# Amazon’s AI Alexa, Apple Invites & Microsoft’s Free App to Speed Up Your PC

An episode of [Rich On Tech](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1120941458), 9 Feb 2025, 1 h 48 min.

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Rich says Amazon will unveil a new AI-powered Alexa at an event in New York City on February 26. Apple has launched Apple Invites, a new invite app. You’ll need an iCloud+ subscription and an iPhone to send invites, but anyone can RSVP—even non-Apple users. Diana asks for an app to repurpose an old phone. Rich recommends Alfred Camera for easy live monitoring and motion detection. Did you know Microsoft has a free app called PC Manager? It helps clean and optimize your system. Just be sure to download the official version to avoid imitators. Rich’s mom stopped by to talk NYC, New Jersey, and share some advice for his show. Mark asks if he needs a subscription to run his Orbi mesh network. Rich says no—it works without one, but some features (like security and parental controls) require a paid plan. According to Chris Hoffmann of the Windows Intelligence newsletter, Windscribe and Proton VPN are two great free VPN options. Katie wants a simple, free website to merge two wedding songs into one clip. Rich recommends Audiomass—a free, easy-to-use online audio editor. Skip from Aurora asks which headphones are best for flying and if he needs an adapter. Rich recommends Sony, Bose, and Sonos Ace for noise cancellation and comfort. For in-flight entertainment, the AirFly adapter lets you use Bluetooth headphones with the plane’s audio system. Researchers have discovered security vulnerabilities in the DeepSeek iOS app—raising concerns about user data and privacy. Adam asks if he should replace a flash drive that gave him an error message. Rich says yes—once a drive shows errors, it’s unreliable and could fail completely. Backup important files and get a new one. Google Maps celebrates 20 years of navigation, real-time traffic, and Street View. 📱 Joanna Stern, Personal Tech Columnist at The Wall Street Journal, discusses the latest in technology! Ron in Palm Springs says Word is proofreading everything in Spanish. Rich suggests checking the language settings under Review > Language > Set Proofing Language to switch back to English. iPhone 7 owners who filed a class action claim for “Loop Disease” are receiving payments up to $349. Want a free office suite? LibreOffice has a new update with a polished UI and better compatibility with Microsoft documents. Rick in West Hills asks if he should pay for more iCloud storage or move photos to his computer. Rich also mentioned the Amazon Photos app with unlimited storage for Prime members. Finally! Truecaller now offers real-time caller ID and spam blocking on iPhone—but you’ll need a paid subscription to use it. Rosebud is a powerful AI-driven journaling app that learns about you and provides insights into your life over time. Kathy in Pittsburgh wants to replace her aging Windows 8 PC with a tablet—but not an iPad. Rich suggests the Samsung Tab S9. 📱 YouTuber Jimmy Is Promo shares top-notch tips, tricks, and reviews for Samsung users. Rich is loving the new Opera Air web browser with its fresh look, break reminders, and background beats to help you focus or stay creative. RichOnTech.tv Links may be affiliate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Amazon is set to show off an AI inspired voice assistant.
[0:05] Speaker 1: Apple takes on Evite with a new app, the web
[0:09] Speaker 1: browser that wants you to take a break from the Internet.
[0:13] Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on. I'm rich
[0:17] Speaker 1: Demiro and this is rich on Tech. This is the
[0:20] Speaker 1: show where I talk about the tech stuff I think
[0:23] Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place where I
[0:25] Speaker 1: answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech should
[0:29] Speaker 1: be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up those phone
[0:33] Speaker 1: lines at triple A rich one oh one. That's eight
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[0:59] Speaker 1: some great guests this week. Joanna Stern, personal tech columnist
[1:03] Speaker 1: at The Wall Street Journal, will join me to discuss
[1:06] Speaker 1: the latest in technology, and later in the show, YouTuber
[1:10] Speaker 1: Jimmy is promo. He's going to share his thoughts on
[1:13] Speaker 1: the new Samsung Galaxy S twenty five series, plus give
[1:17] Speaker 1: all Samsung users some tips and tricks Oh, and we've
[1:21] Speaker 1: got a special guest, so stay tuned for that. Well,
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[2:19] Speaker 1: show now for two years, originating from Los Angeles, and
[2:23] Speaker 1: when I got this show, the very first question I
[2:26] Speaker 1: asked the powers that be is will I be on
[2:29] Speaker 1: in New York City? And they said no. So it
[2:32] Speaker 1: took a few years, but we made it here we
[2:34] Speaker 1: are now. You might be shocked as a new listener
[2:37] Speaker 1: and even surprised at how simple this show is. Yeah,
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[3:03] Speaker 1: day out, So thank you for listening. Let's kick it
[3:05] Speaker 1: off this week with Amazon. The company announced an event
[3:09] Speaker 1: in New York City, happening on February twenty sixth, So fittingly,
[3:14] Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty cool.
[3:15] Speaker 2: The day we're on in New York City.
[3:17] Speaker 1: So my invite says, join Amazon Devices on February twenty
[3:21] Speaker 1: sixth in New York City and see what's next.
[3:25] Speaker 2: So I thought that was pretty interesting. According to The Verge.
[3:27] Speaker 1: Though the website The Verge, they saw that there were
[3:30] Speaker 1: five different invite styles. They all said something a little
[3:33] Speaker 1: bit different. But if you string them all together, they
[3:37] Speaker 1: spell out Alexa.
[3:39] Speaker 2: Oops, I just said it. Whoops.
[3:41] Speaker 1: Apologies, They spell out alex A in the background.
[3:45] Speaker 2: So what does that mean.
[3:47] Speaker 1: That means that we are going to see smart home devices,
[3:51] Speaker 1: the next generation of Amazon's smart home devices, and get
[3:55] Speaker 1: a look at the next generation AI powered I'm gonna say,
[3:59] Speaker 1: alex A just to not activate all of your speakers
[4:01] Speaker 1: at home.
[4:02] Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
[4:03] Speaker 1: This is a big moment for Amazon because they were
[4:06] Speaker 1: super early to the voice assistant game, right like everyone,
[4:10] Speaker 1: when they got one of those speakers, those echo speakers
[4:12] Speaker 1: in their home. The magic of being able to just
[4:15] Speaker 1: call something up, just saying, hey, play this song, or
[4:17] Speaker 1: play this radio station, or turn on those lights or
[4:20] Speaker 1: turn off that or answer this question.
[4:23] Speaker 2: It was incredible.
[4:24] Speaker 1: I mean I remember, I literally remember the first time
[4:27] Speaker 1: that I heard one of these echo speakers. Not to
[4:29] Speaker 1: mention the sound, the audio quality was excellent as well.
[4:33] Speaker 1: But this was a kind of a new moment in life.
[4:36] Speaker 1: But since then, alex A has remained mostly the same.
[4:40] Speaker 1: It still answers basic questions. It's mostly used to set
[4:43] Speaker 1: timers and control smart home devices. Meanwhile, the likes of Chat,
[4:47] Speaker 1: GBT and all these other assistants have really been taken
[4:50] Speaker 1: to the next level. So Amazon needs to get this right.
[4:54] Speaker 1: They've got millions of devices in people's homes, and they're
[4:58] Speaker 1: kind of walking a fine line here. They still need
[5:00] Speaker 1: those devices, even with the new AI to work properly
[5:03] Speaker 1: and the way that people know and love. So they
[5:06] Speaker 1: still need to be able to turn on and off
[5:07] Speaker 1: the lights, but they need to have that added magic
[5:11] Speaker 1: of AI that doesn't mess all of this up.
[5:14] Speaker 2: Now.
[5:14] Speaker 1: Amazon actually first previewed the new ELECTSA there I go,
[5:18] Speaker 1: I said it again, the New Voice in twenty twenty three,
[5:21] Speaker 1: but it's been delayed and delayed and delayed ever since
[5:25] Speaker 1: then because they've been figuring out how to make this work.
[5:27] Speaker 1: Apparently it's not easy because AI has a mind of
[5:31] Speaker 1: its own and you say, hey, turn off the lights
[5:33] Speaker 1: in the backyard, it may have other things that it
[5:35] Speaker 1: wants to do. So again, it has to ride this
[5:38] Speaker 1: line of getting the core functionality right but also adding
[5:42] Speaker 1: new functionality that people are going to love. Now, there
[5:45] Speaker 1: are some rumors circulating out there that Amazon wants to
[5:49] Speaker 1: charge ten dollars a month or up to ten dollars
[5:52] Speaker 1: a month to use this new AI assistant.
[5:55] Speaker 2: We'll see.
[5:56] Speaker 1: So far, if history is our guide, every single AI
[6:00] Speaker 1: company has given folks a standard level of service for
[6:04] Speaker 1: free and then an added level of service for a
[6:08] Speaker 1: paid cost. So if you go on chat GBT, you
[6:11] Speaker 1: can use it as much as you want. You're getting
[6:13] Speaker 1: maybe not the best model out there, maybe you're not
[6:16] Speaker 1: getting the most usage that you can if you're paying
[6:19] Speaker 1: for chat gibt. And by the way, they're paid plans
[6:22] Speaker 1: or anywhere from twenty dollars to two hundred dollars a month.
[6:25] Speaker 1: Same thing with Claude, same thing with if you look
[6:28] Speaker 1: at Google, they've got Google Gemini. A lot of these
[6:31] Speaker 1: AI companies are still figuring out what's that nice mix
[6:35] Speaker 1: of paid and also free access. So again, February twenty sixth,
[6:40] Speaker 1: big event in New York City with Amazon. I will
[6:42] Speaker 1: be there and I will tell you all of the
[6:44] Speaker 1: updates that you need to know. In other news this week,
[6:48] Speaker 1: Apple taking on Evite. Can you believe that twenty five
[6:53] Speaker 1: years into evite they are still the king of party invites? Like,
[6:57] Speaker 1: when you get an invite to a party, chances are
[7:00] Speaker 1: it's arriving on Evite. And this thing looks like it
[7:03] Speaker 1: was locked in time, right, Like Evite still looks like
[7:07] Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight is calling. And that's fine because it
[7:10] Speaker 1: does what you need, right, It gets you the information.
[7:13] Speaker 1: What do you need on a party invite? The address
[7:15] Speaker 1: and the date and an RSVP yes or no. That's
[7:18] Speaker 1: about it. There's not much we need from invites. So
[7:21] Speaker 1: evite you pick your little picture, you pick your little theme.
[7:24] Speaker 1: You know, we send out our Halloween party invite, you know,
[7:26] Speaker 1: through Evite. And the thing is, everyone has their information
[7:29] Speaker 1: in evite already, so you've got your contacts in there.
[7:33] Speaker 1: It's it's simple. You just put the names in and
[7:36] Speaker 1: you send out the invite. But now Apple said, you
[7:39] Speaker 1: know what, we see an opportunity here, so they came
[7:40] Speaker 1: out with the new app this week called Apple Invites. Fittingly,
[7:44] Speaker 1: it's very simple. You enter an event title, the date
[7:47] Speaker 1: and time, the location, and that's about it, and you
[7:50] Speaker 1: send it off. Now this looks much more modern, it's
[7:53] Speaker 1: much more slick looking. Of course it's iPhone only because
[7:56] Speaker 1: it's Apple. There's even a They did some smart thing
[8:00] Speaker 1: so for instance, when you put the date and time in,
[8:02] Speaker 1: it'll put the weather for that day. So if it's
[8:04] Speaker 1: an outdoor party or whatever, some people just like to
[8:06] Speaker 1: know what the weather is going to be, like how
[8:08] Speaker 1: to dress for the party. So they've got that built in.
[8:11] Speaker 1: There's even an option to create a shared album. This
[8:14] Speaker 1: is actually pretty smart because you know, with every party
[8:16] Speaker 1: there's always that issue of how do we share the
[8:18] Speaker 1: party picks and videos with all the other guests. So
[8:21] Speaker 1: now you can just upload them to this shared album
[8:23] Speaker 1: and people will see them. So the app makes a
[8:25] Speaker 1: lot of sense. You've already got your photos on your phone,
[8:28] Speaker 1: You've got your contacts on your phone, so it's nice
[8:31] Speaker 1: and easy to build an invite and send it through
[8:34] Speaker 1: this new app. They also did something kind of fun.
[8:36] Speaker 1: If your phone supports AI, you can use AI to
[8:39] Speaker 1: generate backgrounds for your invites, so that's kind of cool.
[8:43] Speaker 1: So it all works together, and Apple promises that this
[8:46] Speaker 1: will work with non Apple users, but we know the
[8:49] Speaker 1: process is not going to be perfect because they want
[8:51] Speaker 1: everyone to have an iPhone, right. So I tried sending
[8:55] Speaker 1: a link to myself and accessing it from a non
[8:57] Speaker 1: Apple device, and at first I couldn't really figure it out.
[9:00] Speaker 1: It kept like asking me to log in or verify
[9:04] Speaker 1: my address, So it seems like you have to confirm
[9:07] Speaker 1: your email address with a one time code before you
[9:09] Speaker 1: can RSVP to the invite. The other catch is that
[9:13] Speaker 1: you have to have a subscription. Yes, this is not
[9:16] Speaker 1: just anyone with an iPhone. You have to have a
[9:18] Speaker 1: subscription to iCloud Plus, which is basically if you're paying
[9:22] Speaker 1: for any sort of storage on the iPhone that will
[9:25] Speaker 1: get you access to this new app. And my pal
[9:28] Speaker 1: Jefferson Graham, he figured out that your iCloud storage cannot
[9:32] Speaker 1: be full or your invite won't go through, so that's another.
[9:37] Speaker 2: Little catch there. Now.
[9:38] Speaker 1: I think the app is great, it's slick, it's nice
[9:40] Speaker 1: to have an option outside of Evite, and I'm sure
[9:44] Speaker 1: many folks who have an iPhone will use this. But
[9:47] Speaker 1: Apple Invites breaks one of my general rules in life,
[9:51] Speaker 1: and that is I prefer to use apps and services
[9:54] Speaker 1: that work equally well across every platform and the two
[9:59] Speaker 1: main platforms iPhone and Android. So for me personally, I
[10:02] Speaker 1: like to download apps that work on iPhone and work
[10:06] Speaker 1: on Android.
[10:06] Speaker 2: I know we have this whole.
[10:07] Speaker 1: Big divide between the blue bubble and the green bubble,
[10:10] Speaker 1: and it's gotten better, but why contribute to that? Right? Like,
[10:14] Speaker 1: this app is going to be used by so many
[10:15] Speaker 1: people that have iPhones. All the Android people that get
[10:18] Speaker 1: these invitations are going to feel like, ah, I'm a
[10:20] Speaker 1: little bit left out because I'm Android. So there are alternatives.
[10:25] Speaker 1: You can use something called party full. In fact, party
[10:27] Speaker 1: full made a big, kind of a big deal about
[10:30] Speaker 1: this online because they said that app will kind of
[10:33] Speaker 1: rip them off a little bit. So party full works
[10:35] Speaker 1: with green and blue bubbles, you've got punch bowl, you've
[10:38] Speaker 1: got paperless posts, and of course if you want to
[10:41] Speaker 1: use evite you still can. All right, Coming up on
[10:44] Speaker 1: today's show, I'm gonna tell you about another app. This
[10:47] Speaker 1: is a great app. You have to download this if
[10:49] Speaker 1: you have a Windows PC. It's a little sluggish, a
[10:51] Speaker 1: little weird. Download this free app. I'll tell you about that,
[10:54] Speaker 1: But first it is your turn. Your calls coming up
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[11:04] Speaker 1: My name is rich DeMuro and you are listening to
[11:08] Speaker 1: rich on Tech.
[11:09] Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.
[11:10] Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at
[11:14] Speaker 1: triple A rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
[11:17] Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. The website
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[11:29] Speaker 1: to Diana. Diana, you're on with Rich. Welcome to the show.
[11:33] Speaker 3: Hi Rich, thank you for taking my call.
[11:36] Speaker 2: Absolutely.
[11:38] Speaker 3: The question is I'm very new to home security cams
[11:43] Speaker 3: and I recently bought a b Link Mini and set
[11:47] Speaker 3: it up, which was pretty simple, and so I guess
[11:52] Speaker 3: I expected it to be able to continuously stream, but
[11:57] Speaker 3: it seems like it streams for like five minutes and
[12:02] Speaker 3: then goes up and you have to keep clicking this
[12:06] Speaker 3: like a play button to have it stream five more minutes.
[12:10] Speaker 3: And I guess, So my question is I'd like to
[12:14] Speaker 3: have something that will just stream continuously that I don't
[12:18] Speaker 3: have to pay a monthly fee for. So are any
[12:21] Speaker 3: of the current popular home security cameras able to do that?
[12:28] Speaker 3: And then also I was wondering if there's any iOS
[12:31] Speaker 3: apps that will let you convert old iPhones into home
[12:38] Speaker 3: like security cameras.
[12:40] Speaker 1: Ooh there is, Oh gosh, I gotta get that. There
[12:44] Speaker 1: is a there is an app that lets you do that.
[12:47] Speaker 1: I got to find it here.
[12:49] Speaker 2: Let's see.
[12:52] Speaker 1: So, okay, so your first question number one, the blink cameras,
[12:56] Speaker 1: those are really not meant to live stream. Those are
[13:00] Speaker 1: like out of all of the security cameras. Think of
[13:03] Speaker 1: the name Blink, right, So those those were invented for
[13:07] Speaker 1: quick clips. And the whole technology behind Blink is the
[13:11] Speaker 1: battery life. And so with a couple of double A
[13:15] Speaker 1: or triple A batteries whatever those little cameras take, those
[13:18] Speaker 1: cameras can last up to like two years without changing
[13:22] Speaker 1: the batteries.
[13:23] Speaker 3: Oh, the cameras that I have is plug in, so
[13:25] Speaker 3: it's required.
[13:26] Speaker 1: Well so yeah, I mean and still but the but
[13:29] Speaker 1: the idea behind Blink has always been it is not
[13:32] Speaker 1: a live streaming camera.
[13:33] Speaker 2: It is a camera, okay.
[13:35] Speaker 3: And I'm not too concerned with recording capability or.
[13:39] Speaker 2: You just want to watch the camera.
[13:40] Speaker 3: Mainly, I'm looking for a home security that will just
[13:43] Speaker 3: stream continuously that I can monitor.
[13:45] Speaker 1: Yeah, so I mean that's pretty much almost any camera
[13:49] Speaker 1: I would take a look at, Diane. I think the Diane,
[13:52] Speaker 1: I think the best one for you would be a
[13:54] Speaker 1: UFI eu f Y eu F Y. And what people
[13:58] Speaker 1: love about these cameras is that there's no monthly fees
[14:02] Speaker 1: associated with them. So and you can also have local storage,
[14:05] Speaker 1: so you can start with one. You can you know,
[14:08] Speaker 1: live stream it as much as you want, and you
[14:10] Speaker 1: can store stuff on a hard drive as well.
[14:12] Speaker 2: They sell that.
