WEBVTT - Tech Nostalgia & eBay Selling Secrets Revealed 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.880 Amazon's easy new way to share group photos. Is your 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:11.399 phone spying on you by listening the surprising blog post 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:16.239 that says yes, Instagram has a fun new way to 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:21.720 put you anywhere you can imagine. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.239 What's going on rich DeMuro and this is Rich on 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.560 Tech broadcasting live from Los Angeles. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:29.000 Coast to coast. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.560 This is the show where I talk about the tech 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.440 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.000 place where I answer your questions about technology. I believe 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.479 that technology should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.520 up the phone lines at triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.960 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.040 zero one. Give me a call. If you have a 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.200 question about technology. Email is also open. Just go to 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:03.160 richon tech dot hit the link that says contact. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.760 Coming up on this week's show, we've. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:10.000 Got Andrew O'Hara of Apple Insider. Andrew's going to join 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.280 to talk about the new features in iOS seventeen point two. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.800 Don't know if you noticed, but the iPhone got a big, big, 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.280 big software update this week, and there's lots of new 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:21.160 things to check out. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.760 Andrew will talk about those. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:27.200 Marcia Collier author of eBay for Dummies, is going to 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.520 join us to talk about tips and tricks for selling 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.200 and buying on eBay. So this is it. We are 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.000 in the final stretch of the holiday shopping season, and 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:43.240 of course I found myself this week going shopping. So 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.800 what did I do? I headed to the mall. Wait, what, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:47.960 rich You're the tech guy, Why are you going to 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.240 the mall. Shouldn't you be ordering everything online? I get 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.800 very nostalgic around the holidays, and I still think that 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.560 the mall is a fantastic way to, you know, get 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.080 that sarahdipity of like walking into the candle store and 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.880 be like, Oh, that smells good, let me buy one 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:09.880 of those, or you know, smelling the cinnabonds and getting 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.720 one of those, or you know anything. I guess it 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.360 all has to do with a lot of sense being 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.320 piped into the mall, and I'm a sucker for all 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:16.679 of them. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.960 So I kind of liked that I went to a 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.040 bunch of different stores. 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.560 I was actually on the hunt for a specific product 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.960 that was very tough to find, and I was getting 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.679 a little frustrated because I was like, this is why 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.839 I shop online. But I kept going and I ended 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.640 up finding it, and so it was fun and it 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:38.440 felt like I accomplished something. And anyway, on the way 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.960 to the mall, I tell you all this because on 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.239 the way to the mall, I passed by a best 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.240 Buy and it had this big sign said newly redesigned, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.639 and I was like, ooh, I gotta go in there 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.359 and check it out. And so I went inside. The 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.840 first thing I noticed outside they had these new lockers 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.000 that you can buy online and pick up outside the store, 0:02:58.040 --> 0:02:59.520 so the store doesn't even have to be opened. It's 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.000 like a twenty four seven kind of thing. But this 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.919 is an experience store. I looked up did some research 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:09.240 and they're opening these across the country and so I 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.600 guess the first one was in Houston in twenty twenty, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.240 and now we're getting them in other places. So the 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.680 Redesign store have like, you know, all these little places 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.480 for brands, like they had like fitness, They had home 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:23.280 audio theater, like luxury appliances. The geek Squad was set 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.200 up more like kind of an Apple store. They almost 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.880 had an Apple store inside the Best Buy store. So 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.840 it was really really cool, and it seemed like they 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.680 had a lot more selection as well, which I thought 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.640 was really neat. But when I posted this to my 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.680 Instagram listener, Jim said, hey, Rich, did you notice the 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:45.000 big difference? And I said, what? No CDs or DVDs. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.960 They are a thing of the past, a relic in 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.320 this newly redesigned Best Buy. And oh my gosh, I 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.480 can't believe that I didn't notice that inside the store. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.040 But yeah, the whole center of the store used to 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.000 be dedicated to movies and music and that is no 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.880 longer a thing. So another part of my childhood and 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:06.000 growing up is gone, just erased off the list of memories. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.480 And this got me to thinking, what about all the 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:13.560 technology in my short lifetime that I enjoyed? Watch Go 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.200 In and watch Go Out? And so I made a list, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:21.200 starting with the pager. I mean, these are things that 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.400 you just don't think of on a daily basis. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:24.360 The pager. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.599 I remember, I thought I was so cool when I 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.200 had a beeper, and. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.200 I remember the company that I went to. It was 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:31.280 called like Smart. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.120 Beep, and it was like five ninety nine a month 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.960 for all the beeps you can get, and someone would 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.279 send a message while it started out a phone number, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.520 and then eventually it was like a text message to 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.680 your beeper and you would call them back. I mean, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.480 what a wild thing to think about. Now you had 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.560 to find a payphone to go call them back. Portable 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.360 CD player This is how I ran, Like back in 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.640 the day, I would run with a portable CD player 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.919 and the thing would jump all over the place, like 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.800 you couldn't run with a portable CD player. I had 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.159 one mounted in my car in like the center area. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:07.240 I like, I mounted it there. Floppy discs, I mean 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.760 one disc. If you want to install something on your computer, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.239 you had to have like a series of eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.679 sixteen discs. And I remember just taking one out, putting 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.839 the next one in, taking one out, putting the next 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.719 one in. I think they carried like one megabyte one 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:24.719 point four to four or something like that. I don't 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:30.279 quote me, but yeah, not very much. VCRs. I remember 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.320 when we got a VCR in the house. It was 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.960 like this was the future of everything. You could watch 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.240 movies in your house and you had to rewind them 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.159 and the tape would get stuck once in a while. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:47.240 And that lasted for a long time until we upgraded 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.599 to the DVD player. And I remember the very first 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.520 movie we ever watched on it it was Fargo, and 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.359 we watched the heck out of that movie because guess what, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.040 you weren't really buying a lot of DVDs back in 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.599 the day because they were expensive. So you had a 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.039 couple and you just watched them over and over and 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.800 over and you and you marveled at how clear they 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.320 were on that screen. Oh, this is really really clear 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.840 compared to a VCR. And now you look at it 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.680 and you're like, eh, not so good. Going back a 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.560 little bit, the Walkman, so of course everyone had a Walkman. 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:18.839 This puts Sony on the map. 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.760 I mean, Sony was the tech company back in the day, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.960 and they still do a lot of cool stuff, but 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.520 I mean they're still have the PlayStation obviously, but the 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.880 Walkman was like, you knew you were living large when 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.599 you had the Walkman. You put those headphones on, you 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.960 put that cassette tape in, you pressed play. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.360 It was very TecTile and it was awesome. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.960 Two TVs, of course, plasma TVs later, those were you know, 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.440 big and heavy, the Sony Tranatron. If you had that 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.520 in your house, you were you were rich. Basically, you 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.559 were you were like really doing well, Uh, what else? 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.719 Dial up internet modems? Dial up modems. I remember the 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:03.280 sound a would make when you connected to AOL, and 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.560 I remember waiting AOL at one point in my youth 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.880 had a message on the screen that said the Internet 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.600 is coming soon. Like there was a point when I 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.679 was waiting to get on the Internet, and that dial 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.440 up modem sound was just so iconic, and when you 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.280 heard it, you knew if you were connecting at a 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.160 high speed, which was not really that fast, or a 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.440 low speed, because of the way that sound, the way 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.440 it made that sound towards the end, that digital handshake. Oh, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.000 how about this one? A fax machine? I mean, I 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.120 remember going with my dad to it might have been 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.280 Crazy Eddies. I grew up back in New Jersey and 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:45.280 Crazy eddy Our prices are insane. We had so many stores. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.160 I didn't even get to like the list of stores 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.320 that are no longer around. This is just the gadgets 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.760 that are no longer around. But a fax machine. I 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.480 remember the salesperson demoing the fax machine. You would put 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.000 a piece of paper in here and it would pop 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:58.360 out the other side, and I said, wait, what is 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.720 that magic? It was a copy of it, and it 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.600 took me a bit to figure that out. As a kid. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.800 Uh oh yeah, Bobo chimed in with a calculator watch. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.360 Oh I had one of these, the Cassio. I thought 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.960 it was so cool. Ah, the calculator watch. My friend 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.560 still has one. I think it's like an I think 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.720 it's like everything old is New again kind of thing. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.760 I mean, the list goes on and on. Camquarterers. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.160 I remember getting a Camquarder and back in the day, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.840 they had these specialized electronics stores and they you went 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.200 to an electronic store to buy this stuff. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.160 So it wasn't like you went to a Best Buy 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:32.640 per se. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.120 You went to like a local electronics store where they 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.320 had salespeople that you know, they were the smartest kids 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.200 in the room because they were nerdy and they knew 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.880 about this stuff and you didn't, and they could sell 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.280 you anything. Oh, this has the twenty times optical zoom. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.440 Wasn't even optical. It was like digital zoom. Oh this 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.520 has got the twenty times digital zoom with the titles 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.720 you can do. I mean, it was this was a 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.880 wild time. A couple other things. Cameras. I remember getting 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:03.640 my first one ten film camera. It was like a 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.600 cartridge you would put in there GPS navigation, I mean 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.600 like a garment or a tom Tom. We used to 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.920 put a GPS navigator in our car, and then the 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:13.640 phone took it over. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.040 And I remember when the phone took it over. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.319 It was it was the Moto Droid was the first 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.720 phone to have turn by turn Google Maps. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:22.320 And I went to Verizon. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.040 I waited in line, and I put that in my 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.360 car and I threw out my GPS. I said, I 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.000 don't need you anymore. I've got my phone. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:32.280 Now. Two more things, answering machines. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.560 I mean, people used to leave a message, and if 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.640 you had parents in your house, they would say. 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.840 Don't answer the phone. Let them leave a message. I 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:39.800 want to hear what they're saying. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.839 And then you never understand as a kid why your 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:44.719 parents didn't want to answer the phone and they'd want 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.560 to hear what this person was saying. And now as 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.200 an adult, of course, none of us answer our phone. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.240 And finally, zip drives. I didn't have a zip drive ever, 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.200 but that was a big one. Zip drive was a 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.440 big thing back in the day. All right, coming up 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.920 on the show, that was fun. I just I love 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.840 researching this stuff and just it's like we all know 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.320 about that stuff. We didn't forget about it. It's still 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.080 in our brain. But you don't call up those memories 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.400 until you physically speak it and think about it. And 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:16.160 it's really fun to do. Thanks for joining me today 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.360 on the show eighty to eight Rich one on one. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.000 Glad you're here. Eight eight eight seven four to two 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:22.959 four one zero one. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.040 Give me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.800 Oh look at that. Phone lines are already lit up. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.240 More rich on Tech coming your way right after this. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:36.400 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:40.600 out with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.439 O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.720 four one zero one. Give me a call if you 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.680 have a question about technology. This is the show where 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.240 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.640 know about. I answer your questions and we have a 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.560 lot of fun. So you can find me online. I 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.880 am at rich on Tech on all the social media 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.520 I and rich on Tech dot tv is the website. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.240 Mike and Ventura you're on with Rich. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.600 Hey Rich It's Mike een Loan and Ventura. How are 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:11.120 you my friends? 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:12.920 Hey Mike, how you doing? Wow? 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.599 Fan of the old podcast. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.640 Yeah, I've been. I told the screener we were a 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.960 long time friends. I have people my promise to you 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.800 that I call in and ask you a question for you. 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.000 Love it, let's hear it. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.200 Okay, I bought a new HP laptop seventeen inch. It's 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.840 for four Gigabyt one hundred and twenty eight K. But 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.800 I noticed when I went shopping for laptops they don't 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:40.160 do DVD's in them anymore, DVD players. Rather, I was wondering, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.560 other than cost, is there a reason for that? 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:43.960 Good question? 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.440 And this is something that I remember when Apple ditched 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.480 the DVD player or the optical drive on their laptops 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.560 and everyone was up in arms. Why would Apple do this? 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.959 But now we've seen the trend with all of our 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:02.240 technology where we are getting less and less ways to 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.720 connect to you know, less ports, less things. It's all 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.160 USBC now. So here's the reason. I mean, the top 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.839 two reasons. Number one is that, like I just mentioned it, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.360 best buy, they don't even sell these things anymore. You can't, 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.320 you know, you got to go to specialized places to 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.880 buy a DVD or a CD. I mean, they're just 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.680 not available in a lot of places. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:22.000 That they used to be. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:27.560 And why is that well streaming and downloads. Everything nowadays 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.960 is streamed, And why do companies like streaming Because you 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.200 don't actually own it. They love when you buy this 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.319 stuff on digital because most of the time you are 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.439 buying a limited right to the content, and if you 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.520 look in the fine print, it's not really yours. They 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:45.600 can take it away at any time, and we've seen 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.680 that happen over and over. So streaming gives these companies 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.199 more control over their content, which means they can monetize 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.720 it in new ways as time goes on. Also, downloads, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.199 I mean everything now that you want to purchase software 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.520 wise isnloadable, and it's faster, it's easier, it costs less 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.000 for these companies to do, and there's less maintenance. And 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.840 by the way, if you're buying something that's on a CD, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.520 like a software for instance, I mean, it's going to 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.000 be out of date before you even get it, and 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.320 you're going to need a software update. So when it 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.880 comes to computers and laptops and everything thin thin, thin, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.480 I mean that is the name of the game. They 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.840 want these things to be smaller, they want them to 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:27.200 be easier, less moving parts, less things to break. I 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.880 mean that DVD tray or CD tray, when it pops out, 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.440 you can break it off, and so it's better for 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:33.679 these things just not to have it. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:34.160 Now. 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.920 By the way, you can still purchase a external drive, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.440 and there are people that still need these things. You know, 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.160 if you're archiving to a DVD or something like that, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.679 or you're burning a CDX, you're a musician, whatever it is. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.360 But I think you're probably sending all your stuff by 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.200 links anyway. But there are certain people that may need this, 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.160 and so yes, they still make these drives and you 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.800 can purchase them and add it on through a USB connection. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.280 Good question, Mike. Great to hear from you. Mike was 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.719 a caller back in the day. This radio show has 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.160 its roots in a podcast that I used to do 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.280 where I used to rig up a phone to my 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.280 mixture board and try to get people to call in 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:14.800 and live stream on Facebook. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:16.240 And so we've come. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.160 A long way, but Mike was always there for the show. 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.560 So thanks for calling in, Mike, appreciate it. Let's go 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.640 to Craig in Des Moines. Craig, you're on with Rich. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.400 How you doing Rich, I'm doing great. I hope you 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:28.840 can tell. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.800 Yeah, I bought a new phone. I would the guy 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.880 called a head the new fifree. Well, I bought a 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:42.960 new trap, A fourteen that used to call me. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.400 Okay, that's a I'm guessing that's a Samsung. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:53.360 I'm guessing that's Mobo. Okay, now he's a very good phone. Biggle. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:54.960 Yeah. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.040 So uh, let me let me see here so that 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.880 a fourteen from Samsung is actually just with a quick 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:06.560 quick search here is like they're best selling phone somehow. 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.480 Let's see best selling phone in the world. So I'm 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.720 guessing that this has a combination of good price and 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.760 features for the money. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.320 Let's see how much this thing costs. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.400 So you're talking about looks like it's about two hundred 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.600 dollars and that's before any sort of carrier promotions. So 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:29.720 if I were you and you want to learn more 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.160 about this phone, I'd probably go to something like YouTube 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.040 and just do a quick search. I mean, the first 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.400 three videos I'm seeing are all about how it's a 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:38.400 top selling phone. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:39.560 But then if you. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.600 Go a little bit lower in the searches, you can 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.960 see they've got Samsung Galaxy A fourteen for beginners, learn 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.720 the basics and minutes, the good and the bad. They've 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.880 got all kinds of tips and tricks on these things. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.280 So that's what I would do if you're looking to 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:00.240 get some more information on this phone. It's it's a 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.160 top selling phone. Look, people forget that Samsung. They come 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.360 out with so many different phones. They've got so many 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.040 different models, and they are a very worldwide company. So 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.440 the A fourteen is part of their more budget lineup. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.760 The A lineup is their budget, the S is their flagship, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.760 and the Z is their foldables. So those are the 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.840 three lines that Samsung has a budget S you know, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.760 premium flagships, and then the Z is the foldables. So 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.120 I think you got a great phone there for what 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.360 you need and hopefully it proves to be pretty good. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.440 All right, Amazon, I want to tell you about this 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.200 before we had to break here. Amazon has a easy 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.000 new way to share photos among a group. This came 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.960 in just in time for the holidays. Event photos sharing. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.040 You could open up the Amazon Photos app on iOS 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.560 for now in the upper right hand corner. There's a 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.480 little icon that looks like a party. You tap that 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.760 and you can now generate a link that you can 0:16:55.800 --> 0:17:00.000 share with guests and anyone can upload and contribute pictures 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.600 to this shared album even if they don't log in. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.720 They don't even need an Amazon Photos account. And I 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.560 tested this the other night. I went to a group 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.520 game and I sent the link to everyone and people 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:11.480 did upload photos. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:12.760 So anyway, open. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.800 Up the Amazon Photos app look for the new party 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.639 icon if you want a very easy way to share 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:22.040 photos with a group. Andrew O'Hara with Apple Insider coming 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:28.560 up next to talk new features on the iPhone. Welcome 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.720 back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:36.080 with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.680 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.359 zero one. If you are listening and you have a 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.520 question about technology, maybe you need a recommendation or an 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.960 app or a just something's troubling, you give me a 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.639 call and we'll try to figure it out. Joining me 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.440 now is Andrew O'Hara of Apple Insider. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:58.639 Andrew, thanks so much for joining me. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.359 Yeah, of course, Rich anytime. 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.600 So let's talk about this big software update that the 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.520 iPhone got iOS seventeen point two. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.400 This was a big one. Huh. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:13.800 This is a big update. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.560 These point releases that are typically called are going to 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.560 be the big update between Apples yearly cycle, and we 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.159 have a ton of new features that arrived with this update. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.040 So I think the most prominent one that I noticed 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.680 was the Journal app because it put a new icon 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.600 on my home screen. So what is the deal with 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:31.560 the new journal app? 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.000 Basically, the Apple has been, you know, exploring different first 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.040 party apps that it can offer users and doing it 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.600 in a very secure and private way, and the Journal app. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.399 Is just the latest example of that. 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.399 So basically it is a fairly minimalistic journal app that 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.960 puts privacy and security front and center, so you're able 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.960 to share your thoughts, reflect on things, and it can 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:59.240 provide on device recommendations based on like where you've been, 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.120 what you've done, and you add things like photos and locations, 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.679 you know, obvious nippets, all of that, and it's just 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.199 like simplified journal app that you can look back on. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.520 Andrew, I'm just you're breaking up just a little bit, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:12.760 so I'm going to ask you to move to a 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.480 different a little bit of a better location for your signal, 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:17.400 but because I want to hear what you're saying, because 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.600 this stuff is really important. I noticed with the Journal app, 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:22.760 which I thought was really cool is that not only 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.879 did Apple introduce their own which is pretty basic, but 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.760 they also came up with this new system where pretty 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.880 much any journal app can tap into these new suggestions 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.320 that you're talking about and implement that in their app. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.399 So the app that I use called day one, it said, hey, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.399 do you want to try out these new suggestions? And 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.960 it's so cool because it'll say, we saw that you 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.720 recently went out to a basketball game, or you recently 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.800 connected with this person, and you can start an entry 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.440 based on things that you're doing in your life. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:53.720 Exactly. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.520 And it's processing all that stuff locally, which I think 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:58.560 is one of the important parts. It's not sending things 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.920 off to your server. It's being analyzed somewhere. It's all 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:03.920 happening on your iPhone. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:04.520 Yeah. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.560 That's the main thing is that these apps that you're downloading, 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.560 like if it's a third party app, is not getting 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:12.439 access to everything that it's seeing in those suggestions. And 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.840 that was kind of the brilliance of Apple's implementation there. 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.040 The action button on the iPhone fifteen and fifteen promacs 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:21.960 got a new option to translate. 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.480 I thought that was pretty cool. I tested this out. 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.760 For that action button, you know, hold down for a 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.520 second and it's going to pop up right on the 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.800 top of your screen. Allow you to translate a conversation 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.719 in real time. So if you are traveling abroad you 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.320 don't know the local language, really easy to translate what 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.359 you're saying two another language, or what someone else is saying, 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:45.560 you know, back to English. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:47.359 It's very cool and easy to do. 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:49.960 Okay, Andrew, we're still having trouble with the connection. What 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:51.800 I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have Kim call you 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.240 at your phone number and we'll get you back on 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:56.200 on the regular phone line and we'll see if that helps. 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:57.480 So we'll come right back to you in just a 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:58.000 couple of minutes. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:03.359 Here while we connect with Andrew, let me tell you 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:04.240 about this. 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:05.600 This is a feature that Apple. 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.560 They didn't add this in the new software update, but 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:11.320 it's coming soon to the iPhone. And this is a 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:16.040 new feature called stolen Device Protection. So this is something 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.720 that Wall Street Journal was reporting about. Basically, thieves were 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:24.560 watching people enter their passcodes into their iPhone and then 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.800 they would they would steal the iPhone and then use 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:32.560 that password to lock the victim out of their iCloud, 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:36.840 steal money, or gain access to all of their saved passwords, 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:40.800 and this was really a major problem. And so basically 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.400 Wall Street Journal reported about this a lot. They kept 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.080 kind of mentioning it, and Apple actually said, I guess 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.640 they took notice. And so now this stolen device protection 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:51.760 is in beta testing. It will be included in a 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.600 future software update. You will have to manually enable it. 