Speaker 1: Why next year's Android phones might be a bust. You
Speaker 1: can now sell your home directly to Zillow. iPhone gets
Speaker 1: some features parents will appreciate, plus the app that turns
Speaker 1: your iPhone into an iPod Classic, and of course your
Speaker 1: tech questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about,
Speaker 1: and I answer all of the questions, well, some of
Speaker 1: the questions that you send me.
Speaker 2: Joining me is producer Megan Welcome. How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you.
Speaker 2: Getting ready for the holidays? That's for sure? Lots of prep?
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you still prepping somewhat?
Speaker 1: We uh, you know, we're still aiding Santa with the list,
Speaker 1: so okay, keeping things, keep adding things on little by little.
Speaker 2: I was in the stores.
Speaker 1: I was at the mall yesterday actually, and I still
Speaker 1: will say, as much of a tech person i am,
Speaker 1: I believe that going to a store is still better
Speaker 1: because it's easier. You see, Like I was in the
Speaker 1: Amazon store, which is ironic because you could just go
Speaker 1: on Amazon. But I was in the Amazon Store and
Speaker 1: just found that, like while I was checking out, there's
Speaker 1: like five things around the checkout that would be perfect
Speaker 1: as gifts. Yeah, and it's stuff that this is. I've
Speaker 1: always said this about shopping online. You have to know
Speaker 1: exactly what you want. When you're shopping online, there's no browsing.
Speaker 1: And if these companies can figure out a good way
Speaker 1: of kind of suggesting stuff, I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but I've never looked at the suggestive stuff on Amazon,
Speaker 1: like I've never made a purchase based on something that says,
Speaker 1: from your previous history, here's what you recommend, Like, I
Speaker 1: never bought something. It's so random and so and plus
Speaker 1: it doesn't take into consideration like you might have been
Speaker 1: buying like something random for a person that you're never
Speaker 1: buying for again, like a you know, white elephant gift
Speaker 1: or something, and it's like, oh, you would love to
Speaker 1: you know, send and you're like, no, that was like
Speaker 1: a one time thing. So I still believe that going
Speaker 1: into the store, and it actually kind of makes me
Speaker 1: sad that Toys Russ is gone, because that's what I
Speaker 1: used to do. My wife and I used to go
Speaker 1: and just go to Toys Russ and kind of look
Speaker 1: around and you get inspired by.
Speaker 2: The stuff you see them.
Speaker 3: Where do you buy your toys for your kids online.
Speaker 1: Well, Santa buys them, but we gifts, we buy, we
Speaker 1: buy a couple of things. Yeah, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of them we we kind of you know, just
Speaker 1: go off Amazon. And I think it's just kind of
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is the first year that Toys
Speaker 1: Russ is gone, so or maybe it was gone last year.
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but either way, it's it's it's a thing.
Speaker 1: So I think Target is kind of going to benefit
Speaker 1: from that. And well for sure because they do have
Speaker 1: toy sections. Yeah, and I noticed that the Target toy
Speaker 1: section is a lot bigger too. Anyway, Uh, CES is
Speaker 1: coming up, I know. Uh, I'm getting a lot of
Speaker 1: emails about whether I'm going. Yes, I am going to CES.
Speaker 1: I'll be there in Las Vegas. If you want to
Speaker 1: get in touch with me and you have like an
Speaker 1: issue and you just you know, you have like something.
Speaker 1: If you don't have my email address, it's hello at
Speaker 1: richon tech dot TV, so you can email me there
Speaker 1: getting a lot of pitches, you really only need to
Speaker 1: email me once.
Speaker 2: I will find your email.
Speaker 1: I will go through it and if I think I'm interested,
Speaker 1: I will definitely get in touch and I'm already doing that.
Speaker 3: So exciting.
Speaker 2: It is exciting.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the first story of the day. Better
Speaker 1: password protections in Chrome. So Chrome has had this feature
Speaker 1: since I guess the beginning of the year, called password
Speaker 1: check Up.
Speaker 2: It was an extension that when you typed.
Speaker 1: A password in it would check your password against a
Speaker 1: list of known passwords that are compromised, which sounds kind
Speaker 1: of weird, like I don't really want anyone checking my
Speaker 1: password against anything, because they have to take my password
Speaker 1: and send it across some sort of list that seems
Speaker 1: inherently insecure.
Speaker 2: But this is Google.
Speaker 1: I've met the Chrome team that does the security stuff.
Speaker 1: They're very smart. Believe me, I do trust them, but
Speaker 1: I think this is odd. But now they're taking that
Speaker 1: little service called password Checkup, which was an extension, and
Speaker 1: they're building it into Chrome. So now Chrome will warn
Speaker 1: you if your user name or password has been compromised
Speaker 1: in a data breach, and it will tell you, hey,
Speaker 1: change this password. Most of my passwords are pretty good,
Speaker 1: you know, like other people. I've been known to reuse
Speaker 1: a password or two. I'm sure you do. And I
Speaker 1: think that's where this comes in handy, is if you
Speaker 1: don't realize that you used your password on a random
Speaker 1: site that was hacked and you're still using it on
Speaker 1: other sites. Chrome is like, hey, buddy, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and like change this up, you know, and it does,
Speaker 1: I guess bring some light to this problem. I just
Speaker 1: again find it really odd that they're checking my password
Speaker 1: against some sort of list. Now, there are websites that
Speaker 1: can do this. You can type in your user name
Speaker 1: and get on the list. Whenever your email address shows
Speaker 1: up on one of these like kind of you know,
Speaker 1: these hacked lists will often be dumped online. They call
Speaker 1: them like password dumps, and they'll just be like a
Speaker 1: whole file of like millions of usernames and email addresses
Speaker 1: and if not or sorry user name, email addresses and
Speaker 1: passwords if not more. And nowadays, companies are getting better
Speaker 1: about kind of keeping things secure, but those are big companies.
Speaker 1: Smaller websites may not keep your stuff as secure, which
Speaker 1: is why it's important to use a strong password that's
Speaker 1: unique for every single website. I'm not worried about Bank
Speaker 1: of America's website being hacked, because guess what, they have
Speaker 1: the best protection in the world. I'm worried more about
Speaker 1: some random photo website you sign up for and they
Speaker 1: have your password that you use on Bank of America
Speaker 1: and now if they get hacked, your Bank of America's
Speaker 1: at risk.
Speaker 3: So Chrome should be telling us.
Speaker 1: Like today it says it's gradually rolling out, So if
Speaker 1: you're signed Intochrome, you can turn it off if you
Speaker 1: don't like it under Sync and Google Services, under Chrome
Speaker 1: Settings you can change it.
Speaker 2: I think for ninety nine percent of people, they're not
Speaker 2: going to change it.
Speaker 3: If my password is not good.
Speaker 1: There are ways, there are other uh you know, if
Speaker 1: you use like last Pass or Dashlane, they will scan
Speaker 1: your passwords and do the same thing. Oh, I guess
Speaker 1: it's a it's a known thing, all right, Megan, you're up.
