October 20, 2017 • 34 mins
Screen time and kids, Google Pixel 2 review, Cardhop contacts app and questions from callers.
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(00:32):
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course if you're watching or listening rather on the podcast,
thanks for tuning in. You could be listening in your car,
you could be walking, you could be I don't know,
you could be anywhere. You could be anywhere in the world.
That's the cool thing about this. On the show today,
(01:15):
we're going to talk about kids in their tablets. We're
gonna talk about the Windows Surface Book two, this new
app that is kind of cool cleans up your contacts
and helps you manage those. I know it's been a
while since a contact management app was exciting, but this
one is.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I'll give you my review.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Of the Pixel too, and of course I will check
social media and.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Look at some of your comments.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Man, let's talk about this topic first off on the
show though, kids and tablets. You know, if you guys
know me and you see me on TV, you know
I've got two kids, or on Instagram or Twitter, I've
got a you know, two boys and they're three and six.
And let me tell you a never a dull moment
when you have kids. Obviously that's the number one thing.
But the second part of that is that there's a
(01:59):
real struggle these day with the whole idea of kids
and their tablets and kids and electronics and kids and
how much do they watch now When I was a kid,
this is all applying to now, Okay, I'm not talking
about when I was a kid. When I was a kid,
here's how it worked, you got home from school, You
got up early before school, you watched cartoons for as
long as you wanted until literally you had to walk
(02:20):
out the door.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Then you would get home from school, throw down your stuff,
and you would either watch video game or play video games,
or you'd watch shows on TV until it was time
to do your homework or time to go outside or
time to go to bed, either one.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I mean, we played outside a lot. That was the
other thing. When we played outside, you would just go
outside and.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Play, and your parents you just know, like this is
the time to come home. I had one friend's dad
who would whistle for him anyway. That's all when I
was a kid. Nowadays, it's a little bit different. We
are in this world of digital devices and what a
kids want to do when they come home. They basically
want to sit down and act like a bowl full
of mush and absorb everything on their tablet. And I'm
(03:02):
not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. I think that
there's a anything.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
In moderation is good.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But this new research from Common Sense tells us kind
of what the deal is. And here's the first stat
Forty two percent of kids ages zero to eight have
their own tablet, and that's up from one percent in
twenty eleven. One percent in twenty eleven. Now get it,
the iPad didn't come out till twenty ten, so you
know this, there's not much to think about. Before that,
(03:29):
people were glued to their TVs. But the TV has
given way to the tablet. And it's a weird thing because,
you know, the tablet is much more personal than the TV.
With the TV, at least you had you know, your
mom or dad could walk by in the background and
see you that you were watching a cartoon.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You kind of had an idea.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But nowadays everything's so personalized. It's so individualized right on
your tablet screen that you barely even know what your
kid's doing on there. My kid was watching this show
on Netflix, by the way, Netflix, This is just you know,
come on, common sense. When I put my kid's profile
on Netflix, let me lock it down with a password. Okay,
just some sort of passcode. I mean, isn't that the
(04:08):
most basic thing that should be available to me as
a parent, is that I can lock down when I
put my kid on Netflix. And I get it. You
can make the argument that, oh, rich, well, you should
watch your kids better. You know, maybe you should stand
over them the whole time. They shouldn't be able to
see what's on Netflix without you looking. Well, guess what
real life comes in here to play. And you can't
always watch your kids every single minute of the day
(04:31):
what they're watching on iPad. So my kid the other
day happen to watch He's watching this show and gosh,
I gotta figure out what the name of this show is.
I'm gonna look it up on Netflix real quick, because
the only reason I knew how bad this show was
is because my photographer, Steven Stark, told me that he
was watching it and he was like, oh, yeah, it's
really bad. But it looks like a cartoon. So, oh gosh,
(04:52):
what is the name of this show? It has a
little cartoon.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh man, I can't find it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's like it looks like a kids cartoon and it
is not okay. And I don't know if I'll ever
be able to find this show on here really fast.
But it's brand new. It just came out, and it's like,
it's not a good show. It's not a show for kids.
And my kid was watching it and I'm like, uh, oh,
you know, give me that. Give me that back. You
(05:18):
cannot be on there. Oh big mouth. There it is
big Mouth. That's the show you I don't even know.
You don't even want to start watching it because the
stuff my photographer is telling me about it, that is
not a show for kids. Somehow he switched to my
profile and started watching that. Anyway, average amount of time
spent with mobile devices skyrockets increasing ten times. So it
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used to be five minutes a day in twenty eleven.
Now it's forty eight minutes in twenty seventeen. So forty
eight minutes now that that's on a good day. I
think for a lot of kids, forty eight minutes with
their tablet is like, I mean, think about it, that's
just two shows. And you know that's that's literally two shows. Now,
that's what I try to limit my kids to each
(06:01):
night when they come home, is just two shows. But
some days or more some days are not.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They're also going to start some public service announcements with
Will Ferrell arguing for a device free dinner. So they're saying, basically,
put down your phones during dinner. And this is something
we tried. We actually went cold turkey at the table
dinner table with the kids. We said, just after a
couple of years, we said, you know what, no more
iPads at the table.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We are no longer having iPads at the table. And
believe me, we've all been guilty. The parents too, do
the same thing. You sit down and next thing you know,
you're looking at your phone because you get a notification,
and it ruins the entire dinner. So I'm guilty of this.
My wife is guilty of it, the kids are guilty
of it. We're all guilty of it. And the reality
is it's not that we're doing anything wrong. I mean,
(06:48):
come on, how exciting is a slot machine when you
roll the dice and you know or you pull that
handle and you don't know what's going to come up.
What do you think is happening when you're looking at
your notifications the same exact thing.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's all you're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
When you're when you're pulling down on Instagram and you're
pulling down on Facebook to refresh the feed. Think about it.
I mean, you're you're you're playing the lottery and it's fun.
So I'm not I'm not arguing against this. I'm just
saying life could be better. And when I was a kid. Yeah,
we had we had the TV on during dinner. A
lot of times. We had a TV in a kitchen.
(07:20):
So I don't know what the answer is. I think
that it's a it's in moderation. So with my kids,
Monday night free for all. Everyone's tired. I mean, what
are you gonna do. It's Monday, so they can eat
in front of the TV. They could do whatever they want.
Tuesday night, I'm a little more strict. I'm like, all right,
no iPads. And then if they bring them, I'm like,
all right. But uh, you know, you gotta do what
(07:41):
you gotta You gotta do what you gotta do. Sometimes
it's just a matter of survival as a parent. And
if you give them their iPad and they watch a
show and they're calm and they're enjoying life, that's that's
a good thing.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But it was a big decision in our family when
to get them tablets and when to let them watch
these things. And it used to be a shared device
and now, of course they each have their own. But
you know, they can be a lifesaver, believe me, life saver.
At the restaurant, we were out at a restaurant, on
Friday night, and we were able to bring the kids
because we had them have their iPads at the table. Now,
(08:13):
I know that sounds terrible, but the reality is, number one,
we're with our kids at least, and so we're functioning
as a family. Number Two, we didn't have to pay
for a babysitter, which was nice. But number three, you know,
they get to go out to a restaurant and enjoy
that time with us, even though they eventually moved on
to their iPads.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And so now I was talking with my wife.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Because I feel like we had such a successful dinner
that maybe we're going to try the thing where we
maybe talk first until dinner comes, and then once dinner
comes and they eat, then they can have their iPad.
