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Speaker 1: What's going on rich DeMuro and this is Rich on
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Speaker 2: Coming up on this week's show, we've.
Speaker 1: Got Andrew O'Hara of Apple Insider. Andrew's going to join
Speaker 1: to talk about the new features in iOS seventeen point two.
Speaker 1: Don't know if you noticed, but the iPhone got a big, big,
Speaker 1: big software update this week, and there's lots of new
Speaker 1: things to check out.
Speaker 2: Andrew will talk about those.
Speaker 1: Marcia Collier author of eBay for Dummies, is going to
Speaker 1: join us to talk about tips and tricks for selling
Speaker 1: and buying on eBay. So this is it. We are
Speaker 1: in the final stretch of the holiday shopping season, and
Speaker 1: of course I found myself this week going shopping. So
Speaker 1: what did I do? I headed to the mall. Wait, what,
Speaker 1: rich You're the tech guy, Why are you going to
Speaker 1: the mall. Shouldn't you be ordering everything online? I get
Speaker 1: very nostalgic around the holidays, and I still think that
Speaker 1: the mall is a fantastic way to, you know, get
Speaker 1: that sarahdipity of like walking into the candle store and
Speaker 1: be like, Oh, that smells good, let me buy one
Speaker 1: of those, or you know, smelling the cinnabonds and getting
Speaker 1: one of those, or you know anything. I guess it
Speaker 1: all has to do with a lot of sense being
Speaker 1: piped into the mall, and I'm a sucker for all
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: So I kind of liked that I went to a
Speaker 2: bunch of different stores.
Speaker 1: I was actually on the hunt for a specific product
Speaker 1: that was very tough to find, and I was getting
Speaker 1: a little frustrated because I was like, this is why
Speaker 1: I shop online. But I kept going and I ended
Speaker 1: up finding it, and so it was fun and it
Speaker 1: felt like I accomplished something. And anyway, on the way
Speaker 1: to the mall, I tell you all this because on
Speaker 1: the way to the mall, I passed by a best
Speaker 1: Buy and it had this big sign said newly redesigned,
Speaker 1: and I was like, ooh, I gotta go in there
Speaker 1: and check it out. And so I went inside. The
Speaker 1: first thing I noticed outside they had these new lockers
Speaker 1: that you can buy online and pick up outside the store,
Speaker 1: so the store doesn't even have to be opened. It's
Speaker 1: like a twenty four seven kind of thing. But this
Speaker 1: is an experience store. I looked up did some research
Speaker 1: and they're opening these across the country and so I
Speaker 1: guess the first one was in Houston in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and now we're getting them in other places. So the
Speaker 1: Redesign store have like, you know, all these little places
Speaker 1: for brands, like they had like fitness, They had home
Speaker 1: audio theater, like luxury appliances. The geek Squad was set
Speaker 1: up more like kind of an Apple store. They almost
Speaker 1: had an Apple store inside the Best Buy store. So
Speaker 1: it was really really cool, and it seemed like they
Speaker 1: had a lot more selection as well, which I thought
Speaker 1: was really neat. But when I posted this to my
Speaker 1: Instagram listener, Jim said, hey, Rich, did you notice the
Speaker 1: big difference? And I said, what? No CDs or DVDs.
Speaker 1: They are a thing of the past, a relic in
Speaker 1: this newly redesigned Best Buy. And oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: can't believe that I didn't notice that inside the store.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the whole center of the store used to
Speaker 1: be dedicated to movies and music and that is no
Speaker 1: longer a thing. So another part of my childhood and
Speaker 1: growing up is gone, just erased off the list of memories.
Speaker 1: And this got me to thinking, what about all the
Speaker 1: technology in my short lifetime that I enjoyed? Watch Go
Speaker 1: In and watch Go Out? And so I made a list,
Speaker 1: starting with the pager. I mean, these are things that
Speaker 1: you just don't think of on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: The pager.
Speaker 1: I remember, I thought I was so cool when I
Speaker 1: had a beeper, and.
Speaker 2: I remember the company that I went to. It was
Speaker 2: called like Smart.
Speaker 1: Beep, and it was like five ninety nine a month
Speaker 1: for all the beeps you can get, and someone would
Speaker 1: send a message while it started out a phone number,
Speaker 1: and then eventually it was like a text message to
Speaker 1: your beeper and you would call them back. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a wild thing to think about. Now you had
Speaker 1: to find a payphone to go call them back. Portable
Speaker 1: CD player This is how I ran, Like back in
Speaker 1: the day, I would run with a portable CD player
Speaker 1: and the thing would jump all over the place, like
Speaker 1: you couldn't run with a portable CD player. I had
Speaker 1: one mounted in my car in like the center area.
Speaker 1: I like, I mounted it there. Floppy discs, I mean
Speaker 1: one disc. If you want to install something on your computer,
Speaker 1: you had to have like a series of eight, ten, twelve, fourteen,
Speaker 1: sixteen discs. And I remember just taking one out, putting
Speaker 1: the next one in, taking one out, putting the next
Speaker 1: one in. I think they carried like one megabyte one
Speaker 1: point four to four or something like that. I don't
Speaker 1: quote me, but yeah, not very much. VCRs. I remember
Speaker 1: when we got a VCR in the house. It was
Speaker 1: like this was the future of everything. You could watch
Speaker 1: movies in your house and you had to rewind them
Speaker 1: and the tape would get stuck once in a while.
Speaker 1: And that lasted for a long time until we upgraded
Speaker 1: to the DVD player. And I remember the very first
Speaker 1: movie we ever watched on it it was Fargo, and
Speaker 1: we watched the heck out of that movie because guess what,
Speaker 1: you weren't really buying a lot of DVDs back in
Speaker 1: the day because they were expensive. So you had a
Speaker 1: couple and you just watched them over and over and
Speaker 1: over and you and you marveled at how clear they
Speaker 1: were on that screen. Oh, this is really really clear
Speaker 1: compared to a VCR. And now you look at it
Speaker 1: and you're like, eh, not so good. Going back a
Speaker 1: little bit, the Walkman, so of course everyone had a Walkman.
Speaker 2: This puts Sony on the map.
Speaker 1: I mean, Sony was the tech company back in the day,
Speaker 1: and they still do a lot of cool stuff, but
Speaker 1: I mean they're still have the PlayStation obviously, but the
Speaker 1: Walkman was like, you knew you were living large when
Speaker 1: you had the Walkman. You put those headphones on, you
Speaker 1: put that cassette tape in, you pressed play.
Speaker 2: It was very TecTile and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: Two TVs, of course, plasma TVs later, those were you know,
Speaker 1: big and heavy, the Sony Tranatron. If you had that
Speaker 1: in your house, you were you were rich. Basically, you
Speaker 1: were you were like really doing well, Uh, what else?
Speaker 1: Dial up internet modems? Dial up modems. I remember the
Speaker 1: sound a would make when you connected to AOL, and
Speaker 1: I remember waiting AOL at one point in my youth
Speaker 1: had a message on the screen that said the Internet
Speaker 1: is coming soon. Like there was a point when I
Speaker 1: was waiting to get on the Internet, and that dial
Speaker 1: up modem sound was just so iconic, and when you
Speaker 1: heard it, you knew if you were connecting at a
Speaker 1: high speed, which was not really that fast, or a
Speaker 1: low speed, because of the way that sound, the way
Speaker 1: it made that sound towards the end, that digital handshake. Oh,
Speaker 1: how about this one? A fax machine? I mean, I
Speaker 1: remember going with my dad to it might have been
Speaker 1: Crazy Eddies. I grew up back in New Jersey and
Speaker 1: Crazy eddy Our prices are insane. We had so many stores.
Speaker 1: I didn't even get to like the list of stores
Speaker 1: that are no longer around. This is just the gadgets
Speaker 1: that are no longer around. But a fax machine. I
Speaker 1: remember the salesperson demoing the fax machine. You would put
Speaker 1: a piece of paper in here and it would pop
Speaker 1: out the other side, and I said, wait, what is
Speaker 1: that magic? It was a copy of it, and it
Speaker 1: took me a bit to figure that out. As a kid.
Speaker 1: Uh oh yeah, Bobo chimed in with a calculator watch.
Speaker 1: Oh I had one of these, the Cassio. I thought
Speaker 1: it was so cool. Ah, the calculator watch. My friend
Speaker 1: still has one. I think it's like an I think
Speaker 1: it's like everything old is New again kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, the list goes on and on. Camquarterers.
Speaker 1: I remember getting a Camquarder and back in the day,
Speaker 1: they had these specialized electronics stores and they you went
Speaker 1: to an electronic store to buy this stuff.
Speaker 2: So it wasn't like you went to a Best Buy
Speaker 2: per se.
Speaker 1: You went to like a local electronics store where they
Speaker 1: had salespeople that you know, they were the smartest kids
Speaker 1: in the room because they were nerdy and they knew
Speaker 1: about this stuff and you didn't, and they could sell
Speaker 1: you anything. Oh, this has the twenty times optical zoom.
Speaker 1: Wasn't even optical. It was like digital zoom. Oh this
Speaker 1: has got the twenty times digital zoom with the titles
Speaker 1: you can do. I mean, it was this was a
Speaker 1: wild time. A couple other things. Cameras. I remember getting
Speaker 1: my first one ten film camera. It was like a
Speaker 1: cartridge you would put in there GPS navigation, I mean
Speaker 1: like a garment or a tom Tom. We used to
Speaker 1: put a GPS navigator in our car, and then the
Speaker 1: phone took it over.
Speaker 2: And I remember when the phone took it over.
Speaker 1: It was it was the Moto Droid was the first
Speaker 1: phone to have turn by turn Google Maps.
Speaker 2: And I went to Verizon.
Speaker 1: I waited in line, and I put that in my
Speaker 1: car and I threw out my GPS. I said, I
Speaker 1: don't need you anymore. I've got my phone.
Speaker 2: Now. Two more things, answering machines.
Speaker 1: I mean, people used to leave a message, and if
Speaker 1: you had parents in your house, they would say.
Speaker 2: Don't answer the phone. Let them leave a message. I
Speaker 2: want to hear what they're saying.
Speaker 1: And then you never understand as a kid why your
Speaker 1: parents didn't want to answer the phone and they'd want
Speaker 1: to hear what this person was saying. And now as
Speaker 1: an adult, of course, none of us answer our phone.
Speaker 1: And finally, zip drives. I didn't have a zip drive ever,
Speaker 1: but that was a big one. Zip drive was a
Speaker 1: big thing back in the day. All right, coming up
Speaker 1: on the show, that was fun. I just I love
Speaker 1: researching this stuff and just it's like we all know
Speaker 1: about that stuff. We didn't forget about it. It's still
Speaker 1: in our brain. But you don't call up those memories
Speaker 1: until you physically speak it and think about it. And
Speaker 1: it's really fun to do. Thanks for joining me today
Speaker 1: on the show eighty to eight Rich one on one.
Speaker 1: Glad you're here. Eight eight eight seven four to two
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Speaker 2: Give me a call if you have a question about technology.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one
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Speaker 2: Mike and Ventura you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hey Rich It's Mike een Loan and Ventura. How are
Speaker 3: you my friends?
Speaker 2: Hey Mike, how you doing? Wow?
Speaker 1: Fan of the old podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been. I told the screener we were a
Speaker 3: long time friends. I have people my promise to you
Speaker 3: that I call in and ask you a question for you.
Speaker 2: Love it, let's hear it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I bought a new HP laptop seventeen inch. It's
Speaker 3: for four Gigabyt one hundred and twenty eight K. But
Speaker 3: I noticed when I went shopping for laptops they don't
Speaker 3: do DVD's in them anymore, DVD players. Rather, I was wondering,
Speaker 3: other than cost, is there a reason for that?
Speaker 2: Good question?
Speaker 1: And this is something that I remember when Apple ditched
Speaker 1: the DVD player or the optical drive on their laptops
Speaker 1: and everyone was up in arms. Why would Apple do this?
Speaker 1: But now we've seen the trend with all of our
Speaker 1: technology where we are getting less and less ways to
Speaker 1: connect to you know, less ports, less things. It's all
Speaker 1: USBC now. So here's the reason. I mean, the top
Speaker 1: two reasons. Number one is that, like I just mentioned it,
Speaker 1: best buy, they don't even sell these things anymore. You can't,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to go to specialized places to
Speaker 1: buy a DVD or a CD. I mean, they're just
Speaker 1: not available in a lot of places.
Speaker 2: That they used to be.
Speaker 1: And why is that well streaming and downloads. Everything nowadays
Speaker 1: is streamed, And why do companies like streaming Because you
Speaker 1: don't actually own it. They love when you buy this
Speaker 1: stuff on digital because most of the time you are
Speaker 1: buying a limited right to the content, and if you
Speaker 1: look in the fine print, it's not really yours. They
Speaker 1: can take it away at any time, and we've seen
Speaker 1: that happen over and over. So streaming gives these companies
Speaker 1: more control over their content, which means they can monetize
Speaker 1: it in new ways as time goes on. Also, downloads,
Speaker 1: I mean everything now that you want to purchase software
Speaker 1: wise isnloadable, and it's faster, it's easier, it costs less
Speaker 1: for these companies to do, and there's less maintenance. And
Speaker 1: by the way, if you're buying something that's on a CD,
Speaker 1: like a software for instance, I mean, it's going to
Speaker 1: be out of date before you even get it, and
Speaker 1: you're going to need a software update. So when it
Speaker 1: comes to computers and laptops and everything thin thin, thin,
Speaker 1: I mean that is the name of the game. They
Speaker 1: want these things to be smaller, they want them to
Speaker 1: be easier, less moving parts, less things to break. I
Speaker 1: mean that DVD tray or CD tray, when it pops out,
Speaker 1: you can break it off, and so it's better for
Speaker 1: these things just not to have it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: By the way, you can still purchase a external drive,
Speaker 1: and there are people that still need these things. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're archiving to a DVD or something like that,
Speaker 1: or you're burning a CDX, you're a musician, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But I think you're probably sending all your stuff by
Speaker 1: links anyway. But there are certain people that may need this,
Speaker 1: and so yes, they still make these drives and you
Speaker 1: can purchase them and add it on through a USB connection.
