# Siri Settlement, $60 Fitness Tracker & WiFi Password Worries

An episode of [Rich On Tech](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1120941458), 5 Jan 2025, 1 h 46 min.

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Rich talks about the Apple eavesdropping settlement. Here’s how to adjust the privacy settings on your smart devices like Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa. Joe in Riverside wants to know if the LG M4 OLED TV will go on sale in the U.S. Samsung’s $60 Galaxy Fit3 goes on sale in the U.S. on January 9. 🌄 Kai Twanmoh shares expert tips on exploring the outdoors with AllTrails—perfect for adventure enthusiasts! What is Turo, the peer-to-peer platform used to rent both cars that have been used in recent attacks? Mike in Los Angeles is wondering why Hotmail is rejecting all of emails to .NET addresses. Greg writes in worried about the security of his WiFi passwords since he can now see them inside Apple’s new Passwords App. KIA is recalling nearly 23,000 EV9 SUV’s due to missing seat bolts. Diane in Meneffee wants to know why her Samsung phone is capturing video clips when she tries to take a photo. Rich explained how to turn off the Motion Photo setting. Steve in Edmonds, WA is wondering how to turn Google Photos off. 📸 Professional photographer Krista Kowalczyk shares methods for preserving and organizing both digital and print photos, drawing from her experience helping Hurricane Ian survivors recover damaged memories. Mentioned: Epson FastFoto scanner, Photomyne App, Pixologie for scanning, Daily Delete App, Amazon Photos & Forever Storage. Gloria asks if buying electronics from a TV shopping channel is a bad idea. An Instagram follower asks if they should turn Advanced Data Protection on for the iPhone. Ron asks if there’s a way to watch live video of the radio show. Rich said that the first segment of each show is available on Rich On Tech Weekly through the KTLA+ streaming app. Debra in Santa Monica wants to know how to toggle Live Captions on her Android. iPhone info here. Apple Fitness+ adds new programs including pickleball for 2025. Bill in PA asks if he should go OnePlus or Pixel for his next phone. 🛡️ Gerald Kasulis from NordVPN reveals 2025’s top cyber threats, from dark web dangers to AI-driven scams. RichOnTech.tv Links may be affiliate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Is your iPhone spying on you? We'll dive into Apple's
[0:03] Speaker 1: evesdropping settlement. Plus, Samsung's got a new fitness tracker that
[0:08] Speaker 1: won't break the bank. And I'll explain the connection between
[0:12] Speaker 1: Turo and two recent attacks. It's all happening right here,
[0:16] Speaker 1: right now on rich on Tech. What's going on? I'm
[0:19] Speaker 1: rich Dmiro and this is the show where we make
[0:22] Speaker 1: tech interesting, useful and fun. Got a burning tech question?
[0:27] Speaker 1: Need some expert advice. The lines are now open for
[0:30] Speaker 1: the first time in twenty twenty five. Dial up eight
[0:34] Speaker 1: eight eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
[0:38] Speaker 1: seven four to two four to one zero one, or
[0:42] Speaker 1: you can go to the website rich on Tech dot
[0:45] Speaker 1: tv and hit contact guests. This week, got a lot
[0:50] Speaker 1: of great guests to kick off the new year. Kaiitwan
[0:53] Speaker 1: Move from All Trails is gonna share expert tips on
[0:57] Speaker 1: exploring the outdoors with one of my new favorite apps.
[1:00] Speaker 1: Then later we've got professional photographer Christa Kowalchek. She's going
[1:05] Speaker 1: to share how to preserve and organize both your digital
[1:08] Speaker 1: and print photos. And later on Gerald Cassulis from nord
[1:14] Speaker 1: VPN war REVIALE twenty twenty five's top cyber threats, the
[1:20] Speaker 1: stuff to watch out for, from dark web dangers to
[1:24] Speaker 1: AI driven scams. Well, I hope you had a great
[1:29] Speaker 1: holiday season. It is the new year. Happy twenty twenty five.
[1:33] Speaker 1: This is the first show of the new year. Very
[1:36] Speaker 1: happy to be back in this seat talking with you.
[1:40] Speaker 1: Got some good time off. In fact, towards the end,
[1:43] Speaker 1: I was like, I'm ready to get back. I am
[1:45] Speaker 1: ready to get back to work. You know, as much
[1:47] Speaker 1: as I love my family and I love the time off,
[1:50] Speaker 1: I always feel like I'm unemployed after a certain amount
[1:52] Speaker 1: of time. Like it literally it's like, wait, do I
[1:55] Speaker 1: still have a job? Does my email still work? I
[1:57] Speaker 1: wondered if my card would still swipe when I went
[2:00] Speaker 1: into the studio because I just wondered if it still
[2:03] Speaker 1: everything was still working, But it is. We got a
[2:06] Speaker 1: nice quick trip into Sedona, Arizona, over the break. If
[2:10] Speaker 1: you have not been, I highly recommend it. It is
[2:13] Speaker 1: a I know from LA. It's a nice drive, probably
[2:16] Speaker 1: about eight hours or so. That's what we did. I
[2:18] Speaker 1: love road trips.
[2:19] Speaker 2: You know.
[2:20] Speaker 1: My wife was kind of fighting the road trips. You
[2:22] Speaker 1: don't want to go that far. I said, let's just try.
[2:23] Speaker 1: It'll be great. Kids loved it. You know, road trips
[2:27] Speaker 1: are so much more comfortable now than they were back
[2:29] Speaker 1: in the day. Right, like when I was driving with
[2:31] Speaker 1: my parents, Think about the cars that we were in
[2:34] Speaker 1: compared to today today's cars are. They're comfortable, they're quiet.
[2:40] Speaker 1: You know, you've got all the endless entertainment you could
[2:43] Speaker 1: ever imagine at your fingertips. All right, the big story
[2:48] Speaker 1: of this week, Apple has agreed to pay ninety five
[2:53] Speaker 1: million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that
[2:57] Speaker 1: Siri violated users privacy. Now, this has been percolating for
[3:02] Speaker 1: a while since twenty nineteen. A lot has changed since then,
[3:06] Speaker 1: but Apple finally decided to say, you know what, we're
[3:08] Speaker 1: gonna stop fighting this. We're just gonna settle it. And
[3:12] Speaker 1: as you might expect, ninety five million dollars is not
[3:15] Speaker 1: a lot of money when it comes to Apple's monopoly money.
[3:18] Speaker 1: I mean, this is a company that made fifteen billion
[3:21] Speaker 1: dollars in the last quarter. So this is just, you know,
[3:24] Speaker 1: a gnat that they're swatting away. But there are some
[3:26] Speaker 1: lessons to be learned from this. So here's what happened.
[3:30] Speaker 1: The lawsuit claimed that Siri was evesdropping on conversations and
[3:34] Speaker 1: sharing those recordings with third parties. Now, I think the
[3:38] Speaker 1: term evesdropping is very sexy for this lawsuit. I think
[3:42] Speaker 1: that it gets a lot of people's attentions, but that
[3:44] Speaker 1: shows intention of Apple to listen, and I don't think
[3:48] Speaker 1: that that was Apple's intention. Did it happen? Absolutely? Does
[3:52] Speaker 1: it happen all the time.
[3:54] Speaker 2: Oh?
[3:54] Speaker 1: Yeah. If you have one of these voice assistants, whether
[3:57] Speaker 1: it's Siri, whether it's Alexa, whether it's Google, a speaker,
[4:01] Speaker 1: a watch, a phone, how many times have you have
[4:04] Speaker 1: you been talking to someone and all of a sudden
[4:07] Speaker 1: your voice assistant chimes in and it gives you an answer,
[4:11] Speaker 1: or it says I don't know what you're talking about,
[4:13] Speaker 1: or here's what you're talking about, or I don't have
[4:15] Speaker 1: an opinion on that or whatever, and you're surprised and
[4:18] Speaker 1: you go, ah, okay, you were listening. Now these things
[4:21] Speaker 1: are listening, but the way that they're listening is typically
[4:24] Speaker 1: local for that hot word, that keyword, and then if
[4:27] Speaker 1: it thinks it has that keyword identified, it will then
[4:31] Speaker 1: send what it hears after that to the server to
[4:34] Speaker 1: figure out what you're trying to do, Whether it's asking
[4:36] Speaker 1: for the weather, whether it's asking for information, a question,
[4:40] Speaker 1: whatever it is. Now. Back in the day and Apple
[4:44] Speaker 1: and a lot of these companies still do this, you know,
[4:46] Speaker 1: shared recordings with third parties for quality control. So the
[4:49] Speaker 1: idea behind this lawsuit was that not only was Siri
[4:53] Speaker 1: triggering without these users knowing, but then the information contained
[4:58] Speaker 1: in those recordings was with third parties. And so most
[5:02] Speaker 1: of the time those third parties were there to sort
[5:04] Speaker 1: of quality control and see, Okay, here's what the person said.
[5:07] Speaker 1: Do we get their answer right, did we get the
[5:10] Speaker 1: hot word right? Whatever. You know, they're trying to make
[5:12] Speaker 1: sure that these systems are working and they're trying to
[5:14] Speaker 1: make them better. Now, typically this was probably in the
[5:18] Speaker 1: user's you know, terms and conditions that said, hey, if
[5:21] Speaker 1: you're going to use Google Assistant, if you're going to
[5:23] Speaker 1: use Siri, if you're going to use Alexa, you agree
[5:25] Speaker 1: to this happening. And I think people since twenty nineteen
[5:29] Speaker 1: a lot has changed. Like I said, we've gotten more
[5:31] Speaker 1: hip to these privacy controls, and so since then a
[5:34] Speaker 1: lot of these companies have given us more control and
[5:37] Speaker 1: more choices over these assistants. When we first set up
[5:40] Speaker 1: our devices, it's not perfect, but it's it's better than
[5:43] Speaker 1: it was now. The original lawsuit and you'll probably hear
[5:46] Speaker 1: about this as well, also claim that Apple shared recordings
[5:49] Speaker 1: of what these people were saying with advertisers, and they
[5:52] Speaker 1: mentioned a whole bunch of ads that popped up in
[5:54] Speaker 1: their news feed after they talked about things in front
[5:57] Speaker 1: of their phone. But I don't think this was fully
[6:00] Speaker 1: substantiated in the lawsuit. I don't think it made it
[6:03] Speaker 1: to the final settlement because Apple has been very very
[6:07] Speaker 1: clear about how they share user data and the user
[6:11] Speaker 1: privacy that they keep in mind with almost every product
[6:13] Speaker 1: that they make, and I just don't see Apple sharing
[6:16] Speaker 1: what we're talking about with advertisers.
[6:18] Speaker 3: Now.
[6:18] Speaker 1: I know casual conversations. Everyone believes this is happening, but
[6:23] Speaker 1: you know, I think the perpetrator there would most likely
[6:26] Speaker 1: be Facebook and Instagram if that was happening, which, by
[6:29] Speaker 1: the way, think about the billions and billions of conversations
[6:33] Speaker 1: that are happening in phones in front of phones on
[6:35] Speaker 1: a daily basis, It would be quite the undertaking to
[6:39] Speaker 1: scan all of those conversations for keywords and to show
[6:42] Speaker 1: up ads for those things. I'm not saying it doesn't happen.
[6:44] Speaker 1: Believe me, I've talked about stuff in front of a
[6:47] Speaker 1: friend or family member and all of a sudden that
[6:50] Speaker 1: ad shows up in my news feed. It's happened to
[6:52] Speaker 1: all of us. Facebook, of course, says they have certain
[6:55] Speaker 1: ways of making that happen. It's all magic, based on
[6:58] Speaker 1: things that you search, and your phones close to each
[7:00] Speaker 1: other and all that kind of stuff. But anyway, so
[7:04] Speaker 1: Apple settle settling this means that they're not admitting any wrongdoing.
[7:08] Speaker 1: They just want this to go away. What are you
[7:11] Speaker 1: going to get? Individuals will likely get up to twenty
[7:14] Speaker 1: dollars per device that they had activated since twenty nineteen,
[7:18] Speaker 1: so it might have been even earlier than that. This
[7:21] Speaker 1: was a large swath of time. But it's a maximum
[7:24] Speaker 1: of five devices, so even if you upgraded your phone
[7:27] Speaker 1: a couple of times, the most you can get as
[7:29] Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. And most likely you're gonna have to
[7:31] Speaker 1: say that, yes, Siri was accidentally enabled on my device.
[7:35] Speaker 1: I attest to that, and I want my money. And
[7:38] Speaker 1: the final settlement is slated for February fourteenth with the judge,
[7:42] Speaker 1: so we're not gonna have anything until, you know, later
[7:44] Speaker 1: this year. And then of course you have the time
[7:47] Speaker 1: period where you have to submit your claim or you know,
[7:49] Speaker 1: get yourself out of the class action all that good stuff.
[7:52] Speaker 1: So it's not gonna happen overnight, but just something to
[7:55] Speaker 1: keep your mind on now. I think that this case
[7:58] Speaker 1: really highlights the import of understanding privacy settings on your
[8:02] Speaker 1: devices and the terms and conditions whenever you set up
[8:05] Speaker 1: a device. Ninety nine percent of the time, the selections
[8:10] Speaker 1: that are sort of pre selected are going to be
[8:13] Speaker 1: in the company's best interest, not yours. Right, they want
[8:17] Speaker 1: the most that they can get out of you because
[8:20] Speaker 1: they're collecting as much data as possible to make their
[8:23] Speaker 1: products better and of course make money off of what
[8:25] Speaker 1: you do. And so there are a couple things you
[8:28] Speaker 1: can do to you know, improve your privacy. Number one,
[8:32] Speaker 1: on the iPhone, you can turn off this entire area
[8:35] Speaker 1: where you're improving Siri and dictation with your interaction. So
[8:40] Speaker 1: if you go into your settings Privacy and Security, then
[8:43] Speaker 1: Analytics and Improvements, that's where you can say turn off
[8:46] Speaker 1: Siri and Dictation. The other thing you can do is
[8:50] Speaker 1: also flip your phone over. If you don't want your
[8:52] Speaker 1: iPhone listening to you, just flip it over and so
[8:55] Speaker 1: if it's screened down, Siri will not be listening. Go
[8:58] Speaker 1: ahead and try it, say Hey s with your phone
[9:01] Speaker 1: face up, it'll spring to action. Flip your phone over,
[9:04] Speaker 1: it will not spring to action. So that's another way
[9:06] Speaker 1: to do it. Now. On Android, there is a way
[9:10] Speaker 1: to sort of manage your voice and audio activity. So
[9:14] Speaker 1: if you go into your settings, you tap on Google,
[9:16] Speaker 1: You've got your name and an email address at the top.
[9:19] Speaker 1: You can go into Manage your Google Account, Data and Privacy,
[9:22] Speaker 1: scroll down to history, tap Web and app activity, and
[9:26] Speaker 1: then you can uncheck the box next to include voice
[9:29] Speaker 1: and audio activity. Yeah, they don't make this stuff very
[9:32] Speaker 1: easy to find. Alexa same thing. You can go into
[9:35] Speaker 1: your Alexa app and delete your existing voice recordings, or
[9:39] Speaker 1: you can prevent Alexa from saving your future voice recordings
[9:44] Speaker 1: and using what you say and interact to help improve
[9:47] Speaker 1: the service. There's also a setting on Android which is
[9:50] Speaker 1: quite handy. They don't have the same sort of flip
[9:52] Speaker 1: over to disable Hey Google, but there is a setting
[9:56] Speaker 1: on there where you can toggle the mic off globally,
[10:00] Speaker 1: which is really handy. So if you don't want your
[10:01] Speaker 1: phone listening, you don't want the microphone on at all.
[10:04] Speaker 1: You can go into your quick settings up at the top,
[10:07] Speaker 1: and there is one that you can add for your microphone.
[10:10] Speaker 1: So right now I have microphone access toggled off, which
[10:13] Speaker 1: means my phone will not listen to me in any way,
[10:16] Speaker 1: shape or form while that is off. And that means
[10:18] Speaker 1: you can go ahead and try it, try voice typing,
[10:20] Speaker 1: whatever you want, it will not listen.
[10:22] Speaker 2: Now.
[10:22] Speaker 1: I know those directions were a lot, so I put
[10:24] Speaker 1: them all on the website rich on Tech dot TV.
[10:28] Speaker 1: Just go there right at the top. It says how
[10:29] Speaker 1: to stop your devices from evesdropping, and I've got all
[10:33] Speaker 1: the instructions right there. Also put it on the show
[10:36] Speaker 1: notes as well. All right, eight a eight rich one
[10:39] Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
[10:42] Speaker 1: to one zero one. Coming up, we'll talk about Turrow
[10:46] Speaker 1: and your questions right after this. Welcome back to rich
[10:50] Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking
[10:53] Speaker 1: technology at triple A Rich one oh one. That's eight
[10:57] Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
[11:03] Speaker 1: Let's take our first call from riverside. Joe, You're on
[11:06] Speaker 1: with Rich.
[11:07] Speaker 4: Hey, Rich, how are you doing.
[11:09] Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. What's up?
[11:12] Speaker 4: So I've been trying to find information on LG's M
[11:16] Speaker 4: four O lead TV and I can't as far as
[11:22] Speaker 4: what I've researched. It was supposedly supposed to come out
[11:25] Speaker 4: in the middle of twenty twenty four, and I can't
[11:28] Speaker 4: find any one, whether it's Costco, best Buy, anybody in
[11:33] Speaker 4: the States selling the M four. So I was wondering
[11:36] Speaker 4: if you have any information on that.
[11:38] Speaker 1: Interesting. So this is a four case let's see with
[11:43] Speaker 1: wireless video and audio transfer, ninety seven inch TV.
[11:48] Speaker 4: I'm looking at the eighty three inch.
[11:49] Speaker 1: Play you're looking at three? Oh, just eighty three Huh yeah,
[11:54] Speaker 1: I don't.
[11:55] Speaker 4: I don't have you know, forty fifty thousand dollars for
[11:58] Speaker 4: one hundred thousand for TV.
[12:01] Speaker 1: Yes, I was gonna say, so these are I mean,
[12:03] Speaker 1: this is a very expensive model. I mean I'm looking
[12:06] Speaker 1: at the one, so I guess it's launched in other countries.