So it's kind of like dessert. You don't get it
till you finish your food. In our house, let's see
what else?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
What else? What else?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Forty nine percent of children eight or under watch TV
or videos or play video games in the hour before bedtime,
and according to pediatricians, apparently that's a no no. Now,
you know, we try to make the hour before bed
more like, you know, more like reading and stuff like that.
So if they're but some nights again they're just going
straight from watching right to bed and you know, it
(09:14):
just depends.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Again, it's all moderation.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But I think these stats are really telling because the
way that technology has really, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Affected the childhood is is so different.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's it's really it's really interesting to me because this
is the way I put it. I grew up with
a screen in front of my face from the time
I was about I don't know, in my teens, I
don't know, let's say fifteen, okay, and I had my
first computer, and then of course my you know, you
just had a computer, a laptop, whatever, and then of
(09:45):
course you had things come along like the like the phones,
but the phones were never in front of your face
all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Now they are.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
My kids meanwhile, they know how to swipe from about
six months, and I think.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's a lot of kids.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
My kid yesterday he stood up on the on the
little table in front of the TV and he's sitting
there tapping the TV, tapping the TV and trying to
swipe on the TV. And that my other kid did
that too, And it's just crazy. It's just built into
who they are. All right, phone lines are open, I'm
gonna take your tech questions next three one zero five
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You are listening to Rich DeMuro, where we talk about technology,
your life, your technology, whatever you want to talk about
basically as it relates to technology. Lines are open three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three, and
we're just gonna go right to our first caller here
in the sixty six to one area code.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Hey Rich Greg from the Antelope Valley.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Greg, how you doing today on this Thursday?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Not too bad in yourself?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I am always doing fantastic on a Thursday, so day
before Friday.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yes, great. I have a little problem here. I have
had my iPhone six S for it'll be a year
in November, and you know, of course accidents happened. I
have dropped it and within I think I dropped it
a good good, a good drop last December, and the
(11:44):
bottom left hand side is a little if there's a
little crack there, Okay, okay, But within the last week
I have noticed some fine red lines on the left
hand of my screen going from the battery icon all
(12:10):
the way down to the that I have my Safari
button there, Okay, and they don't go away, and it's
a little bit annoying. So I'm wondering, is it something
to do with my screen or is it something to
do with the software or hardware.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, it sounds like it could be. I think it's
something to do with the Well, it could be the screen,
could be a screen issue, could be some pixels that
have gotten ruined, but if they're lighting up red, they're
not dead. I think it's something to do with some
sort of logic board or something that's driving the video
on the phone, and that's what's causing it. And it
could you know, it could every time your phone is
(12:51):
moving or get shifted or jostled, it could make the
problem worse eventually.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So what are you thinking of doing?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Are you thinking it's a success so it's not terribly old.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Are you thinking of upgrading?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
No, I'm not right now. I was just thinking of
getting it fixed. And I've you know, seen places that
replace the you know, like a broken screen, so I
one that's why I was calling to see if, well,
if that's something I should do, or if it's you know,
something inside I get.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Here's the deal. I mean, you could start there. You
can go to one of those places. If you want
someone to come to you, you can go to iicracked
dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They'll come right to your house and fix it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Or you can go to like I would not go
to some random place, you know, like in the mall,
because the problem here is that this may not fix
it and you know, or it may come back and
then you have to go back to them. So you
want someplace that sort of has a warranty on their
on their stuff, and the place at the mall, you know,
like the random places that just you know, they open
up overnight and it's just some kid. You know, they
(13:53):
may not offer the service, they may not be there
if you need them in three months. So something like
I cracked the guarantee the work that they do if
the screen cracks again. But mostly these companies, you know,
they will replace the screen, but it sounds like you
may need the LCD replaced as well. So if there's
a lot of damage, they can do that, but it's
just gonna cost you more.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
So here's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I would go into like a place like New break
I Fix, and I would get an estimate.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Look, have them look at it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
They see these things every day, so they know kind
of the difference between what's going on, you know, if
something's going to just take a screen or need a
part inside. So I'd go there, get the estimate. If
it's three hundred bucks, no way, you know what I mean.
I mean, it's time time to get a new phone.
And what you can do is if it's something like
three hundred dollars, then you can sell this phone on
eBay and you'll get some money for it, because someone
(14:44):
out there on eBay knows how to fix these phones
and they'll fix it and then they'll flip it and
sell it.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But for you, it might be too much trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You know what I'm saying, right right, So I would
say do that, go in, get an estimate, and sometimes
they may say, hey, look we can replace it, and
we can't guarant tea that anything's gonna work any better,
or that the lines are gonna go away because they
just they just don't know until they actually put a
new screen on there. So that's that's what you're sort
of up against.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Greg.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Okay, and you said the what was the name of
the place you break?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, so there's like a little chain of places are
you in? You said, you're in Los Angeles area? Right, Uh,
it's you Break I Fix And that's that's the one
that's a store. And the reason why I recommend them
is because a lot of the third party insurance companies
will send you there, so I know they're pretty legit
and they have a lot of locations.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So find one of those.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You Break I Fix, and if you want someone to
come to you, you can just go on I cracked
dot com and they will send a technician to your
house and they'll do it anywhere I was at. I
was in Florida on a shoot one time, and the
the whatever the I Cracked folks like literally came to
fix this athlete's phone like right there in the like
(15:54):
outside the locker room, basically, you know, one of the players.
And I was like, Wow, that's pretty amaz that you
can just do this anywhere so.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Wow, okay, but you don't if I was to take
it to Apple, they even though it's under the still
under the warranty, they wouldn't fix it because of that crack.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I mean, well, I mean you could do that first.
They're they're going to tell you right off the bat,
So do that first. You know, it can't hurt. They're
not going to charge you. But what they're gonna do
is they're going to see that crack, and like when
I took my wife's phone in there was like a
diagnosis fee or something like that, so they believe me.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Apple's not stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
But at the same time they may say, oh my gosh,
we just noticed that your phone has a crack problem
that you know, if it's turned left, it cracks, so
you know, you may they may you never know. I
would take it there first and then go to these
other places, but don't let them. Don't pay at Apple
for them to diagnose it because they're their repair is
(16:49):
always going to be more expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Okay, all right, well, thank you, all.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Right, Greg, thanks so much for listening and being a
part of rich On Tech Live. I do appreciate it.
Greg in Antelope Valley. All right, let's take one more
call here in the nine oh nine area code.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Nine oh nine you're on with Rich. Who am I
speaking with?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Hi? This is Sam from Pomona.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Sam from Pomona. How you doing today?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I'm doing pretty good. Got a couple of tech questions
for you.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Well, hopefully I have. It's a couple of tech answers.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Okay, I recently got rid of my cable because the
bill got way too high. I put in an outdoor
antenna and now I'm getting, you know, HD great reception.
I watch you guys on kt LA literally every morning.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
One of the things that you know, I had was
a DVR, and I kind of missed that because I'll
go into the kitchen to make breakfast and miss stuff,
you know, and I come back and anyway, so I
did a little research and I bought one of these
uh TV tuners with the ability to record. I went
(17:57):
over to Fries and I got this at the Trek Okay,
and it's like forty nine dollars and brought it home,
set it up. The thing works, you know, pretty good.