Speaker 1: Good question, Mike. Great to hear from you. Mike was
Speaker 1: a caller back in the day. This radio show has
Speaker 1: its roots in a podcast that I used to do
Speaker 1: where I used to rig up a phone to my
Speaker 1: mixture board and try to get people to call in
Speaker 1: and live stream on Facebook.
Speaker 2: And so we've come.
Speaker 1: A long way, but Mike was always there for the show.
Speaker 1: So thanks for calling in, Mike, appreciate it. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Craig in Des Moines. Craig, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 1: How you doing Rich, I'm doing great. I hope you
Speaker 1: can tell.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I bought a new phone. I would the guy
Speaker 4: called a head the new fifree. Well, I bought a
Speaker 4: new trap, A fourteen that used to call me.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a I'm guessing that's a Samsung.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing that's Mobo. Okay, now he's a very good phone. Biggle.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So uh, let me let me see here so that
Speaker 1: a fourteen from Samsung is actually just with a quick
Speaker 1: quick search here is like they're best selling phone somehow.
Speaker 1: Let's see best selling phone in the world. So I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that this has a combination of good price and
Speaker 1: features for the money.
Speaker 2: Let's see how much this thing costs.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about looks like it's about two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars and that's before any sort of carrier promotions. So
Speaker 1: if I were you and you want to learn more
Speaker 1: about this phone, I'd probably go to something like YouTube
Speaker 1: and just do a quick search. I mean, the first
Speaker 1: three videos I'm seeing are all about how it's a
Speaker 1: top selling phone.
Speaker 2: But then if you.
Speaker 1: Go a little bit lower in the searches, you can
Speaker 1: see they've got Samsung Galaxy A fourteen for beginners, learn
Speaker 1: the basics and minutes, the good and the bad. They've
Speaker 1: got all kinds of tips and tricks on these things.
Speaker 1: So that's what I would do if you're looking to
Speaker 1: get some more information on this phone. It's it's a
Speaker 1: top selling phone. Look, people forget that Samsung. They come
Speaker 1: out with so many different phones. They've got so many
Speaker 1: different models, and they are a very worldwide company. So
Speaker 1: the A fourteen is part of their more budget lineup.
Speaker 1: The A lineup is their budget, the S is their flagship,
Speaker 1: and the Z is their foldables. So those are the
Speaker 1: three lines that Samsung has a budget S you know,
Speaker 1: premium flagships, and then the Z is the foldables. So
Speaker 1: I think you got a great phone there for what
Speaker 1: you need and hopefully it proves to be pretty good.
Speaker 1: All right, Amazon, I want to tell you about this
Speaker 1: before we had to break here. Amazon has a easy
Speaker 1: new way to share photos among a group. This came
Speaker 1: in just in time for the holidays. Event photos sharing.
Speaker 1: You could open up the Amazon Photos app on iOS
Speaker 1: for now in the upper right hand corner. There's a
Speaker 1: little icon that looks like a party. You tap that
Speaker 1: and you can now generate a link that you can
Speaker 1: share with guests and anyone can upload and contribute pictures
Speaker 1: to this shared album even if they don't log in.
Speaker 1: They don't even need an Amazon Photos account. And I
Speaker 1: tested this the other night. I went to a group
Speaker 1: game and I sent the link to everyone and people
Speaker 1: did upload photos.
Speaker 2: So anyway, open.
Speaker 1: Up the Amazon Photos app look for the new party
Speaker 1: icon if you want a very easy way to share
Speaker 1: photos with a group. Andrew O'Hara with Apple Insider coming
Speaker 1: up next to talk new features on the iPhone. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. If you are listening and you have a
Speaker 1: question about technology, maybe you need a recommendation or an
Speaker 1: app or a just something's troubling, you give me a
Speaker 1: call and we'll try to figure it out. Joining me
Speaker 1: now is Andrew O'Hara of Apple Insider.
Speaker 2: Andrew, thanks so much for joining me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, Rich anytime.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about this big software update that the
Speaker 1: iPhone got iOS seventeen point two.
Speaker 2: This was a big one. Huh.
Speaker 6: This is a big update.
Speaker 5: These point releases that are typically called are going to
Speaker 5: be the big update between Apples yearly cycle, and we
Speaker 5: have a ton of new features that arrived with this update.
Speaker 1: So I think the most prominent one that I noticed
Speaker 1: was the Journal app because it put a new icon
Speaker 1: on my home screen. So what is the deal with
Speaker 1: the new journal app?
Speaker 5: Basically, the Apple has been, you know, exploring different first
Speaker 5: party apps that it can offer users and doing it
Speaker 5: in a very secure and private way, and the Journal app.
Speaker 6: Is just the latest example of that.
Speaker 5: So basically it is a fairly minimalistic journal app that
Speaker 5: puts privacy and security front and center, so you're able
Speaker 5: to share your thoughts, reflect on things, and it can
Speaker 5: provide on device recommendations based on like where you've been,
Speaker 5: what you've done, and you add things like photos and locations,
Speaker 5: you know, obvious nippets, all of that, and it's just
Speaker 5: like simplified journal app that you can look back on.
Speaker 1: Andrew, I'm just you're breaking up just a little bit,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to ask you to move to a
Speaker 1: different a little bit of a better location for your signal,
Speaker 1: but because I want to hear what you're saying, because
Speaker 1: this stuff is really important. I noticed with the Journal app,
Speaker 1: which I thought was really cool is that not only
Speaker 1: did Apple introduce their own which is pretty basic, but
Speaker 1: they also came up with this new system where pretty
Speaker 1: much any journal app can tap into these new suggestions
Speaker 1: that you're talking about and implement that in their app.
Speaker 1: So the app that I use called day one, it said, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to try out these new suggestions? And
Speaker 1: it's so cool because it'll say, we saw that you
Speaker 1: recently went out to a basketball game, or you recently
Speaker 1: connected with this person, and you can start an entry
Speaker 1: based on things that you're doing in your life.
Speaker 7: Exactly.
Speaker 5: And it's processing all that stuff locally, which I think
Speaker 5: is one of the important parts. It's not sending things
Speaker 5: off to your server. It's being analyzed somewhere. It's all
Speaker 5: happening on your iPhone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's the main thing is that these apps that you're downloading,
Speaker 1: like if it's a third party app, is not getting
Speaker 1: access to everything that it's seeing in those suggestions. And
Speaker 1: that was kind of the brilliance of Apple's implementation there.
Speaker 1: The action button on the iPhone fifteen and fifteen promacs
Speaker 1: got a new option to translate.
Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty cool. I tested this out.
Speaker 5: For that action button, you know, hold down for a
Speaker 5: second and it's going to pop up right on the
Speaker 5: top of your screen. Allow you to translate a conversation
Speaker 5: in real time. So if you are traveling abroad you
Speaker 5: don't know the local language, really easy to translate what
Speaker 5: you're saying two another language, or what someone else is saying,
Speaker 5: you know, back to English.
Speaker 2: It's very cool and easy to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, Andrew, we're still having trouble with the connection. What
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have Kim call you
Speaker 1: at your phone number and we'll get you back on
Speaker 1: on the regular phone line and we'll see if that helps.
Speaker 2: So we'll come right back to you in just a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Here while we connect with Andrew, let me tell you
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 2: This is a feature that Apple.
Speaker 1: They didn't add this in the new software update, but
Speaker 1: it's coming soon to the iPhone. And this is a
Speaker 1: new feature called stolen Device Protection. So this is something
Speaker 1: that Wall Street Journal was reporting about. Basically, thieves were
Speaker 1: watching people enter their passcodes into their iPhone and then
Speaker 1: they would they would steal the iPhone and then use
Speaker 1: that password to lock the victim out of their iCloud,
Speaker 1: steal money, or gain access to all of their saved passwords,
Speaker 1: and this was really a major problem. And so basically
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal reported about this a lot. They kept
Speaker 1: kind of mentioning it, and Apple actually said, I guess
Speaker 1: they took notice. And so now this stolen device protection
Speaker 1: is in beta testing. It will be included in a
Speaker 1: future software update. You will have to manually enable it.
Speaker 1: But it's actually quite smart. So even if someone gets
Speaker 1: your passcode, which by the way, you always protect that
Speaker 1: and favor face ID or touch ID when possible. But
Speaker 1: if this person steals your phone and they, let's say
Speaker 1: it gets your passcode and they, of course they're going
Speaker 1: to try to make like major changes to your account,
Speaker 1: there's going to be an hour long delay. And if
Speaker 1: you are away from your familiar location, so if you're
Speaker 1: not at home, you're not at work, your phone is
Speaker 1: not really going to allow these major changes. So that's
Speaker 1: pretty smart because think about it, the person who steals
Speaker 1: your phone is going to immediately take it to you know,
Speaker 1: their underground layer or wherever they go where they're going
Speaker 1: to steal phones and try to steal all your information.
Speaker 1: So that was pretty cool. The other thing, and I
Speaker 1: think I mentioned this on this very radio show. Is
Speaker 1: the fact that iCloud keychain. You can unlock that with
Speaker 1: a passcode and now, and that means someone would have
Speaker 1: access to all of your passwords if they're stored on
Speaker 1: your phone. And now you can't do that anymore. Now
Speaker 1: you have to use face ID or touch ID to
Speaker 1: authenticate that. So this is really smart. I think this
Speaker 1: is great. Again, it's called stolen Device protection. You will
Speaker 1: have to activate it. But if you're worried about your
Speaker 1: iPhone and someone's stealing all your information, that is something
Speaker 1: that I think is going to be a great addition.
Speaker 1: All right, I think we have Andrew back. Andrew you back.
Speaker 6: I am bad. Okay, better than ever?
Speaker 1: Ah, much better, much better. You sound great, Okay, So
Speaker 1: let's talk about this now. This is really very specialized.
Speaker 1: Back to the new features in iOS seventeen point two,
Speaker 1: the spatial video capture. This is really for the upcoming
Speaker 1: Vision Pro right.
Speaker 6: Yes, this is basically right now almost exclusively for Vision
Speaker 6: Pro when it launches early next year. There have been
Speaker 6: some people who've been able to convert this spatial video
Speaker 6: to work with other devices like the Quest that's out there,
Speaker 6: but Apple designed this for Vision Pro and using the
Speaker 6: fifteen Pro fifteen promacs, you can record all of your
Speaker 6: kind of memories in spatial video and then play them
Speaker 6: back on the Vision Pro when I launched it. So
Speaker 6: it's kind of like you can start recording these things
Speaker 6: now and then experience them once that headset comes out.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And I actually, you know, I got a demo of
Speaker 1: the Vision Pro now. I know they've given some of
Speaker 1: the influencers like new demos of like the spatial video
Speaker 1: capture and stuff. I didn't get that, but I saw
Speaker 1: it in the original demo and I watched like these
Speaker 1: kids like blowing out candles on a birthday cake, and
Speaker 1: it was pretty wild. I mean, it's like it's it
Speaker 1: looks like something out of a sci fi movie that
Speaker 1: you're experiencing in real time.
Speaker 6: It's really cool. And I think panorama photos are also
Speaker 6: really going to look cool on Vision Pro. So I've
Speaker 6: been capturing more spatial video now and a lot more
Speaker 6: panorama than I ever had.
Speaker 1: In the past to get prepared for that headset. You're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna spring for the thirty five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: I guess you have to write because you need you
Speaker 1: got to review it right.
Speaker 6: You know, it's for the it's for work, all the
Speaker 6: tell my accountant it's for work. But realistically too, even
Speaker 6: if I wasn't, you know, picking up this first generation
Speaker 6: unit that was going to be coming out of lower
Speaker 6: cost units down the line, you know, like in another
Speaker 6: year or so, And even if I didn't spend the
Speaker 6: money on this original vision pro, I'd like to have
Speaker 6: those things, you know, if I ever did pick one
Speaker 6: up in even two years. So I don't see it
Speaker 6: being bad to be prepared.
Speaker 1: What other seven point seventeen point two features do you
Speaker 1: think we should know about?
Speaker 6: There's still a lot of really cool ones. One of
Speaker 6: my favorite new ones is being able to ask SIORI
Speaker 6: about health data on a type one diabetic and I
Speaker 6: can just ask, you know, Apple assistant, well, what was
Speaker 6: my blood shirted this morning? And if I have a
Speaker 6: data in the health app, it's able to tell me.
Speaker 6: You can also check things like your fitness rings, all
Speaker 6: with your voice. There's a new Favorite Songs playlist, so
Speaker 6: anything you've added as a favorite ines of Apple Music
Speaker 6: can automatically be added to the Favorites playlist for you.
Speaker 6: And g TOO is arriving on the iPhone thirteen and
Speaker 6: the iPhone fourteen alongside the iPhone fifteen. Before CH two
Speaker 6: chargers stake here before.
Speaker 1: The holidays, and what is the advantage of the CHI
Speaker 1: two chargers. I know that I interviewed someone at EFA
Speaker 1: about them, and I mean number one, they're going to
Speaker 1: come to Android as well, which is nice.
Speaker 2: But what the advantages of G two.
Speaker 6: Well, right now, before G two, there's two basic wireless standards.
Speaker 6: You've got Apples mag Safe, which can do up to
Speaker 6: fifteen lots of power on your iPhone. It's quite fast,
Speaker 6: and at the same time, there's also regular CHI but
Speaker 6: it will only go up to seven and a half
Speaker 6: lots because of Apple plementations. Apple kind of almost open
Speaker 6: source mag Safe and gave the Maxi technology to the
Speaker 6: Wireless Power Consortion to build G two as this standard
Speaker 6: that'll work across platforms, iPhone and androids. So when these
Speaker 6: things come out, they're not going to require an Apple certification.