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:58.119 But it's actually quite smart. So even if someone gets 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.240 your passcode, which by the way, you always protect that 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.480 and favor face ID or touch ID when possible. But 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.200 if this person steals your phone and they, let's say 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:09.199 it gets your passcode and they, of course they're going 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:11.399 to try to make like major changes to your account, 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:15.680 there's going to be an hour long delay. And if 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:18.160 you are away from your familiar location, so if you're 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.600 not at home, you're not at work, your phone is 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:23.400 not really going to allow these major changes. So that's 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.000 pretty smart because think about it, the person who steals 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.040 your phone is going to immediately take it to you know, 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:31.720 their underground layer or wherever they go where they're going 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.160 to steal phones and try to steal all your information. 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:36.359 So that was pretty cool. The other thing, and I 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:39.320 think I mentioned this on this very radio show. Is 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:43.040 the fact that iCloud keychain. You can unlock that with 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.240 a passcode and now, and that means someone would have 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:48.280 access to all of your passwords if they're stored on 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:50.840 your phone. And now you can't do that anymore. Now 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:52.919 you have to use face ID or touch ID to 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:56.440 authenticate that. So this is really smart. I think this 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:58.960 is great. Again, it's called stolen Device protection. You will 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:01.239 have to activate it. But if you're worried about your 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.320 iPhone and someone's stealing all your information, that is something 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:06.320 that I think is going to be a great addition. 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.040 All right, I think we have Andrew back. Andrew you back. 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:13.280 I am bad. Okay, better than ever? 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:16.879 Ah, much better, much better. You sound great, Okay, So 0:23:17.000 --> 0:23:20.640 let's talk about this now. This is really very specialized. 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.080 Back to the new features in iOS seventeen point two, 0:23:23.480 --> 0:23:26.440 the spatial video capture. This is really for the upcoming 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:27.600 Vision Pro right. 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:32.480 Yes, this is basically right now almost exclusively for Vision 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.480 Pro when it launches early next year. There have been 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:37.840 some people who've been able to convert this spatial video 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:41.160 to work with other devices like the Quest that's out there, 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:44.800 but Apple designed this for Vision Pro and using the 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.920 fifteen Pro fifteen promacs, you can record all of your 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:51.480 kind of memories in spatial video and then play them 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.080 back on the Vision Pro when I launched it. So 0:23:54.119 --> 0:23:56.200 it's kind of like you can start recording these things 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.080 now and then experience them once that headset comes out. 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:00.240 That's pretty cool. 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:02.040 And I actually, you know, I got a demo of 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.840 the Vision Pro now. I know they've given some of 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:07.760 the influencers like new demos of like the spatial video 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.440 capture and stuff. I didn't get that, but I saw 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:13.040 it in the original demo and I watched like these 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:15.560 kids like blowing out candles on a birthday cake, and 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:18.320 it was pretty wild. I mean, it's like it's it 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:20.760 looks like something out of a sci fi movie that 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:22.440 you're experiencing in real time. 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:27.240 It's really cool. And I think panorama photos are also 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.040 really going to look cool on Vision Pro. So I've 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:33.240 been capturing more spatial video now and a lot more 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:34.520 panorama than I ever had. 0:24:34.440 --> 0:24:36.840 In the past to get prepared for that headset. You're 0:24:36.880 --> 0:24:38.880 gonna you're gonna spring for the thirty five hundred bucks. 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:41.240 I guess you have to write because you need you 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:44.640 got to review it right. 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:45.840 You know, it's for the it's for work, all the 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:49.560 tell my accountant it's for work. But realistically too, even 0:24:49.600 --> 0:24:51.840 if I wasn't, you know, picking up this first generation 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:53.920 unit that was going to be coming out of lower 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:56.160 cost units down the line, you know, like in another 0:24:56.280 --> 0:24:58.320 year or so, And even if I didn't spend the 0:24:58.359 --> 0:25:00.639 money on this original vision pro, I'd like to have 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:02.560 those things, you know, if I ever did pick one 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:05.520 up in even two years. So I don't see it 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:07.200 being bad to be prepared. 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:11.920 What other seven point seventeen point two features do you 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:12.840 think we should know about? 0:25:14.080 --> 0:25:16.600 There's still a lot of really cool ones. One of 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:18.400 my favorite new ones is being able to ask SIORI 0:25:18.520 --> 0:25:20.840 about health data on a type one diabetic and I 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:23.800 can just ask, you know, Apple assistant, well, what was 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:25.680 my blood shirted this morning? And if I have a 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:27.359 data in the health app, it's able to tell me. 0:25:27.720 --> 0:25:29.880 You can also check things like your fitness rings, all 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:33.639 with your voice. There's a new Favorite Songs playlist, so 0:25:33.760 --> 0:25:36.080 anything you've added as a favorite ines of Apple Music 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:39.399 can automatically be added to the Favorites playlist for you. 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:43.960 And g TOO is arriving on the iPhone thirteen and 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:47.520 the iPhone fourteen alongside the iPhone fifteen. Before CH two 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:49.120 chargers stake here before. 0:25:48.960 --> 0:25:51.640 The holidays, and what is the advantage of the CHI 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:55.200 two chargers. I know that I interviewed someone at EFA 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:57.359 about them, and I mean number one, they're going to 0:25:57.400 --> 0:25:59.160 come to Android as well, which is nice. 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:01.320 But what the advantages of G two. 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:06.200 Well, right now, before G two, there's two basic wireless standards. 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:08.240 You've got Apples mag Safe, which can do up to 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:11.639 fifteen lots of power on your iPhone. It's quite fast, 0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:14.320 and at the same time, there's also regular CHI but 0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:15.680 it will only go up to seven and a half 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:19.399 lots because of Apple plementations. Apple kind of almost open 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.240 source mag Safe and gave the Maxi technology to the 0:26:22.280 --> 0:26:26.440 Wireless Power Consortion to build G two as this standard 0:26:26.480 --> 0:26:30.159 that'll work across platforms, iPhone and androids. So when these 0:26:30.160 --> 0:26:32.640 things come out, they're not going to require an Apple certification. 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:35.680 We should see lower price coins and the same fifteen 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:38.880 lots of magnetic charging that we're getting with mag Safe. 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:41.120 So I think this is just going to be meaning 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:44.160 a lot more choice for consumers at hopefully lower price points. 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:46.800 And I know you cover Apple stuff, but that it 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:50.080 sounds like there's going to be more like mag safe 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:52.120 style accessories for Android phones too. 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:53.320 Huh. 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:58.000 Absolutely, We've already seen like magnet inside of Android cases, 0:26:58.080 --> 0:26:59.560 but now I think we're going to start to see 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:03.680 flag Ship Android phones building in she too, which is 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:06.320 essentially mag stakes. So we're with mactually kind of coming 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:08.800 to Android. And yeah, that I mean, we're gonna get 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:11.560 a lot more accessories that are in work across platforms. 0:27:11.760 --> 0:27:17.680 That's exciting, very cool stuff, very exciting. Apple iOS seventeen 0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:20.200 point two. Do you recommend that people do these updates 0:27:20.200 --> 0:27:21.760 the day they're released or do we have to wait 0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:22.719 a couple days anymore? 0:27:23.000 --> 0:27:25.639 Or those days over of like issues with these things? 0:27:26.240 --> 0:27:28.880 Well, Apple goes through some pretty stenuins beta cygles these days. 0:27:28.880 --> 0:27:30.760 There is a public data that people can try out 0:27:30.800 --> 0:27:33.040 ahead of time. By the time you know, we're getting 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:36.280 to a full release, they are pretty stable. I usually 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:38.560 recommend people maybe wait a day just to see if 0:27:38.600 --> 0:27:41.720 there's any mass issue that happened to be impacting. But 0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:44.400 right now I have not heard of any dat effects 0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:46.120 from seventeen point two, and I think it's a pretty 0:27:46.160 --> 0:27:47.320 safe update to download. 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:50.320 Yeah, I did it. I got caught once. This was 0:27:50.359 --> 0:27:52.480 many many years ago. I was one of those people 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:54.720 that would like continually do the update, like try to 0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:57.120 like get it as soon as it came out, and 0:27:57.600 --> 0:27:59.760 it bricked my phone for like twenty four hours. 0:27:59.760 --> 0:28:02.080 My cellular did not work. And that was many many 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:02.600 years ago. 0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:04.560 But I learned my lesson, and now I do it, 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:06.600 you know, maybe like the night or something like that, 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:08.080 Like I give it a couple hours at least. 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:13.040 Absolutely, I'm on the beta train perpetually, and it's definitely 0:28:13.840 --> 0:28:17.520 it's caused problems and many times, but it's what I do, uh, 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:19.600 you know, just to get these speeches out there for everyone. 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:21.119 I mean, look, if you if you work for a 0:28:21.119 --> 0:28:23.879 website named Apple Insider, you gotta do the update as 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:25.919 soon as it comes out. Andrew O'Hara, thanks so much 0:28:25.920 --> 0:28:26.840 for joining me today. 0:28:27.760 --> 0:28:29.280 Absolutely appreciate it. 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:33.760 Check it out appleinsider dot com. Uh, coming up, does 0:28:33.800 --> 0:28:39.240 your smartphone listen to you? This is a surprising revelation 0:28:39.440 --> 0:28:45.560 in this whole tinfoil hat theory thing. We'll talk about it. Plus, 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:47.760 your call is a triple eight rich one oh one 0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:58.720 eighty eight seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back, 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:04.800 to Rich on tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology at 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:08.640 triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:18.880 seven four to two four one zero one. Let's go 0:29:18.960 --> 0:29:23.760 to uh Gerald Gerald's in Siami Valley. Gerald, you're on 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:24.200 with Rich. 0:29:25.280 --> 0:29:26.840 Good morning, Rich, Good morning. 0:29:27.000 --> 0:29:30.240 Yeah. I just wanted to take it back to the 0:29:30.280 --> 0:29:31.720 early nineteen eighties. 0:29:31.840 --> 0:29:33.240 Oh gosh, okay, here we go. 0:29:34.680 --> 0:29:37.080 Yeah. Back then I bought my first moblum there was 0:29:37.120 --> 0:29:39.000 three hundred bus per second. 0:29:39.400 --> 0:29:41.640 Oh wow, that's slow. 0:29:43.600 --> 0:29:47.640 And well even further back before that, my first computer 0:29:47.840 --> 0:29:53.120 was a Commodore VIC twenty. It had five K of memory, 0:29:53.200 --> 0:29:56.040 and if you wanted to store a program, there's a 0:29:56.040 --> 0:29:58.640 little cassette player that is connected to it, and you 0:29:58.640 --> 0:30:01.400 could actually buy games the cassette to play with it. 0:30:02.600 --> 0:30:04.720 Wow, a cassette to play a game. 0:30:05.720 --> 0:30:08.520 Yeah, you buy a little it's a cassette instead of 0:30:08.520 --> 0:30:10.880 a you know, instead of a disk. It was a cassette. 0:30:11.120 --> 0:30:13.320 Oh wow, we have a game like Raid on a 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:16.520 rat radio, you know, very printive games. 0:30:16.640 --> 0:30:18.000 Okay, so that was a little bit different. 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:20.400 Okay, so you you've been you've been computing for a while, 0:30:20.440 --> 0:30:23.440 it sounds like yes, And what do you make of. 0:30:25.360 --> 0:30:27.520 What do you make of all the stuff today? Do 0:30:27.560 --> 0:30:28.400 you keep up with it? 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:29.239 Oh? 0:30:29.320 --> 0:30:33.440 Yeah, I still I'm still a galer actually even today, 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:35.920 but I still keep up like that unless my son 0:30:36.040 --> 0:30:40.000 is a he's a network engineer. So anything that I 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:41.160 lacked he helped. 0:30:40.880 --> 0:30:45.040 Me out also. And what moved then I moved on 0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:47.720 to an Apple to E. That was a big move 0:30:48.640 --> 0:30:52.400 and it had a UH and it came with one 0:30:52.440 --> 0:30:56.240 in five eight and a half in floppy dot. But 0:30:57.320 --> 0:30:59.440 the main thing I was speaking about back then, in 0:30:59.480 --> 0:31:03.120 the early eighties, there was a it was a network 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:04.720 or I don't even know what you called. It's called 0:31:04.760 --> 0:31:09.400 the Okay, which which was after after a few years, 0:31:09.400 --> 0:31:11.400 it was about all about buying Comfy Serve. 0:31:11.480 --> 0:31:14.960 You probably, Oh yeah, I was on Comfy Surf okay. 0:31:15.040 --> 0:31:15.240 Yeah. 0:31:15.280 --> 0:31:18.760 Before that, it was the Force Okay. And that was 0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:24.040 my first really my first bulletin boards system BBS exist, 0:31:25.200 --> 0:31:27.680 and I still remember I couldn't I think that was 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:30.640 the highlight of that. I remember I couldn't figure out 0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:33.880 this one part of this game called on Tima three 0:31:34.640 --> 0:31:37.680 and I posted the question and I think something like 0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:40.920 eleven year old kid gave me. The answer was wonderful. 0:31:41.760 --> 0:31:44.600 I love it. I love that. 0:31:44.600 --> 0:31:47.360 That's when the world was just like I think it 0:31:47.440 --> 0:31:49.480 was like the same experience I had, that the world 0:31:49.560 --> 0:31:51.400 just kind of like opened up to you like it 0:31:51.520 --> 0:31:55.400 used to be in our lives. We had us, our friends, 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:57.440 our family, and it was kind of like limited to 0:31:57.520 --> 0:31:59.640 the information that those people had or what you can 0:31:59.680 --> 0:32:02.240 find the library. And then the idea that you can 0:32:02.280 --> 0:32:06.120 post something online and get all these people to respond 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:10.080 is just incredible. And by the way, I used the 0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:12.160 first time I ever looked up a not a cheat, 0:32:12.200 --> 0:32:15.040 but like a tip on YouTube for a video game 0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:18.000 was in Super Mario Odyssey and I'm sitting there playing 0:32:18.040 --> 0:32:19.800 it on a Saturday morning and I'm like, I can't 0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:22.240 beat this boss. I was like, I wonder if YouTube 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:24.600 has a video about this, And sure enough, I just 0:32:24.720 --> 0:32:26.880 like watched all these videos and I beat the boss 0:32:26.880 --> 0:32:27.520 in like an hour. 0:32:28.800 --> 0:32:32.400 Yeah, I'm wondering how people nowadays. Well, you know, first 0:32:32.400 --> 0:32:35.480 of all, before I even buy a game, I preview 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:36.280 it on YouTube. 0:32:36.400 --> 0:32:37.200 Oh yeah, of course. 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:40.000 Back in the day, you know, you just you're bonding 0:32:40.080 --> 0:32:44.520 and hope that you enjoyed. But so as I say today, 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:46.200 you know, like any problem I had, you know, you 0:32:46.280 --> 0:32:47.480 go to YouTube to figure it out. 0:32:47.600 --> 0:32:47.760 You know. 0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:50.480 See, I don't know how I did it before outside 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:51.560 of the source. 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:56.800 Well somehow we all survived. Gerald, Thanks for the call. 0:32:56.840 --> 0:32:59.080 I really appreciate Do you like the show? You enjoy 0:32:59.160 --> 0:32:59.680 listening to it? 0:32:59.800 --> 0:33:03.720 Or enjoy my watch and listen to you every Saturday morning? 0:33:03.840 --> 0:33:07.240 Perfect? We love it. Thank you, Gerald, appreciate it. Happy Holidays, 0:33:07.560 --> 0:33:10.440 Thank you too. Thanks for the call. Let's go to 0:33:10.880 --> 0:33:13.840 uh Let's go to Ron. What are the chances of 0:33:13.920 --> 0:33:15.960 that we have two Rons here? We have Ron and 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:18.040 Kenoga Park. Let's go to Ron at Canoga Park. Ron, 0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:18.720 you're on with Rich. 0:33:19.440 --> 0:33:24.920 Thank you Rich. I'm using a Google Pixel four A 0:33:25.160 --> 0:33:29.640 and its security update period has lapsed, so they're not 0:33:29.640 --> 0:33:33.000 doing any more security updates. I love the phone. That's 0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:36.000 got a great camera. It's been fine for me, and 0:33:36.040 --> 0:33:38.200 I don't want to spend the money to get another phone. 