, very expensive and so 1:29:35.880 --> 1:29:37.479 if you want to invest that kind of money just 1:29:37.560 --> 1:29:39.920 to try something, it could be you know, it could 1:29:39.920 --> 1:29:41.599 be a letdown if they don't do the things you need. 1:29:43.120 --> 1:29:45.080 Envision we did see those as well. The other one 1:29:45.200 --> 1:29:50.559 is ocapp Oko. This helps you navigate streets using your iPhone. 1:29:51.080 --> 1:29:53.960 But Sergio, I try the ray bands for starters. Good 1:29:54.040 --> 1:29:57.400 question and some of those emails with your suggestions. Next up, 1:29:57.520 --> 1:30:07.479 why find networking? Right here, I'm rich on Tech. Welcome 1:30:07.560 --> 1:30:09.760 back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 1:30:09.800 --> 1:30:14.160 with you talking technology. Joining me now Joel Santo Domingo 1:30:14.360 --> 1:30:19.400 of The Wirecutter to talk about mesh networking. Joel, thanks 1:30:19.439 --> 1:30:23.639 for joining me, Thanks for having me. So mesh networking 1:30:23.800 --> 1:30:26.479 been around for a while now, you know, at least 1:30:26.560 --> 1:30:29.439 ten years I think since Ero came on the scene. 1:30:30.720 --> 1:30:33.639 What does that mean exactly? Like, what improvement did that bring? 1:30:34.479 --> 1:30:34.599 Well? 1:30:34.680 --> 1:30:38.360 Mesh networking is basically with the traditional Wi Fi setup, 1:30:38.360 --> 1:30:41.160 you've got your router and a cable modem or a 1:30:41.240 --> 1:30:43.679 combination of the two, which is usually called the gateway, 1:30:44.040 --> 1:30:46.800 and that provides your Wi Fi in your house. Mesh 1:30:46.880 --> 1:30:50.960 network will Mesh networking will multiply that. You'll get several 1:30:51.080 --> 1:30:54.800 routers either two, three, four routers in a box. You 1:30:54.920 --> 1:30:58.000 set it up, and what that does is it will 1:30:58.840 --> 1:31:01.519 eliminate dead ze zones in your house. So if you 1:31:01.640 --> 1:31:04.519 got a room, say your garage, and you want to 1:31:04.560 --> 1:31:06.680 put a you know, a smart speaker in there and 1:31:06.800 --> 1:31:10.679 it doesn't quite work, if you have mesh networking, it'll 1:31:10.920 --> 1:31:14.840 extend the signal, the Wi Fi signal to other parts 1:31:14.880 --> 1:31:15.320 of your house. 1:31:15.920 --> 1:31:18.200 Now, there's been extenders in the past, right, like a 1:31:18.320 --> 1:31:20.679 range extender, and those just took like a bad signal 1:31:20.760 --> 1:31:23.559 and pushed it further into the corners of your home. 1:31:23.720 --> 1:31:25.599 Is this the same thing or is this actually take 1:31:25.680 --> 1:31:27.679 the same signal and put it in all the corners. 1:31:28.240 --> 1:31:31.560 It takes a signal, it amplifies the signal, and it 1:31:31.720 --> 1:31:35.559 routes the signal basically, so if you have an extender, 1:31:35.640 --> 1:31:39.639 it just repeats the signal and that'll work for one 1:31:39.720 --> 1:31:42.000 room in your house. But if you have you know, 1:31:42.120 --> 1:31:44.600 a wing of your house, or if you have a 1:31:44.920 --> 1:31:47.960 house that large, or if you have several rooms in 1:31:48.040 --> 1:31:51.880 your house that are pretty much unserved by your router, 1:31:52.960 --> 1:31:54.320 a mesh network can help. 1:31:54.520 --> 1:31:56.800 Okay, So that's how you know, Like basically, if your 1:31:56.880 --> 1:31:59.640 cable company or whoever, your internet provider, whatever they gave you, 1:32:00.120 --> 1:32:02.559 if it's not really working in every corner of your home, 1:32:02.640 --> 1:32:06.160 that's when it's time to upgrade to the mesh pretty much. Okay, 1:32:07.160 --> 1:32:10.360 So what about all these different terms we've got right now, 1:32:10.520 --> 1:32:12.920 You've got Wi Fi six, you've got six E, you've 1:32:12.960 --> 1:32:15.760 got seven. Do we need to jump on board with 1:32:15.880 --> 1:32:16.320 all of those? 