Speaker 3: First question, Okay, first question comes from Amy. Hi, mister Demiro.
Speaker 3: I've been watching Katley Morning News since they began, and
Speaker 3: I was a teenager back then.
Speaker 2: Lol.
Speaker 3: I'm curious of your thoughts on which iPhone to get
Speaker 3: my daughter, who's twelve for Christmas. She currently has a
Speaker 3: six plus. But do we know which of the new
Speaker 3: phones is the sturdiest, the eleven or the pro? Which
Speaker 3: would you choose for your child? She is very responsible
Speaker 3: and earns all A's very good.
Speaker 2: Well, good for her, But here's my thing. How old
Speaker 2: is she? Twelve? Okay, so twelve is probably the age
Speaker 2: I think I got.
Speaker 3: My first phone, but it was a flip phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that.
Speaker 1: Was a different time, so I was like two years ago.
Speaker 3: I was two years ago. Yeah, I think iPhones were
Speaker 3: out two years ago.
Speaker 1: So this is something I struggle with. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of parents struggle with. And A, it's awesome that
Speaker 1: you're getting her the newest phone, but bottom line is
Speaker 1: she doesn't need anything more than the iPhone eleven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she does not need the.
Speaker 1: Pro unless she's a budding YouTube star and she needs
Speaker 1: like all those pro features, which, when you really think
Speaker 1: about the Pro features, the only differential between the iPhone
Speaker 1: eleven and the Pro Max or the Pro rather is
Speaker 1: you get a telephoto lens, which means when you zoom
Speaker 1: in it's gonna theoretically look better. You still get the
Speaker 1: wide angle on the eleven. And the other thing is
Speaker 1: you get slightly better battery life and you get a
Speaker 1: better screen.
Speaker 2: So that's it.
Speaker 1: Those are not enough for a twelve year old to
Speaker 1: go over into the Pro.
Speaker 3: She's like a photographer then maybe, but.
Speaker 1: Even that it's like you're you're still getting the same camera.
Speaker 1: I mean, except for the telephoto. A lot of times
Speaker 1: people think that you're not getting the wide angle with
Speaker 1: the eleven. You are, Oh, you're just not getting the zoom.
Speaker 1: And it's not as if you can't zoom in your phone.
Speaker 1: You can, it's just not gonna be as clear like
Speaker 1: high zooms. So I think go for the eleven. And
Speaker 1: you're asking.
Speaker 2: What the best like what she say? What was the
Speaker 2: word she used.
Speaker 3: The most sturdiest?
Speaker 2: So I mean neither.
Speaker 1: You know, if she's an eleven, she's a twelve year
Speaker 1: old kid, She's gonna drop it a thousand times. I
Speaker 1: would recommend a case, and I think she needs a
Speaker 1: good case, like not just like an.
Speaker 3: Apple case, like screen protector.
Speaker 1: Screen protector. So we like tech armor, well I do.
Speaker 1: I like tech Armor as a screen protector, and for
Speaker 1: a case, I would go the Spec Presidio Grip or
Speaker 1: some sort of Spec Grip. Tech twenty one is also
Speaker 1: really good. Anything that is rated for a drop protection
Speaker 1: of like ten feet or more. You can't just get
Speaker 1: one of those cases that are you know, the nice
Speaker 1: case that looks great that just kind of protects it
Speaker 1: from scratches. You want something that protects from drops, yes,
Speaker 1: and yeah, your case does not do.
Speaker 3: That, like an Amazon case for ten dollars.
Speaker 1: But the case I have that I really like too
Speaker 1: is called smartish. I think it's called like Kung Fu grip,
Speaker 1: and so it's really grippy on the sides, which is
Speaker 1: really nice.
Speaker 2: And it also has a lip.
Speaker 1: So if you look at your case and you notice
Speaker 1: that it comes up over the phone, that means that
Speaker 1: it's gonna better protect your phone in the event of
Speaker 1: a drop. So yours has a little bit of a lip,
Speaker 1: but it's not it's not one that's rated for drop,
Speaker 1: I can tell.
Speaker 2: So good question.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, so we talked about this in last
Speaker 1: week's podcast. And remember I told you about the trip
Speaker 1: to Maui that Qualcom brought everyone off minus me, and
Speaker 1: so I was a little bitter.
Speaker 2: Obviously you couldn't take the time off.
Speaker 1: But I also mentioned something about that trip, and I
Speaker 1: said something about everyone was super excited about all the
Speaker 1: things that Qualcom was introducing at this event. But I said,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because it's kind of tough to sift through
Speaker 1: the hype of being in Maui for free and report,
Speaker 1: quote unquote reporting about all the stuff and actually kind
Speaker 1: of giving some good analysis of what Qualcom is doing.
Speaker 1: And they launched their new chip there, which is the
Speaker 1: Qualcom Snapdragon eight sixty five. So leave it to ours
Speaker 1: Technica to have an unbiased person to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Ron Now I'm gonna kill his last name, Amadeo.
Speaker 2: Amadeo.
Speaker 3: Wait, oh yeah, I'm Amadeo.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think So.
Speaker 1: Leave it to good old Ron, who I've I've read
Speaker 1: his stuff many times. He gets real and he has
Speaker 1: a great article and here's what the headline is, the
Speaker 1: Snapdragon eight six y five will make phones worse in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So leave it to him to actually give
Speaker 1: us some real analysis over this issue. Of everyone that
Speaker 1: went to this event was.
Speaker 2: Just raw rah rah rah rah rah raw Qualcomm.
Speaker 3: Everyone was talking it up.
Speaker 1: Everyone that went, okay free right now. Ron, it did
Speaker 1: not seem like he went, but he followed the news.
Speaker 1: Or maybe he did go and maybe he paid his
Speaker 1: own way.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: But here's what his thesis is of his article. This
Speaker 1: is the first time so Qualcomm is so hot for
Speaker 1: five G that's like the big next kind of next
Speaker 1: frontier for smartphones. Right, and we've heard a lot about it.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the next It means for wireless companies,
Speaker 1: lots of money. For us, it means speedier connections. But
Speaker 1: our connections are already pretty good. Yeah, we'd like a
Speaker 1: more Instead of speedier connections, we'd probably like a more
Speaker 1: solid connection in more places, like everywhere, Like when I'm
Speaker 1: getting on the plane.
Speaker 2: I you know that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever gotten on a plane lately.
Speaker 1: You never have a connection, never when you're in.
Speaker 2: When you're in your seat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy. So here's the thesis of his article.
Speaker 1: He says, it's unusual because this new chip that basically
Speaker 1: goes in every Android phone for the first time in
Speaker 1: seven years, does not have a modem on board.
Speaker 2: So what does that mean.
Speaker 1: The modem is in a separate chip, which it's a
Speaker 1: bundled modem five G and four G, and the modem
Speaker 1: is what allows the phone to talk to the network,
Speaker 1: so you kind of have to have it.