[12:09] Speaker 1: So this one looks like it was launched in Hong Kong,
[12:13] Speaker 1: the one that I'm looking at. So the thing about
[12:18] Speaker 1: LG is that, Okay, So let's see. So it's supposedly
[12:21] Speaker 1: going to be launched globally. This is the latest article
[12:25] Speaker 1: I could find. It's going to be launched globally on
[12:28] Speaker 1: July first. That clearly didn't happen. Huh. Yeah, Now, they
[12:33] Speaker 1: did just launch this transparent TV here in the States,
[12:36] Speaker 1: which is that was like sixty thousand dollars. So was
[12:39] Speaker 1: the M Was the M three here or no.
[12:43] Speaker 4: I've seen I've seen the M three available. I think
[12:47] Speaker 4: it was being resold like by just a reseller on
[12:51] Speaker 4: like Walmart dot com or something.
[12:54] Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, that's interesting. Uh, I mean, I guess my
[12:58] Speaker 1: I guess the main answer to this is I don't
[13:01] Speaker 1: know when this is coming out to the US. But
[13:03] Speaker 1: the other answer is CES is happening this week, And
[13:06] Speaker 1: so I guess I will check for this over in
[13:09] Speaker 1: Las Vegas when I visit the LG booth and see
[13:11] Speaker 1: what they say about it. Maybe I think that what
[13:14] Speaker 1: aspect of this TV is appealing to you, the wireless aspect.
[13:19] Speaker 4: Yeah, So from my research, I'm guessing the G four
[13:24] Speaker 4: and the M four are essentially the same TV. It's
[13:27] Speaker 4: just the M four has the wireless HDMI connectivity, which
[13:31] Speaker 4: that sounds extremely appealing to me.
[13:35] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[13:36] Speaker 1: No, they've been they've been touting the wireless box, which
[13:40] Speaker 1: you know you can plug, So basically the wireless boxes
[13:42] Speaker 1: where you can plug everything in to the box, which
[13:44] Speaker 1: can sit in a corner or a closet or whatever
[13:47] Speaker 1: you need away from the TV, and then you can
[13:49] Speaker 1: have the TV somewhere else and it will beam that,
[13:51] Speaker 1: you know, data to the TV wirelessly. You still have
[13:54] Speaker 1: to plug in the TV, but that's the main thing. Okay.
[13:57] Speaker 1: So what I'll do is I will note this and
[13:59] Speaker 1: I will with them and see what they say about
[14:03] Speaker 1: this TV. I mean, there's so many models that are
[14:06] Speaker 1: available that.
[14:09] Speaker 4: I feel like I'm probably gonna end up going with
[14:11] Speaker 4: the G four. But it's just like, man, like all
[14:15] Speaker 4: my research was saying, like this should have already been out,
[14:17] Speaker 4: and it's like nobody's carrying it, Like what the heck
[14:20] Speaker 4: is going on?
[14:21] Speaker 1: Yeah? That is, that's It's interesting. But I mean, you know,
[14:24] Speaker 1: sometimes these TVs are very similar. They might just have
[14:27] Speaker 1: different model numbers in different states or different countries. Rather,
[14:30] Speaker 1: I think with this one, it seems like because I'm
[14:33] Speaker 1: looking at this the rollout of the twenty twenty four
[14:36] Speaker 1: O led EVO TV lineup. This was in February, right
[14:39] Speaker 1: after CS obviously last year. But let's see what they
[14:42] Speaker 1: do this year. Let's see what they do for cs.
[14:45] Speaker 1: I have a feeling that you're going to see more
[14:47] Speaker 1: of that wireless connectivity on more TVs. I think LG
[14:51] Speaker 1: was sort of like the first that really pushed that.
[14:53] Speaker 1: I remember them showing us that, and I think more
[14:56] Speaker 1: companies maybe will have that this year, so it'll probably
[14:58] Speaker 1: be standard in a couple years.
[15:00] Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, that's that's kind of my guess.
[15:03] Speaker 1: So what's the G four go for?
[15:06] Speaker 4: So during Black Friday, I was looking at the G
[15:09] Speaker 4: four and it was it was five thousand dollars at
[15:15] Speaker 4: Costco and it came with UH install free installation as well.
[15:22] Speaker 4: If you check Costco's website right now, it's at fifty
[15:25] Speaker 4: four ninety nine. Okay, so you were getting like a
[15:29] Speaker 4: five hundred dollars discount. But that's really not a big
[15:32] Speaker 4: deal to me. It's neither here nor there when you're
[15:36] Speaker 4: when you're talking about spending this kind of money on
[15:38] Speaker 4: a TV. But I was just like, I want to
[15:41] Speaker 4: see I want to see the price point on the
[15:44] Speaker 4: m for you know, and see if it makes sense
[15:47] Speaker 4: to get that wireless or if it just makes more
[15:50] Speaker 4: sense for me to fish my HDMI cables through the
[15:53] Speaker 4: back of the drywall, which is not terribly hard.
[15:57] Speaker 1: No, I mean I've I've not done it myself, but
[15:59] Speaker 1: I've seen the installer do it at my place a
[16:01] Speaker 1: couple of times, and they do it in seconds, so clearly,
[16:05] Speaker 1: I mean, and I show he showed me how he
[16:06] Speaker 1: did it. I was like, Oh, that's pretty cool. It's
[16:08] Speaker 1: like this little I don't know, it's like a cable
[16:10] Speaker 1: with a magnet, I don't know, whatever it was. It
[16:11] Speaker 1: was pretty simple. And I mean to him, not to me,
[16:14] Speaker 1: But you know, if you know what you're doing, you
[16:16] Speaker 1: can do it all right, Joe. I will make a
[16:18] Speaker 1: note of it to check at CES this year. Thanks
[16:21] Speaker 1: for the call, appreciate.
[16:21] Speaker 4: It, Thank you, have a great day.
[16:24] Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one o one eight eight eight
[16:26] Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Uh before
[16:31] Speaker 1: we go to break here, Uh, you know, I was
[16:33] Speaker 1: thinking about this over the holidays, the Amazon error. You know,
[16:38] Speaker 1: we we all get these gifts from Amazon, and we
[16:40] Speaker 1: literally had this this situation where I feel like the
[16:44] Speaker 1: gift giving world has changed because of Amazon. So now
[16:48] Speaker 1: I don't know if this happens with you, but people
[16:50] Speaker 1: are like, oh, what do you want for the holidays
[16:51] Speaker 1: for your kids? And literally you send your loved ones
[16:55] Speaker 1: a list of stuff and they just ship it to
[16:57] Speaker 1: your house. And we were getting boxes. We're like, who's
[17:00] Speaker 1: this from? Had like, no, noe, no nothing. It's like,
[17:03] Speaker 1: is that really the meaning of gift giving? All right?
[17:05] Speaker 1: Coming up, we're gonna talk about one of my new
[17:07] Speaker 1: favorite apps. It's called All Trails. I'll explain coming up
[17:10] Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
[17:13] Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking
[17:16] Speaker 1: technology at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight
[17:19] Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
[17:23] Speaker 1: The website for the show richon Tech dot TV. If
[17:27] Speaker 1: you've got a Samsung phone, Samsung is releasing a very
[17:31] Speaker 1: inexpensive fitness tracker, the Galaxy Fit three. It will be
[17:36] Speaker 1: available in the US on January ninth. This thing is
[17:40] Speaker 1: just sixty dollars, so it looks like a smart watch.
[17:43] Speaker 1: If you've been wanting to get on that smart watch
[17:46] Speaker 1: fitness tracker sort of thing, but you didn't want to
[17:49] Speaker 1: spend two three hundred dollars for something. This is a
[17:52] Speaker 1: great deal at this price. So it's got a small touchscreen, monitors,
[17:57] Speaker 1: obviously over one hundred workout types, running, swimming, cycling, tracks
[18:02] Speaker 1: your sleep, you're snoring, blood, oxygen, heart rate, even your stress.
[18:07] Speaker 1: May not want to check that one when you're at work.
[18:09] Speaker 1: Up to thirteen days of battery life if you've got
[18:12] Speaker 1: the display sort of like turned off. If you have
[18:14] Speaker 1: it always on, you're gonna get like three days. Like
[18:17] Speaker 1: I said, it's got everything you need for sixty bucks,
[18:19] Speaker 1: so not a bad deal. I like how Samsung has
[18:22] Speaker 1: a wide variety of products, right, Like they don't just
[18:25] Speaker 1: do the premium, high end stuff. They've got stuff for
[18:27] Speaker 1: everyone's budget. And this Fit three has been available in
[18:31] Speaker 1: other countries for a while now, but they're bringing it
[18:34] Speaker 1: to the US on January ninth, so kind of cool.
[18:37] Speaker 1: And I love the fact that it works with all
[18:38] Speaker 1: the Samsung phones and apps that they already have all right,
[18:42] Speaker 1: speaking of getting fit, Like I said, I was in
[18:45] Speaker 1: Sidona recently and we did a lot of hiking, and
[18:49] Speaker 1: this is an app that I've had on my phone
[18:50] Speaker 1: for a while, but I had sort of a light
[18:53] Speaker 1: bulb moment in Sodona with this All Trails app and
[18:57] Speaker 1: it just really really helped us explore the outdoors. So
[19:00] Speaker 1: joining me now, Kai Twan Mo from All Trails, Welcome
[19:04] Speaker 1: to the show. Thanks Rich thanks for having me so
[19:08] Speaker 1: explain what All Trails is for the person that doesn't know.
[19:13] Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, All Trails is the world's most popular and
[19:17] Speaker 6: most trusted platform for outdoor exploration. We are an app
[19:21] Speaker 6: that's available through the Apple App Store and the Google
[19:24] Speaker 6: Play Store.
[19:24] Speaker 7: We also have a website. But we help help.
[19:27] Speaker 6: People discover new places outside and enhance their experiences when
[19:31] Speaker 6: they're on the trail.
[19:32] Speaker 1: And so this has been around for a while. I
[19:34] Speaker 1: looked back to my original email I sent to All
[19:36] Speaker 1: Trails saying, oh, I love this app. It was like
[19:38] Speaker 1: in I don't know, twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. It's been
[19:41] Speaker 1: a while. So I've had it on my phone for
[19:43] Speaker 1: a long time and I used it. But now I
[19:45] Speaker 1: feel like I'm sort of like an expert because I
[19:48] Speaker 1: started looking at like the filters and things. So in Sedona,
[19:51] Speaker 1: I know there's so many different hikes. I wanted to
[19:54] Speaker 1: find stuff that was appropriate for my family, right, like
[19:56] Speaker 1: my two kids, and so I put on like literally
[19:59] Speaker 1: the I switched the filters to say, like, I only
[20:03] Speaker 1: want four and a half stars, right like the top
[20:05] Speaker 1: rated trails. I want stuff that's you know, easy or
[20:08] Speaker 1: maybe moderate great views, Like, there's so many different sliders
[20:12] Speaker 1: you can you know, kind of dial in exactly what
[20:15] Speaker 1: you want. So how do you figure all this stuff out?
[20:19] Speaker 6: Well, first, i'd say twenty sixteen. That is a little
[20:22] Speaker 6: while ago. So thank you for being such a long
[20:24] Speaker 6: standing member of the all trails community.
[20:28] Speaker 7: What you're describing.
[20:29] Speaker 6: You know, we have a incredible team of more than
[20:32] Speaker 6: two hundred people at this point who were united by
[20:36] Speaker 6: a passionate love for the outdoors. So we spend all
[20:38] Speaker 6: day every day thinking about exactly the type of thing that.
[20:41] Speaker 7: You just teed up.
[20:42] Speaker 6: You know, how are people going to find hikes that
[20:45] Speaker 6: they can do with their kids? You know, how are
[20:46] Speaker 6: they going to get out there and find sort of
[20:48] Speaker 6: exactly the right trail for them. So we're we're building
[20:51] Speaker 6: new features all the time. You hit on a few
[20:53] Speaker 6: that are relatively new to us. So yeah, I think
[20:56] Speaker 6: that definitely qualifies you as an expert all trails user
[21:00] Speaker 6: at this point.
[21:00] Speaker 1: Well, the feature that really was the light bulb moment
[21:03] Speaker 1: is you know, I have an Apple Watch, and you
[21:06] Speaker 1: know when you're on a trail, the last thing you
[21:08] Speaker 1: want to do is get lost right or take like
[21:09] Speaker 1: the wrong fork or whatever. Especially when you're with your family, right,
[21:13] Speaker 1: And so there's this feature on the Apple Watch where
[21:16] Speaker 1: it is basically a compass and it highlights where you're
[21:21] Speaker 1: supposed to go in green. And so if you come
[21:25] Speaker 1: up to like a fork in the trail, you know
[21:26] Speaker 1: how sometimes people walk off trail and they kind of
[21:29] Speaker 1: make an area that's really not the trail. And all trails,
[21:32] Speaker 1: by the way, does a good job of like showing
[21:34] Speaker 1: you where the trail is on your phone. But I
[21:36] Speaker 1: love the idea that literally you look at your watch
[21:39] Speaker 1: and you just kind of move your watch left and
[21:41] Speaker 1: right and it will highlight the correct path. That to
[21:45] Speaker 1: me is like it just gives you so much reassurance
[21:48] Speaker 1: that you're not going to get lost out there.
[21:50] Speaker 6: Yeah, I saw your Instagram post about your Apple Watch.
[21:54] Speaker 7: That we relaunched our.
[21:56] Speaker 6: Apple Watch app last year in the second half of
[21:58] Speaker 6: last year. So that's all a relatively new offering for us.
[22:02] Speaker 6: And I'm slightly embarrassed to admit, as an employee of
[22:05] Speaker 6: an outdoor tech company that I just got an Apple
[22:07] Speaker 6: Watch for Christmas.
[22:08] Speaker 7: So while I had I had.
[22:10] Speaker 6: Of course seen our Apple Watch app in action before this,
[22:14] Speaker 6: I now can use it every day myself.
[22:16] Speaker 7: And it's fantastic.
[22:18] Speaker 6: It's you know, we recognize that while we are an
[22:22] Speaker 6: app that you have on your phone, we're here to
[22:25] Speaker 6: help people get outside and enjoy their time outside. So
[22:28] Speaker 6: I'm having your watch and your stats and your navigation
[22:32] Speaker 6: at a glance.
[22:33] Speaker 7: Really great feature.
[22:34] Speaker 2: We love it.
[22:35] Speaker 1: So how much of this is sort of like crowdsource?
[22:37] Speaker 1: Like when I take a walk or a hike or whatever, like,
[22:40] Speaker 1: do I help build the database of like, Hey, here's
[22:43] Speaker 1: where the trail is, Here's where you know the markings are.
[22:48] Speaker 1: Like I mean, I know people can submit pictures and
[22:49] Speaker 1: things like that, but how much of this is crowdsource
[22:51] Speaker 1: versus like, I don't know, do you guys go out
[22:53] Speaker 1: there and like look at trails yourself?
[22:56] Speaker 2: Yeah?
[22:57] Speaker 5: I love this question.
[22:58] Speaker 6: So you absolutely, as a member of our community, are
[23:02] Speaker 6: contributing to our collection of more than four hundred and
[23:05] Speaker 6: fifty thousand trails that so many trails are on the
[23:07] Speaker 6: platform today by far the biggest and most comprehensive collection
[23:12] Speaker 6: of trails in the world, and the community is.
[23:15] Speaker 7: A big part of helping grow that collection.
[23:18] Speaker 6: But something that a lot of people, I think don't
[23:20] Speaker 6: know about us is we have a dedicated team of
[23:24] Speaker 6: trail data integrity specialists who all day, every day are
[23:29] Speaker 6: monitoring and digitally maintaining that collection of trails. So when
[23:32] Speaker 6: you get out there with all trails, you're doing so
[23:34] Speaker 6: with not just the support of our community of seventy
[23:37] Speaker 6: five million members, but with the knowledge and expertise of
[23:40] Speaker 6: people whose literal job it is to help you get outside,
[23:43] Speaker 6: have a great time, and do it safely.
[23:45] Speaker 1: And that's cool. I mean I can't speak enough to
[23:48] Speaker 1: like how much. I mean, we're in front of screen
[23:50] Speaker 1: so much during the day, and so the ability to
[23:54] Speaker 1: sort of look for a trail that has you know,
[23:55] Speaker 1: epic views or waterfalls. Every time I do one of these,
[23:59] Speaker 1: I just feel like I've done something good for myself.
[24:01] Speaker 1: And if I can get my kids to join me
[24:04] Speaker 1: or someone else, you know, it's it just feels really
[24:06] Speaker 1: really nice. So explain the I guess the other thing
[24:11] Speaker 1: I want to talk about is privacy. So, you know,
[24:14] Speaker 1: since this is a community, you know the things that
[24:16] Speaker 1: you do sometimes could be put on your profile that
[24:19] Speaker 1: could be public explained like what's public versus private, like
[24:22] Speaker 1: without changing any settings, and what people should look at
[24:24] Speaker 1: if they want to change those settings.
[24:28] Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, so privacy and safety of our community are
[24:32] Speaker 6: of the utmost importance, and we think mainly you know,
[24:36] Speaker 6: we think about getting outside all the time, but we
[24:37] Speaker 6: think about that all the time too, you know, as
[24:40] Speaker 6: a community based platform, you know, by default a lot
[24:43] Speaker 6: of activity is public, but we have built the ability
[24:47] Speaker 6: for any activity that you do with All Trails to
[24:50] Speaker 6: be adjusted in your privacy settings. You can make it
[24:53] Speaker 6: either totally private so that only you can see it
[24:55] Speaker 6: if you don't want to share your outdoor adventures with
[24:59] Speaker 6: anyone else. You can also set it to just people,
[25:03] Speaker 6: you know, a sort of smaller group, or you can,
[25:05] Speaker 6: of course, like you said, have it be public and
[25:08] Speaker 6: our public trove of you know, reviews and photos. That's
[25:11] Speaker 6: a huge part of what makes All Trails special and
[25:14] Speaker 6: our communities united by love of the outdoors. So we're
[25:17] Speaker 6: really grateful that people continue to pick us outside that way.
[25:20] Speaker 1: And what do you get for the free versus sort
[25:22] Speaker 1: of the upgrade to All Trails Plus?
[25:25] Speaker 6: Yes, great question. So All Trails is it's available for
[25:28] Speaker 6: free to download like I said, in the Apple or
[25:31] Speaker 6: Google app stores. All Trails Plus is really our you know,
[25:35] Speaker 6: that's our premium and paid offering, and.
[25:38] Speaker 7: You get so many.