1:32:17.040 --> 1:32:19.720 Those are the different generations. Ninety nine percent of the 1:32:19.720 --> 1:32:21.400 stuff that you have in your house is either be 1:32:21.560 --> 1:32:24.519 Wi Fi five or six, which have both been around 1:32:24.600 --> 1:32:29.240 for a while, but they're solidly work. Six E extends 1:32:29.320 --> 1:32:32.800 it a little bit, extends it too, slightly faster if 1:32:32.840 --> 1:32:35.000 you're in the same room as a router, and Wi 1:32:35.080 --> 1:32:38.400 Fi seven will help if you have a lot of devices, 1:32:38.880 --> 1:32:41.280 or if you have neighbors who have a lot of devices. 1:32:41.600 --> 1:32:43.920 For example, it sounds like I need to upgrade to 1:32:44.000 --> 1:32:45.839 Wi Fi seven. I've got a lot of devices. 1:32:46.600 --> 1:32:50.320 It's not a must do right now, but probably in 1:32:50.360 --> 1:32:52.400 the next two years. You probably want to be on 1:32:52.479 --> 1:32:53.120 Wi Fi seven. 1:32:53.280 --> 1:32:55.960 But doesn't my device have to support Wi Fi seven 1:32:56.080 --> 1:32:57.960 for it to take advantage of that network? 1:32:58.120 --> 1:33:00.720 Yeah, that's the rub. You really have to have your 1:33:00.800 --> 1:33:03.120 laptop on Wi Fi seven and your phone on Wi 1:33:03.200 --> 1:33:06.000 Fi seven to make it makes sense for you to 1:33:06.280 --> 1:33:06.760 put it in. 1:33:08.160 --> 1:33:10.000 And so you test these things out. What are you 1:33:10.040 --> 1:33:11.960 looking for in your tests? You test these things for 1:33:12.000 --> 1:33:13.519 the wirecutter, what are you what are you looking for 1:33:13.640 --> 1:33:15.400 when you test these mesh networks out? 1:33:16.080 --> 1:33:18.360 You know, first of all, I'm looking for them to work. 1:33:19.000 --> 1:33:21.280 Some of them work really well, some of them don't. 1:33:22.200 --> 1:33:25.519 I rent a house to actually check it out. It's 1:33:25.880 --> 1:33:29.639 larger than the house I currently live in, lots of walls, 1:33:29.880 --> 1:33:35.240 lots of rooms. Basically, if you're your signal from your router, 1:33:36.320 --> 1:33:38.759 if it goes through more than two or three walls 1:33:39.840 --> 1:33:43.599 and ceilings count as walls or Flora's count as walls. 1:33:43.960 --> 1:33:46.840 If it goes through two or three walls, you probably 1:33:46.880 --> 1:33:48.840 want to have a mesh network to help repeat that 1:33:49.000 --> 1:33:50.280 signal around your house. 1:33:51.320 --> 1:33:53.360 And what about let's say you don't want to upgrade, 1:33:53.400 --> 1:33:55.559 I mean, what about just like some tips for where 1:33:55.600 --> 1:33:59.640 to place your you know, your system that puts out 1:33:59.640 --> 1:34:02.120 the wife, like your router. I guess so most of 1:34:02.160 --> 1:34:03.920 the routers are like kind of also, they spit out 1:34:03.920 --> 1:34:06.080 the Wi Fi signal, Right, is that kind of the case? 1:34:06.520 --> 1:34:08.600 Yeah, pretty much all the routers spit out the Wi 1:34:08.720 --> 1:34:11.280 Fi signal. It's either gonna be a round box or 1:34:11.280 --> 1:34:14.200 a square box or a box. Then ten is on it. 1:34:15.360 --> 1:34:18.680 The most