I mean i'd give a you know, an eight out
of ten maybe, But the remote control with this thing,
the buttons are so tiny, and I mean literally I
(18:21):
got to put my glasses on and turn on a
light to figure out what I'm doing with this thing.
Have you got any experience with these?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yes, So I'll tell you the one that I recommend
that I really like. I have an antenna on my
house and I get all the channels. It's great, and
I can pause live TV, I can record.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
But the one I recommend is.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Called Tableau TA b l O. And this is there's
a couple of them out there. There's one there's Tableau is.
I think it's probably one of the best. But here's
how it works. It's it's going to work a little
bit differently from what you have. But what Tableau does
is it basically records over the air. It's it's just
a box and then it has you know, you you
attach a hard and you can record. So there's a
(19:03):
subscription fee of five dollars a month if you want
to set recordings you know, like you would on a
TVO two weeks out, or you can just set manual
recordings and see one day of guide information for free.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And that's free, unlimited. So that's the one that I like.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And what's cool about this one and it's probably a
little bit different than yours is that it also works
in conjunction with a smart device, so you can actually
access not only your recordings from any iPad, iPhone, but
also an Apple TV, Amazon Fire, TV Roku.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's just infinitely better.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And the only thing I noticed about this that I
the only downside I would say that it has is
about a twelve second buffer from when you try to
change channels. Now, if you're leaving it tuned to one
channel or you're just tuning in a show, you won't
really notice that.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But if you're flipping channels a lot, which you probably
aren't doing with over the air channels because there's not
that many of them, it probably won't be a problem.
But that's the one I like. I think it's not
much more than the one that you bought. Two tuners.
Let's see how much a two tuner is. Let's see here,
select your country. It is, Yeah, about a hundred bucks
(20:14):
for a refurbished one. So and I think a refurbished
on this thing will be just fine. So that's what
I recommend. Definitely check it out, Sam, and I think
you'll be much happier than the tiny thing that you
got from from Fries and nothing wrong with that, but
I just don't think it has as many features as
you would like. And I think Tableau is kind of
set up for this new world we live in of
(20:36):
the over the air DVR.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So check it out.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right, there you have it. We are going to
take more of your phone calls after this. The phone
number is three one zero five nine four three zero
zero three. When we come back, i'll talk about the
new Microsoft Surface book and man, who would have thought
that contacts could be fun again? I'll tell you about
a new app that helps you manage those as well.
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Speaker 1 (21:49):
Windows. Microsoft.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Microsoft is very busy these days making their gadgets. They
have come out with a lot of new stuff lately,
and now they've got a brand new Surface Book two.
Surfacebook was you know, every A lot of the gadgets
that Microsoft is coming out with are very popular, like
they're they're well done. And I've got to say, after
seeing Microsoft kind of struggle for so many years in
(22:11):
various different aspects of kind of the mobile world and
all this different stuff, it's nice to see that they're
really killing it in the place that matters the most,
which is their bread and butter, which their computers.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And this new Surface Book two.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Is kind of a sequel to the first Surface Book,
which was good, but you know, you can always tell
a first gen product.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
A lot of people loved it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But now they've done some refinements and this new Surface
Book two is five times more powerful than the original,
but it still has all day battery life and the
neat thing about the Surface book. If you don't know
what this thing is, it's a computer, it's a laptop,
it's a tablet.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's everything all in one.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And it's different than the regular surface because this is
more like a laptop, like a real laptop surface. You
can't really has a keyboard attachment, but you can't really
put it on your knees to like use it as
a laptop because it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It kind of like it just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I can't explain it, but it's almost like a tent
and it doesn't stay. So this Surface book is much
more like a keyboard with a solid surface that connects
to a tablet. They can also disconnect. So people love
this thing. It's sold very well. Everyone who got one
really liked it. The reviews were great and Surfacebook too.
And the reason why people like surface is because if
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you're doing real business, iPads are great.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
You know, people love their iPads, but iPad is primarily
a consumption device. And yes, you can do office on there.
You can do I mean, you could do everything on there.
I mean I'm producing this whole live show on an iPhone.
So it's amazing what you can do. But the reality is,
when you really want to get business done, you want
to do presentations, all that kind of stuff, sometimes you
just want a good old fashioned computer. And this is
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kind of the best of both worlds because you get
all the ports. You get USB the regular one, and
now the new thing is that they've added USB C
and then of course you have a full size SD
card slot, so you don't need dongles. I just bought
this new MacBook Pro and I can't show it too
because I don't want to mess anything up. But the
reality is it's been a learning experience because everything needs
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to be plugged in with some sort of adapter because
everything there's only two USBC ports on it.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So I love the fact that it's simple, but it
takes a little bit more work. And I've noticed, you know,
I've had to buy all new cables. I've had to
buy some adapters U and sometimes people just don't want
to deal with all that mess. Surfacebook is not cheap,
by the way. Surfacebook two starts at fifteen hundred dollars
for the thirteen inch model twenty five hundred dollars for
the fifteen inch model. Pre Orders start on November ninth
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and delivery on November sixteenth. Phone lines are open three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three. Let
me tell you about an app that I've been playing
with for the past couple days. I think is really
cool and I never thought that Contacts would be cool. So,
by the way, playing on iPhone pla with Siri, something
(25:01):
that Siri does really well is she will, if you
have an iPhone and use sort of the Gmail app
on there, do yourself a favor and actually sign in
to your mail on the phone itself. So use the
native mail app even if you have Gmail app installed
in there. And let me tell you why. Siri does
this amazing thing where she can look inside all your
email and kind of gather information from there. And I
(25:24):
know it sounds creepy and scary, but it's not. She
will literally if you pull down on your main screen
and type in the name of someone that maybe sent
you an email, she will tell you what their phone number,
what she thinks their phone number is.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I wish we had this on our computers because it's
really smart. Anyway, I'm going outside of what I'm talking
about here. But this app is called card Hop Cardhop
and it comes from someone who made another great app
for the iPhone called fantastic hel And what they've done
is they've kind of pioneered the natural language where you
can just type in your appointment and it will kind
(25:59):
of parse it and put it in to a put
it into a calendar event. Well, card hop does the
same thing but for contacts. So this is really cool. Basically,
here's how it works. You install it on your computer.
It's only Mac right now. But when someone sends you
an email, you know how usually at the bottom of
their email they've got their entire signature line with all
of their contact information. Well you literally just take that,
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copy it and paste it into card Hop and it
just immediately parses all that data and puts it in
the proper fields in the contacts and then of course
it sinks it to your iPhone or Google Contacts or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's really cool, and.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
In fact, the developers know how cool it is because
when you paste it in, you watch the little things
move over like.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And it's really kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And then of course you can search your stuff, you
can add, you can edit and It's not gonna work
perfectly every time, but it is really good. My only
downside to this Apple Number one is fifteen bucks. I
think it's normally twenty, but right now they're giving it
at fifteen, and then you get a twenty one day
grace period, so you get twenty one days to try
it out, which makes sense for something that's fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Believe me. I was at a meeting the other day
and this kid didn't want to buy an app that
was two dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I was like, come on, dude, it's two bucks. But
this the only problem I've noticed with cardhop, and I
see this with everything. It doesn't pull in contact photos
from Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, and I wish it would.