0:33:38.320 --> 0:33:41.080 But what do you think should I have to do that? 0:33:42.240 --> 0:33:44.240 Okay, So this I'm looking at this website. I don't 0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:45.840 know if you've heard of it, called end of life 0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:46.560 dot date. 0:33:46.640 --> 0:33:47.200 Have you heard of that? 0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:49.160 No? I haven't. 0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:51.200 Okay, So it's a great website that gives you kind 0:33:51.240 --> 0:33:55.320 of all of the the end dates of you know 0:33:55.400 --> 0:34:00.840 these phones devices anything. So the Pixel four A let's see, 0:34:01.120 --> 0:34:05.440 it was released three years ago November fifth, twenty twenty 0:34:05.960 --> 0:34:09.760 and let's see the guaranteed security updates ended one month 0:34:09.800 --> 0:34:12.319 and one week ago on November fourth, twenty twenty three. 0:34:12.320 --> 0:34:14.640 So you're right in the fact that you are at 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:18.279 the end of life for this device. Now, does it 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:20.879 mean you have to get a new one immediately. No, 0:34:21.200 --> 0:34:23.680 but it's a four A, it's a couple of years old, 0:34:24.120 --> 0:34:26.560 and I would say right now during the holidays, the 0:34:26.600 --> 0:34:28.799 Pixel eight is I know it's a little bit more 0:34:28.800 --> 0:34:30.480 expensive than you know. You're saying you don't want to 0:34:30.480 --> 0:34:33.279 spend the money, but the Pixel eight has got some 0:34:33.400 --> 0:34:37.560 really good deals and they're doing seven years of security updates. 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:40.160 So if you spent the money now, you would get 0:34:40.320 --> 0:34:43.960 seven more years of security updates for that Pixel eight. 0:34:44.000 --> 0:34:45.839 And so I think that's probably the way you want 0:34:45.880 --> 0:34:48.200 to go. Since you already know the Pixel phone, you 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:51.080 love it, it works great. I've been testing the Pixel 0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:53.959 eight Pro. It's one of my favorite phones of the year, 0:34:54.080 --> 0:34:57.440 probably my favorite phone of the year with androids, and 0:34:57.520 --> 0:34:59.719 so I think there's nothing to lose here except for 0:34:59.760 --> 0:35:02.239 the that you know, just find a good deal on 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:04.160 this phone, on this Pixel eight, and I think that 0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:06.960 you'll really like it. And the good news is everything's 0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:09.279 going to transfer over nice and easily because you're going 0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:10.360 from pixel to pixel. 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:11.040 Now. 0:35:11.040 --> 0:35:12.920 I know pixels when they first came out, they were 0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:16.359 given like unlimited photo storage and all this stuff that 0:35:16.480 --> 0:35:19.880 is no longer a thing, but the pixels have been 0:35:19.880 --> 0:35:21.719 getting more and more popular, and I think that the 0:35:22.160 --> 0:35:25.120 reason I would recommend because you might be thinking, rich, 0:35:25.160 --> 0:35:26.759 maybe I should go for the seven A because it's 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:29.319 a lot cheaper. That's kind of like the A line 0:35:29.360 --> 0:35:31.719 on the pixel is the less expensive. It's more of 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:34.960 the budget pixel. So you've got the Pixel A, then 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:37.839 you've got the Pixel regular, the eight, and then you've 0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:40.840 got the Pixel Pro. And so there's like three levels 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:43.640 of pixels every year, and the A model is like 0:35:43.719 --> 0:35:46.920 the budget version, but this year's A model, the seven 0:35:46.960 --> 0:35:50.120 A does not have the seven years of updates. So 0:35:50.200 --> 0:35:52.360 for that reason, ron I would say go with the 0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:54.239 Pixel eight. I think you'll love it and it'll be 0:35:54.280 --> 0:35:58.480 a nice, nice upgrade from your current phone. All right, 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:01.560 coming up next is that smartphone listening to you. We're 0:36:01.560 --> 0:36:05.320 gonna have the results of a surprising blog post, plus 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:07.879 your calls at Triple eight rich one on one. You're 0:36:07.920 --> 0:36:13.080 listening to rich on tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:17.799 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:21.360 Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:36:21.480 --> 0:36:26.560 four to two four one zero one. We are on 0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:29.919 the slide. If you were on a sled, this would 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:31.879 be the snowy hill in front of you, and there 0:36:31.960 --> 0:36:34.439 is no stopping before the holidays. You are just going 0:36:34.640 --> 0:36:37.000 all the way down that hill. And yes, I did 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:38.560 that as a kid. I grew up in New Jersey 0:36:38.640 --> 0:36:41.400 and we had snow. As soon as it would snow, 0:36:41.520 --> 0:36:43.160 you go to the top of the hill and you 0:36:43.160 --> 0:36:46.360 would just sled all the way. And where I lived, 0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:50.360 the hill that we sled on led right into the highway. 0:36:50.880 --> 0:36:54.080 So I don't think that nowadays people would be allowed 0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:56.359 to do what we did. But we slid there all 0:36:56.440 --> 0:36:58.920 day long, and for some reason, the snow in New 0:36:59.000 --> 0:37:01.560 Jersey always melted like instantly, like you would get it 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:04.600 for one day. You might be at a holiday party. 0:37:04.680 --> 0:37:07.279 Last night, I was hanging out with some friends at 0:37:07.280 --> 0:37:10.160 a gathering, and you know, I had a drink in 0:37:10.200 --> 0:37:11.960 my hand and my friend's like, oh, can I take 0:37:11.960 --> 0:37:15.759 a sip? And I was like no, and he was 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:16.880 really like taking aback. 0:37:16.920 --> 0:37:17.640 I was like, no, I don't. 0:37:17.680 --> 0:37:19.440 I don't share my drinks. I you know, I don't 0:37:19.480 --> 0:37:21.840 want to get sick. And so he was like, okay, 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:23.879 I understand that. And I'm like, oh, my wife will 0:37:23.920 --> 0:37:26.839 She'll share her drink at anyone. I go go ask 0:37:26.880 --> 0:37:30.000 her for a sip and she's like, no, I don't. Anyway, 0:37:30.239 --> 0:37:32.600 it got me to thinking that, you know, not everyone 0:37:32.640 --> 0:37:34.440 feels the way I do, and so I put it 0:37:34.480 --> 0:37:37.200 on my Facebook page, Facebook dot Com, slash rich on tech. 0:37:37.239 --> 0:37:39.040 I said, a friend asks you for a sip of 0:37:39.080 --> 0:37:41.520 your drink? Do you say yes or no? And, as 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:44.600 you might expect, through the miracle of Facebook, lots of 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:48.560 comments float in, and so I popped them into uh chat. 0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:53.200 Gibten asked it to summarize them, and Chatchibat says the 0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:55.319 comments on whether people would share a drink with someone 0:37:55.320 --> 0:37:58.160 else show a mix of opinions. Some commenters are open 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:01.720 to sharing, particularly with friends or family, and some suggest 0:38:01.840 --> 0:38:05.160 using a fresh straw or pouring into another cup. On 0:38:05.200 --> 0:38:09.120 the other hand, many express concerns about hygiene and germs. 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:13.280 With some outright refusing to share. Some comments are humorous 0:38:13.320 --> 0:38:17.320 while others are serious, reflecting the varied attitudes towards sharing 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:21.799 drinks and personal boundaries regarding health and safety. Yeah, some 0:38:21.840 --> 0:38:24.040 people will like pour the drink into their mouth, you know, 0:38:24.160 --> 0:38:26.120 like just like pour it from the top. I don't 0:38:26.120 --> 0:38:27.839 care if you want to drink it. I just don't 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:29.480 want to drink it after you drink it. I mean 0:38:29.520 --> 0:38:31.400 nothing against you. I just you know, I want to 0:38:31.480 --> 0:38:33.279 keep my streak of being in here to do my 0:38:33.360 --> 0:38:36.759 radio show. And you know, it's tough. It's like this 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:40.520 is the season where everyone is sick. Triple eight Rich 0:38:40.560 --> 0:38:43.120 one on one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:38:43.239 --> 0:38:46.960 four one zero one. You can find me online at 0:38:47.080 --> 0:38:51.560 rich on tech dot TV. The question is is your 0:38:51.640 --> 0:38:55.799 smartphone listening to you? I'll tell you about that right 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:59.959 after we talked to Ron in Orange County. 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:02.520 You're on, You're on with Rich Rich. 0:39:02.560 --> 0:39:06.000 How are you good? I hope. I am am a 0:39:06.000 --> 0:39:09.839 small businessman. I've been doing it for years and I'm 0:39:09.920 --> 0:39:12.719 kind of like old school. And what my question is 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:15.960 is I need a software. I tried Trello and it's 0:39:16.239 --> 0:39:20.680 too big for me. Something to organize me better. In 0:39:20.719 --> 0:39:24.880 other words, taking my client's information. I have a certain 0:39:24.920 --> 0:39:27.400 procedures that I do with him, certain tasks that I 0:39:27.480 --> 0:39:29.759 have to do with it. You need to calendar it, 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:32.720 I need to put them on a future mailing list. 0:39:33.360 --> 0:39:35.000 And that type of thing helped me out. 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:38.160 Oh okay, So you need kind of like a like 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:41.120 a kind of a CMS, like almost like a content 0:39:41.160 --> 0:39:43.040 management system or CRM, right. 0:39:43.640 --> 0:39:46.200 Right, that maybe we'll bring up on a dashboard. I 0:39:46.239 --> 0:39:50.480 would touch the client name and boom, it would show 0:39:50.520 --> 0:39:53.919 me everything that I've done, everything that I need to do, 0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:57.840 everything that I maybe would like to do in the 0:39:57.920 --> 0:39:59.799 future with them, and that type of thing. 0:40:00.200 --> 0:40:02.399 Yeah, I mean I and I've I've tried a lot 0:40:02.440 --> 0:40:05.240 of these, uh you know a lot of these different 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:08.480 programs like I've tried to do list and uh Trello 0:40:08.640 --> 0:40:11.319 like you mentioned, and I am on a pursuit to 0:40:11.320 --> 0:40:12.000 get organized. 0:40:12.080 --> 0:40:13.759 Notion is another one. 0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:17.520 So I think, Yeah, Notion is like an all in 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:19.319 one kind of program that can do a lot of stuff. 0:40:19.320 --> 0:40:21.680 I don't think specifically for what you want that's going 0:40:21.760 --> 0:40:23.839 to do it, but what. 0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:25.719 I would do one more thing, Rich, let me say 0:40:25.760 --> 0:40:29.680 one more thing. I'm an older guy. Yeah, I for 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:32.640 me to learn something. It's a task if it is, 0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:36.239 but I need something, but I don't need to go 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:38.960 through all the series of the learning process in order 0:40:39.040 --> 0:40:40.600 to discovery that I don't need it. 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:44.799 Yeah, that's it's tough because you know, these all come 0:40:44.840 --> 0:40:47.600 with a learning curve. And you know, my dad runs 0:40:47.600 --> 0:40:50.279 a small business, and when I was younger, I would 0:40:50.280 --> 0:40:52.239 always say, Dad, why aren't you doing things this way, 0:40:52.280 --> 0:40:54.160 like this really high tech way? And he said, Rich, 0:40:54.239 --> 0:40:56.719 you know, I don't want to do it that way. 0:40:56.760 --> 0:40:59.520 Like I like my proposals and everything kind of done 0:40:59.560 --> 0:41:01.560 the way I've done done them for years, and I 0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:04.960 get that. So there always is a learning a learning 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:07.040 curve with some of these things. But what I would 0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:10.319 say is that you probably need one of these kind 0:41:10.360 --> 0:41:14.560 of one of these startups that is a little bit 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:17.640 like you know, Microsoft obviously has a program to do 0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:21.319 something like this Salesforce SAP, but those are like the 0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:23.880 big big companies, and I think what they offer is 0:41:23.920 --> 0:41:26.799 probably going to be way too much for what you want. 0:41:26.880 --> 0:41:29.359 So I think you would probably want something that's more 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:32.960 geared towards a small business. And so the keyword that 0:41:33.000 --> 0:41:36.960 you want to search online is CRM, right, and so 0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:40.800 CRM is a I gotta I gotta remember that's like 0:41:40.920 --> 0:41:45.520 content Oh gosh, content relationship management. What does that stand for? 0:41:45.560 --> 0:41:48.840 I gotta see what that stands for? Customer relationship management. 0:41:49.040 --> 0:41:51.680 So that's the kind of program that you're looking for, right, 0:41:52.400 --> 0:41:54.359 And I think some of the small businesses that do 0:41:54.400 --> 0:41:57.840 stuff like that going to be something like Zoho z 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:04.239 O h o and spot hub Spot and those are 0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:07.319 going to be some some places to start. The other 0:42:07.360 --> 0:42:11.200 one that is a little bit more modern and kind 0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:14.759 of new is a company called, let's see, this is 0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:18.359 called Fresh Sales. So that's Fresh Sales. And I when 0:42:18.360 --> 0:42:21.920 I was doing stuff for my small my side business, 0:42:21.920 --> 0:42:23.520 I guess you can call it. When I wrote my book, 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:26.920 I was using a what was I using? I was 0:42:26.960 --> 0:42:28.879 using oh my gosh, trying to remember it now, fresh 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:31.719 books I think it was called. And Fresh Books was 0:42:31.920 --> 0:42:37.200 really really excellent. Everything was like very simple and clear 0:42:37.400 --> 0:42:40.120 and new and modern, and that really appealed to me. 0:42:40.200 --> 0:42:41.960 And that's accounting software. So I don't know if it's 0:42:41.960 --> 0:42:44.319 exactly what you need, but that may be part of it. 0:42:44.560 --> 0:42:46.080 But I think that's the main thing is you just 0:42:46.080 --> 0:42:48.000 have to kind of look for one of these programs, 0:42:48.120 --> 0:42:50.480 and I can't say which one's going to work for you. 0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:52.399 You have to look and read the website, and if 0:42:52.400 --> 0:42:54.640 the website makes no sense to you, then I don't 0:42:54.640 --> 0:42:56.480 think the program's going to make any sense to you. 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:59.520 But that's what my recommendation would be is just check out, 0:42:59.560 --> 0:43:01.279 you know, take it and just kind of look through 0:43:01.280 --> 0:43:04.040 these ones that I mentioned and see which one appeals 0:43:04.080 --> 0:43:06.640 to you most, which one has the most generous kind 0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:10.439 of pricing that works for your company, and how long 0:43:10.520 --> 0:43:12.520 the you know, like some of these have a demo 0:43:12.560 --> 0:43:14.200 where you can go right on them and check it 0:43:14.200 --> 0:43:16.680 out and see how it works and actually use it. 0:43:17.120 --> 0:43:19.359 But I agree, I think you want something simple because 0:43:19.360 --> 0:43:21.560 if it's not simple, you're just not going to use it. 0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:23.279 And that's the main thing is you want to be 0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:26.560 able to use this ron. So those are my suggestions. 0:43:26.600 --> 0:43:28.879 Now you've got your homework, take a look at them 0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:31.359 and let me know what you think, and you can 0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:32.960 email me at rich on tech dot TV. 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:34.120 I love getting follow. 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:37.200 Ups and I'll read those in the feedback segment later 0:43:37.280 --> 0:43:39.520 in the show. Thanks for the call today, appreciate it. 0:43:40.200 --> 0:43:43.600 So does your smartphone listen to you? Every person in 0:43:43.640 --> 0:43:45.440 the world seems to have a hot take on this, 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:49.400 and you know you've already seen it. You talk about something, 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:52.560 next thing, you know it is advertising to you what 0:43:52.600 --> 0:43:56.960 you just mentioned your friend on Instagram, Facebook, whatever. And 0:43:57.000 --> 0:43:59.279 these companies forever have said we don't listen to you. 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:01.279 We can't listen to you. It's just not a thing. 0:44:01.719 --> 0:44:04.000 But they have ways of scanning what you're doing. So 0:44:04.040 --> 0:44:09.319 they're looking at, you know, a lot of different clues. Right, 0:44:09.400 --> 0:44:11.560 So the people you hang out with, where your phone is, 0:44:11.640 --> 0:44:14.439 the locations you're at. Bluetooth sometimes, like I went into 0:44:14.480 --> 0:44:16.520 CVS today and I said, hey, can we use Bluetooth 0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:17.000 on your phone? 0:44:17.000 --> 0:44:17.560 It's a beacon. 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:21.200 And what they're doing is, if it's being used, is 0:44:21.200 --> 0:44:23.920 that they can see exactly where I am in that store. 0:44:24.320 --> 0:44:26.600 So if I spent a lot of time in the 0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:29.320 diaper aisle, they might end up sending me a coupon 0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:32.239 for diapers. And yes, this stuff really really happens. There 0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:36.319 is so there's entire you know, there are degrees in 0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:40.240 marketing that people have with data analytics for this stuff. Anyway, 0:44:41.360 --> 0:44:44.520 four or four Media found a blog post from a 0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:48.000 media group based out of Atlanta that said, yeah, we 0:44:48.040 --> 0:44:50.640 can listen to people's smartphones and smart TVs. We can 0:44:50.680 --> 0:44:54.760 listen to their conversations, and we can target ads based 0:44:54.760 --> 0:44:58.000 on these. We call it active listening. It picks up 0:44:58.000 --> 0:45:01.640 conversations which help local advertise target consumers based on their 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:06.160 spoken words. The technology can detect phrases relevant to products 0:45:06.160 --> 0:45:09.720 and services. Now, as soon as this website posted about 0:45:09.760 --> 0:45:13.959 this active listening feature, the company offering it took down 0:45:14.000 --> 0:45:17.200 the blog post, which of course just added some more 0:45:17.560 --> 0:45:19.640 mystique to this whole thing. So now it is a 0:45:19.680 --> 0:45:22.960 deleted blog post, and it did address the legality of 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:25.839 active listening, saying it was legal as long as it's 0:45:25.880 --> 0:45:29.160 included in the terms of use when you download an 0:45:29.160 --> 0:45:32.480 app or on your device. Now, who reads those? Nobody 0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:36.279 reads those? So what does this all mean? I mean, look, 0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:38.960 at the end of the day, your phone is supposed 0:45:39.000 --> 0:45:42.400 to tell you when your microphone is on. When it 0:45:42.480 --> 0:45:45.080 is active, both iPhone and Android, you will see a 0:45:45.080 --> 0:45:47.960 little icon in the upper right hand corner that will 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:51.400 light up when your microphone is on. And Apple added 0:45:51.400 --> 0:45:55.080 this and Android added this as a way to show people, Hey, 0:45:55.520 --> 0:45:58.040 this is putting you in control. You know when your 0:45:58.080 --> 0:46:00.640 phone is listening to you, so take notice of that, 0:46:00.719 --> 0:46:03.160 and you can actually look on your iPhone if you 0:46:03.200 --> 0:46:05.960 swipe down from the upper right hand corner and something 0:46:06.080 --> 0:46:09.279 was using your camera or your microphone, it will tell you. 0:46:09.600 --> 0:46:12.719 It will actually keep a little kind of a notification 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:15.080 up there. See like I just did it, and it's 0:46:15.080 --> 0:46:18.640 showing me that Instagram was using my camera. So if 0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:20.960 you swipe down after you use something like an app, 0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:23.360 it will tell you what it used. It's telling me 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:26.080 whether you use my location, Instagram used my camera. That's 0:46:26.080 --> 0:46:28.279 on the iPhone and on Android, you can go into 0:46:28.320 --> 0:46:31.879 settings and see a history of which apps accessed your 0:46:31.880 --> 0:46:34.920 microphone and camera. So, I don't know, this sounds a 0:46:34.960 --> 0:46:36.680 little bit too odd. I don't think they would be 0:46:36.760 --> 0:46:39.920 promoting the fact that they can listen to users conversations. 