[14:13] Speaker 1: The other camera, if you want something that's a little
[14:15] Speaker 1: bit cheaper, is the Wysecam w y Z, Wisecam Wyze
[14:24] Speaker 1: and those are great and you can live stream those
[14:27] Speaker 1: as well. So now, some of these cameras sometimes will
[14:32] Speaker 1: have a timeout depending on the device you're looking at
[14:34] Speaker 1: them on, so it kind of depends on and also
[14:37] Speaker 1: the setup, so like some of the Ring cameras may
[14:39] Speaker 1: do that as well. But you know, I'm looking at
[14:42] Speaker 1: my wise cam right now and basically, yeah, you just
[14:46] Speaker 1: load it up and you can watch it now. There
[14:48] Speaker 1: were some limitations at one point when we were trying
[14:50] Speaker 1: to watch this through a Google Home device, But on
[14:54] Speaker 1: my on my phone right here, I can watch it
[14:57] Speaker 1: as much as I want. It's not it's not timing out.
[14:59] Speaker 1: So that's Those are the two brands I'd recommend for
[15:01] Speaker 1: that uf EU f Y and Wyse, and the Wyse
[15:06] Speaker 1: is going to be a little bit cheaper. They're known
[15:07] Speaker 1: for like pretty inexpensive cameras. Now, when it comes to
[15:11] Speaker 1: converting an old phone into a security camera, the app
[15:17] Speaker 1: that you want is called Alfred a l FR ed
[15:20] Speaker 1: Alfred Camera, and this is available for both Android and iPhone.
[15:25] Speaker 1: Now again, of course you want to you know, if
[15:27] Speaker 1: you're going to do this, you want to wipe the
[15:28] Speaker 1: phone clean, start over fresh, and then install just this
[15:32] Speaker 1: app on the phone, because you do need to leave
[15:34] Speaker 1: your phone plugged in and also on the whole time
[15:38] Speaker 1: if it's going to work that way. But this is
[15:40] Speaker 1: a popular app, it's got a lot going on. Let's
[15:43] Speaker 1: see if it's when the last time they were updated.
[15:45] Speaker 1: I always like, whenever I'm looking at an app to
[15:47] Speaker 1: see if it's a good app, you want to check
[15:50] Speaker 1: the last time it was updated. So if it was
[15:52] Speaker 1: updated in the last six months or something like that,
[15:54] Speaker 1: then great. Now this one was updated January sixteenth, twenty
[15:57] Speaker 1: twenty five, so that one's going to be great on
[15:59] Speaker 1: the androidd side, on the iPhone side January twenty third,
[16:04] Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So again, this is the website Alfred
[16:07] Speaker 1: Alfried Dot Camera. The other thing I like to look
[16:11] Speaker 1: at is if there are any in app purchases. So
[16:16] Speaker 1: on Google they don't necessarily show you if there are
[16:19] Speaker 1: in app purchases, but if you look up the app
[16:21] Speaker 1: on the App Store and you scroll down, it will
[16:24] Speaker 1: tell you if there are any in app purchases. And
[16:27] Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Alfred it does say Alfred Premium
[16:31] Speaker 1: five ninety nine twelve months twenty nine ninety nine. So
[16:34] Speaker 1: that tells me that you'll get a free level of
[16:38] Speaker 1: usage out of this app, and then you have to
[16:41] Speaker 1: pay if you want something a little bit above and
[16:43] Speaker 1: beyond that.
[16:44] Speaker 2: So but yeah, this is super easy to use.
[16:47] Speaker 1: It says you can set it up in three minutes
[16:49] Speaker 1: and twenty four to seven livestream, watch the video from anywhere,
[16:54] Speaker 1: and you can change. You can convert an old iPhone
[16:57] Speaker 1: or an old Android phone into a security cam. This
[17:01] Speaker 1: great question, Diana, Thanks for kicking off the show with that.
[17:03] Speaker 2: Do appreciate it.
[17:05] Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
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[17:14] Speaker 1: links to anything I mentioned, just go there and look up.
[17:17] Speaker 1: This is show number one zero eight.
[17:20] Speaker 2: Coming up, we will.
[17:21] Speaker 1: Talk to a special guest, plus I'll tell you about
[17:24] Speaker 1: the app you need to download if you have a
[17:26] Speaker 1: Windows PC. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro
[17:30] Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple A.
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[17:51] Speaker 2: So did you know that.
[17:52] Speaker 1: Microsoft has a free PC optimization app? I downloaded this yesterday,
[17:58] Speaker 1: and you know, if your system is running kind of
[18:00] Speaker 1: messy or sluggish or whatever you think something's going on,
[18:04] Speaker 1: download this app. It's called Microsoft PC Manager. Now, don't
[18:09] Speaker 1: just go searching on Google for that, because if you do,
[18:12] Speaker 1: it's going to lead you to one hundred different programs
[18:14] Speaker 1: that may or may not be the right one. So
[18:17] Speaker 1: the website Pcmanager dot Microsoft dot com. There's many imposters
[18:23] Speaker 1: out there, but this basically is for Windows ten and eleven.
[18:27] Speaker 1: It's a free utility and it offers all kinds of
[18:31] Speaker 1: built in tools to improve the performance of your computer
[18:33] Speaker 1: and free upspace and it's it's quite good, so you
[18:37] Speaker 1: can boost PC performance. So there's like one click to
[18:40] Speaker 1: clean up and free UPRAM and disk space. You can
[18:43] Speaker 1: manage your storage by getting rid of big files. There's
[18:47] Speaker 1: a health checkup feature so you can find and fix issues,
[18:50] Speaker 1: scan for threats on your computer, and clear out junk files.
[18:53] Speaker 1: There's a pop up management toggle so you can reduce
[18:56] Speaker 1: ads and pop ups, and then there's a whole bunch
[18:59] Speaker 1: of stuff. There's a Internet speed monitoring in the taskbar
[19:01] Speaker 1: if you want to see how fast your internet is,
[19:04] Speaker 1: and some widgets as well. But I installed this yesterday.
[19:07] Speaker 1: It is free, it's simple, it's easy. It comes directly
[19:10] Speaker 1: from Microsoft. And again it's called Microsoft PC Manager, So
[19:14] Speaker 1: if your computer's acting a little wonky, you got Windows
[19:17] Speaker 1: ten or Windows eleven, download this app. The alternative is
[19:21] Speaker 1: called Sea Cleaner. That's been the one over the years
[19:23] Speaker 1: that a lot of folks like I think that was
[19:26] Speaker 1: just purchased by another company. But anyway, this one's right
[19:29] Speaker 1: for Microsoft and super easy to install. So there you
[19:32] Speaker 1: have it, rich on tech dot tv if you want
[19:34] Speaker 1: to link to that. All right, let's bring on special guest.
[19:37] Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned that this is the first show
[19:41] Speaker 1: that we are broadcasting in New York City, so I
[19:43] Speaker 1: figured i'd bring on a special guest who knows the
[19:46] Speaker 1: Tri State.
[19:47] Speaker 2: Area well, and it is none other than my mom.
[19:51] Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Mom, Hi Richard, thank you.
[19:55] Speaker 2: My mom is the only one who calls me Richard.
[19:57] Speaker 1: By the way, after all these years, you are Jersey
[20:02] Speaker 1: born and you've lived there forever. First off, are you
[20:07] Speaker 1: excited that you can finally hear me on the airwaves
[20:10] Speaker 1: in New York City?
[20:12] Speaker 4: Oh?
[20:12] Speaker 5: Yes, I'm very excited. Yes, I really am.
[20:15] Speaker 2: Have you told any of your friends?
[20:16] Speaker 5: I'm even more excited that because it was your dream.
[20:20] Speaker 5: But what's your question?
[20:22] Speaker 1: Have you told any of your friends? More importantly, are
[20:24] Speaker 1: you spreading the word?
[20:27] Speaker 5: Yes? Of course I did. I told a lot of
[20:30] Speaker 5: my friends. Of course I was bragging.
[20:31] Speaker 2: Yes, okay, all.
[20:33] Speaker 1: Right, so I guess typically when I call you, I
[20:35] Speaker 1: ask how your tech is doing?
[20:36] Speaker 2: So how is everything? Is everything working in your home?
[20:42] Speaker 1: Yeah?
[20:43] Speaker 5: Everything is? What once in a while my phone doesn't
[20:46] Speaker 5: make a sound when I get a text or something.
[20:49] Speaker 2: So, oh, look at the time we got to go
[20:51] Speaker 2: all right, Well, thank you mom for joining me. Appreciate that. No, well,
[20:56] Speaker 2: you know that happens.
[20:57] Speaker 6: That good.
[20:58] Speaker 5: But the good news is when I stilled an entire
[21:02] Speaker 5: cup of coffee on my laptop that's working.
[21:07] Speaker 7: Oh you know, go figure.
[21:10] Speaker 1: I've dropped coffee on my computer several times, and you
[21:14] Speaker 1: know you got to let it dry.
[21:15] Speaker 2: Out.
[21:16] Speaker 1: My main advice is to let it dry out. So
[21:19] Speaker 1: now here's the other thing. I know your cellular service
[21:21] Speaker 1: because I help you with it. It costs like fifteen
[21:24] Speaker 1: bucks a month. Does it really cost that much?
[21:30] Speaker 5: I don't know. I pay for the whole year, so
[21:32] Speaker 5: I don't really know what it costs a month.
[21:34] Speaker 2: But I mean, you have service that's pretty you know,
[21:36] Speaker 2: it's like I think it's Mint Mobile, right, isn't that
[21:38] Speaker 2: what it is? Yeah?
[21:39] Speaker 1: And you tell your friends that I only pay this much,
[21:41] Speaker 1: like under three hundred a year, and they don't believe you.
[21:45] Speaker 5: Well, yeah, because they don't believe that I get everything
[21:48] Speaker 5: for that cost.
[21:49] Speaker 2: Well, you don't get everything.
[21:50] Speaker 1: I think you only had like four gigs of data,
[21:52] Speaker 1: but you know, it's still only fifteen dollars a month.
[21:56] Speaker 5: I've never used all the gigs.
[21:59] Speaker 2: I'm surprised with all that scrolling on Facebook and Instagram.
[22:03] Speaker 5: No, I've never used them all, so go figure. But no,
[22:07] Speaker 5: but I have everything. I mean, I have everything on
[22:10] Speaker 5: my phone. Everybody else does and it's fine.
[22:14] Speaker 1: Okay, here's my other question for you. Now, you were
[22:18] Speaker 1: a Netflix kling on for many years, so you were
[22:23] Speaker 1: you were in the sharing economy of your family member
[22:26] Speaker 1: mainly me and maybe some other siblings.
[22:29] Speaker 4: Uh.
[22:30] Speaker 1: Netflix broke that functionality. They said no more, no more sharing.
[22:35] Speaker 1: So how long did you go without Netflix?
[22:37] Speaker 2: And what was that like?
[22:40] Speaker 5: I guess I won't about how it would be a year,
[22:44] Speaker 5: maybe maybe more. But the weird thing is Netflix would
[22:49] Speaker 5: would I would get Netflix every so often for about
[22:52] Speaker 5: a week and then they.
[22:53] Speaker 3: Would take it away.
[22:55] Speaker 2: Wow.
[22:55] Speaker 1: Okay, so this kind of came and went, well, now
[22:59] Speaker 1: you have Netflix for real.
[23:01] Speaker 2: Do you know why?
[23:04] Speaker 5: Excuse me?
[23:05] Speaker 2: Do you know why you have Netflix for real right now?
[23:08] Speaker 8: Yes?
[23:08] Speaker 5: Because you got it for me.
[23:10] Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.
[23:11] Speaker 1: I finally decided that my mom was worth nine dollars
[23:14] Speaker 1: a month for the added account that you can add
[23:17] Speaker 1: onto Netflix. So after all these months, I felt guilty
[23:20] Speaker 1: and I said, you know what, I think. I think
[23:22] Speaker 1: I could swing the nine dollars a month for my
[23:25] Speaker 1: mom to have Netflix. And are you have you watched
[23:27] Speaker 1: all of Netflix yet or what? Are you making your
[23:30] Speaker 1: way through it?
[23:32] Speaker 5: I haven't watched all of it, No, but I mean
[23:36] Speaker 5: I do put it on usually at night.
[23:38] Speaker 1: Yes, okay, Well, don't let it get in the in
[23:41] Speaker 1: the in the way of this show, all right, So
[23:43] Speaker 1: before you go. I do have a couple of questions
[23:45] Speaker 1: for you, like a little a little New York area
[23:49] Speaker 1: quiz for you. Okay, you ready?
[23:51] Speaker 4: Oh?
[23:52] Speaker 5: I hope I have the answers.
[23:53] Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, first question?
[23:56] Speaker 1: What states are in the tri state area?
[24:01] Speaker 5: New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
[24:03] Speaker 2: That's right? Okay, you got that right.
[24:05] Speaker 8: Uh?
[24:05] Speaker 6: Oh, I thank god?
[24:07] Speaker 2: Bagel buttered or cream cheese for me?
[24:12] Speaker 4: Buttered?
[24:12] Speaker 2: Oh that's me too, okay. See, oh yeah, I.
[24:16] Speaker 5: Don't really like cream cheese.
[24:18] Speaker 7: I like butter.
[24:18] Speaker 2: Okay.
[24:19] Speaker 1: As a Jersey in, what do you think of Jersey Mikes?
[24:25] Speaker 9: Pretty good?
[24:26] Speaker 5: Actually, I have a gift card to Jersey Mics that
[24:28] Speaker 5: I won at work. I haven't used it yet because
[24:30] Speaker 5: I keep forgetting.
[24:31] Speaker 2: We'll get that sub on.
[24:34] Speaker 5: It's pretty good, okay.
[24:37] Speaker 2: Uh? And uh Bruce Springsteen or bon Jovi?
[24:42] Speaker 5: I was always more a bon Jovi girl.
[24:45] Speaker 2: That's putting it lightly. Mom.
[24:51] Speaker 9: Why Yeah, I.
[24:52] Speaker 5: Like bon Jovi better than Bruce Springsteen Okay, mainly because
[24:55] Speaker 5: he's he's very good looking? Can I say that?
[25:00] Speaker 1: And he Why couldn't you say that? You don't think
[25:03] Speaker 1: anyone's ever thought that?
[25:05] Speaker 10: Yeah?
[25:06] Speaker 5: And I preferred music more than Christein but I also
[25:11] Speaker 5: like Bruce Springsteen, all.
[25:12] Speaker 1: Right, and favorite food from down the shore. That's what
[25:16] Speaker 1: we call it. By the way, New Jersey. You go
[25:17] Speaker 1: down the shore, up the lake, down the shore into
[25:20] Speaker 1: the city. So what do you what's your favorite food
[25:23] Speaker 1: growing up?
[25:23] Speaker 5: My favorite food I don't know, maybe pizza and Core's
[25:30] Speaker 5: ice cream.
[25:30] Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say Core's light. I was like, whoa,
[25:34] Speaker 1: mom is getting a little sloppy.
[25:35] Speaker 5: Now, no, that would be no, that would be a martini.
[25:40] Speaker 2: But oha, oh, just going straight for the hard stuff. Okay,
[25:43] Speaker 2: all right.
[25:44] Speaker 1: Any advice for me as I embark on taking on
[25:46] Speaker 1: New York City with this show.
[25:51] Speaker 5: Any advice I think, just be yourself because you're part Jersey,
[25:56] Speaker 5: you're part California, and I think you have the best
[25:59] Speaker 5: of world and I think you're going to do great.
[26:04] Speaker 2: Actually, all right, well, thank you mom, Love you have
[26:07] Speaker 2: a good day.
[26:09] Speaker 5: Okay, love you.
[26:10] Speaker 1: I hope that internet continues to work. Thank you, appreciate it.
[26:14] Speaker 1: Uh that is my mom. Thank you mom for joining me.
[26:17] Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we're going to talk more more
[26:22] Speaker 1: tech eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight
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[26:27] Speaker 2: I see your calls. I see on.
[26:29] Speaker 1: Hold, we'll get to those in just a moment. Welcome
[26:32] Speaker 1: back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
[26:34] Speaker 1: with you, talking technology at Triple eight. Rich one O
[26:39] Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
[26:41] Speaker 1: zero one.
[26:42] Speaker 2: Let's go to Mark. Mark, you're on with Rich. Welcome
[26:45] Speaker 2: to the show.
[26:46] Speaker 4: Hello Rich. We're very sad you're leading La just when
[26:50] Speaker 4: we really need you.
[26:52] Speaker 2: I'm not leaving LA.
[26:53] Speaker 1: Everyone's saying that, I'm just it's it's an expansion. I'm
[26:56] Speaker 1: staying in LA. We are just now on in New
[26:58] Speaker 1: York City.
[26:59] Speaker 2: So okay, just to be clear, Yeah, thank you. I
[27:02] Speaker 2: know I missed that.
[27:03] Speaker 1: People got a little upset. I got a bunch of emails.
[27:06] Speaker 1: So no, I'm still here. What can I help you with?
[27:09] Speaker 8: So?
[27:09] Speaker 4: I have an orb Mesh system which was not cheap,
[27:14] Speaker 4: about two and a half years old, and I just
[27:16] Speaker 4: added a new satellite to it and it does not connect.
[27:20] Speaker 4: I called orb Tech support and they said that I
[27:24] Speaker 4: need to renew this is the security subscription for three
[27:29] Speaker 4: hundred and twenty nine dollars. Wow, So I did what
[27:34] Speaker 4: and it's not working?
[27:35] Speaker 2: Oh? Come on, no way, that sounds like a scam.
[27:38] Speaker 2: Are you sure? You dialed the right phone number.
[27:41] Speaker 4: Well, how did you get the number that you follow?
[27:46] Speaker 4: I mean they had my account, they had you know,
[27:49] Speaker 4: they they had access to the you know.
[27:52] Speaker 2: Orb app and three nine dollars for what for five years? Okay?
[27:58] Speaker 2: For five years? Okay?
[28:00] Speaker 1: Uh divided by five okay, sixty five dollars a year?
[28:03] Speaker 1: What do you get for that?
[28:05] Speaker 4: You get?
[28:06] Speaker 6: You know?
[28:06] Speaker 4: It's I guess that they're saying that the system doesn't
[28:09] Speaker 4: that MESH systems don't really work unless you actually have
[28:13] Speaker 4: their security package and then you get the.
[28:16] Speaker 2: Whole text from Now this sounds bogus. I would I
[28:19] Speaker 2: would request a refund.
[28:21] Speaker 4: Okay this, but the satellite's not working though.
[28:24] Speaker 1: Well, okay, so there's two things going on here. First off,
[28:26] Speaker 1: I'm looking at the So is this like netgear armor?
[28:29] Speaker 1: Is that what is called?
[28:30] Speaker 4: Okay, No, it's not the armor. They said, that's something different.
[28:34] Speaker 2: Okay, So what what did you subscribe to?
[28:36] Speaker 4: They're calling it the security system that comes with it.
[28:40] Speaker 4: You get two years when you buy it, and they're
[28:44] Speaker 4: saying that it well, the whole system doesn't work unless
[28:47] Speaker 4: you have the security on it.
[28:51] Speaker 1: M that's that sounds very I mean number one, I
[28:56] Speaker 1: would not I would not even the fact that this
[29:00] Speaker 1: little satellite is not working and connecting. That could be
[29:03] Speaker 1: related to maybe the age of the system, like the
[29:07] Speaker 1: because you have an older system that you're connecting a
[29:09] Speaker 1: new satellite to.