Speaker 2: But what he's.
Speaker 1: Saying is that because it's a separate chip, a lot
Speaker 1: of these phones that don't need five G still have
Speaker 1: it bundled in. Now, basically, Qualcom's forcing it on everyone,
Speaker 1: And so his idea is that these phones are going
Speaker 1: to be bigger than they have to be, They're going
Speaker 1: to use way more energy than they have to They're
Speaker 1: just going to be sloppier than they need to be
Speaker 1: because it's a mess. And I think that's an interesting
Speaker 1: take because and I think this has gotten a little
Speaker 1: debate online. I think people are getting a little saucy
Speaker 1: about it because, yeah, none of the people that went
Speaker 1: to the event, like seemed to bring this up except
Speaker 1: for him, and now they're kind of debating him on this.
Speaker 2: Now this is his opinion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he does bring up a phone from the past,
Speaker 1: which was the HTC Thunderbolt, and it was the first
Speaker 1: four G phone with a separate modem, and he said
Speaker 1: it was a disaster. It was hot, it was a slow,
Speaker 1: it was a buggy mess, and the battery life was terrible.
Speaker 1: So I think he has a great point here, and
Speaker 1: I think that he actually brings up a Snapdragon press release.
Speaker 2: Snap Dragon is the brand of Qualcomm's chips. He brings
Speaker 2: up this.
Speaker 1: Press release from twenty twelve when the company switched over
Speaker 1: to single chip solutions and said, typically, the more chips
Speaker 1: that are involved in building device the more challenging it is.
Speaker 2: To conserve battery.
Speaker 1: Okay, so he's kind of putting Qualcomm's own words against them.
Speaker 2: Six years later, seven years later, eight.
Speaker 1: Years later, the chip that's the chip, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's the exact one that looks very big. Oh
Speaker 1: the little time Okay, Oh yeah, see that's what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. All these people on Instagram are shown off.
Speaker 3: The ship's tag ad here in Mallie. Yeah, the Qualcum
Speaker 3: snap Dragon Summit.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So I interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great article to read ours Technico
Speaker 1: dot Com. We'll see what happens this year. But I
Speaker 1: will say this, all the five G phones, from what
Speaker 1: I've seen, I've I've tested only the one from Sprint,
Speaker 1: but from what I've seen, everyone is agreeing that they're
Speaker 1: just not there yet.
Speaker 2: The networks are not there yet. So five G lots
Speaker 2: of hype, not a lot of delivery just yet.
Speaker 3: Megan, all right, Okay, So this next question comes from
Speaker 3: Pat and he asks is honey dot com safe to use?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: I was confused because I googled, like honey dot com.
Speaker 3: This is like a honeywebsite. Is he talking about the
Speaker 3: chrome extension?
Speaker 2: He's talking about the Chrome extension. Okay, yeah, Honey dot com.
Speaker 3: Is not I think the website to make Honey like.
Speaker 1: The National Honeyboard. Yeah, that's why, so join Honey dot com.
Speaker 1: This is a Chrome extension that does all the automatic
Speaker 1: coupon codes and all that good stuff. They were just
Speaker 1: purchased by PayPal for something like four billion dollars. So
Speaker 1: clearly PayPal SyES a lot of potential in this, but
Speaker 1: their potential might be more seen in how they can
Speaker 1: monetize users of this gadget or this software, and not
Speaker 1: necessarily how much it benefits those users.
Speaker 2: So I've downloaded Honey in the past.
Speaker 1: I will say I don't use it. I have found
Speaker 1: that it's just not as good as some of the
Speaker 1: other stuff out there. And you've heard me talk about
Speaker 1: some other ones. So what am I going to recommend? Megan?
Speaker 3: Oh oh?
Speaker 1: Shoot starts with the w oh yeah wiki by by,
Speaker 1: So I like wiki by. I find that they have
Speaker 1: the best coupon codes that work many many times. And
Speaker 1: the other one that I would check out is a
Speaker 1: brand new one from slick Deals, and slick Deals I
Speaker 1: find is not as automatic as wikiby, but it searches
Speaker 1: all of slick Deals, which is this great crowdsource website
Speaker 1: for deals.
Speaker 2: And it does unearth a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: A little bit more it does automatically apply the coupon
Speaker 1: codes to check out, but I find sometimes you may
Speaker 1: have to go into like their offers and see what
Speaker 1: other people are posting about. Okay, but those are the
Speaker 1: two that I recommend Honey for all the hype. Just
Speaker 1: I feel like, here's what I think Honey did right
Speaker 1: and why I think PayPal bought them. They had probably
Speaker 1: the most deals with companies, So if I'm a Macy's,
Speaker 1: they had a big team that would work with Macy's
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, let's get your codes into this app.
Speaker 2: But realistically, what I like about.
Speaker 1: Wikibi is it's much more crowd generated, and I feel
Speaker 1: like that's what gives it better codes. Because when you
Speaker 1: use a code, Megan that you find somewhere. Let's say
Speaker 1: someone mails you a code to your house, you type
Speaker 1: it in wiki by notices that and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna use that code for the next person, and
Speaker 1: the next person gets that code automatically if it doesn't
Speaker 1: work for them. Let's say it was a unique code
Speaker 1: just for Megan, it takes it out of the running.
Speaker 1: Whereas if you've ever gone to like these retail me
Speaker 1: not and these offers dot com, you sit there and
Speaker 1: you try one hundred codes, none of them work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to like sign in.
Speaker 2: It's not good. So that's why I like wiki by
Speaker 2: and slick deals.
Speaker 1: Check those out, all right, Meghan, If you're selling your
Speaker 1: house anytime soon, you can now.
Speaker 2: Sell it direct to Zillow. Oh, which is just amazing.
Speaker 1: And this is kind of the next frontier of buying
Speaker 1: or buying in or selling a home is probably the
Speaker 1: biggest financial thing that anyone does in their lifetime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it is complicated. It's a lot of steps, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people involved, there's a lot of fees involved,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of third party transactions, all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff that you have to do, and usually you have
Speaker 1: someone to walk you through it, like you're broker or
Speaker 1: your real estate agent, whatever that person is. But the
Speaker 1: holy grail of this house kind of thing has always
Speaker 1: been like one click online, yeah and just it's gone.
Speaker 1: Your house is sold. So Zillo is basically doing that.
Speaker 3: So they're getting rid of like real estate agents.
Speaker 1: Well they're not doing that because Zillo still makes a
Speaker 1: majority of their money based on referrals, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: you go on Zilo to see how much your house
Speaker 1: is worth and you end up getting a real estate
Speaker 1: agent or referral. So I don't think they're doing away
Speaker 1: with them, but they are. They are definitely streamlining the
Speaker 1: process in a way that may or may not take off.
Speaker 2: We don't know if this is going to work right.
Speaker 2: They've started it.