0:46:39.960 --> 0:46:43.839 But because we've all seen that happen, we know it 0:46:43.920 --> 0:46:48.320 definitely seems to be the case. All Right, the mystery 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:50.480 will just continue. Coming up on the show, We've got 0:46:50.520 --> 0:46:54.920 Marcia Collier, author of eBay for Dummies. Marsha's going to 0:46:54.960 --> 0:46:57.920 talk to us about tips and tricks for eBay and 0:46:58.800 --> 0:47:01.200 a new feature on in Graham that can put you 0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:04.640 anywhere thanks to the magic of AI eighty eight. Rich 0:47:04.840 --> 0:47:09.720 one oh one, you're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:13.680 back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology. 0:47:14.960 --> 0:47:16.879 I got a bit of feedback when we talk about 0:47:16.880 --> 0:47:20.000 the songs that we play on the radio. The folks 0:47:20.000 --> 0:47:22.440 that listen on the podcast don't get to hear them, 0:47:22.960 --> 0:47:25.840 and so they're very upset when Bobo and I talked 0:47:25.880 --> 0:47:28.560 back and forth about the merits of a song, and 0:47:28.600 --> 0:47:30.520 I say, oh, I love this song and you can't 0:47:30.520 --> 0:47:32.399 hear it on the podcast because we strip it out. 0:47:33.160 --> 0:47:35.880 And so I guess if I mentioned a song like 0:47:35.920 --> 0:47:40.719 this one cold Play, I will say I listen. I 0:47:41.000 --> 0:47:42.840 think that CD was like one of the first that 0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:45.840 I just like, I think it got burned out for 0:47:45.880 --> 0:47:48.040 how much I listened to it, and. 0:47:48.040 --> 0:47:49.160 I really listen. 0:47:49.200 --> 0:47:53.840 I remember watching the video for Yellow and it was 0:47:53.920 --> 0:47:56.960 so different because it was like just the main guy, 0:47:57.120 --> 0:48:00.439 Chris walking on a beach and like just the time. 0:48:00.640 --> 0:48:05.720 It was like all shot in one kind of one 0:48:05.840 --> 0:48:09.560 shot the whole time, one steady shot, continuous and anyway, 0:48:10.440 --> 0:48:12.680 So now you know I mentioned the song. 0:48:12.719 --> 0:48:15.040 What was that song? Was that? That was a scientist? 0:48:15.120 --> 0:48:18.560 Right Scientist? By Coldplay? There you go. Now I sounded 0:48:18.600 --> 0:48:19.680 like DJ Rich. 0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:26.239 Bobo actually is a DJ in his other capacity, so 0:48:26.280 --> 0:48:30.719 he's probably laughing at me trying to be hey Rich 0:48:30.760 --> 0:48:35.239 on the radio. By the way, and this is what 0:48:35.320 --> 0:48:38.360 I love about this show. When we mentioned stuff, it 0:48:38.440 --> 0:48:43.760 is a community and so on Twitter, Peter says pipe 0:48:43.840 --> 0:48:46.680 drive is a very easy CMS and that was for 0:48:46.760 --> 0:48:50.919 our last caller, Ron in Orange County. So check out 0:48:50.960 --> 0:48:55.520 pipe Drive. And then when I googled pipe drive, they actually, 0:48:55.920 --> 0:48:57.960 this is the other thing. Sometimes when you google stuff 0:48:58.000 --> 0:49:01.400 you get the good alternatives to it ads and so 0:49:03.040 --> 0:49:06.080 it says you meant Honeybook, right, So Honeybook is the 0:49:06.200 --> 0:49:08.600 all in one small business CRM. So there's just you know, 0:49:08.600 --> 0:49:11.040 there's a lot of these things. Again, you know, you 0:49:11.160 --> 0:49:13.160 gotta you gotta just pick which one works for you. 0:49:15.320 --> 0:49:23.200 Let's go to h Vivian. Vivian is in Sun City, California. Vivian, 0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:23.919 you're on with Rich. 0:49:25.520 --> 0:49:33.520 Yes, uh, my usin has the I phone at S 0:49:35.000 --> 0:49:42.160 and we want to change to our new carrier. And 0:49:42.360 --> 0:49:48.640 they one that we're with, they're saying they can't. 0:49:48.080 --> 0:49:50.160 Unlock the phone. 0:49:51.880 --> 0:49:54.400 They can unlock the phone that you already have iPhone 0:49:54.600 --> 0:49:57.560 se right, and who did you buy the phone? 0:49:57.600 --> 0:49:59.840 From the mobile. 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:02.120 Okay, so you bought it from T Mobile. How long 0:50:02.120 --> 0:50:06.440 have you had it? 0:50:04.360 --> 0:50:08.120 Okay? 0:50:08.840 --> 0:50:08.960 So? 0:50:09.400 --> 0:50:09.520 Uh? 0:50:09.800 --> 0:50:12.280 And are you on any sort of contract with T Mobile? 0:50:13.680 --> 0:50:13.839 No? 0:50:14.000 --> 0:50:17.799 Okay, So T mobile sim unlock policy is at least 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:21.279 three hundred and sixty five days. So typically when you 0:50:21.360 --> 0:50:26.759 buy a device from one cellular company, they and not 0:50:26.800 --> 0:50:28.040 all of them do this, by the way. 0:50:28.239 --> 0:50:29.520 Some of them do, some of them don't. 0:50:29.520 --> 0:50:31.839 You really have to, and it's it's less prevalent than 0:50:31.880 --> 0:50:35.080 it was back in the day, but still especially with 0:50:35.200 --> 0:50:39.280 the contracts you know, nowadays, it's much more monetary based. 0:50:39.280 --> 0:50:41.920 Where let's say you get a free iPhone quote unquote 0:50:42.000 --> 0:50:44.800 free iPhone from Verizon or AT and T or T Mobile, 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:49.239 it's not really free. They basically give you a pro 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:52.960 rated credit every month, so they divide that credit over 0:50:53.000 --> 0:50:55.920 two years or three years, and you get that credit 0:50:55.920 --> 0:50:57.759 towards the price of that phone. And if you leave, 0:50:57.800 --> 0:50:59.680 you can take the phone, but they're gonna just gonna 0:50:59.719 --> 0:51:01.879 charge you for the rest of it. So if your 0:51:02.000 --> 0:51:05.040 device is free and clear and paid for, then you 0:51:05.120 --> 0:51:08.640 can request from your carrier to unlock it. And from 0:51:08.719 --> 0:51:14.480 what I'm seeing on T Mobile's website to unlock a phone, 0:51:14.600 --> 0:51:17.799 we will unlock it free of charge. Device eligibility is 0:51:17.800 --> 0:51:20.400 the terminus follows. Device must be sold by T Mobile, 0:51:20.800 --> 0:51:23.000 must not be reported as lost or stolen, must be 0:51:23.000 --> 0:51:26.719 in good standing, and you must have been active on 0:51:26.760 --> 0:51:30.640 the pre the network for forty days if it was 0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:34.359 financed release, all payments must be made. The balance must 0:51:34.360 --> 0:51:40.919 be zero and that should satisfy it. So if you're 0:51:41.120 --> 0:51:46.040 running into issues with the unlock, you know, it seems 0:51:46.080 --> 0:51:48.040 like you just need to keep calling back until you 0:51:48.080 --> 0:51:50.360 get someone, or you can keep escalating it to a 0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:53.080 different person at T Mobile. But it sounds like there 0:51:53.120 --> 0:51:57.320 should be no reason why your phone shouldn't be unlocked now. Also, 0:51:57.960 --> 0:52:02.480 you may you may try this Vivian is go into 0:52:02.520 --> 0:52:07.040 your settings and then if you go into let's see here. 0:52:07.080 --> 0:52:11.400 If you go into settings and I believe general and about, 0:52:12.320 --> 0:52:15.120 there is a place where it will tell you if 0:52:15.120 --> 0:52:17.920 there's a carrier lock. So on the iPhone again, go 0:52:17.960 --> 0:52:22.600 to Settings, General, About and scroll down a little bit 0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:25.640 and it says carrier lock, and it will say no 0:52:25.800 --> 0:52:28.600 SIM restrictions if your phone is unlocked and ready to go. 0:52:28.719 --> 0:52:31.759 So you may not even need to go through T 0:52:31.960 --> 0:52:34.040 Mobile to bring this to a different company, unless the 0:52:34.040 --> 0:52:35.560 company you're trying to bring it to is saying you 0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:39.640 can't bring it because it's locked. But the whole simlock 0:52:39.719 --> 0:52:42.879 thing is kind of annoying for sure. It's mostly when 0:52:42.880 --> 0:52:47.560 you buy the gadget through the cellular company. But again, 0:52:47.600 --> 0:52:50.279 they all have different rules and regulations for. 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:51.800 When they will unlock this phone. 0:52:51.840 --> 0:52:53.759 So if you feel like you're in the right and 0:52:53.800 --> 0:52:56.560 everything should be fine, then I would just go ahead 0:52:56.640 --> 0:53:00.960 and keep calling back or keep escalating the customer service 0:53:01.000 --> 0:53:03.920 call until you get someone who can actually do what 0:53:04.000 --> 0:53:06.680 you need to do. Thanks for the call, Vivian in 0:53:06.760 --> 0:53:08.920 Sun City. I hope you get that figured out, because 0:53:09.520 --> 0:53:12.640 if you want to switch, that's always a nice thing 0:53:12.719 --> 0:53:14.000 to do if you want to get a better plan. 0:53:15.320 --> 0:53:19.080 E three is permanently shutting down. This is the big 0:53:19.239 --> 0:53:23.680 video game conference that usually happens in Los Angeles June 0:53:23.680 --> 0:53:25.959 every year. It's been going on since nineteen ninety five. 0:53:26.840 --> 0:53:30.520 During COVID, there's a lot of cancelations. They canceled it 0:53:30.560 --> 0:53:34.319 in twenty twenty. It never fully recovered. Then it went 0:53:34.360 --> 0:53:40.640 all virtual exhibitors were dropping out. Sony does their own thing, Nintendo, Microsoft, 0:53:40.719 --> 0:53:44.520 they all kind of changed gears so E three the 0:53:44.560 --> 0:53:45.680 Big Video Game. 0:53:45.440 --> 0:53:47.840 Conference no longer happening. 0:53:48.400 --> 0:53:50.440 Times are a change in eighty to eight Rich one 0:53:50.480 --> 0:53:52.960 oh one coming up next E day Tips and Tricks. 0:53:54.640 --> 0:53:58.239 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:53:58.280 --> 0:54:02.319 out talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:54:02.520 --> 0:54:06.480 That is eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:54:06.760 --> 0:54:08.600 one zero one. Give me a call if you have 0:54:08.640 --> 0:54:13.600 a question about technology. Now joining me is Marcia Collier. 0:54:13.880 --> 0:54:17.839 She is the author of eBay for Dummies. Marcia, thanks 0:54:17.880 --> 0:54:18.960 so much for joining me today. 0:54:19.440 --> 0:54:24.160 Wow. That's eBay for Dummies tenth edition. I've been doing 0:54:24.200 --> 0:54:27.000 it since the first edition in nineteen ninety eight. 0:54:27.760 --> 0:54:30.000 Wow. That is wild and it's been a while. 0:54:30.160 --> 0:54:34.239 I actually we did a story for KTLA many many 0:54:34.280 --> 0:54:34.799 years ago. 0:54:35.000 --> 0:54:37.359 I'm talking you were over here at my house. Yes, 0:54:37.520 --> 0:54:38.640 I was. I remember. 0:54:39.160 --> 0:54:40.719 Let me see I can actually get thanks to the 0:54:40.760 --> 0:54:45.200 magic of Gmail. This was in twenty fourteen that we 0:54:45.280 --> 0:54:48.719 did this story. So you're talking almost ten years ago. 0:54:48.800 --> 0:54:51.920 That is absolutely wild, and you were talking ebab. 0:54:51.640 --> 0:54:52.359 Back ten love. 0:54:52.560 --> 0:54:55.279 Don't you love the way you can look up on Gmail? Yes, 0:54:55.520 --> 0:54:58.080 I did something in that. Let me look that keyword 0:54:58.200 --> 0:55:00.880 it's there. Yes, I love and the one time you 0:55:00.920 --> 0:55:03.880 need it, though, you can't find it. That's the only problem. 0:55:04.160 --> 0:55:06.280 This one came up very quickly because I just searched 0:55:06.320 --> 0:55:09.359 eBay for dummies. So let's talk about eBay. Give me 0:55:09.400 --> 0:55:13.040 the state of the union with eBay. I mean, obviously 0:55:13.160 --> 0:55:16.720 still the number one kind of website for buying and selling. 0:55:17.120 --> 0:55:20.359 What's the deal with eBay in twenty twenty three? Okay? Well, 0:55:20.400 --> 0:55:23.840 I started on eBay before it was eBay in nineteen 0:55:23.920 --> 0:55:26.640 ninety seven. It was auction Web and it didn't become 0:55:26.680 --> 0:55:28.399 eBay till nineteen ninety eight. 0:55:28.800 --> 0:55:31.640 Oh, I put that little nugget of knowledge in your 0:55:31.640 --> 0:55:32.920 trivia for when you're on Jeopardy. 0:55:32.960 --> 0:55:35.760 It was it was called auction Web, auction Web. 0:55:35.960 --> 0:55:40.360 Yes, I even have some printouts of sales that I 0:55:40.440 --> 0:55:42.600 made during those times, and I was doing a lot 0:55:42.680 --> 0:55:45.160 of shopping, so I got to learn the site real early. 0:55:46.120 --> 0:55:48.760 How has it evolved over the years, Well, it's gotten bigger, 0:55:49.200 --> 0:55:51.799 it is, and I do not work for eBay. I 0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:56.279 want to preface this. I'm an independent and everything I'm 0:55:56.320 --> 0:55:58.640 telling you is from my heart. I did teach for 0:55:58.719 --> 0:56:03.680 eBay University throughout the aughts, and I was working for 0:56:03.760 --> 0:56:09.520 the agency with eBay, And so I love eBay because 0:56:09.600 --> 0:56:13.160 you've got a worldwide audience for your stuff. You've got 0:56:13.280 --> 0:56:18.840 want somebody who wants to buy baseball caps. Did you 0:56:18.920 --> 0:56:22.040 know that baseball caps? They love them all over the world. 0:56:22.120 --> 0:56:24.640 You get a Maserati one, you know, at a press thing, 0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:28.920 you put it up on those Gibson baseball hats. People 0:56:28.960 --> 0:56:33.880 buy them. Everything you want to sell grandma's old postcards. 0:56:34.200 --> 0:56:39.760 There are postcard collectors, stamp collectors, coin collectors. I've been selling. 0:56:39.800 --> 0:56:41.759 I'm a top rated seller. And to be a top 0:56:41.840 --> 0:56:46.160 rated seller, you have to keep a certain customer service going, 0:56:46.440 --> 0:56:48.400 which is kind of what led me to my customer 0:56:48.440 --> 0:56:49.240 service passion. 0:56:50.040 --> 0:56:52.799 Well, eBay is the perfect store. And this is what 0:56:52.840 --> 0:56:55.840 I always loved about it. When it's just if there's 0:56:55.920 --> 0:56:59.080 something on there and there's the buyer, you know, you 0:56:59.200 --> 0:57:01.640 set the price, and you know you come up with 0:57:01.640 --> 0:57:03.640 a price that you both agree on. And that's what's 0:57:03.680 --> 0:57:05.880 like the most amazing part about it and why I 0:57:05.880 --> 0:57:09.040 think this became so popular. But here's my question, because 0:57:09.160 --> 0:57:12.160 right now a lot of people are using these new 0:57:12.280 --> 0:57:14.920 services like the let gos and the offer ups and 0:57:14.960 --> 0:57:19.120 the Facebook marketplaces. Where do you see eBay. You know 0:57:19.240 --> 0:57:21.560 when should you use eBay and when should you use 0:57:21.560 --> 0:57:22.040 one of those? 0:57:22.680 --> 0:57:25.240 Well, first of all, just to correct you, on eBay, 0:57:25.440 --> 0:57:28.240 you don't decide on a price. Sellers can put a 0:57:28.280 --> 0:57:31.480 fixed price item up on eBay, just as if you 0:57:31.520 --> 0:57:35.440 were buying on another platform. There are also still auctions, 0:57:35.920 --> 0:57:38.240 and there's also make offer, which is kind of what 0:57:38.280 --> 0:57:40.760 you were talking about if somebody you know wants to 0:57:40.800 --> 0:57:44.240 make an offer on an item. But what sets it 0:57:44.280 --> 0:57:49.439 aside really is its person to person. Yeah, you've got 0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:54.160 big companies on eBay, and the best part of shopping 0:57:54.160 --> 0:57:58.240 on eBay for anybody who's listening is they have a 0:57:58.320 --> 0:58:03.680 buyer protection. Anytime you buy something on eBay and it 0:58:03.800 --> 0:58:08.400 arrives damaged, or arrives not as existent, or you get 0:58:08.440 --> 0:58:11.320 something else, maybe the seller made a mistake and sent 0:58:11.440 --> 0:58:15.680 out different items to different people, you can get your 0:58:15.680 --> 0:58:19.200 money back. But I always recommend that if you open 0:58:19.280 --> 0:58:23.680 a box and it's not as described, message the seller 0:58:23.760 --> 0:58:26.640 through eBay, let them know what the problem is, allow 0:58:26.720 --> 0:58:28.920 them to make it right before you push the button, 0:58:29.000 --> 0:58:31.160 say I want to return it, I want a refund, 0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:34.120 Because a lot of time sellers will make it right 0:58:34.160 --> 0:58:37.560 on their own and then you're not dinging their reputation 0:58:37.720 --> 0:58:38.280 on eBay. 0:58:38.440 --> 0:58:41.880 Yeah, I mean, unless they are doing this with malicious intent. 0:58:42.000 --> 0:58:44.400 You know, things get jostled around in the mail or 0:58:44.560 --> 0:58:47.600 in shipping and something of rives broken or it's you know, 0:58:47.640 --> 0:58:49.840 it's a little bit different. I think most people are 0:58:50.160 --> 0:58:54.360 pretty good. And if you immediately go to that negative feedback, it, 0:58:54.560 --> 0:58:56.960 like you said, it does ruin there. They don't want that, 0:58:57.040 --> 0:58:59.880 and so they'd rather send you another one or make 0:58:59.880 --> 0:59:00.400 it right. 0:59:01.880 --> 0:59:05.200 So exactly, and when you're selling on eBay, remember you 0:59:05.480 --> 0:59:09.760 are generally dealing with a mom and pop operation. They 0:59:09.800 --> 0:59:12.600 may have many more, they may just have a few, 0:59:13.040 --> 0:59:15.400 and they want to make it right for you rather 0:59:15.440 --> 0:59:19.360 than going through the procedure on eBay. And again, just 0:59:19.480 --> 0:59:22.920 clicking I want to return the item really doesn't solve anything. 0:59:23.320 --> 0:59:27.640 The seller gets charged generally for the shipping back, and 0:59:27.680 --> 0:59:29.480 it may not be worth it to them. Sometimes they 0:59:29.520 --> 0:59:30.360 say just keep it. 0:59:31.720 --> 0:59:33.680 So, if we're listing something on eBay, how do you 0:59:33.680 --> 0:59:35.680 stand out? I mean there's probably a lot of things 0:59:35.720 --> 0:59:37.800 on there. I mean, what are some tips and tricks 0:59:37.840 --> 0:59:38.080 for that? 0:59:38.720 --> 0:59:43.480 Okay, well, absolutely, when you're listing on eBay, you should 0:59:43.960 --> 0:59:47.680 go through everything. I'm looking at something I listed recently 0:59:47.720 --> 0:59:52.480 that just sold. There's something called item specifics that when 0:59:52.560 --> 0:59:56.600 you're listing an item, it might be the universal product 0:59:56.640 --> 1:00:00.000 code on the box, if you have the box, manufacture 1:00:00.320 --> 1:00:04.960 part number, what color is it? And each category of 1:00:05.040 --> 1:00:08.880 eBay has its own set of item specifics, the manufacturer, 1:00:10.400 --> 1:00:14.160 what model it is from that manufacture, what features does 1:00:14.160 --> 1:00:16.440 it have? And if you fill out all these things, 1:00:16.840 --> 1:00:20.200 eBay is more likely to give you a preferential place 1:00:20.360 --> 1:00:26.280 in search. Also, eBay offers AI for their listings. 1:00:27.400 --> 1:00:29.600 I remember doing a story about that, but I haven't 1:00:29.600 --> 1:00:31.120 tried it out. Is it pretty good? 1:00:32.880 --> 1:00:35.400 It's it's fanciful. 1:00:36.240 --> 1:00:36.880 Like all AI. 1:00:37.480 --> 1:00:40.720 Yeah, right, it is. You know, fanciful if you know 1:00:40.880 --> 1:00:43.160 your product. And I always recommend if you're going to 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:46.680 sell something on eBay, research it first, or have it 1:00:46.760 --> 1:00:49.640 be something you're familiar with, like Barbie Dolls. I sell 1:00:49.680 --> 1:00:52.880 Barbie Dolls. I know all there is about Barbie Dolls, 1:00:52.880 --> 1:00:55.560 so I know what to put in the description. If 1:00:55.600 --> 1:00:58.280 I have it converted to AI, it may not be 1:00:58.480 --> 1:01:02.080 as explicit as I want it to be. So you 1:01:02.200 --> 1:01:05.080 have the choice. If you don't know a lot about it, 1:01:05.080 --> 1:01:07.360 it will pick up the information from what you put 1:01:07.400 --> 1:01:11.000 in the item specifics. See, so that's why the specifics 1:01:11.000 --> 1:01:14.440 are also important. And write up a paragraph for you. 1:01:14.880 --> 1:01:20.439 But always always have a good description. And I said 1:01:20.440 --> 1:01:24.600 in nineteen ninety eight, have a description that explains the 1:01:24.640 --> 1:01:28.160 item as well as if there was no picture. A 1:01:28.200 --> 1:01:30.439 lot of people have quoted me on that, but that's 1:01:30.480 --> 1:01:36.320 the truth. Andys always well, always have a description that 1:01:36.400 --> 1:01:40.360 describes the item as if people couldn't see the picture, 1:01:41.280 --> 1:01:45.320 And have a picture that shows everything about the item 1:01:45.640 --> 1:01:49.840 where people wouldn't have to read the description. So by 1:01:49.880 --> 1:01:53.360 doing those two things, you're really representing your item easily. 1:01:53.960 --> 1:01:56.439 And it's not that difficult to do. It does take 1:01:56.480 --> 1:01:59.800 a little time, but to do anything right and to 1:01:59.800 --> 1:02:03.040 get the largest amount of sales, you want to do 1:02:03.120 --> 1:02:03.520 it right. 1:02:05.080 --> 1:02:07.360 I've always seen those kind of clearance racks at like 1:02:07.480 --> 1:02:10.440 Target or like office depot, and I'm always tempted. I'm like, oh, 1:02:10.480 --> 1:02:12.280 I wonder if I can flip this stuff on eBay? 1:02:12.520 --> 1:02:13.600 Is that so that you could do? 1:02:13.760 --> 1:02:16.560 Oh gosh, oh gosh, that's how I put my daughter 1:02:16.680 --> 1:02:17.840 through prep school? 1:02:18.200 --> 1:02:19.280 Really. 1:02:19.400 --> 1:02:22.120 Yeah. There used to be a store called Lomen's and 1:02:22.120 --> 1:02:24.320 and there are a lot of stores that are, you know, 1:02:24.440 --> 1:02:28.360 like TJ Max the discount stores, as you mentioned, I 1:02:28.400 --> 1:02:31.880 would know when the sales started, and I would go 1:02:31.960 --> 1:02:35.960 in on that day. And let's say Diane von Furstenberg 1:02:36.040 --> 1:02:39.640 wrap dresses. I did real well with those because a 1:02:39.680 --> 1:02:43.280 bunch of them went on sale. I bought like six 1:02:43.400 --> 1:02:46.600 or seven of them at seventy five dollars each, went 1:02:46.760 --> 1:02:49.320 smack dab right on eBay and sold them for one 1:02:49.400 --> 1:02:52.880 hundred and fifty dollars each, which was still cheaper than retail. 