[25:39] Speaker 6: Features with All Trails Plus things that you mentioned like
[25:42] Speaker 6: wrong turn alerts. That's an Ultrails plus feature. It allows
[25:45] Speaker 6: you to go offline, which is huge. You can either
[25:48] Speaker 6: download an individual trail for offline use or actually, just
[25:52] Speaker 6: a few weeks ago, we introduced offline parks where you
[25:55] Speaker 6: can download an entire park, every single trail in the park,
[25:58] Speaker 6: recent reviews, photos, plus essential park information like ours, fees,
[26:03] Speaker 6: accessibility info. Really kind of game changing if you're planning
[26:07] Speaker 6: a trip to a place where there might not be
[26:09] Speaker 6: great service, and so many spectacular outdoor places are exactly
[26:14] Speaker 6: that way.
[26:15] Speaker 1: And I just saw you can print maps. Look at this.
[26:18] Speaker 1: You can print your own customizable maps for backup on
[26:22] Speaker 1: through the website. So that's neat. I mean, you go
[26:25] Speaker 1: to these national parks, a lot of them do not
[26:27] Speaker 1: have sell connectivity, so that offline feature is really crucial.
[26:32] Speaker 1: So Kit, tell me about you. What what got you
[26:34] Speaker 1: interested in all trails why? I mean, are you a
[26:36] Speaker 1: hiker or you do you like doing that stuff or
[26:38] Speaker 1: what already have to do?
[26:39] Speaker 6: Now that you work there, certainly I see getting outside
[26:43] Speaker 6: as something that not that I have to do, but
[26:46] Speaker 6: that I love to do. I had been in the
[26:48] Speaker 6: outdoor industry before this, Prior to that, I worked at
[26:52] Speaker 6: Nike for a long time. I'm coming to you here
[26:54] Speaker 6: from Portland, Oregon, near where the company's based. But you know,
[26:58] Speaker 6: I was just I was really drawn to All Trails
[27:01] Speaker 6: as this incredibly interesting intersection of outdoors and tech. You know,
[27:06] Speaker 6: this is a company that is so focused on innovation
[27:10] Speaker 6: and moving incredibly quickly, but also fundamentally so deeply committed
[27:16] Speaker 6: to being intentional technology. You know, you mentioned earlier. We're
[27:19] Speaker 6: on our screens so much, we're at our desks so much.
[27:23] Speaker 6: We know that time outside is essential to physical and
[27:27] Speaker 6: mental health, and so we want to make sure that
[27:30] Speaker 6: people can do that as part of their everyday life.
[27:34] Speaker 6: That is not a special occasion to go outside. And
[27:38] Speaker 6: so just that that mission, the commitment to the mission
[27:40] Speaker 6: to get the world, help the world find its way outside.
[27:43] Speaker 5: Let me in.
[27:43] Speaker 7: And it's been a really fun ride so far.
[27:46] Speaker 1: All right, Kaitwan, move from All Trails the website AllTrails
[27:51] Speaker 1: dot com. If you go to the website, rich on
[27:53] Speaker 1: Tech dot tv, I've got a link for a month
[27:56] Speaker 1: free of the premium, so just go to the show
[27:59] Speaker 1: notes for that. Kai, thanks for joining me today.
[28:01] Speaker 7: Thanks so much for having me.
[28:02] Speaker 1: All right, coming up, I'll tell you about Turo, explain
[28:05] Speaker 1: what that's all about, plus more of your calls at
[28:08] Speaker 1: eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
[28:10] Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Welcome back
[28:19] Speaker 1: to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
[28:22] Speaker 1: talking technology at triple eight rich one O one. That's
[28:26] Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
[28:30] Speaker 1: The website richon tech dot TV. If you want notes
[28:34] Speaker 1: for today's show, just hit episode one oh three, and
[28:38] Speaker 1: if you want to email me, just hit contact up
[28:43] Speaker 1: at the top. Rich on tech dot TV. So no
[28:46] Speaker 1: doubt you heard about these two attacks, one in New Orleans,
[28:50] Speaker 1: one in Las Vegas. They both involved cars that were
[28:55] Speaker 1: rented through a service called Turo. And this is not
[28:59] Speaker 1: the publicity they wanted, but obviously a lot of people
[29:02] Speaker 1: are now just hearing about Turo for the first time.
[29:05] Speaker 1: So what is Turo. Turo is like Airbnb, but for cars.
[29:11] Speaker 1: So if you have a car, let's say, you know,
[29:13] Speaker 1: use it a couple of days a week, but the
[29:15] Speaker 1: rest of the time it just sits there. You can
[29:17] Speaker 1: rent this out to other people. And this has been
[29:19] Speaker 1: around for a long time. It's not like a new thing.
[29:23] Speaker 1: I've personally not used Turo. I'm well aware of it.
[29:26] Speaker 1: For me, it's always been a matter of every time
[29:28] Speaker 1: I look to rent a car on there, which, by
[29:31] Speaker 1: the way, it started out really cheap, but now I
[29:32] Speaker 1: feel like it's not anymore. It was just always kind
[29:35] Speaker 1: of like the same price and more hassle than getting
[29:38] Speaker 1: from Hurtz or Avis or something like that. So what's
[29:41] Speaker 1: the deal with this Turo thing? So they have what's
[29:46] Speaker 1: called a Turo risk score algorithm. So when someone rents
[29:49] Speaker 1: a car from you, you know, they put all the
[29:52] Speaker 1: information into the app, their driver's license, stuff like that
[29:55] Speaker 1: credit card number, and then they, according to Bloomberg, look
[29:58] Speaker 1: at fifty different data points to screen renters. Now I
[30:01] Speaker 1: don't know how both of these renters got through this
[30:03] Speaker 1: risk score with no problem, but Turo did confirm that
[30:07] Speaker 1: both of these cars were rented through them. One was
[30:11] Speaker 1: a Tesla cyber truck. Obviously you know that because that
[30:14] Speaker 1: was very much in the news. The Ford f one
[30:16] Speaker 1: point fifty was a lightning, which is their electric car
[30:20] Speaker 1: or electric truck, I should say, So what went wrong here?
[30:25] Speaker 1: I mean, this just brings up the idea of you've
[30:28] Speaker 1: got these peer to peer platforms and they're everywhere. You've
[30:30] Speaker 1: got Airbnb, I mean Uber is really peer to peer.
[30:33] Speaker 1: You're driving your car picking up strangers. Turo is where
[30:37] Speaker 1: you're literally renting someone else's car from them and they
[30:41] Speaker 1: may drop it off to you at the airport. You
[30:43] Speaker 1: may pick it up at a parking lot if it's
[30:45] Speaker 1: something like a Tesla or another car that has like
[30:47] Speaker 1: you know, easier sort of digital key access. That makes
[30:51] Speaker 1: life a lot easier with renting these things out. But
[30:53] Speaker 1: you know, it just it just raises a lot of
[30:55] Speaker 1: questions about like what's the vetting process of these companies?
[30:59] Speaker 1: Are we safe using them? Are you safe renting through
[31:02] Speaker 1: them or you know, driving through them? How are these
[31:06] Speaker 1: people screened? You know, you think about Uber, you know
[31:11] Speaker 1: this driver, It's like, how do you know what this
[31:13] Speaker 1: driver's all about? And every time I've asked Uber or
[31:16] Speaker 1: Lift about their screening process, you know, they do a
[31:19] Speaker 1: very if you ask me, it's a very light background check.
[31:23] Speaker 1: In fact, I'll tell you the story that I told
[31:25] Speaker 1: when I went to Nashville last year or year before.
[31:28] Speaker 1: I think it was my driver, you know, I got
[31:31] Speaker 1: to the area of my hotel I said, oh, it's
[31:33] Speaker 1: a really nice area, Like, what's the deal with it?
[31:35] Speaker 1: And he's like, Oh, I don't know. I'm just I'm
[31:36] Speaker 1: just driving for my brother who's in the hospital. What like.
[31:40] Speaker 1: He literally just used his Relatives app to sign in
[31:45] Speaker 1: and you know it was just picked up his phone
[31:47] Speaker 1: and started driving the car. Now, that is something I
[31:49] Speaker 1: never thought of in a million years, Right. You think
[31:52] Speaker 1: that the driver that you have is the driver on
[31:55] Speaker 1: the app that you ordered. And I don't know if
[31:57] Speaker 1: you've ever looked at the picture of the driver on
[31:59] Speaker 1: the app, but it's always blurry. It's not like the
[32:01] Speaker 1: clearest thing. It's not like you could tell exactly who
[32:03] Speaker 1: this person is. And so ever since then I'm like, Okay,
[32:07] Speaker 1: that's an a fear unlocked that I never really thought about.
[32:10] Speaker 1: Someone could just literally drive with someone else's app. So
[32:13] Speaker 1: I know that Uber does sort of like because I
[32:16] Speaker 1: looked into it. Afterwards, they will ask drivers to take
[32:18] Speaker 1: like a selfie at the beginning of their shift or
[32:20] Speaker 1: something like that. But again, these systems aren't perfect, and
[32:23] Speaker 1: so being aware of the implications of these is always
[32:27] Speaker 1: a good thing. And for me now I always check
[32:30] Speaker 1: the driver. I always check their picture I always kind
[32:33] Speaker 1: of try to make sure it's the person that's driving me.
[32:36] Speaker 1: But again, you know, it's just one of these things
[32:38] Speaker 1: where we have to think about this stuff. Turo, for
[32:40] Speaker 1: their part, they said they're, you know, cooperating with law enforcement.
[32:44] Speaker 1: Neither attacker had a criminal background according to their research
[32:48] Speaker 1: that they did. And this is a company where you know,
[32:51] Speaker 1: they've got like four hundred thousand cars listed for rent,
[32:54] Speaker 1: billions of dollars that's been done through this. I look
[32:58] Speaker 1: at Turro reported hundred and twenty two million dollars in
[33:01] Speaker 1: revenue in the first nine months of twenty twenty four.
[33:04] Speaker 1: So people are using it for the most part. It's fine,
[33:07] Speaker 1: but it's just stuff to keep in mind when you're
[33:10] Speaker 1: using this stuff. Let's go to Mike in Los Angeles. Mike,
[33:14] Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
[33:15] Speaker 2: Hey, Rich, thanks Jay, and I call yeah.
[33:18] Speaker 8: I don't know if you have an answer to this,
[33:19] Speaker 8: but maybe you have some insight. I have at my email.
[33:22] Speaker 2: Is with hotmail. Lately the past year or.
[33:25] Speaker 8: So, whenever I email someone with a dot net packed
[33:28] Speaker 8: all dot net, att dot net, Sbcglobal, dot net, its
[33:31] Speaker 8: returned to me undeliverable. I went online and found out
[33:35] Speaker 8: this is happening to everybody, from hotmail to dot net,
[33:39] Speaker 8: and some people have speculator or maybe they know more
[33:41] Speaker 8: than I do that across the board atp, dot net,
[33:45] Speaker 8: et cetera is rejecting all emails from Hotmail, possibly due
[33:50] Speaker 8: to they say something about it has the most hacking
[33:53] Speaker 8: or scamming.
[33:54] Speaker 2: Have you heard of this or do you know anything
[33:56] Speaker 2: about it?
[33:57] Speaker 9: Yeah?
[33:57] Speaker 1: I mean so number one, I've not heard of this.
[34:01] Speaker 1: I know that emails get rejected for various reasons. I
[34:05] Speaker 1: don't think that this is something that's across the board
[34:08] Speaker 1: with Hotmail, although you know, hotmail is one of those
[34:10] Speaker 1: services that I know people still use it, but it's
[34:13] Speaker 1: definitely not the most up to date email. So what
[34:17] Speaker 1: I would try to do is use an alternative email
[34:19] Speaker 1: address and see if the same thing happens, and when
[34:22] Speaker 1: you send to those people, maybe use that. I mean,
[34:25] Speaker 1: it depends how much you're sending. But just taking a
[34:27] Speaker 1: quick look online, you know, some people are reporting that
[34:31] Speaker 1: the dot net domains are sometimes associated with more spam,
[34:35] Speaker 1: so maybe Hotmail has sort of flagged these servers, but
[34:39] Speaker 1: it's odd that it's happening with all of those domain emails.
[34:42] Speaker 1: Now the other side of this is that you know,
[34:44] Speaker 1: Yahoo has taken over sort of servicing all of those
[34:48] Speaker 1: email addresses that you mentioned, the Cox email, the SBC,
[34:52] Speaker 1: the AT and T that's all being done by Yahoo now,
[34:55] Speaker 1: so there could be something there as well. I would
[34:59] Speaker 1: just make sure sure before you send these, just make
[35:01] Speaker 1: sure that your account is on the up and up,
[35:03] Speaker 1: like you're you're not at your limit, you know, these
[35:06] Speaker 1: attachments things like that, and see if that helps. But
[35:10] Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye out on this. That's an interesting
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[35:18] Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
[35:21] Speaker 1: talking technology at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's
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[35:30] Speaker 1: zero one. The website for the show is rich on
[35:34] Speaker 1: Tech dot tv. If you want links to anything I mentioned,
[35:38] Speaker 1: just hit the episode number one oh three, and coming
[35:43] Speaker 1: up this hour, we're gonna talk pictures. I don't know
[35:46] Speaker 1: if you've scanned in your pictures yet or if you
[35:48] Speaker 1: have a way to kind of organize and manage your
[35:52] Speaker 1: digital photo collection, which mind just grows by the dozens
[35:56] Speaker 1: every day, every single day. We're gonna have Christa Kowalchik
[36:00] Speaker 1: talk to us about preserving and organizing both your digital
[36:04] Speaker 1: and print photos. We'll have her on just a little
[36:08] Speaker 1: bit later. Greg writes in through the website. When I
[36:11] Speaker 1: open up the passwords app on my iPhone and select
[36:14] Speaker 1: the Wi Fi option, I see my Wi Fi information
[36:18] Speaker 1: and other networks I've accessed. Some are listed as WPA
[36:22] Speaker 1: two personal, and I can unmask their passwords, including my own.
[36:26] Speaker 1: I have two big concerns. Can I unmask my Wi Fi?
[36:30] Speaker 1: Can others unmask my Wi Fi password using the passwords app?
[36:33] Speaker 1: How can I prevent this? Is it normal for me
[36:36] Speaker 1: to see passwords for other networks? This feels like a
[36:38] Speaker 1: security issue. I'm worried my Wi Fi password could be
[36:41] Speaker 1: exposed to anyone nearby. Has Apple addressed this as a
[36:45] Speaker 1: security flaw? Good question, Greg. For many years password Wi
[36:52] Speaker 1: Fi passwords were sort of hidden on the iPhone, mostly
[36:55] Speaker 1: inaccessible unless you really knew what you were doing. But
[36:59] Speaker 1: now they are all inside the passwords app. So this
[37:02] Speaker 1: does bring up some good concerns. Number One, there there's
[37:06] Speaker 1: not a security flaw here. This is just what's new,
[37:09] Speaker 1: and so Apple has by default put all of your
[37:14] Speaker 1: passwords for Wi Fi networks that you've connected to in
[37:17] Speaker 1: the past in your Passwords app. That's the new app
[37:20] Speaker 1: they introduced with iOS eighteen. It's on most iPhones at
[37:24] Speaker 1: this point if you've upgraded to the software, the latest software,
[37:28] Speaker 1: and so before there were ways of seeing the passwords
[37:31] Speaker 1: for Wi Fi networks that you connected to with previous
[37:34] Speaker 1: iOS versions, but it wasn't clear and it wasn't easy.
[37:37] Speaker 1: Now this is much easier. So I understand the concern there.
[37:41] Speaker 1: These are networks that you have connected to, So these
[37:44] Speaker 1: are not random networks. These are not networks that our secret.
[37:49] Speaker 1: They are everything that you've connected to. So the answer
[37:52] Speaker 1: to your first question, can others unmask your Wi Fi password? Yes,
[37:56] Speaker 1: they can, only if you've given them access to your
[37:59] Speaker 1: Wi Fi network. So that's the main thing to know here. Now,
[38:02] Speaker 1: I understand that a lot of people scan QR codes
[38:05] Speaker 1: to log onto Wi Fi networks and the password is
[38:08] Speaker 1: just in there. It's not secretive. So typically what I'd
[38:12] Speaker 1: recommend is that you do not use a password for
[38:16] Speaker 1: your Wi Fi network that is easily guessed or that
[38:19] Speaker 1: accesses other stuff anywhere. And I take it a step further,
[38:24] Speaker 1: I would not allow people in your home to use
[38:27] Speaker 1: your primary Wi Fi network, I would set up a
[38:30] Speaker 1: guest network. And I understand there's a little bit of like,
[38:33] Speaker 1: you know, it's a little bit of social awkwardness when
[38:35] Speaker 1: someone comes to your house and they're like, oh, what's
[38:38] Speaker 1: the coach pat your WiFi and you're like, oh, here's
[38:41] Speaker 1: the guest network. I get it. It's a little awkward,
[38:44] Speaker 1: but for security reasons, and I usually just tell people, Hey,
[38:48] Speaker 1: for security reasons, I have everyone log onto my guest network.
[38:50] Speaker 1: In case there's a major issue, I can wipe all
[38:53] Speaker 1: those off the network very easily. So I would suggest
[38:56] Speaker 1: having a guest network in general. Is it normal for
[38:59] Speaker 1: me to see passwords of other networks? This feels like
[39:02] Speaker 1: a security issue, Yes, now it is. So again, it
[39:05] Speaker 1: goes back to that whole idea of don't use a
[39:09] Speaker 1: password that is easily guessed or that accesses other stuff
[39:14] Speaker 1: in your life. So do not use your email password
[39:17] Speaker 1: as your Wi Fi password. Let's see, I'm worried my
[39:21] Speaker 1: WiFi password could be exposed to anyone nearby. No, that's
[39:25] Speaker 1: not true. They would have to connect to your network
[39:29] Speaker 1: before they can see the password, and you would have
[39:31] Speaker 1: to give them the password for them to connect to
[39:33] Speaker 1: the network, so it's a chicken versus Egg kind of thing.
[39:37] Speaker 1: You know, you have to give them the password. Once
[39:40] Speaker 1: they have that password, they'd be able to see that
[39:41] Speaker 1: password even if they sign in with a QR code.
[39:44] Speaker 1: That QR code has the password embedded in it, so
[39:49] Speaker 1: anyone with a QR code reader could look at that.
[39:52] Speaker 1: So I'm looking through all my passwords and it's actually
[39:54] Speaker 1: kind of funny like looking through these because people do
[39:57] Speaker 1: use some interesting passwords for their works, so yes, be
[40:02] Speaker 1: aware of that. It is available. And on the Android
[40:06] Speaker 1: side of things, you can see the passwords as well.