Speaker 6: We should see lower price coins and the same fifteen
Speaker 6: lots of magnetic charging that we're getting with mag Safe.
Speaker 6: So I think this is just going to be meaning
Speaker 6: a lot more choice for consumers at hopefully lower price points.
Speaker 1: And I know you cover Apple stuff, but that it
Speaker 1: sounds like there's going to be more like mag safe
Speaker 1: style accessories for Android phones too.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, We've already seen like magnet inside of Android cases,
Speaker 6: but now I think we're going to start to see
Speaker 6: flag Ship Android phones building in she too, which is
Speaker 6: essentially mag stakes. So we're with mactually kind of coming
Speaker 6: to Android. And yeah, that I mean, we're gonna get
Speaker 6: a lot more accessories that are in work across platforms.
Speaker 1: That's exciting, very cool stuff, very exciting. Apple iOS seventeen
Speaker 1: point two. Do you recommend that people do these updates
Speaker 1: the day they're released or do we have to wait
Speaker 1: a couple days anymore?
Speaker 2: Or those days over of like issues with these things?
Speaker 6: Well, Apple goes through some pretty stenuins beta cygles these days.
Speaker 6: There is a public data that people can try out
Speaker 6: ahead of time. By the time you know, we're getting
Speaker 6: to a full release, they are pretty stable. I usually
Speaker 6: recommend people maybe wait a day just to see if
Speaker 6: there's any mass issue that happened to be impacting. But
Speaker 6: right now I have not heard of any dat effects
Speaker 6: from seventeen point two, and I think it's a pretty
Speaker 6: safe update to download.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did it. I got caught once. This was
Speaker 1: many many years ago. I was one of those people
Speaker 1: that would like continually do the update, like try to
Speaker 1: like get it as soon as it came out, and
Speaker 1: it bricked my phone for like twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: My cellular did not work. And that was many many
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 1: But I learned my lesson, and now I do it,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe like the night or something like that,
Speaker 1: Like I give it a couple hours at least.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I'm on the beta train perpetually, and it's definitely
Speaker 6: it's caused problems and many times, but it's what I do, uh,
Speaker 6: you know, just to get these speeches out there for everyone.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, if you if you work for a
Speaker 1: website named Apple Insider, you gotta do the update as
Speaker 1: soon as it comes out. Andrew O'Hara, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining me today.
Speaker 2: Absolutely appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Check it out appleinsider dot com. Uh, coming up, does
Speaker 1: your smartphone listen to you? This is a surprising revelation
Speaker 1: in this whole tinfoil hat theory thing. We'll talk about it. Plus,
Speaker 1: your call is a triple eight rich one oh one
Speaker 1: eighty eight seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back,
Speaker 1: to Rich on tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Let's go
Speaker 1: to uh Gerald Gerald's in Siami Valley. Gerald, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Rich, Good morning.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I just wanted to take it back to the
Speaker 8: early nineteen eighties.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, okay, here we go.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Back then I bought my first moblum there was
Speaker 8: three hundred bus per second.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's slow.
Speaker 8: And well even further back before that, my first computer
Speaker 8: was a Commodore VIC twenty. It had five K of memory,
Speaker 8: and if you wanted to store a program, there's a
Speaker 8: little cassette player that is connected to it, and you
Speaker 8: could actually buy games the cassette to play with it.
Speaker 2: Wow, a cassette to play a game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you buy a little it's a cassette instead of
Speaker 8: a you know, instead of a disk. It was a cassette.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, we have a game like Raid on a
Speaker 8: rat radio, you know, very printive games.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that was a little bit different.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you you've been you've been computing for a while,
Speaker 1: it sounds like yes, And what do you make of.
Speaker 2: What do you make of all the stuff today? Do
Speaker 2: you keep up with it?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I still I'm still a galer actually even today,
Speaker 10: but I still keep up like that unless my son
Speaker 10: is a he's a network engineer. So anything that I
Speaker 10: lacked he helped.
Speaker 8: Me out also. And what moved then I moved on
Speaker 8: to an Apple to E. That was a big move
Speaker 8: and it had a UH and it came with one
Speaker 8: in five eight and a half in floppy dot. But
Speaker 8: the main thing I was speaking about back then, in
Speaker 8: the early eighties, there was a it was a network
Speaker 8: or I don't even know what you called. It's called
Speaker 8: the Okay, which which was after after a few years,
Speaker 8: it was about all about buying Comfy Serve.
Speaker 2: You probably, Oh yeah, I was on Comfy Surf okay.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Before that, it was the Force Okay. And that was
Speaker 8: my first really my first bulletin boards system BBS exist,
Speaker 8: and I still remember I couldn't I think that was
Speaker 8: the highlight of that. I remember I couldn't figure out
Speaker 8: this one part of this game called on Tima three
Speaker 8: and I posted the question and I think something like
Speaker 8: eleven year old kid gave me. The answer was wonderful.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love that.
Speaker 1: That's when the world was just like I think it
Speaker 1: was like the same experience I had, that the world
Speaker 1: just kind of like opened up to you like it
Speaker 1: used to be in our lives. We had us, our friends,
Speaker 1: our family, and it was kind of like limited to
Speaker 1: the information that those people had or what you can
Speaker 1: find the library. And then the idea that you can
Speaker 1: post something online and get all these people to respond
Speaker 1: is just incredible. And by the way, I used the
Speaker 1: first time I ever looked up a not a cheat,
Speaker 1: but like a tip on YouTube for a video game
Speaker 1: was in Super Mario Odyssey and I'm sitting there playing
Speaker 1: it on a Saturday morning and I'm like, I can't
Speaker 1: beat this boss. I was like, I wonder if YouTube
Speaker 1: has a video about this, And sure enough, I just
Speaker 1: like watched all these videos and I beat the boss
Speaker 1: in like an hour.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm wondering how people nowadays. Well, you know, first
Speaker 8: of all, before I even buy a game, I preview
Speaker 8: it on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course.
Speaker 8: Back in the day, you know, you just you're bonding
Speaker 8: and hope that you enjoyed. But so as I say today,
Speaker 8: you know, like any problem I had, you know, you
Speaker 8: go to YouTube to figure it out.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 8: See, I don't know how I did it before outside
Speaker 8: of the source.
Speaker 1: Well somehow we all survived. Gerald, Thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate Do you like the show? You enjoy
Speaker 1: listening to it?
Speaker 8: Or enjoy my watch and listen to you every Saturday morning?
Speaker 1: Perfect? We love it. Thank you, Gerald, appreciate it. Happy Holidays,
Speaker 1: Thank you too. Thanks for the call. Let's go to
Speaker 1: uh Let's go to Ron. What are the chances of
Speaker 1: that we have two Rons here? We have Ron and
Speaker 1: Kenoga Park. Let's go to Ron at Canoga Park. Ron,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 12: Thank you Rich. I'm using a Google Pixel four A
Speaker 12: and its security update period has lapsed, so they're not
Speaker 12: doing any more security updates. I love the phone. That's
Speaker 12: got a great camera. It's been fine for me, and
Speaker 12: I don't want to spend the money to get another phone.
Speaker 12: But what do you think should I have to do that?
Speaker 1: Okay, So this I'm looking at this website. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've heard of it, called end of life
Speaker 1: dot date.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 11: No? I haven't.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's a great website that gives you kind
Speaker 1: of all of the the end dates of you know
Speaker 1: these phones devices anything. So the Pixel four A let's see,
Speaker 1: it was released three years ago November fifth, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: and let's see the guaranteed security updates ended one month
Speaker 1: and one week ago on November fourth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: So you're right in the fact that you are at
Speaker 1: the end of life for this device. Now, does it
Speaker 1: mean you have to get a new one immediately. No,
Speaker 1: but it's a four A, it's a couple of years old,
Speaker 1: and I would say right now during the holidays, the
Speaker 1: Pixel eight is I know it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: expensive than you know. You're saying you don't want to
Speaker 1: spend the money, but the Pixel eight has got some
Speaker 1: really good deals and they're doing seven years of security updates.
Speaker 1: So if you spent the money now, you would get
Speaker 1: seven more years of security updates for that Pixel eight.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's probably the way you want
Speaker 1: to go. Since you already know the Pixel phone, you
Speaker 1: love it, it works great. I've been testing the Pixel
Speaker 1: eight Pro. It's one of my favorite phones of the year,
Speaker 1: probably my favorite phone of the year with androids, and
Speaker 1: so I think there's nothing to lose here except for
Speaker 1: the that you know, just find a good deal on
Speaker 1: this phone, on this Pixel eight, and I think that
Speaker 1: you'll really like it. And the good news is everything's
Speaker 1: going to transfer over nice and easily because you're going
Speaker 1: from pixel to pixel.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: I know pixels when they first came out, they were
Speaker 1: given like unlimited photo storage and all this stuff that
Speaker 1: is no longer a thing, but the pixels have been
Speaker 1: getting more and more popular, and I think that the
Speaker 1: reason I would recommend because you might be thinking, rich,
Speaker 1: maybe I should go for the seven A because it's
Speaker 1: a lot cheaper. That's kind of like the A line
Speaker 1: on the pixel is the less expensive. It's more of
Speaker 1: the budget pixel. So you've got the Pixel A, then
Speaker 1: you've got the Pixel regular, the eight, and then you've
Speaker 1: got the Pixel Pro. And so there's like three levels
Speaker 1: of pixels every year, and the A model is like
Speaker 1: the budget version, but this year's A model, the seven
Speaker 1: A does not have the seven years of updates. So
Speaker 1: for that reason, ron I would say go with the
Speaker 1: Pixel eight. I think you'll love it and it'll be
Speaker 1: a nice, nice upgrade from your current phone. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up next is that smartphone listening to you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have the results of a surprising blog post, plus
Speaker 1: your calls at Triple eight rich one on one. You're
Speaker 1: listening to rich on tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. We are on
Speaker 1: the slide. If you were on a sled, this would
Speaker 1: be the snowy hill in front of you, and there
Speaker 1: is no stopping before the holidays. You are just going
Speaker 1: all the way down that hill. And yes, I did
Speaker 1: that as a kid. I grew up in New Jersey
Speaker 1: and we had snow. As soon as it would snow,
Speaker 1: you go to the top of the hill and you
Speaker 1: would just sled all the way. And where I lived,
Speaker 1: the hill that we sled on led right into the highway.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that nowadays people would be allowed
Speaker 1: to do what we did. But we slid there all
Speaker 1: day long, and for some reason, the snow in New
Speaker 1: Jersey always melted like instantly, like you would get it
Speaker 1: for one day. You might be at a holiday party.
Speaker 1: Last night, I was hanging out with some friends at
Speaker 1: a gathering, and you know, I had a drink in
Speaker 1: my hand and my friend's like, oh, can I take
Speaker 1: a sip? And I was like no, and he was
Speaker 1: really like taking aback.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't share my drinks. I you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to get sick. And so he was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I understand that. And I'm like, oh, my wife will
Speaker 1: She'll share her drink at anyone. I go go ask
Speaker 1: her for a sip and she's like, no, I don't. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it got me to thinking that, you know, not everyone
Speaker 1: feels the way I do, and so I put it
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page, Facebook dot Com, slash rich on tech.
Speaker 1: I said, a friend asks you for a sip of
Speaker 1: your drink? Do you say yes or no? And, as
Speaker 1: you might expect, through the miracle of Facebook, lots of
Speaker 1: comments float in, and so I popped them into uh chat.
Speaker 1: Gibten asked it to summarize them, and Chatchibat says the
Speaker 1: comments on whether people would share a drink with someone
Speaker 1: else show a mix of opinions. Some commenters are open
Speaker 1: to sharing, particularly with friends or family, and some suggest
Speaker 1: using a fresh straw or pouring into another cup. On
Speaker 1: the other hand, many express concerns about hygiene and germs.
Speaker 1: With some outright refusing to share. Some comments are humorous
Speaker 1: while others are serious, reflecting the varied attitudes towards sharing
Speaker 1: drinks and personal boundaries regarding health and safety. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: people will like pour the drink into their mouth, you know,
Speaker 1: like just like pour it from the top. I don't
Speaker 1: care if you want to drink it. I just don't
Speaker 1: want to drink it after you drink it. I mean
Speaker 1: nothing against you. I just you know, I want to
Speaker 1: keep my streak of being in here to do my
Speaker 1: radio show. And you know, it's tough. It's like this
Speaker 1: is the season where everyone is sick. Triple eight Rich
Speaker 1: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. You can find me online at
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV. The question is is your
Speaker 1: smartphone listening to you? I'll tell you about that right
Speaker 1: after we talked to Ron in Orange County.
Speaker 2: You're on, You're on with Rich Rich.
Speaker 11: How are you good? I hope. I am am a
Speaker 11: small businessman. I've been doing it for years and I'm
Speaker 11: kind of like old school. And what my question is
Speaker 11: is I need a software. I tried Trello and it's
Speaker 11: too big for me. Something to organize me better. In
Speaker 11: other words, taking my client's information. I have a certain
Speaker 11: procedures that I do with him, certain tasks that I
Speaker 11: have to do with it. You need to calendar it,
Speaker 11: I need to put them on a future mailing list.
Speaker 11: And that type of thing helped me out.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So you need kind of like a like
Speaker 1: a kind of a CMS, like almost like a content
Speaker 1: management system or CRM, right.
Speaker 11: Right, that maybe we'll bring up on a dashboard. I
Speaker 11: would touch the client name and boom, it would show
Speaker 11: me everything that I've done, everything that I need to do,
Speaker 11: everything that I maybe would like to do in the
Speaker 11: future with them, and that type of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I and I've I've tried a lot
Speaker 1: of these, uh you know a lot of these different
Speaker 1: programs like I've tried to do list and uh Trello
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, and I am on a pursuit to
Speaker 1: get organized.
Speaker 2: Notion is another one.
Speaker 1: So I think, Yeah, Notion is like an all in
Speaker 1: one kind of program that can do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't think specifically for what you want that's going
Speaker 1: to do it, but what.
