April 14, 2018 • 54 mins
Rich DeMuro answers tech questions from callers in this live format Q&A show. In this episode we discuss the new best way to backup photos on your mobile phone, whether the headphone jack is coming back and if you should buy the Samsung S9 now or wait for the S10.Mentioned:Hulu/Spotify DealApple HomePod SalesAll the Facebook Secret Comment AnimationsMy Favorite Phone Case: Speck Presidio GripFollow Rich on Social Media:Facebook: http://facebook.com/RichOnTechTwitter: http://twitter.com/richdemuroInstagram: http://instagram.com/richontechNEW! You can add the Rich on Tech Daily Update to your Alexa Flash Briefing! Just search for the "Rich on Tech" skill in your Alexa app and add it to your briefing! You'll get a daily dose of tech news each day and a longer show on the weekends!
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's going on? Rich Demiro here rich on Tech. You
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have to do is call in. Plus, we're gonna discuss
some of the fun stuff that happened in the tech
world throughout the week. I know everything was taken over
by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. We'll discuss some of that
stuff and the privacy implications. But welcome, Welcome to the show.
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much to everyone watching on the live broadcast, and I'm
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gonna talk to you guys as well. You can join
the conversation. I'm gonna have a phone number in just
a moment that you can call in. And so think
about it. Think about what's vexing you in your life.
What's happening in your life that you need to talk
to someone about technology, whether it is your WiFi that
doesn't work, whether it's something on your phone you're getting
double notifications or double text messages, or you can't find
(01:59):
the app that you need to do something. This is
my life. This is what I talk about every day.
I'm studying this stuff, and believe me, I've got a
lot of stuff to share with you guys. Let's just
start with Facebook, because I know it's on a lot
of your minds and the privacy concerns. I was on
a Serious satellite radio yesterday and for those of you
(02:20):
who listen, thank you. It was a really cool It
was my first time on Sirious and it was really cool.
But we got into this really interesting conversation about Facebook
and privacy, and to me, I just always assume that
everyone assumed they were not private on Facebook. No matter
what you exchanged on Facebook, some kind of computer or
server or artificial intelligence is analyzing and scanning what you
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look at, or well what you look at, as well
as what you're typing, what you're browsing, anything you do
on there. I don't think people realize just to the
extent that Facebook can also monitor things that are outside
of Facebook. So when you go to a separate website
and it has some Facebook functionality built into it, Facebook
can also see what you do at that website, and
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that's something that's called the Facebook pixel. A lot of
websites have it installed, and what it does is when
you go to a third party website, any random website,
and it has this Facebook pixel installed, it's basically sending
back information about your visit to Facebook so that they
can connect the two lines. So they know that rich
(03:26):
DeMuro visited this belt website that I really like. I
like these certain type of belts, and I go to
that website and now that belt website goes, ooh, did
he came to our website but he didn't buy anything?
So let's go back to his Facebook page and let's
put a little ad there for five percent off his
next purchase at our belt company. Yes, if you're a marketer,
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that's brilliant, because now I go back to my Facebook
page the next day and I go, oh, that was
the belt I was looking at. Let me oh oh,
and I get ten percent off. That's cool, let me
buy it now. And now they just converted that sale.
So a lot of this does have to do with
making sales, selling you stuff, merchandising, marketing. It is scary
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that they can track you this closely, but the reality
is this has been going on in our lives in
so many different ways. It's just that Facebook has gotten
really good at doing it. And I haven't even gotten
into the other web companies like Google. They're the major platforms,
and so these are the companies that are doing it best.
And the reality is people have always been tracking us,
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and technology has been out there to do that. Your bank,
your credit card. If you don't think your credit card
is slicing and dicing the information of where you're shopping
and how you're spending your money and all that kind
of stuff, I mean, you're kind of fooling yourself because
it's all meant to sell you more stuff. I mean,
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these are the kind of things that these companies do
and it's not a bad thing. It really isn't. It's
bad for your wallet, and if you listen to the
Daily podcast, I've explained this before, it's bad for your
wallet because the better they get at marketing us stuff,
the more we are spending money. And in that aspect
it's bad. But in other aspects it's actually not bad
at all. So when you think about it, if you
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use Facebook Messenger to message someone, and I just never
assume that those messages were private. Now, I don't think
Facebook would ever put those messages in a public forum,
like They're not going to share what I'm saying to
my friends on the cover of the New York Times.
That's not the way I imagine the privacy is when
I think privacy, I think that it's private, but a
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server is reading and consuming that message to figure out
is he talking about going to Tahiti? All right, Let's
send him a Facebook ad about Tahiti because he talked
about that with his friend and Facebook Messenger. To me,
that was just logical. It makes sense. Why would Facebook
Messenger offer a free service like that without something in return?
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And if you say, well, why do they have to
track me? Why can't they just put ads on there
that aren't linked to me, Well they don't work. If
they show me an ad for Greece and I don't
have any idea about wanting to go to Greece, then
that person that's buying that Greek ad or that Grease
ad is just wasting money because I'm not going to
go there. I have nothing against Greece. I'm just using
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that as an example. So anyway, there you go. I'm
just trying to explain a little bit more as to
what these companies are doing. And if you're searching on Google,
it's the same thing. They're creating a profile of you.
And a lot of these companies are quick to say
they don't sell your data they're not selling your data,
but they are using your data so that marketers can
market to you. So if I'm a person that wants
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to sell something on Facebook, I don't get a list
of everyone that likes my company. Maybe you can get that, perhaps,
but the reality is all I want is a list
of let's say I'm selling, Let's see what do we
want to sell. Let's say I want to sell. Let's
see what can I sell a new type of a candle. Okay,
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so let's say I want a list of everyone on
Facebook who has expressed interest in going out to nice
dinners or fun little handmade items around their house, or
they're into their home, or they're into maybe even gardening,
because gardening might lead me to believe that you like
a nice candlelight dinner. So now I'm gonna try to
get I'm not going to get a list of all
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those people. But Facebook says, hey, we're gonna send to
all those people your ad for those candles because they
seem like they're interested in that kind of stuff. And
the more you do on Facebook, the more they can
build that profile of you. So anyway, that's I agree,
And Angie says, I feel like we already knew this,
and that's kind of like what I feel like. I mean,
who didn't know this? Carlin says exactly, nothing is free,
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and Claudia says, definitely tracking our every step. Unfortunately I
did not know anything anyone that isn't. Yeah, I mean
that's the thing. Let's see what else do we have
any Manny says, very very true. So anyway, that's it.
I'm just I'm just giving you guys ideas so that
you know what's happening. Phone lines are open, area code
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three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
I'm Rich Jumiro. You're listening to Rich on tech Live.
And if you have a question, you've got something on
your mind about technology, call in. You can talk to me.
We'll talk you through it. What else is happening in
the news. I'll talk about more Facebook in a little bit.
Let's let's let Facebook breathe for a moment, but let's
(08:27):
talk about something that is How about my next favorite topic, Apple?
So Apple, you know, we talked about the HomePod on
this podcast, and apparently the HomePod is not doing so well.
Bloomberg out with a story that apple stumbling HomePod isn't
the hot cellar it wanted. This is from Mark German.
(08:50):
He is literally the Apple the Apple expert he is.
This guy clearly has a lot of friends at Apple
because he's always getting a scoop from them. And basically
a couple of things that they're saying about the HomePod
is that, you know, Apple was all about the quality
of this device, and it does. It sounds great, but
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the problem is consumers didn't really necessarily care about the
quality of the device. And that's a problem because realistically,
when you think about the HomePod, the only thing that
it works with is the Apple Music and that's just
not enough for this thing to take off. Apparently, in
its first ten weeks of sale, it only got ten
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percent of the smart speaker market, seventy three percent for
Google or Amazon Echo, fourteen percent for Google Home. And
those numbers are not from Apple or anyone that's from
a third party, so we don't know how accurate they are.
But the reality is most people are not out buying
HomePods right now. It's too expensive. It only works with
Apple Music. If you're an Apple ecosystem fanatic, then it's
(09:53):
a great buy. Otherwise, if you're into Spotify or anything else,
it's a really tough buy. All right, let's go to
the phone line. We've got five six to two on.
We've got five six two you're on with Rich. Hello.
Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Rich is David Hughes out of lake Wood.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Hey, David, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I'm doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
How's the good morning? How's the show? How's the show looking?
Today's everything technically? Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, I got it up on the Facebook live page.
I'm streaming good audio problems.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Beautiful, just making sure? All right? What can I help
you with today?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So two questions for you. First one is the Samsung
S nine phone. When are they gonna be coming out
with S ten phone? And should I wait for that?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I would not wait for the S ten because the
S nine just came out. I mean you're talking. What
was it March March fourteenth? I think it went on sale.
So it just went on sale. We're we're in April,
so it's only a month old. Everything about the S
nine I think they did a really nice job with
So what do you have right now? I want to say, okay,
(11:03):
sir on a seven? So I think when you the
seven was a really nice upgrade from the six because
the six had a lot of battery problems. I think
the seven was a nice smoothing out of all those problems.
The seven, the thing I like about it is it
still has the fingerprint reader on the front right, so
it's a good position underneath the screen. The eight they
really messed up on because they put the fingerprint reader
(11:24):
on the back, but they put it in a really
bad position. So I'm glad you skipped the eight. The
nine they actually put the fingerprint reader in the right position,
and I would say when it comes to a Samsung device,
this is about as perfect as it gets. The only
thing I could see improvement for at this point on
the Samsung device is some software improvements. Although I think
the software has gotten really good. It's really just maybe
(11:47):
the front facing camera and that's it. I've seen some
stumbles in the software when it comes to the smoothness
of it. But I really think the S nine is
probably the perfect Android phone at this point. Unless you're
looking at their devices. What's the most important thing you're
looking for and you're Android.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, I use it a lot for work, so just
reliability for performance, you know, I came from originally with
a motorola and it crashed ONMMI and then I jumped
to the five, and then I went to the five
to the seven, so I jumped versions. So ever since
I had the five, I really liked it. I've been
sticking with it since then.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The only other phone that I would recommend you take
a look at is, uh, the one Plus. Have you
heard of this one?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So the reason I like the one Plus is because
it really does a nice job with their phone. It's
five hundred bucks, it's a beautifully designed phone, it's got
a great screen, it's got a it's got a good camera.
I wouldn't say it's the best camera in the world,
but it's gonna it's gonna be a capable camera, and
you really don't you The software is just unbelievable. So
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that's really where this kind of I think is ahead
of the Samsung. The Samsung there's a lot of there's
a lot of stuff on there, but there's a lot
of extra up on there sometimes that you don't necessarily need,
whereas the one Plus has a lot of nice software features,
but it's not a lot of stuff that you don't need.