[29:10] Speaker 4: But but it is the satellite that's made to connect
[29:14] Speaker 4: to that system, which they told me, you know, this
[29:17] Speaker 4: is the one if you buy it new, but it's
[29:20] Speaker 4: definitely made to connect to your satellite, your system.
[29:24] Speaker 1: Okay, well, there's no way that you need a subscription
[29:28] Speaker 1: to connect this satellite. I just I don't believe that.
[29:31] Speaker 1: I have to do some more research, but okay, I
[29:33] Speaker 1: have So I have the eurosystem, and yes, they also
[29:36] Speaker 1: sell a subscription yearly, and the subscription gives you some
[29:40] Speaker 1: added things like extra security, you know, malware and that
[29:44] Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
[29:45] Speaker 4: Protection. It does all that. And I also do have
[29:47] Speaker 4: an Eero system at another place, and when I asked
[29:52] Speaker 4: them about it, they said, well, yeah, well the euro
[29:55] Speaker 4: comes with five years when you buy it, then you
[29:58] Speaker 4: have to add on years. You know, at that point
[30:00] Speaker 4: it's absolute all right, So you're saying that that's.
[30:03] Speaker 1: I'm saying that this is all This all sounds bogus
[30:06] Speaker 1: to me, Like I think they just sold you on
[30:08] Speaker 1: this subscription that you I don't think you need it, Like,
[30:11] Speaker 1: I'll be honest, the only reason why I do the
[30:13] Speaker 1: subscription on my my ero is because it blocks ads
[30:17] Speaker 1: across the network and it gives me some parental controls
[30:20] Speaker 1: that I want for my kids.
[30:22] Speaker 2: So does it.
[30:23] Speaker 4: Give me actual you know, security?
[30:26] Speaker 2: It it does?
[30:27] Speaker 1: I mean, it says it does. So, I mean it
[30:30] Speaker 1: probably does scan the the URLs and things. But if
[30:33] Speaker 1: you're using like a modern browser like Chrome, that's doing
[30:36] Speaker 1: that anyway. So I mean I think that you know, look,
[30:39] Speaker 1: it's one of these things. I think there's two things
[30:41] Speaker 1: going on here. Do you want to pay the three
[30:42] Speaker 1: twenty nine for the five years? I don't like the
[30:45] Speaker 1: sales tactics that they gave you, that says, And I
[30:48] Speaker 1: think you need to figure out why this this satellite
[30:51] Speaker 1: device is not connecting to the network, Like why is
[30:54] Speaker 1: it not adding it?
[30:54] Speaker 2: What?
[30:55] Speaker 1: What's the hold up? Like does it see it and
[30:57] Speaker 1: then it doesn't connect or does it not even see
[30:59] Speaker 1: it when you're trying to connect?
[31:02] Speaker 4: You know on the uh what's it called the network chart?
[31:06] Speaker 4: You know everything is green, that one is orange the
[31:10] Speaker 4: network map. And so but now they're working on it.
[31:14] Speaker 4: I mean, you know, they guy, they do call me
[31:16] Speaker 4: and they have someone assigned to it from Bangalore. But
[31:20] Speaker 4: I was suspicious when as soon as they did the network,
[31:24] Speaker 4: as soon as I paid, and they said that's going
[31:26] Speaker 4: to be it, and it didn't. And they said, well
[31:28] Speaker 4: it takes forty eight hours.
[31:29] Speaker 1: Oh come on, eight hours, Mark, I think I think
[31:32] Speaker 1: sold here. Did you check your credit card to see
[31:35] Speaker 1: where the charge came from?
[31:37] Speaker 4: Oh? Okay? And then and then the reason I'm doing
[31:42] Speaker 4: is because I have an R Low doorbell camera and
[31:44] Speaker 4: I have a house on lots of levels which is
[31:46] Speaker 4: having image trouble. So I figured that it was having
[31:50] Speaker 4: image trouble because of the distance between the R Low
[31:53] Speaker 4: camera and this and this satellite I have on like
[31:57] Speaker 4: a three or four story house.
[31:58] Speaker 2: That's probably true. Yeah, okay.
[32:01] Speaker 1: You know when the when the ring doorbells first came out,
[32:03] Speaker 1: everyone thought they were horrible because they thought they didn't work.
[32:06] Speaker 1: But it really it's just a Wi Fi was not
[32:09] Speaker 1: ready for that level of streaming outside the house.
[32:12] Speaker 8: Right.
[32:13] Speaker 1: So here's what I here's what I do, Mark. I mean,
[32:15] Speaker 1: you've got a couple of things going on here. Number one,
[32:17] Speaker 1: I would check to make sure that this charge was legitimate.
[32:20] Speaker 1: It says that they saw your your account and all
[32:22] Speaker 1: that stuff. They could have been making that up. It
[32:24] Speaker 1: sounds a little suspicious to me. I'm trying to find
[32:27] Speaker 1: and this is another issue with their with their subscription.
[32:30] Speaker 1: It's like I can't even see on their website what
[32:33] Speaker 1: this subscription costs. I mean, it's like it's so hidden
[32:37] Speaker 1: that I don't even Okay, So Neckgear Armor and then
[32:40] Speaker 1: Neckgear Pro Support, so there's a there are three different
[32:43] Speaker 1: subscriptions they have here, and I'm looking at compare plans,
[32:48] Speaker 1: and even when I look at the plan, it still
[32:50] Speaker 1: doesn't tell me how much it is. So I don't
[32:52] Speaker 1: like that. That is not very transparent, and you know
[32:55] Speaker 1: I don't so I don't like that tactic. And then
[32:59] Speaker 1: the thing not working I would do. I would do
[33:01] Speaker 1: a factory. First off, here's here's the order in which
[33:05] Speaker 1: I would do things. Number One, I confirm that you
[33:07] Speaker 1: were actually talking to Orby and Neckgear and make sure
[33:11] Speaker 1: that that charge came from them, So I check your
[33:13] Speaker 1: credit card, make sure that it's a legitimate charge from
[33:15] Speaker 1: that company. Number two, look at the services that you
[33:19] Speaker 1: get for that subscription. If you feel like it's reasonable,
[33:22] Speaker 1: keep it whatever. Number three, you got to figure out
[33:25] Speaker 1: why this little satellite is not connecting to your network.
[33:28] Speaker 1: And what I would do now that you have this subscription,
[33:31] Speaker 1: I would make sure you update the software on that satellite.
[33:34] Speaker 1: If you can't do that, disconnect it, factory reset it,
[33:38] Speaker 1: update the software on your whole network, and then try
[33:41] Speaker 1: to reconnect that little satellite and hopefully it should come
[33:44] Speaker 1: back to life and be on your network. But this
[33:46] Speaker 1: whole business of your your system won't work if you're
[33:49] Speaker 1: not paying for this subscription. As far as I know,
[33:52] Speaker 1: none of the Mesh networks work that way. But of
[33:56] Speaker 1: course the way of the world right now, everything everyone
[34:00] Speaker 1: wants a subscription, and so I understand that they're trying
[34:03] Speaker 1: to sell you on that. I don't necessarily think you
[34:05] Speaker 1: need that to make this work. But thanks for the
[34:09] Speaker 1: call mark appreciate it. Eight A eight rich one O
[34:11] Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
[34:15] Speaker 1: zero one. Well, speaking of free, the Windows Intelligence Newsletter
[34:21] Speaker 1: had a good spot on free VPNs. So I know
[34:24] Speaker 1: everyone's looking for a VPN and there's a whole bunch
[34:27] Speaker 1: of them out there. I mean, there's so many paid
[34:29] Speaker 1: and free. But Chris Hoffman writing in this newsletter, Windows
[34:33] Speaker 1: Intelligence Newsletter said there's two that he recommends that he likes,
[34:37] Speaker 1: and he says these are two solid free VPN options.
[34:40] Speaker 1: Win Scribe wind Scribe, no speed throttling, full VPN experience,
[34:45] Speaker 1: limited to ten gigs a month, so if you just
[34:47] Speaker 1: need ten gigs, Winscribe is your is your VPN, and
[34:52] Speaker 1: then Proton. Proton VPN has no data cap, but the
[34:57] Speaker 1: free servers, he says, can be a little bit slower.
[35:00] Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a VPN for your Windows
[35:02] Speaker 1: computer or even your mobile device, these are two solid
[35:06] Speaker 1: free options, Winscribe and Proton VPN. I'll put a link
[35:10] Speaker 1: to this on the website rich on tech dot tv
[35:13] Speaker 1: And if you like Windows tips like that, Chris does
[35:16] Speaker 1: a great job and his Intelligence newsletter of highlighting that stuff.
[35:19] Speaker 1: I mean, do you need a VPN? You know, My
[35:22] Speaker 1: advice on the VPN typically is don't be checking your
[35:25] Speaker 1: financial and secure accounts outside of the house if you're
[35:29] Speaker 1: not using one, right, use a cellular connection on your
[35:32] Speaker 1: home PC if you're at a hotel something like that.
[35:34] Speaker 2: You know, there are times when you might want to
[35:36] Speaker 2: use a VPN.
[35:37] Speaker 1: Eight to eight Rich one O one eight eight eight
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[35:42] Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich
[35:45] Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple
[35:49] Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
[35:53] Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Hope you're having a
[35:57] Speaker 1: great day. The website for the show is rich john
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[36:07] Speaker 1: to send me an email. Got a bunch of emails
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[36:13] Speaker 1: Los Angeles.
[36:14] Speaker 2: That's not true.
[36:15] Speaker 1: I made a joke at the beginning of the show.
[36:17] Speaker 1: I said it was the last time you're gonna be
[36:19] Speaker 1: able to I said it was the last time you're
[36:21] Speaker 1: going to be able to listen to me in Los Angeles,
[36:25] Speaker 1: something like that, without it also being on in New
[36:26] Speaker 1: York anyway. So now we're on in both places and
[36:29] Speaker 1: other places as well. So but this is the first
[36:32] Speaker 1: day of New York City. So thanks for listening if
[36:34] Speaker 1: you're there, and if you're still with me in LA
[36:37] Speaker 1: which you should be hopefully, thank you for listening there
[36:39] Speaker 1: or anywhere else you might be.
[36:41] Speaker 2: Uh, let's see, let's go to the phones. Let's go
[36:43] Speaker 2: to Katie. Let's go to Katie. You're on with Rich. Katie.
[36:47] Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
[36:49] Speaker 8: Hi, Rich.
[36:49] Speaker 3: How's it going.
[36:50] Speaker 2: It is going fantastic?
[36:53] Speaker 8: Oh good.
[36:53] Speaker 9: You know I said I love your show. At first,
[36:56] Speaker 9: I wasn't, you know, I just I've been listening to
[36:58] Speaker 9: Leo forever and I was like, I don't know about
[37:00] Speaker 9: this guy, but I really enjoyed the show.
[37:02] Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. I've liked myself more over the
[37:05] Speaker 1: years too. I started out that way.
[37:07] Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I have a question. You know, my
[37:09] Speaker 9: fiance and I were getting married pretty Stone, and there
[37:12] Speaker 9: are two different songs I want to play walking to
[37:15] Speaker 9: the altar and having the bridesmaid walk to the altar,
[37:18] Speaker 9: and I want to the two songs. I want to
[37:21] Speaker 9: get like at least fifteen to thirty or fifteen to
[37:24] Speaker 9: thirty seconds of each song and combine them. Is there
[37:28] Speaker 9: a website that's free I could do that.
[37:30] Speaker 6: Yes.
[37:31] Speaker 1: Well, first off, congrats on getting married. That's exciting.
[37:35] Speaker 9: Oh thank you, he's lucky.
[37:38] Speaker 1: I like the way you think Bobo is just shaking
[37:40] Speaker 1: his head. He's like, oh that's funny. Yeah, So congratulations,
[37:47] Speaker 1: And so you want to combine a couple songs. There's many,
[37:50] Speaker 1: many ways you can do this. There's a website that
[37:54] Speaker 1: will let you do it for free. I mean, the
[37:56] Speaker 1: free app that will let you do it is called Audacity,
[37:58] Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, I never even use that because
[38:02] Speaker 1: that's so complicated, even for me. So when I edit
[38:05] Speaker 1: my video, I or sorry, when I edit audio, I
[38:07] Speaker 1: do it all on Final Cut, which makes life a
[38:10] Speaker 1: lot easier, even though that's meant for editing video, but
[38:14] Speaker 1: it still works with audio.
[38:15] Speaker 2: But anyway, But the.
[38:16] Speaker 1: Website is audio mass dot co au d io mass
[38:21] Speaker 1: m a s S dot co. And this website you
[38:26] Speaker 1: can just drag and drop those songs in there dragon
[38:29] Speaker 1: you know, just go ahead and clip the parts that
[38:31] Speaker 1: you don't want. I'm just going through right now. It's
[38:33] Speaker 1: super super easy. It's all web based. It is like
[38:37] Speaker 1: the easiest possible thing. Even if you're a novice you
[38:39] Speaker 1: haven't used anything with audio editing. Just look at the waveforms,
[38:43] Speaker 1: clip the parts you want, drag the other one in
[38:45] Speaker 1: and then export it and you should be good to go.
[38:48] Speaker 9: Oh perfect, that sounds good. I was looking at apps
[38:50] Speaker 9: last night. I don't want to spend fifteen dollars or
[38:52] Speaker 9: you know, noney.
[38:54] Speaker 2: No, why spend money when you don't have to?
[38:56] Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, look, there are other apps that
[38:59] Speaker 1: can do this, like do you have an iPhone or Android?
[39:01] Speaker 9: An iPhone?
[39:02] Speaker 1: Okay, I mean there's so many ways you can do this.
[39:04] Speaker 1: I mean you could you can also just use a
[39:09] Speaker 1: well I guess I'm trying to think if one of
[39:10] Speaker 1: these video editing apps would also let you export into
[39:14] Speaker 1: an MP three version, which I don't know.
[39:17] Speaker 2: Usually they're just audio video.
[39:19] Speaker 1: But I would just use the website audiomass dot cou.
[39:22] Speaker 1: That's probably the easiest, simplest way to do it. So
[39:24] Speaker 1: I would do that. And if you if that doesn't, like,
[39:27] Speaker 1: if you need something that's more full featured, then I
[39:30] Speaker 1: would check out Audacity.
[39:31] Speaker 2: And that's completely free as well. It's open source, so
[39:34] Speaker 2: it open source it maybe okay, perfect that may not
[39:38] Speaker 2: be open source, but it's you can get it for free.
[39:40] Speaker 2: So okay, all right, Katie, Well, very exciting. When's the
[39:44] Speaker 2: big date? When's the when's the wedding? February twenty second
[39:48] Speaker 2: this year?
[39:50] Speaker 7: Yeah, this year?
[39:50] Speaker 2: Yeah, my gosh, I think I have something on that day.
[39:53] Speaker 2: Oh my god. I'll clear everything out. It's fine, I'll
[39:55] Speaker 2: figure it out.
[39:56] Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, come on down.
[39:58] Speaker 2: All right.
[39:58] Speaker 1: Well, congratulations, have a great wedding day, and please email
[40:03] Speaker 1: me to let me know if that worked for you.
[40:04] Speaker 11: Okay, okay, thank you so much.
[40:07] Speaker 10: I really appreciate it.
[40:07] Speaker 2: All right, Thanks, have a great day.
[40:09] Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
[40:12] Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Skip from Aurora
[40:18] Speaker 1: writes in I'm looking to invest in headphones for commercial
[40:21] Speaker 1: flights and need some advice. Should I go with wired
[40:24] Speaker 1: or wireless? Also, do headphones typically come with adapters for
[40:28] Speaker 1: inflight entertainment or is that something I'd need to buy separately?
[40:32] Speaker 1: If so, what adapters do you recommend? Good question, Skip.
[40:36] Speaker 1: I do fly a decent amount, and I do have
[40:38] Speaker 1: one rule of flying, and that is I have never
[40:42] Speaker 1: watched a movie on the inflight entertainment ever, maybe once
[40:47] Speaker 1: in my entire life. But it's a rule of thumb
[40:50] Speaker 1: that I've done for so long that now I just refuse.
[40:54] Speaker 1: And I know I'm weird because of that, but I
[40:56] Speaker 1: like it because it's like one of those things where
[40:57] Speaker 1: you start and you can never stop, like you have
[40:59] Speaker 1: to keep doing it just so I can say this forever.
[41:03] Speaker 1: But if you must watch stuff, on the seat back,
[41:05] Speaker 1: and by the way, everyone else does except for me.
[41:09] Speaker 1: You should definitely get a good pair of noise canceling headphones,
[41:13] Speaker 1: and most of them are wireless, but a lot of
[41:16] Speaker 1: them do have a wired option. But I'm gonna give
[41:19] Speaker 1: you a couple of things that you should know. So
[41:21] Speaker 1: number one, Bluetooth headphones. I would get the noise canceling
[41:24] Speaker 1: and the Bluetooth because then you can use them with
[41:26] Speaker 1: everything else, right, you can use them with your smartphone,
[41:28] Speaker 1: your computer, whatever else you want to use these headphones with.
[41:31] Speaker 1: That's why I get the Bluetooth instead of a standard
[41:34] Speaker 1: pair of wired without Bluetooth. But most of the Bluetooth
[41:37] Speaker 1: actually come or a lot of them come with a
[41:39] Speaker 1: plug that you can plug them in as well. The
[41:42] Speaker 1: thing is to know is that some of them need
[41:44] Speaker 1: to be charged to actually work with the plug in.
[41:48] Speaker 1: So that's something to know. Like if you just bring
[41:49] Speaker 1: these things on the flight and they're the batteries dead,
[41:51] Speaker 1: you may not be able to listen, So always keep
[41:53] Speaker 1: them charged and the battery lasts forever for the most part.
[41:57] Speaker 1: But the two brands that I like are Bows and
[42:00] Speaker 1: so of course you know it's kind of a it's
[42:03] Speaker 1: a personal preference if you if you want those, you
[42:07] Speaker 1: know which one to get. But I think that those
[42:09] Speaker 1: two are known to be the best, and you know,
[42:13] Speaker 1: I've had both over the years, and I think they're
[42:14] Speaker 1: both excellent. I think that the bows are just so comfortable.
[42:18] Speaker 1: You pay a premium form obviously, but the Sony's you
[42:20] Speaker 1: can often find on sale. They might be a little
[42:22] Speaker 1: bit cheaper, and you know they're both gonna be great.
[42:25] Speaker 1: The other ones that I like that I would recommend
[42:29] Speaker 1: as well are the son Nos Ace And this is
[42:31] Speaker 1: our first pair of headphones from Sonos, but they are excellent.
