WEBVTT - Android Phones Might Be Worse in 2020 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.560 Why next year's Android phones might be a bust. You 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.959 can now sell your home directly to Zillow. iPhone gets 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.520 some features parents will appreciate, plus the app that turns 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.600 your iPhone into an iPod Classic, and of course your 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.240 tech questions answered. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.280 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.800 This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.160 about the tech stuff I think you should know about, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.640 and I answer all of the questions, well, some of 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:41.879 the questions that you send me. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.239 Joining me is producer Megan Welcome. How are you? 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:46.560 I'm good. How are you. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:51.920 Getting ready for the holidays? That's for sure? Lots of prep? 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.040 Yeah, are you still prepping somewhat? 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.840 We uh, you know, we're still aiding Santa with the list, 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.679 so okay, keeping things, keep adding things on little by little. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:05.960 I was in the stores. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.800 I was at the mall yesterday actually, and I still 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.039 will say, as much of a tech person i am, 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.680 I believe that going to a store is still better 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.960 because it's easier. You see, Like I was in the 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.080 Amazon store, which is ironic because you could just go 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.600 on Amazon. But I was in the Amazon Store and 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.920 just found that, like while I was checking out, there's 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.480 like five things around the checkout that would be perfect 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.720 as gifts. Yeah, and it's stuff that this is. I've 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.520 always said this about shopping online. You have to know 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.880 exactly what you want. When you're shopping online, there's no browsing. 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.240 And if these companies can figure out a good way 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.120 of kind of suggesting stuff, I don't know about you, 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.360 but I've never looked at the suggestive stuff on Amazon, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.680 like I've never made a purchase based on something that says, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.640 from your previous history, here's what you recommend, Like, I 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.840 never bought something. It's so random and so and plus 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.120 it doesn't take into consideration like you might have been 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.520 buying like something random for a person that you're never 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.000 buying for again, like a you know, white elephant gift 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.080 or something, and it's like, oh, you would love to 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.240 you know, send and you're like, no, that was like 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.760 a one time thing. So I still believe that going 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.080 into the store, and it actually kind of makes me 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.520 sad that Toys Russ is gone, because that's what I 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.160 used to do. My wife and I used to go 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:18.840 and just go to Toys Russ and kind of look 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.079 around and you get inspired by. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:21.840 The stuff you see them. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.920 Where do you buy your toys for your kids online. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.880 Well, Santa buys them, but we gifts, we buy, we 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.560 buy a couple of things. Yeah, and I think a 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.800 lot of them we we kind of you know, just 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.160 go off Amazon. And I think it's just kind of 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.040 I don't know. This is the first year that Toys 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.680 Russ is gone, so or maybe it was gone last year. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.080 I can't remember, but either way, it's it's it's a thing. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.040 So I think Target is kind of going to benefit 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.040 from that. And well for sure because they do have 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.520 toy sections. Yeah, and I noticed that the Target toy 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.160 section is a lot bigger too. Anyway, Uh, CES is 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.320 coming up, I know. Uh, I'm getting a lot of 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.320 emails about whether I'm going. Yes, I am going to CES. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.480 I'll be there in Las Vegas. If you want to 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.680 get in touch with me and you have like an 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.880 issue and you just you know, you have like something. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.120 If you don't have my email address, it's hello at 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.080 richon tech dot TV, so you can email me there 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.520 getting a lot of pitches, you really only need to 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:18.280 email me once. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:19.919 I will find your email. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.919 I will go through it and if I think I'm interested, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.880 I will definitely get in touch and I'm already doing that. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.639 So exciting. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:27.440 It is exciting. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.600 Let's talk about the first story of the day. Better 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.600 password protections in Chrome. So Chrome has had this feature 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.960 since I guess the beginning of the year, called password 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:37.360 check Up. 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.119 It was an extension that when you typed. 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.160 A password in it would check your password against a 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.440 list of known passwords that are compromised, which sounds kind 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:49.200 of weird, like I don't really want anyone checking my 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.680 password against anything, because they have to take my password 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.800 and send it across some sort of list that seems 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.440 inherently insecure. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.080 But this is Google. 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.840 I've met the Chrome team that does the security stuff. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.080 They're very smart. Believe me, I do trust them, but 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.960 I think this is odd. But now they're taking that 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.920 little service called password Checkup, which was an extension, and 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.520 they're building it into Chrome. So now Chrome will warn 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.200 you if your user name or password has been compromised 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.839 in a data breach, and it will tell you, hey, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.520 change this password. Most of my passwords are pretty good, 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.039 you know, like other people. I've been known to reuse 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.279 a password or two. I'm sure you do. And I 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.560 think that's where this comes in handy, is if you 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.440 don't realize that you used your password on a random 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.919 site that was hacked and you're still using it on 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.400 other sites. Chrome is like, hey, buddy, let's go ahead 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.680 and like change this up, you know, and it does, 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.719 I guess bring some light to this problem. I just 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.600 again find it really odd that they're checking my password 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.000 against some sort of list. Now, there are websites that 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.640 can do this. You can type in your user name 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.279 and get on the list. Whenever your email address shows 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.200 up on one of these like kind of you know, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.960 these hacked lists will often be dumped online. They call 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.039 them like password dumps, and they'll just be like a 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.000 whole file of like millions of usernames and email addresses 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.080 and if not or sorry user name, email addresses and 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.800 passwords if not more. And nowadays, companies are getting better 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.040 about kind of keeping things secure, but those are big companies. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.400 Smaller websites may not keep your stuff as secure, which 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.320 is why it's important to use a strong password that's 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.240 unique for every single website. I'm not worried about Bank 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.920 of America's website being hacked, because guess what, they have 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.600 the best protection in the world. I'm worried more about 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.160 some random photo website you sign up for and they 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.200 have your password that you use on Bank of America 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.839 and now if they get hacked, your Bank of America's 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:43.240 at risk. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.640 So Chrome should be telling us. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.200 Like today it says it's gradually rolling out, So if 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:51.120 you're signed Intochrome, you can turn it off if you 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.440 don't like it under Sync and Google Services, under Chrome 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:56.640 Settings you can change it. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.000 I think for ninety nine percent of people, they're not 0:05:59.000 --> 0:05:59.520 going to change it. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.120 If my password is not good. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.400 There are ways, there are other uh you know, if 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.640 you use like last Pass or Dashlane, they will scan 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.880 your passwords and do the same thing. Oh, I guess 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.000 it's a it's a known thing, all right, Megan, you're up. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:15.039 First question, Okay, first question comes from Amy. Hi, mister Demiro. 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.600 I've been watching Katley Morning News since they began, and 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:19.880 I was a teenager back then. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:20.440 Lol. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.480 I'm curious of your thoughts on which iPhone to get 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.800 my daughter, who's twelve for Christmas. She currently has a 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.720 six plus. But do we know which of the new 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:33.360 phones is the sturdiest, the eleven or the pro? Which 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.680 would you choose for your child? She is very responsible 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.240 and earns all A's very good. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:44.200 Well, good for her, But here's my thing. How old 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.200 is she? Twelve? Okay, so twelve is probably the age 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:48.120 I think I got. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.080 My first phone, but it was a flip phone. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:51.040 Yeah, well that. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.720 Was a different time, so I was like two years ago. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.159 I was two years ago. Yeah, I think iPhones were 0:06:58.160 --> 0:06:59.080 out two years ago. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.560 So this is something I struggle with. I think a 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:07.080 lot of parents struggle with. And A, it's awesome that 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.120 you're getting her the newest phone, but bottom line is 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:10.880 she doesn't need anything more than the iPhone eleven. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.320 Yeah, she does not need the. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.440 Pro unless she's a budding YouTube star and she needs 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.320 like all those pro features, which, when you really think 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.840 about the Pro features, the only differential between the iPhone 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.920 eleven and the Pro Max or the Pro rather is 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.200 you get a telephoto lens, which means when you zoom 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.200 in it's gonna theoretically look better. You still get the 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.920 wide angle on the eleven. And the other thing is 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.040 you get slightly better battery life and you get a 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:36.680 better screen. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.600 So that's it. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.600 Those are not enough for a twelve year old to 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.520 go over into the Pro. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.160 She's like a photographer then maybe, but. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.600 Even that it's like you're you're still getting the same camera. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.520 I mean, except for the telephoto. A lot of times 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.440 people think that you're not getting the wide angle with 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.840 the eleven. You are, Oh, you're just not getting the zoom. 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.559 And it's not as if you can't zoom in your phone. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.320 You can, it's just not gonna be as clear like 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.320 high zooms. So I think go for the eleven. And 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:04.840 you're asking. 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.400 What the best like what she say? What was the 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:08.200 word she used. 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.200 The most sturdiest? 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.000 So I mean neither. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:13.880 You know, if she's an eleven, she's a twelve year 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.320 old kid, She's gonna drop it a thousand times. I 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.400 would recommend a case, and I think she needs a 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:20.800 good case, like not just like an. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.840 Apple case, like screen protector. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.320 Screen protector. So we like tech armor, well I do. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.160 I like tech Armor as a screen protector, and for 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:31.040 a case, I would go the Spec Presidio Grip or 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.959 some sort of Spec Grip. Tech twenty one is also 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.520 really good. Anything that is rated for a drop protection 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.719 of like ten feet or more. You can't just get 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.520 one of those cases that are you know, the nice 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.280 case that looks great that just kind of protects it 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.040 from scratches. You want something that protects from drops, yes, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.760 and yeah, your case does not do. 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.880 That, like an Amazon case for ten dollars. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.960 But the case I have that I really like too 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.800 is called smartish. I think it's called like Kung Fu grip, 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:59.880 and so it's really grippy on the sides, which is 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:00.559 really nice. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:01.920 And it also has a lip. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:03.679 So if you look at your case and you notice 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.320 that it comes up over the phone, that means that 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.800 it's gonna better protect your phone in the event of 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.720 a drop. So yours has a little bit of a lip, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.000 but it's not it's not one that's rated for drop, 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:14.400 I can tell. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:16.880 So good question. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:21.160 All right, Okay, so we talked about this in last 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.680 week's podcast. And remember I told you about the trip 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.360 to Maui that Qualcom brought everyone off minus me, and 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:28.200 so I was a little bitter. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.360 Obviously you couldn't take the time off. 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.520 But I also mentioned something about that trip, and I 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.480 said something about everyone was super excited about all the 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.720 things that Qualcom was introducing at this event. But I said, 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.280 it's interesting because it's kind of tough to sift through 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.199 the hype of being in Maui for free and report, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.480 quote unquote reporting about all the stuff and actually kind 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.960 of giving some good analysis of what Qualcom is doing. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.520 And they launched their new chip there, which is the 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.520 Qualcom Snapdragon eight sixty five. So leave it to ours 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.600 Technica to have an unbiased person to talk about this. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:13.520 Ron Now I'm gonna kill his last name, Amadeo. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:14.760 Amadeo. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.800 Wait, oh yeah, I'm Amadeo. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.000 Okay, I think So. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.480 Leave it to good old Ron, who I've I've read 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.360 his stuff many times. He gets real and he has 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.640 a great article and here's what the headline is, the 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.160 Snapdragon eight six y five will make phones worse in 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.199 twenty twenty. So leave it to him to actually give 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.760 us some real analysis over this issue. Of everyone that 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:37.839 went to this event was. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.240 Just raw rah rah rah rah rah raw Qualcomm. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:41.520 Everyone was talking it up. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.439 Everyone that went, okay free right now. Ron, it did 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.400 not seem like he went, but he followed the news. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.200 Or maybe he did go and maybe he paid his 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:49.480 own way. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:50.080 I'm not sure. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.880 But here's what his thesis is of his article. This 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.680 is the first time so Qualcomm is so hot for 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:01.240 five G that's like the big next kind of next 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.800 frontier for smartphones. Right, and we've heard a lot about it. 