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Speaker 1: Chat GPT can now see and speak. Your Android phone

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Speaker 1: the new fitbit and Meta's new AR headset, plus your

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Speaker 2: What's going on.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, broadcasting

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Speaker 1: live from Los Angeles, coast to coast. This is where

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Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should

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Speaker 1: questions about technology. I believe that tech should be interesting, useful,

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Speaker 1: and of course fun. And now phone lines are open

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Speaker 1: like me in a closet, but no, there's an entire

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Speaker 1: team here. We've got Bobo on the board. Bobo say hi. Oh,

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Speaker 1: he can't Kim say hi. We got Kim on phones.

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Speaker 1: Kim say hi. Oh, she can't say hi either. We've

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Speaker 1: got Bill somewhere overseeing this whole operation.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's just me for the most part, but we

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Speaker 1: see the whole crowd is here. Email is also open.

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone fifteen pro give us some ideas on

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Speaker 1: how to best use that. And Wi Fi always a

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Speaker 1: Netgear to talk about our Wi Fi signal. I just

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Speaker 1: got back from New York City. I was there for

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Speaker 1: but it was pretty cool. Lots of tech folks in town.

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Speaker 1: So I've been spending about a week with the iPhone

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Speaker 2: Has my life changed? No, it is not.

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Speaker 1: It is exactly the same. In fact, this is kind

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Speaker 1: And Apple just acknowledge there are some issues with the

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Speaker 1: But of course for me, it's an opportunity to test

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Speaker 1: But it's fun for Instagram because you get to see

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Speaker 1: iPhone versus the new iPhone versus last year's iPhone. I've

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell tell you the iPhone. Look, it's one

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Speaker 1: But again that's why it's fun to compare these things.

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Speaker 1: A couple things I thought were interesting when I was

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Speaker 1: This is a hotel in New York City that has

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Speaker 1: a luggage robot. It's nothing new, but it's really cool

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Speaker 1: I said, oh my gosh, this is the luggage robot.

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Speaker 1: Accepted this robot and then when you want your luggage back,

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Speaker 1: then I went to Uniclo. They only have a handful

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Speaker 1: uh card. He goes, oh, use the self checkout. I said, what, Like,

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Speaker 1: pack of gum. Those three things were like seventeen dollars okay,

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Speaker 2: Yes, there we go. It's Rich on tech, not Michael

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Speaker 6: So yes, I do that, and I go to the

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Speaker 6: app store and it still doesn't It doesn't show in there.

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Speaker 6: When I go to the website for Opera, I try

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Speaker 6: to download it and it doesn't work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So so here's the deal. Uh, this is the

443
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Speaker 1: now you've got the Fire Max eleven.

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Speaker 6: Fire. No, this is the Kindle Fire ten plus.

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Speaker 1: Okay, ten plus? All right, Well either way, so you

446
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Speaker 1: got to get a decent tablet there. Now, the the

447
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Speaker 1: Amazon tablets are great, they have you know, they're they're well, okay,

448
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Speaker 1: I shouldn't say they're right. They are a good value.

449
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Speaker 1: And what people realize as soon as they get these

450
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Speaker 1: tablets is that they do not come with Google apps,

451
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Speaker 1: and they do not come with a proper app store.

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Speaker 1: It is the Amazon App Store. So every app that

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Speaker 1: you want to download to this device, you have to

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Speaker 1: go through Amazon. Now, it's kind of like Apple. They

455
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Speaker 1: do the same thing. You have to go through the

456
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Speaker 1: Apple App Store when you want to install something on

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Speaker 1: the iPhone. And that's fine because the app store has

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Speaker 1: every app known to mankind. Amazon's app store has a

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Speaker 1: lot of the popular ones, but a lot of stuff

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Speaker 1: is missing. You try to find Gmail, it's not in there.

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Speaker 1: You try to find Chrome, it's not there. You try

462
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Speaker 1: to find YouTube, it's not there. You have to use

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Speaker 1: web versions of these because the Amazon tablets do not

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Speaker 1: come with Google Play Services and they do not come

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Speaker 1: with the Google Play App Store. So where does that

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Speaker 1: leave you, Michael? When you want to install something like Opera,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit tricky. Now, if you're super nerdy

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Speaker 1: and techie, you would do a sideload of the Google

469
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Speaker 1: Play Services framework and you would install the Google Play Store.

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Speaker 1: That is really advanced, and there's tons of tutorials on

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Speaker 1: how to do it on YouTube. You can do that,

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Speaker 1: and you can try to do it, and it may

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Speaker 1: work and it may be fine, but precede at your

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Speaker 1: own caution. Now, what you're talking about is a little

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Speaker 1: bit easier, and what you need is called an APK,

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Speaker 1: and APK is the file that allows you to install

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Speaker 1: something on an Android device.

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Speaker 2: It's basically the software.

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Speaker 1: So if you're on a Windows computer, you may remember

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Speaker 1: that it is called an ex file that's like a

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Speaker 1: software program file from back in the day. Nowadays everything

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Speaker 1: goes through app stores, so we don't really see these

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Speaker 1: files as much anymore. But what you need to do

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Speaker 1: is get the APK of the Opera browser. Now, I

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Speaker 1: just went to the Opera website and if you search

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Speaker 1: Opera APK file on Google from your tablet, it should

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Speaker 1: bring you to what's called the Latest Opera Mini for Android,

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Speaker 1: and that's from the official You want to get this

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Speaker 1: from the official Opera website. You can get APKs from

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of websites, and the one that I

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Speaker 1: like is called apk mirror dot com. But you have

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Speaker 1: to remember they could be corrupt files, they could be untrusted,

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Speaker 1: so be very careful when you're installing an APK on

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Speaker 1: your device because if it's from an untrusted source, it

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Speaker 1: could do harm to your device. It could be a

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Speaker 1: security issue. So if you come from a trusted place

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Speaker 1: like APK Mirror, there's a better chance that things are

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Speaker 1: going to be okay, but you never know because it

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Speaker 1: can happen. And also when you're trying to download these things,

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Speaker 1: they could trick you. It may look like you're downloading

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Speaker 1: the APK and you're not, so as you can see,

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Speaker 1: you're stepping into a little bit of a of an

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Speaker 1: issue here because this is not as straightforward as you want.

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Speaker 1: But once you have that APK, you're on the right path, Michael.

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Speaker 1: You install from unknown sources, you allow that to happen,

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Speaker 1: click that toggle, and then you can go through and

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Speaker 1: install this on the device. So again, you open up

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Speaker 1: the Silk browser, which is the browser on there, search

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Speaker 1: for that Opera. I searched Opera APK file. It should

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Speaker 1: show up latest Opera Mini for Android, and then you

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Speaker 1: can download that and you should be able to run

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Speaker 1: it if you have installed from unknown sources, and that

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Speaker 1: should hopefully let you install it. It's not going to

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Speaker 1: be perfect. I mean, it's weird that Opera is not

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Speaker 1: available for the Fire Tablet. I would think they would

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Speaker 1: because they're available for so many different platforms. But again,

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Speaker 1: you do have to jump through some hoops to do this.

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Speaker 1: It's probably going to be fine if you get that

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Speaker 1: APK and get it in there and it should work.

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Speaker 2: But you never know.

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Speaker 1: Some of these apps, even though you get the APK,

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Speaker 1: it may actually require Google on the back end. That's

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Speaker 1: why it's called Google Play Services. A lot of these

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Speaker 1: apps run using the Google services. I know it's very techy,

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Speaker 1: it's very nerdy, but and I don't generally recommend that

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Speaker 1: the average person does that. But when I cover the

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Speaker 1: these things on KTLA and I talk about the fire tablets,

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Speaker 1: people email me all the time to say, Rich, why

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Speaker 1: do you not mention that you could just add sideload

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Speaker 1: apps or you can sideload the Google Play services. Well,

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Speaker 1: not every person that is of average tech knowledge is

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Speaker 1: going to be able to do that, and that's why

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily recommend doing that.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Michael.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate it, and hopefully you get it figured

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Speaker 1: out and email me if you do so. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: if you have an Android phone, it may look a

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Speaker 1: little different. A couple of things are changing on there.

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Speaker 1: Number one, if you have this like at a glance widget,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like that smart Google widget that tells

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Speaker 1: you your next appointment, or it tells you what the

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Speaker 1: weather's going to be, or when you're taking a flight,

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Speaker 1: it tells you that you have a flight. If you

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Speaker 1: don't have this installed in your phone, I highly recommend

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Speaker 1: you put it on your home screen and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you how to do that. So just press a hold

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Speaker 1: on your home screen and where it says widgets, go

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Speaker 1: to your widgets and scroll to where you see Google

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Speaker 1: and let's see, I'm going to Google. And it's called

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Speaker 1: Assistant at a Glance And you put that, you drag

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Speaker 1: that to your home screen and it's really cool because

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Speaker 1: it uses all these different things to tell you, you know,

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Speaker 1: your calendar and your your upcoming flights and all that stuff,

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Speaker 1: and so it's very very helpful. So I highly recommend

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Speaker 1: you do that. But they did just change it so

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Speaker 1: it looks completely different. And in fact, I was out

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Speaker 1: to dinner with my mom and I saw her phone.

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Speaker 1: I said, how did you get this before me?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It just showed up on my phone. So it's a

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Speaker 1: really cool widget. They did redesign it. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be getting some new AI smarts as well. So if

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Speaker 1: you see that new sort of pill shaped widget, it changed,

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Speaker 1: it transformed overnight. That's what it's all about. Google is

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Speaker 1: rolling out a new design for that widget, which has

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Speaker 1: not changed in probably five or six years, so it's

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Speaker 1: very very helpful. It's called the Google at a Glance widget.

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Speaker 2: Install it.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is if you use Google Photos, you'll

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Speaker 1: notice this has rolled out more widely. At the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the Google's Photos tab, it now says memories, and

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Speaker 1: so now you can relive all of your memories by

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Speaker 1: going to that bottom tab. If you don't see it

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Speaker 1: just yet, it'll say memories, and now you can scroll

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Speaker 1: through and it'll use AI to generate fun memories. You

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Speaker 1: may know these from the inside the app. At the

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Speaker 1: top it shows a bunch of memories, but now you

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Speaker 1: can access all of these at the bottom on a

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Speaker 1: new tab called memories, and you can name them, and

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Speaker 1: you can even use AI to help you suggest names.

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Speaker 1: So if it's like, you know, Rich's fun weekend at

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Speaker 1: the at you know, Santa Monica Beach or whatever, it'll

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Speaker 1: suggest titles for your memories. Or you know, your kid's

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Speaker 1: latest birthday party. So again, if you open up Google Photos,

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Speaker 1: you go to the bottom at that bottom tab, it'll

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Speaker 1: say now memories. And if you don't see this just yet,

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00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: you can try to update your Google Photos app and

588
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: make sure you have the latest Google Photos app and

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Speaker 1: it should show up there. But again, I'm just giving

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Speaker 1: you a heads up so you know that these things

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Speaker 1: are changing, and when they come up on your phone,

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Speaker 1: you don't say what happened? Why didn't do anything differently? No,

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Speaker 1: it's just Google chaining things. It happens all right, triple

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Speaker 1: eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two, four to one zero one. Give me a

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00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: call if you have a question about tech. You got

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00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: lots of folks on the line waiting to ask some questions.

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00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: I got lots of emails to answer as well. You

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Speaker 1: are doing something smart today. You're listening to Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology on X Reform, Tweeter says

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00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: that was the stupidest rant ever, bringing up that a

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Speaker 1: CEO doesn't have their companies app on their home screen

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Speaker 1: on their phone.

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Speaker 2: WGAF.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you what that stands for,

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00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: but you can figure it out. Who gives something well

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00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: reformed Tweeter, you know what?

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Speaker 2: Uh, you know? Good? Try it.

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Speaker 1: Try to run a company without your with being invested

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00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 1: in the app that you that you run. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm like I said, I didn't see it in person,

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00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: so it wasn't me. Let's go to Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Jack in Goldendale, Washington.

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Speaker 2: Jack, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 10: Hello, my friend, I'm old and I'm ignorant when it

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Speaker 10: comes to these phones.

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Speaker 8: Okay, I hope this.

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Speaker 10: Is a simple question. It probably is for you. I'm

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Speaker 10: getting tired of this old moto E so called smartphone,

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Speaker 10: and I want to get a new one. But I

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Speaker 10: was wondering, if I ordered one online, can I take

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Speaker 10: this in card out of this one and plug it

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Speaker 10: into the new one and it'll work.

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Speaker 1: Good question, and I will say yes, it will, but

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Speaker 1: with some caveats because most of the time, and I

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm swapping sims all the time because I

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00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: test phones. I've got a test SIM that I use

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Speaker 1: and I just pop it into a phone and boom,

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Speaker 1: it works. And I've been doing this for a decade

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Speaker 1: now and I have never, almost almost never ever had

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Speaker 1: an issue. And no, I don't call the company. I

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Speaker 1: don't call Verizon, I don't call AT and T. I

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Speaker 1: don't call T Mobile to say hey, I'm switching SIMS.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of the world has moved to eSIMs,

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Speaker 1: and most of the time it's easy to move an

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Speaker 1: eSIM as well. And in many ways you can actually

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Speaker 1: activate the phone yourself, even if it has an eSIM.

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00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: You can go to the website of your carrier and

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00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: just pop in the what's called the IMEI of your

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00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: phone and it will figure out what that phone is

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Speaker 1: and it will activate it and it will switch out

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Speaker 1: the service. But here is the caveat the caveat Jack,

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Speaker 1: is that not if you have an old, old SIM,

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Speaker 1: it may not be up to date. It may not

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Speaker 1: have the latest tech on that SIM to connect to

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Speaker 1: the newest network. So if you're going from this old

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Speaker 1: motive phone that may have been a four G phone

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Speaker 1: and you're going to a five G phone, you may

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Speaker 1: need a new SIM. Now, with that said, you can

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00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: probably just call your carrier and get one online and

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00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: they will send it to you, even if you purchase

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Speaker 1: this phone third party. So you can just say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting a new phone, I want to swap sims.