Speaker 11: I would do one more thing, Rich, let me say
Speaker 11: one more thing. I'm an older guy. Yeah, I for
Speaker 11: me to learn something. It's a task if it is,
Speaker 11: but I need something, but I don't need to go
Speaker 11: through all the series of the learning process in order
Speaker 11: to discovery that I don't need it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's tough because you know, these all come
Speaker 1: with a learning curve. And you know, my dad runs
Speaker 1: a small business, and when I was younger, I would
Speaker 1: always say, Dad, why aren't you doing things this way,
Speaker 1: like this really high tech way? And he said, Rich,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to do it that way.
Speaker 1: Like I like my proposals and everything kind of done
Speaker 1: the way I've done done them for years, and I
Speaker 1: get that. So there always is a learning a learning
Speaker 1: curve with some of these things. But what I would
Speaker 1: say is that you probably need one of these kind
Speaker 1: of one of these startups that is a little bit
Speaker 1: like you know, Microsoft obviously has a program to do
Speaker 1: something like this Salesforce SAP, but those are like the
Speaker 1: big big companies, and I think what they offer is
Speaker 1: probably going to be way too much for what you want.
Speaker 1: So I think you would probably want something that's more
Speaker 1: geared towards a small business. And so the keyword that
Speaker 1: you want to search online is CRM, right, and so
Speaker 1: CRM is a I gotta I gotta remember that's like
Speaker 1: content Oh gosh, content relationship management. What does that stand for?
Speaker 1: I gotta see what that stands for? Customer relationship management.
Speaker 1: So that's the kind of program that you're looking for, right,
Speaker 1: And I think some of the small businesses that do
Speaker 1: stuff like that going to be something like Zoho z
Speaker 1: O h o and spot hub Spot and those are
Speaker 1: going to be some some places to start. The other
Speaker 1: one that is a little bit more modern and kind
Speaker 1: of new is a company called, let's see, this is
Speaker 1: called Fresh Sales. So that's Fresh Sales. And I when
Speaker 1: I was doing stuff for my small my side business,
Speaker 1: I guess you can call it. When I wrote my book,
Speaker 1: I was using a what was I using? I was
Speaker 1: using oh my gosh, trying to remember it now, fresh
Speaker 1: books I think it was called. And Fresh Books was
Speaker 1: really really excellent. Everything was like very simple and clear
Speaker 1: and new and modern, and that really appealed to me.
Speaker 1: And that's accounting software. So I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: exactly what you need, but that may be part of it.
Speaker 1: But I think that's the main thing is you just
Speaker 1: have to kind of look for one of these programs,
Speaker 1: and I can't say which one's going to work for you.
Speaker 1: You have to look and read the website, and if
Speaker 1: the website makes no sense to you, then I don't
Speaker 1: think the program's going to make any sense to you.
Speaker 1: But that's what my recommendation would be is just check out,
Speaker 1: you know, take it and just kind of look through
Speaker 1: these ones that I mentioned and see which one appeals
Speaker 1: to you most, which one has the most generous kind
Speaker 1: of pricing that works for your company, and how long
Speaker 1: the you know, like some of these have a demo
Speaker 1: where you can go right on them and check it
Speaker 1: out and see how it works and actually use it.
Speaker 1: But I agree, I think you want something simple because
Speaker 1: if it's not simple, you're just not going to use it.
Speaker 1: And that's the main thing is you want to be
Speaker 1: able to use this ron. So those are my suggestions.
Speaker 1: Now you've got your homework, take a look at them
Speaker 1: and let me know what you think, and you can
Speaker 1: email me at rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 2: I love getting follow.
Speaker 1: Ups and I'll read those in the feedback segment later
Speaker 1: in the show. Thanks for the call today, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So does your smartphone listen to you? Every person in
Speaker 1: the world seems to have a hot take on this,
Speaker 1: and you know you've already seen it. You talk about something,
Speaker 1: next thing, you know it is advertising to you what
Speaker 1: you just mentioned your friend on Instagram, Facebook, whatever. And
Speaker 1: these companies forever have said we don't listen to you.
Speaker 1: We can't listen to you. It's just not a thing.
Speaker 1: But they have ways of scanning what you're doing. So
Speaker 1: they're looking at, you know, a lot of different clues. Right,
Speaker 1: So the people you hang out with, where your phone is,
Speaker 1: the locations you're at. Bluetooth sometimes, like I went into
Speaker 1: CVS today and I said, hey, can we use Bluetooth
Speaker 1: on your phone?
Speaker 2: It's a beacon.
Speaker 1: And what they're doing is, if it's being used, is
Speaker 1: that they can see exactly where I am in that store.
Speaker 1: So if I spent a lot of time in the
Speaker 1: diaper aisle, they might end up sending me a coupon
Speaker 1: for diapers. And yes, this stuff really really happens. There
Speaker 1: is so there's entire you know, there are degrees in
Speaker 1: marketing that people have with data analytics for this stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 1: four or four Media found a blog post from a
Speaker 1: media group based out of Atlanta that said, yeah, we
Speaker 1: can listen to people's smartphones and smart TVs. We can
Speaker 1: listen to their conversations, and we can target ads based
Speaker 1: on these. We call it active listening. It picks up
Speaker 1: conversations which help local advertise target consumers based on their
Speaker 1: spoken words. The technology can detect phrases relevant to products
Speaker 1: and services. Now, as soon as this website posted about
Speaker 1: this active listening feature, the company offering it took down
Speaker 1: the blog post, which of course just added some more
Speaker 1: mystique to this whole thing. So now it is a
Speaker 1: deleted blog post, and it did address the legality of
Speaker 1: active listening, saying it was legal as long as it's
Speaker 1: included in the terms of use when you download an
Speaker 1: app or on your device. Now, who reads those? Nobody
Speaker 1: reads those? So what does this all mean? I mean, look,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, your phone is supposed
Speaker 1: to tell you when your microphone is on. When it
Speaker 1: is active, both iPhone and Android, you will see a
Speaker 1: little icon in the upper right hand corner that will
Speaker 1: light up when your microphone is on. And Apple added
Speaker 1: this and Android added this as a way to show people, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is putting you in control. You know when your
Speaker 1: phone is listening to you, so take notice of that,
Speaker 1: and you can actually look on your iPhone if you
Speaker 1: swipe down from the upper right hand corner and something
Speaker 1: was using your camera or your microphone, it will tell you.
Speaker 1: It will actually keep a little kind of a notification
Speaker 1: up there. See like I just did it, and it's
Speaker 1: showing me that Instagram was using my camera. So if
Speaker 1: you swipe down after you use something like an app,
Speaker 1: it will tell you what it used. It's telling me
Speaker 1: whether you use my location, Instagram used my camera. That's
Speaker 1: on the iPhone and on Android, you can go into
Speaker 1: settings and see a history of which apps accessed your
Speaker 1: microphone and camera. So, I don't know, this sounds a
Speaker 1: little bit too odd. I don't think they would be
Speaker 1: promoting the fact that they can listen to users conversations.
Speaker 1: But because we've all seen that happen, we know it
Speaker 1: definitely seems to be the case. All Right, the mystery
Speaker 1: will just continue. Coming up on the show, We've got
Speaker 1: Marcia Collier, author of eBay for Dummies. Marsha's going to
Speaker 1: talk to us about tips and tricks for eBay and
Speaker 1: a new feature on in Graham that can put you
Speaker 1: anywhere thanks to the magic of AI eighty eight. Rich
Speaker 1: one oh one, you're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology.
Speaker 1: I got a bit of feedback when we talk about
Speaker 1: the songs that we play on the radio. The folks
Speaker 1: that listen on the podcast don't get to hear them,
Speaker 1: and so they're very upset when Bobo and I talked
Speaker 1: back and forth about the merits of a song, and
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Speaker 1: hear it on the podcast because we strip it out.
Speaker 1: And so I guess if I mentioned a song like
Speaker 1: this one cold Play, I will say I listen. I
Speaker 1: think that CD was like one of the first that
Speaker 1: I just like, I think it got burned out for
Speaker 1: how much I listened to it, and.
Speaker 2: I really listen.
Speaker 1: I remember watching the video for Yellow and it was
Speaker 1: so different because it was like just the main guy,
Speaker 1: Chris walking on a beach and like just the time.
Speaker 1: It was like all shot in one kind of one
Speaker 1: shot the whole time, one steady shot, continuous and anyway,
Speaker 1: So now you know I mentioned the song.
Speaker 2: What was that song? Was that? That was a scientist?
Speaker 2: Right Scientist? By Coldplay? There you go. Now I sounded
Speaker 2: like DJ Rich.
Speaker 1: Bobo actually is a DJ in his other capacity, so
Speaker 1: he's probably laughing at me trying to be hey Rich
Speaker 1: on the radio. By the way, and this is what
Speaker 1: I love about this show. When we mentioned stuff, it
Speaker 1: is a community and so on Twitter, Peter says pipe
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Speaker 1: our last caller, Ron in Orange County. So check out
Speaker 1: pipe Drive. And then when I googled pipe drive, they actually,
Speaker 1: this is the other thing. Sometimes when you google stuff
Speaker 1: you get the good alternatives to it ads and so
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Speaker 1: all in one small business CRM. So there's just you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of these things. Again, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta just pick which one works for you.
Speaker 1: Let's go to h Vivian. Vivian is in Sun City, California. Vivian,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 13: Yes, uh, my usin has the I phone at S
Speaker 13: and we want to change to our new carrier. And
Speaker 13: they one that we're with, they're saying they can't.
Speaker 9: Unlock the phone.
Speaker 1: They can unlock the phone that you already have iPhone
Speaker 1: se right, and who did you buy the phone?
Speaker 6: From the mobile.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you bought it from T Mobile. How long
Speaker 1: have you had it?
Speaker 13: Okay?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: And are you on any sort of contract with T Mobile?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So T mobile sim unlock policy is at least
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days. So typically when you
Speaker 1: buy a device from one cellular company, they and not
Speaker 1: all of them do this, by the way.
Speaker 2: Some of them do, some of them don't.
Speaker 1: You really have to, and it's it's less prevalent than
Speaker 1: it was back in the day, but still especially with
Speaker 1: the contracts you know, nowadays, it's much more monetary based.
Speaker 1: Where let's say you get a free iPhone quote unquote
Speaker 1: free iPhone from Verizon or AT and T or T Mobile,
Speaker 1: it's not really free. They basically give you a pro
Speaker 1: rated credit every month, so they divide that credit over
Speaker 1: two years or three years, and you get that credit
Speaker 1: towards the price of that phone. And if you leave,
Speaker 1: you can take the phone, but they're gonna just gonna
Speaker 1: charge you for the rest of it. So if your
Speaker 1: device is free and clear and paid for, then you
Speaker 1: can request from your carrier to unlock it. And from
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing on T Mobile's website to unlock a phone,
Speaker 1: we will unlock it free of charge. Device eligibility is
Speaker 1: the terminus follows. Device must be sold by T Mobile,
Speaker 1: must not be reported as lost or stolen, must be
Speaker 1: in good standing, and you must have been active on
Speaker 1: the pre the network for forty days if it was
Speaker 1: financed release, all payments must be made. The balance must
Speaker 1: be zero and that should satisfy it. So if you're
Speaker 1: running into issues with the unlock, you know, it seems
Speaker 1: like you just need to keep calling back until you
Speaker 1: get someone, or you can keep escalating it to a
Speaker 1: different person at T Mobile. But it sounds like there
Speaker 1: should be no reason why your phone shouldn't be unlocked now. Also,
Speaker 1: you may you may try this Vivian is go into
Speaker 1: your settings and then if you go into let's see here.
Speaker 1: If you go into settings and I believe general and about,
Speaker 1: there is a place where it will tell you if
Speaker 1: there's a carrier lock. So on the iPhone again, go
Speaker 1: to Settings, General, About and scroll down a little bit
Speaker 1: and it says carrier lock, and it will say no
Speaker 1: SIM restrictions if your phone is unlocked and ready to go.
Speaker 1: So you may not even need to go through T
Speaker 1: Mobile to bring this to a different company, unless the
Speaker 1: company you're trying to bring it to is saying you
Speaker 1: can't bring it because it's locked. But the whole simlock
Speaker 1: thing is kind of annoying for sure. It's mostly when
Speaker 1: you buy the gadget through the cellular company. But again,
Speaker 1: they all have different rules and regulations for.
Speaker 2: When they will unlock this phone.
Speaker 1: So if you feel like you're in the right and
Speaker 1: everything should be fine, then I would just go ahead
Speaker 1: and keep calling back or keep escalating the customer service
Speaker 1: call until you get someone who can actually do what
Speaker 1: you need to do. Thanks for the call, Vivian in
Speaker 1: Sun City. I hope you get that figured out, because
Speaker 1: if you want to switch, that's always a nice thing
Speaker 1: to do if you want to get a better plan.
Speaker 1: E three is permanently shutting down. This is the big
Speaker 1: video game conference that usually happens in Los Angeles June
Speaker 1: every year. It's been going on since nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: During COVID, there's a lot of cancelations. They canceled it
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. It never fully recovered. Then it went
Speaker 1: all virtual exhibitors were dropping out. Sony does their own thing, Nintendo, Microsoft,
Speaker 1: they all kind of changed gears so E three the
Speaker 1: Big Video Game.
Speaker 2: Conference no longer happening.
Speaker 1: Times are a change in eighty to eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one coming up next E day Tips and Tricks.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: That is eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Give me a call if you have
Speaker 1: a question about technology. Now joining me is Marcia Collier.
Speaker 1: She is the author of eBay for Dummies. Marcia, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining me today.
Speaker 7: Wow. That's eBay for Dummies tenth edition. I've been doing
Speaker 7: it since the first edition in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 2: Wow. That is wild and it's been a while.
Speaker 1: I actually we did a story for KTLA many many
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm talking you were over here at my house. Yes,
Speaker 2: I was. I remember.