[40:09] Speaker 1: So if you go into your settings, you go into
[40:11] Speaker 1: connections and you look at let's see here, I got
[40:16] Speaker 1: to find where they are on here, but if you
[40:18] Speaker 1: look at the let's see, I'd have to look for it.
[40:23] Speaker 1: But if you look for oh, managed networks there it is.
[40:25] Speaker 1: So if you go to manage networks, you tap one
[40:27] Speaker 1: of those networks, you can easily see the password for
[40:30] Speaker 1: that network as well all the networks that you've connected to.
[40:33] Speaker 1: I actually think it's kind of fun to see all
[40:35] Speaker 1: the networks you've connected to because it's kind of like
[40:37] Speaker 1: a little who's who list of where you've been. But yeah,
[40:42] Speaker 1: please be careful with your Wi Fi passwords. Don't just
[40:44] Speaker 1: give them to anyone and set up a guest network.
[40:48] Speaker 1: Kia is recalling over twenty two thousand of their EV
[40:53] Speaker 1: nine electric SUVs. The reason some of the back seats
[40:57] Speaker 1: might be missing their bolts. Yeah, not a good not
[41:00] Speaker 1: a good look, Kia. So this apparently was an assembly
[41:06] Speaker 1: line worker error at their plant in South Korea. The
[41:09] Speaker 1: good news is no one's been hurt. There's not been
[41:12] Speaker 1: any reports of injuries or accidents. But this is this
[41:17] Speaker 1: is twenty over twenty two thousand EV nine electric SUVs
[41:22] Speaker 1: from model years twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. Now,
[41:26] Speaker 1: these are the SUVs that have second and third row seats.
[41:29] Speaker 1: This was a hot this is still a hot suv.
[41:32] Speaker 1: It's all electric, it's got third row seats. This was
[41:35] Speaker 1: one of the first EV's that had third rows besides
[41:39] Speaker 1: like the Rivian, and so you know, this was a
[41:42] Speaker 1: very popular car, still is. And so this is not
[41:46] Speaker 1: exactly the look that Kia wanted with this car because
[41:49] Speaker 1: a lot of people probably got it thinking oh this
[41:51] Speaker 1: is cool, this is new, and now this is happening.
[41:55] Speaker 1: So not every car has the issue, but Kia will
[41:58] Speaker 1: You're gonna have to bring this car into a dealer
[42:01] Speaker 1: to have them inspect it and put in the bolts
[42:04] Speaker 1: if they're not there. So Key is going to start
[42:07] Speaker 1: notifying affected owners by male starting January twenty fourth. This
[42:11] Speaker 1: will all be free, of course, for the fix. But
[42:14] Speaker 1: you know loose, You might hear loose or rattling seats
[42:17] Speaker 1: and if that was driving you nuts, because you have
[42:20] Speaker 1: one of these cars, it's not just you, it's them.
[42:24] Speaker 1: Let's go to eight eight eight rich one O one
[42:27] Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
[42:29] Speaker 1: Let's go to Diane in a menafee. You're on with rich.
[42:35] Speaker 9: Dian. Hi, I have a Samsung Galaxy phone and when
[42:44] Speaker 9: I take pictures, I have it on pictures. But it
[42:48] Speaker 9: wants to take a movie. Come, how can I change?
[42:52] Speaker 4: Yes?
[42:53] Speaker 1: Okay, So when you say it's taking a movie, does
[42:56] Speaker 1: that mean when you're looking back through your picture it
[42:58] Speaker 1: moves a little bit?
[43:01] Speaker 9: Yeah?
[43:01] Speaker 1: Okay, So I think that's a feature called motion photo.
[43:05] Speaker 1: So what this is is it's basically capturing a couple
[43:09] Speaker 1: of seconds of video before and after you hit that
[43:13] Speaker 1: shutter button or right when you hit that shutter button,
[43:15] Speaker 1: and some people like that because you can go back
[43:18] Speaker 1: and let's say someone blinked in your picture, you can
[43:21] Speaker 1: go back and choose a different frame of that photo,
[43:25] Speaker 1: almost like going back in time and changing the look
[43:28] Speaker 1: of that picture. But it's because it's capturing. It's almost
[43:31] Speaker 1: like a think of a film strip, right, So you've
[43:33] Speaker 1: got when you take a picture, you're taking just one
[43:37] Speaker 1: of those frames of that film strip. But what this
[43:40] Speaker 1: phone is doing, it's capturing a couple of those film stripped,
[43:44] Speaker 1: you know, those frames. So if you want to turn
[43:46] Speaker 1: this off, it's actually quite easy. It's a feature called
[43:49] Speaker 1: motion photo. And in the upper part of your frame
[43:53] Speaker 1: of your phone, when you're taking a picture, you should
[43:55] Speaker 1: see a little square box that almost looks like a
[43:58] Speaker 1: play button, and if you press that, you can toggle
[44:02] Speaker 1: it on or off. It's called motion photo. And so
[44:05] Speaker 1: that is that is the feature that I would toggle off.
[44:08] Speaker 1: You can also go into your settings for camera and
[44:11] Speaker 1: toggle it off that way as well. So if you
[44:13] Speaker 1: can't find it on your screen, you can go into
[44:16] Speaker 1: your camera settings and you can switch it off inside there.
[44:21] Speaker 1: So if you go, let's see, I'm looking for my
[44:24] Speaker 1: camera settings, let's see here is it in there? Let's see, Yeah,
[44:29] Speaker 1: shooting methods, okay, settings to keep let's see. I'm on
[44:35] Speaker 1: a beta version of the software, which I realized quickly
[44:37] Speaker 1: that I should not have done that for the purposes
[44:39] Speaker 1: of this show, because my settings are completely different. But Bobo,
[44:43] Speaker 1: you've got the Samsung. Do you see that little when
[44:46] Speaker 1: you open up your camera? Do you see a little
[44:49] Speaker 1: almost like looks like a play button inside you know,
[44:52] Speaker 1: a square? Yes?
[44:54] Speaker 2: Okay?
[44:54] Speaker 10: Is that the second to last thing on the right? Okay, right,
[44:58] Speaker 10: that's okay, So on my it's the last thing on
[45:00] Speaker 10: the right. So if you toggle that, this a motion
[45:02] Speaker 10: photo off?
[45:03] Speaker 9: Okay, on, Oh, I see it now.
[45:06] Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
[45:07] Speaker 8: Diane, thank you very much.
[45:10] Speaker 1: All right, thanks for listening to us. There and Menafie
[45:13] Speaker 1: appreciate it. There you go, see solving problems, changing lives. Bobo,
[45:17] Speaker 1: I feel useful. I hoped you did help. I realized
[45:21] Speaker 1: I realized that I downloaded the new software, the beta software,
[45:25] Speaker 1: on this Samsung S twenty four Ultra, and I realized
[45:29] Speaker 1: that is the wrong thing to do when you're on
[45:30] Speaker 1: a radio show where you're trying to tell people how
[45:32] Speaker 1: to find things. All of my stuff is different it's
[45:34] Speaker 1: all in different places eight eight eight rich one O
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[45:46] Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
[45:49] Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. The website for the show
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[46:20] Speaker 1: I think you should know. Let's go to Steve in Edmunds, Washington. Steve,
[46:27] Speaker 1: you're on with rich.
[46:29] Speaker 2: Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. I really like
[46:31] Speaker 2: the show.
[46:32] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[46:32] Speaker 2: My question is about Google. I added that to my
[46:39] Speaker 2: phone at Galaxy S twenty one. I have a five
[46:42] Speaker 2: twelve gigabytes. I have a lot of pictures, family pictures,
[46:46] Speaker 2: and they're all organized files and all that, and so
[46:50] Speaker 2: I do have them backed up at My kids were
[46:53] Speaker 2: telling me, you know, get the Google Photos and you
[46:57] Speaker 2: can never go wrong. Well, as soon as I loaded it,
[47:00] Speaker 2: and I have because I have a lot of photo
[47:03] Speaker 2: files on my and videos on my phone, Google Photos
[47:07] Speaker 2: started backing those up and telling me, oh, you you've
[47:10] Speaker 2: exceeded the free level. You're going to have to pay,
[47:14] Speaker 2: And so I thought, well, you know, what's a few bucks?
[47:17] Speaker 2: Well just kept Now I'm paying like ten dollars a
[47:19] Speaker 2: month because of the level that I'm at for a
[47:23] Speaker 2: five to twelve phone, and so I thought, well, they
[47:27] Speaker 2: I'll just do this on my own. I'll turn off
[47:29] Speaker 2: Google Photos. I know there's a lot of tips online
[47:31] Speaker 2: about doing that, but I don't see anything that works.
[47:34] Speaker 2: And I'm reading about that people complaining you really can't
[47:37] Speaker 2: turn it off, and so if you do, try to
[47:40] Speaker 2: just nuke it on your phone, you risk losing all
[47:43] Speaker 2: your pictures. There's no assurance that I can see that
[47:47] Speaker 2: you're gonna that I can survive that. Even if I
[47:51] Speaker 2: do have back my pictures back up backed up, I
[47:53] Speaker 2: just don't want to go through that hassle. So so
[47:56] Speaker 2: that's why I'm I'm wondering about how do I.
[47:58] Speaker 1: Okay, you want to Google phone, you want to cease
[48:01] Speaker 1: using Google Photos, Okay, I actually think it's it's relatively
[48:05] Speaker 1: easy compared to anything with iCloud. So this I think
[48:08] Speaker 1: that's the good news here. So my first concern though,
[48:10] Speaker 1: where your pictures backed.
[48:12] Speaker 2: Up a couple of external drives.
[48:14] Speaker 1: Okay, So what happened was, just to understand your question,
[48:19] Speaker 1: you have all your pictures on your phone, right, so
[48:21] Speaker 1: you said you have like a five hundred and twelve
[48:23] Speaker 1: gigabyte phone. You've got a whole bunch. Let's say you
[48:25] Speaker 1: have one hundred gigabytes of pictures on there, whatever it is,
[48:28] Speaker 1: ten gigs, whatever it is, it's definitely over the fifteen
[48:31] Speaker 1: gigs that Google gives you, right, four hundred gigs. But yeah,
[48:34] Speaker 1: you've got four hundred gigs of photos and videos. Oh wow, Okay,
[48:39] Speaker 1: that's a lot I've got. I mean, I'm saying that
[48:41] Speaker 1: I've got like two terabytes. It's I mean, my my
[48:45] Speaker 1: Google photos is a whole other concern. But ill, let's
[48:49] Speaker 1: get through yours. So what i'd recommend is, you know
[48:52] Speaker 1: what you need to do is, first off, I would
[48:54] Speaker 1: just back up all these photos from your phone to
[48:57] Speaker 1: an external drive. Once you know you have them all
[48:59] Speaker 1: backed up, are good, then you can go into Google Photos,
[49:02] Speaker 1: and you can turn off Google Photos. There's a setting
[49:05] Speaker 1: on there that just says, you know, back up, and
[49:08] Speaker 1: if you go into your settings, you just turn off backup.
[49:12] Speaker 1: And so.
[49:16] Speaker 2: Look at it with me, go to the there. So
[49:18] Speaker 2: if you go to their version, I don't see it.
[49:20] Speaker 1: Go to photos upper right hand corner and you're in
[49:22] Speaker 1: Google Photos for sure, right. Okay, do you see where
[49:26] Speaker 1: it says backup. I don't know if you're says backup
[49:28] Speaker 1: complete or backup in progress whatever it says, so backup complete?
[49:33] Speaker 2: Okay?
[49:33] Speaker 1: Do you see that.
[49:36] Speaker 2: Going there? Now, let's see backup, getting ready to back
[49:41] Speaker 2: up and storm.
[49:42] Speaker 1: So if you go so, once you go into Google Photos,
[49:45] Speaker 1: you should see your own picture in the upper right
[49:47] Speaker 1: hand corner. That's your Google account profile, right, yeah, okay,
[49:51] Speaker 1: tap that and then it should say either backup complete
[49:54] Speaker 1: or in backup or there's things waiting to be backed up.
[49:57] Speaker 1: It says something about backup on like the second section there.
[50:00] Speaker 1: If you see that, yeah, what does it say?
[50:03] Speaker 2: I'm getting ready to back up?
[50:04] Speaker 1: Okay? So tap that and it should bring you to
[50:08] Speaker 1: where it says backup is on. Yes, okay, so now
[50:16] Speaker 1: how much does it say? Now in mind it says
[50:18] Speaker 1: I've got two hundred and fourteen, six hundred and ten
[50:20] Speaker 1: photos and videos backed up to Google Photos. That's a lot.
[50:25] Speaker 2: Yeah, I do not see a number.
[50:28] Speaker 1: Okay, well mine, Yeah, mine's backup of complete. So that's
[50:31] Speaker 1: probably why it's showing the number. But now, is there
[50:33] Speaker 1: a toggle that says backup photos and videos on this device?
[50:36] Speaker 1: Is there a toggle that you can turn off? So
[50:37] Speaker 1: turn that off now? Now that's going to stop your
[50:42] Speaker 1: photos from being backed up to Google Photos if you're
[50:44] Speaker 1: getting those error messages because your Google Photos is still
[50:47] Speaker 1: all filled up. There's a couple of things you can
[50:49] Speaker 1: do there. So you can go to one dot Google
[50:53] Speaker 1: dot com from your computer. Don't do this on your phone.
[50:56] Speaker 1: Do this on your computer and you'll see where it
[50:58] Speaker 1: says storage. You tap that and it says clean up space.
[51:03] Speaker 1: And once you go in there, you can clean up
[51:06] Speaker 1: either large files. Like what I would do is for
[51:08] Speaker 1: you just get rid of some of the big photo files, right,
[51:12] Speaker 1: some of the big photos or videos that you have
[51:15] Speaker 1: inside there. So you can do that and that's very easy.
[51:19] Speaker 1: It'll organize all your pictures by large and you can
[51:22] Speaker 1: just delete, like whenever I need more space or want
[51:24] Speaker 1: to get rid of some stuff. I just literally go
[51:25] Speaker 1: through there and delete, you know, ten or twenty files whatever.
[51:29] Speaker 1: The other thing you can do is, if you want
[51:30] Speaker 1: to get rid of these photos from Google but keep
[51:32] Speaker 1: them on your phone, go to photos dot Google dot
[51:36] Speaker 1: com from a web browser and you can now delete
[51:40] Speaker 1: pictures out of your Google account, but they will not
[51:43] Speaker 1: delete off your phone. And that's what I would do there.
[51:46] Speaker 1: So those are the two things that I would do.
[51:48] Speaker 1: One dot Google dot com free up storage. If you
[51:52] Speaker 1: want to get rid of these pictures completely, go to
[51:54] Speaker 1: photos dot Google dot com and you can select a
[51:56] Speaker 1: whole bunch at once and just delete them. They'll remain
[51:58] Speaker 1: on your phone, and make sure that backup has turned off.
[52:00] Speaker 1: Great question today, Steve eighty eight rich one oh one.
[52:03] Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about pictures and videos coming up
[52:06] Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
[52:09] Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple
[52:14] Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. The website for the show
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[53:46] Speaker 1: and now it's like the sleep mask, the weighted blanket.
[53:49] Speaker 1: Slept like a baby yesterday. All right, joining me now.
[53:53] Speaker 1: Professional photographer Christa Kowalcik. Christa, thanks for joining me.
[53:58] Speaker 7: Thanks for having me.
[53:59] Speaker 8: Rich.
[53:59] Speaker 1: So you worked with helping Hurricane Ian survivors recover some
[54:04] Speaker 1: of their damaged photos and memory. So you've built quite
[54:08] Speaker 1: the following online talking about Well, I'll let you explain.
[54:11] Speaker 1: So how did you I mean, you've been doing this,
[54:13] Speaker 1: you're photographer, but what sort of like pushed you into
[54:16] Speaker 1: you were on a bunch of TV shows to talk
[54:18] Speaker 1: about preserving memories? Explain what happened?
[54:21] Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. So I am a lifelong photographer. I've
[54:24] Speaker 3: loved photography since I was a child. It's the only
[54:26] Speaker 3: real job I've ever had. So I've just always been managing,
[54:30] Speaker 3: way back to the film days, I've managed my photos,
[54:33] Speaker 3: managing digital photos. But it wasn't until Hurricane Ian came
[54:37] Speaker 3: and it just devastated my area where I live here
[54:40] Speaker 3: in southwest Florida. And when that storm came thru it
[54:43] Speaker 3: was floodwater and it just destroyed homes. There were over
[54:46] Speaker 3: five thousand homes that they lost every they lost their photos.
[54:49] Speaker 7: They were just gone. Everything was gone.
[54:51] Speaker 3: But then there was another forty some thousand homes that
[54:54] Speaker 3: had severe damage, and I was able to just jump
[54:57] Speaker 3: in and start volunteering to help people to try to
[54:59] Speaker 3: sell bitch some of those water damaged photos.
[55:02] Speaker 7: So that's kind of how I got started in this.
[55:04] Speaker 3: But it was really then that I realized the things
[55:07] Speaker 3: that I do every day managing all of those photos
[55:10] Speaker 3: that I have, that a lot of people just don't
[55:12] Speaker 3: know how to manage their photo collection.
[55:15] Speaker 7: So I started to help people.
[55:18] Speaker 3: After that experience, I realized that most of the people
[55:20] Speaker 3: I was helping, they didn't know that there was even
[55:23] Speaker 3: an option to get a digital copy of those photographs
[55:26] Speaker 3: before disaster.
[55:27] Speaker 7: Happened and have that memory saved.
[55:30] Speaker 3: So now I just coach people every day and I
[55:32] Speaker 3: share the easy, easy tips and tricks to get digital
[55:35] Speaker 3: copies of those pictures and also make sure that digital
[55:38] Speaker 3: pictures are safe too.
[55:39] Speaker 1: All right, So what's the first step that people should
[55:41] Speaker 1: take to protect their pictures from natural disasters? What's you know?
[55:45] Speaker 1: These are the printed pictures.
[55:47] Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, absolutely.
[55:49] Speaker 3: The very first thing you need to do is get
[55:50] Speaker 3: a digital copy of those pictures. I've heard there's a
[55:53] Speaker 3: lot of myths about ways to store photographs to keep
[55:56] Speaker 3: them safe, but at the end of the day, there's
[55:59] Speaker 3: just so many things can go wrong. The one way
[56:02] Speaker 3: to just make sure those pictures are always safe and
[56:05] Speaker 3: that memory is always safe is to just get that
[56:07] Speaker 3: digital copy of.