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Speaker 1: I just want to pop it into my new phone.

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Speaker 1: You know, will this old SIM work? And they'll probably

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Speaker 1: give you a little bit of a run around, because

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Speaker 1: ideally they probably want you to come into the source

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00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: they can upsell you on stuff. But if they don't,

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Speaker 1: they may say, oh, you know what, we're going to

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00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,959
Speaker 1: send you a new SIM. But Jack, I will tell

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Speaker 1: you I've done this a thousand times, and I've never

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Speaker 1: ever had an issue. The only thing is sometimes if

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Speaker 1: the phone doesn't automatically figure out the new network, that

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Speaker 1: could be an issue. Sometimes you have to restart the phone.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the phone, if it's an mv and O like

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Speaker 1: a Mint Mobile or some of these other carriers, third

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Speaker 1: party carriers, they may send what's called an APN to

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Speaker 1: your via text. And sometimes the phone is very easy

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00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: to install and do that. Sometimes it's not. But I

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Speaker 1: will tell you. I know I'm saying a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Bottom line, ninety nine point nine percent of the time,

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Speaker 1: it will just work. In fact, I did this two

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Speaker 1: days ago and it was just fine. You Just as

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Speaker 1: soon as you pop in the new SIM, the phone says, hey,

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Speaker 1: we recognize that you have new settings. Would you like

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Speaker 1: us to restart your phone? And you say yes, and

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Speaker 1: it should work. So that is my answer, Jack. I

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Speaker 1: think it's going to work just fine, and I think

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Speaker 1: you'll appreciate the new phone too, So thanks for calling

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Speaker 1: in today.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Phone lines are open at triple eight rich one oh

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. I got an email. This is really scary,

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Speaker 1: James wrote in on richon tech Dot TV and said,

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Speaker 1: my daughter and wife were scammed, and I have a

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Speaker 1: question about our WiFi. Unfortunately, my wife figured out as

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Speaker 1: a scam as it became too late. This guy had

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Speaker 1: my daughter download an app that allowed him to see

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Speaker 1: her on her iPhone. She thought she was talking to

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Speaker 1: apple Care about her cracked screen. Then he told her

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Speaker 1: that someone hacked her cash app and in order to

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Speaker 1: fix it, she needed to make a transaction in the

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Speaker 1: same amount, So she sent four thousand dollars to her mom,

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Speaker 1: who was then supposedly supposed to send the money back

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Speaker 1: with a cash app card to a number this guy

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Speaker 1: gave to my wife. By the way, my wife downloaded

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Speaker 1: the same app that allowed him to view her phone.

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Speaker 1: I don't know or use any of these kind of apps,

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Speaker 1: but I know Apple Care is not going to have

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Speaker 1: any idea what's going on with my money apps. My

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Speaker 1: daughter panicked. It's her first real adult situation to figure

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Speaker 1: out on her own. Yeah, very unfortunate, very unfortunate way

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Speaker 1: to figure this out. Question, Can this guy somehow corrupt

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Speaker 1: our Wi Fi system in the same home through my

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Speaker 1: wife's phone, which obviously has our Wi Fi password? My

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Speaker 1: daughter is a freshman in college. The only computer with

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Speaker 1: the app to access our router is my Mac computer,

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Speaker 1: which has turned off every night, and it was off

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Speaker 1: during this unfortunate session. By the way, I listened to

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00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: your Tech show on the way home from my bowling league,

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Speaker 1: and you've done a great job taken over the spot.

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Speaker 1: I hope you can help. I thought it was something

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Speaker 1: you might want to highlight on your show. Yes, oh, James,

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Speaker 1: this is horrible. So it wasn't clear if the guy

717
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Speaker 1: made out with the money through the cash app.

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Speaker 2: I hope he didn't.

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to the Wi Fi, so the

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Speaker 1: iPhone is actually pretty secure other than what just happened here. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you want to delete these screen sharing apps from the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what app they used, or maybe they

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Speaker 1: just used a built in FaceTime screen sharing feature, but

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Speaker 1: delete those off the iPhone. If he looked around the phone,

725
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: maybe he could have seen the Wi Fi password, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think he was able to do that on

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Speaker 1: the iPhone. To see a password for the Wi Fi,

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00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: you do have to use a face ID, and it's

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Speaker 1: not very clear on how to do that to begin with,

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Speaker 1: so I don't think he has access to your home WiFi,

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Speaker 1: And I know changing your home Wi Fi passcode would

732
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: be a nightmare because you know, any smart home things

733
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Speaker 1: you have on there would definitely have to be switched

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Speaker 1: as well. So I think you're okay, But I think

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Speaker 1: the lesson to learn here is do not give people

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Speaker 1: access to your stuff. Whether it's your phone, whether it's

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Speaker 1: your computer. Almost no third party, random person is going

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Speaker 1: to need access to those. Now, this is where it

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00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: gets complicated because when you go to your work and

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00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: they say and you say, hey, I have a problem

741
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: my computer, they say, okay, can you screen share your

742
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: computer to me? And someone remotely fixes your computer. So

743
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: you've been trained that that is the way that people

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00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: help us with our computers. But the scam artists know that,

745
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: and so they flip it on us and they do

746
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 1: the same thing. Do not call random numbers. Think before

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Speaker 1: you act. Please, these scam artists are scamming twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven. Do not send them money. Do not share

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Speaker 1: your screen. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome

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00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out

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00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 1: with you talking technology. Phone lines are open at triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich.

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Speaker 2: One oh one.

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. You can also go to the website rich

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00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV, hit the contact button and that

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00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: will send an email right to my inbox, no intermediaries,

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Speaker 1: right to me.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 1: I see him coming up on the show. Matthew Cassanelli.

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00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: He is the creator of the Shortcuts app on iPhone.

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Speaker 1: He's going to discuss what shortcuts are on the iPhone,

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Speaker 1: how they can help you, and also give us some

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Speaker 1: ideas on how to use the iPhone fifteen pros new

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Speaker 1: action button. Now, I will say the action button is

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Speaker 1: in a.

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00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 2: Not the best place for action. I'll be honest.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like an awkward place to reach for

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Speaker 1: a button, so it's not the fastest thing to use,

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Speaker 1: even though it's called the action button. I have a

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Speaker 1: feeling that Apple may change the location in a future

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Speaker 1: model what we'll see, well say, I could be wrong.

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Speaker 1: David Henry later on is going to join us. He

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Speaker 1: is with neck Gear. He's going to talk about Wi

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00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: Fi getting connected and you know all the terms you

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00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: need to know. James just texted me on Instagram. He said, hey,

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Speaker 1: Rich I'm listening on Oh I'm listening now. I used

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Speaker 1: I took Zipbear to Japan two weeks ago. No complaints

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00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: on the flight, the crew was happy. And then I

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Speaker 1: spoke and understood Japanese and the uniclosed store is, Oh,

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00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: it's Japanese.

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00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 2: Okay. I knew it was somewhere there. I didn't know

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00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: if it was Japanese though, but okay.

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Speaker 1: And he said he has used the self service checkout

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Speaker 1: at the de Lamo Mall in Torrents, so I guess

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Speaker 1: they have it there too.

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Speaker 2: I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I didn't need to go all the way to New

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Speaker 1: York City to try the self checkout at Uniclo. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening. James appreciate it, and I'm glad you

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00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: like Zipbear. I took it last year to Japan. It's

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00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: kind of like, I mean, it's like almost like a

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Speaker 1: Southwest airline to Japan. I know that's very oversimplifying, but

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a La cart very inexpensive fares

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00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: to Japan, but it's kind of like you just get

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Speaker 1: the seat and then everything else they charge you for.

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00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: I think even a glass of water, Like I think

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00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: water is like twenty yen or something. But it's very

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Speaker 1: high tech. You get free Wi fi's. It's a really

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00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: cool airline. So I had the opportunity they flew me

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Speaker 1: out on it last year and so I did like

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00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: a little reels about it. So a lot of people

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00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: when they've they've taken it, they've been talking to me

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00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: about it. Like Rich, I got my own experience on

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Speaker 1: this airline, so that was really cool and highly recommend it.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Paul. Paul is in Brea, California. Paul,

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Speaker 2: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for taking the call.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for calling that question.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, got a question regarding older tower computers. I've got

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Speaker 7: a few of them that have been hanging around for

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Speaker 7: a while. I've been afraid to get rid of them.

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Speaker 7: There's a place that just popped up at a shopping

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Speaker 7: center for this weekend only, So it's this is the

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Speaker 7: reason for the call. I don't know how sketchy this

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Speaker 7: could be if I take my electronics to a place

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Speaker 7: like that. Is there any concerns that I should have

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Speaker 7: with delivering that or is there any thing that I

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Speaker 7: should do prior to delivering those.

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Speaker 1: So these are old towers and they still have the

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Speaker 1: hard drives in them. Have you reformatted these hard drives?

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Speaker 1: Have you cleared out your personal info.

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Speaker 7: Nope, they're they're they're older stuff that has like years old.

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Speaker 7: But I'm sure there's there's information on it that is sensitive.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well it comes down to trust. So this company,

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Speaker 1: it's pop up. You know a lot of these companies

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Speaker 1: that do these kind of weekend collections, they will have

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Speaker 1: uh sort of like a bill of rights, you know,

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Speaker 1: what they're going to do with the data on there.

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Speaker 1: If it's a reputable company, they are going to clean

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Speaker 1: this stuff off and you know, not have anyone look

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Speaker 1: at it and not have anyone search the data, download

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Speaker 1: the data. And I think that's you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: running one of these companies, you're not sitting there downloading

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Speaker 1: all the stuff from the hard drive and you know,

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Speaker 1: looking through and trying to put it, you know, on

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Speaker 1: the web. But there's always a chance that that could happen.

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Speaker 1: So I understand the concern. I think that if it

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Speaker 1: was me personally, I would not bring these computers down

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Speaker 1: there with the data still on the hard drives. So

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Speaker 1: that leaves you with a couple of options. Number One,

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Speaker 1: you can remove the hard drives, get a screwdriver, open

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00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: up these towers, get the hard drives out, take them out,

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Speaker 1: hold on to them, and figure out what to do

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Speaker 1: with them in the future. You can either have a

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00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: friend you know, or if you know, if you're handy,

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00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: you can maybe drill a hole in them and get

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Speaker 1: rid of them that way. Or you can take them

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Speaker 1: to a recycling center that has a hard drive shredder,

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00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: and you can look that up on Google and see

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Speaker 1: if one near you has that, and it's it's a

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00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: pretty cool process. I've seen it happened, seen it happen,

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Speaker 1: so that's really neat.

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Speaker 2: The other thing you.

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Speaker 1: Can do is it sounds like you're probably not going

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Speaker 1: to be able to turn on these computers and get

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Speaker 1: them set up, especially if you're trying to do it

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Speaker 1: this weekend. But listener Dave emailed in and said that

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Speaker 1: the stuff he recommends to wipe the hard drives is

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00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: one called shred os, and so you can install that,

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00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: boot it up to that, and you can shred the

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00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: hard drive that way. But that's getting a little techy,

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00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: a little bit complicated, and so that's probably not your

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Speaker 1: first option. So what I would do is probably go

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Speaker 1: down to the area, see what they're what they say

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Speaker 1: when you talk to them, and ask them what their data,

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Speaker 1: what their data privacy kind of rules and regulations are.

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Speaker 1: I know that if you bring these things to something

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Speaker 1: like a Staples, something like a best Buy, they do

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Speaker 1: have rules in place that they say, look, we're going

871
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: to handle your data securely. We're going to handle these

872
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: drives securely, and we're not going to just have someone

873
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: look through these hard drives and find anything they can. Now, Paul,

874
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: you also said that these things are kind of old,

875
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 1: maybe there's not that much on them. I mean, really,

876
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: what you're thinking is you know, old photos, old documents,

877
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: tax paperwork, maybe your social Security numbers or date of birth,

878
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: driver's license, whatever. So if it has those things on them,

879
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: there's always a concern, and there is a real concern

880
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: that these could land in the wrong hands and someone

881
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: could do something with that data. Is it gonna happen?

882
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,919
Speaker 1: Probably not, But in today's day and age, you can't

883
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: be too safe. You can't be too secure, especially with data.

884
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: So what I would do is talk to them, see

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Speaker 1: what they say. If you get a good feeling, if

886
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: you feel like they're going to handle these in a

887
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: proper manner, go ahead, take them off your hands, get

888
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: them recycled. If you don't feel like that's the case,

889
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: then maybe perhaps bring them somewhere else.

890
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 2: There are places that do this every day. Staples is

891
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: one of them.

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00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: Assureon that's another company that will take them off your

893
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: hands for free, and best Buy, I know will take

894
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: them off your hands. I'm not sure it's free in

895
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: every state. I know in California maybe, but you just

896
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: have to be aware. But again, I'm glad that you're

897
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: thinking about this, because that's the real important thing is

898
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: just think about before you do this. Now, if you're bringing,

899
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Speaker 1: by the way, an Android phone, an iPhone, Windows computer,

900
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: or a modern Mac, they all have a system on

901
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: there built in to format that hard drive and get

902
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: your data off of that drive before you recycle it.

903
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,000
Speaker 1: So Android, you can go into the settings, you can

904
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Speaker 1: format that, it's called a factory reset. On iPhone, same

905
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: thing it's called under general under settings it's transfer or

906
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 1: reset iPhone. And then Windows also has a way to

907
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: do this, it's under the it's called reset this PC.

908
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: So it has a built in service to do that.

909
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: And sort of the Mac computers as long as it's

910
00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: a newer Mac computer. So with the modern stuff, it's

911
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,720
Speaker 1: very easy. It's these old computers we have laying around

912
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,240
Speaker 1: the house that make it a little tricky, especially the towers,

913
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: like you said that have these hard drives. But you know,

914
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: get a screwdriver, take out the hard drive, bring it

915
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: to a shredder. They'll probably charge you ten bucks to

916
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: shread that hard drive. You can watch it happen. That's

917
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: what I did. It was pretty cool. And yes, even

918
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Speaker 1: I have a couple of hard drives laying around the

919
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: house that need to be taken care of.