Speaker 1: Let me see I can actually get thanks to the
Speaker 1: magic of Gmail. This was in twenty fourteen that we
Speaker 1: did this story. So you're talking almost ten years ago.
Speaker 1: That is absolutely wild, and you were talking ebab.
Speaker 2: Back ten love.
Speaker 7: Don't you love the way you can look up on Gmail? Yes,
Speaker 7: I did something in that. Let me look that keyword
Speaker 7: it's there. Yes, I love and the one time you
Speaker 7: need it, though, you can't find it. That's the only problem.
Speaker 7: This one came up very quickly because I just searched
Speaker 7: eBay for dummies. So let's talk about eBay. Give me
Speaker 7: the state of the union with eBay. I mean, obviously
Speaker 7: still the number one kind of website for buying and selling.
Speaker 7: What's the deal with eBay in twenty twenty three? Okay? Well,
Speaker 7: I started on eBay before it was eBay in nineteen
Speaker 7: ninety seven. It was auction Web and it didn't become
Speaker 7: eBay till nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Oh, I put that little nugget of knowledge in your
Speaker 1: trivia for when you're on Jeopardy.
Speaker 2: It was it was called auction Web, auction Web.
Speaker 7: Yes, I even have some printouts of sales that I
Speaker 7: made during those times, and I was doing a lot
Speaker 7: of shopping, so I got to learn the site real early.
Speaker 7: How has it evolved over the years, Well, it's gotten bigger,
Speaker 7: it is, and I do not work for eBay. I
Speaker 7: want to preface this. I'm an independent and everything I'm
Speaker 7: telling you is from my heart. I did teach for
Speaker 7: eBay University throughout the aughts, and I was working for
Speaker 7: the agency with eBay, And so I love eBay because
Speaker 7: you've got a worldwide audience for your stuff. You've got
Speaker 7: want somebody who wants to buy baseball caps. Did you
Speaker 7: know that baseball caps? They love them all over the world.
Speaker 7: You get a Maserati one, you know, at a press thing,
Speaker 7: you put it up on those Gibson baseball hats. People
Speaker 7: buy them. Everything you want to sell grandma's old postcards.
Speaker 7: There are postcard collectors, stamp collectors, coin collectors. I've been selling.
Speaker 7: I'm a top rated seller. And to be a top
Speaker 7: rated seller, you have to keep a certain customer service going,
Speaker 7: which is kind of what led me to my customer
Speaker 7: service passion.
Speaker 1: Well, eBay is the perfect store. And this is what
Speaker 1: I always loved about it. When it's just if there's
Speaker 1: something on there and there's the buyer, you know, you
Speaker 1: set the price, and you know you come up with
Speaker 1: a price that you both agree on. And that's what's
Speaker 1: like the most amazing part about it and why I
Speaker 1: think this became so popular. But here's my question, because
Speaker 1: right now a lot of people are using these new
Speaker 1: services like the let gos and the offer ups and
Speaker 1: the Facebook marketplaces. Where do you see eBay. You know
Speaker 1: when should you use eBay and when should you use
Speaker 1: one of those?
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, just to correct you, on eBay,
Speaker 7: you don't decide on a price. Sellers can put a
Speaker 7: fixed price item up on eBay, just as if you
Speaker 7: were buying on another platform. There are also still auctions,
Speaker 7: and there's also make offer, which is kind of what
Speaker 7: you were talking about if somebody you know wants to
Speaker 7: make an offer on an item. But what sets it
Speaker 7: aside really is its person to person. Yeah, you've got
Speaker 7: big companies on eBay, and the best part of shopping
Speaker 7: on eBay for anybody who's listening is they have a
Speaker 7: buyer protection. Anytime you buy something on eBay and it
Speaker 7: arrives damaged, or arrives not as existent, or you get
Speaker 7: something else, maybe the seller made a mistake and sent
Speaker 7: out different items to different people, you can get your
Speaker 7: money back. But I always recommend that if you open
Speaker 7: a box and it's not as described, message the seller
Speaker 7: through eBay, let them know what the problem is, allow
Speaker 7: them to make it right before you push the button,
Speaker 7: say I want to return it, I want a refund,
Speaker 7: Because a lot of time sellers will make it right
Speaker 7: on their own and then you're not dinging their reputation
Speaker 7: on eBay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, unless they are doing this with malicious intent.
Speaker 1: You know, things get jostled around in the mail or
Speaker 1: in shipping and something of rives broken or it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. I think most people are
Speaker 1: pretty good. And if you immediately go to that negative feedback, it,
Speaker 1: like you said, it does ruin there. They don't want that,
Speaker 1: and so they'd rather send you another one or make
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 7: So exactly, and when you're selling on eBay, remember you
Speaker 7: are generally dealing with a mom and pop operation. They
Speaker 7: may have many more, they may just have a few,
Speaker 7: and they want to make it right for you rather
Speaker 7: than going through the procedure on eBay. And again, just
Speaker 7: clicking I want to return the item really doesn't solve anything.
Speaker 7: The seller gets charged generally for the shipping back, and
Speaker 7: it may not be worth it to them. Sometimes they
Speaker 7: say just keep it.
Speaker 1: So, if we're listing something on eBay, how do you
Speaker 1: stand out? I mean there's probably a lot of things
Speaker 1: on there. I mean, what are some tips and tricks
Speaker 1: for that?
Speaker 7: Okay, well, absolutely, when you're listing on eBay, you should
Speaker 7: go through everything. I'm looking at something I listed recently
Speaker 7: that just sold. There's something called item specifics that when
Speaker 7: you're listing an item, it might be the universal product
Speaker 7: code on the box, if you have the box, manufacture
Speaker 7: part number, what color is it? And each category of
Speaker 7: eBay has its own set of item specifics, the manufacturer,
Speaker 7: what model it is from that manufacture, what features does
Speaker 7: it have? And if you fill out all these things,
Speaker 7: eBay is more likely to give you a preferential place
Speaker 7: in search. Also, eBay offers AI for their listings.
Speaker 2: I remember doing a story about that, but I haven't
Speaker 2: tried it out. Is it pretty good?
Speaker 7: It's it's fanciful.
Speaker 2: Like all AI.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, it is. You know, fanciful if you know
Speaker 7: your product. And I always recommend if you're going to
Speaker 7: sell something on eBay, research it first, or have it
Speaker 7: be something you're familiar with, like Barbie Dolls. I sell
Speaker 7: Barbie Dolls. I know all there is about Barbie Dolls,
Speaker 7: so I know what to put in the description. If
Speaker 7: I have it converted to AI, it may not be
Speaker 7: as explicit as I want it to be. So you
Speaker 7: have the choice. If you don't know a lot about it,
Speaker 7: it will pick up the information from what you put
Speaker 7: in the item specifics. See, so that's why the specifics
Speaker 7: are also important. And write up a paragraph for you.
Speaker 7: But always always have a good description. And I said
Speaker 7: in nineteen ninety eight, have a description that explains the
Speaker 7: item as well as if there was no picture. A
Speaker 7: lot of people have quoted me on that, but that's
Speaker 7: the truth. Andys always well, always have a description that
Speaker 7: describes the item as if people couldn't see the picture,
Speaker 7: And have a picture that shows everything about the item
Speaker 7: where people wouldn't have to read the description. So by
Speaker 7: doing those two things, you're really representing your item easily.
Speaker 7: And it's not that difficult to do. It does take
Speaker 7: a little time, but to do anything right and to
Speaker 7: get the largest amount of sales, you want to do
Speaker 7: it right.
Speaker 1: I've always seen those kind of clearance racks at like
Speaker 1: Target or like office depot, and I'm always tempted. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I wonder if I can flip this stuff on eBay?
Speaker 2: Is that so that you could do?
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, oh gosh, that's how I put my daughter
Speaker 7: through prep school?
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 7: Yeah. There used to be a store called Lomen's and
Speaker 7: and there are a lot of stores that are, you know,
Speaker 7: like TJ Max the discount stores, as you mentioned, I
Speaker 7: would know when the sales started, and I would go
Speaker 7: in on that day. And let's say Diane von Furstenberg
Speaker 7: wrap dresses. I did real well with those because a
Speaker 7: bunch of them went on sale. I bought like six
Speaker 7: or seven of them at seventy five dollars each, went
Speaker 7: smack dab right on eBay and sold them for one
Speaker 7: hundred and fifty dollars each, which was still cheaper than retail.
Speaker 7: So people were getting a bargain, but they didn't have access.
Speaker 7: And I don't think that's called retail arbitrage, but I
Speaker 7: don't think of it as anything negative because if you
Speaker 7: know where to get something at a low price, then
Speaker 7: why not do it and make a profit.
Speaker 1: Wow, So people still can start this now, it's not
Speaker 1: too late.
Speaker 7: Well, you don't only have to go out and buy things.
Speaker 7: Look around your house. You got grandma's old china, sell
Speaker 7: it by the plate, anything you have around the house,
Speaker 7: that place in the closet where people have given you
Speaker 7: gifts and you go, oh, yeah, I really don't want this,
Speaker 7: pull it out, list it on eBay. It's doing you
Speaker 7: no good. They said a few years ago that approximately
Speaker 7: twenty five hundred dollars worth of merchandise was hanging around
Speaker 7: everybody's house.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Good to know, especially around the holidays when we're probably
Speaker 1: spending more than that's coming in.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I stopped doing it. But when I open presents,
Speaker 7: I used to have a separate This pile goes to Evah.
Speaker 2: Don't do that in front of the person giving you
Speaker 2: the gift.
Speaker 7: Oh, this one right outed me.
Speaker 1: That's funny. I got a stamp my wife has. Actually,
Speaker 1: never mind, I'm not going to tell us stories out.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Let's just put Regifting is definitely a thing sometimes so
Speaker 1: people people do that, all right, Mark, you get money?
Speaker 1: Tell me about the book eBay for Dummies.
Speaker 7: Uh, eBay for Dummies gives you all the basics. It
Speaker 7: doesn't tell you any of the fancy stuff. And the
Speaker 7: thing is, when you're selling on eBay or you're on
Speaker 7: any platform, the basics are the most important thing. How
Speaker 7: to make your way through the website and be successful
Speaker 7: as a beginner. Don't worry about all the offers, the ups,
Speaker 7: the extras. Just do what I say in the book
Speaker 7: or just the basics. When you're listing an item. eBay
Speaker 7: gives a lot of directions, but don't go for the
Speaker 7: ups and extras all the time. And if you have
Speaker 7: an item on eBay that's not selling, instead of relisting it,
Speaker 7: use the sell similar button because what that'll do is
Speaker 7: it'll start it as a new listing and it'll go
Speaker 7: up to the top on eBay's servers.
Speaker 1: Oh I like that one. All right, we're gonna end
Speaker 1: it there. eBay for Dummies. Marshall Collier, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining me today.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Rich and have a happy.
Speaker 2: Holiday you too.
Speaker 1: And if you look on Amazon right now you can
Speaker 1: get a rival before Christmas.
Speaker 2: Makes a great Christmas gift. There you go, all.
Speaker 1: Right eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. We got
Speaker 1: more calls coming up next, and I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: you about the web browser that has a panic button.
Speaker 2: What would you need that for? Rich on Tech more
Speaker 2: the show coming up next.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking
Speaker 1: technology with you. We just got some great tips on
Speaker 1: selling on eBay. Makes me excited, It makes me want
Speaker 1: to do that. I have always wanted to have like
Speaker 1: a little business on eBay. It'd be so fun, But
Speaker 1: I don't know what would I sell. Selling my book
Speaker 1: was probably the closest I had to that, but that
Speaker 1: was on Amazon eighty eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: There's a new web browser with a panic button. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you about that in a moment. Let's go to Beverly.
Speaker 1: Beverly is in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 14: Hi, Rich, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thanks for calling.
Speaker 14: Wonderful. Absolutely my family and I love your show. We
Speaker 14: learned something new every single week.
Speaker 2: Ah. I love hearing that. Where's the bell? Bobo?
Speaker 14: And so I really need your help. I have a
Speaker 14: really big gift.
Speaker 1: Oh we got applause. Oh we got a pause for applause. Okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 14: I need to say in my W nine form to
Speaker 14: an organization that I'm doing some work for and they
Speaker 14: want me to email it to them, but I'm not
Speaker 14: sure that's the safest way to send it. Would encrypted
Speaker 14: email be better?
Speaker 4: Or what do you recommend? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I've gone through this too, And to be quite honest,
Speaker 1: you know, when I do freelance jobs, I always have
Speaker 1: to send in my info and I always hate doing that,
Speaker 1: you know, because once it's on a piece of paper
Speaker 1: and in someone's email box, it is there forever and
Speaker 1: it can be forwarded and downloaded and sent around.
Speaker 2: And so I understand the hesitation.
Speaker 1: With that said, I think that, you know, if you're
Speaker 1: going to send it through Gmail or something like that,
Speaker 1: it's probably going to be okay as long as they're
Speaker 1: not forwarding it. I mean, I'd be more concerned about
Speaker 1: it not getting misguided in transit from Gmail or something
Speaker 1: like that, but I would be more concerned on the
Speaker 1: other end when they have it Like that's the big
Speaker 1: concerned to me. Now, if you want something that's super
Speaker 1: secure and secure from the moment you send it to
Speaker 1: the moment it arrives at their desktop, you probably want
Speaker 1: something what's called end to end encryption.
Speaker 2: Right. Have you heard that term?
Speaker 9: I have?
Speaker 1: Okay, So there's two types of encryption. There's end to end,
Speaker 1: which means from the moment it leaves your computer to
Speaker 1: the moment it gets there, it is encrypted, which means
Speaker 1: no one can unlock that file, even the provider most
Speaker 1: of the time.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: And then there's another kind of encryption, which is encrypted
Speaker 1: in transit, and that's actually a little bit cheaper for
Speaker 1: companies to implement and a little bit easier, And so
Speaker 1: most of the things we have nowadays are encrypted in
Speaker 1: transit unless they specifically advertise end to end encryption. Right,
Speaker 1: So a couple of services I can recommend if you
Speaker 1: want to go outside of just sending this through your email.