So I would take a look at that and otherwise
the pixel the Pixel two I really like as well,
except I think the pixel too xcel is a little
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bit too big, and I think the Pixel two is
a little bit too small. And you also kind of
lose a lot of features on the pixel like wireless charging,
the extra storage capacity, so things like that. So I like,
and the screen is better on the S nine. So
you said you had two questions. What's the second question.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, Well, the other one's always about Wi Fi ringty.
Once again, we always have Wi Fi issues and they
get an extend an only sends in one room gaming
and we have an extender if he's not getting strong
enough signal, So we're looking to do something else to
get our signal boosted on.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Our Wi Fi.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, the one thing I recommend is it's a system
called EO E E R O. If you've listened to
the podcast, you've definitely heard me talk about it. The
thing about EO is it's unbelievable. I mean I recommended
it to a cowork the other day and he bought
it immediately, and it was shipped to his house through
Amazon immediately, and he just couldn't believe how good it was.
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And this this is really, if you want the best
WiFi in your house, Ero is the way to go.
The only downside to it is twofold. It's a startup,
so it could go out of business, but I don't
anticipate that. I think that a company would at least
buy the technology from them because it's so good and
they kind of they kind of they invented this technology.
(14:31):
So it's four hundred dollars for a starter system or
I guess the best selling system. You can get it
as cheap as two ninety nine, let's see, and then
you can get little individual ones for one fifty. But
I would say check out euro that's gonna be your
absolute best case scenario. Then the other one that's good
is Netgear ORB. So people really like that one. I
(14:53):
have not tested it personally, but it's a it's a
very popular system. It comes from Netgear, which is a
big networking company. That one's good, and then the other
one to look at is Google Wi Fi, which a
lot of people like as well. The problem with Google
Wi Fi is that Google is very haphazard in kind
of their continuing projects. So this is a great product,
(15:16):
but Google kind of is all over the place when
it comes to support in the long term, so they
may stop making this, they may forget about it. But
this one is really good as well. So those are
the three I recommend taking a look at, but don't
go with a booster or extender anymore. I don't recommend
those because they just don't work for today's systems and
today's gadgets. We're much more. We've moved past those those
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types of systems. Now there's just a lot more stress
on what we need.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Okay, great, Thank you very much for great David.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Thanks so much for calling in appreciate it. Thanks for
calling the show. Phone lines are open if you'd like
to get in. The phone number is three one zero
five nine four three zero zero three. Now's a good
time to tell you about my favorite case. I've been
buying this case for every phone that I ever use.
I just love this case. So I'm telling you guys
about it. Not sponsored. This is just one of the
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I just love this case, and I've purchased it for
a couple of the phones I use regularly, and I
just got this one. This is basically it's called the
Spec Presidio Grip, and I just love the way this
case fits on your phone. There's a on the iPhone ten.
It's super grippy. You just can't It's just amazing the
(16:28):
way it fits onto your phone. It doesn't make your
phone too big. And the grips. You've got these little
grips on the edges that literally make you never drop
your phone ever. So I love that aspect of it. Spec.
I can, you know, I forgot, I keep forgetting that
I could actually comment on these things. So let me
let me put this in the comments so you guys
(16:48):
can actually see what I'm talking about. But that's the
Spec Presidio grip. I don't think that you can click
on it from you can click on it from there,
all right. Anyway, that's a really nice case, so I
highly recommend that. And JT says, does the case come
in clear? I, you know, I don't know. I don't
know if it comes in the grip. I think it
just comes in colors in the grip. But they have
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Spec Presidio without the grip. But I think that if
you're gonna go with the Spec Presidio, you gotta get
the grip. And Angie says she got one for my
S nine. It's sleek. I haven't dropped it once and
that that's really nice. All right, let's go to the
phone lines. Uh eight, let's see what was this? Eight
oh one? You're on with Ritch? Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Hey, Rich, this is Steve. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh? I'm doing fantastic, Steve. It's a Saturday.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh yes, tell me what dun Fox thirteen all the time.
And then I travel to California for work and see
you on KTLA.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh, it's so funny. So Fox thirteen Salt Lake City.
That's a great station. And it's funny when people travel
because most people we don't make a big deal of
the fact that I'm on a bunch of different stations.
So people can be watching on KTLA and have no idea.
But then they travel to other cities and they're like,
oh is my hotel room and I saw you, So
thanks for watching on Fox thirteen. That's pretty cool. I
love Carry and Dan over there. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know? I'm curious and maybe this is just wishful thinking,
but do you ever see the headphone jack coming back
to the iPhone?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That is wishful thinking, don't I don't see that happening.
Here's the thing I mean, we have to look at
Apple's past. So Apple has a history of getting rid
of things on their devices and being the first to
get rid of them and never looking back. So when
you think about I think the DVD player was probably
the first thing that they got rid of on the
MacBook and literally people went nuts, myself included I'm like,
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how could you live without a DVD player or a
DVD burner or a DVD recorder whatever? And to me,
that was just insane. You remember that, right? And the
other thing, the other thing Apple never did on their laptops.
Everyone went to a Blu ray player on their laptops
and Apple said, no, we're not doing that, and everyone
was like, wait, are you crazy? How could you not
Blu rays the next generation? But Apple has their reasons
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for things and the reason why they ditched the DVD players.
They wanted to push everyone to digital movies. They wanted
to create less piracy. They also saw people burning DVDs
less I'm sure their data showed that, or sharing DVDs
or whatever it was. They just knew that they could
do without those and people would be fine. And I
actually bought the external I have it somewhere in here
(19:25):
my h.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, I've got an external with the Blu ray burner
that I love you thing.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, I've got my Trustee external you know, Mac computer
Player Blue DVD. I think this is a burner too.
I'm sure it is. Haven't used it in a while,
but you know, I bought one of those, so I
had to have the external because you know, it's like,
how can I do without it? And now we just
realized we don't really think about DVDs as much as
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we used to do. There's still a place for them,
but we just don't use them as much as we did.
Then we had USB ports. They kind of let made
less of those, and they started even on this new
MacBook I have, I have only USBC and they got
rid of my SD card slot, which I was also
angry about. So Apple just has a history of doing
this and they like to streamline their products. When you
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look at their products, there's not much going on now.
The interesting thing is that the new iPad that just
came out does have a headphone jack, so they have
not ditched it on the iPad, So I think when
they think about the use case on the iPad, they're thinking, Okay, well,
people are watching a lot of movies on there. Maybe
not everyone has a pair of Bluetooth headphones, so it's
interesting that they're doing two different things. But on the
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iPad there's also more space inside for components, and Apple
has always argued that on the iPhone, they're trying to
maximize the space inside for other stuff and that's why
they got rid of the headphone jack.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So yeah, yeah, or what were you gonna have?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I was just gonna say, why do you want the
headphone jack back? Because I've kind of gotten used to
not having it. But I do still like it myself
as well, because I like being able to have that
default of my headphones aren't charged or I just you know,
sometimes you're on a plane, you don't feel like dealing
with all the stuff. You just want to plug in,
you know.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, yeah, I'm still clinging to my iPhone SIXSS actually,
but so I haven't dealt with that. But my wife
teaches a lot of fitness classes and she says it's
such a pain dealing with a dong dole and everything else.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, it's funny. I always I always see that in
the fitness classes I go to that they literally have
like the iPhone with like, you know, ten different things
because they've got to charge it at the same time
as the you know, you got to get a connector
you know that has like to both. It's such a pain.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
But yeah, yeah, it reminds me of driving in my
dad's Cadillac with an A track player and having an
a track to cassette converter and then a cassette to
CD converter.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Oh my gosh, wow. Well, I remember there was a
point that's a little bit before my time, but there
was a point when a cassette, a cassette to like
external like a three point five millimeters was like all
the rage, you know. And I remember when I wanted
to get serious satellite radio, I wanted a clean install
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so I did not want to have to use the
cassette to three point five inch jack. So I spent
like the most money of my life at the time,
which I think was probably like two hundred dollars on
getting like a best buy installation where they went through
and they did the FM uh what was it FM
modulator where they installed it behind my radio. Oh, and
to me that was like living large at the time.
(22:28):
That was like the best I was like, this is unbelievable.
This is high tech and now, of course, you know,
you plug your iPhone and you're Android in it's like
just a world ahead of that, right, right.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
So a lot of people talk about broadcast TV going
away as we see it and everything going to streaming.
I studied broadcast journalism when I was in college, which
was a little while back. But to me that seems
a little bit forward thinking. I don't see it happening
as quickly as some people say. I think physical media
is not dead yet, but I don't know I would
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you have any insight into.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That specifically, what like what the future broadcast?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Well, yeah, if we're really going to lose big network
seasons of TV and you're just it's just going to
go to all subscribe, like a lot of people are saying, oh,
Star Trek Discovery is the way of the future. And
then a lot of people really like Fox of the
Whorville because it's actually broadcast and it's free, right versus
a subscription based.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I mean, I think it's kind of weird because you're
you're you're you're speaking in terms of like our entire society.
You know, It's like there used to be a time
you know, the whole water cooler conversation, which is kind
of It's interesting when things bubble up to the level
of people all knowing about them. That's pretty rare these days,
like a big show Like remember when Cereal the podcast
was pretty big and everyone was talking about that, you know,
(23:52):
and it was really interesting that people were talking about
something that wasn't on a broadcast, and it wasn't It
was mass available, but it wasn't available in a mass way,
you know what I mean, Like it didn't air on broadcast.
So nowadays it's like these little things bubble up to
the top. I say, because there's so many things out there.
You ask anyone, Hey, what what shows are you watching,
(24:12):
and they can tell you five shows that you've never
heard of, and there's probably one show of overlap that
you have heard of. So do I think broadcast is
going away? I think over the long term, I think
we're going to see a lot of evolution, But I
don't think it's going away. I remember when TVO first
came out back in two thousand and everyone spelled doom
and gloom for everything when it came to TV. Now,
(24:33):
I think TVO changed the fabric of television but we
still have TV pretty much the same way that we
had it in two thousand, which is a show broadcast
on TV over the air, and yes, now it's available
in a million different on demand ways and on DVR,
but it's still broadcasts like Survivor. I don't think that's
still on anymore. Maybe it is, but that was the
first show that I DVRD back in the day on
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my TVO, and I thought it was so crazy that
I could skip through the commercials, but I still watched
it pretty quick to the day that it aired because
I wanted to be up to date on that show.
So I just think things are evolving in a in
a pretty rapid way. But I think we have a
pretty long runway before things change in where NBC, CBS, ABC,
nightly news those kind of things are gone. I don't
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think that's happening right away, especially because news is still
one of the news in sports are still two of
the most most popular things that happen live. So but
shows shows, I think a lot of that has changed,
and uh, you know, especially Netflix launching shows all at once,
that changed the game again. So it's it's really it's
(25:39):
really crazy when you think about what's happening and how
things will still continue to change.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Yeah, my favorite ti Vo box that I had was
made by Samsung and it had a built in DVD
burner on it, so things.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I always hope that they would do a blu ray
burner and they never did.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
That was the one I always wanted. I never got
that one, but that I had. Almost every Tvo accept
that model. I think that model was really expensive, like
cause I remember my first TV I paid eight hundred
dollars for and they they were pretty expensive throughout the years,
but they got cheap. They got really cheap after a while.