It takes them from Gravitar, which you may or may
not have heard of, but not everyone has that. So
to me, if this thing pulled in Facebook, LinkedIn and
(27:29):
Twitter photos, I'd be buying it tomorrow. Right now, I'm
still playing with it for the twenty one days. But
it is an amazing little app, and I really think
that they need to someone needs to do this. I
used to have this great app on Android called hack Sinc.
And it would at first Facebook was really nice about
giving you all your contact photos right and it would
(27:49):
sync with your iPhone. If you notice the new iOS eleven,
that doesn't happen anymore. The Facebook app doesn't do it anymore.
If you have a way to get Facebook photos into
my contacts, let me know in the comments, because I
don't know a way anymore, and it's really annoying because
I love having photos of my friends that are updated
in my contacts when someone calls and I just can't
(28:09):
find it anymore. So yeah, that's my little mini rant.
I don't know why they don't do it, but they should.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Phone lines are open. Three one zero five nine.
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When we come back, I'll tell you what I think
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Speaker 1 (28:32):
I'll give you a hint. It's not as good as
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To the podcast.
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This is the show where I answer your tech questions
live and talk about all the cool stuff that's happening
in the tech world. One of those things right now
is the Pixel Pixel two, so Pixel last year's phone.
This is Google's kind of answer to the iPhone. And
I hate saying that, but that's the way people know it.
It's not really an answer to the iPhone. It's just
their phone. But the reality is that's the way it
(29:20):
gets portrayed in the media because you know, it's it's
everything has to be an answer to the iPhone.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
But it's really not. It's just Google doing what Google does,
which is make devices too.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
So Pixel two. I was very excited about the Pixel one.
Well I didn't really know to expect out of the
Pixel one, but I fell in love with it. Love
the camera, love the software. It was just a great phone.
Very different from the way iOS operates, but really nice phone.
I held that phone for the longest I think out
of any phone last year. I think it might have
been a record of eight months. That's pretty amazing. When
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you test every single phone it's it's not easy to
keep keep it in your pocket because you get the
new phone in three months, and all of a sudden,
you want to switch to that because it's got something
new and different and you're trying it out.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Long story short, I love the Pixel Pixel two.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I was super excited for it because I assume they
would add water resistance, and they did, but they Man,
I don't know where to start with this thing.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It's just getting This thing is.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Getting trashed on reviews. Everyone's talking about how terrible the
screen is. And I will say I noticed when I
was taking pictures with the Pixel two that they just
weren't as bright and vivid as the first Pixel. Now
when I look on my computer, they're not as bad.
So maybe it is a screen. But the reality is
it's not a deal breaker. It's not like this phone
is flawed. It's not like this phone is ruined. It's
(30:35):
still a really nice phone. But the problem is I'm
actually thinking for the first time in a long time
that Android feels like it is behind iOS. And I
used to think that Android in some aspects was ahead
of iOS.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
But guess what, the iPhone now.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Has all the features that iOS people used to love
dual cameras. You know, all these little fancy camera tricks,
you know, all these little iOS software things that you
can do, wireless charging. But the reality is now Android
feels like it's behind. Especially this phone, when I thought
I was gonna love it so much, it doesn't have
(31:09):
it doesn't have the wireless charging.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It's got a nice little screen.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
The camera is pretty amazing, but I don't think it's
like leaps and bounds ahead of the first pixel. So
at this point, if you're looking at an Android, I
almost feel like the Samsung is going to do a
better job for you than the pixel, because you know,
the pixel is like I'm almost bored by it. I'm like, okay,
well I can take a picture with a blurry background.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
What else can I do? Not much? I mean, yeah,
I can.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Squeeze it and activate the Google Assistant that way, what
else can I do? There's no headphone jack, so I
can't plug those in. But I'm fine with that, not
a big deal to me. But I also feel like
the iOS just feels ahead. In the wearables, the Apple
Watch when you pair it with an iPhone is just amazing.
It's almost a magical experience. Car Play I used to
(31:54):
not think was very good, and now after using CarPlay
for the past eight weeks or so, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
This is way better than Android Auto Android Auto.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
When I want to switch between my different audio applications,
I've got to press a button and I got to
go through all these menus on Apple, I can just boom,
I'm there, and I really just feel like I'm at
the first for the first time in a long time.
I just feel like Android is letting me down. And
I'm not saying that's not a good reason to get this.
If you love Android, you're gonna love this phone. But
(32:24):
it's really gonna make me and a lot of people
think twice because we used to think, oh, if it
comes from Google, it's the best. Not so much anymore.
But I do like the software. It's nice, but it
just doesn't have a lot of stuff going on there.
I like get bored. I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I'm like, Okay, what can I do on this thing?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Jonathan Geller boy Genius. He started the website bgr dot
com boy Genius Report.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
He's not very nice about it. Here's what he says.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Some have dipped their toes in the water, but none
will just come out and say it. This phone is
a complete you know what show of epic proportions and
people should seriously question why the maker of the world's
number one operating system can even make a good smartphone.
In twenty seventeen, Pixel t xcel isn't sitting on a shelf,
it's going in the trash.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Ouch man, that's really like whoo, that's not very nice
at all. Well, there you go, So thanks for listening.
You can find me on the KTLA five morning news
every morning in Los Angeles and I'm on around five, fifteen,
(33:29):
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Stephanie and Gabe in the afternoon. That's actually my last
live shot of the day. So it's always a fun
one for me because it's like one o'clock where you
(33:50):
guys are, but ten am where I am. So just
letting you guys know on Monday, if you're listening to
this before Monday, October. Let's see October twenty fourth, Tuesday. Rather,
I will be on the Hallmark channel Home and Family Show,
So Hallmark TV you can find it. It's not a
lot of the streaming services. I know it's on my
direct TV now. You can tvo it or DVR at
(34:13):
whatever people do these days. But Home and Family is
the show. It's kind of like their version of a
morning show. It's kind of fun. They tape it here
at Universal Studios in Los Angeless, a great little show.
I'll be on that on Tuesday. And of course you
can always listen to me on KFI AM six forty
in the five o'clock hour on Wednesdays and sometimes on
Fridays too, so or whenever anyway, thanks so much for listening.
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I appreciate it.
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more about it, and of course helping you get the
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this is a growing field. We're not getting any less
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thanks for tuning in. You could be listening in your car,
you could be walking, you could be I don't know,
you could be anywhere. You could be anywhere in the world.
That's the cool thing about this. On the show today,
(01:15):
we're going to talk about kids in their tablets. We're
gonna talk about the Windows Surface Book two, this new
app that is kind of cool cleans up your contacts
and helps you manage those. I know it's been a
while since a contact management app was exciting, but this
one is.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I'll give you my review.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Of the Pixel too, and of course I will check
social media and.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Look at some of your comments.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Man, let's talk about this topic first off on the
show though, kids and tablets. You know, if you guys
know me and you see me on TV, you know
I've got two kids, or on Instagram or Twitter, I've
got a you know, two boys and they're three and six.
And let me tell you a never a dull moment
when you have kids. Obviously that's the number one thing.