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00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 2: I've got to bring them to that place. I've mentioned

921
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Speaker 2: that before.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Paul, Triple eight rich one on

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four to

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Speaker 1: one zero one.

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Speaker 2: There is a new Fitbit.

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Speaker 1: We've got a Google event happening next week where they're

927
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: going to unveil the Pixel phone, the Pixel eight, the

928
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: Pixel eight Pro, and also the new Pixel Watch. I

929
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: guess they wanted to reveal the Fitbit in advance of

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Speaker 1: that so it doesn't take away from the new pixels.

931
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Speaker 1: So they've already announced the new Fitbit Charge six fitness tracker.

932
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: They say it's the most accurate heart rate tracking of

933
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: any fitbit tracker because of what they learned from the

934
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Speaker 1: pixel Watch. So the pixel Watch, I think they said,

935
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 1: it takes your heart rate every second, and so they've

936
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: learned a lot from that and now it is specifically

937
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: optimized for this new fitbit.

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: It can also connect to compatible gym equipment like the

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Speaker 1: Order Track, the Peloton, and Tonal via bluetooth, so it

941
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: can display your real time heart rate on the machine

942
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: screen during workouts.

943
00:44:57,680 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 2: That's kind of cool.

944
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: Twenty new workout options including hit, strength training, rowing, spinning, snowboarding,

945
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 1: so there's more than forty exercises to choose from this

946
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,479
Speaker 1: new fitbit. Charge six does have built in GPS, which

947
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: is really nice, so that means you can run outside

948
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: and not bring your phone. Some of the cheaper fitbits

949
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: do not have GPS built in, so they'll take your

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00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 1: run and they'll give you some information, but it's not exact.

951
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: This will be much more precise. It also has on

952
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: device controls for YouTube music, so if you want to

953
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: play pause and skip songs while you're running, you can

954
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: do that from your wrist, but again you will need

955
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: your phone. This does not seem to store the music

956
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: on the device. It also has Google Maps for turn

957
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: by turn directions on your wrist and Google wallets. It

958
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: also has a new zoom plus magnification accessibility feature. This

959
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: means you can see the screen a lot bigger if

960
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: the default text is too small. It's got daily sleep scores,

961
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: and of course the sleep score is the new thing.

962
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 1: The sleep score was kind of started by the Aura

963
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 1: smart ring, and now everyone's all about these sleep scores.

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00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: I personally don't like them because if you get your

965
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: sleep score, I guarantee you'll have a bad day. You

966
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: might have woken up on the best side of the

967
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 1: bed and you, oh, you take that nice yawn, you

968
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: look at your sleep score and it's terrible, and you go, oh, man,

969
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 1: my day is gonna be horrible.

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00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 2: So I don't like the sleep scores because of that reason.

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00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: This is gonna launch in the fall one hundred and

972
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: sixty bucks for the new fit Bit Charge six. So

973
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: if you're looking to upgrade your Fitbit for the holidays,

974
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Speaker 1: you've got a new option. Triple eight rich one oh

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Speaker 1: one is the phone number eight eight eight seven four

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00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: to two four to one zero one. Coming up this hour,

977
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about shortcuts on the iPhone, how they

978
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: can make a big difference in how you do things

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Speaker 1: on the phone. You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome

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00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech, Talking Technology. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: U Bill in San Diego. Bill, you're on with Rich.

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00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,800
Speaker 4: Hey, Rich thanks taking my calls.

983
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling.

984
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 4: I've I've got an email problem for you. My sister

985
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 4: passed away at the end of twenty twenty one unexpectedly.

986
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 2: Sorry to hear that.

987
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been super sad, and she has, you know,

988
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 4: fifteen thousand emails and some of them are really interesting

989
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 4: about family things, about things that were important to her.

990
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 4: But I don't have time to sit through looking at

991
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 4: each email and saving saving them that way. Is there

992
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 4: a way that I can download all of her emails

993
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 4: at one time onto a folder on a hard drive?

994
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 4: Is there like a program that will help with that

995
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 4: or a procedure?

996
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there is.

997
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: With Google, they have a product called Takeout, so you

998
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: can actually download all of your data from different Google

999
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: products and services. So if you go to Google Takeout,

1000
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: and I'm assuming you have access to her account, because

1001
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: it sounds like you've looked through some of these things,

1002
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: so that's good news.

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00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 2: But I'll talk about another way to do that in

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00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 2: a second.

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00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: But if you go to Google Takeout, you can click

1006
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 1: the items that you want to download. So that could

1007
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: be Google Photos, it could be Google Drive, it could

1008
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: be Gmail. And once you do that, it will and

1009
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: you don't have to download everything all at once. You

1010
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: can just say I just want Gmail or I just

1011
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,959
Speaker 1: want my Google Photos. And so it takes a little

1012
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: bit because Google on the back end goes through and

1013
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: it compiles all of these things into one giant file,

1014
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: and if it's a huge amount of data, it will

1015
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,720
Speaker 1: break them up into different files and once it's ready,

1016
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,280
Speaker 1: it will email you. It'll say, hey, your takeout is ready,

1017
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 1: and you can download it. And you can also download it.

1018
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 1: You can transfer it directly to something like Dropbox or

1019
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: one drive or what's the other one. It's Dropbox drive,

1020
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: one drive I think those are the supported cloud services,

1021
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,439
Speaker 1: or you can just download it. And with Gmail, it's

1022
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: not I mean, it's not going to be that much

1023
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: in the Gmail even though you said she's got like

1024
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand messages, I think it's not a ton of.

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00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 2: Storage.

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00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,879
Speaker 1: Like emails are pretty small, so even the attachments are

1027
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: not going to be that big.

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00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 2: But that's the way I do it.

1029
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 1: And then you can go through the gmails that way,

1030
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: and I would even take it a step further. You

1031
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,720
Speaker 1: may take that that all those gmails and feed them

1032
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: into an AI, like I would maybe fire up Claude

1033
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: Claude dot ai and drop this. I mean, well, got

1034
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: to be careful because you know there is some private

1035
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 1: information in there, so you do need to be aware

1036
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: of the privacy implications there. So maybe you don't want

1037
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: to do that, but it would be interesting because you

1038
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: can ask Claude to sort of analyze some of these emails,

1039
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: like what are the most interesting things, what are the

1040
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: things my sister talked about the most, you know, who

1041
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: are the most important people in our lives life? I

1042
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: mean there's really some you know, you can ask some

1043
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: interesting questions, almost like a little database of these emails.

1044
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: But you do have to be careful because I would

1045
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 1: read up on the privacy policy because you don't want

1046
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: her emails shared across the AI with other people, so

1047
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: you got to see what the deal is with that.

1048
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: But with all that said, I think Takeout should do it.

1049
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 1: The other thing this would be for you know, if

1050
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Speaker 1: you're listening and you're thinking about you have a significant

1051
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 1: other or a family member that you want to have

1052
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: access to your account. Many people may just share their

1053
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 1: password or they may not. But another thing you could

1054
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: do is there is a legacy You can set up

1055
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: a legacy contact. And this is both for Apple and

1056
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:35,319
Speaker 1: for Google, so Google calls it inactive account Manager. So

1057
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: if you go to Google Inactive Account Manager, if you

1058
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,399
Speaker 1: have a Google account, you can set someone that will

1059
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: get access to your account if you don't access it

1060
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 1: after a certain period of time. So this may be

1061
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: six months, it could be three months, it could be

1062
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: ninety days, whatever you decide. If you don't access your

1063
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Speaker 1: account for that amount of time, this legacy contact will

1064
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: get an email saying, hey, we notice that Rich didn't

1065
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: access his email in sixty days.

1066
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Speaker 2: You are going to get.

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Speaker 1: Access to his full account in the next week or so.

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00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: I think there's some sort of buffer. Now, some of

1069
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: you may be sitting there go WHOA, I don't want that,

1070
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 1: so don't set that up. And some of you may

1071
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: be listening and say, oh, that sounds like a really

1072
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: nice thing.

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Speaker 2: So it's up to you to set it up. But

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Speaker 2: if you look up.

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Speaker 1: Gmail or Google Inactive Account Manager, that's where you can

1076
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Speaker 1: add a legacy contact. On the iPhone, you can do

1077
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: the same thing for Apple. So if you go into

1078
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: settings under your Apple ID and it's under sign in

1079
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: and security, it says a legacy contact, So I don't

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00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: have mind set up, I should probably do that. But

1081
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: a legacy contact is someone you trust to have access

1082
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: to the data in your account after your death. And

1083
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 1: so once you set that up again very similar, they

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Speaker 1: will be alerted. And by the way, once you set

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00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: this up, you'll get a reminder every couple of months saying, hey,

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00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: just so you remember, you've set this person up as

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Speaker 1: your legacy contact, and why do they do that. Maybe

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00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 1: you set up a significant other that you're no longer with,

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Speaker 1: you know, girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever, family member that maybe you

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Speaker 1: know you just don't speak to anymore, whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: but they will remind you who you set up as

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Speaker 1: this person, and so you can say, oh, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: I don't want them to have access anymore, so you

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Speaker 1: can revoke that access. But again it's called Google Inactive

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Speaker 1: Account Manager. On Apple it's called the Legacy Contact and

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00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: it's a very similar program. But if you want someone

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Speaker 1: to have access to your stuff after you pass, it

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00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,839
Speaker 1: might be a good idea, or you can just share

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Speaker 1: some of your passwords with them, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: really trust them, that's the way to do it. The

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Speaker 1: problem with that is that a lot of times it's

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Speaker 1: if you have two factor authentications set up, they may

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00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: not have access to that second factor, especially if it's

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00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: your phone or your email account or whatever that code

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00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: is coming in through. So you just have to be

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Speaker 1: aware of that. This is probably a much more guaranteed

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Speaker 1: way of giving them access to your account. So Bill,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear about your sister, but i do

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Speaker 1: think that your question does help a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for calling with that today.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, Matthew Cassonelli is going to talk

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Speaker 1: about shortcuts on the iPhone, how you can optimize the

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Speaker 1: use of your phone, and give us some ideas on

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Speaker 1: how to use that new action button on the iPhone

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Speaker 1: fifteen pro. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

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00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: with you talking technology. Joining me now is Matthew Cassanelli.

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00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: He is creator of the Shortcuts app on the iPhone

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00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: and kind of a oh.

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Speaker 2: My gosh, the stuff that Matthew talks about.

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00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: It's all about using this shortcuts on the iPhone to

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Speaker 1: kind of automate your life, automate processes. And now that

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Speaker 1: the iPhone has the iPhone fifteen pro models have this

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Speaker 1: new action button which can be programmed to be a shortcut.

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Speaker 1: I believe Matthew, you're probably getting a lot of interest

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Speaker 1: in the shortcuts.

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Speaker 5: Huh.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 8: So.

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00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:09,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's an exciting time for shortcuts and bringing

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Speaker 5: it to the action button has brought it to seemingly everybody,

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Speaker 5: at least if you have the iPhone fifteen Pro. So

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Speaker 5: tell me it's time to get into it.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about your kind of background.

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Speaker 1: So did you you sort of invented this whole thing?

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Speaker 5: Totally definitely. I don't want to take credit for that.

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Speaker 1: That.

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Speaker 5: I joined the team close to when they were about

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00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 5: to get acquired by Apple, So I've done a lot

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00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 5: of the the actual shortcuts in the app. But the

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00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 5: it was called workflow originally back in the day.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 5: I basically was observing it from Afar South. The team

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00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 5: was super talented engineers, and I could tell I was like,

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00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 5: this is a very complicated thing. People need to understand

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00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 5: this a little bit better. And so I joined the

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00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 5: team to help do some of that marketing stuff, and

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00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 5: then it got acquired by Apple in a very lucky timing,

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Speaker 5: I'll say, And then since then I went independent and

1151
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,760
Speaker 5: Shortcuts have been out and released it to the public

1152
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:09,399
Speaker 5: since then inside of Apple, And basically what I do

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00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 5: now is just teach people how to use it, because I

1154
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 5: was like, I know this tool better than almost anybody,

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00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 5: so I might as well share with people and give

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00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 5: away my shortcuts too. That's one of the fun parts

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00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,400
Speaker 5: is Shortcuts are freely distributable, so you can make your

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Speaker 5: own and share it with somebody else. That's part of

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Speaker 5: the power of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of fun, and it's like it's it's

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Speaker 1: really it's so interesting because the iPhone is such a

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00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: mass market consumer advice device, but this is such a

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00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 1: feature that is like a real power user feature, and

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Speaker 1: it reminds me of back in the day on Android,

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00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: I used to tinker with that app called Tasker, which

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're familiar with. Oh yeah, but that was

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00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 1: like so complicated to do anything.

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Speaker 2: It was like, you know, it's just anyway.

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure some Android folks listening know that they

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00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: you know, they remember using that, and now, of course

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Speaker 1: even on the Samsung they have like routines. Even in

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Speaker 1: Google well Home they have routines. It's all kind of

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00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: cut from the same cloth. But explain what shortcuts is

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone first off.

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Speaker 5: Sure, at its simplest, it's a way to take actions

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Speaker 5: that you would normally do in your apps and then

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Speaker 5: perform them outside of the app, either standalone using something

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Speaker 5: like Siri, or maybe running it from the shortcuts widget

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00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 5: on your home screen, or combining them into multiple step

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00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 5: workflow type things that you can then press one button

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Speaker 5: and have everything get set up for your work, or

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00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 5: actually it can actually do some of the work for

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00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:36,879
Speaker 5: you at certain times. So there's a lot of potential there.

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Speaker 5: And like you said, it's very an Apple in some ways,

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Speaker 5: partially because it was bought and acquired rather than being

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Speaker 5: developed internally, so that might be why you haven't heard

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Speaker 5: about it so much until now. But in many ways,

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00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:54,920
Speaker 5: shortcuts has been getting more advanced and hooking into Siri

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Speaker 5: and then now on the action button it's literally part

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Speaker 5: of the device itself. So for the for the first time,

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00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 5: it's kind of being introduced to a ton of people.