But I love the Tvo and the idea of burning
(26:17):
to DVD, you know what, Hold on, I'm wait a second.
I did have one that burned to DVD now that
I think about it, but it was not a Samsung.
I don't think. Do they have another model that burned
to DVD. I don't remember, because I remember I actually
have a bunch of my I lived in Shreveport at
the time. I was a reporter there and I have
a bunch of my air checks that I would offload
(26:37):
to the DVD for later. But the problem is the
way they formatted it to the DVD Like now, I
just have them all and I can't really rip them
because it's it's in like this weird format. I got
to look at those again. But I did have one
with a burner on it, but I just don't remember.
It was not Samsung. Maybe it was. It's been a while,
but yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Interesting. Well, sorry to dominate your time. I love your segment, bitch.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
All right, thanks, Steve, I appreciate it. Thanks for watching
out there in Salt Lake, and when you're here in LA,
thanks for calling in.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Yeah, yeah, take care, all right, bybye?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
All right, there you have it. All right. I'm gonna
take a quick break real quick, just to do some
some housekeeping on the Facebook Live side, but I'll be back.
You're listening to Rich on tech Live. I'll be right
back after this. Welcome back to rich on tech Live.
I'm Rich Demiro, your host. Rich on tech dot Tv
is the place to go if you want to listen
(27:27):
to this podcast, subscribe or see links to anything I mentioned.
I do a pretty good job of putting the links
to things that we've talked about here. Let's go back
to the phone lines seven to zero. You're on with
Rich who am I speaking with? All Right, Rich, Hey,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's good. It was great seeing you at.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
C Yes, it's been gosh four months since then.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And great show at NAP this year. Everything was eight
Oh my gosh from Korea and it was spectacular and
doing all sorts of different video changes to video as
it's live for like sporting events and everything.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh that's interesting, like what amazing?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Amazing like sporting events. In the middle of a lie clip,
you can change the different view of the picture. Okay, yeah,
that type of thing, you know, like Intel, Intel was
doing where you're live and can change where you are
in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
That's always been kind of the dream of these sports
broadcasts is to kind of, you know, make it more
kind of user driven where they can do things. But
we've seen a lot of we've seen a lot of
things trying you know, we've seen a lot of companies
try to do that. I don't think anyone has sort
of mastered it yet, but definitely when that happens, that's
that's a huge market right there, because people, you know,
(28:52):
they they let's say you have a favorite player and
you just want to learn more about them, see what
they're doing see their stats or whatever at any given time.
That's the kind of stuff that will really help with that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So yeah, we're in the in the Futures Park area
and they were demonstrating it all and I go, here
we go. They're gonna beat us out at that too.
It was amazing. And then uh AR was packed all
over the place, all the boosts that we're doing AR
more than VR. I was surprised.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Interesting. I think, uh yeah, I think there's a place
for both. But I personally, I like, I don't. I
think VR is amazing. I think AR is cool. It's
like a good like wading into the waters, you know.
And they both have, like I said, they both have
their augmented reality. If you're listening and you're wondering what
we're talking about here, augmented reality is when they kind
of add something to the world around you, but you
(29:42):
still see the world around you, whereas virtual reality is
more like your entire existence is happening in a computer
generated world. So that's that's the differentiator that I explained
last thing.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Last thing on Facebook. I didn't never bother to follow
up on this. When they put pixels on different sites
and everything, do they make like any affiliate link, Facebook
or any money by having somebody place a pixel, by
them placing a pixel on your heade no.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Because usually it's the website operator that's placing the pixel.
And I'm trying to remember, I don't think they make
any money doing that. I think that it's it's more
for the relationship of the website to kind of figure out. Yeah,
it's like, let's say I own a belt website. I
want to be able to tap into Facebook's marketing data
(30:32):
by kind of figuring out who's coming to my website.
And then what they do is they call it similar audiences.
So okay, let's say, all, let's say ten thousand people
come to my belt website, and now I have the
Facebook pixel. It knows exactly who those ten thousand people
are on Facebook. And then Facebook says, well, here's another
ten thousand people that are exactly like them. You can
(30:53):
market to them because they're very similar to the people
that just came to your website. And that's how the
magic works, and that's the information marketers are kind of
buying from Facebook. It's really fascinating when you think about it.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Okay, and so then it's a paid service. The marketers
are buying it from Facebook.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Well, yeah, I mean it's not. You don't just to
see the data that's being collected from your website. You
don't have to pay to do that, but you do
have to pay. Yeah, you only have to pay if
you want to kind of do a marketing plan against
that data, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Okay, yeah, okay, yeah. I'm surprised that a piece of
technology got buy me. Can you believe it?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I don't know. You are you're You're better than me
on some of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's the thirty five years from IBM. That doesn't that'll
do it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
How is it in Vegas today?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Windy as usual, Yeah, and sunny. And before we moved here,
I always said, why is it every time I fly
into Vegas is clear and sunny, but yet the plane
goes all over the place.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I was just going to say that every time. It's
like I've I've actually stopped flying into Vegas as much
because I'm like, I'm sick of that flat landing. It's like,
oh my gosh, it looks beautiful out, but it's like
you're being whipped all around exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
And now I was flying in for like twenty years
that couldn't figure it out. And now that I moved
here and retired and going and now I understand that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Okay, So it's not just me because my wife for
a while she was like refusing to fly in there
because she was just sick of it. And I was like,
it's pretty bad, but not like you know, I mean,
clearly it works. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, exactly. Well you get an autonomous car.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And you're okay, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
They have that.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
They have that Tesla service for eighty nine dollars that
will go back and forth, which was great. I tried
it once.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Or did you really you took the Tesla because we
did a story on it. I did not take it.
They kept asking me to take it to Vegas. I
was a little hesitant in being in a car for
five hours with someone else driving, but or a combination
of a human and Tesla driving. But what'd you think
of it?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It was outstanding. You know. They had drinks in there
and a lot of connections, so you were all connected
all the week, got a lot of work done. Really,
and now they go to Irvine, where I used to live,
so it's perfect to go to Burbank, Irvine and Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
That's crazy. Yeah, here it is. It's a test loop
and basically you just you book a seat in the car.
I think there's what there's four, four seats available or no,
three seats available, three because they've got the driver, and
then three. So right now, they've got Los Angeles to
San Diego, Los Angeles to Palm Springs, Los Angeles to
Orange County, Orange County to San Diego, Orange County to
(33:24):
Palm Springs, Palm Springs and Las Vegas. I don't know
what that means. Palm Springs and Las Vegas. I guess
they're yeah, shuttle interesting. All right, well thanks for the call.
All right, j do you go by Joe or JT?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Either one? Because they couldn't get my web mail. I'm sorry,
my web site under Joe. I went to JT.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
All right, all right, well I'll call you JT because
that's how I see a show up on Facebook. So JT.
I will talk to you soon, okay, Yeah, take care
of all right, bye bye bye. All right, Let's take
some of the questions that I'm seeing on the chat room. Hey, Rich,
what was the website that you can check with internet
services to see when you're moving to a new area.
That website is all Connect A L L C, O,
(34:08):
N N, E C T dot com and let's see here.
I'll just put this on the screen so you can
see it. This is now Here's the thing. I think
that all connect is sort of owned by the cable
and satellite companies. I don't really know. Let's see about us.
But the point is it does help you put in
(34:28):
your address and your phone number and everything, and they
do that. It used to be called white fence, I think,
but I don't know. I mean it's anyway. It helps
you just put in the you put in let's see
a red Ventures company. Yeah, so I don't know. I
don't know. It doesn't maybe it's not owned by them. Anyway.
You put in your your address that you're you're moving to,
or your home address, and it gives you all the
(34:50):
providers in your area, which is really cool. I love
this website. I recommend it to everyone, and you can
look up let's see bundles internet TV, home phone. Oh
my gosh, I should I tell you guys about my experience.
I just I had to call Spectrum to negotiate my
rate because it went up from forty five to sixty
five dollars a month, and oh my gosh, that was
(35:13):
not a nice conversation. I was not happy with them.
I'll be honest they I got a guy in Texas
and the first thing he does is try to get
some information out of me about like how many gadgets
I use and you know, how many how much Internet
I use, and what my needs are. So immediately he
was like, well, we don't do any deals anymore. So
(35:34):
I was like, uh, that can't be true. A lot
of the people I talked to tell me that they
are paying forty five dollars a month, which is what
I'm paying, and I'd like to keep paying that, but
they bumped it to sixty five. Long story short, we
went around and around. The best he did was fifty
five bucks a month, so I got ten dollars off
for the next year. But the funny thing is he
tried to upsell me to the three hundred, which was
(35:55):
going to be I think eighty dollars a month, and
I was like, I don't really think I need so
I called to save money and the guy's trying to
sell me on more service, and I'm like dude, come on,
like customer service one on one. I get it, you're
trying to make a sale. But the things he was
saying I thought were a little bit weird because he
was kind of like not making fun of me, but
he was kind of like telling me stuff that I
knew wasn't true. He was like, well, and I guess
(36:18):
it would be true for certain people. But he was like, well,
if you change your internet to a different provider, which
I said, you know, I can get AT and T
here and it's the same price. Blah blah blah. He's like, well,
if you change, you're gonna have to change all your
gadgets and it's a you know, it's a pain. And
I forget if he made fun of their service whatever
he did, but my point is I was and I
didn't say, you know, look, I do tech for a living.
(36:39):
I don't really reveal that stuff. But it was just
funny to kind of call as a regular person and
hear what he's saying to someone that knows a lot
about technology and to get the stuff that he's trying
to sell people on. Anyway, long story, Shore ended up
saving ten dollars, so I got to fifty five a month.
I said, are you in the retention department and he said,
we don't have a retention department anymore, which, come on,
(37:01):
that's not true. They of course they have retention apartment.
So I'm happy with it. I was gonna pay twenty
dollars extra a month. I'm now paying ten dollars extra.
I hate to see my bills go up, as we
all do, but at the same time, I'm fining fifty
five bucks a month. He told me I used nine hundred.
The best part was at the end he was like, well,
you know, you used nine hundred gigabytes last month, which
(37:22):
I think sounded like a lot. I don't feel like
I used nine hundred gigabytes, but I guess I did,
so my kids must be watching a lot of Netflix.