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.079 It's going to be the next It means for wireless companies, 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.240 lots of money. For us, it means speedier connections. But 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.440 our connections are already pretty good. Yeah, we'd like a 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.120 more Instead of speedier connections, we'd probably like a more 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.400 solid connection in more places, like everywhere, Like when I'm 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:20.200 getting on the plane. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:20.880 I you know that. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.560 I don't know if you've ever gotten on a plane lately. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.240 You never have a connection, never when you're in. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:26.560 When you're in your seat. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.960 Yeah, it's crazy. So here's the thesis of his article. 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.760 He says, it's unusual because this new chip that basically 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.280 goes in every Android phone for the first time in 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.720 seven years, does not have a modem on board. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:40.760 So what does that mean. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.120 The modem is in a separate chip, which it's a 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.439 bundled modem five G and four G, and the modem 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.840 is what allows the phone to talk to the network, 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.319 so you kind of have to have it. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:52.480 But what he's. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:56.000 Saying is that because it's a separate chip, a lot 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.560 of these phones that don't need five G still have 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.360 it bundled in. Now, basically, Qualcom's forcing it on everyone, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.520 And so his idea is that these phones are going 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.360 to be bigger than they have to be, They're going 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.800 to use way more energy than they have to They're 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.079 just going to be sloppier than they need to be 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.440 because it's a mess. And I think that's an interesting 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.440 take because and I think this has gotten a little 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.400 debate online. I think people are getting a little saucy 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.800 about it because, yeah, none of the people that went 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.120 to the event, like seemed to bring this up except 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.439 for him, and now they're kind of debating him on this. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:28.960 Now this is his opinion. 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.680 Yeah, but he does bring up a phone from the past, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.120 which was the HTC Thunderbolt, and it was the first 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.440 four G phone with a separate modem, and he said 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.880 it was a disaster. It was hot, it was a slow, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.800 it was a buggy mess, and the battery life was terrible. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:49.160 So I think he has a great point here, and 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:54.040 I think that he actually brings up a Snapdragon press release. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.680 Snap Dragon is the brand of Qualcomm's chips. He brings 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:57.040 up this. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.840 Press release from twenty twelve when the company switched over 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.920 to single chip solutions and said, typically, the more chips 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.640 that are involved in building device the more challenging it is. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:08.680 To conserve battery. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.280 Okay, so he's kind of putting Qualcomm's own words against them. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.520 Six years later, seven years later, eight. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.719 Years later, the chip that's the chip, I don't know 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.560 if that's the exact one that looks very big. Oh 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.480 the little time Okay, Oh yeah, see that's what I'm 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.320 talking about. All these people on Instagram are shown off. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.640 The ship's tag ad here in Mallie. Yeah, the Qualcum 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:31.960 snap Dragon Summit. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:33.920 Anyway, So I interesting. 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.280 I think it's a great article to read ours Technico 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.440 dot Com. We'll see what happens this year. But I 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.640 will say this, all the five G phones, from what 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.120 I've seen, I've I've tested only the one from Sprint, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.640 but from what I've seen, everyone is agreeing that they're 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:47.640 just not there yet. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.360 The networks are not there yet. So five G lots 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.680 of hype, not a lot of delivery just yet. 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:58.800 Megan, all right, Okay, So this next question comes from 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:04.240 Pat and he asks is honey dot com safe to use? 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:05.000 Now? 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.320 I was confused because I googled, like honey dot com. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.320 This is like a honeywebsite. Is he talking about the 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:11.160 chrome extension? 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.040 He's talking about the Chrome extension. Okay, yeah, Honey dot com. 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.520 Is not I think the website to make Honey like. 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:20.720 The National Honeyboard. Yeah, that's why, so join Honey dot com. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.200 This is a Chrome extension that does all the automatic 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.520 coupon codes and all that good stuff. They were just 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.840 purchased by PayPal for something like four billion dollars. So 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.040 clearly PayPal SyES a lot of potential in this, but 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.360 their potential might be more seen in how they can 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.840 monetize users of this gadget or this software, and not 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.000 necessarily how much it benefits those users. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.080 So I've downloaded Honey in the past. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.240 I will say I don't use it. I have found 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:50.840 that it's just not as good as some of the 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.120 other stuff out there. And you've heard me talk about 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.480 some other ones. So what am I going to recommend? Megan? 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:56.960 Oh oh? 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.360 Shoot starts with the w oh yeah wiki by by, 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.640 So I like wiki by. I find that they have 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.240 the best coupon codes that work many many times. And 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:07.840 the other one that I would check out is a 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.800 brand new one from slick Deals, and slick Deals I 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:15.440 find is not as automatic as wikiby, but it searches 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.040 all of slick Deals, which is this great crowdsource website 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:18.880 for deals. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.240 And it does unearth a lot of stuff. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.920 A little bit more it does automatically apply the coupon 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.880 codes to check out, but I find sometimes you may 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.080 have to go into like their offers and see what 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.440 other people are posting about. Okay, but those are the 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.560 two that I recommend Honey for all the hype. Just 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.600 I feel like, here's what I think Honey did right 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.400 and why I think PayPal bought them. They had probably 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.840 the most deals with companies, So if I'm a Macy's, 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.720 they had a big team that would work with Macy's 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.000 and be like, oh, let's get your codes into this app. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.240 But realistically, what I like about. 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.920 Wikibi is it's much more crowd generated, and I feel 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.080 like that's what gives it better codes. Because when you 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.920 use a code, Megan that you find somewhere. Let's say 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.760 someone mails you a code to your house, you type 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.200 it in wiki by notices that and they say, oh, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.360 we're gonna use that code for the next person, and 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.040 the next person gets that code automatically if it doesn't 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.720 work for them. Let's say it was a unique code 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.040 just for Megan, it takes it out of the running. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.000 Whereas if you've ever gone to like these retail me 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.200 not and these offers dot com, you sit there and 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:16.800 you try one hundred codes, none of them work. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.600 Yeah, you have to like sign in. 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.800 It's not good. So that's why I like wiki by 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:22.680 and slick deals. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.600 Check those out, all right, Meghan, If you're selling your 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.920 house anytime soon, you can now. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.720 Sell it direct to Zillow. Oh, which is just amazing. 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:36.720 And this is kind of the next frontier of buying 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.400 or buying in or selling a home is probably the 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.720 biggest financial thing that anyone does in their lifetime. Yeah, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:48.800 and it is complicated. It's a lot of steps, there's 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.960 a lot of people involved, there's a lot of fees involved, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.360 there's a lot of third party transactions, all kinds of 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.720 stuff that you have to do, and usually you have 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.720 someone to walk you through it, like you're broker or 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.960 your real estate agent, whatever that person is. But the 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.520 holy grail of this house kind of thing has always 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.639 been like one click online, yeah and just it's gone. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.160 Your house is sold. So Zillo is basically doing that. 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.560 So they're getting rid of like real estate agents. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.840 Well they're not doing that because Zillo still makes a 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.919 majority of their money based on referrals, which is, you know, 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.640 you go on Zilo to see how much your house 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.640 is worth and you end up getting a real estate 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.920 agent or referral. So I don't think they're doing away 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.399 with them, but they are. They are definitely streamlining the 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.720 process in a way that may or may not take off. 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.000 We don't know if this is going to work right. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:33.800 They've started it. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.760 La is their latest market and San Diego. They have 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.320 it in twenty two other markets which they've been doing this. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.960 But LA is the nation's second largest housing market and 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.120 it's also the biggest market where they've tried this in Phoenix. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.159 There's a lot of transactions. LA is very unique because 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.440 the homes are way more expensive than these other markets, 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.679 and it's also trickier, Like it's very unique to like 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:58.720 find a home in LA. It's not just like kind 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.200 of a cookie cutter area. There's so many neighborhoods and 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.320 there's so many different places that people want to buy. 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:05.159 So here's how it works. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.879 You go on Zilo and you request a fair market 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.119 value offer on your home, and you get that within 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.840 forty eight hours. You answer some questions about your house, 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.639 like when the last time you painted it, well, you know, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.200 what's this? That whatever, And it'll give you an offer 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.880 in about forty eight hours. Then you can decide if 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.119 you want to take that offer and continue and move forward, 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:27.560 or you. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:28.280 Can just say no way. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.200 Now, if you take the offer, it doesn't immediately sell 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.520 your house. You still have to talk to a person 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.680 that comes to your house, inspects it, and says, okay, well, 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.399 you know you got to do this and that to 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.560 fix this up. So here's the thing that I think 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:44.080 people might have an issue with. Normally, when you let's 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.919 say you're buying my house, you send your inspector, he 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.200 inspects the house, he says it needs fifty thousand dollars 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.440 worth of repairs. You come to me and you say, hey, 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.080 you got to knock fifty thousand dollars off the price. Yeah, 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.400 and I say I'll knock forty five off and you say, 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.919 okay deal. The way the Zilo thing works is they 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.639 say how much you have to hate for repairs, like 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:03.840 how much let's say my house is fifty thousand dollars. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:04.360 Worth of repairs. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.440 They will say we're just gonna take that off your offer, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.440 and they handle the repairs. They handle everything, and as 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.080 far as I can tell, it doesn't seem like there's 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.480 a big negotiation there where I can say, like, come on, 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:18.840 because it's it's transactional. They're dealing in big transactions here. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.720 Yeah, lots of houses, So could. 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.040 You do this just to see how much they think 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.119 your house is worth? Like could I like, I don't know, 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:27.919 like if you might not want to sell, but you 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.000 might want to just know how much your house is 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:31.520 worth because it changes all the time. 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.400 Yeah, And Zillow and Redfinn do that already. You can 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.760 go on there and they give you an estimate. They're 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.359 not very accurate. So I think that having this person 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.119 come out to your house and kind of look at 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.359 it would give you But I don't I think there's 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.760 probably I mean, yes, some people do that and just 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.440 see and be like I never mind. But it's probably 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.359 a little bit more work than like for the average 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.800 person to just like casually see. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:55.000 But yes, people will do that. 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:55.720 Yeah. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.960 Cool, And anyway, I find it as a tech person 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.600 who has seen the inner that kind of change all businesses. 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:06.480 Some of these larger, more human touch businesses are really 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.600 tough to change. Buying a book online through Amazon versus 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.480 Barnes and Noble, super easy. You know the title of 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.119 the book, you type it in. It comes to your house. 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.359 Buying a house is a little bit different or selling 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:15.880 a house. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.320 Or leasing an apartment. Like some apartments just don't come 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.359 up on like Zilo and you have to actually like 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:22.480 explore a neighborhood. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.040 And wow, that's a whole nother that's a whole other issue. 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.679 That's that's more west side rentals kind of having a 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.560 big handle on the market and also brokers and stuff. 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.640 Like when I was in New York City, I couldn't 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.639 believe that you can't find a rental online. There's no 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:37.160 such thing. 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:37.920 It's a mess. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:39.840 It's a person that you have to call and they 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:41.760 have your rental and it's a whole big mess. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:42.960 It was the worst. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.040 Well, you have to pay like a broker fee or something. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:46.720 Yeah, you have to pay like a I think it 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.000 was like a month of your rental to this person 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.720 that helps you find a place. Now, if all the 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.600 information was just online, you know, those people would all 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:54.120 be out of a job. 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:54.840 But I don't want to do that. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.840 Yeah, but it's it's kind of some businesses have not 0:20:57.960 --> 0:20:59.359 changed very much because of the Internet. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:00.879 All right, Megan, you're up. 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:06.640 Okay. This next question comes from Patricia wondering what your 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:12.960 thoughts are regarding purchasing through Rakotin. Oh, what is rat. 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.800 It's really weird and I've seen really weird. It's just 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.320 a weird name, right, Yeah, it's strange. 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:20.280 So let's see there's a there's a they have a 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.280 little pronunciation thing on the website because it's so is 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:24.640 that how. 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.199 You say it? Is that? No idea Rakotin? Because I 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:30.520 had to look this up to see what the deal 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.960 with Rakotin is? Is how you say it? Let's see, 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:35.919 so raccoon long as. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.159 The short of it is is that it used to 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.040 be called Ebates rack rack tin. 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:42.960 Here, here's the. 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:50.879 Pronunciation racketin racketin, racketin racketin racketin so like rack, Like 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.640 you know, something's on a rack racketin So I guess 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.760 that's a Now, this is a Japanese company and it 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.320 used to be called Ebates, and Ebates is one of 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.840 these things that like you sign up, all your transactions 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:05.480 go through them, so you go to like, instead of 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:09.160 going to Macy's dot com, you go to Ebates dot com. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.320 Click through on the Macy's link and then shop and 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.080 then you get a percentage of your total back as 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:19.680 an ebate, almost like a rebate and so racketin same thing, 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:21.600 same exact kind of thing. 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:23.040 It's all the same stuff. 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.560 Sometimes you get more back at places than others. 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:27.919 But a lot of people do this. 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:30.200 They you know, they do all their shopping through here, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:31.760 so they get like one percent. 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.200 Pack the thing. Okay, here's how it works. 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:39.439 The store with the kind of larger price differential, So 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.760 somewhere like a Macy's. If you see a shirt at 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:45.520 Macy's it says MSRP eighty dollars, that shirt may sell 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.040 for fifteen dollars at the end of the day with 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:50.960 all the discounts that they offer. Wow, something like Amazon, 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:53.359 you're not going to find a lot of discounts. Like 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:56.600 whatever it sells for it sells for same thing with Walmart. 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:58.680 So when you shop at those places, you're gonna get 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.200 a tiny percentage because they're margin is a lot smaller. 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:03.680 When you shop at Macy's, you're gonna get a bigger percentage. 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.399 So that's kind of how these things work. And is 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:07.760 it safe. 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:10.600 Yeah, it's totally safe, and it's it's to me it's 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.280 a little bit of a rigamarole. Yeah, that word. 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:16.159 So like sometimes it's great, sometimes it's not. 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:18.840 Yeah, it's kind of like a lot of workamarole. 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:20.720 It's kind of a it's like a Southern thing. I 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:22.679 think I learned it down there. It's like it's kind 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:25.400 of like a lot of work for little return. And 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.280 to me, it just seems like it's just a little 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:29.120 bit too much. 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:29.439 Work for me. 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:31.720 But if it works for you, it's absolutely fine. But 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:35.439 it's a totally legit company and they're they're it's a 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:37.879 Japanese company that's pretty big, and now they just I 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:40.080 guess they bought Ebates or they had ebaits and now 0:23:40.080 --> 0:23:42.080 they're just using that name to make it one thing 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:42.840 across the world. 0:23:43.080 --> 0:23:46.359 Okay, I like e Baits, though maybe it's eBay. 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:48.160 They don't want to like maybe I think, yeah, maybe 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:51.919 that or just Ebates. Yeah, Ebates was pretty big and 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:54.080 now it's just gone. 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:57.120 All right, So, uh, let's talk about Apple. 0:23:58.040 --> 0:24:00.760 If you have an iPhone, they have a new version 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:04.600 of iOS again, iOS thirteen point three. And I'm just 0:24:04.600 --> 0:24:07.040 telling you this because there is a new version, are 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:09.680 new features that are good for parents. There are now 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:12.720 support for communication limits in screen time. And what this 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:19.240 means is that during screen time you can allow communication, well, 0:24:19.359 --> 0:24:22.480 you can set where you can restrict communication to only 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:26.320 certain people. So that means if you have downtime set 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:28.280 from five pm to seven pm every night, while your 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:30.919 kid does their homework, they can't call anyone on their 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:35.520 phone except you. They can't message anyone except you, they 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:39.240 can't FaceTime anyone except you. And that's the main feature 0:24:39.240 --> 0:24:42.280 that I think is interesting for parents. And this is 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:45.560 good because the more you have your kids on these devices, 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:49.199 you know, it is a nightmare. My kids are always 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:51.439 asking for more screen time. They're always finding ways of 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:54.679 getting around screen time. They have every trick in the 0:24:54.680 --> 0:24:56.720 book to try to convince me to let them on 0:24:56.760 --> 0:24:57.520 their iPad more. 0:24:57.840 --> 0:24:59.480 Everyone's so addicted. 0:24:59.240 --> 0:25:01.640 They really are, Like you had this tiny little age, 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:03.280 and it's kind of sad. Like my kid just got 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:06.439 into Minecraft and he's five, oh no, and he's obsessed 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:10.119 playing Minecraft. And when he's not playing Minecraft on the iPad, 0:25:10.160 --> 0:25:14.040 he's watching Minecraft on TV. Yeah, it's just absolutely insane. 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:16.280 So that's the future I just wanted to tell you 0:25:16.320 --> 0:25:17.960 about when it comes to the iPhone. So if you 0:25:18.000 --> 0:25:20.760 have a kid, check it out iOS thirteen point three 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:24.439 under the screen time you can now restrict communication. 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:29.800 This is a good question. This is from Carlow hi Rich. 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:33.400 With the last update by Apple, all my personal photos 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:37.800 in my Mac have changed from jpeg to IMG h 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:41.040 e C. How can I convert all my photos back 0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:44.440 to jpeg. I'm unable to share any of my photos 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:49.840 now because of the change I. 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:52.840 Would be now. I just don't think that all his 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:54.359 photos he or she? 0:25:54.840 --> 0:25:57.359 Uh, Carlo Okay, I. 0:25:57.280 --> 0:26:00.880 Just don't know if the photos changed. I don't see 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:02.520 Apple changing all your photos. 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:03.760 It's new photos. 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:07.399 That's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking we've. 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:10.000 Changed to AHTIC only when you airdrop. 0:26:10.920 --> 0:26:13.800 No, it usually it changes it to jpeg when you 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:16.080 airdrop to keep to keep it compatible. 0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:18.000 But here's what's going on Apple. 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.840 In their latest iPhone they changed a default setting so 0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:25.320 in an effort to Jpeg is great, it's been around forever. 0:26:25.720 --> 0:26:28.520 It's not very good when it comes to image formats 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:31.560 compared to what we have now, which is hi C 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:36.720 and HIC is a smaller file and better quality. Oh 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:40.080 and so that's why Apple wants to use it, and 0:26:40.160 --> 0:26:42.000 so they have switched on the iPhone, and it's been 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:44.080 around on the iPhone for a couple of years, but 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:46.600 it wasn't a default, and now with the new iPhone, 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:50.159 I believe it's the default. It was onmine, And so 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:52.560 you start taking pictures and all of a sudden, when 0:26:52.560 --> 0:26:54.480 you go to share it with someone or do something 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:57.040 or download it to your computer or air drop it, 0:26:57.160 --> 0:26:58.960 all of a sudden it's like, oh, it's an HGIC. 0:26:59.560 --> 0:27:01.879 Now when you share it through like text messaging to 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:02.680 another person, I. 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:04.360 Believe it does change it to a JPEG. 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:07.240 So it's like it's very confusing because sometimes it works 0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:09.320 just fine. Yeah, but other times I was like trying 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:11.040 to upload a picture like Twitter and it was like, no. 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:12.480 Can't take it, And I was like, wait what. 