Speaker 1: And you can also, by the way, put a passcode
Speaker 1: on this PDF if you want, I'm assuming it's a PDF,
Speaker 1: you can try doing that to give it an extra
Speaker 1: level of protection. But there's a Proton Have you heard
Speaker 1: of them? I have not, Okay, So Proton is a
Speaker 1: great company. Their their whole thing is security, right, so,
Speaker 1: very very secure email, very secure when it comes to passwords.
Speaker 1: And they also have Proton Drive, which is end to
Speaker 1: end encrypted file sharing, and so you can start sharing
Speaker 1: on there for free. They always, you know, there's always
Speaker 1: like a little level of sharing for free, and for
Speaker 1: this case, it's up to one gigabyte, so that would.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent work for you.
Speaker 1: You just sign up, you can put your file in
Speaker 1: the drive, send a link to that file and it
Speaker 1: will all be encrypted for the whole time. The other one,
Speaker 1: and this one is not as well known, but it's
Speaker 1: called Wormhole WO R M H O l E Wormhole
Speaker 1: dot app. And this is really really simple. It's drag
Speaker 1: and drop, So you would just take your file, drag
Speaker 1: it onto their website. It would generate a link and
Speaker 1: it is end to endingcrypt and you can say when
Speaker 1: you want that link to expire. So if you want
Speaker 1: someone to be able to download it once and then
Speaker 1: it expires and goes away, that's a very safe way
Speaker 1: of doing that. So those are the two that I
Speaker 1: would recommend for you.
Speaker 14: Wonderful, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, Beverly, you're going to keep listening now that
Speaker 1: you've gotten through the show and had your question answered.
Speaker 1: I assume we didn't answer every question in your life.
Speaker 14: No, I am definitely going to keep listening. We my
Speaker 14: family and I we were there for your original show,
Speaker 14: so we listen every Weekah.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Well, say hi to the family for me. Happy holidays, Beverly, thank.
Speaker 6: You, thank you, Happy holidays.
Speaker 2: All right, good luck with that.
Speaker 1: And if you're sending a W nine, then it sounds
Speaker 1: like you've got some money coming in, which is always nice.
Speaker 1: Right eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one uh Opera
Speaker 1: Opera GX.
Speaker 2: This is a web browser.
Speaker 1: They have introduced a new feature called Panic Button, designed
Speaker 1: to protect user screens from prying eyes. So, according to
Speaker 1: a recent study, thirty six of respondents admit to accessing
Speaker 1: inappropriate content while at school, work, or home. And that
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean which you think it means. It could
Speaker 1: be social media when you're not supposed to be looking
Speaker 1: at It, could be games, could be online shopping, could
Speaker 1: be dating websites, and of course you know the stuff
Speaker 1: you're thinking of too. But the panic button allows you
Speaker 1: to quickly mute and pause playback from all tabs and
Speaker 1: open up a new window with a safe quote unquote
Speaker 1: bland content. All you have to do is press the
Speaker 1: F twelve key. You can choose a pre installed safe
Speaker 1: website or customize your own whatever you want if you
Speaker 1: want to use the panic button. This is on a
Speaker 1: specific web browser. Opera GX. This is a web browser
Speaker 1: that is designed for gamers. You have to activate the
Speaker 1: early bird option in the browser settings. You can download
Speaker 1: OPERAGX from Opera dot com slash GX And I would
Speaker 1: argue that I actually think this is a good feature
Speaker 1: in any web browser, like I think Chrome should do this,
Speaker 1: Like you just need to be able to press something
Speaker 1: and do you know, pause all the audio, pause all
Speaker 1: the websites that you're on and just come up with
Speaker 1: like the most boring looking spreadsheet. And you know, there's
Speaker 1: always those times when people just come up to your
Speaker 1: desk at work and you may be like surfing the
Speaker 1: web and shopping, and you don't want people to think
Speaker 1: that you're not doing your work. And so this would
Speaker 1: be a nice feature to have for anyone. On Instagram,
Speaker 1: they have a new AI backed Oh this sounds like
Speaker 1: they're playing me off, Bobo. Bobo's playing me off. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. I'll tell you about Instagram's
Speaker 1: new AI backgrounds tool.
Speaker 2: Coming up.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking
Speaker 1: technology with you, Triple eight rich one on one eighty
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Manuel in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Hello, Manuel, you're on with Rich. Okay, I think I
Speaker 1: hear the radio in the background. I think maybe did
Speaker 1: you fall asleep one more time?
Speaker 2: Manuel?
Speaker 15: You there?
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to give you a minute to regroup,
Speaker 1: and perhaps you'll you'll hear yourself in about a minute
Speaker 1: when I come through the radio saying your name, and
Speaker 1: that's when you'll realize, well, we wait for that. AI
Speaker 1: on Instagram. So if you go to my Instagram at
Speaker 1: rich on Tech, you will see me in a snow
Speaker 1: covered winter wonderland. But guess what on my Instagram stories
Speaker 1: that is not where I was. I was not in snow.
Speaker 1: I was in the bathroom. It was there is a
Speaker 1: big mirror, and I took a picture, and it's a
Speaker 1: new feature called AI. See it's called backdrop, And so
Speaker 1: this is an AI feature that lets you reimagine whatever
Speaker 1: you want in the background of your picture. And you
Speaker 1: take a picture, AI sort of traces the outline of
Speaker 1: your body and you can then type in what you
Speaker 1: want the background to be. And so if you want
Speaker 1: to be saying I'm being chased by dinosaurs or surrounded
Speaker 1: by puppies, or at a party or in New York City,
Speaker 1: whatever you want, you can do this and it's really
Speaker 1: pretty good.
Speaker 2: So the way to do this is.
Speaker 1: Swipe into the stories on your Instagram and you can
Speaker 1: upload a picture. So if you find a picture of yourself,
Speaker 1: and then you'll see a new icon up in the top.
Speaker 1: It looks like a little picture with a background and
Speaker 1: it'll sparkle. You tap that, it will trace. It'll scan
Speaker 1: your picture, trace your outline, and then you'll get a
Speaker 1: text box and inside that textbox you type whatever you
Speaker 1: want and the suggestions it's giving me a right at
Speaker 1: a birthday, bash, on a pink brick road, at summer camp,
Speaker 1: at a fast food joint, shipwrecked on a school bus.
Speaker 1: And you can spin the dice and get more, or
Speaker 1: you can type in your own and AI once you
Speaker 1: type it in will generate your background.
Speaker 2: It will look pretty.
Speaker 1: I mean I just did on a pink brick road
Speaker 1: and I can't believe how good this looks. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is absolutely wild. So if you want to visit Japan,
Speaker 1: you want to visit Italy, Ireland, Irish fields with cows
Speaker 1: behind you. It is really really wild what you can
Speaker 1: do with this, And I'm telling you it's just going
Speaker 1: to be less and less of reality.
Speaker 2: And you can see the before and afters.
Speaker 1: I posted a couple before and afters on my stories,
Speaker 1: so you can see exactly what the picture looked like
Speaker 1: before I affected it again. The feature is called AI
Speaker 1: Backdrop and it's inside Instagram Stories. Once you post a picture,
Speaker 1: look at the top row where you add text and
Speaker 1: stickers and music and all that stuff. You'll see a
Speaker 1: new little icon and that's how you access it. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm told Manuel is on? Manuel you're on with Wretch?
Speaker 15: Hey Rich, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 1: What happened? You fall asleep waiting for me?
Speaker 15: No, I'm over here cleaning up my apartment.
Speaker 2: Ah. Nice?
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's always nice, getting a nice and fresh
Speaker 1: and clean before the party tonight.
Speaker 15: That's right, that's right. Look, my friend, I watch you
Speaker 15: all the time on KTLA five. You for my question
Speaker 15: is what are the brands that I can get out
Speaker 15: there for the best value of my money for a
Speaker 15: computer at home and for the kids to have something
Speaker 15: on the go as a uh Mac pro, a laptop.
Speaker 2: Or what are you?
Speaker 1: Okay, how what are you using these computers for? Are
Speaker 1: they just everyone's getting a computer or what?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Yeah, I want them to have something for them. I
Speaker 15: want a computer station at home, and and also they
Speaker 15: could be on the go because they're teenagers, they're going
Speaker 15: to school and.
Speaker 2: Know that you got it. So you want a computer
Speaker 2: for home.
Speaker 1: For home computer, I'd recommend an all in one because
Speaker 1: you're going to get the most bang for your buck
Speaker 1: for that. So if you're a member of Costco, they
Speaker 1: typically have one to two all in one computers that
Speaker 1: are a really good deal, and so that's where i'd
Speaker 1: recommend getting that. And usually they're around five hundred to
Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars and you get a little bit more
Speaker 1: than you get at a store like a Best Buy,
Speaker 1: But i'd recommend the all in one. You can go
Speaker 1: Windows or you know, Mac with that, but I would
Speaker 1: I would say you probably like a Windows computer, be fine,
Speaker 1: and just get the most you can get for the money.
Speaker 1: So you know, look for the most memory, look for
Speaker 1: the most storage. But that's what I do for the
Speaker 1: home computer, because that's not going to move. You're just
Speaker 1: gonna put it somewhere. And so why get a laptop
Speaker 1: which is going to be more expensive and the specs
Speaker 1: aren't going to be as good When you can get
Speaker 1: an all in one which is going to be less
Speaker 1: expensive and you're going to get better specs. You can
Speaker 1: also go to Best Buy for that and see I
Speaker 1: was there, Like I said earlier, in the show a
Speaker 1: couple days ago, and they've got a lot of all
Speaker 1: in ones. My test for them was to open up
Speaker 1: the web browser and to do a quick surf of
Speaker 1: the web and see how fast it that accomplished. If
Speaker 1: you're noticing that it's taken a long time to do that,
Speaker 1: you don't want that computer. And believe me, I went
Speaker 1: through the line of like five or six of them,
Speaker 1: and there was a definite difference between those. Now, when
Speaker 1: it comes to the kids, if they're teenagers, are they
Speaker 1: in high school or college? Okay, so they're high school
Speaker 1: and you want these computers to last a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know that people are gonna be like Rich, of
Speaker 1: course you're gonna recommend a MacBook. You love Apple, you're
Speaker 1: an Apple fanboy. But I'm telling you the MacBooks are
Speaker 1: going to last a long time. They're gonna be really good,
Speaker 1: the kids are gonna love them. And yes, they're a
Speaker 1: little bit more expensive on the outset, but I truly
Speaker 1: believe that they are an excellent value over the long term.
Speaker 1: And so I'd probably recommend a MacBook Air for the students,
Speaker 1: which will last them at least four years, if not more.
Speaker 1: And I tell you this, because I buy a Mac
Speaker 1: computer every couple of years, and I give my old
Speaker 1: one to a family member. And I've got some family
Speaker 1: members using computers that are at least, you know, ten
Speaker 1: years old at this point, and they're still working.
Speaker 2: And they're still working.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's my younger brother does. I used to work
Speaker 15: for Apple, so it gives us all his old stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's the best way to do it. Just
Speaker 1: ask him for a new one. That's the that's the
Speaker 1: number one thing to do. And then you go and
Speaker 1: buy your own. But look, and if you're looking for
Speaker 1: a Windows computer, which are gonna be less expensive, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have more choice when it comes to the different models.
Speaker 1: You know, you can't go wrong with certain companies like
Speaker 1: obviously HP Dell are very popular, Lenovo are always highly rated. Again,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Windows computers, it's really to
Speaker 1: me a matter of preference. When it comes to the
Speaker 1: track pad, you want to make sure you get one
Speaker 1: that has a good track pad. I think Microsoft surface
Speaker 1: laptops are also really nice in that aspect. But I
Speaker 1: think it comes down to the memory and the hard drive.
Speaker 1: So you want to go with the most memory you
Speaker 1: can get. So I'm talking minimum sixteen gigabytes. The processor
Speaker 1: you want to go anything, I would say like an
Speaker 1: Intel A five and up. So if you're looking at
Speaker 1: A three, an Intel Core I three, you don't want
Speaker 1: to do that because those are just going to be
Speaker 1: way too slow for you. So I'd say at least
Speaker 1: a minimum of Core I five, Core I seven is
Speaker 1: going to be higher. The higher the number there, the
Speaker 1: better it's going to be. And then the hard drive,
Speaker 1: you know, you probably want minimum five twelve gigabytes, and
Speaker 1: if you can get an SSD which is a solid
Speaker 1: state drive, which I think most of the computers are
Speaker 1: these days, but that's going to be the best, the
Speaker 1: fastest for that. And then when it comes to you know,
Speaker 1: little things like the ports. Just make sure it has
Speaker 1: a bunch of ports that your kids want. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's really when it comes to laptops, if you're looking
Speaker 1: outside of Apple, there are so many choices, and it
Speaker 1: really comes down to I think the specs and the
Speaker 1: way that the computer physically looks like if it's big
Speaker 1: and bulky, your kids may not want that, and also
Speaker 1: the way the keyboard feels. So again, the more you
Speaker 1: can get into a store and test the keyboard, the
Speaker 1: more comfortable you're gonna be. And I guess kids don't
Speaker 1: really touch type anymore, so they don't care as much
Speaker 1: about it that I do. I care about the way
Speaker 1: the keyboard touch types because I still I'm.
Speaker 2: Old school like that, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then you got to figure out how you're
Speaker 1: going to pay for all these four laptops because that's
Speaker 1: not gonna be cheap all at once, so.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you got a plan for that as well. Does
Speaker 2: that help you out? All right?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 1: Thanks for giving me a call today, and a good
Speaker 1: thing for cleaning up the apartment. I'm always you always
Speaker 1: feel better when it's clean, right, Like, it just feels nicer,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 15: Trying to get it done before the year, and so
Speaker 15: I could start a first few years.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's what I'm talking about. Yep, twenty four. Well,
Speaker 1: happy holidays and have a great.