So he was like, well, you know, you use nine
hundred gigabytes, So I think paying fifty or sixty five
dollars a month for nine hundred gigabytes of Internet is
pretty good. And I'm like, I really couldn't challenge him
on that. I was like, yeah, because I pay about
(37:43):
two hundred de verison every month for like, you know,
unlimited data, which is really twenty gigs a month. So
I really couldn't challenge him on that when he got
me there, Anthony says on Facebook chap, Hey, Rich, what
do you think of the Lynxis developed home home mesh
Wi Fi system pack of three?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Uh, you know, I think it's fine. I think that
my favorites I've gone over this is Ero is my
favorite E E R O. Then i'd say Google Wi
Fi and Netgear orby. I don't have experience with the Lynxis,
but uh, I think that you'll you'll probably be okay
with them. Let's see, Lynxus is the one that's uh,
(38:22):
I think that's the one that's owned by Belkin, right, yeah,
it is okay. So Lynxus is owned by Belkan and
you know they just got purchased. So I think you'll
be fine with it. But I would check out the
three that I recommend. Three one, Oh you're on with Rich?
Three win, Oh you're on with Rich? Who am I
speaking with?
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Julian Melendez? I've speak to you last time?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Hey? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (38:46):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
I do some looking at your life?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Are you where are you calling from?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Culver City? That's right, okay?
Speaker 5 (38:54):
How you doing going good? Quick question on your own
Speczone Internet ye cable, and I was thinking to change it,
but I have the Riz and files and drug TV
Geny and they told me I could switch over, but
the direct with that time spectrum apps, you don't get
(39:19):
that much channels. But they told me to add four
cable boxes for four rooms. Let's make any difference or known,
what are.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
You trying to do? What's what's the problem with what
you have right now?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
The Drug TV Geny updating is not and my Directivity
is messing up a lot. I don't know the update
or messing.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Up, and so you're just not happy with the quality
of the service. Basically no costing us so much. And
do you have four rooms that you have connected to
the Genie?
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Yes, it's all wireless.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And it's all wireless, okay, I mean yeah. Oh here's
the thing. I mean, if you switch over, it's it's
kind of a big switchover because they have to come
to your house and make sure they install the cable
boxes in each room. I would if you have FiOS,
if you have Frontier FiOS Internet that's the Internet, Well
maybe you should call them and see if they can
give you TV as well, because then you're on one plan.
(40:20):
It'll probably be a lot cheaper if you do it
that way.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
I would think, Yeah, you've been including with their cell
phone too. Oh, but I don't know if they have wireless,
but I don't think they would run company. No, I
don't think that network they do.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, Dish network and a lot of them might have
like a bundle with wireless, but if they're not providing
the service. But I would if I were you, I
would call uh. I would call FiOS, which is owned
by Frontier now in our area, and I would I
would just ask them, Hey, give me the price on
four TVs for you know, with the DVR service. They've
got the same thing where the DVR works in all
the four TVs. I know people are mixed about Frontier
(40:59):
and FiOS, so I'm just telling you I don't have
experience with them except for what I know from a
corporate level. But I know it was a big growing
pain when they switched over in southern California to Spectrum
or to FiOS from Verizon to Frontier. But it's been
a couple of years now. So and Carlos is saying
on the Facebook live chat he doesn't like the wireless
(41:21):
Genie boxes the menus are really slow to react to
the remotes, so that's interesting. I had a Genie. It
wasn't bad. When I had it, I thought it was fine,
but I didn't really watch it. I didn't really use
my direct TV that much, so I did have it
for a while. But I would do that. I would
call up the I would call the FiOS and ask
them to just give you a price on what you
(41:45):
can do with that, and see what they say, and
then compare that to what I guess if you have yeah,
I mean that's your only option really, so I would
do that versus going to anything else. I think that's
a good question. But thanks so much for calling. I
think that that's Uh. It's tough because most people are
kind of calling to cancel their cable, and when they
(42:05):
hear you that you want to add four TVs, I
think they're they're like, Okay, let's give this guy a deal,
because clearly we're losing a lot of customers right now
to just kind of the internet customers. And I think
that they like when they hear that you want to
connect all those TVs, so I think they'll come over
there and do that pretty well. All right, Rich Demiro
Rich on tech dot TV. You're listening to Rich on
(42:26):
tech Live. I just wanted to talk about one thing
real quick here. Spotify and Hulu they teamed up. We'll
take We have time for one more call. By the way,
three one oh five nine four three zero zero three.
Spotify and Hulu teamed up, so now they've got If
you're a Spotify Premium customer, you can now add Hulu
for effectively three dollars a month, which is pretty good
(42:49):
if you want to get the Hulu programming, which has
like seventy five thousand shows. If you're into like current
TV shows, like a lot of the sitcoms and stuff
that air or dramas, Hulu's really good for that. And
of course a lot of people like that show, The
Handmaid's Tale. I've not seen it, but a lot of
people love that show. So if you have Spotify Premium,
you're already paying the ten dollars a month for that.
You can add sp Hulu to your plan for three
(43:11):
dollars a month, so it's twelve ninety nine for both.
I'm on the family plan with Spotify, I pay fifteen dollars.
They are not allowing the family plan to add Hulu
because I'd probably add it for three bucks a month.
That's a pretty darn good deal. If you have it
right now. You can do a ninety nine cent promotional deal,
so you can try the Hulu for three months for
ninety nine cents, So that's pretty good. The thing I
(43:34):
don't like about Hulu Limited, which is what they're giving you,
the limited plan still has commercials and have I mean,
it's fine if you get to sit through limited commercials,
but you're still paying for the commercials, so you're paying
three dollars to sit through those commercials. But that's pretty good.
So Glenda says, what if you already have Hulu. If
you already have Hulu, you're gonna have to cancel Hulu
(43:56):
and then sign up again through this special link to
get the new product. So but you have to have
you have to have Spotify Premium. Okay, so real quick,
I want to talk about one thing real quick before
we go, because I thought that this is I'm getting
so many questions about this thing. So this is the
(44:17):
Facebook BFF thing everyone's asking me about. If you type
BFF on Facebook, does it? Hold on? Let me get
the article here, because this is okay, so the article
there's a big thing going around on Facebook. People are
saying Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, invented the word BFF,
which is stupid and not true. To make sure your
(44:38):
account is safe on Facebook, type bff in a comment.
If it appears green, your account is protected. If it
does not appear in green, change your password immediately because
it will be hacked. So stupid, I mean, clearly that's
not true. Anyway, So you see when you do that
and what happens there. So my point is, there's a
lot of other things you can type. These are little
graphics that Facebook puts in there, and let's see here,
(45:03):
I gotta figure out how to get rid of this
thing because I just did this. Okay, So anyway, Facebook
puts a lot so other things you can do. By
the way, you can type in you're the best, and
that will also do some flying stars. You can type
in best wishes and you get two hands that unfold
with colorful shapes flying up to the screen. Okay, you
(45:27):
can let's see. Okay, here we go delete, there we go. Okay,
let's see what else can you do? You can do
this an article, by the way, I'm reading off on medium,
I'll send you, guys, the link you can do you've
got this and or you can do it and you'll
get some thumbs up emoji bounces. You can do rad
that will give you a flurry of thumbs up emojis.
(45:48):
You can do congrats and you'll get a bunch of
balloons and confetti. Or you can do XO and you'll
get a bunch of small hearts. So kind of cool
to try all these different things, because they don't are
you guys? Now, I see you're commenting these things, but
are they working on my Facebook Live? Because I don't
think they work on the Facebook Live. You have to
do them on someone's comment, right, all right, So Lisa
(46:09):
is asking what is the safest way to save photos?
And it's a fantastic question. So I will tell you
what I do. Your results may vary, you may want
to do it, but I'll tell you the system that
you should be using for your photos. Okay, So number one,
you take a photo. Most of us are taking our
pictures on our cell phones, so that's the first place
(46:31):
you want to make sure that you have your pictures
backed up on your phone. Okay, So that means you
can use iCloud. If you have Apple, you can use iCloud.
So if you turn on iCloud, make sure that you
say optimize photos on my phone because otherwise you're gonna
run out of space on your phone before you can
put all your pictures into iCloud. So you need to
go into settings and make sure that you have a
(46:52):
setting that's on called optimize iPhone Storage for Photos. Okay,
that's going to enable you to do this. That's gonna
enable you to see all your pictures on your iPhone,
but some of them are going to be stored up
in the cloud. So that means you can have twenty
thousand pictures in your photo collection on your phone, but
they're not really residing on your phone. Okay, So that's
(47:12):
number one, So you have to do that. So you've
got iPhone, you've got iicloud, that's good. Number two if
you're using that system, you still want your pictures backed
up in a secondary place. So this could be as
easy as every month you download a copy of all
your pictures to your computer and you have them on
there as well. You always want your pictures in two places.
That's the name of the game, because if one place
(47:34):
goes down, the other place is going to be your
backup savior. And believe me, it doesn't happen often, but
it could and you want to make sure. So you
can get an external hard drive. You can get something
called the ie expand this is a really simple way
to do it. This is from sand Disk and you
can get this thing, plug it into your plug it
(47:55):
into your iPhone and every once in a while just
download your pictures to there. But again you have to
have them in two places. So you can do iCloud
plus the I expand flash drive, or you can do
iCloud plus Google Photos, which is what I do. So
I do well, I do Google Photos plus something else.
So you can do Google Photos. And Google Photos is
a free app. You put that on there, And Pauline
(48:19):
is saying, what if you don't use Apple, Then if
you don't use Apple, my choice is Google Photos. So
that's where you want to go. And Google Photos is free,
one hundred percent free. You put your photos in there
and it will back up as many pictures as you
have forever for free. And it's amazing, it's searchable, it's free.
You don't have to think about it. If you don't
(48:41):
want to use Google because somehow you don't like Google.
You can use Flicker, and again, Flicker has an app
that you can put on your phone and that's gonna
let you upload all the pictures. Now, you only get
a thousand gigs, which is one terabyte, so they are
limit but for most people a thousand gigs should be fine.
(49:04):
Amazon Photos that's another one. If you are an Amazon
customer and you have Amazon Prime, you can use Amazon
Photos for free and you get unlimited photo storage as well.
If you don't have Prime, you get five gigs, So
I don't recommend it. If you don't have Prime. I mean,
you could use it up to five gigs, but that's
that's pretty small. But if you have Prime, you're gonna
(49:25):
get unlimited. So again, you need your photos in two places.
One of these apps, which I just mentioned a bunch
of them. You can do Amazon, you can do Google Photos,
or you can do or you can do One Drive.
That's another one. You just have to pick one. But
you got to have it in two places, So have
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it on your phone, on a backup drive and in
one of these places. So because your phone is going
to run out of storage, so you really want to
have you really want to have your photos in different place,
and yes, Lisa, you can. Once your photos are in
Amazon Phone Photos, then you click that optimized storage button
and then you can do that. You don't really you
want to make sure that these things are in a
(50:07):
different place. I've seen way too many people lose their
photos because they're not syncing them, they're not backing them up,
they don't have them backed up in two places. But
you have to do that. And Angie is saying, I
need to save all my Facebook photos. Go to Facebook,
go to Facebook Tools. It's called Facebook Download my Data.