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Speaker 5: It's like Oh, I have a reason to use this

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00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 5: now there's just a button there, I can press it

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Speaker 5: and it'll do anything that I want.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I certainly took another look at this

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Speaker 1: because you know, I've been interested in it and I

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Speaker 1: think it's neat. But it's like I wasn't actively using

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Speaker 1: them on a daily basis. I know you share your

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Speaker 1: kind of your screens all the time, and it's it's

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Speaker 1: basically like it reminds me of like a like an

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Speaker 1: audio board, you know, because you have so many short

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Speaker 1: cuts on our screen, you know, where you just like

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Speaker 1: press these little things. What are some like basic kind

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Speaker 1: of give me some ideas of how to use this basically,

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Speaker 1: at least.

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Speaker 5: The one you're referring to was on the Mac, and

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Speaker 5: a good one is setting up your screens and your

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00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 5: windows the way that you want. So if you have

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Speaker 5: a certain thing you're doing for work, and it always

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Speaker 5: you have the browser on the left and this thing

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Speaker 5: on the right, you can have it open to the

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Speaker 5: right page, maybe even pull some of the data for

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00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 5: you and then arrange everything so kind of like switching

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Speaker 5: contexts and getting set up to do work, especially work

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Speaker 5: you don't want to do shortcuts for that.

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Speaker 2: That's like brilliant.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying, I can set up all my windows,

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Speaker 1: like let's say when I do the radio show on

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00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: the weekend, I have my windows a certain way, I

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Speaker 1: open up certain apps, and then during the week I'm

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Speaker 1: at the TV station, I have certain apps for that.

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Speaker 1: You're saying, I could set a shortcut to just pop

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Speaker 1: all those windows into the place I want them.

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Speaker 5: In totally, even on the second screen. If you have

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00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 5: it too, see, yeah, it's exactly the depth of it.

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Speaker 5: I think what's hardest about shortcuts is it's like you

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Speaker 5: can do anything but that. When you hear that, you

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00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 5: that means nothing in many ways. So what I did

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Speaker 5: when I first was learning the app was just looked

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Speaker 5: through all of the actions that are built in, plus

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Speaker 5: all of the ones from the apps I've gotten from

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Speaker 5: the app store. A lot of times they can provide

1233
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 5: functionality too, So it's definitely worth checking all that out

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Speaker 5: because then you can kind of feel out where the

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00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 5: edges are because if like it can do almost anything

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Speaker 5: but not everything.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm still trying to figure out how to get

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Speaker 1: it to call up Google Assistant, because there is a

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00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: Google Assistant app and the act button can be mapped

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00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: to it, but it doesn't fire up the microphone, which

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00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: is kind of like the whole point. You know, you

1242
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 1: want it to open up the app and turn on

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Speaker 1: the microphone.

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Speaker 5: That's a good point I could think of on the spot.

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00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 5: You could use dictate text in shortcuts and then pass

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Speaker 5: that text into the Google Assistant action. See And what's

1247
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 5: this is hilarious because I was gonna mention this as

1248
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 5: one of my clever shortcuts workarounds that Google Assistant thing does.

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00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 5: Actually you can type in text into the Google Assistant action,

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Speaker 5: And so I figured out there's no Xbox integration with shortcuts,

1251
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 5: but Google Assistant has one, and so I use shortcuts

1252
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 5: to ask Google Assistant to open a game on my

1253
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 5: Xbox remotely without opening like having to even touch the

1254
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 5: controller or anything. And it's it's kind of ridiculous, but

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Speaker 5: it's also like, it's pretty funny when people people can

1256
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 5: be uh, not so forgiving about siries sometimes, which is

1257
00:59:55,680 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 5: perhaps just justly earned, but cooking it, turning in the

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01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 5: serie button into a Google as System button, it's just funny.

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Speaker 1: So how should people start, Like, if they've never explored

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01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: this on their phone, how do they start like what

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01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: what do you look for and what do you think

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Speaker 1: they should do?

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Speaker 5: First off, sure the Shortcuts comes with a starter shortcuts

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01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 5: collection which they'll put into your library automatically that will

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01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 5: provide just some basic ideas for you. And then there's

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Speaker 5: also in app gallery. When I worked at Workflow, that

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01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 5: was part of my job was curating that gallery. And

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Speaker 5: so in many ways since I've left, I've done the

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01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 5: same thing on my own and I've released over a

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Speaker 5: thousand shortcuts on my website that you can also get,

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01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 5: and there's tons on Reddit to like a really good

1272
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:45,040
Speaker 5: way is to look at other people's shortcuts and see

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01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 5: how they're using different functionality beyond just some of the

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01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 5: basics that you could maybe look around and find yourself,

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01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 5: because you do quickly get into some sort of scripting stuff,

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01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 5: just little things that are confusing at first, but if

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01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 5: you see someone else use it, then you can kind

1278
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 5: of learn from that. That's how I honestly started originally,

1279
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 5: was just like what are these other people doing? Then

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01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 5: I can kind of recreate it for myself, But then

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01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 5: just kind of observing what you actually do during the day,

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01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 5: Like take a week and take note of what you

1283
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 5: do during the day and then make the automations afterwards.

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01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:24,920
Speaker 5: I have a bad habit of coming up with an

1285
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 5: idea and then figuring out how I can use it.

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01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,640
Speaker 5: But really you want to solve your actual problems first

1287
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 5: rather than something that's like theoretical, so that's always helpful.

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01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 5: And then also starting with automations and just finding little

1289
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:42,720
Speaker 5: things that happen regularly throughout your day that then you

1290
01:01:42,760 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 5: could turn on the lights when you get home or

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01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 5: something in a specific way. One thing that happens with

1292
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 5: home automations is you can't run actions from apps, but

1293
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 5: with shortcuts personal automations now you can do location triggers,

1294
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,919
Speaker 5: so you can like when I get home, this third

1295
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 5: party app runs a function that's new and I was seventeen.

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01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 5: So automations are good just because it gives you the

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Speaker 5: value without you ever having to do anything.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been wanting to figure out and every time

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Speaker 1: I come home from work, I do the same thing.

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Speaker 1: I play music on my Sono speakers, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: there has to be a way to automatically trigger that,

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Speaker 1: and I know there is, but I have yet to

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Speaker 1: like put the time and effort into figuring out how

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Speaker 1: to do that. But it would just it's like something

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Speaker 1: I do every single day. I you know, go to

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Speaker 1: my app, I open up the sonosapp, and I choose

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Speaker 1: like a station that's usually my favorites, and then I

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Speaker 1: adjust the grouping and I adjust the volume. I am

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Speaker 1: sure I can automate that process. I just don't know

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Speaker 1: how to do it, or I haven't put the time

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Speaker 1: into figuring out how to do it, because I'm sure

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Speaker 1: there's multiple ways. But it's one of those things where

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Speaker 1: again what you're saying, you look at your life and

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Speaker 1: you see the things that you do over and over

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Speaker 1: and you say, how can I make this easier? So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, if you're always you know, converting a photo

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Speaker 1: into you know, a jpeg to a PDF or something,

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Speaker 1: or PDF into a jpeg whatever, you can use shortcuts

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Speaker 1: to do those kind of things too, right.

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Speaker 5: Totally, those are great, especially if you are working with

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Speaker 5: text or files or images. Shortcuts is really powerful with that.

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01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 5: I may generate hundreds of icons for my website and

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Speaker 5: put all of my data onto my blog in ways

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Speaker 5: that there's no way I would do this without being

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Speaker 5: able to automate it. So that's created my whole business model.

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Speaker 5: I think what's always confusing for me is it's about shortcuts,

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Speaker 5: So it gets very meta when I'm explaining it because

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Speaker 5: I'm publishing shortcuts on my site. But it's still regardless

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Speaker 5: if you were just making documents or things like that.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes what's hard about shortcuts is sort of abstracting from

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Speaker 5: the app into kind of the content that you're using

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01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 5: in that app. So like most apps are just files

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Speaker 5: or text or images or something like that, and you

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Speaker 5: can use shortcuts to work with that data and then

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Speaker 5: just paste it into the app if that app didn't

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Speaker 5: support it too, all right, and before I forget Soro

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01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 5: for Sonos is the app that you need. And then

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Speaker 5: it also wasn't possible until iOS seventeen to do okay

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Speaker 5: type of location automations. Yes, automatically, so now they can

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Speaker 5: run immediately, which is great.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so when I get home, okay, yeah, Sorrow for Sos,

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Speaker 1: I'll be downloading that and real quick before I run

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Speaker 1: what is your iPhone fifteen action button set?

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Speaker 5: To mine? I have to get my current focus and

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01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 5: then let me run other shortcuts depending on that. So

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Speaker 5: something like if I'm in my personal mode, it'll turn

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01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,560
Speaker 5: on the TV and then if I'm in work mode

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01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 5: when that I love It'll use a remote login on

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Speaker 5: my Mac to wake my macup remotely from my phone.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: You've got a shortcut set for the shortcuts Matthew Cassinelli.

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Speaker 1: Matthewcassonelli dot com is the website. If you want to

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01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,760
Speaker 1: subscribe to his news letter or look at his shortcuts,

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01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 1: it'll be linked up on my website.

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Speaker 2: Rich on Tech dot tv. Thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. This is rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Eighty eight

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Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Blue Green sent me a

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Speaker 1: DM on Instagram at rich on Tech and it was

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Speaker 1: a scammer impersonating Sandra Bullock. And he said, Uh, why

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Speaker 1: is this person trying so hard to meet me? What?

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Speaker 1: What what happens if I chat with them? Curious if

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01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 1: they tried chatting with you? And what happens if you

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Speaker 1: talk to them? And good question number one. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you should engage with these people, these scam artists

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01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: that you know they're impersonating someone else on Instagram, Facebook, whatever.

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Speaker 1: But the bottom line is they are going to try

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Speaker 1: to scam you. So I did this the other day

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Speaker 1: a guy I know, he was you know, they set

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Speaker 1: up a bogus account that looked just like his, grabbed

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01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 1: his pictures, and they started chatting with me, and so

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Speaker 1: of course I'm just curious.

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Speaker 2: So I chatted with him. I said, Hey, how you doing,

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Speaker 2: what's going on?

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Speaker 1: I missed you at the last Apple event, you know,

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01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:14,919
Speaker 1: bl blah blah blah, knowing he wasn't even there.

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01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:17,560
Speaker 2: And the person's like, oh, yeah, how's work.

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Speaker 1: And you know, we talked a little little niceties back

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Speaker 1: and forth, and I kept trying to drop little things

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01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 1: that I know only this person would know, the real

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01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: person that this scam artist wouldn't, but he kept ignoring

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01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 1: those parts of the questioning anyway.

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Speaker 2: Finally, what did he get to, Hey, I've been really.

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Speaker 1: Getting into crypto and uh, you know, I think that

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Speaker 1: it would be great for you to do this.

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01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 2: And what do they want you to do?

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Speaker 1: They want you to download some app, they want you

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01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: to transfer some money. They want to scam you. Be careful,

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01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: be aware. And it looks like someone you know, they're

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01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: not asking for help. They're not you know, just be aware.

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Speaker 1: They a lot of times people do it for me,

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Speaker 1: So they will they will clone my accounts and it

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Speaker 1: will look like me and it'll say private or subscribe

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Speaker 1: or whatever.

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01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 2: It's not me. I am not friending you.

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01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 1: Sorry to say, but I'm not reaching out to random

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01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 1: people on the internet that listen to me and saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: will you be my friend.

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01:07:13,760 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 2: I don't do that, just so you know.

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Speaker 1: Uh, let's see, chat gybt is getting voice and image capabilities.

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Speaker 1: Open a eyes, rolling out a new voice and image

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01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: features and chat gbt. These are for paying subscribers right now.

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01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll come to the rest of us later. So

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01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 1: the voice feature allows you to have back and forth

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01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 1: conversational interactions. So if you want to try this, you can,

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Speaker 1: and you pay for chat GBT and you have the app,

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01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 1: go to settings and new features. It was not in

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01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:43,800
Speaker 1: my app the last I checked. Maybe it's there now

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01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: checked yesterday. The voices sound great, They're very conversational, pretty impressive.

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Speaker 1: The image feature lets you send a photo to chat

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Speaker 1: gbt and it can analyze it. And the coolest part

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Speaker 1: is you can even draw on the picture. Like let's

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Speaker 1: say you want to repair a bike and you draw

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01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 1: you take a picture and you draw on your phone

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01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: like the part that you want to replace. You can say,

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01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:07,520
Speaker 1: what's this part of this bike and we'll try to

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Speaker 1: figure out what bike that is and what that part is.

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Speaker 1: So cool, new features coming to chat, GBT Voice and Chat.

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Speaker 1: It's just incredible, incredible to see how these AI systems

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01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:24,759
Speaker 1: are progressing at a very very fast clip. And it's scary,

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01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 1: it really is, because they're so good, but they're so wrong.

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01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to be careful. They do hallucinate Karen

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01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: and San Pedro, San Pedro, How do you say that,

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Speaker 1: San Pedro, San Pedro?

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Speaker 2: Oh, you can say either one. Yes, there you go. Karen,

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Speaker 2: you're on with Rich. What can I help you with?

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Speaker 9: Thank you Rich for taking my call. I have actually

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Speaker 9: two questions that're kind of related. I have a Galaxy

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Speaker 9: A ten e, which is probably an old model. You

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01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 9: probably know how old it is, I'm not sure, probably

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01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:03,240
Speaker 9: pre COVID. I'm having problems with charging it the original charger.

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01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 9: I have to practically stand on my head to get

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Speaker 9: it to charge. Talk to a guy at a Kiosk

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Speaker 9: and he said, oh, just get another one online Amazon

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01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:16,479
Speaker 9: and that'll work. No, it did not. A friend gave

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01:09:16,520 --> 01:09:19,559
Speaker 9: me one of those chargers that have multiple charging units

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01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 9: in it that did not work. So do I need

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01:09:24,280 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 9: to get a new phone? I really don't want to.

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01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 9: And if I do need to get a new phone,

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01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 9: what kind would I get that similar? Because when I

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01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 9: go to the vendor, I don't want them to try

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01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:35,880
Speaker 9: to upsale me and say, oh you need this and

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01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 9: this and this and this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, So first off, have you checked has anyone

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01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 1: cleaned out the charging area?