Speaker 1: La is their latest market and San Diego. They have
Speaker 1: it in twenty two other markets which they've been doing this.
Speaker 1: But LA is the nation's second largest housing market and
Speaker 1: it's also the biggest market where they've tried this in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of transactions. LA is very unique because
Speaker 1: the homes are way more expensive than these other markets,
Speaker 1: and it's also trickier, Like it's very unique to like
Speaker 1: find a home in LA. It's not just like kind
Speaker 1: of a cookie cutter area. There's so many neighborhoods and
Speaker 1: there's so many different places that people want to buy.
Speaker 2: So here's how it works.
Speaker 1: You go on Zilo and you request a fair market
Speaker 1: value offer on your home, and you get that within
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. You answer some questions about your house,
Speaker 1: like when the last time you painted it, well, you know,
Speaker 1: what's this? That whatever, And it'll give you an offer
Speaker 1: in about forty eight hours. Then you can decide if
Speaker 1: you want to take that offer and continue and move forward,
Speaker 1: or you.
Speaker 2: Can just say no way.
Speaker 1: Now, if you take the offer, it doesn't immediately sell
Speaker 1: your house. You still have to talk to a person
Speaker 1: that comes to your house, inspects it, and says, okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know you got to do this and that to
Speaker 1: fix this up. So here's the thing that I think
Speaker 1: people might have an issue with. Normally, when you let's
Speaker 1: say you're buying my house, you send your inspector, he
Speaker 1: inspects the house, he says it needs fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: worth of repairs. You come to me and you say, hey,
Speaker 1: you got to knock fifty thousand dollars off the price. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I say I'll knock forty five off and you say,
Speaker 1: okay deal. The way the Zilo thing works is they
Speaker 1: say how much you have to hate for repairs, like
Speaker 1: how much let's say my house is fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Worth of repairs.
Speaker 1: They will say we're just gonna take that off your offer,
Speaker 1: and they handle the repairs. They handle everything, and as
Speaker 1: far as I can tell, it doesn't seem like there's
Speaker 1: a big negotiation there where I can say, like, come on,
Speaker 1: because it's it's transactional. They're dealing in big transactions here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of houses, So could.
Speaker 3: You do this just to see how much they think
Speaker 3: your house is worth? Like could I like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: like if you might not want to sell, but you
Speaker 3: might want to just know how much your house is
Speaker 3: worth because it changes all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Zillow and Redfinn do that already. You can
Speaker 1: go on there and they give you an estimate. They're
Speaker 1: not very accurate. So I think that having this person
Speaker 1: come out to your house and kind of look at
Speaker 1: it would give you But I don't I think there's
Speaker 1: probably I mean, yes, some people do that and just
Speaker 1: see and be like I never mind. But it's probably
Speaker 1: a little bit more work than like for the average
Speaker 1: person to just like casually see.
Speaker 2: But yes, people will do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cool, And anyway, I find it as a tech person
Speaker 1: who has seen the inner that kind of change all businesses.
Speaker 1: Some of these larger, more human touch businesses are really
Speaker 1: tough to change. Buying a book online through Amazon versus
Speaker 1: Barnes and Noble, super easy. You know the title of
Speaker 1: the book, you type it in. It comes to your house.
Speaker 1: Buying a house is a little bit different or selling
Speaker 1: a house.
Speaker 3: Or leasing an apartment. Like some apartments just don't come
Speaker 3: up on like Zilo and you have to actually like
Speaker 3: explore a neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And wow, that's a whole nother that's a whole other issue.
Speaker 1: That's that's more west side rentals kind of having a
Speaker 1: big handle on the market and also brokers and stuff.
Speaker 2: Like when I was in New York City, I couldn't
Speaker 2: believe that you can't find a rental online. There's no
Speaker 2: such thing.
Speaker 3: It's a mess.
Speaker 1: It's a person that you have to call and they
Speaker 1: have your rental and it's a whole big mess.
Speaker 2: It was the worst.
Speaker 3: Well, you have to pay like a broker fee or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to pay like a I think it
Speaker 1: was like a month of your rental to this person
Speaker 1: that helps you find a place. Now, if all the
Speaker 1: information was just online, you know, those people would all
Speaker 1: be out of a job.
Speaker 2: But I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's it's kind of some businesses have not
Speaker 1: changed very much because of the Internet.
Speaker 2: All right, Megan, you're up.
Speaker 3: Okay. This next question comes from Patricia wondering what your
Speaker 3: thoughts are regarding purchasing through Rakotin. Oh, what is rat.
Speaker 2: It's really weird and I've seen really weird. It's just
Speaker 2: a weird name, right, Yeah, it's strange.
Speaker 1: So let's see there's a there's a they have a
Speaker 1: little pronunciation thing on the website because it's so is
Speaker 1: that how.
Speaker 2: You say it? Is that? No idea Rakotin? Because I
Speaker 2: had to look this up to see what the deal
Speaker 2: with Rakotin is? Is how you say it? Let's see,
Speaker 2: so raccoon long as.
Speaker 1: The short of it is is that it used to
Speaker 1: be called Ebates rack rack tin.
Speaker 2: Here, here's the.
Speaker 1: Pronunciation racketin racketin, racketin racketin racketin so like rack, Like
Speaker 1: you know, something's on a rack racketin So I guess
Speaker 1: that's a Now, this is a Japanese company and it
Speaker 1: used to be called Ebates, and Ebates is one of
Speaker 1: these things that like you sign up, all your transactions
Speaker 1: go through them, so you go to like, instead of
Speaker 1: going to Macy's dot com, you go to Ebates dot com.
Speaker 1: Click through on the Macy's link and then shop and
Speaker 1: then you get a percentage of your total back as
Speaker 1: an ebate, almost like a rebate and so racketin same thing,
Speaker 1: same exact kind of thing.
Speaker 2: It's all the same stuff.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get more back at places than others.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people do this.
Speaker 1: They you know, they do all their shopping through here,
Speaker 1: so they get like one percent.
Speaker 2: Pack the thing. Okay, here's how it works.
Speaker 1: The store with the kind of larger price differential, So
Speaker 1: somewhere like a Macy's. If you see a shirt at
Speaker 1: Macy's it says MSRP eighty dollars, that shirt may sell
Speaker 1: for fifteen dollars at the end of the day with
Speaker 1: all the discounts that they offer. Wow, something like Amazon,
Speaker 1: you're not going to find a lot of discounts. Like
Speaker 1: whatever it sells for it sells for same thing with Walmart.
Speaker 1: So when you shop at those places, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a tiny percentage because they're margin is a lot smaller.
Speaker 1: When you shop at Macy's, you're gonna get a bigger percentage.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how these things work. And is
Speaker 1: it safe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's totally safe, and it's it's to me it's
Speaker 2: a little bit of a rigamarole. Yeah, that word.