important thing is to not hide it in 1:34:19.040 --> 1:34:23.760 a closet or a cabinet or something like that. You 1:34:23.880 --> 1:34:27.920 really want it up high and you want it out 1:34:28.000 --> 1:34:31.080 in the open because Wi Fi signals don't like to 1:34:31.160 --> 1:34:35.479 be blocked by things like wood or metal. Another thing 1:34:35.640 --> 1:34:37.360 is you want to put it in the center of 1:34:37.400 --> 1:34:39.639 your house or close to the center of your house 1:34:39.720 --> 1:34:43.160 as possible. I know that's not always case. That's not 1:34:43.240 --> 1:34:45.720 always possible. Like my router is on the end of 1:34:45.760 --> 1:34:48.280 my house because that's where the where the internet comes in, 1:34:48.400 --> 1:34:54.519 the cable comes in. But up high, centrally located, that's 1:34:54.680 --> 1:34:56.200 really where you want your router. 1:34:56.479 --> 1:34:58.400 So you're telling me that, like when people walk into 1:34:58.439 --> 1:35:00.439 my home, the centerpiece of my home should be my 1:35:00.560 --> 1:35:04.639 WiFi router. Like, hey, this is welcome to my home. 1:35:04.760 --> 1:35:05.639 Here's my WiFi. 1:35:06.520 --> 1:35:09.200 Well that's if you want a good signal everywhere, you 1:35:09.320 --> 1:35:12.439 do want it up up high. You can buy routers 1:35:12.520 --> 1:35:15.719 like the Euro that you mentioned earlier. It's a small router, 1:35:16.040 --> 1:35:20.400 so it's small white box. It shouldn't be too obtrusive. 1:35:20.880 --> 1:35:23.040 Okay, So let's talk about some of these brands. What 1:35:23.160 --> 1:35:25.400 are some of the best brands that you're seeing right now? 1:35:25.520 --> 1:35:27.519 Like I mean, I always mentioned, I always recommend Euro. 1:35:27.920 --> 1:35:31.000 It's been pretty solid for me over the years. What 1:35:31.120 --> 1:35:32.920 else you know? You've got Euro? How are they doing? 1:35:33.000 --> 1:35:34.760 And what are some of the other brands that you like? 1:35:35.400 --> 1:35:36.120 I agree with you. 1:35:36.520 --> 1:35:39.080 Our top pick is the Euro six right now, and 1:35:39.320 --> 1:35:41.560 I've just gone through a round of testing with the 1:35:41.760 --> 1:35:44.519 Euro seven and that's going to be my new pick 1:35:45.160 --> 1:35:50.160 very soon. I think it's got some improvements. It's a 1:35:50.200 --> 1:35:53.840 little more expensive, but it's pretty good. It's pretty solid, 1:35:53.960 --> 1:35:55.800 it's easy to set up. It only took me about 1:35:55.840 --> 1:35:57.640 five to ten minutes to set up. I do it 1:35:57.720 --> 1:36:02.640 for a living, but I can see someone who is 1:36:02.680 --> 1:36:06.200 a novice taking maybe twenty minutes set this up. 1:36:06.800 --> 1:36:09.400 Now, here's I always give out this tip where because 1:36:09.400 --> 1:36:11.840 I made this mistake once I changed my Wi Fi 1:36:12.040 --> 1:36:15.479 router and I used a different password and all my 1:36:15.600 --> 1:36:17.920 stuff I had to reset up. So I've been saying 1:36:18.000 --> 1:36:19.720 since then, like, hey, if you're getting a new router, 1:36:19.880 --> 1:36:22.639 like just use your old Wi Fi username and password. 1:36:23.240 --> 1:36:25.799 Is that a problem or is that kind of worll? Absolutely? 1:36:26.000 --> 1:36:29.000 That's that's my top tip for setting up a new 1:36:30.040 --> 1:36:34.040 Wi Fi router or mesh system. If you have you know, 1:36:34.400 --> 1:36:38.160 a dozen things or two dozen things, set up speakers, 1:36:38.360 --> 1:36:42.639 a streaming box, your phones, just use the old password 1:36:42.800 --> 1:36:46.280 and the old network name and everything will hook right 1:36:46.439 --> 1:36:47.559 up to it right away. 1:36:47.920 --> 1:36:50.439 Okay. Any other brands besides euro that you like that 1:36:50.520 --> 1:36:51.680 are doing good stuff. 