[56:08] Speaker 7: All of the photographs.
[56:09] Speaker 1: Okay, And so what I mean, where do they do this?
[56:12] Speaker 1: Do they send it out to someone? Do they do
[56:15] Speaker 1: it themselves? I know it takes a long time to
[56:16] Speaker 1: do it yourself. I sent all mine out. What do
[56:19] Speaker 1: you like to do? You know?
[56:21] Speaker 7: I think it's it's The answer is different for different people.
[56:24] Speaker 3: It depends on what your budget is and the amount
[56:26] Speaker 3: of time that you have to commit to it. There
[56:28] Speaker 3: are some really fabulous scanning options now though, that make
[56:32] Speaker 3: it easy. So if you are somebody has a little
[56:34] Speaker 3: bit of time and you want to diy it, EPSN
[56:36] Speaker 3: has a photo that has a feater, you can scan
[56:39] Speaker 3: as many as thirty or forty pictures a minute with
[56:43] Speaker 3: the scanner, so you just put them in and it zips,
[56:44] Speaker 3: it's it, It scans up.
[56:46] Speaker 7: It's so easy a child could do it.
[56:47] Speaker 3: So I think it's an easy project to diy if
[56:50] Speaker 3: you want to. There's also phone apps that allow you
[56:53] Speaker 3: to get a digital copy of your pictures too, So
[56:56] Speaker 3: there's ways to diy and do it. But there's also
[56:58] Speaker 3: fabulous services. There's there's a company in Gosha, Wisconsin. I
[57:04] Speaker 3: believe they're it's Pixology. They are a small business that
[57:07] Speaker 3: will digitize your pictures for you. They even have a
[57:10] Speaker 3: service where they will come right to you. They have
[57:12] Speaker 3: a few clients a year. They go right to them
[57:14] Speaker 3: and help them to organize and digitize their pictures.
[57:17] Speaker 7: So there's there's a lot of ways to do it.
[57:18] Speaker 3: I think as long as you are getting that digital copy,
[57:21] Speaker 3: it's that's the only thing, no matter.
[57:23] Speaker 7: How you do it.
[57:24] Speaker 1: You mentioned the phone apps. Is there an app that
[57:26] Speaker 1: you like? Because I tested one called I think it
[57:28] Speaker 1: was photo Mine or something. Is there one that you
[57:31] Speaker 1: like that works better than others?
[57:33] Speaker 7: You know, photo Mine is the best that I've seen
[57:36] Speaker 7: of the phone apps.
[57:37] Speaker 3: You know there is the quality is not as good
[57:40] Speaker 3: as a traditional scanner. If you get a desktop scanner
[57:42] Speaker 3: or that apps and scanner with the feeder, that's going
[57:45] Speaker 3: to be your best quality scan But if you have
[57:48] Speaker 3: just old memories that you want to keep, and a
[57:51] Speaker 3: lot of our photographs are that they aren't pictures we're
[57:53] Speaker 3: going to be printing again, but we'd be devastated if
[57:56] Speaker 3: we lost them. They're you know, the birthday party or
[57:58] Speaker 3: the baby shower, just things that we have old print
[58:00] Speaker 3: photos of that aren't necessarily being passed down for generations,
[58:04] Speaker 3: but we want to have that memory saved, and I
[58:05] Speaker 3: think photomine is a fabulous app for that.
[58:08] Speaker 1: What about a picture that's like damage, Like is there
[58:10] Speaker 1: a good app that you like that will fix it up?
[58:13] Speaker 7: So, you know, one thing that's.
[58:15] Speaker 3: Neat with photomine and also the apps, the epps and
[58:18] Speaker 3: photo scanners is they have some enhancements that they can do.
[58:22] Speaker 7: Just that's easy.
[58:23] Speaker 3: You're getting the scan of the photo and they get
[58:25] Speaker 3: that enhancement for you. So that's the first thing I
[58:27] Speaker 3: usually suggest. You'd be surprised how they can Either of
[58:30] Speaker 3: those can just bring back to life an old photo.
[58:33] Speaker 7: But there's also.
[58:34] Speaker 3: Lots of services online if you have something that has
[58:37] Speaker 3: damaged to it that you can send a photo off
[58:39] Speaker 3: And it's amazing what you can do. Now anybody with
[58:42] Speaker 3: just a tiny bit of photoshop skills can use the
[58:46] Speaker 3: AI tools in Photoshop and can restore almost anything. So
[58:49] Speaker 3: I do tell people if you have a damaged photo,
[58:51] Speaker 3: don't just throw it out.
[58:52] Speaker 7: There's a lot of times that you can save, even
[58:54] Speaker 7: things that look pretty bad.
[58:56] Speaker 1: Now, do you recommend scanning the actual film negatives or
[59:01] Speaker 1: the actual picture? Like, if you have both, which one
[59:03] Speaker 1: would you prefer?
[59:05] Speaker 3: So that's you know, that just depends on the situation.
[59:09] Speaker 3: The negative is going to give you the best quality.
[59:11] Speaker 3: So I think if you're looking for the best quality scan,
[59:14] Speaker 3: if this is an heirloom photo and it's so important
[59:16] Speaker 3: to you, I'd.
[59:17] Speaker 7: Go with the negative.
[59:19] Speaker 3: But what I found is ninety percent of people's photo
[59:22] Speaker 3: collections or just great memories they want to keep, And
[59:25] Speaker 3: I think it's easier to get a scan of a
[59:27] Speaker 3: print photo.
[59:28] Speaker 7: So if you're just looking to make sure.
[59:30] Speaker 3: That that memory is safe, I think that using using
[59:34] Speaker 3: the print is just fine.
[59:35] Speaker 1: All right, let's talk digital photos. I take so many.
[59:38] Speaker 1: I'm trying to go through them. I usually go through
[59:40] Speaker 1: them at the end of the day to kind of
[59:41] Speaker 1: get rid of all my screenshots and random images. But
[59:44] Speaker 1: what do you recommend for someone who's trying to start
[59:47] Speaker 1: the decluttering process.
[59:49] Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I think what you're doing is great.
[59:51] Speaker 3: I think having a routine is the is the key.
[59:54] Speaker 3: I personally, I'm similar to you. I am going through
[59:57] Speaker 3: my pictures once a day, you know, I have been
[59:58] Speaker 3: been at night, I do a quick roll of the
[1:00:00] Speaker 3: pictures I took that day. I think favoriting your best
[1:00:02] Speaker 3: pictures is just an easy way to narrow down your
[1:00:05] Speaker 3: best ones, deleting things at that point, or you know,
[1:00:08] Speaker 3: even once a week doing that.
[1:00:09] Speaker 7: There's also an app it's called Daily Delete. I love
[1:00:13] Speaker 7: this app. It really makes it mindless. So it does
[1:00:15] Speaker 7: go through all of your pictures. It shows your photos
[1:00:18] Speaker 7: in a calendar.
[1:00:19] Speaker 3: Basically, you select the date you want to look at
[1:00:22] Speaker 3: and it will show you all the pictures from that date,
[1:00:25] Speaker 3: and then it uses an AI technology to tell you
[1:00:28] Speaker 3: which ones it thinks you need to delete.
[1:00:30] Speaker 7: But then it also learns your preferences.
[1:00:33] Speaker 3: So let's say you have a pet and you never
[1:00:35] Speaker 3: want a single photo of that pet to be deleted.
[1:00:38] Speaker 3: It will learn that you've decided you don't want those,
[1:00:41] Speaker 3: So you're kind of correcting its work as it goes along.
[1:00:43] Speaker 3: And after a few days or a week of just
[1:00:45] Speaker 3: kind of correcting what Daily Delete has done, it's going
[1:00:48] Speaker 3: to start doing it mindlessly for you.
[1:00:51] Speaker 1: That's interesting. Okay, what about storage apps? Like I always
[1:00:55] Speaker 1: recommend Google Photos, that's my favorite. But what do you
[1:00:58] Speaker 1: like for different photo storage apps?
[1:01:01] Speaker 3: So I'm an Amazon Photos user just because it's free
[1:01:04] Speaker 3: with Amazon Prime.
[1:01:07] Speaker 7: So you know, that makes it easy.
[1:01:08] Speaker 3: It's got an app that just automatically is backing up
[1:01:10] Speaker 3: my photos. But Google Photos was free.
[1:01:12] Speaker 7: Everything is.
[1:01:13] Speaker 3: I don't believe it's going to be free forever, so
[1:01:15] Speaker 3: I think that's just you know, something to well.
[1:01:17] Speaker 1: It's free with Prime, so as long as we're and
[1:01:20] Speaker 1: it's also the photos only, just to be clear, the
[1:01:22] Speaker 1: videos are an extra you know, costs. But I always
[1:01:26] Speaker 1: mention to people, if you have Amazon Prime and you're
[1:01:27] Speaker 1: gonna stick with it, which most people do, it's a
[1:01:30] Speaker 1: great way to kind of back up your photos as well.
[1:01:33] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[1:01:33] Speaker 7: No, I think it's great. I think Google Photos is great.
[1:01:35] Speaker 7: I think they're all great.
[1:01:36] Speaker 3: There's one storage called forever storage that is dedicated towards photos.
[1:01:41] Speaker 7: They it says it guarantees.
[1:01:43] Speaker 3: Your photos will be there for one hundred years or
[1:01:46] Speaker 3: something ridiculous. I personally don't trust anywhere. I think everything
[1:01:50] Speaker 3: needs to be stored in multiple places, and I think
[1:01:53] Speaker 3: that's the only safe way to keep your photos.
[1:01:56] Speaker 1: I would agree like anything that I mean forever storage.
[1:01:58] Speaker 1: I love the idea forever, but we know nothing's really forever.
[1:02:01] Speaker 1: So I always have two places where they are backed
[1:02:05] Speaker 1: up and any and we have like less than a minute.
[1:02:09] Speaker 1: Common to mistake. You see when people are trying to
[1:02:11] Speaker 1: organize their photos, taking on too much.
[1:02:14] Speaker 3: I think that it's huge having a lifetime of photographs
[1:02:17] Speaker 3: or photos going back your parents photos. Sometimes, if you
[1:02:20] Speaker 3: have a lifetime of photos, don't don't sit down and
[1:02:22] Speaker 3: try to do it all at once. Break it into
[1:02:23] Speaker 3: small projects and just check off one month or one year.
[1:02:27] Speaker 3: It's not like cleaning the garage. It's an emotional it's
[1:02:31] Speaker 3: an emotional project and sometimes you need to walk away
[1:02:34] Speaker 3: from it for a minute. So break it into small
[1:02:36] Speaker 3: projects and just get a little.
[1:02:37] Speaker 5: Bit done at a time, all right.
[1:02:39] Speaker 1: Christa Kowalchik the website the christak dot com the Krista
[1:02:44] Speaker 1: with a k k dot com. So the k R
[1:02:48] Speaker 1: I s t a k dot com and I picked
[1:02:51] Speaker 1: up one of your tips from your Instagram to get
[1:02:54] Speaker 1: a photo album for the year and then print out.
[1:02:58] Speaker 1: So this year my goal is I got like a
[1:03:00] Speaker 1: six hundred one. I'm going to print out a couple
[1:03:02] Speaker 1: of pictures each month at the end of the month
[1:03:04] Speaker 1: of my favorites and put them in this album that's
[1:03:06] Speaker 1: gonna sit on my coffee table. So at the end
[1:03:07] Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, I should have a full photo
[1:03:10] Speaker 1: album of like some of my favorite pictures. I think
[1:03:12] Speaker 1: that's very exciting.
[1:03:13] Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, I think you'll love it.
[1:03:15] Speaker 1: Printed, by the way, not just on my phone where
[1:03:17] Speaker 1: I'm showing people my phone. Christa, thanks so much for
[1:03:20] Speaker 1: joining me today. Thanks rich Christa Kowalcik. Follow her on
[1:03:24] Speaker 1: social media. I love the tips that she offers the
[1:03:27] Speaker 1: christak dot com. I'll link it up on my website.
[1:03:30] Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot tv. Coming up, I'll explain what
[1:03:34] Speaker 1: advanced data protection is on the iPhone and explain if
[1:03:38] Speaker 1: you should keep it on, turn it on, or keep
[1:03:40] Speaker 1: it off. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to
[1:03:43] Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you
[1:03:45] Speaker 1: talking technology took me a bit there. I was furiously
[1:03:49] Speaker 1: typing up the show notes for all the things that Christa,
[1:03:52] Speaker 1: our photo guest, mentioned. It's all on the website rich
[1:03:56] Speaker 1: on tech dot tv. So everything that she just mentioned,
[1:03:59] Speaker 1: all the different ways to organize your photos, it's all
[1:04:02] Speaker 1: right there on the website rich on tech dot TV.
[1:04:07] Speaker 1: Let's see here coming up, Let's see. Oh that's next hour.
[1:04:10] Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that next hour. Let's talk about Gloria.
[1:04:15] Speaker 1: She wrote in is it a bad idea to buy
[1:04:18] Speaker 1: electronics like cell phones, tablets or laptops from shopping channels?
[1:04:24] Speaker 1: Good question, Gloria, I don't think so. I would say
[1:04:29] Speaker 1: my main concern would be to make sure the return
[1:04:33] Speaker 1: policy is good, like make sure it's easy to return,
[1:04:35] Speaker 1: because you're getting these site on scene, and that the
[1:04:38] Speaker 1: warranty matches what you're getting if you bought it from
[1:04:41] Speaker 1: somewhere else. That's the main thing. The other thing I
[1:04:45] Speaker 1: would say is just, you know, just make sure you
[1:04:48] Speaker 1: know what you're buying and if it's actually a good deal.
[1:04:50] Speaker 1: I think a lot of times are these home shopping
[1:04:52] Speaker 1: networks and these home shopping channels you know, the whole
[1:04:56] Speaker 1: point is like you've either have credit with them or
[1:04:59] Speaker 1: it's for easy pay or something like that, so you
[1:05:02] Speaker 1: may be spending more than you need to on these gadgets.
[1:05:04] Speaker 1: So i'd always look up the actual model number on
[1:05:08] Speaker 1: something like an Amazon or Best Buy and just see
[1:05:10] Speaker 1: if it's the same price. If it is, it might
[1:05:13] Speaker 1: be easier just to buy it from a place you
[1:05:14] Speaker 1: already go to. But and then also make sure that
[1:05:18] Speaker 1: it's the current model. So sometimes you may be getting
[1:05:20] Speaker 1: a really good deal on these things because it's the
[1:05:23] Speaker 1: previous model or a model that's no longer being made.
[1:05:26] Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know, I have no problem
[1:05:29] Speaker 1: with this. I actually I actually have always thought that
[1:05:31] Speaker 1: I'd be a great person to be on these channels,
[1:05:34] Speaker 1: Like I love talking about gadgets. In fact, it's funny
[1:05:37] Speaker 1: when you do kind of like a first look at gadgets,
[1:05:41] Speaker 1: you know, that's what you're doing. You're you're basically like
[1:05:43] Speaker 1: if you're talking about it to camera, you're kind of
[1:05:45] Speaker 1: memorizing all these different little features and then kind of
[1:05:48] Speaker 1: selling it to camera. So I always thought it'd be
[1:05:50] Speaker 1: really fun to be on like a home shopping channel.
[1:05:53] Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people just buy this
[1:05:55] Speaker 1: stuff because it sounds really cool, and then they get
[1:05:57] Speaker 1: it and I don't know do they open it or
[1:05:58] Speaker 1: use it. But Gloria, if you like it, it looks good,
[1:06:02] Speaker 1: go ahead get it. I have no problem with it.
[1:06:05] Speaker 1: I got an email from someone asking about advanced data protection. Actually,
[1:06:10] Speaker 1: this person contacted me on Instagram. They said, hey, I
[1:06:12] Speaker 1: saw this reel tells me to turn on advanced data
[1:06:15] Speaker 1: protection on the iPhone. Should I do it? So, let
[1:06:18] Speaker 1: me explain what advanced data protection is. This basically gives
[1:06:22] Speaker 1: you end to end encryption on your iCloud data. So
[1:06:27] Speaker 1: iCloud data is pretty much a lot of your stuff
[1:06:30] Speaker 1: that's on your iPhone is already end to end encrypted,
[1:06:32] Speaker 1: but this increases that protection from certain categories, like certain
[1:06:37] Speaker 1: things like already it's end to end encrypted, but this
[1:06:40] Speaker 1: increases that protection of more categories, including your entire device, backup,
[1:06:44] Speaker 1: your photos, and your notes, which means only trusted devices
[1:06:48] Speaker 1: can access them. So with ADP, which Advanced Data Protection activated,
[1:06:54] Speaker 1: Apple cannot access your encrypted data in any way, shape
[1:06:57] Speaker 1: or form. So this means that if there's a data
[1:07:00] Speaker 1: breach on Apple servers and your stuff got out there,
[1:07:03] Speaker 1: no one would be able to see your pictures, or
[1:07:06] Speaker 1: your data or your info. Sounds great, right, But the
[1:07:11] Speaker 1: downside is if you forget your password or you forget
[1:07:15] Speaker 1: the recovery key for your iCloud, there is no way
[1:07:18] Speaker 1: you'll be able to recover this data ever, never, ever, ever,
[1:07:22] Speaker 1: So if you're someone that loses your passwords can't remember things,
[1:07:27] Speaker 1: this might not be the best thing to turn on.
[1:07:31] Speaker 1: That's one of the downsides. The other downside is that
[1:07:35] Speaker 1: all of your devices that are linked to your iCloud
[1:07:38] Speaker 1: account have to be updated to the latest operating system
[1:07:41] Speaker 1: to have this benefit turned on. So that means if
[1:07:43] Speaker 1: you're running a combination of devices on your account, all
[1:07:47] Speaker 1: of them have to be updated. If some of them
[1:07:49] Speaker 1: can't be, then you cannot. You either have to remove
[1:07:52] Speaker 1: that device from your account or you can't activate this.
[1:07:55] Speaker 1: The other downside is that a lot of functionalities of
[1:07:59] Speaker 1: act accessing your iCloud data via the web will be
[1:08:02] Speaker 1: disabled because you cannot access this stuff via the web
[1:08:07] Speaker 1: because it's a whole complicated situation, but because it's not
[1:08:11] Speaker 1: a trusted device that has the key to unencrypt your information,
[1:08:14] Speaker 1: it can't access it. And the web browser is not
[1:08:17] Speaker 1: equipped to do that, So that means you just can't access.