Speaker 15: Day, uh you as will, my friend?
Speaker 2: All right, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see we got one minute, so I
Speaker 1: can tell you about one quick thing. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: about the new self service TSA checkpoint. What could possibly
Speaker 1: go wrong? This will happen in Las Vegas come January.
Speaker 1: It's called screening at speed. It's going to be at
Speaker 1: Harry Reid International Airport beginning January twenty twenty three. This
Speaker 1: is going to let people go through security screening all
Speaker 1: by themselves, so they basically come up against a computer screen.
Speaker 1: The computer will scan them, it will tell them if
Speaker 1: they need to take more things out of their pockets,
Speaker 1: if they have, like you know, something in there, and
Speaker 1: it will have an automated entry and exit doors. And
Speaker 1: so basically you can't get out of this thing until
Speaker 1: you get all the stuff out of your pockets and
Speaker 1: the computer thinks you're okay to move on. And if
Speaker 1: you can, you don't have to see a TSA agent.
Speaker 1: If you can't, it will flip you over to a
Speaker 1: TSA officer. Pretty wild self service everything these days. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: two four to one zero one. Why does a minute
Speaker 1: sound so fast on the radio? How does that happen?
Speaker 1: If you're listening to rich on Tech, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight. Rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Neil Neil and Los Angeles you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I have a hearing gaide system. It's called Resound,
Speaker 9: and they offer a device that allows you to talk
Speaker 9: on the telephone and get it through your hearing aid
Speaker 9: very clearly. However, come to find out with the manufacturer
Speaker 9: of the hearing aid that my Samsung S eight is
Speaker 9: not new enough everywhere in S nine or S ten
Speaker 9: or so they would have that program, but the essay doesn't.
Speaker 9: And so that puts me either in the market for
Speaker 9: a new one or or some go around that I
Speaker 9: can still get this feature with the hearing gad Okay.
Speaker 1: And what's the reason why the essay is not compatible?
Speaker 1: Is it a software issue or a hardware issued?
Speaker 9: They software, they don't offer the device. I guess in
Speaker 9: the software that will that's adaptable to the ESS eight.
Speaker 2: Okay, And and did this us.
Speaker 9: I've never had it before. I'm kind of new to
Speaker 9: hearing gags anyhow. But so, man, I'm talking to you
Speaker 9: now without hearing gate. But there's you know, I hear
Speaker 9: relatively reasonably well, but I miss letters at the beginning,
Speaker 9: which are typically hearing a issues. So this hearing aid
Speaker 9: would provide a opportunity. All I do is click it
Speaker 9: on my cell phone under phone, and I'm it's downloaded
Speaker 9: to my cell phone by the way in the software,
Speaker 9: and then I will be able to get the conversation
Speaker 9: on my hearing aid. I don't know if it's too convoluted,
Speaker 9: if you got the picture of what I'm trying to find.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I no, I totally understand. I mean,
Speaker 2: here's the thing.
Speaker 1: So, the Samsung Galaxy S eight was released in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: so you're talking, you know, four, five, six, almost seven
Speaker 1: years old. So I'm assuming there's no more software updates
Speaker 1: for this, which puts it at a risk of you know,
Speaker 1: viruses and malware and any sort of issues that could
Speaker 1: arise there. That's the least of my concerns. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's going to happen with you. But I would
Speaker 1: say it sounds to me like these hearing aids are
Speaker 1: something that would be very beneficial to your everyday life,
Speaker 1: and so I would probably do anything I can to
Speaker 1: get them to work with my phone. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's a workaround. I think that this resound company has
Speaker 1: tested the phones that this works with. They want it
Speaker 1: to be a good experience for you. Are these prescription
Speaker 1: or non prescription.
Speaker 9: Prescription through the ideology dequipment.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I would probably upgrade my phone. And I
Speaker 1: don't take upgrades lightly because I understand that it costs money,
Speaker 1: and I understand that not everyone wants to do that,
Speaker 1: but I think that the benefits outweigh the expenditure at
Speaker 1: this point. And you've already gone as far as getting
Speaker 1: these hearing aids. You want them to work with your phone,
Speaker 1: and I think if they don't, you're only getting half
Speaker 1: the benefit out of these.
Speaker 2: Correct, that's correct, Yeah, correct.
Speaker 1: So I would I would kind of backtrack and see
Speaker 1: which phones are compatible with the hearing aids?
Speaker 11: Are you?
Speaker 9: From what I understand, most of the newer phones are
Speaker 9: all compatible, okay. And so I've had the Samsung to
Speaker 9: several generations, and I'm kind of wondering. I don't want
Speaker 9: a bigger phone than the Essay, and I just want
Speaker 9: that's a very adequate size. Okay, But I want a
Speaker 9: good phone, and I know my my children have the
Speaker 9: I'll have this marchphone, the iPhone, yes, iPhone, Yeah, and
Speaker 9: I don't want it.
Speaker 2: You don't want that, okay.
Speaker 9: I like the Android system.
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you I've been testing the the
Speaker 1: S twenty three f E, which is Samsung's newest phone,
Speaker 1: and it is a great device. If it's I would
Speaker 1: check to make sure it's compatible with the system, which
Speaker 1: I would assume it is. If if they're saying the
Speaker 1: newer phones are, that phone is three hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars right now. It was six hundred when it
Speaker 1: came out, but they have been discounting it, So I
Speaker 1: would check into that phone. The Samsung Galaxy S twenty
Speaker 1: three FE FE stands for sam.
Speaker 9: Make sure I got the twenty three whats f.
Speaker 1: E F as in Frank e as an echo. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so I would. And that's the FI, the twenty the
Speaker 1: S twenty three f E and that's the latest and
Speaker 1: greatest from Samsung on their more budget line, so which
Speaker 1: you have the essay is their flagship line. This is
Speaker 1: just it's almost one step below, but it's still really
Speaker 1: good for the For the value you're getting out of
Speaker 1: this phone, I think it is fantastic. So I would
Speaker 1: check into that device. And I know it's four hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: but I think that true.
Speaker 9: Varieton that's been my carrier. They're offering me three hundred
Speaker 9: dollars off or three hundred dollars off, and if it's
Speaker 9: only three hundred dollars and it's new, yeah, and I
Speaker 9: really I don't quite understand when the hook is.
Speaker 1: Well, the hook is that you have to stay with
Speaker 1: Verizon for three years or two to three years on
Speaker 1: that plan. But if you're if you're there anyway and
Speaker 1: you're not leaving, then you might as well take advantage
Speaker 1: you've been a customer. If they're giving you three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars off or whatever it is, then and they do
Speaker 1: offer it, I just confirmed I'm looking on the website.
Speaker 1: So I think, Neil, I think you got a little
Speaker 1: trip to Verizon in your future. And I think these
Speaker 1: hearing aids are going to work really nice and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot happier.
Speaker 9: Thank you very much, Rick, Happy have a good holiday
Speaker 9: and good safe for your rest of the weekend. Thanks
Speaker 9: for your couri.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Neil, appreciate it, and happy holidays to you
Speaker 1: as well. Thanks for the call. I love getting calls
Speaker 1: like that where we can really help someone kind of
Speaker 1: work through. I think Neil already knew the answer, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like he knew what he wanted
Speaker 1: to do. He just wanted that validation of Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: am I missing something here? Or do I need to upgrade?
Speaker 1: And yes, the answer is it is time. And I
Speaker 1: think he'll be rocking a new S twenty three fe
Speaker 1: probably by tomorrow, I'm thinking. And I don't care if
Speaker 1: he said Rick. You know what, so many people call
Speaker 1: me Rick, called myself Rick. My mom calls me Richard
Speaker 1: when she's mad at me, or actually.
Speaker 2: Just in general.
Speaker 1: I can't say what my wife calls dude when she's
Speaker 1: mad at me.
Speaker 2: That's a whole nother show.
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. This is Rick
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here hang out with you, having a great old time
Speaker 1: talking technology. Isn't technology fun? That's the whole point of
Speaker 1: the show is that it doesn't have to be scary.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be something you don't understand. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be something you don't deal with because
Speaker 1: you don't want to break something. Have fun with it,
Speaker 1: experiment with it. You're not gonna break anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you do, you can call me triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one eighty eight seven four to two four.
Speaker 2: One zero one.
Speaker 1: Uh what was I this week? I had a fun experience.
Speaker 1: I uh threw out T shirts at a basketball game
Speaker 1: here locally in La, the Clippers.
Speaker 2: You might have heard of them. It was cool.
Speaker 1: I've never been on the court at a game, and
Speaker 1: it was such a wild experience because a You're under
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure to like throw this thing, like
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh gosh, like people are gonna be watching
Speaker 1: me throw, And I thought I did a good job.
Speaker 1: The thing went way further than I thought, Like I'm
Speaker 1: talking what's the two hundreds, you know, like not like.
Speaker 2: The floor level like up above. I was like I
Speaker 2: was almost there.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing I noticed is that when
Speaker 1: you have that many people in one place kind of
Speaker 1: looking at you, it's almost as if nobody's looking at
Speaker 1: you because there's so much going on that I thought
Speaker 1: it was like all eyes on me, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: but no, it turned out to be almost the opposite,
Speaker 1: where there's so much to see and there's so much things,
Speaker 1: so many things happening, that you just kind of get
Speaker 1: lost in this whole world. So anyway, I guess if
Speaker 1: your tailor swift up there, you know, one person speaking
Speaker 1: to everyone.
Speaker 2: That's different.
Speaker 1: But when you're just kind of down there, you're you're
Speaker 1: kind of in with a lot of different people and things.
Speaker 2: So anyway, it's a fun experience.
Speaker 1: If you want to see the throw that I did,
Speaker 1: you can go to my Twitter Twitter dot com slash
Speaker 1: rich on Tech, go to my profile and hit highlights
Speaker 1: and you can see. The first highlight is the video
Speaker 1: of me throwing out the T shirt at the Clippers game.
Speaker 2: Let me know what you think of my technique.
Speaker 1: They slowed it down because the folks at the TV
Speaker 1: station were impressed with my throw. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: all that football practice with my son in the street
Speaker 1: has paid off. Something else I tried this week Microsoft
Speaker 1: Office on the meta Quest. Yes, you can now do word,
Speaker 1: Excel and PowerPoint in virtual reality. I had to download
Speaker 1: this and try it for myself, so I charged up
Speaker 1: the meta Quest, I downloaded the app, which is very tiny,
Speaker 1: it's only like a megabyte, And next thing you know,
Speaker 1: I am typing a word document in virtual reality on
Speaker 1: a screen floating in front of me. And it's mixed reality,
Speaker 1: which means you still see your surroundings, but you see
Speaker 1: this big computer screen with a word document. Now I
Speaker 1: was using voice command, or I was just using the
Speaker 1: on screen keyboard, but you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard
Speaker 1: or a mouse. But this is pretty wild. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think that I would end up using this
Speaker 1: in a big way, but I immediately was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I wonder if I should check my email this way,
Speaker 1: because sometimes you can dictate an email response faster than
Speaker 1: you can write it or type it out. And so
Speaker 1: I could see myself sitting there for like an hour
Speaker 1: and just going through emails and like verbally saying the responses.
Speaker 1: But again, if you want to try this out, just
Speaker 1: fire up the metaquest. This is Meta's virtual reality headset.
Speaker 1: Open up the store and search for Microsoft Office, or
Speaker 1: you can search for word, Excel or PowerPoint.
Speaker 2: You download it, you sign in.
Speaker 1: Signing in was the trickiest part because you have to
Speaker 1: type in your password on the on screen keyboard. But
Speaker 1: I guess if you have a mouse or keyboard or connected,
Speaker 1: that'd be easier. I guess that's the whole idea of
Speaker 1: that MIC of the Apple one, the headset they're coming
Speaker 1: out with, that you'll be able to do work in
Speaker 1: virtual reality.
Speaker 2: I don't know how realistic that is, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Apple, they're now selling a ninety nine dollars
Speaker 1: standalone USB C case for the AirPods Pro two. So
Speaker 1: when the AirPods Pro two came out, they had the
Speaker 1: USB C case and Apple said at that time they
Speaker 1: were not going to sell the case separately.
Speaker 2: Well, how things have changed in a couple of months.
Speaker 1: So now if you have the AirPods Pro two, but
Speaker 1: you have that lightning connector on the bottom and you
Speaker 1: want the USB C connector just because you have money
Speaker 1: to burn, then you can do this.
Speaker 2: You can upgrade for ninety nine bucks.
Speaker 1: Now, in all seriousness, if you did upgrade, the only
Speaker 1: way I'd recommend doing this is if you upgraded to
Speaker 1: the iPhone fifteen Pro or sorry, the iPhone fifteen Pro
Speaker 1: or iPhone fifteen and you have now a USB C
Speaker 1: cable for your charger and you don't want to carry
Speaker 1: a separate lightning cable for your AirPods, And so that's
Speaker 1: the only reason I'd say maybe you would upgrade your case.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, I mean, just stick with what you got.
Speaker 1: It's the same exact air pods. The only difference is
Speaker 1: that they have a precision finding in the case. And
Speaker 1: this little speaker. So if you lose your stuff a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you would want the case because you
Speaker 1: could be able to find it easier. Again, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get this before the holidays. It's
Speaker 1: not shipping until December twenty seventh, so just keep that
Speaker 1: in mind. This was interesting on Reddit. Someone posted a
Speaker 1: picture of a one of those things where you're surfing
Speaker 1: the web and it's saying like, oh, we got to
Speaker 1: verify you are who you say you are where our
Speaker 1: systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This
Speaker 1: page checks to see if it's really you sending the
Speaker 1: requests and not a robot. And so someone said, why
Speaker 1: is this happening every time I search in Safari? And
Speaker 1: I've actually seen this happen on my phone, and I
Speaker 1: was wondering, like, what am I doing differently? And here's
Speaker 1: the answer. It sounds like this is a byproduct of
Speaker 1: this new feature called iCloud Private Relay, And so on
Speaker 1: the Apple devices they added this thing that basically protects
Speaker 1: your privacy a little bit more for free called iCloud
Speaker 1: Private Relay. Protects your IP address and it masks your
Speaker 1: browsing for increased privacy. But when you do this, it
Speaker 1: triggers the security warnings on certain websites like Google, and
Speaker 1: that means you have to click this thing that says
Speaker 1: I'm not a robot, you know, and you have to
Speaker 1: like pick those pictures that says show me, select all
Speaker 1: the pictures that have a bicycle in them. And you're
Speaker 1: sitting there for like ten minutes looking at this thing
Speaker 1: and you're like, I don't know, is that a bicycle?