[42:35] Speaker 1: Right now, they're even one hundred dollars off, they're three
[42:37] Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars, so they are expensive, probably more
[42:40] Speaker 1: than the Bow's and the Sony's, but they are really
[42:42] Speaker 1: comfortable and really good. And if you have a Sonos
[42:44] Speaker 1: system at home, they may work with that. So those
[42:47] Speaker 1: are my three choices for the headphones. Now, when it
[42:51] Speaker 1: comes to listening on the seatback, a lot of the
[42:54] Speaker 1: seatback entertainment systems still use a standard headphone jack instead
[42:58] Speaker 1: of Bluetooth. Some of the new planes do have bluetooth. Now,
[43:01] Speaker 1: I will tell you the one time I had a
[43:03] Speaker 1: plane that had the Bluetooth. I noticed there's something weird
[43:07] Speaker 1: about connecting AirPods to it. I don't know what it is,
[43:10] Speaker 1: but I notice people all the time have issues connecting
[43:13] Speaker 1: their AirPods to it. I don't know why. Even I did,
[43:15] Speaker 1: I could not get my AirPods to connect. Maybe they
[43:17] Speaker 1: came out with an update that fixes that. But the
[43:20] Speaker 1: thing I would recommend is called the Airfly adapter. So
[43:24] Speaker 1: Airfly from a company named twelve South. I think they
[43:28] Speaker 1: made their name on this Bluetooth transmitter device. It plugs
[43:31] Speaker 1: in matt It's a little tiny square box. It's tiny,
[43:34] Speaker 1: almost like a keychain dongle. You plug it into the
[43:37] Speaker 1: headphone jack on the seat pack, and that has a
[43:40] Speaker 1: Bluetooth transmitter that will now transmit that audio signal to
[43:45] Speaker 1: your headphone. So basically what I'm telling you is that,
[43:48] Speaker 1: for let's see, how much is this thing thirty five
[43:51] Speaker 1: to sixty bucks, you can use your headphones on any
[43:55] Speaker 1: plane no matter what.
[43:57] Speaker 2: And this Airfly if you get.
[43:59] Speaker 1: The the premium one, the Deluxe for sixty five bucks.
[44:03] Speaker 2: It even comes to that little adapter.
[44:04] Speaker 1: You know, sometimes the planes have that weird like two
[44:06] Speaker 1: prong headphone adapter. I don't know what that's all about,
[44:09] Speaker 1: but a lot of them do that. But that will
[44:12] Speaker 1: come with this Airfly as well. So again, Bose Sony
[44:16] Speaker 1: Sons for your headphones and then the Airfly adapter, and
[44:19] Speaker 1: you will be a frequent flyer skip and people will
[44:22] Speaker 1: think you are Yeah, they'll be asking you this question
[44:26] Speaker 1: next year. So good question, Thanks for the call, Thanks
[44:29] Speaker 1: for the email. Rather rich on tech dot tv. If
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[44:51] Speaker 1: If you can just remember one thing I said on
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[44:55] Speaker 2: It will come up. It's really really good. No surprise here.
[44:59] Speaker 1: Security flaws found in deep Seek in their iOS app
[45:04] Speaker 1: now Secure, the mobile security firm found multiple critical security
[45:08] Speaker 1: and privacy vulnerabilities deep Seek. If you remember, is that
[45:13] Speaker 1: startup AI out of China. This was the top downloaded
[45:17] Speaker 1: app on both iPhone and Android millions of downloads. So
[45:21] Speaker 1: this came out about January twenty fifth, and you know,
[45:24] Speaker 1: people were trying it out seeing how it was compared
[45:26] Speaker 1: against chat GPT. I downloaded it, but you know, I
[45:30] Speaker 1: just did it mostly to test it out. I'm not
[45:32] Speaker 1: switching to deep Seek. I mostly wanted to see what
[45:34] Speaker 1: they were doing. But the findings from this now secure
[45:37] Speaker 1: mobile firm include unencrypted data transmission that means they're sending
[45:41] Speaker 1: whatever you write into this thing over the Internet without
[45:44] Speaker 1: encrypting it, weak encryption and other places insecure storage of
[45:48] Speaker 1: usernames and passwords, and extensive data collections. Some of the
[45:52] Speaker 1: data even went to byte Dance, which you know they
[45:55] Speaker 1: are the ones that own TikTok. So we knew that
[45:58] Speaker 1: this was going to be a problem with this app
[46:00] Speaker 1: deep Seek. I don't think necessarily they are an nefarious app.
[46:05] Speaker 1: But again, they put this thing together pretty quickly and
[46:07] Speaker 1: a lot of people started using it because wow, it's
[46:10] Speaker 1: the new thing, and how did they do this for
[46:12] Speaker 1: so cheap.
[46:12] Speaker 2: Well, now we know they probably cut a few corners,
[46:15] Speaker 2: So just.
[46:15] Speaker 1: Be aware if you're gonna use deep seek on your
[46:17] Speaker 1: phone that you know there could be some data leaks
[46:19] Speaker 1: there eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight
[46:22] Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one.
[46:25] Speaker 2: Coming up, we're gonna talk more tech, more of your calls,
[46:28] Speaker 2: and we've got.
[46:29] Speaker 1: Joanna Stern from the Wall Street Journal right here on
[46:31] Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
[46:34] Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple
[46:39] Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven
[46:42] Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Well, thank you, Taylor,
[46:51] Speaker 1: you're so corney.
[46:52] Speaker 12: Uh.
[46:53] Speaker 1: We've got Bobo on the board. We've got Kim on
[46:55] Speaker 1: the phones. We've got me uh talking to you at
[46:59] Speaker 1: eight eight eight rich one on one. We've got the
[47:01] Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot TV. This is the show
[47:05] Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
[47:06] Speaker 1: should know about. So it's all the information throughout the
[47:10] Speaker 1: week that I distill and say this is the important stuff.
[47:13] Speaker 1: And then of course we have your questions. Uh, let's
[47:16] Speaker 1: get to one of those questions. Let's go to Adam.
[47:20] Speaker 1: Where are we Adam?
[47:23] Speaker 2: Adam, You're on with rich.
[47:26] Speaker 6: Hi, Rich Thanks for taking my call.
[47:29] Speaker 7: I had a question about a flash drive. I use
[47:34] Speaker 7: different flash drives for different reasons, usually because some because.
[47:41] Speaker 1: Of my work.
[47:42] Speaker 7: So if I have a client files, then I'm moving
[47:45] Speaker 7: from my home computer where I work from home to
[47:48] Speaker 7: a laptop if I'm on the road or whatever. I
[47:51] Speaker 7: use that flash drive for that client's file that I
[47:54] Speaker 7: work with. And so I have different flash drives that
[47:58] Speaker 7: I use, but one of my main one that I
[48:02] Speaker 7: used was to back up my old computer that died
[48:06] Speaker 7: a couple of years ago, and I took it to
[48:09] Speaker 7: Best Buy and they recovered the hard drive, but they
[48:13] Speaker 7: couldn't repair it. They put the hard drive, the contents
[48:17] Speaker 7: of that hard drive on the old computer onto a
[48:20] Speaker 7: flash drive, a PNY flash drive that they sold me
[48:25] Speaker 7: at Best Buys.
[48:26] Speaker 6: So I brought it home.
[48:27] Speaker 7: And it's been a couple of years and I still
[48:30] Speaker 7: had my old files on it, but I've transferred them
[48:32] Speaker 7: onto my new PC. However, I noticed that just a
[48:38] Speaker 7: couple of days ago, I was accessing something on that
[48:42] Speaker 7: pn Y flash drive and it said a Windows error
[48:48] Speaker 7: message came up that there was a problem with it,
[48:50] Speaker 7: and it asked me to repair it, and so I
[48:53] Speaker 7: said yes, I clicked yes, go repair it, and it did.
[48:58] Speaker 7: And I checked to see that the files were available,
[49:00] Speaker 7: and they were.
[49:01] Speaker 6: But my question to you is.
[49:05] Speaker 7: Should should I avoid p and Y flash drives. Should
[49:10] Speaker 7: I replace it or is it good now that Windows
[49:12] Speaker 7: fixed it? Or should I just get rid of it
[49:14] Speaker 7: and get a new one? Are they reliable?
[49:17] Speaker 6: What do you think?
[49:18] Speaker 2: Pn Y is fine?
[49:19] Speaker 1: I use pn Y sand Disc obviously is the other
[49:22] Speaker 1: big brand out there, but I would say yes, get
[49:25] Speaker 1: a new one. I would not trust this drive anymore
[49:28] Speaker 1: because the fact that there was some sort of corruption
[49:30] Speaker 1: on it means that that may happen again, and the
[49:33] Speaker 1: next time it happens, you may not be able to
[49:35] Speaker 1: recover this stuff. Now it sounds like you have these
[49:38] Speaker 1: files in a different place. Is that what I understood?
[49:42] Speaker 7: Yes, So it's interesting. The ones for the client files
[49:47] Speaker 7: that I keep on different flash drives to shuttle back
[49:50] Speaker 7: and forth. I do back them up on my PC,
[49:55] Speaker 7: but I keep them on their individual flash drives depending
[50:00] Speaker 7: on the client. And the funny thing is those I
[50:02] Speaker 7: got from Microcenter and I've never had a problem with them.
[50:06] Speaker 7: It was just the one that I had to back
[50:08] Speaker 7: up my computer at best Buy and the pn Y
[50:11] Speaker 7: they transfer onto my new computer. That's where I had
[50:14] Speaker 7: the problem with that.
[50:15] Speaker 2: PNY Well that could just be a fluke. I mean,
[50:18] Speaker 2: you know these things they make millions of them.
[50:20] Speaker 1: It could just be that you got a bad one,
[50:22] Speaker 1: or you know, maybe it got jostled around. There's some
[50:24] Speaker 1: sort of damage that that occurred there. But the bottom
[50:27] Speaker 1: line is, you know, we're talking about a fifty dollars
[50:29] Speaker 1: or less fix right to.
[50:31] Speaker 2: Have peace of mind.
[50:32] Speaker 1: And so I think that that's probably what I would do,
[50:36] Speaker 1: and I think I maybe go with you know, there's
[50:39] Speaker 1: if you're going to be moving this flash drive around
[50:41] Speaker 1: a lot, and most flash drives are kind of by
[50:44] Speaker 1: the nature of a flash drive, there's small and portable,
[50:46] Speaker 1: and people bring them around with them. I used to
[50:48] Speaker 1: keep on on my keychain. You know, I keep one
[50:51] Speaker 1: in my bag right here.
[50:52] Speaker 2: Let's see, let's see see what brand I have on
[50:54] Speaker 2: mind that I keep jostling around in my bag.
[50:58] Speaker 1: Oh, I guess I took it off my keychain. Well,
[51:00] Speaker 1: I'm glad I don't have one anymore. But I do
[51:02] Speaker 1: have hard drive. I've got a one one terabyte sand
[51:05] Speaker 1: disc hard drive that I carry around.
[51:07] Speaker 2: So I've got that.
[51:08] Speaker 1: But you know the reality is, I think, Adam, I
[51:11] Speaker 1: would just get a new drive. I would go with
[51:13] Speaker 1: a you know, like a sand disc. How much storage
[51:16] Speaker 1: do you need on this thing like a terabyte or less,
[51:19] Speaker 1: no much less, okay. So I mean if you're talking,
[51:22] Speaker 1: you know, one hundred and twenty eight two fifty six gigs,
[51:25] Speaker 1: you we're talking thirty to forty dollars. So I would
[51:28] Speaker 1: just for the peace of mind, I would just get
[51:30] Speaker 1: a new one and you know, wipe that old one
[51:33] Speaker 1: and just get rid of it. But that's what I
[51:36] Speaker 1: would do. Or you know, if you have these files
[51:38] Speaker 1: safe and sound somewhere and you know you want to
[51:41] Speaker 1: take a little bit of a gamble on the drive,
[51:43] Speaker 1: you can just continue to leave them on the drive.
[51:45] Speaker 1: But if you're using this drive day in, day out
[51:47] Speaker 1: for anything, I would definitely get a new one because
[51:50] Speaker 1: you just don't want to take a risk with these things.
[51:52] Speaker 1: And when these flash drives fail, you know, they fail
[51:55] Speaker 1: usually to a larger degree than some of the standard
[51:58] Speaker 1: hard drives that were used to you might be able
[52:00] Speaker 1: to recover some of the data. So once these things go,
[52:03] Speaker 1: could put that's pretty much it. So I would just
[52:06] Speaker 1: go on and go on Amazon or go to your
[52:08] Speaker 1: local store and just grab something new. And micro Center
[52:11] Speaker 1: you mentioned love that place, great great place. I was
[52:14] Speaker 1: in there for a story the other day and just
[52:17] Speaker 1: spent so much time in there because it was so cool.
[52:20] Speaker 1: Thanks for the call today, Adam, appreciate it. But yeah,
[52:22] Speaker 1: get a new drive. That's what I would do.
[52:26] Speaker 2: By the way.
[52:27] Speaker 1: So, since there are some of you listening for the
[52:30] Speaker 1: first time, and you may not know exactly who I am,
[52:33] Speaker 1: I have been reporting on technology for about gosh, fifteen
[52:39] Speaker 1: plus years, most of it in Los Angeles. I actually
[52:42] Speaker 1: used to work in New York City at CNET for
[52:44] Speaker 1: a bit, came out to Los Angeles and on the
[52:47] Speaker 1: local news there, and I do tech reports for the
[52:51] Speaker 1: City of Los Angeles, you know, for the news station
[52:53] Speaker 1: I work for. So if you want to see some
[52:55] Speaker 1: of those, you can go to the website rich on
[52:57] Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Cover all kinds of fun stuff and
[53:01] Speaker 1: it's great. So and I'm here as well. All right,
[53:03] Speaker 1: coming up, we're gonna talk to Joanna Stern, a fixture
[53:07] Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal. She's gonna talk about AI
[53:10] Speaker 1: and some of her favorite gadgets coming up right here
[53:12] Speaker 1: on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
[53:15] Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at
[53:19] Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
[53:22] Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one did you know
[53:25] Speaker 1: that Google Maps turns twenty this year?
[53:28] Speaker 2: Wow?
[53:29] Speaker 1: Two decades of Google Maps now. By the way, I
[53:33] Speaker 1: know this our first day in New York City. When
[53:34] Speaker 1: I lived in New York City, well, I lived in
[53:36] Speaker 1: New Jersey, but I worked in New York for a
[53:38] Speaker 1: couple of years. There was no such thing as the
[53:41] Speaker 1: maps that we know and love now. So when I
[53:44] Speaker 1: was there, this is really dating myself. I had to
[53:47] Speaker 1: use something called like HopStop. I think you have to
[53:49] Speaker 1: print out maps when you want to go on the
[53:52] Speaker 1: subway to like figure out where you were going. Anyway,
[53:55] Speaker 1: Google did a whole blog about all the most reviewed restaurants.
[53:59] Speaker 1: Cats Delicatessen, Sherman's Deli, Barbecue, Terry Blacks in Austin, The
[54:05] Speaker 1: Salt Lick also in Austin. Most reviewed destinations Metropolitan Museum
[54:11] Speaker 1: of Art, The Getty, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Parks,
[54:15] Speaker 1: Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Zoos, San Diego Zoo, Smithsonian, and the
[54:21] Speaker 1: Bronx Zoo. World's largest attractions Superman Statue. Oh, I gotta
[54:25] Speaker 1: find out that one ball of twine that reminds me
[54:27] Speaker 1: of that movie Rocking Chair. Most photographed parks, Central Park,
[54:32] Speaker 1: Niagara Falls, Griffith Park and visitor attractions, Rockefeller Center, Statue
[54:37] Speaker 1: of Liberty, Navy Peer. Again, a lot of these things
[54:40] Speaker 1: in New York. I didn't plan it that way. I
[54:42] Speaker 1: just this is what Google said. But it makes sense,
[54:44] Speaker 1: right because so many people go there anyway, Google Maps
[54:47] Speaker 1: twenty if you can believe it.
[54:48] Speaker 2: Let's bring on our guest. Joanna Stern is the.
[54:52] Speaker 1: Excellent personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and
[54:57] Speaker 1: I believe well I know lives in the New York area.
[55:00] Speaker 2: Joanna, Welcome to the show.
[55:02] Speaker 10: Hey, how are you rich?
[55:04] Speaker 2: Good?
[55:04] Speaker 4: Now?
[55:04] Speaker 2: Were you born in New York, New Jersey or what?
[55:07] Speaker 12: I was born in New Jersey, lived in New York
[55:10] Speaker 12: for a long time, and now back in New Jersey.
[55:13] Speaker 2: So I love it. So how is my home state?
[55:17] Speaker 10: It's it's it. I would say it's doing great, but
[55:20] Speaker 10: it's cold. I think it's gonna be great. Tomorrow is
[55:23] Speaker 10: supposed to snow.
[55:24] Speaker 12: Okay, so yeah, we're gonna have some hopefully some weekend sledding.
[55:27] Speaker 12: But I can't say I'm not a little jealous.
[55:31] Speaker 10: Of where you live.
[55:32] Speaker 1: Well, it's been raining, so it's you know, But I
[55:34] Speaker 1: will tell you when I sled when I was sledding.
[55:37] Speaker 1: As a kid, we sled down this hill that literally
[55:40] Speaker 1: just like went right into a highway like this. Obviously,
[55:44] Speaker 1: like nowadays there's probably a fence and all that stuff,
[55:46] Speaker 1: but like when we were kids, it was just hey,
[55:47] Speaker 1: there's like less rules. So but we had I love
[55:49] Speaker 1: sledding when there was a snow day. All right, So
[55:52] Speaker 1: explain first off, what you do for the Wall Street
[55:55] Speaker 1: Journal if if people are not familiar, you write a
[55:57] Speaker 1: great column, but you do videos and stuff. So what's
[56:01] Speaker 1: your approach to technology?
[56:02] Speaker 2: Number one?
[56:03] Speaker 10: Yeah, that's about That's about right.
[56:06] Speaker 12: I write a column for the Wall Street Journal, but
[56:08] Speaker 12: I do not you know, my title is columnist, but
[56:10] Speaker 12: I would say I spend less time writing the column
[56:13] Speaker 12: and much more time out and about shooting videos and
[56:17] Speaker 12: doing some fun things on video.
[56:18] Speaker 10: But my approach is really the consumer first.
[56:21] Speaker 12: That I am out there testing and talking to the companies,
[56:26] Speaker 12: always advocating for the consumer, always thinking about do these
[56:30] Speaker 12: these tech products work well for us?
[56:32] Speaker 10: Which are the best to use?
[56:34] Speaker 12: Then often sometimes you know, investigating why things don't don't
[56:37] Speaker 12: work well. But that's where I enjoy this type of work.
[56:41] Speaker 12: It's just we're out there, we're using these things. And
[56:44] Speaker 12: the companies should give us more answers about the devices
[56:46] Speaker 12: and the products we're being given to use.
[56:49] Speaker 2: What about the hype of AI?
[56:51] Speaker 1: What do you make of AI at this point, because
[56:53] Speaker 1: now it's like, you know, everything is AI. I joke that,
[56:56] Speaker 1: you know, if you're coming, like it used to be
[56:58] Speaker 1: when you went to CES, the big consumer show, you know,
[57:00] Speaker 1: the big tech show in Las Vegas, I always joked
[57:03] Speaker 1: that they were in the process of adding Internet to everything,
[57:06] Speaker 1: including your coffee mug, which, by the way, this morning
[57:08] Speaker 1: I use an Ember mug, which does have, you know,
[57:10] Speaker 1: a connection to your phone. But now I joke that
[57:13] Speaker 1: everything has AI because it's just it has to. So
[57:17] Speaker 1: do you think there's too much hype on AI? And
[57:19] Speaker 1: do you think this is actually working for people?