[1:08:19] Speaker 1: So if you ever said, oh, I lost access to
[1:08:22] Speaker 1: my phone, let me go to iCloud and grab my
[1:08:24] Speaker 1: pictures or grab my contacts, No, not going to happen
[1:08:27] Speaker 1: because you have this ADP on. So this would fall
[1:08:32] Speaker 1: under the category of stuff you see online and it
[1:08:37] Speaker 1: looks really good and you see this expert quote unquote
[1:08:40] Speaker 1: telling you what to do and you don't realize there
[1:08:44] Speaker 1: are implications, pros and cons of every action in this world.
[1:08:49] Speaker 1: And so I get these things all the time. Cybersecurity experts,
[1:08:53] Speaker 1: data experts, iPhone experts, Android experts, expert, expert, expert. If
[1:08:58] Speaker 1: someone calls themselves an expert, I'm always concerned, right because
[1:09:01] Speaker 1: what does that mean? Do you have a PhD and iPhone?
[1:09:04] Speaker 1: You have a PhD and Android? Like, what is expert
[1:09:07] Speaker 1: mean you've studied these or does it mean that you
[1:09:09] Speaker 1: just you know? Like I always, I don't consider myself
[1:09:11] Speaker 1: an expert anything. I just know a lot about technology
[1:09:14] Speaker 1: and I don't even know everything about technology. I just
[1:09:17] Speaker 1: cover this stuff on a daily basis, so I'm versed
[1:09:19] Speaker 1: in it. And again, when it comes to answering tech questions,
[1:09:24] Speaker 1: you know people think you have all the answers. I
[1:09:25] Speaker 1: don't have all the answers. But the difference between someone
[1:09:28] Speaker 1: like myself and you know, people that are smart about
[1:09:30] Speaker 1: technology is that you understand how to figure out the answer,
[1:09:35] Speaker 1: Where to go for the answer, who to talk to
[1:09:37] Speaker 1: for the answer, what the implications of that answer is,
[1:09:40] Speaker 1: the pros and cons of things that, to me is
[1:09:42] Speaker 1: much more useful than expert tells you to turn on
[1:09:45] Speaker 1: this setting, turn off this setting. If you look at
[1:09:47] Speaker 1: all the stuff that I post to Instagram, Facebook, I
[1:09:50] Speaker 1: explain the pros and cons. I explain what's going on,
[1:09:54] Speaker 1: so you understand and you can make an informed decision.
[1:09:57] Speaker 1: I don't just say you should turn this feature on.
[1:10:00] Speaker 1: I explain what the feature is and why you might
[1:10:02] Speaker 1: want to turn it on. So with this advanced data protection,
[1:10:06] Speaker 1: in all these advanced security features, there's a reason why
[1:10:09] Speaker 1: Apple doesn't just turn them on for you, or Android
[1:10:11] Speaker 1: doesn't just turn them on for you. It's because there
[1:10:14] Speaker 1: usually are reasons why you may want them on and
[1:10:17] Speaker 1: you may want them off. If you're smart, you know
[1:10:18] Speaker 1: what you're doing, You're with it. You understand technology, turn
[1:10:22] Speaker 1: it on, understand it, you understand the pros and cons
[1:10:25] Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
[1:10:29] Speaker 1: My name is rich Demiro, hanging out with you talking technology.
[1:10:34] Speaker 1: The website for the show rich on Tech dot tv.
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[1:10:49] Speaker 1: That's what KL did. KL wrote in about my comments
[1:10:54] Speaker 1: about the weighted blankets, saying kids have died using weighted
[1:10:57] Speaker 1: blankets and that was news to me, but I did
[1:11:00] Speaker 1: look it up and apparently, yes, there were a couple
[1:11:03] Speaker 1: of kids that did die in April twenty twenty two
[1:11:08] Speaker 1: by these weighted blankets sold by Target, which led to
[1:11:11] Speaker 1: a huge recall. Now those were apparently a design flaw,
[1:11:15] Speaker 1: but you know, just looking at the tips here, it's
[1:11:18] Speaker 1: saying that you got to be age appropriate, not recommended
[1:11:21] Speaker 1: for babies or toddlers. Check the manufacturers age recommendations, proper
[1:11:25] Speaker 1: size and weight. Kids should be supervised. And you know
[1:11:29] Speaker 1: this is all common sense. It goes without saying. But
[1:11:32] Speaker 1: you know, since I did mention them, I should probably
[1:11:34] Speaker 1: say that. You know, if you're going to use one
[1:11:36] Speaker 1: of these blankets, you know, probably make sure that your
[1:11:39] Speaker 1: child can handle something like this.
[1:11:41] Speaker 10: With all these lawsuits going on, you should realize common
[1:11:44] Speaker 10: sense isn't all that common anymore.
[1:11:46] Speaker 1: Is there anything as common sense? No? I mean, look,
[1:11:50] Speaker 1: you know when you're talking about I am a big
[1:11:52] Speaker 1: believer in if there are issues with the product, Like
[1:11:56] Speaker 1: clearly this had a design flaw with the zipperk so
[1:12:00] Speaker 1: got like entangled in this thing, that makes sense. Like
[1:12:03] Speaker 1: if it's a if it's a design flaw, if there's
[1:12:05] Speaker 1: a problem, like yes, But common sense in general, I
[1:12:10] Speaker 1: feel like has gone out the window with a lot
[1:12:13] Speaker 1: of things in life.
[1:12:13] Speaker 12: Now.
[1:12:14] Speaker 11: The blanket that I have isn't a zipper blankets.
[1:12:16] Speaker 10: It's like a almost like knitted Yeah, it's a weighted
[1:12:20] Speaker 10: knitted blanket.
[1:12:21] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[1:12:21] Speaker 11: And it's not big. It literally just covers me from
[1:12:23] Speaker 11: my chest down on my feet.
[1:12:25] Speaker 1: Yeah. The one that my kid has is a smaller one.
[1:12:27] Speaker 1: But again, I mean, if I had an infant, I'm
[1:12:30] Speaker 1: not putting a weighted blanket on the infant. Like that's
[1:12:32] Speaker 1: just to me, that would be common sense, right. I
[1:12:35] Speaker 1: think if you're a parent in general, there are so
[1:12:37] Speaker 1: many things that you need to learn and understand, and
[1:12:40] Speaker 1: there's just I mean, look, there's things that our parents
[1:12:43] Speaker 1: did with us that you would never do now. My
[1:12:46] Speaker 1: father in law was telling me, you know, they're in car.
[1:12:48] Speaker 1: I mean there wasn't even seatbelts. I mean kids would
[1:12:52] Speaker 1: sleep like on the you know they had these big
[1:12:54] Speaker 1: old station wagons, right and kids would sleep on like
[1:12:57] Speaker 1: the back like you.
[1:12:58] Speaker 10: Know, I don't know what you call it. I can
[1:13:00] Speaker 10: get my dad in trouble with this one corvette. My
[1:13:03] Speaker 10: dad had an older corvette, was at eighty six, and
[1:13:07] Speaker 10: me and him my mom would ride in this corvette,
[1:13:09] Speaker 10: but I would ride in the trunk of the car
[1:13:11] Speaker 10: and the closed trunk like the back where the yeah, yes,
[1:13:15] Speaker 10: laid back there. Yes, And to me it was the
[1:13:17] Speaker 10: most coolest thing ever you did. No, no, no, not
[1:13:21] Speaker 10: at all. But back then it was fun.
[1:13:24] Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I mean just this, if you look at
[1:13:26] Speaker 1: some of the pictures of things, the stuff we take
[1:13:29] Speaker 1: for granted now, the safety measures we have, the everything,
[1:13:33] Speaker 1: it's all just like it's because something bad happened. And
[1:13:37] Speaker 1: I mean I remember we've test drove like this uh
[1:13:40] Speaker 1: big old giant station wagon when I was a kid,
[1:13:44] Speaker 1: and it had like the two seats that faced backwards,
[1:13:46] Speaker 1: you know, like out the back, and it was like,
[1:13:48] Speaker 1: that was the coolest thing ever. And now when you
[1:13:51] Speaker 1: think about, like how these rear end crashes, like maybe
[1:13:54] Speaker 1: not the best place to put your kids something so.
[1:13:56] Speaker 11: Simple drinking from a water holes as a child.
[1:13:59] Speaker 1: Yes, nobody ever died doing that, did they?
[1:14:01] Speaker 11: But I wouldn't now what you wouldn't no now right now?
[1:14:04] Speaker 1: Uh huh? Well, I guess I've had no BPA in
[1:14:06] Speaker 1: the I'll get out everything. I mean, you mentioned anything
[1:14:11] Speaker 1: and someone has some sort of issue. Ron writes into
[1:14:14] Speaker 1: my Instagram at rich On Tech. Hey, rich I've been
[1:14:16] Speaker 1: listening to your radio show since day one. I'm curious
[1:14:18] Speaker 1: can we actually see you live? You always post a
[1:14:21] Speaker 1: pick with you in the station, but I was wondering
[1:14:23] Speaker 1: if we can see you live in some of these episodes.
[1:14:25] Speaker 1: Keep up the great content in twenty twenty five. This
[1:14:28] Speaker 1: has been an ongoing question since day one of this show.
[1:14:32] Speaker 1: The short answer is no. The other answer is if
[1:14:35] Speaker 1: you want to see the first ten minutes of the
[1:14:37] Speaker 1: show that is part of my rich On Tech Weekly show,
[1:14:40] Speaker 1: which airs on KTLA plus, part of the TV station
[1:14:44] Speaker 1: I work for here in Los Angeles, you can see
[1:14:47] Speaker 1: the first ten minutes of the show that you would
[1:14:49] Speaker 1: have to download the KTLA plus app on your Roku,
[1:14:53] Speaker 1: your Apple TV, your Fire TV, or your Samsung Smart TV.
[1:14:57] Speaker 1: And that's a weekly show that airs and you can
[1:14:59] Speaker 1: see the first ten minutes of the radio show. Don't
[1:15:02] Speaker 1: really have plans for live right now. I'm on TV
[1:15:05] Speaker 1: Live every day, and so this is sort of like,
[1:15:08] Speaker 1: you know, a time when I'm not doing live unless
[1:15:10] Speaker 1: something changes, we'll see. Let's go to Deborah in Santa Monica. Deborah,
[1:15:15] Speaker 1: You're on with Rich by Rich.
[1:15:18] Speaker 9: Okay, the reason I'm calling them is I have a
[1:15:22] Speaker 9: one plus seven pro Android phone.
[1:15:26] Speaker 2: Okay, I've had it for years.
[1:15:28] Speaker 1: I love it.
[1:15:28] Speaker 2: It's a wonderful phone.
[1:15:30] Speaker 9: However, in the last couple of weeks, something has happened
[1:15:36] Speaker 9: to the settings that I didn't do anything with. Okay,
[1:15:39] Speaker 9: I didn't change it.
[1:15:40] Speaker 1: Oh no, nobody ever changes anything on their phone.
[1:15:43] Speaker 3: Really.
[1:15:44] Speaker 2: I said, that's the.
[1:15:45] Speaker 9: Way I want it, and then I leave it alone
[1:15:47] Speaker 9: unless it's something you know, serious, Okase, But I would
[1:15:50] Speaker 9: remember that if I had been anything to the setting.
[1:15:53] Speaker 1: Sure.
[1:15:54] Speaker 9: So what's been happening, and it's very annoying, is when
[1:15:58] Speaker 9: there's when the system apparently when a here's talking, it'll revert.
[1:16:04] Speaker 2: It to text.
[1:16:06] Speaker 9: Which will stream across my screen. It'll do it. And
[1:16:11] Speaker 9: any app or program that I'm aware of when I
[1:16:16] Speaker 9: was on and anytime I've been on X recently. If
[1:16:19] Speaker 9: there's talking and I'm listening to a tweeter watching a tweet,
[1:16:23] Speaker 9: it'll it'll put the put the talking right.
[1:16:27] Speaker 1: It's almost like close captions, right, Is that kind of
[1:16:30] Speaker 1: what it is.
[1:16:31] Speaker 9: Calling live cat Yes. I cannot figure out in any
[1:16:35] Speaker 9: of the apps or on my Android phone, even in settings,
[1:16:38] Speaker 9: and I've spent hours going through the settings to see
[1:16:41] Speaker 9: that it's in somewhere. You know, I have to drill down.
[1:16:45] Speaker 9: It's not there. I even did a Google search and
[1:16:49] Speaker 9: they actually said, yes, there's a way to do it.
[1:16:51] Speaker 9: Go to settings, go to this good event. Guess what
[1:16:54] Speaker 9: what they say to go through is missing on my phone.
[1:16:57] Speaker 1: Okay, well, so you have stumbled upon a fee. Sure
[1:17:00] Speaker 1: that is quite helpful for people.
[1:17:02] Speaker 9: You know.
[1:17:02] Speaker 1: I think there's a couple of things going on here.
[1:17:04] Speaker 1: Number one, So what you're talking about is live captions.
[1:17:06] Speaker 1: This is available on both iPhone and Android, and it's
[1:17:10] Speaker 1: a feature that on Android, it came a couple of
[1:17:14] Speaker 1: years ago. On iPhone, I think it's within the last
[1:17:16] Speaker 1: year or so. But what it does is it listens
[1:17:19] Speaker 1: to the audio on the phone and it transcribes it
[1:17:22] Speaker 1: in real time and puts it in a little box.
[1:17:24] Speaker 1: And so for people that you know could be hard
[1:17:28] Speaker 1: of hearing, they want this on their screen. That's one
[1:17:31] Speaker 1: reason to use it. Another reason is you just want
[1:17:33] Speaker 1: captions because you're, you know, watching something in class. You
[1:17:36] Speaker 1: don't want to disturb someone else. You know, there's lots
[1:17:38] Speaker 1: of reasons why you might activate this. I made the
[1:17:41] Speaker 1: joke Tebra about no one ever changes features, because it's
[1:17:45] Speaker 1: an ongoing joke. When someone comes to me with a problem,
[1:17:47] Speaker 1: they say, I didn't change anything. But you know, sometimes
[1:17:51] Speaker 1: what happens is we tap a button by accident. We
[1:17:54] Speaker 1: you know, just something you know, gets hit in our pocket,
[1:17:56] Speaker 1: whatever it is. And so that's just kind of my
[1:17:59] Speaker 1: inside tech show for anyone. My mom calls me with
[1:18:02] Speaker 1: a problem and I'm like, she's like, and I didn't
[1:18:04] Speaker 1: touch a thing. I was like, Okay, no one ever
[1:18:05] Speaker 1: touches anything. But here's how we do it. So this
[1:18:08] Speaker 1: is an accessibility feature. So there are a couple of
[1:18:11] Speaker 1: ways to turn it on and off. The first way
[1:18:14] Speaker 1: is to go into settings and tap accessibility and to
[1:18:18] Speaker 1: choose live captions and turn that on or off. Are
[1:18:21] Speaker 1: you is that the feature that's not there?
[1:18:23] Speaker 2: Okay?
[1:18:23] Speaker 9: When I go into my settings, there's no specific accessibility.
[1:18:28] Speaker 9: You have to go to something like it's either in
[1:18:32] Speaker 9: system or Apps and Notifications. I'm going to see apps
[1:18:36] Speaker 9: and notifications.
[1:18:37] Speaker 1: Well, it wouldn't be under Apps and Notifications. There's usually
[1:18:39] Speaker 1: a separate setting just for accessibility on almost every Android phone.
[1:18:44] Speaker 8: Now.
[1:18:44] Speaker 1: Of course, the one day I did not bring the
[1:18:46] Speaker 1: Android phone that I'm testing with me, I said, nobody's
[1:18:49] Speaker 1: gonna have a question about one plus today, and of
[1:18:51] Speaker 1: course you have the question about one plus, so I
[1:18:53] Speaker 1: don't have it in front of me. But typically if
[1:18:56] Speaker 1: you go into settings accessibility, that's going to be the
[1:18:59] Speaker 1: first place to and then you should find it under privacy. Okay,
[1:19:04] Speaker 1: what's that.
[1:19:06] Speaker 9: You have to in settings? There is something called privacy okay,
[1:19:11] Speaker 9: and permissions and personal data.
[1:19:13] Speaker 1: No, that's not going to be it. Okay. So the
[1:19:15] Speaker 1: other way to look for it, it's.
[1:19:16] Speaker 9: On it is because there's accessibility usage. That's the only
[1:19:21] Speaker 9: way I found anything having to do with assessibility.
[1:19:24] Speaker 1: Well, okay, accessively, that's not it though, that's not the
[1:19:26] Speaker 1: that's not the part. So the other way to do
[1:19:28] Speaker 1: it is to go in the upper right hand corner
[1:19:30] Speaker 1: when you go into your settings and type in live captions. Okay,
[1:19:34] Speaker 1: so you can type in live caption and that should
[1:19:37] Speaker 1: bring up the setting of where to find it. So
[1:19:39] Speaker 1: on this Samsung phone I'm looking at, it's under hearing enhancements,
[1:19:43] Speaker 1: under accessibility accessibility, So settings accessibility, hearing enhancements. That's one
[1:19:48] Speaker 1: way of bringing it up. The other way to bring
[1:19:50] Speaker 1: it up is to press the volume button on your
[1:19:52] Speaker 1: Android phone, and when you press that volume button, there
[1:19:56] Speaker 1: is a little captions icon. So if you press volume
[1:20:01] Speaker 1: up and then press Settings, you should see a little
[1:20:04] Speaker 1: live caption's icon. In that main settings page of your volume.
[1:20:08] Speaker 1: You'll see a whole bunch of sliders you tap there
[1:20:11] Speaker 1: and that should toggle it on or off. The third
[1:20:14] Speaker 1: way to find it is to swipe down from the
[1:20:16] Speaker 1: top of your screen and you see a whole bunch
[1:20:19] Speaker 1: of widgets like to turn on and off, the airplane mode,
[1:20:22] Speaker 1: the flashlight location, whatever it is. And then if you
[1:20:27] Speaker 1: tap the little edit button there, it's like a maybe
[1:20:30] Speaker 1: a pencil icon, and then you tap edit on your
[1:20:34] Speaker 1: widgets for your These are called quick tiles that it
[1:20:37] Speaker 1: should say available buttons, and one of those should be
[1:20:41] Speaker 1: labeled live captions. Tap that and you should now it'll
[1:20:45] Speaker 1: put it into those quick tiles. Tap done, and then
[1:20:49] Speaker 1: once you swipe down to bring up those quick tiles,
[1:20:52] Speaker 1: make sure you expand it. You should have a new
[1:20:54] Speaker 1: option that says live caption and you can toggle it
[1:20:57] Speaker 1: on or off right there. So those are three ways, Deborah,
[1:21:02] Speaker 1: to turn that on and off. Please send me an email.