Speaker 3: So like sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like a lot of workamarole.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a it's like a Southern thing. I
Speaker 1: think I learned it down there. It's like it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a lot of work for little return. And
Speaker 1: to me, it just seems like it's just a little
Speaker 1: bit too much.
Speaker 2: Work for me.
Speaker 1: But if it works for you, it's absolutely fine. But
Speaker 1: it's a totally legit company and they're they're it's a
Speaker 1: Japanese company that's pretty big, and now they just I
Speaker 1: guess they bought Ebates or they had ebaits and now
Speaker 1: they're just using that name to make it one thing
Speaker 1: across the world.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like e Baits, though maybe it's eBay.
Speaker 1: They don't want to like maybe I think, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: that or just Ebates. Yeah, Ebates was pretty big and
Speaker 1: now it's just gone.
Speaker 2: All right, So, uh, let's talk about Apple.
Speaker 1: If you have an iPhone, they have a new version
Speaker 1: of iOS again, iOS thirteen point three. And I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you this because there is a new version, are
Speaker 1: new features that are good for parents. There are now
Speaker 1: support for communication limits in screen time. And what this
Speaker 1: means is that during screen time you can allow communication, well,
Speaker 1: you can set where you can restrict communication to only
Speaker 1: certain people. So that means if you have downtime set
Speaker 1: from five pm to seven pm every night, while your
Speaker 1: kid does their homework, they can't call anyone on their
Speaker 1: phone except you. They can't message anyone except you, they
Speaker 1: can't FaceTime anyone except you. And that's the main feature
Speaker 1: that I think is interesting for parents. And this is
Speaker 1: good because the more you have your kids on these devices,
Speaker 1: you know, it is a nightmare. My kids are always
Speaker 1: asking for more screen time. They're always finding ways of
Speaker 1: getting around screen time. They have every trick in the
Speaker 1: book to try to convince me to let them on
Speaker 1: their iPad more.
Speaker 3: Everyone's so addicted.
Speaker 1: They really are, Like you had this tiny little age,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of sad. Like my kid just got
Speaker 1: into Minecraft and he's five, oh no, and he's obsessed
Speaker 1: playing Minecraft. And when he's not playing Minecraft on the iPad,
Speaker 1: he's watching Minecraft on TV. Yeah, it's just absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: So that's the future I just wanted to tell you
Speaker 1: about when it comes to the iPhone. So if you
Speaker 1: have a kid, check it out iOS thirteen point three
Speaker 1: under the screen time you can now restrict communication.
Speaker 3: This is a good question. This is from Carlow hi Rich.
Speaker 3: With the last update by Apple, all my personal photos
Speaker 3: in my Mac have changed from jpeg to IMG h
Speaker 3: e C. How can I convert all my photos back
Speaker 3: to jpeg. I'm unable to share any of my photos
Speaker 3: now because of the change I.
Speaker 2: Would be now. I just don't think that all his
Speaker 2: photos he or she?
Speaker 3: Uh, Carlo Okay, I.
Speaker 1: Just don't know if the photos changed. I don't see
Speaker 1: Apple changing all your photos.
Speaker 3: It's new photos.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking we've.
Speaker 3: Changed to AHTIC only when you airdrop.
Speaker 1: No, it usually it changes it to jpeg when you
Speaker 1: airdrop to keep to keep it compatible.
Speaker 2: But here's what's going on Apple.
Speaker 1: In their latest iPhone they changed a default setting so
Speaker 1: in an effort to Jpeg is great, it's been around forever.
Speaker 1: It's not very good when it comes to image formats
Speaker 1: compared to what we have now, which is hi C
Speaker 1: and HIC is a smaller file and better quality. Oh
Speaker 1: and so that's why Apple wants to use it, and
Speaker 1: so they have switched on the iPhone, and it's been
Speaker 1: around on the iPhone for a couple of years, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't a default, and now with the new iPhone,
Speaker 1: I believe it's the default. It was onmine, And so
Speaker 1: you start taking pictures and all of a sudden, when
Speaker 1: you go to share it with someone or do something
Speaker 1: or download it to your computer or air drop it,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's like, oh, it's an HGIC.
Speaker 1: Now when you share it through like text messaging to
Speaker 1: another person, I.
Speaker 2: Believe it does change it to a JPEG.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's very confusing because sometimes it works
Speaker 1: just fine. Yeah, but other times I was like trying
Speaker 1: to upload a picture like Twitter and it was like, no.
Speaker 2: Can't take it, And I was like, wait what.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that iPhoto changed all of your
Speaker 1: old pictures to HIC. I think you're looking at What
Speaker 1: probably happened is when he got the new iphot, he
Speaker 1: probably looked at a few pictures at the beginning of
Speaker 1: his timeline and was like, wait, what's this new achiic
Speaker 1: and maybe didn't look back to the beginning. Now I
Speaker 1: could be wrong on that. I don't use iPhoto on
Speaker 1: the computer or photos as it's called now, but I
Speaker 1: think that's what they did. Okay, So a couple things here.
Speaker 1: Number one, you can change the default on your phone
Speaker 1: back to just jpeg if you don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: So you can go into settings and you go into
Speaker 1: camera and under uh oh did they change it now?
Speaker 1: Formats there's camera capture, and there's high efficiency, and there's
Speaker 1: most compatible. So if you leave it in high face,
Speaker 1: it's gonna do the the uh h I C and
Speaker 1: so if you don't do that, then it's going to
Speaker 1: do the other thing.
Speaker 3: But you can air drop HIC to another person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if they have an iPhone that supports it. So
Speaker 1: if you go to try to do it, you know,
Speaker 1: it just depends where you're sending stuff. So if you're
Speaker 1: sending it to your computer, uh, that's where you kind
Speaker 1: of get into some problems. Like I was trying to
Speaker 1: upload a picture to WordPress and HIC and it was like, no, dice, right,
Speaker 1: we don't word press. Ye, But it depends how the
Speaker 1: website is configured, because it seems like I feel like
Speaker 1: on my personal website it does work.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Anyway, it's very confusing. So you can
Speaker 2: change the format, or.
Speaker 1: What I do is I downloaded a little app called
Speaker 1: I Amazing HIC Converter. I M A Z I n
Speaker 1: g HIC Converter. I'm not sure if it costs money
Speaker 1: or not, but it was in the app Store and
Speaker 1: I use it. You just drag and drop an HIC
Speaker 1: onto it and it will transform it into a JPEG
Speaker 1: super easy.
Speaker 2: That's kind of a one off thing.
Speaker 1: So if you're just like for me, when I'm uploading
Speaker 1: pictures to the webs, I will just drop them in
Speaker 1: there and then I'll upload them. And I'm keeping my
Speaker 1: stuff in HGIC because I feel like it's a better
Speaker 1: format because it's not as universal right now, but it's
Speaker 1: more efficient and I like when things change and I
Speaker 1: like when things move ahead. JPEG's been around forever. Clearly
Speaker 1: someone came up with this to be better, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of sticking to it. Yeah, sop, Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: little more work, but it's like, yeah, I would assume
Speaker 1: it's better. Hopefully it sticks around and it's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no more, no more support for this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I don't think that'll happen.