[57:22] Speaker 12: I think there's a ton of hype, But I do
[57:24] Speaker 12: think it's one of the biggest moments we've experienced in
[57:27] Speaker 12: the tech industry in a long time. And you lived
[57:30] Speaker 12: through and we kind of covered it through it together.
[57:32] Speaker 12: The advent of mobile and how quickly the iPhone got better,
[57:36] Speaker 12: and how quickly Samsung and all these devices got better,
[57:38] Speaker 12: and how that changed the way we live.
[57:40] Speaker 10: I think that is absolutely where we're heading with AI.
[57:43] Speaker 12: I think, given what happened with mobile and everyone, you
[57:47] Speaker 12: just jumped on that, let's make an app. I mean
[57:49] Speaker 12: remember these days, the early days of apps, people are
[57:51] Speaker 12: making apps. You have a lighter on your phone. I
[57:54] Speaker 12: mean were there were all these.
[57:55] Speaker 10: Like yeah, nonsense whatever, nonsense type of things.
[57:59] Speaker 12: I mean, that's where we are with AI, and so
[58:01] Speaker 12: everyone's trying to get in, try to get a piece.
[58:04] Speaker 12: But I'm writing a book right now about the impact
[58:07] Speaker 12: of AI on my life for the for the next year,
[58:10] Speaker 12: starting in what was starting in January, I said, I'm
[58:13] Speaker 12: going to do as much of my life, as much
[58:15] Speaker 12: of the people and the products and the things I
[58:18] Speaker 12: do in life, I'm going to try to figure out
[58:20] Speaker 12: where AI can replace or augment or help.
[58:23] Speaker 2: Wait, what does that mean? Hold on, explain that.
[58:25] Speaker 10: I know.
[58:25] Speaker 1: Wait, like when you're going to dinner, deciding between two restaurants,
[58:28] Speaker 1: you just ask AI or what sure?
[58:31] Speaker 10: I'm doing stuff like that.
[58:32] Speaker 12: But I really think the deeper stuff is going to
[58:34] Speaker 12: come in the places where we interact with humans and
[58:37] Speaker 12: where we start to realize, wow, those humans are either
[58:39] Speaker 12: going to be replaced by AI or really working deeply
[58:43] Speaker 12: with AI. And one of the examples that this is
[58:45] Speaker 12: my first month on the book has been all about healthcare,
[58:48] Speaker 12: all about doctors and the way they're using AI. I'm
[58:51] Speaker 12: doing some really interesting stuff or I've seen a lot
[58:54] Speaker 12: of really interesting stuff on that.
[58:55] Speaker 1: You know.
[58:55] Speaker 12: I think there's a day that's going to come as
[58:57] Speaker 12: we're all going to go to the doctor and we're
[58:58] Speaker 12: going to realize, Okay, I'm really seeing a human, but
[59:01] Speaker 12: I'm also seeing some sort of robot or some sort
[59:03] Speaker 12: of bot here. And so I'm exploring all those types
[59:06] Speaker 12: of ways that A is going to infiltrate our lives.
[59:09] Speaker 12: That isn't just sitting in front of a computer and
[59:11] Speaker 12: talking to a chatbot.
[59:12] Speaker 2: I mean it's yeah, well that's the other thing.
[59:13] Speaker 1: It's like already starting with the chatbots where they're screening
[59:16] Speaker 1: you right, like if you need customer service for something,
[59:19] Speaker 1: it's like, well here, they push you to the chatbot
[59:21] Speaker 1: first that's AI obviously now, and then maybe it'll flick
[59:25] Speaker 1: you to an actual person later on down the road.
[59:28] Speaker 1: And I feel like with medicine that's going to happen too.
[59:30] Speaker 1: It's like they screen you like here, put on all
[59:32] Speaker 1: your stuff, like your symptoms whatever, and now the doctor
[59:35] Speaker 1: comes in with like a little bit of knowledge and
[59:37] Speaker 1: baseline understanding of what's going on before they talk to
[59:40] Speaker 1: you for twenty minutes.
[59:42] Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, and.
[59:42] Speaker 12: I'm like, part of this is, of course I'm seeing
[59:44] Speaker 12: human doctors this here, but every time I go to
[59:46] Speaker 12: the doctor, I get test results, I'm running those through AI.
[59:49] Speaker 12: Some of those those doctors are already doing that. They're
[59:53] Speaker 12: using it at radiology, they're using in these places.
[59:55] Speaker 10: So I'm going all in. I'm using it in that way.
[59:57] Speaker 12: I'm going to be doing transportation of course, self drive
[1:00:00] Speaker 12: in cars, all of that education. I'm just kind of
[1:00:02] Speaker 12: going all in for a year to see where we're at.
[1:00:05] Speaker 1: And you had a chance to check out the Weaimos
[1:00:08] Speaker 1: self driving car, right, weren't you in La recently?
[1:00:11] Speaker 2: I was you tried that? Did you try the Weaimo
[1:00:15] Speaker 2: while you're out here?
[1:00:16] Speaker 10: I did? I did.
[1:00:17] Speaker 12: I spend quite a bit of time in Weimo's and
[1:00:19] Speaker 12: I'm going out to Phoenix soon to spend even more
[1:00:21] Speaker 12: time in them.
[1:00:23] Speaker 10: I mean, I should ask you, what do you think
[1:00:25] Speaker 10: you live around them?
[1:00:26] Speaker 2: Well?
[1:00:26] Speaker 1: I live around them, but yeah, so it's interesting they
[1:00:29] Speaker 1: don't necessarily work in my neighborhood, yet they work where
[1:00:32] Speaker 1: I work, and so I have taken one, but I
[1:00:34] Speaker 1: did take it in San Francisco, and the other day
[1:00:37] Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to take one, and I was
[1:00:39] Speaker 1: a little bit scared.
[1:00:39] Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know if I actually want to.
[1:00:41] Speaker 2: I think I'm just gonna drive myself. I don't know.
[1:00:43] Speaker 1: I mean, I but I have my car drive itself
[1:00:46] Speaker 1: a lot. So it's it's this weird thing of it's
[1:00:50] Speaker 1: all software and I feel like it should be better,
[1:00:53] Speaker 1: but I'm not sure.
[1:00:56] Speaker 10: So I'm with you.
[1:00:57] Speaker 12: I think there's a lot of spectrum on this. Right,
[1:01:00] Speaker 12: there's the cars that drive yourself that you have either,
[1:01:03] Speaker 12: I don't know if you have a Tesla.
[1:01:04] Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, So look, you have.
[1:01:06] Speaker 12: A good chunk of self driving car software and there
[1:01:09] Speaker 12: autonomous software, and that is probably going to work in
[1:01:11] Speaker 12: some really good situations.
[1:01:13] Speaker 10: And of course we could get deep into that. But
[1:01:15] Speaker 10: then on the Waimo.
[1:01:16] Speaker 12: Side, I think it is it is really fascinating and
[1:01:19] Speaker 12: it really I've been telling everyone if you have the
[1:01:22] Speaker 12: opportunity to get in one of these, you.
[1:01:24] Speaker 10: Should do it.
[1:01:25] Speaker 12: It does feel so incredibly safe, especially in these cities
[1:01:29] Speaker 12: where these cars have been trained and have done the
[1:01:33] Speaker 12: same roots over and over and over again. I mean,
[1:01:37] Speaker 12: I truly feel like this was the most safe driver
[1:01:40] Speaker 12: I've ever been with. I did say and I pieced
[1:01:42] Speaker 12: there that it felt at times like it was like
[1:01:44] Speaker 12: my mom, it got a little nervous. But I think
[1:01:46] Speaker 12: it's in a good way in the sense of like, Okay,
[1:01:50] Speaker 12: it is cautious. It is always cautious in the intersections
[1:01:53] Speaker 12: that will make you feel nervous, but then once you
[1:01:55] Speaker 12: do it enough times, you're like, oh, yeah, this is
[1:01:56] Speaker 12: just how it approaches an intersection.
[1:01:58] Speaker 10: It wants to be incredibly safe.
[1:02:00] Speaker 12: But why I asked you is I think that some
[1:02:01] Speaker 12: of the funnier stories are about people who are living
[1:02:03] Speaker 12: in these spaces and just like.
[1:02:05] Speaker 10: Observing their odd behavior.
[1:02:07] Speaker 12: I also heard a story in LA And I was
[1:02:09] Speaker 12: in Davas a few weeks ago, and I was talking
[1:02:13] Speaker 12: to the company Serve, the Serve robotics that have the
[1:02:16] Speaker 12: little robots.
[1:02:17] Speaker 10: You've you've seen those around.
[1:02:18] Speaker 2: Your yeah, your area, of course, the delivery robots.
[1:02:21] Speaker 12: And I was asking him about this viral video of
[1:02:24] Speaker 12: the way moo that hit the serve robot.
[1:02:27] Speaker 10: Did you see that?
[1:02:28] Speaker 2: I did not see that, But that's funny too.
[1:02:30] Speaker 12: Hilarious because you're like, this is the future. The robots
[1:02:33] Speaker 12: just colliding in the streets.
[1:02:35] Speaker 2: That's amazing.
[1:02:38] Speaker 10: But yeah, I mean he.
[1:02:38] Speaker 12: Had a good explanation of why it probably happened, but yeah,
[1:02:42] Speaker 12: you're living in the future there.
[1:02:43] Speaker 1: In LA I'm amazed every time I see one of
[1:02:45] Speaker 1: those delivery robots that it's actually just working, and people
[1:02:49] Speaker 1: most of the time respect it. I mean, I know
[1:02:51] Speaker 1: they've been roughed up sometimes, but I mean it's just
[1:02:54] Speaker 1: it's like kind of sad.
[1:02:55] Speaker 2: It's like, this is just a little robot. Okay, so
[1:02:57] Speaker 2: I do to New.
[1:02:58] Speaker 12: York and New York here, and we're not going to
[1:03:00] Speaker 12: New York here because this is your your opening show.
[1:03:02] Speaker 12: But you know, we've still got regular grocery carts and
[1:03:06] Speaker 12: we're still yeah, we're.
[1:03:08] Speaker 10: Like nineteen ninety five. I would say, we're not so
[1:03:11] Speaker 10: far behind.
[1:03:12] Speaker 1: I'm wondering when, Yeah, like the self driving, if it
[1:03:15] Speaker 1: makes it to New York City, then we know it's
[1:03:16] Speaker 1: it's taken a it's reached a tipping point.
[1:03:18] Speaker 2: All right.
[1:03:19] Speaker 1: Before we run out of time here, I do need
[1:03:21] Speaker 1: to ask you some some Jersey and New York questions. So,
[1:03:24] Speaker 1: first off, ever pumped your own gas?
[1:03:27] Speaker 10: I live. I live in New Jersey. Of course I
[1:03:31] Speaker 10: grew up.
[1:03:31] Speaker 12: I go to other states thinking I need to pump
[1:03:34] Speaker 12: my own gas.
[1:03:36] Speaker 1: Well, you do pump in other states and New Jersey
[1:03:38] Speaker 1: you can't write, isn't it still illegal?
[1:03:41] Speaker 4: Oh?
[1:03:41] Speaker 10: Sorry, so you're asking.
[1:03:43] Speaker 4: Yes.
[1:03:43] Speaker 1: Sorry, I was like, wait a second, are you just
[1:03:46] Speaker 1: breaking the rules here every day?
[1:03:47] Speaker 10: I'm sorry, I've got it opposite there.
[1:03:49] Speaker 12: Okay, yes, have pumped my own gas, but only learned
[1:03:52] Speaker 12: when I went to college and went to other states.
[1:03:54] Speaker 2: Okay, that makes more sense.
[1:03:56] Speaker 1: Okay, that makes much more sense, because yeah, like I
[1:03:59] Speaker 1: I jump out of my car when I get to
[1:04:00] Speaker 1: Jersey and I'm like, oh, hey, I can't do this,
[1:04:02] Speaker 1: but I love it. When it's freezing cold, you have
[1:04:04] Speaker 1: to you open your like window a tiny little slit
[1:04:07] Speaker 1: and like slip your credit card through it, and it's
[1:04:08] Speaker 1: like here, fill it up.
[1:04:10] Speaker 2: Sorry okay.
[1:04:12] Speaker 12: And I'm also thinking that when I go to other states,
[1:04:14] Speaker 12: same situation. I'll sometimes sit there now.
[1:04:18] Speaker 1: Waiting for someone to come to you, and it's just
[1:04:20] Speaker 1: like nope, not happening, right.
[1:04:22] Speaker 12: But also I guess it's similar to you drive an
[1:04:24] Speaker 12: ev now and don't spend that much time at gas stations.
[1:04:27] Speaker 2: Yes, Times Square magical or a tourist trap.
[1:04:35] Speaker 10: Somewhere in between.
[1:04:36] Speaker 12: I still like to walk through Times Square every couple
[1:04:39] Speaker 12: of months to see some things that have changed. I live,
[1:04:41] Speaker 12: I work right in Times Square, so I have to
[1:04:43] Speaker 12: kind of trudge through it if I sometimes need to
[1:04:45] Speaker 12: get to the train station. But you know, it changes
[1:04:48] Speaker 12: every so often, and when of the changes are made,
[1:04:50] Speaker 12: it's fun to see them.
[1:04:51] Speaker 2: And have you ever been to the top of the
[1:04:53] Speaker 2: Empire State Building or is that just for tourists?
[1:04:56] Speaker 7: You know what?
[1:04:56] Speaker 10: I never have been to the top of the Empire
[1:04:58] Speaker 10: State Building.
[1:04:59] Speaker 12: I always wanted to because I grew up listening to
[1:05:02] Speaker 12: Z one hundred and.
[1:05:02] Speaker 2: I was yester. Yes, but like they.
[1:05:06] Speaker 10: Went I remember, I think it was like fourth grade,
[1:05:08] Speaker 10: like my school trip. They went on one and I
[1:05:10] Speaker 10: was sick that day.
[1:05:11] Speaker 12: They went to the top of the Empire Statement and
[1:05:12] Speaker 12: I've never done it, so I guess I should take
[1:05:14] Speaker 12: my kids.
[1:05:14] Speaker 1: Okay, quick story, I'm out of time. But so when
[1:05:16] Speaker 1: I was young, of course you one hundred from the
[1:05:18] Speaker 1: top of the Empire State Building. I finally make my
[1:05:22] Speaker 1: way up as a high schooler and I'm like, where's
[1:05:24] Speaker 1: this Z one hundred studio. They're like, kid, you got
[1:05:27] Speaker 1: to listen closely. They said broadcasting, not the studio. So
[1:05:32] Speaker 1: that's right. I that was like, oh my gosh, life lesson,
[1:05:35] Speaker 1: Joanna Stern, this has been so much fun.
[1:05:37] Speaker 2: Good luck with the book. What's it called?
[1:05:40] Speaker 12: The working title is chat but like but with two
[1:05:43] Speaker 12: t's at the at the end. So if listeners like that,
[1:05:46] Speaker 12: tell me let me know, hit me up on social
[1:05:48] Speaker 12: let me know.
[1:05:48] Speaker 10: If I should keep that or should keep thinking of
[1:05:50] Speaker 10: a new one.
[1:05:50] Speaker 2: All right, Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal, thanks so much
[1:05:52] Speaker 2: for joining me today. Appreciate it.
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[1:06:19] Speaker 1: get in touch. Let's go to Ron in Palm Springs. Ron,
[1:06:24] Speaker 1: welcome to the show.
[1:06:26] Speaker 6: Hi, good after me a long time listener. First time I'm.
[1:06:29] Speaker 2: Calling you, but uh well, thank you?
[1:06:33] Speaker 6: Using I was using Yeah, I've been using Microsoft Word.
[1:06:37] Speaker 4: We're writing. Writing a letter.
[1:06:39] Speaker 6: Yesterday was fine. I opened up my computer this morning
[1:06:42] Speaker 6: and now the spelling checker is in Spanish. How do
[1:06:45] Speaker 6: I get it back to English?
[1:06:46] Speaker 2: Were you writing in Spanish or English?
[1:06:49] Speaker 12: No?
[1:06:50] Speaker 6: English? And it asked it starting to say all my
[1:06:52] Speaker 6: words in the first sentence where we're incorrect. They gave
[1:06:55] Speaker 6: me some Hispanic alternatives. So then I wrote burrito and
[1:07:00] Speaker 6: it was correct. So figure I'm in Spanish spelling checker.
[1:07:03] Speaker 1: Oh okay, interesting, is burrito a Spanish? I guess it
[1:07:06] Speaker 1: is a Spanish word.
[1:07:07] Speaker 6: It didn't say it was wrong.
[1:07:11] Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the deal.
[1:07:13] Speaker 1: I so I actually went on my Windows computer to
[1:07:16] Speaker 1: try to see how to set the language and my
[1:07:19] Speaker 1: version of Office is expired, which I'm embarrassed to say,
[1:07:23] Speaker 1: but I think that's pretty common with a lot of people.
[1:07:25] Speaker 1: It's like, oh wait a second, but I'm looking here,
[1:07:28] Speaker 1: and have you tried going to set the language preferences
[1:07:32] Speaker 1: in the options?
[1:07:33] Speaker 2: Have you done that?
[1:07:34] Speaker 6: I haven't found that.
[1:07:35] Speaker 2: Okay.
[1:07:36] Speaker 6: I just got home.
[1:07:36] Speaker 1: So okay, now is this a new version or an
[1:07:41] Speaker 1: old version of Office?
[1:07:44] Speaker 6: It's the new three sixty five co pilot version.
[1:07:48] Speaker 1: Okay, so it looks like you can go into file
[1:07:52] Speaker 1: options and language and this will set the authoring, proofing
[1:07:57] Speaker 1: and display language. So file options language and that may
[1:08:03] Speaker 1: be set to Spanish, so you might want to just
[1:08:05] Speaker 1: make sure that's set to English and hopefully that should
[1:08:09] Speaker 1: fix it. The other thing you could do if that's
[1:08:11] Speaker 1: not working is I would you know, close it out,
[1:08:13] Speaker 1: reopen it, restart it and see if that you know,
[1:08:16] Speaker 1: and then go into the settings and make sure that
[1:08:18] Speaker 1: that's set. It's odd that it would just switch by
[1:08:20] Speaker 1: itself without exactly yeah, without but that, but that's the best.
[1:08:25] Speaker 1: You know, when tech does that, that's the best is
[1:08:27] Speaker 1: that you know, it just does things that we don't
[1:08:29] Speaker 1: understand why it does it. So try that. Yeah, and
[1:08:36] Speaker 1: do you see what what is it saying? Does it
[1:08:38] Speaker 1: say it's English?
[1:08:39] Speaker 6: Prefer English? It says preferred English proofing initiated? Okay, the
[1:08:45] Speaker 6: United States General preferred.
[1:08:47] Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
[1:08:49] Speaker 1: So hopefully now when you write okay, when you when
[1:08:54] Speaker 1: you write click a word like when it gets a
[1:08:56] Speaker 1: little squigglies underneath, is it giving you suggestions in Spanish?
[1:08:59] Speaker 6: Arning, Yes, it's giving me Okay, now that I've done this,
[1:09:03] Speaker 6: I'm going to go back to.