[1:21:06] Speaker 1: Go to rich on Tech dot TV. Send me an
[1:21:08] Speaker 1: email so I have your email address and I will
[1:21:10] Speaker 1: give you when I get home, I will give you
[1:21:12] Speaker 1: specific directions for the one plus phone. But that is
[1:21:15] Speaker 1: the three ways in general on Android that you can
[1:21:19] Speaker 1: turn on and off live caption. If you ask me,
[1:21:23] Speaker 1: they should have it right on the captions when they
[1:21:25] Speaker 1: show up. That would make the most sense. Let me
[1:21:28] Speaker 1: just see, I'm playing a YouTube video and you would
[1:21:31] Speaker 1: think it would have them right on, you know, a
[1:21:35] Speaker 1: little toggle right on there. But I guess it doesn't
[1:21:38] Speaker 1: do that. Eight eight eight rich one O one eight
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[1:22:14] Speaker 1: Apple Fitness Plus. I don't know if you're a person
[1:22:17] Speaker 1: that wants to close your rings on a daily basis,
[1:22:20] Speaker 1: I know I am. If you have an Apple Watch,
[1:22:22] Speaker 1: those rings represent the move minutes that you get on
[1:22:25] Speaker 1: a daily basis standing up every hour for like twelve hours.
[1:22:30] Speaker 1: And then what's the third one? The steps you take
[1:22:33] Speaker 1: on a daily basis. Let me say, I don't even know.
[1:22:35] Speaker 1: I'm only worried about the move minutes. Let's see here, Oh,
[1:22:40] Speaker 1: great segment, rich You don't even know what you're talking about.
[1:22:42] Speaker 1: Move minutes exercise interesting? Oh move is your calories? Okay,
[1:22:47] Speaker 1: I don't worry about that. So you got the calories,
[1:22:50] Speaker 1: exercise minutes and then stand minutes. So yeah, if you're
[1:22:55] Speaker 1: someone who wants to do that. Apple came up with
[1:22:56] Speaker 1: this thing called Apple Fitness Plus a couple of years ago.
[1:22:59] Speaker 1: During the pan lets you work out from your phone
[1:23:01] Speaker 1: or your Apple Watch. It started out you had to
[1:23:04] Speaker 1: have an Apple Watch. Now you can do it just
[1:23:06] Speaker 1: through your iPhone. But I visited their Apple Fitness Plus
[1:23:10] Speaker 1: studio in Santa Monica to get a little preview of
[1:23:13] Speaker 1: some of the new programs they have for twenty twenty five.
[1:23:17] Speaker 1: They're launching all of these on Monday, January sixth, largest
[1:23:21] Speaker 1: ever lineup of their fitness and mindfulness programming. And they've
[1:23:26] Speaker 1: got new strength training. So the thing about strength training,
[1:23:29] Speaker 1: it's very intimidating. You've got people like Bobo that work
[1:23:32] Speaker 1: out all the time and they know what they're doing.
[1:23:34] Speaker 1: Every time you go on Instagram, he's with lifting more weight.
[1:23:37] Speaker 1: I'm like, I never lift that. But if if you're
[1:23:41] Speaker 1: intimidated by that, you know, maybe you just want to
[1:23:44] Speaker 1: start small. So this program you can start with any
[1:23:46] Speaker 1: weight and it could be anything. So if you if
[1:23:48] Speaker 1: you strong and you already want to lift a lot,
[1:23:50] Speaker 1: you can start with that, or if you don't want
[1:23:52] Speaker 1: to lift a lot, you can start with that. Then
[1:23:54] Speaker 1: they've got pickleball conditioning, so that's new. I know pickleball
[1:23:58] Speaker 1: is very popular. They've got these programs so you can
[1:24:01] Speaker 1: learn like specific yoga poses and then of course breath meditation.
[1:24:05] Speaker 1: The other feature I really think is great. If you're
[1:24:07] Speaker 1: just trying to move your you know, move yourself, get
[1:24:09] Speaker 1: yourself up and out of the house, it's called time
[1:24:12] Speaker 1: to walk. And so they interview all these like celebrities
[1:24:16] Speaker 1: and notable people and you just walk with them, so
[1:24:18] Speaker 1: they're in your ear. You just walk and they talk
[1:24:21] Speaker 1: and tell their story and before you know it, you
[1:24:22] Speaker 1: got thirty minutes of walk time. Fitness Plus is also
[1:24:26] Speaker 1: integrating with Strava for the first time ever in a
[1:24:30] Speaker 1: big way, so you can see detailed tracking and workouts
[1:24:33] Speaker 1: shared on the app, so it's a bigger integration. I
[1:24:35] Speaker 1: don't use Strava, so I'm not totally knowledgeable about that,
[1:24:39] Speaker 1: but I know a lot of people love it, especially
[1:24:40] Speaker 1: I think it start out with like the biker community,
[1:24:43] Speaker 1: not the motorcycle bikers.
[1:24:45] Speaker 10: The I use Strava, do you Yeah? I use it
[1:24:49] Speaker 10: around my neighborhood. It's pretty simple.
[1:24:50] Speaker 1: What do you do with it?
[1:24:52] Speaker 10: You just started like, wherever you go, you hit the
[1:24:54] Speaker 10: button to record your pace, and it keeps track of
[1:24:57] Speaker 10: your miles, your elevation, and amount of calories that you
[1:25:00] Speaker 10: could have possibly burned in the process and the time.
[1:25:03] Speaker 1: Okay, so so it's like a tracker app.
[1:25:04] Speaker 10: Yeah, but it tracks to your map, like to your
[1:25:08] Speaker 10: areash o. God, you like the path that you went
[1:25:10] Speaker 10: and everything like that. And there's a friend network on
[1:25:13] Speaker 10: it too, so like I can see what you did
[1:25:15] Speaker 10: and like it, or you can.
[1:25:16] Speaker 1: See what right you don't like it. And I think
[1:25:18] Speaker 1: that's what the big improvement is with Fitness Plus is
[1:25:20] Speaker 1: that it now shows the specific workout that you did
[1:25:24] Speaker 1: to your friends. Fitness Plus is ten dollars a month,
[1:25:27] Speaker 1: eighty dollars a year. You can share it up to
[1:25:30] Speaker 1: six people in your family. You can get a free
[1:25:32] Speaker 1: trial by going to like I think best Buy has
[1:25:35] Speaker 1: two months. If you have a new Apple device, you'll
[1:25:36] Speaker 1: get it. But anyway, it's kind of fun. Let me
[1:25:39] Speaker 1: just give you a quick idea of Apple, how they operate,
[1:25:42] Speaker 1: you know, and I know I talk about Apple a lot.
[1:25:44] Speaker 1: I also talk about Android. I like both, but you
[1:25:47] Speaker 1: know they're two very different companies, right, But like Apple,
[1:25:49] Speaker 1: So I go to these studios and they open the
[1:25:52] Speaker 1: door for me and they're like, hey, before you go in,
[1:25:54] Speaker 1: just so you know, we have a lot of energy
[1:25:55] Speaker 1: around here. I'm like, all right, what does that mean?
[1:25:57] Speaker 1: They opened the door. They had secretly collected every employee
[1:26:01] Speaker 1: in the building. So I'm talking like I don't know
[1:26:04] Speaker 1: one hundred people at this building, and they were all
[1:26:06] Speaker 1: standing there in the lobby when I walk in, and
[1:26:09] Speaker 1: all just like clapping and shouting and saying welcome, rich
[1:26:13] Speaker 1: and it's just like, you know, these big smiles. And
[1:26:15] Speaker 1: I was so taken aback because it's just like this
[1:26:18] Speaker 1: is Apple is just such a unique company. I mean,
[1:26:20] Speaker 1: to grab everyone. Can you imagine doing that at any
[1:26:22] Speaker 1: company you work for? Say, hey, this guy's coming in today.
[1:26:25] Speaker 1: Let's let's grab everyone downstairs and let's have them all,
[1:26:27] Speaker 1: you know, say hello in the lobby and like cheer
[1:26:29] Speaker 1: for him. Bill from Kingston, Pennsylvania, who listens to the podcast,
[1:26:34] Speaker 1: writes in I'm considering replacing my Moto Edge twenty twenty
[1:26:38] Speaker 1: two with a Pixel xcel Pro. I'm also intrigued by
[1:26:41] Speaker 1: the one plus thirteen, which is coming out in January.
[1:26:44] Speaker 1: The Pixel has a higher price plus two extra years
[1:26:46] Speaker 1: of support, but the one plus looks impressive. What's your take?
[1:26:49] Speaker 1: You don't mention one plus often, but I know you're
[1:26:51] Speaker 1: a fan of the Pixel. Here's my take historically, and
[1:26:56] Speaker 1: I am testing the one plus thirteen, so I have
[1:26:58] Speaker 1: been using it. I can't tell you everything I'm under embargo,
[1:27:01] Speaker 1: but I will tell you that here's my thought. The
[1:27:04] Speaker 1: Pixel is all about the software and camera. One plus
[1:27:08] Speaker 1: is all about very very good hardware at a great price.
[1:27:13] Speaker 1: So if you're looking for the best camera out there,
[1:27:16] Speaker 1: I'd say probably go with the Pixel. If you're looking
[1:27:18] Speaker 1: for a great value of hardware and price, I think
[1:27:22] Speaker 1: the one plus thirteen might be your best bet. But
[1:27:25] Speaker 1: I will have more about the one plus when I
[1:27:27] Speaker 1: can talk about it and give my full review. That
[1:27:30] Speaker 1: will be coming up soon in the next couple of weeks.
[1:27:33] Speaker 1: But I will say the photos are looking good off
[1:27:36] Speaker 1: of this one plus thirteen. Coming up next, we're going
[1:27:39] Speaker 1: to talk to Gerald Casulis of nord VPN about the
[1:27:43] Speaker 1: biggest scams to watch out for in twenty twenty five.
[1:27:47] Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking
[1:27:51] Speaker 1: technology with you. We're going to get to the top
[1:27:55] Speaker 1: scams of twenty twenty five in just a second here,
[1:27:59] Speaker 1: But first, Kenny from Warwick, Rhode Island, rights in I
[1:28:05] Speaker 1: rented a Kia EV six while traveling in North Carolina
[1:28:08] Speaker 1: and love the quiet responsive drive. However, finding a reliable
[1:28:13] Speaker 1: EV charger was a challenge. I dealt with charging anxiety
[1:28:17] Speaker 1: when Google Maps led me to chargers I couldn't use
[1:28:20] Speaker 1: or were occupied. Is there an app that makes finding
[1:28:23] Speaker 1: chargers easier for non Tesla drivers, Kenny? This is why
[1:28:29] Speaker 1: I only rented a EV once, and I drive an EV,
[1:28:32] Speaker 1: so believe me, I love them, but I think renting
[1:28:35] Speaker 1: one is a little bit different because people are not
[1:28:37] Speaker 1: prepared for the fact that you do have to charge
[1:28:39] Speaker 1: this thing, and charging a non Tesla EV can be tricky.
[1:28:43] Speaker 1: As you experienced, these third party charging stations can be
[1:28:47] Speaker 1: very hit or miss. Sometimes they don't work, they're not maintained,
[1:28:51] Speaker 1: just it's a mixed bag. So two apps that can help.
[1:28:55] Speaker 1: One is called plug Share plug Share. This is a
[1:29:00] Speaker 1: really handy app. It's crowdsourced. People put information in about
[1:29:03] Speaker 1: apps or sorry about apps, about the charging stations everywhere,
[1:29:07] Speaker 1: so you can look for them that way. The other
[1:29:10] Speaker 1: one is called a Better Route Planner a Better Route
[1:29:14] Speaker 1: Planner and this was actually bought by Rivian, but it
[1:29:17] Speaker 1: still operates. It looks like it operates independently, and they
[1:29:21] Speaker 1: do have an app and so you can put in
[1:29:23] Speaker 1: your information you want to look for, you know, chargers
[1:29:25] Speaker 1: along the way, you can say what kind of car
[1:29:28] Speaker 1: you have. It's got a lot of great information there,
[1:29:30] Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, like you experience,
[1:29:32] Speaker 1: sometimes when you get to these places, the charger may
[1:29:36] Speaker 1: just not work. And that's getting better because Tesla is
[1:29:39] Speaker 1: opening up its super charging network to third party cars
[1:29:43] Speaker 1: and brands. But you need an adapter most of the time.
[1:29:46] Speaker 1: And it is a kind of a slow process because
[1:29:48] Speaker 1: they've announced this, but not everyone's on board right away.
[1:29:52] Speaker 1: So Kenny, thanks for the email, Thanks for listening to
[1:29:54] Speaker 1: the podcast to appreciate it. Gerald casulis now on the
[1:29:59] Speaker 1: line from nord VPN. You probably have heard of NordVPN.
[1:30:03] Speaker 1: They have all kinds of security programs and VPN programs.
[1:30:07] Speaker 1: He's going to talk to us about twenty twenty five
[1:30:09] Speaker 1: top cyber threats. Gerald, thanks for joining me today. Hi Rich,
[1:30:14] Speaker 1: thanks for having ny So what is NordVPN all about?
[1:30:17] Speaker 1: What I mean, I know the VPN, but you guys
[1:30:19] Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of products.
[1:30:20] Speaker 11: Huh oh yeah.
[1:30:22] Speaker 12: Absolutely, we want to make Internet a safer place, so
[1:30:25] Speaker 12: we have of course NORDPN to protect your identity online. Also,
[1:30:30] Speaker 12: we have Bustard Manager, we have business tools, we have
[1:30:33] Speaker 12: cyber Efects Intelligence, So we have a bunch of things
[1:30:37] Speaker 12: fully focusing on cybersecurity and you and your business safety online.
[1:30:42] Speaker 1: I guess my first question is do people actually get
[1:30:45] Speaker 1: scammed on a daily basis? I know that I share
[1:30:47] Speaker 1: kind of these scams and text messages and all kinds
[1:30:50] Speaker 1: of things that are going around on a daily basis.
[1:30:52] Speaker 1: Are people falling for this stuff?
[1:30:55] Speaker 5: Sadly? Absolutely, people, businesses, everyone does.
[1:31:00] Speaker 12: I think we live way too hectic and fast space
[1:31:03] Speaker 12: of a life that we easily get tricked by receiving
[1:31:06] Speaker 12: an email, clicking on a link that we shouldn't, could
[1:31:09] Speaker 12: be text messages Here in US, you know, we get.
[1:31:11] Speaker 5: A lot of that as well.
[1:31:13] Speaker 12: It's very easy, and if you do fall for something,
[1:31:16] Speaker 12: you don't need to feel the silly bad about it.
[1:31:18] Speaker 12: It's just obviously what you do about it straight afterwards
[1:31:21] Speaker 12: and what tools you implement on digital devices that you
[1:31:25] Speaker 12: use to protect yourself better.
[1:31:27] Speaker 1: All right, So we're talking about some of these things
[1:31:28] Speaker 1: you need to watch out for in twenty twenty five
[1:31:31] Speaker 1: combo lists. What does that mean and why are they
[1:31:34] Speaker 1: a big concern?
[1:31:35] Speaker 12: For cybersecurity, great question, Rich, So, combo list is a
[1:31:39] Speaker 12: combination of information that's available in a dark web. And
[1:31:43] Speaker 12: when you know, when we talk about dark web, we
[1:31:45] Speaker 12: always think of this mythical, mystical place somewhere that is unreachable,
[1:31:51] Speaker 12: but actually dark web and deep webs it's very popular
[1:31:54] Speaker 12: among cyber criminals. And the combo list is basically a
[1:31:57] Speaker 12: list of information that's.
[1:31:59] Speaker 5: Originated from breaches.
[1:32:00] Speaker 12: So it could be a website got breached somewhere that
[1:32:03] Speaker 12: could be your email. There's another website I got breached
[1:32:05] Speaker 12: somewhere that could be your address, And that combo list
[1:32:08] Speaker 12: is going to be basically everything, all the information accessible
[1:32:11] Speaker 12: from numerous different breaches that could potentially have your full
[1:32:14] Speaker 12: contact details, your social security number, your telephone number, your addresses,
[1:32:19] Speaker 12: a bunch of information that would made for cyber clinels
[1:32:22] Speaker 12: to potentially steal your identity a lot easier and purchase
[1:32:27] Speaker 12: those type of combolists.
[1:32:29] Speaker 1: So they're piecing together information from various breaches. One may
[1:32:33] Speaker 1: not be a big deal, Okay, your phone number, but
[1:32:35] Speaker 1: now they've got your phone number, your social your address,
[1:32:37] Speaker 1: your email address, a couple of your old passwords, whatever,
[1:32:41] Speaker 1: all in one place.
[1:32:43] Speaker 12: Absolutely, and that's where it all kind of leads to
[1:32:46] Speaker 12: account takeovers, which is very popular. You don't necessarily need
[1:32:50] Speaker 12: to look at a massive infringement such as someone stealing.
[1:32:55] Speaker 5: Your identity, but even account takeover.
[1:32:57] Speaker 12: So imagine I get your email address, maybe I get
[1:33:00] Speaker 12: a couple of different passwords that you use somewhere that
[1:33:03] Speaker 12: on the websites that were breached, and maybe you are
[1:33:06] Speaker 12: reusing one of the passwords that you use somewhere else,
[1:33:08] Speaker 12: which could be even secure passwords for instance.
[1:33:11] Speaker 5: Or maybe using a really weak password.
[1:33:13] Speaker 12: Of course, that full cube of criminals utilizing AI tools
[1:33:17] Speaker 12: would take only a split second to guess pass get
[1:33:21] Speaker 12: that type of password.
[1:33:22] Speaker 5: So for me to.
[1:33:23] Speaker 12: Gain access into into one of your logins, into one
[1:33:26] Speaker 12: of your tools, and it could be banking information and whatnot,
[1:33:30] Speaker 12: would be very very simple.
[1:33:32] Speaker 1: That's wow. That's why I always tell people you have
[1:33:34] Speaker 1: to use a password manager, you have to use a
[1:33:36] Speaker 1: unique password. It's just it's vital at this point, I mean,
[1:33:40] Speaker 1: you just can't, there's no way around it. Okay, Now
[1:33:43] Speaker 1: this one, what is synthetic identity fraud and how does
[1:33:46] Speaker 1: it differ from sort of traditional ID theft?