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01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 3: No?

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01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 1: Okay, because a lot of times when things aren't charging,

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01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 1: there's just lint in there and it's holding the it's

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01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:51,080
Speaker 1: holding the connection back, and so that is that is

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01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 1: the number one thing to do is maybe get a

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01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:56,880
Speaker 1: little candare or a toothpick and very gently clean out

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01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: that little area that is, you know, where you plug

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Speaker 1: the charger in, So that's number one. If that doesn't work,

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01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 1: and then try to plug it in. Now, be careful,

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01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: you don't want to ruin your phone. But you can

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01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: also take a Q tip and I'm even loath to

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01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:12,840
Speaker 1: like recommend this, but a little tiny rubbing alcohol and

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01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:15,200
Speaker 1: maybe kind of clean in that area as well. That

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01:10:15,240 --> 01:10:17,400
Speaker 1: could help make sure it's very very dry. You do

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01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 1: not want to get that wet in that area. So

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01:10:20,600 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 1: that's number one and plug it in see if that works.

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01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,719
Speaker 1: If it doesn't, you can take it to a place

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01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:31,720
Speaker 1: like I mentioned this earlier, but Asurian they will they

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01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 1: will see what's wrong with your phone for free. So

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01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 1: you can take it to one of those uh one

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Speaker 1: of those Asurian places as U r Io n and

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01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:41,640
Speaker 1: they will say what's wrong with it. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to pay them unless you get the repair done, but

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Speaker 1: they can say, oh yeah, your charging port is totally

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01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 1: is totally ruined. Now if you find out that the

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Speaker 1: repair is, you know, two hundred and fifty three hundred dollars,

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Speaker 1: it's not worth it for this phone. So I would

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Speaker 1: recommend a new phone. So for budget phones, the one

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01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 1: I like, I would go with the Pixel seven A.

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01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:08,519
Speaker 1: And the Pixel seven A is going to be a great,

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01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:13,360
Speaker 1: great phone. It's it's about five hundred dollars. You might

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01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 1: be able to get it cheaper online, but that's going

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01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 1: to be a really good phone. It's going to take

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01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: great pictures, the software is going to last a long time.

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01:11:20,400 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 1: The other one is the one plus Nord they have

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01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:27,599
Speaker 1: a great budget phone. And then the Samsung I think

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01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: it's the A. What do you have the A ten?

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01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: So I think the A fourteen is the newest kind

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01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 1: of like budget Samsung. They have a bunch of budget phones.

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01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: I don't typically review too many of them, but that

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01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,880
Speaker 1: will work as well. But if it's if it's too

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01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 1: expensive and it's not working, you know, you got to

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01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: get the new phone. But I would take it in

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01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:48,760
Speaker 1: and see if they can diagnose it for free, but

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Speaker 1: clean out the area.

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Speaker 2: The lint.

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Speaker 1: My kid discovered lint last night. He put his hand

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01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 1: in his pocket. He said, Dad, I have all these

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01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,000
Speaker 1: like dirt in my pocket and I said, let me

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01:11:56,040 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: see it, and he shows.

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Speaker 2: It to me.

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Speaker 1: I go, that's called lint. How amazing. Nine year old

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Speaker 1: didn't even know link was. You're listening to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:12,320
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight Rich one

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Speaker 1: oh one.

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Speaker 2: That's eight eight eight seven.

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Speaker 1: Four to two four one zero one. Give me a

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01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 1: call if you have a question. I've got emails. I've

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01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 1: got so much to get through. It's like this is

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Speaker 1: it's just wild how much I bring to the show

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01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 1: every week and how much I still want to tell

1510
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,680
Speaker 1: you even after I'm done with the show, and we

1511
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: pack a lot in believe me, but there's still there's

1512
01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 1: a lot on the docket here. I got an email

1513
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 1: from Marci. Hey, Rich, I'm listening to you right now.

1514
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 1: I saw your Instagram stories about the new adaptive noise

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01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:52,040
Speaker 1: reduction for AirPods with iOS seventeen. I have AirPods Pro

1516
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 1: and iOS seventeen, but it's not there.

1517
01:12:55,439 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 2: I hope you can answer this.

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01:12:56,720 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 1: You're the best. Congrats on taking over this show. I've

1519
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 1: watched you for years on KTLA. Thanks Marcy. Okay, so

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01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:08,760
Speaker 1: what Marcy is talking about is on iOS seventeen and

1521
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 1: AirPods Pro, any version of AirPods Pro by the way,

1522
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:15,599
Speaker 1: the new ones and the ones with the old charging case,

1523
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:19,519
Speaker 1: there is a new feature that is just incredible. It's

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01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: called adaptive noise control. And this is not invented by Apple.

1525
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:28,120
Speaker 1: This is done on some other earbuds as well that

1526
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 1: I've tested over the years, but Apple's works really well.

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01:13:31,040 --> 01:13:33,800
Speaker 1: It's like uncanny because I will tell you I've gone

1528
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:38,000
Speaker 1: from being able to wear the AirPods Pro for like

1529
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,759
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes to like now all day because

1530
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:46,760
Speaker 1: this adaptive audio listens to your surroundings and it will

1531
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:51,640
Speaker 1: adjust accordingly. So if you've very used noise canceling headphones,

1532
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: you know that sometimes it can sound like you're underwater

1533
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,680
Speaker 1: because it's just like very like you know, it just

1534
01:13:56,800 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: fills like your entire ears with like nothing except like

1535
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 1: your own sound of your ears, like kind of like

1536
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 1: when you put a shell up your ear listening to

1537
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 1: the ocean in it. That's what it sounds like to

1538
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:10,280
Speaker 1: have a noise canceling headphones sometimes or these earbuds, I

1539
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 1: should say headphones maybe not so much, but the earbuds specifically.

1540
01:14:14,479 --> 01:14:16,400
Speaker 1: And so they came up with this new adaptive noise

1541
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:20,880
Speaker 1: canceling or noise control, which blends active noise cancelation and

1542
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:25,200
Speaker 1: transparency mode. So what's transparency mode. Transparency mode is when

1543
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: the earbuds let in the outside sounds that you can

1544
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 1: hear stuff, but they're not actually letting it in. They're

1545
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:34,160
Speaker 1: just using the microphones to pass that sound to your ears.

1546
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 1: So that's also sounded weird in the past. But Apple

1547
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 1: somehow magically mixed these two things together and came up

1548
01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 1: with this new adaptive noise control that works really really well.

1549
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:47,679
Speaker 1: So Marci, to answer your question, you have to update

1550
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 1: the firmware on your air pods, and this is typically

1551
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 1: done automatically while your AirPods are charging and when they're

1552
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:58,240
Speaker 1: in Bluetooth range of your phone, but that's not always

1553
01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:00,000
Speaker 1: the case. Maybe you charge them not near your phone

1554
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 1: and so that doesn't they don't get the new software.

1555
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:07,560
Speaker 1: So if you want to go into your your Bluetooth

1556
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: on your iPhone, that's how you can check to see

1557
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:12,759
Speaker 1: if these things are up to date. And the version

1558
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: that you need is six A three hundred or six

1559
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 1: A three oh one. And again this only applies to

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01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: AirPods Pro second generation. I don't believe. Yeah, it's only

1561
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 1: the second generation, so it's the ones with the USBC

1562
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 1: case and also the lightning case. It's not the first

1563
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: generation of the AirPods Pro. So if you have those,

1564
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:36,080
Speaker 1: you're not going to get this. So now, Marci, that

1565
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,799
Speaker 1: may be the case here. You might have the first generation,

1566
01:15:39,760 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: So you got to figure out which generation AirPods Pro

1567
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 1: you have. But once you do that, definitely enable the

1568
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: adaptive audio. And the way you do that is you

1569
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 1: swipe down from the upper right hand corner of your phone,

1570
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 1: you press and hold on the volume control and at

1571
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:57,559
Speaker 1: the bottom. You should see as long as you're connected

1572
01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 1: to your AirPods, you should see that adaptive audio. I

1573
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,680
Speaker 1: put this on my Instagram stories. That's where Marshy saw it.

1574
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:05,760
Speaker 1: But that's what you want to do. If you're on

1575
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 1: your iPhone, you just want to go to your settings

1576
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 1: your Bluetooth and tap the eye next to the name

1577
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 1: of your AirPods and you can see in there if

1578
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: there is a software update.

1579
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:17,160
Speaker 2: So I can go in here.

1580
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 1: And I tap the eye and once it's connected, it

1581
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 1: will show you if there is a software update for

1582
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:24,320
Speaker 1: those so good question.

1583
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,000
Speaker 2: And it really is. I'm not kidding.

1584
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:26,400
Speaker 8: I mean.

1585
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 1: The cool thing about that mode is that, for instance,

1586
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:31,599
Speaker 1: when you're on the plane and you're listening to something

1587
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:34,559
Speaker 1: on your AirPods with the noise cancelation, or if you're

1588
01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:37,040
Speaker 1: an adaptive and the flight attendant comes up to you

1589
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: and says, hey, you know, would you like to get

1590
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 1: a meal, a snack, whatever. Most of the time you

1591
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 1: have to take your you gotta rip your air your

1592
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 1: ear pod out right, your earbud has to come out

1593
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 1: of your ear so you can talk to them. But

1594
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 1: with this mode, when you start talking, it will automatically

1595
01:16:51,120 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 1: reduce the noise cancelations so that you can hear them,

1596
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:58,000
Speaker 1: and it does a really good job of it. Google

1597
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:03,160
Speaker 1: is ending gmails Basic HTML version in twenty twenty four.

1598
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 1: So Google's going to discontinue this basic HTML version of

1599
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 1: Gmail that's been around since like day one. They're getting

1600
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 1: rid of that in January twenty twenty four. HTML Basic

1601
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 1: is a stripped down version of Gmail that's was designed

1602
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 1: for slower connections and also old browsers. And Google says

1603
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 1: that this did not have all the functionality of Gmail,

1604
01:17:26,080 --> 01:17:27,760
Speaker 1: so they are going to get rid of it.

1605
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:29,559
Speaker 11: And the.

1606
01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 1: Visually impaired community has been very unhappy over this because

1607
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:38,080
Speaker 1: they say that a lot of them use this HTML view.

1608
01:17:38,479 --> 01:17:41,000
Speaker 1: Now that's just based on some reports I've seen online.

1609
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 1: I've yet to have someone kind of email me or

1610
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:46,720
Speaker 1: tell me that. But whenever something gets whenever something is

1611
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:51,240
Speaker 1: changed or a company takes away something that people use,

1612
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 1: and Gmail has a lot of users, you know, people

1613
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 1: get angry.

1614
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 4: Now.

1615
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:56,720
Speaker 1: I think Google knows how many people are using this

1616
01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:58,719
Speaker 1: basic HTML and it's.

1617
01:17:58,600 --> 01:18:01,960
Speaker 2: Probably not enough for them to continue developing it.

1618
01:18:02,680 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 4: Now.

1619
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 2: I tried to bring up this version of Gmail.

1620
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:08,400
Speaker 1: If you have a fast internet connection, it's almost impossible

1621
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:11,080
Speaker 1: because it shows up at the bottom of your screen

1622
01:18:11,360 --> 01:18:14,679
Speaker 1: so fast that you have to be ready to tap

1623
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:18,719
Speaker 1: it when you load your Gmail because it happens so fast.

1624
01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: So I just did it, and now I'm viewing my

1625
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:26,080
Speaker 1: Gmail in basic HTML and it is so weird looking.

1626
01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:28,679
Speaker 1: It looks like what Gmail looked like when it launched.

1627
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of fun. Actually, if you can

1628
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 1: do it, you put your mouse in the lower right

1629
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:35,040
Speaker 1: hand corner of your browser and then bring up Gmail.

1630
01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:36,600
Speaker 1: You might have to refresh a couple of times, but

1631
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:39,000
Speaker 1: you click as soon as you bring up Gmail and

1632
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:41,759
Speaker 1: it says basic htmlview and it's pretty wild.

1633
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 2: So that's basic htmlview. Let's see what else.

1634
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:52,120
Speaker 1: Oh, remember that whole thing with the iPhone where it

1635
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 1: was the French authorities said that there's too much radiation

1636
01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: in the iPhone twelve. Well, Apple put out a software update.

1637
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:04,200
Speaker 1: According to Reuters, it's all good now. So the suspension

1638
01:19:04,320 --> 01:19:07,479
Speaker 1: of iPhone sales earlier this month because of the radiation

1639
01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 1: output on the iPhone twelve has been It's all been solved.

1640
01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:14,000
Speaker 2: So good to hear that.

1641
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: Triple A rich one on one eight eight eight seven

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01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one Antonio is in Covina, California.

1643
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:23,800
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich Hi Rich.

1644
01:19:24,280 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 11: So this may sound like a silly question, but I'm

1645
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 11: not really tech savvy. So I got on laptop, you know,

1646
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 11: with the Labor Day sales. It was really pretty cheap,

1647
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 11: and I'm just wondering, if I'm not using it, do

1648
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 11: I keep it plugged in like with that during the

1649
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 11: battery faster or over targe a battery, or should I

1650
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 11: unplug it every time I'm not using it?

1651
01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 1: Good question, you know, it's one of these things. It's

1652
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 1: kind of like an eternal debate on the internet whether

1653
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 1: to keep things plugged in, whether to take them or

1654
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:55,519
Speaker 1: to unplug them. I feel like it's probably better to

1655
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:59,200
Speaker 1: leave it plugged in it because your laptop is going

1656
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: to use the power its own power management to kind

1657
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 1: of say, okay, we've got power coming in from this cord,

1658
01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, the batteries at this percentage, and we're just

1659
01:20:08,120 --> 01:20:11,839
Speaker 1: gonna keep the battery topped off. In fact, Tesla recommends

1660
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:13,400
Speaker 1: that you leave your car plugged in all the time

1661
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:14,760
Speaker 1: when you're not using it. Let's say you go on

1662
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: a vacation or something like that, so it's always topped off.