1:36:52.160 --> 1:36:55.599 TP Link, tp Link Deco, Mesh systems are pretty good. 1:36:55.600 --> 1:36:59.000 Our upgrade pick is the tp link Deco BE sixty three. 1:36:59.640 --> 1:37:01.519 It's for people who need a little more, a little 1:37:01.560 --> 1:37:07.000 more performance, more connections. There are two there are two 1:37:07.120 --> 1:37:11.000 boxes or two routers in the kIPS. If you put 1:37:11.040 --> 1:37:14.120 the other box in your office, for example, you can 1:37:14.400 --> 1:37:17.240 plug your laptop right into the box and you have 1:37:17.479 --> 1:37:21.080 a virtually wired wired signal, which is usually more stable. 1:37:21.320 --> 1:37:23.760 Okay, but well, how much longer do we have on 1:37:23.880 --> 1:37:26.840 this format? Okay, I'm gonna we never do this, but 1:37:26.880 --> 1:37:28.160 I'm gonna. I'm gonna put you on the spot. We 1:37:28.240 --> 1:37:31.160 got a caller, Chris and Florida who wants to know 1:37:32.080 --> 1:37:34.759 what to get. Chris, can you explain your situation quickly 1:37:34.960 --> 1:37:35.639 for Joel? 1:37:37.200 --> 1:37:41.719 Yeah, Hi Joel, Chris, Miami, thanks for us. Yeah, fifteen 1:37:41.760 --> 1:37:45.000 living in Miami, living a condo fifteen hundred square feet 1:37:45.560 --> 1:37:49.240 and it's like very quiet. It's not like that new 1:37:49.280 --> 1:37:51.600 prefab condo, so it's super quiet. So the walls are 1:37:51.680 --> 1:37:55.040 kind of thick, and we have the regular original Wi 1:37:55.120 --> 1:37:57.519 Fi by Google and slow. 1:37:58.439 --> 1:37:59.280 We have to have two. 1:37:59.320 --> 1:38:02.439 If I have one, doesn't go very far. I guess 1:38:02.520 --> 1:38:04.960 now I'm looking at Maybe Euro seven would be nice, 1:38:05.400 --> 1:38:09.320 a little pricey, but future proof. Maybe eero maybe six 1:38:09.439 --> 1:38:12.400 plus with I don't want to just say just one room, 1:38:12.479 --> 1:38:17.560 but maybe extend out over the entire square footage kitchen, bathrooms, 1:38:17.640 --> 1:38:20.400 dining room, living room area. What would you suggest? Thank 1:38:20.439 --> 1:38:21.519 you so much for taking my question. 1:38:22.240 --> 1:38:25.840 Sure, are you going to be worrying about a backyard 1:38:26.160 --> 1:38:27.880 or a garage or anything like that. 1:38:28.680 --> 1:38:30.920 No, No, I'm on the sixt floor corner pocket. 1:38:31.040 --> 1:38:34.920 Yeah, sure, I would probably suggest an euro seven a 1:38:35.000 --> 1:38:37.760 two pack or maybe a three pack, but probably two 1:38:37.840 --> 1:38:42.200 pack that I just recently tested one and it covered 1:38:42.400 --> 1:38:45.720 a thirty two hundred square flashed house, multiple rooms in it. 1:38:46.120 --> 1:38:49.080 Now, the other side of this is the price. So 1:38:49.479 --> 1:38:53.000 the Euro seven right now is actually on sale, and 1:38:53.120 --> 1:38:55.200 this is it's four hundred and seventy nine dollars. That 1:38:55.280 --> 1:38:55.920 sound about right. 1:38:58.320 --> 1:39:01.840 The Euro seven I see on Amazon right this second 1:39:02.200 --> 1:39:04.320 is the two pack that I recommend. It is two 1:39:04.400 --> 1:39:07.280 seventy nine ninety nine. Oh okay, and three pack is 1:39:07.360 --> 1:39:08.960 three forty nine ninety nine, so. 1:39:10.400 --> 1:39:13.120 Okay, so there must be okay, So there's a different level. 