Download Download Data. And all you have to do is
(50:33):
download all your data. It will give you a copy
of all your pictures and then you can upload them
to your cloud storage and you can do that from
the web. You can do that in a lot of
different places. So all right, thanks so much for listening
to the podcast. We're done for now. Facebook people. Stick
around for your special giveaway, but we're done with the podcast.
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little notes here that I want to talk about. So
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What's going on? Rich Demiro here rich on Tech. You
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the conversation. I'm gonna have a phone number in just
a moment that you can call in. And so think
about it. Think about what's vexing you in your life.
What's happening in your life that you need to talk
to someone about technology, whether it is your WiFi that
doesn't work, whether it's something on your phone you're getting
double notifications or double text messages, or you can't find
(01:59):
the app that you need to do something. This is
my life. This is what I talk about every day.
I'm studying this stuff, and believe me, I've got a
lot of stuff to share with you guys. Let's just
start with Facebook, because I know it's on a lot
of your minds and the privacy concerns. I was on
a Serious satellite radio yesterday and for those of you
(02:20):
who listen, thank you. It was a really cool It
was my first time on Sirious and it was really cool.
But we got into this really interesting conversation about Facebook
and privacy, and to me, I just always assume that
everyone assumed they were not private on Facebook. No matter
what you exchanged on Facebook, some kind of computer or
server or artificial intelligence is analyzing and scanning what you
(02:43):
look at, or well what you look at, as well
as what you're typing, what you're browsing, anything you do
on there. I don't think people realize just to the
extent that Facebook can also monitor things that are outside
of Facebook. So when you go to a separate website
and it has some Facebook functionality built into it, Facebook
can also see what you do at that website, and
(03:05):
that's something that's called the Facebook pixel. A lot of
websites have it installed, and what it does is when
you go to a third party website, any random website,
and it has this Facebook pixel installed, it's basically sending
back information about your visit to Facebook so that they
can connect the two lines. So they know that rich
(03:26):
DeMuro visited this belt website that I really like. I
like these certain type of belts, and I go to
that website and now that belt website goes, ooh, did
he came to our website but he didn't buy anything?
So let's go back to his Facebook page and let's
put a little ad there for five percent off his
next purchase at our belt company. Yes, if you're a marketer,
(03:47):
that's brilliant, because now I go back to my Facebook
page the next day and I go, oh, that was
the belt I was looking at. Let me oh oh,
and I get ten percent off. That's cool, let me
buy it now. And now they just converted that sale.
So a lot of this does have to do with
making sales, selling you stuff, merchandising, marketing. It is scary
(04:08):
that they can track you this closely, but the reality
is this has been going on in our lives in
so many different ways. It's just that Facebook has gotten
really good at doing it. And I haven't even gotten
into the other web companies like Google. They're the major platforms,
and so these are the companies that are doing it best.
And the reality is people have always been tracking us,
(04:28):
and technology has been out there to do that. Your bank,
your credit card. If you don't think your credit card
is slicing and dicing the information of where you're shopping
and how you're spending your money and all that kind
of stuff, I mean, you're kind of fooling yourself because
it's all meant to sell you more stuff. I mean,
(04:50):
these are the kind of things that these companies do
and it's not a bad thing. It really isn't. It's
bad for your wallet, and if you listen to the
Daily podcast, I've explained this before, it's bad for your
wallet because the better they get at marketing us stuff,
the more we are spending money. And in that aspect
it's bad. But in other aspects it's actually not bad
at all. So when you think about it, if you
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use Facebook Messenger to message someone, and I just never
assume that those messages were private. Now, I don't think
Facebook would ever put those messages in a public forum,
like They're not going to share what I'm saying to
my friends on the cover of the New York Times.
That's not the way I imagine the privacy is when
I think privacy, I think that it's private, but a
(05:32):
server is reading and consuming that message to figure out
is he talking about going to Tahiti? All right, Let's
send him a Facebook ad about Tahiti because he talked
about that with his friend and Facebook Messenger. To me,
that was just logical. It makes sense. Why would Facebook
Messenger offer a free service like that without something in return?
(05:53):
And if you say, well, why do they have to
track me? Why can't they just put ads on there
that aren't linked to me, Well they don't work. If
they show me an ad for Greece and I don't
have any idea about wanting to go to Greece, then
that person that's buying that Greek ad or that Grease
ad is just wasting money because I'm not going to
go there. I have nothing against Greece. I'm just using
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that as an example. So anyway, there you go. I'm
just trying to explain a little bit more as to
what these companies are doing. And if you're searching on Google,
it's the same thing. They're creating a profile of you.
And a lot of these companies are quick to say
they don't sell your data they're not selling your data,
but they are using your data so that marketers can
market to you. So if I'm a person that wants
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to sell something on Facebook, I don't get a list
of everyone that likes my company. Maybe you can get that, perhaps,
but the reality is all I want is a list
of let's say I'm selling, Let's see what do we
want to sell. Let's say I want to sell. Let's
see what can I sell a new type of a candle. Okay,
(06:59):
so let's say I want a list of everyone on
Facebook who has expressed interest in going out to nice
dinners or fun little handmade items around their house, or
they're into their home, or they're into maybe even gardening,
because gardening might lead me to believe that you like
a nice candlelight dinner. So now I'm gonna try to
get I'm not going to get a list of all
(07:20):
those people. But Facebook says, hey, we're gonna send to
all those people your ad for those candles because they
seem like they're interested in that kind of stuff. And
the more you do on Facebook, the more they can
build that profile of you. So anyway, that's I agree,
And Angie says, I feel like we already knew this,
and that's kind of like what I feel like. I mean,
who didn't know this? Carlin says exactly, nothing is free,
(07:46):
and Claudia says, definitely tracking our every step. Unfortunately I
did not know anything anyone that isn't. Yeah, I mean
that's the thing. Let's see what else do we have
any Manny says, very very true. So anyway, that's it.
I'm just I'm just giving you guys ideas so that
you know what's happening. Phone lines are open, area code
(08:06):
three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
I'm Rich Jumiro. You're listening to Rich on tech Live.
And if you have a question, you've got something on
your mind about technology, call in. You can talk to me.
We'll talk you through it. What else is happening in
the news. I'll talk about more Facebook in a little bit.
Let's let's let Facebook breathe for a moment, but let's
(08:27):
talk about something that is How about my next favorite topic, Apple?
So Apple, you know, we talked about the HomePod on
this podcast, and apparently the HomePod is not doing so well.
Bloomberg out with a story that apple stumbling HomePod isn't
the hot cellar it wanted. This is from Mark German.
(08:50):
He is literally the Apple the Apple expert he is.
This guy clearly has a lot of friends at Apple
because he's always getting a scoop from them. And basically
a couple of things that they're saying about the HomePod
is that, you know, Apple was all about the quality
of this device, and it does. It sounds great, but
(09:10):
the problem is consumers didn't really necessarily care about the
quality of the device. And that's a problem because realistically,
when you think about the HomePod, the only thing that
it works with is the Apple Music and that's just
not enough for this thing to take off. Apparently, in
its first ten weeks of sale, it only got ten
(09:32):
percent of the smart speaker market, seventy three percent for
Google or Amazon Echo, fourteen percent for Google Home. And
those numbers are not from Apple or anyone that's from
a third party, so we don't know how accurate they are.
But the reality is most people are not out buying
HomePods right now. It's too expensive. It only works with
Apple Music. If you're an Apple ecosystem fanatic, then it's
(09:53):
a great buy. Otherwise, if you're into Spotify or anything else,
it's a really tough buy. All right, let's go to
the phone line. We've got five six to two on.
We've got five six two you're on with Rich. Hello.
Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Rich is David Hughes out of lake Wood.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Hey, David, how are you doing?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I'm doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
How's the good morning? How's the show? How's the show looking?
Today's everything technically? Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, I got it up on the Facebook live page.
I'm streaming good audio problems.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Beautiful, just making sure? All right? What can I help
you with today?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
So two questions for you. First one is the Samsung
S nine phone. When are they gonna be coming out
with S ten phone? And should I wait for that?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I would not wait for the S ten because the
S nine just came out. I mean you're talking. What
was it March March fourteenth? I think it went on sale.
So it just went on sale. We're we're in April,
so it's only a month old. Everything about the S
nine I think they did a really nice job with
So what do you have right now? I want to say, okay,
(11:03):
sir on a seven? So I think when you the
seven was a really nice upgrade from the six because
the six had a lot of battery problems. I think
the seven was a nice smoothing out of all those problems.
The seven, the thing I like about it is it
still has the fingerprint reader on the front right, so
it's a good position underneath the screen. The eight they
really messed up on because they put the fingerprint reader
(11:24):
on the back, but they put it in a really
bad position. So I'm glad you skipped the eight. The
nine they actually put the fingerprint reader in the right position,
and I would say when it comes to a Samsung device,
this is about as perfect as it gets. The only
thing I could see improvement for at this point on
the Samsung device is some software improvements. Although I think
the software has gotten really good. It's really just maybe
(11:47):
the front facing camera and that's it. I've seen some
stumbles in the software when it comes to the smoothness
of it. But I really think the S nine is
probably the perfect Android phone at this point. Unless you're
looking at their devices. What's the most important thing you're
looking for and you're Android.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, I use it a lot for work, so just
reliability for performance, you know, I came from originally with
a motorola and it crashed ONMMI and then I jumped
to the five, and then I went to the five
to the seven, so I jumped versions. So ever since
I had the five, I really liked it. I've been
sticking with it since then.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
The only other phone that I would recommend you take
a look at is, uh, the one Plus. Have you
heard of this one?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So the reason I like the one Plus is because
it really does a nice job with their phone. It's
five hundred bucks, it's a beautifully designed phone, it's got
a great screen, it's got a it's got a good camera.
I wouldn't say it's the best camera in the world,
but it's gonna it's gonna be a capable camera, and
you really don't you The software is just unbelievable. So
(12:52):
that's really where this kind of I think is ahead
of the Samsung. The Samsung there's a lot of there's
a lot of stuff on there, but there's a lot
of extra up on there sometimes that you don't necessarily need,
whereas the one Plus has a lot of nice software features,
but it's not a lot of stuff that you don't need.
So I would take a look at that and otherwise
the pixel the Pixel two I really like as well,
except I think the pixel too xcel is a little
(13:14):
bit too big, and I think the Pixel two is
a little bit too small. And you also kind of
lose a lot of features on the pixel like wireless charging,
the extra storage capacity, so things like that. So I like,
and the screen is better on the S nine. So
you said you had two questions. What's the second question.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, Well, the other one's always about Wi Fi ringty.
Once again, we always have Wi Fi issues and they
get an extend an only sends in one room gaming
and we have an extender if he's not getting strong
enough signal, So we're looking to do something else to
get our signal boosted on.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Our Wi Fi.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, the one thing I recommend is it's a system
called EO E E R O. If you've listened to
the podcast, you've definitely heard me talk about it. The
thing about EO is it's unbelievable. I mean I recommended
it to a cowork the other day and he bought
it immediately, and it was shipped to his house through
Amazon immediately, and he just couldn't believe how good it was.