Speaker 1: Hopefully not all right, Pixel owners, if you have a
Speaker 1: pixel which I'm assuming that's one of you.
Speaker 2: Not many people do, but it's still it's still.
Speaker 1: Look, the Pixel is not a widely popular phone, but
Speaker 1: people that have it really do like it, and they
Speaker 1: like it because it is smart. It's smart, and it's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent Google. And when you use this thing,
Speaker 1: you realize just how smart a phone can be.
Speaker 2: Period. That's why people like it.
Speaker 1: So the latest Pixel, the Pixel four, was getting a
Speaker 1: little bit of flack online because people were saying that
Speaker 1: Samsung was getting updates out faster than the Pixel, and
Speaker 1: generally Pixel gets its updates before every other.
Speaker 2: Phone on the Android world.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess this is why Google is doing this
Speaker 1: new thing called Pixel feature drop, And I think it's
Speaker 1: an effort to get people away from thinking about Android
Speaker 1: as only getting security updates. Because people obsess about these
Speaker 1: security updates on Pixel. They're like, why am I getting
Speaker 1: my security update? Google does them every month. Other manufacturers
Speaker 1: have kind of fallen in line with that now, but
Speaker 1: it puts a lot of pressure on them to do this.
Speaker 1: So I think that Google is trying to say your
Speaker 1: phone is not just about software updates when it comes
Speaker 1: to security. We also want to do this thing called
Speaker 1: Pixel feature drops, and these feature drops add new features
Speaker 1: to your device. And a couple of new features they're
Speaker 1: adding that are notable are you can now turn on
Speaker 1: portrait mode at any time in Google Photos, even after
Speaker 1: you took the picture.
Speaker 2: And I tried this out. It's really cool.
Speaker 1: You take a picture, just a normal picture, and you
Speaker 1: go into Google Photos and you say blur and it
Speaker 1: blurs the background and it's at any time, which is
Speaker 1: kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it gives you more creativity. So that's kind
Speaker 2: of cool.
Speaker 1: It says, whether you took the photo years ago or
Speaker 1: forgot to turn on portrait mode, you can easily give
Speaker 1: an artistic look with portrait blur and Google Photos, So
Speaker 1: that's cool. The next feature is about robo calls. Now,
Speaker 1: Google Assistant is going to detect robo calls before your
Speaker 1: phone even rings. So on the Pixel they would have
Speaker 1: this thing where when your phone rang, it would say
Speaker 1: suspected spam and you would press a button and send
Speaker 1: that call to a special little call screener that would
Speaker 1: automatically say something like hi, I'm rich as Google Assistant,
Speaker 1: please tell me why you're calling, and in real time
Speaker 1: you would see what they say transcribe to your phone
Speaker 1: screen and then you would have the option to see
Speaker 1: if it's like we have a great telemarketing offer for you,
Speaker 1: you would just hang up on them.
Speaker 2: So now they're taking that step further.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do that step of actually listening
Speaker 1: to the call and wasting your time. You can let
Speaker 1: the system do it and screen it, and it will
Speaker 1: screen it out automatically. If it's not a robo call,
Speaker 1: your phone will ring a few moments later with who's
Speaker 1: calling and why, So it kind of like basically screens
Speaker 1: your calls for you like a assistant would like a
Speaker 1: real assistant. So that's one thing. The other thing that
Speaker 1: they're doing that's kind of cool is they're now recording
Speaker 1: those calls. So you can turn on a feature on
Speaker 1: your pixel to record the call. And if you record
Speaker 1: the call, sometimes he's called it pretty funny.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's I'm assuming. How they get.
Speaker 1: Around it is they say this call will be recorded.
Speaker 1: As long as you say that, yeah, the other person
Speaker 1: has the option to hang up.
Speaker 2: You have to disclose that. Yeah. It's kind of like
Speaker 2: when you call a company.
Speaker 3: To you know, they say this call maybe recorded.
Speaker 1: Same thing you're you're not verbally giving your okay to that.
Speaker 1: But by saying that and you're not hanging up, that means.
Speaker 3: Smart that it's okay, okay. This is a funny question
Speaker 3: from Jason. I think it's funny. Maybe it's not very funny,
Speaker 3: but he said, I just bought a new Samsung sixty
Speaker 3: five inch led Q sixty series smart TV from Best Buy,
Speaker 3: and all my friends tell me that hackers can get
Speaker 3: into my TV to spy on me. Lol. Anyway to
Speaker 3: prevent that or what is the best way to secure
Speaker 3: me and my family from TV hackers? I just think
Speaker 3: it's funny. All his friends are like, Oh, you're gonna
Speaker 3: get hacked. It's not gonna I mean, we talked about
Speaker 3: this last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna be It's
Speaker 2: not going to happen.
Speaker 1: But he seemed to have a good sense of humor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did he drop an lol in there?
Speaker 3: He dropped he dropped an lol?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think he's tongue in cheek. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he's saying, like, rich, really, am I going
Speaker 1: to be hacked here? And the short answer is probably not.
Speaker 1: But with that said, we talked about this last week.
Speaker 1: The FBI out of Oregon had this crazy warning about
Speaker 1: smart TV's. I went on that Daily Mail show to
Speaker 1: talk about it, you know, to talk about the idea
Speaker 1: that look are hackers are always looking for ways in
Speaker 1: and they're looking for easy kind of hacks, and TVs
Speaker 1: could be easy, and so they could do fun things
Speaker 1: like change your channels whatever, all these crazy things that
Speaker 1: they just think is funny. But what's the end game.
Speaker 1: The end game would be to break into your network.
Speaker 1: And long story, I don't know the reality is is
Speaker 1: this going to happen? Probably not.
Speaker 2: But with that said, I'll tell you what you need
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Number one, if you're not using the smart TV aspects,
Speaker 1: turn off the Wi Fi that'll keep your TV off
Speaker 1: the network. Update your software as much as you can
Speaker 1: so you know, if Samsung's putting out updates, always update
Speaker 1: it because usually those software updates are adding new features,
Speaker 1: but primarily they're there for adding you know, safety. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like security, like patching security holes. And the other thing
Speaker 1: is whatever password you use for your router and your
Speaker 1: internet and or your TV, make it a strong one.
Speaker 2: That's also unique. That's it. I think you'll be fine
Speaker 2: with this TV. Yeah, I would be more concerned.
Speaker 1: With a smart TV about all the data they're collecting
Speaker 1: about you as you watch. That is much more pressing
Speaker 1: to me than having some random hacker target Joe Schmoe's
Speaker 1: house because they want to get access to his TV.