1663
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 1: And it can better manage its power. If you leave

1664
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 1: this thing unplugged, what's gonna happen is it's gonna cycle

1665
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:26,960
Speaker 1: through the battery every single time you unplug it, versus

1666
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 1: just topping it off a little bit as necessary. And

1667
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 1: when you go through a battery cycle, they only have

1668
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 1: a certain amount of cycles before they go bad. And

1669
01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: so when you're constantly draining it and bringing it back

1670
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:40,679
Speaker 1: up to one hundred, that puts a lot of pressure

1671
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 1: on the battery. So some people believe that you should

1672
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: leave this plugged in all the time. I pretty much

1673
01:20:48,720 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: believe that I leave my stuff plugged in a majority

1674
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 1: of the time. I will say, with the newest Apple laptop,

1675
01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 1: it almost doesn't need to be ever plugged in, which

1676
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:01,960
Speaker 1: is kind of weird because the battery is so good.

1677
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:06,320
Speaker 1: But I think it really depends on what you believe

1678
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:09,040
Speaker 1: and what you want to believe. I just feel like

1679
01:21:09,160 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: it's better to leave it plugged in if you're using

1680
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:12,800
Speaker 1: your laptop all the time and you have it on

1681
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,679
Speaker 1: your desk. It just seems like it's easier also than

1682
01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 1: trying to figure out when your battery is going to

1683
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:19,880
Speaker 1: be dead. Now there's gonna be people that debate me

1684
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:21,400
Speaker 1: on this. They're going to say, Rich, you should never

1685
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: leave your computer plugged in all the time. I just

1686
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: think that Antonio, by unplugging this, you're actually putting more

1687
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 1: wear and tear on the battery, because, like I said,

1688
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:34,400
Speaker 1: every single time this battery drains, you are going to

1689
01:21:34,439 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: be using a cycle of that battery. And if you

1690
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:40,960
Speaker 1: look at the look up battery cycles, and you can

1691
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:44,639
Speaker 1: see how many cycles, it's a finite number. In fact,

1692
01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:48,839
Speaker 1: on the Mac computers, it'll tell you how many battery

1693
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:52,680
Speaker 1: cycles you've used with your battery. And so if you

1694
01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:56,960
Speaker 1: go into the settings and then the system settings, there

1695
01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 1: is a way to see on the system report how

1696
01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: many battery cycles. Let's see mine I'm looking at Let's

1697
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 1: go to battery. Where are you a battery? Well, I

1698
01:22:06,320 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 1: can't find it, of course when I need it, I

1699
01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:10,360
Speaker 1: can't find it. But it'll tell you how many battery

1700
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 1: cycles you've used on your computer. And you can see

1701
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: I'll say, like you know, out of like I don't know,

1702
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 1: five hundred cycles.

1703
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:18,439
Speaker 2: Whatever gets here? We go? Power? Is that it? There?

1704
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 2: We go battery?

1705
01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:23,799
Speaker 1: So it'll say fully charged, yes, charging, no state of charge, okay,

1706
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:29,440
Speaker 1: Health information cycle count eighty two condition normal maximum capacity

1707
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:32,719
Speaker 1: is one hundred. So that means that even though Antonio,

1708
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 1: the information I'm giving you about how I use my computer,

1709
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:37,839
Speaker 1: my battery is still at one hundred percent. This computer

1710
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:40,760
Speaker 1: given is only you know, six months old, maybe it's

1711
01:22:40,800 --> 01:22:42,280
Speaker 1: a year. I don't remember when I got this thing.

1712
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:45,360
Speaker 1: You could also check on your phones for battery cycle.

1713
01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 1: I already taught you how to do it on the

1714
01:22:47,640 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: Samsung Pixel. I believe they just built it in as well.

1715
01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:55,280
Speaker 1: But this idea of battery cycle is getting much more

1716
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: popular because people are realizing they can't use and abuse

1717
01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: these batteries and just expect them to last forever. They

1718
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 1: do have a finite life, and especially how much we're

1719
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:07,080
Speaker 1: using our phones. So if you go into settings on

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Speaker 1: the iPhone and then go into battery, you can look

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Speaker 1: up battery health and charging and it will tell you

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Speaker 1: what your maximum capacity is of that battery and charging optimization.

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Speaker 1: I would probably recommend optimized battery charging if you want

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Speaker 1: your iPhone to last the longest.

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Speaker 2: Triple eight Rich.

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Speaker 1: One on one eighty eight seven four to two four

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Speaker 1: one zero one. Thanks to the call, Antonio, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, we're going to talk to David

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Speaker 1: Henry at Neckgear about how to get better Wi Fi.

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Speaker 2: This is rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech, rich DeMuro. Here you

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Speaker 1: can find me online at Richontech dot tv.

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01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:45,720
Speaker 2: That's the website.

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01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:47,960
Speaker 1: It kind of has all the information you need about

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01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:51,840
Speaker 1: how to follow me on Instagram, X, Twitter, Facebook.

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Speaker 2: What else is there? YouTube?

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Speaker 1: I don't really do much on YouTube, but it's there.

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Speaker 1: The newsletter that'll come back one day. And let's see

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Speaker 1: what else is there? A lot of stuff you can

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Speaker 1: go in the lower Let's see this is a little

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01:24:04,600 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 1: something that most people don't know. You can actually see

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Speaker 1: all the stories I do for TV on there. And

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Speaker 1: there's if you go in the lower right hand corner

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Speaker 1: of the web page, there's two little tricks. Number one,

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Speaker 1: there's a microphone you can leave a voicemail for the show.

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Speaker 1: And there's also a link called shop. And that is

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Speaker 1: all the stuff that I sort of like like so

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Speaker 1: a lot of people ask me over and over recommend

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Speaker 1: a speaker, recommend a charging cable, recommend you know, whatever,

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Speaker 1: the basics and so a lot of those things I'll

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Speaker 1: put on Amazon so you can, like in this Amazon shop,

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Speaker 1: so you can easily access those, So that's all on

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01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:39,599
Speaker 1: the website. Rich on tech dot TV got an email

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01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 1: from Jim. He says, are there speakers that will allow

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Speaker 1: your music that's playing in one room to follow you

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Speaker 1: from room to room in your house? And yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: there's a couple I mean you could use. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Son's pioneered this. Sons is kind of the best, and

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Speaker 1: they're expensive. That's the problem is that they're very, very expensive,

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Speaker 1: and so that's probably the best way to do it

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Speaker 1: if you want the same music that's playing everywhere. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's what you mean here. But you can

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Speaker 1: do it with the Echo speakers. You can group those.

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Speaker 1: You can do it with HomePods, you can group those,

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01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:13,599
Speaker 1: you can do it with the Google speakers, you can

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Speaker 1: group those. I think that the easiest to group are

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Speaker 1: probably going to be either the home pods from Apple,

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Speaker 1: and they have like a big HomePod that's expensive like

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Speaker 1: three hundred bucks, and they have a little one that's

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. So if you're all Apple, that's probably

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Speaker 1: an easy way to do it. The Echo speakers are

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Speaker 1: going to be probably the second easiest to do because

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Speaker 1: you use the app or you can actually do it

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Speaker 1: just with your voice. You can say group all my

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Speaker 1: speakers together. You can say play this music, you know,

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Speaker 1: play pop music throughout my entire house, or you can

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Speaker 1: say played on this specific speaker. And the other way

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Speaker 1: is sons and Sons is probably going to be the

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Speaker 1: most expensive, but it's probably the most flexible and has

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Speaker 1: the most ways to listen and things like that. So

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Speaker 1: my pick is so nos That's what I like, but

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Speaker 1: it's very expensive, and I've built my collection over the years.

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Speaker 1: It's not something that I did overnight because those speakers

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Speaker 1: are pricey. Friend of the show Jared Newman writes in

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Speaker 1: his Advisorator newsletter, there's a big Windows update Windows is

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Speaker 1: that Microsoft is rolling out a new version of Windows

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Speaker 1: eleven with only one feature that I truly care about.

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Speaker 1: It brings back the never combined option for taskbar icons,

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Speaker 1: so that each window can have its own text label.

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Speaker 1: I previously used an app called Explorer Patcher for this purpose,

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Speaker 1: one of the several Windows eleven tweaks I've recommended, but

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Speaker 1: I've installed it for now. That is a great tip,

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Speaker 1: Thank you Jared Newman of Advisorator. So if you know Windows,

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Speaker 1: it groups together all of the similar Windows back in

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Speaker 1: the day used to be able to see like at

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Speaker 1: the bottom, like if you have two Chrome windows open,

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Speaker 1: or two email messages open or whatever.

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Speaker 2: It's like.

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Speaker 1: People probably went nuts trying to figure out how to

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Speaker 1: separate those, and so it took Microsoft a while, but

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Speaker 1: they figured it out.

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Speaker 2: So now you can use that.

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Speaker 1: Never combine option for taskbar icons, so everything that you

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01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:11,120
Speaker 1: have open will have its own icon in the taskbar.

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Speaker 1: That is a great thing. But you do have to

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01:27:13,479 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: get out or download the new version of Windows eleven

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Speaker 1: to figure that out. By the way, subscribe to Jared's newsletter.

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01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:23,760
Speaker 1: He does write it regularly, unlike me. It's called Advisorator,

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01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: and it's always packed with great stuff. Facebook new AI

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Speaker 1: Experiences something that's kind of fun. You should check this

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Speaker 1: out if you may or may not have access to

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Speaker 1: it in your Instagram. But if you go to your

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Speaker 1: Instagram stories, there's a new sticker called AI stickers, And

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Speaker 1: so you go into your stickers and then you tap

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Speaker 1: AI stickers and you can type anything in and it

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Speaker 1: will generate a sticker on the fly.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: Stickers are those things you put on your stories that

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Speaker 1: like animate like a baseball bat cracking a ball, or

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Speaker 1: like a you know, a wow face or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you type in and find stuff. But this you

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Speaker 1: can type in anything and it will generate it using AI.

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Speaker 1: So for instance, you can type in, you know, dogs

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Speaker 1: playing baseball and it will create that. Or I did

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Speaker 1: rich On Tech in New York City and that created

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Speaker 1: like a nerd kind of like standing in New York

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Speaker 1: City as a cartoon character. So that's kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: It just makes it more creative. The other two features

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Speaker 1: is this restyle feature, which will transform any picture into

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Speaker 1: however you want it to look like a watercolor painting

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Speaker 1: or you know, something like that. And then they have

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Speaker 1: this backdrop feature which changes the background, so you can

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Speaker 1: literally take a picture of you in your driveway, use

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Speaker 1: this backdrop feature and say make me in Italy and

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Speaker 1: it will make an Italian, you know, villa backdrop for

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Speaker 1: you all using AI. So this may not be available

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Speaker 1: immediately on your Instagram Stories, your Facebook stories, your WhatsApp,

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01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 1: or your Messenger app, but it will be coming. So

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01:28:52,240 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: when you see it, you can try all these new

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Speaker 1: editing tools and you can remember you heard them right

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01:28:56,040 --> 01:28:58,600
Speaker 1: here on rich On Tech all right. Phone line is

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Speaker 1: eighty to eight rich one on one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up,

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01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 1: we're talking to David Henry, President and general manager of

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01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 1: Connected Home Products at Neckgear. He's going to talk about

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01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, how to get a better signal, what you

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01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:15,040
Speaker 1: can do, and we'll have more of your emails and

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01:29:15,120 --> 01:29:18,760
Speaker 1: your feedback coming up right here on rich on Tech.

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01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:20,759
Speaker 1: My name is rich Dmiro. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot tv is the website.

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Speaker 5: We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you. Talking technology and Wi Fi is always

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Speaker 1: at the top of mine for everyone because we're always

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Speaker 1: connecting to it. We're always trying to get the best

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01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:44,719
Speaker 1: signal possible and pretty much our lives depend on this stuff.

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Speaker 1: We love our WiFi and here to talk about it

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01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 1: is David Henry, President and general manager of Connected Home

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Speaker 1: Products and Services at Neckgear.

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Speaker 2: David, thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 8: Hey, you're welcome. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Rich, Hey, thank you. So I was thinking about this today.

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Speaker 1: I was looking at the USC game which I went

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Speaker 1: to USC, and I was like, you know, obviously, what

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Speaker 1: do people do on the weekends. They now with all

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Speaker 1: the streaming and stuff, they look to see where their

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Speaker 1: game is playing, right Like, it's not like it used

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Speaker 1: to be. You just kind of turn on the TV

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Speaker 1: and it was it was playing on the Fox Sports app.

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Speaker 1: And I downloaded the app and within three, four or

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Speaker 1: five seconds, I'm sitting there watching a live stream of

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Speaker 1: the game and it says it's like in four k

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Speaker 1: uhd or something. Anyway, my point is, I just thought

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Speaker 1: about how cool it is and how far we've come

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Speaker 1: that here it is, this game is accessible by anyone

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Speaker 1: nationwide through this app, and it's all because of Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi and streaming, and we've just we've come a long way.

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Speaker 8: Now. I think you nailed it.

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Speaker 12: I mean, football games is one thing, and in fact,

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Speaker 12: right now there are football games, NFL games, college games

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Speaker 12: that you can't even see on linear tele even if

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Speaker 12: it's subscribe to cable and all those sports packages. You

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Speaker 12: have to stream them. I mean Amazon Prime has games

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Speaker 12: they stream only on Thursday nights. I read that there'll

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Speaker 12: be at least one or two playoff games this year

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Speaker 12: that will only be streamed, and so you know, Wi

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Speaker 12: Fi can deliver it all. But streaming is just one

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Speaker 12: thing that Wi Fi brings to us. Wi Fi brings gaming,

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Speaker 12: Wi Fi brings shopping, Wi Fi brings home security. I mean,

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Speaker 12: it's it really supports pretty much.

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Speaker 8: Everything we do.