(14:08):
And this this is really, if you want the best
WiFi in your house, Ero is the way to go.
The only downside to it is twofold. It's a startup,
so it could go out of business, but I don't
anticipate that. I think that a company would at least
buy the technology from them because it's so good and
they kind of they kind of they invented this technology.
(14:31):
So it's four hundred dollars for a starter system or
I guess the best selling system. You can get it
as cheap as two ninety nine, let's see, and then
you can get little individual ones for one fifty. But
I would say check out euro that's gonna be your
absolute best case scenario. Then the other one that's good
is Netgear ORB. So people really like that one. I
(14:53):
have not tested it personally, but it's a it's a
very popular system. It comes from Netgear, which is a
big networking company. That one's good, and then the other
one to look at is Google Wi Fi, which a
lot of people like as well. The problem with Google
Wi Fi is that Google is very haphazard in kind
of their continuing projects. So this is a great product,
(15:16):
but Google kind of is all over the place when
it comes to support in the long term, so they
may stop making this, they may forget about it. But
this one is really good as well. So those are
the three I recommend taking a look at, but don't
go with a booster or extender anymore. I don't recommend
those because they just don't work for today's systems and
today's gadgets. We're much more. We've moved past those those
(15:37):
types of systems. Now there's just a lot more stress
on what we need.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Okay, great, Thank you very much for great David.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Thanks so much for calling in appreciate it. Thanks for
calling the show. Phone lines are open if you'd like
to get in. The phone number is three one zero
five nine four three zero zero three. Now's a good
time to tell you about my favorite case. I've been
buying this case for every phone that I ever use.
I just love this case. So I'm telling you guys
about it. Not sponsored. This is just one of the
(16:07):
I just love this case, and I've purchased it for
a couple of the phones I use regularly, and I
just got this one. This is basically it's called the
Spec Presidio Grip, and I just love the way this
case fits on your phone. There's a on the iPhone ten.
It's super grippy. You just can't It's just amazing the
(16:28):
way it fits onto your phone. It doesn't make your
phone too big. And the grips. You've got these little
grips on the edges that literally make you never drop
your phone ever. So I love that aspect of it. Spec.
I can, you know, I forgot, I keep forgetting that
I could actually comment on these things. So let me
let me put this in the comments so you guys
(16:48):
can actually see what I'm talking about. But that's the
Spec Presidio grip. I don't think that you can click
on it from you can click on it from there,
all right. Anyway, that's a really nice case, so I
highly recommend that. And JT says, does the case come
in clear? I, you know, I don't know. I don't
know if it comes in the grip. I think it
just comes in colors in the grip. But they have
(17:10):
Spec Presidio without the grip. But I think that if
you're gonna go with the Spec Presidio, you gotta get
the grip. And Angie says she got one for my
S nine. It's sleek. I haven't dropped it once and
that that's really nice. All right, let's go to the
phone lines. Uh eight, let's see what was this? Eight
oh one? You're on with Ritch? Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Hey, Rich, this is Steve. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh? I'm doing fantastic, Steve. It's a Saturday.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh yes, tell me what dun Fox thirteen all the time.
And then I travel to California for work and see
you on KTLA.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh, it's so funny. So Fox thirteen Salt Lake City.
That's a great station. And it's funny when people travel
because most people we don't make a big deal of
the fact that I'm on a bunch of different stations.
So people can be watching on KTLA and have no idea.
But then they travel to other cities and they're like,
oh is my hotel room and I saw you, So
thanks for watching on Fox thirteen. That's pretty cool. I
love Carry and Dan over there. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
You know? I'm curious and maybe this is just wishful thinking,
but do you ever see the headphone jack coming back
to the iPhone?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That is wishful thinking, don't I don't see that happening.
Here's the thing I mean, we have to look at
Apple's past. So Apple has a history of getting rid
of things on their devices and being the first to
get rid of them and never looking back. So when
you think about I think the DVD player was probably
the first thing that they got rid of on the
MacBook and literally people went nuts, myself included I'm like,
(18:40):
how could you live without a DVD player or a
DVD burner or a DVD recorder whatever? And to me,
that was just insane. You remember that, right? And the
other thing, the other thing Apple never did on their laptops.
Everyone went to a Blu ray player on their laptops
and Apple said, no, we're not doing that, and everyone
was like, wait, are you crazy? How could you not
Blu rays the next generation? But Apple has their reasons
(19:04):
for things and the reason why they ditched the DVD players.
They wanted to push everyone to digital movies. They wanted
to create less piracy. They also saw people burning DVDs
less I'm sure their data showed that, or sharing DVDs
or whatever it was. They just knew that they could
do without those and people would be fine. And I
actually bought the external I have it somewhere in here
(19:25):
my h.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
Yeah, I've got an external with the Blu ray burner
that I love you thing.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, I've got my Trustee external you know, Mac computer
Player Blue DVD. I think this is a burner too.
I'm sure it is. Haven't used it in a while,
but you know, I bought one of those, so I
had to have the external because you know, it's like,
how can I do without it? And now we just
realized we don't really think about DVDs as much as
(19:53):
we used to do. There's still a place for them,
but we just don't use them as much as we did.
Then we had USB ports. They kind of let made
less of those, and they started even on this new
MacBook I have, I have only USBC and they got
rid of my SD card slot, which I was also
angry about. So Apple just has a history of doing
this and they like to streamline their products. When you
(20:15):
look at their products, there's not much going on now.
The interesting thing is that the new iPad that just
came out does have a headphone jack, so they have
not ditched it on the iPad, So I think when
they think about the use case on the iPad, they're thinking, Okay, well,
people are watching a lot of movies on there. Maybe
not everyone has a pair of Bluetooth headphones, so it's
interesting that they're doing two different things. But on the
(20:37):
iPad there's also more space inside for components, and Apple
has always argued that on the iPhone, they're trying to
maximize the space inside for other stuff and that's why
they got rid of the headphone jack.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So yeah, yeah, or what were you gonna have?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I was just gonna say, why do you want the
headphone jack back? Because I've kind of gotten used to
not having it. But I do still like it myself
as well, because I like being able to have that
default of my headphones aren't charged or I just you know,
sometimes you're on a plane, you don't feel like dealing
with all the stuff. You just want to plug in,
you know.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, yeah, I'm still clinging to my iPhone SIXSS actually,
but so I haven't dealt with that. But my wife
teaches a lot of fitness classes and she says it's
such a pain dealing with a dong dole and everything else.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, it's funny. I always I always see that in
the fitness classes I go to that they literally have
like the iPhone with like, you know, ten different things
because they've got to charge it at the same time
as the you know, you got to get a connector
you know that has like to both. It's such a pain.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
But yeah, yeah, it reminds me of driving in my
dad's Cadillac with an A track player and having an
a track to cassette converter and then a cassette to
CD converter.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Oh my gosh, wow. Well, I remember there was a
point that's a little bit before my time, but there
was a point when a cassette, a cassette to like
external like a three point five millimeters was like all
the rage, you know. And I remember when I wanted
to get serious satellite radio, I wanted a clean install
(22:07):
so I did not want to have to use the
cassette to three point five inch jack. So I spent
like the most money of my life at the time,
which I think was probably like two hundred dollars on
getting like a best buy installation where they went through
and they did the FM uh what was it FM
modulator where they installed it behind my radio. Oh, and
to me that was like living large at the time.
(22:28):
That was like the best I was like, this is unbelievable.
This is high tech and now, of course, you know,
you plug your iPhone and you're Android in it's like
just a world ahead of that, right, right.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
So a lot of people talk about broadcast TV going
away as we see it and everything going to streaming.
I studied broadcast journalism when I was in college, which
was a little while back. But to me that seems
a little bit forward thinking. I don't see it happening
as quickly as some people say. I think physical media
is not dead yet, but I don't know I would
(23:02):
you have any insight into.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
That specifically, what like what the future broadcast?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Well, yeah, if we're really going to lose big network
seasons of TV and you're just it's just going to
go to all subscribe, like a lot of people are saying, oh,
Star Trek Discovery is the way of the future. And
then a lot of people really like Fox of the
Whorville because it's actually broadcast and it's free, right versus
a subscription based.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I mean, I think it's kind of weird because you're
you're you're you're speaking in terms of like our entire society.
You know, It's like there used to be a time
you know, the whole water cooler conversation, which is kind
of It's interesting when things bubble up to the level
of people all knowing about them. That's pretty rare these days,
like a big show Like remember when Cereal the podcast
was pretty big and everyone was talking about that, you know,
(23:52):
and it was really interesting that people were talking about
something that wasn't on a broadcast, and it wasn't It
was mass available, but it wasn't available in a mass way,
you know what I mean, Like it didn't air on broadcast.
So nowadays it's like these little things bubble up to
the top. I say, because there's so many things out there.
You ask anyone, Hey, what what shows are you watching,
(24:12):
and they can tell you five shows that you've never
heard of, and there's probably one show of overlap that
you have heard of. So do I think broadcast is
going away? I think over the long term, I think
we're going to see a lot of evolution, But I
don't think it's going away. I remember when TVO first
came out back in two thousand and everyone spelled doom
and gloom for everything when it came to TV. Now,
(24:33):
I think TVO changed the fabric of television but we
still have TV pretty much the same way that we
had it in two thousand, which is a show broadcast
on TV over the air, and yes, now it's available
in a million different on demand ways and on DVR,
but it's still broadcasts like Survivor. I don't think that's
still on anymore. Maybe it is, but that was the
first show that I DVRD back in the day on
(24:54):
my TVO, and I thought it was so crazy that
I could skip through the commercials, but I still watched
it pretty quick to the day that it aired because
I wanted to be up to date on that show.
So I just think things are evolving in a in
a pretty rapid way. But I think we have a
pretty long runway before things change in where NBC, CBS, ABC,
nightly news those kind of things are gone. I don't
(25:17):
think that's happening right away, especially because news is still
one of the news in sports are still two of
the most most popular things that happen live. So but
shows shows, I think a lot of that has changed,
and uh, you know, especially Netflix launching shows all at once,
that changed the game again. So it's it's really it's
(25:39):
really crazy when you think about what's happening and how
things will still continue to change.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Yeah, my favorite ti Vo box that I had was
made by Samsung and it had a built in DVD
burner on it, so things.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I always hope that they would do a blu ray
burner and they never did.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
That was the one I always wanted. I never got
that one, but that I had. Almost every Tvo accept
that model. I think that model was really expensive, like
cause I remember my first TV I paid eight hundred
dollars for and they they were pretty expensive throughout the years,
but they got cheap. They got really cheap after a while.
But I love the Tvo and the idea of burning
(26:17):
to DVD, you know what, Hold on, I'm wait a second.
I did have one that burned to DVD now that
I think about it, but it was not a Samsung.