1:02:53.400 --> 1:02:57.000 So people were getting a bargain, but they didn't have access. 1:02:57.040 --> 1:03:00.480 And I don't think that's called retail arbitrage, but I 1:03:00.520 --> 1:03:03.480 don't think of it as anything negative because if you 1:03:03.680 --> 1:03:07.200 know where to get something at a low price, then 1:03:07.280 --> 1:03:09.040 why not do it and make a profit. 1:03:09.680 --> 1:03:12.920 Wow, So people still can start this now, it's not 1:03:13.000 --> 1:03:13.479 too late. 1:03:14.160 --> 1:03:16.760 Well, you don't only have to go out and buy things. 1:03:16.800 --> 1:03:20.720 Look around your house. You got grandma's old china, sell 1:03:20.760 --> 1:03:24.680 it by the plate, anything you have around the house, 1:03:24.840 --> 1:03:26.960 that place in the closet where people have given you 1:03:27.000 --> 1:03:30.240 gifts and you go, oh, yeah, I really don't want this, 1:03:30.880 --> 1:03:34.360 pull it out, list it on eBay. It's doing you 1:03:34.480 --> 1:03:38.480 no good. They said a few years ago that approximately 1:03:38.560 --> 1:03:42.040 twenty five hundred dollars worth of merchandise was hanging around 1:03:42.240 --> 1:03:43.360 everybody's house. 1:03:43.920 --> 1:03:44.280 Wow. 1:03:44.480 --> 1:03:48.120 Good to know, especially around the holidays when we're probably 1:03:48.120 --> 1:03:49.919 spending more than that's coming in. 1:03:50.240 --> 1:03:53.280 So yeah, I stopped doing it. But when I open presents, 1:03:53.320 --> 1:03:56.320 I used to have a separate This pile goes to Evah. 1:03:56.360 --> 1:03:58.000 Don't do that in front of the person giving you 1:03:58.040 --> 1:03:58.480 the gift. 1:03:58.600 --> 1:04:00.840 Oh, this one right outed me. 1:04:01.320 --> 1:04:04.400 That's funny. I got a stamp my wife has. Actually, 1:04:04.800 --> 1:04:07.400 never mind, I'm not going to tell us stories out. 1:04:08.280 --> 1:04:08.440 You know. 1:04:08.560 --> 1:04:12.040 Let's just put Regifting is definitely a thing sometimes so 1:04:12.200 --> 1:04:15.120 people people do that, all right, Mark, you get money? 1:04:15.200 --> 1:04:17.000 Tell me about the book eBay for Dummies. 1:04:17.240 --> 1:04:20.320 Uh, eBay for Dummies gives you all the basics. It 1:04:20.360 --> 1:04:23.960 doesn't tell you any of the fancy stuff. And the 1:04:24.040 --> 1:04:26.320 thing is, when you're selling on eBay or you're on 1:04:26.480 --> 1:04:30.520 any platform, the basics are the most important thing. How 1:04:30.520 --> 1:04:33.320 to make your way through the website and be successful 1:04:34.240 --> 1:04:38.480 as a beginner. Don't worry about all the offers, the ups, 1:04:38.520 --> 1:04:41.560 the extras. Just do what I say in the book 1:04:41.920 --> 1:04:44.760 or just the basics. When you're listing an item. eBay 1:04:44.800 --> 1:04:47.440 gives a lot of directions, but don't go for the 1:04:47.520 --> 1:04:50.240 ups and extras all the time. And if you have 1:04:50.280 --> 1:04:54.240 an item on eBay that's not selling, instead of relisting it, 1:04:55.000 --> 1:04:58.640 use the sell similar button because what that'll do is 1:04:58.680 --> 1:05:01.080 it'll start it as a new listing and it'll go 1:05:01.240 --> 1:05:03.280 up to the top on eBay's servers. 1:05:03.480 --> 1:05:05.200 Oh I like that one. All right, we're gonna end 1:05:05.200 --> 1:05:07.800 it there. eBay for Dummies. Marshall Collier, thanks so much 1:05:07.840 --> 1:05:09.200 for joining me today. 1:05:09.360 --> 1:05:11.200 Thank you, Rich and have a happy. 1:05:10.960 --> 1:05:11.880 Holiday you too. 1:05:12.080 --> 1:05:14.760 And if you look on Amazon right now you can 1:05:14.800 --> 1:05:17.600 get a rival before Christmas. 1:05:17.720 --> 1:05:20.959 Makes a great Christmas gift. There you go, all. 1:05:20.920 --> 1:05:24.000 Right eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight 1:05:24.200 --> 1:05:28.880 seven four to two four one zero one. We got 1:05:28.880 --> 1:05:30.640 more calls coming up next, and I'm going to tell 1:05:30.640 --> 1:05:33.960 you about the web browser that has a panic button. 1:05:34.240 --> 1:05:38.439 What would you need that for? Rich on Tech more 1:05:38.520 --> 1:05:39.640 the show coming up next. 1:05:45.600 --> 1:05:50.320 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking 1:05:50.400 --> 1:05:55.120 technology with you. We just got some great tips on 1:05:55.200 --> 1:05:58.480 selling on eBay. Makes me excited, It makes me want 1:05:58.480 --> 1:06:01.120 to do that. I have always wanted to have like 1:06:01.120 --> 1:06:03.520 a little business on eBay. It'd be so fun, But 1:06:03.560 --> 1:06:05.840 I don't know what would I sell. Selling my book 1:06:05.880 --> 1:06:07.680 was probably the closest I had to that, but that 1:06:07.800 --> 1:06:12.240 was on Amazon eighty eight rich one O one eight 1:06:12.320 --> 1:06:15.920 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:06:15.960 --> 1:06:19.520 There's a new web browser with a panic button. I'll 1:06:19.520 --> 1:06:22.440 tell you about that in a moment. Let's go to Beverly. 1:06:24.880 --> 1:06:27.080 Beverly is in Los Angeles. 1:06:27.200 --> 1:06:27.960 You're on with Rich. 1:06:29.560 --> 1:06:31.200 Hi, Rich, how are you doing? 1:06:31.480 --> 1:06:33.720 I'm doing great, Thanks for calling. 1:06:33.840 --> 1:06:38.200 Wonderful. Absolutely my family and I love your show. We 1:06:38.400 --> 1:06:40.520 learned something new every single week. 1:06:40.680 --> 1:06:43.000 Ah. I love hearing that. Where's the bell? Bobo? 1:06:47.040 --> 1:06:49.400 And so I really need your help. I have a 1:06:49.440 --> 1:06:50.800 really big gift. 1:06:51.440 --> 1:06:56.440 Oh we got applause. Oh we got a pause for applause. Okay, 1:06:56.520 --> 1:06:58.680 go ahead, Okay. 1:06:59.280 --> 1:07:01.760 I need to say in my W nine form to 1:07:01.840 --> 1:07:05.439 an organization that I'm doing some work for and they 1:07:05.480 --> 1:07:07.960 want me to email it to them, but I'm not 1:07:08.000 --> 1:07:12.120 sure that's the safest way to send it. Would encrypted 1:07:12.200 --> 1:07:13.160 email be better? 1:07:13.360 --> 1:07:15.840 Or what do you recommend? Yeah? 1:07:15.920 --> 1:07:18.840 I've gone through this too, And to be quite honest, 1:07:19.600 --> 1:07:22.560 you know, when I do freelance jobs, I always have 1:07:22.640 --> 1:07:26.000 to send in my info and I always hate doing that, 1:07:26.240 --> 1:07:29.840 you know, because once it's on a piece of paper 1:07:29.880 --> 1:07:33.000 and in someone's email box, it is there forever and 1:07:33.040 --> 1:07:35.800 it can be forwarded and downloaded and sent around. 1:07:35.920 --> 1:07:37.680 And so I understand the hesitation. 1:07:39.440 --> 1:07:42.800 With that said, I think that, you know, if you're 1:07:42.800 --> 1:07:45.160 going to send it through Gmail or something like that, 1:07:45.520 --> 1:07:48.120 it's probably going to be okay as long as they're 1:07:48.120 --> 1:07:50.320 not forwarding it. I mean, I'd be more concerned about 1:07:50.360 --> 1:07:56.120 it not getting misguided in transit from Gmail or something 1:07:56.200 --> 1:07:58.240 like that, but I would be more concerned on the 1:07:58.240 --> 1:07:59.960 other end when they have it Like that's the big 1:08:00.240 --> 1:08:03.720 concerned to me. Now, if you want something that's super 1:08:03.920 --> 1:08:07.720 secure and secure from the moment you send it to 1:08:07.760 --> 1:08:10.160 the moment it arrives at their desktop, you probably want 1:08:10.160 --> 1:08:12.000 something what's called end to end encryption. 1:08:12.200 --> 1:08:13.520 Right. Have you heard that term? 1:08:14.080 --> 1:08:14.400 I have? 1:08:14.880 --> 1:08:18.200 Okay, So there's two types of encryption. There's end to end, 1:08:18.200 --> 1:08:20.280 which means from the moment it leaves your computer to 1:08:20.320 --> 1:08:22.679 the moment it gets there, it is encrypted, which means 1:08:23.080 --> 1:08:26.559 no one can unlock that file, even the provider most 1:08:26.560 --> 1:08:27.040 of the time. 1:08:27.160 --> 1:08:27.360 Right. 1:08:28.160 --> 1:08:31.080 And then there's another kind of encryption, which is encrypted 1:08:31.120 --> 1:08:33.439 in transit, and that's actually a little bit cheaper for 1:08:33.520 --> 1:08:36.200 companies to implement and a little bit easier, And so 1:08:36.360 --> 1:08:38.840 most of the things we have nowadays are encrypted in 1:08:38.880 --> 1:08:43.720 transit unless they specifically advertise end to end encryption. Right, 1:08:44.360 --> 1:08:46.720 So a couple of services I can recommend if you 1:08:46.800 --> 1:08:49.360 want to go outside of just sending this through your email. 1:08:50.720 --> 1:08:52.520 And you can also, by the way, put a passcode 1:08:52.560 --> 1:08:55.759 on this PDF if you want, I'm assuming it's a PDF, 1:08:55.800 --> 1:08:57.519 you can try doing that to give it an extra 1:08:57.640 --> 1:09:01.880 level of protection. But there's a Proton Have you heard 1:09:01.880 --> 1:09:05.160 of them? I have not, Okay, So Proton is a 1:09:05.200 --> 1:09:08.519 great company. Their their whole thing is security, right, so, 1:09:08.880 --> 1:09:14.240 very very secure email, very secure when it comes to passwords. 1:09:14.320 --> 1:09:18.320 And they also have Proton Drive, which is end to 1:09:18.479 --> 1:09:22.879 end encrypted file sharing, and so you can start sharing 1:09:23.200 --> 1:09:25.320 on there for free. They always, you know, there's always 1:09:25.320 --> 1:09:28.080 like a little level of sharing for free, and for 1:09:28.200 --> 1:09:31.719 this case, it's up to one gigabyte, so that would. 1:09:31.520 --> 1:09:33.080 One hundred percent work for you. 1:09:32.680 --> 1:09:35.680 You just sign up, you can put your file in 1:09:35.720 --> 1:09:37.880 the drive, send a link to that file and it 1:09:37.920 --> 1:09:42.400 will all be encrypted for the whole time. The other one, 1:09:42.479 --> 1:09:44.320 and this one is not as well known, but it's 1:09:44.360 --> 1:09:48.960 called Wormhole WO R M H O l E Wormhole 1:09:49.200 --> 1:09:52.920 dot app. And this is really really simple. It's drag 1:09:52.960 --> 1:09:55.920 and drop, So you would just take your file, drag 1:09:56.000 --> 1:09:58.800 it onto their website. It would generate a link and 1:09:58.880 --> 1:10:01.240 it is end to endingcrypt and you can say when 1:10:01.240 --> 1:10:03.160 you want that link to expire. So if you want 1:10:03.160 --> 1:10:04.880 someone to be able to download it once and then 1:10:04.880 --> 1:10:08.160 it expires and goes away, that's a very safe way 1:10:08.160 --> 1:10:11.519 of doing that. So those are the two that I 1:10:11.520 --> 1:10:12.680 would recommend for you. 1:10:13.720 --> 1:10:15.360 Wonderful, Thank you so much. 1:10:15.439 --> 1:10:17.320 All right, Beverly, you're going to keep listening now that 1:10:17.400 --> 1:10:20.800 you've gotten through the show and had your question answered. 1:10:20.840 --> 1:10:22.960 I assume we didn't answer every question in your life. 1:10:24.120 --> 1:10:26.760 No, I am definitely going to keep listening. We my 1:10:26.920 --> 1:10:29.920 family and I we were there for your original show, 1:10:30.120 --> 1:10:32.799 so we listen every Weekah. 1:10:32.280 --> 1:10:32.800 I love it. 1:10:32.840 --> 1:10:35.599 Well, say hi to the family for me. Happy holidays, Beverly, thank. 1:10:35.479 --> 1:10:37.640 You, thank you, Happy holidays. 1:10:37.760 --> 1:10:38.720 All right, good luck with that. 1:10:38.880 --> 1:10:42.200 And if you're sending a W nine, then it sounds 1:10:42.200 --> 1:10:44.280 like you've got some money coming in, which is always nice. 1:10:44.600 --> 1:10:49.360 Right eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight 1:10:49.600 --> 1:10:54.799 seven four to two four one zero one uh Opera 1:10:55.120 --> 1:10:56.280 Opera GX. 1:10:56.560 --> 1:10:57.839 This is a web browser. 1:10:57.880 --> 1:11:01.519 They have introduced a new feature called Panic Button, designed 1:11:01.560 --> 1:11:05.400 to protect user screens from prying eyes. So, according to 1:11:05.439 --> 1:11:09.200 a recent study, thirty six of respondents admit to accessing 1:11:09.320 --> 1:11:13.240 inappropriate content while at school, work, or home. And that 1:11:13.280 --> 1:11:15.720 doesn't necessarily mean which you think it means. It could 1:11:15.800 --> 1:11:18.200 be social media when you're not supposed to be looking 1:11:18.240 --> 1:11:20.920 at It, could be games, could be online shopping, could 1:11:20.960 --> 1:11:24.479 be dating websites, and of course you know the stuff 1:11:24.479 --> 1:11:27.640 you're thinking of too. But the panic button allows you 1:11:27.680 --> 1:11:30.760 to quickly mute and pause playback from all tabs and 1:11:30.880 --> 1:11:33.320 open up a new window with a safe quote unquote 1:11:33.360 --> 1:11:35.400 bland content. All you have to do is press the 1:11:35.439 --> 1:11:38.400 F twelve key. You can choose a pre installed safe 1:11:38.439 --> 1:11:42.080 website or customize your own whatever you want if you 1:11:42.120 --> 1:11:43.840 want to use the panic button. This is on a 1:11:43.880 --> 1:11:47.879 specific web browser. Opera GX. This is a web browser 1:11:47.880 --> 1:11:50.800 that is designed for gamers. You have to activate the 1:11:50.920 --> 1:11:54.639 early bird option in the browser settings. You can download 1:11:54.680 --> 1:11:58.719 OPERAGX from Opera dot com slash GX And I would 1:11:58.800 --> 1:12:00.679 argue that I actually think this is a good feature 1:12:01.040 --> 1:12:03.160 in any web browser, like I think Chrome should do this, 1:12:03.320 --> 1:12:04.960 Like you just need to be able to press something 1:12:05.439 --> 1:12:08.960 and do you know, pause all the audio, pause all 1:12:09.000 --> 1:12:10.920 the websites that you're on and just come up with 1:12:11.000 --> 1:12:14.840 like the most boring looking spreadsheet. And you know, there's 1:12:14.840 --> 1:12:16.519 always those times when people just come up to your 1:12:16.560 --> 1:12:18.439 desk at work and you may be like surfing the 1:12:18.439 --> 1:12:21.240 web and shopping, and you don't want people to think 1:12:21.240 --> 1:12:24.040 that you're not doing your work. And so this would 1:12:24.080 --> 1:12:27.880 be a nice feature to have for anyone. On Instagram, 1:12:27.880 --> 1:12:30.360 they have a new AI backed Oh this sounds like 1:12:30.640 --> 1:12:34.960 they're playing me off, Bobo. Bobo's playing me off. Eighty 1:12:35.000 --> 1:12:37.200 eight Rich one on one eighty eight seven four to 1:12:37.240 --> 1:12:40.720 two four one zero one. I'll tell you about Instagram's 1:12:40.720 --> 1:12:42.240 new AI backgrounds tool. 1:12:42.400 --> 1:12:42.920 Coming up. 1:12:44.520 --> 1:12:48.320 Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking 1:12:48.400 --> 1:12:53.840 technology with you, Triple eight rich one on one eighty 1:12:53.920 --> 1:12:59.840 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's 1:12:59.840 --> 1:13:02.560 go to Manuel in Los Angeles. 1:13:04.120 --> 1:13:06.000 You're on with Rich. Welcome to the show. 1:13:09.320 --> 1:13:14.400 Hello, Manuel, you're on with Rich. Okay, I think I 1:13:14.439 --> 1:13:17.800 hear the radio in the background. I think maybe did 1:13:17.840 --> 1:13:20.800 you fall asleep one more time? 1:13:21.280 --> 1:13:21.840 Manuel? 1:13:22.080 --> 1:13:22.519 You there? 1:13:24.280 --> 1:13:27.879 Okay, we're going to give you a minute to regroup, 1:13:27.920 --> 1:13:31.240 and perhaps you'll you'll hear yourself in about a minute 1:13:31.360 --> 1:13:33.160 when I come through the radio saying your name, and 1:13:33.200 --> 1:13:37.040 that's when you'll realize, well, we wait for that. AI 1:13:37.640 --> 1:13:39.880 on Instagram. So if you go to my Instagram at 1:13:39.960 --> 1:13:43.200 rich on Tech, you will see me in a snow 1:13:43.320 --> 1:13:48.160 covered winter wonderland. But guess what on my Instagram stories 1:13:48.320 --> 1:13:50.559 that is not where I was. I was not in snow. 1:13:50.840 --> 1:13:52.840 I was in the bathroom. It was there is a 1:13:52.840 --> 1:13:56.160 big mirror, and I took a picture, and it's a 1:13:56.280 --> 1:14:02.240 new feature called AI. See it's called backdrop, And so 1:14:02.840 --> 1:14:06.719 this is an AI feature that lets you reimagine whatever 1:14:06.760 --> 1:14:10.000 you want in the background of your picture. And you 1:14:10.040 --> 1:14:14.120 take a picture, AI sort of traces the outline of 1:14:14.160 --> 1:14:17.200 your body and you can then type in what you 1:14:17.280 --> 1:14:20.040 want the background to be. And so if you want 1:14:20.040 --> 1:14:23.120 to be saying I'm being chased by dinosaurs or surrounded 1:14:23.120 --> 1:14:26.320 by puppies, or at a party or in New York City, 1:14:26.360 --> 1:14:29.719 whatever you want, you can do this and it's really 1:14:30.200 --> 1:14:31.440 pretty good. 1:14:31.640 --> 1:14:33.040 So the way to do this is. 1:14:33.160 --> 1:14:38.760 Swipe into the stories on your Instagram and you can 1:14:38.840 --> 1:14:41.839 upload a picture. So if you find a picture of yourself, 1:14:42.200 --> 1:14:44.599 and then you'll see a new icon up in the top. 1:14:44.680 --> 1:14:46.640 It looks like a little picture with a background and 1:14:46.640 --> 1:14:51.320 it'll sparkle. You tap that, it will trace. It'll scan 1:14:51.439 --> 1:14:54.040 your picture, trace your outline, and then you'll get a 1:14:54.080 --> 1:14:57.559 text box and inside that textbox you type whatever you 1:14:57.600 --> 1:15:00.519 want and the suggestions it's giving me a right at 1:15:00.560 --> 1:15:03.679 a birthday, bash, on a pink brick road, at summer camp, 1:15:03.720 --> 1:15:07.320 at a fast food joint, shipwrecked on a school bus. 1:15:07.520 --> 1:15:09.519 And you can spin the dice and get more, or 1:15:09.560 --> 1:15:12.240 you can type in your own and AI once you 1:15:12.280 --> 1:15:14.000 type it in will generate your background. 1:15:14.080 --> 1:15:15.040 It will look pretty. 1:15:15.640 --> 1:15:17.679 I mean I just did on a pink brick road 1:15:17.720 --> 1:15:20.439 and I can't believe how good this looks. I mean, 1:15:20.479 --> 1:15:23.719 it is absolutely wild. So if you want to visit Japan, 1:15:23.960 --> 1:15:29.000 you want to visit Italy, Ireland, Irish fields with cows 1:15:29.080 --> 1:15:32.360 behind you. It is really really wild what you can 1:15:32.400 --> 1:15:34.680 do with this, And I'm telling you it's just going 1:15:34.720 --> 1:15:36.800 to be less and less of reality. 1:15:37.080 --> 1:15:38.679 And you can see the before and afters. 1:15:38.720 --> 1:15:41.000 I posted a couple before and afters on my stories, 1:15:41.400 --> 1:15:43.640 so you can see exactly what the picture looked like 1:15:43.680 --> 1:15:46.679 before I affected it again. The feature is called AI 1:15:47.920 --> 1:15:52.439 Backdrop and it's inside Instagram Stories. Once you post a picture, 1:15:52.479 --> 1:15:55.160 look at the top row where you add text and 1:15:55.160 --> 1:15:57.479 stickers and music and all that stuff. You'll see a 1:15:57.479 --> 1:16:00.240 new little icon and that's how you access it. All right, 1:16:00.280 --> 1:16:04.080 I'm told Manuel is on? Manuel you're on with Wretch? 1:16:05.000 --> 1:16:06.080 Hey Rich, how are you doing? 1:16:06.200 --> 1:16:06.639 I'm good? 1:16:06.640 --> 1:16:08.640 What happened? You fall asleep waiting for me? 1:16:09.720 --> 1:16:12.440 No, I'm over here cleaning up my apartment. 1:16:12.520 --> 1:16:13.120 Ah. Nice? 1:16:13.200 --> 1:16:15.320 Okay, well that's always nice, getting a nice and fresh 1:16:15.360 --> 1:16:17.360 and clean before the party tonight. 1:16:18.200 --> 1:16:21.040 That's right, that's right. Look, my friend, I watch you 1:16:21.080 --> 1:16:25.880 all the time on KTLA five. You for my question 1:16:26.120 --> 1:16:29.880 is what are the brands that I can get out 1:16:29.920 --> 1:16:33.640 there for the best value of my money for a 1:16:33.720 --> 1:16:37.679 computer at home and for the kids to have something 1:16:38.439 --> 1:16:45.759 on the go as a uh Mac pro, a laptop. 1:16:45.439 --> 1:16:47.559 Or what are you? 1:16:47.680 --> 1:16:50.320 Okay, how what are you using these computers for? Are 1:16:50.320 --> 1:16:52.040 they just everyone's getting a computer or what? 1:16:52.960 --> 1:16:53.240 Yeah? 1:16:53.360 --> 1:16:56.000 Yeah, I want them to have something for them. I 1:16:56.040 --> 1:17:01.320 want a computer station at home, and and also they 1:17:01.360 --> 1:17:04.120 could be on the go because they're teenagers, they're going 1:17:04.520 --> 1:17:05.200 to school and. 1:17:05.200 --> 1:17:07.080 Know that you got it. So you want a computer 1:17:07.160 --> 1:17:07.479 for home. 1:17:07.520 --> 1:17:10.519 For home computer, I'd recommend an all in one because 1:17:10.520 --> 1:17:12.080 you're going to get the most bang for your buck 1:17:12.120 --> 1:17:15.360 for that. So if you're a member of Costco, they 1:17:15.400 --> 1:17:18.479 typically have one to two all in one computers that 1:17:18.520 --> 1:17:21.040 are a really good deal, and so that's where i'd 1:17:21.040 --> 1:17:23.800 recommend getting that. And usually they're around five hundred to 1:17:23.840 --> 1:17:26.519 seven hundred dollars and you get a little bit more 1:17:26.520 --> 1:17:28.720 than you get at a store like a Best Buy, 1:17:29.600 --> 1:17:31.840 But i'd recommend the all in one. You can go 1:17:31.920 --> 1:17:34.639 Windows or you know, Mac with that, but I would 1:17:34.640 --> 1:17:37.880 I would say you probably like a Windows computer, be fine, 1:17:38.320 --> 1:17:40.719 and just get the most you can get for the money. 1:17:40.760 --> 1:17:43.120 So you know, look for the most memory, look for 1:17:43.160 --> 1:17:45.519 the most storage. But that's what I do for the 1:17:45.520 --> 1:17:47.400 home computer, because that's not going to move. You're just 1:17:47.439 --> 1:17:50.080 gonna put it somewhere. And so why get a laptop 1:17:50.080 --> 1:17:52.040 which is going to be more expensive and the specs 1:17:52.040 --> 1:17:54.000 aren't going to be as good When you can get 1:17:54.040 --> 1:17:55.639 an all in one which is going to be less 1:17:55.640 --> 1:17:58.160 expensive and you're going to get better specs. You can 1:17:58.200 --> 1:18:00.800 also go to Best Buy for that and see I 1:18:00.840 --> 1:18:03.000 was there, Like I said earlier, in the show a 1:18:03.040 --> 1:18:04.920 couple days ago, and they've got a lot of all 1:18:04.960 --> 1:18:08.000 in ones. My test for them was to open up 1:18:08.040 --> 1:18:10.640 the web browser and to do a quick surf of 1:18:10.680 --> 1:18:13.880 the web and see how fast it that accomplished. If 1:18:13.880 --> 1:18:16.160 you're noticing that it's taken a long time to do that, 1:18:16.280 --> 1:18:18.840 you don't want that computer. And believe me, I went 1:18:18.840 --> 1:18:20.639 through the line of like five or six of them, 1:18:20.880 --> 1:18:25.160 and there was a definite difference between those. Now, when 1:18:25.160 --> 1:18:27.479 it comes to the kids, if they're teenagers, are they 1:18:27.520 --> 1:18:31.280 in high school or college? Okay, so they're high school 1:18:31.280 --> 1:18:33.240 and you want these computers to last a little bit. 1:18:33.600 --> 1:18:35.280 I know that people are gonna be like Rich, of 1:18:35.280 --> 1:18:38.240 course you're gonna recommend a MacBook. You love Apple, you're 1:18:38.240 --> 1:18:41.679 an Apple fanboy. But I'm telling you the MacBooks are 1:18:42.080 --> 1:18:45.840 going to last a long time. They're gonna be really good, 1:18:46.560 --> 1:18:48.840 the kids are gonna love them. And yes, they're a 1:18:48.880 --> 1:18:51.759 little bit more expensive on the outset, but I truly 1:18:51.840 --> 1:18:56.160 believe that they are an excellent value over the long term. 1:18:56.240 --> 1:19:00.160 And so I'd probably recommend a MacBook Air for the students, 1:19:00.640 --> 1:19:04.280 which will last them at least four years, if not more. 1:19:04.760 --> 1:19:06.479 And I tell you this, because I buy a Mac 1:19:06.520 --> 1:19:08.679 computer every couple of years, and I give my old 1:19:08.680 --> 1:19:11.519 one to a family member. And I've got some family 1:19:11.560 --> 1:19:14.360 members using computers that are at least, you know, ten 1:19:14.439 --> 1:19:16.400 years old at this point, and they're still working. 