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:16.240 So I don't think that iPhoto changed all of your 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:20.800 old pictures to HIC. I think you're looking at What 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:22.800 probably happened is when he got the new iphot, he 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:25.520 probably looked at a few pictures at the beginning of 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:28.240 his timeline and was like, wait, what's this new achiic 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:30.520 and maybe didn't look back to the beginning. Now I 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:32.679 could be wrong on that. I don't use iPhoto on 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:35.480 the computer or photos as it's called now, but I 0:27:35.520 --> 0:27:38.560 think that's what they did. Okay, So a couple things here. 0:27:38.920 --> 0:27:41.680 Number one, you can change the default on your phone 0:27:41.880 --> 0:27:44.359 back to just jpeg if you don't want to do that, 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:48.280 So you can go into settings and you go into 0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:53.119 camera and under uh oh did they change it now? 0:27:53.160 --> 0:27:57.400 Formats there's camera capture, and there's high efficiency, and there's 0:27:57.440 --> 0:28:00.000 most compatible. So if you leave it in high face, 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:05.840 it's gonna do the the uh h I C and 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:08.119 so if you don't do that, then it's going to 0:28:08.400 --> 0:28:09.040 do the other thing. 0:28:09.119 --> 0:28:12.040 But you can air drop HIC to another person. 0:28:11.920 --> 0:28:14.359 Yeah, if they have an iPhone that supports it. So 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:15.679 if you go to try to do it, you know, 0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:17.840 it just depends where you're sending stuff. So if you're 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:20.560 sending it to your computer, uh, that's where you kind 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:22.040 of get into some problems. Like I was trying to 0:28:22.119 --> 0:28:25.040 upload a picture to WordPress and HIC and it was like, no, dice, right, 0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:28.960 we don't word press. Ye, But it depends how the 0:28:28.960 --> 0:28:31.480 website is configured, because it seems like I feel like 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:33.360 on my personal website it does work. 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:35.800 I don't know. Anyway, it's very confusing. So you can 0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:36.960 change the format, or. 0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:41.280 What I do is I downloaded a little app called 0:28:41.400 --> 0:28:45.080 I Amazing HIC Converter. I M A Z I n 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:48.040 g HIC Converter. I'm not sure if it costs money 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:49.600 or not, but it was in the app Store and 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:52.280 I use it. You just drag and drop an HIC 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:55.000 onto it and it will transform it into a JPEG 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:56.120 super easy. 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:57.520 That's kind of a one off thing. 0:28:57.600 --> 0:28:59.240 So if you're just like for me, when I'm uploading 0:28:59.280 --> 0:29:01.400 pictures to the webs, I will just drop them in 0:29:01.400 --> 0:29:04.240 there and then I'll upload them. And I'm keeping my 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:07.560 stuff in HGIC because I feel like it's a better 0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:11.720 format because it's not as universal right now, but it's 0:29:11.760 --> 0:29:14.160 more efficient and I like when things change and I 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:17.400 like when things move ahead. JPEG's been around forever. Clearly 0:29:17.480 --> 0:29:19.800 someone came up with this to be better, and I'm 0:29:19.840 --> 0:29:22.560 kind of sticking to it. Yeah, sop, Yeah, it's a 0:29:22.560 --> 0:29:25.200 little more work, but it's like, yeah, I would assume 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:28.040 it's better. Hopefully it sticks around and it's not like, oh, 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:30.280 there's no more, no more support for this. 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:32.320 Yeah, well I don't think that'll happen. 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:37.120 Hopefully not all right, Pixel owners, if you have a 0:29:37.120 --> 0:29:39.240 pixel which I'm assuming that's one of you. 0:29:40.840 --> 0:29:43.840 Not many people do, but it's still it's still. 0:29:43.920 --> 0:29:48.240 Look, the Pixel is not a widely popular phone, but 0:29:48.280 --> 0:29:50.760 people that have it really do like it, and they 0:29:50.840 --> 0:29:53.680 like it because it is smart. It's smart, and it's 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:56.000 one hundred percent Google. And when you use this thing, 0:29:56.320 --> 0:29:58.200 you realize just how smart a phone can be. 0:29:58.480 --> 0:30:00.000 Period. That's why people like it. 0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:04.880 So the latest Pixel, the Pixel four, was getting a 0:30:04.880 --> 0:30:08.040 little bit of flack online because people were saying that 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:11.560 Samsung was getting updates out faster than the Pixel, and 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:14.000 generally Pixel gets its updates before every other. 0:30:13.840 --> 0:30:15.280 Phone on the Android world. 0:30:15.600 --> 0:30:18.840 Well, I guess this is why Google is doing this 0:30:18.920 --> 0:30:21.880 new thing called Pixel feature drop, And I think it's 0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:25.280 an effort to get people away from thinking about Android 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:29.000 as only getting security updates. Because people obsess about these 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:31.280 security updates on Pixel. They're like, why am I getting 0:30:31.280 --> 0:30:35.280 my security update? Google does them every month. Other manufacturers 0:30:35.280 --> 0:30:37.440 have kind of fallen in line with that now, but 0:30:37.480 --> 0:30:39.120 it puts a lot of pressure on them to do this. 0:30:40.040 --> 0:30:43.120 So I think that Google is trying to say your 0:30:43.120 --> 0:30:45.520 phone is not just about software updates when it comes 0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:47.840 to security. We also want to do this thing called 0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:51.840 Pixel feature drops, and these feature drops add new features 0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:54.040 to your device. And a couple of new features they're 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:57.960 adding that are notable are you can now turn on 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:01.040 portrait mode at any time in Google Photos, even after 0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:01.800 you took the picture. 0:31:02.160 --> 0:31:03.840 And I tried this out. It's really cool. 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:05.800 You take a picture, just a normal picture, and you 0:31:05.840 --> 0:31:07.840 go into Google Photos and you say blur and it 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:10.520 blurs the background and it's at any time, which is 0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:11.080 kind of cool. 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:13.840 Yeah, so it gives you more creativity. So that's kind 0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:14.160 of cool. 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:16.200 It says, whether you took the photo years ago or 0:31:16.240 --> 0:31:18.640 forgot to turn on portrait mode, you can easily give 0:31:19.080 --> 0:31:22.000 an artistic look with portrait blur and Google Photos, So 0:31:22.040 --> 0:31:25.520 that's cool. The next feature is about robo calls. Now, 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:31.239 Google Assistant is going to detect robo calls before your 0:31:31.280 --> 0:31:35.320 phone even rings. So on the Pixel they would have 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:37.000 this thing where when your phone rang, it would say 0:31:37.000 --> 0:31:39.880 suspected spam and you would press a button and send 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:43.720 that call to a special little call screener that would 0:31:43.840 --> 0:31:47.240 automatically say something like hi, I'm rich as Google Assistant, 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:50.080 please tell me why you're calling, and in real time 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:52.160 you would see what they say transcribe to your phone 0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:55.240 screen and then you would have the option to see 0:31:55.240 --> 0:31:58.360 if it's like we have a great telemarketing offer for you, 0:31:58.360 --> 0:31:59.480 you would just hang up on them. 0:32:00.000 --> 0:32:01.200 So now they're taking that step further. 0:32:01.200 --> 0:32:03.600 You don't have to do that step of actually listening 0:32:03.680 --> 0:32:05.960 to the call and wasting your time. You can let 0:32:06.040 --> 0:32:08.640 the system do it and screen it, and it will 0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:12.040 screen it out automatically. If it's not a robo call, 0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:15.360 your phone will ring a few moments later with who's 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:17.880 calling and why, So it kind of like basically screens 0:32:17.880 --> 0:32:20.040 your calls for you like a assistant would like a 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:22.720 real assistant. So that's one thing. The other thing that 0:32:22.760 --> 0:32:24.480 they're doing that's kind of cool is they're now recording 0:32:24.480 --> 0:32:26.840 those calls. So you can turn on a feature on 0:32:26.880 --> 0:32:29.560 your pixel to record the call. And if you record 0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:31.640 the call, sometimes he's called it pretty funny. 0:32:32.680 --> 0:32:35.120 Uh, it's I'm assuming. How they get. 0:32:35.040 --> 0:32:37.800 Around it is they say this call will be recorded. 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:39.880 As long as you say that, yeah, the other person 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:40.720 has the option to hang up. 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:42.600 You have to disclose that. Yeah. It's kind of like 0:32:42.600 --> 0:32:44.400 when you call a company. 0:32:44.000 --> 0:32:46.640 To you know, they say this call maybe recorded. 0:32:47.400 --> 0:32:50.920 Same thing you're you're not verbally giving your okay to that. 0:32:51.040 --> 0:32:54.200 But by saying that and you're not hanging up, that means. 0:32:53.560 --> 0:32:59.680 Smart that it's okay, okay. This is a funny question 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:03.040 from Jason. I think it's funny. Maybe it's not very funny, 0:33:03.040 --> 0:33:06.240 but he said, I just bought a new Samsung sixty 0:33:06.320 --> 0:33:10.000 five inch led Q sixty series smart TV from Best Buy, 0:33:10.160 --> 0:33:12.920 and all my friends tell me that hackers can get 0:33:12.960 --> 0:33:16.320 into my TV to spy on me. Lol. Anyway to 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:18.720 prevent that or what is the best way to secure 0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:21.320 me and my family from TV hackers? I just think 0:33:21.320 --> 0:33:23.480 it's funny. All his friends are like, Oh, you're gonna 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:27.560 get hacked. It's not gonna I mean, we talked about 0:33:27.560 --> 0:33:28.200 this last week. 0:33:28.280 --> 0:33:30.080 Yeah, it's not gonna happen. It's not gonna be It's 0:33:30.080 --> 0:33:30.800 not going to happen. 0:33:31.000 --> 0:33:34.720 But he seemed to have a good sense of humor. Yeah, 0:33:34.840 --> 0:33:36.080 did he drop an lol in there? 0:33:36.160 --> 0:33:38.320 He dropped he dropped an lol? 0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:40.960 Yeah, So I think he's tongue in cheek. Yeah. 