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Speaker 12: And we learned that, you know, painfully, so during the

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Speaker 12: during the pandemic shutdown.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is I think I got more questions

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Speaker 1: about how to get better Wi Fi during the pandemic

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01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:33,080
Speaker 1: than any other time of my life because we were

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Speaker 1: pushing our networks to the limit, to the brink, and

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01:31:36,720 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 1: you know, mesh networks, we're just sort of starting to

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Speaker 1: come along. But let's talk about some of the basics. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So first off, what is Wi Fi?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, so, you know, if you think back to internet

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Speaker 12: connectivity in the old days, if you're old enough, if

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Speaker 12: your audience is old enough, they remember plugging into a

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Speaker 12: phone line and connecting to the Internet. And then very

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Speaker 12: quickly we got broadband, this high speed broadband that didn't

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Speaker 12: have to use a phone line anymore. But we're all

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Speaker 12: basically plugging one laptop or typically into an Internet connection.

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Speaker 12: And you know, in the early two thousands, late nineties,

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Speaker 12: early two thousands, we realize how powerful that was and

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Speaker 12: that all of your information, your news, your communication was

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Speaker 12: going to come over the internet, and so pretty quickly realized, Wow,

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Speaker 12: this is a whole home.

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Speaker 8: Type of connectivity that people are going to want.

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Speaker 12: So we created Wi Fi in the early two thousands,

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Speaker 12: late late nineties, early two thousands to get to make

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Speaker 12: sure that any device in your home, whether it's your phone,

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Speaker 12: your TV, your laptop, your gaming gaming console, all could connect.

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Speaker 8: To the Internet wirelessly.

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Speaker 12: And it's called Wi Fi, which is a standard that

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Speaker 12: all of these devices use to talk.

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Speaker 8: To each other.

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Speaker 1: Now, it's interesting because we often hear about different flavors

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Speaker 1: of Wi Fi, like, you know, we've heard of Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi six. I've now heard Wi Fi seven coming along.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean exactly?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's the latest. It's the generation of Why Fi.

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Speaker 12: And you know, a good analogy would be for you

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Speaker 12: for your your television.

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Speaker 8: You mentioned four khd.

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Speaker 12: Well, before that it was you know, it was ten

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Speaker 12: a top, and then it was seven twenty and before

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Speaker 12: that it was you know, something else. But every few years,

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01:33:13,520 --> 01:33:16,720
Speaker 12: technology gets better, and that's set the same as true

1934
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:19,519
Speaker 12: with Wi Fi. We're now in the seventh generation of

1935
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:21,840
Speaker 12: Wi Fi. It's hard to believe that we're seven generations

1936
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:24,920
Speaker 12: in and every few years a new technology.

1937
01:33:24,320 --> 01:33:26,120
Speaker 8: Standard comes to make it better.

1938
01:33:26,520 --> 01:33:29,000
Speaker 12: And it's really designed to figure out what are the

1939
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 12: applications and what are.

1940
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:32,680
Speaker 8: The devices that are going to use Wi Fi in

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01:33:32,720 --> 01:33:33,200
Speaker 8: the future.

1942
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:36,280
Speaker 12: And as an industry, we get together and develop wireless

1943
01:33:36,320 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 12: standards to make sure that we can we can deliver

1944
01:33:38,360 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 12: those things. So Wi Fi seven happens to be the

1945
01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:43,920
Speaker 12: latest one. And it's all about speed so that you

1946
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:46,120
Speaker 12: can do all that streaming you want to do. It's

1947
01:33:46,160 --> 01:33:49,559
Speaker 12: about range so you can you know, connect to the

1948
01:33:49,600 --> 01:33:51,559
Speaker 12: Internet anywhere in your home or even in your back

1949
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:54,439
Speaker 12: in your backyard. And it's about something else that people

1950
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:57,479
Speaker 12: don't really consider so much, but it's very important, which

1951
01:33:57,520 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 12: is network capacity. And what I mean by network capacity

1952
01:34:01,400 --> 01:34:04,840
Speaker 12: is how many devices and how many applications can you

1953
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:07,840
Speaker 12: run on your Wi Fi at the same time without

1954
01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:08,840
Speaker 12: having them slow down.

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01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:11,120
Speaker 8: So those are the three things that Wi Fi seven

1956
01:34:11,240 --> 01:34:11,799
Speaker 8: is all about.

1957
01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:17,000
Speaker 1: So if I'm using my like Wi Fi box from

1958
01:34:17,040 --> 01:34:19,479
Speaker 1: the cable company, it's like underneath my TV or in

1959
01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:20,080
Speaker 1: a cabinet.

1960
01:34:20,240 --> 01:34:21,320
Speaker 2: Am I doing things right?

1961
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:21,560
Speaker 4: Or no?

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01:34:23,320 --> 01:34:24,320
Speaker 8: Well, I guess.

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01:34:24,120 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 12: First and foremost the question is is is the Wi

1964
01:34:26,439 --> 01:34:28,639
Speaker 12: Fi box from your cable company the right WiFi box

1965
01:34:28,640 --> 01:34:31,320
Speaker 12: to have? You know, depends on how long you've had it.

1966
01:34:31,400 --> 01:34:35,639
Speaker 12: Sometimes the cable companies or the internet companies will give

1967
01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:40,400
Speaker 12: you a relatively low cost to them internet box because

1968
01:34:40,439 --> 01:34:42,880
Speaker 12: they have to give it out to everyone. And if

1969
01:34:42,880 --> 01:34:46,120
Speaker 12: you have to have a large home, or you happen

1970
01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:48,120
Speaker 12: to have a lot of people on the network at

1971
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:50,840
Speaker 12: the same time, or you're subscribing to a very very

1972
01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:54,599
Speaker 12: fast speed, or you do a lot of streaming, maybe

1973
01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:57,160
Speaker 12: that Wi Fi box is just not good enough for you.

1974
01:34:57,200 --> 01:34:59,479
Speaker 12: It's good enough for a lot of people, but it's

1975
01:34:59,479 --> 01:35:01,120
Speaker 12: not good enough for everyone. So I guess the first

1976
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:03,400
Speaker 12: question is is the Wi Fi box good enough? And

1977
01:35:03,439 --> 01:35:06,519
Speaker 12: then the second plus the question of course will be

1978
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:08,160
Speaker 12: a location. Where do you put it? And how do

1979
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:10,439
Speaker 12: you configure it? But I think first and foremost people

1980
01:35:10,520 --> 01:35:12,920
Speaker 12: have to figure out for the Internet I'm paying for

1981
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:15,160
Speaker 12: and for the applications that I run, and the number

1982
01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:17,160
Speaker 12: of people in my house that are using it, is

1983
01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:18,439
Speaker 12: my WiFi box good enough?

1984
01:35:19,160 --> 01:35:22,280
Speaker 1: Now, when it comes to the router placement, if you're

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01:35:22,320 --> 01:35:24,760
Speaker 1: just using the basic router that you have, or maybe

1986
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:26,920
Speaker 1: you bought one, where do you put that?

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01:35:27,960 --> 01:35:28,400
Speaker 8: Yeah?

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01:35:28,479 --> 01:35:30,960
Speaker 12: Well, this is the unfortunate thing is sometimes you don't

1989
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:34,280
Speaker 12: have a choice, right the Wi Fi box usually goes

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01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 12: wherever the internet tech connection happens to come into your house,

1991
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:39,960
Speaker 12: which is usually may maybe it's a coax line, or

1992
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:41,960
Speaker 12: it could be a fiber line or something, and it

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01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:44,080
Speaker 12: usually comes in usually at the edge of your home,

1994
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:47,440
Speaker 12: maybe near a wall that goes outside towards the garage.

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01:35:47,680 --> 01:35:50,559
Speaker 12: And in some homes that can be a very not

1996
01:35:50,600 --> 01:35:53,280
Speaker 12: a very good location in terms of covering your all home.

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01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 12: And so, for example, if you have the choice, you'd

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01:35:57,560 --> 01:36:01,320
Speaker 12: want to put your wireless network, a wireless route someplace

1999
01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:05,719
Speaker 12: away from or not behind a door, or not behind walls,

2000
01:36:05,800 --> 01:36:08,599
Speaker 12: or not behind a mirror or a TV or a

2001
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:11,080
Speaker 12: TV or a computer screen, because all those things can

2002
01:36:11,120 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 12: block wireless signal.

2003
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:15,639
Speaker 8: But in many cases, you know, cousiners don't have a choice.

2004
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:17,800
Speaker 12: My recommendation is, if you have to put it in

2005
01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:19,920
Speaker 12: a certain location, at least try to, you know, raise

2006
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:21,720
Speaker 12: it up a few feet off the ground. Make sure

2007
01:36:21,760 --> 01:36:23,760
Speaker 12: there's not a lot of clutter around it, so those

2008
01:36:23,840 --> 01:36:26,639
Speaker 12: Internet Wi Fi waves can kind of penetrate your home.

2009
01:36:27,040 --> 01:36:30,280
Speaker 1: We're talking to David Henry of neck Year about Wi

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01:36:30,280 --> 01:36:34,320
Speaker 1: Fi and what about mesh networks. Can you explain briefly

2011
01:36:34,400 --> 01:36:36,400
Speaker 1: what that is and why those are so popular.

2012
01:36:36,439 --> 01:36:39,880
Speaker 8: Now, yeah, it's exactly what we're just talking about.

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01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:42,360
Speaker 12: If your Wi Fi comes in, say in your basement

2014
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:45,320
Speaker 12: or in the bottom floor of your home, but you

2015
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:47,639
Speaker 12: use it a lot on the second or the third

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01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 12: third floor of your home, or it comes on one

2017
01:36:50,040 --> 01:36:51,400
Speaker 12: side of the home, but you know you want to

2018
01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:52,840
Speaker 12: do a lot of streaming on the other side of

2019
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:57,320
Speaker 12: the home. What happens is that wireless signal it erodes,

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01:36:57,360 --> 01:37:00,680
Speaker 12: it degrades for every wall it goes through. Sometimes by

2021
01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:02,200
Speaker 12: the time you get to your bedroom, by the time

2022
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:04,799
Speaker 12: you get to your living room or your family room.

2023
01:37:04,760 --> 01:37:06,080
Speaker 8: You just don't even have a connection.

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01:37:06,880 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 12: And so what wireless mesh networking is technology was invented

2025
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:13,760
Speaker 12: in twenty sixteen. You know, next year we have our

2026
01:37:13,840 --> 01:37:16,879
Speaker 12: Orbi product line, which is the best in class mesh network.

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01:37:17,080 --> 01:37:18,280
Speaker 8: What mesh networks.

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01:37:17,920 --> 01:37:20,040
Speaker 12: Are is instead of having one wireless router or one

2029
01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:22,960
Speaker 12: wireless box, say you know in your home office, you

2030
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:25,360
Speaker 12: have multiple of them. Maybe if the three of them

2031
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:29,080
Speaker 12: are scattered around your home so that you can no

2032
01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 12: matter where you are, you're always near a strong network connection.

2033
01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:35,439
Speaker 8: So that's called mesh networking.

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01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:38,519
Speaker 1: Okay, now you just mentioned the Orby, So that's what

2035
01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: netgear does. And I'm just curious like if okay, so

2036
01:37:42,200 --> 01:37:45,160
Speaker 1: if I'm going with like a high end neckgear, would

2037
01:37:45,200 --> 01:37:46,920
Speaker 1: that be Orby? And then if I was getting like

2038
01:37:46,920 --> 01:37:48,879
Speaker 1: a standard neckgear, what would you recommend?

2039
01:37:49,960 --> 01:37:52,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, So, if you have a large home, if you

2040
01:37:52,760 --> 01:37:55,320
Speaker 12: have two stories, if you have three stories, if you

2041
01:37:55,479 --> 01:37:59,120
Speaker 12: have a situation where maybe your network router is in

2042
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:03,200
Speaker 12: your basement and can't penetrate maybe the floors. If you

2043
01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:07,599
Speaker 12: have an outside building like a garage or a pool

2044
01:38:07,600 --> 01:38:10,679
Speaker 12: house or or something where you just really can't penetrate

2045
01:38:10,720 --> 01:38:13,720
Speaker 12: with the box you have, Uh, the Orby network is

2046
01:38:14,040 --> 01:38:15,960
Speaker 12: excellent for that is the best in class in terms

2047
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:19,840
Speaker 12: of getting your maximum speed all the way around your

2048
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:22,000
Speaker 12: home and even we say all all around your property,

2049
01:38:22,160 --> 01:38:26,200
Speaker 12: you know, near the pool, right you have outdoors? Yeah, yeah,

2050
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 12: So so if you got that that that coverage issue,

2051
01:38:29,520 --> 01:38:31,880
Speaker 12: net Yar's Orby is the best for it. Now, if

2052
01:38:31,920 --> 01:38:34,479
Speaker 12: you have a smaller home, maybe it's it's it's on

2053
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:37,559
Speaker 12: a single story, or maybe it is uh you know,

2054
01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:40,439
Speaker 12: two stories, but it has very thin walls and coverage

2055
01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:43,120
Speaker 12: is not the problem. But you just want max speed, well,

2056
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:46,160
Speaker 12: then I would I would Gear a guide customers towards

2057
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:47,360
Speaker 12: our Nighthawk line.

2058
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:49,599
Speaker 8: Nighthawk is our line of wireless writers.

2059
01:38:49,640 --> 01:38:51,320
Speaker 12: We've been in you know again, the market leader in

2060
01:38:51,360 --> 01:38:54,040
Speaker 12: wireless routers as long as I can remember. And Nighthawk

2061
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:56,360
Speaker 12: is our brand for wireless routers that really gives you

2062
01:38:56,800 --> 01:39:01,240
Speaker 12: maximum speed, the latest technology, lots of devices connected at

2063
01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:01,840
Speaker 12: the same time.

2064
01:39:02,040 --> 01:39:03,440
Speaker 8: So those are our two solutions.

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01:39:03,720 --> 01:39:06,519
Speaker 12: Nighthawk is our best in class for maybe for smaller

2066
01:39:06,520 --> 01:39:09,479
Speaker 12: homes and people who want to even sometimes they want

2067
01:39:09,479 --> 01:39:11,599
Speaker 12: to tinker or configure their networks. They like to play

2068
01:39:11,640 --> 01:39:14,160
Speaker 12: with it, maybe a little bit more technical of an audience.