Speaker 2: I mean for what reason?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So I would be more concerned about all the apps
Speaker 1: that you're using and all the data that you're feeding
Speaker 1: to those apps. Yeah, and that's really what's happening. Craig Ray,
Speaker 1: all right, So, Megan, we went on this story for
Speaker 1: a gadget called the Life Door. Yes, and this is
Speaker 1: a gadget. So I did not know that fire safety
Speaker 1: professionals or fire experts recommend sleeping with your bedroom door closed.
Speaker 2: I never heard that same. Have you ever heard that?
Speaker 3: No? Right, okay, no, I didn't know this.
Speaker 2: So this firefighter told us that, and I thought that
Speaker 2: was interesting, and he explained it because it is.
Speaker 1: It basically helps the fire stay out of your room,
Speaker 1: which makes sense. If you're in a hotel room, they
Speaker 1: say put like towels under the door in case of
Speaker 1: a fire, which makes sense.
Speaker 2: You don't want smoke coming in, so they don't say
Speaker 2: open the.
Speaker 3: Door, open the door and let the fire in.
Speaker 2: It just makes sense.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of oxygen in your room. A closed
Speaker 1: door or would keep at least some sort of barrier
Speaker 1: between you and a fire. Whether how long that barrier lasts,
Speaker 1: we don't know. But what he's saying is by having
Speaker 1: it closed, just even if that barrier keeps things better
Speaker 1: for a minute or two or ten or fifteen, of
Speaker 1: course it's better, yeah, which just makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, keeps more fumes out.
Speaker 1: So a lot of kids don't want to sleep in
Speaker 1: their bedroom door closed, including mine. I don't sleep with
Speaker 1: my bedroom door close. I always we grew up in
Speaker 1: a house where we always had them all open, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just weird. Like there were some
Speaker 1: houses like when I went, you know, sleepovers, the kids
Speaker 1: would close their door.
Speaker 2: And you're like, oh, that's weird. It just depends how
Speaker 2: you grow up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So this Device to Life door is kind of
Speaker 1: a ratchet. It has like a ratchet mechanism. You install
Speaker 1: it on the back of the door and you kind
Speaker 1: of open the door once to kind of activate it,
Speaker 1: and then once you do, it has this little microphone
Speaker 1: inside and it listens for the sound of a smoke
Speaker 1: alarm and when it hears that very standard sound of
Speaker 1: a smoke alarm. It goes into action and it snaps
Speaker 1: the ratchet and it closes the door.
Speaker 2: And that's it. It's all to us, very simple.
Speaker 1: You can reopen the door, doesn't lock, the door closed,
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything weird like that. It also has a
Speaker 1: light on it so you can see kind of where
Speaker 1: the door is if they're smoking the room. It also
Speaker 1: makes its own alarm sound. Yeah, so a lot of
Speaker 1: kids will sleep through smoke alarms, so this is kind
Speaker 1: of a secondary alarm in their room right to.
Speaker 2: Wake them up, to wake them up hopefully.
Speaker 1: I did a story back when I was in Louisiana
Speaker 1: where we tested the idea of kids sleeping through smoke alarms,
Speaker 1: and I could not believe these kids. Middle of the night,
Speaker 1: we went, you know, I had to stay up late,
Speaker 1: you know, we went to this house. We set up
Speaker 1: cameras and we put the smoke alarm on and the
Speaker 1: kids slept right through it.
Speaker 2: Oh. I couldn't believe it. Could not believe it.
Speaker 3: That's interesting that you've done a story on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually need to find my story because it
Speaker 1: was it is. You know you do that, you I've
Speaker 1: done hundreds, if not thousands of stories in my career
Speaker 1: so far. This one I could remember like yesterday because
Speaker 1: it was something that just etched my head like wow, like.
Speaker 3: Freaked you out a little bit. Yeah, so funny. I'm
Speaker 3: a really hard sleeper, but I don't sleep through smoke alarms.
Speaker 2: You you've woken up to a smoke alone?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah? So, I mean so our batteries like always die.
Speaker 2: But those are like chirps. Though, isn't that.
Speaker 3: A chirp you that still wakes me up? That's great?
Speaker 2: Then that's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good. That's good.
Speaker 1: In the future, I well, I don't know if people
Speaker 1: don't really wear their Apple watches to sleep, but in
Speaker 1: the future they'll probably do a thing where your Apple
Speaker 1: watch will also vibrate.
Speaker 2: To wake you up or you fit it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because all this stuff is getting I think that
Speaker 1: these companies tread a little bit lightly in this area
Speaker 1: because think about it. Let's say your watch doesn't go off.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, Apple's getting sued because your connection.
Speaker 1: So I do think that this is probably the reason
Speaker 1: why fire systems have not evolved very much, because I
Speaker 1: bet there's a lot of litigation, you think, so, I
Speaker 1: think so even with this device, because you might argue
Speaker 1: that like it puts you at risk, or you couldn't
Speaker 1: get out of you room where your kids couldn't open
Speaker 1: the door once.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Yeah, I know you're right, but I'm.
Speaker 1: Just thinking that it's anyway, So it's one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty dollars, which is very expensive when you think about
Speaker 1: something that you add to your house, not when you
Speaker 1: think about in terms of saving a life, but for
Speaker 1: the average person that's just putting stuff around their house,
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty dollars a lot to spend, especially.
Speaker 2: If you have three or four doors that you're putting
Speaker 2: this on.
Speaker 1: So I think that's probably its biggest impediment to success
Speaker 1: right now. But if it is a device that a
Speaker 1: big company thinks is necessary, like one of these big
Speaker 1: fire alarm companies or smoke alarm companies, they may buy
Speaker 1: this company and make these things at a cheaper price.
Speaker 1: And I always say, like in a corporate atmosphere in buildings,
Speaker 1: there's always if you look at a door in a
Speaker 1: corporate system, not this one, but a lot of them,
Speaker 1: well they call them fire doors. If you look in
Speaker 1: the upper corner of the door, you'll notice it's connected
Speaker 1: by magnet to the back of the wall, and what
Speaker 1: happens is in a fire, that magnet demagnetizes closing that
Speaker 1: door and it becomes a fire barrier. And so these
Speaker 1: big corporations are doing these big companies are doing it.
Speaker 1: They're obviously protecting their assets in the building, people and
Speaker 1: also the building itself. But it goes to show that
Speaker 1: this guy's onto something.
Speaker 2: Totally. Okay, we got one more question, Megan, make it quick.
Speaker 3: This is from Josie. How do I delete an individual
Speaker 3: from a group text that was sent?
Speaker 2: Oh? You can't, you can you can't.
Speaker 3: I thought we've had this.
Speaker 1: We've had this conversation. I think you can leave the conversation.
Speaker 1: You can't remove someone else.
Speaker 3: Oh but okay, I think.
Speaker 1: You can leave. Yeah, I think that's it. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: try it.
Speaker 3: Let me just find it.
Speaker 1: I looked on my phone to see like a group text,
Speaker 1: so I have a lot of mixed group text, which
Speaker 1: like Android and iOS. So number one, Josie, if you're
Speaker 1: talking iPhone, if there's an Android person on that text
Speaker 1: at all, you can't do it.