1:19:16.880 --> 1:19:17.639 And they're still working. 1:19:17.680 --> 1:19:22.439 Yeah, that's my younger brother does. I used to work 1:19:22.479 --> 1:19:26.040 for Apple, so it gives us all his old stuff. 1:19:26.360 --> 1:19:28.479 Oh well, that's the best way to do it. Just 1:19:28.640 --> 1:19:31.280 ask him for a new one. That's the that's the 1:19:31.360 --> 1:19:33.360 number one thing to do. And then you go and 1:19:33.400 --> 1:19:36.760 buy your own. But look, and if you're looking for 1:19:36.840 --> 1:19:39.840 a Windows computer, which are gonna be less expensive, you're 1:19:39.840 --> 1:19:42.200 gonna have more choice when it comes to the different models. 1:19:42.920 --> 1:19:45.120 You know, you can't go wrong with certain companies like 1:19:45.240 --> 1:19:51.599 obviously HP Dell are very popular, Lenovo are always highly rated. Again, 1:19:52.360 --> 1:19:55.559 when it comes to the Windows computers, it's really to 1:19:55.720 --> 1:19:58.400 me a matter of preference. When it comes to the 1:19:58.520 --> 1:20:00.160 track pad, you want to make sure you get one 1:20:00.200 --> 1:20:02.880 that has a good track pad. I think Microsoft surface 1:20:02.960 --> 1:20:06.360 laptops are also really nice in that aspect. But I 1:20:06.360 --> 1:20:08.599 think it comes down to the memory and the hard drive. 1:20:09.080 --> 1:20:11.640 So you want to go with the most memory you 1:20:11.680 --> 1:20:16.240 can get. So I'm talking minimum sixteen gigabytes. The processor 1:20:16.320 --> 1:20:19.720 you want to go anything, I would say like an 1:20:19.800 --> 1:20:21.960 Intel A five and up. So if you're looking at 1:20:21.960 --> 1:20:25.439 A three, an Intel Core I three, you don't want 1:20:25.479 --> 1:20:27.160 to do that because those are just going to be 1:20:27.439 --> 1:20:29.960 way too slow for you. So I'd say at least 1:20:29.960 --> 1:20:32.439 a minimum of Core I five, Core I seven is 1:20:32.439 --> 1:20:34.320 going to be higher. The higher the number there, the 1:20:34.320 --> 1:20:36.679 better it's going to be. And then the hard drive, 1:20:37.520 --> 1:20:41.960 you know, you probably want minimum five twelve gigabytes, and 1:20:42.400 --> 1:20:45.080 if you can get an SSD which is a solid 1:20:45.080 --> 1:20:48.000 state drive, which I think most of the computers are 1:20:48.040 --> 1:20:52.000 these days, but that's going to be the best, the 1:20:52.080 --> 1:20:55.160 fastest for that. And then when it comes to you know, 1:20:55.240 --> 1:20:57.400 little things like the ports. Just make sure it has 1:20:57.439 --> 1:21:00.240 a bunch of ports that your kids want. And you know, 1:21:00.560 --> 1:21:02.960 it's really when it comes to laptops, if you're looking 1:21:03.000 --> 1:21:06.519 outside of Apple, there are so many choices, and it 1:21:06.560 --> 1:21:08.880 really comes down to I think the specs and the 1:21:08.920 --> 1:21:11.240 way that the computer physically looks like if it's big 1:21:11.280 --> 1:21:14.840 and bulky, your kids may not want that, and also 1:21:14.880 --> 1:21:17.080 the way the keyboard feels. So again, the more you 1:21:17.120 --> 1:21:19.880 can get into a store and test the keyboard, the 1:21:19.960 --> 1:21:22.280 more comfortable you're gonna be. And I guess kids don't 1:21:22.280 --> 1:21:24.920 really touch type anymore, so they don't care as much 1:21:24.920 --> 1:21:26.880 about it that I do. I care about the way 1:21:26.920 --> 1:21:29.439 the keyboard touch types because I still I'm. 1:21:29.320 --> 1:21:30.519 Old school like that, you know. 1:21:31.479 --> 1:21:33.640 Okay, And then you got to figure out how you're 1:21:33.640 --> 1:21:35.639 going to pay for all these four laptops because that's 1:21:35.680 --> 1:21:37.479 not gonna be cheap all at once, so. 1:21:39.160 --> 1:21:40.960 Hopefully you got a plan for that as well. Does 1:21:41.000 --> 1:21:43.840 that help you out? All right? 1:21:43.880 --> 1:21:44.040 Man? 1:21:44.080 --> 1:21:47.280 Thanks for giving me a call today, and a good 1:21:47.280 --> 1:21:49.960 thing for cleaning up the apartment. I'm always you always 1:21:49.960 --> 1:21:52.439 feel better when it's clean, right, Like, it just feels nicer, 1:21:53.320 --> 1:21:53.840 that's right. 1:21:54.000 --> 1:21:55.720 Trying to get it done before the year, and so 1:21:55.800 --> 1:21:57.360 I could start a first few years. 1:21:57.360 --> 1:22:01.160 Ah, that's what I'm talking about. Yep, twenty four. Well, 1:22:01.200 --> 1:22:04.599 happy holidays and have a great. 1:22:04.439 --> 1:22:06.800 Day, uh you as will, my friend? 1:22:06.880 --> 1:22:07.960 All right, thanks a lot. 1:22:08.960 --> 1:22:12.600 All right, let's see we got one minute, so I 1:22:12.640 --> 1:22:14.320 can tell you about one quick thing. I'll tell you 1:22:14.320 --> 1:22:18.960 about the new self service TSA checkpoint. What could possibly 1:22:19.040 --> 1:22:22.120 go wrong? This will happen in Las Vegas come January. 1:22:22.600 --> 1:22:25.360 It's called screening at speed. It's going to be at 1:22:25.400 --> 1:22:29.680 Harry Reid International Airport beginning January twenty twenty three. This 1:22:29.760 --> 1:22:32.840 is going to let people go through security screening all 1:22:32.840 --> 1:22:36.559 by themselves, so they basically come up against a computer screen. 1:22:37.040 --> 1:22:39.320 The computer will scan them, it will tell them if 1:22:39.320 --> 1:22:41.160 they need to take more things out of their pockets, 1:22:41.200 --> 1:22:43.559 if they have, like you know, something in there, and 1:22:43.600 --> 1:22:47.000 it will have an automated entry and exit doors. And 1:22:47.040 --> 1:22:49.679 so basically you can't get out of this thing until 1:22:49.720 --> 1:22:52.280 you get all the stuff out of your pockets and 1:22:52.439 --> 1:22:55.160 the computer thinks you're okay to move on. And if 1:22:55.200 --> 1:22:57.759 you can, you don't have to see a TSA agent. 1:22:57.840 --> 1:23:00.479 If you can't, it will flip you over to a 1:23:00.520 --> 1:23:06.559 TSA officer. Pretty wild self service everything these days. Eighty 1:23:06.640 --> 1:23:09.599 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 1:23:09.680 --> 1:23:11.880 two four to one zero one. Why does a minute 1:23:11.880 --> 1:23:14.519 sound so fast on the radio? How does that happen? 1:23:14.680 --> 1:23:18.320 If you're listening to rich on Tech, Welcome back to 1:23:18.760 --> 1:23:21.519 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 1:23:21.680 --> 1:23:26.120 talking technology at Triple eight. Rich one O one eight 1:23:26.160 --> 1:23:30.479 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:23:32.400 --> 1:23:36.360 Let's go to Neil Neil and Los Angeles you're on 1:23:36.439 --> 1:23:36.800 with Rich. 1:23:37.880 --> 1:23:44.600 Yeah, I have a hearing gaide system. It's called Resound, 1:23:45.360 --> 1:23:50.599 and they offer a device that allows you to talk 1:23:51.160 --> 1:23:54.479 on the telephone and get it through your hearing aid 1:23:54.720 --> 1:23:59.480 very clearly. However, come to find out with the manufacturer 1:23:59.520 --> 1:24:04.720 of the hearing aid that my Samsung S eight is 1:24:04.800 --> 1:24:07.760 not new enough everywhere in S nine or S ten 1:24:07.920 --> 1:24:11.599 or so they would have that program, but the essay doesn't. 1:24:12.240 --> 1:24:14.640 And so that puts me either in the market for 1:24:14.720 --> 1:24:18.040 a new one or or some go around that I 1:24:18.040 --> 1:24:23.080 can still get this feature with the hearing gad Okay. 1:24:23.160 --> 1:24:25.919 And what's the reason why the essay is not compatible? 1:24:25.960 --> 1:24:28.120 Is it a software issue or a hardware issued? 1:24:28.240 --> 1:24:32.920 They software, they don't offer the device. I guess in 1:24:33.000 --> 1:24:37.240 the software that will that's adaptable to the ESS eight. 1:24:37.520 --> 1:24:40.760 Okay, And and did this us. 1:24:43.000 --> 1:24:45.240 I've never had it before. I'm kind of new to 1:24:45.320 --> 1:24:49.800 hearing gags anyhow. But so, man, I'm talking to you 1:24:49.920 --> 1:24:53.240 now without hearing gate. But there's you know, I hear 1:24:53.320 --> 1:24:58.280 relatively reasonably well, but I miss letters at the beginning, 1:24:58.280 --> 1:25:02.519 which are typically hearing a issues. So this hearing aid 1:25:02.560 --> 1:25:07.080 would provide a opportunity. All I do is click it 1:25:07.240 --> 1:25:13.400 on my cell phone under phone, and I'm it's downloaded 1:25:13.439 --> 1:25:15.760 to my cell phone by the way in the software, 1:25:16.479 --> 1:25:21.040 and then I will be able to get the conversation 1:25:21.400 --> 1:25:24.680 on my hearing aid. I don't know if it's too convoluted, 1:25:25.640 --> 1:25:27.599 if you got the picture of what I'm trying to find. 1:25:27.720 --> 1:25:29.840 Yeah, no, no, I no, I totally understand. I mean, 1:25:29.880 --> 1:25:30.360 here's the thing. 1:25:30.439 --> 1:25:34.800 So, the Samsung Galaxy S eight was released in twenty seventeen, 1:25:35.240 --> 1:25:39.599 so you're talking, you know, four, five, six, almost seven 1:25:39.680 --> 1:25:43.040 years old. So I'm assuming there's no more software updates 1:25:43.040 --> 1:25:45.720 for this, which puts it at a risk of you know, 1:25:45.840 --> 1:25:50.120 viruses and malware and any sort of issues that could 1:25:50.160 --> 1:25:53.160 arise there. That's the least of my concerns. I don't 1:25:53.160 --> 1:25:56.000 think that's going to happen with you. But I would 1:25:56.000 --> 1:25:59.599 say it sounds to me like these hearing aids are 1:26:00.560 --> 1:26:04.120 something that would be very beneficial to your everyday life, 1:26:04.360 --> 1:26:07.840 and so I would probably do anything I can to 1:26:07.880 --> 1:26:09.680 get them to work with my phone. I don't think 1:26:09.680 --> 1:26:13.000 there's a workaround. I think that this resound company has 1:26:13.200 --> 1:26:16.320 tested the phones that this works with. They want it 1:26:16.360 --> 1:26:18.719 to be a good experience for you. Are these prescription 1:26:18.840 --> 1:26:19.960 or non prescription. 1:26:20.240 --> 1:26:23.719 Prescription through the ideology dequipment. 1:26:23.840 --> 1:26:27.600 Okay, So I would probably upgrade my phone. And I 1:26:27.600 --> 1:26:30.439 don't take upgrades lightly because I understand that it costs money, 1:26:30.479 --> 1:26:32.479 and I understand that not everyone wants to do that, 1:26:32.920 --> 1:26:36.680 but I think that the benefits outweigh the expenditure at 1:26:36.680 --> 1:26:39.200 this point. And you've already gone as far as getting 1:26:39.200 --> 1:26:41.759 these hearing aids. You want them to work with your phone, 1:26:41.920 --> 1:26:44.080 and I think if they don't, you're only getting half 1:26:44.120 --> 1:26:45.280 the benefit out of these. 1:26:45.560 --> 1:26:48.120 Correct, that's correct, Yeah, correct. 1:26:48.000 --> 1:26:51.639 So I would I would kind of backtrack and see 1:26:51.680 --> 1:26:54.400 which phones are compatible with the hearing aids? 1:26:54.479 --> 1:26:54.760 Are you? 1:26:55.960 --> 1:26:59.200 From what I understand, most of the newer phones are 1:26:59.240 --> 1:27:04.680 all compatible, okay. And so I've had the Samsung to 1:27:05.320 --> 1:27:09.439 several generations, and I'm kind of wondering. I don't want 1:27:09.439 --> 1:27:11.559 a bigger phone than the Essay, and I just want 1:27:12.040 --> 1:27:15.360 that's a very adequate size. Okay, But I want a 1:27:15.400 --> 1:27:18.760 good phone, and I know my my children have the 1:27:19.640 --> 1:27:25.280 I'll have this marchphone, the iPhone, yes, iPhone, Yeah, and 1:27:25.360 --> 1:27:25.920 I don't want it. 1:27:25.960 --> 1:27:26.880 You don't want that, okay. 1:27:27.360 --> 1:27:28.799 I like the Android system. 1:27:29.040 --> 1:27:31.880 Well, I will tell you I've been testing the the 1:27:32.000 --> 1:27:36.120 S twenty three f E, which is Samsung's newest phone, 1:27:36.640 --> 1:27:40.120 and it is a great device. If it's I would 1:27:40.200 --> 1:27:42.479 check to make sure it's compatible with the system, which 1:27:42.479 --> 1:27:44.479 I would assume it is. If if they're saying the 1:27:44.520 --> 1:27:47.360 newer phones are, that phone is three hundred and ninety 1:27:47.400 --> 1:27:50.439 nine dollars right now. It was six hundred when it 1:27:50.479 --> 1:27:53.400 came out, but they have been discounting it, So I 1:27:53.400 --> 1:27:56.960 would check into that phone. The Samsung Galaxy S twenty 1:27:57.040 --> 1:27:59.840 three FE FE stands for sam. 1:28:00.200 --> 1:28:05.559 Make sure I got the twenty three whats f. 1:28:05.560 --> 1:28:10.080 E F as in Frank e as an echo. So yeah, 1:28:10.120 --> 1:28:12.960 so I would. And that's the FI, the twenty the 1:28:13.040 --> 1:28:15.640 S twenty three f E and that's the latest and 1:28:15.640 --> 1:28:19.040 greatest from Samsung on their more budget line, so which 1:28:19.080 --> 1:28:22.240 you have the essay is their flagship line. This is 1:28:22.360 --> 1:28:26.000 just it's almost one step below, but it's still really 1:28:26.040 --> 1:28:28.080 good for the For the value you're getting out of 1:28:28.080 --> 1:28:31.360 this phone, I think it is fantastic. So I would 1:28:31.479 --> 1:28:34.759 check into that device. And I know it's four hundred dollars, 1:28:34.800 --> 1:28:36.559 but I think that true. 1:28:36.600 --> 1:28:41.120 Varieton that's been my carrier. They're offering me three hundred 1:28:41.120 --> 1:28:46.920 dollars off or three hundred dollars off, and if it's 1:28:46.920 --> 1:28:50.519 only three hundred dollars and it's new, yeah, and I 1:28:50.560 --> 1:28:52.760 really I don't quite understand when the hook is. 1:28:52.960 --> 1:28:54.439 Well, the hook is that you have to stay with 1:28:54.560 --> 1:28:57.120 Verizon for three years or two to three years on 1:28:57.160 --> 1:28:58.920 that plan. But if you're if you're there anyway and 1:28:58.960 --> 1:29:01.599 you're not leaving, then you might as well take advantage 1:29:01.600 --> 1:29:04.599 you've been a customer. If they're giving you three hundred 1:29:04.600 --> 1:29:06.880 dollars off or whatever it is, then and they do 1:29:07.000 --> 1:29:09.120 offer it, I just confirmed I'm looking on the website. 1:29:09.160 --> 1:29:11.840 So I think, Neil, I think you got a little 1:29:11.880 --> 1:29:14.519 trip to Verizon in your future. And I think these 1:29:15.479 --> 1:29:17.400 hearing aids are going to work really nice and you're 1:29:17.400 --> 1:29:18.320 gonna be a lot happier. 1:29:18.600 --> 1:29:22.360 Thank you very much, Rick, Happy have a good holiday 1:29:22.400 --> 1:29:25.679 and good safe for your rest of the weekend. Thanks 1:29:25.720 --> 1:29:26.640 for your couri. 1:29:27.000 --> 1:29:29.760 Thank you, Neil, appreciate it, and happy holidays to you 1:29:29.840 --> 1:29:33.120 as well. Thanks for the call. I love getting calls 1:29:33.160 --> 1:29:35.479 like that where we can really help someone kind of 1:29:35.520 --> 1:29:38.720 work through. I think Neil already knew the answer, you 1:29:38.800 --> 1:29:40.320 know what I mean, Like he knew what he wanted 1:29:40.360 --> 1:29:42.880 to do. He just wanted that validation of Hey, Rich, 1:29:42.920 --> 1:29:46.280 am I missing something here? Or do I need to upgrade? 1:29:46.320 --> 1:29:49.280 And yes, the answer is it is time. And I 1:29:49.280 --> 1:29:51.839 think he'll be rocking a new S twenty three fe 1:29:52.200 --> 1:29:56.720 probably by tomorrow, I'm thinking. And I don't care if 1:29:56.720 --> 1:29:58.559 he said Rick. You know what, so many people call 1:29:58.640 --> 1:30:02.240 me Rick, called myself Rick. My mom calls me Richard 1:30:02.280 --> 1:30:04.920 when she's mad at me, or actually. 1:30:04.600 --> 1:30:05.280 Just in general. 1:30:07.240 --> 1:30:09.400 I can't say what my wife calls dude when she's 1:30:09.400 --> 1:30:09.800 mad at me. 1:30:10.439 --> 1:30:11.599 That's a whole nother show. 1:30:12.320 --> 1:30:14.880 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:30:15.000 --> 1:30:17.679 four to two four one zero one. This is Rick 1:30:17.760 --> 1:30:24.040 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro 1:30:24.160 --> 1:30:26.599 here hang out with you, having a great old time 1:30:26.760 --> 1:30:31.720 talking technology. Isn't technology fun? That's the whole point of 1:30:31.760 --> 1:30:33.920 the show is that it doesn't have to be scary. 1:30:34.000 --> 1:30:36.920 It doesn't have to be something you don't understand. It 1:30:36.960 --> 1:30:38.920 doesn't have to be something you don't deal with because 1:30:38.920 --> 1:30:41.840 you don't want to break something. Have fun with it, 1:30:42.479 --> 1:30:45.920 experiment with it. You're not gonna break anything. I mean, 1:30:45.960 --> 1:30:47.920 if you do, you can call me triple eight rich 1:30:47.920 --> 1:30:51.560 one oh one eighty eight seven four to two four. 1:30:51.520 --> 1:30:52.679 One zero one. 1:30:54.600 --> 1:30:58.160 Uh what was I this week? I had a fun experience. 1:30:58.240 --> 1:31:01.160 I uh threw out T shirts at a basketball game 1:31:01.200 --> 1:31:02.840 here locally in La, the Clippers. 1:31:03.200 --> 1:31:05.360 You might have heard of them. It was cool. 1:31:05.400 --> 1:31:07.960 I've never been on the court at a game, and 1:31:08.360 --> 1:31:11.920 it was such a wild experience because a You're under 1:31:11.920 --> 1:31:13.600 a lot of pressure to like throw this thing, like 1:31:13.640 --> 1:31:15.519 I'm like, oh gosh, like people are gonna be watching 1:31:15.560 --> 1:31:20.240 me throw, And I thought I did a good job. 1:31:20.280 --> 1:31:22.519 The thing went way further than I thought, Like I'm 1:31:22.560 --> 1:31:25.960 talking what's the two hundreds, you know, like not like. 1:31:25.920 --> 1:31:27.920 The floor level like up above. I was like I 1:31:27.960 --> 1:31:28.760 was almost there. 1:31:30.720 --> 1:31:33.240 And then the other thing I noticed is that when 1:31:33.240 --> 1:31:35.559 you have that many people in one place kind of 1:31:35.560 --> 1:31:39.240 looking at you, it's almost as if nobody's looking at 1:31:39.280 --> 1:31:42.559 you because there's so much going on that I thought 1:31:42.600 --> 1:31:45.280 it was like all eyes on me, oh my gosh, 1:31:45.320 --> 1:31:47.280 but no, it turned out to be almost the opposite, 1:31:47.320 --> 1:31:50.520 where there's so much to see and there's so much things, 1:31:50.320 --> 1:31:52.200 so many things happening, that you just kind of get 1:31:52.280 --> 1:31:55.240 lost in this whole world. So anyway, I guess if 1:31:55.240 --> 1:31:57.960 your tailor swift up there, you know, one person speaking 1:31:58.000 --> 1:31:58.679 to everyone. 1:31:58.760 --> 1:31:59.360 That's different. 1:31:59.600 --> 1:32:01.280 But when you're just kind of down there, you're you're 1:32:01.360 --> 1:32:03.320 kind of in with a lot of different people and things. 1:32:03.360 --> 1:32:05.000 So anyway, it's a fun experience. 1:32:05.040 --> 1:32:08.639 If you want to see the throw that I did, 1:32:09.280 --> 1:32:12.200 you can go to my Twitter Twitter dot com slash 1:32:12.280 --> 1:32:16.120 rich on Tech, go to my profile and hit highlights 1:32:16.720 --> 1:32:19.400 and you can see. The first highlight is the video 1:32:19.640 --> 1:32:22.120 of me throwing out the T shirt at the Clippers game. 1:32:22.720 --> 1:32:24.240 Let me know what you think of my technique. 1:32:24.280 --> 1:32:27.240 They slowed it down because the folks at the TV 1:32:27.320 --> 1:32:29.880 station were impressed with my throw. I was like, oh, 1:32:29.880 --> 1:32:32.639 all that football practice with my son in the street 1:32:32.720 --> 1:32:38.240 has paid off. Something else I tried this week Microsoft 1:32:38.360 --> 1:32:42.360 Office on the meta Quest. Yes, you can now do word, 1:32:42.560 --> 1:32:47.559 Excel and PowerPoint in virtual reality. I had to download 1:32:47.560 --> 1:32:50.160 this and try it for myself, so I charged up 1:32:50.200 --> 1:32:53.080 the meta Quest, I downloaded the app, which is very tiny, 1:32:53.120 --> 1:32:56.400 it's only like a megabyte, And next thing you know, 1:32:56.520 --> 1:32:59.600 I am typing a word document in virtual reality on 1:32:59.640 --> 1:33:04.040 a screen floating in front of me. And it's mixed reality, 1:33:04.080 --> 1:33:07.280 which means you still see your surroundings, but you see 1:33:07.280 --> 1:33:10.400 this big computer screen with a word document. Now I 1:33:10.520 --> 1:33:12.800 was using voice command, or I was just using the 1:33:12.880 --> 1:33:15.479 on screen keyboard, but you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard 1:33:15.560 --> 1:33:19.200 or a mouse. But this is pretty wild. I mean, 1:33:19.240 --> 1:33:21.680 I don't think that I would end up using this 1:33:21.720 --> 1:33:23.679 in a big way, but I immediately was like, oh, 1:33:23.680 --> 1:33:25.519 I wonder if I should check my email this way, 1:33:26.040 --> 1:33:29.120 because sometimes you can dictate an email response faster than 1:33:29.160 --> 1:33:31.160 you can write it or type it out. And so 1:33:31.360 --> 1:33:33.360 I could see myself sitting there for like an hour 1:33:33.840 --> 1:33:38.280 and just going through emails and like verbally saying the responses. 1:33:38.760 --> 1:33:40.960 But again, if you want to try this out, just 1:33:41.400 --> 1:33:46.120 fire up the metaquest. This is Meta's virtual reality headset. 1:33:46.479 --> 1:33:50.040 Open up the store and search for Microsoft Office, or 1:33:50.040 --> 1:33:52.120 you can search for word, Excel or PowerPoint. 1:33:52.439 --> 1:33:53.760 You download it, you sign in. 1:33:53.840 --> 1:33:56.280 Signing in was the trickiest part because you have to 1:33:56.280 --> 1:33:59.200 type in your password on the on screen keyboard. But 1:33:59.240 --> 1:34:02.040 I guess if you have a mouse or keyboard or connected, 1:34:02.280 --> 1:34:06.200 that'd be easier. I guess that's the whole idea of 1:34:06.280 --> 1:34:09.400 that MIC of the Apple one, the headset they're coming 1:34:09.439 --> 1:34:11.439 out with, that you'll be able to do work in 1:34:11.680 --> 1:34:12.519 virtual reality. 