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:43.080 I think he's saying, like, rich, really, am I going 0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:46.280 to be hacked here? And the short answer is probably not. 0:33:46.880 --> 0:33:49.080 But with that said, we talked about this last week. 0:33:49.120 --> 0:33:51.760 The FBI out of Oregon had this crazy warning about 0:33:51.800 --> 0:33:54.240 smart TV's. I went on that Daily Mail show to 0:33:54.240 --> 0:33:57.080 talk about it, you know, to talk about the idea 0:33:57.480 --> 0:34:02.040 that look are hackers are always looking for ways in 0:34:02.240 --> 0:34:05.520 and they're looking for easy kind of hacks, and TVs 0:34:06.040 --> 0:34:08.120 could be easy, and so they could do fun things 0:34:08.120 --> 0:34:10.239 like change your channels whatever, all these crazy things that 0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:12.160 they just think is funny. But what's the end game. 0:34:12.200 --> 0:34:13.920 The end game would be to break into your network. 0:34:14.239 --> 0:34:18.120 And long story, I don't know the reality is is 0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:19.360 this going to happen? Probably not. 0:34:19.880 --> 0:34:21.719 But with that said, I'll tell you what you need 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:21.960 to do. 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:24.360 Number one, if you're not using the smart TV aspects, 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:26.920 turn off the Wi Fi that'll keep your TV off 0:34:26.920 --> 0:34:29.919 the network. Update your software as much as you can 0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:32.680 so you know, if Samsung's putting out updates, always update 0:34:32.719 --> 0:34:35.640 it because usually those software updates are adding new features, 0:34:35.680 --> 0:34:39.439 but primarily they're there for adding you know, safety. Yeah, 0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:42.879 like security, like patching security holes. And the other thing 0:34:42.960 --> 0:34:45.399 is whatever password you use for your router and your 0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:48.320 internet and or your TV, make it a strong one. 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:50.839 That's also unique. That's it. I think you'll be fine 0:34:50.880 --> 0:34:52.960 with this TV. Yeah, I would be more concerned. 0:34:53.000 --> 0:34:55.800 With a smart TV about all the data they're collecting 0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:59.800 about you as you watch. That is much more pressing 0:34:59.840 --> 0:35:03.800 to me than having some random hacker target Joe Schmoe's 0:35:03.800 --> 0:35:06.520 house because they want to get access to his TV. 0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:07.800 I mean for what reason? 0:35:08.000 --> 0:35:08.120 Right? 0:35:08.640 --> 0:35:10.760 So I would be more concerned about all the apps 0:35:10.760 --> 0:35:13.280 that you're using and all the data that you're feeding 0:35:13.320 --> 0:35:17.200 to those apps. Yeah, and that's really what's happening. Craig Ray, 0:35:18.440 --> 0:35:21.480 all right, So, Megan, we went on this story for 0:35:21.680 --> 0:35:26.920 a gadget called the Life Door. Yes, and this is 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:30.960 a gadget. So I did not know that fire safety 0:35:31.040 --> 0:35:34.840 professionals or fire experts recommend sleeping with your bedroom door closed. 0:35:34.880 --> 0:35:37.400 I never heard that same. Have you ever heard that? 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:39.080 No? Right, okay, no, I didn't know this. 0:35:39.320 --> 0:35:41.279 So this firefighter told us that, and I thought that 0:35:41.320 --> 0:35:44.160 was interesting, and he explained it because it is. 0:35:45.719 --> 0:35:47.759 It basically helps the fire stay out of your room, 0:35:47.800 --> 0:35:49.880 which makes sense. If you're in a hotel room, they 0:35:49.960 --> 0:35:51.719 say put like towels under the door in case of 0:35:51.840 --> 0:35:52.719 a fire, which makes sense. 0:35:52.719 --> 0:35:54.560 You don't want smoke coming in, so they don't say 0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:55.000 open the. 0:35:54.960 --> 0:35:56.680 Door, open the door and let the fire in. 0:35:56.920 --> 0:35:57.600 It just makes sense. 0:35:57.640 --> 0:35:59.880 There's a lot of oxygen in your room. A closed 0:35:59.880 --> 0:36:02.200 door or would keep at least some sort of barrier 0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:05.120 between you and a fire. Whether how long that barrier lasts, 0:36:05.120 --> 0:36:07.520 we don't know. But what he's saying is by having 0:36:07.560 --> 0:36:10.959 it closed, just even if that barrier keeps things better 0:36:11.040 --> 0:36:13.840 for a minute or two or ten or fifteen, of 0:36:13.840 --> 0:36:15.640 course it's better, yeah, which just makes sense. 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:17.120 Yeah, keeps more fumes out. 0:36:17.400 --> 0:36:19.360 So a lot of kids don't want to sleep in 0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:22.000 their bedroom door closed, including mine. I don't sleep with 0:36:22.000 --> 0:36:23.880 my bedroom door close. I always we grew up in 0:36:23.880 --> 0:36:26.359 a house where we always had them all open, So 0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:28.560 I don't know, it's just weird. Like there were some 0:36:28.640 --> 0:36:31.520 houses like when I went, you know, sleepovers, the kids 0:36:31.560 --> 0:36:32.359 would close their door. 0:36:32.280 --> 0:36:33.799 And you're like, oh, that's weird. It just depends how 0:36:33.840 --> 0:36:34.239 you grow up. 0:36:34.320 --> 0:36:38.239 Yeah, So this Device to Life door is kind of 0:36:38.320 --> 0:36:41.880 a ratchet. It has like a ratchet mechanism. You install 0:36:41.920 --> 0:36:44.279 it on the back of the door and you kind 0:36:44.280 --> 0:36:46.480 of open the door once to kind of activate it, 0:36:46.719 --> 0:36:49.120 and then once you do, it has this little microphone 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:51.239 inside and it listens for the sound of a smoke 0:36:51.280 --> 0:36:54.319 alarm and when it hears that very standard sound of 0:36:54.320 --> 0:36:58.440 a smoke alarm. It goes into action and it snaps 0:36:58.480 --> 0:37:00.200 the ratchet and it closes the door. 0:37:00.880 --> 0:37:03.000 And that's it. It's all to us, very simple. 0:37:03.040 --> 0:37:04.920 You can reopen the door, doesn't lock, the door closed, 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:07.120 doesn't do anything weird like that. It also has a 0:37:07.200 --> 0:37:08.640 light on it so you can see kind of where 0:37:08.680 --> 0:37:10.600 the door is if they're smoking the room. It also 0:37:10.640 --> 0:37:12.880 makes its own alarm sound. Yeah, so a lot of 0:37:12.960 --> 0:37:15.440 kids will sleep through smoke alarms, so this is kind 0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:18.040 of a secondary alarm in their room right to. 0:37:18.000 --> 0:37:19.800 Wake them up, to wake them up hopefully. 0:37:19.880 --> 0:37:21.960 I did a story back when I was in Louisiana 0:37:22.320 --> 0:37:25.880 where we tested the idea of kids sleeping through smoke alarms, 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:28.480 and I could not believe these kids. Middle of the night, 0:37:28.520 --> 0:37:30.160 we went, you know, I had to stay up late, 0:37:30.200 --> 0:37:31.640 you know, we went to this house. We set up 0:37:31.680 --> 0:37:34.880 cameras and we put the smoke alarm on and the 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:35.920 kids slept right through it. 0:37:36.040 --> 0:37:38.239 Oh. I couldn't believe it. Could not believe it. 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:40.319 That's interesting that you've done a story on that. 0:37:40.600 --> 0:37:42.160 Yeah, I actually need to find my story because it 0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:44.000 was it is. You know you do that, you I've 0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:47.680 done hundreds, if not thousands of stories in my career 0:37:47.719 --> 0:37:50.959 so far. This one I could remember like yesterday because 0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:54.120 it was something that just etched my head like wow, like. 0:37:54.160 --> 0:37:56.359 Freaked you out a little bit. Yeah, so funny. I'm 0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:59.400 a really hard sleeper, but I don't sleep through smoke alarms. 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:01.279 You you've woken up to a smoke alone? 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:04.040 Oh yeah? So, I mean so our batteries like always die. 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:06.120 But those are like chirps. Though, isn't that. 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:08.919 A chirp you that still wakes me up? That's great? 0:38:09.080 --> 0:38:09.640 Then that's good. 0:38:10.200 --> 0:38:11.799 Yeah, it's good. That's good. 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:14.120 In the future, I well, I don't know if people 0:38:14.160 --> 0:38:15.960 don't really wear their Apple watches to sleep, but in 0:38:16.000 --> 0:38:18.360 the future they'll probably do a thing where your Apple 0:38:18.400 --> 0:38:20.440 watch will also vibrate. 0:38:20.280 --> 0:38:21.600 To wake you up or you fit it. 0:38:21.680 --> 0:38:23.839 Yeah, because all this stuff is getting I think that 0:38:23.880 --> 0:38:26.240 these companies tread a little bit lightly in this area 0:38:26.440 --> 0:38:29.840 because think about it. Let's say your watch doesn't go off. 0:38:30.160 --> 0:38:32.840 Next thing, you know, Apple's getting sued because your connection. 0:38:34.640 --> 0:38:36.680 So I do think that this is probably the reason 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:39.759 why fire systems have not evolved very much, because I 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:41.759 bet there's a lot of litigation, you think, so, I 0:38:41.800 --> 0:38:44.520 think so even with this device, because you might argue 0:38:44.520 --> 0:38:46.640 that like it puts you at risk, or you couldn't 0:38:46.640 --> 0:38:48.080 get out of you room where your kids couldn't open 0:38:48.080 --> 0:38:48.480 the door once. 0:38:48.719 --> 0:38:50.400 I don't know, Yeah, I know you're right, but I'm. 0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:52.560 Just thinking that it's anyway, So it's one hundred and 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:55.920 thirty dollars, which is very expensive when you think about 0:38:56.000 --> 0:38:57.520 something that you add to your house, not when you 0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:00.120 think about in terms of saving a life, but for 0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:02.480 the average person that's just putting stuff around their house, 0:39:02.480 --> 0:39:04.799 one hundred and thirty dollars a lot to spend, especially. 0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:06.400 If you have three or four doors that you're putting 0:39:06.400 --> 0:39:06.719 this on. 0:39:07.120 --> 0:39:10.360 So I think that's probably its biggest impediment to success 0:39:10.440 --> 0:39:13.839 right now. But if it is a device that a 0:39:13.880 --> 0:39:17.279 big company thinks is necessary, like one of these big 0:39:17.440 --> 0:39:20.359 fire alarm companies or smoke alarm companies, they may buy 0:39:20.360 --> 0:39:22.840 this company and make these things at a cheaper price. 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:27.160 And I always say, like in a corporate atmosphere in buildings, 0:39:27.560 --> 0:39:29.480 there's always if you look at a door in a 0:39:29.520 --> 0:39:33.120 corporate system, not this one, but a lot of them, 0:39:33.320 --> 0:39:35.239 well they call them fire doors. If you look in 0:39:35.280 --> 0:39:37.720 the upper corner of the door, you'll notice it's connected 0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:40.319 by magnet to the back of the wall, and what 0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:44.440 happens is in a fire, that magnet demagnetizes closing that 0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:48.480 door and it becomes a fire barrier. And so these 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:51.000 big corporations are doing these big companies are doing it. 0:39:51.040 --> 0:39:54.440 They're obviously protecting their assets in the building, people and 0:39:54.880 --> 0:39:58.279 also the building itself. But it goes to show that 0:39:58.920 --> 0:39:59.879 this guy's onto something. 