2069
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:17,040
Speaker 12: And our ORBI is for the large homes, people who

2070
01:39:17,080 --> 01:39:18,320
Speaker 12: just want to set it, forget it.

2071
01:39:18,320 --> 01:39:20,240
Speaker 8: And have the best performance everywhere in the home.

2072
01:39:20,360 --> 01:39:22,439
Speaker 1: Okay, I've got about thirty seconds. Can you give me

2073
01:39:22,479 --> 01:39:26,519
Speaker 1: the quickest explanation of two point four gigaherts versus five.

2074
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:31,720
Speaker 12: Yes, two point four gigaherts is the original Wi Fi frequency.

2075
01:39:32,120 --> 01:39:35,519
Speaker 12: It had good range but very low speed, and there

2076
01:39:35,560 --> 01:39:38,240
Speaker 12: were a lot of other devices on it baby monitors,

2077
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:42,559
Speaker 12: microwave oves and the like. Five gigaherts does much faster

2078
01:39:42,680 --> 01:39:46,519
Speaker 12: speed and much cleaner, meaning there's not a lot of

2079
01:39:46,560 --> 01:39:48,720
Speaker 12: other devices on it, but it may not have as

2080
01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:51,160
Speaker 12: good of range as two point four, and I'll just

2081
01:39:51,200 --> 01:39:52,280
Speaker 12: go go straight forward.

2082
01:39:52,520 --> 01:39:54,040
Speaker 8: Six Giar Hurts is the latest.

2083
01:39:54,320 --> 01:39:57,200
Speaker 12: It's in the Wi Fi seven technology and it's even

2084
01:39:57,360 --> 01:40:00,679
Speaker 12: faster than five gigears or two two point four.

2085
01:40:01,200 --> 01:40:04,040
Speaker 8: The iPhone fifteen uses it. The new Samsung phone use it.

2086
01:40:04,080 --> 01:40:05,160
Speaker 8: The Macnipro use it.

2087
01:40:05,439 --> 01:40:08,080
Speaker 12: I would really recommend if you have a new device,

2088
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:11,000
Speaker 12: like a new iPhone, you gotta get Wi Fi seven

2089
01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:13,200
Speaker 12: because of the supports that sif, giga hitts frequency.

2090
01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:14,960
Speaker 2: Wow. Good to know. I did not know that.

2091
01:40:15,040 --> 01:40:17,960
Speaker 1: David Henry, President and general manager of Connected Home Products

2092
01:40:17,960 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: and Services at Netgear, thanks so much for.

2093
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:23,360
Speaker 2: Joining me today. All right, thanks rich all right Netgear

2094
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:23,760
Speaker 2: dot com.

2095
01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:26,680
Speaker 1: I'll put the website online rich on Tech, and I'll

2096
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:29,559
Speaker 1: link up the products that he mentioned there.

2097
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:32,519
Speaker 2: It is a good little information about Wi Fi. I

2098
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:33,320
Speaker 2: love learning that.

2099
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:36,840
Speaker 1: If you're listening to rich on Tech, coming up feedback,

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01:40:42,160 --> 01:40:47,400
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on tech. New report on teams

2101
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:50,559
Speaker 1: and their relationship with their smartphone. Ooh, it's not good.

2102
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 1: Four and a half hours on their phones daily on average,

2103
01:40:55,040 --> 01:41:00,519
Speaker 1: they're always nearby two hundred and thirty seven notifications a day. Ooh,

2104
01:41:00,640 --> 01:41:03,439
Speaker 1: that's how many they get. They view about forty six

2105
01:41:03,560 --> 01:41:07,759
Speaker 1: per day. This is all from common sense media. Bobo

2106
01:41:07,840 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 1: says more than that, Yeah, I believe it. It's annoying

2107
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:13,200
Speaker 1: when you get notifications from apps that shouldn't be sending

2108
01:41:13,200 --> 01:41:15,160
Speaker 1: you them, right, like the stuff that's not very important,

2109
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:19,200
Speaker 1: like Target, Come on in, we've got a sale.

2110
01:41:19,280 --> 01:41:21,000
Speaker 2: Your favorite T shirts are on sale.

2111
01:41:22,120 --> 01:41:25,840
Speaker 1: Teens feel notifications are distracting, but they prioritize those from people.

2112
01:41:25,880 --> 01:41:27,479
Speaker 1: See what I was I saying, See all the ones

2113
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:31,439
Speaker 1: that are like nonsense. Social media dominates Forty two percent

2114
01:41:31,439 --> 01:41:34,120
Speaker 1: of their time is spent on social media. TikTok is

2115
01:41:34,240 --> 01:41:37,160
Speaker 1: used by half of teens for nearly two hours daily.

2116
01:41:37,680 --> 01:41:40,080
Speaker 1: That makes up thirty eight percent of their time on

2117
01:41:40,120 --> 01:41:45,719
Speaker 1: their phone. Next is YouTube. Nineteen percent. Teens use phones

2118
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:49,000
Speaker 1: forty three minutes on average during their school hours. Obviously,

2119
01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 1: schools have different enforcement policies. Let's see what else. Oh,

2120
01:41:53,640 --> 01:41:56,040
Speaker 1: the overnight thing. This is the other thing. A lot

2121
01:41:56,040 --> 01:41:59,960
Speaker 1: of teens try to leave their phones on at night

2122
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:02,080
Speaker 1: while they're trying to sleep, and that interrupts their sleep

2123
01:42:02,120 --> 01:42:04,920
Speaker 1: because they don't want to miss a thing. And teens

2124
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:06,920
Speaker 1: kind of understand that this is a problem, but they

2125
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 1: don't really know what to do about it because they're teens.

2126
01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:10,760
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't as adults. We don't even know

2127
01:42:10,800 --> 01:42:13,320
Speaker 1: what to do. And this is the other side of this.

2128
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:16,320
Speaker 1: A lot of these apps aren't even meant for people

2129
01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:18,559
Speaker 1: under thirteen. A lot of these social media apps, and

2130
01:42:18,600 --> 01:42:21,000
Speaker 1: these teens still use them because they just use a

2131
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:23,439
Speaker 1: different ad a different age and they get around that.

2132
01:42:24,160 --> 01:42:26,439
Speaker 1: But common Sense Media with a new relationship. But it's

2133
01:42:26,439 --> 01:42:30,360
Speaker 1: an interesting report, so check it out. Relationship teens have

2134
01:42:30,439 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: with their smartphones. Mister Beast is the top digital creator

2135
01:42:34,520 --> 01:42:39,880
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, according to Forbes eighty two million dollars. Wow,

2136
01:42:40,040 --> 01:42:43,759
Speaker 1: that's how much he earned. Yeah, a lot of people

2137
01:42:43,800 --> 01:42:46,760
Speaker 1: watch mister Beast. My kids asked me if he'd be

2138
01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:49,280
Speaker 1: friends with me. He's like, do you think you'd be

2139
01:42:49,280 --> 01:42:50,200
Speaker 1: friends with mister Beasts?

2140
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:50,760
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know.

2141
01:42:50,800 --> 01:42:53,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what mister Beast is like his real name,

2142
01:42:53,240 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 1: by the way, Jimmy Donaldson.

2143
01:42:55,720 --> 01:42:56,439
Speaker 2: Eighty two million.

2144
01:42:56,439 --> 01:42:59,560
Speaker 1: In the next to two people are tie Ret and

2145
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:03,840
Speaker 1: Link thirty five million, and Preston Plays he makes thirty

2146
01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:06,800
Speaker 1: five million as well. Jake Paul thirty four million at

2147
01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:11,799
Speaker 1: number five. Let's see anyone else. The Dmilio Kid, Charlie,

2148
01:43:11,840 --> 01:43:15,479
Speaker 1: she makes twenty three million. Emma Chamberlain, I think she's

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Speaker 1: like a famous podcaster twenty million. Alex Cooper another famous podcaster,

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Speaker 1: twenty million. Okay, there's some money in digital creators. I

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Speaker 1: don't think most of it's like celebrities. You know, most

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Speaker 1: of them are not making that. But there are some

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Speaker 1: of them making a lot of money. But if you

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Speaker 1: ask any teenager what do they want to do?

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Speaker 2: They want to be a YouTuber.

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Speaker 1: Now it's probably a TikToker, but they want to be

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Speaker 1: they want to be a content creator. They don't you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't want a regular job. They don't want to

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Speaker 1: do what I'm doing. They don't want to come in

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Speaker 1: every day and do hard work. I mean, it is

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Speaker 1: hard work to be a creator, like really hard. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of these people, I hang out with them.

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Speaker 1: It is it is wild how much work it is.

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Speaker 1: Nathan writes in Hey Rich, I have a Samsung's Galaxy

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Speaker 1: Z Fold four that hasn't gotten a security update since April.

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Speaker 2: First, I factory reset it and still no update.

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Speaker 1: I did some googling and found that I could download

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Speaker 1: Samsung's smart Switch to my desktop and I was able

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Speaker 1: to get an update via USB to my phone. Now

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Speaker 1: I've got the September first Android security patch. Feel free

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Speaker 1: to use this on your show to help others. Thanks Rich. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's a good little tip there. If you're not getting

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Speaker 1: your security update, you can download the smart Switch app

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Speaker 1: on Samsung on your desktop computer, plug in your phone

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Speaker 1: and it will probably force that update. Donna says, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we enjoy your talks on KTLA. Just wonder if you

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Speaker 1: ever heard about or can warn people about a computer problem.

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Speaker 1: Our senior citizen friend nearly got scammed and our computer

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Speaker 1: got ruined by folks supposedly working for Microsoft. First they

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Speaker 1: disabled her home computer, then talked to her while fixing it,

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Speaker 1: and wanted payment through bankwire. She finally realized the con

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Speaker 1: and ended the contact. Today today she called geek Squad

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Speaker 1: for a real fix, and they say they see this

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Speaker 1: scam every day. Can you put out a warning? Yes,

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Speaker 1: tech support scams very very prevalent. Do not fall for them.

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Speaker 1: You get a pop up window on your computer that

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Speaker 1: says you know your computer's infected. Call this number. It's Microsoft.

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Speaker 1: Do not fall for it. Turn off your computer. Close

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Speaker 1: your web browser if you can. If you can't, turn

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Speaker 1: off your computer, restart it, unplug it. If you have

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Speaker 1: to plug it back in, your computer will start up.

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Speaker 2: It'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: Scott says, Hey, Rich, I've been following you since the

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Speaker 1: day you started on KTLA. I want to know that

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Speaker 1: I've had a problem with an item you endorse Rolo

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Speaker 1: last year in Germany. Last year my Samsung Flip three.

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Speaker 1: It quit working for a day, and now have a

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Speaker 1: Flip five and in Spain it only works half the time.

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Speaker 1: Their support is great, but they want me to sit

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Speaker 1: and send them screenshots of at least five different configuration steps.

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Speaker 1: I have books, tours booked, and I cannot sit at

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Speaker 1: a computer. They have no phone support. I have been

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Speaker 1: very I'll say the word mad, especially when I'm stranded

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Speaker 1: ten miles out of Barcelona. This e SIM should be

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Speaker 1: configured from the get go.

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Speaker 2: It's not.

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Speaker 1: I have a month in southern Europe. I'm gonna buy

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Speaker 1: a simcard, a physical SIM when I have the chance.

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Speaker 1: Wanting you to give the heads up on the downfalls

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Speaker 1: of Arlo. Cheers Scott. Yes, Scott, so I don't endorse them.

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Speaker 1: I don't endorse anything, but I do talk about them

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Speaker 1: because I use them a lot, and I agree they

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Speaker 1: are great, but you your mileage may vary. There are

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Speaker 1: so many different cell phones, so many different networks, so

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Speaker 1: many different configurations.

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Speaker 2: It's not always going to work out perfectly.

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Speaker 1: So know that going in and have a backup plan

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna get an e sim for your international travel.

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Speaker 1: Like me, when I got to Japan, it did not

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Speaker 1: work as expected on one of my phones. Turns out

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Speaker 1: that phone was not supported with Aerolow in Japan specifically,

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Speaker 1: and so I had to make do with my other phone,

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Speaker 1: which I know not everyone's gonna have two phones, so

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Speaker 1: you may need to get a physical sim. You may

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Speaker 1: need to take a different direction, But I would say

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Speaker 1: a majority of the time, Scott, I've used aerolow at

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Speaker 1: least a half a dozen times, and my mom and

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Speaker 1: many many others that I've recommended this to, and they've

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Speaker 1: all said it works. So yes, you need to be

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Speaker 1: prepared for any sort of hitch in anything. And Peter says,

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Speaker 1: my eighteen year old boy worked. He quite quit within

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Speaker 1: a month, miss days every day because of the online gaming.

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Speaker 1: I'm about to shut it all down for him. Any

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Speaker 1: advice before I do. He graduated or he's been a

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Speaker 1: good kid, but he's addicted to these giant online worlds. Peter,

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Speaker 1: I am so sorry to hear this, and I think

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Speaker 1: what you're experiencing is very, very common. You got to

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Speaker 1: put some limits in place. If he can't deal with

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Speaker 1: those limits, I think you know therapy is in order

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Speaker 1: here because he may not be able to cope with this.

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Speaker 2: He's a kid.

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01:47:19,240 --> 01:47:22,679
Speaker 1: These developers develop games that are meant to lure you in.

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Speaker 1: They're meant to keep you connected. They're meant to keep

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Speaker 1: you on as much as possible. He may not be

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Speaker 1: equipped to handle that. You may need to seek outside help.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.

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Speaker 1: Go to richontech dot tv. You can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media. I am at rich on Tech. Next week,

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Speaker 1: it is back to New York City. Pixel phone Pixel

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Speaker 1: is launching. Google has a big event. We are gonna

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Speaker 1: go hands on with a Pixel eight. I cannot wait

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Speaker 1: to see what Google is doing with a new pixel.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. There are so many

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Speaker 1: ways you can spend your time.

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Speaker 2: I do appreciate you. Spending it right here with me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible, Kim Bobo,

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Speaker 1: bill engineers.

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Speaker 2: My name is Richdmiro. I will talk to you real soon.

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