1:39:13.160 --> 1:39:15.719 I see, there's different levels of the of the seven. Okay. 1:39:15.920 --> 1:39:17.640 And what do you think about these outdoor you know 1:39:17.720 --> 1:39:20.320 the Eero has like that outdoor extender. What do you 1:39:20.360 --> 1:39:20.760 think about that? 1:39:22.040 --> 1:39:26.439 It's very interesting, it's it's weather proofd Apparently I'm going 1:39:26.520 --> 1:39:30.040 to be testing it out sometime this year alongside a 1:39:30.120 --> 1:39:35.160 tp link competitor. It looks really cool. You can just 1:39:35.200 --> 1:39:37.720 plug it in and it'll cook right up to your 1:39:37.880 --> 1:39:41.160 eurosystem or your tp link system and extend it out 1:39:41.200 --> 1:39:42.479 to a backy order patio. 1:39:43.479 --> 1:39:46.679 See got it? Okay? Okay? So I see there's Eero 1:39:46.880 --> 1:39:50.400 seven and then Eero seven, euro Pro seven, So there 1:39:50.479 --> 1:39:52.679 you go. There's a little bit of a delineation there. 1:39:53.000 --> 1:39:55.000 Oh my gosh, when you look, I see how confusing 1:39:55.080 --> 1:39:57.200 this is for the average consumer. When you go on Amazon, 1:39:57.600 --> 1:40:00.280 you've got Eero Eero six, Eero six Plus, Ero six, 1:40:00.600 --> 1:40:04.240 Eero Pro six, ee Eero Mac seven, Outdoor seven, Eero seven, 1:40:04.520 --> 1:40:07.400 Eero Pro seven. Oh my gosh. Just go to Wirecutter. 1:40:07.520 --> 1:40:09.880 Check out what Joel has to say. He's got it 1:40:09.920 --> 1:40:12.439 all linked up there. Joel Santo Domingo, thanks so much 1:40:12.479 --> 1:40:13.280 for joining me today. 1:40:14.120 --> 1:40:14.840 Thanks for having me. 1:40:15.160 --> 1:40:19.840 Really appreciate it. Good information. Gotta have good WiFi, bottom line, 1:40:20.040 --> 1:40:22.240 gotta have good WiFi. If you don't have good WiFi, 1:40:22.840 --> 1:40:24.600 what do we have in this world. I don't know. 1:40:25.240 --> 1:40:27.960 In my house, if the Wi Fi is down, you 1:40:28.080 --> 1:40:30.920 can't do anything. It is all run by Wi Fi. 1:40:31.800 --> 1:40:34.080 All right, Coming up, I almost gave the number out. 1:40:34.120 --> 1:40:36.320 We're gonna do the feedbag. We've got lots of emails 1:40:36.360 --> 1:40:37.760 that you sent me throughout the week. We'll get to 1:40:37.840 --> 1:40:50.679 those coming up next. Perfect song for spring Break. Welcome 1:40:50.760 --> 1:40:53.080 back to the show. We got a lot to get through, 1:40:53.600 --> 1:40:55.639 so let me just get right into it a couple 1:40:55.720 --> 1:41:00.320 of news tidbits before we get to the feedbag. If 1:41:00.360 --> 1:41:03.840 you live in La, the my La three one one 1:41:03.920 --> 1:41:07.240 app got a major makeover. This is an excellent app 1:41:07.320 --> 1:41:10.200 that helps you put in requests to the city like 1:41:10.280 --> 1:41:14.760 graffiti removal, bulky item pickup, pothole repairs, and much more. 1:41:15.240 --> 1:41:15.280 So. 1:41:15.760 --> 1:41:18.320 They basically got image recognition now, which is really nice. 1:41:18.320 --> 1:41:21.599 They just revamped the whole thing. So my La three 1:41:21.640 --> 1:41:24.720 to one one available in Apple App Store, Google Play. 1:41:24.800 --> 1:41:27.519 If you don't live in La. No matter where you live, 1:41:27.640 --> 1:41:31.000 if your city offers an app like this a city 1:41:31.080 --> 1:41:34.880 services app, definitely download it. It is so quick. I 1:41:35.040 --> 1:41:37.639 literally report when people just put their bulky