[1:09:08] Speaker 1: So here's the other thing. So okay, so if you're
[1:09:12] Speaker 1: I mean every all the yeah, I mean all of
[1:09:15] Speaker 1: the options that I'm seeing are all under this uh
[1:09:18] Speaker 1: file options language. So the only thing I would say
[1:09:21] Speaker 1: is that perhaps you have you might have a global
[1:09:24] Speaker 1: option on your you know Windows PC that's uh this,
[1:09:27] Speaker 1: you know a similar option. So in that case, I
[1:09:30] Speaker 1: would go into your settings and search for language and
[1:09:33] Speaker 1: make sure that that's set to English, and are using
[1:09:36] Speaker 1: this through a web browser or through your or through an.
[1:09:39] Speaker 6: Appu through on a web on a web browser. It's
[1:09:45] Speaker 6: one of my one of the apps that I have
[1:09:47] Speaker 6: on my I came with the computer and it just
[1:09:49] Speaker 6: switched me to co pilot two days ago. So maybe
[1:09:54] Speaker 6: it's something new. But my options are propeller, propel and
[1:09:57] Speaker 6: propeller for property.
[1:10:00] Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
[1:10:00] Speaker 1: Okay, well yeah, this is quite the quite the situation here, okay.
[1:10:06] Speaker 1: And even if you so, have you tried restarting and
[1:10:09] Speaker 1: then setting English as your language.
[1:10:11] Speaker 6: It happened last night and I said forget, I'm going
[1:10:14] Speaker 6: back to it this morning. It's still there.
[1:10:16] Speaker 4: Wow.
[1:10:17] Speaker 2: Okay, that's interesting.
[1:10:18] Speaker 1: The only other thing I would check is in your
[1:10:20] Speaker 1: web browser there's there's a section called preferred languages. So
[1:10:25] Speaker 1: if you go into your settings on your web browser
[1:10:28] Speaker 1: settings and then search language, you should see the preferred
[1:10:31] Speaker 1: languages there and that should be English. But my greater
[1:10:34] Speaker 1: advice ron without being in front of the computer, is
[1:10:39] Speaker 1: all like I would start at the local level and
[1:10:41] Speaker 1: keep working up and make sure, uh to go into
[1:10:44] Speaker 1: settings and just search for language and make sure everything's
[1:10:47] Speaker 1: set to English if that's what you want to use,
[1:10:50] Speaker 1: and again set it start at the browser, then you
[1:10:53] Speaker 1: can go up to you know, word or actually I
[1:10:55] Speaker 1: would start at word and then go to the browser
[1:10:57] Speaker 1: and then go up to the computer at large and
[1:11:00] Speaker 1: just search language and make sure they're all set to English.
[1:11:03] Speaker 1: That's an interesting one.
[1:11:05] Speaker 2: Wow.
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[1:11:56] Speaker 1: you there. We'll get to you in just a moment.
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[1:11:58] Speaker 2: Libra Office. Libra Office.
[1:12:01] Speaker 1: This is a privacy focused alternative to sort of the
[1:12:06] Speaker 1: big you know, like the Microsoft Words of the world,
[1:12:09] Speaker 1: the Google docs of the world. So if you want
[1:12:11] Speaker 1: something that you can download that is completely free, they
[1:12:15] Speaker 1: have a brand new version of this Libra l I
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[1:12:40] Speaker 1: this is privacy focused. It's got an option, a new
[1:12:42] Speaker 1: option to remove all personal data from documents like time
[1:12:46] Speaker 1: stamps and author info. It's got a whole bunch It's
[1:12:50] Speaker 1: just a whole bunch of new stuff. So one thing
[1:12:52] Speaker 1: you do need to know. Support for Windows seven and
[1:12:55] Speaker 1: eight of this program is ending, so you got to
[1:12:59] Speaker 1: upgrade before version twenty five point eight, so that's coming soon.
[1:13:04] Speaker 2: I guess.
[1:13:05] Speaker 6: Uh.
[1:13:05] Speaker 1: But Libraoffice remains free and open source, and it supports
[1:13:10] Speaker 1: the uh ODF files and the Microsoft formats. And I
[1:13:15] Speaker 1: downloaded this yesterday just to kind of try it out
[1:13:19] Speaker 1: before I talked about it, and it's great. I mean,
[1:13:21] Speaker 1: it just looks like Microsoft Word and Excel in the
[1:13:24] Speaker 1: spreadsheet program, So I mean, why not. I personally use
[1:13:28] Speaker 1: Google Docs, But I understand if you're, you know, more
[1:13:31] Speaker 1: privacy centric, or you don't like big tech or something
[1:13:34] Speaker 1: like that, and you want to use something that's a
[1:13:35] Speaker 1: little bit more open source, then I would check this out.
[1:13:39] Speaker 1: The website is uh libra l I b R eoffice
[1:13:44] Speaker 1: dot org slash download and I will put that on
[1:13:48] Speaker 1: the website rich on tech dot TV. Meanwhile, if you
[1:13:52] Speaker 1: had an iPhone seven with the loop disease, you are
[1:13:57] Speaker 1: you might have gotten a payout. So I guess Apple
[1:13:59] Speaker 1: pay out thirty five million dollars in a class action
[1:14:02] Speaker 1: settlement related to this loop disease. I guess the software
[1:14:07] Speaker 1: was making it. Boot Loop payments are around two hundred dollars,
[1:14:12] Speaker 1: so if you got like an email that said, hey,
[1:14:14] Speaker 1: claim your two hundred bucks or your payouts coming, like, yes,
[1:14:16] Speaker 1: you should do it, but you know, obviously you should
[1:14:19] Speaker 1: confirm that it's legitimate because you know, whenever something like
[1:14:23] Speaker 1: this happens, these other people they scam artists. They will
[1:14:26] Speaker 1: look at that and say, ooh, let's try to figure
[1:14:28] Speaker 1: out how we can scam people. So no matter what,
[1:14:31] Speaker 1: let me see if I can find something on this
[1:14:35] Speaker 1: iPhone loop disease. So it was oh sorry, it was
[1:14:40] Speaker 1: degraded audio and call quality and listening to music caused
[1:14:44] Speaker 1: by users applying pressure on a certain part of the phone.
[1:14:47] Speaker 1: I do not remember this when this happened, but that's interesting.
[1:14:51] Speaker 1: I was a while ago iPhone seven. That was a
[1:14:55] Speaker 1: real long time ago. Anyway, if you but here's the deal,
[1:14:58] Speaker 1: this this is over. So you had to make that
[1:15:00] Speaker 1: claim a long time ago. But up to three hundred
[1:15:03] Speaker 1: and forty nine dollars, that's pretty good.
[1:15:05] Speaker 2: All right, let's go to uh rick in uh Let's
[1:15:09] Speaker 2: see west Hill's Rick. You're on with Rich.
[1:15:14] Speaker 11: Hey, Rich, thank you for taking my call. So I'll
[1:15:16] Speaker 11: try to be quick. I just want to know if
[1:15:18] Speaker 11: I should purchase more Apple storage or buy an app
[1:15:22] Speaker 11: to help clean up my photos or back up to
[1:15:25] Speaker 11: my computer. And then the second part of the question
[1:15:28] Speaker 11: is if I do back up to the computer, I
[1:15:30] Speaker 11: don't know how that works because it keeps adding the
[1:15:32] Speaker 11: same pictures over and over again, does it? Anyway, those
[1:15:35] Speaker 11: are that's the question.
[1:15:36] Speaker 1: Okay, So first the first question is should you tell
[1:15:42] Speaker 1: me them again?
[1:15:42] Speaker 11: Oh, purchase more Apple storage. I purchased the fifty gig plans,
[1:15:47] Speaker 11: but I've already used one hundred gigabytes, so I'm not
[1:15:50] Speaker 11: obviously my phone is not backing up now.
[1:15:52] Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So man, I so the thing about Apple
[1:15:56] Speaker 1: storage is so I'm on the I think I'm on
[1:15:59] Speaker 1: the five terabyte plan on Google. So I use Google Storage. Yeah,
[1:16:04] Speaker 1: I've got three I've got like three terabytes of photos.
[1:16:06] Speaker 1: So but you know, it's all my videos and stuff
[1:16:08] Speaker 1: from work. So it's like, I, you know, I'd rather
[1:16:10] Speaker 1: keep it than get rid of it. But the thing is,
[1:16:13] Speaker 1: so I would you could do two things. You could
[1:16:16] Speaker 1: either try to pare down the hundred gigs or you
[1:16:18] Speaker 1: said you have one hundred gigs on your phone, but
[1:16:20] Speaker 1: you have fifty available to you.
[1:16:22] Speaker 11: Yeah, so I bought the two night I think it's
[1:16:24] Speaker 11: the two ninety nine plan, So it's like fifty gigabytes
[1:16:27] Speaker 11: and do you.
[1:16:27] Speaker 2: Know how much of that? Do you know how much
[1:16:29] Speaker 2: of that is photos?
[1:16:30] Speaker 4: Yeah?
[1:16:30] Speaker 11: Photos is twenty eight.
[1:16:31] Speaker 1: Okay, so photos, So you're still like, even with that
[1:16:34] Speaker 1: twenty eight, that's a lot. I mean, you've got that's
[1:16:36] Speaker 1: a lot of you know, a lot of photos.
[1:16:38] Speaker 11: So iPhone and iPhone and iPhone, so they add.
[1:16:42] Speaker 2: Up, right. So there's a couple of things you could do.
[1:16:43] Speaker 2: You could.
[1:16:45] Speaker 1: You could try to pare down the twenty eight gigs
[1:16:48] Speaker 1: to get under the fifty with your backup of your phone,
[1:16:51] Speaker 1: but that's going to be really tough because you're going
[1:16:53] Speaker 1: to be spending a lot of time and it's just
[1:16:55] Speaker 1: going to be like, you know, you're just gonna be
[1:16:57] Speaker 1: pulling your hair out. The other thing you could do
[1:16:59] Speaker 1: is you could just not if money is not a problem, Like,
[1:17:02] Speaker 1: if you're not how much is the step up to
[1:17:05] Speaker 1: the next sire?
[1:17:06] Speaker 11: I'll shoot, I knew I should have wrote that down.
[1:17:07] Speaker 11: It probably like three ninety nine a month or something
[1:17:10] Speaker 11: like that or something.
[1:17:11] Speaker 4: It's that bad.
[1:17:12] Speaker 1: Yeah, So if that feels fair to you, then that's
[1:17:14] Speaker 1: probably the easiest solution. But what I would do in
[1:17:17] Speaker 1: once you upgrade to that is, I would pare down
[1:17:20] Speaker 1: your camera roll, get get some of the big videos
[1:17:22] Speaker 1: out of there that you don't need, or duplicate pictures
[1:17:24] Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. So that's the second
[1:17:26] Speaker 1: thing I would do. As for offloading to your computer,
[1:17:30] Speaker 1: that's my least favorite option because it's the most labor intensive. Yes,
[1:17:35] Speaker 1: your computer can figure out which like when you plug
[1:17:38] Speaker 1: your phone into your computer, let's say of a Windows computer,
[1:17:41] Speaker 1: it can it can import just the new pictures or
[1:17:43] Speaker 1: on a Mac it'll do this. It'll it'll figure out
[1:17:45] Speaker 1: which ones it hasn't imported, so it can do that.
[1:17:48] Speaker 1: But now you have to make sure that those pictures
[1:17:51] Speaker 1: are backed up somehow on your computer.
[1:17:53] Speaker 2: Right now.
[1:17:55] Speaker 1: There is an argument there that you can say, well, rich,
[1:17:57] Speaker 1: I've got my photo, I've got one copy on my phone,
[1:18:00] Speaker 1: and now I've got one copy on my computer, so
[1:18:02] Speaker 1: I'm good. And typically we would say you'd want one
[1:18:05] Speaker 1: copy on your computer, one copy on your phone, and
[1:18:08] Speaker 1: one copy in the cloud somewhere right just to make
[1:18:11] Speaker 1: sure you've got you know, everything covered. So those are
[1:18:15] Speaker 1: kind of your options. What are you leaning towards? What
[1:18:17] Speaker 1: do you feel like you want to do.
[1:18:19] Speaker 11: I'm leaning just buying that seems like the cheapest option.
[1:18:21] Speaker 11: But I don't know if the wife would like that.
[1:18:23] Speaker 11: She just she hates to spend money on things like that.
[1:18:25] Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's and so it's a I totally get that.
[1:18:28] Speaker 1: And of course that's what Apple wants you to do, right,
[1:18:30] Speaker 1: I mean, that's why they that's why Apple does not
[1:18:32] Speaker 1: make it easy. Like if you told me, like if
[1:18:35] Speaker 1: you said, Rich, how do I find all the biggest
[1:18:37] Speaker 1: video files on my phone?
[1:18:39] Speaker 2: Right now? They don't make it easy to do that.
[1:18:41] Speaker 1: Like you can't sort like on a Samsung device or
[1:18:43] Speaker 1: on a Google device, you could just go in and
[1:18:46] Speaker 1: literally sort my largest videos and just get rid of them,
[1:18:48] Speaker 1: right if you say, oh, I ran my camera for
[1:18:51] Speaker 1: twenty four hours and forgot about it. But like on
[1:18:53] Speaker 1: the iPhone, it's really tricky. So there are some there
[1:18:57] Speaker 1: are some apps that will do this for you. Clean
[1:19:01] Speaker 1: my Phone is one of them. You can check that
[1:19:03] Speaker 1: out and see. But again, you know, it's it's going
[1:19:07] Speaker 1: to take a while to figure this stuff out, to
[1:19:08] Speaker 1: get to get this to a place where it's under
[1:19:10] Speaker 1: the fifty gigs, including your backups. I think you're right, Rick,
[1:19:15] Speaker 1: The other thing you could do is if you're a
[1:19:17] Speaker 1: member or do you have Amazon Prime. I do, okay,
[1:19:20] Speaker 1: so they have a free photos app that as long
[1:19:22] Speaker 1: as you're an Amazon Prime member, you can download this
[1:19:25] Speaker 1: photos app from Amazon and it will back up all
[1:19:29] Speaker 1: of your photos for free and unlimited at full resolution.
[1:19:32] Speaker 1: But yeah, well the caveat is two things. Number One,
[1:19:39] Speaker 1: you have to be a Prime member, So if you
[1:19:40] Speaker 1: stop paying for Prime, you know, they'll give you a
[1:19:42] Speaker 1: certain amount of time where you have to download all
[1:19:44] Speaker 1: your stuff before they kick you out, you know, So
[1:19:47] Speaker 1: that's number one. Number two is they don't give you
[1:19:50] Speaker 1: any story. They give you a tiny bit of storage
[1:19:52] Speaker 1: for videos, so it's not a solution for your videos,
[1:19:56] Speaker 1: but if you want, you know, you can use this
[1:19:58] Speaker 1: as another way of offloading these pictures. So I use
[1:20:03] Speaker 1: it personally as like a secondary backup and I just
[1:20:05] Speaker 1: turn off the videos completely.
[1:20:06] Speaker 2: I say, don't even back up videos. Which it's actually
[1:20:09] Speaker 2: nice that the app gives you that option.
[1:20:11] Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, I didn't know about that, so thank you.
[1:20:13] Speaker 4: I appreciate that.
[1:20:14] Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, look the photos. If you look
[1:20:17] Speaker 1: at the earnings reports of all the major companies, whether
[1:20:20] Speaker 1: it's Amazon, whether it is Apple and Google. The number
[1:20:25] Speaker 1: one growth for these companies right now is in what's
[1:20:28] Speaker 1: called their service and cloud divisions. And why do you
[1:20:32] Speaker 1: think that is all the stuff that we are uploading
[1:20:35] Speaker 1: from our phones? And why do you think these phones,
[1:20:37] Speaker 1: you know they keep they shoot in four K, they
[1:20:39] Speaker 1: shoot and you know higher megapixels, they're all taken up.
[1:20:43] Speaker 1: This is this is where it's at, Like, this is
[1:20:45] Speaker 1: money that these companies will make forever based on us
[1:20:48] Speaker 1: being unorganized.
[1:20:51] Speaker 11: I was I was thinking Apple's not selling a phone,
[1:20:53] Speaker 11: They're selling storage.
[1:20:54] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's really what it comes down to. They
[1:20:56] Speaker 1: sell the phone they make. You know, people are holding
[1:20:58] Speaker 1: their phones for thirty nine months now, so that that
[1:21:01] Speaker 1: money you spend on a phone, let's say you spend
[1:21:03] Speaker 1: eight hundred to one thousand dollars.
[1:21:04] Speaker 2: Do the math.
[1:21:05] Speaker 1: But if you're spending I mean Apple iCloud storage starts
[1:21:09] Speaker 1: at ninety nine cents a month, three ninety nine, five,
[1:21:11] Speaker 1: ninety nine, ten dollars, I think I'm up to twenty.
[1:21:14] Speaker 1: I'm up to two hundred and fifty dollars a year
[1:21:16] Speaker 1: on my Google storage, Apple storage. I pay for the
[1:21:21] Speaker 1: ridiculous Apple one, which is another forty bucks a month
[1:21:24] Speaker 1: and then I pay for Dropbox. So I mean, you know,
[1:21:27] Speaker 1: but I don't want anything to go away. So I'm
[1:21:29] Speaker 1: I'm a little crazy in that way where I want
[1:21:31] Speaker 1: everything all at once, and you know, plus I test
[1:21:34] Speaker 1: this stuff out, so well.
[1:21:35] Speaker 4: Thank you.
[1:21:36] Speaker 11: I'm going to hopefully my wife Maria will allow me
[1:21:38] Speaker 11: just to get the cloud stuff and just fight the bullet.
[1:21:41] Speaker 1: Yeah, I would sit down and uh, you know, like
[1:21:43] Speaker 1: I say to my wife, you know, if we're spending
[1:21:45] Speaker 1: over you know, a certain amount of money, usually like
[1:21:47] Speaker 1: over one hundred bucks, it's like family meeting time.
[1:21:49] Speaker 2: We got to talk about this. We got to discuss
[1:21:52] Speaker 2: So sit.
[1:21:53] Speaker 1: Down, you know, maybe pour some wine, you know, just
[1:21:56] Speaker 1: get everyone a little bit relaxed, and you know, we
[1:22:00] Speaker 1: talk about this cloud storage thing.
[1:22:02] Speaker 11: Rick all right, say thanks for your time. I really
[1:22:04] Speaker 11: appreciate it.
[1:22:05] Speaker 2: Thanks for the question. Appreciate it.
[1:22:07] Speaker 1: Just one more example of the fact that none of
[1:22:10] Speaker 1: us are organized when it comes to our photos. I
[1:22:12] Speaker 1: will tell you this, at the end of the day,
[1:22:15] Speaker 1: sit down and go through your photo role. Just take
[1:22:18] Speaker 1: ten minutes a day, because that is the best way
[1:22:20] Speaker 1: I found to get rid of a lot of the clutter,
[1:22:22] Speaker 1: a lot of the things you do during the day,
[1:22:24] Speaker 1: you don't necessarily need it long term eight eight eight
[1:22:27] Speaker 1: Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
[1:22:30] Speaker 1: two Poor one zero one. This is rich on Tech.