[1:33:50] Speaker 12: Yeah, a really good question, and that's actually Sentetic identity
[1:33:54] Speaker 12: fraud is actually getting gaining a lot popularity, so to say.
[1:33:57] Speaker 12: Synthetic identity fraud basically criminals create a new identity by
[1:34:01] Speaker 12: combining real and fixtious information. So potentially could be using
[1:34:06] Speaker 12: a real social security and number that has been available
[1:34:08] Speaker 12: somewhat and they combine it with fake information like fake
[1:34:11] Speaker 12: name to open a pounds of some sort to commit
[1:34:14] Speaker 12: fraud somewhere and potentially utilizing AI tools as well or
[1:34:18] Speaker 12: deep fake technology. It makes that type of synthetic identity
[1:34:23] Speaker 12: fraud a lot easier, and combining the real information with
[1:34:27] Speaker 12: fake information will be would be a lot harder for
[1:34:30] Speaker 12: you to get triggered to know that's happening in the background.
[1:34:33] Speaker 12: And it differs from the traditional identity debt where normally
[1:34:37] Speaker 12: your full information would be used where you might find
[1:34:40] Speaker 12: out about it a lot sooner because it could come
[1:34:42] Speaker 12: up on your credit report a lot easier.
[1:34:44] Speaker 1: Wow, this is just wild. We're talking to Gerald Cassulis
[1:34:47] Speaker 1: from NordVPN about some of the top cyber threats to
[1:34:52] Speaker 1: look out for in twenty twenty five. How are hackers
[1:34:54] Speaker 1: using AI to make phishing attacks and social engineering more effective?
[1:34:58] Speaker 1: I know this is a big.
[1:34:59] Speaker 12: One, absolutely Rich, and that's one of the things we've
[1:35:03] Speaker 12: seen sort of rising in sort of say popularity over
[1:35:07] Speaker 12: the last year or so.
[1:35:09] Speaker 5: Basically, you can imagine AI.
[1:35:11] Speaker 12: Tools, you know, a lot of us use it on
[1:35:13] Speaker 12: daily basis, you know, to make our lives easier. Could
[1:35:15] Speaker 12: be to draft an email for us, to do a
[1:35:18] Speaker 12: bit research for work, university, you name it. So in
[1:35:21] Speaker 12: a similar manner, there are AI tools in the dark
[1:35:24] Speaker 12: word that don't have traditional limitation and security measures, meaning
[1:35:28] Speaker 12: that you can ask those type of AI tools to
[1:35:30] Speaker 12: put a fraudulent email together, to put deep fake together
[1:35:35] Speaker 12: of some sort, to put malware attacked together. Right, So
[1:35:39] Speaker 12: meaning that for me, the entry barriers as a potential
[1:35:43] Speaker 12: hacker gets very very low, where I don't need to
[1:35:46] Speaker 12: know how to code, how to put active activities frogun
[1:35:50] Speaker 12: activities together. AI tools would do that for me, and
[1:35:53] Speaker 12: I'll be able to target Rich. I could have your email,
[1:35:58] Speaker 12: I'd be able to send out automate I think emails
[1:36:00] Speaker 12: that would be AI generated with intention of defrauding you.
[1:36:04] Speaker 12: So sophistication itself, it goes to the roofs and make
[1:36:07] Speaker 12: it makes it a lot easier for individuals to actually
[1:36:13] Speaker 12: operate in a negative manner.
[1:36:15] Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean if you ask like a chat GBT
[1:36:18] Speaker 1: or a Gemini to do some of these things that
[1:36:19] Speaker 1: I'll say, sorry, I can't. But that does not mean
[1:36:23] Speaker 1: that there are not one hundred thousand tools out there
[1:36:25] Speaker 1: that will do it that are not necessarily in regular
[1:36:28] Speaker 1: consumers hands or the mainstream tools. So keep in mind
[1:36:31] Speaker 1: that you know, just because you can't do it doesn't
[1:36:34] Speaker 1: mean that no one else can. Finally, what is reverse
[1:36:38] Speaker 1: identity theft?
[1:36:41] Speaker 12: Good question, Rich, So, same as with synthetic identity that
[1:36:45] Speaker 12: we see a lot of reverse identity theft are now
[1:36:47] Speaker 12: gaining popularity as well in the dark web in the
[1:36:50] Speaker 12: forums that being discussed as well. Basically, it's it's a
[1:36:54] Speaker 12: alarming concept where individuals assume.
[1:36:57] Speaker 5: Someone else's identity and not to mention the silly for.
[1:37:00] Speaker 12: Financial gain, not to steal your identity, but to actually
[1:37:04] Speaker 12: live as you. In a simple way put it where
[1:37:07] Speaker 12: they could be securing jobs, they could be accessing certain
[1:37:10] Speaker 12: services under false three tenses with different intentions, and those
[1:37:14] Speaker 12: type of intentions could be looking to frame person for
[1:37:19] Speaker 12: a crime, could be doing credit sabotage, impersonation of some
[1:37:23] Speaker 12: sort of online employments, broad so there are many.
[1:37:26] Speaker 5: Different factors that play into it.
[1:37:28] Speaker 12: So you can think of it reverse identity, where someone
[1:37:32] Speaker 12: would actually try to take your identity and live as
[1:37:35] Speaker 12: you for fraudulent purposes.
[1:37:38] Speaker 1: Ah, that's scary, all right. Have we got about thirty seconds.
[1:37:41] Speaker 1: What do you think consumers should do to prepare for
[1:37:43] Speaker 1: all these challenges? Like, what do you think are their
[1:37:45] Speaker 1: main steps to take to protect themselves?
[1:37:50] Speaker 12: Yeah, rich, as you said at the beginning, passive managers
[1:37:53] Speaker 12: one of the easiest tools to implement it. So and
[1:37:55] Speaker 12: then beyond that, you know, there are three things to consider,
[1:37:58] Speaker 12: So make sure you always enable to factors negation on
[1:38:01] Speaker 12: tools that you have. You use unique passwords, so never
[1:38:04] Speaker 12: reuse the password, and never create a week password like
[1:38:07] Speaker 12: passed one two threek and also regular your accounts. Uh,
[1:38:11] Speaker 12: you know, as frequently as you can. Make sure you
[1:38:13] Speaker 12: update your Internet of Things devices. If you've got like
[1:38:16] Speaker 12: a smart refrigerator, make sure you update those devices because
[1:38:20] Speaker 12: being they're not tooriously weak in terms of cybersecuity measures,
[1:38:23] Speaker 12: some very easy to for hackers to actually get into them.
[1:38:27] Speaker 12: So I think that many things that we can do
[1:38:29] Speaker 12: so not all of it is lost, which is a
[1:38:31] Speaker 12: good thing.
[1:38:33] Speaker 1: All right, great information. Wow, a lot of things to
[1:38:36] Speaker 1: watch out for in the new year. Gerald casulis from
[1:38:39] Speaker 1: nord VPN. The website nord vpn dot com is where
[1:38:46] Speaker 1: you want to go if you want to learn more
[1:38:47] Speaker 1: about some of those products and services. Thanks a lot
[1:38:50] Speaker 1: for coming on today, Gerald, appreciate it.
[1:38:52] Speaker 5: Thanks che stay stay safe online.
[1:38:54] Speaker 1: Thank you. Coming up, we're gonna we're gonna open up
[1:38:57] Speaker 1: the feedback, get some of those messages you've sent to
[1:39:00] Speaker 1: me throughout the week, and we'll see what you said
[1:39:03] Speaker 1: right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich
[1:39:06] Speaker 1: On Tech. A couple of things to talk about before
[1:39:11] Speaker 1: we get to the feedback here. A couple of little things.
[1:39:15] Speaker 1: So I mentioned, I drove to Sedona and on our
[1:39:20] Speaker 1: way through Arizona, we drove past this giant, giant manufacturing plant.
[1:39:26] Speaker 1: I was like, what is that? It looks so high tech.
[1:39:28] Speaker 1: It was like looked brand new. And it turned out
[1:39:32] Speaker 1: I was trying to you know. When we passed by,
[1:39:34] Speaker 1: I was like to my wife, I was like, I
[1:39:35] Speaker 1: got to take a picture of this thing? What is this?
[1:39:38] Speaker 1: And sure enough I see a little sign TSMC like
[1:39:41] Speaker 1: TSMC What I did not realize they had a giant
[1:39:45] Speaker 1: manufacturing facility in Arizona. That's a Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company.
[1:39:52] Speaker 1: They make chips for all kinds of devices. So this
[1:39:57] Speaker 1: is kind of like the I mean, I know some
[1:40:00] Speaker 1: of you will get angry for me saying this, but
[1:40:02] Speaker 1: this is almost like the intel of our you know,
[1:40:04] Speaker 1: current times. Like they just make all kinds of chips
[1:40:07] Speaker 1: and everything. And this was a multi billion dollar plant
[1:40:11] Speaker 1: anyway near Phoenix. So the cars in that parking lot.
[1:40:15] Speaker 1: You can always tell a good company by the quality
[1:40:18] Speaker 1: of the cars in the parking lot, and these were
[1:40:20] Speaker 1: some nice cars. The entire parking lot was solar paneled,
[1:40:24] Speaker 1: you know, coverage. So you're looking for a good job,
[1:40:28] Speaker 1: I don't know, this might be the place. Anyway. I
[1:40:31] Speaker 1: thought that was really cool to, you know, remind us
[1:40:33] Speaker 1: that all this stuff we take for granted, there's a
[1:40:35] Speaker 1: lot of chips that go into these phones and computers
[1:40:37] Speaker 1: we have. They got to be made somewhere. This was interesting.
[1:40:41] Speaker 1: Someone asked me to test out something like a free
[1:40:44] Speaker 1: trial of a program, like some security program, and so
[1:40:48] Speaker 1: I signed up. It was like fifteen dollars a month.
[1:40:51] Speaker 1: They offered like a seven day free trial. And here's
[1:40:54] Speaker 1: the thing, Usually when I sign up for something, I
[1:40:56] Speaker 1: cancel it right away, or I snooze the welcome email
[1:41:00] Speaker 1: for you know, two or three days after so I
[1:41:02] Speaker 1: can check it out and then remind myself to cancel. Well,
[1:41:05] Speaker 1: I didn't get that welcome email, so I thought, that's
[1:41:07] Speaker 1: kind of shady. Come on, if you're signing up for
[1:41:11] Speaker 1: something that requires your email address, you should get an
[1:41:14] Speaker 1: email from that company that says thank you for signing up.
[1:41:17] Speaker 1: Your trial ends on this day. Companies that don't send that,
[1:41:21] Speaker 1: I would be wary of doing business with them, because that,
[1:41:24] Speaker 1: to me is already getting off on a bad foot,
[1:41:27] Speaker 1: because you know, I had no way of remember like it.
[1:41:30] Speaker 1: Just a couple like hours later, I'm like, wait, where's
[1:41:33] Speaker 1: this email? Never got it, went to the website directly
[1:41:37] Speaker 1: and canceled it. But anyway, and finally before we get
[1:41:41] Speaker 1: to the feedback, my wife and I the other night
[1:41:43] Speaker 1: needed some stuff for you know, like a little like whatever,
[1:41:47] Speaker 1: just random stuff around the house. I forget what the
[1:41:50] Speaker 1: one thing we needed was. But anyway, I said, why
[1:41:53] Speaker 1: don't we try doordashing It Like, by the time we
[1:41:55] Speaker 1: drive to Target pick up these three items, like DoorDash
[1:41:58] Speaker 1: might be cheaper actually I think it was Uber Eat.
[1:42:00] Speaker 1: And here's the thing. A lot of these companies are
[1:42:02] Speaker 1: doing like first time deals. So Uber was giving like
[1:42:05] Speaker 1: fifty percent off your first like non food delivery order.
[1:42:08] Speaker 1: So Target, you know, qualified, I'm not kidding. This stuff
[1:42:12] Speaker 1: was at our house within twenty minutes. We ordered like
[1:42:14] Speaker 1: five items and it was so cheap. It was cheaper
[1:42:18] Speaker 1: than going there ourselves. And by the way, when you
[1:42:19] Speaker 1: go to Target, you spend extra money because you buy
[1:42:21] Speaker 1: stuff that you weren't thinking you were going to get.
[1:42:23] Speaker 1: And this thing was at our door, and I was like,
[1:42:24] Speaker 1: this is wild, Like what world do we live in
[1:42:27] Speaker 1: where this stuff is at our door quicker than we
[1:42:29] Speaker 1: can drive to Target? And so I thought about that,
[1:42:32] Speaker 1: but I was like, you know, the catch about all
[1:42:34] Speaker 1: this is that, of course it's fifty percent off right now.
[1:42:37] Speaker 1: All they want you to do is try it so
[1:42:38] Speaker 1: that the next time, by the way, it's not going
[1:42:40] Speaker 1: to be fifty percent off, you'll remember how convenient was
[1:42:43] Speaker 1: and maybe you'll do it again. And that's how these
[1:42:45] Speaker 1: all these tech companies build business, so that they do
[1:42:48] Speaker 1: it really cheap at the beginning, and then when you actually,
[1:42:50] Speaker 1: you know, later on, use it again. It's like, Oh,
[1:42:52] Speaker 1: where'd that discount go? There's no there's no promo codes anymore.
[1:42:55] Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the feedback. Howard writes in
[1:42:58] Speaker 1: I enjoy your segments and radio show. I received an
[1:43:01] Speaker 1: email about a one hundred dollars settlement from an auto
[1:43:03] Speaker 1: parts antitrust case, but wasn't sure if it was legitimate.
[1:43:07] Speaker 1: I searched online and found mixed results, but no news coverage.
[1:43:10] Speaker 1: Can you suggest how to verify this? Yes, I can
[1:43:13] Speaker 1: go to the website top class actions dot com, topclassactions
[1:43:19] Speaker 1: dot com. He actually forwarded me the email and I
[1:43:22] Speaker 1: popped it into this website the actual case number, and
[1:43:26] Speaker 1: sure enough it came up. And so any class action
[1:43:28] Speaker 1: lawsuit type in a keyword into this website and it
[1:43:31] Speaker 1: will tell you all the details on that. That's where
[1:43:33] Speaker 1: I go to verify Top Classactions dot Com. There's a
[1:43:38] Speaker 1: lot of those class action lawsuits, you know, percolating. Make
[1:43:42] Speaker 1: sure they're legit before you do anything with them. Let's
[1:43:46] Speaker 1: see here. Rudy from San Jose writes in you had
[1:43:49] Speaker 1: a caller with an epsoen printer and an AT and
[1:43:51] Speaker 1: T wireless internet who mentioned they had printing issues. I
[1:43:54] Speaker 1: wanted to share a tip. Many routers create two networks,
[1:43:57] Speaker 1: a personal network and a guest network. The phone or
[1:44:00] Speaker 1: computers on one network and the printer is on the other,
[1:44:03] Speaker 1: they might not see each other. I had a similar
[1:44:05] Speaker 1: issue at home and discovered this was the case. Thanks
[1:44:08] Speaker 1: Rudy JL from Illinois rights in. I'd love for influencers
[1:44:14] Speaker 1: like you to help educate people about the downsides of
[1:44:17] Speaker 1: vertical video. It's becomes so common, but many people don't
[1:44:21] Speaker 1: realize how much better videos look if they were shot
[1:44:23] Speaker 1: and horizontal. Even when the issue is pointed out, the
[1:44:26] Speaker 1: trend continues. Can you help spread the word, you know, Jl,
[1:44:30] Speaker 1: I used to care about this, and now I'm sorry.
[1:44:32] Speaker 1: With TikTok and Instagram reels and all these vertical videos,
[1:44:36] Speaker 1: that format is here to stay. My best solution is,
[1:44:40] Speaker 1: if you are shooting anything that you're not sharing on
[1:44:43] Speaker 1: social media, yes, shoot it in widescreen because that's what
[1:44:46] Speaker 1: you see on your TV. But you know it's I
[1:44:49] Speaker 1: have no problem with it anymore. I have to shoot
[1:44:51] Speaker 1: videos both ways because I'm shooting for TV and social
[1:44:54] Speaker 1: It's just kind of the way of the world. Vanessa
[1:44:58] Speaker 1: from Nevada rights in this while camping in Montana, my
[1:45:01] Speaker 1: e bike was stolen. I tracked it with tile for
[1:45:03] Speaker 1: nine hours all around town without success. Then two days
[1:45:06] Speaker 1: later it pinged at a storage unit across town. With
[1:45:09] Speaker 1: help from my son, daughter in law, her brother, and nephew.
[1:45:12] Speaker 1: Oh wow, they brought out everyone. We went to the location.
[1:45:15] Speaker 1: I rang the tile, called the Sheriff's department and they
[1:45:17] Speaker 1: heard the ring. After getting a warrant and cutting the lock,
[1:45:20] Speaker 1: I got my one thousand dollars plus e bike back.
[1:45:23] Speaker 1: I listened to you on KFI through iHeart on my echo.
[1:45:26] Speaker 1: I love your show. Be careful when you're getting Just
[1:45:30] Speaker 1: because you can see the location doesn't necessarily mean you
[1:45:32] Speaker 1: should go in like the but you did the right thing,
[1:45:36] Speaker 1: got the officer involved. Teresa from Chicago rights in. I
[1:45:38] Speaker 1: saw your segment before Christmas and immediately went out and
[1:45:41] Speaker 1: got the remote control Geko at my local Target. It
[1:45:44] Speaker 1: was the last one. My four and a half year
[1:45:46] Speaker 1: old granddaughter loves it. I'm not very tech savvy, but
[1:45:49] Speaker 1: I enjoy your segments. Thank you. My kid also loved
[1:45:53] Speaker 1: the remote control Geko. We got it for him and
[1:45:56] Speaker 1: now we're getting it for can't mention because they might
[1:45:59] Speaker 1: be listening. Kids love it, that's gonna do it. You
[1:46:01] Speaker 1: can find links on the website rich on Tech dot TV,
[1:46:04] Speaker 1: follow me on social media at rich on tech. Very
[1:46:06] Speaker 1: important this week because I'll be at CES twenty twenty
[1:46:09] Speaker 1: five in Las Vegas sharing the latest and AI wearables, cars, TVs,
[1:46:13] Speaker 1: all the other good stuff. Thanks to everyone who makes
[1:46:16] Speaker 1: this show possible. My name is Richdmiro. I will talk
[1:46:18] Speaker 1: to you real soon.

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