stuff out 1:41:37.680 --> 1:41:40.000 on the curb on my street. I'm like, the city's 1:41:40.040 --> 1:41:41.680 not just going to come and pick that up. I 1:41:41.840 --> 1:41:43.960 report it. Boom, It's out of there like the next day. 1:41:44.240 --> 1:41:47.080 It's really really fantastic, so saves you a phone call. 1:41:48.000 --> 1:41:51.080 Roadblocks just launched three new parntal controls, so if your 1:41:51.160 --> 1:41:55.000 kids play Roadblocks, parents can now block specific games from 1:41:55.040 --> 1:41:58.240 their kids account. They can block individual users from the 1:41:58.640 --> 1:42:01.680 contacting their kids, including the friends I mean obviously if 1:42:01.720 --> 1:42:04.479 they don't want to talk to them. You can also 1:42:04.560 --> 1:42:07.680 see which games your kid plays the most. So this 1:42:07.880 --> 1:42:10.120 is in the Roadblock Safety Center. You do have to 1:42:10.160 --> 1:42:13.560 have an account for roadblocks and you link that to 1:42:13.600 --> 1:42:17.280 your kid's account. But three helpful things. There been talking 1:42:17.320 --> 1:42:19.479 about this little gadget. Really like it. It's called the 1:42:19.560 --> 1:42:22.519 twelve South airfly Pro two. We've been talking a lot 1:42:22.520 --> 1:42:25.280 about travel. They just launched the new version of this 1:42:25.360 --> 1:42:28.679 little dongle that basically lets you use your own wireless 1:42:28.760 --> 1:42:31.960 headphones on planes. So you take this Bluetooth dongle, you 1:42:32.120 --> 1:42:35.000 plug it into any headphone jack. Most of the time 1:42:35.040 --> 1:42:37.599 people are using this on planes with the seatback entertainment, 1:42:37.880 --> 1:42:40.200 but you can use it in an older car gym equipment, 1:42:40.400 --> 1:42:44.080 game consoles, and it basically allows you to use your 1:42:44.400 --> 1:42:49.639 high quality bluetooth headphones with the seatback entertainment. It's sixty bucks. 1:42:50.120 --> 1:42:54.519 It's brand new, upgraded, it's got USBC now, longer battery life. 1:42:54.600 --> 1:42:57.960 You can connect two headsets, two people can listen at once. Anyway, 1:42:58.000 --> 1:43:00.160 if you are a traveler, this is something to have 1:43:00.400 --> 1:43:04.040 in your travel bag. Sixty dollars well worth it for 1:43:04.120 --> 1:43:07.559 the higher quality. I call this in between technology because yes, 1:43:07.640 --> 1:43:12.040 airplanes are upgrading to Bluetooth to connect your headphones directly, 1:43:12.120 --> 1:43:14.599 but not all of them have that. And then Verizon 1:43:14.680 --> 1:43:17.360 right now is advertising this three year price lock, which 1:43:17.439 --> 1:43:20.559 is nice no price increases on the core monthly price 1:43:20.640 --> 1:43:23.120 plan for the next three years. Obviously doesn't include the 1:43:23.200 --> 1:43:26.040 taxes or the fees that they add on, but they're 1:43:26.040 --> 1:43:29.200 also offering a free phone with trade in, even to 1:43:30.040 --> 1:43:33.840 existing customers. So let me just do the math for you. 1:43:34.439 --> 1:43:37.240 If you're on the unlimited Welcome Plan sixty five dollars 1:43:37.280 --> 1:43:40.400 a month with AutoPlay auto pay, you can get an 1:43:40.439 --> 1:43:43.320 iPhone sixteen E, a Galaxy S twenty four FE, or 1:43:43.400 --> 1:43:45.639 a Pixel nine A, basically an average of a six 1:43:45.760 --> 1:43:48.960 hundred dollars phone. But do the math. So if you 1:43:49.240 --> 1:43:51.519 signed up for Mint Mobile, which is only thirty dollars 1:43:51.560 --> 