[1:22:35] Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
[1:22:37] Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. You can find me online
[1:22:42] Speaker 1: at richon Tech dot tv. Coming up this hour, YouTuber
[1:22:46] Speaker 1: Jimmy is Promo is going to talk about the Samsung
[1:22:51] Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty five and give some tips and tricks
[1:22:53] Speaker 1: if you have a Samsung device, and we'll get to
[1:22:57] Speaker 1: the phone lines in just a moment. But first couple
[1:22:59] Speaker 1: of items of no true caller. This app finally, finally,
[1:23:04] Speaker 1: finally brings real time caller ID to the iPhone and
[1:23:08] Speaker 1: I got my first call yesterday where I identified it
[1:23:12] Speaker 1: using this app. So iPhone for many many years has
[1:23:16] Speaker 1: had spam blockers and some level of caller ID, but
[1:23:19] Speaker 1: this is the first time that apps can take advantage
[1:23:22] Speaker 1: of a new feature in the latest version of the
[1:23:25] Speaker 1: iOS software eighteen I think eighteen point three or eighteen
[1:23:29] Speaker 1: point two rather and basically you can now see real
[1:23:33] Speaker 1: time caller ID for the first time. I'm not going
[1:23:35] Speaker 1: to get into it, but it used to be that
[1:23:37] Speaker 1: apps like True Caller were limited to like a small
[1:23:40] Speaker 1: database of phone numbers they stored on your phone, but
[1:23:43] Speaker 1: now it can actually look up using what's called live
[1:23:47] Speaker 1: caller ID when someone actually calls. So this is a
[1:23:51] Speaker 1: paid subscriber situation, so you do have to pay either
[1:23:54] Speaker 1: ten dollars a month or seventy five dollars for the year.
[1:23:56] Speaker 1: But if you've been looking for a solution on the
[1:23:59] Speaker 1: iPhone for actual caller ID and also spam blocking that
[1:24:04] Speaker 1: actually works, this might be the solution. And again, yesterday
[1:24:09] Speaker 1: I got my first call where the caller phone number
[1:24:11] Speaker 1: came up with the name and I was like, oh,
[1:24:13] Speaker 1: there it is. Wow, it works. So True Caller is
[1:24:16] Speaker 1: the app. They do have a level of free service,
[1:24:18] Speaker 1: but if you want this new premium real time caller ID,
[1:24:22] Speaker 1: you gotta get the paid Let's see what else here?
[1:24:26] Speaker 1: Oh this app I love. It's called Rosebud. This is
[1:24:30] Speaker 1: a journaling app and it uses AI. And I'm not
[1:24:34] Speaker 1: kidding you know, I'm not a huge journaling guy, but
[1:24:38] Speaker 1: this has made me journal because I love it. It's
[1:24:42] Speaker 1: so it's called Rosebud and basically you put an entry
[1:24:46] Speaker 1: into the app and then the app uses AI to
[1:24:49] Speaker 1: kind of read what you wrote and gives you either
[1:24:52] Speaker 1: questions back or insights on what you wrote. So if
[1:24:55] Speaker 1: you're having like a rough day at work, you write
[1:24:57] Speaker 1: in I keep having problems with gym at work. You know,
[1:25:00] Speaker 1: just it's on my case every day about this. It
[1:25:02] Speaker 1: will basically identify like how you think, patterns, and it
[1:25:07] Speaker 1: just learns about you over time. I mean, it's really good.
[1:25:11] Speaker 1: I don't want to call this therapy, but it feels
[1:25:13] Speaker 1: almost like a mix of like therapy and life coaching
[1:25:17] Speaker 1: all in one. And it's again, I can't tell you
[1:25:21] Speaker 1: how good this is now. I know it seems a
[1:25:24] Speaker 1: little scary to have AI kind of like reading what
[1:25:27] Speaker 1: you're writing. But the guys who made this app, they
[1:25:30] Speaker 1: tell me everything is private, everything's encrypted, nobody's reading your stuff.
[1:25:34] Speaker 1: But I love this app. You type something in, like
[1:25:37] Speaker 1: the other day, I had a little thing at work
[1:25:39] Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, let me type this into Rosebud.
[1:25:41] Speaker 1: And the insights that it gives you about your life
[1:25:44] Speaker 1: are just like wow, it figures out, like it'll say, Rich,
[1:25:48] Speaker 1: here's how you think. Here's the pattern we notice over
[1:25:51] Speaker 1: and over. Here's what we notice you do over and over.
[1:25:53] Speaker 1: You say, over and over or how you react to
[1:25:55] Speaker 1: this situation over and over and it's really spot on.
[1:26:00] Speaker 1: So if you're looking for more like self awareness, self reflection,
[1:26:04] Speaker 1: maybe you just want to start a journal in the
[1:26:06] Speaker 1: new year, I would.
[1:26:07] Speaker 2: Check out this app. It's really really cool.
[1:26:10] Speaker 1: The website rosebud Dot app rosebud Dot app. It's available
[1:26:17] Speaker 1: for iPhone and Android, and I think, you know, if
[1:26:20] Speaker 1: you're looking to improve your mental health, you want that
[1:26:23] Speaker 1: kind of Like I told my wife the other day,
[1:26:24] Speaker 1: she was stressed out about something.
[1:26:26] Speaker 2: I said, did you journal about it?
[1:26:28] Speaker 1: Now that I'm mister journal And she, by the way,
[1:26:30] Speaker 1: is into like counseling and all that stuff, so she's like, no,
[1:26:33] Speaker 1: I haven't. I'm like, all right, well try that. And
[1:26:35] Speaker 1: I'm telling it just feels better to like write something
[1:26:39] Speaker 1: out and just get it out of your head and
[1:26:42] Speaker 1: onto somewhere else and then to get that. It gives
[1:26:45] Speaker 1: you a weekly report of like all the stuff that
[1:26:47] Speaker 1: happened and even figures out your mood. It'll give you
[1:26:49] Speaker 1: like a weekly like here was your mood during the
[1:26:52] Speaker 1: week based on how you wrote. So I really really
[1:26:54] Speaker 1: like this app rosebud And yes it's freemium, so there
[1:26:57] Speaker 1: is a free level of things you can do on it,
[1:26:59] Speaker 1: and of course a paid level. Kathy and Pittsburgh, welcome
[1:27:03] Speaker 1: to the show.
[1:27:04] Speaker 8: Hi. I'll warn you your listeners are going to be
[1:27:07] Speaker 8: bored and they're going to be laughing.
[1:27:09] Speaker 2: Okay, well are they listening to just me? Or is
[1:27:12] Speaker 2: that including what you're going to say?
[1:27:13] Speaker 8: No, that's what I'm going to say. First time. I
[1:27:15] Speaker 8: just heard you today, So thank you for taking my call.
[1:27:19] Speaker 8: Almost eighty years old, and I have been using Windows
[1:27:23] Speaker 8: eighty one on a desktop forever.
[1:27:26] Speaker 4: I love it.
[1:27:27] Speaker 8: But all of a sudden, I'm just getting delused with
[1:27:31] Speaker 8: must upgrade, you know, in order to access So I said, okay,
[1:27:36] Speaker 8: kicking and screaming. I'm trying to figure out what to get,
[1:27:41] Speaker 8: and I have to hardware everything in my house. But
[1:27:44] Speaker 8: here's two considerations. I recently was away from home for
[1:27:47] Speaker 8: a couple of weeks and had go to the library
[1:27:50] Speaker 8: to be able to access my emails, and such a
[1:27:51] Speaker 8: nice discuss to stop. So I'm looking for something that's portable,
[1:27:56] Speaker 8: and I don't know whether to go for a app
[1:28:00] Speaker 8: top tablet or what now. And I will mention because
[1:28:05] Speaker 8: I'm Wi Fi sensitive, I limit my use on my
[1:28:08] Speaker 8: cell phone. But I can put some protection and some
[1:28:12] Speaker 8: grounding to use.
[1:28:13] Speaker 2: A laptop or right, you can use a connection like
[1:28:16] Speaker 2: a wire.
[1:28:16] Speaker 1: I've got less than a minute, so I've got to Okay,
[1:28:18] Speaker 1: so here's my question for you, Kathy.
[1:28:20] Speaker 8: But what could you recommend for an old person that
[1:28:23] Speaker 8: doesn't really use their computer for much but emails than routes.
[1:28:26] Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I was going to ask you.
[1:28:27] Speaker 1: Do you want to accomplish work on this or you
[1:28:29] Speaker 1: just want to mostly consume?
[1:28:31] Speaker 4: No?
[1:28:32] Speaker 1: Okay, then I would say just get an iPad and
[1:28:34] Speaker 1: you can get you can get an adapter for Ethernet.
[1:28:37] Speaker 1: So if you want to, you know, a long cable
[1:28:38] Speaker 1: from your you know, your router, just connect it to
[1:28:41] Speaker 1: the bottom of the iPad. But that's the best thing
[1:28:42] Speaker 1: to get, because.
[1:28:43] Speaker 8: Do you have something other than an Apple product?
[1:28:45] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, go with the Samsung. Go with the Samsung
[1:28:48] Speaker 1: Tab S nine is their latest tablet. I would just
[1:28:52] Speaker 1: go with that. But you know, I will tell you
[1:28:55] Speaker 1: the apps are going to be way better on the iPad.
[1:28:58] Speaker 1: That's just the bottom line, because the iPad has the
[1:29:01] Speaker 1: most support for mobile apps.
[1:29:03] Speaker 2: So but the.
[1:29:04] Speaker 1: Tab, you know, the tab best nine will be great.
[1:29:06] Speaker 1: I think that it's gonna be a little bit more expensive,
[1:29:08] Speaker 1: but you know, it's gonna have a nice big screen.
[1:29:10] Speaker 1: It's gonna have all the Android apps, and you'll be
[1:29:12] Speaker 1: able to do all the stuff you want to do.
[1:29:15] Speaker 1: And then just get a little connector for the bottom
[1:29:16] Speaker 1: of the USB c to Ethernet to plug in your
[1:29:19] Speaker 1: Ethernet cable. Coming up, we're gonna talk to Jimmy is
[1:29:22] Speaker 1: Promo about Samsung right here on rich On tech Rich.
[1:29:27] Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On tech Rich. DeMuro here hanging
[1:29:30] Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. What a show it's been.
[1:29:36] Speaker 1: First show in New York City. You know, don't forget
[1:29:38] Speaker 1: we're on other places and we're not going anywhere in LA.
[1:29:40] Speaker 1: We are staying put in LA as well. I know
[1:29:42] Speaker 1: I've gotten a lot of emails people saying, Rich, what
[1:29:44] Speaker 1: are you doing? No, No, we're We're now on both coasts.
[1:29:48] Speaker 2: What do they say? Both coasts best coast right? No, No,
[1:29:52] Speaker 2: one says that.
[1:29:55] Speaker 1: I've got a great guest here, YouTuber Jimmy is Promo,
[1:30:00] Speaker 1: always sharing tips and tricks and all things Samsung on YouTube.
[1:30:05] Speaker 2: Jimmy, welcome to the show.
[1:30:07] Speaker 13: Hey, thanks for having me, man, I appreciate it.
[1:30:09] Speaker 1: So Jimmy and I see each other once or twice
[1:30:12] Speaker 1: a year at the tech events, and he every time,
[1:30:16] Speaker 1: I'm just like, hey, can you wait, you could do
[1:30:18] Speaker 1: that on your phone. Wait what He's like, don't you
[1:30:20] Speaker 1: watch the channel? I'm like yes, But every time I
[1:30:22] Speaker 1: always pick up something new. So first off, I guess,
[1:30:26] Speaker 1: how did you get into like doing Samsung tips and tricks?
[1:30:30] Speaker 4: Yeah?
[1:30:31] Speaker 13: So it first originated quite a while ago. Was back
[1:30:34] Speaker 13: in twenty twelve. I was curious about, you know, what
[1:30:39] Speaker 13: is it like to upload a video? I was actually
[1:30:41] Speaker 13: in an AT and T store back then doing some
[1:30:44] Speaker 13: marketing and some promotions for what was brand new back
[1:30:48] Speaker 13: then was the original Note one Oh Wow, And so
[1:30:51] Speaker 13: I was showing off some of the tips on the
[1:30:53] Speaker 13: tricks and they're like, hey, take the phone home with you,
[1:30:55] Speaker 13: get used to it, play around with it, you know,
[1:30:59] Speaker 13: master that you're showing off, and I was like cool.
[1:31:01] Speaker 13: So I got home and pretty much at that time,
[1:31:03] Speaker 13: I was like, let's shoot a video. So I just
[1:31:06] Speaker 13: wanted to shoot something, and it was the same spiel
[1:31:09] Speaker 13: that I was doing in the stores, just showing off
[1:31:11] Speaker 13: all the brand new tips and tricks and the new features,
[1:31:14] Speaker 13: and basically I was curious of Okay, could I get
[1:31:17] Speaker 13: some views and where can it go? And so pretty
[1:31:20] Speaker 13: much it was mostly just based off of curiosity. So
[1:31:24] Speaker 13: I uploaded the first video. It actually did pretty well,
[1:31:26] Speaker 13: almost better than some of my videos today, but it
[1:31:29] Speaker 13: was I think that one got like a little over
[1:31:31] Speaker 13: three hundred and forty three hundred and fifty thousand views
[1:31:34] Speaker 13: pretty quick because there wasn't as many tech specific phone
[1:31:39] Speaker 13: related channels out there. Yeah, and so yeah, that's basically
[1:31:44] Speaker 13: how it started. So it came from the world of
[1:31:46] Speaker 13: marketing promotions showing customers how to use their phone, and
[1:31:49] Speaker 13: then it kind of moved into just doing it more
[1:31:53] Speaker 13: and more and more on YouTube. And then after I
[1:31:54] Speaker 13: figured out that it's actually a thing that I just
[1:31:56] Speaker 13: kept uploading. And then the name Jimmy is pro came
[1:32:01] Speaker 13: from the email that I created back way back in
[1:32:05] Speaker 13: the day doing promotional work tours promotions, and I was like,
[1:32:09] Speaker 13: I have to have an easy email that they would
[1:32:12] Speaker 13: go with and maybe something that's more professional than some
[1:32:15] Speaker 13: of the older emails that we had, and so Jimmy
[1:32:17] Speaker 13: is Promo just kind of stayed and that's just kind
[1:32:20] Speaker 13: of how I got that work. And then that's how
[1:32:23] Speaker 13: YouTube kept the name of Jimmy as promo. The only
[1:32:26] Speaker 13: change I did was put in the spaces between Jimmy
[1:32:29] Speaker 13: is promo.
[1:32:30] Speaker 1: And as they say, the rest is history. So now,
[1:32:32] Speaker 1: of course you have a channel on YouTube and you
[1:32:34] Speaker 1: know very successful. What do you think about the new
[1:32:37] Speaker 1: S twenty five series. I've been loving it. I think
[1:32:40] Speaker 1: it is the best phone.
[1:32:41] Speaker 2: Now.
[1:32:41] Speaker 1: I know you may have a different opinion because you
[1:32:43] Speaker 1: know the micro SD cards and the Bluetooth on the
[1:32:46] Speaker 1: you know, no Bluetooth on the stylist, But like, I
[1:32:49] Speaker 1: think this is overall the best Samsung phone I've ever used.
[1:32:53] Speaker 13: I mean, I'd say it's the best well rounded phone
[1:32:56] Speaker 13: I think. I'm and I guess pun intended with the corners.
[1:32:59] Speaker 13: I mean, I love the flag that you know, with
[1:33:01] Speaker 13: the S twenty four it was a rectangular device and
[1:33:04] Speaker 13: if you use it without a case, it was just
[1:33:06] Speaker 13: in your palm. Yeah, and so this is a comfortable
[1:33:09] Speaker 13: phone to hold, a comfortable phone to use. So with
[1:33:12] Speaker 13: the rounded corners you have a little bit better performance
[1:33:15] Speaker 13: than even the S twenty four Ultra. I mean, I
[1:33:17] Speaker 13: can tell the difference between the camera as well as
[1:33:20] Speaker 13: the sound, Like I feel like it sounds much better
[1:33:22] Speaker 13: than the S twenty four and then also Samsung one
[1:33:26] Speaker 13: UY seven Yeah, which is basically the skin that Samsung
[1:33:29] Speaker 13: uses on top of Android. It just it gives you
[1:33:32] Speaker 13: a really good experience, a whole bunch of really fun,
[1:33:34] Speaker 13: you know, packed features, and yeah, so far, it's definitely
[1:33:42] Speaker 13: one that I could tell the difference between the S
[1:33:44] Speaker 13: twenty four and for anybody who was holding onto any
[1:33:46] Speaker 13: phone of like the S twenty, the S twenty one,
[1:33:48] Speaker 13: the S twenty two, the S twenty three, they'll see
[1:33:51] Speaker 13: a huge difference for upgrades.
[1:33:54] Speaker 4: If you're maybe.
[1:33:56] Speaker 13: Moving or thinking of moving from the S twenty four
[1:33:58] Speaker 13: series to the S twenty five series, those are mostly
[1:34:01] Speaker 13: those who love the latest and greatest, who wants the
[1:34:04] Speaker 13: highest trade and value for the most recent phone. But yeah,
[1:34:07] Speaker 13: anybody that moves into it, I think is going to have,
[1:34:10] Speaker 13: you know, a really good experience with the device.
[1:34:12] Speaker 1: I'd say, even if you have the S twenty four
[1:34:14] Speaker 1: and you're thinking of it, go for it, because I
[1:34:17] Speaker 1: just think that just the design alone on the S
[1:34:20] Speaker 1: twenty five Ultra compared to the twenty four is like
[1:34:23] Speaker 1: it just feels perfect in your hand, like compared to
[1:34:26] Speaker 1: the old one, which was fine, but it wasn't as
[1:34:29] Speaker 1: easy to hold and manipulate as this one.
[1:34:31] Speaker 2: So yeah, that's my thing. Who's going.
[1:34:34] Speaker 13: I mean, you get a little bit better of a
[1:34:35] Speaker 13: camera set up like the Ultra wise a little bit better. Yeah,
[1:34:38] Speaker 13: and then even even the power efficiency is better, so you.
[1:34:41] Speaker 1: Thel the cooling is way improved because it's like the
[1:34:45] Speaker 1: vape what I mean. I know this is nerdy and techy,
[1:34:47] Speaker 1: but like that vapor chamber, it's like bigger, so it
[1:34:50] Speaker 1: keeps the phone cooler. Like I'm not kidding, Jimmy, I
[1:34:53] Speaker 1: was using the pixel of was the pixel fold. The
[1:34:56] Speaker 1: heat that that thing puts out compared to the Samsung
[1:34:59] Speaker 1: that does not heat up at all, is just it's
[1:35:03] Speaker 1: just night and day.
[1:35:04] Speaker 13: Yeah, I believe the vapor chamber, if I remember right,
[1:35:06] Speaker 13: they said it was forty percent larger in the S
[1:35:09] Speaker 13: twenty five Ultra versus the S twenty four Ultra.