I don't think. Do they have another model that burned
to DVD. I don't remember, because I remember I actually
have a bunch of my I lived in Shreveport at
the time. I was a reporter there and I have
a bunch of my air checks that I would offload
(26:37):
to the DVD for later. But the problem is the
way they formatted it to the DVD Like now, I
just have them all and I can't really rip them
because it's it's in like this weird format. I got
to look at those again. But I did have one
with a burner on it, but I just don't remember.
It was not Samsung. Maybe it was. It's been a while,
but yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Interesting. Well, sorry to dominate your time. I love your segment, bitch.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
All right, thanks, Steve, I appreciate it. Thanks for watching
out there in Salt Lake, and when you're here in LA,
thanks for calling in.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Yeah, yeah, take care, all right, bybye?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
All right, there you have it. All right. I'm gonna
take a quick break real quick, just to do some
some housekeeping on the Facebook Live side, but I'll be back.
You're listening to Rich on tech Live. I'll be right
back after this. Welcome back to rich on tech Live.
I'm Rich Demiro, your host. Rich on tech dot Tv
is the place to go if you want to listen
(27:27):
to this podcast, subscribe or see links to anything I mentioned.
I do a pretty good job of putting the links
to things that we've talked about here. Let's go back
to the phone lines seven to zero. You're on with
Rich who am I speaking with? All Right, Rich, Hey,
what's going on?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's good. It was great seeing you at.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
C Yes, it's been gosh four months since then.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
And great show at NAP this year. Everything was eight
Oh my gosh from Korea and it was spectacular and
doing all sorts of different video changes to video as
it's live for like sporting events and everything.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh that's interesting, like what amazing?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Amazing like sporting events. In the middle of a lie clip,
you can change the different view of the picture. Okay, yeah,
that type of thing, you know, like Intel, Intel was
doing where you're live and can change where you are
in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
That's always been kind of the dream of these sports
broadcasts is to kind of, you know, make it more
kind of user driven where they can do things. But
we've seen a lot of we've seen a lot of
things trying you know, we've seen a lot of companies
try to do that. I don't think anyone has sort
of mastered it yet, but definitely when that happens, that's
that's a huge market right there, because people, you know,
(28:52):
they they let's say you have a favorite player and
you just want to learn more about them, see what
they're doing see their stats or whatever at any given time.
That's the kind of stuff that will really help with that.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So yeah, we're in the in the Futures Park area
and they were demonstrating it all and I go, here
we go. They're gonna beat us out at that too.
It was amazing. And then uh AR was packed all
over the place, all the boosts that we're doing AR
more than VR. I was surprised.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Interesting. I think, uh yeah, I think there's a place
for both. But I personally, I like, I don't. I
think VR is amazing. I think AR is cool. It's
like a good like wading into the waters, you know.
And they both have, like I said, they both have
their augmented reality. If you're listening and you're wondering what
we're talking about here, augmented reality is when they kind
of add something to the world around you, but you
(29:42):
still see the world around you, whereas virtual reality is
more like your entire existence is happening in a computer
generated world. So that's that's the differentiator that I explained
last thing.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Last thing on Facebook. I didn't never bother to follow
up on this. When they put pixels on different sites
and everything, do they make like any affiliate link, Facebook
or any money by having somebody place a pixel, by
them placing a pixel on your heade no.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Because usually it's the website operator that's placing the pixel.
And I'm trying to remember, I don't think they make
any money doing that. I think that it's it's more
for the relationship of the website to kind of figure out. Yeah,
it's like, let's say I own a belt website. I
want to be able to tap into Facebook's marketing data
(30:32):
by kind of figuring out who's coming to my website.
And then what they do is they call it similar audiences.
So okay, let's say, all, let's say ten thousand people
come to my belt website, and now I have the
Facebook pixel. It knows exactly who those ten thousand people
are on Facebook. And then Facebook says, well, here's another
ten thousand people that are exactly like them. You can
(30:53):
market to them because they're very similar to the people
that just came to your website. And that's how the
magic works, and that's the information marketers are kind of
buying from Facebook. It's really fascinating when you think about it.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Okay, and so then it's a paid service. The marketers
are buying it from Facebook.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Well, yeah, I mean it's not. You don't just to
see the data that's being collected from your website. You
don't have to pay to do that, but you do
have to pay. Yeah, you only have to pay if
you want to kind of do a marketing plan against
that data, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Okay, yeah, okay, yeah. I'm surprised that a piece of
technology got buy me. Can you believe it?
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I don't know. You are you're You're better than me
on some of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
It's the thirty five years from IBM. That doesn't that'll
do it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
How is it in Vegas today?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Windy as usual, Yeah, and sunny. And before we moved here,
I always said, why is it every time I fly
into Vegas is clear and sunny, but yet the plane
goes all over the place.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I was just going to say that every time. It's
like I've I've actually stopped flying into Vegas as much
because I'm like, I'm sick of that flat landing. It's like,
oh my gosh, it looks beautiful out, but it's like
you're being whipped all around exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
And now I was flying in for like twenty years
that couldn't figure it out. And now that I moved
here and retired and going and now I understand that.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Okay, So it's not just me because my wife for
a while she was like refusing to fly in there
because she was just sick of it. And I was like,
it's pretty bad, but not like you know, I mean,
clearly it works. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yeah, exactly. Well you get an autonomous car.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And you're okay, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
They have that.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
They have that Tesla service for eighty nine dollars that
will go back and forth, which was great. I tried
it once.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Or did you really you took the Tesla because we
did a story on it. I did not take it.
They kept asking me to take it to Vegas. I
was a little hesitant in being in a car for
five hours with someone else driving, but or a combination
of a human and Tesla driving. But what'd you think
of it?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It was outstanding. You know. They had drinks in there
and a lot of connections, so you were all connected
all the week, got a lot of work done. Really,
and now they go to Irvine, where I used to live,
so it's perfect to go to Burbank, Irvine and Palm Springs.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
That's crazy. Yeah, here it is. It's a test loop
and basically you just you book a seat in the car.
I think there's what there's four, four seats available or no,
three seats available, three because they've got the driver, and
then three. So right now, they've got Los Angeles to
San Diego, Los Angeles to Palm Springs, Los Angeles to
Orange County, Orange County to San Diego, Orange County to
(33:24):
Palm Springs, Palm Springs and Las Vegas. I don't know
what that means. Palm Springs and Las Vegas. I guess
they're yeah, shuttle interesting. All right, well thanks for the call.
All right, j do you go by Joe or JT?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Either one? Because they couldn't get my web mail. I'm sorry,
my web site under Joe. I went to JT.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
All right, all right, well I'll call you JT because
that's how I see a show up on Facebook. So JT.
I will talk to you soon, okay, Yeah, take care
of all right, bye bye bye. All right, Let's take
some of the questions that I'm seeing on the chat room. Hey, Rich,
what was the website that you can check with internet
services to see when you're moving to a new area.
That website is all Connect A L L C, O,
(34:08):
N N, E C T dot com and let's see here.
I'll just put this on the screen so you can
see it. This is now Here's the thing. I think
that all connect is sort of owned by the cable
and satellite companies. I don't really know. Let's see about us.
But the point is it does help you put in
(34:28):
your address and your phone number and everything, and they
do that. It used to be called white fence, I think,
but I don't know. I mean it's anyway. It helps
you just put in the you put in let's see
a red Ventures company. Yeah, so I don't know. I
don't know. It doesn't maybe it's not owned by them. Anyway.
You put in your your address that you're you're moving to,
or your home address, and it gives you all the
(34:50):
providers in your area, which is really cool. I love
this website. I recommend it to everyone, and you can
look up let's see bundles internet TV, home phone. Oh
my gosh, I should I tell you guys about my experience.
I just I had to call Spectrum to negotiate my
rate because it went up from forty five to sixty
five dollars a month, and oh my gosh, that was
(35:13):
not a nice conversation. I was not happy with them.
I'll be honest they I got a guy in Texas
and the first thing he does is try to get
some information out of me about like how many gadgets
I use and you know, how many how much Internet
I use, and what my needs are. So immediately he
was like, well, we don't do any deals anymore. So
(35:34):
I was like, uh, that can't be true. A lot
of the people I talked to tell me that they
are paying forty five dollars a month, which is what
I'm paying, and I'd like to keep paying that, but
they bumped it to sixty five. Long story short, we
went around and around. The best he did was fifty
five bucks a month, so I got ten dollars off
for the next year. But the funny thing is he
tried to upsell me to the three hundred, which was
(35:55):
going to be I think eighty dollars a month, and
I was like, I don't really think I need so
I called to save money and the guy's trying to
sell me on more service, and I'm like dude, come on,
like customer service one on one. I get it, you're
trying to make a sale. But the things he was
saying I thought were a little bit weird because he
was kind of like not making fun of me, but
he was kind of like telling me stuff that I
knew wasn't true. He was like, well, and I guess
(36:18):
it would be true for certain people. But he was like, well,
if you change your internet to a different provider, which
I said, you know, I can get AT and T
here and it's the same price. Blah blah blah. He's like, well,
if you change, you're gonna have to change all your
gadgets and it's a you know, it's a pain. And
I forget if he made fun of their service whatever
he did, but my point is I was and I
didn't say, you know, look, I do tech for a living.
(36:39):
I don't really reveal that stuff. But it was just
funny to kind of call as a regular person and
hear what he's saying to someone that knows a lot
about technology and to get the stuff that he's trying
to sell people on. Anyway, long story, Shore ended up
saving ten dollars, so I got to fifty five a month.
I said, are you in the retention department and he said,
we don't have a retention department anymore, which, come on,
(37:01):
that's not true. They of course they have retention apartment.
So I'm happy with it. I was gonna pay twenty
dollars extra a month. I'm now paying ten dollars extra.
I hate to see my bills go up, as we
all do, but at the same time, I'm fining fifty
five bucks a month. He told me I used nine hundred.
The best part was at the end he was like, well,
you know, you used nine hundred gigabytes last month, which
(37:22):
I think sounded like a lot. I don't feel like
I used nine hundred gigabytes, but I guess I did,
so my kids must be watching a lot of Netflix.
So he was like, well, you know, you use nine
hundred gigabytes, So I think paying fifty or sixty five
dollars a month for nine hundred gigabytes of Internet is
pretty good. And I'm like, I really couldn't challenge him
on that. I was like, yeah, because I pay about
(37:43):
two hundred de verison every month for like, you know,
unlimited data, which is really twenty gigs a month. So
I really couldn't challenge him on that when he got
me there, Anthony says on Facebook chap, Hey, Rich, what
do you think of the Lynxis developed home home mesh
Wi Fi system pack of three?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Uh, you know, I think it's fine. I think that
my favorites I've gone over this is Ero is my
favorite E E R O. Then i'd say Google Wi
Fi and Netgear orby. I don't have experience with the Lynxis,
but uh, I think that you'll you'll probably be okay
with them. Let's see, Lynxus is the one that's uh,
(38:22):
I think that's the one that's owned by Belkin, right, yeah,
it is okay. So Lynxus is owned by Belkan and
you know they just got purchased. So I think you'll
be fine with it. But I would check out the
three that I recommend. Three one, Oh you're on with Rich?