1:43:54.759 a month, you would save sixty five thirty five dollars 1:43:54.800 --> 1:43:58.000 a month times thirty six months. That's twelve hundred and 1:43:58.120 --> 1:44:01.639 sixty dollars saving versus Verizon, and minus the six hundred 1:44:01.640 --> 1:44:03.760 dollars phone that you're getting quote unquote free. That's still 1:44:03.920 --> 1:44:06.920 saving six hundred and sixty dollars over three years. Now, 1:44:07.000 --> 1:44:08.880 I get it. Math is hard, people, don't want to 1:44:08.920 --> 1:44:12.920 do math, But folks do the math please. You'll find that. 1:44:13.080 --> 1:44:15.200 I get it. It's called inertia. You want to just 1:44:15.240 --> 1:44:17.439 stick with what you have, you get it, but you're 1:44:17.479 --> 1:44:19.639 on the hook for thirty six months of paying more 1:44:20.280 --> 1:44:24.240 for something. So just just investigate all of your options 1:44:24.240 --> 1:44:25.680 if you're going to take advantage of this. I'm not 1:44:25.720 --> 1:44:28.920 going to fault you for doing the free phone through Verizon. 1:44:28.960 --> 1:44:32.639 I'm just saying it's not necessarily free. You are paying 1:44:32.760 --> 1:44:35.920 for it in the form of higher monthly costs with 1:44:36.080 --> 1:44:38.400 your plan, where you can get a plan that's much 1:44:38.439 --> 1:44:41.760 cheaper elsewhere. All right, we got so many emails this week, 1:44:41.760 --> 1:44:46.280 I don't even know where to start. James from Tustin 1:44:46.360 --> 1:44:50.040 writes in I was accidentally scammed twice by phony sweet 1:44:50.400 --> 1:44:53.519 sweepsteak scams online, once for one hundred twenty seven dollars, 1:44:53.560 --> 1:44:55.960 another for one hundred and forty one. I used a 1:44:56.040 --> 1:44:58.120 card issued by my bank. When I realized what I 1:44:58.160 --> 1:45:01.800 had done, I immediately reported them as unauthorized charges. They 1:45:01.880 --> 1:45:04.439 said they had to wait for the pending charge to finish. 1:45:04.479 --> 1:45:07.800 They did investigations on both and denied my refund saying 1:45:07.840 --> 1:45:11.000 they are authorized charges. Ugh, get a new credit card 1:45:11.720 --> 1:45:14.479 if your card, saying that get a new one because 1:45:14.640 --> 1:45:19.200 no way. Another scam. Steven and Santa Monica says, hey, rich, 1:45:19.240 --> 1:45:21.800 I got scammed after taking a survey that looked like 1:45:21.880 --> 1:45:24.799 it came from Triple A. I just renewed my membership, 1:45:24.880 --> 1:45:26.479 so I let my guard down. It seemed like a 1:45:26.560 --> 1:45:29.839 legit reward offer. The site showed two of my saved 1:45:29.920 --> 1:45:33.360 cards minus the CVV, and I added a third to 1:45:33.400 --> 1:45:36.400 complete the order. After submitting, I got a strange red 1:45:36.560 --> 1:45:40.080 error message and no confirmation. Soon after, my credit card 1:45:40.160 --> 1:45:42.720 company flagged one of the charges, two were legit, one 1:45:42.840 --> 1:45:44.759 was blocked. It all came from a weird email address, 1:45:45.240 --> 1:45:47.280 not the one the survey used. I ended up canceling 1:45:47.360 --> 1:45:50.640 the card. I also spotted similar email scams pretending to 1:45:50.680 --> 1:45:53.840 be from CVS and State Farm offering an emergency car 1:45:53.960 --> 1:45:56.400 kit with high end gear. Clearly too good to be true. 1:45:56.840 --> 1:45:59.920 Steven and Santa Monica listening on KFI, be careful out there, 1:46:01.400 --> 1:46:03.439 Linda and Huntington Beach says, I'm looking for a good 1:46:03.520 --> 