But the second part of that is that there's a
(01:59):
real struggle these day with the whole idea of kids
and their tablets and kids and electronics and kids and
how much do they watch now When I was a kid,
this is all applying to now, Okay, I'm not talking
about when I was a kid. When I was a kid,
here's how it worked, you got home from school, You
got up early before school, you watched cartoons for as
long as you wanted until literally you had to walk
(02:20):
out the door.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Then you would get home from school, throw down your stuff,
and you would either watch video game or play video games,
or you'd watch shows on TV until it was time
to do your homework or time to go outside or
time to go to bed, either one.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I mean, we played outside a lot. That was the
other thing. When we played outside, you would just go
outside and.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Play, and your parents you just know, like this is
the time to come home. I had one friend's dad
who would whistle for him anyway. That's all when I
was a kid. Nowadays, it's a little bit different. We
are in this world of digital devices and what a
kids want to do when they come home. They basically
want to sit down and act like a bowl full
of mush and absorb everything on their tablet. And I'm
(03:02):
not saying that's necessarily a bad thing. I think that
there's a anything.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
In moderation is good.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But this new research from Common Sense tells us kind
of what the deal is. And here's the first stat
Forty two percent of kids ages zero to eight have
their own tablet, and that's up from one percent in
twenty eleven. One percent in twenty eleven. Now get it,
the iPad didn't come out till twenty ten, so you
know this, there's not much to think about. Before that,
(03:29):
people were glued to their TVs. But the TV has
given way to the tablet. And it's a weird thing because,
you know, the tablet is much more personal than the TV.
With the TV, at least you had you know, your
mom or dad could walk by in the background and
see you that you were watching a cartoon.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You kind of had an idea.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
But nowadays everything's so personalized. It's so individualized right on
your tablet screen that you barely even know what your
kid's doing on there. My kid was watching this show
on Netflix, by the way, Netflix, This is just you know,
come on, common sense. When I put my kid's profile
on Netflix, let me lock it down with a password. Okay,
just some sort of passcode. I mean, isn't that the
(04:08):
most basic thing that should be available to me as
a parent, is that I can lock down when I
put my kid on Netflix. And I get it. You
can make the argument that, oh, rich, well, you should
watch your kids better. You know, maybe you should stand
over them the whole time. They shouldn't be able to
see what's on Netflix without you looking. Well, guess what
real life comes in here to play. And you can't
always watch your kids every single minute of the day
(04:31):
what they're watching on iPad. So my kid the other
day happen to watch He's watching this show and gosh,
I gotta figure out what the name of this show is.
I'm gonna look it up on Netflix real quick, because
the only reason I knew how bad this show was
is because my photographer, Steven Stark, told me that he
was watching it and he was like, oh, yeah, it's
really bad. But it looks like a cartoon. So, oh gosh,
(04:52):
what is the name of this show? It has a
little cartoon.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh man, I can't find it.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's like it looks like a kids cartoon and it
is not okay. And I don't know if I'll ever
be able to find this show on here really fast.
But it's brand new. It just came out, and it's like,
it's not a good show. It's not a show for kids.
And my kid was watching it and I'm like, uh, oh,
you know, give me that. Give me that back. You
(05:18):
cannot be on there. Oh big mouth. There it is
big Mouth. That's the show you I don't even know.
You don't even want to start watching it because the
stuff my photographer is telling me about it, that is
not a show for kids. Somehow he switched to my
profile and started watching that. Anyway, average amount of time
spent with mobile devices skyrockets increasing ten times. So it
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used to be five minutes a day in twenty eleven.
Now it's forty eight minutes in twenty seventeen. So forty
eight minutes now that that's on a good day. I
think for a lot of kids, forty eight minutes with
their tablet is like, I mean, think about it, that's
just two shows. And you know that's that's literally two shows. Now,
that's what I try to limit my kids to each
(06:01):
night when they come home, is just two shows. But
some days or more some days are not.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Let's see.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They're also going to start some public service announcements with
Will Ferrell arguing for a device free dinner. So they're saying, basically,
put down your phones during dinner. And this is something
we tried. We actually went cold turkey at the table
dinner table with the kids. We said, just after a
couple of years, we said, you know what, no more
iPads at the table.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
We are no longer having iPads at the table. And
believe me, we've all been guilty. The parents too, do
the same thing. You sit down and next thing you know,
you're looking at your phone because you get a notification,
and it ruins the entire dinner. So I'm guilty of this.
My wife is guilty of it, the kids are guilty
of it. We're all guilty of it. And the reality
is it's not that we're doing anything wrong. I mean,
(06:48):
come on, how exciting is a slot machine when you
roll the dice and you know or you pull that
handle and you don't know what's going to come up.
What do you think is happening when you're looking at
your notifications the same exact thing.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
That's all you're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
When you're when you're pulling down on Instagram and you're
pulling down on Facebook to refresh the feed. Think about it.
I mean, you're you're you're playing the lottery and it's fun.
So I'm not I'm not arguing against this. I'm just
saying life could be better. And when I was a kid. Yeah,
we had we had the TV on during dinner. A
lot of times. We had a TV in a kitchen.
(07:20):
So I don't know what the answer is. I think
that it's a it's in moderation. So with my kids,
Monday night free for all. Everyone's tired. I mean, what
are you gonna do. It's Monday, so they can eat
in front of the TV. They could do whatever they want.
Tuesday night, I'm a little more strict. I'm like, all right,
no iPads. And then if they bring them, I'm like,
all right. But uh, you know, you gotta do what
(07:41):
you gotta You gotta do what you gotta do. Sometimes
it's just a matter of survival as a parent. And
if you give them their iPad and they watch a
show and they're calm and they're enjoying life, that's that's
a good thing.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
But it was a big decision in our family when
to get them tablets and when to let them watch
these things. And it used to be a shared device
and now, of course they each have their own. But
you know, they can be a lifesaver, believe me, life saver.
At the restaurant, we were out at a restaurant, on
Friday night, and we were able to bring the kids
because we had them have their iPads at the table. Now,
(08:13):
I know that sounds terrible, but the reality is, number one,
we're with our kids at least, and so we're functioning
as a family. Number Two, we didn't have to pay
for a babysitter, which was nice. But number three, you know,
they get to go out to a restaurant and enjoy
that time with us, even though they eventually moved on
to their iPads.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And so now I was talking with my wife.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Because I feel like we had such a successful dinner
that maybe we're going to try the thing where we
maybe talk first until dinner comes, and then once dinner
comes and they eat, then they can have their iPad.
So it's kind of like dessert. You don't get it
till you finish your food. In our house, let's see
what else?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
What else? What else?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Forty nine percent of children eight or under watch TV
or videos or play video games in the hour before bedtime,
and according to pediatricians, apparently that's a no no. Now,
you know, we try to make the hour before bed
more like, you know, more like reading and stuff like that.