Three win, Oh you're on with Rich? Who am I
speaking with?
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Julian Melendez? I've speak to you last time?
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Hey? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (38:46):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
I do some looking at your life?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Are you where are you calling from?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Culver City? That's right, okay?
Speaker 5 (38:54):
How you doing going good? Quick question on your own
Speczone Internet ye cable, and I was thinking to change it,
but I have the Riz and files and drug TV
Geny and they told me I could switch over, but
the direct with that time spectrum apps, you don't get
(39:19):
that much channels. But they told me to add four
cable boxes for four rooms. Let's make any difference or known,
what are.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
You trying to do? What's what's the problem with what
you have right now?
Speaker 5 (39:36):
The Drug TV Geny updating is not and my Directivity
is messing up a lot. I don't know the update
or messing.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Up, and so you're just not happy with the quality
of the service. Basically no costing us so much. And
do you have four rooms that you have connected to
the Genie?
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Yes, it's all wireless.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And it's all wireless, okay, I mean yeah. Oh here's
the thing. I mean, if you switch over, it's it's
kind of a big switchover because they have to come
to your house and make sure they install the cable
boxes in each room. I would if you have FiOS,
if you have Frontier FiOS Internet that's the Internet, Well
maybe you should call them and see if they can
give you TV as well, because then you're on one plan.
(40:20):
It'll probably be a lot cheaper if you do it
that way.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
I would think, Yeah, you've been including with their cell
phone too. Oh, but I don't know if they have wireless,
but I don't think they would run company. No, I
don't think that network they do.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, Dish network and a lot of them might have
like a bundle with wireless, but if they're not providing
the service. But I would if I were you, I
would call uh. I would call FiOS, which is owned
by Frontier now in our area, and I would I
would just ask them, Hey, give me the price on
four TVs for you know, with the DVR service. They've
got the same thing where the DVR works in all
the four TVs. I know people are mixed about Frontier
(40:59):
and FiOS, so I'm just telling you I don't have
experience with them except for what I know from a
corporate level. But I know it was a big growing
pain when they switched over in southern California to Spectrum
or to FiOS from Verizon to Frontier. But it's been
a couple of years now. So and Carlos is saying
on the Facebook live chat he doesn't like the wireless
(41:21):
Genie boxes the menus are really slow to react to
the remotes, so that's interesting. I had a Genie. It
wasn't bad. When I had it, I thought it was fine,
but I didn't really watch it. I didn't really use
my direct TV that much, so I did have it
for a while. But I would do that. I would
call up the I would call the FiOS and ask
them to just give you a price on what you
(41:45):
can do with that, and see what they say, and
then compare that to what I guess if you have yeah,
I mean that's your only option really, so I would
do that versus going to anything else. I think that's
a good question. But thanks so much for calling. I
think that that's Uh. It's tough because most people are
kind of calling to cancel their cable, and when they
(42:05):
hear you that you want to add four TVs, I
think they're they're like, Okay, let's give this guy a deal,
because clearly we're losing a lot of customers right now
to just kind of the internet customers. And I think
that they like when they hear that you want to
connect all those TVs, so I think they'll come over
there and do that pretty well. All right, Rich Demiro
Rich on tech dot TV. You're listening to Rich on
(42:26):
tech Live. I just wanted to talk about one thing
real quick here. Spotify and Hulu they teamed up. We'll
take We have time for one more call. By the way,
three one oh five nine four three zero zero three.
Spotify and Hulu teamed up, so now they've got If
you're a Spotify Premium customer, you can now add Hulu
for effectively three dollars a month, which is pretty good
(42:49):
if you want to get the Hulu programming, which has
like seventy five thousand shows. If you're into like current
TV shows, like a lot of the sitcoms and stuff
that air or dramas, Hulu's really good for that. And
of course a lot of people like that show, The
Handmaid's Tale. I've not seen it, but a lot of
people love that show. So if you have Spotify Premium,
you're already paying the ten dollars a month for that.
You can add sp Hulu to your plan for three
(43:11):
dollars a month, so it's twelve ninety nine for both.
I'm on the family plan with Spotify, I pay fifteen dollars.
They are not allowing the family plan to add Hulu
because I'd probably add it for three bucks a month.
That's a pretty darn good deal. If you have it
right now. You can do a ninety nine cent promotional deal,
so you can try the Hulu for three months for
ninety nine cents, So that's pretty good. The thing I
(43:34):
don't like about Hulu Limited, which is what they're giving you,
the limited plan still has commercials and have I mean,
it's fine if you get to sit through limited commercials,
but you're still paying for the commercials, so you're paying
three dollars to sit through those commercials. But that's pretty good.
So Glenda says, what if you already have Hulu. If
you already have Hulu, you're gonna have to cancel Hulu
(43:56):
and then sign up again through this special link to
get the new product. So but you have to have
you have to have Spotify Premium. Okay, so real quick,
I want to talk about one thing real quick before
we go, because I thought that this is I'm getting
so many questions about this thing. So this is the
(44:17):
Facebook BFF thing everyone's asking me about. If you type
BFF on Facebook, does it? Hold on? Let me get
the article here, because this is okay, so the article
there's a big thing going around on Facebook. People are
saying Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, invented the word BFF,
which is stupid and not true. To make sure your
(44:38):
account is safe on Facebook, type bff in a comment.
If it appears green, your account is protected. If it
does not appear in green, change your password immediately because
it will be hacked. So stupid, I mean, clearly that's
not true. Anyway, So you see when you do that
and what happens there. So my point is, there's a
lot of other things you can type. These are little
graphics that Facebook puts in there, and let's see here,
(45:03):
I gotta figure out how to get rid of this
thing because I just did this. Okay, So anyway, Facebook
puts a lot so other things you can do. By
the way, you can type in you're the best, and
that will also do some flying stars. You can type
in best wishes and you get two hands that unfold
with colorful shapes flying up to the screen. Okay, you
(45:27):
can let's see. Okay, here we go delete, there we go. Okay,
let's see what else can you do? You can do
this an article, by the way, I'm reading off on medium,
I'll send you, guys, the link you can do you've
got this and or you can do it and you'll
get some thumbs up emoji bounces. You can do rad
that will give you a flurry of thumbs up emojis.
(45:48):
You can do congrats and you'll get a bunch of
balloons and confetti. Or you can do XO and you'll
get a bunch of small hearts. So kind of cool
to try all these different things, because they don't are
you guys? Now, I see you're commenting these things, but
are they working on my Facebook Live? Because I don't
think they work on the Facebook Live. You have to
do them on someone's comment, right, all right, So Lisa
(46:09):
is asking what is the safest way to save photos?
And it's a fantastic question. So I will tell you
what I do. Your results may vary, you may want
to do it, but I'll tell you the system that
you should be using for your photos. Okay, So number one,
you take a photo. Most of us are taking our
pictures on our cell phones, so that's the first place
(46:31):
you want to make sure that you have your pictures
backed up on your phone. Okay, So that means you
can use iCloud. If you have Apple, you can use iCloud.
So if you turn on iCloud, make sure that you
say optimize photos on my phone because otherwise you're gonna
run out of space on your phone before you can
put all your pictures into iCloud. So you need to
go into settings and make sure that you have a
(46:52):
setting that's on called optimize iPhone Storage for Photos. Okay,
that's going to enable you to do this. That's gonna
enable you to see all your pictures on your iPhone,
but some of them are going to be stored up
in the cloud. So that means you can have twenty
thousand pictures in your photo collection on your phone, but
they're not really residing on your phone. Okay, So that's
(47:12):
number one, So you have to do that. So you've
got iPhone, you've got iicloud, that's good. Number two if
you're using that system, you still want your pictures backed
up in a secondary place. So this could be as
easy as every month you download a copy of all
your pictures to your computer and you have them on
there as well. You always want your pictures in two places.
That's the name of the game, because if one place
(47:34):
goes down, the other place is going to be your
backup savior. And believe me, it doesn't happen often, but
it could and you want to make sure. So you
can get an external hard drive. You can get something
called the ie expand this is a really simple way
to do it. This is from sand Disk and you
can get this thing, plug it into your plug it
(47:55):
into your iPhone and every once in a while just
download your pictures to there. But again you have to
have them in two places. So you can do iCloud
plus the I expand flash drive, or you can do
iCloud plus Google Photos, which is what I do. So
I do well, I do Google Photos plus something else.
So you can do Google Photos. And Google Photos is
a free app. You put that on there, And Pauline
(48:19):
is saying, what if you don't use Apple, Then if
you don't use Apple, my choice is Google Photos. So
that's where you want to go. And Google Photos is free,
one hundred percent free. You put your photos in there
and it will back up as many pictures as you
have forever for free. And it's amazing, it's searchable, it's free.
You don't have to think about it. If you don't
(48:41):
want to use Google because somehow you don't like Google.
You can use Flicker, and again, Flicker has an app
that you can put on your phone and that's gonna
let you upload all the pictures. Now, you only get
a thousand gigs, which is one terabyte, so they are
limit but for most people a thousand gigs should be fine.
(49:04):
Amazon Photos that's another one. If you are an Amazon
customer and you have Amazon Prime, you can use Amazon
Photos for free and you get unlimited photo storage as well.
If you don't have Prime, you get five gigs, So
I don't recommend it. If you don't have Prime. I mean,
you could use it up to five gigs, but that's
that's pretty small. But if you have Prime, you're gonna
(49:25):
get unlimited. So again, you need your photos in two places.
One of these apps, which I just mentioned a bunch
of them. You can do Amazon, you can do Google Photos,
or you can do or you can do One Drive.
That's another one. You just have to pick one. But
you got to have it in two places, So have
(49:46):
it on your phone, on a backup drive and in
one of these places. So because your phone is going
to run out of storage, so you really want to
have you really want to have your photos in different place,
and yes, Lisa, you can. Once your photos are in
Amazon Phone Photos, then you click that optimized storage button
and then you can do that. You don't really you
want to make sure that these things are in a
(50:07):
different place. I've seen way too many people lose their
photos because they're not syncing them, they're not backing them up,
they don't have them backed up in two places. But
you have to do that. And Angie is saying, I
need to save all my Facebook photos. Go to Facebook,
go to Facebook Tools. It's called Facebook Download my Data.
Download Download Data. And all you have to do is
(50:33):
download all your data. It will give you a copy
of all your pictures and then you can upload them
to your cloud storage and you can do that from
the web. You can do that in a lot of
different places. So all right, thanks so much for listening
to the podcast. We're done for now. Facebook people. Stick
around for your special giveaway, but we're done with the podcast.
(50:55):
Thanks so much for listening. Let's see, I've got my
little notes here that I want to talk about. So
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(51:17):
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