Speaker 2: Oh you can do it.
Speaker 1: Oh you can't. See I tried it online. It did
Speaker 1: not work. Oh, interesting, I guess maybe the.
Speaker 3: Person was then.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm assuming she's iPhone iPhone. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: tried it with you and Luis. We have a group
Speaker 1: conversation and it would not let me delete one of you.
Speaker 1: So maybe you have to be the person that created
Speaker 1: the group.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's probably what it is. That's probably so.
Speaker 1: I don't because it just seems like I'm going here,
Speaker 1: this has six people in it, and yeah, I can't swipe.
Speaker 3: See I can't, Okay, So it must be if you
Speaker 3: created it.
Speaker 2: Maybe if you create it, I think there are some
Speaker 2: caveats to this.
Speaker 3: But I didn't create this.
Speaker 1: See, that's what I'm saying. It's all and does it
Speaker 1: let you delete it, delete the person?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm not gonna actually do it.
Speaker 1: Well, but you can swipe left to do it, okay,
Speaker 1: And you didn't create that group. See, I'm it's very confusing.
Speaker 3: It is confused anyway.
Speaker 2: The way you do it, if you can do it,
Speaker 2: here's how you do it.
Speaker 1: If you can go into your message the group message,
Speaker 1: tap up at the top where it has all the
Speaker 1: pictures of the people, tap info and then where the
Speaker 1: person is just swipe right to left on them and
Speaker 1: if it brings up delete, you can delete it. If not,
Speaker 1: then there's either an Android person or something else going
Speaker 1: on that you can't do it. If you're on Android,
Speaker 1: you can't really do that, And on Android you can
Speaker 1: do a lot more things like hide the entire alerts
Speaker 1: from that message forever. On iOS, if you can can't
Speaker 1: leave the group or you can't delete someone, you can
Speaker 1: just swipe left on the message and say hi to
Speaker 1: alerts and that won't can't be any more alerts.
Speaker 2: Souh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The group text thing is interesting because I have my family.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of them that I'm in that like,
Speaker 1: especially my family, if they get going, it's like NonStop,
Speaker 1: and it could be really tough because like you're doing
Speaker 1: something like I'm eating dinner or whatever, and like it's
Speaker 1: just boom boo boom. Or I've got a group of
Speaker 1: friends that, like, you know, all of a sudden, they'll
Speaker 1: just start talking and you're not really involved in the
Speaker 1: common kine.
Speaker 3: It stresses me out a little bit. I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't like this right now.
Speaker 1: And I never mute the notifications because like it's just
Speaker 1: too much work. So I end up just like having
Speaker 1: my watch vibran.
Speaker 2: I do do. I like that.
Speaker 3: I mute the convo because I'm like, I can't do
Speaker 3: this right now, and then they'll be like are you
Speaker 3: there and I'm like, no, well not really.
Speaker 2: Yep, in general or in this conversation.
Speaker 1: All right, two things before we go, I just want
Speaker 1: to mention I tried out this smart bulb dimmer which
Speaker 1: I thought was really cool.
Speaker 2: It's called Aurora. It's from Lutron.
Speaker 1: If you have Hugh lights in your house, this is
Speaker 1: a dimmer switch you should check out. It is so
Speaker 1: easy to install. It literally just goes onto your light switch,
Speaker 1: you turn the light switch on, You screw this thing down.
Speaker 1: It stays in place somehow, I don't know how, and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, you now have a roll a
Speaker 1: rocker dimmer where you can like or a circular dimmer
Speaker 1: where you can turn the lights on and off or
Speaker 1: tap to turn them on off. And it only works
Speaker 1: with Hugh lights. But if you have Hugh lights in
Speaker 1: your house, check it out. It's forty bucks. You can
Speaker 1: add a dimmer switch to any room. It's called the
Speaker 1: Lutron Aurora.
Speaker 2: It is so cool.
Speaker 1: Lutron tried to send this to me for probably months,
Speaker 1: and I kept saying no, no, no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: don't want to try anything like this. And finally I've
Speaker 1: read it like three times, it was like, actually, that
Speaker 1: sounds kind of cool. Try it, and I'm in love
Speaker 1: with it now, so I love it. That's number one.
Speaker 2: Number two.
Speaker 1: If you want to transform your iPhone into an iPod Classic,
Speaker 1: check out an app called Rewound.
Speaker 2: It's just fun. It's free. It's just just check it out.
Speaker 1: It's called rewound, and it transforms your iPhone into an
Speaker 1: iPod Classic with that click wheel that you scroll through.
Speaker 2: It's just so much fun.
Speaker 1: You just if you had, if you had an iPod Classic,
Speaker 1: you gotta try it out. I should have hashtaged it
Speaker 1: I posted to my Instagram. I did not hashtag TBT today,
Speaker 1: Oh missed opportunity. Thursday hashtag missed opportunity.
Speaker 3: Yeah you can.
Speaker 1: It's fine, all right, Thanks so much for listening. If
Speaker 1: you have not, thanks to you, by the way, for
Speaker 1: everyone who has purchased a copy of my book one
Speaker 1: and one iPhone Tips and Tricks, I'm getting the reviews
Speaker 1: are starting to trickle in which I love it. If
Speaker 1: you've bought a copy and you love it. Please leave
Speaker 1: a review on Amazon that helps other people find it
Speaker 1: and discover it and also know that it's great and
Speaker 1: the reviews have been awesome.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. It's just made my day.
Speaker 1: It's a number one iPhone guide on Amazon, especially during
Speaker 1: the holidays. That is pretty amazing. I am doing a
Speaker 1: lot on Instagram these days, so please if you're not
Speaker 1: following me there, follow me there.
Speaker 2: I am at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: My goal, new goal, Megan, is to post one cool
Speaker 1: video a day. I don't know if I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: able to do that.
Speaker 2: Because that's hour. Yeah, every hour.
Speaker 1: I didn't say every day. I said every hour of
Speaker 1: an hour. It's tough to do, but I have been
Speaker 1: doing it and I just love it. So if you
Speaker 1: see those videos, like them, comments, share with your friends,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. I'm always trying different things on
Speaker 1: there to see what people like. There's no look, I'm
Speaker 1: not an expert in any of this stuff, believe me,
Speaker 1: long way, but I've come a.
Speaker 2: Long way, thanks in no small part to you.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, we do like all of it.
Speaker 2: So, producer Megan, where can people find you?
Speaker 3: I am on Twitter at producer Megan.
Speaker 2: So easy see that.
Speaker 3: So easy.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for today's show. Can you believe
Speaker 1: the show is over? I'm gonna go back to wrapping
Speaker 1: Christmas presents now, Okay.
Speaker 3: Me too.
Speaker 2: That's about it.
Speaker 3: Actually, I'll probably do that right before Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening. We'll talk to you real soon.