So if they're but some nights again they're just going
straight from watching right to bed and you know, it
(09:14):
just depends.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Again, it's all moderation.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But I think these stats are really telling because the
way that technology has really, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Affected the childhood is is so different.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's it's really it's really interesting to me because this
is the way I put it. I grew up with
a screen in front of my face from the time
I was about I don't know, in my teens, I
don't know, let's say fifteen, okay, and I had my
first computer, and then of course my you know, you
just had a computer, a laptop, whatever, and then of
(09:45):
course you had things come along like the like the phones,
but the phones were never in front of your face
all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Now they are.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
My kids meanwhile, they know how to swipe from about
six months, and I think.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's a lot of kids.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
My kid yesterday he stood up on the on the
little table in front of the TV and he's sitting
there tapping the TV, tapping the TV and trying to
swipe on the TV. And that my other kid did
that too, And it's just crazy. It's just built into
who they are. All right, phone lines are open, I'm
gonna take your tech questions next three one zero five
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nine four three zero zero three coming up, I will
take some of your questions live. You're listening to Rich
on tech rich on tech Live.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
We'll be right back.
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Thanks for listening to Rich on tech Live. You can
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That way, you can listen anywhere. Welcome back to Rich
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You are listening to Rich DeMuro, where we talk about technology,
your life, your technology, whatever you want to talk about
basically as it relates to technology. Lines are open three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three, and
we're just gonna go right to our first caller here
in the sixty six to one area code.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Hey Rich Greg from the Antelope Valley.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Greg, how you doing today on this Thursday?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Not too bad in yourself?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I am always doing fantastic on a Thursday, so day
before Friday.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yes, great. I have a little problem here. I have
had my iPhone six S for it'll be a year
in November, and you know, of course accidents happened. I
have dropped it and within I think I dropped it
a good good, a good drop last December, and the
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bottom left hand side is a little if there's a
little crack there, Okay, okay, But within the last week
I have noticed some fine red lines on the left
hand of my screen going from the battery icon all
(12:10):
the way down to the that I have my Safari
button there, Okay, and they don't go away, and it's
a little bit annoying. So I'm wondering, is it something
to do with my screen or is it something to
do with the software or hardware.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, it sounds like it could be. I think it's
something to do with the Well, it could be the screen,
could be a screen issue, could be some pixels that
have gotten ruined, but if they're lighting up red, they're
not dead. I think it's something to do with some
sort of logic board or something that's driving the video
on the phone, and that's what's causing it. And it
could you know, it could every time your phone is
(12:51):
moving or get shifted or jostled, it could make the
problem worse eventually.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So what are you thinking of doing?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Are you thinking it's a success so it's not terribly old.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Are you thinking of upgrading?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
No, I'm not right now. I was just thinking of
getting it fixed. And I've you know, seen places that
replace the you know, like a broken screen, so I
one that's why I was calling to see if, well,
if that's something I should do, or if it's you know,
something inside I get.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Here's the deal. I mean, you could start there. You
can go to one of those places. If you want
someone to come to you, you can go to iicracked
dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
They'll come right to your house and fix it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Or you can go to like I would not go
to some random place, you know, like in the mall,
because the problem here is that this may not fix
it and you know, or it may come back and
then you have to go back to them. So you
want someplace that sort of has a warranty on their
on their stuff, and the place at the mall, you know,
like the random places that just you know, they open
up overnight and it's just some kid. You know, they
(13:53):
may not offer the service, they may not be there
if you need them in three months. So something like
I cracked the guarantee the work that they do if
the screen cracks again. But mostly these companies, you know,
they will replace the screen, but it sounds like you
may need the LCD replaced as well. So if there's
a lot of damage, they can do that, but it's
just gonna cost you more.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
So here's what I would do.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I would go into like a place like New break
I Fix, and I would get an estimate.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Look, have them look at it.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
They see these things every day, so they know kind
of the difference between what's going on, you know, if
something's going to just take a screen or need a
part inside. So I'd go there, get the estimate. If
it's three hundred bucks, no way, you know what I mean.
I mean, it's time time to get a new phone.
And what you can do is if it's something like
three hundred dollars, then you can sell this phone on
eBay and you'll get some money for it, because someone
(14:44):
out there on eBay knows how to fix these phones
and they'll fix it and then they'll flip it and
sell it.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
But for you, it might be too much trouble.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You know what I'm saying, right right, So I would
say do that, go in, get an estimate, and sometimes
they may say, hey, look we can replace it, and
we can't guarant tea that anything's gonna work any better,
or that the lines are gonna go away because they
just they just don't know until they actually put a
new screen on there. So that's that's what you're sort
of up against.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Greg.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Okay, and you said the what was the name of
the place you break?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, so there's like a little chain of places are
you in? You said, you're in Los Angeles area? Right, Uh,
it's you Break I Fix And that's that's the one
that's a store. And the reason why I recommend them
is because a lot of the third party insurance companies
will send you there, so I know they're pretty legit
and they have a lot of locations.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So find one of those.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
You Break I Fix, and if you want someone to
come to you, you can just go on I cracked
dot com and they will send a technician to your
house and they'll do it anywhere I was at. I
was in Florida on a shoot one time, and the
the whatever the I Cracked folks like literally came to
fix this athlete's phone like right there in the like
(15:54):
outside the locker room, basically, you know, one of the players.
And I was like, Wow, that's pretty amaz that you
can just do this anywhere so.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Wow, okay, but you don't if I was to take
it to Apple, they even though it's under the still
under the warranty, they wouldn't fix it because of that crack.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I mean, well, I mean you could do that first.
They're they're going to tell you right off the bat,
So do that first. You know, it can't hurt. They're
not going to charge you. But what they're gonna do
is they're going to see that crack, and like when
I took my wife's phone in there was like a
diagnosis fee or something like that, so they believe me.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Apple's not stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
But at the same time they may say, oh my gosh,
we just noticed that your phone has a crack problem
that you know, if it's turned left, it cracks, so
you know, you may they may you never know. I
would take it there first and then go to these
other places, but don't let them. Don't pay at Apple
for them to diagnose it because they're their repair is
(16:49):
always going to be more expensive.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Okay, all right, well, thank you, all.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Right, Greg, thanks so much for listening and being a
part of rich On Tech Live. I do appreciate it.
Greg in Antelope Valley. All right, let's take one more
call here in the nine oh nine area code.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Nine oh nine you're on with Rich. Who am I
speaking with?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Hi? This is Sam from Pomona.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Sam from Pomona. How you doing today?
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I'm doing pretty good. Got a couple of tech questions
for you.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Well, hopefully I have. It's a couple of tech answers.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Okay, I recently got rid of my cable because the
bill got way too high. I put in an outdoor
antenna and now I'm getting, you know, HD great reception.
I watch you guys on kt LA literally every morning.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
One of the things that you know, I had was
a DVR, and I kind of missed that because I'll
go into the kitchen to make breakfast and miss stuff,
you know, and I come back and anyway, so I
did a little research and I bought one of these
uh TV tuners with the ability to record. I went
(17:57):
over to Fries and I got this at the Trek Okay,
and it's like forty nine dollars and brought it home,
set it up. The thing works, you know, pretty good.
I mean i'd give a you know, an eight out
of ten maybe, But the remote control with this thing,
the buttons are so tiny, and I mean literally I
(18:21):
got to put my glasses on and turn on a
light to figure out what I'm doing with this thing.
Have you got any experience with these?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yes, So I'll tell you the one that I recommend
that I really like. I have an antenna on my
house and I get all the channels. It's great, and
I can pause live TV, I can record.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
But the one I recommend is.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Called Tableau TA b l O. And this is there's
a couple of them out there. There's one there's Tableau is.