Speaker 1: It looks like a bike, And it ends up taking
Speaker 1: longer to do this than if you were actually just
Speaker 1: I don't know. So if you ever come across this
Speaker 1: this warning page that says our systems have detected unusual
Speaker 1: traffic from your computer at work and you are wondering
Speaker 1: why this is happening, you can go into your settings
Speaker 1: on the iPhone and switch off the iCloud Private relay
Speaker 1: or if you're using a VPN sometimes that will trigger
Speaker 1: it as well. Let's go to Jerry in Pennsylvania. Jerry,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 16: Hi, Rich, Rich, are you familiar with a LABELB camera?
Speaker 1: I think I've heard of it, but I'm not I've
Speaker 1: not used it.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 16: Well, you threw it into a light bulb shone.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I've heard of this for sure.
Speaker 16: Got pin and silk. Ye as I can only vi
Speaker 16: it see it on my on my cell phone, my
Speaker 16: Android cell phone, And I was wondering, you do have
Speaker 16: anyone I could see it on my Windows PC?
Speaker 1: Windows. I believe you can.
Speaker 2: Uh oh gosh, now you're really testing me here. Uh.
Speaker 1: I believe you could run certain Android apps on your PC?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well what about the Is the app available in the
Speaker 1: Amazon App Store or no?
Speaker 12: Or so?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like Amazon, Amazon has its own app store for Windows
Speaker 1: eleven which lets you run Android apps on Windows. Oh
Speaker 1: you have ten, Well it may it may work with ten.
Speaker 1: I just I know it's I know it's on eleven,
Speaker 1: but it may work on ten.
Speaker 16: But if I have checked the YouTube and the web
Speaker 16: all that, and nobody's done a solution for it.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, because it's just not you know this is
Speaker 1: it probably runs through an Android app, right and that's it?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean I don't know if you'll be
Speaker 2: able to.
Speaker 1: Like I'm looking at Microsoft and it just says you
Speaker 1: can't do it.
Speaker 2: Huh? What about this? What about this blue stacks? Have
Speaker 2: you looked into that.
Speaker 16: I would think movie, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That's the emulator. Does that work?
Speaker 16: I don't know, but before I go through a whole
Speaker 16: bunch of stuff, it doesn't work, if I ask you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I I have not run an Android app
Speaker 1: on my computer, and I I understand why you'd want
Speaker 1: to do this.
Speaker 2: What about this phone link? Have you looked into that?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 16: I haven't. I haven't looked at anything. Okay, options, you know? Yeah,
Speaker 16: why spend time with doing something it's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm gonna That's exactly what I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: now that you asked me this question. So now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna whenever I get stumped with something, I
Speaker 1: go home and I actually test it all out, and
Speaker 1: then I'll have a better answer. So next week I'll
Speaker 1: probably have a better answer for you, Jerry. But I
Speaker 1: understand that you why you'd want to do this. But
Speaker 1: I think the reality is the Android app is probably
Speaker 1: these are like the light bulb cameras you buy an
Speaker 1: Amazon Right.
Speaker 16: That's correct. I got three four hundred bucks to sell whatever?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 16: Oh wow, okay, hey Richie, rich how's West Pizza get
Speaker 16: her to Jersey Pizza?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: My gosh, Well, that's an easy question. It's horrible. We don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they even have Hogies out and California.
Speaker 1: But I will say I did find one pizza place
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles that has pizza that rivals what I
Speaker 1: can get in New Jersey or New York. And I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding it is. It is fantastic. It's called Mulberry
Speaker 1: Street and it is a guy. I think he's from
Speaker 1: like Hoboken or something, but it is. It is fantastic. Now,
Speaker 1: by the way, Jerry, you know in Pennsylvania, I was
Speaker 1: driving through and there is actually a place called Demuro's
Speaker 1: Pizza in somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 16: Yeah, Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just searched. This is in Pittstown. Is that
Speaker 2: near you?
Speaker 16: That's about a o that's almost in the middle of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, I was driving through for a story one time.
Speaker 1: I was on a chute and I walked. I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe this says Demuro's Pizza. And I almost
Speaker 1: went in, but I didn't, but I took a picture
Speaker 1: outside in the car. All right, Jerry, thanks, I will
Speaker 1: have a better answer for you next week.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I'll follow up on this, No, I'll I'll just talk
Speaker 1: about it on the show. I'm going to test it
Speaker 1: out and see what I come up with. Okay, rich
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for calling today, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to do the feedback segment.
Speaker 1: That's where I talk about the emails and the texts
Speaker 1: and the different things.
Speaker 2: You've sent me over the week.
Speaker 1: And if you have a solution for Jerry, let me
Speaker 1: know on my social media. I'm at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Coming up more rich on Tech right after this. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Did you watch the Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift home concert? Okay, so if you're listening to the podcast,
Speaker 1: we are playing a Taylor Swift song right now, Cool Summer.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people are watching that over
Speaker 1: the last week. Okay, So before we get to feedback,
Speaker 1: a couple of things. Number One, we got a lot
Speaker 1: of emails about this whole seventeen when iOS seventeen came out,
Speaker 1: Apple st letting people change the default notification sound on
Speaker 1: the iPhone. But I'm happy to report in the latest
Speaker 1: version of the software seventeen point two, you can actually
Speaker 1: change the default notification sound to whatever you want it's back,
Speaker 1: So open up the settings app, go to sounds and
Speaker 1: haptics and choose your default alert. You can choose from
Speaker 1: built in sounds or no sound, or whatever you want.
Speaker 1: So that's a new thing. That is a oh gosh,
Speaker 1: that was a huge thing people, you know they it
Speaker 1: just went away, the ability.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 1: If you want to search for homes using car play,
Speaker 1: Rocket Homes has a new AI driven app allowing users
Speaker 1: to browse nearby homes for sale while you drive. I
Speaker 1: actually think this is pretty smart. So you fire this
Speaker 1: up on your infotainment system on your car, and then
Speaker 1: as you're driving around, you can see the houses that
Speaker 1: are for sale in that neighborhood, so you can see
Speaker 1: how much they cost, you can look at them. I
Speaker 1: think that's a pretty smart idea. Again, it'st called Rocket Homes.
Speaker 1: I was in aware that they had an app for
Speaker 1: looking at homes, but now I do, and I guess
Speaker 1: that's why they did it. FCC has voted to ban
Speaker 1: termination fees for cable and satellite services. They passed to
Speaker 1: measure to ban early termination fees that you have to
Speaker 1: pay if you cancel your cable or satellite service. These
Speaker 1: have been a mainstay, especially for satellite for so long.
Speaker 1: Customers are obviously frustrated about this. Companies would also have
Speaker 1: to provide a pro rated credit or rebate to customers
Speaker 1: who cancel their service before the contract ends. A lot
Speaker 1: of these companies used to do that, say oh, you're
Speaker 1: halfway through your billion cycle. We'll give you a credit
Speaker 1: of fifteen dollars that's what you have left. And then
Speaker 1: they said, never mind, we don't do that anymore. They
Speaker 1: make a lot of money on that, so they'd have
Speaker 1: to refund that. Cable companies could lose out and an
Speaker 1: estimated twenty eight billion dollars a year because of this ban.
Speaker 1: It's not a done deal just yet, but it sounds
Speaker 1: like it's probably going to happen. FCC has to do
Speaker 1: a final vote after public comment on it, and Volvo
Speaker 1: and charge Point have launched fifty fast chargers at fifteen
Speaker 1: Starbucks stores. This is a fast charging network at Starbucks
Speaker 1: between Denver and Seattle. It's strategically located between these two
Speaker 1: locations so that you have a charger every one hundred
Speaker 1: miles basically. And that's the whole point is to give
Speaker 1: these ev drivers a little bit of peace of mind.
Speaker 1: And you know I've talked about the issues with charging
Speaker 1: all kinds of evs that are not Tesla's. So the
Speaker 1: fifteen Starbucks stores that have these, and these are Volvo branded,
Speaker 1: but anyone can use them. Seattle is a quad. I
Speaker 1: should know how to say that. Yakama my first job
Speaker 1: ever in a TV market, Oregon. They've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of locations than Idaho, than Sandy, Utah, Provo, Utah, Grand Junction, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado.
Speaker 1: And I guess that brings you to, oh, the first fifteen.
Speaker 1: So they don't have all of them just yet. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they do.
Speaker 2: Okay, So from Denver to Okay, Seattle.
Speaker 1: So if you want to take that road trip, I
Speaker 1: think that'd be awesome to take that for a TV
Speaker 1: story to take, like the whole road trip, all thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get to feedback.
Speaker 1: Laura says, have you ever discussed voice isolation on the iPhone?
Speaker 1: I just learned about it, and it's awesome. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I've mentioned this, but if you have the
Speaker 1: latest software on the iPhone, this isolates your voice. So
Speaker 1: if there's a lot of noise behind you and you're
Speaker 1: trying to talk to someone. This makes it sound almost
Speaker 1: like you're in a studio. And I've actually used this
Speaker 1: for remote radio hits when I'm in the middle of
Speaker 1: like a city or something. You pop this on and
Speaker 1: it sounds like you're in a studio. So if you
Speaker 1: swipe down from the upper right hand corner of your
Speaker 1: phone and let's see here, you there's a mic mode. Oh,
Speaker 1: you have to do this while you're in a call.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I don't see it right now.
Speaker 1: So while you're in a call, swipe down from the
Speaker 1: upper right hand corner. You'll see a button that says
Speaker 1: mic mode and it's standard or voice isolation. And if
Speaker 1: you if you put that on, you're the person that's
Speaker 1: listening to is really going to hear a difference.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else here.
Speaker 1: Neil says, Hey rich in regards to the cable TV out,
Speaker 1: the short answer to the callers question would have been
Speaker 1: a splitter, But as you surmise, the deeper answer relates
Speaker 1: to whether the company has gone all digital, all protected,
Speaker 1: needing cable card. That's the bottom line. As you said,
Speaker 1: they want you to buy their DVR. Great job, answering
Speaker 1: the deeper question instead of falling for the easy answer.
Speaker 1: Neil always looking forward to the next show. Janis says,
Speaker 1: saw your show on KTLA. Oh, this is a KTLA
Speaker 1: comment demonstrating the Minioki.
Speaker 14: Oh.
Speaker 1: I featured a portable karaoke system, and I find it's
Speaker 1: currently unavailable or may not become available. Don't you check
Speaker 1: availability before promoting something on TV? So disappointing? Janis, Yes,
Speaker 1: I do check. And it's funny when you put something
Speaker 1: on TV. Sometimes a lot of people go to Amazon
Speaker 1: and buy it all at once and it sells out.
Speaker 2: Oh, let's see, so I do try that.
Speaker 1: Ce Brown says, Hey, Rich, I must commend you for
Speaker 1: having Steven Aquino from Forbes on your show last week speaking.
Speaker 1: I too struggled with a severe speech impediment stuttering as
Speaker 1: a teen and well into my twenties. I'm now in
Speaker 1: my fifties and it shows up occasionally. Sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: know the triggers. I choose a technology path in college
Speaker 1: because I saw my stuttering as a barrier. I don't
Speaker 1: often hear people being interviewed like this, So thank you.
Speaker 1: See Brown in Toronto, Yeah, you know what, I try
Speaker 1: to open up the show to a lot of different people,
Speaker 1: and I love having people from all different, you know,
Speaker 1: backgrounds on the show.
Speaker 2: I think it really adds to the show.
Speaker 1: Agnes says, Hey, Rich, Oh, here's the comment about the songs.
Speaker 1: I've been a loyal Katie, a viewer and podcast listener
Speaker 1: for years. I just haven't followed you on the radio.
Speaker 1: I do catch your rebroadcast. My only gripe is that
Speaker 1: when you and Bobo have some fun discussions about the
Speaker 1: intro outro songs he chooses for the radio, we podcast
Speaker 1: listeners don't hear them, so I end up listening to
Speaker 1: you going on and on about a song we don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. Could you quickly mention the song
Speaker 1: next time when you comment on it? Bobo is causing
Speaker 1: me fomo. I like that lol. Thanks for making me
Speaker 1: feel smart about tech. Happy holidays, Agnes, Yes you got it.
Speaker 1: Steve says, you mentioned Starlink on the show. Thought you'd
Speaker 1: be interested in knowing. I've been able to text and
Speaker 1: even FaceTime with my friend on our trip to Antarctica
Speaker 1: because her ship subscribes to the service. Very cool, Steve,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your feedback. If you want to
Speaker 1: submit it, go to rich on tech dot TV hit contact.
Speaker 1: We'll get it in a future episode. If you can
Speaker 1: believe it, that's gonna do it. For this episode of
Speaker 1: the show. You can find links to everything I mentioned
Speaker 1: here on my website. Just go to rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot tv for the show notes, and if you want
Speaker 1: these notes specifically, go to rich on tech dot tv
Speaker 1: slash wiki. You can find me on all social media
Speaker 1: at rich on tech. Next week, we're gonna do something fun.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have openphones. What tech are you thankful for?
Speaker 1: Think about that and call in next week and let
Speaker 1: me know. Thank you so much for listening. There are
Speaker 1: so many ways you can s your time. I do
Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to
Speaker 1: everyone who makes this show possible. My name is rich Tdimiro.
Speaker 1: I will talk to you real soon.