1:46:06.719 iPhone camera adapter, something with zoom for my iPhone twelve 1:46:07.160 --> 1:46:10.040 to capture a full moon. I'd love to capture it 1:46:10.080 --> 1:46:13.479 with my phone. Any suggestions, Uh, probably not going to 1:46:13.520 --> 1:46:15.080 work very well. There are a couple of things you 1:46:15.080 --> 1:46:18.519 can get on Amazon that will do this. But if 1:46:18.560 --> 1:46:21.960 you're really serious about moon photography, there's a thing called 1:46:22.040 --> 1:46:24.920 Hestia that is very pricey. But if you just go 1:46:25.000 --> 1:46:30.280 on Amazon and look up basically capture Moon pictures iPhone, 1:46:30.400 --> 1:46:32.560 you're just like little cheap adapters you can buy that 1:46:32.640 --> 1:46:36.919 will magnify let's see here. Oh my gosh, so many emails. 1:46:37.120 --> 1:46:39.400 We had a bunch of people that called in saying 1:46:39.439 --> 1:46:42.320 how great Costco is to buy a chromebook. Tim writes in, 1:46:42.479 --> 1:46:45.360 for the caller who had minimal tech needs and never 1:46:45.479 --> 1:46:48.559 owned a computer, I'd strongly recommend a chromebook from Costco. 1:46:49.040 --> 1:46:52.080 I recently contacted Costco support and it was beyond excellent. 1:46:52.560 --> 1:46:55.320 A chromebook should cover everything he needs, mostly web browsing, 1:46:55.360 --> 1:46:58.280 and it's forgiving something goes wrong. You can easily reset 1:46:58.320 --> 1:47:00.840 the operating system. A macro PC might be too much, 1:47:01.280 --> 1:47:06.080 especially if an iPhone feels overwhelming. Great advice. Tim Janine 1:47:06.120 --> 1:47:09.479 in North Upland says Costco Concierge is wonderful for anything 1:47:09.520 --> 1:47:11.800 you buy there. Their tech support has always been able 1:47:11.880 --> 1:47:16.360 to help me. Janie Tony from New Jersey, my home state, 1:47:16.400 --> 1:47:18.479 writes in, I was hoping the segment with Mark Vino 1:47:18.920 --> 1:47:21.160 would have been longer. There are lots of people like 1:47:21.280 --> 1:47:24.360 me frustrated with Apple's iOS. It feels like every update 1:47:24.479 --> 1:47:28.000 fixes one thing but breaks several others. I've dealt with 1:47:28.160 --> 1:47:31.320 vertical lines, keyboard glitches, Wi Fi problems, you name it. Meanwhile, 1:47:31.360 --> 1:47:35.280 they keep focusing on gimmicks like Image Playground instead of reliability. 1:47:35.320 --> 1:47:38.080 And don't get me started on the Apple Intelligence rollout, 1:47:38.200 --> 1:47:41.559 promising features that aren't even coming until next year after 1:47:41.680 --> 1:47:44.560 hyping them for iPhone sixteen. We'll get Mark back on 1:47:44.640 --> 1:47:48.439 the show. Let's see what else. Oh my gosh, so 1:47:48.560 --> 1:47:51.600 many emails here. I was trying to find one to 1:47:51.720 --> 1:47:53.640 end the show, Bobo on a nice note, because you 1:47:53.640 --> 1:47:56.439 always said I end with the nicest ones. Here we go. 1:47:56.640 --> 1:47:59.759 Steve writes in, thanks to your podcast, I easily deleted 1:47:59.800 --> 1:48:04.960 my data and account from twenty three and may I 1:48:05.000 --> 1:48:06.920 know I had one more nice one? All right? That's 1:48:06.960 --> 1:48:08.320 going to do it for this show. Links to everything 1:48:08.360 --> 1:48:10.280 I mentioned on the website. Rich on tech dot tv. 1:48:10.720 --> 1:48:12.760 Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. Thanks to you, 1:48:13.000 --> 1:48:15.040 for listening. My name is rich Demiro. Talk to you 1:48:15.120 --> 1:48:15.519 real soon.