I think it's probably one of the best. But here's
how it works. It's it's going to work a little
bit differently from what you have. But what Tableau does
is it basically records over the air. It's it's just
a box and then it has you know, you you
attach a hard and you can record. So there's a
(19:03):
subscription fee of five dollars a month if you want
to set recordings you know, like you would on a
TVO two weeks out, or you can just set manual
recordings and see one day of guide information for free.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
And that's free, unlimited. So that's the one that I like.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And what's cool about this one and it's probably a
little bit different than yours is that it also works
in conjunction with a smart device, so you can actually
access not only your recordings from any iPad, iPhone, but
also an Apple TV, Amazon Fire, TV Roku.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's just infinitely better.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
And the only thing I noticed about this that I
the only downside I would say that it has is
about a twelve second buffer from when you try to
change channels. Now, if you're leaving it tuned to one
channel or you're just tuning in a show, you won't
really notice that.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But if you're flipping channels a lot, which you probably
aren't doing with over the air channels because there's not
that many of them, it probably won't be a problem.
But that's the one I like. I think it's not
much more than the one that you bought. Two tuners.
Let's see how much a two tuner is. Let's see here,
select your country. It is, Yeah, about a hundred bucks
(20:14):
for a refurbished one. So and I think a refurbished
on this thing will be just fine. So that's what
I recommend. Definitely check it out, Sam, and I think
you'll be much happier than the tiny thing that you
got from from Fries and nothing wrong with that, but
I just don't think it has as many features as
you would like. And I think Tableau is kind of
set up for this new world we live in of
(20:36):
the over the air DVR.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
So check it out.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right, there you have it. We are going to
take more of your phone calls after this. The phone
number is three one zero five nine four three zero
zero three. When we come back, i'll talk about the
new Microsoft Surface book and man, who would have thought
that contacts could be fun again? I'll tell you about
a new app that helps you manage those as well.
You're listening to Rich tech Live.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
I'm Rich Demiro. Will be right back.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
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Speaker 1 (21:18):
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Speaker 2 (21:24):
You are listening to the show where we talk about
your technology and all things gadgets and gear and fun
and it's just what I love to talk about.
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Speaker 2 (21:35):
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Speaker 1 (21:49):
Windows. Microsoft.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Microsoft is very busy these days making their gadgets. They
have come out with a lot of new stuff lately,
and now they've got a brand new Surface Book two.
Surfacebook was you know, every A lot of the gadgets
that Microsoft is coming out with are very popular, like
they're they're well done. And I've got to say, after
seeing Microsoft kind of struggle for so many years in
(22:11):
various different aspects of kind of the mobile world and
all this different stuff, it's nice to see that they're
really killing it in the place that matters the most,
which is their bread and butter, which their computers.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And this new Surface Book two.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Is kind of a sequel to the first Surface Book,
which was good, but you know, you can always tell
a first gen product.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
A lot of people loved it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
But now they've done some refinements and this new Surface
Book two is five times more powerful than the original,
but it still has all day battery life and the
neat thing about the Surface book. If you don't know
what this thing is, it's a computer, it's a laptop,
it's a tablet.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's everything all in one.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And it's different than the regular surface because this is
more like a laptop, like a real laptop surface. You
can't really has a keyboard attachment, but you can't really
put it on your knees to like use it as
a laptop because it doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It kind of like it just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I can't explain it, but it's almost like a tent
and it doesn't stay. So this Surface book is much
more like a keyboard with a solid surface that connects
to a tablet. They can also disconnect. So people love
this thing. It's sold very well. Everyone who got one
really liked it. The reviews were great and Surfacebook too.
And the reason why people like surface is because if
(23:24):
you're doing real business, iPads are great.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
You know, people love their iPads, but iPad is primarily
a consumption device. And yes, you can do office on there.
You can do I mean, you could do everything on there.
I mean I'm producing this whole live show on an iPhone.
So it's amazing what you can do. But the reality is,
when you really want to get business done, you want
to do presentations, all that kind of stuff, sometimes you
just want a good old fashioned computer. And this is
(23:49):
kind of the best of both worlds because you get
all the ports. You get USB the regular one, and
now the new thing is that they've added USB C
and then of course you have a full size SD
card slot, so you don't need dongles. I just bought
this new MacBook Pro and I can't show it too
because I don't want to mess anything up. But the
reality is it's been a learning experience because everything needs
(24:09):
to be plugged in with some sort of adapter because
everything there's only two USBC ports on it.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
So I love the fact that it's simple, but it
takes a little bit more work. And I've noticed, you know,
I've had to buy all new cables. I've had to
buy some adapters U and sometimes people just don't want
to deal with all that mess. Surfacebook is not cheap,
by the way. Surfacebook two starts at fifteen hundred dollars
for the thirteen inch model twenty five hundred dollars for
the fifteen inch model. Pre Orders start on November ninth
(24:37):
and delivery on November sixteenth. Phone lines are open three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three three
one zero five nine four three zero zero three. Let
me tell you about an app that I've been playing
with for the past couple days. I think is really
cool and I never thought that Contacts would be cool. So,
by the way, playing on iPhone pla with Siri, something
(25:01):
that Siri does really well is she will, if you
have an iPhone and use sort of the Gmail app
on there, do yourself a favor and actually sign in
to your mail on the phone itself. So use the
native mail app even if you have Gmail app installed
in there. And let me tell you why. Siri does
this amazing thing where she can look inside all your
email and kind of gather information from there. And I
(25:24):
know it sounds creepy and scary, but it's not. She
will literally if you pull down on your main screen
and type in the name of someone that maybe sent
you an email, she will tell you what their phone number,
what she thinks their phone number is.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I wish we had this on our computers because it's
really smart. Anyway, I'm going outside of what I'm talking
about here. But this app is called card Hop Cardhop
and it comes from someone who made another great app
for the iPhone called fantastic hel And what they've done
is they've kind of pioneered the natural language where you
can just type in your appointment and it will kind
(25:59):
of parse it and put it in to a put
it into a calendar event. Well, card hop does the
same thing but for contacts. So this is really cool. Basically,
here's how it works. You install it on your computer.
It's only Mac right now. But when someone sends you
an email, you know how usually at the bottom of
their email they've got their entire signature line with all
of their contact information. Well you literally just take that,
(26:20):
copy it and paste it into card Hop and it
just immediately parses all that data and puts it in
the proper fields in the contacts and then of course
it sinks it to your iPhone or Google Contacts or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
It's really cool, and.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
In fact, the developers know how cool it is because
when you paste it in, you watch the little things
move over like.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And it's really kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
And then of course you can search your stuff, you
can add, you can edit and It's not gonna work
perfectly every time, but it is really good. My only
downside to this Apple Number one is fifteen bucks. I
think it's normally twenty, but right now they're giving it
at fifteen, and then you get a twenty one day
grace period, so you get twenty one days to try
it out, which makes sense for something that's fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Believe me. I was at a meeting the other day
and this kid didn't want to buy an app that
was two dollars.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I was like, come on, dude, it's two bucks. But
this the only problem I've noticed with cardhop, and I
see this with everything. It doesn't pull in contact photos
from Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, and I wish it would.