0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:05.760 Totally. Okay, we got one more question, Megan, make it quick. 0:40:08.440 --> 0:40:12.800 This is from Josie. How do I delete an individual 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:14.640 from a group text that was sent? 0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:17.600 Oh? You can't, you can you can't. 0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:18.600 I thought we've had this. 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:21.200 We've had this conversation. I think you can leave the conversation. 0:40:21.600 --> 0:40:22.879 You can't remove someone else. 0:40:23.280 --> 0:40:25.120 Oh but okay, I think. 0:40:25.000 --> 0:40:27.760 You can leave. Yeah, I think that's it. Go ahead, 0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:28.160 try it. 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:29.520 Let me just find it. 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:32.480 I looked on my phone to see like a group text, 0:40:32.480 --> 0:40:34.200 so I have a lot of mixed group text, which 0:40:34.239 --> 0:40:37.319 like Android and iOS. So number one, Josie, if you're 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:40.760 talking iPhone, if there's an Android person on that text 0:40:40.760 --> 0:40:42.319 at all, you can't do it. 0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:43.080 Oh you can do it. 0:40:43.160 --> 0:40:45.000 Oh you can't. See I tried it online. It did 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:47.560 not work. Oh, interesting, I guess maybe the. 0:40:47.480 --> 0:40:50.960 Person was then. 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:52.759 I know, I'm assuming she's iPhone iPhone. Okay, So I 0:40:52.800 --> 0:40:55.160 tried it with you and Luis. We have a group 0:40:55.200 --> 0:40:58.320 conversation and it would not let me delete one of you. 0:40:58.400 --> 0:41:00.840 So maybe you have to be the person that created 0:41:00.880 --> 0:41:01.160 the group. 0:41:01.239 --> 0:41:01.640 I don't know. 0:41:02.000 --> 0:41:06.080 Oh, that's probably what it is. That's probably so. 0:41:06.200 --> 0:41:08.680 I don't because it just seems like I'm going here, 0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:12.280 this has six people in it, and yeah, I can't swipe. 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:14.719 See I can't, Okay, So it must be if you 0:41:14.920 --> 0:41:15.680 created it. 0:41:15.800 --> 0:41:17.200 Maybe if you create it, I think there are some 0:41:17.360 --> 0:41:18.319 caveats to this. 0:41:18.600 --> 0:41:19.799 But I didn't create this. 0:41:19.920 --> 0:41:23.360 See, that's what I'm saying. It's all and does it 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:25.440 let you delete it, delete the person? 0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:28.200 Yeah, but I'm not gonna actually do it. 0:41:28.360 --> 0:41:30.359 Well, but you can swipe left to do it, okay, 0:41:30.400 --> 0:41:32.960 And you didn't create that group. See, I'm it's very confusing. 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:34.040 It is confused anyway. 0:41:34.080 --> 0:41:35.360 The way you do it, if you can do it, 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:36.080 here's how you do it. 0:41:36.120 --> 0:41:39.080 If you can go into your message the group message, 0:41:39.200 --> 0:41:40.680 tap up at the top where it has all the 0:41:40.719 --> 0:41:43.640 pictures of the people, tap info and then where the 0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:46.480 person is just swipe right to left on them and 0:41:46.520 --> 0:41:48.520 if it brings up delete, you can delete it. If not, 0:41:48.600 --> 0:41:51.160 then there's either an Android person or something else going 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:52.800 on that you can't do it. If you're on Android, 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:54.680 you can't really do that, And on Android you can 0:41:54.719 --> 0:41:57.120 do a lot more things like hide the entire alerts 0:41:57.120 --> 0:42:00.200 from that message forever. On iOS, if you can can't 0:42:00.280 --> 0:42:02.719 leave the group or you can't delete someone, you can 0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:04.680 just swipe left on the message and say hi to 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:06.480 alerts and that won't can't be any more alerts. 0:42:06.480 --> 0:42:07.799 Souh. Yeah. 0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:10.160 The group text thing is interesting because I have my family. 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:12.359 I have a couple of them that I'm in that like, 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:15.520 especially my family, if they get going, it's like NonStop, 0:42:15.880 --> 0:42:17.880 and it could be really tough because like you're doing 0:42:17.920 --> 0:42:19.719 something like I'm eating dinner or whatever, and like it's 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:21.640 just boom boo boom. Or I've got a group of 0:42:21.800 --> 0:42:23.359 friends that, like, you know, all of a sudden, they'll 0:42:23.400 --> 0:42:25.319 just start talking and you're not really involved in the 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:25.799 common kine. 0:42:25.920 --> 0:42:27.600 It stresses me out a little bit. I'm like, I 0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:29.360 don't like this right now. 0:42:30.160 --> 0:42:33.120 And I never mute the notifications because like it's just 0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:35.200 too much work. So I end up just like having 0:42:35.200 --> 0:42:36.440 my watch vibran. 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:37.680 I do do. I like that. 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:39.960 I mute the convo because I'm like, I can't do 0:42:40.040 --> 0:42:41.640 this right now, and then they'll be like are you 0:42:41.719 --> 0:42:44.680 there and I'm like, no, well not really. 0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:47.680 Yep, in general or in this conversation. 0:42:47.880 --> 0:42:49.520 All right, two things before we go, I just want 0:42:49.560 --> 0:42:52.239 to mention I tried out this smart bulb dimmer which 0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:53.400 I thought was really cool. 0:42:53.480 --> 0:42:55.360 It's called Aurora. It's from Lutron. 0:42:55.680 --> 0:42:58.239 If you have Hugh lights in your house, this is 0:42:58.280 --> 0:43:01.359 a dimmer switch you should check out. It is so 0:43:01.480 --> 0:43:05.760 easy to install. It literally just goes onto your light switch, 0:43:06.040 --> 0:43:08.319 you turn the light switch on, You screw this thing down. 0:43:08.440 --> 0:43:10.879 It stays in place somehow, I don't know how, and 0:43:11.160 --> 0:43:13.200 next thing you know, you now have a roll a 0:43:13.280 --> 0:43:15.640 rocker dimmer where you can like or a circular dimmer 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:18.279 where you can turn the lights on and off or 0:43:18.360 --> 0:43:20.040 tap to turn them on off. And it only works 0:43:20.040 --> 0:43:21.920 with Hugh lights. But if you have Hugh lights in 0:43:21.920 --> 0:43:24.000 your house, check it out. It's forty bucks. You can 0:43:24.000 --> 0:43:26.200 add a dimmer switch to any room. It's called the 0:43:26.280 --> 0:43:27.240 Lutron Aurora. 0:43:27.600 --> 0:43:28.359 It is so cool. 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:31.160 Lutron tried to send this to me for probably months, 0:43:31.200 --> 0:43:32.840 and I kept saying no, no, no, no, no, I 0:43:32.880 --> 0:43:35.000 don't want to try anything like this. And finally I've 0:43:35.000 --> 0:43:36.480 read it like three times, it was like, actually, that 0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:38.120 sounds kind of cool. Try it, and I'm in love 0:43:38.120 --> 0:43:41.719 with it now, so I love it. That's number one. 0:43:41.800 --> 0:43:42.160 Number two. 0:43:42.239 --> 0:43:44.960 If you want to transform your iPhone into an iPod Classic, 0:43:45.320 --> 0:43:47.120 check out an app called Rewound. 0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:50.160 It's just fun. It's free. It's just just check it out. 0:43:50.200 --> 0:43:52.960 It's called rewound, and it transforms your iPhone into an 0:43:53.000 --> 0:43:56.359 iPod Classic with that click wheel that you scroll through. 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:57.279 It's just so much fun. 0:43:57.320 --> 0:43:59.920 You just if you had, if you had an iPod Classic, 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:02.160 you gotta try it out. I should have hashtaged it 0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:04.800 I posted to my Instagram. I did not hashtag TBT today, 0:44:04.920 --> 0:44:09.400 Oh missed opportunity. Thursday hashtag missed opportunity. 0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:10.319 Yeah you can. 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:15.000 It's fine, all right, Thanks so much for listening. If 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:16.840 you have not, thanks to you, by the way, for 0:44:16.920 --> 0:44:19.200 everyone who has purchased a copy of my book one 0:44:19.520 --> 0:44:22.160 and one iPhone Tips and Tricks, I'm getting the reviews 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:23.960 are starting to trickle in which I love it. If 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:26.439 you've bought a copy and you love it. Please leave 0:44:26.440 --> 0:44:29.120 a review on Amazon that helps other people find it 0:44:29.160 --> 0:44:33.080 and discover it and also know that it's great and 0:44:33.120 --> 0:44:34.280 the reviews have been awesome. 0:44:34.360 --> 0:44:36.839 Thank you so much. It's just made my day. 0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:39.759 It's a number one iPhone guide on Amazon, especially during 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:42.840 the holidays. That is pretty amazing. I am doing a 0:44:42.840 --> 0:44:45.319 lot on Instagram these days, so please if you're not 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:47.239 following me there, follow me there. 0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:48.839 I am at rich on Tech. 0:44:48.960 --> 0:44:52.239 My goal, new goal, Megan, is to post one cool 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:54.640 video a day. I don't know if I'm gonna be 0:44:54.640 --> 0:44:55.160 able to do that. 0:44:55.080 --> 0:44:57.879 Because that's hour. Yeah, every hour. 0:44:57.920 --> 0:44:59.480 I didn't say every day. I said every hour of 0:44:59.520 --> 0:45:02.480 an hour. It's tough to do, but I have been 0:45:02.520 --> 0:45:03.799 doing it and I just love it. So if you 0:45:03.800 --> 0:45:06.080 see those videos, like them, comments, share with your friends, 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:08.080 all that good stuff. I'm always trying different things on 0:45:08.120 --> 0:45:10.560 there to see what people like. There's no look, I'm 0:45:10.560 --> 0:45:12.120 not an expert in any of this stuff, believe me, 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:13.360 long way, but I've come a. 0:45:13.360 --> 0:45:15.360 Long way, thanks in no small part to you. 0:45:15.400 --> 0:45:17.040 No, I mean, we do like all of it. 0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:19.279 So, producer Megan, where can people find you? 0:45:19.560 --> 0:45:22.000 I am on Twitter at producer Megan. 0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:23.160 So easy see that. 0:45:23.200 --> 0:45:23.800 So easy. 0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:27.120 That's gonna do it for today's show. Can you believe 0:45:27.200 --> 0:45:29.560 the show is over? I'm gonna go back to wrapping 0:45:29.600 --> 0:45:32.040 Christmas presents now, Okay. 0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:31.839 Me too. 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:32.480 That's about it. 0:45:32.480 --> 0:45:34.719 Actually, I'll probably do that right before Christmas. 0:45:34.760 --> 0:45:37.600 The website is rich on tech dot tv. 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