1:34:12.600 --> 1:34:15.160 I don't know how realistic that is, but we'll see. 1:34:16.000 --> 1:34:19.479 Speaking of Apple, they're now selling a ninety nine dollars 1:34:19.479 --> 1:34:24.280 standalone USB C case for the AirPods Pro two. So 1:34:24.320 --> 1:34:26.559 when the AirPods Pro two came out, they had the 1:34:26.640 --> 1:34:30.760 USB C case and Apple said at that time they 1:34:30.760 --> 1:34:32.479 were not going to sell the case separately. 1:34:32.840 --> 1:34:35.080 Well, how things have changed in a couple of months. 1:34:35.520 --> 1:34:37.680 So now if you have the AirPods Pro two, but 1:34:37.720 --> 1:34:40.080 you have that lightning connector on the bottom and you 1:34:40.120 --> 1:34:42.960 want the USB C connector just because you have money 1:34:43.000 --> 1:34:44.600 to burn, then you can do this. 1:34:44.920 --> 1:34:46.559 You can upgrade for ninety nine bucks. 1:34:46.840 --> 1:34:49.360 Now, in all seriousness, if you did upgrade, the only 1:34:49.360 --> 1:34:52.439 way I'd recommend doing this is if you upgraded to 1:34:52.479 --> 1:34:56.120 the iPhone fifteen Pro or sorry, the iPhone fifteen Pro 1:34:56.320 --> 1:34:59.559 or iPhone fifteen and you have now a USB C 1:34:59.720 --> 1:35:02.840 cable for your charger and you don't want to carry 1:35:02.880 --> 1:35:06.240 a separate lightning cable for your AirPods, And so that's 1:35:06.280 --> 1:35:08.800 the only reason I'd say maybe you would upgrade your case. 1:35:09.640 --> 1:35:11.840 But otherwise, I mean, just stick with what you got. 1:35:11.840 --> 1:35:15.280 It's the same exact air pods. The only difference is 1:35:16.560 --> 1:35:19.920 that they have a precision finding in the case. And 1:35:19.920 --> 1:35:23.040 this little speaker. So if you lose your stuff a lot, 1:35:23.479 --> 1:35:25.320 you know, maybe you would want the case because you 1:35:25.320 --> 1:35:28.280 could be able to find it easier. Again, you're not 1:35:28.280 --> 1:35:30.080 gonna be able to get this before the holidays. It's 1:35:30.120 --> 1:35:32.760 not shipping until December twenty seventh, so just keep that 1:35:32.800 --> 1:35:38.519 in mind. This was interesting on Reddit. Someone posted a 1:35:38.560 --> 1:35:41.320 picture of a one of those things where you're surfing 1:35:41.360 --> 1:35:42.880 the web and it's saying like, oh, we got to 1:35:42.960 --> 1:35:45.120 verify you are who you say you are where our 1:35:45.160 --> 1:35:49.040 systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This 1:35:49.120 --> 1:35:51.400 page checks to see if it's really you sending the 1:35:51.439 --> 1:35:54.960 requests and not a robot. And so someone said, why 1:35:55.000 --> 1:35:57.519 is this happening every time I search in Safari? And 1:35:57.560 --> 1:35:59.800 I've actually seen this happen on my phone, and I 1:35:59.840 --> 1:36:02.120 was wondering, like, what am I doing differently? And here's 1:36:02.160 --> 1:36:07.160 the answer. It sounds like this is a byproduct of 1:36:07.200 --> 1:36:11.679 this new feature called iCloud Private Relay, And so on 1:36:11.800 --> 1:36:15.080 the Apple devices they added this thing that basically protects 1:36:15.080 --> 1:36:18.360 your privacy a little bit more for free called iCloud 1:36:18.360 --> 1:36:23.120 Private Relay. Protects your IP address and it masks your 1:36:23.120 --> 1:36:27.040 browsing for increased privacy. But when you do this, it 1:36:27.080 --> 1:36:31.519 triggers the security warnings on certain websites like Google, and 1:36:31.520 --> 1:36:33.519 that means you have to click this thing that says 1:36:33.560 --> 1:36:34.920 I'm not a robot, you know, and you have to 1:36:34.920 --> 1:36:37.760 like pick those pictures that says show me, select all 1:36:37.800 --> 1:36:40.080 the pictures that have a bicycle in them. And you're 1:36:40.080 --> 1:36:42.240 sitting there for like ten minutes looking at this thing 1:36:42.280 --> 1:36:44.240 and you're like, I don't know, is that a bicycle? 1:36:44.720 --> 1:36:47.120 It looks like a bike, And it ends up taking 1:36:47.280 --> 1:36:50.400 longer to do this than if you were actually just 1:36:50.560 --> 1:36:55.400 I don't know. So if you ever come across this 1:36:55.400 --> 1:36:58.759 this warning page that says our systems have detected unusual 1:36:58.800 --> 1:37:02.360 traffic from your computer at work and you are wondering 1:37:02.400 --> 1:37:04.320 why this is happening, you can go into your settings 1:37:04.360 --> 1:37:08.000 on the iPhone and switch off the iCloud Private relay 1:37:08.479 --> 1:37:11.479 or if you're using a VPN sometimes that will trigger 1:37:11.520 --> 1:37:16.200 it as well. Let's go to Jerry in Pennsylvania. Jerry, 1:37:16.360 --> 1:37:17.120 you're on with Rich. 1:37:17.760 --> 1:37:20.920 Hi, Rich, Rich, are you familiar with a LABELB camera? 1:37:22.080 --> 1:37:24.559 I think I've heard of it, but I'm not I've 1:37:24.560 --> 1:37:25.160 not used it. 1:37:25.160 --> 1:37:25.640 What is it? 1:37:26.320 --> 1:37:29.000 Well, you threw it into a light bulb shone. 1:37:29.040 --> 1:37:31.280 Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I've heard of this for sure. 1:37:31.280 --> 1:37:35.880 Got pin and silk. Ye as I can only vi 1:37:36.000 --> 1:37:39.080 it see it on my on my cell phone, my 1:37:39.200 --> 1:37:43.640 Android cell phone, And I was wondering, you do have 1:37:43.640 --> 1:37:46.400 anyone I could see it on my Windows PC? 1:37:49.160 --> 1:37:51.000 Windows. I believe you can. 1:37:51.120 --> 1:37:55.200 Uh oh gosh, now you're really testing me here. Uh. 1:37:55.600 --> 1:38:01.040 I believe you could run certain Android apps on your PC? 1:38:01.400 --> 1:38:01.599 Right? 1:38:03.720 --> 1:38:03.960 Yeah? 1:38:04.000 --> 1:38:07.240 Well what about the Is the app available in the 1:38:07.280 --> 1:38:08.479 Amazon App Store or no? 1:38:09.880 --> 1:38:10.080 Or so? 1:38:10.240 --> 1:38:10.439 Yeah? 1:38:10.760 --> 1:38:13.639 Like Amazon, Amazon has its own app store for Windows 1:38:13.680 --> 1:38:18.080 eleven which lets you run Android apps on Windows. Oh 1:38:18.080 --> 1:38:19.960 you have ten, Well it may it may work with ten. 1:38:20.000 --> 1:38:22.280 I just I know it's I know it's on eleven, 1:38:22.320 --> 1:38:23.679 but it may work on ten. 1:38:25.720 --> 1:38:28.760 But if I have checked the YouTube and the web 1:38:28.840 --> 1:38:31.240 all that, and nobody's done a solution for it. 1:38:31.800 --> 1:38:35.240 Well yeah, because it's just not you know this is 1:38:35.320 --> 1:38:38.720 it probably runs through an Android app, right and that's it? 1:38:39.080 --> 1:38:39.320 Yeah? 1:38:39.880 --> 1:38:41.880 Yeah, So, I mean I don't know if you'll be 1:38:41.880 --> 1:38:42.320 able to. 1:38:44.080 --> 1:38:46.479 Like I'm looking at Microsoft and it just says you 1:38:46.520 --> 1:38:47.040 can't do it. 1:38:47.160 --> 1:38:52.680 Huh? What about this? What about this blue stacks? Have 1:38:52.720 --> 1:38:53.519 you looked into that. 1:38:54.320 --> 1:38:56.559 I would think movie, right, Yeah. 1:38:56.360 --> 1:38:57.880 That's the emulator. Does that work? 1:38:58.760 --> 1:39:00.439 I don't know, but before I go through a whole 1:39:00.439 --> 1:39:02.519 bunch of stuff, it doesn't work, if I ask you. 1:39:03.160 --> 1:39:05.559 Yeah, No, I I have not run an Android app 1:39:05.560 --> 1:39:08.040 on my computer, and I I understand why you'd want 1:39:08.040 --> 1:39:08.479 to do this. 1:39:10.200 --> 1:39:12.840 What about this phone link? Have you looked into that? 1:39:13.479 --> 1:39:13.599 No? 1:39:13.640 --> 1:39:18.000 I haven't. I haven't looked at anything. Okay, options, you know? Yeah, 1:39:18.120 --> 1:39:20.960 why spend time with doing something it's not gonna work. 1:39:21.040 --> 1:39:23.000 Yeah, well, I'm gonna That's exactly what I'm gonna do 1:39:23.040 --> 1:39:24.599 now that you asked me this question. So now I'm 1:39:24.600 --> 1:39:27.519 gonna I'm gonna whenever I get stumped with something, I 1:39:27.600 --> 1:39:29.439 go home and I actually test it all out, and 1:39:29.479 --> 1:39:31.200 then I'll have a better answer. So next week I'll 1:39:31.200 --> 1:39:33.519 probably have a better answer for you, Jerry. But I 1:39:34.000 --> 1:39:36.120 understand that you why you'd want to do this. But 1:39:36.160 --> 1:39:39.559 I think the reality is the Android app is probably 1:39:39.600 --> 1:39:41.600 these are like the light bulb cameras you buy an 1:39:41.600 --> 1:39:42.519 Amazon Right. 1:39:42.880 --> 1:39:45.840 That's correct. I got three four hundred bucks to sell whatever? 1:39:46.040 --> 1:39:46.200 Now? 1:39:46.320 --> 1:39:51.479 Oh wow, okay, hey Richie, rich how's West Pizza get 1:39:51.479 --> 1:39:52.639 her to Jersey Pizza? 1:39:52.800 --> 1:39:53.000 Oh? 1:39:53.040 --> 1:39:58.240 My gosh, Well, that's an easy question. It's horrible. We don't. 1:39:58.240 --> 1:40:00.560 I don't think they even have Hogies out and California. 1:40:00.600 --> 1:40:04.400 But I will say I did find one pizza place 1:40:04.520 --> 1:40:08.280 in Los Angeles that has pizza that rivals what I 1:40:08.320 --> 1:40:11.880 can get in New Jersey or New York. And I'm 1:40:11.920 --> 1:40:15.680 not kidding it is. It is fantastic. It's called Mulberry 1:40:15.680 --> 1:40:18.920 Street and it is a guy. I think he's from 1:40:18.960 --> 1:40:23.680 like Hoboken or something, but it is. It is fantastic. Now, 1:40:23.680 --> 1:40:25.600 by the way, Jerry, you know in Pennsylvania, I was 1:40:25.680 --> 1:40:28.719 driving through and there is actually a place called Demuro's 1:40:28.760 --> 1:40:30.600 Pizza in somewhere in Pennsylvania. 1:40:30.760 --> 1:40:33.320 Yeah, Philadelphia. 1:40:33.400 --> 1:40:37.599 Okay, I just searched. This is in Pittstown. Is that 1:40:37.680 --> 1:40:38.000 near you? 1:40:39.560 --> 1:40:43.440 That's about a o that's almost in the middle of Pennsylvania. 1:40:43.640 --> 1:40:43.960 Okay. 1:40:44.000 --> 1:40:47.200 Well, I was driving through for a story one time. 1:40:47.280 --> 1:40:49.560 I was on a chute and I walked. I was like, 1:40:49.600 --> 1:40:51.759 I can't believe this says Demuro's Pizza. And I almost 1:40:51.760 --> 1:40:53.240 went in, but I didn't, but I took a picture 1:40:53.240 --> 1:40:56.280 outside in the car. All right, Jerry, thanks, I will 1:40:56.320 --> 1:40:57.599 have a better answer for you next week. 1:40:57.640 --> 1:40:57.960 Okay. 1:40:58.080 --> 1:41:00.559 I'll follow up on this, No, I'll I'll just talk 1:41:00.560 --> 1:41:02.000 about it on the show. I'm going to test it 1:41:02.040 --> 1:41:05.000 out and see what I come up with. Okay, rich 1:41:05.120 --> 1:41:07.040 all right, thanks for calling today, appreciate it. 1:41:07.960 --> 1:41:08.320 All right. 1:41:08.360 --> 1:41:11.479 Coming up, we are going to do the feedback segment. 1:41:12.400 --> 1:41:14.879 That's where I talk about the emails and the texts 1:41:14.920 --> 1:41:16.559 and the different things. 1:41:16.320 --> 1:41:17.599 You've sent me over the week. 1:41:18.120 --> 1:41:19.760 And if you have a solution for Jerry, let me 1:41:19.760 --> 1:41:22.040 know on my social media. I'm at rich on Tech. 1:41:23.240 --> 1:41:30.120 Coming up more rich on Tech right after this. Welcome 1:41:30.200 --> 1:41:35.479 back to rich on Tech. Did you watch the Taylor 1:41:35.520 --> 1:41:39.160 Swift home concert? Okay, so if you're listening to the podcast, 1:41:39.479 --> 1:41:44.120 we are playing a Taylor Swift song right now, Cool Summer. 1:41:45.439 --> 1:41:48.519 I'm sure a lot of people are watching that over 1:41:48.560 --> 1:41:51.919 the last week. Okay, So before we get to feedback, 1:41:51.920 --> 1:41:54.320 a couple of things. Number One, we got a lot 1:41:54.360 --> 1:41:58.800 of emails about this whole seventeen when iOS seventeen came out, 1:41:58.840 --> 1:42:02.920 Apple st letting people change the default notification sound on 1:42:02.960 --> 1:42:05.599 the iPhone. But I'm happy to report in the latest 1:42:05.680 --> 1:42:09.120 version of the software seventeen point two, you can actually 1:42:09.960 --> 1:42:13.519 change the default notification sound to whatever you want it's back, 1:42:13.880 --> 1:42:16.000 So open up the settings app, go to sounds and 1:42:16.000 --> 1:42:19.559 haptics and choose your default alert. You can choose from 1:42:19.560 --> 1:42:22.439 built in sounds or no sound, or whatever you want. 1:42:22.520 --> 1:42:26.320 So that's a new thing. That is a oh gosh, 1:42:26.360 --> 1:42:29.080 that was a huge thing people, you know they it 1:42:29.280 --> 1:42:31.120 just went away, the ability. 1:42:30.720 --> 1:42:31.160 To do that. 1:42:32.439 --> 1:42:35.000 If you want to search for homes using car play, 1:42:35.439 --> 1:42:39.639 Rocket Homes has a new AI driven app allowing users 1:42:39.640 --> 1:42:42.320 to browse nearby homes for sale while you drive. I 1:42:42.320 --> 1:42:44.880 actually think this is pretty smart. So you fire this 1:42:45.000 --> 1:42:48.960 up on your infotainment system on your car, and then 1:42:49.000 --> 1:42:51.840 as you're driving around, you can see the houses that 1:42:51.880 --> 1:42:54.240 are for sale in that neighborhood, so you can see 1:42:54.240 --> 1:42:56.400 how much they cost, you can look at them. I 1:42:56.439 --> 1:42:58.960 think that's a pretty smart idea. Again, it'st called Rocket Homes. 1:42:59.479 --> 1:43:01.880 I was in aware that they had an app for 1:43:01.920 --> 1:43:04.080 looking at homes, but now I do, and I guess 1:43:04.080 --> 1:43:08.120 that's why they did it. FCC has voted to ban 1:43:08.400 --> 1:43:11.960 termination fees for cable and satellite services. They passed to 1:43:11.960 --> 1:43:14.479 measure to ban early termination fees that you have to 1:43:14.479 --> 1:43:17.880 pay if you cancel your cable or satellite service. These 1:43:17.920 --> 1:43:20.679 have been a mainstay, especially for satellite for so long. 1:43:21.160 --> 1:43:24.160 Customers are obviously frustrated about this. Companies would also have 1:43:24.200 --> 1:43:27.360 to provide a pro rated credit or rebate to customers 1:43:27.600 --> 1:43:30.080 who cancel their service before the contract ends. A lot 1:43:30.160 --> 1:43:32.519 of these companies used to do that, say oh, you're 1:43:32.560 --> 1:43:34.360 halfway through your billion cycle. We'll give you a credit 1:43:34.360 --> 1:43:36.479 of fifteen dollars that's what you have left. And then 1:43:36.479 --> 1:43:38.479 they said, never mind, we don't do that anymore. They 1:43:38.479 --> 1:43:40.160 make a lot of money on that, so they'd have 1:43:40.160 --> 1:43:43.040 to refund that. Cable companies could lose out and an 1:43:43.120 --> 1:43:46.840 estimated twenty eight billion dollars a year because of this ban. 1:43:46.960 --> 1:43:48.800 It's not a done deal just yet, but it sounds 1:43:48.840 --> 1:43:51.400 like it's probably going to happen. FCC has to do 1:43:51.439 --> 1:43:56.040 a final vote after public comment on it, and Volvo 1:43:56.200 --> 1:44:00.839 and charge Point have launched fifty fast chargers at fifteen 1:44:00.920 --> 1:44:06.520 Starbucks stores. This is a fast charging network at Starbucks 1:44:06.560 --> 1:44:11.599 between Denver and Seattle. It's strategically located between these two 1:44:11.640 --> 1:44:14.439 locations so that you have a charger every one hundred 1:44:14.439 --> 1:44:17.400 miles basically. And that's the whole point is to give 1:44:17.680 --> 1:44:20.280 these ev drivers a little bit of peace of mind. 1:44:20.360 --> 1:44:22.879 And you know I've talked about the issues with charging 1:44:22.960 --> 1:44:25.479 all kinds of evs that are not Tesla's. So the 1:44:25.520 --> 1:44:29.080 fifteen Starbucks stores that have these, and these are Volvo branded, 1:44:29.120 --> 1:44:32.519 but anyone can use them. Seattle is a quad. I 1:44:32.520 --> 1:44:35.280 should know how to say that. Yakama my first job 1:44:35.320 --> 1:44:38.519 ever in a TV market, Oregon. They've got a bunch 1:44:38.520 --> 1:44:46.800 of locations than Idaho, than Sandy, Utah, Provo, Utah, Grand Junction, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado, Colorado. 1:44:47.080 --> 1:44:50.400 And I guess that brings you to, oh, the first fifteen. 1:44:50.439 --> 1:44:52.000 So they don't have all of them just yet. Oh yeah, 1:44:52.000 --> 1:44:52.240 they do. 1:44:52.800 --> 1:44:55.879 Okay, So from Denver to Okay, Seattle. 1:44:56.120 --> 1:44:57.439 So if you want to take that road trip, I 1:44:57.479 --> 1:44:59.320 think that'd be awesome to take that for a TV 1:44:59.439 --> 1:45:02.040 story to take, like the whole road trip, all thirteen 1:45:02.120 --> 1:45:03.080 hundred and fifty miles. 1:45:03.120 --> 1:45:05.080 Okay, let's get to feedback. 1:45:05.960 --> 1:45:09.839 Laura says, have you ever discussed voice isolation on the iPhone? 1:45:09.880 --> 1:45:11.920 I just learned about it, and it's awesome. I don't 1:45:11.960 --> 1:45:13.720 know if I've mentioned this, but if you have the 1:45:13.800 --> 1:45:17.800 latest software on the iPhone, this isolates your voice. So 1:45:17.800 --> 1:45:19.840 if there's a lot of noise behind you and you're 1:45:19.840 --> 1:45:22.320 trying to talk to someone. This makes it sound almost 1:45:22.320 --> 1:45:24.320 like you're in a studio. And I've actually used this 1:45:24.400 --> 1:45:27.360 for remote radio hits when I'm in the middle of 1:45:27.400 --> 1:45:29.360 like a city or something. You pop this on and 1:45:29.400 --> 1:45:32.280 it sounds like you're in a studio. So if you 1:45:32.400 --> 1:45:34.720 swipe down from the upper right hand corner of your 1:45:34.760 --> 1:45:39.360 phone and let's see here, you there's a mic mode. Oh, 1:45:39.400 --> 1:45:40.720 you have to do this while you're in a call. 1:45:40.720 --> 1:45:42.040 I was gonna say, I don't see it right now. 1:45:42.080 --> 1:45:44.320 So while you're in a call, swipe down from the 1:45:44.400 --> 1:45:47.120 upper right hand corner. You'll see a button that says 1:45:47.320 --> 1:45:52.880 mic mode and it's standard or voice isolation. And if 1:45:52.880 --> 1:45:55.439 you if you put that on, you're the person that's 1:45:55.479 --> 1:45:57.519 listening to is really going to hear a difference. 1:45:58.920 --> 1:46:00.120 Let's see what else here. 1:46:02.160 --> 1:46:05.040 Neil says, Hey rich in regards to the cable TV out, 1:46:05.080 --> 1:46:06.840 the short answer to the callers question would have been 1:46:06.840 --> 1:46:09.360 a splitter, But as you surmise, the deeper answer relates 1:46:09.360 --> 1:46:11.680 to whether the company has gone all digital, all protected, 1:46:12.040 --> 1:46:14.840 needing cable card. That's the bottom line. As you said, 1:46:14.880 --> 1:46:17.679 they want you to buy their DVR. Great job, answering 1:46:17.680 --> 1:46:20.120 the deeper question instead of falling for the easy answer. 1:46:20.520 --> 1:46:26.400 Neil always looking forward to the next show. Janis says, 1:46:26.640 --> 1:46:29.679 saw your show on KTLA. Oh, this is a KTLA 1:46:29.760 --> 1:46:31.560 comment demonstrating the Minioki. 1:46:31.600 --> 1:46:31.720 Oh. 1:46:31.760 --> 1:46:35.559 I featured a portable karaoke system, and I find it's 1:46:35.560 --> 1:46:38.720 currently unavailable or may not become available. Don't you check 1:46:38.720 --> 1:46:43.920 availability before promoting something on TV? So disappointing? Janis, Yes, 1:46:44.240 --> 1:46:47.120 I do check. And it's funny when you put something 1:46:47.120 --> 1:46:49.280 on TV. Sometimes a lot of people go to Amazon 1:46:49.320 --> 1:46:51.479 and buy it all at once and it sells out. 1:46:53.000 --> 1:46:54.680 Oh, let's see, so I do try that. 1:46:55.479 --> 1:46:57.519 Ce Brown says, Hey, Rich, I must commend you for 1:46:57.560 --> 1:47:01.040 having Steven Aquino from Forbes on your show last week speaking. 1:47:01.120 --> 1:47:04.439 I too struggled with a severe speech impediment stuttering as 1:47:04.479 --> 1:47:06.960 a teen and well into my twenties. I'm now in 1:47:07.000 --> 1:47:10.200 my fifties and it shows up occasionally. Sometimes I don't 1:47:10.360 --> 1:47:13.599 know the triggers. I choose a technology path in college 1:47:13.640 --> 1:47:16.120 because I saw my stuttering as a barrier. I don't 1:47:16.160 --> 1:47:18.880 often hear people being interviewed like this, So thank you. 1:47:18.960 --> 1:47:22.960 See Brown in Toronto, Yeah, you know what, I try 1:47:23.000 --> 1:47:24.920 to open up the show to a lot of different people, 1:47:25.120 --> 1:47:30.519 and I love having people from all different, you know, 1:47:30.680 --> 1:47:31.719 backgrounds on the show. 1:47:31.720 --> 1:47:33.240 I think it really adds to the show. 1:47:34.120 --> 1:47:38.880 Agnes says, Hey, Rich, Oh, here's the comment about the songs. 1:47:38.920 --> 1:47:41.400 I've been a loyal Katie, a viewer and podcast listener 1:47:41.479 --> 1:47:43.320 for years. I just haven't followed you on the radio. 1:47:43.680 --> 1:47:45.880 I do catch your rebroadcast. My only gripe is that 1:47:45.920 --> 1:47:48.559 when you and Bobo have some fun discussions about the 1:47:48.600 --> 1:47:51.759 intro outro songs he chooses for the radio, we podcast 1:47:51.800 --> 1:47:54.160 listeners don't hear them, so I end up listening to 1:47:54.160 --> 1:47:56.360 you going on and on about a song we don't 1:47:56.360 --> 1:47:58.040 know what it is. Could you quickly mention the song 1:47:58.080 --> 1:48:00.639 next time when you comment on it? Bobo is causing 1:48:00.680 --> 1:48:04.720 me fomo. I like that lol. Thanks for making me 1:48:04.720 --> 1:48:08.160 feel smart about tech. Happy holidays, Agnes, Yes you got it. 1:48:08.960 --> 1:48:12.240 Steve says, you mentioned Starlink on the show. Thought you'd 1:48:12.280 --> 1:48:14.559 be interested in knowing. I've been able to text and 1:48:14.640 --> 1:48:17.280 even FaceTime with my friend on our trip to Antarctica 1:48:17.600 --> 1:48:21.120 because her ship subscribes to the service. Very cool, Steve, 1:48:21.560 --> 1:48:23.439 Thanks so much for your feedback. If you want to 1:48:23.479 --> 1:48:26.519 submit it, go to rich on tech dot TV hit contact. 1:48:26.560 --> 1:48:29.439 We'll get it in a future episode. If you can 1:48:29.479 --> 1:48:31.720 believe it, that's gonna do it. For this episode of 1:48:31.760 --> 1:48:34.080 the show. You can find links to everything I mentioned 1:48:34.120 --> 1:48:37.120 here on my website. Just go to rich on tech 1:48:37.240 --> 1:48:40.160 dot tv for the show notes, and if you want 1:48:40.200 --> 1:48:43.160 these notes specifically, go to rich on tech dot tv 1:48:43.240 --> 1:48:47.080 slash wiki. You can find me on all social media 1:48:47.160 --> 1:48:50.400 at rich on tech. Next week, we're gonna do something fun. 1:48:50.400 --> 1:48:53.840 We're gonna have openphones. What tech are you thankful for? 1:48:54.439 --> 1:48:56.800 Think about that and call in next week and let 1:48:56.840 --> 1:48:59.040 me know. Thank you so much for listening. There are 1:48:59.080 --> 1:49:00.920 so many ways you can s your time. I do 1:49:01.040 --> 1:49:04.120 appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to 1:49:04.240 --> 1:49:07.040 everyone who makes this show possible. My name is rich Tdimiro. 1:49:07.160 --> 1:49:08.760 I will talk to you real soon.