It takes them from Gravitar, which you may or may
not have heard of, but not everyone has that. So
to me, if this thing pulled in Facebook, LinkedIn and
(27:29):
Twitter photos, I'd be buying it tomorrow. Right now, I'm
still playing with it for the twenty one days. But
it is an amazing little app, and I really think
that they need to someone needs to do this. I
used to have this great app on Android called hack Sinc.
And it would at first Facebook was really nice about
giving you all your contact photos right and it would
(27:49):
sync with your iPhone. If you notice the new iOS eleven,
that doesn't happen anymore. The Facebook app doesn't do it anymore.
If you have a way to get Facebook photos into
my contacts, let me know in the comments, because I
don't know a way anymore, and it's really annoying because
I love having photos of my friends that are updated
in my contacts when someone calls and I just can't
(28:09):
find it anymore. So yeah, that's my little mini rant.
I don't know why they don't do it, but they should.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
All right.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Phone lines are open. Three one zero five nine.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Four three zero zero three three one zero five nine
four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
You are listening to rich on tech Live.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
When we come back, I'll tell you what I think
of the new Google Pixel two, and.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I'll give you a hint. It's not as good as
I thought it would be. I'll be back after this.
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Speaker 1 (28:50):
Welcome back to rich on tech Live. I'm Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
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Speaker 1 (28:58):
To the podcast.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
This is the show where I answer your tech questions
live and talk about all the cool stuff that's happening
in the tech world. One of those things right now
is the Pixel Pixel two, so Pixel last year's phone.
This is Google's kind of answer to the iPhone. And
I hate saying that, but that's the way people know it.
It's not really an answer to the iPhone. It's just
their phone. But the reality is that's the way it
(29:20):
gets portrayed in the media because you know, it's it's
everything has to be an answer to the iPhone.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
But it's really not. It's just Google doing what Google does,
which is make devices too.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
So Pixel two. I was very excited about the Pixel one.
Well I didn't really know to expect out of the
Pixel one, but I fell in love with it. Love
the camera, love the software. It was just a great phone.
Very different from the way iOS operates, but really nice phone.
I held that phone for the longest I think out
of any phone last year. I think it might have
been a record of eight months. That's pretty amazing. When
(29:50):
you test every single phone it's it's not easy to
keep keep it in your pocket because you get the
new phone in three months, and all of a sudden,
you want to switch to that because it's got something
new and different and you're trying it out.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Long story short, I love the Pixel Pixel two.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I was super excited for it because I assume they
would add water resistance, and they did, but they Man,
I don't know where to start with this thing.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
It's just getting This thing is.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Getting trashed on reviews. Everyone's talking about how terrible the
screen is. And I will say I noticed when I
was taking pictures with the Pixel two that they just
weren't as bright and vivid as the first Pixel. Now
when I look on my computer, they're not as bad.
So maybe it is a screen. But the reality is
it's not a deal breaker. It's not like this phone
is flawed. It's not like this phone is ruined. It's
(30:35):
still a really nice phone. But the problem is I'm
actually thinking for the first time in a long time
that Android feels like it is behind iOS. And I
used to think that Android in some aspects was ahead
of iOS.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
But guess what, the iPhone now.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Has all the features that iOS people used to love
dual cameras. You know, all these little fancy camera tricks,
you know, all these little iOS software things that you
can do, wireless charging. But the reality is now Android
feels like it's behind. Especially this phone, when I thought
I was gonna love it so much, it doesn't have
(31:09):
it doesn't have the wireless charging.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It's got a nice little screen.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
The camera is pretty amazing, but I don't think it's
like leaps and bounds ahead of the first pixel. So
at this point, if you're looking at an Android, I
almost feel like the Samsung is going to do a
better job for you than the pixel, because you know,
the pixel is like I'm almost bored by it. I'm like, okay,
well I can take a picture with a blurry background.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
What else can I do? Not much? I mean, yeah,
I can.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Squeeze it and activate the Google Assistant that way, what
else can I do? There's no headphone jack, so I
can't plug those in. But I'm fine with that, not
a big deal to me. But I also feel like
the iOS just feels ahead. In the wearables, the Apple
Watch when you pair it with an iPhone is just amazing.
It's almost a magical experience. Car Play I used to
(31:54):
not think was very good, and now after using CarPlay
for the past eight weeks or so, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
This is way better than Android Auto Android Auto.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
When I want to switch between my different audio applications,
I've got to press a button and I got to
go through all these menus on Apple, I can just boom,
I'm there, and I really just feel like I'm at
the first for the first time in a long time.
I just feel like Android is letting me down. And
I'm not saying that's not a good reason to get this.
If you love Android, you're gonna love this phone. But
(32:24):
it's really gonna make me and a lot of people
think twice because we used to think, oh, if it
comes from Google, it's the best. Not so much anymore.
But I do like the software. It's nice, but it
just doesn't have a lot of stuff going on there.
I like get bored. I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I'm like, Okay, what can I do on this thing?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Jonathan Geller boy Genius. He started the website bgr dot
com boy Genius Report.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
He's not very nice about it. Here's what he says.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Some have dipped their toes in the water, but none
will just come out and say it. This phone is
a complete you know what show of epic proportions and
people should seriously question why the maker of the world's
number one operating system can even make a good smartphone.
In twenty seventeen, Pixel t xcel isn't sitting on a shelf,
it's going in the trash.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Ouch man, that's really like whoo, that's not very nice
at all. Well, there you go, So thanks for listening.
You can find me on the KTLA five morning news
every morning in Los Angeles and I'm on around five, fifteen,
(33:29):
seven fifty, and nine thirty every morning, and of course
you can tune in other cities too. We've got Peter
on the live chat saying he watches me every day
on WJW Fox eight in Cleveland. Thank you so much
for watching in Cleveland, one of my favorite shows with
Stephanie and Gabe in the afternoon. That's actually my last
live shot of the day. So it's always a fun
one for me because it's like one o'clock where you
(33:50):
guys are, but ten am where I am. So just
letting you guys know on Monday, if you're listening to
this before Monday, October. Let's see October twenty fourth, Tuesday. Rather,
I will be on the Hallmark channel Home and Family Show,
So Hallmark TV you can find it. It's not a
lot of the streaming services. I know it's on my
direct TV now. You can tvo it or DVR at
(34:13):
whatever people do these days. But Home and Family is
the show. It's kind of like their version of a
morning show. It's kind of fun. They tape it here
at Universal Studios in Los Angeless, a great little show.
I'll be on that on Tuesday. And of course you
can always listen to me on KFI AM six forty
in the five o'clock hour on Wednesdays and sometimes on
Fridays too, so or whenever anyway, thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
You can find me on all the various social media's.
I'm on Instagram, I'm on Twitter, I'm on Facebook. Hopefully
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I'm Rich Dmiro. I will see you and next time
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Have you ever wondered what life might be like if you stopped worrying about being wanted, and focused on understanding what you actually want? That was the question Hope Woodard asked herself after a string of situationships inspired her to take a break from sex and dating. She went "boysober," a personal concept that sparked a global movement among women looking to prioritize themselves over men. Now, Hope is looking to expand the ways we explore our relationship to relationships. Taking a bold, unfiltered look into modern love, romance, and self-discovery, Boysober will dive into messy stories about dating, sex, love, friendship, and breaking generational patterns—all with humor, vulnerability, and a fresh perspective.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com