[1:35:12] Speaker 1: So that means that your phone when it's being used,
[1:35:14] Speaker 1: if you're playing games or just using it a lot,
[1:35:16] Speaker 1: or even charging it, it's just not going to get
[1:35:19] Speaker 1: hot compared to the older model. And it to me,
[1:35:22] Speaker 1: I've never even felt this phone warm. I know it's
[1:35:24] Speaker 1: not the summer right now, but it's still pretty pretty good. Okay,
[1:35:29] Speaker 1: So I wanted you to touch upon one thing before
[1:35:32] Speaker 1: we get to some of your tips and tricks. But
[1:35:33] Speaker 1: easy Mode this is a really this is like a
[1:35:37] Speaker 1: nice hidden gem on the Samsung side of things. Can
[1:35:39] Speaker 1: you explain what that is?
[1:35:41] Speaker 13: Yeah, so easy Mode it's actually even easy to find.
[1:35:45] Speaker 13: So it just changes your display so you still have
[1:35:49] Speaker 13: a very powerful phone. But when you go inside your
[1:35:52] Speaker 13: display settings, you have an option for easy Mode. And
[1:35:56] Speaker 13: what it does is it makes it easier to use.
[1:35:59] Speaker 13: It is limiting basically what is shown on the screen.
[1:36:03] Speaker 13: It also has larger print. It only comes with three
[1:36:06] Speaker 13: home screens initially, so on the left hand side, if
[1:36:10] Speaker 13: you swipe to the left, that is where you're gonna
[1:36:12] Speaker 13: have all of your quick contacts. So like you have
[1:36:15] Speaker 13: I believe it's nine or twelve. I think it could
[1:36:16] Speaker 13: be nine contacts and you tap on them so in
[1:36:19] Speaker 13: this way you can either call them or text them.
[1:36:22] Speaker 13: Then you have your main home screen that you can
[1:36:23] Speaker 13: move your applications wherever you want them to go. You
[1:36:26] Speaker 13: have your camera, the Internet, and then your next screen
[1:36:29] Speaker 13: is just whatever you want there, like if you want
[1:36:32] Speaker 13: a couple of widgets, you know, on the right so
[1:36:34] Speaker 13: pretty much, it's like if you don't need all the
[1:36:39] Speaker 13: bells and whistles, but you still want it, you can
[1:36:42] Speaker 13: basically tone it down.
[1:36:43] Speaker 2: And that's really what easy mode does.
[1:36:45] Speaker 1: Yeah, it just makes the phone like just simpler. I mean,
[1:36:47] Speaker 1: look in general, like you if it's like someone that's
[1:36:50] Speaker 1: a little bit more elderly or a senior that you
[1:36:53] Speaker 1: know may not want everything or just want something simple,
[1:36:56] Speaker 1: or even the fact that I was looking at it
[1:36:58] Speaker 1: and it says it increases the touch and hold delay,
[1:37:01] Speaker 1: so that means that like you know, some people like
[1:37:04] Speaker 1: they may hold things or touch their screen longer and
[1:37:06] Speaker 1: like now they're like, oh, something just happened. I don't
[1:37:08] Speaker 1: know why I didn't do anything. Well, that's because you're
[1:37:10] Speaker 1: touching stuff randomly and it's activating stuff. So this actually
[1:37:14] Speaker 1: makes that delay longer so that you're not like triggering
[1:37:17] Speaker 1: random stuff all the time, which I know you know
[1:37:19] Speaker 1: is a common problem. So any tip you want to
[1:37:23] Speaker 1: offer for the Samsung phones, anything that you think people
[1:37:25] Speaker 1: should look into if they have one of these things.
[1:37:29] Speaker 13: I mean, first off, when it comes down to you know,
[1:37:32] Speaker 13: let's say like the camera. Pretty much for the camera,
[1:37:36] Speaker 13: you're able to play with your Galaxy Log if you
[1:37:40] Speaker 13: want to create like a really nice video shot where
[1:37:44] Speaker 13: you're able to notice if you're shooting something that's overexposed,
[1:37:48] Speaker 13: so you'll have like just a really clean shot, so
[1:37:52] Speaker 13: you'll be able to play with the Galaxy Log a
[1:37:54] Speaker 13: couple of things too, Like one of the newer ones,
[1:37:56] Speaker 13: it's features called now bar, And if you're into sports,
[1:38:00] Speaker 13: if it's NBA or baseball, basketball, football, doesn't matter what
[1:38:04] Speaker 13: it is. They actually have a new now bar that
[1:38:07] Speaker 13: is called Live Sports and pretty much it's associated with
[1:38:11] Speaker 13: your Google and it's actually very easy to set up.
[1:38:14] Speaker 13: I've actually shown videos showing off like the best tips
[1:38:18] Speaker 13: in the tricks, some of the hidden features, some of
[1:38:21] Speaker 13: the settings can change immediately, you know, on my channel.
[1:38:25] Speaker 13: And also if you create, you know, some of the
[1:38:27] Speaker 13: simple stuff. If you create something on your calendar and
[1:38:29] Speaker 13: you notice it's on the wrong day, you can do
[1:38:31] Speaker 13: a simple drag and drop rather than editing, so you
[1:38:35] Speaker 13: can just drag it and drop it to the correct
[1:38:36] Speaker 13: date and then that's all you would have to do.
[1:38:39] Speaker 13: And then you can, if you want, fully customize your
[1:38:41] Speaker 13: lock screen and your home screen.
[1:38:44] Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's I think that's the biggest I mean,
[1:38:46] Speaker 1: I guess I should ask you this, why do you
[1:38:48] Speaker 1: like Samsung and Android over iOS?
[1:38:51] Speaker 6: Yeah?
[1:38:51] Speaker 13: So, I mean one of the reasons would be a
[1:38:54] Speaker 13: lot of the customizations. I mean, there's just so much
[1:38:56] Speaker 13: you can do with it. And actually, yesterday I played
[1:38:59] Speaker 13: with the new and upcoming Samsung Home Up application. It's
[1:39:05] Speaker 13: where you can fully free form set up your entire
[1:39:09] Speaker 13: home screen however you want. You can diagnoalize anything, make
[1:39:13] Speaker 13: any application bigger.
[1:39:16] Speaker 2: You can also.
[1:39:18] Speaker 13: Change your animation, so some people love the animations of
[1:39:21] Speaker 13: Samsung phones. You can actually completely change how the animation looks,
[1:39:24] Speaker 13: how it bounces, how fast or how slow it goes.
[1:39:27] Speaker 13: So I'd say the number one would be a customization.
[1:39:30] Speaker 13: Other than that, I mean, Samsung is you know, if
[1:39:32] Speaker 13: you're looked in that security reasons, Samsung is just as
[1:39:35] Speaker 13: you know, just as or more secure than Apple, Especially
[1:39:38] Speaker 13: when it.
[1:39:38] Speaker 2: Comes down to Samsung Knox.
[1:39:41] Speaker 13: I think personally, just because my home has so many
[1:39:44] Speaker 13: Samsung products that I feel they have a bigger ecosystem
[1:39:47] Speaker 13: because not only do they have you know, Samsung has
[1:39:49] Speaker 13: the phones, the watches, the tabs, the earbuds, they have
[1:39:52] Speaker 13: the TVs, the washers, the dryers, the refrigerators, the robot vacuums, everything,
[1:39:57] Speaker 13: so you can just connect everything together. And then lastly,
[1:40:01] Speaker 13: I'll say the camera. So I know that I have
[1:40:05] Speaker 13: a few friends that have Apple iPhone devices and if
[1:40:09] Speaker 13: I'm with them, they'll say, hey, Jimmy, just take the photo.
[1:40:12] Speaker 13: And it's sometimes just because they know that I can
[1:40:14] Speaker 13: sometimes create a better shot.
[1:40:17] Speaker 2: Than what they can.
[1:40:18] Speaker 13: So I don't know if it's a big main thing
[1:40:19] Speaker 13: out there, but in my world out here, some of
[1:40:22] Speaker 13: my iPhone friends asked me to take the photos. Which
[1:40:24] Speaker 13: is funny because within Samsung phones and Apple phones, they
[1:40:29] Speaker 13: both use sensors that are coming from either Sony or Samsung.
[1:40:35] Speaker 13: It just kind of depends on some of the processing
[1:40:37] Speaker 13: after the fact. Interesting, So I love the camera and
[1:40:41] Speaker 13: the security and the ecosystem and the customizable you know, customizability.
[1:40:46] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really what it comes down to. I mean,
[1:40:47] Speaker 2: obviously it's a personal preference, and you know there's always
[1:40:50] Speaker 2: till the end of the world there will be a
[1:40:52] Speaker 2: debate of iPhone versus Android.
[1:40:53] Speaker 1: But that's what makes this stuff fun. Jimmy is promo
[1:40:57] Speaker 1: search them up on YouTube, subscribe to his chance if
[1:41:00] Speaker 1: you want to take your Samsung to the next level.
[1:41:03] Speaker 1: I mean, this stuff, it's just like you sit there
[1:41:06] Speaker 1: in like every little setting that you go through, every
[1:41:08] Speaker 1: little customization feature, it's all there and you do a
[1:41:12] Speaker 1: great job.
[1:41:12] Speaker 2: Jimmy, thanks for joining me today. Thank you man, I
[1:41:15] Speaker 2: appreciate it.
[1:41:16] Speaker 13: Thank you so much for having me on the show
[1:41:18] Speaker 13: and taking up some of your time.
[1:41:20] Speaker 2: Absolutely all right.
[1:41:21] Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're going to open up the feedback,
[1:41:24] Speaker 1: get into some of the emails this week, and I'll
[1:41:26] Speaker 1: tell you about the web browser that wants you to
[1:41:28] Speaker 1: take a break from the Internet. This is rich on Tech.
[1:41:33] Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
[1:41:35] Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. You know, I didn't think
[1:41:41] Speaker 1: that I would like a new web browser, but I
[1:41:43] Speaker 1: got to tell you this Opera Air. It's a brand
[1:41:46] Speaker 1: new web browser that I'm kind of loving. And it's
[1:41:50] Speaker 1: called Opera Air. It's made by Opera company out of
[1:41:55] Speaker 1: I think they're Scandinavian, and you know, Opera's been around forever.
[1:41:59] Speaker 1: But this new web browser is all about mindfulness and
[1:42:02] Speaker 1: well being. So a couple features that are really neat.
[1:42:05] Speaker 1: Not only does this web browser look really cool, it's
[1:42:08] Speaker 1: like very like nice like kind of a almost like
[1:42:10] Speaker 1: a I don't know if I want to say a
[1:42:12] Speaker 1: green design, but it just looks like very modern and
[1:42:14] Speaker 1: like fresh. But it's got two special modes take a
[1:42:18] Speaker 1: break mode, so it's got it reminds you to take
[1:42:21] Speaker 1: a break, so if you've been on the internet for
[1:42:23] Speaker 1: too long, it'll say, hey, take a break, and then
[1:42:25] Speaker 1: you can do these breathing exercises, meditation and body scans.
[1:42:29] Speaker 1: Then it's got this Boosts feature, which features binaural beats
[1:42:34] Speaker 1: to enhance relaxation, focus, and creativity. So they've got a
[1:42:37] Speaker 1: creativity boost and energized focus, deep relaxation, mental clarity, analytical thinking,
[1:42:43] Speaker 1: and peak concentration. Now I use the I wrote my newsletter, which,
[1:42:47] Speaker 1: by the way, you can subscribe to Rich on tech
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[1:42:52] Speaker 1: the energized focus yesterday while I wrote my newsletter. I'm
[1:42:56] Speaker 1: not kidding, it might be my best newsletter yet. Now
[1:42:59] Speaker 1: they go into these things. Theta six hurts, Alpha twelve hurts.
[1:43:04] Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but it's like something
[1:43:06] Speaker 1: in the beat, the vibration. I don't know, but it's
[1:43:09] Speaker 1: just these are great and they're built in. It's like
[1:43:11] Speaker 1: background music. Then it also has CHATCHYBT in the sidebar,
[1:43:16] Speaker 1: so you can surf and got CHATCHYBT to your left.
[1:43:19] Speaker 1: It blocks ads and trackers in the settings. It's not
[1:43:22] Speaker 1: on by default, but you can toggle it on and
[1:43:24] Speaker 1: you can even get Chrome extensions. So I'm like, I'm
[1:43:27] Speaker 1: almost ready to switch to this web browser to try
[1:43:30] Speaker 1: it out because I'm trying to figure out what the
[1:43:31] Speaker 1: downside is. Oh, there's also a VPN built in, so
[1:43:35] Speaker 1: again it's called Opera Air. It's brand new. It's all
[1:43:37] Speaker 1: about mindfulness.
[1:43:38] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[1:43:39] Speaker 1: I would check it out. It's pretty nice, all right,
[1:43:41] Speaker 1: Let's open up the feedbag. This is a feedback plus
[1:43:45] Speaker 1: the mail bag mixed into one. These emails, the comments
[1:43:48] Speaker 1: and the questions I've gotten from you. If you want
[1:43:50] Speaker 1: to submit yours, go to Rich on tech dot tv
[1:43:52] Speaker 1: hit contact. Jeff writes in about the language issues we
[1:43:56] Speaker 1: had with our earlier caller. He said, if you're having
[1:43:59] Speaker 1: trouble with the language on Windows, try pressing Windows key
[1:44:03] Speaker 1: plus space to quickly switch between languages. You said the
[1:44:07] Speaker 1: shortcut works if you have multiple languages installed, and of
[1:44:09] Speaker 1: course you also said settings time in language, language and region,
[1:44:14] Speaker 1: make sure the right language is set there hope that works.
[1:44:16] Speaker 2: Thank you, Jeff.
[1:44:18] Speaker 1: Jay writes in, I was listening to your podcast from
[1:44:20] Speaker 1: last week about the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five and
[1:44:23] Speaker 1: whether an mv and O would offer the satellite feature.
[1:44:26] Speaker 1: I just got a Samsung S twenty five and was
[1:44:28] Speaker 1: thinking about switching from Verizon to Visible, but Visible told
[1:44:31] Speaker 1: me they don't offer the feature, even though the phone
[1:44:33] Speaker 1: is capable, I'd have to stay with Verizon to use it.
[1:44:36] Speaker 2: That is a great point.
[1:44:38] Speaker 1: All these mv and o's that offer inexpensive coverage or
[1:44:42] Speaker 1: inexpensive monthly service, you may not get that new satellite
[1:44:46] Speaker 1: texting if your phone doesn't have that capability. Like with Apple,
[1:44:50] Speaker 1: it's built in with the pixel, it's built in. What
[1:44:52] Speaker 1: was Samsung? They are relying on the cellular carriers to
[1:44:56] Speaker 1: offer satellite, so I haven't heard a word about these
[1:44:58] Speaker 1: mv and os offering that great great point, Jay, let's see.
[1:45:03] Speaker 1: Eric writes in via Facebook, Facebook dot com slash rich
[1:45:06] Speaker 1: on tech, thanks for covering Netflix plans. The Netflix standard
[1:45:09] Speaker 1: with ADS plan at eight bucks a month does allow
[1:45:12] Speaker 1: downloads right now, Netflix is the only streaming service that
[1:45:15] Speaker 1: lets users download content on an AD supported plan. I
[1:45:18] Speaker 1: was surprised you didn't mention this. I appreciate the clarification, Eric,
[1:45:22] Speaker 1: I did not realize that Netflix added downloads to this plan.
[1:45:26] Speaker 1: When it first came out, it was streaming only. They
[1:45:29] Speaker 1: did not have offline viewing, so I'm glad they changed that.
[1:45:33] Speaker 1: And you know what, eight bucks a month?
[1:45:36] Speaker 2: Why not? Let's see.
[1:45:39] Speaker 1: Ferlan writes in just listening to your last show heard
[1:45:41] Speaker 1: you mentioned Michael and Kentucky asking about the car tablet Promax.
[1:45:45] Speaker 1: I bought the model from Amazon. Installation takes some work
[1:45:49] Speaker 1: if to mount the review mirror. I run the audio
[1:45:51] Speaker 1: through the auxport on my twenty twelve forward focus. I
[1:45:54] Speaker 1: really wanted a backup camera. I love it. CarPlay works great.
[1:45:57] Speaker 1: Then unit records constantly, which is great in case of
[1:45:59] Speaker 1: an accident. Great for an old car that doesn't have
[1:46:02] Speaker 1: car Player Android Otto. Okay, there you go, let's see.
[1:46:06] Speaker 1: Robert writes in bottom Line. I'm almost seventy. I'm not
[1:46:08] Speaker 1: tech savvy and still do most things manually, including running
[1:46:11] Speaker 1: my fifty year old business. I keep someone on retainer
[1:46:14] Speaker 1: for tech help. But you've always answered my questions, and
[1:46:16] Speaker 1: the way you explain things makes it easy.
[1:46:18] Speaker 2: It always works.
[1:46:19] Speaker 1: Your professional, straightforward and clearly passionate about what you do.
[1:46:22] Speaker 2: Enjoy your growth. Thank you, Robert. You paid him for that,
[1:46:25] Speaker 2: didn't you. I did not. A couple of people wrote in.
[1:46:28] Speaker 1: Forrest writes in, congratulations on the news that your show
[1:46:31] Speaker 1: will be broadcast in New York. I know you've got
[1:46:33] Speaker 1: to feel good. From the first time you filled in,
[1:46:35] Speaker 1: I knew you were going places here you are. I'm
[1:46:38] Speaker 1: so happy for you. You deserve it, and I don't
[1:46:40] Speaker 1: see anything standing in your way. Forrest, Thank you. Jane
[1:46:44] Speaker 1: writes in, I love listening while driving. You always seem
[1:46:46] Speaker 1: to cover something I've been wondering about or an issue
[1:46:48] Speaker 1: I've been dealing with at the time.
[1:46:50] Speaker 2: Great timing.
[1:46:51] Speaker 1: That's because, Jane, the listeners are my secret. They're the
[1:46:56] Speaker 1: ones that come up with these questions that you know
[1:46:58] Speaker 1: I may not think of. Andy writes in, as an
[1:47:01] Speaker 1: AI user, computer novice and someone over sixty, I find
[1:47:04] Speaker 1: you're writing and information very useful. I've been reading for
[1:47:06] Speaker 1: a while and enjoy what you share. Keep up the
[1:47:08] Speaker 1: good work.
[1:47:10] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[1:47:10] Speaker 1: Andy always said everyone, no, it's just me. By the way,
[1:47:14] Speaker 1: there are some people that help on this show, but
[1:47:16] Speaker 1: all the other stuff is just me.
[1:47:17] Speaker 2: Uh, including the newsletter.
[1:47:19] Speaker 1: That's going to do it. For this episode of the show.
[1:47:21] Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.
[1:47:23] Speaker 1: Just go to richon tech dot tv. You can find
[1:47:25] Speaker 1: me on social media. I am at rich on Tech.
[1:47:28] Speaker 1: Next week we're going to talk to the points guy
[1:47:31] Speaker 1: and the muscle Man of technology. Yeah, he's a fun one.
[1:47:34] Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways
[1:47:36] Speaker 1: you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending
[1:47:39] Speaker 1: it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes
[1:47:42] Speaker 1: this show possible, Bobo, Kim Bill, and of course you.
[1:47:45] Speaker 2: My name is rich Dmiro. I will talk to you
[1:47:48] Speaker 2: real soon.

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